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What would u be?
Metroanime:
First impulse, without reading it, and providing with MY schedule (i work in a hospital) i can find a gaming group again...
if being descended from a dragon ain't happening, wyldfae changeling. Maybe half-ogre or something. The whole conflict of the dual nature, the desire to be oneself and not ally with either Court, and to play 'free agent' in this sort of setup... it has possibilities for RPing.
if descended from a dragon (maybe an oriental one is less humanivore than the western ones shown? certainly there are legends about such in Japan) IS possible, it would be preferred. my first magazine articles selling were to Dragon - and i've got warm-and-scaly feelings for them ever since.
Kali:
Gifted mortal. But not uberpowered, something low-key. The challenge of knowing about the supernatural world and surviving in it without being all kaboomy is fascinating to me. It's why I usually played mortals back when I was MUSHing on White Wolf games.
Maybe someone who has a single talent, like Wizard Sight. And she's learned a few tricks that anybody, with or without power, can do (ref: Dead Beat scene with the chalk... hint enough but non-spoilery enough?).
Dang, when's that MUSH opening?
The Corvidian:
--- Quote from: Meren on July 10, 2006, 05:31:31 PM ---My current nifty character concept for the RPG builds on the story of the Black University. I think it's in the Blue Fairy Book.
Anyway the story is as follows: Somewhre there is a school that teaches every art, science, and science that has ever been learned by man. This school is underground and has no light. Books line all the walls and the way the students is able to read is whenever they open the books the letters on the page themselves glow with a flickering hellish light. Each student is admitted entry into the school on the condition that he understands the last person to complete their studies and leave the school each year will belong to the master of the school (usually understood to be Satan) and be used in whatever way he see.
One year the student to finish last ran with the others up the tunnel leading out into the sun and when the master of the school grabbed his ankle he kicked at the hand freeing himself he just managed to escape shouting back "There is one other who left after me!" refering to his shadow. And so he was able to escape but no longer had a shadow.
Anyway, the way that translates into the character I want to play is: A runaway probably from somewhere in the 1920s ends up attending the University. The University itself is in the never-never. He studies and learns, arrogant as he is he waits to go last having planned for this. And he escapes using the shadow trick. What he discovers though is a lot of time has passed while he was studying and the world has changed.
To complicate matters he'ld have been tainted by black magic, probably a decently strong wizard whose specialty is evocation. He'ld also know of the white council and as a result he'ld keep his head low and go out of his way to avoid using magic whenever possiable so as not to draw attention to himself.
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aka The Scholomance. A variation on that theme would be that the Tenth Person has to stay and train the next class. The post is then passed on and on. He would be hunted because he upset the rule. (Just a thought.)
I would be a person who falls between the cracks. He comes from a long line of wizards, but he isn't a wizard himself. His family have been in the magic game for many generations, but occasionally, one is born without the means to do magic. He was this generations, but to make up for it, he is a weirdness magnet. In his travels, he's picked up a few things, like one of the Cait Shee, think Mouse, but only feline. Some powerful members of both Fairy Courts owe him some big favors, think something along the lines of the Unraveling. The best way to think about him is to combine the character of Hurley from Lost with the main character from the canceled FOX series, Strange Luck, with a bit of that character from the Donald Duck comics who is extremely lucky; he won the Lottery, and is pretty much set for life. He thinks that he might be a living embodiment of "What goes around comes around". Fate sends him out on missions from time to time, and he might set off a series of events that would take down a group of Red Court Vampires, or cause a dragon to be slain.
sam:
my charicter concept runs as follows. both my parents were wardens. they were also fairly bissness sauvy individuals and with such long lives and a little bissness senes it doesnt take much to make a lot of money. they always figured that i would also have magical abilitys so they home schooled me in everything including magic, strategy, and martial arts. however between the home schooling and always moving because of bissness i dident develope any real relationships outside my family untill i came into my powers at the age of 15. my first freind was a femal fey of the winter court i meet in the swiss alps durring winter. she was young as such things are figured amongst the fey and she wanted to prove her abilitys to the other fey to do this she had decided to trick me into a bargain for my magic to this end she spent every bit of time i was away from my parents with me. just like many chilldren of that age i was convinced we were falling in love but i knew from my studies that it was dangeros to give or reiceve gifts from the fey so i dicided make a bargain with her. the bargain i offerd her was if she gave me her love in return i would give her that wich was most preciose to me. being a fey and young she imediatly assumed that power was the most preciose posseson to everyone and as that was what she wanted immediatly excepted the deal. when this happend it immedaitly made changes to both of us intwining our powers our souls and thoght process the univers and our own powers altered us. taking parts from one and placing them in the other and altering the rest of us to be more akin to the other making me no longer completly human and her no longer completly fey so that an impossible love would work. what all of the conciqinces of this deal are or will be neither of us know. initialy she fled but later returned because she couldent stay away either of us without the other is incomplet at best. shortly aftere this my parents died in a car accident( i know very cliche) and was sent to study under there freind Pietrovich of Archangel in Russia. i found that i reacted well to the cold and harshenss of both russia and my new teacher as to wether this was because of the changes brought on by the deal i made or not is up for debate but what is not in question is that i progressd rappidly at my new home. my greatest strenghths quickly proved to be ice, artificing, summoning, and commbat magic. i beggan to have great difficulty controling fire however to a deggre were the slightest attempt would either completly fell or cause me great pain. my girlfrend ( the fey i made the deal with i call her amber for short) taght me to accesses the now fey like parts of me and through them to accesses winter ice and the power that comes with it. when Archancel was attacked i was away dealing with some of the bissness issues that my parents had left me in china. i arrived back shortly affter the attack to be the first person to see what the red court had done to my new home. it filled me with a cold calculating implacable rage and i quickly relised that we had to have been betrayed. since the only pepole who can bettray you are pepole you trust that made everyone who i might have gone to for help suspect so i gatherd up all of the books and training matterials i could find as well as anything i could find that seemed powerfull or usfull and left since then i have been training with my girlfreind constantly to hunt down the red court and the traitor. maybe they overlooked me or maybe they dident consider a merre aprintice worth much attention but wichever it is soon they will learn the harsh leasons that can be taght by a long hard russian winter. ha and i came up with all that while i was sitting here.
p.s. excuse the gramer and spelling
prime_spirit:
If I were a wizard, I'll be a Blackstaff masquerading as a Warden, quietly looking for White Council traitors.
If I were a supernatural entity, I'll be a summer fae of the trees, skilled in the matters of nourishment and healing.
If I were a gifted mortal, I'll be a teenager with a strange condition where my subconcious controls more of my magic, meaning I'm more powerful when I'm asleep, and I didn't even know I could cast magic.
If I were a mortal, which I already am, ...
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