Tales of Alandria Discussion 0: Auras are not FDA-approved

[Aldurin]

Ok, so now all late signups and RP discussion should go here. The beginning has started off and now you can take destiny by the balls and yank as hard as you can!

I'll be making up some maps soon and I hope that everyone starts having fun. Treat this bit as the pre-party social mingle, except for that the part is really a battle against generic slimes in a generic cave using generic weapons.

[Geminex]

Professor Timothy Braun.
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Appearance: A tall, thin man in a stained labcoat with short, wild hair, which, after much experimentation, he's managed to bleach white, Timothy is the very picture of an evil genius. He'd better be, he spent ages getting the look just right. His face is just slightly drawn and his eyes seem to burn with an otherworldly passion, which he practiced for hours in front of the mirror. His movements are strangely twitchy, though that might just be the sleep deprivation speaking.
Whether the chemicals he rubbed into his scalp to permanently bleach his hair affected his mental wellbeing at all is uncertain, though he probably wasn't the most stable of people to begin with.

Backstory: Since he could remember, Timothy has idealized the Mad Genius going Where Science Dare Not Tread, challening Repressive Social Norms in the Name Of Progress. He dreamed wild dreams of Flesh Golems, of Botannical Enhancements, of acid-spitting flowers and bamboo that grew with the speed and force of a jackhammer. Unfortunately for him, Timothy was born in northern Canada in the 1970s to a schoolteacher and an accountant, neither of whom had much inclination to humor his ambitions. Ever optimisitic, though, Timothy reasoned that his rise to power and fame would be much, much easier in such a dull, unsuspecting community, and forewent university to start on his carreer in mad science straight after high school. He awarded himself an preemptive honorary Ph.D. for his future achievements in the service of science and set up a well-ventilated lab in his parents' basement.
The fact that the majority of his equipment was improvised from his mother's cookware was considered only a minor downside, and experiments that had nothing monstrous about them except for the smell afterwards were all baby steps towards greatness.
One night, during a rare thunderstorm. a particularly impressive experiment involving at least 20 chemicals, 10 of which Tim didn't even know the name of went impressively wrong, saturating the neighborhood with the persistent smell of moldy cucumber. This, in turn, promted a group of neighbors to complain at the Brauns' front door, and Tim was delighted to have found his very first angry mob. Climbing up onto the roof to better taunt them, Tim braved the wind and rain, cackling with evil glee at the stormy night sky. He'd practiced his evil genius laugh, it was about time he got to use it.
Fate being fate, of course, he'd barely even started taunting the Foolish Peasants for Interfering with his Genius when a lightning bolt, at lightning bolts are wont to, struck him.
The police report on the incident described the scene as "The suspect seemed to float in the air for a moment, illuminated by a strange inner glow, laughing maniacally before disappearing. Witnesses likely suffered from a mass hallucination and suspect escaped on foot after lightning strike."
And now, Timothy has awoken in a new world. A strange new world, with strange new laws of science. A science that he's suddenly good at. Mad as he is, he recognizes a second chance when he gets one. And he intends to do things right this time.

Professions:
Biomancy
Alchemy

Stats:
Non-combat:
Charm: 2
Coordination: 8
Wisdom: 6

Combat stats:
WHO KNOWS

Aura: Minor light aura

I'll post on sunday at some point.

[Aldurin]

Only issues are that the lightning bolt is heavily implied to cause the disappearance, which I am purposely making mysterious for everyone, and the fact that you lack your professions and combat stats.

Otherwise I'm good with it.

[CABAL49]

I have no idea what I am doing.

[Aldurin]

I have no idea what I am doing.

Excellent! I don't think anyone does (GM included).

I would like to see at least one post from each person so that they establish their character somewhat and choose an aura.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Wait, if no one is suppose to know how they got here, that doesn't really make sense for Sifright's post which reads that he got stabbed by bandits then awoke here.

[Sifright]

My character doesn'tt know why he got sent there though. my character just assumes he died.


Edit: i'll delete my post if it's an issue though.

[CABAL49]

No one wants to play my game :(

[Inbred Chocobo]

Shut up James no one was talking to you.

[Aldurin]

That's fine Sifright, all events previous to winding up in the clearing are irrelevent to that happening.

[CABAL49]

I get the feeling we are soon to be violated.

[Astral Harmony]

Lord knows I was! Wooo!

[Sifright]

Dont wanna be ALLL by MYSELF.. on the pad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3j_fdSpkmE)

[Aldurin]

You're free to derp around in your very own cave while I wait for the following:

Stats from Gem.
Confirmation from IC on which aura he's using.
The GM to stop being lazy and actually finish the enemies/map.

[Aldurin]

Is anyone still interested in this . . . at all? I've gotten one post from AB and one line from Relm in the pad backlog since the scene change, but that's it.

[CABAL49]

We got a convo started. You can't cut out on us now.

[Aldurin]

First battle is initiated, I'll be adding the pad-specific stuff momentarily, but I'm attending a wedding later today so I may not get done with it.

Inbred Chocobo unfortunately has had to drop out, I've adjusted the encounter accordingly so that his absence does not leave you at a disadvantage (or at least more than I intend).

[Aldurin]

Only Sifright has contributed to the on-pad battle plan so far, and I will probably end up declaring official hiatus if this trend continues.