Trollslum Discussion 1: Stuck in a Black Romance

[Arcanum]

Hey Menarker, just so you know pesterchum/trollian handles are consistently in the format "sweetJegus". In other words, the first word is all lowercase and the second word has the first letter capitalized, with no non-alphabetical characters.

So basically your trollian handle should look like this: butketHed

I hope I'm not sounding like a snobbish ass, I just saw it and felt I should point it out.

[Overcast]

Name: Leraje Orobas

Gender: Male

Age: 6 solar sweeps

Appearance: Grey skin, both eyes completely black, wears a pair of black half frame glasses and a black sweatshirt with the image of dubious nature that supposedly has some connection to an idea in xenopsychology called "friendship". Also tends to wear a grey zip up hoody with holes for his horns in case he decides to put it over his head, black jeans, and black boots. A bit thin with shaggy black hair and medium sized horns that shoot toward the back of his head, opposite of the way his hair grows. His eyes tend to be half closed most of the time, and since they have no point of reference it is sometimes difficult to get a gauge of if he is paying attention or not, and considering he has a history of zoning out a lot it is indeed possible.

Lusus: Giant Salamander, named Seymour, keen on attacking Leraje when he least expects it.

Trollian Handle: absentPsychologist

Blood Color: Indigo

Hive: Lives in a simple, single story hive with a small pier area that stretches into the shore, where his lusus will crawl into its sleeping space and go out to hunt for the both of them.

Strife Specibus: Chainkind

Fetch Modus: Word Ladder Modus, In order to get an item Leraje is confronted with a word that is a degree of changes away from the actual word. He must change one letter in the word into another letter to make a new word until he gets to the item he wants and then he receives it.

Title: Mage of Heart

Dreamself: Prospit

Interests: Leraje has a distinct interest in PSYCHOLOGY, primarily the troll understanding of pity and hate, aka ROMANCE. He has the eventual dream of finding some way into the classes of the IMPERIAL DRONES so that he may take a personal hand in the progression of his race, and be able to see the kind of situations he tries to set all the way to the creation of INCESTUOUS SLURRY. He also has a great love of ALIENS the complex idea of emotions that are beyond the scope of the troll mind creating an OBSESSION to understand things that no troll is meant to.

Additional Notes: An Unbreakable Union
Despite his love of relationships he seems to have trouble starting one for himself. Which is something he personally worries about when he has the time(due to his heroes being the same people who murder those who cannot contribute to the genetic future of their species), but tends to blow off most of the time finding more enjoyment in his moraillegience than in trying to find any rom with others.
He also has a tendency to zone out a lot, his brain lost in the meddling plots he has to ship his friends into oblivion and the speculation of insane concepts like friendship.
Has the inherited power of regenerating limbs. A useful thing with such a violent lusus.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Arcanum Darkfire

Hey Menarker, just so you know pesterchum/trollian handles are consistently in the format "sweetJegus". In other words, the first word is all lowercase and the second word has the first letter capitalized, with no non-alphabetical characters.

So basically your trollian handle should look like this: butketHed

I hope I'm not sounding like a snobbish ass, I just saw it and felt I should point it out.

Not a problem.

[POS Industries]

Name: Ballaa Dehian

Gender: Male

Age: Six solar sweeps, dude.

Appearance: Somewhat stocky build, though not grossly out of shape by any means. Has long, thin horns that stick straight up out of the sides of his head. Typically wears a black cape with a hooded cowl through which his horns stick through the top and a yellow, pouch-laden belt about his waist. While the cowl obscures his face, his clever disguise has yet to fool a soul, nor has his masked visage struck fear into the hearts of even the meekest of creatures. Wears the bright yellow logo of his favorite fictional hero emblazoned across his shirt.



Lusus: His lusus is DEEEEAAAAAAAAAAD!

Trollian Handle: vengefulRodentia. speaks in a... haltingly GRUFF and... INTENSE... goddamn bat-manner.

Blood Color: Yellow

Hive: Stately Dehian Manor is, despite its name, something of a small, modest hive with very little of anything remarkable about it, befitting his middling caste. It does, however, boast an impressive series of caves through which an intrepid vigilante hero might set up his secret base of operations, but it's mostly just dark and a bit dangerous so Ballaa doesn't go down there too often if he can help it.

Strife Specibus: Boomeringkind

Fetch Modus: Utility Belt Modus. Popularized as able to hold anything and everything an aspiring nocturnal vigilante might need to fight crime. Is actually just a gaudy yellow belt with pouches and you can't even tell what is in which pouch so you're liable to pull out something entirely different from what you were after if you aren't careful.

However, what you want isn't necessarily what you need, and rumor has it that the belt modus will give you the right tool for the job when it counts most, whether it's what you were looking for or not.

Title: Seer of Echo

Dreamself: Derse

Interests: Ballaa is an avid fan of illustrated serialized periodicals, particularly those involving exceptional heroic trolls of varying special abilities. His all-time favorite, however, is the Nocturnal Wingedrat Vigilante, who has no extraodinary powers beyond his own will, ingenuity, and preparedness. So much does he look up to this heroic troll that Ballaa strives everyday to be just like him, donning a homemade replica of the Nocturnal Wingedrat Vigilante's costume and training ever so hard to live up to his idol.

Sadly, Ballaa isn't particularly good at it, as his ability to intimidate the craven and cowardly lot leaves much to be desired and he's absolutely terrible at maintaining a secret identity, though his detective skills are coming along and he's getting to be a decent shot with the Nocturnal Wingedrat Vigilante's trademark weapon, the Wingedraterang. He also boasts impressive hearing abilities.

Additional Notes: Ballaa's identification with the Nocturnal Wingedrat Vigilante stems from the loss of his own lusus in a shocking act of violence, perpetrated by an unseen assailant firing a bolt of energy from somewhere far off in the ocean. This is, however, just about the only thing he has in common with his hero, as he has neither the vast fortune of the Vigilante's superior bloodcaste, the genius intellect, the many years of disciplined training, the intimidating presence, or a major metropolitan hiveblock in which to patrol. To make matters worse, he is of the rare breed of troll capable of braving the harsh light of the Alternian sun, and as a result doesn't like to stay up too late otherwise he just feels groggy all day.

[Arcanum]

Ok I didn't post the entire memo yet because of two reasons. 1) My post felt like it was getting pretty long as it is, and 2) I too tired at the moment to go through the entire memo and apply the proper color tags. If nobody else does it before my next post I'll put it up then (and then we can erase it from TypeWithMe to make it less cluttered).

[mauve]

Gorrma's CS, such as it is.Name: Gorrma Caprii

Gender: Female

Age: 6 solar sweeps

Appearance:

She has braces! She doesn’t really mind them, but it makes eating stuff a little difficult sometimes! And that is bad because Gorrma likes to eat! Oh, and that’s not a skirt—it’s her official Gourmancy apron! She has to be ready to test daring new recipes at a moment’s notice, and no self-respecting Gourmancer would be caught dead without proper cooking attire! Other Gourmancers would be offended and kill them on sight for breaking the dress code. And then cook them.

Lusus: Gorrma’s Lusus looks like a horse-sized goat with horns and jagged teeth similar to Gorrma’s. His name is Nommington! And he eats just about everything, just like Gorrma! Nommington and Gorrma go on culinary adventures together in search of the fabled Ultimate Recipe, a dish so exquisite it can give whoever eats it the power to crush mountains with their jaws alone. It probably even tastes good!

Trollian Handle: omnipotentOmnivore. She talksh with a shlight lishp thanksh to the brasches on her teeth. She’s also prone to using cooking puns.

Blood Color: Olive Green.

Hive: Subterranean hive. Gorrma has designed her hive to accommodate her cooking and food obsession, leaving herself with several underground chambers for storing ingredients. She lives at the edge of a forest, where she often goes hunting for new ingredients.

Strife Specibus: Cleaverkind. Gorrma, like any self-respecting Gourmancer, always has a set of cooking knives on hand for harvesting fresh ingredients! She’s deadly with a meat cleaver.

Fetch Modus: Chef Modus. This modus breaks down every item submitted into its base parts. To remove an item, you must provide a proper recipe of base parts. For example, a chair would break down into WOOD + NAILS + PAINT. To remove the chair, you would enter CHAIR: WOOD +NAILS+PAINT. This can be a hassle if you can’t remember what everything is made of. But Gorrma likes the challenge!

Title: (Not sure about this one yet)

Dreamself: Prospit

Interests: Cooking! Eating! Gorrma wants to be a Gourmancer when she grows up—one of the elite chefs of Trollkind who ravage worlds in search of delicious ingredients for new culinary inventions. Gorrma practices all the time! She eats everything! The fabled Gourmancers of Olde are her heroes: she owns copies of their recipe books and reads stories of their great exploits to her Lusus, Nommington. Her favorite story is of the Iron Gourmancer Honjya, who created a dish so spicy it burned through the stomachs of six of his strongest disciples, then pooled on the ground beneath their corpses and bored a hole into the kitchen-arena floor. It’s said that the dish continued to burn down through the solid rock of the planet’s crust until it hit molten lava, which Honjya drew up into his kitchen and used to forge a paring knife so sharp it could slice through solid rock. Gorrma bets Honjya was a total hottie, too.

Additional Notes: Oddities? Well… she eats rocks. And animals she finds. And sticks. And pretty much anything else. That's odd, right?

[Arhra]

Filthy, slow working copycat.

[Aldurin]

I think I'm ready to start making the flashback post for how the trolls got the game. Gonna write it up right now.

[Geminex]

Character sheet:

Name: Scalis Lector

Gender: Male

Age: 6 solar sweeps

Appearance: Wears a black, nondescript t-shirt, a grey tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, and matching tweed pants. Slippers on his feet, because all good librarians wear slippers. Organge hair, tries to keep it cut as short as possible because of its horrible, horrible color. His lusus is terrible at cutting hair, though, so he usually goes around with a scraggly, uneven, orange hairdo. There's a reason he usually wears a Fedora (though it also helps block light, he likes the dark). One horn extends straight upwards, the other is sickle-shaped, forming the TWIN SIGNS OF LEARNING AND WONDER, They're pretty blackened from all the electricity that's flowed through them, though.. His teeth are fairly long and sharp, and you can barely see two fangs in the corners of his mouth when his mouth is closed. He also wears sunglasses at all times, due to aforesaid photosensitivity.

Lusus: An Orang-Utan. Fairly low-maintainance, though he won't budge on the whole 'banana plantation' issue. A veteran Librarian and Archivar; he taught Scalis all he knew.

Trollian Handle: pandorasArchivist.

Blood Color: Orange. Goddamn Orange.

Hive: On a rocky crag, above the sea, surrounded by winds and spray and storms stands a massive, but worn structure. No castle, despite the walls and turrets, no temple, despite its discinct resemblance to the Pantheon. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon_%28Nashville%29). No, this is the hive of yourself, a young troll who reads far too many books and collects everything. It is a place of knowlege, and a place of horror, filled with books (all of them) and artifacts and threats so great that the best way to get rid of them was to lock them in a filing cabinet and quietly forget about them. A visitor could find anything here, wisdom, knowlege, true love, or even the perfect book to read late at night. But while you can find everything here, it is gogdam impossible to find anything specific, so more than likely is that you'd come in looking for the ultimate weapon and end up leaving with half a feather duster and a book filled with discourse about the impact of table manners on the development of Trollkind.
This is the CENTRAL INSTITUTION FOR THE COLLECTING, SORTING AND ANALZING OF TOMES, ARTIFACTS, WEAPONS, CREATURES AND ABSTRACT PHENOMENA. But you just like to call it THE LIBRARCHIVARY.

Strife Specibus: TOMEKIND. More versatile than you'd think.

Fetch Modus: Archive modus. Captchalogued items are archived safely and securely. Getting them back out can be a bitch, though, because the filing system is absolutely fucked.

Title: Keeper of Memory

Dreamself: Derse

Interests: Books and Archives are his duty, of course. In his free time he writes, works on obscure obscure experimentation (mostly to do with books) and explores the POWER OF LIGHTNING.

Also, in regards to Menarker's CS: Most of it seems fine (though the fact that he's 2 years older than most of us and wears a bucket on his head makes him pretty damn creepy), but I'm really not sure about the mind-reading bit. Yes, even if it's just surface thoughts. It doesn't seem thematically necessary, and in interactions with other PCs it'd give a lot of potential for god-moding. Or conflict, at the very least. Not to mention that we've never actually seen into a character's mind in homestuck before. We've seen their reactions, but never their thoughts. That's a good pattern. I really don't think we should break it for the sake of minor mind-reading powers.
So, Menarker. Could you go without? It doesn't really seem necessary for your character, and I think it might not benefit the RP later.

[Aldurin]

mind-reading

Dammit, there might be a conflict between him and I with the whole STOP IT STAY OUT OF MY HEAD thing. Might zap him or carry a brainwave disruptor to prevent it.