Awake(working title) - The Sign-up Thread

[Arcanum]

Working on my character at the moment. It looks like he's going to be an ex-doctor with a god complex, though I'm still ironing out the details. Also, Overcast, what's your opinion on a Madness Power that gives an inanimate object temporary life?

[Overcast]

It seems reasonable and has a lot of potential for both small useful things and ungodly huge crazy things. So yeah, go on with your bad self and show me what you had in mind.

[krogothwolf]

i just realized why I never saw you reposting in here. For some reason this thread never shows up as having a new post in it so I didn't know anything was going on till I checked the date of the latest post.

[Arcanum]

Yeah, I know, I said I'd have something up Wednesday, but I have a (somewhat) good reason! While writing my guy's past I kind of wrote myself into a corner while simultaneously giving him a background that would result in a personality that I would hate to actually play. So long story short I said "eff it" and decided to get back to it later, which is what I'm doing now. Will (hopefully) have something up tonight, but it all depends on my brain and if it wants to be a jackass again or not.

[Overcast]

It is fine to me, I'd rather you have a character you could stand to play than to see you suffering and eventually ditching us mid way.

[Overcast]

I will be closing signups on May 1st and begin working on the basic ideas of plot, and may allow you guys to explore a little bit and get familiar with the setting and each other(if you find the time) in the first thread since I'm feeling guilty about letting this just stagnate here so long.

[Arcanum]

You feel guilty? I'm the guy who said he'd have a character up last Wednesday and has still failed to provide said character. On an unrelated note, here is said character.

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Biography
Name: Gregory "Greg" Fitzmund
Occupation: Ex Med Student
Past: Greg has always been an eccentric person and has never been considered ?normal? by anyone, not even his parents. Fortunately his personality didn?t get in the way of his life, and he made his way through it without any remarkable incidents. Well that is until he decided to become a doctor and enrolled in medical school. Everything was alright until the first time he saved somebody?s life. The act triggered something in his brain, and at first it seemed like he disconnected with reality and started living in his own personal world. He dropped out of school and lived with his parents like this for a year and a half, until one day he just snapped out of it. At first his parents were thrilled, but Greg was furious at losing the world he had been living in for the past year and a half. He had built up an imaginary society along with new friends, new family, and a new job. He was crazy, to say the least. That was when Greg started to lose sleep. He was trying everything he could to get his world back, but his imagination alone wasn?t enough. He knew deep down that something in his brain had to change for him to be back the way he was. His parents tried to stop him of course, they tried to call professional help, but Greg ran away and started living in a cheap apartment. He hasn?t slept for the past couple of weeks, and he?s still no closer to finding the world he wants to live in.

Appearance: Greg is a 5'11'' skinny 32 year old man, with messy red hair that always looks like he just got out of bed (he has made several attempts to tame it but to no avail). His recent poverty and insomnia is the reason for his skinny appearance, as well as the shabby clothes he wears, which usually consists of worn out jeans and a dirty t-shirt.

Personality: Greg is friendly and cheerful, when not consumed with finding a way to regain the world he has lost. He is a bit odd as well, often finding peculiar interest in things that would bore others, or just stopping mid-sentence to re-think what he is saying or who he is talking to.

Goals: Greg is trying to induce his mind back into the peculiar kind of madness that allowed him to live in his imaginary world.

Responses
1 Fight
2 Flight

Talents
Exhaustion Talent:
Diagnosis: During his time as a med student Greg learned how to properly diagnose patients. No as an Awake he can tell what is afflicting someone with a simple cursory examination. As his exhaustion grows Greg will be able to diagnose someone by just looking at them, and when his exhaustion is at the most extreme he will even be able to figure out the best way to cure/help them.
Madness Talent:
Life to the Lifeless:Greg can give life to any inanimate object simply by touching it. This will allow the object to move in ways that it couldn?t before (i.e. a chair able to bend its legs in order to walk) and talk if it has something that could vaguely resemble a mouth.


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Sorry it took so long.

[Overcast]

Alrighty it is the first and all entry is now closed. The profiles are saved and examined. All folks who are here shall soon be directed to the opening thread. There you may frolic about the mad city and force me to have to think up reflex situations. You may play out that initial moment that turned you from regular person into Awake, you may even show the first manifestation of your madness ability. I don't mind any of them because until I get the proper enemies together I can't well lead you guys anywhere. Get familiar with the place, or as familiar as anyone can with an ever shifting nightmare world where everything can become literal.


Here it is.

[Bard The 5th LW]

So is there any place our character are/n't supposed to be right now? Any actions we are supposed to take?

[Overcast]

Truth is you are entering out of hindrance to myself. I have some of the pathways of how I want to torture all of you thus far, but I don't have proper enemies other than the most famous. I would figure Rob would be around the Bizarre Bazaar, the place plays to his madness and also would be the best place to start trying to gather information on why his home would be so messed about.

Wes might just be trouncing around this strange new world as an escape of that crapland he is stuck in back home, your character might be doing the same(even if comparably he isn't as deep in actual problems as Wes). See you two have no direction whatsoever. This place opened up not quite as an answer to something back home, but as an alternative. It is up to you to see if it is worthwhile. The same can be said for Doc Fitz, but it isn't that his life sucks but that he wants so much more than what he has already.

If I was putting Sam anywhere I'd put him in District 13. Dangerous as it is it seems like the place a hope to be vigilante hero to show up. After all the place is like a totalitarian madland of law and order held over by the big bad and unusually powerful Officer Tock(6 Pain Dice on a good day).

But I wouldn't say you can't be anywhere. If I would tell you to stay away from certain places it would probably be District 13, since it is so easy to attract trouble, and most of all the High School. The place is just filled with bad and if you ever come face to face with Mother When(Pain 12) you will find that the rumors she is the personification of Death itself is well founded.