Global Use Characters

[whiteLimestone]

Basically, characters that anyone can use for their adventuring. I was thinking that they could only be referenced in anecdotes and help requests, if only because setting up communally-available accounts sounds tricky and hard to regulate.

So, anyone have any ideas? I was thinking we could have a list of usernames and general personalities, but I'm not sure how in-depth said general personalities should go.

For example, "redMirror, a sneaky and cunning troll PK, first referenced here" vs [Full Homestuckian profile ending in "your trolltag is redMirror and you pepp<er yo>ur speech w<ith< arr>ows"]

Actually come to think of it, the first question should be whether global use characters are a good idea at all. I guess they could cause confusion or something? Just toss out your thoughts on the subject.

The List of GUCs:
azureGoddess - infamous serial PK with followers. Also called Psycho Rosemary.
azure[blank] - followers of azureGoddess or copycats thereof.
cessationInvestigator - rare example of a living Post-Doc in Sburb. Expert in medicine and forensics and a Doom fangirl. VP of the Seer Network.
decidedlySilent - megalomaniac who liked to pick on new players. Wasn't a team player, and is now permadead.
gentlemanMannerism - feared author of the Sburb Etiquette FAQ and very veteran Rage player.
inquiringGourmand - lover of food and creator of the famous Ice Cream Hack.
lateralSynapsis - expert on Sburb's class assignment mechanism and collaborator with TT. Is a girl despite having a male-only native Title.
marginallyMendacious - a veteran player and habitual liar who usually rolls Blood. Does not have a forum account but knows of its existence.
paradigmDeviant - kind but somewhat self-centered girl who tends to unintentionally complete sessions quickly. Has unusually large Berserk Triggers.
redMirror - redblooded troll PK who likes to gain the trust of her victims first.
restlessRelic - short-tempered speedrunner who has PKed those that try to make him slow down. Is gaining infamy for this.
stagnantAnimus - a founder of the Seer Network born shipper. Nosy, a slowpoke, and an expert in all matters Heart.
starcrossedUnmaking - youngest Seer in the Seer Network. Comes across as haughty and distant because of her desire to prove herself.
usualPerformance - native Smith of Breath known for wanton windy destruction and insisting on being called the Aerosmith.
vivaciousCanvas - a tattooist that tries to tattoo every player she runs across, usually with Chinese characters for food items among others.

Post here if you want to add someone to the list, please, or if you want me to change something about a GUC's information blurb.

[tungstenTinkerer]

I think we already sorta of have some memetic characters people can reference. Keeping track of other characters in case someone wants to cross-reference them could definitely be a good idea.

azureGoddess and her azurites, gentlemanMannerism and usualPerformance a.k.a. Tyler the Aerosmith are all fine examples of memetic "global use characters".

[whiteLimestone]

Should we make a list of them, maybe, with the idea of letting other people add to it?

[tungstenTinkerer]

Sure, why not. Maybe make a list in the OP and add all the characters with some details to it?

[whiteLimestone]

Sure. Can you link me to what we have on usualPerformance, please?

[ventricularPipefitter]

I am in favor of global use characters. I am pretty sure any name I spin up off-the-cuff will do just fine for things like this, and I'd be happy to have those people re-used.

[tungstenTinkerer]

Other people of notice:

lateralSynapsis: native Sage of Stars and one of TT's closest collaborators on explaining the game. She is very brilliant and an expert on the class assignment mechanism. Currently in the same session as ventricularPipefitter. LS is actually a girl who got a glitched male-only title in her first session.

inquiringGourmand: this jolly native Sage of Life is one to love food of all kinds. He expanded TT's guide on alchemy hacking to include various alchemiter modifications that allow alchemized foods to taste better, including the famous Ice Cream Hack.

usualPerformance: This guy, whose name is most certainly Tyler Something, is a native Smith of Breath known for the sheer amount of wanton destruction and mastery of the wind he could unleash, but also because he used to have people call him "the Aerosmith" and have fraymotifs based on Aerosmith songs and be generally speaking obsessed with Aerosmith.

re: colors, I believe it's azureGoddess (since she is clearly Vriska) and gentlemanMannerism (taking purple prose to the next level)

[whiteLimestone]

Okay. I have those people up and colors added to the names. I cut down the descriptions a bit, but if you want me to put the whole thing in I can change them.

[tungstenTinkerer]

I think they are fineI kinda wanted to provide more information, maybe change UP's a little since not including the delicious smith of breath - aerosmith pun in the description seems a shame.

[rubberScarab]

As far as Global characters go, do you think it would be useful to compile a list of chumhandles and corresponding characters that can be used sort of like strawmen for session logs and stories?
I've got a bunch of characters that I wouldn't mind being utilized in this way on my character sheet thread. I wouldn't mind making more, and I could also do some less detailed ones such as those already in this thread. I'm not really sure how to go about this, so tell me what you think.

[ventricularPipefitter]

SB: That's exactly what we're doing here. In a sense, it's developing the 'background cast' of the RP setting. As for what's appropriate, I think just copying over the notes you've got, or posting the relevant information here, is the way to do it.

If you develop more NPCs, you can also post them here!

Ironically enough, the Shipping Thread is slowly developing a wealth of carapace persons we can all draw upon--those are reoccuring characters of a sort too, after all!

[whiteLimestone]

Should I make a list for carapaces too then?

[ventricularPipefitter]

I think that should be a different thread, and possibly an in-character one because it's fun to talk about carapaces IC.

[rubberScarab]

Alright, here are a few characters I wrote up info for despite having no concrete plans for their personalities or stories to use them in. Anyone who wants to use them can go ahead and write their personalities and such however they like. Differences in those sorts of things can easily be explained through the rolling of different titles and aspects, after all.
Only concrete detail is that the first two were in their first session with the character I actually use.

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restlessRelic (Mike)
Age: 25
Sessions: Unknown
Gender: Male
Native Title: Bard
Native Aspect: Life
Native Moon: Prospit
Current Role: Unknown
Guardian: Daughter (ectobiology shenanigans)
Strife Specibus: Flailkind
Native Planet: Land of Moonlight and Jungles.
Item: Silver
Text: Deep Olive Green (Hex: 556B2F)

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paradigmDeviant (Christina, but she hates that name and just goes by Chris instead.)
Age:23
Sessions: Unknown
Gender: Female
Native Title: Muse
Native Aspect: Dream
Native Moon: Prospit
Current Role: Unknown
Guardian: Grandson (ectobiology shenanigans)
Strife Specibus: knifekind
Native Planet: Land of Legend and Slumber
Item: Marble
Text: Electric Blue (Hex: 7DF9FF)

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Oh, and this guy is dead, but he's usable if it's a story about a past session. You can steal his chumhandle for a current character or something if you like:

decidedlySilent (Joseph)
Age: 19 (At time of death)
Sessions: Unknown
Gender: Male
Native Title: Bane
Native Aspect: Law
Native Moon: Prospit
Current Role: Bane of Rain (At time of death)
Guardian: Unknown
Strife Specibus: Trumpetkind
Native Planet: Land of Luster and Riches
Item: Platinum
Text: Pale Silver (Hex: 838996)

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marginallyMendacious (Joe)
Age: 26
Sessions: 42
Gender: Male
Native Title: Mage
Native Aspect: Blood
Native Moon: Derse
Current Role: Guard of Blood
Guardian: Sis
Strife Specibus: Gauntletkind
Native Planet: Land of Castles and Coral
Item: Limestone
Text: Shamrock Green (Hex: 009E60)

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I'll make a few more characters later today with less conditions attached. I can also type up some basic traits or quirks for these characters if you want.
Feel free to tell me if you'd prefer them to be less detailed, or for a certain detail to be added or any other such things. If I'm going to make some specifically for this purpose, they might as well be made in the way most useful to the thread.

[tungstenTinkerer]

This is great and everything, but I believe that if someone wants to reference them in-passing we don't need to know, say, their land as much as some quirks of personality or notable events. It's more likely that we are going to say "hey, you shouldn't do that, I heard of this guy that did that and died" or "hehe, do you remember that guy that sometimes decided he would only say the exact opposite of the truth for a while and you had to ask them if their eyes were green to understand if he was doing that" rather than quote their title or land.

Having the full profile is good, but it's probably too much info and not so relevant to what we are doing here? I dunno, maybe I am wrong.