Don't Rest Your Head

[stainedmind]

So now that I've introduced societalFlame to the game of DRYH, I figured I'd start a thread for a regular session.

If you're interested in joining, here's a character sheet.

NAME:
GENDER:
AGE:

DISCIPLINE: •••
EXHAUSTION:
PERMANENT MADNESS:

FIGHT:
FLIGHT:

EXHAUSTION TALENT:
MADNESS TALENT:

BIOGRAPHY:

The Biography should answer these questions.

Who are you?
What's been keeping you awake?
What happened when you Awakened?
Who are you on the surface?
Who are you under that?
What's your path?

So yeah, let's do this.

[societalFlame]

NAME: Reka
GENDER: Female
AGE: 17

DISCIPLINE: •••
EXHAUSTION: 0
PERMANENT MADNESS: 0

FIGHT: 2
FLIGHT: 1

EXHAUSTION TALENT: Using knives
MADNESS TALENT: Can heal herself, and can turn off the boundaries that the brain puts on the body to prevent muscles from tearing themselves apart during overexertion. Because of the healing, she doesn't jelly herself when she does this.

BIOGRAPHY:

Who are you?
Reka is the daughter of a scientist and an electrician. Her mother left when she was young, leaving her father to support the family alone. He frequently brought his work home with him, typing up reports through the night and over weekends. Sometimes Reka helped by fetching documents from his briefcase and making sure he got something to eat.

She went to the Mad City once as a small child. She tried to tell her father and her teacher what happened, but was put in therapy and eventually convinced that it was just a horrible nightmare. Now, she's a dreamer and a loner. She'll still explore what wilds there are near her neighborhood, but she's more likely to be seen with her head in the clouds.

Reka is wary of strangers and can be a little snippy at times. This tends to put people off. She's afraid of being thought of as delusional again and tries to put on a "normal" front, but her defensiveness comes through despite that. It doesn't help that she's known to lash out at people when upset. She did not come through her first trip to the Mad City unscarred.

What's been keeping you awake?
Worry, mostly. She's worried about leaving high school and getting into college, and she doesn't think she's doing good enough. She's worried about the state of the world. She's worried about her father's health. She's worried about a lot of things.

What happened when you Awakened?
This time around? She was looking for her backpack in preparation for the new school year. She went into her closet thinking it had gotten thrown in there and covered in junk, and came out in the Mad City.

Who are you on the surface?
A daydreamer ne'er-do-well who doesn't care enough to not look raggedy and who probably doesn't have any friends.

Who are you under that?
Someone who just wants to get by in life without selling her soul to popularity. She chases people away so they won't hurt her and so they don't have the chance to brand her as not normal.

What's your path?
Get out, get home, and do everything possible to avoid going back.

[genesisArtificer]

NAME: Malo
GENDER: Male
AGE: 23

DISCIPLINE: 3•••
EXHAUSTION: 1
PERMANENT MADNESS:

FIGHT: 3
FLIGHT: 0

EXHAUSTION TALENT: punching people
MADNESS TALENT: Faustian Folly: halts time for anyone but himself for a very short while. From perspective of everyone else it mostly looks like short-range teleportation. Think Homura Akemi. He cannot directly harm nobody in this state but can shoot a bullet at them which will start to move at terminal velocity once he stops using it.
More Madness dice - longer period of time stopping.

BIOGRAPHY:

i.imgur.com/c0PKLu6.jpg - reference (sorry for shitty quality of the pic)

The Biography should answer these questions. ( i think i want to play it out )

Who are you?
They call him Malo. That's what he introduces himself as, but nobody really knows his name. He was a thug for hire, gone through various gangs. Recently though, he had found a place to stay with Pale Horses - a gang who uses a skull makeup as their mark. He is wearing one too now.
What's been keeping you awake?
Drugs, mostly. He isn't an addict, but recently he tried a weird designer compound and that must have fucked up with his brain chemistry a bit.
What happened when you Awakened?
He lost his way in unfamiliar neighbourhood, got angry and broke a window, heard someone talking behind it and gone through it, emerged at Bizzare Bazaar just few seconds before Midnight. Spent a most strange hour of his life trying to find a way back to City Slumbering.
Who are you on the surface?
A scary, angry dude. Six feet four of almost albino, lean motherfucker. Bald head and skull-paint don't make things easier. He is a thug, but he has his honour, won't screw a person who did nothing to him and won't hurt someone who is not after him.

Who are you under that?
A stray. Kid who knew nothing but endless gang wars. He had to grow up tough or end without kidneys in the sewer. Contrary of what he brags, he doesn't like to fight, and his mean temper is mostly cultivated. He would rather be left alone, maybe with someone he trusts. But he cannot. He has no skills that would be useful in normal work.

His only memento of his partents is his true name, Jean Calvarie. He wouldn't tell it to anyone in the underworld, because he thinks that it would "sully" the name.

What's your path?
Maybe he would try to make a name of yourself in this strange new world? Or use it to his advantage? Or maybe, just maybe, use it as an opportunity to leave his past?

[stainedmind]

genesisArtificer, you need to fill in those questions. They're important in helping me figure out the way the story's gonna go. Same for you, societalFlame.

Edit: Okay, genesisArtificer, you're in.

[genesisArtificer]

ok so that was quite cool.

[stainedmind]

So do you think you made a good choice in joining this?

[genesisArtificer]

hey if i praise something i mean it ;p

[societalFlame]

Is this better, SM?

[Sugarhigh]

I'll post my profile soon, once everything's sorted out.

[stainedmind]

Feb 28, 2013 18:48:54 GMT -5 societalFlame said:

Is this better, SM?

Yup, it's better. You're accepted. Intro thread coming soon.

[aspiredClockworks]

Name: Apollo McCormick
Age: 21
I Am: A wandering drifter who takes whatever job is available
Appearance: Dirty from lack of ability to take a bath, I attempt to get one often enough to not stink so bad no one wishes to speak to me, though it’s seldom pleasant to do so. My clothes are old and beaten up, the result of being a homeless drifter for many months. My main article of clothing is a mauve hoodie, many holes in it from the elements, and a pair of worn-out jeans, knees nonexistent and bottoms frayed. I have disheveled, unkempt black hair and a work-weary face with brown eyes.
Bio: Losing his house to foreclosure, Apollo was forced to take only the supplies he could carry in his small backpack and head out in search of enough work to keep food in him for another day, moving to a different town whenever work started to dry up and he hadn’t eaten for a few days.

What’s been keeping you awake?
There’s no real time for a drifter to sleep, especially not recently. The last job I took angered a local group of thugs and they’ve been making life too hectic for me to sleep. So, I’m less a drifter and more a runner right now.

What Just Happened To You?
I just wanted to stay out of the way, but that's getting hard to do because of this gang I've got on my tail. Lately, they've gotten weird. For the last few days, I've been pursued by this extremely persistent hunter. He's got deeply tanned skin, built like an iron girder, and I could almost swear he was ticking.

What’s On The Surface?
I am an adaptable, agreeable man, happy to take whatever job is in front of him to put food in my mouth. I don’t complain much, and don’t want to cause any trouble.

What Lies Beneath?
I want to keep my head down, smile and nod to get through life with little attention given to myself, I want to blend in. I don’t want to attract people’s ire, because that could make life more difficult than it already is.

What’s Your Path?
I want the quiet life. I want to settle down and be free of the whims of people looking for a day’s worker, to be able to actually have my own life. Of course that’s rough, especially since I need a new identity first before I can even start at that.

Discipline: [ ] [ ] [ ]
Responses: 3 Flight [ ] [ ] [ ]
Exhaustion Talent: Stealth
Madness Talent: Avatar – The ability to become the Avatar of the predominant aspect of the area. At low dice, this ability is less strong but more controllable, while at 6 I am simply a force of nature, out of my own control other than a vague goal. As my Permanent Madness goes up, it gets harder to turn off, with parts of the environment showing themselves in my form. A school will make me more rigid, or perhaps my nails will become gypsum. Eventually, I become The Simulacrum, a swirling, anthropomorphic representation of whatever area I'm in now.

[stainedmind]

Accepted