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[mathiau he/him]

On 10/03/2022 at 8:25 AM, Ashbringer said:

I'm going to try and re-value Cassie for what I'm planning to change as the Era shifts (or whatever happens soon with savantism and things).

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Name: Cassandra "Cassie" Adama

Physical Characteristics: A short woman in her 40's-ish with a regal bearing, tends to wear lavender and bronze dresses with a lot of pockets and a long sleeve ending in a glove over her safehand (and Ghostblood tattoo). Her skin is rigid and bronzed, flexible in some places and not in others, with crystalline amethyst eyes and somewhat darker metallic hair.

Investitures: A-Iron Misting (Lurcher), fully metallic Soulcaster Savant. As a savant, can Soulcast more precisely than most, which helps create Allomantically optimum metals and converting the correct substance. Her body is almost entirely metal - while a combination of special Investitures (might have this happen in-Era, might just say it worked across Eras) and embedded gemstones allow her consiousness / Cognitive Shadow to remain attached to her body, it's dependent on Investiture to actually animate and move her body. However, the metal is quite durable, decently well Invested, and somewhat light, and can be 'repaired' with Cassie's own Soulcaster.

Skills: Okay at Lurcher and knife combat (tends to throw knives, "miss", and Pull them into her opponent's back). A skilled metallurgist, Soulcaster, and craftsman - can create the 16 Allomantic metals, as well as industrial steel, titanium, mercury, and alkali metals like sodium (but nothing radioactive). More skilled in periodic elements and general / Metallic Arts alloys that hyperspecific ones.

Equipment: A Soulcaster that only uses amethysts (Soulcasts things into metals), somewhat fused to her right hand. A perfect amethyst embedded in her head to act as a central containment for her consciousness. A few dirks, knives and throwing razors, some aluminum, some steel. Metallurgy equipment (although that's mostly too bulky to carry, even for her).

Weaknesses: Cassie's body is essentially entirely metal - while this does have advantages (mostly outlined in Investiture) it does have some drawbacks. Notably, Cassie's quite slow, unable to truly run with a max speed slightly faster than the average walking speed. Her dexterity is somewhat impeded, but not quite to the same degree, just requiring more time to perform precise tasks. She's dependent on Stormlight, her own Iron, or other Investiture to stay active; if it runs out, she'll essentially freeze into a statue until she gets more (although it's mostly replacing needing food/water). Personality-wise she can also be very vengeful: be a good customer and she'll be very kind. Stiff her payment and she'll throw you out. Threaten her and she may just attack you, or remember the event for when an opportunity presents.

Family: Has a friendly relationship with Byron, Poller, and NullBlade, and acts kindly to anyone who returns the favor. Family is back home on Scadrial, and she sends letters on occasion.

Home Planet: Scadrial

Backstory: Cassie was born just before the Catecendre, originally Snapped by the mists as a baby. She helped rebuild Scadrial, but never really fit in, so she worldhopped to Roshar alongside Tyrian and [redacted] and procured herself a Soulcaster from an ardent who didn't take kindly to her. She decided to settle down somewhere and set up a Soulcasting shop, and chose the Alleyverse. She now sells Allomantic metals to whomever asks and acts kindly, but is getting worried about the progression of her savanthood and somewhat yearns for the adventures she had in her youth.

In the Alleyverse, she started a business deal with a trader named Lord, who's first order of business was a large order of Hemalurgic Spikes, which Cassie created with some regret. When other forces - including the Ghostbloods who Cassie had contacted - expressed interest in removing the threat, Cassie obliged to help. However the ensuing battle greatly strained her savantism, to the point she discovered most of her body was metal. (And then we go to current plot!)

Guild: Ghostbloods - a recent joiner, but one willing to do quite a bit to advance and repay her debt for them saving her livelihood.

Personality: She tends to be distant from most people, and act at people how they act. She also tends to be incredibly stubborn, but loyal. Otherwise, she's peaceable (if cold) to neutral parties and innocents; and reacts to kindness and aggression in kind (although she's liable to escalate greatly).

Thanks to her savantism, she sometimes acts a lot like the metals she creates: stubborn and only flexible in the right conditions, but strong-willed. She also tends to minorly modify the metal that makes up her body, whether for function or aesthetics (ie creating a pocket to store Iron to burn, slightly changing the color, etc).

Fighting Style: Doesn't like fighting, but tends to throw knives and use her A-Iron, and Soulcast aggressively as a last resort. 

Nowhere near finished (especially because I'm not solid on what events could drive her too this, whether the Ghostbloods/DA are majorly involved, etc) but this is the "endgame" I've got for her.

Warforged Demilich 

7 hours ago, 18th Shard said:

Now where did all this DA activity come from? The Alleyverse certainly* can't have been a ploy to lure other people in to slowly spike out their activity for ourselves.  
@mathiau Could you direct me where I should look for Aylitha destroying the Scholar's Guild? I don't really remember enough of that to answer from Emily's perspective. Just the page and maybe the season and year if you remember would work.

It started roughly there

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As for playing powerful vs. weaker characters, I have always found that the interactions between them to be the most fun. Like an ancient cosmically powerful organization having to deal with the minutia of accounting (love Ronald @MacThorstenson), or a normal person interacting with a cosmic being. It's part of why I like the Cosmere and and the Alleyverse - you get characters like Ishar and Raboniel alongside ones like Teft and Steris. Emily is one of my favorite characters to write for that reason. 

And we even got a few character on the "I've dated a God for over a decade so this is basically a tuesday to me"

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@AonEne I'm a math person, so I read that sentence and was like, yeah, exactly my experience. Why would I want to describe things without math? It makes relationships between things so much more clear. However, I understand I'm unusual in that regard. Not quite eldritch blood sacrifices odd, though.

And the correct answer to the above question is obviously everyone, but the more interesting question is how long can everyone last and keep the eldritch gods happy? That's the real task. 

I'm a physics person and in my experience number do lie to you all the storming time

2 hours ago, Voidus said:

Just gotta say how much I love this.

World: Begins to end as reality itself is tearing apart at the seams and causing mass psychosis.

Laurelai and Lita: Uh-huh, I get that that's important and we should definitely deal with that. But can we all stop to take a second to appreciate how well this guy is dressed?

What's the point in saving the world if not so that you can you can appreciate sharply dressed people for a little longer?

Edited March 11, 2022 by mathiau

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

4 minutes ago, mathiau said:

And we even got a few character on the "I've dated a God for over a decade so this is basically a tuesday to me

Who is dating gods around here?  

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

3 minutes ago, ZincAboutIt said:

Who is dating gods around here?  

that's not half a bad idea....

Edited March 11, 2022 by Thaidakar the Ghostblood

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

3 minutes ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

that's not half a bad idea....

Gotta find a god who’s willing first XD

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

Just now, ZincAboutIt said:

Gotta find a god who’s willing first XD

true. any random gods lying around in the alleys?

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

Just now, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

true. any random gods lying around in the alleys?

Sure, loads. Though, I’m not entirely sure you’d enjoy their interpretation of “dating.”

 

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

Just now, ZincAboutIt said:

Sure, loads. Though, I’m not entirely sure you’d enjoy their interpretation of “dating.”

 

hm, sounds fun. my character needs a weird arc with a random creepy god.

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

1 minute ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

hm, sounds fun. my character needs a weird arc with a random creepy god.

Lol I’m mostly joking. Actual gods are a bit thin on the ground this Era - off in their own separate dimension, or transformed into mild-mannered academics, or eating buns in front of hat shops. 

[mathiau he/him]

15 minutes ago, ZincAboutIt said:

Who is dating gods around here?  

NullBlade's wife wasn't literally a Godess, but she was very powerful. TLR level I'd say

(Yeah, when I realised there wasn't a point cap for dead characters I went a bit overboard)

6 minutes ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

hm, sounds fun. my character needs a weird arc with a random creepy god.

I think I should warn you that that arc would almost certainly be their last.

Unless they're dating the current version of @Voidus, then they'd have a small chance of survival

Edited March 11, 2022 by mathiau

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

1 minute ago, mathiau said:

I think I should warn you that that arc would almost certainly be their last.

Unless maybe if they're dating the current version of @Voidus

ah that sucks. what about an insane fused?

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

Just now, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

ah that sucks. what about an insane fused?

Your taste runs even more destructive than mine lol 

If you want to give your character a very interesting but messy end, they could always go try to date Vivica  

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

Just now, ZincAboutIt said:

Your taste runs even more destructive than mine lol 

If you want to give your character a very interesting but messy end, they could always go try to date Vivica  

I'm not that insane. I might just scrap that idea and go for the "I want to BECOME a god" storyline.

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

Just now, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

I'm not that insane. I might just scrap that idea and go for the "I want to BECOME a god" storyline.

Join the club, we have jackets.

Well, lab coats. 

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

Just now, ZincAboutIt said:

Join the club, we have jackets.

Well, lab coats. 

which club? is it the DA, the ghostbloods, or one of those other tribes/guilds?

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

Just now, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

which club? is it the DA, the ghostbloods, or one of those other tribes/guilds?

Fast track to godhood is right down this here Alley… 

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

Just now, ZincAboutIt said:

Fast track to godhood is right down this here Alley… 

which this here alley?

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

Just now, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

which this here alley?

It’s the DA  

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

1 minute ago, ZincAboutIt said:

It’s the DA  

mkay, might just change my guild affiliation...

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

@MacThorstenson Any time Ronald does anything, all I can hear is “Sharp Dressed Man” by ZZ Top  

[mathiau he/him]

[MacThorstenson he/him]

35 minutes ago, ZincAboutIt said:

@MacThorstenson Any time Ronald does anything, all I can hear is “Sharp Dressed Man” by ZZ Top  

I just listened to the song and I love it!

It might be a bit too Rock-y for Ronald. He listens exclusively to classical and smooth jazz so that he can look down on people who don't.

[+ZincAboutIt she/her]

13 minutes ago, MacThorstenson said:

I just listened to the song and I love it!

It might be a bit too Rock-y for Ronald. He listens exclusively to classical and smooth jazz so that he can look down on people who don't.

Makes sense. But still, it is just too perfect! 

[AonEne he/him]

19 hours ago, Voidus said:

Unsure if you're familiar with the character from the Reckoners RP or not  

Is there one?? That's amazing, I didn't know! 

[Voidus]

2 hours ago, AonEne said:

Is there one?? That's amazing, I didn't know! 

Yeah the Quota was introduced in the middle of Reckoners so we suddenly had to deal with it and someone made an Epic about it
I think there were even fewer available back then too.

[MacThorstenson he/him]

Does anyone know of any cosmere magic systems that can determine if something is true or not? Like a magical lie detector.