Koloss17

@Akimikoisthecutest if you’re available, I’d love this character approved. If not, I can possibly recruit some older folks. Updated Clotho (no idea why it’s so big):

Time to pull out my 'old' card "I've been on the shard longer than you, so I know the rules better than you. Myeh!" ok old Koloss17 gone now.

It was TWO DAYS AGO :(((((

You know I kinda want to bring Clotho back into the fray, but idk if it’s right to bring her in this era or the next. She’s an A-gold savant that has huge trouble with her own memories, essentially developing retrograde amnesia due to it. However, she also has the ability to be incredibly malleable given she can have the memory and ability of two different people, with the second person (her gold shadow) being able to change and morph depending on what shadow she has that day. I’m thinking of giving her an F-copper medallion to help store some of her memories, which helps less than you’d imagine, but has allowed her to pursue a successful job as a PI of sorts, someone who can get you answers if you need answers, sometimes getting the information without ever having been to the place due to her alternate selves. she’s a fun character, but also a lot of work, though I think I’m in a good enough place in life that I would be able to keep up with her.

Perses, Smokestack Perses continued his tracking, being sure to stay out of sight as much as possible. Tapping his hearingminds, he tracked the conversation of the group. With bronze, he could pick out that they were all metalborn, with the pewter junkie being an A-iron twinborn, allowing them to move blisteringly fast, fast enough to keep pace with the lurchers as they flew across the district. Perses felt a pulse behind him, and then another. Both went out too quickly for him to be able to distinguish them, but it seemed to be allomancy followed by feruchemy. Had he been more focused, he would have been able to catch what they were, but as he was focusing on three things at once, it was a struggle. What are you doing now? Belias said in his head, distracting his concentration further. Trying to focus. Get out of my head. Perses heard a light chuckle, but thankfully nothing further. By this time, the constables had been long abandoned, but Perses was sure a report would be made about whatever had happened. If needed, he could get that report, but it was a struggle. Even if the report was made via graphite or metal-based ink, Perses would have to get it read for him. Some day, Perses would have to learn how to do it himself, but he had gone his whole life not needing it, and with only recently gaining the abilities required to make it useful, such an opportunity hadn't presented itself. In his mental distractions, thoughts that were both his and not, he had been getting further and further behind the group. Rusts, chasing metalborn when you're noticed is difficult. So with his mind fatigued and his intrigue waning, he stopped giving chase. He had gained a lot of good information, and though he had no clue who those people were and what they were doing, he knew enough to mull over. @Lunamor @Qianweilian

Ebon moved faster than Midas could react. But that's what the awakened armor was for. His cape wrapped around him in an instant, blocking the knives before they tore into his flesh. Blood pumping, Midas burned chromium and launched a punch at the fused's face. Growing up in the streets of Luthadel changed a man. Made him tougher, angrier, more resilient. He had learned how to fight before he learned to read, and he learned how to take a beating before he learned to speak properly. He'd never known his mum, nor his dad, with the only family he ever had being himself. After surviving the streets, surviving the pits, surviving his whole world shattering in the blink of an eye more times than he could count, nothing scared him anymore. And definitely not some bedtime story Rosharans would tell their kids before they went to sleep. He had fought worse and survived. How bad could this one be? Perses, Smokestack He watched as the young iron savant rocketed away. The constables were getting closer, and Perses didn't feel the need to be here when they turned the corner. Dropping a coin, he steelpushed away, onto the rooftops. He wouldn't go unnoticed, not by a long shot. Given how noticeable his bone-laden cloak made him, and the fearsome reputation he had earned, he rarely felt the need to go unseen anymore. Perses' stealth no longer became about operating unseen, it rather became who saw him. And with a constabulary already chasing after someone, he felt pretty confident it wouldn't be them. The rooftops of Smokestack weren't that much of a hidden place. The general populace had enough lurchers and coinshots that people had learned to glance up just as often as they glanced side to side. But that only mattered when the rooftop-goer in question needed to look over the edge. Staying to the centers of buildings, using his steelsight to stay out of any potential onlookers' line of sight, Perses carefully tracked the fleeing group, including the straggler. A pewter junky. One doesn't see those every day. As he followed, he made sure to stay aware of his surroundings, gathering as much intel as possible. While he didn't want to get involved, with a trio like this and a police chase underway, it never hurt to stay informed. I suppose food can wait for just a bit longer. @Through the Living Mist @Qianweilian @Steel Speedster

Midas, New Hallandren, Garrison Ebon sliced at the rope, fraying it. Awakening strengthened objects, but they could only be strengthened so well. With the strands of rope still holding on to the light dagger at the end of it, Midas pulled back on the rope dart, giving it another immediate cast with one hand. With the other, Midas threw one of his grenades, which exploded in a flash of light directly in front of him. This one only let out a small blast, and one that likely wouldn’t deal any real damage. Instead, within the capsule was a reinforced rope mesh designed to constrict and hold on contact with a person. It was built to withstand a shardblade slice, so Ebon’s daggers shouldn’t even scratch it.

Midas, New Hallandren, Garrison The entire garrison was in chaos. An attack like this had happened before, quite recently in fact. But the people who had done that weren't soulcasters. With how paranoid the guard was lately, the only reason Midas could fathom such a thing could happen was someone that had an inside source. However, such a thing wasn't worth worrying about right now. Most of the enforcers were off on patrol, but they would be back any minute now that the awakened alarms had gone off. Each officer had a small chip that reacted immediately if there was an emergency like this, pinging them to return to base. It was installed in the standard uniform quite recently, and had never actually been used until now. Midas hoped it had worked. Until then, it was up to him to stall the intruders until backup arrived. Heading to the prison center, which mercifully remained intact due to the aluminum lining, he quickly was face to face with the intruder. Black, marbled skin, the intruder ran with what appeared to be murderous intent, straight at him. Though he had only read reports of him, and seen the man in low quality camera feed, he knew that this fused was Ebon. Wasting no time, Midas flung his awakened rope-dart at the fused, hastily commanding it to go for the eyes, along with sending a separate command to the awakened grenades under his shirt to arm themselves. @KnightSkye Reforged @Through the Living Ink @Through The Living KSauce Perses, Smokestack Perses, quite frankly, had no interest in getting involved in any of what was going on. That was, until he noticed that he recognized one of their voices. A girl's, who burned iron brighter than any person he had ever encountered. Directing his query at the girl, whose name he had since forgot, he spoke with more genuine curiosity than he expected. "Don't I know you?" By the time the words escaped his lips, he remembered where he knew her from. An old acquaintance of his had brought her along, to a heist so very long ago. "You're Asylum's kid, aren't you?" @Lunamor @Qianweilian @Through the Living Mist @Steel Speedster

He is not wearing any sort of disguise, as he doesn't feel the need to in this part of the city.

Oh, it was probably a mix-up. I was thinking of Saitaku. I’ll edit it in a sec.

Perses, Smokestacks Perses strolled along the streets of the Smokestacks, absently hunting for a place to eat. There was still nothing worth eating in the Mistwarrens, unless you wanted street food. Technically, he was a wanted criminal in the Smokestacks. Practically, however, he had made it very clear to law enforcement that it would be unwise of them to mess with him. As he wandered, he reached out with his senses. A few metalborn about, a few conversations, but none of them interesting. It was an unusual sight to have even a single area of Alleycity be boring, but he couldn't say he was complaining. Sometimes a little bit of boring was a nice change of pace. suddenly, in a place he wasn't monitoring, a door flung open. So much for a "boring area of Alleycity," he thought. With a quick scan, Perses noticed a few things. Most immediately, he noticed that the person that had just emerged was burning multiple metals. Unless he was a mistborn, that meant hemalurgy. With a brief but powerful flash of steelsight, he noticed something odd. Definitely not spikes. Medallions? They apparently hit Elendel shortly after he got taken to the Alleyverse, in his time, and they were so rare here that he had only encountered one or two in his stay. Very interesting. The next thing he noticed was that the man was being followed. By the sounds of it, by some of the Smokestack constabulary. Great. @Steel Speedster @Through the Living Mist @Lunamor

Well, if one of y’all wants to set it up, I can jump in.

Cool! You got anything in mind?

anyone need an antagonist to RP with? Perses is currently free.

Largely the main thing is to poke folks (like you just did) and keep things a moving. Work to get people connected and RPing and help increase communication between players. It’s not a difficult task, just one that requires vigilance that I don’t have atm.

Btw y’all: I can commit to getting characters approved within the week and interacting with folks that want to RP, but I am currently unable to be the facilitator of the Alleyverse. I had hoped @Akimikoisthecutest would have been able to do that, but that seems to have fallen through. If someone else wants to step up that would be much appreciated. I’m currently working hard on promoting an MTG format that I’m a committee member of and helming their YouTube channel, and that’s all the energy I can devote to leading a thing while I am also a full time college student.

Sounds good! Approved.

well, I will cautiously approve this character, as I think the roleplay could use someone like you. But make sure to go over the etiquette guide if you haven't already and make sure to be respectful of player agency. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the chat thread, and have fun RPing!

1) Sorry for being late to respond to this! Life's been lifing. 2) it is not too late to join! This is a running RP where folks are free to join or drop out as they choose. More are always welcome! 3) This seems to be an incredibly interesting character! I like the amount of thought put into it. I think its quite a powerful ability, but is one that is decently restricted, with the epic weakness being quite reasonable. My only concern is that with having such ability as a first character, it could be easy to god-mod (control others' actions) and mess with the usefulness of other characters. You'd need to be careful not to infringe on players' agency, and not mess with their character (clothes, belongings, etc) without making sure that they the player are good with it. NPCs are free reign though. 4) I am generally cautious approving lone wolf characters, as Roleplaying a character that doesn't want to interact with others makes it difficult to roleplay in a collaborative RPG. This isn't an insurmountable issue, but it requires extra effort on your end. Given it is in the character's nature to avoid people, what makes that impossible for him to do? I'd want you to have a vague idea of that before I approve this character. 5) how did your character get into the Alleyverse? How long has the character been here? Having a basic summary and adding that to your character sheet would be particularly helpful. 6) speaking of, how do the other magic systems interact with your power? Generally speaking, given that most of the characters are set in the Cosmere, non-cosmere character's abilities generally are going to obey the rules of the cosmere, acting similarly to investiture. That means (generally) their abilities can't mess with aluminum and is more difficult to affect things that are more highly invested. I don't exactly know how forceful your powers are, as your character has obviously not gotten any resistance to their powers from non-living things, but I think a good compromise would be something akin to the idea that his powers can't affect anything invested, but won't activate his weakness. To expand on that, what about pseudo-sentience of invested objects? Thinks made of investiture (spren and the like) obviously have fairly clear sentience, where I would assume messing with them would activate your weakness, but for something like awakening, where the objects aren't generally truly sentient, but have some amount of independent thought, would that activate Vex's weakness? Thats for you to decide, I'm just wondering. Also, and this is a purely personal curiosity: what level of matter manipulation are we talking? I assume we're a step up from simple telekinesis, but how much control do you have over the matter that you control? Like can you forge a realistic looking shield out of scrap? Or can you just mold the scrap into something that acts like a shield? At what level are you manipulating the matter? Is is on the molecular, where you can separate individual water molecules and make water instantly evaporate? Is it at the atomic, where you can create water from air and hydrogen? Is it subatomic, where you can manipulate the protons of an object to change what it is made of? I'm largely good with any one of these options, I'm just wondering what we have in mind.

Belias, Miskeep, Wickwillow Manor Belias was growing tired of this weakling’s presence. But until his plan was complete, killing this weakling would sow distrust in Perses. He sent one of his failed vessels to speak for him. ———————————— the room had an eerie silence to it, as the floorboards didn’t make the creaking noises that an old house like this would make. Instead, the floor made a dull crunching noise, like the floorboards could crumble at any moment. From one of the many doorways into the rest of the mansion, shrouded in darkness, a figure emerged. A long, spindly creature stood before the two figures, a blank slab of skin wearing deteriorating clothes. As they stood in the presence of the two, a face grew from the blank head, skin tightening into scales as eyes seeped out from its skull, a hole below it becoming its mouth. Slowly, agonizingly, over the course of a minute, the creature became an amalgamation of the two visitors. Hardened carapace-like skin, with a pair human eyes and a nose. Once it had a stable form, it spoke, its voice triplicating: one being the voice of Ebon, a second being the voice of Lux, and the third being the voice of Belias. “This Way,” said the voices, tgeir speech overlapping. The creature beckoned, its uncanny arm extending, waving towards the door they emerged from. @Through The Living Coder

Yeah reminder for y’all that the light expectation is that you respond at least once a week (but you don’t have to respond faster if you don’t want to), and to let the folks your RPing with know if you are going to be inactive for more than a week.