Character planning and intro-ing thread

[jewelfox]

As of right now, we have four players: redsixwing, sablin27, blackswanseer, and kaesa!

EDIT: We also have a provisional fifth player, adad64!

This is the thread where you all can introduce yourselves to each other. >_>b We would like it if you would each say a little about yourselves maybe, along with the following:

• Your preferred pronouns

• Your character concept so far

You are encouraged to comment on each other's concepts, and brainstorm ways that your characters might know each other or that their stories might fit together.

Speaking of stories, here is the plot: A group of people from the past end up in the sci-fi transhumanist future. The ways that someone can do so include, but are not limited to, cryogenic stasis and reconstruction from a thanogram. You can also play as someone from a Korean generation ship isolated society, if you like, one which may be socially and technologically regressive.

Finally, you can play as someone who's from the future and has to help the newcomers adjust ... or who wants them to play a role in their plans!

So yeah, please do the brainstorming thing in this thread. >_>b Don't forget that you can subscribe to individual comment threads, here on Dreamwidth.

More answers to questions will be forthcoming, if we can deal with our IRL stresses enough to do so. ^^;

Comments

[jewelfox]

The kinds of challenges we'll face will depend on what everyone's suited for. >_>b redsixwing's character has lightning powers, for instance, so there's probably something that will need blasting.

It might not be an enemy or a monster or anything, though. It could be a console or door lock, or a pile of flammable materials. And even if I don't describe something like that being part of a scene, you're free to chime in with anything you think fits and would make the story more interesting! I might call for rolls in the process (like to notice or take advantage of a given detail), but only to keep up the tension, not to punish you for being creative.

(Once again, in Fate dice rolls aren't always pass/fail; it's more of a measure of how well you succeed, and/or at what cost you succeed.)

I like the idea of being an AI without a physical avatar, but that would be hard to co-ordinate with other people, unless we were all virtual.

You might be surprised!

I screamed like a little girl, and slipped and lost my footing, only to realize what I was looking at. The "fox-woman" was *Mute, back in her hanbok and cat ear-shaped headdress. And she was standing right there, in the foyer just outside the plaza.

Flailing and trying to latch my feet back to the floor, I overcorrected and fell right on top of her. Or at least I would have, if there hadn't been a window between us.

It took me as long as it did to stand back on my feet, to realize I was seeing her through a wide, transparent glass panel, which was attached to the floor. I had forgotten that this was how AIs could manifest, before they had hardshells and things. The panel was cracked in places, and some of the lights along it were out. But *Mute looked solid and three-dimensional ... and was standing half a metre away from me, watching impassively with her arms folded and waiting for me to compose myself.

I know I'm really short, but I was still surprised that she was almost as tall as I was, in person.

If we wanted to do something really inspired by Analogue, maybe your character is an AI at the abandoned warehouse / generation ship / underground vault where the player characters from the past are? And whether you were deactivated or fully conscious during that time, you only remember what your society was like thousands of years ago.

[sablin27]

OK. It's good to know that the challenges (and solutions) will be tailored to us. It makes chargen a lot easier. (There's always something that needs blasting. It's a classic hammer/nail thing.)


I asked about whether there's likely to be a lot of confined spaces, because that was about half of why I decided Catherine, my first character, wasn't a good match. She's seriously claustrophobic and I didn't want to go there. As I have now rethought whether the other half, the worlds having some major similarities and dissonances, is an issue, I thought it made sense to check about the small spaces.


I don't think a generation ship is where I'd want to go with an AI. It doesn't fit any of my half-formed ideas and it would be odd not to know the material I was contrasting.