What would your character do in the above situation?

Bel pretty much spends most of her time in the dream world in first place, being cursed with the sin of sloth, so this doesn't make much difference for her. Being extremely lazy due to the aforementioned curse, she doesn't bother trying to solve it, instead using her powerful magical abilities to communicate with her allies.

Your character becomes cursed to become a uncontrollable Hulk-like monster that kills everything around them when they sleep. How do they cope and how do their friend treat them?

Cornelius Hawking: Given that even his nicer incarnations can be rather brutal heroes, he'll fully treat it like he's Cursed with Awesome- Intentionally exploiting it to get any & all threats to his world killed.

Samson Cresting: He'll definitely see it as a Dangerous Forbidden Technique or Godzilla Threshold, only willing to let his curse be unhindered when he can't progress otherwise. However, he would genuinely put a lot of effort into not getting people killed otherwise.

Justin Parker: He would, well... Pretty much become increasingly insane & terrified, trying to prevent himself from sleep at all. He'll be pretty horrified by his rampages, but eventually he'll go off the deep end- Utterly pissed off at the notion of Driven to Suicide, instead embracing his curse of being an unstoppable monster as a form of lashing out at the world.

Your character encounters someone who, despite being chronologically older than them, seems to be their genetic child. What's really weird is how they cannot possibly be from the future and no magic is at play altering bodies & memories- Genuinely meaning this is some kind of "negative age parenthood" deal.

Jan Lee: Despite being confused, tries to make up for lost time and hangs out with her child.

Lester Lane: Wha- How-? He gets confused and also slightly terrified and angry at himself for not being able to take care of and be there for his child when they need him.

Chris Arbuckle: This is excellent! I must look into this! She begins researching on whatever the hell's happened, using her child as a test subject.

Your character finds a wallet lying on the ground, with an ID card and a huge wad of money inside. The person who dropped it is just around the corner, and there's a police station 100 metres from wherever they're standing now.

edited 19th Mar '17 4:19:59 PM by fdiaperhead

Justice: "Hey! HEY! You — I have your wallet here! You dropped it!"

Your character has found an ancient database filled with the entire history of an [[{{Precursors ancient precursor race]] native to their universe. What information does this database contain and what does your character do with it?

Ellen: nevi, you gotta check this out!

Nevana: what?

Ellen: it's some sort of thingy written in a weird language. can ya read it for me? can't seem to get it.

Nevana: (eyes widen) my god...don't you know what it is?

Ellen: (holds up the database) this thing?

Nevana: yes, that. it must be a lost Gezaian archive container. I can finally know who I am at last!

(ellen uses the database to scratch her back. Nevana's shocked)

Nevana: what are you doing!?

Ellen: makes for a good back scratcher.

your character finds out that a loved one has since passed away. how might they go through the lost?

Jan: She'll grief for a few days or weeks if necessary, and even make a memorial of them. Y'know, like a normal person would.

Lester: Lester's always had problems with attachment and handling death and loss, so he'll grief for a minimum of a few months. He'll even have a Crisis of Faith.

Chris: Depends. With a casual relative, she'll cry for a few minutes then find something to distract her, but she'll still grief deep inside. With someone very close to her, like her parents or best friends, she'll fall into a deep depression.

You character has just recently moved into a dystopian shithole, with crime and disease everywhere. Such a place is also highly hierarchical, and the rich-poor divide is incredibly wide.

Father Takashi was already stuck in such a place; namely, the elven capital of Tithrelden. He started off as a young, ideal priest but after so many years of living there, he became beaten down, spiraling into depression, until he became completely disillusioned with the elves and decided they weren't worth saving.

Your character is enjoying a nice meal at an outdoor restaurant. Suddenly, they hear machine gun fire not far away. It gets closer — people are running and screaming! What does your character do?

edited 20th Mar '17 9:27:05 AM by TempestKnight

Cord Cai, being a superhero who lives in Oakland, California, would probably mistake the machine-gun fire for NORMAL gun fire. He would then suit up in his Tin Man outfit using his magical pendant, call his crew of Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters, aaaaaaaaaaaand realize that it's a single MACHINE gun instead of a gang skirmish with several people.

Cord: Goddamn it, why all these horny white boys shooting people up because they can't get a fucking date?!

(No, he doesn't care if he's right. The important part is the machine gun spraying bullets around a street full of civilians.) Cord works his way over to the gunner, punches him to get him away from the gun, and ties him up while they figure out what to do with it. His boyfriend, Thad Kerry, starts checking on the wounded since he's a nurse.

Someone's probably called the police, but they're gonna take a while to get there.

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A beat-up stray dog has been wandering the area your character lives for a few days. The neighbors give the dog some food, but can't actually take them in (either through lack of money, or their house/apartment's no-pet rule). What does your character do when they're asked for help?

Hideaki knows full well he doesn't know how to take care of a pet, so he offers to take the dog in for now until he finds a proper owner.

Zenichi would try to raise the dog, searching on the internet or asking his friends for information.

Viper would eat it.

Your character is permanently disfigured(no magic or medical procedure can fix it). How will they deal with it and how would their friends react?

Theign would be distraught as hell over it, but he'd also feel he deserves it as a reflection of who he still fears he is inside. He'd probably hide away in his house more often, but when he went out to fight he'd use it to frighten his enemies.

Tigris would try to convince herself it didn't matter, but internally she'd be horrified and depressed. Her friends would try to support her, and she'd appreciate it, but the loss of her beauty would damage her a lot.

Your character encounters his or her love interest's murderer.

Cecil immediately teleports Veisyn to the middle of nowhere, just so he can have the pleasure of making him pay for killing Alice. Too bad, that they are too evenly matched to really make him suffer.

Your character finds out that their family tree is fairly...complex.

edited 21st Mar '17 5:01:26 PM by SkyHavenPath13

Nackie's family tree is a sight to behold.

Ardy: so, let me get this straight, your dad was an iguana? A giant iguana?

Nackie: he was one. Well, until he… y'know.

Ardy: turned human, yeah. But, how exactly could a giant iguana (motions is fingers through his hand, which was curved into a circle)do this?

Nackie: um (points at a picture of his mother’s father) how about something else? Let’s not dwell on it too much.

Jokes aside, due to the fact that his dad use to be the notzilla of this universe, it’s mostly unknown as to whom he was related to on his father’s side. His mom’s side is a bit more straightforward.

You’re character has to go undercover as a girl scout in order to find out if girl scout cookies are actually made of people. Turns out that they are.

edited 22nd Mar '17 6:33:25 AM by ewolf2015

Aleph takes a box and runs away ("Who am I to judge?"). But he gets caught and ends up bombing the cannibal scouts with chemicals magic.

Your character gets hit on by a hot vampire.

edited 9th Apr '17 2:06:17 AM by 404waffles

Juliet would flirt back. If a hot vampire is dumb or naive enough to not realize who and what she is, they're probably dumb or naive enough to give her some good info by the time all is said and done. Not to mention she might get some entertainment value out of it.

Vincent is immediately suspicious and uncomfortable. The last time this happened, it did not turn out well for him, and he's not really interested in romance anyway.

Your character is minding their own business, when a stranger approaches and starts harassing them- nothing too bad, just being annoying. Gradually, the harassment starts to escalate.

Father Takashi summons his Deoth-katana and slices the harasser in two.

Pemnurg grins — this is the excuse he's been looking for. When the harasser least expects it, he pulls out his machine gun and pours a stream of plasma shots into the idiot, laughing all the while.

Tarmo grabs the dimwit by the scruff of the neck and says, "All right, Idiot! I've had enough of you. We can do this the easy way...or the painful way." With his free hand, he takes out his pistol. "Your move."

Pathruushke raises his hand, causing the harasser to disintegrate into ash.

Your character is a contestant on a game show. They are presented with three doors. One of the doors contains the keys to a brand-new convertible. The other contains nothing at all. The third contains a spring which, when activated, throws a pie at the face of the person who opened the door.

Libra commands William Drens to open the second door, because the game show host is eyeing the first door longingly, and the rules did stipulate that the 'third door had a spring that, when opened, pies the person'.

William Drens opens the first door because he doesn't trust Libra whatsoever.

Scenario: Your character is in a Groundhog Day Loop, in a town full of anthropomorphic (and idiotic) animals.

Bump

edited 14th Apr '17 10:06:59 AM by CenturyEye

Bet Thomma: (Probably hasn't moved for days). Well, throwing myself off that house wasn't the best idea. But, that always works on the big screen. Damn, I must have screwed up a psychic clash somewhere. But if they didn't kill me their loss. On the other hand, this seems alot like hell. Ok, I'll run straight toward the horizon. No, I'll burn this place down and see what fights back. Hey, if I fail, it'll be back tomorrow." Listening to the animals singing, again narrating everything she does. "Not that I'm looking forward to that..."

Samreth: "Ugh, clearly this is some type of cosmic lesson. When I find this joker god, I'll poke 'er in the eye. Eh, a little slower there." The giraffe obligingly fans a leaf a bit slower. Looks down to the mice, she bribed to do a foot massage. "Maybe, I can figure this out later. It's good to be the big cheese!" A mouse perks up. "Not you, me." More mice come forward. A few take experimental bites of her toes. "Hey, its an expression. No cheese here!" The remaining mice drop their fans and skitter in rage. Yet more mice enter the clearing... "Oh..dear," Samreth darts off in an instant, calling behind her "I know this sounds strange, but you'll be over it tomorrow, I promise!"

Cheriyan: "That cranky old goddess can't keep me from my vacation here. A little to the left." The minks obligingly fan their leaves at an angle. Waking up like this everyday was no problem. He knew the routine by now. Still, all was not well. Too bad. I guess, I shouldn't have been expecting Minerva... Realizing what he just exposed: "Uhhh, if you heard that—and expect this is one of your tricks, you are not allowed to laugh at that! And I didn't mean to call you cranky."



Scenario: Your character gets a cursed object. The object will drag the owner to hell ^note  or any eternal And I Must Scream appropriate to your universe after two days if she does not pass it to someone else (thereby knowingly condemning that person to that same fate).

Victoria would try one of two solutions. First, give it to her Monster Roommate Eva Naamahspawn, since, as a demon, Eva already comes from Hell anyway and can travel to the Mortal Plane from there and back whenever she pleases.

If the artifact must be given to a mortal to transfer the curse, however, Victoria will resort to the more drastic method of letting Eva eat her soul, so that Victoria will be reborn as a succubus herself. While being a demon has its benefits, Victoria won't resort to this unless she absolutely has to, as the downsides include being powerless against spells cast using her original name, having to feed on mortal sin of her demon's type for sustenance (lust, in her case), and losing memory of her mortal life save for fragments, which would probably make completing any current school assignments difficult.

Your character learns they are slowly transforming into a type of non-(their species here) creature prominent in their world and will fully become that being in body and mind in barely a month's time. How do they react to this revelation and when/if the transformation becomes complete, how will it change who they are?

edited 14th Apr '17 6:13:32 PM by MapleSamurai

Goddamn it, I could have sworn my post to the previous question was posted! My computer's been on the fritz all day. I'll answer both questions, then.

RE the Hell-Amulet: In Takotsubo, Cord would give it to one of his family members. See, they're Chinese-American and Chinese Hell isn't necessarily permanent—you can work your way out of it by properly atoning for your crimes, and his fairly average family with little to atone for would get back out of Chinese-Hell in a couple of days.

You said they'd get dragged to hell. You didn't say they'd have to STAY THERE.

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RE Horrific Transformation: Cord would probably plan to jump off the Golden Gate bridge before it spreads too much, but not before telling his family's friend Harvey Shen not to tell his family or boyfriend why he did it. They can pick any of the EXISTING reasons he tried to kill himself before. Harvey Shen would then reveal that he's a fucking god, and if he can't completely take off the curse, he can make it more manageable than "permanent loss of true form and memories."

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New scenario: An unknown illness is spreading through the region, and it's largely affecting one gender. (Either by just killing them, or leaving them infertile.) The place your character's staying is about to be quarantined, but they also need to leave soon... into the potentially infected outside world.

edited 14th Apr '17 10:17:11 PM by Sharysa

Nathanael would go outside anyway with his usual loadout. Which means that he's Crazy-Prepared to the extent that Batman would gladly shake hands with him, albeit with most of the gear "borrowed" from the about-to-be quarantined area. He'd be fine.

Moving on from the horrifying transformations, hell-amulets and gendercide plagues: Your character, through one way or another, becomes shitfaced drunk, even if it's impossible for them to do so. How do they act?

Khrazzen gets very aggravated when drunk. He probably picks a fight and calls an orbital strike to a random location in the same solar system. Random, because even normally he has difficulty with the coordinate systems, and when wasted, he probably would get even the planet wrong. Or alternatively, he successfully hits an MIB HQ or their mech factory, both of which resolve his story's plot instantly without going through all the trouble of his misadventures on Earth.

Rhode....Rhode is drunk like every other day anyway. By now, she's learned not to get pissed off or try some dumb shenanigans. All the previous times, it ended up with somebody dying and/or her breaking a couple bones. So instead, she becomes uncharacteristically relaxed and mellow.

Jonas Ashland....well, he's Straight Edge for a number of very good reasons. He's probably going to stir up some trouble or accidentally destroy his TV (a Running Gag in his story), depending on whether he's out in the city or back home. Then he'd fall asleep, and continue with his job of fighting and killing nightmares, if a bit confused as to how he fell asleep in the first place, and a bit concerned about where he's sleeping at the moment.

Sara-Evelyn....she probably starts with very un-subtly flirting with everyone present. Later on, she tries to liven up the party (even if there is none), and when people start leaving and/or the mood drops because of her antics, she busts out her Magical Girl transformation sequence to call attention to herself. Which means, the ceiling melts, everybody goes temporarily blind, and half a dozen wind monsters show up and wreck everything that is still standing. Typical weekend for her, really.

Gotta go with the same question.

Sheila, normally a stoic and emotionally guarded young woman, lets all of her emotions loose, swinging between her grief over being responsible for her boyfriend's death at the hands of a frost giant years ago, how much it sucks that she's destined to become the fire giant Surtr at Ragnarok, and most shockingly for everyone, confesses her feelings to her roommate Zoe... and how she wants a harem containing said roommate, the assorted hot gods and goddesses, monsters and other such beings of varying mythological origins.

Also, she starts reading her fanfiction out loud for everybody to hear, something she will surely regret later.

Victoria, in her inebriated state, will finally stop bottling up her pain about her family left in Korea after the new regime took over, and lets it all out. If the drunkenness happens after she's already dealt with that part of her character arc, she'll probably just end up unsubtly flirting with her Cute Monster Girl friends, including her succubus roommate Eva, to whom she may even admit that the thought of being her Property of Love isn't an unpleasant one. Eva, being, well, Eva, will gladly use this revelation to tease Victoria about it once she's sober, but won't act on it unless Victoria knowingly and willingly consents in an unimpaired state of mind.

Same

edited 15th Apr '17 8:25:01 PM by MapleSamurai

Father Takashi goes on a wild rampage, striking down every Elderenni elf in a thirty-kilometre radius. When he finally runs out of steam (and being a Tarsi, he has quite a bit of it), he collapses panting on the ground. When he wakes up, he has a splitting headache and is sitting in a puddle of his own vomit.

Tyyni being Tyyni becomes even more talkative than usual. Thankfully she is a genuinely good person at heart, so there's no real damage, although her companions might be a bit embarrassed by her behaviour.

Pemnurg wanders about the neighbourhood, throwing explosives at random passerby while quoting historical records. Since this is Pemnurg we're talking about, it's merely a more exaggerated take on his normal behaviour.

Your character meets three versions of themselves: one is their past self, another is their future self, and the third is the same age as they are now but from Another Dimension — namely, the Dream World.

Bet Thomma: Within about 45 seconds of meeting, the four of them are in the operations room coordinating the efforts of scientists to bridge the two worlds and leveraging past and future (and otherworld) knowledge to Take Over the World(s).
Samreth: Will probably spend the nights in present! Samreth's favorite restaurant (also past and future's) reminiscing about old and future times with future! Samreth warning presnt! Samreth about the future trouble Bet Thomma will inevitably involve her in while gushing about their favorite win moments.
Cheriyan: Very simple. Each runs to find Bet Thomma, each one being convinced that the other is a clone made by one of their enemies. After finding out the truth. Cheriyan locks up past him (in fear of being retgonned, has otherworld him sent on a nice tour, and spends the time having future Cheriyan (the only one he'd trust) critique his current plans.

Scenario: A classic—Your character's (or her troop) is on the verge of catching the villain. Said villain has already been responsible for the deaths of thousands. However, the villain sends his own henchmen to Rape, Pillage, and Burn one last town while he escapes into the bush to regroup. Said character's troop only has time to deal with one. Catching the villain means letting one of your towns (and all of its inhabitants) burn while you watch. Saving the town means you'll have to deal with the villain wreaking havoc again in some unknown time. Trying to do both means failing both.

edited 15th Apr '17 8:33:07 PM by CenturyEye