Hercine, City of Wonders and Magic - Intest, Worldbuilding and Signup

• Name: Alicia Westeilwell
• Species/Race: Human
• Gender: Female
• Age: 9
• Appearance: Kind of lazy for her appearance this time, eh-heh... But this picture is pretty much exactly what I was originally going to write, so, um, yeah.
• Possessions: Alicia owns... a lot. A great deal of high-quality stuffed animals, a large amount of absurdly fancy dresses, her own armed escort for when she goes into town...
• Personality: Alicia is incredibly cheerful. She adores her parents and her two older siblings to no end, and has a great love of wearing her various absurdly fancy dresses. She's also highly curious and inquisitive, often investigating new businesses that spring up in the marketplace regardless of their nature. Alicia has a great passion for sweets, as well, often getting the Westeilwell's personal chef to prepare snacks for her. She's also very friendly, and always willing to talk to interesting people.
• Skills: Drawing. Alicia is fantastically good at drawing... and that's about it.
• Bio: Alicia was born as the third child in the Westeilwell family, the youngest sister of three. She has grown up having a very good life, and delighting in her family's wealth. She frequently goes into town with an armed escort, as well.
• Other: N/A

Approved! Welcome to the city, little artist.

Darnit. Now that the Wensteiweils are no longer faceless rich people (but are in fact represented by an adorable young child) Lakan may have to start re-thinking the just-ness and humor of his plan....

Well, just because there's an innocent daughter doesn't mean that they don't have a cruel/petty/guilty adult.

Turning a party into a bloodbath is funny...?

That doesn't really seem like that sort of family...although obviously, I'm not Anno, so I can't say for sure what they're like. But that profile and the fact that they're throwing a big party seems to suggest that they're not a bunch of petty, cruel criminals to me. >.>

But yeah, maybe getting the innocent little girl [and anyone else who's just there to enjoy the party] hallucinating (remember, 'great passion for sweets', Lakan's plan involved drugging the cake if I recall) and throwing extremely dangerous dragons around might not be the best prank.

I can confirm that the Westeilwells aren't bad people, merely so rich that they literally won't notice anything missing. And Alicia's going to be present at the party.

Oh, the tiny dragons are just to set off the elaborate fireworks and scare/"ooh the colors" the party-goers while they're already tripping-off-the-wall while putting some inventive and fiery images up in the sky. Should the plan go forward I shall be taking suggestions as to what will happen with the fireworks.

However, adorable child tripping out and being traumatized by exploding dragon-fireworks-cake is something he would definitely not like at all.

edited 10th Jan '12 6:15:08 PM by Dblade26

Oh, okay then. I guess I kinda latched on to the bit where you said the eggs were on the black market due to the dragons being extremely dangerous. >.>

But if it's just a surprise fireworks display...although I'm not sure why you'd want the audience hallucinating if you're doing that...then I guess you'd only need some minor changes to make it work.

edited 10th Jan '12 6:14:02 PM by tachikaze

I'm guessing you're suggesting I have him remove the baby dragons from the cake? and in answer to your questions, because chemical enhancement will make the fireworks display seem more impressive and the dragons seem more frightening and Lakan is doing this to get 'revenge' on and teach a lesson to the city's rich party-goers because they 'forgot to invite him to the party' and the needlessly elaborate cake-dragon fireworks display is both his kind of plan and pretty bad without being (as he planned it anyway) overtly harmful.

edited 10th Jan '12 6:36:56 PM by Dblade26

The dragons won't be trying to eat people?

I thought they were dangerous. >.>

edited 10th Jan '12 6:45:40 PM by evilneko

Not at hatchling size I would imagine. They're not true dragons in any case, more like fire-breathing serpents, less of the the intelligence and none of the magical ability, and they probably wouldn't even be large enough to eat a child at that point, though I'd imagine given time and having survived they would grow to immense size.

They ARE dangerous, but probably not as much immediately after hatching.

Lakan might be a delusional shapeshiftng trickster who thinks things work on story-logic half of the time, but he's not homicidal.

edited 10th Jan '12 6:50:58 PM by Dblade26

Hehe, teaching the rich party-goers a lesson? That's kinda funny since I picture Kurt having a few Three Chords and the Truth type songs that subtly mock the city's upper class.

edited 10th Jan '12 6:48:44 PM by CombatC122

One thing I'd like to confirm, this cake plan won't be brought into action until the event's well and truly wrapping up, right? Since giving everyone who's present...well, everyone except for Alex, Lakan and Diane I'd imagine powerful hallucinogens kind of sounds hard to continue on from.

And the fire breath is just enough to set off some fireworks? Samantha's not going to have to shrug off the hallucinogens and use a conveniently placed water fountain to stop them roasting the other partygoers alive, is she?

• Name: Cherise Westeilwell
• Species/Race: Human
• Gender: Female
• Age: 15
• Appearance: I'm lazy too~ This works with what I was going for in any case~
• Possessions: Being from a wealthy family, she has an excessive amount of possessions. Her most notable one is the magic staff her parents got her once she was old enough to use one properly.
• Personality: Cherise is bubbly and outgoing, with a tendency to playfully tease others. She adores her youngest sister, and often spoils her. She'd do anything to keep her from harm's way, and anyone who even dares threaten the child's safety will see a side to Cherise very few get to see.
• Skills: Magic, particularly water magic. She can create and manipulate water at her will and even freeze it into ice.
• Bio: Cherise is the eldest daughter of the Westeilwell family and a promising magus. Her ability was discovered at a young age, thus her proud doting parents found the best private tutor money could buy to teach her the art of magic. She seemed to have a particular love and affinity for water magic so her tutor decided that would be her specialty in magic.
• Other: N/A

Aha, Anno said it was cool if I made this character~

Hope she's okay.

Also, dragon eggs should be prohibitively expensive.

Approved!

edited 10th Jan '12 7:45:50 PM by daltar

x10 OH REEEALY?

To confirm questions, yes the fires will just be enough to light the fireworks because the dragons aren't so dangerous at first hatching, yes they were prohibitively expensive if that's fine and of course the cake plan won't happen until the party is about wrapped up, what kind of fool would bring out the fancy cake before the climax of the party??

Delusional, not lacking in class.

• Name: Hecane
• Species/Race: Human/Elf hybrid
• Gender: Female
• Age: Unknown, appears 22
• Appearance: I'm lazy so here you go.
• Possessions: Lives in a room at the academy. Tends to carry a sword and a dagger with her as well as a small pouch full of money and various gems. Also owns a falcon specifically for transport.
• Personality: Hecane is to put it simply, a flirt. She knows what she wants and how to get it. Major hypocrite as she doesn't approve of others doing the same. Has impossiby high standards to the point people expects her to go her life unmarried. Enjoys swordfighting almost as much as she enjoys drinking and flirting. Not particularly mature or responsible outside of her class.
• Skills: As one of the swordfighting teachers at the academy, Hecane has excellent swordfighting skills. Also capable of cooking and when it comes down to it, archery.
• Bio: Works as a teacher for night classes at the Whitebolt Academy.
• Other: Some details that don't fit anywhere else.

edited 16th Jan '12 7:16:10 AM by Chariot

Hmm actually Chariot, the Whitebolt Academy mainly focuses on magic, so I don't know if a swordsmanship teacher would have much place there. They do have some self-styled knights, but they learn more of spear fighting than sword fighting.

Perhaps some of the students take optional classes and doesn't want to bother to go to another school? And are uninterested in spear fighting, wanting to be more like old heroes?

Or perhaps that's more of a club.

Magic Knight, perhaps?

It does seem like every decently sized school has a ton of extracurricular activities.

Well, if swordfighting isn't on the Whitebolt curriculum, maybe she could be a freelance instructor, or work for one of the noble houses.

Hmmm well now that people mention it I can see it working. Just know that your character would instruct a niche part of the Academy population.