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Player Name: Enlong
Name: Alan Davidson
Chumhandle: dragonsLung
Fetch Modus: Binary Search Tree. Long explanation
Strife Specibus: Polekind. Currently uses a walking-stick made to look like a wizard's staff, that he made in high-school woodshop.
History/Personality: Excitable and impusle-driven. Decided to follow a career in computer science after growing up with the stuff around his dad, the dean of CS at a different college. Knew he was in the right field after experiencing the pleasure of a eureka-moment when solving a particularly tricky programming assignment. Roommates with an older student, of whom he is often in awe, due to the other student's extensive knowledge of the subject. Doesn't believe in impossibility. Anything is possible, if one puts the effort and time into it. However, truly believing that one has the potential to accomplish anything inevitably leads to bad reactions to failure. Instead of moving on or blaming outside forces, the immediate thought becomes "If I had only spent more time on it" or "if I had only put forth more effort", no matter how difficult the task was.
Appearance: An overweight young man. More fit than he would appear to be, though. He's one capable of walking 5K to try to lose weight. There's muscle underneath, is what we're getting at. Blonde hair and a scraggly beard. Blue eyes. Generally wears simple or novelty T-shirts. Jeans in winter, shorts in summer. Something of a thing for rings and bracelets.
Miscellaneous: Secretly afraid of failure in a general sense. This was brought on by a disastrous second fall semester (driven by overconfidence and an Internet addiction) that left his GPA a mess, and shot his confidence. Bouncing back was quick, however, but it has left quite a lasting memory that he doesn't want to revisit. Signature color is blue.
Player Name: dundee_998
Name: Sally Littleman
Chumhandle: misguidedMannequin
Fetch Modus: button modus(items are assigned to a pair of buttons in her doll eye collection, and she has to find the two buttons that match to access that item)
Strife Specibus: armkind (fake arms stolen from a store mannequin)
History/Personality: Sally attends a fairly prestigious university out East, and while poor grades and separation anxieties make her time difficult there, she draws strength from the connection she still maintains with her friends from Prose High. Sally is easily lead around, due to her guileless and trusting nature, but when things get tough she knows how to stand up for herself.
Appearance: Sally is a rather average young lady, with mousy brown hair in a careless bob. A grandmother from Italy gives her a vague olive cast and an appreciation for good food. Her dress is slightly childlike, erring towards lace, frills, and a favorite baby T featuring a doll print she made herself.
Miscellaneous: text color is brown.
Player Name: Butterfinger
Name: Jackie Cartwood
Chumhandle: tenaciousTechnician
Fetch Modus: puzzle modus (just put together the puzzles pieces of the item you need to access it)
Strife Specibus: wrenchkind
History/Personality: Jackie has a fondness for AUTOMATED MACHINERY, and as such is studying to be a MECHANICAL ENGINEER, even though she IS NOT VERY GOOD AT IT. She has a lot of IDEAS that she’s working on but none of them ACTUALLY WORK. As a result, her HALF-FINISHED PROJECTS tend to pile up as she moves on to different ideas. She often gets frustrated about her CONSTANT FAILURE. However, she does not actually give up because she believes all of her ideas are AWESOME and REALISTIC, even though only some of them actually are. These ideas never get realized, however, due to the aforementioned LACK OF SKILL as an engineer.
Even though she spends most of her time alone working on her projects, she still makes sure to take some time during the week to talk with her FRIENDS. She finds herself uninterested in most people, though, and would much rather spend her time working or watching ROBOT SHOWS than socializing. She tends to be a bit of a FANGIRL about ROBOTS, which is a fact she tries to hide from her FRIENDS. They already know about it, though, since she is pretty OBVIOUS about it. Her obsession with ROBOTS definitely has nothing to do with any of her ENGINEERING PROJECTS, though, especially not her SUPER SECRET PROJECT THAT NO ONE MUST EVER KNOW ABOUT.
Appearance: Average height, short black hair, a short sleeved green jacket over a short sleeved shirt with a lightbulb on it that flashes on and off (the default is off), sweatpants, and sneakers. Here is a picture because the PLAYER is shit at describing how a person looks.
Miscellaneous: She received the shirt on her birthday, and she likes to turn the lightbulb on whenever she has an idea. It’s a bit gimmicky, but she loves it all the same. When she types, she typically avoids capitalization and exclamation (the exception is when she starts talking about her projects).
Player Name: OJ
Name: Addy Giles
Chumhandle: peppyLuchadora
Fetch Modus: Bag modus. Puts whatever she wants to store in her bag. Pretty simple and straightforward, but hard to weaponize.
Strife Specibus: Netkind.
History/Personality: Your name is ADDY GILES. You went to PROSE HIGH with the other people who will play the GAME BETA, but now you attend college out East to earn a degree in BIOLOGY, your very favorite subject. Your childhood love of stories never really went away; you especially love stories about HEROICS, which is why you were drawn to the world of WRESTLING. Not just any wrestling, MASKED WRESTLING. It’s all about the good guys fighting the bad guys, and you are all over that, even if it is FAKEY-FAKE. (You insist to your friends that it’s not just about the MUSCLEY GUYS IN SPANDEX, but for some reason they don’t seem to believe you.) You are very driven and believe if something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing with ENTHUSIASM. Not everyone likes your way of doing things, however; you’ve been called a bit of a MOTORMOUTH and have been accused of being a HOTHEAD. Like most of your friends, you have a FONDNESS FOR CUTE THINGS. (Unfortunately, no one seems to agree with you that fish and other ocean creatures, reptiles and amphibians, and many fictional “monsters” are cute.)
Appearance: Shortish blonde hair worn in a big ponytail with bangs pinned back, light brown eyes, freckles. Tall build for a female. In moderately good shape because she idolizes the Luchadores, but by no means a fitness freak. Often wears her signature Darwin Fish hoodie over her clothes as well as her lace-up wrestling boots (she likes that they’re a conversation piece). Carries a bag (either a bookbag or a purse) everywhere because she believes in always being prepared for every eventuality. Kind of like this.
Miscellaneous: Just to clarify, interests include biology, stories, cute things, and heroics (masked wrestling in particular). Signature color is Orange Peel (#FF 9 F 00).
Player Name: im chris
Name: Marirhakarkjarin Suchomundkanor, but everyone just calls you Mary
Chumhandle: inscrutableAmazon
Fetch Modus: who caaaaaaaares
Strife Specibus: The ancient weapon of your people, Bladeonaropekind
History/Personality: You hail from a mysterious foreign land you refuse to reveal to anyone. No one can place the accent either, drives people crazy. Ostensibly moved to the states around the start of high school time. Made friends with entire sburb group, didn't have much interest in anyone else. Always going on about these mysterious visions in her dreams, whats even her deal? Everyone was incredibly taken with how mysterious she was, until they spent some time with her. Then it turned out she was an enormous bitch, like wow why are we hanging out with this person. Then avoidings happened. She still forced her way into most things, always someone to intimidate into inviting her. Everyone made a point of going to a different college than her. She doesn't mind, she totally has like a million friends at her new college and she just pesters all her old pals constantly anyway.
In Homestuck fashion, your name is Marirhakarkjarin Suchomundkanor. You are SO MYSTERIOUS, like whoa. All anyone knows about you is that you are an EXCELLENT SINGER, good at EVERY SPORT, and you get STRAIGHT As. Oh yeah, and you're also an ENORMOUSLY SMUG BITCH and NO ONE LIKES YOU. It's no big deal though, you can handle it. You are AWAKE on PROSPIT, have been for as long as you can remember, and you like to lord your KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUTURE over all of your friends. They just kind of TUNE IT OUT at this point, on account of the clouds kind of cycling through the same visions on a weekly basis. Heard it all a thousand times at this point. This doesnt, however, stop you from BRINGING IT UP all the time anyway. You like thinking up new and exciting ways to describe the visions, or sometimes just LYING. In your free time you like being ARTSY, which you are naturally AMAZING at. I'm TIRED of writing this.
Appearance: Tall dark and mysterious. All refined n shit. No set outfit because thats not a thing people do, but you favor dark cool colors. Blacks n blues n purples.
Miscellaneous: Once, on a night you regret terribly, you got drunk with all your friends and actually revealed something about your past. No one has ever brought it up, so you hope they all forgot about it, but deep down, you think they're just saving it for the right moment.
Also, you like cute things. Le gasp.
Player Name: Bocaj
Name: Danny Skuld
Chumhandle: retroCarouser
Fetch Modus: Drinking game *
Strife Specibus: Grapplinghookkind
History/Personality: Goes to a small university. Largely in it for the college experience. University allows students to design their own majors so his current major is Psychohistory which basically lets him take whatever classes he wants. His advisor, being well read, chucked a book at his head after seeing his application. Before that his major was journalism and before that chemistry. Tends to be more interested in extracurriculars than his classes which he tends to cheerfully halfass his way through. Lectures, plays, parties, guest speakers: whatever sounds interesting he goes to. Has discovered underage drinking and never looked back. Doesn't really have any real goals in life other than to enjoy the ride. Interested in retro video games and sci-fi. Seems oblivious to newer stuff. Always has to have something to do. Doesn't like to have time to sit around and think.
An interest in edificeering, rock climbing, and flag pole scaling. Likes to climb to the roof of school buildings, get drunk and watch the sunset. Uses his trusty grappling hook to scale things. All the things. Like walls where there was a gate right there, geez.
Used to be interested in creative writing. Wrote a book in high school but so far not attempted to publish. New writing mostly focuses on expanding on stuff from the book setting or rewriting bits.
Friendly to most everyone and has a number of people that he likes to spend time with in college but most of his good friends he considers to be people from high school.
Has a pet cat that he's been trying to teach to sit on his shoulder. So far he's only taught it to sit on his head and sometimes scratch his scalp.
Appearance: Wears clothes that are slightly too big for him. General scruffy appearance. In good shape but more lean than muscled. Doesn't stray from wearing pants and t-shirts unless the weather really prohibits. Favors Star Trek 6 shirts or a shirt with a picture of Janus.
Miscellaneous: Ur mom.
Player Name: Teebs
Name: Sarah Llewellyn
Chumhandle: eruditeShutterbug
Fetch Modus: Album modus. You store things in a photo album. Relevant to your interests.
Strife Specibus: Bottlekind
History/Personality: HIPSTERRRRRRR. Or at least, she became one partway through her freshman year at the (in)famous Baumgartner University in the American Northwest. Possessing a reputation for being a counterculture hotspot and for most of the classes being relatively useless or obscure, Baumgartner regularly ranks low on any National College Survey. And that suits Sarah just fine.
Back in her high school days, Sarah was what one might call stereotypical. She was loud and talkative, enjoyed fashion magazines and preparing for school events such as prom and spirit week. She loved her car and blaring pop music out of the stereo. Then one day during her senior year, she decided to not go to one of the large schools like many of her friends were going to. Rather, she chose the small and very out of the way Baumgartner. Then she went off to school and when she returned, she was rather...different. Gone were the contact lenses, replaced with wide-framed glasses. She sold her car, and used the money to buy an old bicycle. She no longer read the fashion magazines, instead reading through political activist blogs. And she was somewhat pricklier than before, even towards her old friends. "What happened?" they would all ask.
"I grew up, " she would answer.
Fast forward to the present. She is now double majoring in photography and anthropology, with a minor in sanskrit. She currently lives off-campus in a pleasantly antiquated apartment complex with her stoner roommate and their shared dachshund. She enjoys photography quite a bit, and posts it and rants on social justice on her tumblr account, for all forty-seven of her followers to quote and be amazed at. And, naturally, like any good hipster, she listens to obscure music. She also has a sizable collection of books on history and religion.
Appearance: About average height and weight. Shoulder-length red hair. Blue eyes. Hipster glasses. Likes to dress in ironic t-shirts or plaid "cowboy" shirts, skinny jeans, and chucks. Scarves are worn on occasion.
Miscellaneous: signature color is wisteria.
Player Name: Which Dockter
Name: Nate Shocknessy
Chumhandle: skyhighCharisma
Fetch Modus: Emotion modus; each item is attached to an emotion, and can only be accessed when Nate is feeling that particular emotion. If Nate is feeling that emotion to an extreme, the item is forcefully launched from the modus. Strife Specibus: boardKind
History/Personality:
Your name is NATE SHOCKNESSY. After spending a long time second-guessing yourself, you decided to study EDUCATION, particularly LANGUAGE ARTS, at a small college in the MIDWEST, with a minor in THEATER. You are INCREDIBLY UNOBSERVANT, as well as EASILY DISTRACTED. You like to think you are RIDICULOUSLY CHARISMATIC but in reality you are just LOUD and OUTGOING. Which might as well be the same thing. This kind of lends itself over to your forays in TABLETOP GAMING, where you tend to pump as many points as possible into the charisma stat.
You have a deep love for anything you consider CUTE and CUDDLY, but this EMBARRASSES YOU TO NO END, so you do your best to HIDE IT. If you are confronted on your expansive collection of STUFFED ANIMALS you will outright DENY THEY ARE YOURS. You also used to raise HAMSTERS but the cute little critters kept DYING ON YOU and frankly it left you more than a little UPSET.
For some reason you have a fascination with EXTREME SPORTS, particularly SNOW BOARDING and SKATE BOARDING. You have tried to teach yourself how to do these things but as should be no surprise you are PRETTY AWFUL AT THEM. You are however pretty good at SWIMMING, which kind of disappoints you since it’s not EXTREME enough, but you LIKE IT ANYWAY. Your hair has been kind of RUINED by all the chlorine, so you wear HATS in order to cover it. You’re also a huge fan of MUSICAL THEATER, and you often volunteer to help the drama department BUILD SETS, though honestly you’d rather be the one doing the DIRECTING. Maybe some day.
Your chumhandle is skyhighCharisma and you share your love of the sound of music to anyone willing to listen. (Occasionally shoehorns in quotes from popular Broadway musicals and other stage works, in addition to using proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.)
Appearance: Above average height, pretty skinny but fairly toned from swimming. Wavy dirty blond hair that is usually covered with a hat since it’s more akin to straw than hair. Usually wears a short-sleeved zippered hoodie over a white T-shirt and khaki shorts.
Miscellaneous: Signature color is #3F00FF, Electric Ultramarine. Symbol is a swimming logo.
Name: Benjamin "Brick" Parker
Chumhandle: goalpostGuru
Fetch Modus: REP MODUS. Ben must perform bicep curls with his dumbbells equal to the weight of the object stored
Strife Specibus: equipmentkind/sportskind or something. carries around dumbbells that he uses to hit stuff with strong curving blows History/Personality: former highschool sports star who excelled at everything. soccer, baseball, basketball, football, dodgeball, frisbee golf, you name it. couldn't make the cut for the college teams to his dismay, so has focused his efforts on physical fitness and working out, ostensibly in hopes of making the tryouts again
Appearance: short and rather wide, he is built less like a model and more like a bear. around 5'3" and 200 lbs. short, dark blond hair that's more often than not shaved to his scalp. likes to keep himself clean-shaven but has a tendency to forget about trimming his facial hair sometimes
Misc: haven't figured out which college he goes to but it should be a big one with a strong sports tradition
Titles are required now I guess: knight is cool. page is also cool. is monk a title? that'd be cool. not so sure on element yet but that's cool
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edited 9th Jan '12 7:59:11 AM by dundee_998
Sooooooooooooo Doc posted our first pesterlog together.
I tried to convey a sense of in-your-face peppy and the kind of person who is a good listener once she STOPS TALKING.
She ends a lot of her sentences with shout poles because she's easily excitable! Or query hooks when she's being especially nosy or inquisitive? And all her smilies wear the noble mask of the Luchadore 8]
The baby bat/ Screamed out in fright,/ 'Turn on the dark,/ I'm afraid of the light.'Guys.
Just ran the randomizer again, and I think I have a winner.
Y/N?
Also, the randomizer said my consorts are "Blithe pink unicorns who love art"
Should I look for a different consort type?
I have a message from another time...Alright then.
and as for the pothole, Big Boo's Haunt is one of them "video game setting" tropes. In this case, a "haunted house" kind of place.
I can imagine huge cemeteries, full of tiny graves, where frogs sleep in little coffins, vampire-style. And it's my job to locate them, clone them, and if need be exhume them. Ghostly enemies, perhaps?
Not... entirely sure how the place will change after the Forge is lit, but W/E.
I have a message from another time...We should put a list of lands and consorts and prototypings and entry chain and suchlike in this thread to keep track of it.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAlmost finalized land concept: Land of Steel and Canopy. A land full of a temperate-style forest made of steel trees. Besides the "natural" canopy of the steel trees, there are actual canvas canopies tied high in the trees. Triangular and look kind of like hammocks. The ground is just kind of like, dirt. Steel leaf litter for the lolz and because "living steel" is a neat concept.
There are also orange philosophical axolotls that live in treehouses in the steel trees.
Overall a pretty neat place.
The baby bat/ Screamed out in fright,/ 'Turn on the dark,/ I'm afraid of the light.'

heya daddios here's the swingin' place to be gabbin' 'bout 'dat sweet quadstuck rp
"Teebs is a total grump, but he's usually right." - NLK