Now that you've had a week to plan, this is the official role call post for the AU. Please reply to whatever header your character is included in with a summary of their role in Portland, with your character's name in the post subject. You can just copy and paste summaries used in the plotting post if you like, though for the same of mod plotting I would ask that you name and bold any of the following in your descriptions:
Organizations: If your character is in a group or organization of any kind, please bold it! This will be important for the dispensing of IC clues and NPC attention.
NPC Connections: If your character has a powerful NPC of any kind that they are connection to, please list and bold them. The mods will be writing some of these NPCs into the metaplot, and we can't do that if we don't know they exist!
Meetup Points: If your character runs or is affiliated with anything that could be considered a supernatural hangout, it would be useful to make them easy to find, for the sakes of people who want to know what kind of places will be available in Portland for their characters to hang out.
Confirming your concepts in this post is not mandatory, but I would super appreciate anyone who does. If you do not reply to this post, your character will not be tied into the metaplot. Additionally, I will give everyone who does reply a +2 AC point bonus to their next activity check, per character they reply with.
Papyrus is as magical as ever, from a wealthy family of learned sorts who delve deeply in the mysteries of magic. Some of the family are only mildly involved, focusing more on keeping up the financial and social end of things. Papyrus has focused more on history and lore than displays of power, his father's a serious researcher and experimenter, and his older sister's the sort to police mages and hunt down violent renegades; set a violent hothead to chase other violent hotheads, or something. In their family, it's understandable for him to focus on the relatively mundane schooling instead of keeping up with arcane studies... but kind of a waste and a disappointment.
Seemingly content with his choice, Papyrus went to a local college, living in an apartment with his dog Coolbone, establishing a life on his own to figure out what he's passionate about. So far it's involved a lot of running around dog parks, since dogs are a conversation topic that just about anybody can get excited about! Not like the Bard, or the latest theories about which demons are bound on earth or which are actually separate pseudonyms for the same entity. He even posted fliers all over, offering to do dog-walking and pet-sitting. It's important for a young man to learn the value of hard work, and what better way than a job? The part where his family still pays almost all his bills, making the job more of a hobby, is besides the point for him.
The thing is, Papyrus does want the approval and admiration that'd come with magical power. He just wants to do something more praise-worthy than following their lead. Something reckless, something difficult... something like befriending a demon. In this life he doesn't have a supportive older bro encouraging him, and maybe that's made him more brittle and desperate for approval.
But once he was established living on his own, fairly sure no one in the family would be coming for surprise visits, he made a series of bad life decisions; setting up a summoning circle in his living room and summoning the demon Gratiel, a demon of praise and gratitude, quick smiles and slow-burning plans. For this demon, a friendship- and approval-seeking human with magical knowledge was just the thing. Their bargain: friendship and power and popularity for Papyrus, in exchange for favors and information from time to time.
His new warlock benefits include precognitive powers (it's so much easier to be popular if you intuit what people like and what fads will come up) and probability bending (need to run away? oh look, a conveniently-timed distraction). His new job includes passing on rumors, doing his best to make friends in the local supernatural community, and maybe get some insight on how to befriend his demon so they can laugh off that whole soul selling thing. (It was just a rental anyway. Right?) He hangs out at the local university, all the best dog parks in the city, and occasionally at the Toe Beans Cat Cafe.
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livinglot2017-05-24 01:43 pm
PAPYRUS ASTER
Seemingly content with his choice, Papyrus went to a local college, living in an apartment with his dog Coolbone, establishing a life on his own to figure out what he's passionate about. So far it's involved a lot of running around dog parks, since dogs are a conversation topic that just about anybody can get excited about! Not like the Bard, or the latest theories about which demons are bound on earth or which are actually separate pseudonyms for the same entity. He even posted fliers all over, offering to do dog-walking and pet-sitting. It's important for a young man to learn the value of hard work, and what better way than a job? The part where his family still pays almost all his bills, making the job more of a hobby, is besides the point for him.
The thing is, Papyrus does want the approval and admiration that'd come with magical power. He just wants to do something more praise-worthy than following their lead. Something reckless, something difficult... something like befriending a demon. In this life he doesn't have a supportive older bro encouraging him, and maybe that's made him more brittle and desperate for approval.
But once he was established living on his own, fairly sure no one in the family would be coming for surprise visits, he made a series of bad life decisions; setting up a summoning circle in his living room and summoning the demon Gratiel, a demon of praise and gratitude, quick smiles and slow-burning plans. For this demon, a friendship- and approval-seeking human with magical knowledge was just the thing. Their bargain: friendship and power and popularity for Papyrus, in exchange for favors and information from time to time.
His new warlock benefits include precognitive powers (it's so much easier to be popular if you intuit what people like and what fads will come up) and probability bending (need to run away? oh look, a conveniently-timed distraction). His new job includes passing on rumors, doing his best to make friends in the local supernatural community, and maybe get some insight on how to befriend his demon so they can laugh off that whole soul selling thing. (It was just a rental anyway. Right?) He hangs out at the local university, all the best dog parks in the city, and occasionally at the Toe Beans Cat Cafe.