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.
In magical Portland, Lambert Wolfe is a mostly-ordinary 25-year-old human, and the foster brother of Miko and Peridot. He's currently struggling to complete a master's degree in library science at the local university, a career track he deeply regrets. His part-time jobs are being a library assistant at the university and a surly barista at the Toe Beans Cat Cafe. In terms of special abilities, he has a limited precognition that allows him to non-specifically sense misfortune in his surroundings. In the last year or so, he's also been able to see spirits/supernatural beings as they are, which is not as useful as it sounds.
Raised in Seattle a.k.a. the less magical version of Portland with Miko and Peridot, Lambert began to manifest weak precognition at sixteen, able to sense disaster before it was about to occur. The ability was spotty and unreliable enough that he could dismiss it as coincidence. He eventually aged out and started college on a scholarship, with little clear idea of what he wanted to do. The first significant incident with his precognition was when he first came to visit for a break: it pulled him towards Peridot, who'd just manifested her were form for the first time and was terrified out of her mind.
The incident drove Lambert towards trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Unfortunately, this isn't so easy for someone who doesn't already have a foot in the supernatural world already, and searching for information mostly led to the really shady websites. Ultimately, he ended up pursuing a history degree with a minor in Latin, on the reasoning that it gave him the ability to actually read and understand more of the original source material instead of some conspiracy theories on the internet.
Regrettably, the more he tried to research about things like 'transformation' and 'becoming a werebat' the more he kept running up into weirder and more esoteric shit, most of which seemed like things that would get him locked into a mental institution if he ever spoke about it out loud. Also some of these things seemed really stupid, like making deals with demons, who does that?
And then his senior year he found out his other foster sister turned out to be a different kind of werebeast altogether! So. That was fun. In any case, everything he'd read up to this point pointed to the idea that he'd get better answers to his questions in Portland, and Peridot and Miko ended up coming along for the ride (once Lambert managed to successfully apply to be her guardian, anyway, with special considerations given).
All of this means Lambert has a lot of random supernatural knowledge but very little practical experience of it. To make things worse, his abilities have evolved over the years -- in the past year or so, he's started to regularly catch glimpses of things that he knows aren't human. Or maybe it's just because Portland really is as weird as it tries to be?
While he's 'aware' of the supernatural goings-on in the city in a broader sense, he hasn't made much of an attempt to reach out to any of the various factions around, being painfully aware of being human as hell. Lambert's also starting to suspect the "research project" he's working on -- the re-translation of an old Latin text -- is not so benign in nature as it appeared at first glance. He's dragging his heels on making progress on that and avoiding his advisor (a mage) as much as possible.
In online forums, where he's a little less reluctant to engage, he's been posting under the handle veni_vidi_verti (I came, I saw, I turned around) for about the past four years. There's been a definite uptick of activity from him in the last year or so.
Miscellaneous crap: he's been wearing glasses since he was seventeen, has a giant rescue cat called 'Pig' that is mostly feral and roams away from the house, he uses a shitty secondhand moped to get around, and his sense of fashion outside his cafe uniform is limited to slouchy jeans and hoodies, because he ain't got no time or money for fashion that he can't just pull on. Still reasonably fit because he runs and hikes and does krav maga.
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livinglot2017-05-24 01:43 pm
LAMBERT WOLFE
Raised in Seattle
a.k.a. the less magical version of Portlandwith Miko and Peridot, Lambert began to manifest weak precognition at sixteen, able to sense disaster before it was about to occur. The ability was spotty and unreliable enough that he could dismiss it as coincidence. He eventually aged out and started college on a scholarship, with little clear idea of what he wanted to do. The first significant incident with his precognition was when he first came to visit for a break: it pulled him towards Peridot, who'd just manifested her were form for the first time and was terrified out of her mind.The incident drove Lambert towards trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Unfortunately, this isn't so easy for someone who doesn't already have a foot in the supernatural world already, and searching for information mostly led to the really shady websites. Ultimately, he ended up pursuing a history degree with a minor in Latin, on the reasoning that it gave him the ability to actually read and understand more of the original source material instead of some conspiracy theories on the internet.
Regrettably, the more he tried to research about things like 'transformation' and 'becoming a werebat' the more he kept running up into weirder and more esoteric shit, most of which seemed like things that would get him locked into a mental institution if he ever spoke about it out loud. Also some of these things seemed really stupid, like making deals with demons, who does that?
And then his senior year he found out his other foster sister turned out to be a different kind of werebeast altogether! So. That was fun. In any case, everything he'd read up to this point pointed to the idea that he'd get better answers to his questions in Portland, and Peridot and Miko ended up coming along for the ride (once Lambert managed to successfully apply to be her guardian, anyway, with special considerations given).
All of this means Lambert has a lot of random supernatural knowledge but very little practical experience of it. To make things worse, his abilities have evolved over the years -- in the past year or so, he's started to regularly catch glimpses of things that he knows aren't human. Or maybe it's just because Portland really is as weird as it tries to be?
While he's 'aware' of the supernatural goings-on in the city in a broader sense, he hasn't made much of an attempt to reach out to any of the various factions around, being painfully aware of being human as hell. Lambert's also starting to suspect the "research project" he's working on -- the re-translation of an old Latin text -- is not so benign in nature as it appeared at first glance. He's dragging his heels on making progress on that and avoiding his advisor (a mage) as much as possible.
In online forums, where he's a little less reluctant to engage, he's been posting under the handle veni_vidi_verti (I came, I saw, I turned around) for about the past four years. There's been a definite uptick of activity from him in the last year or so.
Miscellaneous crap: he's been wearing glasses since he was seventeen, has a giant rescue cat called 'Pig' that is mostly feral and roams away from the house, he uses a shitty secondhand moped to get around, and his sense of fashion outside his cafe uniform is limited to slouchy jeans and hoodies, because he ain't got no time or money for fashion that he can't just pull on. Still reasonably fit because he runs and hikes and does krav maga.