'Nother head baby!
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:24 am
What if Meris found enough reasons to spare one of her marks?
I figure around the same time she bumped into Gammell, someone fed her intel regarding a pesky Squid holding down a post in some prestigious university or a Steampunk-worthy occupation of some kind. A watchmaker, maybe. Wanting to be thorough and following her usual procedure, she'd shadow the guy for a few nights.
Thing is, while the guy is definitely a Weaver, he's so pedestrian in his routine that whoever told her he had to have some sort of agenda starts to feel pretty off-base to her. A few days later, she realizes she has to be sure. The only way to do that is to tell the guy the jig is up. To her surprise, the guy is completely ignorant of all things Dalarath and Others-worship! He checks out mentally, so amnesia or mental tampering are out of the question. What's even stranger is how he can't speak a lick of the Black Speech, but more or less learned to use his species' natural abilities on his own - which means his skill set is pretty unique.
As to what those skills would be, I'm not sure. Single-person time travel, maybe? All I know is I am not tackling another time travel RP, ever. It'd be more manageable if travel were something that happened to isolated individuals, though.
If not that, then what? Steampunk wizardry? Wouldn't that clash with Gammell? Would it bother anyone if it did, even? Maybe both. Some sort of high-magic content watchmaker?
Mostly, though, I figure he'd come from the more bubbly end of the Victo spectrum. Whoever adopted him slapped him with something that isn't quite a veil, but maybe some kind of "Meh, looks okay to me" field. People see the squid with the top hat, but they just don't give a shit. He's just another guy. So no troubled childhood, no dark past, no super-complex problems... Except maybe for the fact that the natural cleverness of Void Weaver makes him feel as though everyone's a little slow, compared to him. He doesn't write anyone off so much as he's sad when someone can't follow his torturous leaps of logic.
How's that sound?
I figure around the same time she bumped into Gammell, someone fed her intel regarding a pesky Squid holding down a post in some prestigious university or a Steampunk-worthy occupation of some kind. A watchmaker, maybe. Wanting to be thorough and following her usual procedure, she'd shadow the guy for a few nights.
Thing is, while the guy is definitely a Weaver, he's so pedestrian in his routine that whoever told her he had to have some sort of agenda starts to feel pretty off-base to her. A few days later, she realizes she has to be sure. The only way to do that is to tell the guy the jig is up. To her surprise, the guy is completely ignorant of all things Dalarath and Others-worship! He checks out mentally, so amnesia or mental tampering are out of the question. What's even stranger is how he can't speak a lick of the Black Speech, but more or less learned to use his species' natural abilities on his own - which means his skill set is pretty unique.
As to what those skills would be, I'm not sure. Single-person time travel, maybe? All I know is I am not tackling another time travel RP, ever. It'd be more manageable if travel were something that happened to isolated individuals, though.
If not that, then what? Steampunk wizardry? Wouldn't that clash with Gammell? Would it bother anyone if it did, even? Maybe both. Some sort of high-magic content watchmaker?
Mostly, though, I figure he'd come from the more bubbly end of the Victo spectrum. Whoever adopted him slapped him with something that isn't quite a veil, but maybe some kind of "Meh, looks okay to me" field. People see the squid with the top hat, but they just don't give a shit. He's just another guy. So no troubled childhood, no dark past, no super-complex problems... Except maybe for the fact that the natural cleverness of Void Weaver makes him feel as though everyone's a little slow, compared to him. He doesn't write anyone off so much as he's sad when someone can't follow his torturous leaps of logic.
How's that sound?