Workshop #5: April 2020

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Workshop #5: April 2020—

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Welcome to Forgotten Tales storybook character essence workshop! Here players can come together and discuss what storybook characters they are considering for their character's essence, their new potential abilities, and even ask for help if you can't think of anything on your own.

Here are some things to keep in mind:

1. Workshop participation is required for Registration as this basically takes the place of the traditional application form, as well as posting to the Test Drive. You don't have to post together at the same time (you can do one first and then the other), but they are needed eventually.
   
   
2. Participation in the Workshop does not guarantee a spot on either Claims or Registration, but you will need it to keep a Claim so there's no harm in trying early. Feel free to look over previous Workshops.
   
   
3. Make sure to check the Character Roster and Essence List to see if your choices are not already taken.
   
   
4. The character and essence don't necessarily have to perfectly match, and all characters will inherit characteristics and themes from that particular storybook character. You are free to be creative and take elements from related works and variations (like Disney), but try to keep it central to the original version. Refer to the Character section of the Game Info as a refresher on how essences and their abilities work.
   
   
5. Storybook characters can be from any work of literary fiction such as fairy tales, folklore, fables, nursery rhymes, classics, plays, mythos, legends, etc. They can be well-known or obscure, and origins must pre-date the 1950s.
   
   
6. Because the game currently doesn't allow duplicate essences, list your top preference and any others you're considering, but also be open for other suggestions. And if you see someone else list one you are considering, list it, anyway! Anyone could change their mind. Just don't be salty or badger anyone about their choice, otherwise it's an automatic boot out the door. The goal is to try to not only match the best essence to the character, but also one that people can have fun with.
   
   
7. Although you can only register one character, you can workshop multiple in case you are having difficulties in deciding who to pick.
   
   
8. Public Registration will open May 3, but anyone with an invite and current players can register at any time. Claims will open April 26.

If you have any further questions about this or anything in general, comment to the Mod Thread.

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§ form.

If you're ready, just fill out the following form and discuss away! One character per comment.

Player: Player ID w/ contact
Character: Character looking to bring in
Canon: (and canon point)
Age: (of the character)
Bio Blurb: Instead of a full written history, please link a wiki page AND provide a 1-2 paragraph summary of the character's backstory. If no wiki page is available, that's okay; you're free to link a write-up if you have one or feel like making one. The summary is more of an "at a glance" to help those not familiar to get a basic idea of who the character is and what they were doing in their canon. If it helps, pretend you're writing a blurb for a CR Meme. What key important things about your character's history would you want to point out to others?

Personality Blurb: You are free to link to anything pre-written such as an app for another game, but for our purposes you must include a 1-2 paragraph blurb highlighting the main elements of the character's personality. If it helps, pick out up to 5 vices and 5 virtues that you'd associate with them and just toss in a few sentences about it. Again, you can pretend you're writing a blurb for a CR Meme.

Preferred Essence(s): Have one or a couple already in mind? List them here! Include reasons why you are thinking about that particular essence and how you would work it with the character.
Looking For: Open to other ideas? What kind of storybook character would you be interested in? Things you're not interested in should also be mentioned.

Appearance: Any notable features both for the character in general and any appearance or style changes you may be considering to match their essence.

Abilities: Whether you have an essence in mind or not, talk about what kind of abilities you're hoping to recreate or gain while in game. Any weapons that are going to be regained or explored? What abilities or weapons are lost? Skills?

Quirks: Are you interested in gaining any quirks of the storybook character? Or do you already have one already in mind? Need suggestions from your list? A reminder that the current limit is one.

Goal: What do you hope to do while in game? This could range from just having fun with the setting to exploring new aspects of the character because of the setting.
Extra: Anything else you'd like to ask or talk about. Can be about the essences or just general ideas of what you'd like to hopefully play out.
Questions: Any other questions you might have.

SUBJECT LINE: CHARACTER | CANON <b>Player:</b> Name | <user name="USERNAME" site="plurk.com"> <b>Character:</b> <b>Canon:</b> (and canon point) <b>Age:</b> <b>Bio Blurb:</b> (optional: <a href="WIKIURL">Wiki</a>.) <b>Personality Blurb:</b> <b>Preferred Essence(s):</b> <b>Looking For:</b> <b>Appearance:</b> <b>Abilities:</b> <b>Quirks:</b> <b>Goal:</b> <b>Extra:</b> <b>Questions:</b> Any other questions you might have.

Post away and go buzz about everyone else!

Comments

[gr1m]

Get it maybe having a richer dark purple/black as well? Or perhaps having it sort of mimic the feather pattern of a darker colored barn owl- sooty owls are an example and can look a little starry sky, and are in the barn owl family of things. Can even have the fun of pushing the mask far more barn-owl shaped as well. I know the indecisive feeling and I can just sink in to neat little details.

For dramatics sakes? Possibly, just normal nice boots but have owl-like talon armor overlaying on them for protection and what not.

[no_reload]

That could be a thing. Though, I do like the idea of him looking like a starry night, especially in the darkness. That would be kind of creepy. I'll have to look into more owl-like designs for masks; god bless the internet.

Makes me think of Vincent Valentine and his ridiculous gold boots. :/ The rat king outfit had claws I seem to remember.

[gr1m]

Like sooty owls can give some lovely inspiration for that? Can see where I'm pulling "look like a starry night sky" from as well when it comes to the feather pattern. For real to.

You not wrong, and also it very much does have claw boots. Give or take my focus is more on the hooded robes and just how dramatic that can get, really.

You've got some good abilites there with the shapeshifting in to an owl/other birds but also the stormy weather control and I can't think of anything to suggest there because really outside of... I think there's parts of the folklore that makes La Lechuza immune to bullets when not shapeshifted? Or the other way around, it's hard to remember.

[no_reload]

It would be interesting that he uses that look in order to get close to his chosen prey as well. A kind of camouflage that he would definitely enjoy. And his appearance can change depending on his shape-changing.

Wow he's such a dramatic jerk. I love him so much. All the flowing robes that look like feathers and claw boots.

I mean, Reaper is mostly immune to bullets anyway. He just turns to smoke. It's the electricity he needs to watch out for.

[gr1m]

Work very well for it, and no doubt something he could appreciate in some way- could keep the color-scheme with whatever he changes in to as well if wanted I imagine.

Right? It's a overly dramatic beautiful damn theatrical mess, and it's so good I love him.

Very, very true honestly. I mean, paired with the genetic enhancements like Jack himself has, along with the smokey wraith bullshit from further genetic fuckery, pairing that with Lechuza's weather manipulation and shapeshifting he's pretty well covered ability wise, in a way.

[no_reload]

I'll have to think of the best colour scheme for what I hope to have him do in the game. He does like his night-ops after all, though let's be real, a 15 ft wing span is not subtle at all.

He is such a mess, but he lives his mess of a life to its theatrical fullest.

He is very well covered. Once he learns his essence - and he won't have much else to do but master it - he will be a handful. Probably for the best. He'll probably make enemies.

[steadypulse]

Can't forget that silent flight barn owls have, so at night weirdly a lot more subtle and all the more frightening in a Noticed Too Late sort of way. Just gotta not hit trees or something to give himself away.

It's the way we love him best.

76 pretty much doing the same- outside of the time spent swept up having to repair a story. So it isn't like Reaper will go without some formidable opposition in here with some other characters, too. Or the fact 76 will hunt his ass down to kick it.

[no_reload]

Right? I love the way that owls flight. They are amazing animals. I still love the video where an owl just times the flap of its wings to flying through the fork in a tree. Amazing. Once he wants revenge, he'll just go after his victim. Revenge for all

Reaper having to repair lame stories will chaff his buttcheeks, but he'll do it if it means he can get the hell out of there. And also try to aggravate everyone that comes near him. Look 76, keep the bitterness down?

[steadypulse]

Honestly, same. There's one out there where the owl flies between two people standing very close together by tucking it's wings in.

The one other ability that comes so very natural; being an aggravating SOB whenever he damn well pleases. Nope, full up bitterness has his own revenge to enact.

[no_reload]

Right? Owls are actually amazing. So I guess that means that Reaper is also amazing, since he based his outfit on owls!

He uses his nastiness as weapon against others to both keep them at a distance and to see who has the stomach to tolerate.

[steadypulse]

They're right up there with foxes for me tbh, awesome animals. He at last likely based his mask off a barn owl because it's hard to deny that shaping.

The moment someone cracks the code he's doomed.

[no_reload]

He definitely did, since he fancies himself as an aspect of death. Most of his outfits have basis in death, except I guess his Blackwatch outfit which was just him wanting to be comfortable.......

That is generally how it goes, but most people dislike him so much it happens very rarely.

[steadypulse]

Reason I wonder when we'll get a skin of him in his Red Death outfit, because long live theater and literature nerd Gabo. I will forever love him and his tactical hoodie and what looks like those nice and comfy stretchy fabric pants.

Meanwhile, we end up working on them accidentally beating down walls while full of denial.

[no_reload]

I have been waiting for Red Death for awhile, but maybe they don't want to animate that many frills? I feel like at that stage of his life, he was going for 'retired and slumming it in comfort' look. No one would assume just looking at him that he's high up in the ranks.

That's usually how it works with these two. Constant violence and arguments that finally work them open to hashing out a friendship again.

[steadypulse]

Frills and ruffles and feathers- They made a spray reminiscent of it and likely all that'll be gotten. Exactly, tho. More so when Blackwatch "didn't exist" and everything, nothing suspicious and just there because he had a big hand in the start etc.

Work it all out until they exhaust themselves to the point they're left in silence before they can part ways and end up talking little by little. Snarking a bit.

[no_reload]

The Red Death is going to one of those skins that never appears, just like Reinhardt's Naval one from the Halloween comic. I want it though. Him swirling around in red frills with feathers flying everywhere? It would be amazing.

They need to argue before they can talk or find any kind of common ground. That's just the way they are these days. Probably throw a punch or two.

[steadypulse]

We can dream, and know that it's canon he owns the costume with all of the frills and feathers like the true dramatic asshole that he is and always has been. Truly amazing.

Not just argue, but scream until hoarse and everything, leave each other bloody and bruised and reach a point they can't even pretend it's actually satisfying.