Viti Rose
Posts: 32
1/12/2016
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The moment that really brought out the most prominent character development or showed what you character values most.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
1/12/2016
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Probably the first Exceptional Friend story I ever played-The Last Dog Society. Before that, my character was a violent and stupid free spirit who would basically be game for anything as long as it looked interesting or someone convinced him it was something he was supposed to do (he's easily distracted and easily convinced). And this story started out the same way. He didn't really know who these people were or what exactly was going on, but he was infiltrating their little club for some reason and it was fun. He even made a couple of friends!
[spoiler] Then those "friends" took part in a terrifying contest and each one seemed to think they would win because my character would help them. And my character did want to help them. But to help one he had to activaly condemn the other to death and he couldn't do that to a friend. So he stood there, indecisive, and eventually they both died horribly because of his indecision. Because of his meddling and refusing to take something seriously enough to question whether he should be sticking his nose into it. [/spoiler]
He was so guilt-ridden he actually moped for a couple of days and even stopped talking in all caps. Eventually, rescuing someone else who he loved snapped him out of it, but from then on, he could no longer view others as mere amusements and distractions, but as actual people who could be hurt by his actions, and as a result, he became surprisingly compassionate, to the point where he could probably be considered "chaotic good."
It was a direction I never intended to go with this character, so it was a bit surprising, but it's been interesting too. And frustrating-he always seems to be suffering emotionally/financially/professionally because of it, but that's just the way things go in Fallen London :P
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Passionario
Posts: 777
1/12/2016
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The moment when my stained, scarred, chained and marsh-mired character stood on a windy rooftop and gave up his search for the Name.
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Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending
Passion: Profile, Appearance
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
2/19/2016
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I have been RP-ing a lost love story with a friend. It involved a curse from Salt that resulted in the odd circumstance where two betrothed were transformed into my character and their Starveling Cat. I had been slowly revealing the details of how things came to be to my friend Appolonia vonRavenscroft when I ran across the storyline where your home is invaded by a bandit gang of Rattus Faber.
I fiercely defended my home fairly often, negotiated with the rats far more often, and once unleashed my Starveling Cat on them -- resulting in some dead rats left in my shoes. The numbers of the enemy were dropping, there were a few honorable duels, and I unleashed my Starveling Cat again -- this time there were a vast number of dead rat bodies. The negotiations continued, a few more duels were fought, and the bandit chieftain finally came out to fight my character. As I was well above the skills needed it was trivial to capture them, and having gained some respect for the rats I did so -- and then chose to defend the rats publicly as people, filled with vice and virtue like us all.
Some time later I was looking at my profile and I noticed my character's beloved was missing from their mantlepiece. I frantically looked through my inventory, and could not find the cat. At that point I did something I very rarely do and hit the wiki up -- where I discovered the Starveling Cat vanishes after a "success" against the rats.
Personally I was troubled, I'd wanted to tell a story of re-uniting lost loves. I didn't think there would ever be a resolution, as it seemed unlikely that the game has a card written that will turn your character back into the cat that they were born as. It seemed a lost cause, I'd gotten terribly fortunate and drawn the cat in my first bag of oddities, I have never since drawn one so I must assume they're terribly rare.
But my character was devastated. They have lost all pleasure in life, their taste for scandal is gone, and they have begun many dangerous activities in their search for peace, by which I mean Death.
My friend is desperately working to comfort and heal the character. But as yet I have no idea how the story will work out, all my plans are truly out the window. Thus it is that a brief moment of ignorance as to the consequences of my choices combined with impromptu role-playing and my character's arc is now drastically altered.
I can't say there might not be more defining moments in their future, especially if Appolonia, or other friends, succeed in healing their wounded heart, but, for now, that is my character's most defining moment. This was utterly unexpected and utterly devastating, outside a few table-top RP moments, and one or two very rare moments in LARPing, I have never had such an emotionally impactful role-playing experience.
Thanks Failbetter, I think.
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"Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain
Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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Amyntas
Posts: 72
2/19/2016
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Teaching a clay-man how to romance a lady by dressing as a lady and making the clay-man romance him.
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Amyntas. Zubmariner and aspiring romantic.
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Passionario
Posts: 777
1/27/2016
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WRITE YOUR OWN STORIES, OR THEY WILL BE WRITTEN FOR YOU
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Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending
Passion: Profile, Appearance
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Zero
Posts: 136
2/16/2016
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My young rake was once a doctor, up there. He often gave consultations when he could, in London, and hoped to open his own clinic soon.
And then he killed a man just to steal a secret, because the anatomy of the Neath had become much more interesting than those of the human body.
Goodbye Hippocratic Oath.
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SEND ME CHESS AND I SHALL RECIPROCATE
Daniel Ember - Once a doctor. Now something else.
My Twine games
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TheThirdPolice
Posts: 609
2/16/2016
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Suddenly, I understood that the price of love is autonomy. To care is to give up the power over your own fate. Romance is a surrender to the Masters. I delivered true death, and watched my victim's lover scream, and found the miserable path that fit my feet.
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Excessive Corpse & Tender to Irreal Ravens
Lover of Flawed Souls
And with especial pride, Worst Screwup of the Decade!
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
2/19/2016
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Thanks for the offer Kukapetal, regarding the Starveling Cat, but I think the story needs to tell itself out however it goes. Getting a Starveling Cat from someone here on the boards would feel distinctly like "cheating", and while it would most certainly please my character I don't think it's the right answer at the moment. Her heart needs time to heal, and I relish that role-playing opportunity if I'm being honest. There's something in writers that makes them do the most horrible things to their protagonists, and I'm afraid this is very much that sort of thing -- terrible for the character, but inspiring for the story.
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"Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain
Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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Ludovico Santiago
Posts: 14
2/19/2016
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It was when I looked at the Regretful Soldier and realized that I couldn't possibly take his soul. I broke my fork and picked up a timepiece that day.
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http://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Ludovico%20Santiago
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Curious Foreigner
Posts: 210
2/19/2016
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October 31, 1891. Before that night, the Garden was a mere curiosity to my character; unreachable and probably not even real.
A vision of an army at the foot of the Mountain, ready to open it for all, changed that. It made him believe it could be done.
It also finally made clear to me what exactly my character's Heart's Desire is.
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Cochimetl went North, and beyond. No poems, only candlelight now. (Well, maybe one poem.)
The Gun-Toting Gallivanter, after an extended absence, is back in London again.
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Lamia Lawless
Posts: 604
2/19/2016
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It's a bit of a Fallen London cliche, but deciding to take a promotion from the Brass Embassy after being tricked into an Abstraction was my character's defining moment.
Because that's the point at which any rational person would have realized that devils are untrustworthy. Instead, she dug in her heels and tried harder to believe that Hell would give her all the answers. I mean, when she first met devils, they seemed like perfect friend-shaped creatures. Anti-church, anti-law, and so much fun to be around. She just didn't want to give up the dream. She doesn't even acknowledge what happened to her, except in her quietest innermost thoughts, the ones that don't form words.
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The Harmonic Hellfarer
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Pyrodinium
Posts: 639
1/12/2016
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The moment Pyro spared his brother's killer in his Ambition. As for Rudolph, I'm planning for him getting a Fluke-Core as part of his defining moment in the future.
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My profiles: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Pyrodinium
(A Monster hunter on the hunt of his twin brother's killer. Overprotective dad of his twin's daughter)
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Rudolph~of~Taured
(an indeterminate person of potentially rubbery lineage)
* All social actions except photographers and loitering welcome!
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Valiant
Posts: 127
1/13/2016
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There were a few, but most surprising was Port Carnelian, as stupid as it may sound. My rake and bon vivant of a character suddenly understood that he's an ardent patriot of London and will do almost anything possible so his city stays safe and powerful, including governing the hell out of its overseas colony, which definitely deprives him of most of his free time and entertainment possibilities.
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Sir Valiant Carrington, a heartless hedonist and honorary governor of Port Carnelian. You can ask him for a sip of Cider (here's how by an_ocelot) if you catch him in London.
Farshin Jarrah, merry trickster and incorrigible optimist.
Serine, gone down the well but not forgotten.
Avatar artwork by lovely Farseer Drijya
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
2/21/2016
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@Kukapetal: It did work out in the end. My character's dearest friend Appolonia managed to find their love, wounded, and returned him to them. It worked out story-wise because we backed it up with writing.
@Parelle: I have much considered that very question, in the end I concluded there was no possible way Absimiliard would not immediately free the cat -- less to win favor with the Duchess than because they could not bear to see one so constrained. I don't mind doing so with any that my character's close friends send them, as their attitudes are very obvious and I doubt anyone likely to send them a cat wouldn't know of a certainty the result. But I've avoided the thread, because I don't wish anyone to expect to receive a box in return, that would feel like scamming to me, the player that is.
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"Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain
Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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Professor Strix
Posts: 616
3/28/2016
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I had one of those pretty early. When I created the Professor Strix persona, it was a blatant self-insertion (my free time, my rules). I thought that I would raise her Watchful and her Persuasive because they seemed like the right stats to a lady 5ft tall and all scholarly. Then, the quest to make your name as Persuasive was flirting and I hate flirting. I went monster-hunting instead, had lots of fun and that was when the Dangerous stat of the Professor sky-rocketed and she gained a life of her own, instead of just a shallow self-insert.
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The Inescapable Professor, London's Most Academic Detective. Open to consultation from Mondays to Fridays, above the Silver Binding bookshop, Veilgarden. Half the payment in advance, half after closing the case. No refunds.
"THIS SATURDAY, in MAHOGANY HALL, delight your eyes with the DARING FEATS of the DAPPER ESCAPIST. Gape at his CHARM and WIT and his CLEVER TRICKS OF ILLUSIONISM. No mirrors used."
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Social actions welcomed. Will take menaces if not currently grinding that one stat. Send them and cross your fingers.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor%20Strix
My alt loiters suspiciously if you want to:
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Derek%20Davis
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Hark DeGaul
Posts: 208
4/1/2016
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The moment that set Hark on their road into madness came when the poor sap unwrapped their first Starveling Cat, accidentally sold their soul and gained an Element of Dawn in their first Charitably Mysterious Bundle all in the same day. I knew I had to make something off it, so I quickly concocted a story about a mad experiment involving souls and the New Sequence, wherein DeGaul attempted to replace their soul with an Element of Dawn and gained an odd fascination with cats for their troubles. (Incidentally Hark's soul was returned to me in another bundle of oddities a few minutes before midnight GMT on 31 October. There is something seriously wrong with Hark.)
Despite actually being my first character, Hebediah's defining moment only came recently. The old soldier robbed the Bazaar using a worker's uniform (because he was otherwise too suspicious to do so) and then immediately drew the Handsome Townhouse card and donated the clothing he'd used for the robbery to his Orphanage. In that moment Hebediah transformed from simply a bombastic, Church loving veteran to a Victorian Robin Hood: a shrewd criminal mastermind who ran a small church as a front for a criminal fiefdom which he used to better the lives of those he cared for.
It's only now that I realise I have the weirdest luck.
edited by Hark DeGaul on 4/1/2016
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The Dawn-Eyed Optician: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hark%20DeGaul
That Vicar Who Ruined the Royal Wedding for Everyone (including himself): http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Hebediah%20Fix
The Dreaded Relative: http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Your%20Aunt
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Kolanowski
Posts: 148
2/19/2016
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Probably the last Fruits of the Zee Festival, when Kazimierz picked his Destiny and saw the Liberation of Night in a vision. New goals and priorities were set that day - after all, how can he pass up the opportunity to cause this much misery and destruction...?
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Kazimierz Kolanowski, gentleman, scholar, humble servant of the Maw. Chaotic Evil. Open to all social actions & accepting almost all requests. Might sell you to Satan for a single corn chip.
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