The Absurd Rogue
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6/17/2016
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Time and chronology don't really lend themselves to role-playing in my experience. Or at least, not for characters built around games where you cannot truly and conclusively die. So many of our characters are living one moment to the next and to bring an end to their story is never a thing of necessity... It's a choice we would have to make. If we made it, it would mean we could no longer play. Which is grim, because we all love this game.
So, if you would, allow me to ask this of you. How does the story of your character end? Perhaps not exactly, "how do they die", but where do they end up when when the back cover of their book is closed? Of course, it need not be canon... But I've been thinking about this ever since Eli lost so much in the Mr. E____ story.
You could say that even me deciding to seek the name, knowing the risk as well as I could without looking it up, was me almost wanting Eli's story to end. It seems like he deserves one.
So what is the last page of the story of some of these characters that we know so well? They've been as vivid and endearing (and not endearing in the best of ways) to me as any character in every book I've read. But I've never not finished book once I've started reading it.
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"There is never another story. There is only one, and I try to tell it with every page. I fail, and I try again. There are no new stories; I have this one."
-S.N
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John Moose
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6/17/2016
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You wander the docks, showing the photo on your smartphone to people who look like they might have ties to the less reputable population. No one admits knowing the person you seek, but some of those you question become nervous and avoid meeting your eyes. Further enquiries seem to identify these people as working for the Widow. Your employer will want to hear this.
As you head back towards your lodgings, you notice a heap of rags and bandages on the sidewalk, shaking slightly and making curious, croaking sounds. A filthy takeaway coffee cup with the odd coin in it reveals the pile to be an unusually wretched beggar. As you approach them you notice a bandaged hand that seems to be lacking fingers holding onto a small bone sharpened at one end, as if in mockery of the dreaded harpoons wielded by the Monster-Hunters' Guild. You have trouble understanding their croaks and whispers, but think you can discern the word "eating" and in a moment of pity give them the rest of your cheeseburger. It vanishes within the heap of rags, followed by sounds you'd rather forget.
You back away slowly, and resume walking. While the figure was somewhat disconcerting, you feel a newfound appreciation for your youth and health. The absence of death is apparently not good for everyone, but this doesn't need to trouble you as long as your plans succeed. You continue along your way, the contents of the beggar's coffee cup jangling in your pocket. What would a beggar do with Fifth City coins, anyway?
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Saravina Vorcast
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6/17/2016
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I like vagueness so I poem for each of my four's end!:
Though preserved the rose still wilts.
Though well kept, the veil is patched and fading.
Though strong and flowering, the vine was weeded out for the flowers to grow.
Though warned and chastised, the singer sought something they couldn't reach, and didn't make it to the curtain call
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Passionario
Posts: 777
6/17/2016
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If there is any justice in the Neath, Passionario's story will end either with a gruesome final death or a fate worse than one. He is very much the villain of his own story.
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Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending
Passion: Profile, Appearance
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The Absurd Rogue
Posts: 1049
6/17/2016
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Passionario is the type of villan that we all fear most: one with a goal that they know how to reach, one that feels no apparent sorrow over their choices and one we can all imagine ourselves becoming.
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"There is never another story. There is only one, and I try to tell it with every page. I fail, and I try again. There are no new stories; I have this one."
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absimiliard
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6/17/2016
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I'm afraid Absimiliard shall likely End in either Seeking the Name or in sacrificing themselves to save a friend.
Salt made them, Salt loves them for so many reasons and so many tears, and in the end to Salt they shall return -- how is not important, only that it involve sufficient tears and grief to make Salt reclaim them somehow.
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Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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NiteBrite
Posts: 1019
6/17/2016
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A circle, while finite, has no beginning or end. So too shall be the legend of NiteBrite.
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I AM currently accepting calling cards.
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[00:34] <@ortab> NiteBrite's laugh is that of a condemned soul gazing into the abyss.
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Lamia Lawless
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6/17/2016
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Well, I don't want to spoil anything, but this song describes pretty well one of the endings I've considered for my character.
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Andrew Astherson
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6/17/2016
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Rew's motivation is quite primitive - to get rich and to get away with it. So far, he's damnably good in not locking himself up to this bloody oversized cave with a gargantuan puddle in the middle. Once he'll hoard enough assets, he'll be on his way to Canada or New Zealand. (Does Tanah-chook still think he parents the dullest individual in London?) He still considers how many "types" of assets he would like to take with him.
Clem, for the other hand, has already managed to get into relationship that would be impossible in the Overworld, which pretty much forces him to make a solid decision... nah, kidding - he already decided to stay in the Neath and to try to provide the person that successfully "privatised" him with a happy family life in Port Carnelian. But that would only be possible after he helps that mentioned person to break through quite an ugly situation she managed to get into.
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> Currently open for RP:
Andrew Astherson - heavy-tempered, rapacious but reliable menace of slavonic-tatar origin.
Clement "don't you call me Clem!" Mustela - merry and licentious to a stupid degree Irishman-detective
> My lads appearances ; Astherson's short backstory
> Seeking for RP partner(s), are you ? This thread might be the right place.
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