Diptych
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What do your characters wear when they're not trying to boost a particular skill or make a BDR check? Do they dress for optimisation, characterisation, or just whatever looks most stylish or strange? Personally, I try to use equipment that fits my characters' personalities, that more or less goes together, and that gives the biggest boosts to the stats I consider to be their primaries.
For instance, Sir Fred - being pretty much my avatar - wears the sort of clothes I like. So, he gets a Night-Trimmed Frock Coat, 'cause I think late-19th century frock coats are pretty much the best clothes ever made for the masculine form. A Devilish Fedora - I'm letting that stand in for any model of soft hat. Soft shoes, and plain Polythremean gloves - an emphasis overall on Persuasive, Watchful, Bizarre and Respectable, with Dangerous and Dreadful firmly in dump stat territory. POSI-equipment-wise, he goes for bohemian comforts, plus FrillyShirt as a Newspaper, because meta.
Reginald, Lord Hubris, meanwhile, is my Sherlock Holmes villain in the style of Grimesby Roylott or Colonel Sebastian Moran. Accordingly, he dresses to build up Dangerous, Shadowy and Dreaded behind a façade of Respectability. Accordingly, he wears a Distinguished Gentleman's Outfit - anything less would be beneath his station; any more, too dandified for his tastes - and a Semiotic Monocle, Vakeskin Boots and Lenguals, and carries a Poison-tipped Umbrella. At a glance, the picture is of a country gentleman come up to town; up close, the details are menacing. His POSI gear reflects his deeper interests - a Gang of Hoodlums, a Formidable Gymnasium, and a stable of thoroughly bad-tempered horses.
Juniper, I won't lie, is in no small part inspired by the film Hugo. Whatever social cachet she's achieved as a novelty - a self-made, trick-performing orphan - she's still something of a solitary outcast, and dresses with no concern for fashion. A Ratskin Suit and Spiderchitin Gloves serve for warmth and protection, while Kingscale Boots, a Ratwork Watch and Gloam-Foam serve her well in her increasingly esoteric runs through London's shadows. In short, Watchful and Shadowy, with BDR roughly balanced. Her POSI equipment leans mechanical - a Telescope, a Tramp Steamer, a Velocipede - with her only social ties being fellow orphans and occasional larks with the younger Young Stags.
Esther is my newest character, and I haven't finished constructing her yet, but her design is Persuasive and Dangerous, and that means a lady of advanced ideas and the skills to put them into practice. Her fashions are the finest and fiercest - a Parabola-Linen Frock and an Extraordinary Hat, Dancing Slippers, a Derringer and a Diamond Ring. Her POSI gear, when I get there, shall be similarly opulent and outré - a Salon, a Drinks Cabinet, a Yacht, and the Revolutionary Firebrand, when he becomes a Spouse option.
Howsabout you?
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Alexis Kennedy
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(I am pleased to report that there is quite a striking addtional customisation option coming very soon indeed.)
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Diptych
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I was tinkering with my usual bay of FL spreadsheets and things, and came up with these rather amusing calling cards representing my characters! Very simple little things, but they're a nice way to enjoy Failbetter's charming art. The three rows are standard equipment, POSI equipment, and those additional items or statuses which are fairly character-defining; from left to right, Destiny, POSI Specialisation, Closest To, Ambition, Tattoo, and Profession. You'll note a certain degree of wishful thinking regarding potential future Spouses... and that I simply cannot decide on a four- or five-card lodging for Esther, the others having taken one each.
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Rook Crofton
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3/16/2014
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Sir Fred, those look great! (May I ask what tool you used to resize the portrait & lodgings?)
Rook is a bit of a dreamer and a dandy, so they usually wear their Strage-Shore Parabola Linens, paired with spotless gentleman's gloves, riding boots, and cosmogone spectacles. They are quite proud of their association with the Dilmun Club, so they often wear their lapel badge. They also have been courting the Quiet Deviless, so she is often a companion on archaeological excursions and trips to the salon. Recently, Rook's been showing off their tattoo of the Parabola (with cosmogone skies and viric fauna!) because they were lured to London by the shared dreams of the Neath.
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Rook Crofton: dreamer, antiquarian, mystic
Now a Scarlet Saint. Happy to send anyone an invite to the Temple Club.
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Diptych
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3/16/2014
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Thank you! I just knocked them together with Photoshop, though the first draft I ran through with IrfanView, which is good for basic image manipulation. And, Rook sounds like quite the dapper intellectual indeed!
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Rook Crofton
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3/16/2014
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And thank you! I suppose it's time I grow up and start using something more sophisticated than MS Paint.
P.S. Just tried out IrfanView - thanks for the tip! It's rather intuitive to use. Here's Rook's card:
(No allegiances anymore, after having second thoughts about being with Hell. Might align with the Church or the Tomb Colonists someday, though!)
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Rook Crofton: dreamer, antiquarian, mystic
Now a Scarlet Saint. Happy to send anyone an invite to the Temple Club.
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æsc
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3/18/2014
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Cecily has two main outfits, for Persuasive and Watchful (or as I prefer to think of it, 'regular socialising clothes, and work clothes). Most of the time I default to persuasive because I really LIKE that Magnificent Midnight Blue Gown. She can often be found flitting around Fallen London in it, with a pair of ladies' lace gloves, masterwork dancing slippers, and a Bejeweled Cane (which doubles as an effective weapon for hitting people over the head with.)
She's been doing a lot of digs in the Forgotten Quarter lately, for which the Moderately Co-Operative Clothes Colony has proved effective--it can help keep an eye out for things, and sometimes keep her from falling in holes and the like. (It has mostly replaced the Academic Gown, which need to be kept nice for lectures and University work.) She wears this with the Dilmun Club badge and Semiotic Monocle. She has a number of companions, but lately it seems members of her Appreciation Society can be found nearly constantly, trying to get a glimpse of her latest endeavours.
(I don't think I'll be making a card at the moment, but I might have lost an hour just now to playing with a steampunk dollmaker. Alas. And here I had translations to be working on.)
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Dr Cecily Morgan
an inescapable, sagacious, irresistible and breathtaking lady.
Devoted Scholar of the Correspondance, Author, and Excellent Dancer.
No photographers please. Most pleasant socials, invitations and calling cards welcome. Happy to accept Guest of Honour invites to salons looking for Authors.
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Helen Demeter
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2/24/2014
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Helen is a Persuasive woman who is trying to be taken more seriously by people these days. Meaning when not in the Labyrinth or in the Quarter, she's going to be found wearing a magnificent midnight-blue evening gown that matches with her lace gloves and dancing slippers. Always carrying around her bejeweled cane, investing in that Lapidary was definitely worth it!, to show off her 'wealth' in a sense. She doesn't want her Bohemian companies, who she's Closest To, to feel betrayed by her being so chummy with Society so she makes sure she wears a mask. A beguiling mask but a mask all the same. It's kind of hard for her to maintain this secretiveness with how rabid her Appreciation Society can be from time to time.
Once upon a time she was very Persuasive when not wearing anything but her bonnet when traveling around Veilgarden. Caused a lot of scandal, yes, but those were the days.
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Helen Demeter, the Bohemian Beauty
Has finally returned after an unexpected hiatus. Please mind the dust but do know that I'm now open to all social actions and invitations.
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Zack Oak
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2/25/2014
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Since I started playing Roland as an RP character, his outfit has changed more than I thought, but less than you'd think. Roland is a fancy person who likes to dress nice and be fancy. So, his default outfit, in keeping with the gender expression-blending of London is his sumptuous dandy's outfit, but with more traditionally feminine accents. So he wears a fecund amber tiara, a twelve-carat diamond ring, and his vakeskin boots are in a more feminine design. No high heels, though, because fighting in heels is silly. He also loves his spiked rosary, not just as a weapon, but as a gorgeous accessory that wards off nightmares. He also likes to paint his nails blue. He only recently started adding more feminine accents to his outfit, but it feels right to him, especially as he's started exploring what he is gender-wise.
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Roland Banning, The Ambitious Operative (Profile)
Tumblr RP Account
Ask me about the Delicious Friends RP group!
Open for social actions (no cats or photographers, please. Currently taking a break from K&C.)
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