Trollslum Discussion 1: Stuck in a Black Romance

[Token]

This RP is making me spend the little free time I have writing horrible fanfiction, and pulling up old atrocities. Fuck you guys. Fuck you all.

[Geminex]

Character sheet:

Name: Scalis Lector

Gender: Male

Age: 6 solar sweeps

Appearance: Wears a black, nondescript t-shirt, a grey tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, and matching tweed pants. Slippers on his feet, because all good librarians wear slippers. Organge hair, tries to keep it cut as short as possible because of its horrible, horrible color. His lusus is terrible at cutting hair, though, so he usually goes around with a scraggly, uneven, orange hairdo. There's a reason he usually wears a Fedora (though it also helps block light, he likes the dark). One horn extends straight upwards, the other is sickle-shaped, forming the TWIN SIGNS OF LEARNING AND WONDER, They're pretty blackened from all the electricity that's flowed through them, though.. His teeth are fairly long and sharp, and you can barely see two fangs in the corners of his mouth when his mouth is closed. He also wears sunglasses at all times, due to aforesaid photosensitivity.

Lusus: An Orang-Utan. Fairly low-maintainance, though he won't budge on the whole 'banana plantation' issue. A veteran Librarian and Archivar; he taught Scalis all he knew.

Trollian Handle: pandorasArchivist.

Blood Color: Orange. Goddamn Orange.

Hive: On a rocky crag, above the sea, surrounded by winds and spray and storms stands a massive, but worn structure. No castle, despite the walls and turrets, no temple, despite its discinct resemblance to the Pantheon. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon_%28Nashville%29). No, this is the hive of yourself, a young troll who reads far too many books and collects everything. It is a place of knowlege, and a place of horror, filled with books (all of them) and artifacts and threats so great that the best way to get rid of them was to lock them in a filing cabinet and quietly forget about them. A visitor could find anything here, wisdom, knowlege, true love, or even the perfect book to read late at night. But while you can find everything here, it is gogdam impossible to find anything specific, so more than likely is that you'd come in looking for the ultimate weapon and end up leaving with half a feather duster and a book filled with discourse about the impact of table manners on the development of Trollkind.
This is the CENTRAL INSTITUTION FOR THE COLLECTING, SORTING AND ANALZING OF TOMES, ARTIFACTS, WEAPONS, CREATURES AND ABSTRACT PHENOMENA. But you just like to call it THE LIBRARCHIVARY.

Strife Specibus: TOMEKIND. More versatile than you'd think.

Fetch Modus: Archive modus. Captchalogued items are archived safely and securely. Getting them back out can be a bitch, though, because the filing system is absolutely fucked.

Title: Keeper of Memory

Dreamself: Derse

Interests: Books and Archives are his duty, of course. In his free time he writes, works on obscure obscure experimentation (mostly to do with books) and explores the POWER OF LIGHTNING.

Also, in regards to Menarker's CS: Most of it seems fine (though the fact that he's 2 years older than most of us and wears a bucket on his head makes him pretty damn creepy), but I'm really not sure about the mind-reading bit. Yes, even if it's just surface thoughts. It doesn't seem thematically necessary, and in interactions with other PCs it'd give a lot of potential for god-moding. Or conflict, at the very least. Not to mention that we've never actually seen into a character's mind in homestuck before. We've seen their reactions, but never their thoughts. That's a good pattern. I really don't think we should break it for the sake of minor mind-reading powers.
So, Menarker. Could you go without? It doesn't really seem necessary for your character, and I think it might not benefit the RP later.

[Aldurin]

mind-reading

Dammit, there might be a conflict between him and I with the whole STOP IT STAY OUT OF MY HEAD thing. Might zap him or carry a brainwave disruptor to prevent it.

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Geminex

Character sheet:



Also, in regards to Menarker's CS: Most of it seems fine (though the fact that he's 2 years older than most of us and wears a bucket on his head makes him pretty damn creepy), but I'm really not sure about the mind-reading bit. Yes, even if it's just surface thoughts. It doesn't seem thematically necessary, and in interactions with other PCs it'd give a lot of potential for god-moding. Or conflict, at the very least. Not to mention that we've never actually seen into a character's mind in homestuck before. We've seen their reactions, but never their thoughts. That's a good pattern. I really don't think we should break it for the sake of minor mind-reading powers.
So, Menarker. Could you go without? It doesn't really seem necessary for your character, and I think it might not benefit the RP later.

Well, originally, it was a "Suggestion" ability where it was like mind control but it could only force someone to accept orders which they felt was "acceptable" or even "favorable". Bard was the one who suggested Surface Thought reading as a acceptable replacement. Main purpose is to assist Sharl with bargining with people (he's a merchant sort of character) and to avoid being cheated, as well as get an idea of what the "client" he's talking to would probably like to trade for. I don't intend for it to be a sort of spider sense or total telepath sort of guy.

If you could think of a viable replacement aside from "being genuinely convincing", then I would consider replacing it like how I replaced the Suggestion ability with Surface Thought Reading.

[Dracorion]

How about nothing?

How does nothing grab ya?

[Geminex]

As long as Gorma doesn't attempt to eat library items, Scalis would get along well with her! No restraining orders there.

And hell, it probably would be quite hilarious for her to nom some sort of priceless artifact and have Scalis stammer in shock and dismay.

AP: Waht.
AP: Did yuo just...
AP: Taht was teh anicetn key of metsar Krom.
AP: Wyh woudl yuo even...
OO: That tashted nishe! Ish there more?

Maybe we can have that happen later.

Also, 40 cakes is magnificent. Very nice reference, there.
For those that don't get it, have at thee!

Menarker...
Honestly, I don't think there should be any powers that read or influence minds. The mind-reading is horrible. Even if it's just superficial stuff, it gives him a huge advantage when interacting with anything, even just NPCs, since the amount of information he can receive is massive. Also, me or Bard would have to write up every NPC's thoughts you read, so that'd mean quite a lot of work for us. So this is a definite no.

The 'suggestion' stuff is actually better, I thought... It's less useful when interacting with NPCs, certainly, and the whole 'as long as suggestion is acceptable' thing nerfs it a bit. But using it on PCs still amounts to god-moding, I feel.

Look, just put a line in your bio about how he's a really great negotiator or something like that, and play on that aspect of his personality a bit. Him actually being a good negotiator depends on us playing along, but hey. We all have character aspects that need to be validated by others. We're cooperating on that pretty well.

So just take the simple way. Modify your bio and I'm sure quite a few of us would play along. I certainly would. But don't ask for a power that makes us play along, m'kay?

[Bard The 5th LW]

Read the memo.

I hate you all.

[Dracorion]

This RP is officially a complete success.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Hey Drac, have you ever been stabbed before?

[Dracorion]