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Ouroboros Retrograde - plot role info

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Considering Asa looks diabolin mostly to start with, yaaaay.

Quick question - is Asa visibly diabolin in QC or would she be using an illusion by accident to hide her true appearance for a while?

She is not visibly Diabolin - the mod-notion was that she'd be wearing a cloak as part of her Eidolon costume that (magically) shrouds her body in shadows, but an illusion is also acceptable.

Edited 2018-01-11 05:53 (UTC)

Okay, and how about the Diabolin collective leaking through, will I receive any prompts for what comes out or should I just throw random bits of destructive and tyrannical menace out and about?

Random bits are fine; when we do weekly updates we'll include more information about the ongoing menace.

Excellent, thank you!

Sorry for the constant stream of questions - am I correct in assuming she has no animal companion/spirit animal/doppelganger or any discernable QC role traits?

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whatspringislike - 2018-01-12 05:41 (UTC) - Expand

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whatspringislike - 2018-01-25 17:50 (UTC) - Expand

Anything to report from week 1/plans for week 2?

Nothing extreme - she's now learned that she's in Questing Country and that it's a dream world thanks to talking with dreamers and Travelers. She's determined that she must have hit her head either in the waking world or in QC to have caused her amnesia.

For week 2 she will be trying to figure out more of her own identity and if she might have any abilities in QC, which could lead to some shadowy shenanigans.

Got it, thanks!

Anything to report from week 2/plans for week 3?

Asa was consulting with the Oracles in the forest before going through the swampy areas to try to determine where the Glatisant came from. Then she went to the Rise era to the Diabolin mining tunnels to see where that Glatisant went.

There wasn't too much tagging happening in week 2 though unfortunately but the plan was that she might encounter more Diabolin nightmares and anyone who came near her would have experienced some of the collective leaking through, just a bit.

Nooot entirely sure what to do next week just yet.

Anything to report from week 3/plans for week 4?

Nothing very exciting - Asa was poking around at the remains of the Glatisant in Rise-era, spoke with a few people and sat with Scarstin to try to center herself. Thae however received a message from an Oracle that someone with a 'hood of shadow' held the key to his survival, and he now believes that's Asa.

Hi, it me. Oraclebel will instantly go ‘aw snap’ at her, confirm he saw the vision he passed on to Thae, and offer to assist.

What would Oracle-Of-Resonancing at her forgotten past and/or the dissonant whispers around her reveal?

This is something I'd like to know as well. [perches in wait for the modly ones]

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powersthatare - 2018-02-10 23:23 (UTC) - Expand

Her background resonates most with Allura & Thae.

Is Asa going to be affected psychologically/Diabolin senses tingling following the slave revolt by Allura and Thae in the waking world, or is her body not in a close enough location?

She certainly could be! She might have a sense of vertigo, as if she's in motion, or a distant sense of loud noises around or nearby her.

Anything to report from week 4/plans for week 5?

Some of the Diabolin collective conscious was leaking through around Asa during the quakes, especially when she was agitated, but it doesn't seem like anyone really took note of it.

Next week she's going to have the sense that something is amiss wherever her own body is, and come to realise that while all other Dreamers have come and gone with waking and sleeping, she's been present through it all. I'm not sure if during the elves uprising her body will have been damaged wherever it was being kept. If/when she realises that Allura and Thae have died, she's going to be very distressed since she was told that she could have been key to their survival, if that might give way for more Diabolin psychobabbles/hallucinations etc.

Is there anything to watch out for should Asa be caught in the Starquake and turned into a Harbinger - i.e. will the Diabolin conscious have any effect on it?

Oooh.

I would think she'd be more likely to flicker in an out of Harbinger status, and might change multiple times per scene.

And just how much damage/chaos might she cause as a Diabolin Harbinger? Or would it just be a case of her flickering between both states nonstop.

As for her body in the waking world - was she being kept in a medbay or cryogenically frozen? Would it still be kept safe or would it be losing power from life-support with the rebellion?

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powersthatare - 2018-02-18 19:41 (UTC) - Expand

One last check-in for the road: What are your character's plans to resolve what they see as the biggest issue of their era?

Asa feels that with the Retrograde, everyone was better able to understand the role of Adversaries which resolves the issue of treating them almost like abominations in her era, so that's not something she needs to focus on. That being said, if she's still trapped in Questing Country for some time moving forward, she'll likely try to guide the generations of Adversaries to come as best she can - she's not an Oracle, she can't do too much, but maybe that's not such a bad thing, given how the older generation of Adversaries/Fallen Champions weren't too keen on them at the start. She's taken her own experience as an Unknown in QC to heart and from seeing how much better she felt with something as basic as common decency and a helping hand from other Dreamers, and feels that could be applied to younger, lost Adversaries.

As for her waking world, I was hoping Asa would put things together and realise she's a Diabolin (either from distancing herself from her self as a Harbinger or from more contact with slave elves). QC has had a very sobering experience to her so that when her memories return full force, it's going to alter/soften her personality, and she'll do her best to get more slaves free, but I'm not sure how. Either she uses her abilities in QC to fuck with the Diabolin collective to confuse and distract them while coordinating with present slave Dreamers to manage another uprising or escape, or if she ever wakes up from her coma, she'll physically help to sneak them out.

... Which actually could lead to her eventual cryostasis and exile to Gehenna, if the timelines work like that? Struck from Diabolin history, forgotten by the escaped slaves since no one would have known who she was between QC and the waking world.

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