Bio: General Information: You are an actor, following the orders and suggestions of the producers to keep The Mythic Saga reality show interesting and fresh. As an artist, you are of course creative enough to do this, but the producers seem to like it when you play a dramatically lazy bum, which is frustrating. You're not that lazy! You just prefer not to get dirty or exhausted unless you have to. You would do some work if not for the producers, dammit. Oh well, sacrifices must be made for true art. You’ve decided that now that you’re stuck here for the rest of your life, you’re going to find a way to introduce the Mythics (and you really have to start thinking of them as Beastfolk in your head or your slip-ups will start getting suspicious) to true art and improve their lives as a result! And yours, of course.
Important Background Tidbits: There are several different general options for someone to become an actor that the player may choose from and tailor to the needs of their character. The Tortured Artist was written with one of the more willing options in mind, but the coerced/unwilling options can also be tailored to work with the role. Regardless, the Tortured Artist has full memories of a very highly regimented human life, and knows that the Beastfolk are constantly recorded and broadcast to humans as a mash-up between reality show and nature documentary, and that the producers make mega amounts of money selling bundled, themed remixes of the footage, tailored to various tastes (drama, mystery, adventure/disaster, …porn and etc). Actors all have means of communication with the producers and act on their orders to create storylines and situations that will net the necessary footage.
Observable motivations: To be an overly-dramatic, lazy layabout, nattering on about useless things.
Hidden motivations: To show the Beastfolk art and creative expression, and help them learn to do it themselves to improve their lives.
Applicable relationships: ORAL HISTORIAN: You think they’re an uncaring asshole, but they’re the senior actor and the producer’s favorite, so you are willing to play a little kiss-ass to keep your own position secure. You’d secretly gloat if they got comeuppance for the way they’re stealing actual history from the Beastfolk though.
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE: You know this one is a new actor, but they’re an unknown. Are they acting like that because the producers want them to? The prickly-ness really does put a barrier up between you and them, and you might not put in the effort otherwise, but you’re kind of desperate for a friend who you don’t have to keep secrets from.
STRANGE CREATURE: Shit, shit shit! The producers have wiped out the whole population of Mythics to start over before, and an unmodified human, here? That sure sounds like a reason for that kind of extreme action to you. You really don’t want to die, so as much as you hate thinking about it, you might have to… get rid of them. Somehow. You’re hoping someone else does it first so you don’t have to. Maybe if you delay a little longer…
WALLFLOWER: Also an actor, but so shy and jumpy that you haven’t been able to bond with them. That… and associating with them too much is probably on the dangerous side. You can guess what disasters the producers have planned for them, and you feel really bad that they’re going to be put through that kind of awful, but at least it’s not you in the emotional frying pan. Maybe you can find a way to make things better for them without getting your ass burned in the process…
Unique Skill: Creative Leaps-the ability to take seemingly disparate things and figure out how to put them together to create a harmonious whole. Usually done with visual elements, but can be done with facts/logic, and stories too.
Tortured Artist - Delaunay
General Information:
You are an actor, following the orders and suggestions of the producers to keep The Mythic Saga reality show interesting and fresh. As an artist, you are of course creative enough to do this, but the producers seem to like it when you play a dramatically lazy bum, which is frustrating. You're not that lazy! You just prefer not to get dirty or exhausted unless you have to. You would do some work if not for the producers, dammit. Oh well, sacrifices must be made for true art. You’ve decided that now that you’re stuck here for the rest of your life, you’re going to find a way to introduce the Mythics (and you really have to start thinking of them as Beastfolk in your head or your slip-ups will start getting suspicious) to true art and improve their lives as a result! And yours, of course.
Important Background Tidbits:
There are several different general options for someone to become an actor that the player may choose from and tailor to the needs of their character. The Tortured Artist was written with one of the more willing options in mind, but the coerced/unwilling options can also be tailored to work with the role. Regardless, the Tortured Artist has full memories of a very highly regimented human life, and knows that the Beastfolk are constantly recorded and broadcast to humans as a mash-up between reality show and nature documentary, and that the producers make mega amounts of money selling bundled, themed remixes of the footage, tailored to various tastes (drama, mystery, adventure/disaster, …porn and etc). Actors all have means of communication with the producers and act on their orders to create storylines and situations that will net the necessary footage.
Observable motivations: To be an overly-dramatic, lazy layabout, nattering on about useless things.
Hidden motivations: To show the Beastfolk art and creative expression, and help them learn to do it themselves to improve their lives.
Applicable relationships:
ORAL HISTORIAN: You think they’re an uncaring asshole, but they’re the senior actor and the producer’s favorite, so you are willing to play a little kiss-ass to keep your own position secure. You’d secretly gloat if they got comeuppance for the way they’re stealing actual history from the Beastfolk though.
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE: You know this one is a new actor, but they’re an unknown. Are they acting like that because the producers want them to? The prickly-ness really does put a barrier up between you and them, and you might not put in the effort otherwise, but you’re kind of desperate for a friend who you don’t have to keep secrets from.
STRANGE CREATURE: Shit, shit shit! The producers have wiped out the whole population of Mythics to start over before, and an unmodified human, here? That sure sounds like a reason for that kind of extreme action to you. You really don’t want to die, so as much as you hate thinking about it, you might have to… get rid of them. Somehow. You’re hoping someone else does it first so you don’t have to. Maybe if you delay a little longer…
WALLFLOWER: Also an actor, but so shy and jumpy that you haven’t been able to bond with them. That… and associating with them too much is probably on the dangerous side. You can guess what disasters the producers have planned for them, and you feel really bad that they’re going to be put through that kind of awful, but at least it’s not you in the emotional frying pan. Maybe you can find a way to make things better for them without getting your ass burned in the process…
Unique Skill: Creative Leaps-the ability to take seemingly disparate things and figure out how to put them together to create a harmonious whole. Usually done with visual elements, but can be done with facts/logic, and stories too.