Prime Factor - mathematical savant, most respected member of Fallenheart’s Calculator Council, struggling to be a person and not just a role. Background: You’re the youngest and most respected member of the Calculator Council. When you were still an orphaned child, spending all your time at the Factor Tower studying (because it won you food and praise), you learned that the secret to superior calculation is to account for variables no-one else considers. That simple truth is the basis of your reputation as a savant - whenever something doesn’t work, rather than looking at the things everyone knows might be causing the breakdown, you look immediately for the unknown and unprecedented. You started looking to learn more, have new experiences, because breadth of experience is what helps you solve those calculations, but soon enough the new experiences became their own reward…
And when you were elected to the Calculator Council, you lost all that. You became too valuable to go on caravan trips across the Wastes, to explore the depths of the Caves, to go out alone in storms and see what the wind and static lightning were really like. Now you’re expected to be wise at all times, to solve everyone else’s problems, and you still have a problem not doing what you’re expected to. It’s what gets you food, gets you admiration, and those desires have been hardwired in you for some time.
It’s not that it’s impaired your calculation to act as a lawgiver… it’s that the exploration is what you want to be doing, so much more than this. But like the other Calculators, you’ve run the math, and any other Factor who could take your place wouldn’t be able to do what you do, provide your perspective to the Council. They’re right that you belong here… unless you can find something more important.
For a while, you’ve been working on a way to find such a project. An exploration beyond anything else that’s been attempted in centuries - to one of the broken Mystic Spires on the High Tables. There’s one visible east of Scatter-Spore, and another one North of Cabal. Of course, you’d have to find a way to breathe up there, in the choking clouds and caustic vapors, but think of what you might find! Goals: Leave Fallenheart Spire for more than a few days without disappointing the people around you. Have new experiences you’ve never encountered. Allies: Other Factors respect you automatically, but you’re much more interested in meeting anyone who’s from a far-away spire, and especially about Cabalists, whose whole Art is delving into the unknown somehow. Mod Expectations: Three threads of four+ comments a week. Weekly Reporting: Any time you find a way to escape the restrictions of needing to be wise and measured. Any time you give up what you want to make sure others don’t think less of you. You should try to do some of each! Skill:Mimetic Reaving. Any time you read someone’s mind or intrude deeply in their thoughts (guiding a Dreampusher would also count), gain the ability to use one psionic skill they possess and you do not, at half its normal power, until the next time you use a Reaving or mind-reading ability. After the Jaunt, this ability may only be used once a week. If there is no obvious way to use an ability at one-half power, that ability may not be accessible. Consult a moderator if you are uncertain.
PRIME FACTOR - CLAUDIA
Background: You’re the youngest and most respected member of the Calculator Council. When you were still an orphaned child, spending all your time at the Factor Tower studying (because it won you food and praise), you learned that the secret to superior calculation is to account for variables no-one else considers. That simple truth is the basis of your reputation as a savant - whenever something doesn’t work, rather than looking at the things everyone knows might be causing the breakdown, you look immediately for the unknown and unprecedented. You started looking to learn more, have new experiences, because breadth of experience is what helps you solve those calculations, but soon enough the new experiences became their own reward…
And when you were elected to the Calculator Council, you lost all that. You became too valuable to go on caravan trips across the Wastes, to explore the depths of the Caves, to go out alone in storms and see what the wind and static lightning were really like. Now you’re expected to be wise at all times, to solve everyone else’s problems, and you still have a problem not doing what you’re expected to. It’s what gets you food, gets you admiration, and those desires have been hardwired in you for some time.
It’s not that it’s impaired your calculation to act as a lawgiver… it’s that the exploration is what you want to be doing, so much more than this. But like the other Calculators, you’ve run the math, and any other Factor who could take your place wouldn’t be able to do what you do, provide your perspective to the Council. They’re right that you belong here… unless you can find something more important.
For a while, you’ve been working on a way to find such a project. An exploration beyond anything else that’s been attempted in centuries - to one of the broken Mystic Spires on the High Tables. There’s one visible east of Scatter-Spore, and another one North of Cabal. Of course, you’d have to find a way to breathe up there, in the choking clouds and caustic vapors, but think of what you might find!
Goals: Leave Fallenheart Spire for more than a few days without disappointing the people around you. Have new experiences you’ve never encountered.
Allies: Other Factors respect you automatically, but you’re much more interested in meeting anyone who’s from a far-away spire, and especially about Cabalists, whose whole Art is delving into the unknown somehow.
Mod Expectations: Three threads of four+ comments a week.
Weekly Reporting: Any time you find a way to escape the restrictions of needing to be wise and measured. Any time you give up what you want to make sure others don’t think less of you. You should try to do some of each!
Skill: Mimetic Reaving. Any time you read someone’s mind or intrude deeply in their thoughts (guiding a Dreampusher would also count), gain the ability to use one psionic skill they possess and you do not, at half its normal power, until the next time you use a Reaving or mind-reading ability. After the Jaunt, this ability may only be used once a week. If there is no obvious way to use an ability at one-half power, that ability may not be accessible. Consult a moderator if you are uncertain.