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powersthatbe) wrote2019-11-30 07:21 pm
powersthatbe) wrote2019-11-30 07:21 pm
Slivers & Shards Plot Role Info
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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.
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week 1 check-in
Buuuuuuuuuuut she's even more set on 'poke the High Tables' now that the Nation-Eaters are back in play, and recruiting Kleio to the cause. Ghalib's passed on the 'what a Nation-Eater do, as far as we know' info, and she hates it but hasn't reacted in-thread yet.
LET'S AT LEAST DIE TRYING SOMETHING NEW INSTEAD OF LETTING OUR FACES BE EATEN
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I had a Terrible Thought the other night that Hypatia's probably going to voice, re: the fact that the Nation-Eaters never targeted cavosophia.
...Where, exactly, did those wiped consciousnesses go?
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week 2, before I forget
Truffle's half-approaching the Council with what I suspect are some of her specific insights from Scatter-Spore, but that's literally one comment from each of us right now. Meanwhile, Cassandra and the cultist she started deprogramming have come to the Council about Ghalib - and so did Mori, after Ghalib's death, with the 'he totes tried to cavosophia' detail.
Hypatia and Mori's discussion touched on Ghalib Telling about 'shit it's a Nation-Eater' but that's Probably A Coincidence. ...Right? After that discussion, Hypatia's keeping as much crucial equipment/sentimental objects on her person as she can at all times, for better odds of getting out prepared if it's not a coincidence. These aren't numbers you chance being wrong about.
week 3!
But now she's thinking their best odds of survival are to leave the Vale entirely, so hopefully the High Tables will have something helpful to that end.