gold
familiar FamiliarWendigo
played by OOC NameIceguin
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Post by desmond thorne on Apr 16, 2022 13:49:39 GMT -7
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[attr="id","sybariscol"]DESMOND THORNE
[attr="class","appprimary"]  [attr="class","apptraitscont"] [attr="class","apptrait"][attr="id","sybariscol"] sybaris [attr="class","apptrait"][attr="id","sybariscol"] fifty [attr="class","apptrait"][attr="id","sybariscol"] him [attr="class","apptrait"][attr="id","sybariscol"] ace [attr="class","apptrait"][attr="id","sybariscol"] mythic: wendigo [attr="class","apptrait"][attr="id","sybariscol"] illusion [attr="class","appbody"] [attr="id","sybariscol"] bad omens written on your bones [attr="class","appsectionscroll"]You grew up in the wilderness outside of Eclipse, in a cabin alone with your father. Your mother had never been present in your memory beyond a formless concept. [break][break] "You killed her," your father always said, "You made me like this." And you believed him. [break][break] When he called you a curse upon his blood, you believed that, too. And when you materialized your familiar for the first time, you proved him right. Your eyes couldn't rest that night as they traced the trails of blood along the ceiling like constellations, but it wasn't enough to distract from the clawing pain that festered in the pit of your stomach. [break][break] You abandon the cabin the next morning, with no reason to linger at an empty grave. [break]//[break][break] The guards and regular inmates of Delphi's prisons begin to remember your face, and smugly greet you with a "Welcome back," whenever you're caged for whatever petty crime you'd been sloppy enough to get caught in the middle of. They know you're the type of stray that couldn't change its stripes. [break][break] It is not a surprise when you finally get in over your head in your 20s, murder charges looming over you like an executioner's axe. [break][break] It is a surprise when all charges are dropped, and someone is waiting for you upon release. Their grin looks like a wolf, but their hand snaps out for a handshake like a viper. [break][break] "Congratulations, Thorne. You've just been accepted into Sybaris"[break]//[break][break] You're not sure if the potions that soothe the pain in your gut are making you numb to other things, but you're inclined to believe that part of you was always willing to ruin the souls of strangers with hardly a thought. [break]//[break][break] Something goes wrong. Terribly, unimaginably, disgustingly wrong: [break][break] You think you've fallen in love. [break][break] And, impossibly, someone so brilliant and so kind is somehow still so incredibly foolish as to love you back. [break][break] For a while you play pretend, as if this might be something real that you in any way deserved. [break]//[break][break] Eventually, after both far too long and too little, the world corrects its error in the worst possible way. [break][break] Of all the things it could have been, your love does not die from a dagger in the dark nor from magical studies taken too far -- but from medical complications, taking the child she was carrying with her. She leaves behind you, and her daughter. (Your daughter, too, by blood... but she had blessedly taken after her mother in all else). [break][break] You would kill anyone and break anything for her, but you know in your heart that is not the kind of world where she belongs. Destruction is not what she needs. [break][break] You are not what she needs. [break][break] And yet, you can neither bring yourself to let her go, nor bring yourself to become something better. You exist in limbo, and you watch as this state of in-betweens suffocates her. (You know, you know she could grow into someone remarkable if she was just allowed to breathe... You know she deserves better...) [break]//[break][break] You hold out anyway until the shadows creep too close -- until you are no longer the most pressing threat to her health. [break][break] You let her go, and free her from your memory. [break][break] You go back to drowning in potions, or whatever drink will make you forget for a little while. [break][break] They aren't as numbing as you remember. [break] [attr="id","sybariscol"] ashes falling from your tongue [attr="class","appsectionscroll"] [attr="class","chartl"] [attr="class","chartl-item"]0 yrs 1973, the dead of winter
[break]A mother holds her newborn in her arms and placates him in exhausted breaths: "Shh, shhh -- it's okay, Desmond. You're okay. I'm so happy you're okay..."
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She bleeds out minutes later.
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The ground is too cold to dig a proper grave, so daemons devour her remains in the snow overnight. [attr="class","chartl-item"]childhood
[break] Desmond doesn't know how to read, but he knows how to skin a deer and gut a fish and curse the gods. He knows how to keep his head down when whiskey chokes the air, but not well enough. He knows the lash of a belt and the cut of a bottle. [attr="class","chartl-item"]9 yrs
[break] Something hungry and vile makes its home in his mind. Desmond doesn't tell a soul. [attr="class","chartl-item"]preteens
[break] Neither Desmond nor his situation changes in a way that matters. The thing bound to his soul threatens to kill him itself, but he still fears his father more. [attr="class","chartl-item"]13 yrs
[break] His father has a fit of violence so intense that Desmond thinks that surely this is the day he's going to die. But his familiar hisses to him: Say my name. Ś̶̜̣̄á̶̟y̵͖̻͂ ̵̫̀͋i̵͓͐t̷̎̽͜.̴̯̆͘
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He does, and in return it shows Desmond a different kind of monster. There's nothing left to feed the daemons, and no reason for him to stay in the cabin after he rests for the night.
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At the moment his familiar materializes, he develops a chronic pain in his stomach which has never fully vanished even to this day. [attr="class","chartl-item"]14 yrs
[break] People are not the only thing his familiar eats without an ounce of restraint. Desmond watches it tear apart a pack of daemons before falling sick himself the rest of the day. This is not the last time it happens. [attr="class","chartl-item"]15 yrs
[break] He doesn't want to suffer another winter in the wilds, so he settles in the streets of Delphi. The same year, he's arrested for the use of unlicensed magic and petty theft, but is let off easy. [attr="class","chartl-item"]late teens
[break] He's in and out of jail for trivial transgressions, but doesn't join a coven or larger criminal enterprise. He's better at making enemies than friends. [attr="class","chartl-item"]23 yrs 1996, autumn
[break] Authorities arrest him for murder. This time, he thinks, he isn't getting out.
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But he does, and Eirin Leyfson is the puppet-master at the end of the strings.
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He joins Sybaris as a soloist. It takes barely a month for his title to settle on "sentinel". [attr="class","chartl-item"]mid to late 20s
[break] He primarily works for Eirin, whether it be taking missions or tolerating her experimentation. The potions she gives him help mitigate his pain, so he dilutes his virulence around her. Usually.
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He also, regrettably, stumbles into a position as a neutral player between crime family politics. Apparently, a total lack of ambition is a rare treasure in a den of snakes.
[attr="class","chartl-item"]29 yrs 2002, spring
[break] A job goes wrong. Desmond wakes up to a woman he has never met giving him stitches.
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Her name is Ling Lan Ya. She's a noble by blood and academic at heart with no prior ties to the city's underbelly. She shows him a kind of unfettered passion and selfless kindness that he thought only existed in fables. He shows her that some rules are better to break. By the end of the year, they find themselves in something akin to a romance. [attr="class","chartl-item"]31 yrs
[break] Her love of magic is contagious. Desmond is recognized as an acolyte. [attr="class","chartl-item"] 33 yrs[break] ling is born. She likes stories and language and runes. Desmond gets better at reading. [attr="class","chartl-item"]38 yrs
[break] Lan Ya dies due to complications with delivering her second child. The baby also doesn't survive. [attr="class","chartl-item"] 42 yrs[break] Old contracts catch up with him. People who he doesn't want anywhere near ling prowl too close. He muddles her memory with potions and leaves her at The Church of Her Mercy for someone better to care for her. [attr="class","chartl-item"]mid-40s to present
[break] He falls back on old habits, sinking more deeply into the muddied area between factions and compliantly following the trail of Eirin's shadow.
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It was a mistake to think that he could be anything else. [break] [attr="class","appplayedby"]played by [attr="class","appooc"][attr="id","sybariscol"]iceguin [newclass=.appsectionscroll]max-height: 280px; overflow: auto;[/newclass] [newclass=".chartl"]color: var(--iconcolor); font-family: "Jost"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8; width:500px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; box-sizing: border-box; } .chartl-item { border-left:5px solid var(--sybaris); padding:3em 3em 0.5em 3em; text-align:justify; } .chartl-item:last-child { padding-bottom:3em; } .chartl-item::before { content:''; height:10px; width:10px; border-radius:100%; background-color:var(--boardbg); border:5px solid var(--sybaris); float:left; margin-left:-4em; } .chartl-item b { color:var(--sybaris); text-transform:uppercase; margin-right:1em; } .chartltitle { text-align:center; font-weight:bold; font-size:20px; padding:2em; box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1000px rgba(18, 18, 30, 0.7); background-size: cover; background-position: center; color: white; font-size: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-sizing: border-box;[/newclass] |
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gold
familiar Familiar
played by OOC Name
creative monkey
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Post by cila on Apr 28, 2022 22:18:37 GMT -7
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GO RAISE SOME[attr="id","sybariscol"] HELL
[attr="class","appprimary"]  [attr="class","approvalcont"] [attr="class","staffpara"] [attr="class","staffquotes"][attr="id","sybariscol"]“ Do I need to say anything else? Do what you like, initiate. The world is yours to take. Sybaris is here for you to fall back on, but don't be so...disappointing. Chase what you want, and make this coven what you need it to be. There's nothing more to it than to die trying, after all. [attr="class","staffquotes2"][attr="id","sybariscol"]” [attr="class","staffbody"] [attr="class","spelltitle"] ACCEPTANCE REWARDS You've received 300 gold. [break] Please select any two spells from the list of basic spells for your chosen starting subdomain.[break][break] From the depths of the mana realm, a wendigo calls out to you...[break][break] - BLOOD PACT The familiar can consume a sizeable quantity of the witch's blood (through self-inflicted injury only) in exchange for upcasting their spells. Usable once per thread.
- ARES'S FRENZY Any creature that draws the familiar's blood will experience a powerful desire to finish the job. Can be overcome by willpower, and the 'psychosis' is weaker for every additional being that it effects.
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WITCH LICENSE[break]
An official document that licenses a witch to practice magic. It has information about their coven, birth date, and demographic stats. Keep it safe since getting a new one can be a hassle, what with the Council's bureaucracy...
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SNAKE BITE[break]
Two thin black markings on the skin that symbolize a "snake bite" -- this is a magical marking that signifies a witch's membership in Sybaris. Witches select where this appears on their bodies prior to completing their first Sybaris mission. The procedure nowadays is painless and technically reversible.
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[b]WITCH LICENSE[/b][break]
An official document that licenses a witch to practice magic. It has information about their coven, birth date, and demographic stats. Keep it safe since getting a new one can be a hassle, what with the Council's bureaucracy...
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[b]SNAKE BITE[/b][break]
Two thin black markings on the skin that symbolize a "snake bite" -- this is a magical marking that signifies a witch's membership in Sybaris. Witches select where this appears on their bodies prior to completing their first Sybaris mission. The procedure nowadays is painless and technically reversible.[/div][/div]
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Administrator
high priestess
999
gold
familiar Familiariorek byrnison
played by OOC Namepandora
content monkey
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Post by pandora on May 7, 2022 17:59:04 GMT -7
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FAMILIAR REROLL
[attr="class","staffbody"] [attr="class","staffheadimg"] [attr="class","staffpara"] desmond thorne , Your destiny has been rewritten. From the depths of the mana realm, a WENDIGO grants you a boon... [break][break] - RAVENOUS HUNGER: The familiar feels a powerful desire to consume the flesh of daemons. When daemon flesh is consumed, the familiar becomes more physically powerful while the witch suffers from nausea.
- WILDLING'S TENACITY: While using magic outside city enchantments, the witch does not "fully" run out of mana -- even though they might not be able to cast a spell, they will always be able to maintain their familiar's physical presence. (Unless the witch faints for non-mana related reasons)
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gold
familiar Familiar
played by OOC Name
creative monkey
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Post by cila on Jun 4, 2022 15:10:02 GMT -7
[nospaces] [attr="class","staffcont"] [attr="class","appheader"]
GO RAISE SOME[attr="id","sybariscol"] HELL
[attr="class","appprimary"] [attr="class","approvalcont"] [attr="class","staffpara"] [attr="class","staffquotes"][attr="id","sybariscol"]“ Do I need to say anything else? Do what you like, Desmond. The world is yours to take. Sybaris is here for you to fall back on, but don't be so...disappointing. Chase what you want, and make this coven what you need it to be. There's nothing more to it than to die trying, after all. [attr="class","staffquotes2"][attr="id","sybariscol"]” [attr="class","staffbody"] [attr="class","spelltitle"] ACCEPTANCE REWARDS Your preset acolyte has been ACCEPTED. You have considerable influence within your coven, and possess a coven trinket as proof of your loyalty to your coven. [break][break] [attr="class","spellcont"] [attr="class","spellimgcont"] [attr="class","spellbody"]
WITCH LICENSE[break]
An official document that licenses a witch to practice magic. It has information about their coven, birth date, and demographic stats. Keep it safe since getting a new one can be a hassle, what with the Council's bureaucracy...
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SNAKE BITE[break]
Two thin black markings on the skin that symbolize a "snake bite" -- this is a magical marking that signifies a witch's membership in Sybaris. Witches select where this appears on their bodies prior to completing their first Sybaris mission. The procedure nowadays is painless and technically reversible. [attr="class","spellcont"] [attr="class","spellimgcont"]  [attr="class","spellbody"] NFC CARD[break]An unique chip card with the witch's business details on it. Automatically uploads their contact to another witch's interface when tapped against it, like an NFC card. Can also be used to access your personal office spaces in the Lamia Towers, which are now much more luxurious and provide a decent view of Delphi. [attr="class","spellcont"] [attr="class","spellimgcont"]  [attr="class","spellbody"] DMITRI'S BUSINESS CARD[break]An item that allows your character to start a text thread with Dmitri Wisbane. Unlike other NPC threads, text threads can be started under any circumstance the player character chooses. Feel free to chat with staff if you're looking for ideas. [attr="class","spellcont"] [attr="class","spellimgcont"] [attr="class","spellbody"] EIRIN'S BUSINESS CARD[break]An item that allows your character to start a text thread with Eirin Leyfson. Unlike other NPC threads, text threads can be started under any circumstance the player character chooses. Feel free to chat with staff if you're looking for ideas.
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[b]WITCH LICENSE[/b][break]
An official document that licenses a witch to practice magic. It has information about their coven, birth date, and demographic stats. Keep it safe since getting a new one can be a hassle, what with the Council's bureaucracy...
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[b]SNAKE BITE[/b][break]
Two thin black markings on the skin that symbolize a "snake bite" -- this is a magical marking that signifies a witch's membership in Sybaris. Witches select where this appears on their bodies prior to completing their first Sybaris mission. The procedure nowadays is painless and technically reversible.[/div][/div]
[div][attr="class","spellcont"] [div][attr="class","spellimgcont"] [img style="max-width:100%;" src="https://i.ibb.co/x1HzwJb/533-Platinum-Buckle.png"] [/div] [div][attr="class","spellbody"] [b]NFC CARD[/b][break]An unique chip card with the witch's business details on it. Automatically uploads their contact to another witch's interface when tapped against it, like an NFC card. Can also be used to access your personal office spaces in the Lamia Towers, which are now much more luxurious and provide a decent view of Delphi.[/div][/div]
[div][attr="class","spellcont"] [div][attr="class","spellimgcont"] [img style="max-width:100%;" src="https://i.imgur.com/I6s3r8u.png"] [/div] [div][attr="class","spellbody"] [b]DMITRI'S BUSINESS CARD[/b][break]An item that allows your character to start a text thread with Dmitri Wisbane. Unlike other NPC threads, text threads can be started under any circumstance the player character chooses. Feel free to chat with staff if you're looking for ideas.[/div][/div]
[div][attr="class","spellcont"] [div][attr="class","spellimgcont"] [img style="max-width:100%;" src="https://i.imgur.com/I6s3r8u.png"] [/div] [div][attr="class","spellbody"] [b]EIRIN'S BUSINESS CARD[/b][break]An item that allows your character to start a text thread with Eirin Leyfson. Unlike other NPC threads, text threads can be started under any circumstance the player character chooses. Feel free to chat with staff if you're looking for ideas.[/div][/div]
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