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 Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:39 pm
The Boy
Name: Adam Atkins
Age: 10
Gender: Male
Class: The Crowd
Home: A small two-bedroom apartment in Middling.
Appearance Before Game: He has a rather effeminate face, with thin eye brows and a pointed jaw-line. His eyes, which are rather squinty looking, are a rather generic shade of blue, the only thing that confirms he is the son of his father. He has a normal build for a boy his age, though he is a bit skinnier than most boys. His hair is kept at shoulder length, and is a straw-blond in color.
Personality: Adam is a bit of a p***k, to be polite. While he might be nice to ones face, secretly he's just thinking of how to swindle some cash out of you. Money and getting into higher society are his only real dreams, as being in the lower middle class makes him feel like the equivalent of a street-urchin. Despite this, he's kind of a lonely kid, but Cthulu forbid him trying to actually make any friends with the kids in his neighborhood, as he finds most of them stupid. One of his longest-running scams is taking advantage of Adults in a rather peculiar way: As they rarely notice a child for more than a few moments, and as they seem to be more willing to spare a dollar for a young girl, and since he's easily mistaken for a girl, he's always able to guilt some businessman on the sub-way to give the "poor, lost little beggar girl" some of his pocket change. Simple and demeaning, not that he really cares.
Appearance After Entering Game: His hair has slowly begun to turn black at the roots and his eyes have turned purple. Though the biggest and most noticeable change is the fact he has grown two very large, very noticeable, black rabbit ears.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:05 pm
The Goddess
Chang'e and her Journey to the Moon
According to legend, Chang'e and her husband Houyi were immortals living in heaven. One day, the ten sons of the Jade Emperor transformed into ten suns, causing the earth to scorch. Having failed to order his sons to stop ruining the earth, the Jade Emperor summoned Houyi for help. Houyi, using his legendary archery skills, shot down nine of the sons, but spared one son to be the sun. The Jade Emperor was obviously not pleased with Houyi's solution to save the earth: nine of his sons were dead. As punishment, the Jade Emperor banished Houyi and Chang’e to live as mere mortals on earth.
Seeing that Chang'e felt extremely miserable over her loss of immortality, Houyi decided to journey on a long, perilous quest to find the pill of immortality so that the couple could be immortals again. At the end of his quest he met the Queen Mother of the West who agreed to give him the pill, but warned him that each person would only need half the pill to become immortal.
Houyi brought the pill home and stored it in a case. He warned Chang'e not to open the case and then left home for a while. Like Pandora in Greek mythology, Chang'e became too curious: she opened up the case and found the pill just as Houyi was returning home. Nervous that Houyi would catch her discovering the contents of the case, she accidentally swallowed the entire pill. She started to float into the sky because of the overdose. Although Houyi wanted to shoot her in order to prevent her from floating further, he could not bear to aim the arrow at her. Chang'e kept on floating until she landed on the moon.
While she became lonely on the moon without her husband, she did have company. A jade rabbit, who manufactured elixirs, also lived on the moon. The mythologies of Japan and Korea also feature references about rabbits living on the moon.
Chang'e and the Cruel Emperor
Many years after she was already the moon goddess, Chang'e looked down upon Earth and saw that a terribly cruel emperor sat on the throne. To help the people, she allowed herself to be reborn into the mortal world. The other members of her mortal family were either killed or enslaved by the emperor, but Chang'e managed to escape to the countryside.
Meanwhile, the emperor was aging and obsessed with discovering the elixir of life. He had people all over the land brought to him and demanded of them how to find the elixir of life; nobody knew, of course, but the emperor would not accept ignorance for an answer and executed all those who could not answer.
In the countryside, Chang'e met the Buddhist goddess of compassion, Guan Yin, who proceeded to give Chang'e a small elixir. Chang'e brought the elixir to the emperor. The suspicious emperor worried that it was poison and demanded that Chang'e taste the elixir first. She did, showing no ill effects, so then the emperor took the elixir and promptly died. Then, Chang'e also left the mortal world; the effects of the elixir had only been delayed for her. However, instead of dying, she ascended to the moon to retake her place as a goddess.
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:31 pm
The Powers
The Light Side of the Moon This is one power that will piss off poor Adam for years, or at least for a couple of days. This power doesn't even directly help him out in the beginning of the game! With this ability, he can heal other's physical wounds, but not his own. At first it'll only cure a few scratches, but as he goes forward in the game it could heal severe injuries. Eventually, however, he will be able to use it on himself, but this will probably be after his Prophet stage.
The Dark Side of the Moon As opposed to LSotM, this power is purely offensive. When under great stress, if he comes into direct physical contact with an opponent, he can emit a small amount of poison into their blood stream. The effects vary from nausea to paralysis. At his younger stage this power will be painfully weak, probably only giving the inflicted a small rash or stomach ache. However, as he ages, the power will probably increase. This isn't an all-powerful attack, however: Every time he does this, his power decreases heavily and he might even poison himself.
Zero Gravity I think this one is quite easy to understand: Adam can fly. It'll be painfully slow at first but as he ages it'll increase speed.
((I have one more but I'll add it later...))
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