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[Prophet]

Let's see how long before a Bay12 Forumite makes an actual crazy interesting character.

Spoiler: Lets Fill Out That Form (click to show/hide)

Name: Aris Vanderpool

Age: 11

Physical Description: Despite the sound of your first name you are a male. When standing you are about 4'5" kind of a generic height for boys your age, you could eat a bit more if you got any skinnier you'd be skin and bones. When you look in the mirror all you see is a mop of sandy blonde hair, green eyes, and very acute facial features. Whenever you smile you can definitely feel the air going through a hole where you are missing a single tooth.

Are there any Concepts that you Empathize with? If so, please indicate:

Which of the following would you say is your greatest strength: Your ability to learn.

What is your Flavor of Music: Classical

Have the contents of your hand, most specifically your palm, ever been disassembled in a non-standard way: i.e. laceration by a bladed object, serious bruising, or shattering: A scar from one side of your palm to the next. From fumbling around with very sharp scissors.

What is your favorite Sense: Taste

What Sense disturbs you the most: Smell

If you could see with your eyes would people speak in color or black and white:  Color

If people did speak in color what color would you speak in: Purple

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+1, but proposing to change the purple glow to green with red glow. :T

Also, would Deception or Persuasion work as a concept? There appear to be none in Zal's thing.

I couldn't really think of anything good in that department, so the whole concept thing is up to you. I just posted something thinking no one else would probably do it. (Even though someone would eventually do it) Also I want to change the purple glow to green with red glow too. (I use purple way too fucking much)

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Hi Zal. Hi Lyeos.

[Phantom of The Library]

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You hand the form back to her and she hands you the package.

“Thank You very much” She says with a slight bow. “I'll be going now to leave you to your exciting Adventures.”

After the door closes you look at the package. It's a bit thin, fairly heavy and you can't hear anything moving around inside¹. It was your birthday last week and your parents said that one of your presents was going to be late, so this might be it.

You could open it, but that might spoil whatever surprise your parents had planned². You also remember that your mother also told you to go get some decorations for the harvest festival down from the attic. She'll be back soon and if you don't have them down beforehand you might be in trouble.

Do you:
>Open the package
>Go up to the attic and do your chores
>Something else entirely

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Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Aris:
Body: Healthy
Mind: Well Rested
Hunger: Satiated
Inventory:  Strange Package, Pen

Spoiler: Calendar (click to show/hide)

It is Khaodie, Dex 27^th, 292 A.W.

Spoiler: Lore Notes- The Abraxic Calendar (click to show/hide)

The Abraxic Calendar is the local equivalent of the Gregorian Calendar in terms of popularity, but contains some differences. It consists of 13 months which are typically 32 days long with three exceptions: The first, seventh and thirteenth months. The first month of Eanos is 16 days long, as is the thirteenth month of Hatreas. The seventh month, Riptaga, is typically about 14 days long, but the length may be adjusted to account for the planet being lazy and completing its rotation a few hours later than a nice, even 365 days.

A week is eight days.

The year begins on the Spring Equinox, on which the day and night are considered two separate dates on the calendar.

Days of the Week:

• Abraxdie
• Epistdie
• Khaodie
• Agadie
• Aretdie
• Humadie
• Phusidie
• Saecudie

Months:

• Eanos
• Dioga
• Riaga
• Tesser
• Entos
• Dex
• Riptaga
• Toktnos
• Enaios
• Deicaga
• Reniga
• Toveka
• Hatreas

Spoiler: Authors' Notes (click to show/hide)

This timely update has been brought to you by the Abraxic Calendar; a needlessly complicated bit of worldbuilding.*

[Prophet]

>Go up to the attic and do your chores

[Ambidextrous]

>Go up to the attic and do your chores

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[ZalkozDestbro]

>Go up to the attic and do your chores

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+1 Let us be a good little boy.....for now.....

[Lyeos]

>Go up to the attic and do your chores

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+1 Let us be a good little boy.....for now.....

+1 This totally isn't a plot to see if there's anything good in the attic to loot borrow in the future.

[Phantom of The Library]

Spoiler: Apologies (click to show/hide)

We actually thought we had posted this update a couple weeks ago...

Haha, college?

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BGM: Tender Scenery

You set the package down on the kitchen table. Probably best to get those chores done, no sense in risking motherly wrath.

You leave the kitchen and enter the living room. It's a cozy place with a couple of couches, a coffee table, a fireplace¹ and a TV². There's a Wheel with muted colors to match the season above the fireplace, but no other decorations up yet. Your father's laptop charger is lying beside the couch and there are some magazines and a home gardening book on the coffee table. The stairs to the second floor are on the opposite side of the living room from the kitchen.

After climbing the stairs up to the second floor you carefully step around your mother's collection of Keftian nested dolls and grab the creatively named “attic opener” resting on a small table. Once you've cleared away a large enough space you reach up with the long metal rod and bring down the ladder.

The attic looks exactly as you'd expect it to: A dusty realm of brown and faded fabric. Old odd and ends from as far back as your great-great-grandparent's days are piled past head height; some sturdily stacked, others about ready to fall over.

You can see the boxes of holiday decorations on a shelf in one of the far corners of the accidental maze. When you finally reach the first box³ you have to slide an old chest up to the shelf in order to reach it. Even with the chest you have to stand on your toes, so it comes as no surprise that you knock something else off along with it.

A small box falls down from the back of the shelf. You try to move to catch it, but you are too late. The box tumbles and crashes to the floor and the moment it makes impact you see the lock on it turn into dust. An acrid taste enters the back of your mouth as a book, about the size and thickness of one of your textbooks, falls out of the box.

You climb down from the chest and pick up the book to examine it. The pages inside are yellow and all the text is written in some language that you don't recognize. There are diagrams of some sort every now and then, a lot of circles, but you couldn't make sense of them to save your life.

What do you do with the book:
>Put it back in the box despite the lock being gone.
>Take it back down with you.
>Something else.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

Aris:
Body: Healthy
     Left Front Tooth
Mind: Well Rested
Hunger: Satiated
Inventory: Pen

Spoiler: Calendar (click to show/hide)

It is Khaodie, Dex 27^th, 292 A.W.

Spoiler: Lore Notes- Wheels (click to show/hide)

A Wheel is a symbol of the Abraxic church that consists of a ring of the six primary colors twisted around a swirl of black and white similar to a taijitu without the dots. It is a common sight in most households.

Spoiler: Authors' Notes (click to show/hide)

A quick clarification: The Lore notes section is supposed to contain information that is common knowledge, but including it all at once would mean a gigantic wall of text that nobody would read/I am far too lazy to actually sit down and type out at one time. So instead we have a small spoiler at the end of the post that contains any bits of common knowledge that nobody will actually read either, but we can point to it while we laugh at you later after you insult the Fuehr-President-Pope*°

[3man75]

Chores are boring lets go outside and play with some friends or meet some new kids.

[ZalkozDestbro]

take that book down with you, the seemingly dark arts is always something to play with.

[Prophet]

take that book down with you, the seemingly dark arts is always something to play with.

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[Phantom of The Library]

Do you want to bring the book with you when you go out, or are you leaving it in your room or somewhere else in the house?

[Lyeos]

Leave it in your room, yeah? Maybe under or behind some clothes in whatever your clean clothes are kept in?

[Urist Arrhenius]

take that book down with you, the seemingly dark arts is always something to play with.

+1

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[Prophet]

Leave it in your room, yeah? Maybe under or behind some clothes in whatever your clean clothes are kept in?

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