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[Stirk]

Sounds fun. Its either that or I am just here to take a character sheet and block it from someone who really wants it .

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Name: Thomas Lachance
Appearance: Medium height and build, with a sightly scruffy face. Young looking, with messy light brown hair and tan skin.
Background: In one word, Tom is an "Outdoorsman". In two, he is a "Crazy Survivalist". Born in the boonies of Idaho, his prepper parents followed the post 9/11 survivalist boom spending much of Tom's childhood warning him of the dangers of energy shortages and bird flue while teaching him a variety of useful information for how to survive an apocalypse. Aside from that, it was a fairly normal rural upbringing, full of hunting and fishing and normal high schools. Well one normal high school, at least, which he passed slightly-above-average. He had just moved out of his parents bunker home to an out of the way place. Just as he was deciding what to do with his life, go to college or join the military, things took a turn for the unexpected and he ended up here. He has almost as many fears as he has guns, and he has plenty of guns. 19 years old, having spent a year working in a feed mill to fund whatever step is next in his life (and his ammunition expenses, though his parents helped a bit with that). Enjoys root beer and red meat. Never very good with women, had high school crushes that never went anywhere.
Stigma:
Be Prepared! Tom is capable of manifesting useful supplies out of thin air. They supplies are fairly limited, but practical when paired with pre-existing items. He can't pull out a machine gun or attack helicopter, but can pull out ammunition and fuel that makes their use more viable, for example. Other items effected by this power include food, medical supplies, purified water, batteries, simple tools, and other things you would expect to find in a survivalist stockpile.
Uh, lets say at high Mania he is capable of pulling out temporary weapons/explosives/armor of incredibly high caliber, such as an arsenal of miniature nuclear weapons, black hole grenades, anti-matter bullets, and other equipment of the appropriate strength.
Blessing:
Guns!
Inventory: Survival knife, Swiss army knife, wallet (leather, $20/drivers license/shooting range card), truck keys (with flashlight attachment), smartphone, small gold ring (for when hyperinflation makes the paper money useless, of course). To his horror, no guns :0. The troubles of EDC when you are too young for a concealed carry license. A pair of camo cargo pants, combat boots, camo t-shirt, and large flannel coat.

[crazyabe]

How does mine look?

[Adragis]

Here is Character

Spoiler: Iris (click to show/hide)

Name: Iris DuBlanc
Appearance: Tall, with an athletic yet attractive figure. Looks her age (around 18), besides the height, with wavy dark hair and fair skin. While nothing to do with appearance, Iris is deaf - almost completely unable to process all but the loudest sounds. Communicates via notebook, generic gestures, or British Sign Language to those that know it.
Background: Born into a wealthy family - very wealthy, in fact. Has an older brother and an older sister. On good terms with entire family and extended family. Born with partial hearing but degenerated into near-total deafness before the age of three.
Very polite and submissive, sometimes to her own detriment. Taught by several tutors, all of whom she liked immensely. Took up martial arts - primarily for exercise purposes - at a young age. Also interested in firearms, and a decent marksman with sporting rifles and shotguns.
Avid reader and writer. Enjoys using forums and instant-messaging services.
Doesn't have many friends. At all.
Stigma: Necromancy - If it's dead, Iris can give it life, no matter how long it's been dead for - to the point of a sort of pseudo-telekinesis. From corpses to dead skin cells, Iris can control organic objects that are dead, with the amount of input on her end being proportional to the intelligence of the dead thing.  Controlling a dead blade of grass would be essentially telekinesis - she could well make it float, but she would need to concentrate on it - and more importantly, feel the strain of lifting one blade of grass. An inconsequential amount of stress - lifting a dead tree, however, would be difficult.
Controlling a dead dog, for instance, or a dead human, would instead grant it some degree of agency - rather than direct control Iris must give mental commands. A dead human could follow an order to flip three switches in order, or even operate a firearm to a shoddy degree of competency. The dead dog, meanwhile, would understand commands to attack, wait, or maybe roll over - as one would expect of a dog.
Blessing: Making people happy.
Inventory:
(Unless otherwise specified, assume an expensive variant of whatever is listed.)
Mobile phone, solar charger and cable for same.
Smartwatch.
An umbrella.
T-shirt, sweater, parka, jeans, boots.
Wallet containing £400 in cash, debit cards for several bank accounts, and various ID cards. Also contains a £15 Amazon giftcard.
Right jeans pocket contains a half-used packet of chewing gum, left jeans pocket contains the wrappers of two more packets.

[Empiricist]

Anything needing changing with mine?

Everything's fine as far as I can tell! ^__^

Be Prepared! Tom is capable of manifesting useful supplies out of thin air. They supplies are fairly limited, but practical when paired with pre-existing items. He can't pull out a machine gun or attack helicopter, but can pull out ammunition and fuel that makes their use more viable, for example. Other items effected by this power include food, medical supplies, purified water, batteries, simple tools, and other things you would expect to find in a survivalist stockpile.

That works for low-Mania uses of it, but you may wanna specify what it does at higher Mania levels. Because on high end of spectrum, things tend to be crazier, like, being able to shapeshift into metaphysical murder tendrils or punching holes in reality.

Unless you're fine with me assigning those for you of course!

How does mine look?

Well, you've given me some details, but they don't really tell me who he is. There's barely any information on his personality, it's just an assortment of favorite things.

[crazyabe]

you should be able to read his personality from his favorite things, he is (compaired to the vast majority of people) dull, bland, and generally not fun, exciting or noticeable, perhaps I Should add him being diagnosed with OCD and not noticing how boring he is?

[Stirk]

That works for low-Mania uses of it, but you may wanna specify what it does at higher Mania levels. Because on high end of spectrum, things tend to be crazier, like, being able to shapeshift into metaphysical murder tendrils or punching holes in reality.

Unless you're fine with me assigning those for you of course!

It makes high quality ammunition and food!

Uh, lets say at high Mania he is capable of pulling out temporary weapons/explosives/armor of incredibly high caliber, such as an arsenal of miniature nuclear weapons, black hole grenades, anti-matter bullets, and other equipment of the appropriate strength.

[S34N1C]

Seems like this is full already. I'll just take a place on the waitlist for now, and make my character later

[OceanSoul]

Maybe, at higher levels, he just makes more unique/magical/reality bending versions of those things? Special ammo that makes the target glow, a tent that is as big as an apartment on the inside, a thermos that never runs out of hot cocoa (stays near-scalding hot, though), or protein bars that briefly make one extra ripped? Of course, the specific affect wouldn't likely be controllable, only the relative amount/strength of extra effects.

[Stirk]

Seems like this is full already. I'll just take a place on the waitlist for now, and make my character later

Eh, there are barely six completed sheets and it is pick-and choose. The fact he is prodding you into making it means there is a fair chance of you getting in .

Maybe, at higher levels, he just makes more unique/magical/reality bending versions of those things? Special ammo that makes the target glow, a tent that is as big as an apartment on the inside, a thermos that never runs out of hot cocoa (stays near-scalding hot, though), or protein bars that briefly make one extra ripped? Of course, the specific affect wouldn't likely be controllable, only the relative amount/strength of extra effects.

It still seems kinda under-powered based on the examples he gave, and given the time Mania is high is during combat they should likely be combat focused skills. Making a useful tent would be practical for surviving in the middle of a blizzard, not so useful at surviving punches that tear holes in reality.

[OceanSoul]

What if the tent already WAS a hole in reality?

[Empiricist]

you should be able to read his personality from his favorite things, he is (compaired to the vast majority of people) dull, bland, and generally not fun, exciting or noticeable, perhaps I Should add him being diagnosed with OCD and not noticing how boring he is?

I'm not entirely comfortable with a character whose defining feature is being bland and boring.

Uh, lets say at high Mania he is capable of pulling out temporary weapons/explosives/armor of incredibly high caliber, such as an arsenal of miniature nuclear weapons, black hole grenades, anti-matter bullets, and other equipment of the appropriate strength.

That works!

Seems like this is full already. I'll just take a place on the waitlist for now, and make my character later

Okay! But just a note that this isn't first come first serve.

[Stirk]

What if the tent already WAS a hole in reality?

Assuming the tent is completely immune to all damage, then I end up hiding in it drinking infinite coco while the guys with the murder tentacles duke it out outside. This does not seem like a viable survival plan .

That works!

Right, updating charsheet.

[S34N1C]

Well in that case, character incoming.

Spoiler: I stuck with the lightning theme (click to show/hide)

Name: Patrick O'Brian
Appearance: 5'7", frizzy red hair that stands straight up. The tips if his fingers and ties are tinted black from electrical shocks. His eyes are always wide open, with a crazed look in them. His clothes are dirty, wrinkled, and look slightly burnt. He is missing his is left shoe.
Background: Patrick used to be a normal, productive Irishman. He worked in a factory, had a pretty girlfriend, and loved a nice glass of whiskey. Then came the accident.

He was walking home from the pub one night. It was raining. He was drunk. He stopped to puke in the ditch and. . .
Got struck by lightning.

He woke up in the hospital 2 days later, a changed man. The sensation of thousands of volts coursing through his body. . . it was fantastic. He had never felt so alive (despite being as close to death as he had ever been). He had become addicted to electrocution.

As soon as he was released from the hospital, he went home and stuck a knife into an outlet. He was flung across the room, and nearly caught his house on fire, but it felt so good.

He's been chasing that high ever since.

Stigma: Patrick can shoot lightning out of his fingers!
Blessing: Can't think of anything

Inventory: Steak knife, loose wiring, wire strippers

[Cain12]

Looks neat. Doubt entry, yet is no harm in applying. Edit:Updated:

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Name: Joseph Carlson
Appearance: 4'9", skinny, long face, thin lips, head of dirty blond curls, hazel eyes. He wears a black suit and tie, a size too big, and scuffed up shoes.
Background: Born too soon to a young couple in Scotland, his options were always considered slim. His father was once a construction worker, absent for most of his youth, but that changed when a work accident left his father unable to work. He went from not being around to being around all the time, a harsh presence that only truly left when drowned in alcohol.
To help pay the bills, or he suspects, just get out of the house, his mother began work as a librarian, indulging in her own escape through her books, and later in the arms of another man.

After Secondary, in which Joseph did above average, which really didn't mean much, he knew he didn't want to end up like his parents, miserable and escaping into a vice of choice. He now believes their main failing was a lack of planning, married too young, had a kid before they were ready.

Deciding further education was the way forward, he moved in with his at the time best friend and applied to a business course that he had hoped would give him the skills he needed, the meantime working part time as a supermarket cashier. Their plan was they would work together to make something of themselves. That fell to the wayside as they became involved and later realized they each had different views of what that something was half way through the year.
Overall he prefers the company of men, though he has never had a truly serious relationship since.
His favorite cartoon, as a child and to this day, is Tom and Jerry. Favorite book is Fight Club, movie is Saving Private Ryan.

Stigma:GM Choice. (Yeah, nothing solid is coming to me)
Blessing: GM Choice. (Sort of felt like something business-y/entrepreneurship, but that feels a tad wide/vague/unclear as what it would do)
Inventory:Wallet, £40, drivers license, old picture of family, picture of ex, keys.

[OceanSoul]

So, S34N1C, your character is..turned ON by electricity? Anyway, the power seems a little...limited. Maybe, to widen it, he could make things absorb/release electricity? It would allow him to drain electronic devices of their power, or Power a device that isn't charged. He could still launch lightning from his fingers, but draining an enemy of their nerves' electrochemical signals could be just as viable.