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hellawrath) wrote2017-07-24 08:53 am
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LifeAftr App
Player Information
Name: Laura
Age: 29
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Current characters: none
Character Information
Name: Lup
Series: The Adventure Zone (a Dungeons & Dragons podcast)
Appearance: Appearance is left purposefully vague in canon. Pretty much all we know is that Taako (and therefore his twin sister Lup) isn't physically intimidating and has a "feminine, ethereal beauty". In keeping with most of her icons, she has dark skin and blonde hair, and a pair of very noticeable long elf ears. Almost the spitting image ofohshitsweetflips . She carries herself with absolute confidence, almost irreverent to most situations and people. Like her brother, she loves being in the limelight and has a flair for the dramatic and a distinct way of talking. Lup arrives in fashionable adventuring gear and a long red arcanist's robe.
Age: By human standards, mid-twenties. By elf standards, early 100s, plus about a hundred years during which she didn't physically age.
Canon Point: Episode 67, shortly after being freed from the umbrella. SO HELLA SPOILERS
Canon History: Wiki link for the basics.
(quick note: Lup was assigned male at birth and transitioned when she was very young. Both her and Taako's players made it clear that the twins' rough childhood was not due to their gender/orientation in particular and it has never come up again in canon beyond her introduction, which I intend to handle the same way.)
Name: Laura
Age: 29
Contact: dragonessa24 on AIM,
Current characters: none
Character Information
Name: Lup
Series: The Adventure Zone (a Dungeons & Dragons podcast)
Appearance: Appearance is left purposefully vague in canon. Pretty much all we know is that Taako (and therefore his twin sister Lup) isn't physically intimidating and has a "feminine, ethereal beauty". In keeping with most of her icons, she has dark skin and blonde hair, and a pair of very noticeable long elf ears. Almost the spitting image of
ohshitsweetflips . She carries herself with absolute confidence, almost irreverent to most situations and people. Like her brother, she loves being in the limelight and has a flair for the dramatic and a distinct way of talking. Lup arrives in fashionable adventuring gear and a long red arcanist's robe.Age: By human standards, mid-twenties. By elf standards, early 100s, plus about a hundred years during which she didn't physically age.
Canon Point: Episode 67, shortly after being freed from the umbrella. SO HELLA SPOILERS
Canon History: Wiki link for the basics.
(quick note: Lup was assigned male at birth and transitioned when she was very young. Both her and Taako's players made it clear that the twins' rough childhood was not due to their gender/orientation in particular and it has never come up again in canon beyond her introduction, which I intend to handle the same way.)
Lup and Taako were on their own from a young age, being handed around and then living on the streets as soon as they were old enough to take care of themselves. They developed necessary survival strategies, like a general distrust of and detachment from people, only ever relying on each other. They travelled with various caravans, making themselves indispensable by becoming excellent cooks and magicians. Eventually they joined fantasy NASA, proving themselves to be some of the most accomplished wizards of their reality. After they set out (along with a crew of five other people) to study the other planes of reality, a force later known as the Hunger arrived and consumed their planet. This began their cycle of The Stolen Century, where they travelled to new planes of reality, fascinating and alien places with diverse civilizations. They were able to stay for a year in each plane until the Hunger followed them and attacked and often destroyed the reality while they fled to the next one. I got bored and did Taako's Q&A, whoops
Do you ever wish you were an only child?
What kinda tropey bullshit bargain bin did you pull that one out of? Never. Next question.
Have you ever been in a situation where you had to strive for the moral high ground? If so, how difficult was it?
That's strike two on the tropes, homie. Everybody does what they gotta do, what they think is right. And sometimes, they need someone to stop them before they do something they can't take back. The trick is keeping people around who'll do that for you.
Have you ever been in love? If so, what made you fall in love with that person?
Honestly, it was the little things. I wouldn't have expected that, going in. Kindness, repairing this kid robot that kept shocking him and laughing, it was ridiculous! And just, quiet moments together, away from it all, talking about nothing and everything. His courage, which not enough people give him credit for. I guess I don't talk about these things often enough to have the words for it, but yeah, I've been in love and I'm not gonna let go.
If you could do only one job for the rest of your life, what would it be?
I'd rather kill myself a couple times than do the same thing for all of eternity?? I'm pretty much immortal, dude, no way am I gonna get locked into a single gig. But I'd love to give Taako's cooking show a whirl for a while.
What’s your favorite kind of weather, and why?
Is that a real thing real people have, like, for real? I mean I guess sunny, right? Get my tan on, have one of the boys bring me a fruity drink, hell yeah.
How could someone you dislike earn their way into your good graces?
Good food fixes a lot of bad feelings. But honestly, if they're out, they're out. I don't need anyone's shit in my life. ESPECIALLY YOU, GREG GRIMALDIS.
Do you get along better with emotional people, logical people, or those somewhere in-between?
That's like asking if I prefer to hang out with people with yellow hats or green hats. Most people change it up, y'know? Sometimes even a couple times a day? I guess when someone's being emotional, you know where you stand with them. But as long as they're being true to themselves, they're all worth knowing.
During cycle 47, they encountered a jellyfish-like creature that consumes information, like stories and music, erasing those pieces of information from the memory of everyone in the plane. When the Hunger attacked, the crew saved a young voidfish by taking it on the ship with them. This was also the cycle when Lup and Barry Bluejeans, another wizard of the IPRE crew, confessed their love for each other and became a couple. During cycle 82, Lup and Barry learned how to become liches upon their deaths - beings of pure magical force with immense power - to better fight the Hunger and in cycle 92 they visited a world that enabled them to craft powerful magical artifacts. Lup created the Umbra Staff, a wand in the shape of a fancy umbrella which functioned as her arcane focus from then on, and which was able to absorb the magical power of defeated wizards.
All this means Lup can be pretty mean and careless towards other people, delighting in being mischievous and playing tricks. During their last night on their original world, the twins hustled people at pool and then demanded their shoes as payment just to shame and punish them. Lup can come off as loud, overdramatic, stubborn and arrogant. Where Taako prefers to charm and placate and stay unaffected, Lup is rudely honest and confrontational, quick to anger, passionate and reckless. On the other hand, these traits mean that Lup is courageous, loyal and fiercely protective of those she cares about, her arrogance is really just strong confidence in herself and her abilities, and her ostentatiousness shows a boundless joy for life. Somehow that translates into her preference for fiery evocation spells and blowing shit up. Sometimes the best day ever means blasting your captain out of a tree with a super soaker and Fireballing an abandoned DMV to the ground.
While both twins started out with less than stellar morals, the experience of encountering and exploring countless new realities and civilizations opened Lup's eyes to the fact that other people and their lives do matter, that it is worth caring about them and defending their right to exist. During an early cycle, the crew had to make the choice between destroying the last survivors of a race with potent magical technology or allowing the Hunger to consume them and grow more powerful. Lup stood up for the survivors against her team and even her brother, refusing to let them commit genocide even if that made things harder in the struggle against the Hunger. She managed to rally her team's optimism that they would find a way to defeat the Hunger and perhaps even save those planes already consumed by it. Much later, when the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet she created caused so much death and destruction, it's her guilt and determination to set things right that drove her to leave her teammates, and when her flesh body is murdered for the Gauntlet, she considers it a fair punishment for what she'd done to this world.
As the IPRE crew grew into a family over their shared century, Lup learned to trust and rely on people outside of her brother, and even to fall in love with Barry. While she'll never be quick to trust or free with her affection, these experiences helped her grow emotionally, though she'll still prefer to use jokes to cover up uncomfortable displays of sincere emotions.
Being trapped in the Umbra Staff for over a decade was Lup's own personal hell, forced into inaction and helplessness while she could extend her senses just enough to hear her family outside frequently being in danger and suffering. It's a testament to Lup's incredible determination and strength that she managed to cling to her sanity and sense of self, meditating for long stretches of time to shore up enough power for brief bursts of agency, like directing the umbrella to leap to Taako's aid and burning her name into a wall in a desperate attempt to communicate with her brother. Now that she is finally free from this prison and finally remembered by Taako, she's going to return to living with a vengeance, though it remains to be seen if all this time apart has changed anything between the twins.
Abilities:
some general stuff:
- as a DnD elf, Lup has Darkvision (seeing in dim light as if it was bright, and in darkness as if it was dim), can't be magically charmed or put to sleep, and doesn't need to sleep (instead meditating for four hours, but boy does she LOVE to sleep anyway)
- she knows a bunch of DnD languages and has shown a general talent for learning languages, including a common animal language in one cycle (not that it's likely to matter in LifeAftr, but watch her pick up forest monster insults real quick)
- she has proven herself to be a very good scientist, triangulating courses and locations of the Light of Creation and developing theories for their planar travel and possible ways of defeating the Hunger
- REAL GOOD AT COOKING, and also at looting and stealing shit
and the good shit:
Lup is a hell of a wizard. Canon tends to play fast and loose with some rules pertaining to that, like spell components and needing to learn spells before any encounters. But there are some important limitations, mainly the limited number of spells a wizard can cast each day before needing to rest and recharge, called spell slots. Also, spells often have a limited duration and range, and they require concentration, which means they can be interrupted by being distracted, attacked, etc. A few very easy spells, called Cantrips, don't use up slots and can be cast as many times as the wizard wants (with a fatigue cost in LifeAftr). The spells Lup will have access to starting out are as follows:
Cantrips:
Fire Bolt
Ray of Frost
Shocking Grasp
Spell slots:
Gust of Wind
Fireball
Eyebite
The Umbra Staff is imbued with Feather Fall when it's repaired and I'll limit the use to once a day. It will not be able to vore anyone.
DnD wizards choose a school of magic to excel in, and Lup's is Evocation. That means "You focus your study on magic that creates powerful
Inventory: her red IPRE robes and the broken Umbra Staff, probs some elf bling
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Thread Sample: buncha nerds in the TDM
When the crew arrived on "Podcast World" where most of The Adventure Zone takes place, they devised a plan for shaking off the Hunger. They figured out that the Hunger pursues the Light of Creation, a mysterious source of energy hat always arrives on a plane a few days after the crew does. So they captured the Light and split it into seven magical artifacts to weaken its energy signature and hide it in the world. However, the artifacts were so powerful and desirable that war broke out over them, ravaging this world they were trying to save. Lup's artifact, the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet, was responsible for thousands of deaths, discharging fires so devastating that it turned entire towns into circles of black glass. The plan worked, the Hunger didn't find this plane, but the guilt over this destruction wore on the crew until Lup finally set out on her own to locate and lock away the Gauntlet for good. She was able to get the Gauntlet and hide it in a dwarven vault in Wave Echo Cave, but the dwarf who gave her access to the vault was overtaken by the thrall of the Gauntlet and killed her. As her spectral lich form rose from her body, she was absorbed by her own Umbra Staff, trapping her inside it, left in a cave where nobody knew to find her.
The rest of the crew grew more miserable until Lucretia, another wizard seriously there are too many wizards on this boat decided to take matters into her own hands. She had written a record of all their adventures, which she fed to the voidfish, thereby erasing the knowledge of the artifacts from the world and also her friends' memories. She found new temporary lives for her friends to live while she set out to seek the relics and combine them in order to use the Light of Creation for a massive protection spell around this plane. Since Lup was nowhere to be found, she had to erase the memory of her from Taako's mind entirely. This mission was much more difficult for Lucretia than anticipated and it took over a decade until she realized she couldn't do it on her own. She founded the Bureau of Balance and arranged for her friends to meet again, forming a band of adventurers ostensibly on a mission to find and destroy the relics. During their first adventure, Taako came across the Umbra Staff held by a skeleton in Wave Echo Cave and took it for himself without realizing its significance.
Lup was fighting to hold onto awareness inside the umbrella for all that time and supported her brother whenever she could, on rare occasions managing to discharge powerful spells of her own volition. Right before she arrives on the island, Barry has convinced Taako and his friends to infiltrate Lucretia's office and drink from the voidfish's tank, which restores all consumed memories. In this moment, the Hunger is also attacking, as it has finally found this plane because Lucretia has been combining the artifacts that the others have been recovering from the world. When Taako remembers his sister and realizes she's been in the umbrella all along, he breaks the staff, freeing Lup in a blaze of fireworks and glory.
Personality: The twins' rough childhood as outcasts turned them into scrappy survivors very early on, teaching them that it's a cold world out there and there's no reason to give a shit about anyone, because people definitely don't care about you. Changing hands so often meant that they never formed meaningful relationships with anyone but each other (and their aunt, who offered a respite for a while and taught them how to cook) and they developed excellent instincts for danger and how to avoid or escape it. They survived on scamming and stealing and ingratiating themselves into caravans with their cooking, which they learned to enhance via mostly self-taught wizardry. Both of them enjoyed the attention and admiration this garnered them because they worked hard and earned it, but also because being adored makes you less likely to get hurt or abandoned. It's fair to assume Lup was the leader of the two, looking out for her brother and always pushing them onwards, and she was probably the one to suggest they join Fantasy NASA (for the fame and money, definitely, but perhaps also for the sense of adventure and exploration).All this means Lup can be pretty mean and careless towards other people, delighting in being mischievous and playing tricks. During their last night on their original world, the twins hustled people at pool and then demanded their shoes as payment just to shame and punish them. Lup can come off as loud, overdramatic, stubborn and arrogant. Where Taako prefers to charm and placate and stay unaffected, Lup is rudely honest and confrontational, quick to anger, passionate and reckless. On the other hand, these traits mean that Lup is courageous, loyal and fiercely protective of those she cares about, her arrogance is really just strong confidence in herself and her abilities, and her ostentatiousness shows a boundless joy for life. Somehow that translates into her preference for fiery evocation spells and blowing shit up. Sometimes the best day ever means blasting your captain out of a tree with a super soaker and Fireballing an abandoned DMV to the ground.
While both twins started out with less than stellar morals, the experience of encountering and exploring countless new realities and civilizations opened Lup's eyes to the fact that other people and their lives do matter, that it is worth caring about them and defending their right to exist. During an early cycle, the crew had to make the choice between destroying the last survivors of a race with potent magical technology or allowing the Hunger to consume them and grow more powerful. Lup stood up for the survivors against her team and even her brother, refusing to let them commit genocide even if that made things harder in the struggle against the Hunger. She managed to rally her team's optimism that they would find a way to defeat the Hunger and perhaps even save those planes already consumed by it. Much later, when the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet she created caused so much death and destruction, it's her guilt and determination to set things right that drove her to leave her teammates, and when her flesh body is murdered for the Gauntlet, she considers it a fair punishment for what she'd done to this world.
As the IPRE crew grew into a family over their shared century, Lup learned to trust and rely on people outside of her brother, and even to fall in love with Barry. While she'll never be quick to trust or free with her affection, these experiences helped her grow emotionally, though she'll still prefer to use jokes to cover up uncomfortable displays of sincere emotions.
Being trapped in the Umbra Staff for over a decade was Lup's own personal hell, forced into inaction and helplessness while she could extend her senses just enough to hear her family outside frequently being in danger and suffering. It's a testament to Lup's incredible determination and strength that she managed to cling to her sanity and sense of self, meditating for long stretches of time to shore up enough power for brief bursts of agency, like directing the umbrella to leap to Taako's aid and burning her name into a wall in a desperate attempt to communicate with her brother. Now that she is finally free from this prison and finally remembered by Taako, she's going to return to living with a vengeance, though it remains to be seen if all this time apart has changed anything between the twins.
Abilities:
some general stuff:
- as a DnD elf, Lup has Darkvision (seeing in dim light as if it was bright, and in darkness as if it was dim), can't be magically charmed or put to sleep, and doesn't need to sleep (instead meditating for four hours, but boy does she LOVE to sleep anyway)
- she knows a bunch of DnD languages and has shown a general talent for learning languages, including a common animal language in one cycle (not that it's likely to matter in LifeAftr, but watch her pick up forest monster insults real quick)
- she has proven herself to be a very good scientist, triangulating courses and locations of the Light of Creation and developing theories for their planar travel and possible ways of defeating the Hunger
- REAL GOOD AT COOKING, and also at looting and stealing shit
and the good shit:
Lup is a hell of a wizard. Canon tends to play fast and loose with some rules pertaining to that, like spell components and needing to learn spells before any encounters. But there are some important limitations, mainly the limited number of spells a wizard can cast each day before needing to rest and recharge, called spell slots. Also, spells often have a limited duration and range, and they require concentration, which means they can be interrupted by being distracted, attacked, etc. A few very easy spells, called Cantrips, don't use up slots and can be cast as many times as the wizard wants (with a fatigue cost in LifeAftr). The spells Lup will have access to starting out are as follows:
Cantrips:
Fire Bolt
Ray of Frost
Shocking Grasp
Spell slots:
Gust of Wind
Fireball
Eyebite
The Umbra Staff is imbued with Feather Fall when it's repaired and I'll limit the use to once a day. It will not be able to vore anyone.
DnD wizards choose a school of magic to excel in, and Lup's is Evocation. That means "You focus your study on magic that creates powerful
elemental effects such as bitter cold, searing flame, rolling thunder, crackling lightning, and burning acid." according to the Playbook. She can sculpt her evocation spells to protect friendly parties in the area from their damaging effects, and her evocation spells do more damage than when a wizard of another school casts them. As the DM said, she is "the best at burning shit ever".
Lup has learned how to turn herself into a Lich, binding her life essence to her magical essence. This happens upon the death of her flesh body, turning her into an incredibly powerful, spookily spectral and undead being. Normally the process makes the person lose their mind and go chaotic evil, but with a strong enough emotional bond it's possible to hold onto one's sanity and sense of self (hers being her love for Taako and Barry, of course, though it requires effort and can be disrupted). She's in her lich form at her canon point, but as per mod permission she will be restored to her flesh body upon arrival in LifeAftr. I would be willing to scrap her turning into a lich upon a possible death in the game if the mods would prefer that, but it could make for some interesting character stuff if she does (though I probably wouldn't want it to be permanent).
Lup has learned how to turn herself into a Lich, binding her life essence to her magical essence. This happens upon the death of her flesh body, turning her into an incredibly powerful, spookily spectral and undead being. Normally the process makes the person lose their mind and go chaotic evil, but with a strong enough emotional bond it's possible to hold onto one's sanity and sense of self (hers being her love for Taako and Barry, of course, though it requires effort and can be disrupted). She's in her lich form at her canon point, but as per mod permission she will be restored to her flesh body upon arrival in LifeAftr. I would be willing to scrap her turning into a lich upon a possible death in the game if the mods would prefer that, but it could make for some interesting character stuff if she does (though I probably wouldn't want it to be permanent).
Inventory: her red IPRE robes and the broken Umbra Staff, probs some elf bling
Sample
Thread Sample: buncha nerds in the TDM
Do you ever wish you were an only child?
What kinda tropey bullshit bargain bin did you pull that one out of? Never. Next question.
Have you ever been in a situation where you had to strive for the moral high ground? If so, how difficult was it?
That's strike two on the tropes, homie. Everybody does what they gotta do, what they think is right. And sometimes, they need someone to stop them before they do something they can't take back. The trick is keeping people around who'll do that for you.
Have you ever been in love? If so, what made you fall in love with that person?
Honestly, it was the little things. I wouldn't have expected that, going in. Kindness, repairing this kid robot that kept shocking him and laughing, it was ridiculous! And just, quiet moments together, away from it all, talking about nothing and everything. His courage, which not enough people give him credit for. I guess I don't talk about these things often enough to have the words for it, but yeah, I've been in love and I'm not gonna let go.
If you could do only one job for the rest of your life, what would it be?
I'd rather kill myself a couple times than do the same thing for all of eternity?? I'm pretty much immortal, dude, no way am I gonna get locked into a single gig. But I'd love to give Taako's cooking show a whirl for a while.
What’s your favorite kind of weather, and why?
Is that a real thing real people have, like, for real? I mean I guess sunny, right? Get my tan on, have one of the boys bring me a fruity drink, hell yeah.
How could someone you dislike earn their way into your good graces?
Good food fixes a lot of bad feelings. But honestly, if they're out, they're out. I don't need anyone's shit in my life. ESPECIALLY YOU, GREG GRIMALDIS.
Do you get along better with emotional people, logical people, or those somewhere in-between?
That's like asking if I prefer to hang out with people with yellow hats or green hats. Most people change it up, y'know? Sometimes even a couple times a day? I guess when someone's being emotional, you know where you stand with them. But as long as they're being true to themselves, they're all worth knowing.