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| | ==High Concept== | | ==High Concept== |
| − | '''MY NAME IS . . .''' David Ericson | + | '''MY NAME IS . . .''' Character Name |
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| − | '''AND I AM . . .''' a picture perfect paper boy | + | '''AND I AM . . .''' Character Concept |
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| | ==Five Questions== | | ==Five Questions== |
| − | '''WHAT'S BEEN KEEPING YOU AWAKE?''' Keeping up with everyone. After the homework is done, I need to do the extra credit assignment for Mr Arnold. After that, Jackie wanted me to listen to two new albums. I’ll read that comic Kyle gave me while I listen. Chelsea recommended a new TV series, too. She’s two seasons in. Then it’s nearly morning. Time for the paper route. | + | '''WHAT'S BEEN KEEPING YOU AWAKE?''' This is the source of your Insomnia. This is what landed you in the Mad City. |
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| | + | '''WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO YOU?''' This is the scene right before the start of the game. This is your first solid brush with Nightmares. |
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| − | '''WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO YOU?''' I was getting dressed, changed my mind for what felt like the fourth time, and when I pulled the shirt over my head, I saw that my reflection still had his on. As I stepped back, he stepped forward, and started hammering at the mirror’s glass with his fist. He was yelling something I couldn’t hear, and the glass shook and threatened to break. As the glass started to crack and I could see the reflection’s blood running down the inside of the glass, I bolted out of the room. My sister was just outside the door, asked me why I’d been screaming. That was when I noticed the shirt I was still wearing, and the cut on my hand. I said it was a spider. That always makes Sara laugh.
| + | '''WHAT'S ON THE SURFACE?''' When people look at you, what do they see? This is the mask you show the world. |
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| − | '''WHAT'S ON THE SURFACE?''' On the surface, David has everything. He has supportive parents, a nice little sister, lots of potential. He is eager, sincere, innocent in a way that most boys his age aren’t. Then again, that’s also why he’s friends with a lot of people, but isn’t very popular. He’s nice to almost everyone, and no-one thinks of him as having the edge necessary to make something of himself. He avoids confrontation too much. He’s too nice, too perfect. | |
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| − | '''WHAT LIES BENEATH?''' A sinking feeling that, without anyone to tell him what (or who) to be, David wouldn’t be anyone at all. He can’t really think of anything that he does just for himself, and that scares him. He keeps this existential crisis to himself though. Nobody wants to see him worry, stress, break down under the pressure...
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| − | '''WHAT IS YOUR PATH?''' David needs to figure out who he really is, find something that he wants to do just because he wants to do it. He also might need to tell a few people to go jump. His story ends either with him finally able to stand on his own, or with him fading away for good.
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| | + | '''WHAT LIES BENEATH?''' When people look at you, what DON'T they see? This is what lives under the mask. |
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| | + | '''WHAT IS YOUR PATH?''' Where are you headed? What do you want? What do you need? What will you do to get it? |
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| | ==Sixth Question== | | ==Sixth Question== |
| − | '''WHAT NIGHTMARE DOGS YOUR STEPS?''' The Nightmare that dogs David responds not to any title, but to a human name it swears is it’s own: David Ericson. This being appears to be an ordinary human, indistinguishable from David himself, and from its actions genuinely believes itself to be a real person. If it runs into anyone aware of the supernatural, it attempts to convince them that it was replaced by David, who is the real monster, a changeling of sorts. Trouble is, something deep in David’s gut resonates with this. What if HE’s the real Nightmare? | + | '''WHAT NIGHTMARE DOGS YOUR STEPS?''' One specific Nightmare from the Mad city always seems to be somewhere near, perhaps only caught out of the corner of your eye or elusive as a shadow among shadows. Perhaps it is something more solid and real. Describe this Nightmare. |
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| | ==Responses== | | ==Responses== |
| − | *'''TOTAL FLIGHT RESPONSES''' [3] | + | You have three points to divide between fight and flight responses. You can put all three in one and none in the other or two in one and one in the other. |
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| − | *'''TOTAL FIGHT RESPONSES''' [0] | + | *'''TOTAL FIGHT RESPONSES''' ? |
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| | ==Talents== | | ==Talents== |
| − | '''EXHAUSTION TALENT''' | + | *'''EXHAUSTION TALENT''' That thing you do better than anybody ever did . . . |
| − | *'''Bike Riding:''' David is really good at riding. On a bike, he’s fast and agile, and can do some pretty impressive tricks too.
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| − | '''MADNESS TALENT''' That thing you do that shouldn't EVEN be possible . . . | + | *'''MADNESS TALENT''' That thing you do that shouldn't EVEN be possible . . . |
| − | *'''Mirror, Mirror:''' After years of becoming exactly what people expected of him, David can now do this by magical means. To start, he can appear to fit in with a group. What that group expect from a person like them, they see in David. He still needs to act the part on his own, but he will passively look like he belongs.
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| − | :Surrendering himself to the power, David can start to act like a being in his presence. Anything they can do, he can do too, even magical things. However, he also begins to think like them...
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| − | :If he pushes himself further, David can transform into an exact physical copy of someone in his presence. He can do everything they can, know everything they know... but only a whisper of himself remains.
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