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Why is it every time I go to Miz I cry?
Here's to a long life for Synqet Njynqet and a beautiful journey for both of us together.
With the mission statement over and the welcome bottle of champagne broken here I go;...
I have a few things to get in order in my mind, mostly plot related but I need to get this brain shit vomited out so I can get his history done and hopefully find a place for him in this big ass world. I should say at first that this space is going to be a running dialogue with myself but won't be personal related, mostly. There will be anecdotes but they're mostly just trains of thought that I need to let out to keep the wheels running in my mind. I will also note that if you're interested in spoilers for my character you found the right place; leave now or forever hold your peace because this space will be full of future plans and jotted notes. I will have a few secrets surely but I like to do this so other players or mods have an idea of where my story is going so they can maybe see the world a little bit more through my PC's eyes . In other words just makes him easier to get to know. Not all of my ideas will come to fruition here but it gives me a place to get into character and let some of the dogs out (barking ensues).
This space is for:
Links
Images
Grocery lists and logs
Future plan explanations
Goals; short and long term
Notes on other PC's and future hopes/fears
Lore quicklinks
Essentially just PC related brain-vomit
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Beginning digging into the lore. The idea I have for Synq's history is he's after the Biqaj pirates that have turned on their people and have started stealing from their own. Specifically stealing their sacred artworks. He and family have been hunting these rogues for some years as they have stolen a priceless artifact made by his great great grandmother. Their searches have lead them no where, the pirates are like ghosts. It was stolen while they were anchored in Ne'haer.(Which I keep pronouncing as "nair", it makes me wanna shave my legs). These pirates are also murdering and consequently selling mer parts as a type of "snake oil". These pirates are deserters to their kind and although his family has given up the search he's vowed to track these murdering thieves down and avenge his grandmother.
Merchant Guild, getting in as artist or other trade person thingy? Traveler Pack items as ruse, disguise himself as human to get in good with the merchants and the locals to get into the shadow network. (EVIL LAUGHTER!)
Pre this tragedy he lived a relatively quiet life on his family's ship. He never had any desire to learn how to captain his own ship and was very happy to help out with chores and general duties like cooking, cleaning, fishing, and scouting. It gave him time to focus on his art. His acrobatics RB comes from climbing the rigging like land bound children climb trees. As he got older it made him quick and cocky in fights when they got on the mainland.
Relationship to fighting is the same as his relationship with his painting and cooking. He fights as a way to express himself and do good deeds. It started with his first fight over a woman in Voltar when he was 14. (there have been many since then) She was a tavern maid who kept getting groped by a group of three extremely drunk, extremely brutish looking older men. Bald, ugly, troll like. He kicked their asses using a broken chair leg but was banned forever from the bar.
Return someday, get into another fight and get kicked out again
On Defiance: His grandmother (he has close relationships with the women in his life) was a revered mage and beloved Siera'ja. Before she got too old she wanted to pass on her gift to her favorite grandchild as a way too connect to her and her heart strings forever. She was one with the wind so took him to a desolate island where they made their way to an old, crumbled temple and forced him to climb its decrepit peaks. At the top the wind howled and screamed like starving wolves and they sat there in silence for a long time. When he was finally comfortable she shoved him off the rocks. He tumbled down the wind like a boat on the waves for some time, feeling like he was catching fire while his silver veins turned to mud. He is triumphant in the end but days later his grandmother dies. He hears the winds call like his grandmother whispering that she loves him, it's creepy and comforting at the same time.
Last thing to say in the history is how his love for painting came to be. He paints anything he can get his hands on, literally anything, and leaves his artworks places-- but never claims them as his own. While he doesn't ferret them away like most of his kinsman he will deny that he did the work and flees the scene like The Phantom of the Opera or Dracula. His works are bizarre and every bit as dramatic as he himself is.
Start with childhood and growing up on a ship, how being hated by some people shaped his angry/heroic side "I'll show you!"
talk about climbing the ships rigging and becoming lithe, leaning towards a hint that he had a confident spirit
Becoming a painter and a mad artist scribbling on everything
relationship with twin brother and wishing he was an only child, growing up in a large "high class" family (Expunged)
relationship with the females in his life segues into him fighting for ladies honor and his first real fight
segue into his grandmother being a sweet as fuck person, being taught how to be a "proper" man
initiation at 18 into the defiance arts
grandmother dies
immediately after his great great grandmother's very important masterpiece gets stolen
9 year chase
uncovering mer people murder and dismemberment
talk about thoughts of Biqaj freedom and how the pirates are denied that through their actions against their own and the Mer
End with Rharne's Shadow Quarter and a foreboding at worse things to come, having to get his hands dirty and make it feel very icky and angry
Long Term Goals: (2+ seasons)
-Build deception, brawling, acrobatics, stealth, and endurance skills
-Meet plot milestones
-Stay on track with the plot
-Make an IC friend
-Stay in WT for 2 seasons
-research pirates/seafaring lingo
-research thief-esque lingo/mannerisms
Short Term Goals: (current season)
-Job as painter through his human alias
-"Secret Hand?" thread about getting in with the merchant guild to sell mural paintings, also sneak around for clues to Shadow Quarter
Long term goals:
Finish by Feburary 2020
Deception, acrobatics, brawling to competent
(0/3) threads with Ory storyline
Become vigilante
Figure out his pirate-speech
Short term goals:
Finish by end of Cold Cycle
do 5 threads
Find his voice
Make IC friend
figure out vigilante mini plot
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Warrior Archetype
-"I am responsible for what happens here"
-"I must do what I can to make this a better world for myself and others."
-claiming authority
-"clarity of thinking", always "awake"
-knows self and what they are fighting for, becoming more humble the more they learn
-external achievement "the man obsessed with succeeding has already failed"
-self sacrifice
-destroy to build again, meaningful destruction
-epitome of slaying the dragon? Struggle of good and evil
Drunken first
-stumbling parries
-dodging blows while staggering
-disengaging as a move
-"tipsy sway"
-indulging in liquor or grog in Njyn's case
-using anything as a weapon
-redirect attacks
-chugging or drinking as fighting
-drunkards luck
