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restingslasherface) wrote2023-06-23 10:24 am
restingslasherface) wrote2023-06-23 10:24 am
Pumpkin Hollow Pages Opt-In
Do you like Kirby, Mega-Man, and Metroid? Would you like them if they were a traumatized corporate soldier raised in a hellscape that boggles the imagination? Then welcome to the Pages Opt-In!
What are Pages?
The short answer is: they're the light behind your eyes that makes you who you are. Jean's canon is one in which they received power by extracting it from victims of the Library, enabling Jean to cosplay as said victims and adopt their strengths, weaknesses, and combat techniques. Here in Pumpkin Hollow, the strange intersection of Jean's magic and the island's has altered how they do this and what it might mean, but the core ideas remain the same: Jean can pillage looks, weapons, combat techniques, and inherent strengths and weaknesses from those they can extract a Page from, altering their look, generating clothes and weapons from the Light, and also adopting your gender.
How does Jean get Pages?
Per discussion with the mods before apping, Jean can extract Pages in two ways with some distinct differences. The first is that they might get them from your corpse, either by finding your body or, y'know, by killing you. Highly emotional deaths (in terror and rage, at the height of your triumph, if you somehow died in the middle of that good sex) are more likely to produce Pages; surprise attacks, deaths in your sleep, getting hypnotized into walking into something's mouth, etc are less likely.
The second way is by developing close and meaningful CR, for weal or for woe. This idea is new to Jean, and the resulting Page would be more about the relationship itself, embodying it like some manner of murderous Care Bear and resulting in strange new combat techniques that reify the CR rather than being pillaged from you directly.
What does your character lose if a Page is extracted?
Nothing directly! This is not the Library, you don't need to be turned into a book and become functionally dead. However, it does mean someone is out here using some of your power set, and maybe combining it with others. This is part of the reason for the opt-in! If you'd prefer your character remain strictly unique, or don't like the idea of someone being able to, say, frame you by using your powers, well, here we are.
If you're open to, or actively interested in, getting Pages extracted from your character please Opt-In here by replying! Questions, comments, and such are extremely welcome, as are expressions of specific interest if you've got 'em!
What are Pages?
The short answer is: they're the light behind your eyes that makes you who you are. Jean's canon is one in which they received power by extracting it from victims of the Library, enabling Jean to cosplay as said victims and adopt their strengths, weaknesses, and combat techniques. Here in Pumpkin Hollow, the strange intersection of Jean's magic and the island's has altered how they do this and what it might mean, but the core ideas remain the same: Jean can pillage looks, weapons, combat techniques, and inherent strengths and weaknesses from those they can extract a Page from, altering their look, generating clothes and weapons from the Light, and also adopting your gender.
How does Jean get Pages?
Per discussion with the mods before apping, Jean can extract Pages in two ways with some distinct differences. The first is that they might get them from your corpse, either by finding your body or, y'know, by killing you. Highly emotional deaths (in terror and rage, at the height of your triumph, if you somehow died in the middle of that good sex) are more likely to produce Pages; surprise attacks, deaths in your sleep, getting hypnotized into walking into something's mouth, etc are less likely.
The second way is by developing close and meaningful CR, for weal or for woe. This idea is new to Jean, and the resulting Page would be more about the relationship itself, embodying it like some manner of murderous Care Bear and resulting in strange new combat techniques that reify the CR rather than being pillaged from you directly.
What does your character lose if a Page is extracted?
Nothing directly! This is not the Library, you don't need to be turned into a book and become functionally dead. However, it does mean someone is out here using some of your power set, and maybe combining it with others. This is part of the reason for the opt-in! If you'd prefer your character remain strictly unique, or don't like the idea of someone being able to, say, frame you by using your powers, well, here we are.
If you're open to, or actively interested in, getting Pages extracted from your character please Opt-In here by replying! Questions, comments, and such are extremely welcome, as are expressions of specific interest if you've got 'em!
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You can get creative with it, but notable physical changes you might pick up are the fangs (duh), pale pallor, cold to the touch, no longer needs to breathe/eat/sleep, lack of pulse, rapid healing, taste for blood, inability to taste anything BUT blood, potentially the bloodlust beast issues, super speed/strength/extra sharp senses, maybe shape shifting to animals if you wanna get spicy. I'm on the fence about letting him have the ability to heal with his blood, I might wanna hoard that one.
Fingers crossed they hit it off well and maybe a page can form from their CR too. I'm here for all of it.
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When a Librarian is wearing Elena there they get access to her signature claws, the passives of her really good armor (obviously not an option here), and her ability to heal from every hit she deals to someone that's bleeding. Pages are more cosplay than exact copying (Kirby is still Kirby when he's wearing a hat, for an instructive example) so! My thoughtlines are:
- Attacks that incorporate partial or complete shapeshifting
- Weak to slashing/gouging (transpose the eye weakness), strong against crushing & piercing
- Just kinda passively Faster, possibly specifically better against things That Have Blood
- Erik's taste in expensive suits
- Sensory enhancements
Thoughts?
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