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2024-05-05, 10:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Torchwood [OOC]
Please post once, and then allow the other players to post before you make any second posts.
In said post, include your character details, as much as you've got so far.
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2024-05-05, 11:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Getting this going woo!
Spoiler: Summary: Altair Zephyrian "Astral" AerilasThe gestalt being known by the callsign "Astral" is not originally from this universe. In fact, it is precisely this origin that drives his investment in an organization like Torchwood, dedicated to shielding everyday mundane people from the not-so-mundane things that lurk in their midst.
Altair Centauri Lewis was born in late September 2023 in rural Colorado to Quentin and Diana Lewis. The pair were both prolific astrophysicists, with Diana having put lots of research into a project that eventually became the first nuclear-powered rocket to transit the asteroid belt and Quentin having led the push to discover many far-off stars. They had retired to raise their son, on whom they did not want to impose. But even though they did not tell him of their careers as astronomers, Altair was himself always a stargazer, and he even began to train as a pilot in college in hopes that he could become an astronaut.
While plane crashes tend to deter most people from flying, Altair did not flinch when his parents were killed when Oceanic Airlines flight 564 crashed into the Sydney Opera house on April 2, 2042. His friends gave him sideways glances as he completed his type ratings, first on piston-powered planes and then on small jets. And he faced reporters with a smile as he went to board the Ouranos II rocket that was to carry him and the rest of the crew of Juno III to Callisto, the third of Jupiter's Galilean Moons, in late 2044. By the time he came out of stasis to conduct the landing nearly two years later, Earth was a changed place...though he did not yet know it.
What happened on the Juno III mission was kept from the public, and such secrets were easy to keep in the wake of the events of the year 2045 when the public had far bigger concerns. Altair does not talk much of the event himself, other than the vague memory of his human body feeling an odd lurching sensation and then engaging in conversation with a disembodied voice in an oddly warm and bright place. The star, Aerilas Anax Zephyrian, remembers even less, having only just detected the presence of an incoming body milliseconds before he would have been incinerated.
As it turns out, the supernatural was as real in Altair's world as it is in this one. Stars have souls just as humans do, and this was a kind and compassionate one who would do everything to avoid harming an innocent fleshling -- up to and including the ultimate sacrifice. Of course, it did not end up being necessary — stars are powerful in their own right, and Aerilas was able to conduct a merger of himself with Altair in order to save the latter and gain himself a new, mobile body in the process. But when he returned to Earth, the newly-formed celestial body found himself in a world that had vastly changed.
The world Altair comes from experienced a cosmic event known as the Tipping in the year AD 2045. That universe had in place for most of its history something known as the Worldly Veil, which hides supernatural beings from the eye of mundanes. A werewolf may appear as a very gruff man; a fairy sprite might seem like a dragonfly or butterfly; leviathans appear as large rocks or sea turtles, and even magic that might normally be impossible to conceal remains hidden to the eyes of mundane mortals so long as the Veil holds. But it can only take so much strain, and it was shattered by the actions of a cabal of supernatural beings who felt restrained by its presence, and the result was the destabilization of the fabric of reality in the wake of so much rapid change. This Tipping is not an apocalypse by itself, but if left unchecked it can lead to an event known as the Sundering, which is far worse for the multiverse.
When the effects of a Tipping world spread too rapidly in its universe, the entire universe's dimensional fabric can unravel, sending its denizens scattered throughout the vast other planes of the multiverse.
This was the eventual fate of Altair's world, and how he ended up in this one. And his determination is now very straightforward -- see that this world does not suffer a similar fate.
Spoiler: Extra Notes
This google doc goes a lot more in-depth about Astral's background, including a lot of lore that is more specific to his world but frames his intent and gives context for what he is like. It also has a couple faceclaims.
For clarity's sake, the "accident" as it would be for the purpose of Torchwood is the Sundering and Altair's arrival in this world as part of the immediate aftermath of that.
I tried to demarcate the sections well enough that the information on the various important things (the Tipping, the Sundering, and other parts of the backstory like the Flight 564 crash and how it relates to the Worldly Veil and the Tipping) but some of them are not relevant here necessarily other than to provide context for experience Altair already has with working with a supers organization, though it's out in the open and thus a different sort of job.
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There are 1d20 types of people in the world: people that always roll natural 1 when it matters.
I don't know why, but I think more people have studied linguistics than I have.
...yes, the above sentence is in fact meaningless. But you did a double-take, didn't you?
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2024-05-05, 08:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: Chelsea (she/her)
Chelsea formerly known as Trevor had lived a relatively upper middle class life. They went to school, had friends, and eventually went to college for the study of botonny as a massive natural green thumb.
They are currently getting used to their new body and new powers of literal botomancy? Trying to not the grass from growing where they stand as proven quite a handful so far.
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2024-05-06, 11:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: Lilliana Ashemore {she/they}
When Lilliana was a child, before she could speak, she found themself in the strangest tea party. Kidnapped from a garden of her parents' summer home out in the countryside. She spends a few hours confused is a place of strange color and people. Yet her return was just a few minutes after she left, enough to scare thier parents, but not long enough to suspect anything unnatural. Just a cruise child wondering a bit too far.
From there, they lived a mostly ordinary life. There were a few singes she was different but everybody has thier quicks right? As they grew up, they ended falling into alt-culture, with its loud music, disregard for social forms and general affinity, intrusting people. She would often fight with parents over taste or grades. Yet she was scraping buy. Even somehow manage to get into a pretty good university, even if she had to do the weekend course. During weak-days she would work at the front for a lending company, not a bank, a lending company. The job was mostly just sitting there on board. Time they used to study and draw. When the men in suites came, she was worried. The company seemed shady and those things only really affect people high up. This made taking her all to easy.
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2024-05-06, 11:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Torchwood [OOC]
Alright. I see no sense in delaying, so...
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2024-05-07, 12:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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I do have a question, is there a specific country the acion takes place in?
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2024-05-07, 10:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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I have a LOT of Homebrew!
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2024-05-08, 07:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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For the other two players:
Take this as you will, but it would be pretty clear that Altair is not human. From a distance he might be “mysterious cloaked figure” but yea he kinda has the aesthetic/texture of the Nebula wings from Terraria in place of normal skin lolThere are 1d20 types of people in the world: people that always roll natural 1 when it matters.
I don't know why, but I think more people have studied linguistics than I have.
...yes, the above sentence is in fact meaningless. But you did a double-take, didn't you?
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2024-05-13, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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O.o smart watch? what do
There are 1d20 types of people in the world: people that always roll natural 1 when it matters.
I don't know why, but I think more people have studied linguistics than I have.
...yes, the above sentence is in fact meaningless. But you did a double-take, didn't you?
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2024-05-15, 05:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Sorry for multipost but a note: Altair may describe his abilities as rooted in physics, but they're basically Clarke's 3rd law corollary where he understands what he is doing so thoroughly that to him, it's science. The google doc has a list of the most important things he can do; the biggest checks on his power are scale and caution. The bigger something is he wants to do, the longer it will take, and at a certain point it'd be more than the scope of a game's duration for how long he might need. Also, there are limits to how precise some stuff can be, and he's altruistic enough to refrain from doing anything that will cause collateral damage. The whole "don't let the public find out" thing aside, even if people already knew about the supernatural, he hates hurting people if it isn't 100% necessary.
Anyway.There are 1d20 types of people in the world: people that always roll natural 1 when it matters.
I don't know why, but I think more people have studied linguistics than I have.
...yes, the above sentence is in fact meaningless. But you did a double-take, didn't you?
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2024-05-19, 12:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'll give Illven some time to reply before scooting time ahead, but you'll certainly get a summary of what occurs! :)
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2024-05-24, 02:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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It’s been nearly a week…hope Ilven is okay
There are 1d20 types of people in the world: people that always roll natural 1 when it matters.
I don't know why, but I think more people have studied linguistics than I have.
...yes, the above sentence is in fact meaningless. But you did a double-take, didn't you?
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2024-05-24, 11:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Torchwood [OOC]
It's been a hot minute since we last saw activity on here
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2024-05-25, 09:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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I am here sorry.
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2024-05-25, 12:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Rightio! Let me get an IC post pushing us ahead.
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2024-05-25, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm guessing Lilliana knows her magic is fey related, but does she know why?
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2024-05-25, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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