For writers_muses Mun Prompt
We all start somewhere. Describe your very first experience with role-play. Who was your muse, was it from an rpg, or series or an or an original character? Give us details. Lastly, are they still around?
Holy shit… we need to go back for this. I was 12 and my friend’s father was going to DM AD&D. I think my first character’s inspiration would be easy enough to see. His name was Alder. He was an old thief that was retired of sorts though he took things when he saw fit. He had a limp from an arrow wound that never healed quite right and an eye patch from an attempt to steal from an ice drake. It went wrong a bit. He was an expert at throwing knives and people thought he was dead from all sorts of people claiming to have pulled him in for the outrageous bounty on his head.
The troop of green characters came chasing him down to steal a crown (I think it was a crown.. a headpiece LOL) that was going to be used for evil. He signed on and ended up being the wise old drunk that showed up just when the young ones got their ass in a sling. He gave them all tough love though he wouldn’t give up on them for anything. They always had him telling stories of when he was a thief and the time he was hired on as the king’s personal assassin and bodyguard. That was until the king tried to force a princess to marry his son against her will. He stole her away and took her home only to find out he was wanted by her father for pirating one of his boats years earlier. I loved his history. Somewhere in my parent’s house is a notebook that has stories written about his past.
Yeah… it was a half-elf, Snake Plissken in AD&D. Obviously my love of crossovers and a certain one-eyed bastard started early.
Since then I have had another OC based on Snake (centauri_fire) and now I have Snake around in his natural true form. I don’t think he plans on going away any time soon. Alder still comes up. In a way he is what I use as a template for Snake in the Lord of the Rings/Escape from NY crossover I am writing. He is still there in my head though after all these years. Snake’s also inspired several other Kurt muses in my head by making me fall in love with the actor oh so long ago when I saw Escape from NY for the first time.
Snake is of course _call_me_Snake_
Holy shit… we need to go back for this. I was 12 and my friend’s father was going to DM AD&D. I think my first character’s inspiration would be easy enough to see. His name was Alder. He was an old thief that was retired of sorts though he took things when he saw fit. He had a limp from an arrow wound that never healed quite right and an eye patch from an attempt to steal from an ice drake. It went wrong a bit. He was an expert at throwing knives and people thought he was dead from all sorts of people claiming to have pulled him in for the outrageous bounty on his head.
The troop of green characters came chasing him down to steal a crown (I think it was a crown.. a headpiece LOL) that was going to be used for evil. He signed on and ended up being the wise old drunk that showed up just when the young ones got their ass in a sling. He gave them all tough love though he wouldn’t give up on them for anything. They always had him telling stories of when he was a thief and the time he was hired on as the king’s personal assassin and bodyguard. That was until the king tried to force a princess to marry his son against her will. He stole her away and took her home only to find out he was wanted by her father for pirating one of his boats years earlier. I loved his history. Somewhere in my parent’s house is a notebook that has stories written about his past.
Yeah… it was a half-elf, Snake Plissken in AD&D. Obviously my love of crossovers and a certain one-eyed bastard started early.
Since then I have had another OC based on Snake (centauri_fire) and now I have Snake around in his natural true form. I don’t think he plans on going away any time soon. Alder still comes up. In a way he is what I use as a template for Snake in the Lord of the Rings/Escape from NY crossover I am writing. He is still there in my head though after all these years. Snake’s also inspired several other Kurt muses in my head by making me fall in love with the actor oh so long ago when I saw Escape from NY for the first time.
Snake is of course _call_me_Snake_