Gakked from
mizkit this morning: Name 12 characters you have played in RPGs, before looking at the questions that follow. List your characters numbered 1 to 12, with the name of the RPG you played them in. Once you've picked your 12 characters, look at the questions and answer accordingly. (No peeking until you've picked your characters!) Put your answers behind a LJ-cut.
1 - Rhiannon - Amber
2 - Sir Geraint - Pendragon
3 - Dr Sophia Jex Blake - Call of Cthulhu
4 - Sir Greville Fairbrother - home made version of Wild Talents
5 - Sir Felix - Pendragon
6 - NotBird - Everway
7 - Yinkini nutjob - Runequest
8 - Sir Aquila - Pendragon
9 - Chinese Juggler - home made version Over the Edge
10 - Dworkin - Amber
You are supposed to pick twelve but I disdain to include more than two charcters I cannot remember the names of and any of the one shot, quick death, gibbering loons from assorted CoC games. Turns out this makes the questions tricky but 9 and 10 will just have to stand in for 11 and 12.
1) Who would make a better college professor: 6, or 11(10)?
Oh dear God, they're both crazy enough to qualify but I cannot say I would like to have my grades in the hands of either. Probably 6 as he wasn't actually homicidal.
2) Do you think 2 is hot? How hot?
He was toasty hot and very new man too for the Dark Ages.
3) 12(9) sends 8 on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
Well Chinese Juiggler lady was Hyperborean and Sir Aquila very Roman and medieval so I guess she is rtying to get him to chase down and chop up the dumb sorcerer whose spell got them into the same place to start with. Then she might like to work on his Christian paragon stats a bit.
4) What is, or would be, 9's favourite book?
How to win friends and influence people. If she could read. All our group seemed to flirt with the idea of palying jon fighter characters so my acrobat/thief type with the height of an occasional table ended up as the group's heavy hitter and not much liking the accompanying bruises.
5) Would it make more sense for 2 to swear fealty to 6, or the other way around?
Rules of inheritance. It wouldn't be the first time that Sir Geraint had to swear allegiance to an idiot.
6) For some reason, 5 is looking for a room-mate. Should they share a studio apartment with 9, or 10?
9 cross-dressers should stick together.
7) 2, 7, and 12(9) have dinner together. Where do they go, and what do they discuss?
They'd have to go somewhere that served meat as NotBird still has trouble with his cat and raven past shapes and Sir Geraint wouldn't fancy fish of veggie "hermit food!" They couod discuss a lot as all three have had run ins with the supernatural, have magical parents and belong to very minority religions in their own worlds.
8) 3 challenges 10 to a duel. What happens?
given that poor Dr Blake has no powers other than persistance, medical training and feminism she would probably poison Dworkin first and then challenge him ... and then he'd turn her into a lawn chair.
9) If 1 stole 8's most precious possession, how would they get it back?
Ask nicely. Rhiannon was never unreasonable but she was allergic to testosterone. Posturing would get Aquila trumped to Chaos.
10) Suggest a title for a story in which 7 and 12(9) both attain what they most desire.
Chasing the Dragon. Her Chinese dragon heritage and his connections to Argrath would make that a good quest to cchieve.
11) What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted 4 and 1 to work together?
Rhiannon could show up anywhere and Sir Greville is a ghost and both love libraries. I could imagine them bonding over the card catalogue. They might go for a drink and bitch about their fellow adventurers a lot.
12) If 7 visited you for the weekend, how would you get along?
Great. I love cats! and always keep fish in the freezer.
13) If you could command 3 to perform any one task or service for you, what would it be?
i cannot remember if she was one of the group who got their medical degrees from Trinity College Dublin or not but if so I would get her to point at the Rev Salmon's coffin as they pass at Front Gate and say "Ha! Ha!"
14) Does anyone on your friends list resemble 11(10) (either in appearance or personality)?
Dear God I hope not! Some of them have beards that is about it.
15) If 2 had to choose sides between 4 and 5, which would it be?
Tricky. Sir Felix is from the same setting so that might swing things her/his way but he would be very interested in Greville, ghosts running the family sort of thing.
16) What might 10 shout while charging into battle?
Bwah ha ha ha HA!
17) If you chose a song to represent 8, which song would you choose?
The Hallelujah Chorus - the actual chorus bit. He loved his ecclesiastical music and wasn't too stuffy about life either.
18) 1, 6, and 12(10) are having dim sum at a Chinese restaurant. There is only one scallion pancake left, and they all reach for it at the same time. Who gets to eat it?
Dworkin owes Rhiannon big time so he might let her off but NotBird is very quick when it comes to food. I can imagine him Mulla Nasrudin-ing the other two and while they were still exchanging calculatng stares he would be chewing happily.
19) What might be a good pick-up line for 2 to use on 10?
err "Want to see the size of my lust rating?" well given his love for his wife stat and the fact that that kept him safe from Morgan herself once I'd say Dworkin would have to be disguised as Verity before the sweet talk would start.
20) What would 5 most likely be arrested for?
Within the setting: crossdressing. In the modern day: killing paynims probably. sighs!
21) What is 6's secret?
His birth. Even he doesn't know about it.
22) If 11(10) and 9 were racing to a destination, who would get there first?
duh! She's quick but no shadow shifter.
23) If you had to walk home through a bad neighborhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of 7 or 8?
8. People tend not to be scared of female fighters until the fight has started but Sir Aquila was beefy and pretty ugly looking with it.
24) 1 and 9 reluctantly team up to save the world from the threat posed by 4's sinister secret organization. 11(10) volunteers to help them, but it is later discovered that he/she is actually a spy for 4. Meanwhile, 4 has kidnapped 12(9) in an attempt to force their surrender. Following the wise advice of 5, they seek out 3, who gives them what they need to complete their quest. What title would you give this fic?
Errr - "Sir Felix's Wierdly Useful Advice"
or else "Dancing Round Shakespeare" (as Greville ghost wrote all Will's good stuff)