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Paleon / Mark Vorkosigan ([personal profile] identityformations) wrote2012-03-28 11:18 am
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Things and stuff

Hi, heartsplorers, have a stack of further notes and some permissions stuff!

Getting to Mark's true heart is very difficult (but not impossible) right now, and I'll be adjusting my scoring to reflect that. The theme of this heartgame, and what players will be rewarded for, is categorization and labeling and identity formation(s), and this should become pretty clear IC.

As I mentioned during signups, there are triggers ALL OVER THIS HEART and you will be shunted pretty strongly towards the bad shit. Please ping me if there is something in particular you would prefer to avoid, for either your sake or your character's, and I will make sure to honor that.

There may also be points when you're forcibly transported deeper into the heart. If you would prefer to explore entirely freely, again, please ping me and I'll see what I can do. This is a large heart that seriously benefits from characters being spread out as much as possible, and there are areas that can only be explored alone, so there is intended to be a lot of teleporting characters around and breaking up parties; also Mark currently cannot avoid dealing with his trauma, so neither can you. I will always try not to interrupt you in the middle of something though.

Magical abilities will be turned off in this heart, and you will not retain any personal items upon entering. Unless of course those abilities are integral to your survival. Syaoran would not...cease to exist...due to the magical nullifying. But Ryner wouldn't be able to cast his magic, access Alpha Stigma, get possessified, etcetera.

So one of the goals of this heart is to give you the experience of being Mark Vorkosigan. It's unpleasant, and I am getting my evil game-master hat on and trying to mess with characters as much as possible, but I will not do some of this without player consent. So please comment here if you are okay with your character getting mindfucked in either of the following ways:

1. Nasty status effects: persistent severe pain, blind lust, significant changes in emotional affect, possibly some other equally intense things. This will only last through certain areas, but they could happen.

2. Seeing people from your own life substituted in certain traumatic situations. If you think this would be fun, please comment if there is anybody in your character's life/memories who fits into the following categories: a sibling figure with whom there is conflict but who you ultimately care for, a parental figure who is controlling or abusive in some fashion, a person your character failed to save or protect, and a somewhat vulnerable person who your character has the mad hots for.
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[personal profile] stigmateyes 2012-03-29 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
2. I would like to try two potential options!

PARENTAL FIGURE
Quont: This is the leader of Ryner's Hidden Elite squad who once maimed several women in front of Ryner when he was 13, tried to make him agree to rape them and then threatened to have another Elite rape Ryner. Ryner then snapped and brutally kicked his ass. :|b

He has short, golden hair and a right eye that was mutilated by a knife wound. His left eye is always glaring intensely. He's built big with very obvious muscles and wears a black cape and navy-colored armor to meld into the darkness. Quont is TERRIFYING and an ass.


FAILED TO SAVE:
Biore: This is the 15-year-old assassin girl Ryner falls in love with when he's 10. Biore has red, shoulder-length hair and an unnaturally calm disposition.

During their attempt to escape Roland, some magic knights wound her in the shoulder with an arrow and threaten to kill her to activate Alpha Stigma. Biore stabs herself so the soldiers won't use her death against him. When she dies, there's happiness in her eyes.
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[personal profile] yourpeacock 2012-03-30 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
I AM COOL WITH ANYTHING BUT just as a note, Fon can be triggered and go temporarily insane. I DON'T THINK IT'S LIKELY, but if it gets anywhere near that I'll let you know.

2.

Sibling figure/BOYFRIENDO: Jake, who's a blond, good-natured guy that Fon tsuns at.
Parental figure who's lied to Fon his entire life: Doctor Littenber. Fon's creator, old white-haired guy with a mustache.
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[personal profile] experimental 2012-03-30 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
I AM PRETTY EASYGOING. Kagari is extremely high-strung and has a lot of similar-running issues to Mark's. If there's something that's making him uncomfortable to the point where it's not fun for me to play, I will just let you know.

I GUESS MINAKA WOULD BE KIND OF KAGARI'S PARENTAL FIGURE . . . depending on what context you're using. He's Kagari's Guy He Wants To Kill etc etc you know this. He doesn't remember enough for the othersss but there's the whole reacting-to-Minato business (vulnerable and . . . sort of mad hots . . .)