Rextoret: Hey my man
[8:52:34 PM] Ponder: Heyo!
[8:52:39 PM] Ponder: We are become connected!
[8:52:42 PM] Ponder: How strange
[8:52:53 PM] Ponder: Can this thing do group chat?
[8:54:51 PM] Rextoret: I don't think so
[8:55:20 PM] Ponder: How disappointing. Gabe Newell, letting us down yet again
[8:55:24 PM] Ponder: Ah well
[8:55:50 PM] Ponder: I wanted to touch base with you on my character, to make sure I'm not breaking anything
[8:56:20 PM] Rextoret: Yup go ahead
[8:56:32 PM] Rextoret: Plus we should all use Skype for group chats
[8:56:39 PM] Ponder: This would be smart
[8:56:50 PM] Ponder: If only I remembered my Skype info
[8:56:55 PM] Ponder: I'll get it back eventually
[8:57:02 PM] Ponder: At any rate, my character
[8:57:27 PM] Rextoret: hit me
[8:59:52 PM] Ponder: I was thinking he'd be a peasant from an adjacent feif/province (maybe the feif to the west). He's not a mage, but he has a rare magical disease that shows up exclusively in the peasents of that province (maybe one case every two or three years). The disease slowly turns his body into a stone-like substance, and transforms his limbic system and organs into either silicates or plants (think: his blood slowly becomes a tree-sap like substance)
[9:00:24 PM] Ponder: He'll be rendered immobile and, effectively, dead by the age of thirty or thirty-five
[9:00:52 PM] Rextoret: Hmm interesting
[9:01:03 PM] Rextoret: Doesn't break anything
[9:01:18 PM] Ponder: I was basically looking for a way to explore how a character deals with the loss of his physical humanity
[9:01:28 PM] Rextoret: I'm planning for a lot of gods, diverse types of magic and stuff like that
[9:01:33 PM] Ponder: Oooh
[9:01:38 PM] Rextoret: I actually have a race planned somewhat similar lol
[9:01:46 PM] Rextoret: different but explores the same issue
[9:01:58 PM] Rextoret: It'd be nice to have two
[9:02:02 PM] Ponder: Heyo! How do they work?
[9:04:14 PM] Rextoret: Essentially people cursed by the gods for being unloving/uncaring, so their physical form is stolen away and they become immortal. The idea is they are therefore cursed to eventually love but never be able to touch the person they love or show them their face because they don't have a body (Lovecraftian idea of embodiment of sound(?)) they cover up with a ton of cloth and wrapping to hide this fact
[9:05:52 PM] Rextoret: Think Tuck Everlasting tragedy
[9:05:56 PM] Rextoret: if you ever read that
[9:08:15 PM] Rextoret: But I think yours is a great idea
[9:08:40 PM] Rextoret: Perfect way to talk about a psychological type of issue like that
[9:08:54 PM] Ponder: Oh! Dang! That actually sounds super interesting! On my end, I was thinking this disease would be the result of a curse the mages of the feif placed on the peasents long ago. It effectively turns them into human-sized golems that eventually can't move. But what's actually going on is that their bodies are being replaced by silicates and natural processors, and their brains are slowly turning into a mass of magical... stuff. As they become immobile, they also become massively more intellegent (and massively more demented), but they link up with other immobile sufferes of the disease. They're no longer able to speak, but the priests can access their brains and use them as a sort of computer processor
[9:09:05 PM] Ponder: So what's happening is he's essentially being turned into a cyborg
[9:09:12 PM] Ponder: But a magical, fantasy cyborg
[9:09:44 PM] Ponder: And, coincidentally, I was thinking of having him wrap up like a leper to cover the moss growing from his face, type of thing
[9:10:06 PM] Rextoret: So they never actually die? Become trees?
[9:10:32 PM] Ponder: More like human-shaped rock formations with moss and lichen growing on them
[9:10:33 PM] Ponder: But yeah
[9:10:42 PM] Rextoret: Ahh yes okay
[9:10:48 PM] Ponder: But they also become entirely alien
[9:10:49 PM] Rextoret: That's a pretty dope idea
[9:11:15 PM] Rextoret: I think you should go for it if it's what you want to do
[9:11:15 PM] Ponder: Alien in their thinking, that is. And I'm glad you like it. So it's kosher?
[9:11:50 PM] Rextoret: If by kosher you mean cool then yes it's cool lol
[9:12:00 PM] Ponder: Cool. Good to know. Do you have anything you want me to do for the adjacent feif
[9:12:08 PM] Ponder: Any rules? Anything you want to implement?
[9:12:24 PM] Ponder: I'm just loosely defining it to give my character just a little bit of background
[9:12:27 PM] Ponder: Nothing too complex
[9:12:46 PM] Rextoret: Nope, I've just been focusing on the fief in question for the RP. Any kind of culture you want to, you can go for - go wild
[9:13:14 PM] Rextoret: Only rules are it's a fief of an overarching kingdom
[9:13:59 PM] Ponder: Sounds good! I won't be doing to much with it. Just a town, religion, basic premise of social structure. That stuff. Also, since you went Scottish, I'm gonna go Welsh
[9:14:07 PM] Ponder: Woo!
[9:14:11 PM] Rextoret: Nice!
[9:14:24 PM] Ponder: Or, as the Welsh say, Wytthygh!
[9:14:33 PM] Rextoret: Aight lol
[9:14:48 PM] Ponder: Cool. Thanks Rex! I should have my CC up by tomorrow afternoon
[9:15:04 PM] Rextoret: Great!
EDIT:
Ponder: Also, one more question. Besides suffering from this disease, I'm torn on what my character should be. I was thinking either a sort of medicine-man/doctor (for the irony of slowly dying from a disease, and the struggle of being unable to treat himself) or maybe the disease gives him natural resistance to magic, and the kingdom employs him as a magehunter/witchhunter
[9:16:20 PM] Rextoret: Hmm
[9:16:48 PM] Rextoret: The latter sounds cool to me, but the first option is also nice since it's ironic
[9:17:17 PM] Rextoret: IMO I'd go with the magehunter
[9:17:22 PM] Ponder: And what is life without irony, right? But I also kind of like the idea of this order of magehunters who are all wrapped up in bandages and slowly dying from a magical disease
[9:17:33 PM] Rextoret: Sounds pretty badass lol
[9:17:40 PM] Ponder: Cool
[9:17:41 PM] Ponder: Thanks!
[9:17:46 PM] Rextoret: Np