OOC INTRO - SEPTEMBER 2018

[phantasmods]

Hello, and welcome to the OOC Intro for Phantasmal Rift! This post also serves as a CR meme and overall state-of-the-game update!

IC Intro will go up on Monday, at the conclusion of the dungeon - but if you'd like, you can go ahead and jump into the tail end of the dungeon log now! You're welcome to top your own top levels using whatever prompts you like, and if nothing works, we'll be back at base soon!

(And yes, you get loot for any further comments you leave on the dungeon log, up to a max of five, same as in-game players. Any loot earned thusly will be appended to the sign-ups under a header with your character's journal name.)

Due to the delay in app responses, loot for new arrivals will be rolled including Monday's activity. Sorry about the mess!

STATE OF THE GAME

Goes Bump: The next dungeon will be Silvereagle Manor - an entirely appropriate dungeon for Halloween, set in an abandoned castle manor. Or perhaps it's not as abandoned as you think... As long promised, this is our species swap dungeon, so feel free to plot ahead what you want your characters to become in the dark of the night!

This is just temporary: A new points spending option has been added - Single-Time Effects! You can check this out on the Points Page .

Permissions post round-up: If you have a required opt-in/out permissions post for your characters' powers, please make sure to drop it under the appropriate comment header below! Existing characters' permissions are already linked there, for your convenience.

Anything else?: As usual, the questions and feedback header is here for you!

CR MEME FORM;

<b>Your name</b>:<br /><b>Contact info</b>:<br /><b>Who are you?</b>: [Short blurb about yourself goes here!]<br /><b>Character name + Journal</b>:<br /><b>Canon</b>: [If AU or CRAU, that info goes here, too!]<br /><b>Permissions</b>:<br /><b>What's their deal?</b>: [Standard CR meme shitpost about your character blurb goes here]<br /><b>Plotting</b>: [What kinds of things would you like to do in the near future?]<br /><b>Memeingful GIF</b>: [We all know you won't be happy without an excuse to post one of these...]

And now, the weather;

8/20-22: Sunny and bright; warm but not baking.
8/23-25: Hot, but with low humidity and a constant breeze.
8/26-28: Warm, higher humidity, sunny with patch clouds.
8/29-9/3: Sunny, but with stormy late afternoons and evenings prone to sudden intense rainfalls. The clouds typically clear up again about midnight.
9/4-5: Sunny, bright and clear.
9/6: Overcast and muggy all day.
9/7-9: Mostly clear, with patchy clouds.
9/10-11: HEATWAVE, as summer breathes its last upon the station. Not as hot as previous heat waves, but significantly more humid. Still patchy clouds.
9/12: Strong winds, clear.
9/13-17: Overcast with occasional sunbreaks; weather steadily cooling.
9/18-19: Sunny with occasional clouds; moderate wind.
9/20: Absolutely dead air; humid, overcast, and not even the station's typical lowkey ocean breeze unless you're right down on the beach.
9/21-22: Rain, mostly drizzling, occasionally intense. Dark, heavy clouds.
9/23: Rain continues, but with more intensity; thunder cracks and lightning visible overnight.
9/24-28: Largely clear with stray clouds; breezy, cool.

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QUESTIONS & FEEDBACK

[phantasmods]

PERMISSIONS ROUNDUP

[phantasmods]

• beguiledcard - updated with new section here!
• blackestwitch
• bloodyashes
• byanyother_name
• coagmentatio
• einherjarista
• fantasykiller
• foolishjustice
• have_hat_will_travel
• moarlazersplz
• nojohnyouare
• nor_iron_bars
• thecompletionofthings
• theserpentsmiles

Bastila Shan Permissions Post

[bastilashan]

Permissions Post Link

Hope Minett

[ohwhenyouloveit]

Here!

Luna Zyx | OC

[shatteredeclipse]

Your name: Prof
Contact info: ProfessorProf
Who are you?: 32, He, MN. At the age of six, I was born without a face.
Character name + Journal: Luna Zyx | shatteredeclipse
Canon: Original
Permissions: Here when I get around to finishing it
What's their deal?:
An NPC from a tabletop game, originally. The short deets:

• Comes from Floor 66 of a tower so big that each individual floor is like an entire world!
• Went down to 1F in order to climb the whole thing and get any wish granted!
• Comes from a Very Important Family with a habit of culling the weak offspring in order to keep the gene pool pure!
• Moth wizard!
• Trans girl!
• Positive attitude!
• Full of anxiety!

Plotting: Honestly no particular plans yet - Luna's having a good time just exploring the world outside of her deeply sheltered home life. Also finding out what it's like outside of the Tower, where they have those mythical things called "stars" and shit.
Memeingful GIF:
I don't have any relevant memes, but here's a picture of Luna instead!

[zweihandler]

erina is going to HUG! A! MOTH!

Eric's peoples

[fistsofchange]

Your name: Eric
Contact info: overbringer, Discord: Overbringer#2743
Who are you?: Eric? He's just this guy, you know?

(34. Lives in Seattle, WA. He/His)

Samata Mahto

[tomatowizard]

Character name + Journal: Samata Mahto
Canon: Original Character
Permissions: I'll get something up sooner or later
What's their deal?: In a world where only those with the genetic talent to do so could use magic, and where God and the Church said that sorcerers were chosen to rule over all others, one angry post-grad student said "OH YEAH?" and became the world's first wizard out of spite. Then she accidentally started a revolution. Also she has a robot arm. It's complicated.
Plotting: Samata is here to be mildly distrustful of anyone who has supernatural talents that they were just born with, to get surly and drunk, to geek out about magical theory, and to make magic items on commission.
Memeingful GIF: I got an art of Samata and she look like this

[blessedprotector_rising]

Your name: Fenix
Contact info: PM, Discord @fenixofthedark#9631 or go add me on plurk @ Dark_fenix

Who are you?: A person who fails at social cues but would still like to try and be social. If I do something that makes you uncomfortable or go 'what', tell me. That said, I am a they/them Aussie with some weird hours.

Character name + Journal: Ibuki Tatsuno (Clair) | blessedprotector_rising
Canon: Pokemon AU!
Permissions: Here!

What's their deal?: She's a Pokemon Trainer, Gym Leader, mother (dragon), someone who will adopt everyone. She's also a shipper on deck and can be a bit of troll once she gets to know you. Also she comes from an AU that is best summed up as 'TL;DR: dark AU where pokemon are, more or less, seen as tools and weapons by general consensus and very much not friends. Oh and the Dragon Clan of Johto slides from 'Ehhh OK I guess to GENOCIDE!!' re: Humanity.'.

Uh. Yea.

Plotting: General CR? Getting her used to a world where people think of pokemon as friends? Look, getting her settled is the main point. She can Deal with the fallout of not being in her world Later. Much much later. Clair no that's unhealthy jfc.

Also I guess ignoring her Problems and adopting literally everyone because that's how she rolls. Also missing her daughter because canon point reasons.

I also use the Japanese names because I am much more familiar with them, but I'll always use the English in my bracket text! So, I guess that means come teach Clair the English pokemon names?

Memeingful GIF:

[dralchemist]

Your name: Kasu
Contact info: Plurk: kaosblaze | Discord: Kasu#3872
Who are you?: 25, she/they, living in LA by way of Chicago. A shill for video games, tabletop games, board games, food, and music.
Character name + Journal: Isabella "Izzy" D'Oro | dralchemist
Canon: 13th Age / Tabletop OC
Permissions: Here
What's their deal?: Basically a tiny dragonkin Gordon Ramsay, a master chef-restauranteur and prodigy alchemist with many, many chips on her shoulder. Brash, impulsive, inquisitive, and cocky. High stat: INT. Dump stat: CON.
Plotting: Izzy would love to re-establish her bistro, the Atelier D'Oro, as well as her personal alchemy lab. In the process, though, she's probably going to get herself into a lot of trouble, given her penchant for, uh, self-experimentation. Please keep her safe. Please.
Memeingful GIF:
Notes on Izzy from her tribal cleric friend, Shell.

[founderinglight]

Given that some people already call Izunia 'Izzy,' clearly they need to meet and result in confusion.

Kawasumi Mai | Kanon

[nojohnyouare]

Your name: Jisu
Contact info: jisusushi
Who are you?: I talk a lot about everything and my media intake is 75% moe girls.
Character name + Journal: Kawasumi Mai nojohnyouare
Canon: Kanon (KyoAni's adaptation specifically), CRAU from Airlocked.
Permissions: Here is a permissions post for her powers! Otherwise, standard rules apply, Mai is taken back home so ships are out (though she would totally date 3/4 of her CR otherwise, she gets attached to anyone who's nice to her), and I love backtags, fourth-walling, and threadhopping.
What's their deal?: Mai is a highly untrained, largely unconscious reality bender who only barely knows how to use these abilities for healing (which she's trying to get over some hangups on) and turning toy weapons real. She's also very sad as a general rule and covers it up with a constant state of lineface. She's been through a murdergame as a result of her CRAU and came back with a sense of acceptance and a pet AI bear who was ported into a little robot body.
Plotting: I'm hyped for species swap dungeon and I also plan to throw Mai into party logs and maybe have people help her keep trying to get through her issues with healing. Also, for non-Airlocked close CR, Mai may open up about her worries about her relationship back home, since her CRAUmates hate her girlfriend's guts.
Memeingful GIF:

Fortuna

[fifthreplacement]

Your name: Fortuna
Contact info: FortunaDraken or FortunaDraken#0962 on Discord
Who are you?: Aussie girl who is too tired to think of funny things for this section. Chat lurker extraordinaire.

Sync the Tempest

[fifthreplacement]

Character name + Journal: Sync the Tempest fifthreplacement
Canon: Tales of the Abyss
Permissions: Basic permissions over here
What's their deal?: Shitchild who snarks and is horribly broken but hides that stupid well. Is mildly pissed about being alive still, but starting to adapt to the whole thing no matter how much he dislikes it. Friends, what are friends.
Plotting: Floofmonster. Or in other words, Sync recently got himself (not on purpose mind) an FFX coeurl. I'll be putting an open post for both it and the leaf-storm he totally got out of the dungeon up sometime post-dungeon. Aside from that, still working on the What Is Friends thing.
Memeingful GIF: I don't have meaningful gifs...

[founderinglight]

Your name: Nai
Contact info: starcrossedsky@plurk, starcrossedsky#0506 @ the disco
Who are you?: mod dad is here, mod dad is queer, mod dad is tired and C/Ping a lot of shit from his last intro, don't @ me. he/him, PST, chronic fatigue lord, your local head mod who does most of the plot nonsense.

zuzu limited corporation

[founderinglight]

Character name + Journal: Izunia Lucis Caelum @ founderinglight right here
Canon: Final Fantasy XV, TECHNICALLY an AU, but wasn't at the time I apped, I can't believe it's just their last name
Permissions: boop!
What's their deal?: Local excessively tall goth actually retired king/spirit, his twin was the antichrist of their world at one point (but he's better now, because he was in a murdergame). Tends to be one of the more stable station residents until He Isn't, prone to dadding grandfathering anyone who looks like they might need it. Also, he's two thousand years old and slightly put out about no longer being the oldest at the Station, but it's fine, really.
Plotting: Izunia's been hiding for most of this dungeon at base camp but he's down for SHENANIGANS in the near future - his IC birthday is next week (come say hi) and as usual he's going to be found napping around, fussing at teenagers, probably loudly arguing with his brother and/or brother in law at least once... You know, the usual. He's been here since the VERY BEGINNING so he very much has an established routine.

[thegoofball]

Your name: Nick!
Contact info: daintily, nickknack#8156
Who are you?: 26, they/them, CST. That is the most interesting thing about me.

[thegoofball]

Character name + Journal: Lance, thegoofball
Canon: Voltron: Legendary Defender, CRAU courtesy of melodiesofeternity
Permissions: Bonp
What's their deal?: Lance is a young boy from Cuba who started attending school to become a (space) pilot who stumbled onto an ancient alien war machine that dragged him and four others off into space where he wound up in a war that's been going on for ten thousand years. He forged a psychic bond with that war machine, then bonded with a DIFFERENT one, and THEN he ended up in Vaikuntha where he gained magical powers and also a lot more stress.
Plotting: He has nothing solid planned right now! Anything and everything will be there.
Memeingful GIF:









i also need to post this every time i intro lance to a game

YUURI WAKASA & ERINA ESTIVAL

[mytarget]

Your name: Claire (she/her)
Contact info: mytarget | superorbital | superorbits | discord: superorbital#3758
Who are you?: what's up kids, I'm Claire, one of your spicy and delicious mods and my character type is me running around the streets of new york with a pack of wild lesbians

YUURI WAKASA

[serrata]

Character name + Journal: Yuuri Wakasa (serrata)
Canon: School-Live! (manga canon, with post Airlocked CRAU)
Permissions: Impressions & IC/OOC Permissions are here and permissions for Yuuri's empathy powers are right here!
What's their deal?: Yuuri Wakasa is a gentle but terrifying nee-san, who was the Team Mom of a cast of adorable moe girls, from an adorable moe slice of life story that got violently derailed when the zombie apocalypse happened. After a year or so of surviving this, all four of them got kidnapped to take part in an interdimensional murdergame TV show. As you can probably guess, that sucked too. Yuuri got adopted by a Final Fantasy endboss, survived the murdergame, died, got engaged and was eventually reunited with her canonmates, including her dead little sister and moved to P5 era Japan (yes, in that order). And then she got interdimensionally kidnapped again, so like... bummer for you, huh, Rii-san?

Despite the amount of Abject Bullshit she's been through, Yuuri's marginally more well-adjusted and leagues more emotionally healthy than she was in canon. She's a fussy, powerful team mom, the most terrifying little lady out of her entire murder family and she is very unhappy to find herself kidnapped from her slice of life happy end epilogue and dumped into another interdimensional kidnapping situation.
Plotting: Iiiii actually do not have a lot in mind for her this month, actually! It's her 21st birthday on September 25th so I imagine there will be some degree of shenaniganry around then but other than that, I have ~no plans~. I'm open to pretty much any kind of CR you want to throw at me but all I ask if that stuff is gonna get really viciously negative that you let me know beforehand!
Memeingful GIF:



I SAW A BIG SISTER SO BEAUTIFUL I STARTED CRYING ?

[nor_iron_bars]

Your name Echo
Contact info: EchoDoctor
Who are you?: I'm just a deeply exhausted gay dumbass trying to make it through a strange and confusing world.
Character name + Journal: Jailbreak at nor_iron_bars
Canon: Invisible Hand, an original collaborative 'verse.
Permissions: On her journal and listed up above.
What's their deal?: Basically imagine if Han Solo was a magical girl. That's Jail. She's here to flirt wildly, steal things, and just generally have a good time. Also kind of a magitechnical mad scientist.
Plotting: I HAVE STUMBLED FACE-FIRST INTO THE METAPLOT AND THERE IS NO ESCAPE.
Memeingful GIF:

[tomatowizard]

Frands?

Frens?

Friens?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Your name: Shawna
Contact info: Shawna#1574@discord, shadowesque
Who are you?: EST lady in her 20s who likes snarky angry assholes too much apparently
Character name + Journal: Leonard Church/Lucis Caelum motherfucking_ghost
Canon: Red vs Blue, AU from the murdergame Airlocked
Permissions: n/a
What's their deal?: AI in a handsome meatsuit who likes talking, has little emotional regulation, married a Final Fantasy boss, and still thinks magic is bullshit even though he now has magic. (Doesn't make it any less bullshitty, it's just bullshit that exists and has no rhyme or reason bc it's Magic!) Hates Izunia, so, y'know, that's been fun. Kind of stupid but means well.
Plotting: I have no particular plans so hit me with your best shot
Memeingful GIF:

[nocawsforconcern]

i hope church is ready to be Leo Minor forever.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Your name: Incardine
Contact info: NekoIncardine or @ me on the Discord
Who are you?: 31-year-old codemonkey, more or less.
Character name + Journal: Pidonus Marasia
Canon: Original Character (Dungeons and Dragons setting)
Permissions: here!
What's their deal?: Pidonus is a Succubus, and has a complicated relationship with the slowly-dawning realization that this doesn't have to mean she must be inherently evil.
Plotting: Thanks to some of her recent actions, Pidonus' "Palace" has been revealed to the Persona 5 cast. Those willing to risk weirdness may wish to help with invading it. More than that, she'll need to start befriending people properly soon...

[daughterofthemark]

Your name: Andrusi with a triangle
Contact info: andrusi, Andrusi#0006 on Discord
Who are you?: Andrusi

okay fine 34/he, NC, master of a vast legion of Transformers who unfortunately cannot help me with getting these college computers to work properly.

Character name + Journal: Arianna Wakasa of Caledonia daughterofthemark
Canon: Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold, Airlocked CRAU
Permissions: maybe I should do this at some point
What's their deal?: Princess who makes people stronger by yelling. Loves everyone. Got mixed up in a lot of Sad Things and has ended up unhealthily concerned with whether she's being helpful and how good of a princess she actually is. Despite appearances she's almost 20 and married. Thinks her wife would probably be okay with her smooching pretty girls (and a few boys) in her absence, but doesn't want to go behind her back, b-but enough about her relationship status, who can she set you up with?
Plotting: TRUTH OR DARE TRUTH OR DARE TRUTH OR DARE TRUTH OR DARE! It's happening starting on Friday, September 21 and everyone's invited, including poopyfaces who didn't invite her to their stupid party a while back for stupid perfectly good reasons. Other than that, she's got kids to big sister at, abilities to practice, birthday presents to buy for Yuuri, and sad to secretly be!
Memeingful GIF:

[nojohnyouare]

TRUTH OR DARE

also these two need to hug and talk after that dungeon about how secretly sad they are

Hannah's girls

[nocawsforconcern]

Your name: Hannah
Contact info: lastbastion
Who are you?: Hannah, 29, f, trans lady living in the Seattle area, professional streamer.

Lily

[nocawsforconcern]

Character name + Journal: Lily ax_iom
Canon: Invisible Hand OC
Permissions: N/A
What's their deal?: A nerd with issues. Former hero celebrity, former public enemy number one, now retired and trying to learn how to have feelings without a total emotional breakdown... It's not going great.
Plotting: Honestly I just want her to get out and be social more. Learn how to have friendships! She's hiding a lot right now still and I hope she can be more open with people.
Memeingful GIF:

Talcott Hester | FFXV

[seekingsunrise]

Your name:Sera
Contact info:draconicseraphim Discord: Sera#7666
Who are you?: Dogs. I am a dog person, I talk about dogs a lot. We do dog sports in this house. Other than that I'm a nerd and I gush about my boys and I'm shameless.
Character name + Journal: Talcott Hester seekingsunrise
Canon: Final Fantasy XV camppetoskey CRAU
Permissions: Here
What's their deal?: Murder game CRAU so Talcott is mmm well he's learning how to deal. He's only 18 but a jaded soldier nonetheless. He has the best of intentions most of the time but things tend to blow up in his face. So he's pretty
Plotting: Help him learn that it's okay to live life for himself? He has a lot of trauma to deal with.
Memeingful GIF:

[thedarkheir]

Your name:Shini
Contact info: RShini
Who are you?: I'm Shini, She/Her are my prefer pronouns, and I'm currently in Wyoming,
Character name + Journal:Soma Cruz thedarkheir
Canon: Castlevania,
Permissions: Here
What's their deal?: Teenage boy discovers he's Dracula, not A Dracula, but bonafide reincarnation, and now he's trying to keep himself from going evil, and people who inherited itty little bits of Vampire powers from becoming the next big bad. Otherwise, he's just a sweet, if slightly naive young man with a slight hero complex.
Plotting: Good Cr, Bad Cr, I'd like them both, but I'd like him to befriend people who had similar experiences of their life having flipped turned upside down and you know how the rest goes. Also would like him to have more experience with non-humans that aren't going to immediately kill him on sight too.
Memeingful GIF:

[nojohnyouare]

Glad to see you!

Introducing Bastila Shan (and the mad mastermind behind her)

[bastilashan]

Your name: Christine, but you may call me Onyx.
Contact info: Onyx #2900 on Discord and BastilaShan here.
Who are you?: I am crazy, fun, and pretty easy-going. I am a complete noob to character forums, and I do get a little over-excited/emotional at times. Just tell me if I am overdoing it.
Character name + Journal: Bastila Shan
Canon: She is a straight-from-the-game kinda girl, but my personality will likely creep in at times. She is from the first Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic game. However, there is some information on her that is discovered during the second game. She has not been in any other character forums. She is starting from pretty early on, just after Dantooine.
Permissions: Here is mine. For others, it is easiest to say, "Just ask first." I am pretty open. No rape (OOC or IC). Hugging, kissing, and more IC is fine. She is a young woman, so advances from younger, much older, or female characters may not go over well. She is also getting over losing her love since she was dragged here, so give her a little time to adjust. She has a neural band, so she is immune to most mind-tampering. However, others powers may work on her.
What's their deal?: She is open to learning. She is curious about the world around her. She wants to meet and help others. She is a bit arrogant, so please feel free to knock her down a peg if she goes on about her Battle Meditation and such. She is slow to divulge and open up. She has the standard family drama and trust issues that come with the territory.
Plotting: Bastila wants to just meet everyone for now. I suspect she will flirt with males around her age, and MAYBE even females. She will most likely participate in dungeons/group battles just to have an excuse to use her Battle Meditation (did I mention she is SUPER arrogant about that?). She also tries to be helpful, maybe even overly so. She will talk about things, but slowly. She does not make true friends easily - again, trust issues.
Memeingful GIF:

Bramble

[theosophomoric]

Your name: Bramble
Contact info: bramblepatch or discord @ bramble#6628
Who are you?: Late 20s nonbinary (they/them) nerd living in Southern California who thinks "goblin" is a legitimate lifestyle-slash-fashion choice.

Sonja Klee

[theosophomoric]

Character name + Journal: Sonja Klee @ theosophomoric
Canon: Fallen London (blank slate PC; "Heart's Desire" ambition plot branch)
Permissions: Nothing that requires a response, but she's got a first impressions/ic permissions/ooc permissions post here
What's their deal?: Occultist from an alternate 1890s London that was stolen by capitalist space bats in '61 and relocated to a cave adjacent to hell so a cosmic horror can try and figure out what is love (baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more). She's dedicated the better part of a decade to studying things man was not meant to know, gratuitously messing with both Hell and the Church, dreaming strange dreams of the Neath's god of foul weather and retribution, unsuccessfully trying to organize a card game where she can bet her soul, and dying a lot. She's pretty ok with being here where the sun does not want to murder her extra dead for her crimes against nature. (In her defense, they were really interesting crimes against nature and also, her world's Sun is a two-timing bitch.)
Plotting: Nothing super pressing at the moment! She'll be around, being a little too friendly and a little too blase about Forbidden Knowledge. Also she's got a dog that's made out of a squid.
Memeingful GIF:

[ohwhenyouloveit]

Your name: Gray
Contact info: graygriffin
Who are you?: Heyyyyy I was here for the opening and then I disappeared for two months and now I'm finally back! This time with yet another monster tamer OC who's not a Pokemon trainer for once!

[ohwhenyouloveit]

Character name + Journal: Hope Minett (ohwhenyouloveit)
Canon: OC (Invisible Hand)
Permissions: Incomplete but here
What's their deal?: Yet another member of Lighthouse is here, along with a giant bucktoothed monster friend. Don't worry, he's actually quite friendly once you get to know him. A teenage girl who actually discovered her magic on her own and has a strong empathy towards monsters, Hope is here to make friends and defy authority, and she's all out of authority to defy.
Plotting: Fellow InHand members unite! I'm also totally up for Hope befriending everyone and also people getting freaked out by Bucky when they first meet him.
Memeingful GIF:

[riderofcharlemagne]

Your name: Jeff
Contact info: jeffurson & Jefferson#7130 on discord
Who are you?: 21 year old fool (he/him or she/her) who's way into film and has a furby collection.

noot

[riderofcharlemagne]

Character name + Journal: Astolfo + riderofcharlemagne
Canon: Fate/Apocrypha
Permissions:
What's their deal?: LOCAL PINK SERVANT HAS TOO MUCH LUCK, NO SENSE. He's been here since the start, so he's pretty settled in. Always up for shenanigans and terrible impulsive decisions.
Plotting: OK well now he has Rabicano there's gonna be an "Introduction to Horses 101" because SOME PEOPLE don't have horses in their worlds. So look forward to that.
Memeingful GIF:

[plentyfriendly]

Your name: Awe
Contact info: awestriker or get ahold of me on the discord
Who are you?: Mid-20s! Software/web developer type guy! Frequently distracted!

[plentyfriendly]

Character name + Journal: Phi plentyfriendly
Canon: Zero Escape + Trustfell 4 CRAU (advanced deathgame history)
Permissions: Through here.
What's their deal?: Serial stressful death "game" participant with a past so twisted it couldn't fit in the actual past. But that's all behind her, even if the trauma is forever. Can get heated on some things, since she grew up in a politically turbulent era (i.e. ours).
Plotting: Phi is still working on understanding magic! She would also like to start with at least one technique for self-defense given that it has been assumed she can fight, which was a mistake.

Oh, and she recently got a psychic snap that derails other peoples' trains of thought. If you want that for getting unstuck from brain things, let me know.