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From:

pengwern

Player name or handle: pengwern
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Character name: Vauhan Mikodez
One-paragraph (100 words) summary of your character.
This is a Mikodez right after his evaluation with Zehun - the hexarchs, scrambling for a solution to the incursions, have sent Mikodez to a Rahal station where rift prisoner interrogations are taking place. Mikodez has been told that his variable signifier will be an asset on this mission, since the rebels are aware that Shuos with this signifier are limited to the pre-Hellspin era, and may give more up to a convincing fellow prisoner. During the briefing, Mikodez received hints that his family has been threatened as collateral, when his younger sister Istradez was mentioned by name. Then his moth swerved through a rift. Oy.

How did your character first learn of the hexarchate?
He was born to it, and decided to sign up for the Shuos as an outlet for his energy.

Why did your character join this rebellion?
He was told to! Apparently it will count as extra credit, and any good Shuos cadet would stab for extra credit. (Second year cadets don’t tend to survive going undercover with heretics, no matter how good their rank in class. The threat against his family is probably credible, but he has no guarantee that he’d be reinstated after completion of this mission, given the oversight of other factions in this matter, especially the Rahal. The rifts aren’t predictable in where they open, and he may never see any of his family again anyway. Which make this an occasion that calls for the application of [play your own game], a lesson that Mikodez has learnt very well indeed.)

What would make your character consider giving up the cause?
(Note for this and further questions: Tell me things that you're willing to have happen in the game. I may go this far with your character. I will not go further. What I'm asking for is story/character hooks.)

If it becomes apparent that the replacement for the hexarchate would be worse than the current state of affairs, or if it seems unlikely to succeed, Mikodez might try to return to the Shuos to influence the course of events from within.

Name something your character does not want to lose.
The game that his Shuos superiors have decided to play with him.

Name something your character would die for.
A week ago this wasn’t in on the table, but he had plenty of time aboard the Rahal transport vessel to consider what the welfare of his family means to him, and if there’s a way out of this.
Also, if Mikodez had wanted to give up his life for the hexarchate he wouldn’t have applied to the Shuos.

Name something your character would kill for.
In the future, Mikodez is more than willing to kill innocents for a larger objective. While current Mikodez is lacking in hands-on experience, he has the resolve to remove obstacles directly if he sees no other way of negotiation.

Who is your character's best friend?
Out of his family, Istradez. In public, he’s willing to apply that to anyone who brings him sweets (that pancake with lemon honey, the extra wintermelon pastry, the crunchy hawthorn brittle).

Describe your character's perfect partner (romantic or friend or coworker, your choice).
Competent and not boring. In a pinch, he’ll take someone capable over the erratic but entertaining.

What is your character's secret dream or desire, the one they've never told anyone?
This interpretation of Mikodez has consciously decided to try for the hexarch’s seat, but is only nebulously willing to admit that his motive is the welfare of the hexarchate’s citizens, let alone reform. (His selective denial is influenced by being summoned out in the middle of a quiz to face a pack of brightly clad assassins and the rather scarier Senior Instructor Zehun.)

How will your character die?
(NOTE: I will not kill your character unless you pre-arrange it with me, but I may put you in a dangerous situation based on this.)
Having played to the utmost of his abilities. But specifically: by taking candy from a stranger, malnutrition or some kind of space scurvy, sleep deprivation, weapon misfire while sleep deprived, stabbing himself while trying to knit, crashing out a window when the frustration of having miscounted the ridiculous increases on the foxpaws pattern led to him getting tangled in the five different skeins he was working with, trying to pet a cat and getting mauled, trying to play with a cockatiel and succumbing to poison on its beak, or at the hands of various assassins and agents. Lots of ways to die for a hexarch-to-be!

Does your character have any powers that the hexarchate would consider "exotic" (magical)?
None for the Shuos, but interesting rumours about the benefits of their hexarch’s position have always existed.

What do you (the player) enjoy most in an RPG?
I’ve never played before, but I’m excited to see how everything goes.
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You have 500 words to tell me anything else you want me and the other players to know about your character. Do it here.
Mikodez took the tenuous opportunity Cheris offered when he might have stopped her plans with a single call, and I’m inclined to think that this holds for the Mikodez of eighteen, who managed to convince Zehun with their “unquiet ideas about how the Shuos should be run” to allow him to live.
I feel like Mikodez at 68 has spent all that time emphasizing his Ninefox Smiling qualities in order to nudge his signifier away from dangerous ground (although he isn’t subtle about his policies for a saner working environment, that seems to be development from after the gun heist when he was 36-45)? He may fall back into those whimsical performative patterns, but was rather more volatile in his early years as hexarch, and joining a bunch of heretics is at least as attention consuming as whacking the entire Shuos into compliance. So still the same wriggly noodle deep down as the vision from Raven Stratagem, but with far less license to indulge in those ostentatious weaknesses as a Shuos cadet than its hexarch of forty-two years.
The Mikodez of eighteen either can hack or has access to people with the ability, is capable of appealing to his classmates’ self interests, and spends his nights plotting. Being inexperienced but already wildly over-confident, he’s likely to overreach and get into scrapes while figuring out what to do with the information he’s collected through the rift (besides selling it to the Andan for extra cash.) He’s a little worried about his family, but there’s little chance for anything he does to have an effect on them so far into the future.
Right now his goals are: (not in order)
1) prove himself to Zehun
2) keep in practice with Shuos principles
3) evaluate the rebellion’s potential
4) figure out what to do
5) take care of family somehow…?
6) stay alive
7) wrangle this fucking hexarchate into better shape
8) ???
9) Profit! (profit would be really nice)

(I understand if the presence of purposefully sent agents doesn’t work with the conditions for this rpg, but if they do exist, then I imagine there would be scores of agents coming after him given how pissed off the other factions will be at Shuos (after they sort out their respective successions), since Brezen told Tseya, who has every incentive to get the news out.)

Edited (spacing issues) Date: 2017-07-01 06:55 pm (UTC)

From:

venndaai

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mercuryhatter

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From:

vass

I for one look forward to the space scurvy and/or knitting mishap storyline.

From:

yhlee

Hello, and welcome to the game! A purposefully sent agent is fine--your character might get into some interesting scrapes depending on which side he throws his weight on, but it sounds like you're aware of that.