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( Activity for 2019 )

( Activity 2020 )

September
; September 19 - 30: EVENT LOG: HUNGER AND THIRST: Stone sharing stories with the spirits, and occasionally threats
; September 19 - 30: EVENT LOG: HUNGER AND THIRST: All the spirit stories

October
; October 22: For Go With Wisdom Ways.... [OTA]: Stone flirts with Klaes (wait, is this a new thing? no, no it is not)

November
; November 11: EVENT LOG: GHOST TOWNS: Stone and Rosinante talk vegetable memories

December
; December 9: Exploration: The explore thread for finding the power station

Name: Sam Stone: Stone of Indigo Cloud Court
Age: 500-ish/77
Appearance: PB: Jeremy Irons
Occupation: Retired American air force, occasional personal plane flying instructor

Full Application: Linked here.

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( Activity )

Notes:
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Jaunt Skills
Dreamcatcher: His consort bracelet is now able to capture and hold dream energy that can be used for various purposes.
Know Motivation: Whenever Stone's Dreamcatcher is full, he may expend the power in it to know what the emotional motivation of any single target he looks at is-- a sure way to tell Oracle from Champion, Adversary from Pillar. However, the psychological insights granted are not limited to that.
Oracular Knowledge (Age): Stone can tell how old someone or something is, what general Age they come from relative to his own, and if someone is close to death of natural or inexorable causes (age, terminal illness, etc) he can tell how long they have left.
Oracle Familiar: The large, meat-eating, flightless bird spirit named Azure (the name annoys him a little) followed him back from Questing Country.
Elsewhere Cat: A Fae-touched "Other" cat. Cats outside the world of Elsewhere U cannot see through Glamours, but this one can. Can walk through twisted spacetime. A cat currently in service to Fae must be paid for in a Deal. This is used mainly to give Azure a smaller and more portable form. From Elsewhere University.
Sight: The ability to see through glamours and illusions, as well as through Masks of Changelings. From Elsewhere University.
Demon Form: Stone can assume the form of Skamaris, the Marquis of the 66th. This means he can both fly, talk, and have a tail all at the same time, and without being huge. He loves this. From Market of the Vanities. (February AC)
Fight As One: Grants all warriors obeying your commands your physical strength, weapon skill, and durability; grants any diplomats obeying your commands your ability with grammar, logic, and rhetoric. After the Jaunt, usable once per Jaunt. If you do not issue commands, the power ceases operation; if any disobeys your commands or leaves your presence or that of any familiar or companion spirit you send with them, the power ceases to affect them. From Market of the Vanities. (March AC)
Beastfolk form - naga: A half-human, half-snake DNA splice with two arms, a long tail, a blunt snake-like face, and a mane of spines like a Raksuran consort. Unfortunately, he is also very, very old in this form, with all of Stone-the-naga's age-related health problems. (Beastfolk)
Unconquerable Mind: The ability to notice and resist subversive attempts to alter one's memories, ideals, and/or thought patterns. Post Jaunt, this skill must be consciously activated in order to work and each activation lasts for one hour per week. (Beastfolk)
Basic pottery: Stone is the first full aeriat to actually be able to make something artistic. He can now make pottery! Learned from Stone-the-naga. (Beastfolk)
S-Tech Empathy: Use of S-Tech to gauge the mood of any machine, but particularly ships and mecha suits. Useful for diagnosing problems and for using machines to their best efficiency. Accompanied by random music manifesting around him.


Liminal Skills
Hammerspace I (powercap)
Stationary Portals (September AC)
Liminal Manipulation I, II (October AC)
Dimensional Senses (Catch-up skill)
Room Creation I, II (November AC), III (May AC)
Intraliminal skills (Catch-up skill)
Remote Portal Creation (December AC)
Liminal Static (January AC, free skill)
Liminal Bridge I (March AC), II (taught by Lupa)
Liminal Slick (April AC)
Extraliminal Phase (June AC)
Liminal Power (July AC)
Liminal Permanence (taught by Laughs)
Teleport (taught by Gil)
Wardrobe Manip I (February AC)
Wardrobe Manip II (April AC)
Liminal Template (July AC)
Liminal Healing (July AC)
Liminal Transmutation (November AC)


Psychic Skills
Network Archive Retrieval (December AC)
Sensory livestreaming (taught by Laughs)
Memory Sharing (taught by Gale)
Filter Intrusion (August AC)
Investigator Mind-Reading (September AC)
Infiltrator Mind-Reading (October AC)
Infiltrator Knowledge (taught by Gale)
Infiltrator Telepathy (December AC)
Memory Immersion (January AC)
Infiltrator Persona (March AC)
Psychic Detection (June AC)
Psychic Bridge I (September AC) and II (October AC)


Hybrid Skills
Memorial Bridge I (October AC) and II (November AC)


Favor Skills
Favor of the Hermit
Marked Harmony (Hermit)
Know Thyself (Hermit)
Path to Profit (Hermit)
Moment of Clarity (Hermit)

P L A Y E R;
NAME: Gail
AGE: 36
PLAYER JOURNAL: cacopheny
TIMEZONE: PST
CONTACT: cacopheny on plurk
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: Riddick, Lyall, Jolie (who is on hiatus/dungeoned for now)

C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Stone of the Indigo Cloud Court
CANON: Books of the Raksura
POINT IN CANON: A year or so past the end of Harbors of the Sun, the last book in the series. Enough time for him to start getting restless.
AGE: Somewhere between 400 and 500, he’s lost count
APPEARANCE:
The big one is Stone. Normally he’s obscured a little around the edges by a blurring effect, some artifact of his age combining with his power and the peculiar nature of Raksura shapeshifting. He has wings, protective scales and ridges along his body, a lot of spines and long, soft scales called “frills” in a mane down his back, and he is comfortable moving both on two legs (making him very tall) or on all fours (making him only slightly less tall). He can’t talk in this form, but he can growl and communicate some with his spines. He’s lighter than he looks, with nearly hollow bones like a bird, and his wings in canon are sixty “paces” from tip to tip, which might translate into anywhere between 70 and 80 feet. Also, his tail is semi-prehensile and he could, if he found anything big enough, hang upside-down from it.

In groundling form, Stone looks basically human, aside from the fact that his skin is dull gray, like his shaggy hair. His canine teeth and the teeth right next to them and some of his molars are sharper than a human’s would be, made for tearing meat off of bones, and his tongue is longer and thinner than a human’s tongue, but otherwise, he pretty much looks human. He’s tall and lean, weathered and lined as much by travel as by age, and one blue eye is clouded over and partially blind.

Played by Jeremy Irons. In grayscale.

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OOC INFORMATION.
PLAYER NAME: Gail
CONTACT: cacopheny @ plurk
CHARACTERS ALREADY IN-GAME: N/A


IC INFORMATION.
CHARACTER NAME: Stone
CANON: Books of the Raksura
CANON POINT: A year or so after the book Harbors of the Sun
AGE: Somewhere in the range of 400 years

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[Ping here for ICly contacting Stone in private through his runestone bracelet!]

February 2018
; February 12: IC INTRO - FEB: Stone in the aftermath of being dumped through a rift
; February 12: IC INTRO - FEB: Stone meets one of the androids
; February 12: IC INTRO - FEB: Stone trying to get rid of some junk
; February 12: IC INTRO - FEB: Stone smells free food

March 2018
; February 23: If there's a light at the end, it's just the sun in your eyes: Stone bothers Prompto some more
; March 9: DUNGEON LOG: KEYSTONE SHORE: Stone in the Keystone Beach fissure stabilization log
; March 9: DUNGEON LOG: KEYSTONE SHORE: Stone offers to bury Aya's stabilization device
; March 9: DUNGEON LOG: KEYSTONE SHORE: Stone turns down some of Goro's food
; March 12: DUNGEON LOG: KEYSTONE SHORE: Stone checks up on Jetshard during her nap

April 2018
; March 29: [text] Doctor says, are you in?: Stone checking in with the doctor-bot Strange
; March 29: [video] UN: danslalune: Stone visits the stables to meet Astolfo's hippogryph
; March 29: an open thing!: Stone taste-tests Akira's cooking
; April 9: Just a flock of birds, that's how you think of love: Stone and Prompto both getting some morning exercise

Option I. Syn AU

Another liminal change, another influx of new people, and Stone was tired today. The last Jaunt had been... well, strange. And uncomfortable. And Stone wasn't feeling like going out and meeting everyone else just yet.

So he and Azure were on the platform in his created space, with the door behind him to the rest of liminal open, while she preened his hair and he considered the fake canopy of leaves overhead and possibly a nap.


Option II. Three Worlds

Stone was napping when the scent hit him, and he sat up sharply, startled. An Arbora who had been tending to one of the plants on the same platform jumped and dropped her basket. "Line-grandfather?"

He waved a hand at her rather than answer, climbed to his feet, and shifted, taking off immediately almost before his winged shape had finished settling in. That was the smell of an asura, and he did not want anyone else to be the one to find him first.


Option III. ELSEWHERE take your pick, her world or another random one

Traveling had broken something, as far as Stone could tell. He hadn't seen the colony tree for more than a couple days at a time, before bouncing off to some other world again. He didn't have anything he needed to fix or change, like actual Traveling, it just... lasted as long as it lasted before he found himself able to open a portal again to get back home.

This time it seemed like one of the modern Earth-ish worlds, as far as Stone could tell. He got a few funny looks for the height, the gray skin, and the bare feet, but no one had stopped him yet. Since he hadn't tried to smile yet, no one could question the teeth. Right now, he was just looking for wherever he could sit down for a while, take in the scents, and listen to people so he could get his bearings.


Option IV. WILD CARD

Got something else you feel like playing out, an AU of some sort or a private walkabout or something? Go ahead and make a starter and I will tag!

Memories for The Night We Met event. All are written by Martha Wells, from her patreon donation short stories.

( 1. Masaomi )

( 2. Fjord )

( 3. Quentin )

( 4. Alisaie )

( 5. Rosinante )

( 6. Unclaimed )

( 7. Unclaimed )