[Q+A] Mortis Ramble Thread

[MarxzVulpez]

so, from the examples we've seen so far both in world building data and projects, Concepts seem to usually have either no dreams or more lucid and/or conscious dreams. Is that pretty standard across the species or is there a fair amount of like Standard/Weird Dreams as well?

[skinstealer]

i cant actually remember if i put down that concepts have No Dreams so much as they have blockers to prevent sharing them with people in a certain proximity (typically a room), but all concept dreams aside from that Are Lucid, and standard dreams, if they happen, would honestly be seen as a concerning medical condition due to how culturally important they are to concepts- it would be concerning if someone just...no longer had control, in their eyes

[skinstealer]

ellerie here, figure i could ask for some character development questions while we work today. my characters aren't very well known though, so...




esme- she/her, flame shroud, also has blood fever and is fairly aggressive about it. feeds on people directly instead of getting bloodbank stuff, making her sort of an antagonist...she finds justification for herself doing it but she's definitely not in the right. not a bad person if you're not on the menu, though. showing up in a future project that i can't talk about.



marrow- my morbit sona, sort of...may also have blood fever, i haven't decided yet. has some rare mutations (induced on purpose, but not willingly to her) that replace her midsection with crystals, and has a hard time getting around without her cane. how she still eats is a mystery (maybe she can only eat blood?) also, fucking huge for a mothlie. kind of scary to people. terror hunter. part of the system polycule project but i haven't actually done anything with her there yet.



grace stripes- fairly underdeveloped bellows character. wizard who handles the magical supply and demand of bellows, an underground fighter as well. kind of a coward who talks a big game, loses a lot in the ring.



patchy- patchimus type with a lust for revenge and an irritation at being treated like a toy. this is a running theme with smaller/cuter TCPs in the maze trials and we're making it work. all the same, they're okay with helping out the faction they're a part of with their comforting ability.


pine- very sad and scared TCP groomed into ritualistic murder by its overseers. i actually can't remember if pine uses it or she pronouns so i'll alternate. has very little in the way of comforts and lives a miserable life, hopefully remedied someday...

MISC TCPS
i don't have much for 90% of these but you can ask stuff and i'll make things up. then they get developed.


cherry square- TCPsona? that's what she was made as, anyway. don't have a lot to say


craven- probably an asshole


dusker- likes being out at nighttime



forrest- probably as the name implies, likes being outdoors?


gimmick- another terror hunter...supposedly. she doesn't have any kill marks and refuses to elaborate on her techniques. mortal enemies with esther (played by rin) and takes their entire "from another dimension" thing 100% seriously. "raised" in the TCPdex facility, got bullied a lot for being perceived as overdramatic over the fact that she has an edgy backstory and refuses to budge on that


iceberg- no idea


limerick- i had a whole thing for this guy and i completely forgot what it was. probably a terror hunter or something


pill bottle- not my usual aesthetic at all but it's here i guess? i'll be honest i'd really like to develop this one and see what i can do with something so bright and cheery looking.


there you have it, there's my guys. ask away

[Ignispark]

so marrows's a terror hunter? how does that work, like how does she hunt them? what does the job entail? is this like, contract work or like a position guarding an area prone to attacks? what are her thought's on the job?

[skinstealer]

find terror (typically based on reports), kill terror (typically beheading or attacking obvious vital areas- beheading is always a safe bet as it's usually a fatal wound for most morbit species and animals. gods too, for that matter.), ransack for parts and sell them on the black market. is it technically cannibalism if she eats her kills? probably, and i don't think too many people would take kindly to it (something something eating zombie meat), but it saves on grocery bills.

...this is providing that she actually is able to eat in the first place, which i'm still unsure of.

she operates independently and travels a lot, leaving her apartment in wayside unattended a lot of the times. doesn't do much on her offtime, mainly just sleeps. she thinks it's dirty work and it takes a toll on her pretty bad at times, especially when the terrors appear to have more sapient-like behavioral patterns, but she justifies it as "theyre gone now and theyre going to endanger the population if i don't kill them". also considers it the only work she really can do, even if it has a big toll on her body, she sees her bursts of abnormal strength (and they are very much bursts) her only asset to society, even if that's not really true at all.

[Ignispark]

wow! that's really interesting, also a very rough situation to be in.

is, eating terrors 'safe'? like are there health risks to eating them? is she immune to potential health risks or is this like a bad thing for her?

also, what's her favorite places of the places she's traveled through?

[skinstealer]

it probably varies super hard re: safety upon consumption and she's probably gotten sick a bunch of times. she's still resistant to it i think but her mutations probably made her on and off sickly as well.

probably likes the woods. somewhere she can be safe and quiet and spread her wings a bit (she's not capable of flight due to her wings being fucked up and torn up, but spreading them still feels nice.)

[ThreadLurkingComorant]

Tell me about the future project Esme is involved in.

[skinstealer]

i cannot talk about the project esme is in because it's actually not my project lol

but she is a vampire-like bastard in it. that is guaranteed

[Ignispark]

what's blood fever like? what are its symptoms/effects?

[skinstealer]

blood fever is, to be blunt, an adaptation of our stupid vampire/werewolf hybrids back in the original roleplay group that would eventually become morbit. people with blood fever need to consume blood (the fresher the better) or they risk turning into a temporary terror state that lasts until the desired amount of blood is consumed. these terror states vary wildly and those afflicted with it do temporarily lose sapience once the form is fully reached- though, with careful blood dosing and lots of mental training, some are able to achieve a halfway state where their impulses may be a bit risky, but the strength payoff and persistence of sapience is worth it, especially in bad situations.

[ThreadLurkingComorant]

What are your vampire takes

[skinstealer]

i'm more of a werewolf person myself (you know this) but i did have a twilight phase in general and i respect vampires. they're cool. not monstery enough though if they just look like people with fangs

[MarxzVulpez]

does blood fever only affect sentient/sapient morbitians, or can plants animals and others catch it too?

[skinstealer]

well, rin did something incredibly generous and gifted a character back to me that was kind of both of ours back in the day... she's extremely important to both of us but rin hasn't been able to figure out stuff to do with her in a long while (or at all really for the modern morbit iteration...) so-




plethora vladi- the first ever morbit character, blood fever afflicted, terrible at managing her condition. works for a diner we haven't named but is The Actual Morbit Denny's, mainly with as much manual labor as her girlfriend (who owns the place) can get out of her. very bad at social interactions, kind of fighty. doesn't like to talk.

[Ignispark]

(re: blood fever. that's pretty interesting. i like that alternative takes on vampirism because i think, its fun. i do have to agree that like...vampires when they just are people with fangs are a bit too tame for preference.)

oh! a diner.
what's the aesthetic of the diner? what sort of decor does it have?
what's on the menu?

what's plethora's favorite food (um, presuming, normal food is edible and not just blood.)

[skinstealer]

it's a pretty cozy local place, but it has huge ceilings due to having its gimmick be centered around catering to monsters (horror-mutated people, such as those with blood fever). as such they stock a lot of meat dishes and have heaping large servings for those who need them. decor is pretty goofy, lots of framed pictures of patrons doing dumb expressions, but that's what makes it nice.

plethora likes french onion soup when she's not devouring steaks raw. it would probably not be called "french" onion soup, though.

[knux400]

Who's the smaller character standing with Plethora in the first pic?

What job does she work at in the diner (cashier, cook, etc)?

What's the first thing you remember doing with the character (if you're both comfortable sharing it, of course)

[skinstealer]

so...that's not actually a morbit character- that's the first iteration of plethora, back when she was an edgy 13 year old vampire werewolf tiger. this was for a memoir article that rin wrote a while back, about the old RP group and what it meant to us. kind of a passing of the torch gesture.

pleth mainly does manual labor, stuff like carrying shipments and boxes around, and is in charge of delivering particularly big meals to customers as well. kind of an unorthodox position, but it works.

uhhhh plethora back when we were kids ran a gang called "the forgotten", which was for cool monsters like her. it was also notoriously hard to get in because you had to have your character beat her in a fight and she was overpowered as fuck, and we kept disappearing for long stretches because of various life circumstances. it kind of pissed people off lol

[skinstealer]

tony + miles here, our turn for a q+a. we've got a bunch of characters between us so here they come


TONY CHARACTERS


badd boy- badd for short. he/him, kind of an obnoxious ham, means well but ends up bragging his ass off. doesn't really have friends. freelance sex worker (be tame about questions here pls, save anything more risque for the discord or 18+ thread), poor as dirt but tries to pretend he isnt



braxton- he/him, fashion blogger/influencer, lives in hoopla. has a permanent case of the sillies.



needy- they/them, lived in hoopla with braxton for a while before moving back to monte to work for the hearts mob. kind of a bastard who needs to clean up their life and get somewhere safer.


stellaris- she/her, potion type that sells potion liquid on the hoopla black market. pushes herself way too hard and really needs someone to help her out. felid factor TCP.


unnamed pitcher plant guy- maze trials TCP, i do not have a lot for them yet but they're here and probably pretty dangerous


mark + park- two twin guys, up to no good.


noidea- survivor of a peaceful TCP session, team was run by Slate, who is not listed here because he doesn't have a ref or details yet. she/her


price- raised in the tcpdex research facility, now lives in a TCP exclusive city. not a lot down for this guy but he used to have aggression problems "growing up" that he's trying to move past

crush- TCPsona, [PASSWORD_JOURNAL] on the felid factor forums. a huge flirt and prone to making messes, but he also just likes making friends and gossiping.


vix- no idea for this guy but they probably have a bone to pick
 

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MILES CHARACTERS


biome- they/them, no details yet aside from living in hoopla



zebbie- assassin for hire that's currently on a revenge bender for his fallen mother. powerful scrap user and most likely to have a boss battle out of anyone else listed here.


cecelia- a "princess" for the god Decorum (one of rein's lesser gods), kept as a weird fucked up pet and deals with regular ritual consumption. discovers the internet and writes really goofy cringe stories about wizards. she/her, felid factor character

biscuit- it's a cookie! this is bad. maze trials character, he can sense scraps


letterhead- lives in TCP-exclusive city, formerly from TCPdex research facility. it/its


carver- scary, but gentle. designer gore type.


have at it