[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?