Avarick

Story as it Stands

• Personal History

  History is written by the winners and Averick is not, as of yet, among them. As such, he has no qualms about modifying his own personal story so as to better fit his listeners' preferences. For example, he agrees that he was a prisoner prior to being sold into slavery; however, if asked, he will describe his alleged crimes as ideologically motivated (the official record paints him as a common opportunist.) Likely, the truth lies somewhere between two poles, if it even exists at all.

• Seeking

  • Buyers for under-the-table drug deals (Avarick slings for the local wolpertinger)
  • Fellow undesirables to flesh-out backstory
  • Well-heeled enablers to stave off sobriety
  • Patrons who tip (has access to a cache for drug earnings; will do almost anything for gold)
  • Abolitionists and anarchists who'll entertain his fantasies of insurrection
  • Musophobic or otherwise xenophobic creatures to engage in speciesist banter
  • Experienced fighters for dice-based combat training
  • Predatory males who're willing to exploit Avarick's suppressed submissive impulses
  • Purveyors of drugs and potions (Avarick has a specialized sense of smell and an obsession with psychoactive agents)
  • Brothers and sisters in slavery to befriend and/or antagonize

• Play Styles & Plot Lines

  Asking for It	Curious	Not a Hard No	Never
  Asking for It Subversive/political narratives Ambivalent sexual dynamics Speciesist/xenophobic repartee Criminal mischief/moral ambiguity OOC discussion Dice-based sparring	Curious Arena fighting Sadomasochistic role-reversal Heavy gore & body horror Mutual romance Family-friendly narratives	Not a Hard No Freedom from slavery Sexually explicit whispers Short, non-paragraph-based roleplay Heterosexual intercourse Fade-to-black sex scenes	Never Castration Death without resurrection Non-OOC-negotiated powerplays

• Tropes

  Troubled Sympathetic Bigot Armored Closet Gay Agressive Submissive His Own Worst Enemy

  Shirtless Captives Nailed to the Wagon Opportunistic Bastard Because I'm Good at It

  Species Loyalty Wrong Side of the Tracks Your Terrorists are Our Freedom Fighters You Dirty Rat

• Connections

  Friends

  	Pesochnyy (played anonymously)
  Strictly quid-pro-quo alliance

  	Gundrik Ironsbane (played by Cromagus410)
  Generous soul

  	Ahio (played by Amity)
  Benevolent patron

  	Ivan Sergeiovich Petrov (played by Krieg_005)
  Strictly a sales call

  	Callado (played by WolfGenesis)
  Brother in slavery

  	Asio (played anonymously)
  Strictly one-off

  	Royals (played by savannahsage)
  Sweetness and sea salt

  	Muck (played by Sarius)
  Comfortingly honest

  	Destin (played by Lyss)
  Wise albino

  	Aroden Brightclaw (played by kingsridgeryan)
  Adventuresome Soul

  	Samnang Kosal (played anonymously)
  Strictly drug-related exchange

  Enemies

  	Drach (played by Isnelx)
  Sadistic bitch

  Family

  	Tsheri (played anonymously)
  Beloved niece/cousin

  Acquaintances

  	Mashenka (played by Devils_Ad)
  Bad to the bone

  	Lieu (played anonymously)
  Species unknown

  	Bronagh (played anonymously)
  Needs rescuing

  	Tillen (played anonymously)
  Not a drug czar

• Playlist

  Let's Get Radical, Gogol Bordello

  The 'Brighton Beach' he sings about must be something like the Tether: ideologically bankrupt, swarming with loose women.

  
  The Revolution will not be Televised, Gil Scott Heron

  Although this heron does not speak for the Burrows, his community's struggle does resonate; I only hope that their coup was a success.

  
  Farewell to the Crown, Chumbawumba

  A fantastic song with ground-breaking lyrics! You can be sure these musicians won't be one-hit wonders!

  
  Cotton Fields (Summertime), Grant Lazlo

  In the land of freedom, it's always summertime.

  
  I Think I Smell a Rat, the White Stripes

  Rodents are impeccably clean, hence this expression: if you can smell us, something is suspect.

  
  Faggot, Mindless Self-Indulgence

  While I myself prefer females, I do know many men to whom this song applies.

  
  Queer, Garbage

  "You learn to love the pain you feel," do you? Fuck -- this sinister songstress gets deep into my head.

  
  Amour, Rammstein

  "Amour Amour/ Everyone just wants to tame you/ Amour Amour/ In the end/ Caught between your teeth."(Translated from the German.)

  
  Hashish: the Drug of a Nation, Radio Trip (Ft. Poom Pam)

  A song about hashish, my first love.

  
  Defective Trip, Gravediggaz

  A cautionary ballad about the stronger, newer drugs like morphine.

  
  Chassid Message, Balkan Hotsteppers (Amsterdam Klezmer Band vs Grandmaster Flash)

  The original 1943 semitic version of 'the Message', 'cause the Warsaw ghetto was a jungle (it makes me wonder how they kept from going under.)

  
  Pusherman, Curtis Mayfield

  As a lowly drug-slinger, I can only aspire to this man's status as 'Pusherman.'

  
  Sober, Tool

  "I will find a center in you/ I will chew it up and leave/ I will work to elevate you/ Just enough to bring you down." (A fair warning to all those who get too close.)

  
  Rats, Pearl Jam

  Rats are inarguably the loyalest and most compassionate out of all the creatures in the animal kingdom.

  
  Weed Smoker’s Dream, Harlem Hamfats

  Contemporary music has gotten so cynical; while I'm not hip to modern lingo, I'm savvy enough to know that this song is about turning somebody out for drug money.

  
  Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Smashing Pumpkins

  "Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage." This song is clearly about me.

  
  Vaseline, Khan (Ft. Kid Congo Powers)

  "Boy, you're nothing but a bad movie scene/ The dope, the lies, and the vaseline." Not sure what vaseline is but, if it's as good as dope, I'm sold.

  
  Hurt, Johnny Cash

  Because sometimes you've got to "focus on the pain."

  
  Music for my Mother, Funkadelic

  This is a song about a runaway slave who gets waylaid by the music in his mind. I just hope his mother forgives him for not coming home.