Phthisis

Daybreak

• The Murky Hope
  
  Janus doesn't come with many rules for RP, but here's a few basics that everyone should know about him.

  • Janus isn't nice. At all. He's suffering from constant, dramatic culture-shock wherever he goes; he's carrying a deadly plague around that strikes at random; he's got psychological issues that, thanks to said plague and culture shock, never seem to get resolved; on top of all of that, he's never been the kind of guy to just spill his heart and soul out to close friends, let alone random strangers. I'm not saying that your characters will never learn anything about him, but I am saying that he's going to be coldly rational, emotionally detached, uninterested in those around him, and intensely reserved. The power of friendship!!!! is not going to warm the cockles of his heart and transform him into the plucky hero he was always meant to be. But, if your character can suffer him long enough to actually help him do something about his curse, he'd be a lot more willing to share something about himself. The possibility is there, but it's not easily reached.
    
  • Janus speaks a lot of languages and has been on other planets before. The curse he has takes him to all sorts of places and time periods, just not for very long. He's been working on his English and can speak it pretty well, enough to sound like your average American guy. Since I, his player, actually don't know any other languages well enough to RP in them, any quirks or stumbling blocks Janus has with a particular dialect will be conveyed through his dialogue, if not directly noted in text. All that being said, he's hardly an "expert" on anything; he's learned a little about a lot of things, enough to keep himself out of trouble or going hungry and homeless, but most of his knowledge consists of how to meet those goals, not understand how a device or a culture works. If given an opportunity to stay in a particular place for a while, he'll start coming up with ways to actually utilize the things around him for more than just staving off a growling stomach or sleeping in the rain; just don't expect him to be capable of building a flux capacitor or anything.
    
  • Janus isn't a terribly capable fighter. He got lucky when he caught the warlock by surprise and bludgeoned him with a brick that was nearby. He became a town guard in the first place because it was either lift a sword and earn a little food or work in the fields, a job he never liked anyways, and potentially die of starvation trying to raise crops that might never come. He's not a coward by any stretch of the word; not being able to die, no matter what you do, tends to dull that mortal fear. All in all, he's just kind of a short (by modern standards) lanky guy who keeps himself decently fit. He bleeds, he can be wounded, and he feels pain just as anyone else would, but no matter what he goes through, he'll always pull himself back together, sometimes literally; that doesn't just make the pain magically go away, however, and he usually needs some time after a really traumatic injury to get over it. He prefers to strategize and use whatever's at his disposal to outwit his opponent over direct confrontation.

  
  The Distant Call

• Always	Sometimes	Maybe	Never
  Always Thoughtful, well-written, coherent posts Remember: OOC=/=IC If in doubt, PM out! If you want to try something, have an idea, or are(n't) comfortable, let me know OOC, ASAP At least 3-5 sentences, preferably a paragraph Modern/low fantasy RPs (light on the magical unicorns) Playing with Janus in one RP at a time (He's the kind of character that changes with each RP)	Sometimes Getting Janus to show some kind of emotion Futuristic RPs High fantasy RPs (magical unicorns abound) Minor injuries to Janus, w/o consent Violence/gore, language	Maybe Wildly dissonant environs (happy, cutesy worlds) Major injuries to Janus with consent IC friendship Distant, cold, but extant IC romance Overcoming his curse w/ consent and lots of buildup	Never Sex scenes/erotica Fade-to-black scenes "Fixing" Janus' curse w/o consent Permadeath "Unlocking" Janus' "hidden powers" (He doesn't have any) Just bail on me. Get bored? Can't continue? Let me know, don't leave me hanging.
• RP Waiting List
  If your name is here, it means you are in line to RP with Janus once he is open again. If you need to cancel or are unavailable when your name comes up, PM me as soon as you can so I can adjust the list. If you wish to be higher up on this list, you need to contact the players on the left and not the characters on the right who are ahead of you to see if they will let you "cut in line", so to speak.
  

  Player #1 Player #2

  sinspired Zhi

  Character #1 Character #2

  Tia Merin