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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loonook" data-source="post: 5897841" data-attributes="member: 1861">Got my first character back!  Well... The first three 'phases' of the character... the player wants to look a bit further into the generation rules.  I told him that we're going to go with Aspects being named through song lyrics, and he really ran with it in a 30 minute awesome run <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  So I figured I would post my notes from his so far.Thomas "Psychedelic Cowboy" Shootingstar. Concept: Postmodern Hanging Judge [I kinda like this <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ]Phase One "Where Are You From?"Events: I was born on an Indian Reservation in the Southwest to a medicine man's daughter and her tough, rugged, Scotch-Irish roving lover.  The family didn't take too kind, but they loved the brown-eyed golden-haired kid in front of them and I can't say anymore about them.  My grandfather taught me all about the words of the land, and I watched the Blessing and Enemy Ways from the cradle.  I remember when my father would come in from his ranging and let me go out for the hunt.  Small varmint, big game, that man loved me as much as my Paw hated him.  I never knew him as more than "That Cowboy" until I hitched a ride out after walking ten miles of the desert.Aspect: Born Six Gun in Hand, Izze-kloth 'Round Waist.  Shows the duality of his two "father's" cultures (his cowboy father and mystic grandfather).Phase Two "What Defined you?"Events: Five years on the road and I picked up as a roadie for an all-black group known as the Singin' Crows.  They taught me guitar, and joked around about giving that Injun boy too much firewater.  I knew they cared for me and I watched their backs.  We were in Mississippi when I learned the ways of evil.  A man accused Slim, our bass player, of 'knowing' his wife.  Whether that was truth or not I don't know, but once the whole thing was done they were all gone.  I walked through those backwoods and found them, and hardened my heart to those who hate.  And I did those white boys harm a few days later from ambush in those same woods.Those bodies no one's gonna find.  I don't miss when I aim my gun.Aspect: You May Say I'm a Dreamer (... or a Nightmare).    Thomas believes in a world of equality... And will get there <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_any_means_necessary" target="_blank">by any means necessary</a>.Phase Three: "What Was Your First Adventure?"I wound up down in New Orleans where I lived for a couple of years.  Met up with some roadies who would come through, roust up the bands.  I loved the scene... And they came through.  Bigger than life with their red white and blue lightning bolts and bears.  I tagged in with their lead soundman, a guy they called Bear.  We knocked back some brews, and went out.He wanted to "open their eyes" with the stuff he gave out at their Tests, but it only led to "trips" and not "adventures".  I saw what he meant when we had to go save one of their guys from a rough spot.How do you describe what I saw?  Light in a thousand colors tearing into the guy with claws like daggers?  Something that was Beyond this world?  I knew the Way (or at least the steps) and between me and Bear we fought the thing off and saved the girl.  She was beautiful... Beyond stunning.  I knew I was following them.  Her name was Pam, and his was Owsley.  Then we heard the cops...Aspect: Crashed on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley" target="_blank">Owsley's</a> Floor (Really)  Thomas was involved in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truckin%27" target="_blank">Big Bust of 1970</a>, where the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_dead" target="_blank">Grateful Dead </a> were busted for... three guesses... The reason?  Thomas made friends with Owsley, and developed some of the man's epic tolerances and unique appetite for meat, eggs, cheese, and milk ONLY.  ----The guy wanted to make Graham Parsons mixed with Listens-to-Wind from the Dresden Files!  Excellent!  He's also decided to take at least one aspect ("What it's like to love her") from a Graham Parson's cover.Overall Songs Used for Inspiration from our Player:Aspects:Bad Company Bad CompanyJohn LennonImagineFrank Zappa Who Needs the Peace Corps?Storywise:Ink Spots I Don't Wanna Set the World on FireBobby Russell/Vicki Lawrence The Night The Lights Went Out In GeorgiaThe Singing Crows Storyline.Grateful Dead Truckin'I have to say I love the path here.  It allows for the character to also take himself along the lines of a Minor Practitioner or Talent with his marked ability to kill the hallucinatory monster with Owsley... I also love the idea that Bear, simple soundman and drug kingpin/assistant to the Merry Pranksters is some kind of Paladin of the Open Mind, cracking open people's minds and battling whatever 'bad trip' may come out.  I'll keep posting what I get and hope to hear back <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.Slainte,-Loonook.</blockquote>

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