Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 2885640" data-attributes="member: 130">Honestly, I'd be greatful for references. I'm working chiefly off what little Wikipedia can give me. I play no music myself. In my mind the big deal is that Josh was raised more by school than parents. He was sort of the trophy son, nice to trot out for parties and comparisons but not especially nurtured at home. The closest he got to family was at his boarding school, which is inspired a fair bit by this: <a href="http://www.yehudimenuhinschool.co.uk/index.asp" target="_blank">http://www.yehudimenuhinschool.co.uk/index.asp</a>, but probably slightly stuffier and with a longer history. He attended from age five (special extra-early admissions) to sixteen when he quit to start his career. Nine years later he still has a lot of boarding school in him.Josh primarily lives in Britain, somewhere around London. He's seen very little of the US except for performance venues and usually sees himself as British by inclination and habits. He even has some of the accent, with just enough static from breaks and five years of early life in the US to explain why it shows up with about the irregularity you'd expect with a Midwestern American doing the typing. <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=":)" /> I could bombard you with examples, but unless the game is going to take place heavily in Britain they're mostly for my use.As far as the music stuff goes, you probably know more than I judging on what you were saying back in the Generation Legacy thread. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />So far as what kind of game I'd like, the main draw for me here is seeing how we transhumans change the world with our presence and actions. I don't see Josh being terribly subtle with his TK. If he drops something on the street, he wouldn't bend over to get it. That's what TK is for. If that sparked a riot or something, he has a force field. If the trascendence program asked that we keep a lower profile until they could do a public announcement or something, he might abide by that. He does feel a great deal of gratitude towards them. A lot of what Josh aspires to could take many forms. He might prove himself by restarting his career, or by using his powers in disaster relief, or whatever, the key here being that he's demonstrating that he hasn't burned himself out and he has still got more to offer. He's not a washed-up child prodigy who blew his chance at a stable lifetime career by dropping out of school to perfomer. He's not the stereotype. He just acts it and has exactly the right personality for it. There's an undercurrent that he's looking for challenges for himself too, as music became more of a chore once he could play in his sleep and still get paid the same. He wants the pressure back, the expectations, the intensity, all that artistic drama. Josh would hate to settle into a quiet retirement at 25.</blockquote>

Verification