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crowschild) wrote2016-04-15 03:44 pm
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Name: Kippur
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Contact: Email/AIM/Plurk/Other kippur.rp@gmail.com/ kippurbirdy/ kippur
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Character Basics
Name: Rory McCallum/ Ceilidh McCallum
Character Journal: [Bad username or unknown identity: ”crowschild”]
Canon: Fandom or non-fandom? Original (Dawn of the Old Gods)
Age: Approximate age is fine. This is mostly for characters who are older than they look. Early thirties/ five.
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Appearance: A few sentences on the character's appearance. Do they have any tattoos, scars, ticks? Add them here!
Rory Rory is tall, over six feet and not completely lanky but he’s not a hefty thick set man. Well built. His most notable features is his hair and eyes. They’re a brilliant, almost unnatural, red and green respectively. For those who are sensitive to those sorts of things they feel almost like a warning - rather like those tropical frogs. When it comes to clothing Rory tends towards hoodies, t-shirts and jeans with heavy boots. He’s always armed with at least a pistol and two knives.
Ceilidh Like her uncle, Ceilidh has the same hair and eye colors. Her hair is a bit more wild. She’s average sized for a five-year-old, but full of energy. Most of her clothing has pink in some place, her sneakers are pink at least.
Both also speak with a County Cork accent.
Setting: Rory comes from an earth where magic is everyday and known. Everyone has a tiny spark of magic. Gods walk the world and because of this, society has developed quite differently. Perhaps the biggest difference is the lack of Judaism and its descendants, Christianity and Islam. The religion never formed because why believe in a god that doesn’t physically exist when it’s obvious that there are gods that do. Something happened many years ago that caused a weakening of the gods power. Some say it was humanity's realization that they didn’t need the gods for everything, like in the Industrial Revolution, or at least their priests. Others say that it’s part of the natural way of things. The gods are fading, it’s past their time.
The world has integrated magic into its everyday life. The study of magic is just another branch of science. Some of the more sophisticated technology is a blend of magic and machine. Doctors have the ability to help people through the study of medicine and in some cases the ability to heal people themselves. Ritual mages test the known bounds of magic while physicists test the known bounds of physics.
Some country lines are different. Eire never lost its sovereignty for example. In fact Rory’s oldest sister is married to its king.
History Rory is the second youngest child of Moira McCallum. He has a twin sister by the name of Grace who is the thirteenth child of the McCallums. His nephew Nat, heir to the throne of Ireland, and eldest child of Rory’s oldest sister Talia, was born a few months before he was. The three of them were raised pretty much together as siblings though Rory and Grace were closer and Nat occasionally had to go and visit the home in Tara. Rory did all the talking between him and Grace - who didn’t really speak until she was about six. And only then because Rory was stupid and fell down the well. Though he came out all right, Grace refused to come out of her room for a week and wouldn’t see Rory at all.
When he was five Nat gained a pair of twin brothers: Kale and Trever. Rory, Grace and Nat were exceptionally dubious as to these additions to their lives and tried to get rid of them in typical McCallum fashion. Once they left them out in woods for the wolves or fairies to find and take them (under the assumption that only demons could make that much noise) and when Kale and Trever were five sold them to the circus for three dollars and some cotton candy.
On their thirteenth birthday the McCallum curse struck. Grace and Rory woke up to discover that their oldest brother, the one who Grace adored beyond measure, had vanished. No one knew why. This broke the family a bit. Grace went silent again and ran off several times to try and find him. Kale used his psychometry on the Watchers and got overloaded, ending up in a coma for eight months. During the next few years Rory felt adrift. Grace refused to believe it wasn’t her fault that Dara had vanished and wouldn’t talk to him about it.
He threw himself into his weapons training, working at his shooting with the crossbow and rifle. As well as hanging out at the local garage to learn how to work on machines. It was something to do. Something to distract him. Things got better after they turned eighteen. Grace went on a quest to find Dara and came back a Chosen of the Morrigan and knowledge of what happened to their brother. She told Rory but no one else
When he was nineteen Rory joined the army working in the special forces with Grace, both making the rank of knight. Rory played cover to Grace’s charges. Though he was also perfectly competent at fighting with a sword and his fists with Grace at his back.
Talia - in charge of the army - would occasionally send the two of them on special missions that didn’t actually happen. In fact a great deal of Rory’s military career never happened. And after he left the army he continues to not do jobs for the army. They’re so not having happened that sometimes Talia is the only one who knows. But she doesn’t know about them either.
Beyond those jobs, Rory stays at Thorn Hall, content to be the local mechanic, scammer of newcomers by playing darts with them and whiling away the days watching his nephew and niece, help the family whenever he’s asked to, charm the local and not so local lads and ladies and occasionally get tossed into jail for a bar fight.
Ceilidh Ceilidh is the daughter of Siobhan McCallum. She has no idea who her father is nor does she care but she does have an older brother, Simon. She’s lived most of her life at Thorn Hall only occasionally going with her mother - a singer and bard - on tour or visiting the castle at Tara On The Hill. At five she’s just started school, even if she’d rather not to. Meanwhile she roams the lands of the Hall going on adventures. She has a remarkable talent for finding magical creatures.
One time she managed to fight off an evil fairy lady who was determined to try and kidnap her for nefarious means.
Another time she discovered a tiny goblin girl under her bed who had gotten lost. She made friends with the girl and helped her return home after becoming bestus for evah friends with her.
Personality: This is really the meat of the application. Include defining traits and reasons they are who they are and don’t be afraid to list off life events that made them into the person they are. What are their strengths, weaknesses, fears and where do they draw courage from? We would like to see a minimum of 200 words here. TL;DR your little hearts out.
Rory is a McCallum. This encompasses a lot about how he sees the world and his place in it. He began weapons training at age three and slept with a spear in his bed to attack any monsters that might try and kidnap him. Sadly only one tried and Grace got to stab it first. This was highly unfair in his opinion. His idea of a fair fight is him against four people. Generally he’ll win. And the idea of not fighting is completely foreign. So are tact, diplomacy and you mean shooting first is a bad idea? He’s a hero in the old fashioned sense of the world. Old fashioned as in Beowulf old fashioned. Blood, glory and the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. He’s not afraid to kill and doesn’t consider it to be a last resort. He has what could be considered “hero’s luck” which allows him to get things done by the skin of his teeth, dodge the bullet just barely and be in the right place at the right time. He also has a seventh son’s luck which means you really don’t want to play darts with him, among other things. (Oh, but come on, one more game, this time I’ll be blindfolded and you can spin me around). Of course the luck doesn’t always hold out unless his life depends on it.
This has lead him to be completely unafraid of anything.
He’s a hero, a McCallum and lucky. That must mean he’ll win. There’s just no other possible solution. At least in his mind. Obviously this isn’t true, but it’s how he approaches situations: over cocky and confident. If it were true, he wouldn’t end up in jail as often as he does for cheating and fighting. He tries to take losing gracefully and laugh it off and if it’s not high, life or death, stakes then he’ll let it go. (Or get into a fist fight, one of the two.) Otherwise he will push himself to the point of serious injury or death. Not so much for the need to win but because if things are going down that badly that he’s not winning, that he’s in a situation where he is overwhelmed, that means something really serious is happening and he needs to make sure people get out/protect something/ or stop something, even if it means sacrificing himself. He’d be the guy who’d stay behind to let others get away. And he’d see nothing wrong with it. It’s just the way things have to be. Sometimes sacrifice is something a hero needs to do. He doesn’t like the idea, of course but it’s what he’s supposed to do. Again, it’s because he’s a McCallum and he’s a hero.
Failure in this case is if the people he was protecting didn’t make it out alive or the thing that needs to be stopped wasn’t stopped. If he’s still alive at the end of it and it’s not been solved he’ll haul himself out of bed to try and fix it. But if it was fixed, even if he was seriously injured or other people stopped the thing, it’s a win.
Which is what McCallums do.
Also because of this Rory is fiercely protective of people who need protecting. He’ll face down dragons, high fey and gods who try and hit on his sister (though admittedly Grace didn’t really need much help in that situation as she knocked Thor on his ass in one hit…) If he decides that someone needs protecting they will be protected. Woe be anyone who gets in his way. Woe. Even if it costs him his life.
When he’s not in McCallum Mode, as one might call it, Rory seems like a bit of a lazy, forgetful, layabout, good for nothing. He’s more than willing to bribe his littlest niece and nephew to put jam covered kittens in Grace’s clothes, but he’s also more than willing to lend Grace his own clothes while hers are in the wash. He’ll laugh at himself whenever a prank gets pulled on him. If someone accuses him of cheating - and can prove it - he’ll own up to it. If someone takes a swing at him, he’ll swing back, but he won’t be the person to start the fight.
It’s very hard to piss him off and he’s generally very affable, friendly and willing to go where life takes him. At least he’s hard to piss off unless there’s someone messing around with innocent lives on the line.
Ceilidh At Ceilidh’s naming a fairy - a fan of her mother - decided to show her appreciation of Siobhan’s music by gifting her newborn girl with three fairy gifts: A large heart, a quick mind and an exuberant soul. This has made her a small bouncy ball of energy. She takes everything full throttle not understanding the concept of slowing down. Ninety percent of the time she’ll try and make friends with a person, be it an evil dark lord or another child. She’s unafraid of almost anything.
Being a five year old and a McCallum she’s a bit skewed her interests. She loves princesses, ponies, dolls and pink. However her favorite doll is named Princess Stabbity and carries a sword covered in blood, she wants to be a princess assassin when she grows up and unicorns are much better than ponies because they have weapons on their head. When she got her first spear, she painted it pink with sparkles.
Powers/Abilities/Talents:
Both: Rory and Ceilidh are members of the McCallum family and thus descendents of the Morrigan. As they were heroes, they were given what can be called, “Hero’s Luck”. This is the sort of luck that a person has that lets them get out of a scrape in the knick of time - a good example being Indiana Jones being able to just get under the closing door out from the trap and grab his hat as well. Or just being able to leap across the building. Or having a bullet just miss killing him. This, however, only tends to kick in when he’s protecting people - or being heroic as it’s hero’s luck. So, if he’s doing something maliciously it’s not likely going to work.
Rory:
Luck Rory is a seventh son of a seventh son. It means that he's unnaturally lucky. Magically speaking he's a very narrow focused order mage, only able to effect his own actions. Things just tend to go his way. They don't really fall in his lap, but he's never been concerned about something going wrong because they rarely do. (Those few instances where they do go wrong tend to be when his twin sister Grace - who is a thirteenth child - is around. They cancel each other out.)
Because of this he's capable of pulling off tricks that normal people couldn't be able to do. Playing darts with him is a bad idea for example because he will win by a narrow margin. Even if he tosses the dart from an impossible angle he will somehow just hit the board in the right spot. This luck usually turns up in games of chance or when things are up in the air. He's banned from sports games/competitions because his luck will make it so his team will just be able to win. His dice will always come up with exactly the number he needs to win at the last toss. He's not allowed to roll his own dice at tabletop games with family - though his dice tend to keep some of his luck and they're occasionally stolen for ... nefarious purposes.
skills and talents As a McCallum Rory has been training in weapons and combat every since he was a small child. He’s familiar with a great deal of weapons and is particularly proficient with rifles and knives. Over the years he’s also studied a great deal of combat tactics and is a decent tactician. Both from his McCallum studies and from being in the army.
Rory has studied a great deal of magical creatures and knows how to put up protection wards, though he’s no ritual mage.
He’s also a good mechanic.
Ceilidh: She’s capable of understanding and being understood by magical creatures. As well as finding them. Also, she has Hero’s Luck (as Rory does). Other than that she’s a very exuberant and intelligent five year old.
What 4 items would you like your character too have with them on the island during their stay? The items can be items from home (no bigger than a dirt bike), a past game, or pets (not exceeding the size of a large dog, direwolf or mabari hound).
Mayhem: A small fluffy grey kitten, very sweet and dumb as a box of rocks.The rocks might be smarter. Also capable of teleporting and eating anything. Really. You can’t poison him and his favorite thing to eat is magic and metal. He’s part goblin and has three rows of shark like teeth.
2. A bottle of McCallum whiskey.
3. A boxed set of the Princess Ponies cartoon blue-reys
4. Rory’s personal sniper’s rifle.
Samples - Can be linked
First Person:
Siobhan, Sean:
I love you two both. You are wonderful, fantastic siblings. Normally I don’t mind babysitting for a few days.. The kids are a delight. Annie’s getting really good with her knife throwing. Simon and Rose built trebuchets and were lobbing rocks at each other out in the yard. Ceilidh was Ceilidh and Nori has entered the climbing stage. (Annie says she’s been doing this for a while. Is there any particular reason why you didn’t tell me, Sean? )
However if I ever discover which of the two of you gave the girls Princess Ponies seasons one through four on Blue Ray, I will murder you. Then I will have Aofie raise you so I can murder you again. A guy can only take so much of pastel singing ponies before going insane. Six hours worth of ponies is far too long. Nothing I did could distract them. The one time I turned it off and confiscated the discs Ceilidh found them and Annie picked the locks to get them out. I’m not even sure how she found them!
Mum says they might be useful for torture. (She’s also pissed, by the way.) I asked Talia about it and she just laughed. Said they weren’t allowed to use products aimed at children for interrogation purposes.
In any case, both of you owe me big time. Any forms of liquor or alcohol will be appreciated as a conciliatory gift. Or a new Zone D Watch. Mayhem ate mine. Nori fed it to Mayhem.
I can’t wait for you two to get back from your concert or business trip. Words can't describe how much I can’t wait for you to get back.
Rory
Third Person: Test Drive
Finally, out of the 4 words, pick one: Chimes, lake, gravel, or sun.
Lake
Name: Kippur
Age: Please verify you are over the age of 18 I’m over the age of 30
Contact: Email/AIM/Plurk/Other kippur.rp@gmail.com/ kippurbirdy/ kippur
Characters Already in Medietas: N/A
Reserve Link:
Character Basics
Name: Rory McCallum/ Ceilidh McCallum
Character Journal: [Bad username or unknown identity: ”crowschild”]
Canon: Fandom or non-fandom? Original (Dawn of the Old Gods)
Age: Approximate age is fine. This is mostly for characters who are older than they look. Early thirties/ five.
PB/Icon: Please provide a link to the icon you would like displayed on the Taken Page. http://v.dreamwidth.org/7740189/2245940
Canon Character Information
Appearance: A few sentences on the character's appearance. Do they have any tattoos, scars, ticks? Add them here!
Rory Rory is tall, over six feet and not completely lanky but he’s not a hefty thick set man. Well built. His most notable features is his hair and eyes. They’re a brilliant, almost unnatural, red and green respectively. For those who are sensitive to those sorts of things they feel almost like a warning - rather like those tropical frogs. When it comes to clothing Rory tends towards hoodies, t-shirts and jeans with heavy boots. He’s always armed with at least a pistol and two knives.
Ceilidh Like her uncle, Ceilidh has the same hair and eye colors. Her hair is a bit more wild. She’s average sized for a five-year-old, but full of energy. Most of her clothing has pink in some place, her sneakers are pink at least.
Both also speak with a County Cork accent.
Setting: Rory comes from an earth where magic is everyday and known. Everyone has a tiny spark of magic. Gods walk the world and because of this, society has developed quite differently. Perhaps the biggest difference is the lack of Judaism and its descendants, Christianity and Islam. The religion never formed because why believe in a god that doesn’t physically exist when it’s obvious that there are gods that do. Something happened many years ago that caused a weakening of the gods power. Some say it was humanity's realization that they didn’t need the gods for everything, like in the Industrial Revolution, or at least their priests. Others say that it’s part of the natural way of things. The gods are fading, it’s past their time.
The world has integrated magic into its everyday life. The study of magic is just another branch of science. Some of the more sophisticated technology is a blend of magic and machine. Doctors have the ability to help people through the study of medicine and in some cases the ability to heal people themselves. Ritual mages test the known bounds of magic while physicists test the known bounds of physics.
Some country lines are different. Eire never lost its sovereignty for example. In fact Rory’s oldest sister is married to its king.
History Rory is the second youngest child of Moira McCallum. He has a twin sister by the name of Grace who is the thirteenth child of the McCallums. His nephew Nat, heir to the throne of Ireland, and eldest child of Rory’s oldest sister Talia, was born a few months before he was. The three of them were raised pretty much together as siblings though Rory and Grace were closer and Nat occasionally had to go and visit the home in Tara. Rory did all the talking between him and Grace - who didn’t really speak until she was about six. And only then because Rory was stupid and fell down the well. Though he came out all right, Grace refused to come out of her room for a week and wouldn’t see Rory at all.
When he was five Nat gained a pair of twin brothers: Kale and Trever. Rory, Grace and Nat were exceptionally dubious as to these additions to their lives and tried to get rid of them in typical McCallum fashion. Once they left them out in woods for the wolves or fairies to find and take them (under the assumption that only demons could make that much noise) and when Kale and Trever were five sold them to the circus for three dollars and some cotton candy.
On their thirteenth birthday the McCallum curse struck. Grace and Rory woke up to discover that their oldest brother, the one who Grace adored beyond measure, had vanished. No one knew why. This broke the family a bit. Grace went silent again and ran off several times to try and find him. Kale used his psychometry on the Watchers and got overloaded, ending up in a coma for eight months. During the next few years Rory felt adrift. Grace refused to believe it wasn’t her fault that Dara had vanished and wouldn’t talk to him about it.
He threw himself into his weapons training, working at his shooting with the crossbow and rifle. As well as hanging out at the local garage to learn how to work on machines. It was something to do. Something to distract him. Things got better after they turned eighteen. Grace went on a quest to find Dara and came back a Chosen of the Morrigan and knowledge of what happened to their brother. She told Rory but no one else
When he was nineteen Rory joined the army working in the special forces with Grace, both making the rank of knight. Rory played cover to Grace’s charges. Though he was also perfectly competent at fighting with a sword and his fists with Grace at his back.
Talia - in charge of the army - would occasionally send the two of them on special missions that didn’t actually happen. In fact a great deal of Rory’s military career never happened. And after he left the army he continues to not do jobs for the army. They’re so not having happened that sometimes Talia is the only one who knows. But she doesn’t know about them either.
Beyond those jobs, Rory stays at Thorn Hall, content to be the local mechanic, scammer of newcomers by playing darts with them and whiling away the days watching his nephew and niece, help the family whenever he’s asked to, charm the local and not so local lads and ladies and occasionally get tossed into jail for a bar fight.
Ceilidh Ceilidh is the daughter of Siobhan McCallum. She has no idea who her father is nor does she care but she does have an older brother, Simon. She’s lived most of her life at Thorn Hall only occasionally going with her mother - a singer and bard - on tour or visiting the castle at Tara On The Hill. At five she’s just started school, even if she’d rather not to. Meanwhile she roams the lands of the Hall going on adventures. She has a remarkable talent for finding magical creatures.
One time she managed to fight off an evil fairy lady who was determined to try and kidnap her for nefarious means.
Another time she discovered a tiny goblin girl under her bed who had gotten lost. She made friends with the girl and helped her return home after becoming bestus for evah friends with her.
Personality: This is really the meat of the application. Include defining traits and reasons they are who they are and don’t be afraid to list off life events that made them into the person they are. What are their strengths, weaknesses, fears and where do they draw courage from? We would like to see a minimum of 200 words here. TL;DR your little hearts out.
Rory is a McCallum. This encompasses a lot about how he sees the world and his place in it. He began weapons training at age three and slept with a spear in his bed to attack any monsters that might try and kidnap him. Sadly only one tried and Grace got to stab it first. This was highly unfair in his opinion. His idea of a fair fight is him against four people. Generally he’ll win. And the idea of not fighting is completely foreign. So are tact, diplomacy and you mean shooting first is a bad idea? He’s a hero in the old fashioned sense of the world. Old fashioned as in Beowulf old fashioned. Blood, glory and the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. He’s not afraid to kill and doesn’t consider it to be a last resort. He has what could be considered “hero’s luck” which allows him to get things done by the skin of his teeth, dodge the bullet just barely and be in the right place at the right time. He also has a seventh son’s luck which means you really don’t want to play darts with him, among other things. (Oh, but come on, one more game, this time I’ll be blindfolded and you can spin me around). Of course the luck doesn’t always hold out unless his life depends on it.
This has lead him to be completely unafraid of anything.
He’s a hero, a McCallum and lucky. That must mean he’ll win. There’s just no other possible solution. At least in his mind. Obviously this isn’t true, but it’s how he approaches situations: over cocky and confident. If it were true, he wouldn’t end up in jail as often as he does for cheating and fighting. He tries to take losing gracefully and laugh it off and if it’s not high, life or death, stakes then he’ll let it go. (Or get into a fist fight, one of the two.) Otherwise he will push himself to the point of serious injury or death. Not so much for the need to win but because if things are going down that badly that he’s not winning, that he’s in a situation where he is overwhelmed, that means something really serious is happening and he needs to make sure people get out/protect something/ or stop something, even if it means sacrificing himself. He’d be the guy who’d stay behind to let others get away. And he’d see nothing wrong with it. It’s just the way things have to be. Sometimes sacrifice is something a hero needs to do. He doesn’t like the idea, of course but it’s what he’s supposed to do. Again, it’s because he’s a McCallum and he’s a hero.
Failure in this case is if the people he was protecting didn’t make it out alive or the thing that needs to be stopped wasn’t stopped. If he’s still alive at the end of it and it’s not been solved he’ll haul himself out of bed to try and fix it. But if it was fixed, even if he was seriously injured or other people stopped the thing, it’s a win.
Which is what McCallums do.
Also because of this Rory is fiercely protective of people who need protecting. He’ll face down dragons, high fey and gods who try and hit on his sister (though admittedly Grace didn’t really need much help in that situation as she knocked Thor on his ass in one hit…) If he decides that someone needs protecting they will be protected. Woe be anyone who gets in his way. Woe. Even if it costs him his life.
When he’s not in McCallum Mode, as one might call it, Rory seems like a bit of a lazy, forgetful, layabout, good for nothing. He’s more than willing to bribe his littlest niece and nephew to put jam covered kittens in Grace’s clothes, but he’s also more than willing to lend Grace his own clothes while hers are in the wash. He’ll laugh at himself whenever a prank gets pulled on him. If someone accuses him of cheating - and can prove it - he’ll own up to it. If someone takes a swing at him, he’ll swing back, but he won’t be the person to start the fight.
It’s very hard to piss him off and he’s generally very affable, friendly and willing to go where life takes him. At least he’s hard to piss off unless there’s someone messing around with innocent lives on the line.
Ceilidh At Ceilidh’s naming a fairy - a fan of her mother - decided to show her appreciation of Siobhan’s music by gifting her newborn girl with three fairy gifts: A large heart, a quick mind and an exuberant soul. This has made her a small bouncy ball of energy. She takes everything full throttle not understanding the concept of slowing down. Ninety percent of the time she’ll try and make friends with a person, be it an evil dark lord or another child. She’s unafraid of almost anything.
Being a five year old and a McCallum she’s a bit skewed her interests. She loves princesses, ponies, dolls and pink. However her favorite doll is named Princess Stabbity and carries a sword covered in blood, she wants to be a princess assassin when she grows up and unicorns are much better than ponies because they have weapons on their head. When she got her first spear, she painted it pink with sparkles.
Powers/Abilities/Talents:
Both: Rory and Ceilidh are members of the McCallum family and thus descendents of the Morrigan. As they were heroes, they were given what can be called, “Hero’s Luck”. This is the sort of luck that a person has that lets them get out of a scrape in the knick of time - a good example being Indiana Jones being able to just get under the closing door out from the trap and grab his hat as well. Or just being able to leap across the building. Or having a bullet just miss killing him. This, however, only tends to kick in when he’s protecting people - or being heroic as it’s hero’s luck. So, if he’s doing something maliciously it’s not likely going to work.
Rory:
Luck Rory is a seventh son of a seventh son. It means that he's unnaturally lucky. Magically speaking he's a very narrow focused order mage, only able to effect his own actions. Things just tend to go his way. They don't really fall in his lap, but he's never been concerned about something going wrong because they rarely do. (Those few instances where they do go wrong tend to be when his twin sister Grace - who is a thirteenth child - is around. They cancel each other out.)
Because of this he's capable of pulling off tricks that normal people couldn't be able to do. Playing darts with him is a bad idea for example because he will win by a narrow margin. Even if he tosses the dart from an impossible angle he will somehow just hit the board in the right spot. This luck usually turns up in games of chance or when things are up in the air. He's banned from sports games/competitions because his luck will make it so his team will just be able to win. His dice will always come up with exactly the number he needs to win at the last toss. He's not allowed to roll his own dice at tabletop games with family - though his dice tend to keep some of his luck and they're occasionally stolen for ... nefarious purposes.
skills and talents As a McCallum Rory has been training in weapons and combat every since he was a small child. He’s familiar with a great deal of weapons and is particularly proficient with rifles and knives. Over the years he’s also studied a great deal of combat tactics and is a decent tactician. Both from his McCallum studies and from being in the army.
Rory has studied a great deal of magical creatures and knows how to put up protection wards, though he’s no ritual mage.
He’s also a good mechanic.
Ceilidh: She’s capable of understanding and being understood by magical creatures. As well as finding them. Also, she has Hero’s Luck (as Rory does). Other than that she’s a very exuberant and intelligent five year old.
What 4 items would you like your character too have with them on the island during their stay? The items can be items from home (no bigger than a dirt bike), a past game, or pets (not exceeding the size of a large dog, direwolf or mabari hound).
Mayhem: A small fluffy grey kitten, very sweet and dumb as a box of rocks.The rocks might be smarter. Also capable of teleporting and eating anything. Really. You can’t poison him and his favorite thing to eat is magic and metal. He’s part goblin and has three rows of shark like teeth.
2. A bottle of McCallum whiskey.
3. A boxed set of the Princess Ponies cartoon blue-reys
4. Rory’s personal sniper’s rifle.
Samples - Can be linked
First Person:
Siobhan, Sean:
I love you two both. You are wonderful, fantastic siblings. Normally I don’t mind babysitting for a few days.. The kids are a delight. Annie’s getting really good with her knife throwing. Simon and Rose built trebuchets and were lobbing rocks at each other out in the yard. Ceilidh was Ceilidh and Nori has entered the climbing stage. (Annie says she’s been doing this for a while. Is there any particular reason why you didn’t tell me, Sean? )
However if I ever discover which of the two of you gave the girls Princess Ponies seasons one through four on Blue Ray, I will murder you. Then I will have Aofie raise you so I can murder you again. A guy can only take so much of pastel singing ponies before going insane. Six hours worth of ponies is far too long. Nothing I did could distract them. The one time I turned it off and confiscated the discs Ceilidh found them and Annie picked the locks to get them out. I’m not even sure how she found them!
Mum says they might be useful for torture. (She’s also pissed, by the way.) I asked Talia about it and she just laughed. Said they weren’t allowed to use products aimed at children for interrogation purposes.
In any case, both of you owe me big time. Any forms of liquor or alcohol will be appreciated as a conciliatory gift. Or a new Zone D Watch. Mayhem ate mine. Nori fed it to Mayhem.
I can’t wait for you two to get back from your concert or business trip. Words can't describe how much I can’t wait for you to get back.
Rory
Third Person: Test Drive
Finally, out of the 4 words, pick one: Chimes, lake, gravel, or sun.
Lake