PUNT the Pooka!
Jan. 4th, 2008 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianMute. Nightingale. Pooka. With Appearance 4.
...*flails*
Look, Pookas lie. It's what they do. It's their Kith Frailty. You are not going to get around your Kith Frailty. No. Nice try, but no. Particularly not if you're doing it as much for the angst of "Oh, woe, I can no longer express myself, WOE!" (quoted nearly verbatim from the background) as to get around what your Kith is supposed to do.
Not to mention? NIGHTINGALE! Nightingales are plain, dull-looking birds whose claim to fame is pleasing noises. So explain to me how a nightingale Pooka loses her voice at Chrysalis. Mute would be denying her Fae Nature and she'd have died of Banality by the time she hit Wilder. That just can't work.
And let's not even get into "Oh, poor me, I spent my former life locked in a cage because of a wicked, wicked Fiona and now I'm frightened of all Sidhe but I don't really know why..."
Thankfully, when I explained that the background had to be rewritten and that I don't take more than one Attribute at 4 without a very good background reason, I got a message back simply saying, "The character has been deleted". I hate to say it that way, but ... well, it's true. Maybe she'll come back with something a bit more sensible, maybe not. Either way, I suppose we're better off.
I just want one decent Pooka. Another Quentin, or a Dot, or a Virgil, or something totally different but equally of coolness. Is that too much to ask?
In other news, Eshu ate all my Sims 2 downloads. So now I'm weeding through trying to get all the vital stuff back. Augh. So frustrating...
...*flails*
Look, Pookas lie. It's what they do. It's their Kith Frailty. You are not going to get around your Kith Frailty. No. Nice try, but no. Particularly not if you're doing it as much for the angst of "Oh, woe, I can no longer express myself, WOE!" (quoted nearly verbatim from the background) as to get around what your Kith is supposed to do.
Not to mention? NIGHTINGALE! Nightingales are plain, dull-looking birds whose claim to fame is pleasing noises. So explain to me how a nightingale Pooka loses her voice at Chrysalis. Mute would be denying her Fae Nature and she'd have died of Banality by the time she hit Wilder. That just can't work.
And let's not even get into "Oh, poor me, I spent my former life locked in a cage because of a wicked, wicked Fiona and now I'm frightened of all Sidhe but I don't really know why..."
Thankfully, when I explained that the background had to be rewritten and that I don't take more than one Attribute at 4 without a very good background reason, I got a message back simply saying, "The character has been deleted". I hate to say it that way, but ... well, it's true. Maybe she'll come back with something a bit more sensible, maybe not. Either way, I suppose we're better off.
I just want one decent Pooka. Another Quentin, or a Dot, or a Virgil, or something totally different but equally of coolness. Is that too much to ask?
In other news, Eshu ate all my Sims 2 downloads. So now I'm weeding through trying to get all the vital stuff back. Augh. So frustrating...
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Date: 2008-01-04 10:44 pm (UTC)I think the best one was the rhinoceros beetle pooka. Rhinoceros beetles can lift up to 850 times their own weight. To put this into perspective, if a human of average height and weight had the strength of the rhinoceros beetle, it would be able to lift a 65 ton object, for example, an Abrams tank.
Hee. I'd never submit it, but it's amusing as hell.
I do think some day I'd like to play a Pooka, but it'd probably be something quite mundane, like a grizzled old alley cat.
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Date: 2008-01-04 10:59 pm (UTC)GO TO BRPS. I COMMAND YOU.
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Date: 2008-01-05 12:18 am (UTC)As for BRPS ... I may well do, provided I can ever compress any of this into something that fits in one reasonably-sized post. *g*
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Date: 2008-01-05 03:19 pm (UTC)Mostly because Thessalian doesn't let stuff like this into it. :)
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Date: 2008-01-07 08:16 pm (UTC)You know, the awful thing is, a nightingale pooka is a brilliant concept. I can imagine a drab little creature with bright eyes and a voice lovely enough to rival an eshu's, who uses all that startling vocal beauty to play everybody around her and make them love her for it. She's got not attention span to speak of and she wants people to like her (probably because she gets bored easily and friends are entertaining), so she routinely lies about herself, spinning all sorts of improbable stories to seem more interesting. She's not particularly malicious, but things just don't hold her attention well, by and large, and her thoughtlessness probably causes accidents. She'd probably be a bubble-headed social wrecking ball of a character, cheerfully telling people whatever she thought they wanted to hear until it became quite obvious (to anyone who didn't already realize that, duh, she's a pooka) that she was lying through her teeth.
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Date: 2008-01-07 11:55 pm (UTC)*grabs you and drags you in the general direction of JusNoctis*
WANT!