Out of Character

This is my first ever post as a character.

Give me my cyphers, you mangy Game Master.

My character already has some cyphers listed. We can change those if necessary.

Testing 1, 2, 3 :)

@Jay10 That works for me

Character review, Aduan
- isn't this the same character you used in the last game?

Yes it is and it's also the same character that I ported over from Rondaks Portal where I played it in the Numenera play test

Raezhon would probably have latched onto someone in the group if they have knowledge of the past and or mysteries that might help her in her search. Alternately, someone might have found her in pretty rough shape somewhere and helped her get back on her feet. If so, she would have sworn a blood debt to repay their kindness.

Random Thought: The thumbnails are really small, would it be possible to post larger images of our characters in this thread so I can visualize them better? Numenera is so non-traditional 'tropey' that more visuals help me to get more immersed in the setting (can't just rely on 'oh, yeah, I know what a gnome looks like....' If you know what I mean.

Also, both the adventure we did offered no incentive toward success or failure and felt like events that any sane person would have avoided at all cost. So a bit of disconnect was necessary just to go along with the adventure :P

For Rohim, is electricity power mess up some part of his brain that transforms short term memories in long term one. So he does not remember anything specific before he encountered Nim (his current long-term memories are tied to his daily association with his friend) So he fitted the aimless wanderer bit perfectly. But that would make him very invested in any connection he did build.

He would have been satisfied to trvel and scavenge until he became more powerful before thinking about using his power for something specific, the path is the journey as they say. However, he would be very serious about protecting a community or interested in finding strange kid like he was and offering them a home or mentorship of some sort. Which you probably involve him eventually with powerful groups that try to take advantage of people with powers.

Forgive me if this has been said because I have the bad habit of skim reading. On the case of character investment, if you forgive the chaos of the players lives and etc. I think one thing that might have helped with personal investment might have been finding a way to tie in our backstories a bit more. Perhaps some choice that would've driven a divide between the teams based on each characters personal ethics or goals. I know I was personally hoping to encounter remnants of the cult Nim was raised from or a chance to explore my history with Rohim. What might have also been interesting is to force each character to address whatever vice or negative quirk was associated. In the way Raezhon at some point opted to phase into the dome despite it being the norm to hide overt uses or examples of symbiosis of Numenera and nature like that.

Just from a storyteller perspective, the one off format does not lend itself well to heavy personal investment. Every story, however, has opportunities to purposely go off the rails to add depth and dynamics and etc. so if the "going off the rails" moment was motivated by character details we would have had little choice but to buy in a bit more.

On that note as well, I'm in for another go around if Q is up for it and so on.