Speedplay

[Classclown]

My all-time favorite would actually be a lone astronaut that crash lands on Zalanthas, the ship sinking into the silt and the guy barely making it to the shore. I know impossible, but one can dream. He would likely die quickly, though so it fits.

[FantasyWriter]

Reminds me of the Luke Skywalker v. Lirathan crossover story a staffer wrote a few years ago.

[Harmless]

The best speedplays are raiders of some kind.

[manonfire]

Since my playtimes are so low, I might start churning out disposable characters that exist simply to attempt assassination on PC templars and nobles.

[Potaje]

Gladiator mul, that snaps in the city and tries to battle out to freedom.
Or
A Cultist for some imagined new religion, trying to build a flock to depose the control of the Highlord/Sunking.

[Evoru]

A templar's swooning, squealing, obsessive fan girl. Bury your face in their cast off clothes and inhale deeply...follow them in a really obvious way when they're out on the town...hire bards to compose terrible love ballads (or undertake that noble art yourself)...try to bribe other templars to let you into the compound so you can "clean their room"...the possibilities for creepiness are endless.

[Barzalene]

A templar's swooning, squealing, obsessive fan girl. Bury your face in their cast off clothes and inhale deeply...follow them in a really obvious way when they're out on the town...hire bards to compose terrible love ballads (or undertake that noble art yourself)...try to bribe other templars to let you into the compound so you can "clean their room"...the possibilities for creepiness are endless.

I want to do this!

[ShaLeah]

A templar's swooning, squealing, obsessive fan girl. Bury your face in their cast off clothes and inhale deeply...follow them in a really obvious way when they're out on the town...hire bards to compose terrible love ballads (or undertake that noble art yourself)...try to bribe other templars to let you into the compound so you can "clean their room"...the possibilities for creepiness are endless.

I want to do this!

Longest lived char ever.  +2 karma if you make them filthy rats.

[mattrious]

I feel like this thread was created for me. I'm somewhat of an expert of fast paced short lived PCs. Not sure if that is something I should brag about.

1. City-elf assassin in either city. From hour 0 you're convinced that you're the greatest gift to the shadows since Tek himself. You can drop anyone at any given time. They cross you. They're dead.

2. You're a master burgalar. You've got 24 hours to come up with the <insert noble house jewels>. If you do not? Repercussions.

3. An entire tribe's existence is hanging onto your choices. You've got to find a way to prolong their existence in the world. Find a home. Make friends. Destroy your enemies.

4. You're a sewer horror. <race=HG mutant> <guild=ranger> <subguild=scavenger>. You only climb out of the depths at night. You wreak havoc and return home.

[Ourla]

A mundane who thinks he's a magicker. He carries pocketsful of weird little objects and gets a gem.

[Bogre]

A templar's swooning, squealing, obsessive fan girl. Bury your face in their cast off clothes and inhale deeply...follow them in a really obvious way when they're out on the town...hire bards to compose terrible love ballads (or undertake that noble art yourself)...try to bribe other templars to let you into the compound so you can "clean their room"...the possibilities for creepiness are endless.

I'm pretty sure Fathi did that for my templar a couple years ago.

[i love toilets]

A human being, obsessed with forks. Eventually he tries to kill a random person over them.

[Bushranger]

A human being, obsessed with forks. Eventually he tries to kill a random person over them.

The person would need to be named Horripilation.

[sizeshowz]

Pick-pocket, spice-smuggling/dealing elf with annoying tics, like twitching.

[Fujikoma]

A human being, obsessed with forks. Eventually he tries to kill a random person over them.

say (rage and annoyance tinging his voice as his eyes burn with rage) No! FORK YOUUUUUU!

[ShaLeah]

A human being, obsessed with forks. Eventually he tries to kill a random person over them.

say (rage and annoyance tinging his voice as his eyes burn with rage) No! FORK YOUUUUUU!

That's it. Forks have to become backstabbing weapons.

[JustAnotherGuy]

A dirty beggar.  Create, junk all starting gear but clothing, park inside or outside of a tavern and try to survive on handouts.  I thinkI'd find it hard to play one for more than two weeks, but those two weeks would be awesome.

I've played this... and it lasted for several months.  First few months just living off of begging.  Then he got bribes to just tell people things he has heard... then he got brought into peoples clans and such (then robbed them blind and left).  It was quite entertaining.

Mine would have to be some sort of raider, but the problem is I have a hard time just playing something that short because it is underdeveloped.  Something with a sickness...  maybe a special app or some sort.

[yoink]

In this setting? I'd probably play myself. 

[slatefox]

I actually like speed playing -- I get the feeling it doesn't get you noticed much, but when I actually do get around to playing, I feel those characters have way more flavor and oomph to them than a long-lived 'dedicated' character.

Let's see, some things I would try...


1.  A very noisy cult worshipper -- Cuz in a world that sucks, somebody is gonna find religion in the desert, whether the Sorcerer King likes it or not
2.  An expeditionist intent on discovering the lost secrets of Steinal   (actually, this sounds like an interesting long-term char, but we all know how this is gonna end)
3.  A mutant and rather mean-spirited Rinther
4.  A sheltered child with a NapoleonTemplar complex
5.  The town drunk
6.  A really, really bad poet who thinks he's the finest artisan to have ever uttered a rhyme

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

A Raider.

[TheWanderer]

The Zalanthian equivalent of everybody's favorite psychopath...

[Scarecrow]

A George of the Jungle guy who is a spec app who lives with gortoks in their dens, can't speak any languages and just wears crude furs.

[whitt]

The Zalanthian equivalent of everybody's favorite psychopath...

Grand Theft Beetle?

[long live miley cyrus]

The last of my family has disappeared for reasons that I, a young man/woman so insane as to be incapable of any more than basic work, have no conception of at all. I've decided to go and pursue my dream, now that my family can't exactly tell me not to and no one mentioned anything about after they were dead except several instances of "Don't you freakin' dare go do that thing you've always wanted to do if we happen to be gone one day and leave you alone," but, hey, that is obviously so generalized so that it could mean anything.

Anyway, here I am, pursuing my life-long dream of sneaking past apartment renters, breaking into peoples' rooms, touching their belongings, and watching them as they sleep. Watching them for hours. Touch their belongings some more. Eat a piece of meat I found in a bag. Watch them some more.

And then as they wake up I'll be hiding inside a container and watch them some more! And watch them and listen to them until they leave. Or bring a prostitute in. Yeah. That's kind of a deal killer, so, I'll bust out of the container and run for the door if that ever happens. I'll scream lots and lots, in order to create confusion and make my presence less noticeable.

And no one will ever catch me!

[bmburmas]

A former slave who now goes around trying to free every slave he sees, but not before he tells their owners that they are morally reprehensible.