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Disorient Express AU Brainstorming
Welcome, dear players, to Grief Street! You've joined us for tonight's episode, The Disorient Express, a murder mystery aboard a train with secrets and inter-character drama galore.
Given the nature of the game and application, we've provided a collaborative space for you to brainstorm with your fellow players about your AU'd characters. This is where you'll be able to figure out who they are, what they're doing here, and also what relationships they might have to other characters on the train. Relationships can be as simple as "Character A and Character B are gossip buddies", or as spicy as "Character A is having an affair with Character B and is plotting to help kill their spouse". Have fun with it!
Remember to be respectful of each other's ideas! If you have any questions or want to talk about something you want to keep secret, feel free to reach out at
Player Name: That's you!
Character Name: You can also add their AU name here, if you're changing their name.
Canon: If they have one, that is.
Age: How old is your character?
Occupation: Describe what they do for a living!
Appearance: A brief visual description of your character, if you're changing the way they look/dress/etc.
About: Write a few sentences about your character's AU. This doesn't have to be finalized in the slightest, but it'll help give people an idea of what your character's vibes are! It can be in paragraph or bullet point form--whatever gets the point across.
Looking For: What sort of established relationships are you looking for? Family, friends, enemies, rivals, etc? You may also want to discuss are potential relationship hooks (occupation, country of origin, habits, etc) to help others collaborate with you. You're also encouraged to integrate other player characters into your own character's secrets!
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Character Name: Laerryn Coramar-Seelie
Canon: Exandria Unlimited: Calamity
Age: ??? Looks to be in her late 20s or early 30's, this one is still up in the air bc right now I'm thinking of keeping her a high elf but that could change to human
Occupation: Engineer
Appearance: Laerryn is a black, elven woman with gold eyes and long, dark hair. Like all elves, she is an effortlessly stunning beauty, which is fortunate because she doesn't spend much time on her appearance outside of special occasions - and even then, it's usually just to accent what she already has going for her. She's a big fan of gold and purple. I imagine her approach to fashion has been to treat it as something practical for her work or something that's trying to break physics with no in between.
About: If asked, Laerryn would simply cite what she does for a living is 'engineering' because most people do not need more of an explanation and she is often too impatient to give it. No one really knows exactly what Laerryn does because the truth is she wears the hats of many fields of engineering - civil, mechanical, production, etc. - and is always working even when she is, ostensibly, not at work.
This last part has put enough friction between her and her husband, Loquacious Seelie ( a radio news anchor and talented voice actor/impressionist ), that the two are currently separated, though of course Laerryn has her own opinions on this. England is where Laerryn calls home and Quay is from Ireland, but the both of them have ties to New York, mostly through Quay's connections as he is definitely more the schmoozing influence type.
Laerryn for her part often has very little patience for other people, especially ones she deems incompetent. She is an ambitious go-getter and extremely prideful about her work, though she doesn't court accolades or praise for those things. This trip for her is one part research, one part business, and mostly a sweatbox for her projects with a scenic view. Hopefully someone can convince my girl to have a little fun before the murdering happens. Those who are in the know for engineering or 'the biz' with Quay as a connection could be privvy to the fact Laerryn is responsible for the layout of this world's modern London Underground, a project that is ongoing as far as the implementation goes but is finished so far as her involvement is concerned. Onward and upwards! If I get any personal contacts that would be working with her, I'll share more with them on some of the things she's currently working on, or we can work that out together for a group project.
Looking For: Clever friends (doesn't necessarily have to be in her field), business partners, people who know Quay, assistants (maybe even an automaton of some sort?), rivals, enemies, associates, fellow science buddies! I am open to affairs, though that would be a complicated matter since she still has feelings for her husband. I would even tentatively be open to having one of the other characters being her separated spouse if they could possibly be social enough to have gotten her the connections she needs for her business/invention ventures.
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You know, I wonder if there might not have been a World's Fair type deal for them both to have become known to one another at? Or both traveling back from since you mention a conference in your info post? Depending on if he exhibited anything or asked questions at hers. But I'm also totally fine if you'd rather he know of her and not vice versa!
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Even though she's not really a people person, she's definitely interested in talking about her interests. So if he came up and wanted to chat with her about her work, she could remember him through that. Now the question is does she remember him as engaging or just a recent face?
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