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[midnightroads]

Bash St. Expedit Saturday's Son, Demigod of Midnight Roads, Patron Saint of the Lonely Street
BASIC NAME: Bash St. Expedit CANON: Original character for Scion TTRPG AGE: 27 DOB: April 19, 1990 GENDER: Dude SPECIES: Demigod ACTIVE: come_sailaway PLAYER: Solstice CONTACT: darkersolstice or darkersolstice#9463	APPEARANCE VISUAL: Link HEIGHT: 5'11" BUILD: Wiry muscle HAIR: Long, brown, textured EYES: Brown FEATURES: Tattoos: Left shoulder - Crow holding a white cross with the word "HODIE" across the bar Right shoulder - Crow holding a small banner with the word "CRAS" Back - Yet another crow, breaking a spear in half with its beak Right calf - Veve of St. Expedit DRESS: Informally gothic VOICE: STUFF PB: Willy Cartier	PERMISSIONS BACKTAGGING: ✔ within reason. Above two weeks without saying anything, and I get grumpy THREADHOPPING: ✔ ask first FOURTHWALLING: ✘ ROMANCE: ✔ MINDREADING: ✔ let's talk! MANIPULATION: ✔ let's talk! INJURY: ✔ let's talk! FIGHTING: ✔ let's talk! KILLING: ✔ let's talk!

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[midnightroads]

Bash is a character with divine abilities. I'm going to detail the ones that may affect other characters below:

Death Senses: Bash can interact with ghosts and other undead souls. In addition, he can look at a corpse and get a sense for how it was killed--let's negotiate whether that works on vampires or not individually!

Afraid of the Dark: He can use shadows to create a brief illusion that strikes fear into the hearts of others. This is not a thing where he knows your fears, it's more like that moment in a horror film where shadows grow darker and there's a violin sting to let you know things are spooky-ooky.

Where Are You?: If someone makes remote contact with him (by telephone, instant messenger, telepathy…), he can get a sense of how far away he is and in what direction. The sensation remains even after the period of contact ends, but it doesn’t follow the person around if that person moves.

I'm not looking to push anyone around OOCly, so if you're not comfortable with any of these powers, let me know and I'll assume they don't work on your character. You can use the handy form below to opt in or give me any relevant information:

Using Death Senses, would Bash sense anything weird about your character?
Would your character be suceptible to Afraid of the Dark?
Can I sense your character's location using Where Are You?

[saltwaterlungs]

1) Hoo boy Darcy has a Couple of causes of death but I'm happy for his powers to work like they would with ghosts/corpses/whatever's fun and flavourful
2) Sure!
3) Go ahead!

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Death Senses: Inapplicable due to not being dead
Afraid of the Dark: Yes go ahead and spook the bot
Where Are You: Sure that's fine

[selenokinesis]

1) Nothing odd for Ebalon wrt death senses!
2) I'm not entirely sure Ebalon feels fear because he's ? bizarre? But if it comes up I would love to fuck around with it! So like, a tentative yes?
3) Ebalon is a mind mage so 100% yes on this one! Could be very funny.

[saltandpepperbeard]

Death Senses: N/A
Afraid of the Dark: Sure, though Blackbeard has no fear! ... He'd probably assume a fuckery is afoot, and by that I mean he'd assume an illusion or general theatrics.
Where Are You?: Sure, use your echolocation on him, why not.

[midnightroads]

2. It sure is a fuckery!

[prefers_magneto]

Using Death Senses, would Bash sense anything weird about your character? He's never been dead, but he's been around a lot of death. Don't know if that makes a difference.
Would your character be susceptible to Afraid of the Dark? Yes.
Can I sense your character's location using Where Are You? Sure.

[midnightroads]

1. No, it doesn't really make a difference, for this.

[mysteryfreak]

1. He's not dead but he did get force-fed an experimental poison that almost killed him. So while I don't know that he'd be able to tell EXACTLY what's up with this kid he might feel that something is... off. Also, Conan is a death magnet, he's been around just so many murders.

2. This could probably work but Conan is far more likely to investigate anything he's unsure of.

3. Sure? I don't see why not.

[ring_for_giles]

Death Senses: Not dead, just out of time

Afraid of the Dark: Yep, though the contract Tasting the Harvest could probably counter it if used

Where Are You: Sure! I'd imagine if he's in the cottage at the time it would probably ping to the last door he entered from

[midnightroads]

Makes sense on the contract shielding against it and the cottage ping.

[neverleave]

Death sense: Natsuno is a vampire but technically he didn't die. Basically he won vampire lottery and instead of dying and rising as a walking corpse his blood changed and gave him all the powers with fewer weaknesses. He's alive, warm, has a pulse etc. If Bash can sense things that happened on the brink of death, feel free to notice his weird blood.

He DID die in an explosion before arriving on the ship.

Afraid of the Dark: He won't be spooked by something like that, but will be wary if it cancels his night vision.

Where are you: Sure

[tempingainteasy]

Using Death Senses, would Bash sense anything weird about your character?
April isn't dead.

Would your character be suceptible to Afraid of the Dark?
April might be able to tell what Bash is doing with this, but wouldn't be afraid (would read it more like one animal facing an intimidation display from another, which is to say she'd be intimidated for different reasons)

Can I sense your character's location using Where Are You?
No/not accurately, being Vague is part of April's thing

[midnightroads]

Love all of this.

[obeyseventually]

Using Death Senses, would Bash sense anything weird about your character?
IDK if this works with video game respawn mechanics... Jack was technically alive when he was brought here.

Would your character be suceptible to Afraid of the Dark?
I started filling this out thinking I'd know the answer but you know what? I don't think I can say for certain without the context of a scene lmfao. I'll say I'm open to it and if it comes up I'll plot with you then }:3

Can I sense your character's location using Where Are You? </i Yes!

[midnightroads]

1. ...do you want it to work with video game respawn mechanics?
2. Totes, I always do check-ins before springing powers on people unless they're explicitly like 'fuck me up please' at this stage.

[obeyseventually]

Having glanced in the discord I realize the key thing you're detecting is if the character is presently dead like a vampire, in which case I'll be saying no, Jack's alive. He's died a lot of times, but brought back all the way to life each time and has never been undead or anything, and was alive when he was brought to the ship 👍

[theotherright]

1. It’s been close a few times, but he ain’t dead yet!
2. If it relies on Arthur seeing the shadows, that’s not going to work. If it’s not vision-dependent and is more of a vibes thing, then 100% yes.
3. Absolutely locate he!

[midnightroads]

2. Definitely vibes. You know the moments in the podcast when the music does a thing that lets you know shit's scary? It's that, except enough to be felt by the characters fully.

[theotherright]

Lmfao I love it. Scare the shit out of him. Is it an illusion of a specific thing or is it more like ‘violin twang that makes your fear glands fire’? Depending on context he might be quick to realise it’s illusions, but that doesn’t mean he’d be unaffected 8)

[midnightroads]

I mean, "Against someone with an equal or lower Legend score, the defender’s player rolls (Willpower + Integrity + Legend) to shake off the effect," mechanically, contested by Bash's Manipulation+Empathy roll.

[theotherright]

Arthur tries to roll under his POW stat, gets a strong success, and then realises he’s using the wrong system and flips a coin instead to see if he won.

[hellonspectacles]

1) Palamedes is currently alive in the sense that he was resurrected by the captain when he appeared on the Serena Eterna, but he has died. So if that counts, then: yes please. Pal died by releasing all of his stored thanergy all at once, basically turning himself into a nuclear bomb. He was then a ghost in a pocket universe of his own creation for about eight months. You can also have Bash sense Pal's thanergy or general necromancer-ness in whatever way you choose! Go wild!

2) Yeah, go for it! Though Pal is generally not afraid of Spooky Shadows because he is an Annoying Science Guy.

3) Sure thing!

[midnightroads]

1. He's sure going to feel something.
2. It's not just shadows in the visual sense, it's the whole world seeming to get spookier in a ✨Vibes✨ sense for just a moment. It hits at lizard brain.

[hellonspectacles]

1. I AM EXCITE.
2. Ooo, that's fair! Pal will still actively resist the spooky vibes for the same reason, but that doesn't mean he'll be unaffected by them! He'll be like that guy who insists he's Totally Not Afraid Of The Haunted House even if he is.

for Crichton and Number 6 - too lazy to log out

[ss_buttcrack]

John Crichton
1. He's been technically dead one time after being administered an alien drug that can stop his heart. He was revived using CPR.

+ Don't know if Bash would be able to sense this, but at one point he was twinned (made into two completely identical and valid copies of himself) and the other copy has now died of radiation poisoning.

2. Yeah, that would spook the hell out of him. Okay with me.

3. Good with me.


Number 6 be_seeing_you

1. Nothing much to see. He's had near misses but no genuine deaths.

2. That would freak him out and make him pretty angry, but I'm fine with it happening.

3. Good with me. Obviously, he will hate it if he finds out.

[theweakhavepurpose]

1. He may think he's dead, but he's alive here so nothing fun for Bash to poke.
2. Please do, he'll think he's in a Trial, it'll go great.
3. He's in the Buffet, Bash. He's always in the Buffet. (But yes echolocate him)

[winepouring]

Death Senses: Nothing strange, he's a living human who has never even died before!

Afraid of the Dark: I could see this having the potential to really unnerve Shi Qingxuan, so please ask first. 🙏 The whole artificially created fear really would freak him out and possibly derail a whole thread. Which is sometimes a good thing, so I'm not against it!

Where Are You: Yeah, go ahead!

[midnightroads]

2. Totally fair and I’ll ask if it ever comes up. It definitely wouldn’t be for no reason at all.

[light_mischief]

Using Death Senses, would Bash sense anything weird about your character?
idk how it works? skulduggery is technically alive, not undead or anything. if it's a magical ping of "how he was killed" i guess "torture" is the answer, but if its a "i can make deductions about a death based on what i see" then the answer is "who knows" -- tbh if it ever comes up we can just hash it out oocly

Would your character be susceptible to Afraid of the Dark?
nope

Can I sense your character's location using Where Are You?
yep

[pinballer]

Death Senses: Yes, he's a ghost. If seeing the cause of death applies to ghosts, he was murdered by a guy in a devil mask.

Afraid of the Dark: Sure

Where Are You? Sure

[cacophonish]

Death Senses: There's nothing too weird about Jeff! He's very much alive and has always been alive. There is a magical/spiritual 'stain' on him from his past possession, but I don't know if that would fall under the purview of Bash's powers. I'm all for going that route, though!

Afraid of the Dark? Absolutely go for it

Where Are You? Always!

[redlightgreenlight]

1) Death Senses: She's not only an entity of death, but she has died several times, though she is very much alive. Not sure how this would feel to him. She has also caused a lot of death and killed thousands, not just ferried them to the next life.
2) Afraid of the Dark: She's not one to be afraid of much, but we can always swing it somehow for plot if needed.
3) Where are you: Find away!

[sonofabinky]

Death senses: nothing weird!
Afraid of the Dark: definitely susceptible
Where Are You: go ahead!

[inhairently]

Using Death Senses, would Bash sense anything weird about your character? n/a
Would your character be susceptible to Afraid of the Dark? yes
Can I sense your character's location using Where Are You? yes

So I'm not clogging up with too many comments, this will also apply to Laura Kearney (interlunium)

[decrypter]

1. Yes, though it's complicated, given as canon is ambiguous on life or death. Helena has died many, many times and is still intact - let's talk privately should this come up to hash out the specifics.
2. If his powers can work on an audio level, yes, otherwise Helena is immune due to being fully blind.
3. Yes!

[not_the_last]

Death Senses: Cassandra has been dead, once, and was revivified (magic equivalent of CPR). She's also spent a lot of time in close proximity to a necromancer, a vampire, and a lot of undead corpses, if that's likely to ping anything.

Afraid of the Dark: She'd probably be susceptible, at least a little.

Where Are You: Sure!

[prince_of_beasts]

Death Senses -- Dimitri is not dead. If Bash gets to know him well enough for Dimitri to talk about being haunted, Bash will notice that Dimitri is distinctly ... well ... not, in any literal sense.

Afraid of the Dark -- hell yes. His susceptibility depends on his state of mind at the time; anywhere from "wildly, terrifyingly effective" to "brushed off"

Where Are You? -- sure

[littlefairytale]

For Ruby, Crabb and Daisy at once...

Death Senses: Ruby and Crabb are very not dead, Daisy being an Avatar has by nature died in some way, but since in her case it might be the 'metaphysical' kind I'm not sure if he'd pick anything up.
Afraid of the Dark: Yes they're probably all varyingly susceptible.
Where Are You? Yes go for it.

[treading_water]

1. Never died so not applicable. I think if he gets killed in-game this'll be ok on a case by case basis.
2. Sure
3. Sure

[thefreak]

apparently never did this sO REALLY QUICKLY

Death Senses: he was technically killed just before appearing on the ship!
Afraid of the Dark: yes!
Where Are You?: yes!

[takethatnature]

Death Senses: Wilson's died a lot of times in his world, and some of those times he was a ghost for a few minutes to a few days before being re-embodied, but he was fully resurrected every time and was taken while he was alive. So there's definitely something weird about him, but he's not currently dead, undead, or ambiguously alive. Up to you whether that shows up to Bash's powers, although I think it would be fun if Bash noticed.

Afraid of the Dark: This is extremely similar to a common effect from his canon which can be a warning sign that something deadly is lurking nearby but can also be mostly harmless, so if he gets a sudden burst of anxiety out of nowhere and doesn't know why he's scared, his first assumption is going to be that the feeling of fear is being artificially induced by something nearby and he'll try to triangulate the source by pacing around and seeing if things are spookier in a particular direction. (This is one of the ways to detect certain monsters in his canon that can hide and then pop out and take off half your health bar.) So he's probably not going to be too deeply shaken either in the moment or afterwards, but it does work on him, he will be spooked.

Where Are You? Yeah, that's fine.