Time for a shameless rant (Yay!) Someone just had to remind me of one of my PCs which had to die before he even got a chance to get off the ground.
Yup that is why I am putting this now. So anyone could see what he really was without me needing to repeat myself over and over and over again. Instead of believing in the pack of nonsense other people had spread.
Which PC am I talking about? Well a lot of people who have been in chat recently for the past month or so might have heard of him (especially all of you haters and noob bashers which I will never forgive. Don't worry, I will always remember who some of you are
) Yup, he is
Caedeserus the
cursed sword.
Frankly I lurk in chat. And by lurk I mean a lot. Even if I am afk I will come back and skim through the chat history so I know what you people have been saying. Heck I didn't even have to be on chat while you guys were talking all that unfounded and baseless crap about him because as soon as I get in, nice people send me whispers telling me there were people bad mouthing my PC just because they didn't like it. How would you like it if that is the first thing you learn about when you enter chat, huh? Should have figured that things were going bad the first time I was told that someone was ranting about my PC in chat just because her thread did not go the way she wanted to as soon as I joined in. That was the spark which started the destruction. If that is the way it is then why don't you go
make a private thread or provide an OOC note of what you want? That way I won't have to waste my time and muse on you. I am no mindreader you know.
The concept of Caederus was simple enough from the start. An
ancient ghost with a lifelong goal of
redemption, attached to the only thing left from his time which was
his sword. There should not be any complications right? Wrong! Because somehow or another, people have been talking in chat. I would be cool with that if they were NOT spreading around ideas like I wanted "special abilities, magic items, and permission to use ghostly manifestations in inappropriate ways" to the point that is what people will see first regardless what the PC truly is. The ones who are powergaming here as some of you have kindly put in chat? That would be you for deciding on what my character is without being willing to look properly and thus causing this mess. Yeah don't think I missed the part of you saying you hate the character because you think the player behind it is a powergamer.
People.
The sword is
cursed because there is a
ghost who
follows it around and
screws up the life of anyone he didn't like which uses it! What kind of lies have you been spreading around in chat to make other people think otherwise? Look at the item properly. Everything about it are mundane or common items which can be gotten from the price list by anyone. Ghost or not as long as they have the mizas for it. Its just not
logical for a
traveling ghost to be able to
carry that kind of money so I might was well dump it into
something he can
carry around. Like a
sword. Whatever power you think the sword has is the ghost using his skills to mess around with the wielder, his enemies and the environment. In a sense its "magical", but not the way you put it since its only the dead djed of the ghost put to use.
So lets go through how I got the idea of making him. One, ghosts were not getting a lot of love. Most I see get retired too fast or just get inactive sadly enough. The reason is pretty simple (at least for me) Because they have only three initial skills to work with and there was nothing much to do. So why not
go past that limitation and use it to your advantage? Master those three skills of yours and get other people to help your ghost do whatever he wants to. But how are you going to do that? Its not like any right minded person would freely accept a ghost as their partner (except for spiritists who are just as rare to find one which will suit Caedeserus) The partner thing is good OOC too because then you have a
steady thread partner for yourself.
Which brought to another thing I heard in chat a few days (later or earlier? I cannot remember) Kelvic BONDMATES! Yes we all know them, we all love them and we all want them. They all bond because they were created with needs. Like them, Caedeserus has a
need too. People that he can use. But unlike Kelvics, a ghost would not really be useful enough. Kelvics are useful. And even if not they can be used as a symbol of awesomeness. Which just meant I had to make Caedeserus useful or awesome too.
But that brought to another problem. Caedeserus as I saw him was a fully autonomous character even if he still had to rely on people. He was a ghost of action. He needed to do things. He needed
a motive and a drive. A good one so that he won't die out so easily. Yeah I needed a reason to work on his skills too. Which was why, a warrior ghost. Besides from stupidly materializing himself due to some perverse sense of honor (which I saw him doing a lot) or a spiritist, It would be hard to take on a ghost. That was actually a really entertaining idea to me. Not to mention an ancient ghost can talk in nader canoch and combining its rules and words with common would be totally funny.
The ghost needed a weapon if he wanted to fight (or a house/ship if I wanted a haunted house/ship but lets not go there) It did not hurt that the weapon was going to look exotic enough that people would want to keep around even as a curiosity. I wasted two days. TWO! To find out whether it was possible for him to carry
one weapon. Most of the weapons I wanted were too heavy for competent or expert leveled ghosts (Wow!) And the rest are just too boringly common. Which is why I ended up with the executioner's sword. Because its below five and its just plain cruel. Its made to behead people but the blunt point can be used to hurt people just as bad without killing them. Torture is good for vindictive ghosts.
So yes, three skills and a simple concept and I still have no idea how it went so wrong thanks to some
people in chat (You know who you are
)
Soulmist projection to touch the beloved sword and mess with other people.
Materialization just to feed the ghost's ego that he wants to be a part of the new world. Well actually
Possession would make it a
real cursed sword at the later levels since he would be able to go into people's arm and control the sword from there. Think of how the other PCs would react to that? But I kind of liked the first two skills since they suited his personality, so...meh...
To me its simple. You
don't like the PC then that is your problem. Just don't go around telling people why you think it would go wrong without proof. Don't go around saying things you think you saw that were not there.
Don't spread your crap that will twist and pervert the character concept the way you want people to see it, just because you want to
see it fail. I can give you the ten reasons why I
think your character would fail you haters, just because I refuse to see the hundred reasons already there that it work. And I can do it so well just to make the ten lies shroud the hundred truths from everyone else. What you should have done is
brought your concerns to my attention so I can help clarify. Instead of working up everyone else and putting their full attention on those non-existent facts!
Well, rant is over and I feel kind of better to get it all out and won't have to explain to anyone else about it when they ask since I can just point them here. In closing I would like to thank the people who actually supported the idea and wanted to help make it work instead of shooting it down with their !@#$%. People like Tats and Fela who worked with me on the CS to try and personify what the character actually is. Zlakalia and Valleck who wanted to have a ghostly partner in their own missions which I am sorry to have disappointed. And a few others who were able to keep an open mind. As for those who did all the hating and spreading, I do hope that someone else would show you the "kindness" that you have shown me.