The current home of The Offset Parabolan and associates.
Ockham, The Offset Parabolan (any/all)
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There's something odd about Ockham. Ockham seems cordial enough when you meet at a society soirée, or in the crowded lobby after a theatrical performance, even if Ockham seems to say very little. It's not until you get out into the crisp night air that you feel suddenly awake and refreshed, and the haziness of your encounter truly sets in. What were you talking about anyway? Did she say something important? Was it she? Or maybe it was he... you seemed to have known at the time. The longer you think on the encounter, the more nonsensical it seems. What did Ockham even look like? Your memory of him... them(?)... doesn't seem right, like trying to remember a dream... Perhaps it's best not to think about it too hard.
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Eleanor Roberts, The Twilit Entrepreneur (she/her)
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She'd spent decades moulding herself into the model Imperial subject, the perfect, respectable English officer, the Commodore's golden boy—his favourite son—rejecting every element of herself that did not fit that ideal. Now that he's dead and she's out the Dawn Machine's hold, she's decided to live her life on her terms. Whilst no one could accuse her of being charismatic, her earnestness goes a long way. Not a woman lightly crossed when interacting in the professional sphere.
Robert "Robin" Jones, The Unassuming Confidante (he/him)
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A diploma from Summerset hangs on his wall, dated from the 80s. A handful of letters of recommendation attest to decades of work history in London, though it’s difficult to parse exactly doing what. Some sort of solicitor? Is this what he does now…? The calling card, listing an address in the Upper River, certainly seems to say so. And he certainly seems friendly enough, a social butterfly, always taking an interest in what you want to talk about. Odd, that he doesn't seem to say much about himself.
Charlotte Pryce, The Relentless Pathfinder (she/her)
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She'd heard rumours that life in London was different than on the surface. That the rules society are different. That one can live as they wish. After her husband's death, she took her kids to the Neath, with hopes for a future of simply more. More for all of them. And in London, she's determined to have it all, regardless of the cost.
Leslie Wells, The Cornish Koloman (they/he)
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A surface time traveller from the year of... 1912. Their attempt to repair their father's broken machine and travel to the dates of his journals backfired, landing him in 1902 and in the Game's crosshairs. After the Coilheart Games, they were convinced to return to the Neath, changing allegiance and slowly continuing work on their time machine. He'll get it right this time, and solve the mystery that sent them down this path in the first place.
Tamara, The Light-Born Preservationist, (she/her)
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A displaced Varchaasi, trying to make a life for herself in London. Formerly shared a townhouse with Ockham, now living with her business partner, Margaret. Her interest in painting and photography has landed her with London's less respectable crowd, involved in production of some of London's more scandalous images.
Margaret Hawes, The Enterprising Gossipmonger (she/her)
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Formerly a Lady's Maid at the Shuttered Palace, a Rube Goldberg string of errors led to her accidental murderer of her boss, The Traitor Empress. Upon escaping New Newgate, she'd taken advantage of her new anti-monarchist contacts to try to pass herself off as a lady herself. Currently, she's working a grift honeytrapping rich society types and sending scandalising photos of them to the newspapers in exchange for a cut of the money they contribute to the Venderbight economy, alongside her photographer partner, Tamara.
Horace (any/all?)
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An exceptionally round and fluffy cat. Quite possibly a paid agent of the Game and staunch Liberationist. Quite possibly multiple identical cats answering to the same name who are never seen in the same place.
□□□□□, The Rubbery Barber Surgeon (he/him)
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Trained in the style of the old masters, this butch squid will give you the best haircut and/or shapeling arts procedure you've ever seen. Happily engaged to The Tentacular Surgeoness.
Graham, The Geriatric Geodian (he/him)
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Absolutely just the worst. Graham's been around for longer than the crystals of Grand Geode. He's not even dawnpilled, just respects a fellow hater.
Inez, The Serendipitous Prodigy (she/he)
An engineer in the New Sequence with a talent for uncovering people's deepest secrets, she never seems to realise that any of this classified or protected information is not common.
Henri Reynard, The Alienated Alienist (he/him)
An Upper River alienist and licentiate, with an undeserved reputation as a gothic horror character. He cannot understand how he keeps getting on the wrong foot with so many people.
David Campbell, The Soft-hearted Vicar (he/him)
The former head of a minor Anglican church in London, contented leading his small flock. Now a drownie lurking near Mutton Island.
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With Your Father’s name canonically being Elias, the funniest possible ending to a SSea player trying to complete Your Father’s Bones is to zail all over the Neath only to find at the very end that Your Father has no bones to recover, her name is Eleanor, and she’s been avoiding you and everyone else.
realized i never posted any art ive done of my fallen london character so everyone say hi to that doctor, a totally normal doctor who is in no way incredibly ominous and off-putting
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I have been so utterly not alive lately and will therefore be forcing myself to finally finish the Wells family story post tomorrow between appointments.
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I finally finished up this bag! It took a bit longer than I anticipated, because I got really into working on that front panel, but I learned a lot and I'm very happy with how it came out.
Got a couple of fun shots with the bag here.
And a little handful of Correspondence that I clipped to the zipper - gotta keep the Dawn Machine regulated if it's going to be portable, after all.
And then, here's a bonus shot that I got while playing with the camera settings (cw for eyestrain):
crucial grace trait is that he IS very good at noticing things and drawing conclusions. he's very observant (perk of being so quiet & unnoticable, he gets to see everything) & also anxious enough to always catch on when things are off. but he's also way too unconfident in himself to believe in his own conclusions
yes this situation is weird and maybe sinister but clearly he's just being paranoid and he doesn't exactly understand many neathly customs or cultures yet so he just needs to follow along and stop being so weird about it. be normal. yes this person feels dangerous but he's obviously just being paranoid and it's rude of him to judge another person like that. doesn't he know his manners.
this obviously doesn't help him never voicing his opinions because why would he ever speak up when he's Wrong.
it's a genuine surprise to him when twitch asks for his opinion on things so often, which they think is stupid, because if they didn't want his opinion then they could talk to themselves just fine without him. obviously. why else would he be there
, realising now that 99% of gritch miscommunication comes from grace thinking exactly like this and twitch thinking everything they do is so blatantly obvious in its meaning (it's not) because everyone must think like they do (literally nobody does) and any other approach would be really stupid. and grace is ok so obviously his approach wouldn't be that stupid (it is)
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I think sometimes people wonder how Nora (who would bend over backwards to help almost anyone who expressed a need for it) and Emory (who isn't cruel but also doesn't really go out of their way for people they don't already care about) don't get in more fights about their relative levels of compassion. There are multiple factors at play for both of them:
Emory has surrounded himself with a lot of people who care more about others than he does, and because he wants to please them, he ends up doing things he might not bother with otherwise. He helps Nora solve cases, makes sure his more revolutionary crew members are able to pass on messages or redistribute portions of their smuggled goods, etc. Also, through teratomancy, they have developed a slightly greater capacity for understanding other people and creatures (whether or not they choose to act on it is another matter).
Nora has a much higher capacity than you might think for "out of sight, out of mind." Not to say that she never feels guilty about it, but she also has never truly reconsidered marrying into a family of murderers and thieves. She likes them, and their crimes don't tend to have any effect on her or her social circles. Also, while she truly is a kind and generous person, there's a part of her that is...desperate. Fearful. She's seen who she is at her absolute worst, when she completely gives in to anger and apathy, and she's terrified that she might actually be a vindictive person deep down (never mind that she was, you know, in the midst of a mental breakdown at the time).
