Wow, the results were very interesting, also unanimous in many, many options. In others, some compromise is in order, I should probably edit the first post, spoiler the entire character creation, then create an index with links to specific posts. I'll probably get around to that. Eventually.
Results:
Hair: Ginger 11 votes
Background: Crushing on girls 11 votes
Attitude: Optimistic 11 votes
Alignment: True Neutral 8 votes, Chaotic Good 3 votes
Religion: Simurgh cultist 7, Agnostic 3, Pastafarian 1 votes
Sexuality: Bi 8, Homo 2, Pan 1 votes
Deviancy: Voyeur 11 votes
Dream: Harem 6, Simurgh 6, Money 2 votes
Difficulty level: Normal 11 votes
Additional powers: Mental construct 7, Persuasion 3, Slander ping 1 votes
Skills: Psychology 7, Pick-up 7, Exercise 4, Medicine 3, Business 2, Mentalism 2, Investigation 1 votes
Interests: Action movies 10, Romantic comedies 1 votes
Internet persona: Attention whore 11 votes
Power up speed: Dauntless 11 votes
Synergy: Internet 10, Pheromones 1 votes
Friends: Jack Spicer 10, Spinerette 1 votes
Now let's see what I can do with this.
1.1
First day of school
Hello!
Can you keep a secret? I'm a cape. Recently triggered in fact. I call myself Gossip. Why? Because my power is from the master group. I can compell someone to get an opinion on something from what I told them, and have a strong urge to pass what I told them forward.
But nobody has a perfect memory you know. So things get lost in translation. Things get mixed up and sometimes it just works like a messed up telephone game. Sounds lame, I know.
Like controling bugs or squirrels, and I have so many limitations and rules to my power I have yet to figure out. It's kind of frustrating and it killed my dreams of being an awesome cape that I've had since I was 7 or so. So I'd rather just lay low than play PR for the wards or something like that.
If you'd rather have my lifestory than the short version then I'd be happy to tell it.
I was born on Dec 15 1995, a typical ginger girl, somewhere in middle of Fucking Nowhere, Poland. I led a pretty unhappy life, until I triggered, because I'm messed up in the head. That's what it had to be. I've been crushing after girls since I was 6. I'm pretty sure people aren't supposed to be sex obsessed deviants at this age. I didn't have hormones to be aroused yet and I was already falling in love left and right. Never got to spit it out to my crush either. It's not like I was uncomfortable being a lesbian with a bracer, stockings, and blonde fetishes. Pretty sure all three come from lusting after my first crush anyway. And second. And third.
Recently my family moved to Brocktown Bay in America. Which I didn't have a problem with. English is in fact my best subject. I consider myself bilingual. I think English thoughts as often as Polish words. I even forget words in Polish that I know the meaning of in English. It's pretty fucking disturbing.
As a person, nowadays I would say I'm pretty optimistic and If I would try to describe myself in D&D terms I would be True Neutral.
Religion-wise, I'm a Simurgh cultist but I don't think I should be spreading this around. A lot of people don't appreciate that.
Sexually I would describe myself as a bisexual, with a preference for girls and a voyeur.
I have an insane dream of having a harem. With Simurgh in it of course. As the chief wife.
I think my cape career is going to be average. Do what I can with what I have.
Even though I find my power lame I think I'll make an awesome use of it, in fact I found out that I can create some sort of mental construct inside of people. They have a need to talk about what I talked to them about and it won't go away until they match my words second for second. I could literaly talk someone to near death and they would feel a need to talk someone to near death too.
In order to prepare for a life of excitement I assumed I would have (At least until I triggered) I picked up a couple of hobbies I
never dropped. Some psychology. It's seriously interesting how a human mind works. And now I could exploit this if I knew how. Some pick up arts. It's usefull in day to day interactions as much as in manipulating someone for sex. And with my power I can do some downright absurd seduction and get away with it. I exercise a lot, helps me keep in shape. I also learned some first aid.
As to my other interests I love movies, especially action movies, but I watch romantic comedies from time to time.
I'm also frequenting PHO. It's a lot like some corners of the internet from Earth Aleph, especially Youtube.
The strangest thing is that I think my power is growing. It's a lot like Dauntless. It grows a bit every day, but one day I just might pull bullshit out of my ass on a daily basis.
If I had to say what would synergise with me the best it would be Internet working with my powers.
I also have this cape friend. Goes by the name of Jack Spicer Evil Boy Genius. A total incompetent idiot. Chases all around earth for lost pieces of tinkertech, but we're as thick as thieves. I also met Spinnerette once while in Ohio. Got a signed photograph out of it. It was awesome.
That's all I care to share right now about myself.
Right now I'm standing in a corridor at Winslow. I think I heard something from the direction of the lockers, but it's probably nothing.
I have the rest of the day off so I could go home. I could go to the library for some internet browsing, or I could go for a walk.
[X] Investigate locker ghost
Curiosity got the better of me and I ended up looking for the source of the noise. As I got closer I started hearing some quiet noises. Thumps and Bangs. And squeaks. The noises came from inside of a locker that's for sure. I looked around to my left and to my right. Nobody there. Just me and the locker. It's up to me to investigate the source of the disturbance. I probably shouldn't do this, but curiosity is killing me, and I love emulating movie protagonists. Especially the well prepared ones. I'm always prepared.
Taking off my self made lockpick hairclip (You never know when you might need it!) I started working on opening the locker. Boy did I get a treasure of a lifetime. Filth and essence of disgusting flowed out from the inside. A thump, and a maggot infested body dropped to the floor.
"Kurwa." I couldn't help but say it. It was an appropriate word summing up the situation quite nicely.
I dry heaved a couple of times from the smell, but nothing more than that, I am no stranger to rotting things. Grew up helping grandparents on their farm and stuff. I forced myself to calm down and get used to the smell then examined the girls vitals. She was a mess, but alive. Who could have done this? I asked myself. First day at new school and this kind of shit happens. I turned to my bag and fetched my phone. Dialled Jack and waited.
Why the hell am I calling Jack anyway? I could get the girl to the nurse and forget the whole thing. But the curiosity of who-dun-it was killing me. Before I got lost too much in panic a voice reached my ears.
"Hello. You've reached
JACK SPICER'S EVIL BOY GENIUS voice mail."
[X] "Jack you ass! Pick up the phone! I know you're in there making more stupid jackbots! I need your help and I need it now!"
[X] Screw it. I gotta get the girl some help.
[X] Give first aid.
[X] Get her to the nurse.
[X] Call for an ambulance.
[X] Any of the above in any order.
[X] You know what? Whatever. It's not like I know this girl, and I already let her out. I'm outta here.
In the end the votes ended up being either almost perfectly in agreement, some things were squeezed in even if there was only 1 vote, because they weren't mutually exclusive. Religion and Alignment were about 2:1 in votes in one specific option as opposed to other ones, so I decided that since they were mutually exclusive I won't be combining 2 alignments into one, or 2 religious views into one. It'll probably be the same in the future. Add things that aren't exclusive and discard things that are, but got the minority vote.
On point distribution it came down to having 2 points left, and I could either pick up an addition power that got 3 votes, or pick up exercise and medicine. Exercise got 4 votes and medicine got 3 votes. Exercise got 1 more vote and Medicine could be bought with the remaining point.