afoolsgold | OOC: OPT-IN POST

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[OOC]

Backtagging: Yes

Threadhopping: should be fine, but check with me first please

Fourthwalling: Nope

Offensive subjects: animal cruelty/death, rape

[IC]

Hugging this character: Yes, though may not respond well unless there is previously established CR.

Kissing this character: Same as above.

Flirting with this character: Yes! He may even flirt back.

Fighting with this character: This will probably not go well for the Fool, but yes.

Injuring this character: If it makes sense, go for it, but check with me OOC so we can determine how things go down.

Killing this character: Please do not.

Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: As long as I get a heads-up in advance, sure. Please do not presume to find information in the Fool's thoughts, however. We should hash this out OOC.

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OPT-IN

This part of the post serves as an opt-in for you for the Fool's abilities. Please leave a comment letting me know which of the Fool's abilities you're opting in for--either a chance brush with the Fool's Skill-touched fingertips, or to feature in his prophetic dreams. Or both! Both is good.

As the White Prophet and as a person touched by a person wielding Skill magic, the Fool has some unique abilities that he's brought with him from the Realm of the Elderlings into the Seaglass City. Quoting directly from his app:

"In the Realm of the Elderlings, the Fool's dreams are sometimes prophetic in nature--though often they are highly stylized, highly symbolic, and difficult for anyone to parse. While awake, he could also see the thin, tenuous connections between living things and their futures. Through studying his dreams, he tries to determine which of these futures would lead to the 'best' outcome for the world... and then relies on the actions of his Catalyst, FitzChivalry Farseer, to bring those futures to fruition. (Example: the first prophetic riddle he presents to Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice is, "Fitz fixes feist's fits! Fat suffices." Without realizing it, Fitz fulfills this prophesy through helping a small dog--a feist--that is choking on a bone. He's able to remove the bone from the dog's throat via lubricating the area with fat. ...This is definitely the most straight forward and simple of the prophesies that the Fool predicts, but it conveys the idea well.) However, since the Fool's canon death and subsequent resurrection by Fitz, his ability to see the threads of connection between action and future has left him, and his dreams no longer contain prophetic riddles to be deciphered... at least, none that he is aware of.

The other ability the Fool possesses will seem mundane in comparison. In his past, he inadvertently brushed two of his fingertips against pure Skill magic, which has imbued him with the ability to touch a surface and know incredible facts about it in exacting detail. (Example: were he to touch a tree leaf with these fingers, he would, in some ways, understand what it is like to be that tree, its cycles of growth and dormancy, seasons it has lived, etc.) He uses this magic to bring startlingly lifelike shapes to the wood that he carves."

It is possible that, with time, the Fool's ability to experience prophetic dreams will return to him. If you would be comfortable having your character feature in these dreams in some capacity--and if you would like for the Fool's dreams to in fact predict some aspect of your character's future in-game--please leave me a comment here!

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