Character Name: Joshua Alignment: Fourth Offering Description: Only a couple of weeks after arriving here, Joshua took notice of how Elias kept his promise of helping the Day and Night followers and decided to forge an alliance with him, recognizing him as a fellow entity that could not only help to get his own abilities back (to an extent), but find a way home as well; in exchange, he offered to help Elias take care of the Fog. Not long after, he capitalized on Beat's curiosity about Elias and convinced him to join the side of the Fourth, earning him Tier 2 status. Around Nattensfest, Joshua came to Elias expressing interest in reaching out to Shibuya for outside help, to which Elias proposed opening a portal. Said portal would need sufficient power, though. Elias suggested taking power away from the Fog by coercing her followers into giving up their power, but in February, with the opening of Haftesal and the reveal of the fog-sucking vacuums, Joshua saw a different option. In March, he organized the "theft" of some vacuums with a few other Fourth followers and a couple of neutral parties, in order to suck up and store fog with the intent of using them for powering the portal. These vacuums were stored until they had a good opportunity to use them. In late March, after Atem & Co.'s post to the network, he jumped on the opportunity to spread some anti-Fog rumors around Bavan, and still continues to do this periodically. In early April, as the beginning-of-the-month fog began to settle in, Joshua took Beat out to vacuum up as much fog as they could, but they were accosted by Javert in the process. Though Joshua ended up beaten and bloodied, he managed to vacuum Javert and store his power inside a canister, which was an unexpected bonus and a huge victory, and it earned him Tier 3 status. These efforts thinned the fog for a solid month, causing monsters to be weakened and their healing to be sluggish. At the end of April, after Beat returned from his two-week entrapment and Fog torment in Lager Woods, Joshua's Nephilim fury was triggered; in retribution, he took Neku along to set fire to a swath of Her forest, getting in a bonus conversation on the way about Neku possibly joining Elias's side. In the beginning half of May, after finding out that Atem had broken into the Arcade and busted up a good amount of their stored fog, Joshua came to check in on Elias and vowed to collect more fog in preparation for enacting his plan as soon as was safely possible, as well as offering his services as backup should Elias be directly attacked again. He also spoke to Nanami during the June intro, openly sympathizing with Elias in an effort to curb any more uninformed dislike.
While Joshua's plan to open up a portal to Shibuya ended up failing, the culmination of his efforts to aid Elias still resulted in temporarily altering the state of the entire peninsula, isolating and weakening those affected, and placing his own life and the lives of others in severe danger.
Joshua does not like the Fog. He understands why some may choose to follow her, and he is willing to work with the more reasonable of her followers, but her irresponsible behavior and selfish grudges have caused far more trouble than good. If defeating her is the only way out of Ryslig for those that want out, so be it. During the course of his stay, he will continue to make every effort to sabotage her, as well as any of her followers that actively make life worse for the other monsters here. So long as the Fog remains in unchecked power and her more fanatical followers continue to make humans feel threatened by monsters, there will be no bridging the gap or balancing the scales.
Link:Here. Reward Tier: Priest Reward Description: • Alternative Priest Ability: The ability to travel along Ryslig's electrical grid. Similar to radio static teleportation, Joshua can enter and exit the electrical grid via any outlet presently receiving a current, remaining on it for as long as is necessary. Unlike radio teleportation, however, this also allows him to possess electronics/appliances that are currently connected to an outlet. Possession of the item is strictly in the sense of his energy being physically stored inside the item, but in combination with his Tier 1 ability, this also means he can manipulate its general functions as well as the functions of electronics in the same room. If the item he's possessing has a camera or some sort of broadcasting surface (movie projectors, TV screens, etc) he can utilize this to view what is going on in that surface's visible range, and if the item has speakers, he can listen in instead; it's sort of a remote-but-not-remote surveillance. This will obviously be placed on his opt-out post, and I will also check in with other players to make sure it's okay before using it in a thread if the opportunity arises! Also, this power comes with its own failsafe - if the item he's possessing is unplugged before he's able to make a quick escape back into the outlet, he will be trapped inside of it until it can be plugged in again. Likewise, if the electrical grid fails while he is on it, he could be in deep trouble.
• Ability to access the network at will without the use of a laptop.
• A marking on the back of his right hand, in the shape of the seal of Shibuya. Similar to the Tier 1 circuitry lines on his left wrist, it glows purple in the presence of other Fourth followers. Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): N/A
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Alignment: Fourth
Offering Description: Only a couple of weeks after arriving here, Joshua took notice of how Elias kept his promise of helping the Day and Night followers and decided to forge an alliance with him, recognizing him as a fellow entity that could not only help to get his own abilities back (to an extent), but find a way home as well; in exchange, he offered to help Elias take care of the Fog. Not long after, he capitalized on Beat's curiosity about Elias and convinced him to join the side of the Fourth, earning him Tier 2 status. Around Nattensfest, Joshua came to Elias expressing interest in reaching out to Shibuya for outside help, to which Elias proposed opening a portal. Said portal would need sufficient power, though. Elias suggested taking power away from the Fog by coercing her followers into giving up their power, but in February, with the opening of Haftesal and the reveal of the fog-sucking vacuums, Joshua saw a different option. In March, he organized the "theft" of some vacuums with a few other Fourth followers and a couple of neutral parties, in order to suck up and store fog with the intent of using them for powering the portal. These vacuums were stored until they had a good opportunity to use them. In late March, after Atem & Co.'s post to the network, he jumped on the opportunity to spread some anti-Fog rumors around Bavan, and still continues to do this periodically. In early April, as the beginning-of-the-month fog began to settle in, Joshua took Beat out to vacuum up as much fog as they could, but they were accosted by Javert in the process. Though Joshua ended up beaten and bloodied, he managed to vacuum Javert and store his power inside a canister, which was an unexpected bonus and a huge victory, and it earned him Tier 3 status. These efforts thinned the fog for a solid month, causing monsters to be weakened and their healing to be sluggish. At the end of April, after Beat returned from his two-week entrapment and Fog torment in Lager Woods, Joshua's Nephilim fury was triggered; in retribution, he took Neku along to set fire to a swath of Her forest, getting in a bonus conversation on the way about Neku possibly joining Elias's side. In the beginning half of May, after finding out that Atem had broken into the Arcade and busted up a good amount of their stored fog, Joshua came to check in on Elias and vowed to collect more fog in preparation for enacting his plan as soon as was safely possible, as well as offering his services as backup should Elias be directly attacked again. He also spoke to Nanami during the June intro, openly sympathizing with Elias in an effort to curb any more uninformed dislike.
While Joshua's plan to open up a portal to Shibuya ended up failing, the culmination of his efforts to aid Elias still resulted in temporarily altering the state of the entire peninsula, isolating and weakening those affected, and placing his own life and the lives of others in severe danger.
Joshua does not like the Fog. He understands why some may choose to follow her, and he is willing to work with the more reasonable of her followers, but her irresponsible behavior and selfish grudges have caused far more trouble than good. If defeating her is the only way out of Ryslig for those that want out, so be it. During the course of his stay, he will continue to make every effort to sabotage her, as well as any of her followers that actively make life worse for the other monsters here. So long as the Fog remains in unchecked power and her more fanatical followers continue to make humans feel threatened by monsters, there will be no bridging the gap or balancing the scales.
Link: Here.
Reward Tier: Priest
Reward Description:
• Alternative Priest Ability: The ability to travel along Ryslig's electrical grid. Similar to radio static teleportation, Joshua can enter and exit the electrical grid via any outlet presently receiving a current, remaining on it for as long as is necessary. Unlike radio teleportation, however, this also allows him to possess electronics/appliances that are currently connected to an outlet. Possession of the item is strictly in the sense of his energy being physically stored inside the item, but in combination with his Tier 1 ability, this also means he can manipulate its general functions as well as the functions of electronics in the same room. If the item he's possessing has a camera or some sort of broadcasting surface (movie projectors, TV screens, etc) he can utilize this to view what is going on in that surface's visible range, and if the item has speakers, he can listen in instead; it's sort of a remote-but-not-remote surveillance. This will obviously be placed on his opt-out post, and I will also check in with other players to make sure it's okay before using it in a thread if the opportunity arises! Also, this power comes with its own failsafe - if the item he's possessing is unplugged before he's able to make a quick escape back into the outlet, he will be trapped inside of it until it can be plugged in again. Likewise, if the electrical grid fails while he is on it, he could be in deep trouble.
• Ability to access the network at will without the use of a laptop.
• A marking on the back of his right hand, in the shape of the seal of Shibuya. Similar to the Tier 1 circuitry lines on his left wrist, it glows purple in the presence of other Fourth followers.
Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): N/A