Jess Parker

 

Sept of the Guiding Light

 

Rank 2

 

Type: Healing

 

Tribes: Predominately Children of Gaia, Bonegnawers and Glass Walkers

 

Totem: North Star

 

Type: Respect

• Brood: Owl 

• Totem Background Cost: 5 

• Description: The long wanderings of the Silent Strider tribe have ingratiated them to this glimmering Incarna of the heavens. Now she sends her spirit avatars to Strider packs to help guide them on their paths.

• Benefits: As long as the stars are visible in the sky (i.e., it's night and the weather is not overcast) and you're in the Northern Hemisphere, you gain the Abilities Area Knowledge x2 and Survival x2.

• Ban: Travel often, accepting all worthy quests and message-bearing duties.

 

The Sept honors North Star by it’s constantly rotating members and teaching survival skills, navigation and the ways of Gaia to the humans in their Protectorate.

 

The Sept of the Guiding Light was not always called as such- and it was not always held by the Children of Gaia. In fact, it was once a Croatoan caeren that was lost when the tribe sacrificed itself to bind the Wyrm. The Children took it over when it was rediscovered.

 

Over the generations the surrounding coastal cities began to push closer- and rather than push back the Sept decided to integrate the location, hiding it in plain sight as a camp ground. The members of the Sept thin and bloat as the tourism seasons come and go, and because of this the population has become much more varied then just the CoG.

 

Children of Gaia: The Children have held this place since  the beginning of the country, the caern small enough that the more war-like tribes have largely ignored it. The Children focus largely on protecting children, integrating urban and wild areas, and doing what they can to prevent over fishing in the near by city.

 

Glass Walkers: The Glasswalkers are a rather new regular addition of the Sept. As the near by towns have grown into full cities they have slowly made themselves too valuable to the CoG elders to deny. Rumor has it they are trying to create a new caern in the near by city for themselves, but so far they haven’t managed to succeed. Even so, the Glasswalkers do their part to keep the Caern running- most of those that deal with the human population such as the Warden are Glasswalkers.

 

Bone Gnawers: The BG population of the caern is rather small but they have been here for longer then the Glasswalkers- the formerly small town of Canterdale was built on the backs of Bonegnawer kin fishermen, sailors and workers. Most of the BG’s live in Canterdale with their kin, and only use the caern when required. There are also a small population of Hillfolk Bonegnawers that came down from the Catskill Mountains long ago and take the farm folk further west as their kin. Those few BG packs that live in the Sept full time usually are very well integrated and are mostly focused on fighting Wyrm spawn the CoG miss while focusing on the human visitors.

 

Black Furies: The population of BFs in the Sept are even smaller, limited to a single integrated pack that focuses on the young scouts that often visit the bawn. Though they are not Furies in the literal sense there are also a decent population of male Fury-born CoG and metis in the caern and the Sept have good relations with the tribe.

 

Silent Striders: While only one Strider currently lives in the caern full time there’s always one or two in the Sept at any time to honor North Star on their way to other places in the State.

 

Uktena and Wendigo: Due to the caeren once being claimed by Middle brother, the other two Pure tribes often have a few visiting packs to commune with their lost siblings. This is how the moon bridge to Canada was formed.

 

Other than Red Talons all other tribes usually have some small population in the Sept that comes and goes.

In Game

Takumi Fire Emblem: Fates

Xander Fire Emblem: Fates

Neku Sakuraba The World Ends with You

Active

Joker (Akira Kurusu) Persona 5	Leo Fire Emblem: Fates	Avan Hardins Valkyria Chronicles
Yosuke Hanamura Persona4	Yu Narukami Persona 4	Dom Bennett Plume
Crowski OC	Dark Pit Kid Icarus: Uprising	Oersted Live-a-Live
Sissel Ghost Trick	Mae Borowski Night in the Woods	Johnny Jhonny Paranatural

Player Information

Name: Jess
Age: 28
Current Characters: Souji Seta and Kouki Tsubasa
Contact: raspberrydrink@AIM and understandham@Gmail.com

Character Information

Name: Murphy Pendleton
Age: 30's
Fandom: Silent Hill: Downpour
Appearance:  http://images.wikia.com/silent/images/d/df/Murphypendletonnew.png 
History: http://silenthill.wikia.com/wiki/Murphy_Pendleton
Canon Point: Post game, ending 'B'

Personality: Before his son's death Murphy was a generally good guy. His parol information states that he is a model prisoner, and NPCs refer to him as 'better then this place'. He's a little quiet and can occasionally have a temper, but he's what you would consider a good natured suburban father.

Then, his son Charlie dies. Not only dies, but is killed in the most horrible way. This event changes Murphy, not helped by the fact that he sees the police pull his son's body from the lake, and is blamed for the death by his wife- who leaves him. Murphy is traumatized beyond meassure, and becomes obcessed with one goal- revenge. Othersides of Murphy's personality appear. He is dedicated, maticulous and worst of all can be ice cold when he has to be. He hotwires a police car and goes for a state wide joy ride just so he can get arrested and sent to the prison his son's killer is kept at- then makes a 'deal with the devil' to get access to him. And when the time comes, his vengance is brutal.

But it's a heavy point to make that, even after all of that, he's unable to kill the man (though considering the damage he did he might have died regardless) and later on, when called upon to kill someone else to pay back the guard who helped him... he outright refuses to do so. Murphy can be cold... but he is not heartless.

In fact one could say he's exactly the reverse. Though out his stay in Silent Hill he shows little glimpses of a soft hearted man. He scatters the ashes of a dead couple to put them to rest, sets birds free from cages where they'd slowly starve, and even spares the life of the woman trying to kill him not once, but twice. And while his temper understandably flares when faced with the weirdness of the town, he generally stays on the 'right' side of things. Over the course of his journey he comes to understand the futility of revenge and his own guilt over Charlie's death, and the pointlessness of the deaths he has caused. He's grown as a person, and found a way to move on, now 'free' not only from his cell, but from his own pain.

Game Specific

Suitability: Murphy has already seen *much* worse then Santa Destroy. Not only that, but he spent his stay in Silent Hill fighting for his life. One can also assume he fought at least a few times in prison- he can certainly defend himself and will fight to the death if he thinks he has to.

Weapon: The Bogeyman's Sledgehammer. This weapon looks like a huge oversized hammer made up of a nearly 5 foot long wooden handle attached to a cinder block. It has no lasers or anything like that, and in fact is so heavy that it's user is slow as all hell.
BUT it does have a benifit. When it's being used the user's adrinaline and stamina are greatly increased. In video game terms- HUGE HEATH BAR so while Murphy is slow, he can take huge amounts of damage before going down.

Samples

Log/Third Person Sample: Santa Destroy was, on the surface, quite a bit different then Silent Hill. Sunny and hot instead of foggy and heavy with bone chilling cold. Clear blue skies instead of a constant rainfall that made him think of lakes and soggy three foot tall bags in row boats.

Not to mention the things out to kill you lacked the eyeless faces and claws and instead tried to makes friends before ripping into your back.

But really, it was all the same. He couldn't leave, though god help him he tried. Getting turned around just as easily as he did against endless pits. It was just easier to get distracted here. He could work or socialize or watch stupid movies and try to forget. At least until he saw some young woman or child die over and over again on the tiny video game system they gave him (Charlie had one like this. It was a little bulkier and had only one screen but he knew Nintendo when he saw it. Charlie had loved the game where you collected little critters most, and everytime he saw this one he wanted to die a little) and he remembered how much life liked to fuck him.

He looked down at his hands, glaring at the black grit under his nails that was actually just oil and grease from the truck he had been working on but that he kept wanting to see as blood. "What the hell do you WANT from me...?"

His hands or the city or God or anyone... none answered, and he just shook his head with a small grumble of annoyance, buring his hands back in the engine he was taking apart. The honest work was the only thing that stopped him from thinking even for a little while. It was that or checking the handheld and being tempted to talk to the people here... more people he couldn't help.

It was just the same thing over and over.

Journal Entry/First Person Sample:

[The screen comes on to a worn and battered man sitting on the sidewalk, looking at the huge box in his lap]

What the hell..! No, no I was OUT, damn it, you can't DO this to me!

[He glares at the screen, looking torn and hurt by it's very existance.]

I get it, I fucked up, but a change of scenery isn't going to... damn it why the hell am I talking like someone will answer. [He reaches over to the box opening it... and then goes ghostly pale]

IS THIS SOME SICK JOKE?!

[He flips the box off his lap, and the viewers can see a huge sledge hammer before he reaches over and shuts the DS off]