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tushanshu_ooc2016-01-30 12:32 am
hellboundheart) wrote in tushanshu_ooc2016-01-30 12:32 am
+1 Exorcist
Hello all! I'm Rob, and I'll be bringing you John Constantine from the DCU TV series 'Constantine'. Since the tv series followed closer to the comics than the movie, those of you familiar with Hellblazer might recognize him more.
In short, John tends to be pushing into everyone's business or just making a general arse of himself. Things like rules or policies don't apply to him in his point of view.
John does have a Permissions Post over here since he will use hypnosis on a victim when it suits him. Feel free to pm his journal or pp me on plurk at 'camebefore' if you don't want to use the post. If a situation should arise where he needs to do such, I will pm or pp you ahead of time before such is tried. That said, John does have issues of his smoking or alcoholism that might be what some people don't want. Please let me know one way or another.
In short, John tends to be pushing into everyone's business or just making a general arse of himself. Things like rules or policies don't apply to him in his point of view.
John does have a Permissions Post over here since he will use hypnosis on a victim when it suits him. Feel free to pm his journal or pp me on plurk at 'camebefore' if you don't want to use the post. If a situation should arise where he needs to do such, I will pm or pp you ahead of time before such is tried. That said, John does have issues of his smoking or alcoholism that might be what some people don't want. Please let me know one way or another.
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He would share his stash of alcohol with Solomon then.
Yes! That would be perfect if we did. I need to add John's name to Midnight Hotel thing. I meant to do it last night and ended up forgetting.
I do have one question on the Hotel that I didn't see answered. Given that John is likely to overlay his own traps/wards onto the existing ones, does the Hotel naturally deactivate or override those that might hurt others that would break into John's room or what? I imagine Shudder wouldn't be too pleased to rescue a maid dangling from the ceiling in a Levitation Trap or find a 'visitor' to the Hotel glowing a bright green because they nosed around John's spaces.
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As for the wards! The way the Hotel's wards work is that they're mostly passive. They don't actively stop violence from happening (because free will) but mostly they work by alerting Anton when emotions spike and he does a drive-by to see if a rule has been broken. (Yes, this does mean he occasionally gets called to a door because someone's getting jiggy behind it.)
So John's wards wouldn't be affected by the Hotel's wards unless they directly tried to do something overriding or reversing the Hotel's wards, which might be interesting to play with because so many of the Hotel's functions are defined by magic; plumbing, electricity, temperature control are all performed by the wards.
At this point Anton's reputation is big enough that it's unlikely someone would go into John's room without his permission -- esp since John's requesting to do his own linens so he can smoke. It means none of the staff have no business reason to clean his room and the gangs who frequent the Hotel have run up against Shudder enough that they wouldn't take the risk either.
That doesn't mean that John can't lay his own traps, of course, just that it's not likely they'd get set off. You're right that Anton wouldn't appreciate the ones that are harmful if they go off, though. XD He's the type who'd punish both sides if he felt it was warranted.
(If you'd like that to be a thing at all let me know! Mild floutings of the rule might be a punch for a punch or a temporary ban with a fine, or something equally mild but appropriate, rather than a blatant ban/deathstrike. Given landfall it's possible some idiot from Hatal might be a bit too curious for their own good, too.)
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... Anton might end up called a few times. John isn't exactly careful about where he chooses to do things.
I can't think of anything John might do that would affect Anton's wards with that information. John's would be mostly for self-defense such as an ejection from his room, a levitation or a mirror one - person walks into the room and finds themselves walking back out.
I'd be up for it if you've got the time. If not, no worries! I just like to let whoever is in charge of a thing know if my char would tamper with something.
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If John does decide to get a bit amorous outside a private room he'll find there's a ward that will probably make him regret it in some humiliating way. (Please, John, get amorous; Anton's referenced that ward in a couple of separate threads and I still haven't worked out exactly what it does, except that he needed to build it sometime in the decade after he built the Hotel, and that people generally don't test it again.)
The mirror ward is awesome and is the exact sort of thing Anton would love; pointed but non-lethal.
Thanks! I do appreciate it. The way Anton handles the Hotel is directly tied to how he controls the gist inside him, and he's a bit emotionally fragile these days. (Not that breaking the Hotel would break his control, or anything, but he runs on a very rigid moral code and if he makes exceptions in the Hotel it makes it harder for him to keep up with his internal balance.)
On the whole if John uses the understated wards you mention above I can't imagine he'd get punished more than bruise for bruise, so it's easy enough to work out.
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Mirror is what John uses for the outside usually but given that he has no front door, it would work for his room. Probably levitation for his bed if that's okay?
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That's fine! Anton would appreciate that John goes for the non-lethal variety. Would you like to do a thread where some dumbass from Hatal tries to get into John's room? It'd be an opportunity for John to see how the Hotel's wards work and what boundaries he can push, and other fun stuff.
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