Characters/Myriad

Describe the new page here.

Yes, please do.

No really, you're supposed to describe me. All of you are.

Let me explain, shall I?

Fine! Take all the glory for yourself.

Ourselves.

Whatever.

We want people to edit this page. The wiki is user-editable freely. But more importantly...this CHARACTER is user-editable. An experiment. A living wiki-page.

You're making me feel like a guinea pig.

That is one of a few possible species, yes. Quiet, I'm trying to explain.

Pfft. Loser.

You both be quiet. Look, this conversation won't likely even exist once someone else gets their hands on this page. So enjoy while it lasts.

Thanks. Um, anyway. This character is a social experiment in multiple personalities. Its history will be collaborative, its play will be collaborative. It is a single emergent property shared between as many meta-gestalts as possible.

I'm confused...

To put it more bluntly, this is a *character* with multiple *players*. That's where the people reading this page come in.

Yeah. What I said. It could end up being a hopelessly muddled war, it could spark some very odd synergy between players, it could be really cool or really confusing.

I'm opting for confusing. We're going to sound like we're stark raving LOONY.

Of course! Isn't that the point?

sigh

Myriad's History

• Potentiality 1

The backlash of the Subjectivity Distortion Generator's activation snapped like a rubber band and careened another player from the "real world". This was the player of a number of Puzzlebox characters and a writer of sci-fi novels. In the process of being collapsed into one singular being, the player became a gestalt personality of all the characters it had ever invented (and a few it had only read about but strongly identified with).

Then it got dropped into the Mess. Now it doesn't know who it is.

• Potentiality 2

A failing wizard in a desparate attempt at immortality summons himself into another dimension. But this dimension is populated by beings made of pure, formless personalities. Neither evil nor good, but simply spirits from beyond. They invade his dying body, enough of them pouring in to cause a phantasmagorical implosion across dimensions. The blast hurls him far and wide...where he remanifests in a physical body in the Mess. With quite a few beings living inside him. (Essentially, he's demon-posessed.)

He/she isn't even certain anymore which one was the original entity. There's a lot of division on that.

• Potentiality 3

A mental technician in the Mess was performing an experiment with highly dangerous memetic systems. The infectious ideas were contained in concentrated infodense cylinders of data in her secure system. A stray blast from a logic probe fractured the cylinders and the miasma of virulent concepts flooded out through the datalink into the greater local ideospace of the technician's head. This caused some large measure of confusion as the conflicting ideas fought for space in her mind, eventually forming a slowly seething brew of ideas that loosely resembles a sentient self-aware entity.

Not to mention, it also makes her look very schizophrenic.

• Potentiality 4

There's nothing unusual about me:us:we:them. It's everyone else who can't cope. The uni(multi/Puzzle)verse breaks and reforms itself every few scan:not:wheels. Most beings can't cope, and alter their own memoryselves to preserve an illusion of continuity. We:them:me:us don't bother. So there are many of us:we:them:me, and yet there is one of me:us:we:them. Sometimes at the same time. (Causality works in many different directions. Most people just don't notice.)

Any and all of these are true. And false. And truefalse. Please, add more as you see fit.

Some OOC notes for play

The character's description is a randomly chosen line from the description list found through editplayer. Which means, if you login to Myriad, you can come up with amusing new lines to add. I'm most likely going to do this for species as well...perhaps even sex. The character can certainly be gender-confused, most especially if there's more than one gender of player controlling it. (I don't know if there's an easy way to do this, because I can set up the list, but apparently 'whospecies' doesn't parse MPI at all, as far as I saw.)

I almost wish there was a way of supressing the opening muck-screen messages, but for now that's a way to tell if someone else connects while you're in control. Of course, anyone connecting can see anything that the character does, including setting programs like description and so forth.

Enjoy!

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For information or access to the character, email the player behind this at 'cobaltie at gmail dot com'. (I'll give away the password but I want to keep track of who has it, thus the email.)