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Maggie Many-Eyes
Occupation: Surveillance Division, Chief Eye Herder

Notes: Maggie was brought over by Agmund during the capture of a high-functioning Nightstalker on Jakkard. She was, in fact, instrumental in the creature's capture, as she had been tracking the beast for months after he took and devoured her legs, and blinded her. The rumor in the mess hall is that she made some sort of unsavory crossroad deal and ended up with the ability to summon giant floating eyes that serve as her more mobile minions and report disturbances back to her. Whatever the source of her abilities, Agmund has put her to work on the upper levels, watching over the standard prisoners.

Psychological Profile: Maggie is a harsh and blunt woman, but on the whole seems to be satisfied with her position in the prison. She seems to be glad to be out of the desert, at the very least. However, the uncertainty over the origin of her powers and her single-minded quest of vigilante justice are troubling to say the least.

Jan 2, 2013 -- 4:37PM, jedi123 wrote:

Jan 2, 2013 -- 12:23PM, Yxoque wrote:

I'm working on a ten characters. Guards and prisoners of each color (more or less). I just wanted to make a quick post to ask how we're seeing the prison. I've seen things like Nullstone suggested. Is this something we're doing?

I think nullstone is possibly fine. Not in massive amounts. the idea is the upper (above ground) levels are more normal prisoners, below ground are prisoners with special requirement cells.

I was just bringing it up, since the SCP-foundation has something called Telekill Alloy (SCP-148) which blocks all kinds of telepathic nonsense and its existence is problematic (from a meta-perspective) because it makes housing a lot of dangerous SCP's too easy. Part of the fun comes from coming up with interesting ways to lock up especially dangerous prisoners. With SCP-148 or Nullstone, you're pretty much making really, really powerful mages easily containable. 

Sounds like a reason to put some constructs to work, no?

Throneforge Guards
Species: Throneforge (Golem)
Role: Prison Guard, Elite Capture Units
Home Plane: Siraus

Background: The Throneforge golems hail from the dead world of Siraus, powered by white mana batteries and capable of replicating each other when infused with enough raw energy. The original small band of Throneforge was taken by Agmund in the early days of the prison, and they consider themselves defectors from the endless, hopeless war fought on their dead world. They now serve as capable guards that seem to hold little concern for their own safety.

Notes: The Throneforge, despite the show of individuality inherent to their defection, are still an order-oriented culture that respects authority, even at the cost of their own lives. Their divergent development from other sentient beings, however, results in stilted, strange interactions that make the prisoners nervous. Throneforge should be used as backup during larger containment operations, always with the accompanyment of a mage with many untapped bonds with the surrounding meadowland, and NEVER in their full force--some must always be kept in reserve, regardless of their protests to the contrary, so that if the force is depleted the prison can restock.


I was going to include a description but Barinellos never added one, and even though Siraus is public I wasn't sure if I should come up with one myself. Also, if you don't like the defectors from decadence backstory maybe they could be ordered there by the Throneforge Primarch in return for the capture of a particularly destructive and powerful Ruinforge marauder. Who could be another character potentially...


Pleied Okoptos
Species: Siren
Home Plane: Sertaria, Ameranian Continent
Role: Diplomat, Public Relations

Background: A chance meeting with one of Agmund's agents spurred the crafty Pleied Okoptos to sign on with the prison as chief of public relations. When Agmund's transport system is not being used to move agents and prisoners from plane to prison and back, Pleied travels from plane to plane informing powerful natives of the prison's services, using her persuasive abilities as a siren to coax additional funding and favors for the operation (and, it is rumored, for herself as well). Many of Agmund's largest capture operations have taken place because of a connection forged by Pleied.

In her spare time Pleied has organized a prison choir, a practice which Agmund finds somewhat bewildering. He seems to take to heart her assertion that the prison is more peaceful due to this recreational activity. (It is speculated that Pleied uses this choir as a chance to weave music-based spells, but this speculation tends to come only from the most paranoid of prisoners.)

Notes: Pleied is invaluable as a diplomat but is also secretive, manipulative, and, like all Ameranian Sirens, is an omnidirectional flirt and a domineering collector of adoration. Although she prefers to work alone, she should be accompanied at all times with at least one construct guard, both to protect her from prisoners and to keep an eye on her. The presence of armed guards has the side benefit of allowing her to enter highly complex and dangerous diplomatic situations with relative safety, which in turn keeps her from becoming too bored with easier assignments. Although she is covered in a rainbow of feathers and scales, she often uses a glamour to appear more human.



...I keep trying to picture her, and all I'm getting is Terezi With Feathers. >_> Not that that's necessarily a bad thing of course...

Jan 3, 2013 -- 9:56AM, KeeperofManyNames wrote:

I was going to include a description but Barinellos never added one, and even though Siraus is public I wasn't sure if I should come up with one myself. Also, if you don't like the defectors from decadence backstory maybe they could be ordered there by the Throneforge Primarch in return for the capture of a particularly destructive and powerful Ruinforge marauder. Who could be another character potentially...

Humanoid, gears and cables underneath a highly stylized geometric armor with a great deal of geometric hard edged patterns decorating their exterior shells.
Think somewhat babylonian in terms of aesthetics.
Also important is their mana core, which should resemble a diamond somewhere on their armor.

But aside from that, they are built to their function as well.Their appearance depends entirely on what they were meant for. There are certain Throneforged scouts that somewhat resemble the myr, there are others that are much larger. Builders are more skeletal with highly segmented arms used to quick assemble other golems, but their parts are all interchangable as their roles might shift.

Additional aside: Love the fact you decided to utilize this.

Jan 3, 2013 -- 3:58PM, KeeperofManyNames wrote:

I've been trying for ages now to figure out how to include Siraus in a story somewhere. It's tough. It's such a self contained little narrative.

I like that design aesthetic. I might do some doodles of these guys.

Which of the two possible backstories do you think works better--the defector thing or the Payment For Services Rendered thing? 

Payment makes more sense. They don't understand the possibility of their leadership being overly-decadent. They are as much a part of it all as cogs in a machine. If the entire machine is decadent, then they would be as well. Aside from that, they're all about expanding the influence of order, so they'd agree with Agmund, even if they would be very confused about his appearance. Still, they might almost worship him as a god since he is the same race as the precursors. The rest of the Forged golems might have different opinions, but the Throneforge are deeply commited to venerating the ones that came before. They, after all, literally have a creator race that they know.

Plus, it opens up the possibility of adding in the Ruinforged Marauder as a prisoner. Get two for the price of one.

Thronehold, btw, would be great towers and pyramids with the same sort of hard lined geometry that go onto their armor. Just in case you needed more details about where they are from.