Bona fide loss time for the Doctor!

[toobravehearted]

I've been threatening to do this for a while and because January seems to be the month for it, I'm hitting Five with a loss thing.

For the next 7-9 days (I've not made my mind up how long completely yet, great start, yay!) Five will be possessed by the Mara from Doctor Who.

Skinny version: evil demon and the embodiment of temptation, all terribad, he'll be mean to chars, try to tempt them into doing bad things and he'll pretty much be a manipulative sod. All while carrying out pranks that vary from plain stupid and mean to the outright dangerous; there is at least one (small) castle surprise in store that I checked was ok to go ahead with first.

I'll look to get a post up tonight and I'll also link in some more information on what to expect from him. Like this link here with all the TL;DR you can shake a stick at. For the curious, Five will be aware of what's going on but he'll be 'locked in' (because where's the fun in him not knowing what's going on?) Technically I'm calling this a loss but there is room for Five to be fixed (haha, oops) if anyone wants to play with that. :)

ETA: Permissions might need to be a thing if you want to fill 'em.

<b>Do you prefer Mara!five NOT to tag your character at all?</b> I won't be offended! Just let me know. :) If I've tagged you with him anyway and you want no part of it, just ignore the tag. <b>Is Mara!five allowed to try and tempt your char from the straight & narrow?</b> It will use underhand attempts, goading, logic(!) name-calling, taunting, etc, and could be down right nasty/scary. It will use Five's memories of what he knows about chars, so think carefully on this permission. <b>If your char tries to corner/confront Mara!five, he may fight back. In extreme circumstances Mara!five may attempt to give your char a nasty vision, is this allowed?</b> Chars that are known to be strong telepaths may be able to thwart this; chars without a psychic/telepathic defence, not so much (i.e. not at all).

Questions?
Ask 'em here. :)

Comments

[lord_wizard]

Would there be any way they could discover this information, say, in the library or by searching his room?

[toobravehearted]

Castle library is a possibility (I was under the impression it had books from many worlds) so anything on ancient myths, Gods, or x-ref'd against the real world Mara (it won't be able to help announcing what it is, it's quite proud of the fact).

For in his room, there'd be books in the TARDIS library; however the Mara has a habit in the past of destroying info about itself - it'd be easy to say though, that there's partially destroyed books in his room and it wouldn't be a stretch to say they could be repaired by certain magical individuals, perhaps? What do you think?

sorry different account same mun

[both_neither]

I think we'll see what exactly happens during his thread with Mara!five and whatever he might reveal in the process and go from there. The library is a safer bet. I'm not sure who might be able to repair a book. That's out of Felix's capabilities but the subject can be broached later.

edit: It also occurs to me that Phoebe from the Charmed universe left Felix and the Chimera group a set of crystals. These crystals can be arranged and used to set a trap, as they create a magical cage that keeps in evil creatures. That could be a way to trap him, if need be, assuming the Mara would trigger the crystals.

[toobravehearted]

Library it can be then. :) Or if you have other ideas I'm open to that too. My dilemma is I don't want to make things too hard but also not too easy! So any ideas I'm all open to hear. :)

Re: crystals - oooh. I like that and can work with it. I'd say Mara!Five could be caught by that, it's definitely evil. For the other post I'm thinking of I can work in something where it could be more of a pressing need to contain him if that works?