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Musalodi (Salo) Player Information Player Name Jake Contact vikarmic | Vikarmic#8518 AKA Masego at Sidereal most recently, a long list of dubious wizard boys prior, and an even longer list of monsters. Character Basics Character Name Musalodi Series/Canon Scarlet Odyssey AU/PG/Canon Point Just before the end of Primeval Fire Cottage Moss House Canon Details Before the final battle Character Details Age Roughly 20 Hair/Eyes Dark/faceted rainbow Height/Weight Tall/Thin Notable Traits Always wears a pair of spectacles that are actually magitech artifacts. Eyes are obviously artificial, with faceted rainbow pupils, and don't work particularly well. Prominent tooth gap. Intricate fractal metal tattoos up both arms that sometimes glow or spark red. Probably wearing a shirt and loincloth if given the option. 15 Second Summary Salo grew up an outsider in his village, due to "unmanly" behavior such as a fascination with magic and machines, a distaste for violence and a habit of asking inconvenient questions. Born in a magically-powerful backwater, Salo soon discovers that the world and its magic are far vaster and more dangerous than he ever could have dreamed. After an escalating series of shenanigans including his own death and resurrection, he plays a central role in saving his world and correcting wrongs that have lingered since long before mankind settled his world -- and some that predate their presence in the very galaxy. Abilities & Permissions Abilities Salo is a powerful Red mystic, wielding the six crafts of Storm, Fire, Blood, Earth, Mirror and Void. He's got a vast library of spells to draw on and he's a fair hand, at this point, at working up his own. He can also instinctively perceive and analyze magical energy, even energies that aren't part of Red magic, though if he's not familiar with the paradigm he'll have a harder time. So far he's regained his Void craft (spacetime manipulation). Salo was resurrected as an atmech, or magitech android. While he's mostly close to human standard, he's extremely resilient, heals quickly and cleanly from even the most severe injuries and can instinctively perceive network signals and interface with electronics. He's likely to be able to hack computers and other machine with his brain, particularly if they're magitech, and probably even if they don't have a network interface. Permissions No insect-related stuff or bathroom stuff, please and thank you. Talk to me about cannibalism beforehand. Other than that, keep in touch, especially if things get violent; Salo strongly prefers not to hurt people but he's more than capable, if needed. Sensing Salo's senses extend into network signals and radio waves; he can probably overhear phone conversations and Internet traffic. He's got excellent magic perceptions so he can see/sense any of that that's going on too. Anyone with a sense for machines or magic can tell fairly easily that he's a soul attached to a construct body, although one that mimics human functionality in almost all respects. There's a crystal in his brain that's his actual seat of consciousness, and there are enchanted metals all through his body. His spectacles are finely enchanted (they actually bypass his eyes and project images directly into his optic nerves). The very skilled observer may pick up that his ruby pendant is also a potent artifact of some kind. Memory Registry Positive Significant • Seventh birthday with his mother • First time in orbit • Casting his first spell • Reuniting with Ilapara • Reuniting with Tuk • Regaining his Axiom Positive Trivial • Stealing a library of spellcraft • Niko dreams • Sparring with constructs • Messing around in Ziyo's mind construct • Settling in on the Ataraxis • Saving other atmechs from the Professor's experiments • Talking arcane theory with Nimana • Hanging out with Monti Neutral Significant • Waking up as an atmech in a ruined city • Facing the redhawk for the first time • The Book of Lies • Facing the lake: "I want to try anyway" • The final trial, rejecting the gods • Saving the king from underworld spirits • Leaving on his pilgrimage • Communing with the Lightning Bird • "But you don't have to be." (Confronting the Maidservant) • Agreeing to help the King Neutral Trivial • Days of frustration trying to master enchantment • Tour of the Academy • Giving Tuk his blessing • Fixing the mill, again • Meeting Ilapara • Nursing a wounded monitor lizard back to health • Meeting Tuk, buying out a slave auction • Meeting the Imperial siblings in a library Negative Significant • His mother's first cruelty • His mother's final cruelty • The attack on the kraal • Monti's funeral • The riots • His first death Negative Trivial • Brothers being assholes • Discovering what happened to the slaves he freed • Everyone disowning him • The Professor's "experiments" • Running from scavengers Skills • Atmech characteristics • Void basics • Mirror basics • Storm basics • Earth basics • Fire basics • Blood basics • Library access • Higher Red • Ziyo • Ancestral talent • Archery • Survival

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His mother's first cruelty

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Placeholderish. Salo is seven years old and wakes to find his mother standing by his bed; something is definitely wrong, and when he tries to get up, she summons thorny vines to hold him in place. He tries to get free, increasingly panicked, but his mother isn't moved. Tendrils of the vines force his eyelids open, and she pours acid on them, boiling them away completely and leaving Salo in blind agony; he starts screaming and doesn't stop, the vines releasing him enough to claw frantically at his face, as she watches him in silence.