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Azi Demonica

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Inferi, page 2388
He doesn’t have a choice. Alicia, Ben, Annie, Gareth and Bridgett also have no reason to join a band of heroes, but there they are anyways. Tyler needs to avoid the law, he can’t sit around doing nothing, and so it is, he’s better off being with people who are moving.


NotFishing, page 2388
Yes.

I don’t know the shipping of APTtS, so I left the crates vague. It would indeed make more sense for Tyler to have been a paid passenger, but since it is obviously too late to include him among the passengers, I need an excuse to be a reason for his absence this entire time.

It’s implied he works with gangs and screws around with shipping details and routes, suggesting that he masterminded the crew to load his smuggling items for him. Upon arrival, the crates would be unloaded by the crew, then picked up by his pals at the airport who would pretend to be shipping personnel.

The reason he was not awoken by gunfire and screaming was meant to be comical. I wanted to keep the bio within one post, so it was not possible to scrunch up all details.


Sorry for the late reply, I was busy working on text projects and yelling at stupid people.

30-Dec-2017 04:35:36 - Last edited on 30-Dec-2017 04:36:14 by Azi Demonica

Inferi

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Azi Demonica said :
Inferi, page 2388
He doesn’t have a choice. Alicia, Ben, Annie, Gareth and Bridgett also have no reason to join a band of heroes, but there they are anyways. Tyler needs to avoid the law, he can’t sit around doing nothing, and so it is, he’s better off being with people who are moving.

Except there's absolutely no reason to stick his neck out when the person involved is a princess, which would have the law looking into it much more closely than anything else. Everyone else is a person that would actually have a reason to stick around, and also people that wouldn't be put away for life when they inevitably get brought in for questioning involving what's going on.

Just for reasons by character, at least as I see it:

Alicia: Not a PC, but I'll address this because the name is there. She's the one caught up in everything because she's the center of it. While there's absolutely no choice involved for her, she'd get involved anyways because she doesn't want the people of her country to get killed in a senseless war.

Ben: I would imagine just because he's a drifter, and has nothing better to do. There's not a whole lot of reasons for him to, but on the contrary there's not a whole lot of reasons for him not to.

Annie: Probably the most questionable in my opinion. I really don't see a reason she should apart from the fact that I would imagine she probably feels about the same as Alicia in that she wouldn't want innocent people to die if she can help it.

Gareth and Bridgett: Both of them have approximately the same basic reason, although I'm sure they would have more branching out ones as well: their home is going to be part of a war if this isn't stopped, and they might have the ability to do something about it. Bridgett is also military-trained and would probably see something like this as something she has to do, whereas Gareth, as was actually said IC, doesn't want a war because he'd get dragged into it. Done in by the dubious doings of destiny.

30-Dec-2017 05:38:26

Inferi

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Now, compared to these people, you've got a slimy weapon/drug smuggler that seems to be pretty far up the food chain of the criminal world. I see no reason someone of this character would put out any effort that might get them identified or labeled by anyone in any position of power in the countries, or would put any effort towards something that's more likely than not to get them killed. In fact, I'd be willing to bet a person like that would actually prefer to have the war so that it would be easier to swipe military-grade stuff, and the price that they would get for them would be much higher than in times of peace.

Do you see what I'm trying to say here, and why this doesn't make sense to me?

Honestly, if I'm wrong in some way with my reasoning, please tell me. It's possible I'm reading this entirely wrong. Done in by the dubious doings of destiny.

30-Dec-2017 05:38:42 - Last edited on 30-Dec-2017 05:47:19 by Inferi

NotFishing

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Alright, I have an idea to get Azi's character into this thread.

He recently invested the last of his savings into a high-investment, high-reward opportunity. Let's say he has to transport some sort of extremely rare and illegal drug, mineral, or piece of crystalis tech; anything that is small and easy to store but also ridiculously valuable.

His cover is that he is an upper class citizen going on either a vacation or a business trip - something that will keep him out of home for a few days, so he'll have an excuse for packing heavy. The contraband will of course be hidden in his luggage, and he will have worked out a deal or some sort of arrangement with the custom officials and crewmembers, in order to get the stuff onto the ship without being inspected too closely.

Then the situation escalates. I imagine that, as a smuggler, his first instinct would be to keep a low profile. Don't attract attention, and comply to their demands so long as his life isn't in any immediate danger. That would explain why he wasn't involved in any of the previous action.

Then the ship crashes. He survives, but is briefly knocked unconscious. He wakes up around the same time the other characters show up. His life is immediate danger, so now is the time to get up and actually do something. Perhaps he might assist in the fight, or maybe he will run to recover his contraband.

Anyways, eventually it turns out that his contraband is gone - either it was destroyed in the crash or it fell out the open cargo hold door. Because he had invested everything he had in this endeavor, he is now effectively bankrupt. Maybe the people he was supposed to deliver it to are influential enough to run his name into the ground and destroy his chance of future employment. Perhaps they will even try to hunt him down, making for a solid subplot. Maybe they could be connected to the same group Annie is on the run from? Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

30-Dec-2017 06:03:38 - Last edited on 30-Dec-2017 06:10:53 by NotFishing

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Or perhaps there is an entirely different group that he stole the contraband from in order to resell it?

Either way, he really has nowhere to go from here.

Then he discovers that the reason the ship was attacked was to get at the Princess. Perhaps, by protecting the princess or returning her home, he might receive a massive reward to recover his losses. Maybe even a pardon for his crimes, and protection against whatever criminal organizations he happened to piss off (in exchange for information, of course.)

We already have a bounty hunter and a drunk, so it shouldn't be too hard to fit in so long as you don't openly confess to smuggling. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

30-Dec-2017 06:06:40 - Last edited on 30-Dec-2017 06:08:59 by NotFishing

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