THE UNDERSCORE JAM #2: BIZARRE BIOS

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Welcome to the second Underscore Jam!

This time around your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make a small biography for a fictional character. This biography must include a profile picture (in whatever style you wish), a name, age, location, any other attribute you wish to add such as astrological sign or blood type or whatever, and a short paragraph of no more than 500 words as a biography in whatever tone and style you wish.

The point is to make a character and a profile that hint towards a bigger world. Maybe it’s a world you’ve already dreamt up, maybe you’ll be inspired by the jam. It’s all up to you.

The twist? I will give you the name. Just reply to this thread and I’ll private message you a name randomly selected from a list crafted by our very own master name-smith @Fluff. I ask you to not reveal the name until you post your submission just to keep things exciting. And no, it won’t all secretly be the same name. The format of your submission can be anything, just text and the picture, all contained in a single image, or even a full blown video if you have the time, resources, and ability. If you submit the profile as an image please do make use of this forum’s alt text features.

Here are the rules of the jam, just to keep everything fair:

  1. This is not a competition, this is just for fun and learnding.
  2. Use this thread to discuss anything related to the jam and to post your submission before the deadline.
  3. Do not use generative AI in any capacity.
  4. Upon completion of the jam this thread will be locked and I’ll start a new one with a big post to showcase all submissions

You have two whole weeks to do this. Could crank it out in an hour or take your sweet time. As long as you have a good time.

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Is it weird if I take part as I was the namesmith?

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Nope because I’m gonna come up with a special name just for you

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Ooooh hell yeah!

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It occurs to me that I could have announced this jam earlier and then only started it later to give people more time to prepare but I’m flying by the seat of my pants and so are all of you, so what can you do.

If people need more time they’ll get more time, it’s fine. I make the rules.

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Hit me

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Name me, xeno bobby

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My body is ready.

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Dab me up bro

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I’ll take a name :slight_smile:

“A short paragraph of no more than 500 words” lol that’s one heck of a paragraph :sob:

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I miss school essays :squinting_face_with_tongue:

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That’s the max. Could just be a few lines.

Not a hard max, though, if all of a sudden the words pour out, as they often do for mine, as the length of this reply, which doesn’t seem to be stopping, will attest.

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I would like to participate :cat_face:

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name me up!

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like breaking a bottle on a baby’s bum or spanking a ship before its maiden voyage, I am ready to be christened with a name

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hi I would like to take part plz give me the name :o

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I’ll give this a shot >:>

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Pam CakesPam Cakes

Age: 33
Occupation: Real Estate Agent
WP: 2
MP: 1
AP: 6
Words: [ACQUIRE] [EXPAND] [REFURBISH]

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Pam was an exceptional student during her pre-magical lifetime.
However by the time she finished her studies, she realized that her Master’s degree was worth nothing because of the counter-magical war economy.
Every piece of land had already been acquired by the Terran government, nothing was selling, and because of the population decline everyone actually already had a government-assigned home.

This wouldn’t work.

She defected and joined the ranks of the reality-ending magus, those who had arrived in our world to steal all the energy in order to fuel their never-ending expansion. If the world was going to end anyway, she might as well be on the side of the destroyers.

Her interview with the Queen went smoothly, and she was accepted with three very powerful words (the undercover spy which was sent in with her was very jealous of this turn of events.) However, upon first contact with the land itself, she discovered that her stats were incredibly low. She was never a very imaginative person and because of this she got a poor MP score. She held no beliefs other than money being good sometimes and got low WP as well. What the hell even was AP? It was never explained to her. Really she was dealt a bad hand again.

This wouldn’t work either.

She could not [acquire] anything that was not firmly rooted to the ground. [Refurbish] was not a service that most magus needed, being able to alter their own bodies and loci at will. This document will not elaborate on the usages of [Expand] but suffice to say she did not have many clients.

Most notably as we all know today, the magus economy was favor-based with a low emphasis on material possessions and currencies. Her studies were useless. her dreams were gone.

So she did the most reasonable thing someone in her situation would do, and started a materialism cult within the magus society: “TAKE BACK THE LAND” as it was known before becoming “THE EMPIRE OF HOURS” She got on her side powerful magic-users who were longing for the order they used to have back on earth. Those made up roughly half of the cult. One of their mission statements was to bring back the hierarchy and structure of the old world, however they had made one crucial mistake in their takeover of the magus world:

The old world was not gone.

In fact, the other half of her organization was made up entirely of spies from the old world, who were determined to destroy the new one from within. When she attained her goals of usurping the throne, an operation was launched by the spies to completely destroy the internal energy structure of the CORE.

Not satisfied with the outcome of things, she escaped through the magus portal and was immediately executed for treason by the Terran government.

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