NEW CANON POINT: after spending six months (May-November 2016) back, after being missing for seven years and subsequently declared legally dead.
CHANGES: Nick experienced some significant changes already over the past year in the game, particularly in the recent Confusion revival, in which Ushahin accidentally broke her mind and gave her a taste of a millennium-plus of suffering. This was a huge step in getting Nick to see past her own self-centeredness with respect to her world view of her life being complete shit - not that she abandoned that view entirely, just that she got one hell of a dose of perspective.
Being sent back home for a few months is going to help Nick grow by giving her a bit of closure on the first chapter of her life. She knows as a Nightbane, she can expect to live for a very long time, as long as she isn't horribly murdered by another, more powerful Nightbane, but she has always had difficulty envisioning a future for herself. Discovering that she has been declared dead, along with help and support from her fellow Nightbane, will give her the push to put serious thought into who she wants to be, versus who she is by virtue of the fact that she's merely getting by. In a nutshell, Nick is going to get the It's a Wonderful Life abridged experience - she will learn that her ex-best friend Andy actually does still care about her, as he spent significant time attempting to track her down, and that she actually did make an impact on people, as evident from the memorials she'll discover from people she knew once they presumed she was dead.
With help from other Nightbane, Nick will acquire a new identity and start making a new life for herself. She'll spend a few weeks readjusting to non-Hadriel life in Vancouver, then relocate under a false name to Omaha, Nebraska - surely no one will think to look for her there, right? But since Omaha has a thriving music community, she's going to get back into making music and singing, because she's going to come to the realization - without the ties from her past to hold her back - that music is the one thing in her life that makes her truly happy.
Appearance-wise, she'll look more or less the same, just having let her hair grow out a bit more to past-shoulder-length and re-dying it black. She'll pick up smoking again, which will be a headache of a habit to break once she's brought back to Hadriel. She'll remain sober for the time she's back home, having learned a good lesson from her last big drunken meltdown in Hadriel. In other words, Nick will spend her life actually living, not just surviving from one day to the next, and while her attitude isn't going to be instantly fixed, she will have a small bit of one key thing that has been missing from her life for a long time - hope.
I'd also like her to return to Hadriel having developed two additional Nightbane Talents from the mod-approved list, Sharing the Flesh and Shadow Storm. As for what she'll have with her, just clothes/jacket with a wallet, 2016-era cell phone (iPhone 6 - nonfunctioning, of course), and a pack of cigarettes and lighter in her pockets. Her tambourine and journal from the Keepsakes event will be left behind in her apartment in Hadriel when she leaves and recovered when she returns.
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october 2015.
november 2015.
2. ronan lynch; you could at least pretend like you give a shit.
3. hope; you gotta be kidding.
december 2015.
2. fear; biggest creep ever.
3. event log: red snow.
4. network post; time for a poll.
5. alcohol demon; what the actual fuck.
january 2016.
2. ronan lynch; oh it's you again.
3. rage; my new bestie.
4. chris; i know you.
5. buried alive.
6. network post; coming back to haunt your ass.
february 2016.
2. josh washington; shittier than usual?
3. chris; i know you're not joking.
4. rhys; no tetris?
5. hope; fuck you.
6. chris; everything is awful.
7. sally malik; where did you find booze?
8. kamina; jesus christ.
march 2016.
2. kamina; never met a drink that could take me down.
april 2016.
2. bruce banner; the place where you fix people.
3. adam parrish; set like a pro.
4. ronan lynch; too good to drink with the rest of us?
5. chris; anybody carding in this place?
6. chris; a hopefully uneventful adventure.
7. josh washington; never too late.
8. kate galloway; are you serious.
9. chris/emily; fucking emojis.
10. emily; nobody cares.
11. sam winchester; what kinds of monsters?
12. yu narukami; some people do go both ways.
13. kara zor-el; first batcave on the left.
14. dean winchester; you must be new here.
15. fiona; you talkin' to me?
16. maketh tua; as much damage as possible.
17. chris; no need to be sorry.
18. maketh tua; real sorry for what happened.
may 2016.
2. ai ebihara; probably not.
3. chris; a veteran barista.
4. dreamwalking; also dean winchester; noah czerny; adam parrish; chris; emily; josh washington; ronan lynch.
5. lucifer morningstar; sinnerman.
6. dean winchester; what happened to you?
7. kate galloway; post-dream drinks.
june 2016.
2. shadow the hedgehog; circumstances.
3. silent hill.
july 2016.
2. kamina; what the fuck.
3. ronan lynch; full of regrets and bad ideas.
4. emily; this bullshit.
5. ichigo kurosaki; you must be new here.
6. kamina; what the fuck?
7. network post; i hate all of you.
8. ushahin dreamspinner; there isn't any music here.
9. chris; this sounds good.
august 2016.
2. dean winchester; my how the tables have turned.
3. fear; you're an asshole.
4. misa amane; what kinda stupid name.
5. (esteemed) emily; dating advice.
6. network post; i'm a professional.
september 2016.
2. faith carr; delight did what?
3. heine rammsteiner; what the fuck.
4. network post; bar's closed.
5. ushahin dreamspinner; where are you?
6. CONFUSION: toplevel; adam parrish; ushahin dreamspinner.
october 2016.
2. ushahin dreamspinner; you should do books on tape.
INTERLUDE: CANON UPDATE
CHANGES: Nick experienced some significant changes already over the past year in the game, particularly in the recent Confusion revival, in which Ushahin accidentally broke her mind and gave her a taste of a millennium-plus of suffering. This was a huge step in getting Nick to see past her own self-centeredness with respect to her world view of her life being complete shit - not that she abandoned that view entirely, just that she got one hell of a dose of perspective.
Being sent back home for a few months is going to help Nick grow by giving her a bit of closure on the first chapter of her life. She knows as a Nightbane, she can expect to live for a very long time, as long as she isn't horribly murdered by another, more powerful Nightbane, but she has always had difficulty envisioning a future for herself. Discovering that she has been declared dead, along with help and support from her fellow Nightbane, will give her the push to put serious thought into who she wants to be, versus who she is by virtue of the fact that she's merely getting by. In a nutshell, Nick is going to get the It's a Wonderful Life abridged experience - she will learn that her ex-best friend Andy actually does still care about her, as he spent significant time attempting to track her down, and that she actually did make an impact on people, as evident from the memorials she'll discover from people she knew once they presumed she was dead.
With help from other Nightbane, Nick will acquire a new identity and start making a new life for herself. She'll spend a few weeks readjusting to non-Hadriel life in Vancouver, then relocate under a false name to Omaha, Nebraska - surely no one will think to look for her there, right? But since Omaha has a thriving music community, she's going to get back into making music and singing, because she's going to come to the realization - without the ties from her past to hold her back - that music is the one thing in her life that makes her truly happy.
Appearance-wise, she'll look more or less the same, just having let her hair grow out a bit more to past-shoulder-length and re-dying it black. She'll pick up smoking again, which will be a headache of a habit to break once she's brought back to Hadriel. She'll remain sober for the time she's back home, having learned a good lesson from her last big drunken meltdown in Hadriel. In other words, Nick will spend her life actually living, not just surviving from one day to the next, and while her attitude isn't going to be instantly fixed, she will have a small bit of one key thing that has been missing from her life for a long time - hope.
I'd also like her to return to Hadriel having developed two additional Nightbane Talents from the mod-approved list, Sharing the Flesh and Shadow Storm. As for what she'll have with her, just clothes/jacket with a wallet, 2016-era cell phone (iPhone 6 - nonfunctioning, of course), and a pack of cigarettes and lighter in her pockets. Her tambourine and journal from the Keepsakes event will be left behind in her apartment in Hadriel when she leaves and recovered when she returns.
november 2016.
2. network post; who brought me back?
3. hey bartender, pour 'em hot tonight.
4. leliana; she can fight back.
5. emily davis; your own hell dimension.
6. delight; been meaning to ask.
december 2016.
2. ushahin dreamspinner; always just figured everyone's shitty.
3. emily davis; chris is gone.
january 2017.
2. cecily trevelyan; doesn't mean anything.
3. dead ringers; show your lines and shapes.
4. network post; show your enemy what you look like from the inside.
5. celebrimbor; i used to sing in a band.