Quick sketches of some of the many characters I’ve portrayed in real-time online roleplaying (on OtherSpace and elsewhere) over the years:
- Cryptic purveyor of prophecy
- Flamboyant computer hacker
- Gruff private investigator
- Overly heroic Starfleet captain
- Ominous witch-hunting nobleman
- Migraine-prone emperor
- Tinker on the run
- Emcee with a speech impediment
- Terrible hovercab driver with a pet osprey
- Simple-seeming warrior philosopher
- Insidious, conniving nobleman who dabbles in dark magic
- Defenestrating ex-military commander with a horrible temper
- Carnival manager
- Psionic gender-switching giant spider
- Floating crystalline jellyfish
- Blind psychotherapist
- Documentary producer/director
- Aging novelist
- Occasionally ascendant freighter captain
- Pirate with a trident hand
- Several bartenders
- Menacing hive mind
- Wizened old sage
- Ancient space whale
- Politician with frequent flyer miles at drug rehab clinics
- Mad bomber
- Futuristic Noah
- Freedom fighter
- Tyrannical despot
- Small family of large psionically linked cats
- Self-centered freighter captain
- Pirate king
- Numerous henchmen
- Bumbling engineer
- Ship’s quartermaster with a purple paisley fetish
- Multiple thugs
- Carrot-obsessed priest
- Cold, sometimes cruel sentient computer network
- Bounty target
- Doomed homeworld defender
- Big-city police chief
- Noble house leader
- Time-tampering agents
- Theme park planet overseer
- Torturer
- Tiny pirates
- Shadow-thing that feeds on psi-capable people
- Underwater harbor beast
I am almost certain that I’ve missed a few. These days, I mostly only have time to play the documentary producer/director and the space whale.
I should see about improving my performance there.
