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'''Description:''' You are able to craft words in ways that evoke thoughts, emotions and reactions from those who read them. You can compose pleasing poetry in one or more styles, create short and long fiction, write essays, reviews and editorials, and invent advertising jingles. It is rare for one person to be skilled at more than one specialty at one time, so choose carefully.  
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'''Description:''' This is your ability to get your point across clearly, whether through conversation, poetry, or even in 140 characters or fewer. Characters with high Expression can phrase their opinions or beliefs in a manner that cannot be ignored (even if their opinions are misinformed or worthless). They might also be talented actors, skilled at conveying moods or communicating emotion with every gesture. Additionally, this Talent represents your ability for poetry, creative writing, or other literary art forms. For many elders, Expression is the subtle art of crafting a satirical epigram capable of socially crippling one’s longtime rival. For younger Kindred, Expression may well be the key to convincing thirty stake-wielding Anarchs to converge on the Sheriff’s private hunting ground with the right text message. You can choose a specialty in Expression, even at less than 4 dots.
  
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:* '''Novice:''' You can write a short poem and extemporize a limerick or couplet when the Muse is with you. A short story is not out of your reach.
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:<span style="font-size:large">●</span>'''Novice:''' Your talent has matured past crude poetry on notebook paper.<br>
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:<span style="font-size:large">●●</span> '''Practiced:''' You could lead a college debate team.<br>
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:<span style="font-size:large">●●●</span> '''Competent:''' You could be a successful writer.<br>
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:<span style="font-size:large">●●●●</span> '''Expert:''' Your work is Pulitzer material.<br>
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:<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> '''Master:''' Steve Jobs asks you for input on his next mobile device.<br>
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:** '''Practiced:''' You could publish your poetry or fiction in a local journal, or write basic hit parade lyrics. You can extemporize simple abab- and aabb-type quatrains.
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'''Possessed by:''' Actors, Advertising Execs, English Teachers, Entertainers, Journalists, Lyricists, Novelists, Poets, Politicians, Rabble-Rousers, Rappers, Web Personalities, Writers.  
  
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:*** '''Competent:''' You could get your novel or anthologies of your work published and make a profit. You can extemporize more complex verse forms, and even make blank verse sound like poetry.
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'''Specialties:''' Acting, Blank Verse, Classical Forms, Conversation, Deathless Art, Extemporaneous, Fiction, Impromptu, Jingles, Limericks, Lyric Writing, Novels, Poetry, Scripts, Social Media, Short Fiction.
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:**** '''Expert:''' You are asked to do readings of your work for local societies nationwide, and aficionados snap up your works as soon as they are published. You can write lyrics that people will be quoting in 10 years, and extemporize iambic pentameters without thinking about it.
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:***** '''Master:''' Your work is already being taught in English classes, and you are recognized as one of the foremost writers of your day. Your lyrics are timeless, and you can extemporize in any form and any style.
 
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'''Possessed by:''' Poets, Lyricists, Novelists, Journalists, Advertising Execs, Entertainers, English Teachers, Rappers
 
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'''Specialties:''' Limericks, Short Fiction, Novel, Scripts, Classical Forms, Extemporaneous, Lyric Writing, Jingles, Blank Verse, Deathless Art
 

Latest revision as of 21:52, 16 October 2020

Character Creation -x- Abilities

Description: This is your ability to get your point across clearly, whether through conversation, poetry, or even in 140 characters or fewer. Characters with high Expression can phrase their opinions or beliefs in a manner that cannot be ignored (even if their opinions are misinformed or worthless). They might also be talented actors, skilled at conveying moods or communicating emotion with every gesture. Additionally, this Talent represents your ability for poetry, creative writing, or other literary art forms. For many elders, Expression is the subtle art of crafting a satirical epigram capable of socially crippling one’s longtime rival. For younger Kindred, Expression may well be the key to convincing thirty stake-wielding Anarchs to converge on the Sheriff’s private hunting ground with the right text message. You can choose a specialty in Expression, even at less than 4 dots.

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●Novice: Your talent has matured past crude poetry on notebook paper.
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●● Practiced: You could lead a college debate team.
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●●● Competent: You could be a successful writer.
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●●●● Expert: Your work is Pulitzer material.
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●●●●● Master: Steve Jobs asks you for input on his next mobile device.
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Possessed by: Actors, Advertising Execs, English Teachers, Entertainers, Journalists, Lyricists, Novelists, Poets, Politicians, Rabble-Rousers, Rappers, Web Personalities, Writers.

Specialties: Acting, Blank Verse, Classical Forms, Conversation, Deathless Art, Extemporaneous, Fiction, Impromptu, Jingles, Limericks, Lyric Writing, Novels, Poetry, Scripts, Social Media, Short Fiction.


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