By reputation, the individual known as Vorpal is worrisome. From one account to the other, he's been described as everything from "concerningly Wyrd" to "just this side of Them." The stories mainly revolve around impossible feats of agility and bladework, inhuman features like razored fingers and missing eyes, and an overwhelmingly Wyrd presence outright tangible to those nearby.
The reality of the man is significantly less (immediately) frightening.
While his Autumn mantle is of impressive stature, his Wyrd is nothing like the worst of the stories told about him. He doesn't appear nearly so alien and detached, either. Perhaps they're exaggerated. Or, perhaps- it's not impossible, with years of effort and a dedicated Motley in support- to drag oneself back from the brink of madness, and reclaim some measure of one's humanity.
Watching him fight, though...
The stories sound less and less like exaggeration.
To outsiders, Johnathan Drexel looks like a skinny fellow with an unfortunate addiction to scarification. He's covered in the thin, delicate whorls and swirls, leaving the already pale fellow with the dark hair looking a bit more strange than usual. He favors dark hooded shirts, denim pants, and black leather jackets and coats, as if someone gave life to some teenage edgelord's identity fantasies.
To the Lost, his eyes vanish almost entirely into black pools of shadow, and the sharp features he bear cast similar pitch patches across his body, leaving him looking almost like a black and white comic character. His shadow itself doesn't obey his movements, and shifts about, reflecting the drift of his subconscious instead of the movement of his form.
Vorpal's mantle is imposing. Shadows near him darken to pitch, his mantle filling them with the almost-sounds of distant whispers, skittering creatures, and sharpening blades. Autumnal leaves at their finest swirl past along the ground- surely just brought in by a recent entry to the room, and gone when you look again- and the quiet surety that the doors nearby go Someplace Else.
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- Hunter - Once calling himself the God of the Hunt, Vorpal has left that behind him- but not the hunt, itself. Have something in need of his attention? He's not picky, and rumor has it he is very, very good at going places he shouldn't.
- High Wyrd - Does all that Wyrd concern you? Maybe you should bring it up.
- Autumn - He knows many things about many strange, strange places, and how to get to most of them. Need a guide?
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- 26th February, 2020: Knitting Amaranthine
- 27th February, 2020: At Market
- 27th February, 2020: A Little Tea
- 29th February, 2020: Vorpal's Reading
- 29th February, 2020: Fight Test
- 2nd March, 2020: Pair of Jacks and a Queen of Clubs
- 2nd March, 2020: That's Great Advice. Be A Shame If I Didn't Follow It
- 4th March, 2020: Business, Then Pleasure
- 4th March, 2020: Oh the Humanity
- 5th March, 2020: Seamless Semantics
- 5th March, 2020: You Are The Dark Alley Now
- 6th March, 2020: The Thing About Friends
- 10th March, 2020: What Lurks in the Alleys
- 10th March, 2020: No New Scars
- 12th March, 2020: Sigrun's Gift
- 14th March, 2020: Reflect On Reflections
- 18th March, 2020: Torture For A Good Reason
- 19th March, 2020: An Unhappy Meal
- 19th March, 2020: Talking About Sturm
- 24th March, 2020: Conflicting Needs
- 27th March, 2020: The Upper Limit Of The Teagan Formula
- 30th March, 2020: Lux Obscura Fashion Show - Exterior
- 1st April, 2020: As In The Eddas
- 4th April, 2020: ... And In This Corner:
- 12th April, 2020: New Arrivals and Old-Timers
- 14th April, 2020: Pizza, Motleys, and Feelings
- 15th April, 2020: Hyena Time
- 17th April, 2020: Everybody Loves Cats
- 20th April, 2020: The Shield And The Stone
- 22nd April, 2020: In the Doghouse
- 22nd April, 2020: What Johnnie Didn't Know
- 23rd April, 2020: Figuratively Melting Ice
- 26th April, 2020: Fractured And Imperfect And Doing Their Best
- 28th April, 2020: Nobody Likes Us
- 30th April, 2020: Making Plans is Not Sitting On Your Ass
- 3rd May, 2020: Autumn Expedition
- 3rd May, 2020: I Ask No Greater Honor
- 8th May, 2020: Can't We Just Have Coffee Without It Turning Into A Clusterfuck PLEASE?!?!
- 16th May, 2020: Sturm's Oath
- 18th May, 2020: Breakfast Surprise
- 9th June, 2020: Not Our Faults That They Broke
- 13th June, 2020: Gabby Gursies
- 13th June, 2020: Neat Party Trick
- 14th June, 2020: Deep Roots, Weak Branches: Oso
- 21st June, 2020: Airborne Healing Corps
- 23rd June, 2020: Never Skip Spin Day
- 29th June, 2020: Reading For Spanish
- 5th July, 2020: I've Been Really Thirsty
- 12th July, 2020: An Autumn Meeting
- 16th July, 2020: What You Still Fear
- 19th July, 2020: Finding Time To Play
- 21st July, 2020: Flashy Knives and Karate Gimmicks
- 24th July, 2020: The World Would Break Under The Strain
- 25th July, 2020: Deep Roots: What The Hams
- 28th July, 2020: Where Your Heart's At Home
- 30th July, 2020: Hunting for Trouble... and rolodices.
- 30th October, 2020: Silver Threads: The Eventual Job
- 31st October, 2020: Forbidden Log Name
- 11th December, 2020: Friends of Lux
- 14th December, 2020: Snuggling Summers
- 18th December, 2020: Something Unfinished Part 1
- 21st December, 2020: A Little Bit Wyrd
- 24th December, 2020: Something Unfinished Part 2
- 25th December, 2020: A Different Sort of Magic
- 25th December, 2020: Cold In The Park
- 25th December, 2020: Philosophies of Winter and Autumn
- 26th December, 2020: Something Unfinished Part 3
- 27th December, 2020: Where Does She Get Such Wonderful Toys?
- 31st December, 2020: Winter Solstice 2020
- 2nd January, 2021: Waffles And Backstory
- 27th January, 2021: Rare Variant Meeting
- 27th January, 2021: Chance Connections
- 30th January, 2021: Crafting a Talen with an Audience of One
- 9th February, 2021: A Hell Of A Life
- 13th February, 2021: On A Scale Of Cat To Dog
- 14th March, 2021: Silver Threads: What Johnnie Found
- 4th April, 2021: The Eyes of the Mask: What Didn't Happen
- 9th April, 2021: Interesting Times
- 10th April, 2021: About A Sleeping Bird
- 12th April, 2021: The Eyes of the Mask: About A Man
- 18th April, 2021: Just Cheeseburger Your Coat
- 25th April, 2021: Fight A Different War
- 3rd May, 2021: Huntsmen And Helldivers
- 2nd August, 2021: What Fae Get Wrong
- 17th August, 2021: A Little Bit Of Junk Food
- 27th November, 2021: Well-Storied Individuals
- 22nd December, 2021: Being Birch
- 4th September, 2022: A long day of Meat and Blood and Cuddles
- 16th September, 2022: Puzzle Piece Dreams
- 17th September, 2022: About A Knife
- 25th September, 2022: Eyes Of The Mask: The Knife
- 1st October, 2022: Eyes Of The Mask/Silver Threads: Crossover Episode
- 2nd October, 2022: On Vampires, Dreams, and Coping Mechanisms
- 12th October, 2022: Rooftops, Owls, and Teleportation
- 24th October, 2022: A Magnificent Witch and a Fox visit Suburbia
- 25th October, 2022: Safe Is A Pretty Relative Term
- 1st December, 2022: Eight Toes are Faster than Ten
- 7th December, 2022: Five Years
- 10th December, 2022: Hereby Called To Order
- 18th December, 2022: The Return of the Waffles
- 18th December, 2022: Land With Trees
- 20th December, 2022: Latkes Conversation
- 20th December, 2022: The First Rule Of Fight Club
- 21st December, 2022: Are we still passed around
- 22nd December, 2022: Let It Shine
- 24th December, 2022: Gut Shabbos
- 25th December, 2022: Hedge Games and a Fight Before Christmas
- 26th December, 2022: Noted And Accepted
- 27th December, 2022: Return of the Sun
- 27th December, 2022: I Had To
- 27th December, 2022: Stay In The Hedge
- 27th December, 2022: Winter Crowning 2022
- 29th December, 2022: Excuse Me, Miss?
- 31st December, 2022: Become This Avery
- 1st January, 2023: One Ancient Moment Among Many
- 3rd January, 2023: Canine Chases and Daredevils
- 5th January, 2023: On Dreams
- 7th January, 2023: With Love And Patience And Bags Full Of Weapons
- 30th January, 2023: Silver Threads: Jadetsugi In Action
- 10th February, 2023: Vorpal reminds Titania what she is
- 26th February, 2023: Shadows in the Machine Part 3.5: SPAAAAACE!
- 9th March, 2023: Three Seasons on Patrol
- 11th March, 2023: Corroborating
- 17th March, 2023: An Overdue Audience
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