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[convoluted_tunnels]

⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Eric
Contact: overbringer, overbringer, Skype: SamOverbringer, and Me on G+ if anyone actually uses that
Age: 31
Current Characters: Marisa Kirisame


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Digger-Of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnel of Clan Quartzclaw. Or just Digger for short.
Age: 25
Canon: Digger
Canon Point: Post canon, but hasn't reached home yet

Background: Sadly the most accurate and concise summary would be to just link the whole damn comic, but as that would probably be more reading than the mods want to do right now (though it's really good I promise), I'll sum it up myself:

Digger is a sapient wombat. Her people build large underground cities and tunnel networks and generally don't cause a lot of trouble for anyone. Most wombats of this world are famous for being practical minded, dependable, and level headed. They have a particular aversion to anything that reeks of spirituality. Digger herself, while not straying from these stereotypes very hard, was mining one day when she caught a pocket of bad earth. Gases seeped into her tunnel and drove her temporarily loopy, leading her on a strange path through cave networks that got her so lost she was warped through space.

When she finally regained her senses, she was in a distant land known as the Cerulean Hills. Her tunnel had become an unstable transdimensional anomaly, connecting something deep underground to this particular stretch of countryside. While figuring this all out, Digger met an Avatar of Ganesh, the god of compassion (which took the form of an inanimate but telepathic statue), a group of human religious fanatics known as the Veiled, a shrew taking a job as a bridge troll, a tribe of hyena hunters, a wilderness survival expert with a deer for a head, and an outcast hyena tattoo artist with no name.

I won't spin out every detail, but the long and short of it was that a powerful demon was bound deep in the Earth, entwined with the life of a god. The god longed to die, but gods are tricky to kill. Digger and the friends she made in the Cerulean Hills had to work together to figure out how to finish off this god so that the demon would be destroyed once and for all. In the end, they managed it AND Digger found a traveling merchant who knew how to find his way back to the lands she lived in originally. And they all lived happily ever after. The End.

Personality: As I mentioned, the Wombats are a relentlessly practical people, and Digger is no exception. She is not so narrow minded as to refuse to deal with magical beings, but she holds them to very strict standards and is suspicious of them. When she first met the Ganesh avatar, she said "Oh, you're a god. I see." in the same manner one might announce that they have realized they have athletes foot. If a god or spirit or demon acts in obnoxiously mysterious ways, she will get angry at it and give it a piece of her mind regardless of whether or not it is able to smite her to a tiny smudge on the floor (Though if it could do that she might be a smidgen more respectful.)

Digger's species imposes certain ways of thinking on her that are slightly different from those of a human. For one, she is a herbivore. Not only does she find the idea of eating meat revolting, she biologically cannot digest it and would get ill from eating it. She would have absolutely no desire to start a romantic relationship of any kind of a human (They're not even marsupials for God's sake. Entirely wrong kind of mammal! Next you'll be trying to hook her up with a platypus!).

She gets really excited about geology, engineering, and digging (At one point she said, without a trace of irony or sarcasm, (paraphrased) "Okay I know something's wrong because you didn't even react when I started talking about digging ditches."). She finds the engineering and architecture of underground subjects to be fascinating subjects, and has trouble remembering that non-wombats usually don't share this enthusiasm.

Her upbringing has instilled in her a sense of deep responsibility. She constantly quotes the advice her various relatives gave her when trying to decide what she should do, and the advice is almost uniformly in favor of honest, hard work and responsibility. If you're going to do a job, do it right. Don't cut corners. Wrong is wrong, even if it's easier than doing the right thing. Her moral compass will usually be part of her brain the ultimately steers her actions, not her temper or her selfishness (usually).

Which is not to say that she is a saint. Digger often bemoans (to herself) that doing the right thing frequently sucks. She is usually at least a little bit sarcastic, sometimes going as far as to be scathingly sarcastic. And while she has a long fuse on her temper, it's not infinite. She has lost her temper rather spectacularly on several occasions. Usually in response to being repeatedly roped into solving problems that didn't have anything to do with her before her sense of moral obligation got her involved.

Abilities: One of Digger's ancestors made a deal with a god. In exchange for the favor of helping bind it in an inescapable prison (long story), all of his ancestors would never appear in prophecies and never have their fates written out. Any kind of divining or scrying attempted on Digger's future is doomed to fail (though this does not allow her to interfere with OTHER prophecies). Slugs are the only loophole. Slugs with oracular powers can see Digger's future, but no one else.

Otherwise she's tough and strong but not to supernatural levels. Her physiology makes her particularly suited for digging and for functioning underground.

Alignment: Sosyne. As I mentioned, Digger is relentlessly practical and given to keeping calm and thinking clearly in a crisis. I think resignation might almost be a better word for it, but there's no arehtei for that. She can definitely get angry, but steadfast practicality is her theme.

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⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Sample: a testdrive thread and another testdrive thread.

Questions: Would you eat a talking deer?