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[soulfusedinn]

Name: Iren Suto
Age: 34
Profession: Mage/Innkeeper

Backstory: Iren is a mage, but a lower class kind of mage. Some mages go for studying the cosmos and piercing the veil of reality to alter the mechanisms that run the universe, while others just use their magic as a tool to make their lives easier. Iren was firmly of the latter type. She ran an inn called the Laughing Toadstool.

When an out of control magical experiment unleashed a demon, all the mages in Iren's hometown banded together to contain it except for Iren herself because, in a moment of cowardice, she hid from it to protect her own skin. As a result, the demon was contained, but Iren was the only mage left in town who hadn't been blasted into another dimension.

That left the demon trapped in a spell circle but Iren feeling guilty about her role in the fight (or lack thereof). So she transferred the demon into the attic of The Laughing Toadstool where she could reinforce it's containment circle and keep an eye on it, and then turned the entire building into a vessel for traveling between universes.

She now wanders the multiverse, hoping to find the mages that she failed and help them get home. And she runs her inn on whatever world she finds herself on, because it gives her time to investigate and to enjoy the local culture. No matter where you go, after all, people still sometimes need a warm meal and a place to sleep for the night.

Personality: Iren is not a bad person, but she is fundamentally a coward. When the stakes are down, if someone is threatening her she will likely cave in to whatever they want or try to escape. She avoids and has no interest in violent situations. Honestly she'd rather just fuck around and have a good time more than anything. The only place she REALLY feels able to stand up to people is in her inn, where she has an undeniable home-field advantage as the very walls and floors and furniture can and will leap to her aid if she's in danger.

But ultimately, she also feels a lot of shame about the demon. If she had been helping the other mages back then, maybe they wouldn't have been banished. So no matter how much she might whine and moan about it, she does continue her quest to find them all and send them back home.

She's doing her best to think of her situation as a sight seeing tour, honestly. The multiverse is full of strange and wonderful worlds, full of incredible sights to see. Her quest might be serious, but Iren is enjoying playing tourist along the way.

Powers:

• Aura - Iren has a sort of zone around her that extends out about six meters. In this zone, Iren can use magic. She can compress her aura to a smaller area in exchange for having more power and control, or she can expand it a few meters further at the cost of having LESS power and control. Other mages generally have their own auras that will push hers back. In a fight, it's as much a battle to push back your opponents aura as it is to actually cast spells on them. Iren doesn't like fighting, though, so this probably won't come up.
  
• Lesser Magic - Iren constantly absorbs ambient energy out of the world around her and converts it into magical force that she can use to do stuff within her aura. Iren's magic is specialized in spatial warping. She can fold space to bring two points closer together or stretch it to make two points further apart, she can make spatial pockets that are bigger on the inside than the outside (think bag of holding), and even teleport. All this is, of course, limited to within the current range of her aura. She often does this for extra storage space in her pockets, or to make doors and windows not open up to where you expect them to.
  
• Soulfusing - or "Greater magic". Soulfusing involves infusing little bits of her soul into nearby objects. Once infused, the object can be directly controlled by Iren mentally (she can make doors open or close, lights turn on or off, chairs and tables walk around, and so forth) and they have their own small Aura around them that she can use magic in. Using up entire soul this way won't kill her, but it will destroy her ability to use lesser magic and leave her feeling apathetic, depressed, and lethargic until it recovers, which takes weeks.
  
• Soul return - If Iren soulfuses something, then lets her soul recover naturally over time, she can still reclaim the energy in the item for a temporary boost in power. Holding more than the normal amount of soul energy in you is unstable, and it will generally degrade until she's back to her normal maximum (which usually takes between ten minutes to an hour, depending on how much), but during that time she's extra powerful.
  
• The Laughing Toadstool - Iren owns an inn, named the Laughing Toadstool, and has soulfused everything in it. The furniture, the kitchenware, the lights, even all the walls, floors, and ceilings. From foundation to rooftop. When she originally had it built, she mixed some of her blood in with the cement that forms the foundation, creating a bond between it and her. As long as she's in the same universe as the Toadstool, Iren has a vauge awareness of everything happening within it. As long as she's nearby, she can open and close any of the windows or doors, rearrange the furniture, change the exterior appearance of the building, or even rearrange the floorplan.

▷ First Impressions

▶ VISUAL: Iren is 5'3"/160cm and does not look like she gets a huge amount of exercise. She has an unthreatening appearance, but generally presents as fairly femme. Neck length dark brown hair, brown eyes. Trends towards...let's say "callipygian".
▶ AURAL: I will figure this out later
▶ OLFACTORY: Keeps herself scrupulous clean. Likes floral scents for perfume/soap.
▶ DEMEANOUR: Friendly, polite, accomodating, eager to bargain/haggle/compromise to get what she wants

▷ IC Permissions

▶ PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Go for it. Iren is free with her affections.
▶ PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: OOCly, go for it. ICly, Iren is a huge coward and if she gets in a fight her first reaction will be to flee. If that doesn't work, she'll probably quickly surrendur.
▶ RELATIONSHIPS: Iren is uninterested in romantic relationships, but ready and willing to persue platonic or sexual relationships
▶ PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: No special psychic defenses. Ordinary human mind.
▶ MAGICAL INFORMATION: Iren is an averagely powerful mage, but she has gone out of her way to infuse ALL of her possessions with power so she has an enormous pool of energy to draw on. Her magic has to do mainly with spatial warping.
▶ MEDICAL INFORMATION: Healthy human woman
▶ OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Iren is the sole survivor of a demon attack in her late 20s, on top of being kind of a coward. In the event of general chaos and violence she is likely to freeze up or panic and hide.

▷ OOC Permissions

▶ BACKTAGGING: Go for it! The worst that can happen is I won't respond (and I might not if it's more than, like, a week or two old)
▶ THREADHOPPING: If it's a kind of silly thread then feel free to jump in willy nilly. If it's something more serious, please ask first.
▶ FOURTHWALLING: I would prefer you do not.
▶ OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: I don't PERSONALLY have any real triggers, but if you're mentioning something particularly graphic or offensive (rape, child abuse, etc), maybe put a warning into the subject header for the sake of others reading our thread.
▶ ANYTHING ELSE? I think you're pretty cool.