West of Mercy Interest Check [Western, Supernatural, Horror]

[GnothiSeauton]

Voicing my interest, and putting in a claim for Emily Blunt if possible.

[Blythe]

I received GM permission to post my sheet, which they approved. :)

Susanna “One Shot” Cassidy

Name/Pronouns: She/Her
Apparent Age: 32
Job: Owner of the Revelry saloon
Type: Hollowed - Somniax
Sexuality: Lesbian
Face Claim: Lauren Jennifer

Personality:
+Gentle, +Friendly, +Sociable
-Lazy, -Sarcastic/Rude, -Manipulative

History:

”Here at the Revelry, huh? Sit a spell. Have a drink. Get the dust from the road and of Perdition off of you. Me? Oh. Susanna. Or Sue, if you’d rather. Some people call me One-Shot. Ain’t ‘cuz I’m a good draw, though I’m fair enough at it. No, it’s because I have one drink a night, and it’s one shot of pure moonshine, enough to peel the hair off of you if you got it, or put some on you if you ain’t got none. I believe in efficiency, and I don’t like workin’ when I want to have fun. One shot to get drunk fits me fine.”

A clink of shotglasses, moonshine was poured for the listener, who asked why Sue was so pale.

“Well, I’m a bit of a night owl. Comes with runnin’ the saloon. And it’s because I’m a mite...dead. You know. Only a little. I got better.”

There was the sound of the listener hurriedly getting up. Sue seemed unperturbed.

“Now don’t be like that. I ain’t like them others. See, I’m a Somniax. I just want you to feel good. I’m all about good feelings and relaxing energy here, I’m all about feeling real fine and dandy. Have that drink, it’ll cure what ails you and make you forget about it if it don’t. Sins, people talk about. As though what I am is sinful. It ain’t. Shouldn’t be a crime to literally have done nothing to nobody, but somehow the choirs on high decided I was guilty of the sin of Sloth and hurled me right to Hell. Thankfully, must be some slothful types down there, because a certain gate was left open, and here I am…”

The listener was shaking, asking her how she’d died, because she looked...fine? And she was a liar and full of shit, surely she’d done something! Everyone knew what the Hollowed were like…

“How I died? Oh. That’s easy. I was plumb tired of life. Didn’t love no one, and they didn’t love me. Love’s an awful lot of effort, I didn’t usually make time for it. But...I’d met this beautiful lady—sorry, I’m peculiar in my interests and don’t take kindly to the gentleman, not that there’s anything wrong with men. And for the first time, I really did feel loved. But maybe she didn’t feel loved by me. Instead of building a life together we found ourselves drinking every night and tryin’ all sorts of things. You ever try ayahuasca?  I did. Some Mexicans brought us up some, from South America herself! At least I thought they were Mexian. Anyways, beside the point. Maybe me and my missus weren’t ready for the sorts of drugs that make you see God. Or maybe we just weren’t worthy of seein’ God. I remember...drinking. And drinking. And drinking, trying to make the visions from that nastiness stop. Saw God for a moment before fallin’ straight to the abyssal pit, I guess. Died from getting too deep in my cups, poisoned my blood, blacked out and never woke up.”

Cassidy grinned slowly. The listener was growing more and more relaxed, listening to the soft drawl of her voice rolling over like a warm desert wind.

“Yeah. That’s right, partner. Take another drink. I ain’t like them Wrathful who might assault you, or them pervert lusty demons. I just wanna help you unwind after a long day, get you a drink, let you do nothin’ at all and be entertained by our piano playin’ here. Ain’t like the Gluttinous, I’m not trying to get you fat, and ain’t Envy just so much work? I’m just asking you to do the easiest thing in the world: nothing at all. Ain’t it fuckin’ nice?”

The listener nodded softly.

“As for how I lived, before I hijacked a little ride on this absolute ‘beaut of a body? Well, my parents grew wheat, pa ran a flour mill. Thought about getting’ a bakery, but well...you can only do so much. Good people. Got shot by some bandits well after I grew up and moved on. Still feel a little bad about that, but what was I supposed to do? I’m one damn woman, I can’t be saving everyone. I loved ‘em. And now they’re gone, somewhere up in Paradise-way where I ain’t ever gonna see ‘em again. I had brothers and sisters. I was the oldest, and my folks always counted on me to help raise ‘em. Well, I certainly didn’t choose to be having brats, so once I was old enough to tote a gun, that’s what I was doing. Made some good money as a guard—you know, guarding stuff’s real easy. You just sit there or stand there for hours doin’ nothing but waiting. Easy money, no effort, at most you shoot someone every once in a while. But my heart weren’t in it. Now that I’m dead...my heart’s in things like the Revelry. All I do is sling drinks, chat people up, and encourage a good time. Pretty sure I got a few folks from Hell wouldn’t be too happy to see my lazy ass, but...oh, well.”

She smiled. The Listener was humming to the piano playing and waiting for Sue to keep spinnin' her yarn.

She'd got 'em.

“Hey. That shotglass is empty. Let me top that off for you...”

Additional info: One-Shot is a decent draw with a gun. She’s not going to win prizes, but she’s no slouch about it—because being bad at something causes you to have to practice, and she hates doing any more of that than necessary. She’s an experienced bartender, but hates complicated drinks. She has zero ‘feminine’ skills like sewing, and she’s garbage at cooking. She will never ever get into a brawl when a gunfight would do, as brawls are high-energy. She’s a fair hand at whittling or woodcarving, mostly because sometimes she has to repair furniture at the Revelry, but customers who damage things there should expect to pay for repairs or work off their debt—Sue loves that second thing in particular, because that’s less work for her if someone else does it.

Powers: Sue’s magic is insidious and subtle, nothing flashy. If you accept a drink from her, the drink can instantly take away your energy and leave you vulnerable to her influence. She can detect someone engaging in the sin of Sloth in her visual presence—if someone is avoiding a task, pawned it off, or is being negligent, though she won’t see the exact nature of the Sin itself. Sue can, if able to touch someone’s face, put them to sleep, but she doesn’t use it often: she’ll use it to subdue a very aggravated customer if she doesn’t want to kill them, and she’ll use it to coax troubled people into sleep if they’re having problems. She’d prefer they drink the moonshine though...because then she can tempt them and gets a profit from it. She gets along very well with Gildrots (Greed) Hollowed, because she feels like they understand wanting to benefit the most from the least effort, even though their motivations are rooted in money, not laziness, like her. In fact, she’d kill to get a Gildrot to invest in the Revelry...

Connections: None yet, but open to them!

Ons & Offs: Link! Sue is a lesbian and won’t engage in sexual contact with a man directly, but...she could be persuaded into FFM threesomes if a man wanted to do all the sexy high-effort work with a female partner so Sue could sit back and watch or be a pillow princess. Sue feels that it's her place to give orders and the place of enterprising pretty ladies to want to please her, when she does motivate herself to be interested in someone.

Plots I’d love for Susanna:
* A Gildrot investing in the Revelry
* Someone Susanna shot in life following her back up from Hell as a different sinner, or one of her forgotten kinfolk out to get her for abandoning her family
* Sue is aware her predilections sexually might not be common. She frequents the brothel. I’d love to have a connection with a ‘regular’ brothel worker whom Sue sees often.
* I’m open to Susanna having a rivalry—an Envy demon jealous of the lazy Slothful’s success with the Saloon?
* I’d love any plot with a human character where Sue gets dragged into their troubles and forced to help or be involved because they just had to talk about their woes to the owner/bartender of the Revelry!

[Amaris]

Voicing my interest, and putting in a claim for Emily Blunt if possible.

You got it!

[impishcharm]

Can I reserve Cole Hauser and Christian Bale?

[Deamonbane]

Heyyyy wondering if I could grab Ben Barnes and Tom Hardy 😁

[Sofia Grace]

Jeffrey Dean Morgan too, please! D:

[Aiden]

Gonna plant a flag here, ill check on it later

Since faces are going fast can I get Josh Brolin please

[Clio]

I’d like to reserve Miss Deadly Red please. ❤️

[Wulfspire]

I received GM permission to post my sheet, which they approved. :)

Susanna “One Shot” Cassidy

We now have an active character thread: https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=365478.msg16983940#msg16983940

@Blythe feel free to post up there!

Very excited to get this going with you all.

[Amaris]

Can I reserve Cole Hauser and Christian Bale?

Yes!

Heyyyy wondering if I could grab Ben Barnes and Tom Hardy 😁

Yes!

Gonna plant a flag here, ill check on it later

Since faces are going fast can I get Josh Brolin please

You got it!

I’d like to reserve Miss Deadly Red please. ❤️

I can do that!

[Amaris]

Jeffrey Dean Morgan too, please! D:

Are you wanting Bane to do this or are you reserving it?

[Sofia Grace]

Are you wanting Bane to do this or are you reserving it?

Bahahaha I would like to reserve him, please :)

[Amaris]

Bahahaha I would like to reserve him, please :)

Yea, I can do that!

[Sofia Grace]

Thank you! ❤️

[Black Howling]

Id like to place interest and ask if I could reserve Travis Fimmel for an FC?

[Wulfspire]

Id like to place interest and ask if I could reserve Travis Fimmel for an FC?

Great to have you!

We'll get your reserve noted!

[Hellion]

@Hellion - Please feel free to shoot Amaris and myself a PM regarding this magic item idea. We would love to see how to make that work for you.

It's not a big deal, but I'll message you both once I figure it out myself, lol

[Amaris]

Added a new plot hook! Sheriff Whitlock is looking for a deputy.

[Yukina]

Definitely tempted to make a vehementh or something similar based on one of my favorite country-esque songs. I need to do some pondering though how it would work as a continuing character.

[Wulfspire]

Would LOVE to have you Yukina!

[Sofia Grace]

Added a new plot hook! Sheriff Whitlock is looking for a deputy.

Cookin' one up!

[Yukina]

Would LOVE to have you Yukina!

( @Amaris )

I'll get to workshopping then. Mind if I dm one of you to discuss my current workings and make sure it keeps to the world lore? :) I think I'm going to make her present self the owner of the brothel making deals with spurned employees and wives.

[Hellion]

Added a new plot hook! Sheriff Whitlock is looking for a deputy.

Funny, because a deputy was my first idea before deciding on a Smithy, buuuut, nothing is set in stone as of yet for me, so deputy would still be a fun choice.

Put me down for a "tentative" and I'll let you know with a definite in the next day or so :)

[Amaris]

Hey, Yukina! We’re trying to avoid having too many similar elements in the same story, since it can split interactions and water things down in the long run. There's already a brothel run by a Hollowed character, so if your character would like to work there, that's totally welcome! However, we’re only allowing an additional brothel if it’s human-owned and serves a specific narrative purpose like excluding the Hollowed or creating tension with them.

Sofia & Hellion - Just a heads-up that there’s only going to be one deputy role in the story. If both of you submit a character for it, we’ll choose whichever one fits best with the story direction. I just wanted to be upfront about that now to avoid any hard feelings later if we have to make a call.

[Yukina]

Hey, Yukina! We’re trying to avoid having too many similar elements in the same story, since it can split interactions and water things down in the long run. There's already a brothel run by a Hollowed character, so if your character would like to work there, that's totally welcome! However, we’re only allowing an additional brothel if it’s human-owned and serves a specific narrative purpose like excluding the Hollowed or creating tension with them.

Ah, I see that now. :) I might switch to a general store since that still provides a pretty good rumor mill then (and I don't want to step on Blythrus's toes)