Kickback
Important Note:
This character is based heavily on a number of different things. Since
this particular character is my creation, I claim copyright on everything
here; for myself, and in the name of my brother and friends, who helped
determine a lot of the events that are described in the Journal,
except of course anything that is already someone else's.
(Particularly the companies that own the copyrights and trademarks on
the games/novels/movies/etc. that this character is based on.) None of the
games/worlds/books/other characters/species/etc. mentioned herein are used
with explicit permission, but with the implicit permission that has to be
granted to gamers in order to use the games at all. This information is
being posted on the web like this simply for the enjoyment of anyone who may
happen to stumble in here, and may not be duplicated without my prior
consent.
Okay, with the legalese out of the way, let's get to the interesting stuff.
- A brief description of how Kickback came to be
in real life.
- An overview of Kickback's
incarnations. That is, those that I've determined so far.
- A collection of Kickback's Last Words.
He's one of the few characters who can have more than one dying
line. There are a few funny ones, but most of them are only really
interesting if you've at least gone over the
overview.
- Kickback's Origin, a
fictional "autobiography" of sorts. This describes Kickback's
origins from his point of view.
- Kickback & Yroli E
This story takes place during Kickback's seventh lifetime, according
to the overview. It is actually the
prelude to a roleplaying scenario that my friend Claire and I are
working on, where her character (Yroli E) meets Kickback in this
incarnation, then meets him again later in another one (n+1).
- A customized Magic: the
Gathering card, based on his Planeswalker incarnation.
- Superhero
This is a brief narrative, written from Kickback's perspective, about
his superhero incarnation. This life takes place immediately prior to
the "current" one (i.e. n-1, see next bullet). This story
primarily describes how he gains a companion on his reincarnation
journey -- the person who will become his sister, Gem, in his next
incarnation.
- Kickback's
Journal, vol. 3. This is a work in progress -- I've been writing
this for about the last six years, and am still working on it. The
first section briefly describes what has happened in his current
incarnation (as an AD&D Elf) since the last installment of the
"Adventurer's Journal". (See Origin, footnotes
10 and
11.) After finishing the Pool
and Curse computer games, I transferred Kickback, and most of
his companions, to paper to use in "real" AD&D play.
The next sections of the Journal describe what happened in these games.
Eventually, however, I had to leave home to attend college, and so I
extricated Kickback and his companions from this campaign, and sent them
off on a quest of their own. This quest is described in approximately
the last half of the Journal, as it currently is. Most all of this
"Journal" is my own creation, only vaguely based on anything
else, though (as I mentioned before) influenced by events that were at
least in part determined by my brother and a number of friends of
mine.
- Reunion
Part 2 of the story begun in Kickback &
Yroli E, above. This part of the story is currently being played
out by myself, Claire, and a few other friends as a Play-By-E-Mail
game.
Remember, all of this is posted to the 'net purely for amusement. I am not
making any sort of money off of this, and in fact have spent a great deal of
time on all this that I could have been using to do other things. These
works may not be distributed without my prior consent, except according to
the nature of the Internet. (In other words, don't print it out and pass it
around, but feel free to give people the URL of this page!) I probably won't
have the initiative to sue anybody infringing on this copyright, but you'll
earn yourself at least a few years in Purgatory, or bad Karma (if you believe
in those sorts of things).
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