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  {{{
  Airship Dude 
    Has an apocalypse compass, which is useful for determining the stability of the Place to Come/the PwoR.
    Steampunk, flies his airship around averting apocalypses
  }}}

  * "Cid" for maximum confusion with [[Sid]]
  * Plays for resources
  * Save the world plot
  * Looking to train a worthy successor.

  * Question: "Why me?"
  ** It's always his responsibility to save the world, because he's the only
     person with the compass and he doesn't trust anyone else to do it right,
     but it's gotten old.
  ** Talk to other people looking for a successor
  ** Get cool stuff to help people save the world
  ** Answer1: "Because you are here, and because you can."
  ** Answer2: "Because if the world doesn't need me, what value have I?"

  CHANGE: PulpScientist has the Compass, Cid just has the Airship and the 
  Ragged Things DO NOT PRESS button
name: Cid Flye
player: Spencer Lane
gender: m
stuff: |
  [[Actors]], [[ApocalypsePreventers]],
  [[Sailor]], [[Brave]],
  [[CidFalse1]], [[AirshipKey]]
contacts: |
  \InkCatherly{A young actor.  \They came up to you suddenly with a
  huge interest in your airship.  Seems to be interested in ending
  Hell, so you thought "Close enough!" and invited \them into the \ApocalypsePreventers.}
  \PulpScientist{Your friend from way back.  He got into the saving-the-world
  business before you did with his inventions, but you've caught up.}
  \MrsSchiff{Hired you as master constructgineer for the troupe.  Generally
    keeps things running.}
  \Max{Long-time actor with the troupe.  You've worked with \them a bunch on
    shows in the past.  \They used to be best buds with this weird 
    \Sid{\mf{dude}{gal}, \first.  Whatever happened to \them{}?}}
body: |-
  \cenquote{"Cid Flye, the Airship Guy\\
  Cid Flye, the Airship Guy\\
  Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid\\
  Cid Flye, the Airship Guy\\
  Airships rule\\
  Cid Flye, the Airship Guy\\
  Inertia is a property of matter\\
  Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid\\
  Cid Flye, the Airship Guy\\
  Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid, Cid\\
  Lift-off in t minus seven seconds\\
  Cid Flye, the Airship Guy."}{-- Your theme song}

  It is many years ago.  You are a child.  Your mother asks you what you 
  want to do with your life.

  "I want to build airships and save the world."  You mean what you say.

  Your mother thinks that you spend too much time playing video games.  
  She cuts down the amount of time you can spend each week looking at a 
  screen.  Those are her words for it.

  Instead, you go out into the woods and make things.  You make 
  beautiful things.  You take blades of grass and braid them together 
  into sharp-edged green twine.  You take sticks and tie them together with your 
  grass twine.  You create pulleys and chains and retractable fake 
  knives.  You build trebuchets and levers and cantilevers. You mix herbs 
  together to make a crude form of paste.
   
  Why do you do this?  Because you need to know how this world works.  
  Because you need to know how to build things.  Because you are working 
  towards building an airship.

  Years later, you are old enough to be in school.  You take woodworking 
  classes.  You take engineering classes.  You take metalworking classes and 
  glassblowing classes.  You take a theater practicum class in order to 
  spend more time building things.  It is fun.

  You are working towards your airship.  You are still seeking a way of 
  saving the world.

  The theater practicum class leads you into a career.  Now you build 
  things all the time for \bActors{}.  You are their master 
  constructgineer.  You make their sets and props.

  You are not being challenged.  You decide to be more ambitious.  You 
  make the sets move mechanically.  You make props controlled by remote.

  This is your way to work towards building your airship.

  You make set pieces that fly down out of the sky for plays with 
  airplanes.  You design a system for having a set piece tip wildly back 
  and forth for a boat.

  At night, every night, you sketch airship designs in your notebook.  
  They are beautiful.

  Your old school friend \cPulpScientist{} also likes to make things.  Recently he's made
  a compass.  The compass can pinpoint an apocalypse.  It points right at
  Gibbelin's Tower!  Something is happening in the theater.

  You hadn't thought you'd start helping him save the world until your airship
  was finished.  Your status as master constructgineer makes it easy to bring in
  \cPulpScientist{} as a member of the \bActors{}.

  It is two weeks ago.  During the maiden voyage of your airship, in a 
  play you wrote just so it will include an airship, something happens to 
  the theater.

  \cInkCatherly{} is alone in the airship on stage.  \cInkCatherly{} 
  panics and presses the "DO NOT PRESS" button in the airship.

  There is a blinding symphony of blackness.  You are being pulled 
  somewhere by creatures.  You know that they are called Ragged Things.  
  The button summons the Ragged Things.

  You land in the Place Without Recourse.  The sun is high in the sky.  
  How beautiful it is.  Ii Ma is standing, waiting for you.  You somehow 
  know that is his name.

  You do not pay attention to Ii Ma.  You are seeking a way of saving 
  everyone.

  Ii Ma walks right up to you.  He asks you a question.  "**Why you**?"

  Why me?  You think on that question.  You do not know.

  You look around.  Your airship is crashing into the ground
  somewhere off in the distance.  You can find it and
  fix it.  Here, you have all the time in the world.

  You need some help.  Your compatriots from \bApocalypsePreventers{} are 
  also here, but \cPulpScientist{} is busy with Science and 
  \cInkCatherly{} contributes enthusiasm rather than helpfulness.

  It would be really great if you could recruit another person to be a member of
  the \bApocalypsePreventers{}.  You could teach them to fly your airship, so that
  then you could work on getting that overdrive you've always wanted to add!  And
  your sure that they could help save the world in all sorts of other useful ways
  too.

  == Goals ==

  * Save the world with the \ApocalypsePreventers, yet again.
  * Recover your airship!  (I mean, how are you supposed to save the world
  without one?)
  * Put on Shows to blend in with the Actors and generate resources.
  * Find a worthy apprentice to introduce into your team.
username:
badgedesc: |-
  <<parent.this />>
  A Large, Strapping \mf{Man}{Woman}
number: <<parent.this />>
castinghint: |
  Your character is \name, an actor newly arrived in the Place
  without Recourse. In the grand tradition of Cids everywhere, you
  have your own airship! Unfortunately, someone pressed the "DO NOT
  PRESS" button in your airship, which landed all of the actors in the
  Place without Recourse.

  Costuming:\\
  Dress outlandish, flamboyant, and/or steampunk.

  Suggested reading:\\
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cid_(Final_Fantasy)#Cid
wrapup: <<parent.this />>
CR: <<parent.this />>
password: <<parent.this />>
claimedby: Kendra
status: Draft
answers: |
  [[CidAnswer1]], [[CidAnswer2]]
email: slane@mit.edu
