Below are the 2 most recent journal entries recorded in Machu Picchu's LiveJournal:

Thursday, June 16th, 2005
5:55 pm	OOC: Notes on Peach and magic. Been thinking lately about Peach, and how her Power-hood works, and how it interacts with the other supernatural powers in the bar. Here's the result. It's just some general guidelines, mostly for my benefit, on how Peach may be affected by magic. As always, this will vary depending on the individual situation. But: 1) Spells with purely physical effects will almost always function as normal. Inhabiting a physical body means playing by the rules of the physical world. Now, if you’re thinking of attacking Peach, do note that she is (a) very very fast, and (b) precognitive. So good luck hitting her. But that’s the only real defense she has. 2) Spells aimed at affecting her mental, emotional, or spiritual state, or her perceptions, will probably simply fail. (You could affect her physical senses – see above – but she has…other senses, so it probably wouldn’t have much practical effect.) 3) If you try to read Peach’s mind, you'll probably encounter no resistance whatsoever. You can read her mind all you want. You just won’t find anything she doesn’t want you to find. And you probably won’t sense any blocks, either; it just won’t be there. In all probability, what you’ll get will look just like your average manic, highly intelligent scarlet macaw’s mind. If you’re sharp and you’re paying close attention you might notice some fairly minor oddness, like the complete absence of any sort of fear, or the fact that she has a deep well of righteous anger that seems aimed at nothing in particular. But you’ll find nothing about where the precognition comes from, and definitely nothing to indicate that she’s a Power. This is probably kind of her, since if you could perceive what Peach’s mind is really like, assuming you’re a mortal, it would probably short-circuit your brain. 4) If you can perceive auras, or anything like that: unless you’re crazy powerful, you’ll get whatever a normal scarlet macaw would look like. …Okay, maybe not normal. A prophetic scarlet macaw who’s spent the last ten years living with two of the most experienced wizards in North America. But nothing beyond that. 5) She is, of course, subject to the laws of narrative causality. So the chances of something affecting her are directly proportional to how awesome it would be for the plot. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, April 11th, 2005
1:49 pm	Things worth knowing about Peach: This is mentioned briefly in canon, but: she hates being called Peach. She's resigned to it at this point, but she'd really prefer you stuck with Picchu. Peach is calmer in the bar than she generally is in canon. The one time in canon we see her outside Tom and Carl's house, though (it's in High Wizardry), it turns out she does pretty much know how to behave herself in public. She's only really obnoxious and destructive around family and close friends. If she does get really obnoxious with you, then, there's a reason for it. Possibilities include: (a) she's in an unusually bad mood; (b) she's in an unusually good mood; (c) she dislikes you; or (d) she likes you enough to consider you in the "family and close friends" category. The fun part is, you don't know which. When she speaks in tongues, she's usually quoting from the Homeric Hymns. She's entirely capable of speaking any language she pleases, but ancient Greece has a special place in her heart (after all, canon specifies that she had two avatars there - both Athena and Prometheus). The other languages she's most likely to use are Hebrew (because Jewish/Christian/Muslim angelology says Michael is the patron of Israel, so she probably spent a lot of time there) and Japanese (because Peach thinks Takeshi's Castle is the greatest thing in the history of television). She knows a lot more than she lets on about pretty much everything. However, when it comes to prophecies, she usually genuinely can't be any more specific. She can predict things like tomorrow's weather report with great accuracy, when she feels like it, but the details of human lives are trickier. She is subject to all the physical limitations of a normal scarlet macaw, except when she's not. For instance, she can get into Nita's room despite not having a key or any way to easily use one. Neither Nita nor I know how she does this, but Peach insisted it wouldn't be a problem... She has been deliberately staying away from the god/angel/demon contigent of the bar (although OOCly it's just because I haven't had a chance to introduce her to them yet). This is mostly because she thinks that if one of them recognizes her for what she really is it might draw unnecessary attention to Nita, and it would complicate Peach's life if a demon started stalking her roommate. She knows she can only avoid them for so long, though, so eventually she'll give it up. She will react strongly to meeting any version of Lucifer, though she might not show it, and even more strongly to meeting any redeemed or unfallen version of him. She misses her baby brother. (For those not familiar with Peach's canon, she describes its closest equivalent to Lucifer as her brother.) She's likely to take a shine to warriors, tricksters, and especially people who are both - think of her fondness for Odysseus, back in the day. Peach is literally not afraid of anything. Sometimes there are possible outcomes she'd prefer to avoid, sometimes she's concerned for others, but she never truly feels fear; in her home universe she's possibly the only being in Creation who was never designed to do so. (3 Comments |Comment on this)