][ NEOVID HAS JOINED THE PARTY AS A GUEST (token Avatar) 

Name: NeoVid (though he has a secret real name)  Sex: M 
Physical Age: 29  True Age: 2,854 
Also Goes By: Vid, that other Neo guy, freak boy 
Height: 6'1" usually        Weight: 185 lbs usually 
Eyes: Brown and disturbed  Hair: Black 

Primary Goal(s): 
=Finding out if he can get through a night without making enemies 
=Breaking his 90 year dateless streak 
=Trying not to lose any more of his mind 

Secondary Goal(s): 
=Finding out why self-insertions are naturally dislikable 

Strengths/Abilities: 
=Ability to Make Stuff Happen with Chaos Energy 
=Extremely even-tempered 
=Super-quick wit 
=Always pretends he knows what he's doing 
=Unkillable 
=Very perceptive if he can think straight 
=Great baritone voice 
=Variety of mad laughs 
=Inhuman video game skill (except for survival horror) 
=Access to Realm of Chaos (mostly through portal inside jacket) 
=Good Triple Triad player 
=Amazingly open-minded 
=Dedicated anarchist (is that redundant?) 

Weaknesses/Quirks: 
=Loves to talk 
=Suffers from Identity Fragmentation Symdrome (that's where different 
 aspects of the same personality are seperated from each other, and is 
 completely different from multiple personality disorder no it's not yes
 it is you idiot) 
=Sometimes reflexively uses Chaos powers 
=Message on t-shirt tends to betray subconcious thoughts 
=Looks like hell 
=Tendency to say things that make sense until you think about them ("If 
 there's one thing I won't put up with, it's intolerance!") 
=Hates to put actual effort into anything 
=Hentai mind 
=Generally has reactions opposite of a normal person's 
=Can't pass up an opportunity for a joke 
=Easily obsessed 
=Doesn't know any songs that aren't from a video game, parody or anime
 soundtrack 

Likes... make that obsessed with: 
=MiSTing 
=Dimensional travel 
=Bust-A-Groove 
=Anything animated 
=Anything unpopular that doesn't deserve to be (mainly comics) 
=Virtual World 
=The Author Avatar Association 
=Other abnormal people 
=SF 
=Anarchy (the positive kind) 
=Video games 
=Quistis Trepe 
=KTEH San José, for being a PBS station that airs anime 

Dislikes: 
=People who are anti-anything 
=Detoxing 
=Anyone who thinks SF and sci-fi are the same thing 
=Other people's ignorance ("Dammit!  Bokken is the PLURAL of bokuto!  And 
 hentai means pervertED, 'sukebe' is pervert!") 
=Smokers 
=S-Is who abuse their Avatar powers (damn you, Oscar) 
=Serious violence 
=People who hate things because they don't "get" them 

Background: 
   Starting out as a godlike and powerful character (not s-i) in his home 
universe, he spent a couple thousand years screwing with history in order to
gather the power to break through dimensions.  Unfortunately, he did it. 
Ending up in the center of the Realm of Chaos, she explained to him that he 
had unwittingly been doing what she wanted, and thanks to his messing with 
reality, the inhabitants of his home dimension would be able to rebuild the 
place as a utopia.  But, since a human mind can't take pure Chaos, he 
snapped like a dry stick.  Since his powers are limited only by his mental 
focus, he was left with only enough to be dangerous to everything.  Due to 
this, Chaos forced the ruler of the world he landed in next (the infinitely 
powerful wussy sidekick, e X ! l e) to keep him from doing too much damage. 
In the few hundred years since then, he has named himself NeoVid (one 
dimension's slang for "new understanding"), regained most of his sanity 
(despite doing things that are completely counter to that, like MiSTing, 
finding out his true nature as a minor diversion for his creator, and just 
being a Chaos creature), and gotten down to the important buisiness of 
ditching e X ! l e.  Having run into W4 and Twoflower before (during the
writing of Unnoticable Jack),  he decided the Impro Party would be a safe
enough place to hide out for a while. 

[An SD NeoVid runs on screen, skids to a stop and waves a peace sign at the 
audience. "Hello. You might be wondering why my author is using an Avatar 
instead of just putting himself in the fic. Well, there's no good reason. 
His best explaination- I've got it here somewhere... aha! -is 'I don't do 
author insertions. I've already got an s-i, so deal with it. And you can 
find out more about him by reading my MiSTs at  
http://www.dmgice.com/oddish2/stuff. Free plug.' Thank you." ChibiVid bows, 
knocking his head on the floor thanks to his height/skull size ratio, then 
runs offscreen with a cloud of dust] 


Fellow Authors, please ask me before you: 
=Have him cause mass destruction 
=Order "death to all Avatars" 

Fellow Authors, please do not: 
=Make him into a total bastard 
=Have him take any drugs stronger than weed 
=Have him use strong swear words unless it'll have maximum shock value 
=Sell him for spare change