You just won a trip to Praciba! (Signup thread)

[Praciba]

This thread is to see if there is any interest in my RP idea, hence it's named an interest thread. Due to the fact that there's interest, it's now a signup thread.

Essentially, the Pracib government wishes to promote tourism in Praciba, an industry that has always been large but has somewhat slowed down in it's development recently. In order to do so, they have set up a lotery for an extremely extravagant, all-expenses-paid vacation in Praciba's primary vacation spot, the casino port city of Paloris. To sweeten the pot, you will be guided by royalty (I'm thinking the Serenissimi Regis himself for older characters and his younger brother Augustus for younger characters).

Your character wins the lotery (no, really? I hadn't figured that out yet haha) and as such comes to Praciba. Next to, hopefully, being a good character RP, I'm also planning on using this RP to expand on the currently shallow lore and information on Paloris.

If there's interest and/or questions, feel free to post them. I'll set up an application and such later on, if there's interest (no need to make an application if no one wants to join, of course). See the application form below.

Application form

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[b]Full Name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Nationality:[/b]
[b]Ethnicity:[/b]
[b]Ideology/Political affiliation (if any):[/b]
[b]Religion (if any):[/b]
[b]Spoken Languages in order of fluency:[/b]
[b]Any healthcare issues?[/b]
[b]A picture of the applicant:[/b]
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[b]Education enjoyed and/or currently enjoying:[/b]
[b]Previous (if any) and current career(s):[/b]
[b]Please provide a small biography:[/b]
[b]Please list some things/items/events/people/etc. you like:[/b]
[b]Please list some things/items/events/people/etc. you dislike:[/b]
[b]Where do you see yourself in five years?[/b]
[b]When looking at the numbers 5, 9, 16 and 21, which one do you prefer?[/b]

Due to the amount of interest, I'm looking for one 'younger' character and one 'older' character. Younger being between 16 and 35 and older being 36 and up.

[Australian rePublic]

What is your tech level?

[Praciba]

Praciba is MT

[The Northern Kingdoms]

Ok, I'm applying.

My character is a holstaur living in the city (the Northern Kingdoms has more of those than they have holstaurs living in the country). She wants to be a traveler. She wins the trip to Praciba.

Am I doing it right?

[Australian rePublic]

I'm very interested

[Trevor Phillip Enterprises]

I might do it. The only tourist destination left which hasn't kicked me out yet. I'll tone down the crazy if I have to.

[Otulia]

I'm curious. Do you allow FanT as well as MT? I could assume that they're taking a state-paid vacation for excellence in work. I like RP changelings, so I'll have one come if I can. They're basically insectosoid ponies with compound eyes, all in green and black, with fangs, and they feed off of emotion, particularly love.

[Praciba]

Sorry for posting like this, but it saves me having to quote various people in one post:

The Northern Kingdoms: This is just the interest thread for now, it'll later turn into the sign-up thread when I get an application form up. I only 'do' humans though, sorry about that. Didn't think of mentioning it, probably should have done so.

Australian Republic: Good to hear. I'll have an application form up later, so keep the thread in mind.

TPE: Crazy in-and-of-itself is no problem, Pracib themselves aren't the most 'normal' people either. Violent crazy is a bit different though, not sure if you were planning on being violent crazy, as Pracib see themselves as 'moved on' beyond the point of having to use violence, often choosing to try and steer situations a different direction via various means before eventually becoming violent. Don't mistake it with them being pacifists or anything, they'll be as efficient, effective and creative as always when violence is needed.

Otulia: I only do MT, sorry. That's more due to my personal preference (I wouldn't really know what to write most of the time) than a distaste towards FanT or anything like that, as I have nothing more than respect for the ones that are able to properly RP FanT and really get into it.

[Otulia]

Well, I don't see why you'd have trouble with it: I'M RPing the FanT, after all. All you'd have to do is acknowledge that they look different from people. RPing MT with FanT is hardly a problem, and in my opinion livens things up, since you've got unorthodox, dynamic characters with different capabilities and odd quirks that you can't really transfer to people (flying, compound eyes, etc). Of course, it's your decision.

[Kwadai]

Interested.

[New Mushroom Kingdom]

I might be interested depending on specifics. I could think of multiple characters that would be interested.

[Romae Aemilius]

Interested.

[Soled]

Put me up for interested.

[Aurora Confederacy]

i'd be interested, I have a few characters I could choose from. Probably have Martyne and Tiffany i think.

[Elejamie]

I'm in. Hopefully I'll be able to RP better this time.

[Praciba]

I've added an application form. Pictures aren't really needed, a detailed description is also fine.

Due to the amount of interest, I've decided to make two threads, one for a younger and one for an older character. Nothing bad meant towards people that find themselves in the older age category, it just was the best way I could word it.

[New Mushroom Kingdom]

(OOC: well, one of my characters has already gone so I'll post an app later for the remaining one.)

[Britonisea]

Do I put my application here, I am interested.

[Praciba]

Yeah, just put the application here.

[Elejamie]

Question: Do I have to put in a younger character AND an older character? Or can I choose which one to send? Because I need to know before I create an app.

[Praciba]

You can apply for both or just one of them. Chances are slim that I'll give both characters to the same person but if you have ideas for both or want to aim for both, go ahead.

[Kwadai]

Application coming soon.

[Aurora Confederacy]

I have been wanting to use these two outside the Aurora Confederacy for a while now.

Full Name: Gina Fittipaldi
Age: 34
Nationality: Auroran
Ethnicity:White
Ideology/Political affiliation (if any): None
Religion (if any): Officially Roman Catholic, not practicing however
Spoken Languages in order of fluency: English
Any healthcare issues? above knee right amputee
Height: 5'6"
A picture of the applicant:

Education enjoyed and/or currently enjoying:
Previous (if any) and current career(s): Ships cook, now an owner-driver truck in the Aurora Confederacy
Please provide a small biography:

Born into a merchant navy family, Gina, youngest of her parents 3 children, and the only daughter, Gina was very much the unwanted one. Though not abused, Gina was pretty much left out of everything, Enrico spent more on his two sons than he did on Gina, and Dominica wasn’t much different either.

Her education was at St. John’s High in South Sands, a Catholic school, where she received a good education during her school years, leaving school with good exam results. As her brothers turned 16, they followed the family footsteps and joined the navy. William Fittipaldi, the eldest, joined the navy; Angelo Fittipaldi joined up with a merchant shipping company. In 1996, when Fitt turned 16, she was signed up to Chemica Atlantico, a chemical shipping company. The ship that she was signed onto, the Celestia was a ship with a chequered past, having been stretched in 1980 after being built in 1976 and had seen better days but the company still continued to use it. Gina was given the position of becoming the assistant to the ships cook.

It took a few weeks for Gina to settle into the all male crew, however settle she did, and unlike her father, who was the captain, Gina gained the respect of the crew, probably because of female company in an all male environment. Because of the respect, Gina became known as “Fitt” to her fellow crewmates, ever since then the name stuck.

In the early hours of 9th November 1999, 2 days before her 19th birthday, out in the ocean off 200km off the coast of Terra Azure, Astyria Celestia suffered a power loss then breaks her keel and begins to roll over, this roll threw Gina out of her bunk.

Sensing that the ship was in danger, Fitt put her life jacket on then began her escape, and to do this Gina used a fire extinguisher to break the latch off the porthole window, allowing water to cascade into the ship. As soon as the cabin was full of water Gina swam out and once out of the ship the ripcord on the life jacket was pulled, catapulting Gina to the surface, the ship itself now lies in 150m of water.

When Gina surfaced she looked around in the moonlit night only to see the main hull slowly heel over and sink as by by this time the entire front end had already gone under whilst on the surface was a slick of diesel oil from the Celestia’s fuel tanks. Hearing someone shout, Gina turned around and saw one of her colleagues so she started to swim to a lifeboat.

As she swam, Gina spotted a small semi inflatable speed boat racing towards her the men aboard it letting rip with machine gun fire whilst in the distance, a dark, low slung shape of a submarine was silhouetted by the moonlight. The seaman who shouted Gina was mown down in a stream of bullets, dying instantly and falling into the water. As the boat came closer Gina tried to dive out of the way, but the boat caught her right leg and ankle, chewing them up and almost instantly the salt instantly getting into the wounds. Gina later resurfaced, and with the inflatable going back to the mother boat. Gina recalls the ship as being very low to the water, almost submarine like in profile), Gina swam to the remains of a lifeboat, she also grabbed a dead crewman and removed his survival suit and put it on herself. With the life suit on Gina was alone in the ocean. The first thing she did was use a belt of one of the dead crewmen to seal the leg of the suit to ensure that the blood was contained, she also stuffed what ever fabric she could around the leg as well to act as a blood soak though being in salt water the pain was almost unbarable until that was the nerve damage meant that the wounds to her leg went numb.

Come dawn, Gina looked around to survey her surroundings, of the 30 crew aboard the Celestia she was the only survivor. Lying on the water were numerous plastic containers, pop bottles and the likes of, a couple of sports bags containing some water filters and sterilising tablets that had come from the two of the lifeboats. 19 other corpses lay afloat on the water, along with a partly deflated inflatable lifeboat, (the floor, and 4 of the 9 side sections were deflated, but it was afloat). Gina swam round to pick up some of these fizzy drinks bottles, and a couple of belts off the dead crewmen, climbed aboard it, the partially inflated boat moulding to her shape. As the sun climbed higher into the horizon, Fitt began to succumb to the fact that she may never get picked up which gave her a deep fear of the unknown. The day went on without so much as a single passing ship; the distress beacon pinging away but nothing came.

The first night alone at sea was quite frightening for Gina, as she wasn’t sure what lay for her in the morning, and she was frightened to go sleep for fear of slipping into unconsciousness and then death. After a night that was totally still, not much in the way of moonlight, as there was quite a bit of cloud cover. During the night, Gina resorted to singing with herself, if anything to take her mind off the situation and to keep her fighting on. These lyrics were made up of what ever thoughts came into her head, Usually, these were song lyrics inspired by what ever she is thinking of at the time, mainly to keep her spirits up. During the day, Gina was also taking note at the direction of the sun throughout the day, so she could gather a fix on which way she was drifting, (which turned out to be away from the site of the sinking, heading Northeast, away from land).

The morning of the second day, (Fitt’s 19th Birthday), began much like the other morning, except it was raining, so Fitt took the condenser apart and let it fill with water, it may not have been the nicest water in the world but it was water. Having an empty bottle and a knife at hand, Gina sliced the top off one bottle to make a funnel, then placed it over another bottle in order to collect rainwater. Once the bottle was full, Fitt added a sterilising tab and placed the top back on, then later on drunk the water. That evening, Gina was ready to give up hope; she was cold, tired and had practically had enough. Her physical strength to to keep going was fading and the EPRB was pinging at longer intervals now as the battery was beginning to fail, and so taking longer to power up the capacitor that flashes the strobe. Gina by this time was weak and nauseous, almost incoherent but she carried on through the night.

The following morning Gina looked up to the east and could make out the lines of a warship silhouetted by the morning sun, the warship was an Auroran patrol Frigate that had detected the distress frequency transmission from Fitt’s EPRB and come over to take a peek at what was giving off the radio blip. As it neared Gina, a Lynx helicopter was dispatched and once airborne it flew over. As it flew over the water the crew had spotted Gina, slowly moving her arms. Soon after, a Zodiac boat was dispatched to bring Fitt in. Once aboard the warship, Fitt was sent straight to the medical centre where surgeons began working on Fitt’s leg, however it had to be amoutated.

As the medical team operated on Gina, the ship sailed to the last known location of the Celestia, to retrieve any bodies on the surface. Some 18 hours later, Fitt woke up in sickbay aboard the warship standing over her was one of the medical staff and the captain. Fitt was hooked up to an IV Nutrient feed to help Fitt recover as she was very weak, many feared she may not survive, however she did, gradually getting stronger thanks to the cocktail of medical nutrients and medical steroids that were being put into her system, however she was in a lot of pain, to which Fitt puts down to the propeller of the Terra Azuran boat that ran over her.

When the Naval ship reached Haven, the capital city of Khayr Var a few days later, Fitt was put into the forces hospital on the colony, where she continued to recover. Gina stayed in Port Haven for a couple of weeks whilst she recovered sufficiently to be transfered home. Once recovered Gina was transferred onto a Ministry of Defence flight from Port Haven back home to South Sands.

Gina returned to the Aurora Confederacy only to find that she was not to be included in her father’s will, with everything being sent to her brothers, and all items purchased by her father for Gina, were also to go to them, this left Gina with almost nothing except what she had purchased herself. Arriving home, though her mother and two brothers were made aware of the loss of the Celestia and that Gina was the only survivor, NO ONE in her family came to meet her, only a few relatives of fellow crewmen, yet to this day Fitt has never spoken to the rest of her family, instead being closer to the rest of the crew relatives than her own family.

In 2000, with her residual limb recovered to the point it could bare weight, Gina received her artificial leg which gave her some mobility back and so with practice she was able to walk again. When she took those first steps, someone was there to meet her in the rehabilitation centre, it was the captain of the warship that had rescued Fitt, to this day they remain in contact.

With compensation and the wages of life at sea, plus a business loan (now paid off) Fitt went into business in something safer, trucking. her contract with her truck was hauling foodstuffs to places in the north of the country, some of it to outlying communities that can only be resupplied in winter when the northern ocean freezes over allowing access to those communities

Please list some things/items/events/people/etc. you like: Travelling, seeing new places
Please list some things/items/events/people/etc. you dislike: Bad drivers
Where do you see yourself in five years? Still in business with a slightly larger customer base
When looking at the numbers 5, 9, 16 and 21, which one do you prefer? 16.

Full Name: Roberta "Robbie" Greenwood
Age: 24
Nationality: Auroran (Khayr var)
Ethnicity: White
Ideology/Political affiliation (if any): None
Religion (if any): None
Spoken Languages in order of fluency: English
Any healthcare issues? double above knee amputee
A picture of the applicant:

Education enjoyed and/or currently enjoying:
Previous (if any) and current career(s):
Please provide a small biography:A few years younger than Fitt. Robbie is a victim of circumstances, put into care as a child, exploited by the welfare system that should have looked after her, made homeless at the age of 18 because the privately run care home saw her as 18 and no longer their responsibility, so after spending a week homeless on the streets aged 18, Robbie came across Fitt's place and was cought raiding the dumpster for food, it was there that she was taken in, given a place to stay and a roof over her head and importantly clean clothes and pride. As a result of Gina's kind and loving heart, Robbie and Gina have been living together ever since.

An assault in mid 2009 by a drunken youth left Robbie with heavily fractured legs which were amputated at the knees but now uses two prothetic legs that are able to detect nerve impulses to ease walking and provide a more natural gait where as Fitt who has some nerve damage in her legs uses a regular prosthetic leg, just don't expect Fitt or Robbie to be willing to try and run a sprint race it isn't going to happen. Of the assault, Robbie doesn't remember most of it, just a glass bottle hitting her square in her face then waking up in hospital some time later without her legs from just above her knees.

Height: 5'5"

Please list some things/items/events/people/etc. you like: warm summer afternoons
Please list some things/items/events/people/etc. you dislike: wet weather
Where do you see yourself in five years? Happy living with Gina
When looking at the numbers 5, 9, 16 and 21, which one do you prefer? do I get sweet and sour sauce with number 21?

[Romae Aemilius]

Full Name: Aemilius Valerius Romanus
Age: Classified on the orders of the Imperator
Nationality: Roman
Ethnicity: Roman
Ideology/Political affiliation (if any): Centrist
Religion (if any): Imperial Cult
Spoken Languages in order of fluency: Latin, Greek, English
Any healthcare issues? None
A picture of the applicant: None

Education enjoyed and/or currently enjoying: University
Previous (if any) and current career(s): Legatus of the Legio IX Rapax, currently Imperator of Rome
Please provide a small biography: United Romae Aemilius under a single banner after a civil war.
Please list some things/items/events/people/etc. you like: Arms, Legions, battles, ships, fantasty and science fiction novels, video games, Julius Caesar, Trajan, Augustus, Vespasian, unity.
Please list some things/items/events/people/etc. you dislike: Nero, idiots, incompetent commanders, multiculturalism.
Where do you see yourself in five years? Ruling the Empire
When looking at the numbers 5, 9, 16 and 21, which one do you prefer? 21

[Otulia]

Full Name: Giggling Hail
Age: 17
Nationality: Otulian
Ethnicity: Wyvern/Drakon
Ideology/Political affiliation (if any): Environmentalist
Religion (if any): Motherism (believes in a great Mother Dragon who created the universe)
Spoken Languages in order of fluency: Drakon, Italian, English
Any healthcare issues? Well, unless you consider that she is a dragon, then no.
A picture of the applicant:

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Education enjoyed and/or currently enjoying: A high school diploma; is planning on getting her university degree upon returning
Previous (if any) and current career(s): Interim Director of the Teen Pregnancy Ward at Reko Central Hospital (fired in absentia for stealing hospital funds)
Please provide a small biography: The daughter of the Vice-Chancellor, Breathless Cloud, Giggling was a bit an airy, jocular little wyvernelle, but was sufficiently intelligent and passed her rigorous high school exams. Interested in seeing the rest of the world (especially that part of the world without extradition treaties with Otulia), she stole money from the Ward where she was working, bought a flight to Praciba, and is now looking to see what she can spend the rest of it on.
Please list some things/items/events/people/etc. you like: Guys, scale polish, makeup, flying
Please list some things/items/events/people/etc. you dislike: Racists, prison, shackles
Where do you see yourself in five years? Drunk in someone's bedroom
When looking at the numbers 5, 9, 16 and 21, which one do you prefer? 5!!!