The Eden Saga, Escape from Destruction (OOC)

[Galnius]

Nuclear War is imminent, that is what they are saying. No one really knows why, but the worldwide mobilization seems to be a pretty good hint. The experts say that this World War cannot be fought without nuclear weapons, and that normal bunkers just won't cut it this time. It seems only the very rich and very powerful will survive this near-apocalyptic situation. However, there are other whispers among the whispers of war, stranger whispers, older whispers. These whispers tell of places shrouded in mystery, myth, and rumors. Despite all of the despair surrounded by these areas, they say there are safe zones, outside of reality and time. Included in the list is the Bermuda Triangle, a cave in K2, Everest's neighboring mountain, a tunnel in the bottom of Loch Ness, a strange village in the Amazon, a burrow in Antartica, an odd drop off inside the Great Barrier Reef, and a mysterious pyramid in the center of the Sahara. This, however, is not an exhaustive list. For a small party leaving from New York City, New York, and following the Erie Canal, the destination is a rumored mysterious island on the Canadian half of Erie Lake. You will be a part of this group. Hindering your path are such mythological creatures as twisted Fae in the seemingly peaceful Hudson valley, the ferocious Yeti in the Adirondacks, the femme fatale Kuchisake-Onna, and the dastardly Sphinx. Once again, this is not an exhaustive list, and it isn't all you will meet on your way. I mean, the world is ending. Among the strange beasts, there is the danger of corrupt police, highwaymen, and simple serial killers. On top of that, this technology is simply PMT, so there is quite a lot of diseases that have not been quite kicked, and possible insanity that can occur from traveling across a path that seems to be flitting between reality and myth a lot more than usual. Well, good luck mates, you'll need it.

APP:

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    Personality:
    Appearance:
    Specialized Skill: (Medic, Hunter, Defender, Scout, etc.)
    DtD(destined to die, unlimited) or Main(only one of this allowed):
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Rules:
1. I'm OP, what I say goes
2. ONE person can try to sabotage the mission, just one, first come first served.
3. This is mostly sandbox, I may throw things at you at random times, but other times, you get to decide what and where.
4. No godmodding. For instance, if you bring in a creature, you can't have it kill someone else's character, even if said character is DtD
5. Dtd's are there to die, you are not allowed to have them survive the WHOLE quest.
6. Have fun, it's not all doom and gloom, and it is just a RP.


Please, as this is an interest thread, ask all the questions you want

[Galnius]

bumpity bump bump

[Videssos]

Looks interesting. So we're firstly going to the Great Lakes, eh?
Reminds me of a book I've got, called Gateway to Oblivion: The Great Lakes Vortex, which is about the aforementioned equivalent to the Bermuda Triangle, and goes into a fair amount of detail.
I've also got a ton of other books on these kinds of places, as well as weird events/findings. For instance, I have another book called the Dragon's Triangle, which is about the Pacific version of the more well known one.
And there's also a book called The Fire Came By, about the Tunguska Event of 1908, as well as another book called "The World's Strangest Mysteries" and of course, the Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort- the guy who coined the term "teleportation", among others in my mini-library.

One might think this RP could be suitable for me. And I could also help quite a bit when it comes to mythological things, as well as all these mysterious places. Another place worth investigating would be the legendary last bastion of the Cathars, Montsegur, and the surrounding environs. I've been there, too, last week, and it was certainly an interesting place.
Well, anyway...

[Galnius]

Looks interesting. So we're firstly going to the Great Lakes, eh?
Reminds me of a book I've got, called Gateway to Oblivion: The Great Lakes Vortex, which is about the aforementioned equivalent to the Bermuda Triangle, and goes into a fair amount of detail.
I've also got a ton of other books on these kinds of places, as well as weird events/findings. For instance, I have another book called the Dragon's Triangle, which is about the Pacific version of the more well known one.
And there's also a book called The Fire Came By, about the Tunguska Event of 1908, as well as another book called "The World's Strangest Mysteries" and of course, the Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort- the guy who coined the term "teleportation", among others in my mini-library.

One might think this RP could be suitable for me. And I could also help quite a bit when it comes to mythological things, as well as all these mysterious places. Another place worth investigating would be the legendary last bastion of the Cathars, Montsegur, and the surrounding environs. I've been there, too, last week, and it was certainly an interesting place.
Well, anyway...

Good to see you Vid, and I could use a Co-Op, however, for this one in particular, Erie is the only place Otherwise there would be no basis at all

[Videssos]

Likewise, and sure. By the way, that book focuses on the Marysburgh Vortex.

Kinda in progress here...

Name: Alexander Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (named partially after an ancestor)
Personality:

Somewhat eccentric and dramatic, as well as highly intelligent. He is an individual who often seems mysterious in the eyes of others, himself rather calculating, ambitious and perhaps overcautious, at times even paranoid. He can also seem arrogant, with an element of his distrust in others going on into a deceitful, manipulative, predatory and ruthless area. He tends to like thinking things through, being uncomfortable with being forced to act prematurely. As ever, he seldom lets others see sides of him that would rather hide. Likewise, Alexander is rather insightful and perceptive, often figuring out the true natures of others rather rapidly. Despite his arrogance, he is aware of his limitations, and can mentally snap when cornered or overpowered.

He is usually emotionally distant, refusing to allow anyone to become too close to him, seeing others mostly as subordinates and pawns, rather than friends, with a certain concept of the strong and the weak. Due to lack of much in terms of relationships, he's easily flustered and uncomfortable around girls, despite his attempts to hide such things. He seems to have little knowledge of the concept of compassion, it not being something that was exactly taught to him. His mind is quite the complex place, and there are far more elements to it than can be expressed in mere words. He possesses both a superiority complex and an inferiority complex. He usually considers most other people weaker, and beneath him. He treats them as you might expect, yet when he believes others to be stronger- a rare thing indeed, or they have proven themselves to be stronger, Aleksandr obsesses over them, wanting to become as strong as them, yet also seeming fanatical towards them, and perhaps as scared of them, as well as desiring to be recognised by them.

Appearance:

Specialized Skill: Scientist and occult-know-it-all, as well as a strategist type.
DtD(destined to die, unlimited) or Main(only one of this allowed): Main
Origin(City, State, etc.): City?
Backstory:

Born into an extremely wealthy family, associated with several companies, in Eltz Castle, the castle itself being acquired by the family around two hundred years ago, when the lord of the castle lacked sons, and his daughter married a member of the von Hohenheim House- with the most historically famous member of the minor noble family being Paracelsus, the Renaissance physician, occultist, alchemist, botanist and astrologist, among other things. Thus, the place came into their possession. From an early age, he was seen to be highly intelligent, even possessing eidetic memory, despite being regarded with scorn and hatred by his older sister, Cornelia, for shunting her to the sidelines in terms of inheritance, due to the continuation of the agnatic-cognatic primogeniture form of succession, preferring the oldest male heir (blame Crusader Kings 2 for me knowing this stuff).

Being fully German, his mother was also said to be a descendent of the family of Germelshausen, a German noble family that had flourished in the 13th century, with a castle that stood in the Thuringian Forest on the Border of Hesse until Konrad von Marburg put most of them to death for their Cathar beliefs, and was said to have died out with the mythical figure known as Christian Rosenkreutz. Said individual being the man who had been raised by Cathars in a monastery, and who had founded the secretive Rosicrucian Order, also being rumoured to have reappeared in the 1700s as the mysterious Count of St. Germain, rumoured by Theosophy to be an immortal, and perhaps a supernatural being known as an Ascended Master. The name Germelshausen, may also be related to a tale published in the 1860s concerning a cursed village that sank into the earth long ago and is permitted to appear for only one day every century, a tale of lost love, with young artist who falls in love with a young woman, and him leaving the vicinity just in time to avoid being entombed with the village and its denizens, but thereby being sundered from his love forever, with elements taken from earlier folktales and old German motifs.

Accordingly, with a family history such as his, Alexander found a voracious appetite for history, as well as matters of the occult and supernatural, often finding himself perusing the library of the castle, reading books both old and new, as well as purchasing all manner of obscure books on magic, alchemy, the occult, and supernatural creatures, places and mysterious events, as well as books about the past and cultures of other countries, from Scotland, to the Mayans, to Japan, the arts and sciences, and wars and strategies. He also had quite the varied taste in music, often listening to classical, as well as rock and metal, among various other things. One such band being Therion, a Swedish symphonic metal band with its members also being part of a Draconian Initiatory Left Hand Path Order known as the Dragon Rouge, lead by the band's unofficial lyricist, and named after a French Alchemical order from medieval times.

Isolated, and having no need to attend school, as he possessed a college level education from his childhood, Alexander accordingly developed a differing view of the world from the average individual, also lacking somewhat in experience with that area, instead being taught by a large and knowledgeable staff of personal tutors who schooled him in whatever he needed to know. His social life at best extended to official functions, and meetings with other noble families and the upper echelons of society. The experience that he did get wasn't always too pleasant, either. Cornelia von Hohenheim, likewise made opportunity to humiliate and hurt him, torturing and abusing him in secret. This, of course, would make him more distrusting of others, and lead his mind down a darker path. Being treated like he was worthless would have some psychological repercussions, also making him increasingly desire to be recognised, and to have his achievements be recognised, be it by his older sister, or by other people. And on the other end of the spectrum, yet another part of his mind believed that he was indeed worthless, that part becoming apathetic and uncaring.

He often played chess, whilst delving further into texts such as the Key of Solomon, and the Lesser Key of Solomon, as well as the Grimoire of Armadel, and numerous other texts on the occult, demonology, magick, alchemy, rituals and so on. At one point, he went as far as to summon Cerberus, and succeeded on his first attempt, taming the mythological creature also seen as a demon in the Ars Goetia, though this killed several people who accompanied him in the process. Alexander cared little for that, though, seeing them as incompetent.

In recent times, he has become involved in numerous occult orders and societies, including one named "Der Orden der Ewigen Schwarzen Sonne von Sorath" or The Order of the Eternal Black Sun of Sorath" named in honour of the demon of revelation, the sun, "the unexplained, unexpected, and unknown" as well as miracles, and whom is said to rule the current of energy that deals with the "id", of the human psyche, altered states of consciousness, thought-forms, elementals, and hallucinogens. Often being associated with an ever-burning Black Sun said to exist in another dimension, also being a symbol found within Wewelsburg castle, which was an important site for the SS, being the main site for their occult activities and rituals, with many rumors and myths abounding the place. Whilst one legend claims that Sorath advised Hitler, and served to guard him for a time.

This particular order he has joined has involvement in numerous areas, including a search for hidden knowledge, seeking to reveal unto themselves, the truth regarding many of the supernatural and occult mysteries of the world, whilst also growing themselves in power over magicks and alchemy, with elements of the Left Hand Path obvious in some of their ideology, including a belief regarding how rather than serving under gods, they can walk alongside gods themselves, in a manner of apotheosis, holding in themselves a divine potential that can be reached through initiation into the mysteries of the worldwide occult, and with greater knowledge and awakened wisdom, the power of a god, through the investigation of a darker side of spirituality and mysticism. Likewise, there is also a military aspect of the order, with a number of the founders being ex-SS, or heavily associated with them. Accordingly, Alexander also expanded upon his knowledge of strategy, as well as becoming proficient with guns, whilst his noble status granted him some skill with a sword, despite how old fashioned and traditional that may be. He also delves a fair degree into science, combining this with the alchemy of old, with an interest in experimentation in the very borders of what some would call pseudo-science.

One such experiment took a sinister turn, as the inhabitants of a remote island off the coast of eastern Russia were experimented on after it was rumoured that they possessed the ability to telepathically communicate with one another. A branch of one of his families' companies, one with both scientific and military departments, established a research facility on the island, whilst the soldiers blocked off the village, cordoning off the island, captives were taken and agonisingly experimented on, to determine the secret of their telepathy, their brain waves investigated, examined and tested on. Whilst there were certainly interesting results, many were driven to death and insanity during the ordeal, with the survivors choosing to commit suicide rather than to carry on with the experiment.

Recently, Alexander, for easily discernible reasons, joins this group to investigate these unusual places. Yada yada.

RP Example(if 1st RP, say so):

[Galnius]

Likewise, and sure. By the way, that book focuses on the Marysburgh Vortex.

Kinda in progress here...

Name: Alexander Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (named partially after an ancestor)
Personality:

WIP

Appearance:

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Specialized Skill: Scientist and occult-know-it-all, as well as a strategist type.
DtD(destined to die, unlimited) or Main(only one of this allowed): Main
Origin(City, State, etc.): City?
Backstory:

I did say it was a work in progress. What did you expect?

RP Example(if 1st RP, say so):

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I have the strangest feeling I know how he knows about this area

[Fascist Republic Of Bermuda]

I see someone has been taking lessons about plot from Aliens...

Name: Vladimir Yakovich
Personality: Drinker, Cynical,
Appearance: http://airsoftreenactorsgroup.com/Soviet_Afghan/IMG_1015.JPG
Specialized Skill: Heavy
DtD(destined to die, unlimited) or Main(only one of this allowed): Main
Origin(City, State, etc.): Moscow, Russia
Backstory:
RP Example(if 1st RP, say so):

[Galnius]

I see someone has been taking lessons about plot from Aliens...

Tag.

I'm......kind of........confused.....

[Fascist Republic Of Bermuda]

I see someone has been taking lessons about plot from Aliens...

Tag.

I'm......kind of........confused.....

It has that formula where the one guy or girl has to survive against immensely superior foes, because everyone else on his/her team is dead or wounded beyond usefulness.Per player, of course.

[Enid Blyton]

Tag! this looks like an awesome RP

[Galnius]

I'm......kind of........confused.....

It has that formula where the one guy or girl has to survive against immensely superior foes, because everyone else on his/her team is dead or wounded beyond usefulness.Per player, of course.

Oh okay xD

[Galnius]

Anyone have any ideas for this?

[Videssos]

I have the strangest feeling I know how he knows about this area

Indeed, mayhap it be so...

Anyone have any ideas for this?

Any area in particular you want ideas for?

[Galnius]

I have the strangest feeling I know how he knows about this area

Indeed, mayhap it be so...

Anyone have any ideas for this?

Any area in particular you want ideas for?

I'm just saying for ideas for the RP. I mean, it may be sandbox, but as it is PMT, what should be allowed or disallowed?

[Fesconia]

Tagged.

[Videssos]

Indeed, mayhap it be so...



Any area in particular you want ideas for?

I'm just saying for ideas for the RP. I mean, it may be sandbox, but as it is PMT, what should be allowed or disallowed?

Tech wise, then, hmm?
Well, I suppose there could be primitive mechas and such. I suppose if this is a little in the future, robotics, AI and the like will be a bit more advanced and perfected, though they're already beginning to get somewhat impressive these days. There are already existent kinds of directed-energy weapons, including microwave ones like the Active Denial System, which is a millimeter wave source that heats the water in the target's skin and thus causes incapacitating pain. It is being used by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Raytheon for riot-control duty. Though intended to cause severe pain while leaving no lasting damage, some concern has been voiced as to whether the system could cause irreversible damage to the eyes. There has yet to be testing for long-term side effects of exposure to the microwave beam. It can also destroy unshielded electronics.

And other things like gas dynamic lasers, and an airborne laser mounted on a USAF Boeing YAL-1. And there are electrolasers, Ion weapons like the HZE Ion Gun - a type of cosmic ray gun that emits invisible high energy heavy ions (HZE) capable of causing damage to the Central nervous system. There are also Pulsed Energy Projectile systems, that emit an infrared laser pulse which creates rapidly expanding plasma at the target. The resulting sound, shock and electromagnetic waves stun the target and cause pain and temporary paralysis. The weapon is under development and is intended as a non-lethal weapon in crowd control.

And there's also the FIRESTRIKE, which is purportedly the first combat-ready solid-state laser weapon.

Just a few hints as to how tech could develop a little from now.

[Galnius]

I'm just saying for ideas for the RP. I mean, it may be sandbox, but as it is PMT, what should be allowed or disallowed?

Tech wise, then, hmm?
Well, I suppose there could be primitive mechas and such. I suppose if this is a little in the future, robotics, AI and the like will be a bit more advanced and perfected, though they're already beginning to get somewhat impressive these days. There are already existent kinds of directed-energy weapons, including microwave ones like the Active Denial System, which is a millimeter wave source that heats the water in the target's skin and thus causes incapacitating pain. It is being used by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Raytheon for riot-control duty. Though intended to cause severe pain while leaving no lasting damage, some concern has been voiced as to whether the system could cause irreversible damage to the eyes. There has yet to be testing for long-term side effects of exposure to the microwave beam. It can also destroy unshielded electronics.

And other things like gas dynamic lasers, and an airborne laser mounted on a USAF Boeing YAL-1. And there are electrolasers, Ion weapons like the HZE Ion Gun - a type of cosmic ray gun that emits invisible high energy heavy ions (HZE) capable of causing damage to the Central nervous system. There are also Pulsed Energy Projectile systems, that emit an infrared laser pulse which creates rapidly expanding plasma at the target. The resulting sound, shock and electromagnetic waves stun the target and cause pain and temporary paralysis. The weapon is under development and is intended as a non-lethal weapon in crowd control.

And there's also the FIRESTRIKE, which is purportedly the first combat-ready solid-state laser weapon.

Just a few hints as to how tech could develop a little from now.

Those should be fun to use. Only question is, would this stuff be readily available to the public without looting it?

[Videssos]

Probably not, especially the high-end stuff.

Though you can already buy those Kuratas mechas.
Then again, they cost a bit, mind you. Obvious military applications are obvious.

[Galnius]

Probably not, especially the high-end stuff.

Though you can already buy those Kuratas mechas.
Then again, they cost a bit, mind you. Obvious military applications are obvious.

I think the people with thosae mechs would be under the label of "super-rich"

[Videssos]

Probably not, especially the high-end stuff.

Though you can already buy those Kuratas mechas.
Then again, they cost a bit, mind you. Obvious military applications are obvious.

I think the people with thosae mechs would be under the label of "super-rich"

Indeed.

[Galnius]

Should I make a second thread for the OOC or just use this one?

[Galnius]

This topic is now an OOC and I can start accepting apps

[Galnius]

Likewise, and sure. By the way, that book focuses on the Marysburgh Vortex.

Kinda in progress here...

Name: Alexander Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (named partially after an ancestor)
Personality:

Somewhat eccentric and dramatic, as well as highly intelligent. He is an individual who often seems mysterious in the eyes of others, himself rather calculating, ambitious and perhaps overcautious, at times even paranoid. He can also seem arrogant, with an element of his distrust in others going on into a deceitful, manipulative, predatory and ruthless area. He tends to like thinking things through, being uncomfortable with being forced to act prematurely. As ever, he seldom lets others see sides of him that would rather hide. Likewise, Alexander is rather insightful and perceptive, often figuring out the true natures of others rather rapidly. Despite his arrogance, he is aware of his limitations, and can mentally snap when cornered or overpowered.

He is usually emotionally distant, refusing to allow anyone to become too close to him, seeing others mostly as subordinates and pawns, rather than friends, with a certain concept of the strong and the weak. Due to lack of much in terms of relationships, he's easily flustered and uncomfortable around girls, despite his attempts to hide such things. He seems to have little knowledge of the concept of compassion, it not being something that was exactly taught to him. His mind is quite the complex place, and there are far more elements to it than can be expressed in mere words. He possesses both a superiority complex and an inferiority complex. He usually considers most other people weaker, and beneath him. He treats them as you might expect, yet when he believes others to be stronger- a rare thing indeed, or they have proven themselves to be stronger, Aleksandr obsesses over them, wanting to become as strong as them, yet also seeming fanatical towards them, and perhaps as scared of them, as well as desiring to be recognised by them.

Appearance:

(Image)(Image)(Image)(Image)(Image)(Image)(Image)(Image)(Image)

Specialized Skill: Scientist and occult-know-it-all, as well as a strategist type.
DtD(destined to die, unlimited) or Main(only one of this allowed): Main
Origin(City, State, etc.): City?
Backstory:

Born into an extremely wealthy family, associated with several companies, in Eltz Castle, the castle itself being acquired by the family around two hundred years ago, when the lord of the castle lacked sons, and his daughter married a member of the von Hohenheim House- with the most historically famous member of the minor noble family being Paracelsus, the Renaissance physician, occultist, alchemist, botanist and astrologist, among other things. Thus, the place came into their possession. From an early age, he was seen to be highly intelligent, even possessing eidetic memory, despite being regarded with scorn and hatred by his older sister, Cornelia, for shunting her to the sidelines in terms of inheritance, due to the continuation of the agnatic-cognatic primogeniture form of succession, preferring the oldest male heir (blame Crusader Kings 2 for me knowing this stuff).

Being fully German, his mother was also said to be a descendent of the family of Germelshausen, a German noble family that had flourished in the 13th century, with a castle that stood in the Thuringian Forest on the Border of Hesse until Konrad von Marburg put most of them to death for their Cathar beliefs, and was said to have died out with the mythical figure known as Christian Rosenkreutz. Said individual being the man who had been raised by Cathars in a monastery, and who had founded the secretive Rosicrucian Order, also being rumoured to have reappeared in the 1700s as the mysterious Count of St. Germain, rumoured by Theosophy to be an immortal, and perhaps a supernatural being known as an Ascended Master. The name Germelshausen, may also be related to a tale published in the 1860s concerning a cursed village that sank into the earth long ago and is permitted to appear for only one day every century, a tale of lost love, with young artist who falls in love with a young woman, and him leaving the vicinity just in time to avoid being entombed with the village and its denizens, but thereby being sundered from his love forever, with elements taken from earlier folktales and old German motifs.

Accordingly, with a family history such as his, Alexander found a voracious appetite for history, as well as matters of the occult and supernatural, often finding himself perusing the library of the castle, reading books both old and new, as well as purchasing all manner of obscure books on magic, alchemy, the occult, and supernatural creatures, places and mysterious events, as well as books about the past and cultures of other countries, from Scotland, to the Mayans, to Japan, the arts and sciences, and wars and strategies. He also had quite the varied taste in music, often listening to classical, as well as rock and metal, among various other things. One such band being Therion, a Swedish symphonic metal band with its members also being part of a Draconian Initiatory Left Hand Path Order known as the Dragon Rouge, lead by the band's unofficial lyricist, and named after a French Alchemical order from medieval times.

Isolated, and having no need to attend school, as he possessed a college level education from his childhood, Alexander accordingly developed a differing view of the world from the average individual, also lacking somewhat in experience with that area, instead being taught by a large and knowledgeable staff of personal tutors who schooled him in whatever he needed to know. His social life at best extended to official functions, and meetings with other noble families and the upper echelons of society. The experience that he did get wasn't always too pleasant, either. Cornelia von Hohenheim, likewise made opportunity to humiliate and hurt him, torturing and abusing him in secret. This, of course, would make him more distrusting of others, and lead his mind down a darker path. Being treated like he was worthless would have some psychological repercussions, also making him increasingly desire to be recognised, and to have his achievements be recognised, be it by his older sister, or by other people. And on the other end of the spectrum, yet another part of his mind believed that he was indeed worthless, that part becoming apathetic and uncaring.

He often played chess, whilst delving further into texts such as the Key of Solomon, and the Lesser Key of Solomon, as well as the Grimoire of Armadel, and numerous other texts on the occult, demonology, magick, alchemy, rituals and so on. At one point, he went as far as to summon Cerberus, and succeeded on his first attempt, taming the mythological creature also seen as a demon in the Ars Goetia, though this killed several people who accompanied him in the process. Alexander cared little for that, though, seeing them as incompetent.

In recent times, he has become involved in numerous occult orders and societies, including one named "Der Orden der Ewigen Schwarzen Sonne von Sorath" or The Order of the Eternal Black Sun of Sorath" named in honour of the demon of revelation, the sun, "the unexplained, unexpected, and unknown" as well as miracles, and whom is said to rule the current of energy that deals with the "id", of the human psyche, altered states of consciousness, thought-forms, elementals, and hallucinogens. Often being associated with an ever-burning Black Sun said to exist in another dimension, also being a symbol found within Wewelsburg castle, which was an important site for the SS, being the main site for their occult activities and rituals, with many rumors and myths abounding the place. Whilst one legend claims that Sorath advised Hitler, and served to guard him for a time.

This particular order he has joined has involvement in numerous areas, including a search for hidden knowledge, seeking to reveal unto themselves, the truth regarding many of the supernatural and occult mysteries of the world, whilst also growing themselves in power over magicks and alchemy, with elements of the Left Hand Path obvious in some of their ideology, including a belief regarding how rather than serving under gods, they can walk alongside gods themselves, in a manner of apotheosis, holding in themselves a divine potential that can be reached through initiation into the mysteries of the worldwide occult, and with greater knowledge and awakened wisdom, the power of a god, through the investigation of a darker side of spirituality and mysticism. Likewise, there is also a military aspect of the order, with a number of the founders being ex-SS, or heavily associated with them. Accordingly, Alexander also expanded upon his knowledge of strategy, as well as becoming proficient with guns, whilst his noble status granted him some skill with a sword, despite how old fashioned and traditional that may be. He also delves a fair degree into science, combining this with the alchemy of old, with an interest in experimentation in the very borders of what some would call pseudo-science.

One such experiment took a sinister turn, as the inhabitants of a remote island off the coast of eastern Russia were experimented on after it was rumoured that they possessed the ability to telepathically communicate with one another. A branch of one of his families' companies, one with both scientific and military departments, established a research facility on the island, whilst the soldiers blocked off the village, cordoning off the island, captives were taken and agonisingly experimented on, to determine the secret of their telepathy, their brain waves investigated, examined and tested on. Whilst there were certainly interesting results, many were driven to death and insanity during the ordeal, with the survivors choosing to commit suicide rather than to carry on with the experiment.

Recently, Alexander, for easily discernible reasons, joins this group to investigate these unusual places. Yada yada.

RP Example(if 1st RP, say so):

(Image)

So far so good

I see someone has been taking lessons about plot from Aliens...

Name: Vladimir Yakovich
Personality: Drinker, Cynical,
Appearance: http://airsoftreenactorsgroup.com/Soviet_Afghan/IMG_1015.JPG
Specialized Skill: Heavy
DtD(destined to die, unlimited) or Main(only one of this allowed): Main
Origin(City, State, etc.): Moscow, Russia
Backstory:
RP Example(if 1st RP, say so):

Vladimir has come