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by Kwadai » Fri Dec 13, 2019 7:28 pm
by The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune » Fri Dec 13, 2019 7:45 pm
Kwadai wrote:NS Name: Kwadai
Character Name: Lorenzo Ignazio Vicario
Appearance: Lorenzo
Age: 298
Maker: Quaestor of Venice
City of Origin: Venice (Venetian Republic)
Abilities: Basic abilities: Stealth, Advances Abilities: Hypnosis
Religion: Roman Catholic
Languages Spoken: Italian (Venetian), Latin & English
Biography:
Lorenzo was born in 1465 in the city of Venice on Italy’s Adriatic coast to a wealthy family of silk merchants who traded in luxury goods of the east. His family was one of the city’s most highly regarded merchants specialising in fabrics. Not restricted to silk, they preceded over the production and sales of velvet, one of the most sought after luxuries in the city and the wider medieval world. Their collections attracted diverse and important clientele ranging from royalty and aristocracy to papal cardinals, and traders from across Europe who descended in Venice, indicative of the city’s position as the beating heart of trade in the Mediterranean. Naturally, it seemed Lorenzo himself would ascend to fill the role of his family, and this would likely have been the case had his life not taken the dark road it would soon follow.
The Vicario family having amassed great wealth, splurged on an extravagant lifestyle, sponsoring artists and architects to enhance their property and enjoy all the pleasures late 15th century Venice had to offer. In his twenties, Lorenzo too became known in merchant circles for his flamboyant personality and extravagant way of life. Furthermore, now a well established member of the luxury textile trade and accustomed to the practices of Venetian merchant culture he became an acquaintance of the vampiric Quaestor of Venice, although of course this was unknown to him at that time. The quaestor was a regular client and over time, as he developed a closer connection to the young man, he made the decision to turn Lorenzo, perhaps believing him to be of potential, a valuable addition for the vampiric society of La Serenissima.
Therefore, overcome by his new reality, Lorenzo retreated from the public eye of the silk trade and instead operated quietly from the shadows organising trade by day from the dark interior of his ancestral residence while his siblings handled external affairs unaware of their brother’s condition, believing him to be ill. However, even though his daytime activity had been curtailed, it instead manifested in the hours of the night. Lorenzo stalked the narrow alleyways to happen upon unfortunate humans sustaining his insatiable lust for blood, while living amongst the city vampires until the sunrise where his hedonistic attitude and flamboyance remained an integral part of his character. As a vampire, Lorenzo remained unchanged even as those around him grew old and passed from the world of the living while he continued his cycle of feasting and indulgence under the cover of nightfall.
Eventually as the decades of the 1500s rolled past, the vampire took to brief stints in various cities around Italy’s kingdoms; Naples, Florence, Spanish controlled Palermo, and even Rome, to lavish in the flourishing artistic culture of the Renaissance in the 16th century and bloodlust frenzies. He even acted as a patron to aid the growth and talents of Italian artists. Despite the satisfaction he received from this period, and the thrill of living right under the nose of the Vatican in Rome, Lorenzo could not help but return to his home in Venice, longing to one again live amongst the riches of the Orient and the sea, as well as being back within the domain of his maker. There was of course, the added freedom (well, what freedom he could avail of as a vampire that is) he was able to experience under the somewhat less zealous Venetian rule as opposed to the more stringently Catholic Rome.
The revelry of Carnevale di Venezia, masquerade and it’s seventeenth century revival provided a major preoccupation for Lorenzo as he continued his role supplying fabrics to the city elite while he watched the years take their toll on the city state. Venice’s influence as the primary trade centre dwindled while ports in the Netherlands, England and Portugal thrived as Western Europe expanded colonial pursuits. Soon after he began to hear tales of the new world, conquered by the British, Dutch, French, Spanish and Portuguese where new cities and a new culture of vampires was readily emerging. Interest piqued and following a succession of territorial losses to the Ottoman Empire, and plagues spreading through Venice diminishing a notable segment of its population, the autumn of 1762 saw Lorenzo, a fifteenth century Venetian board an English ship with whatever of his positions he could safely bring along in the night, about to leave behind the old world of Europe into the unknown, across the Atlantic, to settle in Boston a fledging port in the north eastern territories of New England.
#CoB1764 [APP CODE, DO NOT DELETE]
by Galnius » Sat Dec 14, 2019 12:29 pm
by Of the Quendi » Sun Dec 15, 2019 1:26 pm
by The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune » Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:20 am
Galnius wrote:AppNS Name: Galnius
Character Name: Alice Wetcher
Appearance: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/516084438539818481/
Age: 132
Maker: Christopher Gage. Christopher was one of the original founders of Boston, not that anyone truly knew it. At the age of 416 he had been capable of hypnosis on a grader scale than most his age, though he used it without malicious intent. Instead, he combined that with his stealth to keep him hidden on the boat as a stowaway, and came to be one off the guest vampires in the new world.
He had turned Alice out of pity, having found her kidnapped by hostile natives. As he used them for his own sustenance, he heard himself being called a Wendigo. It was that name that he adopted when he headed west, leaving the settlement and Alice behind aftee teaching her how to be a vampire, and how to use the powers granted to her.
City of Origin: Boston
Abilities: Like her maker, she specializes in stealth. Recently she has come to begin learning hypnotism, but is a far cry from a master.
Religion: Agnostic due to not truly caring, but will most call herself puritan if someone pushes, not that she follows any of their laws.
Languages Spoken: English, Dutch, Narragansett (Algonquin)
Biography: Alice Wetcher was among the first children to be born in the city of Boston, and grew up a rather unassuming life until the age of 17. It was here that the family's farm, on the outskirts of boston, was attacked by native americans. They small group of rogue braves had seemed to deem that only the sacrifice of Alice could fix their tribes descent into disease, and they had almost succeeded, too. It was right at the end of their preparations that she was saved, and at the end of the slaughter Christopher Gage had turned her, as vampire rule meant that humans were to either be made into servants, vampires, or killed if they discovered a vampires' identity.
From here, he took her in as an adopted daughter of sorts.
He raised her in secret and began to teach her how to hide in plain sight. He taught her to not fear the normal humans and that she still was, as well as how to use them to survive symbiotically.
Eventually came a time when she had moved out, taking the job as a nanny at a farmhouse built where her old one had been destroyed. She used the pseudonym Alice Gage in order to hide her identity, and would leave and return in 20 year cycles.
Then, in 1721, a smallpox plague once again struck Boston. Alice had seen many, but this one was different, as it shook her livelihood to the core. The entire farmhouse, that at this point she had seen and helped through generations inner different pseudonyms, were all but wiped out. In the midst of this, animals came for the smell of decay. She had kept the livestock safe, but was too late to save the only surviving member of the family, 15 year old girl named Anne Brotte. Devastated, Alice knelt by the girl who was bleeding it and seemingly doomed to die, and turned her.
From here, the Brotte family survived, with Alice Wetcher teaching the new vampire. It has been two generations since then, and Alice not only kept the farmhouse alive, but turned it into a sanctuary for young vampires in the area that are facing trouble or struggling to find shelter.
CoB1764 [APP CODE, DO NOT DELETE]
by Galnius » Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:17 pm
The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune wrote:Galnius wrote:AppNS Name: Galnius
Character Name: Alice Wetcher
Appearance: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/516084438539818481/
Age: 132
Maker: Christopher Gage. Christopher was one of the original founders of Boston, not that anyone truly knew it. At the age of 416 he had been capable of hypnosis on a grader scale than most his age, though he used it without malicious intent. Instead, he combined that with his stealth to keep him hidden on the boat as a stowaway, and came to be one off the guest vampires in the new world.
He had turned Alice out of pity, having found her kidnapped by hostile natives. As he used them for his own sustenance, he heard himself being called a Wendigo. It was that name that he adopted when he headed west, leaving the settlement and Alice behind aftee teaching her how to be a vampire, and how to use the powers granted to her.
City of Origin: Boston
Abilities: Like her maker, she specializes in stealth. Recently she has come to begin learning hypnotism, but is a far cry from a master.
Religion: Agnostic due to not truly caring, but will most call herself puritan if someone pushes, not that she follows any of their laws.
Languages Spoken: English, Dutch, Narragansett (Algonquin)
Biography: Alice Wetcher was among the first children to be born in the city of Boston, and grew up a rather unassuming life until the age of 17. It was here that the family's farm, on the outskirts of boston, was attacked by native americans. They small group of rogue braves had seemed to deem that only the sacrifice of Alice could fix their tribes descent into disease, and they had almost succeeded, too. It was right at the end of their preparations that she was saved, and at the end of the slaughter Christopher Gage had turned her, as vampire rule meant that humans were to either be made into servants, vampires, or killed if they discovered a vampires' identity.
From here, he took her in as an adopted daughter of sorts.
He raised her in secret and began to teach her how to hide in plain sight. He taught her to not fear the normal humans and that she still was, as well as how to use them to survive symbiotically.
Eventually came a time when she had moved out, taking the job as a nanny at a farmhouse built where her old one had been destroyed. She used the pseudonym Alice Gage in order to hide her identity, and would leave and return in 20 year cycles.
Then, in 1721, a smallpox plague once again struck Boston. Alice had seen many, but this one was different, as it shook her livelihood to the core. The entire farmhouse, that at this point she had seen and helped through generations inner different pseudonyms, were all but wiped out. In the midst of this, animals came for the smell of decay. She had kept the livestock safe, but was too late to save the only surviving member of the family, 15 year old girl named Anne Brotte. Devastated, Alice knelt by the girl who was bleeding it and seemingly doomed to die, and turned her.
From here, the Brotte family survived, with Alice Wetcher teaching the new vampire. It has been two generations since then, and Alice not only kept the farmhouse alive, but turned it into a sanctuary for young vampires in the area that are facing trouble or struggling to find shelter.
CoB1764 [APP CODE, DO NOT DELETE]
This is mostly good, but if the young vampire Alice turned in the end was dying of Smallpox, she would become an eternal carrier of the disease. It's a plot point in the source material actually.
by The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune » Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:45 pm
Galnius wrote:The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune wrote:
This is mostly good, but if the young vampire Alice turned in the end was dying of Smallpox, she would become an eternal carrier of the disease. It's a plot point in the source material actually.
She wasn't carrying it. She was dying from a wolf attack. The final survivor of the family who didn't succumb to smallpox.
by Galnius » Fri Dec 20, 2019 3:27 pm
by Khasinkonia » Wed Dec 25, 2019 11:07 pm
by Khasinkonia » Fri Dec 27, 2019 11:55 pm
by Of the Quendi » Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:34 am
Khasinkonia wrote:This is one of the longer apps I've made, so it's a lot. I've tried to make sure everything in here is feasible, but do tell me if there are any issues. Considering this took three days to put together, I should hope it doesn't!
by The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune » Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:30 am
Of the Quendi wrote:Khasinkonia wrote:This is one of the longer apps I've made, so it's a lot. I've tried to make sure everything in here is feasible, but do tell me if there are any issues. Considering this took three days to put together, I should hope it doesn't!
Its great. Unfortunately this RP seems to have had all its life blood drained out of it.
by Khasinkonia » Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:47 am
Of the Quendi wrote:Khasinkonia wrote:This is one of the longer apps I've made, so it's a lot. I've tried to make sure everything in here is feasible, but do tell me if there are any issues. Considering this took three days to put together, I should hope it doesn't!
Its great. Unfortunately this RP seems to have had all its life blood drained out of it.
by Endem » Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:50 am
Of the Quendi wrote:Khasinkonia wrote:This is one of the longer apps I've made, so it's a lot. I've tried to make sure everything in here is feasible, but do tell me if there are any issues. Considering this took three days to put together, I should hope it doesn't!
Its great. Unfortunately this RP seems to have had all its life blood drained out of it.
by Of the Quendi » Sat Dec 28, 2019 12:55 pm
The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune wrote:Ironic.
Khasinkonia wrote:Bugger all... I forgot to look at the dates on the posts. Well, back in storage with that app I suppose.
Endem wrote:I'm quite confused what I'm supposed to do in IC at this point
by Khasinkonia » Sat Dec 28, 2019 7:43 pm
by Khasinkonia » Sat Dec 28, 2019 8:06 pm
Khasinkonia wrote:In the cases above, I suppose I'll read the IC and see what I can do. By the way, would it be reasonable to assume the vampires of Boston are, for the most part, at least aware of one another, or is vampiric society even now large enough that one doesn't know everyone?
by Of the Quendi » Sun Dec 29, 2019 7:27 am
Khasinkonia wrote:Khasinkonia wrote:In the cases above, I suppose I'll read the IC and see what I can do. By the way, would it be reasonable to assume the vampires of Boston are, for the most part, at least aware of one another, or is vampiric society even now large enough that one doesn't know everyone?
A followup question:
Lev is hosting all of the vampires in Boston, correct?
by Cheye » Sun Dec 29, 2019 4:00 pm
Of the Quendi wrote:Khasinkonia wrote:A followup question:
Lev is hosting all of the vampires in Boston, correct?
1
Thats a bit disputed. The OP's character (Lev Vasyutin), a long time resident of Boston, greeted another longterm Bostonian Cheye's character (Nadia-Marie d'Maryvonne) as if they knew each other, but Cheye begged to differ. More recent transplants to Boston, clearly don't know anyone, so I guess its up to each individual player to decide.
2
Yes.
by Khasinkonia » Sun Dec 29, 2019 4:04 pm
Of the Quendi wrote:Khasinkonia wrote:A followup question:
Lev is hosting all of the vampires in Boston, correct?
1
Thats a bit disputed. The OP's character (Lev Vasyutin), a long time resident of Boston, greeted another longterm Bostonian Cheye's character (Nadia-Marie d'Maryvonne) as if they knew each other, but Cheye begged to differ. More recent transplants to Boston, clearly don't know anyone, so I guess its up to each individual player to decide.
2
Yes.
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