Personification Life OOC IX [CLOSED]

[Swith Witherward]

That's brilliant! I wish I had one tenth your wordmaster skill.

You should ask Cer to allow the cat. Unless it's now dead?

Oh, no, Sentia's very well alive. Well, technically speaking, undead. She's the cat Septimus is using to test whether one can transport a resurrected mind through a teleporter. She died of natural causes a while ago but as her data was recorded in the Infinity Circuit - one of the few animals to have the privilege of recording due to her special status as the first successful teleportee - he's been using her as a model for his future (hopeful) resurrection of Titus and Ophelia.

Of course all this is still in the skunkworks since I need Cer to look over my proposal and approve it before I move forward with anything. I'll probably have Sep spend the next few days getting to know his building-mates rather than working on any serious experimental stuff.

Alright, he has to allow the necrokitty then.

Yeah, it's easiest to settle in by keeping interactive.

[Highfort]

Necrokitty it is! Anyways, time to sleep, or at least try to so I don't completely fail in class tomorrow! Good night!

[Swith Witherward]

Sleep tight, Agy!

[Kassaran]

Hey guys. guess what? I am writing this on my computer, but that's not all, as it so appears, I can write literal shit-tons now almost effortlessly because of a small word program on my tablet that allows me to deposit text documents in raw form into it. I then just copy and paste the writen words from that document into NS and viola! I have a beautiful and well-written set of paragraphs in no time at all! And the best part on top of all of this? Besides being a little slower to the punch, It allows me to type at least five times faster than using the touch screen so no more damnable autocorrect errors. Or at least that's the plan...

Oh, I am nearly quivering in excitement just thinking about how this has now changed my life with my computer now being of some use to me (mind you this computer was considered dated in 2008 when I bought it, never mind what it must be now), until my laptop is back in action, I will be using the aforementioned post ferrying system between the Notepad on my computer and the Writer program on my tablet to keep up the posting action and content on an unprecedented scale (given the previous limitations of writing on that tablet). No more crashes, no more sudden loss of entire posts. Just sweet and smooth RPing so long as the ferry don't give up the ghost! Oh, and I think I owe you all a one-shot, so without further ado:

Lost on Cornucopia

They'd been walking along under the hot plains sun for hours, the endless fields of barley, or wheat or whatever damnably dry crop was currently growing in amber waves of grain stretched out for near miles around with no building in sight in any direction. It wasn't the prettiest of situations to be in, but it wasn't the worst. The sun was due to begin setting in the next hour, and every so often Kage was finding a nice puddle down in the ditch to the side to wash the dust and grime off of his sweaty neck and hands with. The water of course was a murky beige color of its own, but hardly anything to be too concerned about and thus the Nephilim Host continued along his trek down the winding country road. He'd been a part of a small tourist tram leaving a fortified city in the middle of this realm known as Cornucopia, which was quite the appropriate name for the lush and ripe landscape and crops it yielded annually. Kage however had suffered the misfortune of having been forgotten at a small rest stop about two or so hundred kilometers away from the nearest town and while Cornucopia's stars were cold in comparison to his own home planet's stars, together, overhead, beating down upon his fair skin they were a merciless and tireless force of nature.

Well? Do you remember where you saw it? It can't be too far now, if you need me to, I'll take over, I can probably get us there faster...

The familiar hissing sound in the back of his muddled and tired brain stirred his consciousness up and brought his senses back to him as he suddenly stumbled and fell face-first into the dirt. Mumbling half-heartedly in reply to the Nephilim Spirit, his hoarse voice rang out over the sound of the rustling fields around him," how many times do I have to tell you not to startle me like that, especially when I'm practically dead on feet like now. We're still nowhere near civilization and that tour tram won't be back here for a couple of days. So either we have to keep walking for a few days back in the direction from whence we came and hope someone comes along and sees us, or we go off the beaten path and try and find the source of water and energy for all of these sprinkler and agricultural guard systems."

Cornucopia was a Class 4 World, its technology built mostly around its highly agrarian society; the fortified cities were places where the robot denizens of the planet would pool together their collective resources to engage in trade with other planets, worlds, and realms. For those who understood how to traverse across the multiverse as the Nephilim Host and Spirit had done, it was hardly a rare sight, however for such a realm to be housed upon a rather large planet of incredibly lush and vast scales was. They hardly needed to be anywhere, they'd lost their pursuants many days before and so now they both were able to enjoy a brief reprieve. Well, at least they would have been able to had they not managed to get themselves lost in the middle of quite literally nowhere. A slight tone of indignation sounded from the voice in the back of Kage's head and an image of a child angrily stomping back to its seat and sitting down looking not in the least bit amused, he smiled slightly and began to pick himself up.

Watching his shadow as he got up from his semi-prone position on the side of the road, he gave a loud groan and licked his dried lips. They were slightly chapped, the skin beginning to peel away from them and he subconsciously began to chew on the moistened flesh as he began thinking on what to do next. Looking back behind him down the road in the direction of the next settlement, he knew it was likely closer than the previous city, but it was hardly worth the risk of turning back now. they'd been travelling as aforementioned for several hours in this direction, and indecision now might prove fatal if indeed they were on their own out here. However, looking in the direction he was going, there was hardly a reason to suspect he was any closer now than he had been a few hours before. while there were no crossroads, shifting planetscapes were hardly a new thing to Kage and it was just as likely he could be caught in an extra-terrestrial version of a tourist trap to quite the most literal (again) degree. To get lost out here was likely to be fated to die a horrible death via dehydration among a source of near infinite food.

"Well, here goes nothing." Right foot out, then left foot out. Rinse, wash, repeat, second after second and minute after minute stretching out into the sunset of the second sun over the distant horizon. Having come to a stop finally, deciding it was time to settle down for the night, it was then he finally realized he'd seen something out of the corner of his eye, a glinting of something against metal. Starlight upon tin or aluminum perhaps? His head snapped to the right and his eyes worked hard to refocus in the quickly waning light of the evening starset. Finally perceiving the figure standing up and out of the fields, he felt a moment of elation and quickly ran down from the road and into the fields of grain, moving quickly towards the lone figure. As he neared it, the distance between them quickly closing as he ran wantonly, he waved his hands and moved to shout when suddenly he felt his legs go out and his mouth clamp shut eating his words and stifling the sounds of joy and excitement he'd gone to speak. The Nephilim Spirit was now in control and it spoke quickly to the boy, Stop! Look at it, it hasn't moved a single inch has it? It's not alive, or at least whatever it is, we're not even certain if it is friendly or not!

Sure enough, as Kage raised his head again over the tops of the heads of the dozens of barley or wheat or oat plants he'd taken impromptu shelter in, he now could see as the last beams of starlight faded into the night, that the being indeed stood still, remaining at post in spite of Kage's obvious approach. It remained a stalwart and steady guard. It was interesting to see such an antiquated device, but now Kage understood why the Nephilim Spirit had been so cautious. This was an old "scarecrow", a device originally built to ward off pests through basic fear-through-presence tactics. Originally unanimated dummies, scarecrows were a common sight on agricultural worlds of a Class 2 or lower civilization, but it was when one was on a Class 3 or higher world, they needed to be on guard. His suspicions were quickly affirmed as the Nephilim Spirit, still in control of his body, pulled a clump of barley next to him, wadded it up, and sent it up and into the air in the general direction of the scarecrow. A blur of movement and suddenly the scarecrow was in the air, massive scythes lashing out from metallic arms and tearing into the soft luscious grains. Less than a second later and the grains fell back to earth, nearly pulverized by the flurry of attacks from the razor-sharp sickles of the scarecrow. This was true power, and terror. Kage's heart now beating at well into his panic zone suddenly was forced to lower itself as the scarecrow (now back upon the ground) began to deploy for the evening.

Scarecrows upon Class 3 or higher worlds were automated sentinels, designed to automatically engage high-level threats to a crop, but from the appearance of this one, anything not broadcasting a typical Cornucopian IFF Transponder would likely become a target. Then there was the matter that it was likely specially designed to hunt down living organisms at night using a wide array of tools at its disposal, one of which would most certainly be a motion-sensor, heat-sensor, and heart-beat monitor. Organic things were a threat to crops, robots likely weren't. Because all the work could be done by nearest city's drones during the day, the scarecrows were likely out of job until they left the fields at night leaving the few animals cheeky enough to attempt an incursion upon the crops. This was why it hadn't activated as Kage had been running at it, with enough starlight still left in the air, it had not deployed into active sentinel mode. With this being the case, Kage would have been able to approach it as he'd seen fit, but now, with the sun down, the tables were most certainly turned. The glowing singular red eye of the sinister guardian of the field slowly cast its crimson glare in Kage's direction, his view suddenly dropped. The Spirit was still in control.

It saw us, it is moving to engage, on my mark, we run. If we get back to the road in time, it will disengage, but if we fail, it will most certainly kill us right here and now. Ready? Kage was hardly rea-GO!

Within seconds the teen was on his feet and running at a near break-neck pace for the road. A loud whistling filled the air behind him as the scarecrow's blades flipped out of their roosts, and putting even more power into his thighs, his lungs aching and burning for air, Kage closed his eyes and leaned further into his mad dash. Crops trampled underfoot, the humming of the scarecrow's repulsor engines just behind, and that sinister whistling following him the entire way, now only pure adrenaline and terror were fueling his sprint. He was like a hypersonic missile, bolting across the amber ocean in a streak of flesh and cloth, and then suddenly he could see it: the road! His arms swinging wide, pumping like mad, his legs rotating like the wheels of a sprint-car, his chest burning, aching, and his thighs and calves feeling as though they were being ripped into it was almost as though something told him to make that last effort and so he did. "Spiriiiit!"

Calling upon every last ounce of strength and energy left in his now thoroughly exhausted body, he slammed everything he had into his thighs and calves, and pushing up and away from the ground, he dove forward, and soaring through the air, a sudden whistling came into hearing and then a sharp pain as suddenly everything went to black.

---

It was interesting, the feeling Kage had, a warmth spread from across his back and onto his thighs, it was soft, like a cat's fur coat. He smiled and shifted, but now the warmth gave way to a more intense and deep-seated pain, a pain that almost seemed to be manifested out of fear and anger and hatred incarnate and it bubbled up within the teen's clouded mind like water from a spring. Memories gushed forth from the fiery heat as images of his sisters and his friends and family and everyone else in his clan lanced out and away from him, slowly leaving him. Raising an arm in protest, begging for them to come back to him, to stay with him to the end, a darkness steadily moved in to replace them. It was a cold, empty, and hollow darkness, it was a void. An empty chasm in space and time, and his soul reached out into it searching for substance but only found the cold unforgiving reality of its situation. It was gone, separated from reality, from the world. This was its reality now. This was death. Everything you ever knew, leaving you, forsaking you as one of the damned and forgotten. This was the price for receiving a Nephilim Spirit, and even while Kage had hardly ever agreed to his contract, it still had stuck and now he was damned for it. At least, that is what should have happened.

Wait, damnation... where is it? That lake of molten rock and burning sulfur? where were all the devils with their sinister smiles and gleeful grins as they watched the souls of the damned and oppressed swirl about within their pits? He looked up, this was not damnation, so where was it? 'Spirit?'

A tentative guess which was promptly rewarded with a resounding answer, YES.

'Where am I? What just happened to me? Did I die?'

NO. The voice boomed again, its presence seemingly overwhelming in this black chasm, YOU ARE WITH ME, I NEEDED YOUR BODY SO YOUR ARE HERE AND I AM THERE.

'Wait, what? You needed my body so I'm here? where is here? Where is my body?' Kage looked down at himself, or at least perceived himself to be looking down at himself and realized suddenly with a startling realization that there was nothingness about him. He was disembodied, simply floating in darkness,' wait, a moment, are we here? In my mind?'

This would make sense, though Kage was hardly aware that this was what it felt like to be Spirit, he knew that what he had just said had to be true. Everything, every sign pointed towards this being the only answer, the way he felt without feeling and the way he existed without being. It was as though he was already a certainty in this reality, within this universe, and his own physical manifestation in this realm would simply be an unneeded redundancy in what he was doing here. As his mind continued to wrap itself around these facts, he looked up and suddenly a bright light wrapped down and around him enveloping him in conscious thought until suddenly he found his eyes snapping open to find the twisted and smoking remains of a Scarecrow heaped over his stomach. Nearby, one of the wrist-blades, presumably the left-hand one stood sticking up out of the ground, blood caked to its blade, but not along where it would be expected. Looking down at his palms, the pain he could feel confirmed his suspicions yet again as he realized what must have happened in the span of time he'd been unconscious.

As the scarecrow had struck him, the Nephilim Spirit within him had moved to protect its host and in doing so had astrally projected itself in full power. In order to do this, it would have needed to have swapped places with Kage's own consciousness thus sending Kage into the own deepest and innermost parts of his mind, that is, the abyssal void where Spirit resides. He smiled, though the pain was hardly comfortable, it was a welcome intrusion upon his perception of reality. Balling his hands up into fists, he slammed them both down into the dusty road underneath him and continued to play out the scene within his mind's eye. First Spirit must have engaged the scarecrow directly while leaving what little of its root that remained in Kage's own body top get it to a standing and combat capable position. Within a hundredth of a second, this likely would have occurred. These movements undoubtedly would have inflicted great pain and damage upon Kage's own internal musculature and the aching fire in his thighs, back, and practically everywhere else confirmed these thoughts. When the scarecrow had been sufficiently beaten off, Spirit must have then commandeered Kage's body in a direct assault against it and managing to obtain and wield one of the scarecrow's broken wrist blades against it, Spirit had made short work of the mechanical construct.

The morning starlight which now illuminated the valley as a whole rather well now left Kage wondering what to do until he suddenly realized he could hear a small monotone beeping. Looking down into the smoldering wreck of the scarecrow, he could see plain as day the emergency transponder beacon requesting for a repair crew blinking on and off in time to the beeping. He smiled and squatted down to get a better look at the beacon. sure enough, it housed a small GPS-tracking unit inside and so with the power of technology, soon enough a repair crew would likely be out to repair the scarecrow. Kage would simply have to wait on that certainty. Questioning Spirit as to how long it had been destroyed, he managed to elicit the response of only two or so hours, when the shift for the scarecrow would have ended. It was an interesting delay, but again there was no use in activating an emergency beacon if no one was on duty to receive it ad if no one was on duty while the scarecrow was, there was no reason to broadcast the signal. Kage internally shrugged at the thought guessing this must be some convoluted form of bureaucracy these semi-sentient constructs had come up with in their time upon this world. Letting himself fall back onto his back, Kage winced in response to the lance of pain that shot through all of the offended muscles, but within moments their protests had died down into sighs of relief, soon rescue would be here and they'd be recuperating alongside the rest of his body in a medical care unit back in one of the fortress city's infirmaries.

Thinking to himself on the sheer amount of luck he'd had, he suddenly realized that luck had nothing to with it, and he'd only survived this chance encounter because of Spirit. This creature, or being... whatever it called itself, was most certainly powerful, and in order to have used a weak construct like Kage's own body to defeat a machine built to kill in perhaps one of nature's most effective and efficiently possible methods, it was hardly a chance encounter or lucky strike. This had been sheer power and knowledge, and while there were certain to be other beings and spirits out there far more powerful, when it came to defending itself, the Nephilim Spirit was quite secure in its position somewhere near the top of the leader-boards. Self-preservation, that is what drives every Nephilim Spirit to find a Nephilim Host, and between Kage and his Spirit, they both were in good hands.

His hands slowly making their way into his pockets and withdrawing a small tangled mass of metal and lint, Kage held up in front of him, squinting as the morning starlight of the first star in the day cycle came up over the edge of the nearby mountaintops surrounding the valley, he could pick out what he assumed had been a project of Spirit's as it had awaited Kage's awakening. Something to the tune of three paperclips and four balls of lint had gone into crafting a small and ornate figurine or incredible perplexity that had Kage not been capable of losing focus so easy, he'd have been liable to have missed entirely what it was meant to be upon the smallest details that Spirit had embellished upon," It's a dog..."

A Belgian Malinois thank you very much. an Earth Breed, very powerful, highly effective, very well-rounded. You'd like them. It perhaps was the most sociable thing Spirit had said since they'd arrived on Cornucopia, and Kage smiled. It wasn't often that he'd see such kindness and generosity from Spirit, and even more so rare was the simple thought it had regarding Kage's own feelings and this even more so than anything else brought a smile to the teen's face as he let the figurine slip back into his hoody's pocket. No use in interrogating the Spirit about it and making it embarrassed so he simply settled for the next best thing," Thanks."

And so it was that they both sat their in silence staring up into the baby blue sky, both wondering where this life would take them, with one becoming even more human with every day, and the other growing more powerful by the other and between them both, a passion to find a way to cheat death and return to their respective homelands. One day they'd find the secret to unlocking life and death, and transcend it all, but for now they'd simply have to deal with life as it was, and maybe someday they'd find a place they could lay their heads and not fear for their pursuers, wherever in the multiverse they were. Here and now however, Kage let his eyes close in a continuation of an early morning nap as he let the sound of wind across the grain fields flow into his ears like the sound of waves upon the shore, and smiling in the morning breeze he fond himself saying one final statement," Perhaps one day we'll have our destiny?"

In reply, somewhere along the wind, drifting upon the currents of the summer breeze came the soft answer,' Perhaps.' and with that Kage let his consciousness slip into a deep and restful sleep.

[The BranRiech]

Still don't know if I want to take a break or not. I feel like I'd miss too much if I did, but then again, I'd rather miss things than sit around with nothing to do because I can't decide what to post. I'm just confused on what to do right now.

[Mincaldenteans]

Still don't know if I want to take a break or not. I feel like I'd miss too much if I did, but then again, I'd rather miss things than sit around with nothing to do because I can't decide what to post. I'm just confused on what to do right now.

Suggestion? Use one char, decide who you want to interact with, and if it still persists, take a break. This fulfills your misgivings/conflict, but we can't answer this dilemma for you, only advise how to address it.

[Cerillium]

I went back through old RPs and notes. You know, folks, I think I'd enjoying actually RPing rather than running a 2D character to keep things afloat. I'm officially parking my characters (GT, we'll need to get your characters mended so I can do that with Blythe and Xanthe) and will only run Naomi, Neste and (if needed as a CoOP tool) Minerva. All three are my favorite characters, and all of them are dusty.

Alright, with effort this time, because I need to recapture her sipirt:

Do not remove this search tag: #PLAPP
Your NS Nation's Nickname: Swith

Character Name: NST 3v1 (Neste Trilb)

Character Gender: Female

Character Species (nation personification, human, alien, etc): higher construct

Character Physical Description (height, weight, apparent age, actual age): Neste is capable of mimicking a variety of creatures but she most commonly adopts human or lizard form.

Lizard: technically, not an actual lizard. She's mammalian, and has the breasts to prove it. The N-Series overall reptilian appearance is based upon a now-extinct sophont species; it's utilitarian in nature. Neste, like all of her sisters, stands roughly 5' in height and weighs 110 pounds. Her coloration is predominantly white due to age and time in stasis (pigments fade over time). Her eyes, which have been described by others as "soulful" or "doe eyes", are golden in color due to the deposition of the lipochrome in the iris; the eyes are similar to human eyes in that the white conjunctiva is visible. Her ears are thin and elongated, and she's capable of swiveling them (doing so is considered undignified). Her short horns are a soft cream in color. She is currently tail-less and sans the normal mane of feathers that constructs grow and shed once a year. N-Series are toe walkers; the foot is elongated and the heel doesn't touch the ground. This is the N-Series true form.

Human: Neste appears to be in her twenties, although she is actually much older due to long periods of status. Her height and weight are the same as in lizard form. She's typically pale skinned although she's capable of adjusting her skin tone. Her dark hair hangs in curtains to frame her face (perfect to hide behind) when not pulled back and held in place by clips; it tends to curl at the ends. The human form is the least draining form a construct can take.

Several characteristics are present regardless of her form. A series of ports, used to interface with her exoskeleton and other Swithwardian tech, runs bilaterally down her spine. The ports remain in a closed state unless she's interfacing with something; they're a soft blueish color and frequently mistaken as tattoos by those unfamiliar with biotech. Her number series is tattooed near her clavicle as well as the on her right side inguinal region. The numbers and letters are accompanied by NiSci glyphs. She has small, greyish dots splattered on each side of her head and along her neck, and freckling her fingertips and palms; these are sensory organs.

URL to Character Picture, if any: Lizard form, post-molt feathers; human form.

Primary Skill or Power: Psionics.

Power Weaknesses/Flaws: Neste must shield herself when around other beings. The purpose is to preserve their minds and to prevent intrusion upon their thoughts, but this comes at the cost of raw energy. Prolonged contact with people drains her, and actively using her ability while outside of her exoskeleton could have the potential to kill her, depending upon the intensity of the action. Carpules are the only thing that allow her to sustain her shielding or psionic talents.

Secondary Skill or Power: Genetic manipulation

Power Weaknesses/Flaws: As above, prolonged use of this ability will quickly drain her.

Character Background/Biography:
Construct background:
Higher constructs (machina mortifero) are engineered creatures containing a storehouse of genetic information gathered from various sources. The higher construct is able to absorb genetic samples from unfamiliar or new species, sequence it, and intertwine it with their own strands. In this manner, the universe is cataloged and preserved. Unfortunately, these constructs were fashioned at a time when the Nifidium Convocation acquired data and leveled planets through nefarious means. Neste is a weapon in that regard, capable of sweeping through a setting to process genetic material in order to warp biomatter it into a drone swarm under her direct psionic control. N-Series were built for the singular purpose of annihilation.

The Overseer construct program was short lived (lasting only a few centuries) before it was deemed too expensive to maintain. All N-Series were slated for destruction. The emergence of a new enemy, the Ba'a (machine species), necessitated the need to restore them to their exoskeletons. They were reconditioned to be more effective. The majority of N-Series were destroyed by the Ba'a war machine, or else crippled to the point of uselessness. Many of these damaged constructs found homes within the diplomatic branches but a few intact ones, like Neste, were kept in service much longer than necessary.

While in circulation (a state whereupon the construct operates as a ghost in a shell), the N-Series does not age. She loses her sapience and the ability to think freely. Some do have "breakthrough" moments while in circulation, but these constructs are subjected to reprogramming if such a state is detected.

The Overseer construct program is still operating in the Nifidium Convocation, although the Convocation no longer engages in genocide (unless provoked) and prefers to regulate itself to the role of star shepherds and lore keepers. Some witherwards have removed themselves from the Convocation in a bid for freedom. Swith Witherward, where Neste was assigned, gained its independence in 2012. Neste and her sisters were "freed" rather than destroyed. A law was passed shortly thereafter prohibiting them from touching screwdrivers (anti-machine reconditioning was a bad idea on the Nifid's part).

It is important to note that higher constructs were never intended to be self-aware; they were intended to operate similar to any programmable machine. Few witherwards see them as sophont beings. Even within Swith Witherward, there is division amongst scientists with one camp accepting the construct's sophont state while the other insist that the construct is nothing but an AI or else simply mimicking sophont behaviors. In truth, not all N-series are sophont; it is only the NS*, NR*, and NL* batches that posses this quality.


Neste:
Despite her age, Neste has only a total of 28 years outside her exoskeleton; she's socially stunted. Couple that with two decades of being treated like a tool whenever she ventured into society, and you'll find yourself with a timid, self-doubting and mistrustful creature prone to irrational fears. Like all her sisters, Neste is overly curious, and eager to learn and please.

Neste served with the military as an Overseer before rotation to diplomacy. She was assigned to Lord Grevin Sage for two months before her selection to serve in an ambassadorial capacity (bad idea, sending an N to a planet that might possibly contain a lot of machines). She is unaware of how she arrived in Bielefeld and has gaping holes in her memory.

(As we discussed before, I had brought her in to thwart Dani. I'm fine with keeping that bit of canon. I don't think anyone caught on that she was the same construct that appeared in Personification Player, and only NVE would have been familiar with her by name or series number at the time.)

Why the character is in Bielefeld/Occupation: Unbeknownst to her, she was brought in (and had memories stripped out) in order to be used against any new Drone attacks. Using constructs in such a capacity is against Swithwardian law, but the Nifid are under no obligation to go by any protectorates' laws when it comes to military function or protecting the planet.

URL to Apartment Picture: http://cdn.home-designing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/9-Oversized-pendant-shade.jpg

The back garden walk-out is similar to this.

Link to RP examples: (this MUST be a DIRECT LINK to your IC post in an RP, NOT a link to the RP thread itself. If you don't have examples, make your biography good.)

IMPORTANT:
One paragraph that sums up your character. This paragraph is what we'll use on your player tab on the first page of the thread. This MUST be brief. Your tab will contain a link to your application so people will have full details:

Neste Trilb
A lost Swithwardian construct.

Two trailor....

Approved. Thank you. You still have the typo. Stasis, status. I prefer the lizard rendition to the Zerg.

You neglected to mention Ayeye (however its nickname is spelled). I dropped it into my post.

I figure since I'm going to do an apartment post next, I should probably list what I'm going to be doing, exactly:

Septimus' work on philothanatophy essentially revolves around downloading someone's (deceased) brain data into a new body and booting it up, hence why he needs the exact samples he had in the lab (he was working with a dummy clone body of Brother Titus, a disc drive containing Brother Titus' metadata recorded in binary, and well as a cat body he cloned to test if a downloaded mind would survive teleportation). He can set up the rest of the equipment himself using 21st century technology - he just needs a lot of processors (probably several server farms) to run the tests and download the body.

Would that work with established PL canon or will I need to modify anything?

Excellent oneshot. Yes, he can have the cat and dummy clone. Don't raid the city or hospital morgues; they've been under watch after the police discovered the raptors were eating the dead.


@Kass. Another quality oneshot. Can you send a link to your app? I need to make a tab for you still.

[Mincaldenteans]

Fer Cer: viewtopic.php?p=22932361#p22932361

[Cerillium]

Updated:
Oneshots, Neste's app link, apartment listing.

@Mon. Good luck on your story. Looks good so far.

@Bran. Min's advice is sound. Also, I'd go with less than 5 characters for Bran's final arch. I wouldn't personally run with 7 unless it's a major event. As it is, players flake. You'd come away from the experience dejected otherwise.

@Tilt and Min. Courtesy of a colleague. Asians, unite!

@Min. Best Christmas prezzie ever.

@Slobo. Bring your characters in any time you're ready.

@Swith. I guessed re microwave light bulb. I'll adjust my IC post if it isn't canon kosher.

@All. We have new and newer characters in the Building. Kage, Torsi's newest character, Sep, Slobo's married couple, Neste, etc. They could use some PL hospitality.



I'm telecommuting today. Advantage: healing. I have to actually apply myself, unlike my normal half-assed TC days. I can't promise I'll be able to swing by PL this evening.

[Germanic Templars]

And that kids, is why we don't go sleeping with any deities. Especially if you are a demon.


EDIT: So, where are the new people at? Gonna have Thriller go greet them.

[Cerillium]

And that kids, is why we don't go sleeping with any deities. Especially if you are a demon.


EDIT: So, where are the new people at? Gonna have Thriller go greet them.

Slobo's couple will enter the building soon (perhaps?) but they haven't been to the front desk. It shouldn't be necessary. Slobo's a RP pro. Neste and Sep are in their respective apartments (visiting would be metagaming since Thriller doesn't normally stop by the desk to ask if anyone new arrived). Kage and Jasmine are in the lobby.

[Cerillium]

Work demands my attention. Later all.

[Germanic Templars]

And that kids, is why we don't go sleeping with any deities. Especially if you are a demon.


EDIT: So, where are the new people at? Gonna have Thriller go greet them.

Slobo's couple will enter the building soon (perhaps?) but they haven't been to the front desk. It shouldn't be necessary. Slobo's a RP pro. Neste and Sep are in their respective apartments (visiting would be metagaming since Thriller doesn't normally stop by the desk to ask if anyone new arrived). Kage and Jasmine are in the lobby.

Who says he is checking the desk? He could just go to his Thinking Bench^tm and see them walk in.

[Northwest Slobovia]

And that kids, is why we don't go sleeping with any deities. Especially if you are a demon.


EDIT: So, where are the new people at? Gonna have Thriller go greet them.

Slobo's couple will enter the building soon (perhaps?) but they haven't been to the front desk. It shouldn't be necessary.

The're in the communal kitchen. Have been since last night, but looks like there was some miscommunications on that.

Slobo's a RP pro.

I... what? Don't you flatter me, young man!

[Kassaran]

@Kass. Another quality oneshot. Can you send a link to your app? I need to make a tab for you still.

Yes sir! *runs off to find initial Kage post*

Your NS Nation's Nickname: Kass

Character Name: Kage Hito

Character Gender: Male

Character Species (nation personification, human, alien, etc): Nephilim

Character Physical Description (height, weight, apparent age, actual age): 193cm/84kgs/19/19

URL to Character Picture, if any: Link

Primary Skill or Power: Nephilim Host- Being host to a Nephilim has its perks, so long as you know how to invoke the Nephilim Spirit within, which is something that Kage here has yet to learn. This ability can dramatically improve his overall reaction time as well as his agility and dexterity. His strength however is something that can only be improved as a last resort. Latent abilities seem to include a heightened ability to heal- even going so far as to regenerate fingernails within a couple seconds if he concentrates enough-, an ability to somehow levitate to a very thin degree, though he isn't sure how he did it before, and a passing ability to catch on to other's general thoughts, which is again purely latent. The ability also has the chance of revealing the inner Nephilim Spirit within, but only in times of extreme duress at which point the Spirit materializes itself outside of his body and acts as a shield against any harm weaker than the strength of the being itself. That ability has only been used a handful of times before, and originally resulted in a comatose state which incapacitated Kage for nearly 3 weeks.

Power Weaknesses/Flaws: He's host to a powerful spirit which up until a certain time was used to wandering the multiverse destroying humans because they looked at him the wrong way from beyond their actual ability to discern him from a speck on the horizon. Needless to say, this very much physical spirit now is trapped within Kage's body and they don't like it one bit, but tolerate it because Kage allows himself to be used on certain occassions when he is simply too tired or exhausted to want to continue on. Delighting in even the small things it gets to do on its own while Kage's consciousness is rendered inert, it has been known to put him in precarious positions before.

Secondary Skill or Power: He's a skilled... wait for it... gamer. Wishing for nothing else than to actually escape into a different reality where he doesn't have to put up with most of the issues that he does, he often hides in his room, doing nothing more than playing games for hours on end when he is not needed elsewhere, however, he doesn't have nothing of a life outside of gaming. He does visit a gym every couple days and is quite capable of swimming a couple hundred meters, though saying he wouldn't be sore after is a far cry from the truth. In essence, he's learned to tune out everything else that comes up in order to relax and play his relaxing video games -up until he rages at which point he's anything and everything which won't result in a fine from the landlord, but equally destructive enough to get out the infuriating rage that comes from dying after being so close to finally hitting the level cap in the Shade n' Blade online MMORPG he plays all the time.

Power Weaknesses/Flaws: He's hardly the kind to enjoy bright lights. Shine a flashlight on him and he'll beg for mercy. Also, MSG-loaded snacks are his ultimate Kryptonite. If you're going to pull him away from something he's doing, best have a couple of these handy.

Character Background/Biography:Long story short? He's on the run.

After "Awakening" at age 13, to be abandoned by his parents at age 14, and ultimately being revealed as a host to a Nephilim Spirit, he would soon find himself fleeing the law and vigilante 'justice' through the latticework of realities known as the 'Multiverse'. Now, how did he get into this predicament you ask? By doing the one thing he never should have in the first place, by using his Nephilim.

Subject to harsh and violent bullying in his school while growing up as the abandoned child of a notably dysfunctional family already, he was one day attacked by some of the playground bullies whom were now taking the violence to the next level. At age sixteen, he was stabbed in the neck with a pocket knife, however when authorities finally arrived on the scene, the pocket knife was nowhere to be seen and only two victims were picked up. One being Kage, the other being the bully whom had attacked him.

When he finally awoke from his coma after three weeks in the hospital, he discovered that the child whom had attacked him now was dead, and no one knew how save for that the pocket knife had been used on the opposite bully and ended up killing him. Accused of initially attacking and murdering his fellow classmate, he now made his escape. Managing to flee the hospital, he went on the run, making his way across the world over the course of two years doing odd jobs for various folks until the present day which now has him entering a small part-time job position in the sunny city of Bielefield.

Why the character is in Bielefeld/Occupation: Well, Bielefield is just such an interesting place ya know, and the idea that he could actually have a nice calming feeling in a city as bright and sunny as it gives him a good feeling... ah who am I kidding? He's here because there was a cheap room for rent and he's decided he should go for it while working part-time in the city and trying to figure out how to use his ability.

URL to Apartment Picture: The Room
The Building

Link to RP examples: Well, I got in once before on just a Bio... hopefully I can pull that off again because I really am too lazy to follow through on this part and almost never do it as a result.
IMPORTANT:
One paragraph that sums up your character. This paragraph is what we'll use on your player tab on the first page of the thread. This MUST be brief. Your tab will contain a link to your application so people will have full details:
The fugitive Host to a Nephilim Spirit of Wrath, Kage is a gamer with a desire to be nowhere else but immersed in his own little world, but unfortunately never seems to get any time to indulge such desires.

Quoted it, and also, if alright, I changed up the summary for him... Made it more streamlined as well as changed a few details.

[The BranRiech]

Yeah, considering that Torsie only came forward to express interest, I might as well lower the cap to4-5 characters.

Also, I might not even take a break considering all the advice. I might only run 3 of my characters at this point. I'm thinking that it'll be Bran, Toscha, and Calle, simply because thay gives me a lot to work with, the ex-conscript, the Lamia, and the lonely and confused cyborg.

[Germanic Templars]

So, now character swap: Confirmed

Khro and J'aluk for Maximum Security XXIII

Khro will be on Gliese while J'aluk will be on the island.

Still have side uses for Sapphire and Dr. Smith

[Cerillium]

So, now character swap: Confirmed

Khro and J'aluk for Maximum Security XXIII

Khro will be on Gliese while J'aluk will be on the island.

Still have side uses for Sapphire and Dr. Smith

We've changed venue and have returned to to Bielefeld.

[Germanic Templars]

So, now character swap: Confirmed

Khro and J'aluk for Maximum Security XXIII

Khro will be on Gliese while J'aluk will be on the island.

Still have side uses for Sapphire and Dr. Smith

We've changed venue and have returned to to Bielefeld.

I am aware of that, but it is better to leave him there.

[Cerillium]

@Kass. Another quality oneshot. Can you send a link to your app? I need to make a tab for you still.

Yes sir! *runs off to find initial Kage post*

Your NS Nation's Nickname: Kass

Character Name: Kage Hito

Character Gender: Male

Character Species (nation personification, human, alien, etc): Nephilim

Character Physical Description (height, weight, apparent age, actual age): 193cm/84kgs/19/19

URL to Character Picture, if any: Link

Primary Skill or Power: Nephilim Host- Being host to a Nephilim has its perks, so long as you know how to invoke the Nephilim Spirit within, which is something that Kage here has yet to learn. This ability can dramatically improve his overall reaction time as well as his agility and dexterity. His strength however is something that can only be improved as a last resort. Latent abilities seem to include a heightened ability to heal- even going so far as to regenerate fingernails within a couple seconds if he concentrates enough-, an ability to somehow levitate to a very thin degree, though he isn't sure how he did it before, and a passing ability to catch on to other's general thoughts, which is again purely latent. The ability also has the chance of revealing the inner Nephilim Spirit within, but only in times of extreme duress at which point the Spirit materializes itself outside of his body and acts as a shield against any harm weaker than the strength of the being itself. That ability has only been used a handful of times before, and originally resulted in a comatose state which incapacitated Kage for nearly 3 weeks.

Power Weaknesses/Flaws: He's host to a powerful spirit which up until a certain time was used to wandering the multiverse destroying humans because they looked at him the wrong way from beyond their actual ability to discern him from a speck on the horizon. Needless to say, this very much physical spirit now is trapped within Kage's body and they don't like it one bit, but tolerate it because Kage allows himself to be used on certain occassions when he is simply too tired or exhausted to want to continue on. Delighting in even the small things it gets to do on its own while Kage's consciousness is rendered inert, it has been known to put him in precarious positions before.

Secondary Skill or Power: He's a skilled... wait for it... gamer. Wishing for nothing else than to actually escape into a different reality where he doesn't have to put up with most of the issues that he does, he often hides in his room, doing nothing more than playing games for hours on end when he is not needed elsewhere, however, he doesn't have nothing of a life outside of gaming. He does visit a gym every couple days and is quite capable of swimming a couple hundred meters, though saying he wouldn't be sore after is a far cry from the truth. In essence, he's learned to tune out everything else that comes up in order to relax and play his relaxing video games -up until he rages at which point he's anything and everything which won't result in a fine from the landlord, but equally destructive enough to get out the infuriating rage that comes from dying after being so close to finally hitting the level cap in the Shade n' Blade online MMORPG he plays all the time.

Power Weaknesses/Flaws: He's hardly the kind to enjoy bright lights. Shine a flashlight on him and he'll beg for mercy. Also, MSG-loaded snacks are his ultimate Kryptonite. If you're going to pull him away from something he's doing, best have a couple of these handy.

Character Background/Biography:Long story short? He's on the run.

After "Awakening" at age 13, to be abandoned by his parents at age 14, and ultimately being revealed as a host to a Nephilim Spirit, he would soon find himself fleeing the law and vigilante 'justice' through the latticework of realities known as the 'Multiverse'. Now, how did he get into this predicament you ask? By doing the one thing he never should have in the first place, by using his Nephilim.

Subject to harsh and violent bullying in his school while growing up as the abandoned child of a notably dysfunctional family already, he was one day attacked by some of the playground bullies whom were now taking the violence to the next level. At age sixteen, he was stabbed in the neck with a pocket knife, however when authorities finally arrived on the scene, the pocket knife was nowhere to be seen and only two victims were picked up. One being Kage, the other being the bully whom had attacked him.

When he finally awoke from his coma after three weeks in the hospital, he discovered that the child whom had attacked him now was dead, and no one knew how save for that the pocket knife had been used on the opposite bully and ended up killing him. Accused of initially attacking and murdering his fellow classmate, he now made his escape. Managing to flee the hospital, he went on the run, making his way across the world over the course of two years doing odd jobs for various folks until the present day which now has him entering a small part-time job position in the sunny city of Bielefield.

Why the character is in Bielefeld/Occupation: Well, Bielefield is just such an interesting place ya know, and the idea that he could actually have a nice calming feeling in a city as bright and sunny as it gives him a good feeling... ah who am I kidding? He's here because there was a cheap room for rent and he's decided he should go for it while working part-time in the city and trying to figure out how to use his ability.

URL to Apartment Picture: The Room
The Building

Link to RP examples: Well, I got in once before on just a Bio... hopefully I can pull that off again because I really am too lazy to follow through on this part and almost never do it as a result.
IMPORTANT:
One paragraph that sums up your character. This paragraph is what we'll use on your player tab on the first page of the thread. This MUST be brief. Your tab will contain a link to your application so people will have full details:
The fugitive Host to a Nephilim Spirit of Wrath, Kage is a gamer with a desire to be nowhere else but immersed in his own little world, but unfortunately never seems to get any time to indulge such desires.

Quoted it, and also, if alright, I changed up the summary for him... Made it more streamlined as well as changed a few details.

TY. Added.

Kage Hito
The fugitive Host to a Nephilim Spirit of Wrath, Kage is a gamer with a desire to be nowhere else but immersed in his own little world, but unfortunately never seems to get any time to indulge such desires. Full Details.

I've sent Ceril to Sep. Agy, you don't have to participate in the future story if you're not up for it. Thought it would be good to bring it up IC however.

[Swith Witherward]

Yay!
Naomi urging Thadman to quit - check.
Pissed off Chaos god - check.
Construct destructive drive unnaturally enhanced - check.
Teaser placed in IC - check
Letters to peeps - check.

Stage one launched!

[Cerillium]

It's only been a year in the making.

Do you need me to send Ceril to Rodney later?

[Shahansh]

Okay wow, um. Apologies for making one post and then phasing out for a month. I'm actually in a stable state this time. For really.

Do I need to reapply, or...?

[Cerillium]

Okay wow, um. Apologies for making one post and then phasing out for a month. I'm actually in a stable state this time. For really.

Do I need to reapply, or...?

Can you find your old app for me?

[Swith Witherward]

It's only been a year in the making.

Do you need me to send Ceril to Rodney later?

Nope, not yet, but thanks!