Soul: The embodiment of a human spirit or life force…
“--A great deal of ink has been spent speculating as to the true nature of the afterlife, or indeed, whether there is an afterlife at all and what precisely is the fate of the human spirit after death. For any curious individuals the answer can be found to be a loose parallel of the destiny of its corporeal form. Just as after death the body is broken down, decomposed and consumed by various organism in order to provide nourishment to the greater circle of life, upon separating from the body the soul to is consumed by certain organisms and expelled as loose particles which will eventually join together again in the formation of new souls, thereby furnishing in their death, life anew.
The organisms that consume souls and consequently provide for the creation of new souls and new lives are known to humans and refer to themselves, as demons.--”
-Ludwig Bactravier, Metaphysical Biology, an introduction
“—Of particular importance to the cycle of death and rebirth are the demons that inhabit the physical plane and are called in demonic parlance reapers. Charged with collecting the souls of dead humans and sending them to Hell to be refined and distributed by the demon lords among their favoured subjects, Reapers perform a vital role for both human and demon worlds. Nevertheless they occupy one of the lowest rungs in the militaristic, feudal culture of demon society, the positions of wealth and influence being occupied by powerful warrior class demons who fight to expand the territory of their lords within Hell.
The main duties of the reaper are twofold. Firstly as stated above they must collect the souls of deceased humans. Despite great strides made in automation thanks to the invention of the magical construct known as a psychopomp, deaths that occur unexpectedly or in great numbers at once normally need the direct intervention of a reaper. Secondly it is the duty of a reaper to slay any monsters that develop within their territory.
An unreaped souls will eventually seek to re-attach itself to its body or, failing that, any other available host. Of course it is impossible to restore someone to life that simply and what is birthed in the attempt is known in human parlance as a monster. A monster, like demons, requires human souls to sustain its existence but unlike demons they are mindless, ravenous beasts who do not patiently wait for humans to die before consuming their souls, they attack anyone they can get their hands (or other appendages) on, endlessly feeding and growing stronger until they are killed.--“
-Mathew Clarke, infernal power structures, a study of modern demonic society
“--Of late however some mysterious phenomenon has affected the period known colloquially as the drift, the period of time a soul can safely float free of its body before attempting to find a new host. While in 1958 the average drift for a soul was 29 days and the lowest recorded drift was 14 days, in 2015 the average drift time has decreased to 15 days and drift times as low as four days have been noted. This alarming trend combined with the exponential growth of the human population and accompanying spike in total deaths has left the reaping industry unable to cope. Reapers in all sections are heavily overworked and failing to account for all souls in their areas of responsibility despite logging unprecedented levels of overtime. With the option of diverting more demons from our standing military force into the human world to assist with reaping being untenable given the current strategic position of our kingdom and the situation in the mortal realm rapidly deteriorating we are forced to consider somewhat unorthodox methods for responding to these developments.
Living humans, strengthened via an infusion of demon blood should prove capable of manifesting a scythe and performing the basic duties of a reaper on a part time or casual basis. With every currently operating reaper able to supervise several ‘part-time reapers’ at once if this plan is implemented on a wide scale the overall capacity of the industry should increase by three or fourfold, easily enough to cope with current levels.
-Xalthuzaahr, Chief Executive Reaper to Lord Groar of the thirteenth kingdom, A proposal regarding the state of the reaping industry.
You just wanted a part time job that’s all. Its summer right now and you could definitely use a little extra cash in your pocket, whether you’re saving for a car or just want to buy the latest clothes, games or music when they come out. Or hell maybe you don’t care about any of that stuff but your parents have been on your case about getting a job and you know if you don’t they’ll never leave you alone long enough for you to properly enjoy your holiday. It shouldn’t be too hard you reason, all your friends have gotten part time or summer jobs after all. But maybe because all of your friends have jobs already nobody seems to be hiring. Sunset Gates isn’t that large a city after all and with three high schools in the city there’s a lot of competition for those sort of jobs.
After a long, miserable day of unsuccessful applications, interviews and enquiries you have begun trudging home, taking an obscure back alley you had hoped was a shortcut. It wasn’t and now you are lost, but as you stop to take stock of your surroundings you notice and odd, run-down café that you have somehow never noticed before despite passing through this way a few times before. Well Sunset Gates is sort of that kind of a city, stores or buildings sometimes feel like they pop up or disappear overnight and every now and then you’ll swear you saw something odd out of the corner of your eyes, especially while walking home at night.
Putting these thoughts aside you can’t help but notice the sign posted rather lopsidedly in the window. Actually it looks more like a newspaper clipping than a sign, as though someone ordered an ad in the classifieds and then couldn’t be bother drawing up a sign as well. Squinting a little and leaning forward to get closer, you give it a read.
What? What kind of a job listing is that, Soul Reaping? It has to be joke.
It has to be.
You turn around to leave, starting to remember how to get home from where you are when you hesitate. It’s almost certainly a joke, some idiot having a laugh at the expense of people like you who just need a job. You turn to leave again and get few more steps away before hesitating again.
What if it’s not though?
You really want a job and you’ve been to almost every place in the city that might hire you already. Maybe it’s some kind of a code or something? Maybe there was just some kind of mix up with the sign? After all this looks like a pretty normal café for the most part, even though it’s so dark that you can’t really see inside. In fact you probably would have assumed it was closed if it weren’t for the sign hanging limply from the door knob saying ‘OPEN’
You should go. There’s a few more places on the outskirts you haven’t tried yet and maybe you could ask the careers counsellor at school for some advice if that doesn’t pan out. You don’t want to be the butt of some dumb prank.
Still though those places on the outskirts are nearly a half an hour from your place going by bus, schlepping out there every other day would be a major pain and the school counsellor is a notoriously unhelpful person, being more interested in counting down the days until he can cash out his pension than actually doing any work.
You take a deep breath.
You open the door.
Soul Reaping for Fun and Profit: A Beginner's guide
A small, rather dusty handbook you managed to dig out of the store room. It's somewhat dubious looking and some of the pages have been stuck together by reddish brown stains you fervently hope are tomato sauce. Despite its unassuming appearance you may find some useful tips here.
Employee Notice Board
Announcements
A word from your Employer
Hey, Hi? What's up? Welcome to Soul Reaping: Part Time my latest creation/ abomination in the eyes of man and God. In case the wall of text above was a little obtuse or a little long winded for you the basic premise of this RP is that you all will be playing as teenagers hunting for a part time job. What you think is a rundown cafe looking for wait staff turns out to be a front for the underworld (the literal Underworld not the criminal one) and suddenly a bunch of clueless teenagers are entrusted with the important job of collecting the souls of the dead, battling monsters and a whole host of other problems way above their pay grade that I won't spoil just yet. This is a very anime-y shonen-y kind of a thing, influences include stuff like Bleach, Soul Eater and Lith's TKAG SO there'll be plenty of opportunities to have massive fights, train under mysterious sensei's learn a little something about friendship and maybe even something about love too. If you're still reading at this point I can assume your self-preservation instincts haven't kicked in, HAHA! You're mine now! Get your butt down to the application form and get ready for the wildest part time job of your life!
*For returning players you might notice Sunset Gates is referenced a few times, that city is indeed the setting for this RP as well although the two stories won't really intersect. It's just the sort of city where all sorts of weird stuff can happen.
We are probably good on co-ops for the time being, I'll let you know here if that changes as things widen in scope.
Acting Supervisors (Co-Ops)
The Templar High Council
The Theme Song has been Selected!
Hello Sleepwalkers won. It was tied for first place with Grim Grinning Ghosts but I threw my OP tie breaking vote behind it so there we go.
Sinner's Rest Employee Application Form
- Code: Select all
[b][u]Application[/u][/b](delete everything in brackets)
[i]profile[/i]
[b]name:[/b]
[b]age:[/b](15 or above)
[b]gender:[/b]
[b]appearance:[/b] (You can use a picture from somewhere or describe them, whichever you prefer. Please ensure written descriptions are reasonably detailed.)
[b]Scythe type:[/b](Is your scythe a striker, emitter or familiar? If you don't know what any of that means refer to the handbook. If your scythe has other unique properties you should detail those here as well.)
[b]Scythe appearance:[/b] (A picture or a detailed description as above)
[i]background[/i]
[b]Education:[/b] (Which one of Sunset Gates's three high schools is your character attending. Refer to the welcome to sunset gates section for more details if you aren't sure.)
[b]Relevant experience :[/b] (Your Character's biography )
[b]personal strengths and weaknesses:[/b] (should be fairly self-explanatory)
[b]Goals[/b] (What motivates your character? What do they aspire to?)
[b]theme song:[/b] (strictly optional, note that those who do not select a theme song will be assigned a random track from one of my shitty playlists.)
[b]RP example[/b] (Post to an RP you've been involved with before, if you have nothing you want to link to then just write something, if you have no idea what to write about make it about dragons. If I've RP'ed with you before you can probably skip this.)(ALSO: Please post links to a specific post rahter than just a thread! It's a pet peeve of mine to have to dig through some old IC and find your posts.
Employee Roster
SUPERVISORS / EXECUTIVES
Proprietor: Atlannia / Kay Deckheart
NIght Shift Manager: The Templar High Council / Hayate Kurosawa
PART TIMERS
North Arkana / Aria Kristov
Protestant England and Germany / Mitchell Blair
Sindrya / Matthew Hutcherson
The Unhallowed City / Lucie Aureux
Employee guidelines
- Maintain a polite and warm attitude towards customers and fellow employees. (No flaming or excessive rudeness to each other)
- Communicate with fellow employees to ensure efficient flowing of information. )If you guys have a problem or need to work out how a scene will play out then talk to each other, don't be afraid to set things up in advance via tg or whatever.)
- Respond promptly to direction from supervisors. (The usual OP and CO-OPs are gods clause. Pretty unimpressive Gods by most standards but Gods none the less damn you.)
- Feedback and suggestions to go in the employee feedback box. (If you have ideas, especially for your own characters. Let me know. Want a figure from your mysterious past come back to haunt your character? Want them to face a heart wrenching moral quandary that will leave them forever scarred? Want an opportunity to show off their wicked sousaphone skills? I’ll try and work personal arcs and moments in where I can. Although I can’t promise everything will fit with what I have planned you lose nothing by asking.)
- Always Wash Hands after using restroom. (Keep it PG 13 folks)
- Always come to each shift with a smile on your face! (Have fun)
- There's no substitute for quality service (If you guys need help expanding your posts TG me and I'll walk you through some simple ways to flesh them out. This isn't going to be a super fast rp and you aren't going to get left behind by taking some time to polish your work a little.)