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Greater Redosia
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Postby Greater Redosia » Wed May 15, 2019 3:44 pm

Character Application
Character Name: Detective John Steel
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: Image
Personality: Steel is an overly aggressive rambunctious individual who always speaks his mind, he cares little for danger and will do anything in his ability to try and find information. Resulting in a few incident where bloody noses were mercy to those that came upon him. He is very inquisitive and will hound anything or anyone until he learns information, whether it being true or not.
Age: 24
Occupation: Private Detective
Likes: Jumping through windows when not really needing to when entering a location, yelling his name when introducing himself to a situation i.e "DETECTIVE JOHN STEEL! I'M ON A PRIVATE INVESTIGATION!", he likes what he tries to do and that is finding information for the betterment of society. He also loves the law despite breaking it several and times. Finally alcohol
Dislikes Those he finds not doing their job serious enough, liars, buildings without windows or breakable entrances, being forced to enter a location normally (though he will do this unconsciously most of the time when already inside a building), those getting in the way of his investigation.
Skills: The uncanny ability to jump through any possible window, large enough hole or from any location to his destination. Has no actual detective skills, excellent at unarmed combat and a decent ability of shooting a revolver.
Special Ability(ies) Steel has no actual special abilities of himself as a person, no magic nor any sort of mutation. But he does however have vim infused clothing of which grant him other abilities that help him during his investigations.

Vim Infused Hat: The ability to cast a perfect shadow over a decent portion of his face to keep his identity hidden, along with the ability to keep the light out of his eyes from any source of light if at any sort of angle above him. Warning, does not cast shadow to anything perpendicular to it.

Vim Infused Trench Coat: Allows him to take large amounts of blunt force (smashing into walls or being hit with fists or blunt weapons), glide through the air and make him look cool when falling from a high location, a perfect thing.

Vim Infused Trousers: Allows him to jump at abnormally high heights, throw himself over wide gaps at high speeds and land safely from any height imaginable.

Sexual preference Homosexual
Identifying features He always wears his vim infused clothing along with being a loud talker, always being heard above others in the room.
Bio

Steel was born to a police family, his father and his mother were both police officers when growing up, leading to growing up with only one of the other parent when they worked. This led him to do things on his own most the time which led to his rather large pride in himself and his abilities, though lacking a common decency that he would've learned if both parents were there to discipline him. At school he would find himself at conflict with many which taught him early to use less words and use more fist, which would harden him to newcomers and slowly lead him down an unwanted life of small crimes and bullying on others.

Though his life dramatically changed when his father was killed in action when chasing a criminal who took over an airship, with his father being the only officer on the plane he tried to retake control of it, leading to being shot several times in the chest and once in the head. Now without a father and his mother forced to stay home to take care of Steel, he would feel a loss that could never be filled. Along with an abandonment of his small adolescent crime spree and once where he tried to care for his mother, along with hoping to find vengeance for his father once he knew where he could find the man that killed him. He tried his best to pay attention more in class as he grew up, attempting to join the police academy where he learned basic unarmed combat and shooting skills, but failed utterly in every other form. He was found too aggressive when dealing with suspects and would physically assault them if they did not tell him any information. He would not continue on and be forced to leave, leading him to wander the streets and unable to take care of his mother.

At the prime age of 19, a year after his failure at the academy he would work odd security jobs where he would find Iris one day at a bar. The two became quick friends, least drinking buddies and would find themselves meeting each other several times. With her help he found himself a new line of work, after recieving some training from a more local private detective agency, Steel found himself to be a natural detective. Though that would change heavily when he failed to find information on several cases and only managing to finish one through sheer luck and force of interrogation after throwing a suspect off a cliff. It was on this one case where he would find the hidden box to which he would find his new outfit, he would never explain to his superiors how he obtained the clothing, but that he gave him his resignation and left.

At the now perfect age of 24 he was leading his own Private Investigation Agency, of him alone. He takes any job that he finds and will accept any case even if not on it officially, sometimes conflicting with law enforcement or actual detectives. As such, he found himself in an airship, ready to jump into a party where he heard from an informant on the inside that something was happening and he was about to find out.
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Relationships: Iris (Drinking buddy): Steel doesn't really know much about Iris as one really should, but he always finds himself drinking at the same places that she is which found a sort of bond between them as they get drunk off spirits.
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Britanania
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Postby Britanania » Wed May 15, 2019 4:04 pm

Greater Redosia wrote:Character Application
Character Name: Detective John Steel
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: (Image)
Personality: Steel is an overly aggressive rambunctious individual who always speaks his mind, he cares little for danger and will do anything in his ability to try and find information. Resulting in a few incident where bloody noses were mercy to those that came upon him. He is very inquisitive and will hound anything or anyone until he learns information, whether it being true or not.
Age: 24
Occupation: Private Detective
Likes: Jumping through windows when not really needing to when entering a location, yelling his name when introducing himself to a situation i.e "DETECTIVE JOHN STEEL! I'M ON A PRIVATE INVESTIGATION!", he likes what he tries to do and that is finding information for the betterment of society. He also loves the law despite breaking it several and times. Finally alcohol
Dislikes Those he finds not doing their job serious enough, liars, buildings without windows or breakable entrances, being forced to enter a location normally (though he will do this unconsciously most of the time when already inside a building), those getting in the way of his investigation.
Skills: The uncanny ability to jump through any possible window, large enough hole or from any location to his destination. Has no actual detective skills, excellent at unarmed combat and a decent ability of shooting a revolver.
Special Ability(ies) Steel has no actual special abilities of himself as a person, no magic nor any sort of mutation. But he does however have vim infused clothing of which grant him other abilities that help him during his investigations.

Vim Infused Hat: The ability to cast a perfect shadow over a decent portion of his face to keep his identity hidden, along with the ability to keep the light out of his eyes from any source of light if at any sort of angle above him. Warning, does not cast shadow to anything perpendicular to it.

Vim Infused Trench Coat: Allows him to take large amounts of blunt force (smashing into walls or being hit with fists or blunt weapons), glide through the air and make him look cool when falling from a high location, a perfect thing.

Vim Infused Trousers: Allows him to jump at abnormally high heights, throw himself over wide gaps at high speeds and land safely from any height imaginable.

Sexual preference Homosexual
Identifying features He always wears his vim infused clothing along with being a loud talker, always being heard above others in the room.
Bio

Steel was born to a police family, his father and his mother were both police officers when growing up, leading to growing up with only one of the other parent when they worked. This led him to do things on his own most the time which led to his rather large pride in himself and his abilities, though lacking a common decency that he would've learned if both parents were there to discipline him. At school he would find himself at conflict with many which taught him early to use less words and use more fist, which would harden him to newcomers and slowly lead him down an unwanted life of small crimes and bullying on others.

Though his life dramatically changed when his father was killed in action when chasing a criminal who took over an airship, with his father being the only officer on the plane he tried to retake control of it, leading to being shot several times in the chest and once in the head. Now without a father and his mother forced to stay home to take care of Steel, he would feel a loss that could never be filled. Along with an abandonment of his small adolescent crime spree and once where he tried to care for his mother, along with hoping to find vengeance for his father once he knew where he could find the man that killed him. He tried his best to pay attention more in class as he grew up, attempting to join the police academy where he learned basic unarmed combat and shooting skills, but failed utterly in every other form. He was found too aggressive when dealing with suspects and would physically assault them if they did not tell him any information. He would not continue on and be forced to leave, leading him to wander the streets and unable to take care of his mother.

At the prime age of 19, a year after his failure at the academy he would work odd security jobs where he would find Iris one day at a bar. The two became quick friends, least drinking buddies and would find themselves meeting each other several times. With her help he found himself a new line of work, after recieving some training from a more local private detective agency, Steel found himself to be a natural detective. Though that would change heavily when he failed to find information on several cases and only managing to finish one through sheer luck and force of interrogation after throwing a suspect off a cliff. It was on this one case where he would find the hidden box to which he would find his new outfit, he would never explain to his superiors how he obtained the clothing, but that he gave him his resignation and left.

At the now perfect age of 24 he was leading his own Private Investigation Agency, of him alone. He takes any job that he finds and will accept any case even if not on it officially, sometimes conflicting with law enforcement or actual detectives. As such, he found himself in an airship, ready to jump into a party where he heard from an informant on the inside that something was happening and he was about to find out.
Theme Song Theme
Relationships: Iris (Drinking buddy): Steel doesn't really know much about Iris as one really should, but he always finds himself drinking at the same places that she is which found a sort of bond between them as they get drunk off spirits.

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Duestchstien
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Postby Duestchstien » Wed May 15, 2019 4:21 pm

Character Application
Character Name: Lucius Edward McKenzie
Gender: Male
Race: White, Alban
Appearance:
Image

Personality: Inquisitive, Knowledgable, Aristocratic, Pompous, Arrogant
Age: 25
Occupation: Investigator for a Museum (Explained in Bio)
Likes: Mystery, Knowledge, Virtue
Dislikes: Idiots, Failure, and Cowardice
Skills: Investigator, Sword Dueling, Using Guns (particularly pistols)
Special Ability(ies): Vim Pack - A quick healing agent derived from Vuk in the form of a syringe, he carries 3
Vash Rounds - Special Explosive rounds of ammo, very expensive to bring only around 6 on him at any one time
Sexual preference: Straight
Identifying features: Beard, Scar on Left Cheek, Burn Scar on right ankle
Bio: Born to the Lord and Lady of Lynne Manor, Lucius was a quiet and curious child. His father was a member of the military and was often gone on military expeditions, Lucius grew to admire his father, in the meantime he looked up to his uncle, a private investigator who became the leading male figure in Lucius' life. When he was 8 his mother sent him to boarding school on the other side of the country, the city of Traford was a large port and often competed with the port of Doverhampton for second largest city, the largest of course, being the capital. The St. Corby School for Young Men was a prestigious school that build up the character and knowledge of the boys so they could be good aristocrats. Many ended up going to the military or government for work. However, Lucius would work for his uncles detective agency starting at age 17, here he became a good investigator and was actually offered several times to join the police department, he got his claim to fame for solving the murder of a popular duke in the capital. But not even this could save his uncles financial problem. To save his agency he left and began to work at the National Museum working in the archives, doing investigative work in his spare time. After paying off his uncles debts, when he was 23 he was offered to go on an expedition to the arctic to recover some specimens, on this trip he made his name known, killing 2 seals and a narwhal expertly with one harpoon each. With these precise specimens and his investigative background, he was offered a chance to go and gather knowledge about the City of Lumina and its many characters. He took the job and has lived in Lumina for about a year now.
Theme Song: Right Here
Relationships:
Lord Jonathan Thorpe - Head of the National Musuem and mentor to Lucius
Evan Grey - Lucius' Uncle, Private Detective, and mentor to Lucius
High General Lord Milton Sedgewick McKenzie - Military Commander, Well Respected, Father of Lucius, Idolized by Lucius
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Chancellor - Alexei Matrovitch
Vice Chancellor - Dmitri Zdunowo
Capital - Moscow
Population - 404.2 Million
Currency - Roys Ruble (₽)
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Naval Monte
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Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Naval Monte » Wed May 15, 2019 7:06 pm

Britanania wrote:---


I think it is but I might be wrong.

Greater Redosia wrote:---


Duestchstien wrote:---


Both are accepted
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Demincia
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Postby Demincia » Thu May 16, 2019 8:53 pm

Character Application

Character Name: Amos 'Sunrise' Hewitt

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Appearance: The Relic.
Amos favors wearing a dark gray, almost black duster to keep his clothes in something resembling decent shape, though he never was much for fancy dressing. He wears a simple holster on his back for his rifle, and a gunbelt low on his hip and thigh. Both holsters double as a bandolier, with storage for bullets on the straps.

Personality: Amos is gruff, especially when confronted by the modern world. He much prefers to cling to the past, not for the sake of his own ego but out of fear of the unknown and fear of irrelevance. Age has softened him a bit, but it's done nothing to remove his cowboy nature. He prefers being direct, and believes that people that don't get straight to the point have something to hide. He doesn't take kindly to cowardice, but he's not too proud to mistake cowardice for sensibility. He doesn't like people that take advantage of others, and has far fewer qualms about killing a criminal than anyone else.

Age: 55

Occupation: Officially a bounty hunter, trapper. bodyguard.

Likes: Simpler times, when folk was more honest. Horses, guns

Dislikes Modern technology, sometimes the old ways is best. Civilization, civilized people.

Skills:
  • Quickdraw: Amos' reflexes haven't slowed in old age, and he's still lightning quick when it comes to bringing his guns up to fire.
  • Fan the hammer: In addition to drawing fast, Amos can fire both his revolver and his rifle, emptying the latter in under 5 seconds.
  • Deadeye: Amos can draw, aim and fire so quickly and accurately that those who witness it swear he must see the world in slow motion. He's exceptionally accurate, capable of putting out a candle flame at 200 yards.
  • Equestrian: What good is a cowboy without a horse? Amos' horse is a black Quarter Horse called Friday. She carries provisions, ammo, a makeshift campsite and other necessities for the road.
  • Constitution: Amos has had a lot of practice drinking in his days, and is no slouch in a drinking contest
  • Reloading: Amos makes his own specialty bullets, for reasons of habit, supply, and capability.

Special Ability(ies) Vim-infused Winchester 1892 chambered in .44-40 with an enlarged lever loop to allow one-handed operation and faster cycling overall. Fed by a 15 round magazine tube.

Vim-infused Smith & Wesson Model 3 Frontier Model chambered in .44-40. Six round cylinder, top break.

Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver chambered in .455 Webley (MkII) that he took off of someone he killed when he first arrived in Lumina. Six round cylinder, top break.

Bullets infused with the magic of Vim, mixed to have a wide variety of effects.
  • Fire - Tracer rounds, also used for Incendiary bullets.
  • Water - Ice bullets
  • Fire + Wind - Smoke bullets for setting a smokescreen
  • Force - Electrically charged rounds, concussive knockback rounds
  • Fire + Water + Entropy - Bullets with a corrosive acid core


Sexual preference Those days are long over, pardner.

Identifying features Just about everything sticks out, from the accent to the clothing to the equipment.

Bio Amos is a relic from a bygone era, one of the last holdouts of the Old West as Kellibrir started to expand westward, but civilization hadn't quite caught up. A legendary gunfighter, Amos Hewitt made his name in the Widow's Creek Massacre when the last remnants of the notorious Carlisle Gang faced off with local law enforcement in a shootout that ended up killing most of the town. Amos managed to survive, taking out several of the Carlisle boys and Richie Carlisle himself before the dust settled.

From then on, Amos was a wanderer. He went from town to town with no real goal, and stayed until either he got bored or until he was challenged by another gloryhound hoping to make their name off of his corpse. Each of them fell to his gun, and with each soul he buried, his legend increased. After a while, people stopped challenging him. It became an understood fact that only fools tried to draw on Sunrise Hewitt, so named for his stark demeanor. The only times he drew his gun was when it was to get food in the wilderness, and this suited Amos just fine. Unfortunately, as society grew, it began to run out of room for people like Amos. As government law enforcement became better equipped, it became braver. It decided that the days of the gunslinger were over, and that anyone who had used their guns in self-defense was a criminal.

This made Amos a wanted man, and he managed to avoid the law for a few years until they finally caught up with him just north of a dwindling town called Rattlesnake Bend. Federal employees set an ambush for Amos, which he was too smart to fall into. In order to get out alive, he had to gun down several of the officials before he could escape. Now the government was really focused on ending the tale of Sunrise Hewitt, so he fled southward until he managed to cross into Nuevo Paraíso, then from there he traveled around for a while until he arrived in Lumina.

In Lumina, he fashioned out a life somewhat close to the one he had, taking up security or hunting targets both man and beast. It's not the best life, but it beats the hangman's noose back in Rattlesnake Bend. He doesn't let the pace of the world change who he is, and lives just as he did in the West.

Theme Song Hard to pick one, but here.

Relationships: None worth remembering
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Naval Monte
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Postby Naval Monte » Thu May 16, 2019 9:06 pm

Demincia wrote:---


Accepted
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Postby The Palmetto » Mon May 20, 2019 6:46 pm

Character Application
Character Name: Lieutenant Colonel Scott
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: Image
Personality: Lieutenant Colonel Scott is your stereotypical Southern gentlemen, excessively polite, showing great hospitality, and always willing to help someone out. He doesn’t tolerate brawl in his restaurant, and will violently assault anyone who causes a fight.
Age: 45
Occupation: War Veteran, Restaurant Owner
Likes: Cooking, food, the South, guns, hunting, naturalism
Dislikes: Unnecessary violence, crime, the ghetto
Skills: Scott is a good cook and businessmen. As a war veteran who still works out, he is in good shape and has great aim.
Special Ability(ies): Some would say his fried chicken is unnaturally good. He uses a shotgun infused with Vim, so it has a flaming napalm-like effect.
Sexual preference: Heterosexual
Identifying features: N/A
Bio: Thomas “Tom” Scott is from Chaaston, a town in southern Kellibrir. He was born and raised around his father’s plantation, who just barely managed to keep his plantation afloat after the Kellibriran Civil War. Scott, as one of the younger siblings, wasn’t going to get much from his father’s inheritance, so he decided to join the military. He served primarily in conflicts against natives out west until fighting in a major war, being deployed to fight in the Tornish-Kellibriran war. He fought well and took part in several important battles, eventually rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Some years after, he decided to retire and move to Luminaa. He opened up a successful Southern restaurant called Karolina Fried Chicken and has carved a successful niche for himself in the city. He’s glad to be a successful owner, but sometimes regrets being so far from home.

Theme Song: N/A
Relationships: N/A
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Naval Monte
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Postby Naval Monte » Mon May 20, 2019 7:34 pm

The Palmetto wrote:Character Application
Character Name: Lieutenant Colonel Scott
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: (Image)
Personality: Lieutenant Colonel Scott is your stereotypical Southern gentlemen, excessively polite, showing great hospitality, and always willing to help someone out. He doesn’t tolerate brawl in his restaurant, and will violently assault anyone who causes a fight.
Age: 45
Occupation: War Veteran, Restaurant Owner
Likes: Cooking, food, the South, guns, hunting, naturalism
Dislikes: Unnecessary violence, crime, the ghetto
Skills: Scott is a good cook and businessmen. As a war veteran who still works out, he is in good shape and has great aim.
Special Ability(ies): Some would say his fried chicken is unnaturally good. He uses a shotgun infused with Vim, so it has a flaming napalm-like effect.
Sexual preference: Heterosexual
Identifying features: N/A
Bio: Thomas “Tom” Scott is from Chaaston, a town in southern Kellibrir. He was born and raised around his father’s plantation, who just barely managed to keep his plantation afloat after the Kellibriran Civil War. Scott, as one of the younger siblings, wasn’t going to get much from his father’s inheritance, so he decided to join the military. He served primarily in conflicts against natives out west until fighting in a major war, being deployed to fight in the Tornish-Kellibriran war. He fought well and took part in several important battles, eventually rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Some years after, he decided to retire and move to Luminara. He opened up a successful Southern restaurant called Karolina Fried Chicken and has carved a successful niche for himself in the city. He’s glad to be a successful owner, but sometimes regrets being so far from home.

Theme Song: N/A
Relationships: N/A


Correction, it is Lumina. Otherwise accepted
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Postby The Palmetto » Tue May 21, 2019 5:41 pm

Character Application
Character Name: Arjun Singh, but uses Aestus as a pen name
Gender: Male
Race: Godling, though heavily diluted
Appearance: Aestus is about 6’ 1” with traits typical of an IRL Bengali, having light brown skin and similar facial features, but light blue eyes and black hair. He typically wears a large, dull blue coat and pants, his clothes being infused to Vim as to make them waterproof. He wears a straw hat made by some locals on the coast, though it's not special.
Personality: Aestus has been through a lot, and learned a lot of things. He’s willing to offer his advice or knowhow to anyone in need, and generally tries to help the poor of Lumina by paying them to do odd jobs for him. He has a love of the natural world and a great curiosity, and while he tries to avoid fantastical adventures, sometimes the latter ropes him into them.
Age: ~60, biologically about 30
Occupation: Biologist. He helps with infusions and other Vim effects on the human body, works to understand and refine chimera making, and writes books for a living.
Likes: Biology, animal husbandry, nature, reading
Dislikes Exploitation, colonialism, loud noises, pollution
Skills: Aes is skilled in various fields of biology, from ecology to zoology. He has considerable survival skills, and knows basic medicine. He has basic fighting skills, and knows how to operate a gun. He carries a Mauser-esque pistol on him, infused with Vim to slow down coagulation and cause further blood loss. He has knowledge of what would irl be English and Hindi, with rough knowledge of several other Indian languages.

Special Ability(ies)

Regeneration: Aes has heightened regeneration comparable to that of an axolotl, which allows him to survive and recover from normally fatal injuries. This doubles his life span, and gives him greater stamina. He is not fully immortal by any means however, any major injury knocks him out of a fight, and sufficient blood loss or the failure of multiple organs will kill him. Regeneration can take days, sometimes even weeks depending on the injury.

Unique Skin: Aestus’s skin appears normal at first, but entirely lacks hair below the head, and is smoother and thinner than on a normal human. This is because he has salamander-like skin, which grants him heightened senses, especially chemoreception, and allows him to absorb oxygen through his skin. This comes at a cost, however, as it makes him more vulnerable to pollutants and toxins.

Genome Reader: Given an adequate tissue sample, Aestus can “read” the threads of life (genes) present in the organic matter. This allows him to predict what the organism might look like and what biological traits they might have. The more the threads of life are corrupted, either by vim or magic use, the harder they are to read. Aes has issues remembering genomes, so it is not a fully reliable tool for a database.

Sexual preference Heterosexual
Identifying features Other than his head, his skin is unnaturally smooth and hairless
Bio Super duper triple secret
Theme Song N/A
Relationships: As of now, he doesn't know too many people in Lumina personally. However, he's bumped into Jules a few times, and once helped pay for her dinner. He knows Alex well from their interactions regarding Vim infusion, though it's mostly limited to their work.


Aqua Man is here
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Postby Naval Monte » Tue May 21, 2019 5:48 pm

The Palmetto wrote:Aqua Man is here


Aquaman is accepted
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Postby Reichkaffine » Tue May 21, 2019 6:20 pm

If you are looking for nations and/or groups to give some tension/possible plot material, I can throw my hat into the ring.

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Postby Naval Monte » Tue May 21, 2019 8:12 pm

Reichkaffine wrote:If you are looking for nations and/or groups to give some tension/possible plot material, I can throw my hat into the ring.


Right about that. You seem to be new here so I have to ask on how well you can do roleplaying as a nation or faction. Can you provide me an example of your roleplaying skill?
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Postby Reichkaffine » Tue May 21, 2019 10:07 pm

Naval Monte wrote:
Reichkaffine wrote:If you are looking for nations and/or groups to give some tension/possible plot material, I can throw my hat into the ring.


Right about that. You seem to be new here so I have to ask on how well you can do roleplaying as a nation or faction. Can you provide me an example of your roleplaying skill?


Sent a rough idea for a group I had in mind via TG

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Postby Naval Monte » Wed May 22, 2019 7:32 pm

I unstilladed the Discord app to reinstall it to fix a minor glitch but now I'm getting connection issues that is preventing me from downloading it back so I won't be back on Discord for a while.
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Postby Britanania » Wed May 22, 2019 7:48 pm

Naval Monte wrote:I unstilladed the Discord app to reinstall it to fix a minor glitch but now I'm getting connection issues that is preventing me from downloading it back so I won't be back on Discord for a while.

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Postby Naval Monte » Wed May 22, 2019 8:31 pm

Okay turns out something is going on with the Google Play Store because it won't let me download on either by tablet or phone. You are going to have to talk to me in here or at TG for the time being.
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Postby Demincia » Wed May 22, 2019 8:57 pm

Naval Monte wrote:Okay turns out something is going on with the Google Play Store because it won't let me download on either by tablet or phone. You are going to have to talk to me in here or at TG for the time being.


I'll try not to burn down too much of the discord

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Postby Naval Monte » Wed May 22, 2019 9:05 pm

Demincia wrote:
Naval Monte wrote:Okay turns out something is going on with the Google Play Store because it won't let me download on either by tablet or phone. You are going to have to talk to me in here or at TG for the time being.


I'll try not to burn down too much of the discord


Why? Also anyone got any tips if there is an issue on the Google Playstore?
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Postby Demincia » Wed May 22, 2019 9:16 pm

Naval Monte wrote:
Demincia wrote:
I'll try not to burn down too much of the discord


Why? Also anyone got any tips if there is an issue on the Google Playstore?


ok, I'll burn it all. re:Play Store idk, never had an issue with Discord mobile. All of my troubles with Discord have been desktop based

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Postby Ithalian Empire » Wed May 22, 2019 9:42 pm

Naval Monte wrote:
Demincia wrote:
I'll try not to burn down too much of the discord


Why? Also anyone got any tips if there is an issue on the Google Playstore?


Have you tried to update Playstore?
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Postby Naval Monte » Wed May 22, 2019 9:45 pm

Ithalian Empire wrote:
Naval Monte wrote:
Why? Also anyone got any tips if there is an issue on the Google Playstore?


Have you tried to update Playstore?


Playstore itself? Not sure

EDIT: it won't allow me to update
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Postby Naval Monte » Wed May 22, 2019 9:47 pm

Keep getting downloading with no progress
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Postby Naval Monte » Wed May 22, 2019 10:25 pm

Status update: It seems Google Playstore was having a cyber brain fart and is now working.
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Postby Demincia » Mon May 27, 2019 12:59 am

warning: the bio gets dark and abusive, so maybe don't read that if you aren't comfortable with that sort of thing.

Character Application

Character Name: Zaivari

Gender: Female

Race: Therion

Appearance: Sins of the father become sins of the daughter. Zaivari stands 5'6. She also has a forked tongue and pointed canine teeth, adding to her demonic appearance.

Personality: Zaivari can be somewhat awkward at times, missing social cues and saying the wrong thing. She prefers books to most people, because books are consistent and don't have their own reasons for helping you. She is capable of holding conversation with friends, though her experiences with prejudice have made her slow to trust people.

Age: 50, though her unusual physicality means she's still considered young

Occupation: Vice Chair of the Arcane Studies Department at Luminaria University

Likes: History, both of arcana and of the world. Magic. Red meat.

Dislikes Racists, stereotypes. Those who would suppress the knowledge of magic. Violence. Hats, most fruits and vegetables.

Skills:
  • Prehensile tail
  • Fluent in multiple languages due to her work as a scholar
  • Keen eyesight and hearing
  • Devil's Sight - can see through magical and nonmagical darkness
  • Extensive knowledge into the history of magic in its various forms
  • Able to craft spells after trial and error in a safe environment
  • Heightened physical abilities due to her Therion physiology
  • Can use a knife and sword well enough as an ultimate last resort, but prefers to use magic

Special Abilities Warlock: Infused with magic from birth, Zaivari has learned or crafted many spells with the intention of study, though they can be used offensively if she absolutely has to.

Sexual preference Bisexual, though she might be aromantic.

Identifying features You'd be hard pressed to find a feature on Zaivari that isn't identifying, unless all Therion look alike to you. The air around her always has a slight smell of brimstone to it.

Bio Some people's obsession with magic goes too far. Such was the plight of Warren Hadaway, Zaivari's father. He wanted nothing more than to be able to use magic himself, and was envious to the point of hatred for those that had innate spellcasting. Eventually he decided that if he could have a child capable of using magic, he could at least live vicariously through them if he controlled their upbringing through the world of the arcane. He looked for ways to try to increase the chances that a child could control magic, and eventually he found someone willing to help him. He wasn't aware at the time that the man he met was a disguised Fey looking to pull a cruel prank, and he took the man's advice on giving his pregnant wife tonics containing Vim agitated by old arcane magic.

As the pregnancy went on, his wife became more and more sick from the mixtures, but Warren pressed on. After nine months, he should have realized the error of his ways when his wife died in childbirth and their daughter was a mutated monstrosity, but instead he passed all of his hatred onto the girl. He bitterly raised her, blaming her for the death of his wife and attributing her appearance to a demonic curse. He spoke to her very little, and when he did it was always to belittle or insult her. Once he realized she had the magical powers he wanted, he was convinced she was a demon sent to terrorize him and he became even more distant and cruel. She spent days at a time locked in her room alone, only seeing her father when he brought her food.

When she was 12, she ran away from home only to be brought back by the police. That night, her father beat her harder than he ever had before. She tried to defend herself with magic, but it failed and only made him angrier.

After a few more attempts and failures at running away, she finally got out when she was 15. She started going by a different name to forget any association of her father, and eventually made her to a university. She didn't have the prior education history technically required, but her abilities with magic were far enough along that they were worth studying, so she managed to graduate with a degree in arcana in return for being a live subject for studies into her physiology and abilities. After she graduated, she took a job with the university as a researcher then eventually became a proper lecturer. Years later, she received a letter from a distant university offering her an chair position in their Arcane Studies Department which she just couldn't pass up. She moved across continents and settled in Lumina, where she's been for a number of years.

Theme Song It doesn't totally fit, but it's too good of a song to not bump it

Relationships: Warren Hadaway: Zaivari's estranged abusive father. She hasn't had contact with him since she escaped and changed her name.
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Postby Khasinkonia » Mon May 27, 2019 10:49 pm

Character Application
Character Name: Mrasestu “Maria” Lhikriidaan (Pronounced Mrah-Sheh-Stew Lyih-cree-dawn)
Gender: F
Race: Pixie
Appearance:
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The latter provides a more clear depiction of her shape, while the former gives upper body and facial features

Personality: As is the stereotype for smaller sorts, Mrasestu makes up for her small stature with a big personality. Certainly eccentric, bubbly, and prone to humorous comments, she can often serve as a foil to Venusta's cold, calculating interior. That's not to say she's any less intelligent, even if she most certainly possesses far less experience. She tends to ramble and chatter on and on, sometimes asking rhetorical questions that she proceeds to answer to the extent that one cannot be entirely sure whether she is talking to anyone in particular. She doesn't quite take her job as an inquisitor as seriously as her superior, possessing comparatively less sense of duty and loyalty and more sense of personal interest. Like Venusta, she has a strong capacity for cruelty, but is less discriminatory and approaches it less seriously, more often engaging in "speculation", as she calls it, about the consequences of torture, genocide, and other heinous acts. Whether she means it or not is up to the listener when the audience is captive.
Age: 18
Occupation: Junior Inquisitor of the Ecclesiarchy
Likes: Science(Particularly that which has to do with her specific interests), magic, tinkering, dark humour, and calligraphy
Dislikes Heavy physical labour, condescending explanations, and overzealous scrutiny
Skills: Mrashestu is fluent in multiple languages, has reasonable command over the pipe organ, and has some fluency in carnality. Her most distinguishing talent, however, is her knack for machinery, especially clockwork machinery.
Special Ability(ies)
Flight of the Pixie: As a pixie, Mrasestu is capable of flight, maxing out at speeds of approximately 56kph(35mph). Being that the laws of physics still apply(read: momentum), the faster she flies, the less agile she becomes. She is able to fly with up to around 14kg(31lbs) of stuff, with her maximum speed and agility decreasing accordingly.

Magic: It is common for faeries to possess innate magic in one form or another, usually concentrated into one specialised ability if they do not hone it. In Mrasestu's case, she employs a form of telekinesis which she can use to hold suspend and manipulate objects weighing less than around 1.5 times her own body weight, which is 15kg(33lbs). Heavier objects become increasingly difficult to manipulate, with her limit currently sitting at around 27kg(60lbs), similar to her physical carrying limit. For a small being like a pixie, such an ability is invaluable, and Mrasestu has made an effort to hone it throughout her youth, branching into one subset of telekinesis in particular: Hydrokinesis. Although it is most useful for more quickly drying herself, in particular her wings, Mrasestu has also made some progress in forming hydrokinetic constructs, generally in the form of limbs barely larger than her own, or bubbles of water. Much more so than her basic telekinetic skills, Mrasestu's hydrokinesis is crude, and will require a good deal more practice to become useful for anything more than drying herself and killing insects.

Quick Perception: As a smaller being, Mrasestu experiences time as moving slightly slower than a fully-sized human would, giving her comparatively quicker reflexes as her perception time is increased. For Mrasestu, the world moves around 10% slower compared to that of a human's.

Water Running: Due to her small size, and light weight, Mrasestu, like many similar beings, is able to move on water in a similar way to how humans may run on oobleck. As long as she is in constant motion of at least the speed of a jog, Mrasestu can move on water as if it were a solid.
Sexual preference Bisexual
Identifying features Mrasestu is most easily identified by her translucent blue-green wings, extremely petite height of 97cm(38in), and a custom fashion backpack with an exterior composed of kangaroo leather and teal anodised titanium. This backpack, however, has remarkably little storage space—not much more than a wristlet. Instead, most of its space serves to house the fuel and motors for four 127cm(50in) spidery titanium legs, which, when activated, telescopically extend from the backpack, and as primarily used as alternative faster locomotion in lieu of flight, but may also be used as weapons thanks to their pointed ends.
Bio Unlike many orphans, Mrasestu knew her parents. She grew up near to the border of the Pontifical State in the forested borderlands, where small villages of pixies are commonplace. As far as anyone can deduce, her parents were natives of the region, as Mrasestu is both a native speaker of the indigenous Pasii language, and has a Pasii name, as did her parents, at least according to her. Given the remote nature of the area, it is up to Mrasestu's vague childhood memories to determine whether her parents might still be alive, and the answer is decidedly a "no".

According to her own recollection, she ended up in the arms of the Ecclesiarchy after the death of her father in a travelling accident, the subsequent devolution of madness on her mother's part, and her grandparents' inability to care for her. This all occurred in the summer, or, by Mrasestu's memory, "shortly after [her] 10th birthday", leading her to be fully integrated into the orphanage system by the start of fall. Her time as an orphan was marked by academic excellence and at least a passing interest in ecumenical matters. Her teachers remarked that she might grow to be an excellent inquisitor, and so, she entered into training to become one. It was noted during her education that she had other dedications outside of church studies, and so, in lieu of true ordination, the local episcopus petitioned for her to be assigned as a junior to a proper inquisitor to teach her things that cannot be taught in the classroom. The inquisitor chosen for the task happened to be Venusta.
Theme Song Plopi Impari
Relationships: Mrasestu is Venusta's new 'apprentice', of sorts. Only time will tell how they get along.
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