World of Darkness: Masquerade of Shadows OOC [OPEN]

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Yeah, I think I've finished making my edits and I'd like to join the discord but I don't see any link.

[Oblivion2]

Name: Jean-Luc "Etienne" Saint Francis
Birthdate and Age: May 25th 1812, 76 years of age.
Species (Vampire, Garou, Human, Changeling, Promethean): Vampire
Clan: Ventrue
Bloodline: Ventrue

Demeanor: Calculating, Ambitious
Sire (if available): Guillermo Torres
Generation (10th to Most Present): 10th
Disciplines: Dominate 1, Presence 2, Fortitude 1

Height: 5'10"
Weight: 182lbs
Occupation: Varies
Description or Image:

Character Biography (at least two paragraphs):

The Creature calling itself Étienne Saint Francis was born in a world engulfed by War. Napoleon stood astride the continent like a colossus, his Confederation of the Rhine seemingly unbeatable in the field of battle. On the other side of the world, The United States of America stretched its hand out towards the British Colonies of Upper and Lower Canada, eager to fulfill her Manifest Destiny. Conceived only months before what would be called the War of 1812, Étienne was born in Quebec City to a French-Canadian Militia Officer and a Seamstress.

The War would see the young boy bereft of a Father, leaving his Mother to raise him with the help of Etienne’s maternal grandparents. Growing up clever and determined, Étienne had a knack for finding advantage in almost any situation he found himself in. When the young man made enemies in the schoolyard, he would deflect violence with a clever tongue. Soon he came to understand the ties that bound people together for better or worse. When faced with two sides or unfortunate choices, it wouldn’t be uncommon for Étienne to find a third option, or play one side against the other.

These traits eventually got the young man a position in the Hudson’s Bay Company, where he helped manage trade between the burgeoning colonies and the various Caribbean islands. This naturally led him to his Sire, an Old World Spanish Vampire named Guillermo Torres who Embraced the young Colonial at the age of twenty six. Etienne took to unlife well under his sire's tutelage, however a recent fallout has led to the Venture leading his own life, independent of the Spaniard. Time will tell how he fits into the Courts of Europe and the streets of London.

Statistics

Strengths: Dex, Social, Charisma, Manipulation.

Weakness: Strength, Knowledge.

Weapons Proficiencies: Short blades, pistols.

Additional Skills:
Networking (Adept)
Social Camouflage (Adept)
Mercantilism (Journeyman)

[Luminesa]

Yeah, I think I've finished making my edits and I'd like to join the discord but I don't see any link.

I'll DM you, lemme look at the edits.

[Luminesa]

Name: Jean-Luc "Etienne" Saint Francis
Birthdate and Age: May 25th 1812, 76 years of age.
Species (Vampire, Garou, Human, Changeling, Promethean): Vampire
Clan: Ventrue
Bloodline: Ventrue

Demeanor:
Sire (if available): Guillermo Torres
Generation (10th to Most Present): 10th
Disciplines: Dominate 1, Presence 2, Fortitude 1

Height: 5'10"
Weight: 182lbs
Occupation: Varies
Description or Image:

(Image)

Character Biography (at least two paragraphs):

The Creature calling itself Étienne Saint Francis was born in a world engulfed by War. Napoleon stood astride the continent like a colossus, his Confederation of the Rhine seemingly unbeatable in the field of battle. On the other side of the world, The United States of America stretched its hand out towards the British Colonies of Upper and Lower Canada, eager to fulfill her Manifest Destiny. Conceived only months before what would be called the War of 1812, Étienne was born in Quebec City to a French-Canadian Militia Officer and a Seamstress.

The War would see the young boy bereft of a Father, leaving his Mother to raise him with the help of Etienne’s maternal grandparents. Growing up clever and determined, Étienne had a knack for finding advantage in almost any situation he found himself in. When the young man made enemies in the schoolyard, he would deflect violence with a clever tongue. Soon he came to understand the ties that bound people together for better or worse. When faced with two sides or unfortunate choices, it wouldn’t be uncommon for Étienne to find a third option, or play one side against the other.

These traits eventually got the young man a position in the Hudson’s Bay Company, where he helped manage trade between the burgeoning colonies and the various Caribbean islands. This naturally led him to his Sire, an Old World Spanish Vampire named Guillermo Torres who Embraced the young Colonial at the age of twenty six. Etienne took to unlife well under his sire's tutelage, however a recent fallout has led to the Venture leading his own life, independent of the Spaniard. Time will tell how he fits into the Courts of Europe and the streets of London.

Statistics

Strengths: Dex, Social, Charisma, Manipulation.

Weakness: Strength, Knowledge.

Weapons Proficiencies: Short blades, pistols.

Additional Skills:
Networking (Adept)
Social Camouflage (Adept)
Mercantilism (Journeyman)

Welcome back Etienne! Accepted!

[Luminesa]

CSR, your app is accepted and I'll send you a link soon for the Discord.

[Observation Post 13]

Hey lumi, is my app accepted?

[Luminesa]

Hey lumi, is my app accepted?

No.

[Observation Post 13]

Please tell me what I need to do in order to get the application accepted.

[Ormata]

Please tell me what I need to do in order to get the application accepted.

"Stop making Willis Philips" appears to be the criteria.

[Fien Ealgarosa]

I love WoD lore but am woefully unfamiliar with how to make a character - especially a Changeling so I might be filling this out wrong.

General Information

Name: Juan Portolla
Birthdate and Age: June 29th, 1844 - ~27
Species): Changeling
Height: 6'3
Weight: 200 lbs
Occupation: Gangster

Description or Image: To most Portolla is overall a big and handsome individual though there's a few oddities about him to most people. The black and the pair of sideburns that connect with a moustache certainly aren't one of them it's the perpetually reddish sunburnt skin, the changing pupil that often looks like a serpent and the occasional inability to keep his unordinary large tongue inside his mouth. These oddities are just wounds in a mask, his mien or his true appearance is that of a reddish humanoid creature with black hair retaining his hairstyle and overall noble posture.

Character Biography: Juan Arnulfo Maria de Luna Portolla y Bandocampo is a Mexican national and born to as close as it got to nobility in Mexico, as such his parents expected him to enter military service through college though he himself did not seem to have such a bad affinity for leadership he liked the blade and perhaps this is what made him attractive, he would his schooling behind at 13 years of age to fight in the reform war where he spent some time with the conservative forces but in their defeat he got lost and was dragged through the thorns into a horrible place by a mighty dragon. Like many changelings he does not remember much, in retrospect he's found that his keeper was most likely the Deathless; Dzarûmazh a keeper that while not particularly brutal essentially turned Juan into a battle slave, guardsman of winding tunnels and treasures, a singer and other things whimsically. Overtime his body imitated somewhat his idea of that mighty dragon and embodied it's graceful nobility, coldness and ideally it's ferocity.

One day Juan regained a portion of clarity, sick of such servitude and a myriad of desires to return to his country, to his family and so on led to his attempt at an escape. Which succeeded, however he had resurfaced much later in time than he would have expected. Even if the unknown cycles of day and night, Juan did not expect to land back in Mexico in 1880, a country which left him behind and one where any comrades he knew were dead or too old. He was even replaced by what he later learned was a Fetch, a version of him which was ahead of him in years and lived with his family. In a fit of rage, Juan struck the fetch down and ran away from his old life. He eventually found company in Veracruz with a freehold there and learned more about what he was. Due to his perhaps lazy nature though, he wasn't well tolerated by many there except a British changeling which had taken a liking to him. In the following years, Juan served directly for this man - a British aristocrat that took him to London to serve as a bodyguard in public. However after his passing away and failed attempts to invest in businesses led Juan to disarray yet again.

Becoming something of a freeloader again, his position among the denizens of his peers was threatened. Juan's immediate action was to drink with people which led him into witnessing a fight between drunks who happened to be rivals on the streets, piquing his curiosity he monitored gangsters and harvested glamour from the brewing emotions of their violent shenanigans. To stand on his own Juan despite his looks was able to get into some amount of the criminal underworld, recklessly starting fights and making merry with his lads.

Statistics

Abduction: Dzarûmazh
Contract: Vainglory [2] & Thorns and Bramble [3]
Pledge: None
Wyrd: 3
Glamour: 3
Clarity: 2

Strengths: Stamina, Dext & Perception

Weakness: Social, Charisma & Knowledge

Weapons Proficiencies: Sabre & Lance

Additional Skills: Singing [Beginner], Cooking [Competent], Drinking [Adept] & Taming Animals [Adept]

[Luminesa]

Your app looks good! I’ll get you the Discord link soon. Thanks for jumping aboard!

[Observation Post 13]

General Information (Resubmission)
Name: Henry Hastings
Birthdate and Age: May 31, 1841; (47)
Species: Vampire
Height: 5'11''
Weight: 180 lbs
Occupation: Courier
Physical Description:

Henry has light skin tone, dark hair, and dark eyes.

Character Biography:

Who was I before my first death? Let's see: I served in the military, once a young officer of Her Majesty's Royal Dragoon Regiment. In addition to my combat training, I learned survival techniques in the wilderness of Scotland and Wales, how to move fast and stay out of trouble, and how to issue both orders and threats.

I still remember the last time I saw the sun. I was so focused in those days. Life was so clear. I knew what I was going to become. And then…

I was back in Britannia, dead broke and with a headache that never fully went away, staying at the house of a "friend" who pitied me more than liked me. That evening, I stood on the little wrought-iron balcony, watching the sun set over a city I didn't like, idly making plans to leave. Maybe I would reenlist. Maybe I'd take up that job offer. Maybe I'd kill myself. I couldn't decide.

When my roommate shouted at me to pick up a box of his shit from the tobacconist, I shrugged and went downstairs. Of course, the store was closed. And when I came back it was night, the door was locked, and no one would answer.

And then a shadow detached itself from the wall of the alley.

When I rose again, burning with Hunger and sticky with my own blood, my killer said I am reborn a "Child of Haqim". He explained the situation as well as he could: his clan was looking to expand beyond the reach of their ancestral homeland in the Middle East, after their humiliation in Egypt. Already they had spread to other parts of the Muslim world, and he understood what his masters were looking for in the British Isles. Since I was born here, I would be even more useful to them.

My sire - an Assamite called Al-Qahir something, I just call him Azim, needed a bodyguard, someone who knew their way around a sword. Heavy blades are better at putting down Kindred than firearms, and Azim expected to make powerful enemies. And so, gifted with gifts of Blood that granted me inhuman speed and endurance, trained in the use of an actual scimitar- I followed Azim as bodyguard, enforcer, and the occasional courier for when he needed someone to ferry his strange friends and their strange artifacts around.

There were a couple of close calls in my span of unlife following Azim, when his charm, money, and discretion failed. There was this Tremere-backed brute squad that I had to pacify, and deal with over-zealous vampire hunters here and there. I had to cut off some hands and some heads. But bad times were always followed by a longer period of quiet. Life began to settle into a routine interspersed with the occasional excitement and bloodbath.

And then, one night after returning from a trip from Egypt, Azim was gone. His havens swarmed with hunters. I heard the kill team a second before they blew up my carriage. Hopelessly outnumbered, I kept my sword sheathed and fled into the night, relying on the power of my Blood to carry me swiftly to safety. I only took three or four bullets before I got clear.

Everything I owned was gone, but I still had some money stashed in a cache and someone powerful owed me a favor. I used it to activate a new identity, stayed low for a few years, and reemerged outside the mainland. No one there knew I was Clan Banu Haqim, and I was happy to keep it that way; I don't want anyone connecting me back to Azim. As far as the people who employ me are concerned, I'm a minor member of Clan Toreador, Embraced for the aesthetic value of my martial talents—the Degenerates enjoy that sort of performance, I'm told, and so far I've remained undetected, lurking at the edges of their society, running odd jobs for little pay.

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Statistics
Strengths: Strength, Stamina, Perception, Wit
Weakness: Manipulation, Social
Weapons Proficiencies: Saber/Scimitar (Short Range), Carbine (Middle Range)
Additional Skills: Awareness (Beginner), Clandestine (Adept), Athletics (Adept), Survival (Expert), Combat (Expert)

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Vampire Outline
Clan: Banu Haqim
Bloodline: Assamites
Demeanor: Confused Veteran
Sire: Al-Qahir ibn Azim
Generation: 10th
Disciplines: Fortitude (4), Obfuscate (2), Celerity (2)

[Luminesa]

It’s the exact same character with a different name. You use almost the exact same stats for the exact same sort of character, with differences only made for the purpose of the story, and you have done so with Willis Philips ten times (yes, I looked in PT2M). No, denied. I didn’t ask for you to just change the name. I want you to make a new character, and I want you to respect the tone of the storyline.

[Kaledoria]

Whow, you really kicked it of yesterday, did you?

Anyway, is my character ok? I edited the abilities to 2-2-3.

[Luminesa]

Whow, you really kicked it of yesterday, did you?

Anyway, is my character ok? I edited the abilities to 2-2-3.

I believe so. Welcome welcome!

[Cybernetic Socialist Republics]

Name: Xiomara Coy
Birthdate and Age: November 4th, 1861 (26)
Species: Human
Height: 1.75m
Weight: 75kg
Occupation: Heiress/Hunter
Image:

Description: Xiomara is a bright faced redhead with features as stunning as her hair. Wears a variety of costumes, often but not always flamboyant. Above average height with a subtly sturdy build.

Character Biography:
As Xiomara's father is one of the owners of the largest dairy companies in all of England, Xiomara grew up getting almost anything she wanted and with a large ego. At a young age she would grow towards a formidable combination of theatre girl and adventurer. In Britain she'd build towards a career in opera singing, acrobatics and acting. While at the same time she'd take every opportunity to go with her father on business trips to india, where she'd aquire all sorts of collectables, many of them weapons.

One day she would make a mistake of coming across and attempting to befriend Alexandra Jäger. One faitful day they'd be in an alleyway together, when a rival of alexandr would show up and get in a confrontation with the young woman. When she looked into the woman's eyes she a glare that didn't sit right with her and she'd later learn was that of a vampire and ill-advisably she'd step in front of her friend, the moment before the vampire swung and punch that caught her in the head and knocked her to the ground after blacking out for a moment, she'd attempt to scream, only for nothing to come out. Alexandra had left her here, and the vampire escaped as well before patrol of cops arrivied.

To say Xiomara was angry was an understatment. She hated the vampire for taking her voice and she depised Alexandra for saving her own skin. This rage would lead towards becoming a Hunter, specifically joining the Society of Leopold. Her extrodinary zeal in hunting down and killing the supernatural without has earned her a place in Gladius Dei. Her means of dispatch her targets usually involve luring them into traps or otherwise ambushing them, but she'll frequently resort to more direct methods.


Statistics

Strengths: Dext, Charisma, Wit, Stamina

Weakness: Knowledge, Social, Manipulation

Weapons Proficiencies: Short Range (Telescopic Umbrella, Pistol Katars), Medium Range (Custom Webley Revolver)

Additional Skills: Athletics [Expert], Acrobatics [Expert], Disguise [Adept]

Demeanor: Trickster
Virtue: Zeal
Edges: Cleave, Discern, Ward, Delve
Conviction: 4
Resolve (1-4 to start): 4
Conviction Modifier (Resolve x .5 to start): .5
Morality (Starts at 7): 7
True Faith (1-4 to start, can become higher with character milestones reached): 4
Any Affiliations: Society of Leopold
Corruption:0

[Luminesa]

Accepted! Looks good to me!

[Theyra]

Name: Caelan Maher
Birthdate and Age: July 16th, 1862, 26
Species: Human
Height: 5'9
Weight: 170lbs
Occupation: Hunter
Description or Image: Caelan

Demeanor: Survivor
Virtue: Zeal
Edges: Discern, Burden, View, Vow
Conviction: 4
Resolve: 3
Conviction Modifier: .5
Morality: 7
True Faith: 4
Any Affiliations: Independent
Corruption: 0

Character Biography: Born in the city of Dublin, Ireland, and the youngest of two. Caelan had a decent life growing up with his rich father and mother. A love story that was, Caelan's mother being poor and the two married for love. His father was not always there, preoccupied with work, and his mother raised them alone for the most part. Even though his father worked alot, Caelan did not mind and mostly just hung out with his sister and did what kids do. His future was looking bright, and it all came crashing down when he turned twelve.

For it was discovered after a doctor's visit that Caelan's father discovered that he was sterile and quickly realized that since he was sterile. How does he have two kids? So he confounded Caelan's mother, and it turned out that she had been having an affair with another man for years. This made Caelan's father insanely furious and forced his mother, Caelan, and his sister out of his estate and onto the streets. Caelan's mother tried to get help from her lover, but upon hearing the news. It turned out he did not wish to raise their kids, and now she was cut off from her husband's wealth. He wanted nothing to do with her and left her.

Now homeless and with nowhere to go, Caelan's family tried their best to survive on the streets, and after a year of it. His mother became weak as she caught a disease and later died. Now it was just Caelan, and his sister left and like before. They tried their best to survive the streets of Dublin and look out for each other.

It was like this for years, and Caelan and his sister had managed to stay alive and picked up some skills for living for years on the streets. Often working together to steal food or money from people and sometimes working with the other homeless kids they met. They were very close and were rarely apart. By the time he was eighteen, did things change for him.

When his sister started hanging out with a man named Ayden, and after time together. He wanted to give her something, and that was the last time Caelan heard from his sister. When a stranger was walking towards him as he waited for his sister in an alley at night. That was when he heard it, a voice in his head, "Its warmth is gone," and when the stranger started to smile at him. Did Caelan notice that she had elongated canines, and then she did the unexpected. She attacked him, and at first, she was close to getting her fangs into his neck but either skill or luck. Caelan managed to hold off the vampire for a time before he knew he could not win and ran for his life. He only managed to escape by hiding in a nearby crowd.

After thinking about what had happened, and dreaded about what had happened to his sister. Caelan had decided that he would hunt the supernaturals that plague humanity and find out what happened to his sister. For eight years, it was this. Him studying what he could find about the supernatural along with hunting them. Along with finding any clues about what happened to his sister. Now Caelan finds himself in London after finding a lead and is thinking about his next move after dealing with a particularly nasty vampire.

Statistics

Strengths: Dext, Perception, Wit, and Knowledge

Weakness: Social, Charisma, and Manipulation

Weapons Proficiencies: Brass Knuckles, Knife(Short Range), Enfield revolver(Middle Range)

Additional Skills: Sleight of hand(Beginner) Stealth(Trained), Lockpicking(Adept), Pickpocket(Adept), Streetsmart(Adept)

[Luminesa]

Definitely one of the best apps I’ve ever seen from you, dude. I’ll say accepted, going to grab OP and get his look at it as well.

[Morrdh]

Definitely one of the best apps I’ve ever seen from you, dude. I’ll say accepted, going to grab OP and get his look at it as well.

Seconded.

[Theyra]

Nice and can I get a link to the discord?

[Pragia]

Pinning for Interest, intend to app a mage of the invisible exchequer, captain of industry and aspiring politician/mover.

[Finsternia]

Pinning for Interest, intend to app a mage of the invisible exchequer, captain of industry and aspiring politician/mover.

Just a reminder that we're using Mage the Awakening's lore for Mages here, so the Technocrats are more like a Ministry of the Seers of the Throne that pushes technological reliance to further the Lie. Otherwise, welcome aboard!

[Pragia]

Pinning for Interest, intend to app a mage of the invisible exchequer, captain of industry and aspiring politician/mover.

Just a reminder that we're using Mage the Awakening's lore for Mages here, so the Technocrats are more like a Ministry of the Seers of the Throne that pushes technological reliance to further the Lie. Otherwise, welcome aboard!

From a cursory read its looking like that's a hard kill for the idea I had in mind. Is there any room in Awakening lore for a positive interpretation of consensual reality or the advancing/changing paradigm of science?

[Finsternia]

Just a reminder that we're using Mage the Awakening's lore for Mages here, so the Technocrats are more like a Ministry of the Seers of the Throne that pushes technological reliance to further the Lie. Otherwise, welcome aboard!

From a cursory read its looking like that's a hard kill for the idea I had in mind. Is there any room in Awakening lore for a positive interpretation of consensual reality or the advancing/changing paradigm of science?

There is! The Free Council in modern times focus on the progress of technology but currently in 1888 they are still not a formal Order. It's only at the turn of the 20th century that they were able to come together from various practices. You may apply as a Mage from a Nameless Order (since that's their name before they were unified) that focuses on the current marvels of Victorian tech. There are some Legacies that can be similar to Technocratic ideals but the most fitting one, the Transhuman Engineers, was only up and about in the 1960s.