[OOC] Strange Gospel: An Urban Fantasy RP

[Tancuras]

@VitaVitaAR No worries, I'm actually gonna pull out. Have fun!

[VitaVitaAR]

@Tancuras: Ah, I'm sorry to hear that.

[VitaVitaAR]

@AquaAzura@banjoanjo@Mercurial@Nerevarine@SaintRice@Dark Lugia@Altasaire@TheFake

Just a quick mention to ask if any of you are having trouble working out your characters or still intending to sign up. ^^;

[TheFake]

I should be able to finish up my cs after work today.

[VitaVitaAR]

Alright, great! ^_^

If anyone else is having trouble, or curious about something, anything at all, I'll happily answer your questions.

[SaintRice]

Still meaning to crank out a CS, just have a midterm coming up and am cramming for that at the moment.

[VitaVitaAR]

@SaintRice: Ah, alright. Good luck!

[Nerevarine]

I'm still working on a character, just been sidetracked lately

[VitaVitaAR]

@Nerevarine: Alright, good luck with whatever's got you preoccupied. ^^;

[banjoanjo]

Real life's been keeping me occupied.

[VitaVitaAR]

@banjoanjo: Ah, alright. Hope things work out. ^^;

[TheFake]

Maki Haruko

• Name: Maki Haruko
• Age: 18
• Gender: Female
• Appearance:
  
   
• Personality:
  Haruko is unambitious, preferring to do things for her won sake. She does not seek anyone else's approval but her own. Life is taken one day at a time and she prefers not to dwell on any doubts or fears but tackles them them head on instead. She is compassionate and polite, treating others and their problems with the same attitude that she would prefer they treat her.
• Skills: Haruka is skilled in Judo and as a result her body is very fit. She also has a exceptional memory and has little difficulty in working her way through life's everyday problems.
• Equipment: A modern smartphone with a smartwatch that has a braille interface that allows her to read whatever she runs her finger over on the phones screen. The phone is also connected to a Bluetooth earbud.
  She also has a white cane to aid in navigation.
• Soul Arts:
  
  
  • Second Sight: Haruko sees through the eyes and to a limited degree can hear and feel the sensations felt by another person. With some effort she can also make small changes to what they sense for better or for worse. Maybe in time she will be able to use this ability on more than one target.
• Brief Backstory: In her first year of junior high school Haruko suffered injuries in a car accident that left her blind in both eyes. She missed a full year of school to recover and relearn how to live her life. The change in circumstance did little to change her attitude towards life, but presented new challenges to overcome.
  After returning to classes she became active in the schools Judo team, Judo being a sport that caters particularly well to the blind. She made friends most readily with those on the team and had few outside of it. In competition Haruko did well but had no desire to compete at any higher level. Haruko is a year behind in her classes, now in high school, and continues with the same hobbies.

[VitaVitaAR]

Accepted.

[Mercurial]

Finally finished.

Maiko

Name: Umeda Maiko
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Appearance:

Hider

Personality: Maiko is a spirited and energetic young woman. She has a real get up and go attitude and a drive to work hard and play harder. For her, work is less about earning a pay check and more about doing her part for the people around her, like her family. However, she has become quite invested in her current line of work and wishes to pursue it further in the future, even if it’s not terribly prestigious. While far from intentionally careless, Maiko favours a highly direct approach to any task given to her, preferring to just try and get the job done rather than find some subtle third way of succeeding. If at first she doesn’t succeed, she will simply throw herself at the problem until it is solved, whether there might be a more efficient way or not.

Maiko is prone to speaking plainly with people. While not necessarily rude, she tends not to indulge in formalities and will often speak with far too much familiarity with people she really shouldn’t. She often assumes a certain level of friendship with the people she meets, even if they’ve hardly begun to approach any real sense of camaraderie. Unless met with explicit hostility, she will carry on acting as if she’s great friends with anyone she has made an acquaintance of, and even if met with hostility, she won’t stop pestering them. As far as she sees it, an enemy is just a friend that hasn’t learned to like you yet, and they will with enough hard work and effort.

Skills: Maiko has always been a semi-athletic sort. She is hardly a professional, but she took to riding a bike from an early age and she continues to ride hers extensively, especially as her bike is integral to her part-time job. Her legs are basically her number one tool of her trade, and she is well suited to moving swiftly as a result. Maiko also happens to possess a wide variety of general knowledge on a number of subjects due to doing a whole lot of random reading. However, this is all fairly inconsequential knowledge, and nothing that has ever given her more than a bunch of random facts to throw into conversations.

Equipment: Just a phone for her own purposes. Coming from a mildly technophobic family, she doesn’t use it as extensively as others.

Soul Arts: Gale Force: This art allows Maiko to create forceful gusts of wind to either assault an enemy with or to propel herself, and make concentrated slashing attacks. At the moment, the strength of these gales doesn’t amount to much more than a fairly strong push, and the slash attacks are only mildly more powerful than, say, a regular steel blade. Maiko’s chip slots into her left thigh.

Brief Backstory: Maiko is the daughter of a local office head for the Mainichi Shinbun. Her father ushered her into her current part time job of delivering newspapers as well as impressing upon her his own respect for the written word. Having seen the decline of interest in newspapers and reading around the world, Maiko’s father has always been invested in trying to promote the use of traditional media, and no one more than his own family knew how hard he pushed the stuff. Where others might have received the latest trendy gizmos and gadgets, Maiko got books, books, and more books. The only reason she even got a phone was because her mother insisted she needed to be contactable in an emergency. Last year was the first time their house ever had a t.v., and that was only because her older brother saved up enough to buy a cheap one. He was only allowed to keep it after having a lengthy argument with their father.

Maiko was a little hesitant to even try the Strange Gospel app, knowing her father would have a fit if she used her phone for anything unnecessary. However, her brother, ever defiant, decided to make use of it, and she did so too in secret. Of course, the moment the creepy stuff started, Maiko immediately stopped using it. Her brother didn’t, thinking it was just the work of some punk hacker and would be corrected eventually. He disappeared one day like some of the others that used it, and now Maiko wonders just what became of him.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Mercurial: She's pretty much entirely fine, but do keep in mind we'll be using Soul Arts to fight monsters, so if you have an offensive one you might want it to be a little bit stronger so it can hurt them more.

Unless you plan on having her improvise weapons until it gets strong enough.

[Mercurial]

@Mercurial: She's pretty much entirely fine, but do keep in mind we'll be using Soul Arts to fight monsters, so if you have an offensive one you might want it to be a little bit stronger so it can hurt them more.

Unless you plan on having her improvise weapons until it gets strong enough.

@VitaVitaAR

Is something like this alright?

[VitaVitaAR]

@Mercurial: That's fine, as long as it's not hugely powerful to start with.

[Mercurial]

@Mercurial: That's fine, as long as it's not hugely powerful to start with.

@VitaVitaAR

Edited something in. I assume it's okay like this?

[VitaVitaAR]

@Mercurial: Accepted!

[VitaVitaAR]

I'll probably be starting by Sunday.

If your bio isn't up by then it's okay, your character doesn't have to necessarily be around for the opening.