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The Moonlit Order (Interest Check)

It's gonna take me a bit to get into the right groove, but I think I'm good to go.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

So this is more of an indicator of my ever-growing anxiety than an actual problem, but the way post count is shown right next to "days since joining" right on every post I submit just destroys my nerves. I'm not exactly a consistent RPer; I'll join a game or two every couple of months and hang out and post until the things die (which, unfortunately, happens pretty quickly in most cases). Then, my RP hunger sated for the time, I pursue other hobbies. Rinse and repeat for two years.

Now I've posted 100 times over the course of 700 days and I constantly worry that someone is gonna think I'm an unreliable player or something because I disappear for long periods of time, even if I do take care not to abandon any RPs.

Very Relatable

I'm glad I got past the edgy character phase before I was introduced to the Guild. My first RPs were on a Runescape forum and a game development community, respectively. I was thirteen, my characters were terrible, and I don't have the proper credentials to nuke those posts to virtual oblivion. It's like a forever-looming cloud of cringe that I can't truly escape from.

The Moonlit Order (Interest Check)

I'm interested. This is giving me some Game of Thrones sans overwhelming gloom vibes, and I am completely down for that. A quick question, though: Despite the Order's specialty being footsoldiers, would there be a place in the hierarchy for cavalrymen? I'm no expert on medieval warfare, so a "Foot Knight" could vary well fight on horseback and still be considered such, but I'm interested in a specialist of sorts.

The Expendables - Team 2

I'm thinking Billy Zane for mine.

The Expendables - Team 2

Not that it's a heavy priority, given the source material, but do you have any plot elements you could elaborate on? I love me some explosive action, but I'd like to have a solid driving force behind everything.

The Assassination Trade

Sorry, you may as well count me out. I've been hospitalized for the past few days so I'm having to rebound and catch up with work and I have like zero time for anything right now.

The Assassination Trade

Awesome; I'll my revised character up once I get home from work.

The Assassination Trade

I think I'm gonna rework my character. I feel like he doesn't fit thematically in the RP at all.

The Assassination Trade

Hoo, sorry about the wait on my end. I'm working a lot lately. Also Windows decided to restart my PC without my permission so my CS was lost. I'll get back on track soon.

EDIT:

Here you go!

Alek Bartosz

Name: Alek Bartosz
Age: 24
Callsign: Bard
Gender: Male
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 178 lbs

Appearance:

TBD

Gear:

- Standard battle dress consists of a durable pair of cargo pants -- usually in a versatile brown or green color -- and a short sleeve tee shirt. For colder weather or when undercover, Alek wears a simple pair of jeans, a button-up shirt, and a brown stealth jacket.

- Mission gear is typically carried on a utility belt with ample real estate for pouches, holsters, or anything else that can be clipped on. In most situations, the belt is largely vacant save for a pistol holster, two scabbards, and a medium sized pouch for miscellaneous items. When operating incognito, gear is kept to a minimum and all equipment is allocated to two shoulder holsters hidden under a jacket. In non-stealthy operations, Alek will sometimes don a chest rig or crossdraw vest.

- Alek's fireams vary based on the mission, but he favors the Jericho 941 .45 handgun. If more firepower is needed, he will carry a submachine gun, usually one that is compact and can be fired with one hand if necessary. Alek is familiar with higher-caliber rifles, but his specialization in infiltration and CQB generally renders them useless due to their large size.

- The bread and butter of Alek's gear is the pair of modified jutte he uses as his primary weapons. Though historically a defensive weapon used to parry and disarm opponents, these baton-like tools have been altered to deliver a powerful kinetic blast upon contact. Paired with Alek's genetically enhanced dexterity and flexibility, these weapons -- these Krzyże -- are a force to be reckoned with.

Abilities:

A product of selective human breeding, Alek posesses excellent dexterity, flexibility, hearing, and eyesight, making him an ideal reconassaince operative. The extent of his abilities is unclear, but they are undoubtedly potent; one account recalls Alek snatching a thrown knife out of the air. With his feet. While in a handstand.

Backstory:

Despite being born into a family considered relatively low within the social hierarchy, Alek was brought up well due to his involvement in Illumination's selective breeding experiments. Like the other children bred through the program, Alek was well-educated in both theoretical topics and practical skills. Though an excellent subject as far as intelligence and physical abilities were concerned, Alek was very apathetic towards conditioning -- his attitude toward Illumination was not one of loyalty or awe, but rather just a fact of life. Such an attitude would have resulted in his ejection from the program and subsequent "termination" were it not for a convenient raid on his learning facility by a rebel faction. The raiders offered freedom for the adolescents, and Alek took the opportunity.

(More TBD)
Personality:

How a man with such potent observational abilities can be so oblivious to social cues is a quandry unsolved. Alek is a man with a heart of gold, a playful disposition, and an uncanny charisma. Yet somehow, the man posesses immesurable talent at being intolerable. His honesty quickly turns into rudeness, his confidence into arrogance, and his playfulness into annoyance. It's not something he does with malicious intent, but most people don't catch onto that fact. The ones that do realize such and are able to see past it find themselves with a loyal friend and comrade for life. Whether they want one or not.

Notes:

Surprisingly, Alek is an excellent singer. This doesn't suit him at all.