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​The current rank your character will be is known as "Maiden" (despite the RP initiating just before graduating) which is a graduate of Maidsong Academy. By achieving this rank, it can already be assumed your character is proficient at several things. Here is a bullet list of things your character will be proficient with at the onset of the roleplay:

All conventional firearms can be fired with at-least 80 percent accuracy under stress.

M.A/I.D martial arts technique (focus on utilizing unconventional items as weapons) and a variant of U.S military combatives

Housekeeping, basic medical care, basic nursing, cooking, caring for children
Ability to educate children from birth to thirteen years old

Basic hacking and cyber-warfare knowledge (Can get into a standard password/fingerprint locked computer)

Various espionage and stealth techniques - primarily focused on urban or household environments

Countering individuals with extra-sensory capabilities or effectively combating a trans-human individual (cyborgs, genetically modified, and so on) (NOTE: This is a very recent form of education within the curriculum of M.A/I.D)

The currently generation of M.A/I.D all share a psychic bond with one-another (with the side-effect of detecting the aforementioned great darkness) allowing for 'latent' telepathic communication. This does not allow them to talk to each-others minds, but rather understand intent without words.


Now, to best understand the capabilities of your M.A/I.D we must address some weaknesses their duty and training create (Note: None of these weaknesses are absolute and are generally just oversights or untrained zones.

M.A/I.D members do not typically receive any training for fighting in rural environments and focus on urban and household environments.

Many members of M.A/I.D, despite being disciplined, go through long bouts of simply being a maid and caretaker. This leads to some members losing their initially high-level of conditioning and extreme combat prowess until re-training is done.

Service to their assigned master's has led to many members of M.A/I.D fighting against one another which can cause psychological damage.

The etiquette taught in Maidsong academy leads to many M.A/I.D members having social issues with the outside world, but this is not always the case.

Finally, members of M.A/I.D true leader is the Shadow Queen and they are expected to covertly share information, including that of their master's, to the organization.


Character Guidelines and "Options"

As a refresher, your character is part of Team Six which has been together for their last year of education (So all of your characters will begin the RP well acquainted with one-another - possibly close friends). The last year of a M.A/I.D's education is an apprenticeship which has them working under a one or more teams across the world. Your character's apprenticeship was unique in that each squad member would spend a week off doing personal training and then they would come back together to work under a Vermont based team in service to a Critically Acclaimed Film Maker: Antony Martin. This "individual" training allows for your M.A/I.D to have much more creative freedom in what their abilities will be (and allowing you to get have some fun with creation), but this training was done intentionally for an IC reason that will be revealed through RP.

Furthermore, each of your characters, whether through birth, or some specialized training in the academy are allowed to have several "options" available to them. I have called this category options because it encompasses many different things ranging from mutation, forbidden martial arts, or even developing true psychic abilities.

Additionally, beyond options you will pick your former homeroom teacher. I have made four selections with their own specialties. The homeroom teacher has the most influence over a student's education despite all forms of education being seen as equally necessary. So, whatever homeroom teacher you pick should be reflected by your character abilities. You are allowed to make your own homeroom teacher (considering my four options are not the only teachers) but I will require you to make their profile in the same fashion I have made mine. They must be female (NOTE: Males do teach at Maidsong academy occasionally as outside contractors if an instructor is absent or additional help is needed for whatever reason).

So, the three unique "quirks" of this character sheet will be

1.) Individual Training
2.) "Options"
3.) Homeroom teacher

I will list examples for all three. The individual training will be allowed creative freedom and you may just use the prompts as starting points, or just disregard them all together. "Options" will be slightly more strict, but I will allow people to make their own details that will set them apart. I encourage people to make their own Options if they want, but I equally encourage using the listed ones as inspiration to know what is and is not alright (I will continue to work on the lore to flesh out this world more). A final note on options - there is no cap on how many you can take and I do not require artificial balancing to mitigate them. Yet, you are limited by how interesting your character is. If I decide to have 12 different VERY powerful options then my character will not be interesting. However, if I pick four carefully considered options that compliment one-another (despite being powerful options) then my character will be interesting. I do not hard-balance options or cap them because all it takes to kill your character is a well-placed bullet in the back of the head.





Information on Homeroom teachers can be found within the lore. If you desire to make one, then please be sure to make a complete profile so I can add it to the lore.



Lore for Reference (Will be updated time to time): roleplayerguild.com/topics/182907-m-a…
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Seems like a cool concept. Colour me interested, I'll PM about some details on character building.
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I am surprisingly interested, not normally drawn in by stuff of this nature, maids and schools and such, but this is interesting.
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I am surprisingly interested, not normally drawn in by stuff of this nature, maids and schools and such, but this is interesting.


The "maid" and "school" aspect are merely just overlying themes. The overlying plot will delve into other elements such as horror. Feel free to begin plotting out a character, or PM me for further brainstorming/questions.
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This caught my eye, it looks like you came up with a cool idea! I think I'd like to try my hand at a group RP, normally I stick to 1x1's. Still, I'll write a CS and ideally complete it tomorrow...ish? haha
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Been interested for a while now. Still looking through lorestuffs atm and seeing if I can make sense of it, but I hope to have a char concept soon.
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Been interested for a while now. Still looking through lorestuffs atm and seeing if I can make sense of it, but I hope to have a char concept soon.


Thank you for your interest! I will stress that the lore is not supposed to be one hundred percent clear. It's supposed to raise an air of mystery and uncertainty.
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Just remarking that I am updating the lore page with more information on optional M.A/I.D equipment and further plot related lore points.
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Added to the optional equipment with three items.

Working on more lore later.

@AdmrlStalfos19 @Ryona Zako @KiwiTime

Do you guys have any character concepts yet?
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Do you guys have any character concepts yet?


In my case, sort of. There's still a question or two that I'll have to ask you via PM, but other that mine, should be concrete by later today.
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The currently posted character "Melanie Auger" is a great example to go off if anyone is doubting there character creating.

In-particular, I really like the mildly supernatural ability she learned.
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In my case, sort of. There's still a question or two that I'll have to ask you via PM, but other that mine, should be concrete by later today.


Go ahead and shoot me your questions whenever. I am free all day today.
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Updated the lore with a section that will have an illusive figure compiling notes on your characters. I have completed the entry on Melanie Auger.
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I can really get into this. I have an idea for a melee/martial-arts/thrown-weapons specializing assassin type of character who really wants to be peaceful and tries to use diplomacy when possible. Does that sound like it would fit well here?
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I can really get into this. I have an idea for a melee/martial-arts/thrown-weapons specializing assassin type of character who really wants to be peaceful and tries to use diplomacy when possible. Does that sound like it would fit well here?


That can fit to a degree. M.A/I.Ds are occasionally given room to solve problems in ways that they see fit. Diplomacy would be a valuable asset and I could see your concept being a leader type character.

The melee/thrown-weapon/martial-arts idea is very cool and can totally be a key part of your character, but I tend to run combat in a more fatalistic and realistic manner. What I mean by this is that your character must still adhere to logic in a combat situation. If an opponent is armed with a firearm and they are more than 20ft away they will be able to shoot your character, so you have the be clever with how you engage.

All in all, I really look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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I will write a lore entry on the Shadow Queen tonight and the occult and how that manifests in this universe. (Maybe add a few more instructors as-well)
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I just updated the lore page with an entirely new post detailing supernatural and occult happenings. These may seem unrelated to our current storyline, but they paint a picture of what we can/will encounter. It also sets the theme for how I like supernatural stuff to be. I will go on to write about "Witches" eventually, but I ceased because that will be a long write-up.
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Revised a character creation rule. Drawn faceclaims only rather than anime exclusive. I felt anime only faceclaims restricted things a bit too much.
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@SadistPoet not sure if it’s mentioned anywhere, but about how long is the training leading up to graduation?
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3-5 years depending on talent. I need to add information on that. More talented people graduate faster essentially.
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