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Nobody truly knows how long the world has been subjected to the spectacle and horrors of the non-mundane, the so-called superhumans and eldritch monsters crawling out of the woodwork. Some blame the space race for inviting some unknown alien presence to the world. Others date it back a few more decades to the Nazis and the Soviets - driven by their mad philosophies without regard for ethical boundaries. 

The truth is something deeper - it spans the breadth of human history, from the first Cro-Magnons all the way to the development of the worldwide web. There are things that go bump in the night, and those that are mistaken for birds or planes. Some think it science, others magic - perhaps both? It's hard to deny either when something beyond rational explanation occurs in front of your own eyes. 

It was the close of the 90s that really saw it hit the public eye - where rumours and myth remained that no longer. And the various agencies, departments, [i]bogeymen[/i] of the world - they were forced to take a stronger hand as more [i]disruptive entities[/i] emerged from the woodwork, wreaking havoc on the world in one form or another. Pyrokinetics melting through bank vaults and security vans to get to the cash within, revenant beasts tearing a streak of vengeance and blood through cities, ego-driven 'visionaries' who manipulated hundreds into doing vile things for the 'greater good' and unfettered inventors that spawned autonomous, deadly creations. Simply put, mundane prisons were not enough to contain them.

That's where [i]it[/i] came into play. The Supe Kitchen. The Ninth Circle. PowerMax. Call it what you will, but one name stands above the rest in its infamy.

[h1]The Borehole.[/h1] 

Situated somewhere in the Rockies, miles apart from civilisation and buried under at least half a mile of rock, metal and munitions. A prison purpose-built to contain the non-mundane which threaten society. 

Supervillains, psychopaths, monsters - whatever you might've been outside, inside the Borehole you're just another inmate. A number. 

Perhaps you're a recent transfer. Or not. Whoever you were. Whatever you did, whatever or whoever you damaged, modern society judged you unfit to remain walking free among its denizens - so they sent you here. One way in, no way out. A lifer.

Countermeasures specific to your [i]circumstances[/i] have been in place from the moment you walked in. Maybe there's an electrified ankle bracelet to prevent you from phasing out of your cell. Maybe you're kept in constant light to avoid drawing sustenance from the shadows. Or perhaps you're kept well away from dairy products, so you don't try and wrap cords of cheese around some other poor bastard's brain stem like that obnoxious regenerator working for the white hats.

You're not even sure the guards here are human - automated systems roam the corridors, ready to pacify unrest where appropriate.

Either way, an opportunity is about to rear its ugly head. Freedom might be yours - surely that's better than spending eternity imprisoned under the mountains?[/center]

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[b]Name:[/b] If Applicable 
[b]Known Aliases:[/b] If Applicable
[b]Age:[/b] If known. 
[b]Appearance:[/b] What does your character look like? Please consider realistic proportions
[b]Psyche Profile:[/b] What is your character's mindset/personality, as understood to their jailors? (again, if this deviates from public view I'm happy to work with you in PMs) 
[b]Background:[/b] Self-explanatory. Not expecting an essay here, and quality always trumps quantity in my view.  If there's a private element to it, let me know - can keep it out of public view, then.
[b]Skills, Talents and Learning:[/b] Skills, talents, anything your character has learned. Where applicable.
[b]Power(s) and Capabilities:[/b] A comprehensive explanation of your character's abilities/powers
[b]Power Limits:[/b] Self-explanatory.
[b]Known Vulnerabilities:[/b] Weaknesses. Flaws. Gaps in your character's power, perhaps a vulnerability to electricity, or an inability to maintain an altered form in direct sunlight. Maybe your character's power is dependent on a certain talisman? Nothing is free.
[b]Motives:[/b] What drives your character? What would they do if they escaped? Any long term plans? Happy to keep this to PMs if preferred.
[b]Level:[/b] Threat level, as defined by the Borehole's parameters. I will assign this to your character.
[b]Recommended Containment Procedures:[/b] Self-explanatory, how you think your character should be contained. I will get final say on what the actual containment procedures are, but this helps me figure out how to include your character within the parameters of the prison.
[b]Notes:[/b]Anything else to throw in.[/hider][/code][/hider]

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[h1][color=white] RULES [/color][/h1][hr]

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[color=red][sup]⋗ 1 . 1 |[/sup][/color] The whole point of us being here is to have a good time, have fun writing out our characters and so. Don't try and fuck with others or behave maliciously - I won't have it. [i]My[/i] rule is simple. [url=https://youtu.be/-hsgoOnC47k?t=27]Don't be a cunt.[/url]

[color=red][sup]⋗ 1 . 2 |[/sup][/color] It goes without saying that Ghost Note and I have a veto on who can and can't participate. If you behave like a cunt, I will tell you to fuck off and that'll be the end of the matter. This is something that won't apply to the majority, but more for those who get off on malicious behaviour.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 1 . 3 |[/sup][/color] I enforce a policy of not informing people of every time they should post (unless their character is in the middle of an interaction and can't move further). If you go inactive without a peep, I'm not going to babysit you and you'll get left behind or worse. I  can appreciate that life gets in the way of things, just try and keep up.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 1 . 4 |[/sup][/color] Don't post a "WIP" sheet in the thread. It just clutters up the thread. If you want me to read over what you have so far, just PM it to me. If you need a place to work on it just PM the sheet to yourself (or write it on one of many platforms - pad.riseup.net or whatever).

[color=red][sup]⋗ 1 . 5 |[/sup][/color] This RP will strictly be on a "first come, first serve." Meaning I will not reserve any powers/character roles/etc, and they will go to whoever finishes their character sheet first. If there's a conflict over it, I will decide the outcome. That said, I'm not going to be too hung up on things unless you have two characters that are blatant carbon copies of one another.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 1 . 6 |[/sup][/color] Character applications will go into the OOC (where we can work things out) until they are accepted. In other words, the character tab is for [i]accepted[/i] characters only. Also, do not "reserve" a spot in the Character Tab unless you were given permission to by me.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 1 . 7 |[/sup][/color] Make use of the OOC. Random chatter is fine so long as it's nothing degenerate.
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[color=red][sup]⋗ 2 . 1 |[/sup][/color] No Powergaming, God-Modding, Metagaming, etc. Use your common sense, or we'll be required to intervene. 

[color=red][sup]⋗ 2 . 2 |[/sup][/color] Just to set expectations; the story will be fairly slow-paced at times. I have a job and personal commitments so this is getting squeezed between those. 

[color=red][sup]⋗ 2 . 3 |[/sup][/color] All I ask for is one post a week. If it's been a week or so since your last post, your character will be placed into the inactive section until they are written off . Once a character is inactive, however, they are officially an NPC and can be used freely by the GMs, or the players if we greenlight it. Unless you give notice of your absence, then your character is off the table.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 2 . 4 |[/sup][/color] I am not a stickler for post length. I'd rather have a meaningful paragraph over an essay full of bland filler shite. But I ask for at least one or two paragraphs as a bare minimum.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 2 . 5 |[/sup][/color] Character death is a real possibility. By submitting a character, you're understanding that their actions will have consequences - I'm not (always) going to drop in with a deus ex machina to liberate them from a dangerous situation and stupid behaviour will have corresponding results. I won't go out of my way to kill people off unless they're being retarded (read: [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/170587-vivid-recollections-into-the-world-unknown-season-1-complete/ic?page=2#post-4617982]jumping onto a table to play ocarina of time to distract the axe wielding spree killer is not a smart idea[/url]) but injuries/other impairments are fair game.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 2 . 6 |[/sup][/color] Romance/Sex/Whatever is something that happens, I guess. "Fade to black" - 'nuff said? Anything sketchy is going to get you curbstomped harder than Microsoft at E3 2013 though. Likewise for any other degeneracy.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 2 . 7 |[/sup][/color] Depending on the circumstances, it would be preferred to denote at the start of your post where its events take place. 

[color=red][sup]⋗ 2 . 8 |[/sup][/color] If you're also expecting me to hold your hand every step of the way, then you're going to be disappointed. This is going to be an RP that rewards taking initiative and lateral thinking. There is going to be a solid story arc to follow, but you'll be getting leeway on the journey there.[/indent][/hider]

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[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 1 |[/sup][/color] Everyone here is going to be an inmate of the Borehole. If you're looking to play a non-inmate character (ie a 'hero') then I want to make it clear you can't. That said, that doesn't doesn't mean your characters have to [i]like[/i] each other.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 2 |[/sup][/color] Your character is a prisoner of a maximum security facility, intended to contain some of the worst entities out there. I'm not expecting everyone to be an edgy, mustache twirling psychopathic badass - and I would particularly like to discourage edgelord characters - but I expect yours to have been imprisoned for good reason. 

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 3 |[/sup][/color] I expect some moderate detail when writing your character sheet. Remember, this RP is going to be fairly grounded where such would be applicable and I want each character to feel like a person in some form or another. Try to give them a believable past, goals, personality, etc. Everything has a purpose.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 4 |[/sup][/color]  If your goal is to basically make the strongest/best character, and try to "win" the roleplay, let me stop you here and say you won't get far. This is a story, not a place for you to wank your OP self-insert. Nothing says "I'm a bad writer" to me than giving your character the strongest abilities (along with an ass ton of skills). If there's something about your sheet I'm not happy with, I will ask you to make amendments. 

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 5 |[/sup][/color] You can create a character of any ethnicity, gender, sexuality, background, etc within reason. If you want to create a character who's an embodiment of some eldritch curse or whatever, that's fair game too - just put some good writing behind it.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 6 |[/sup][/color]  Please refrain from tacking skills onto characters without any rationale behind them. Try to make everything feel natural to the character.  

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 7 |[/sup][/color] I'm setting a general limit of 1 character per person, unless there is something intrinsic to the concept you have in mind that makes multiple characters appropriate ie two characters sharing the same body, a master-minion power dynamic etc.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 8 |[/sup][/color] I expect a reasonable written description of your character's appearance, but you are welcome to use a picture to compliment that - with some caveats. [u][b]No anime or furries[/b][/u]. The image/artwork has to be fairly realistic where applicable, and I'd prefer if you shied away from using A/B-list celebrities. If you want a good point of reference for generating your own character portrait, http://artbreeder.com is actually a fairly good resource.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 9 |[/sup][/color] When creating a character, try to be diverse. Look at the character sheets and try to fulfill a role that [i]no one[/i] has. No one wants a dozen edgy vampire/werewolf/demon clones. You can be pretty creative within the bounds of the setting. That also means no blatant plagiarism of characters from other media, whether that's DC, Marvel, Image Comics, Parahumans or whatever. I don't mind seeing something that takes broad strokes of inspiration or bears similarities (it is a done to death medium) but write something that's yours. 
 

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 10 |[/sup][/color]Following abilities are restricted (read: banned, unless you can convince me otherwise):  Omni-anything, instant death/mind control powers. Anything related to "power manipulation" such as replication, removal, etc. Reality warping. Indestructible defenses.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 11 |[/sup][/color] On the other hand, I'm going to be giving people a relatively free hand for ideas. Supernatural, scifi themes etc. Want to play a pyrokinetic with a penchant for robbing banks? Go for it. Or a vengeful revenant, cursed for a thousand years? Same again. Just keep in mind that everything has a limitation - your character [i]did[/i] end up in prison. 

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 12 |[/sup][/color] Many powers reflect some aspect of the character, so keep that in mind when creating one. I'm not asking for something super symbolic or otherwise allegorical, but keep it mind. 

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 13 |[/sup][/color] No blatant plagiarism of characters from other media, whether that's DC, Marvel, Image Comics, Parahumans or whatever. I don't mind seeing something that takes broad strokes of inspiration or bears similarities (it is a done to death medium) but write something that's yours. 

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 14 |[/sup][/color] If your character has hidden motives/misinformation in their CS, I am willing to accomodate that - if you make me aware. I don't want to have someone asspulling that they're really an eldritch god.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 15 |[/sup][/color] The lore of the setting is something I'm going to leave fairly open plan, to give people some opportunities to fill in the blanks if they wish. I'm not planning on going on the Marvel/DC scale but just want everyone to have the option of bringing something to the table.

[color=red][sup]⋗ 3 . 16 |[/sup][/color] It's up to you whether your characters know each other or not. The Borehole has a sizeable population, so you may or may not have heard of one another.

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