[OOC] Old One Rising (A Lovecraftian adventure-horror RP) (Reboot)

[T Risket]

@ONL

OH ok cool, lol thanks man. I was stumped.

[ONL]

@T Risket Hehe, no worries! Life was much easier back in the day when we had all those features with buttons. Ah, memories...

I'll also post as Jeremy later today, let's see how he ends up at Miskatonic University.

[T Risket]

I'll also post as Jeremy later today, let's see how he ends up at Miskatonic University.

@ONL

Lookin forward to it.

[BurningCold]

I made a post. Woot woot? :D

[RBYDark]

Woot woot!

[Kaiachi]

Okay, I finally made that character sheet @ONL!

Estelle

Name: Estelle Victoria Gennings
Nickname/title: Stella
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Build/physicality: Slightly taller than average, and a bit underweight.

Appearance

Background

Psychological status: At a young age, acute stress yielded visual hallucinations that the nurses pinned to an overly active imagination. Her 'imagination' has lasted throughout her life, and the visions are triggered without stress.
Quirks, ticks, conditions, sensitivities to the paranormal: She has a terrible habit of clicking her fingernails together when anxious. The visions become distracting at times, often trying to get attention from her.
Magical potential (Y/N): Yes.
Personality: Estelle has always thought herself to be a plain woman, though solemn and uninterested are a bit more accurate. Quiet and observant at her best, callous and insensitive at her worst, she's slow to trust others, as she's found the human mind to be fickle and complicated through years of experience. A sullen past has left her bitter and hardened, though the occasional anomaly will surprise her.
Hometown: Winchester, Virginia
Education: Doctorate in psychology.
Occupation: Social and Clinical Psychologist
Achievements: Had two papers regarding the nature of schizophraenia and anxiety published in a medical journal.
Sexuality: Asexual, though she has had experience with both sexes.
Religion/philosophy: Raised a baptist, but figured that there couldn't possibly be a god in a world like this.
Marital status: Never married, single.
Family status: Father is deceased, mother is in a sanitarium. Raised as an only child, so there are no siblings of which to speak.

Bio

Estelle's childhood started off simple and small. Her family lived in a quaint little house down the street from the University at which her father worked. As a literature teacher, he would be gone most of the day, though bringing back a book to read to her was the highlight of it all. Her mother was a librarian, though not the reading type herself, she despised the time her husband took reading to Stella in the evenings. Her mother made her resentment and contempt well known with every word spoken between them.
Stella insisted upon these readings, as her father's presence drove away the strange sights and occurrences that occupied her room when the dark drapery of night was cast. As soon as he left, the figures would dance around the bed and sit on her windowsill, watching her as she stared wide-eyed at their movement. As she grew older, the fear of night and the unknown faded, as well as her fear of the visions, though they had no plans of leaving her plagued mind.
Just before her teenage years, her father's stories stopped, and her mother's lunacy began. At any time through the day, her mother's howls of rage and warning could be heard echoing through the corridors of the house. Her father would try to rationalize and plead, eager to calm the slipping mind of his troubled wife, but to no avail. Never being fond of her mother, Stella would sit on the stairs and watch the show with the accompaniment of some visions, as her mother would pace and spin around the room, babbling incoherent phrases to every corner.
At the age of 15, while watching a particularly active vision desperately trying to open her bedroom door, a loud bang was heard in the drawing room downstairs. Being used to loud noises and sudden events, Stella was not alarmed, but instead calmly made her way to the supposed source of the sound, only to find her father with a hole in his head and a warm gun in his hand.
Life after the suicide was a blur. She buried her head in her studies and avoided her mother when she could, living like a ghost in her own house while pacing herself through incredible amounts of books and journals. She wouldn't call it a passion, though she was determined to become a psychologist, if only to understand the people around her, and perhaps to find her way towards working in the University where her father once was.
Years of study and practice led her to a degree in psychology, though the town had no use or opening for her profession, leading to her strong disappointment. A colleague at the University told her about the curious case of Arkham, Massachusetts and it's ever filled sanitarium, as well as the college of study in the area. Looking to leave her mother and past behind, Estelle transferred to the bayside town, where she lives out a hidden life between Miskatonic University, Arkham Sanitarium, and her small quarters on Sentinel Street.

Miscellaneous information

Combative belongings: She carries a small switchblade in her purse, but isn't very good at using it.
Non-combative belongings: She has a small purse she carries, containing a mirror and comb, as well as her apartment and office keys, and a small notebook with a pen.

[Sigurd]

<Snipped quote by T Risket>

For centering the text, write it like this without the " : ["center"] Hey look at me! ["/center"]

And for the big text you write h1, h2 or h3 within the same clamps(?), if that's whats it called. It's all written down where it says "Formatting Cheatsheet".

@ONL

It actually took me months to figure out that I can manually type the BB code. I was looking for the easy 'click and voila' method, but never noticed the Formatting Sheet down below.

Also, I finally have some space to reveal my character's personality via internal monologue/stream of consciousness, as I said I would when I created him. I hope you don't mind me using such techniques in an RP? Let me know if you do. :-)

[T Risket]

Hoozah! Fixed my header! Now I feel all official! Not really, but still! Hoozah!

[ONL]

Quick post just to apologize for not posting today, it's been real busy...but expect something tomorrow!

[ONL]

@Kaiachi I like Estelle, consider her accepted and post her CS in the Character section.

@Sigurd Emil's internal monolouge was interesting to read, I feel it gives him real depth. And it scared me slightly too. Only thing I might object to is that you maybe could have put the monolouge in your first post, but that's really nothing mandatory! So just keep up the good work!

@T Risket Huzzah for being offical :D

I'll be working on my post right now, expect something within an hour or so.

[T Risket]

@ONL

We following any sort of post order or anything? Would love to post again.

[RBYDark]

I see no evidence of a posting order. That said do recall three characters have not been introduced yet: @Candle's, @Naltorix's, @Kaiachi's. Keep that in mind if posting again.

[ONL]

@T Risket@RBYDark I'd say we can post as freely a possible without pushing the story too far ahead, so that the others can easily catch up. I might post once again, but as an NPC of some sorts. But yeah, go ahead, just don't go too crazy, hehe.

[Kaiachi]

@ONLThank you kindly, will do.

[ONL]

There, added Dr. Athur Steiner as an NPC to the plot, he will surely be of use later on ;) Use him as you please.

[Kaiachi]

Oh, almost forgot to mention here that Estelle is officially posted in.

[T Risket]

@Sigurd@ONL@RBYDark@Kaiachi

Forgot to tag you all in my last post-depending on what happens post wise feel free to write August breaking up the crowd if you'd like.

[ONL]

@Kaiachi Right'o! Welcome to the abyss ;)

@T Risket Will do, but I'll be waiting a little bit for the others to post. Still waiting for @Naltorix and @Candle to post.

[T Risket]

@T Risket Will do, but I'll be waiting a little bit for the others to post. Still waiting for @Naltorix and @Candle to post.

@ONL

Sounds good to me

[RBYDark]

Decided to post for Professor Dupree. Sorry for the delay. Candle appears to have been offline for several days, thus explaining their absence.