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[Nephriel]

Basically the idea of this roleplay is that demons, angels, and humans are involved in a struggle that the humans are pretty much oblivious to... except the ones who aren't. My character, the Gate Keeper, is gathering Sensitives that show promise in order to help him maintain the balance in the world so that Judgement Day doesn't happen early. If you've ever seen Constantine, City of Bones, or Supernatural... it's like a mash-up of those. Your character can be a sensitive or a sensitive's demon, fallen, or angelic companion... you can play both your character and your companion if you'd like. I'll be playing a Sensitive as well as the Gate Keeper since the Gate Keeper won't be as active as the rest of you and it will be my way of GMing without actually GMing. This is going to be one of those plays that hopefully EVERYONE will have a hand in driving, and can take off on their own side stories or throw in their own plot twists... That way none of us ever know for sure what is going to happen. :)

As far as requirements go? I'd like people who can write at LEAST 10 sentences (though more is fantastic so long as you have something to say and aren't just describing the texture of each blade of grass) and can post at least once a day so that we don't have people waiting for days tied up with your character. If you can't post for a while and know it then just stick your character some place out of the way and let us know. If you want to drop out at any point PLEASE let me know so I can clear you off the game in an orderly fashion (usually by killing you off) and usher someone else in if they want to join. I won't take it hard, it's your prerogative and I don't want players around if they aren't having fun. :) If you don't let me know something I'll only give you a week to come back before I kill you off. ^_^

Important Info

Angels and demons are not supposed to do more than suggest, give little pushes that send humans towards the light or the dark, but lately neither side is playing by the rules. Possession is supposed to be a nono on both sides, but its happening more and more often and therefore someone has to do something about it. This is where the Sensitives and Gate Keepers come into play. It's the Gate Keeper's job to see to balance, to make sure no one is breaking the rules and if they are the Gate Keeper sends out Hunters to take whatever naughty demon or angel is breaking the rules back to its respective boss in Heaven or Hell.

However, this has put Sensitives at an awkward position. Sensitives aren't supposed to see the things they see and as humans they aren't held to the usual rules, that makes them dangerous. No one knows exactly why a person is sensitive except that usually you're born with it because a parent was sensitive or maybe you came close to dying or did die and came back through life saving means and it triggered you? As a Sensitive you either go insane and end up in an asylum or on medication the rest of your life, or you accept what you see and are expected to take a side... Which means either demons or angels will be on your ass depending on the side you chose. Unfortunately, if you take a side you're tipping the balance and you piss off the Gate Keepers and end up hunted by them as well. Either you play the game by the Gate Keeper's rules and mostly stay out of the cross hairs or you're likely to be turned into a Hunter yourself, which means your soul will be ripped out and trapped in his collection and you'll be a puppet... fun stuff.

On to explaining the Fallen...All it takes for an angel to fall is for them to give in to any of the seven deadlies: lust, greed, envy, wrath, pride, sloth, or gluttony (which in this case means over-indulgence since Angels don't eat). Once an angel becomes Fallen they have 100 years from the time they are cast out live, over that time their feathers begin to fall out and they lose the ability to fly and their powers weaken. Once all the feathers are gone they die... and cease to be. The only way to avoid that outcome is to choose a side, either you spend your time trying to be absolved of your sins with no guarantee of success or you choose to go dark and start eating souls to extend your life... therefore slowly becoming a demon. Like demons Fallen can make contracts with Sensitives, the premise being that for their protection they either get the Sensitive's soul at the end of the Sensitive's life to extend their own or for the possibility of forgiveness if they give their lives to guard someone else's. Fallen have their own physical bodies and can be seen by normal people but use glamor to hide what they are.

If you choose to be a demon, you'll be contracted to one of the Sensitive players. If you want to play an evil demon with no contract that's fine, however... you'll have to be possessing someone in order to be walking about... You can't cross fully over without a contract enabling you to do so.

If you're an angel then you should know that for you it is against the rules to do more than observe and give guidance, you can't openly protect a human without risking your wings since Gate Keepers can make you Fallen also if you piss them off. Sensitives are the only ones who can see you aside from demons and fallen. Normal humans can't.

If you're a Sensitive then you'll be taking a side or trying to play middle ground... or maybe you just recently started being able to see because of some near death experience...

Character Sheet

Name:

Race: Angel(please let me know what virtue you're over: Love, Mercy, Compassion, Charity, Humility, Diligence, and Abstainment.) Demon(please let me know what sin you're over: Lust, Wrath, Envy, Greed, Pride, Sloth, Gluttony), Fallen (dark, neutral, or light), or Sensitive?

Gender:

Age: The one you appear.

Appearance: You can describe them but if you use a picture please choose a human as everyone will look outwardly human due to glamours or possession. Demon and angel forms under the human disguises are up to you... except angels and fallen must have wings.

Personality:

Abilities:

Angels and Demons -You get one original power governed by your Virtue or Sin and whatever your Virtue or Sin is is what you're strongest at pushing others towards. Both have powers of suggestion (which means they can put an idea in someone's head and the more weak willed the person is the more likely they are to follow through) and where angels can inspire humans to goodness, demons do the opposite. Both can effect emotions, pushing people good or bad ones depending on if they're demon or angel. Both can heal themselves and others if they wish. Angels can touch people and make them fall asleep, demons can touch people and give them nightmares. Both can be killed by incineration, decapitation, or removing their hearts but when they die they just go back to Heaven or Hell.

Fallen - Three original powers, healing yourself and others. You can no longer influence others emotions and you've lost the power of suggestion. However, the three powers you have don't have limits by Virtues or Sins. The closer to one side or the other you are should be what your powers are based around. Your downfall is that all your powers consume large amounts of energy and the grander the power the more energy consumed... the more energy you lose the more feathers fall out. They die by beheading, removal of the heart, or incineration and cease to exist. The only way they go to one place or the other is if they claim their contracted Sensitive's soul or give their life for that Sensitive in an act of selflessness.

Sensitives - You can see angels, demons, and fallen for what they are. You can be trained to exorcise demons, absolve fallen of sins, and banish angels. You can contract with demons and fallen, and gain guidance from angels. Some Sensitives can read the recent past or soon to be future off of objects, some sense when something supernatural is coming their way, some can see auras allowing them to know when a person has been influenced or possessed by an angel or demon, some can read surface thoughts of other people, intention, or strong emotions. They die as easily as other humans.

History: Where'd you come from and what happened to get you where you are now?

I got this question before but yes, angels and demons CAN have been human in their lifetimes but don't have to have been since angels were also created as were demons and the longer they live the more they forget their human lives.... Fallen have to originally have been angels and never have been human. Angels who were human and fall are forced to be reborn with no memory of anything before so they can be judged again upon their deaths.

[Little Miss Arsenic]

Hopefully this gets more interest...it's a great idea. Count me in :)

[Nephriel]

Thanks, and I hope so too. It's a lot of info to take in though for most people. :/

[Lugubrious]

Not going to lie, this looks very interesting. I'll keep an eye on it.

My only complaint would be the generic-ness of the angels, demons, and fallen. Human but a for a few samey characteristics? Meh. Maybe Bayonetta's angels spoiled me.

[Nephriel]

Well, as I said... I'm more than open to ideas. :) Throw some out there and we'll see what others think once I have a few more people... ^_^ This is more of a play where I'm hoping to have a lot of ideas and not just mine.

I had, a long while ago, a friend who viewed angel wings less like wings and more like outward manifestations of their energy that people a long time ago mistook for wings... They're more like tendrils of light that they were able to manipulate, but that would throw the fallen off which is why I didn't use it even though I wanted to. Also, the Archangels weren't pretty... They had fangs and glowing eyes and hid the way they really looked behind a white-fire like light. He was a fun guy to play with.

Oh, and I'll be putting up my CS soon so that you two can if you'd like...

[Lugubrious]

Quite interesting, that. Basically the angels in Bayonetta were monstrous beneath their golden armor and milk-white, marble, human faces. In Darksiders, the Archon's skin shone with such a light that his hood was like a spotlight, but he fell to the corruption.

What I'd be asking is a little more creative liberty with either the angels normal humans cannot see or the demons contracted to some of them. Since they're not waltzing around in plain sight all the time, it makes sense to me. If anyone else feels the same way, I'm sure they'll let you know.

[Nephriel]

Actually, I think that's a good idea. I'll ask everyone to use human pictures and you can do whatever you'd like to the way your angel / demon actually looks underneath the disguise. I only ask the wings stay wings as the feather loss is hard to change for the fallen. I'll edit.

[Phloem]

I'm interested, probably gonna write up my CS after I get home. :)

[Nephriel]

Yay! In the meantime, here are mine.

Ruben the Gate Keeper

Name: Ruben

Race: Gate Keeper

Gender: Male

Age: Appears to be in his mid-thirties.

Appearance:


Personality: Quiet, stern, even tempered, never looses his cool and keeps his voice quiet even when angry, confident, and can seem unfeeling but he isn't.

Abilities: (The Keeper is purposefully overpowered as I'll be GMing through him, don't worry I won't abuse it.)
Hunters - By tearing the life energy or souls out of angels, demons, and humans the Keepers can create Hunters. They cannot be killed as their body is basically just a shell. If you destroy them they reform themselves after a time, their restriction is that they cannot withstand daylight or hallowed ground. They cannot think for themselves and answer only to the Keepers.

Balefire - They can use bits of their soul to fuel an attack that will obliterate any being it touches even slightly. It destroys the being completely so there is no chance at another life, they cease to be. Unfortunately, the more they use the ability the weaker they become and the more they fade away... Once the soul is used up completely they cease to be.

Duel Natured - As a Keeper he can use the base abilities of both demons and angels.

Rending the Vale - As a Gate Keeper Ruben has the ability to open the Vale and form gateways to Heaven or Hell.

Though Keepers can be killed the same way as the angels and demons, they will simply reform their bodies unless their souls are taken. They're basically immortal so long as their souls are maintained. Most of the time, the Keepers keep their souls apart from their bodies in order to protect themselves from final death.

History:
After thousands of years on the earth Ruben is still the youngest of the seven Gate Keepers. His views on things are therefore a bit more flexable. He's lived long enough that he has seen both sides ignore the rules that govern them, abuse their powers, and he has seen the Gate Keepers do nothing because of bribery or their own blind pride... He sees the world's balance tipping and there are far too few Gate Keepers to keep things in check and so... he broke the rules. As a Keeper it is his job to stay out of human affairs, he is supposed to maintain the balance and the rules... nothing more. Yet, he'd seen potential in the Sensitives where others dismissed them. So, when he was wandering the mortal plain and he'd come into contact with a sickly young girl who'd smiled up at him when she shouldn't have seen him at all he'd told himself it wasn't a softness for the child, a stirring of emotion in a long dead heart... He told himself it was curiosity, nothing more, that made him save her. He'd laid his hands on her and he'd taken her illness into himself... a body that could fight such an ailment for eternity. Then, he'd watched her over the years and seen her talents grow. In the meantime there was another Sensitive drawing his attentions, John Constantine. There was word of him, a Sensitive who was sending demons back to hell and angels back to heaven just for fun. The night Shae had met with the demon, Ruben had made his decision... He'd collect the Sensitives, he'd train them... There were so many that just maybe, he could restore balance with their help and save a rotting world from destruction.

Shae the Sensitive

Name: Shae O'connor

Race: Sensitive

Gender: Female

Age: 19

Appearance:


Personality: Quiet, broody, short tempered, stubborn, determined, can seem stand-offish towards others... until you get to know her. Under her frosty exterior is actually a kind hearted, protective, and mischievous person. She softens a lot around Ruben but only minutely as she is obsessed with pleasing him, she sees him as a father.

Abilities:
Like all Sensitives, she can see the truth lurking behind the vale... If she looks hard enough she can see through the human disguises angels and demons wear.
She likes to draw and the things she draws sometimes come true, she doesn't realize she is drawing bits of the future or past and she can't do it on purpose.
If someone touches her she can sense their emotions.
She was trained by Ruben to exorcise lesser demons and banish lesser angels. She knows basic protection against either being, wards in many different runes, and holy symbols.

History:
Shae was only four when she started seeing things, it happened after she'd been diagnosed with leukemia. They tried chemo, it didn't help. Her parents tried to give her as normal a life as possible and one evening when she was out with her parents shopping, she wandered off and ran into Ruben. The Keeper, usually unswayed by mortal issues, broke one of the oldest laws for his kind... don't interfere with human lives. Her parents found Shae alone, passed out in the food court with no memory of what had happened but the next month her results came back... She was in remission and it never came back. Shae lived her life after that being medicated for the things she saw until she learned to pretend she didn't see them anymore... Until she could pretend no longer. One night, she'd been headed home from school and heard a commotion in an ally. She'd gone to look and found a woman being assaulted by a man who was mostly hidden in shadow. However, when she called out to him prepping to use her pepper spray her father had given her, he'd turned and she'd seen his face... and what he really was. The demon abandoned the woman and came after her, thankfully Ruben had been watching her since that day in the mall. Hunters came and tore the demon apart in front of her, ripping him limb from limb and scattering the pieces. She'd stood shaken and in shock until Ruben had stepped seemingly out of thin air and dismissed the creatures. He told her it wasn't safe for her anymore, that she needed to go with him and she went willingly after he altered her memory so that she believed her parents had died in a car crash two years prior. She has been considered missing since age 12... Since then she has been training with and working for Ruben, helping maintain balance.

[Rage Lonethorn]

Interested. :§ I can probably type a CS up tonight or tomorrow? Woot woot

[Rage Lonethorn]

Question: how are we defining demon and angel? I know it's silly, and I'm thinking too hard into this.

[Rage Lonethorn]

I don't edit OT posts sorry. .-. Like Lucifer was a cherub that sinned, what would that count as?

[Lugubrious]

Seems to me that Angels are the benevolent, caring, guarding inhabitants of Heaven, and that Demons are the malevolent, corrupting, destructive denizens of Hell.

[Lotta Pumpkins]

I suppose I'd be interested in this sorta thing.

[Nephriel]

@Rage Lonethorn - Basically, it's not so black and white that all angels are good and all demons are bad. Gabriel (in the movie Constantine) was basically trying to raise the devil's son to inspire men to greatness by facing great darkness... to him that was 'good'. He was serving his purpose and gaining souls for his side by inspiring them to overcome something considered dark and evil. Angels are typically viewed as good because their job is to win souls for Heaven but they can go about it in many different ways... Not all of them good in the typical sense. Angels go bad, demons can rise to goodness... it just takes the right inspiration. Also, Angels aren't just floating balls of good will in the form of people or mystical beings... they are soldiers, they are weapons, they kill. They're expected to mass murder cities on an order (Sodom and Gomorrah), innocents and sinners alike(death of all first born sons in egypt) and then the next day pat people on the heads and say, "Sorry about that, but orders are orders, lets get to saving your souls shall we?" An angel's concept of goodness is determined by their goals and by their orders.

If you're asking what would happen to an angel cast out, they become fallen and if they choose to go even darker after that they become demons.

@Stephan Heya! Nice to see you around... Maybe you'd like to throw in some ideas here?

[Nephriel]

Bumping

[Rage Lonethorn]

Ahh neato! Def interested

[Masaki Haruna]

What can humans do?

[Nephriel]

Its explained in the example cs. :)

[McHaggis]

Interested. Might work on a CS later