[OOC] The Blood Wars Reboot(Always accepting)

[Kaalee]

I'm sorry that was so late, work just got kind of crazy

[Shikaru]

@Kaalee NP.

[Shikaru]

I shall post soon.

[Scrapula]

Are you going to post the bombs activating in the Silver Moon meeting any time soon?

[AtomicNut]

Huh. Looks interesting.

Name: Adrian Copperfield / Sir Hadrian of Jerusalem / Ol' Smithy
Apparent Age(only valid if vampire/werewolf/hybrid):26
Actual Age:Circa 12th century. +800 Years old.
Gender: Male
Race/Faction: Vampire outcast, The Mix.
Height:5'9''
Weight:160lbs
Appearance: Adrian looks like a fit young man, with a scraggly beard, a slightly prominent nose, and dark blue eyes. He keeps his black hair cut in a caesar style. He has several characteristical scars on his face: a diagonal cut on his left cheek, a small one above the right side of the lip, and the right earlobe is missing. If one could see him without clothes, he has a puncture scar on his left leg and a slashing cut above the right side of the chest. He wears shaggy and loose clothes on a usual basis, of grayish tones, singed and full of patches. His voice is somewhat raspy, low-key and gruff, and he walks with a rather depressed air.

Bio(Two paragraphs, minimum): Hadrian was one of the many knights that throughout the middle ages, tasked themselves to take the Holy Land from the infidels. Serving his youth in Jerusalem, he valiantly helped Balian defend the city to its last against Saladin's siege. The outcome of the battle left him embittered about the world at large, and he trudged towards his home being a former shadow of the knight he once was. He abandoned his faith and his ways, and used what little money and status he had left to indulge in lavish desires, strongly considering to fall atop his sword, even if he knew fully well that suicide was a great sin.

It all changed, however, when a beckoning voice from a woman of pleasure enticed him to enter a random brothel in France. After the deed was done, he felt the sharp fangs of the woman on his neck -all too late- before he succumbed to the power and wiles of the she-vampire. He thought he would die. Far from it. He was reborn as a children of the night, his sire's pet knight whom she wanted to play with and use as a weapon against the fools who dared to oppose her. However, a miscalculation on her part didn't take in account the amount of self-hate of the knight, whom tired of being a puppet first to God and his King, and now to a vampire, decapitated her in a bout of wrath.

It all was downhill from here. Hating everything, Hadrian resolved to kill each and everyone of the supernatural creatures he came accross, and then kill himself for being a ravenous beast. A futile effort. Enemies kept piling up, and each passing day his will waned. Eventually, he came across a blind, sickly human child, whom he intended to prey upon to regenerate and feast, in order to fuel his one-man war against the world. The child, scared and resigned, prayed.

And thus, Hadrian remembered. Of his past pride. Of how it felt to protect others. Of how far he had fallen. He let the child go, and swore off violence, and began a journey of self discovery, throughout the reaches of the known world. Just like the Cain of the bible, he roamed aimlessly, seeking peace. Different cultures, different philosophies permeated into him, and he took up to practice martial arts and meditation to soothe his soul. And then the Industrial age happened. The humans had truly gone a long way without him, and he graciously accepted that the world had long since moved wonderfully without him. And such a beatiful world it was. The once lost in wrath knight rekindled his fires of hope, and started anew. He studied. He became an engineer, he became a mentor, and an advocate in peace. For such a world still had its share of darkness and outcasts, and those needed a guiding light, much like he needed it in his darkest hour.

Personality: Adrian is a patient, philosophical kind of sort. He doesn't withold information nor denies help from those who seek his company, except if said help is to further selfish political agendas. He enjoys tinkering, and reciclying scraps. He also has a taste for meditation, sparring and weapon smithing. He thinks of his fellow outcasts as the little siblings he never had, and he unoficially supports the Mix agenda, if only because without the Mix, everyone's lives would be for the worse. Ol' Smithy distrusts deceptive people and self-accomplished people in general. Despite his overall placid attitude, it is not a wise idea to anger him by hurting anyone whom he has taken under his wing. With the zeal only a crusader would have, he will hunt whomever is the offender and rip him apart.
Powers(Again, keep it realistic or you will be denied):
Hadrian is an elder vampire, and as such he can pull many feats of strength and speed younger vampires can dream of. However, due to his pacifist habits, his power is heavily suppressed as he relies on cattle blood rather than human blood for sustenance. If he were to drink human blood, his full power would manifest.
Hadrian can also turn himself into a bat to travel distances, as well as talk to lesser animals and beasts.
Hadrian is a master martial artist, having travelled far and wide to hone his mind and body. When he combines it with his swordplay (whom it has been augmented to the point he's able to pull out feats like dual wielding swords), few denizens can be a match to him, unarmed or armed.
Hadrian is also an engineer and tinkerer, and he's a good weaponsmith. He usually crafts good quality blades from the scraps and miscellaneous materials from the scrapyard. He also takes requests to craft blades and customize guns. He has to live off something after all.
Other: Hadrian still keeps a heavily modernized version of his medieval full plate, now a full body armor which includes kevlar and plates, as well as the most recent version of his sword. He rarely dons it, and him wearing it is an indicative of how pissed off he is.

[Shikaru]

@Scrapula I will once more people from Silver Moon post, I was giving them a chance to re-act and such.

@AtomicNut Approved. He sounds cool. Kinda like a less psychotic Ronin :p.

[Scrapula]

There's not much to react to. All you've given us is a slight beeping noise and something that's going to happen later.

[Shikaru]

@Scrapula The timer was set for 10 minutes. The C4 would go off mid conversation. I don't mean react so much as I mean time for Silver Moon to talk and possibly respond to Adalaides phone call.

[Scrapula]

Yes, but there's very little else to talk about. Adalaide's phone call gave pretty much nothing for Bastian to reply to other than "no, we didn't do it", which would leave the question as to why she would have Bastian's phone number in the first place. It would probably be best if we asked how the other people with the Silver Moon feel about moving things along.

[IncredibleBee]

So how did Adalaide just happen to have the cell phone number of a rival crime lord?

[AtomicNut]

It was this or mooning Bastian and then scaping in bat form.

[IncredibleBee]

Also, yeah, I doubt ten minutes would pass on this kind of phone call. I'd rather move right along.

[AtomicNut]

Come to think I should've opened with a post of the reunion of what's left of the Mix... but heh, there weren't any other Mix fellas.

[Kaalee]

@IncredibleBee Adalaide is a peace keeper. She doesn't just associate with Blackbloods. She will do PR for anyone who has money and sometimes she'll just do stuff so they aren't exposed. The leader of the werewolves might be a good number to have.

I was trying to be able to move onto the next scene since I didn't think we'd have a confrontation with one of the baddies this early

[AtomicNut]

I'm wondering if Adalaide and Hadrian have met before, being both old even for vampires, and if so if it was during Hadrian's stint as renegade sire-killing vampire who hunts monsters or in the posterior enlightment phase where he learned meditation and martial arts and mellowed out.

The vampire-hunting-vampires phase is why i didn't consider him fitting in the Blackbloods.

[Shikaru]

If the other Silver Moon players are in agreement, I'll have the explosives go off in my next post. That sound fine?

[Shikaru]

@AtomicNutlmao. You described Ronin perfectly. 10/10.

[Kaalee]

@AtomicNut They definitely could, although if they're both still alive maybe in his recovery phase instead of his I'm going to kill every supernatural in sight phase

[AtomicNut]

Right, so she probably has an idea on his current outlook at life and some of his skills.

[Kaalee]

@AtomicNut Sure, and vise versa for his knowledge of her