[OOC] Human+ OOC

[Ally610]

@pockets It's in there now. Can't wait to start this whole thing!

[pockets]

@Ally610 I can't either. We're making much faster headway than I expected too to be perfectly honest. I love it. I've been inspired lately working on the second book in the series so I'm really looking forward to this game. I'm going to get a couple characters together myself and once everyone else has their character sheet approved we can get rolling.

Powers will be PM'd to you each privately. That way they can be revealed in game without the other players knowing quite what to expect. Should be fun. :)

[Undying Curiosity]

I'm logging off for the night, but I'll make sure I get a CS by tomorrow.

[pockets]

@Undying Curiosity Sounds good, see you on the morrow good Sir.

[Inertia]

Have no idea if you're accepting but;

Alden

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Name:

Alden Sebastian

Gender:

Male

Age:

16

Appearance:

Alden stands at about 5'8". His body is kept at the fit side of things, as Alden cares about his appearance the most. He dresses prim and posh. Most of his effort goes towards his clothing and fashion sense. He gravitates towards black and a darkish hue of blue. His hair is a dark maroon brown, which is always properly styled. The most outstanding feature are his teal-coloured eyes, the eyes almost seem to pierce right through you. It seems that he is also fairly attractive according to some of his classmates, but he simply scoffs at this.

Background:

Alden was born to a normal family, Quentin. His parents loved him and cared for him. Then his sister was born, he was then mostly neglected by his parents to favor his younger sister who was born a few years later after him. While he did not blame his sister for his parents actions, he blamed himself. He began performing everything perfectly, without a fault. His grades were almost always perfect as he began being more studious. Even his attention to his appearance stemmed from this. His primary thoughts were, 'Maybe if I did perfectly, they would notice, maybe...'

Alden never actually realized that his parents thought he was mature enough to do things by himself. and him being a perfect little boy further proved this, with them now focusing fully on his younger sister. However due to this nature, he had become more self-dependent, and slightly arrogant and snobbish, even being sarcastic and blunt to a fault at times, pointing out inadequacy or shortcomings when he sees it because of developed habit of being 'perfect'.

Relations:

TBD

Power:

Also if you're doing theme songs, this is totally Alden's.

[pockets]

@Inertia Interesting character. I'll accept him, and I'm gonna change the rp to full at this point. I think we've got enough people to be going on with without making things too confusing. Go ahead and add your character to the characters tab and I'll be sending you a PM shortly with your characters power.

[Thundercrash]

So, here's a preliminary sheet. The spot of Sophia's best friend is still open.

Sophia Callahan

Name: Sophia Callahan

Gender: female

Age: 15

Appearance:
Sophia is shorter than average, in fact she has never met anyone who could look her in the eye without looking down or bending their legs. Her face is very expressive, particularly her grey eyes, due to it being one of her primary ways of communicating. She has a very lithe, slightly muscular build from all the running and climbing she does. Because of her active lifestyle, she prefers to wear t-shirts, shorts, and running shoes or hiking boots. She also wears a shark-tooth necklace.

Personality: Sophia doesn’t speak. Period. She has not spoken so much as a single word her entire life, and it is not known whether this is due to some unknown brain condition, or if she simply chooses not to. Regardless, this does not seem to hamper her much, as she always finds some other way to communicate what she wants to others. She’s also very active and athletic, usually going on a run before school, participating in her school’s track team, as well as being a parkour expert; she's been constantly on the move since she was six, so if she doesn’t want to be caught, then no one can catch her short of flying. She's also started teaching herself MMA, mostly by watching videos on the interwebs.

Because of her apparent “disability”, she is subject to a fair degree of ridicule and teasing, particularly from those who believe that she just chooses not to speak (her most common nickname is "Silent Sophy"). Her typical responses to this are scathing looks, sarcastic comments delivered via a text-to-speech app on her phone that she had downloaded, and rude gestures delivered at point blank range. In fact, Sophia doesn’t seem to place much, if any great importance on personal space; she loves to communicate through physical contact, particularly with hugs, slight caresses, or drawing on someone’s skin. However, she will give space if she sees that her actions are making the recipient particularly uncomfortable. Those who know her know that this is just her way of demonstrating affection.

Background: At the tender age of 18, Madeline Callahan left her small town roots and made her way to the sunny shores of California, in pursuit of great dreams, good friends and a bright future. Upon arrival, she promptly shirked those dreams and indulged in every pleasure possible. She was a party girl, living the good life without a care in the world…
Until reality came knocking, and she found herself pregnant. Abandoned by most of her friends, Madeline was still determined to live her life her own way. She decided to keep the baby, more or less cleaned up, and managed to support herself and her daughter, whom she named Sophia, as a waitress. It was not an easy life, but with the help of a couple remaining friends, it was a more or less good one for the first couple years.

However, Madeline became troubled. Even up to the age of four, Sophia had still not spoken a single word. There didn’t seem to be any apparent medical reason preventing her from doing so, and she seemed to understand others perfectly; she just didn’t speak herself. Madeline attempted to get a speech therapist to help her daughter, however she was unable to continue paying for them. Additionally, Sophia had seemed to have inherited some of her mother’s wilful attitude, since she didn’t pay the slightest attention during the few sessions that she did have.

Out of both options and money, Madeline made the grudging decision to move back home, where she has lived with her brother and sister-in-law ever since.

Relationships:

Powers:

[pockets]

@Thundercrash I likes her. She's accepted, we'll figure out her friend later. I'm gonna do my thing and send you your power momentarily by PM.

I think we MIGHT even be able to get started with the RP itself soon. The last few players can throw in their sheet and join in as we go because we won't be running into the instance where everyone end's up getting their powers for a little bit. We start out as plain old ordinary humans at first.

[Great Sogeking]

I find it kinda funny how, scrolling down the Character Sheet, each successive one just happens to be more detailed than the last.

[Inertia]

I find it kinda funny how, scrolling down the Character Sheet, each successive one just happens to be more detailed than the last.

@Great Sogeking

I could've filled out a personality section tho ><

Edit: Actually I'm curious, how would Blake get along with Alden?

[pockets]

@Inertia By all means, include a section on personality if you like. I won't require players to adjust their already made sheets at this point but you're welcome to add it in if you like.

[Great Sogeking]

@Inertia Hmm... I get the feeling they wouldn't get along very well.

It kinda feels like they'd be at odds, even down to their fashion. Alden's a perfectionist that's kinda rude, and Blake's the kind of guy who's fine with getting things about right and wants to be as nice as possible. Alden's behavior would probably strike a few of Blake's sour spots.

Also their fashion. Blake's bland as all heck about his fashion sense and gets Dad Haircuts while Alden's all prim and proper.

If he poked fun at that he'd definitely be on Blake's shit Dislike List!

[Thundercrash]

I find that including a personality section is helpful since A. It gives me starting point of traits that I can build from with my own characters, and B. It helps me gauge how I think other characters will react to what I'm doing, and thereby hopefully orchastrate better situations between people.

[pockets]

I have the feeling this is going to be all kinds of fun once some of these people get together. LOL

[Inertia]

@Inertia Hmm... I get the feeling they wouldn't get along very well.

It kinda feels like they'd be at odds, even down to their fashion. Alden's a perfectionist that's kinda rude, and Blake's the kind of guy who's fine with getting things about right and wants to be as nice as possible. Alden's behavior would probably strike a few of Blake's sour spots.

Also their fashion. Blake's bland as all heck about his fashion sense and gets Dad Haircuts while Alden's all prim and proper.

If he poked fun at that he'd definitely be on Blake's shit Dislike List!

@Great Sogeking

You can receive great tips from him and his posh attitude!
Anyway it's perfect, it's unrealistic that all characters would get along in the beginning after all.

I find that including a personality section is helpful since A. It gives me starting point of traits that I can build from with my own characters, and B. It helps me gauge how I think other characters will react to what I'm doing, and thereby hopefully orchastrate better situations between people.

@Thundercrash

I'll be doing this now.
Done-ish, not proud of it. @Thundercrash

[pockets]

Alright, I'm heading to work at this point. I don't start until midnight but I like to get there early so I can relax a bit. I'll check in with you guys before I have to clock in and I'll try to poke my head in throughout the night.

Otherwise, see ya all tomorrow. I'm hoping that tomorrow afternoon we'll be able to get the RP started.

[Great Sogeking]

I'll just append "Alden is on his shitlist" to Blake's CS then...

Yeah I'll probably work on Blake's Actual Personality section tomorrow. I got a class I gotta get up early for so I'll hop off for now.

[Thundercrash]

One thing that I feel I should clarify, just to get it out of the way now.

Sophia's voice works fine. In fact, if she feels the need, or just feels like it, she'll make several different sounds (laughing, crying, groaning, etc.) depending on the situation. She just doesn't verbalize words at all.

[pockets]

@Thundercrash Gotcha.

Ok. There WILL be villains that I'll be throwing for us to face. I'll also be including other various elements of some classic hero type stories. Shadowy government agencies. Nosy reporters. Etc. Also this is all supposed to culminate in a specific story arc. Not sure how long it'll take us to get there or if we will but I'm excited to find out.

The RP is basically going to follow the general story of the books and I've got at least 15 different novels planned out. I'll be introducing various characters throughout but I will be doing my very best not to take over and control the game.

Also what's going to happen when you guys get powers it's it's not going to happen right away. An event happens involving a ship as mentioned. Then later tour characters will fall ill, like worst flu ever kinda ill. When they wake up they'll feel fine and be changed. But when and how your individual powers manifest is any bodies guess. And that's where you will be challenged creatively. Let's try and make things as realistic as possible.

And just for fun I'm going to throw in a little excerpt here of a fight between two characters that I'm planning in a future book in the series.

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We paused for a second and Richard glared at me across the rubble strewn street.

"So what now, Carlos," he asked, panting slightly. "We two immortals locked in an epic battle until judgement day and the trumpets sound?"

I coughed and spat some blood to the side. "We're not immortal, Richard... wait a second..." I stopped and blinked, my brain catching up to the words. "Did you just quote Pirates of the Carribean at me?"

He shrugged. "Well... yeah"

I nodded slowly. "Okay, just wanted to make sure I had that right." I turned and leaned down, grabbing a volkswagen bug by the front fender with one hand. With a series of pushes and pulls on the vehicles gravitational orientation I lifted the car up, around, and sent it hurtling, with roughly the speed of a major league fast-ball, directly at my best 'friend'.

[Wade Wilson]

Wow, you guys did a lot while I was sleeping.