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Second Academy for Public Dangers - OOC

For much of the trip, it was quiet, solemn, and inconspicuous. A bus had arrived to pick up the various children from their homes, stowing away the luggage into compartments underneath before chugging off into the heart of the nearest city, headed for a stellar station. Some of the students happened to be in the same vicinity, and met up at the station or in the very bus that had picked them up. The drivers were silent, as were the academy staff members who accompanied them -or rather, sat in the shotgun, obscured by the wall that separated them from the passengers seats in the back.

As the bus pulled into the station amidst a swarm of other decal-coated commercial vehicles, the students were beckoned off and handed individual tickets for a shuttle set to leave within the hour. Long ago, security required the monitoring and examination of each individual passenger one at a time, and thankfully through the development of more powerful scanning technology, getting through the line was as simple as walking under a small archway and proceeding on one's way without any slow in speed.

The ship was on the smaller end, clearly owned by a private organization and painted with fanciful decals reading, "Second Academy Stellar Shuttling" on several sides. More and more students funneled in, brought to the station by multiple buses arriving from various towns and cities of the state or country. The once silent mouths began to pick up in chatter, voices of excitement and friendship filling the air with an aura of good feeling.

Of what was revealed to the students by staff, the most interesting point was that the academy was located in space, owned by a corporation facilitating its operations. Floating amid the inner ring of the solar system's asteroid belt, it was far and away from the traffic of other stations in the system; promises of solace and peace were frequently thrown out by staff. The shuttle lifted off, and even as the body of students shifted into the void of space, their hearts were energetic and warm. The captain announced the flight time and the menu for their several-hour flight, and a congratulations to each one of them for enrolling.

Some slept, some stared out their window, but most conversed among each other, making friends as quickly as possible so as not to be the few that were alone day one. As the hours passed, the density of asteroids began to pick up until the outside world had become a mine field of misshapen space rocks filled in with a web of darkness. An announcement came over the speakers, and the students hushed themselves to listen.

"This is your captain speaking. Shuttle will dock at the Second Academy port within a few more minutes. Due to the dangers of asteroid collision, we will apply physical shielding to the shuttle windows to avoid breakage. Please return to your seats if you haven't already done so and sit tight. Glad to have you on this flight today," the captain stated.

The cabins darkened as metallic plates shifted over the windows to space, and lights on the floors and ceiling lit up to provide adequate sight for the students. After fifteen more minutes, the ship could be felt as it slowed and finally impacted the port delicately. As soon as the vehicle halted its movement, the students unbuckled themselves and stood up to retrieve their suitcases, backpacks, and duffel bags. Hissing air announced the opening of the shuttle's doors, flooding light into the dim cabin. Students filed into the white tunnels, following the "Elevator Entrance" signs posted along its length.

Eventually the entourage found themselves in a large room not unlike a move theatre. Rosy cushioned seats ran along curved floor levels between a pair of stairs, overlooking a small stage at the base. Behind the seats, at the top, a large glass panel looking into the elevator's angled shaft displayed a holographic message in bright red letters.

"PLEASE BE SEATED"

The students followed its demand and sat themselves beside friends or far-flung empty areas depending on their sociability. It took a few minutes, but once the last passenger followed suit, the room's doors closed and the elevator lurched into movement upwards, ascending into a mechanical darkness behind their line of sight. A whine of some engine outside the room picked up in speed and loudness as the elevator rushed onward.

For a few more minutes, the students were once more left to their own devices.

Second Academy for Public Dangers - OOC

Working on IC post now.

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athanshadow said
Now I feel like he's totally useless but I like roleplays for their playing and not as much fighting. Althoughhhhhh I really do want to be able to do a bit more. Any other power stuff you can think of revolving around that? I'm not the most creative person.

The power of emotional suggestion is not a useless one. It will be more subdued against player characters, but against NPC's it could turn a vicious soldier into an apathetic lazy bum.

Maybe include the power of empathy?

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So long as you surrender the power to truly decide how player characters will act.

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Kirill Yudin is accepted.

Brooks Moore's manipulating voice, no matter how downplayed, is essentially mind control.

Time manipulation and mind control are my most loathed superpowers in roleplays, the latter of which moreso because it inherently disobeys a key rule of every roleplay; forbidding god-modding. Even though it is only animals right now, it has the potential to move on to humans. I'm going to say no right now, unless you can convince me by some means.

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Cryptiic said
Awesome! I look forward to seeing how this turns out. I'll start thinking of a post right away.Before I actually start writing however, might I trouble you with a few questions regarding the setting?First of all, roughly how advanced is the current technological level? Is the use of spaceships widespread and accessible?What are they fueled/propelled with? Are there any other currently existing space colonies out there, and if so where?Does the station have a stable artificial gravitational field? How does it work, rotation or some other means? If they exist, do any of the space colonies have an independent political status? Are they civilian based, or more the military/corporate/research types?Are there non-inhabited automated corporate structures in space? Could you describe the elevator vehicle a bit?Sorry for the wall of questions, I just like to make sure that I don't make any mistakes in regards to the setting... My apologies if you answer any of that in the IC post.

No no it's fine. I'm glad someone's curious.

The technology is pretty advanced, even for a "realistically assumed" year of 2182. The presence of "super-mind" heroes and villains before their subjugation allowed for an accelerated development of technology in nearly all fields; though military tech received the brunt of it for obvious reasons. However this surge in speed has since halted, and is now progressing at "human velocities". Commercial, private, and civilian-owned space travel is wide-spread. Advances in medicine allows for a rather unfortunate birth:death rate in the favor of rampant overpopulation. Human beings survive well into 200 years old, thankfully so considering immortality has been achieved but strictly banned. Quantum computing allows for AI, though the viability of rampant AI is impossible given proper programming protocol. Laser beams. Pew pew. Though kinetic weapons are still preferred.

Spaceship propulsion varies, with the more advanced ones utilizing Diametric Drives for yaw and pitch, and quantum vacuum plasma propulsion for forward and reverse movement. Less expensive (read: civilian-owned) use quantum vacuum propulsion alone for all directional movement.

Space colonies extend well into the outer reaches of the solar system, and several interstellar expeditions have been sent off, though none have reached their destination point yet. Mars has been terraformed into one with an atmosphere, though still requires the wearing of breathing apparatuses due to the thinner air outside. Most space colonies orbit around the gas giants, utilizing the minerals found in their rings to fuel expansion.

Graviton manipulation allows for the creation of artificial gravity in space without the need for centrifugal forces.

Politics with space colonies ultimately breaks down into corporations brawling with one another. Most, if not all significantly sized space stations are owned by megacorporations, though some are owned by governments (who cannot afford such large establishments on their own). If you live on a corporate-owned station, you are either
a) A worker for the company or one of its many smaller variants
b) Rich
c) One of the many civilians given an opportunity to live there by way of lottery

Automated space colonies exist generally, again, around the gas giants. They act as AI-controlled mining stations with only a few human hands to fix things that break down.

The elevator proceeds at an angle, with its occupants facing the "back-end" of the elevator. Think of a movie theatre and have the projector screen be on the opposite end of the direction the elevator travels. It contains several dozen padded seats in rows of differing height within the elevator, and there appears to be a stage of sorts at its lowest point, facing the seats like in a college classroom.

Hope that answers your questions.

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Alrightie do. Accepted. Seems like we got enough of a crowd, so I'll start on the IC sooner rather than later.

All characters will start out in an angled elevator vehicle, with several dozen seats for each new student. Prior to entering the elevator, each individual had arrived there by way of a space shuttle (yes, it's in space) that seemed inconspicuous. As far as any of you know thus far, nothing seems wrong with the "Academy" from what the staff has explained and how the journey has appeared.

I'll create the first IC post to further describe it, and after that you guys are free to post.

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Animus said
I like how everyone took after MrShoe with summarized personality traits instead of the traditional 1/2 paragraph detailed explanation

Personality should be presented as a series of short bullet points, detailing positive qualities and negative qualities.

And rightly so.

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Everyone that has finished their CS is accepted thus far. I'll give this one more day before starting on the IC.

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Acceptados.