Dark Jack

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

Great news! Thank you for letting me know. I feel like assuring you that I'm not just eager to get the RP started for my own enjoyment's sake, but because the longer it sits around doing nothing, the less interested I can expect people being in it and the more likely it is for people to lose interest. I want to keep the RP relevant to you all so you don't lose your enthusiasm.
It's also a matter of December being right around the corner, and I know that for a lot of people - myself included - December is a very busy month, so I want to get as much of the more vital parts of getting the RP started done before time starts to get scarce.

On a different note, I've been thinking about new monster designs that I want to possibly include in the RP at some point (and I have a couple I'm pretty happy with), and I thought maybe you guys had some ideas that would fit into the bizarre theme of Bloodborne monsters?

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

All right, I have nothing further to comment on, Habibi. Character accepted!

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

By now I'd like two things: a tally on how many players we're still actually in for out of the ones that has expressed interest (so I'd like to hear from @Prizrak, @Th3King0fChaos, @Skwint, @Jarl Coolgruuf and @Lauder to confirm whether they are still in or not). If I don't hear from you, I'll presume that you weren't that interested and regrettably aren't actually going to be participating in the RP.

I'd also like to hear from @King Cosmos to see how that character is coming along, and to hear if I can help expedite things somehow.

Generally I'd like to get things moving sooner rather than later, before people lose interest in the RP altogether, so I'd also like to get a general idea of what characters people are working on. If no one else is working on characters with the Healing Church, for instance, I might get the scene with Adelicia, Provostus and Victor started.

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

1: Well, blood is kind of everywhere. There's blood in people, there's blood in animals, and though it's comparatively foul and likely to turn you into a monster down the line, there's even blood in beasts. If these gangs decided to "steal" blood, it would be hard to stop them. Stealing "special blood" - like that used for blood healing or blood ministration - would be a lot harder; not only would it probably be kept in a safe place, but they would also be liable to attract the ire of the church and its Hunters.
But would they fundamentally be able to? Yes.

2: The Fire Dancers pretty much rob anyone, and if they resist, they fight.

3: Smuggling... what? Smuggling blood? In or out of Yharnam? As I outlined under 1, blood in general isn't exactly a scarce resource. If one was talking about smuggling special blood out of Yharnam, it would sell for an absolutely insanely high price... but as mentioned before, the church would also become very dissatisfied with them and might decide to remove them (and remember, this was an organization that was willing to spread a plague and potentially wipe out half a city for profit; hiding from the Healing Church isn't easy). If we're talking people, then yeah... everyone kind of is welcome in Yharnam. The Healing Church want as many subjects as possible, and blood treatment causes addiction; once you have Yharnam blood, you'll always crave blood.

One final comment: It's highly unlikely that the Healing Church would actually tell Marcus that they were going to make him any kind of special. They would most likely offer him a contract like any other Hunter and just infect him with false Paleblood without his consent or awareness.
It's much easier to control someone who is surprised, confused and frightened by a world they don't understand, after all, than someone drunk on their own power because they are "special".

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

I decided to write up something of a CS for the character that will be accompanying the group headed for the Paleblood Hunters, since it's possible that other characters from the Healing Church might at least know of him.

Victor

Name: Victor
Race: Hunter
Faction: White Healing Church
Age: Mid-forties
Appearance: A large and and heavily scarred man, Victor has long facial hair arranged into three 15 cm (6”) braids – one braid for either side of his mustache and one for the hair on his chin – but wears the hair on his head short and smoothed backwards so that it is easily hidden by the hood of his uniform. His hair is chestnut brown and his eyes are dark blue, though the color can be hard to determine due to his eyes being quite deep-set, casting them in shade from his brow most of the time. He has a broad, forward-jutting jaw and shallow cheekbones, both of which, along with his forehead and cheeks, are bear scars from old cuts and burns.
Height: 1.9 meters (6' 3”)
Weight: 102 kg (225 lb)
Clothes: Wears the garb of the white church. A 7.6 centimeter (3 inches) hole has been cut through the front and back of the garb, each hole surrounded by a large, dark bloodstain. The right shoulder has a long, blood-soaked tear.
Hunter gear: Wields a Ludwig's Holy Blade and a Hunter's blunderbuss, and used to carry a hand lantern on his person. The lantern has since been destroyed.
Currently has four blood vial and thirteen quicksilver bullets.
Biography: Victor was originally a mercenary from the lands east of Yharnam, running with a band of generally unremarkable professional soldiers doing whatever jobs the various wealthy patrons in the lands would pay them for. This mostly included reinforcing native forces, hunting highwaymen and occasionally robbing transports, all for reasons that probably mattered to their employers, but which Victor and the band did not care about beyond the fact that they were being rewarded.
Out of all of the band Victor was neither the strongest, smartest or the most skilled at fighting, but he stood out nonetheless and had a minor reputation as a suicidal brute and a mean drunk. Wearing the ancestral armor of his family – a full suit of plate armor – Victor made a habit of charging headlong into combat, disregarding danger and defense in favor for a fully offensive fighting style, heavily reliant on raw strength that let him cleave through opponents with his longsword. Though most people, his own band included, regarded him as a crazy fool, most were reluctantly in awe at his sheer ability to withstand pain and ignoring wounds, as he had emerged from battle many times with broken bones and serious lacerations, yet he never seemed to let his injuries slow him down until after the fighting was done.

Though Victor was happy enough to continue his life like this, simply earning enough to keep himself looking what he thought was “sophisticated” and to keep a steady supply of drinkable spirits, things changed about six months after the Night of the Blood Moon. With the destruction wrought in Yharnam, its diminished population and badly weakened ability to deal with its native plagues, surrounding lands started suffering from beasts spreading from the city of blood, and the native lords were having great difficulty dealing with this threat on their own. Word got out that one lord in particular was offering an impressive amount of money for the head of a certain scourge beast, and the leader of Victor's band was quick to chase this bounty.
But though most of the mercenaries were battle-hardened and confident in their ability to deal with “one measly beast”, it turned out that they all severely underestimated their quarry. Finding the scourge beast proved simple enough, but it soon became apparent just how dangerous such a monster was to ordinary humans. Half of the band, including their leader, was killed in an initial assault on the beast, and Victor discovered just how little armor mattered to the ferocity of such a creature. Victor ended up badly wounded, with major damage to his spine, and had to be dragged from the battlefield by his comrades.
The band decided to pursue the beast despite their initial failure, however, citing that they had the advantage now, while it was wounded, proving their ignorance of the immense regenerative powers of beasts. They chased the lupine creature close to Yharnam itself, where they found that the lands were crawling with monsters the like of which they had never seen before. Nearly the entire band was killed just trying to escape the wilderness surrounding Yharnam with their lives intact, eventually landing them in Yharnam itself.
Here they were approached by the Healing Church, which offered to heal their wounds with miraculous blood healing. All of the survivors gladly paid to recover from their injuries, becoming proper Yharnamites, but Victor was far too gone to be saved with regular blood healing. His wounds had gotten infected, and even if the healing cured this, the damage to his spine meant that he would never walk again.
The church offered Victor a different treatment: one that would mend all of the damage done to him... and all it would cost him was service to the church. So naturally he agreed.

Now a Hunter, Victor continues to fight recklessly and aggressively, while also finding great pleasure in the implied elegance of the White Healing Church. He remains mostly unremarkable, even as a Hunter, though it has been noted that he possesses higher capacity for regeneration than most. Any favor he could gain through this innate ability has been lost, however, as his proclivity for alcohol has now turned to blood, and he has been disciplined several times for overindulgence.

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

Well, for most part I figure it's fine, though... I feel like you missed a pretty essential part of my input on your initial idea. Right after a bunch of mulling over Bloodborne lore and theory, I wrote:

Short version: it might be possible if the character was a Yharnamite before, not a Hunter.

Dark Jack

The whole point of that entire theorizing-part and the conclusion after was that it's highly unlikely that it's possible to turn a Hunter into a false Paleblood Hunter due to their resistance to disease. From the biography you wrote I can tell that your character is still supposed to have been a Hunter before volunteering for the experiment.
We can go with that, if you like, but you'd be entering even more unknown territory than just regular false Paleblood Hunters. And your character wouldn't be in the clinic with all the others, since he wouldn't be rendered comatose by the metamorphosis, since he isn't actually changing. Someone would just give him an injection and tell him "go die and see if you survive".

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

If anyone else wants in on the Adelicia-going-to-receive-the-first-ever-batch-of-mass-produced-Hunters-who-are-also-Paleblood-Hunters, I think it would be a quite easy way to start the story for anyone in the Healing Church. They would certainly want to make an effort to avoid losing their precious experiments, along with the actual Paleblood Hunters, even if that "loss" might only be in a metaphysical sense in that they might die and discover the Hunter's Dream before the church has properly imprinted on the.

And for anyone having trouble coming up with interesting backgrounds for their characters, keep two things in mind:
I'm not actually asking for or requiring that your characters even have a background, especially if they are one of the prospective (false) Paleblood Hunters. It's not uncommon for humans undergoing metamorphosis to experience memory loss to varying extents, as seen with the player in Bloodborne (who forgets nearly everything), so they might not even know who they are or why they are there.
And by far most of the population of Yharnam is currently "outsiders"; people from beyond the lands associated with the city that moved there to partake in blood healing. There aren't a whole lot of people there who have been around for more than five years, since the Night of the Blood Moon killed a ton, turned another ton into beasts and nearly all of the rest mad. I'm not saying that you can't or shouldn't make a native of Yharnam, only that it would probably give you a lot of freedom and play well into the lore to say that your character is from somewhere else.

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

Adelicia making her way to the Paleblood Hunters would both make sense and be quite handy as far as storytelling goes, and avoid splitting the story into too many parts. I had already started planning a separate scene for her, but this works much better. I have just the NPC to start her off with, who was also supposed to be making their way to them.

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

I mean "Yharnamite" as in "person who has received blood treatment"; I primarily use Yharnamite as a descriptor for a particular state of existence rather than to refer to simply a person living in Yharnam (which is also why, in the OP, "Yharnamite" is listed under "race" separately from "human"). And yes, Gilbert was definitely a foreigner of some kind, I'd say. Whether he had an association with the Healing Church is a bit more open to interpretation, but yeah, Flamesprayer does suggest that he had been involved with them somehow. Maybe he was a low level cleric of some kind, since there were apparently a lot of things that the church never deigned to tell him? Or maybe Gilbert knew, but didn't want to betray the church by telling the player?

So much is open to interpretation in Bloodborne... it's great.

Night of the Hunt - a Bloodborne RP

Well, though I'm honestly happy and relieved that someone has expressed interest in playing a Paleblood Hunter, there are two main points that might be problematic with the scenario you're considering here, @Habibi359. The first problem would be whether it would even be feasibly possible to become a false Paleblood Hunter while also qualifying as a Fire Dancer. Hmm...

Theorizing...

The problem is that the Fire Dancers were supposed to be a gang made up by Hunters, and not only haven't the church tried using false Paleblood on existing Hunters (and have in fact only just begun their first trial run with human subjects), I also sincerely doubt that such a thing would even work. The very reason people with Paleblood come to Yharnam is to be cured of Paleblood, and indeed becoming a Hunter in all observed cases seems to cure the disease, leaving only whatever other alterations the Paleblood made to the Hunter before being purged. Hunters are immensely resilient and barely affected even by otherwise fatal maladies, as seen with Ashen Blood, the plague that most likely resulted in the eventual loss of the entirety of Old Yharnam, but which only weakens a Hunter's regenerative abilities for a matter of seconds before being naturally purged. As a matter of fact, in the entirety of Bloodborne, the only thing the Hunter-blood couldn't cure was the degenerative condition afflicting Gascoigne. It stands to reason, then, that a Hunter would most likely purge false Paleblood immediately after contracting it, and it is anybody's guess - including the Healing Church - whether it would remain in their system for long enough to qualify as false Paleblood Hunters.

One way to solve this could be to expand the membership pool of the Fire Dancers to include Yharnamites in addition to Hunters. Yharnamites are proven to be lesser than Hunters in a lot of ways in the game and lore, most importantly in this context in that they are not as resilient. It is theorized that Ashen Blood was spread by the Healing Church during its early days as a means to incentivize the inhabitants to receive blood ministration, since the antidote alone was not enough to cure it, and Yharnamites have generally received blood ministration in order to be healed or cured of something, so Yharnamites are probably more resistant to illness than normal humans. They are, however, provably more susceptible than Hunters. The beast patients that can be found throughout Old Yharnam, which were all almost certainly Yharnamites before becoming so, remain afflicted with Ashen Blood even long after receiving blood ministration. More interesting yet is the fact that Gilbert - the very first NPC encountered by the player in the game - is ill and grows progressively worse over the course of the game, until he is eventually claimed by the scourge of beasts and breaks out of his house to be slain by the player. This tells us that Gilbert was definitely a Yharnamite (he turned into a beast and immediately recognizes the player as a Hunter), but that he also suffers from something beyond normal blood ministration (he makes reference that "what inflicted [him] was incurable"). We further never hear about Paleblood Yharnamites - the only ones to reference the Hunter's Dream are other Hunters - so it is probably not a stretch that the blood ministration applied to Yharnamites is insufficient to cure Paleblood.

Finally, the game never makes reference that it is possible for a Yharnamite to become a Hunter - to have the treatment going from human to Yharnamite overwritten by treatment to become a Hunter - but it doesn't state that it's impossible either. So one might assume that it would be possible to inflict a Yharnamite with false Paleblood and then give them treatment to turn them into a Hunter, resulting in a false Paleblood Hunter.

Short version: it might be possible if the character was a Yharnamite before, not a Hunter.

The other problem is simple: why in the world would the Healing Church risk an experiment that might turn a known enemy of the church into a practically immortal super-soldier? I'm not entirely sure how to explain my way out of that one... The character would have to have made a pretty convincing gesture to justify the church to want to risk turning them into a false Paleblood Hunter.