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Of Divinations and Tribulations - OOC And IC Thread

... the CS doesn't have to be anywhere near that detailed, Demensia.

Of Divinations and Tribulations - OOC And IC Thread

Alright. I believe we've already talked about this on Steam, but just for the sake of putting it down here: how large is the island, again?

EDIT: There we go. Second character, ho!

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Name: Penny Yates

Gender: Female

Age: 32

Appearance: The most strikingly noticeable thing about Penny is that she is very tall, standing at a towering 6 foot 4, which a slim, lean build and almost non-existent bust, with slender and long legs. Her straightened light ash-brown hair is cut off directly at her shoulder, with it parted in the middle of her forehead. She has an oval face, with a narrow nose and small lips, with firm hazel eyes, her skin blemished by the occasional freckles and uneven tan-line. She usually gives off a fairly calm, collected, and almost authoritative atmosphere, as she never slouches and has a cool gaze. While she is reasonably attractive, it is clear that she only takes care of her appearance for the sake of appearing professional, not out of any care for being pretty. As for clothing, she wears a loose blue blouse covered by a light brown jacket, with neat jeans and new white sneakers.

Strengths and Weaknesses, Quirks and Traits: Penny is the type of person who sees absolutely no contradiction in having a fun night out drinking with someone, only to literally stab them in the back the very next day, as long as it was deemed necessary. She is a genuinely affable and polite woman, with a very calm demeanour, but is in equal parts utterly ruthless, manipulative and prideful. Due to her line of work, she believes in doing what is pragmatic and necessary, and feels no need to be excessive – but if ‘what is necessary’ happens to be morally reprehensible, then she will do it without hesitation, with her disregard for human life in the pursuit of her goals varying between merely somewhat callous to outright sociopathic. However, while she may be highly intelligent, her excessive pride means that she often underestimates other people, and has a tendency to have bouts of internalized anger when her plans fail.

While not exactly physically strong, but often enjoyed track in high school, making her fond of going on jogs and runs, meaning her legs can take her pretty far and fairly swiftly. But her upper body strength leaves a lot to be desired, and has never swung any kind of melee weapon in her entire life. She does, however, know how to fire a gun, as was almost a requirement for her type of business.

A Brief History: Growing up in a stable middle class home in South Australia, with two loving parents, Penny dabbled in criminal activity for a large portion of her life. She started off with petty burglary and selling drugs in early secondary school, often doing so rather recklessly. She was only ever caught once, which landed her a couple years in a youth detention center – and quickly resumed her ‘work’ afterwards, only much more careful and cautious. She began to delve deeper into the criminal world, partaking in scams and drug operations, and became further entrenched in the Australian drug trade. When asked as to how and why she got into that particular business, she would say it was merely because she was good at it – if she felt she would have been a good doctor or lawyer, then she wouldn’t tried to become one. It was as simple as that. As far as relationships went, she quickly found that romance just wasn’t for her – her lifestyle often meant she had a complete inability to relate with anyone. Although she maintained several very good friendships from people within her business, anything further than that just interfered with everything.

On a business trip, she had to travel to several states in America with some of her work acquaintances, New York being her final stop. After she finished most of her work, she decided to just go sightseeing for a while, and stopped off at Divinations and Tribulations while onto the Empire State Building – just for fun.

Of Divinations and Tribulations - OOC And IC Thread

Why don't we talk about the actual monsters in the story? What mythically monstrous mysteries are trying to kill us?

Of Divinations and Tribulations - OOC And IC Thread

Fear his creamy goodness.

I just finished a large post off-site, and currently can't be bothered writing anything else.
I'll get up my second character tomorrow~. :3

Of Divinations and Tribulations - OOC And IC Thread

I'll get my second character up... 'round tomorrow. Been busy today.
And Beo, you fucked up copying over our CSs to the first post. Properly indent that shit, yo.

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Name: Shawn Burnham

Gender: Male

Age: Twenty-six

Appearance: Shawn generally gives the impression that appearances is the last thing on his mind. His chestnut brown hair is grown out long past his neck, which he keep tied up in a ponytail with his hair pushed back from his forehead. He has a rather poorly shaven beard as well, with random patches of his chin merely showing signs of stubble while others have obviously just been outright forgotten. His has a triangular face with a wide forehead and a pointed chin, with gray-blue eyes that often seem to lazily wonder the room, with straight eyebrows, all of which seem to give the perpetual appearance of utter nonchalance. Stands up tilted and rather slouched at around 6 foot tall, with a lean, athletic and physically fit body. He has a few piercing on both his ears, and a stylized blade like tattoo covering almost the entirety of his left arm, and unbeknownst to many, several others on covered parts of his body, such as a scorpion on the right side of his back, and a python wearing a crown on the left side of his chest.

Strengths and Weaknesses, Quirks and Traits: Shawn is, more or less, of above average intelligence with a reasonable amount of insight into most situations at hand, but this is often hampered by his lackadaisical attitude towards anything that he himself has not chosen to do, and will usually attempt to pass off responsibility to someone else when forced to do something that he doesn’t particularly enjoy. He will attempt to be polite and friendly to most people, and can be a fairly witty conversationalist under the right circumstances. But most of his relationships are often diminished by his extreme amounts of stubbornness and self-centeredness – but most of the time he’ll just go by the philosophy that as long as he doesn’t get involved with someone, then they’ll just leave him alone, and rarely goes out of his way to be actively mean-spirited. But when forced to cooperate with someone against his wishes, then Shawn can be something of an asshole when his initial politeness breaks down, and will often show himself to be very immature and condescendingly sarcastic, and never really quite ‘got’ the concept that someone might want to manipulate him for their own gains, nor that he might have to do the same.

He is, however, fairly athletic and physically fit, and often enjoyed going on long runs or hiking in mountains, giving him a high amount of endurance, meaning he can deal with long periods of walking or running without tiring. His jobs have also meant that he can handle other physically strenuous activities. But aside from that, he’s fairly average, with regular eyesight and hearing, although he always prided himself on his sense of smell.

A Brief History: Growing up as the younger brother of a complete fuck-up, Shawn’s parents were determined to not have him turn out the way his brother did – a drug addict with a hair-trigger temper who eventually killed himself. Thus, Shawn was spoiled quite a bit as a child and teenager, often getting what he wanted with little complaint. All of this only served to give him a sense of entitlement, over-blown self-worth and far too much confidence, and thus, went through the world only ever caring about anything that he set himself to do – meaning he slacked off in school despite being more than intelligent enough to pass.

It was only after school finished did he find how wrong he was. He never got the grades necessary to enter any college, and suddenly found himself cut off from his parents – as they had also realized that they hadn’t done the greatest of jobs with their second son either. Thus, the transition between lazy school student and struggling working man was a brutal one, and the excessively quick changes, moving from middle class house to crappy apartment, suddenly having only free time to working full-time, support from his parents disappearing -- lead to a period of depression. He somehow managed to find some jobs after searching for a while, and in eight, he worked as a window cleaner, then a furniture mover, a then managed to managed to land as a construction worker. It was only really at this point that his life actually began to turn back up, managing to make a few friends at his job who he would often go drinking with. He was never quite successful in romantic relationships, breaking up with two girlfriends and one boyfriend, but he was still starting to enjoy the direction his life was heading, as he had adapted fairly well, all things considered.

Then he made the mistake of entering Divinations and Tribulations while walking through the streets when on his break.

Of Divinations and Tribulations

Lovely! Glad to have you all here. Beo'll be overjoyed.

I believe we have the right amount of people, so Beo'll be writing the OOC when he wakes up.

And that gif is friggen' creepy, Demensia. Love it.

Of Divinations and Tribulations

I am the almighty Co-GM.

WORSHIP ME.