Estylwen

The Dark Beyond: Adventures in Candyland (Prequel)

@Lexisheeps, @WhiteAngel25, @Days

Heya! Feel free to re-submit your characters in the CS tab. Place any new characters here in the OOC.

I will be creating a CS for Cosette, then I think we'll be good to start after a short CS for Sabrina and Days' character?

Please let me know how it looks! :)

The Dark Beyond: Adventures in Candyland (Prequel)

HiveMind Facility

The Louvre

Cosette

Cosette de Villiers

Cosette de Villiers | 10 | Female

Augmentation: None

Personality: Sweet and child-like, Cosettle has a big heart and big eyes to soak in the world. She is mainly quiet while having spells of hyperactivity, especially when her older sister promises they'll play together. She is not known for being a rowdy child, and does not normally get into trouble. However, she is easily influenced by her siblings, which has caused her to fall into a lot of trouble, with her mother particularly, growing up.

Defining Trait: Innocent

Backstory: With her father busy with work, life was tough. Her mother soothed some of the loneliness, but she eventually became a bit of a recluse, playing 'archeologist' with her dolls in her room because... no one was gonna be there to play with her. Not her father, at least.

One of the few things that would get her to smile would be when her older sister (she didn't understand what 'half-sister' meant) or her older brother would give her time. This was a bit of a double-edged sword, as sometimes they would want to bully her a little and cause her to run to mom for aid. On other occasions, her older sister would be up to no good and need an extra set of eyes, and an extra secret keeper. Cosette was good at that, as long as she got to be with her family.

With talk of a family trip, Cosette had more energy than usual, talking about nothing for hours excitedly with her mother and siblings.

Skills: She can hold a flashlight steady, she knows how to sneak and navigate through the dark quietly, and she knows how to listen to her siblings.

Inventory: A Hello Kitty flashlight.

The Dark Beyond: Adventures in Candyland (Prequel)

The Dark Beyond: Adventures in Candyland (Prequel)

“A hidden corridor - 30 feet long - has been discovered close to the main entrance of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza…”

Was the printout in a TOP-SECRET folder slapped on the table, the kitchen already charged with an archeologist’s passion in the de Villiers' household.

What was initially going to be a family trip to take care of the Louvre’s request to look into this ‘Void of the Great Pyramid of Giza’ would instead turn into the de Villiers’ greatest discovery, and worst fears. The Great Pyramid of Giza had been well-trodden by tourists around the world, but none knew if the secrets it held just out of sight, buried behind granite stone for over 4,000 years…

This family trip with the head of the household, Thierry Claude de Villiers, his wife, Sabrina Lennox-de Villers, and his three children, Aurélie, Theo, and Cosette, would shake the very foundations of what it meant to be a family.

With evil lurking just out of sight, the feud between the Louvre and HiveMind would be born out of this excavation, the lure of treasure and secrets untold too much to bear for the world’s greatest ravenous seekers of knowledge.

Would the family make it home in one piece? Or would this close the chapter on the tragic tale of the dark, untold story of the de Villiers family?

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The story of ‘Adventures in Candyland’ exist 7 years before the events of ‘The Dark Beyond’. The current state of the world is spiraling out of control, where air pollution is on the rise, and the demand for cleaner energy sources is pulling the world apart in a heated debate against coal and oil sources, to other alternatives. At this point in time, the existence of dark energy is not universally known.

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Organizations / World:

Organizations

TBA

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Events Thus Far

TBA

TBA

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Spots available:

0/3 spots available.

Posts will go in a rotation after the GM's post. If it is your turn, you must post within 48 hours of a previous person's post. Failure to do so will require that you be skipped, which may result in a removal from the roleplay.

The CS

Sheet

(Maximum 5 characters per player.)

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance: (An anime-styled picture or thorough description will do.)
Augmentation: (Though expensive, minor augmentations are becoming more mainstream. Do they have cybernetics that allow them to see in the dark? A chip implant that gives them AR vision? A smart earpiece that’s connected to the eyes that allows an AI companion to provide real-time directions and advice? Get creative here. (Optional.))
Personality: (How does your character act in any given situation?)
Defining Trait: (In one word, describe how your character is. Are they stubborn? Placid?)
Backstory: (How have the sky-high energy bills affected them? Have they hoped on the train like so many to ‘hamster-wheel’ energy for a price, or have they devoted their life to pursuing the unknown?)
Skills: (What can they do, whether physically or mentally, that is of merit?)
Inventory: (What are they bringing with them on this exploration?)

Iris Ascendis

Next round!!! //bouncing off the walls

Iris Ascendis

Whoops, @Sifr hasn't been online for 3 days. :<

The Dark Beyond

Y'all are too kind. :>

@Days I love your post! (Check your DMs!)

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@Days@Estylwen
Are you guys actually interested in joining me and @WhiteAngel25 in our prequel? I ask so I can figure out were to make the thread at. If you guys don't join, it will be a 1x1. '>>

@Lexisheeps

I'm interested, and I think I have an idea! Let me sleep, and I will share in the morning.

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New post is up! Apologies for the slight rush on this one, I didn't want to make y'all wait another day. :)

The Dark Beyond

HiveMind Underwater Research Facility, Hallway Outside the Contained Lab

@Lexisheeps

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The rocket aimed true, and the crocodile groaned in pain as it fell, half of it burnt away from the excessive blast. As the unresponsive Nick and Thierry backtracked through the maintenance room and the air ducts, a low chuckle echoed over the intercom.

"Well, well, so the prey wants to play?"

It was none other than Director Von Galloes, watching through the security cameras.

"Monsieur Thierry, I seem to recall a certain meeting I had scheduled with you. How fortuitous it is that you're here. Now I don't have to chase you down."

As Thierry carried Nick through the hallways past Nick's old contained lab, something would... happen. A command sent from Von Galloes to Nick's central nervous system: Subdue. A program would kick in, giving the blank slate purpose. If Nick didn't fight the programming taking over his system, he would do everything in his power to overpower and subdue Thierry with the goal of detaining him.

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HiveMind Underwater Research Facility, Sealed Section, Armory

@WhiteAngel25, @Days

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"How did they get you to move out of the vents, 3? I still had time left before you needed to get to the submarine,"

"I... I was in the vents, but," Subject #3 pursed her lips, trembling as she remembered. "There were all these... 'snakes', cutting off every route and cornering me. That drone, the one with the red eye, grabbed me. I'd never been so scared..."

She took a steadying breath. "You know what happened after that. You saved me, Stella."

Subject #3 smiled despite herself, fiddling with the new up-do Stella had given her. These little things made Subject #3 feel more than just a number. More than just the memories of being strapped to a padded table. More than being Director Galloes' failed experiment.

She felt... whole. Like a real person, almost.

With the crocodile half-destroyed, and Thierry taking Nick back into the upper parts of the facility, Subject #3 couldn't help but feel a pang in her chest. Was this the feeling of worry for another human? She wasn't sure. The doctors had never taught her how to regulate anything like this.

She turned back just in time to see Star return from the depths, and she held up the oxygen takes. "I don't know how to use these..."

One way or another, Star, Stella, Aaron, Ramses, and Subject #3 took turns using the oxygen tanks to navigate the submerged depths of the sealed-off section of the facility. They safely navigated the research room with its ethereal tubes and went through the second steel door, coming up to the platform where they could breathe. Past the platform, down a long, dark hallway, was another steel door.

Opening the door would reveal an armory of sorts. Or what remained of it. Scattered within it on steel shelves were small handheld devices, opaque, made of plastic with an outdated look. Any archeologist or researcher versed in dark energy would recognize them off the bat: handheld TRUMPET devices. There were also a few oversized rods that gave the appearance and functionality of glow sticks, except when snapped, they produced deep purple radiation that repelled dark energy: Anti-dark energy rods. There were a few other miscellaneous items, like riot shields, rope, and tempered glass containers with anti-dark energy properties.

On the far wall was a row of bright yellow hazmat suits, dusted with age. Beside them was a door marked in hazard symbols, with a pressurized decontamination room before one final door led to... whatever this door kept contained. Beyond the weathered paint of caution symbols, there was a small window in the center top of the door that displayed thick, swirling purple smog.

Iris Ascendis

A sneak thief? She was clad in full plate.

Crossing my fingers lightbulb girl has no idea there were two guests around her post office for a moment.

It'll mess up plans.

Recollections: Under The Sycamore Tree [Complete]

My weakness. o_o;