Fallenreaper

Calling All Jedi and Sith!

@Fallenreaper you tagged @Ellri and @Sundered Echo

@Sep

It was to get them to sub the thread so we can answer any interested questions and I can be lazy.

Calling All Jedi and Sith!

@Fallenreaper you didn't tag me?

I am insulted Ma'am.

@Sep

I didn't tag anyone. XD

Calling All Jedi and Sith!

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

In the eyes of history, the times of peace between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire have been few. Of particular note is one such time. Three centuries after the death of Darth Malak and the end of the Jedi civil war, the Sith Empire brought war again to the Galactic Republic. For twenty-eight years, the Sith and the Republic fought, neither side getting any closer to a complete victory. This war was unlike any other in the history of the galaxy, for the front lines spanned the full width of the republic and then some. Of the known worlds in the galaxy, few if any were unaffected.

At the Command of the Emperor, The lords of the Dark Council, the ruling body of the Empire, surprised the Republic Senate with an offer of peace - a reprieve the Republic could not afford to ignore. For even as republic military forces held their own against imperial forces, the populace were not nearly as satisfied with the status quo. Some time before this offer, a mandalorian blockade of the Hydian Way, one of the primary trade routes between the core worlds and the outer rim, had stretched resources thin across both of these regions. Even though the Jedi High Council urged caution, knowing how devious the Sith could be, the Senate had no choice. As things stood, the war was unwinnable - peace was the only hope.

During the ceasefire negotiations upon the neutral world of Alderaan, the Sith unveiled their plan of deception, launching what would become known as the Sacking of Coruscant. Other than the Sith, no one saw it coming. An entire Imperial fleet appeared in orbit above Coruscant, some to bombard the world, others to land ground forces. With the Coruscanti defense grid having been covertly sabotaged prior to the attack, resistance was weak at best. The senate tower was captured, the supreme chancellor executed and the Jedi temple destroyed, all within the first few hours.

Back on Alderaan, Republic diplomats had few choices. Either they could knowingly sacrifice Coruscant, their capital, or they could accept whatever terms the Empire dictated. The first was hardly an option, thus the Treaty of Coruscant was born.

Though it is an interesting tale, this tale will not go into detail about what happened in the larger galaxy after this. Instead it will cover what happened to the Jedi Temple and the people who did not die in the assault upon it. The Jedi who were captured and the Sith who captured them.

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Factions

The rp has four factions you can chose from: Jedi Prisoners, Sith, Jedi Rescuers, and Jedi Strike Team. No matter where they start and what their goals are, they will all eventually end up on the same planet within the Empire for the vast majority of the story.

Jedi Prisoners

Wherever you might be within the temple you were, you noticed one or more of several things. A thunderous shuddering of the entire structure as the NR2 Gully Jumper used by the Sith for their assault upon the temple crashed through the main entrance. The sound of lightsabers striking lightsabers violently. Alarms going off as word of the assault spread. Death and destruction all across Coruscant. The sense of darkness that comes with the presence of significant numbers of Sith.

Whichever you noticed, you eventually found yourself overpowered, either by Imperial troops or by the Sith themselves. A short time after this, you will find yourself arriving at Darth Nyiss’ compound upon the distant world of Feena. A deep, sinking feeling will start to edge itself into your mind, for you know that you are now a prisoner of the Sith, and that rescue, if it ever comes, can be quite distant.

Choosing to play a prisoner, you find yourself not to be quite what Darth Nyiss desires. Where you are a Jedi padawan or knight loyal to the Order and the republic, she desires people loyal to and information useful to herself and the Empire. Unless she has other plans for you. As the Sith go about the grisly task of extracting information from you, attempting to turn you into Sith or to do things even worse, you have no time to worry about exactly what the Darth desires. Thoughts of escape will enter your mind, but you know you’re going to need help to succeed.

Sith

No two Sith are truly the same. Some are devious, some ruthless and some violent, others are none of these. Whatever you are like, you find yourself seeking to gain more power. You can either gain this through amassing personal or political power, or you can gain the favor of someone more powerful than you. Darth Nyiss, just such an individual, has offered her patronage to Sith who can prove themselves to her. Seeing this as just the sort of opportunity you have sought for a long time, you have chosen to attempt gaining just that.

She will soon have come into possession of a significant number of captive Jedi that she needs interrogated and/or turned. You might see this not only as the option to gain a powerful patron, but as the opportunity to gain an apprentice in the form of a turned Jedi. Whatever your reasoning, this offer is too great to pass up.

Having chosen to play as a Sith, you find yourself competing with numerous other Sith for her favor. Within her extensive compound on Feena, you know that her word is law and that your death will largely go unnoticed should you sufficiently disappoint her. Currently, she has tasked you with making the Jedi benefit the Imperial cause by any means necessary.

Jedi Strike Team

Assembled and sent forth long before the Sacking of Coruscant ever happened, the Jedi Strike Team has been given a simple, yet very challenging goal: To track down and terminate the Sith known as Darth Nyiss. Within reason, the ends will justify the means of achieving this goal. The reason for this freedom is both because little is known about her whereabouts and because of the danger she poses to the republic and the Jedi order if not stopped. Having spent weeks tracking her movements, the strike team has identified her base of operations to be upon the jungle world of Feena, where they aim to destroy her once and for all.

Shortly after their arrival on that world, they will be joined by the Jedi Rescuers. These are a group of Jedi with a significantly different primary goal and who may not operate under quite as free reins as the Strike Team. It is this group that will inform them of the Sacking of Coruscant and of how Darth Nyiss was involved in it. How well they get along has yet to be determined.

If you choose to play a member of the Strike Team, you will control an experienced character with a wide range of skills and with a clear mission in mind. You and the rest of you team know that a frontal assault is unfeasible, but you still feel the mission has a high chance of success if executed correctly. Even as you try to figure that out, the high council tosses a group of less experienced Jedi in your laps with a quite different mission. Your lucky day.

Jedi Rescuers

In spite of knowing just how treacherous Sith could be, nobody expected them to attempt, let alone succeed, at sacking Coruscant. Nor did anyone expect them to take so many captives when they did do just that. Immediately following the signing of the treaty and the liberation of the capital, Jedi returned to pick over the ruins of their temple, only to be faced with the blame of the civilian population.

Once the rough number of missing jedi had been determined and the culprit identified, a team of experienced Jedi was assembled to track the former down and either liberate them or eliminate them if they became threats before they could be liberated. Prepared for trouble, these Jedi nonetheless do not quite know what they are walking into.

Should you choose to play a Jedi Rescuer, your primary mission will be to rescue the captives from the Sith and eliminate any who have been seduced by the dark side. You will join the Strike Team that aims to kill Darth Nyiss, but you will not be charged with the same mission as they have been. It is expected of you to work together with them, even though your missions are not the same.

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Some notes on what we want and what we do not want:

This story, though it starts from the beginning, is not entirely new. It has been run twice before and so has a somewhat established cast of characters spread out across the factions. This will only partially affect the recruiting for the actual story, as the factions are highly flexible when it comes to size and numbers.

Unless you should happen to really impress us, we will not be accepting any new characters of the ranks Sith Lord or Jedi Master. No Darths will be accepted, nor do we have any interest in bounty hunters or their ilk.

Set in 3653 BBY, Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath is a story that delves deeply into the similarities and differences between the Sith, the Jedi, the Republic and the Empire. Characters spread out among the various factions interacting is exactly what will keep the story moving. While we have some plans for the story, those plans can and most likely will change depending on what the players do in the story.

In addition to darker themes like torture and events outside the players’ control happening in the story, characters can and most likely will die during the story. It generally won’t happen unexpectedly or without the player that owns the character being involved though.

The general policy when it comes to character sheets is that we will be strict there so that we can be less strict in the IC.

If there should be anything at all you wonder about, do not be afraid to ask any of the three gms (@Ellri, @sundered Echo, @fallenreaper. We don’t bite. _{More than necessary.}

The RP will be primarily be using a Discord Server and the OoC for communication. You can find the former here.

⊰Manifest Anima: Planes Divided⊱

NJC*

Lilith

Hider

^〄...Ｐｅｒｓｏｎａｌｉｔｙ...^〄

〄 Past

• Gentle Nature
• Compassionate about others and this was part of the reason she became so attached to her wards, enabling her to fully carry out her duties
• Artistic view of the world, namely that even the shadiest and most grimy scene had a hint of beauty in it
• A strong sense of duty with her task usually assisted because of her abilities, strong loyalty to the Prae, and responsibility to her wards
• Though she could act reasonably serious when the time called for it, she was often relaxed and playful with her friends and lovers. Most of all her wards

〄 Present

• Passive and hollow at her best, Lilith reflects a shell of a Prae who has lost everything from her connection to her race and the will to move on. She's aggressive at her worst usually intending on inflicting harm, creating limited spread destruction in her path and even harming those around her (The latter has only gotten recently worst)
• Extreme mood swings when confronted with unpredictable changes in her settings (Charles hasn’t figured these out, at best they seem self-triggered through random memories or something of the same like)
• Lost sense of purpose, lacking sense of loyalty, and due to her condition no responsibility at all over a ward
• Any traits of her once cheerful personality seemed to have become… worn away and meaningless from her experience. It hasn't been seen for a long time by Charles but bits and pieces do peer out enough to give him hope

^〄...Ａｐｐｅａｒａｎｃｅ...^〄

_{^〄 Female ^〄 Heterosexual ^〄 87|25 ^〄 Prae ^〄}

HT: 5’7”
WT: 145 lbs.

Crystal: Most have described her forehead crystal as a Arusha Tanzanrite, a tricolor gem that is often pretty. The main gem itself is a deep, azure blue surrounded by purple and green that compliment the rich color. It has ‘grown’ into a rounded, three pointed triangle that seemed to be a crude, three petal flower without any detail. Like all Prae crystals, it rests on her upper forehead just above the space between her eyebrows. What makes it the most different from other crystals is the jagged crack along its center betraying not all is well within her.

Prae Tattoo:

Lilith’s Prae markings have a distinct pattern theme, which some have described as a Tribal Flourish. The characteristics of it are straightforward as it has extremely thicker lines-through they still vary in thickness to different degrees-, harder flow to them, and instead of the curling there’s usually a taper edge at the end instead of the usual dot or soft curl. May humans often assume it’s a tribal pattern but the main key difference is the fact the pattern often has curling parts scattered throughout it and never disconnected, often overlapping in key areas to create a decorative image.

Her markings flow from her crystal, the color a greyish white, as it frames her face in hard curls, the rounded part swirling rotating clockwise then taper at the inside where they end. Some branch off of the same base line then curl into the opposite giving it slight floral appeal with the thickest lines representing stems and narrow black leaves, description wise by humans not Prae. They vary in large and small, the largest spiral tracing her cheek with the line touching faintly on her mouth line. This pattern edges across her skull, flowing to the neck back and falls into two hard, wavy lines along each side of the spine. From there, this base, her markings branch in the same swirling pattern as her face over her arms, back, shoulders until they are covered. They stop just short of covering her chest strangely however and instead seems to encircle her ‘heart’ location as if hinting where to strike in order to hurt her the most.

^〄...Ｃａｐａｂｉｌｉｔｉｅｓ...^〄

Mental

^{〄 Broken Mind 〄}

Lilith's mind is utterly shattered and has been declared as legally insane and possible danger to the public. The reason is because of her ward, the very individual she imbued a piece of her anima to, being killed by Charles Aeon about 15 years ago. Though he was found innocent of self-defense due to newly discovered evidence, the damage was already done and left her useless to the Exeo’s services. This seemed to result in her abandonment by all Prae. There're several symptoms that go with her unstable mind that should be noted, but not always obvious to those who never have interacted with her before.

• 〄 When she speaks, not all her sentences will make sense. She’ll talk in fragments sometimes leaving out a small or large section of her sentences, usually important phrases to single word meant to understand her. She doesn’t realize she’s doing this and would speak normally as if it never happened.
• 〄Due to her condition, her ability to actually use her capabilities can vary with narrative ranging from being unable to access to fully powered randomly. Some abilities, however, are nulled due to the fact she no longer has a ward for it work with.
• 〄 Lilith can’t stand still. At best, she will sway awkwardly side to side rather than stand still. She will even randomly pace since pin and needles break across her skin, her muscles twitching and jerking in reaction. Her head usually bows while her eyes lock with the floor, unable to retain eye contact for long periods.
• 〄 Lilith sometimes slips into the past and this causes her to see things, continually making her question her reality or imprint the memory of someone she knows upon complete strangers. When she imprints her memory on someone else, this changes her behavior drastically toward the individual, either for better or worse depending on the memory. There’s two sure ways to break it: her mind gradually realizing it and breaking it herself or the individual doing something to cause her to break from it. This can range from attacking and drawing blood to doing something drastically out of character for the individual.
• 〄 Mental abilities from empathy to telepathy, even mind reading, becomes jumbled with her when her mood swings quickly. It is both a strength and weakness depending on the magic’s purpose.
  
  With offensive magic solely targeting the mind, the enemy fails to affect her in the way they intended. She doesn’t have much of a grip on reality so she rarely acts cautiously against the source or whatever is dancing in her eyes, the reaction when faced with a threat is often attacking what she sees as the source (usually those around her and able to be subjected to her attacks, ally or not).
  
  With beneficial magic, she gains nothing from it. Empathy and Telepathic will unable to sooth or understand her mind. She no longer understands the emotion or sense of calm, either emotionally or mentally. Emptiness is a whole another story, something she’s actually comfortable with and prefers to her storm of up and down emotions.

Note: Some of Lilith’s abilities are nulled due to her no having a ward anymore Presently. However, I still listed them for possible plot exploration and notes for the future depending on what happens ICly.

^{〄 Telepathic 〄}

Using the piece of her Anima that she gave her ward, Lilith can communicate with her ward mentally over long distances and even locate her/im until a set range. Telepathy isn’t as simple as words, but is more like images and emotions are sent from one individual to the other. Each must solve the meaning of the message based on their understanding, the ward or Lilith often playing “hot n’ cold” during their attempts when it comes to reaching the meaning. The longer the two have been together than easier it is for both her and him/er to figure out what the other is trying to communicate.

Limitations:

✘ It’s only with a ward of several years that she can have true telepathy with, building gradually over years. Any attempt to use it outside of the normal circumstances will result in failure, namely if she doesn’t have a ward, and Lilith hitting a mental ‘wall’.
✘ For a ward it has a max range of 15 ft, which things start having issues similar to like static getting into the signals of a two way radio.
✘ It is a noncombative capability. She can’t use it to get into others head or communicate her intentions to anyone but her ward.

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Physical

^{〄 Wound Transference 〄}

This is an automatic ability between a Guardian Prae and a ward. Whenever a ward sustains a wound, the injury is transferred quickly over to the Prae to burden and allowing her own regeneration ability to heal it. This causes the ward to seem to be intact whenever they receive a physical wound. This will also create a greater strain over her healing process if she already has pre-existing wounds.

Limitation:

✘ She can’t heal instantly fatal wounds her ward gains. If the ward dies, the wound doesn’t transfer but instead a sensation of lost and an echo of death washes over the Prae instantly.
✘ This ability primarily focuses on physical and inflicted wounds, which makes mental side effects impossible to be transferred. So wny trauma her ward might’ve suffered or sustained can’t be transferred over in order to allow her to heal it.
✘ This ability is only connected to her ward and unusable for anyone else since it depends heavily on the connection between a Prae and her ward.

^{〄 Self Healing 〄}

Lilith has an extraordinary ability to heal at an accelerated rate, namely to prevent any wounds she absorbs from her wards combined with her own don’t kill her. When she officially absorb the inflicted injuries, her Vis starts to physically speed up cell production and manipulate it to close the bleeding off and any other proceedings in order to increase her survival. This can sometimes be literally watched depending on the wound’s severity, smaller wounds healing much more rapidly than severe. Each case is more based on narrative than an actual detailed system but here is a few examples for the two basic levels: Major and Minor.

Minor

These wounds usually take anywhere between a few moments to day at most to mend.

~broken, clean breaks, bones
~bruised organs
~surface wounds
~strained tendons, muscles, etc

Major

These wounds can take anywhere between a week to month, or longer, to mend.

~fracture/bent bones
~ruptured organs
~at and over one-fourth deep into the muscle
~injuries beyond skin deep, but below ¼ deep into the muscle (any deep is beyond her ability and will kill her)
~torn muscles
~snapped tendons (This will take a long time to heal, likely a year or longer, depending on the tendon)

Limitation:

✘ Over 85% of her body is damaged at one time, her ability to heal notably slows to just double of humans. It remains there until about over 45% of her current wounds are fully healed and if no further wounds are created, namely because these new additions increase the stress of the healing factor no matter how shallow they are.
✘ Certain types of poisons, namely those that target Vis are able to break down and almost completely stop her ability to heal. However they need to penetrate beyond skin deep and be of reasonable amount (a drop won’t work for example unless of extreme power).
✘ When a limb is fully cut off, Lilith can’t regenerate one despite her enhanced healing factor. This means, in blunt terms, her healing is merely a highly accelerated version of the natural healing process of her ward and based on what they are able to do naturally. Not through magical means. So unless her ward could literally regrow limbs like a starfish, naturally, she would be unable to do so herself.

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Magic

^{〄 Ward Connection〄}

When Lilith was assigned, or in rare cases chosen, a ward to protect than she undergoes a severe process of splitting her Crystal into half. It’s pain is beyond description as she quickly imbuing her ward to establish her connection with the individual. Only an individual given this ability will be able to benefit from her ward focus magic. Any attempt to use on an individual who isn’t her ward will yield nothing at all.

She can retrieve the ward’s anima piece, easier after natural death, and restore her crystal to its original state until she takes on a new ward. However, there’s a waiting period between each time she switches in order for her to recover from the painful and experience since the more fluently she does this close together, the greater the risk is to her own well being.

Note: Lilith has only had 2-3 wards her whole existence, ever. Last ward died of unnatural causes creating a series of psychologic issues since, her health going up and down over the years. Each period can last anywhere from a day to weeks, even months depending on the severity of the episode which seems to be completely random.

Limitation:

✘ Limited to one ward per time this ability is use and, unless the crystal is retrieve, it remains with that individual until death. Removal is rare and unlikely when a ward is chosen so it’s either by assignment or serious choice because the experience is too painful to repeat more than a few times when done close together.
✘ Dying prematurely is dangerous for Lilith, as shown in her present, and has seriously fracture her mentally and emotionally since she connected to her ward on a unique level.
✘ Extremely painful that Lilith has never taken the activation of this power lightly. This means she was careful about who she bestowed the gift upon and protected her wards with her very life, succeeding until her last.

^{〄 Replacement 〄}

The best way to describe this spell is a limited teleportation spell which can only be used between a ward and what humans classify as a Guardian Prae. In order to activate the spell, Lilith has to locate her ward within eyesight and ensure they are within about 15ft of her location. Beyond this range is far too much stain for her, the magic an all or nothing result, for it to work well. To activate this she has to focus on her ward and remain still while she creates a few hand gestures taking several seconds. When finished her crystal infuses her ward with her vis allowing a small display of blinding light, shifting their places within a few seconds.

Limitation:

✘ It takes a few moments for her to get oriented after use depending on well she braced her mind before the transaction. If she was in a rush then she will feel woozy and slight off balance, leaving her vulnerable to attack.
✘ If she can’t see her ward on activation then the spell grinds to a haul, becoming incomplete and require her to start over. So when she uses, Lilith has to make sure she’s able to keep her ward within her sight and within the distance required.
✘ Getting hit while activating this spell will stop it immediately. This is because it usually takes her full focus to complete, namely as misstep in her hand gestures will force her to start again.

^{〄 Touch Telekinesis 〄}

An ability common to all Prae, it’s greatest strength is in preparation usually. Due to being what humans classed as being a Guardian type Prae, Lilith has honed and continually used this ability. This is her only means of offense as threats are more common within Medius than Primus causing her to be continually paranoid and watchful. Through even the briefest touch she can quickly infuse her vis into any inanimate objects then manipulate them enough to push, pull and more without actually altering its base structure. She uses this to often surprise her attackers and cause them to think twice about targeting her ward as prey for their sadistic purpose.

Limitation:

✘ Must touch whatever she is manipulating with skin to surface contact and inanimate objects need a few moments to fully become infused before she can use them. Normal objects and individuals without added magic is much easier to manipulate than more advanced ones already laced with magic.
✘ The range is up to 15 ft. before she has to adjust her location to regain manipulation ability over the object.

* Non joinder character. A character that does not technically require a CS and doesn't have the same privileges and/or importance of a player character, but is more important than an NPC and can only be played by its creator. Typically has more depth than an NPC. For more details, ask the GMs.

Over

How often can we do it now? Cause I'm pretty sure you just did it twice in a row without anyone inbetween Xodus :P

@DoughGuy

Once a day, unless you're out.

⊰Manifest Anima⊱ [Recruiting!]

*bump*

⊰Manifest Anima⊱ [Recruiting!]

*bump*

Over

Dough you can't vote on your own character, but i'll let you have that one ;p

Gris - 8-1=7

Geko 5

Rikka 10+1=11

@xodus

I'm pretty sure when it gets down to Gris and someone else, he hasn't much choice. :P

Mass Effect: Borealis

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Though I wanted to say 2. XD

Also, I think I got everyone! Now for mine.

1. Vellios kept mementos of his time on the Haides, a pair of Varren skin gloves. They are hidden alongside a picture of his family, his son's birthday gift, his daughter's locket, and a large bottle of Turian Brandy to drink the pain away.

2. Vellios once took the blame for one of his son's accidental practice sky discs going into their neighbor's housing unit's window, then paid for it before his wife Armis ever discovered it. Though, sadly... the neighbor's mate ruined that plan by informing the female turian who in turn ripped into Vellios' and Tiberian's carapace.

3. During Vellios' first mission with Armis as his military tactics support, Vellios flirted and managed to win her interest by stating 'I'd like to take you out to dinner just to see if you're as sexy as your voice sounds."

⊰Manifest Anima: Planes Divided⊱

When done with my sheet, do I PM it or submit it on here?

@FantasyChic

I personally PMed mine, but a few people have posted them up there. Honestly, I'm curious myself about what you came up with and want to read it. <3 Though that's just me. XD