ihinka

The Nomad, a sci-fi epic.

Mel, Ro and the boys had shot out of Director Ogilvie's office as soon as the man had uttered his order. There was some sort of rioting at the unloading bay. They'd glimpsed fire and heard gun shots.

"Group up!" Mel ordered once they exited the administration building and ran towards the space port. "Identify hostiles, subdue and restrain. No lethal force!" The boys and Ro nodded. Jack and BB separated and the two groups approached the landing bay in a flanking motion. The boys on the right and Mel and Vokeera on the left.

People were rioting alright. A mob had formed. People were pushing and pulling, fighting, shouting and screaming. Parts of the landing bay were burning. A Veroxian was shouldering his way within the crowd trying to get to someone. The hostiles?

"BB, try to get injured people to cover, tend to their wounds." Mel instructed the Lance Corporal.

"Roger that, Searg." BB acknowledged and set about to follow the order.

"I shall do the same." Vokeera stated near Mel as the other one in the group with medic training. The Noxaara crouched low and was about the leave cover when Mel pulled her forcefully back.

"Don't push!" She stated simply, her eyes burning hot, her hand clutching Vokeera's wrist.

"Roger." Ro acknowledged curtly and crawled away.

"Jack, try to reach Chief Nero and see about a plan of action. We're sitting ducks with that sniper!"

Ro heard Mel instruct over the comms while advancing towards a woman who's legs appeared shredded by the exploding Molotov. The Noxaara reached the woman who appeared to be unconscious. The Protector checked her vital sighs. The pulse was weak and thready, but present. Vokeera clasped her gently beneath the armpits and started pulling her carefully towards cover.

"There's not much I can do for her. " Ro stated, positioning the injured woman behind their crate.

On the other side of the landing bay Jack crawled low on the ground to where Chief Miranda Nero was also crouching, she appeared to be reporting the situation. To Ogilvie probably. Jack thought.

The Chief than rushed over to the marine closest to her.

Jack followed carefully.

“We have backup on its way, but I don’t think they can get here before they...” the chief motioned toward the human mass in front of them, “...tear us apart. If we lock ourselves inside the ship, it would give the rapid response more time to react, maybe the riot would even lose its momentum.”

Jack recoiled as a glass object landed about a meter behind them, shattering on impact. Fortunately, there was no fireball. “Unless you have a better idea. In that case, speak quickly.” The Chief was telling the marine.

Jach decided this was the moment to interject and quickly introduced himself to the Chief as well as their group, mentioning they had the Director's blessing to help.

"So what's the plan, Chief?" He'd left his comms open for Ro, BB and Mel to hear the conversation.

@Starlance

Starkissed

@MeloThe funny thing is, that's how it actually sounded in my head Sometimes I forget to speak with my 'out-loud' voice

Starkissed

@Melo She must know about it fist hand or the knowledge about it must be unimpeachable. If she invokes the threefold unjustly, she will suffer its consequences. So I would imagine she would only use it for acts she is certain beyond shadow of a doubt are deserving of it. Lets say the further back an act goes, the more the certainty of it will fade, so she would avoid using it on past acts.

Starkissed

@Melo More like she can select an act/deed and invoke the threefold law for that one act.

Starkissed

@Mae

So here she is... More or less finished I've adjusted the Leaf On The Wind, tried to correct the Harmonic Tier and specified one person for Death...

Blaine Carrigan/ Maeve/ Goddess of balance, harmony and cycles

⍚ BLAINE CARRIGAN ⥥ 30 ⥥ FEMALE ⥥ BISEXUAL⍚

"What comes around, goes around."

𝔐y 𝔐ortal ℭ𝔬𝔦𝔩

[ ⍚ ] A _{P P E A R A N C E}

At 5'9 Blaine is a tall woman with medium build, fit and athletic. Her short, straight hair is jet black, offset by indigo blue eyes. Her facial features are somewhat sharp, with high cheekbones, square-ish chin, and straight nose. Her lips are full and pink, with the lower lip having a slight indent in the middle. When she smiles a dimple will appear on her left cheek. Unlike most people of high stature Blaine walks tall and doesn't slouch. At first glance this causes her to look too imposing with her broader than usual for a woman shoulders and her fit physique. But once you get past that and dare to look into her eyes you'll find an ocean of gentleness there, belying her imposing figure.

Blaine has a barely visible scar across her lower lip on the left side, a visible scar on her forehead, to the right of the third eye region. She also has a tusk scar on the right of her abdomen from a wild boar. Her ears are pierced, as well as her right eyebrow and left nipple - signifying her inability to give birth.

Blaine has a few tribal tattoos representing harmony, balance and the cycle of life /the style of these and the symbols will change with each incarnation but the meaning will remain the same/.

Blaine will generally wear pants and shirts with the length of the pant legs and shirt sleeves depending on the season.

The mark of her curse looks like an acacia nilotica leaf on her nape from where new connected leaves will appear across her body when she uses her abilities.

[ ⍚ ] P _{E R S O N A L I T Y}

Blaine is solitary and quiet, but she is not unwelcoming and is a very warm person. She is very helpful and polite and her impulse is always to lead with good. She will try to mediate and diffuse a situation first before resorting to more drastic measures. She is a peacemaker at heart and will seek out harmonious resolution to arguments and debates. She is however no pushover. The medal has two sides and when all other resources have been exhausted, she will consider more severe measures. Even if the employment of said measures always brings her sorrow and sadness simply due to the inability to resolve a conflict in a peaceful manner. Her own inability as well as the other party's. She will allow herself to feel the full repercussions of her actions, because there are lessons to be learned. Hence why she usually will struggle to the very last moment before forced to use drastic measures. She will find the fault within herself more often then within her opponent.

Driven to improve herself constantly, to seek inner peace, balance and harmony she will often try to transmit that state of mind and being to her surroundings - flora and fauna included. She knows bad things happen in life and does not labor to understand why, but rather to find a way to balance their effects. Because ultimately good and bad exist. She considers it arrogant to demand a reason for this existence. She believes that one must rather strive to find within themselves the strength to seek out ways to equalize the scale, to offset the bad with the good and to accept the bad when there is also good. This outview on life makes her a very calm and patient person.

[ ⍚ ] B _{I O G R A P H Y}

Member of the Altose clan, Blaine became orphaned at a very young age. Her mother died during child birth and her father, one of the clan's hunters, died when Blaine was but five years old. The girl was adopted by the clan's shaman. The old crone soon realized the girl's natural shamanic gifts and set out to train her in the craft. Blaine adored nature and everything that had to do with it. She loved her lessons about herbs, plants and flora in general. She became especially gifted with the healing magics the shaman was training her in.

She would disappear for hours on end in the forests in search of herbs, healing plants, shamanic mushrooms. On one such faithful outing she was attacked by a vagrant clanless monster of a man, who in one foul act took her childish innocence, her shamanic gift, as well as her ability to bear life. Hunters of her clan found her broken, barely alive, clutching a stone in one hand, the monster passed out next to her, his head bashed in.

The hunters rushed her to the shaman, her adoptive mother, who labored for days on end to bring the young girl to full health. Her violator they put in a cage to await his just punishment. When Blaine had healed enough it was time for justice to be served. The beast that had taken so much from her was broth forth, the entire clan gathered to witness and participate in the ritual. The hunters who had found Blaine stripped him bare, strapped his legs and arms to two poles so that he hung helpless in the air.

Blaine stood, brave and terrified, her chin and lower lip trembling imperceptibly. She knew well the punishment for violators such as hers. Castration by a thousand cuts. Every member of the clan, save for the most innocent, would participate. The final cut, reserved for the one the violator had wronged. While the shaman was there to officiate the ritual as well as make sure the guilty one would stay alive long enough to receive the final cut completely conscious.

Thus ended the life of Blaine the shaman trainee and young healer and began the life of Blaine the warrior-hunter. Losing her purpose in one with her shamanic gift Blaine had to find a new path for herself in aid of her clan. Not able to bear children the only thing left for her was the path of warrior or hunter. She asked her adoptive mother to pierce her left nipple to symbolize her loss, but also as a sign of her new status in the clan. It was common practice for male warriors to pierce their nipples, while women who would have to care for children could not.

Blaine can often be found singing or humming a

song

Black is the color of my true love's hair.
Her lips are like some roses fair.
She has the sweetest face and the gentlest hands.
I love the ground whereon she stands.

I love my love and well she knows.
I love the ground whereon she goes.
And how I wish the day would come
When she and I can be as one.

Black is the color of my true love's hair.
Her lips are like some roses fair.
She has the sweetest face and the gentlest hands.
I love the ground whereon she stands.
I love the ground whereon she stands.

Black is the color of my true love's hair.
Her lips are like a rose so fair.
She has the sweetest face and the gentlest hands.
I love the ground whereon she stands.
I love the ground whereon she stands.
I love the ground whereon she stands.

She does this unconsciously. She doesn't know it, but this song is her and her soul-mate's song. It is the song that when sang/heard will spark that moment of recognition. Although they might not be conscious of it. Their subconscious will recognize their starkissed via that song. So at any given time in any given incarnation one would be singing and the other would be straining to hear that song.

Memories Retained: Ignore for now

𝔐y ℑmmortal 𝔖𝔬𝔲𝔩

⍚ MEDB ⥥ GODDESS OF BALANCE, HARMONY AND CYCLES ⥥ FEMALE ⥥ PANSEXUAL ⍚

<She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her, and those who hold on to her are blessed!>

Proverb

[ ⍚ ] G_{O D L Y A P P E A R A N C E}

Primary form - Dolphin; When she assumes human form it is usually of a fair skinned woman with dark, long hair and bright eyes, green, blue, grey. But mostly blue. Form is not all that important to Medb. She will incarnate to experience the balance, harmony and cyclical nature of all often, but is not married to the mortal form one bit. With the exception of her dolphin form.

[ ⍚ ] K _{N O W N F O R}

• After choosing the dolphin as the form to represent her among the mortals, she's become slowly, but surely known as the Dolphin Goddess, keeper of balance, mother of harmonies and maker of cycles
• Medb, together with her soul-mate became the originators of the mermaid/siren myth. To this day Maeve is known as a mesmerizing singer.
• Medb is known for her calm and quiet nature. Her gentle manner. Her unyielding support in the face of hardship.

[ ⍚ ] F _{O R M A T I V E M O M E N T S I N H I S T O R Y}

Medb was never born, she always was. She was the balance, the harmony, the cycles. Back from the time when forms were less and spirit more. So she didn't really need a form. But then forms started to appear more and more. Life in mortal shells. Life she balanced, harmonized and organized in cycles.

Worship became popular among the primitives and a form became necessary. So Medb considered. A form to be associated with. A form to be recognized by. And as she considered she was swimming in the ocean as a dolphin. Her second form, she discovered when she fell in love and found her soul-mate. Together they would often swim the sees as dolphins and exit ashore as humans, becoming the basis for the legends of mermaids, sirens and all other similar mythical creatures. An idea and form which was also adapted by later gods and goddesses propagating the legends even further.

𝔐y 𝔊ifts 𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫

[ ⍚ ] S _{K I L L S E T}
Three General skills to start and up to two combat abilities. Due to the setting you may also have 1 Survival ability.

• Soothing voice Blaine has the ability to draw people and animal alike and they will at least listen to what she has to say
• Empathy Blaine will attune to a person's emotional state almost immediately
• Healing Although her magic is gone, Blaine can still brew healing potions and tend to wounds

• Hunting prowess Blaine can track a quarry through almost any terrain
• Awareness Having spent hours upon end alone in the forest Blaine's awareness is among the sharpest there is
• Patience Blaine is a patient warrior, she never attacks recklessly, in anger or in provocation

[ ⍚ ] A _{B I L I T I E S}
These will unlock as we continue.

Life Force: 0/0 (ignore for now)

The Scale Of Things: Weakest Ability
Affects balance within and without, swaps between extremes. Blaine has the ability to manipulate balance within a person and the balance of a person in relation to his/her surroundings

A Leaf On The Wind: Blaine can use this ability to instill a person with a moment of inner peace and grant them reprieve from the effects of angst, stress and sorrow. It can also cause a moment of calmness within an antagonistic character, dissuading them from their negative endeavors. However this influence cannot combat strong convictions, emotions or motivations if the person does not wish to be influenced.
Seesaw: When there's an up, there must be a down. Blaine can swap between those states of extreme. She can grant courage to a person paralyzed by fear. Someone enraged can be calmed down in an instant.
Open Your Eye: Blaine can affect the chemistry of the brain to produce a chemical balance within the pineal gland allowing the person a flash view of their reincarnation path. Depending on the target this has either beneficial effects or detrimental.

Harmonic Resonance: Moderate Ability
Using her voice Blaine can affect throught harmonic ressonance a person's brainwaves

Slow Harmonics /0-8 Hz/: Manipulating the slowest brainwaves Blaine can grant the gift of heightened intuition or detrimental impulsive behavior.
High Harmonics /8-40 Hz/: Tampering with the mid to high frequencies Blaine can render a person inactive for a medium amount of time by either causing them to completely lose focus or launch them in a state of hyper/OCD focus.
Harmonic Scramble: A bit of a wild card ability type of deal. When Blaine uses it it can produce the effect of any of her two other harmonic abilities regardless of the target and Blaine's intent.

The Tree Of Life: Strongest Ability
You can bend laws, brake them even, but their effects are ultimately inescapable! The system will achieve balance one way or the other.

Threefold: Blain has the ability to invoke the law of threefold return. What one does returns to them threefold. Good or bad.
Enter Akasha /40-100 Hz/: Through harmonic frequencies Blaine can launch a person into the Akashic records, the repository of all knowledge, for full review of their karmic path. That person will be unable to do anything for a certain amount of time as the brain will be entirely occupied with processing the information.
Death Is Only The Beginning: She can bring the life cycle to its end or beginning for one creature - life/death. But it will kill her immediately and she cannot use this ability on herself or her starkissed.

[ ⍚ ] I _{N V E N T O R Y}
Bow and quiver, a short sword, a dagger, medicinal herbs

[ ⍚ ] O _{T H E R}
Colour Code: No color code since all the cool blue ones are not visible against the background *sad*.

[ ⍚ ] R _{E L A T I O N S H I P S}

Will you participate in the Relationship Assignment?: Ambivalent
This section will be replaced with a Relation Sheet.

About the Threefold... It's not really a timelimit sort of thing... It's action and consequence thing, sort of you do the crime you do the time. Maybe limit it in some other way...

P.S. Goddammit, this is why I usually begin with an image search first. Finding an image to fit the character post creation is damn near impossible, or I'm just too picky Also why no short hair *cry*

Starkissed

So the abilities in my WIP are more or less defined and ready for inspection and quantification

The Nomad, a sci-fi epic.

I'll see if I can come up with something after work... unfortunately it's too busy at the office this week to post during work hours.

Starkissed

OMG! Finally have a core concept for my abilities. Sorry in advance for sucking badly at quantifying them. Me and numbers just don't mix So I'll probably need help with that... Also, bear in mind seeing how Maeve is the goddess of balance, harmony and cycles, some of her abilities' effects may be benign as well as detrimental depending on the character's actions. I'll add tidbits to my WIP throughout the day and see if I can finish it more or less tonight.

Starkissed

This is obviously a WIP... It's the most elaborate CS I've had to produce since I've been on the guild Just the most basic of outlines for starters. The fluff - later

Blaine Carrigan/ Maeve/ Goddess of balance, harmony and cycles

IMAGE
⍚ BLAINE CARRIGAN ⥥ 30 ⥥ FEMALE⥥ BISEXUAL⍚

"What comes around, goes around."

𝔐y 𝔐ortal ℭ𝔬𝔦𝔩

[ ⍚ ] A _{P P E A R A N C E}

At 5'9 Blaine is a tall woman with medium build, fit and athletic. Her short, straight hair is jet black, offset by indigo blue eyes. Her facial features are somewhat sharp, with high cheekbones, square-ish chin, and straight nose. Her lips are full and pink, with the lower lip having a slight indent in the middle. When she smiles a dimple will appear on her left cheek. Unlike most people of high stature Blaine walks tall and doesn't slouch. At first glance this causes her to look too imposing with her broader than usual for a woman shoulders and her fit physique. But once you get past that and dare to look into her eyes you'll find an ocean of gentleness there, belying her imposing figure.

Blaine has a barely visible scar across her lower lip on the left side, a visible scar on her forehead, to the right of the third eye region. She also has a tusk scar on the right of her abdomen from a wild boar. Her ears are pierced, as well as her right eyebrow and left nipple - signifying her inability to give birth.

Blaine has a few tribal tattoos representing harmony, balance and the cycle of life /the style of these and the symbols will change with each incarnation but the meaning will remain the same/.

Blaine will generally wear pants and shirts with the length of the pant legs and shirt sleeves depending on the season.

The mark of her curse looks like an acacia nilotica leaf on her nape from where new connected leaves will appear across her body when she uses her abilities.

[ ⍚ ] P _{E R S O N A L I T Y}

Blaine is solitary and quiet, but she is not unwelcoming and is a very warm person. She is very helpful and polite and her impulse is always to lead with good. She will try to mediate and diffuse a situation first before resorting to more drastic measures. She is a peacemaker at heart and will seek out harmonious resolution to arguments and debates. She is however no pushover. The medal has two sides and when all other resources have been exhausted, she will consider more severe measures. Even if the employment of said measures always brings her sorrow and sadness simply due to the inability to resolve a conflict in a peaceful manner. Her own inability as well as the other party's. She will allow herself to feel the full repercussions of her actions, because there are lessons to be learned. Hence why she usually will struggle to the very last moment before forced to use drastic measures. She will find the fault within herself more often then within her opponent.

Driven to improve herself constantly, to seek inner peace, balance and harmony she will often try to transmit that state of mind and being to her surroundings - flora and fauna included. She knows bad things happen in life and does not labor to understand why, but rather to find a way to balance their effects. Because ultimately good and bad exist. She considers it arrogant to demand a reason for this existence. She believes that one must rather strive to find within themselves the strength to seek out ways to equalize the scale, to offset the bad with the good and to accept the bad when there is also good. This outview on life makes her a very calm and patient person.

[ ⍚ ] B _{I O G R A P H Y}

Member of the Altose clan, Blaine became orphaned at a very young age. Her mother died during child birth and her father, one of the clan's hunters, died when Blaine was but five years old. The girl was adopted by the clan's shaman. The old crone soon realized the girl's natural shamanic gifts and set out to train her in the craft. Blaine adored nature and everything that had to do with it. She loved her lessons about herbs, plants and flora in general. She became especially gifted with the healing magics the shaman was training her in.

She would disappear for hours on end in the forests in search of herbs, healing plants, shamanic mushrooms. On one such faithful outing she was attacked by a vagrant clanless monster of a man, who in one foul act took her childish innocence, her shamanic gift, as well as her ability to bear life. Hunters of her clan found her broken, barely alive, clutching a stone in one hand, the monster passed out next to her, his head bashed in.

The hunters rushed her to the shaman, her adoptive mother, who labored for days on end to bring the young girl to full health. Her violator they put in a cage to await his just punishment. When Blaine had healed enough it was time for justice to be served. The beast that had taken so much from her was broth forth, the entire clan gathered to witness and participate in the ritual. The hunters who had found Blaine stripped him bare, strapped his legs and arms to two poles so that he hung helpless in the air.

Blaine stood, brave and terrified, her chin and lower lip trembling imperceptibly. She knew well the punishment for violators such as hers. Castration by a thousand cuts. Every member of the clan, save for the most innocent, would participate. The final cut, reserved for the one the violator had wronged. While the shaman was there to officiate the ritual as well as make sure the guilty one would stay alive long enough to receive the final cut completely conscious.

Thus ended the life of Blaine the shaman trainee and young healer and began the life of Blaine the warrior-hunter. Losing her purpose in one with her shamanic gift Blaine had to find a new path for herself in aid of her clan. Not able to bear children the only thing left for her was the path of warrior or hunter. She asked her adoptive mother to pierce her left nipple to symbolize her loss, but also as a sign of her new status in the clan. It was common practice for male warriors to pierce their nipples, while women who would have to care for children could not.

Memories Retained: Ignore for now

𝔐y ℑmmortal 𝔖𝔬𝔲𝔩

OPTIONAL IMAGE

⍚ MEAVE ⥥ GODDESS OF BALANCE, HARMONY AND CYCLES ⥥ FEMALE ⥥ PANSEXUAL ⍚

<She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her, and those who hold on to her are blessed!>

Proverb

[ ⍚ ] G_{O D L Y A P P E A R A N C E}

"What you looked like as an immortal. You can go as mad as you want with this."

[ ⍚ ] K _{N O W N F O R}

This can include personality traits, what they are assosciated with ect. This may also include significant events that had impacts on mortals. You may list if you wish. You may add to this as the RP continues as well as you flashback to things you did as a God/Goddess.

[ ⍚ ] F _{O R M A T I V E M O M E N T S I N H I S T O R Y}

"What are the notable events in your God's history? Do they come from a "family" (example:zeus is siblings with hades and posseiden in mythology) or how did they come to be? How where they tricked by the Dark Gods? Any particular moments they shared with their Starkissed? You may add to this as the RP continues as well as you flashback to things you did as a God/Goddess. "

𝔐y 𝔊ifts 𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫

[ ⍚ ] S _{K I L L S E T}
Three General skills to start and up to two combat abilities. Due to the setting you may also have 1 Survival ability.

• Soothing voice Blaine has the ability to draw people and animal alike and they will at least listen to what she has to say
• Empathy Blaine will attune to a person's emotional state almost immediately
• Healing Although her magic is gone, Blaine can still brew healing potions and tend to wounds

• Hunting prowess Blaine can track a quarry through almost any terrain
• Awareness Having spent hours upon end alone in the forest Blaine's awareness is among the sharpest there is
• Patience Blaine is a patient warrior, she never attacks recklessly, in anger or in provocation

[ ⍚ ] A _{B I L I T I E S}
These will unlock as we continue.

Life Force: 0/0 (ignore for now)

The Scale Of Things: Weakest Ability
Affects balance within and without, swaps between extremes. Blaine has the ability to manipulate balance within a person and the balance of a person in relation to his/her surroundings

A Leaf On The Wind: Blaine can use this ability to instill a person with a moment of inner peace and grant them reprieve from the effects of angst, stress, sorrow. It can also cause a moment of calmness within an antagonistic character, dissuading them from their negative endeavors.
Seesaw: When there's an up, there must be a down. Blaine can swap between those states of extreme. She can grant courage to a person paralyzed by fear. Someone enraged can be calmed down in an instant.
Open Your Eye: Blaine can affect the chemistry of the brain to produce a chemical balance within the pineal gland allowing the person a flash view of their reincarnation path. Depending on the target this has either beneficial effects or detrimental.

Harmonic Resonance: Moderate Ability
Using her voice Blaine can affect throught harmonic ressonance a person's brainwaves

Slow Harmonics /0-8 Hz/: Manipulating the slowest brainwaves Blaine can cause injury or promote healing /0-4 Hz/; grant the gift of heightened intuition or detrimental impulsive behavior /4-8 Hz/.
High Harmonics /8-40 Hz/: Tampering with the mid to high frequencies Blaine can render a person inactive for a medium amount of time by either causing them to completely lose focus or launch them in a state of hyper/OCD focus /8-12 Hz/; playing with the higher frequencies /12-40Hz/ Blaine can modify the production of adrenaline either depriving one of it or over-flooding the person's system with it; using these frequencies she can also cause a short to mid memory loss or rather the inability to access the memories.
Harmonic Flash: A bit of a wild card ability type of deal. When Blaine uses it it can produce the effect of any of the two abilities above regardless of the target and Blaine's intent.

The Tree Of Life: Strongest Ability
You can bend laws, brake them even, but their effects are ultimately inescapable! The system will achieve balance one way or the other.

Threefold: Blain has the ability to invoke the law of threefold return. What one does returns to them threefold. Good or bad.
Enter Akasha /40-100 Hz/: Through harmonic frequencies Blaine can launch a person into the Akashic records, the repository of all knowledge for full review of their karmic path. That person will be unable to do anything for a certain amount of time as the brain will be entirely occupied with processing the information.
Death Is Only The Beginning: Since I don't want it to be OP I'm open to ideas... but it's pretty straightforward... She can bring the life cycle to its end or beginning - life/death. But it will kill her immediately not shortly afterwards.

[ ⍚ ] I _{N V E N T O R Y}
What is on your person

[ ⍚ ] O _{T H E R}
Colour Code: other information.

[ ⍚ ] R _{E L A T I O N S H I P S}

Will you participate in the Relationship Assignment?: REQUIRED
This section will be replaced with a Relation Sheet.

Humanity's Last Army

@DervishUnfortunately real steel is too rich for my blood Bought a Walther P22 with the g36