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Here shall be her story.
My first reaction was admittedly just "...What?", but apparently someone complained bout restarting old RPs somewhere?

Why, of course you're not lazy for restarting it. I've been honestly glad to see roleplays I had formerly enjoyed brought back to life.
@SweetCinderella: Would you rather I entered something hastily-made to stand in for image now, and swapped it out for a good-looking one later on, or should I leave it blank for now altogether for the time being? I will be stationed away from home for a week, and hence I may just have only a laptop, a notebook (computer, not paper one) and a mouse in the way of things to draw with, which ain't ideal.

Else, the CS is almost complete; will just have to add Robin to the relationship chart, write out personality, fighting style and finish her biography, and I am good. Will be posting biography separate, since by now it is apparent that it will not fit intactly into either of the pre-existing posts, and I don't really want to split it.

A toy for Andracos? Oh dear, I predict that a couple of characters will want to murder him more than ever... For a character, after all, there are no mains, secondaries, and NPCs - there are only people they know and have relations with.
(Speaking of which, are mains expected to die outside of player absences (with the player knowing/agreeing, of course)? Since I am more used to RPs in which characters can go up against too powerful opponents or piss the other played characters off enough for them to team up against them and overpower said character.)

I might later on make a werewolf and demon secondaries of my own, just cause.
I, however, contest this notion. For you see, I managed to successfully convince the forum to allow text next to an image, and can easily demonstrate it...
However, the forum sees the image as being on a single line only, and as such, only one line of text can be next to the image - all other lines of text will be pushed after the image (which is kind of what I want to achieve here - a single longer space on one line that will push all text following it onwards by its width). Just in case someone has their window large enough or the text small enough for it to come across as one line rather than several, here is some more text to hopefully make it into several lines.
My transparent box is two pixels tall and thirty pixels wide, for the record.
Namely, we cannot use tab to indent the first line of a paragraph. The key has no effect.
We also cannot enter multiple spaces before the beginning of a line, since the forum will eat them.
We have an indent function, but it cannot be effectively used to indent just the first line of something - it either takes the entire paragraph with it, ends up taking along anywhere from half a line to several due to the different resolutions of screens (and window sizes), or breaks altogether.

As a person who can be rather particular when it comes to the aesthetics of text (and this is a roleplaying forum, so we see a lot of text!), I request either permitting multiple spaces (or tab-sign), or alternatively actually having a separate bit of QQCode added which has a similar effect, and just creates a four or six spaces long blank.
As it is, we cannot even color text to insert a bunch of "invisible" markings before each paragraph (yes, I have gone so far as inserting [color=#000000]_ _ _[/color] in the beginning of each paragraph on other forums). And I honestly find the disjointed look double-entering after each paragraph creates both ugly to look at and very hard to concentrate on reading (it ... somehow takes me the effort to correctly identify the beginning of the next paragraph after each such empty line).
@SweetCinderella: Alright, then finished it shall be before being posted in the thread; just bits and pieces missing now. I may post the biography in another place in the OoC (somewhere onwards from here), for I fear it would not fit in the CS-post there.

Indents, sadly, cannot be added to a single line without the different widths of different screens causing it sometimes be just half a line
line indented, sometimes several lines at once... I tried, I did.
[indent][/indent] If I just added it before the text? It breaks!

@Prince: Terrible handwritings is why we have keyboards, no?

(And yeah... Can argue over aesthetics all day, but never get anywhere. I'll take a massive block of text over one that has been chopped to tiny pieces any day ... since as noted, I find it physically hard and rather distracting from the content to follow chopped-up texts.)

Edit: For now, I felt motivated enough to find the dumbest solution possible to my lack of tab function problem: tiny images that are just blank rectangles. Lots and lots of tiny blank rectangles. Will not bother with them in the OoC, but I will include them in character sheets and the IC.
@Prince: I type a lot indeed. As for blocks of text ... eh, matter of preference? I, oppositely, tend to dislike when people double-enter every two-three short sentences, since it is simply too disjointed (I actually had that problem with the first part of your CS ... I accidentally skipped over a line at least twice).
What I sorely find lacking, however, is the ability to properly indent paragraphs (as you can typically see being done in books), or at least use multiple spaces, both of which the forum bars me from doing. I do not want to go for the double-enter approach, since it looks bad and makes things awfully fragmented, and I simply cannot make the beginning of the paragraphs properly indented. Oh tab-key, how do I miss thee...
(I've sometimes gone as far as to insert '_ _ _' in the beginning of each paragraph, and simply coloring those the same as the forum's background, but can't really do it here now that we cannot even do colored text...)

Oh, and congrats on your new position!

@Jack: I will say it again - pretty much all people I know have found university far more relaxed and less stressful than high school, myself included (and that has held true for the upper end of Estonian, UK and US universities alike). Some even took up the activities they had dropped after entering high school just because they couldn't keep up anymore again ... since yeah, they suddenly had the time for it once more.

And so Angoriel has been entered... Elynne seems to quite like him, though she frankly does not have a good idea what he thinks of her. (I've been filling out her relationship chart to get a better impression of her personality through it.)

@AkiBlue: Shien's good. That's what I am usually called in the places where I go by this username.

@Bunnita: Celleci will be the same no more? Hrm...

@SweetCinderella: Shall I port my CS to the thread right away, or should I finish it here first?
(...I might end up needing three posts for it. Oh dear.)

@Everyone: feel free to take a look at Elynne's relationship chart; if there are any discrepancies between what kind of relationship I imagined they might have (at least on Elynne's part) and what you consider realistic, let me know.
It would heavily depend on how fast you are expected to post, I figure - I think the GM mentioned something about roughly a post a week, but being fairly lenient with it? Just posting also requires a notably less effort than actually running a RP.

I personally would naturally consider Angoriel a welcome addition (as you might or might not have noticed, I actually did get to posting a character of my own this time around, even if the CS is still a bit unfinished)... Whether it would be reasonable is another matter. The GM permitting joining in later (and looking at how we joined in later on the last time, I can't see why she wouldn't), I would perhaps suggest waiting till the end of September or so before you either join or do not... see how the RP takes off and what your workload and life in general would be like in practice.

@SweetCinderella: Does the kind of the being she targets matter at all... Good question, actually. Mental strength has been the only factor which has been stressed repeatedly and pretty much everywhere as being something that matters with the beings she's based off on, so I'd say this is predominant indeed.
But if I am trying to guess, then the more "mundane" a being is, the harder they would be to drain, with the exception of beings that are actually ethereal? The few mentions there are of it in the stories, they [beings she is based on] have been able to defeat magical beings quicker than humans typically succumbed (while they naturally only targeted humans and in rare cases other animals, the released ones sometimes went and defended people from supernatural beings). Might also have been for mostly plot-reasons, but who knows... I also sort of imagine beings who are very close to her own kind - nature spirits, specters, other (semi-)ethereal apparitions - might be marginally more resilient, as they generally were towards the powers of their likes, and often were chased away rather than eliminated when it came to conflicts?
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