Syben

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I agree with Kapuchu completely, what he/she stated was well said and saved me some breath. Someone who does not care about the creation and background of their character should not be in advanced.

Deadland. [Zombie Horror Survival]

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HISTORY
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January 1st, 2074:: Operation Renewal

It was the perfect project to kick off the new year, what was supposed to be the perfect year for humanity. Operation Renewal got the green light from "The Council", or the three world powers that had over taken the old system. The United Nations of America, The Sovereign Russian Federation , and The Regime of Asia. A collaborative project that would bring Earth back into its prime, the first focus of the operation was to focus primarily on restoring beneficial flora, past and present. A chemical compound was developed that could be released into a body of water and would self sufficiently spread across the globe. A dangerous idea, but two years previous of preliminary test results showed a 99% effectiveness in a closed habitat for the desire results. Over Three-hundred pods were released on each continent, and the chemical compound lovely nicknamed Greenwater by those who created it, spread quickly. It attached itself to water molecules, and traveled with them as they evaporated into the atmosphere. When a new unaffected molecule came into contact Greenwater would divide and spread itself to each unaffected water molecule it came across. Results across the board showed a success rate of 99%, with a margin of error of less than 1%.

November 14th, 2075:: Operation Renewal

With over a year of success, The Council pushed forward the dates for stabilized ecosystem manipulation. Which was the largest part of Operation Renewal. Compiled information in regards to the theory of such manipulation would require extreme resources of man power and supplies. Which in turn was beneficiary to the populace of much of the world, as it created thousands of jobs worldwide as the demand increased. The economy soared to new levels, and so did Operation Renewal. The first step for SEM, or the stabilized ecosystem manipulation project, would be to restore the populations of positive animal influences, and weed out the less desired. But how could they manage to affect every animal species, how could they make sure to get each and every animal. The solution was simple, everything needed water.

A new compound was not to be. Each test resulted in the Greenwater compound overriding anything they tried to pair with it. When an animal drank Greenwater, and then ate from a plant, the compound would travel through the saliva and into the plant, helping it regrow substantially faster. The science community was afraid of making a fauna control compound with a higher priority than Greenwater, as it could undo all of their hard work and potentially destroy the ecosystem. But a modification, another line of genetic code was the most promising answer. Greenwater became Graywater, a compound that both gives and removes. It was designed to boost the flora growth rate, while increasing the fertility of fauna with certain positive attributes, and becoming a virus for the undesired fauna. Results across the board showed a success rate of 99%, with a margin of error of less than 1%.

July 9th, 2098:: Operation Renewal

It took 24 years for Operation Renewal to see its end. Graywater had become a booming success. Much of the world had exploding ecosystems. There were no longer any deserts, or arctic wastelands. Antarctica had grown into a tropical paradise, trees regrew to their full maturity in a fraction of the time it usually took. Evergreens for instance, took a matter of months to regrow to their full height. There were only two problems with this. The populace now had to try a little harder to keep their gardens free of weeds, and the increasing temperature, and rising water levels. That's where the weather towers came into play. Hundreds of these towers spread across the globe all powered up on July 9th, 2098. The solution seemed as if it had been achieved, the global temperature remained at a pleasant warmth. The towers turned the excess water into towering fluffy clouds, controlling the water level. Results showed success of 99% across the boards, with a 1% margin of error.

January 1st, 3000:: Millennium celebration

The world was looking to become a paradise. Everything was under mankind's control. Weather, Ecosystem, Energy. Without the need to burrow into the ground, specialized jobs were created for the synthetic manufacturing of many nonrenewable resources. Though with the coming of advanced solar and lunar technology the demand for such things and oil were low.

August 22nd, 3000:: Outbreak

Perhaps arrogant in their success, nobody had seen the Outbreak coming. When a molecule of Graywater failed to divide properly, it instead created two corrupt cells. This error in the genetic make up of Graywater had given itself a high prioritization than that of the original. By the time it was noticed, it was too late to stop. The corrupted chemical compound turned the water black, as if to signify the death it was to deal. The new code remained attached to water, and kept its original intent but there was now a mutation. When examined under a microscope it was described as a shadow. Examination of infected red blood cells showed the same shadow. Media coverage of incidents caused by this new, Blackwater, spread panic across the globe. The once beautiful paradise of the world was quickly changing into something more hostile, and humanity was ill equipped to deal with it.

Venus Flytraps now grew to a size large enough to capture a person, equipped with enzymes strong enough to break them down should a hermetic seal happen. Reports surfaced in Europe of a jungle cat, originally removed in the fauna manipulation, attacking a neighborhood. Rumors circulated of the jungle cat subduing its prey with the utilization of something akin to a scorpion tail. Worse than that, when a human is exposed to Blackwater, they catch a sickness. The sickness, dubbed "The Shadow" by local populations, causes a fatality in about a weeks time. After death, Blackwater takes control, keeping the body alive much the same way it nourished the fauna and flora. The original host becomes a carrier for the virus, contraction from a host results in a fatality within minutes, unlike the water variant.

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This roleplay takes place September 24th, 3030. I understand that not everything I have stated is scientifically accurate, I also do not care. To give you a basic rundown of the world at its current. Everything is overrun with vegetation, most of it has a tropical feel as the header would suggest. All of the water of the world is contaminated and is a murky black, thus the name Blackwater. The virus turns you into a zombie, do not be fooled by clever wording. Animals suffer their own mutations and genetic abnormalities. Plants simply grow quicker, faster, and some of them, meaner. The water level has risen, leaving much of the east flooded and some of the west coast as well. Once the OOC is up I will have players vote on where they would like to start. I will be accepting characters in both this thread and the OOC.

I am highly open to ideas, so never be afraid to talk to me about something. We can always work something out. Obviously standard advanced rules apply, if you don't know them feel free to ask.

What I'm looking for: Genuine players who actually are willing to put time and effort into the roleplay. I'd rather it not just be "another thing to do" in your off-time. I have a passion for writing, and I like to do that through roleplay. If you can't keep up then please, don't waste our time.

Character Sheet

Resident Profile

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Name: (First, Middle / Nickname , Last)
Age: (Nobody under the age of 17)
Nationality: (What nation are you from?)
Ethnicity: (White is not an ethnicity, it is a colour)
Sex: (You couldn't afford it)
Appearance: (What do you look like? What do you wear?)
Job: (applicable only if you live at refuge, job must align with primary skill)
(optional identifiers, These are simply suggestions, feel free to add anything you may think is important to you character)
(Eye color:)
(Height:)
(Weight:)
(Military Background:)
(Served with:)
(Highest rank achieved:)
(Medals if applicable: (You may make up a medal name and required deed within reason)
(Unique Physical identifiers: (Scars, birthmarks, war paint, etc.)
(Parents: Y/N)
(Children: Y/N)
(Disablities: Y/N :: (If yes, explain)
(Other:)

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Biography: (Important pieces of your characters past life, that helps us understand who they are today. Please include a rudimentary description of how you arrived at Refuge, without a detailed application of the area itself, just how you got there. If you are 17-25 you could have been born within the walls of refuge. 25-30 born while it was constructed. 30+ you cannot have been born in refuge. If born in refuge, your parents could have run a shop or something reasonable like that.)

Skills and Talents: (Skills may be mental or physical. Knowledge and Body.)
Primary Skill: (Your most useful skill to bring to the group, are you good with electronics? perhaps a genius in robotics? must be beneficial to your job if applicable)
Hobby: ( A secondary skill that is both useful and applicable, do you do parkour? do you garden? do you practice disarming electronic locks?)
Talent: (An passive something that could be useful at some point, can you throw a knife? do you have good vision? can you sing? can you whistle like a bird?)
Negative Trait: (afraid of spiders? bad back? poor hearing? Something that could be used against you)

Gear: (what are the important things your character carries?)
(Recommended Items:)
(Bottle//Canteen of Slush:: The new primary hydration method, replacing vital resources in the body, can even be flavored, consistency of water)
(Canned Food:: Literally any traveler carries these, and the cans come in everything from deer jerky, to carrot, to supreme pizza, some of them are entire dinners. Unfortunately it's all a kind of mashed-potato-like mush, if you can get past the texture it tastes pretty good)
(Knife:: everybody needs a knife)
(Gun and ammo:: everybody should have a gun, also state how many rounds it holds, and how many you are carrying)
(Other stuff)

Questions or Concerns? Ask here or PM me.

**NOTE:: Post Time:: I usually give a week for everybody to post, as I feel that is a genuinely fair amount of time for those who have posted to wait, and those who have not to get a chance to. If there is a complication or a reason for delay let me know, am I pretty forgiving. Life gets in the way sometimes, I understand.

**Another NOTE:: Knowledge of actual guns, and things:: Don't need it, I promote making shit up. You want a folding slug-launching sniper-shotgun? Sounds awesome to me. I will just make a bigger monster to eat you.

**Yet another NOTE:: Technological advances. Think of what we have today, but more diverse. Less on the plasma/laser side more on the projectiles, and bullets, and man-with-robot-arm-axe. Think harder metals, better lenses, advanced optics, solar and lunar technology, folding-slug-launching sniper-shotgun, Also, yes, Robots. With guns.

Anima (Sci-fish story) {Superhuman Experiments}

I seriously just came by to tell you I love the fight club gif. Unfortunately I'm in a similar super-human style rp and may not have the time to pick this one up.

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Frozen your character is pretty intriguing. I'll read the rest later but I skimmed the powers and it seems pretty... reasonable. Two thumbs up in my personal opinion.



116... 118... whatever I was close enough.

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Draconilian said
It's visible, general colored energy stuff,It's "coded" so that only individuals with certain traits may pass through it, otherwise it's (theoretically) impenetrable. The traits in question of course, being the ability to shapeshift, It can also be manipulated by shifters however they please, I won't cut details here, a malicious shifter could easily ruin everything inside the field, other shifter colonies may have different defenses.Quality Begets Quantity =)At least, I hope it does.

So I'd like to clear up a couple points with you. Can Aeric enter the zone even though I'm still indecisive on if he will be a shifter or not.

Also, can I be indecisive or do I have to pick now?

Also I was just kind of wondering. Does it bother anyone else that darkwolfsoul's character could just blow off one of your legs whenever it pleases her?
Is there a limit on this power protecting our legs or is it "no-holds barred?"

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Advanced Roleplay
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Since GM is on vacation, I'm going to throw in my two cents for Princess Fuego Pantalones.

First of all, somebody has been watching way to much paranormal activity, but that's just me being an elitist I guess.

I actually just have a couple questions, maybe to clear it up just for my own personal benefit.

#1: Is she a demon? It's not specifically stated what she shifts into, My money is on Demon.
#2: Magic comes back to the world January 1st, 2016 (Ignoring the Bruja and her mystical sense to know that in 18 years Princess fuego would become devil incarnate)
The Roleplay begins exactly one month afterwards, February 1st, 2016.
-- So this means in the span of a month she... Burned down a highschool, Murdered a nurse, and escaped Texas while avoiding the entirety of the media and the police force, and somehow supports herself in New York
#3: Her powers include.. (quote) "..she felt that she was stronger and faster.." , Anything Fire (I'm assuming already present physical flames, like a camp fire) Pyrokinesis, which is the ability to will fire into existence, Fire bending (The ability to bend the fire to your will, despite willing it into existence anyways through pyrokinesis.), etc (??). Use fire to heal her wounds (does she absorb it like some sort of elemental?) and cure herself of illness. (It's a pretty epic skill alone to control fire on the atomic level and destroy multiple cells of bacteria, virus, etc)

Synopsis: It feels like you watched Paranormal V: The Marked Ones, and thought up a neat idea for a character, then proceeded to smash through and rush the biography leaving it meatless, and chalked full of amusing errors. ("..She wants to find them old".. is my favorite) Then thought of the best way for your character to outshine and surpass everybody else because she can control fire, will it into existence, heal wounds and illness, so basically when she bursts into fire she's invulnerable.

Advice: Re-write it, Elaborate on Key-points, read some others for positive reinforcement.

Admittedly I tend to rush as well, but not development wise. I type around 116 words per minute, I make mistakes too and I don't catch them, but it's the detail and effort you put into it that makes it good.

*****The above points are personal opinion and in no way, shape, or form represent the collective views of other members, or the GM himself*****

P.S:: There are way too many pictures in your signature. If you haven't noticed, most people tend to use one.

EDIT: Atleast he changed his signature?

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I'll let you know if I make any edits before you go over it. Otherwise consider it done.

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Draconilian said
Sure you can have a double form, I'd prefer if the switching was not conscious however, you can do what you like though. As far as how magic goes. Shape-shifting only works for Others because they have detailed knowledge of what they are shifting into, if a normal human tried it would kill them because they messed up. But otherwise magic is still connected to the individual,

That answer is satisfying. Perhaps at a later date Aeric will find out that he too is a shifter, maybe :P

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FrozenEcstasy said
I want to ask a question.Is there in any chance I could have a character that flits between two different other forms? Like a personality disorder?

Maybe something like a dual-soul disorder? But it does raise a good question about the topic, is magic connected to ones soul / person? Or do we simply have the means to "utilize" it from earth or something like that.

FrozenEcstasy said
Learn something new everyday.Most people confuse the two countries, I assumed that's what happened.I shouldn't assume.

You were also correct about Switzerland.

Bunnita said
Wulp yer not gunna like mine any better sooooo... wut-evs... bunny out. Later...

Instead of sulking, how about you try improving? If you play the pity party and just leave, you'll never improve. Read other CS's and see how yours compares, then edit it, skill simply comes from the amount of thinking and effort you put it in.

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FrozenEcstasy said
Switzerland.You were close though.

Actually he was correct. Since the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Sweden has not initiated any direct armed combat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_neutrality
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/se-neutrality.htm