The Mad Hatter

Naruto : Gobigakure no Sato

Just to let you guys know, I'll be on vacation starting the 17th and returning the 26th. I'll have very limited access to wifi during that time so posting will be slow.

Also, post is coming tonight.

@NobodiesHero

That actually suits me just fine, since I'll have a guest here from the 17th to the 27th and my wedding is the 22nd ^_^
It'll be great, though, 'cause I haven't seen my friend in three years since he comes from America and I live in Denmark and he's been busy (and broke) with college while I've been busy making babies.

Naruto : Gobigakure no Sato

Aaaaand, I've finally gotten my shit together and wrote a post.



@NobodiesHero Feel free to either start the conversation or just move Natsu close to Haruka. Either way, I am really looking forwards to this awkwardness! Haruka is at her best when she's awkward as hell

Naruto : Gobigakure no Sato

Haruka sighed a bit to herself, shoving her left hand deeply into her pocket. Back before that time, she had used her left hand for everything, including unsheathing her sword. Now, there was a dull ache in her bicep even when she just gripped at something and it felt like the muscle was gonna tear every time she picked anything that weighted much more than a cup of sake. Cups of sake, on the other hand, she had picked up quite a few of these past few weeks in Gobi.
She took a good, deep whiff of the air as she strolled down Savory Lane. There were so many delicious scents mixing together and her nose easily concentrated on the sweet scent of a nearby dango shop. As much as she wanted to go in and stuff down her own weight in dango, she knew that she'd regret all of that unhealthy eating once she went back to her real life, so she went in another shop that smelled of grilled meats.

After eating more meat than any human should, getting odd looks from her waiter each time she asked for another portion and from other customers passing by her, seeing the unusually short and muscular girl with barbecue sauce running down her chin and dripping onto the napkin in her lap. She felt so much better with a full stomach, so after finishing her eighth portion of barbecue ribs, she indulged a bit and ordered a serving of red bean buns for dessert. They were deliciously sweet. The waiter gawked even more when she placed a generous tip down along with the payment for the food. Haruka had saved up her money ever since her first mission when she was 13, so she had plenty of money.

With one bun still in hand, she left Savory Lane and wandered around the many shops with colorful and festive clothes instead. Maybe a kimono would do the trick of making her actually look like a girl?

Stranded

Double posting because I have to.

Here's my character. You are obviously welcome to do your own critique of her, if you wish to do so. I won't move her till she's been approved by at least one other player.

The Dane

Name:
Helena Østergaard

Age:
Twenty-six years old (26)

Sex, Gender and Sexuality:
Female ♀, straight/heterosexual.

Occupation:
Theater actress and costume designer.

Brief History:
Helana was born as the first child of a carpenter and a nurse in Denmark. She was an only child for no more than 16 months, when her mother gave birth to twin boys. She had a problem-free childhood. She did well in school, made friends easily and was even on the gymnastics team, where she did some competitions. All in all, she remembers her childhood as a good time with annoying little brothers.

As a gymnast, Helena took home several blue ribbons and gold medals. By the time she finished school, she was an elite junior gymnast and only quit because it would no longer be free.

During her early teen years, she made a friend while playing online games. He was American, which was interesting to her. They chatted every day, eventually moving on to Skyping, when that came out and when she was 19, finally, her friend came to visit Denmark. They had the time of their lives and made a pact that they'd visit each other each year, taking turns. True to their deal, Helena visited America for the first time the next year.

After school*, she went to the gymnasium, because that was what you did. While there, she chose Drama as her arts course and ended up loving it so much that she applied for an after school job at the local theater. She did not get a job, but she tried again the next year and got it. She started out as an assistant, making coffee and fetching things for the actors. Within a few months, she was running lines with the actors and started helping out with the costumes and when she finished school, she was hired as a full time member of the theater. She had her debut on stage four months later and it was the best day of her life.

When she was 22, her father got diagnosed with liver cancer. Helena skipped her trip to America that year. Despite surgery and radiation treatment, her father died the next year.

Abilities/Skills:

• Sewing, knitting and such
  
  Helena has been making her own clothing as well as costumes for herself and her colleagues for their stage performances in the theater for years and can sew both in hand and by machine, knit, crochet, tie knots and so on.
• Her parents' daughter
  
  Helena was taught a lot of important skills by her father before he passed away, such as how to work with her hands. She often helped him with his woodwork and as such has some minor skills when it comes to building things.
  Her mother, likewise, taught her much, including how to properly dress wounds, perform CPR and treat normal illness the fastest.

Appearance:

Images

Layer 1 (Unmentionables)

Layer 2

Standing 5'7” and weighting just below 190 pounds, Helena is a bit more than chubby. Most of her fat is on her breast and butt, but she does have a layer of fat on her stomach and thighs, too.
Her facial features are nothing outstanding in either direction; she would never be a model, but she is not ugly, either. Her jaw is a bit too wide, her cheeks are a bit too round and her nose is a bit too stubby. Her eyes are just about the only thing on her face she finds just perfect as they are and she adores the baby blue shade they have.
Her hair is shoulder length, fuzzy and damaged and dyed crimson. She usually keeps it in a ponytail so it does not get in her face.

Current Clothing:
A powder blue sun dress with flower print over a matching, baby blue set of lingerie consisting of a lacy thong and a padded, lacy bra, along with brown, small-heel gladiator sandals and a baby blue ribbon in her hair. She is also wearing three rings; one ring shaped like a marigold, one ring with three stones, two blue and one pink and one ring with a single, clear stone and a necklace with a small, silver crucifix.

Current Possessions:
A frilly, tan purse containing:

• Her wallet, with her credit card, drivers license, social security card, some membership cards for various stores, some coupons, an old theater ticket and about 50 Danish Crowns and 2 dollars in coins.
• A make-up pouch with her mascara, eyeliner, liquid eyeliner, powder, a bright red lipstick, a small kit of five different shades of eyeshadow and a small fold out mirror where the other half is a hairbrush.
• A sewing kit with needles, thread of various colors, some patches and a pair of small scissors.
• Her cell phone in a leather flip cover along with a pink headset and charger.
• Her keys, including her house key, car key, the key to her mailbox, the key to her locker at the theater and a key chain shaped like the Pokémon Charmander.
• A box of tea bags, a juice box and a snickers.
• 5 period pads and 5 tampons.

Reason for being on the ship:
Helena had been visiting a long-time friend in America and was now heading to France to take the train the rest of the way home to Denmark. She could have taken a plane, but she has an intense fear of heights.

Other:

*In Denmark, we only go to school for 10 years (Age 6-16) with the possibility of an 11th year. Everything after that is “higher education” where you are considered an adult.

Five Facts about The Mad Hatter:

• I suffer from Lepidopterophobia.
  
  I'll save you the trip on Google and tell you that it's the irrational fear of butterflies. It's so bad that even pictures of them make me all jittery.
• I have two kids.
  
  Both of my kids are named after Gods of the old Norse Mythology (Freja and Balder) and my pets are all named after cartoon characters.
  Freja is from October 2014 and Balder was born four months premature last December in our own little version of Nightmare Before Christmas.
• I used to be a Punker.
  
  With a blue mohawk and second-hand clothes made into rebellious rags. I even had some piercings, but I took 'em all out when I had kids and now I look like your plain old everyday mommy.Except that I still wear my studded belts and/or bracelets sometimes.
• I love books.
  
  Almost every piece of literature I can get my hands on, I'll read. The last few years it's mostly been amateur novels on FictionPress, but some of those are really good, too.
  Fun Fact about my name is that the Hatter in Alice in Wonderland was never actually referred to as “The Mad Hatter”, but rather it was said that one needed to be “Mad as a Hatter”, to which he added, “Which, luckily, I am”. He could have meant either a Hatter or Mad, though. Also, Hatters actually were a bit coo-coo back when the book was written, because of the quicksilver.
• I LOOOOOOVE Disney movies.
  
  Like, seriously. You have no idea how great a love for the classic Disney movies I have. I wanted to be a Disney Princess when I was little. I even wrote fairytales akin to those of the Disney worlds.
  As a result of this love, I also played Kingdom Hearts (though that was partly due to my love of Final Fantasy, too) and absolutely loved that, too. I have a Keyblade on my wall (Oathkeeper, if you're curious).

Stranded

@Ryteb Pymeroce

Review of Blake Hunter

I would like for you to describe his appearance a bit more. You haven't actually described much about his build and you mentioned nothing of his facial features, other than the fact that he looks older than he is. Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt are both in their fifties, but they still look good (according to societal standards), while others were not dealt as lucky a hand when it comes to genetics.

I'd like a bit more history on him, too. Specifically, how he got into archeology and why he made searching for the lost city of Muntab his life's goal. More stuff would be nice, too, but that's what I need the most.

Could you be a bit more specific with his clothing? Like, what type of shit is it? Does it have long or short sleeves? How many pockets do the pants have? Are the boots lace-up or zipper?
The same goes for his possessions. What arms are in the knife (scissors, saw, screwdriver, ect.)? Is the book paperback, hard cover or leather bound? He has a pistol, but no bullets? Also, where does he keep these things?

That's all I can find. I like the concept of your character. I was actaully going for a more "realistic" type of characters, but I get really feel that "zing" here that makes me intrigued.

@luckofthedraw

Review of Jerry Mordock

The history could use a bit of beefing up, but it is not really a necessity.

You need to describe his appearance a bit more. Like his facial features.

For his clothes; does he wear anything under the waist coat and blazer? Does he go bare feet?

Where does he keep all of these things?

Other than those minor details, he's good. Nice concept and all.

My own character will be up sometime within the next 24 hours, so you can wait for that and use her as a sort of reference, if you want to.

Stranded

@Ryteb Pymeroce
Please take a(nother) look at the rules, then I'll review your character.

@luckofthedraw
I will give you a proper review tomorrow, but looking this over it appears fine.

Stranded

@EvolvedHigher Yes it is. The OOC just went up today.

Stranded

OOC is up! Go do your thing!

Stranded

The news were all over the world; yet another ship had gone missing in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. The ship, called The Drudge, set out with more than 200 passengers heading fro Europe, but disappeared after just a days worth of travel, more or less in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle.
“All attempts to contact the vessel has failed and the ship is now considered missing. All of the passengers' next of kin have been notified and has been told to contact their local police if they know of anything that could have influenced the sudden vanishing of an entire ship.”

But the ship did not just vanish. It was lured off-course by the song of several sirens and rammed the top of an undersea mountain. With the hull damaged, the ship started taking in water and went down fast. Many of the passengers drowned. Some were, unbeknown to the others, dragged into the depths by undines, whilst others were snatched and eaten by terrifying cestea; sea monsters in the shape of serpentine fish, ranging in size from that of a small size to that of a large whale.

Few people did survive and made it to one of the nearby islands. The island does not have much vegetation. It consists mostly of rocky ground with sand washed up on the shores. The middle of the island, however, is an about two miles in diameter, thick, lush jungle where you could not possibly pass through without cutting down a branch or some vines. In the very center of the island is a clearing with a spring of pure, clean water, surrounded by decorative, white columns.
On the northernmost shore stands a white alter with algae and coral growing on the smooth surfaces.

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I know this isn't the greatest piece of writing in the world, but it gets the job done. It gives the basic amount of information on the setting. I don't really want to write a whole big deal about how shit came to be or anything like that, just know that this is all planned and that your characters are going to find out the secrets of the island as they explore and discover.
I will add more information as more is revealed and if people ask for specific information that I feel I can give at the moment.

What I want, nay NEED, is dedicated players that are up for some fun times and like to keep the OOC lit as well. A wise idiot once said that an active OOC makes for a more active IC.
I care way more about the quality of your writing, than I do about the quantity. I'll be satisfied with a single paragraph, as long as that paragraph moves things along and has a “feel” of your character.

Now, there are obviously a few rules. Everyone gets one warning and if they break a rule again, they will be kicked. There is one exception, which is an instant kick.

• No metagaming, powergaming, God-modding and whatever else in those kind of terms you can think of.
• You can only post twice a day, unless there is two posts or more since your last post.
• The GM will make events and they may happen to only one character:
  
  Example: Jack suddenly started feeling sick and running a slight fever.
  Example: Jane could barely remember what her mother looked like anymore.
• I expect posts once a week and if this cannot be met, please give notice.
• If you know you will to away or get busy, please give notice ahead of time.
• DO NOT EVER TL;DR me or any other player; this is an instant kick for being disrespectful.
• There is no main character; we are all equal.
• All characters must be approved before they are moved to the Character Tab.
• When you submit your Character Sheet, you must also write five random facts about yourself (The Player).
• More rules may be added at any time as the GM sees fit.

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Character Sheet

Name:
(What do we call you?)

Age:
(10-65 Y.O. - No little kids or really old people)

Sex, Gender and Sexuality:
(Male/Female/Hermaphrodite, Transgender?, Straight/Gay/Bi/Pan/so on)

Occupation:
(What did your character do for a living? This sort-of needs to fit with their Abilities/Skills)

Brief History:
(Major events in your character's life)

Abilities/Skills:

• Ability/Skill 1
  
  Explanation of Ability/Skill 1
• Ability/Skill 2
  
  Explanation of Ability/Skill 2

Appearance:
(What does your character look like? Pic can be added, but there needs to be a description)

Current Clothing:
(What are you wearing? )

Current Possessions:
(What do you have on you? Lighter? Keys? Pocket knife?)

Reason for being on the ship:
(Pretty much says it all)

Other:
(Any other information that you might want to add that doesn't fit in the other categories)

Stranded

I ended up playing with water balloons and eating ice cream with my daughter all day yesterday and had such a blast that I forgot all about anything else - including the fact that I needed to get my frown lawn fixed, which I then spend my evening doing, forgetting all about getting the OOC up.

It will happen today, so prepare yourselves!