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behind the scenes | SERAPSIS.
Topic Started: December 14, 2011, 5:25 am (2,202 Views)
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The earth has never been as it seemed.

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New York, 2020.


When you pass a bustling world, stairs leading to an underground room appear. A smell like baked Chinese sweets pervades and the door, painted thickly in shocking pink, reverberates with a hysterical singing voice. You are strange and fast, your movements a little too jerky. Something is pulling you. Someone.

“Hey.”

“Hey.”

You stop. You are arrested, frozen. Somewhere between the fluorescent lights and black walls, somewhere underneath the linoleum and high pitched wails, there is a voice.

“Hey.”

It is anywhere and everywhere. It is coming from before you, behind you. From your left and right, above you and below you—from within you and—

“Hey.”

You spin. Once. Twice. Your heart is thumping, your palms grow damp. You swallow. Are you on drugs? Is there something you need? Where are you? The voice is too calm, too sweet. You cannot move.

“Hey.”

Breathe.

“Hey. What are you looking for?”

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I want
a writer who’s given up
on the moral of the story,
one who’ll hand me
a knife and sit back
to see what I do with it.

Antonia Clark, excerpt from A Book I Can Put Down

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SETTING

The year is 2020...


FACTIONS
Watchers, Saints, Paroch, Citizens, Gods


PLAYABLE CHARACTERS
Descriptions & Roles


APPLICATION FORM
Stats & Short Bios


GALLERY

Outfits & Pictures


IC THREAD HERE

CAST LIST

The Watchers
Gael Trevelyan
Alil Sūrkas
Lyla

The Order of the Saints
Mosola Van de Merwe
Julien Duchamps

The Paroch
Byrin Vespasiano

Citizens
Rebecca Sarvaas
William
Portia Hennessy

CURRENT NPCs THAT YOU MAY APPLY FOR:

Gavin Crawford (Citizen - Popular Kid)
Portia's Family

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Also, just a last sidenote -- I'm going from grimy kind of Bladerunner/Matrix/Sin City kind of feel, aesthetic-wise. Credit goes to muh boi JOSEPHHH for the first par!
Edited by lacella, January 8, 2012, 1:13 am.
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Ooo, Lacella you make it hard to decide what I want to apply for (It's between Watcher:The Sweetheart or The Paroch). Clever girl, you. I'm definitely interested, though. :]

EDIT: Scratch that. Okay, you do make it hard but I'm going to challenge myself to be a nice person within an RP... (I've only ever had one other sweetheart character and even she has a bite n' bark). I'll start working on a sheet for the Sweetheart of the Watchers. :]
Edited by Wicked, December 14, 2011, 5:53 am.
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Of course I'll roleplay the bitch bb. ;)

Working on my character sheet.
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YAY i love you guys (: can't wait to see your sheets!
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I am most definitely interested in this. I'll get a CS up soon.
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comrade, that's a gorgeous character with a really rich history. it's great to see someone playing in an asian background! my only qualm is a small one and easily changed -- her clothing.

the watchers are going to be dressing in whites/greys/golds/bronze - it's more of a uniform than a personal preference. however, i love the fact that you've given her a kind of punk edge style, so maybe we can come to a compromise?

i'm thinking along the lines of exactly the same style, but replacing it with white, like so:

examples


that way, she'd still be in uniform, but with her own personal style!

also, welcome emma, glad to see you're interested!
Edited by lacella, December 14, 2011, 8:53 am.
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okay, that sounds awesome, thanks for understanding (: haha yeah and i know what you mean about the feminine (running around with no pants on....) xD

looking forward to playing with you!
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perfect!
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I'm all over this. Give me a mo', and I'll edit this little post here to have a character on it.

As a forewarning, I shall claim that there History student. Being a history nerd myself, I think I'll enjoy the role! Not to mention, I've studied ancient Greek culture and literature (namely Athenian, during the classical period), so I should be allll over this.
PREPARE YOURSELF.

Rebecca Sarvaas, student of ancient history


Wouldja lookit that? I made a character from Australia for once.
Edited by CinquantaSei, December 14, 2011, 3:38 pm.
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Done~ I'm not sure about the healing part in her abilities, though. Is that okay?
Edited by Wicked, December 15, 2011, 12:38 am.
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doomshifter, your character is SO in. YAY AN AUSSIE CHAR. haha.

wicked, looks amazing so far! i'll get a hold of the douche for you hopefully today haha.
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reserve me a spot... role as a solder in The Paroch group


EDIT:::
As far as their abilities go.... How many abilities can one trinket give??
Edited by TheNinjai, December 14, 2011, 9:02 pm.
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hi ninjai! reserved.

trinkets themselves don't give out abilities, but instead provide energy to make the ability stronger. so as part of the paroch, you'd still be limited to either an enhanced sense or an elemental ability - but with a lot of trinkets and artefacts, fast runner could turn into SUPER SPEEEEEEED or a little flame blowing could turn into flamethrower out the mouth. etc.
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Then would Paroch solders have the "power" to switch abilities then; i.e. like between the abilities of elements, this soldier can use elements of wind, fire, and lightning but can only do one at a time, and when there are two trinkets, two elements can be used or the element would become more powerful???

I am mainly asking this because the Application has the word Ability in plural ((Abilities))
Edited by TheNinjai, December 14, 2011, 9:34 pm.
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Done and ready for checking. :]
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ninjai: sorry for not explaining! the plural for abilities is the different ways you use one of the chosen "powers" - i.e., your character can wield fire. how does he use it? fire fang? flame thrower? fire wheel? does he create fire or does he just wield already existing fire? etc. the trinkets then come into play with determining how powerful those fire attacks are.

HOWEVER, during the course of the game, the paroch soldiers will become more powerful, so you have the chance to attain more powers in the future - for now as a start though, just choose one so you have room for character development.

wicked, great character and welcome to serapsis!
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:] Can't wait for this to start. >w<
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same!! GET THOSE SHEETS GOINGGGGGGGG <3

i'll post mine tonight!

EDIT - added an outfit gallery for the watchers! just iimagine them laden with more trinkets and weapons xD
Edited by lacella, December 15, 2011, 8:25 am.
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Omg, finally...

The Watchers: Lyla
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YAYY, welcome to serapsis!
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I've been uncharacteristically busy today, so, I finally got around to completing a sheet for another RP just now. I will have my one up for this particular RP sometime tomorrow. Is that OK?
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of course! (:

ALSO edited to clarify some of the application forms!
Edited by lacella, December 16, 2011, 5:17 am.
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Role within Group: Elder

Name: Mosola Van de Merwe

Age: 60

Gender: Male

Appearance:
Though Mosola is a noticeably aged man, he is in fantastic shape. Broad-chested and solidly built, Mosola is able to accomplish athletic feats that may be difficult for men half his age. He is known to wear robes the color of wheat with a string of oversized cornflower blue rosary beads around his neck. His hair hangs nearly down to his coccyx in thick braids. A thick beard carpets his jawline. His worn face, along with his beard and the solemn pride that paints his features, has earned him the nickname “the Lion” among some of the South African people.

Place of Birth: Johanneseburg, South Africa

Ethnicity: Dutch-Afrikaner

Weapons:
The Staff of Seraphiel- A staff crafted from the nearly-extinct Pondoland Palm, indigenous to South Africa. Though the wood of the palm is not particularly hard, the staff is believed to be unbreakable due to the holy artifact that protects it: a single ivory seraphim feather than hangs by a braided leather cord from the head of the staff. When the world is overwhelmed with darkness, it is said that the feather will emit a blinding light.

Abilities:
Mosola was not gifted with the power of healing. Instead, the monk is able to call upon great protection through his faith. This blessing is manifest in two distinct forms. The first, which is a passive protection, has allowed Mosola to bear afflictions that would be fatal to normal men. From being bitten by venomous snakes to having most of his body crushed in the aftermath of an earthquake, Mosola has lived through massive physical trauma on multiple occasions. The second blessing, which did not reveal itself to Mosola until he was 55 years old, is the ability to cast durable walls of protection by channeling the Light through his staff. However, this second ability is only activated in the presence of the Watchers.

Home Monastery: Durban, South Africa

Character Bio/History:
Mosola’s great grandparents were among the first missionaries to settle in South Africa, following John Theodosius van der Kemp into the valley regions of the cape in order to preach to the Xhosa tribes. It was around this time, in 1804, that the Van de Merwe family was given a feather of the seraphim Seraphiel as a gift from the Xhosa people. The feather was attached to a palm staff by Mosola’s great grandfather and has been passed down through the Van de Merwe family. Traditionally, the oldest male member of each Van de Merwe generation goes into priestly cloister in a missionary at the age of sixteen. A much darker tradition also follows the Van de Merwe monks: each man that bares the Seraphiel Staff has died a horrific and violent death at the age of 60.

Mosola, at the age of 60, has lived a courageous if not difficult life. In his time as a monk, Mosola has served as a layman and disciple to a former elder of the Saints. It was with this elder that the Watchers first revealed themselves to Mosola. When a massive earthquake struck Ceres, South Africa in 1969, Mosola and his teacher travelled through the city attempting to help those affected by the quake. Two days after the initial quake, a freak aftershock tremor shook the earth, letting loose a huge slab of concrete that fell and pinned Mosola in the rubble. The monk was alone at the time and spent six hours trapped under the debris. As the sun was setting, Mosola thought himself a dead man. However, a pair of Watchers came upon Mosola and granted him the strength of spirit to lift the stone from his chest and escape. The townspeople thought it a miracle when they heard the story and saw that Mosola was unharmed apart from a few broken ribs and bruises.

When his teacher passed away, Mosola was given the position of an elder in the Order of the Saints. His work as a missionary and a Saint are wide-spread in the southern regions of the Dark Continent. It is rumored that he has cleared a temple of angered, invading cobras; that he has walked into a burning building and brought out twenty survivors without showing a single sign of distress; and that he once walked over 150 miles through the country without once stopping.
Edited by Zyclin, December 17, 2011, 7:36 pm.
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approved of course! welcome to serapsis.
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I hate character sheets. I usually like revealing this stuff IC. Oh well I hope you enjoy it.

Name: William
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Appearance: 5'10"; athletic build; brown hair; dark eyes; fair skin. (Clothing to be described IC)
Place of Birth: Maine, US
Ethnicity: Caucasian American

Character Bio/History: William was born and raised in Northern Maine for much of his adolescence. At age 10, around the time when the world stopped spinning, as his father used to say, they moved to New York to seek medical treatment for his mother, who had contracted one of the many diseases that had begun to plague the Earth. But science was of no hope to them at this point, and within a year she was gone. His father was left to take care of William and Kara, his little sister, on his own, but quickly realized the need to teach his children how to be self reliant. For years he would teach William what he knew about survival, trying his best to protect them as the world grew more animalistic, becoming so tough on the young boy that William would soon grow to resent his father, not knowing that the same disease that took his mother was also fighting to take away his last surviving parent.

Will and Kara's father died when Will was 16. Kara was only 9.

New York was no longer safe for two children, but they had no where to go. Will had to learn to fend for himself and Kara, but what he had learned from his father only kept them alive for a couple of years. Then Kara got sick, and the training William had received was no longer enough. That's when he began bargaining with the underground. For protection of his sister as well as some medicine, he would offer his loyalty and services, as long as it didn't require him killing anyone. This went on till he was 21, when those powers decided it was time he slit some throats. He refused, and so they killed Kara, right in front of him. She was 14. He snapped and ran, but not before finally doing what they had wanted all along, leaving 3 dead, including the boss.

The world continued to spiral from there. William, all on his own on the outskirts of what used to be New York City, fends for himself and avoids any unnecessary contact with other human beings. He now does whatever it takes for him to survive, with no remorse, having long ago given up on humanity. He hunts. He steals. He fights. He bargains. But he never trusts.
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