UNSED United Nations Special Encounter Division - Interest check

Welcome to UNSED, the United Nations Special Encounter Division where we deal with extra-ordinary threats to the lives of ordinary people. You have been chosen because you are among the best at what you do, and as such you are exactly what we need.

You will be dealing with all kinds of things, fallen angels, demons, ancient gods, mages, vampires, werewolves, Sasquatches, Mad Scientists, psychics and so on. In essence anything that is not alien. But your mission will not always be killing or capturing, you'll be investigating strange occurrences, acquiring artifacts, licencing freelancers and maybe even relocating a big foot or werewolf pack.

So gear up and get ready, cause you'll be heading out soon!

Time for a bit more factual information, the UNSED is an internation organization that protects humanity from the extra-ordinary and the extra-ordinary from humanity. They draw their recruits from all possible sources: Intelligence agencies, special forces, freelancers (people who dealt with the supernatural without being attached to a major organization), universities and even now and then the supernatural community though it is a rarity.

So how do they deal with all this stuff then? With guns and other fun toys like lightning guns and tinfoil hats of course! Cold iron bullets makes magic explode for example and there is the ever classic silver bullet or blade to deal with lycanthropes and other things afraid of silver. And all teams are assigned a mobile base, an 18-wheeler that is Larger On The Inside, spacious to hold all the teammates and their gear.

There are however a couple of other things you need to know: Aliens exist but they are out of the UNSED's jurystiction, instead they belong to a rival organization called the UNEXIU, United Nations Extra-Terrestrial Intervention Unit. They don't like us and we don't like them and unfourtunately we may have to encounter them sometime.

Also there are 4 kinds of teams in the UNSED

• Encounter Teams which are what we are, they travel the lands investigating and dealing with supernatural stuff, their teams can consist of everything from scientists to soldiers all mixed together.
• Assault Teams who are the brute force of the UNSED, they are the ones that is sent in when it's firepower that is needed.
• Cleanup Teams who make sure that too much knowledge of the extra ordinary does not leak out to the public. Often follows after Assault Teams.
• Research & Development Teams, they study the various artifacts and specimens that is found. They also make new toys.

Character Sheet:

• Name:
• Age:
• Gender/Sex:
• Race: (For when you are anything other than human)
• Appearance:
• Skills & Abilities:
• Favored Equipment: (This is not the equipment your character will carry around most of the time but rather what gear they'll prefer to use.)
• Backstory:
• Personality:
• Other:

I will put up an example character later.

edited 4th Dec '13 7:23:50 AM by clawthewolf

Dat interest.

Interest OP pls nerf

Got some interest here.

Possible interest, depending on time commitment.

Definite interest.

edited 4th Dec '13 6:37:56 PM by ramuf

So, who is working on characters?

• Name: Timothy Santiago
• Age: 30
• Gender/Sex: Male
• Race: Human
• Appearance: Tall with messy blonde hair. Bright brown eyes occasionally hidden by sun glasses, but never at night. Doesn't like to stand straight, will slouch or lean on something instead.
• Skills & Abilities: A snooper, he is good at finding that which isn't supposed to be found. Has basic self-defense training and experience with a variety of firearms. His best ability is his memory, which is virtually an encyclopedia concerning the destabilizing magical aspects of society. Fluent in Spanish and has a smattering of Russian, German, and Arabic.
• Favored Equipment: A smart phone, a .45 caliber handgun (Heckler & Koch HK45), inconspicuous clothing, tinfoil laced beanie.
• Backstory: An American who grew up in Southern California. Timothy Santiago is a former member of the CIA, one who happened to be in the right place at the time time very frequently when paranormal matters sprung up. Figuring this was a sign that he might have a different calling in life, Santiago left the agency to work for UNSED. His travels as an intelligence agent took him across the globe where he met with the highs and lows of society, helping one side or the other depending on the situation. The years of dealing with the magic and mundane have not left him a cynic like it has many if his colleagues but nothing really surprises him anymore.
• Personality: Chatty and laid back. Doesn't like to get to involved with people on a more personal level though. He is honest though the opposite of blunt outside of official reports. ("I didn't not like the food" as opposed to "This food sucked."). Despite his personal reservations, Santiago is a team player and tries to work well with others.
• Other: Has a pet goldfish named Crackhead. He doesn't remember why.

edited 6th Dec '13 11:36:52 AM by Parable

Accepted!

I'll type up a character sheet when I get home. Should be about two hours from now.

Hate to double post, but I don't want to just edit my post because it won't be seen for a while.

• Name: Tobias Bartlett
• Age: 28
• Gender/Sex: Male
• Race: Dirty human.
• Appearance: A bit on the short side, with short brown hair that he keeps combed. However, despite his short stature, he is very well built.
• Skills & Abilities: He's a fighter skilled with both his hands and with guns. He knows a few different martial arts, and he's known for being a decent shot.
• Favored Equipment: Combat knife, decent phone, a Colt M1911, and any shotgun he can get his hands on.
• Backstory: Farmer boy from Nebraska. He grew up in the country and went straight to the Marines. After a particularly shameful incident, he was dishonorably discharged. He wandered around for a year, until he was picked up by UNSED. With them, he traveled the world, lending his combat expertise whenever it was needed.
• Personality: Mostly quiet and bookish. When he does speak, it's blunt and to the point; he's not going to waste his time. However, he's fiercely competitive, but you could never tell from looking at his blank face.
• Other: He named his knife "Toothy."

edited 6th Dec '13 3:45:12 PM by ramuf

• Name: Ugu
• Age: 23
• Gender/Sex: Male
• Race: Neanderthal
• Appearance: Ugu not short, not tall. Big muscles. Ugu hear others say Ugu head look funny. Not true; Ugu head look like Ugu father head.
• Skills and Abilities: Ugu real strong. Lift big rock, small tree. Smart men give Ugu training; now Ugu lift small car, bend metal bars, rip animal in half.
• Favored Equipment: Ugu have metal club, metal knives, metal gloves. Smart man shaman also give Ugu spirit drink; when Ugu drink spirit drink, Ugu get SUPER strong. Ugu not get spirit drink too often, though. Smart men give Ugu odd clothes; Ugu prefer loin furs, but others not like, so Ugu wear clothes.
• Backstory: Bad men come, kill Ugu tribe. Ugu alone. Good men come after bad men, find Ugu, take care of Ugu. Send him to smart men. Ugu help smart men lift things, move things. Sometimes, smart men tell Ugu kill bad men; Ugu kill bad men, get lots raw meat. Ugu like raw meat.
• Personality: Ugu happy man. Ugu strongest man Ugu know. Makes smart men happy, makes Ugu happy. Ugu also funny man. Ugu take clothes of mean man, hide in loin furs. Mean man not laugh at Ugu, other smart men laugh hard!
• Other: Ugu lonely. Ugu want female Ugu. No female Ugu where Ugu now. Smart men say do things for them, Ugu maybe find female Ugu one day.

edited 6th Dec '13 6:29:12 PM by BokhuraBurnes

BB: This signup is awesome.

Al right- here's my crack at a character.

• Name: Arthur Marvel
• Age: 26
• Gender/Sex: Male
• Race: Human
• Appearance: Tall and thin, a long chin and sharp blue eyes and black hair combed backwards. Often wearing a tweed jacket.
• Skills & Abilities: Public speaking and covering evidence, he's a good shot with a pistol but he has also trained as a boxer, being the champion in his University previously.
• Favored Equipment: He usually prefers using a pistol in most operations, and using a Kukri handed down from his grandfather.
• Backstory: The Marvel family was always involved with British espionage since the beginning of the 1900's, and Arthur continues the tradition to this day. As a kid he loved to read around the more mythological and supernatural, although his parents behind closed doors, believed that he should steer more towards the traditional areas of espionage, working for Her Majesty and Country. As he grew up, he studied philosophy a fair amount, before graduating to pursue a career within MI 6. Which is where he was recruited into UNSED under advice from a mentor.
• Personality: A Consummate Professional on the field, he takes his line of work seriously. He likes to keep a calm approach to matters, often considering both sides in a situation. However, Arthur has been known to break this stoic posture for some Laconic humor.
• Other: His Kukri was handed down to him by his Grandfather who received it from a Nepalese agent whom we worked closely with for some time before they passed it onto him on their deathbed. Arthur's quite fond of it and believes it keeps himself connected to the family, it has also saved his life quite a few times before.

edited 7th Dec '13 9:52:26 AM by RegularDefender

All three are accepted!

edited 7th Dec '13 11:42:57 AM by clawthewolf

Intrigued by the idea - any room for a more inexperienced RP'er?

Hey, Scott! Remember me from Sphaera?

Sure do! I think its coming up on a full year since Sphaera I believe so I'm a little surprised you'd actually remember my handle - hopefully this RP won't be doomed by my (our?) presences in this case.

Hopefully not :p

But yeah, we have room for a couple more!

Name: Drew Kingston

Age: 28

Gender/sex: Male

Appearance: Of average size, and stocky with tanned skin and electric-blue eyes. His hair is unkempt and blonde. Usually in the colder countries, Drew is clothed in a dark turquoise suit and trousers as well as a pristine white shirt and black tie. In warmer climates, is dressed in shorts and a T-shirt.

Skills and abilities: Drew is skilled in Karate and Judo, having a black-belt, third-dan for each. Is skilled at using firearms and can keep his cool in challenging situations, is also good at impersonating accents.

Favoured equipment: A Uzi kept inside one side of his suit (or Mac-10 when wearing shorts) and a taser, lighter, encrypted smartphone and a debit card funded by the United Nations.

Backstory: Grew up in Sydney and was in his first year at university studying science (mainly biology) when he got contacted by the ASIS, after winning a couple of martial arts competitions. After being given sufficient training, Drew went on several successful missions all around the world. After this, he worked for the UN on several missions, and was recommended into UNSED by a commanding officer he impressed after keeping calm and worming his way out of a couple of tricky situations. He has been on a couple of missions but is still on the Rookie end of the spectrum when it comes to the supernatural.

Personality: Laid back and humorous, Drew likes having fun in life and doesn't believe in taking everything seriously.

edited 9th Dec '13 9:37:53 AM by Tricksen

FEAR NOT, I AM HERE TO END THE SAUSAGE FEST!

...with A She-wolf.

• Name: Sophia Volkova
• Age: 23
• Gender/Sex: Female
• Race: Werewolf: Turned into one that is.
• Appearance: While average sized, standing at around 5’5”, she possess an athletic build befitting her inner nature. She has short, sandy brown hair, and dark brown eyes. In her transformed state, she takes up the appearance of a humongous wolf with dark brown fur and yellow eyes. And all the bulk and ferocity it entails.
• Skills & Abilities: The usual stuff that comes with being Lupine in nature: Hunting, Tracking, Detecting Smells, sharper hearing and a better sense of taste. Her more human skills include being a semi-decent shot with guns, preferring small caliber handguns, she’s also a reasonably good boxer, having taken up the sport sometime after turning.
• Favored Equipment: While in Human form, she usually relies on her enhanced strength to sort herself out in scraps, backed up by a pair of brass knuckles and a small caliber handgun. All that goes out the window when the Wolf rears its head, all she needs then is her claws, teeth, and her natural bulk.
• Backstory: Sophia had never wanted to be a Lycanthrope. But fate does not care for what we want, only with what it can turn us into. Sophia was a college student working her way through life, the last person you’d expect to be employed with UNSED, however, a walk by the city park at night on a full moon night would change everything. One bite from a werewolf and a trip to an intensive care ward later, and she was back out, feeling right as rain, only she could feel that something inside her had changed. While not the fate she would have wanted, she sees no other choice but to accept it wholeheartedly.
• Personality: Sophia still retains her quiet and reserved personality, speaking little and just being rather uncomfortable around people. However, since contracting her Lycanthropy, others have noticed that she tends to change in personality with the cycles of the moon. While waxing, she grows bolder and retains a stronger personality, while waning, the reverse is true until she’s back to her original self.

edited 8th Dec '13 11:27:19 PM by RomanianInquisitor

Alas, I shall continue it!

• Name: Luka Haas
• Age: 31
• Gender: Male
• Race: Human
• Appearance: Luka stands cuts an imposing figure in a crowd, standing at a height of 6'2" with a muscled frame to further reinforce his frame. He prefers his head close shaven to precisely 3mm and chooses to grow a stubbled beard of exactly the same length - Luka is very particular about his appearance, perhaps a habit bred into him by the legion. Despite military origins, Luka prefers to wear a black suit and tie over more 'practical' clothing to instead convey an air of professionalism that flies in the face of his more brutal tendencies. His tie of course, is a clip-on, as no sane man would attempt to fight with a noose around their neck.
• Skills and Abilities: Extensive melee and ranged combat training (provided by service in the French Foreign Legion), training in psychology and handy with numbers and calculations. Also noted for being able to deceive and manipulate when cornered. Can speak English, Russian fluently and German partially.
• Favoured Equipment: In terms of weaponry Lukas prefers to use a FAMAS F1 Assault Rifle and dual Glock 17 Pistols in the field. Lukas also carries with him other signature items, including a durable yet somewhat outdated mobile phone, a notepad (for when technology fails him) and numerous fake ID's and passports.
• Backstory: Luka was born unto Hauser Haas and Natalie Romanski, a German and Russian couple living in Kazan in what was the Soviet Union. Luka was raised amongst prejudices from the locals, for being of German descent, despite for the most part looking and speaking like those around him. Until the age of 20 he fought to be accepted, completing his secondary education and studying psychology at university (perhaps to fulfil a subconscious need by finding out why he was so often rejected by others). It was while Luka was studying that his parents were killed in unexplained circumstances, their necks punctured and the blood drained from their bodies. Luka made the decision to flee Kazan when authorities he had never heard of demanded him to be brought into custody as a suspect in the murder - and he found his way to France, enlisting in the infamous French Foreign Legion as a measure of protection from those who pursued him. Here he served two service contracts within the legion, totalling a decade of his life. It was here that Luka became a hardened and ruthless soldier, bitter with his lot in life and at times contemptuous with his fellow human being. After taking his leave from the military at the age of 30, Luka expected he would have been forgotten by the mysterious authorities and allowed to rebuild his life - but he would be proven wrong, as UNSED agents arrived within weeks to take him into custody. For what purposes would remain unknown to Lukas for some time...
• Personality: Luka has not been able to form many relationships within his lifetime, being ostracised for his part German heritage in Kazan, as well as having his parents taken away, and indeed having comrades in the Legion either killed or transferred away from him. This has made Luka a bitter, moody and cold persona, not very often prone to humour or jest. Instead he prefers to be to the point and efficient. Despite these abrasive tendencies Luka is very loyal to those few that can earn his trust to the point he would willingly sacrifice himself for them. UNSED analysts have observed he may have a literal 'death-wish' - that is to say he seeks death in order to end his self perceived suffering at the hands of the universe.
• Other: Luka is prone to a mild form of OCD in regards to his appearance and the maintenance of order in his belongings. He has also been noted by former comrades to drop dry, fatalistic one-liners when in a tight situation.

I don't think Djinni count as males per se, do they now?

• Name: Rehit.
• Age: Thousands of years.
• Gender/Sex: Male/irrelevant (doesn't have the required bits).
• Race: Djinn of the Desert.
• Appearance: La illa Allah wa Muhammed 'rasul Allah!◊
  From the waist down, Rehit is a swirling cloud of purple-blue energy. From the waist up, he looks like a well-muscled, black-skinned man whose skin is covered in intricate white lines. His face is blank, aside from two storm-blue eyes, which most of the time are hidden by his fur-covered, blue-feathered helmet. His hands are disproportionally large.
  He usually wears a red sash covered in an orange pattern, from which a few golden baubles hang; black leather gloves; a multitude of golden, bejewelled rings; a golden armband; and large copper earrings.
• Skills and Abilities:
  • Flight.
  • Magic-proof, 50%: Due to Rehit's magical nature, damage by magical means is reduced by half.
  • Half-corporeal: Rehit's lower half is incorporeal. His upper half is less-than-corporeal, and sometimes physical things pass straight through him.
  • Blessing of the Djinn: Up to four times per day, Rehit can bestow a random blessing upon an ally. It is chosen from the following list: Divine Strength; Haste; Endurance; Cleansing^note  removes adverse magical effects, illnesses, and poisons, one each per casting ; Deflect Missile; Righteous Might.
  • Curse of the Djinn: Conversely, Rehit can also bestow a random curse upon a foe, up to four times per day. The list is as follows: Weakness; Slow; Decay; Vulnerability; Confusion; Suffering; Frenzy ^note  causes target to attack the nearest creature for about fifteen seconds ; Blindness.
  • Rehit is an adept fighter with the scimitar.
  • Rehit is fluent in Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew and Djinni.
• Favoured Equipment: Rehit's only possession, aside from his clothes, is his scimitar, which was forged from star-metal and strengthened by the magics of his people.
• Backstory: Rehit wandered the deserts of the Middle East, especially Egypt and Saudi Arabia, for many years. At some point, he encountered Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy after the latter's conversion to Islam, and as a result converted to Islam himself shortly before the battle of Uhud. However, he did not interfere with the following battles, nor with the growing Muslim empire. He instead stayed, hidden, in the deserts of the Middle East.
  This peacful existence ended in the twentieth century, when a group drilling for oil disturbed his rest. He continuously pestered them, cursing their workers and destroying their equipment; finally, UNSED was called in. Rehit preferred to go peacfully, intruiged by what he termed “a hodge-podge of sourcerous beings which I haven't seen the likes of since many a year ago”.
  One thing followed another, and he stayed in the UNSED's HQ, sometimes helping them with their missions.
• Personality: Rehit is a calm person. “Do not be hasty” is his motto. He spends most of his time meditating, contemplating the universe, and thus is not quick to act. However, when provoked, such as by the ruin of deserts, or by irresponsible or dishonourable actions, his rage is terrible to behold.
• Other: Rehit has no lamp. He does like to smoke a pipe, and since his arrival to UNSED's HQ, has developped a liking of Lapsang Souchong tea.

• Name: Charles 'Chuck' Daigneault
• Age: 549
• Gender/Sex: Male
• Race: Ghost
• Appearance: n/a
• Skills & Abilities:
  • Ghostery: As a ghost, he can inhabit inanimate objects. He is incapable of moving said object, which means he's stuck wherever he's placed. Changing objects takes up a lot of his energy and leaves him weak for a long time so he can't just jump around all willy-nilly. He's also damn-near immune to mind-altering magic. Cause you think you gonna spook a ghost? Nuh-uh.
    • Speech: He has the ability to make his voice heard, coming from whatever object he's currently in. His accent is fantastically French.
    • Vision: He can see stuff around him.
  • Wizardry: He's got a few tricks up his sleeve that he's learned over the years, which he is only able to use while possessing an object.
    • Alchemy: If he's dipped in water, he can focus his magical energy into turning it into a healing elixir. If he uses more magic, and someone stirs him in the water for a while, it becomes a very powerful healing potion.
    • Darkness: He can make things in a ten-meter radius around him as dark as if it were night.
    • Fire: Can spontaneously combust, spontaneously. Either selective parts or all of him can be on fire.
    • Bigger Fire: Can be really on fire, too, like a furnace.
    • Enfeeblement: Makes someone in physical contact with him feel tired.
    • Fireball: He can launch a fireball at something. It combines the properties of both a ball and a fire, firing off with the roughly equal force and velocity to a dodgeball. A dodgeball that's on fire.
    • Grease: A patch of the ground (about three square meters) near him becomes slippery, as if it were greased with lard.
    • Movement: While he can't actually move his 'body', and thus is unable to move on his own, he can redirect his physical vectors in any direction, so when someone swings or throws him, then they swing or throw him very accurately. (He's still affected by gravity, so he can't just redirect his weight to fly around.)
    • Shield: He can concentrate to conjure up a nearby magical shield, roughly the same strength and size as a metal round shield.
    • Throw Voice: A trick that makes his voice sound like it's coming from a point within fifty meters from him.
• Favored Equipment: Ugu^* Specifically he's in the guy's club, but the man himself is his main means of locomotion.
• Backstory: An lowly apprentice to a wizard researching the Philosopher's Stone, Charles accidentally blew up the lab, himself, and the wizard, when he put limes into a formula instead of lye. He got the brunt of the blast, having been right over the fire pit when he dumped in the limes, and was turned into a ghost. He latched onto the nearest object he could find - a bucket. After sitting around for a long time, he got carried out, and when he realized he was on his way to an outhouse, put all his energy into jumping into a horseshoe. He went around Britain, seeing the sights until he got bored, got into an anchor, and explored the rest of Europe. He soon moved on to Africa, Asia, and eventually the New World. A tour of France in the mid-twentieth century motivated him to work for the American government in the 40's, where they wanted him to stabilize these wheels that were spinning really fast, but then was assigned another task when that didn't produce results. After a long career, he moved on and started working with UNSED - mainly for the excitement, sense of self-accomplishment, and to meet new people and see new things, but also because he had an awkward breakup with his girlfriend and needed to change jobs. Recently, he got assigned to be Ugu's club.^* I made sure to PM Bokhura for the OK first.
• Personality: Somewhat mischievous, talkative, curious, and humorous. Regardless of what trouble he's managed to get himself into, at the end of the day Chuck's pretty much a nice-enough guy.

edited 9th Dec '13 5:30:48 PM by nman

The ghost is accepted after some changes I need to talk with you about N. The Djinni however isin't, too conspicious and the UNSED would still like to retain some secrecy as there still is a bit of a masquerade (Srry if it was not clear), and he's a bit too powerful, I know where you got him from but reduce his abilites or remake them after you've made it so that he can blend in.