- Name: Aisha al-Asad
- Gender: Female.
- Appearance: Aisha is tall, slender Middle-Eastern woman on her late twenties. She has long, curly hair, dyed platinum: It's chin-length on the left and shoulder-length on the right side. She's got big, almond-shaped black eyes. Aisha wears a short, cleavaged, semi-transparent purple linen dress, knee-length boots and a black hide jacket. She sports plenty of gold jewellery, especially an Ankh pendant on her cleavage and a snake diadem. She carries along a hide laptop bag, with an Egyptian eye as a symbol. She carries the staff of a priestess of Anubis, which she is.
- Personality: Aisha is brash, cynical and argumentative, and she's prone to Black Humor. Her largest flaw is overconfidence. She relies on her wit and her gut to escape tricky situations. She's trustworthy, but selfish and arrogant.
- Powers: She's essentially a necromancer: She can communicate with the dead, raise and expel undead, and lay curses. She also dominates a few Egyptian parlor tricks: Transmutating the staff into a serpent and charming reptiles. Any other sort of magic requires her to know and perform the specific magic ritual.
- History (Origin of Powers): Aisha comes from a long line of Theban priests and sorcerers, uninterrupted since times immemorial. She's a practicioner of Ancient Egyptian religion, and an expert on ancient Mediterranean cultures.
edited 10th Sep '11 6:49:44 AM by SavageHeathen
You exist because we allow it and you will end because we demand it.- Name: Kenneth Marston
- Gender: Male
- Appearance: Average height, but he's a little skinnier than most. Tanned skin. He has short, black, spiky hair and dark blue eyes. He is usually seen wearing khaki cargo pants and a black t-shirt. He wears a black fingerless glove on his left hand due to a severe burn he sustained during a failed transmutation. He carries a worn olive-colored backpack that contains his chemistry books, technical manuals, and bits and pieces of failed transmutations.
- Character Summary: As someone who believes that his calling is to wander the Earth, seeking knowledge and learning new transmutations, he is normally aloof and distant...until you speak to him. To those who engage him in conversation, he is a friendly soul who will speak freely about himself and what he does.
- Powers: Alchemy/Transmutation. He can turn one object into another, or rebuild an object as long as he has the correct components. Like Fullmetal Alchemist, his power is more magical in nature, but instead of a circle, it requires focus and concentration.
- Backstory: Kenneth, or Ken if you prefer (Don't call him Kenny. It annoys him.), has been wandering the Earth since he graduated high school a few years ago. His ultimate goal in life is the pursuit of "Pure Knowledge," as he calls it. He believes that all magic is linked and he seeks to prove it through Alchemy. He has been known to perform Alchemy on human and animal flesh (with somewhat disasterous results).
edited 10th Sep '11 3:07:27 PM by KarlKadaver
Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.- Name: Matthew Streika
- Gender: Male
- Appearance: A tall and quite muscular blond young man with long hair going down to the base of the neck, but arranged in a ponytail. He wears a white short sleeved shirt, a black leather jacket, black jeans and boots. He has a strange looking scar just over his heart area. He has very pure looking, innocent blue eyes. He wears fingerless gloves on his hands.
- Character Summary: Matthew is at first glance an altruistic instance of Dumb Is Good, he will sacrifice of himself to make sure everyone around himself is safe, even if one of those people was an enemy just instants ago. He is a VERY Nice Guy, to the extent he will be polite to just about everyone. There is just something about him, though, that does not match the outward appearance. He is actually a very smart and analytical man who can form complex tactics in his head and act on them, he just chooses not to most of the time because he just likes seeming dull. Mainly because it can let him take people by surprise. Matthew tends to be quite oblivious to fanservice, except when it glares him in the face. And he tends to not really know what one action means if he does it.
- Power(s):
- Matthew can summon any weapon with a blade, and if he happens to know about mythical weapons, he can summon those too...with all their qualities intact.
- Matthew can regenerate from most wounds, but only if he sees them, thus a sneak attack or an impaling strike can do large damage to him.
- he can add Mana to himself to make himself stronger / faster / increase reflexes.
- Brief Backstory: Its...complicated. His father gave them to him through a magical artifact implant.
I'm ready whenever. If you guys want to amass some numbers or figure a plan first, I'm game.
By the way, I just threw down the basic starter setting. I'm going to leave you to figure out why you're there.
- Name: Arianne Levin
- Gender: Female
- Appearance: Average height, about 5’4 and a slightly curvy build. Arianne has medium brown skin, large dark brown eyes, and short wavy black hair. Her face is oval shaped, she might be considered pretty by some but overall, she’s pretty average. She tends to wear a pair of black pants, a yellow short sleeved blouse, dark jacket and a pair of well worn boots. Inside her jacket, in special pockets/holsters, are a flute, piccolo, harmonica, and ocarina. Slung over her back is her black guitar case and over her shoulder is her messenger bag, which has extra strings, reeds, and other odds and ends needed to take care of her instruments.
- Personality: Although she appears to be shy and quiet, she’s really quite gregarious, once she projects her thoughts to you. Because of her powers, she can’t speak as she would like to. She’s cheerful about pretty much everything. Arianne is very casual about her powers and doesn’t seem to care who she uses them on. Somewhat arrogant about her powers. Very observant about her surroundings. Fairly competitive, losing is about the only thing that can ruin her mood.
- Power(s): Mind control/ persuasion. She uses music to mentally persuade people, and different instruments can give slightly different effects. The tempo or the song she plays can also change the effect. She can’t speak above a whisper, so she uses her magic to mentally project what she wants to say. Arianne has found that her flute is the best instrument for that.
- Brief Backstory: She prefers not to talk about it. About the only thing she'll let you know is that she was once a classically trained pianist, the other instruments she picked up later.
- Name: Rosette Bryar
- Gender: Female
- Appearance: Long sandy brown colored hair, amber colored eyes and a slim, slightly athletic build. She wears comfortable jeans, a pair of sneakers, a pink shirt and a white hoodie. She doesn't seem to need to carry much besides a cellphone, some money, a pair of headphones, a credit card and backpack filled with the things a traveler might need.
- Personality: A generally happy-go-lucky girl if a little simple minded. She has an odd sense of focus, so she tends to become keenly interested in things that caught her attention while easily ignoring some other stuff that should be plainly obvious. While she's mostly a stray and prone to wandering she can be fiercely loyal to those who earn her trust.
- Powers: Bio-Shadows. A strange power centered around magical shadows emulating the evolution of animal life in reality. Rosette can manifest these shadows in the world around her and on her person, making different limbs and parts of animals appear within this world. For example, she could manifest the shadows on her arms, which would cause a completely black biomass to surround them and give her claws or some other biological parts she might want at the moment. Her abilities mostly consist in augmenting her body though these shadows though sometimes she does manifest her shadows outside of her body, like for example making a shadowy tentacle appear from her shadow to grab someone's ankle. However, the disadvantage of this ability is that it is slowly making her mind a bit more simple and primal. If used for extended periods of time she might lose human rationality and start acting merely on instinct... like climbing to a high place for safety or if under great pain and stress lash out like a wild beast.
- Backstory: A teenager traveling around the world without seemingly a care in the world. A daughter of well off family taking one year to travel the world before she enrolls in college.
edited 10th Sep '11 3:07:41 PM by daltar
For the most part it acts like limited shapeshifting.
Though instead of her body changing (For the most part) her magical shadows manifest the change and overlap on her body. Her hand remains as her hand under the shadow's tiger paw and claws. Though there are changes that do affect her body, like when she uses cat ears to hear things she couldn't previously. In that case the shadows do change her body, momentarily mutating the parts of her that are in the way of the new body part.
- Name: Zack Mistell
- Gender: male
- Appearance: A Cute Shotaro Boy and he knows it, he has disorganized light brown hair, almost blond-ish, blue-green eyes, and a slight, tall and wiry build. He wears a coat, a sleeveless black shirt, long shorts and sneaker shoes.
- Character Summary: Zack is a bit strange, most notice he gets excited over the weirdest of things. He acts mature at times and tries to remain calm, but usually reverts to a kid-like behavior around things that a kid would find fun. Like video games. He is a big fan of fighting games. Zack enjoys fighting with others in a sparring sort of way. He likes to hang out with Matthew, looking up to him as his "Big Bro."
- Power(s): Zack is really, really fast. As in, he can use Flash Step to a huge degree. This is aided by the fact he is small compared to most adults, so he can avoid the majority of enemy attacks. He can create and control blue flames.
- Brief Backstory: Zack is the son of two very influential people, his father a President of his own floating island connected to an airship, and his mother being a Senator. Zack's lineage is one with a lot of secrets.
- Name: Joel Marcus
- Gender: Male
- Appearance: A tall man, looking to be around his early 40's. His hair, cut short, is grey and his dirt brown eyes are bleary and unfocused, even when sober. A barely noticeable goatee marks his face. He usually dresses in business attire, clip-on tie included. Joel makes a point of carrying a hip flask with him at all times.
- Character Summary: Joel is an angry, bitter man, a biting remark always at the ready. He's jittery, too, easily startled by loud noises or bright lights. When he's sober, that is. Needless to say, he's much more tolerable when drunk.
- Power(s): Joel is a dipsomancer, drawing power from alcohol. He can increase his speed and strength in proportion to how much booze he has in his system, cause weak-willed individuals to act as if they were intoxicated, and dramatically increase his drinking capacity. However, these are the only three spells Joel knows and dipsomancy isn't exactly a widespread practice, so he's a bit out of luck there.
- Brief Backstory: Joel found his spells inscribed as a series of runes on the wall of a filthy men's room.
And done. Behold, my crappy signup.
edited 10th Sep '11 6:46:08 PM by Bindlestick
"You have more than enough potential. So tell me what is the one wish that would make your soul gem shine." -Mitt Romney, probably

Discussion
RP
Alright, I've got an idea for an RP bouncing around in my head so I'm just going to throw it out there.
Premise:
Magic! Magic has come back to the world after being sealed away for hundreds of years. People find themselves suddenly able to attune themselves to the elements, call out to worlds beyond and see things that could never be seen before. Creatures have appeared that should only exist in legend. After initial turmoil, the world is actually experiencing unprecedented peace. However, exactly ten years after the start of the 'New Age of Magic,' strange things begin to happen and disaster after disaster seems to strike.
Basically, you make a character that has X magical powers and you do whatever the hell you want. I have an overall story arc planned, but if it doesn't take, I'm good with whatever. I'll be the GM and I'll throw things at you to keep you entertained. When creating characters, I want you to go all out. While powers can't be completely OP (no absolute control over time), being just OP is actually ok. Just as long as you can have fun with it.
I'll wait to see if five people would want join up (I can probably handle up to ten or fifteen), and post consistantly. I understand everybody has a schedule. I mean, I have college to attend, so i won't be here a fair portion of Mondays, Wednsdays and thursdays. So, I'll allow some leeway, but I don't want the thread sitting idle for weeks on end waiting for one person to respond. on this note, I think if you drop out for over two weeks, you'll become an NPC until you report back. NP Cs are want to die when I control them, so don't be gone, if you can, in excess of two weeks.
I'll go ahead and set up a character sheet in case somebody wants to jump right into this:
Name:
Gender:
Appearance: (height, build, hair, clothes, etc.)
Character Summary: (personality, quirks, etc.)
Power(s):
Brief Backstory: (how you discovered your abilities)
Example:
Name: Nicholas Faust
Gender: Male
Appearance: Average height and rather thin with jet black hair. Faust always wears formal clothes that seem almost stitched by an unearthly hand. Black pants, boots and shirt of the upmost quality dress his body. A white formal vest over the shirt. A cloak fastened by an ornate chain sits loosely over his shoulders. A hat of some formal variety often sits upon his head. In his hand is always a book filled with what appear to be spells and magic circles.
Character Summary: Manic. Driven insane by his innate powers, Faust has developed a manic personality that borderlines on complete schizophrenia. Faust is considered dangerously unstable by all that know him. Most of the time, he appears calm and will often be quite amiable, but is know to become quite hostile seemingly at random.
Powers: Summoning. Faust is a summoner and can use his book to summon various creatures to perform his bidding. He can also summon objects that have been sealed inside magic circles within his book.
Backstory: Not giving it. If this gets off the ground, you're gonna' meet Faust and I don't want to ruin it.
edited 22nd Sep '11 7:17:33 PM by Zeromaeus