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NitrousThunder Yeeeeah! Uh-huh! Wiz Khalifa Knows What It Is! from the Wild Side Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: If the gov't can read my mind, they know I'm thinking of you
Yeeeeah! Uh-huh! Wiz Khalifa Knows What It Is!
#51: Nov 4th 2015 at 9:31:55 PM

  • Name: Seth Stiles
  • Race: Banshee/Human
  • Appearance: 5'10", with a slim build. Long black hair that looks like this. As a result of his banshee blood, he has unnaturally bright green eyes and always appears to have black eyeliner on. As a recently-imprisoned inmate, Seth is still wearing the clothes he had on when he was captured, which consist of a black New York Mets jersey, unbuttoned to reveal a plain black T-shirt, black skinny jeans, and black Chuck Taylors.
  • Abilities & Skills:
    • Banshee Scream: Seth's signature ability is, of course, his sonic scream. He can scream in a high, low, or midrange voice thanks to his previous vocal training, but the result is always a sonic blast in the direction he screams capable of shattering glass and throwing people across the room. If amplified, the scream can do massive damage. Seth's ears and vocal cords are resistant enough that the scream won't hurt him.
    • Banshee Strength': Seth can carry more weight for longer than a normal human. To him, a bunch of heavy military equipment is extremely light, and carrying it for hours is no problem. Seth can punch with the velocity of a champion heavyweight boxer using loaded gloves, and if he picks up and throws somebody, they're guaranteed to hit the wall.
    • Banshee Sight: While he can't exactly see the time people are going to die like true banshees can, Seth can see objects that move too fast for human eyes and track multiple moving targets at the same time. This allows him to dodge bullets and use two guns at the same time.
    • Freerunning: This skill has more to do with five years of practice in an urban environment than any amount of banshee DNA. He'll go under, over, around, or through any obstacle if he knows he can pull it off, and he usually can. In combat, he makes use of this skill to dodge attacks, since he doesn't have any enhanced toughness or armor.
  • Inventory: Two enchanted Beretta 92's, kept in holsters at hip level. The enchantment provides the guns with unlimited ammunition and makes it so that the bullets release freezing-cold water upon contact. As a result, they only kill at point-blank range, but they can disorient targets who are farther away, particularly if water gets in their eyes. Seth is also carrying a cell phone, charger cable, earbuds, and a wallet.
  • Backstory: Seth was born in Las Vegas to two immigrant parents, one from Ireland, one from Mexico. As a result of an encounter that happened to his grandfather on the Irish side of the family, Seth is one-fourth banshee. In order to prevent any unwanted attention, that information was kept as secret as possible by the family, and Seth learned skills like marksmanship and freerunning in order to increase his chances of surviving if he was ever found out and attacked.
    • His main release was his music. From a young age, Seth was a regular at local punk shows. He saved enough money to buy his first guitar in middle school, and by high school, he was lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for a post-hardcore band called Change the Situation. They built up a local following, eventually getting what they thought would be their big break: a show on the Las Vegas Strip right across the street from one of its newest and most impressive casino resorts.
    • Unfortunately, it was during the band's cover of "Bloody Cape" by Deftones that everything went to hell. During the song's ending section, Seth, who up to then had only sung vocals while other members screamed, went all-in with his screaming. It was right then that his banshee scream decided to manifest, and when he screamed into the mic and it came out of the amplifiers, the resulting sonic blast injured dozens of people, made a car explode, and severely damaged the casino.
    • Knowing he was royally screwed, Seth ran to his car, grabbed his guns, and took off. The police chased after him, and he fired back. He didn't kill any of them, but he was making enough of a ruckus that the Servants had to step in. They snuck up on him and captured him, then covered up the incident. As far as anyone back home knows, there was a gas explosion and Seth went missing in the chaos.
    • Upon his arrival, Seth had a bit of a breakdown. He was placed in a cell where his screams could not damage anything, but all this did was encourage him to loudly demand Chinese food, a lawyer, and a visit from Aphrodite, among other increasingly bizarre things, until finally he gave up and cried on the bed about his ex until he fell asleep. When he wakes, his involvement in the game's events begins.

edited 5th Nov '15 12:13:59 AM by NitrousThunder

Just pretend I wrote something witty here, okay?
Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#52: Nov 5th 2015 at 4:15:14 AM

Sweet, an Uneven Hybrid of a banshee even. Kind of curious where he got the guns, and I would say he's actually in a low threat ward. Anywho, accepted, and also: Make your posts as complex as you want.

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
Lt.BGob The Fantabulous from The Merry Ol' Land of Oz Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Fantabulous
#53: Nov 6th 2015 at 2:55:57 AM

Sorry for the late application, hope it's alright. Let me know if anything needs clarification or tweaking.

  • Name: Sjan Mustonen

  • Race: Human (gifted/cursed)

  • Appearance:

  • Sjan is a willowy young woman in her early twenties with deathly pale skin covered almost completely in red scars - somekind of long lost language covering her torso, arms, fingers and legs written over itself deeper into the wounded flesh. Her face is still pretty behind a few deep cut symbols on her cheeks, a stylized eye on her brow always cut again before it has the chance to heal. She is a touch too skinny, of average height and flat-chested from malnutrition, her nails pulled pulled out and leave bloody marks at her finger tips. However, the most disturbing feature is by far her eyes - or rather the lack thereof. She is blind, at least in the physical sense, the fragile orbs removed with some violence and the eye lids stitched shut. Sjan's hair is brown, messy and cut short despite the years of imprisonment.

  • Sjan wears a dirty black T-shirt and old, blood-stained jeans but her belt, shoes and anything vaguely pointed have been taken away to prevent more of her 'accidents'. Nevertheless, her captors have relented to allow her drawing materials and occasional music in her cell. Mostly due to her expressing her visions in other manners if not allowed such a concession.

    • Abilities & Skills:

  • Unfiltered perception: Though her eyes were removed Sjan never needed them to see reality without illusion or normally human filters. She perceives everything as it is down to the finest detail and beyond the veil; masquerades are non-existant and the machinations of gods and demons are laid bare. Of course, this comes at price - the sheer bulk of information cannot be focussed on at by her mortal mind, a lot of it becomes like white noise at best and painful in worse cases. For example, a shapeshifter would be seen not only as its current form and its true form, should there be one, but every form it is has ever taken or could take at once. The result is, basically, a migrane. Describing such things is also difficult.

  • Divination: While this happens infrequently and with little certainty Sjan has been known to have visions of the future or insights into the past though it usually requires exposure to particular omens, cosmic forces or magic. Funnily enough, the prison uses this to make it more difficult for her to navigate the changing architecture - forcing her to see its past configurations.

  • Perception Manipulation: Perhaps what makes Sjan truly dangerous, she can allow others a glimpse of how she views the world in its full horror. This is most effective on mortals or those whose minds are not accustomed to such an influx of information - able to break minds or at least cause distraction in more powerful minds. Alternatively, she can restrict what others see, hiding objects or people for a time but only for a short time and with limited power. Sjan could prevent you from noticing a few people in a room but not if they're currently stabbing you in the chest.

    • Inventory: Tattered and stained clothes, black ball-point pen (blood-stained tip), drawing note pad

    • Backstory: Sjan started her life without much odd to her, quite bright and a little quiet but nothing too out of the oridinary. She grew up in Melbourne, Australia amoungst the artists and musicans or the bustling city. She was always very creative, a talented artist and with a decent hand at music, her mother very supporting of this albeit her father a touch aloof. Unfortunately she began to experience out of place, disturbing thoughts - ideas of hurting, killing or tortmenting other things ran through her mind unsolicited and her imagination was often terribly gorey. They eren't delusions or compulsions - just thoughts, a form of OCD called 'pure O' or morbid thoughts. Therapy and anitdepressants helped her cope with this over time and learned to incorparte this into her art.

  • As she left school Sjan found a place at an art college, played in a few garage bands and had ambition to become a comic book artist. The thoughts continued but she worked them into narratives, working on her own comic title and generally doing well at university. Unfortunately she gained a stalker of somekind and, one night while returning home, went missing. Nearly a week later the police came tracked down a sort of cult - a basement in Richmond was uncovered set up for some kind of ritual gone wrong. Blood and candles and dead cultists. On a make-shift altar they found Sjan with a knife in her chest and symbols carved into her skin, curiously still alive albeit barely. By some miracle she survived and recovered in the hospital but something had changed. The moment Sjan woke up she immediately tried to kill herself, screamed of horrors and pleaded to be killed. Naturally, they but her in the psych ward under observation and assumed she was having an understable breakdown.

  • Sjan rambled of monsters, masquerades - dismissed by most but closer to the truth than they ever could have known. However, she came onto the Servants of Humanity's radar when she made accurate prophecies and later escaped. She caused widespread insanity and discord by manipulating the minds of people until they tracked her down and captured the woman. Sjan was placed in a cell shielded from the rest of reality, the only thing that came in for nearly three years being food and the occasional set of drawing tools or paper.

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#54: Nov 6th 2015 at 6:47:31 AM

Ooh, this'll be fun to work with... Accepted, though is she a Gifted gifted or did the cult (Eldon?) curse her with that power? In addition, a Gift can be a springboard for magic, so how much of her power is actually untrained Magecraft? In addition, I'll need a little more clarification on the extent of her abilities.

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
Lt.BGob The Fantabulous from The Merry Ol' Land of Oz Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Fantabulous
#55: Nov 6th 2015 at 9:49:20 AM

Sjan is naturally gifted however her run in with the cult (Possibly related to Eldon but I was thinking devoted to some kind of Eldritch Abomination or such) enhanced her gift massively. I'd say her perception manipulation is definitely untrained magecraft but the others not so much - just a result of how she perceives the world.

The extent of her abilities sort of depends on what you think is appropriate... In terms of what sees Sjan would see everything in her current vicinity and, through its interaction with the rest of the universe, everything else. But she can only actually consciously know about the things in her immediate vicinity without it hurting - the deeper she looks at a particular thing, the more the rest blurs. She can see further afield consciously but will lose track of what happens around her (this is where it kind-of intersects with untrained magecraft). Divination can be pretty much up to the plot and your glorious GM machinations, haha.

Perception manipulation would probably only work on people in the same room or nearby (say, within 50 or 100 metres) and it'd be more of a Somebody Else's Problem field than real invisibility when trying to hide stuff. She would be able to take away specific sense if she can touch the person/thing. To show others what she sees they have to been closer and it would only last for a few moments.

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Lt.BGob The Fantabulous from The Merry Ol' Land of Oz Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Fantabulous
#56: Nov 6th 2015 at 1:58:02 PM

Sorry for the double post but Kkut has just confirmed that my sheet is accepted. He also wants everyone to know that you don't have to wait for him to make stuff happen - you can make your own scenarios and such, keep exploring and whatever.

Not sure when I'll post - possibly today but if not I will after Monday.

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Victor_Skye Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi from The Imperium of Man, the million worlds. Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi
#57: Nov 7th 2015 at 7:46:56 AM

Signups still up? I'll probably join around next week.

"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."
ThisGuy481 Since: Jul, 2015
#58: Nov 7th 2015 at 8:52:38 AM

Name: Xal'Gorak

Race: Wight... maybe. (Note the period)

Appearance: A dark purple, featureless being with a humanoid shape, he isn't translucent, though he does look somewhat out of the area, like a 3D image badly placed into another program

Abilities & Skills:

Intangible: Permanently intangible. Cannot interact with most things

VERY weak telekinesis: If your job is to pick up and drink a can of Coke then I guess this could be useful

Telepathy: Comes with a free side order of Mind Rape

Expansive Knowledge: He knows enough to the point that it is safe to consider it an ability

Technopathy: Can control information technology

Inventory: A Coke Can that won't go empty and a laptop. What? He's an Eldritch Abomination. He has his reasons. Or maybe he is trying to act insane to lower your guard

Backstory: Few know the origins, meaning, or true power of Xal'Gorak. What we see here is certainly a shade of something much greater - the true Xal'Gorak that is still just another one of many beings gibbering in the outer darkness, in the void between every multiverse, the gaps and nooks and crannies of the omniverse.

Xal'Gorak himself has quite a profile on earth - he's inspired artists, started cults, and had a minor influence in the rise of Information Technology. He's tried to breach our dimension directly multiple times, but it rejects him, so he has to rely on a very weak avatar to communicate. His most recent attempt got him captured, and his intangibility is now restricted to within the bounds of the facility. Of course, the breach is the perfect way out - he just needs to trick some dumbass into helping him.

edited 7th Nov '15 10:22:17 AM by ThisGuy481

Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#59: Nov 7th 2015 at 9:32:55 AM

Signups will be open indefinitely, so take your time.

Xal, on the other hand... What are your intentions for him?

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
ThisGuy481 Since: Jul, 2015
#60: Nov 7th 2015 at 9:45:07 AM

Depends what you mean by intentions.

Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#61: Nov 7th 2015 at 9:57:47 AM

Your plans for him and how he'll interact. I feel a little worried Xal will end up conflicting with the setting, so please explain his backstory more as well.

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
ThisGuy481 Since: Jul, 2015
#62: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:03:11 AM

Xal is mostly just going to either

A: Drive people insane with forbidden knowledge. For the Evulz

B: Actually try to do something - he'll probably try to form a cult by swaying other characters to his side

edited 7th Nov '15 10:03:50 AM by ThisGuy481

Daydre That's just how it is on this bitch of an earth from in my house Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
That's just how it is on this bitch of an earth
#63: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:04:39 AM

Why would he be anywhere near the prison, though?

we will survive.
ThisGuy481 Since: Jul, 2015
#64: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:10:56 AM

Read his story - he was trapped because he tried to enter this world. They stuck his avatar in the place, and limited his intangibility.

Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#65: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:15:58 AM

That isn't much of a story, and the Servants do have sufficient dimensional magic. So why didn't they just exile him from reality?

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
ThisGuy481 Since: Jul, 2015
#66: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:20:18 AM

Simple - it is more effective. It would seem that pushing his avatar out of reality would finish him, but his remaining cultists would probably have just summoned another avatar if they find sufficient power - can never be too careful.

Oh, BTW, I am gonna edit his inventory and powers, I forgot something ;)

Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#67: Nov 7th 2015 at 10:58:35 AM

No, I can't really trust someone calling themselves a God of Trolls... Furthermore, I hardly find him interesting. Seriously, this just shouts "lala crazy tralala" to me... I hardly get the impression he'll be written seriously let alone be freightening.

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
ThisGuy481 Since: Jul, 2015
#68: Nov 14th 2015 at 10:05:17 AM

Still accepting people? I got a good idea

ThisGuy481 Since: Jul, 2015
#69: Nov 14th 2015 at 10:19:46 AM

Name: Khj'Itz

Race: Spider "Lord"

Appearance: A black, slim spider that resembles an unholy mix between a Black Widow, Bird-Eating Spider, and Jumping Spider

Abilities & Skills:

Web-Spinning: Can spin webs as hard as steel (no, really, some spiders can do that!)

Wall-Crawling: Can crawl on webs and any flat surfaces with no trouble

Venom: Can inject a paralyzing venom, which can be deadly at large doses

Digging: His claws can dig pretty deep

Communication with Spiders: Obviously

Inventory: Nothing. He's a f***ing spider.

Backstory: Khj'Itz is one of the nobility of the Spider Lords, who are basically exactly what it says on the tin. These interdimensional creatures would often "infest" other dimensions, usually to little harm, and have already infested earth. But, about 3 months ago, the Spider Lords took some real interest in Earth, but the servants of humanity were in the way. Of the 30,000 Spider Lords, one of their leaders, (guess who) lead an invasion on Earth, to try to eliminate the Servants of Humanity. His small (for spiders) invasion force was pushed back easily, and he was imprisoned. That's basically it. He doesn't have that much of a backstory.

Yes, I know, Giant Spider, a little cliched. I probably see a "no" coming soon, but Imma try this anyway.

Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#70: Nov 14th 2015 at 3:59:29 PM

Cliches are cliches because people love them. Sure smug pricks will whine about "unoriginality", but originality really just means "the first to come up with it". Thus all 'original' ideas will inevitably become cliches. What matters then is that a concept is used interestingly.

Though I do have the ask: Why the extradimensional route? Dimension jumping characters make me iffy, as from experience people tend to use that as an excuse to not care about the setting.

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
ThisGuy481 Since: Jul, 2015
#71: Nov 14th 2015 at 4:02:13 PM

Eh, I dunno. I just kinda like trying to add some flavor of Eldritch Abomination - just this sort of addiction to them. It's actually a little unhealthy, been trying to work on it.

Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#72: Nov 14th 2015 at 4:31:00 PM

I suppose you could try a psychologically unstable Humanoid Abomination with magic radiation powers.

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
ThisGuy481 Since: Jul, 2015
#73: Nov 14th 2015 at 4:34:37 PM

Well, if I remove the whole extra-dimensional bit, is this character accepted?

Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#74: Nov 14th 2015 at 4:58:05 PM

You'll need to adequately rework the backstory and explain his motivations, though yeah.

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#75: Nov 21st 2015 at 8:44:12 PM

I wanna come up with a proper character, but I have an NPC suggestion:

A man with pervasive hypnotic aura, it spreads like a disease, hypnotizing those the man's aura originally snatched, and so on, all in his favor. What it does is it makes them inclined to obey him and accept anything he does, as if it were all normal.

Kicker: He's absolutely terrified of his power. He finds the Servants and tells them to lock him away. Once they do, the aura is cut off from its source and dwindles. The effect Servant realize precisely what he did to them, but decide that perhaps it'd be wise to keep agreeing with him on that.

Of his volition then, this man who could command anyone, anything, commands them to keep him imprisoned, where he can command no one.


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