Vale by Sundown: A Gangs of RWBY RP

Obi, Vanessa, and Maggie are approved.

As for Malia, everything looks good, except for the Black Hands thing. For reasons of GM fiat, I'm gonna ask you to please pick another gang.

You get that sorted out, you're golden.

Ok. Is there a gang where the bartender idea fits in?

I'd say head either East or West, mostly because it'd fit in the East, and we need more people West.

Also, please be sure to read the info doc.

edited 6th Nov '16 4:20:08 PM by BluBeriPi

Edited. Malia is now a member of the Cubs

Then you're in.

Added a picture. Now it's actually done!

Finally done.

• Name: Mikazuki "Mika the Hatter" Aurion
• Gender: Female
• Age: 17
• Birthday: Umbra 7th
• Race: Human
• Appearance: Here's her usual look, wearing a fancy, colorful outfit not unlike a mad hatter, including a top hat on her head and a scarf around her neck. She's also got white face paint on and a pair of contacts that turn her eyes blue to aid in keeping herself from being recognized. She stands at about 5'6", and weighs about 125lbs.
• Weapons and Equipment: Ace of Clubs: Mika's weapon is a large, oversized mallet with a long handle, which happens to have a small, limited Dust-powered booster in it to increase striking power. Not quite as fancy as Aurion family weapons tend to be, but it was still made for Mika alone by her mother Claire years ago.
• Semblance: Weaver: Mika can imbue her Aura into pre-existing thread-made clothing in order to lengthen or strengthen it and make it controllable by her to do various things. She can only do it on one article of clothing at a time though, and she's usually using it to make her scarf stretchy and prehensile.
• Personality: Ambitious and eccentric are certainly the first things that'd come to mind to anyone who meets this daughter of Claire Aurion. Dressed like a mad hatter with a minor playing card theme to her, Mika's quite the crafty and sly type. Secretly harboring ambitions to eventually take one of the 4 directional leadership positions as her own, she's constantly plotting and thinking a few steps ahead of others (or so she thinks). But Mika deep down just wants attention and to be recognized by others, and that motivation is the driving force behind her scheming. She's intent on playing everyone else...so that in the end, they'll all look up to her with respect and honor.
• Bio:
  • Born to Claire Aurion and a divorced father who hasn't been around for her since she was two, Mikazuki hasn't exactly had the best upbringing. Her mother always said to her that her father was some important guy who was always busy. But her mom was certainly busy a lot too, always going out with new random strangers and such in between being a Huntress. And then there was little Mikazuki in the middle, alone with only a single, irresponsible mom somewhat caring for her. It's no wonder she drifted into a wrong crowd despite her mother's wishes as the years went on, all because she wanted some kind of attention given to her.
  • As she got into trouble in school, she'd secretly heard more and more about the delinquent underworld of Vale, its strange allure speaking to Mikazuki almost like a calling. Thinking it could be her big chance to finally make some kind of name for herself, she snuck out of her mother's house under the cover of darkness about a month ago. Taking on the new alias of "Mika The Hatter", giving herself a makeover, and joining the Daughters of Scylla, she's got big plans waiting in the wings, though time will tell if she's successful in her ultimate goals...
• Gang Affiliations: Daughters of Scylla.

edited 11th Nov '16 8:32:53 AM by TheHailStormer

Approved! Ambition in a character is always welcome.

So, I'm interested, but I have to ask something.

What does the Valoran Disciplinary Committee actually do? The description talks about how they have sharp skills and sharper wardrobes, but do they have some list of rules that they enforce, or is it a non-indicative name?

It's a good question.

Unfortunately our resident lore master is unavailable at the moment, so we'll have to wait on the answer.

So while I'm not technically a GM, my character does run that section of the setting. I figure the VDC are a bunch of fighters who focus on making sure that everyone in their turf pays their dues to the Dragon and keeps shit under their control. A regulatory body, sorta.

Pretty much.

• Name: Blaze Fields
• Gender: Male
• Age: 17
• Birthday: Felicitas 20
• Race: Dog Faunus, with an extra pair of ears and a slightly better sense of taste/smell than most.
• Appearance: Be happy he isn't on any Mud or Dirt right now.◊
• Weapons and Equipment: Blaze always has a few of those enhancing Dust mixtures that he's infamous for, as well as a custom-altered shield that can expand somewhat to cover a greater area, as well as channel Dust for whatever effects Blaze can get out of it. Otherwise he's just smacking stuff with it.
• Personality: Blaze is a chill dude. He likes just relaxing and being in control of himself, always happy to offer some of his consumable Dust to whoever can pay him or reliably owe him a favor or two. But despite his usual calmness, he really enjoys the adrenaline boost he gets whenever he consumes his own product. He gets much wilder and eager for a scrap, and by then he's got some elemental power behind his punches as well.
• Bio: Blaze was born in one of the coastal villages to the west of Vale, moving in to take on life in the big city with his concoctions of consumable Dust in the forms of Dirt and Mud. With his offers of both mental and elemental highs, he quickly found his way into the graces of the Tiger of Vale, allying with her and giving her goons more bang for their buck. Now he appears as an odd, calm fixture among her men. Well, unless he comes around to taking his own stuff...
• Gang Affiliations: The Western Gangs (Not sure if he'd fit in any particular niche)

edited 6th Nov '16 10:45:53 PM by Insano

Blaze is good.

Yo sergey, props. Your Bio is one sentence. I didn't notice until I reread bios for plot hooks and shit, but I'm more impressed than anything.

Also I'm absolutely willing to be enough of a hipster to say that that's Alestorm's worst song and that that band's gimmick has zero longevity in an internet that now mocks shit like pirates and ninjas, you know, early aughts lolrandomness. Didn't one of em at least get the hell out while the getting was good and move on to Gloryhammer?

@Dragon 573: Taco is right on the score. The Disciplinary Code is actually a corrupted version of the very first Public School Handbook of Conduct, though with the Ultimate Authority not being the House of Vale, but the Dragon of Vale.

First rule is 'Obey the Dragon and all their Auspices, lest the holy Wrath of Heaven fall upon your head'.

What follows is a general 'don't make a mess, don't trust the cops, and keep your nose relatively clean'.

edited 6th Nov '16 11:09:25 PM by KR_Vandal

• Name: Elise Teach
• Gender: Female
• Age: 18
• Birthday: Umbra 29th
• Race: Hugh Mann
• Appearance: Technically pirate royalty◊
• Weapons and Equipment:
  • Ahab◊: Elise's trusty harpoon gun. Can be outfitted to fire a grappling hook.
  • First Mate◊: A short, but sturdily built cutlass.
  • Elise also carries several flintlock pistols on her person at all times. All of which fire explosive rounds (which are admittedly more flash than substance).
  • While not portable really, Elise is Captain of the cutter dubbed The Fool's Errand. The ship possesses a reinforced naval ram, as well as a dozen 12 pound cannons.
• Semblance: Black Powder. Elise's semblance allows her to create lines of explosive material with her semblance by drawing them on flat surfaces (walls, floors, ceilings, etc.). Said lines can be detonated with a simple snap of Elise's fingers, assuming she's within about 10 feet of one of the lines. Said lines can also be detonated by being lit on fire or hit with some other explosion.
• Personality: Depending on who you ask, Elise is either brutally cunning or cunningly brutal, either way she's not the sort of lass you'll want to trifle with on a bad day. For the most part, Elise is fairly cold and rude towards anyone outside of her inner circle and won't really be pleasant to anyone unless she respects them or wants something from them. However, if you do manage to get on her good side, Elise is fairly loyal, friendly and generous. When it comes to reaching her goals, Elise is incredibly stubborn and will stop at nothing to ensure that she achieves them, no matter the cost. Once she has her eyes on a prize, there's nothing that can stop Elise from taking it.
• Bio: Unbeknownst to Elise, she is the daughter of one of the most notorious pirates to sail Vale's waters; Johnny Bowker. Unfortunately, Elise has never actually met her father due to her mother being a landlubber and Johnny being a fairly influential pirate who, naturally, isn't one for staying in one place for long. Though despite not being raised around pirates, Elise found herself drawn to piracy at a fairly young age, eventually started her career of piracy at the tender age of 13, serving as a powder monkey on a schooner. After a few years of working her way up the ranks, Elise eventually got tired of being ordered around and staged a successful mutiny, scuppering the ship in the process. Upon discovering the wreck of The Tavern Wench, Elise and her crew quickly formed The Golden Privateers, and the rest, as they say, is history.
• Gang Affiliations: Golden Privateers (leader)

• Name: Onyx Saryn

• Gender: Male

• Age: 19

• Birthday: Cor 10

• Race: Coyote Faunus

• Appearance: Onyx stands at about 5’ 4” with a lanky build, with messy black hair and silver eyes, and with two tall coyote ears sticking up out of the top of his head. He normally wears baggy cargo pants, and a sleeveless black shirt, with bandages wrapped around his arm from mid upper arm to his hands. Has a scar across the bridge of his nose, and all four of his ears are pierced, with two earrings on his right coyote ear.

• Weapons and Equipment: Knight’s Tale: A lance shaped like such: http://imgur.com/a/rSVum . A basic weapon all things considered, cobbled together with what Onyx could get. Though it is not by any means without surprises. There is a knife hidden within the gigantic mass of the lance head, and half of the lance head can be split off into an offhand sword to be dual wielded with the now smaller lance. Shaft of the of weapon also acts as a barrel for a single shot single load high power and high recoil rifle that is often used for propulsion and high impact projectile strikes. However the gun part is a bit prone to malfunction at times, often causing damages that require repairs.

o He does also have a cheap motorcycle, more for getting around than anything. He does try to keep good care of it, but oftentimes parts can be hard to come by, especially when he needs parts for Knight’s Tale, making the bike more of a “Hope she’ll run” than “Listen to my baby roar.”

• Semblance: Copy Coyote – Onyx is able to perfectly create temporary copies of nearly any non-organic object of size equal or small to that of a handgun using portions of his aura. The copies last for about 2 minutes, though he can extend the time by putting more of his aura into creating the object. He will often use it to create duplicates of his knife for throwing, or as a cheat to only having one bullet most of the time, allowing him to create temporary ammo perfect for shooting, without having to spend any money on more ammo.

• Personality: Onyx is a pretty lazy guy, only really wanting to enjoy his life as best he can and leisurely at that. He does recognize the value of hard work though, and, with enough of nagging and pushing, he will generally put most of his effort into a task. He is also rather territorial, in the actual literal sense. He has a set home, and he doesn’t like people encroaching on that home without permission. He will generally devote a lot to people he feels indebted to, sometimes overriding his lazy attitude.

• Bio: Onyx is quite affectionately, a street rat. Orphaned at a young age, he made most of his living on the streets and underbelly of Vale, pulling small time bouncer and bodyguard work for some important people, and some less so important. Once he unlocked his semblance however, he discovered he could work things from a different side. He started a small con scheme, duplicating objects and selling them to different people, and then running off with his profits before the customers discovered the objects he sold them disappeared. Unfortunately, he risked a bit too much, and got caught. The group he had tricked was, understandably, not very happy with being ripped off, and, once again understandably, beat the living s*** out of him. And then they just left him there, broken bones and broken pride (whatever of that still existed mind you) when he was found by Artemis Cerulean, who took him back to her clinic and patched him up. Realizing the fact that he could very well have died if it wasn’t for this girl, he decided he should help out at the clinic as a bodyguard for the Nurse, at first out of a sense of debt, and eventually out of a sense of affection. During this time, Onyx managed to shape himself up a bit, becoming a little bit less lazy than he previously was, and attempting to pick up the pieces of the little pride he had left, and starting his new job, and family.

• Gang Affiliations: Technically associated with The Turtle, but mostly only by virtue of working for the Nurse’s Clinic. Onyx works as a bodyguard for the Nurse, and as a Peacekeeper for the Clinic itself, enforcing its status as a neutral territory by snuffing out any fights on the property almost as soon as they start.

Discussion Thread is up. All accepted players can mosey over and post anything you have in mind or just introduce yourselves..

So, just so we're clear...

A gang of delinquents made up of cultured, sharp-dressed badasses, who have "obey the Dragon" and (pardon my french) "follow the motherfucking rules!" as their basic bylaws?

I'm getting a sort of... Scanty and Kneesocks feel from this. Am I on the right track, here?

Yes. Though an unwritten rule is 'when all else fails, go forth and wreck the other guy's face'.

Also, we got a bunch of prospectives here. Might have to vote... Again.

My opinion: Vote only if it's more than 24. 24 people a game has been our old standby for years after all.

One cheerleader from hell, coming right up.

Hey, what are the rules about siblings? Like, is there a "no related PC's" rule, or is it "if you and the other player can figure something out, go for it?" Because if it's the latter, if someone wanted to make a sibling team, I'd be willing, as long as I'm not more than half-way through my sheet when the call comes through.

edited 7th Nov '16 7:17:34 AM by Dragon573

Elise good, Onyx good.

With that.

ATTENTION EVERYONE:

WE WILL BE STARTING LATER TODAY.

I wouldn't mind... if you wouldn't mind that your sister got... a few peculair habits :P