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[GreatWyrmGold]

But gins are fine?

You were planning to have a 15 year old magical girl kill Witches by drinking them under the table!? It's original, at least.

Guns! Dangit! Stupid hilarious typos!

May I sig this like this?

I believe so.

Now that Harry's posted his character sheet, I can post the last few details for Gretchen!

Edit: Lots of neat details...but why did you leave out the one thing which would have been most useful for me?

[Harry Baldman]

Edit: Lots of neat details...but why did you leave out the one thing which would have been most useful for me?

And what would that be, exactly? A personality profile?

[Corsair]

((I've been reading up on this and this sounds awesome, also are people on the wait list just sitting around in the world?))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Renata Freki

Age: 16

Physical Appearance: White hair , Piercing blue eyes & pale skin. Tall and of an average build although the most odd aspect about her is her voice which possesses an ever sultry inflection.
   
Family: None at least that she knows of or wishes to acknowledge

languages: English and moderate amount of Arabic

Interests: Historical literature, The Sciences and fencing along with a passing interest in cooking

Biography: Originally from New York she was born to a wealthy military family she lived in washington for most of her early childhood. She became a member of the local fencing club and
soon advanced to 4th in the state. Her parents were happily married and she was happy, that soon and violently changed.
Her father Major Johann Freki a member of the navy recruitment squad was moved to New York city. The flight they took had been
targeted by Terrorists and although the plane was evacuated safely the damage to Renata's life was done. Her father was executed by the terrorists as an example. Her mother lost something that day more than just a husband, but most of her sanity.

Afterwards her family collapsed spectacularly with her mother becoming a drug-addled abusive and Renata withdrew into herself
no longer trusting those around her. She withdrew into literature and intellectual pursuits becoming further withdrawn and pessimistic.

After leaving her mother she now lives at a public boarding school
and hopes to one-day join the military like her father. The only memento of her old self is the swept hilt rapier given to her by her
father when she turned 13. She hopes to one day make a difference in the world for the better.       

[Empiricist]

((If we take the Madoka option, are we allowed to have our character change their mind due to extraneous circumstances and contract at a later time?))

[penguinofhonor]

Harry Baldman, you continue to impress. But first, signups round 2 results!

Man, we have a lot of book-loving shut-ins. Anime New York's high school English grades must be significantly higher than the rest of the Anime USA.

I'm not giving any specific critiques this time cause I'm lazy and want to see what unguided revision will do. I will note that this was really close. In the first round when I complimented Wwolin, I realized that he wouldn't be such a guaranteed choice if everyone else's girls improved to match his, and... well, that happened.

I fear judging round 5 cause I'm probably going to be turning away 4-6 quality characters. But you'll all get on the waitlist if you want, and I promise this game will be quite lethal so it'll move at a decent pace.

Willamena Woodson (Wwolin) - Power Level 5
Elizabeth Evans (Flying Dice) - Power Level 3

I had to check to make sure I was rolling 2d6 and not 1d6, but nope, you guys are just all unlucky. Maybe our fifth girl will be a magical prodigy. Anyways, you two haven't contracted yet, so you don't get any stats or fun stuff.

What you do get is one assignment, smaller than the round 1 winners, and that's to return a short description of your friendship. One description total, not each, so work together. We'll be basing a little bit of pregame RP off it.

Round 3: The Final Girl
Name:
Age: 13-17
Physical Appearance:
Family:
Interests:
Biography: There are no restrictions here besides the fact that you haven't become a magical girl yet, or been contacted by Kyubey at all. Go wild and show me your best stuff.

The same rules for resubmissions apply - don't edit, repost.

That's done, so the next order of business is...

Nitpicking R1 Winner Biographies
GreatWyrmGold:
You don't need to explain how you get your crossbow bolts - all your magical weapon stuff is generated from your magic. And Kyubey doesn't have too many limits or rules to his wishes, so I doubt he'd hesitate to give you yours. And you've got a solid costume, and it looks like the beginning of a very good theme for your abilities and attacks.

Harry Baldman:
If it took a while for you to make your wish, Kyubey probably appeared to you. He doesn't seem shy about making himself visible to anyone he's decided to offer a wish to. Also, having a real weapon that turns into your magic weapon isn't exactly standard, so he wouldn't urge you to get one. That said, it's still perfectly acceptable for you to have one, though you'll have to deal with being a young girl carrying around a weapon. You have a brilliant ability aesthetic with the smoke and fire, by the way.

Finally...

Pregame RP Round 1
^{<- OP | PGRP Round 2 ->}

Gretchen:
You get home from school one day to find your mother reading another letter - it's from the army again. Your brother is alive, but he's become frail and sickly. They're shipping him back home.

Everyone is baffled. He'd been dead for nearly a day, but your mother is happy to the point of tears. "It's a miracle!" she says, hugging you. You hug her back, smiling. You're pretty sure you've done the right thing.

Diane:
The next day, as you walk to school, you see a car pass by. You look in the window and see your brother, exactly as you remember him. He's with another family, laughing as he plays with another kid in the back seat that's a little younger than him.

Both:
That evening, Kyubey comes to you. "A witch is nearby! You need to help!" He shows you how to use your soul gem to home in on witches, and then leaves. Diane arrives first, then Gretchen. Kyubey appears again. "An ally. It seemed like you both needed one."

He leads you to her and tells you a bit about how her barrier works - normal people get trapped inside and die, never to be found. You head inside, finding yourselves in a world of sharp angles, bright light, and deep shadows. It's a jagged world of only pure white and dark black. You make your way through the labyrinth, defeating her minions - white and black globs that can only travel along the areas opposite their color.

You reach the end and find the witch - the gray silhouette of a young woman, the only thing in here that stands out from the black-and-white environment besides you two. She is PKLEHK XKVK. When she sees you, she shatters apart into geometric shapes that grow large and attack you.

My question is this: how do you fight? Do you hold back, saving your strongest attacks for when they matter the most, or do you attempt to blow her away before she can do any damage? Do you focus on protecting your ally, or do you attack while the witch focuses your ally, using her opportunities? You don't necessarily have to answer these questions, but that's the sort of stuff I want. Less fighting style, and more fighting philosophy.

[scapheap]

Same as the second with changes

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:Clair Razor
Age: 14
Physical Appearance:A rather small girl of 4 foot with snow white hair done in pig tails and red eyes. pale skin. Wears black clothes.
Family:Unknown, doorstep baby. Father Dark is the closest to a father figure she has.
Interests:Insects, bread making, running a gang and story writing.
Biography up to before you met the other one: Abandon on the doorstep of the John the baptist' church, Clair was raise by the priest there, father Gregory Dark, and is a quiet girl with a large imagination.

Dues to lack of funds, the church tends to be overrun with insects of all different types. Clair look after them because they are interesting and has grown so used to their presents she often turn up to school with three or four of them on her simply because she does not notice them. Her bread making came about as a coping method, kneading the dough is great for stress release and it hard to worried about anything with the smell of freshly baked bread.

 At the age of 10, she watched the local bully picking on other students(and herself leading to the bread making) and after going through several plans, she started a school gang called Black Bible to ruin the bully and discover she liked ruling over people.

Now 14, BB is still going strong, with eight members, mostly girls with one guy, with Clair at the top and she still hasn't told Father Dark about her hobby and some strange cat have been seen by the female members.

[Harry Baldman]

Since it is Diane's first time fighting a witch (or fighting anyone, for that matter) and she doesn't want to either die herself or let Gretchen die due to lack of caution and knowledge, she tried to fight as defensively as possible, focusing on protecting herself and Gretchen as well as providing support to her teammate. Of her abilities, Wall of Fire was used most in the battle, with the intent being to lure the shapes into striking at her, then eliminate them by springing the wall at the right time.

[superBlast]

((Almost exact same as last. I would add stuff about her past like everyone else but it's generally unremarkable unlike most everyone else's.))

Name: Gale Flagg
Age: 16
Physical Appearance: Short and tends to be mistaken to be a lot younger then she actually is. Long white hair, Orange eyes, nothing else of particular interest.
Family: Grandparents(mother's side)(in the apartment next door), mother(Nurse), father (he's dead though), older brother (lives on his own but nearby, visits the family every once in a while. Goes to college).
Interests: Video games, and martial arts.
Biography up to before contract: Gale is a pretty hardcore gamer that plays all sorts of games and is quite good at most of them. She also practices martial arts at the karate dojo that a few blocks from where she lives where she recently got her black belt. Gale quite well known throughout her school, not because she's popular, but because she almost looks like a kid and stands out because of it. Much to Gale's dismay since while every girl her age and can pass themselves off as being 18 or so, or at the very least being a high schooler, she's stuck being treated like a kid. Even by people that knows she's not.

She tends to be a loner but not by choice but rather she tends to not be very good at talking and thus not good at making friends. Which is another thing she dislikes about herself since she actually likes talking. In fact once she is able to, she'll talk forever. Though that rarely happens. She only had one best friend in her life but she moved away before Gale entered high school. Though she does take pride in being a good at video games and being able to defend herself if the need ever arises. Sometimes she even boasts about it. She also rather enjoys winning over new people in the dojo she goes to who don't her seriously (especially when they treat her as a kid).

She also tends to be pretty lazy about anything that doesn't interest her, which puts her grades quite low for never doing her homework. Though once she finds something that does interest her (usually but not always it's a video game) she'll pursue it actively until she finally get's bored some time later. The only thing that she hasn't lost her interest in is karate.

[penguinofhonor]

Oh, I forgot to add the witch's name. It's PKLEHK XKVK, which is ciphered because I like fun things. The girls don't even know it in game anyways, so it doesn't matter that much.

[Darvi]

The closest thing to a decryption I get is a ROT-10 cipher :V

[penguinofhonor]

I'll use the cipher for all the witches, so eventually you should be able to figure it out, if I understand cipher solving correctly. It'll be a big fun moment!

[GreatWyrmGold]

Edit: Lots of neat details...but why did you leave out the one thing which would have been most useful for me?

And what would that be, exactly? A personality profile?

The thing about how much your character trusts mine.

I'll be sure to fiddle with my character. I'm glad that one of the two critiques I had was thinking things through too much and both involved not understanding how the magic stuff worked. (And, just to note, I had imagined the results of being brought back to life as being much worse...)

I focus on making sure Diane doesn't get hurt, and of course myself. When on the offense, I start with weaker attacks which "cost" less and slowly move up into more and more "expensive" moves as needed. As best as possible given her lack of understanding, at least. That fine?

Hm, I might want to define another/more spells...how many do we have to start, again?

[Harry Baldman]

The thing about how much your character trusts mine.

Well, I see Diane as more of a trusting, unquestioning sort, so she operates under the assumption that Gretchen can't be all that bad of a person, answering any questions she has with honesty. Of course, Diane doesn't know Gretchen at all yet, and there does seem to be a bit of a secretive, closed off bent to the girl, so she chooses not to bother her overmuch. At least, until she's ready to open up herself.

Hm, I might want to define another/more spells...how many do we have to start, again?

Two from the start, two additional ones from levels. Total of four.

[Corsair]

Reposting for next round

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Renata Freki

Age: 16

Physical Appearance: White hair , Piercing blue eyes & pale skin. Tall and of an average build although the most odd aspect about her is her voice which possesses an ever sultry inflection.
   
Family: None at least that she knows of or wishes to acknowledge

languages: English and moderate amount of Arabic

Interests: Historical literature, The Sciences and fencing along with a passing interest in cooking

Biography: Originally from New York she was born to a wealthy military family she lived in washington for most of her early childhood. She became a member of the local fencing club and
soon advanced to 4th in the state. Her parents were happily married and she was happy, that soon and violently changed.
Her father Major Johann Freki a member of the navy recruitment squad was moved to New York city. The flight they took had been
targeted by Terrorists and although the plane was evacuated safely the damage to Renata's life was done. Her father was executed by the terrorists as an example. Her mother lost something that day more than just a husband, but most of her sanity.

Afterwards her family collapsed spectacularly with her mother becoming a drug-addled abusive and Renata withdrew into herself
no longer trusting those around her. She withdrew into literature and intellectual pursuits becoming further withdrawn and pessimistic.

After leaving her mother she now lives at a public boarding school
and hopes to one-day join the military like her father. The only memento of her old self is the swept hilt rapier given to her by her
father when she turned 13. She hopes to one day make a difference in the world for the better.       

[Empiricist]

((Updated my sheet to add detail to her depression and ensure that it is not interpreted as her temporarily becoming a shut-in.))

Spoiler:  Alice Irrisor Character Sheet MKIII (click to show/hide)

Name: Alice Irrisor
Age: 15
Physical Appearance: Average height, somewhat slim with long ultraviolet hair and bright blue eyes.
Family: Father, Mother, Elder Brother and Younger Sister.
Interests: Literature, Social interaction, Psychiatry
Biography: Alice's memories of her early childhood are rather hazy, though her recollections of this unremarkable phase of her life are quite clear from piecing together information from her friends and family. She was adopted as a baby by her family and had a stable upbringing. Though her parents initially tried to hide her past from her due to their silent, mutual trepidation that the truth would bring tumult and disassociation into her early childhood. These fears would soon prove to be unwarranted: sentimentalism was not a trait that Alice possessed. She didn't care that her family was not her own nor did she seek to find the identities of the parents she never truly met. Instead, upon the revelation of this fact, she thanked the people she considered to be her family for their concern. If the rest of her family life could be summed up in a single word, that word would be "idyllic", she had good relations with her sister and could converse with her brother surprisingly well despite the age difference (when he was at home that is, he tended to spend great lengths of time studying by himself in a nearby library where he could get some peace and quiet). She picked up various skills from both her mother and father and their respective careers though she didn't show any interest in a specific career path in that point in time.

She did relatively well in her education with marks slightly above average though she never stood out that much, at least not for that particular reason. She had a certain charismatic amicability that allowed her to gain several friends quickly. Alice's understanding for the subtle, capricious projections of emotion that allowed her to consistently actuate her serene aura unbeknownst to anyone at that time where the early symptoms that acted as harbingers for the turmoil that followed.

In hindsight, it had a certain farcical comedy to it. After all, she lived her life until then, unperturbed, releasing a kaleidoscope of ardor and yet this same kaleidoscope would soon be transmuted into a phantasmagoria.

At the age of 12, Alice was diagnosed with a mild case of psychopathy. It could've been worse, Alice's condition only resulted in slightly shallower emotions rather than anything that would be detrimental to her relations. Her friends stood by her in this difficult time yet the diagnosis had already sown the seeds of self-doubt. Alice began to reflect on everything she had ever done, everything she said and every facet of her past as she was caught inside an abyss of uncertainty. She recalled that she had always followed her heart yet she knew that it could have just been a lie. A lie so intricate that it convinced not only her peers but herself. Who was she? Was she a person or was she just a deluded facade to a cold, calculating persona? Agonizingly slowly, she began to withdraw from society, shutting herself away from everyone she knew. This withdrawal manifested as the progressive automation of her actions. She delegated every facet of her personality, mannerisms and identity to instinct while she plunged further into the abyss of despair.

Alice was slowly becoming the person that she feared she was. She found solace in literature; after all, she could never lie consciously or unconsciously to empty constructs of ink and paper. Perhaps she was similar to them: nothing more than an empty shell. No one else noticed much of a change in her other than a significant improvement in her English marks. She kept on smiling happily and interacting with the same vitality she normally had, reduced to little more than a simple marionette. She cried herself to sleep at night and struggled to motivate herself to continue her meaningless existence in the morning. The boundaries between day and night began to blur, caught underneath a heavy curtain of sorrow that slowly wore her down with it's relentless attrition.

Perhaps she would have contemplated the schadenfreuden irony of her predicament if it were not for the soul-crushing paroxysms that it brought with it. After all, it is undeniably unusual for a psychopath, a person with reduced emotional capacity to suffer from depression, the excess of emotion. Perhaps even more ironic considering that her fears of her identity being nothing but an elaborate fabrication had done exactly that. Perhaps. But the hypothetical tend to remain separated from reality, much like how her soul was now cruelly disassociated from her body. An immaterial pain tormented her heart.

The mere act of existing was now torture for her, yet Alice never did seek help. She couldn't bring herself to do so. As pathetic as it surely would have sounded (and she was quite aware of that fact). She wanted her despair to be real. She didn't ant to be told that it was a phantasmal construct of an unstable, psychotic mind. Even if her existence was perpetually intertwined with agony, at least it would be real. And she didn't want to be told otherwise. It was the only dim, twisted fragment of her identity that remained.

Yet tears cannot flow on forever. Eventually she couldn't cry anymore, and the pain started to gradually dull.

Slowly, she began to recover. She started to enjoy some of the compositions she read, especially Goethe's masterpiece, Faust. Once again, she found happiness in the thoughts and emotions of others. The same interactions that she once doubted retrogressed back into their former, pleasant states. Maybe it is all a lie. Her identity, her personality, her entire existence.

But surely if everyone believes in that one lie, it becomes indistinguishable from reality.

Reestablishing and reforging her former bonds, she returned to her initial social circumstances. Her interest in literature allowed her English marks to rise further and she soon discovered that she had an interest in psychiatry, through a combination of effort, independent research and reading, she began to study psychiatry outside of school. She is now once again content with her life, though admittedly part of her still wonders how brighter life could be without psychopathy filtering her emotions and part of her is still uncertain about herself. She's learned to accept that these parts of her will be with her forever, whether she likes it or not.
Quick Reference Summary: Alice was diagnosed with a slight case of psychopathy. This made her doubt her own identity. Resulting in depression. The depression eventually "burned-out" since it pretty much became impossible for her to remain depressed for the rest of her life. She has now recovered. Part of her still wishes to be "normal".