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[Akroma]

IC is here


And the time has come to start ba new roleplay thread. Delving into the ever present highschool for the supernatural threads, I have found them...wanting. By being supernatural, they all too easily toss away all the things that make the supernatural interesting - that it goes beyond what is normal. Characters are only defined by how very eccentric their powers are, and the reaction to the fabulous and unnameable is reduced to snarky remarks. If everyone is special - no one is. Vampires and half-gods, sitting at a table with literal embodiments of abstract concepts, with a timetable filled with combat-classes (which indeed often seems to be the only class), quickly leave a sour aftertaste, knowing that a vampire used to be a noble and feared master of the shadows, a single one to center an entire campaign around.

This thread does away with that.

In here, you are normal humans, born into normal families, going to normal schools, that would probably think "combat class" is something that navy seals do, not high-schoolers. In here, the supernatural and occult is exactly that. Hard to grasp, and even harder to master, it ranges from "did anything happen at all?" to so mindboggingly powerful that nobody could have ever dreamt of such a thing. And not because it has high numbers attached to it, but because it actually defies the laws of nature - something unthinkable. When it's not an army of undead, but a single animated skelleton that strikes fear and helplessness into the heart of men, only then will the noble necromancer be where he deserves to be again. Not a standard villain, who summons weak, worthless minions and regrets having chosen the wrong skill-tree, but a master over life and death, the final frontier that so many strife to master but never can.


And delving into the unknowable starts by revealing that indeed, this is not entirely freeform, but it has a system attached to it, with numbers and dice - but none of them are known to the players. The success - and the misfortune - of their efforts unfold in the game entirely. Nobody comes to this school as a master of shooting flames from their hands, nobody is master of martial arts, or hides their demonic bloodline. You are normal students, joining a normal highschool, and with no numbers to burden you, improvisation and freeform is basicaly your game.

As such, all the info I need from you is


Name:
Gender:
Appearance: (images or just description)
Backstory/Personality: If any.
Hobbies:
Strenghts: (and be honest)
Weaknesses: (and be honest)
Grades:
Special: Even mundane characters might have something special about them. Note that something like actual karate skills, knowing basic latin/hebrew or access to a telescope etc counts as special.


While copious amounts of roleplay-time will be given, note that this is a plot driven game, and as such, I will limit character-spots to whatever number I feel will be good to handle. And I may or may not entirely ignore the usual first-come-first-serve basis, and cherry-pick what I think might fit best.

Also, feel free to use this time to thread-forming to post requests, regarding the tones of the game. Certain kinds of magic, lores and supernatural things you'd like to see explored, or that might add the most to your character? Now is the best time to give your input.
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Players:
Oceanus Baugher, by KJ1225
Oliver A. Lichtenstein, by AbstractTraitorHero
Christina Sellick, by Adragis029
Serena Ferris, by Twinwolf
Elise Devar, by Kansa
Emmet Gruber, by SentientBowtie

[PrivateNomad]

Reserved

[Adragis]

Also reserved.
Also also, what if the person IS a master of martial arts? Or just really good?

[SOLDIER First]

QUESTION: WOULD A FETISH BE CONSIDERED A WEAKNESS

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Reserved making sheet now!

[Akroma]

You are approximately 14-ish years old in this game. You are likely above average at martial arts at best.


as far as fetishes counting as weaknesses, well, what do you have in mind?

[SOLDIER First]

never mind actually

[Kansa]

I will make one.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Might join. Might not.

We'll see.

[SOLDIER First]

he'll probably just keep it closeted actually

Spoiler: just fuck me up (click to show/hide)

Name: Emmett Gruber
Gender: Male
Appearance, except with fewer facial tattoos. As in none. No tats. Not yet. But hopefully.
Emmett is about 5'8", with hair about 6" or 7", and 5" too long if you ask literally anyone in his family. But he won't cut it. never Usually in that weird ponytail. He, also, developed well. Ahem.
Backstory/Personality: Imagine if you stayed up as late as you possibly could once, and you were so tired, and you absolutely needed sleep. But you never actually went to sleep, you just had coffee.
That's Emmett, along with a distinct lack of fucks to give about school and the occasional unfunny sex joke and/or meme.
Hobbies: Look at that mug of coffee. Now look at Emmett. Now back to the mug of coffee. It's gone. Emmett drank it while I was talking. And then stayed up for eleven hours straight on the internet.
And then went to school like this.
Strengths: Practically doesn't need sleep, and can stay up really late without actually becoming tired.
Weaknesses: Basically always lethargic. It's a rare day indeed when Emmett isn't failing to write his own name properly.
Grades: Shit.
Special: He owns a gun, technically. His dad gave it to him for Christmas. And there's probably still some slugs in the house. Somewhere. Maybe.

bam, done, fuck u

[Twinwolf]

Reserved.

Spoiler: Character! (click to show/hide)

Name: Serena Ferris
Gender: Female
Appearance: A tall girl at about 5'4". She has brownish-red hair down to almost the middle of her back. She also has a light spread of freckles, especially noticeable under her eyes. Her eye color is kind of weird, depending on the lighting. Sometimes hazel, sometimes green. She generally goes for comfort over style in regards to clothing. Figure-wise, she's quite... well developed, so to speak.
Backstory/Personality: Serena is not your typical teenager. Good family and good grades, yes. But she doesn't really interact with many individuals her age. In fact, she finds the cursing, disrespectful, hormone crazed majority of teenagers rather insufferable. She likes adults, though, and teenagers who don't conform to the aforementioned stereotype.
Also, she's a lesbian. So yeah.
Hobbies: Creative Writing, drawing, video games, anime. She is also quite interested in the occult.
Strengths: Serena is the kind of person who will literally not study at all for a major upcoming test... and then ace it, finishing earlier than almost everyone else. She is also rather good at reading people's moods, and can lie with a completely natural tone and not so much as a twitch as a tell.
Weaknesses: The hatred of stereotypical teenagers was mentioned, right? She will generally not take anything they say seriously. Like anything. She also considers grades a measure of how worth listening to a person is- if they're failing more than one class that isn't something like Gym or Art, they might as well not be there for how much she cares about their opinions.
Grades: On a 100-point system, Serena gets pissed at herself whenever a grade dips below 90. Except gym, which is closer to 75.
Special: Serena can speak Hebrew well enough to hold a simple conversation, and knows a few words of Japanese.

[kj1225]

Spoiler: Oh Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Oceanus Baugher
Gender:  Male
Appearance: This little guy has deep-set gray eyes that are like two pools of mercury. His fine, straight, jet black hair is medium-length and is worn in a handsome style. He is very tall and has a boyish build. His skin is tanned. He has bushy eyebrows. His wardrobe is simple and pragmatic, favoring greens and browns.
Backstory/Personality: Oceanus is a fracking hippie.
Hobbies:  Reading about animals, exploring forests.
Strenghts: pretty Strong, has a near encyclopedic knowledge of standard animal facts. very basic farming skills (doesn't actually know how to take care of anything more complicated than tomatoes)
Weaknesses: Kind of a wimp, lazy, tends to tire himself out due to poorly managing his actions.
Grades: Middling to high.
Special: Almost unable to get stressed out, even for a child. Carries around a notebook that he's slowly been filling with non-standard information about animals he sees or discovers.

What kind of magic animals will we be facing, if any? Because I like magic animals.

[Akroma]

Not entirely sure what you mean by magical animals. Like a salamander? Also, I guess any animal can be magical, if bound as a familiar.

[SOLDIER First]

Oceanus.

[Akroma]

I bet he gets massively bullied for that name alone