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[Xvareon]

After doing a lot of thinking, I've decided to give one of my old attempts at forum games another shot. I believe I now have a much better grasp of how to handle all these different strings of things happening at once in a progressive storyline, so I shouldn't be as easily overwhelmed as I was before.

And so, without further ado, I give you the reboot! Enjoy!
~ Xvareon
You are a citizen/visitor in Harker's Ford, a quaint but rapidly-growing village of roughly 700 people that lies astride the river Tearsfall and the new land trade route connecting... actually, you can't remember the name of the nation. You can't remember much of anything, really. And from what it looks like, you aren't the only one. A strange pall of amnesia seems to be affecting the town, causing many who live there to forget about the outside world, and those who visit to lose memory of why they stopped there in the first place, or where they were going afterwards.

Life at the Ford is relatively good so far, but you can... sense... that something is wrong. The disappearances are getting more frequent. Stranger and stranger folk have been entering town, and once you swear that you saw... something... unnatural beneath one of their hoods. A thick, almost palpable blue fog is beginning to cover the town and the land surrounding it, strangely seeming to avoid some buildings or locations where people frequent. Everyone else in the town seems blissfully unaware of what is going on, but you are one of the few who has managed to hold on to enough of their sanity to act, and get to the bottom of this mystery before it is too late.

The time has come to pull back the veil.

Spoiler: Game-specific Rules - Abilities (click to show/hide)

• The beginning of the game starts with you, as one of the 6 people who have not only "Awakened" enough to consciously realize that the Veil exists and the effects it has on the mind, but also learned how they can turn the reality-warping and memory-leeching effects of the Veil to their advantage in order to gain powerful supernatural abilities. Thus, from the start, each player may pick precisely 1 primary power they wish:  e.g, at will-creation of flames, hardening water to ice, intuiting the contents of a container or what lies behind a door based on residual memories of its previous users, imbuing books to fly and giving them vampire fangs, or even directly manipulating the Veil to induce suggestions in others. I will make a d6 roll to decide how well you have grasped this power; for example, a 6 (Overshot) on the ability to Heal will give you a solid understanding of how to use your energies to help your allies, but could give you pacifistic tendencies that make you a liability in combat. I'll accept most ideas for powers, so be imaginative!
• Each turn, you may attempt to glean new memories from the Veil and add them to your repertoire of abilities or knowledge about the world. Doing this requires active concentration, however, and attempting it while heavily distracted can inflict penalties on your rolls. Failing your Veil rolls can result in many different things, ranging from you briefly losing control of your powers and starting a wildfire, to being faced with the crippling fears of a dozen people at once and shaking your character's willpower.
• As the Veil is wholly responsible for these supernatural effects, for good or ill, being in areas with high amounts of it can 'supercharge' some of your abilities -- or make them dangerously unpredictable. Read more about the effects of the Veil below.

Spoiler: Game-specific Rules - The Veil (click to show/hide)

• The blue fog known as the Veil has almost completely covered the outskirts of Harker's Ford at the time this game starts, but mysteriously, it doesn't seem to have progressed very far -- if at all -- into the town itself as of yet. This doesn't stop Awakened individuals from using it for their supernatural powers, but this does mean that you have to telepathically 'reach' into the Veil from afar if you want to glean any new abilities or information from it, or use it to create one of your own. This is reflected as 2 rolls -- 1 roll to 'reach out', and another roll to properly process and add the knowledge to your repertoire without screwing it up in transit. Failing the first roll has no negative consequences, but failing the second... well, you get the idea. Also, having to reach out like this is taxing, to the point where you will lose any bonuses you would normally receive from familiarity with the subject you're looking for, or from other sources.
• If, however, you are actually standing in the midst of an area of high Veil exposure (anywhere you can see the blue fog), you do not need to make this additional 'reach out' roll, as you are immersed amongst a lake of swirling thoughts and ideas and emotions and can cherry-pick from it as you wish. This might also carry additional bonuses if you already have clues about whatever it is you're trying to learn. This carries serious risks, however -- the concentration involved in sorting out so many ideas at once in the middle of the Veil means that some precious short-term memories of yours, like your sense of direction to get back to town, can be temporarily locked away or outright lost in the process. Try to balance risk vs. reward.
• The Veil around the town is particularly thick with mental energy and the echoes of memories both recent and distant. Being one of the few lucid enough to consciously interact with it, you can sometimes sense fluctuations in the pattern, such as when certain beings are closeby, and usually detect whether something or someone is real or merely a manifestation. You must make a roll to disbelieve such an illusion if it relates to you, however, unless someone else is there to snap you out of it.

Spoiler: The Awakened, your foes, and your goals (click to show/hide)

• The more your character 'Awakens' -- i.e, the more they remember themselves, gain new abilities and uncover the story -- the greater their power will grow, as well as their ability to consciously manipulate the Veil.
• However, the greater your power, the more attention you will attract from... 'outside forces'. The Veil has affected more than just the Awakened, and not all of those under its spell are content to sit in their homes in bliss, living out good memories over and over again. You must beware of others like you. You will face not only those who possess powers of the same nature that you do, but also potentially deal with runaway manifestations that cause chaos in the town, or panicked civilians or wild beasts lashing out in anger and fear.
• Your primary goal in this game is to gain enough power and knowledge to figure out what is truly happening with the Veil. How you go about that is your business -- I will allow it if you choose to take a darker path, or prefer to work alone instead of with allies. I will treat such choices accordingly.

Simply post an action and I will roll for it, based on a scale of 1-6 in terms of success.
[1]: Critical failure. Your efforts only worsened your situation. Attempting to shoot at a target only to have the shot ricochet and strike an ally falls under this category.
[2]: Failure. You failed to achieve whatever action you attempted, though you may not have made things worse in the process.
[3]: Meager success. You may have progressed a little or saw something new, but usually nothing close to what you were hoping.
[4]: Success. You achieved your goal more or less in line with average expectations.
[5]: Epic success. You went above and beyond achieving your goal, and usually got very lucky, as well.
[6]: Overshot. You achieved your goal, but your efforts were so much that collateral damage or the creation of additional problems is likely; i.e, "You leap to attack the creature on the cliff ... sending you both flying off the edge!"

If at any time something threatens a player (i.e. being attacked), that player may make a roll to avoid the threat. Damage incurred or inflicted is also calculated by dice, though the rolls are reversed (lower rolls = higher damage). Certain abilities, items, and effects can influence the roll positively or negatively.

When you attack an enemy, you make an Attack roll to determine accuracy; the higher this roll, the better. If your attack lands, then the enemy makes a roll to determine how much damage it takes; the lower this roll, the more damage is taken. So having + bonuses to your damage rolls means that the enemy takes a penalty when they roll for damage; i.e, a +1 to damage from a weapon results in a -1 penalty on damage rolls for your target. Having + bonuses or - penalties to damage resistance affects a creature or object's rolls accordingly.

For each action, any number of rolls may be made, as determined by the GM.
Primary causes for multiple rolls include, but are not limited to:

• Actions explicitly composed of multiple actions
• Actions that imply other actions that are not declared free

For every dodge roll, any number of additional rolls may be made, as determined by the circumstances, and any skills or special effects applied to the player.

If you post two turns worth of actions, they will be done in order:  The first happens on that given turn, and the second action will be carried out the following turn (assuming it still can be, or nothing changes to make it impossible). Players can use this to post directives for their character to follow automatically if they cannot be present to post an action for their next turn.

Each successive dodge roll during a turn, unless it is a dodge against the same object or character, will get a cumulative -1 penalty.

If you are Stunned, Dazed, or otherwise receive a temporary penalty to overall or individual rolls, this penalty lasts until your next action is resolved, and not through the whole turn.
If you receive a long-term effect that has the potential to alter itself, you get an Effect Resistance roll immediately after your action is resolved to determine the spread and consequences of the effect.
If you are Unconscious, whatever penalty you receive will be under Failguard -- it cannot reduce your roll score below 2, unless stated otherwise.
If you receive a mortal wound but are not killed outright, you need to pass a roll to dodge Death at the end of every turn. Only bad rolls here will provide penalties to survival rolls.

You can spend your turn to help another player achieve his goal. If your roll is higher, it is taken as the success roll for the action.
You can also spend your turn to botch another player's action. If your roll is higher, its opposite is taken as the success roll for the action.
In both cases, individual player rolls determine what happens to the players in the course of the action.

Playerlist (6/6): (EDIT:  These slots are not first-come-first-serve. I will choose 6 characters that I like from those who post here to start the game with, any others will be waitlisted. This does mean you aren't necessarily out of luck if you weren't one of the first 6 people to post, though!)
Jadan (_DivideByZero_), male Human visitor
Vi (Kevak), female Kitsune visitor
Rachael Mori (DarkArtemisFowl), female Human visitor
Webley Alduous (webadict), male Gnome resident
Amelia P. Tiric (Tiruin), female Human visitor
Ophelia T. Darcy (Fniff), female Human resident
Waitlist:  (To those who didn't make the cut, don't worry; you've all got some pretty good ideas, and some of you might still make it into the game, depending on how well our initial group here does. If one of the party dies -- or I decide I can handle more people at a time -- I will personally select someone from the waitlist here to fill that gap.)
inaluct
Harry Baldman
Salsacookies
WunderKatze
crazyabe
Lenglon
AbstractTraitorHero

Spoiler: World-building/role-playing information (click to show/hide)

As this is a loosely medieval-era High Fantasy universe, races like Elves, Dwarves and even Gnomes are permitted, though Harker's Ford is populated mostly by Humans. I will not accept races that are too wild, like Warforged or sentient golems and will generally look down on nastier choices like Goblins or Orcs, but I will happily consider demi-humans like Kitsune and the like.

Harker's Ford was founded approximately 10 years ago by a hunter named Jiles Harker, who came to the area with a band of friends to trap beaver and deer that were rich around the river. Over time, what was simply a hunting and fur trading post ballooned out into a thriving logging town with easy access to running water and rich lumber resources nearby, and even came to sit squarely on a minor trade route heading east to west. Jiles Harker himself indeed still lives and sits on the town council with a small committee of aldermen, supervising local hunters, the logging work, and helping to train the volunteer militia of 50-odd men to guard the town.

The settlement is not quite alone. A small brick-and-log keep was erected a day's march downriver some time ago to stand guard over the region, as the strategic position of Harker's Ford is of quite high value. News regarding it is in short supply, however, particularly with the Veil's memory-altering effects foiling many otherwise sure-footed scouts and runners who can't keep track of landmarks.

The river running through town is called Tearsfall, owing to a local legend surrounding three men who became lost amidst the caves and rocks of the mountains lying far to the north of what is today Harker's Ford. When they finally managed to find their way through and emerge into the sun, they wept so openly at the sight that their tears created the river Tearsfall, ever flowing with joy down from the mountains.

Spoiler: Crude map of Harker's Ford (click to show/hide)

Please keep in mind that none of this is to scale, or anything. This is just a crude drawing I did in MS Paint to try and illustrate the general position of things in the town and surrounding region.

Spoiler: Death/Absence system (click to show/hide)

Players that die will generally be immediately replaced by a player in the waitlist who has prepared a character sheet in this thread; there are no ghosts, here, and permadeath is most certainly in effect. However, I will consider granting certain bonuses to players who join at a point when the other players are already quite ahead so that they don't have to spend too much time playing catch-up. These bonuses may include Fate Points, which are expendable tokens you can invoke on almost any given action or roll to grant you an automatic 5 (Epic Success).

If a player does not respond with an action for a given turn, their character will be placed under AI control for that turn. If they have not posted a second action to be taken/given priority in this event, then I will choose an action for them, and will roll a d6 die to determine how bold or how subtle their action will be, with 1 being the most cautious and 6 being all-out. This action will largely be based on their behavior up until that point, as well as their current abilities and the situation they're facing. If that character's player is still absent and still has not posted an action for the following turn, then I will remove that character from the game in an appropriate manner, and replace them with someone new from the waitlist.

If a player voluntarily chooses to leave the game entirely, then I will do the same in the very next turn.

Just post your preferred character here, like so:
Name:
Race:
Gender:
Appearance: (because it's kinda boring for me if I don't have particular character traits to include in my posts, leading me to assume a lot.)
Status: (Resident of/Visitor to Harker's Ford)
Occupation: (Are you a traveling trader, or scholar? Fisherman? Local militiaman? Tavern waitress? Or simply unemployed? Take your pick.)
Starting position: (Let me know if you've got a specific part of town or surrounding area you'd like to start the game in, and I'll do my best to work you in. If you'd rather not choose, I'll just roll a d6 and let that decide your positioning.)
Primary power/ability: (Pick 1 (I will roll for this))

Well, I guess that about covers it! Have fun, everyone! If you have any questions, please, don't hesitate to ask, either here or via PM.

P.S: The rules and style of this game are inspired greatly by Sean Mirrsen's 'Multiworld Madness' series of games, Book 1 in particular. You should definitely read that too if you get the chance; it's one of the best -- if not THE best -- forum games on all of Bay 12 Forums.

[DarkArtemisFowl]

This is about 99% done. Let me know what you think.

Spoiler: Rachael Mori (click to show/hide)

Name: Rachael Mori
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Appearance: Rachael is generally about average for a human girl her age. She appears to be an adolescent of middling height, perhaps a little bit on the shorter or taller side depending on how you look at her. She is slim and weak on the physical side. She wears crudely-fashioned glasses with circular lenses. She has a warm skin tone. One could describe her face as looking youthful, almost childish. Her front upper teeth are very slightly spaced. Her irises are very light blue - some would consider them to be almost grey in color. Her hair, dark-brown in color, is usually in a ponytail that reaches down to just below her shoulders. Most of the time, she prefers to wear a simple grey blouse, black pants, and a brown coat during the colder season.
Status: Traveler
Occupation: Unemployed.
Starting position: Near the water mill.
Primary power/ability: Healing of living beings.

Backstory: There is not much that anybody knows about Rachael Mori. To be truthful, she does not know much about her own upbringing. She only remembers that she was orphaned early on in life and never managed to find her parents. Being rather afraid of interaction with others, she took on an isolated lifestyle early on. She does not go out of her way to be a hermit, but she prefers to stay in the background whenever she can. She floats from town to town, occasionally helping to start a garden or two if she can and then leaving on her own. She never establishes permanent connections with anyone. Her long-term goal is to go around to different regions and try to collect bits and pieces of her memory again, especially regarding who her parents were. She has a rudimentary knowledge of natural medicines and knows her way around grown foods. However, she's not a fighter and cannot talk her way very well out of dangerous situations.

Her latest ventures bring her to Harker's Ford, the first town that she visited after leaving her home town. Having collected some information from around the region, she hopes to find out more about her past and that which troubles her about her disjointed memory.

[lawastooshort]

Ooh I'd like to join if a sheet can wait till tomorrow?

[Xvareon]

Ooh I'd like to join if a sheet can wait till tomorrow?

Of course. ^^  I mean, it's not like I'm gonna start this today, or anything. Gotta get people together first and figure out their placements, then build some stuff around that on my end.

[inaluct]

Name: George Wickham
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Appearance: Handsome, youthful, strong and distinguished. Captain George Wickham is dashing and charming, well dressed, and the very picture of a romantic hero. He is quick to make friends, the center of attention at every ball, and always interesting in a conversation. He is manly and strong, but meticulously well-dressed. Both his manner of speaking and his poised air are unusually aristocratic for rural Harker's Ford. In spite of his high class tendencies, he is far from a limp wristed dandy. Underneath his jocular exterior, he is imprudent and shameless, riddled with vices and strugglingly short on virtues.
Status: Resident. He does not remember how long, but not very long.
Occupation: Captain of Harker's Ford militia, appointed by strings being pulled on his behalf by his relations.
Starting position: The men have become increasingly erratic as of late, and his own mind feels fogged and burdened by some nameless guilt. In a rare moment of solitude, he sits alone at his desk, carefully examining a small golden locket that he cannot recall the provenance of. He stares at the small portrait within; the image of a beautiful young woman, inscribed "Lydia," and feels a pang of worry and dread as he struggles to remember...
Primary power/ability: The captain is a natural socialite. He cannot help but be charming and persuasive and liked. To a preternatural degree.

I totally understand if you veto this.

[Harry Baldman]

Name: Polly
Race: Kitsune
Gender: Female
Appearance: a lean red-haired woman wearing a distinctly out-of-place kimono as well as a sword looted from some foreign adventure, then hawked a full three times from hand to larcenous hand before coming into her possession through a very fortuitous divorce. This appears to be her idea of Sunday dress. It must be quite an occasion.
Status: Resident
Occupation: Butcher
Starting position: Market
Primary power/ability: a supernatural aptitude at spilling, whether it be blood, ichor or anything else that flows with any degree of swiftness.

[Xvareon]

Name: George Wickham
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Appearance: Handsome, youthful, strong and distinguished. Captain George Wickham is dashing and charming, well dressed, and the very picture of a romantic hero. He is quick to make friends, the center of attention at every ball, and always interesting in a conversation. He is manly and strong, but meticulously well-dressed. Both his manner of speaking and his poised air are unusually aristocratic for rural Harker's Ford. In spite of his high class tendencies, he is far from a limp wristed dandy. Underneath his jocular exterior, he is imprudent and shameless, riddled with vices and strugglingly short on virtues.
Status: Resident. He does not remember how long, but not very long.
Occupation: Captain of Harker's Ford militia, appointed by strings being pulled on his behalf by his relations.
Starting position: The men have become increasingly erratic as of late, and his own mind feels fogged and burdened by some nameless guilt. In a rare moment of solitude, he sits alone at his desk, carefully examining a small golden locket that he cannot recall the provenance of. He stares at the small portrait within; the image of a beautiful young woman, inscribed "Lydia," and feels a pang of worry and dread as he struggles to remember...
Primary power/ability: The captain is a natural socialite. He cannot help but be charming and persuasive and liked. To a preternatural degree.

I totally understand if you veto this.

I left spots on the militia roster open, so no, I don't really see a reason to veto it. He looks pretty good, actually!

EDIT:  On second thought... being Captain of the Guard would give you quite a level of power, I'd think. It might not balance correctly with everyone else's powers. Would being just one of the guards work for you? Because I'm thinking that might work better.

[Salsacookies]

Name: Yor Igor
Race: Hunchback
Gender: Make
Appearance: A large man who would have been tall, if it weren't for his mountain of hunchback that weighs him down. He has long hair and a large set of mutton chops on his long face, both of which are Raven black. His white skin is like scarred porcelain, with cracks and cuts both deep and shallow,  with a nightmarish, acne-ridden face of innumerable jagged, wicked teeth, and black, Beady eyes, deep in a Neanderthal-like brow.
Status: Resident since the town was founded.
Occupation: He Works as a Gravekeeper, tending the flowers and burying the corpses.
Starting position: I will let the dice decide.
Primary power/ability: Corpse Whisperer: He can speak to and understand the Undead. The Undead are magnetically attracted to him, and tend to follow him wherever he goes.

[_DivideByZero_]

Going to post a character I've been wanting to play for a while.

Question, is this FCFS or are you just picking your favorite characters of the bunch?

Name: Jadan
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Appearance: Long, tangled black hair with steel-gray eyes and a cold expression. He wears a bearskin cloak over a black gambeson and trousers. His left index finger doesn't curl up all the way but he is otherwise healthy and has had no lasting injuries, uncommon for a man of his trade.
Status: Visitor
Occupation: He is a bounty hunter who always seems to be on top of things, info-wise. Prefers a crossbow over melee combat, and carries a lot of poisons around. Prefers to hunt/stalk people at night, and never seems to get lost.
Starting position: In the tavern, as always.
Primary power/ability: He can read the stars and the moon for events which have transpired under the night. He can also see perfectly under starlight, and possibly see things he wouldn't normally be able to see if he is successful, such as a man walking on the other side of a hill.

Backstory:
Jadan was born as the son of a bowyer, the second-best in his hometown of Zdzisław, fated to be a craftsman by trade and married to the mayor's daughter by arrangement. He spent a lot of time hunting, however, and frequently went on excursions that separated him from his elders for days, even weeks at a time. On his final excursion before he left the town, he left into the night and took a girl named Selene with him from the pub. Both of them drunk, Jadan claimed he could kill the leader of a notorious band of theives. The girl called herself a princess and told him that this task was a quest given unto him, and that he would be punished by death if he failed. So they left the town, and came upon the camp at an hour when the bandits were sleeping except one who kept watch. Before Jadan struck, Selene gave him five tasks to be completed by nightfall: to bring back the bandit's head on a plate, to take two arms from the lookout, to take a leg from the second-in-command, to take another leg from a sleeper without waking him, and to twist off his own finger. This would show his devotion to the princess.

Naturally, Jadan failed every one of them. After taking out the sentry with a bolt, the bandit fell down a well and could not be recovered. Jadan could not figure out who the second in command was, or who the leader was, and so he bashed in the leader's head with a shovel and broke the knees of the second in command. The remaining two bandits both woke up and fled. Jadan at least tried to complete the final task, but the pain was too much; he couldn't do it all the way.

Selene, now less drunk than before, was horrified, but she realized he had done it be cause she said so... she was responsible. They then entered into a sort of romance and, knowing he had violated his betrothal, Jadan never returned to his hometown. Months later, Selene fell ill near Harker's Ford and started manifesting uncontrolled bouts of telekinesis, convincing the skeptic Jadan of the existence of magic. Not wanting Jadan to see her die, Selene went out into the forest claiming she had spoken to a moon spirit, and said she would return to the moon with the spirit in order to be healed.

She told him they would always be together, no matter how far she went. That was the last he ever heard from her, but he has not stopped looking to the moon every night and speaking with Selene, hoping to see her again soon.

[inaluct]

Name: George Wickham
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Appearance: Handsome, youthful, strong and distinguished. Captain George Wickham is dashing and charming, well dressed, and the very picture of a romantic hero. He is quick to make friends, the center of attention at every ball, and always interesting in a conversation. He is manly and strong, but meticulously well-dressed. Both his manner of speaking and his poised air are unusually aristocratic for rural Harker's Ford. In spite of his high class tendencies, he is far from a limp wristed dandy. Underneath his jocular exterior, he is imprudent and shameless, riddled with vices and strugglingly short on virtues.
Status: Resident. He does not remember how long, but not very long.
Occupation: Captain of Harker's Ford militia, appointed by strings being pulled on his behalf by his relations.
Starting position: The men have become increasingly erratic as of late, and his own mind feels fogged and burdened by some nameless guilt. In a rare moment of solitude, he sits alone at his desk, carefully examining a small golden locket that he cannot recall the provenance of. He stares at the small portrait within; the image of a beautiful young woman, inscribed "Lydia," and feels a pang of worry and dread as he struggles to remember...
Primary power/ability: The captain is a natural socialite. He cannot help but be charming and persuasive and liked. To a preternatural degree.

I totally understand if you veto this.

I left spots on the militia roster open, so no, I don't really see a reason to veto it. He looks pretty good, actually!

EDIT:  On second thought... being Captain of the Guard would give you quite a level of power, I'd think. It might not balance correctly with everyone else's powers. Would being just one of the guards work for you? Because I'm thinking that might work better.

I was thinking of the whole captain thing in a more investigative or story centered way, but that's fine if it doesn't fit in. After looking through a couple of pages of the linked game, it looks like the tone and structure of this will probably be different than what I expected when I wrote up the character sheet. I'll come up with another one.

[WunderKatze]

I hope this is ok.

Name: Nhayr
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Appearance: A skinny, pale skinned, feminine man of early twenties. He has silver eyes, longish dark hair and a scar shaped like an inverted cross from his chest to his lower torso. He wears dark rags, with a hood something like what a monk would wear. He was taken in as a student to a priest found in the wild. Apparently he can eat raw meat without any negative side effects. He also has a necklace with a pedant in the shape of a crow, he has long forgotten where he got it.

Nhayr is used to eating little, has a high tolerance for pain and is surprisingly dexterous, he is fit to survive the wild in which he spent his early life.
Status: Raised in the town after he was found in the wild at age 8.
Occupation: Student to a priest.
Starting potion: at the river, searching for his spirit in its reflections.

Sometime in the past Nhayr was sure that he had some strong ambition, now he has forgotten it and he feels that his spirit as drifted far. The bounds of flesh have been pulled tight, he now seeks release, the waters invite him to take a swim; an eternal swim.
Primary power/ability: Unknown to him he at this time Nhayr can summon a ghastly knight wearing well fit black armor adorned in purple cloths, it wears a Galea with a face mask and has a long sword sheathed horizontally across its lower back. It is physically strong and gains the powers of those it destroys.
Nhyar has the power to draw out ones fears, inflict terrifying images upon his targets.

[~Neri]

Spoiler: Vi (click to show/hide)

Name: Vi
Race: Kitsune-Yakko, First Tail.
Gender: Female
Appearance: Vi is a somewhat abnormally tall female, at around 6'3 she tends to dwarf a number of people. Her hair is primarily an orangish yellow, howevever there is a streak of an almost blue tinted white going through it starting from the tip of her left ear. He eyes are dark blue. She notably has vulpine features, the tail having the same odd color streak as her hair and ear and her ears are both notably that of a fox. If someone lifted her hair and checked where a human would normally have an ear, they would find a lack of such. Vi has both fangs and claws. However the claws are not particularly long.
Status: Visitor
Occupation: Vi's calling is that of an Observer. She roams. She watches. She experiences. She did this as a Kitsune-Tsuki and she's doing it as a Yakko. It's definitely one way to stave off the maddening boredom of immortality that many Yakko and Inari experience.
Starting position: Stick her somewhere highly populated. That's the most interesting place after all and she literally lives to experience.
Primary power/ability: Speech. Vi knows how to talk herself out of many things. Which is a fairly important skill for Yakko to have. Yakko are not known for their inhibitions after all, and waking up from a drunken binge to the sharp end of a spear directly in front of one's face means you need to talk quite fast. Vi's experienced that exact scenario multiple times in the past.

[webadict]

Let's reserve a spot while I write something up.

EDIT: I hope this will do.

EDIT 2: If you need other races... I'll gladly be a Gnome. I can't think of any other race that would be known for their mechanical engineering, incredible inventiveness and ingenuity, rugged short stature, and tattered clothing. I don't think there is any.

Spoiler: Character Sheet, Finalized (click to show/hide)

Name:  Webley Alduous

Race: Human Gnome. And he prefers not to hear about Gardening, even though his mother does run a small local farming operation.

Gender:  Male

Appearance:  Webley is a gnome of somewhat tall height (you know, for a gnome), deep dark blue eyes, and dark brownish hair that is always unkempt. His nose is small and thin, and his skin is slightly tanned. A vague trail of blue fog emanates from his dominant left arm and hand, and his fingers on his left hand are blue and ghostlike, unnoticable to most observers except the Awakened themselves. He wears clothes that you can tell don't matter to him: ripped shirts, patched and stained jeans and overalls, boots falling apart from years of use. He carries around a small pocketwatch, given to him by his father as a keepsake and sign of his abilities as a watchmaker himself. The watch has a picture of himself and his family inside, as well with a heartfelt note written on the back of the picture by his father.

Status:  Resident of the Ford

Occupation:  Webley currently works as a mechanic/watchmaker/locksmith, but started his life as a watchmaker's son. He learned much of the trade, both through encouragement and apprenticeship, enjoying taking apart clocks and other small mechanical devices and putting them back together. He developed a knack for mechanics as a result, and he would work on repairing knick knacks that were brought in alongside his father's watchmaking. One thing lead to another, and he was making and breaking locks as well. Unfortunately, as he opened a chest he had been given by someone he couldn't quite remember, he found his dominant hand change over the next few weeks. He seemed to notice the fog that began to emanate from his hand, as well as the people that no longer greeted him, came for repairs, or even acknowledged him. It's the only reason he himself seemed to notice the fog that surrounded the Ford... He had never really remembered considering it before.

Starting position: Preferably in his father's watchmaker's shop, but anywhere is fine.

Primary power/ability:  Limited Intangibility - At times that Webley can occasionally control (and many others that he can't), Webley can turn more of his body into a ghostlike form, allowing it to pass through walls, people, and other solid objects. This intangibility radiates from his left hand outward, though it isn't completely unheard of that other portions of his body would unknowingly ghost on him. When this happens, the intangible parts of his body appears blue and ghostlike and emanate fog just like his hand. He maintains an ability to feel objects while passing through them or inside them, but unable to do much of anything else. Unfortunately, maintaining this form over a large volume requires massive amounts of energy, and would only be possible under great stress, and it also has the side effect of retangiating (which is now a verb) toward his hand. He has yet to see what happens when he retangiates inside of an object, but prefers not to find out.

As a result of this, Webley has lost the majority of the use of his dominant left hand.

If this is considered too weak, I would prefer weaker over stronger. It's more flavorful to be weak and creative than strong. I'll take an auto-3/4 if allowed.
If this is considered too strong, I am up for negotiation. Much of the ability to control it can be taken away or limited in more ways. The intangibility can have drawbacks, many of which could be fatal or potentially fatal. I'm up for anything. Fair's fair, here. Maybe it's a ticking time bomb. That's up to the dice, I suppose!

[Xvareon]

Question, is this FCFS or are you just picking your favorite characters of the bunch?

I realize I didn't note this in my original post, and I'm sorry for that, but this game's slots are not first-come-first-serve. Since I'm being picky about the kinds of races and such people can pick, as well as occupations, I will also be choosing players to start the "first wave" of the game as well as those who get on the waitlist based on how much I like their character and how well I think it fits with the world. I will be patient and likely wait for a good few days before starting the game, though, so don't get too discouraged. Just make the best character sheet you can, and I'll try to help answer any questions as well as raise concerns where applicable.

Also, any player who goes absent from the game/doesn't put in an action will be put on autopilot for 1 turn before I eliminate them in some manner and replace them with a new player from the waitlist. If they've posted a second action for such an event then I will consider it accordingly in my plans, but otherwise, they will take an AI-driven action based on a d6 roll in terms of how bold or subtle/friendly to allies it will be.

I hope this is ok.

Name: Nhayr
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Appearance: A skinny, pale skinned, feminine man of early twenties. He has silver eyes, longish dark hair and a scar shaped like an inverted cross from his chest to his lower torso. He wears dark rags, with a hood something like what a monk would wear. He was taken in as a student to a priest found in the wild. Apparently he can eat raw meat without any negative side effects. He also has a necklace with a pedant in the shape of a crow, he has long forgotten where he got it.

Nhayr is used to eating little, has a high tolerance for pain and is surprisingly dexterous, he is fit to survive the wild in which he spent his early life.
Status: Raised in the town after he was found in the wild at age 8.
Occupation: Student to a priest.
Starting potion: at the river, searching for his spirit in its reflections.

Sometime in the past Nhayr was sure that he had some strong ambition, now he has forgotten it and he feels that his spirit as drifted far. The bounds of flesh have been pulled tight, he now seeks release, the waters invite him to take a swim; an eternal swim.
Primary power/ability: Unknown to him he at this time Nhayr can summon a ghastly knight wearing well fit black armor adorned in purple cloths, it wears a Galea with a face mask and has a long sword sheathed horizontally across its lower back. It is physically strong and gains the powers of those it destroys.

Uuuuummm... summon a ghastly knight... well, I guess I could have you at least see something like that in bits and flashes in your mind and eventually learn how to control it, but that sounds way too powerful a thing for me to just let you have from the start. Please pick a different primary power if you want me to consider that character.

Name: Jadan
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Appearance: Long, tangled black hair with steel-gray eyes and a cold expression. He wears a bearskin cloak over a black gambeson and trousers. His left index finger doesn't curl up all the way but he is otherwise healthy and has had no lasting injuries, uncommon for a man of his trade.
Status: Visitor
Occupation: He is a bounty hunter who always seems to be on top of things, info-wise. Prefers a crossbow over melee combat, and carries a lot of poisons around.
Starting position: In the tavern, as always.
Primary power/ability: Jadan conducts most of his hunting activities during the night. He has the ability to bring up a False Moon if the real moon hasn't risen yet and the sun is down. During a false moon, the local area is completely isolated from the rest of the world. Trying to walk out will only result in your path looping back in on itself in unpredictable ways.

If the false moon is allowed to set in the west (which it can do quickly if Jadan is skilled), then the events which transpired under the false moon will have transpired in history. Everything continues as usual.
Jadan can also, however, cause the false moon to set in the east (back where it came from), which timeskips to sunrise. Nothing that transpired under the false moon happened in history--any person that dies will show up again as if nothing happened. Any monsters killed will roam free, any teammates that died will end up lost in the woods but will otherwise be fine, and so on.

If Jadan dies while the moon is setting east, it will reverse course and set west normally again.

(Not sure if this power interferes with your plans or what. )

Yes, that kind of power does indeed interfere with my plans... particularly since it overlaps with part of what the Veil is already doing. Moon attunement is an acceptable type of power if your character believes the moon activates such powers, but not actually being able to essentially section off an entire local area into a pocket dimension with a false moon. Moreover, being able to bend time itself for not just yourself but anything and everything up to and including DEATH is a LITTLE beyond what I had in mind for a starting primary power. Try starting out small and working yourself up if you want big field-spells at all, let alone anything that powerful. Sorry to crush your dreams. =P

[crazyabe]

Spoiler: Character sheet! (click to show/hide)

Name: Sansoon Kianiroots
Race: 1/2 Elve
Gender: Male
Appearance: He has white skin and Silver eyes, He is Very thin, He has only three fingers on his left hand. he wears shadowy Black robes adorned with a Dark Green Rose on the back.
Status: Near permanent "Visitor"
Occupation: Journeyman "Illusionist" / Performer / Drunk
Starting position: "Wherever the nearest Bar is."
Primary power/ability: "Making What was Fake, Real; at the cost of the Reverse"