BakemonoShiki [Recruitment]-Slots Open-

[SweetSerenade]

<3 The GMs are on a Pause while we handle some adjustments in game data and get a few things handled. We are not currently accepting applications.

[SweetSerenade]

GM Announcement

GM Team has decided to close acceptances of New players who are not already in dialogue with the GM team about getting a character accepted. We will let you know when we are open to accepting new players!

Feel free to Bookmark this thread, and check up whenever we make a post, we will let you know when we need something!

[SweetSerenade]

Game is open to fill a few slots in the Shiki Category, might accept one or two Occultists based on the Shiki that come in. This is not a first come first serve basis, we will be selecting what is best for the group as a whole.

[Crensler]

I'm interested in making a Shiki ^w^

[SweetSerenade]

I'm interested in making a Shiki ^w^

Awesome Please take a look at the information thread to get an idea of the spread of characters we have! If you have any questions feel free to PM the GM crew. Just put a profile together and send it in to the GM crew.

[Crensler]

Alrighty, I'll get to work on it right away ^w^

[Lux12]

Still accepting? I might be interested here.

[SweetSerenade]

Yep! We are still accepting. We are primarily looking for male Shiki at this exact moment.

[SweetSerenade]

Still have a few slots open for male shiki! Please check over the characters currently active in the roleplay, before working on a character. If you have questions, please Pm the entire GM team to find out about what may or may not work in the rp! Happy hunting in your Rp journeys!

[SweetSerenade]

We are still recruiting for a few male characters! Once we get our balance we will even open for other character slots as well! Limited, but still accepting. We hope to see you join us!

The entirety of the game is open for play, and we have lots of awesome characters to interact with!

[GunmetalDreamer]

Name:  Zostroy v' Karnaaj "The Berzerker of Dagger Pass"
Player: Gunmetal Dreamer
Age:  118
Height:  6'
Hair Color:  Dark Blue
Eye Color:  Red
World:  Veskra
Sexuality:  Heterosexual

Personality
Ambitious:  Zostroy is fairly young as denizens of Veskra go, and as such he's felt the weight of their belligerant society grind him under heel more keenly than some.  Memories of suckling the barest amounts of essence from bone worms, and having to shiv his peers to obtain basic necessities still prey on his idle thoughts.  Such indignities drove him to ruthlessly climb the hierarchy of the Legion before, and it still spurs him on in the world of mortals.  Zostroy hasn't got much patience for aimless Occultists who lack strong desires of their own, but a relationship where both sides use the other suits him just fine.

Blood Thirsty:  Zostroy's pride is that of a warrior, and as such he tends to think in a military framework.  People are neatly divided up into Allies and Enemies, and in Veskran military doctrine no quarter is spared for one's enemies.  Zostroy enjoys seeing the opposition broken and bleeding into the soil, and thrills to the sound of steel on steel.  He tends to gravitate towards others with an affinity for martial conflict, though really he'd be satisfied with any Occultist ruthless or sadistic enough to keep him busy.  He's the sort to believe that a sword won't rust if you keep the blood on it wet.

Shiki Background
History Zostroy manifested in the Basalt City of Ymn'golnir, a squirming wretch struggling to survive under the light of three green suns that kept the earth parched and broken.  His formative years were spent wringing a miserable existance from the leavings of low-tier demons and being spat on by vindictive imps who were quick the take advantage of the fact that there were actually life forms below them in Vaskra's great hierarchy.  Starving and angry, Zostroy signed on with the Legion ... it meant risking possible destruction, but there were no other handholds for him to elevate himself by.

Young as he was, Zostroy navigated the Byzantine labyrinth of the Legion's rank structure steadily.  He ran up against a glass cieling as a non-commissioned officer ... he simply didn't have the physical strength to earn a commission.  Unwilling to wait for his body to catch up with ambition, he paid the Witch of Black Sands to lay a curse upon him.  It would visit madness upon him in the battlefield, but as a creature of spirit, his delusions could become reality to a certain extent.

Zostroy met his end during the Battle of Dagger Pass.  After a bad defeat, his forces were in retreat through a narrow mountain path, rushing to rendezvous with another unit that was digging in for a counter attack.  Unfortunately, with the enemy's aerial cavalry, there was no doubt that they'd be overrun.  Zostroy parted from the rest of his unit to hold the narrow pass by himself and buy them the time they needed to get away.  The battle raged for hours, Zostroy went deeper into his madness than he ever had before ... he barely remembers any of it himself, it's little more than a sensation of crushing pressure and a red haze to his recollection.  Some stories from survivors exist, however, of a sickening heat that made the world waver and twist, a six-armed beast armed with broken swords, and men killed by soldiers that did not exist.  Even with a dozen mortal wounds, and his body set aflame, Zostroy refused to acknowledge his death, and so continued to fight on impossibly.

Eventually, the enemy came upon a solution that would work.  They pinned him down to the earth with lances, and while he was struggling to tear off his own limbs and tear out their throats with his teeth, they set up a banishing circle and cast him out of Veskra.

The transition to Earth was not kind ot Zostroy.  Bleeding off most of his Prana, his wounds caught up to him.  Only his armor and a bloody shroud wound tight kept his miserable body together, his wounds unable to heal.  His mind swam with fever, and he staggered across the world like a corpse ... but his body still knew what it needed.  He was all too susceptible to the siren's call of the Prana-Ritual.

Perception of Humanity Zostroy's opinion on humanity as a whole is pretty favorable.  As a fairly low ranked demon in the Legion, he understands better than many of his fellows what it means to be mortal.  Devoid of millennia old officers with exhaustive but deeply entrenched views regarding military strategy, humanity's technological developement and ever evolving military doctrine has progressed in leaps and bounds compared to what he's used to.  As they only are only fighting fit for so long, art, music, theater, and other forms of entertainment have proliferated down into the ranks of the common rabble.  It seems a much more fulfilling life, short as it may be, than the constant toil, backstabbing, and warmaking of his homeland, punctuated by the occassional festival or noble-backed demonstration.  Perhaps if he'd been born the scion of a noble bloodline such things would not be as impressive to him, but that's simply not the case.

Zostroy's opinion of Occultists is a little more nuanced.  In a very real way, they're a necessity for him to function in this plane, the Prana they provide him necessary to maintain his body.  On the otherhand, nothing is free, the trade-off for that Prana is obedience.  Fortunately, as a Veskran, Zostroy knows a few things about necessary evils.  Amongst the relatively peaceful populace of this world, it's difficult to find Occultists he has a high affinity with, but he's open to the idea of contracting with multiple would-be masters for the time being.  After all, it's more power in the short term, and he believes that having conflicting standing orders from multiple Occultists will give him some extra lattitude that he wouldn't have when just functioning as one person's "pet".

Battle Madness Engraved on Zostroy's soul is the Curse of Madness, when adrenaline surges and his blood heats up from a battle, Zostroy slips into a kind of battle trance.  The longer the battle goes, the deeper Zostroy slips into madness, as he loses awareness of himself and his surroundings his body can be made to forget its limitations and function at a heightened state.  More radical changes require more Prana, which functions as a kind of limiter.  Anyone with a Sigil on Zostroy can disrupt his trance, forcibly resetting him to his base state, which functions as a convenient leash.  No matter how far gone he is, Zostroy will not attack anyone who has a Sigil on his body, as his unconscious mind recognizes them as a part of his "self".

Lvl 0 - "Pain exists in the mind, it has no power over me." - Zostroy feels no pain and doesn't suffer from shock, allowing him to continue fighting after recieving wounds that would end another combatant.

Lvl 1 - "Hate your wounds and they will cease to be." - Without pain, it's easy to forget that you were injured at all.  Zostroy's body regenerates rapidly while in battle, though any damage still existant when his rage ends will persist.

Battleground of Ruin Zostroy's body remembers every conflict he's had, even if his mind frequently does not.  Unattended items near him during battle dissolve into a fine iron powder that swirls around Zostroy like a storm of black sand.  With a flash of heat, this sand can become a replica of any weapon that Zostroy has encountered, meaning that he always has the appropriate weapon for a conflict.  This sand can be shaped when its distant from Zostroy as well, allowing him to create arrows already in flight, or spears that stab up from the ground or out of walls, providing him with distance attacks.

(Additional Power) // Level 4 Power, please look at Level 4 Power for a Shiki and Plan accordingly.

(Additional Power)// Level 7 Power, please look at Level 7 power for a Shiki and Plan accordingly.

(Additional Power)// Level 9 Power, please look at Level  power for a shiki and plan accordingly.

Other Points of Interest:
-  Zostroy displays certain animalistic tendencies, in particular he seems to identity things as much by scent as by sight, enjoys getting his head scritched, and tends to snap at people who get between him and his food.

- Zostroy has a competitive streak to him that extends beyond martial prowess.  He'll accept a challenge for anything from Texas Hold 'Em to Mario Kart, though he can be a horrible braggart when he wins.

- Zostroy is also pretty easy to bribe.  He never encountered sweets before comming to Earth, so he's weak to cookies and candies.  Unfortunately, his sharpened teeth don't insulate well against cold, so he's badly susceptible to icecream headaches.

[SweetSerenade]

Please pm your profile to the entire Gm team. :3

[SweetSerenade]

We are currently open and accepting:
1 Male Occultist
1 Female Occultist
Several Male Shiki

We are not a first come first serve basis, profiles that me and Avalon may accept will be what we feel will add to the overall game. If you have any questions please feel free to message us!