Shadowfist High School [Interest Check/Recruitment]

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The world you know is a lie.  History is not a march of intractable events, a sculpture carved of immutable stone - it’s nothing but soft clay, continually reshaped by those with the will and ambition to shape it.  Past, present, future - all of them can change in an eyeblink.  This is the Chi War, fought across a thousand variations of past, present and future, an endless war for control of the fate of humanity.  Tomorrow, you will be the heroes or the villains of that war. 

Today?  Today, you attend the only high school for the detritus of that war, the casualties of temporal displacement.  People like you have many names:  Distimers.  Innerwalkers.  Nether-rabble.  You are not even an adult yet - and so the factions which wage war for control of the world either do not see you, or will use and dispose of you in an eyeblink.  You have been enrolled into Shadowfist high school, where students are forged into living weapons - or die.  They are taught the secrets of kung fu, or deadly marksmanship, taught to control strange mutant powers from the radioactive future or to repair and rebuild technology lost in the Chi War.  They can be students of magic or supernatural beasts - monsters or animals transformed into a human form.  If you have survived to enroll in the Netherworld's only school, you are dangerous already - from the brightest eyed freshman to the most callous senior.  Not everyone is a simple warrior; the school trains spies and investigators, even officers of the law who will one day slip back into their own junctures and protect the populace from the deadliest spillover of the Chi War.

Shadowfist High School will not teach you how to avoid being used; that is a wisdom granted only by experience.  No - Shadowfist High School will teach you to be deadly, it will teach you to be dangerous.  Freedom comes from strength.  But others will desire your strength - and seek to use it or destroy it.  Will you be a rebel, fighting against the factions for the fate of humanity?  Will you callously sell your abilities to the highest bidder?  Will you seek to carve your own faction, and mold humanity in your own image?  That will be your destiny to carve, innerwalker.

This game is set in Robin D. Laws Feng Shui world, a world of high-kicking badasses and cinematic action.  Inspired by Hong Kong's incredible cinema, it spans magic, post-apocalyptic future, kung fu shenanigans and bullet operas - the heroes of this world aren't first level characters praying for a few experience and an extra few hit points, they're the hardened badasses of over-the-top action blockbusters.  Player characters are high school students - but they're high school students who could wade into a fight with a band of ninjas or a biker gang and come out bloody and victorious - and probably cause untold property damage in the meantime.  They didn't choose to join the Chi War - they stumbled into it by accident.  Maybe they were the child of innerwalkers who died in the war; maybe they simply found a Netherworld portal and discovered the secret world beyond our own.  Because of their youth, they were labelled non-combatants and shipped off to Shadowfist High School.  The skilled - or the lucky - will survive to graduate, only to be plucked up by the factions which dominate the secret war.  Not that those factions are beyond recruitment prior to graduation - the Shadowfist High School is steeped in no small amount of mystery on its own, and every faction wishes to know more about the elusive and inscrutable principal, and just what his own intentions are in the ongoing war to control humanity. 

Central to the game is the Chi War; anyone who can seize and gain control of a number of critical feng shui sites in the real world gains enough fortune and skill that they can create a cascading fortune which will drive all of history to the world they wish to shape.  The Eaters of the Lotus, eunuch sorcerers, serve Empress Wu Zetian, and command demons and monsters to serve her will in 690 AD.  The Ascended, a group of animals permanently transformed into human shape and determined to stay that way command the juncture of 1850, suppressing the powerful masters of kung fu known as the Guiding Hand.  Their control extends into the modern world, the present-day juncture.  The future juncture was once dominated by the Architects of the Living Flesh, a group of mad scientists who grafted arcano-tech cyberware into monsters stolen from the ancient world, creating abominations that enforced their will:  But this juncture has been destroyed by an uprising of their former creations, the Jammers.  Sentient simians fixed with cybertechnology, the Jammers detonated a C-bomb, a chi weapon, which destroyed every feng shui site in the future.  They thought this would grant people freedom, making every man the master of their own destiny - instead, 97% of the world population died, and the world was transformed into a hellish desert.  Now, the Jammers strive to undo the horrific future they've created, while the New Simian Army, formerly Jammers, strives to create an army to institute order and rebuild the wastes of the desert into a new world.  Also engaged in the war for humanity's fate are the Four Monarchs, four powerful sorcerers who once controlled the entire world - before they were displaced from it by the bravery of the Guiding Hand, who launched sneak attacks from Netherworld portals to seize the tyrannical world of the Four Monarchs and banish them into the Netherworlds.  They were too powerful to destroy; but in the Netherworld, they are nearly as powerful as they once were on Earth, and their pagodas and will define much of the Netherworld.

Between all of these junctures, the Netherworld ... is.  The twisting caverns of the Netherworld are dark and labyrinthine, opening into spaces defined by the ones who control them - anyone who has ever claimed and held a feng shui site has the ability to manipulate the Netherworld, to be shaped and controlled by any who once influenced the world.  Here, the distimers - those who have had history rewritten around them - live in exile.  The factions hide their most powerful forces within the Netherworld, awaiting a chance to strike and seize power.  Entryways into the Netherworld are myriad, and those who have stumbled within are doomed - they will forever remember their own history, rather than be written and rewritten every time the world's powerful change the history of the world.  They may wake to find loved ones or family members simply cease to exist - or have no memory what so ever of the inner-walker.  To have their eyes opened is a blessing and a curse; but once opened, they can never be closed again.

Game Details

What section will the game be placed in?

The game will be placed in the Bondage System section.   There will be an 'Extreme' thread for any and all activities outside the bounds of the Bondage forum.

Who is the RP open to?

The game is open to any member of E!

What will the player's role be?

Players will play students of Shadowfist High School, a school unlike any other.  The students are not learning mathematics and English - they are learning to hone themselves into deadly points, to become mighty masters of kung fu, deadly assassins, or powerful sorcerers.  One day, they will fight on the front lines of the Chi War, helping to change the very destiny of the world - but first they must survive mid-terms.  Tempted by various factions and the siren song of their patronage, they must decide where their loyalty will lie - or eschew any loyalties at all, making their way into the Chi War on their own merits.
      
What is the plot?

There will be an ongoing metaplot, but much of the action of the story will be shaped and driven by the players.  The bulk of the gameplay will be self-motivated, driven by the players as they establish relationships with people who might one day be their closest enemies or their deadliest enemies.  There will be mysteries around the campus and its staff to solve, as well as occasional dangers which threaten the school and the student body itself.

What is the setting?

The game is set in the world of Feng Shui, set in the Netherworld which exists to connect junctures of different eras.  Seizing control of a juncture lets the faction in control literally rewrite history to their whim - and gain untold power and control in the juncture they have seized.  The game itself will be set in the Shadowfist High School, a unique academy with life and death stakes and the strangest student body in the history of the world. 

How do I create a character?

Character Creation rules will be posted on the wiki.  Character creation is actually extremely simple, and will no be plagued with the normal systems of point buys or allocation; it is completely story driven, and while mechanics exist in the game, they are effectively invisible to the players.

Can I create multiple characters?

No.  Because of the emphasis on faction politics and for the potential for characters to come into conflict against their own characters - or ‘stack the deck’ inside a particular faction - we will be limiting players to one PC.  See below, about NPCs, though.

What do I need to play?

There are no required resources.  Information will be posted to the wiki.  Knowledge of the game world is not required. 

What about posting rate?

I am expecting to have periodic time jumps in the game, but they'll be scheduled and at regular intervals.  Right now, I'm looking at roughly a nine month real world period for each 'semester,' but I am willing to modify this based on player feedback.  I'll expect consideration for the posting rates of others.  I would like to see a posting rate of twice a week; if you can't make that, I'll ask you to stay out of larger group scenes to allow the pace to continue.  That said, there's still plenty someone who posts a little more slowly can accomplish.

What about sex?

As stated above, any and all sex is going to be at the whim of the players.  It will not be mandatory, encouraged, or discouraged.  Relationships between teachers and students will be strongly discouraged; the school's principal had never failed to discover such relationships, and has summarily banished the teacher on every occasion.

Will there be a tagging system?

We'll be using a tagging system in the game, to keep who said what, when, and where clear.

Metagame Information

Will there be a co-GM?

Not at this time.  If the game grows such that it requires a co-gm, I will make an announcement and edit this thread.

What kind of game is it?  An adventure story, or a sandbox story?

The game is going to be a mix of guided and sandbox play.  There will be adventure threads to pursue, but they aren't obligatory, and I don't even believe they will be the major scope of gameplay, nor meant to include every player.  The majority of the game will be sandbox; participating in adventures will not provide bonus experience, merely inside knowledge of the powers that be in the world.

How active a GM will you be?

I intend to be an active GM and plan to post at least twice per week.  If I cannot make that minimum, I will post in the OOC thread so the players will be alerted.  Specific ‘days of rest’ may be set aside for the GMs.  We will post such information for players. 

Will there be an OOC thread?

Yes!  Once there's enough interest, I will open an OOC thread for people to ask questions and discuss the game, as well as make connections or plot plottings.

How will decisions be resolved?

I will be the final arbiter of all conflicts.  Note that in-game conflict is different from out of game conflict.  I have an extremely small threshold for out of game conflict, and I expect my general reaction to people who repeatedly generate out of game strife will be to ask them to leave the game.  In game conflict is completely encouraged!  If two players want to have an in game conflict (such as a fight) moderated by the GM, I will be posting a summation of the conflict based on the intentions and actions of both players.  Both players will be privately PMed the resolution, and expected to stick to it.  If two players want a conflict but have agreed upon a resolution before hand, the GM will not be involved.  (Although I would appreciate being notified by both players.)

What about player versus player conflicts? (PvP)

On PvP:  PvP will be allowed, but it will ALWAYS be consensual.  That said, conflict is the heart of the Chi War, and the characters are in perpetual training to be badasses.  Insane training sequences, sparring sessions, fisticuffs and grudges should be things which happen - frequently and outlandishly.  Players who engage in conflict and agree to a resolution beforehand will not need GM oversight; they will be given bonus rewards/experience for playing.  Players who engage in conflict which requires GM oversight will also be given rewards, but expected to stick to the arbitration of the GM.

How will NPCs be handled?

After the game has been opened, I’m willing to have players adopt the role of a few members of the faculty.  This will provide an optional extra character to play, to enrich the world, and I will be considering rewarding the player’s main PC character with bonus experience if they have adequately taken on an NPC and fleshed them out to enrich the world.

Additional Information

I would ask all players to abide by the Oath of Drake.

Regardless of the Bondage forum, we expect all players to respect the offs of other players.

We request all players to communicate absences and/or dropping the game.  No hard feelings ever.  (I live in a glass house where dropping off of E is concerned, so don’t expect any thrown stones.)  Real life always takes priority, and if the game isn't for you, I promise no hard feelings on my end.

New players will be able to be added at any time. 

I ask all players to write in the third person, using past tense, for consistency.  Do your best with spelling and grammar.  I find when reading posts it is easiest if players are using the same writing style; it is jarring to continually switch from one tense to another, or from one style to another.  Please be considerate of the time of other players in writing your posts; I’d like to see a two to three paragraph post as a minimum, but if someone is routinely hitting the character limit on posts, I may ask them to reign it in.  If you include a flashback in your post, or something similarly relevant to the post but not visible to the other actors in the scene, please place it in a spoiler.

Character Sheet

Name:

WIGU:  Archetype.  ‘When I Grow Up…’  This represents the body of classes the student is enrolled into.  Students who have not selected a focus of study will end up Drifters.

Face Claim:  If a known model/actor, please post the name here.  Please don’t use anime or concept art, CGI or the like.

Melodramatic Hook:  In a nutshell, what drives the character. 

Player Name:

Gender:

Physical Description:

Class Year: Classes run continuously at SHS.  There is a week between semesters, often spent healing from end of semester finals.  After successfully passing two finals for two semesters, a character is made into a sophomore, then a junior, then a senior.  Those who fail a final are usually dead.

Sexual Orientation: (Please note: The predominant 'isms' of the time – sexism, racism, bigotry, etc are all going to be played true to the era.)

Ons & Offs:  (Please provide a link to your own, and add any character relevant ones here.)

Place of Birth: Not just the place, but also the juncture.  Ancient, 1850, modern, or future.  Those from pop-up junctures should note it here.

Personality:

History: (Must be detailed and include at least three paragraphs)

20 Questions:

The questions in red are mandatory.  Answer at least five questions, including the mandatory questions.

1. What is your character's melodramatic hook?

2. How did your character arrive in the Netherworld?

3. What juncture is the character from?

4. What are your character's favorite things?

5. What are your character's least favorite things?

6. What is your character's greatest virtue?

7. What is your character's greatest hubris?

8. Does your character have any dependents/siblings?

9. Does your character have any allegiance to any faction?

10. How does your character feel about the other factions?

11. Does your character wish to return to their juncture?  Is this possible?

12. What are your characters prejudices?

13. Is there a particular inspiration (movie, song, book) for your character?

14. What is your character's orientation, and on and offs?

15. Is your character in any cliques?

16. What is your character’s goals at SHS?

17. What is your character’s code of morality?

18. What would tempt them to break that code?

19. Does your character have any enemies at SHS, or outside of it?

20.  What is the most important thing to know about your character?

Character Sheet Code

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[float=right][img height=300 padding=10]<image file here>[/img][/float][b]Name:[/b]

[b]WIGU:[/b]  Archetype.  ‘When I Grow Up…’  This represents the body of classes the student is enrolled into.  Students who have not selected a focus of study will end up Drifters.

[b]Face Claim:[/b]  If a known model/actor, please post the name here.  Please don’t use anime or concept art, CGI or the like.

[b]Melodramatic Hook:[/b]  In a nutshell, what drives the character. 

[b]Player Name:[/b]

[b]Gender:[/b]

[b]Physical Description:[/b]

[b]Class Year:[/b] Classes run continuously at SHS.  There is a week between semesters, often spent healing from end of semester finals.  After successfully passing two finals for two semesters, a character is made into a sophomore, then a junior, then a senior.  Those who fail a final are usually dead.

[b]Sexual Orientation:[/b] (Please note: The predominant 'isms' of the time – sexism, racism, bigotry, etc are all going to be played true to the era.)

[b]Ons & Offs:[/b]  (Please provide a link to your own, and add any character relevant ones here.)

[b]Place of Birth:[/b] Not just the place, but also the juncture.  Ancient, 1850, modern, or future.  Those from pop-up junctures should note it here.

[b]Personality:[/b]

[b]History:[/b] (Must be detailed and include at least three paragraphs)

[spoiler=20 Questions:]The questions in red are mandatory.  Answer at least five questions, including the mandatory questions.

[color=red]1. What is your character's melodramatic hook?

2. How did your character arrive in the Netherworld?

3. What juncture is the character from?[/color]

4. What are your character's favorite things?

5. What are your character's least favorite things?

6. What is your character's greatest virtue?

7. What is your character's greatest hubris?

8. Does your character have any dependents/siblings?

9. Does your character have any allegiance to any faction?

10. How does your character feel about the other factions?

11. Does your character wish to return to their juncture?  Is this possible?

12. What are your characters prejudices?

13. Is there a particular inspiration (movie, song, book) for your character?

14. What is your character's orientation, and on and offs?

15. Is your character in any cliques?

16. What is your character’s goals at SHS?

17. What is your character’s code of morality?

18. What would tempt them to break that code?

19. Does your character have any enemies at SHS, or outside of it?

20.  What is the most important thing to know about your character?[/spoiler]

[Ciosa]

Face Claims

Relikai:  Kashiwagi Yuki
Crash:  Angela Benedict
yesiroleplay:  Linda Cardellini
Bloodied Porcelain:  Katie Fey
Aida Rose: Chanel Iman
consortium11:  Rupert Friend

[Crash]

Interested....working on character...10% completed....

[Ciosa]

So, I'm back, and this idea has been nibbling at my brain for days now.  Feng Shui 2 came out fairly recently, and I'd always loved the original.  It's not like the deep, abiding love I have for Seventh Sea or L5R, or with the fascinating world building of Deadlands, but it's a ... guilty pleasure.  The factions and timelines are unique and interesting, and the morality of the world is pretty clearly good and evil. 

Feng Shui always struck me as a coming of age game - these hardcore action hero types are just finding out about a war for all of humanity that has raged for ... who knows how long, and are drafted into the front lines of it by fate.  They're relearning everything they knew about the world - so I thought it would be a natural fit for a coming of age genre, the high school story.  Only in this high school, finals really are killer,, and the stakes at graduation is a job in the 'real world' that wants to use them for their abilities to seize power.  I have a lot of ideas for the setting and world, but before I got too deeply enmeshed in writing them all down, I thought I would go and ... see if anyone else was even interested in my crazy story idea.  Thanks for checking it out, and ask away if you have questions.

[Bloodied Porcelain]

*plants her little flag*

[Crash]

*Grabs BP's flag and runs around with it.*

[Ciosa]

*elbows the school band*

[Bloodied Porcelain]

*Grabs BP's flag and runs around with it.*

... *pouts* but but... muh flag. :(

[Aida Rose]

I'm interested in this. It looks cool.

[Crash]

... *pouts* but but... muh flag. :(

Dawwww.  *Snuggles the BP and gives her back her flag.*

[Bloodied Porcelain]

Dawwww.  *Snuggles the BP and gives her back her flag.*

Yay *happy noises and cuddles back*

[Ciosa]

And welcome aboard, everyone!  I'm still working on fleshing out the wiki, but the character creation system is ninety nine percent done, and the game rules are done.  I'll be working on filling out the sections on history and the world, but if you have any questions to help generate a character idea, feel free to put 'em here or shoot me a PM.

[Relikai]

Tag sir.

[Bloodied Porcelain]

Tag sir.

Oooh. Hello again :)

[Jefepato]

Color me intrigued if you still have room for more players.

Tentatively, I'm thinking of playing a modern-day descendant of the Ascended with some conflicting notions w/r/t faction loyalty.

[Ciosa]

Plenty of space, yet. 

The Ascended are actually still in charge of the modern day.  They seized control of the 1850 juncture from the Guiding Hand, so the character might have their own reasons for spurning the Ascended.  They could just be not-so-big a fan of the various wars and control the group exerts over ... well, the entire world.  Or someone in their family could have crossed the Ascended and the leadership decided to eliminate 'a troublesome dynasty.'  The Ascended certainly play power games amongst themselves, though they're a bit less overt about it than other factions.  The character could have found refuge at the school, since Principal Yu takes everyone regardless of background.

[Relikai]

Oooh. Hello again :)

*Waves*

[Kokaine]

*plans to keep an eye on this*

[Crash]

Hey Koka.  Freaking adorable avi.

[Kokaine]

Sup. Thanks 8-)

[Crash]

Hey Ciosa.  What do openings into the netherworld look like?

[Ciosa]

Kokaine!!!  Keep two on it!  ;)

They generally are formed inside of existing arches - doorframes, caves, entryways of all kinds.   The portal is only detectable to magical senses or a J-Meter - fairly standard tech throughout the netherworld.   From inside the Netherworld, they look like the landscape beyond - a cave, a temple, a nightclub.  Stepping into one accidentally is completely possible.

[Relikai]

@Ciosa

Do we post our Apps here, or PM to you? Already have one on the works.

[Ciosa]

PM to me, please!   But you can put your face claims here.

[Crash]

Kokaine!!!  Keep two on it!  ;)

They generally are formed inside of existing arches - doorframes, caves, entryways of all kinds.   The portal is only detectable to magical senses or a J-Meter - fairly standard tech throughout the netherworld.   From inside the Netherworld, they look like the landscape beyond - a cave, a temple, a nightclub.  Stepping into one accidentally is completely possible.

Thanks.

[Ciosa]

Great concept, Relikai.  Concept is approved - I'll post it in the character sheet thread once I open one up, but in the meantime I would throw out your face claim and give people a brief sense to your character so people can form relationships/introductions.  I'm generally against divulging the past of any character - I much prefer characters discover one another in play.

[Relikai]

Awesome, thanks!!

Face Claimed - Kashiwagi Yuki

Name - Katori Yuki

Character type - A martial artist trained in three forms of unarmed combat (Judo, Akkido, Karate), a capable fighter with references to the Ice Queen + Model Student trope,  with an air of arrogance because she's confident of her skills (She's not necessarily 'good' compared to SHS standards, but she's confident of her own skills because of her past of beating formidable opponents.)

She's not anti-social, more to asocial due to her individualism, but she won't turn anyone away on first contact when approached outside of training.

[Crash]

Hopefully I will finish my character tonight.

[Ciosa]

No rush.   I plan to be recruiting for a bit yet.

[HairyHeretic]

Are you planning on keeping the archtypes from Feng Shui?

[Ciosa]

I'm using the archetypes from Feng shui 2, but I placed them up on the wiki.

Character Creation made simple.

[Ciosa]

Also, the second post of the thread is now active face claims.  If you know your face claim but don't have a character sheet done - or aren't even sure if you'll play, but think you might - feel free to throw in the face claim now.

[CurvyKitten]

Tentatively interested pending a solid concept coming together for me. :)

[Bloodied Porcelain]

*snip* Bah. Nevermind. Not sure I'm happy with her.

[Ciosa]

A quick note, since the question has come up more than once.

Students newly arriving at Shadowfist High School are freshman.  They can be sixteen to eighteen, but their physical age has nothing to do with their starting year.  Generally, anyone older than eighteen is on their own, and won't be accepted into the school.  Once accepted, they will endure four and a half months of being a 'first term' freshman, and then four and a half months of being a second term freshman.  At every term, they will undergo a potentially lethal final exam.  Once they've completed two exams, they are promoted to the next grade.  They have a week of down time between semesters, and then the cycle starts anew.  A senior who started school on their sixteenth birthday will be nineteen on the day they graduate.  Those who started later will be presumably older.

Also, the school is arranged much more like a college - there are dorms for each grade level, and a small amount of businesses which serve the students.  These include bars; there's no prohibitions against students of any year getting drunk.  (Post final celebrations are fairly legendarily debauched.  Teenagers + alcohol + a literal stay of execution)  None of the shops require compensation of any kind; they offer their goods to any student who wants them, but a student who consistently had behavior issues will have this privilege restricted. 

Classes don't have 'grades.'  While plenty of students compete to be the best in their class, all classes have a simple pass/fail basis.  Teachers issue grades as the course goes along, but these are mostly to entice students to shape up, or expect to die during finals. 

Finals are not competitive; each student is evaluated separately, and they are not made to kill one another.  Adversaries are played by robots, golems, and the occasional summoned demon.  Drivers don't race one another, martial artists don't fight one another - though they do PLENTY of that during the course of the semester.  It's strongly believed by students and teachers alike that competition with strong rivals is one of the best ways to ensure survival.

[Ciosa]

Tentatively interested pending a solid concept coming together for me. :)

Happy to have you!  Send me a PM if you need any help fleshing out ideas.  Good to see you again, too, Curvy.  :)

[Bloodied Porcelain]

Okay, now I think I know what face I want to use.

Claiming Katie Fey.

[Crash]

Okay, now I think I know what face I want to use.

Claiming Katie Fey.

Smexy BP very smexy.

[Bloodied Porcelain]

Finished my sheet! So excited to have my southern belle approved and ready to go.

[Ciosa]

Once you've been approved, feel free to throw an introduction to your character and your pic into the thread.

[Crash]

Background done.  Now for getting it all in the character sheet!

[Bloodied Porcelain]

Name: Isabeau Delacroix
Age: 16
Archetype: Driver
Year: Freshman

The quintessential sweet southern belle, Isabeau Delacroix is the embodiment of "grace under pressure". A spine of steel accompanies an unfailing ability to be kind and compassionate to those around her. She's easy to befriend, and is unfailingly loyal to those she considers her friends. Impeccably well mannered, she finds it difficult to loosen up and have fun by the standards most people have, if only because she tends to get flustered by more modern sensibilities.

[Crash]

Character submitted!

[Bloodied Porcelain]

We could really use some male characters in this game, it's looking a little boob-heavy. ::)

[Crash]

We could really use some male characters in this game, it's looking a little boob-heavy. ::)

That's a problem?

I would guess this will even out.  It usually does.

[Bloodied Porcelain]

That's a problem?

I would guess this will even out.  It usually does.

It is if some of us are planning to play strictly hetero characters :p Which I am. lol

[Crash]

Then we need some study dudes for BP!!!!!

[Ciosa]

So an update - I'm flying today, and I have two days of fairly intense classroom ahead of me.   I'll be around minimally and probably throw in a hello at the breaks, but won't be around in a serious way until Saturday.

[consortium11]

Certainly interested; just thinking about some character concepts.

[Crash]

Certainly interested; just thinking about some character concepts.

Hey Consortium.  Welcome aboard!

[Bloodied Porcelain]

Certainly interested; just thinking about some character concepts.

*squees and pounces* Yay! Darling! <3

[yesiroleplay]

Name: Darla Nance

WIGU: Spy*.

Class Year: Freshman

Age: 16 years

Personality: Darla is bright, bubbly, inquisitive, and very, very chatty.  She’ll talk your ear off if you let her, and then talk the other ear off when you turn away.  She’s interested in people, and very caring.  She can seem fearless, or maybe she’s just so out of touch that she doesn’t realize she’s in danger.  While she doesn’t want to hurt anyone, she can be very feisty defending her friends or the helpless against someone being ‘mean’.  And she really tries not to be jealous of pretty, smart girls that have it way too easy.

[Ciosa]

New face claims are up, though I don't expect more work on the wiki tonight.   (Sorry, very long day and two hours of sleep.)   Going to trundle off to bed for nap or a possible coma.

[Aida Rose]

Name: Noah Beliveau
WIGU: Sifu
Class: Sophomore
Age: 18

Personality: Noah's all sunshine. She has a constant smile and a gentle, disarming aura. She's a little serious and very bullheaded when she gets an idea in her head. She believes there's a truth and it's her job to find it. This might be because she often feels starved for it, given her upbringing. She doesn't take failure well, especially moral failings on her part. Which can be tricky, given her rigid view of morality. She can be a little hypocritical, though. While she won't get a fake ID, she doesn't turn her nose up at booze offered from someone with one. She tends to get along with people, probably because she has her mother's empathy and comforting presence.

[consortium11]

Name: Vicount Charles Broun-Ramsay
WIGU: Ex-Special Forces
Class: Sophomore
Age: 19

Charles is the epitome of a young English gentlemen. Unfortunately for everyone else that's a young English gentleman from 1850 and, as such, comes with a heavy dose of elitism, arrogance, smugness, casual racism, sense of his own superiority and emphasis on standing and being of noble birth. Moreover it's the epitome of a young English gentleman who's never actually been to England, instead having been born and raised in the then East India Company controlled India, and who even before he came through the portal to Shadowfist was a soldier and a killer.

Don't let that entirely put you off though. Charles can be a real charmer when he wishes, is fiercely loyal to his friends, is riotously (somewhat literally) good company when the drink starts to flow, has a deep intellectual streak and you'll find few better with either a sabre or a pistol... and certainly very few better with both. Yes, he may be the sort of upper class bad boy cad who populate Jilly Cooper novels... but there's a reason such bad boy cads have proven popular.

Now well established (and still alive) at Shadowfist High Charles is the leader of "The Harlequins", an unofficial drinking/social society that are seen as the "jocks" of Shadowfist. They form their own social elite (with Charles at the top of the mountain), throw the best parties, know all the best people and have the influence to make life either miserable or far easier for those who catch their attention. In a high school where every other pupil is some form of elite killer or athlete the traditional "jock" focus on athleticism is of less importance and instead just as much attention is paid to being socially and culturally proficient in areas that have absolutely no relevance to day to day life... if you want to become a 'quin you'd better know your Timocreon from your Archilochus and be able to explain the differences between Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch and Xenophon.

[Bloodied Porcelain]

Name: Vicount Charles Broun-Ramsay
WIGU: Ex-Special Forces
Class: Sophomore
Age: 19

Charles is the epitome of a young English gentlemen. Unfortunately for everyone else that's a young English gentleman from 1850 and, as such, comes with a heavy dose of elitism, arrogance, smugness, casual racism, sense of his own superiority and emphasis on standing and being of noble birth. Moreover it's the epitome of a young English gentleman who's never actually been to England, instead having been born and raised in the then East India Company controlled India, and who even before he came through the portal to Shadowfist was a soldier and a killer.

Don't let that entirely put you off though. Charles can be a real charmer when he wishes, is fiercely loyal to his friends, is riotously (somewhat literally) good company when the drink starts to flow, has a deep intellectual streak and you'll find few better with either a sabre or a pistol... and certainly very few better with both. Yes, he may be the sort of upper class bad boy cad who populate Jilly Cooper novels... but there's a reason such bad boy cads have proven popular.

Now well established (and still alive) at Shadowfist High Charles is the leader of "The Harlequins", an unofficial drinking/social society that are seen as the "jocks" of Shadowfist. They form their own social elite (with Charles at the top of the mountain), throw the best parties, know all the best people and have the influence to make life either miserable or far easier for those who catch their attention. In a high school where every other pupil is some form of elite killer or athlete the traditional "jock" focus on athleticism is of less importance and instead just as much attention is paid to being socially and culturally proficient in areas that have absolutely no relevance to day to day life... if you want to become a 'quin you'd better know your Timocreon from your Archilochus and be able to explain the differences between Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch and Xenophon.

Plotting. It needs to happen. My girl's from 1850 too, but she's one of those damned colonials. :D High society though.

[yesiroleplay]

One thing about the last two characters:  I think we are all freshmen no matter what our character's age? 
The first sentence in that post could be read that way anyway.  Not that it really matters.  We're all in different 'programs' so we aren't going to have many - or any - classes together, and probably won't be sparring/fighting each other during the semester. So almost all PC-PC interactions are likely to be outside the curriculum anyway.

[Crash]

No I checked with Ciosa and sent him a character sheet that is a Junior.  He is okay with non-Freshmen.

[Aida Rose]

Yeah ^^ All newly arrived students have to be freshmen, but not every student's newly arrived when the RP begins, I think.

[yesiroleplay]

It's not really a big deal.  Just my inner rules nazi is strong.
I like everyone's character so far.  I like some of them quite a lot.

[Bloodied Porcelain]

It's not a rule though. o.O You can create a character who isn't a freshman, they just had to have been at the school for a year or more by the time the RP starts.

[consortium11]

It's not really a big deal.  Just my inner rules nazi is strong.
I like everyone's character so far.  I like some of them quite a lot.

Oh, I'm an equally bad rules Nazi myself when the mood takes me!

My understanding is that a new arrival, regardless of age, is a freshman but there's no requirement for a character to be a new arrival; my intention with Charles is that he's already been at the school for a while at the point the story begins.

Likewise also appreciating all the other characters so far.

[yesiroleplay]

I think we need a bar fight early in the game.  One "The Harlequins" likely started, and were certainly prominent in instigating.  Maybe over someone taking their 'reserved' table that is reserved only in their elitist minds or over some other equally turf-protecting or entitled pretext.

Other characters could be there just to relax, or by whatever other chi-driven reason, and get pulled into the fight at least as spectators/innocent bystanders, with most of us ignorant of not only what the fight is about, but what the sides are.

[Aida Rose]

It's not really a big deal.  Just my inner rules nazi is strong.
I like everyone's character so far.  I like some of them quite a lot.

Oh, I'm an equally bad rules Nazi myself when the mood takes me!

Lol, I was worried this game'd attract your kind.

[yesiroleplay]

Lol, I was worried this game'd attract your kind.

At least as far as I know, no one is building a Nazi character from a WWII-period pop-up juncture.
This is probably a good thing.

[Aida Rose]

It was just a bad joke.

[yesiroleplay]

I tend to take things too literally.  It's part of my inner Nazi



She's a bitch.  But at least she's a hot bitch.

[Aida Rose]

Ha!

[Ciosa]

My understanding is that a new arrival, regardless of age, is a freshman but there's no requirement for a character to be a new arrival.

Exactly correct.

Also, I'm intending to send out lists of classes that each character will be mandatorily enrolled in, and electives that they can be enrolled in.    I'll also be explaining how character progression will work inside of that context; juniors will have slightly more ability than sophomores, who will have slightly more ability than freshman.   Some characters will share classes; but I'll also detail other areas for them to interact.   Also, if there are requests for specific set pieces or places, put em here and I'll work them into the setting if I think they are appropriate.

[Bloodied Porcelain]

At least as far as I know, no one is building a Nazi character from a WWII-period pop-up juncture.
This is probably a good thing.

Speak for yourself. I happen to adore Nazi characters. *eyes consortium* he can speak to this. I've been trying to coax him in to playing one for me for ages.

[yesiroleplay]

I can't say what sort of villain consortium11 would be, but I can say that he plays the best anti-heroes EV-ER!

[consortium11]

You have no idea how close I came to meta-plotting this and deciding to play either a young version of either Walter Sinnett (a character Chiosa and yesiroleplay will know) or one of the Skolsung (characters BP will know) in this game.  :-)

Love the bar fight idea and more than happy to run with it; it seems very appropriate for the Harlequins.

[Bloodied Porcelain]

You have no idea how close I came to meta-plotting this and deciding to play either a young version of either Walter Sinnett (a character Chiosa and yesiroleplay will know) or one of the Skolsung (characters BP will know) in this game.  :-)

Love the bar fight idea and more than happy to run with it; it seems very appropriate for the Harlequins.

Hey, I was in Doomtown too. I know who Walter is. :p We just weren't writing at that point cause your novel posts gave me migraines. ;)

[consortium11]

Hey, I was in Doomtown too. I know who Walter is. :p We just weren't writing at that point cause your novel posts gave me migraines. ;)

*cough cough*

I don't know who Walter Sinnett is, but that's definitely Hardy as Sykes. o.O

;)

[yesiroleplay]

You have no idea how close I came to meta-plotting this and deciding to play either a young version of either Walter Sinnett (a character Chiosa and yesiroleplay will know) or one of the Skolsung (characters BP will know) in this game.  :-)

Love the bar fight idea and more than happy to run with it; it seems very appropriate for the Harlequins.

Crash was in Doomtown too.  And I adored Walter.  He was such a great guy to openly fear/hate, and secretly admire/respect.

But more importantly, we need to make this bar fight happen. It will get us all into a raucous and (hopefully) non-lethal combat scene, and help us all figure out our archetypes combat abilities.
Plus, it will be way fun.

EDIT:

*cough cough*

Love that Italian girl on the Vespa.  Classic

[Aida Rose]

*cough cough*

;)

Woowww. Keeping an archive of past posts. That's kinda a way to show you care.

I love Tom Hardy.

[Bloodied Porcelain]

*cough cough*

;)

To be fair, I suck with names. I do know who he is, I just failed to remember his name at the time because well... it had been a long time, and at that point in time, I felt like you just needed to calm the fuck down about your post length lol. :p

I freely admit I kind of did my best to avoid/ignore your character as much as possible during my time in Doomtown. xD I love long posts as much as the next person, but there are limits to my patience lol

Woowww. Keeping an archive of past posts. That's kinda a way to show you care.

I love Tom Hardy.

I'd say less "care" and more "obsessed with BP". :D

[consortium11]

It's ok BP, I forgive you.

Sort of  :P

[Relikai]

Anyone wanna mix with a female monk? :x

[Bloodied Porcelain]

As for the bar scene... I look forward to that happening, though I doubt Isabeau will be there. Proper southern belle that she is, she won't be caught dead anywhere near places like those.

[Aida Rose]

This is a place called the Netherworld, right? Sounds like it'd have some cool dives.

[consortium11]

I'm not sure if it fits into Ciosa's wider plans but we could have the bar scene be a bit of a "freshers" event (or whatever the term used in America is); an event for new students so they can meet and mingle without any obvious requirement for alcohol or debauchery which unfortunately coincides with the Harlequins having their own unoffical gathering there. It gives a reason for characters who wouldn't normally go to a bar to be there.

[yesiroleplay]

Ciosa mentioned that there is no drinking age limit at the school-sponsored establishments, and that they were free for students!
I mean, free!  That would have been enough to get me into a place as a student, if only for the appetizer buffet.

[Bloodied Porcelain]

LOL Even if they weren't supposed to be currently serving alcohol, in 1850, a proper lady wouldn't have been caught dead in a bar if at all avoidable. Those are places of ill repute. The hang outs of drunks, thieves, rapscallions, gamblers, and... men.

Isabeau: *fans self delicately*

[consortium11]

The number of terrible law lectures/talks I went to purely because there was free wine and nibbles...

[Aida Rose]

Free's so important.

What kinda currency do they use there? Everyone's coming from different spots, so would their cash be worthless? Can you convert any money you come with? It'd be kinda shitty if you couldn't. (Sorry if it's in the wiki or op and I just missed it.)

[Bloodied Porcelain]

Free's so important.

What kinda currency do they use there? Everyone's coming from different spots, so would their cash be worthless? Can you convert any money you come with? It'd be kinda shitty if you couldn't. (Sorry if it's in the wiki or op and I just missed it.)

My understanding is that there is no money in the Netherworld. All businesses, restaurants, etc are open to the staff and students free of charge. You only get cut off if you can't behave.

[Aida Rose]

Thanks! Free's a lot less of a deciding factor then, I guess.

[yesiroleplay]

Free's so important.

What kinda currency do they use there? Everyone's coming from different spots, so would their cash be worthless? Can you convert any money you come with? It'd be kinda shitty if you couldn't. (Sorry if it's in the wiki or op and I just missed it.)

I don't think we're using money at all...

...a small amount of businesses which serve the students.  These include bars; there's no prohibitions against students of any year getting drunk.  (Post final celebrations are fairly legendarily debauched.  Teenagers + alcohol + a literal stay of execution)  None of the shops require compensation of any kind; they offer their goods to any student who wants them...

LOL Even if they weren't supposed to be currently serving alcohol, in 1850, a proper lady wouldn't have been caught dead in a bar if at all avoidable. Those are places of ill repute. The hang outs of drunks, thieves, rapscallions, gamblers, and... men.

Isabeau: *fans self delicately*

Just because it's a bar fight, doesn't mean it has to take place in a bar.  It could be an upscale restaurant that happens to have a "lounge" or "Club" in a room off the main dining area, or the fight could spill out into the street...

[yesiroleplay]

Anyone wanna mix with a female monk? :x

I am not opposed to mixing with anyone!  Though I do like the idea of us all "getting acquainted" in some sort of rowdy mixup rather than simply finding out we're roommates or something equally mundane.

[Bloodied Porcelain]

Just because it's a bar fight, doesn't mean it has to take place in a bar.  It could be an upscale restaurant that happens to have a "lounge" or "Club" in a room off the main dining area, or the fight could spill out into the street...

There's no need to change your idea on my character's account. I look forward to reading it, regardless of whether or not Isa is in it. I sort of anticipated her not getting to partake in a lot because of her social rules and guidelines she grew up with lol.

[Relikai]

I am not opposed to mixing with anyone!  Though I do like the idea of us all "getting acquainted" in some sort of rowdy mixup rather than simply finding out we're roommates or something equally mundane.

"Yo!" *Punch* "Nice to meet you! Guess I left my mark!"

[yesiroleplay]

There's no need to change your idea on my character's account. I look forward to reading it, regardless of whether or not Isa is in it. I sort of anticipated her not getting to partake in a lot because of her social rules and guidelines she grew up with lol.

But it's not really a change of the idea at all.  Frankly, I have doubts about Darla going into an establishment that is clearly nothing more than a bar.
She's be much more likely to go to a pizza place that happens to serve beer, or an outdoor cafe that has a bar across the street, or common-room area of the school that has an adjourning area where liquor is served...

The real idea isn't the setting, it's the fight, with whatever pretext starts it.

[yesiroleplay]

"Yo!" *Punch* "Nice to meet you! Guess I left my mark!"

Ouch!  That hurt.
I want you on my side next time.

[Crash]

Yes I remember Walter.  Walter was fun.

[Crash]

Changing face claim to Angela Benedict.

Name: Cynder
WIGU: Gene Freak (w/ some ScroungeTech thrown in)
Class: Junior
Age: 19?

Personality: Cynder grew up in the wastelands of the future juncture and learned how to survive in harsh environments.  She is simply tough as nails and refuses to give up and die when things look their worst. Being raised in a hostile environment that takes every opportunity to kill you has made Cynder naturally suspicious.  It is hard to really gain her trust.  This same environment has made her very resourceful.  As a scavenger she knows the value of what others pass off as junk or worthless. A relatively new dynamic to her personality is her addiction to social media.  She has rigged a smartphone she picked up in the present juncture so it works in all junctures and in the Netherworld.  Cynder finds it easier to make friends on twitter, Instagram and Snapchat than she does in person.

[Ciosa]

Back, after the week of crazy.  I'll get to work on the wiki - I'm going to use the weekend to keep recruiting, and I'm planning on opening posts happening late Sunday/early Monday.  I want to establish a bit more background information, and I'd love to pick up two to three more completed characters before diving in.  Anyone who's been lurking and is still interested, please shoot me a PM so I know you're on board you're just working through character creation or need a hook/interesting concept.  Sorry I was a bit out of touch!  I had two flights and back to back ten hour classroom days.

(Really really brain intense classroom days, that focused on software logic and hardware troubleshooting and stuff.  I think I took nineteen pages of notes.  *brainbleaches*)

[Ciosa]

OOC Thread is up.

[Crash]

OOC Thread is up.

Excellent!

[Ciosa]

A quick update - my plans have been somewhat waylaid by being sick for the last three days.  Today has been the first day of the last three I haven't woken up coughing my lungs out, but it's definitely blunted my creativity a bit over the weekend.   I'm going to try to get things up this evening, but I wanted to do everything some justice.

Thanks for your patience!

[Aida Rose]

That doesn't sound fun at all. Glad you're feeling better, at least. There's no rush! Your health's way more important, obviously.

[Crash]

Hope you feel better soon.  Don't stress it.

[yesiroleplay]

Hello out there.
We're about to get started, and the cast is a bit sparse.  Come join us!