Dunwater (Survival/Horror small group) [Recruitment Closed]

[Lustful Bride]

Side note, if anyone wants a way into town, My Character will be driving her own car in, so she might pick up some hitchhikers along the way. :P

Also I think now might be a good time to make an OOC thread :P

[CandyLips]

Side note, if anyone wants a way into town, My Character will be driving her own car in, so she might pick up some hitchhikers along the way. :P

Also I think now might be a good time to make an OOC thread :P

Salem would totally take you up on that, depending on where you're coming from.

[Totoro]

Got together the OOC and PC sheets threads. Only post your PC sheet if you have been approved. And I would prefer if people don't talk in the OOC until their PC has been approved.

OOC chat:
https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=264396.0

CS thread:
https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=264398.0

[Totoro]

There might be some errors. Been working on this here and there and I've been kinda tired and somewhat loopy.

Salem McGregor

Character Sheet

BASIC INFO:
Full Name: Salem McGregor
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Occupation: Gossip Columnist for a teen magazine


ADDITIONAL INFO:
Residence, neighborhood/type of home: Renting a tiny apartment in Oregon just outside the rough part of town
Education: Bachelor's degree in Journalism
Place of Birth: Sacramento, California
Ethnicity: Caucasian


PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 5'4”
Weight: 125lbs
Hair color: Red
Eye color: Hazel-Green
General Appearance: She changes her clothes with her moods – anywhere from grunge to a tea dress. She has no tattoos, two piercings in each ear, and several minor on her arms, legs, and torso.
Faceclaim: Hayley Williams

ABILITIES/EQUIPMENT/OTHER

SKILLS: 
Educated – Salem loves reading all about the supernatural and has gone through many many books on the subject. She has read through all the books in her local library of this subject and is constantly searching the internet for more things to educate herself on.

Touch Typist – Salem does not need to look at her keyboard in order to type. She knows where all the keys are by muscle memory.

Teen Whisperer – Salem writes for a teen magazine and has to interview teenagers for some of her articles. She tends to dress and act like a teenager to make them more comfortable about talking to an adult. She also looks younger than she is and could pass for someone who is 19 or 20, which helps. She can hold conversations that interest them and gain their trust fairly easily.

ADVANTAGES:
Light Sleeper – Salem is always on the hunt for evidence and has spent many nights sleeping in haunted places. She was never a heavy sleeper, but this has caused her to become a very light sleeper. Even the sound of someone rolling over in their bed will wake her.

Courageous – Salem will do anything to get video evidence of the paranormal. She has spent nights in haunted houses and gone into crumbling tunnels in hopes of capturing something. She's even been hit by flying objects twice, but even with poltergeists, she stays to get proof of their existence.

EQUIPMENT:
Camcorder and bag – This is the only equipment that she uses to capture evidence. She is unable to afford high-end equipment. It was given to her as a gift from her parents on her twentieth birthday and she hasn't been able to afford an upgrade since. It does, however, have night vision. What more could a girl need? The cross-body bag contains extra tapes and extra batteries for the camcorder, as well as space for the camcorder, itself.

Flashlight – Simple flashlight that doesn't have that far of a reach and flickers at times.

Bag of supplies – Salem carries around a black canvas backpack that contains a few homemade bags of trail mix, bottles of water, extra batteries for the flashlight, and a few antiseptic wipes and bandages.

HISTORY & PERSONALITY

HISTORY: When Salem was younger, she would have night terrors. There were several times where she felt like someone had sat down on her bed, behind her. On one occasion, she woke up while laying on her back and felt like she was being held down. It was the first time she had decided to open her eyes to see what was happening. She stared into the bright white eyes of a dark figure with long, sharp fingers. She immediately closed her eyes out of fear and felt the pressure move down her body and off her feet before opening her eyes again. It rushed back up to her face, causing her to squeeze her eyes shut and keep them closed for the rest of the night. Since this day, she has researched what it could have been and has been searching endlessly to prove that it was real.

Other than her night terrors, Salem had a wonderful life growing up. She is an only child with loving and supportive parents. Her father, Henry, is a respected journalist for a major newspaper and her mother, Nancy, is an interior decorator. They both still live in California and write her all the time, as well as send her money among other things to help her follow her dreams. They have always been supportive of her in everything she does and are proud that she's taking her investigative journalist goal very seriously.

Salem was a bright child who spent her free time in libraries. Her mind would get lost in books, finding many interests and becoming fixated on them. She would read all that she could on her current subject of interest before moving on to the next topic, but she was never able to move on from the supernatural. Salem had been determined, since she was young, to find proof of their existence. Unfortunately, all she's ever found are debunked photos and videos.

After graduating college, Salem traveled to many different haunted locations. Her drive has taken her hours away from home and often she ends up sleeping in her car on long road-trips. She cannot typically afford motel rooms and hates asking her parents for more money, wanting to make it on her own. But, when her parents do send her things, she is always grateful and appreciative.

Salem is determined to make a name for herself that isn't just “the daughter of Henry McGregor” or “that girl who writes the articles about how to get your crush to notice you.” Although she is small and not at all intimidating, she is brave and committed to this. And though she has had a brick thrown at her from seemingly nowhere, has almost been arrested for trespassing, has gotten cut on broken glass, and has had a cavern cave in right in front of her, she continues to follow her dream, not caring how dangerous is might be. She constantly searches the internet to find more haunted locations and recently found the DunwaterDelvers website. She has never been so excited to go to a haunted location after reading all about the history of the town.

PERSONALITY:

Salem is a fun-loving woman with a wilder side. During her downtime, she loves to go out dancing and have a few drinks to really let loose. During college, she didn't get many opportunities to slack on her schoolwork so she could enjoy the college life, so she's living it up as much as she can now, while she's still young. She's gotten used to functioning on 3-4 hours of sleep, which allows her the luxury to stay out late.

Because females tend to mature more quickly, Salem tends to get along better with men, due to her occasional lack of maturity. When she isn't being immature, she easily makes friends and tends to get along with everyone until they give her a reason to dislike them.

She is very open to others' beliefs and does not label herself as religious. The truth is, she doesn't know what's out there, and so she can't adhere to any one religion. Instead, she lives life the way she wishes to live it – with the thought of karma in mind.

She is accepting of a lot of people who tend to be labeled as “strange,” by society's norms. She, herself, happens to be labeled as such, depending on where she is, given the way she dresses, the vibrant color of her hair, and her sometimes wild make-up. She has met mediums, paranormal investigators, superstitious people, etc. and she has yet to judge them based on it or assume that they are fake and/or crazy.

While focused on capturing video evidence of the supernatural, Salem is almost impossible to knock off track. She is determined and absorbed in the task at hand. Unfortunately, if nothing seems to be going on for an extended period, she tends to get distracted and disinterested. After going to many “haunted” locations to find nothing, she tends to be quick to judge if there really is anything going on or if it's all just ghost stories. If something then happens, she is also quick to accept that she was initially wrong. She does not have too much pride to admit to her mistakes.


CHARACTER FLAWS:

While Salem is courageous, she often doesn't know when to quit. She is more concerned with getting the shot than she is concerned for her own safety. While everyone is running away from the sound of something crashing in the next room, Salem is the first one to run towards it, with no regards to if it is a trap or unsafe. She's even gone to the point of wandering towards the noise in the dark rather than getting her flashlight working first. She is not at all cautious when it comes to things going bump in the night. She will even ignore someone who needs her without realizing.

After spending so much time talking to teenagers, Salem has moments in which she is immature. She'll act snarky towards something she doesn't agree with, think she knows everything, or become cliquish. She sometimes pranks others, thinking she's being funny when, in reality, it could cause someone to get hurt or scare someone. She also tends to be inappropriate at times, which could make people uncomfortable. She doesn't have many friends that she spends time with often, which causes her to lose track of how old she is at times.

Salem is petite and does not work out often at all. At most, she runs short distances and occasionally sprints. She doesn't do much climbing or lifting and has very little arm-strength. If anything heavy were to fall on someone, she would not be able to help them alone.

FEARS & COURAGES

FEARS:
Blood- Salem can handle seeing her own blood, but when it comes to other people's blood, she gets extremely squeamish. She cannot touch it at all and cannot help dress wounds.

Heights- Salem has no problem being on the fiftieth floor, but she will not stand by the window. She cannot walk on stairs that have no railing and must be helped. Any narrow walkways that have no railings can be crawled over, but very slowly and carefully.

Cats- Salem had been petting a cat when she was younger and tried to scratch its belly once it exposed it to her. She was bitten and scratched enough to break skin and make her bleed. She finds cats to be untrustworthy and tries to avoid them.

COURAGES:
Enclosed Spaces- Salem has no problem being in tight, closed spaces. She has put herself in mortuary freezer drawers and has crawled through tight spaces.

Darkness- Salem has no problem with staying brave in the dark. If her flashlight goes out and she's alone, she does not panic and calmly switches out the batteries or finds her way to the light. Things going bump in the night or something falling in front of her while she's in a pitch black room only makes her eager to find light to see what it is.



PLAYER LIMITS: Rape. Plain and simple.



CHARACTER CONNECTIONS: TBD

TRAUMAS & INJURIES: TBD

The only mistake of any description I can find is that you can change the bolded 'Character sheet' at the top to her name. If you just make that change you can post her up in the approved thread and start figuring out how you got here with the others.

Lustful Bride and Alias, you can both post your CS's too.

Thanks for the interest everyone. Looking forward to getting things started.

[CandyLips]

The only mistake of any description I can find is that you can change the bolded 'Character sheet' at the top to her name. If you just make that change you can post her up in the approved thread and start figuring out how you got here with the others.

Ha! Silly me. Thanks!

[Totoro]

Hey people

Just a quick reminder I'd like all CS's in by Sunday if possible so that IC threads can be made at the start of next week.

I'd appreciate a PM if there is any issues, thanks.

[rekhaiyer]

Character Sheet

BASIC INFO:
Full Name:  Maya ‘Kris’ Krishnan
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Occupation: Engineer/Ex-Army


ADDITIONAL INFO:
Residence, neighborhood/type of home: Used to live in a huge house, which is her father’s at Detton, an industrial city past it’s glory days about two hours away from Dunwater by flight.
Education: Electrical Engineering
Place of Birth: Detton
Ethnicity: East Indian


PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Height: 5'4”
Weight: 125 lbs
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Brown
General Appearance: A black tank-top beneath a blue full sleeved denim shirt and a brown leather jacket, with a dark pair of jeans and brown trekking boots. Also, four utility holsters: one on her back beneath her leather jacket for two melee weapons, one on her right thigh for a gun, along with two smaller ones on her left thigh for ammo clips or magazines.
Faceclaim: http://i.imgur.com/EF6ikYg.jpg

ABILITIES/EQUIPMENT/OTHER

SKILLS:

Fitness Freak: Dedicates a lot of time to keep herself fit since her time as an engineer in the army. However, most of her fitness work these days include practical and natural routines that are focused on building endurance rather than strength, given that she won’t be doing much damage considering her size even if she were stronger. But she can still outrun most people any day of the week thanks to her conditioning.

Tracker/Engineer: Has some experience tracking down deer and mountain lions, which comes from working on her friend’s ranch after getting kicked out of the army, when she lived on the countryside. At that time, she thought the quiet life was what she wanted, fixing power lines out in no man’s land for simple folk in farms for a fair price, but was drawn back into the city eventually when she met someone that she saw herself growing old with.

Long range rifles: She is a little rusty these days but was pretty good with a rifle during her time with the army. Deadly with a scoped rifle, she prefers ending threats quickly and clinically from a distance instead of getting things messy in a close quarters fight, although she has basic combat training that she is not very good at.

Trap Setting: She is quick to spot angles in a terrain and has a good eye for areas where traps can be set. And when push comes to shove, she has absolutely no problems with reverse rigging trip wires and IEDs to turn the tables quickly in a mismatched fight. For her talents however, people in her unit called her smart and men looking for scapegoats suggested that they were ‘war crimes’ and ‘human rights violations’. Fuck them.

ADVANTAGES:

Compartmentalizing: Doesn’t lose sight of what needs to be done to eliminate threats. So much so that people who don’t know her well think she is cold and ruthless. And she doesn’t get along with people who don’t have a lid on being emotional or goody two-shoes, who inevitably also turn out to be your bog standard hypocrites.

EQUIPMENT:

Swiss Army Knife: A handy multi purpose tool that has served her well over the recent years.

Machete: Hidden in her duffel bag along with clothes and other items that you carry while travelling.

Beretta M9 Pistol: Standard issue army pistol that she is comfortable with. Prefers a scoped long range rifle but can use her pistol to provide cover fire, though she only has basic skills with handguns that she picked up in Sniper School.

HISTORY & PERSONALITY

HISTORY:

Born to a deadbeat father addicted to alcohol meant Kris grew up with more bruises than she cared to admit. Considering the fact that her mother died in childbirth, it was no surprise that her impulsive father soon turned to substance abuse that would put musicians of the 70s to shame. But when she was seven years old, her father kicked the bucket after a prolonged battle with liver failure. And thankfully, her father’s elder brother Arjun, took her in, though he would later admit that his only regret was the fact that he didn’t step in sooner and take her away from his brother after she revealed a few of her childhood memories and some scars of neglect on her body to him.

After growing up with her uncle, the one thing that Maya was thankful for the most was her second mother slash ‘Aunt’ Clara. Clara had served as a medic in the Vietnam war and had come out of it unscathed for the most part. Her no bullshit attitude and the respect her army buddies had for her had had a lasting impression on her young mind and so did her values when it came to doing the right thing. Except for the fact that where Clara saw scalpels as tools, Kris simply saw a weapon. And as her real father - as far as she was concerned at least, Arjun constantly taught her how to fix circuits around the house, she developed an interest in his area of expertise from an early age. Years later, it was no surprise that she graduated top of her class as an Electrical Engineer at the age of twenty-one, before immediately signing up to serve.

After her first year, she found that she was very proficient with long range rifles and had reached the required rank to attend sniper school, where she excelled again. Another year later, when she was deployed to the middle-east for the first time as a sniper. Before long, she became famous for never missing head shots from a distance. Being the best at taking out insurgents in tricky situations made her indispensable to her commander, which lead to her being assigned to a recon mission out in the desert. The intelligence reports said that a lot of lieutenants from the other side were disappearing at a particular spot and they were tasked with checking out the situation. “It is probably a network of tunnels leading into the mountains.”, was what most of her team had thought. But as she and her spotter watched from nearly a mile out, the squad that was spreading out began to get pulled beneath the sand, the lucky ones. As they watched in horror, men and women were launched into the air before their bodies became mangled, as if being torn apart by giant, invisible claws. Seconds later, she felt the air grow cold as her spotter instantly exploded into nothing but blood. And that was when she felt something’s breath on her neck. Hours later, when she was taken back, she was in shock wondering why she was left unscathed during the slaughter. Unsurprisingly, no one believed her story when she was questioned after being rescued and she was diagnosed with PTSD and Schizophrenia before being ‘let go’.

Months of medications later and after almost being convinced that she was crazy, Clara reached out to her with details about a town called Dunwater. After reading more than a few classified reports from similar circumstances of her own, Clara started entertaining the thought of paranormal creatures of the night being real and passed on the information to Kris. And intent on learning about ways to kill them or at least get some feeling of control back, Kris heads out to Dunwater, fully loaded.

PERSONALITY:

She doesn’t know if it is because of her harsh early memories of her childhood, but she always preferred being a lone wolf growing up, even when her second set of parents tried their best to give her a normal life. Her personality traits also include being quiet, soft spoken, cold and calculating.

Being jerked around by her superiors after the incident has left her with severe trust issues. Also, she is not much of a talker if she doesn’t know someone well. And as for her romantic interests, she prefers them like she prefers her guns: long distance, fierce and silent. Very few words a day and a quick, dirty fuck every once in awhile is what she considers a good relationship.


CHARACTER FLAWS:

Short-tempered: She has always had a short fuse when dealing with douchebags and diplomacy has never been her forte at the best of times.

Blunt: The fact that she lets people know bluntly and honestly, what she thinks of something when asked for an opinion, has earned her appreciation sometimes but it mostly means she has to deal with people’s ire.

Invulnerability: Exhibiting vulnerability to people has always made her an easy target to be manipulated and she has made it a point to act like she doesn’t care about anything when in fact, she cares deeply about people. If she ever shares anything with someone else, it is not to be treated lightly because it means you have her loyalty and respect for life, at least until you betray her anyway, which means you probably don’t have long to live.

FEARS & COURAGES

FEARS:

Nightmares: She has battled severe insomnia since the night her team was wiped out in the desert and requires the help of pills to fall asleep usually. And even when she does, she has been told that she moans and whimpers a lot in her sleep and would appreciate it if someone was laying next to her when she gets some shut eye.

Fire: As a child, her shirt sleeve caught fire while playing near the fireplace and burnt her upper left arm slightly and she has since then always been terrified at worst and uncomfortable at best at signs of things burning.

Monsters: A recent addition to the list after the incident with her squad. Particularly, invisible monsters that bring fog and cold while smelling like dead rats. And monsters that leave leave gashes that look like they were made with huge animal claws.

COURAGES:

Will to fight: Doesn’t get frozen in fear in a fight and tries to act and get over psychological shocks quickly. Quick enough to engage her instinct to flee, hide or get to better defensible position or a vantage point to get ready to strike back.

Fires: Is working on beating her fear of fires and has taken steps to make sure that she doesn’t get frozen in fear at moments where fire or burning objects are involved.



PLAYER LIMITS:

Refer to my O/O thread.



CHARACTER CONNECTIONS:

None, except for Clara, her step-mom.

TRAUMAS & INJURIES:

Burn scars on her upper left arm.

Nightmares after the incident.