#iHunt - Monster Hunting in a Gig Economy - Recruitment Thread (LGBTQ+ Friendly)

[Crash]

What is iHunt?
#iHunt is a game about stories. Stories about how people react to utterly fucked circumstances. The characters in #iHunt kill to survive. Not because they’re in a war zone. Not (usually) because someone’s trying to kill them (at least directly). They hunt because they’re broke, and in the gig economy, everyone’s gotta hustle.

#iHunters use an app called #iHunt where they take contracts to kill monsters. It’s like Uber, except instead of picking up thirty-somethings who want to save a few bucks on cab fare, you’re stalking and killing terrifying creatures of the night. The idea’s the same—a day job’s just not enough anymore. With mounting healthcare costs and rising rent, sometimes you’ve got to put your health and safety on the line to… have health and safety.

Now this game isn't really about being a badass monster hunter.  Yes it is in here and yes it is badass, but really this is about struggling young disadvantaged people trying to make ends meet and having to resort to some dangerous and, lets face it, pretty fucked up measures to do so.  Not all monsters you will be asked to kill will be "evil."   It will be up to use to decide if missing rent and meds for your 80 year old Gran Gran is worth it.  Now I don't want this to be completely depressing.  Gallows Humor is the best humor and should be applied liberally.  This is really about the iHunters life and relationships and how they grow and change and get torn apart.  You want love and laughs, have them.  You want tears and pain, go for it.  You want to have sex with other badass hunters or hell even the occasional hot vampire babe or hunky werewolf.  Its all here for the writing if you want it and I encourage you to do a little bit of it all.

Who Hunts?

Millennials, mostly. Haven’t you read all the articles about how they’re killing your favorite fast casual dining restaurant that you haven’t actually eaten at but maybe once in the past two years? Or what about the one where they’re killing the diamond industry? Or the one where they’re killing the travel industry? What you don’t read is the one about how they’re also killing vampires, ghouls, zombies, and werewolves to make ends meet.

What’s a millennial? For these purposes, a millennial was born some time between 1980 and 2005, generally identifies strongly as part of the information age. They’ve never had a job during a time of general economic prosperity. They started working after “the bubble popped.”

People with good, comfortable, healthy backgrounds don’t hunt monsters. People from good, safe, wholesome upbringings have faith in institutions. They know they can call for help and someone will answer. The worst shit they have to deal with, they can just sit down with some sheet cake and #selfcare it away. A lot of times, those people stumble upon #iHunt, end up getting together the cash to take out a contract, and calling for the kind of help that can actually stop monsters. But the important thing is, they’re not doing the hunting—their instinct is to look for the hunters.

More often than not, it’s people from broken homes that end up hunting monsters. There’s a few reasons. First off, they need cash. Poverty and misfortune isn’t a singular instance or just temporary inconveniences—they’re cyclical. Second off, these people have the tools and adaptability to deal with diverse threats. Maybe a kid off the streets doesn’t know vampires are weak to stakes through the heart, but they know how to handle a scary motherfucker trying to kill them. They just called him “dad.” Third off, they’ve hit bottom. Someone who’s lost everything isn’t afraid to die. They know desperation—and if they’ve lived this long, they’ve been empowered by the results.

For many hunters, #iHunt is their first chance to truly take control of their life. It’s not perfect, but it’s a way better paycheck than minimum wage. Think about it like coal mines for millenials. It’s dangerous. It’s fucking deadly. But when that check comes in and you can tell the bank to fuck off for another month, who cares about the bloodstains on your jeans?

Can I play a monster?
Yes, sort of, but not right now. Sometimes #iHunters get infected with lycanthropy. Sometimes they become vampires. It happens.  It isn’t pleasant and if you’re found out you will probably be hunted down, but it is possible, in the future…maybe.  I want iHunters first and if the game goes well I will open up spaces for monsters in a limited format.

The App

• The Rating:  This is the minimum average hunter rating for the job. If you don’t have at least an average rating of that star level, you can’t take the job. Generally, higher paying gigs require higher average ratings, but this isn’t always true. Your rating is a direct result of your client reviews and monsters successfully hunted.
• Photo: A recent addition to the app. The #iHunt corporation decided that a shift to photos was essential to keep competitive. However, most photos are all but worthless on the hunt. Since every listing requires a photo, many listings simply have an uploaded image of a black box, or the client’s favorite Pokemon. Taking photos has gotten more than a few clients killed. There are rumors the app will shift again to video, which could be downright deadly for clients who insist on filming monsters in action.
• The Listing: The listing name should give a pretty good idea of what you’ll be hunting, and where you’ll be hunting it. A lot of clients don’t actually know what you’re hunting, and they’re just guessing. So, if the client says it’s a werewolf, you might very well be dealing with a skinwalker, which is a completely different fight. The time is what’s allowed for the contract. Most clients will just repost the same listing if it expires. It’s not like a haunting just goes away because of an arbitrary deadline. If you take longer than the deadline to complete the gig, the client may or may not pay.
• The Pay: This is the base pay for completion. It’s discretionary. The client can reduce pay by up to 25% without justification. If they score you 2-3 stars, you only get 50% of the base pay. If you get a one-star review, you only bring home 10% of the base rate. iHunters says that a 25% pay cut is fairly common. So when you take a job, consider the pay to be 75% of the listing and “be pleasantly surprised” when you get full pay. Pay can take between 24 and 72 hours to post, depending on your bank’s relationship with #iHunt. Sometimes #iHunt pay gets flagged as suspicious activity, which can lock your account for upwards of 45 days for investigation. That’s rare, however.
• Sharing Button: If you don’t want to do a job, but know a friend who might, you can share it with this. If they successfully pull it off, you get 5% of the contract amount (taken out of their cut.) The app doesn’t show all listings normally; an algorithm curates listings for you specifically. So you may only ever see some contracts through referrals. Nobody really knows the criteria the app curates with.
• Job Description: The client provides a short description. Sometimes it’s enough to do the job. But usually, you have to consult with the client for the necessary information. This should detail the basic requirements, and any potential bonuses available, usually for quick, quiet, or thorough work.
• Messaging: This is how you connect with the client. If you need job details before accepting, you hit them up here. But if you ask any questions about money, you can be reported and lose your account. The company says they don’t want clients to feel “pressured.” 

The Buttons:
The five buttons are how you primarily engage with the app. This is how they work:

The undo button can cancel your last contract, if you tap it within ten minutes of taking the job. After that, you’re obligated to complete it.

The X button is how you tell the app you don’t want the contract. Tap this, and it vanishes from your queue forever.

The approve button is how you take a job. Tap this and it’s yours. You have ten minutes to cancel, but otherwise you get any additional job details as well as the client’s direct contact information.

The heart button saves a contract you might be interested in but don’t want to take. Clients have an option to offer additional money to clients who have hearted their contracts.

The cash button is how you outbid someone. It animates for ten minutes after another hunter has taken the contract. Tap this, and you under-cut their rate by 5%. They have ten minutes to counter with an additional 5%. So on, and so forth, until nobody outbids for ten minutes. Outbidding is a new feature, and a highly controversial one with hunters. There’s some evidence that it’s caused fatal conflicts that claimed at least four hunters’ lives in San Jenaro alone.

If you approve of the listing, you can also just swipe right. If you want it out of your queue, you swipe left. Unfortunately, sometimes accidental swipes happen, and abandoning a job is grounds for a one-star review. Hunters affectionately call these mistakes “Butt Hunting.”

Types of Hunters or What’s My Kink?
Hunters are defined in broad terms with some slightly less broad subcategories.  iHunters often float between them but tend to have a preferred method of hunting.  Common kinks are Evileenas, Knights, Phooneys and 66ers.

Evileenas
You take what monsters don’t want you to know and use it against them. They hide clues, truths, wisdom, and power in texts and traditions then lock them away and keep them for themselves. The secret, the profane, the forbidden should be shared with the world, even if the world isn’t willing to use it. Because if we don’t use every tool at our disposal, some day, darkness will overtake the world. Which is a really really dramatic way to say, fuck the shadows, bind them, burn them, bring them to ash.

Watcher   
A full throttle action librarian every nerd says they want to be but don’t have the guts to go in for. It involved a lot of weightlifting, to be honest. Books are heavy.  You are super good at research montages

Arcanist
You study literal magic. Real minor magic, but magic. You’re not a sorcerer, or even a proper witch, but you’ve learned enough tricks along the way to use their own shit against them. Protection is for everyone, it has to be.

Alchemist
You can make “potions,” which are kind of like normal drugs except they come in dorky bottles. Alchemist potions make you stronger, faster, hotter, awesomer. Basically, you make magical potions to keep your friends on their feet or give yourself an edge when you hunt solo. Some of this stuff is more dangerous than heroin, so it’s a fine line to walk, but no one signed up for #iHunt as a long-term solution.

Knight
You overcome your quarry with overwhelming force. There can be finesse behind the application of your force, but the force is the key here. Surgical strikes are great as long as they come with a lot violence. You’re not a surgeon with a knife. You’re a surgeon with a shotgun. 

Operative
The world around you is an extension of you body, and you use all of it. Parkour, parked cars, or park gates. It’s all good for bringing down your quarry. Operatives are really good at dealing with the world around them. Any time you’re compelled or imperiled relating somehow to the physical environment, you find a way to flip the situation in your favor.

Hitter
Your body is a tool and no one knows it like you do. You weren’t born for this work, you honed yourself full time most of your life and it’s paying off. Hitters learn to push their bodies beyond what any reasonable human should, and come back punching. When you’re hit by a physical source of harm you ignore some of that harm and turn it back around on your attacker.

Player
You use your unit, your team, as an extension of your own body. It means putting them on the line the way other Knights put themselves there, but loyalty goes a long way. As does skill. Players use the team as a weapon and always have contingency plans.

Phooey
You use tools because that’s what separates us from the animals, right? But more importantly, tools are what separates us from monsters. From the mindless, primordial horrors who can’t even comprehend language, to the ancient who can’t keep up with changing technology, the tools you have are what keep you alive.

Hacker
You are the BnE expert of the modern era.  While it is not as cool as it is on TV, you’re amazing enough to make it seem cool. Hackers do shit with computers.  Easy enough.

Driver
You use drones and related hardware to get into all the areas no one wants you to be.  It might suck to lose that drone, but when it blows up and takes half that sorcerers face with it people will think twice about saying you only good for some voyeuring.  Piloting a toy drone or a car.  You can do it all.

Anarchist
You use what you got.  Build it, break it, rebuilding it or blow it up.  On the fly tech are your bread and butter.  Guns make you stupid.  Duct tape makes you deadly. Most Phooeys build tech. You destroy it and you are good at what you do.

The 66
You know people and they help.  You are a community-focused hunter and have a way of getting people to talk or rally them to your cause, at least for a time.

Face
A good Face does their homework to sell the story, and learns their craft well. You blend, you sneak in, you navigate complicated social interactions the way some people breathe. You know when to be noticed and when to disappear. Like a ninja in a prison guard uniform—or a cocktail dress.

Cutout
You are a trusted go-between. You’re got a knack for appearing neutral and getting two parties to come to some sort of agreement. You know people. All kinds of people. Even “people” in scare quotes. Comes with the job. Cutouts make connections. They act as go-betweens. You’re good at getting the upnod or blessing from the enemy, even. Since you tend to hunt societal predators, you’re good at getting their superiors and peers to kindly look the other way.

Agitator.
You use the pressure of the people to corner your targets. It’s not about putting protesters on the line, mitigating harm is part of the job. But it is about making sure monsters remember angry mobs with torches and pitchforks when they decide if they’re going to do evil or not. Agitators turn public opinion against their enemies. So long as you’re dealing with a known enemy and there are bystanders or witnesses and you haven’t totally fucked yourself, you have a good chance of turning the masses against your enemies.

Isn't this Illegal?
But Crash isn't this murder? Yep. #iHunt is murder. It's just murder that nobody's bothered to enforce because it's wrapped up in layers of Silicon Valley "disruption." The public by and large doesn't care about what happens on #iHunt, because 1) they don't really believe in monsters, 2) they don't really think about the implications, and 3) if they do, they assume the marks always did something to "deserve" the contract. In fact, if you go on social media and talk about how #iHunt should be shut down because it's monetized murder, you will get 100 guys replying to you, telling you that you're trying to "punish the app creators for being successful," that you're "hurting jobs," or that you're engaging in "purity politics."

Usually, the monsters #iHunters hunt are, well, monsters. They're awful. They're terrorizing people. They're eating people. It's bad. If you take a vampire off the streets, there's a good chance you're saving countless lives in the long-term. But it's not always that simple. It's not always mindless corpses devouring puppies. Sometimes the really awful monster takes out a contract on the lesser monster to eliminate competition. Sometimes vampires are good people who got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, and hunters have to make a Hard Fucking Choice. Do you kill the innocent person who happens to be a wizard? Or do you eat the 1 star review, and maybe miss out on paying rent this month? It's no coincidence that many #iHunters have ended up in at least temporary relationships and friendships with former marks.

I am stealing this idea and a lot of the background text from Olivia Hill and her iHunt: The RPG.  If you like it check it out.

General Rules

1. Drama in game is great.  Drama out of game is not. Even if you are a friend of mine.  If you cause drama you are gone.

2. This game definitely has some political and social overtones.  I am not trying to be subtle.  If you don't agree with them that is fine.  Don't play.  This isn't a place for debate and I don't want to hear it.  It will be considered drama and you will be asked to leave.

3. This game will likely fall in the non-con or extreme forum, but there are ground rules.  All players have agency over their characters.  You god-mod without another players consent to do so and you are gone.  No getting off on gore or violence.  No Bathroom Stuff.  If your scene has any non-con, dub-con or other super kinky stuff in it you should put a trigger warning in the header of your post and spoiler the body of the post so those that want to read it can and those that don't can safely play without stumbling on it.

4. Do not argue with a GM.  You can state your case once and if the GM says no then that is it.  If you have an issue with a decision and feel you can no longer play in the game that is okay.  We all have different needs for creative freedom and sometimes we find games don't allow for them.  Don't get mad, just bow out gracefully.

5. While this game isn't about sex it is about relationships and reading a really good sex scene is fucking awesome so I have no issues with how much time your character spends having a good time.  There will be a private thread for sex scenes so they don't clutter the other threads and all residential threads will be considered private threads too.

[Crash]

What Can I Play?

You can play a Human.  But Crash you mentioned something about playing a monster!  Yes, but not now.  This game is about #iHunters.  I want to establish the hunters first and see how hunts and such go as well as get characters established socially which is really the focus of this game. I may...MAY...open the game up to monsters later.

You can play a 1-star, 2-star or 3-star #iHunter.  Why would I ever play a 1-star n00b?  Well it is often fun to play the underdog in over their heads.  It also allows you to not have to read through all of my background information as you won't know much of anything about the supernatural landscape of San Jenaro. 

You can play someone than knows some magical rituals or alchemy.  I have to define this a little more but if you want some make sure your occultist skill is pretty high.

You can play any gender, ethnicity and sexual preference you want and it does not have to be the gender, ethnicity or sexual preference of you, the author, as long as you are being culturally sensitive and not fetishizing. 

You can have more than one character.

What Can't I Play?

You cannot play someone who is rich.  Hell, you cannot play someone who is comfortable.  Those are the fuckers that hire you because you are poor and struggling and late stage capitalism sucks.

You cannot play a monster. At least not yet.  We will see if that changes.

You cannot play a racist, Nazi, right-wing fuck nugget.  Nazi facists fucks can never be played.  You can always ALWAYS punch a Nazi in my games.

PM all characters to Crash for acceptance.  You can also post them in this thread if you want to show them off.

<Name>

<@socialmediahandle>

iHunt Rating:

Pronouns:
Gender/Sexuality:
Birthdate/Age: <All Characters should be between 18-40 so born between 1980-2002>
Day Job: <What job is forcing you to supplement your income being a #iHunter>
Kink: <Evileena, Knight, Pooney, 66>
Flavor: <What subset of Kink?>
Favorite Monster to Hunt: <If you really like hunting a particular type of monster put it here>
Favorite Style of Music:

Theme Music

<url to music (optional)>

Personality: <Give me 5 personality traits that define you.  At least two should be negative.  You can expand on them if you wish to give us a better idea of who you are>

What’s your Drama?:  <Everyone has problems.  What in your life is causing you the most trouble?  Asshole Ex?  Student Loan Debt?  Chronic Illness?  OCD?  Your boss is a total Karen/Chad?>

Vision Board: <What is something that you really want?  It could be a family. It could be a puppy.  What is the thing you really want?>

Things I’m Good At:
< One Star n00bs get…one skill at +3. You get two skills at +2. You get five skills at +1>
< Two Star iHunters get…two skills at +3. You get three skills at +2. You get four skills at +1>
< Three Star iHunters get…one skill at +4. You get two skills at +3. You get three skills at +2. You get four skills at +1>
These will help in determining your success or failure in a hunt.

List of Skills

Academic <What specialization: You will get a bonus if it come up>
Assassin <Quick and efficient kills also covers shooting>
Athlete
Fighter <Close combat training>
Grifter
Guerrilla <You’re a strategist, an insurrectionist, an urban tactician>
Hacker
Influencer
Investigator
Maker
Medic
Occultist
Organizer
Professional <Specialization or Job needed.  Focused expertise in something>
Socialite
Social Worker
Spy
Survivor <A bit of a catch-all for being someone that just knows how to get through shit>

~Selfies~

Background: <You don’t have to go nuts here but the more you give the more other players will know where your character fits in with theirs and what connections you might have.>

On's and Off's:

Faceclaim:

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[b]Pronouns:[/b]
[b]Gender/Sexuality:[/b]
[b]Birthdate/Age:[/b] <All Characters should be between 18-40 so born between 1980-2002>
[b]Day Job: [/b]<What job is forcing you to supplement your income being a #iHunter>
[b]Kink:[/b] <Evileena, Knight, Pooney, 66>
[b]Flavor:[/b] <What subset of Kink?>
[b]Favorite Monster to Hunt:[/b] <If you really like hunting a particular type of monster put it here>
[b]Favorite Style of Music:[/b]
[spoiler=Theme Music] <url to music (optional)>[/spoiler]


[b]Personality:[/b] <Give me 5 personality traits that define you.  At least two should be negative.  You can expand on them if you wish to give us a better idea of who you are>

[b]What’s your Drama?:[/b]  <Everyone has problems.  What in your life is causing you the most trouble?  Asshole Ex?  Student Loan Debt?  Chronic Illness?  OCD?  Your boss is a total Karen/Chad?>

[b]Vision Board:[/b] <What is something that your really want?  It could be a family. It could be a puppy.  What is the thing you really want?>

[b]Things I’m Good At:[/b]
< One Star n00bs get…one skill at +3. You get two skills at +2. You get five skills at +1>
< Two Star iHunters get…two skills at +3. You get three skills at +2. You get four skills at +1>
< Three Star iHunters get…one skill at +4. You get two skills at +3. You get three skills at +2. You get four skills at +1>
These will help in determining your success or failure in a hunt.

[spoiler=List of Skills]
Academic <What specialization: You will get a bonus if it come up>
Assassin <Quick and efficient kills also covers shooting>
Athlete
Fighter <Close combat training>
Grifter
Guerrilla <You’re a strategist, an insurrectionist, an urban tactician>
Hacker
Influencer
Investigator
Maker
Medic
Occultist
Organizer
Professional <Specialization or Job needed.  Focused expertise in something>
Socialite
Social Worker
Spy
Survivor <A bit of a catch-all for being someone that just knows how to get through shit>
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[b]Background:[/b] <You don’t have to go nuts here but the more you give the more other players will know where your character fits in with theirs and what connections you might have.>

[b]On's and Off's:[/b]

[b]Faceclaim:[/b]


[Crash]

Recruitment Pitch
What is #iHunt?
Who Hunts?
Can I Play a Monster?
The App
Types of Hunters or What's My Kink?
Evileenas
Watchers
Arcanists
Alchemists
Knights
Operative
Hitter
Player
Phooeys
Hacker
Driver
Anarchist
66
Face
Cutout
Agitator
Isn't This Illegal?
General Rules
What Can I Play?
What Can't I Play?
Character Sheet
Sample Character Sheet: Sydney Joyner
The Monsters
Vampires
Sorcerers
Werewolves
Demons
The Hungry Dead
The Rest
San Jenaro
#iHunting
Face Claims
Game Threads
Character Thread

[Crash]

Sydney Joyner

@sydliscious

iHunt Rating:

Pronouns: She/Her
Gender/Sexuality: Cis Female / Lesbian
Birthdate/Age:  February 15th, 1995 / 25
Day Job: Part-time Admin Assistant for the local free clinic.
Kink: Knight
Flavor: Hitter
Favorite Monster to Hunt: Doesn't matter to Syd
Favorite Style of Music: Rap/Hip-Hop

Theme Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZW0MfYBrPE

Personality: Confident | Caring | Fun | Tough | Blunt | Disorganized

What’s your Drama?:  Crippling student loan debt. Little Brother on a Milk Carton

Vision Board:


Things I’m Good At:
Fighter 4, Survivor 3, Investigator 3, Occultist 2, Social Worker 2, Maker 2, Influencer 1, Medic 1, Athlete 1, Assassin 1

~Selfies~

Background: When Syd was ten years old her little brother disappeared out of the room they shared.  He was quickly labeled a runaway by the San Filipe police and the whole incident was dismissed but the police in spite of little Sydney insisting it was the "Knock-Knock" man.  Everyone in her neighborhood knew about the "Knock-Knock" man. Parents scared their kids with him when they were being bad.  Eat your vegetables and make your bed of the "Knock-Knock" man will get you!  It was an urban legend that no one took seriously, while they broke out in cold sweats at any knocking noises in the middle of the night. To police it was an urban legend.  To Syd it was all too real and while Syd and her family were left to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives she never forgot those impossibly long arms that reached through the window and snatched Tyrese.

Her family never quite recovered. Her dad felt them a few months later and she was left to help her mom and grandparents.  You grow up early in San Filipe and for Syd she had to grow up earlier than that.  Syd hid some of her fear in making herself stronger.  She was naturally tall and solid.  She frame nearly the same now as it was when she was 16.  Her coming out put a strain on her relationship with her mom and many of her so called friends.  It made her the target of unwanted attention but in revulsion of the fear and childhood trauma she hid away, she pushed back strong and got a reputation as someone not to mess with in high school.  She was who she was and had been raised never to feel like she inferior because of it.

Syd managed to stay out of the gangs that worked the Southside of San Filipe even though a number of them she counted as friends and earned herself an acceptance to UC San Jenaro.  Syd worked a full time job to help out her family while going to college.  Syd tried to keep her head above water with scholarship and grants but the UCSJ tuition ballooned every year and most of her money went to helping her mother and grandmother who fell ill and had mounting hospital bills.  When she finally graduated UCSJ she was buried in a mountain of student loan debt and with the economy in the tank no one wanted to hire someone with no experience.  Well no one wanted to take a risk on a gay, black woman with no experience.  They didn't say it, but it never seemed to be as much of a problem for her straight white male friends.

Syd has worked a number of jobs in college and after.  She was a ticket taker at Movieland Park for a while  She has been a bartender, a waitress, she even worked as a striper for a month in college to help pay the bills. It was probably the most lucrative job she had before signing up on the #iHunt app.  Syd has carried the same picture of Tyrese around with her since she was in grade school and still has nightmares about what happened that night.  She joined the #iHunt app in hopes of finding some real information about the "Knock-Knock" man and to pick up a few extra dollars when she isn't working part time as an administrative assistant for the South San Filipe Free Clinic.  She found out she has a knack for hunting monsters and so far the extra income as managed to keep a roof over her head, even if it is a shitty apartment just on the southside of San Filipe Boulevard.

Faceclaim: Megan Thee Stallion

[InnocentSynn]

Claiming Johnny Depp as a face claim.  Sheet to follow

[Crash]

Claiming Johnny Depp as a face claim.  Sheet to follow

Got it!

Added a On's and Off's line on the character sheet.

[Crash]

Yay we have our first character!

[Esmeralgirl]

I am definitely putting a face claim on Samara Weaving as she will be perfect for such a role.

[Crash]

I am definitely putting a face claim on Samara Weaving as she will be perfect for such a role.

I will add her to the face claims!  Once we get a couple of characters in, I will create an OOC thread.

[Crash]

I am claiming Ben Dahlhaus and Remy LeCriox as well.

[keyotess]

Yay we have our first character!

And here she is! 

Desiree Rey

@RayofDesire

iHunt Rating: 2

Pronouns: she/her
Gender/Sexuality: female / lesbian
Birthdate/Age: July 20th 2000 / 20
Day Job: Fitness Instructor / Artist
Kink: Knight
Flavor: Hitter
Favorite Monster to Hunt: Anything that goes down by hitting them hard enough
Favorite Style of Music: Meditative

Theme Music

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Personality:
Independent: dislikes accepting help from others, tries to do everything on her own
Focused: hard to distract her from what she is doing
Dislikes corporate world: blames them for the death of her parents
Doesn't like talking: slight stutter making talking difficult, the more stress the more stutter
Doesn't like crowds: she is very uncomfortable in large crowds of people

What’s your Drama?:  mother died, father is in a coma and she inherited their medical bills, college loans due even though she wasn't able to finish college, hates 9 to 5 jobs

Vision Board: House on the Beach

Things I’m Good At:
Athlete/Gymnast: +3
Fighter: Bagua Chuan: +3
Medic: +2
Professional: fitness instructor: +2
Professional: Artist/Painting: +2
Investigator: +1
Assassin: +1
Hacker: +1
Survivor: +1

List of Skills

Academic <What specialization: You will get a bonus if it come up>
Assassin <Quick and efficient kills also covers shooting>
Athlete
Fighter <Close combat training>
Grifter
Guerrilla <You’re a strategist, an insurrectionist, an urban tactician>
Hacker
Influencer
Investigator
Maker
Medic
Occultist
Organizer
Professional <Specialization or Job needed.  Focused expertise in something>
Socialite
Social Worker
Spy
Survivor <A bit of a catch-all for being someone that just knows how to get through shit>

~Selfies~

Background:
Desiree's parents moved from Colombia to San Jenaro for her father's job when Desiree was a baby.  Things were going good, Julia and Paul were progressive parents and allowed Desiree to enter all kinds of athletics, from footbul/soccer to basketball to track, even to martial arts.  Desiree was a natural and picked up activities quickly.  But what she really loved doing was painting.  She loved painting everything, people, landscapes, objects, abstracts.

Everything was going well, Desiree had been accepted to the the local college with a sports scholarship.  Of course it wasn't a full ride like the boys got, but it paid for a significant portion of her tuition and fees.  But that was when things started going wrong, her mother got breast cancer.  She was getting treatment, although insurance wasn't paying for everything and her parents life savings were slowly being drained.  When her mother's cancer metastasis, her father looked at new treatments and tried a couple, taking out huge loans because insurance wasn't going to pay for unproven treatments.  Her mother died within a year. 

Now her father and her were buried in debt, her father started a second job and she started working as a fitness instructor at the gym she trained at. She started at college at her father's insistence, even though they had to take out more loans.  Her father was driven to a heart attack by the demands of his corporate controlled and fell into a coma, while she scrambled to keep up with all the bills. Insurance picked up some of the expense, but not all of it and since her signature was on the hospital records as approving treatments, she was held responsible.  Her father was still in a coma in a long term care facility and might wake up any day.  Life Insurance kicked in a covered some things, but again, not everything and she was left trying to cover the rest.  All her extended family was in Columbia and had disowned her parents for stupid culture and religious reasons.  She had to give up on her college dreams, sell the house her father had bought and put all her parents stuff into storage, slowly selling stuff of to pay bills.  She worked full time as a fitness instructor, but that wasn't steady enough.  She was pointed toward iHunt by her Bagua instructor as a way to make more money in a hurry.


On's and Off's:
On's: energetic sex, rough sex, dirty talk, hair pulling, Big Strapons, being pinned, being stripped, light bondage
Off's: drugs, edging/orgasm denial, torture scenes, toilet scenes, major bondage, slavery, heavy angst or drama scenes, and heavy mind control

Faceclaim: Julie Pauline Rodríguez

[Crash]

A lot of the initial interest in the game seems to have dried up.  I want to thank everyone that submitted or is working on a character but unfortunately the numbers are not working out to be a sandbox style game which is what I prefer to run.

Thanks again for your interest and maybe I will try again another time.