Humanity is only Skin Deep - OOC

[Shoryu]

First of all, This RP is inspired by an epic little comic known as Skin Deep. I don't know the artist, nor do I hint in any way that 'all' of this is only my own making, I'm going to build up an RP based around the theme of the comic, Which really I already enjoyed before I even found a comic about it. xD

Plenty of Updates pending their relevance =3

Now, moving on.

IC


Current Status: IC beginning Stages




Notices: Still interested in Co-GMs, Particularly someone to keep track of things along side me incase I miss something, everyone makes mistakes.

The world that the humans know? Is not the true state of the world, though it is no less real than the creatures of legend that they believe aren't real. The 'humans on top' believe they are the superior species of this world, that no other sentient creatures exist that could challenge their superiority... Their wrong, on more than one count really. The first is that they think humans are all there is on earth in control, The second is that anything non human gives 2 shits about 'challenging' them for control.

In reality, right alongside human existence and society there exists a whole other world beneath the surface, though not always 'literally' beneath the surface. There's 100's if not thousands of species of creatures that humans believe only exist in legends and myths, or just their imaginations, some even 'see' these creatures and just pass it off as not being real, as false as that assumption can be.

There's been no 'wars' between humans and 'everything else', and nobody really is interested in beating humans into submission, some even want to find a way to unite the world without having to resort to a war. Sure some bloody hate humans, but they are so few that they know better than to go getting violent, well, usually.

Regardless, The true 'normal' is that humans are vastly more numerous, and the Vast majority of non humans are content to just live in peace, even if it means they have to either pretend to be human, or live in one of the world's Avalon's away from human society. It'd been done for millenia now, It's practically an art, some people even purposely reveal themselves just to see what will happen, and even then the 'cat stays in the bag' so to speak.

Course don't mistake that, There are a lot of humans that know about them, some go looney and start shouting out madness when their back 'out in the world', others just try to forget what happens, some find out they weren't even human to begin with, and other's still may join them in helping keep things secret, not to mention enjoying the various unique bits that come from life around them.

Pretty much all info can be found on the Wiki, or in the main section above, but just for fun I may add in a few useful bits of info here to save time for some people, as well as things such as important species.

Some simple things to note, there is no laws or even restrictions that say you can't reveal yourself to humans as a magical creatures, It's not illegal, and nobody, at least nobody official, is going to hunt you down for it. the hard part would be getting humans to believe it, not to mention to 'ensure' that some won't go 'experimenting' in that classic horror movie fashion on everything unique they get their hands on.

Also, Baby Gryphons are fucking ADORABLE!!!!


Also, this can be helpful =3 skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Word_of_God

None yet, feel free to make your own.

None yet, feel free to make your own.

The Largest Avalon in Newyork, Connected in several Deep Tunnels to the other Avalons around and within Newyorks various Districts, And to one of New-yorks biggest monuments, Central Part, by way of a few hidden tunnerls carefully disguised in obscure corners of the Park.

It could be considered a small underground city of it's own, though not of the massive sprawling towering design of new york above, It is littered with massive support pillars to ensure cave-ins don't happen, and could easily be considered one of the largest Avalons in the world.

This Avalon could be considered a network of smaller ones, connected by smaller tunnels and and a central underground avalon amidst the subways of manhatten. there are a number of abandoned buildings connected to similarly 'abandoned' subway stations that aren't on maps anymore, and there always seems to be a shadey character outside these buildings waiting to scare off uninvited humans.

The various 'mini avalons' vary from small shops in some places, to little hotels, or maybe just an entertainment area or a bar, generally they are manned by only a few people who keep things running, the main sustaining force behind the mini avalons being so numerous is the Central Avalon in the same area.

The Brooklyn Avalon is near the docks, and is one of the primary sources of resources for the rest of the Avalons, having private control of at least one dock makes it easy to acquire imports from other parts of the world, and is part of the reason the new york avalons have a lot more colorful things than most other places.

Of course they still have their own little shops and hotels to Cater to the needs of the dock workers.

The Staten Island Avalon is a series of Warehouses that are connected through shallow underground tunnels, and houses several smaller villages worth of structures, with a false roof on the warehouses, they allow real sunlight in but from above they look like plain warehouses, They also have rather average look people hanging around outside them to keep uninvited humans out.

The Bronxe Avalon Is centered beneath Yankee Stadium, It contains a small village worth of buildings, mostly shops and the like, though a few other things are present.

The queens Avalon is a network of Clubs and bars open mainly to other magical creatures, though certain ones allow humans to mingle.

There are many Clubs there, Each manned by a number of other creatures, sometimes even humans, 'bar bets' are quite frequent, as well as a few more 'underground' activities that may be especially condoned by the elders.

Off the edge of Montauk point there is an Avalon that could be consider both above and below ground and water, It really just looked like a Huge Rock spire coming out of the ocean just off shore with no interesting out-side features.

There is an under-cropping on the side 'away' from land that allows small boats to fit under to enter a well hidden 'dock' of sorts, as well as a few small under-water and under-ground caves/tunnels that lead into it.

This avalon seems almost like a vacation spot, the huge spire is filled with numerous floors of shops and luxuries, a couple of hotels, and a number of clubs, even one that is 'under water'. There also a number of illegal activities taking place behind the scenes in some of these places though.

An experimental Avalon, It is a long Avalon, in the middle of the city, A carefully hidden 'school' of sorts, with a number of things other Avalons have, in addition to an experimental school made to assist those who are too young or 'new' to learn about the world as well as themselves.

It is a risky business due to it's limited enrollment of humans, though carefully screened first, all the same things can still go wrong there.

The school is planted firmly beneath Riker's Island, connected by several tunnels placed in a number of parts around the area and carefully hidden so that only those who know the way in can get there.

It has full boarding facilities for those who

Sorry for the unorganized nature of everything below this point, I finished it all before I realized i could've done that better XD

http://skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Avalon

Avalons are varied places about the world, generally well disguised as a place that no human would want to investigate in depth, some 'may' be enchanted, but most are just incredibly well disguised locations.

In Avalons magical creatures are easily capable of being themselves without the slightest need to disguise themselves as humans, and they generally include a small shop or something, the larger ones may have whole communities living in them, such as the liverpool avalon, that is an entire bloody town disguised as a huge Warehouse, the warehouse was built around the town ages ago when it became necesary to hide from humans.

http://skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon

You can guess what dragons are capable of XD the wiki article says what's generally known, but the popular opinion is that dragons are extinct like the sphinxies, which is obviously not true.

It's been hinted that there is a whole community of them hidden away 'somewhere', god knows where, but you can bet they know what their doing if they can keep such massive creatures hidden by the 100's.

It is not known if they can use medallions, shape shifting, or even magic.

http://skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Nixie/Nokk

most info is in the wiki XD nixies, and their male counterpart nokks, has a few unique abilities of their own, the ability to control water for one, and another is that their saliva when used on another creature, will transform them temporarily into an aquatic version of themselves. This transformation will last for as long as they remain wet, which means it could theoretically be long term if they remain in the water long enough.

Nixxie/nokk saliva is a popular pranking tool, one the transformation happens, it is impossible to shift back until the afflicted person has dried off, even the medallions can't do it.

This reffers to the process of someone who previous lived as a human, discovering that they are in fact, 'not' human. It's an understandable mind blowing for most of them and some simply can't handle, get a medallion, then go back to pretending to be human.

The thing is they are never human in the first place, they are just under a spell that makes them look and feel human, even to themselves, it's not really perfectly understood yet, It's an illusion of great power.

This reffers to humans who aren't really human, just those with a spell passed down from their parents naturally, and they can remain living human lives their whole life, minus those who's lifespans may change things even without the spell being broken.

Whole generations can potentially go by before one may be 'turned', a process that takes place when a descendant of a medallion wearer touches another medallion, which will break the original spell and replace it with that of the current medallion. This will also cause them to transform into their full form, 'usually' immediately, but some occasions have come about when the medallions magic may muck up the already present spell cause a more sow and painful, 'non illusionary' and permanent change. though magic can be used to remedy this event, it takes an incredibly skilled mage to do so.

I know I don't need to explain most of this XD I'll just add in some useful bits that might not be common knowledge.

1. Humans can learn magic, however humans are practically a 'blank slate' and are much easier to have permanent magical back fire effects than other creatures.

2. Some humans 'are' trusted with the secrecy of magical creatures. Those who aren't trustworthy and go spouting the secrets aren't really considered a problem, It's generally considered that other humans just won't believe them anyway, there's no reason to go hunting someone down, besides, the magical community wants to be portrayed in a better light than most human legends do.

3. Not all humans are actually humans, Reffer to the 'unturned' entry for more info on this.

There are a slew of medallions around the world, not enough for 'every' creature to have one, the oldest of which seem very simple in design, and can affect any creature capable of being affected by it, though newer ones, that are still practically ancient, are designed for specific creatures only.

These medallions allow the user to Transform in ANY combination between human and full form, that means a gryphon could be a 'human with wings', a human with claws, a Gryphon with human parts, and so on. Though teh most common are 'human form, half form, and Full form'.

ALSO, It has been shown that 'shock and awe' type effects can disrupt their control of the medallions magic and cause someone to unwittingly partially or full transform.

Transform isn't technically the right word, though it's not perfectly explained, the spell is an incredibly complex, advanced illusion run by ancient magic beyond the current generations level of understanding.

Another important detail, 'new' magical creatures that are the children of someone with a medallion do not 'need' a medallion, nor ever to know that they aren't really human. The spell is passed down the blood lines until they still humanized creature in question touches a medallion, at which time the perpetual spell is broken and replaced with a new one by the medallion, leading to a 'turning'.

Also very important, Breaking or considerably damaging a medallion may not completely break it's magic, however, it will ensure that even using the medallion you cannot full shift into a human form, and certain traits will be unhideable without incredibly powerful magic to repair the medallions spell.

The main forms of magic to be seen will be that of the medallions that many creatures have, or that which is naturally available to certain species.

Magic 'can' be learned by all manner of creatures, even humans, however It is volatile, and will frequently backfire unless done properly, which CAN have permanent side-effects, you'll be lucky if their harmless effects.

Don't be afraid to have your character know some magic, just remember, It's difficult and volatile, broken concentration or weakened focus can cause it to backfire.

Yes this refers to the type of lion in the legend about hercules, and yes they are a variety of massive Lion with nigh impenetrable hide and super human strength the likes of which could potentially match super man.

They are restricted in a lot of ways by both 'the elders' and in some other ways, such as not being permitted to participate in even sanctioned fights, because they can 'literally' acidently kill someone and bring down the entire building.

The main insurance to ensure that one of more deplorable character just goes about destroying things is the fact that several more will come down on them to fix this danger to the secrecy, and it's generally known that few creatures are capable of harming a nemean lion, the main one of which is other nemean Lions.

Bugbears are an interesting race, Big, Deadly, and Scary as hell, yet harmless if they have no reason to harm you, a few are practically just high class pranksters due to their abilities.

Bugbears generally always have glowing eyes, huge claws, some odd trait of attacting bugs, and the ability to locate people no matter where they are, aside from those using a 'bugbear talisman' that makes you undetectable to them, but these are very rare and expensive. Bugbears are also undetectable to eachother, though they can gues that soemone is a bugbear even if they don't look like it by finding a gap in their 'senses' where a person actually is when they see them.

Among pranksters of the magical side of the world a number of bugbears generally reign supreme in that respect, however it is also practically the holy grail of pranks to pull one off on a bugbear, though a warning comes with this, as managing to prank a bugbear, which will likely require a method of avoiding their detection, also makes you 'very interesting' to them, which means a high value prank target yourself.

We all know what a Sphynx looks like I hope, and as the story says they have an enormous ammount of magic in them, but, they are believed to be extinct, along with dragons, due to an ancient war that took place, though neither is fully true in reality.

ANY Sphynxes comhing into the roleplay 'must' be newly turned, as well, prepare for this to make you a valuable target to 'other groups' in the RP, not to mention blow some minds of other magical creatures with the fact that you exist.

'Monster' Refers to creatures who aren't able to take a human form, whether through medallion, natural or magical means, or able to disguise themselves easily as humans

Monster does not mean such in the 'evil' since or that their dangerous, just that they can't take on a human look.

Members of a certain Avalon that is believed to be somewhere in england [I think XD], the members of which are considered to be very unusual and unique, as well as somewhat xenophobic, minus those that don't hang around 'just' there. Some people might describe them as seussical at times. A couple of species that are called wonderlanders include the Bandersnatch and the JubJub bird.

http://skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Crossbreed

Here, just take a look at this artical XD

http://skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Totems

http://skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Demon

Angels are physically genderless beings with no freewill and an instinct to carry out tasks they are assigned by... well, someone, he hasn't been mentioned yet.

http://skindeep.wikia.com/wiki/Angel

My Biggest rule, is just do your best not to be bland and deadpan XD Now, I don't mind basic dialogue posts, but try to include things, reactions, thoughts, so on, it makes the read much more interesting.

Aside from that, basic Common sense and Casual RP rules apply, you know, at least a handful of good sentences, don't be a dick, and so on.

Also, what you do 'IN' the RP, is not restricted, I'm all kinds of open to free-roam RP, just never forget that some things will certainly have consequences, but others could have unexpected benefits, who knows.

I really don't care if you curse more than my mother when she's taking a timed calculus test, or if you get frisky with other critters, or even if you behave like a total slut, that sort stuff is all part of characters and their behaviour, we're all adult enough to know what needs to be taken to private, or can just be referenced in a time-skip.

OH, also, you can have as many characters as you like as long as you can handle them all, you can even create your own NPCs if you like, just don't burn out and suddenly abandon us without warning DX it's not cool dude, Seriously, you bug out without warning And I swear a bugbear will find you, and it won't be pleasant >=3

Name:
Nicknames:
Species:
Subspecies: This may pop up in some cases, like how there are different breeds of gryphons for instance.
Status: Turned, Unturned, Cursed, Mutated [Magically of course], Other [something of your own.
Age:
Size: one for Human Form, Half Form, and Full Form [ Size instead of height Because some are measured by length rather than height, sometimes both.]
Weight: Again, one for each possible form

Appearance: You can use as much detail as you like, I prefer pictures personally, but I won't complain if you have any trouble finding one of your favored critter.

Personality: I won't require this be filled out, but it never hurts to do so, I recommend however that you update it as things come to be known IC.

Biography: Same here. I'm one of those people to whom Ideas come 'over time', so I understand if you just don't know what to put there yet, It's fine, just fill it out as things come to you while we RP.

Special Stuff: Because some species will have unique abilities, others special traits, other's may have spells to play with, and other's may have all of the above, and yet others may have none, this category is for you to include anything unique about them from stark physical traits, to unique powers or even curses they ay have.

Other: Anything else you wanna include, likes, dislikes, habits, hobbies, and so on.

[Argetlam350]

Name: Zachary Solaire
Nicknames: Zac
Species: Werewolf
Subspecies: N/A
Status: Turned, though it is still unknown to him.
Age: 21
Size: As a human he stands around 6 feet tall, while as a werewolf he stands at around 9 feet.
Weight: Human: 180 pounds
Werewolf: 410 pounds

Appearance: Human


Werewolf (the big guy on the left)
http://argetlam350.deviantart.com/#/d1rxngu

Personality: Timid, not much of a talker. He though is kind and caring and is not afraid to speak his mind. He isn't the bravest of people but he will help friends whenever he can. Tries to avoid trouble though sometimes it seems trouble finds him.

Biography: Leads a normal life for the most part thus far. Currently resides in college with a side job to pay work off the student loans as he goes to it. Little does he know of a lost family secret that can turn even the puresest of men into a wolf by the full moon.(Ya I'll update this a bit more later).
Special Stuff: Heightened senses (even as a human but that won't develop until he fully recognizes his other half), and hightened aggression when days get close to the full moon.
Other: Enjoys reading, plays guitar.


I'll be adding more a little later just wanted to check if the whole werewolf thing still worked with you and all. Also have two other characters to work on.

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Name: Priscilla Halfbreed
Nicknames: N/A
Species: Half human and half dragon, so she's a crossbreed.
Subspecies: N/A
Status: Born as one
Age: 20
Size: 5 feet when human, perhaps 11 feet when in her full form.
Weight: human 101 pounds and 320 when in full form
Appearance: Human and true form
Can't find a good picture for her human form so the best thing I can come up with is think of her true form but normal human size and without the dragon stuff (the tail, the slight horns above her eyes, etc)


Personality: She's usually talkative and energetic but also shy around stragers.

Biography: Her mother was a human, and her father a dragon. When she was born her mother ran away when the truth was revealed to her. Her father raised her on his own and she managed to adjust into human life. At first she questioned why she was different and why she couldn't be who she was but over the years, she has learned why. She choose her own last name since her father never did have one besides one he made up as he lived his own life. She only recently moved to New York along with her father to explore and find a job.
Special Stuff: She can turn invisible though only for short amount of time and only in her true form.
Other: Nothing currently.
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Name: Seathameet the Wise, but goes by Nathaniel Drako
Nicknames: Nate or Drake
Species: Dragon
Subspecies: Everlasting Dragon
Status: Other
Age: appears mid to late 20s, early 30s but real age is unknown
Size: 5 feet 8 inchest when human
full form stands at 30-40 feet at the shoulders, maybe a little over 90 feet in length, wing span of 200 feet.
Weight: human weighs about 180 pounds
full form weighs a few tons. (I'm not going to bother and try to think of a reasonable weight XD)

Appearance: Human Form:

Dragon Form:

Personality: He is kind and caring, and one who can easily start a conversation amongst strangers. He isn't afraid to speak his mind though it can lead him into some tough situations. Is brave and always willing to help those in need. He has mixed views on humans. He likes them and dislikes them for many reasons.

Biography: He is one of the few of his kind left. He is an Everlasting Dragon though don't let the name fool you, it doesn't mean he'll live forever. Though he's race of dragons did have some longest lifespans of any species but really his kind is just like any other dragon that can fly and shoot flames from his mouth. Though they also had good wisdom for those who looked for it.
His true age is unknown though he was around during medival Europe when a lot of his kind was slaughtered. He managed to hide himself and has lived a decent life. He has a daughter that he does deeply care for and will protect at all cost.

Special Stuff: Besides the normal dragon stuff of breathing fire and flying, nope nothing special.

Other: Has a daughter, Priscilla.

[Shoryu]

Haaaah, I recognize him =3 working on my own CS once I get some posts done first =3

[Argetlam350]

Which one you recognize, the werewolf one? Ya that's from BeingHuman of the charater Josh. I enjoy the show. Waiting on the third season which won't start until next year.

[Shoryu]

BLAWL xD I didn't update the page when i posted that XD yeah him =3

heh, a werewolf, a dragon, and a half dragon XD you got your work cut out for you with them xD

[Argetlam350]

Ya but I like a challenge. XD

[Shoryu]

As do I XD and by work cut out for you, i meant the fact that dragons are 'popularly' considered extinct, the daughter is a crossbreed which some people already have problems with, but showing dragony characteristics is gonna freak some people out, 'some' =P, and a werewolf, who's also not supposed to exist in the first place XD

you got like, the trifecta of Trouble climbing up your tail XD hahah, i got no problem with it though =3 I'm already gonna use something that doesn't technically exist as one of my characters already XD in addition to one that does, at least.

[Argetlam350]

Ya, that's the issue when you love creatures that usually are considered rare. XD Oh well might as well give it a shot.

[Shoryu]

HAH, You sound just like me =3 Though I'm saying my own Dragon splurge for another RP i'll start up when I have LOTS OF FREE TIME again xD It's god a much more volatile history between humans and dragons/other magical creatures than this RP does XD

[Argetlam350]

Sounds interesting and neat. I would definitely join that one as well.