Lixue is accepted, I'll add her to the list and start the IC tonight, for the moment though I have to run.

Sorry Argetlam, I didn't see your character until after I posted, but he's accepted, except that I wanted all the characters to be apprentice level at first, but he'll advance quickly enough

There changed it then.

He is accepted then, thank you for changing it, I appreciate it.

Is there anymore spaces for a new assassin?

My Character Sheet:
Name: Ma’nakhtuf (Meaning: Master of Works)
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Appearance: Dark skinned, had short black hair, dark hazel eyes. Has permanent scars, cuts and grazes all over body. One major scar on right leg from a previous wound, robes were a velvet blue and white cloth.
Weapons:
Main weapon - Bow and arrow (master in archery)
Secondary weapon - Two small but sharp daggers, the blade is made from hammered copper and and a horn laid handle (passed down by previous ancestors)
Armor: leather shoulder straps, and a nice copper inlayed pair of leather sandals
Archetype: Weapons Master
Abilities: Strength and coordination
Skills: Small and ranged weapons
History: Ma’nakhtuf was born into a rich family. His daggers and weapons were handed down to him from his ancestors who were, unknown to him, Assassins. Along with being an Assassin, his father was also a skilled and stealthy tomb-raider, the source of the family's wealth. He also taught his weapon skills to his own kin, including the use of bow and arrows. Ma’nakhtuf was literate, meaning he showcased a higher level of intelligence to most other members of Egyptian society. He was sent by his parents to a House of Instruction. While his parents were quite rich his father got killed when on a mission for the Assassins, and at the the age of 9 Ma’nakhtuf found himself supporting his widowed mother and 2 younger siblings. The cuts and scars he had was from many fights he had gotten into to protect his family wealth. At age 21, he was approached by an old friend of his father's, who revealed to him the existence of the Assassins, and offered him a place in their ranks.

Your character is accepted.

For anyone interested I added 2 new skills:

Parkour: you spent years mastering the ability to traverse your environment and easily and go from A to B in the fastest possibly way. This includes climbing

Blending: You have studied the people of Egypt and have become a master at hiding in plain site among the masses. Foreigners may have a hard time with this because they look different from Egyptians.

You can edit your characters now if you like, PM me the changes and I'll put them on your CSes in the Accepted Characters section of the first post, I'll postpone the IC for 24 hours to give anyone who is in a different timezone a chance to edit their characters before this starts.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Is there still room for one more? We've got a lot of fighters there... but no one's gone the intelligence route. I have an idea for an archetype I'll name "Diplomat". Basically takes a few of the intelligence skills plus the bare-handed fighting. I can get a CS in by tomorrow, if that's okay?

Yeah, we could always use someone with a little brains.

Having some trouble making my character accurate. I can't seem to get an accurate picture of the time... I mean, it doesn't have to be perfect, but I don't want it to be implausible.

1. My assassin's parents would be nobility... But aside from the Pharaohs, I can't figure out how to convey that. Trying to figure out what they would learn and what the house would be like...

2. You mention women having more equal treatment within this time period. Where can I get more info on that? I mean, if my girl's parents are okay with her going around the city on her own, it'd make life easier. On the other hand, it may be fun to write her having to duck her bodyguards while on assassin missions.

Here's what I have for the profile, got everything worked out but the history.

Name: Etana
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Appearance: Dark skin, short black hair under a braided black wig, light brown eyes, somewhat heavy figure. While her favorite robe is blue, she does wear what's appropriate and even slightly fashionable for the nobility. She also wears plenty of eye makeup and jewelry.
Weapons: Poison tipped dagger, bow and arrow
Armor: None
Archetype: Diplomat
Abilities: Intelligence, Charisma
Skills: Unarmed Combat, Poison, Interrogation
History: Be brief, the details will be revealed in the RP, include in this your character's race, if they are native to Egypt or have come from Asia, Europe or other parts of Africa and the world.

All right, your character looks pretty good so far and you have a good idea on where you would like to go with her, which is always good, so to answer your questions:

1) Nobles in Egyptian society were related to the pharaoh, priests, scribes, doctors, lawyers, or important military personnel. Many of the nobles were overseers of the lands worked by peasants. So, in short, they were the government. Your character's father would have most likely been the Pharaoh's relative or the sibling of another important government person and his job would have probably been to oversee the peasant workers (unless he was a government person himself). The rich in Egypt lived in a separate part of town from the peasants, often protected by walls, their homes were large, having as many as 70 rooms for both the family and servants to live and work in, and often had their own courtyards in the middle.

2) Although men and women in Egypt had traditionally distinct powers in society, it seems that there was no insurmountable barrier in front of those who wanted to deviate from this pattern. Egyptian society recognized women not as equal to men, but as having an essential complentarity, expressed especially in the action of producing children.

The info for the second answer was taken from this page, it's a wikipedia page on women in ancient Egypt and you may want to take a look at the "Working Women" section because it has some information on the roles women played in both the upper and lower classes.

As for how the father would have treated his daughter we don't really have a lot of information but it would be fair to assume that he would give her very little freedom in her youth and going out into the city, unless it was to the bazaar with her mother to shop, would be nearly impossible without having to sneak out of the house without being seen by servants or guards.

So we good to go?

I'm almost done with the IC post, but I have to help a friend move some stuff out of their apartment, then I'll be posting it and we'll get this thing going. Sorry again for the delay guys, but I'm ready to go when you are, I just have to do this one thing today and then I can get the IC up.

Also, do you guys want to start out in RL or in the game?

Real world as a group of partners in the project?

RL, just to establish the RL scenario, maybe have it cut into the Animus sections?

The first IC post is up, there really isn't much need for us to make RL character sheets since, for now, all we will be doing in the RL section of the RP is talking and using the Animus. Just a little note for you guys, Abstergo has flown us all in to NYC and has set us up with rooms at a pricey hotel nearby, where we will live when we aren't using the Animus and we might interact there in some RL sections of the RP.

Oh, and Dizzy, when you're done with your CS go ahead and post in the IC, your character is accepted already, you just needed to finish your history.

Can I post in the first person

Of course, feel free to RP however you want to, I'll be posting in 3rd person but you can post however you like.

.Name: Etana
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Appearance: Dark skin, short black hair

under a braided black wig, light brown

eyes, somewhat heavy figure. While her

favorite robe is blue, she does wear

what's appropriate and even slightly

fashionable for the nobility. She also

wears plenty of eye makeup and jewelry.
Weapons: Poison tipped dagger, bow and

arrow
Armor: None
Archetype: Diplomat
Abilities: Intelligence, Charisma
Skills: Unarmed Combat, Poison,

Interrogation
History: Etana's parents were a priest

and priestess, successful and respected,

well liked by most. The only thing they

did not have was a child of their own.

Despite nightly prayers to Isis, all sorts of

remedies, and all the private time

together they could spare, they were not

blessed.

One day, a baby girl was left at the

temple of Isis. There was a note in

another language, that was loosely

translated as 'please love our child'. The

other priestesses knew of Etana's

mother's lack of children, and all saw the

baby as the goddess' way of blessing her

priestess. Etana's mother took the child

home, and after much debate and even

trepidation, they raised the girl as their

own.

Sorry about the formatting, I can't make it stop doing that. Anyway, let me go post.

Don't worry about the formatting, it's an easy fix, I did it while I was editing the first OOC post, I know not everyone has posted their introductions yet but most have so I'm going to move things forward a little bit, anyone that hasn't posted yet is welcome to show up a little late by accident, it's no big deal.

ready when you are