The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Plot
In a contemporary alternate reality in the city of Aldred, you have died on February 18. It is now one week after your death, February 25th, and you awaken in a hotel with a completely new identity. Your memories are intact, but your name, your physical appearance and attributes have all changed. You even have newfound knowledge in certain fields that you did not have in your previous life. On the bedside table is a wallet with your new identity along with a cellphone and a set of keys for your hotel and vehicle (if your character is of age to drive). Upon waking, a message is waiting on your cellphone from an unknown number that simply says "Welcome back from the dead".
A man who simply refers to himself as Thanatos explains to you that you have been resurrected to do his bidding. He may command you to steal, to save, or to kill. If you do not, your physical body experiences stigmata and you die with the exact same wounds and symptoms as your first death, and your soul is sent to oblivion. He also opens your eyes to the darker side of the world where creatures of lore lurk and hide in shadows, masquerading as humans. Not much is known about his true plans or his history other than what he divulges.
This RP seeks to dive into the topic of how one would face life after their death. Every character has spent a majority of their lives in Aldred, and because they are technically reborn as a new person, they have the chance to interact with those they knew in their previous life. This also presents you with the opportunity to answer the question "what would it be like going to my own funeral?"
Missions
Missions will be posted here. Each mission has a timeframe and duration and will be cycled through each time Thanatos makes an appearance. Thanatos will be our indicator for what the date will be. As for now, it is currently February 25 and the first mission is a collaborative effort. While your character may not take the entire duration posted on the mission list, they will be unable to start any other missions until the duration has completed. This insures that your character can only do a limited number of missions. For example, if Mission "A"'s expiration date is on the 15th of march and you started mission "B" on the 12th of march with a duration of 4 days, Mission "A" is no longer accessible. However, you can start a mission if the duration is longer than the expiration date.
Necromancer Hunting
- Duration: 7 days
- Expiration Date: March 5.
- Mission: A group of necromancers known as the Phoenix Brotherhood is out to steal Thanatos' reincarnation spell. Your job is to hunt them down and kill them. There are a total of twelve targets. You are all to work together to hunt them down.
Setting
The entire setting will be in Aldred and the subcommunities and districts are still a work in progress. Technology is slightly more advanced, with greater achievements in prosthetics, mechanics, and computer engineering.
- Aldred: An umbrella term for the massive metroplex surrounding the city of Aldred. Aldred itself is a burgeoning urban city that, over the years, has grown despite the economic recession. I give you free rein on creating your own places for your characters to go to, but there are some established neighborhoods.
- Hotel Lazarus: Located at the heart of Aldred on 606 Rue Street. The main setting and where you will meet up and find your missions. To the public, it is a simple hotel among many, but in truth, it is a place for the supernatural to reside.
- Makers District: To the public, it's an esoteric part of town where one can find just about anything. However, it is also where most of the supernatural reside. One can find just about any sort of supernatural trinket here if they know the right door to go through.
Character Sheet
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Glossary
- The Origin: A metaphysical realm where all events and phenomena of the past, present and future have been recorded. The origin is also the place where souls reside and return after death, and is the source of all magic. To date, no one has been able to fully tap into The Origin, as it contains the fundamental root of the universe. When a soul resides in The Origin, it is returned to the collective energy and the soul has no awareness of its own existence.
- Reaper: When a reborn completely depletes their soul and faces soul death, Thanatos grants them autonomy, but they lose all sense of personal identity and they become a reaper.
- Reborn: Artificially reincarnated beings by Thanatos. Their strength and agility are twice that of a healthy adult and their senses are heightened just slightly above their species' maximum potential. They also gain the ability to sense supernatural phenomena. An ordinary human can only feel very strong supernatural phenomena, but a reborn can sense if and when a supernatural phenomena is within their immediate surroundings.
- Reincarnation: The process of the soul passing the veil and to the origin, then returning to the corporeal realm while retaining its former identity and memories. While the memories may not manifest themselves unless triggered, the identity of the soul remains intact. Reincarnation occurs naturally. Only Thanatos has managed to find a way to artificially reincarnate someone.
- Soul: A being's essence that comprises their identity and their raison d'etre. As a soul ages in corporeal form, it grows with memories.
- Soul Death: The passing of one's soul to the veil while their physical vessel remains alive. This renders their physical vessel vulnerable to manipulation.
- Soul Relic: An item that was crafted from part of a reborn's soul. It contains an immense amount of power and can only be broken by another soul relic. If a soul relic is broken, the essence returns to the main soul.
- Specter: Souls that have not passed the veil and have no corporeal body. [*]Stigmata: Wounds corresponding to a reborn's death and appear when Thanatos punishes a reborn for insubordination, or if a reborn loses a part of their soul (ie, using their soul relic's secondary function).
- Vampire: An undead being who lives off the blood of others to survive. Their soul is encapsulated and gradually corrodes into something unnatural, thus rendering them incapable of tapping into the origin and practicing magic. Sunlight, burning, silver and/or a stake to the heart, and decapitation are all lethal to a vampire. Older vampires (those who are at least a thousand years old) have a higher tolerance to sunlight, wood stakes and silver, but will die when decapitated or burned to dust. When they die, their soul cannot dwell in the corporeal realm and immediately passes through the veil.
- The Veil: Refers to the boundary that souls must pass through from this realm to The Origin and vice versa. When a soul dies, it returns to the veil. A being is considered dead once their soul passes through the veil.
Rules
- You can come and go as you please so long as you finish your character's plotline. I don't necessarily mean that they have to ride through an entire main plot. Real life issues can get in the way of things, and I want you to have the freedom to take a leave if necessary.
- You are more than welcome to create more than one character as long as you can commit to fleshing them out and giving them a plotline
- I highly encourage collaboration, but you are always more than welcome to go along with your own plot. I will come up with enough missions that any number of players can join in.
Basic function: when used, she is able to slow time so she seems to have faster reflexes and time to react.
specialized function: able to completely stop time, but it is powered by her soul and takes a lot of effort on her part.
Personality: Calm, collected and patient. Smarter than most and knows it. A bit of an A-hole and more than likely liable to cover his own ass before helping others.
Unique Skillset(s): Jack was a lead detective in Brooklyn, NY in his past life. Over 40 years of experience turned to pure instinct in his current one. Muscle memory and "hunches" are his main weapon. Throwing some heavy handed and nasty punches thanks to his new undead strength is secondary.
Being a Ghoul has its strengths and weaknesses. Inhuman strength twice that of a normal bodybuilder, the endurance of a zombie and the bite strength not unlike a hyenas. This all comes with the price of an ever lingering hunger for flesh. dead, alive, it dont matter... The average ghoul consumes about 80lbs of flesh and bone a week on average. The longer he goes without, the weaker and more feral he gets.
Soul Relic and Ability:
Veilring- an eerie ring that refuses to leave Jacks hand. The eye moves and watches Jack as if observing his every move.
Main ability- The ring grants him very accute senses as well as a huge resilience to pain. This allows him to push his body past his limits despite the wear and tear it causes.
Secondary ability- "Veilwalker" The eye can see into the Veil and reveal things that cannot be seen by the naked eye. It can also replay gruesome deaths and horrible experiences that happened in the immeadiate area back to Jack at the cost of a taste of his soul.
Former Name: Detective Richard Wells
Former Age: 57
Former Gender: Male
Former Species: Normal human
Former Appearance: 
History: A Nypd homicide detective, if not a corrupt one in the least. Has dealt with it all in his past life. Murderous ex wives, suicidal teens, homicidal boyfriends and his personal favorite gang related rival murders. Nothing better to him than seeing some snot nosed gang banger get whats coming to him. One more in the ground is one less on the streets was his motto to live by. Known to be an information broker on the side to rival gangs for the right price lead to be his demise when discovered to be a rat, a staged meeting at a local cemetary turned ambush when promised a huge tip on the next drug trafficking deal location was "leaked" to the wrong person. The gang leader beat Richard half to death with a bat and tossed him in a freshly dug up grave along side some poor widows late Ex husband. Burying him alive yet Nice enough to leave a rubber hose leading out of the ground just wide enough to let air in so he didnt suffocate. Instead he starved to death after a week of no food and what little water dripped through the pipe when it rained. When his partner found him three weeks later it was only because of the grieving ex wife of his dead companion complained about a decaying smell coming up from a small tube next to the headstone. When dug up his partner noticed that Richard tried to take a bite of the Ex-Husbands dead arm in an attempt to sate his hunger. Autopsy later proved his death from formaldehyde poisoning.
