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I'm hoping to start a small group RP, but am a little hesitant to do so. They've never seemed to work out in the past. And, I've decided to be a little stricter as to who can join. I will be requesting a small sample of writing with your character sheet. You will be PM'd if you've been accepted.

But! That information above is clearly not what you've come here to read is it?

While the plot isn't too developed at the moment, it is loosely based off Scott Westerfeld's novels The Midnighters. Excellent novels that I've read over and over again and am currently in the process of doing so again and it sparked a craving for a RP based off the novels. Not with the original characters, though it is possible they will make small appearances. If you don't wish to be a Midnighter and would rather play as Darkling that has tangible thoughts and higher intelligence please feel free to do so! However, at least some knowledge of the books is a must!

SO! With that in mind I'm looking for at least four other people to join. However there is a potential for more, so if you're very inclined to play but wish to make up your own power please submit, if it's good enough I might just take it, though I'd rather see the required spaces taken first. I'm also looking for a potential Admin of sorts to help pick up the slack when I cannot govern the group myself and help make big plot decisions, PM me if interested in that position. Two heads are better than one after all!

SEEKING:
~ Acrobat
~ Seer
~ Polymath
~ Fire Bringer
~ Metallurge

Acrobats in the Secret Hour are not held down by gravity the same as during the rest of the day. Seemingly always floating, and able to jump or "fly" fair distances. Like all Midnighters their eyes are photosensitive in the Daylight and reflect back indigo in the secret hour. They also must eat almost constantly and while in the Secret Hour can share their ability with others through skin to skin contact.

Seers are the Lore keepers. While blind as bats in the Daylight, they know where Darklings or Slithers have been since they leave a sharp, clear "focused" slime like trail or print. They are also photosensitive and like all other Midnighters their eyes flash indigo. They can read and write in the ancient symbols used by Midnighters for thousands of years. Seers can also pick out Midnighters during the Daylight hours claiming their faces being fuzzy with their glasses on and clear when off.

Polymaths are literal math geniuses. Often with a photographic memory towards numbers (especially 13 and it's multiples) patterns. They often create they best weapons against Darklings. Like all Midnighters they are photosensitive and flash indigo in the Secret Hour. Their power never shuts off, often dreaming in numbers or images.

Flame or Fire Bringers are Darklings worst nightmares. They have the ability to bring things like fire and modern day technology into the Secret Hour. While they can kick some serious Darkling ass, they are just like a regular Daylighter and have no adverse affects from being a Midnighter other than the fact that all Darklings want to kill them.

Metallurges are people who have the ability to find precious stones, metals, minerals, oil, water and probably natural gas in the earth. Like the other Midnighters they are photosensitive and their eyes flash indigo in the Secret Hour.

Mindcasters are basically mindreaders. Manipulators and Darkling Radars. They can force (ahem I mean) "suggest" a person to do something miles away. Wipe someones memory and when in full control of their skill can pass information on through a touch. They can sense who is and who isn't a Midnighter and have been known to recruit Midnighters from all across the country. They are often darker in nature, feeling most a home in the Secret hour and a fairly rare occurrence not as rare as a Fire Bringer but close. They are most like the Darklings than any other Midnighter. Very photosensitive and their eyes flash indigo.

A few rules/suggestions before I post the character sheet that I'd like to see:

~ All characters must be over the age of eighteen. I'd prefer no younger than twenty.
~ At least one paragraph for your application's writing sample.
~ You may use pictures, as long as they're not anime
~ You may have more than one character, Midnighter or Darkling just please fill up the required spaces first.
~ Please post finished Character Sheets here and once accepted please move them to the "Characters" section of the Play

OOC Thread: roleplayerguild.com/topics/86016-midni..
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EXAMPLE CHARACTER SHEET (Midnighter)

Name:

Age:

Height:

Gender:

Appearance: (Photo or description)

Occupation: (School/Work)

Personal Interests: (Reading, Writing, Singing etc.)

Fears: (Spiders, Falling, Water etc.)

Power: (Acrobat, Fire Bringer, Seer or Polymath)

Misc. Info:

Sample:

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As a better example I will be providing my own character sheets

Midnighter Character Sheet:

Name: Aslynne Marie Hawthorne (A.K.A Az or Azzy)

Age: 25

Height: 4’10” (147cm or 1.47m)

Gender: Female

Appearance:



Occupation: Stable Owner and Manager, Trainer and Instructor at Windstar Stables

Personal Interests: Reading, Horses, Equestrian Sports of all kinds and kicking Darkling ass

Fears: Loss of control over her abilities, physical touch, large crowds, fire and hospitals

Power: Mindcaster

Misc. Info: Aslynne must almost always have to have music in her ears while in large crowds due to the constant “mind babble” from Daylighters, she loves animals because touching them doesn’t bring or cause pain to others. She’s still in the process of learning to control her rather difficult abilities while trying to balance a normal life. She cannot date or be intimate thanks to her fear of touch. Daylighters wouldn’t understand and she’s sure no Midnighter would want to take the time or risk their mental health at trying to be with her. She wears long sleeves and gloves no matter the season to prevent accidental touching.

Sample:

Asylnne’s pale blue eyes stared up at her ceiling, the odd and eerie color of the Secret Hour painting the white tiles blue, her purple bedroom walls made black, the clock frozen at midnight, her sheer curtains stuck in the middle of a billowing breeze. She’d have to change the thumbtacks on the window sill soon. All thirteen of them were probably starting wear and she didn’t want any slithers coming in. This was after all the only time of the day that she didn’t have to hear or taste the Daylighters thoughts...

Relishing the silence she sighed rather contentedly. She wasn’t close enough to another Midnighter to hear them, they had to at least be a mile away for her to even catch a blip of their mind. She was easily a mile or two from the main town.

Though, she missed the breeze, it was a hot summer night and she lied atop her covered completely nude to the night air. Her long hair fanned out behind her on a silk covered pillow, her cheeks still flushed with the summer heat. Thankfully, the Secret Hour was always tepid, but devoid of movement leaving the air stagnant in her silent room. Even the horses down in their pastures were frozen in time. The Darklings though... ohhh those sour... bitter... dirty tasting things... she could sense them at the edges of her mind, like slime. Just at the edge of the forest that surrounded her home. She never entered there in the Daylight hours.

Still their incomprehensible thoughts were far better than the constant babble she heard in the daytime.
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@Ayla I'm not familiar with the books, but I've had my own troubles with GMing in the past. If you'd like, I could send you links to the GMing guides that I've found informative and helpful? (I'd have to wait until tomorrow, the site they're hosted on is down for maintenance).
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I haven't followed the books; are they absolutely a required read?
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@The Omnipotent Sphere
That would be very kind of you thanks!

@Resonance
Here's the link to the Wiki Page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnighters_tril.. As long as you have a basic understanding, I don't mind. ^-^
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I've only read the first one but I'm still absolutely in love with that book(and all of Scott Westerfield books really). I'm assuming it'll be set in Bixby?
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Nope, new people new town. Some made up place with the correct longitude and latitude. I don't want to spoil the ending but the gang splits at the end of the third book to look for other Midnighters. Which is what gave me the idea for this group play.
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@Ayla Should I post a finished CS here then?
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@Kaalee
Yes, you should.
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Just read the wiki and super interested! Will have to wait to see some others character sheets to get some ideas...
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Name: Danielle Hyperion

Age: 24

Height: 5'7

Gender: Female

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Occupation: She owns the only decent cafe in town, the Cafe Seville

Personal Interests: Computers, cars, her cafe

Fears: Her abilities failing, the dark, darklings

Power: Fire Bringer

Misc. Info: Like any other Firebringer, she doesn't suffer from any adverse affects in the sun

Sample: Danielle lit the thirteen candles all around her shop, looked up at thirteen photos with thirteen objects each in them(new photos every two weeks) that were tacked above her door and window, and turned on the radio, which was on station 93.1, and her phone which transmitted to station 93.1 playing only music from 1921. She wasn't sure those last two actually did anything but she loved music from the early twenties and every little bit helped. She was terrified of the Darklings, and never, ever, went out of her cafe during the Blue hour. She had met other ones like her, who tried to persuade her to join them outside, but she wouldn't have it. She knew, theoretically, that if anyone was safest from them it would be her and her ability since they hated the light and the technology, but it still freaked her out. If her abilities ever failed, which they hadn't so far, she'd be screwed against the darklings. Most everyone was scared of the dark at one point or another, and there was a very good reason. The things that go bump in the night were very real and Danielle, with her lights and her technology, was very high on their kill list.
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I would maybe be interested in Acrobat but having not read how they work I was thinking maybe a new power, any ideas?

I like to play someone who can be a little difficult and stir things up. So a selfish arrogant power, maybe something physical?
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@Dark Light Acrobats interact with gravity different. It's basically like how you see people jumping on the moon. Through physical contact, the ability to extends to whatever your touching.
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@Dark Light
@Kaalee
Acrobats can even jump tall buildings once they get some skill. Like other Midnighters (sans a Fire Bringer) they are photosensitive, but a side effect of their personal power is that they are almost always hungry since their power burns a lot of energy.
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CHARACTER SHEET (Midnighter) WIP

Name: Tyler Virth

Age: 32

Height:

Gender: Male

Appearance:


Occupation: Currently unemployed, at a younger age he had a potentially successful career as a motorcycle racer but lost it all with an injury. Now he hops between meaningless labour jobs.

Personal Interests: Adrenalin sports, bikes, tattoos, leather, whiskey.

Fears: Tyler is claustrophobic, He fears being trapped.
He also fears being helpless or considered weak.

Power: Acrobat,

Misc. Info:

Sample:
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Still searching and in hopes of starting sooner rather than later!
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Name: Lee Cayde

Age: 30

Height: 6'0

Gender: Male

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Occupation: Symbolist teach at local college & Martial Arts teacher privately owned dojo.

Personal Interests: Lore. Reading. Symbolism. Runic Magic. Martial Arts. Honing his five senses.

Fears: Darkling and Slither uprising. Not being able to decipher something. Fire.

Power: Seer

Misc. Info: Lee has never been a part of normalcy. Not just because of his powers but because of how his life was shaped. He only remembers being brought up by foster parents who mostly ignored him. He had to learn to defend himself and learn to understand his vision. Always the loner and always the one who knew what things meant. He studied things that interested him by attraction upon discovering them. Martial Arts, Runic Magic, Symbolism...he blends them all into his own unique style. He has kept secret for a long time that he can read text that he cannot find anywhere...that mentions things not known anywhere else. And he feels compelled to combat what is written within these texts. The secret hour is when he utilizes everything he is.

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With just one more required space to fill I've decided to open two spots as a create your own, please read over the existing Midnighters carefully and the other character sheets before posting.
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Name: Abel Pereira

Age: 24

Height: 5'11"

Gender: Male

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Occupation: Accountant

Personal Interests: Math, Science, Working Out, People

Fears: Feeling Alone, Drowning, Needles

Power: Polymath

Misc. Info: Abel grew up in a big city, used to its chaos as well as its comforts. He was always pretty good with math, having a natural talent. Naturally, he went to school planning to become and actuarial consultant. The idea of analyzing so much information and making decisions on risk based on the math fascinated him. Then at one point about halfway through college, as part of an internship he came down to Brisbane on business. The moment he got near the town, it seemed his ability with numbers had increased to a ridiculous degree. Not only that, but that first night while at a local college party he discovered this hidden hour. He met the Midnighters who filled him in. Fascinated by the subject he went back and finished school but with the intention to move here when he was done. He's been working in Brisbane as an accountant for two years now. He can't help but see the numbers in just about everything.

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Abel rolled his eyes. He couldn't believe he was dealing with this again. He had double checked his numbers, even though he knew he didn't need to. He'd proven time and time again that he didn't make mistakes (except for the ones he threw in on purpose to avoid drawing attention of course). Still the old man insisted that something had to be wrong here. Was it really that hard to believe he'd saved the car wash business THAT much money? No, but it sure was hard for the old man to believe Abel'd done something he couldn't.

Whatever, just three more minutes, no five minutes until he could get out of here. The office's clock was two minutes and fourteen seconds slow. Then again, he was a professional wasn't he? Not like he was gonna bolt out to happy hour with his friends the moment the clock struck 5, was it?

No, but at least Mr. Arnold seemed satisfied. Despite his impatience, Abel gave his boss a grin. "See, you just gotta trust me. When have I ever let you down?"

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I meant to do more for the sample but I need to sleep. I hope that's enough.
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