The year is 2022, and mankind is fighting a war amongst itself like it's never fought before. Abandoned cities and homes, corpses, skeletons and ruins abound across the world, World War III leaving it's mark everywhere. In the year 2010, Humanity began to rediscover it's latent ability to manifest and manipulate their auras. During the dark ages, some members of the human race could perform incredible feats, such as summon a sword from thin air or pull their sword to them after being disarmed, or even shooting fire from their own hands. This became known as magic and was the source of many great legends. However, a little known fact was these powers were gifted to humans who were meant to fulfill a special role in history, or so they thought. However, as time went on, these roles began to become scarce, with the "wizards" who filled them soon fading into myth as well. Myth became legend and legend became nothing as each tale was forgotten and man's need for the wizards vanished. Soon he became technologically advanced, gaining enough confidence that kingdom attacked kingdom, then country attacked country. For hundreds of years, this was the cycle, peace, war, peace, war, peace, over and over again. This cycle continued up to the year 2010, the US unaware of such abilities manifesting due to their comfort and "security" as a World Super Power.

However, the following year in 2011, Specialist James T. Hitchcock, the 145th Infantry Regiment's Second Platoon's radioman was out on patrol in the area of Zimbabwe when a small group of the soldiers attacked them. The following video feed gives the best account of the encounter.

[quote]"-so I told the ass wipe to take it up with the Sergeant. He refused and we got in a fight." A man somewhere behind the Specialist said. Conversation like this proceeds as they watch their lanes of fire for another ten minutes when a bird call comes from the right of Hitchcock, prompting the men and Hitchcock to look in that direction. Holding up a hand to stop the lines, he signals for a firing line and all of the soldiers shift their aim towards the source-just as the call's owners attack. A small group of soldiers leaps out and tackles several riflemen, weapons appearing in their hands in strange flashes of variously colored light. The remainder of the platoon opens fire on them, and down several, forcing the remainder to begin attacking more immediately, shifting targets as quick as they could as another group, smaller than the first, attack from behind. One lunges at Hitchcock and knocks him over, his assault rifle clattering into the dark. As a clawed hand rose to strike for his throat, Hitchcock threw up his arms, sure it was his last moments as he squeezed his eyes shut. Through his shut eyes, he saw a brief flash of green light and felt the weight of the person suddenly fly off him, a sudden yelp of pain erupting from her. Slowly opening his eyes, he's surprised to see a spiked shield on his right arm, blood from the girls's wounded hand dripping from a spike. Looking at the girl, he noticed she was writhing in pain and blood was flowing profusely from the wounds. Without a second thought, the Specialist stands and leaps, slamming the shield onto the her head.[/quote]

The United States realized after this and many similar feeds were forwarded to the Pentagon that they were far behind in a quickly changing war that was already crossing into the States. Foreign black ops teams began hitting critical infrastructure points, though their success was minimal thanks to then President James Marshal paranoia as the feeds came in. He upped security around all major infrastructure by 200%, keeping the US afloat long enough to find their own Auric users.

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Welcome to the Darklight Chronicles! I am your GM, Zarkun, and I'll be giving you all your important information. First, important countries, then your CS. Rules will be included as well.

Countries the US is at war with:
Russia
China
Japan
Vietnam
North Korea

Important Neutral Countries:
Germany
France
Mexico

Terrorist Organizations:
Al Qeada
The Taliban
Hamas

The Neutral countries will play a role later in the RP, assuming we get that far, but the at war and Terrorist Organizations are incredibly important.

Now for your character sheet format:

Name:
Age:
Aura Color: [hider=Aura Colors]Black-Strongest Auric energy and always ready for the unexpected, varied tendencies, though focus on dual sided weapons is common

Red-Aggressive and quick to anger, tendency for large caliber weapons and large blades

Blue-Calm and calculating and decisive, tendency towards precision weaponry

Yellow- Funny and carefree, Tendency for up close and personal weapons to allow mocking of opponent 

Green-Wary and cautious, tendencies toward more defensive weapons[/hider]
Abilities: (Two for now)
Armor:
Appearance (words or pic):
Summoned weapon(s): (One for first years, two for second, but pick one to be your primary)
Backstory:

And finally, my rules are as follows:

- All standard RPG rules apply. For those that don't know them or if you need a refresher, they are:
No godmodding
No metagaming
Be respectful at all times
Notify the group of upcoming absences
-No extended actions with other's characters unless they have either been unavailable for two days or given their permission
-As the RP progresses, there will be instances where death of your character is a possibility if you aren't careful. If you do something stupid, expect repercussions. Death isn't the only thing that can happen, but don't count it out.
-If at any point you DO leave the RP, let me know what you would like me to do with your character via PM so I don't turn it into cannon fodder unless you tell me to.
-Keep disagreements to the OOC. If I can't help supply a solution that makes both parties happy, take it to PMs.
-Anything beyond PG-13 goes to PMs. But hopefully that won't happen until post graduation.