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.

"-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.

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:
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.

So before I make a CS, can I get an example of some abilities as well as what armor would be acceptable.

Oops, I'll edit in the armor and ability examples. As far as abilities go, look at the aura you want and think what goes well with it. For example, a Red, which I believe is what you were going to make, would have an ability that would cause massive damage in as wide a swatch or as long a shot as possible.

@Zarkun I know for armor you said modern armor with some slight medieval sets. But what would acceptable armor look like exactly, so I can find a good picture or describe it better.

The best image I can give, and I'm not the best at being descriptive, is...damn, I suck at putting things into words. Show me a picture of what you're thinking, that might work best.

Slightly modified from previous iteration of this RP in a Different Locale. Also made into a Second Year instead of First Year. Just need to add another weapon but not sure what to add yet.

Name: Kaerin Teidia
Age: 14
Aura Color: Blue
Abilities: Replenish Quiver, precision long shot(boosts the force behind an arrow allowing it to go farther while also making it more precise)
Armor: Leather covered with a flexible weave of Carbon Fiber and Kevlar.
Description: young and slender. Her arms are stronger than they look. Shoulder length blonde hair. about 5'3" and quite cautious around people she doesn't know.
Summoned weapon(s): Primary; Recurve Long Bow and Arrows. The arrows are all the same in look for the most part. Basic hunting arrows with smallish tips designed for general use. Upon closer inspection each is inscribed with groups of Nordic runes which make out various words or phrases which in turn provides the arrow with a boost that otherwise wouldn't be possible. The energy to power the arrows is generally gathered from plants, animals and enemies around her.
Secondary; a pair of combat knives.
Backstory: Born to a middle class family she has had a love of archery and Norse culture since she was quite young. She has always been cautious around people she doesn't know and quiet in social situations she couldn't avoid. Shortly after she turned 13 while she was walking to her local archery range she was jumped by what she thought would just be another small group of bullies. They turned out to be very dangerous people intent on either killing or kidnapping her. She of course had her own bow and set of arrows that were meant only for basic target shooting. One went down with an arrow to the eye before they ripped the bow from her hands and broke it. In a fit of rage she summoned another along with fresh arrows inscribed with Norse runes. Another couple fell before her recruiter who had been out on a stroll just happened to show up and jumped right into the fray helping her finish the attackers off. She collapsed to her knees crying as the bow and arrows vanished. With her recruiter she went home distraught and waited for her parents to get home. Once they got home the four talked and Kaerin joined Northern Lights.
That was a year ago though. While she's still cautious about new people she's become rather friendly around most of the people related to the Northern Lights project, even the new comers. She's becoming a decent Ranger(Think Aragorn or Legolas from LotR style Ranger), currently with basic knowledge of wilderness survival, field medicine, medicinal plants and tracking.

Can we play non-US characters?

Yes, but if I may, what did you have in mind?

EDIT: And perhaps, some expounding on what you mean?

Name: Rivers J. Duran.

Age:13

Aura: Yellow.

Abilities: Superhuman athleticism and animal telepathy

Armor: BMX armor, if that's acceptable.

Appearance: Tall, slim teen, thick brown curly hair, freckled face. Light brown eyes, attire always consists of flannel, slim cut jeans and converse.(lemme know if i should do a more detailed desc)

Summoned: Random objects, though most commonly a large black electric bass guitar.

Backstory: Rivers grew up in a warzone. Everything was scarce, food, water, parents. Everything but books and CDs he stole from an abandoned record store for his walkman. Rivers spent all his time reading books. Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, fiction, non-fiction, anything available. He lived alone, his father having to leave him at a young age for the war. Rivers never expected to be attacked, well-hidden living under an abandoned apartment building. When he was, it happened lightning quick. Lights flashed in his face, masked men with guns attacked, one grabbed him by the neck violently threw him down. In a hurry, Rivers reached into his satchel for whatever was in there, felt a small handle, and realized it was a flashbang. After that, Rivers only recalled sitting with va black bass, surrounded by his attackers when someone sent by the "Headmaster" came to pick him up.

@Zarkun

Planned to either play a Vietnamese character defecting from the US to "unite" his/her home country (failing or not, there will be drama and fighting involved), or a Russian fighting for himself against the "imperialisms" of all the sides.

Or if those don't appeal to you, a Red-Aura Japanese otaku-neet who uses magical-girl quotes to kick ass. XD

OK, I see what you're getting at. I had another guy in the last iteration, done on another site, do that with a couple of Norwegian guys. The Russian guy's a little out there, so we'd need to discuss further via PM on it. But I actually find the Japanese kid idea funny XD

Something like this perhaps? [+]

Naww, I'm just kidding. This is the real one. [+]

That works fine. Both of them do. I can shoot you some of the examples that were described from the last iteration if you'd like.

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That works fine. Both of them do. I can shoot you some of the examples that were described from the last iteration if you'd like.

That would be nice, give me a couple of ideas to work off of.

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That would be nice, give me a couple of ideas to work off of.

Example 1-Light standard issue Kevlar vest (painted black and lightgrey the outlines of pouches and armor) under a black winter coat (inside is white), black cargo pants (white Korean characters "Stealth" along left leg) with hardened leather on the insides, black painted combat boots, black mask (white sharp teeth and skull nose painted on) and silver ballistic shades (black tinted lenses)

Example 2-Leather Jacket, Kevlar Vest, Reinforced Leggings, boots

Example 3-Kevlar and carbon fiber armor

Example 4- A deceptively strong (think leather type strength) fabric trench coat, pants, and shirt created through study of spider silk. His right shoulder has very thick hardened fabric of the same sort to protect his shoulder from his Eagle's claws.

That last example had an Eagle summon for an ability.

@Zarkun K, thanks for the help. I should have a CS up before too long.

Glad to have helped. Hoped that helped the rest of you as well.

@Zarkun Another question. Can weapons be a gun and if so, does it come with a limited supply of bullets or does the character have to supply it's own ammo.

Can be a gun, ammo is supplied by the character. Essentially, so long as you're not tired, you can keep making clips or new belt links or new arrows or whatever ammo you use. It's a minor drain, but for newbies, it can quickly become significant.

Can be a gun, ammo is supplied by the character. Essentially, so long as you're not tired, you can keep making clips or new belt links or new arrows or whatever ammo you use. It's a minor drain, but for newbies, it can quickly become significant.

Wait, slight contradiction here or I'm reading it wrong. The ammo is supplied by the character but then you can make the ammo with your power. Which is it or am I getting this wrong?