[OOC] No Turning Back - Into the Abyss

[Heat]

@Firecracker_ is the co-GM of the RP I'm running and he was a part of the last iteration of this RP. Perhaps he wants back in?

[Sep]

Feel free to invite, I tried to gather people who had expressed interest in rejoining two months ago.

If other people want back, so be it.

[RedLeather]

I go away for one day and you guys write 4 pages... Oy vey

Let me know if I need to add more, i have this odd feeling something is missing.

Erik Karlson

Player Name: RedLeather
Character Name: Erik Karlson
Character Age: 54
Character Gender: Male
Appearance: imgur.com/gallery/qZWwm (yes, i'm aware its the Danish Prime Minister, and sorry, Imgur changed their link setup)
Profession: Linguist (Slavic, Germanic, and Xenobiotic languages)
Nationality: European Confederacy
Strengths:
Language Fluency: Speaks 6 languages fluently, and 3 more with some errors (Scandinavian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, German, English, Polish. 3 iffy ones: Bulgarian, Greek, Finnish)
Hardened: His presence on Earth as an international translator during localized wars and the Three Day war has worn him down hard. He rarely spooks, is difficult to intimidate, and little phases or frustrates him.
People-Friendly: Good with communicating to other people, especially at public speaking and getting his own point across.
Weaknesses:
Defensive: Erik is not comfortable sharing much about himself with others, and will often simply abandon a conversation he doesn't like.
Aging:Despite the progress of society and anti-aging technology, Erik is still nearing his time as an older man. He isn't as nimble or as strong as he used to be, though he still capable of many generally average feats of strength.
Arrogant: Contrary to his outward facade, Erik feels himself smarter than most people on Earth and in the system. Of course, being on the Vitae means that everyone else is just as smart as he is now.
Language Shifting: Erik often forgets what language he is using, and will speak in one that the person he is speaking to does not understand.
Personal Effects: Several sets of clothes, several dictionaries in foreign languages, and a dirty piece of cloth that he holds onto constantly. He felt bringing more than was necessary would simply be a waste of space.
Bio:
Growing up in one of the happiest and wealthiest reaming parts of the European Confederacy, Erik led a charmed childhood, living in a nuclear-survival city buried underneath central Denmark, Erik led what was essentially a pre-war normal life, hidden from the scourges of the nuclear pavement above. The lack of sunlight was occasionally depressing, but he got by alright.

Erik went for higher education at the University of St. Johns in old Canada, one of the most renowned schools in the region. His parents gave him funds to reach the surface and the coast, where he then volunteered on a shoddy fishing boat that was heading for cleaner waters. The University accepted him on the cheap due to both his startling intelligence, and the fact that he was European. He originally studied Slavic languages, but upon realizing that he had a certain knack for learning them, took up a double major in Germanic languages as well. He studied for seven years before graduating with a PHD in both fields. He performed some freelance translator and interpreter work across central and eastern Europe, until the government suddenly called him up.

Brought in just prior to the attacks on Citadel, he was tasked with trying to decipher the unintelligible communications from the approaching fleet. Though Erik achieved no actual breakthroughs, he felt he was incredibly close to understanding some part of the language, but the attacks forced him to stop. Erik attempted to continue his work from the safety of Earth, but the war was over before it had begun.

Frustrated, he left and tried to decipher what leftover recordings of the communications were had, but made little headway. Eventually, the UEC recruited him to help them transmit their recruitment messages to citizens they needed onboard one of the Arks in Eastern and Central Europe. He worked with them until now, at which point he himself is being taken aboard the Vitae in hopes that he will be able to help them understand any foreign aliens they might come across.
Code Word: Pointy Yellow Fruit that Spongebob lives in

[Sep]

@RedLeather I am afraid the European Confederacy won't have had anything resembling a university since the Third World War, while some people there will be alive having refused or been unable to move to either faction, the European Confederacy was still decimated.

[RedLeather]

@RedLeather I am afraid the European Confederacy won't have had anything resembling a university since the Third World War, while some people there will be alive having refused or been unable to move to either faction, the European Confederacy was still decimated.

@Sep

Oh right it's a nuclear wasteland...

I'll change some bio stuff, check back in a couple minutes

[boomlover]

@RedLeather wastelands aren't that good for universities XD

[RedLeather]

@boomlover Yeah, unless its a university for growing extra limbs.

[Sep]

Well, I am off to sleep. Will check it in the morning

[boomlover]

@RedLeather nice university though :)

[Xandrya]

The discord link is not working for me :(

[Sep]

@Xandrya speak to @Vietmyke or @heat they understand this sorcery, but I really must go or I'm gonna get nowt done tomorrow.

[Xandrya]

@Sep Alright, we'll figure it out. You go to bed, that's an order.

[boomlover]

@Xandrya

@Sep Alright, we'll figure it out. You go to bed, that's an order.

@Xandrya

awwwwwwwww :)

[Heat]

The discord link is not working for me :(

@Xandrya

Try this one: discord.gg/hjHW9FU

[Draken]

Player Name: Draken09
Character Name: Karen Anderson (No relation to pilot T. Anderson)
Character Age: 33
Character Gender: Female
Appearance: A plain Caucasian woman a slightly round face and straight, light-brown hair barely past her shoulders. Karen prefers to leave it out, but frequently uses a ponytail while working. She's no model, but is of a reasonably healthy weight and holds good posture without fail.
Profession: Biologist; the head of monitoring and management of Eden's ecosystem (and keeping tabs on its evolution), but is sometimes brought in to R&D when the normal staff is struggling with a new virus or some lifeform is discovered.
Nationality: Roslin Federation
Strengths: Strong working understanding of biology as well as past experience with research on alien life (see bio). She's good at managing people who know what they're doing and generally monitoring a situation and delegating tasks. She's also extremely open to radical ideas and conceptions.
Weaknesses: Very open to radical ideas and conceptions (easy to convince that something, possibly dangerous, is at least worth trying.) Very poor instructor, often confusing her student more. She knows the content, but cannot translate it well into words or diagrams, relying on technical terms to communicate with colleagues. She feels very strongly that new things, not even just species, should have at least one specimen taken for analysis, regardless of the practicality or risks involved.
Personal Effects: Her Doctorates in Extraterrestrial Biology (a field thrown together after the Three Day's War, and thus a popular field that had *many* jaded post-grads quickly swap out after the first year), her journal from her year abroad back in 2213, a stuffed turtle from her childhood, and a photo of her parents.
Bio: Karen Anderson was on the verge of graduating college when the Three Day War occurred. Like most people, she snatched up all the news in rapt horror about the events. Afterwards though, while most graduates thought of engineering, weaponry, and shielding, she thought of the aliens themselves. She jumped into the new Extraterrestrial Biology degree that was being thrown together by the new United Earth Council, being one of the five percent who stuck through the program. With such a lack of competition, it was easy to get a (paid!) internship researching the biological, alien vessels. Over the years, and after graduation, she obtained a full position in the research department, and became a local head of development in due course. Even now, she hypothesizes that the Destroyers are the ships themselves, but has nowhere near enough evidence or samples to come close the proving it. Still, it's in the back of her mind that alien life and, and almost certainly will, take forms completely different from that on Earth. As such, she tends to want to sample and observe everything encountered, since we don't even know what to look for.
Code Word: My favorite kind of pizza. (Pineapple)

[Xandrya]

@Heat

Nothing. Do I need the app or something? I'm on my laptop.

[boomlover]

@Xandrya download it. Just go to google type in discord and download discord get an acount and try again.

[Heat]

@Heat

Nothing. Do I need the app or something? I'm on my laptop.

@Xandrya

On the server it shows someone named 'Xandrya' as offline. You must've entered it earlier. Try again? discord.gg/hjHW9FU

[Damiann47]

Well my brain basically hit a wall today, but I'll be sure to get a sheet out soon as possible, would hate to miss the boat by screwing around for too long.

[Sep]

@Draken I think you have got a good start. Though where did she come from? What was her before the Three Day War? What was life like once she was recruited into the Genesis Protocol?