[OOC] —(••[ 𝕎𝕀𝕊ℍ𝔼𝔸𝕋𝔼ℝ ]••)—

[Deathmyster]

@Gisk
Well, we're room mates, sooo, do you want to collab?

[Gisk]

@Gisk
Well, we're room mates, sooo, do you want to collab?

@Deathmyster

Yeah, how do you want to do it? PM, or like a google doc or something?

[Ashevelendar]

@Gisk Try Piratepad. Works better than titanpad and it's very useful ! :)

[Snagglepuss89]

@JanuaryHey, so clarification: Should we start the next day in our next posts? You mentioned timeskipping until morning, but is that something we're going to have to wait on after (So, another week like this one where everybody posts once and then you move things forward) or are we covering the end of that scene at the very beginning of our posts and then moving on to the next morning in the second half?

[Deathmyster]

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Yeah, how do you want to do it? PM, or like a google doc or something?

@Gisk

Let's try pirate pad. I'm curious about it, and it looks easy to navigate. I'll send you the link.

[January]

@JanuaryHey, so clarification: Should we start the next day in our next posts? You mentioned timeskipping until morning, but is that something we're going to have to wait on after (So, another week like this one where everybody posts once and then you move things forward) or are we covering the end of that scene at the very beginning of our posts and then moving on to the next morning in the second half?

@Snagglepuss89

Feel free to start the next day in your posts. Don't end the next day, but definitely feel free to start it and proceed a bit into it. I'll see where everyone's roughly at in their next day timeline before typing up the next post, but where you end it won't make a difference as long as you're not cutting to the following evening.

Also, to everyone, minor correction: it's a Thursday.

Edit:

Question from the Discord: "Is Internet blocked?"

Answer: Internet is not blocked, but whether or not your character guesses that they could be monitored heavily is up to you.

[Holy Grail]

@Ashevelendar@dragonmancer Do you both want to do a collab post, or just each of us put up a separate post before transitioning to the next day?

[Kyrisse]

@Riffus Maximus Wanna do a collab? I was thinking maybe have Angelique's screaming concert shift Lily into her manic mood. XD

[Vox Angelis]

@Riffus Maximus Wanna do a collab? I was thinking maybe have Angelique's screaming concert shift Lily into her manic mood. XD

@Kyrisse

I'm not too sure as to what could possibly be done on my end, but sure. You're the guy/gal with the plan. PM me what you are thinking.

P.S. I dunno what's up with the notifications these past weeks but I never seem to be warned by mentions nowadays. Good thing I check the place often (on my breaks at work hahaha).

[Kyrisse]

@Riffus Maximus I'll come up with something and send it your way via PM tomorrow. It's almost time for me to hit the sack.

Oh, and I'm a girl.

[January]

To everyone:

Essentially, feel free to write in what you want for the bathroom basics provided and for shit in your duffel bag(s), since your circumstances vary so wildly. Some--like Sander who came from a research facility--will have changes of clothing and other things, some may have barely anything. Some may have an in-between amount of crap. Etc. Keep it in line with what you think the authorities might have grabbed along with your character.

Edit: There is a window per room and it's about 60cm by 91cm. God, Piercing Light, have some mercy on me. I am only a sad potato of a human, haha.

[canaryrose]

I need someone to collab with. Anyone up for it?

[January]

Posting in the OOC as well as Discord for player convenience:

I'm not talented enough to make a map, yet. So for now have a bad description of the campus layout. All other buildings can be written in as you wish. It won't really matter. Multiple classes of the same subject can occur in multiple buildings simultaneously--just avoid writing that you're with someone else in Lecture Building J while they wrote in their post that they're in Lecture Building C, etc.

The following is from the collab post I'm working on with Piercing and Red:

"Before he could dwell on it for too long, his eyes settled on the stacks of paper on his desk. Sifting through them carefully as he sat down, Christmas found the placement exams and set them aside while he looked over a map of the school. It seemed like the registrar's building (labeled with a C) was between Buildings A and B, the three buildings forming a rough semicircle around a large open area in the center. Two corridors drawn on the map looked like they connected both Buildings A and B back to Building C and Christmas took note of the orientation in case he needed to find them in a hurry. Building D on the far side of the large quad had a small "dining hall" label below it, and it seemed situated to be as far as possible from Building C. Beyond that, other large buildings surrounding the main dorms were marked as either Lecture Buildings with corresponding letters of the alphabet or simply "restricted" before the map's borders indicated where the rest of the town began. A second page on the map removed all the designations of the buildings, instead marking down cafes, study lounges, computer lounges, the campus bookstore, and a section in the middle of the quad for 'food stalls on Wednesdays.' "

January

January

Someone in Discord asked where the laundry rooms are.

Answer: They're located in the main lobby of each dorm building, down the hallway that connects each building to the registrar's office. Many little laundry rooms. Don't forget where your clothes are.

[Ashevelendar]

@dragonmancer @holy grail Link to collab post. Keep it. We'll write here

[banjoanjo]

Vote, yo.

[tdumia]

Oookay! First of all - hi! tdumia here, armed with a hot-off-the-press CS that's totally ready for critique! Hopefully it all works.

Edit - fixed the broken image!

Lena Morlow - Arbiter - Ferrodyne

ℕ 𝕒 𝕞 𝕖 :

Lena Morlow

ℍ 𝕖 𝕚 𝕘 𝕙 𝕥 :

5'9" / 175 cm

𝕎 𝕖 𝕚 𝕘 𝕙 𝕥 :

155 lbs

𝔸 𝕘 𝕖 :

16

𝔸 𝕡 𝕡 𝕖 𝕒 𝕣 𝕒 𝕟 𝕔 𝕖 :



Lena is a tall, slender young lady, with about an average sized chest and thighs that are a bit thicker than she'd like. Other than that, though, she's pretty much okay with her body - she doesn't feel she's anything special, but she knows she could always be uglier. She has very pale skin, forest-green eyes, freckles dappling her face and shoulders, and long, straight blonde hair with blunt bangs that she only ever puts up out of necessity. She can usually be found sporting USARILN East's "school colors" - black, grey, and white - in any particular arrangement, but her go-to and favorite is a particular outfit of hers that involves a grey sundress, dotted in white, and yellow pumps that she usually outfits with a couple yellow bangles around both of her wrists.

Additionally, while it isn't visible in this image, random portions of her skin are cool, smooth, steely metal as opposed to soft, pliable skin. These metallic sections of her are magnetic, negatively charged, in both the sense that she sticks to other magnets and that other magnets stick to her.

ℙ 𝕖 𝕣 𝕤 𝕠 𝕟 𝕒 𝕝 𝕚 𝕥 𝕪 :

Firstly, if her favorite outfit doesn't give it away, her favorite non-monochrome color is yellow. Secondly... Lena is the quiet, introspective type, but this doesn't stretch far enough to deem her reserved - she often finds herself curious about others, but finds herself subtly observing them from afar as opposed to approaching and attempting to befriend them. When she does open her mouth to speak, you can be sure she's thought greatly on what she's going to say - this, and, for someone so quiet, she can be very witty if someone rubs her the wrong way.

Speaking of observation, Lena is notably intelligent, both academically and generally - the Honor Roll type. Additionally, she's fair both in complexion and in personality; even if she has been seriously wronged, she's always willing to give someone a second chance, and she always makes good on any debts she may fall into with someone.

Finally, she's somewhat of a hopeless romantic, but she really keeps this fact under lock and key. One of the main reasons she's as comfortable with being at USARILN East is the thought of some stunning individual with powers similar to her own may come and sweet her off her feet..... but she'd never admit this to anyone but herself.
Lena has few fears aside from even the thought of any harm coming to those she cares about, even though those she genuinely cares about are few and far between, and her hobbies mottly consist of blogging, chess, and collecting seashells. Despite herself, she really enjoys the ocean. She also has a minor affinity for fashion, but doesn't consider her taste, well, tasteful enough to express fully.

ℍ 𝕚 𝕤 𝕥 𝕠 𝕣 𝕪 :

Lena hails from an adequately sized coastal town in the United States - New Jersey, specifically. Her parents were upper, /upper/ middle class, so getting what she wanted was never a problem - getting the affection she wanted, though, was. Eventually, though, she adapted to her lonely lifestyle, and took to the ocean to forget her worries instead.

In school, she never even had to study - she was, as they say, "gifted and talented". Many people at her school actually disliked her for it. She only had one friend who truly stood by her, and that was a childhood friend.

The bond between Lena and said friend was put to the test when, as a response to a dire situation that put her friend in danger, she generated an electrical barrier around her friend on the fly, to protect her; the moment after she used her powers then, various patches of her skin disappeared, replaced by metal in an instant, and she would learn of her own light magnetism later on. She hadn't even known she had the ability to do that until that fateful day... It was as though she blinked her eyes; one day, her parents vaguely knew of her abilities, and she was "enrolled" at USARILN East the next.

𝕄 𝕒 𝕘 𝕚 𝕔 :

Ferrodyne is the broad-spectrum name for Lena's magic. Using this, Lena can create proportionally sized electrical repulsion shields around up to two objects/people. What is inside these shields cannot attack (or move, considering the shields are immobile and will at minimum mildly electrify you if you make contact with them) or be attacked unless by a particularly strong attack - everything else just absorbs into the barrier. These absorptions are linked to Lena's own offensive magic uses - for every few moderate attacks absorbed, she can fire off semi-strong electric jolts from her hands...

The catch is, though, that these shields of hers only last up to five minutes, unless they're shattered beforehand - and Lena isn't particularly useful without them.

While her power is active, a ring of electric energy forms around her feet.

𝔻 𝕣 𝕖 𝕒 𝕞 :

In Lena's dream, she saw the ocean. It was a familiar sight to her, yet, this particular time, there was something more. Up to her knees in the rocking, lapping waves, she was alone in the water... as far as she could see. Something - or someone, Lena had no way of being able to tell - was pulling her forward, deeper into the waves and further towards the horizon. It was a pleasant, airy pull, but, at the same time, it was as emotionally immersive as it was physically moving her. Her legs moved on their own, wading out further and further, as an intense longing overwhelmed her.

As her hair splayed out across the water's surface and her chin contacted it, she was sure that what she was being pulled towards would satisfy the unbearable longing; as a mighty wave rose over her head and she disappeared into it with a rush of water swirling past her, she was sure that she was getting closer and closer...

She just had to keep going.

Beneath the roaring waves was a coral reef; for whatever reason, her feet were all but rooted to the rocky, uneven ground as though encased in cement, and on she went, stepping gingerly yet haphazardly around the corals and marine life, completely submerged all the while. The experience of drowning was a muted background event in comparison to how desperately Lena endeavored to seek out the solution for the gaping maw of hollowness that had opened up within her.

Then, the reef stopped abruptly; a sharp dropoff with nothingness on its watery horizon lied ahead.

But Lena kept going.

It's down there. The answer...

Just as she took the first step over the edge and felt herself begin to sink, everything faded to white... and, yet she knew that she had inevitably found the solution to all that longing.

ℕ 𝕚 𝕘 𝕙 𝕥 𝕞 𝕒 𝕣 𝕖 :

It started off as a normal weekday morning for Lena; she woke up to her 5 am alarm, showered, brushed her teeth, boarded the school bus, etc, all the same as she usually did.

It was when she arrived, however, that the amiss air Lena had perceived that morning was finally justified. When she brushed shoulders with someone in the hallway, he convulsed and fell over, twitching like he'd just been thoroughly electrocuted. He got off on the light side of things, in the end, though; after that incident, Lena spent the rest of the day doing her damnedest to avoid touching anyone, but that only seemed to encourage more and more people to touch her.

It got to the point where spontaneous combustion via electric shock was the average reaction. It mortified Lena every time, except... no one around her seemed to be paying any attention whenever anything would happen. Not even when she failed to convince her closest friend to not rush in and give her a hug and the sensation of sizzling flesh overtook her nose, mouth, and eyes; not even when the fire from her friend's scorched clothes spread to Lena's before she could throw the charred corpse off of her and a stop-drop-and-roll was a futile effort...

𝔸 𝕨 𝕒 𝕜 𝕖 𝕟 𝕚 𝕟 𝕘 :

Arbiter

𝔸 𝕣 𝕞 𝕒 𝕞 𝕖 𝕟 𝕥 𝕤 :

xxx

𝕋 𝕙 𝕖 𝕞 𝕖 𝕊 𝕠 𝕟 𝕘 𝕤 :

Where Are The Birds - Good Tiger
More To Live For - After Midnight Project

[GreenGoat]

Did you hotlink that pic? If so, download it, and put it on a proper imagesite like imgur.com, before linking it back here. The picture is broken.

[tdumia]

@GreenGoat Ah, why didn't I think of imgur earlier? I'll get to that - thank you!

[January]

@tdumia

Rejected.

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Reason 1:

Additionally, while it isn't visible in this image, random portions of her skin are cool, smooth, steely metal as opposed to soft, pliable skin. These metallic sections of her are magnetic, negatively charged, in both the sense that she sticks to other magnets and that other magnets stick to her.

tdumia

I did not clear this in writing up your Arbiter/Aberration descriptions. Neither did you check with me if this was cleared.

Communication check: failed.

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Reason 2:

The bond between Lena and said friend was put to the test when, as a response to a dire situation that put her friend in danger, she generated an electrical barrier around her friend on the fly, to protect her; the moment after she used her powers then, various patches of her skin disappeared, replaced by metal in an instant, and she would learn of her own light magnetism later on. She hadn't even known she had the ability to do that until that fateful day... It was as though she blinked her eyes; one day, her parents vaguely knew of her abilities, and she was "enrolled" at USARILN East the next.

tdumia

Waking up as an Arbiter/Aberration is not something that just sits well with the general public. In fact, most people would panic at the sight of one unrestrained. For Lena to have developed powers (and the obvious mark) already and still be able to stroll around with her friend for a while is a detail I would have needed to check over first if you wanted some method of circumventing the basic setting. And this was not brought up with me despite my mention that questions should be brought up in the group PM with me and the co-GMs.

Communication and detail check: failed.

I'm aware of the potential counterarguments here:

"Could have been using makeup to hide the mark."

"Saving her friend could have happened immediately after waking and learning of her abilities."

"Easy to just edit the CS and fix the error, what's the big deal?"

To all of these, see reason 3 below.

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Reason 3:

In PMs, I asked you the following:

2. Did powers in humans exist before The Slumber or only afterwards?

January

You did not answer this correctly.

Prior detail check: failed.

Individually, the incidents are not major, but combined I am inclined to think there is a pattern of subtle carelessness here that I am not a good and patient enough person to work with.

Am I potentially judging you too harshly? Sure. In fact, I most certainly am.

But I'd rather take the chance that I'm wrong about my judgment and save myself, my co-GMs, and my players the trouble than run the gamut and risk this carelessness manifesting at less-than-convenient moments.

In any case, I apologize for the effort you went through. I don't think it's a total loss since the character can be appropriated for any future RPs you choose to join, but I, unfortunately, will not be accepting you into this one.

I sincerely thank you for your time.

[January]

Because you guys loved the last one so much:

Teehee.

Same things apply. Get all your posts in and we can move on early.

Any delays, let me know and we can wait a bit longer/you can opt out of the coming event. I'll give everyone another free day or two to torment each other IC if there are any severe delays where someone really wants their post in, but is just having issues getting it all together.