[OOC] Who Believes In Fairytales?

[Crosswire]

@Crosswire Sounds good and danke shein for the map update. Did you want me to write up a little description for Boogie's Beans, because I'm more than happy to do something similar to what you wrote for the Goody Basket?

@Lexicon

Yes I'd love you and everyone else to write descriptions regarding what their lot/building looks like. You and @Utrax did a fantastic job on both of your descriptions! I've uploaded them both to the front OOC page with an updated map.

Unfortunately I'm gonna have to withdraw from this. I just don't have the time to commit to these characters the way I'd like to. Wish you all the best of luck, this cast looks really interesting so I'm sure this will be fun to watch :)

@smarty0114

I'm very sorry to hear that Smarty, I hope all goes well and that you're able to return someday.

Eh guys, consider me out of this. I tried to get a sheet done but I just had no inspiration. If I feel it I'll come back. Otherwise, enjoy the RP

@FantasyChic

Nooooooooooo ;w;. Alright I understand Fantasy. I wish you the best of luck and hope you come back eventally.

I guess so lol, gonna start work on my first post when I'm feeling a little less hung over, will have it up tonight or else let Cross talk mad shit about me.

Also @MissCapnCrunch please add Bambi and Gretal to the characters tab to make 'em official

@Drag

LET THE MAD SHIT TALKING BEGIN.

But yeah if the players who joined don't come back it's not too big of a deal, we haven't really started yet. Look forward to a post, I intend to harass Drag until it gets put out! :D

*Edit: Good to hear Soldier and Cap are around. Yaaaaaaaaaay!

[Oddsbod]

Yea, I'm excited! Can't wait to get down to Serious Busines.

[Lexicon]

Boogie for mayor! You have nothing to fear except Terror herself. Or itself. Whatever.

[Oddsbod]

What was the conflict you'd been planning between Terror and Eissen, btw?

[Drag]

@Lexicon, @MissCapnCrunch, @Oddsbod, @Utrax, @Crosswire

aaaand we're off! Opened with an always pleasant murder but the night is young and after all, lots of Tales prefer the seclusion of the night life, so feel free to start posting and interacting with one another, I'm personally gonna try have Crier interact with several different people before the night's over and I hope you all do the same, try start some relationships and stories or just use the time to establish and build up your character

[Lexicon]

@Drag Sweet. Hmmm...maybe have Crier pay a visit to Boogie's Beans to see if Terror is around? Also, if you wanted, maybe you could use the envelope full of pictures that was left outside Crier's office as a convenient excuse to come knocking on Boogie's door? That would definitely get her attention. I shall try to have a post up no later than the end of the week.

[Utrax]

*Punches timecard.*
Writing begins.
I'm here. Around.

[Lexicon]

I have the idea for my opener and a general structure. My goal is to type it tomorrow and have it up no later than Sunday. Kudos again on the nice intro post, @Drag.

[Bishop]

Name: Count Dracula
Alias/Nickname: Count

Tale

Count Dracula or as he was known before, Vlad the Impaler, was the prince of Wallachia, one of the three principalities of Romania, the others being Moldavia and Transylvania. He was present during the the Late Middle Ages when all three principalities waged war and fought against the invading Turks. There he got his name, Vlad the Impaler. In the battlefield he would wield a long heavy spear with which he rushed the enemy and after impaling him firmly through his body, raised him up in the air and waved him like a flag while screaming a mighty war-cry. The sight alone send fear through the Turks while at the same time encouraging the Romanian forces. He lead many victories against the Ottoman forces, victories which made him a legend but with old age his time on the battlefield had to stop.

l Physical Age: 27 l Actual Age: 600+ years old l Height/Weight: 181 cm tall(in human form) / 177 kg l Gender: Male l

Physical Appearance and Attire

Personality

He revels in human agony and death. It is as pure a joy as joy itself for The Count. Exactly the reason why he became a Funeral Director. Blood is the paint, his hands are the brush and the human body is the canvas.

Background

Vlad, having been studying the dark arts of magick for decades now, went in search of the fabled cave of immortality. It was said to be located somewhere along the Southern Carpathians, a range of mountains split in three divisions which extended outside of Romanian territory. Alone he got ready, taking all that was necessary and the finding stone. The stone belonged to the dark arts school in which he studied and it had a special property. Besides finding what your whole being most desired, it also returned to it's nesting place on the school grounds when the carrier died or their desire was fulfilled.

On a journey he went, traversed the mountain range he did while fending off many beasts of the forest with his bare hands. He found it much easier than using a knife. And finally, one night the stone started glowing a brightly red, accompanied by a rising heat that even Vlad couldn't bear, and that is saying something. Dropping it out of inability to carry it anymore, the stone stopped in mid air before touching the ground and rose high above his head. A pointing arrow of red light formed above him which cast light upon a cave opening that in the dark night as he was, it was practically invisible. Approaching it and as he touched the cave, the stone lost it's light and abruptly vanished. No matter, if this was the promised cave from the legends, than he wouldn't need anything else ever again.

Entering inside, the cave was vast and empty. Red glowing plants grew on the ceiling which stood 7 feet above his head. As he studied the thing closer, it seemed to..beat, like a live heart. Even the shape of it was...
TICK
A noise resonated through the cave, a noise that is made when a small piece of pebble is thrown against a wall. Heart beating fast he turned towards the noise to see only the rest of the empty cave. It was just a simple pebble falling from a crack in the ceiling, certainly..when suddenly he felt a chill run down his spine. Turning back quickly while pulling out his knife, still nothing. This place was giving him the creeps. He just had to finish business quickly and leave. Turning around while sheathing the knife he saw it.

Later the next night he emerged from the cave, at last immortal. And that's the story of his making. But something changed in him after meeting the resident inside the cave. He was...different now.

Skills and Abilities

Blood Burrowers - He summons his blood, giving it form and expelling it out of his body with an objective, purpose. They usually burrow inside the victim and mess up their organs, cause heart and brain attacks, paralyze the target among other things. They are extremely during the cast, as they fly from the body of Vlad towards the victim, but if dodged and on the ground they slow considerably and are easily avoidable. They can also reside inside the body of the victim until the specified time arrives, declared when they were given the purpose and then spring into action.
Ignite - Sets the target ablaze.
Drain - Siphons the target's vitality and remaining life span, making the user younger if he so chooses and giving him renewed vigor.
Blood Bending - He has control over his own blood, hardening it, compressing it, decompressing it, rising the pressure etc.
Transformation - He can summon huge black leathery wings on his back which can be used to fight and fly.
Blood Sight - He can see the blood of every one around him, even behind walls or during night.
Shadowspawn - He can summon a group of shadows which do his bidding. The shadows are small and are usually used for spying and observation. If seen, they can take the form of a normal animal in order too fool others.
Shadow Travel - By turning himself into a shadow, Dracula can travel through them at near teleportation speeds, even if they are connected with but a strand of hair. During this form he is at his most vulnerable since even a flash of light can seriously injure him.
Hypnotism - By locking eyes with the target he can use hypnotism to gain control over them. The control however is limited to a short duration and is harder on Fables.
Infecting Touch - By exchanging fluids with the victim, he can choose to transform them into lesser vampires. Though he made them he can hardly control them. This transformation process can't affect Fables for some reason.

Starting Items/Trinkets

A golden cross with a black gem in the middle - as he was fighting against the Ottomans he also joined a society that served the cross by killing it's enemies. Those enemies being the Ottomans at the time. The cross has powers beyond the connection to God. The Black gem can be consumed in order to shield him once on a life threatening situation by the light of sun.
A black ring with golden serpentine engravings and a dark crimson gem in the middle - Located on his right hand ring finger, it enhances his Blood Burrowers magick by raising the number of serpents created from 2 to 3 and their duration while outside a body from 7 to 13 seconds. It also reduces the required amount of blood needed to summon them.
A black ring with golden flame engravings and a dark blue gems in the middle - Located on his right hand pointing finger, it enhances his Ignite magick which now transforms his fire from red to blue giving it additional properties. For one, now it also affects the target's mental health, burning it bit by bit while causing tremendous pain which is said to rival those of hell. Even if you put it out, the target will still feel the pain for some time after, slowly diminishing.
A black ring with golden water flow markings and a dark green gem in the middle - Located on his left hand ring finger, it enhances his Drain magick by reducing the time it can completely drain a target by 50% and increasing the healing received from any magick source by 100%.
A golden black pocket watch with disturbing engravings - Which besides measuring time with multiple hands and mechanisms, it also has a special power. By inserting a drop of blood in a hidden pocket inside it, you can access the target's recent memories. The more blood you put the farther back you go. The target should be alive for this effect to work properly.
A black cane with a golden black wolf head on the handle - The wolf head has the mouth open at the place that you would place your hand if you were to use the sword sheathed inside the cane. The sword is a dark black with golden words and markings engraved in it. Upon putting his hand on the handle, the mouth bites down and drinks his blood, giving the blade and the user added power and speed while consuming the user's blood. Upon hitting the target and drawing blood, it uses it to replenish the health of the user. The user can feed it even more of it's vitality in order to enter the next stage, encasing himself with a full body black armor which exponentially raises his defenses.
An enchanted black umbrella - Which besides protecting him from the sun, also reduces the reflected light that hits the carrier by casting an ominous shadow around it.
All the engravings and markings on his objects seem to move and slither around if you pay close attention to them.

Weaknesses and Flaws

Silver - It removes his healing ability on the stricken area and it boils his blood close to where the silver object inside his body is. Effectively making it almost impossible to use his own blood to perform magick.
Sunlight - If he is exposed to sunlight for an extended duration of time without cover he will begin turning into ash. Only by light from the real Sun can he die. Magick that imitates the same light or even concentrated moonlight have a minimal effect of annoying him if not worst, anger him.

[Crosswire]

@BishopAlright Bishop, do you remember what I said about your killer apple idea?

A character who exists solely to kill others with absurd powers, no real means of meaningful interaction, and a questionable background premise wouldn't go well.

The character you submitted is a slight improvement over the idea of a murderous, teleporting, over powered piece of fruit. If only because Count Edgelord here has a working mouth and could actually interact with other player characters.

Drac here has a tremendous amount of issues in how you've presented him. His personality is shallow, his background is brief and doesn't tell us what we need to know, he has too many powers, too few weaknesses that make no sense (Vampires are not vulnerable to silver) and more importantly he is not a Tale.

Vlad III Dracula was a real man whose actions simply inspired a bunch of really nasty stories that later inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1897. Tales come from a world of fables and folklore, so the fact your character is from the real world already makes him immediately unacceptable. It's like you didn't even bother reading what the intent of this roleplay was.

Stories about blood sucking creatures and folklore Vampires have been around long enough that they, plus Bram Stoker's novel could be used as the basis for an interesting Tale. However even if you changed your character's Tale it wouldn't change the fact he's badly written hot garbage.

One of the things we expressed asked for and have said, many, many times is that we want interesting takes on otherwise well known characters. A drug dealing Tinker Bell, vigilante gym-owning Mothman, a Taco-Truck driving Chupacabra. Those are all clever and intriguing spins to things.

Having Dracula as a darkly dressed, grim, blood thirsty depressive is the exact opposite of what we want. Edgy, dark, and broody vampires are a virtual stereotype at this point perpetuated by bad movies and lazily written books.

So in short you need to redo your entire character, from top from bottom if you want to even think about joining this roleplay.

[Drag]

@Bishop I love you so much man, you don't even know, it's the greatest stuff I've ever read.

I'll give you some credit, like Cross said this guy is better than the teleporting sentient fruit, but I'm not going to lie that really isn't saying too much.

The main problem I have with this character is you could slap on "Psh nothin personnel kid" and it wouldn't look out of place, with the rp we're trying to make some flawed, unique and interesting characters, your guy is very obviously out of place for two key reasons. 1. He isn't really a Tale, you can make a case for Stoker's novel but you don't mention anything like Helsing or his wives and even say he was the literal Vlad The Impaler and 2. His backstory tells us literally NOTHING about the character, who he is, where he came from, how he has these powers and his current job, it is pretty much a drawn out version of "He's immortal lol, fuck you" (I also just noticed his name is literally only "Count Dracula" which I'm sure makes for interesting conversation when he goes to the DMV or something)

Your personality isn't much of a personality either, and funeral directors aren't given corpses for the sole purpose of using them as action figures or something.

your weaknesses aren't very good, sunlight is all well and good but why in the hell is he affected by silver, does it trigger repressed memories? Did silver kill his dad??

He has quite a lot of powers, typically I'm going to raise my eyebrow at your intentions but with this rp I'm pretty willing to compromise, with the character you made before (as well as the other sign ups I've seen you make elsewhere) christ dude I'm not even raising an eyebrow I am fully making lingering eye contact towards you, I am dead certain you made this character with powerplaying and "xtreme cool" in mind

Unless you overhaul this guy or come back with a sign up that actually thinks outside the box then I can't accept this.

(Also they're called Tales, not Fables)

[Bishop]

@Drag I admit, I was at fault coming with a half-arsed CS that I put up quickly. So lets start a new leaf.

Is the Deceiving Serpent in the Bible that deceived Adam considered a "Tale"?
If you look at it from this point of view, the whole Bible is a well developed fantasy world which teaches us morals and the right way to live. It could very well be considered a book of Tales.

[Holy Soldier]

@BishopBlasphemy! Lol joking.

[Lexicon]

Post is typed but it needs some serious love. I still aim to have it done by tomorrow, but I might need a bit more time.

[Holy Soldier]

@Drag@CrosswireI've been doing my RP rounds before the week starts up again. This game is next so I'll be working on a Hansel post. I plan to use two NPCs: Lil Bo Peep and Black Sheep (her "supposed" lost sheep).

[Crosswire]

@Holy SoldierThat's fine Holy, take your time. Look forward to seeing what you post!

[Oddsbod]

Phew, finally got that post up.

[Lexicon]

So how is everybody doing?

[Crosswire]

@LexiconI'm doing OK. Sorry for the super slow posting on my end, physical therapy has been kicking my ass and I haven't had much energy afterwards.

[Lexicon]

@Crosswire Oh no, you're fine. I was just bumping the OOC a bit. Trust me, I'm like the patron saint of slow posting lol.