[OOC] Dragon's Mask

[Mokley]

The last thing you remember, you were falling. When you open your eyes, you're laying in a soft pile of brightly colored, soggy pillows. You're in a little room with intricately patterned metal walls and a ceiling made of water. There doesn't seem to be a door, but there is a cat. The cat stares up at you with a bright-eyed grin and says, "Hi! Are you okay? That was a big fall! Welcome to Compass District One, visitor! I'm Howl. What's your name?"

The Premise

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The Realm of Compass is not as fantastic and wonderful as it once had been. Gray and rust have befallen the spirits here, who seem to have forgotten the laughter and whimsy of their previous lives -- until a curious diver finds an old ruin and starts pushing buttons. Old machines whirr to life, the water lifts away to the ceiling, and children start dropping out of it. Curious, indeed. Even curiouser is the fact that these children are brighter, more hopeful, more imaginative than anything the Realm has known in a very, very long time.

Gameplay

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As the characters traverse the world, they'll be asked to assist in the dilemmas of the spirits that live here. We'll focus heavily on little side-quests and branching storylines. Characters will each begin alone in the scenario italicized above, though their stories will likely intersect -- and affect and be affected by -- the other characters' stories. The ultimate goal is to find the way home.

Some Notes

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You may spot some obvious nods to Alice in Wonderland, OFF!, Undertale, Homestuck, Okami, Inside, One Shot and Fallen London. If something looks ripped off, it probably is.

My RPs tend to follow a pattern: it's crazy in the beginning, it slows down to a comfortable pace after two weeks, and after a month there are a few days between each post. After two months, a post is a rare thing that happens once in awhile. Please be prepared for these phases of slowing activity, and don't panic. The RP is not dead as long as there is interest in it.

Some Rules

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I really wish I didn't have to put down rules, but prior experience has forced my hand. I'm pretty easy to get along with, and my PM box is always open. Let's create a drama-free zone! :)

• You control your character and your character only.
• The environment, the NPCs and the entirety of the plot are the sole ownership of the GM.
• The OOC shall remain a positive and encouraging place where everyone feels welcome.
• The GM's PM box should be freely utilized for any and all problems that arise.
• A disruptive player will receive one PM as warning. If ignored, the player will be asked to leave.
• The GM has the right to reject any application based on its compatibility with the RP.
• Collaborative posts shall be limited to two players.
• At any time, if you find that this RP just isn't for you, please do let us know. :)

Character Application

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Feel free to be as brief or as verbose as you wish. Please post applications in the OOC. If you're not sure if something's allowed, ask and it may be granted!

All characters shall:

• be human.
• be 14 years old or younger.
• come from the modern-day world.
• be fluent in English.
• be prepared to act and make decisions on their own.

Application

[b]Name:[/b]

[b]Age:[/b]

[b]Hometown:[/b]

[b]Description:[/b]

[b]Personality:[/b]

[b]History:[/b]

[AluminumDude]

Bet you weren't expecting a reply so fast huh? Well Surprise! If this is a bit too somber for this, just lemme know.

Name:
Christopher "Chris" David Dumont
Age:
13 Years and 7 months
Hometown:
Denver, Colorado.
Description:
Christopher Dumont is a fairly small child for his age, he's only 5'1" and it's a bit of a nerve for him. He is caucasian, and his hair is almond brown, extending down to his neck at the longest. It's both straight most of the time, but curls after grooming. He also has hazel eyes. He wears small black glasses with a light prescription, and he loves them. He's not very strong. He gets worn out quickly, and has a difficult time with dexterous tasks. His lips and nails are scarred from rampant biting when he gets nervous, but he never tries to hurt himself. His face is round,and he has specks of acne across his nose.
Personality:
Chris's personality seems to shift often, depending on who is around him. When he's alone, he spends most of his time in his thoughts thinking, and his voice is deeper. He seems to take on a more mature vibe. However when He's with friends, he's more excitable, and a lot less mature, or so it would seem to others. This comes with the benefit of seeming immature and happy, which is never good when he wants to assume a leader-like position. He would like to seem like he is okay, but it worries him that any friends he makes will abandon him. When he's with friends he likes to make lame puns, and only takes a serious attitude when they seem to be having troubles. He never lets others into his internal strife, a little bit of pride and fear go a long way after all. Sometimes it gets too much, and Chris takes it all out in a rage. However Chris really wants to be happy, and he's trying his hardest. He likes to be with friends, and he most of all wants to help them.
History:
Chris is the second youngest child of his mother, who had 5 children. He only speaks to one, his oldest sister whom he lives with. He also lives with his Father, Daniel Dumont. Their mother left at around the age of seven. His sister moved in when he was ten, and has lived with them ever since. Chris attends school in Denver, and gets decent grades. He's smart for sure, but he procrastinates and doesn't try too hard. He was pretty happy until his dad lost his job. Then got a head injury, and then diabetes. It was a tough few years, and it still is for him. That was when Chris was at his lowest, having to take care of his dad, and making sure they had enough money to eat. Then... one day when walking the lonely route to the bus to school. He fell.

[Mokley]

@AluminumDude Oh hi! Haha wow, that was quick!

Poor Chris! Hopefully he'll find a happier story here. Approved! He can be pasted into the Characters tab. :)

[Bornlucky]

Mikhail Fox

^{"Salutations, I am exhilarated to make your acquaintance!"-Mikhail Fox}

Name:
Mikhail Fox

Age:
6 and three fourths

Hometown:
Vancouver, Canada

Description:
Mikhail is a boy of average height for his age, standing at 42 inches, and he weighs a paltry 44 pounds. He's Japanese American, and his hair is fluffy and cotton candy pink, his bangs reach just below his eye brows and the back is down to his neck, it is naturally dark brown. Mikhail's eyes are dark brown. He wears bright colors picked out by his mother every morning. He's still a child so while he's not the strongest or fastest, he has energy to spare which most of the time he spends on reading books or climbing on school desk. One segment of hair is especially curly due to him playing with it when he's tense or stressed which has been a problem lately so it's almost as curly as sheep wool.

Personality:
At a glance Mikhail seems like a regular child, he's amiable, excitable, kind and curious. Yet, he shows a distinct lack of social awareness, which is stemmed from his young age yet very high intelligence. Mikhail has the intelligence of somebody twice or thrice his age and it shows which how he speaks, he uses big and complex words which he feels convoys his feelings better then more simple but general words, he also has the problem of speaking as fast as he thinks, which is pretty fast. But's he still a child albeit a smart child. He's naive, lacks emotional development, easily scared, and lacks world experience for emotionally complex problems and dilemmas. While his words are complex, he is an exceedingly simple person, he acts how he feels, he tells how he feels, and he doesn't hide how he feels. Mikhail values friendships and family more than anything else, but yet he has a hard time forming bonds due to young age and intelligence. Mikhail is a kind child, he'll help classmates with work, he'll take care of a baby bird that fell out of it's nest, and even help his mother to bed when her illness acts up. His kindness is as prevalent as his intelligence, but he still has his moments of selfishness, especially when he's thirsty, hungry, tired, or scared.

History:
Mikahil is the only child of the Fox family. Even as a baby, his mother's health of failing, and his dad was often away off at work to pay for his wife's medicine. Due to his mother's inability to leave the house for very long, Mikhail was home schooled. But he showed intelligence beyond his years, by the time he was four he could read at a college level and by five he could do high level math and chemistry. Mikhail's mother wanted him to go to school because she felt she lack the ability and resources to truly develop her son's potential. So when Mikhail was six, he took a test to see what his school level is, which was 11th grade. After a month of meetings Mikhail was allowed at a prestigious High School. Mikhail was worried when he first started out at high school, but many of the students and teachers were nice and polite, as many of them were curious about how such a young child started near the end of high school. It's been half a year since than, and he's now comfortably at High school after students and teachers cooled down from the excitement. But sadly Mikhail's mother's health is starting to fail. So Mikhail has to both help take care of his mother and do well at school, which the latter is easier than the latter. While Mikhail loved his mother and going to high school, he has been feeling stressed out due to his worry for his mother as well as the daily grind of going to school and then coming back to help take care of his mother. He wishes he could take a short break and have fun like he did before all this happened.

[bloonewb]

Still room in this RP for one more?

[UmbreonRogue]

I'll work on a character tomorrow.

[AbysmalDemon]

Danny WIP

Daniel 'Danny' Richardson

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"Oh... Shit."

Age
14 Years Old

Hometown
Los Angeles, California

Description

Personality

History

[Oliver]

Name: Kieran Quinlan

Age: 9. Will be 10 in 2 months.

Hometown: Belfast, Ireland

Description: Kieran is a tall boy for his age, but extremely skinny. Not in the habit of measuring or weighing himself, he looks to be a bit under 5 feet tall and is probably at least 10 to 15 pounds underweight.
His delicate facial features are often slightly obscured by long, tangled waves of coppery brown hair. His hair reaches down to the middle of his neck, and is messily layered as if it were last cut by a blind person. Kieran doesn't seem to notice nor care.
His large, wide eyes are a sharp blue, honestly quite chilling to look at for a long period of time. This isn't helped by the fact that he doesn't seem to blink much. Over his eyes are light, thin eyebrows that are often raised in a quizzical expression.
The rest of his features are less fascinating. A small upturned nose, thin smirking mouth, cheeks and nose dotted with freckles. He has a faint scar on the left side of his jaw.
He walks with a noticeable limp, favoring his right leg.

Personality: Smart as a fox (in a street-smart sort of way) and similarly apt for getting into trouble, Kieran is possibly in the early stages of becoming a delinquent. He rarely thinks before he acts, a bit cocky in how much he trusts his own skills. He can be deeply emotional at times, often overreacting to small grievances. That said, he does have a streak of kindness in him, and is willing to help out anyone who makes it worth his while.
He has very little patience for those who lean too heavily on him, and isn't easily charmed by helplessness. He prefers friends who can work alongside him, and aren't too afraid of a good adventure.
Kieran has a vibrant imagination, fond of making up his own analogies and mythology. This also makes him a quite talented liar.
Overall, he's adventurous by nature, but is capable of compassion every now and again.

History: 17 year old Cara Quinlan dropped off her newborn son with her aunt and uncle only a few weeks after the baby was born. Nobody dared ask who the father was, and the Quinlan family was financially struggling as it stood, so little Kieran was an unwelcome arrival. Nevertheless, Ronan and Maeve Quinlan did their best to give the boy a decent childhood. That said, with both of them busy with work, there was plenty of opportunity for Kieran to run afoul of the rules.
On one such occasion, when he was about 8 years old, he and a few friends thought it would be fun to sneak into an old castle a few miles from the city. Finding the door locked, Kieran wasn't ready to give up and climbed in through an open window. Turns out that the window was positioned over a staircase, which led to an unexpected and injurious fall. His friends, quickly catching on to what had happened, selected a different window and were able to locate Kieran and carry him back home. They were able to give an explanation for Kieran's broken leg that didn't make it sound like they were trespassing, but Kieran's injury never healed all the way and he was stuck with a limp and occasional pain.
However, this incident clearly didn't teach the kid any lessons, as he went on to be just as reckless as before in the year and a half that followed. One fateful day on his way home from his second and final day of in-school suspension (following an incident involving flaming paper planes), he'd end up having another unexpected fall. But this time, he wouldn't have anyone to find him...

[Mokley]

@Bornlucky Whoa Mikhail is quite the advanced kid! Should be interesting to see what he does. Approved. :)

@bloonewb Sure! Come on down!

@Oliver Kieran seems positively charming and troublesome, haha! Approved. :)

I may go ahead and start soon. Since each character is starting out alone, they don't need to all start at the same time -- and it's easier for me to stagger the posts. ;)

[Oliver]

Thanks! I can't wait to see how this goes.

[Mokley]

@AluminumDude@Oliver@Bornlucky

IC is open! :)

[Oliver]

My first post is up! I hope it's okay.

[bloonewb]

Name: Riley Taylor

Age: 8 years, 2 months

Hometown: Scarborough, UK

Description:
Riley stands at about 4 feet 3 inches, and weighs about 57 pounds. Her hair is a very light flaxen, that she likes to play with and braid when she's thinking very hard. No matter how much her mother combs and cuts it, it never seems to get perfectly straight or even. Her eyes are a dark grey that her father is very proud of, claiming it comes from his genetic line. She can always be found wearing a dark green dress with camouflage patterns, which she likes to tell her parents helps her hide from the beasts and never lets them wash.

Personality:
Riley is, first and foremost, easily excitable. She is easily impressed, but is not picky about what she is impressed by, so a collection of rocks catches her attention just as much as a beetle or grass clippings. Her love for exploration is a very large motivator in her life, overriding that of mannerly conduct, meaning she often abandons people mid-conversation or even mid-sentence to chase after a butterfly or raccoon, something that annoys her parents to no end. She also loves reading, especially anything to do with Celtic or Germanic culture, almost to the point of frightening obsession. However, these traits have left her with a level of skittishness and shyness not common among her peers.

History:
Riley was born to a rather unhappy family in Barrowcliff parish, to a couple desperate to make an effort to stay together. From the beginning, her mother was doting and overprotective, her father even more so. They, deciding Barrowcliff was not a nurturing environment for their child, packed up and moved to Scalby parish, still in Scarborough but closer to open fields and further away from the city. Riley spent much of her spare time in the fields, near the woods, and around the lakes, believing that if she searched the area for long enough she'd find the fairies depicted in her books. One day, as she was searching for mythological creatures, she saw out of the corner of her eye an otter. She went to chase it, but it quickly jumped into a lake and dove under. Not breaking pace, she jumped in the lake after it, but never hit water.

[Oliver]

We finally have a girl! Kieran would be happy to have another UK resident on the team, as well...

[Mokley]

@bloonewb Excellent -- Riley sounds like so much fun! Totally approved. Feel free to post her in the Characters tab, and to post IC! :)

[LordofthePies]

Name:
Aro Mahmoud

Age:
8

Hometown:
Jackson, Mississippi

Description:
Pale, long straight black hair, dark blue eyes, 50 inches, 43 lbs, very thin and bony.

Personality:
A very shy, quiet girl that has a love for small animals. Rats, cats, birds, you name it. She has a strong interest in science and isn't afraid to get dirty. Aro loves to ask questions and finds the answers in the darkest of corners. She doesn't trust people easily, on account of "stranger danger" being forced into her mind.

History:
Aro had always been a fast learner and explorer. She was the one kid to wander off during a field trip to something more interesting. Since she liked to wander, her parents all but beat the notion that people are untrustworthy and you should stay away from them. Other than that, her parents let her do what she wanted, whether that was pick up random bugs, kick another kid in the shin, or steal random candy. They loved her to pieces, but they were very lax as long as she didn't go too far away. Oh and don't mess with animals with bigger teeth than yours, they usually mean trouble.

@Mokley

[Mokley]

@LordofthePies Aro seems to be an excellent little explorer! Approved, of course -- please do copy her to the Characters tab and go ahead and post IC when you're ready. :)

[LordofthePies]

No idea what I'm doing. <.<

[Mokley]

@LordofthePies You're doing good! x3 Just lemme point out that the other kids are all in their own separate rooms -- you're alone in this particular room -- with a talking cat. :)

[LordofthePies]

Ah, I'll edit it to fix that.