[OOC] In Pursuit of Coin

[Moonlit Sonata]

In Pursuit of Coin

The Tale of Some Twits Who Tried to Steal a City

Int. Check with Premise

Good, you decided to accept the job. I knew you would, we've done this sort of thing too many times for me to not have a handle on how you operate. You probably know the basics of the city already, financial district's on the north end, residences mainly around the southeast, city center's got the town square and local government, that new museum's over on the west side. If this shit's sounding unfamiliar to you, get a map from the hotel staff when you get in, and memorize it.

You'll be meeting the rest of your team outside rooms 720 and 722 in the Edelweiss Hotel, just by the financial district. Nice place, you can't miss it. Be there at 10:00 sharp Monday morning. Get to know each other, scope out the city, make a plan of attack. When you get to robbing the town blind, the process is a little different than usual. Everything in the city limits is in this huge magic array, spatial quarantine stuff that locks down teleportation, so you'll need to get what you steal out of the city manually before you engrave the runes on it so that I can teleport it off your hands. I'm going to recommend at least a couple of you use the money I gave you for artifacts to buy stuff that'll help with that, so I'm sending you the contact info of the others so you can coordinate on that.

One more thing, this is a huge scale of operation, but I don't want you slacking off. For the first few days, I'm going to expect you guys to get me at least 500 gold worth of stolen goods by 11:59 at night on each day. After a few days have passed and you've gotten situated, I'll amp that up. If you're not able to do that much, you get one pass on screwing up, but on the second screw-up I'm saying fuck it and calling in another team. You don't want that to happen.

If you've got questions either before Monday or during the operation, let me know, but you're smart enough that you probably won't have any.

Good luck, and don't fuck this up.

CS

Name: I'd hope I don't need to explain this one.

Age: While the setting is modern fantasy in nature, please don't app some 3000-year old immortal freak.

Gender: Don't make this complicated.

Species: Humans are the obvious choice, but the standard fantasy fare are generally acceptable, with the caveat that they must have sufficiently humanoid bodies/attributes. Don't try and be that guy who apps a god.

Appearance: Yes, you can use a picture. Yes, you can put it at the top of the sheet with a little italicized quote centered under it.

Personality: Don't skimp on this.

History: Remember, your character is, through one means or another, a thief. Whether they're a conniving musician who pilfers wallets while performing or one of those guys who dresses in all black and breaks into secure buildings, this needs to be a factor. Similarly, they need to be acquainted with the employer of this heist in some way, shape, or form.

Skills: This includes everything you can think of that distinguishes the character in what they can do, including learned abilities like combat or stealth techniques, racial abilities like how an orc would likely have high strength and hardy skin, and magical abilities.

Equipment: Things carried on the person, or resources that can be called in. Don't bother including personal wealth since the employee will reimburse expenses within reason. Must be mundane in nature. Don't go crazy here.

Artifacts: Magical items with myriad purposes, purchased through the stipend given by the employer. Examples include a wand that shoots fireballs, a cigar that never goes out, a one-use array that can freeze space in an area, and a bag with a larger storage capacity than its physical size. Optional but recommended. You can have 1-3 of these, depending on how "powerful" they each are. Remember that for a job like this, utility trumps raw strength.

[Moonlit Sonata]

@Natsu @mercenarius @Dub @Vashonn @Sisyphus @CandyCoated @Night_ Star

[Sisyphus]

Kerr, the Demolitionist

Kerr Blaakvak

*incoherent screaming*

Name: Ker Blaakvak

Age: 9 (18 in human years)

Gender: Male

Species: Goblin

Personality: Kerr is every negative stereotype about his people all rolled into one: he's a loud, shrieking irritant with a penchant for violence and an impossibly short-fused temper. He's hyperactive, energetic, and endlessly curious about the world around him, which he tends to channel into an endless stream of questions about pretty much everything. However, he's not an actively malicious or sadistic figure, underneath his bad temper and relentless kleptomania; Kerr is, in a very real sense, an innocent, still young and learning how to behave.

History: Kerr's parents were 'respectable goblins'. They met in school, settled down when they were fifteen to raise a family, had nice jobs that they wore suits to. This made them essentially race traitors in the eyes of a large part of his native city's disenfranchised goblin population. It may or may not have been an accident that they died in a fire that local police strongly suspected was arson-related, but Kerr would never know. Either way he was on the streets when he was just four years old (eight in human years), and learned to fend for himself. He ate out of garbage cans, stole from convenience stores, and generally grew up without any supervision whatsoever.

In his teenage years (so, when he turned seven-ish) he started running with The Ruckus, an all-goblin street gang that picked him up for his toughness and brains. Wasn't long before he was near running them, thanks to his almost savantlike talent with gadgets and explosives that let them pull bigger and crazier jobs and start more and more trouble. Eventually the law caught up with them, of course, and every member of The Ruckus was incarcerated; except for Kerr, who escaped alone. Word of his deeds and his skills spread fast, though, and now he's come to Deln with a new job; steal a city.

Skills: Kerr's main talent comes in the form of alchemical brilliance - he learned everything he good about the crafts of alchemy and engineering from stolen books and magazines and took to it incredibly well. He makes potions, elixirs, and especially bombs out of anything he can get his hands on, and is also able to work and fiddle with some more mundane technology as well. He's a master demolitionist, adept at handling explosives (though he's not always the safest), and can spot the best way to bring down any structure with little more than a glance. Stealth is a foreign concept to him, however, and he's not very physically capable, being about two and a half feet tall and wiry as all get-out, but he can handle himself in a fight thanks to his self-invented fighting style of 'being a feral maniac'.

Equipment: Portable alchemy lab, for all his brewing and tinkering and bombmaking needs, plus a few hand grenades, spare explosive charges and detonators, and some elixirs of speed that he keeps in his bag.

Artifacts: The Blast Blanket, a goblin-sized blanket he carries at all times that's completely fireproof and enchanted to be unmovable by most explosions - very useful for surviving a bad demolition. He also has his Bottomless Bag, a satchel that isn't quite bottomless but nevertheless is much deeper than it should be, about the size of a hiking backpack.

[Stanifly]

Just popping by to say that I'll hopefully have my CS up by either tomorrow or the day after, if that's okay. ^.^

[Natsu]

Can you expand a bit on how magic works in this world? Is is learned or innate? What type of magic exists? What rules govern it?

[Moonlit Sonata]

@Sisyphus
Approved.

@Natsu
What people call "magic" is essentially the art of using using energy of consciousness, ergo what most would call mental or spiritual "energy", and sacrificing it in tandem with a specific focus. The energy provides a power source, the mind provides a concept to comport it towards, and then when this occurs the world provides a process through which the desired effect is enacted.

Magicians are generally akin to researchers or scholars, people who study the different ways that this energy can be comported for desired ends, and it's fairly common for stronger practicioners of magic to also be very well-versed in science. If you know how fire works, then you can more efficiently create a fire through using spiritual energy to effect combustion than someone who's using spiritual energy to just "make that thing hot".

Certain races are able to generate effects similar to magic by virtue of existing, for instance a phoenix's capacity for rebirth, but this isn't magic in the same sense.

If you have specific questions then I can go further in-depth.

[CandyCoated]

Wrong button

[CandyCoated]

Cynder Divyne

Name: Cynder Divyne

Age: She has claimed to be 23 for goodness knows how long.

Gender: female

Species: Claims to be human but is actually an elf.

Personality: "uncaring, pretentious, blunt, sarcastic, and coy" are just a few words people have used to describe her but she thinks she's an exceptional human being with a sparkling sense of humor and is just a general joy to be around.

History: she was from an elite house hold, but due to her "bad" attitude she tended to offend the other high elfin lords and ladies. The first time her father decided to hold his financial support over her head to get her obedience was the last. She walked out middle finger high in the air and within a few months built her own empire. Now her 'Darlings' are the highest sought after escorts in the city. And they are not just trained in the art of beauty and charm but also in distraction, espionage, and assassination.

Skills: Trained in hand to hand combat she also has Glamour which can alter her physical appearance to your minds eye, even making her not be seen at all. Her magical abilities mostly consist of affecting the mind but she has a few that are physical though she avoids using them due to their draining nature.

Equipment: Cynder (of coarse) can call in any of her girls when needed. And she carries a few well hidden weapons on her person.

Artifacts: a "bottomless" clutch is necessary for any thieving heists. And a few escape pellets that teleport her to the assigned homing beacon (a few silently and a few a bit more dramatically).

[Moonlit Sonata]

@CandyCoated
Please put the sheet in a hider, and delete the double post.

I'll have to ask that you heavily clean up the sheet on the basis of things like punctuation and grammar.

The personality is closer to a laundry list of a few basic traits than a sketch of a person, and gives little insight as to what she's like.

The history provides almost no detail as to the content of how she did what she did, or her involvement with people such as the employer. Moreover, having a network already based out of Deln is a no-go, as the idea is that the PCs are new to the city. There are some other issues, but I'd like those to be addressed first.

Please explain the breadth of her abilities in detail, rather than just sayings things like "she has some physical spells". Aspects like the limits of her Glamour are similarly necessary.

Details on weapons. See above for the network stuff.

I have no idea what you mean by the first artifact, and the second one requires much more explanation.

[CandyCoated]

Ah, nvm on my character then. My grammar isn't great and neither is my punctuation in genral. I don't mind elaborating on some things, but I spent atleast an hour on the CS and it seems like it all needs to be redone. I understand your needing more details on her abilities and such to prevent god-moding but it's my preference to reveal more personal character details in the actual story since you don't know everything about someone the moment you meet them. I just don't think my writing style is advanced enough for this RP. Sorry for waisting your time!

Oh and I have no idea how to delete a post, but if you need me to delete my posts just let me know how.

[Natsu]

I'll have a sheet together in a day or two, working on one for another RP right now, so sorry.

[Vashonn]

Yo, been away for a few days, so I may have to take a bit of time to get caught up with a couple other RPs I'm in, then I'll try and check this out a bit more!

[Stanifly]

@Moonlit Sonata I'm sorry, I may have jumped the gun here. As much as I'd like to join, I don't think I can manage another group RP at the moment. ^.^"" Sorry for the inconvenience.