[OOC] The Blood Compact

[thewizardguy]

@Kazemitsu
As I'm probably more aware of the lore of this thing than Shikaru is, I'll answer this one. Old-time player here, this is a so-manieth reboot of a rather old series of roleplays.

Within this universe, Lycans are seen to be exclusively wolf-based, and exist in packs that hunt far from civilisation. They possess a culture separate from that of humans, and often choose not to mingle in the affairs of humans. Due to their isolation it is unknown if there are non-wolf lycans, but such a being would be the exception to the rule. It's often implied throughout the series that Lycans were driven to near extension due to conflict with humans and/or vampires. It is known that Lycans can either be 'turned' from a human or can be naturally birthed by two Lycan parents. It is also known that Lycans can occasionally possess exceptional traits, mutations, which can have various effects such as changing their fur colour, or in very rare cases granting them additional supernatural traits.

In general Lycans possess immense speed and strength in Wolf Form, on average they are even stronger than vampires. In addition they possess a slow regeneration factor, allowing them to close wounds in a matter of minutes, heal broken bones in hours, and regrow entire limbs over the course of days. To balance this out, a limited lifespan (approximately human) often provides Lycans with inferior skills and knowledge, as well as a more primitive outlook on society and technology. In a previous roleplay one player played an exceptional Lycan who possessed the power to control plants, and who was worshipped as a deity by other Lycans.

Also, half-vampire half-werewolves are usually impossible. Werewolf regen prevents them from being turned, vampire bodies are immune to the lycanthropy virus and even when it works the result is usually twisted and broken, dying soon. Only in rare and exceptional cases can a proper hybrid be created, and these hybrids are always considered with universal disdain by vampires, and general disdain by werewolves, as the two species have no love for each other.

[BlackPanther]

Exactly what I'm doing to my poor character
Along with infertility

Disdain all around heh

[Kazemitsu]

Was kinda hoping for non-wolf species. To...meh and boring...

[Heretic]

I'm making a human female if anyone wants to have their character romantically involved with mine. Otherwise I'll make an NPC.

[ayzrules]

How many characters are we allowed for this? (Sorry if this is in the rules wifi here is sooo slow)

[ayzrules]

Also thanks for answering my questions you guys!!

[Wraithblade6]

I'm going to write an OC post that clarifies on the workings of the world, probably tomorrow night. It will help people make characters and decide where they are going to fit in and what they're doing.

[BlackPanther]

@Wraithblade6
Aight
Got my cs basically done but I'll wait for that to make sure I've got everything right

[ghastlyInc]

@Wraithblade6
Might be troublesome, but I was wondering if you could also go into some minor detail as to racial appearances for different variants of vampire (if they exist) and possibly what sort of abilities seem to be typical for joe everyvampire citizens. Just so we have some context as to what would be considered reasonable.

[Shoe Thief]

I have a busy day coming up, if all goes well I will get my sheet up tonight, if not I may still do it but it may depend on a few things.

[Wraithblade6]

Individuals involved in this reiteration of Blood Compact rp: Myself, @Shikaru@The Grey Dust

How in the fuck the world of Blood Compact works:

"Long ago" humans and vampires both inhabited the planet. Humans are presumed to have evolved as per normal, yet the exact origins of vampirekind remain a mystery. Vampires plagued humanity all over the world for probably multiple thousands of years, maybe tens of thousands, we don't know. Many cultures considered them myth and legend only or were ignorant of the supernatural in general.

Vampires did at some point grow too numerous and ended up being "discovered" or recognized by humanity as a real thing. Older, wiser vampires, began to realize that vampire-overpopulation would become a problem for them.

Eventually, we're saying somewhere in eastern Europe in the dark ages or middle ages, humans figured out what vampires were and that they could be hunted and killed. The "Covenant" was formed as a secret society to protect humanity. Their goal was to basically kill all vampires and supernatural threats, and they were successful. The Covenant kept the population of younger weaker vampires suppressed, often clearing them out of a locale entirely and allowing the human population to grow.

Elder vampires were ok with this, so long as they were powerful enough to live beyond the Covenant's reach, as it kept young upstarts from killing too many humans and competing for territory. Nobody wants a noob punk warlord rising up in their backyard. So, the Elder vampires kept themselves hidden and allowed the war between the high-generation vampires and the Covenant humans to rage on in the foreground. Generally, neither the Covenant nor common vampires know anything about the Elders.

Most humans in the world don't know anything about vampires or the Covenant. Although some peopl might believe in vampires.

The modern-day Covenant mostly consists of the human descendants of previous Covenant members. Being a vampire hunter basically runs in families.

A few hundred years ago, an attempt was made to end the secret "Night Wars" between the common vampires and the Covenant/humans, and an agreement referred to as the Blood Compact was made. The low-level vampires (not the Elders) agreed not to commit at least mass-slaughter or attempt to overthrow humanity's dominance of the planet in return for not being hunted to a man/vampire. Neither side was to be allowed to wipe out or forever dominate the other and certain legal stipulations were penned, such as not blithely murdering vampires, not sireing fledglings, etc. You could probably make up the gist of the thing.

The Blood Compact has been in effect ever since, with much more peace resulting. Vampires seem to be almost forgotten in the public eye as long as they keep their feeding under control. The Covenant sticks around to make sure the Blood Compact gets enforced.

Truely Elder vampires don't really give a fuck about any of this. All they care about is maintaining their own secret empires and fending off each other. They are cowardly and value their immortal lives and frankly might just be too lazy to involve themselves in politics. Chances are, we will never see them. Just know they exist in this world, but your character probably has no clue.

Suddenly Magnus comes along.

Magnus, seemed to have popped up out of nowhere, powerful as hell and just as crazy. He is an older vampire who suddenly decided to flip the bird to the Blood Compact and round up an army of the weak and young common vampires to join him. Nobody expected this. The Covenant wants him dead. The Elders are probably peeved as much as they are entertained by his antics. The naive young vampires probably think he's a god and want to join his effort to take over the world. Have fun.

Werewolves. Think of them as a tribal society that has been living in the shadow of humans since the dawn of time. They are not great human-fans, what with human pollution and overpopulation of the Earth, but that doesn't necessarily make them friends to vampires. They will probably join any side that suits them on an individual basis.

[BlackPanther]

@Wraithblade6
Cool I think I actually did my guy correctly but just to make sure

I have him working for the covenant would that be okay?
Kinda letting himself be used as a sort of weapon.

[Shikaru]

@ayzrules As many as you can handle! Just don't go to nuts and overpopulate the thread please ^-^

[Shikaru]

@BlackPantherI don't see why not. We've had Vampires work for the group before. Covenant is a bit more formal and secretive than Soldier was so they'd likely be kept under a really strict watch, but other than that I don't see why not.

[Wraithblade6]

@ghastlyInc The good news is you basically get to design your own vampire bloodline and traits. Try us.

[Wraithblade6]

@BlackPanther I can't find your CS, but I'll look again after this. Personally, I'm not going to have Mithias be a member of Covenant. Mostly because they are pretty much solidly human in this storyline. however, I may have him as a contact for them. I just don't trust any group of humans have too much power over my life....

[BlackPanther]

@Wraithblade6
I have not posted him yet
I will pop him here in a few minutes

@Shikaru
Cool thank you

I figured it would be okay since being a hybrid neither side that's not human likes him very much

But yea I have him done all I need to do is paste him here ^.^

Edit: and here he is
Let me know if he needs tweaking

Vladimir

Name: Vladimir

Age: 1200

Height: 6 foot 1

Weight: 200 lbs

Race: Vampire werewolf hybrid

Gender: male

Appearance:
-Vladimir has olive toned skin with cool grey eyes. His body is muscular but can be hidden somewhat by a hoodie or large fitting clothes. His hair is pie bald in that it's raven black with a stark white stripe covering his left eye. In his left ear there is a silver hoop earring.

Sexuality: straight

Personality:
-Vladimir is a bit complicated. He seems to be a sarcastic cynical jerk outwardly. But, if he forms a relationship or cares deeply about someone he shows a more compassionate side. This is a rarity though.

Biography:
"Oh my history huh? Well I was born to a werewolf and a vampire. That being said my mother had a tough time raising me. Keeping my vampire side hidden was hard but she managed to do so until I was 22. I had stopped aging at 21 but what really gave it away was when I had a bought of blood lust. My vampire half was fully exposed and I was chased out of the pack. It was really hard on me but I don't know if it was worse for my mother.

From there I was nomadic. Often hunting for food and traveling. That's when I learned about pirates. That was a lengthy time and some stuff happened. Went from war to war from there on.

Fast forward to this blood compact. Interesting stuff. I decided to give myself over to a cause. In this case the covenant. I'm a sort of weapon for them.

Faction/Side:

Abilities:
-Shapeshifting: able to shift into his werewolf form at will along with a vampire shape.
-Strength
-Vampire Speed
-Daylight: He is able to go into sunlight without dying
-Anti aging: He stopped aging after 21 years of age
-Healing: an extremely active healing ability. Sounds like spiders as he heals.

Skills:
-Parkour
-Hand to hand combat
-Sword skills
-Sailing

Strengths:
-Charm?: he's quite the silver tongue
-Himself

Weaknesses:
-Iron: iron is his major weak point. Able to slow down his healing and able to kill him if aimed at a major organ. It effects him to the point where touching iron burns him the same as the sun would to other vampires. He keeps a healthy distance
-Blood: he stopped feeding on human blood quite some time ago....being around it too long can result in blood lust.
-His past: he doesn't like speaking about it but at one point he had a wife. A wife whom was killed brutally after he was found out as a monster. He lost it and murdered the entire town never to look back.

Likes:
-Being busy
-Hunting
-being alone
-rum

Dislikes:
-Iron
-Planes
-People

Other:
-While he enjoys being busy and will occasionally help a team he much prefers being alone.
-he has no need for money thanks to his horde of treasure kept in various locations that he occasionally donates pieces from to a museum.

[thewizardguy]

@BlackPanther

Looks fine, but shouldn't his weakness be Silver? Considering Silver is a generally accepted werewolf weakness. Iron is more closely associated with demons and fey, neither of which really exist in this universe.

[BlackPanther]

@thewizardguy
I have it being iron due to his hybrid nature
Also some vampire lore have weaknesses to iron so it's also a nod to those

I figured since he didn't have a weakness to sun and he didn't have a weakness to silver his weakness would be something older and more inconvientent
Like for example cars....

also this paragraph:
"It wasn't until humans began realizing certain things that they were weak against that they had any hope of survival, chances of fighting back. Silver, holy water, crosses bared by those with unwavering faith in the Lord, fire, blessed objects and iron, and other such items harmed or even killed them. Finally they had a fighting chance, and thus the initial order of vampire slayers known as The Covenant was formed. At first it was a small order of priests and able bodied men dedicated to the sole task of eradicating the Nosferatu, or at the very least hold their ground."

unless I was wrong to base his weakness upon this
In which case I can come up with a different one

[Shoe Thief]

Hank Miller

Name:
Hank Miller

Age:
46 Years old

Height:
6'2"

Weight:
212 lbs of pure muscle! And maybe some beer but we ignore that part.

Race:
Hank is a human. He'd probably lose his mind as anything else.

Gender:
Hank is a Male

Appearance:
Hank is a tall well built man with a strong frame to him. Though he does have a slight beer gut to him he is still more then strong enough to overlook that. For the most part he is Hunting, meaning he is in some pretty hard core gear. Things like a black fire resistant Trench coat, modified body armor made to withstand blunt force rather then bullets, a gas mask with noise filtered headsets and a filter meant to handle some pretty hard core stuff, and his old combat pants from his short time in the Marine Corpse.

With out the excessive gear Hank looks more or less like an old man getting ready to retire, despite the fact most people don't retire until they are a lot older then he is. He is a Caucasian male with a poorly groomed dark brown beard, with an ungroomed set of hair to match. His eyes are regularly blood shot due to lack of sleep and stress issues, and if anyone were to see underneath his heavy gear they would notice a collection of scars and burns across his body. Some from bullets, some from what looks like wild animals. From time to time though someone may catch him wearing reading glasses, he refuses to wear them outside of his home though as they tend to break a lot. Enough so that his current pair is just a set of multiple broken ones.

Sexuality:
He will never admit this but he is open to his options.

Personality:
Hank is a man who is broken by his past. Forced into a line of work he would never have imagined because he has no idea what else to do. He is not fond of making friends, having a new family, or opening up his emotions to others. Despite this he does find himself working with people in hopes to gain information he needs to get the job done.

That is his main goal in life, just his job done. That job right now is to destroy those who would hurt the innocent. Mainly he aims to kill the Vampire that had attacked his family years ago. Because of this though he tends to be protective of those he feels are not able to protect themselves, he would lay down his life for this idea. He tends to get a bit aggressive to others when he feels they are being unreasonable, even if they are being reasonable. He always seems on the move, always trying to get something done, never done with his list of things to do.

He tends to lose patience easily, he tends to starts fights a lot, he also believes he can end fights he is in. And his ego shows it. When he does rarely open up about his emotions he tends to be a total mess. Attempting to hide behind an emotional killing machine only goes so far before one tends to lose it.

Biography:
Hank growing up was a trouble maker. He has two counts of grand theft auto, a single count of possession of an illegal substance, a single count for obsession of an illegal firearm, which was dropped, and one case that was later decided manslaughter. The rest is not going to be found on any records. By the time he had gotten out of high school he had been arrested again, and was given a choice. Join up, or get locked up. He didn't like the later so Marines it was.

At the age of 20, he held his own, he was the second best marksmen on his platoon, and he was a qualified pistol marksmen. Hand to Hand he tended to go to far when sparing but he had decent scores there too. He did lack patience when it came to his emotions though. He would also get into loud verbal disagreements with his commanding officers a lot. Surprisingly he was able to hold the Rank of Staff Sergeant despite his many arguments.

By the time he was in his mid twenties he has seen action several times over. For the most part he was able to keep some self control during his time. While on leave he met a woman named Fiona Terra. His soon to be wife, and soon to be the mother of his first kid. A few more years went on and he became the father to a second child. After his younger child's second Birthday he made a promise to Fiona that this was going to be his last deployment, and he was going to be done. He was going to get a job as an electrical engineer and they were going to live in a nice house and there would be no more stress about when or if Hank was coming home.

It was his last deployment. But his unit was not sent over seas, instead they were sent into an airport in New York City. Hanks Unit getting ready to be deployed were the closest reaction force with qualified training to handle what was believed to be a terrorist take over. So they geared up and flew in, The covenant would arrive less then an hour later to finish the situation. Hanks Unit was inside for about fifteen minutes.

Inside was a blood bath, literally. Every other step Hank was slipping on blood from some poor soul who it had belonged too. It was close to three in the morning, with the amount of blood in here there was no way there would be any hostages left. No way in hell. Seemed all too much like what Hank thought was hell. Hanks unit soon saw action again as they dealt with a small band of vampires who had attempted to start their own uprising, but were forced to stay within the airport.

The battle was short, our of the crew and soldiers of 30 who went in, Hank and five others left alive. Many of which would be disabled or maimed in some other way if they were lucky. Hank Debates on how lucky he was. He had landed a lucky shot on one of the Vampires square in the face, and before they could react again he had unlaoded his magazine into it. At the time he had no idea what he was dealing with, part of his had a guess but he still had no way to know for sure.

Before Hank was sent back home on medical leave for some minor injuries he had obtained, the vampire he had injured had been able to track his profile down to where he had lived. And instead of finding Hank asleep, he found a woman and her two kids. His two kids. Long story short, Hank uncovered what is left of them the next day when he is finally allowed home.

Hank from that point on invested every penny he had to his name and started hunting down things that like to hunt in the night. Mostly vampires, but werewolves are not excluded, nor are humans.

Faction/Side:
There is no real easy way to put it. So I shall use Hank to explain it.
"I kill things that kill others. That may make me a hypocrite, but fuck you too."

Abilities:
Hank needs no abilities. His ego will work enough.

Skills:
*Guns. Simple enough, he is a qualified rifle and pistol marksmen.
*Hand to hand, though he tends to get aggressive and let his ego take over at time, he is still a decent hand to hand fighter.
*Slight mechanical skills, not amazing skills but enough that he can say he doesn't need a mechanic and regret it later
*Low level electrical skills, he isn't bad at it, but he is inexperienced.
*Hank tried chemistry, mostly to learn how thermite was made. It worked more or less, but he has no idea how to weaponize it. Or fix the hole in his floor.
*Improvisation and planning, Hank likes being prepared, or being ready for when he isn't prepared. That has helped his planning on the fly skills.

Strengths:
*He is physically strong
*He is good with guns
*He is an overall good fighter
*Hank is good at hiding his tracks
*He avoid taxes

Weaknesses:
*He has an ego problem
*Hank is a bit of an emotional train wreck
*He thinks he can do more then he actually can
*He is bad at being a people person despite his many tries
*He is wanted for tax evasion and so he needs to stay off the grid more often

Likes:
*Guns
*Books
*Other Weapons
*Revenge
*The feeling from completing a task
*Long road trips
*Any food that is not a frozen meal or Ramon noodles.

Dislikes:
*Vampires
*People
*Werewolves
*Snipers
*Taxes (For a lot of reasons)
*Planes
*Superiors
*Enemy superiors
*Power hungry anything really
*Anyone or thing that kills for sport, he thinks there should always be some better reason.

Other:
*Hank tends to hide a lot of weapons on himself and his home.
*His home is an old RV with some overpriced modifications to it.
*He is a huge Johnny Cash fan