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Welcome to the Sunday Group


This RP will follow the adventures of the members of the Sunday Group. It is a story about the occult world behind the world, and those brave or foolish enough to want to understand it.

Somewhere in a big city in America, there is a nondescript building. It is a few stories tall and it has an extensive basement. It could easily be the Law Offices Of Boring, Dreary and Bland, no one would guess that it is the home of one of the nation’s only occult detective agencies.

Employees of the Sunday Group are a diverse bunch. Small time magical practitioners, those with strange abilities, broken down cops who have seen too much, or just regular folk who saw something they shouldn’t and want to do something about it. Everyone who works for the Group has touched the supernatural world in some way or another, and for whatever reason just cant let it go and sink back into the comforting security of the mundane.

The World


The world is very much like our own except there is a secret magical world beneath it. It isn’t happy Twilight Magical though, think of it as somewhere between Harry Dresden and the Call of Cthulhu. Many of the trappings of any Urban Fantasy will apply here and I encourage you to introduce them into the setting. Think a shotgun filled with rocksalt will take out a ghost? Great, it is in. Want werewolves to have a silver allergy? No problem. Anything you want to introduce into the setting will probably be ok. If I have a problem with it, Ill ask you to reconsider privately.

Magic for the Modern Age


Some humans have the ability to handle arcane forces, either innately or through elaborate ritual preparations. Some people gain magical powers via congress with spirits or demons, even Gods there is always a price to pay for subverting the natural order though. Sooner or later the bill comes due.

Magic exists in the world in a multitude of form and traditions. It is even possible to do some magic by computer. I dont want to put to many restrictions on people here. Many types of magic do not require the use of spells or incantations. Some people might be able to move small objects with their minds, read the surface thoughts of others, turn invisible or any number of other small boons you might come up with.

While magic can be very effective under the right circumstances it isn’t a be all and end all solution. A powerful practitioner might be able to hurl a bolt of lighting but it is normally much simpler, safer and more effective just to use a gun. Magic is a tool, use it wisely.

Who are the Players?


The players will take the roles of detectives in the drama, but this won't be an RP solely about solving crime. Personal relationships between characters, their families and dependents will be crucial to the story.

Be connected! The nature of the world is such that all the brooding loners with a tragic but unknowable backstory were exsanginuated long ago. You don’t need to like people, but you do need to depend on them to survive.

What Can I Play?


You can play a human (or near human) with some minor edge over the rest of the herd. You cannot play an immortal dragon vampire samurai. Your character should have some life experience. I don't want to flat out say that they need to be a certain age but my personal preference is to avoid the teenage types who no sane detective would want covering their back when the tentacle hits the pentacle.

Notes On the RP


This will be a small group RP. I’m looking for 3-4 players tops. I want personal interaction to matter and I just dont see that in large group RPs.

This will be a collaborative rp and we will create the world as we go, feel free to introduce detail! I will exercise some limited forms of narrative control if necessary but my instinct is to let it ride if it fits in the framework of the fiction.

This will be an 18+ RP. Sex, drugs, sex drugs and horrible nightmares from distant space times ect.

Inspirations and Style


Inspirations for this include Call of Cthulhu, Harry Dresden, Supernatural, Delta Green, the Laundry Files. The goal is to be not quite as bleak as Lovecraft but to maintain something approaching that level of horror and danger. The protagonists can effect the outcome but plenty of stuff out there is well beyond the weight class of the Sunday Group.
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Character Creation

**Please note that I will only be accepting a small number of Characters. This is so I can try to create a high quality personal dynamic. Please don't be upset if you are not selected if there is enough interest perhaps I will create a Wednesday Group and have occasional crossovers!**

I'm not a particularly stickler for character sheets but just so that others have a reference Id like to have applications vaguely resemble the outline below.

As far as the writing sample goes, please write a short piece which illustrates who your character is. It can be anything you like, from an action scene to an email just so long as we get a sense of who you are.

Name: Penny

Age: 28

Appearance: Tired and Stressed

Concept: Doctor Neutral

Powers/skills: Super judgey, Sublime arrogance, lofty ambition

Writing Sample:

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Thanks for the link, Penny. I'll be brainstorming my dude over the next few days.
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Yey! *excited* Guess I know what I'm doing during lunch break
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Might have a friend who's willing to join with me, if you'd accept 2 more?
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I have two character concepts I am tossing in my head atm. Both are characters I played in a similar type RP before that never went anywhere.

1: An ex-detective who joined the force the force to find out who betrayed and got her father killed. She's an ex-cop because she got close to the truth and got out of an assassination attempt, but the higher ups (who were in on it) forced her out. Now she's a private detective, but still, searches for the truth. I like this one because of the badass lady cop angle, though nothing supernatural

2: A lawyer who worked her way up to the big leagues, only she ended up taking a case that would ruin her career. She was to defend a man who is charged with the murder of an entire family. Try as she might, it was hard going, but in the end she managed to win the jury until the man himself, infused with some demonic entity or cthulu demon depending on the lore we use, and ended up slaughtering the courthouse, killing the judge, the bailiff, and a few jury members. He was killed in the struggle. Having no clue what the hell happened, she slowly went a bit crazy and ended up quitting her job after these events. Having gone to therapy to help, she ended up with this incurable curiosity to discover what the hell happened and to hopefully put an end to it happening again. I like this one because it's supernatural and also I like playing lawyer type smarty characters! (and it's longer so you can see which one my favorite is)
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@FantasyChicMine is an almost broken down ex-FBI Profiler Yey for badass women
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Oh kind of like the idea of someone coming into the group through a therapist or therapy session!
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@Penny That'll be me. I'm probably gonna make the lawyer
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I'm thinking my guy would be a heavily prepared young guy, a huge nerd with experience of the supernatural from a childhood incident. He's seen as someone who could have been successful or married by now, but he spends all of his time on his research and on training for his hunts and investigations. He decides to join the Sunday Group to give his expertise. He'd serve as an 'expert' first, and 'officer in the field' role, though badass lady cops are first when it comes to that ;)
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Mine would most likely have stumbled upon the supernatural angle working on cases. And having to peer into evil minds, some, but probably most, supernatural ones, would have chipped away at her mental health. And then a final case that almost breaks her down, gets her released from the Bureau and left wounded, but pumped for retribution. I'm also considering some better than regular human perception to aid her in her detective and profiler duties.

EDIT: This is what I offer. Hope it's acceptable. If not, have fun with this for me as well



Now I gotta go work, cuz I might lose my job /not really though/ if I don't get my ass-ets in gear

P.S. Ooops, forgot to mention... Hope you won't hold it against her... But she prefers the ladies to the gents
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Excellent. I'll have something soon. Have an idea for a non practicing witch.
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Oh, yay!

I'll have something for you later today, probably. I have a date with a machine shop in the early afternoon, but after I wash the chips and abrasives off I should be free.
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Great, the OOC is up! That being said I don't think I'll be playing in this one.

I really like the concept and would love to join, but there's already tons of interest here and you're looking for a small group. I've got enough on my plate already besides, but I'm staying subbed and looking forward to reading!
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I'm so torn I could recycle a character from a previous one of these, it was about two years ago and only made it about 200 posts, so I'm tempted to use him again. Same time always a good time to make someone new.

EDIT: Had an idea for a new guy. Probably be the muscle.
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The Secret World.

I'm liking this, too bad there's alreadylots of players and I've got one other roleplay going on. :(.

Still, I'd like to express how excellent of a setting this is.
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Here we go! Hopefully this is the kind of character you're looking for!

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So I was keeping this really consistent tone throughout my character, but when I reached skills for some reason the idea of totems came to mind, and now the guy is basically a crazy cat lady, but with totems and tikis.
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Ha, cant wait to see it!
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@Penny

The original idea for the my character was this broken, wounded ex-FBI, but I think I kinda like the edgy outlook better I'm really gonna have fun with this if I make the cut If not, I too will stalk the thread and read
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Note: I checked with our GM before posting this. :3

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Name: Morgan Blackwood

Age: Apparently early-thirties

Appearance:

By every measure, Morgan is striking. She is tall for a woman, with fair skin and rich, dark hair that tumbles to her shoulders. Her features are elegant and wicked, with large blue-green eyes and lips that always tilt into an expression of mischief, set against sharp cheekbones and a strong jaw that stops just at the border of femininity. Anything but frail, Morgan is built like a martial artist or professional dancer, her body one of long, lean lines and dangerous curves. She moves with the lazy confidence of an apex predator, something captivating but not always inviting. Her hands are long-fingered and strong, rarely manicured, and marked with several small scars.

Morgan's professional appearance is almost always one in a dark, close-tailored suit, subtly heeled boots, and a shirt that might have one more button open than propriety requires. She wears a small amount of jewelry, mostly studs in her ears and occasionally a pendant. Her shoulder holster is hard to see, but it's usually there. In her off-duty hours, Morgan is a jeans-and-t-shirt kind of person. She listens to a lot of records through studio headphones, on a couch in her apartment.

Concept: Hiding in plain sight / Celibate succubus

Powers and Skills: Morgan is possessed of a variety of tools to manipulate those around her, from psychic weaponry to pheromones and body language, virtually all of which she makes an active choice to suppress. A notable exception is a powerful psychometric talent, which she makes only careful and deliberate use of. Morgan makes a considerable effort to keep what she is hidden, but there are cracks in the mask. She's considerably harder to kill than a 'normal' human, and she can't entirely switch off the supernatural sexiness - heads turn, perhaps especially when she'd rather they didn't. There are also more than a few genuinely supernatural creatures, including others of her own kind, that can also reliably know what Morgan is.

On a purely mundane point of view, Morgan has spent the best part of a century working with various law enforcement divisions of the United States government, and has collected quite a number of useful skills. She is capable with firearms, comfortable with vehicles from horses and buggies to tuned-out drift racers, and speaks several languages. Morgan plays the guitar, and knows the words to everything Fleetwood Mac ever released.

Despite actually being a supernatural creature, Morgan is not extensively versed in the world she comes from - she's aware that the shadow world exists, and can tell a pixie from an ogre, but she is far from an encyclopaedic source of knowledge. Her life has been one that, until quite recently, only occasionally intersected with the things that go bump in the night.



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