[OOC] A Truly "Gifted" Life (Ignore post count)

[EchoicChamber]

@BespeckledCeph Mmmm, I got you. Thanks for clarifying, man. Thanks for making the edits, as well- I appreciate how chill you are about that.

[BespeckledCeph]

Took a lot of willpower, as that wouldn't make sense physically, but I had to, GM word is law ;-;

[Ryik]

This actually reminds me of another RP I was in previously (and its many reboots) that explicitly used the term "gifted" to describe much the same thing as it means here. Hell, this RP could be a continuation of that one, except post-post-apocalyptic. In any case, I'm interested in joining:

Koto

Full Name: Koto Wolfram
Age: 23
Gender: ♂
Gift: Koto is a walking, talking cognitohazard, able to subtly induce acute paranoia, hallucinations, and increased heart rate within anyone who perceives him. This effect is persistent and needs to be suppressed deliberately on Koto's part, though it does wear off after a while. While he has a degree of control over these hallucinations, it will also happen without any input on his part.
Loyalty: Born and raised an Ashlander, Koto works as a mercenary wherever he can and a cutthroat any time the opportunity presents itself.
Description: People associated with Koto tend to recognize him by his red hood and nigh permanently affixed grin. His hair is relatively short but thoroughly unkempt at all times, and his eyes, combined with his ability, have a piercing or even glowing essence to them. It is quite common for people to mistakenly believe his eyes are red, due to his association with the color and his ability, but they are in fact a vibrant amber.
Personality: While somewhat antisocial, Koto often behaves friendly or even cheerful, matching his indelible grin, though he sometimes does this thing with his tongue that most would find unnerving. He tends to behave stoically, but does have a sense of humor. He is sedulous, honest, and has horrible sadistic tendencies he is fully willing to inflict on the innocent. -If it's the time and place for it, that is. Koto is altogether calm and rational, but with or without his gift, he'll often seem a little off.
Skills: Koto has adapted to his own gift quite well, and has figured out ways to increase its duration and effect simply by changing his appearance; Features that stand out such as his blood-red hood and his smile that just so happens to be a little too wide stick with people's memories longer, contributing to stronger paranoia and more vivid hallucinations. People that see his red figure against the bleak colors of the ashlands will be affected for a few minutes after the last time they see him, a passing glance close-up will last longer, maybe even hours if they think his smile is creepy, and prolonged contact without Koto turning off his ability can cause the effects to linger for days. The effect itself can be cured by Koto pretty quickly and easily. Koto is capable of seeing the hallucinations he induces and, to an extent, controlling them. By the same token, Koto is able to notice that his gift has affected someone when he perceives them.

As a mercenary specializing in pursuit, Koto is a pretty good tracker, accustomed to reading partially faded tracks covered in the constantly shifting sand and dust of the wastes. Being able to sense the effects of his gift on someone after noticing it lends itself to his tracking capability, as it allows him to know where affected people went, even without visual confirmation, within a certain radius.

Koto is also proficient with knives and guns, of which he is never without at least one of each on his person. More often than not, he has an assortment of them stowed nearby. Nothing too fancy, but a little bit of variety is there in case he needs or wants it. For that matter, Koto possesses extensive surgical knowledge not actually useful in a surgery. Rather, he is very familiar with what will ultimately be fatal and what can be patched up and healed.

He owns a buggy of sorts for traversing the wastelands and giving chase to his victims. He's a pretty good driver and can generally pull off a stunt of some sort from time to time, though he wouldn't be very good at following traffic laws.
Weaknesses: Koto's hallucinations generally take the form of directionless paranoia if he is not directing them. Movement or strange shapes in the corner of their eye. The feeling of being watched, or perhaps followed. How people see this is ultimately up to their perception, but unless they happened to be creeped out by Koto, they'll generally suffer no issue initiating a surprise attack. Koto also can't use his ability solely as a tracking mechanism; he is only able to detect the presence of his gift's effects or remove it, not suppress it. This means that, if you know what Koto's ability is, you can tell when you're being followed by him. (...Unless it's all in your head, I guess) In terms of when he manipulates someone's perception directly, Koto doesn't fare well against opponents with high continuous stamina or those that can travel faster than he can over a long distance. A lack of defining landscape (a wide open area) is very hard for Koto to work with, as it means that Koto has to rely solely on mirages. While mirages are effective at a distance and with actual heat to cause mirages, they aren't very convincing when too close-up or in a cold environment... Unless it's extremely dark. A lack of instincts or common sense would be a decent countermeasure to Koto's ability. (Assuming that they aren't wearing themselves out at the same time)
Brief History: Koto grew up in the ashlands and lost one of his parents at a relatively young age. How he grew up to be the person he is pretty much starts and ends with that.
Theme: Dark Road

[EchoicChamber]

@Ryik To be fair, this roleplay is based off a sort of basic "gifted on the run" plot I made on another site a few years back, so it makes sense that there might be overlap with other kinds of RPs, haha. Anyway, just finished reading through Koto, and he looks good! Consider him approved. c:

[EchoicChamber]

I'm considering making a fresh Discord channel for this RP, so that way I can keep y'all updated more easily and give you guys something to do to better get invested while waiting for things to start. What do y'all think?

[A Lowly Wretch]

@EchoicChamber I support the notion since I already use Discord on a few other roleplays. It'll group the conversation together nicely.

[Ryik]

I as well. A designated means of instant communication would be highly useful.

[EchoicChamber]

Alright, then. c: In that case, the link to the new Discord can be found here, for those interested. I'll likely put it on the front page as well.

[Arya10108909]

@EchoicChamber
Added to Lilliana, tell me if I need to add more.

[baraquiel]

Hey guys, are you still accepting by any chance?? :)

[EchoicChamber]

@Arya10108909 Thanks for adding more detail! However, before I approve Lilliane, there's just one problem left for you to edit. Acolytes aren't a religious group by any means- they basically serve as a tech and science support for Erubesco, in a sense. c:

@baraquiel Of course! We're always accepting- an open world means a lot of characters are fine!

[Claw2k11]

@EchoicChamber

Just a friendly reminder here, I know you want to have as many players as possible, but don't allow too many people in, or it might be more than you can handle, especially since people are allowed to make several characters as well. It's your RP, so consider this as friendly advice!

[EchoicChamber]

@Claw2k11 That's a very good point you have there, Claw, and I appreciate your input. c: I'd like to keep the character gates open throughout the RP because it's an open world, however, and I know that in a lot of RPs, there tends to be a lot of interest initially before people start vanishing or leaving. I'd rather start off strong and try to maintain than close down on character submissions and risk winding up with only a few people left, you know?

[VitoftheVoid]

Rei

Full Name: RE1 T1-1

Nicknames/Aliases: Reith, Rei

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Gift:

-Biological Manipulation (Flawed)

Loyalty: Former Erubesco Experiment, currently staying with The Wanderers

Description: Rei, at a glance would not really give the impression of a powerful creature. In fact, she looks quite weak and sickly on first impression. She's on the short side, and very skinny and pallid looking, with dark rings around her eyes. She lacks a lot in the way of feminine curves, though it's hard to tell as she tends to wear loose-fitting clothing. The only thing she's particularly vain about is her hair, which grows in silver and is long and thick. She has green eyes with big irises and slit-like pupils. It makes her non-human nature rather clear.

Personality:
Unpredictable might be a good word for Rei.
Like an animal that has been trained to fight, she tends to struggle between her own natural persona, and what has been hardwired into her mind to the point of second nature, that being rather horrific levels of brutality.

For the most part, Rei is a quiet, meek, self-deprecating sort. She has only recently in her life had a chance to really take up hobbies, but has found she quite enjoys reading, and some kinda of sport (though it's still up for debate as to whether transforming yourself to gain the athletic edge is really fair). She is extremely grateful of just about any sort of positive reactions from others, and tends to be extremely keen to please those who have been kind to her, and mortified upon realizing she's upset them. She's quite intelligent, even if her rather animalistic tendencies don't leave this too obvious, and in many ways this works against her, as she tends to very much overthink her own actions.

Then, there are her issues with instability.

There is almost a sense with Rei that her human persona is a bit of a veneer on something altogether more monstrous. Any considerable stress sees Rei's higher functions overwhelmed and sees her default to far less human behaviour. Hunting, hiding, mauling opponents in the most horrific ways, and, perhaps the most unpleasant to a civilized person, the drive to consume prey, and even enemies, raw in order to fuel her abilities. It does not take a lot to push Rei into these behaviours, and her lack of reasoning in extreme situations can at times make her a liability.

Skills:

-Rei's abilities make her incredibly hard to kill, allowing her to reconstruct her own tissue even when she's received extremely heavy damage.

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Weaknesses:

-Rei's powers depend on having enough stored biomass to create new parts and/or regenerate herself. In order to accrue this she has to consume raw animal matter. She cannot digest normal food. Her natural instincts to do so tend to kick in when she is hurt or threatened. As a result Rei feels a compulsion to consume small animals, dead things, and even, in extreme cases, people.

Brief History: Largely unknown. Rei's background appears to lie in RE, an Erubesco research project that tried to recreate the abilities of Commander Green in a weaponized capacity, but was shelved due to the overwhelming fatality rate, and the abominations that tended to result from it. Rei, as one of those abominations, was theoretically terminated and dumped into a biological waste site in the Ash. Fortunately for her, she was far harder to kill than Erubesco counted on, and was able to pull herself out of the toxic mire. From there she fell in with the Wanderers, though her frightening nature has placed her somewhat on the periphery.

Hel

Full Name: Helena Alys Norrevinter

Nicknames/Aliases: Little Hel, Devil Child,

Age: 6

Gender: Female

Gift:

Berserkergang - Much like her mother, Hel is able to call upon berserk abilities.

UNKNOWN- The full extent and even definition of Helena's powers have yet to become clear to those around her. She appears to, have some extent, taken on the biomanipulation abilities of her father...but at her age is ill-equipped to use it.

Loyalty: Born in Erubesco, currently staying with The Wanderers.

Description: Hel resembles a small, short-set girl of six years of age. She is a little underweight for her age and height, and has long, untidy, bright ginger hair like that of her mother. Her eyes have vivid berry-red irises. Her skin is pale and white from lack of sunlight.

There is notable surgical scarring, on her forehead, face, neck and shoulder, clear signs of her time within Erubesco.

She's generally found wearing a hooded jacket and red tennis shoes given to her by Spire, and her mother's mjolnir pendant.

Personality: Hel is a creature very much influenced by her environment. Once a relatively ordinary child, she has taken on a very different demeanour during her time shut away in the laboratories of Erubesco. She is perpetually serious, to the point of being rather morbid, and seems to have an extremely casual attitude towards death and killing. Indeed she has openly stated her intentions towards Dutch, to murder him, and has attacked him on a few occasions.

She is unusually quiet and focused for a child of her age. She is usually quite self-contained, and does not talk more than she needs to.

Hel is quite a schemer, and seems to have some kind of greater plan in mind. She has been creating psychic links with members of the wanderers by which she is able to control them, working toward a certain goal. She feels it's her job to 'fix' people. Her methods though, are brutal.

Despite this, Hel is still a child. She has a childish understanding of the world around her, childish lack of skills, (like shoelaces) and childish fears (like Mina's hair). She is attached to toys, and Spire, whom she treats as something of a father figure.

Hel has an enormous fear of returning to Erubesco, and threats of it tend to throw her into a panic.

Skills: -Helena seems very intelligent considering her age, and appears to be able to formulate comparatively complex plans and tactics.

Weaknesses:

-Hel is a child, and has both the size disadvantage that comes with it, and something of a childish mindset. While she is clever she has quite black and white reasoning, and can easily be diverted or distracted.

Brief History: Hel was born to Kora Norrevinter from an Erubesco-ordered union between her and COmmander Green, in an attempt to weaponize the man's abilities. Initially however, Hel displayed no sign of these powers, and as a result she was left smewhat on the backburner, to be raised by her young and rather ill-equipped mother who did struggle to juggle the demands of being a Knight and the demands of parenthood.

Hel never felt mistreated in her younger years, but she was often left to make her own entertainment, and invented all kind of imaginary characters and ideas in order to keep herself amused whilst her mother was working.

When she was four, powers began to show. Rudimentary abilities, but potentially incredibly powerful. Those of Green, but perhaps without the restrictions of his rules.

There was some sort of block however. Something preventing Hel from reaching her full potential, and Erubesco, Commander Green in particular, was willing to go to great lengths to attempt to unlock this. The result was experimentation that proved to be both immoral, and damaging. After two years, Hel ended up with the Wanderers due to the actions of Rei, one of Green's creations whom Hel appears able to control. She ended up being taken under the wing of Spire, their resident gifted-hating killer. While maybe a dubious privilege, Hel took to the man. His antipathy towards many members of the group appealed to Hel's nasty streak, and meant that he was less likely to scold her on some of her more questionable actions.

As a result, when her mother discovered her to be alive, she ran to Spire, fearing a return to Erubesco, and leaving the Knight Commander distraught and unable to take her against her will.

Now, Hel remains in the group as somewhat of an outlier. But her position is in jeopardy, with her father getting quite keen to bring her back and finish his work.

[EchoicChamber]

@VitoftheVoid Approved!

[Claw2k11]

@Claw2k11 That's a very good point you have there, Claw, and I appreciate your input. c: I'd like to keep the character gates open throughout the RP because it's an open world, however, and I know that in a lot of RPs, there tends to be a lot of interest initially before people start vanishing or leaving. I'd rather start off strong and try to maintain than close down on character submissions and risk winding up with only a few people left, you know?

@EchoicChamber

I understand, I just didn't want you overextend... anyway, I have gotten my second character up and ready, is she good to go?

Alya Elcove

Full Name: Alya Elcove

Nicknames/Aliases: The Lighting Princess

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Gift: Electromaster: Alya can create and manipulate lightning and though it is powerful, it is hard for her to control the amount of power she places in each shot, though most of the time, the power in her shots is enough to be lethal to most people.

Loyalty: Erubescan Knight

Description: Alya is much shorter than her brother, standing at 5'7" tall, with brown eyes and auburn colored hair. Though she wears her armor when on the job, nearly every every occasion she gets she wears either a simple black T-shirt or a gray tank top with a pair of cargo pants.

Personality: Alya is every bit like her late father, lively, friendly to nearly any one other person and stubborn to a fault! However, when it comes to proving her skill, she shows her more competitive side, always seeking to outdo her opponent in whatever competition there is.


Skills:
- As expected of an Erubescan Knight, Alya has been trained in most forms of combat, showing much skill in both ranged and close quarters combat.
- Alya, as part of her training, has shown a great amount of agility, much more than many of her current peers.


Weaknesses:
- Alya is stubborn, so very much more than her father was, so if she has something in mind, it is highly unlikely that she will change it's mind about it very soon.
- Despite her skills as a knight, she has a rather weak constitution, making her more prone to diseases and making her a fragile person in general.


Brief History:
Alya was born second in the Elcove family and though she showed enough skill in combat to become a Knight like her father, she was always overshadowed by her more, cold, calculated and skilled brother, however she prided herself in something that her brother could never take from her, her social skills and though she would never gain a prize from it she was happy nonetheless... until he took that from her as well.

In order to be fully welcome into society, her brother, Darrien, had taken to acting like a regular person, he had seen her talk to her friends, he had heard how knights were supposed to act, combined the two into a mask and wore that mask ever since, a mask that made him gain a certain degree of fame within Erubesco as a model knight and it earned him a title as well, The Crimson Knight and so he outdid her... yet again, though she understood why he did it, she could help but despise him for a few moments, before remembering the words that her father had imparted on them before he passed away.

"You two have your differences and you must not like the other, however, you two are a family and family has bonds that can never be broken."

And with that, she swallowed her pride and smiled towards her brother for once, though it would be difficult to

Other:

Railgun: Something that has become something of a trademark move, Alya can use her power to launch a metal object(usually a bullet) at around nearly twice the speed of sound by forming parallel currents on both sides of her arm using her electricity

[EchoicChamber]

@Claw2k11 Open world roleplays are all about having a ton of characters involved to wander about and do their own thing, so don't worry. :) It's a fairly hands-off deal GMwise, and even then my Co-GMs do an excellent job of helping me out.

Also, in regards to Alya, there's just a few things that I need to poke at (again, sorry for all the trouble!). The first is her railgun ability. I'm not quite sure how it works, and I also feel that twice the speed of sound might be a bit too strong, myself. There's also another electricity user submission as well, and while I'm not forbidding multiples of the same Gift, it could potentially run the risk of rendering one obsolete. Would that be alright with you?

[Arya10108909]

@EchoicChamber Alright, I think all the oopsies are fixed. 'I think' is the key phrase here.

[EchoicChamber]

@Arya10108909 Yeah, I think Lilliane’s good to go now. Approved!

[Claw2k11]

@Claw2k11 Open world roleplays are all about having a ton of characters involved to wander about and do their own thing, so don't worry. :) It's a fairly hands-off deal GMwise, and even then my Co-GMs do an excellent job of helping me out.

Also, in regards to Alya, there's just a few things that I need to poke at (again, sorry for all the trouble!). The first is her railgun ability. I'm not quite sure how it works, and I also feel that twice the speed of sound might be a bit too strong, myself. There's also another electricity user submission as well, and while I'm not forbidding multiples of the same Gift, it could potentially run the risk of rendering one obsolete. Would that be alright with you?

@EchoicChamber

Hey, if you feel like you can do it, then who am I to stop you!

The railgun thing was more of a reference to something I watched a while back, it doesn't really have to be there. Yes it is fine with me, I have something else in mind if this doesn't work, also people should have the same type of gifts once in a while(the NPC's I mean), after all, I doubt that everyone currently living in the world has their own unique power.

Also, the character sheet has been revised, I hope all is well!

Alya Elcove

Full Name: Alya Elcove

Nicknames/Aliases: The Infernal Knight

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Gift: Firemaster: Alya can create and manipulate fire and all it's properties and is immune to fire in general. After tinkering with the powers a bit, she has found a few creative ways of using her gift in combat.

Loyalty: Erubescan Knight

Description: Alya is much shorter than her brother, standing at 5'7" tall, with brown eyes and auburn colored hair. Though she wears her armor when on the job, nearly every every occasion she gets she wears either a simple black T-shirt or a gray tank top with a pair of cargo pants.

Personality: Alya is every bit like her late father, lively, friendly to nearly any one other person and stubborn to a fault! However, when it comes to proving her skill, she shows her more competitive side, always seeking to outdo her opponent in whatever competition there is.


Skills:
- As expected of an Erubescan Knight, Alya has been trained in most forms of combat, showing much skill in both ranged and close quarters combat.
- Alya, as part of her training, has shown a great amount of agility, much more than many of her current peers.
- She has learned to use her powers in combination with a few set martial arts moves for a more effective style of combat(think of the firebending in Avatar).

Weaknesses:
- Alya is stubborn, so very much more than her father was, so if she has something in mind, it is highly unlikely that she will change it's mind about it very soon.
- Despite her skills as a knight, she has a rather weak constitution, making her more prone to diseases and making her a fragile person in general.


Brief History:
Alya was born second in the Elcove family and though she showed enough skill in combat to become a Knight like her father, she was always overshadowed by her more, cold, calculated and skilled brother, however she prided herself in something that her brother could never take from her, her social skills and though she would never gain a prize from it she was happy nonetheless... until he took that from her as well.

In order to be fully welcome into society, her brother, Darrien, had taken to acting like a regular person, he had seen her talk to her friends, he had heard how knights were supposed to act, combined the two into a mask and wore that mask ever since, a mask that made him gain a certain degree of fame within Erubesco as a model knight and it earned him a title as well, The Crimson Knight and so he outdid her... yet again, though she understood why he did it, she could help but despise him for a few moments, before remembering the words that her father had imparted on them before he passed away.

"You two have your differences and you must not like the other, however, you two are a family and family has bonds that can never be broken."

And with that, she swallowed her pride and smiled towards her brother for once, though it would be difficult to keep that smile for a person she did not like for a good part of her life.

Other:

- Dragon's Breath: Not really a special move, but just a way for her to show off her power. Instead of shooting flames from her hands like she usually does, she fires the flames from her mouth much like the mythical dragons would.
- Plasma Cutters: By increasing the temperature around her hands and feet to the point where the oxygen around it turns to plasma, she is able to turn usual punches and kicks into very dangerous attacks.
- Heatstroke: Not really a move per se, but she can heat the air in a 15 foot raidus to unbearable degrees for other people to the point it would cause people heatsroke, hence why she called this move like this, however, she rarely uses her powers like this because they are not that strong in a combat situation