[OOC] The Red Hoods: Initiates

[Damo021]

I have been keeping an eye on this interesting concept, and there is a lot of interest than there is spots... But i will put in a character shortly and see what happens.

[Slamurai]

Pieter Aukes

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Sex: Male

Age: Roughly three decades.

Height: Just shy of six feet.

Species: Human.

Volunteered or Sentenced: Sentenced.

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Pieter never stopped being the kid who slung rocks at birds. Cruel, mischievous and unapologetic, Pieter is the product of a harsh upbringing in the alleys of Leerdam. He had no mother or father to call family, just the other runts of Burl’s gang, if they could even be considered family. It was a strict hierarchy of bigger, older kids at the top. Someone had to keep the smaller ones in line.

Pieter was one of the runts, once. But whereas most simply scraped by doing as they were told to avoid beatings, Pieter’s eyes were always on bigger things. The older kids did what they wanted, as long as they kept Burl happy, and got more food, a closer spot to the fireplace, real beds and their pick of the girls. For Pieter, these were luxuries he coveted.

By the time Pieter was sixteen, he’d risen from the bottom of the litter to the ranks of the bigs that answered to Burl directly. After sixteen years of scoldings, beatings and a meager subsistence of scraps, he never lost sight of his goal. His knuckles had been bloodied on the jaws of weaker kids and he was rewarded for it. He was warm, fed, rich for a slum kid and the prettiest girls couldn't tell him no.

It wasn't long until Pieter outgrew Burl and his penny-snatching operations. He’d made some friends with big names in the undercity: Ape, Earless John, Niner, Daxton, to name a few. Real criminals that were feared and respected. It started with delivering messages across the slums, then coins, then drugs. Sometimes an easily-concealed knife or conspicuous vial of liquid. The shot-callers must have sensed his potential, because they put him on the streets as a strongarm.

A show of force here and a dent in the competition there were his prerogative. Pieter didn't just do it because he was told to. He did it because he enjoyed it. He relished the rush of adrenaline, the blood in the eyes and fire in the heart. He drank the misery of those he made examples of, intoxicated on the feeling of power.

When Sebastiaan Krantz took over as Leerdam’s burgomaster, he finally turned the city’s attention to its dark underbelly. He began a purge of crime, hunting both small-time gangs and organized circles. The bigshots were complacent, too used to the blind eye of society, and unprepared when Krantz loosed his well-equipped, professional men on them. Pieter, already notorious for a long list of barbarism, was swept up in Leerdam’s war on crime and captured during a raid on a guild safehouse.

Pieter contemplated fighting, but also felt like living. The merchants who couldn’t pay never fought back. Nor did the late payers, shortchangers, flotsam and jetsam of the streets. They knew Pieter was bigger and stronger. And so he knew his odds when he saw them. In exchange for leniency, he broke the sacred rule of silence and offered up identities, whereabouts and other information about his peers to authorities. Instead of a lighter sentence, he was offered a choice: join the Red Hoods or death.

[Leda]

If this is still open, I'd love to join

My Hider

Name: Hjadra Bruun
Image/Physical Description:

Sex: Female
Age: 22
Height: 5'6
Species: human
Volunteered or Sentenced to join the Red Hoods:
volunteered
Physical abnormalities (tattoos, scars, etc): she has a few scars on that run up and down her back from past skirmishes with monsters
Anything else we need to know about you right off the bat (optional): nothing as of yet

[Damo021]

There is some adding to physical description coming on shortly, but i wanted to get this up as I'm about to head of to bed.

Nyssa

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Nyssa Devout

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Image/Physical Description:


Sex:
Female
Age:
24
Height:
5’4
Species:
Dhampir
Volunteered or Sentenced to join the Red Hoods:
Volunteered
Physical abnormalities (tattoos, scars, etc):
Nothing really of note, except for when feeding on blood, despite her muted thirst, if she does feed her eyes will go a crimson red for a while after with the duration depending on how much she has had.
Anything else we need to know about you right off the bat (optional):
None as of yet.

[NorthernKraken]

I feel like I may have edited my guy's sheet a few too many time's lol =P Promise I'll stop fiddling from this point forward!

[Argetlam350]

Hider

Bartholomew Whitlock

Sex: Male
Age: 35
Height: 6' 1''
Species: Werewolf

Volunteered or Sentenced to join the Red Hoods: Sentenced to join.

Physical abnormalities (tattoos, scars, etc): Large claw and bite marks across his body, from the attack that left him cursed. A brand that marks him as a werewolf on his neck, given when forced to serve for the Red Hoods.

Anything else we need to know about you right off the bat (optional):
nada at the moment

[Skwint]

Wow. This filled up super fast. Guess I miss out.

[DELETED jdl3932]

I have never seen such fierce competition to join an RP before in my life.

Ever.

[Slamurai]

I have never seen such fierce competition to join an RP before in my life.

Ever.

@ZAVAZggg

Probably because the sheet is so minimal it can be done with one-liners. Not the hardest to make, unless you add your own details.
That said, I don't know how I'd judge which characters to accept without some kind of writing sample or additional description.

[DELETED jdl3932]

@Aristo
It might be best if I added a backstory to my CS then.

[Exit]

I do like the idea of having individual players going into the game without much knowledge of the other characters being played. Lends a bit of authenticity to the greeting and bonding element of things.

I agree though that it becomes harder for the GM to judge a CS... unless he or she has them submit the history via PM. Writing samples help too.

[DELETED jdl3932]

Okay, I added a sample of my writing. It's not George R.R. Martin levels of good, but I think it will work.

P.s. I wrote this all at midnight.

[AtomicNut]

Wow, hedging bets, much?

[Red7VII]

Applications are now closed.

Everyone who applied will be contacted via private message today. If you haven't received a message, it just means I haven't gotten to you, yet, but you will get one. Thank you to everyone for showing interest and applying! With our roster in place, I will work on getting the IC post going.

As far as what went in to selecting applicants...
I deliberately requested that no detailed history be given about your characters because I want dialogue to have much more meaning in this game than those I've played in the past. As characters, you'll actually be asking eachother questions you want to know rather than trying to fish out a bio factoid just so your character knows it IC even though you've known it OOC since the beginning. Gives conversations more meaning, in my eyes, and gives you a greater chance at evolving your character and growing with it.

I know it's awkward to break from tradition but that's what I'm hoping to do with this RP, from the applications to the execution, we're trying something different. This isn't going to be my game, it's going to be our game, our world. I've already talked to some of you about how we're going to shape it together and it's exciting for me. Everyone will have the opportunity to impact lore should they be willing.

I didn't request writing samples because most of you have a detailed history of RPing that can be accessed through your profile. Your writing samples were already submitted and reviewed. If you look at your profile, I'm one of the Recent Visitors. For those who were new and didn't have a history of RPing on the guild, chances are I spoke to you privately.

Another motivation to the choices was based on balance. Male to Female, Volunteers to Sentenced, Humans to Monsters. Which pairs and combos could be the most interesting? Some of you have less RP experience, some have more, but everyone has their own flavor. We're not doing vanilla. Let's rocky road this bitch.

Thank you all, again.

[Red7VII]

Messages have gone out. Those who are in-game this round can go ahead and move your bios to the character tab. Everyone else, you're on reserves. Maybe we'll see you later on in this campaign, but I certainly hope we'll see you on the next one! Thank you!

I'll message out Discord info tonight. I'll try to have the first IC post up as soon as I can, but I've got to make some small last minute changes to how I was originally going to do this. It will definitely be up this week, but I might not make the tomorrow deadline that I had set for myself, lol. We'll see.

Looking forward to this!

[Red7VII]

Sorry, I got behind, but it's the weekend again! I'll get this thing rolling!

[DELETED jdl3932]

@Marrok
Working on a post now.

[DELETED jdl3932]

Just a quick update, I'm still typing out that post (and eating lunch). I should be done soon. I just have to finish Vitius's reaction to the inside of the keep and the characters he's been brought in with.

[DELETED jdl3932]

Post is up.

[Red7VII]

GM post delayed a day. Buddy had an impromptu birthday party.