[OOC] Paradigm Shift: Agents of Fate [Currently Accepting!]

[Nate1008]

My CS is on its way. Not finished, but getting there.

[silvermist1116]

@Stitches PM me on RPG please.

[Bazmund]

@Lady Selune

Further to the review over discord, your CS has been accepted. In your own time please move her over to the char tab, and welcome to Paradigm shift. I'm really looking forwards to this.

[Bazmund]

Additionally, I've updated the OOC with some clarifications about the nature of magic and the schools of colour - specifically that spells ought to be specific abilities as opposed to general power with wide consequences and applications, like controlling any part of your environment with one spell or turning any substance into any other substance and so on. Your characters are unfamiliar with magic, and all of their abilities so far are linked to innate knowledge and character traits rather than techniques they have learned or will learn. I'd like to apologise for this misunderstanding, and reassure folks that although your characters may not feel powerful at the beginning (and indeed, will never be overpowered) the plot revolves around interaction with people who can train you.

[Stitches]

A similar side note that has come up recently and is a trend in multiple sheets - Bazmund and I tend to prioritise a logical, modern world over game mechanics. In other words, when you write your sheets and approach encounters, try to think about the best way to handle things IRL before moving onto magic. For example: If someone is waving a gun at you, you're hardly going to start goading them on. Similarly, despite putting 'Charming' in your sheet, if you cannot successfully put into words why your assailant shouldn't shoot you, you may end up getting shot. This is an alternate timeline version of our world and plays more like a 'what-if' narrative than a cartoon or fantasy story.

[silvermist1116]

I edited my cs.

[Stitches]

@silvermist1116 sorry for the delay, is that your final draft? It's already looking really good but I've yet to properly read through it.

[silvermist1116]

@Stitches Yep. Final draft.

[Jessikka]

Angeline 'Angie' Harrison

Basics

Name: Angeline Harrison
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Height/Weight: 5'6 / 67kgs
(Former) Occupation: Professional dancer
Appearance: A tall, lithe and athletic figure when she isn't dolled up in her performance gear. Angeline is only just started to show signs of ageing but she has a youthful and smiling face. Her eyes are a pale off-green colour, and she's usually tied her blonde hair up. Out of habit she keeps her appearance somewhat neat, if not meticulous. You'll often see her in plimsolls or other flat, flexible footwear alongside some sensible skirt and sweater combination, opting for a look that's a mix between chic and scholarly. She is no stranger to accessories and a nice handbag. If she isn't dressed in performance gear or extremely casual business casual, she'll be in some leggings and a hoodie.

Biography

Angeline Harrison was born in Bedfordshire, England, to a fairly wealthy upper-middle-class family. She went to private schooling as a child and was allowed to follow her interests instead of the most financially sensible career path. She often took part in extracurricular activities, starting with gymnastics and then quickly moving onto the school's ballet classes. Her teacher for the after school club saw that the girl had a knack for performing arts and encouraged her to attend Irrendale Ballet Academy, a prestigious dance school, when she was around twelve years old.

Despite the rigorous training, carefully planned out diets and constant rehearsals and performances, Angeline did her best to prioritise her education. She sacrificed a social life and a fair amount of sleep to keep up with her grades and her practice, but the friends she made at the academy would last her for decades. She came out of her secondary education with decent A levels and a professional career as a ballerina through a partnered agency with the academy.

From there she spent almost a decade of her life performing both at home and around Europe in various gigs, rehearsing and practicing with her own professional mentor, organising her home life in tandem with a nutritionist and having some small but fulfilling relationships with men who ultimately couldn't keep up with her constant travelling. She was put on the front cover of a few ballet related magazines once or twice, but never as often as when she fractured her ankle from landing awkwardly after an unbalanced jeté.

In the time off work, Angeline realised that she didn't have any sort of back up plan aside from perhaps becoming an instructor once she has outlived her athletic career. Since it would take upwards to a year to fully recover, she decided to go to university in America to study Biological Sciences. She started her degree aged 29 despite the increasingly difficult paperwork it took to get into the country, and during her second year of studying she started to slowly get back into the swing of dancing using the network of friends from the academy as a foothold in the US. Her powers manifested halfway through her degree.

Skills and Weaknesses

Skills:

• Strongest Skill - Good Physique - Flexible, strong, agile. Capable of performing feats that the average Joe cannot, but she's untrained in anything but dancing.
• Second Strongest Skill - Biologist - Above average knowledge of ecology, neurobiology, molecular cell biology, pharmacology and genetics and evolution.
• ‘Weakest’ Skill - Calm under pressure - High-pressure lifestyle full of rigorous training, diets and practice along with education results in her being able to handle the pressure of an intensive lifestyle without panicking too much.

Weaknesses:

• Biggest Weakness - Sheltered. She's never truly experienced hardships or financial difficulty and usually has everything she needed on hand, and the ability to replace what is broken. She doesn't know how to repair, recycle or conserve resources.
• Second Biggest Weakness - Weak immunity. Stemming from a sheltered life and some predisposition in her genes, she's more prone to illness after suffering from exposure, eating dirty or rotten food and unsanitary conditions.
• Third Weakness - Reliant on Authoritative figures. She isn't rendered useless without orders, it's more that when she is given instructions from someone who seems to know what they're doing, she won't listen to her better judgement and assumes said figure knows more about the scenario than she does. It can lead to her walking blindly into bad situations.

Spells:

• 1 - GREEN - Can produce streams of water from her fingers like a little watering can. Results in dehydration (1:1 ratio), though it should become more efficient and hopefully she'll be able to manipulate the streams with time.
• 2 - RED - Plant growth. The spell encourages tissue growth in other life forms but slows regenerative properties in herself (slows cell replication, immune response etc).
• 3 - RED - Botanical vision. Her eyesight makes plants with properties she is looking for light up within the vicinity to her, but she is utterly blind to anything else.
• 4 - RED - Carbon-graft - Any carbon-based lifeform can be used as supplementary tissue to seal surface level wound but it kills the lifeform upon use, only 'heals' what the lifeform is in contact with and takes days to be incorporated into real flesh. Excess parts fall off until the body is good as new. During the healing process, the lifeform used still retains its properties (ie a tree bark graft can still burn or splinter if struck hard enough or ignited).
• 5 - GREEN - Boosts the naturally occurring properties of chemicals in plants and animals (I.E. the effects of opiates derived from Papaver Somniferum or the opium poppy), but imparting potency within the plant draws from her energy and leaves her fatigued. Like the dehydration spell, it will become more efficient over time.

[Stitches]

@Jessikka accepted! Please put your sheet in the characters tab, preferably in a hider.

[Stitches]

@Nate1008@duskshine749@Gentlemanvaultboy As said before in the discord, we just need one more accepted sheet to start playing. If you get your sheet ready for review, we can move along fairly quickly - the GM is already working on an IC post.

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

I thought mine was ready?

[Stitches]

I thought mine was ready?

@Gentlemanvaultboy

You had failed to tell both of us, we've been sat there thinking you had something else to add in! I'll check it in a bit.

[duskshine749]

I did it, I have completed the history. Would you prefer if I repost my sheet or just leave it as the edited version from my OP? @Stitches@Bazmund

[Stitches]

I did it, I have completed the history. Would you prefer if I repost my sheet or just leave it as the edited version from my OP? @Stitches@Bazmund

@duskshine749

We're more than happy to check your edited OP, don't worry.

[Stitches]

@Gentlemanvaultboy Matt has been accepted! Please move him over to the characters tab.

EDIT: because it'd be weird to do a triple post - @duskshine749 is also accepted!

[Bazmund]

Hey everyone! The IC is LIVE! Check the Oth post for our start.

[Nate1008]

Sorry I stopped posting... I have been busy with school. I will try to get back up...

[Bazmund]

@Nate1008

Heyo. Not to worry about inactivity to be honest, we’ve been taking our time ourselves, and school does have to come first. Feel free to complete your app, but I should say that for the time being I’d like the current character roster to stay the way it is. If you finish your sheet and submit it, we’ll get back to you on it all the same, but I do not currently have any plans for creating a point where we can add cast members easily.

[Stitches]

Just a little post on here to say that we're currently accepting TWO new applicants! It's not first come first serve, so everyone has a chance of getting in.

Solid players, chill posting schedule, and big things planned in the future. Come join in the fun!