[OOC] Ju-V

[Carlyle]

If the biggest outage in Australia's history isn't a viable excuse, then I'm not sure what will be...

@Hound55

Hound right now:

[Hound55]

It's likely an update/upgrade/engineering issue...

Happened at 4 am and that's typically when patches and the like get pushed through.

So it sounds like someone screwed up royal...

[OldManMountain]

It's likely an update/upgrade/engineering issue...

Happened at 4 am and that's typically when patches and the like get pushed through.

So it sounds like someone screwed up royal...

@Hound55

It'll buff... probably

[Hound55]

Sitting in phone browser on provider's help/contact details page:

[Hound55]

Alllllright... back up and running. But still at work.

[Carlyle]

@Hound55 Do we have an eta for when you want us to move to the next scene? Just so I don't end up holding things up with Nat.

[Roman]

"Wynd" as in curving, not as in breezy

W Y N D

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^{P O E N A V I D S O N ◼ 1 1 N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 5 ( 1 8 ) ◼ F E M A L E}

<sup>“Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all of your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And then for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fighting with everything you've got not to face the thing you most dread, what is now, what will be, what has always come before, the creature you truly are, the creature we all are, buried in the nameless black of a name.



And then the nightmares will begin.”</sup>

▼ A P P E A R A N C E:

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//STATS:

◼ HEIGHT | 5'4"
◼ WEIGHT | 91lbs
◼ BUILD | Malnourished
◼ HAIR COLOUR | Black. Streaks of red in the front.
◼ EYE COLOUR | Amber
◼ 'VOICE' TEXT COLOUR | Hexcode 8B0000
◼ OTHER | Often wearing dark, thick eyeliner, mostly to distract from or mask the heavy bags beneath her eyes. She has blemishes and scratches up her arms where she compulsively picks her skin.

//DESCRIPTION:

Poe is a haunted girl, nervous and in a constant state of exhausting alertness. Her clothes are simple and dark, jeans and tough boots, often wearing large, baggy jumpers and hoodies that swallow her up, serving to both cover her picked-at arms, and help warm her too-skinny frame. Her eyes have the look of someone who's tired to their bones, and dark bags beneath them only emphasize her apparently exhaustion.

▼ B I O G R A P H Y:

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^{"Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold."}

Poe remembers little of her pre-Aegis life, but the scraps she gets aren't pleasant, and she's smart enough to understand contextually that her apparently long-term presence in Aegis facilities doesn't speak to a healthy, well-balanced adolescence. Flashes of an extended but dysfunctional family, of a mother at times both nurturing and frightening, of a father desperate and well-meaning but ill-equipped. Whatever her own struggles, Poe is certain she is far from the first to have battled with them.

Most of Poe's accessible memories are of time in Aegis facilities; she's a 'lifer', no doubt, and has bounced through 4 separate facilities across the United States so far, with both the properly-filed paperwork and without - most recently definitively without. She came to them younger than most, and has stayed with them longer than most - making and losing friends along the way, but for the most trying to survive her own mind, fighting against twisting corridors of paranoia, anxiety, and phantom phobias.

▼ M O T I V A T I O N / O B J E C T I V E:

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^{“For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.”}

More than anything, Poe seeks understanding. Her own mind being simultaneously so familiar and so alien is disconcerting at best, and while she's in full control of her faculties and thoughts and movements and motor functions, there is ever-present paranoia that she remains subtly influenced by the dark corners of her psyche, strings being pulled by a self behind the self. In the most literal terms, she cannot trust her own mind - and how do you find peace when such a fact defines your existence?

Despite its inherent fundamentality to Poe's nature and very being, she cannot help but be deeply frightened of the Finite Passage; who would not be, when your own mind is so innately unknowable? Through her lengthy stay with Aegis she has sought to conquer the intrinsic secrets of the labyrinth, poring through her own mind to reveal what it is hiding from itself; success has been limited, if it comes at all. The issue is looking for something that doesn't want to be found, in a place that doesn't want you - itself - both - to find it.

▼ A B I L I T I E S / S K I L L S:

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^{"What miracle is this? This giant tree.
It stands ten thousand feet high
But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands.
Its roots must hold the sky."}

//ABILITIES:

◼ The Finite Passage | Poe's mind is, literally, a labyrinth. It is an eldritch, shifting space that she has dubbed 'The Finite Passage', and despite its alien nature to anything approaching humanity as we know it, it is as intrinsically a part of Poe - intrinsically Poe herself - as the colour of her eyes or the the whorls of her fingertips. It is reflective of and adaptive to Poe's mental state at any given time, and she has both absolute dominion over it, and no possible idea how to control it.

The Finite Passage manifests in two ways, but contains myriad peculiarities within itself. Poe can dive into herself, using her own mind as a portal to find herself on the otherside in the midst of the dark stone corridors of the labyrinth, or she unfold her mind into the world around her, spooling the labyrinth out of herself to imprint itself across actual reality and eventually subsume her, her surroundings, and anyone else unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity.

Upon entering the labyrinth, Poe can navigate its corridors to find an exit out into any point, disappearing into herself and finding the right escape to reappear anywhere else on the planet. However, how easy an exit is to find is very variable, dependant on knowledge of destination, navigation ability, and even Poe's own mental state.

There are several other 'unique' aspects of the Finite Passage, as a result of its dual nature as both a representation of Poe's psyche, and its own seemingly-alive eldritch space; but Poe understands these even less than the superficial travel functions of the labyrinth, and is afraid of what true exploration of the Finite Passage's depths might uncover - as such, she avoids it completely.

//SKILLS:

◼ Perceptive, Agile, Survivable | Poe's fear and paranoia has honed her senses toward anxiety-driven perceptive peaks, constantly scanning and processing hundreds of elements from her surroundings ever second, keeping her alert, aware, and well-tuned to even the subtlest details around her. Her lithe frame has afforded her some agility and light-footedness, and from her experiences across her life - inside and outside Aegis facilities, even inside the Finite Passage itself - she has learnt extraordinarily well how to survive.

//LIMITATIONS:

◼ Exhausted, On-Edge, Frightened | Poe's constant alertness has a side-effect: an in-parallel constant exhaustion, her brain always in overdrive analysing every possible detail and threat, wearing her down every minute until she has little-to-no energy to do much of anything else entirely. She's always on-edge, quick to irritability and pessimism, and lives in a sustained state of fear that colours her every interaction.

//WEAKNESSES:

◼ Memory Failure, Autophobia, Paranoia | A side-effect of the Finite Passage, her own physical location isn't the only thing that can lost within its labyrinthian sprawl - memories can and do and have gotten lost as well, and without knowing where they are, or even that they're missing at all, Poe can't recall large chunks of her life. Due to the Finite Passage being an intrinsic part of her psyche, her fear of its unknown nature also deviates simultaneously into a fear of herself and a fear of isolation, both of which cause her no end of struggle. Finally, what little she does understand about the Finite Passage and its psychic properties has devolved into paranoia about Aegis and those around her, and about the 'self behind the self', an 'other' Poe she believes is secretly manipulating her from within her own subconscious and the depths of the labyrinth.

▼ N O T E S:

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//SUPPORTING CAST:

▼ ALLIES

◼ None | Yet...

▼ FRIENDS

◼ None | Yet...

▼ ENEMIES

◼ None | Yet...

//STOMPING GROUNDS

◼ Aegis Facilities | Test

//PARAPHERNALIA

◼ None | Due to how Poe ended up in the Alcatraz Aegis facility, she failed to bring any belongings with her. Until such personal items can be transported across the continent, she's starting from scratch.

[Hound55]

Feeling better.

My wife and kid were sick and needed my full attention at the start of this week. Then I got sick and laid out, and still had to watch my daughter rather than her go to daycare this week.

...because I disappear on holiday until the early December. We're on a cruise. We HAVE paid for internet, but such a thing can be sketchy. My wife knows doing RP stuff takes my stress down, so hopefully I'll lave some time bought for me, here and there to work on stuff (I'm currently awaiting a tag in collaboration anyway).

The game's not going away. I'll still be doing things where I can. But expect it to accelerate a little in early December regardless of the pace we keep this next week and a bit regardless.

Other things... mentioned about potential new characters:
I would like it if the incoming few characters we bring in "embrace the weird". Perhaps a more "Doom Patrol" inspired selection, who come into the game alongside our human labyrinth, mothman, and wee lass.

So if you do have a pitch, please bear that in mind.

[Hound55]

Other things... mentioned about potential new characters:
I would like it if the incoming few characters we bring in "embrace the weird". Perhaps a more "Doom Patrol" inspired selection, who come into the game alongside our human labyrinth, mothman, and wee lass.

So if you do have a pitch, please bear that in mind.

@Hound55

I might allow until the end of the week for new and weird character apps. We've got three coming in soon.

If you have any ideas, you've got until then.

[Carlyle]

@Hound55 Should we get a head count of how many people are still around for the RP? I know we've had quite a bit of people drop because of IRL issues, not certain who is still here or a NPC character.

[OldManMountain]

I'm still very interested in this story if y'all are accepting new players any time soon.

[Hound55]

I'm still very interested in this story if y'all are accepting new players any time soon.

@OldManMountain

As I mentioned above, I'm accepting a few new "weird" characters (think down the vein of Doom Patrol or some of the more "out there" X-Men ideas). My next GM post will be intro-ing these characters, and I'll grab some excerpts off of people pertaining to their new characters for that post as well.

I'll give you all until a few days after Christmas though.

I'll also take a roll call and see who's still on board a bit after Christmas as well. I don't want to hammer people too hard or get into their business in the holiday stretch.

And since it's 5:30pm Christmas eve here, and I'll likely be busy over the next 48 hours... a Merry Christmas to you all, and when I get started again AFTER Christmas, I'll be looking to build momentum with the rest of you once more.

Hope you and your families are all well and merry.

[Hound55]

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I might allow until the end of the week for new and weird character apps. We've got three coming in soon.

If you have any ideas, you've got until then.

@Hound55

So yes, @OldManMountain, THIS is your in.

[Carlyle]

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As I mentioned above, I'm accepting a few new "weird" characters (think down the vein of Doom Patrol or some of the more "out there" X-Men ideas). My next GM post will be intro-ing these characters, and I'll grab some excerpts off of people pertaining to their new characters for that post as well.

I'll give you all until a few days after Christmas though.

I'll also take a roll call and see who's still on board a bit after Christmas as well. I don't want to hammer people too hard or get into their business in the holiday stretch.

And since it's 5:30pm Christmas eve here, and I'll likely be busy over the next 48 hours... a Merry Christmas to you all, and when I get started again AFTER Christmas, I'll be looking to build momentum with the rest of you once more.

Hope you and your families are all well and merry.

@Hound55

I'm still around... I've just been preoccupied with my Switch. Bought it and a couple games with my one-time work holiday discount they gave us this year. Currently playing through Pokemon Violet but I've barely progressed the story because I keep running around and exploring the open map lol

[Lawful Newtral]

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As I mentioned above, I'm accepting a few new "weird" characters (think down the vein of Doom Patrol or some of the more "out there" X-Men ideas). My next GM post will be intro-ing these characters, and I'll grab some excerpts off of people pertaining to their new characters for that post as well.

I'll give you all until a few days after Christmas though.

I'll also take a roll call and see who's still on board a bit after Christmas as well. I don't want to hammer people too hard or get into their business in the holiday stretch.

And since it's 5:30pm Christmas eve here, and I'll likely be busy over the next 48 hours... a Merry Christmas to you all, and when I get started again AFTER Christmas, I'll be looking to build momentum with the rest of you once more.

Hope you and your families are all well and merry.

@Hound55

First of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Second of all, I am still intent on keeping things going as Zelda. Holiday season has just been an unexpected hell going back on forth between work and family obligations. I'm using every second of breathing room I have to cook a response for Haven. Looking forward to calmer seas where I can RP more frequently!

[Hound55]

Absolutely understandable, and I figured it might be the case for many.

Merry Christmas and all the best to you and your families.

[Skai]

@Lawful Newtral

No worries! I've been busy with family and work as well this week so it will be a while before I get back into things.

I hope everyone has a great New Years :)

[Hound55]

New NPC sheet:

Tachyon

T A C H Y O N

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^{V A N Y S S A N E W H O P E ◼ T W E N T Y T W O ◼ F E M A L E}

^{"Witty Quote #1"}

▼ A P P E A R A N C E:

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^{"Witty Quote #2"}

//STATS:

◼ HEIGHT | 5'6"

◼ WEIGHT | 125 lbs

◼ BUILD | Small in stature. Deceptively strong.

◼ HAIR COLOUR | Brown.

◼ EYE COLOUR | Hazel

◼ 'VOICE' TEXT COLOUR | Misty Rose - FFE4E1

◼ OTHER | Nil

//DESCRIPTION:

Small in stature. Mysterious in nature. Explosive in movement when she wants to be.

▼ B I O G R A P H Y:

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^{"Witty Quote #3"}

WIP

▼ M O T I V A T I O N / O B J E C T I V E:

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^{"Witty Quote #4"}

"Vanyssa Newhope" has no idea about how she came to be here, or the fact that she had previously been in a coma in the Mayo Clinic Hospital-St Mary's Campus in Rochester, Minnesota.

Her past is unknown to herself, or the rest of the facility.

For some reason, being brought through to the Aegis facility by Wynd (Poe) has caused something in her to 'snap to' and bring her out of her previous comatose state.

She's certain she has some kind of deeper, more meaningful purpose, but has no memory or basis for this belief. As such, she's quite taciturn, not knowing who to trust or who may actually be at odds with this great and glorious unknown purpose.

▼ A B I L I T I E S / S K I L L S:

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^{"Witty Quote #5"}

//ABILITIES:

◼ Temporal Manipulation | "Tachyon" can move independently through time to some degree, and have the rate of time seem to slow or speed up around her. In some ways making her much akin to a speedster, but with various different subtleties which will become apparent throughout.

//SKILLS:

◼ Martial Arts | For some reason, Vanyssa is a highly competent, previously well-trained close-combat fighter. Capable of quickly and devastatingly bringing down opponents which would seem beyond her small frame.

//LIMITATIONS:

◼ Personal contact | Whilst Vanyssa can manipulate time around herself, physical contact with another seems to prevent her from properly using her powers. Her powers attempt to extend to both herself and whoever she is in contact with, which given her small stature is a strain she normally can't overcome (with great exertion she may be able to if carrying something/someone small like an infant or puppy).

◼ Muscular atrophy (temporary) | Vanyssa has, until recently, been in a coma at a Hospital. Due to this her muscular strength is not what it usually would be.

//WEAKNESSES:

◼ Amnesia | Vanyssa awoke when she was brought into the facility, but seems to have no memory of anything leading up to her arrival. Including her time in hospital. Her name and personal details are only known through identification cards found on her person, and the wristband attached by the Hospital.

▼ N O T E S:

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//SUPPORTING CAST:

▼ ALLIES

◼ NIL |

▼ FRIENDS

◼ NIL |

▼ ENEMIES

◼ NIL |

//STOMPING GROUNDS

◼ NOT APPLICABLE |

//PARAPHERNALIA

◼ Strange Clothes | Having arrived in unique style with little in the way of possessions, she was provided with clothes by Aegis. The clothes that she was wearing on arrival do appear strange, and whilst somewhat clinical looking in appearance they clearly were not provided by the Hospital she came from.

Her entry will be in the same upcoming post as @Roman's Wynd, @Kuro's Bumblebee, @OldManMountain's new upcoming character (assuming they still want in) and @Mintz's Moth Man.

I'm working afternoons this week, and I'll make a decent sized dent in this upcoming entry post tomorrow, as well as do some legwork finding out who's still on board (and requesting pieces from the previous people to come up with this post.

Looking to see if I can get an application sheet from @OldManMountain pretty soon too.

[OldManMountain]

@Hound55 I'm still here. It's been a very busy week but I should be done with my sheet tomorrow.

[Hound55]

@Hound55 I'm still here. It's been a very busy week but I should be done with my sheet tomorrow.

@OldManMountain

How we going with that sheet?

Don't feel too bad, I've been taking the week to do general RP maintenance, getting track of numbers and activity moving forward.

I'm working Monday this week, but that aside, I should have a good amount of time to get things back on track this week.

Once we get the sheet, I'll flip you the Discord link, work on getting the entrance post done, gather up pieces by the other writers and yourself for that post, and hopefully look to start building momentum again, now that Christmas and New Years are in the rearview.