[OOC] The Bureau of Unconventional Crime

[Raxacoricofallapatorius]

Jig said
Sound. I was suddenly very aware that I had made my character into a total non-physical type but I think he'd still be physically quite aggressive when he wanted to (bluff).

It's cool. I like him the way you made him.

Lambda said
Our characters will have to uproot their entire life, right? I just want to make certain that our characters won't be doing anything in their previous life, or that they will.

Pretty much. I mean, it's nothing like being erased from society, you can still contact your families etc. but of course cannot share any information about what you're doing or who you're working for (confidential information and all). You'll all live in the same building, you'll travel to the same places. The base is in the US at the moment but it may not always be there necessarily.

You won't be allowed to hold another job (you won't have time anyway) while you work for the BUC (unless it's for an undercover assignment, which is quite possible), and you won't be responsible to any authority other than the BUC during the time you're with them.

[Sovi3t]

Raxacoricofallapatorius said
It's cool. I like him the way you made him.Pretty much. I mean, it's nothing like being erased from society, you can still contact your families etc. but of course cannot share any information about what you're doing or who you're working for (confidential information and all). You'll all live in the same building, you'll travel to the same places. The base is in the US at the moment but it may not always be there necessarily. You won't be allowed to hold another job (you won't have time anyway) while you work for the BUC (unless it's for an undercover assignment, which is quite possible), and you won't be responsible to any authority other than the BUC during the time you're with them.

Question, can we apply for branches inside of the task force, or is every branch just placed in once place and everyone is assigned it?

EDIT : To clarify , Is Vice, Murder, Arson etc all in one place , or are they separate branches?

[Lambda]

Raxacoricofallapatorius said
Everything hurts but it was totally worth it.

What did you do? Hiking or something similar?

[Melkor]

Sovi3t said
To clarify , Is Vice, Murder, Arson etc all in one place , or are they separate branches?

What is 'Is Vice' or perhaps just Vice?

[Sovi3t]

Vice = Drugs related Investigations

[Melkor]

Oh, so you mean the departments of a regular police ageny? I think that this, being the Bureau of Unconventional Crime, wouldn't deal with the usual investigative work. Rax said somewhere that the BUC will be dealing with cases of a seemingly supernatural nature.

[Jig]

Maybe crazy X-Files drugs that turn your pancreas into cheese but gives you the power of time itself.

[Lambda]

Hahahaha, that's a good one.

[Raxacoricofallapatorius]

Sovi3t said
Question, can we apply for branches inside of the task force, or is every branch just placed in once place and everyone is assigned it?EDIT : To clarify , Is Vice, Murder, Arson etc all in one place , or are they separate branches?

Melkor said
Oh, so you mean the departments of a regular police ageny? I think that this, being the Bureau of Unconventional Crime, wouldn't deal with the usual investigative work. Rax said somewhere that the BUC will be dealing with cases of a seemingly supernatural nature.

The BUC deals with special cases that canon otherwise be explained by the usual means, within the usual branches of criminal investigation. They will vary, and not all will necessarily have a supernatural cause, but perhaps a criminal mastermind instead. Or both.

Jig said
Maybe crazy X-Files drugs that turn your pancreas into cheese but gives you the power of .

Nailed it.

Lambda said
What did you do? Hiking or something similar?

I went to an outdoor music festival with a group from my college and we got free tickets. Why did we get free tickets? Because we got to take down the huge stages at the end of the festival and we worked from midnight till 5 AM that's why. It was awesome, I thought we were gonna just be picking up trash but no, I got to climb the bloody main stage and untie stuff and it was awesome!

Also, you know that one person who always runs around some concert dressed in something like-- per say-- a Spider-Man costume and a flat bill? That would be me. Between dancing too hard and the stage take-downs and the all-nighter it's pretty rough being me right now.

But so worth it.

[Lambda]

That sounds awesome! I'm sorta jealous now :/

[Raxacoricofallapatorius]

Don't be. My final paper is unfinished because of it. My grade is gonna suffer too.

Still totally worth it tho.

[Lambda]

Well... It's a trade-off.

Nathan McCoy Sc.D.

Name: Dr. Nathan McCoy

Appearance:


Age and Sex: 36 and Male

Strengths and Weaknesses:

Weaknesses:

-In the event of an emergency (such as an imminent car crash) he locks up and his attempts at warnings become unintelligible gibberish.
-McCoy is a terrible shot.
-If he is overconfident about something, then he'll likely fail at that something.
-He has a minor case of red-green color blindness and a minor case of blue-yellow color blindness(it doesn't really hinder him, but I thought that this is the most appropriate place for it).

Strengths:

-Sc.D. in Psychology.
-Decent deductive skills. His skills are not comparable to that of Sherlock Holmes, elementary, my dear Watson. However, he is able to see through what most would discount as nothing or perhaps coincidence.

Brief Biography: (Personality then?) Nathan isn't the type of person to get involved in a situation, unless, of course, it affects him - his life, his job, or his general well being. The man isn't selfish, he simply wants to observe the actions another human takes in a stressful situation. He's a thinker, not a doer. However, if he finds that he is in danger, he acts to get himself out as soon as possible. He doesn't get along with others well, they usually find him to be boring, or too talkative and socially awkward. He has above average deductive skills and has made playing chess a hobby.

McCoy attended Johns Hopkins University where he earned his Sc.D. in Psychology. He has works in NYU as the director of the Department of Psychology, though he doesn't do as much directing as his associate director does, McCoy spends most of his day researching.

He has been asked to consult with the NYPD investigations division multiple times because of his understanding of the brain and how it functions. This is where his deductive skills come from, his knowledge of how the mind works.

Special Skills: McCoy was chosen for the BUC because he is one of the only psychologists in the United States who is a Doctor of Science rather than a Ph.D., a Psy.D., or an M.D. This is to say that he doesn't just think or teach about the brain or just acts as a medical doctor of psychology, but rather, he actively pursues and unlocks information, theorizes, and questions our knowledge of the brain. He's been asked to help the NYPD multiple times because of his deductive skills.

[Melkor]

Raxacoricofallapatorius said
Everything hurts but it was totally worth it. How was everyone's weekend?I'm going over all the CSs today, the ones that have already been submitted and the ones that were submitted while I was away. I hope to have a solid list of characters by today or tomorrow, and I'll still accept new character applications. For those of you whose characters I accept, once I give you the word I want you to post your CS here in the OOC, and I'll put a link to the post in the OP. I would like to just copy-paste them all into a hider like on the Old Guild but that doesn't always work here so we're gonna do it this way.And yes, it will be set in the current year.

You should be able to copy them from the 'view raw' option and paste it.

[Jig]

Stuart Front

Name: Stuart Front

Appearance:

Age: 30

Sex: Male

Strengths:

• Hard-working: ain't nothing gets stuff done like a guy that gets stuff done, especially when he's well-researched, which Stuart makes sure he always is


• Socially intuitive: a good judge of character, a great deceiver and a brilliant pusher of peoples' buttons


• Agressive: while it's not a great character trait, Stuart can simply bully people into doing what he wants if he can't just persuade them


• Unprincipled: fighting dirty often works

Weaknesses:

• Vulnerable: while Stuart can and will be aggressive and even violent, it's only a matter of time before somebody punches him, and he will go down like a sack of spuds and he has no combat training


• Arrogant: pride comes before a fall


• Coward: crack his bullish exterior and watch him squirm


• Disloyal: there are no friends in this business (this business being whatever Stuart is doing)


• Closed-Minded: Stuart does not work flexibly, and will always go for the more rational solution to a problem - though the BUC doesn't always have rational solutions to its problems

Brief Biography: Stuart grew up the youngest brother of three siblings to a middle-class family in middle England. He was the youngest by far, and always a little spoilt and unfriendly. Nevertheless, a private school got him good grades and secured him a place at Oxford University, studying PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics), the course every powerful figure going into politics takes. While disinterested in party politics themselves, Stuart ensured that his name was around as a powerful figure, and the Conservative Party took him under their wing. Over nine years, Stuart rocketed through the ranks, not as a politician per se, but an adviser, press liason officer and general enforcer, making sure that those in the party, and often those not, did as instructed. Unfortunately for Stuart, he got a little too enthusiastic in his job, using close, and strictly speaking illegal ties with powerful figures in the press to sweep one wing of the party into power, taking, naturally, him with them into almost the top dog. However, a miscalculation and a botched alliance had him caught out before he could make the right moves – immediately, his name was in every newspaper. While ultimately acquitted from those crimes of corruption, his name being mud made it impossible for him to get another position anywhere near his old level and certainly never trusted in the United Kingdom again, he finally turned his attention to those letters he'd been receiving from the BUC.

Special Skills:

[*] Research, research, research and adhering to the mantra of knowing one's enemy

• Charm, manipulation, and PR strategy: he was a spin doctor, after all - he also knows what spin and cover-ups look like when he sees them

[Sovi3t]

nevermind

[Melkor]

Rax said that he'd tell accepted players that they can post CS's in the OOC. They must've been told that they were accepted.

[Raxacoricofallapatorius]

They're good, they've been accepted.

Melkor said
You should be able to copy them from the 'view raw' option and paste it.

Ohey lookit that.

[Sovi3t]

Raxacoricofallapatorius said
They're good, they've been accepted. Ohey lookit that.

Can I have my IC scene now?

[Raxacoricofallapatorius]

Sovi3t said
Can I have my IC scene now?

I'm still working on it, yours is next on my list of characters to test. Please be patient.

[Jig]

In the spirit of being patient, how long till the IC begins? :)