[OOC] Raiders: An Indiana Jones RP

[Bonesaw McGraw]

If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones.

The famous archaeologist and noted acquirer of rare antiquities has traveled the world in search of valuable artifacts, uncovering danger at every turn. However, at 60 years of age, Dr. Jones has decided to hang up the whip and fedora. Now happily married, and with added responsibilities as an associate dean at Marshall College, Indy's treasure hunting days are behind him. Unfortunately for Dr. Jones, the U.S. government seems rather uninterested in his so-called retirement and is in need of his assistance once again.

It is 1959, the height of the Cold War, and intelligence reports suggest that the Soviet Union is in search of an unspeakably powerful artifact, an artifact believed to be an object of mythology rather than history. The Russians intend on using it's power to fuel a devastating super weapon, and it must not fall into their hands. Dr. Jones has assembled an elite team of treasure hunters, comprised of his former students and associates, to find this artifact before the Russians do. You have been asked to join this team and complete this mission.

Welcome to the Raiders.
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This is an RP inspired by Indiana Jones, the only man who should ever wear a fedora. The tone of the RP will be pretty much identical to the Indy movies so there's really no need to take anything too seriously. Always remember, these are the movies where a guy jumps out of a plane and inflates a rubber raft in mid-air. Standard casual RP rules apply, which means proper spelling, grammar and punctuation?!

Character Sheet

Insert a photograph at the top of your character sheet. Try not to use any hand-drawn or anime style images. Use a real photo of an actor or actress that would play your character in a movie. Anime and Indiana Jones don't really mix. At all.
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Nationality:
Height:
Weight:

Profession: Are you an archaeologist? An investigative journalist? A soldier? Try to fill a role on the team that is unique.
Strengths: What specific skills does your character bring to the table? I find that making these skills as specific as possible makes a character that much more memorable. Are you a speaker of five languages? A master of disguise? An expert vodka drinker? Again, try to have skills that set your character apart.
Weaknesses: The most important aspect of any character. What can your enemies exploit to get the best of you?

Personality: A few sentences describing your character's general demeanor and outlook on life.

Biography: A brief summary of your character's history. Be sure to include how they came to know Indiana Jones. Maybe you were a top student in one of his classes, a rival treasure hunter who turned into an ally, a small Asian boy who tried to pick his pocket and got caught. I'm sure you'll come up with something.

THE RAIDERS
John Addison - ZeusTheMoose
Kyle Snow - Avanhelsing
Carmilla Hollstein - Konica
Casey Greene - Polyphemus
Alexander Van Helsing - 22xander

[Avanhelsing]

Name:Kyle Snow
Age:25
Gender:Male
Nationality: Australian
Height:6 foot 1 inches
Weight:200 pounds

Profession: Archaeology Graduate Student

Strengths: He is classically intelligent and better with books than people. He is not helpless in a fight and is a rather good boxer. He can read a few ancient languages. He loves to draw.

Weaknesses:He can be very hotheaded when it comes to protecting those important to him He can be a bit of a flirt of either gender and not think about it. He is shameless with his flirting.

Personality: He is a naturally friendly guy and tries to make friends with everyone he meets. It is not odd to find Kyle with his face in a book or writing in his journal about anything. He tries to learn about as many people as he could.

Biography: Kyle snow was born on December 21, 1934 in Sydney Australia to an archaeologist father. His mother died when he was born so his father raised him. Kyle was raised to be one. His father was an associate of Indiana Jones, helping him during parts of World War Two. Kyle was raised by his grandparents through most of war. There he learned how to draw and learned to love reading.

When he was 18, he was told by his father that he was going to enroll in the University of Chicago under the tutelage of Dr. Henry Jones Jr. There he became one of Jones' top students and later would go on to start to work for his doctorate. Kyle currently yearns for adventure of his own like the ones his father use to tell him about.

[Bonesaw McGraw]

Alright, here's my character.

John Addison

Name: John Addison
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Nationality: Canadian
Height: 6'2
Weight: 215 lbs.

Profession: Secret Agent
Strengths: Charm and charisma. Naturally persuasive, preferring to talk his way out of situations rather than fight. A master of linguistics, fluent in numerous languages. An aspiring novelist and an exceptional dresser.
Weaknesses: Overconfidence in his own abilities. Lack of trust resulting from a career in espionage.

Personality: An arrogant and suave exterior that masks a general feeling of loneliness. Has spent so much time putting up a facade and pretending to be someone else that he has generally lost track of his own personal identity.

Biography: John's father, Jack Addison, served in the First World War, fighting in the same regiment as a young Indiana Jones. Jack was a mentor of sorts to Indy during the war, and the two became friends. After he returned from the war, Jack and his wife moved to Canada where they settled down. On July 29th 1927, they had their first and only child, John.

John's early years were rocky to say the least, as his father suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. When John was 7 years old, his father passed away. After Jack's death, John and his mother moved back to the United States to be closer to her family. John had always excelled in school, with a particular affinity for languages. By the time he was a teenager he was already fluent in English, French, Spanish and German. He ended up graduating high school early, and at the age of 17 he was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services. The man responsible for his recruitment was none other than Indiana Jones.

As an OSS agent, John embarked on a series of undercover missions during the end of World War II. He specialized as an agent provocateur, using his natural charm and charisma to turn enemies into allies. During his time with the OSS, Dr. Jones became a father figure to John, much like how Jack had been a father to Indy during the First World War. In 1945, John met and fell in love with a beautiful British agent named Madelyn. The two were engaged to be married before she ultimately fell ill. Less than a year later, she died.

With the end of World War II and the eventual onset of the Cold War, the OSS was dissolved, being replaced by the CIA. John continues his work with the CIA, and has developed a reputation as one of the agency's best operatives. He has also developed a reputation as a womanizer, although in truth he is simply struggling to move on and fill the void left by Madelyn's death. Lately, John has begun the rather arduous task of writing a book, inspired by his adventures as a secret agent. He has dedicated to book to Madelyn's memory and hopes that completing it will bring him some measure of closure. The few who know him well say that he will never finish it.

[Avanhelsing]

There we go! I try to do less is more for my Bio's.

[Konica]

Name: Carmilla Hollstein
Age: 28
Gender: F
Nationality: Austrian
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 150
Profession: Thief Treasure Hunter

Strengths: She can read a few dead languages and has many contacts in the underground and black market. She can also be very persuasive, especially when it comes to locals and ancient hidden secrets. In addition she has a set of skills such as lock picking that is shady to say the least.
Weaknesses: Carmilla isn't a fighter, which is why she carries a gun she doesn't really know how to use. And despite having many contacts, she doesn't have many friends. People in general don't really get along with her, and her contacts would easily betray her for the right price. She's not heroic in the slightest, and wouldn't risk herself unless the payoff benefits her personally.

Personality: Dark and brooding, Carmilla has a dark and mysterious aura about her. She speaks bluntly and sarcastically, generally not caring about anything other than her own self interests. Although she comes off as a loner most of the time, she doesn't have a problem flirting and seducing when she's in the mood.

Biography: Carmilla is a "self taught archeologist" aka a tomb raider or thief. She visits ancient places, places that belong to no one but the dead, and takes anything valuable to sell on the black market. According to her its not really stealing since the owners are dead, so its like picking trash off the street. Although she never had any formal education, she is quite knowledgeable about ancient cults and secret societies particularly Eastern European ones. She learned mostly from libraries, outdated text books, folktales, and local legends.

She met Mr. Jones years ago when he was on an expedition to Transylvania. He needed her to translate some engravings on a rusty shield, and she needed him to lead her to some pricey antiques. While initially allies, Carmilla tried to run off with all the treasure for herself. And after an exciting chase across several countries, Mr. Jones retrieved the artifact he sought, but not without a sour glare and a few colorful words from Carmilla.

[Polyphemus]

Casey Greene

Name: Casey Greene
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 230 lbs

Profession: Mechanic, entrepreneur
Strengths: Casey is a gifted and largely self-taught driver and mechanic, instinctively able to operate, maintain, and repair almost any land vehicle with minimal resources. He is a moderately successful businessman and possesses some financial acumen. His training and experience as a soldier have given him some skill at marksmanship and hand-to-hand fighting- he makes up for his mediocre skill in the latter by being a large, powerful man who can put a lot of power into his punches.
Weaknesses: As a black man in the 1950s, Casey is at a marked disadvantage in certain places and social circles. He has less credibility and respect from the general public and is often targeted unfairly. As a result, he will often quietly nurse grudges for weeks or months at a time, bottling up his anger.

Personality: On the whole, Casey is a warm, pleasant man- not a charmer, but a genuinely friendly person, the type of man who sincerely wants to know how you are when he asks. Casey believes in the value of hard work and patience and tries to see things from the other fellow's point of view. However like anyone else he can be pushed too far. He never forgets an insult, and has a tendency to let his anger fester over time.

Biography: Casey Nathaniel Greene was born in 1926 in Tacoma, Washington. From an early age he displayed an aptitude for mechanics, often helping neighborhood tradesmen with their machine in exchange for a dollar or two. When the Second World War broke out, Greene finished high school, as per his parents' wishes, then volunteered on his 18th birthday in early 1944. Like many African-Americans at the time, he was placed in a supply unit, driving a truck bringing vital supplies to the front lines.

After the invasion of France, the eager General Patton advanced past the capability of traditional supply lines. Thus, the US Army established the Red Ball Express, a specialized convoy of predominantly black drivers and mechanics meant to drive the dangerous routes to the front lines on specially cleared roads, bringing badly needed ammunition, fuel, and supplies to soldiers who would have been helpless without them. Throughout the drive, they faced numerous perils- German sabotage, air raids, foul weather, minefields.

It was during one such mission that Casey Greene first met Henry Jones, Junior- better known to many as "Indiana". At first, though, Private Greene simply considered the older officer a nuisance- some bigwig taking up valuable space in his truck, supposedly catching a ride to some important and secret mission. However, when the convoy was ambushed by German infantry along the route, Casey soon changed his tune. Major (as he was at the time) Jones unhesitatingly helped Greene and the other truck drivers fight off the attack. In the course of the short but furious firefight, Casey saved Jones' life, shooting a German rifleman right as he drew on Jones. Not one to forget a debt, Jones offered the young man a post-war scholarship at the integrated Marshall College in Connecticut.

The offer was too good to pass up. Between the GI Bill and Jones' offer, Greene paid nothing at all for a first-rate education in the humanities, including several classes under Dr. Jones. He developed an interest in history and archaeology, volunteering to accompany the college's archaeology department on several digs and expedition. However, nothing replaced his interest in motors and cars. After graduating in 1949, Casey Greene opened a garage in the same town that Marshall College was located in. While his business is his prime concern, Greene still has a soft spot for archaeology- he often helps fund various expeditions and has joined several himself in a capacity as a driver and mechanic. While they're usually quite academic and safe, Casey has had one or two adventures alongside Dr. Jones- fleeing Argentina in the aftermath of the 1955 coup, recovering antiquities from the Corsican Mafia in Toulon, the usual sort of thing, really, if you're a friend of his.

[22xander]

Name: Alexander Van Helsing
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Nationality: British
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 160lb

Profession: Professionally a anthropologist and historian specialising in mythical creatures and the supernatural.
Strengths: Helsing is an expert shot with a revolver, a master of long forgotten lore, and he has degrees in psychology, anthropology, and sociology.
Weaknesses: Helsing has a weekness for books of less known lore and anything unknown or mythical.

Personality: Helsing is extremely anti social, or at least he seems the loaner type. He has a case of assburrgers which is of course undiagnosed

Biography: Helsing's family claims to be descended from van Helsing the vampire hunter of Dracula and their minds are appropriately open. Trained from birth Alexander was ment to take up the mantle of a hero and from a vary young age he was studying lore and marksmanship. When he grew old enough he went to Cambridge to study, where he got three related but still vastly different degrees. He became a somewhat well known person in the field of crypto psychology, a study of the fantastic and supernatural type things and their effect on the human psychy.
He met Indy as a historian while consulting on one of the artifacts at Indy's museum, one that was 'donated anonymously'. He was called in because the artifact, a silver crucifix, was a relic from Vlad the impailer, who he had take an intrest in because of his family's crock of shot stories. In his work he was always more objective then most anyone else, never instantly comeing to a mundane bias. In the end the good doctor congratulated him on good work, which was a great help for his resurch.

[Konica]

Ha, what a perfect setup. Helsing and Carmi are not gonna get along

[Bonesaw McGraw]

Honestly guys, I'm really liking how our little team has come together and I enjoyed reading all of your character sheets. We've got an archaeologist, a secret agent, a master thief, an expert mechanic and a supernatural anthropologist. Pretty formidable. As it stands right now, we have a good number of characters to begin. If one more player wants to join that would be fine, but probably no more than that. I'm going to be busy today with New Year's Eve shit but I'll try to kick things off in the IC thread tomorrow.

The only thing that I think needs to be tweaked is Alexander Van Helsing's age. According to the CS he is 16 years old, but the picture is of Neil Patrick Harris who is like 30 and the character is supposed to be a professional anthropologist and historian.

[22xander]

Yeah, I totally blanked on that one.:)

[22xander]

Yay, the guilds up! Indy, you [B]will[/b[ get us going us old basterd.

[22xander]

Poke

[Konica]

22xander said
Poke

Patience young padawan.

[22xander]

Meh

[22xander]

Poke and or bump

[22xander]

pokes the inanimate body of ZtM...

[22xander]

damn.... he's dead jim