[OOC] Essence of the World: The Mending

[Themerlinhawk]

Okay, Im back mwahahahahah. enjoy the bad guy. And I swear if one of you points to Lazarus and asks if he's the bad guy imma shoot you somewhere painful. Love y'all enjoy the read XD

[Ryonara]

Name: Andrew Hunter
Alias/Nickname: Gadget
Age: 17, though a lot of people think he's at least 25
Race: Human
Appearance:
Social Status: Andrew is just a student of the academy. He has something of a reputation back at home, but he doesn't talk about it.
Relations:
Father - Andrew sometimes butt-heads with his father due to ideological differences (Andrew wants to see the world, his father wants him to settle down and take care of the family), but ultimately they love each other. Andrew does want to allow his father to retire and rest, but he can't do that right now.
Mother - Andrew never knew what happened to his mother. She is alive as far as he knows, but he doesn't know what happened to her and his father doesn't talk about it. He somewhat resets her because he thinks she abandoned the family.
Brothers - Andrew has two younger brothers who look up to him. While he finds the annoying as most other brothers do, he still wants the best for them and make sure they don't get into trouble.
Sisters - Andrew has an older sister who's rather aloof. She says that she's Andrew's brother by blood, but she doesn't know what happened to their mother anymore than he does. Left home a few years before Andrew did and was the one who recommended him to join the Academy.
Friends - Andrew used to run with a gang of friends back at California. They were somewhat thuggish, but he made sure not to get wrapped up in their troubles. Still good friends with them and makes use of their connections and skills when he still ran with them.

General Activity: Andrew likes to tinker with things, mostly cars and guns. That or play video games. Also likes going biking.

Abilities: Andrew's has a magically enhanced sensory system. Normally inactive thanks to the power of the Holy Lock, but with training her could hone and control his senses by himself. His senses not only allow him to be much more perspective than most others, but detect things that most cannot, such as linger traces of Essence, illusions, and other aberrations. However right now he has little control over his senses and suffers from sensory overload if he takes it all in at once.

Equipment: Andrew owns a few handguns (Browning Hi-Power, Colt New Service, M1911A1, and his "Pocket pistol" shown in the image. It's chambered for .22 rounds.), a computer, a bike, a suitcase full of clothing, and his dad's old truck (Specifically a Kaiser Jeep M715). He has some cash as well.

Instrument - Andrew's instrument is the Holy Lock. He generally wears it like a necklace, through sometimes he has it wrapped around his arm.

Fragment abilities - The Holy Lock can shorten or extent on Andrew's command, but that's only it's basic ability. It's true power occurs when it's "Unlocked". When it's Unlocked it becomes an anti-magical chain, untouched by any sort of spell no matter what it come from. If it locks itself while wrapped around someone or something, it also seals their power until it the Holy Lock is unlocked and removed. The only issue is that Andrew can't unlock his instrument himself, and doesn't know how. All he does know is that it requires an angel to unlock it, and even then he doesn't know how they're suppose to unlock it.

Fragment personality - When locked the Holy Lock doesn't really do much, so Andrew doesn't know what it's personality is like. But when it's unlocked the Holy Lock will demand "Control" over others, and will make Andrew go and enforce the Holy Lock's will onto anyone it thinks that is being chaotic. Alignment wise, it's very "Lawful Neutral", caring nothing about good or evil, just order and control.

Personality: Will show in IC.

Biography: Andrew grew up in Fresno, California. He lived in a rough neighborhood, but he and his family did their best to stay out of trouble. He never knew his mother; as far as he knew, she left him while he was still a baby, but not before leaving two twin brothers for him and his family to take care of. Growing up Andrew wanted nothing more than to figure out how things worked; when he was given toys he'd take his dad's tools to break them apart, just so he could try putting them back together. It got him into trouble when he started breaking other people's stuff to figure out how it worked too, and it was that sort of trouble that brought him into a gang. His father always told him to stay away from them, but they found him first. Not wanting to give them a reason to harass him or his family Andrew joined them and did his best to have nothing to do with the gang. Still when they weren't causing trouble they were fun people. They taught him how to fix cars and, after some hesitation, how to fix guns too.

While he wasn't a troublesome kid, Andrew didn't really grow up under the best circumstances. He dropped out of highschool when he was sixteen after one of his friends got caught in a gang-related murder, and Andrew had to hide out and avoid the heat. While eventually he was able to come back home, his father was still disappointed in him and wanted him to quit the gang. But Andrew knew that if he did, the gang would only come and start bothering him and his family, or worse, go after his little brothers. Things didn't get any better when Andrew started to hear things. At first it was just a constant noise in his ear, but soon he started to hear voices. Then he started to smell horrible stenches, like being in both a garbage bin and a perfume shop at the same time. Something was going on with Andrew where it got to the point that he was always shivering, but being in the sun caused him to blister and burn.

That's when his older sister told him about Master Melody’s Academy. Andrew's sister had left home a few years ago to travel abroad and found the Academy when she was hired to help with some construction projects. She came home to visit the family, but when she found Andrew in his state she knew it had something to do with magic. She explained to him that it would be the best place for him to go to to figure out what was going on with him, and it wasn't like home was any more peaceful. Andrew initially said no since he felt obligated to watch out for his family, but his sister ensured him that she would make sure that his father and brothers would be okay. A few days later she gave Andrew the Holy Lock, to help stop the pain he was feeling. She told Andrew only a little about the Holy Lock and was more concerned getting him ready to leave.

Honestly Andrew has been having second thoughts about coming to the Academy. He worried about his family, but his sister was much more capable than he was. And Andrew genuinely wanted to do something more with his life than just hang out with his friends and try not to get into trouble. While he has no idea what to expect at Master Melody’s Academy Andrew chose to apply and see what his future holds.

[Krauxis]

With apologies, I'm gonna have to change my 'still clinging on' status to an official drop. Nothing personal, I'm just not feeling as into this plot as I was before. Wanted to let everyone know before a bunch of new characters come in, for convenience's sake. Do whatever you want with Aura and Reiko, as you see fit.

Hopefully nobody is terribly put off by my absence, I look forward to potentially RPing with y'all in the future. Have fun and long life to the thread. Peace.

[Wind Wild]

I'm sorry to hear Krauxis, I apologise for letting you downn. All the best from here on out. :)

[Fallenreaper]

Slowly finishing up the twins.

[Wind Wild]

Ryonara, sorry I took so long to check over your CS. I like it but I do have a few remarks.

Unfortunately I can't allow your character clone himself cuz we have a very strict “no matter creation” rule. He could use incorporeal projections though. Or even temporarily possess people and cast illusions on people to perceive the possessed as if it's him. (which would require either some skill or some inborn talent.)

“That's when his older sister told him about Master Melody’s Academy. Andrew's sister was a Musician there, though he didn't know what that meant until then.”

→ The academy's only been open for 3 months. ^^;

“since the rest of America” → Just to point out, Master Melody's is in Western Europe.

Again sorry for the delay.

[Ryonara]

On my phone but I'll made the adjustments when I get home. How does a sort of radar or sensor magic sound?

[Wind Wild]

That's absolutely fine. :)

[Ryonara]

I edited my CS. I changed the powers to improved senses which is currently a pain in his ass right now, and mentioned that his sister was around to help with the construction of the Academy. I guess we can also just assume that he flew over to Europe when he was ready to go, with his sister's help.

[Sathanas Rex]

I'm still around, waiting to see how active this is before I commit to a character ^^

[Themerlinhawk]

@Sathanas Rex We're just collecting up a new batch of people. I think Wind has to check Ryonara's Cs and then I think we are waiting on Grin and possibly one other person. Dont quote me on that one

[Wind Wild]

I'm still around, waiting to see how active this is before I commit to a character ^^

@Sathanas Rex

Yeah, don't judge us by how often we post right now, we're undergoing a staff change and trying to deal with a GM vacation (aka mine xD; ). We'll be active once we've collected and established the new cast, though you're always welcome to join later on. For at least a few of the players I can vouch for being very committed as we've been doing Essence together for over a year now.

Anyway, if you want a better idea of what to expect, we're pretty (inter)active on Skype. PM me your name and I can add you to the group chat if you want.

Ryona, you're good to go, and I can already see how your character's ability will require some private tutoring. :p

[Sathanas Rex]

Fair enough. I think I can start working on a character.

[Wind Wild]

Just for mine, and everyone else's convenience I'm making a list of players and characters.

1. Wind (3) – Hazumi, Tokarin, Fenrir
2. Merlin (4) – Lazarus, Alzir, 2 pending
3. Fallen (4) – Lily, Shara, Uriel, Gabe
4. Cypher (2) – Karnage, Arun
5. Ryonara (1) – Andrew
6. Grin (1) - Pending
7. Rex (1) - Pending

That seems like a good amount of people and players so unless Demon and the two people from the Int Check join in, I think we should close the IntC. for new submissions. I'd rather keep it smallish so we can post more often and with less hassle.

[Fallenreaper]

*bumps this*

[Wind Wild]

Ok darlings, quick tune-in.

I finally modded and added the Logo to the first page of the IC and OOC. I hope you like them.

I also put all the dates in Dark red to make keeping track of the days easier, and added an end of page graphic at the end of each day (though if you find a nicer one, put it here, I'm open for suggestions). Here's the link for the boder in case you're the one posting the last post of the day. http://i59.tinypic.com/4ryuft.png

I'll have to figure out a way to keep track of the existing/active characters so as to keep the Character Section usable. As I can't delete people's post, I might ask you all to send me coded copies of your CSes so I can put all the active characters in the first post. That should do the trick. :)

[Ryonara]

On my phone, will get a post when i get home.

[Wind Wild]

Ok, It's a bit troubling to see such long periods of inactivity.

[Lucius Cypher]

Indeed. Ryo! You, me, confab, let's go!

[Fallenreaper]

I'm almost done with Shara, but damn Gming duties keep getting into the way. XD