[OOC] ~✶Our Brightest Stars✶~ ~Always Open!~

[DocTachyon]

So, if the IC goes up today I probably won't be able to post 'cause I'm gonna be hanging out with my girlfriend.

[RomanAria]

Aahhhh.... sorry guys. Life decided to take my emotions and throw them in a blender. I'm going to finish my RPGC entry and then, if it's the last thing I do, I will get the freaking introduction done today.

[RomanAria]

Alright. I promise I'll get the IC up after work tonight.

[RomanAria]

Alright, if I missed pinging anyone or missed a character somewhere, let me know! I've got some stuff I need to upload to imgur and then I'll put it in the first post of the OOC, and I also have a couple of NPC forms to fill out. Shouldn't be more than an hour.

[DocTachyon]

NPC Time, everyone.

Name: Jace Carver
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Appearance:

Occupation: Trained Sniper, had a hand in training Ursa, is now one of his handlers.
If a Star, are they corrupted or uncorrupted?: Non star.

[Blaze Gamma]

So that was tough to start ><.

Didn't really know where to put my people. Hope my setup is acceptable.

[RomanAria]

@BlazeGamma You did perfectly. Nice touch with the bracelets.

@duck55223 oh this should be fun.... :P

[TheSeriousJoke]

I have some quick questions, if you don't mind :D

What does the organization do about adult stars, as in if they don't discover them until adulthood. Would they still try to take them in and corrupt them? And what do they do once a student becomes an adult?

Also, would you like us to put the NPC sheets in the OOC or the Character forum? I would guess the OOC, but I'm not sure.

I'll try to get an IC post up soon and I'll post my NPCs when I finish them!

[RomanAria]

@TheSeriousJoke The organization doesn't corrupt everyone. They corrupt those who have the more useful powers. Like, oh, Orion Faust, the piano prodigy, probably wouldn't get corrupted, but someone like Vespira might, with her adoptive muscle memory.

Regarding adult Stars, it really depends on the nature of their power. Generally speaking, star marks appear by the time the individual hits puberty. If they can go undiscovered until they're adults, generally it's not worth the trouble to track them down. If they come to the facility of their own free will, or are discovered to have a potentially useful ability, then they will be taken in and given accelerated crash courses in like, controlling their powers, and their educations will be shored up. Then they will be offered positions working throughout the facility, perhaps as teachers, or guards, or tour-guides, or something else entirely (again it depends on the power.)

When Stars within the facility reach the age of eighteen, the more trustworthy ones (the ones with benign powers, or who have exercised impeccable control) are given a choice: Remain at the Facility and work to teach and train younger Stars, or go out into society. The Corrupted stars who reach eighteen are fairly few and far between, but usually they are kept as field agents or researchers (again depending on the power. Someone like Astraia would probably not become a field agent, but can you imagine Ursa trying to sit at a desk and do research?) For those who would be ill-suited to those professions (like Aquarius) well... Some do the darker deeds for the organizations spies and research groups. But for the most part, their fates are a mystery.

So, for the corrupteds who go mad, like completely-lose-control-of-their-abilities insane, there's like a basement sort of area, (totally off-limits to regular kids, of course), where they are held and attempts are made to rehabilitate them. If that fails, and it usually does, they're... well, I'll leave that up to your imagination.

[Blaze Gamma]

My thoughts were: Sure, let's just let Aquarius run around touching people.

[RomanAria]

@TheSeriousJoke sorry I didn't see your other question, yeah, post NPCs here but ping me to make absolutely sure I see them. Or in the CS tab, it doesn't really matter. Just ping me wherever you post them so that I can add them to the OP.

[TheSeriousJoke]

@RomanAria Ok, cool! I don't know how relevant they'll all be throughout the story, but here's the family.

Name: Vicky Wright
Age: 15 (16 in a few weeks)
Gender: Female
Appearance: Tan skin, long brown hair, green eyes, tall and slim
Occupation: Student (sophomore)

Name: Sarah Wright
Age: 8
Gender: Female
Appearance: Pale skin, blonde hair (usually in pigtails), blue eyes, average height
Occupation: Student (third grade)

Name: Lily Wright
Age: 7
Gender: Female
Appearance: Pale skin, black hair (often in a ponytail), hazel eyes, on the taller side
Occupation: Student (second grade)

Name: Samantha Wright
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Appearance: Dark skin, short black hair, brown eyes, average size, perhaps a bit short
Occupation: Teacher

I'll have an IC post up hopefully within the hour.

[RomanAria]

@clocktowerechos you should post.
Edit: O_O I didn't realize you were actually working on a post. XD

[ClocktowerEchos]

@clocktowerechos you should post.

@RomanAria

Guess what I just did :3

[Blaze Gamma]

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Guess what I just did :3

@ClocktowerEchos

Pressed the muffin button?

[ClocktowerEchos]

@BlazeGamma No, I tried baked kale.

[karamonnom]

Finally finished!
Name: Virgo Knightly
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Nationality: Canadian
Current location in the world: New York City, Headquarters
Appearance:

Location and notes on star mark: A five point star on the center of her tongue.
Star Power: Zoolingualism - the ability to communicate with animals of all kind.
Corrupted or Uncorrupted: Uncorrupted
Personality: Virgo is a kind girl who loves all living things from plants to animals to people. Her gentle, warm personality makes it easy for her to befriend anyone. She is of average intelligence but has a good intuition especially in regards to another's emotions. However, she is almost always smiling, so it is hard for people to tell when she is upset.
Biography: Virgo was born in Canada and spent the first thirteen years of her life there with her parents. Her parents owned a pet shop, and when she was young she would communicate with the animals there. At first, her parents simply thought she had a wild imagination but soon learn about the significance of the star mark and realized that it was an actual ability she had. Unsure of what to do with her, they sent her to the United States where they heard there was an organization specialized for children like Virgo. Now, she is 17 and hoping that when she turns 18, she can become an instructor for young Starred children though she disapproves of the organization's method of "corrupting them".
Trivia:
- Virgo is a vegan as she does communicates with all animals and it just feels wrong. Though she does not judge a person who still eats meat, she gets it.
- She likes to cook however, and is quite proud of her vegan recipes/creations
- She hates animal cruelty and things such as using fur as clothing
- She is quite athletic and enjoys multiple sports such as soccer, basketball, and volleyball, though she only plays for fun.
- Per Aspera Ad Astra

[RomanAria]

I'm trying to keep track of all the taken powers, even powers only mentioned in passing. So if you mention in your post that, say "the girl across the room from me has a teleportation power and always teleports around the room when she's sleeping" that character will be listed in the "reserved/taken" powers list. This is just a) because I'm ocd; b) because it may-but-probably-won't have some bearing on the plot, and c) because I'm really bored.
Here's the thing.
Powers can be reused, but.
BUT.
Only when the character who originally had them is dead.
That is to say that any characters listed in the OP under "taken/reserved powers" are still alive, because once they die their powers are freed up for the next generation of Stars.
You all will figure out why I'm making such a big deal out of this eventually.
_{NPC list, hinthinthint}
Anyway.
Kudos to whoever figures it out. AND CLOCK YOU CAN'T TELL THEM.
Hehehe.
Sorry.
Is it obvious I'm high on sugar?

[RomanAria]

O_O Kara how did you ninja me... nevermind. Looks good. I'm going to drop you in on one of the missions... let me think who I want to ship her with

[RomanAria]

Yeah, @karamonnom I couldn't think of where to put you, so I just put you in with Richard and Ursa... Kind of a terrifying group but they might need some feminine charm to bring Mal back to headquarters, don't you think?