[OOC] Cradle of Divinity (signups always open)

[Dark Cloud]

@JohnSolaris

I changed it again if it is to your tastes?

It is Done.

[Raptorman]

So do familiars show up when they wake or are they actively summoned?

[JohnSolaris]

@JohnSolaris

I changed it again if it is to your tastes?

It is Done.

@Blackmist16

Your character is accepted.

I'm going to edit my intro post for the second group, so that Blackmist16's character is among them now too. I'll just be changing it so that it says the group has five people instead of four people.

So do familiars show up when they wake or are they actively summoned?

@Raptorman

Familiars start off as a mental presence in their masters' minds, though they can summon themselves if their masters aren't specifically preventing them from doing so.

[Raptorman]

Seems we posted at the same time gamma, sorry about that.

[gammaflux]

Seems we posted at the same time gamma, sorry about that.

@Raptorman

I don't mind at all, there's nothing to really apologize over.

[ravenDivinity]

Who's turn is it?

[Dark Cloud]

@JohnSolaris

Oh I can post now right?

[JohnSolaris]

Who's turn is it?

@ravenDivinity

You don't really need to take turns doing actions. You can take actions whenever you want, and it's up to BC and I to decide whether you succeed.

@JohnSolaris

Oh I can post now right?

@Blackmist16

Yeah, you can post now.

[Dark Cloud]

@JohnSolaris

Done and done.

[JohnSolaris]

@JohnSolaris

Done and done.

@Blackmist16

FYI, you are in the shrine, not "around" it. Also, your character has received the dream sequence from the goddess too, so is there a reason he hasn't mentally addressed it at all?

[Dark Cloud]

@JohnSolaris

The voice that talked to him was the goddess except I made it sound like he was talking to himself as if the goddess was playing with his mind a little and what Vestus didn't notice was that he had exited the pod from the shrine and is looking around it to see if the others have left their pods.

[Laue]

So, the first group should be making their posts right about now, seeing as John has passed out.

[ravenDivinity]

I was just waiting to see if @Magnato was going to make a post.

[gammaflux]

I will be making a post soon, just I won't have any time today, and most likely none tomorrow. But Monday will be relatively free for me. :)

[Raptorman]

I guess I ought to have Ethan and Elaine introduce themselves to the others. I'll try to post in the next few days as well.

[akje]

Just read the world description and physics. Very impressed.
I'm going to read all this IC story line so far then make a character.

[helltank]

Alison Kiley

Name: Alison Kiley, Princess of Shadows(self-styled)

Sex: Female

Age: 11 and 3 quarters

Appearance: Alison Kiley is a female preteen with frizzy brown hair and a mass of freckles. Her eyes are a muddy brown, and have a hooded, slightly downcast look to them. Her ears are a bit bigger than average, and she has a missing front tooth that has yet to grow in. Alison tends to dress rather casually, in jeans, a T-Shirt(usually with unicorns, rabbits or some such emblazoned on the front) and a pair of magenta fingerless gloves. She wears a pair of battered running shoes.

When she dons her full battle outfit(see Abilities section below), she styles herself the Princess of Shadows. In this form, she appears as a monstrous figure, covered head to toe with swirling black armor plates. Her helm is spiked, and her face is obscured by a gleaming black visor from behind which liquid shadow leaks out and curls around her head. Two butterfly-like wings made of solid darkness arch and flex behind her, sprouting from the section of her armor covering her shoulder blades. Heavy spiked shadow boots protect her feet. Frequently, her tentacle-like combat appendage, Predator, will protrude from various sections of her armor. In its idle form, it usually emerges from her left palm and curls itself around her arm, ready to unwind in battle.

Personality: Alison Kiley tends to be immature, self-absorbed and having just a little too much fun beating various beings up with her newfound powers. At heart, she is a selfish and hedonistic girl, if someone naive. She occasionally displays flashes of pity, remorse or mercy, however. It would be a mistake to think of Alison as an evil person; rather, she merely tends to be unaware of apathetic of the long-term consequences of her actions. This problem is heavily exacerbated by her natural curious, "try it and see" attitude towards strange and possibly dangerous things, as well as her immaturity. She believes that she is on a great adventure in an epic quest to kill the gods of the Cradle of Divinity.

Biography: Having only lived for 11 and 3 quarter years, Alison is somewhat lacking in significant life events. It should be noted that she was born in the year 2004, to Madison and Dennis Kiley. In her early years, she was something of a spoiled brat due to the fact that her parents were quite rich(a stockbroker and the Vice-President of a shipping company, respectively). She was mostly raised by a succession of maids, nannies and babysitters.

Alison never attended school. Instead, she was educated by private tutors that came to her home to teach. She took a rather negative outlook on the prospect of acquiring new knowledge, instead preferring more outdoorsy activities such as horse-riding and building sand-castles. Alison briefly joined the Girl Scouts when she was 9, but dropped out due to disinterest in the activities they offered her. Although she hated reading, she loved to listen to stories, and would frequently beg her babysitters to read aloud from her favorite books.

Alison thinks that she is a secret princess who has been given magical powers to fight monsters in the new fantasy world that she finds herself in. This belief, while mostly untrue, drives her to constantly improve herself and battle monsters. She likes unicorns and wishes that she had one, and her ambition is to grow up to become the queen of a fantasy kingdom(which she proposes be renamed a "queendom" for accuracy's sake).

Alison's virtues are mostly her happy-go-lucky and optimistic nature. Although selfish, she isn't unkind, and will stop to help people in need as long as it doesn't interfere with her own activities or pleasures. She is also rather friendly and imaginative. Her vices are her impulsive nature and her self-centeredness, as well as her naivety. Her temperament is not stable and she can experience severe mood swings, although given enough time she will naturally fall back into her "happy" mood. She hasn't spent enough time thinking about religion or philosophy to have any real opinion other than "people probably disappear into outer space when they die" and "if it feels good, it is probably good". She is too young to have a well-defined sexual orientation, and her most notable quirks are her tendencies to smile overly widely when meeting new people and tugging on her ear when she feels upset or nervous.

Alison is left-handed.

Skills: Alison is better than average in the fields of swimming, playing tennis, riding horses and dressing up as various mythological figures.

Elemental Cores: Dark and Air.

Abilities:
Alison possesses five abilities at present.

Predator: A large serpentine appendage protrudes forth from one of a few given points on Alison's body. These include between her shoulder blades, at her tailbone, from her throat, from her ribcage, from the backs of her hands, from her palms, from her arms and from the back of her skull. She can control which point it emerges from, and she usually prefer her left palm. This appendage, named Predator after one of the title characters in the movie Alien vs. Predator, is made of solid darkness and is extremely flexible. It is sharp, able to strike or cut at high speeds, and can be converted into a liquid-like state where it snakes along the ground as well as solidified for the purposes of, say, forming a barrier. Predator is prehensile, and about three times as strong as an average adult male. It can also protrude a hooked needle from its end for the purposes of stripping flesh from bone or skin from flesh, depending on how curved the hook is. Alison can control how long Predator protrudes, up to a maximum of ten meters. She can also desummon it instantly by causing it to explode into wisps of darkness. Although Predator deals mostly physical damage, a small amount of dark-type corrosive/decaying damage is mixed in when it lands a direct strike on an enemy. This ability is attuned to the element of Dark.

(OOC note: I realize this may be a difficult ability to visualize. I haven't been able to find a real equivalent in any fictional medium that I know off, but the closest to Predator in terms of appearance and function may be Kureo Mado's quinque weapon in the anime series Tokyo Ghoul. Videos of said character using it in combat are available on Youtube.)

Armor of Sorrows: Alison can summon armor made of solid darkness around her body. This resembles medieval body armor, although it is weightless due to the substance that it is made of. It is covered with vicious spikes to discourage melee attackers. While wearing her Armor of Shadows, Alison's strength and striking power are increased to that of threefold an average human male's. The armor is slightly more durable than steel. If the armor is damaged or destroyed, they have to be desummoned fully and resummoned again, a process that takes about a second. This ability is attuned to the element of Dark.

Wings of Unholy Swiftness: Alison can summon wings that sprout from her shoulder blades. These wings are made of semi-liquid darkness and resemble that of a butterfly's. Their size, length and approximate shape are controllable by Alison, although these factors have no real impact on their function. While Alison's wings are extended, she may fly and her speed is increased tremendously. The wings are not particularly resistant to attack, having the approximate durability of a piece of oak wood of equivalent size and shape. If they are torn or destroyed, they have to be desummoned fully before being resummoned at full condition, a process that takes about a second. This ability is attuned to the element of Air.

Abyssal Shards: Alison can fire shards of darkness from various points on her body at an extremely high rate. The points are those that have been mentioned as possible emergence points for Predator; however, shards may not be fired from a point that Predator is emerging from. Shards deal a mixture of physical and corrosive damage, and are shaped like slender, hiltless knives. When a shard successfully strikes a target, including an enemy, physical terrain or some other obstacle, Alison can choose to set that shard as a homing beacon. This will cause all other shards in existence to immediately change course and home in towards that shard, losing no momentum while doing so. Shards that are already stopped may still be propelled by magic towards a homing beacon. Homing shards are effective at locking onto the beacon, but not particularly maneuverable; they may curve, but not turn corners. Alison can only have one homing beacon at a time. This ability is attuned to the elements of Dark and Air.

Revolving Ruin Alison can summon seven magical orbs that constantly encircle her at high speeds. Two orbs are made of solid darkness and deal physical damage, two drain life from anything they hit, two drain mana from anything they hit and the last causes whatever it hits to decay at an extremely high rate. Each orb is the size and shape of a bowling ball, and must be desummoned and resummoned should they be destroyed, taking about half a second. Orbs are about as durable as Alison's Armor of Sorrows. Alison may also order all seven orbs to converge at a high velocity on a single targeted point. This ability is attuned to the elements of Dark and Air.

Familiars: None

Possessions: A thin blue T-Shirt with a unicorn summoning a unicorn from the tip of its horn pictured on it, a pair of jeans, underwear and a pair of magenta fingerless gloves.

[akje]

Here's my character sheet.
Thoughts?

Libé

Name: Libé van Zilverpark
Sex: Male
Age: 22
Themesong: Chef's Special - Still Don't Know

Appearance: Standing at 1.92 meters tall and weighing in at 72kg. Libé can definitely be considered tall and slightly underweight. His skin is unhealthily pale. He has brown eyes that lie deep in their sockets and brown, long waving hair that he rarely decently grooms, it's usually held together with large Senheiser headphones that double as headband. He has a short goatee of slightly course hair. His skin seems to shed loose white sand, as if he'd been rolling around on the beach.

Around his one arm is a silver watch, the band is hand-crafted by Hopi tribe Native Americans but the clock itself is a cheap knock-off that stopped running years ago. On the other arm is a broad silver chain.

Libé wears a loose blouse, blue stripe patterns are broken by stains of white clay, paint and blood. 2 out of 9 plastic buttons are missing and the rolled up sleeves look worse for wear. Aside from the blouse there are logging pants several sizes too large, held up with a leather belt adorned with a solid silver buckle displaying a crowned rabbit holding a key and a rapier.
Libé wears old sneakers in a state similar to the blouse.

Personality:
virtues: Temperance, Charitable
vices: Indecisiveness, Pride, Sloth
intelligence: High to an extent where it's a handicap sometimes.
temperaments: Peaceful, friendly
religious: Well.. he used to be atheist...
philosophical and moral beliefs: Though he loves to discuss ideals and beliefs dusk till dawn, he can't decide on any universal truths. Freedom over safety? Honesty over efficiency? In the end he'll go with his gut.
sexual orientation: Libé likes girls, preferably with a smooth waist and cheerful eyes. Though he's not very experienced romantically, so he's sure he probably doesn't know what he likes... definitely girls though.
quirks:
- It's nigh-impossible to offend Libé, especially when he's in a good mood. He's one of those people that claim "You should be able to joke about anything. No exceptions."
- Dislikes horses. No reason.
- addictive personality. Can easily get hooked on games, drugs and alcohol. Will most likely get addicted to using magic in no time.
- While he has vivid dreams, he hasn't suffered a nightmare in years.
habits:
- Fidgety. Always has to do something with his hands, might be why clay appeals to him like it does.
- Actually strokes his beard when in deep thought. Yes. Like in the movies.
- Can't throw anything out. If it's useful for anything, it's not going in the trash.
- Always listens to music at all times. This is going to be hard on him, since he has no phone in the Cradle.

Biography: Libé was raised in a happy, functional family on the outskirts of a town in western Europe. He went to school and had a full upbringing, eventually going to high school, then Art academy. In his early youth Libé was bullied ruthlessly. Though, at the time he was convinced it was the worst, he later made friends with people who had had bullies on a whole other level.

High school was mostly about social skills. The classes themselves were often boring or easy, but never both
Most of his youth Libé spent playing games with friends, inventing new games or adjusting them. This got him into dungeons and dragons at a young age, later he discovered LARP and other role-playing games. For a while he was going to study game design, but in the end chose ceramics. A hobby he had picked up at even younger age. For years, for a few hours every week he stood in his grandfather's atelier and created statues of whatever came to mind.

Libé's above average intelligence gave way to a bunch of difference paths of study, in the end he chose to favour art over games and science and went to the art academy to hone his abilities with ceramics.

Art school was nothing but frustrating. Rapports on boring subjects like artist and artistic movements, reflective techniques of self critiquing. Research classes that followed rigid rules. None of it had to do with clay. The feeling of shaping something with your hands.
Libé was in the 3rd year of his study, debating himself whether he should quit the school or not.
At that point he was whisked away, to wake up in the Cradle of Divinity.

Skills:
Modern day, first world schooling: As most of his peers Libé has an understanding of physics, chemistry and maths that would blow most wizard's minds. How much is applicable in the Cradle is of course another question.
Schooled in modern and classical art
Singing: impressively low vocal range and decent voice, but noticeably untrained
Cooking: Having lives alone in an apartment for the last two years Libé picked up enough cooking skill to sustain himself. He also Loves cheesecake and knows the recipe by heart (as well as all the possible variants)
Talented Sculptor: A creative mind and years of practice. There is nothing that gives Libé more pleasure than creating something.
Gamer: Libé is well at home in a setting full of dragons, dire monsters and arcane magic. He would recognise an elemental and dare speak to a dragon. This and his intelligence allow him to see the metaphysical rules behind most games. He has had some martial training, but not more than the occasional sparring with other hobbyists.
Binge watcher: Libé has watched an absurd amount of tv-series and movies, and has become good at predicting story lines and plot twists. This helps him little in real life, but figuring out someone's plans is easy if they are a little cliché.
Driver's Licence: It may not be relevant, but Libé is licensed to drive a car or scooter. (though he's never been on a scooter, it comes with the car licence.)
Swimmer's diploma: While no competitive swimmer Libé can swim well enough to handle himself in the deep end. Though he is afraid of whatever might lurk in the depths of a world like this.
Amateur psychologist: His mother is a psychologist and being brought up by one, one tends to pick up the basics.

Elemental Cores: Earth

Abilities:
Earth shape (earth): Earth before his palms softens and follows his every whim. Allowing to sculpt bedrock like soft clay with the same precision he would have had if he had tools and sea's of time instead of magic.
Footnote: Technically this could classify as two abilities. One to soften and harden earth compounds and one to shape it with his mind.

Stone Sense (earth): When concentrating Libé can project his senses trough earth and stone. As long as he is touching a surface of earth he can see/feel/taste/smell/hear/sense as if standing in any other place connected to the same surface. I.e. He could see trough a stone slab, eavesdrop on a conversation a kilometer further down a paved road or feel someone touching a stature as if it was his own skin.
The more solid and pure the earth the sharper the result. (so seeing trough a solid slab gives a clear sight as if lookig trough a piece of crystal, while looking trough a pile of loose gravel would give a fuzzy image.)

Earth Glide (earth):
Libé can meld into a stone surface like a burrowing earth elemental can pass through stone, dirt, or almost any other sort of earth except metal as easily as a fish swims through water. If protected against fire damage by other means, he can even glide through lava. Its burrowing leaves behind no tunnel or hole, nor does it create any ripple or other sign of its presence. Destroying the body of earth doesn't harm Libé though if the rock he's in is split he has to choose in which part he is. If he Libé is in a rock less than 1/4th his own size he is forced to emerge and end the spell.
A destructive earth spell cast on an area containing a burrowing Libé will fling him back roughly 10 meters, disorienting him and potentially ejecting him from the rock and ending the spell.

Familiars: None yet.

Possessions: Clothes.

[ravenDivinity]

I think I'll go ahead and post.

Also, wow, new people! Maybe I should give my own character a theme song too.

[akje]

I think I'll go ahead and post.

Also, wow, new people! Maybe I should give my own character a theme song too.

@ravenDivinity

You should! Theme songs are kickass!
I could be very wrong. But would this suit Darius?