[OOC] In Darkness and in Blood

[Vale Kaiser]

Theme Music

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The INT CHECK Post

We used to hide in the night, because we had nowhere else to go. We used to feed discreetly, fearing what would happen should we be caught. We used to keep to ourselves, and keep away from others. But lately, that has all gone out the window. Our kind, the 'Fey' as those in the know have taken to calling us, are becoming too adventurous, too risky, and too blood-thirsty. Common regard has been thrown to the wind, and now we are all at danger from the incompetence. Many have gone rogue, and now feed in plain sight, or kill and maim with little to no reason.

Thus have we been born. The Ultranumb Organisation. A crack-pot team of Fey, geared up to kill our own kind who have stuck their head too far out, and need to be cut down to size. My name is Lazarus Blade, and I am the leader of this team. Each of us are highly trained killers, and excel at the swift extermination of the supernatural. After all, who else knows how to hunt a hunter better than another hunter?

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The Backstory

In the modern dark fantasy world of Daark, the fey exist without the humans knowledge. They used to have a strong hierarchy, led by the ‘Elder,’ a fair and level headed Fey with grand powers. All this changed when he suddenly vanished. With his disappearance, all the anarchisticly inclined fey came and start wreaking havoc. The law abiding and innocent Fey holed away, fearing what was happening. The Fey were no longer secret to the humans. A sect emerged, calling themselves the ‘Saviors’, who went around killing of the law enforcing Fey called ‘Enforcers’ and any who would prevent the Fey running rampant.

The remains of the Fey government convened, and appointed an ex-prisoner named Lazarus Blade (who had been serving time for the killing of numerous Fey) to head an organisation to stem the innocent flow of blood with the blood of the guilty instead. And thus was the Ultranumb foundation born.

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The Setting

In the world of Daark, the humans reign supreme, without knowing it. The occasional one will go missing due to a Fey accident, but they are (read were) largely ignorant to the happenings of the dark underworld.

The Fey were led by a three part government. The ‘Elder’ sat at the head, and delegated all laws and regulations. Under him were the ‘Enforcers,’ who dealt with people who broke the laws of the Fey, and finally there was the ‘Voice,’ who dealt with the concerns and tribulations of the Fey public.

All the Fey appear to be human, and only a fellow fey can tell them apart. Most of them work and have assimilated into human culture easily. Many of them do have an alternate form, which is strictly forbidden from being used. All Fey can survive without human meat/blood/etc, but much prefer this. Most curb this instinct. Some, do not.

Magic runs deep and thick in the air. It is absorbed as Fey breathe. It is the reason for their long lives, advanced healing, and their powers. While some have more of an affinity than others, all fey can access it. The only way to kill a Fey is to cut off their head, or to pierce their heart. All Fey have an allergy to iron, and find that it penetrates their skin and magic quite effectively.

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The Skeleton

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Species: (Any form of supernatural creature that can maintain a human form)
Appearance: (Description only)
Alternate appearance: (What you look like when you transform. Picture only)
Backstory: (This is to see how you RP. A paragraph explaining how you were conscripted into the Ultranumb organisation)
Motivation: (Why you agreed to join this suicidal organisation in the first place)
Arsenal: (What weapons and items you use)
Specialisation: (You obviously specialise in killing what species you are, but what is your other specialty?)
Other: (Anything you feel like adding)

I do not want a description of personality anywhere, as this should come through in the RP.

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Anyone have further questions?

I am no grammar nazi, as long as we can read what is written, then it is all good.

One paragraph minimum.

You will have many opportunities to add to the story and to shape what is happening. Once the scene for the mission has been set, it can be handled by anyone within reason.

I thrive on violence, and like seeing how people write it and envision it. Do not be afraid to be visceral.

Five spots open, those who responded to the INT CHECK will take priority.

The story will begin with us receiving a mission in our headquarters,

[Masaki Haruna]

First! Time to make my OC!

[Vale Kaiser]

Name:
Lazarus Blade

Age:
30

Gender:
Male

Species:
Werewolf

Appearance:
Standing at six foot two, Lazarus is a giant wall of muscle and sinew. True of your typical werewolf, he has shaggy long brown hair to his shoulders. Dark brown eyes stare out from a light tan skin-tone. A permanent sneer accompanies the slightly off-center nose and sharpened canine teeth. Not that anyone really gets to see it, but there is a giant red puckered scar across his back.

Alternate appearance:

True Form

Backstory:
When the 'Saviors' started making their name known, the remains of the government knew they had only one place they could turn. Deep in the 'Iron Prison' (the prison for the most violent criminals) there was a Fey called Lazarus, imprisoned because of his killing spree of Fey he deemed as unworthy. The largest 'Enforcers' the government had went to him with the offer. A free pardon if he would lead a team to help exterminate this threat to the Fey society. Lazarus accepted all to readily. The only catch is he would be answerable to the government, who would hold a tight leash.

They don't know that Lazarus planned to tear them apart when the time was right. But for now, he will do his job. And do it well.

Motivation:
The prospect of getting a clear pass out of the iron prison was too tempting, especially when it allowed him to slake his blood-thirst.

Arsenal:
~A broadsword he calls 'Slash', with an iron tip on a blade of steel.
~A sub-machine gun he calls 'Target,' firing magical rounds harvested from his own magic.
~Magical incendiary grenades that erupt into flame that cannot be put out by natural water

Specialisation:
Specialises in werewolves and in vampires
Incredibly strong in hand to hand combat, both in and out of alternate form

Other:
~Has a fear of butterflies.
~Has a love of sake

[geminironin]

Name: Yuriko Hangetsu

Age: 67 (appears 18)

Gender: Female

Species: Kitsune

Appearance: Yuriko's usual human form stands at five foot ten, with waist-length blonde hair that accentuates her slender frame. She usually keeps her eyes yellow, but changes them to green and hides her ears when she really needs to pass as human.

Alternate appearance: Picture

Backstory: Yuriko worked as a member of the Voice for most of her life, relishing her interaction with humans and watching their society progress.
When the Elder disappeared, she joined the Enforcer task force sent to search Japan for him, and acted as their intelligence officer. On her last mission, however, her squad was completely wiped out by a massive mountain oni aligned with the Saviors.
Now, Yuriko seeks revenge on the Saviors and any Fey that would rise against peace in the world.

Motivation: Yuriko has witnessed the brutality of the Saviors firsthand, and wishes to strike back against them before they can do any more harm.

Arsenal:
- Mangetsu and Shingetsu - Twin 9mm pistols. Mangetsu (full moon) fires incendiary shells, while Shingetsu (new moon) fires iron-tipped rounds.
- Zetsu - An antique tanto dagger that is inhabited by the spirit of a famously bloodthirsty warlord. Very good at striking the weak points in armor.
- Various fuda - Paper spell seals that have a wide range of effects. Not very powerful, but good for illusions and protection.

Specialisation: Killing Eastern monsters, working with magic, working with humans

Other:
- Very fond of drink, especially sake
- Enjoys games of strategy
- Likes computers, but is really terrible with them
- Cannot hide her tail in human form

[Vale Kaiser]

Welcome to the fold Gemini :)

[Dead Cruiser]

Name: Giovanni Giorno

Age: 152 (Appears 19)

Gender: Male

Species: Vampire

Appearance: Gio is described as having "a face like an angel, but a body like a monster truck." His features are strikingly handsome, with sharp blue eyes, a strong jawline, thick, dark hair, and a normally cool expression. However, he is also a rather tall man with a thick, muscular frame and limbs like young tree trunks. His typical attire is quite outlandish by some standards, with a long, dark coat with a high collar and matching cap. Under this, he wears a dark three-piece suit (minus jacket, of course) with a snakeskin belt and loafers. He is adorned with numerous gold accessories, including rings, a watch, buttons on his coat and hat, and a large, heavy chain that hangs down from his collar. His fangs are quite large, even by vampiric standards, and his bite-scar from his turning is at the base of his neck.

Alternate Appearance: [rul=http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2009/342/7/6/The_god_damned_bat_by_muju.jpg]Gio can take on the form of a hideous bat-like monstrosity.[/url]

Backstory: Gio became a vampire in a very different world from today's. Warlords with illusions of high class ruled all, and one either paid them tribute or slept with fishes. Due to his raw strength, he was originally a soldato, a warrior for these kingpins. However, his ruthless cunning was underestimated, and he was able to work his way up to becoming an underboss. His ambitions did not end there, but his superiors' tolerance for him did. Rather than see him rise any further above his station, they turned on him, intent on getting rid of him entirely. They put him in an iron coffin and threw him to the bottom of the sea, where he spent the next twenty years. Gio was fished out of the sea by a human boat, thinking that they had discovered lost treasure. How wrong they were. In his efforts to become reacquainted with the world, he came across the Ultranumb, and quickly made up his mind to join them.

Motivation: Gio wishes to reestablish his reputation among the vampires nobility and hopefully end the lives of his betrayers through his exploits with Ultranumb.

Arsenal: .45 autorevolver, numerous throwing knives, a custom motorcycle, "L'Orrore di Caccia"

Specialization: Gio specializes in undead and parasitic creatures, and has a particular fondness for killing demons.

[Vale Kaiser]

Well, with one more I will open. If any more people join, they can just jump in as if they had been off on other missions.

EDIT: Welcome aboard Cruiser

[geminironin]

Bumping this for that one more.

[Sunshine]

Name:
Witch Hunter Lin

Age:
Lin is somewhere around 450 years old but appears incredibly youthful.

Gender:
Female

Species:
Zombie

Appearance:
Lin is a slender young woman with beautifully defined, elven features. She applies scarlet lipstick to her plump lips and black eyeshadow to her almond eyes to make them appear smoky. She has long blonde hair that she allows to do as it pleases. Her fashion sense is very Parisian. She wears all black or occasionally white asymmetric and angular clothing which make her look like someone involved in the Fashion Industry.

Alternate appearance:
None

Backstory:
Lin was born a witch with no magical abilities. In Witch culture this is viewed as an unparallelled embarrassment. Thus, from the get-go, she was considered a disappointment. Witches are an exclusively female race so as you can imagine, Lin's life was rife with (for desperate want of a better word) bitchiness. People who are afraid of witchcraft obviously have never encountered bitchcraft, the much eviler of the two: Young witches are fearsome. Lin grew to loath her kind and decided to leave the world of the Fey behind and see if she could integrate with the humans.

Lin was killed during the Salem Witch trials. She was ironically accused of being a witch and drowned by townspeople. Her limp, lifeless body floated down a river and was eventually found by a Native American witch doctor whom in his hatred for white people, cursed it, to live forever as a rotting corpse. Lin awoke from death lethargic and sore but ultimately thankful. That is, until a couple of days later she realised that her mind was inhabiting a dead body that was continuing to rot. She hadn't been fully revived, merely zombified.

Having been dead for quite some time, Lin decided after much deliberation that she must seek help from the Fey. Her body was becoming utterly useless and eventually she would become a living pile of mush if she didn't do something about it. She was eventually drawn to a traveling merchant whom also happened to be a demon. He told her that nothing he or anyone in his circle of acquaintances have ever possessed have the ability to revitalize a dead body however, there were stories coming from South America of a water source dubbed, The Fountain Of Youth which had the ability to grant immortality. He reckoned that something of that caliber could only be beneficial.

It's common knowledge that Witch Hunter Lin uses water from the Fountain Of Youth to reverse the effects of death on her body however Lin is very secretive when it comes to how she discovered it's location. Some call her selfish, which she is.

In the 430 years she has lived since becoming a Witch/Zombie hybrid, Lin has grown notorious in the Fey world as a Witch Hunter. Even the Fey that literally live under rocks are aware of her existence. Being so sinisterly renowned for her work, the Government approached her and asked for her assistance in curbing the unruly behavior of troublesome Fey.

Motivation:
Lin is a famous Witch Hunter, hence her name: Witch Hunter Lin. She's simply motivated by glory.

Arsenal:
As a Zombie, Lin has a somewhat macabre ability that allows her to interchange her own body parts with those of her defeated foes. For example, Lin could exchange her own hand for that of a werewolf's, allowing her to utilize claws. On her person she currently carries two witches' tongues which are particularly powerful because she can use them to cast weak spells, a feat she wouldn't be able to achieve otherwise. She also carries a vial of water from the Fountain of Youth.

Specialisation:
Witches

Other:
N/A

[Vale Kaiser]

Excellent. Next skeleton to goes up means I can open IC

[Sunshine]

I've edited my post above with my CS. I haven't explained how she actually became a witch hunter but if anyone takes an interest I'll do that IC or something. If I'm accepted of course!

[Vale Kaiser]

Sunshine, you will be accepted, once one small thing is fixed up. I love your backstory, but you also need to include how you came to be recruited by the Ultranumb organisation.

[Sunshine]

Oh, sorry. I thought it was clear that she was really high-profile. I added an extra couple sentences. Is that alright?

Also, I made this for you!

Lazarus Blade played by Vale Kaiser
Yuriko Hangetsu played by germinironin
Giovanni Giorno played by Dead Cruiser
Witch Hunter Lin played by Sunshine

[Vale Kaiser]

Thanks Sunshine. Looks good :) Sorry for my silence over the weekend, was drunk on Saturday, and nursing the biggest hangover of my life on sunday. Expect an IC post tonight :)

Thanks for staying tuned.

[Sunshine]

Hee hee, you're a mess! Looking forward to it.

[Vale Kaiser]

IC is live :P

[Vale Kaiser]

Also, straight off the bad are Banshees.
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Fey that can turn into twisted versions of their human form, known for ear splitting screams and being incredibly lithe and agile and hard to hit.

[Sunshine]

Perfect! Lin can collect their tongues. She'll have so many tongues... eurgh.

[geminironin]

Yo, is this dying already?