[OOC] ~Black Dawn (Espionage/Mystery)[OOC/IC]

[Starlance]

Full name: Radek Moucha

Alias: Beard

Sex: Male

Age: 32

Nationality: Czech

Appearance: Radek is 5’10 tall and weighs 156.5 pounds.

Appearance

Personality: Radek can stay calm for a long period of time, but all that frustration has to be vented eventually. He likes to plan ahead, get sufficient resources first and hates when things don’t go according to plan. He prefers working in a team as he usually underestimates himself. He is fluent in English and Czech, plus he also knows a bit of German and Russian.

Background: Radek grew up in a normal family. He had almost nothing to worry about until his father, the family’s main source of income, died in a plane crash. Unable to keep up, they had to move to a much smaller house, and eventually, he started to steal. Small things, like food, at first. Than he stole bikes, than cars, and eventually got caught up in violent crime as a loan shark’s enforcer in his home city of Brno. He also served as a courier. By the time his employer was arrested, he had enough money to move to Anchorage, Alaska, where he resumed his services as a courier and getaway driver. He started doing simple assassinations, mainly annoying bosses or spouses for four-figure payments, usually making them look like accidents. He also took part in a some museum break-ins, including Sinsheim and Kubinka.

[Teal]

@Augmented, I said it'll be explained in the IC. Also, your character must have a career as an assassin behind him. You made it look like his job with Cheshire is his first real job.

@Starlance, looks good. When you referred to yourself as 'newbie', did you mean a newbie in this forum or an RP newbie in general? Cause based on this sheet, you don't really look like one.

E: And by the way, do not post the sheet in the 'Characters' section yet. I want to see how many sheets I can get before going on with my verdict. Although unlikely, I may get CS' from parties who didn't show immediate interest.

[Augmented]

@Teal Updated.

[Starlance]

@Teal I meant both, but thanks.

[Oak7ree]

Full name: Gabriel Logan
Alias: Gekko
Sex: Male
Age: 29
Nationality: British

Appearance: Gabriel is a brown-haired, 185cm / 6 feet two tall young man who has a body of an athlete. He has blue eyes of his grandfather. He also has scars all over his body.

Personality: Gabriel is mostly a well-behaving man, but under stress or in tight spots often turn to sarcasm and humor to lighten the mood of the situation. In truly menacing situations Gabriel can even have flashbacks from Afghanistan, but they truly rare.

Background: Gabriel is the grandson of a famous American CIA agent David Logan and his British wife. Born in northern England in 1987, his youth and early years were quite peaceful and boring. In 1994 he saved his big brother Lucas from a frozen lake, risking his own life for his brother. Few years later, Gabriel's brother turned to the life of crime and started to use drugs in his teens. Lucas Logan died at the age of 21 in 2005. The memory of his brother sometimes haunts Gabriel.
Gabriel would join the British Army in 2006, right after high school. He was deployed to Afghanistan in 2008, serving as a platoon leader. Gabriel's platoon met a grizzly fate, as the platoon was ambushed by an insurgent patrol. Most of the men under Gabriel were killed and Gabriel was taken as a POW. After two months of imprisonment and interrogations, Gabriel escaped from his captors, killing several of them in the process and traveled fifty miles on foot to the nearest allied outpost. During his captivity Gabriel learned the name of his interrogator. A will to live and revenge helped Gabriel to cross the wastelands of Afghanistan
Gabriel's escape made some headlines, but his endeavor was soon forgotten and buried. In 2012 he was discharged from service as a first lieutenant for a psychological stress reaction after few months of rehabilitation. Soon after been discharged, Gabriel turned to the life of crime, starting from burglaries and small time assassinations of wanted criminals, but he had a code not to kill innocents or deal drugs. Gabriel became quite soon a masterful burglar, assassin and escape artist, and he gained the alias "Gekko" from his fences and partners in crime for his affinity of eating lizards and other reptiles.
Gabriel has a policy of avoiding collateral damage and killing innocent bystanders, swearing only to kill his target, but he quite capable of using tranquilizer darts, martial arts and electronics to enter and leave a building. He is quite a sportsman, excelling at running, weightlifting and swimming, and is trained in judo and boxing. For the past year he has spent in central Asia and Middle-East, working as an assassin-for-hire, killing or capturing mostly internationally wanted criminals and tracking down the man who kept him as prisoner. To those have questioned him, Gabriel has told them that he's been hired as a private intelligence consultant by local militaries.

(@Teal Any better?)

[Teal]

@Oak7ree, few problems. Your guy must be an assassin, not a thief or any sort of common criminal. And the whole Adds thing may cause continuity errors in the future. Fix those.

Due to how frequently this has been happening, I'll make a frontpage announcement under the Rules section.

Also, @DJAtomika,@AbysmalDemon,@Kacey Scott, this is taking way too long, so I'm gonna wrap this up quickly and start the RP. If you're still with me, I'd like it if you'd throw the CS' as fast as you can.

Expect an IC post later today, or maybe tomorrow.

[DJAtomika]

Yeah sorry 'bout that. Will finish up sheet now!

[Teal]

@Oak7ree, better, thanks. Do not throw it in the Character section yet, though. You may already know why, but I'll just throw this in for good measure.

[DJAtomika]

Full Name: Richard Jones Barkley

Alias: Bones

Sex: Male

Age: 34

Nationality: American

Appearance


Personality: Quiet, articulated and polite, Jones is the definition of your professional killer. Prone to bits and bites of cynicism and snark here and there, overall Jones is a gentleman, restrained in attitude, polite and calculated in mannerisms and well worded as a person.

Background: As a young man, Jones was highly interested in medicine. Studying in the field had made him a nurse working in a hospital, but through rigorous extracurricular studies and lots and lots of hard work, he eventually saved up money to become a doctor. A surgeon, as it were. For a while, the job was his life. But then, some unscrupulous types showed up. When he performed a surgery on what he assumed was a businessman, a bunch of hard types showed up. Demanded he keep total secrecy or else his life was forfeit. No one else, no nurses, just him and a set of medical tools. Organs were pulled and placed into ice boxes, and he was paid a hefty sum, a far larger sum that he would have normally been paid on the job. Of course, this manner of material wealth excited him, and he immediately asked for more work in the shadier parts of the industry.

Of course, taking into account his skill in the art of cutting open bodies and exhuming their innards, Jones eventually turned to more hands on methods of earning his black money, and soon became a hired method killer, disposing of bad people that worse people didn't want in their lives any more. Through careful, surgical operations with scalpel and bonesaw, Jones made himself a living off of black medicine. His methods include sedation by morphine syrette, discrete poisoning with ricin within a champagne glass among other, more subtle means, or alternatively surgically precise cuts to major blood vessels, tendons and soft tissue with a very, very sharp scalpel. Or decapitation with a bonesaw.

[Teal]

@DJAtomika, seems good. His method of killing will be invaluable to Mr. Cheshire, I assure you that.

[DJAtomika]

@Teal So I can add Bones to the characters tab?

[Teal]

@Teal So I can add Bones to the characters tab?

@DJAtomika

Not yet, no. I need to see how many character sheets I'll get before I start the RP. If I get more than 6, I'll remove the ones I don't like. I'll let all of you know when that happens, so that you can post in the IC.

[Oak7ree]

Not yet, no. I need to see how many character sheets I'll get before I start the RP. If I get more than 6, I'll remove the ones I don't like. I'll let all of you know when that happens, so that you can post in the IC.

@Teal

We've got five players and characters already. Are we going to wait until we have at least six characters?

[Teal]

@Oak7ree, yes. Six is the required number. No more, no less.

[DJAtomika]

Bump I guess?

[Teal]

@Kacey Scott and @AbysmalDemon, if any of you is going to either bail out or land a CS, let me know so I can either label this a bust or fire it up. I did say I was gonna give you all my patience, but that patience's kinda starting to wear thin right now.

I would have no problem if you'd bail out either. I did assume that you had some sort of commitment to this RP the minute you volunteered for it, but it's fine. All I want is for you guys to let me know.

To the others; if any of you guys is tired of waiting, I understand. It was my fault. If you want to leave, I won't hold it against you

[Starlance]

@Teal I know you wanted 6 players, but unless you need precisely 6 characters (story reason, less than 6 not worth the time,...), can't this be done with less?

[AbysmalDemon]

@Teal This looked like it would have been a great RP. Sadly school started for me, and its been hard to get on the guild, even when i do its not enough time. I can barely keep up with two, so im gonna have to bail.

[DJAtomika]

@Teal Kinda get that you want things to be nominal but unless you really really want to wait I suggest just starting now so we can get things rolling. It's been almost a week.