[OOC] Midnight Blue: A Midnighters Roleplay

[Ayla]

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In the town of Brisbane there's a group of individuals who share a secret hour with living breathing nightmares called Darklings. This group call themselves Midnighters and they all posses special abilities enhanced in the hour settled between 12:00 and 12:01. All Midnighters aside from the Fire Bringer share the same side effect of Photosensitivity. Their powers often leave their mark in the Daylight Hours as well.

Darkling Types:
~ Slithers: Usually in the form of black snakes with fur instead of scales. They can change their form much like any other Darkling and instead of having mouths they have strange web like "tongues" that bruise and numb instead of bite.
~ Flying Slithers: Slithers, but with wings.
~ Darkling: Large shape changing top chain predator of Midnight. Usually takes the shape of a large cat, but can be anything it wishes. Darklings original form is a nightmare inducing blob like thing with wings and tentacles but no head. Or a mouth. Or eyes. Just mass.
~ Halfling: Half Midnighter of the Seer variety and Darkling. Bad bad people do this to communicate with the Darklings via Lore Markings. People who know about Midnighters and don't want them around. Even if they're a bunch of untrained, half crazy young adults. Not realizing how dangerous it is without them.

Dealing with Darklings have taught them their weaknesses:

1). Technology (which unfortunately doesn't work in the secret hour for anyone other than the Fire Bringer)
2). The number 13 or multiples of it in the form of a group of objects or length of a word (called a "Tridecalogism") or a phrase
3). Metal alloys
4). Lightening
5). Blunt Force

Midnighters:
~ Mindcaster: Aslynne (Ayla)
~ Fire Bringer: Danielle (Kaalee)
~ Acrobat: Tyler (Dark Light)
~ Polymath: Abel (Prints Avoid)
~ Seer: Lee (sk0m)
~ Metallurge: "Ved" (hagroden)
~ Wayfinder: Echo (Ryuzaki)

Midnighter Friendly Places:
~ Windstar Stables (Sits along the forest's edge)
~ Cafe Seville (In town)
~ The Library (In town)
~ Brisbane's Historical Society and Museum (In town)
~ Brisbane Community Library and College (In town)
~ Junkyard (Full of "clean" focus free weapons, sits at the town's edge on the opposite side of the Stables)

Not Midnighter Friendly Places:
~ Brisbane's Nature Reservation and Forest
~ Lore Site (Set in the middle of the Res. serious wards must be put in place before Midnight)
~ Anywhere there is a large cluster of Darklings or Slithers

Best Way to Travel in the Secret Hour:
~ Bicycle
~ Foot
~ Acrobat

Modern Day Things that Work in the Secret Hour:
~ Quartz Watches

Tridecalogism List:
~ scottwesterfeld.com/midnighters/tridec..
~ becomeawordgameexpert.com/wordlists13...

Tridecalogism of the Day: INFLUENCEABLE

Time Of Day:
~ Normal Time AM
~ Normal Time PM
~ MIDNIGHT

[Ayla]

@Kaalee@Dark Light@sk0m

The time to begin is almost upon us! But, first things first is that we need to establish connections between our characters and make sure everyone knows that the Secret Hour does not happen worldwide only in select coordinates that are multiples of twelve and that the hour itself is a fold in time and space that does in fact have an edge. It's just hard to reach outside of Daylight hours.

[Dark Light]

Connections: :) available if desired.

Ty - Aslynne, could have done or still currently doing a few hours of physical labour at the stables for a bit of extra cash.
Ty - Danielle, he stopped in for the coffee but returns for the service and to shamelessly flirt with the gorgeous owner.
Ty - Lee, he dabbled in martial arts, took a few of his classes to diversify his skill but it wasn't really his style.

[sk0m]

Lee could have had any of the others as students in college or his dojo.

[Ayla]

@Dark Light Sounds fine by me. ^-^

[Kaalee]

@Dark Light That sounds good

@Ayla Our characters could have just kind of always known each other, one of those things?

@sk0m I don't think my character would have done martial arts but they could have met during the blue hour, since her cafe is always all lit up.

[Dark Light]

I like the idea that Aslynne sent Ty to collect something for or from her good friend Danielle and that's how he found out about her cafe.

I don't get some of the terminology going around still :( sorry what do you mean by 'always all lit up'?@kaalee

[Ayla]

@Kaalee Sound perfect.

@Dark Light Since Danielle is a fire bringer she can use technology in the secret hour so long as she's in contact with it

[Kaalee]

@Dark Light Except for fire, which she obviously can't touch and stays lit. She has up to 65 candles which she lights.

[Dark Light]

:D that sounds cool! No fire hey so that counts out combustion engines, can she use electric motors in the secret hour? We could get an electric car :D or bike ;)

On a serious note, how much do we know about each other and the secret hour? I would like my character to be as new to it as possible.?
(Makes it a little easier since I know very little)

[Kaalee]

@Dark Light Well she can use a combustion engine, it just would turn off when she's not in it because of the electricity. If there was no electricity, she can start a fire and it would stay burning until someone put it out.

[Dark Light]

Ah, sorry I read it wrong earlier.
That sounds extremely useful!

So during the secret hour when people are all frozen, what sort of interaction can we have with them? Can we move,hurt,heal?

[Ayla]

@Dark Light

It isn't mentioned much about what other Midnighters can do, but I'm sure they could harm them while the Daylighters are frozen, but I think they are impossible to move. They are literally stuck in time. Mindcasters can do the most to Daylighters while at Midnight as far as manipulating their decisions, actions or wiping their minds all together since the "stiffs" brains are literally open to them.

[Dark Light]

(Referring to my post)
Obviously he will be going to Danielle's Cafe for a bite.

I think it will be a laugh if he meets Aslynne there, without realising she is the stable owner, complains about his situation (and her) and then they meet again later when he applies. Maybe Lee takes him to meet her at the stables.

[Ayla]

@Dark Light

Sure thing, that sounds funny. ^-^ Does your character already know he's a Midnighter? Or no?

[Dark Light]

@Ayla If he could of got this far without knowing I would like to take that path :)

[Ayla]

Sure, that would make him a rather new resident to the town. If he's been there for a few days maybe he could have somehow slept through the Secret Hour?@Dark Light

[Dark Light]

@Ayla Sounds good to me! He might remember glimpses of it but dismisses it as a strange dream. That also means he has never used his gravity thing :D yay for learning powers!

During the hour is it something that is always on? or is it controlled by will? Is it taxing to use?

Sorry, just want to get it right :)

[Ayla]

It's always on. Walking normally in the blue hour for an acrobat is almost impossible.It will make your chatacters legs sore and eat a shit ton

[Dark Light]

@Ayla so how do I get around with the group without flying off?