[OOC] Assassins Folly - Introduction

[Felix7heWolf]

This RP will be about a contracting office that hires a select group of assassins to complete jobs. I will be acting as the head of the department and present issues to be resolved by your O/C and other participants. In other words, I will be the world you are acting and living in, in addition to being your boss. The boss doesn't partake in missions, he simply hands them out. The setting will be a densely populated city. Being assassins stealth is... recommended.
This will be an organized RP. There will be taking turns acting and reacting. If a participant fails to reply for the span of a week, their character will be put into my hands. Death is a very likely outcome of this. Oh yes, death will be a part of this. It keeps the story lively and colorful. If you wish to rejoin after a character of yours dies feel free to add a new character.
There will be minor Sci-Fi elements, however I want to leave physics in tact. I will have the final say if there are any questions as to whether an action is valid or not. What I'm saying is, BE REALISTIC, and do your best to not be overpowering. A good rule of thumb would be that a well arms SWAT team should present a life threatening challenge. If I disagree with something feel free to plead your case.
On the note of overpowered I'd like to give some examples as to how gear will be limited to prevent OP characters. Maybe you have an armored suit. However that suit can't have 30 different things it can do. You may have the ability to cloak/become invisible. However the NPC's can still here you. Maybe even smell you. You can have cybernetic limbs. However physics will still apply. If you have a cybernetic arm and you lift a car with it, you'll break your back. You can have enhanced eye sight. However you can't see through 5 buildings and pick out a single human. Stating to catch my drift? I hope so. As far as weapons go that's entirely up to you. Just know that civilian casualties should be avoided, and if someone sees you walking around in the streets with a rocket launcher they'll probably call the cops. Oh, and now pulling a rocket launcher out of your back pocket like it was always there. Like I said, I want this to be as realistic as possible. XD
Let me know if you are interested. This will be my first RP on this site, and I'm hoping it is a pleasant experience. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.

[Rogue Colm]

So, here's a WIP:

My WIP

Name: Miss Cecelia Garron

Age: 24

Gear: Twin stiletto daggers and a lockpick set

History w/ the Ankou: Miss Garron has frequently been contracted for the more set-up-ish jobs. With an ability and tools to pick locks, Cecelia can get in, kill, and make it look like he slipped and broke his neck on the stairs going down. She joined the Ankou because home was hell. Her mom had died birthing her and her father had been a drunk out of grief. Her older brother Andrew practically raised her. Neither had much talent that would get them jobs, but they hardly cared, since they could get by with... less legal actions. They never really thrived in life until one of them got caught and it turned into a life/death situation. The obvious response was to kill the homeowner to prevent both of their deaths, but they were creative, and made it look like an accident. Fortunately for them, an assassin had been contracted to kill the bloke, and the sent assassin was fascinated by their handy work. Andrew decided he didn't like the idea of killing when not necessary, but Cecelia was more focused on food doing more than just surviving. She always sends andrew 10% of her earnings in hopes that he doesn't have to break the law to keep living. Anything to help him.

Just a few thoughts though:

- CS changes (just my opinions): an appearance section. Never bad to know what a character looks like. Maybe separate the non-Ankou history in a different section. And maybe a personality/ethics section to get a feel of how (s)he acts.
- What kind of technology are we going for? Or at least how much impact does the "Sci-Fi" aspect fit in? I don't personally see much sci-fi going on in the intros.
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[Felix7heWolf]

@Rogue Colm Going to be honest with you. I have no clue how to add a picture. I'm completely new to this format. Either help me get my sea legs or feel free to post your own CR picture. As far as background before the Ankou, I'd say that it's not important to the company. You want to talk about it with a different character, go ahead. I mean if you just walk around constantly telling everyone your life story feel free to put it in you character sheet. A good way to think about it is "is this common knowledge that I would share with everyone I meet?" I also believe that a characters personality should be discovered inside of the RP, and not described outside of it. Perhaps you can have a phrase like "reckless" or "dedicated" to in your history description.
In the description I have described the RP as modern/Sci-Fi. This means that it's going to be pretty current. Not a whole lot of flashy stuff in the common life, but your an assassin who probably has a few tricks up their sleeve. For sake of reference I would say a movies like "Minority Report" or even "Total Recall" would work as comparison. Kinda cyberpunk? I mean there's nothing that an old man would use in his mansion while he was watching TV and paper is probably the safest form of documenting in the computer age. As for what kind of gear you will be using refer to my first OOC post. In addition to that I will say no lasers, maybe concussion rifles, shiny types of grenades are welcome and... besides that I can't really think of anything else.

[Zhoren]

Hello there, I would like to join this.

My CS

Name: "John Smith"

Age: 30

Gear: Handguns (usually w/silencer), basic combat knife, light kevlar vest covered either by a trenchcoat or a basic jacket/ blazer

History w/Ankou: A fresh recruit to the organisation. The way he moves and carries himself betray military training, but little else. He has no criminal or any other form of previous records, nor any trace of whatever life he may have led in the past. He maintains that he is just a basic run-of-the-mill merc down on his luck, and that he is only in the organisation for the money. He also maintains that his name is "John Smith", even though it sounds almost as fake as his past.

[Rogue Colm]

@Felix7heWolf Well, a picture is put in with the "" tags. Put a url in them and the picture will show up. It's the button in the reply box that looks like a mountain picture. Also, from my experience, any field about "history" has been just to show where the character has been and what sorts of things (s)he can do. Plus, I don't think we'd be going around talking about the Ankou to everyone we meet.

[Felix7heWolf]

@Zhoren Welcome aboard.

[Felix7heWolf]

@Rogue Colm Is there no way to upload a picture? And, I was more or less talking about brothers in arms and that sort of shenanigans, being that we (the Roleplayers) would be the only ones seeing your bio. As for what they can do would be important to include if you're going to be doing things. My character is going to be sitting in a chair for the majority of the time. XD So yeah, include skill sets and so on. Maybe include where they have been seeing as it may provide information on what type of knowledge they have in the streets, just not a detailed back story on how a cheese burger changed your life or anything like that. If anyone would like to be the "new recruit" that is also a thing seeing as in the opener one of the assassins died. So for the bio on that, just give your skill sets and where you are in life at this point in time.

[Felix7heWolf]

@Rogue Colm I found one that will work. It's close enough.

[Legion02]

Okay I'm interested. I'll make my char soon.

[Sekora]

interested, ill work on a character sheet if you'll have me. :)

[Zhoren]

@Zhoren Welcome aboard.

@Felix7heWolf

Thanks.

My CS is up. Please check.

[Felix7heWolf]

@Legion02@Sekora Welcome, both of you. I'm going to say 2 more people and then I'll close the RP. After all this is my first RP on this site. Let's take it easy to start.

[Felix7heWolf]

@Zhoren
My CS is up. Please check.
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I can't seem to find it. Unless there is a delay... Never mind. If you wouldn't mind posting it in the characters tab it would be appreciated.

[Felix7heWolf]

@Zhoren Besides minor grammatical errors it looks good. You are allowed at least one handy gadget. On the grammar you said "of" twice at one point and near the end there is a run on sentence. That's all I caught as I grazed over it. I can't say for sure if there are more.

[Legion02]

CS

Name: Jonathan "Reaper" Washington
Gender: Male
Age: 29

Appearance:


Gear:
-Scythe, a modified XFS-8 rifle. Uses a rail gun system to accelerate metal projectiles at extreme speed. The mods allow him to zoom in several times more than standard models. He also boosted the magnets’ power. Enabling an overcharge to accelerate projectiles at even higher speed. Has no clip. Every bullet needs to be reloaded manually. Also, the overcharge has 2 very nasty backsides. For one, it harms the magnets. Making them less powerful with each shot to the point that the rifle gets useless. As a second: the high electromagnetic forces often create a lightning arc towards the bullet. In other words, there is a big chance that if he fires a round when the gun is overcharged, a second after the bullet left the rifle, a lightning arc might leap out of the barrel towards the bullet. Giving away Jonathan’s location.

-Reaper’s rounds. Reaper possesses several kind of rounds. Those who carry darts, poison, explosives, acid, etc.

-Death’s cloak. A cloak with optical camouflage. Up close everyone will realize it optical camo. But form far away the cloak is good enough so long range snipers will have a hard time locating him.

-Grim gaze. Ocular implants. The implants go hand in hand with his facial “gear” which provide heat vision, night vision and x-ray vision. Note the x-ray vision is only effective at very close range and can still show up pretty hazy images. It’s still a prototype and not often used.

History:
Born in Louisiana, Jonathan was taught how to use a rifle from when he was very young. Like any patriotic youth he joined up with the marines. Though it was soon noted that his proficiency with the average automatic rifle was extremely lacking. Though he was a prodigy in sharpshooting. After basic marine training he went to get trained as sniper. Quickly after his graduation he was shipped out. During his first tour, we was handed increasingly more dangerous missions. First simply supporting jobs. But quickly he was tasked with advanced recon of hostile fortresses. It was then that he made his name. It was in some long ruined fortress the insurgence had set up camp. At night, Jonathan’s finger was itching. Breaking all his mission parameters he shot a guard. Then another. Then another. Soon the camp was in full alert. But Jonathan didn’t stop firing. Several high-profile targets attempted to feel in vehicles. With several masterfully placed shots he was able to disable the vehicles and neutralize the VIPs. After that he called in an airstrike. Soldiers still claim that the following morning they found him cooking his bacon over the fires of a vehicle. After all that he was send back home with a new nickname: Grim.

Soon after he returned home he was recruited by the US Rangers. After several months of training, he returned to the country he did his first tour. As it happened, DARPA had manufactured deep-cover infiltration gear. Jonathan, with his reputation preceding him, was one of the first to try it. With the gear he was rather successful eliminating some deeply entrenched locations. Eventually they gave him a mission that even he felt was too much for him. But instead of merely refusing the mission, he asked if afterwards, he could keep the gear. DARPA was incredibly reluctant. But public opinion was quickly looking down the war and it was either to win or flee again. They allowed it. After that he vanished. Quite literally. Nobody ever found him again. Though a month after he got the mission, the leader of the insurgency and all his highest ranking officers were found dead. Among the US Marine Snipers he is still a legend. By the name of Reaper.

I got a feeling I went a little bit overboard with it.

[Felix7heWolf]

CS

Name: Jonathan "Reaper" Washington
Gender: Male
Age: 29

Appearance:


Gear:
-Scythe, a modified XFS-8 rifle. Uses a rail gun system to accelerate metal projectiles at extreme speed. The mods allow him to zoom in several times more than standard models. He also boosted the magnets’ power. Enabling an overcharge to accelerate projectiles at even higher speed. Has no clip. Every bullet needs to be reloaded manually. Also, the overcharge has 2 very nasty backsides. For one, it harms the magnets. Making them less powerful with each shot to the point that the rifle gets useless. As a second: the high electromagnetic forces often create a lightning arc towards the bullet. In other words, there is a big chance that if he fires a round when the gun is overcharged, a second after the bullet left the rifle, a lightning arc might leap out of the barrel towards the bullet. Giving away Jonathan’s location.

-Reaper’s rounds. Reaper possesses several kind of rounds. Those who carry darts, poison, explosives, acid, etc.

-Death’s cloak. A cloak with optical camouflage. Up close everyone will realize it optical camo. But form far away the cloak is good enough so long range snipers will have a hard time locating him.

-Grim gaze. Ocular implants. The implants go hand in hand with his facial “gear” which provide heat vision, night vision and x-ray vision. Note the x-ray vision is only effective at very close range and can still show up pretty hazy images. It’s still a prototype and not often used.

History:
Born in Louisiana, Jonathan was taught how to use a rifle from when he was very young. Like any patriotic youth he joined up with the marines. Though it was soon noted that his proficiency with the average automatic rifle was extremely lacking. Though he was a prodigy in sharpshooting. After basic marine training he went to get trained as sniper. Quickly after his graduation he was shipped out. During his first tour, we was handed increasingly more dangerous missions. First simply supporting jobs. But quickly he was tasked with advanced recon of hostile fortresses. It was then that he made his name. It was in some long ruined fortress the insurgence had set up camp. At night, Jonathan’s finger was itching. Breaking all his mission parameters he shot a guard. Then another. Then another. Soon the camp was in full alert. But Jonathan didn’t stop firing. Several high-profile targets attempted to feel in vehicles. With several masterfully placed shots he was able to disable the vehicles and neutralize the VIPs. After that he called in an airstrike. Soldiers still claim that the following morning they found him cooking his bacon over the fires of a vehicle. After all that he was send back home with a new nickname: Grim.

Soon after he returned home he was recruited by the US Rangers. After several months of training, he returned to the country he did his first tour. As it happened, DARPA had manufactured deep-cover infiltration gear. Jonathan, with his reputation preceding him, was one of the first to try it. With the gear he was rather successful eliminating some deeply entrenched locations. Eventually they gave him a mission that even he felt was too much for him. But instead of merely refusing the mission, he asked if afterwards, he could keep the gear. DARPA was incredibly reluctant. But public opinion was quickly looking down the war and it was either to win or flee again. They allowed it. After that he vanished. Quite literally. Nobody ever found him again. Though a month after he got the mission, the leader of the insurgency and all his highest ranking officers were found dead. Among the US Marine Snipers he is still a legend. By the name of Reaper.

I got a feeling I went a little bit overboard with it.

@Legion02

No, not at all. I love this. Post it in the characters tab.

[Zhoren]

@Zhoren Besides minor grammatical errors it looks good. You are allowed at least one handy gadget. On the grammar you said "of" twice at one point and near the end there is a run on sentence. That's all I caught as I grazed over it. I can't say for sure if there are more.

@Felix7heWolf

lol OK.

I assume that gadgets etc. related to a particular job (within the purview of the character's training) should be acquirable within the story?

[Felix7heWolf]

@Zhoren Oh, your going to be the new kid. So, I suppose it would make sense that you wouldn't have any gadgets yet. I'll say that it's your choice. There are useful things that don't necessarily have to be assassins tools. Like frying pan for example. I'm not sure if that was supposed to be a joke or not. Take a look at Legions character sheet. I will say however @Legion02 that that is the very most that I will allow when it comes to gear. I love that you gave your weapon pros and cons.

[Felix7heWolf]

@Rogue Colm Oh god, I'm so sorry Colm. As I said before I don't know this system well. I didn't know you had your character sheet under that WIP tab. It looks good. A little too personal. I do really prefer that sort of stuff to be learned about in RP. It makes for some wonderfully emotional discussion between characters.

[Rogue Colm]

@Felix7heWolf can do. I'll spiff it up asap. So it's more of a resumé/employee record combination?