[OOC] Supernatural London

[shaitarn]

A secret community of various supernatural creatures living in London is being targeted by a vicious killer or killers. So far three of their number have been killed. As they keep their existence a secret, (for fear of being caged, experimented upon or whatever) the authorities can find nothing linking the crimes. The remaining supernaturals have to put their differences aside and work together to find out who is responsible before more of them are killed, or before one of the investigating agencies finds out what they really are.

I was originally thinking of setting this in modern day London, but if anyone's interested in another time period we could try that. I'm not just talking about vampires and weres for the supernaturals either - selkies, kitsune, dryads; there's no reason why you shouldn't play something more unusual - maybe even just plain old magic-using humans. They just have to be able to pass as human most of the time - at least to a casual glance.

Just a few notes rather than rules

Please don't make super-powered can do everything characters
If you want more than one character, that's fine - you know how many you can handle, but if we need a victim I might ask you to sacrifice one of yours
Usual terms and conditions apply

The CS

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Species:
Appearance:
Personality:
Abilities/Skills:
Weaknesses:
Personality:
Brief history/background:
Anything else:

You don't have to fill this all in; I know some people like to keep their characters personality, etc. vague to be developed during play, and that's fine. Just give the rest of us an idea what you're character's like.
A note about weaknesses - you don't have to put anything specific here, but I thought it might be fun to have certain races vulnerable to the legendary weaknesses of their species - werewolves vulnerable to silver, fae to cold iron and so on.

Any questions? please feel free to ask.

[RaeoftheLight]

Do we need to include reference pictures or can we just describe our character?

[Nevix]

Intrigued

[Ellion]

Woot, I'm happy this is happening

[xKarnival]

Dante

Appearance

Phoenix Form

D A N T E F E L I X

Age: 80 (Looks 18)

Gender: Male

Species: Phoenix

Personality: He tend to not trust others, not wanting to risk his life for another. He’s very fond of his eyesight, depending on it constantly to seek out enemies or allies, therefore he tries to play it safe, keeping out of trouble and laying low. He is also a quiet sort of person, preferring to keep his thoughts himself.

Abilities/Skills: He can turn into a phoenix and back into his human form. Phoenix’s have enhanced senses with fast regeneration and their tears can heal. They also can self-resurrect themselves.

Weaknesses: His memories of the past are fragmented and fragile, and his eyesight also deteriorates with each resurrection. However, unlike the other phoenix’s his eyesight is deteriorating at a faster rate than the others.

Brief history/background: Dante has already lived through two lifetimes, which is pretty little to the average phoenix. He had revived only twice through the ashes and he tends to confuse some memories from his past life. His vision is already becoming slightly blurry, causing him to wear glasses now. He has to be careful now, because the next time he resurrects, he may become completely blind.

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[DannyFenton123]

Is it alright if one of your character's close family members has recently been killed by one of the murderers?

[shaitarn]

@RaeoftheLight I'm happy with either - I know sometimes you can't find the right picture!

@DannyFenton123 That's more than alright, that's good (plot hook, yes!)!

[DannyFenton123]

Okay, awesome!

Poppy Chime

Name: Poppy Chime

Age: 33

Gender: Female

Species: Fairy. This particular species has a lifespan very similar to a human’s.
Appearance: Poppy is a small, thin lady with long straight black hair and unusually bright green eyes. She likes to dress in formal business attire, with black pants, a black suit and a white shirt underneath. Her wings (which are made of fairy magic rather than physical matter and thus can appear and disappear at will) are a glittering green that show up over any clothes she is wearing and stretch from her shoulders to the back of her knees.

Personality: Rather nitpicky and overbearing, but means well and genuinely tries to be friends with everyone. In this regard, she is very naive and trusting of other people, even with the shadow of a supernatural-killer looming over London.

Abilities/Skills: Her wings enable her to fly very fast. She is very quick, with an eye for detail.

Weaknesses: Not trained in any sort of fighting skill, and naturally weak to cold iron. Her magic is rather limited to noncombat uses. She likes humans possibly more than supernaturals and personally prefer if they just came out and told the police before more deaths happened. I mean, what civilised nation would even consider doing something horrible to them, just because they were different?

Brief history/background: Poppy lived with her parents in the countryside, Briar and Jade, all through her childhood. They owned a fairly successful restaurant, but when she was 20 she moved to London and eventually ended up starting a wedding business. Recently, her mother and father came to live with her. Briar was murdered recently by one of the supernatural killers and as the police were unable to help, Poppy decided to take matters into her own hands.

Anything else: Has extensive knowledge and experience of how to make a wedding run smoothly, but seriously doubts that will come in much handy against a murderer.

[Athinar]

CS

Human Form

Mummy Form

Name

Amam Amasis (The Devourer of the Child of the Moon)

Age

2300 Years old (Looks to be in his twenties in human form)

Gender

Male

Species

Mummy

Appearance

In his human form, he is an attractive, pale man with long, white hair and blood-red eyes.
However, his mummy form reveals that he is a sentient, preserved, animated corpse with jagged teeth and one red eye that shines from beneath his wrappings.

Personality

Amam is an arrogant, calculating, know-it-all, who views all of humanity as slaves. They just don't know it. A master manipulator, he will tell you what you want to hear, and then reveal that it was for his own benefit, once he gets away with it.

Can't stand Italians.

Abilities/Skills

Amam is a mummy, which means that as long as his body lasts, he is alive. He uses several ancient rituals to sustain himself, although his greatest magics lie in illusion and manipulation.

Fights with a Staff of Ra and a Pharaoh's Flail, has a Kopesh as a backup.

Weaknesses

Is a dried corpse, so while his physical strength might be great, he is vulnerable to great amounts of flame. Has a ward that allows him to remain unaffected by small flames, like normal humans, but if the ward is broken, he will go up in an instant.

Brief history/background

Amam was born in the Middle Era of Egypt, where he, like many other mummies, was a priest to the gods. He was once one of the high priests, second in power to only the pharaoh. He became a mummy upon death, and went to Alexandria, to work in the Library, where a great many undead already claimed refuge.

However, the refuge was to last only a little while, for Julius Caesar ordered the XII Legion Fulminata to put Alexandria to the torch, killing many Mummies, Nosferatu, and Liches, as well as a more grievous sin, the wanton destruction of knowledge. Amam escaped to Britannia, where he has lived for hundreds of years.

Anything else: Did I mention he hates Italians?

[RaeoftheLight]

I copied the CS to a word document, and plan of getting it done after work tonight!

[TheIrishJJ]

I'll get my CS up tonight or tomorrow. I'll probably be making a werewolf, if anyone wants to know.

[shaitarn]

@xKarnival@DannyFenton123@Athinar

Your characters are all accepted and can be moved to the character thread whenever you see fit.

@Athinar Just curious - Amam wasn't hanging around with the Iceni in AD 60 was he? No? Just a thought.

[Athinar]

@shaitarn I don't think he'd have known Boudica, no. :P Buuuuuut that IS an interesting thought. Probably would've heard of her secondhand.

[Nevix]

Will have a CS up soon

[RaeoftheLight]

Hanako Rin

Name: Hanako Rin
Age: 311, but looks 21. (she chose this age so no one would question why she lived alone, plus she took the appearance of the first human she saw)
Gender: Female
Species: Kitsune
Appearance: In human form: She is a slender woman with a narrow face, 'fox' titled brown eyes, high cheekbones, and small nose and mouth. Her hair is long and black, sleek and straight, never a hair out of place. She usually wears strange clothing combinations that always somehow look good and trendy. She is about 5'0", and probably only 113lbs.
In Kitsune Form: She is a small cream colored fox with three tails and strange red markings along her sides. Her eyes always look closed, with red lines like makeup above the eyes.
Personality: She is a bit of a prankster, and doesn't often take things seriously. She is however loyal to those who earn her trust. While she will still prank them, she will also protect them with her life. She also enjoys terrible comedies on the television. The human world is slightly new to her, despite her age. She used to live in the spirit realm before deciding to cross over and explore the human world about 50 years ago.
Abilities/Skills: She is strong in Illusion magic, like most kitsune. The things she creates are undistinguishable from reality. However, she is not quite strong enough to create entirely new beings. Inanimate objects and some plants are possible for her, but she cannot create any living animals. In fox form she can start fires with her tails, but cannot stop them.
Weaknesses: When crossing over from the spirit realm she brought her Kitsune Ball, a small white ball she can sometimes be seen tossing around. She doesn't tell anyone, but if someone were to get this ball she would be indebted to them, and it holds a small portion of her powers when she takes on a human form. In fox form, the ball seems to hold no power or significance, but she would still risk her life for it and promise anyone who obtained it her services. Edit: Another weakness is religion. Her illusions cannot fool very devout persons, like a Priest or Nun. Or other sort of 'higher up' religious person in any religion. Average Joe worshippers however can still be fooled easily.
Brief history/background: 50 years ago she came to the human world for the first time in a quest to gain more control over her abilities. In the spirit realm she was coddled, a kitsune princess almost. Her parents were very important, and so she was often not left alone and never had much room to grow her powers beyond that of a small kitsune kit. Her three tails are in recognition of her age, not her power. But she plans to change that and ran away to the human world to attempt to gain her next tail by power and honor, instead of waiting another couple decades for her fourth to grow naturally. After traveling through a few countries she settled in London, enjoying her time and falling in love with humans more and more. Especially their faces when she pranks them with her illusions!
Anything else: The murders unsettle her. She really is almost just a child, despite her age. She thinks if she can help in the finding of the culprits, then she may strengthen her power and gain honor enough to grow her fourth tail.

Edit: @shaitarn not sure if you had seen this yet, just mentioning you in case.

[FringedWolf]

Here's my character, ahh if you want to talk to me about how you want to handle the demon element, let me know as I believe him to be an excellent way to use the story against me and get me in more trouble.

CS

Name:
Ben Way

Age:
23

Gender:
Male

Species:
Human

Appearance:
At a brief glance Ben is a Dag(Aussie term see below for definition, plays into personality as well). Most of his clothes come from before he left home 6 years ago and constantly has messy unkempt, rarely cut hair.
He is a wiry man with Pianists fingers.

Dag - “Someone who is, or is perceived to be, unfashionable, lacking self-consciousness about their appearance and with poor social skills yet affable and amusing.”

Personality:
Once again, Ben is a Dag(See above), don’t get him started on his fixations or he’ll expect you to listen for half an hour and know the jargon to boot. Curious by nature but will be quiet and reserved(even when wanting to ask something) about topics he doesn't know.

His biggest fascination is Magic and the creatures that come with.

Recently(See Abilities/Weaknesses and History for reasons why) he has not been himself as much and will occasionally have an angry burst which he immediately regrets.

Abilities/Skills:
Professional Skills
Enchanter(Focus on Enchanting turn of the late 19th century and early 20th century firearms/ammunition)
Firearm Training
Mechanical Engineer(Firearms)

Demonic Abilities
There’s a Demon's Aspect rattling around in Ben’s head and can lend its powers now and then.
Photographic Memory - Which also leads to a vast Library of Knowledge
Can heal slightly quicker from non fatal wounds(Weeks become days kinda ballpark)
Resistance to Fire and Poisons
Slight Strength Increase(Enough to be noticeable, but not inhuman.)

Weaknesses:
Any normal Human weaknesses, (bar the resistances listed above should the demon be lending its powers today)

There's an Aspect of a Demon in his head and wants to take over his body by tempting Ben to commit soul corrupting acts.(Their relationship could be described as friendly if Ben didn’t despise the creature.) (I am going to RP the demon somewhat but if as OP you think it might cool to do something with the demon as it is my weakness, let me know.)

Because of the Demon's presence, Ben can’t enter sacred grounds such as Churches for protection.

His Family (A weakness for varying reasons both his strained relationship and the fact that their lives mean something to him)
Father: Irvin
Mother: Mabel
Brother: David
Sister: Nadia

Brief history/background:
Ben Way is a Descendant of the famous Norse Blacksmith, Wayland the Smith. For generations his family have been weapon smiths who have also enchanted their weapons. Ben is the Black Sheep of the family and broke tradition by studying Firearms rather than Melee Weapons.

Whilst pursuing various enchanting artefacts Ben came in contact with a demonic relic which upon studying allowed a aspect/projection of a demon to enter his mind. The Demon is known as Haagenti, Research revealed that he was a President of hell who made Men Wise, and a bit of an alchemist. How he ended up in the relic is beyond Ben’s knowledge.

Ben has searched for a way high and low to rid himself of this demon. It seems only one great act of sacrifice and faith could possibly free him. Something Ben hasn’t exactly wanted to do, or been given the opportunity to do.

[Will]

Reiley Antiquadin

Age:
22
Gender:
(trans)Girl
Species:
Human(summoner-type magic)
Personality:
Shy, tries not to be self absorbed, lets everyone else get the spotlight. If she finds herself rambling or yelling she will immediately shrink, as if she was nothing. Self-deprecating, mostly due to her mothers abuse as a child, but still has some hope left, not all was destroyed. The only time she raises her voice deliberately is when casting new spells.
Abilities/Skills:
Summoning Magic
-Creates little cherubs that are reminiscent of herself
-Cherubs work as a hive mind as attackers, so if Reiley is weak and can't make more than one pair, they're going to do very little.
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Yorick

-Yorick is her personal body guard, always around to protect her, her cherubs are mostly weak, cannon fodder. Yorick has dimensional portals he can slip through to get closer to the enemy, or get Reiley away from danger, or even drop enemies through. (Magic Users and non-humans have a resistance when going through portal, they have to be forced in. Physically shoved.)
-*- can create a singular large wolf (think half of sif from dark souls) to protect her. Used only as a last resort, as she will be close to fainting, or if already strained will faint from a lack of energy. (singular summons, if death occurs during their summoning, they won't be castable again.)

Weaknesses:
Anything that triggers her gender dysphoria, large area damage spells/abilities destroy her summons to quickly for her to react. She's fast, but she can't do much on her own without her summons.
Brief history/background:
Reiley was born a boy, under the name of Peter. Reiley was born to two biblethumpers, so coming out as transgender in her early teens was not something they would accept. Abomination soon became her new name. To escape this hell, she started to research dark magics. Summoning seemed to be the most prevalent and easy thing to learn. The first thing she read out of her old book was about the cherubs. Little, cute, winged creatures that resembled her. She thought they were useful enough, but decided to go further.
Reiley sent her new friends to search out a more powerful book on Summoning.
Not soon after, they returned with a book about the width of her arm filled with spells on spells, only some of it she could make it, because it was all in latin. She skimmed through the book, looking for vicious creatures. She saw the word bodyguard pop up in latin on one of the pages. She cast the spell, and Yorick popped up through a portal in the ground.
"At your service, my lady." Reiley's eyes glazed over. She sent Yorick to "deal" with her parents.
Which, seemingly, meant dropping them through a portal into a dimension filled with flesh eating creatures.
She likes to play this off and pretend like it never happened, because she doesn't want to be held responsible for anything that they did.
After that, she began her transition, hormones and everything. She continues to study new techniques and creatures as each day passes.
Anything else:
She holds a book that she studies frequently that she uses to learn new summoning techniques or summons.

[Ebonsquire]

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[Fetzen]

Vaughtar

Name

Vaughtar

Age

230

Gender

Male

Species

Gargoyle

Appearance

Bypassers commonly interpret him as an untreated case of giantism, combined with a personal preference for bodybuilding. He stands more than 8', has extremely thick bones and no less prominent muscles. He appears dark and pale, including his eyes. The only hair on his body is a goatee long enough to dangle from his chin. There's a pair of leathery wings on his back that can be folded together to a compact limb that he hides beneath a cloak.

Personality

Though he looks very intimidating, his behaviour is dominated by non-hostility. Violence is not an option for him unless he feels threatened. Within the supernatural community he is rather outspoken, but to all others he appears as a silent behemoth. He makes a secret of where he exactly lives - that information could easily cost him his life if anyone malicious came to know it.

Skills/Abilites

Vaughtar can read, write and do basic math, but aside from that and the historical knowledge about the country he has been living in for more than two centuries, he's pretty uneducated and untrained. However this should not be confused with a lack of intelligence. It's a matter of access to that education. The strength he has to rely on is..well.. his physical strength that surpasses that of a human being by far and the ability to take a very serious amount of punishment before running into problems. He can carry another person with him into the air (as long as not too heavy).

Weaknesses

He moves sluggishly (especially on his feet) and one can't expect him to fight in an agile, evasive or even sneaky way. His size and extreme weight simply don't allow him to do so and there's not much he can do about it. He needs to regenerate as humans do, however a gargoyle's equivalent to having a nice slumber in a bed is to turn from flesh to stone the moment the sun rises above the horizon - no matter if he can actually see it or not. As humans can delay falling asleep, he can delay that transformation, but doing so weakens him continuously until the next sunrise simply forces him to give way to the urge. Although he is a magical creature to the core, he is not able to actively cast any spell.

Brief history/background

Vaughtar was created by an unknown chiseller during the so called gothic revival in the late 18th century. Most scholars think that gargoyles are the result of a specific type of magical anomaly - that yet is very little known about - attaching itself to those large blocks of stone meant to look like intimidating fantasy creatures. Others think that the chisellers themselves applied the magic. There is simply not enough evidence to confirm any of those theories. Since the gothic era and its renewals have ended a long time ago, the birth rate has virtually dropped to zero. Vaughtar himself has never met the one that carved him, so he can't tell either.
For about the last two centuries, it was rather easy for him to hide, but a growing population, massively increased city illumination, shrinking retreat areas and the ubiquitous presence of cameras forced him to switch strategy. Today he works as a bouncer for a rather prominent discotheque on the outskirts of London.

[Taytay]

Demon Form

With Black Wings

Name:
Lars Winter

Age:
17

Gender:
Male

Species:
Sin Demon

Personality:
Lars is the average teenage boy growing up in a human world. He has a curious mind and is not afraid to get out and go find answers. He often has a "angle and demon on each shoulder" Kind of attitude when it comes down to making decisions. Most things in life are black and white to him and they grey area is almost non-existent. He is not easily upset and confrontation is not his thing either. Not afraid to make a friend, Lars is not a social butterfly but once you get to know him most like him.

Abilities/Skills: Demonic Magics
Demonic Magic
-Curses: Lars can cast 2 different kinds of curses on people; binding curses that trap people in certain areas or bind them to certain objects, and curses that affect the mind (making someone feel a certain emotion to a maximum extent or have them fall in and out of memories and see things that are not real). His curse only last for a maximum of 3 minuets and can be broken before that if he is disturbed mentally or physically. Also each curse drains his overall energy, making him tired in each form.
-Pain: Lars can inflict pain on anything he touches with his hands.
-Sins: Lars can feed and embody the different sins of man. Each sin makes him take a different form and attitude. For example when he feeds off of the sin of wrath he gets more aggressive and he acts more "bull headed".

Weaknesses:
In his regular form he is not super-powered or strong. The only abilities he has are his magical ones and faster healing capabilities. He is also more fragile in this form; he can be captured easier and most magics work on him. His powers are also an issue. Whenever he uses them there is some kind of repercussion on his body, whether is be fatigue, pain, or loss of function in some areas (like arms, legs, even some organs). Also due to divine laws he can only stay in his demonic form for a short period of time and after he transforms he needs rest for at least a day.

Personality:
Lars is a bland little boy. If he was a color it would be grey, simple and one track minded most does not get to him. He is open to change but hates surprises. Also most things that others would get goes over his head very easy. He does not understand most jokes and sarcasm is not one of his friends. Lars is an amazing optimist though. Despite his literal nature he is good at seeing a bright side to every situation.

Brief history/background:
Lars is a young demon born and raised in a divided household. His father is a demon of punishment and his mother was a witch. She summoned his father for the simple purpose of having a child in exchange for her soul in marriage. The deal was sealed and Lars was conceived. When he was born, he was raised by his mother during the regular months but for holidays he would spend that time in hell with his father. Lars' mother taught him what she could about magic and his father taught him what it meant to be a demon. He grew up having two different out looks on life and understanding that choice was one of the most powerful things on the planet. When Lars started middle school he started to make some bad choices, he would pull pranks, corrupt the minds of others and misuse his gifts. His father was thrilled at the thought of an evil son, but his mother was disappointed in her son. So, she bound her son's his mortal body on earth and limited his powers. Lars father was outraged and came to earth to collect the debt his "wife" owed. Now they live in London as one big happy family; his mother constantly being tortured, for the key to the seal on Lars' powers, in the basement, while his father sits there and laughs at her pain filled screams.
Anything Else:
N\A

Hey I'm done @shaitarn