@AcerRo I think I'm gonna take the bait this time round :3
How are things, Acer?
Lovely to have you keeper of all that which is the fluffy tater. Totally need con Zero into this. Things are good right now about you?
@AcerRo I was thinking of pure energy manipulation with the cost being either physical and emotional pain or just plain energy with the latter being a little easier to handle. If he would be like that then if you ever heard of the infamous game franchise then he would be somewhat like a conduit in that situation.
Something like, has the potential to OP, that doesn't bother me at all. The only thing worries about potentially op powers is a personals ability to write the power effectively. I'm not saying no to it, or that there is an issue with it, just that the bar is set high for something that could be OP. I don't worry about the power so much as the cost keeping everything in balance. Also something to keep in mind, at least for the first arc and the part of the second, the cost is going to be higher than the use of the power.
@Solaris I'm going to be using blood as my cost. Originally all the costs were gonna be blood but I was talked out by someone with a good head for things like this. Anyhow, if the power is open I will take fire manipulation. I will be starting from the Hills also.
Said all that to say this. My character maybe able to burn an entire city down, but how many bodies/ blood banks is it gonna take? Might need to start a fire, but is that bird, rabbit, or deers worth of blood? The one thing I like about the cost is, figuring out the cost, then how of the cost is needed to do what.
I spend all this time trying to figure out all these small details and I'll forget half of these but the time we halfway through the first arc...
Life is hard in these Hills. It's not like life on the flats. Meth, shine, oxy run like the creeks and rivers. You're life is laid bare for the whole of the small town to gossip and talk about behind your back. Dirt's too rocky to farm, county can't fix the roads, mining is about only the work left but the governments been shutting down coal. Let's not even get into the feudin that's been going since the civil war.
How do you escape? A question that's been asked for generations. Almost no one leaves these County lines alive. The ones that do? They end up coming back. These hills have a hold on the mind. Something keeps calling you back to them. Maybe its because life is slower and simpler up here, maybe its because people know exactly who and what is going to come against them.
Everyday was struggle, everyday was just like the last. But no one will ever forget that day. The day everything changed, the day that we become The Unwanted. A normal Saturday night, bon fires, whiskey and pickup trucks. Just a normal Saturday out by old man Johnson's farm. Then something happened, nobody knows what exactly happened but we were all changed. We had abilities, abilities we couldn't control or asked for. We've been run out of homes by the people we've known all our lives. People who knew us better than we did. What's gonna happen now? How are we gonna survive?
They killed Tillie Helton, they beat her, raped her, murdered her. But we're the monsters? Ironic isn't it? We they may be the first in a generation or two get away with our their lives. Its funny how life works isn't?
Say what you will about Katahrins Mountain, it'll make you tough. These hills and hollers will teach you to survive or kill you trying. From a letter found on the old Craigh house in Harlan Kentucky
We all had lives, families, friends, jobs. Things were going well. Things like this shouldn't happen to people like us. We had everything going for us, we were gonna take over the world. We had wealth, powerful families and connections. We were going to be doctors, lawyers, singers, entertainers. The world was ours for the taking but no one was ready for this. None of this was our fault. Why can't they see that?
Before that Saturday night, it was the best of the best. Everything we could have ever wanted was ours for the taking. The fastest cars, the finest houses. We had the lives people dreamed of. You ever watch those crappy teen dramas in Southern California? Yeah that was our lives. Our lives in Atalanta
No one knows what happened that night. We were all at the Wildlife Charity Gala, 10k a plate. The richest of the richest, the elites of the south were there, and we were the only that changed. The only ones with this shitty gift.
Our Lives will never be the same. No one will have anything to do with us. We are little more than pariahs now. Our friends don't much to do with us, the shops we used to go to, the restaurants we used to go, none of them want anything to do us. Even the banks don't us around! Do you know how bad things are when banks don't want your money!?
---- General Information ----
This is a supernatural story is about two very different groups of people who come into superpowers. One group is from a very rich part of Atlanta, the other from Black Mountain in Harlan County Kentucky. These lifestyles are about as far apart as you can get.
Society has rejected these people out of fear and are openly calling for their heads. The government wants them for more than a couple of reasons. Hate groups are popping up left and right now as people with these special abilities become more and more common. The world has pretty much turned on you, and would be happy to be locked up or killed.
Now when I say hate groups are popping up left and right, I mean groups like the KKK, New Black Panther Party, ISIS, I'd add some other hate groups but these are the assholes I could think of. Nonetheless the notion stands, these hate groups have shifted their focus away from their usual fare and put their focus strictly on us.
There's gonna be a lot of drama, action, and romance if you're into that kinda thing. The world doesn't want you, hate groups want you dead, and who doesn't wanna know how this whole thing started and why this unknown event happened? I'd like the overall tone to be dark and somewhat desperate. That doesn't mean there won't be time to goof off and blow off steam, but this is gonna be far from a party.
---- Area and Character Information ----
To go into a little more detail of the locations that we will be starting in. Buckhead is an affluent uptown district of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. To put into perspective, it's the second wealthiest zip code in the south, Palm Beach, Florida is number one. It's been called the Beverly Hills of the South/East. Buckhead is one of the nation's "10 Top Affluent Communities" due to "the most beautiful mansions, best shopping, and finest restaurants in the Southeastern United States". A little Google fodder for you.
Next up we have Harlan of Harlan County, Kentucky where the median income for a household in the county was $18,665 (I made more than that when I was 18.) Taking up just under two square miles (1.8) and a population of less than two thousand (1,750 as of 2010.) I wasn't to find about too many fun google facts about Harlan so I'll toss out a few things I personally know. Those Hills are one of the most beautiful things I have seen. That's both in reality and drug induced hallucinations. There is a certain... song that it sings. It begs you to stay, if you can escape the song. That song will always play in the back of your mind. It's hard living, both in drink and money, that make just as hard of people. They can hunt, fish, survive off the land, when things break, they gotta figure out how to fix it.
So each group will have a very different skill set for example, the mountain group will be much better at survival, hunting, fishing, so forth and so on. Having lived a somewhat isolated life, the mountain folk aren't the best at being sociable and getting along with people they don't know. More than likely, they are gonna hate a big city. Some may like it, others will wanna get as far away as possible.
The other group will be better with people, able to move around society without an issues. They can get what they need done and if we're honest, they are more than likely a little bit smarter. With that said, there's a pretty good chance these people won't be able fix a car or know how to hunt or survive.
As for relationships and knowing each other. Everyone from the Hills are gonna know each other. Not everyone from the other group will know each other. It is possible that people from the two different groups know each other, just highly unlikely. Also everyone from the mountains are gonna know Tille Helton, and what happened to her.
These are just examples of the difference, and is by no means set in stone. There is no reason for a totally useless dumb ass can be from either place, there is also no reason that someone can't be the smartest guy/girl in the room just based on where they live. The main point is these are too completely different sets of people, different skills, different experiences, different tastes, different everything. One thing that I will beat a dead horse about the difference. Mountain folk are poor, poverty stricken poor. The other group is rich as all get out. Go crazy with the riches people. Also as a side note, if you wanna do something different than the rich person character type, we'll figure that out as needed. You won a raffle, or a guest of somebody, worked there, bodyguard, whatever as long as it kinda makes sense I'm not picky.
---- Story Information ----
The story will be broken down into three arcs. The first one is pretty much world building. Getting to know the characters, and meeting the groups and having the groups interact a little before moving on the second arc.
Arc one: Katahrins Our story starts out a week after the death of Tillie Helton. Tillie Helton was a beloved member of the county. Tillie was a kind and sweet young girl who few had bad to say about her. What happened to her was shocking to everyone, and a wake up call for The Unwanted that it was time to get as far away from there as they could. Things were further put into high gear as another just gets away with their life
As a group they get together and talk about where to go and how to get there. They come to figure out Knoxville is only two hours away. Where less than a day later the hate group catches up to them. Forcing them leave in a hurry.
Buckhead Our story starts out two weeks after the events of the Gala. The Gala was turned upside down when powers start popping off without a warning. As a result three people were killed more were hurt. Details are at best a little hazy. These people have it better than Katahrins. These people have been pretty much forced indoors. As they trying to go about their lives things keep falling apart. Only a handful of places in town are even willing to let them into their buildings. Through this segregation they all meet up and in the end they two are forced to leave town and head north.
I know I just kinda, sorta, spilled the beans on the story. There will be plenty of twists and turns still to come. I only laid out the first arc just so everyone is on the same page. There will be at least two, maybe three arcs.
---- How do the powers work?---- These powers come at a cost. By that I mean for example blood, is used for the activation of the power. The more blood involved the larger the effect of the power. For example, a lighting user may only shoot a bolt based on a nick, but if the user was to slit their wrist open, they may be able to rain down lighting.
So while we have this awesome powers, there is a cost to using them. Going back to the idea of using blood, a PC doesn’t HAVE to use their own blood, you might get a gigantic douchebag using your blood to power themselves. Fear can turn enemies into allies and allies into enemies. As with anything there are different routes you can take to learning the use of these powers. A heavy power hitter with an AOE that uses a lot of blood or you can learn to be precise, making every drop count. Maybe a hybrid of both.
Get creative with your power set, not everyone needs to be an offensive powerhouse. Sometimes a wacky/support/defensive power can be the difference between making it out alive or getting killed.
The one part I have yet to mention. All of the PCs with powers, will have a brand of some sort. Think, Pulse l'cie brand from FFXIII or the fayth glyphs from FFX. A brand or a mark or something that identifies you as a power user
---- Who is Tillle Helton? ----
Tille Helton was much beloved teenager. She was the first person in the mountains for her powers to show up. She was raped, beatin, and lynched. As horrific and shocking as it was. No one really said anything against. They were all too scared of she might have done. For the Mountain folk, this was the turning point. This was the one sure fire sign to them that it was die on that mountain, life was hard enough before Tille Helton's murder.
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Place of Birth: You don't have to be Harlan or Buckhead. However you do have to be at one of the events. If you're not gonna be from the Harlan, Buckhead is easiest, best way to go.
Sexuality: I truly don't care what you do here. I want and welcome a wide assortment of characters. You do you boo boo, write and get creative to your hearts content. Just remember that a lot of this is going to take place in variety of places in the South, and some in the DEEP South. Again, I want and welcome character of all kinds.
Relationship Status: Again you do you. See above.
Occupation: All characters gotta eat, right?
Power: Self explanatory but I'd also know what kinda user you want to be. Tight, precise, accurate, or big, hard hitting AOE.
Cost of powers use: As it was said, everything comes at a cost. You may not have to pay that cost but there is always a cost. I personally would love to see thing like blood being used. Things that have a sever consequences to using their powers. I do understand that people may have or have known people who had problems with self harm and things of this nature. If that is the case let me know and we'll try to figure things out.
Appearance: Description is fine. If you want to add a picture go for it, but not required. I'd like to see both of I was honest. Details, details, details.
Skills: Anything your character might be good at. Just remember where they are from, they're age and life experiences.
Personality: I would love to see one of massive long personality profiles but I won't compel you to do that but I would love to see that. The more fleshed out the character the better.
History: The more detailed the better. I don't need to know who your character kissed under the monkey bars in the fourth grade or what their favorite tv show as a kid. If you wanna do some of the deeper stuff in IC, I'm all for it. Just make sure we all have a really good handle on what's happened in their lives.
You all know the drill by now - play nice and enjoy yourself and you'll have a wonderful time here.
1. I'll leave a lot of choices and topics open for discussion. A collective group going forward is better than an individual group. If you have an issue, wanna talk about something, explore a subject matter, I am all for talking about it. Still, at the end of the day, GMs word is law.
2. This is a PG13/R RP! Feel free to cuss and use adjectives in your fights, but no sex! Do that via PM.
3. Yes, this is Low-Casual and up. This means post at least two-three full lines in this thread. However, I still expect clear speech, decent grammar, and good formatting! Walls of text will be ignored until reformatted!
4. No G-d moding or anything of like. You wanna put something together a few posts quicker than someone else, I'm cool with that. You wanna bail yourself of a bad situation with something cheap and crappy, I am not okay with that. Half the point of this RP is for you to face massive and server consequence for your actions.
5. Follow any other site rules, in addition to my own. If you make it a habit of breaking rules, you will be allowed a single post to say farewell with your character, and then you will be removed from the RP.
6. Being understanding and tolerant of everyone in this RP. There is going be a lot of dark and deep subjects that will talked about in this rp. There is a chance that you'll want to do with your characters that I/someone might not understand. If that is the case, take a deep breath and explain it the best you can. If something happens that you don't like or understand, CALMLY ask about. Nothing will get you removed form this rp quick than not even trying to understand.
7. Please, enjoy yourself. Immerse yourself in the story, the characters and try to do the best you can!
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I know I said it once and I'll say it again. Its gonna get dark around here.
If you have any comments, questions, complaints, so forth and so on. I'll be happy answer to the best that I can. Still need a co gm or two.
