BrutalBx

Edenridge (Slice of Life with a Twist - Always Accepting)

@BrutalBx Awwww shiz... Lanie's a natural-born bitch, only that her husband and daughter have softened her. But that completely flies off the window if her life-long enemy is even thinking of pulling tricks on her husband. Lanie will go from zero to 100 real quick.

@Dirty Pretty Lies

Love it

Occult Regulation Office: A Mature Wizarding World Anthology

OK guys, so current plan is for the Caretaker to be an NPC that all players can use. With that in mind, as I build him up I'd like some ideas from you guys for his backstory and abilities. Teamwork!

So throw em at me everyone, current outline is that he is an original member of ORO who was forced to become the caretaker of the house because he tried to kill himself there.

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@BrutalBx
*Confetti toss*

yay!

so wizard pets yes no? *thinking something slightly different....crows*

@BlackPanther

You know, I might allow, just to see how it goes.

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@BrutalBx
please dear god let this still be accepting

@BlackPanther

We are indeed still accepting!

Edenridge (Slice of Life with a Twist - Always Accepting)

OK so Star and I have done a bit of technical jiggery pokery, so now the scene that was going to take place with Rod and Derek will be replaced by a scene with Rod and Kait @Dirty Pretty Lies Lanie better get her bitch on lol

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But every crack team needs that grandfather figure who explains the moral of the story after every episode case!

@Lauder

I have this covered. The caretaker of the House will in fact be the only survivor of the original ORO team, a broken soul offering advice to the current team

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Here! Take another one!

Arthur Stone:

Arthur is pretty much bang on 6ft and is of medium build. Although not a complete health freak, he is fit enough for the job and doesn’t have an awful lot of excess fat. His hair has already started going slightly grey despite his relatively young age, particularly on his beard. He tends to dress smart, often opting to wear a suite with a waistcoat and overcoat.

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Name:Arthur Stone
Alias & Nicknames: ‘Dusty’ to close friends
Age: 35
Place of Origin: United Kingdom

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Blood Status: Pure-Blood
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Relationships Status: Single

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Wand Staff:
Wood: Acacia | Core: Basilisk blood
Arthur uses a heavily runed and charmed wooden staff named ‘Namor’. Through transfiguration, it can turn into a snake; as such the shape it takes when it ‘stiffens’ for use as a staff can vary. In the same way that small, neater wands are better suited to elegant refined spell-casting, Arthur’s staff is better suited to cruder spell-casting. Again, like a wand, his Staff is loyal to him.

Education:
Initially Hogwarts (Ravenclaw House), but home-schooled since around the age of 13.

Speciality:
Ancient Runes and Wandlore.

Experience as a Regulator
5 years.

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Biography:
Arthur was born to Richard and Lilia Stone, both pure-blood wizards with promising careers in archaeology. Young life was, for the most part, relatively uneventful for Arthur – well, as far as wizarding lives are concerned. His parents, both very academic, made sure that he had a good education growing up and it seemed his future was bright. The first tragedy in Arthurs life occurred when he was seven. Unfortunately, his mother died in childbirth due to complications, along with what would have been his younger sister. Even with magic to aid them, some dire events are of course unavoidable. Although they were heartbroken, both Arthur and his father were able to move on with their lives and became closer as a result.

When Arthur was ten he enrolled into Hogwarts, just a few years behind Harry Potter, and was sorted into Ravenclaw. He only spent a couple of years there however, as following the events of the 1994 Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, his father pulled him out of the school. Not willing to risk losing someone else dear to him, Richard began home-schooling his son and made him an apprentice archaeologist. As a result, during the events of the Second Wizarding War Arthur spent most of his time far removed from the rest of the wizarding world, in forgotten ruins and lairs.

For just under twenty years, Arthur and his farther explored ancient sites all over the wizarding world, discovering long-lost secrets and lore. It became a passion that he shared with his father (and by extension his late mother). During this period, Arthur became particularly interested in Ancient Runes, as it became practically an essential component of understanding old texts of carvings. Moreover he became interested in how runes and charms could be applied to other objects, which led him into investigating wandlore (and particularly staff crafting). Eventually he would use the knowledge he accumulated to create his staff Namor – with the help of some old tomes of course.

This period of his life came to an end when he witnessed the second tragedy of his life – the death of his father. The details can be saved for another time, but in short: coming across an old Gringwart Goff in a cave is not a pleasant experience. Arthur was unable to save his father, nor avenge him, and only managed to escape narrowly himself. It was this event which made him want to become a regulator…

Notes:
Dialogue colour: Yellowgreen
Patronus: Great Grey Owl
Bogart: Gringwart Goff
Other: Arthur carries around a small locked book in his inside pocket. The pages inside are blank, as entries are absorbed into the book so that any can be recounted on at a whim. Arthur notes that it would be hard to read without knowing what you were looking for. Not only does it contain his and his father’s old research, but he sometimes uses it for case notes, so he guards it with his life.

@Fat Boy Kyle

Natalia J. DeVito

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Name: Natalia Jade DeVito

Alias & Nicknames: N/A

Age: 27

Place of Origin: San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Blood Status: Pure-Blood

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Relationships Status: Single

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Wand: Blackthorn - 11 inches - Troll whisker

Education: Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Speciality: Herbology

Experience as a Regulator: Natalia's had the position for 5 years.

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Biography:

Natalia was born into a rather privileged family in the small island of Puerto Rico. She was an only child, and as such, she had everything she could ever want. Despite such fact, Natalia wasn't the typical rich kid. Her parents taught her respect, tolerance, love, and integrity at a young age, and such teachings stuck with her for years. She admired both of her parents ever since she was young...that is, until her father left her mother, Dania, for a younger woman. Natalia was just 9 when such thing occurred, and needless to say, she was devastated.

Fast forward two years later and Natalia's mother becomes serious with a man she had been dating for some time. Not too long after that, Rick moves into Natalia's home with his son, Lucas. Luckily for Natalia, she went on to Ilvermorny to start her studies soon thereafter. The school was her escape, but whenever she went home, she almost always regretted it. At first, Natalia's claims that Lucas would walk in on her without announcing himself raised some alarms, but Rick's reassurance that no such foolishness ever occurred invalidated the poor girl's pleas for help. Despite the fact that Rick was a Muggle, Lucas was born a Half-Blood who was rather powerful. Natalia was home alone with Lucas for winter break on her 13th birthday when she confronted him one evening after one of his advances. Unfortunately, Lucas overpowered her and she was left immobile before he proceeded to take full advantage of her.

Such memory prompted vicious nightmares; the torment being too much for Natalia to take, and it showed not only in her grades, but in her lack of spirit as well. The change didn't go unnoticed by staff members nor the faculty of the school. They helped Natalia through a fairly new rehabilitate education program. In no time, the girl's grades increased, and she seemed much more happy around campus. Nonetheless, underneath her newfound happiness, the darkness that was her tragedy laid perfectly still, patiently waiting for her to slip up and for everything to come crashing down again. These occurrences of hallucinations and similar schizophrenic symptoms only happened in private, away from the rest of the world, but it has nonetheless been a part of Natalia ever since.

Eventually, the girl graduated with top honors and as a result, received a letter of interest from The Occult Regulation Office. Natalia did not hesitate in accepting, and despite missing her mother--and feeling somewhat guilty for leaving her alone with those two monsters--Natalia looked forward to the journey ahead of her.

Notes:

- Color claimed is maroon.

- Patronus is a badger.

- Her Boggart takes the form of her step-brother, only taller and stronger.

- She is a registered animagus taking the form of a porcupine.

- Can speak English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

@Heretic

Both accepted! Looks like we're getting a crack team together here!

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BUNNY

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Name: Velvet Gertrude Moon
Alias & Nicknames: Bunny
Age: 23
Place of Origin: Mystic Bay Maine

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Blood Status: Muggle/Squib
Sexual Orientation: Not really sure because she’s still chaste
Relationships Status: Single

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Wand:Moon Dancer is made using supple Birch 10 3/4" Gold 16 gage wire enhancement with a Vella hair core
Education: Hogwarts / Hufflepuff
Speciality: Transfiguration Spells and Artificing
Experience as a Regulator 2 years as a Regulator, before that she was attached to the Department of Muggle Affairs 3 years

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Biography: Bunny as her friends call her was born to a very surprised couple in Mystic Bay who if asked would say everything about her was a grand joke of fate and proven her birthday (April 1st) then add to that her mother who was a Squib of the Crane Family and her dad heir to a fishing fleet and a muggle who none would have guessed could produce a magically adept child in the first year of their marriage and two more besides.

Bunny was so named by her dad because of his eldest daughter’s insistence he read her a chapter of Watership at least once a week when he was at sea and she embraced it without shame. She is described as a daddy’s girl and the daughter such men dream of because she’s never given her parents a bit of worry till two years ago while working in Muggle Affairs she was asked to help a group of Regulators who’d encountered a powerful artifact that one of their targets was using to keep them at bay and broke which unfortunately sent it into overload. Bunny was working in the duty of muggle crowd control (making sure there was no crowd) when her supervisor called her over to make use of her odd skill with magical devices.

She approached the object and said she couldn’t stop it from falling apart and detonating; few people heard her add that she could alter its effect as they were shouting out orders for an evacuation of the local population of muggles which was guessed at 20,000. Because no one heard her no one was able to tell her not to try which she did. She was delighted to see the elemental bonds were failing and drained off a portion to make an area encompassing simple illusion of an explainable dust devil (mini tornado) in the Manhattan construction lot which the team had taken the broken device to so as to limit its damage.

The Dust Devil was easy to see as an illusion if you were magically gifted but for the Muggles it was flinging sand and dust along with trash which caused them to shield their eyes, close their doors and windows to keep out. Then she twisted the spell energy into a badly set Gemini replication which she’d chosen a brick as the subject of so that within 3 minutes all the spell energy was expended creating 10, 000 badly shaped red bricks in a large pile and leaving her coated so thickly in dust she had to puff a cloud off her face to breath.

Since that day she has been a member of the Regulators serving a role as their supplier of magical items specialized for their mission, repairing their brooms or wands as well as serving backup on cases.

Notes:Color Claimed is Dodgerblue

Bunny’s Parents are Mark David Moon and Melissa Crane Moon
Her Dad and his family own a fishing fleet that numbers 45 craft of all sizes up 25,000 tons to 1,000 and therefore are a family of some wealth in the Muggle sphere
Her mom as a government liaison to the Department of Muggle Affairs
Her two sisters are Hope (12 Ravenclaw) and Daisy (7 and a nuisance who still lives at home) / Good relationship with both and her sisters are as proper as she is.
Her mom’s Family the Cranes are of old Pure blood Boston wizards who came of with the first colonists and adore Bunny and her sisters
Bunny’s broom is nicknamed Nightmare because of its extreme power curve that is frightening to all but a few who she’s allowed to ride her. (Velvet can’t help but tweak and work on her things; if she were muggle she’d be a gearhead with a need for speed

Deathly Encounter When Bunny was 9 years old she begged her way onto her grandad’s boat which he used to keep the fleet supplied she was caught in a storm returning to Mystic Bay and capsized rolling over the boat she was on sending its 5 man crew to their deaths and leaving only a frightened little girl adrift in the storm a debris. She would have been lost but for the concern of the three men whom she was related to who visited her there on the waves and whispered to her the secrets of survival such as the nearby location of one of the sunken ships 10 man rafts and what supplies that stayed near the surface.

For 3 days and 3 nights Bunny was tossed on the sea like a plastic shopping bag in a march wind and all that time she was as alone as many would think as the ghosts of her Grandfather and Uncles watched over and comforted her. And by the time the Coast Guard found her she had been given up for dead along with the others and had survived several attempts by the sea to make them true.

From that day Bunny has been a sort of magnet for those souls that still wander the earth and chose to attend Miss Oxynte or Miss Night as her students and taught the extracurricular Ghoul Studies course at Hogwarts

@RumikoOhara

Accepted!

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@BrutalBx And here we are. One order of werewolf with a side of tragedy ready to go!

Kieran McMillan

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Name: Kieran McMillan

Alias & Nicknames: Kieran is used to responding to a number of “clever” werewolf slurs instead of his name

Age: 25

Place of Origin: Wicklow, Ireland

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Blood Status: Pureblood

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Relationships Status: Single

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Wand: Cedar, 10.5 in, Phoenix Feather

Education: Graduate of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry, Ravenclaw House

Speciality: Potions

Experience as a Regulator: Kieran has been a Regulator for just over three years

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Biography: Kieran’s story started off innocent enough. His parents were both accomplished in the wizarding world in their own right, with his father having served as an Auror and his mother the owner of a potions shop. Naturally, the young Kieran took to learning their crafts like sweetness to sugar, but it would be the long hours he spent watching his mother’s work that would be the most beneficial for him in the years to come. When his ever important eleventh birthday came to the family, it was with little surprise that Kieran showed the makings of a wizard when he caused a vial he was reaching for to quite literally fly off the shelf.

And thus the quiet, introverted boy was shipped off to Hogwarts. While making friends did not come easily to him, studying proved to be as simple as breathing to the lad, as was the case for many of his fellow Ravenclaws. But of those that did manage to befriend the odd boy, one Connor Langley was of particular note. As it was because of this friendship that the end of his fifth year took a rather dark turn.

It was supposed to just be a stupid dare between two irresponsible upperclassmen. Connor bet Kieran a galleon that the rumors surrounding the school about a pack of werewolves in the Forbidden Forest was not the absolute hogwash that the latter claimed them to be. So one night at the end of the term, the two made their way deep into the woods, with the light of a full moon beating down on them. Truly they were young and overconfident, as they didn’t even notice the sounds of approaching terror until it was too late.

For Kieran, that night became a blur in his memories. A sharp burning sensation as teeth sunk into his shoulder. A distressed Connor yelling at him to run and get help. The sound of bones breaking. Frantically scrambling through the woods in a cold sweat. Yelling at the top of his lungs, voice hoarse. Waking up in the infirmary with a concerned professor staring down at him. Finding out that he had been infected Lycanthropy. Being told that his friend had died before help could arrive.

These fragments of memories would haunt Kieran throughout his remaining years at Hogwarts, which were accompanied by isolation from his peers out of fear and hate. Most suspected that he would drop out, but instead the boy let himself become consumed by his studies rather than give in to his sorrow, practically turning the library into a second home. And in order to accommodate to his condition, the school was beyond generous enough to supply him with Wolfsbane Potions on the condition that he helped procure the ingredients and assist in making the potion, which would lead to his passion for potion making.

Kieran graduated near the top of his class, much to the surprise of those around him, but instead of pride the young man felt dread. Because while the livelihood of werewolves had improved considerably since Kingsley Shacklebolt had overturned much of the anti-werewolf legislation that had plagued his kind, Wolfsbane Potions were still largely unavailable due to its expensive ingredients and complicated formula. So for a recent graduate in a world that was still wary of werewolves, his prospects were still a long ways away from being bright and full of hope.

But then, not even a month after his graduation, an owl came for him from the Occult Regulation Office. Kieran did not even have to look over the letter twice before he knew what he sent his reply, accepting the position. Since joining ORO, the young mage has made it his mission to study werewolves and the Wolfsbane Potion, in a bid to either find a way to make the potion more available to his kind or to devise a cure entirely, with his work as a Regulator granting him access to both a means to acquire ingredients and to continue to learn about both.

Notes:

• Claimed color is Slate Gray
• Due to his unfortunate tendency to test his own potions, Kieran’s sense of taste has become rather… Odd. For your own sake, don’t ever leave him in charge of cooking for others
• An observant eye will notice a scar on his right shoulder that looks like a ring of teeth marks, a permanent reminder of his status as a werewolf
• His Patronous takes on the form of a wolf (it has been theorized that this is the case for most werewolves due to the significance the animal represents for them)
• His Bogart manifests as his dead friend Connor, bloodied and dying, asking him why he ran that night

@Sarcelle Renard

Accepted!

Edenridge (Slice of Life with a Twist - Always Accepting)

@BrutalBx Hi, I'm still around! Been having a shit week and non-stop tests till next Monday. Apologies on the lack of activity on my part! Still completely interested and havery an idea on my next post (Lanie sticking to her husband like glue amd some insight about her issues with Kaitlin lol).

@Dirty Pretty Lies

Glad to hear it!