Expendable

DeadLiNe

@ChronicFor your approval

Molly Keaton

Name: Molly Keaton

Age: 17

Occupation: Apprentice Mechanic / Otto's Garage

Appearance:

Molly

This woman makes you think of a busy bee. She has beady blue eyes. Her fine, wavy, red hair is worn in a style that reminds you of a river. She has a lithe, wiry build. Her skin is pale. She has a small mouth.

She wears a green and yellow raglan top, acid-wash jeans, tube socks, a pair of steel toe chukka boots, and a leather jacket. She keeps brass knuckles in her jacket pocket.

Biography: Mother left when she was young, and she and her father moved to the city. Wasn't much interested in playing with dolls or dresses - mostly because it embarrassed her father. Molly would help her father in the garage repairing the car, or playing baseball.

Thanks to such shows and movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Project U.F.O., and In Search of with Leonard Nimoy, she's got an interest in aliens, Big Foot and the Loch Ness monster - not that she's actually seen any of that.

She met Otto, a German mechanic with his own shop, and impressed with her skills, he offered her a job as assistant mechanic and lent her the use of the shop for her own project - building her own motorcycle rebuilt mostly from parts she got from the scrap yard.

Personality: A tomboy, she loves to play sports but not afraid to punch someone's lights out if they get grabby. Doesn't mind a bit of grease, but keeps herself clean and organized.

DeadLiNe

<Snipped quote by Chronic>

Can my character be a vampire?

@Shin Ghost Note

My character was a feral child, not a werewolf. And she's lucky the farmers that found her in the chicken coup didn't sell her to some circus sideshow first. Chronic says your character must be human, not a supernatural. Mine was not, but I'm sure someone's whispering she is, and is likely the first suspect in an animal attack.

Assuming she's still rejected, I'll hit the character tables and come up with another one.

DeadLiNe

With that background, I'd thought there would be many possible plots.

DeadLiNe

@Expendable I shoulda put you can’t be a supernatural character since this is about an human group of friends. Sorry for you makin that character for nothing

@Chronic

Sorry to hear that. However, Narcisa is about as supernatural as Mogli from the Jungle Book - she's a human who was raised by animals, a feral child, not a werewolf. She doesn't transform, she can't talk to animals but she does have an impressive growl and howl. Narcisa is just a girl with a strange past that makes others whisper behind her back and pull cruel tricks.

The museum might have an exhibit on feral children, which might explain why Tara was offered the job as a deputy director.

DeadLiNe

Narcisa Cosmescu

Name: Narcisa Cosmescu (a.k.a. The Romanian UFO Wolf Girl)

Age: 17

Occupation: Gift shop clerk at the local museum

Appearance: This young woman puts you in mind of a hungry wolf. She has large green eyes that are like two chunks of jade. Her silky, wavy, medium-length hair is the color of black coffee, and worn with a pony tail with a neon-green scrunchy. She is tall and has an amazonian build. Her skin is pale, she doesn't wear a lot of makeup. She has long-fingered hands. Wears jeans, a white web belt, a black fanny pack, red high tops, various t-shirts, a denim jacket studded with various cloisonne pins and buttons, and a red ballcap.

Biography: After failing to escape from Romania with her husband Vladimir and daughter Tara, Dr. Viviana Comescu was imprisoned. She was already starting to show, giving birth in her cell one frosty January morning. Narcisa was barely able to walk when a guard sold her to some peasants for a sack of potatoes.

Having no car, the peasants hiked until twilight, then set up camp in a grove of trees near the road. Romanian Militia found the ravaged camp just before noon the following day, no survivors. They reported as a wolf attack, with the baby taken back to their den to feed the cubs. Years later, Narcisa was captured by farmers in a chicken coup and she made the papers as the Romanian Wolf Girl. Because of her birthmark and footprints taken by the prison, she was identified as Narcisa. Her father and sister turned to the US State Department and a few months later, she was flown to America.

Tara was already in college, studying archeology.

She had a difficult time adjusting to school, her wolf instincts causing more than a few incidents, but Narcisa eventually settled in.

After her father died in a car accident, Narcisa moved in with Tara. One of her new classmates, Sara, invited her to her church, which Tara encouraged. However, after eight weeks, she got thrown out for lapping water out of the baptismal font "like an animal" and biting the hand of the pastor so hard it drew blood.

The year of her fifteenth birthday was the strangest year for her.

One spring night, Narcisa vanished, only to be later found unconscious in the woods by a search party, covered in a pile of leaves. She woke up during her examination at the hospital, claiming she saw some bright lights in the woods and went to check it out, only to see some strange creature scuttling about before everything went dark.

Her doctor pointed to an abrasion on her forehead and suggested she ran into a branch in the dark and knocked herself out, and had a weird dream. For weeks, she'd be approached by UFO nuts wanting to know about her "abduction".

It was after that she started to have the dreams. A woman calling herself Daniela would appear and teach her some weird martial art, how to throw a knife, pick a lock, speak this strange language her friends was sure she made up, and even how to fly a plane. It seemed so real to her, but her sister just looked at her oddly and told her she was eating too much junk food before bed and watching too many weird movies from Blockbuster.

And suddenly in typing class she could do 70 words a minute without errors. The computer lab was after her to do the typing on the punch card machine for their mainframe.

Tara also experienced a little weirdness during a summer dig in Wales, where this strange cult began calling her the "chosen one" that would lead them to glory. She just tried to ignore them and got out of the country as soon as possible. On her return, she dumped Tod Billings, claiming he wasn't himself anymore, then got hired over him to be the new assistant director for the museum.

Tara then used her new position to get Narcisa hired to work in the museum gift shop.

For whatever reason, her notoriety got her accepted to a lot of obscure back rooms, museum labs, and even behind the stage at events. Sure, some of them just wanted to meet the Romanian UFO Wolf Girl and listen to her howl, but others seem interested in her for reasons she couldn't grasp.

Personality: She seems very grim, her smile as rare and as brief as snow in July, but she's punctual and likes to help when she can. Narcisa is also a voracious reader, reading a lot of technical books and manuals. Currently she's learning how to bypass alarm systems and hotwire cars.

Magic in the Park - Modern Fantasy/Hidden World Anime

Are the players human, supernatural, a bit of both...? I've got a half-demon who might be interested. (don't ask what the other half is.)

|thriller|horror| comedy|?

Sounds quirky. Sure, could be a lot of fun.

Dark Space - A Mecha-Focused Space Opera RP (RP Suspended)

Blackjack (Ziggy)

"Never set the cat on fire," John Tyrell sang softly, eyeing the Spirit of Adventure as he awaited his turn, "You only will annoy it. The heat will make the beast perspire, she surely won't enjoy it."

There were transforming mecha out there, which made him heave a sigh. Elegant machines, to say the least, but many were shop-hogs, requiring difficult repairs. His Zacarias-Geiger unit, however, was just tailored made for the army. The idea was simple to grasp - a basic humanoid-shaped unit, on which you could then install modules to enhance the unit, allowing you to adjust it for various missions as well as quickly replacing damaged ones. But in practice, the machines became a hodgepodge of different modules - and Zacarias-Geigers' certainly were not elegant, even if it looked like they were wearing bits of armor.

After the last scratch up, the only headpiece they could find for his unit was a prototype. Barely field tested, prototypes tended to flake out at the worse possible times. Or was this an Army cost-saving thing? Keep the better modules for the units in the field and give the prototypes to the detached duty units?

"Well, at least they managed to get it all painted up for me," he muttered, then continued singing softly. "Likewise do not ignite the dog, the snake, the gerbil, or the frog. No, never set the cat on fire. And mind your manners..."

"Ziggy, this is Spirit of Adventure, over," sputtered in his headphones above the chatter. "Ziggy, please respond. Over."
"Spirit of Adventure, this is Ziggy. Over," John grinned, keying on the mic.
"Ziggy, you are cleared to land on deck. After landing, follow the deck marshal for your bay assignment. Over."
"Spirit of Adventure, I received cleared to land on deck and to follow the deck marshal for my bay assignment, confirm. Over."
"Ziggy, confirmed, Over."
"Spirit of Adventure, roger wilco. Making my descent. Over.

The transatmospheric turbine built into his flight unit made a whine he could hear in the cockpit as he jetted over to the deck, flipping at the midway mark so he could slow the unit down to hover above the deck, then used his maneuvering thrusters to lower his mecha to the deck, feeling that moment the ship's gravity kicked in. He flipped the landing switches, hearing the clunk as the locks disengaged and the motors started rotating this wings overhead, making it look something like a peacock's tail towering over Ziggy's headpiece as they locked in place in this new position. Definitely not elegant.

"Spirit of Adventure, I have touched down. Turning myself over to the deck marshal, over."
"Ziggy, touchdown confirmed, over."
"Spirit of Adventure," John called out. "Do you know if my luggage has arrived? Over?"
"Blackjack, do I look like a gigin' bellhop to you?" the controller complained, clearly annoyed. "Get that piece of umbela off my deck so the next mecha can land. Over."
"Spirit of Adventure, roger wilco." John grinned, "Over."

Giving a hand salute to the deck marshall-bot, John followed it towards the hanger and atmosphere. He hated the thought his gear might not have made it. Last time someone pulled a prank on him and swapped out his spare uniforms for a damned tuxedo, command definitely didn't approve. With this ship mostly alien, this meant B ration packs, probably TravelRation, so he'd arranged for a care package to be delivered to the ship - two pallet loads of coffee and peanut butter, and a coffee maker for his berthing compartment - wherever that was. At least he had his thermos.

"And mind your manners, as circumstances may require, and never set the cat on fire."

a Tale of High Adventure!

What's the penalty for pick-pocketing and theft in the Vale? Would we have heard about this penalty?

Dark Space - A Mecha-Focused Space Opera RP (RP Suspended)

@Rhona W - Okay, I think I have my mecha spec'd out.

Ziggy

Mecha Name: Ziggy
Type: Light Scout Modular Mecha
Crew: Single pilot
Appearance:

Ziggy

Stats:
Height: Ulster 12m/ wings folded 15m
DeathAngel wingspan: 9.2m
Mass: Ulster 5.9 tons/ operational load: 10.2 tons
Performance:
Flight: Mach 2.23 at 11,000m
Running: 90kph

Weapons:
IXIS A19 Prototype Sonic Blast (Headgear)
Orion Arms 11-Aught T-2 Laser (handheld, thigh maglock)
IXIS PVP Combat Claw (right arm mount)
Orion Arms Plasma Cannon (left arm mount)

Equipment:
Radar (Ulster)
LiDAR (Headgear)
IR Tracking System (Headgear)
Eagle Eye LR camera (headgear)
Flight camera (headgear)
HUD Targeting (pilot helmet)
Chaff/flares (Deathangel backgear)
Sandcasters/Smoke (Frontgear)
Floodlight (center of chest frontgear)
Radar/Laser passive warning system
Passive Stealth, outfitted with deployable radar reflector panels.
DeathAngel variable wing backgear with canard rear wing - removable.
Leg thrusters for VTOL
Cockpit Bullpup gun mount, two magazine pouches w/belt
Cockpit storage bins for personal gear
Inflatable one-person life raft with survival kit

Other info:
Vantablack with dark olive drab highlights
Reflect underlayer for laser protection