Framing A Moose

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@KatherinWinter
If the MiB created the BoSA as soon as they uncovered the supernatural world, then its not like they had a whole lot of candidates. I mean, you can't just walk into the corner store and by a medium for a buck ninety-nine. They probably saw her and decided that her skills were more valuable than her flaws were damaging. She may be a little unhinged, but she's a great detective who sees dead people. The BoSA aren't going to skip out on that. Besides, it's really more of a character thing. She's the type of girl who just doesn't give a shit, and I want to show that.

You're the GM. You control the world, you control the NPCs, and you make sure none of the characters go off the rail, but the players get to decide what they do with there characters. It's not going to hurt anyone, no one's going to be pissed, so I don't see the problem.

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@KatherinWinter
Your intro post said that they've been around for "a few years". I've always identified a few as being 3-5. In Alyssa's bio, I was going to have her have had an incident in middle school that attracted MiB's attention, so, keeping a file on her and her strange ability to stop what they assumed was an extraterrestrial force, they kept an eye on her. When they created BoSA, they extended a job offer to her, both for her abilities, and for her experience as a private investigator, which is what she did for a few years after she dropped out of high school.

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@KatherinWinter
Well, Detective Hobbs has been a Detective for the BoSA for four years, and has had experience dealing with the undead for her whole life. Not to mention that she'd probably be halfway in between drunk and hungover when she entered the office.

Also, is the picture I put in the CS working for you, because I can't see it on my computer.
@Silverstein
Hey, I was wondering if you'd be interested in Alyssa and Billy being ex-partners, since they'd both have been working in the Supernatural Haunts Department of the BoSA.

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Detective Alyssa Hobbs

Name:
Alyssa Hobbs

Aliases:
Detective, Detective Hobbs, Hobbs, the Great Bitch Detective (that last one tends to be said behind her back)

Age:
23

Species:
Human medium

Weapon:
Standard MIB Sidearm, specifically modified to shoot ectoplasmic rounds that stun spirits in addition to normal rounds.

Skills:
The Medium: Alyssa has the ability to see and commune with the dead. Unfortunately, this is not an ability she is able to turn off, which can make everyday life a little...strange, to say the least.
Pacify: Unlike other acting mediums in the BoSA, Alyssa does not have the ability to exorcise evil or wrathful spirits, not without prior preparation and magical rituals. However, she does have the unique ability to talk these spirits down. It works best if she has background information on who these spirits were in the land of the living, though it's not unusual for her to improvise. By empathizing with the spirit, Alyssa is able to purify it of the corruption that caused it to become so wicked in the first place.
Clever: It's often a safe bet to say that Alyssa is the cleverest person in the room. She may not be a super genius when it comes to computers, math, fighting, or science, but she has a way of looking at things that not many have. She's what one would call an "outside-the-box thinker", often able to figure out a way to turn the tables in her favor in the most unpredictable of ways.
The Detective: Alyssa is skilled in finding out things that she needs to know. Granted with the gift of exceptional observational skills, she's able to pick up even the most minor of details, which is an invaluable skill for a detective of the BoSA to have. She also has relatively excessive knowledge of the supernatural and occult.
Could Drink Y'all Under the Table: Due to her constant intake of harmful toxins, such as alcohol and nicotine, Alyssa is somewhat accustomed them. Not only does this help her if she ever makes a bet with an immortal vampire on who could drink more shots of vodka, but it also makes her less susceptible to certain poisons and gases.

Weaknesses:
Alcoholic: To say that Alyssa is a bit of a drinker would be a massive understatement. In reality, alcohol takes up a majority of Alyssa's food pyramid, which isn't a very good thing, especially not for a government operative. However, with the help of her girlfriend, Alyssa is able to keep her drinking relatively under control, never escalating her consumption of the substance, instead keeping it steady. Still, the effects of her alcoholism are present, from her near constant headaches, kept bearable by the equally constant popping of military grade pain killers. Even so, the headaches cause her mental barriers to be weaker than the average agent.

Withdrawal: Going hand in hand with her alcoholism, Alyssa also has withdrawals if she stops drinking for an extended period of time. When she's having these withdrawals, she's fairly limited, sometimes even useless. Her symptoms tend to be tremors, sweating, nausea, fatigue, and, in serious cases, hallucinations.

Human: Despite her abilities and skills, Alyssa is still only human. A well placed shot between the eyes, or a wrathful demon launching a fireball directly at her, will likely take her out.

Lily White: Alyssa may be difficult, but her heart is not made of ice. In fact, it pumps with a most passionate love, one that most never have the opportunity to feel: her love for Lily White, a blind young woman who has been her best friend since childhood, and girlfriend since high school. Alyssa has given herself fully to that girl, heart, soul, and mind. Unfortunately, putting a single person at the center of the universe leaves your universe less than stable. If Lily were to die, Alyssa would never be able to move on, her life either turning to shambles, or disappearing all together. Also, Lily isn't extraordinary in any way, other than being a brilliant pianist despite her lack of vision, so it wouldn't be all that difficult to use the girl as leverage against Alyssa.

Bio:

@KatherinWinter
Alright, here she is! Again, I'll get the Bio done when my first post is up. Would you mind if she bumped into the zombie on the way up to the meeting? She won't attack it or anything, just sort of sigh, go upstairs, and inform them of the predicament.

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@KatherinWinter
Hey, just a quick update, I'm currently on Detective Hobbs's weaknesses, and will be starting her Bio soon. If she gets there before the beginning of the activity, she has some ideas she'll want to spitball. If you'd like, I can wait to write her Bio until I have her beginning post out.

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@KatherinWinter
So does this have an actual zombie going around and turning actual workers at the Beurough into zombies, or is it, like, a simulation kind of thing? Also, I've got my character, Detective Alyssa Hobbs, in the works, but I doubt she'll be done by today.

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@KatherinWinter
Out of curiosity, what's Griffin's last name?

Also, for anyone who would like to help a sista out, I'm taking suggestions for my character. She's going to be a medium, but, as there are already quite a few mediums in the RP already, I need help on possible ways to make her stand out more, to make her different from the others. I was thinking of having her focus more on being a totally awesome detective, having her be really scrappy and clever, who also happens to be able to see and communicate with dead people. But I'd still like other suggestions.

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@KatherinWinter
Got it. So is it everyone's first day on the job, or is it just a new sort of team that's being put together. Like a squad. That's what they call them, right? Squads? Yeah, that sounds right.

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@KatherinWinter
Cool! What's happening IC so far, if you don't mind me asking?

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@KatherinWinter
Hey Kat! I saw this, and I was wondering if I could write up a psychic/medium special investigator! But I understand if you don't want me around. It seems that every one of your RPs that I touch dies. Just a curse, I guess.