frapet

Star Wars: Empire of Glass

Hi there,

I'd love to join, great fan of the system. Still got a spot?

Welch (underworld debt collectors)

Team A: Levi

With Virgo’s announcement Levi tilted his head back to ponder what he was saying, looking at the others one by one as the Demon disappeared. His pondering was disrupted due to a sniffing noise that followed a brush against his leg.

“Well Hello there”

Levi’s hand moved in to pet the beast, before he took an actual look, but he thought the better of it when he saw the demonic creature.

“oh yes hello indeed, Good boy?”

Levi posed it more as a question rather than a statement, but it got drowned out somewhat by a statement coming from the strange butterfly-like creature. Butterflies were usually beautiful but magnifying them always diminished that somewhat. How fitting he was concerned with ‘Class’. On his question whether these disappearances were normal Levi shrugged.

“There’s a first time for everything right? As to follow up on the ‘heavenly Hosts’ request;

I’m Levi, Levi Hawford, I believe they refer to my function in the team as fixer.”
He let out a crooked smile that accentuated the scar on his face.

“Happy to meet you all in this spectacular locale. It already seems like a jolly gathering don’t you think?”

Welch (underworld debt collectors)

Sprawled on the floor of the cellar was a large pentacle drawn in red candle-wax. On every corner there was iconography of some kind, ranging from animal skulls to raven feathers. Standing on the end of one point of the pentacle was Levi Hawthorne, muttering incantations while his sacrifice was making ready. Getting to hell wasn’t really a problem after all of Levi’s deeds in life Heaven would never except him. Getting back in one piece was more problematic and therefore he needed an open portal. The ritual had been performed by Levi so many times now that he didn’t need his full attention for the incantations and so his mind wandered.

Were these incantations really necessary? And if not, what parts where? The sacrifice most certainly was ri-

Was the sacrifice humming? She was just around the corner, a beautiful maiden of only 21 summers old. A waste really, but she had entered the bond willingly. As far as these sort of things go willingly at least. She turned the corner in a robe, elegant and bare-foot. Levi kept muttering the incantations but gave her a smile and gestured her towards the centre of the pentacle. Her timing was perfect for he was almost done with the incantation she was humming along with. Speaking the last words he gestured her to turn around and lose the robe, which she did unquestioningly with pupils wide from the concoction of drugs he had given her.
It was almost too easy Levi found, as he flicked his wrist to summon the stiletto hidden in his sleeve to his hand. A swift step and drawing movement at her throat send blood flying on the floor.

“Sorry child. If it only could’ve been another way.”

Levi said, as he quickly retreated, avoiding the blood deftly. With a flourish he took off the ceremonial robes (he didn’t know why he had bothered) and used them to wipe the blood of the blade. Simultaneously he walked towards the wall to pick up a briefcase he had left there. When he turned back again his sacrifice’s’ body was suspended in mid-air, the blood pooled in the pentacle; held there by the elevation of the wax lines, was glowing now as a soul purposed for heaven was forcibly taken to hell.

“Off to work we are then.”

Without hesitation Levi stepped into the pentacle. The blood that had filled it up was almost black in the light of the cellar and his feet never touched it, for Levi fell right through what now seemed to be a hole in the ground.
Levi landed on the doorstep of the Halls of Virgo. He was getting better at this stuff, but the joy of that was drowned out by his strong dislike of the place. As a magician he liked a bit of misguidance on stage, but this was behind the curtains, unnecessarily complicating matters. He had an appointment to make however and so he purposefully set about the maze.
As Levi set foot in the middle room he looked around to see most already assembled.
Goddamn, late…

Nevertheless he continued his way to present himself to Virgo, giving a curt bow before saying:

“Master Virgo, A pleasure. I am Levi Hawthorne, loyal servant. My sincerest apologies for the tardiness, the intrinsic problem with meeting in a maze I’m afraid.”

An apologetic smile perked on his ugly face as he retreated to blend in with the others.

Welch (underworld debt collectors)

Levi Hawford

Name: Levi Hawford

Appearance

Class: Fixer

Powers:

Deceit: Can appear in human form and because his employment predates his death Levi is not actually a full demon. Because of this it is hard for Angelic forces to spot him as a collector.

Trickery: Sleight of hand and adept in conjuring several items (he fancies himself an illusionist in another life).

Illusion: a knack for ‘disappearing’ if you would call it that.

Yet another loan: Levi is in the possession of an ornate, double barrel .41 Derringer that fires demonic rounds rather than actual ones.


Weakness:
With Levi not being a full demon he has less powers than most others in his profession. He is less potent in combat of any kind, already taking the Fixer part of that into account. His contempt for religious organizations gets in the way of his farce every now and then.

Backstory:

Levi, before his employment with the Devil, was born as a child of a traveling gypsy circus. After years spend on the road, helping build up the circus, tending to animals, occasional theft, pickpocketing and other related jobs Levy turned out to be a rather deftly inclined young man. He started learning from the circus’s magician, illusionist and occultist.
What started as a show of dark arts became more and more into the séances and the science of the occult. Under the name Silas Umbra he knew great heights and lows in success. His shows drawing many curious souls to behold his tricks, but also scared away due to the rituals and iconography involved. His popularity waned as his practices became more and more macabre eventually drawing the ire of certain religious groups. This resulted in the burning of a theatre and the maiming of Levy. It was the darkest moment of his career, but what came after was a lot darker…

Where Levi’s previous explorations of the occult where careful scientific prodding, now he pursued actual results. This is when Levi made his own deal with a demon that resulted in a rather spectacular streak as an illusionist and a life of wealth, fame and debauchery. As a part of his debt Levi’s own fixer required a multiple of foul deeds to be done in which Levi went above and beyond the requirements. Levi knew there was an eternity of hell in store for him and because of that he viewed the entire process as a job interview. A mindset that eventually payed off due to the employment as a Fixer, a job that by now Levi has been doing for over 70 years...

Welch (underworld debt collectors)

Lets see if this is something :p

Levi Hawford

Name: Levi Hawford

Appearance

Class: Fixer

Powers:

Deceit: Can appear in human form and because his employment predates his death Levi is not actually a full demon. Because of this it is hard for Angelic forces to spot him as a collector.

Trickery: Sleight of hand and adept in conjuring several items (he fancies himself an illusionist in another life).

Illusion: a knack for ‘disappearing’ if you would call it that.

Yet another loan: Levi is in the possession of an ornate, double barrel .41 Derringer that fires demonic rounds rather than actual ones.

Weakness:
With Levi not being a full demon he has less powers than most others in his profession. He is less potent in combat of any kind, already taking the Fixer part of that into account. His contempt for religious organizations gets in the way of his farce every now and then.

Backstory:

Levi, before his employment with the Devil, was born as a child of a traveling gypsy circus. After years spend on the road, helping build up the circus, tending to animals, occasional theft, pickpocketing and other related jobs Levy turned out to be a rather deftly inclined young man. He started learning from the circus’s magician, illusionist and occultist.
What started as a show of dark arts became more and more into the séances and the science of the occult. Under the name Silas Umbra he knew great heights and lows in success. His shows drawing many curious souls to behold his tricks, but also scared away due to the rituals and iconography involved. His popularity waned as his practices became more and more macabre eventually drawing the ire of certain religious groups. This resulted in the burning of a theatre and the maiming of Levy. It was the darkest moment of his career, but what came after was a lot darker…

Where Levi’s previous explorations of the occult where careful scientific prodding, now he pursued actual results. This is when Levi made his own deal with a demon that resulted in a rather spectacular streak as an illusionist and a life of wealth, fame and debauchery. As a part of his debt Levi’s own fixer required a multiple of foul deeds to be done in which Levi went above and beyond the requirements. Levi knew there was an eternity of hell in store for him and because of that he viewed the entire process as a job interview. A mindset that eventually payed off due to the employment as a Fixer, a job that by now Levi has been doing for over 70 years...

Welch (underworld debt collectors)

@frapet I imagine this around the rise of the mob era, but the Twists history is very different from our worlds. With the close connection it has to the etherial it has a sort of super powered feel to it. Imagine if hitler had access to unholy powers, imagine if George Washington had used divine powers in his conquest for seperation. Everything is darker, but also more advanced as magical and demonic powers fill in the holes that technology hasn't.

@Rebirth

Cool, so with that you mean a prohibition era mobsters aka 1920's? that would be so cool xD.

Can Demons appear in the guise of humans?

Welch (underworld debt collectors)

Jolly it's up. Before making my character I'd like to have even more detail on the setting: 20th century still has a variety of feels to it; it can for instance be a story that picks up during WW1 where mechanization and so on is something very much in progress and we still get a more 'steampunky'vibe. It could be the roaring 20's where we move more towards a Lovecraftian or even bootleg feel. WW2 has a distinctly different feel then again as there is the struggle of alternatives to democracy that the devils can play around in. Or the Cold War, which would pull the whole setting more towards a spy-theme, maybe more occult experimentation between the factions. Hell we could even go into a depiction of Wall Street devils :p

Welch (underworld debt collectors)

Im actually interested as well. Probably going for Fixer, what kind of age and setting are you thinking about?

A Game of Chairs

Sorry about the absence, I couldnt find any time to check up on the roleplay and I am out of touch with it atm (no time either) sorry to lead anything on and feel free to take the idea and make it into something!

The Guttersnipes of Lydin

Very much interested in this, cool setting, I'd play a boy from a merchant family, probably picked on by the others for being from a richer background before ending up under the madame's care. His upbringing giving him a small leg up on calculus and stuff like that. Standard parents died in a fire thing I think. About the Faunus, what are these, what do they look like etc?

Side note good job on handling @Instigator he lives up to his name ^^. same for instagator to thoroughly checking the parameters of a RP before joining.