LupusIntus

Beacon's Light: Rising - OOC (RWBY)

Good think KK's so short and can use one of these hulky gentlemen as a body shield!

Rites of Passage

Here's my character!

Dakin Windwalker

Name: Dakin Windwalker
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Class: Druid Apprentice

What you want to be when you grow up?: Dakin wants to be a wanderer, much like his mentor, and feels that the direction of his life will never really take shape until he's been out in the world and seen all the paths available. He would also like to become a fully recognized Druid.

Who is your mentor?: Dorn Windwalker - a beast of a man, both literally and figuratively. He is a werebear and a druid of no small skill or renown, well known for his hunting down of evil lycanthropes and protecting of isolated villages near the High Forest. He saved Dakin's life when his village was attacked and has since raised him as he would his own child, teaching him the ways of the forest and of the connection all living things have.

Brief Biography: Dakin was born in a small village on the souther border of the High Forest, his parents were well known inn keepers in the area. He was raised by them with love and affection until his sixth winter when disaster befell their community. A pack of particularly vicious lycanthropes had started terrorizing the area, slaughtering isolated families and attacking trade caravans with bloodthirsty ruthlessness. Though the village did what they could to petition guards and adventurers to help protect them, no help was forthcoming and so on one cold dark night the beasts came. They killed without remorse or mercy and Dakin would have died to their fangs had Dorn not come to his rescue. The Druid werebear had been stalking the evil pack for some time but had been unable to intervene or face them head on. He refused to sit by while they attacked the village, however, and was actually able to use his immense power to drive then all away and save a few innocents. Dakin's parents did not survive and Dorn pitied the child enough to adopt him and bring him far away from the ruins of his old home.

Having a few friends in Twiddledale, Dorn decided it would be a good place to raise the boy and train him as a protector of the wild. Dakin remembers little of that horrible night and can no longer see the faces of his parents, finding many memories oddly suppressed, though he has a large maw-shaped scar over his left shoulder. Over the past eight years he has trained under Dorn and an old hag, who is an old friend of his mentor.

What person(s) of interest do you know in the village? Who all do you have a relationship with?: Dorn Windwalker - local druid and protector.
The old hag - a strange, mysterious woman who has lived in the village as log as anyone can remember.

Equipment:
A well-carved oaken staff.
A holy symbol amulet of Selûne.
A travelers pack.

Class Skills:
Staff Fighting - Dorn has trained Dakin in combat with staves, both lethal and non-lethal, and the boy has quite a talent for it.
Orison 'Guidance' - Dakin can momentarily be guided by the natural life forces in his immediate presence.
Orison 'Know Direction' - Dakin can immediately discern North and his relative location compared to local forests and places of natural importance.
Nature Connection - Dakin has an immediate connection to the natural world: he can discern the most basic properties of unfamiliar plants and and can improve the attitudes of non-hostile animals. This also slightly improves his sense of smell, taste, and sight.

Villager Skills:
Mental Fortitude - For reasons Dakin does not yet understand, Dorn has taken extra special precautions in training his mind and conditioning his willpower. He has a number of exercises and tricks for controlling his emotions and thoughts, though he is still a child: prone to new/confusing experiences and mood swings. He is far more resistant to charm effects, psychic intrusion, and magical manipulation of his emotions than most people.

Fishing - Dorn is rather particular about what he eats but there is no doubting that he has a taste for river fish. Using fishing as a test of resourcefulness, dexterity, and most certainly patience, the old druid has spent many hours teaching Dakin how to make fishing-lines and hooks out of the simplest things, how to use those lines and hooks to catch something, and how to prepare that something into a tasty dinner.

Herbalism/Poultice Making - With his own druidic training it seemed only natural that Dakin would learn how to mix various herbs and poultices. He can make treatments for burns, small cuts and abrasions, and even one for fever and infection. However, there is a rather particular potion mixture that Dorn made sure the old hag woman taught the boy, one that involves several rare ingredients often difficult to find unless you really knew where to look. Dakin was instructed to take this mixture once a month, though his mentor would only say it was for a mysterious rash that would return just before he was to take his next dose.

Beacon's Light: Rising - OOC (RWBY)

The Irish Tree said
Well, I think I've just about caught up in the IC. Also...Lupus...Who da fuck talked shit about KK? She's made me smile, and that's fucking rare, so I gotta know who's legs I gotta break, and who's ribcage to shatter.

Some douchy kids. Was hoping they would show up later and be all like 'checkout the twerp from signal' and then I'd enjoy the trollololz while members of Beacon beat the snot out of them. Maybe in a cross-school tournament or competition...

FORESHADOWING!

Beacon's Light: Rising - OOC (RWBY)

Kalimay could see that her reaction annoyed Jacklyn just as it seemed to alarm those around her and her cheeks flared a bright pink at her sudden regression to the girl she had been only a few months before; the one she was desperately trying to forget. "I-I'm sorry!" She squeaked at her old classmate. "Y-y-It's not you! I just... remembered... something." Biting her lower lip, knowing it was a poor explanation, she offered a quick apologetic bow. "See you at the ceremony... Jacklyn." At this she fell back several strides and was immediately rejoined by Alistair and Sayuri; the former with a passive expression, asking how she was, and the later with a look of genuine concern. One hand rapidly waved them off while the other was occupied with spinning BRIK-Breaker in a faster, even tighter, circle. "I-It's nothing, thank you!" KK said with an apologetic smile. "Everything's fine! Wonderful! Peachy! I just didn't expect to see another classmate from Signal here... Though I guess that was silly of me..." At least not a classmate who would remember me...

They were fast approaching the entrance to the large auditorium and she pointed ahead to shift some attention away from her. "Let's get in there and find a seat!"

Rites of Passage Interest Check

@Ollumhammersong: I think your CS is excellent! Great addition to the party.

Rites of Passage Interest Check

@pyroman: Sounds great! Can't wait to see the CS.

@Azreal: Okay, Azreal, so we have a couple problems with your CS here. The first and foremost is the magic weapon you listed: we feel it is far too much for this RP and I don't think there's any way we could really allow it in the adventure. It's simply too powerful in all aspects and even 'toned down' I don't think we can accept it.
The mentor is great and the general backstory is sound but we would like to see things backed up a little bit and perhaps more focused on an ongoing training than on a 'he taught me things when I was six and then died'. It's also very unlikely that a six-year-old would have picked up so many advanced skills.
Might we suggest that Mr. Hobbs never died and has apprenticed you as an assassin, though perhaps you've only made your first kill recently (or are preparing too), and you two could be passing through the town, gathering information on a particular target in the area.

@Asuna: Space just opened up (gotta check on what roles are still open though)! GET ON IN HERE!

@Milkman: I think the CS looks really good! The only issue I can see is that you have a few too many villager skills listed (we'd like to see no more than 3). I think you could drop 'Attention to Detail' but that seems to be part of 'Photographic Memory', in my mind and maybe you could drop cooking? You could reasonably say she's just starting out learning how to cook, that she wants to learn how to cook, and hasn't quite developed the skill for it yet.

@Ollumhammersong: I'm omw out the door so I'll take a look at your CS in a bit!

Beacon's Light: Rising - OOC (RWBY)

I certainly don't mind. There are probably hundreds of schools in a city as big as Vale and it sounds like Signal is quite prestigious and private (being a school known for specifically training Hunters and Huntresses), which would likely mean its classes are rather small.

And I think 'Sanctum' is the other one you were thinking of, which I believe is outside of Vale...

Beacon's Light: Rising - OOC (RWBY)

For anyone who cares to know:
Kalimay, Tirren, Reya, Morella, Orion, Jacklyn, and Tarkus are all the characters who attended Signal Academy (according to their bios). They would likely be in the same graduating class (or close?), I'm guessing.

Beacon's Light: Rising - OOC (RWBY)

Nekomancer said
"Hello Tirren, Reya, Kalimay. I see you made it to Beacon too. Congratulations, I guess."

It took a moment for KK to spot the one who had spoken her name with such familiarity and when her large brown eyes fell on Jack it took her a longer moment to recognize her fellow classmate from Signal Academy. They had never spoken, at least not to an extent Kalimay could remember, but she was sure they had taken 'Weapon Crafting 101' together. Though Kalimay had been far more 'subdued' while attending Signal, or rather far more ostracized and forced perpetually to the lonely outskirts of school life, it wasn't all that amazing that Jack would know her name considering their small class sizes. The feeling of blissful hope did not last long, however, and her trail of thought suddenly brought forth a wave of memories of her time at that Academy: of the countless lunches spent eating alone, of the times when the more 'vocal' students managed to catch her in places where the teachers couldn't hear the things they'd say to her, and of the feeling of crushing emptiness that only seemed to fade while she practiced her weapon art in the school's training facility after hours.

The wide smile she'd been holding since boarding the Beacon airship broke and she withdrew into herself. Slipping the flail off her shoulder, her hand gripped the handle with slightly shaking fingers and started to spin it in a tight circle which she had no problem keeping away from the students crowded around her; it was a nervous habit she'd picked up since she'd managed to build the weapon. With her chin near her chest she glanced up to Jack with a small, polite smile. "Thanks... Congratulations to you too."

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Krayzikk said
Personally, I think it'd make more sense to group up some of the people who've interacted in-game thus far (Most of characters in the game have, at one point or another, gravitated towards a few others, and if one were to trace those social circles, one could probably put teams fairly well that way. I'd check on it myself, but it leaving for school in twenty minutes.), because some of the teams seem a bit random.

While I have no problem with the teams Nefarious suggested (I think everyone has a very interesting character so far), I do agree completely with Krayzikk that it seemed like teams were forming themselves quite well with plenty of spaces for the less social characters to be pulled into.

Not a huge deal either way, it'll just take a bit more self-introduction and a repeat of a lot of 'getting to know you' kinda interactions with the new team.