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@Rekaigan@Dealdric@GrizzTheMauler

Once she was certain that most of the bar had gotten involved in the brawl Aedre made her way to the door, carefully avoiding anyone who looked likely to throw a punch her way. She looked back briefly before she stepped outside to see what was going on with the pirates and her eyes widened slightly as she found that they were heading in the same direction.

Aedre stepped into the shadows of the buildings as soon as she’d gotten outside and kept an eye out for the woman who’d stolen the shard and the man she’d left the bar with even as she made her way down the road away from the bar. Aware of how close behind her the pirates were, she kept her staff in hand as she moved, and it didn’t take long before she encountered the thief facing off with the man in the deep sea suit. That was a surprise, but not as much of one once she heard what he had to say.

“He’s a guardian, most of their purpose in life is to protect and help whoever they find worthy of it,” she stated as she approached the trio. “The pirates aren’t going to be stuck inside much longer, and you’re not all that hard to find at the moment,” Aedre said with a slight smile as she turned to Yeva and Hayden, looking them over and quietly taking note of their weapons.

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@Dealdric Was the city Enigma protected under the water like in bioshock? If it was Aedre is fairly likely to have heard about it and could vouch for him/confirm his priorities to Yeva.

I should be able to post sometime later today.

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Answering the bartenders comment with a smile, Aedre watched with interest as he prepared her drink with a proficiency that she’d never even imagined seeing. She was so entranced by the show that the freezing breeze over her cheek came as a shock, and she tried to mask her slight jump by shifting slightly backwards. Her amused smile was quite a bit wider when he placed the glass before her and she thanked him for the drink.

She raised the glass to her lips for a drink and didn’t notice how the doberman stilled until she lowered the glass again. Then she turned slightly from the bar to watch the entrance as a World Military squad marched in. She watched them carefully as she nursed her drink and leaned back on the bar, then stiffened when every bullet they fired was stopped in the air. What followed was a slaughter, and Aedre placed her glass back on the counter before reaching onto her back to release her staff and hold it. She didn’t recognise the Red Fang pirates, but with the bounty on their heads and the large gem their leader carried Aedre figured other people were likely to attack them at any moment.

As another person stepped through the entrance Aedre stayed carefully reclined at the bar, and the sight of the hulking man in the deep sea suit surprised her far more than the military. As he drank his beer and then attacked the pirates she could only shake her head in disbelief and stayed seated even as the pirates went on the offensive. Talk of a secret exit attracted her attention to some other people at the bar in time to see a young brunette lean forward when the pirate captain walked past. As well as the gem was on display it wasn’t hard to guess what she was going for.

When one of the men suddenly transformed into a lion and the woman who’d grabbed the gem started to make her way out of there, Aedre used the commotion the pirates and the werelion both contributed to and stepped away from the bar, in amongst some of the tables where people were only getting more and more agitated. She used the noise of the tables being thrown to knock over a couple of chairs with her staff and making their occupants come up swinging for a culprit. She kept out of their sight lines just enough that they didn’t notice her and instead went after the patrons closest to them.

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@Thread Generator SIN Quite a lot happened here while I was sleeping X)

I'll have my next post up in a couple of hours, I figure Aedre will help stir up the bar a bit and then slip out the door after the others.

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AEDRE STARLING

The sounds of the port were significantly more muted underwater, though they carried further, and Starling was still far enough out to sea when she peeked up from the waves that no one without significantly better-than-average sight would be likely to see her from shore. She made no effort to lift more than her head into the air, keeping both weapon and fins underwater as she scouted for a good spot to emerge unseen onto land. Given that her natural eyes were far better at judging depth and seeing things over a larger distance than seeing shades of color, that wasn't much of a challenge for her even so far out.

Once she'd found a good place Starling allowed the currents to pull her back underwater, and then started swimming in the direction of the shore. She quickly gained speed, and soon she was near enough to shore that she had to slow down. She'd picked out a small inlet that ran in underneath the docks and shouldn't be visible from above, and she made sure to keep herself completely under water until she'd swam far enough in that she could pull the majority of her body up onto dry land. From there she could see no one else and could only hear the general hubbub of a busy city, so she placed her pack and staff down where they wouldn't get in the way and then focused on making her body change.

She closed her eyes to better adapt to the changed sight even as her tail became legs and her scales turned to skin, as claws became smaller and gave way to human fingers and nails. Since her scales did not absorb water the same way skin did, she wound up significantly less damp than she'd have been had she made the change in water, and she only wrung her hair out before getting her clothes out of her bag and dressing. They wound up slightly damp, but not unbearably so, and she made sure the change hadn't overlooked anything important before making her way up onto the docks, bag and staff both carried on her back. A few people cast looks her way, but Starlings' clothing was nondescript enough that few of them looked twice, and only her staff drew eyes as she made her way further into town.

Lacking any significant plans, she kept her eyes out for a tavern or something of the like to rest her feet for a while and listen for any local news. As she walked she kept pulling her hands through her hair in an effort to make it dry faster in the sun, and so it was not quite evident that she'd just came out of the water when she finally laid eyes on the Leaky Grove Tavern. To make it even less obvious she pulled her hood up and made sure her hair was sufficiently hidden before ducking inside. The interior was dimly lit, and though the music sounded pleasant she scrunched her nose up slightly at all the strange smells. The place was fairly crowded, the bar no less so, but there were still a number of seats free and she wound up sitting next to a young human man who looked like he'd taken a swim through the harbor with clothes and all.

"A sea breeze, thank you." Starling spoke up as soon as the bartender looked in her direction and placed a couple of coins down on the counter before her to pay for the drink.

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Name: Aedre Starling

Age: 41, appears 25 as a human (average lifespan is 300 years, but they can live longer)

Species: Mermaid

Gender: Female

Appearance:

Human form: Fairly athletic body of average human height with light skin. Brown hair that reaches just past her shoulders and green eyes. She wears thin brown trousers, wraps her chest and wears a dark grey hooded jacket over it. Brown boots, and a belt around her waist that carries a couple of daggers. All clothing that she can take off and put on fairly quickly.

Natural (mermaid) form: Aedre is slim with a wiry strength and a softly rounded face. Her whole tail is roughly 2,5 times the length of her legs in her human form, sea-green and mud-brown scales cover her whole body, and brown hair only reaches just past her shoulders. The tail ends in a single fin that flares out and then narrows, and long side-fins trail down from just above her waist down roughly half a metre. Her narrow eyes are a sea-green colour and her thin lips hide sharp teeth that have no problems cutting through fish-scales. There are claws on her fingers and webbing between them. Varying sizes of brown webbing-like membrane follow the line of her body, and there are long gills on each side of her neck.

Personality:
She cares far more for travelling and learning new things than money, and has a fairly aggressive fightingstyle though it takes a lot to make her angry. There are few things she won't do for her friends when they earn her loyalty. As a mermaid she has no actual need for clothes in her natural form and doesn’t understand some species fixation with clothes and going without them.

History:
Her parents were nomadic hunters and raised her to be the same. She’s always enjoyed travelling and discovering new places, and so when she discovered she had embodiment it was a natural first step to train it well enough that she could turn human and fit in on land. She left her family as soon as she was old enough to do so, though it took some time after that before she was good enough at embodiment to be able to fit in amongst humans.

Equipment:
Battlestaff (metal bo staff with a barbed spear head enchanted not to collect rust or otherwise degrade), water-proof bag, 2 daggers for when she doesn't have claws and/or loses her staff.

Powers:
Embodiment, but so far is only able to use it to change between mermaid and human form. They’re specific forms and she can’t yet change partially.

Telekinesis, which she mainly uses to lift small objects and get her staff back if she's disarmed. It generally takes a lot of concentration, and she's less adept at using telekinesis on land.

Activity: Currently I don’t have a fixed schedule and so could post at any time during the day. When I get a regular job I’m more likely to post at some point between 18 and 24 in the evening. My timezone is UTC +1.

Extras:
- She finds it difficult to read human bodylanguage since the mermaids she's familiar with look so little like humans.

- Because mermaids live such long lives they don't have the same view of time as most species do. Aedre hasn't seen her parents in over ten years, since she was old enough to set out on her own, and she still hasn't started missing them.

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@Thread Generator SIN Took longer than I intended, but I've finished my cs now.

Aedre Starling

Name: Aedre Starling

Age: 41, appears 25 as a human (average lifespan is 300 years, but they can live longer)

Species: Mermaid

Gender: Female

Appearance:

Human form: Fairly athletic body of average human height with light skin. Brown hair that reaches just past her shoulders and green eyes. She wears thin brown trousers, wraps her chest and wears a dark grey hooded jacket over it. Brown boots, and a belt around her waist that carries a couple of daggers. All clothing that she can take off and put on fairly quickly.

Natural (mermaid) form: Aedre is slim with a wiry strength and a softly rounded face. Her whole tail is roughly 2,5 times the length of her legs in her human form, sea-green and mud-brown scales cover her whole body, and brown hair only reaches just past her shoulders. The tail ends in a single fin that flares out and then narrows, and long side-fins trail down from just above her waist down roughly half a metre. Her narrow eyes are a sea-green colour and her thin lips hide sharp teeth that have no problems cutting through fish-scales. There are claws on her fingers and webbing between them. Varying sizes of brown webbing-like membrane follow the line of her body, and there are long gills on each side of her neck.

Personality:
She cares far more for travelling and learning new things than money, and has a fairly aggressive fightingstyle though it takes a lot to make her angry. There are few things she won't do for her friends when they earn her loyalty. As a mermaid she has no actual need for clothes in her natural form and doesn’t understand some species fixation with clothes and going without them.

History:
Her parents were nomadic hunters and raised her to be the same. She’s always enjoyed travelling and discovering new places, and so when she discovered she had embodiment it was a natural first step to train it well enough that she could turn human and fit in on land. She left her family as soon as she was old enough to do so, though it took some time after that before she was good enough at embodiment to be able to fit in amongst humans.

Equipment:
Battlestaff (metal bo staff with a barbed spear head enchanted not to collect rust or otherwise degrade), water-proof bag, 2 daggers for when she doesn't have claws and/or loses her staff.

Powers:
Embodiment, but so far is only able to use it to change between mermaid and human form. They’re specific forms and she can’t yet change partially.

Telekinesis, which she mainly uses to lift small objects and get her staff back if she's disarmed. It generally takes a lot of concentration, and she's less adept at using telekinesis on land.

Activity: Currently I don’t have a fixed schedule and so could post at any time during the day. When I get a regular job I’m more likely to post at some point between 18 and 24 in the evening. My timezone is UTC +1.

Extras:
- She finds it difficult to read human bodylanguage since the mermaids she's familiar with look so little like humans.

- Because mermaids live such long lives they don't have the same view of time as most species do. Aedre hasn't seen her parents in over ten years, since she was old enough to set out on her own, and she still hasn't started missing them.

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@Thread Generator SIN I'm thinking that my character will be significantly more fish than human. She'll have scales covering her entire body, sharp teeth, eyes that work differently, numerous fins/finlike protrusions(something that's roughly the same colour as her scales but can be mistaken for seaweed), webbing between her fingers and claws. I only just thought of the eyes, but the rest I have a fairly good picture of in my mind. So if she only got legs she'd still appear significantly beastlike and I want her to be able to fit in better on land (I really like it when mermaids actually look like they've adapted to live in water). Also, I'm thinking she'll eventually learn to use embodiment to only change part of the way, like being able to turn her skin into scales in human form as I imagine her scales to be more difficult for weapons to penetrate.

It's good that you're leaving everything so open. I'm currently working on the cs, but is it okay if I only provide a written description of her beastform first? I haven't found anything that remotely fits my idea yet so I'll probably draw it myself but that might take some time. I'm guessing it might also take some time before she has reason to use her original form in front of the other characters.

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Hi, I'm interested in joining in if you're taking more people.

I have some ideas for a mermaid with embodiment, if that gift could be used to turn a mermaids appearance into mostly-human or mostly-elf. And considering that chi and telekinesis are traits everyone has the potential to use, I'd like to start her out with both embodiment and telekinesis, though both would be rather limited and her skill with telekinesis would be considerably lesser on land than in water. I also imagine mermaids/merfolk to be considerably more beastly than they're generally depicted.

Introducing me

@Lurking Krog Thank you. Yeah, I looked a bit at the interest checks and that was one of the deciding reasons for signing up.

@Hank Thank you. Haha, yes. She's been around since Oblivion, though that particular picture is of her in Skyrim. Felisa Serhas or Fedura Hlaalu depending on when during her life one encounters her. She's mainly someone I write fanfiction about, but might occasionally turn up in an rp if it fits.