Stairdweller

Zombie/ Community Management RP

There's clearly already a lot of interest here,mbut I'm going to raise my hand too. (As there are usually some that drop out in the character forming stage.)

I'm going to br doing a geologist with a leather-working hobby. (He knows how to make shoes.)

Candlewick [CLOSED]

So... any thoughts on when we are going to start the IC thread?

ZONES: We Moved to the OOC, Greg (Sci-Fi, High-Casual, Development, Character-Driven)

Now the tagline is looking at me.

Candlewick [CLOSED]

I guess I'm going to be the only one without a character portrait then. Oh well. Power of Words!

Diving into The Abyss - A Shattered World

Name: Vossef ver Niklös - Sef for short
Age: 62 (Or equivalent middle age for a Fäldkrest)
Gender: Male
Role: Captain

Bio: Born in the Pikelands like most of his kind, Sef travelled to Teieya as a youth to find work. He joined the air navy and spent most of his adult life in the sky. The navy taught him to be a swordsman and marksman, and through years of effort he rose so far as to captain an airship, the Shearwater. When the Shearwater was decommissioned, he retired rather than take a new berth and instead turned to the Order, which gave him greater freedom to explore and promised more excitement than the Navy.

In his personal life, Sef married as a young ensign and has been happily albeit distantly married ever since. His wife, Klotilda, lives comfortably in a Teieyan township, and they have four grown children, and two grandchildren.

Personality: Sef was an excitable brawler in his youth, but age and experience have somewhat mellowed him. He's still incredibly determined, self confident and firm in his opinions, but he has learned to pick his battles. People generally see him as intense and intimidating. He's good with words, and enjoys telling the many exciting tales he has gathered through his life.

Equipment:

• Navy Cutlass with a 24" blade, basket hilt and dragon-head pommel; it was presented to him with his commission
• A pair of long-barrelled six-shooters, heavily engraved and marked with the insignia of the order, with jet inlaid grips. They commemorate his commission as captain of Tychon
• Navigation equipment including an octant, compass and astrolabe

Skills:

• Navigation: Sef was a navigator before he became a captain, so he is skilled at navigating with an octant and chart, or by the stars if need be.
• Swordsmanship: Sef's a skilled swordsman. He has maintained his physical condition despite his age, though he will be the first to acknowledge that his reflexes aren't what they used to be and it takes him much longer to recover from injury or strain than it once did.
• Marksmanship: He's a much better swordsman than armsman, but he's still a pretty good shot. He tends to rely more on melee combat and is conscious of conserving ammunition.
• Airship Knowledge: He's spent his entire adult life working on airships; he has a lot of knowledge and experience in how they work and related studies, like understanding meteorology.

Optional: I don't have anything else to add.

Appearance: Sef is tall and broad shouldered, and keeps himself in fighting fit. His scaling is primarily cobalt blue, with dark olive green highlights. He has a scaly fringe around his jawline, like a beard, and a row of very small white horns on his browline, much like human eyebrows. He also has a crest of long, flexible spines that protrude from his head and neck - most of the time they lie flat like hair, but they can lift like a cockatoo. Like all of his race, he has membranous wings, resembling a bat's. His right wing has a noticeable scar across the membrane between the second and third metacarpals (fingers) and the long bones are knobby where they have healed from a bad fracture. His age is visible in the grey-white patina over his scales, which is most obvious in his face and wings. The backs of his wings almost look dusty, and his "beard" and crest have entirely turned steel grey.

Cybrolix – Cybernetic Mystery Adventure (EnA)

Yay!

Candlewick [CLOSED]

Name: Zosime (pronounced Zoh-SIM-ee)

Age: 19

Appearance: She's very short by modern standards, standing only 4'11" tall, but that was on the tall end of average in her own time period. Her proportions match a taller person; she's all arms and legs, with a long neck and oval face. She has a narrow chin, hooked nose and large, black eyes. Zosime is also completely bald, as she shaves off all the hair on her head, including her eyebrows - but if she were to grow her hair out, it would be jet black. She dresses fashionably for her time. When she woke up on the ship, she was wearing a golden-yellow tunic under a burnt orange, ankle length chiton, the latter having red ties and red maze embroidery around the hem and up each side. She wears a red leather link belt inset with yellow topaz, gold-and-topaz pendant earrings and gold cuff bracelets on both wrists.

Occupation: Scribe

Personality: Zosime is cool and professional. She tries to face any situation with logic, rather than emotion, and has prioritized her advancement in her chosen career over personal pursuits, like family. She can be almost harsh on a first encounter, because she is very discerning in the company she keeps and takes a long time to assess if another person lives up to her own stringent standards. She values honesty, hard work, and seriousness. She does have sense of humour, somewhere under there, but it's very dry and understated. She holds grudges.

History: Zosime hails from the city of Alexandria, Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy V. She was, and is, part of the Greek minority that made up most of the ruling class of the time. Her family was affluent, but not connected to major nobility or royalty - nevertheless, her heritage afforded her extensive schooling in language, history, and philosophy. She prioritized learning languages, is fluent in Egyptian, Latin, and Aramaic in addition to her native Greek, and can write Egyptian in both the formal hieroglyphs and the cursive book scripts.

Zosime realised from an early age that she wanted to be a scholar rather than a wife and mother, and although such opportunities for women were limited in her time period, she quickly seized on the simplest of ways to achieve her goal; that is, to join one of the temples. She eventually settled on the temple of Sekhmet. Her current position is as a scribe within the temple, copying out sacred text, records of rituals and other activities, and proclamations from the Pharaoh's court.

Diving into The Abyss - A Shattered World

Indeed, you can be like our Darwin. (But without a feud with the ship's doctor.)

Candlewick [CLOSED]

Name: Zosime

Age: 19

Appearance: She's very short by modern standards, standing only 4'11" tall, but that was on the tall end of average in her own time period. Her proportions match a taller person; she's all arms and legs, with a long neck and oval face. She has a narrow chin, hooked nose and large, black eyes. She's also completely bald, as she shaves off all the hair on her head, including her eyebrows - but if she were to grow her hair out, it would be jet black. She dresses fashionably for her time. When she woke up on the ship, she was wearing a golden-yellow tunic under a burnt orange, ankle length chiton, the latter having red ties and red maze embroidery around the hem and up each side. She wears a red leather link belt inset with yellow topaz, gold-and-topaz pendant earrings and gold cuff bracelets on both wrists.

Occupation: Scribe

Personality: Zosime is cool and professional. She tries to face any situation with logic, rather than emotion, and has prioritized her advancement in her chosen career over personal pursuits, like family. She can be almost harsh on a first encounter, because she is very discerning in the company she keeps and takes a long time to assess if another person lives up to her own stringent standards. She values honesty, hard work, and seriousness. She does have sense of humour, somewhere under there, but it's very dry and understated. She holds grudges.

History: Zosime hails from the city of Alexandria, Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy V. She was, and is, part of the Greek minority that made up most of the ruling class of the time. Her family was affluent, but not connected to major nobility or royalty - nevertheless, her heritage afforded her extensive schooling in language, history, and philosophy. She prioritized learning languages, is fluent in Egyptian, Latin, and Aramaic in addition to her native Greek, and can write Egyptian in both the formal hieroglyphs and the cursive book scripts.

Zosime realised from an early age that she wanted to be a scholar rather than a wife and mother, and although such opportunities for women were limited in her time period, she quickly seized on the simplest of ways to achieve her goal; that is, to join one of the temples. She eventually settled on the temple of Sekhmet. Her current position is as a scribe within the temple, copying out sacred text, records of rituals and other activities, and proclamations from the Pharaoh's court.

Candlewick [CLOSED]

For the purposes of logic, do our characters have to be from a time and place where they would be able to speak English if they want to be able to talk to other members of the crew, or is there some mechanism in place that would allow them to do so anyway? I want to make a historical, non-European character.