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The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

"Splitting up sounds good to me. Should we have someone hit both of the duel fields so someone else can check the cafeteria, or d'you think we should just ignore the cafeteria? I doubt he's down there, anyway, unless he wants a snack between now and dinner." Camryn looked around a bit, just to see if Meio was, by some miracle, right nearby. "At any rate, we had better work fast; like Nate said, it's gonna be curfew soon." She took out her D-Ceiver as well. "Pretty sure I don't have your info either, Maisy, so let's swap numbers real quick and determine who's going where."

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Still here as well!

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

I think Camryn will help out Maisy and Nathaniel with Meio. @Ammokkx

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Allie // Tiferet

_{LOCALE // Lefig Lawn}

_{TIME // Midday}

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As Tiferet brought her song to its conclusion, she heard Elian's voice whispering in her ears, saying that she'd come find her once Elian had enough people. Tiferet grinned and sent back a one-word message. "Gotcha." In her mind, "If you aren't done when I've got people, I'll come find you" translated roughly into "Keep playing until you hear me yelling at you," so Tiferet took a moment to collect up the bits of change that had been tossed her way before launching into another fiercely energetic number, as much to get everyone pumped up for their impending expedition as to make some money.

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I'll start working on a quick post soon.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

Camryn had already grabbed some food and wolfed it down, and was now zoning out and watching the duel between Beatle Boy and Headband Man. The amount of Dark Dorm students had crossed her mind, but she waved it off as nothing to worry about. Even Dark Dorm kids had to eat, after all. Nathaniel's request for cards to donate brought her back into the conversation at her table. "Uhm... I might have some. Lemme check real fast." As Camryn rifled through her collection, she explained what she and Angelo had found the night before. "So, turns out that the student using the track at night is this one girl named Jacklyn. Some sort of Jack Atlas impersonator, I guess? Anywho, after me and Angelo beat her in a duel, she gave us a bit of info about what happened to Ethel. Apparently she saw Ethel and her opponent enter the arena, but she didn't see the other person leave. Jacklyn's also the one who found Ethel in the morning, apparently, so she's pledged her support if we need it. Still doesn't rule out her being the culprit, but it's something."

As she finished speaking, Camryn finished looking through her cards, and tossed one onto the table. "I've got an extra copy of Deepspace Berserker. That's pretty close to water-themed, right? 'Cause it's a spaceship?"

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Allie // Tiferet

_{LOCALE // The City of Thorinn Gate Platform/Lefig Lawn}

_{TIME // Midday}

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Tiferet blinked the sun out of her eyes as she arrived via Gate in Thorinn. The vertigo really didn't bother her that much anymore; you got used to it after a while, in her experience. She stretched, making the skulls on her dress crinkle and expand in odd ways, before setting off towards the central gathering point for every adventurer in a five-mile radius: Lefig Lawn. The quaint township was quite a bit more crowded than when Tiferet had last visited, so she had to duck and weave through the crowd of NPCs and players, occasionally stopping to investigate an odd smell, or to admire someone whose armor was particularly intriguing. By the time she arrived at Lefig Lawn, almost an hour had gone by, and Tiferet found herself with several interesting little baubles from a shop she had found (now stored in her fiddle case), a kebab (now mostly eaten), and a decent amount less money. Indeed, she had almost forgotten why she was in Thorinn in the first place. That is, until she saw the dungeon rising above her.

A rush of excitement filled her veins, so intense that it actually made her go weak at the knees for a bit. Here she was, with a chance to explore something that was almost entirely foreign. Not just to her, but to anyone. Such an opportunity only came along rarely, and she’d be a fool to pass it up. Tiferet stared up at the dungeon’s many spires, the skull’s teeth painted on her face replaced by a huge grin. ”This is gonna be the coolest. Thing. Ever.” She started striding towards it (ignoring the few weird looks she was getting; happened all the time), but was stopped by the sound of a man’s voice shouting “Elian!”

That wasn’t her name, of course, but it was the name of a certain dancer that Tiferet had had the pleasure of working with before, both in dungeons and in performances. While Elian could be kinda… What’s the word… Shit, I actually forgot the word, what was it… Fiery! Elian could be kinda fiery sometimes, but that was only if you were an idiot in her vicinity. Otherwise, the girl was a doll. Unfortunately, she was also on the other side of the fairly large central area. Tiferet’s mind was made up in an instant.

She finished off her kebab and stuck the stick down the back of a nearby player’s shirt, then moved a bit closer to Elian, taking her fiddle out of its case as she did so. Once she had everything set up (and retrieved the knick-knacks that had spilled from the case), Tiferet put bow to strings and began to play a violin-only version of one of her favorite songs as loud as she could without being a nuisance. Hopefully this would get Elian’s attention, and earn her a bit of cash besides.

The Duel Tower: The first year students. (A Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Academy Roleplay.) [Axed]

Sounds good to me.

Tin Dragon Detective Agency: Open to New Sleuths!

I'm tentatively interested. Which is to say, I'm sure that this'll be a great RP, but I'm gonna be pretty busy for the next few weeks, so I'm unsure of my ability to actually join in. Hopefully I can, though!

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Tiferet

Allie /// Tiferet

“Man, y’all need to learn to have some fun. Live a little! Or don’t, as the case may be.”

O V E R V I E W

N A M E
Allison “Allie” Márquez.

A V A T A R
Tiferet.

A G E
19.

G E N D E R
Female.

V I S A G E
In-game, Tiferet stands at about 5’3” and 140 pounds, putting her on the petite side. However, this is far from the first thing one would probably notice about Tiferet, which instead is her rather morbid fashion sense; much of her gear is adorned with bones, crosses, and Day of the Dead-esque skeletons, and her face is often adorned with skull makeup as well. Even her fiddle is black and white. This all stems from Tiferet’s desire to know what exactly it’s like on the “other side”.

P E R S O N A L I T Y
Allie is an… odd individual. Contrary to what one may expect, she’s very lively and gregarious, and absolutely loves trying out everything life has to offer. She’s driven by knowledge; specifically, wanting to know everything, including the unknowable, like “what happens after you die”, “what’s at the center of the universe”, and “does Finland really exist”. Most of the time, this involves buying (or stealing) anything she considers “neat”, exploring every little nook and cranny in a given place, and even doing drugs every so often (though she steers clear of the really bad ones; some things just aren’t worth experiencing). Her preoccupation with death is also rather unnerving, especially because she’s been heard to make a few nonchalant comments about breaking into morgues. (She’s probably joking. Probably.) However, this also means that Allie is really nosy; if she thinks someone’s saying or doing something that’s worth finding out about, she will try to discover more about the situation, whether through eavesdropping, a bit of petty thievery, or even just annoying someone into telling her.

Despite her strange clothing choices, obsession with death, and general creepiness, Allie is actually quite a nice person. It takes a lot to make her angry, and even then, she’s very quick to let things go. Sometimes, the person who attracts her ire will find themselves subject to some sort of semi-harmless prank, but that’s usually the extent of her “wrath”. Allie mostly plays Pariah for the social aspect, and loves partying up with people and running quests together. Of course, others may not want her around (you wouldn’t believe the number of people who get freaked out by the skull makeup), but they usually come around.

B A C K G R O U N D
Allie’s life has always been pretty stable, if not particularly normal. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a Mexican father and an African-American mother. Her mom was a high-ranking executive in a prominent tech company, which brought in enough money to allow Mr. Márquez to stay home and raise Allie, and to pursue his dream - being a musician - on the side. Allie was always a very inquisitive child, constantly pestering her parents with questions, especially about their respective lines of work. “Mommy, whatsa headset?”, “Hey Daddy, how d’you play the thing that goes ‘BWAAAP’?”, and so on. Initially, the Márquezes were exasperated by their daughter’s need to know everything about everything, but they soon began to enjoy seeing their daughter taking an interest in so much.

Her school years progressed with little fanfare, and were soon left behind, though Allie seems to have retained a few things from her middle school goth phase - namely, her fashion choices and obsession with all things dark and deathly. At the moment, she’s pursuing a career as a mortician, using her violin skills as a backup. Normally, the salary of your average broke college student isn’t enough to buy Pariah, let alone a VR headset, but Mrs. Márquez was nice enough to get them both for Allie as a birthday present this year.

A T T R I B U T E S

R O L E
Support, with a splash of Utility.

A F F I L A T I O N
Queon.

P R O F E S S I O N
Bard, but with a definite "necromancer" bent to it.

W E A P O N O F C H O I C E
A fiddle. It’s specially-reinforced with steel to make beaning people with it feasible as a last resort, though Tiferet does also have a short sword on her, making the fiddle a last last resort. Tiferet also considers her voice a weapon.

B E N C H M A R K S

Physical

<<Dexterous>> - Playing a fiddle so much has given Tiferet some very nimble fingers, not to mention some pretty decent upper arm strength.
<<Lung Capacity>> - Singing as often as she does has granted Tiferet the ability to hold a note much longer than normal people. It also lets her really belt it out when she wants to.
<<Midnight>> - Tiferet's always preferred playing at night, and after doing that so often, she's been able to see better and blend in better during nighttime, especially during a new moon.
<<Scream and Shout>> - This simple ability is Tiferet's main way of dealing damage (though she often doesn't need to). By magically amplifying her voice, enemies in a cone in front of her take damage and have a chance to be deafened.
<<Under Your Skin>> - This benchmark allows Tiferet to cause an enemy to feel the very discomfiting sensation that many, many parasites are lurking just under their skin, moving around, waiting to burst out. As you can imagine, such a thing is very hard to ignore, which makes this benchmark ideal to delay spells and dissuade warriors. As Tiferet gets stronger, this ability will actually spawn several bugs from a person's skin after a few seconds, dealing a small amount of damage and creating a few weak enemies.

Mental

<<Mobility>> - Tiferet, by necessity (running solo missions is hard for a bard), has practice with playing and moving at the same time.
<<What's Mine Is Yours>> - This benchmark was awarded to Tiferet by virtue of her partying up with people very, very often. It allows her to designate a target, then transfer every buff or debuff - permanent or temporary - from her to that target for one minute. However, any benefit Tiferet had that lasts for less than a minute is preserved; if Tiferet has a boost to her speed that lasts for 15 seconds, and uses 4 seconds of it, then transfers it away, the other person now has 11 seconds of boosted speed to use.
<<Visitation of the Ghost>> - Tiferet summons a ghost to aid her in the fight. Unfortunately, said ghost doesn't actually deal damage to anyone. However, it does terrify an enemy of Tiferet's choice, giving them a fairly potent debuff to both attacking and defending. To compensate, <<Visitation of the Ghost>> has a fairly long recast time.
<<Un-Death>> - This benchmark is an activated ability that Tiferet obtained by sheer luck, having discovered an esoteric questline hidden in a desolate corner of the world map. When she activates this ability, one of her fallen allies is returned to life, and with some extra power to their attacks. However, they die again after about 45 seconds to a minute, so they had best use that time wisely. Someone who's already been raised by this effect can't be raised by it again, either, unless another resurrection ability has been used on them in the meantime.
<<The Headless Horseman>> - This benchmark also takes the form of an activated ability, albeit one that Tiferet uses very rarely. Using all of her power, Tiferet can grant herself or another the Headless Horseman buff, which massively boosts all of their capabilities for a short time. It also gives them the appearance (and speed) of the famous specter. After using this ability, Tiferet is essentially defenseless until her health regenerates, which is why she doesn’t use it often.

R O U G H V I R T U A L H I S T O R Y
The name Tiferet is usually accompanied by a response of either “Who?” or “Oh yeah, the one skeleton chick, right?” She’s mostly known for her… interesting getup, which has gotten her a bit of admiration from the more fashion-oriented players. Another subset of players know her because they happened to come upon one of her “concerts”, which generally take place in some dark corner or other; a graveyard, an abandoned building, a graveyard, and suchlike. Yet another sliver know her as a fairly dependable support mage, and speak of her fondly. Finally, there are a few rumors making the rounds (mostly from veteran to newbie) about a ghostly woman with a violin, who sang the most beautiful, haunting song you’ve ever heard, then disappeared into the mist. Were one to ask Tiferet, she’d likely just drop a comment about “It’s a fiddle, actually” and then move on. All of these, taken together, make Tiferet known, at least, though she’s far from a household name.