Zyshi

Night Terrors- A Modern Horror RP

What is your timeline for starting this?

@Hazard Bits
@BenG85
@Jasper19

Post a random fact about yourself.

I know the name of pretty much every pup who comes to the neighborhood park.

What’s your go-to quarantine hobby?

-Playing with my crazy Border Collie at the park 2 hours a day (used to be only 1.5!)
-Cleaning my apartment multiple times
-Going over drink recipe flashcards (I am a bartender) because I'm in grad school and cannot help but study when stressed
-Studying Japanese linguistics, literature, and history (see aforementioned grad student status)
-Running quite a bit

Word association Game!

Light.

What are you reading?

Classical Japanese: A Grammar by Haruo Shirane.

Ask the Person Below You a Question v2

My next question would be, hm, What keeps bringing you back to role-playing as a hobby and how do you sustain your interest in it?

@Inkarnate

Hmm... I grew up all over the U.S., going to 10 schools during my K-12 years and living in California, Texas, Kansas, Wisconsin, parts of New England, and eventually Oregon. There was little to no consistent familial presence in my life, and my classmates changed about once a year.

Long story short, most of my friends were made over the internet. As someone who read voraciously and played video games, roleplaying became an activity I could participate in with my friends no matter my current location. As a child, it allowed me to explore worlds not so drab or cruel as the one I inhabited then, and as an adult it acts as both a social and creative outlet for me. My interest is sustained by the cyclical nature of my hobbies - months of intense reading, followed by a dive into old video games I haven't played in forever, then looking up a nifty forum for roleplaying online, etc.

Query 'o mine: What is a weird habit of yours that you enjoy in the extreme and is not something you share with others? Doesn't have to be due to its shameful nature, could just be quirky or superstitious.

Current Mood in One Gif

What Are You Listening To?

This is low and jazzy, with the kind of bass I feel in my sternum. The kind of music I miss listening to while sipping coffee at my favorite café, reading a novel with my legs propped up on the chair opposite.

Night Terrors- A Modern Horror RP

Zeni Gataki

Character Name:
Zenobia "Zeni" Gataki

Physical Description:
5'6", dark of hair and eye, with a slight build & (quite a few) tattoos. Her skin is a medium bronze, showing her Mediterranean heritage - with deep, slashing scars slanting diagonally across her left collarbone and shoulder from her attack.

Age:
28

Role:
Scrapper/Nerd

Psychic:
N

Skills/Abilities of Note:
Research/History (fluent in Latin & Greek); Perception; Climbing; Resilience

Willpower: 8
Zeni is mentally & emotionally battered, matching the scars on her body from her attack, but these experiences have changed her – she looked into the abyss and had the spine to tell it to go fuck itself in several tongues.

Fear:
N/A until played.

Background:
Zeni grew up on the South side of Chicago, the beloved daughter of a Greek family who refused to allow the predominantly Irish Catholic neighborhood influence their child. As a result, she spoke only Greek in the family home. After completing a degree with a double major in Classics & archaeology, she pursued a PhD in Archaeology – barely two years into her tenure at the postgraduate level when she was attacked.

Since recovering from her physical wounds, she has worked remotely to complete her thesis while obsessing over her true focus privately. Combing through the literature of both primary academic sources and the firsthand accounts available on the internet, she has made a study of cryptozoology for the past year, desperately trying to find an explanation for what happened to her. Zeni refuses to believe it was a wild animal attack, as the impotent authorities had suggested (often with sidelong glances at her wounds). In her personal time, she used to enjoy rock climbing & playing the violin… but now prefers Irish punk rock, urban exploration (“urbex”) & excessive amounts of coffee.

Previous Encounter/s:
Y

Encounter Summary:
On a balmy night this past April (about a year & a half ago), Zeni was attacked whilst crossing her university's quad. A humanoid creature with bizarrely stretched features & elongated incisors ambushed her, clumsily tearing into her throat & shoulder. Eventually the grisly scene was interrupted by the scream of a fellow student, drawing the creature's attention and gifting Zeni precious moments to crawl to the nearest dorm. After being found by members of the hardest partying fraternity on campus, she woke in the hospital to the twin sensations of physical pain... and incoherent rage at being made a victim.

She later found out that the creature killed five students & faculty members during its rampage across campus – never entering a physical domicile, but attacking any person who crossed its path out of doors. She was the only survivor.

Resources:
Climbing equipment (rope, carabiners, anchors, harness, etc), climbing axe, laptop, online connections in the dark web as a result of her research. She always wears her father's dog tags and her devout mother's silver Orthodox cross on a chain around her neck.

Odds of Survival:
1

Blighted Kingdom - Looking for Players & Co-GM Partner !

...Players unpicking the knotted history of a fallen land allows characters to approach each city individually...

@Roman

This style of play sounds like the more unique & appealing of the two, personally. It would allow for different speeds and depth of roleplay for each player, and would not require wrangling multiple people into posting consistently at the same level of participation. I'm new to the site but not to this style of play, and the nigh-apocalyptic nature of your world bridges the gap between fantasy and steampunk.