IC Thread

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Plot:
The Awakened are humans with special powers to combat the entity threatening humanity. Their powers have surfaced through a traumatizing or life-threatening event. When this phenomenon occurs, the people of the Compound quickly come and gather these people and remove them from the records. That is, to the world outside, they never existed, even their family and friends forget.

The Awakened get relocated to the place known as the Compound. The Compound is situated on private land that extends far past anyone's knowledge. People from the outside unconsciously stay away from the place and in that way, the residences' information are unknown.

In the Compound much goes around, training, educating, chores, recreation, much like a regular school, except, everything is much more...extreme. Every few days the Director calls a team in to his office to supply them with a mission to carry out. These missions are to go and destroy the threatening beings: missions that demand success, the only other option is death.

Pairs are created as teams, it normally consists of one female and one male, though exceptions can occur. Pairs are self picked, or, that's the way they were meant to be. In reality, it is a battle of power. Usually the male would pick out a female that he deemed worthy or showed an interest in, then he would Challenge them. The Challenge is an extremely boisterous event in which practically everyone attends. It is the beginnings of a new team or the failure of one. The two duel, the only rule is that killing is not allowed. If the challenged loses, then the team is set, but, if the challenger loses, then he would be degraded drastically.

These people fight for the survival of mankind who can't even comprehend the danger that it is in. Besides the Director and a select few, no one knows who or what the entity is. The Awakened are forced to fight, even alone in this war for humanity. Some accept it, others are reluctant and fight attempt to escape. But, in all honesty, they don't have anywhere to escape to, all they can do is face their destinies.


Rules:
All the normal stuff: No god modding, no power playing, etc
Please use third person, and be literate! Punctuation, grammar, and spelling matters! If you make one or two mistakes, no one will blame you.
Refrain from one liners. Writer's block is understandable, but don't make it a habit!
Romance is allowed, in fact, it's encouraged, but keep the passion to a certain level please....
Have fun, no flaming, if you have a problem in game, PM me and I will see what I can do.
If you have any sudden inspirations for your character or how you want things to be, feel free to confide in me.
Please try not to use OOC as much it messes up the flow. That's why we have an OOC board!
I have the right to ignore you if you do not follow the rules! I will warn you and tell you, but if you do it again, I will ignore you!


Skeleton:
Name:
Age:(hopefully between 15-35ish, but all up to you)
Personality:
Power: (Remember, every power has a weakness, if I feel as if it is too powerful, I will ask you to change it)
Weapon:(If any)
Appearance:
Brief Background:
Anything else:

Name: Jake Winters
Age: 19
Personality: A loner and dosen't talk much, barely lets anyone get close to him, in fear of them getting hurt because of him.
Power: Can slow down and fast forward time
Weapon:(If any) Two blades
Appearance:
Brief Background: Jake lived in a gang infested neighborhood. He got by barely with a alcoholic step dad, and a drug addicted mother. The only person that understood him was his girlfriend, one day they were hanging out and a drive by occurred and a bullet went stray and hit her. Jake realized his power when time slowed down, but him not knowing it, he didn’t stop it. He punishes himself for her death and is now taken into the compound.
Anything else: Has a kind heart but will do anything to live.

These are the NPCs, no one will play them except me. I want to use them purely for plot purposes. And, I also want them to be played in a certain way. If you want a particular thing from either of them (most likely the Director) then you will have to PM me or write it in the thread.


Name: The Director. No one knows his actual name ((Not even me....^.^;; ))
Age: Appears as in his early 20s, but know one really knows either.....
Power: Hell if I know...>.>
Weapon: He's too good for weapons, plus he has minions to send out, why need weapons?
Appearance: The man
Brief Background: His existence itself is shrouded in memory. No one knows where he comes from or what he actually is. Even the staff members at the facility just know him as "the one who brought the Awakened together". He, alone, truly understands what the Entity is, others might know about it, but he understands it.
Other: His partner is Aura.


Name: Aura
Age: She came from the same time as the Director
Power: Dreamseer
Weapon: Doesn't fight
Appearance: Aura
Brief Background: She arrived at the Compound along with the Director. Many students do not know about her due to the fact that she does not actively walk about, but she knows them much like how the Director knows everything. Her days are spent, dreaming and pondering the meaning of them.
Anything else: She is blind and mute, the only way she communicates is either though people's dreams or by physical contact. The only one she is able to mentally communicate with outside the dream realm and without physical touch is her partner, which so happens to be the Director.

Oops, sorry, I forgot to add in that you need to put down personality. It doesn't have to be in great detail, but just so that we know how to approach him.

I edited it it

Thanks! Sorry for the trouble! But yeah, welcome! I like your power! Just make sure to set restrictions for him!

I"ll make an IC for it soon....I need to get my characters up, and hopefully more people will join as well. ^-^

Its a great idea for a story, and no problem, he has issues with his powers that balance them out. Hopefully more will join

This sounds really cool. I might need some time to put up a profile, though.

Thanks! ^-^ Sorry, I'll probably have the IC up tomorrow. I wanna wait for more people to join and my character needs lots of work before I can post it....the bio doesn't make sense at the moment. >.> I'll for sure have it by the end of the night, but it'll probably be late. Sorry about that!!

Name: Aria (AR-ee-ah) Sealove

Age: 17

Personality: Bubbly, klutzy, what else can you say? She lives in the moment and enjoys day to day life. Just as a warning for all the rest of you guys, she's a bit crazy, one can't be sane to see what she sees. She is sporadic, random, and sometimes, well, most of the times, a bit stupid. Some people might say she's an attention hog and yearns for the spotlight, but that's not true at all, she just is that way, and people have to accept her for that. She trusts people easily, never thinking about an ulterior motive.
The one thing that's going for her is her determination to succeed. Whatever she starts, whatever she tries, she will do anything within her power to succeed. In the same terms, if she trusts someone, she would trust them till the end with no strings attached. Aria dislikes people worrying about her and tends to take things, or at least try to take them, into her own hands. Her stubbornness is both admirable and annoying.
There is one side that is left unknown to others, but that will just have to be discovered later on...

Power: A spirit medium. She can see and converse, to some degree, with spirits, ghosts, and other beings such as those. In some occasions she has been known to be possessed.

Weapon: Butterfly knives

Appearance: Aria

Brief Background: Aria had parents that were never home. They were working hard for her and their living so she had no right to complain and whine about being lonely. She grew up independent in a sense. Of course she wasn't able to cook or anything (she would probably blow the house up), but she was able to effectively use the microwave and zap up leftovers and walk to school like a "big girl".
In the town she was in, little girls walking alone around town was not the smartest choice a parent could make. It was then that Aria gained a stalker and later on a pedophile. The little girl, being so sweet trusted the stranger as soon as he introduced himself, but then was betrayed in the most brutal way. She began seeing the guy everyday and trusted him like she would another family member. Aria’s parents didn’t know since they were never home anyways. Through the pain of the assault, Aria began to see things. She Saw the other victims of the men and knew what waited at the end for her: death. She opened herself up for possession and was able to fight off the man, actually killing him in the process.
Instead of traumatizing her for the rest of her life, the experience made her bolder and more ruthless. The spirit always followed her thereafter as a sort of guardian. Aria’s power, slowly grew over time until she was able to see and talk to other lingering spirits, sometimes she could even seen into their past lives or the most recent event that happened before they died.

Anything else: Aria is not yet at the Compound.

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Name: Enyo Kawahata

Age:19

Personality: Enyo is not much of a socializer, she likes keeping to herself and having everyone mind their own business. She hates people looking worrying about her and because of that, keeps many of her issues, physical and mental, locked up inside her. Enyo does not trust people easily. In truth, she is scared of her own powers and capabilities. She is hard to approach, but once one gets to know her, they find out that Enyo is extremely loyal and strong willed.

Power: She is able to use her blood much like a water-user would. She is able to use it in its harden use it in its liquefied stage. Her power is something that allows her to control her blood, which means she can heal quicker than others (control platelets) and she doesn’t bruise as much. But ever since then, Enyo has been anemic.

Weapon: A short sword as well as a dagger.

Appearance: Enyo Her eyes only turn red when her power is in use, normally it is a dark green.

Brief Background: Enyo was raised by a loving family gone wrong. It consisted of her older brother, her mother, and her father. To make a long story short, her older brother was stupid, got drunk, and died in a car accident when Enyo was only 12. That caused her mother to great anguish and thus began the crumbling of a once perfect family. Her mother picked up the brief comfort of alcohol and drugs, and her father became a work-a-holic, trying desperately to forget his beloved son. This left Enyo to fend for herself. She worked hard then, believing that if she excelled in everything, then their broken family would mend again. Of course, that plan went down in the drain. After a while, she stopped believing. Her anti-social habits led the school bullies to target her specifically. Every day she would withstand the abuse and humiliation until one time they went a little too far. They forced her out, held her down, and gagged her. Then they proceeded to cut her, slowly, and painfully, finding joy in watching the blood flow out of her stomach.
The rest will remain unsaid. All that is known those three students were never found again. It was said that they were out drunk and drove their car somewhere in a lake. The bodies had yet to be discovered. At school, there was never a red-headed bookworm.

Anything else: She has been in the Compound for a good 3 years now.

I hate double posting to bump, but I guess this is what I get for creating this thread at 1 in the morning. Heh.

Well, just to sound as if this was a productive post, do you guys have ideas for the plot? I mean, I got the basic idea down, but I haven't thought of the details yet....

Name: Ben Roland
Age: 21
Personality: An outgoing and open person. At times, he can be a bit conceited, but is not selfish. Won't hesitate to help his friends should they need it.
Power: Can "activate" increased human attributes (ie: Strength, agility, senses, healing of wounds, recovery of stamina, durability, etc). However, can be psychologically unstable when he has increased attributes.
Weapon: Two handguns
Appearance: (( Closest I could get ))
Brief Background: The first time Ben found out about his powers, he went on a "rampage" and when he regained his sanity, he was in the compound (( Details given in RP )). Has since learned to control "The Animal", as he calls it, better than he could.
Anything Else: Has a tattoo of a wolf head on his upper left bicep

Hi everyone! This sounds interesting! Here's my character idea...

Name: Sei Nakahara
Age: 24
Personality: Sei is intelligent and eloquent, a reflection of the upbringing from overly doting and wealthy parents. Outgoing and a bit of a trouble maker, but also a fast and faithful friend to those who make his acquaintance. A day-dreamer and artist, he longs for quiet moments alone where he can reflect on the days events and enjoy the wonders of nature.

Power: Dimensional Rifts. Sei has the power to create a temporary space on a plane of existence parallel to his own. This "other dimension" can be accessed through rifts created by Sei's weapon, a long, crystal knife. While this space can only last as long as Sei can maintain focus on its existence, anything left within it will remain intact until the next time the dimension is opened. While objects are suspended in Sei's dimension, he can transport them out of any other rifts that are open in the nearby area. Rifts only can remain open for a few minutes at a time, and must be reopened by the crystal knife if they are required to exist for longer. Sei cannot normally transport any objects that are heavier than his physical body can carry. Anything heavier induces heavy strain on Sei's internal structure, possibly causing him severe harm if attempted for too long a period of time.

Weapon: A crystal knife and a bag of throwing stars.

Appearance:


Brief Background: Sei was raised by a rich father and an overly concerned mother. This resulted in his highly educated and distinguished demeanor. His life was what one would consider normal - highschool, graduation, off to college at a prestigious university. However, his "normal" life was soon cut short. One day, while walking down an unfamiliar alley after the sun had set, Sei was beset by a band of ruffians out to steal his wealth. They cornered him in an alley and mercilessly beat him, almost to the point of death. In a last desperate attempt to escape, he clawed at the iron fence behind him, trying to climb up its intertwined metals. But instead of grasping steel, his hand slipped through into a hidden space, and the rest of his body soon followed. He was able to escape from his attackers, and later exacted revenge on them by swallowing their prized motorcycles and dumping them into the nearby sewage treatment plant. The crystal knife, an item he fashioned after further experimentation with his power, hones his ability and allows him to create rifts without intense concentration or duress. After eluding mysterious pursuers for a prolonged period of time, he was finally captured and brought to the Compound.

Anything else: Sei's parents and brother were retrained to believe their family only consisted of themselves and no one else. Sei sometimes goes to visit their home and watch his brother grow up, but is not allowed to interact in any way with them.

Welcome you both, I shall start IC soon. I'm typing up my post now. I will post the link in a separate post as well as edit the first post so that the link is in there. Ok? Ok! yay! <3

Name: Aaron Mackenzie

Age: 17

Personality: Aaron is an easygoing kid. He enjoys playing video games, and spends a great deal of time relaxing on the couch watching television. He gets along with most people, simply because he is very tolerant and relaxed, and very little offends him. He is neither outgoing nor introverted, but merely sociable and entertaining. Most people he meets he regards as friends, and he will gladly do what he can to protect them.

Power: Aaron can rewind time. That is to say, he can go backwards in time to a certain point, while keeping the memories of what happened in the future, however, to say it is clairvoyance would be incorrect, as it has certain unique qualities. Seeing the future would not allow infinite guesses at a password, for example. Some restrictions apply, of course. If Aaron rewinds time back five minutes, he has to re-live those five minutes before he can once again rewind time. If he is knocked unconcious, or cannot focus for whatever reason, he cannot rewind time, as it is a conscious effort that requires concentration. However, during battle, the cooldown is twice as long because of the strain of concentrating and fighting at the same time, meaning that a five minute rewind during battle would prevent another rewind for ten minutes.

Weapon: Colt SAA

Appearance:

Brief Background: Aaron was a normal child in every way. His parents were loving and kind, and they raised him well. He was cared for and taught to be courteous and polite to those he meets, and the value of self-sacrifice was imposed on him at an early age. His family was middle-class, hard working citizens. His father served as chief engineer in a military vehicle plant, and his mother was a lawyer. Often left at home, Aaron gained a penchant for video games.

His power was discovered when a child walked out in front of a moving vehicle. The car was going eighty miles an hour on a service road, during a school-hosted soccer game. Aaron saw the child, and without thinking, pushed the child out of the way, but in the process was hit by the car himself. The car swerved and hit a tree, pinning Aaron. He began to black out, pain searing his mind. He sat there for several minutes, until paramedics arrived. They said the only thing preventing him from bleeding to death was the car pinching him into the trunk of the tree. Aaron saw his parents crying, and his survival instinct kicked in.

Everything was a blur after that. All he can remember to this day is an intense desire to undo what had been done. When he regained his senses, he was back at the soccer game, right before the child walked into the street. He held the child back this time, and watched as the car sped by from out of nowhere. He was silent for the rest of the game. His power was subtle, however, and wasn't noticed by the Compound until much later, when he managed to beat a retired sniper in a shooting competition with a Colt Single Action Army at a circus contest. After all, if you have an infinite number of tries to hit the bullseye, of course you're going to win the contest. His prize was the new shiny revolver, which he kept with him when the Compound came for him.

Anything else: His power effectively allows him to retry any single moment until he finds a solution that works. Various examples include:
1. Trying every possible combination for a 6-digit keycode, rewinding time again and again until he gets the right number.
2. Rewinding after the team gets stuck in a trapped room, and preventing it from happening again.
3. Getting hit by a punch, then rewinding time, and dodging the punch that he knows is coming.

If you find this overpowered, let me know if there's anything I can do to change it, but I liked the idea, so I thought I'd give it a try.

Name: Riley Lowe
Age: 17
Personality: Riley is usually quite and keeps to herself most of the time, I guess you can call her being a little bashful and shy. She likes to sketch and write in her free time, which she doesn't have much of. She has a short temper, but tries to keep it under control most of the time. Other than that, she is generally nice and really easy to get along with.
Power: She is able to read others minds, but only if she touches them.
Weapon: A razor edged boomerang.
Appearance:
Brief Background: Riley was born in a average family, her mother died when she was nine years old, so she just lives with her father. He soon turned to drugs and beer, thinking it would solve all his problems, so Riley took him to rehab, so for the next several months, she is living alone. She hardly uses her power except if she really needs to.
Anything else: Nope

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@ Kennyrules: I do really like the idea, but like you said, it's a bit overpowered...

1. Reversing time after getting his throat cut by an assassin, and being prepared for it the second time.

If he got his throat cut by an assassin, then he's dead....as in, he's unconscious, right?

Um, can you maybe set more restrictions? I mean something like....He can only retry something one time...instead of over and over again. Or something like that. Well, for the password thing, I think I'll let that retry part pass 'cause it's soo small. Do you know what I mean? o.O If I don't make any sense, tell me...

Another thing, if you're going to set time back...and redo things, then you're gonna have to get the consent of everyone who is part of that circle because that means they'll also have to redo their character parts to whatever your character wanted to change. I really, really, do like that idea, but it's gonna be hard and require a lot of communication and planning if you're up for it.

@Twilight: Your bio...it doesn't show how your character has Awakened. I know it's kinda cliche to say the "Traumatizing" and "Life-Threatening" thing, but it'll all work its way into the plot, trust me.

I actually gave that exact example for this reason. When your throat gets cut, you don't die instantly, you bleed to death very quickly. However that still leaves time to rewind if the user is quick enough. If you prefer that anything as questionable as that to be excluded from my ability to rewind, though, I'll take it out and promise to play conservatively with my power, even if that leads to my character's death. As for the planning part, most of the time, I was figuring it wouldn't affect the other party members, and I'd just roleplay it out in my own post. Here's a basic example of what I meant:

Say I get punched in the face. I rewind time, then dodge the punch. To everyone else, it looks like I just dodged the punch, since they only see what happened during that moment, but for me, I would roleplay getting hit, rewinding, and then dodging. That way, I technically wouldn't be forcing the other players to undo what they've already done. And in some cases, like say my partner gets her head chopped off, I'd have to get their okay to rewind, but even in that case, I think it'd be alright by everybody.

I'll think about more restrictions, too. Maybe the cooldown time is double the time you rewind in battle (i.e. ten-minute cooldown for a five-minute rewind, rather than the normal five-minute cooldown outside of battle, etc...), due to the amount of concentration needed to focus on the battle? That way, it still explains the "infinite password tries" deal, but weakens it in battle, where it really matters the most. Would this be an acceptable restriction, or would you like to see more restrictions? I'm not against nerfing this completely, or changing it, just let me know. Like I said, it's worth a shot to try to roleplay it.

lol, no, no, you've done lots of thought on this and I really like your idea. Go for it, we'll see how it goes, if anyone has problems, they can bring it up with me, but that sounds like a good enough restriction/description...all powers are different depending on how you use it. I trust you as a roleplayer enough to know when to take a hit....pun IS intended. heh. Post whenever you're ready.

Thanks. I'm well aware of the godmod/metagame potential in this, as well. I'll do my best to avoid it and play conservatively, but if somebody takes issue with something I've done, let me know, and I'll likely change it for the sake of peace and tranquility. Anyway, on to the rp!