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SiberDrac

PostPosted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:21 am


Edi Ted, Jr. introduces the second iteration:

SiberDrac
Gaia Name: SiberDrac

Character Name: Tyrose "Ty" Franklin
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Species: Werebeast (fox)
Skills: Exceptionally skilled at "Ghost Recon," "Tetris," and "Super Smash Brothers: Melee." Impressive hip-hop/breakdancer and contemporary dancer. Basic combat training, primarily in were form. Heightened senses of hearing, sight, and smell (species attribute). Quick sprints, high jumps, and agility are his primary skills, making up for his pathetic upper body strength. Able to perceive emotions with ease and lies with 99% accuracy. Retains trivia permanently and learns quickly when he's interested, but otherwise has difficulty excelling academically due to his carefree temperament.
Physical Description:
Human form: about 5'3", with silken, shoulder-length hair and bright, green eyes, always above a boyish grin. He has tanned skin, smooth features, sloe eyes, a delicately pointed chin, and a thin, adolescently athletic body. There is a tiny scar on the left side of his neck, just under his ear, that is usually covered by his hair. He walks and moves fluidly and playfully, but those same eyes that can draw in a woman of any age from a hundred yards away can also pierce into a person's soul. As for clothing, he chooses mostly loose-fitting shirts and pants that flutter in breezes and trail behind his movements like a comet's tail.
Fox form: quite obviously, like a smaller, lither version of the classic werewolf. Slightly taller, but unlike many werebeasts, not exceptionally so. He has bright red fur and the same alluring, green eyes. Even when walking upright, he manages not to look hunched or awkward. His tail is proportionately sized. The scar remains.
Personality: This is a child with a fierce sense of loyalty to his people who does not abide by racial slurs on the werebeast population as a whole or werefoxes in particular. That loyalty is the only readily readable deep moral basis he displays. He is immensely playful and sometimes difficult to keep on track, especially given his customarily shallow senses of value. He is a Bohemian; given the opportunity and the proper alcohol, he'll drink 'til he's drunk and hit on any girl he thinks he has a chance with. Usually, he'll end up in her bed for the night and gone by morning, without once degrading her or treating her like a tool. He'll help an old lady cross the street so he has a chance to look at her jewelry. He'll hold a door for someone because the door looks, in that particular moment, like it would be prettier open. In summary, this is a person who makes people's lives better without that ever being his motivation.
Biography: Born and raised in what was once the United States' good Pennsylvania countryside, he has known virtually no cares. His parents put him to work on the farm, but also doted on him and never really needed much done; the acreage was mostly there for show while the parents worked their own jobs. Strangely, in this time of constant stress and uncertainty, these two people never allowed their son or his twin sister to know what the world was going through. They kept the two of them aware of the strained climate; they were not in a box. However, his parents had met because they were both thespians, and good ones. News of bombings was met with grins; assassinations were turned aside with jokes and laughter. This bred in Ty a general inability to understand negative emotions in other people; they always seemed to bring about bad things.
The single 'bad thing' to ever happen to Ty was the loss of his sister. The two were as close as a brother and sister could possibly be. As twins raised in such unparalleled conditions, they played together, learned together, finished one another's sentences, and, the very few times they were threatened, fought together. They completed one another, as well. Ty was always a little skittish and cowardly; his sister was tomboyish and more curious than cautious. Ty could pacify any situation they ran into with friends at school; his sister incited them. While in the field behind their house at age fourteen, the two of them were searching for a treasure their parents had said was buried back there. While outside, Ty's sister was suddenly lying on the ground, bleeding profusely from a wound in her stomach. Ty blacked out instantly from the shock. When he woke up, she and the blood had vanished. He went back home, and couldn't find his parents.
The police found him days later, playing chess with a ninety-year-old man by the side of a busy street downtown. He had somehow gotten a fast food meal, and the two were sharing it as they played. After that, he was given to a foster family that didn't want him, didn't know what he was, and turned him over to the military of the Hunters' Coven, where he was taught how to better use his power and how to fight. His permanent sense of levity had already been instilled, but what had happened beneath the surface stayed hidden until he began hearing reports of a girl who looked just like him appearing in the area he lived in. Then, still with a grin on his face, he ignored his commanding officers' orders and began to hunt for her. She has remained hidden from him, but he is determined that of all things, this is the most important. His parents forgotten, he searches for his sister and in the meantime carries out whatever assignments he might receive, whether academic or military.
Alliance: Hunter's Coven
Group Membership: none
Supernatural Abilities: In were form, his various senses are heightened yet further. He gains very little height, but his thin arms fill out with lean muscle. His ability to detect emotion is enhanced, but his ability to detect lies actually decreases, due to the pressures of a more feral mindset. He is much faster and, due to the balance provided by his tail, more agile. In addition, part of training for combat was to strengthen his jaw, so in were form he is capable of breaking nearly all smaller creature's necks with the characteristic jerking motions of a fox.
PostPosted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:53 am


You're good.

Waiting on NF then....

Venom3001


SiberDrac

PostPosted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:54 pm


*sings* moooorrre characterrr-ah! *ceases singing*

Gaia Name: SiberDrac

Character Name: Catalena Jacobson
Gender: Female
Age: 43
Species: Human-Mundane
Skills: Holds a black belt in jiujitsu and dances a mean tango Argentine. Highly skilled in the delicate arts of the burlesque, while also highly scientifically knowledgeable, particularly in the area of molecular biology. Also trained in the duel-wielding of short swords, although not extensively. Fluent in English, Spanish, French, and multiple dialects of the latter two. Most importantly, she is very, very good at getting what she wants.
Physical Description: At 5'7" and 103 lbs, this woman is a Caribbean goddess, with both African and Spanish influence in the sultry curvature of her face. She is a very dark color and wear gold- lots of it. Hoop earrings the size of her palm hang down from her ears. Her dark eyes are always clear and sepulchral, seducing men nearly as easily as her... other features, which are generally concealed by tight-fitting outfits that show off as much of her muscular legs and arms as possible. She speaks with the lightly clipped, low voice characteristic of her ethnic origins.
Personality: This woman can be genuinely playful at times, but in general, she's out for men, money, power, and any combination of the three she can find. She will rob a man blind and slit his throat rather than just leaving him alone for the morning after. She enjoys the jobs the Tyrgani assign her and goes about them with a frightening fervor. Interestingly, she also tackles mental challenges with that same fervor, drinking in knowledge whenever it is available to her. She was once nearly arrested for slowly siphoning off the scientific periodical archives at a university until someone noticed that entire shelves were empty. They found the volumes in a small, disorganized mountain in a young professor's garage, though, with his fingerprints all over them. Her greatest fault is her pride; insults to it of enough strength can easily drive her off-target until the origin of the insult is... corrected.
Biography: Catalena was born to aristocrats around the region of Trinidad & Tobego. She never lacked for money as a child, having gifts and services constantly lavished on her. She asked for things, and she got them. Her parents sent her to a private school where, despite her pampered lifestyle, they brutally thrust her into high-level courses and demanded that she succeed. That shift in her parents' personalities was the first crack in her adherence to normal, high-class living. At age twelve, she moved with her family to New York, New York so her father could have better access to the American market. She was again placed into a difficult, private school, where she learned at increasingly excelling rates, still under the firm hand of her father. At age fifteen, he gave her her first book on the art of mental manipulation and treated her mastery of its lore, if not its practice, as he had any other book for school. Over time, she was given more and more of these books in increasingly faded binding and archaic wording. He never gave her a reason to learn or a source for these tomes; only a requirement. Several years later, a scandal erupted that flushed out the entirety of his savings, leaving the family dependent on the mother's relations. After several years of lower-middle-class living that felt like the worst kind of hell, he shot himself, unwilling to depend on his wife for money for what he believed would be the rest of his life. This was the second crack.
Using her vast stores of knowledge and a little creative manipulation involving a night or two out of her own bed, Catalena procured a full ride to MIT, double majoring in biotechnology and molecular biology and eventually graduating suma c** laude, first in her class, and prom queen. Immediately upon her entry to MIT's grad school, she met Siber Terrian, who happened to be a few years her senior. In an effort to make sure she had her name on all of his publications, she spent a night with him. The next morning, he endearingly informed her she had turned herself into a prostitute in a desperate ploy to take revenge on her dead father and that if she couldn't get over that psychological block, she would one day find herself gutted in the basement of a senator's house and buried in sewage. He left with a cheerful grin.
That was the third crack, and the one that made her break.
The instant the war became public, she allied herself with the Tyrgani and demanded to be taught as a Psion and made a part of the Illuminati. While her bloodline forbade actual membership with the latter, she was swiftly inducted as an honorary member due to... politics. With the vast stores of knowledge of telepathic employ she had acquired, she moved up swiftly in the ranks, learning what skills she thought would be most useful in the world and killing more than a few unwitting, male senior officers in the process. She forewent all former moral systems and decided that women cannot be depended upon, men cannot be trusted, and no one was better than she was. Not in the world.
Alliance: Tyrgani Alliance
Group Membership: Psion Union, honorary of the Illuminati
Supernatural Abilities: Classic Psionic skills; kinetics, delusions, telepathy, and a particular strength in the area of hallucinations- without lifting a finger, she can cause an illusion so strong that the victim's body and brain, through one mechanism or another, destroy themselves. This is available to her in a variety of degrees, from forming boils to burning their brains. Because of this, her assassinations are very difficult to detect both through magical residue and physical means.
PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 3:45 am


Okay, so I was reading that and it pretty much works (including that psions have to be a little unhinged to be actually capable of using psionics) aside from that the last ability is outrageously overpowered. :<

Also, while I said there would be a four-character limit eventually, I'm thinking I may just keep the limit at two, with three in very rare cases....

Venom3001


SiberDrac

PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:50 am


Aww, fine. xd I guess I did go overboard with that - I was just all excited because the writers did cool stuff with that kind of idea in an episode of "Fringe." And I'm perfectly fine with having just Siber and the werebeast, so I can remove the Catalena post or whatever if you want.
PostPosted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:40 pm


Well, to be honest, I have a good two or three characters thought up, I just need to fill out the profiles.
The only problem is, as of Monday morning, I'll be gone for two weeks, one week at a camp with no internet or technology, and the second at a camp where I'll be extremely busy and have limited posting time if at all.

So it seems kinda pointless to make a character and then leave for two weeks...

However, I might send in the basics of the characters for you to evaluate while I'm gone.

NativeForeigner


Venom3001

PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:33 am


Native: Just do ittttt.

Siber: The original Siber is an NPC. All Cabal characters are NPCs this time around, though you retain partial control over them.
PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:16 am


FINE! I'M DOING IT!

NativeForeigner


SirBayer

PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 2:14 pm


Well, okay, why not back off Catalena's last ability with the condition that it's blockable even by non-psions? You'd have to be aware, and you'd have to have the mental and emotional strength to defeat the attack, but I can't see any reason not to keep her other than that.
PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:22 pm


Oh, I totally misunderstood. I thought Venom was saying we'd only have two characters total, so I thought I had to get rid of one of my new ones. Lemme think... how best to fix her... ah-ha! Something similar, but less game-breaking.
SiberDrac

Gaia Name: SiberDrac

Character Name: Catalena Jacobson
Gender: Female
Age: 43
Species: Human-Mundane
Skills: Holds a black belt in jiujitsu and dances a mean tango Argentine. Highly skilled in the delicate arts of the burlesque, while also highly scientifically knowledgeable, particularly in the area of molecular biology. Also trained in the duel-wielding of short swords, although not extensively. Fluent in English, Spanish, French, and multiple dialects of the latter two. Most importantly, she is very, very good at getting what she wants.
Physical Description: At 5'7" and 103 lbs, this woman is a Caribbean goddess, with both African and Spanish influence in the sultry curvature of her face. She is a very dark color and wears gold- lots of it. Hoop earrings the size of her palm hang down from her ears. Her dark eyes are always clear and sepulchral, seducing men nearly as easily as her... other features, which are generally concealed by tight-fitting outfits that show off as much of her muscular legs and arms as possible. She speaks with the lightly clipped, low voice characteristic of her ethnic origins.
Personality: This woman can be genuinely playful at times, but in general, she's out for men, money, power, and any combination of the three she can find. She will rob a man blind and slit his throat rather than just leaving him alone for the morning after. She enjoys the jobs the Tyrgani assign her and goes about them with a frightening fervor. Interestingly, she also tackles mental challenges with that same fervor, drinking in knowledge whenever it is available to her. She was once nearly arrested for slowly siphoning off the scientific periodical archives at a university until someone noticed that entire shelves were empty. They found the volumes in a small, disorganized mountain in a young professor's garage, though, with his fingerprints all over them. Her greatest fault is her pride; insults to it can easily drive her off-target until the origin of the insult is... corrected. In addition, she has patricidal tendencies - domineering, stubborn, male, authoritative figures rouse in her a desire to murder that other profiles do not.
Biography: Catalena was born to aristocrats around the region of Trinidad & Tobego. She never lacked for money as a child, having gifts and services constantly lavished on her. She asked for things, and she got them. Her parents sent her to a private school where, despite her pampered lifestyle, they brutally thrust her into high-level courses and demanded that she succeed. That shift in her parents' personalities was the first crack in her adherence to normal, high-class living. At age twelve, she moved with her family to New York, New York so her father could have better access to the American market. She was again placed in a difficult, private school, where she learned at increasingly excelling rates, still under the firm hand of her father. At age fifteen, he gave her her first book on the art of mental manipulation and treated her mastery of its lore, if not its practice, as he had any other book for school. Over time, she was given more and more of these books in increasingly faded binding and archaic wording. He never gave her a reason to learn or a source for these tomes; only a requirement. Several years later, a scandal erupted that flushed out the entirety of his savings, leaving the family dependent on the mother's relations. After several years of lower-middle-class living that felt like the worst kind of hell, he shot himself, unwilling to depend on his wife for money for what he believed would be the rest of his life. This was the second crack.
Using her vast stores of knowledge and a little creative manipulation involving a night or two out of her own bed, Catalena procured a full ride to MIT, double majoring in biotechnology and molecular biology and eventually graduating suma c** laude, first in her class, and prom queen. Immediately upon her entry to MIT's grad school, she met Siber Terrian, who happened to be a few years her senior. In an effort to make sure she had her name on all of his publications, she spent a night with him. The next morning, he endearingly informed her she had turned herself into a prostitute in a desperate ploy to take revenge on her dead father and that if she couldn't get over that psychological block, she would one day find herself gutted in the basement of a senator's house and buried in sewage. He left with a cheerful grin.
That was the third crack, and the one that made her break.
The instant the war became public, she allied herself with the Tyrgani and demanded to be taught as a Psion and made a part of the Illuminati. While her bloodline forbade actual membership with the latter, she was swiftly inducted as an honorary member due to... politics. With the vast stores of knowledge of telepathic employ she had acquired, she moved up swiftly in the ranks, learning what skills she thought would be most useful in the world and killing more than a few unwitting, male senior officers in the process. She forewent all former moral systems and decided that women cannot be depended upon, men cannot be trusted, and no one was better than she was. Not in the world.
Alliance: Tyrgani Alliance
Group Membership: Psion Union, honorary of the Illuminati
Supernatural Abilities: Classic Psionic skills; kinetics, delusions, telepathy, and a particular strength in the area of hypnotism- with enough time and/or materials, be they flashing lights, the pendulum kept in her pocket, or music, or even her own eyes if she can maintain direct eye contact, she can gain control over a person or animal that does not have the strength/presence of mind to resist her. From there, she can cause them to do a multitude of tasks, although the less a task is in line with something the victim would normally do, the less likely it is Catalena will succeed.


Does that work somewhat better?

SiberDrac


Venom3001

PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 6:27 pm


That's good.

I should go harass Super-Confucius to make his profile already. He said Edward Ridley is half-done already....
PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:04 am


So we have to make each of our characters from a different faction? How many charaters are w supposed to have? So far I've only seen people with multiple characters...

Hien-Scarlet Flame


SiberDrac

PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:01 pm


Hi, Hien! You can have between one and two characters. Inclusively. So you don't have to be working in imaginary numbers, here, because Venom is a kind, loving, caring, generous, magnanimous soul whose only wish in this entire world is that we could all get along UNDER HIS SUPREME AND CRUEL DOMINION.

Yeah, one or two for new people. Those you see with lots are ancient creatures dug from the deep and rich history of the original Resurrection of the Cabal thread, and have been given special permission.

Welcome, welcome and such.
PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:24 pm


Eh...you might eat my soul but...

I'm not really understanding the "multiple character thing." Do you mean several characters per person, several twists on the same general idea, or something completely different I'm not catching?

tree-hugging pacifist


Venom3001

PostPosted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:59 pm


You may make one character or two characters.

If you have two characters, they must be from different factions.

Don't worry, I don't eat souls. Of newbies. Often.
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