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 Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 7:24 am
Ancient Egypt had not male heir. The queen having died during her first born's birth and leaving no other children. The Pharaoh loved his wife and grieved her death strongly and would take no other woman by his side. So it was that his daughter grew up with no siblings and as an unworthy heir to the Pharaoh's thrones. Her father loved her greatly and taught her everything he knew about ruling Egypt, trade, battle and things the Priest found unsuitable and had her by his side as one of his advisors. The Priests of the God's Temple did not approve of the Princess becoming Pharaoh. They told the Pharaoh it was unacceptable and the Gods would be angry and would punish Egypt if a woman took the throne. The Pharaoh was at a lost of what to do for he felt his daughter would make an excellent leader but that was not the ways of Egypt. The Priests on the other hand knew the Pharaoh made go against their wishes for it rumors had been circling that the Pharaoh was taking council from another Temple from a neighboring city. The Priests were plotting to remove the Princess entirely.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 7:43 am
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Player: Serafinariv Character Name: Cleopatra VII Philopator Age: 19 Personality: Energetic, tart, smart History: as mentioned in plot above, no mother, no siblings, grew up with a nanny and learned to be a ruler. Appearance: NO GLASSES, (trying to find the version without them.) 
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:38 am
Player: Kaosujin Ryu Character Name: James Alexis Michaels Age: 20 Personality: Observant, cautious, blunt. Can be quite teasing, however. History: James grew up bouncing from foster home to foster home until 16, when he was adopted by a famous Egyptologist. He was invited on several trips to study Egypt's past though his cautious nature tended to hide a side of himself that liked to roam and fight... that was what got him in trouble. Now, he has no idea how to get home to his adoptive family... though the real question isn't how he gets home... but will he want to go home? Appearance: Appearance - usually seen wearing a dark gray denim jacket with a white tee shirt and baggy black jeans tucked into dark brown and orange hiking boots.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:20 am
(a little auto-ting to get your character into the past, PLEASE don't freak out. found original photo I was looking for) I am Cleopatra VII Philopator
Only daughter of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes
I have seen 19 cycles of the earth's rotation.
Many view me as intelligent with a sharp tongue.
The Priest call my unusual eye color a sign from the Gods that I am cursed.
Others say it is a sign that I have been God Touched and I am destiny for a great fate.
As the boy approached the Nile on his school trip having moved away from his class, teacher and guide, the water seemed to grow still, reflecting the boy's face as perfect as a mirror. Suddenly the water rippled before him an image of a person, obviously a woman by its body build, her back to the boy, just as her head turned as if to look behind her the water shot up into the grab wrapping around the boy and pulling him into its septs only to push him back out of the water and into the muddy banks moments laters. However the bank that the water released him on was not the ones had had been exploring just minutes before. On the banks women and men worked to till the newly flooded banks to gather the nutrient filled dirt for farming, woman washed and gather reeds along the banks. No one seemed to have yet noticed the young boy who washed ashore in a clustered of reeds which hid him from view.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:52 am
James Alexis Michaels  Alexis hacked up water, disoriented and confused. He pushed himself onto his hands and knees and stuck his head out of the reeds, looking quickly around for the other students whom he'd barely known to begin with and saw nobody. He frowned before cautiously rising to a squatting position so that his muddy hair and eyes were just visible. He didn't notice the nearby tent or the armed soldiers in front of its open door as someone stepped out. Serafinariv OOC| The color I'm posting in is the approximate color of his eyes, rather than some random choice.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:19 am
(no problem) I am Cleopatra VII Philopator
Only daughter of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes
I have seen 19 cycles of the earth's rotation.
Many view me as intelligent with a sharp tongue.
The Priest call my unusual eye color a sign from the Gods that I am cursed.
Others say it is a sign that I have been God Touched and I am destiny for a great fate.
Cleo was inside the tent going over an irrigation system that was currently in the works to get water from the nile to the lower part of the city and to the poorer outskirts. The system would be used to get water to the farming areas that were in desperate need of water and the long trips to the nile were more of a hinderance then a help. The main engineer and her had their heads close together as they spoke, making changes here and there to the plans as well as discussing the progress of the work and the time frame the projected needed to be completed by. Outside the tent a commotion rose as a Guard saw the mud covered boy in the reeds. "YOU!!" the guard said in Egyptian language, stalking over to him. "What are you doing hiding there!?" the guard ask reaching out attempt to grab the mud covered boy and pulled him from the reeds where the other soldiers came to surround him. Cleo looked over at the engineer, "my apologies let me see what is going on. My guards can be a little over zealous in their work to protect me. The last thing I want is a poor farmer boy merely coming for a peek at the Pharaoh's daughter to be punish for something so silly." The engineer bowed his head, "Princess is so caring for the people." Cleo peeked her head out to look before coming out just as the guard attempted to grab the boy.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:55 am
James Alexis Michaels Alexis scrambled back in surprise when the guard stalked towards him, not understanding his language, but understanding his body language well enough. He grunted as his hand hit something in the mud before he felt something clasp around his wrist before he jerked his arm free, mud dripping from his forearm and wrist as a clear glint of gold came through along with a slight blue aura that glowed from the gemstone that rested against his wrist just above the back of his hand. Along with it was finger coverings that had locked around his forefinger and middle finger ending in sharp claws. "What the ********> he muttered, unaware that the guards could understand him as his head was aching unmercifully partly from his inglorious near drowning and the hot sun beating on his head. He turned his hand over, seeing the gold and black metal fully encasing his fingers until the last knuckle just above his palm.
He turned it back over, noticing the ankh hieroglyph of the Egyptian goddess of order, Ma'at, as well as the knife protruding from a lotus blossom of the Egyptian god of war Maahes sitting squarely behind the knuckles of his forefinger and middle finger. Serafinariv OOC| I had the idea that the two deities mentioned dragged him back in time because they saw what would have happened (in the form of civil war and chaos) and sought to prevent it through Alexis.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:30 am
I am Cleopatra VII Philopator
Only daughter of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes
I have seen 19 cycles of the earth's rotation.
Many view me as intelligent with a sharp tongue.
The Priest call my unusual eye color a sign from the Gods that I am cursed.
Others say it is a sign that I have been God Touched and I am destiny for a great fate.
(never mind got it) The guards seeing the weapon on the boy's hand unscathed their curved blades, pressing it against the boy's throat. "Drop the weapon," the guard growled at the boy as the other tensed and were alert for danger. Cleo studied the situation before her eyes fell on the weapon and the color, before returning to the boy's mud smeared face whose eyes seemed so familiar when suddenly her eyes widen as she strolled purposely out of her tent. "Enough! Are you blind and dumb not to see what the boy holds? See the glow of the stone on his wrist, the color of our Lord Amun Ra. The Sun God has brought him here, birthed by the Nile with a sacred weapon of Lord Amun Ra in his hands? The daughter of Pharaoh mere feet from this timely birth? Amun Ra has brought him here for me. Release him!" The guards did immediately and stepped away as Cleo approached the boy, Cleo bowed her head in respect to the boy but did not cursty, she was one of Amun Ra chosen as Pharaoh's daughter, "My apologies Sacred One, my guards merely perform their duties as my protector, please send my apologies to Lord Amun Ra that my guards may not feel his wrath. I am Cleopatra VII Philopator only daughter of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes. This however I am sure you already know Sacred One. What shall we call you by?" (wait you didn't have the Ma'at symbol thingy in ur post earlier?! I gave its a SUN GOD symbol...)
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:37 am
James Alexis Michaels Alexis blinked as he glanced down as the guard had pressed his blade to his throat, noticing that the marks of Ma'at and Maahes seemed to radiate from a sunburst mark that melded into the darker metal of the gauntlet before he felt the razor sharp steel shift away from his skin. "Sacred one.... I'm about as sacred as this mud... and my name's Alexis... I have no idea how I got here," he said quietly, bowing his head as he didn't want to seem presumptuous with the Pharaoh's daughter. He didn't see how he could communicate with Amun Ra, though he did know of the ancient god's power and reputation. Serafinariv OOC| Maybe this can clear it up, lol.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:02 pm
I am Cleopatra VII Philopator
Only daughter of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes
I have seen 19 cycles of the earth's rotation.
Many view me as intelligent with a sharp tongue.
The Priest call my unusual eye color a sign from the Gods that I am cursed.
Others say it is a sign that I have been God Touched and I am destiny for a great fate.
Cleo smiled at the boy, "the red sile of the Nile is very sacred for it provides the land with the nutrient we need to survive. Perhaps the Sun God has yet to speak to you on his plans but it is by his design that you are here for your wear his symbol on the armor in your hand as well as that of Ma'at and Maahes the, Truth and War. The Duat and the Lion. It seems many Gods are at work here this day and as well as the Blessed Nile. Do not discount yourself so quickly Sacred One Alexis or perhaps Chosen One would be better fitted." "My Lady, the boy is perhaps a thief and stole the weapon from one of the Temples," one of the guards said. Cleo turned to look at the guard, "Tell me which Temple holds such a weapon that the boy now has? Which Temple has been blessed with a tool of the Gods that if it were stolen would not be on the lips of all the people and guards at this very moment? I have been to the Temples and have read the sacred scrolls, this weapon does exist but not in the world of man. This Trinity God weapon spoken in the ancient scrolls was said to have been hidden in the Duat after one of the great ancient battles of the Gods. Amun Ra seems to have decided it was time for this weapon to return with his Chosen messenger. We will no discount the Gods signs." Cleo reached out to the boy's weaponed hands and touched the metal lightly the metal glowed under her touch, almost trembling beneath her hand, her fingered skimmed the weapon gently. "You need not this weapon now Chosen One, you are safe. No one here will harm you," she said softly and at her words the weapon glowed brightly and vanished but for a bracelet around the boy's wrist with the symbol and blue stone. Cleo smiled, "its seem Amun Ra weapon recognizes me. That is a blessing indeed. Come Chosen One, I am sure you wish to cleanse yourself of the sticky mud and rest. You will stay in my rooms." "Captain, we are returning to the palace, leave a handful of guards here with the engineer and send word to the Pharaoh that I must speak with him. Take the Chosen One to my rooms and see that he is cleanses by my servants, clothed and feed. I shall come to him within two hours. No one is to disturb him nor enter my rooms nor seek his audience without my permission. Is that understood?" The Captain who had been the man who held the blade to Alexis throat nodded, "As you command Princess. Chosen One please forgive my actions and please follow my Lt. he shall escort you, I must escort the Princess." "Chosen One follow them, they will protect you," she said softly, "I will return to you within an hour or two. Much must be done. My servants will ensure your every need." Cleo did not wait for his reply but walked off quickly mounting her war horse and racing back to the palace with her guards. The Lt. and and two of meant turned to the Alexis, "It is best if we slip you unnoticed. Cover yourself with this Chosen One," the Lt. handed alexis a cloak, "it will be uncomfortable and hot with all the mud but without a bath the mud will not come off. I ask you to bare with it Chosen One." The Lt. mounted his horse, "you shall ride with me, keep your head down and your face covered," he leaned down for the boy's hand to pull him up.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:10 pm
James Alexis Michaels Alexis cocked his head as Cleopatra spoke before her finger trailed over the gauntlet as it flared and shifted forms. He glanced around, listening to their words. He blinked as the tall man offered him a cloak. "Thank you," he said quietly as he took the cloak and flicked it across his shoulders and carefully slid the hood over his head before he watched Cleo ride away. He took the man's hand and pushed off the ground, his foot lightly pressing against the inside of the stirrup and letting him mount the horse with little help from the lieutenant. "Can't be more uncomfortable than growing up bouncing from home to home without a family who cares about you," he muttered just loudly enough for the man to hear.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:39 pm
I am Cleopatra VII Philopator
Only daughter of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes
I have seen 19 cycles of the earth's rotation.
Many view me as intelligent with a sharp tongue.
The Priest call my unusual eye color a sign from the Gods that I am cursed.
Others say it is a sign that I have been God Touched and I am destiny for a great fate.
(please just to make your post longer and feel free to NPC any of the characters and add/make up your own as you want. I am not very strict with people pushing the RP forward. I rather other people make the attempt and not just expect me to do it) The lieutenant looked at the boy for a moment, "My name is Akiiki Mubarak, Chosen One. It is my pleasant to escort you." The group travel quickly through the back ways until they reached a hidden back gate of the palace. Akiiki ensured the boy stayed under the cloak until they reached the Princess' wing. "You may remove the clock Chosen One," Akiiki said, as he clapped his hands together a group of young women came forward giggling softly at the young boy covered in mud. The eldest a stern looking woman stepped forward, "what is this thing you have brought to the Princess' rooms Lt. Mubarak?" "Amun Ra's Chosen One, Alexis. He was birthed by the Nile before the Princess. She has commanded he be brought to her rooms, cleaned, clothed and feed. Word of him should not leave these rooms before the Princess and Pharaoh has deem other wise." The woman's eyes widen, "my apologizes Chosen One," the woman curtsied and the other women followed. "We shall follow the Princess' command and ensure the Chosen One is well treated," the woman said approaching the Alexis, her face still stern. Akiiki smiled, "my thanks Hasina." The old woman smiled for the first time and patted Akiiki hand, "off with you now, the boy is in good hands." Akiiki left winking at Alexis, "have fun Chosen One." "Ife, Kesi, take the Chosen One to the baths and cleansed him of the Nile's afterbirth and prepare him for the Princess. Mesi, Merit prepare clothing and sandals for his feet. Ati, Nema fetch food for him. Off with you girls. I shall prepare a room for him." Ife and Kesi were two beautiful women in their mid 20s who came forward and lead Alexis to a large room with a huge bath more like a pool filled with lilies and marble steps and slip into the waters. "We shall cleanse you Chosen One. Please relax and enjoy it," Ife said as she and Kesi became to strip his clothing from him. (I'll leave the rest to you, feel free to NPC everyone, get him cleaned, clothed, feed, explore the rooms, talk with the women, etc etc.) ---- Cleo sat with her father in his private study as she spoke to him of what had happened at the nile. "Are you sure of this?" "Father the trinity symbol was on the weapon, it also responded to my touch. He is Amun Ra's Chosen One. I...I have also seen him in my dreams. I am sure he is the one of my dreams." "You told me you could not recall his face, daughter." "I remember his eyes. Father I am sure this is the vision that has been daunting my dreams these past months. Amun Ra has sent him here to me for a reason. He bares his symbol as well as that of Truth and War." "The Priests will not be happy you are hiding him from them." "I have no reason to tell them about him. Amun Ra sent him to me! Had Amun Ra wanted him to go to the Priests then the High Priest would have been present for his birth." "Daughter you know the High Priest is only following the laws that the Gods have handed down to him." "There is no law that I cannot be Pharaoh, only tradition that the first male is heir. Nothing has ever been set in stone of who can and who cannot be heir! The Priest twist the words of the Gods to their own end!" "Daughter! You shall not speak ill of the God's High Priest unless you wish to face the God's WRATH!" Cleo was on her feet and pacing, "it is the Priest who shall feel the Gods' wrath not I Father. For Amun Ra has given me a gift. Truth and War. I will fight for my right to rule Father and truth shall win this war. Amun Ra has given me the tool I need." "Daughter beware you do not fail nor mis-interrupt the God's will to your own. The Priest must know about the Chosen One." "Not yet Father. Let me handle this I beg you. I will inform the High Priest but my way." The Pharaoh looked concerned but nodded, "since he was sent to you...I shall concede. However I will not lie to the High Priest should he come and ask, nor will I hide the boy from him." "I understand Father," she kissed his cheek before leaving, she had much to plan before she return to her rooms to speak to the Chosen One.
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 1:08 pm
James Alexis Michaels Alexis blinked as the woman spoke to Akiiki before he left. He wasn't sure why he winked at him and smirked a bit. He exhaled as he let the two women lead him to a large bathing room. He wasn't surprised to see that the women couldn't immediately figure out how to remove the majority of his clothing, especially his jeans and boots. The jacket and shirt were easily removed, though he gently nudged Kesi back and untied and loosened his boots before shifting his weight to slide them off. He sighed as he pulled away the mud saturated socks before he unbuttoned his pants. What surprised him, however, was when Ife pulled them down quickly to his ankles before she giggled. "He's definitely chosen for more than just his physical beauty," she remarked before guiding Alexis into the water. Alexis did tense at first, but relaxed slowly as the women were surprisingly gentle, although it seemed Ife liked to tease him a bit in the process of cleaning him off. "I'll admit, I've never done anything like this before... in more ways than one," he said quietly. He was mildly surprised when Kesi pushed him lower in the water before she started washing his hair. He could distinctly smell lotus blossoms in whatever she used, but didn't really mind their actions even though to him it felt really odd to have women do this for him and not do anything else intimate.
He wasn't all that surprised to find clothes very similar to what Akiiki had worn afterward, though it was obvious both Ife and Kesi had amused themselves with his reactions to their bathing him. He cocked his head slightly, pausing momentarily as Kesi rubbed his shoulders and back. "We only wish to help, Chosen One," she said. "Perhaps I am chosen by the gods... but I'm no more unique than you or anyone else. We are all mortal and can all die alike. Some of us are luckier than others... in my case I'm just plain stubborn," he said quietly as Ife settled her chin against his other shoulder, smiling at him. He shifted to pull on the loose pants and sandals, mildly surprised when the women the older woman had chosen to prepare his clothing stepped in before the crimson haired Mesi stepped forward, protesting about him putting the clothing on himself. "I may be a 'Chosen One', but I'm not helpless, nor do I want to be treated as such. I'm used to taking care of myself as I have since I was young... alone," he said. He let his gaze drop to the sandals as he managed to fix them to his feet, not noticing that Merit darted away to report to the Princess.
"Princess... the Chosen One does not seem to want our help, but doesn't seem to mind our company. His words were 'I'm used to taking care of myself as I have since I was young... alone' though I do not see why he stressed the last word as he was likely adopted by the gods, was he not?" Merit said breathlessly several hallways away from the Princess' private quarters.
Alexis blinked as the other two women came in with trays of salted meat and fruits. He recognized some of them, primarily dates, pears, and oranges, but most of it he didn't. He had drawn the kunai he usually kept in his hidden pocket in the leg of his pants and even now kept it palmed loosely along his left forearm. He shifted and let it flick into view, ignoring the womens' gasps of surprise as he picked up a pear and began peeling it rather than waiting for them to hand them to him. "Hey, she said to fetch food... but she never said either that I had to eat it all or that I couldn't share it... you can eat too, after all," he said with amusement, knowing that would likely surprise them all as he was certain that was highly uncommon... but then... if his assumption was right, being 'chosen' by Egyptian gods and possibly dragged through time wasn't exactly common either, right?
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 1:30 pm
Serafinariv I am Cleopatra VII Philopator
Only daughter of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes
I have seen 19 cycles of the earth's rotation.
Many view me as intelligent with a sharp tongue.
The Priest call my unusual eye color a sign from the Gods that I am cursed.
Others say it is a sign that I have been God Touched and I am destiny for a great fate.
(I beg you to please use larger font...that hurts my eyes thank you!!) She placed her hand over Merit's mouth, "hush. The wall have ears my dear. If he wishes to do this on his own then allow him to such as you have done for me. Keep him company and make sure he wants for not. I will be there presently." The servant bowed and scampered off. Cleo shook her head Merit was always overly concern that she was not pleasing enough, she had been abused by her previous master and Cleo had rescued her and while she assured the girl she would never to beaten again no matter what mistake she made, the girl was overly caution. A grin flirted over her lips, she wondered how the boy was taking to Ife, who she was sure would be bedding the Chosen One before the following dawn. Ife was an alluring woman and enjoy the company of men. She did not forbid her servants to take men into their pallets and in fact encourage them to enjoy their lives and their bodies. Sex was a daily thing for Egyptians as was nudity. She had ensure that several men spent the night in her chambers from time to time to ensure her status though she had actually not had sex with any of them, slipping a potent drug into their wine that they feel asleep before much happen, when they woke they found themselves naked with her and assume they had coupled during the night. Ashamed that they could not remember the night they lied about the wonderful night they spent with the Princess. Needless to say none had been invited twice. While it was not a bad thing to stay 'pure' it was not the Egyptian way. ---- In her chambers the woman giggled, "our mistress has shared food with us before but we do not expect it from others Chosen One." Ife was close to Alexis, her hands running over his shoulders applying pressure to message the muscles, every once in a while her hands brushing seductive along his throat and hair. ---- Cleo swept through the castle preparing a feast for the even to present the Chosen One. She told no one the details merely saying a feast was in order to relay a message from Amun Ra that the entire city should be invited and to ensure the High Priest received an invitation. She smiled softly to herself as she spoke with the Captain about security for the night's feast, before ensuring music and entertainment.
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