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If you're reading this letter of invitation, then you have been cordially invited to enroll and attend the Mercury Institute School of selective learning on a full tuition scholarship!!! We have monitored not only your high school academic achievements, but we have studied your outstanding records in service to the public with some of your rare and uncommonly ascertained skillsets amongst all youngsters. You need not apply, you've already been accepted for accreditation for your time at MIS, if you were to so choose. MIS offers programs in all fields of study, plus "special" courses that are exclusive only to our institution! A little about our prestigious institution:
- We have an average acceptance rate of .1% , the most selective rank in the world, even among MIT, Oxford, and Harvard.
- Free transportation on air fare to and from your destinated hometowns for visits.
- Free room and board, meals, and miscellaneous fees needed for the complete scholastic experience.
- Over hundreds of community service, volunteer, non-profit, internships, athletics, and other extra curricular activity programs at MIS ripe for your choosing!!
- Featuring diverse cultures from all backgrounds, all learning in harmony and respect at MIS.
GET TO KNOW YOUR SCHOOL!!!
The Provosts: A council of the institutions' faculty and most stellar leaders headed by The Chancellor, known to be the founders and family thereof. They remain in the building the campus formally recognizes as "The Spire". They are the caregivers of learning and of education at MIS, and run the campus with you in mind. They handle the larger matters as their five advisors, The Star handle day to day operations. There are Provosts of each House-Faction, and one Chancellor who governs them.
The Star: The Star actually consists of a council body like The Provosts, but serve as the public voice and affairs of MIS students and campus. They are formatted as The Provosts are, with an advisor for each House-Faction, and a Head Advisor to correlate them all as well as general matters.
The Spire: The lead offices in which The Provosts and their advisors known as The Star reside while enrollment year of MIS is active. Here The Provosts receive student concern, affairs, and matters and regulate the traditional standards of MIS. Only The Star are allowed access, aside a few close faculty that works in administration. The Spire is the second largest construct on campus, behind The Turbine. It is guarded by MUST.
MUST: Mercury United Security Team. A private vector of MIS commissioned and managed by The Chancellor then The Head Advisor respectively. They are trained men carrying non-lethal rifle carbines called "Testlas" that discharge immense electrical streams through a target should danger and threats happen at MIS. Power ranges from taser shock, to full incapacitation, temporary paralysis, and even a comatose state.
The Turbine: The Turbine is a part of MIS tradition that has lasted for decades. It is a towering wonder in the middle of campus enclosed in the campus' inside dome courtyard. This is where all Freshman convene in order to be administered into their perspective House-Factions. It is also lore to have housed the very first class of students at MIS that was responsible for the creation of the House-Factions and it's stellar students. Lore is...The Turbine existed before MIS.
House-Faction: I think the kids are calling it "HouFac" these days...the House-Factions are not what defines you, but what associates you. You are placed in a perspective House-Faction after taking the META. The four traditional house-factions both represent the spirit of the student and the 'unique' nature of the student. Founded by The Provosts, the four house-factions (house as in family, faction as in cause) are as follows:
- Falcons aka The Falx - (Associates and learners of manipulation of the air/wind) Derived from the winged majestic beast not only of the fastest speed among all birds, but the most humble. [Carefree, Open, Lucid types]
- Jackals aka The Hounds - (Associates and learners of manipulation of earth/nature) Derived from the fusion of a wolf and dog, capable of honing their instinctive nature with that of refinement and nobility. The first to run in, but the last to lose a fight. [Loyal,apt,cunning types]
- Sharks aka The Jaws - (Associates and learners of manipulation of water) The feared and respected of the waters, the progenitors of emotion and drive. Independent, but strong in unification. Ever flowing as they are impactful. [Macho, driven, jock types]
- Bengals aka The Stripes - (Associates and learners of manipulation of fire) The heartily, but the extreme. The ferocious, but the mellow. A fiery grace that can only be measured by the will of that which the heart beats. Adapt to all, survive all. Tarnish none. [Passionate,willful,keen types]
META: Mercury Erudition Test Assessment. This is the test that all students must take upon enrollment in order to be successfully administered into a house-faction and begin their year. It consists of ten questions meant to test psychological and emotions stressors and aptuity. There aren't necessarily any right or wrong answers, but students in the past have stressed themselves even years after taking the META, wondering about the true nature of the test, noting that some students don't even take class on house days due to their test results.
Blankie: A MIS student that did not place in a House-Faction due to some peculiar test results on their METAs. Students have gossiped that it's due to psychopathic tendencies, lack of empathy, stupidity, etc. And others have lored something entirely different...that Blankies are actually a 5th HouFac entirely. For social standards, you DO NOT want to be a Blankie...
The Chancellor: The head of MIS and the leader of this fine campus and institution. He alone contains the prowess and traits of all house-factions that embody this prestigious establishment, as he feels, thinks, and moves as you do. As we all do. Long live The Chase!!!
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The usual rules apply. No godmodding, metagaming, which to be honest is improbable based on the balanced universe and orchestrated system that this rp presents. You may only be in one HouFac and cannot be transferred or such. Respect each other OOC, push each other IC. This is a very modern and realist universe despite the nature of the rp. Deaths, incidents, tragedy, all can occur if you're not careful. Romance allowed but not centered. Fade to black on anything extra please. Oh...
And get ready for the ride of your life.
Please download and complete your METAs so that you may be housed into your HouFac accordingly. You may attach it into your student file (listed in cast list thread) after completion.
The Mercury Erudition Test Assessment (META)((If you caught on, PM me. If you don't get it or have no idea what belongs in the seven slots, it's perfectly okay it is not a part of the official test nor does it affect the direct plot in any way.))
Hello! Dear Mercury students, The Star and the Provosts would like to congratulate you on your enrollment here at MIS. We believe in enrichment not only of the values of learning and progression, but of oneself in the notion of being truly extraordinary. Hope you didn't study! The META is rather intuitive and provides insight as to the persona you share within your psychological, and emotional spectrums. Do not think too hard, nor too lightly, just answer with your instinct and intuition. There's also a 'surprise' in the test, so the best of luck! WELCOME TO MERCURY!
1. Scene: You're on a roller coaster, the wind brushing through your hair and aura with bliss. You look to your left and it's the person you love the most. They smile at you and thing couldn't be any better. The rail connecting to the ride chassis overhead snaps and severs connection, the rollercoaster is riding on one rail now. The screams fill your eardrums. Look to your left, see the face of terror, the face of impending death. The coaster turns a roundabout and flips over from the rail, losing course and braking just in time to not crash off and down into the ground hundreds of feet below. Look to your left, no one is there. Look at your feet, they are holding on for dear life. Your seat holder begins to snap. One tiny motion, you fall. You are off the edge, you cannot climb back, There are no screams. Just you, and them. What do you do?
2. Promises: Do you break them?
3. Inside a home you sit in a dim lit room. You were adopted, and your biological family decides to agree to the visit you requested. Your adoptive parents have been nothing but doting and loving your whole life. Your adoptive family sees you as blood. You meet the biological family. They are charming, they are loving, and they shed tears of joy as they embrace you in their arms. Siblings, parents, everyone just crying over you. Just you. The room lights up. The biological family wants you to come with them. Your adoptive family is extremely poor, the love has never been enough to pay for a stable life with luxury. Your biological family is very wealthy. They want you to live with them and start the life you were supposed to, they promised you your greatest dream that your adpotive family could never give you. What do you do?
4. Day of your first date.You have a spouse. They begin to hold your hand in public. As you walk they wrap their arm around you as the public eyes you with desire. Your spouse territorial like keeps you close. Your spouse begins to kiss you aggressively, claiming you. The people show repulsed looks. What do you do?
5. Enlightenment took a turn for the worse. Your father just had an affair on your mother with your favorite teacher. You saw them. You and your father are the best of friends also, he was your world before you saw him with your teacher. He confides in you and tells you to vow not to tell your mother. Your teacher leaves and moments later your mother comes home, happy and grateful to her family. What do you do?
6. Running on the fact your uncle has four nephews/nieces answer their names: Earth, Fire, Water, and ______ ?
7. Zen: Categorize your personality alignment with the following terms associated with comic book characters: Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil.
[Loading Virtual-Cognition Protocol......]
((You are now in the actual situation. This is no longer written. You can barely separate reality from virtual simulation. You feel, you taste, you react.))
8. Nothing but sand. Sand dunes surround you, and a horde of other people all pile up at the bottom of the dune in a collection of cheerful screams as they chant your name. A man with a hat and glasses smiles at you as he pats your shoulder for you imminent service to the people. A lone wooden pillar stands at the top of the dunes, with a sweaty, dehydrated female tied to it, crying. He hands you a magnum, loaded with only one bullet. The crowd in front of you rages in your favor, respecting you for what you're about to do. She was accused of killing the people's president, stabbed him with a knife 71 times in his torso, or what's left of it. She was found in his room not even 10 minutes ago, the knife on the floor at her side. The man in the hat backs up as she writhes in anger at him, repeatedly yelling that she's going to kill him over and over again. She struggles to get free, the sweat pouring down her face of fatigue and her once pristine shirt now smothered and covered in sand and dust from the winds all around. Her tied hands weak and sore from the cloth trapping and binding them, covered in dust as well. The man in the hat raised his hand with a shout, as the crowd joins him in their excitement at the imending death of the seen anarchist. The female eyes you with tearful eyes of rage. Her adrenaline matches yours in a standoff of hearts. She breathes heavy, your heart pounds. You grip the magnum and?
[Next simulation]
9. You're falling to the ground from the window of a 20 story building, you have no parachute, no safety net. Nothing. Just the inevitable. Nothing to break your fall. Gravity is the same, as is physics. Nothing spontaneous is going to happen to you, just free falling mid-air. You....?
[Final simulation]
10. You awaken in the middle of a room on a pressurized plate, with no way out except through glass shutters in the four cardinal directions. The room is pale with cold stone all around. Cobwebs are thick and ridden all over the drab area, in fact you are wrapped in a web currently. You cannot walk, nor run, only hobble. Your mouth is concealed. However, behind those glass shutters are each of the corresponding: The east shutter contains nothing but the sky and clouds behind it, but a large, prowling falcon that stands at eight feet with a twenty foot wingspan eyes you with ferocity, ready for the shutter to lift. In the south shutter, behind it lies a dense jungle, with lush and thick plants and trees. You can see a bengal step from the jungle, approaching the shutter, growling at you, mouth seeping drool. It scratches the glass in yearning desire to kill. In the west, behind the glass is nothing but water, what seems to be miles and miles of underwater. A great white shark zooms by the glass every now and again, it's black eyes staring into your soul. And in the north, nothing but a vast outback. A barren land, where a pack of jackals all bark and prance on the glass like wild maniacs, saliva falling from their jaws as they lust the taste of flesh. A holographic screen appears in front of you, counting down from one minute after hobbling off the center plate. You knew that all shutters would open when the timer hit zero. Or...you could voluntarily drag yourself to one particular directional shutter and step on the plate in front of it, opening one shutter and locking the rest, but you'd be faced with the dangers that direction holds directly. You have a minute and counting...
What is your destiny?
[End.]
((You are back at the test screen now))
We thank you for your cooperation! We wish you the best in your current year at Mercury Institute School! You may now log out. Unless?
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Adhere to the House-Faction Elemental abilities as follows, the number besides the ability indicate what year these abilities are learned/available:
Bengals:
Create/Generate/increase, absorb, shape and manipulate fire.
- Burning/Melting - 1
- Fire Negation - 1
- Thermal Manipulation, able to absorb and store heat in basic to advanced nature systems. - 4+
- Molecular Speed Control through the use of heat - 4+
- Fire Attacks - 1
- Increased Body Heat to burn off disease and even minor injuries
- Heat/Fire Immunity, even at solar temperatures. - 1
- Welding/Transmutation through molten heat application - 3
- Body Heat Absorption/Inducement - 2
- Radiation Absorption/Inducement - 3
- Pyrokinetic Constructs, including weapons, walls, armor - 1
- Move/lift fire at nearly any speed. - 3
- Pyrokinetic Flight - 2
Sharks:
Create/generate/increase, shape and manipulate water.
- Control ocean currents. - 1
- Flood Creation - 2
- Manipulate tides. - 2
- Underwater Breathing. - 1
- Water Separation - 3
- Density Manipulation/Water Solidification via controlling water molecules. - 2
- Harden and enhance the body by collecting and manipulating water pressure within it. - 3
- Hydrokinetic Constructs, including weapons, walls, armor - 1
- Move/lift water, ice, vapor, etc. at nearly any speed whether in/on surface, air or water. - 3
- Hydrokinetic Flight - 3
- Hydrokinetic Surfing - 1
- Water Attacks - 1
- Water Jet Speed - 4+
- Water Purification - 1
- Water Walking - 2
- Viscosity Manipulation - 3
Jackals:
Create/generate/increase earthen materials.
- Shape, compress, and/or otherwise manipulate earthen materials. - 1
- Polish stone/metal. - 1
- Repair objects of earthen material. - 2
- Sharpen/dull stone/metal objects. - 1
- Burrowing with choice between simply gliding through earth or leaving a tunnel. - 2
- Cause Avalanches, Earthquakes, Mudslides or Quicksand. - 3
- Earth Attacks - 1
- Move/lift earth, rocks, boulders, and stones at nearly any speed whether in/on a surface, air or water. One could even do this in a vacuum of space if one has a way to survive the experience. - 4+
- Geokinetic Flight - 2
- Remove and/or purify the pollutants. - 2
- Tectonic Plate Manipulation - 4+
- Terrakinetic Constructs, including weapons, walls, armor - 2
- Plant Manipulation - 3
Falcons:
Create/generate/increase, shape and manipulate air and all forms of wind from tornadoes, hurricanes, vertical drafts, micro-bursts and other devastating forms of wind. Naturally can also create any less extreme air/wind movement.
- Aerokinetic Flight - 1
- Air Walking - 1
- Repel projectiles by controlling air vectors. - 2
- Manipulate Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Gale Winds, and wind booms. - 4+
- Air Attacks - 1
- Air Solidification, and Pressure Manipulation via controlling air molecules. - 3
- Aerokinetic Constructs, including weapons, walls, armor - 3
- Crushing by increasing air pressure. 4+
- Vibration Emission by releasing bursts of compressed air molecules. - 3
- Atmospheric Adaptation - 1
- Electrical Immunity by using the air to insulate electricity. - 2
- Enhanced Senses using air/wind:
- Enhanced Hearing by amplifying air molecule vibrations. - 1
- Enhanced Touch by reading the airwaves and feel any disturbances. - 2
- Enhanced Speed by reducing air resistance and utilizing pressurized air for propulsion. - 2
- Jet Propulsion by using compressed air pressure for supersonic bursts. - 3
- Manipulate the various gaseous molecules within the atmosphere for various effects. - 2
- Deoxygenation by removing the oxygen in the atmosphere. - 4+
- Purification of the air by removing hazardous molecules. - 2
- Rot/Rust Inducement by oxidizing the target's area. - 1
- Vacuum Creation by removing all air molecules out of the area - 4+
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Name:
Age: [18-25]
Classification: [Freshman-Senior; longer than four years is Senior+]
Height:
Weight:
HouFac: [Take the test and await results]
Hobbies:
Skills:
Pros(5): [five positive personality traits]
Cons(5):[ " " negative "]
Appearance: [Real pic; realistic pic]
Bio: [Not going to be that person asking for a million paragraphs, but put what the character's basic bio and life is or has been about, and what they wish to gain upon attending the school.]
chosen1 - Reneza Locke {Blankie}
Bugsy - Dallas Robertson {Stripes}
Satan's Mistress - Alexandria Hail {Jaws}
Luxii - Kim Jongdae {Falx}
Shattered - Bash Heart {Jaws}
Shan - Connie Erichson {Falx}
Yuuki - Val Belanger {Hounds}
Symphoni - Emilie Delacour {Jaws}
Warm Regret - Vaun Jollery {Blankie}
Shayla - Sun Fujitsu {Stripes}
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