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  1. Female
  2. Nonbinary
  3. Primarily Prefer Female
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Dark/Mystery/Drama/SoL Supernatural Town

Roseburn

OPEN SIGNUPS - Roseburn | OOC


On the surface, Roseburn is an old town where nothing out of the ordinary ever seems to happen, and if it does, you better not talk about it. That shadow outside your window wasn't really there, and those glowing, red eyes in the alley? Well, you must have been imagining things. For centuries, that is how the people of this town have lived, and for the most part it worked. Dig a little deeper, and you'll find the sweet girl next door is the definition of a monster, and that hot guy you've been eyeing in class probably wants to suck you dry. Take it how you want.

Our story begins shortly after a young girl's body is discovered in the woods. The result of some animal attack, or so they say. Detectives are left in a stump, and the residents of Roseburn are shaken by the discovery. Tensions rise, and people no longer want to turn a blind eye to the strange happenings that have long plagued their town. Some know of the secrets hidden in Roseburn and want to bring it to light, while others have lived in hiding for generations, keeping the peace and abiding by the laws set in place by man.


The roleplay

So, to start with, this roleplay will feature playable supernatural creatures who will make up the majority of the cast. There will be werewolves, witches, and vampires, who all coexisted peacefully, until one of their own was murdered. It turns out that the victim was a witch, and while the humans are mostly unaware of this fact, this basically destroys whatever bond the creatures thought they had. Long gone are the days where they watched each others backs.

The witches are looking at the werewolves and vampires as the suspects, and the vampires and werewolves are (possibly) trying to clear their name. I am also hoping to have around three human players whose lives get tangled up in the mystery and drama surrounding the victim and suspects. I do feel I should be clear. This roleplay isn't only going to focus on the murder. I want it to be something that looms over the community like a dark cloud while everyone tries to pick up and go on about their daily lives. There will be mystery, drama, action, and even romance, but rest assured, the murder will be solved. However, things won't end there.


What am I looking for?

Well, for starters, dedication. Dedication is very important to me. I have so much planned for this town and I am constantly adding to its history, but if you're not dedicated then we will only ever scratch the surface. I do feel like the image I want to be painted can only be achieved by folks that have a good grasp on writing, so I am seeking advanced writers. While I do value quality over quantity, you must be able to comfortably post at least two full sized paragraphs at a time.

I am also searching for one more Co-Gm to help drive the plot forward, plan, and bounce ideas back and forth. I'll only be choosing my third Co-Gm after I get the OOC up and all characters have been accepted, but you can show interest at any time. This roleplay will not be first come first serve, if you want to join submit a character when everything is done and I will decide if you're a good fit for Roseburn. I'm only planning to accept around ten main characters, but you are welcome and encouraged to create as many NPCs as you'd like.

Things to know!
  • Roseburn is going to be an old town with a population of around 15,000. Pretty much all of the architecture is gothic, and the people and technology are mostly modern. It's the sort of town where everyone knows everyone. The families that have settled there have deep roots, and rarely does anyone ever move. There is one of each type of school, including a university. Location is somewhere in Europe, I haven't decided yet. Ooops. :3
  • Werewolves can turn at will, and shifting often is almost a necessity for them. They are bipedal, and going long periods of time without shifting makes the process even more painful than it needs to be. The longer a wolf goes without changing, the more negatively their mood is impacted, eventually over time creating a very unstable and angry person. On the full moon, wolves are forced to shift whether they want to or not. They age very slowly, and non life threatening cuts and wounds heal within minutes.
  • Vampires do need blood to survive, specifically human blood, and animal blood just won't cut it. Though it can help control the hunger, human blood has the ability to restore a vampire to full strength if they drink enough, and offers euphoric, sometimes aphrodisiac effects. They have the ability to control the minds of weak willed humans, and command them to do things that may be out of character. Can not procreate. Stopped aging when they were turned. Possibly immortal.
  • Witches are humans with the ability to cast magic using spells, incantations, and runes. There are numerous schools of magic. Often times her magic is influenced by the element that chose her, but they can dabble in many different kinds. They age at a slower rate than non-magic humans. Witches always come from families of witches, though not all humans born to witches can use magic. Witch's must work for the rest of their lives to master their magic. Using magic can sometimes have negative effects on the witch, leaving them weakened, temporarily incapacitated, or dead. Most humans born with magic are women, but Warlocks do exist.
  • The main cast will be between the ages of 16-18, at least in appearance and they should all be attending school. The high school will be an important setting for our roleplay, but this is not a school roleplay. There will most likely be a map created of Roseburn and the different areas.
  • Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, are all natural enemies and the murder has put more strain on their already rocky relationships. It's up to you how your character processes this and handles their interactions with the others.
Rules
1. Obviously all Iwaku rules apply here.
2. I'm not going to tell you to do anything crazy, but GMs word is law. Please respect that, and your fellow roleplayers! I love drama, but it needs to stay IC.
3. To be apart of this roleplay and to continue participating, you must post at the very least once a week.
4. All posts need to be at at least two full sized paragraphs, with minimal typos. Nobody is perfect, obv. So I won't hound you about it, unless there are a lot of typos often.
5. No Mary Sues or Gary Stues. Be reasonable with your character creation, and be sensible when writing their strengths, abilities, and weaknesses.

This is still a WIP! Feel free to ask questions that I have yet to get to! Also, all face claims will be anime! Just thought I'd clear that up before anyone shows interest. :3 The OOC will be up when I feel the roleplay has garnered enough interest. There will be a separate thread for character sheet submission and approval.​
 
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Oh, wonderful! That makes me feel better lol.

Also, when can we expect the Character Sheet thread to pop up :o?
 
I'm working on that and the OOC right now. I'm going to try and have it up soonish. :)
 
Okiedoki, thank you!
 
Alrighty I've gotten a lot done. OOC and CS will be up within the hour. Though the OOC probably won't be finished till tomorrow.
 
@Sailor Moon

are we allowed to dress up our cs with bbcode or do you prefer it to be plain?
 
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One more question lol- so, all of the main cast is gonna be high schoolers, or can we have them in first year of university/college? I noticed that in the cs there's a section asking what grade the characters are in and it lists 10-12 and year 1-4 as an option, and I wasn't too sure how to answer it lol
 
@Sailor Moon

One more question lol- so, all of the main cast is gonna be high schoolers, or can we have them in first year of university/college? I noticed that in the cs there's a section asking what grade the characters are in and it lists 10-12 and year 1-4 as an option, and I wasn't too sure how to answer it lol

I preferred to have everyone being in the same school, because I think it'll increase the amount of social interaction possible if I had everyone in more or less the same setting at some point in the rp. Hopefully that makes sense.
 
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Gah, you got there just before me.
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ISAAC ALFAIRE
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"What? Is there something on my face?"

Medical
Birthday:
18 October 2000
Species: Warlock
Height: 164cm
Weight: 57kg

Legal
Grade:
11
Occupation: When asked, he claims to be a landscape photographer, but it's really more of a hobby that he occasionally gets paid for.

Personal
Personality:
Isaac can be a little stony around acquaintances, which seems to mask how laidback he is. If introduced with a group, he would likely be the unnotable middleman, but on his own, he has no shortage of character. He is particularly levelheaded, and his own natural calm seems to give him somewhat of a mellowing aura. Isaac doesn't mind excitement, but fundamentally values peace of mind. He possesses a dry sense of humour, along with a mysterious sense of amicability that doesn't quite qualify as charisma.
Positive Traits:
Reasonable
Sharp
Cordial
Negative Traits:
Disingenuous
Sarcastic
Manipulative
Arrogant

Abilities
Strengths:
  • Good at reading people and predicting their reactions.
  • Great capacity for logical reasoning, including the self-awareness necessary to recognise his own biases. This seems to largely mitigate effects such as a vampire's charm as well.
  • Excellent mediator and emotional/moral support.
Weaknesses:
  • Loses interest in tedious things very easily.
  • Perhaps as a sort of trade-off for his charm resistance, he has a notable vulnerability to hypnosis, only being able to muster up any considerable resistance when angry, which means pretty much never.
  • Despite being able to resolve the feuds of others, Isaac panicks when someone is upset with him personally.

Skills:
  • Resourceful and capable of thinking on his feet in a tight spot.
  • Has a simple defensive hand-to-hand fighting style that takes advantage of a good reaction time. Developed from scuffles that sprung from his seemingly cold demeanour, it is unorthodox but reasonably effective against superior opponents.
  • A surprisingly skilled photographer for an amateur with no training.
  • Despite an ineptitude when it comes to first impressions, persuasiveness comes naturally to him.
  • A skilled programmer, but largely held back by a lack of expertise. People often comment on his messy code.

Gift: 「Ichor of Lugh」 - Restoration (self)

Gift Description:
A passive "ability" that affects Isaac's blood. In reality, it is more of a disorder, locking an inordinate amount of magical energy into his bloodstream, even when he tries to use it. While this does give him slightly enhanced physical abilities and regeneration (similar to a weak werewolf in human form), it renders him a third-rate hack of a Warlock who has extreme difficulty using conventional magic. However, due to his incredibly potent magical blood, he is an almost priceless commodity among prey to extrahumans, especially considering a Witch's blood is of such high value under normal circumstances. Drinking Isaac's blood restores a vampire to full strength much faster than normal, and restores a witch's vitality both physically and magically, and even werewolves can ease their recovery rate with it. Isaac has wondered if these effects spread to his other bodily fluids as well, but the implications leave him reluctant to find out. He speculates as he gets older, more magical power will become trapped in his blood, so he will gradually and very slowly get more powerful, but finds it frustrating that there is nothing he can do to truly catch up with other Witches. Curiously, the "Ichor of Lugh", as Isaac himself nicknamed it, does not seem to be in its original state, but there is no trace of exactly what changed.

Miscellaneous
Attitude:
Humans:
"They're a little vanilla, but I have nothing against them."
Werewolves: "I feel an odd kind of kinship with them. Maybe it's because our powers are similar. I don't really like dogs, though."
Vampires: "I'm in a bad habit of constantly reminding myself about their charm. It makes it hard to tell whether or not I genuinely like them, but I try to be friendly regardless. I wish they would just ask to bite me instead of just using their powers to get their way, but I get the feeling that they aren't taking no for an answer if I tried."
Witches: "They feel about as close to me as werewolves do. I'm sure there are more callous ones who would like to dissect me, but I'm mostly just disappointed that I can't do everything they can. I would've liked a mentor if it had even a one percent chance of working."

Bio:
Isaac has lived in Roseburn his whole life, mostly trying to get by with his lack of power and gleaming cardiovascular beacon attracting unwanted attention. He has a vague memory of meeting a "large woman" when he was younger who he is fairly certain was a werewolf, and he speculates that she might have been the cause of his condition somehow, but he also admits he has no idea one way or the other. He has lived a largely human lifestyle due to his magic training being cut short by abruptly reaching his limits, so he has no special connections or even much knowledge of the "dark side" of Roseburn. To fill the gap it created, he took up landscape photography around three years ago, and has sold... some copies of his first anthology, as well as taking part in a few competitions where he would consistently place in the top five, but never higher than third place. He is still a student however, and he spent most of his school life staring out of windows in an introverted way... until a murder happened.

Sample post:
[bg=#cc0000]It was common knowledge that one could spot a main character in a classroom by simply picking out whoever was sitting on the third desk from the back on the left side by the window, so Isaac Alfaire had made a point of deliberately avoiding ever being placed in that particular seat, even having the relative fortune of being in the front row when sorted into alphabetical order.
It was not because he had any particular aversion to the idea of a lead role. He had a healthy amount of self-esteem, so he was naturally his own center of attention like any respectable sentient life form, with the possible exception of octopi, but he didn't exactly respect octopi to begin with.

That was exactly the problem. Not a lack of respect for octopi. Rather, being the center of attention would have gotten him eaten. As such, he had carefully, tactically positioned himself in the very back row in the very middle. A corner would have been suspicious enough, but the middle was just blatant enough to have him overlooked in almost all circumstances, and so he had made himself comfortable and gotten stuck into a certain PDF on his phone. The graphs hadn't rendered very well, but that wasn't much of a concern for him. He was more interested in the actual results of the survey rather than the topographical distribution of the people who took part. After all, "what are your favourite podcasts" wasn't really a complicated question.[/bg]


Relationships:
"I don't know anyone."
(subject to change)

Extra Info:
Nothing in particular.
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I'll resist commenting on character sheets until the index is up and more character sheets gets up :3 Very excited though!
 
Audition thread is up. Plz post your completed character sheets there. I will start reviewing any submitted characters in the next couple of days. :)
 
I suppose I should jump on this wagon
 
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Name:

Siegrid 'Sieg' Erickson


Birthday:
July 16th, 2001

Species:
Werewolf

Height:
5'9"

Weight:
152 lbs.

Grade:
11th

Occupation:
Butcher's assistant at the local meat market

Personality:
Sieg is very approachable, mainly due to her looks, and enjoys the attention she gets from them.
She is very easy going most of the time, though she is very proud.
Take a jab at her close friends or family and she will quickly jump to the
defensive with a smile on her face. Being a seventeen year old werewolf, she tends to be a

bit flirtatious and boastful when she feels like she has no competition, which is all the time
and will never back down from a fight.


Positive Traits:

-Intelligent
-Brave
-Protective

Negative Traits:
-Holds grudges
-Competetive
-Vicious
-Can be lazy


Strengths:
-Tracking
-Easy to talk to
-Will go to great lengths for the ones she cares for
-Physically strong

Weaknesses:
-Has a hard time keeping her emotions in check
-Doesn't commit to things easily
-Closes herself off when she gets in bad moods
-Most animals don't like her

Skills:
-Can talk herself out of most situations
-Very good at tracking and hunting with ranged weapons
-Trained in hand-to-hand combat
-High endurance as a human
-Enhanced senses

Gift:
Speed

Gift Description:
As a wolf, Sieg has incredible speed. This of course, causes her to be a bit weaker than
other werewolves, but not by too much. Her endurance falls a bit short as well and her attacks
as a werewolf work best in short bursts. The control of her shift is about 90%.

Though she hardly every loses control, if she shifts in an emotional state,
it's harder for her to focus and not let her emotions take over.

Attitude:

Humans: "Ah, they're not so bad. A little boring, maybe,
but I suppose that can't be their fault."

Werewolves: "Obviously I prefer my own kind when they're acting right."

Vampires: "They smell bad, like death. As long as they don't bother me or start a feeding frenzy
I could really care less. Though blood feuds are hard to forget."

Witches: "I find them a bit hard to trust. You always hear those stories
about how you meet a beautiful girl and then she
turns out to be an old hag."

Bio:
Siegrid was born into an old blood family of wolves that go back to ancient times when they were
still feuding with vampires. Of course she wasn't alive for any of that, but her great grandfather
would always tell her stories about the werewolf uprising and how their family played a significant
role in the treaties. When she was around seven years old, her pack moved to Roseburn by some ominous
call that they just couldn't seem to resist. It didn't take long to realize that the other inhabitants of the city
weren't all human. Even after all her years living there, she still isn't sure what draws so many
supernatural beings to Roseburn. All she knows is that the moonlight feels purer there.


Even though she's never really lived a truly human society, she adapted quickly. When she started
going to school, she made friends quickly and even though she was never scared of how
people would react to what she was, her family urged her to keep it a secret. When she was fifteen, she got

a job at the local meat market assisting the butcher. He taught her a lot about how to wield various
blades and let her take home some prime cuts at least once a month.

Sample post:
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This wasn't exactly how Sieg had imagined her day going. It's not that she didn't like spending
time at school, but not cleaning. Though it wasn't unusual for her to get detention, most of
her punishments were confined to study halls or finishing homework. It seemed her teachers
were starting to get a bit more creative since it didn't exactly stop her transgressions.

"I can't believe this." She sighed as she folded her hands on the mop handle she was holding
and rested her chin on them.
"Don't the janitors get paid for exactly this?"

"Well, maybe if you hadn't punched me in the hallway,"

Sieg scoffed before glancing to the right to see the boy she had 'assaulted' in the hall. "I don't
know why I got detention too. I'm the victim here. Just look at my face!"

"Looks better than before, in my opinion." Sieg smirked and shook her head before
she continued to mop the floor of the cafeteria. The boy just growled before
scrubbing down the tables.
"I think I did you a favor. And maybe it's because you hit me in the
back of the head with a football."

"Maybe you shouldn't be standing in the middle of the hall!" The boy retorted as he
threw the wet cloth on the table and Sieg turned to face him.

"What do you think the hall is for, idiot?!" The girl replied as she clenched her jaw. She took a few steps
towards him and the boy did the same.

"You two!" Sieg and the boy flinched as their teach folded her arms over her chest and frowned.
"Get back to work!"

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Relationships:
None yet.

Extra Info:
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Name:
Siegrid 'Sieg' Erickson


Birthday:
July 16th, 2001

Species:
Werewolf

Height:
5'9"

Weight:
152 lbs.

Grade:
11th

Occupation:
Butcher's assistant at the local meat market

Personality:
Sieg is very approachable and prides herself in being easy to talk to. She is very soft spoken
and easy going most of the time, though she is very proud. Take a jab at her close friends or family
and she will quickly jump to the defensive with a smile on her face. Sieg is also very charming and polite
which, in her own words, is to 'woo more women'. Being a seventeen year old werewolf, she tends to be a bit
flirtatious and boastful when she feels like she has no competition, which is all the time.

Positive Traits:
-Intelligent
-Brave
-Protective

Negative Traits:
-Holds grudges
-Competetive
-Vicious
-Can be lazy


Strengths:
-Tracking
-Easy to talk to
-Will go to great lengths for the ones she cares for
-Physically strong

Weaknesses:
-Has a hard time keeping her emotions in check
-Doesn't commit to things easily
-Closes herself off when she gets in bad moods
-Most animals don't like her

Skills:
-Can talk herself out of most situations
-Very good at tracking and hunting with ranged weapons
-Trained in hand-to-hand combat
-High endurance as a human
-Enhanced senses

Gift:
Speed

Gift Description:
As a wolf, Sieg has incredible speed. This of course, causes her to be a bit weaker than
other werewolves, but not by too much. Her endurance falls a bit short as well and her attacks
as a werewolf work best in short bursts. The control of her shift is about 90%. Though she hardly every loses control,
if she shifts in an emotional state, it's harder for her to focus instead of letting her emotions take over.

Attitude:

Humans: "Ah, they're not so bad. A little boring, maybe."

Werewolves: "Obviously I prefer my own kind when they're acting right."

Vampires: "They smell bad, like death. As long as they don't bother me or start a feeding frenzy
I could really care less. Though blood feuds are hard to forget."

Witches: "They can hardly ever be trusted fully. But they're not all bad."

Bio:
Siegrid was born into an old blood family of wolves that go back to ancient times when they were
still feuding with vampires. Of course she wasn't alive for any of that, but her great grandfather
would always tell her stories about the werewolf uprising and how their family played a significant
role in the treaties. When she was around seven years old, her pack moved to Roseburn by some ominous
call that they just couldn't seem to resist. It didn't take long to realize that the other inhabitants of the city
weren't all human. Even after all her years living there, she still isn't sure what draws so many
supernatural beings to Roseburn. All she knows is that the moonlight feels purer there.

Even though she's never really lived a truly human society, she adapted quickly. When she started
going to school, she made friends quickly and even though she was never scared of how
people would react to what she was, her family urged her to keep it a secret. When she was fifteen, she got a
job at the local meat market assisting the butcher. He taught her a lot about how to wield various
blades and let her take home some prime cuts at least once a month.

Sample post:
(Can be anything. Must be at least two paragraphs.)

Relationships:
(Optional)

Extra Info:
Transformation

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You can post your WIP in the index, even if it isn't finished :)

Up to you though
 
Still searching for folks! Promise it'll be awesomeee :3