Society 8 (accepting) OOC discussion

Its fine...since the seekers haven't really met with any members yet.

New Seeker here!

Name: Sev
NickName: the Engineer / the Mechanist

Gender: male

Age Range: 22

Appearance:
black hair'd male with a brown sheriff duster (the jacket)
and sheriff hat with a bandana covering his mouth, has light amounts of
metal armor on the left arm including some necklaces with the crests tied in
and hanging from it.

note: under the sheriff duster is a full set of soldier combat armor

Equipment/Abilities:
Magically infused rifle: this rifle is a one of a kind weapon that combines a combines both magic and technology into one, through it spells can be channeled into bullets making it possible to shoot blazing magical rounds across thousands of meters. Comes with a summonable bayonet for stabby stabby.

-the rifles rounds vary from every magic possible, mostly armor peircing combined with fire magic and ice magic

-When not in use the rifle does not exist, when in use the rifle is phased in
through magic directly into his hands.

-rifle's safety limits firing rate based on spell circle
fires like high power sniper when used for long range attacks, slow firing rate
fires rapidly when not used for concentrated magical long range shots.



Crest of the Forgotten: with it comes the power to summon an arsenal of flying magical seals giving the ability to boost the power of projectiles fired from the user and allies by floating infront of the users weapon, this increases the magical concentration to massive amounts giving his bullets the power to pierce mountains at lightning speeds. a total of 8 spell circles can be out at once and they can also be used to block incoming attacks and boost equipment efficiency.

Family seal: A seal kept within the family for a very long time that has few but powerful abilities, the seal gives the power to consult the dead and if the owner is in an extreme case of life or death, will give the user the power of his entire family all into one person.

Gajitron Multisectioned Monocle: yes, a monocle, not just any monocle however! this monocle was invented by the great technician Gaji, it has the ability to see through all stealth, multiple zoom function, lock-on capabilities and has zoom in equivilant to 2x/4x/12x
can also be used in combination with spell circles to zoom up to 1000x

note: the monocle is never seen unless used, when required it warps in pre-equipped.

hidden underarm multitool: a tool hidden under the arm that can launch rockets and be activated to summon a magical underarm mounted blade, also comes with a hacking tool to hack various consoles.

Orbital callout: summons a flying drone designed to kill and supress targets with its variable machine guns and hellfire missles, the drone is equivilant to the size of 1/2 a jetfighter and is designed to be able to dodge while firing.

Cloaking device: allows the user to cloak, however the cloak shimmers and the user can be seen partially while moving.

Microbombs: small rectangular blocks of bombs that can be thrown in clustesr to deter close quarter combat and to blow open doors and such.
comes in smoke, explosive, blinding and electrical variants.

Combat armor: secretly under the sheriff duster and such is a full suit of combat armor designed to help ressist melee strikes.

Pet dog Scruffy: its a pet dog, cute, cuddleable, good tracker, likes steak *while in combat or scared the dog likes to take the sheriff hat and play with it*


Personality: a serious and calm man, once you get to know him and his dog he is truly a kind and peaceful man who will do anything to defend his friends, his business side however, is somthing never wanted to be seen as its 100% straight to the point.

Weaknesses:: little to no close range melee defenses, relies heavily on his massive amount of magical technology for victory.

Special Abilities: Able to call in orbital strikes, drones, squad support.
the crest can be used to enhance the powers of all equipment used.

History: a mysterious wanderer who prides himself on getting the job done since birth, from a young age sev grew to be prodominant leader and master of combat as he won any tactical game given to him. This truly began to shine as when he was forced into a military academy for his brilliance, he quickly was recognized for his abilities and became a commander within days.

Now however after wars were fought and friends were lost, he's adopted the rule of strategy to use the craziest tactics in order to prevent casualties to his men, during one of the most daring missions required he risked his own life to save his men and was deported for disobeying orders.

Sev lives alone and travels the world in search of wealth and power as he has become a gun for hire with a technologically advanced mercenary group he's created consisting of thousands of soldiers,6 vertical space capable battleships *horizontal in space* and various hideouts, as the men are always prepared for battle, they can be befriended by others and asked for assistance, because having a friend in the skies is always a nice thing.

note: all magically infused weaponry is only used by the leader, sev (the engineer)


"When the dawn of destruction comes, the ones at the door will be the Engineer at his men to fight till the end." (unknown)


"Beware the mercs of fortune, where theres money to be made and power to be found, they're there and you should hope they arent after what you are." (Innkeeper)



note: can be edited to be more evil or good, whatever floats your boat

Looks good and I guess accepted!

On a closer examination, I do see many references to other stuff like Killzone 2 *cough*vertical ships!*cough* and anime???

Sev....lols, no mohawk for you....lols.

Hope you can post in the RP to help motivate everyone!

Name: Loki
Gender: Male
Age: ∞; appearance of early twenties
Appearance: 178cm, east asian, slender build, black hair tied into a short ponytail, usually wears a navy blue jacket, white t-shirt, black jeans
Belongings: silver necklace with a large jade ring attached to it. allows him to safely control his energy manipulation powers without destroying himself and/or others.

Personality: An everlasting existence has slowly made Loki arrogant, cynical, and cunning. He enjoys mentally manipulating humans and appears to do things for personal entertainment and nothing else. Loki has gained vast amounts of knowledge, experience, and skills, but does not usually feel the need to put any of it to use.


History: Unlike other immortals in the world, Loki not only has no end to his life, he also has no beginning. Even Loki himself does not remember exactly how he came to be. He has been present throughout human history, but rarely, if ever, directly intervenes. He has removed himself from society and has only recently returned to a world he left behind.

*plot spoilers*

One year ago, Loki was removed from his position as heir apparent to Evil in the Society. His place was taken by Shale, who appeared in this timeline and coincidentally happened to become Evil. Loki had once again planned to exile himself, but news of the missing Balance has sparked his interest.

Skills:

Immortal Consciousness - Loki's consciousness is not tied down to any one body. He is able to exist without a container for his consciousness, and thus can never completely eliminated. If his current body is destroyed, Loki can impose his consciousness into any life form nearby, preferably human.

Matter and Energy Manipulation - Loki is able to break down matter at a subatomic level and convert it into energy, as well as the other way around. However, this is a direct violation of the laws of Balance, which results in severe restrictions and consequences. Loki's ability to effectively manipulation matter is directly affected by time and level of concentration.

For example, it is possible to turn ten pounds of steel into a 100 megaton detonation, but would require full concentration for several years. This is because of the enormous amount of time it takes for balance to be reconstructed while the matter-energy conversion is underway. Speeding up the process will cause irreparable damage to Loki's consciousness.

Mutation Control - A minor ability related to matter and energy manipulation. Loki is able to consciously control the cell reproduction within his host body. This gives him the ability to change the physical shape of his host at will, but not the mass. It also protects the body from diseases and the effects of aging, as well as very limited regeneration capabilities after sustaining an injury.

Mind Domination - Thousands of years spent among humans has given Loki the ability control their minds. He is able to explore the psychology of a person extremely quickly, and control their behavior without the victim being aware of his mental presence.

Weaknesses:

Through Loki's immortality, he is able to see the grand cycle of time. He has seen history repeat itself countless times and has lost interest in the world. It is very rare that something will cause him to act. He feels little compassion for mortal humans because he is aware of their mortality. As a result, he has no close contact with any other person, leaving his mind vulnerable to instability.

Alright, accepted then. Remember the limitations of powers.

Moar ppl coming....update RP guys....

Name: Ven/ Nev
Gender: Male
Age Range: 18
Appearance (Build, hair, skin, clothes...):
Build: skinny, lightweight, slender
Hair:
• His hair is black
• Has bangs that cover halve of the right side of his right eye
• The hair on the back is spiked upward
• The hair on the top is spiked upwards but is pulled back a little
• The sides are buzzed
• NO BODY HAIR ex. Facial, armpit….pubic
Skin:
• Paled skin
• His right arm is tattooed with a magical black dragon that curls around his arm
o The eyes and claws are red
o Can hide at will (make invisible)
Clothes:
• Solid black dress shirt with first two buttons unbuttoned
o Sleeves are rolled up to elbow length
• White undershirt/tank top
• Black jeans with metal chains
• Black and white shoes
Miscellaneous:
• Piercings
o two metal helixes
o a cross shaped earrings hung from a chain on the lobe for each ear
• Studded belt with two holsters on each side with a pitch black pistol on each side
Personality:
Ven’s outer appearances suggest that he is a cool guy that attracts all the ladies, which he does. Ven however is a very manipulative person who has no interest in woman, especially the quiet shy ones. He has no compassion for woman willing to use them for his personal gain including for his own amusement. He even prefers to torment the shy ones. He has a dislike in sweet foods and prefers the high class menu. He is a very social person being able to befriend almost anyone. Even though he is easily angered, he has learned to not reveal any sign of frustration, however this does not stop him from choosing the scheme that will harm his opponents the most.
Ven is not the only one that inhabits his body, inside him is another persona that contrasts Ven…Nev. Nev sharing the same body as Ven attracts all the ladies, but unlike Ven he is very interested in them, well mostly their bodies. He is easily manipulated by woman to doing their bidding as long as there is sexual pleasure after. He prefers fast food as it is easily found and is quick to eat unlike high classed food which takes a long time to come. Nev easily shows his emotions very clearly, even if he probably should not .The one thing that Nev probably has in common with Ven is that he also prefers the path which causes the most pain for his enemies, but to a far greater extent. He will go to the point of forgetting his priorities and just slaughter everyone even if the mission is to capture the enemy.

History (short):
Ven had grown up living a rich life, until he finds out that he is about to be sacrificed by his own father in exchange for immortality. He made a deal with the demon that his father had dealt with and will become its vessel when the time comes, but until then they will become partners. Two years later he reads a report on a mysterious object that flew past the sky.

Skills, spells and abilities:
Chains of Life
Having dealed with the demon Nev, he has the ability to control his life energies. He can add “life” into himself by having Nev devour a human being. He will take the victim’s living chain and add it to his own. In other words it is like having more than one heart and whenever he is about to die he can instead sacrifice one of his hearts or in this case chain links. He cannot just devour a human and take its life chain. He can only take humans energies during midnight and the ritual lasts for an hour.He can only store up to a maximum of 5 extra chains. What he can take, he can also give. Ven can also give life chains to other people, but he must have total concentration. If he is stopped or loses concentration, it could shatter both all the chains of everyone on the end of the link. Giving Chains can only occur if the person on the other side of the link is about to die. Any limbs decapitated will not grow back but can be reattached by placing them near each other, this does not only limit replacements to his own limbs, but any limbs that were not originally his will transform to look as if they were his original limbs. This will prevent any special powers remaining in the arm to be kept.

Cloak of Shadows

Ven can have himself engulf by his shadow. This allows him to travel hide in other shadows whether it is the shadow of a building or an ant. He can only move to other shadows if the shadow he is in and the other shadow overlap each other. The maximum time he can hide in a shadow is for 39 seconds. If he were to stay in a shadow for any longer he will be ejected from the shadows and will be burned by any sunlight he comes in contact with. There is also a possibility of being trapped inside the shadows forever.


Weapon enhance

Ven can enhance his guns by engulfing them with his shadows or having them taste/touch his blood. When they are engulfed with shadows, even when they hit the shadow the damaged with be mirrored onto the real body. When they taste his blood, the weapon will be able to pierce through even metal. Each time a weapon is enhanced, they have to be unenhanced to be change into the other form. There is also a two second interval before and after each switch where he is unable to fire any bullets.

Demonic Blood

Having dealed with Nev he naturally heals faster than normal human beings. Also he is less susceptible to diseases and viruses. He will also have enhanced agility and has better vision at night.

Demonic Medium

At any time, Ven can switch places with Nev, allowing Nev full control of his body and will allow the full powers to be unlocked. During this time his earrings and necklace will glow white while the rest of his body darkens. Cloak of shadows will last twice as long and weapons enhance will have no interval or delay. His agility will also be enhanced even more and his physical strength will too .However Nev can release this anytime he wants causing Ven to take over again. This causes this ability to be extremely unreliable due to the fact that if Nev is uninterested he will release it. Also after this form is released Ven will become extremely fatigued to the point where he is about to faint. He can only last 60 seconds in this for before he is forcefully switched back out.


Weaknesses:
The main weakness that Ven has is that he has a low tolerance to sudden burst of light. Also all his abilities once known can become easily countered. One of his biggest weakness is demonic medium, even though it is extremely powerful, it is also the once that has the worst side effects. If he cannot defeat the person within the minute of activating it, he will become a sitting duck. Also Nev will only become interested if the fight is against someone strong, and even then there is a high chance he won’t even fight.

Looks fine so I'll accept.

Name: Zevaiel Keizar

Gender: Male(?)

Age Range: 10000? (Immortality)

Appearance (Build, hair, skin, clothes...): A fairly tall and lanky person but is much stronger than he looks, with short hair, jagged yet strangely clean teeth, quite disheveled rags for clothing, and a cape which is also, a rag, since all he needs is something to wear. He smells like he never showers, because he doesn’t shower.

Belongings:
• Sword decorated with glowing red hieroglyphic lines hung at his side without a sheath.
• Unknown amount of throwing projectiles on his body
• A small stopwatch that can tell the exact time, day, month, and year.


Personality: Random mood swings, usually bold snarking and having fun at expense of others. Easily provoked if not aware of provokation, actions unpredictable and involve a sense of style and hilarity.

History: He put himself under the guise of an assassin to evade a group of powerful cultists, who seek him out for unknown reasons from 10000 years ago. He cannot remember due to memory loss. He’s actively been evading them, and has succeeded in all his attempts so far. He has been able to evade them, and has been living peacefully (How ironic.) for a few years now.

Skills, spells and abilities:
• Immortality: Is able to regenerate ANY wound inflicted, cannot die for he will just come back after a set period of time, regardless damage done to him. If his body is not in one piece, it will seek to regenerate all the more intensely. Takes very long, ultimately causes incredibly agonizing mental and physical pain which increases in proportion to the time it takes to regenerate.
• Superhuman Traits: Zevaiel possesses no special skills or techniques, his speed and strength are unmatched by many, with high accuracy in each attack he performs. Appears to increase ad infinitum depending on his anger.

Weaknesses:
• Indescribable mental and physical pain whenever he’s trying to regenerate fatal wounds or find and reattach or regenerate a lost limb, and sleeping. Both invoke nightmares about the past 10000 years in his life where he experienced horrors even he cannot explain.
• His anger can grow to extreme proportions, his power replies by growing as his anger escalates, to the point his body starts to rip itself apart externally and internally, and his mind starts to deteriorate,

Simple, easy enough to understand him fully...and looks like he is related in powers with Loki in terms of immortality.....but still different. Accepted I guess.

How can us Society Members deal with the growing amount of seekers....hmmmm....

Keep in mind that although all parties are searching for balance, the seeker's interests may not necessarily coincide; The society is by far the largest organized party, followed by either MX corp (Calvin, Blue and A.C + Mercs) or Sev + merc corps.

EDIT: Society 8 wikia is now up. This is a resource designed to help you understand the various backings of the characters and organizations involved. Articles are to be written in a manner that is objective and not a spoiler. It is relatively empty, so help out by filling it in!
www.society8.wikia.com

This may not look like a summary, but if you are lost or can't keep up with the many posts, this will help:

Spoiler:

Merged double post. -Nico

Nico wrote:Keep in mind that although all parties are searching for balance, the seeker's interests may not necessarily coincide; The society is by far the largest organized party, followed by either MX corp (Calvin, Blue and A.C + Mercs) or Sev + merc corps.

I think what he means by the Society being the most important and involved, then with MX corp (some employees involved) to Sev and his Merc Corp.

I'm just going to say this now.

Guys, there are way too many immortals. I don't understand why anybody has a longer lifespan other than the Society members. It doesn't make sense. I understand that there are characters with backstories you have probably developped, but for the sake of the roleplay, please limit future characters to being... well... killable. It's not very fun if everybody can't die.

And this roleplay is largely taking a... mechanical route... I don't know, boys, (NICO AND ADAM LOLOLOL) I know you like it but we should try to keep this more about plot and action rather than gear...

I completely agree with Sora about the immortality thing, though I myself RP an immortal character. Call me a hypocrite, w/e

However, I am very killable. In fact, Aaron's Shale has already done me in once. I plan to die, a lot, as the plot goes on. So if anyone wants a fight scene where they get to kill a bunch of baddies, just let me know. However, I won't willingly lose every fight, cause that will just be ridiculous.

I was gonna add a limit to how many chains I can keep anyways =P