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[b]Player Name:[/b] Erst [b]Pronouns:[/b] she/they/it [b]Time zone:[/b] PST (GMT-8, FR+0) [b]Roleplay Experience:[/b] Forum roleplays for about 6 years now, on and off, and a few tabletop sessions. [b]Do you use discord?:[/b] Yerp ----- ------ [columns] [color=transparent]One small sound, One small bite, One tomial tooth, One Loggerhead Shrike[color] [right][Size=4][color=#990D35][b]Character:[/b][/size][/right] [b]Character Name:[/b] Aleks Rurik Mikhailov [b]Age:[/b] 23 [b]Pronouns:[/b] He/Him [b]Floor:[/b] 6 [b]Alignment:[/b] Lawful Neutral [b]Politics:[/b] Publicly a Foundationalist, privately entertaining Zealot ideology [center][color=#D52941]~~~~~~~~[/color][/center] [right][Size=4][color=#990D35][b]Stats:[/b][/color][/size][/right] [b]Strength[/b] - physical strength - 10 [b]Agility[/b] - speed - 3 [b]Intelligence[/b] - book smarts - 4 [b]Will[/b] - force of will - 7 [center][color=#D52941]~~~~~~~~[/color][/center] [right][Size=4][color=#990D35][b]Skills and Abilities:[/b][/size][/right] [b]Strengths:[/b][list] [*]Gladiator - A fighter at heart, an indomitable spirit, and flesh that can survive quite the beating, just in general very hard to kill. [*]Survivability - Life has not been kind, so Aleks has adapted to survive in pretty much any situation, like a dandelion in a city sidewalk. He’s got a really strong stomach. [*]Catlike - very quiet walking, almost to the point of silence. The ring made him wear a bell for a bit. [/list] [b]Weaknesses:[/b][list] [*]Eyesight - half blind and lacking most semblance of depth perception, he’s got a tendency to bump into things. Aiming is a difficulty as well, but when you hit as hard as he does, where the hit lands doesn't matter as much [*]Bloodlust - Having spent so long in a violent setting, he’s most at ease in circumstances where blood is expected to be spilt, to the point if things have been calm too long, he’ll stir something up just so he's in a situation he understands and one where he can win. [*]Stealth - A ring fighter isn't very easy to hide and is very easy to notice. Metal parts shine, height sticks out, and he is in general bad at sneaking around. [/list] [b]Special Skills:[/b][list] [*]Machinist - Being almost half metal leads to being really good with robots and machines at some point. He’s capable of the complete upkeep of his limbs on his own and is capable of getting his limbs back on even when neither of his arms are hooked up. [*]Hunt - part of surviving is getting good at finding food and sometimes killing it. He’s also a decent chef, and makes a really good rat stew. [*]Recovery - Very fast to heal, the metal parts can just be repaired or replaced and the meat parts heal almost unnaturally fast. [/list] [center][color=#D52941]~~~~~~~~[/color][/center] [right][Size=4][color=#990D35][b]Inventory:[/b][/size][/right] [columns][item=Ivory Comb][nextcol] A small engraved comb/hair piece made of some type of bone. There are a few flecks of gold still left on the spines, and a bit of dried blood stains the teeth.[/columns] [nextcol] [color=transparent]A shrike is a small bird[/color] [nextcol] [right][Size=4][color=#990D35][b]Appearance:[/b][/size][/right] [b]Height:[/b] 7’2” [b]Weight:[/b] 253 lbs [b]Eyes:[/b] Storm cloud gray [b]Hair:[/b] Dark brown shot through with highlights. It grows white in some places. Aleks is plainly what he is, a monolith sculpted from metal and bone. Both arms and his left leg have been replaced with robotic prosthetics, as close to the top of the line as you can get without visiting a proper doctor and definitely somewhat illegal. Portions of his spine have been replaced as well, nubs of metal that peak through the skin. What is left is surprisingly healthy, if not covered in scars, musculature that for the most part doesn't show through, head above the crowd. Built like the long like of workmen he comes from, square and sturdy, the only sharp thing about him is his eyes and teeth. His face hears the worst of his scarring, the deep gouges from his childhood having never properly tended to, leaving him completely blind in his left eye and his teeth peaking through where his lips simply can't close all the way. Where his skin is not marred by scarring or replaced by metal, it is a warm olive brown, dulled by a lack of time under the mimed sun, yet still dappled with freckles, concentrated across the bridge of his nose and what's left of his shoulders. Aleks prefers loose flowy clothing, thick cottony materials, serving like the extra skin of a bulldog, left to confuse, oversized jackets, and tank tops. He avoids most jewelry, because it can become magnetized to his prosthetics, but can almost always be seen wearing his bone comb in hair left to grow long, slightly wavy, but kept up in a braid twisted into a bun. [center][color=#D52941]~~~~~~~~[/color][/center] [right][Size=4][color=#990D35][b]Personality:[/b][/size][/right] [b]Personality:[/b] Calm and detached for the most part, his attention is sharp and bloody. And yet, for all his blood, there is a kindness there, albeit buried beneath the hunger, a child striving to impress and protect those claimed as family. [b]Goals and Motivations:[/b] Above all, Aleks hopes to be able to return to his family, now freed of his ring and the stipulations that come with being a fighter on the better off floors. It's been well over a decade since he’s seen any of them, and he’s well aware he’ll be unrecognizable to them, no longer the bounding, wander lusting child, but rather something that moves like a predatory animal and smells like blood. Despite himself, he misses the days of coming home, covered in dust and scrapes, offering whatever meager scrap he's found to his family to sell. It's that, or raid the surface to find and kill the thing that took his eye. [center][color=#D52941]~~~~~~~~[/color][/center] [right][Size=4][color=#990D35][b]Background:[/b][/size][/right] A gutter rat from birth, Aleks managed to survive his first few years of life on floor 1, only facing a few disease and starvation scares. Raised by a rather large and mostly adopted family of miners and trash scavengers, he was expected to lead much the same life, covered in dust or rubbish to his inevitable death. It was in his eighth year of life when everything changed. Ever the adventurous child, he spent a lot of time exploring abandoned construction and forgotten rooms, seeking treasures to sell. Deep in dusty and cobwebbed quarters, he found his greatest treasure, a bone comb, dusted with gold in a half collapsed living quarter. But he had gone too far, too deep, and wouldn't make it home in time for curfew, and decided to spend the night there, wrapped in blankets that were half moldered dust. About halfway through the night, Aleks awoke to the sound of something dripping and a sharp, burning pain all through the left side of his face. When his fingers met his face to remove the intrusion, the flesh there gave like wax. Not even he is sure how he made it home the next day, a torn pillowcase covering the decaying half-face, still melting in places where a tick, black sludge caught in the folds, bone cob clutched in white knuckles, stained fresh with blood. The tunnel was gone the next day, but word still spread, in quiet places of the boy who survived what many thought to be liquid Null. One such rumor inspired someone wealthy to offer a deal to his family they couldn't refuse, thousands for the boy, to take him up a few floors and give him a better life. And for a while it was great, regular food, care, and education. He learned how to read here, math, history, manners, all for a few hours once a week of people putting their fingers in his faces, mushing about the skin that still acted like wax in some places to dig out the last vestiges of the melting goo. But, all good things come to an end, wounds heal, and funding dries up. Now stuck on the 6th floor without the funds to feed himself, much less go home, Aleks turned to the ever reliable market, the infinite demand that was the rich seeking less than savory entertainment. Places where sawdust coated the floor and people in masks cheered around a chained in pit for men whose only goal was blood. For the first year he wasn't allowed to be a fighter, but soon after getting back to real food, he hit his growth spurt, one thing leading to another, and sooner rather than later he became one of the rings favored fighters. And that's where he's been since. Aleks isn't certain how the Crucible found him, much less convinced his ring to let him go, but the prospect of going somewhere not infused with the smell of copper is fairly exciting. [/columns]

I adore him

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[b]Player Name:[/b] Star/Ren/Ruby [b]Pronouns:[/b] She/Her [b]Time zone:[/b] PST (UTC-8) [b]Roleplay Experience:[/b] I’m fairly experienced with written rp, been doing it casually for around 8 years though I’ve only really RPed long form on forums for 3 years. I’ve only played a few sessions of DnD online and have been trying to get more into them. [b]Do you use discord?[/b] Yes [rule] [columns] [img]https://i.imgur.com/AEhZBve.png[/img] [nextcol] [b]Character Name:[/b] Petra Graham [b]Age:[/b] 20 [b]Pronouns:[/b] She/her [b]Floor:[/b] 3 [b]Stats[/b] [i]Strength[/i] : 2 | [i]Agility[/i] : 6 | [i]Intelligence[/i] : 12 | [i]Will[/i] : 4 [b]Appearance:[/b] Petra stands at 5'06" and has a scrawny build. She also tends to slouch a bit, making her look shorter than she actually is. She has a light complexion and beady dark brown eyes. Her stringy auburn hair reaches down to her back and is usually pulled into two rough ponytails. It's rather messy and gets tangled easily, especially as she often forgets to brush it. She generally wears whatever is comfortable and can be seen most commonly in work clothes with her apron and steel toed boots. [b]Inventory:[/b] [columns] [item=titanium wrench] [nextcol][i]Multi-tool[/i] Built for tinkering and making things. It has many functionalities, like pliers, knives, screwdrivers, scissors, wire cutters, rulers, and a flashlight. [/columns] [/columns] [columns] [b]Background:[/b] Petra grew up basically barely scraping by with her family until her mother was injured and crippled in an accident. Her father became more and more desperate for work because of this, eventually taking work within the bot black market despite its dangers. Petra as well started to help out, especially as she was too weak to be of use with any kind of physical labor. It started with little things, adjusting parts here and there and making sure that everything fit, but it started to become abundantly clear that she had a great talent for engineering. Delighted to find something that she could do to support her family, she invested all her time in tinkering and learning more about Automata and mechanics, basically teaching herself through experience. She also helped make the prosthetics that her mother currently uses. Her family makes more money now, but even still the fluctuations in the black market make their work unstable. Petra eventually was able to find a broken down Automata when she was scavenging for parts to use. Her original plan was to get it to a semi-working state and then sell it off to some chump for an exorbitant price before it broke down. That way she could make enough money for her family to move to one of the higher floors, but it seems the Crucible has other plans. [b]Personality:[/b] Curious and scientifically minded, Petra loves learning new things. She has an almost insatiable need to learn more and always has a barrage of questions rattling around in her mind. She has learned that most people don’t like this side of her though and often tries to suppress this in social situations. She can also be a bit of a loner and has trouble forming strong bonds with others, considering that most of her social interaction is with customers and consists of analyzing how much money she can get out of them. As such, Petra much prefers staying inside either tinkering or reading any books she can get her hands on. She gets really excited over strange mechanisms and loves puzzling over and figuring out little gadgets. While her intellect and focus are some of her biggest strengths, she can also tend to overthink simple things. [nextcol] [color=transparent]_ [nextcol] [b]Goals and Motivations:[/b] >> Petra's current goal is to revive a broken-down Automata and get it to be her Beast since she’s fairly sure she’ll fail during the Choosing. >> Petra wants to make enough money for her parents to live comfortably in a higher floor. She has always felt somewhat like a burden because she was very weak. For most of her childhood she was unable to scavenge for scraps to support her family even when children younger than her were capable of doing so. >> Petra dreams about getting her hands on some Warrenite and tinkering with it, possibly even creating her own Automata. She still redesigns old childhood sketches and even though she knows it’s an impossible dream, it’s something she hasn't yet been able to let go of. [/columns] [columns] [b]Strengths and Weaknesses:[/b] + Mental math and memorization comes naturally to Petra and she has experience breaking down more complicated problems into smaller parts or mnenomics to make it easier. + A quick learner and can usually pick things up by trial and error. Most of her knowledge is self taught so she’s very good at reflecting on where she can learn more and how to go about it. + Fairly good liar. When she is in her customer service mode, she’s great at bsing and seeming confident with half truths. - Pretty physically weak. Though it is now much better than in her childhood, Petra still can’t do many strenuous tasks. - Nearsighted and definitely needs glasses. Petra has just been making do with her appraisal tools since she feels that glasses would be a waste of money. - Highly money motivated and isn’t a stranger to doing illegal or questionable things for money. [b]Special Skills:[/b] [list] [*]Petra can pretty much take apart and put back together most machines, being adept at fixing things and reverse engineering. She can also build things from scratch though she doesn’t have as much practice with that. [*]Petra is a great appraiser. She is best at figuring out the condition and worth of machines, but is also able to scrutinize tools and scrap parts. In addition to this, she’s pretty good at figuring out scams and has maybe up-charged some customers of her own. [/list] [/columns] [rule] [B]Beast Name:[/b] Ceryn [B]Pronouns:[/b] She/They [B]Species:[/b] Automaton [B]Appearance:[/b] Ceryn is made primarily of light metal with dark alloys around the rim of their neck frill and lower legs. She stands at 7ft tall and is generally built like an ungulate with long legs and golden hooves. She has a rhino like torso with a neck that leads into a triceratopsian head with frills and two short horns. She has golden accents and a long tail which ends in a grasping appendage. Her base weight is about 4500 lbs (200kg). [img]https://i.imgur.com/qFXQZGo.png[/img] [B]Stats and Abilities:[/b] [i]Power[/i] : 4 | [i]Speed[/i] : 9 | [i]Resilience[/i] : 7 | [i]Connection[/i] : 4 [B]Strength and Weaknesses:[/b] + Maneuverable and agile. + Actually quite adept at fighting larger enemies, especially ones used to being able to move or fly freely since her gravity manipulationg generally catches them off guard. + Generally built more for scouting and exploration. They can also carry a lot of resources and transport them relatively quickly. - On the smaller side for a Beast. They also don’t have a lot of raw power and rely heavily on their abilities when fighting. - Requires a lot of coordination and precise timing for many of their abilities. [B]Abilities:[/b] [List] [*]Gravity Module: Ceryn can control the gravity of anything within a 10ft radius of themself. They can make targets heavier such that they collapse under their own weight or become immobile. They can also make objects lighter and able to levitate. This includes themself. Petra has additionally created a targeting system that allows Ceryn to adjust the gravity of things within specific coordinates. This allows them to affect objects that are further or larger than their base radius but it takes time to coordinate and isn’t very effective with any kind of moving target. [*]Charge: Ceryn can move very quickly in one direction in a charging attack. Due to the speed and force, they are nigh unstoppable and will run over anything in their way. They can only do this for a few seconds before overheating and needing to rest, generally being able to cover 50 ft/sec (34 m/hr) with a maximum speed of 100ft/sec (68 m/hr). [*]Extra Limbs: Ceryn has 5 extra limbs, 4 on each of their legs and 1 on their tail. These limbs can move independently as well as extend and grab or hook onto things. They have a few practical functions like flashlights and welding tools. They can also detach and act as scouting drones. [/List] [B]Personality:[/b] Ceryn is somewhat cold and can be rather hostile towards humans despite being built to serve them. She feels that most humans are incompetent and holds a resentment over how she was basically abandoned. She dislikes being ordered around and has a streak of malicious compliance at times. Her control interface is also slightly faulty but it seems Petra isn’t very interested in “repairing” it. Despite their jadedness, Ceryn is fiercely loyal towards those that earn their trust. They generally have a cold exterior and express in a completely impartial manner, leaning into the completely analytical and robotic stereotypes. However, they do sometimes have slight moments of sarcasm and humor, though they often play it off as unintentional when this happens. [B]Relationship:[/b] Ceryn feels indebted to Petra for repairing them. They also admire her skill in technology especially as she is self taught. While they are protective, they show it more subtly, giving analytical tips and advice rather than stepping in directly in most cases. They are both Petra’s biggest advocate and biggest critic, often helping her when she’s inventing.

I adore her!!! She’s so friend shaped fjfjgjg

Ack dang it I was fencing but I might create a sheet here in a bit or tomorrow.

But umm... Do you care if I base a beast off of a creature from Monster Hunter? Not that I can't create an original creature or anything just that I have a couple of Rider OC's I could adapt rather easily. Including a rather blind gal with a similarly blind mount that has an extra sense that it sees with. (Gore Magala if you're familiar with it, if not I can explain my slightly modified variant of it for RP purposes.)

yesss, join us!!
and that sounds so cool!!

[quote name="SmilodonLady" date="2023-12-12 20:22:44" ] Ack dang it I was fencing but I might create a sheet here in a bit or tomorrow. But umm... Do you care if I base a beast off of a creature from Monster Hunter? Not that I can't create an original creature or anything just that I have a couple of Rider OC's I could adapt rather easily. Including a rather blind gal with a similarly blind mount that has an extra sense that it sees with. (Gore Magala if you're familiar with it, if not I can explain my slightly modified variant of it for RP purposes.) [/quote] @smilodonlady hi welcome! I’m not familiar with it, but I looked it up! I could definitely picture an amalgamation looking like that. When you finish your sheet I’ll invite you to the discord server, it’s easier to get a hold of me there if you have any more questions.

[quote name="DetectivePopcorn" date="2023-12-13 04:35:02" ] [quote name="SmilodonLady" date="2023-12-12 20:22:44" ] Ack dang it I was fencing but I might create a sheet here in a bit or tomorrow. But umm... Do you care if I base a beast off of a creature from Monster Hunter? Not that I can't create an original creature or anything just that I have a couple of Rider OC's I could adapt rather easily. Including a rather blind gal with a similarly blind mount that has an extra sense that it sees with. (Gore Magala if you're familiar with it, if not I can explain my slightly modified variant of it for RP purposes.) [/quote] @/smilodonlady hi welcome! I’m not familiar with it, but I looked it up! I could definitely picture an amalgamation looking like that. When you finish your sheet I’ll invite you to the discord server, it’s easier to get a hold of me there if you have any more questions. [/quote] Cool, that works for me. Now just gimme a bit to write it up.

Oh hey Smiles! I would say I'm surprised to see you here but this RP is also kinda right up your alley