Utterly Mad

And the time has come to start ba new roleplay thread. Delving into the ever present highschool for the supernatural threads, I have found them...wanting. By being supernatural, they all too easily toss away all the things that make the supernatural interesting - that it goes beyond what is normal. Characters are only defined by how very eccentric their powers are, and the reaction to the fabulous and unnameable is reduced to snarky remarks. If everyone is special - no one is. Vampires and half-gods, sitting at a table with literal embodiments of abstract concepts, with a timetable filled with combat-classes (which indeed often seems to be the only class), quickly leave a sour aftertaste, knowing that a vampire used to be a noble and feared master of the shadows, a single one to center an entire campaign around.

This thread does away with that.

In here, you are normal humans, born into normal families, going to normal schools, that would probably think "combat class" is something that navy seals do, not high-schoolers. In here, the supernatural and occult is exactly that. Hard to grasp, and even harder to master, it ranges from "did anything happen at all?" to so mindbogglingly powerful that nobody could have ever dreamt of such a thing. And not because it has high numbers attached to it, but because it actually defies the laws of nature - something unthinkable. When it's not an army of undead, but a single animated skeleton that strikes fear and helplessness into the heart of men, only then will the noble necromancer be where he deserves to be again. Not a standard villain, who summons weak, worthless minions and regrets having chosen the wrong skill-tree, but a master over life and death, the final frontier that so many strife to master but never can.


And delving into the unknowable starts by revealing that indeed, this is not entirely freeform, but it has a system attached to it, with numbers and dice - but none of them are known to the players. The success - and the misfortune - of their efforts unfold in the game entirely. Nobody comes to this school as a master of shooting flames from their hands, nobody is master of martial arts, or hides their demonic bloodline. You are normal students, joining a normal highschool, and with no numbers to burden you, improvisation and freeform is basicaly your game.

As such, all the info I need from you is


Name:
Gender:
Appearance: (images or just description)
Backstory/Personality: If any.
Hobbies:
Strengths: (and be honest)
Weaknesses: (and be honest)
Grades:
Special: Even mundane characters might have something special about them. Note that something like actual karate skills, knowing basic latin/hebrew or access to a telescope etc counts as special.


While copious amounts of roleplay-time will be given, note that this is a plot driven game, and as such, I will limit character-spots to whatever number I feel will be good to handle. And I may or may not entirely ignore the usual first-come-first-serve basis, and cherry-pick what I think might fit best.

Also, feel free to use this time to thread-forming to post requests, regarding the tones of the game. Certain kinds of magic, lores and supernatural things you'd like to see explored, or that might add the most to your character? Now is the best time to give your input.

Spoiler:  A bit of an aside (hover to show)

So Duncan, you may ask, what about Outbreak and Skylines? Outbreak shall be updated as normal and Skylines has unofficially moved onto the IRC due to its fast nature. That and I need to roll in front of people to make sure they understand why they died. So yeah, enjoy the show.[/spoilers]

Hello, hello!
wip sheet, sorry

Name: Rosalyn Bishop
Gender: Female
Appearance: Rosalyn is young woman who stands about 5'6". She has long, brown hair that she keeps tied in a braid.  Her usual wear is simple, dresses and leggings or a blouse and jeans with a knit sweater or her favorite brown corduroy jacket.
Backstory/Personality: Rosalyn comes from a small, religious family. She feels sheltered and kept on a tight leash, but she's still nervous about tugging on that leash too hard. At school, Rosalyn often has her heads in the clouds, thinking about her writing or her books. Though she is smart, she often stumbles with her words and has trouble properly expressing herself.
Hobbies: Fencing, reading, violin, writing
Strengths: Deft, quick thinking, booksmart
Weaknesses: Naive, little practical experience, a bit socially awkward
Grades: Honor Roll
Special: Rosalyn has been taking fencing classes for as long as she can remember.

(Two should be enough.)

The poppies were in full bloom, on the colline the sang, covering the green of the hills in a red shadow of blood-like suggestion. This particular boil of Paris had seen its fair share of history. Once a hill for the most tenuousness, insidious criminals to find their end, pleading and screaming on the gallows, later the guillotine, the rocks looked for redemption, and an asylum was risen, to cure whatever was left to cure, in this city of light.
Forgotten by the wealthy, it fell into decay and rot, and eventually was forced to shut its gates, a cauldron of disease and other...more transcendent terror.

With that in mind, it seemed an unmentionable abnormality to see children, climbing the perches of the lower outer wall, smiling and laughing, as they jumped and sang, as l'école de la colline de sang
opened it's gates for the new school year. Once a place of death and madness, now a place of life and learning. That the children may steel their minds and their honor, to face the hardships of this world...


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Applause rang through the auditorium. The headmaster had given his usual, tiresome and extraordinarily boring speech to enter the year, and people had shout their joy to the world, free from this travesty. It was now that his secretary took the pedestal, to announce but one more thing.

"Quiet, quite please. Before you head out to your classrooms, be reminded again that this school takes pride in it's vast array of extracurricular activities. This afternoon in the yard, the schools clubs will introduce themselves to the first years, and those who which to change their current club. Joining a club is mandatory, so think carefully about what club you wish to join. That is all, I wish you a happy, and successful year."

Name: Auron Runewright
Gender: Male
Appearance: 5'3 tall, Auron appears kind of frail. He has dark brown hair and ice blue eyes. He wears a t-shirt, some jeans and sneakers. He appears to be a nerd.
Backstory/Personality: Always bullied in elementary, Auron mostly spent his time on his dad's computer. He learned how to program on it, and was eventually given his own computer. Some of his friends online were in this school, and said it's great, but didn't reveal the true nature of it. Auron eventually convinced his parents to let him apply for this school.
Hobbies: Programming, Gaming, Collecting "Mokyman" cards. (Totally not a ripoff of Pokemon)
Strengths: Smart
Weaknesses: Weak, Near-sighted
Grades: Above average for non-physical grades, below average for physical ones.
Special: Access to a 2000$ gaming laptop.

Auron eyes up and down the list. Hmm.. Robotics Investigation Group? he thinks as he almost crosses that option, and then notices the one labeled "The Occult Investigation Committee".
He was always fascinated about the occult and spooky stuff he found on the Internet. He decides to go with that instead.

Just waiting on the other two. If they don't post, then forget em.