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Labyrinth City RP
You know who we are. We know who you are. No one has ever seen us, no one ever will. But you know us, in the very back of your mind, you know who we are. We sneak into your nightmares while you sleep. We tread silently under your floorboards, but you never know we're there. We now offer you a once-in-lifetime opportunity. Meet us at Fifth Avenue East; you'll know where we reside. 12:00 A.M. Tomorrow. At the stroke of midnight. Look under the blue manhole cover.
P.S. Don't be late.
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The note strikes you as odd.
You live in Horack City, a regular city, skyscrapers lining the horizon, clean cars roaming the well-paved streets. That's the good part of town. You live in what's known as the bad part. Typical; tall brick buildings squashed up against one another, dark back alleys and side streets, contrasting the forlorn grey sky. It seems never to change. The clouds are seemingly glued into place; never moving, hardly even raining.
Ever.
You live out your days in a worn grey hoodie and ripped up jeans, eyes downcast, wandering the side streets and back alleys to and from school. Your only pastime is hiding in corners, listening to conversations and watching people argue while you cower behind gutter spouts. They've never noticed. It's all you're good at.
You've always hoped to find out about a special talent of yours, something that makes you different. Maybe you'd be able to tell time exactly, without ever seeing a clock. Maybe you'd be able to see the truths, or lies, where others couldn't. Maybe you'd get invited to join a secret society and change the world. But you're used to dreams not coming true. You've taught yourself never dream, for it will only become the echo of a forgotten song. By what you know about this city, the only things that can get a person out of the mud puddles and side alleys is a fair pitched singing voice or a well played card.
But you know you're different, deep down.
Strange things have happened in your minds eye, but your mind won't turn them over and over and over again. Because that produces answers. Answers that your mind doesn't want you to know.
What you don't know is that there is an underground city beneath your feet; called Labyrinth City, it is full of criminals, Pirates, and vigilantes who've changed their ways. But the city wouldn't accept them, so they made their own city. They even now tread under your floorboards at night, scrounging for food and supplies. And they need talented children to join them. Children like yourself.
Something else you don't know is that you may be a cyborg, shapeshifter, or have special powers and abilities. They just have yet to surface.
Just like the wind that blew your hair from you face, then stopped suddenly, but not before you glimpsed the note. You hate to worry your parents like this, but nevertheless, you know where you'll have to be at midnight tomorrow.
And you're ready.
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Okay! I think this is my 3rd, 4th, RP, but all my others have died! Gasp! So, please keep this one alive!
Here's the plot:
You've already heard half of it. You live in Horack City, you find a note inviting you to a meeting at midnight. Basically, what you don't know, is that under the 'blue manhole cover' is an underground city of thieves, vagabonds, and pirates. Only they've changed their ways. But not being accepted into the above city because of their backgrounds, they built their own. At night they sneak under floorboards and between houses, looking for spare food and provisions. They plan to transform their city. I need a little help on the rest of the plot, though. So any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Everyone that joins is either a human, shapeshifter, or cyborg. Here are the options.
Shapeshifters: Only four please, and only one of each. You can be a....
Shadow Wolf (black fur, dark eyes, agile build, can blend with shadows and manipulate them)
Frost Panther (white-blue tinted fur, sapphire colored eyes, can create ice, snow, and frost and withstand cold temperatures.)
Winged Stallion (chestnut or oak colored, white wings, can fly, basically a pegasus)
Ignis Bear (red or orange tinted fur, can create fire, walk in fire, create heat, and create light)
Note: No shapeshifters are in complete control of their powers. Think Elsa in the beginning of Frozen. This way, no one will be OP. No shapeshifters even know about their powers until we are into the RP.
Cyborgs: Again, only four, and only one of each type.
Metallic (your body is made of metal that looks and acts exactly like skin. You can withstand more than a regular human)
Techie (you have extra technology virtually built into your body. For instance, you have a keypad inside your brain that people can hack into [though it's very complicated and virtually impossible] as well as scanner eyes.)
Robo (you are part robot. You might have a computer system in any part of your body, as well as talk and move strange)
Half Steel (you have some steel body parts. It can be an arm, a leg, an eye, anything you choose. They aren't visibly steel until later in the RP though, because of high tech coverings that you don't know exist)
Note: Again, the powers are limited. And you don't know about them yet.
Humans: four types, one of each.
Mind Reader (you have very limited mind reading/prediction skills.)
Levitator (you can levitate from the ground for short periods of time.)
Time Warper (you have very limited time warping skills, as in you can replay a few seconds from the past, or make yourself one or two days older. You can also tell time exactly. )
Truth Seeker (you always know what's the truth and what's a lie)
Note: see previous note.
Regular Human: four, one of each.
Nerd (knows a lot, reads a lot)
Tech Nerd (can work and build technology)
Riddler (clever, solves mysteries and riddles easily)
Agility Freak (backflips, handstands, karate, you name it)
Note: these are normal humans, but very talented.
Remember LIMITED POWERS. That's the key.
Here's the charrie sheet!
Name:
Gender:
Age: (13 and up please)
Species: (Human, Shapeshifter, or Cyborg)
Appearance:
Appearance as Shifted/Cyborg: (optional)
Personality:
Most Often Seen:
Likes:
Dislikes:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Powers/Abilities: (see above lists)
Backstory:
Here's mine!
Name: Ariana Graldë
Gender: Girl
Age: 15
Species: Shapeshifter (Shadow Wolf)
Appearance: Long black hair, usually tied up in some kind of complicated knot. Pale skin, almost silver in the moonlight, one green eye and one gold eye, both cold and menacing. Tall and slender, agile. Wears black boots with brass buckles, black leather vest over a red and black striped shirt, black gloves, sparkly gold leggings, and dragon scale green eyeshadow.
Appearance as Shifted/Cyborg: Long black fur, one green eye and one gold eye, both cold and menacing.
Personality: Seems cold and unfriendly at first, but is a good friend once you get to know her. She might look like a rebellious teen, but she really just has an unfriendly stare and likes black. I'll develop her more in the RP.
Most Often Seen: Doing dangerous tricks such as flipping off of rooftops at night, and sneaking around.
Likes: Dark Chocolate, the color black, wolves, shadows, justice.
Dislikes: Criminals, bullies, injustice, wimps.
Strengths: Agility and Gymnastics. Some fighting. Sneaking.
Weaknesses: Dark Chocolate, Cute Puppies (though she'd never admit it).
Powers/Abilities: Shapeshifting, blending with shadows, manipulating shadows.
Backstory: Mom died, was raised by her father in the sewers, they on,y come out at night. He was one of the founders of the Labyrinth City.
Rules:
-No OP charries please.
-Not a lot of crushes, please. Everyone needs to become pretty close friends in this RP, but I don't want any love triangles.
-Again, LIMIT your powers, people.
-Only 16 people can join, then after that, we'll see. Just request after that. We will start after we get two of each type of charrie.
-We'll start with one charrie per person.
-I'd like developed charries and detailed, well written posts.
-Don't join if you aren't going to post often.
-Have Fun!
submitted by Leeli
(January 19, 2017 - 1:02 pm)
(January 19, 2017 - 1:02 pm)
Oh man! I really would like to join this RP. If it's okay, when the story starts my character lives in the good side of town but will eventually go to the bad one.
Name: Lucas Mende
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Species: Shapeshifter, Frost Panther
Appearance: Tanned skin with freckles lining his arms and face, dark blue eyes that have a glint to them. His natural hair used to be ginger, but he bleached it to a whitish-silver. Wears very sharp and fancy clothing, though nothing Victorian. Favors the colors blue and white, and his clothing is always ironed and pressed. He's fairly tall for his age, about 6' 5'', and built lean.
Appearance as Shifted/Cyborg: Short and neat fur with a distinct white star shape on his forehead and a long white tail. Sharp blue eyes that seem to be judging you.
Personality: Cold and arrogant, close-minded and self-absorbed, intelligent and calculating, considers everyone who's not rich and on his level to be heathens, (would probably infuriate someone like Ariana with his smugness.) Kind of a brat, but he'd probably be taught his place on the streets. Carries himself around with a confident air. Not afraid to say something out loud, but still considers the repercussions of his actions.
Most Often Seen: In the rich and clean part of town, high in his apartment. He's taught by a private tutor, so there's no need for him to go to school.
Likes: Wealth, cats (has his own, a Siamese named Belisama), winter and chilly days, the smell of lavender, lemon flavors.
Dislikes: Dirty things, sewage as well as downtown, dogs and wolves, loud noises, stupid people.
Strengths: Intelligence and ability to predict things. He can't read minds or see the future or anything, but he could sketch out in his mind how a situation could go. He'll sometimes mess it up, though, by other people being *gasp* unpredictable! How dare they do that. Very rich, has a lot of powerful connections.
Weaknesses: Arrogance and self-absorption. He can't see past his own nose, and doesn't like to think that someone could be right, and he could be wrong.
Powers/Abilities: Shapeshifting, has ice/snow/frost powers, and can withstand terrible winter days and even blizzards. He always wore a light dressing when everyone else was bundled up. So far, he's never shapeshifted, but has always been able to withstand more cold temperatures than other people. He has yet to actually turn into a frost panther.
Backstory: Was born to a very wealthy head of an oil company, and his mother inherited riches from her parents. He grew up surrounded by splendor and always being told he was magnificent. However, (as this story starts, he'll be living with his parents but this will happen once we begin) his parents suddenly fall ill and are confined to the hospital, and Lucas is abruptly sent downtown to live with his aunt. It was a huge change for him.
Excited!!
(January 19, 2017 - 3:35 pm)
Also, the first seven people to join get to make an extra charrie who is a vagabond, parasite, vigilate, or their who already lived in Labyrinth City.
(January 19, 2017 - 3:50 pm)
(January 19, 2017 - 6:51 pm)
(January 19, 2017 - 8:54 pm)
Name: Iris Berdinetchi
Gender: Female
Age: 14
Species: Human; Time Warper
Appearance: Long, slightly shaggy dark hair that really needs cutting. Almond shaped eyes of a peculiar blue shade almost purpley. Average hight, slender build. Wears unremarkable loose jeans and hoodies and all her clothes look like they could stand to be washed a bit more often.
Personality: Difficult. She is prickly, and when insulted will refuse an appology for a long time, until the hurt wears away. She is withdrawn and very hard to get to know. But underneath that angry, porcupine-esque persona there is a kind, loving heart that has been hurt too many times. She wants to trust, but won't let herself. The trust has been almost trained out of her. She is surprisingly smart.
Most Often Seen: Huddled in the farthest corner she can be away from everyone without drawing attention to herself. Listening to music on her little battered generation two ipod, which is her most valued possesion. If you are very quiet, or just very lucky, you might see her in a deserted little park or back alleyway, singing her heart out. However, you'd need more than a little luck to keep her from slapping you in the face if she found out someone had seen her at her most vulnerable.
Likes: Singing, music, and is actually very good with babies.
Dislikes: Adults, anyone over the age of six (with a few very special exeptions), raised voices, people taking an interest in her
Strengths: Being unseen, running, fighting
Weaknesses: The few people she trusts can get her to agree to almost anything, and she'd do all she can to protect them. Small children are also a way to get through her tough, prickly shell.
Powers/Abilities: She can exactly replay things that have happened around her in her mind up to about three minutes in the past. It gets fuzzier and fuzzier the farther back you go. She also has a photographic memory (not sure if this counts as a super power) and always knows what time it is.
Backstory: Has been in foster care since she was little and doesn't really remember much of her father. All she knows about him is that he gave her to foster care a few years after her mother... died? Left? She knows, remembers, and cares nothing about her mother. She sees her father as the first one to betray her.
(January 19, 2017 - 11:45 pm)
Name: Nomad
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Species: Normal Human, Agility Freak
Appearance: Black Hair, brown eyes, and angular features. Has a scar over his left eye. Slightly tanned skin from sleeping on roofs, tall. Wears a red shirt with a black hoodie, and black leather gloves and boots.
Personality: Impatient, but relaxed.Never really takes anything seriously. Likes to joke around alot, but never has anybody to joke to. Lonely, and talks to himself a lot.Likes the company of other people, but people don't really like the company of him. Doesn't like to trust people.
Most Often Seen: Sitting or sleeping on the rooftops of tall buildings.
Likes: Running, Jumping, Joking, Company
Dislikes: Bananas, trusting people, Jerks,and Loneliness
Strengths: Strength, Reflexes, Optimism
Weaknesses: Trust, Loneliness, Taking things seriously
Backstory: Abondoned by parents in a different city known as Glass, and was raised by a renegade team known as runners, who run around the city, trying to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship that runs the city. Eventually, they tryed so hard, they were kicked out of Glass and sent into the Badlands, but escaped the prison bus, and made their way to Horack. Nomad seperated himself from the goup with his freind Faith, and has sinse been looking for a way out.
Other: I am going to add Faith later if I can.
Whew!... That was exhausting!
(January 20, 2017 - 7:02 pm)
Okay, so this thread starts with ... Which I think isn't very alluring to most CBers, but I think the error is due to copying and pasting. Admins, is there anything you can do for this? Of not, With permission from the participants, of course, I will repost this thread and repost your comments so that you don't have to redo your charrie sheets. Then I will ask the Admins to delete this one. I just want to fix this before we get too far into the RP, and think now is the best time. But I wanted to check with you guys first since you have written on this thread. Oh, and also, in my previous post, I meant to say that the first seven participants will get to make an extra charrie, a vigilante, pirate, criminal, or vagabond, that lives/helped build the Labyrinth City. I need these charries, so if you don't want to make them, they'll either be NPCs or I'll let someone else make them.
Is it fixed now? I did something, but I didn't see the . . . beforehand or after.
Admin
(January 20, 2017 - 6:00 pm)
Name: Dana Goodwin
Gender: Girl
Age: 15
Species: Cyborg; Techie
Appearance: She has shoulder-length mouse-colored hair with coarse curls. Her face is plain and unexceptional, the sort that gets lost easily in a crowd. If you look closely, her eyes are a quite pretty pale blue with perpetual, puffy bags under them, ans she has faint freckles. Her smile is more of a smirk.
Appearance as Shifted/Cyborg: There is a flap on the back of her head that can be opened with a very fine screwdriver.
Personality: Dana has very clear-cut morals; she is loath to break them. She has a sarcastic, sometimes odd sense of humor that is rarely understood at first and she is known to whisper jokes to herself. However, she is not quiet. She announces her opinions firmly and will most likely become irritated with you if you act against her counsel. She is not the best conversationalist and often fails to pick up on social cues, but she has a soft side and will always put her friends before herself.
Most Often Seen: Working diligently on repairing a clock for a new client or exploring town with a stray cat she named Quart and considers to be her own.
Likes: logic, peppermint, cargo pants, and underdogs
Dislikes: arrogance and solitude
Strengths: scanning eyes of course, thinks methodically and analytically which can help solve problems, durable, notices small things
Weaknesses: can be hacked, consistently sees things the same way, gets caught up in unimportant details, inflexible, doesn't get along with certain people
Backstory: She has never met her parents, but she was raised by a kind (if superstitious and sometimes forgetful) old woman who recently died partly from old age and partly from the poor air in the bad side of Horack City.
This is my first RP! I'll do my best!
(January 21, 2017 - 4:54 pm)
(January 21, 2017 - 6:51 pm)
Name: Zeninqua Lorenza
Age: 13
Species: Time Warper
Appearance: Icy blue eyes, whitish hair with a streak of ice blue, short, skinny, small nose, pale skin. Blushes in blue for some reason.
Personality: kind, caring, lonely, fearless, street smart, sometimes underestimated.
Most often Seen: Walking down a twisted alleyway filled with creatures and people nobody would ever want to see.
Likes: anybody who cares, people who think that it's okay to be different, people who think that it doesn't matter where you come from; it's who you are.
Dislikes: "self-centered brats," bullies, and her life.
Strengths: knows hand-to-hand combat, her life has hardened her to suffering
Weaknesses: Hights, swimming, anything that involves lower body strength.
Powers: can slightly alter the far of a single person, can create minor time loops, do stuff the Time Warter does.
Backstory: she moved on to the twisted alleyway after her parents died when she was 6. They were very poor, and therefore, when they were murdered, she was unable to live in a building.
(January 22, 2017 - 1:29 pm)
Um, excuse me, Lucy? Sorry, but my charrie already is a Time Warper. I believe there were only supposed to be one of each. Maybe you could choose a different power for your charrie? Thanks.
(January 22, 2017 - 3:26 pm)
*Screams* Aghh!!!!! But I love time warps. . . My charrie in the Unusual things RP has a time altering ability. . . DANGIT!!
(January 23, 2017 - 12:58 am)
Geez, I'm sorry to have offended you so much, but I already chose Time Warper. Look on the bright side; you'll be able to try something new! It might be really fun, you never know!
(January 24, 2017 - 10:26 am)
Name: Stella Orabell Evergreen
Gender: F
Age:13
Species: I really wanted to be a Time Warper but someone already took it so I am gonna be a Cyborg; Metallic.
Appearance: Pale skin that has a metal color tone to it. Blonde hair with a faint purple highlights in a pixie cut. Skinny and tall for her age. Eye color is this grayish silverish eyes. Long eye lashes. Likes to wear black.
Personality: Kind, funny, kind of rude and mean when you meet her. Dark.
Most often seen: in her favriote tree.
Likes: Food, sleeping her tree
Dislikes: Everything at some point at RP
Strengths: Stealing, Agility, dancing (It is her secret talent)
Weakness: String (That makes her really perky) cookies
Powers/Abilities: Super human strength, earth (can control plants and make earthquakes and make earth crack)
Backstory: Mother and Father died when she was three learned to steal for life.
(January 22, 2017 - 6:29 pm)
@Leeli:
When I make the extra vagabond charrie, do I fill out the same charrie sheet?
(January 22, 2017 - 9:49 pm)