The Gatekeepers: Emergence (RP Sign-up)
 

There are multiple planes of existence other than our own, that we contact on a daily basis to a limited degree. But around the planet there lie gateways to theses realms. Each of these gateways has its own gatekeeper. During ancient times these worlds existed in perfect harmony, and it was not unknown for the gatekeepers to mate with mortal men and women. But things changed when the evil goddess Chalon (pronounced Shah loan) overthrew the gatekeepers destroying them and replacing them with her own followers. The gateways were sealed and man was no longer able to enter theses realms in the flesh.
But Chalon overlooked the children of the gatekeepers. Many millenia have passed and the descendents of the gatekeepers still walk the Earth. In New Orleans, Lousiana a group of these descendents have formed a group investigating the paranormal. During one such investigation, they stumbled across one of the sealed gateways and opened it. Now the awakening to the powers of their ancestors have begun. And the battle to return things to the way they were will soon commence.
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So how do things work. Because the original gatekeepers were demi-gods, their DNA is always passed from generation to generation. So let us say your father is a descendent of one of the original gatekeepers, he will pass along the 23 chromosones of the original gatekeeper. However, he will only do so once per generation so only the first born will be half-god. Given this if to such descendents of the gatekeepers have a child this child will be a god.
Being half god entitles each of the gatekeeper's descendents with certain abilities such as telekenisis, clairvoyance, and remote viewing. But once they enter into the realm controlled by there ancestor, they will be awakened to the powers of their ancestor. Once you have been awakened to these powers, they can be used in any realm but will be most powerful in your particular realm.

The descendents of the gatekeepers often have an abnormally high IQ, So it isn't rare to see someone among their number recieving their Ph.D. at the age of 17. I would ask that if you want to play such a character that you act it (i.e. Type and spell intelligently. An occasional spelling or grammar mistake is OK, but don't type like you have absolutely no education.

Character Sheet.

Name:
Code Name: All members of the SPR (society for Paranormal Research), the organization who first stumbled across the gateways, are given a codename.
Age:
Career: This RP takes place in the modern era, so choose apropriately.
Real: what will be your ancestors realm. Your character won't know this till s/he is awakened to his/her powers. Multiple characters can be of the same realm, as the original gatekeepers may have had more than one child.
Abilities before awakening:
Abilities after awakening:
Description:
Bio: Include how you became to be involved in the SPR. Remember this is an international organization, so you don't have to be from the US.

To say I'm here doesn't begin to cover it.


However, telekinetic, pyrokinetic and serious anger issues about sums what I'm planning up.

i'm in too, although i need a bit to formulate my character. *commences plotting*

Awwwwww snap. I'l have a profile up tomorrow. 7 words: Precognitive reflexes, ambient/internal energy manipulation, Vitomancy

Name: Daryl Aral

Code Name: Psych

Age: 19

Career: He is a manager of a local video game store.

Realm: Picture a world where everything is a minimum of 100 degrees celsius. Instead of rivers, there's lava. Instead of trees, there's blocks and formations of coal. Instead of earth, there's molten rock.

Abilities before awakening: Psych can/could feel movement. If something moves, he can gauge where it moved and how fast it moved, but he can't paint a vivid picture with it. Also, telekinesis. I use the term lightly however. When he looked for, or reached for something, it just came to hand that much faster.

Abilities after awakening: Pyrokinesis. I'm not talking a few fireballs though. I mean, he could send huge tendrils and waves of fire into someplace, and literally sweep the entire inside of an office building clean.

Also, full out telekinesis. He can rip stuff out of your hands, and throw desks and people. However, any bigger than that, and he's fucked.

Description: Psych shaves his head. He also works out, but not to the point of being a muscle bound brute. He's taking several martial arts, so when he walks he's damn near perfectly balanced. His favorite attire is a pair of dark grey slacks, a black t-shirt, and sometimes a red vest if it's chilly.

Bio: He's generally your average teen, minus the high IQ. He was thinking about becoming a police officer, but his abnormally short temper stopped that. Then he thought about special effects. However, his love of blowing stuff up was too great, and he would hurt someone. So, he went to work at a video game store, and is now the manager of it. Steady job, he's still a bachelor, and generally he has a happy life.

Name: Barrock de vere

Nickname: Slaughter

Age: 32

Career: Ex Marine
Realm: A world of carnage, there are no herbivores. All Creatures move extremely fast. The seas are made out of blood, the hills out of flesh. Though the world is not inherently evil, represents the maxim kill or be killed.

Abilities before awakening: Precognition, Slaughter can feel where his enemy is before he shoots his guns or slashes his sword. Fast movement: Slaughter can move faster then an averagme human.

Abilities after awakening: Precognition, this ability is vastly improved then before. His precognition is on the verge of seeing the future. Fast Movement: Slaughter moves amazingly fast and with effort can move faster then a car.

Description: Slaughter has a crew cut. He has the muscle tone of an athlete. His usually wears a faded military uniform with black sunglasses.

Bio: Slaughter is fascinated with violence, but this fascination does not push him into killing innocents, instead he sooths his fascination by killing enemies in war or federal criminals. Slaughter was born in the U.S. but moved to Japan when he was ten. There he took swordsmanship lessons and became very skilled at the katana. At 23 when finished with colledge Slaughter joined the U.S. Marine core. Slaughter fought in Afghanistan but he requested to be released before going into Iraq. Slaughter walked out of the Marines with an uncanny skill with guns. Despite his fascination Slaughter is a moral person and would never hurt an innocent. He became involved in the SPR when a member approached him about his uncanny fighting abilities when he was practicing his katana with an opponent in a martial arts dojo. Seing his fast movement and uncanny ability to block his opponents swings before he moved his sword the SPR member was amazed. After hearing about SPR Slaughter agreed to join.

We are going to refer to this world as Sheol (which is the Hebrew for hell). This is not the same same Sheol as you find in judeo-christian belief, but it is the basis of it. And yes I had already invisioned such a world. But be aware that while you will be awakened to the powers of Pyrokenisis, it will be practically useless in this realm for anything other than defense.

Pyros: Your realm and abilities seem to fit those that I created for an NPC called chaos. It is the realm of chaos, so I would expect you to get aquainted with him quickly as you will share a bond. I will let you know, this guy is completely insane in some ways, so be prepared.

Also, I need to know how both your character and Super Saiyan's became associated with the SPR.

Ok yah i put it in my bio, a little thin i know but i couldn't really think of anything else. I might have some going outs with Chaos, because despite his liking of violence he is a very balanced person.

Would shapeshifting be allowed? Like voice and slight body manipulation on regular realms and then full on Animorphs/Beast Boy once he's awakened?

I'm thinking a realm similar to what Delirium has in the Sandman series.

Yes Shapeshifting would be allowed. The ancient Celtic people believed highly in this, and it is to be expected seeing as there are two known gateways in Ireland. A suggestion for a pre awakened ability would be spirit transfer or animal telepathy. You may be able to comunicate with certain types of animals to some degree, or even put your body into a trance and enter into that of another animal. Also note that much of what the SPR knows of the gateways come from three sources. A.) A set of scrolls found in Michigan near one of the gateways, that are written in a stange dialect of Gaelic. B.) A nurse from Ireland who's family has passed down the legend by word of mouth for generations. She is the fiance of one of the founders of the SPR. C.) A book that Zack Copeland a.k.a Reaper, the founder of the SPR found among his father's belongings when he passed away. The book is the reason the SPR was founded. It is handwritten and was written by many people. Each section is written in a different language or code. There is also a list of names encoded in one section of the book. Only members of the inner circle of the SPR (the descendents of the gatekeepers) have ever been able to translate any of it, and it is still mostly unreadable. But many have found the name of their ancestors listed. All members of the inner circle are given an oppurtunity to translate the book if they ask.
So yes I do encourage shapeshifting if you can play it. Any other Celtic myths one would like to play towards also, because this story is deeply seated in Celtic and Norse Mythology.

How many players are we gonna need till we start.

Name: Nikolai Baruskov
Code Name: Gaius
Age: 36
Career: Researcher and University Professor, sometimes Geologist
Realm: A realm of stone, nothing more, nothing less.
Abilities before awakening: Minor Terrakenisis: Minor tremors, dust clouds etcetera
Abilities after awakening: Full Terrakenisis: the ability to manipulate earth and rock with the mind.
Description: Somewhat tall and skinny, he has dark brown hair and eyes and wears glasses with rectangular lenses and black frames. Wherever he goes he wears a tweed jacket that a student bought for him. Otherwise, he prefers the color gray and wears nearly everything that color except for a pair of black boots that he brought from his home country.
Bio: Gaius spent most of his life fascinated with science, everything from physics to geology to metallurgy and everything in between, but this was of little use to him. Why? Because Gaius was born in the Belarus during the throughs of soviet control. However, his above average intelegence soon attracted members of soviet research institutions to him and he began a long and sometimes rewarding life of working for the soviet government resarch institutions. However, after the money supply stopped flowing at the end of the cold war, Gaius moved instead to the Ukrane where he began working at a University as the USSR collapsed. Several years later, after surviving a freak earthquake, Gaius was approached by members of the SPR who offered him a job stateside. Being that he lived in something of a desolate hole, Gaius accepted and moved to the US on the SPR's dime, which wasn't hard because he had had something of a linguistic bent and knew English thanks to his high intelligence. In the US, Gaius was set up at a University teaching basic Geology... or, having an undergrad teach basic Geology while he did research and worked at the SPR.

I'm gonna wait for the other two guys who said they wanted to be in to post characters. But I will start the RP tomorrow regardless. I'll leave this thread open a few more days after that for others but I'm going to limit it to 8-10 characters for now.

Aww. MLA beat me to asking about animal shapeshifting. If he doesn't post a char sheet, I totally claim it for my own (in place of the current awakened ability).


Name: Kel Agamar

Code Name: Torrent (usually shortened to Tor)

Age:19

Career: Web Designer

Realm: A world almost entirely covered in ocean (with wicked weather patterns). Landmasses are small, none larger than, say, Madagascar. Although there is a marked tendency towards jungle or forest islands, islands with other landforms (savannah, steppe, desert, etc) also exist.

Abilities before awakening: minor hydrokinesis (think staying somewhat dry when it's raining, little tiny stuff like that), communication with animals, speed reflexes

Abilities after awakening: major hydrokinesis (weather control, water funnels, although obeying laws of thermodynamics), the same other abilities he had before

Description: think a typical surf bum, and you've basically got what Kel looks like. He's about 5'10", bright blue hair with a tendency to fall in his eyes (it would be red if it wasn't dyed), tanned, with green-blue eyes that change shades depending upon the light. Typically found in surf shorts and a t-shirt (when it's warm enough) or jeans and a sweater (when it isn't). A life of surfing and martial arts mean that he lands somewhere between skinny and muscled - the most appropriate word is probably rawboned. Gives the impression of being boneless. And asleep, usually. Has several tattoos, mostly either celtic knotwork or Maori designs, as well as an eyebrow ring.

Bio: Kel was born in Saskatchewan, Canada. The most landlocked place ever. So it came as a bit of a surprise to him when he immediately fell in love with the ocean and all things surfing when he began attending university on the coast at the age of 15. After getting his degree in computer science, he immediately moved to Hawaii, and now runs his own Web Design business, as well as working at a friend's comic book store to make ends meet. He was recruited into the SPR after another SPR member witnessed him take the most spectacular wipeout ever while surfing, and emerge almost completely unscathed.

Name: Job Macleod
Code Name: Doolittle
Age: 38
Career: Vet
Realm: An infinitely long flatland, where any and all creatures (including a few mythical ones) roam.
Abilities before awakening: Spirit Transfer, Animal telepathy
Abilities after awakening: Full on Beast-Boy, just crazier
Description: Uhm...about man height, medium build, glasses.
Bio: Job was born in Ireland, where he immediatly connected to animals. He was nicknamed Doctor Doolittle because he always knew what peeved off or upset animals, but when he woke up one day inside the body of a goat (spiritually) he knew that he had something more than a 'knack'. He went to the doctor to find out what was wrong and met a nurse that knew something about 'special abilities' and just happened to be dating a man from an organization dedicated to those abilities...

Ok I'm gonna get this thing started shortly.
gh0st: Ineed you to change one minor thing. Waterbaloon sized hydrokinesis is a bit much for a preawakened ability. Tone it down a bit. Remember these aren't abilities that the average person would have, but they aren't spectacular. maybe a few water droplets shifting minimally. Now the wipeout thing is cool, because it was a point of extreme need.

Also everyone remember, the SPR is merely a Paranormal investigation agency, it is just the inner circle that has any abilities or knowledge of the gateways. Most are just ordinary people.

awesome. *switches*

Hey we restarting this anytime soon?

Name:Frank Javion
Code Name: Sparky
Age: 22
Career: Computer Networker
Real: A world much like the earth, except in total Thunderstorms. It doesn't rain, just thunders all over the place.
Abilities before awakening: A sense of thunderstorms approaching, and seemed to have control over static electricity.
Abilities after awakening: The ability to call thunderstorms and generate enough electricity to kill a man.
Description: He is pretty much skinny, always has messy hair do to the static. He wears
blue jeans and random t-shirts mostly, but in cold weather he has a leather jacket he puts on.
Bio: Always had a love for technology, even tore apart a computer and put it back together at around age 10. He went into the field of computers and became a computer
technician. He then became a networker because of the pay. He got a job supposedly networking at SPR, but they learned somehow that he got in many fights when he was younger, and that those people got shocked in the same spot in those fights and had blisters for weeks on end afterwards.