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Re: The 'Rising Potential' program.
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| 19 Jun 2012 11:44 AM |
A letter arrives on your doorstep, handmade cream paper sealed with ivory wax. The seal contains two ornate letters, an'I' situatied above a 'T'. Care to open it?
Within is a letter, handwritten on the same sort of paper as the envelope, through the curves and flourishes of the various letters a message appears:
"Congratulations, you've been selected, chosen by our skilled scouts into joining us for the winter. Know that you have been chosen because you show promise, potential enough to be remembered in the next millenium. With this in mind, we'd like to invite you to work within our laboratories and libraries with us; we wish to tutor you in every art or science that you show interest in and encourage you to develop further than you can with any other education you may be undertaking.
Our facilities are located around an archipegalo between the coasts of Alaska and Russia, and whilst we are aware that this climate is not pleasant for most of those invited we deem this not to be an issue as our facilities are completely sheltered from the weather and equipment will be available should you need to be outside for any length of time. Your every need is available on site; fully-furnished dormitories, sports and entertainment spaces, a staffed kitchen and large communal dining halls, and of course an extensive library and variety of laboraties and other workspaces. Healthcare and therapeutic services are available, staffed by experts in their field.
You are invited to join us during the first week in November, and we will arrange transport which we will send you the details of nearer to the time. This first week you will be without any set or suggested timetables and you will meet the other arrivals and staff along with being able to explore the facility. The following weeks will remain similar although you will then be encouraged to satisfy your interests; join research staff in their work; and perhaps invited to observe or participate in various modelling exercises, experiments, or demonstrations.
You shall remain at this facility all winter, due to weather conditions preventing transport away from the islands after mid-November. We have already taken the liberty of negotiating your absence for a few months, and it has been deemed acceptable. You may, however, still bring any work that you desire with you, there will be time to complete it.
You may bring whatever personal items and effects you wish so long as you can carry them yourself, however if they are dangerous then they may be confiscated.
We shall send around a representative in two week's time, when we hope you have made your decision."
Dr. Gunther Storn,
Project Leader, 'Rising Potential' Program. Ivory Tower Institute.
Rules: This is set in the real world, if embellished a little, please be human. Please stay in character, and write as extensive a CS as possible. I may turn it down if it lacks sufficent information. Try to keep everything flowing, wander around the facility, talk to people. You are now a great mind (if you weren't already so), so get invoved. You're currently in education, or just left it, so try for an age between 16 and 25. It would be most appropriate as one of the students. If you wish to be a member of staff PM me, I'll give you a list of vacancies and such like. Include Birthplace, and general background in the Bio please. You can study anything, be it science, literature, art, philosophy, you are simply exceptionally talented in your field.
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Name: RPage: Appearance: Personality: Interests: Fields of study: Particular talents: Possessions: Bio: |
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| 19 Jun 2012 11:52 AM |
| ((Sounds interesting, certainly my version of heaven. Considering joining.)) |
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| 19 Jun 2012 12:19 PM |
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Name: Joshua Percival Hearkwood. RPage: 18 Appearance: Medium height, and slim. Pale, due to a history of anaemia. Thick wavy blonde hair that comes down to the jaw. Sharp facial features; an almost rectangular jaw, high cheekbones, thin eyebrows, and eyes of blue-grey tint. Personality: Quite formal, having been educated at the English Public school of Eton and living otherwise in a Cotswolds manor. He speaks in a well-pronounced educated southern-english accent, and tends to think his words through before uttering them...that is until he takes advantage of his wit and strikes up a fast repartee. Quite open minded and relaxed, happy to discuss or engage in almost anything. Thrives off good company, becoming less productive and more easily distracted when alone. Interests: The biological sciences, and a little bit of literature and art. He wishes to find out for himself what it means to be human, and the consequences of being so. Also has an interest in sparring, of no particular style, though is no expert. Fields of study: Human anatomy and physiology, Human pathology. Particular talents: First-aid, biological experimental procedures and analysis, freeform sparring. Possessions: A suitcase of formal clothing, casual shirts, loose sparring garments. A laptop, personal music player, several anatomy and pathology books, and a personal diary. Bio: Woven in the rest really, or to be revealed. Very sorry. |
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| 19 Jun 2012 01:08 PM |
Name: Fyodor Bagration
RPage: 17
Appearance: Fyodor is a lithe boy with sharp and angular features. His eyes are a dark green with hazel flecks, and his hair is a deep black.
Personality: Fyodor often prefers to be alone with his books. In his research and experimenting, it is the same, except for the others with whom he works.
Interests: Bagration has great interests in epic poetry and classical literature, as well as different areas of physics. He also takes much pleasure in fencing.
Fields of study: Theoretical and experimental physics; Classical literature Particular talents: Fencing, physics, Dante Alighieri and co.
Possessions: A foil, a laptop, various books, paper and pencils, a protractor
Bio: Fyodor was born an only child in northern Chechnya to lower-middle-class parents. After his parents were killed in a bomb explosion, Fyodor was taken to live with a rich uncle not far from Moscow, where he learned a number of studies from private tutors, including English to add to his Russian. This letter is a great joy to him. |
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| 19 Jun 2012 01:15 PM |
Name: Robert Leon
RPage: 24
Appearance: Robert's a thin, wirey guy. He cuts his pitch black hair just below his ear, and wears thin, wireframe glasses. Hes skin is as pale as snow, and he often wears dark dress suits when he's not in a costume of some sort. (See below)
Personality: I'm just going to cover this in "Bio"
Interests: Again, covering in "Bio"
Fields of study: Does "Comic Books" count? No? Computer programming and electric and mechanical engineering are his main fields of study.
Particular talents: Over the years, Robert has dabbled in several martial arts, from Akido, to fencing, to Karate. After all, what super hero doesn't know martial arts?
Possessions: The only thing Robert brought was the clothes on his back, and his laptop. (He kind of assumed there would be suits there)
Bio: Robert is, perhapes, the ultimate fanboy. He's spent the last six years studying different fields on engineering, all the while designing different crime-fighting gadgets. The only problem is, as he's said many times before, is that the biggest difference between himself and Tony Stark, is money (That and ruggedly good looks, but he considers himself handsome). So, when offered access to state-of-the-art equipment and massive resources, he jumped at the chance. |
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| 19 Jun 2012 03:55 PM |
Name: Aria Williams
RPage:17
Appearance: Aria is thin and tall, she stands about 5'10. Her eyes are a crystallized pale blue, her skin also has a tan coloration to it. Her hair is a pale-blonde, and falls just to her shoulders in thick curls. She has scars on her arms, legs, and some on her face from the variety of pets she has at home. Her nails are long, and real. They are never painted. She usually wears glasses when she is not reading or filling her notebook. Her glasses are a black and white, with the word "helium" on the side of them. You will usually see her in jeans that reach her ankles and a shirt with sleeves that go to her elbows. She isn't a fan of showing her skin. Her sneakers are worn out, and have absolutely no coloring to them.
Personality: Her personality varies, however she can come off as "stuck-up" since she will rarely talk to people.
Interests: Her interests are usually in art, the study of Cryptids(Cryptozoology), and zoology.
Fields of study: Currently she is studying in Cryptozoology and Zoology.
Particular talents: People would say her talents are in art, some even say her talents are with "befriend animals" if you could consider it a talent.
Possessions: She carries around notebooks filled with just pages and pages of cryptids, and animals. She is usually updating them. She also brought her laptop, and the books she uses to fill her notebooks with.
Bio: Ever since Aria was extremely young she has always had an interest in animals and the mythical versions of them. Her parents were never really supportive of Aria, and she has always had doubts in herself. She's gone through verbal abuse, and yelling with multiple family members, this is the cause of her sensitive side. Her odd anxiety attacks are what keep her from having friends, and what keep her from actually exploring the world of cryptids which adds to her shyness and doubts. Animals are truly the only things that she actually loves, whether they be "real" or "fake". In her mind, there is no difference between them.
(...Yeah...My CS is terrible, and my bio makes absolutely no sense.
I hope it's OK.) |
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| 19 Jun 2012 04:51 PM |
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Name: Tsukiko Matsuda
RPage: 17
Appearance: Tsukiko has chin length wavy/loosely curled light brown hair with side bangs that are end just above her right eye that she straightens. She has dark brown eyes and pale skin. She is 5'3 and about 100 lbs. She has brown glasses but often wears contacts (I have a picture drawn of another OC but I just copied her appearence and changer her eye color if you want me to post the link I can) She
Personality: Tsukiko is mostly quiet around people she doesn't know well. When she feels comfortable around people she tends to talk a lot. She can be overly polite and easily trusting. She is often shy but is usually nice. She does have a hot temper though. In the dance studio and on stage, she develops a whole new personality. She is confident, comfortable, attentive and focused. She doesn't lose her temper when in the studio also.
Interests: Fine arts (Dance, theater, art, etc.)
Fields of study: Dance (Specifically: Ballet, Tap, Jazz, and Acro*)
Particular talents: She is bilingual. She speaks English and Japanese, Dance (Obviously), flexibility, high tolerance for pain, she can play the piano and violin (She took up the instruments to learn to read music. She used her ability to understand music to strengthen her dancing. EX: she can count the beats easier)
Possessions: Her laptop, iPod, camera, notebooks, extra elastics and ribbons for ballet shoes. Multiple pairs of Pointe shoes (They don't last for long periods of time the hard box that allows dancers to be up en pointe weakens, requiring dancers to buy new shoes every so often.) Tap shoes, Jazz shoes, Many pairs of leotards, tan, pink, and white tights, 3 pink ballet skirts, 3 pairs of leg warmers, and warm up booties, Ballet shrugs, two tutus, and obviously bobby pins, hairspray, hairnets, and other hair necessities.
Bio: Tsukiko lived in Funabashi, Japan. When Tsukiko was 3 she began ballet, tap and jazz. She began acro when she was 5. From her first day of dance on her passion for dance developed. As she grew older, she took more dance classes. When she was 12, she was sent to New York to study at a live-in ballet school. There she continued to study ballet, tap, jazz and acro. She was top student in her English classes in Japan, and greatly improved her English while in New York.
*Acro- Short for Acrobatics, a combination of dance and gymnastic tricks.
(Well, that took a while. I hope this is okay. I put a lot of explanation so it is easier to understand some things and whenever I use a dance term, I will define it so people know what it means.) |
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| 20 Jun 2012 09:16 AM |
| ((Considering creating a second character)) |
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| 20 Jun 2012 09:20 AM |
| (*Staying out for fear of killing a good rp*) |
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| 20 Jun 2012 09:26 AM |
| ((It's alright, we havn't started yet, and you can't be that bad)) |
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| 20 Jun 2012 09:28 AM |
(Dead eye, if you can think of a character that'll fit then by all means just roleplay with us. If anything, you've got to develop/improve skills sometime, no?)
(Pieperson, feel free to. Create as many as you think you can reasonably manage and we can keep track of.)
(Likely to start this off perhaps 2-3 characters in, on November 1st. Then everyone can add characters easily until November 8th, and any after that we can somehow work into the story.) |
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| 20 Jun 2012 09:30 AM |
| (Sorry, 2-3 more characters in.) |
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Sarhath
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| 20 Jun 2012 09:37 AM |
Name:May Carter RPage:30 Appearance:may has long, brown hair that is ALWAYS put in a tight bun. She has slightly slanted eyes, colored brown.She has a dimple on her chin. She wears a thick, multi-colored sweater and black sweats, with sandals on. She weighs 130 pounds, and is 5'4 high. Personality:May has OCB, making her things so neat and clean you could almost say she's prissy. She is very shy, although once brought out she has a great sense of humor. may is nice, but she is very serious on a job. Interests:Science, space, planets. Fields of study:Space. Particular talents:Climbing, cooking. Possessions:A picture of her parents and brothers, a small stuffed cat, and a necklet. Bio:May comes from a strange family: rich, but they acted poorly. She had four brothers, and both her parents worked. So, as the eldest, she got stuck at home caring for four unruly , baby boys. She would go to her window and look out at the stars, thinking of what it must be like to be out there. then the children would cry and she would snap out of it, thinking that it's silly. Like she would ever get to go there. she thought that way every moment of her life, up to the point she slit the seal on an ivory-colored letter. |
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EXO
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| 20 Jun 2012 09:37 AM |
@Sentinel
You do good work. Mind if I bookmark this? Well, that's not your choice. I'm bookmarking it anyways.
:3 |
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Sarhath
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| 20 Jun 2012 09:40 AM |
| ( Sigh. I didn't realize how short my CS was until I posted it....:3) |
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| 20 Jun 2012 09:41 AM |
(Sure, bookmark all you want, join whenever you've got a character dreamt up and we'll slot you in.)
(Ah, always makes me smile when someone's CS tracks back to the first post. Oh, and everyone above is accepted, I should have said.) |
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| 20 Jun 2012 10:07 AM |
| (Wait, you mean November 1st in the RP, right? Right?)) |
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evilguy10
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| 20 Jun 2012 10:43 AM |
| (Would you accept someone with slight paranoid schizophrenia?) |
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| 20 Jun 2012 10:52 AM |
Name: Tobias Fortinan RPage: 16 Appearance: A skinny,pale, and awkward boy, who is perfectly at home in a Polo and slacks. His pointy chin, his light blue eyes with dark circles and bags from sleep deprevation and long, feathery blonde hair don't help his ghastly appearance. His spindly frame looks quite fragile. Personality: He's quite quiet and shy, however when you speak falsley on his topic of intrest and study, he will gain the courage to correct you. He works well with others as he will usually will let someone else take the lead on a project. Interests: Tennis, Bird watching, Some martial arts. Fields of study: Nuclear medicine and energy Particular talents: ...Same as his intrests? Possessions: His Laptop for research, his Ipod, A small rad detector, a few books. Bio: Tobias was born to a rich family, although his parents died at a young age. He was cared for by a butler, and some how managed not to turn out spoiled and arrogant. (Told you I was awful) |
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evilguy10
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| 21 Jun 2012 07:12 AM |
| (But I liked this RP I was going to join this RP) |
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Sarhath
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evilguy10
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| 21 Jun 2012 11:22 AM |
| (*Sniff* but this RP had so much rising potential) |
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| 21 Jun 2012 12:06 PM |
(Holy crap,amazingly written and thought of. You sir deserve an award) Name: Nicholas O'Bryan RPage:17 Appearance: 6'0 tall with dark brown,almost black hair in a messy rockford style.He has a thick and rounded jaw and Hazel eyes that seem to slightly change color from time to time. He is thin,although he consumes a massive amount of bread on a daily basis.
Personality:Quick tempered young man who speaks formally,although growing up in an area with very little of the population speaking "proper" english. Quite open minded and loud mouthed,he tends to get in arguments alot. Of course,he loves a good debate. He tends to feel alone at times but he loves to talk to other people. He hates groupwork when it comes to his research and projects,but he loves company nonetheless.
Interests:He enjoys fencing,kendo sticks,reenactments,any excuse to experience melee combat.He loves reading medieval and classical military history,and oftentimes draws his own little maps with little battle strategies on them.He also draws other things,usually soldiers of different time periods,and has a good grip on politics,but of course his views are quite controversial.
Fields of study:He studies military history and philosophy along with art and literature,particularly legends. Particular talents:He is a military genius for someone who has never been a soldier,and is quite a skilled artist. He is quite skilled in political thinking,as well.
Possessions:A copy of Sun Tzu's the art of war,A copy of Vegetius' De Re Militari,a large book of notes and drawings,a laptop,and a picture of his grandfather.
Bio:He grew up in a rural area of the southern United States,a descendant of scottish and irish immigrants.He lived with his grandparents.His grandfather died of cancer and he went into deep depression,believing he would never succeed at anything.This was when he received the ornate letter... |
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Sahanke
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| 21 Jun 2012 01:01 PM |
| (Marking this thread, looks epic.) |
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