OPEN SIGNUPS A Cruise Ship Experiment

What slots are open atm?

I would say that a living dead or an in the know would be good. We already got three out of the know and the others are at two. If you want to make one of each, I'm not stopping you. I got one in each category. ( Right now, the count is two living deads, four out of the know, two NPCs and two in the know) .

oh hey..meant to ask. Was there something in the papers Constance would recognize and need to scoop up? Or that might possibly give her away to the others?

Nope, just clues to help with the captain's murder, but I might eventually throw one in.
 
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Name: Charlie Phillips Durwen
Nickname: None
Age ( preferably older than 18): 26
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Occupation before arriving on the cruise ship: Anthropologist

Species: Magi(Human Wizard)

Powers

Magic: Charlie is a magi. A human capable of affecting the natural laws to produce certain effects. His mysteries are used via a combination of ancient R'lyehian and his own willpower, coupled with tools. His spells are listed to the following.

Fm'latgh: Creates fire for offense and light. Power is proportionate to willpower invoked.

N'ghft zhro: Gives his eyes the same property of a cat, enabling him to see through low-level glamour and in the dark.

Y'hah: Unleashes a burst of eldritch energy that affects spectral beings. Against humans, the effect is similar to a taser. Power is proportionate to willpower invoked.

R'lyehian Runes: The sanskrit of the Elder Gods. Used primarily in ritual magic. Charlie incorporates them in protection and healing primarily.

Strength: Charlie is an immensely stubborn individual when it comes to helping people. Coupled with his eclectic memory, it makes him particularly well suited for this arcane tradition.

Weaknesses

Willpower: Willpower is a combination of mental fortitude and life force. Used to cast magic, the Magi draws upon their mystic core to convert their energy into spells. This process is eased by special tools but if a magi over extends, they can expect insanity followed by death as they draw directly from their life.

To be a magi is to court the legacy of madness such knowledge brings.


Abilities/ skills:

R'lyehian: A dead language he uses for his Arcane Mysteries.

Multilingual: Speaks Spanish, Portuguese, French, Latin, German, English, Inuit(read only) and Arabic(read only, still learning).

Certified Anthropologist: Graduated with honors, specialist in ancient traditions. Primarily historically arcane and shamanic ones.

Criminal Background: Wanted for suspected tomb robbery and cultural desecration. This gives him a few skills such as Stealth and lockpicking.


History: A pariah in the scientific community. In places Charlie shows up, someone dies. Wanted for questioning, currently on the run. More to show up IC.

Faction/ role in RP: In the know.

Extra


Charlie Phillips Durwen: Ten accounts of assault and battery, four accounts of breaking and entering. Six accounts of arson, five accounts of breaking international law. Fifteen accounts of smuggling.

Six parking violations.
 
I mean, I'm ok with him, but I don't know if you are allowed to have a magical character to go along with Peter the Necromancer. Why would a magic user be in the know like this? Would Peter know him already or something, like they both know how magic could bring them to the brink of madness? I mean, Peter has a person he's bound to that helps keep him sane (my character) but I'm not sure how it would work for your guy. IT just seems kind of weird that this magic guy would let himself be trapped on board a ship like this.
 
I mean, I'm ok with him, but I don't know if you are allowed to have a magical character to go along with Peter the Necromancer. Why would a magic user be in the know like this? Would Peter know him already or something, like they both know how magic could bring them to the brink of madness? I mean, Peter has a person he's bound to that helps keep him sane (my character) but I'm not sure how it would work for your guy. IT just seems kind of weird that this magic guy would let himself be trapped on board a ship like this.

He's a Call of Cthulhu-influenced character, on the run from the law. I was going to ask @Minerva if he wanted to make it a subplot in terms of her trying to arrest him. For his part, he intended to hide out on the ship in between running before this mess caught up.

It's the kind of thing he tries to stop, though explaining to authorities that ancient statuette was destroyed because of a curse tends to bring on padded cells.
 
Minerva hasn't really responded to this RP in a while. It's really only Poet, Lucky and I at this point. Lucky really runs the RP, so it would have to be run by him first. Though instead of it being a subplot, maybe it could be part of the main story? I can see how magic could have entirely influenced the ship/loss of memories and such.
Would he be in the know like government in the know or like kind of sort of in the same magical community in the know?
 
Magical community sort of know. When he found out what kind of things are out there, he opted to take a stand against it. And I guess it's up to @LuckycoolHawk9 . I would not be adverse to incorporating it.
 
If he's accepted, maybe he could heal them by giving back everyone's memories or something. (This may be a reach, but whatever was powerful enough to erase a year plus worth of memories like that had to be magical.)
 
@Ringmaster Accepted!

Also, I will take everything you discuss into consideration for the future.
 
@Ringmaster Maybe your character and mine have a connection- like your character set the building on fire that had contained both his family and his ex-boyfriend and before he blacked out my character had seen him do it. (He's not in the know but he's been familiar with magic, being Peter's companion before the mind-wipe.)
 
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@Ringmaster Maybe your character and mine have a connection- like your character set the building on fire that had contained both his family and his ex-boyfriend and before he blacked out my character had seen him do it. (He's not in the know but he's been familiar with magic, being Peter's companion before the mind-wipe.)

That depends on the kind of places your character hangs out at.
 
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He didn't hang out there. He basically went there (abandoned warehouse) because his boyfriend reveals that he was actually a major drug dealer in the area (to reveal the truth to solidify their relationship). What MC didn't know was that his mother and older brother were part of the other drug dealing group (they had sheilded him and his brother from the truth). His older brother found out about their relationship and confronted MC's BF about it. A fight happens, and the warehouse is soon up in flames. You could be the person who actually started the fire after a smuggling gone wrong and that's what kickstarted the whole "believing in magic" thing because he had seen him start the fire with his magic.
 
The smuggling thing he takes care of isn't based on drugs though. Its archeological artifacts. Knick knacks, things of that nature. Some of em fund his way, others he destroys if he finds a whiff of tainted power about them. Those he can't destroy safely, he steals to hide away and ensure nobody else can be hurt by them.

I really don't see him involved with drugs, though if they were in the same area and were moonlighting as hired muscle in a place other than a drug storehouse, that would be enough to trigger conflict.
 
I can see Charlie in his own artifact smuggling operation going wrong, or as you said, he's hired muscle for a night to help pay his bills or he put a dangerous artifact in a nearby warehouse to hide it and he had to destroy it with fire but after a brief loss of concentration due to the struggle of MC's brother and boyfriend the building is set on fire.
I would think he would only smuggle drugs as a way to sieze an artifact of sorts.
 
I can see Charlie in his own artifact smuggling operation going wrong, or as you said, he's hired muscle for a night to help pay his bills

Yeah, no to both of those. He doesn't have the clout to run an operation. Think more like Nathan Drake, in the whole lone explorer type with a few contacts.

Second, he'd never hire himself out as muscle. Certainly not to drug dealers.

or he put a dangerous artifact in a nearby warehouse to hide it and he had to destroy it with fire

Something of a stretch. Mostly because hiding a dangerous, cursed artifact in the heart of a drug running operation, amidst scum who might be affected by it is a very, very bad idea.

I would think he would only smuggle drugs as a way to sieze an artifact of sorts.

He wouldn't touch drugs with a ten foot pole.

To clarify, if he wanted to be rich and all that? He could have used his power to do so. Instead, he's constantly on the run and risking his life to get rid of the hooks that create horror stories for people. He's altruistic and snarky, self-sacrificing but cowardly. A situation like that drug warehouse he'd give a wide berth and think 'pity, but that's what happens when you get involved in that life.'

The irony of that statement would not be lost on him.

His general smuggling techniques involve keeping the artifact sealed in special boxes marked 'toilet seats' in cargo ships. Nothing really flashy, more pragmatic.
 
How about this: Charlie hid the artifact in the area for a little while in the toilet crates until he could ship them somewhere. Recently, the drug operation had to move to the area to expand their buisness. Now Charlie has to go and get the artifact out of there, as he realized that the artifact would affect the dealers in the area. That night, he snuck back to get the artifact, not realizing that everything was going down behind him. The artifact indirectly causes the fire to happen (by aggravating a dealer who knocks over a Bunsen burner or something similar) and my character sees him use magic to try and control the fire or heal someone.

Or it could be another reason. I just really like the idea that he's the one who introduces my character to magic somehow.
 
He's a journalist, right?

If you like, you could have his topic of research be Charlies life and finding out what makes him tick. There's a lot of information between the lines, if you know where to look.
 
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That could work, like Jeremy met Charlie while traveling with Peter. Wanting to know more about him, Jeremy started to research everything he could about Charlie. His introduction could start the full return of his memories because Charlie could have encountered Peter and Jeremy more than once before. The magic could start to crumble under the holes in the memory wipe.
 
Wow you guys have been chatting it up!

My question is this...If Charlie is in the know, is he in the know totally? As in aware of the team of people that is behind this whole thing? Does he know who Constance is, and why she is there? Is he aware that the powers that be have also hired an FBI Agent?

I have this theory, and correct me if I am wrong, that there are two things going on here, that are completely separate. Constance is in the know, but not aware of everything they are actually up to. Possibly they don't tell everyone the same story?? Just a thought.
 
I have this theory, and correct me if I am wrong, that there are two things going on here, that are completely separate. Constance is in the know, but not aware of everything they are actually up to. Possibly they don't tell everyone the same story?? Just a thought.

*Smirks* It isn't like I hinted that there is someone who is making sure everything is happening how they want it too. ;)
 
chuckles~ noted for future Constance posting. Poor thing is SOOOO confused.