Horizon Walkers II: Recruitment Thread (closed)
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Okay, the new version is a lot better! Thanks!booksv3 said:
The only significant concern left is that the group wants you to flesh out the wolf a little more. Right now it's still a little unclear what the wolf's strengths and limitations are.
Ok this one is a bit dissimilar to most of the characters here so do tell if you see any problems.
Edit: woops, missed the personality part. Let me just do that quickly...
Edit: ok done. Btw, the reason I haven't put up the world sheet is that I want to make sure the character is all good first, so don't worry.
Name: Gyda, the Sommerdale Demon
Age & Gender: eight-year-old girl (plus 27 years of being dead)
Height & Weight: 4'1" and 22kg
Species: human (an undead possessed human, if you want to get technical)
Appearance: upon initial inspection most would use words like 'emaciated', 'filthy', and 'wretched'. Once they had taken a closer look, the diction turns more in the direction of 'nightmarish'.
Gyda used to be a normal, blonde haired, healthy looking child. Adults who met her often remarked upon how pretty she was, or how well she was growing. Then a few things happened to her: her neck was broken, her eyes mutilated, she was drowned, and a parasite demon burrowed into her soul. Now her once round, joyous face has become sallow, with terrifying black holes for eyes (though in direct light one can see something glittering far back in her empty sockets, around where the optic nerve would sit) and a thin mouth of reptilian menace. Her head, once upright with confidence and adorned with flowing golden locks, must now loll about at horrific angles, matted hair hanging lank and blackened with filth. Skin that was once fair and well toned for a child has been bleached a necrotic grey.
To add to all this, Gyda has never felt the need to change out of the long night gown she died in. It has thus become as filthy and lank as the rest of her, though most terrifying of all would be the permanent stain of blood around her neckline.
History: Gyda was born and raised in the old fashioned lakeside town of Sommerdale, somewhere in an unexciting corner of the multiverse. Her family owned a great deal of farmland, and enjoyed the comforts of a grand mansion built at the town outskirts on the edge of Lake Sommers. Life there was peaceful, uncomplicated.
Until, one day, Gyda disappeared.
A search was conducted, and very quickly convincing evidence for her death was uncovered; her lace bonnet, lying in the mud at the base of a willow tree by the lake. From this tree hung a noose.
Now this tree happened to sit directly in the back yard of an eccentric old man who lived a few miles out from the town proper. People didn't have to try hard to convince themselves that he had murdered poor girl, despite the lack of conclusive evidence, and so it was not long before he was hung by the neck until dead at the very tree he had been accused of killing Gyda.
The Sommerdale Demon had claimed its first victim.
For almost thirty years Sommerdale became a place of absolute terror. Something was haunting the lakeside town. People swore by their lives that they glimpsed a child's corpse watching them through the bedroom window as they shifted half asleep in the dead of night. Others heard echoes of eery song or menacing laughter from lake whenever they happened to pass by. Gyda's family had it worst, and it was not long before they were forced to move away from the old mansion - other locals had already started to shun it like the plague. Heavy mist descended around the township perimeter, through which no one could pass without ending up back where they started. The universe seemed to shrink upon its denizens; there was to be no escape from the nightmare. Paralysis hit the population when its members started turning up dead, one by one, within days or years of each other...
Relief finally came in the form of a horizon walker who just happened to be passing through. By exploiting the demon's weakness to the benevolent powers, they successfully drove Gyda away through the horizon, where she was locked out for good.
Or so they hope.
Reason to be here/things to do: Gyda's only goal is to get back to her universe, actually. She never wanted to leave.
Personality: since having her soul consumed by a demon, little remains of the old Gyda. Everything good and kind has been annihilated, while the mischief and hate has been multiplied ten-fold. The result; an unrelenting sadist.
There is no justice or reason to her atrocities. She may take greater delight in torturing someone who thinks they deserve it, or in expoiting ones guilt and regret, but that's only because they make easier prey in that way.
Powers:
Major Power: Banshee
Gyda is granted one powerful 'spell' by the demon inside her; a supernatural scream that can maim both body and soul of any who hear it. The degree of damage depends on how close people are to her, as well as what ear protection they have. A target who gets off with only minor effects might suffer nothing more than a brief stun. Unluckier foes may become deafened and disorientated, or even panicked. At worst, one might be driven insane or killed outright. Inanimate objects such as glass may be destroyed as well.
Use is limited to once a day.
Minor Power 1: Contortionist
No possessed little girl can be taken seriously unless she can spin her head a full 360. Gyda can do this and more. Her entire body can realign itself into a disturbing assortment of shapes, attributing to her an unnatural degree of dexterity. When she wants to Gyda can scuttle across the ground at wicked speeds, twisted up and twitching like an insect. In addition, the girl can unhinge her jaw like a snake, which helps when she wants to eat someone.
Minor Power 2: Ghoulish countenance
Under the right circumstances, simply laying eyes on something like Gyda is enough to send grown men running scared. This makes intimidation tasks, such as information extraction, a speciality for her.
Minor Power 3: Spiritually attuned
Having a demon inside her make Gyda capable of observing the spiritual world. Such skill has a range of applications; detecting magical enchantments, reading people's auras, and even as a rudimentary form of nightvision.
Flaw: Parasite demon
The demon within Gyda's soul is all that sustains her mortal husk. It has become dependent on her, resulting in an equal measure of strengths and weaknesses. The weaknesses; extreme vulnerability to fire and powers of good/light (this includes anti-demon procedures like exorcism, as well as physical contact between Gyda's body and any holy symbols of good). She will avoid such things at all costs, preferring to pick her fights with the impure mundanity.
Minor Power 4: Undead host
The demon within Gyda's soul gives power to the her mortal husk. It has become dependent on her, resulting in an equal measure of strengths and weaknesses. The strengths; extreme resilience in the face of physical damage and blunt trauma. Her bones can be broken just as easily as any other corpse's, and her flesh is just as yielding under a blade, but neither will cause her pain.
Notable skills: years of hide and seek and terrorising townsfolk have made Gyda an effective thief. She also has a nice, if slightly creepy, singing voice.
Equipment: a red hooded cloak she took from another young girl she murdered in the woods somewhere. It is essential for Gyda to conceal her fearsome appearance when traveling through populated areas; it's hard to get anything done otherwise. She tends not to carry weapons on her person. If ever she needs one she will simply take it from the first readily available source.
Age & Gender: eight-year-old girl (plus 27 years of being dead)
Height & Weight: 4'1" and 22kg
Species: human (an undead possessed human, if you want to get technical)
Appearance: upon initial inspection most would use words like 'emaciated', 'filthy', and 'wretched'. Once they had taken a closer look, the diction turns more in the direction of 'nightmarish'.
Gyda used to be a normal, blonde haired, healthy looking child. Adults who met her often remarked upon how pretty she was, or how well she was growing. Then a few things happened to her: her neck was broken, her eyes mutilated, she was drowned, and a parasite demon burrowed into her soul. Now her once round, joyous face has become sallow, with terrifying black holes for eyes (though in direct light one can see something glittering far back in her empty sockets, around where the optic nerve would sit) and a thin mouth of reptilian menace. Her head, once upright with confidence and adorned with flowing golden locks, must now loll about at horrific angles, matted hair hanging lank and blackened with filth. Skin that was once fair and well toned for a child has been bleached a necrotic grey.
To add to all this, Gyda has never felt the need to change out of the long night gown she died in. It has thus become as filthy and lank as the rest of her, though most terrifying of all would be the permanent stain of blood around her neckline.
History: Gyda was born and raised in the old fashioned lakeside town of Sommerdale, somewhere in an unexciting corner of the multiverse. Her family owned a great deal of farmland, and enjoyed the comforts of a grand mansion built at the town outskirts on the edge of Lake Sommers. Life there was peaceful, uncomplicated.
Until, one day, Gyda disappeared.
A search was conducted, and very quickly convincing evidence for her death was uncovered; her lace bonnet, lying in the mud at the base of a willow tree by the lake. From this tree hung a noose.
Now this tree happened to sit directly in the back yard of an eccentric old man who lived a few miles out from the town proper. People didn't have to try hard to convince themselves that he had murdered poor girl, despite the lack of conclusive evidence, and so it was not long before he was hung by the neck until dead at the very tree he had been accused of killing Gyda.
The Sommerdale Demon had claimed its first victim.
For almost thirty years Sommerdale became a place of absolute terror. Something was haunting the lakeside town. People swore by their lives that they glimpsed a child's corpse watching them through the bedroom window as they shifted half asleep in the dead of night. Others heard echoes of eery song or menacing laughter from lake whenever they happened to pass by. Gyda's family had it worst, and it was not long before they were forced to move away from the old mansion - other locals had already started to shun it like the plague. Heavy mist descended around the township perimeter, through which no one could pass without ending up back where they started. The universe seemed to shrink upon its denizens; there was to be no escape from the nightmare. Paralysis hit the population when its members started turning up dead, one by one, within days or years of each other...
Relief finally came in the form of a horizon walker who just happened to be passing through. By exploiting the demon's weakness to the benevolent powers, they successfully drove Gyda away through the horizon, where she was locked out for good.
Or so they hope.
Reason to be here/things to do: Gyda's only goal is to get back to her universe, actually. She never wanted to leave.
Personality: since having her soul consumed by a demon, little remains of the old Gyda. Everything good and kind has been annihilated, while the mischief and hate has been multiplied ten-fold. The result; an unrelenting sadist.
There is no justice or reason to her atrocities. She may take greater delight in torturing someone who thinks they deserve it, or in expoiting ones guilt and regret, but that's only because they make easier prey in that way.
Powers:
Major Power: Banshee
Gyda is granted one powerful 'spell' by the demon inside her; a supernatural scream that can maim both body and soul of any who hear it. The degree of damage depends on how close people are to her, as well as what ear protection they have. A target who gets off with only minor effects might suffer nothing more than a brief stun. Unluckier foes may become deafened and disorientated, or even panicked. At worst, one might be driven insane or killed outright. Inanimate objects such as glass may be destroyed as well.
Use is limited to once a day.
Minor Power 1: Contortionist
No possessed little girl can be taken seriously unless she can spin her head a full 360. Gyda can do this and more. Her entire body can realign itself into a disturbing assortment of shapes, attributing to her an unnatural degree of dexterity. When she wants to Gyda can scuttle across the ground at wicked speeds, twisted up and twitching like an insect. In addition, the girl can unhinge her jaw like a snake, which helps when she wants to eat someone.
Minor Power 2: Ghoulish countenance
Under the right circumstances, simply laying eyes on something like Gyda is enough to send grown men running scared. This makes intimidation tasks, such as information extraction, a speciality for her.
Minor Power 3: Spiritually attuned
Having a demon inside her make Gyda capable of observing the spiritual world. Such skill has a range of applications; detecting magical enchantments, reading people's auras, and even as a rudimentary form of nightvision.
Flaw: Parasite demon
The demon within Gyda's soul is all that sustains her mortal husk. It has become dependent on her, resulting in an equal measure of strengths and weaknesses. The weaknesses; extreme vulnerability to fire and powers of good/light (this includes anti-demon procedures like exorcism, as well as physical contact between Gyda's body and any holy symbols of good). She will avoid such things at all costs, preferring to pick her fights with the impure mundanity.
Minor Power 4: Undead host
The demon within Gyda's soul gives power to the her mortal husk. It has become dependent on her, resulting in an equal measure of strengths and weaknesses. The strengths; extreme resilience in the face of physical damage and blunt trauma. Her bones can be broken just as easily as any other corpse's, and her flesh is just as yielding under a blade, but neither will cause her pain.
Notable skills: years of hide and seek and terrorising townsfolk have made Gyda an effective thief. She also has a nice, if slightly creepy, singing voice.
Equipment: a red hooded cloak she took from another young girl she murdered in the woods somewhere. It is essential for Gyda to conceal her fearsome appearance when traveling through populated areas; it's hard to get anything done otherwise. She tends not to carry weapons on her person. If ever she needs one she will simply take it from the first readily available source.
Edit: woops, missed the personality part. Let me just do that quickly...
Edit: ok done. Btw, the reason I haven't put up the world sheet is that I want to make sure the character is all good first, so don't worry.
Before we begin to grade this one, you recognize that DarkRawen is playing an Angel character; a walking embodiment of good/light who might kill your character accidentally on touch right? We don't specifically have an issue with the character concept, we just wanted to make sure you know.Thomas Barnsley said:
Note that we closed the recruitment thread; this doesn't apply to your character or any replacement you might make due to the above. We just wanted to make sure this was the end of general submissions.