Nexus: a horror RP (Closed)

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The Abhorsen

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You don't know how you got here. You're not even quite sure where "here" is, to be perfectly honest. All you know is that you don't, under any circumstances, want to be here.

When you first awoke in a padded cell, you thought it was a dream (or, most likely, a nightmare). However, after experiencing the sight of the horrors, the stench of rotting corpses and the touch of cold, dead flesh as it brushes against your skin, you've come to realize otherwise.

Desperate for a way out, you'll do anything to escape the demons of the Nexus.

Anything.--


Name-
Age-
Gender-

Items on person- (must be within reason- things you'd normally take with you on a work day)
Occupation- (Job before the Nexus)

Talents- (anything your character is good at)
Flaws- (Must have at least one)
Sin- (The sin your character is most prone to: Wrath, Lust, Pride, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony or Envy)

History- (A brief background on your character. No more than three paragraphs.)


Name- Jack Columbus
Age- 28
Gender- Male

Items on person- Chewing gum, pack of cigarettes (x4 cigarettes), lighter (half-full), wallet, pocket knife, eyeglasses
Occupation- Tenth Grade English Teacher

Talents- Writing, can read Latin, Endurance (runs every morning), Understanding
Flaws- Sarcastic, Weak, can't see without glasses, Arachniphobia
Sin- Envy

History- As a boy, Jack wanted nothing more than to grow up to be one of the "normal" kids. He had no grandiose dreams of becoming famous or the President or anything like that. He simply wanted to write for a living.

Now Jack works at a small high school in the middle of Wisconsin, lives alone in a small apartment in the city and often tries to write best-selling novels before crumpling them up and tossing them into the garbage. He is lonely, and jealous of all of those who have a wife or children who need them. Instead of attempting to solve this problem by meeting women, Jack refuses to go out at night and wallows in his own self-pity often.

Just before appearing in the Nexus, Jack asked out and was subsequently turned down by a fellow teacher whom he likes. As a result, he got himself drunk the night before and currently has a hangover... in the Nexus. Good times.

Name- Jack Columbus
Age- 28
Gender- Male

Items on person- Chewing gum, pack of cigarettes (x4 cigarettes), lighter (half-full), wallet, pocket knife, eyeglasses
Occupation- Tenth Grade English Teacher

Talents- Writing, can read Latin, Endurance (runs every morning), Understanding
Flaws- Sarcastic, Weak, can't see without glasses, Arachniphobia
Sin- Envy

History- As a boy, Jack wanted nothing more than to grow up to be one of the "normal" kids. He had no grandiose dreams of becoming famous or the President or anything like that. He simply wanted to write for a living.

Now Jack works at a small high school in the middle of Wisconsin, lives alone in a small apartment in the city and often tries to write best-selling novels before crumpling them up and tossing them into the garbage. He is lonely, and jealous of all of those who have a wife or children who need them. Instead of attempting to solve this problem by meeting women, Jack refuses to go out at night and wallows in his own self-pity often.

Just before appearing in the Nexus, Jack asked out and was subsequently turned down by a fellow teacher whom he likes. As a result, he got himself drunk the night before and currently has a hangover... in the Nexus. Good times


Anything like that oughta do just fine. If there are any questions, PM me.
 

Xanian

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I don't know how quickly you want this role-play to go, but I'll be posting before and after work, which is 9 a.m.-7 p.m...Seoul time.

Hope the character goes well.

Name- Mary Johnson
Age- 29
Gender- Female
Previous occupation: Secretary/ Typist

Items on person- A new pack of Orbit gum, a chocolate bar, a large purse, a Cell phone, a wallet with $22 cash and various credit cards, assorted make up items, tweezers, 4 pens, six tampons, a new packet of paper soap, a toothbrush, and three band aids. [OOC, these are the items in MY purse, in case you think I'm being creative here.]

Talents- She can sing moderately well, is an excellent typist, is physically fit, and has an artistic flare for design and color. She is also a very good reader and listener.
Flaws- She bites her nails, is fairly "ordinary" in appearance, gets nauseous easily, and can't stand certain insects.
Sin- Wrath

History- Mary has been blessed with the unfortunate and inescapable curse of being very plain. She is not particularly attractive nor more intelligent than anyone else. She grew up with a number of over-achieving family members, which only made her seem weird and disappointing in comparison. Even her name is unremarkable.
Even Mary's career is run of the mill. She is hopelessly bad at small talk, or big talk for that matter, and she often finds herself a wall flower. She has had relationships, but they seldom last more than a few months, and usually end in infidelity.
That is when the only remarkable thing about Mary comes into play. She is terribly and relentlessly vicious and vengeful, and knows wrath like no other. She has been known to poison the pets of ex-boyfriends and once sent a woman to the hospital after she told her she was having an affair with Mary's boyfriend. Mary feels no guilt or remorse for these actions, and will smile when retelling the tales of such.
 

ThreeWords

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Name- Jon Shannow
Age- 21
Gender- Male

Items on person- 4 inch penknife (slightly longer than legal to carry), pocketbook and pen, keys, wallet with 25 pounds/dollars and bank cards, and a flask of alcohol
Occupation- Teacher at private school

Talents- physically fit (Jon finds it less effort to stay fit than to carry 20 extra kilos around with him all day), multilingual, passably handsome, armed with a ready wit and a vague knowledge of most subjects and areas
Flaws- Jon is a lazy man, and is prone to insincerity and sarcasm. He also has a disregard of the rules, almost to the point of stupidity, for though he is a teacher, he is also a heavy drinker, even in school.
Sin- Sloth

History- Born to a rather well of family, Jon went to a private school where, despite his disorganisation and laziness, he passed his exams with flying colours due to his natural intelligence. University was a similar story, and Jon returned to the same school as a teacher, accepted by the ageing headmaster more out of being a friendly face form the past than on any specific merits. All the teachers taught several subjects so Jon settled down to teach Maths, Spanish, French, chemistry and gymnastics.

As the headmaster slipped into senility, the schools rules became more and more lax, and Jon was able to drink in lessons and throws stuff at rowdy pupils, and have more than one relationship with six form girls, and he found himself comfortable in his position until he awakes in the nexus
 

TheGreatCoolEnergy

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Call me in. Care to go into depth about exactly what we will be confronting?
Name-Dante
Age-17
Gender-Male

Items on person- Car keys, watch, pen, flash drive, ipod, 5 dollars in change
Occupation- Student

Talents- Video Gaming, Schoolwork.
Flaws- Paranoid, cracks easy when things go horribly wrong
Sin- Lust

History- James Smith lead a normal life. He attended school, he hung out with friends, lived a normal life. Until he wound up in nexus. It changed him. No more was James Smith. Now, he called himself Dante(soory that there isn't much here, I'm having a writers block.)
 

Yorgmiester

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Always wanted to do a horror RP, never got the chance. Count me in.

Name- Will Conel
Age- 29
Gender- Male

Items on person- Cell phone, wallet with a few cards and $12, a crumpled up gum wrapper, his keys, a pack of cigarette's, lighter, watch.
Occupation- Liquor Shop Manager

Talents- He generally has a cool head and can work well under pressure. In good shape, mostly because he has nothing better to do.
Flaws- Smokes and drinks a lot, isn't very friendly, tends to not care about anyone, or anything. Has no major phobias, but is uncomfortable around needles.
Sin- Sloth

History- Will lived a fairly mundane life in a trailer park till he was 13. One night, his father got drunk, and brutally beat his mother till she was unconscious. Then he drove away and got killed by running into a tree. After a few months in the hospital, his mother had to go back to her old job as a "working girl". After that, his story took the road of many other teens, and he eventually ended up running a liquor shop and living in a tiny apartment. The night before he woke up in the Nexus, he had gotten smashed and fallen asleep in front of the tv, for all he could remember.
Hmmm, a lot shorter than my other ones.
 

The Hairminator

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I didn't reserve, but here's my sheet if that's alright.
Name- Eric Newton
Age- 21
Gender- Male

Items on person- A camera, notebook and pencil, a golden watch kept around his neck (malfunctioning, from the early parts of the 20th century, family heirloom, uses it as a luck bringer and talisman), sunglasses, a harmonica, wallet containing ID, bank cards and money (around $10). He also has a key ring with keys and a swiss army knife attached.

Occupation- Eric used to be a freelancer photographer, but recently got a job at a fairly big photography magazine.

Talents- Gets along well with people. Decent physique. Can play guitar and the harmonica. Tries to stand up for his morals, although sometimes those can get confused.
Flaws- Quite naive and sentimental. Easily persuaded. Unsure of himself.
Sin- Lust

History- Eric was born to a middle class family, the youngest of three siblings. He had a hard time living up to his parents ambitions. Instead he flourished at playing guitar and photography. After finishing high school he decided to move out of his parents house and move away from his home town. His only income then was when a magazine bought a picture from him, which happened just frequently enough for him to get by on. He was then offered a job at a magazine he had sold many pictures to before. Eric gladly accepted, this was what he had always wanted to do. He kept doing his new job for a few weeks, and the last thing he remembers before waking up in the Nexus is the flash from a co-worker's camera, taking a picture of him.
 

Aqualung

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Name- Guy Doyle
Age- 37
Gender- Male

Items on person- A Blackberry, a small ball-point pen, lighter, a small pack of cigarettes (3), a bottle of indomethacin pills (6), a wallet with photo ID; a number of credit cards and gift cards; and thirty-four dollars, as well as a couple subway tickets (2).

Occupation- Best-selling author

Talents- Guy possesses strong skills at deducing and solving matters of all kinds, from simple trick puzzles to true mysteries. His history in storytelling has helped shape him into a very impartial viewer, and given him the ability to see an issue from all sides and angles. He also has a strong judgement of character for others.
Due to research for a number of his novels, Guy has some mediocre knowledge of how to use a handgun, how to carjack, as well as an assortment of other random skills.

Flaws- Guy isn't particularly fast or have great stamina- while he doesn't have a large stomach, he rarely, if ever, exercises. This is due to the suffering of pleurisy, causing a stabbing pain in the chest, shortness of breath, and fevers with chills, among other symptoms.
He also struggles to console others or show compassion; though he is a nice person, he finds it very difficult to connect to others on an emotional level. His most major fear is of drowning to death, a fear which he refuses to confide in anyone.

Sin- Gluttony


History- Born and raised in British Colombia, Canada, Guy lived a relatively average life, performing well in school with a strength in literature studies. During his time in university, he managed to publish his first novel- a gun-slinging action adventure in modern day Africa- and graduate the next year with both a Bachelor of Arts degree and a publisher to work for. For over the past decade, Guy has remained a steadfast writer, completing roughly seven fiction novels on a broad spectrum of topics.

A year ago, Guy had developed chronic pleurisy- an inflammation of the two-ply membrane that both encloses the lung and lines the chest cavity. Though it has recovered dramatically since, he continues to carry a small bottle of pills to ease the chest pain that accompanies the illness, which appear when he grows stressed or his breathing and heart rate increase rapidly.
 

Nukey

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Name- Rebbecca "Reb" Williams
Age- 18
Gender- Female

Items on person- Switch blade, pepper spray, a wallet containing a fake ID, real ID, and two hundred dollars.
Occupation- Student

Talents- She is rather attractive and due to self defense training she can handle herself in a fight.
Flaws- She is extremely paranoid and she has very poor self-esteem.
Sin- Envy

History- Being the youngest of five siblings Rebbecca always felt unloved as she was never being noticed by anyone other then her parents. Her mother was abusive and her father was a raging alcoholic, neither of them seemed to get along very well with others. Every day up until she was six both of her parents hit her and abused her, sometimes forgetting to feed the young Rebbecca. Once she turned six her father was killed in a drunk driving accident and her mother had developed lung cancer. Eventually the authorities came and took the children away and sent them to different foster homes, she never saw any of them again. Her new family was far more caring, however the damage was already done. For the rest of her life very little seemed to happen, she got decent grades and was accepted into a few different colleges.

Then she woke up in the Nexus....
 

Aqualung

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ThreeWords said:
You as well?

Didn't you see my earlier post?

You're the one following me!
Lies. LIES LIES LIES.

Well, at least I'm a man this time around, so no more tomfoolery!

EDIT: My post count is now 2345... WHAT DO I DO?!!? D:
 

Quad08

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YAY! My first Role Playing Adventure! I'm super new at this so please don't get mad if I screw up...

I'm not sure if this sheet is detailed enough, but let me know of anything I'm missing:

Name- Nathan Andrews
Age- 29
Gender- Male

Items on person- Police Batton, Handcuffs, Key Ring, Wallet (Contains ID, Police Badge, and $35 in cash)
Occupation- Police Officer

Talents- Physically strong. Can withstand more pain than normal. Good at reading people. Sees the world as good or bad.
Flaws- Very quick to anger. Very Judgmental. Doesn't work well with others
Sin- Wrath

History- Nathan has always been a bully of bullies. He has hated injustice and confronts it with brutal tactics. He fought and beat up bullies from middle school to high school, slowly becoming that which he hated most. His anger and aggression got so bad that he was unable to carry out normal social relationships.
After graduation, he joined the police force but was unable to raise through the ranks due to his brutal methods but the results he got were enough for the force to keep him on.
A few months back, he gunned down five gang members who had surrendered and he was therefore no longer allowed a firearm.
 

Aqualung

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Yorgmiester said:
Aqualung said:
...Yorg? XD You're in all my RPs now.

STOP WATCHING PEOPLE.
Correction: I joined this one first, so technically you're in all of my RPs now.

:p
False. I started working on my sheet before you and GCE posted, and didn't refresh my page. So, no. ;P And my sheet was up first, so, HA!
 

ThreeWords

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Aqualung said:
ThreeWords said:
You as well?

Didn't you see my earlier post?

You're the one following me!
Lies. LIES LIES LIES.

Well, at least I'm a man this time around, so no more tomfoolery!
Eh, Nuke is a woman, so there's still some scope..

On the other hand, knowing Nuke, she's likley a psycho, so maybe not...

But that might only make it more interesting...

[sup]I'll shut up now...[/sup]

Quad08 said:
YAY! My first Role Playing Adventure! I'm super new at this so please don't get mad if I screw up...

I'm not sure if this sheet is detailed enough, but let me know of anything I'm missing:

Name- Nathan Andrews
Age- 29
Gender- Male

Items on person- Police Batton, Handcuffs, Key Ring, Wallet (Contains ID, Police Badge, and $35 in cash)
Occupation- Police Officer

Talents- Physically strong. Can withstand more pain than normal. Good at reading people. Sees the world as good or bad.
Flaws- Very quick to anger. Very Judgmental. Doesn't work well with others
Sin- Wrath

History- Nathan has always been a bully of bullies. He has hated injustice and confronts it with brutal tactics. He fought and beat up bullies from middle school to high school, slowly becoming that which he hated most. His anger and aggression got so bad that he was unable to carry out normal social relationships.
After graduation, he joined the police force but was unable to raise through the ranks due to his brutal methods but the results he got were enough for the force to keep him on.
A few months back, he gunned down five gang members who had surrendered and he was therefore no longer allowed a firearm.
Hey Quad, no worries. As you may have guessed, half of the applicants are familiar with each other, since they all follow me around the RP section.

Anyhoo, aside from my insecurities, we make a pretty good RP framework, so we'll help you along if you have any trouble.
 

TheGreatCoolEnergy

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ThreeWords said:
I am starting to worry that my RP buddies are stalking me
[/paranoia]

Ah well, I suppose I'm just that great =D

And hey, at least it means the RPs I play are never undermanned =P
My theory? There are only 25 regulars on the RP part of this forum