Background Story

One insanely hot summer afternoon, Aerlon Venries, the leader of Reylient, the best night combat unit of secret agency Naerliot, was paid an urgent visit by Briyevn Taunarith, the head of the intelligence division, in his apartment where he worked as a freelance writer and programmer.

There, he was delivered the information that the Puiremae, Naerliot intelligence, got from a trusted source that a group of very good human assassins have been gathered to take out the Reylient. And Puiremae is still working on the reason behind it.

Normally, the other combat units would be sent to find and eliminate the enemies, but shockingly, each and every one of the three dispatched units failed at making any progress before they were ambushed and badly damaged. The Wiveurn, core division of Naerliot, then made the decision that Reylient had indeed been targetted and counteractions must be taken.

But first, because the enemy had and was likely to make use of the universal weakness of Reylient's vampiric members again, a Naerliot defense unit would be sent to protect them while Reylient takes a 'vacation' in a safehouse, to prevent them from being attacked during the day.

But what really drove Briyevn, head of Puiremae, down to Aerlon's house was not to tell them of the threat while others can do so in his stead, but was because he had another set of orders for the night combat unit:

Reylient will not provoke or make things difficult for Giafreln, the best Naerliot defense unit and sworned nemesis of the Reylient, during their stay in Ruesae safehouse. Giafreln has the same orders. Any violation will result in ten percent pay cut for half a year, for each time.

Species

Humans

Humans, the species that we are all familiar with. In Yubrira’s case, most humans are able to use psychic abilities, which is also known as Anleyu, and non-psychics takes up twenty percent of the human population.

Vampires

They are almost the same as humans. Only differences lies in their natural time cycle which makes them nocturnal (in fact, according to popular theory, sunlight is highly hypnotic to vampires) and their eating habits which is more carnivorous than humans, and uses a type of magic called Anyu instead of Anleyu.

Abilities

Just a brief description of what are the abilities the characters can use. Both Anleyu and Anyu are not inexhaustible abilities. They consumes a type of energy called An, that the humans and vampires are borned with, when they are used. 

Anleyu, the psychic abilities

Anleyu is weaker than the vampiric magic abilities, Anyu, but is more direct and requires slightly less concentration. The abilities are borned with, but control of the abilities must be taught, lest psychics (Anleyun) harm themselves and those around them.

Telekinesis & Psychokinesis - These abilities involve moving things with your mind. The only difference between the two is, telekinesis is more controlled while psychokinesis is not. Four out of ten person is either a telekin or psychokin.

Pyrokinesis, Cyrokinesis, Hydrokinesis, Electrokinesis & Aerokinesis - These abilities involve creating fire, ice, water, electricity and wind with their mind. They hold twenty five percent of the population.

Precognition, Healing, Empathy, Dreamwalk & other rare abilities - Precognition involves viewing the future, healing is self-explanatory, empathy involves feeling what other feels, dreamwalk is the ability to enter other people's dreamers. There are many other abilities and those are generally quite rare and the psychics treated with respect. They make up fifteen percent of the population.

Telepathy & Soothing - Telepathy is the ability to read and modify another's mind, depending on how powerful the telepath is, while soothing involves nullifying other psychic's abilities. These two type of psychics are formidable and sought after by many. There is only one in twenty person who is either, and interestingly, for each telepath, there is one soother.

Anyu, the magic abilities

Anyu draws on the power of one's mind, heart and soul, and utilizes An to do magic. An Anyun (one who practices Anyu) must be taught how to properly do Anyu magic or they may destroy themselves in the process. It is more powerful than Anleyu but requires more An than Anleyu. And also because it requires a lot of concentration, the power of Anyu is effectively reduced during the day because vampires often are drowsy from the desire to sleep.

Anyu is a changing or conversion type of magic, and works in a 'wish really hard and you'll get it' way, only with severe limitations. The change must be of equivalent magnitude to the amount of An and concentration involved, so if a person is very low on An, he cannot do much even if he has very high concentration.

If what is being converted or changed is only energy, like changing An into electricity or heat, it is not all that difficult but uses a lot of An. But if tranfiguration is involved, some form of a source item or material is require for the conversion and is slightly more complicated but uses less An. It is like the alchemy in Full Metal Alchemist, but does not require knowing the complicated magiphysics involved or drawing transfiguration circles or something.

Setting

I'm not revealing the full setting for Yubrira, this is just part of it. Likewise, just some basic stuff about Naerliot. The rest is up to roleplayers to develop, all except the Gods. I already have a celestial setting. So if you really want to drag gods in, Chiyean (God of Light and Day) is the guardian god for human, and Neiwya (Goddess of Night and Darkness) is the guardian god for vampires.

Yubrira

Modern, but with magic and psychic powers. The world is Yubrira, awfully similar to Earth (technological advancement and the likes), but it is slightly younger and have more than one species, and currently three known continents. One mainly populated by humans, another by vampires and the last by both species. The last continent, Liwenze, is where this roleplay takes place in. In Iyunera, one of the two countries on the Land of Mist Borders. 

Naerliot

Sometimes, a country faces huge crisis that must be solved quickly and quietly or it may drag into a long disaster. Sometimes, there are crime-doers who simply cannot be touched because of the amount of power they hold over the economy or in politics or some important element of the society. Sometimes, there are sinister plots that involve many powerful figures or people of high positions and there is no telling who can be trusted to expose those people.

When there are such situations or those of same nature, similar difficulty and secrecy involved, usually one particular secret agency will be involved. It is said to be not affliated to any country, any government or any powerful organization or individuals. Its origins are not known, but what is known is the price required for its service is extremely high, but the results are more than worth the price. It calls itself the Naerliot, named after the carriage of the legendary hero that sacrificed himself to bring peace between humans and vampires.

Roleplaying

There are only ten characters available, five from Reylient, the night combat unit which basically consists of vampiric assassins, and five from Giafreln, the defense unit whose members are bodyguards, three of them humans, one half-vampire and the last a vampire. If not all of the spots are taken, the untaken ones will be NPCs. But I will not increase the number of characters should all be taken, because I want a small and active roleplaying group, not a big and laggy one.

I only want roleplayers who can be active enough to post daily, or at least once in two three days. And also, roleplayers must be able to handle the character interaction, being able to control other's characters and allowing the others to do the same. It would be preferable if you have some experience roleplaying in dreamers already, so things can proceed smoothly.

This is a plot intensive, and character interaction and development heavy roleplay. Hopefully, the roleplay will move in a fast, exciting and fruitful pace that does not dawdle and drag. Because characters start off knowing each other, the usually very draggy introductory stage will be skipped.

Though not compulsory, I would prefer if roleplayers set up somewhat instantaneous communications (eg. messangers) between each other to regularly work on the roleplay, such as discuss about the plot and next steps. Hopefully it'll help advance the plot faster and will cut down on the uncertain and waiting parts, as well as improve relations and interaction between roleplayers. At least, keep a somewhat active PM communication or something.

I would also like a little deteal on the enemy types, a little background please, and maybe even some weakness and strength data for ideas of cool attacks and weaknesses for our characters, if youll approve that. Well, that is all, i will do my best to think further on this topic and maybe improve the rp itself under your supervision. Thank you.

I think that Livewire had a point. What if one person from each group, and you Seluna can E-mail each other to set up what will happen throughout the day. This way when someone posts it will be expected and the next move will be understood. Now each side can keep what they had in mind a secret but Seluna will know everything, that way it'll all run smoothly. It's just and idea.

Also, I wanted to know whether or not this RPG incorporated swords and chainmail or guns and jeans. That way I can make my character properly.

Finally, once the groups are set we should give out E-mail addresses to all on the same team and contact each other as often as possible until the characters are set.

I figured it might be a good idea to decide classes. Like for my character, he would still be an assasin but he would be more focused on the strength potrtion of himself so my An Points(AP) would not be as high as say a Psychic assasin's would be. And strength will also decide on what kind of weapons you can use along with the Accuracy. If your strength is high and your accuracy is low than you'll want a close ranged weapon but still carry a long ranged just in case. If your accuracy is high than carry somthing expecially for long range and somthing small and light if they get too close. Or you can possibly just forget the close weapon all together and depend on your team-mates to protect you as the enemy gets closer. I can figure all this stuff out and have everything planned, ready to go. All I need is your permission Seluna, just give me the go ahead and I'll get everyone ready to go. I promise you that.

Name:

Age:

Gender:

Species:

Daytime Job: (like Aerlon Venries, the leader of Reylient, is freelance writer and programmer.)

General appearance:

General clothing: (everyday clothing, like usually found is casual wear or T-shirt or nothing )

Mission wear: (mission clothing, what they wear when on missions)

Weapons: (can have a few weapons on your character's person, but don't overdo it. Keep it logical. Also include fighting style)

Abilities: (Anyu or Anleyu, and specify sub-category for Anleyu. Brief description of what can character do, approximately how strong char is, etc)

Fighting Style: (when faced with direct danger, what does the character do?)

Specialities: (what is character good with or specialized in, for both everyday life and night-job wise (that is not mentioned under Fighting Style. Like for example, Aerlon is good with hacking, while another member of Reylient could be good with bombs. Also include lousy in which other aspects just to balance off the characters)

Personality: (Okay, this part is very important, this helps others understand your character and for them to better control your characters. It need not be extremely detailed, but give a clear idea what kind of a person your character is.

Biography: (I don't want full-blown stories. I want a few facts of the person's history and current status, enough for the other roleplayers to work with. You may hide chunks of your character's history. I did it before, it was more interesting creating her (yes, that char's a female) history through roleplaying her. Lose all the details that are likely unwanted. I don't need conversation of how the character last talked to his teacher who told him he was destined for greatness or whatever. Keep it short and sweet, and of good quality information.)

Yume reminded me something that I forgot to do. The vampires do NOT drink blood, cannot change humans into vampires, are NOT afraid of garlic, crosses, running water etc etc. They are just like humans, except they are nocturnal. That's all. They do not resemble the vampire stereotype. They are named vampires only because they are nocturnal, and they are little more carnivorous because I felt like it. I can simply name them with other names, and it'll still work, but I prefer the term 'vampires' here.

Oh yea... forgot to add but will edit in later... vampires have very good night visions and their pupils are slitted when there is bright light. Like cats. But that's about all.

Implomentation is the act of implomenting the thoughts of ones self into the minds of a person or person(s). Implomentation is a study of the Power of Anyu only and is very rare. Common thoughts such as opnions and lust can be implomented into the minds of people, or, even the actions of one persoon can be implomented into the mind of one person or person(s).

Healing: Healing is a basic technique and simple to perform, but perfoming it properly and to its fullest potental is the difficult part of healing. The healing process of wounds is increased during the process, or if performed properly, the wound could be completely sealed.

Empathy & Dreamwalk: Empathy is the abilite to feel one others feelings while in the presense of that person or person(s). While Dreamwalk is the act of entering one person or person(s) dreams and watching or modifying the draem to better suit the invader.

Rayph was born with the natrual ablilite of using and signifing the Magic of An.

Biography: Having been born a vampire, Slade never really had very many friends due to considering himself to br a freak. It wasn't until his parents were killed that he embraced his abilities. Sensativity to sunlight is the only thing that stands in his way now, he is able to stand it like all vampires are but it makes him weak. Weaker than he perfers to be. So he joined the team Giafreln to put purpose in his life. The team became his new family, and he will do anything for them.

I don't want to seem too forward, Sel, but shouldn't you maybe change the name of the vampire species? Everybody's assuming they're the traditional vampire and their bios are all messed up.

I'll try to fix my bio again, but I need some help from you Sel because I know how I want but I can't get it to run in the direction you want. As for the pyrokinesis, i'll find a new ability or somthing. I'll work on it.

by the way, i would like to request the permission to play 2 characters for now, one human and one Vamp.

I would also like to make a communications suggestion. I do have a forum, and we could perhaps create a shared e mail with a password only availible to us, perhaps a yahoo.com email. But at any rate i would be more than happy to create topics and forums that exsist souly for the perpose of the two units.

i will act as the head of this voting, orginizing everything will be my job unless anyone person has another idea, so plaese, lets do this.

Live, no offense, but your kind of compilcating it. I, for one, don't like being given a plot line. What sel's been saying this whole time is that it is a rp that will unfold as WE choose it, not her. So, heres a (in my oppinion) good and simple solution. We start a mailing list between eachother. maybe a second if you all want. one mailing list of all 10 rpers, and then, if the rest of you really wanna do, a second of just the 5 in your group (human or vampire) this way, we all talk together, and if you only want to talk one on one, meet in chat.