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phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
APPLICATIONS
Applications are currently closed and will open at 12:01 AM PST on February 22nd.
Post your applications to this entry in the following format: First comment should contain the OOC information section only. Successive comments should be posted in reply to that comment, as many as you need. Moderator responses will be appended to the last comment of the application.
A reserve is not required to app! Please note that while the total cap for characters per player is four, you can apply a maximum of two characters per application cycle.
APPLICATION TEMPLATE:
Please note that apps are processed in batches at the end of the application period!
IMPORTANT: Be sure to post your app with the journal you intend to use for the game!
Post your applications to this entry in the following format: First comment should contain the OOC information section only. Successive comments should be posted in reply to that comment, as many as you need. Moderator responses will be appended to the last comment of the application.
A reserve is not required to app! Please note that while the total cap for characters per player is four, you can apply a maximum of two characters per application cycle.
APPLICATION TEMPLATE:
- OOC Information
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Samples: [Threads from the test drive are strongly preferred, but any thread of at least eight comments from your character will do.]
Please note that apps are processed in batches at the end of the application period!
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Player name: Eric
Player age and gender: 33, he/his
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Any other characters in game? no
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Character name: Lin Bai
Character canon: Fists of Asphalt (Original Character from a table top RPG campaign)
Canon point: Post game ending
Physical Description: 22 years old, 5'5", athletic build, reddish hair, Chinese features, numerous small scars from various battles. Lin moves with the practiced grace of a martial artist or athlete, and makes little effort to hide how she's feeling. Her face and body language are honest and open. Starting clothes: Buddhist monk robes over tank top and shorts. Black nylon backpack. Conical straw hat. Sandals.
About the Character: Some background: As mentioned, Lin is a character from a tabletop game. The game, "Fists of Asphalt", was a loving tribute to series like Mad Max and Fist of the North Star, where civilization has collapsed, and all that stands between the wretched people of the nuclear wasteland and those who would use their strength to exploit others is a tiny band of people with cool cars and amazing kung fu.
Bai Lin hails from the imaginary Yuxi Valley, in the atomic wastelands of 22nd century post-apocalyptic China. In this grim future, fearsome warriors roam the wastelands, taking what they please while those relying on ancient technology fight against ancient monsters and magics that have reawakened with the end of the old world order. Yuxi Valley, however, was a safe haven of relative sanity, where people lived in peace.
She was the illigimate child of a village headman. Rather than have her remain in the village as a reminder of past infidelities, she was sent off to the local temple. The Temple of the Soaring Fist was devoted to martial arts, and situated at the mouth of Yuxi Valley. The monks who lived their defended Yuxi from the various desert raiders, warlords, and other nondesireables that wanted to despoil the fertile valley beyond. The temple was happy to take in unwanted children. They got new recruits out of it, after all.
Lin was a girl, so they trained her to be a maid for the temple, but she wasn't having it. She sneaked around so she could watch the martial arts classes, she practiced on her own, and then she started getting in fights with the students (and winning!). The abbot heard her case and decided that who was he to turn away such a promising student just because she wasn't a boy, and so Lin became "Brother" Lin, an initiate warrior monk.
Abbot Wu Qiang became something of an adoptive father to Lin. Despite being the leader of an order of warrior monks who regularly did battle with the worst the outside world had to offer, Wu Qiang was an optimistic and kindhearted man who would regularly spare defeated aggressors, and offer them redemption. Lin's admiration for the man was boundless, so she strove to absorb everything he had to teach.
One day, however, Abbot Wu Qiang started getting sick. He never recovered, and died a few weeks later. Lin was heartbroken, but her sadness turned to rage when she discovered a vial of poison that produced similar symptoms to Wu Qiang's sickness hidden in the new abbot's chamber. She loudly accused Zhou Chen (the new abbot) of murder. Zhou Chen was absolutely guilty, but he also was a fast thinker. He was able to get Lin stripped of her rank and banished from the temple before she could make her case.
After moping about the wasteland for some time, Lin resolved to go back and bring justice with her. First, though, she needed backup. She scoured the wasteland until, in the town of Hegang, she found a group of likely looking souls, who are listed here. She talked them into helping her take down the local warlord, because she thought it was the right thing to do, and then into destroying a slave trading organization known as the Valley of Fire, with a couple of other stops along the way. The group of hard bitten, cynical, but very dangerous wanderers started getting forged into a band of friends who would take on anyone in the name of making the wasteland a little less grim. Finally, they came back to Yuxi Valley. Lin enacted a plan to sneak into the valley and depose the murderous Abbot Zhou that absolutely failed the moment she stepped into the temple, when Zhou greeted her politely. Privately, he explained that no one was going to believe her no matter what she said, and that he feared her so little at this point that he was willing to end her banishment.
While Lin tried to figure out how she felt about this, she told her story to a pair of visitors to the valley. They declared that they were going to "test" the abbot, and that night they attacked, opening the gates to the temple from within so the hidden army of The Scorpion Queen could invade. Lin went on a one woman rampage, taking her frustrations out on the invaders. Even if she couldn't bring back Wu Qiang, or drag Zhou Chen to justice, she could still defend her home. The temple and valley were successfully saved. Not only that, Zhou Chen saw his temple almost destroyed, and saw someone he had dismissed as unimportant save the valley practically on her own. He had an attack of conscience, confessed his crimes, and took her place in exile. Sometimes, life just works out like that.
Lin had seen more of the outside world now, though, so she declined to return to her life at the temple. There was still too much that needed to be fixed in the world, and while it didn't have the same feeling of urgency to it, she also had seen so many things that looked like they might be fun, but were forbidden to the life of an ascetic monk. Now that she wasn't a monk, she figured she could use the opportunity to try it all out and decide if she wanted to go back to being a monk or if she wanted to try being a normal woman. First, though, she had to deal with The Scorpion Queen. With the Soaring Fist monks at her side, she and her friends took the fight to the enemy, facing down the Queen in her lair.
Her quest to fix the world went on well past the Scorpion Queen, finally coming to a climax in the city of New Hong Kong, where she and her friends went toe to toe with a newly born god known as the Yellow Emperor. Though he was defeated, some of her friends died in the final battle, and she decided to take a break for a while. The break was short lived, unfortunately, for it was then that she fell into the Phantasmal Rift.
In a world ruled by the cruel and cynical, Bai Lin is an optimist ruled by her conscience. She refuses to leave a bad status quo be, and rarely thinks her actions through once she’s decided she needs to act. She believes that if she turned her back on suffering she could have stopped, she’d become a different person. The Bai Lin she wanted to be would be dead, with someone worse taking her place. So in a way, she doesn't fear risking her life to help people, because NOT helping also feels like risking her life on a metaphorical kind of level.
She has a certain amount of personal charisma. Whether it's through guilt trips, personal example, dramatic speeches, or even just pleading, she is very good at getting people to do what she wants (She was able to at least partially redeem three of the five major villains across the campaign.), which was good for her, as she isn't actually very...smart...She flounders at things like long term planning and tends to trust people at their word even when it doesn't make sense to do so. She knows this about herself, and is happy to accept advice when she's trying to plan things. She also tends to avoid positions of authority, as they make her uncomfortable.
Character abilities: While all of her abilities are ostensibly explained as incredible skill that anyone could do with training, some of them definitely push into the supernatural boundaries. It's all meditation, chi, and sufficiently advanced martial arts.
Cloud Body Technique: Through intense focus and lots of practice, Lin can make her body lighter for brief periods of time, allowing her to make spectacularly high leaps and jumps. Think Wire-Fu jumps.
Lightning Chi: By storing up chi in her hands (or feet, or forehead, or whatever), Lin can perform a strike that stuns her target like a tazer, leaving them dazed and unable to fully defend themselves for several seconds. Relatedly, though it's not a specific power in the rule books there were several moments where Lin was able to perform incredible feats of strength such as punching people through walls.
Dim Mak: A super hard to do series of pressure point strikes that takes a foe directly to death's doorstep, though it doesn't leave her in much better condition.
Driver: She can actually drive pretty good, though she doesn't know SHIT about traffic laws.
Inventory: Other than the clothes on her back, she has a few items in her backpack for regular traveling:
- Canteen
- Roll of bandages (cleanish)
- Car keys (the car is not in this dimension)
- Change of underwear
- Jerky (don't ask what kind of meat)
- Notebook
- Pencil
Samples: Here's a thread and here's another thread
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Additionally, if you use a secondary journal for icon space or other purposes, please respond to this comment with it so that we can get it included!
For your participation in the Test Drive, your character also receives the following items of loot;
-> A gold bangle nearly two inches wide that has holes cut in it in the pattern of some kind of flower.
-> A children's Make-Your-Own gummies set, with worm and bug shaped molds. Kept in the box after use, but almost all of the actual candy is gone.