Maalum (Archive with Formatting)
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Post by Heterohedron on Jan 23, 2016 19:17:05 GMT -5
Maalum
« on: July 27, 2014, 08:09:07 pm »
Iaashadow and Elephants4Ever present
Maalum Academy was built as a refuge for members of eight non-human races, so they could practice their abilities and learn to control them without interference from humans and their dangerous weaponry and devastating expansion. And that worked well for a long time--for one hundred years, Melon and its students were left in peace, and the supernatural world thrived. But then, more and more people began seeking out fancy schools for their children, and the remote Maalum Academy was discovered. People noticed something different about the students there: they were stronger and smarter, and got out of trouble easily; and though many of them looked strange, everyone gathered that the environment there promoted equality, regardless of appearance. It appeared on the news and in every parent advice blog in existence, and then its fate was set: everyone wanted their student to go there. Everyone needed their student there. The headmaster did all he could: he raised the price and put a very set limit on the number of students that could attend, but even after his best efforts, a large number of human students joined their superhuman counterparts. Now the school was caught up in a scramble between secrecy and superiority. Most students who are part of the seven races want nothing more than to keep their powers secret; others, however, will stop at nothing to gain power over everyone else.
This rp uses a class system of multiple races, choose one of these races
Taman
Appearance: Very human-looking; skin tones range from normal to paper-white to pale gray. Hair colors are normal, with white and gray or silver colors included even among younger individuals. Hair is generally kept braided or cut very short, so as to not get tangled in underwater environments. Skin doesn’t prune, so they’re pretty cool.
Physical: Breathing underwater; improved eyesight in darkness (esp. murky waters), very fast swimmers, can hold their breath for a very long time
Powers: Can manipulate water (shape, a little bit of temperature, etc.) if it already exists in an area; can summon small bits of water up through the ground if outside (but very, very small). Can dehydrate people a little and make them feel tired/make their powers less effective.
Weaknesses: Needs contact with water often, if away from water for too long they will begin to get very sick. Only breathe in water, but can hold their breaths for up to 4 hours
Kormot
Appearance: Normal for the first 13-16 years of their life; slowly develop scales for the first month after they begin developing powers.
Physical: Skin is nearly impenetrable after they develop scales, and also fireproof
Powers: can breathe fire and hold it in their hand and give it fuel
Weaknesses: stomach (or underbelly… derp) doesn’t have scales, so it is weaker; fire must be moved through physical means (but can be pushed or blown as if it is solid) and cannot last very long without some sort of fuel
Agnies
Appearance: Either very pale or very dark skinned with a (while/black) mark on their face. Thin and very agile
Physical: Very agile and fast, but not beyond human capability. They have high endurance to strenuous activity but have nothing beyond normal human traits otherwise
Powers: Light Manipulation. Can bend light, absorb it, and use it in large flashes.
Weaknesses: Full invisibility and power use in general is very energy consuming. Often they cannot use their powers for a few hours after even a short skirmish. They have NO offensive or hurting ability other than that of a normal person
Bandias
Appearance: The Bandias have tons of tattoos all over there body except their faces. These markings are in purple and green, and they all represent a trait of the person. Dark skinned
Physical: No bonus physical traits.
Powers: Can send and receive mental messages with others. Smarter than usual, each has a small specific specialty such as weapons, speed, strength, or endurance
Weaknesses: No extra weaknesses
Tembi
Appearance: normal, except: have slightly large ears (not conspicuously so), skin color also extends into a more greyish color in some individuals
Physical: Derp
Powers: Can summon elephants of their chosen size and density. Elephants’ ‘characters’ (name and personality) can be reused, with the same memories (but who but a Tembi would know? No one else understands them)
Weaknesses: There’s a limit on the amount of density of elephant that can be present at one time (you have to choose between large quantities of small or lightweight elephants, or one or two really heavy ones). When an elephant is killed, the Tembi must wait for (insert period of time here) before they can regain the mass it took to make that one and use it for a new elephant.
Kioo
Appearance: Short and thin with very short hair. They glow faintly.
Physical: The Kioo are incredibly fragile but move faster than any human and are stronger than any human. They have very high endurance, but do have a limit as to how far they can run.
Powers: None other than physical ability
Weaknesses: Bones are very weak, as they are imbued with ethereal energy. A hard punch to the jaw, neck, or ribs, will shatter bone, depending on strength. They can hurt themselves by hitting solid objects (e.g. a wall)
Hiki
Appearance:
Physical: Heavy resistance to their chosen element and well suited to the environment of their element.
Powers: Choose one of the following:
Electricity
Ice
Plant
Shadow
Sand
Can manipulate their chosen element as projectiles or in their natural form.
Weaknesses: Weak to other Hiki of other types.
Just a normal Human, lol not one of the races of power but still
Rules-
-NO GM-ing
-Follow forum rules
-NO BUNNYING WHATSOEVER, (This is important)
-Nothing you create can be overpowered, they can be powerful, but nothing along the lines of origin
-You can create multiple characters, however if you have more than one, be open to the possibility that they might die (a single character-person cannot be killed unless they are OP)
-You can have one character (your main) that is much less likely to be killed
-You can make characters that are human or bullies that flaunt their power, but they cannot be your main character
-Your character has to be of only one race--no Taman-Tambi crosses, etc.
- You may not have more than 4 living characters at one time
Character form
Race:
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here):
Name:
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher):
How did you come to this school?:
Anything of interest before that?:
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good):
Anything else we need to know?:
You can make human characters without a character form
ALL THE CHARACTERS
Taman
Karamura, Nagisa - widm1999219
Azalea Monroe - Period5
Kormot
Ivy A. - greensalmon
Zeek King - M217
Irene Harding - Iaashadow
Agnies
Yaman Hart - Iaashadow
Bandias
Antonio Montoya - Zenwarrior54 (strength)
Tembi
Ian Evans - MysticShadow
Kioo
Faith Tarans - greensalmon
Sarude Dessertstorm - Riddly Diddly
Mathias Lenderson - Iaashadow
Juniper Henley - Period5
Hiki
Eugene - Zenwarrior54 (Plant)
Cecilia Gardinier (Citrelia Grapefruitius) - MysticShadow (Plant)
Chokal "Cho" Weiss - Nitrox116 (Electricity)
Roger - JamesGames (Shadow)
Steve Stellar - JamesGames (Electricity)
Camellia - M217 (Sand)
Henry Sanchez - ZenWarrior54 (Electricity Fire)
Glenn Freidman - M217
Human
Rose - JamesGames
Unknown
Aversa - Zenwarrior54
((Ele))[glow=red,2,300]Aaaaaand BEGIN![/glow]
Character form
Race: Tembi
Name: Elissa Whittler
Age: 14
How did you come to this school?: Older sister went to Maalum
Anything of interest before that?: Has moved every so often when people notice her family's elephants.
Appearance:
Key traits: tbrp
Anything else we need to know?: NO.
Race: Agnies
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): n/a
Name: Yaman Hart
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 15
How did you originally find out about this school?: (For Zen: this is the bio part) Yaman always knew he could control light but never knew that there was a place to hone his abilities until he was invited to Maalum academy. He immediately signed up and that was that. Now he's off to boarding school not knowing what to expect.
Anything of interest before that?: (For Zen: this is another bio part) Yaman is very social however has never shown his powers to anyone else and is still a little reserved about going to a school full of people like him or other weird people.
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good):Social and talkative (to be role-played)
Anything else we need to know?: nope
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Plant
Name: Eugene
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 14
How did you come to this school?: He moved to the town for the good weather. His unique powers got the attention of the school, which in turn offered him priority enrollment. He gladly accepted.
Anything of interest before that?: When he was four, Eugene saw a dying daisy. When he touched the petals, it jumped back to life. He's kept it in a pot ever since. He's never seen without the flower pot.
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good): He's extremely protective of his flower. People tend to be drawn to his innocent nature.
Anything else we need to know?: Take his flower away, and he gets extremely aggressive.
((MS))[Welp. Can't join now since I'm leaving soon from the 30th till the 13th. Oh well.]
((Filling this out over time. Just saving myself a spot as main character.))
Race: Kioo
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): N/A
Name: Faith Tarans
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 15
How did you come to this school?: Faith's parents sent her.
Anything of interest before that?: Faith loved art.
Appearance: (Just shorter and thinner)
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Not many traits. She's shy.
Anything else we need to know?: Faith gets along with humans. If she has the courage to talk to one.
Character Form Skeleton- [Finishing this in the morning.]
Race: Taman
Chosen Trait: Can control the local humidity in the air around her mostly impacting water content in a zone around the level of where a person's head would be. (AKA bad hair day generator)
Name (Surname, Given Name): Karamura, Nagisa
Age: 15
How did your character find out about Maalum Academy?: She lives in a small mixed community of Talam and various other races. Many acquaintances in the community have also gone to Maalum and have influenced her parent's decision to send her there.
What was your character's life like before entering Maalum Academy?: She lived in a community with members of most of the 7 (+1) races. She knows of the existence of the differences and has come to terms with them over the years. She is somewhat reserved.
Appearance: Hair style is similar to that of Hotaru from Gakuen Alice. Slim. She wears a watch with a lid that can be opened and it contains a small water dish inside that is used as emergency hydration.
Key traits: Cucumbers are her favorite food. She carries around "bento" of cucumbers
around with er everywhere she goes along with a canteen of water for hydration. Slightly altered body structure due to her heritage.
Anything else we need to know?:
The group of Taman she belongs to are akin to the "Kappa" of Japanese mythology and the Kappa legends were based on the Taman who lived there. She along with others like her can absorb water through a disk like ring on her scalp and through her hair. Her oxygen filtration system allows water to be pumped into the lung-like structure that functions more like gills extracting oxygen from the water. The respiratory "gill" system is very efficient extracting about 90% of the maximum amount of The lung structures can also process air but to a much lesser extent, even less than a human's ~25%. There are also numerous small air sacs that store air in an area where it isn't as dense.
[Actually forget what I said earlier I just had a fantastic idea. I just wont be able to rp till after I get back.]
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait: Plant
Name: Citrelia Grapefruitius (her real name is actually Cecilia Gardinier; Yes I'm making a character based off of grapefruits which probably increases the chances of her getting killed off but idc)
Age: 15
How did you come to this school?: Seeking to further enhance her powers to grow the best grapefruits ever (and other citrus and fruits), she found the Maalum Academy. Since she comes from a rich family, her parents were planning to enroll her at the full price. However Citrelia received an invitation instead which she oh so gladly accepted.
Anything of interest before that?: Rich kid, homeschooled.
Appearance: Wavy, a little bit past the shoulder, light brown hair; pinkish orangish eyes (or basically the color of the inside of a grapefruit). 5'5". Slightly tanned skin. Has freckles on her face.
Key traits (this cannot be all good):
-Extremely obsessed with grapefruit.
-Can be quite delusional.
-Worships the grapefruit god (which used to be her imaginary friend when she was little).
-Is actually a good cook if she doesn't try to incorporate grapefruits into EVERYTHING.
-Hates bugs. Ew. They crawl all over her precious grapefruit. Disgusting. Must get rid of the bugs.
-Stubborn.
Anything else we need to know?:
She carries a parasol that resembles a grapefruit. Also carries a pouch full of grapefruit seeds.
((Again, filling out over time.))
Race: Kormot
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Well kinda forced to be fire.
Name: Ivy A.
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 17
How did you come to this school?: Her parents sent her.
Anything of interest before that?: Nope.
Appearance: (She bleached her hair.)
Key traits (this cannot be all good): She can't stand humans. Also, she really likes potions and bending reality.
Anything else we need to know?: She only gets along with Cho. Otherwise it takes a few days for her to get used to somebody. When she's angry, she can be VERY violent. She keeps something in her pocket that nobody can know about. She is saving it for when she needs it most.
Character form (WIP)
Race: Bandias
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Weapons...?
Name: Skylar Quintero
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 14.524 years old (Creds to FF)
How did you come to this school?: Skylar was walking in the streets when he suddenly heard a voice complaining about miscellaneous things- and no one else seemed to be able to hear it. The Bandias who happened to be accidentally sending out these random messages noticed his confusion and brought him to the academy.
Anything of interest before that?: Only family is his mother; she allowed him to go to Maalum partially because she could barely afford raising him, and partially because she knew his education would be a lot better than his current school.
Appearance:
Mostly wears long clothes to hide the tattoos.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): TBD. Still trying to figure out his personality.
Anything else we need to know?: ^
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait: Electricity
Name: Chokal "Cho" Weiss
Age: 15
How did you come to this school?: After learning the truth about Maalum Academy by reading the emails of some of the directors and students (and discovering that he was too late to sign up), Cho simply added his name to the registry and forged all the necessary information.
Anything of interest before that?: A freak thunderstorm landed he and his family in the hospital, but he ended up fine. This was when he decided to go to Maalum Academy.
Appearance:
Cho's strange glasses and long hair are primarily meant to conceal the slightly discolored pattern on his face. He can pass it off as a birthmark if need be, but would prefer that it not be noticed.
Key traits (this cannot be all good):
Intelligent, but easily distracted. Generally doesn't think before doing something. A bit reckless, with a slight tendency toward pranking.
Anything else we need to know?: Cho has forgone the shock-and-awe portion of his powers to work with finesse. This gives him incredible control over technology and skill at building machines, but little ability to create a lot of electricity by himself. However, he does attract a lot of lightning during thunderstorms.
Yeah, I was re-doing it, sorry about the confusion.
Class: Kormot
Name: Zeek King
Age: 17
How did you come to the school?: He had first enrolled at 13, back when the demand for the school was not so high.
Of interest before that: Cooking. He is obsessed with cooking. He plans on going to culinary school after he graduates.
Appearance:
Green fire, like a boss. Also, he always wears long sleeves and pants to conceal his scales, which he is self-conscious of.
Personality: Overly bubbly, tries to make friends with everyone even if they are dangerous psychopaths. Also, he is an organization freak and suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, related mainly to his dorm's cleanliness.
Other: N/A
Quick Question, at 17, how much scale growth will he have, and where?
((IAA))((I believe it will be almost completed, but the head does not have them (it never will)))
Eugene
It was lunch hour. Eugene was sitting in an odd position, with his knees right up to his chin. He was staring contently at his flower pot, which sat on the table next to his lunch. Across from him sat his friend.
"Faith..." He asked quietly, without taking his eyes off of the pot. "What is your opinion on... them? The humans?"
Cho
Cho sat in his dorm, an untouched sandwich sitting on the desk beside him. Lunch period was too much free time to waste. It was time for a prank. He had finally hacked into the computer that controlled Maalum's lighting and sound systems, and now it was time to test them out.
He turned out all of the lights in the school building and activated the loudspeaker. He had his computer start talking.
"It looks like our light systems are down. I'm sorry, but school is cancelled for the day while we try to work this out."
Zeek
Zeek was merrily humming inside his dormitory as he laid a triple-layer of aluminum foil on his hand. A small green flame underneath it was making the foil start to smoke, while an assortment of asparagus sticks for iron and vitamins (ordered by length), a collection of regularly hexagonal pineapple slices (for citrus and energy), and a pair of drumsticks (the food, not the wood) for protein and fat. In his other hand, he was about done toasting the sugar atop a small piece of creme brulee, which he would earn be eating the rest. Oh, how he enjoyed lunchtime.
That was when he heard an announcement over the PA system.
"Hooray! Even more free time to make friends and frolic in the prairies beneath a breathtakingly beautiful sunset at the end of a long day of pleasurable merriment! School sure is fun! Maybe some of the kids who are new this year would like to spend time with me; I would be so honored to meet them and we could make sock puppets and paint our nails and chew bubblegum (with our mouths closed) and do all kinds of awesome stuff!"
(He said all of this in one breath, without pausing at all.)
He quickly whipped up a brownie batter, and while it heated in an oven of his own creation, he was busy piping frosting in the shape of bunnies and putting them in the freezer.
After about 30 minutes, with a platter of brownies all frosted and decorated and cradled in his frilly pink oven mitts (he was immune to heat but he thought they were stylish), he decided to head over and visit some of the students that were just starting this year.
He knocked on a door, and when it did not open, he yelled: "HELLO FRIEND! WOULD YOU BE SO KIND AS TO ALLOW ME ENTRANCE INTO YOUR DORMITORY SO THAT WE MAY SHARE THE PLEASURE OF FRIENDSHIP AND CHOCOLATY TREATS?!"
After 2 minutes, the door opened, and he saw a boy with white hair and strange green marks on his face.
"Hello, friend! Would you like some of these brownies?"
((Yes, I know that his personality is over the top, but hey, it's an interesting character and it'll be fun to write (and hopefully fun for you guys to read too).))
Cho
A light flashed on Cho's computer screen indicating that someone was knocking on his door. He jumped up, thinking through all the ways that he might have been caught. He was starting to put his escape plan into motion when he realized that it could just be another student. He looked through the school's camera feed and saw that one of his dorm-mates was standing outside... with brownies.
He opened the door slowly and looked around. "Those brownies look good... but out of curiosity, how did you make them when the power went out?" Cho quickly glanced at his computer, flinched, and X'ed out the screen. "I wonder what happened to the lights... weird huh? Hehehehehe..."
Zeek
"Oh yes, the lights going out is something that is indeed strange an unusual. Here, you can help yourself. I have... um... a wood-burning oven in my room ((technically not a lie, he just lights it with his hands instead of matches)). But that doesn't matter, let's talk about something else. What's your name, friend?"
((Omg... I'm so sorry.))
Faith
Faith looked up towards her friend.
"Well," she started timidly, "They aren't terrible. In my opinion at least. Why?"
((Still have to finish my other characters form...))
Eugene
He poked his food with a fork. "Oh, I was just wondering... I sometimes think they're a little scary."
The lights went out, suddenly. Over the loudspeaker, someone's voice was heard.
"It looks like our light systems are down. I'm sorry, but school is cancelled for the day while we try to work this out."
((GS))((Before posting, is it too dark to see? Are there any flashlights?))
((M2))((It is lunchtime, meaning there is still sunlight.
Assuming we have windows that are actually large enough to be significant.))
((Iaa))((Hey guys, I've returned, I'll be posting soon however as we go on we will need human characters, if only a little, keep that in mind, thanks for rp-ing!))
Yaman
"It looks like our light systems are down. I'm sorry, but school is cancelled for the day while we try to work this out." The loudspeaker boomed.
Yaman slammed his head down of the lunch table This has to be the third time this week He sat up shaking his head as he drewsome light from the window to make a lamp for himself as he continued eating his lunch.
Eugene
In the darkness, he quickly grabbed his flower pot and held it tight, up close to his chest.
Cho
"My name's Chokal, but you can call me Cho."
Cho pressed a couple buttons on his control station (he was using all the power from the school's backup generator to keep his system running) and sent a small nanobot into the shirt of his visitor. It would stay there for a while, tracking his movements.
Zeek
"Okay, Cho! Would you like to senselessly waste time together because we have nothing productive to do until the lights come ba- AHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE that tickles! You got my sensitive spot without the sca- um.... um I mean... nothing."
Race: Bandias
Name: Antonio Montoya
Age: 17
How did you come to this school?: Due to his infamous skill and strength in the sport of boxing, the school recruited him for his talent.
Anything of interest before that?: Antonio was always a very athletic dude. He was totally cool and popular with the ladies. All the guys hated him, though, because he was kind of a jerk.
Appearance: He's tall (6'1") and rather muscular. His tattoos are in the shape of jagged symbols that somewhat resemble lightning bolts. The tattoos on his right arm are purple, and the ones on his left are green. Both colors appear on his forehead's symbol.
Key traits: He's arrogant and popular with the girls. He doesn't make guy friends easily. Around nerds, he's peaceful enough, but he's usually butting heads with the more competitive guys. He has a sexy Hispanic accent.
Anything else we need to know?: He loves roses. When he puts a rose in his mouth and winks, someone, somewhere loses an ovary to a violent explosion.
Antonio
Antonio looked over at Yaman's spectacle. He grabbed his lunch and walked over, 2 girls following close behind.
"Hey, bud, what's with the light show?" He had a sly grin.
Yaman
"It's a lantern" He said, "Why?" I thought everyone here was different or something, are these kids not
?
Karamura-san (Nagisa)
She sat there finishing her lunch of rice, cucumber salad, eggs, and octopus sausages. There was the bustling din as would be expected from a lunchroom filled with teenagers. As the lights went out, a hushed silence arrived in the room followed by an announcement shortly after.
"It looks like our light systems are down. I'm sorry, but school is cancelled for the day while we try to work this out."
There seem to be quite a few electrical malfunctions with the electrical systems in the school lately. The noise level returned to the original level with a mixture of joy and disappointment, mostly happiness towards the cancellation of classes. Her eyes quickly adjusted to the darkness and just as she was packing up, she heard an audible bang in her vicinity. She turned around and saw a person with their head on the table. Light gravitated towards the person forming a glowing
orb of sorts.
An Agnies, she remarked in her mind. Just as she returned to cleaning up, she heard the beginnings of a conversation and tuned in to listen.
((AKA going to see what happens in the conversation before taking action.))
Cho
"Huh? What tickled you? That's odd," Cho stammered. "Anyway, I had better get going. Here, want a flashlight?"
Cho tossed a flashlight to his visitor, pushed him out of the room, then took one himself and began to go down to the cafeteria.
Zeek
"Ah yes, Cho is very clever! He must think that we can meet even more new friends in the cafeteria! And he is also sharing his lovely flashlight with me, what a nice boy. Well I must catch up with him to find more friends to share my delicious brownies with!"
With that, Zeek started skipping after Cho at top speed, merrily singing the My Little Pony theme song as he went.
((By the way, widm has a plan to turn the lights on after about 20 minutes of in-universe time, so don't turn them back on prematurely.)) ((Nitrox))
((waiting on zen intensifies)) (Iaa))
Faith
Faith watched as her friend held his pot. She continued to eat her food without caring about what was going on with the lights.
"So, I know I've asked this before, but why do you always have that flower with you?"
Eugene
"The flower's my best friend. Uh, no offence, Faith. I've been keeping it alive for years now... I've never had that many other friends." Eugene was lying. His other friends had died long ago.
Antonio
"Heeey, I remember you. You're the new kid..." Antonio reached down, picked up Yaman's apple and took a big bite. "Welcome to Maalum!" He sneered.
Faith
"None taken," Faith said a little weirded out that his best friend is a plant, "But hey. You have a friend now! Me! And the um. Flower."
Faith looked got up and looked outside. (Assuming there is a window SOMEWHERE) She sighed.
She looked back to Eugene, "What do you want to do now?"
Zeek
Zeek ran into the room to see a random girl looking out a window, and a strange person holding a flower.
"Hello, new friends! It is most pleasurable to make your acquaintance! Would you like some brownies?"
This is not my main character. I know I probably should've made my main first, but I came up with this interesting character and I wanted to make it before anyone else did.
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Shadow
Name: Roger
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 17.5
How did you come to this school?: His aunt sent him there. (His parents are dead).
Anything of interest?: Roger is very good at all types of normal human subjects. He is also extremely strong and fast and very handy with a gun.
Appearance: Will be added later
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Roger is quite a mysterious character. He doesn't talk a lot and is a very good observer. He notices things most people don't. He also is a great trickster.
Anything else we need to know?: Roger has a natural control over his powers.
I'm trying to make an interesting villain here.
You don't have to be overpowered and break rules to be a villain. ((Iaa))
Then how is he gonna force people to do what he wants and stuff.
Also, what powers do Shadow hiki have (JG)
((EyeAA with commentary from Widm))
1. That's the idea, he can't force people to do what he wants
2. Not light-bending so to speak but can blend in to dark environments and create laser type things of sort, sort of like Lloyd's powers in Unbreakable
3. Can solidify "shadows" (which is really just an absence of light) temporarily (based off of Llyod).
4. Getting creative, you can tether your shadow to another shadow within a certain range to help tail someone?
5. Increased light blocking with physical form? Sorta like a psuedo temperature dropper.
6. Making your shadow bend to your will because it looks interesting
7. Withering powers by temporarily robbing light? -cough cough-
Well if he's a villain he needs some way to control people to do evil stuff. ((JG))
Maybe in your mind but in this story that is not allowed ((Eye-A-A))
Roger Chibi:
EVENT
The ground shook underneath the students feet, several plunged out of their chairs. The lights in the large rooms flickered on for a few brief seconds before fizzling out. No alarm went off. Suddenly a generator kicked in and the PA system stared up.
"Attention Students, do not panic. You will be okay. However, please don't leave the building. I need to see a Kioo representative in the main office immediately. Classes are canceled for now, please remain calm"
The building shook again, this time more violently, the cafeteria's left window doubled over and shattered.
"Please remain calm" The PA system repeated before a third shake cut out the sound and made almost everyone fall over, knocking possessions around.
After a brief silence a Bandias student ran out of the broken window out into the fields and was soon followed by several other students.
Yaman
Yaman was flung out of his chair, the light he was making immediately faded. "What is going on?" He muttered
Citrelia Grapefruitius
"HUMANS! I AM HERE TO OFFER YOU SALVATION!!" Citrelia yelled as she burst through two large doors. She raised a grapefruit. "You see this? THIS IS YOUR GREAT LE-" She then realized she wasn't in the cafeteria like she thought she was. Instead she was in the library. And she was greeted with a lot of "Shhh's!"
"Nooooo..." Citrelia dropped to her knees and started sobbing. "Oh L-lord Grapefruit I h-have failed," she sniffled. "P-please forgive m-my sins." When she got up to return to her dorm, the ground started to violently shake.
"OH NO I HAVE ANGERED THE GREAT GRAPEFRUIT LORD!" Citrelia yelled, not paying attention to the PA. She dramatically ran out of the library to go find a hiding spot, to get away from Lord Grapefruit's wrath.
Karamura-san (Nagisa)
Earthquake?
The minimal artificial lighting that remained in the room flickered and faded. The backup generator came online and the the lights came back briefly. The PA announcement asked for everyone to stay calm and to stay in the building. The building shook once more and in a panic, students left the building en masse.
Kioo representative? Did they have something to do with this incident? If I remember correctly, someone once said, "You can snap them like toothpicks." So-
Another wave of rumbling started and she tumbled into someone nearby. She recognized him as the Agnies from earlier.
"Sorry," she curtly said, "You should move. Debris doesn't fall on an open field."
With that, she briskly walked out the window, taking care as to not step on any glass shards and while trying to to get caught up by the large mass of escaping students.
Eugene
Eugene was one of the first to jump out of the window, protecting his flower pot with his life. He tried to the best of his ability to not touch anyone, but Antonio pushed him aside and he fell face-first on the floor. The pot was not damaged, luckily, but his face hurt.
EVENT
Group that fled outside the window
A missile hit the ground right in front of the group of kids, killing the front three instantly and causing many others to lose their balance. The ground shook. The crater was smoking with a blue mist, the three corpses were emitting the same mist. Some students scattered and some went back to the building.
Yaman
Yaman struggled to stand up as another blast hit outside. "Hey!" He shouted to the girl running out the window. He remembered he needed to stick with people in a crisis.
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia slowly made her way to a broken window. Then, she had an idea. I can plant grapefruits to appease Lord Grapefruit! She started throwing grapefruit seeds outside window and made then grow into wonderful grapefruit trees. She repeated the process by going to other windows. And then she ran out of grapefruit seeds. Citrelia then started to sulk in a corner. What a sad day.
New character coming soon!!! (probably tomorrow) ((P5))
Maalum's flag:
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((JG))
This is the Maalum flag I made.
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I have mixed these two flags and I declare this the official Maalum flag!
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Character form
Race:
Kioooooooooooo
Name: Sarude Dessertstorm
Age 17
How did you come to this school?: He lived his life as a regular boy until he turned 13, then he started to hear it. At first it was bearable, almost nice: the slow build up from a popular techno song. But it went on and on and on. For five years the song built up and up in the poor boys mind, never reaching the drop. As a result he has gone completely insane. Absolutely and utterly. Maalum was the only place that would take him. Unfortunately his bus arrived in the middle of a missile barrage. excellent.
Anything of interest before that?: Besides going crazy, nope
Appearance: looks weak, even for a Kioo, but is actually stronger than most. Small. And grey. I guss
Key traits (this cannot be all good):Crazy strong. Also crazy. Just try to stay away from him.
Anything else we need to know?: Please dont talk to him.
Karamura-san (Nagisa)
. . . . . . Well then. Missiles. Scattered body parts.
"Hey!" She turned and saw the Agnies shouting at her. She grimaced due to recognition that her idea was no longer as sound as she initially thought. She darted out of the way of the stampede and directed to the male, "So, missiles, outside. The center of the school is likely safer. We should probably move now. As an Agnies, you can light up the way. I'll try to lower our heat signatures."
With that she walked away.
Race: Agnies
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Pale skin, black marks.
Name: Talbinlen
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 17
How did you come to this school?: Growing up in the slums, Talbinlen was a boy of thievery, stealing from anyone, at any time he could. Twice, he committed murder during one of these tasks, however was ashamed to admit it. At age 15, Talbinlen found his ability of, temporarily turning invisible, to such things would not happen in the future. One day, a staff member of the Maalum school found Talbinlen and his powers, and made a recommendation to him to join.
Anything of interest before that?: N/A
Appearance: Talbinlen often only wears a pair of turn denim jean-shorts, and a gray hoodie with the hood always up. Outside of his first registration to the school, no-one has seen his face, outside of the faint glow of blue eyes.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Having been practiced, Talbinlen is skilled at keeping an invisible cloak for prolonged amount of times, however, due to this, he has less control over his light bending powers. He's always, even just slightly, in a state of exerting energy, thus, always showing a slight effect of his powers, like his eyes. This threatens exposure of his abilities, however, Talbinlen has been less caring than others of hiding his abilities.
Anything else we need to know?: N/A
This is my main character.
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Electricity
Name: Steve Stellar
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 17
How did you come to this school?: When Steve's friend was jumping through his sprinklers, he accidentally shocked him. His parents suspected that his powers were blooming, so he was sent to Maalum.
Anything of interest before that?: Nope.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Steve is very smart and pretty good at his powers. However, his ears are sensitive so everything sounds a bit louder to him then others.
Anything else we need to know?: Like Cho, Steve is good with tech and building. He also attracts some lightning during thunderstorms, and can create more electricity than Cho.
Appearance:
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I'm gonna create a human character because we need one.
Race: Human
Name: Rose
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 16
How did you come to this school?: She got sent here by her parents.
Anything of interest before that?: Nope.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Rose is a very good gardener and learner.
Anything else we need to know?: She is easily impressed and can get excited easily too.
Appearance:
Steve
Steve was in the library reading a book called Harnessing the Power of Electricity when the earthquake began. All this new noise of missile explosions and shouting gave Steve a headache, because he had sensitive ears. Holding onto the couch for support, he got up and attempted to place the book on the shelf. It fell. Giving up, he picked the book up and went to the nurse's office, where it was a mess (things were falling off shelves and stuff). He looked around for some pain killers when he heard a newcomer enter the room.
Faith
Faith was terrified.
I know I'm a Kioo but why do they want me?
She ran to the main office as fast as she could.
Ivy
Ivy went to find Cho.
"Did you do this?"
((Isn't Rose completely IDENTICAL to the girl Whitetiger created, also named Rose, from Unpinnable (only with gardening talent instead of gardening magic)? Please refrain from reusing characters that have already been explored in previous CSTs.))
Zeek
"AHHHH! MY BROWNIES!"
*sob... sob...sob*
"Th-the-they w-were going to be s-so del-de-delicious, too.... WAUGH!"
Suddenly, he saw a massive flash outside, and heard a thunderous explosion.
OH NO! My friends are under attack! I must rescue them! Even if I am forced to reveal my powers... I must try to do something.
So he formed a stream of fire from his mouth and both hands, and leaped out of the window to face the threat.
Sarude
Sarude's bus rolls up to the front gate, which is hanging slightly open after the explosions. It's a full size bus but Sarude s the only person on it aside from the driver, who is doing his best not to make eye contact with his one passenger. Through the gate one can clearly see the craters throughout campus, still steaming. Judging by the smoke, a fire has started somewhere. The bus driver notices none of this, all his attention is focused on the boy in the back of the bus. The bus door creaks open. Without saying a word, Sarude gets up and walks toward the front of the bus. A single bead of sweat drips down the drivers forehead, but he does not move. Sarude steps off the bus. Instantly, the driver floors the accelerator and speeds away, but Sarude doesn't react. He begins to walk toward the school, expressionless and seemingly unaware of the chaos that has overtaken the school.
Dunahnuhnanuh
(its the opening to sandstorm in case you couldn't tell)
((JG))Two things M2:
1. Believe it or not, I have not read much of Unfinishable so I do not know who Rose is.
2. Rose is not magic, she is an ordinary human that's good at gardening.
Yaman
Yaman stood up and followed Karamura, making a lantern that hung out in front of her.
Main Office
Faith ran into the main office and found the headmaster along with some upperclassmen Kioo.
"Good, we have enough" He said
EVENT
The missile bombardment stopped as several kioo officials rounded up the kids running outside. One of them shouted in a booming voice "Get back inside! Now!"
The kids were hustled back in to the cafeteria as the staff left to congregate about whatever the problem was. A few moments later a smaller missile blew out the wall and a tall woman stood in the wreckage.
"Stop where you are all of you! No one say a word! I need all the humans to come forward immediately, the rest of you get on the ground right now. If you refuse to comply I continue the bombardment"
[Never mind]
You can make human characters without a character form. ((Iaaayaaay))
Antonio
Everyone got down except Antonio. He stood straight up and raised his fist at the woman.
"Hey, lady! Who the hell do you think you are? I'm not afraid of you!"
Citrelia
Citrelia was sulkily walking down the halls (again) when she came across a mob of people flowing into the actual cafeteria. Ah! People I can convert into Grapefruitism! Citrelia was about to preach again when she realized she didn't have any grapefruits again. She became sulky and sad again. Then, everything changed when the tall lady blew up the wall. Actually, not really. Citrelia was still depressed. This must be punishment for her sins against the Lord Grapefruit. She followed the lady's demands and laid down on the ground.
Cho
Cho glanced at the girl next to him who had asked whether he had initiated the missile attacks. I guess I didn't, but what's the point in telling her that? It might enhance my prestige. Cho shrugged and zipped away on his motorized scooter (he was still working on a hoverboard).
When he arrived in the cafeteria, a booming voice was just finishing a statement about all humans coming forward. Well, I suppose I can't pass for human under close inspection... so I had better rig up a system to prevent those missiles. He pulled out a discreet stealth mini-copter carrying a payload of hacking darts that would bring up a feed on the computer screen on his watch. Hopefully he would be able to shut down the missile systems before things got too dangerous.
Unfortunately, he couldn't just release it in this crowd. Luckily, there was an air vent next to him. He slipped the minicopter in, took manual control of it with a watch remote, and prayed that his minicopter would find an exit soon.
Sarude
Sarude was rounded up with the rest of the kids on the lawn, sseveral armed guards herding them into the cafeteria. The guards were slightly unnerved by Sarude's unblinking stare, but he complied without complaint, shuffling into the crowded space. When the small missle landed and the woman began speaking, Sarude's only reaction was to quietly sit down, still staring straight ahead. His right eyes twitches once. Several other students scootch away from him.
buhdundundahdun
Derp Time:
Race: Hiki (sand)
Her fine control over silica is incredible, but she lacks the energy necessary to animate it with any spectacular speed. She bypassed this by directing the individual molecules of silicon dioxide found in glass, which vibrate at a much higher frequency. with this method, she can adapt her powers to an imprecise but very powerful macro-kinesis of glass. Unfortunately, this left he control over sand as very weak.
Basically, she went from a sand user to a relatively innacurate, but powerful silicakinetic, sacrificing her sand powers almost entirely in the process.
Name: Camellia Joan
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 13
How did you come to this school?: French exchange student
Anything of interest before that?: Nope.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Camellia turned into a minor sociopath after her parents were murdered by an insane electricity-using hiki. She was 9 at the time. She now maintains an entirely emotionless and stoic mask, but will attempt to murder any electricity-using hiki she comes across, and has absolutely no real compassion for anyone.
Anything else we need to know?: She is asexual.
Camellia
Camellia saw the tall woman walk into the room and command the humans to come forward.
Yes, you worthless human trash... you have no place here... this is a school for killers; if any of the students here have not yet dyed their arms up to the elbows in blood, then they should be eliminated.... the systematic elimination of the weaklings is what gives us incentive to be strong... to be like HIM ...
So Camellia sat there, straight-backed, not betraying any overt emotion, but if you payed close attention, you would see how the small bits of broken glass on the floor started to shift toward her and rotate around her feet, and as she exuded an aura of power, those nearest to her almost instinctively backed away. Then, out of the corner of her eye, she glimpsed a flash of red...
There was that terrified human girl, Rose was her name, Camellia thought. But the image of her hair, in the corner of her eye, for a split second, brought back an older memory.
NOOOOOOO! MOTHER!
Then, in another second it was gone, but all of a sudden, the blank, stoic look on Camellia's face broke, replaced instead by a satisfied grin. The slow orbiting of the glass shards around her suddenly became a raging hurricane, and the skin of the students nearest her started to shred as the ground became awash in crimson. The sight of blood only seemed to please her further, as crystalline shards sliced into the soft flesh of what were once persons, turning them into mangled and unrecognizable corpses. As everyone turned to stare, horrified, the grin threatened to split Camellia's face.
"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?!" A boy asked, but Camellia merely hummed contentedly.
((So... um... guess I just got carried away and made another antagonist. Since I don't want to divert the plot too much from the main action, permission to have Camellia join the freaky lady? That we we keep the focus on one main antagonist, without Camellia being a "distraction")
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Two Days Earlier
Citrelia was attending her daily 4:00 p.m. counseling sessions, for reasons that one can pretty accurately assume. Out of 23 counselors so far, there hasn't been a single successful one. The 24th one is still trying.
"Okay, go ahead and have a seat Ceci- Citrelia," the counselor said, waiting for Citrelia to start going on her rant about how people should open their eyes to her "proper" name.
"Cecilia is fine."
What? The counselor was silent for a few long moments. This was a shocking development. It's one thing for her to not get mad about being called the wrong name. It's another thing for Citrelia to actually allow someone to call her by her real name. It was just so... weird.
"You're, um," the counselor started, looking for the right word. "You're surprisingly tame today." Citrelia tilted her head in slight confusion.
"Thanks...?"
"Ah, well, usually you would start going on and on about grapefruits and this, Lord Grapefruit, but today that's not the case. Is there a particular reason why? Do you intend your usual behavior as some sort of joke?"
"Hmm... I think my mind feels slightly more clear," Citrelia said while arranging the objects on the counselor's desk to make them look like a grapefruit tree. Suddenly, Citrelia started sobbing. "Has Lord Grapefruit abandon me!?"
The sudden mood swing cause the counselor off guard. "There there, Cecilia. This Lord Grapefruit isn't actually re-"
"MY NAME IS CITRELIA! AND HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE LORD GRAPEFRUIT'S EXISTENCE!"
Here we go again. I thought I was making progress too. However, Citrelia did seem uncharacteristically calm and sane, if just for a few moments. But alas, this never happened again during the session, nor did it happen the next day. After that the counselor gave up.
Present day
Citrelia was still in her delusional mentality, thinking that this was all a punishment for failing to convert people to Grapefruitism. A glass shard then had flew towards her direction, slicing through her right arm and leaving a fairly deep gash.
"AAACK!" Citrelia bit her lip, trying to suppress the pain. The more logical part of her mind took over, temporarily getting rid of the grapefruit worshipping side of her. I need to get out of here right now. She looked around. The scene had gotten chaotic. Shards of glass were flying everywhere and the students were all running around, screaming. She decided to run within the crowd and use the mob as a meat shield. Before she took off she grabbed a cafeteria tray that had a halfway eaten sandwich, a plastic container of broccoli, an orange, and milk.
Where to go... outside might be good. Wait no there's missiles. Okay stay inside. I should separate from the group. Citrelia looked down at her tray. She then had an idea. It could work, theoretically. Okay I'll stop by the bathroom!
Steve
Steve had gotten some aspirin and walked into the cafeteria to find out what the heck was going on. He noticed Cho leaning over the air vent. He walked over to see what Cho was doing.
"Hey Cho," Steve said. "What are you doing?"
Roger
Roger glared up at the woman. He stood standing.
"What the heck are you doing?" he demanded, shaking his fist.
Rose
What does she mean all humans come forward and the rest stay on the ground? Rose wondered. Why didn't she just say everyone come forward?
She suddenly noticed glass moving around a seemingly sane girl's feet. She suddenly got terrified.
What the heck is going on?
Race: Kormot
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): n/a
Name: Irene Harding
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 15
How did you come to this school?: She panicked as soon as she started getting scales on her back and called around and eventually found the Maalum School
Anything of interest before that?: Was quite popular until her freshman year when she started developing scales. At a party she accidentally spilled boiling water on her hand and it did nothing to it.
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good): She is insecure about her scales, other than that she's quite normal
Anything else we need to know?: Nope
Cho
Cho glanced over and saw Steve. "Are you an idiot?" he hissed. "There's a crazy lady trying to shoot us down with missiles, and you just waltz over and ask me a question as suspicious as 'What are you doing?' I'm trying to remain unnoticeable here; get down on the ground!" Cho managed to close the air vent and shift away – hopefully before he was noticed by anyone else.
Steve
Steve looked at Cho.
"I can remain calm in stressful situations," Steve told him, getting down with Cho. "Tell me what you are doing, maybe I could help."
Roger
"I just asked you a question missy," Roger said rudely. "WHAT. ARE. YOU. DOING?!"
Rose
Rose walked up to the student closest to her (anyone besides Camellia) and asked, shaking: "What is going on?"
Cho
Cho almost growled in frustration. Didn't this person realize that he was trying to perform a secret mission? "Look, I'm trying to find a weak point in their security systems. Now could you please be quiet? You'll attract attention."
Irene
Irene was crouched on the ground her hands feeling the scales that now covered her entire back. All humans come forward? She flinched Isn't no one here human? Then she saw a couple kids walk up. I guess some DO go here
EVENT
The woman counted the humans in front "There should be more, don't be shy, I'm not taking you guys to hurt you. You humans have done no wrong."
"Hey, lady! Who the hell do you think you are? I'm not afraid of you!" A young deviant yelled. The woman raised a long-barreled handgun and fired a shot into his left arm.
Another deviant stood "What the heck are you doing?" he demanded, shaking his fist. She fired another bullet aiming at his leg.
"Take this as a warning" She said, watching the two students struggle, "I don't want to hurt any of you but I mean business, now if you are a human, please come to the front immediately"
Somewhere outside of the air vent a small machine was shot down.
Irene
Irene saw rose approach her. What is she? I wonder She thought, "I don't know" She whispered. "She's trying to round up all the humans apparently, I didn't even know humans went to this school"
Race: Tembi
Name: Ian Evans
Age: 16
How did you come to this school?: He was invited to Maalum after he accidentally summoned an elephant at his old school.
Anything of interest before that?: Not really.
Appearance: Skin is more on the grayish side; dark brown hair; 5'10"
Key traits (this cannot be all good):
He's pretty socially awkward. Other traits are to be determined when I actually post stuff with him.
Anything else we need to know?: His elephant is a male and his name is Elvis. He's a pretty small elephant. Also it's the same elephant he summoned at his old school.
Cho
Cho's monitor flashed. The temperature and force acting on his minicopter had just increased drastically, and now he wasn't receiving signal at all.
"Argh, I guess they have the entire building monitored. Maybe I should try something a little less ambitious. A nanocamera at the very least? I doubt it'll be picked up by the sensors, and even if it is they probably won't view it as dangerous. I want to at least get a view of what's happening..."
Cho dropped a small, mostly transparent pellet down the air vent. When it reached the exit, it would stop moving and display its video feed on his watch.
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait: Electricity
Name: Henry Sanchez
Age: 16
How did you come to this school?: His millionaire father paid his tuition, though Henry himself isn't exactly the best student.
Anything of interest before that?: Henry developed a prototype of a short-ranged fire-based weapon to be used by Electric-Hiki Soldiers. Project "Cinder" is the current working name. The gauntlets would, when activated, release a jet of propane surrounding them. If, during this short period, the Hiki activated his electric powers, he would create a small but powerful blast of fire.
Appearance: He has dark skin and jet-black hair. His eyes are orange and he wears a leather jacket. When working with fire, he wears a scarf and a pair of goggles.
Key traits: Henry is an expert in short-ranged combat. His presence can emit a slight feeling of unrest among his fellow students. He doesn't make friends easily, but is trusted among his acquaintances. The goggles slightly impair his vision.
Anything else we need to know?: Henry runs an underground fight club among roughneck Hiki, Kormot and Agnies students. He will do everything in his power to keep it a secret.
Rose
"What?" Rose said, baffled. "You are a human! We are all humans! How could you not know humans went here?"
Roger
Roger limped into the shadows and camouflaged himself. He started solidifying several of people's shadows and made them surround the woman so her environment grew dark. The lady looked around, wondering why the room had gotten darker.
You can do all that from the back of the large room with a seriously wounded leg?
Roger is tough.
Bear in mind, this action will probably be the death of roger
Fine I will change it.
((Nitro___zen_, two chunks fo the very nice molecule))
((I find it funny that we have a ton of character options available, yet there are 3 Electric Hikis.))
FIRE HIKI. IT'S DIFFERENT. I USE SCIENCE.
Irene
"Huh?" Irene said "I was under the impression that this school was for non-humans" She rolled up her shirt sleeve to show that everything from her shoulder to her elbow was covered in blue scales.
Ian Evans
All Ian wanted to do was get some vegetables for Elvis. He went out on his way to sneak into the kitchen and steal a box full of packages of frozen vegetables, only to get caught by one of the staff. He managed to convince them to let him take the vegetables, but then there just HAD to be an earthquake and then a freaking MISSILE barrage! The world just didn't want his poor elephant to have food.
And now Ian is on the ground at the mercy of a the very lady who started this whole crazy situation. Whew what a day. He looked towards the two girls who were discussing something next to him.
"Hey can you please keep it down? I kinda want to live to see my elephant again," Ian whispered.
Rose
Rose couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"D-do you have a disease of some sort?" Rose asked, even more terrified. "Is this some school-hospital for m-m-mutants?"
Irene
"I would hope not" She rolled her sleeve back up. "This school is for people like me, they're not all exactly like me, but all of us are here for something changing about us in the last couple years. For me, it was this scale growth, my entire back is covered"
[NO I accidentally deleted the post I was working on ;-;] ((MS))
Rose
"W-why do you have scales?" Rose asked. "Why do you need them? What are you like? What are they like?"
Irene
"To be honest, I don't know why I have scales. I was told by the staff here that I'm a Kormot, a sort of dragon/human hybrid. I'm immune to fire and heat though. I only found out I was like this after I spilled boiling water on myself" She almost chuckled to herself
Ivy
Ivy came out to the cafeteria. She saw another Kormot talking to a human.
Ivy went over to them, "What's going on out here? Who is that lady?"
Rose
"You are immune to heat?!" Rose said, shocked and slightly doubtful. But with all she'd seen, she didn't know what to believe anymore.
Irene
"Yeah, I guess I am" Irene looked up at Ivy and whispered "I don't know, but she's already shot two kids, get on the ground"
Ivy
Ivy believed every word. There were plenty of clues to make the statement true. She slowly got onto the ground.
Zeek
Zeek was confused. He had been sitting on the floor, minding his own business, when suddenly, he noticed his shadow start to elongate, stretching toward the strange woman, and coiling around her. He stared at her, but she didn't seem to be doing anything out of the ordinary at all. Then, he realized that the same thing was happening to everyone's shadow; hey were all converging to form a ring of darkness around the lady. Zeek frowned; if someone else here could control the shadows, then they must not be human either. So he wasn't the only monster in the school... there were more. He looked around the room for any ares in shadow, and just barely saw a stirring of movement in one of them.
So... someone's using the shadows to hide themselves... and controlling everyone else's shadows to move toward the woman... but to what end?
As quietly as he could, Zeek shifted towards the dark corner, and then, he saw them. A pair of haunting, blood-red eyes; glaring, looming maniacally in the darkness. They terrified him. He knew that whatever that creature in the darkness was, it was evil... He breathed s small spout of green fire to warm himself from the sudden chill that seemed to enter the room, like a breath of pure ice. As an afterthought, he made sure that nobody was looking in his direction, then slowly lit the top of a small piece of wood from the ceiling, forming a makeshift torch. The glow from the torch banished the nearest shadows, and he saw the red eyes recoil, almost as if they were in pain.
Yaman
Yaman and Karamura found their way to the school basement and Yaman floated his lantern to the center of the room.
"What now?" He asked Karamura
EVENT
A couple more humans staggered their way to the front as the room got darker. "Whoever is changing the light in the room, please stop immediately. If you think your interfering with me, you're not so don't waste the energy"
A helicopter flew into the courtyard and a ladder dropped down. A couple kids around the age of sixteen climbed out of the copter.
"All the humans follow my assistants please" The woman said as the two children beckoned the humans to form lines. They were wearing uniforms with "Aqua Operatives" written on them.
A total of twenty humans lines up with the assistants.
"The rest of you stay on the ground until not one of us is left."
With that the lady walked back out the window and the group turned the corner around the building.
Irene
"That" She said "was incredibly strange, why would she only want the humans?" She shook her head. "I don't get it at all, hell, I don't even know what I am"
((M2))The official Maalum crest, made really horribly with MS paint:
Roger
Roger turned around and saw who battled the darkness.
"What are you doing?!" he glared at him.
Zeek
"What? The dark is frightening. And you looked really scary when all I could see were your eyes. So I lit up the room; what's wrong with that?"
Camellia
Excellent. Many of the weaklings have been purged. But now, I must establish my reputation as the most powerful. I am the strongest! And those who have wronged me will REGRET IT!
With that, Camellia stood up and coldly regarded the students, most particularly meeting Roger's eye.
That boy I had not noticed before; he is powerful. I should keep an eye on him.
"You trash are not worth my time." She said, without betraying emotion. She walked outside the cafeteria and headed up to her dorm room, the broken glass shivering as she went out.
Rose
"You are are a human with weird scales," Rose said, confused. "She should've just said everyone follow me!"
Roger
"You are lucky she didn't see us," Roger glared in frustration. "We would've been in big trouble!"
Irene
"I'm pretty sure humans don't have scales and I've seen some interesting stuff while I've been here. Like light manipulation, mental communication, weird stuff"
Rose
"Are you saying you aren't a human?" Rose asked, more confused then ever. "That is impossible! And mental communication? How would you know?"
Sarude
Sarude was completely still when the glass began to move and didn't blink when the shadows began to move. The woman continued yelling, then some more kids, just a little older than Sarude, got out of a helicopter. For the first time since he arrived, Sarude looked up. His bloodshot eyes locked onto the small group of kids that had just arrived. Several kids were having a conversation behind him, but he paid them no attention. A shard of glass from the tornado on the other side of the room stabbed itself into Sarude's side, but he didnt even flinch. With the manner of someone who is absolutely certain of his purpose, he slowly began to stand.
dudududadu
Irene
"Wait" Irene said "Are you not anything? Like just a normal human?"
Rose
"Aren't we all?" Rose asked.
Ivy
Ivy had a nervous look on her face, "Uhhhh... Yeah...?"
Irene
"I would think not, did you not see me?" She lifted up the bottom part of her shirt, exposing her scaly blue back. "I'm basically half dragon"
Rose
"How..?" Rose asked. "Am I the only normal person here?"
Ivy
Ivy got a little annoyed. She sighed a little fire to calm down.
"Whatever. Wake me when we can get off the ground."
Irene
"I don't know, I think we can get up now" She glanced around before standing up and yawning, revealing a long forked tongue
((So can Faith come to the cafeteria now?)) ((GS))
((yes)) ((iAa))
((Yay!))
Faith
Faith came into the cafeteria. She looked around for her friend.
I guess he's still outside with his flower.
Ivy
Ivy got off the floor and stretched. The floor wasn't overly comfortable. She turned to the other Kormot girl.
"Sorry if I came off strong. I'm Ivy."
Irene
Irene looked down at the other Kormot "Nice to meet you! and what would you be?" She paused, "Question, is my tongue, dragony?" She stuck out her forked tongue I must sound so weird
Ivy
"Yeah... Dragony... I'm a Kormot just like you. It's not odd to see a dragony tounge."
Irene
"Ah, good to know there are others" she said, "I just started growing scales last year."
Ivy
"I'm just glad there aren't any on my face. My shoulders and my legs are the only places with scales so far. A t-shirt and pants are all I need."
Karamura (Nagisa)
"Well, the school should be sorting out the issue as we speak. The noises have stopped for the most part so we can assume the school is negotiating with this group. In case they resume their bombardment of the school, the basement should hold out for a while longer. The worst thing that can happen is to be sold into a slavery ring or to be tortured to death after being turned into hostages.
Well, grim thoughts aside, I believe introductions are in order. Karamura, Nagisa, or Nagisa Karamura if we're going with the Western format. Address me however you wish. I'm a Taman. Your name? An Agnies, correct?"
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia was halfway there on her way to the nearest bathroom when she realized she forgot what her goal was. What was I doing again?
...
Oh right! I was gathering more followers for the Lord Grapefruit! But why am I going to the bathroom again? Citrelia looked down at the lunch tray. She then recalled that she was going to try planting something.... like the orange. Wait but this isn't a grapefruit! Also why do I need to plant stuff anyways if I could just go outside... oh wait but outside is dangerous! Wait no there's windows! Arghh I don't know what I am doing. Wait why did I want to plant an orange in the first place. I should plant grapefruits. Yes grapefruits. I planted some outside the windows.
Citrelia made her way to the next window, which did indeed have a grapefruit tree right outside of it. Yay grapefruits for more grapefruit seeds!
...
I feel like that wasn't why I wanted to plant something. She looked down at her arm, which was still bleeding. Riiight I need something to help heal this, like a grapefruit. Wait no grapefruits don't have healing properties. NO WAIT I DIDN'T MEAN TO OFFEND YOU LORD GRAPEFRUIT I'M SORRY.
Agh I need to focus. Plants. Healing. Bloody cuts. Um. Grapefruits. No not grapefruits. Ahh.... aha! Citrelia recalled a memory of a time when she was younger. Her mother was applying a substance from a spiky green leaf on a cut on her leg. It started with an 'a'... ala... alu... aloe... yes aloe! Aloe vera. Citrelia put her hand on one of the branches of the grapefruit tree and closed her eyes, concentrating on turning one of the grapefruits into an aloe vera plant. Turning grapefruits into other plants was a skill that Citrelia didn't use often at all, but it was a talent she got from her parents and was naturally good at. Limitations are that she can only do it with live grapefruits (since those were the first things she ever grew) that are still attached to its tree and that she could only turn it into plants that she has seen in person and clearly remembers it. It also takes at least a minute.
So, a minute and 30 seconds later, a small aloe vera plant grew where there used to be a grapefruit. Wait... but isn't turning a grapefruit into a different plant a... a blasphemy!?!? No no, it was a gift from the Lord Grapefruit. That's right... Citrelia tore off an aloe vera leaf and squeezed the gel onto her cut. Hm. That should be good. Now what... Ah! I need to gather more followers for the Lord Grapefruit! She decided to head back to the cafeteria with some grapefruits to convince people to convert to Grapefruitism. She also decided, out of the goodness of her heart, to bring some aloe leaves with her to give to anyone who might need it for their own cuts as well.
Ian Evans
Ian watched as the lady left with the group of humans. Finally! I hope Elvis is okay... He grabbed his box of vegetables and got up from the ground to leave the cafeteria. Ian was looking down trying not to trip over anybody that was still on the floor, although he tried to not pay too much attention to the corpses on the ground.
Alas, with all of his efforts he still managed to bump into a girl who was standing near the cafeteria entrance. He ended up knocking her over.
"OhI'msosorryIdidn'tmeantoknockyoudown!" Ian spoke in a rather panicky manner.
[He bumped into Faith btw. Also I went to check what race she was and I realized she was a Kioo.... yeah this isn't going to turn out too well.]
Faith
Ow. Who hit me?
Faith landed semi-awkwardly, but didn't seem quite badly hurt. She almost lost her balance while getting up, but she made it.
"I'm guessing you're the one that knocked me over," she said to the boy standing behind her, "I'm Faith. What's your name?"
Yaman
"My name is Yaman, and of course I'm an Agnies. You said you were a Taman? I wasn't aware there was a water source here." Yaman shuffled his feet "Should we just stay down here?"
Rose
"What else do you guys do? Are there more of you? Different types of you? Any more features you have? Do I have any special powers? If there is different types what do they do and look like? Is that lady magical?" Rose had a billion questions.
Irene
"Hey hold it down there" Irene said. "Uh I'm not quite sure what else I do, I guess I'll find out. More, most certainly, almost everyone here is something, like I even saw some merfolk. Other than scale growth that according to the people here will take over my hands in the next week. I may have claws, that'd be cool." Irene inhaled "I don't know if you have any powers, and yeah there appear to be a lot of us"
Character Form- Skeleton
Race: Bandias (x2)
Chosen Trait: Though physical contact, they can link their minds together allowing them to be perfectly in sync. They have access to thought linkage within 10 meters and telepathy within 500 meters.
Name (Surname, Given Name): Robert and Estella Braun
Age: 15
How did your character find out about Maalum Academy?:
They were sent to the school by their stepmother who was informed by various sources, including the media, that the school would be an appropriate place for "special" children.
What was your character's life like before entering Maalum Academy?:
Their mother died when they were at the tender age of three years. Their father was physically and mentally abusive leaving them with a numerous wounds. Eventually, father remarried and was reported to the police for battery and assault, domestic abuse, and possession of illegal drugs among other drugs.
Appearance: Robert has a single ponytail similar to that of Gakupo's. Estella's hair is similar that of Len's hairstyle. (Dark brown hair.)
Key traits: They have grown up their entire lives with the concept that they could only trust each other. Due to such, they have developed a dependency on one another and undergo withdrawal symptoms
Anything else we need to know?:
Will edit later.
Braun Siblings
[Insert exposition about being near the rooftop staircase and away from the action]
Karamura (Nagisa)
"I keep a fishtank with algae in my room. I don't really think it matters too much whether we stay here or not. Class will be starting in a few minutes so I'll be going upstairs to check if the situation has changed."
Cho
"Hm... no data from my nanocamera yet. Let me see if I can think of something. Based on what's been going on, I assume they're trying to separate the humans from the non-humans. Let me see if I can try something..."
Every student at Maalum Academy received a computerized tablet. While its capabilities were basic, to say the least – essentially, it displayed messages from students to teachers and vice versa and had a couple school-related apps – it was more than enough for Cho to use. He had gotten a teacher account a while ago, with the username of The_Lighthouse. He had never used it before, but now was as good a time as any.
He typed up a message and sent it out. Hopefully every student would receive the message.
This is Cho speaking. I'm also a student at Maalum Academy. Currently, we obviously have a problem. Let me clarify something to those who don't know: this school does not contain only normal humans. Many members of this school are other forms of life, possibly humans in a higher form of evolution. These 'super' humans have unique abilities.
I believe that whoever is attacking our school is attempting to separate the humans from the superhumans in order to do something with the superhumans. Perhaps they want our power, or just want to exterminate us. If you have any weapons, powers, or devices that may be helpful in preventing this outcome, please reply to me.
Yaman
"Yeah I just moved in, there's not much in my room either. How goes being a taman?"
EVENT
The power came back on and the PA system immediately booted up "Classes are cancelled today. The building is safe now. The administration sincerely apologizes for the attack that just happened. We promise we have it under control. Please return to your rooms by 9 pm tonight."
"Any normal human students who would like a more proper explanation of this school please ask an upperclassman, they have been instructed to tell you anything you need to know"
"Other than that please do not panic"
The PA cut off
Irene
"And that's about it, anything else?" Rose was about to speak as the PA came on "Expected" Irene muttered "anyways..."
Henry
A message was immediately sent to Cho.
This is Henry Sanchez, a Junior. As a matter of fact, I've got just the thing to keep these monsters in check. Where should we meet up?
Ian Evans
"Erm.. Ian," he responded. Judging from her slight glow she's a Kioo... although she didn't seem to break any bones.
Faith
"So. Where were you heading, Ian?"
Ian Evans
"Back to Elvis. Um, he's my elephant. I'm a Tembi by the way."
Faith
"That's cool! I've never met a Tembi before. I've met a Hiki and another Kioo. I've never really talked to other species before. Most of them are sort of scary to me."
Ian Evans
"Yeah, some can be a little bit... off."
Ivy
Ivy decided she would join Cho. She sent him a message saying she would help, and promptly returned to her friends.
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Plant
Name: Coby Rotem Giacomo
Alias: Cactus
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 17
How did you come to this school?: His teacher's flower died, and when he touched it, it came back to life.
Anything of interest before that?: Coby is really into plants. He has memorized tons of types of plants and knows a lot about them.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Coby is really good at turning plants into all types of poisonous plants. He can also grow poisonous plants pretty well. Due to this, he is not very good at growing normal plants, fruits and veggies. However, he is pretty good at growing apple trees, corn stalks and sunflowers.
Anything else we need to know?: Most of Coby's family have gone to the military. Also, Coby is a target of an unknown super villain who wants to kill him because of his powers (especially the poison part). For this reason, he carries around poisonous darts.
Appearance:
His teacher's flower died, and when he touched it, it came back to life.
*COUGH COUGH*
*COUGH COUGH*
I was going to do something other than a flower, but it is unlikely that the teacher would keep another plant. An apple would work, but it wouldn't exactly die, and the teacher would eat it before then, so I chose flower.
Coby
I do have something of use. Coby thought. He had just received Cho's message. He pulled out two darts. These darts contained poisonous bullets. The poison was from the plant Aconitum, also known as Monkshood. Monkshood is a very powerful poison. The poison is an alkaloid called aconitine, which disables nerves, lowers blood pressure, and can stop the heart. Even casual skin contact should be avoided; symptoms include numbness, tingling, and cardiac irregularity. If consumed, it usually causes burning, tingling, and numbness in the mouth, followed by vomiting and nervous excitement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poisonous_plants
((Nitrox))
((Jamesgames, please don't quote Wikipedia word for word. And if you do, at least link to the page. This is a creative writing story, not a creative copy/paste story. We don't really need to know what aconitum does unless someone gets hit by a dart of it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poisonous_plants))
((Widm))
He pulled out two darts. These darts contained poisonous bullets.
((Also, firearms are contraband substances. Have fun with your bullets without a gun.))
((JG))
I didn't have time to word it in my own way, I will do that tomorrow or add in a link.
Henry has a firearm. Also, most of Coby's family went to the military.
((Box))
((It's more of a literal "fire arm" rather than a firearm. Contraband just means you have to have the means to smuggle it in. For whatever reason. Mr. Henry "Fire Arm" Sanchez owns like the ring leader of the black market with items nicked from the engineering/robotics aspect of the school probably. Going to the military does not excuse him from being exempt for the standard no firearms rule unless given special permission. If you want him to have a gun, give him a reason in his backstory as to why he would smuggle one in or gets permission to carry one. Might have a few logical fallacies due to it being late. Someone double check this.))
Race: Kioo
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here):
Name: Mathias Lenderson
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 15
How did you come to this school?: Mathias was sent by teachers at his old school after he lifted a car off of another student.
Anything of interest before that?: His parents were neglectful, but were not abusive
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Mathias really loves his powers and is excited to meet other Kioo. However, he knows very little about the other races
Anything else we need to know?: nope
Citrelia Grapefruitius
On her way back to her dorm room (and after many failures of indoctrinating people), Citrelia noticed a few helicopters flying out from the school through the window. She got a glimpse of the logo on the helicopter, which looked like....
Citrelia gasped.
It's him! Lord Grapefruit's archnemesis! THE SINFUL BITTER MELON!!! So this whole thing was all the Tyrant Bitter Melon's fault! She started to panic and run around in many hallways, yelling "THE BITTER MELON IS COMING!" on repeat. Of course, this was just another one of Citrelia's delusions. The logo didn't actually look like a bitter melon...
Zeek
I think I can help. Powers=high physical resistance everywhere except stomach and head, heat immunity, pyro-creation (and some pyro-kinesis.) Did a bit of research. Roger (no last name), 17=suspicious character. Do not trust. Some form of light/shadow manipulation.
Rose
"Merfolk!?!" Rose exclaimed, surprised. "I'd like to see one of those!"
Mathias
Mathias was still sitting in the library writing in his journal after the bombings were long over.
Dear Janet,
I've been living and going to school at this place for a week. Everything you told me about here is true, you would love it. I see all sorts of weird things every day, and I haven't even really met everyone yet. I'm really looking forward to the year ahead and hope to write you a lot.
How are you doing back in Dawsonville? How are your friends? How is school?
Your weird Kioo friend
Mathias
He closed his journal and smiled to himself, thinking about how he and Janet and their friends would always write each other letters whenever any of them left the small town. He stood up and looked around, realizing most of the people had left the library. He paced down to the cafeteria, where he thought most everyone would be. He saw the debris of what used to be the back wall.
What is going on? and why is that girl screaming about a Bitter Melon? He thought to himself
He walked over to a student ((can be anyone)) and asked "Excuse me, what just happened here?"
Irene
"Yeah I haven't seen too many of them, and I don't even know where the lake/pool for them in this school is. What should we do?"
Coby
Coby saw the approaching student and quickly put his guns away before anyone saw them.
"Excuse me, what just happened here?" the student asked.
"Some crazy lady just rounded up most of the humans here," Coby responded. "Cho said she wants our powers. It's probably true."
Rose
"We should ask around," Rose suggested. "I am sure we will find one soon!"
Mathias
"She rounded up the humans? If she wanted our powers why them? and who's Cho?" He paused "Sorry about the questions I'm really new"
Irene
"Sure! that'd be interesting, I'll just follow you"
Coby
"I think she wants to separate the humans from the magical so she can easily use us for her selfish desire," Coby explained. "Cho is an electricity hiki who likes to play pranks."
Rose
Rose started walking in a random direction.
"Tell me when you see a merperson." she said.
Mathias
"Thank you" Mathias said as he walked away. He took out his journal Cho, Hiki? Something about electricity, and a prankster He closed his journal. He walked towards the girl shouting about Bitter Melons, she was holding a grapefruit.
"A grapefruit?" He said to himself
((QUESTION: Should Taman be fully capable of breathing above water))
((JG)) Yes they should
Cho
Cho quickly typed a response to Henry.
Sounds good. Meet me outside my dorm twenty minutes before lights out.
Race: Taman
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here):
Name: Emily Jakobs
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 16
How did you come to this school?: Emily always knew about Maalum and the races as her parents were Taman as well. She has lived underwater most of her life.
Anything of interest before that?: No
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Emily isn't that used to life above water but I rarely is an issue. Emily is quite social but doesn't trust people easily. She talks to people but keeps to herself about things she sees as important
Anything else we need to know?: not for now
((Seeing as there is a conversation about Tamans, and I have the first Taman character, time for biology lecture.))
((Minor TL;DR, if you just want to ignore basic ramblings, just skip this.))
((Does this psuedo-science seem to fit?))
Karamura (Nagisa)
The school actually has a elective course only provided for juniors and seniors of non-human species about the biological differences. It's only offered to juniors and seniors so if you're interested in becoming a surgeon on the Maalum side of the world, you'll have to wait a year. I'll give you a basic debrief."
"Tamans have many different physiological differences depending on the environment they thrive in. They can be classified as being different subspecies due to the differences. The Japanese Taman mostly lived in ponds and rivers in smaller communities, eventually intermingling with the human populations there due to having the common need of fresh water. I am one of them and we can't process dissolved oxygen in water nearly as well as other Taman communities."
"The largest divide is between the freshwater dwelling populations and the saltwater populations. For instance, coastal Australian Taman have less pronounced lungs than the Japanese Taman while having more prominent gills. The Taman that do surface have a tendency to have much weaker gills due to sealing them with a type of balm to make them less susceptible to damage. They also have much more alveoli giving them the same effective oxygen exchange rate as most dolphins."
"For the ones not accustomed to processing air, there's a pond and a side building about 1-2 miles away from the main building. Students can apply to have special classes there or ask to be ferried there in the weird golf cart vehicles the school has."
Beep. She heard the indication of an electronic message arriving from the school.
"That wasn't very brief, was it? Sorry about that, I'm quite interested in the various biological differences. There's a notification from the school. Perhaps they resolved the issue."
She read Cho's message.
"So that's what the 'Electric Jester" thinks," she mumbled to herself.
At that instant, the lights in the basement returned and the PA system announced the canceling of classes.
"Well then. I guess we have quite a bit more free time now. Any plans or would you like to discuss the events that just occurred?"
((BACON))
EVENT
BAM! The wall shatters and everyone is coughing because the air is filled with smoke. When the smoke clears, what is revealed shocks everybody. "I thought I told you to stay down!" said the woman, now with a bazooka over her shoulder. "I am going to knock you all unconscious, then extract your powers and make me the ultimate villa...."
I'm the event guy thank you.
Xeno
Everybody notices the foreigner and thanks him and hugs him all at once. He explains that he is a very distant branch of Taman, and that he was once a King, and that he is also a wizard. He then sees a familiar face. "Hey, Irene, wasn't it! I thought our planet destroyed yours in GWIII? Well, I liked you, so I'm glad you're safe! Say, how did you escape?"
Why are they hugging him? How is he a wizard? Is that within the class boundaries?
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia had just finished alerting the school about bitter melons and stopped by her dorm room. She noticed her tablet, which was propped up on her desk, was on and showing an alert. She checked the message Cho sent.
Citrelia replied with the following:
If you agree to convert to Grapefruitism, then the Lord Grapefruit shall aid your cause.
As soon as she hit 'send', Citrelia went back outside her dorm to head towards the school garden to check if the missile barrage damaged her precious grapefruit trees.
Irene
"What are you talking about? I was born here. Who even are you?" She turned to Rose "Rose I don't think this is the merfolk we need to talk to, he appears to be a bit out of his head"
Yaman
"Thanks for all that, I know a lot more now" Yaman said as the lights came back on "I don't even know what happened up there, do you have any idea why we were being bombarded?"
Mathias
Mathias approached the strange grapefruit girl "Um. Hello?" He waved his hand in front of her.
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia looked at the boy in front of her. Ah! I potential follower! Although none of my previous attempts have worked so far. I know! I shall try a different approach.
"Hello! Do you except Lord Grapefruit as your lord and savior? You do? Here take this grapefruit as a welcoming gift!" Citrelia peeled the rind of the grapefruit in her hand, tore out a piece of the flesh, and shoved it into Mathias' mouth. "There you go! Now you're indoctrinated."
Mathias
Mathias spit out the piece of grapefruit but had tasted a small amount of it. "Sure I guess" He said, taking the rest of the grapefruit "What should I do?" Did I just agree to worship a grapefruit? Why can't I control myself?
Emily
Emily looked over at Xeno, A Taman? He doesn't look like it
Rose
Rose noticed a Taman nearby.
"Hey Irene," she said. "Look, it's a Taman!"
Citrelia Grapefruitius
It worked! Thank grapefruits! "You can help me by giving grapefruits to other people. And make sure they eat it too!" Citrelia gave Mathias her backpack that was filled with grapefruits. "Have fun!" She took off towards the garden, leaving Mathias with his new job.
Irene
"Neat" Irene said, as they walked over to Emily.
Emily
"Uh, Hello?" She asked the two girls
Mathias
Yes Grapefruits are good Mathias thought Wait, these aren't typical grapefruits, these are grapefruits that the grapefruit goddess just gave me Mathias felt warm and fuzzy inside. He had been blessed by a goddess.
"I will pass out these grapefruits" He muttered to himself.
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Yes! I have succeeded in indoctrinating one person! Bless his soul for seeing the wonderful beauty and light of grapefruits! Citrelia thought as she was merrily skipping down the hallways towards the garden. She stopped by the broken window that had a grapefruit tree planted right outside it. She plucked a few grapefruits off of the tree to hand to others. She took a detour to the cafeteria and saw three girls chatting.
"Excuse me. This grapefruit will show you the true light of the world! Eat it and accept Lord Grapefruit as your savior!" Citrelia said, handing a grapefruit to each of them.
[She's talking to Emily, Irene, and Rose btw.]
Rose
"Hi, I'm Rose and I don't know if I have any powers," Rose said. "I've always wanted to meet a merperson, I didn't know they could breathe above water! So what's it like, being a merperson?"
{{By the way, it's accept Lord Grapefruit as your savior, not except}}
Emily
"Uh Hi!" Emily held her hands together "I'm Emily and living underwater is pretty cool I guess. I couldn't really tell you, although I'm not used to living on land, not having unrestricted up and down motion is strange I guess"
Citrelia walked over to the group and handed them grapefruits. Irene just stared at hers while Emily looked confused. "What's this?" She asked
Rose
"Wow," Rose said. "I didn't know grapefruits were so magical!" She quickly ate the whole grapefruit.
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia couldn't process the Taman's words. Wait... did she just say she didn't know what a grapefruit was? Wait. Wait. WAIT. SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT A GRAPEFRUIT IS. "I can't believe you are so uneducated in the ways of the grapefruit! How do you even live!?!?! THIS IS BLASPHEMY." Citrelia went on and on about Emily not knowing what a grapefruit is, not noticing that Rose ate the grapefruit and was currently undergoing a life changing religious experience.
Rose
"GRAPEFRUITS ARE THE MOST WONDERFUL FRUIT IN THE WORLD," Rose declared. "THEY HAVE A TASTE SUPERIOR TO ALL FOODS."
Minor Event
The enchanted grapefruit started to take over Rose's body. Her eyes morphed to a deep green and she suddenly found herself holding a blue rose and a grapefruit. She felt strangely connected to the rose and as she moved her and the rose changed color. She felt nothing but love for the grapefruit.
((Rose is now some new species based around plants, she can summon Roses that do various minor things for you to decide. She can also summon grapefruits, because of course she can, HOWEVER her grapefruits are normal and do not hypnotize people in the same way that Citrellia's do))
Emily
"Hello?" She tried to say through the yelling, "I'm from under the ocean, I've never had a grapefruit before, I'm sorry"
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia's rant was stopped by Rose's declare. Instantly her mood brightened. "INDEED THEY ARE! JOIN ME AND SPREAD THE WORD OF THE AMAZING GRAPEFRUITS!"
Rose
"I demand that you eat your grapefruits right now." she told Irene and Emily, kissing the grapefruit in her hand.
Ian Evans
Ian turned towards the two members of the... er... grapefruit cult yelling and preaching about grapefruits. He turned back to Faith.
"Yeah... um. I'm gonna go now so... bye I guess." He quickly walked out of the cafeteria. Okay NOW I can get these vegetables to Elvis. Of course that was not true, for he was stopped by someone carrying a backpack full of grapefruits.
Rose
Rose ran over to the boy, Ian Evans. He was with another member of the precious Graperuit Cult.
"GRAPEFRUITS ARE GOOD FOR ELEPHANTS," she told him. "THEY WILL MAKE YOUR ELEPHANTS HAPPIER THEN VEGGIES."
Ian Evans
"Uhh... sure... but no thanks... I really have to get back to my elephant now so..." Ian started to run away from the crazy grapefruit cultists.
Rose
Rose started to chase Ian.
"DID YOU JUST DENY THE GREAT LORD GRAPEFRUIT?!?" Rose yelled at Ian, furious. "COME ON ROSES DO YOUR THING!"
Rose threw a blue rose at Ian. Ian sniffed it, and became a little dreamy. While the rose didn't make him a grapefruit worshiper, Ian's love of grapefruits and roses just increased a little.
Karamura (Nagisa)
"Some government ploy to remove the human beings from this school to turn it into a sanctuary for the other species? Some dealing to train abnormal as alternate weaponry?"
Ian Evans
Ahh. Grapefruits and roses. How nice. Wait what am I thinking. No I will not become a part of this madness. Ian managed to escape from the most recent grapefruit cultist. Whew. Okay maybe NOW- oh forget it I'll probably be interrupted again at some point.
Irene and Emily
Irene and Emily watched Rose run away with her grapefruit.
"So uh nice to meet you" Irene shook Emily's hand, "I'm Irene, a Kormot, dragon person"
"I'm Emily, nice to meet you! I live in the Taman areas downstairs, of course" Emily scratched her head
Mathias
Mathias headed back to his dorm room, still thinking about the beautiful goddess he had met earlier
Yaman
"If it was the government why missiles? and weaponry, that's a scary thought"
Rose
Rose was frustrated that it didn't work. She went over to Citrelia to get a bag of her hypnotizing grapefruits.
EVENT
A FEW HOURS LATER
The PA said "Attention, please be in your rooms in 30 minutes!"
Irene and Emily
"Well It was nice getting to know you!" Irene stood up from her seat at dinner
"If I ever find a way for you to breathe underwater come and see me sometime" Emily joked as they both went to their respective rooms"
Yaman
Yaman and Karamura headed back to their dorms, "If anything happens meet me down here again" Yaman said
Cho
Cho leaned outside of his door, pretending to be reading a book.
Rose
Citrelia had given Rose a bag of her special grapefruits. Rose sniffed the beautiful scent of grapefruits and loved grapefruits even more. She couldn't wait to give this to people! She left her dorm room, locked her door and eventually stumbled upon a hiki with big swirly glasses reading a book.
"Join the order of the grapefruits," she demanded, handing him one of Citrelia's grapefruits. "Grapefruits will make you see the true light of this world! Join the Grapefruit Cult and accept Lord Grapefruit as your savior!"
Coby
Coby pulled out the map he had made of Maalum. Coby had spent a lot of time exploring this school so he knew who's dorm room was who's. He located Cho's dorm room. He drew a path between his and Cho's dorm room. Then, he made sure his guns were hidden and not noticeable in his coat. They were perfectly hidden. However, for good measure, he put on his cloak, picked a leaf off of a flower in his indoor garden, grabbed his map and headed out. He made sure to lock his dorm room before leaving. Then, he walked over to Cho's room.
Henry
On his way, Henry saw someone frantically running past holding a... grapefruit?
He arrived at Cho's designated spot. He looked over to Cho, whom he had recognized, then looked suspiciously at Rose, the person who had been holding a grapefruit earlier. "...Is she going to be sticking with us?" was the first question Henry asked.
Rose
Rose eagerly turned to the newcomer and held out a different grapefruit for him, repeating what she had told Cho.
Coby
Coby arrived outside Cho's dorm.
"Hello.." he said. "I am Coby, and I have something more valuable than anything."
Cho
Now that I think about it, I probably should have chosen a more private meeting spot...
Cho shook his head. "Um, no. She's not. Let me just go put this away..."
Cho quickly brought the grapefruit back into his dorm room. He had seen too many security camera videos of grapefruit conversions to have a bite of it or sniff it too closely. He resolved to put it in an airtight case and study it later; maybe he could use its hypnotic properties in an invention. He felt a brief urge to build a shrine for it, but it disappeared quickly.
When he returned to Henry, there was another person waiting outside the door. "Okay, okay, one at a time. I set up a meeting time with Henry earlier, so I'll talk to him first unless he's OK with taking you along, Coby. Henry, are you ready?"
Henry
"Hey, as long as the other guy can keep his mouth shut, I'm alright. Fire away."
Rose
Rose was pleased that the hiki was considering her request. She then turned to the other hiki, holding out her grapefruit.
"Would you like to convert to Grapefruitism?" she asked. She was so busy thinking about grapefruits that she didn't hear what anyone else said unless they said something about grapefruits.
Coby
"Excuse me for a minute." Coby said.
He turned around and pretended to search his cloak for something, while secretly turning his leaf into a Monkshood flower. He then pretended as if he just pulled the flower out of his cloak, then turned back around.
"Monkshood, also known as Wolf's bane, Leopard's bane and Aconitum," he informed them. "It is a very powerful poison."
Robert and Estella
The window opened and a pair of shoes came through followed by the rest of the girl's body. The two had become accustomed to scaling the sides of the school building in order to reach each other's dorm rooms. The dorms were separated by both grade and gender, with the males occupying the odd numbered floors and the females occupying the even numbered floors.
So, anything interesting happen today? You tell me. The school was probably in a panic. Stuff like this happens all the time. The missiles were a nice touch, don't you think? It made things fresh interesting at the very least. See anything in the last few minutes?Someone advertising some wacky grapefruit cult. That's interesting. The drugs have probably have been in circulation once again. The school never does manage to keep a check on these things. Do you want to go check it out?You're speaking as if I either had a choice or the intention of doing otherwise. Seeing as you understand, go take a walk while I take over your room.
Time Skip
Anything interesting? Nothing. They talked about unproductive things. I'd call it pointless. Same thing. Shut up and let's sleep.
Camellia
Camellia decided to go outside and get some dinner before she had to be back in her room ((assuming a fair amount of time has passed.)) On the way, she walked past some redhead screaming about grapefruits or something.
"Hey, you. Idiot, listen up! Nobody actually cares if you love grapefruits, so kindly keep it down before I disembowel you and make it look like an accident. Besides, everyone knows that tangerines are better, anyway."
Zeek
Zeek merrily hummed as he ran up the stairs. He was ready to get back to his sewing kit to de-stress after such a harrowing day. However, all of a sudden, he ran straight into Cho and a pair of kids he had never met before, just as they were entering Cho's room.
"Oh hello, Cho! Just the man I wanted to see! Care for some more brownies?" He inquired, holding out a fresh batch. "Your friends can have some too, any friend of yours is a friend of mine..."
((IAa))
Heyo guys, I'm going to be leaving for the weekend and will return Sunday night.
This of course means there will be minimal activity from my characters and no events.
When I get back Sunday night it will be morning RP time.
The following pepole are allowed to make Minor events in my absence:
(Minor events affect 1-4 characters)
Widm
MS
and nitrox if it pretains to your meeting, don't go crazy
I reserve the right no nullify anything
(Note: If I have internet access where I'm going then most of this isn't true)
((GS))
((I was gone for ONE DAY. Somebody explain what I missed.))
((Iaa))
BeserkFalcon did something
Grapefruit cult has new members
I'm leaving for the weekends
Currently people are meeting with Cho and RP night time will last until I get back (Sunday evening)
((Baconunicorn))
I wan't to join mallum
((JG))
Sign up form:
Race:
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here):
Name:
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher):
How did you come to this school?:
Anything of interest before that?:
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good):
Anything else we need to know?:
((BACONUNICORN))
Race: Wizard
I found the school: From james games
Magic & Hand to hand combat
((M2))
Please reread the post on page 1, with the list of species that you are allowed to use. Then, edit your character form.
I am afraid the character that you have right now will not be permitted to participate in this cst until it has been reworked so that it follows the regulations put in place by Iaashadow.
((Baconuni))
Ya know what. I'm leaving Maalum then. There are so many rules, you get off for a day and 3 pages happens, its all too confusing. Sorry guys but I'm out!
New character. @bacon Unicorn, you can use this as a template.
Race: Hiki (He will be my main, so I will not be focusing as much on Zeek and Camellia)
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Ice
Name: Glenn Freidman
Age: 16
How did you come to this school?: Brilliant academic ability combined with powers meant he breezed through the screening processes.
Anything of interest before that?: He learned about the different races when he was involved in an accident in his old school, which involved him discovering his powers, and an unnaturally realistic ice sculpture of his class' pet hamster. He then had a discussion with his school psychologist, who is a bandias.
Appearance:
Key Traits: May come off as cold and calculating. He's not a bad guy, but his sense of humor is nonexistent, and he tries to avoid showing emotions around others. He's also somewhat arrogant.
What else we need to know: White hair is natural. He is allergic to grapefruits. VERY loosely based off of Hitsugaya from bleach.
Ivy
Ivy went looking for Cho. She still wanted to help. She went to his room and saw him with 2 others.
"Cho?" Ivy asked.
((If this is totally wrong, just tell me. I'll delete it.))
I believe they are in the hallway
((eYeaa))
@beserkfalcon
In all honesty you didn't seem to read the rules you're complaining about
Ian Evans
Earlier after the run in with the grapefruit cultist
There weren't any more interruptions after the incident with Rose, to Ian's relief. He went out to the stables that were specifically for any Tembi's elephants, which was next to the dorm building.
"I'm finally back, Elvis." Ian started unpacking the vegetables, which by now have thawed.
Yo Evans it's 'bout time you got back, said Elvis (in elephant of course). You okay? Heard a lotta noise comin' from the main build'n. And the earthquake. And the missiles. Aaand the helicopters. Mind explainin' what happened?
"Yeah well, a bunch of stuff happened. So some lady crashed into the school and told us she was causing the missile barrage. Then she took all of the humans away. But before that some girl, probably a hiki, decided to cause a hurricane with glass."
Ouch. That explains the cuts.
"Yeah. And so some people died. Also the missile lady shot two people. And then she left, with the humans of course."
Uh huh.
"So then I met a Kioo girl named Faith. Well, more like I accidentally knocked her down. It's okay though I didn't break any of her bones. So then apparently there's a... um... grapefruit cult and I had a run in with a red haired girl who was a part of it." Ian shuddered. "I feel like my lifestyle is more threatened by the grapefruit cultists than the missile lady and her corporation."
Are you tryin' to say that your afraid of grapefruits now?
"Look, those grapefruits do weird things to your mind. The girl who tried to indoctrinate me was a victim to the original grapefruit girl. She's now crazy. About grapefruits. And roses."
Fun.
"So yeah that all happened. What a day."
Three hours later, Ian returned to his dorm. He found a grapefruit with a note attached to it in front of his door.
I'M WATCHING YOU..... -Rose
Ian kicked the grapefruit elsewhere. He was done with them.
Minor Event
Cho stood up at the small group of people clustered outside his dorm. "All right then guys; this should be everyone. I recommend that we go down to the laundry room in the basement. It's close enough to lights out that nobody will be doing laundry, so we should be able to have a private discussion in there."
Cho and the others walked down to the laundry room. "Henry, why don't you go first? And by the way, if anyone's uncomfortable with sharing in a group, just tell me and I'll talk to you individually."
((Minor event I guess since it affects a few characters))
Rose
Rose thought it was weird that she was ignored by the other electricity hiki. Confused, she walked off. Eventually, she started yelling to everyone she passed about how great grapefruits are. One girl said tangerines were better. Rose shook the grapefruit in her face and walked off.
Henry
He activated cinder and lit his hand ablaze. "This is what I pull to get out of trouble. I bet you twenty dollars, you won't be seeing any other fire Hiki around here."
The story of the unfortunate Kioo
There was once a very careless Kioo. He tripped on a grapefruit that an inconsiderate Tembi had kicked and fell on his face. His head cracked. The Kioo died. The end.
Moral of the story: Grapefruits are dangerous.
[yeah idk I found out this iPad had a data plan so I decided to derp around.]
Glenn
Glenn had just exited the bathroom and returned to the laundry room. He always sat there until lights out. It was his quiet place, and the moisture all around allowed him to access his powers. So he was quite surprised that it was no longer vacant, as he had left it. There was a small group of people, and Glenn almost instantly analysed the ones he could see.
White hair-- abnormal, but the outfit could be meant to be reflective, or it could be specialized to work with dangerous subjects. Slim frame and goggles taken into account, especially ones that hard to see out of, suggest he is a non-combat type; with the outfit, which could be providing insulation, I could hazard a safe guess on electricity support powers.
What did he just say, fire hiki? Not possible. It's probably some bastardization of pyrokinesis. Suit will be relevant to that end. Weight on back leg, gesturing with hand, probably a righty, and the posture suggests no small amount of muscle, slight Hispanic accent.
The flower he's holding looks a lot like wolfsbane. Probably a poison user' in the event of combat, dodge rather than blocking. Forearms are more developed that shoulders, probably a user of thrown weapons, like knives or darts.
RESULT: These three appear to be working together. Avoid combat or altercation with the group at all costs. Do not reveal that you know anything, or that you heard the fire hiki statement.
"Hey. Never seen you people around here before. Then again, it's rare that anyone comes down here. Are you discussing something important?"
Race: Taman
Chosen Trait: N/A
Name: Azalea Monroe
Age: 16
How did you come to this school?: When Azalea was 7 years old, her parents found her submerged under water in the bathtub. They hastened to to get her out, only to find that she was still breathing and still alive. When they looked it up, they found the Maalum school and decided it was the best place for her to hone her skills.
Anything of interest before that?: Her discovery in the bathroom by parents. As well as when she was younger, she used to enjoy looking for tadpoles in her neighborhood pond, it's where she spent most of her time.
Appearance: Azalea dyed her hair a dark blue which has silver highlights through it, which matches her dark blue eyes. She has pale skin and rosy lips.
Key traits: Very secretive, quiet/shy. Has issues trusting others. Very reserved, she's that one girl who just stays in the corner and tries to pretend that she's not there. Although, she is very intelligent and visual (in terms of thinking).
Anything else we need to know?: Azalea is mostly found in the dark corners with her ear buds in listening to her rock music. She can be friendly if she doesn't see you as a threat. Also, she's not too good at staying out of the water, at times she will go into the bathroom, fill the sink with water and then stick her head in for a couple of deep breaths. Her hair is usually wet and put in a high messy bun or braid. Azalea also has a bucket of water in her dorm room. She is a freshwater taman, but prefers to not live at the lake off campus, she likes her dorm room much better. So Azalea basically lives off of sinks so to speak, and she will go down to lake 2-3 times a week for a couple of hours to "freshen up" and rehydrate completely.
((EyEaa))
(( [member=76]Nitrox1116[/member] Is this conversation going to get on? or can we go morning?))
Cho
Cho whistled at the strange fire-creating device. "Neat. If I could get my hands on one of those... well, let's just say that I'd be in your debt for quite a while."
A new arrival entered the area. "No, nothing that important," Cho stammered. "It's just with all the grapefruit cultists running around, I thought it would be safer to talk down here."
((JG))
[member=75]M217[/member] Coby has a thick heavy cloak on completely hiding his guns. Glenn cannot see them.
((Gotcha. Changed it. Thanks for letting me know.))
Glenn
"Grapefruit cult? Never heard of it, I'm allergic..."
Suddenly, Glenn leaped up and smacked his head. "OH! Almost forgot my tablet." He sprinted to the opposite end of the room, through a bewildered group of teens, and tore the small school-issued tablet form the wall. "I was using it as a light source during the missile shooting, you see, and it died on me..." He explained as he turned it on and started to read intently.
"Hey... did you guys all also get a message from this 'Cho' person?"
Cho
Well, I can't exactly be secretive after sending a message out to everybody...
"Yeah, I'm Cho. It's almost lights out, so does anyone have anything else to say? We can't be caught sneaking around after lights out, especially with all the problems going on."
Azalea
Azalea decided to head into her dorm and get ready for bed. She followed her usual routine, she felt like a broken record, there was no excitement in her life. Azalea went into the bathroom and turned on the water, waiting until the bathtub was filled, she then submerged herself. She hated going down to the lake where the other tamans were, she enjoyed being in her dorm room inside the building. After a roughly fifteen minute period, Azalea got out and jumped into a large t-shirt, she enjoyed being alone for she didn't have any roommates, yet. She turned on her music, at a low volume, and fell asleep to Hollywood Undead.
Henry
He cut the propane release and the flame fizzled out. "Uh, yeah, um..." Henry looked for an excuse not to give Cho a gauntlet. "They're still being tested, and it's a closed beta. Only I can use them."
Irene
Irene woke up hearing music going on in the room next to her. Who is playing music at 1 am? She thought while stretching. She looked at her hands, the scales were now up to her wrist Hm, I'll have claws by tomorrow I suppose She thought as she walked out into the hallway and knocked on the door to the room.
Azalea
The knocking at the door woke up Azalea, Seriously? It is one in the morning, who the heck is awake at this time? She walked over to the door, groggily and not to mention kind of angry for being disturbed, and opened it. "Can I help you?"
Irene
"Hey" Irene yawned holding up a scaly arm. "Your music is playing and I can hear it, and why are you soaking wet?"
Azalea
"Um...well you see...I'm a taman to put it straight forward and I just enjoyed one of my routine hydrating baths, yeah, that explains it I think. Sorry about the music, I didn't realize it was that loud, it's how I fall asleep. My bad, I'll turn it down." She went back into her room, leaving the front door open, to turn down her music.
Irene
"Don't Taman's sleep somewhere else?" She waved it off, "Well my name's Irene, Kormot. Thanks" Irene walked back to her room
...
Ivy
Ivy decided to contribute to Cho's team, "Well, the fact that I'm a Kormot gives me fire powers. That probably helps."
Azalea
As Irene was leaving Azalea shouted, "And my name's Azalea! Nice to meet you..." She stepped back inside her dorm and fell on her bed, looking at the ceiling. Well, she seemed nice... Azalea dozed off once again.
Cho
"All right everyone, this meeting's over! Feel free to message me if you have something else to say."
EVENT
It's morning now and most everyone is in the breakfast rooms. Classes are beginning in around an hour.
"Attention" The PA rang, "Continue as normal today however please do not venture outside of the building."
The cafeteria had been entirely roped off for reconstruction, large "Do not enter" Signs surrounding it
Irene
Irene sat down next to Emily when she saw her. "Hey!" She said.
"Oh hello" Emily said
"Say, there's a Taman in the room right next to me" Irene remembered, "Do you know an Azalea?"
Emily paused for a moment, "No I don't actually. Azalea? And she's in the room next to you? does she sleep in her bath?"
Yaman
Yaman sat by himself at a table poking at his eggs. He was still thinking about the lady from yesterday Why can't we go outside, are they sill out there? he thought
Mathias
Mathias searched the cafeteria for his goddess, eventually seeing her with a plate full of the holy fruit. "Good morning my lord" He said, "What do you want me to do?" He said after kissing her hand.
« on: July 27, 2014, 08:09:07 pm »
Iaashadow and Elephants4Ever present
Maalum Academy was built as a refuge for members of eight non-human races, so they could practice their abilities and learn to control them without interference from humans and their dangerous weaponry and devastating expansion. And that worked well for a long time--for one hundred years, Melon and its students were left in peace, and the supernatural world thrived. But then, more and more people began seeking out fancy schools for their children, and the remote Maalum Academy was discovered. People noticed something different about the students there: they were stronger and smarter, and got out of trouble easily; and though many of them looked strange, everyone gathered that the environment there promoted equality, regardless of appearance. It appeared on the news and in every parent advice blog in existence, and then its fate was set: everyone wanted their student to go there. Everyone needed their student there. The headmaster did all he could: he raised the price and put a very set limit on the number of students that could attend, but even after his best efforts, a large number of human students joined their superhuman counterparts. Now the school was caught up in a scramble between secrecy and superiority. Most students who are part of the seven races want nothing more than to keep their powers secret; others, however, will stop at nothing to gain power over everyone else.
This rp uses a class system of multiple races, choose one of these races
Taman
Appearance: Very human-looking; skin tones range from normal to paper-white to pale gray. Hair colors are normal, with white and gray or silver colors included even among younger individuals. Hair is generally kept braided or cut very short, so as to not get tangled in underwater environments. Skin doesn’t prune, so they’re pretty cool.
Physical: Breathing underwater; improved eyesight in darkness (esp. murky waters), very fast swimmers, can hold their breath for a very long time
Powers: Can manipulate water (shape, a little bit of temperature, etc.) if it already exists in an area; can summon small bits of water up through the ground if outside (but very, very small). Can dehydrate people a little and make them feel tired/make their powers less effective.
Weaknesses: Needs contact with water often, if away from water for too long they will begin to get very sick. Only breathe in water, but can hold their breaths for up to 4 hours
Kormot
Appearance: Normal for the first 13-16 years of their life; slowly develop scales for the first month after they begin developing powers.
Physical: Skin is nearly impenetrable after they develop scales, and also fireproof
Powers: can breathe fire and hold it in their hand and give it fuel
Weaknesses: stomach (or underbelly… derp) doesn’t have scales, so it is weaker; fire must be moved through physical means (but can be pushed or blown as if it is solid) and cannot last very long without some sort of fuel
Agnies
Appearance: Either very pale or very dark skinned with a (while/black) mark on their face. Thin and very agile
Physical: Very agile and fast, but not beyond human capability. They have high endurance to strenuous activity but have nothing beyond normal human traits otherwise
Powers: Light Manipulation. Can bend light, absorb it, and use it in large flashes.
Weaknesses: Full invisibility and power use in general is very energy consuming. Often they cannot use their powers for a few hours after even a short skirmish. They have NO offensive or hurting ability other than that of a normal person
Bandias
Appearance: The Bandias have tons of tattoos all over there body except their faces. These markings are in purple and green, and they all represent a trait of the person. Dark skinned
Physical: No bonus physical traits.
Powers: Can send and receive mental messages with others. Smarter than usual, each has a small specific specialty such as weapons, speed, strength, or endurance
Weaknesses: No extra weaknesses
Tembi
Appearance: normal, except: have slightly large ears (not conspicuously so), skin color also extends into a more greyish color in some individuals
Physical: Derp
Powers: Can summon elephants of their chosen size and density. Elephants’ ‘characters’ (name and personality) can be reused, with the same memories (but who but a Tembi would know? No one else understands them)
Weaknesses: There’s a limit on the amount of density of elephant that can be present at one time (you have to choose between large quantities of small or lightweight elephants, or one or two really heavy ones). When an elephant is killed, the Tembi must wait for (insert period of time here) before they can regain the mass it took to make that one and use it for a new elephant.
Kioo
Appearance: Short and thin with very short hair. They glow faintly.
Physical: The Kioo are incredibly fragile but move faster than any human and are stronger than any human. They have very high endurance, but do have a limit as to how far they can run.
Powers: None other than physical ability
Weaknesses: Bones are very weak, as they are imbued with ethereal energy. A hard punch to the jaw, neck, or ribs, will shatter bone, depending on strength. They can hurt themselves by hitting solid objects (e.g. a wall)
Hiki
Appearance:
Physical: Heavy resistance to their chosen element and well suited to the environment of their element.
Powers: Choose one of the following:
Electricity
Ice
Plant
Shadow
Sand
Can manipulate their chosen element as projectiles or in their natural form.
Weaknesses: Weak to other Hiki of other types.
Just a normal Human, lol not one of the races of power but still
Rules-
-NO GM-ing
-Follow forum rules
-NO BUNNYING WHATSOEVER, (This is important)
-Nothing you create can be overpowered, they can be powerful, but nothing along the lines of origin
-You can create multiple characters, however if you have more than one, be open to the possibility that they might die (a single character-person cannot be killed unless they are OP)
-You can have one character (your main) that is much less likely to be killed
-You can make characters that are human or bullies that flaunt their power, but they cannot be your main character
-Your character has to be of only one race--no Taman-Tambi crosses, etc.
- You may not have more than 4 living characters at one time
Character form
Race:
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here):
Name:
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher):
How did you come to this school?:
Anything of interest before that?:
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good):
Anything else we need to know?:
You can make human characters without a character form
ALL THE CHARACTERS
Taman
Karamura, Nagisa - widm1999219
Azalea Monroe - Period5
Kormot
Ivy A. - greensalmon
Zeek King - M217
Irene Harding - Iaashadow
Agnies
Yaman Hart - Iaashadow
Bandias
Antonio Montoya - Zenwarrior54 (strength)
Tembi
Ian Evans - MysticShadow
Kioo
Faith Tarans - greensalmon
Sarude Dessertstorm - Riddly Diddly
Mathias Lenderson - Iaashadow
Juniper Henley - Period5
Hiki
Eugene - Zenwarrior54 (Plant)
Cecilia Gardinier (Citrelia Grapefruitius) - MysticShadow (Plant)
Chokal "Cho" Weiss - Nitrox116 (Electricity)
Roger - JamesGames (Shadow)
Steve Stellar - JamesGames (Electricity)
Camellia - M217 (Sand)
Henry Sanchez - ZenWarrior54 (
Glenn Freidman - M217
Human
Rose - JamesGames
Unknown
Aversa - Zenwarrior54
((Ele))[glow=red,2,300]Aaaaaand BEGIN![/glow]
Character form
Race: Tembi
Name: Elissa Whittler
Age: 14
How did you come to this school?: Older sister went to Maalum
Anything of interest before that?: Has moved every so often when people notice her family's elephants.
Appearance:
Key traits: tbrp
Anything else we need to know?: NO.
Race: Agnies
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): n/a
Name: Yaman Hart
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 15
How did you originally find out about this school?: (For Zen: this is the bio part) Yaman always knew he could control light but never knew that there was a place to hone his abilities until he was invited to Maalum academy. He immediately signed up and that was that. Now he's off to boarding school not knowing what to expect.
Anything of interest before that?: (For Zen: this is another bio part) Yaman is very social however has never shown his powers to anyone else and is still a little reserved about going to a school full of people like him or other weird people.
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good):
Anything else we need to know?: nope
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Plant
Name: Eugene
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 14
How did you come to this school?: He moved to the town for the good weather. His unique powers got the attention of the school, which in turn offered him priority enrollment. He gladly accepted.
Anything of interest before that?: When he was four, Eugene saw a dying daisy. When he touched the petals, it jumped back to life. He's kept it in a pot ever since. He's never seen without the flower pot.
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good): He's extremely protective of his flower. People tend to be drawn to his innocent nature.
Anything else we need to know?: Take his flower away, and he gets extremely aggressive.
((MS))[Welp. Can't join now since I'm leaving soon from the 30th till the 13th. Oh well.]
((Filling this out over time. Just saving myself a spot as main character.))
Race: Kioo
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): N/A
Name: Faith Tarans
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 15
How did you come to this school?: Faith's parents sent her.
Anything of interest before that?: Faith loved art.
Appearance: (Just shorter and thinner)
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Not many traits. She's shy.
Anything else we need to know?: Faith gets along with humans. If she has the courage to talk to one.
Character Form Skeleton- [Finishing this in the morning.]
Race: Taman
Chosen Trait: Can control the local humidity in the air around her mostly impacting water content in a zone around the level of where a person's head would be. (AKA bad hair day generator)
Name (Surname, Given Name): Karamura, Nagisa
Age: 15
How did your character find out about Maalum Academy?: She lives in a small mixed community of Talam and various other races. Many acquaintances in the community have also gone to Maalum and have influenced her parent's decision to send her there.
What was your character's life like before entering Maalum Academy?: She lived in a community with members of most of the 7 (+1) races. She knows of the existence of the differences and has come to terms with them over the years. She is somewhat reserved.
Appearance: Hair style is similar to that of Hotaru from Gakuen Alice. Slim. She wears a watch with a lid that can be opened and it contains a small water dish inside that is used as emergency hydration.
Key traits: Cucumbers are her favorite food. She carries around "bento" of cucumbers
around with er everywhere she goes along with a canteen of water for hydration. Slightly altered body structure due to her heritage.
Anything else we need to know?:
The group of Taman she belongs to are akin to the "Kappa" of Japanese mythology and the Kappa legends were based on the Taman who lived there. She along with others like her can absorb water through a disk like ring on her scalp and through her hair. Her oxygen filtration system allows water to be pumped into the lung-like structure that functions more like gills extracting oxygen from the water. The respiratory "gill" system is very efficient extracting about 90% of the maximum amount of The lung structures can also process air but to a much lesser extent, even less than a human's ~25%. There are also numerous small air sacs that store air in an area where it isn't as dense.
[Actually forget what I said earlier I just had a fantastic idea. I just wont be able to rp till after I get back.]
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait: Plant
Name: Citrelia Grapefruitius (her real name is actually Cecilia Gardinier; Yes I'm making a character based off of grapefruits which probably increases the chances of her getting killed off but idc)
Age: 15
How did you come to this school?: Seeking to further enhance her powers to grow the best grapefruits ever (and other citrus and fruits), she found the Maalum Academy. Since she comes from a rich family, her parents were planning to enroll her at the full price. However Citrelia received an invitation instead which she oh so gladly accepted.
Anything of interest before that?: Rich kid, homeschooled.
Appearance: Wavy, a little bit past the shoulder, light brown hair; pinkish orangish eyes (or basically the color of the inside of a grapefruit). 5'5". Slightly tanned skin. Has freckles on her face.
Key traits (this cannot be all good):
-Extremely obsessed with grapefruit.
-Can be quite delusional.
-Worships the grapefruit god (which used to be her imaginary friend when she was little).
-Is actually a good cook if she doesn't try to incorporate grapefruits into EVERYTHING.
-Hates bugs. Ew. They crawl all over her precious grapefruit. Disgusting. Must get rid of the bugs.
-Stubborn.
Anything else we need to know?:
She carries a parasol that resembles a grapefruit. Also carries a pouch full of grapefruit seeds.
((Again, filling out over time.))
Race: Kormot
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Well kinda forced to be fire.
Name: Ivy A.
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 17
How did you come to this school?: Her parents sent her.
Anything of interest before that?: Nope.
Appearance: (She bleached her hair.)
Key traits (this cannot be all good): She can't stand humans. Also, she really likes potions and bending reality.
Anything else we need to know?: She only gets along with Cho. Otherwise it takes a few days for her to get used to somebody. When she's angry, she can be VERY violent. She keeps something in her pocket that nobody can know about. She is saving it for when she needs it most.
Character form (WIP)
Race: Bandias
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Weapons...?
Name: Skylar Quintero
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 14.524 years old (Creds to FF)
How did you come to this school?: Skylar was walking in the streets when he suddenly heard a voice complaining about miscellaneous things- and no one else seemed to be able to hear it. The Bandias who happened to be accidentally sending out these random messages noticed his confusion and brought him to the academy.
Anything of interest before that?: Only family is his mother; she allowed him to go to Maalum partially because she could barely afford raising him, and partially because she knew his education would be a lot better than his current school.
Appearance:
Mostly wears long clothes to hide the tattoos.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): TBD. Still trying to figure out his personality.
Anything else we need to know?: ^
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait: Electricity
Name: Chokal "Cho" Weiss
Age: 15
How did you come to this school?: After learning the truth about Maalum Academy by reading the emails of some of the directors and students (and discovering that he was too late to sign up), Cho simply added his name to the registry and forged all the necessary information.
Anything of interest before that?: A freak thunderstorm landed he and his family in the hospital, but he ended up fine. This was when he decided to go to Maalum Academy.
Appearance:
Cho's strange glasses and long hair are primarily meant to conceal the slightly discolored pattern on his face. He can pass it off as a birthmark if need be, but would prefer that it not be noticed.
Key traits (this cannot be all good):
Intelligent, but easily distracted. Generally doesn't think before doing something. A bit reckless, with a slight tendency toward pranking.
Anything else we need to know?: Cho has forgone the shock-and-awe portion of his powers to work with finesse. This gives him incredible control over technology and skill at building machines, but little ability to create a lot of electricity by himself. However, he does attract a lot of lightning during thunderstorms.
Yeah, I was re-doing it, sorry about the confusion.
Class: Kormot
Name: Zeek King
Age: 17
How did you come to the school?: He had first enrolled at 13, back when the demand for the school was not so high.
Of interest before that: Cooking. He is obsessed with cooking. He plans on going to culinary school after he graduates.
Appearance:
Green fire, like a boss. Also, he always wears long sleeves and pants to conceal his scales, which he is self-conscious of.
Personality: Overly bubbly, tries to make friends with everyone even if they are dangerous psychopaths. Also, he is an organization freak and suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, related mainly to his dorm's cleanliness.
Other: N/A
Quick Question, at 17, how much scale growth will he have, and where?
((IAA))((I believe it will be almost completed, but the head does not have them (it never will)))
Eugene
It was lunch hour. Eugene was sitting in an odd position, with his knees right up to his chin. He was staring contently at his flower pot, which sat on the table next to his lunch. Across from him sat his friend.
"Faith..." He asked quietly, without taking his eyes off of the pot. "What is your opinion on... them? The humans?"
Cho
Cho sat in his dorm, an untouched sandwich sitting on the desk beside him. Lunch period was too much free time to waste. It was time for a prank. He had finally hacked into the computer that controlled Maalum's lighting and sound systems, and now it was time to test them out.
He turned out all of the lights in the school building and activated the loudspeaker. He had his computer start talking.
"It looks like our light systems are down. I'm sorry, but school is cancelled for the day while we try to work this out."
Zeek
Zeek was merrily humming inside his dormitory as he laid a triple-layer of aluminum foil on his hand. A small green flame underneath it was making the foil start to smoke, while an assortment of asparagus sticks for iron and vitamins (ordered by length), a collection of regularly hexagonal pineapple slices (for citrus and energy), and a pair of drumsticks (the food, not the wood) for protein and fat. In his other hand, he was about done toasting the sugar atop a small piece of creme brulee, which he would earn be eating the rest. Oh, how he enjoyed lunchtime.
That was when he heard an announcement over the PA system.
"Hooray! Even more free time to make friends and frolic in the prairies beneath a breathtakingly beautiful sunset at the end of a long day of pleasurable merriment! School sure is fun! Maybe some of the kids who are new this year would like to spend time with me; I would be so honored to meet them and we could make sock puppets and paint our nails and chew bubblegum (with our mouths closed) and do all kinds of awesome stuff!"
(He said all of this in one breath, without pausing at all.)
He quickly whipped up a brownie batter, and while it heated in an oven of his own creation, he was busy piping frosting in the shape of bunnies and putting them in the freezer.
After about 30 minutes, with a platter of brownies all frosted and decorated and cradled in his frilly pink oven mitts (he was immune to heat but he thought they were stylish), he decided to head over and visit some of the students that were just starting this year.
He knocked on a door, and when it did not open, he yelled: "HELLO FRIEND! WOULD YOU BE SO KIND AS TO ALLOW ME ENTRANCE INTO YOUR DORMITORY SO THAT WE MAY SHARE THE PLEASURE OF FRIENDSHIP AND CHOCOLATY TREATS?!"
After 2 minutes, the door opened, and he saw a boy with white hair and strange green marks on his face.
"Hello, friend! Would you like some of these brownies?"
((Yes, I know that his personality is over the top, but hey, it's an interesting character and it'll be fun to write (and hopefully fun for you guys to read too).))
Cho
A light flashed on Cho's computer screen indicating that someone was knocking on his door. He jumped up, thinking through all the ways that he might have been caught. He was starting to put his escape plan into motion when he realized that it could just be another student. He looked through the school's camera feed and saw that one of his dorm-mates was standing outside... with brownies.
He opened the door slowly and looked around. "Those brownies look good... but out of curiosity, how did you make them when the power went out?" Cho quickly glanced at his computer, flinched, and X'ed out the screen. "I wonder what happened to the lights... weird huh? Hehehehehe..."
Zeek
"Oh yes, the lights going out is something that is indeed strange an unusual. Here, you can help yourself. I have... um... a wood-burning oven in my room ((technically not a lie, he just lights it with his hands instead of matches)). But that doesn't matter, let's talk about something else. What's your name, friend?"
((Omg... I'm so sorry.))
Faith
Faith looked up towards her friend.
"Well," she started timidly, "They aren't terrible. In my opinion at least. Why?"
((Still have to finish my other characters form...))
Eugene
He poked his food with a fork. "Oh, I was just wondering... I sometimes think they're a little scary."
The lights went out, suddenly. Over the loudspeaker, someone's voice was heard.
"It looks like our light systems are down. I'm sorry, but school is cancelled for the day while we try to work this out."
((GS))((Before posting, is it too dark to see? Are there any flashlights?))
((M2))((It is lunchtime, meaning there is still sunlight.
Assuming we have windows that are actually large enough to be significant.))
((Iaa))((Hey guys, I've returned, I'll be posting soon however as we go on we will need human characters, if only a little, keep that in mind, thanks for rp-ing!))
Yaman
"It looks like our light systems are down. I'm sorry, but school is cancelled for the day while we try to work this out." The loudspeaker boomed.
Yaman slammed his head down of the lunch table This has to be the third time this week He sat up shaking his head as he drewsome light from the window to make a lamp for himself as he continued eating his lunch.
Eugene
In the darkness, he quickly grabbed his flower pot and held it tight, up close to his chest.
Cho
"My name's Chokal, but you can call me Cho."
Cho pressed a couple buttons on his control station (he was using all the power from the school's backup generator to keep his system running) and sent a small nanobot into the shirt of his visitor. It would stay there for a while, tracking his movements.
Zeek
"Okay, Cho! Would you like to senselessly waste time together because we have nothing productive to do until the lights come ba- AHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE that tickles! You got my sensitive spot without the sca- um.... um I mean... nothing."
Race: Bandias
Name: Antonio Montoya
Age: 17
How did you come to this school?: Due to his infamous skill and strength in the sport of boxing, the school recruited him for his talent.
Anything of interest before that?: Antonio was always a very athletic dude. He was totally cool and popular with the ladies. All the guys hated him, though, because he was kind of a jerk.
Appearance: He's tall (6'1") and rather muscular. His tattoos are in the shape of jagged symbols that somewhat resemble lightning bolts. The tattoos on his right arm are purple, and the ones on his left are green. Both colors appear on his forehead's symbol.
Key traits: He's arrogant and popular with the girls. He doesn't make guy friends easily. Around nerds, he's peaceful enough, but he's usually butting heads with the more competitive guys. He has a sexy Hispanic accent.
Anything else we need to know?: He loves roses. When he puts a rose in his mouth and winks, someone, somewhere loses an ovary to a violent explosion.
Antonio
Antonio looked over at Yaman's spectacle. He grabbed his lunch and walked over, 2 girls following close behind.
"Hey, bud, what's with the light show?" He had a sly grin.
Yaman
"It's a lantern" He said, "Why?" I thought everyone here was different or something, are these kids not
?
Karamura-san (Nagisa)
She sat there finishing her lunch of rice, cucumber salad, eggs, and octopus sausages. There was the bustling din as would be expected from a lunchroom filled with teenagers. As the lights went out, a hushed silence arrived in the room followed by an announcement shortly after.
"It looks like our light systems are down. I'm sorry, but school is cancelled for the day while we try to work this out."
There seem to be quite a few electrical malfunctions with the electrical systems in the school lately. The noise level returned to the original level with a mixture of joy and disappointment, mostly happiness towards the cancellation of classes. Her eyes quickly adjusted to the darkness and just as she was packing up, she heard an audible bang in her vicinity. She turned around and saw a person with their head on the table. Light gravitated towards the person forming a glowing
orb of sorts.
An Agnies, she remarked in her mind. Just as she returned to cleaning up, she heard the beginnings of a conversation and tuned in to listen.
((AKA going to see what happens in the conversation before taking action.))
Cho
"Huh? What tickled you? That's odd," Cho stammered. "Anyway, I had better get going. Here, want a flashlight?"
Cho tossed a flashlight to his visitor, pushed him out of the room, then took one himself and began to go down to the cafeteria.
Zeek
"Ah yes, Cho is very clever! He must think that we can meet even more new friends in the cafeteria! And he is also sharing his lovely flashlight with me, what a nice boy. Well I must catch up with him to find more friends to share my delicious brownies with!"
With that, Zeek started skipping after Cho at top speed, merrily singing the My Little Pony theme song as he went.
((By the way, widm has a plan to turn the lights on after about 20 minutes of in-universe time, so don't turn them back on prematurely.)) ((Nitrox))
((waiting on zen intensifies)) (Iaa))
Faith
Faith watched as her friend held his pot. She continued to eat her food without caring about what was going on with the lights.
"So, I know I've asked this before, but why do you always have that flower with you?"
Eugene
"The flower's my best friend. Uh, no offence, Faith. I've been keeping it alive for years now... I've never had that many other friends." Eugene was lying. His other friends had died long ago.
Antonio
"Heeey, I remember you. You're the new kid..." Antonio reached down, picked up Yaman's apple and took a big bite. "Welcome to Maalum!" He sneered.
Faith
"None taken," Faith said a little weirded out that his best friend is a plant, "But hey. You have a friend now! Me! And the um. Flower."
Faith looked got up and looked outside. (Assuming there is a window SOMEWHERE) She sighed.
She looked back to Eugene, "What do you want to do now?"
Zeek
Zeek ran into the room to see a random girl looking out a window, and a strange person holding a flower.
"Hello, new friends! It is most pleasurable to make your acquaintance! Would you like some brownies?"
This is not my main character. I know I probably should've made my main first, but I came up with this interesting character and I wanted to make it before anyone else did.
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Shadow
Name: Roger
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 17.5
How did you come to this school?: His aunt sent him there. (His parents are dead).
Anything of interest?: Roger is very good at all types of normal human subjects. He is also extremely strong and fast and very handy with a gun.
Appearance: Will be added later
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Roger is quite a mysterious character. He doesn't talk a lot and is a very good observer. He notices things most people don't. He also is a great trickster.
Anything else we need to know?: Roger has a natural control over his powers.
I'm trying to make an interesting villain here.
You don't have to be overpowered and break rules to be a villain. ((Iaa))
Then how is he gonna force people to do what he wants and stuff.
Also, what powers do Shadow hiki have (JG)
((EyeAA with commentary from Widm))
1. That's the idea, he can't force people to do what he wants
2. Not light-bending so to speak but can blend in to dark environments and create laser type things of sort, sort of like Lloyd's powers in Unbreakable
3. Can solidify "shadows" (which is really just an absence of light) temporarily (based off of Llyod).
4. Getting creative, you can tether your shadow to another shadow within a certain range to help tail someone?
5. Increased light blocking with physical form? Sorta like a psuedo temperature dropper.
6. Making your shadow bend to your will because it looks interesting
7. Withering powers by temporarily robbing light? -cough cough-
Well if he's a villain he needs some way to control people to do evil stuff. ((JG))
Maybe in your mind but in this story that is not allowed ((Eye-A-A))
Roger Chibi:
EVENT
The ground shook underneath the students feet, several plunged out of their chairs. The lights in the large rooms flickered on for a few brief seconds before fizzling out. No alarm went off. Suddenly a generator kicked in and the PA system stared up.
"Attention Students, do not panic. You will be okay. However, please don't leave the building. I need to see a Kioo representative in the main office immediately. Classes are canceled for now, please remain calm"
The building shook again, this time more violently, the cafeteria's left window doubled over and shattered.
"Please remain calm" The PA system repeated before a third shake cut out the sound and made almost everyone fall over, knocking possessions around.
After a brief silence a Bandias student ran out of the broken window out into the fields and was soon followed by several other students.
Yaman
Yaman was flung out of his chair, the light he was making immediately faded. "What is going on?" He muttered
Citrelia Grapefruitius
"HUMANS! I AM HERE TO OFFER YOU SALVATION!!" Citrelia yelled as she burst through two large doors. She raised a grapefruit. "You see this? THIS IS YOUR GREAT LE-" She then realized she wasn't in the cafeteria like she thought she was. Instead she was in the library. And she was greeted with a lot of "Shhh's!"
"Nooooo..." Citrelia dropped to her knees and started sobbing. "Oh L-lord Grapefruit I h-have failed," she sniffled. "P-please forgive m-my sins." When she got up to return to her dorm, the ground started to violently shake.
"OH NO I HAVE ANGERED THE GREAT GRAPEFRUIT LORD!" Citrelia yelled, not paying attention to the PA. She dramatically ran out of the library to go find a hiding spot, to get away from Lord Grapefruit's wrath.
Karamura-san (Nagisa)
Earthquake?
The minimal artificial lighting that remained in the room flickered and faded. The backup generator came online and the the lights came back briefly. The PA announcement asked for everyone to stay calm and to stay in the building. The building shook once more and in a panic, students left the building en masse.
Kioo representative? Did they have something to do with this incident? If I remember correctly, someone once said, "You can snap them like toothpicks." So-
Another wave of rumbling started and she tumbled into someone nearby. She recognized him as the Agnies from earlier.
"Sorry," she curtly said, "You should move. Debris doesn't fall on an open field."
With that, she briskly walked out the window, taking care as to not step on any glass shards and while trying to to get caught up by the large mass of escaping students.
Eugene
Eugene was one of the first to jump out of the window, protecting his flower pot with his life. He tried to the best of his ability to not touch anyone, but Antonio pushed him aside and he fell face-first on the floor. The pot was not damaged, luckily, but his face hurt.
EVENT
Group that fled outside the window
A missile hit the ground right in front of the group of kids, killing the front three instantly and causing many others to lose their balance. The ground shook. The crater was smoking with a blue mist, the three corpses were emitting the same mist. Some students scattered and some went back to the building.
Yaman
Yaman struggled to stand up as another blast hit outside. "Hey!" He shouted to the girl running out the window. He remembered he needed to stick with people in a crisis.
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia slowly made her way to a broken window. Then, she had an idea. I can plant grapefruits to appease Lord Grapefruit! She started throwing grapefruit seeds outside window and made then grow into wonderful grapefruit trees. She repeated the process by going to other windows. And then she ran out of grapefruit seeds. Citrelia then started to sulk in a corner. What a sad day.
New character coming soon!!! (probably tomorrow) ((P5))
Maalum's flag:
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((JG))
This is the Maalum flag I made.
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I have mixed these two flags and I declare this the official Maalum flag!
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Character form
Race:
Kioooooooooooo
Name: Sarude Dessertstorm
Age 17
How did you come to this school?: He lived his life as a regular boy until he turned 13, then he started to hear it. At first it was bearable, almost nice: the slow build up from a popular techno song. But it went on and on and on. For five years the song built up and up in the poor boys mind, never reaching the drop. As a result he has gone completely insane. Absolutely and utterly. Maalum was the only place that would take him. Unfortunately his bus arrived in the middle of a missile barrage. excellent.
Anything of interest before that?: Besides going crazy, nope
Appearance: looks weak, even for a Kioo, but is actually stronger than most. Small. And grey. I guss
Key traits (this cannot be all good):Crazy strong. Also crazy. Just try to stay away from him.
Anything else we need to know?: Please dont talk to him.
Karamura-san (Nagisa)
. . . . . . Well then. Missiles. Scattered body parts.
"Hey!" She turned and saw the Agnies shouting at her. She grimaced due to recognition that her idea was no longer as sound as she initially thought. She darted out of the way of the stampede and directed to the male, "So, missiles, outside. The center of the school is likely safer. We should probably move now. As an Agnies, you can light up the way. I'll try to lower our heat signatures."
With that she walked away.
Race: Agnies
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Pale skin, black marks.
Name: Talbinlen
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 17
How did you come to this school?: Growing up in the slums, Talbinlen was a boy of thievery, stealing from anyone, at any time he could. Twice, he committed murder during one of these tasks, however was ashamed to admit it. At age 15, Talbinlen found his ability of, temporarily turning invisible, to such things would not happen in the future. One day, a staff member of the Maalum school found Talbinlen and his powers, and made a recommendation to him to join.
Anything of interest before that?: N/A
Appearance: Talbinlen often only wears a pair of turn denim jean-shorts, and a gray hoodie with the hood always up. Outside of his first registration to the school, no-one has seen his face, outside of the faint glow of blue eyes.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Having been practiced, Talbinlen is skilled at keeping an invisible cloak for prolonged amount of times, however, due to this, he has less control over his light bending powers. He's always, even just slightly, in a state of exerting energy, thus, always showing a slight effect of his powers, like his eyes. This threatens exposure of his abilities, however, Talbinlen has been less caring than others of hiding his abilities.
Anything else we need to know?: N/A
This is my main character.
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Electricity
Name: Steve Stellar
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 17
How did you come to this school?: When Steve's friend was jumping through his sprinklers, he accidentally shocked him. His parents suspected that his powers were blooming, so he was sent to Maalum.
Anything of interest before that?: Nope.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Steve is very smart and pretty good at his powers. However, his ears are sensitive so everything sounds a bit louder to him then others.
Anything else we need to know?: Like Cho, Steve is good with tech and building. He also attracts some lightning during thunderstorms, and can create more electricity than Cho.
Appearance:
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I'm gonna create a human character because we need one.
Race: Human
Name: Rose
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 16
How did you come to this school?: She got sent here by her parents.
Anything of interest before that?: Nope.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Rose is a very good gardener and learner.
Anything else we need to know?: She is easily impressed and can get excited easily too.
Appearance:
Steve
Steve was in the library reading a book called Harnessing the Power of Electricity when the earthquake began. All this new noise of missile explosions and shouting gave Steve a headache, because he had sensitive ears. Holding onto the couch for support, he got up and attempted to place the book on the shelf. It fell. Giving up, he picked the book up and went to the nurse's office, where it was a mess (things were falling off shelves and stuff). He looked around for some pain killers when he heard a newcomer enter the room.
Faith
Faith was terrified.
I know I'm a Kioo but why do they want me?
She ran to the main office as fast as she could.
Ivy
Ivy went to find Cho.
"Did you do this?"
((Isn't Rose completely IDENTICAL to the girl Whitetiger created, also named Rose, from Unpinnable (only with gardening talent instead of gardening magic)? Please refrain from reusing characters that have already been explored in previous CSTs.))
Zeek
"AHHHH! MY BROWNIES!"
*sob... sob...sob*
"Th-the-they w-were going to be s-so del-de-delicious, too.... WAUGH!"
Suddenly, he saw a massive flash outside, and heard a thunderous explosion.
OH NO! My friends are under attack! I must rescue them! Even if I am forced to reveal my powers... I must try to do something.
So he formed a stream of fire from his mouth and both hands, and leaped out of the window to face the threat.
Sarude
Sarude's bus rolls up to the front gate, which is hanging slightly open after the explosions. It's a full size bus but Sarude s the only person on it aside from the driver, who is doing his best not to make eye contact with his one passenger. Through the gate one can clearly see the craters throughout campus, still steaming. Judging by the smoke, a fire has started somewhere. The bus driver notices none of this, all his attention is focused on the boy in the back of the bus. The bus door creaks open. Without saying a word, Sarude gets up and walks toward the front of the bus. A single bead of sweat drips down the drivers forehead, but he does not move. Sarude steps off the bus. Instantly, the driver floors the accelerator and speeds away, but Sarude doesn't react. He begins to walk toward the school, expressionless and seemingly unaware of the chaos that has overtaken the school.
Dunahnuhnanuh
(its the opening to sandstorm in case you couldn't tell)
((JG))Two things M2:
1. Believe it or not, I have not read much of Unfinishable so I do not know who Rose is.
2. Rose is not magic, she is an ordinary human that's good at gardening.
Yaman
Yaman stood up and followed Karamura, making a lantern that hung out in front of her.
Main Office
Faith ran into the main office and found the headmaster along with some upperclassmen Kioo.
"Good, we have enough" He said
EVENT
The missile bombardment stopped as several kioo officials rounded up the kids running outside. One of them shouted in a booming voice "Get back inside! Now!"
The kids were hustled back in to the cafeteria as the staff left to congregate about whatever the problem was. A few moments later a smaller missile blew out the wall and a tall woman stood in the wreckage.
"Stop where you are all of you! No one say a word! I need all the humans to come forward immediately, the rest of you get on the ground right now. If you refuse to comply I continue the bombardment"
[Never mind]
You can make human characters without a character form. ((Iaaayaaay))
Antonio
Everyone got down except Antonio. He stood straight up and raised his fist at the woman.
"Hey, lady! Who the hell do you think you are? I'm not afraid of you!"
Citrelia
Citrelia was sulkily walking down the halls (again) when she came across a mob of people flowing into the actual cafeteria. Ah! People I can convert into Grapefruitism! Citrelia was about to preach again when she realized she didn't have any grapefruits again. She became sulky and sad again. Then, everything changed when the tall lady blew up the wall. Actually, not really. Citrelia was still depressed. This must be punishment for her sins against the Lord Grapefruit. She followed the lady's demands and laid down on the ground.
Cho
Cho glanced at the girl next to him who had asked whether he had initiated the missile attacks. I guess I didn't, but what's the point in telling her that? It might enhance my prestige. Cho shrugged and zipped away on his motorized scooter (he was still working on a hoverboard).
When he arrived in the cafeteria, a booming voice was just finishing a statement about all humans coming forward. Well, I suppose I can't pass for human under close inspection... so I had better rig up a system to prevent those missiles. He pulled out a discreet stealth mini-copter carrying a payload of hacking darts that would bring up a feed on the computer screen on his watch. Hopefully he would be able to shut down the missile systems before things got too dangerous.
Unfortunately, he couldn't just release it in this crowd. Luckily, there was an air vent next to him. He slipped the minicopter in, took manual control of it with a watch remote, and prayed that his minicopter would find an exit soon.
Sarude
Sarude was rounded up with the rest of the kids on the lawn, sseveral armed guards herding them into the cafeteria. The guards were slightly unnerved by Sarude's unblinking stare, but he complied without complaint, shuffling into the crowded space. When the small missle landed and the woman began speaking, Sarude's only reaction was to quietly sit down, still staring straight ahead. His right eyes twitches once. Several other students scootch away from him.
buhdundundahdun
Derp Time:
Race: Hiki (sand)
Her fine control over silica is incredible, but she lacks the energy necessary to animate it with any spectacular speed. She bypassed this by directing the individual molecules of silicon dioxide found in glass, which vibrate at a much higher frequency. with this method, she can adapt her powers to an imprecise but very powerful macro-kinesis of glass. Unfortunately, this left he control over sand as very weak.
Basically, she went from a sand user to a relatively innacurate, but powerful silicakinetic, sacrificing her sand powers almost entirely in the process.
Name: Camellia Joan
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 13
How did you come to this school?: French exchange student
Anything of interest before that?: Nope.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Camellia turned into a minor sociopath after her parents were murdered by an insane electricity-using hiki. She was 9 at the time. She now maintains an entirely emotionless and stoic mask, but will attempt to murder any electricity-using hiki she comes across, and has absolutely no real compassion for anyone.
Anything else we need to know?: She is asexual.
Appearance:
Camellia
Camellia saw the tall woman walk into the room and command the humans to come forward.
Yes, you worthless human trash... you have no place here... this is a school for killers; if any of the students here have not yet dyed their arms up to the elbows in blood, then they should be eliminated.... the systematic elimination of the weaklings is what gives us incentive to be strong... to be like HIM ...
So Camellia sat there, straight-backed, not betraying any overt emotion, but if you payed close attention, you would see how the small bits of broken glass on the floor started to shift toward her and rotate around her feet, and as she exuded an aura of power, those nearest to her almost instinctively backed away. Then, out of the corner of her eye, she glimpsed a flash of red...
There was that terrified human girl, Rose was her name, Camellia thought. But the image of her hair, in the corner of her eye, for a split second, brought back an older memory.
NOOOOOOO! MOTHER!
Then, in another second it was gone, but all of a sudden, the blank, stoic look on Camellia's face broke, replaced instead by a satisfied grin. The slow orbiting of the glass shards around her suddenly became a raging hurricane, and the skin of the students nearest her started to shred as the ground became awash in crimson. The sight of blood only seemed to please her further, as crystalline shards sliced into the soft flesh of what were once persons, turning them into mangled and unrecognizable corpses. As everyone turned to stare, horrified, the grin threatened to split Camellia's face.
"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?!" A boy asked, but Camellia merely hummed contentedly.
((So... um... guess I just got carried away and made another antagonist. Since I don't want to divert the plot too much from the main action, permission to have Camellia join the freaky lady? That we we keep the focus on one main antagonist, without Camellia being a "distraction")
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Two Days Earlier
Citrelia was attending her daily 4:00 p.m. counseling sessions, for reasons that one can pretty accurately assume. Out of 23 counselors so far, there hasn't been a single successful one. The 24th one is still trying.
"Okay, go ahead and have a seat Ceci- Citrelia," the counselor said, waiting for Citrelia to start going on her rant about how people should open their eyes to her "proper" name.
"Cecilia is fine."
What? The counselor was silent for a few long moments. This was a shocking development. It's one thing for her to not get mad about being called the wrong name. It's another thing for Citrelia to actually allow someone to call her by her real name. It was just so... weird.
"You're, um," the counselor started, looking for the right word. "You're surprisingly tame today." Citrelia tilted her head in slight confusion.
"Thanks...?"
"Ah, well, usually you would start going on and on about grapefruits and this, Lord Grapefruit, but today that's not the case. Is there a particular reason why? Do you intend your usual behavior as some sort of joke?"
"Hmm... I think my mind feels slightly more clear," Citrelia said while arranging the objects on the counselor's desk to make them look like a grapefruit tree. Suddenly, Citrelia started sobbing. "Has Lord Grapefruit abandon me!?"
The sudden mood swing cause the counselor off guard. "There there, Cecilia. This Lord Grapefruit isn't actually re-"
"MY NAME IS CITRELIA! AND HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THE LORD GRAPEFRUIT'S EXISTENCE!"
Here we go again. I thought I was making progress too. However, Citrelia did seem uncharacteristically calm and sane, if just for a few moments. But alas, this never happened again during the session, nor did it happen the next day. After that the counselor gave up.
Present day
Citrelia was still in her delusional mentality, thinking that this was all a punishment for failing to convert people to Grapefruitism. A glass shard then had flew towards her direction, slicing through her right arm and leaving a fairly deep gash.
"AAACK!" Citrelia bit her lip, trying to suppress the pain. The more logical part of her mind took over, temporarily getting rid of the grapefruit worshipping side of her. I need to get out of here right now. She looked around. The scene had gotten chaotic. Shards of glass were flying everywhere and the students were all running around, screaming. She decided to run within the crowd and use the mob as a meat shield. Before she took off she grabbed a cafeteria tray that had a halfway eaten sandwich, a plastic container of broccoli, an orange, and milk.
Where to go... outside might be good. Wait no there's missiles. Okay stay inside. I should separate from the group. Citrelia looked down at her tray. She then had an idea. It could work, theoretically. Okay I'll stop by the bathroom!
Steve
Steve had gotten some aspirin and walked into the cafeteria to find out what the heck was going on. He noticed Cho leaning over the air vent. He walked over to see what Cho was doing.
"Hey Cho," Steve said. "What are you doing?"
Roger
Roger glared up at the woman. He stood standing.
"What the heck are you doing?" he demanded, shaking his fist.
Rose
What does she mean all humans come forward and the rest stay on the ground? Rose wondered. Why didn't she just say everyone come forward?
She suddenly noticed glass moving around a seemingly sane girl's feet. She suddenly got terrified.
What the heck is going on?
Race: Kormot
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): n/a
Name: Irene Harding
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 15
How did you come to this school?: She panicked as soon as she started getting scales on her back and called around and eventually found the Maalum School
Anything of interest before that?: Was quite popular until her freshman year when she started developing scales. At a party she accidentally spilled boiling water on her hand and it did nothing to it.
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good): She is insecure about her scales, other than that she's quite normal
Anything else we need to know?: Nope
Cho
Cho glanced over and saw Steve. "Are you an idiot?" he hissed. "There's a crazy lady trying to shoot us down with missiles, and you just waltz over and ask me a question as suspicious as 'What are you doing?' I'm trying to remain unnoticeable here; get down on the ground!" Cho managed to close the air vent and shift away – hopefully before he was noticed by anyone else.
Steve
Steve looked at Cho.
"I can remain calm in stressful situations," Steve told him, getting down with Cho. "Tell me what you are doing, maybe I could help."
Roger
"I just asked you a question missy," Roger said rudely. "WHAT. ARE. YOU. DOING?!"
Rose
Rose walked up to the student closest to her (anyone besides Camellia) and asked, shaking: "What is going on?"
Cho
Cho almost growled in frustration. Didn't this person realize that he was trying to perform a secret mission? "Look, I'm trying to find a weak point in their security systems. Now could you please be quiet? You'll attract attention."
Irene
Irene was crouched on the ground her hands feeling the scales that now covered her entire back. All humans come forward? She flinched Isn't no one here human? Then she saw a couple kids walk up. I guess some DO go here
EVENT
The woman counted the humans in front "There should be more, don't be shy, I'm not taking you guys to hurt you. You humans have done no wrong."
"Hey, lady! Who the hell do you think you are? I'm not afraid of you!" A young deviant yelled. The woman raised a long-barreled handgun and fired a shot into his left arm.
Another deviant stood "What the heck are you doing?" he demanded, shaking his fist. She fired another bullet aiming at his leg.
"Take this as a warning" She said, watching the two students struggle, "I don't want to hurt any of you but I mean business, now if you are a human, please come to the front immediately"
Somewhere outside of the air vent a small machine was shot down.
Irene
Irene saw rose approach her. What is she? I wonder She thought, "I don't know" She whispered. "She's trying to round up all the humans apparently, I didn't even know humans went to this school"
Race: Tembi
Name: Ian Evans
Age: 16
How did you come to this school?: He was invited to Maalum after he accidentally summoned an elephant at his old school.
Anything of interest before that?: Not really.
Appearance: Skin is more on the grayish side; dark brown hair; 5'10"
Key traits (this cannot be all good):
He's pretty socially awkward. Other traits are to be determined when I actually post stuff with him.
Anything else we need to know?: His elephant is a male and his name is Elvis. He's a pretty small elephant. Also it's the same elephant he summoned at his old school.
Cho
Cho's monitor flashed. The temperature and force acting on his minicopter had just increased drastically, and now he wasn't receiving signal at all.
"Argh, I guess they have the entire building monitored. Maybe I should try something a little less ambitious. A nanocamera at the very least? I doubt it'll be picked up by the sensors, and even if it is they probably won't view it as dangerous. I want to at least get a view of what's happening..."
Cho dropped a small, mostly transparent pellet down the air vent. When it reached the exit, it would stop moving and display its video feed on his watch.
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait: Electricity
Name: Henry Sanchez
Age: 16
How did you come to this school?: His millionaire father paid his tuition, though Henry himself isn't exactly the best student.
Anything of interest before that?: Henry developed a prototype of a short-ranged fire-based weapon to be used by Electric-Hiki Soldiers. Project "Cinder" is the current working name. The gauntlets would, when activated, release a jet of propane surrounding them. If, during this short period, the Hiki activated his electric powers, he would create a small but powerful blast of fire.
Appearance: He has dark skin and jet-black hair. His eyes are orange and he wears a leather jacket. When working with fire, he wears a scarf and a pair of goggles.
Key traits: Henry is an expert in short-ranged combat. His presence can emit a slight feeling of unrest among his fellow students. He doesn't make friends easily, but is trusted among his acquaintances. The goggles slightly impair his vision.
Anything else we need to know?: Henry runs an underground fight club among roughneck Hiki, Kormot and Agnies students. He will do everything in his power to keep it a secret.
Rose
"What?" Rose said, baffled. "You are a human! We are all humans! How could you not know humans went here?"
Roger
Roger limped into the shadows and camouflaged himself. He started solidifying several of people's shadows and made them surround the woman so her environment grew dark. The lady looked around, wondering why the room had gotten darker.
You can do all that from the back of the large room with a seriously wounded leg?
Roger is tough.
Bear in mind, this action will probably be the death of roger
Fine I will change it.
((Nitro___zen_, two chunks fo the very nice molecule))
((I find it funny that we have a ton of character options available, yet there are 3 Electric Hikis.))
FIRE HIKI. IT'S DIFFERENT. I USE SCIENCE.
Irene
"Huh?" Irene said "I was under the impression that this school was for non-humans" She rolled up her shirt sleeve to show that everything from her shoulder to her elbow was covered in blue scales.
Ian Evans
All Ian wanted to do was get some vegetables for Elvis. He went out on his way to sneak into the kitchen and steal a box full of packages of frozen vegetables, only to get caught by one of the staff. He managed to convince them to let him take the vegetables, but then there just HAD to be an earthquake and then a freaking MISSILE barrage! The world just didn't want his poor elephant to have food.
And now Ian is on the ground at the mercy of a the very lady who started this whole crazy situation. Whew what a day. He looked towards the two girls who were discussing something next to him.
"Hey can you please keep it down? I kinda want to live to see my elephant again," Ian whispered.
Rose
Rose couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"D-do you have a disease of some sort?" Rose asked, even more terrified. "Is this some school-hospital for m-m-mutants?"
Irene
"I would hope not" She rolled her sleeve back up. "This school is for people like me, they're not all exactly like me, but all of us are here for something changing about us in the last couple years. For me, it was this scale growth, my entire back is covered"
[NO I accidentally deleted the post I was working on ;-;] ((MS))
Rose
"W-why do you have scales?" Rose asked. "Why do you need them? What are you like? What are they like?"
Irene
"To be honest, I don't know why I have scales. I was told by the staff here that I'm a Kormot, a sort of dragon/human hybrid. I'm immune to fire and heat though. I only found out I was like this after I spilled boiling water on myself" She almost chuckled to herself
Ivy
Ivy came out to the cafeteria. She saw another Kormot talking to a human.
Ivy went over to them, "What's going on out here? Who is that lady?"
Rose
"You are immune to heat?!" Rose said, shocked and slightly doubtful. But with all she'd seen, she didn't know what to believe anymore.
Irene
"Yeah, I guess I am" Irene looked up at Ivy and whispered "I don't know, but she's already shot two kids, get on the ground"
Ivy
Ivy believed every word. There were plenty of clues to make the statement true. She slowly got onto the ground.
Zeek
Zeek was confused. He had been sitting on the floor, minding his own business, when suddenly, he noticed his shadow start to elongate, stretching toward the strange woman, and coiling around her. He stared at her, but she didn't seem to be doing anything out of the ordinary at all. Then, he realized that the same thing was happening to everyone's shadow; hey were all converging to form a ring of darkness around the lady. Zeek frowned; if someone else here could control the shadows, then they must not be human either. So he wasn't the only monster in the school... there were more. He looked around the room for any ares in shadow, and just barely saw a stirring of movement in one of them.
So... someone's using the shadows to hide themselves... and controlling everyone else's shadows to move toward the woman... but to what end?
As quietly as he could, Zeek shifted towards the dark corner, and then, he saw them. A pair of haunting, blood-red eyes; glaring, looming maniacally in the darkness. They terrified him. He knew that whatever that creature in the darkness was, it was evil... He breathed s small spout of green fire to warm himself from the sudden chill that seemed to enter the room, like a breath of pure ice. As an afterthought, he made sure that nobody was looking in his direction, then slowly lit the top of a small piece of wood from the ceiling, forming a makeshift torch. The glow from the torch banished the nearest shadows, and he saw the red eyes recoil, almost as if they were in pain.
Yaman
Yaman and Karamura found their way to the school basement and Yaman floated his lantern to the center of the room.
"What now?" He asked Karamura
EVENT
A couple more humans staggered their way to the front as the room got darker. "Whoever is changing the light in the room, please stop immediately. If you think your interfering with me, you're not so don't waste the energy"
A helicopter flew into the courtyard and a ladder dropped down. A couple kids around the age of sixteen climbed out of the copter.
"All the humans follow my assistants please" The woman said as the two children beckoned the humans to form lines. They were wearing uniforms with "Aqua Operatives" written on them.
A total of twenty humans lines up with the assistants.
"The rest of you stay on the ground until not one of us is left."
With that the lady walked back out the window and the group turned the corner around the building.
Irene
"That" She said "was incredibly strange, why would she only want the humans?" She shook her head. "I don't get it at all, hell, I don't even know what I am"
((M2))The official Maalum crest, made really horribly with MS paint:
Roger
Roger turned around and saw who battled the darkness.
"What are you doing?!" he glared at him.
Zeek
"What? The dark is frightening. And you looked really scary when all I could see were your eyes. So I lit up the room; what's wrong with that?"
Camellia
Excellent. Many of the weaklings have been purged. But now, I must establish my reputation as the most powerful. I am the strongest! And those who have wronged me will REGRET IT!
With that, Camellia stood up and coldly regarded the students, most particularly meeting Roger's eye.
That boy I had not noticed before; he is powerful. I should keep an eye on him.
"You trash are not worth my time." She said, without betraying emotion. She walked outside the cafeteria and headed up to her dorm room, the broken glass shivering as she went out.
Rose
"You are are a human with weird scales," Rose said, confused. "She should've just said everyone follow me!"
Roger
"You are lucky she didn't see us," Roger glared in frustration. "We would've been in big trouble!"
Irene
"I'm pretty sure humans don't have scales and I've seen some interesting stuff while I've been here. Like light manipulation, mental communication, weird stuff"
Rose
"Are you saying you aren't a human?" Rose asked, more confused then ever. "That is impossible! And mental communication? How would you know?"
Sarude
Sarude was completely still when the glass began to move and didn't blink when the shadows began to move. The woman continued yelling, then some more kids, just a little older than Sarude, got out of a helicopter. For the first time since he arrived, Sarude looked up. His bloodshot eyes locked onto the small group of kids that had just arrived. Several kids were having a conversation behind him, but he paid them no attention. A shard of glass from the tornado on the other side of the room stabbed itself into Sarude's side, but he didnt even flinch. With the manner of someone who is absolutely certain of his purpose, he slowly began to stand.
dudududadu
Irene
"Wait" Irene said "Are you not anything? Like just a normal human?"
Rose
"Aren't we all?" Rose asked.
Ivy
Ivy had a nervous look on her face, "Uhhhh... Yeah...?"
Irene
"I would think not, did you not see me?" She lifted up the bottom part of her shirt, exposing her scaly blue back. "I'm basically half dragon"
Rose
"How..?" Rose asked. "Am I the only normal person here?"
Ivy
Ivy got a little annoyed. She sighed a little fire to calm down.
"Whatever. Wake me when we can get off the ground."
Irene
"I don't know, I think we can get up now" She glanced around before standing up and yawning, revealing a long forked tongue
((So can Faith come to the cafeteria now?)) ((GS))
((yes)) ((iAa))
((Yay!))
Faith
Faith came into the cafeteria. She looked around for her friend.
I guess he's still outside with his flower.
Ivy
Ivy got off the floor and stretched. The floor wasn't overly comfortable. She turned to the other Kormot girl.
"Sorry if I came off strong. I'm Ivy."
Irene
Irene looked down at the other Kormot "Nice to meet you! and what would you be?" She paused, "Question, is my tongue, dragony?" She stuck out her forked tongue I must sound so weird
Ivy
"Yeah... Dragony... I'm a Kormot just like you. It's not odd to see a dragony tounge."
Irene
"Ah, good to know there are others" she said, "I just started growing scales last year."
Ivy
"I'm just glad there aren't any on my face. My shoulders and my legs are the only places with scales so far. A t-shirt and pants are all I need."
Karamura (Nagisa)
"Well, the school should be sorting out the issue as we speak. The noises have stopped for the most part so we can assume the school is negotiating with this group. In case they resume their bombardment of the school, the basement should hold out for a while longer. The worst thing that can happen is to be sold into a slavery ring or to be tortured to death after being turned into hostages.
Well, grim thoughts aside, I believe introductions are in order. Karamura, Nagisa, or Nagisa Karamura if we're going with the Western format. Address me however you wish. I'm a Taman. Your name? An Agnies, correct?"
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia was halfway there on her way to the nearest bathroom when she realized she forgot what her goal was. What was I doing again?
...
Oh right! I was gathering more followers for the Lord Grapefruit! But why am I going to the bathroom again? Citrelia looked down at the lunch tray. She then recalled that she was going to try planting something.... like the orange. Wait but this isn't a grapefruit! Also why do I need to plant stuff anyways if I could just go outside... oh wait but outside is dangerous! Wait no there's windows! Arghh I don't know what I am doing. Wait why did I want to plant an orange in the first place. I should plant grapefruits. Yes grapefruits. I planted some outside the windows.
Citrelia made her way to the next window, which did indeed have a grapefruit tree right outside of it. Yay grapefruits for more grapefruit seeds!
...
I feel like that wasn't why I wanted to plant something. She looked down at her arm, which was still bleeding. Riiight I need something to help heal this, like a grapefruit. Wait no grapefruits don't have healing properties. NO WAIT I DIDN'T MEAN TO OFFEND YOU LORD GRAPEFRUIT I'M SORRY.
Agh I need to focus. Plants. Healing. Bloody cuts. Um. Grapefruits. No not grapefruits. Ahh.... aha! Citrelia recalled a memory of a time when she was younger. Her mother was applying a substance from a spiky green leaf on a cut on her leg. It started with an 'a'... ala... alu... aloe... yes aloe! Aloe vera. Citrelia put her hand on one of the branches of the grapefruit tree and closed her eyes, concentrating on turning one of the grapefruits into an aloe vera plant. Turning grapefruits into other plants was a skill that Citrelia didn't use often at all, but it was a talent she got from her parents and was naturally good at. Limitations are that she can only do it with live grapefruits (since those were the first things she ever grew) that are still attached to its tree and that she could only turn it into plants that she has seen in person and clearly remembers it. It also takes at least a minute.
So, a minute and 30 seconds later, a small aloe vera plant grew where there used to be a grapefruit. Wait... but isn't turning a grapefruit into a different plant a... a blasphemy!?!? No no, it was a gift from the Lord Grapefruit. That's right... Citrelia tore off an aloe vera leaf and squeezed the gel onto her cut. Hm. That should be good. Now what... Ah! I need to gather more followers for the Lord Grapefruit! She decided to head back to the cafeteria with some grapefruits to convince people to convert to Grapefruitism. She also decided, out of the goodness of her heart, to bring some aloe leaves with her to give to anyone who might need it for their own cuts as well.
Ian Evans
Ian watched as the lady left with the group of humans. Finally! I hope Elvis is okay... He grabbed his box of vegetables and got up from the ground to leave the cafeteria. Ian was looking down trying not to trip over anybody that was still on the floor, although he tried to not pay too much attention to the corpses on the ground.
Alas, with all of his efforts he still managed to bump into a girl who was standing near the cafeteria entrance. He ended up knocking her over.
"OhI'msosorryIdidn'tmeantoknockyoudown!" Ian spoke in a rather panicky manner.
[He bumped into Faith btw. Also I went to check what race she was and I realized she was a Kioo.... yeah this isn't going to turn out too well.]
Faith
Ow. Who hit me?
Faith landed semi-awkwardly, but didn't seem quite badly hurt. She almost lost her balance while getting up, but she made it.
"I'm guessing you're the one that knocked me over," she said to the boy standing behind her, "I'm Faith. What's your name?"
Yaman
"My name is Yaman, and of course I'm an Agnies. You said you were a Taman? I wasn't aware there was a water source here." Yaman shuffled his feet "Should we just stay down here?"
Rose
"What else do you guys do? Are there more of you? Different types of you? Any more features you have? Do I have any special powers? If there is different types what do they do and look like? Is that lady magical?" Rose had a billion questions.
Irene
"Hey hold it down there" Irene said. "Uh I'm not quite sure what else I do, I guess I'll find out. More, most certainly, almost everyone here is something, like I even saw some merfolk. Other than scale growth that according to the people here will take over my hands in the next week. I may have claws, that'd be cool." Irene inhaled "I don't know if you have any powers, and yeah there appear to be a lot of us"
Character Form- Skeleton
Race: Bandias (x2)
Chosen Trait: Though physical contact, they can link their minds together allowing them to be perfectly in sync. They have access to thought linkage within 10 meters and telepathy within 500 meters.
Name (Surname, Given Name): Robert and Estella Braun
Age: 15
How did your character find out about Maalum Academy?:
They were sent to the school by their stepmother who was informed by various sources, including the media, that the school would be an appropriate place for "special" children.
What was your character's life like before entering Maalum Academy?:
Their mother died when they were at the tender age of three years. Their father was physically and mentally abusive leaving them with a numerous wounds. Eventually, father remarried and was reported to the police for battery and assault, domestic abuse, and possession of illegal drugs among other drugs.
Appearance: Robert has a single ponytail similar to that of Gakupo's. Estella's hair is similar that of Len's hairstyle. (Dark brown hair.)
Key traits: They have grown up their entire lives with the concept that they could only trust each other. Due to such, they have developed a dependency on one another and undergo withdrawal symptoms
Anything else we need to know?:
Will edit later.
Braun Siblings
[Insert exposition about being near the rooftop staircase and away from the action]
Karamura (Nagisa)
"I keep a fishtank with algae in my room. I don't really think it matters too much whether we stay here or not. Class will be starting in a few minutes so I'll be going upstairs to check if the situation has changed."
Cho
"Hm... no data from my nanocamera yet. Let me see if I can think of something. Based on what's been going on, I assume they're trying to separate the humans from the non-humans. Let me see if I can try something..."
Every student at Maalum Academy received a computerized tablet. While its capabilities were basic, to say the least – essentially, it displayed messages from students to teachers and vice versa and had a couple school-related apps – it was more than enough for Cho to use. He had gotten a teacher account a while ago, with the username of The_Lighthouse. He had never used it before, but now was as good a time as any.
He typed up a message and sent it out. Hopefully every student would receive the message.
This is Cho speaking. I'm also a student at Maalum Academy. Currently, we obviously have a problem. Let me clarify something to those who don't know: this school does not contain only normal humans. Many members of this school are other forms of life, possibly humans in a higher form of evolution. These 'super' humans have unique abilities.
I believe that whoever is attacking our school is attempting to separate the humans from the superhumans in order to do something with the superhumans. Perhaps they want our power, or just want to exterminate us. If you have any weapons, powers, or devices that may be helpful in preventing this outcome, please reply to me.
Yaman
"Yeah I just moved in, there's not much in my room either. How goes being a taman?"
EVENT
The power came back on and the PA system immediately booted up "Classes are cancelled today. The building is safe now. The administration sincerely apologizes for the attack that just happened. We promise we have it under control. Please return to your rooms by 9 pm tonight."
"Any normal human students who would like a more proper explanation of this school please ask an upperclassman, they have been instructed to tell you anything you need to know"
"Other than that please do not panic"
The PA cut off
Irene
"And that's about it, anything else?" Rose was about to speak as the PA came on "Expected" Irene muttered "anyways..."
Henry
A message was immediately sent to Cho.
This is Henry Sanchez, a Junior. As a matter of fact, I've got just the thing to keep these monsters in check. Where should we meet up?
Ian Evans
"Erm.. Ian," he responded. Judging from her slight glow she's a Kioo... although she didn't seem to break any bones.
Faith
"So. Where were you heading, Ian?"
Ian Evans
"Back to Elvis. Um, he's my elephant. I'm a Tembi by the way."
Faith
"That's cool! I've never met a Tembi before. I've met a Hiki and another Kioo. I've never really talked to other species before. Most of them are sort of scary to me."
Ian Evans
"Yeah, some can be a little bit... off."
Ivy
Ivy decided she would join Cho. She sent him a message saying she would help, and promptly returned to her friends.
Race: Hiki
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Plant
Name: Coby Rotem Giacomo
Alias: Cactus
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 17
How did you come to this school?: His teacher's flower died, and when he touched it, it came back to life.
Anything of interest before that?: Coby is really into plants. He has memorized tons of types of plants and knows a lot about them.
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Coby is really good at turning plants into all types of poisonous plants. He can also grow poisonous plants pretty well. Due to this, he is not very good at growing normal plants, fruits and veggies. However, he is pretty good at growing apple trees, corn stalks and sunflowers.
Anything else we need to know?: Most of Coby's family have gone to the military. Also, Coby is a target of an unknown super villain who wants to kill him because of his powers (especially the poison part). For this reason, he carries around poisonous darts.
Appearance:
James said:
His teacher's flower died, and when he touched it, it came back to life.
*COUGH COUGH*
Zen said:
*COUGH COUGH*
I was going to do something other than a flower, but it is unlikely that the teacher would keep another plant. An apple would work, but it wouldn't exactly die, and the teacher would eat it before then, so I chose flower.
Coby
I do have something of use. Coby thought. He had just received Cho's message. He pulled out two darts. These darts contained poisonous bullets. The poison was from the plant Aconitum, also known as Monkshood. Monkshood is a very powerful poison. The poison is an alkaloid called aconitine, which disables nerves, lowers blood pressure, and can stop the heart. Even casual skin contact should be avoided; symptoms include numbness, tingling, and cardiac irregularity. If consumed, it usually causes burning, tingling, and numbness in the mouth, followed by vomiting and nervous excitement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poisonous_plants
((Nitrox))
((Jamesgames, please don't quote Wikipedia word for word. And if you do, at least link to the page. This is a creative writing story, not a creative copy/paste story. We don't really need to know what aconitum does unless someone gets hit by a dart of it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poisonous_plants))
((Widm))
James said:
He pulled out two darts. These darts contained poisonous bullets.
((JG))
I didn't have time to word it in my own way, I will do that tomorrow or add in a link.
Henry has a firearm. Also, most of Coby's family went to the military.
((Box))
((It's more of a literal "fire arm" rather than a firearm. Contraband just means you have to have the means to smuggle it in. For whatever reason. Mr. Henry "Fire Arm" Sanchez owns like the ring leader of the black market with items nicked from the engineering/robotics aspect of the school probably. Going to the military does not excuse him from being exempt for the standard no firearms rule unless given special permission. If you want him to have a gun, give him a reason in his backstory as to why he would smuggle one in or gets permission to carry one. Might have a few logical fallacies due to it being late. Someone double check this.))
Race: Kioo
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here):
Name: Mathias Lenderson
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 15
How did you come to this school?: Mathias was sent by teachers at his old school after he lifted a car off of another student.
Anything of interest before that?: His parents were neglectful, but were not abusive
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Mathias really loves his powers and is excited to meet other Kioo. However, he knows very little about the other races
Anything else we need to know?: nope
Citrelia Grapefruitius
On her way back to her dorm room (and after many failures of indoctrinating people), Citrelia noticed a few helicopters flying out from the school through the window. She got a glimpse of the logo on the helicopter, which looked like....
Citrelia gasped.
It's him! Lord Grapefruit's archnemesis! THE SINFUL BITTER MELON!!! So this whole thing was all the Tyrant Bitter Melon's fault! She started to panic and run around in many hallways, yelling "THE BITTER MELON IS COMING!" on repeat. Of course, this was just another one of Citrelia's delusions. The logo didn't actually look like a bitter melon...
Zeek
I think I can help. Powers=high physical resistance everywhere except stomach and head, heat immunity, pyro-creation (and some pyro-kinesis.) Did a bit of research. Roger (no last name), 17=suspicious character. Do not trust. Some form of light/shadow manipulation.
Rose
"Merfolk!?!" Rose exclaimed, surprised. "I'd like to see one of those!"
Mathias
Mathias was still sitting in the library writing in his journal after the bombings were long over.
Dear Janet,
I've been living and going to school at this place for a week. Everything you told me about here is true, you would love it. I see all sorts of weird things every day, and I haven't even really met everyone yet. I'm really looking forward to the year ahead and hope to write you a lot.
How are you doing back in Dawsonville? How are your friends? How is school?
Your weird Kioo friend
Mathias
He closed his journal and smiled to himself, thinking about how he and Janet and their friends would always write each other letters whenever any of them left the small town. He stood up and looked around, realizing most of the people had left the library. He paced down to the cafeteria, where he thought most everyone would be. He saw the debris of what used to be the back wall.
What is going on? and why is that girl screaming about a Bitter Melon? He thought to himself
He walked over to a student ((can be anyone)) and asked "Excuse me, what just happened here?"
Irene
"Yeah I haven't seen too many of them, and I don't even know where the lake/pool for them in this school is. What should we do?"
Coby
Coby saw the approaching student and quickly put his guns away before anyone saw them.
"Excuse me, what just happened here?" the student asked.
"Some crazy lady just rounded up most of the humans here," Coby responded. "Cho said she wants our powers. It's probably true."
Rose
"We should ask around," Rose suggested. "I am sure we will find one soon!"
Mathias
"She rounded up the humans? If she wanted our powers why them? and who's Cho?" He paused "Sorry about the questions I'm really new"
Irene
"Sure! that'd be interesting, I'll just follow you"
Coby
"I think she wants to separate the humans from the magical so she can easily use us for her selfish desire," Coby explained. "Cho is an electricity hiki who likes to play pranks."
Rose
Rose started walking in a random direction.
"Tell me when you see a merperson." she said.
Mathias
"Thank you" Mathias said as he walked away. He took out his journal Cho, Hiki? Something about electricity, and a prankster He closed his journal. He walked towards the girl shouting about Bitter Melons, she was holding a grapefruit.
"A grapefruit?" He said to himself
((QUESTION: Should Taman be fully capable of breathing above water))
((JG)) Yes they should
Cho
Cho quickly typed a response to Henry.
Sounds good. Meet me outside my dorm twenty minutes before lights out.
Race: Taman
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here):
Name: Emily Jakobs
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher): 16
How did you come to this school?: Emily always knew about Maalum and the races as her parents were Taman as well. She has lived underwater most of her life.
Anything of interest before that?: No
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good): Emily isn't that used to life above water but I rarely is an issue. Emily is quite social but doesn't trust people easily. She talks to people but keeps to herself about things she sees as important
Anything else we need to know?: not for now
((Seeing as there is a conversation about Tamans, and I have the first Taman character, time for biology lecture.))
((Minor TL;DR, if you just want to ignore basic ramblings, just skip this.))
((Does this psuedo-science seem to fit?))
Karamura (Nagisa)
The school actually has a elective course only provided for juniors and seniors of non-human species about the biological differences. It's only offered to juniors and seniors so if you're interested in becoming a surgeon on the Maalum side of the world, you'll have to wait a year. I'll give you a basic debrief."
"Tamans have many different physiological differences depending on the environment they thrive in. They can be classified as being different subspecies due to the differences. The Japanese Taman mostly lived in ponds and rivers in smaller communities, eventually intermingling with the human populations there due to having the common need of fresh water. I am one of them and we can't process dissolved oxygen in water nearly as well as other Taman communities."
"The largest divide is between the freshwater dwelling populations and the saltwater populations. For instance, coastal Australian Taman have less pronounced lungs than the Japanese Taman while having more prominent gills. The Taman that do surface have a tendency to have much weaker gills due to sealing them with a type of balm to make them less susceptible to damage. They also have much more alveoli giving them the same effective oxygen exchange rate as most dolphins."
"For the ones not accustomed to processing air, there's a pond and a side building about 1-2 miles away from the main building. Students can apply to have special classes there or ask to be ferried there in the weird golf cart vehicles the school has."
Beep. She heard the indication of an electronic message arriving from the school.
"That wasn't very brief, was it? Sorry about that, I'm quite interested in the various biological differences. There's a notification from the school. Perhaps they resolved the issue."
She read Cho's message.
"So that's what the 'Electric Jester" thinks," she mumbled to herself.
At that instant, the lights in the basement returned and the PA system announced the canceling of classes.
"Well then. I guess we have quite a bit more free time now. Any plans or would you like to discuss the events that just occurred?"
((BACON))
BAM! The wall shatters and everyone is coughing because the air is filled with smoke. When the smoke clears, what is revealed shocks everybody. "I thought I told you to stay down!" said the woman, now with a bazooka over her shoulder. "I am going to knock you all unconscious, then extract your powers and make me the ultimate villa...."
I'm the event guy thank you.
Xeno
Everybody notices the foreigner and thanks him and hugs him all at once. He explains that he is a very distant branch of Taman, and that he was once a King, and that he is also a wizard. He then sees a familiar face. "Hey, Irene, wasn't it! I thought our planet destroyed yours in GWIII? Well, I liked you, so I'm glad you're safe! Say, how did you escape?"
Why are they hugging him? How is he a wizard? Is that within the class boundaries?
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia had just finished alerting the school about bitter melons and stopped by her dorm room. She noticed her tablet, which was propped up on her desk, was on and showing an alert. She checked the message Cho sent.
Citrelia replied with the following:
If you agree to convert to Grapefruitism, then the Lord Grapefruit shall aid your cause.
As soon as she hit 'send', Citrelia went back outside her dorm to head towards the school garden to check if the missile barrage damaged her precious grapefruit trees.
Irene
"What are you talking about? I was born here. Who even are you?" She turned to Rose "Rose I don't think this is the merfolk we need to talk to, he appears to be a bit out of his head"
Yaman
"Thanks for all that, I know a lot more now" Yaman said as the lights came back on "I don't even know what happened up there, do you have any idea why we were being bombarded?"
Mathias
Mathias approached the strange grapefruit girl "Um. Hello?" He waved his hand in front of her.
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia looked at the boy in front of her. Ah! I potential follower! Although none of my previous attempts have worked so far. I know! I shall try a different approach.
"Hello! Do you except Lord Grapefruit as your lord and savior? You do? Here take this grapefruit as a welcoming gift!" Citrelia peeled the rind of the grapefruit in her hand, tore out a piece of the flesh, and shoved it into Mathias' mouth. "There you go! Now you're indoctrinated."
Mathias
Mathias spit out the piece of grapefruit but had tasted a small amount of it. "Sure I guess" He said, taking the rest of the grapefruit "What should I do?" Did I just agree to worship a grapefruit? Why can't I control myself?
Emily
Emily looked over at Xeno, A Taman? He doesn't look like it
Rose
Rose noticed a Taman nearby.
"Hey Irene," she said. "Look, it's a Taman!"
Citrelia Grapefruitius
It worked! Thank grapefruits! "You can help me by giving grapefruits to other people. And make sure they eat it too!" Citrelia gave Mathias her backpack that was filled with grapefruits. "Have fun!" She took off towards the garden, leaving Mathias with his new job.
Irene
"Neat" Irene said, as they walked over to Emily.
Emily
"Uh, Hello?" She asked the two girls
Mathias
Yes Grapefruits are good Mathias thought Wait, these aren't typical grapefruits, these are grapefruits that the grapefruit goddess just gave me Mathias felt warm and fuzzy inside. He had been blessed by a goddess.
"I will pass out these grapefruits" He muttered to himself.
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Yes! I have succeeded in indoctrinating one person! Bless his soul for seeing the wonderful beauty and light of grapefruits! Citrelia thought as she was merrily skipping down the hallways towards the garden. She stopped by the broken window that had a grapefruit tree planted right outside it. She plucked a few grapefruits off of the tree to hand to others. She took a detour to the cafeteria and saw three girls chatting.
"Excuse me. This grapefruit will show you the true light of the world! Eat it and accept Lord Grapefruit as your savior!" Citrelia said, handing a grapefruit to each of them.
[She's talking to Emily, Irene, and Rose btw.]
Rose
"Hi, I'm Rose and I don't know if I have any powers," Rose said. "I've always wanted to meet a merperson, I didn't know they could breathe above water! So what's it like, being a merperson?"
{{By the way, it's accept Lord Grapefruit as your savior, not except}}
Emily
"Uh Hi!" Emily held her hands together "I'm Emily and living underwater is pretty cool I guess. I couldn't really tell you, although I'm not used to living on land, not having unrestricted up and down motion is strange I guess"
Citrelia walked over to the group and handed them grapefruits. Irene just stared at hers while Emily looked confused. "What's this?" She asked
Rose
"Wow," Rose said. "I didn't know grapefruits were so magical!" She quickly ate the whole grapefruit.
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia couldn't process the Taman's words. Wait... did she just say she didn't know what a grapefruit was? Wait. Wait. WAIT. SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT A GRAPEFRUIT IS. "I can't believe you are so uneducated in the ways of the grapefruit! How do you even live!?!?! THIS IS BLASPHEMY." Citrelia went on and on about Emily not knowing what a grapefruit is, not noticing that Rose ate the grapefruit and was currently undergoing a life changing religious experience.
Rose
"GRAPEFRUITS ARE THE MOST WONDERFUL FRUIT IN THE WORLD," Rose declared. "THEY HAVE A TASTE SUPERIOR TO ALL FOODS."
Minor Event
The enchanted grapefruit started to take over Rose's body. Her eyes morphed to a deep green and she suddenly found herself holding a blue rose and a grapefruit. She felt strangely connected to the rose and as she moved her and the rose changed color. She felt nothing but love for the grapefruit.
((Rose is now some new species based around plants, she can summon Roses that do various minor things for you to decide. She can also summon grapefruits, because of course she can, HOWEVER her grapefruits are normal and do not hypnotize people in the same way that Citrellia's do))
Emily
"Hello?" She tried to say through the yelling, "I'm from under the ocean, I've never had a grapefruit before, I'm sorry"
Citrelia Grapefruitius
Citrelia's rant was stopped by Rose's declare. Instantly her mood brightened. "INDEED THEY ARE! JOIN ME AND SPREAD THE WORD OF THE AMAZING GRAPEFRUITS!"
Rose
"I demand that you eat your grapefruits right now." she told Irene and Emily, kissing the grapefruit in her hand.
Ian Evans
Ian turned towards the two members of the... er... grapefruit cult yelling and preaching about grapefruits. He turned back to Faith.
"Yeah... um. I'm gonna go now so... bye I guess." He quickly walked out of the cafeteria. Okay NOW I can get these vegetables to Elvis. Of course that was not true, for he was stopped by someone carrying a backpack full of grapefruits.
Rose
Rose ran over to the boy, Ian Evans. He was with another member of the precious Graperuit Cult.
"GRAPEFRUITS ARE GOOD FOR ELEPHANTS," she told him. "THEY WILL MAKE YOUR ELEPHANTS HAPPIER THEN VEGGIES."
Ian Evans
"Uhh... sure... but no thanks... I really have to get back to my elephant now so..." Ian started to run away from the crazy grapefruit cultists.
Rose
Rose started to chase Ian.
"DID YOU JUST DENY THE GREAT LORD GRAPEFRUIT?!?" Rose yelled at Ian, furious. "COME ON ROSES DO YOUR THING!"
Rose threw a blue rose at Ian. Ian sniffed it, and became a little dreamy. While the rose didn't make him a grapefruit worshiper, Ian's love of grapefruits and roses just increased a little.
Karamura (Nagisa)
"Some government ploy to remove the human beings from this school to turn it into a sanctuary for the other species? Some dealing to train abnormal as alternate weaponry?"
Ian Evans
Ahh. Grapefruits and roses. How nice. Wait what am I thinking. No I will not become a part of this madness. Ian managed to escape from the most recent grapefruit cultist. Whew. Okay maybe NOW- oh forget it I'll probably be interrupted again at some point.
Irene and Emily
Irene and Emily watched Rose run away with her grapefruit.
"So uh nice to meet you" Irene shook Emily's hand, "I'm Irene, a Kormot, dragon person"
"I'm Emily, nice to meet you! I live in the Taman areas downstairs, of course" Emily scratched her head
Mathias
Mathias headed back to his dorm room, still thinking about the beautiful goddess he had met earlier
Yaman
"If it was the government why missiles? and weaponry, that's a scary thought"
Rose
Rose was frustrated that it didn't work. She went over to Citrelia to get a bag of her hypnotizing grapefruits.
EVENT
A FEW HOURS LATER
The PA said "Attention, please be in your rooms in 30 minutes!"
Irene and Emily
"Well It was nice getting to know you!" Irene stood up from her seat at dinner
"If I ever find a way for you to breathe underwater come and see me sometime" Emily joked as they both went to their respective rooms"
Yaman
Yaman and Karamura headed back to their dorms, "If anything happens meet me down here again" Yaman said
Cho
Cho leaned outside of his door, pretending to be reading a book.
Rose
Citrelia had given Rose a bag of her special grapefruits. Rose sniffed the beautiful scent of grapefruits and loved grapefruits even more. She couldn't wait to give this to people! She left her dorm room, locked her door and eventually stumbled upon a hiki with big swirly glasses reading a book.
"Join the order of the grapefruits," she demanded, handing him one of Citrelia's grapefruits. "Grapefruits will make you see the true light of this world! Join the Grapefruit Cult and accept Lord Grapefruit as your savior!"
Coby
Coby pulled out the map he had made of Maalum. Coby had spent a lot of time exploring this school so he knew who's dorm room was who's. He located Cho's dorm room. He drew a path between his and Cho's dorm room. Then, he made sure his guns were hidden and not noticeable in his coat. They were perfectly hidden. However, for good measure, he put on his cloak, picked a leaf off of a flower in his indoor garden, grabbed his map and headed out. He made sure to lock his dorm room before leaving. Then, he walked over to Cho's room.
Henry
On his way, Henry saw someone frantically running past holding a... grapefruit?
He arrived at Cho's designated spot. He looked over to Cho, whom he had recognized, then looked suspiciously at Rose, the person who had been holding a grapefruit earlier. "...Is she going to be sticking with us?" was the first question Henry asked.
Rose
Rose eagerly turned to the newcomer and held out a different grapefruit for him, repeating what she had told Cho.
Coby
Coby arrived outside Cho's dorm.
"Hello.." he said. "I am Coby, and I have something more valuable than anything."
Cho
Now that I think about it, I probably should have chosen a more private meeting spot...
Cho shook his head. "Um, no. She's not. Let me just go put this away..."
Cho quickly brought the grapefruit back into his dorm room. He had seen too many security camera videos of grapefruit conversions to have a bite of it or sniff it too closely. He resolved to put it in an airtight case and study it later; maybe he could use its hypnotic properties in an invention. He felt a brief urge to build a shrine for it, but it disappeared quickly.
When he returned to Henry, there was another person waiting outside the door. "Okay, okay, one at a time. I set up a meeting time with Henry earlier, so I'll talk to him first unless he's OK with taking you along, Coby. Henry, are you ready?"
Henry
"Hey, as long as the other guy can keep his mouth shut, I'm alright. Fire away."
Rose
Rose was pleased that the hiki was considering her request. She then turned to the other hiki, holding out her grapefruit.
"Would you like to convert to Grapefruitism?" she asked. She was so busy thinking about grapefruits that she didn't hear what anyone else said unless they said something about grapefruits.
Coby
"Excuse me for a minute." Coby said.
He turned around and pretended to search his cloak for something, while secretly turning his leaf into a Monkshood flower. He then pretended as if he just pulled the flower out of his cloak, then turned back around.
"Monkshood, also known as Wolf's bane, Leopard's bane and Aconitum," he informed them. "It is a very powerful poison."
Robert and Estella
The window opened and a pair of shoes came through followed by the rest of the girl's body. The two had become accustomed to scaling the sides of the school building in order to reach each other's dorm rooms. The dorms were separated by both grade and gender, with the males occupying the odd numbered floors and the females occupying the even numbered floors.
So, anything interesting happen today? You tell me. The school was probably in a panic. Stuff like this happens all the time. The missiles were a nice touch, don't you think? It made things fresh interesting at the very least. See anything in the last few minutes?Someone advertising some wacky grapefruit cult. That's interesting. The drugs have probably have been in circulation once again. The school never does manage to keep a check on these things. Do you want to go check it out?You're speaking as if I either had a choice or the intention of doing otherwise. Seeing as you understand, go take a walk while I take over your room.
Time Skip
Anything interesting? Nothing. They talked about unproductive things. I'd call it pointless. Same thing. Shut up and let's sleep.
Camellia
Camellia decided to go outside and get some dinner before she had to be back in her room ((assuming a fair amount of time has passed.)) On the way, she walked past some redhead screaming about grapefruits or something.
"Hey, you. Idiot, listen up! Nobody actually cares if you love grapefruits, so kindly keep it down before I disembowel you and make it look like an accident. Besides, everyone knows that tangerines are better, anyway."
Zeek
Zeek merrily hummed as he ran up the stairs. He was ready to get back to his sewing kit to de-stress after such a harrowing day. However, all of a sudden, he ran straight into Cho and a pair of kids he had never met before, just as they were entering Cho's room.
"Oh hello, Cho! Just the man I wanted to see! Care for some more brownies?" He inquired, holding out a fresh batch. "Your friends can have some too, any friend of yours is a friend of mine..."
((IAa))
Heyo guys, I'm going to be leaving for the weekend and will return Sunday night.
This of course means there will be minimal activity from my characters and no events.
When I get back Sunday night it will be morning RP time.
The following pepole are allowed to make Minor events in my absence:
(Minor events affect 1-4 characters)
Widm
MS
and nitrox if it pretains to your meeting, don't go crazy
I reserve the right no nullify anything
(Note: If I have internet access where I'm going then most of this isn't true)
((GS))
((I was gone for ONE DAY. Somebody explain what I missed.))
((Iaa))
BeserkFalcon did something
Grapefruit cult has new members
I'm leaving for the weekends
Currently people are meeting with Cho and RP night time will last until I get back (Sunday evening)
((Baconunicorn))
I wan't to join mallum
((JG))
Sign up form:
Race:
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here):
Name:
Age (minimum is 13, maximum is 18, you cannot make a teacher):
How did you come to this school?:
Anything of interest before that?:
Appearance:
Key traits (this cannot be all good):
Anything else we need to know?:
((BACONUNICORN))
Race: Wizard
I found the school: From james games
Magic & Hand to hand combat
((M2))
Please reread the post on page 1, with the list of species that you are allowed to use. Then, edit your character form.
I am afraid the character that you have right now will not be permitted to participate in this cst until it has been reworked so that it follows the regulations put in place by Iaashadow.
((Baconuni))
Ya know what. I'm leaving Maalum then. There are so many rules, you get off for a day and 3 pages happens, its all too confusing. Sorry guys but I'm out!
New character. @bacon Unicorn, you can use this as a template.
Race: Hiki (He will be my main, so I will not be focusing as much on Zeek and Camellia)
Chosen Trait (if there is a list of choices within your race, specify it here): Ice
Name: Glenn Freidman
Age: 16
How did you come to this school?: Brilliant academic ability combined with powers meant he breezed through the screening processes.
Anything of interest before that?: He learned about the different races when he was involved in an accident in his old school, which involved him discovering his powers, and an unnaturally realistic ice sculpture of his class' pet hamster. He then had a discussion with his school psychologist, who is a bandias.
Appearance:
Key Traits: May come off as cold and calculating. He's not a bad guy, but his sense of humor is nonexistent, and he tries to avoid showing emotions around others. He's also somewhat arrogant.
What else we need to know: White hair is natural. He is allergic to grapefruits. VERY loosely based off of Hitsugaya from bleach.
Ivy
Ivy went looking for Cho. She still wanted to help. She went to his room and saw him with 2 others.
"Cho?" Ivy asked.
((If this is totally wrong, just tell me. I'll delete it.))
I believe they are in the hallway
((eYeaa))
@beserkfalcon
In all honesty you didn't seem to read the rules you're complaining about
Ian Evans
Earlier after the run in with the grapefruit cultist
There weren't any more interruptions after the incident with Rose, to Ian's relief. He went out to the stables that were specifically for any Tembi's elephants, which was next to the dorm building.
"I'm finally back, Elvis." Ian started unpacking the vegetables, which by now have thawed.
Yo Evans it's 'bout time you got back, said Elvis (in elephant of course). You okay? Heard a lotta noise comin' from the main build'n. And the earthquake. And the missiles. Aaand the helicopters. Mind explainin' what happened?
"Yeah well, a bunch of stuff happened. So some lady crashed into the school and told us she was causing the missile barrage. Then she took all of the humans away. But before that some girl, probably a hiki, decided to cause a hurricane with glass."
Ouch. That explains the cuts.
"Yeah. And so some people died. Also the missile lady shot two people. And then she left, with the humans of course."
Uh huh.
"So then I met a Kioo girl named Faith. Well, more like I accidentally knocked her down. It's okay though I didn't break any of her bones. So then apparently there's a... um... grapefruit cult and I had a run in with a red haired girl who was a part of it." Ian shuddered. "I feel like my lifestyle is more threatened by the grapefruit cultists than the missile lady and her corporation."
Are you tryin' to say that your afraid of grapefruits now?
"Look, those grapefruits do weird things to your mind. The girl who tried to indoctrinate me was a victim to the original grapefruit girl. She's now crazy. About grapefruits. And roses."
Fun.
"So yeah that all happened. What a day."
Three hours later, Ian returned to his dorm. He found a grapefruit with a note attached to it in front of his door.
I'M WATCHING YOU..... -Rose
Ian kicked the grapefruit elsewhere. He was done with them.
Minor Event
Cho stood up at the small group of people clustered outside his dorm. "All right then guys; this should be everyone. I recommend that we go down to the laundry room in the basement. It's close enough to lights out that nobody will be doing laundry, so we should be able to have a private discussion in there."
Cho and the others walked down to the laundry room. "Henry, why don't you go first? And by the way, if anyone's uncomfortable with sharing in a group, just tell me and I'll talk to you individually."
((Minor event I guess since it affects a few characters))
Rose
Rose thought it was weird that she was ignored by the other electricity hiki. Confused, she walked off. Eventually, she started yelling to everyone she passed about how great grapefruits are. One girl said tangerines were better. Rose shook the grapefruit in her face and walked off.
Henry
He activated cinder and lit his hand ablaze. "This is what I pull to get out of trouble. I bet you twenty dollars, you won't be seeing any other fire Hiki around here."
The story of the unfortunate Kioo
There was once a very careless Kioo. He tripped on a grapefruit that an inconsiderate Tembi had kicked and fell on his face. His head cracked. The Kioo died. The end.
Moral of the story: Grapefruits are dangerous.
[yeah idk I found out this iPad had a data plan so I decided to derp around.]
Glenn
Glenn had just exited the bathroom and returned to the laundry room. He always sat there until lights out. It was his quiet place, and the moisture all around allowed him to access his powers. So he was quite surprised that it was no longer vacant, as he had left it. There was a small group of people, and Glenn almost instantly analysed the ones he could see.
White hair-- abnormal, but the outfit could be meant to be reflective, or it could be specialized to work with dangerous subjects. Slim frame and goggles taken into account, especially ones that hard to see out of, suggest he is a non-combat type; with the outfit, which could be providing insulation, I could hazard a safe guess on electricity support powers.
What did he just say, fire hiki? Not possible. It's probably some bastardization of pyrokinesis. Suit will be relevant to that end. Weight on back leg, gesturing with hand, probably a righty, and the posture suggests no small amount of muscle, slight Hispanic accent.
The flower he's holding looks a lot like wolfsbane. Probably a poison user' in the event of combat, dodge rather than blocking. Forearms are more developed that shoulders, probably a user of thrown weapons, like knives or darts.
RESULT: These three appear to be working together. Avoid combat or altercation with the group at all costs. Do not reveal that you know anything, or that you heard the fire hiki statement.
"Hey. Never seen you people around here before. Then again, it's rare that anyone comes down here. Are you discussing something important?"
Race: Taman
Chosen Trait: N/A
Name: Azalea Monroe
Age: 16
How did you come to this school?: When Azalea was 7 years old, her parents found her submerged under water in the bathtub. They hastened to to get her out, only to find that she was still breathing and still alive. When they looked it up, they found the Maalum school and decided it was the best place for her to hone her skills.
Anything of interest before that?: Her discovery in the bathroom by parents. As well as when she was younger, she used to enjoy looking for tadpoles in her neighborhood pond, it's where she spent most of her time.
Appearance: Azalea dyed her hair a dark blue which has silver highlights through it, which matches her dark blue eyes. She has pale skin and rosy lips.
Key traits: Very secretive, quiet/shy. Has issues trusting others. Very reserved, she's that one girl who just stays in the corner and tries to pretend that she's not there. Although, she is very intelligent and visual (in terms of thinking).
Anything else we need to know?: Azalea is mostly found in the dark corners with her ear buds in listening to her rock music. She can be friendly if she doesn't see you as a threat. Also, she's not too good at staying out of the water, at times she will go into the bathroom, fill the sink with water and then stick her head in for a couple of deep breaths. Her hair is usually wet and put in a high messy bun or braid. Azalea also has a bucket of water in her dorm room. She is a freshwater taman, but prefers to not live at the lake off campus, she likes her dorm room much better. So Azalea basically lives off of sinks so to speak, and she will go down to lake 2-3 times a week for a couple of hours to "freshen up" and rehydrate completely.
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Cho
Cho whistled at the strange fire-creating device. "Neat. If I could get my hands on one of those... well, let's just say that I'd be in your debt for quite a while."
A new arrival entered the area. "No, nothing that important," Cho stammered. "It's just with all the grapefruit cultists running around, I thought it would be safer to talk down here."
((JG))
[member=75]M217[/member] Coby has a thick heavy cloak on completely hiding his guns. Glenn cannot see them.
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Glenn
"Grapefruit cult? Never heard of it, I'm allergic..."
Suddenly, Glenn leaped up and smacked his head. "OH! Almost forgot my tablet." He sprinted to the opposite end of the room, through a bewildered group of teens, and tore the small school-issued tablet form the wall. "I was using it as a light source during the missile shooting, you see, and it died on me..." He explained as he turned it on and started to read intently.
"Hey... did you guys all also get a message from this 'Cho' person?"
Cho
Well, I can't exactly be secretive after sending a message out to everybody...
"Yeah, I'm Cho. It's almost lights out, so does anyone have anything else to say? We can't be caught sneaking around after lights out, especially with all the problems going on."
Azalea
Azalea decided to head into her dorm and get ready for bed. She followed her usual routine, she felt like a broken record, there was no excitement in her life. Azalea went into the bathroom and turned on the water, waiting until the bathtub was filled, she then submerged herself. She hated going down to the lake where the other tamans were, she enjoyed being in her dorm room inside the building. After a roughly fifteen minute period, Azalea got out and jumped into a large t-shirt, she enjoyed being alone for she didn't have any roommates, yet. She turned on her music, at a low volume, and fell asleep to Hollywood Undead.
Henry
He cut the propane release and the flame fizzled out. "Uh, yeah, um..." Henry looked for an excuse not to give Cho a gauntlet. "They're still being tested, and it's a closed beta. Only I can use them."
Irene
Irene woke up hearing music going on in the room next to her. Who is playing music at 1 am? She thought while stretching. She looked at her hands, the scales were now up to her wrist Hm, I'll have claws by tomorrow I suppose She thought as she walked out into the hallway and knocked on the door to the room.
Azalea
The knocking at the door woke up Azalea, Seriously? It is one in the morning, who the heck is awake at this time? She walked over to the door, groggily and not to mention kind of angry for being disturbed, and opened it. "Can I help you?"
Irene
"Hey" Irene yawned holding up a scaly arm. "Your music is playing and I can hear it, and why are you soaking wet?"
Azalea
"Um...well you see...I'm a taman to put it straight forward and I just enjoyed one of my routine hydrating baths, yeah, that explains it I think. Sorry about the music, I didn't realize it was that loud, it's how I fall asleep. My bad, I'll turn it down." She went back into her room, leaving the front door open, to turn down her music.
Irene
"Don't Taman's sleep somewhere else?" She waved it off, "Well my name's Irene, Kormot. Thanks" Irene walked back to her room
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Ivy
Ivy decided to contribute to Cho's team, "Well, the fact that I'm a Kormot gives me fire powers. That probably helps."
Azalea
As Irene was leaving Azalea shouted, "And my name's Azalea! Nice to meet you..." She stepped back inside her dorm and fell on her bed, looking at the ceiling. Well, she seemed nice... Azalea dozed off once again.
Cho
"All right everyone, this meeting's over! Feel free to message me if you have something else to say."
EVENT
It's morning now and most everyone is in the breakfast rooms. Classes are beginning in around an hour.
"Attention" The PA rang, "Continue as normal today however please do not venture outside of the building."
The cafeteria had been entirely roped off for reconstruction, large "Do not enter" Signs surrounding it
Irene
Irene sat down next to Emily when she saw her. "Hey!" She said.
"Oh hello" Emily said
"Say, there's a Taman in the room right next to me" Irene remembered, "Do you know an Azalea?"
Emily paused for a moment, "No I don't actually. Azalea? And she's in the room next to you? does she sleep in her bath?"
Yaman
Yaman sat by himself at a table poking at his eggs. He was still thinking about the lady from yesterday Why can't we go outside, are they sill out there? he thought
Mathias
Mathias searched the cafeteria for his goddess, eventually seeing her with a plate full of the holy fruit. "Good morning my lord" He said, "What do you want me to do?" He said after kissing her hand.