Hello there literate roleplayers. Are you tired of bland Light vs. Dark plots, equine RPGs that all seem the same, and plots that don't affect your character?
Well we've got a surprise for you. At The Secret it's not just about good and evil. In fact, good and evil don't have a lot to do with things. No matter whose side you're on, you can be as nice or as cruel as you see fit. But if you live in the north you'd better be tough if you want to stay alive. Here's a summary of what kinds of characters you can make:
Southern equines: The Resistance. You like freedom and would rather be left to your own devices. Conquering is not really your thing, you just want to be left alone to start a herd. Weakland equines: The Captives. You keep your head down and hope you don't get beaten up too often. You dream of escaping to the south, but know you'll be killed for trying. Mostly mares live here, though there is a small number of stallions. They usually get beaten down the most so they can't rebel. Northern equines: Tartarus's Legions. You work for the mastermind, Tartarus, the one who blew the news about the object of power out into the open. You answer to his captain Atlas, and you spend your time fighting, bullying mares in the Weaklands, and training colts for the army. If you have any spare time you can gather a small herd. Haven of Hesperides: The Secret Keepers. You know not hate nor greed, and you live within the walls of the Haven. You may leave to explore, but other equines seem so different to you. You live in peace and philosophy, seeking knowledge and enlightenment. But you know what is brewing, and the battle will come to your doorstep even though they cannot break down the door.
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What's going on... ?
There was peace once, though by now it is but a distant memory in the minds of those old enough to remember. There was order and cohesion, and nothing to fear. The Keepers of Hesperides stayed within their walled Haven, and none disrupted their peace. There was always a rumor that an object of unspeakable power lay hidden within those great walls, but in time the rumor grew dull with age. But now a young stallion, maddened with greed, is gathering all the information he can about this mysterious object of celestial power. Flanked by the powerful drafts of the northern lands, he is murdering and taking prisoners left and right. There is only a handful of southern herds that stand against him, led by the mysterious Theseus. If they are vanquished, the Keepers will be on their own. Chaos and uncertainty abound. How much longer can the forces of reason hold off this madman?
The board is set, the pieces are in play. Whose side will you join?
Re: Julian's Characters « Result #5 on Oct 13, 2007, 12:51pm »
Name:: Lucian Delray Age:: 17 years Gender:: Male Height:: 6 foot 5 inches Weight:: 137 lbs. Hair:: Dark Blonde/Light Brunette and blonde highlights. Occasionally longish hair. Eyes:: Dark Blue, sometimes with red highlights Ethnicity:: British/unknown Religion:: Unknown Sexual Orientation:: Bisexual Friends:: Rae, Alex Striking Characteristics:: Has a calm air about him. One who people find odd, but feel like they can confide in him. Takes other peoples fears/worries away and shepards them as his own. Physical Characteristics:: Scars-usually hidden. One small scar shows underneath his right eye, but is hardly visible because of its age. Behavioral Characteristics:: Quiet with a determined undertone. Wants to know, but doesn't want to offend. Unusually calm until stress hits his breaking point, unleashing his power in an uncontrolled manner. Parents:: Corley and [late] Lucey Delray Siblings:: None
Reason for Schooling:: Mother died when Lucian was a small boy. Terminally ill for some time, Lucian was the only one she would talk to, leaving his father out of the loop when it came to his mother. Mr. Delray became furious at his wifes action, and so displayed this not on his terminally ill wife, but his son. When Lucians mother died he went through a severe emotional shock. His father blamed Lucian for his wifes death, and continued to diplay his anger through his abuse of Lucian. This put Lucian through a severe emotional withdraw, which gave his ability an outlet to come out, being a quite dangerous and powerful one. One that is hard to control, and is fueled almost entirely on emotion. Eventually, this led to the "blowup" of Lucian, causing his father bodily harm before running away, accidentally killing a motorist on a nearby street while trying to control his new found power.
Abilities:: Able to control energy to move, change, or destroy objects in sight, and those he cannot see. His full powers are not yet known, but it is suggested that there is more to them then we understand now.
Secret:: The motorist he accidentally killed is Raes -his friend- mother. Also, sent his father to the hospital with severe bodily and mental damage.
Re: Julian's Characters « Result #6 on Oct 13, 2007, 12:49pm »
Basic Information Full Name:: Blake Alexander Sinclair Nickname:: Thermal Birthday:: February 14 Astrological Sign:: Aquarius Age:: 16 Family Members:: Mother - Suzanne; Father - Andrew (deceased) Current Residence:: APADY Ability:: Blake can control the temperature. He can cause it to drop to below freezing or increase to the point where objects spontaneously combust or just melt. He is also immune to most temperatures (he can't stand on the sun). Blake has obtained such great control that he can focus on one specific to alter the temperature. It is so refined he can cause a single sheet of paper to burst into flames while the rest of the room is coated in ice. Heritage:: Caucasion, French.
Physical Appearance Attire:: Blake will often change his clothing from one extreme to the other just to mess with people. One day he could be wearing a heavy winter coat and toque, the other nothing but a pair of summer shorts. Or anything in between. He doesn't care what other people think of him, since he's better than them anyway. Height:: 6'2" Weight:: 180 lbs Body Type:: Mesomorph Hair:: Usually spiked up with blonde tips and brown roots. Eyes:: Brown. Distinguishing Physical Characteristics:: His face usually shows no signs of emotion. He finds them to be useless.
Personality Basic Personality:: Conceited is what most people would describe Blake as. He doesn't like to get involved with people who are beneath him. Most cases he'll come off as a snob as he doesn't talk with anybody unless he feels he must. Blake likes to get the job down with as little distractions as possible. Temperament:: Blake doesn't have a temper, or rather hasn't shown one. It takes a lot to get under his perfect skin. Ambitions:: To try and better himself if possible, and remain the best. Find someone who is almost up to his standards. Positive Qualities:: Blake is strong and in control of his powers. Independent and can usually accomplish his tasks alone. Won't stop until he has proven he can do what he was been assigned. Negative Qualities:: He outright refuses any assistance, and will not get close to anybody unless he deems them worthy to know him. Likes:: He can't remember. Dislikes:: He can't remember. Talents:: Blake knows where the best location for everything is. It's almost as though he can see an outline where something should be. Quirks:: Blake is kind of obssessive about pretty much everything. If it doesn't stand up to his standards he will refuse to associate himself with it. He also has no recollection of his past, or who he is really. All he knows is his name and age (thanks to the hospital), along with his abilities. As such, he merely became his idea of perfection; emotionless, strong, independent.
Basic Information Full Name:: Shane Peters Nickname:: Aqueous Birthday:: April 8, 1990 Astrological Sign:: Aries Age:: 17 Family Members:: John Peters Father dead, Jane Peters Mother Dead Current Residence:: Apady Ability:: He has the ability liquidize any matter, and control that matter as well as other liquids. In the future he will learn how to mold the liquids into sold forms. Heritage:: Caucasian
Physical Appearance Attire:: he wears very blue jeans and a very baggy sweater usually a blue of some kind. Height:: 5’11” Weight:: 130lbs Body Type:: very slim Hair:: long straight down to the small of his back, dyed white Eyes:: bluish green Distinguishing Physical Characteristics:: Blue tear tattooed on both sides of his face
Personality Basic Personality:: he is a nice guy if he will let you get close to him, but he is very fearful of his powers so that wont happen Temperament:: he rarely gets mad but once he does it will take some thing meager to cool him off. Ambitions:: to control his powers, and to rebuild his life. Positive Qualities:: He’s nice, caring, and trust worthy, and will protect anyone in need no matter who they are Negative Qualities:: Loner, holds a grunge, and only trust a person once Likes:: Girls, beautiful things, movies, and pizza Dislikes:: overly confident know it alls, and close minded people Talents:: he was a child porgy swimmer at one time Quirks::
Required Writing Sample::
It happened again like it always does, Shane was frantic he had just melted the fountain and the surrounding area, he was now kneeling on top of a pool of liquids “why cant I stop this, why, I hate this why” he was asking anyone who would listen why he had been condemned to this pain full and lonely existence, the tears started to flow from his face but he stopped them quickly, as this was his pain that he would carry in side forever and no one else need to be burdened by his problems and his life. (I’m to lazy to make it longer so I will just have to make a good first post)
Background:
Shane life started like no other, because at birth his mother was liquefied but he was perfectly, if that wasn’t weird enough of a birth the Liquefied mother was swirling around the new born baby Shane. Life after that was normal up to age 13 going on 14 in the summer before high school, he was stressed out so much because of the stories he was being told about high school by his dad, that one day in the middle of the worst story yet, something happen it was some thing Shane had never seen before, everything around him started to melt. He look to his father, his fathers eyes had fear in the, but not for long as soon the melted way some to the swirl of liquidized matter, he then passed out and as he wake he was floating on what had been his home this scared but even with his frantic movements he never started to sink and ended up run off the water, since them he has been running away for everything and every one that has tried to get close to him because he fears he may hurt them but at the same time luring to control his powers enough so that he wont melt things just because he is stressed but it still happens on occasion with out him meaning to, all he has been able to control the matter that has been melted and other liquids which has enabled him to walk on water so to speak which is why he has roamed not staying any wear longer than needed, until he caught wind of a place for him to go were there are other with troubled pasts like him and he even over heard some have powers. So he when and enrolled in the school, and had now been there for a mouth but is still very much a loner and dose not like to be around people.
Re: Taylor's character(s) « Result #8 on Oct 7, 2007, 11:51am »
Full Name:: Senchi (Sun Senchi) Nickname:: none yet Birthday:: July 4 Asrtological Sign:: cancer Age:: 17 Family Members:: Sun Shuomeng- adoptive father Current Residence:: APADY Ability:: Energy burst, transfer energy, can break down movements and learn abnormally fast. Heritage:: Japanese
Physical Appearance Attire:: Chinese dresses Height:: 5'6 Weight:: 147 Body Type:: Mesomorph Hair:: Long, black Eyes:: Golden Distinguishing Physical Characteristics:: Her eyes
Personality
Basic Personality:: usually Reading a book, senchi is calm, almost careless and most call her lazy. Though this is sometimes true, her interest is pretty easy to spark and she is good with her studies.
Temperament:: Usually hard to provoke but she's got pet peeves just like every one else Ambitions:: To meet challenging people, to "graduate" from here and travel 'round the world to challenge people. To learn how to completely control her energy and how to use it properly. Positive Qualities:: smart, fast learning, honorable Negative Qualities:: might like to fight a bit too much,lazy Likes:: Fighting, challenges, sparring, books, Martial arts stuff Dislikes:: boys who think girls are weak and girls who think girls are weak. Being under-estimated. Talents:: fighting Quirks:: has hard time with names, is sassy
Required Writing Sample ::
Senchi flipped through the magazine she had gotten her hands on. Though she didn't understand why she was sent here and disliked her adoptive father for doing so..they held reletively good relations with each other. She had just gotten mail and this was included in it. It seems like her magazines were still being sent to her house..She stopped flipping pages to read her horoscope that matched her american sign, cancer. She found the sign and it's meaning to be amusing to herself..and today's horoscope even more so. She smiled after reading it.
"Look through your address book, and reacquaint yourself with your support system. Think of how you might be there for some of the folks in your fold who aren't having such an easy time."
Yea..right. The only number she knew outside these walls for sure was her father's. Hmmm, perhaps she should do that. It'd give her something to do. Usually she would be calm and her energy would be in check..but today it was bursting at the seems and she would do almost anything to be able to do something. With this thought in mind..she momentarily amused herself with the paradox of it all, and reached for her phone. Even though they exchanged letters often enough she was curious. How were the students, the garden, the money, how was he? If nothing..she'd call just to hear the students practicing in the background, and who knows? Maybe if she did this right...she could come in for a visit. Now feeling excited and once again, for the millionth time since she came here, homesick. Now she dialed the number, now the phone was ringing and now, the medicinal sound of her adoptive father's voice.