Application: Juliet Specter

[spidereyes]

((IC section))

Online Employment Application:


Thank you for your interest in joining the team at AEgir Incorporated,a group of dedicated professionals specializing in extraordinary situations.
To ensure prompt processing of your application, please answer the following questions:

Name (including aliases as appropriate):Juliet "Spider-Eyes" Specter, former handle "Vamp-Bait"

Age/Gender: 22 Female

Position Desired: Secure Courier, Field Support Agent

Relevant Skills:
-Experienced Field Agent with a variety of applicable skills.
-BS Enhanced ComputerScience (certified Thaumaturgical Tech) issued by the Illuminati's own Occult Excellence Institute (OxI).
-Natural Blood Mage, Classically trained in the Arts at the Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted (RMSG).

Relevant Background Information:
-Raised in the RMSG since 13 years of age, I am no stranger to the real world.
-As a lifetime member, I think of the Illuminati as my family. (Note the bold claim here.)
-Early exposure to vampiric infection has strengthened my constitution, making my physically more formidable than my size would suggest.

Contact Information:
Handler: Joe (1066) [phone]
Personal Cell Phone: [phone]

Next-of-Kin (optional):
None

((OOC section))


Thanks for applying! We're a group of roleplayers who find MMORPGs more fun to play when the roles of our characters are more fully developed than a list of numbers to define their survivability and damage. Members of the group will be expected to play and converse in-character (IC) for group activities, using notation such as (( )) around text intended to be out-of-character (OOC) so that it's clearly recognizable. We're seeking players who are mature, low-drama, and interested in character development as well as game progression!

Please take a minute to look over our Rules And Tone page--there's not a lot of rules, but if you're part of the group, you'll be expected to follow the few rules that we've got while you're representing us with the group's handle.

To help us get a feel for who you are and what you'd like to get out of being part of the group, please answer the following questions:

1. How much experience do you have with roleplaying? Have you played other MMORPGs? There's no wrong answer here.

I've been role playing since high school, roughly 20 years. I RP'ed in pen and paper games, as well as LARP. I have played many MMORPG's: Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, City of Heroes, Dnd Online, Champions Online, DC Universe Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Everquest 2. I have RP experience in City of Heroes and Champions Online. I am less well-developed in terms of online role play, having only done it for about a year or so.

2. What has brought your character to the group? Do you have any stories/ideas that you hope to develop for them as they progress through the game, and if so, what are they?

My primary motivation in playing this character, "way back" when I started her, was to actually play a vampire in an online horror game. When I saw the entire debacle on the forums between the vamps and the vamp-nots, I was a bit confused. Ultimately, I settled on making this character a sort of Dhampir turned Bee. My idea was to explore the concepts of bloodthirst and bloodlust through the medium of a character that's pretty much forced to be around other people that are filled with the stuff. I wanted this to be more than "just" an obsession or a mental health issue with the character, hence vampirism and an instinctive desire for the substance. As of yet, she hasn't ingested the stuff yet. Further details are available upon request, as I'm sure you don't have time to read my ramble until you're ready.

(You know, this sounded much better in my head.)

In terms of story, I'm really not sure. I'm very flexible on what the character can actually do, and I really just want to cut loose and RP for a while to see how the character develops.

3a. Fill in the blank: If my character were to meet an Eldritch Horror From Beyond Space And Time, he/she would probably __________.

Scenario A: I know what it is.
...banish it, with magic and shooty stuff, unless I know that won't work, in which case I'll do my best to get it hell away from my plane.
Scenario B: I don't know what it is. Run away while voice dialing someone who might know what it is.
Alternately: use foul language and vigorous gestures, because I'm f---'d anyway.

3b. Fill in the blank: If I were to meet an Eldritch Horror From Beyond Space And Time, I would probably __________.

Lose five pounds in fecal discharge and run like cheap stockings.

4. How did you find out about us, and how would you like for us to contact you in-game?

I looked at a list of RP cabals and poked around. This is the first one I've applied to, so um, yeah we'll see how it goes.

5. Have you ever wanted a chance to just say whatever you'd like to about yourself to a group of anonymous strangers over the internet? If so, here's your chance!

I'm getting mad deja vu writing this, so I hope this is the dream where I get the money AND a pony.

Thanks for applying! We'll get in touch with you as soon as we can.

[sersi]

So I'm a little leery of the whole vampiric thing - or more so the "dhampiric" thing, which is a totally different animal and may be covered in the Orochi/Tokyo expansion thingy.

Also not sure if the bees would Bee someone like that. Or if so why said person wouldn't just come back as full human the first time they have to resurrect.

Also aLOT leery of the inter-cabal drama something like that could start. Like you said there have been huge forum wars over similar ideas. But will confer with the other officers first and see what they think.

[spidereyes]

No problem, if you need more information--including a better idea of what I mean by Dhampir--I'm happy to provide it. (Describing the issue in those terms is only something that occurred to me after developing a backstory for the character.)

Edit: Actually, I'm curious. If I removed the word "Dhampir" from the original, would you still find the character potentially controversial? No, it's not a trick question.

[sersi]

I guess he main thing - if you could explain the "early exposure to vampire infection" part a bit more - and how that interacts with the bee process?

[spidereyes]

Mar 23, 2013 15:10:16 GMT -8 sersi said:

I guess he main thing - if you could explain the "early exposure to vampire infection" part a bit more - and how that interacts with the bee process?

I posted a reply, I guess I didn't actually hit "post". Here's her bio, I'm not sure I won't lose anything by trying to distill it, so if it's too much, I apologize, but I am finding myself adverse to the Cliff Notes version.
Edit: Emphasis added.

Name: Juliet Specter
Handle: Spider-Eyes

History:

Spider Eyes was born Julie Katherine Lucas. Jules had a rather idyllic childhood as a girl. Loving--though absentee--parents and patient grandparents doted upon her, exposing her to every advantage. The death of her grandmother of congestive heart failure when Jules was nine was a blow, but she recovered quickly, certain that her grandma was in heaven.

When she was 13, she went on an eighth grade "graduation" trip to Europe. There she soaked in the sights and sounds of France and Italy, before taking a train through Romania on the class's way to Russia. She and some of her classmates never made it to Russia.

Because of an apparent terrorist attack deep in Transylvania, the train was filled with refugees, and some of the children and chaperons were bumped from the packed train to make room for more refugees. One of the chaperons claimed that he had a contact that was willing to make special travel arrangements to get to the next town, where a different train line--not associated with disaster relief--would be able to take them to the same destination as the other kids. The bonus was that no one would have to spend an extra night in a strange place waiting for the next day's train, and no one's parents would need to be called until after the detour.

Jules and seven classmates loaded up on a small bus with three chaperons and a driver and guide. As the light waned, the travelers lost track of where they were in the foothills and none were awake when the bus stopped and the screaming started.

The bus driver had negotiated to give a group of rogue agents some people, assuming that they were to be sold into white slavery somewhere in Eastern Europe. He didn't realize that he was dealing with vampires until after they'd already torn his throat out. His companion and the adults on the bus lasted several minutes. The vampires took the children prisoner and marched them to their lair in the forest, setting fire to the bus off the road. The children would stay their prisoners for seven days, engaging in cruel games of hide and seek. One by one, they would succumb to blood loss or be torn apart by the vicious creatures.

No one has any concrete explanation why, but Jules survived two days longer than everyone else. Speculation abounds that either Gaea had already chosen her through the gift of an undetected Bee, or she had some sort of affinity to anima that had slipped past the Societies of the Secret World. For whatever reason, she survived long enough for rescue efforts to get to her.

Meanwhile, Jules's grandfather (Judge Lucas) had started to worry about her. Last in contact on the Friday before the abduction (which took place Saturday), he had expected a call from her on Sunday, Monday at the latest. When Monday came and he still had no word, the judge called the one contact he knew who could get things done fast. The contact was deep into the Illuminati, though Judge Lucas wasn't aware of the organization at the time. He thought of the contact simply as someone with a knowledge of the underground and criminal organizations, with connections all over.

The contact tracked the progress of the student group quickly, and told the Judge that he would owe the contact and his organization for more help. With the Judge's word, an Illuminati Goon Squad was sent into the area. Lead by a local tracker, the squad discovered the bus by Friday, and managed to locate the perpetrators early Saturday morning. The Goons put three vamps to the torch and spread their ashes, retrieved Jules as sole survivor, and left the area.

Jules began a recovery so rapid that there was no question whether or not to allow her to return to normal society. Arranging for the rest of the bodies to be found in varying states after a "convenient" forest fire, the Illuminati made it appear as if the group had been waylaid by a break-away cell of terrorists and then the entire group had been caught in a fire. Judge Lucas was released from his hastily promised obligation, and he never heard from the contact again. Jules's parents, both abroad in Japan, were notified of their daughter's loss several days later, and offical investigation into the incident was closed soon after.

Julie Lucas had died. In the Illuminati's Rocky Mountain School for Girls, Juliet Specter opened her eyes to her new home for the first time. Jules had large gaps in her memory, remembering only snippets of her past as if it had been many years ago. She was told that she was an orphan, but that her grandfather had been a contributing member of the Illuminati, who took care of their own. Her amnesia was helped along by some very subtle post hypnotic induction, prompting her to avoid questions of her origin.

She spent a number of years at the RMSG trained by a cadre of occult instructors and magi. She made a couple of friends, but all the students were cautioned against becoming too attached to one another. She speaks with her school friends perhaps once or twice a year, apart from sending them birthday and holiday cards. Her time at the school prepped her to be an Illuminati field agent. She received an exceptional education, and graduated at 19 with the equivalent to an Associates Degree in General Studies. She spent two years after graduation learning the ropes at the Illuminati's Eisenberg Institute of Thamaturgic studies. Ostensibly, she holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (and Techno-Thamaturgical application) with a teaching certification.

Jules was assigned to the Innsmouth Academy on Solomon Island a couple of months before the Fog incident. She managed to safeguard a number of potent students before Illuminati and other forces stabilized the situation on the island. Since then, she has been abroad, tending to Illuminati business.

Capabilities:
Jules possesses all of the standard Bee powers. She has a natural affinity for Blood Magic, but hasn't been known to do anything not normally accomplished with Blood Magic.

Physically, Jules has extremely high levels of strength, agility, and toughness, even for a Bee. However, her physical performance doesn't exceed the top end of human maximum.

Example: She is much stronger than she looks, and can lift weights more in line with the capabilities of a large male body builder than a small, moderately athletic woman. (Note: she is not known to break laws of physics.)

She has extremely sharp senses, but this may be more of a feature of hypervigilance (see mental traits). Again, her senses seem to be at the fairly good range of human senses, with the exception of nightvision, which is excellent when she decides to remove her sunglasses.

Jules is extremely allergic to sunlight. She sunburns in minutes and can get sun poisoning in less than an hour. Her eyes are also crippled by sunlight, necessitating the use of sunglasses at almost all hours. Too much direct sunlight could conceivably kill her, but whether she would stay dead or not is up for debate. Indirect sunlight is painful to look at, but not nearly as painful or harmful. Normal artificial lights do not affect her in this way.

Mentally, Jules suffers from symptoms typical of an assault survivor. She is excessively vigilant to being observed or approached by strangers. She has difficulty opening up to people and assumes they want something from her. Excessive vigilance occasionally helps her detect an ambush before it happens, but can more often lead to her becoming uncomfortable in a social situation and leaving, or misinterpret otherwise harmless actions as attempts to harm her.

In school, she made good to excellent marks in all standard measures of academic performance. Her specialty, aside from thaumaturgy, is computer programming and covert computer access. She has slightly better training than the average Illuminati field agent, as her training began at age 13.

She has a bizarre mental fixation on blood, if it is encountered in significant quantities. Even discussing a significant amount of blood is enough to cause a reaction, though she can generally control this reaction in common conversation. Being exposed to enough of the substance can lead her to play with the blood or even attempt to drink it. She seems obsessed with the notion of blood as lifeforce and the physical sensation of handling it can cause problems for her attention to other details. She has never attempted to drink the substance, as she has a significant amount of conditioning geared at making her dread the taste.

[aleryn]

Hey there!

Hoped to get in game and speak with you some in person but got side tracked... Anyway wow lots of effort into fleshing things out! I'll leave the bio stuff to those here who have a better grasp on it all. My only thing is RP interactions with others, or well interactions Keep thinking of the whole I love you but want to eat you thing in a certain unspeakable movie horror out there that shall not be named...

Don't really mind myself if someone wants to be a drunken fairy with an obsession with making tiny shoes for squirrel toes (not saying yours is this crazy! I just wanted to use that example ) but the concern comes from making every conversation about that. As a group we are more than just RP and we are all helping each other.

Anyway this isn't suppose to come off as harsh or judging in any sort of way! just my own concern from not knowing you.

So guess my question is, how does she interact with people? Really wish I could jump in game now, sorry -_-

[spidereyes]

She's exceptionally shy, more because of her upbringing with the Illuminati and the actual vampire attack than any other factor. Like many assault survivors, she is leery of strangers, and like most Illuminati, she wonders about people's motivations. She's a good listener, but only because people will talk about virtually anything with RP strangers in this game. Once you get past the quietness, she's fairly friendly, though she has very closed body-language and flat affect (intonation, vocal expressiveness).

She doesn't think of people as food. (I mention this at the very end of the bio, maybe it should have been more prominent. I didn't think it should be that prominent.) Right now, it's just an obsession with--and fixation on--blood.
She hasn't partaken yet and may never do so. It just depends on what happens in play. She has received some subtle aversion therapy from the Illuminati, who know both her history and were able to observe her in an institutional setting.

Thanks for asking!

[Carl]

I do like the detailed backstory you've created for this character, and the clarifications you've made on the vampiric aspect of her. The professional way you've answered our questions speaks very well of you.

Most importantly, the character doesn't seem overpowered and still respects the "bee" lore. I'm inclined to stamp, but I'll wait for sersi and Aleryn if they have anymore questions.

[aleryn]

Thanks Juliet! That's really what I wanted to know. It's about the person

Your reply clears it for me, thanks. Going to go ahead and stamp yes. Just need Stuckey and Shay and you're set

[sersi]

awright. seems okay will go ahead and stamp

[Carl]

Make it three stamps!

[spidereyes]

Thanks!

[aleryn]

And she's in!Welcome Juliet