Festival of Tranquility (Discussion thread)

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To whom it may concern, as you know, every ten years all factions of the cradle agree to a cease fire to celebrate three days of nonviolence. Alternating between the factions, this years celebration is to be celebrated at Haven, allowing knights to put down their weapons, and adorn the city with paper lanterns, shops, and prepare various costumes. However, not everyone is coming for the deep-fried food. With tensions high, and disputes between the factions common, we had to create a special task force for keeping all sides in check. This is where you come in. You have been chosen by your high command to be a part of this program. If you feel uncomfortable working to preserve the peace alongside those of another faction, report to your commanding officer to find a replacement. Otherwise, welcome to the Peacekeepers. Oh and as a reminder, you were chosen to PRESERVE the peace, not destroy it. We will not tolerate collateral damage, moreover, anyone found breaking the armistice will face drastic reprocussions, from all factions. Good luck, and play nice.
-Intel Agent James
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This is the letter you've recieved, and to be chosen as a peacekeeper is considered a high honor, however, should anything go wrong...the wieght is on your shoulders alone. Considering you will not know eachother as friends for more than three days, it has been ruled that you will be assigned nicknames to use so as to deter friendships (Traitorus alliences) between the elite few chosen. Though you may have some racial tension against the others DO NOT MAKE THIS A MAIN FOCUS. Maybe a snide comment here or a praise there, but this should be minor. You're professionals.
Faction list is at the bottom.
SPECIALTIES: Given that you are specialists, you can chose which specialty you have (List below) but be warned of 2 major things to consider
1. If someone has cosen a specialty, YOU CANNOT CHOOSE IT it's what makes them special
2. When you choose a specialty I will assign a weakness (For balance)
APPLICATION HERE
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Nick Name:
Faction:
Age:
Specialty:
Equipment/Appearence:
Personality:
Bio/History:
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SPECIAL LIST:
Coercive: You can get information out of stubborn people using force
Persuasive: You can get information out of scared/evasive people.
Connections: Merchants and business men will work with you.
Track: You can find a paths/footprints easier
Eagle Eye: You can pick people out of crowds and Identify them at greater range
Might: You can subdue others easily
Flight: You can move very swiftly
Leauger: You can throw objects farther, and with great accuracy
Disarm: You can take away weapons and disassemble them to unfunctioning order
Thick skin: Attacks do little damage to you
Tech Wiz: Able to disable/enable various tech and advanced items.
The Map: You know where you are, and how to get where you're going
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FACTIONS:
Spiral Knights- (Hostile to Devilites, Hatred for Gremlins, Allies With Valkeries)
Valkeries- (Hostile to Gremlins, Hatred for Devilites, Allies With Spirals)
Devilites- (Hostile to Spirals, Hatred for Valkeries, Allies With Gremlins)
Gremlins- (Hostile to Valkeries, Hatred for Spirals, Allies With Devilites)
Mercenaries- (Neutral to all)

Nick Name: Doomskull (Doom)
Faction: Mercenary
Age: 25
Specialty: Leaguer
Equipment/Appearence: Full Chaos set with longer than usual chains, with a Swiftstrike Buckler strapped on back, rarely used (Only for Boost)
Personality: Arrogant, Calm before battle, calculating.
Bio/History: He is neutral due to him having being torn apart in a struggle between Gremlins and Knights (Secret Wars of Cradle), and was forced to hold the story of the secret struggle from Herex, who threatened to kill him for spilling, so he can't decide which to help. (Later, hopefully, joins Knights)

Nick Name: #457
Faction: Mercenary [The Darkwatch Regulator's]
Age: 28
Specialty: Tech Wiz
Equipment/Appearance: Sunset Duster, Chapeau of the Red Rose, Extended Ranged Rifle(Fires a Normal shot), Master Blaster. Accessory: Binocular Visor(Tech for understanding built in HUD), Vitakit(Coupled with extra pouches for ammo).
Personality: Lazy, tends to fall asleep while being idle. Yet, his sleep is only to let onto his personality of being lazy, tends to have a higher understanding of Technical know-how, yet likes to sleep most the day away of given a chance
Bio/History: Being trained for his stander four years in the Military arts #457 found himself more and more on the back-lines of battle, working on the Tech side as well as running basic tasks of protection all the way to on field repairs of computers. It was their he built a small rep for being bad luck when it came to his work for it normally worked, but not always the same way then he was done. Still with his Military Contract up the man looked for better paying work and as luck would have it, the Mercenaries where looking for some military jar-heads. Sadly he signed up because his skill, in his mind, would have been wasted on anything lesser then a battle field.
Seeing many Tours and missions the Advanced Soldier found himself getting praze for both his bad luck and his technical know-how. Even his unit leader gave him recommendations to join the higher levels of the Private force, but he was declined every time for his lazy attitude and way of working. Yet he was never disheartened, rather saying 'if they don't like me to hell with them. I am like everyone else here, wanting money and having no other use for my life but to throw it away for dirt cheap pay.'

DoomSkull- Declined, your character is too young to be a merc, let alone a higher up to be selected to maintain the peace. try to expand & take some time on your bio. It's a major factor.
Darkwatck- Accepted(With conditions) Gotta change your nickname to a single word. as they're meant to be said quickly to get attention. Like in a war viedo game (Bones, Sarge, Cherry, etc.) And you can say tabbard, but it wont be red. You'll be wearing the mercanaries colors...Black and white.
WEAKNESS: Disconnect- Due to your inclination with Tech, and laidback approach, you have a harder time getting information out of anyone.

Question: The name is said quickly, Don't say it like Four-Hundred Fifty-Seven, you say it like this Four Fifty-seven. This cuts down time. So you can say it quickly. So with that stated the name would be said quckly. But if it comes down to it will 13 suffice?
As for the colors I wanted to use a nice color not some stander mark that bounds Merc. since we are going to be dealing with Different groups.
And Weakness: It feels more a rushed idea, don't get me wrong but I will go with it. But for a Tech user, getting information back and forth no matter how lazy is fast and quick. I believe what would be better is something along the lines of this.
Disconnect- Because you are adapt to tech, moments away from you technological Advancements make you slower and less refined then normal.
In other words, when he is not around his tech the man's mind tends to get lazy causing him major thinking problems and withdraw problems.
Regardless I will make the changes if needed.

What's the purpose of the specialties?
What's the story going to be and how does the interaction work?

Appearance
Nick Name: Freya
Faction: Valkyries
Age: 564 (young adult)
Specialty: Track
Equipment: Grey Feather Cowl & Cloak, dual psi-blades (effectively a Wild Hunting Blade)
Personality: Freya is a quiet, pensive woman with level head and a motherly aura about her. She's sweet, kindhearted and generous, brightening the lives of everyone around her with her meaningful words of wisdom and occasional homemade meals.
In combat, she is renowned for her very conservative fighting style, preferring utility and function over flashy tricks and stunts. She is particularly fond of the 'subtle feint', a technique that allows her to throw off her opponents' predictions just enough to prevent them from effectively attacking or defending without her being forced to change directions entirely. She can often end most sword fights in just one or two strokes using this method.
Bio/History: Freya began her life as a relatively 'ordinary' seraph (angel). She was taught the basics of angelic combat, how to read, write, and speak in every language, and how to live effectively undercover as a human. Once her primary education was complete, she began work as a messenger angel, tasked with carrying messages to and fro. Through a series of highly-dangerous missions, she quickly developed a knack for battle, particularly defensive combat, and was soon moved into the ranks of the Guardian angels.
She is present at this Festival in her capacity as a Guardian angel.

Dark- Why would you ever be away from your tech? you have a built in visor. Colors- Just standard merc colors for now, I'll explain it in the first acctual post
Mawash- There will be certain situations that they will help, they arent required, but they help you arrive at certain things, and the story will generally be formed around strengths and weaknesses
NOTE: I gotta go to work fellas, will continue in the morning

Nick Name: Doc
Faction: Spiral Knights
Age: 32
Specialty: Eagle Eye
Equipment/Appearance: White Battle Chef Coat, Heavenly Guardian Helm with Cool Round Shades. Cautery Blade and a supply of syringes filled with medicine, as well as a compact package of bandages and vitapods strapped to his side.
Personality: A very wise and cautious man for his age, and doesn't like taking chances. He hates the sight of unnecessary bloodshed, due to his days as a battle medic on the battlefield. He will try to spare people pain if he can, but if the situation calls for bloodshed, he will not hold back.
Bio/History: Doc's early career was a bloody one. He was dropped into the field as a medic to heal all the wounded. It involved lots of saws, blood transfusions, amputations, and screaming. He was on the battlefield lacking the proper supplies and under a reckless general. Often Doc could spot the flaws that would lead to unnecessary death, but the general never listened. This led to Doc's hatred of unnecessary bloodshed, and those who cause it. He was selected to be a Peacekeeper because he knew how to conserve lives, and how to keep people calm. His eye for flaws in plans also help him pick out targets in a crowd.

Nick Name: Mawa
Faction: Spiral Knights
Ageless
Specialty: Connections
Equipment: Storm Dragon Helm, Radiant Silvermail, Lionheart Honor Blade, Argent Peacemaker
Personality: Strong Fiesty, Romantic, Natural Leader
Bio/History: The Dragon Princess is the leader of the Lionheart guild and keeper of the one true enchanted Lionheart Honor Blade. Many of her adventures can be found in ۞ The Dragon Princess ۞ Chronicles.

I'm not sure how good I'd be at this, but the following application is a character I think would be funny. I think the chaotic state of the fiends' society justifies most of this? Don't worry about him going too off track, he prefers following directions with a twist over simply disobeying directions. My apologies to anyone with hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
Nickname: Fluf, pronounced "Fluff"
Faction: Devilites
Age: 666, according to devilite customs.
Specialty: Leaguer, because Devilites.
Backup Specialty, in case Leaguer is taken: Flight looks great for confusing others about his location. Sorta like the Cheshire cat.
Equipment: One metric hammerspace worth of office supplies.
Appearance: Yesman plus mustache.
Personality: Does stuff primarily for his own amusement. Is primarily amused by things being made as complicated as possible.
Biography: Fluff yawned. After satisfying the standard fiendish yawning quota for the day, Fluff rolled out of bed and yawned again just to throw a wrench into the yawn police's delicate sensors. The sensors were not generally programed to deal with scenarios in which devilites did MORE work than demanded of them, and it was entertaining to imagine them bursting into flames. Stepping over his bed to open the front door outwards, Fluff went to check for mail. His bed was placed in front of the door solely to deter guests. After unlocking his mailbox by pitching the key at it from ten feet away, Fluff discovered a letter from fiendish headquarters. It was written by an intel agent named James, but had been forwarded 163 times when previous recipients had reported to their commanding officers to find replacements. This isn't because hundreds of devilites had declined the responsibility; in fact, only twenty had. The fiendish numbering system simply skipped every digit other than 1, 3, and 6. This had been put into place centuries ago when it was decided that '13' and '666' weren't popping up often enough, and that fiendish mathematicians' lives were MUCH too easy. Fluff figured that attending a peace conference would be good for a laugh, and went about deciding on a suitably obnoxious nickname.

Psych- ACCEPTED I love it, the medic ties into a group, and helps with the theme of a peacekeeper.
Mawa-DECLINED/ACCEPTED As far as the nickname, how would you pronounce that? The age is meant for how long has she been alive, unless she just awoke one day and started wandering? Otherwise I would like to see a cameo of her in this story. However, as a spiral has already been taken, woukld you like to make an appearance? I could send them to ya to investigate a problem. If you don't want to, or want a more active role, feel free to make a gremlin, as thats all we need now.
Spy- ACCEPTED I love the story, it's clever yet possible. Just remember, this festivl is the most "vacation" many of these devilites will ever see.
(Oh, P.S anychance of keeping the nickname at just fluff? the one syllable is what I was going for.)

I thought I had already accepted you, this is referanced with "All we need now is a gremlin". Although your character sounds like a great support, do be willing to push forward every once in awhile alright?

"Push forward"? How do you mean? I'm open to playing a gremlin, if that's what you're talking about.

Nick Name: "Machine"
Faction: Mercenary
Age: 42
Specialty: Stealthy killing
Equipment/Appearance: Wears full Skolver set, but wears a cowl over it and painted the fur black.
Personality: About as dark as his role, Machine enjoys the death he wreaks. He doesn't discriminate who he kills, so long as he gets paid. He also loves fighting.
Bio/History: His family was killed in the Skylark crash. After this, he had no reason to be moral or good, so he joined the Mercenaries. He has grown a taste and enjoyment for killing.
Special: Track.
*Note: His real name has been lost to the passing of time. It was Amadeus at some point.

@thin Just saying dont sit back and be a mother. give the story a kick forward if it needs it.
@Malk DECLINED Merc has already been taken, the 1st specialty isn't on the list/counter acts what we're going for at an armstice. It's a time of fun and peace, the Peacekeepers are here to ensure the peace and maintain the order. Not kill. Try to move away from so much gloom and doom, unless you wanna try out a gremlin, then you could talk about the oppression in to crimson order. I see what you were going for, but it'd fit more in Thin's current RP. Oh and one more thing, could you make the Nickname one syllable?
OOOOOR, If you really love your character, you could be a side role in which the Keepers will visit during the story

O.O
Did I hear you right?
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...being a mother does NOT imply being sedentary. Motherliness is just one of her personality traits, not her actual role or title, if that's what you're thinking.

Yep, just seen some people take roles like that to an extreme

If you say so. O.O
I'm designing a gremlin app too, if you need one.

Nuuuuuuuu, Thin. Lemme make the Gremlin app! I made one for Pi's swarm Fanfic and it was awesome! D;

Nick Name: Hex
Faction: Gremlins
Age: 614
Specialty: Tracker
Equipment: Ghostmane Stalker outfit, wrench wand, dual psi-blades, aura shield, shadow cloaking
Appearance: rough gray fur, piercing yellow eyes, a short gray beard (just an extra tuft of fur on his chin)
Personality: With a personality as mellow as his voice, Hex is a spry old gremlin who's still got a lot of life left in him. He often has words of wisdom for the youthful and plenty of good advice for the mature and wise. He cares deeply about the future of Cradle and its inhabitants, and works tirelessly toward his personal goal of seeing civilization blossom and grow.
Bio/History: He has funny notions of having been a Crimson Order member once upon a time, and the only reason anyone believes him is because he's the only gremlin known to use psi-powers. He often disappears without a trace from time to time, returning sporadically to tell tales of looming disasters that always somehow pan out exactly as he described. He can track anything that moves with uncanny persistence and accuracy.
He is, without a doubt, one of the most mysterious gremlins in this assembly.

Make a Valkerie app then man! I'd much rather have new faces instead of the same old recycled ones
And Thin is a Valkerie, so make your gremlin. Tinker can be a side character

Nick-Name: Eye, real name is Ventus
Faction: Valkyries
Specialty: Thick Skin
Age: 657 (God, these ages are messed up)
Gender: Male
Appearance: Valkyrie Helm with Divine Goggles, Heavenly Guardian Armor with Valkyrie Wings, Divine Canteen, and Divine Side Blade. So divine.
Weapons: Wields a slightly altered version of a Spur. The handle is covered with a baby blue cloth, the circle thing is now a navy blue halo, the blade also has a blue tint to it. The splattered part of it would be a vanilla color. Grey Owlite Shield.
Personality: Humorous, flirty, and a fun loving guy. Though he can change his mood depending on the situation.
Bio: One of few male Valkyries ever born, "Eye" had a lot to live up towards when he was born, the fact that he didn't have much ability with magic and psychic powers only added to this. Often finding himself looking at the Valkyrie warriors "Eye" wished to join their ranks one day and protect his people. And so he did. Through dedication and hard work "Eye" Gradually worked his way up to the more higher up ranks of the army. Though once their his passion was fading and so he looked towards another hobby. Building. He started off with small artistic sculptures but found he liked to work with machinery better (i.e the Goggles he wears) and he began to engineer weapons and architecture. This hobby triggered a mediocre friendship between him and some Gremlins which of course he was frowned on by other Valkyries. Now chosen by the White Council because of his knowledge of other factions "Eye" has been chosen to safeguard the festivities in the name of Valkyries. The stories that arise from this only time will tell...
Edit: NOW YOU TELL ME, NOWWW? R U SEERUS?

I'm working off the setting year being 3014, just a thousand years after the current year. Gwen was born on 02/14/2450, which would make her 564 years old.

@Sho/thin go ahead and post that gremlin APP if you'd prefer, I think Thin wants to play the Valkerie, but I really do Like your Valk app, so between the two of you, decide which role is whose?

I'll go Valkyrie if Sho-Marufuji is willing to make a gremlin app.

Mawa-DECLINED/ACCEPTED As far as the nickname, how would you pronounce that? The age is meant for how long has she been alive, unless she just awoke one day and started wandering? Otherwise I would like to see a cameo of her in this story. However, as a spiral has already been taken, woukld you like to make an appearance? I could send them to ya to investigate a problem. If you don't want to, or want a more active role, feel free to make a gremlin, as thats all we need now.
Sorry, this left me even more confused than the o.p.
I'll pass.

Hmm. Ventus is a new character and I really like him (Not to mention that I cannot find Pi's Fanfic), and I would like to play around with him to see what happens. So if you'd let me I want to continue Ventus.

The story is up now, so go ahead and respond to it before making your way to haven :3
If you didnt have a real name, I just gave ya one, if you want me to change it, tell me here. (it wont matter much though)

Fluf's real name *is* Fluff. He changed it so people would assume it was a nickname and ask him his real name, to which he could respond, "Fluff," to which they would respond, "No, your real name!" at which point it would loop around again. At which point he would laugh.
Also, since an alternate intro was given, I'll just assume that the intro in Fluf's biography didn't actually happen?

Nope, It all happened, it's supposed to tie into your biography. i'll edit it
EDIT: Should be fixed for when you went back into your home after recieving the letter, let me know if there's something else outta place
And it just hit me how devious that "nickname" is

Ties into the biography, and still leaves room for the part where he's crazy bored at his job until lunch break.
Also, aren't people supposed to have things to balance their specialties? Right now, Fluff's gonna be totally unstoppable with his mad office supply skills. c:

My character Tinker is supposed to be King Tinkinzar himself. Did that not sit well with you? I mean, if you have a problem with it, I'd appreciate it if you'd tell me so I can design him myself.

oh! Well that would explain it, but yeah, the King himself can't be the leader, as he never really leaves his fortress, (I think?) Feel free to re-design, he just needs to have someone above them. (The name was the first gremlin name i found BTW)

Very well then. It'll be Herex, and his nickname is "Hex."

If one of the chosen people don't post, can I take over their character?

the story can't progress until everone posts and meets up so I can assign missions
The Mercenary: A noble profession built around one desire for money...
Its like your trying to call me here mate.