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[Enrollment] Chumani (Roe) the Skinwalker - Accepted

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emgeal2

PostPosted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 9:03 pm
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AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORM

Name: Chumani Roe Drieden
Nicknames: Roe (everyday), Bambi (old boyfriend's nickname for her)
Gender: Female
Age: 17

Faction: Monster
Race: Skinwalker - Reindeer

Natural Ability: Skinwalking- Given a hide of a creature (at least 25% of the total skin) she can shift into the form of that creature. With a skin she is unfamiliar with this can take a large amount of time (up to 30 minutes if it is something far from her familiarity (anything not a large mammal)) however for a skin she has used before it takes less time. For a skin she is very familiar with, like her reindeer skin it can take as little as two minutes. Once she has shifted into that skin she is attuned to it for several hours, this allows her to shift back and forth very easily, but it makes it very hard for her to take a different skin. Shifting to different skins too frequently gives her a migraine.


Personality: Due to growing up in a story rich environment of her large family Chumani has always been fascinated by the stories that different cultures have to offer. She collects all the stories she hears around Halloween and blogs about them weekly as well as personal stories and dramatized retellings of events she personally witnessed.

Switching schools and having the credits not transfer was a huge personal setback for her, but she's willing to buck up (no pun intended) because she believes it's better to go in optimistically. Her old school had been pretty isolated anyway, now's her big chance to get stories from demons and reapers and all sorts of new people.

Had she not grown up with a strong family background she would have had much more difficulty in school due to her average, normal, boring appearance by monster standards. She spent several years trying to up the ante by wearing outlandish clothes, but she never could compete with Claudia a Gorgon who could change the colors of her snakes to match her outfits. Eventually she fell in with a group of reapers because she didn't feel the need to try and compete with their appearance.

As with all people there are things she hates. For example ghosts squick her out for some reason. She's never been sure why, and she can have a civil conversation, but she avoids them when possible.


Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy? Her family moved so she's switching schools. Oh joy....

FEAR Ability: Type: Offensive -- The Charge
Description: She charges toward her opponents pulling extra strength from the skin to which she is currently attuned via FEAR and letting forth a flurry of blows.
Tier One:
Dice: 3d8
First Two Dice: work just like standard attack dice.
xxxxx ie, 2d8 -6 = the damage to your first target.
Third Dice: divided by 2 is the damage do your second target. Remember to round up.
xxxxx ie third dice was rolled 3. 1.5 rounds up to 2 damage to second target.
 
PostPosted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 9:18 pm
Background

Her family tree is long and has many branches that reach as far back into the beginnings of Halloween Town. According to one of the more popular family stories one of her ancestors walked the earth with humans. Other popular stories included great uncles who snuck into the human world to cause chaos. As she's gotten older she's learned to question some of the more outrageous stories, but the overall feeling of a long history seems to be mostly true. She has worn many skins over her life, but was presented with the reindeer on her 13th birthday and it is by far her favorite.

She attended one of the smaller schools for a while, but her family made the decision to relocate to Halloween Town and she will enter as a first year student because the classes did not transfer (they never do).

She's working on a book of all the stories from around Halloween and she's interested in all of it: children's stories, family history, human encounters, etc. She keeps a small brown journal with her at all times which she writes the shorthand versions of stories. She writes a weekly blog about the stories she found and sometimes about other interesting tidbits.

In her free time that doesn't involve blogging she practices (or attempts to practice) small curses using personal affects. Usually she asks permission, but she always had to keep this quiet in her old school which had a large population of monsters who generally would not have appreciated the knowledge that she was using magic.  

emgeal2


Corgisaur

PostPosted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 10:17 am
With her FEAR ability! :') What type of FEAR is it? You can use this here, to determine how the dice mechanics will work with it! :3  
PostPosted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:08 am
There are a few things pert to approval so I'll crit those first-

Age- all students must be highschool age (and under 18 )

natural ability- This is actually OP for a first year. The shop had a skinwalker previously who wasn't able to change into his natural form until y2. So for a y1 to have it and have the ability to shift with a pelt is OP. For y1, I'd reccomend sticking to shifting with pelts, or if you choose to have her shift into her 'monster' form- that she cannot use pelts.

Fear attacks should be ones that don't rely on one form or the other- the reason being that if a natural form is locked down, she'd not be able to use her fear.

Personality-
I get the idea thats being presented but right now it's really contridictory and jumbled. the first line 'Overall she is friendly and outgoing, except when she's not.' Tells almost nothing as it nulls itself. Provide examples, exceptions, elaborate into what makes her so uniquely her. A good way is to for each trait, establish 'who, what, where, when, why, and how' The journalistic questions. Answer those,(IE who is an exapetion, when does this go into overdrive, how does this effect her relationship with others).

By applying the questions in various ways you can explore a character's personality a lot better and give them more depth.

And finally, if the past has bearing on the present, provide a brief context as to not leave people guessing~ Just a small explanation will do.

I hope this helps.

emgeal2
 


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emgeal2

PostPosted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 7:52 am
Thanks so much for the crits.I see what you're saying and I'll see if I can make it less contradictory and elaborate more. I was trying to stay away from "writing a novel" which is specifically discouraged. Since this is my first character it's hard to know exactly what's important and such.

ecause it was the suggested natural ability of the skinwalkers on the form.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:15 pm
BASIC CHARACTER KIT WHAT DO I DO NEXT


Welcome to This is Halloween!

Congratulations! Your character has passed the enrollment process and you're cleared to begin playing. Essentially, this means you can get your art certed, make your character's journal, and most importantly start RPing. If you're a little lost then don't worry, this guide is here to point you in the right direction.

gaia_crown [ Art Check! ]:

- Do you have your character's art? Great! Move onto the next crown.

- If you do NOT yet have your art, you may now contact your artist and let them know that they may now start on creating your character!

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- If your character is a STUDENT, you may create a customized student pin for them. This is entirely optional (but fun!) special badge that is unique to your character's design! You can find more information about pins (also known as their emblem) here.

- Hallowen characters (Students & Horsemen) may bet their character certed here!

- Hunters may get their certs here!

gaia_crown [ Creating a Journal ]:

- A journal is a thread where you can keep track of your character's accomplishments, RPs, progress, relationships, etc!

- All HALLOWEEN characters (Students & Horsemen) may create one here!

- All Hunters may create one here!

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- Don't be shy about RPing! As soon as your character has been enroll approved you can start! Check out this awesome information about The World of Halloween and Amityville Academy. All students start off in Amityville academy. Need more things to do? Check out this whole subforum! Anything labelled Activity is open for you! Occasionally GMs will promote and open CLASSROOM orps. These usually happen in the classroom subforum. All students are invited to participate!

- If you are a Hunter, you will want to read the Hunter Newbie Guide Occasionally GMs will promote and open MISSION orps. These usually happen in the main Deus subforum and be followed by a guild announcement. All Hunters are invited to participate!

- If you are a Horsemen, please refer to here and the handy links in the first post as well as the other posts for concurrent and quest information! Need more things to do? Check out this whole subforum! Anything labelled Activity is open for you! Occasionally GMs will promote and open CLASSROOM orps. These usually happen in the classroom subforum. All Horsemen are invited to participate!

gaia_crown [ What's happening currently? ]:
- We try to keep all important things happening regularily updated in the ANNOUNCEMENTS THREAD. This goes for ALL FACTIONS. Have a question? Ask it in the Q & A !

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- In addition any thread marked ORP is open for you to join!

- If you ever feel lost as a newbie, our many GMs are more than happy to one on one RP with you to help your character get acquainted. Send a PM to WE ARE HALLOWEEN and we can get you started this way as well. Otherwise, enjoy immersing yourself in the many RPS in TiH! It is all about discovery after all!

 

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