Archive: How to Fight an Apocolypse (an SPN RP)
so my friend mac and i once started an SPN rp... it ran well for about a month before we just stalled.... too bad too, b/c we were really getting into the story... i'm archiving it here just in case whatever and also to have an example of what an RP can be for friend who have never done it before.... but first, an introduction written by my friend Lizzieanne based on her own experiences!
"The only RP I know about is what I've seen on Gateworld. I joined in with a story for a while that got me into writing. It was really fun.
We had OC's in a Stargate World...an AU Atlantis. We were Commanders, Docs and variety of ragtag people. :P We had Lorne (and Carson) as well because the whole thing was spawned from the LorneLovers thread. Shep and Ronon turned up occasionally. :)
Anyway...no one actually played the part of Lorne and the others...just their own characters...but they were included in the storyline.
For that RP we used our online names as our characters and each wrote a small piece of the story - as much as we felt like, but not a huge amount - using any characters as they came into the story.
We did have an outline of the story to start us off and had a discussion every now and again to keep it on some kind of track.
This worked well for quite a time, with everyone jumping in to write a bit when they had time. Sometimes someone would write a bit that messed up with what you wanted to do...but that was part of the fun of it tbh, you had to think creatively as you went."
and now for character bios.... the first was Mac's character, and the second mine
"Name: Real name unknown, assumed identity: Aaden John Connor
Age: in his late forties, yet he always appears 30 years-old (when under his assumed identity of course)
Species: Shapeshifter
Special Abilities: a shapeshifter can take on another person's physical appearance and access the thoughts of any living person they mimic, according to Superwiki (supernatural’s wiki), yet Aaden’s “thought reading abilities” are not well developed. On the other hand, his “shifting” speed is a little above the usual shifter speed. the process is still tiring, longer than putting on a new pair of jeans and gruesome nonetheless. Plus, since shapeshifter can only be killed by silver or iridium through the heart - either a bullet or a blade- and decapitation, you can assume they are more resistant to other injuries and able to heal themselves at a rate slightly faster than regular human beings >:D
Physical Appearance Aaden is not even sure if he has his own appearance since he has been shifting for as long as he can remember. The only trait he knows truly belong to him are those deadly pale irises he however has to hide behind a more human color to go unnoticed. However, he sure has a favorite appearance, one he had the chance to choose and manipulate through the years, as long as he would keep it the same or so(see character background).
He is a 6.2 feet tall Caucasian with light-brown hair -short, in a practical cut many soldiers and policemen wear- and pale blue eyes -Arctic Blue, more specifically. He is fairly well built and fit, with a sturdy frame and firm muscles that speak more of an active lifestyle than of the use of steroids and endless gym sessions.
His nose is straight and slightly aquiline; his facial bone structure, jaw and cheekbones are strong, giving his face that subtle Slavic look. While at it, he made his teeth straight and white, and made sure he would always look perfectly shaved -he’d make the beard or mustache appear if he wanted to anyway. Add to that an uniform and you’d think you are facing the typical bold young war hero like those portrayed on soviet propaganda posters.
Of course, instead of the characteristic woolen coat, Aaden rather wears more ordinary clothes, mostly dark jeans and dark dress shirts -of a casual cut-; dark t-shirts for the warm days and the old but clean black leather coat whenever the time gets colder -or when he is “hunting”.
Personality Aaden is rather dedicated to whatever he is interested in. He is always eager to learn more about almost everything and proves to understand and think quite fast. He values very much the law and knowing the truth behind things, so much he can sometimes appear self-righteous. However, one can call him hypocrite when thinking of all the little secrets he keeps from the world, something that is reflected when he is with other trying to bound with him. At least he means well and he still proves able of behaving like a gentleman or even like a knight in shiny armor when someone is in danger. He also prefers sarcasms and cultural references based humor, but that doesn’t mean he is a bitter and stern man.
Character Background
He knew he had parents and not only because he couldn’t phantom a creature being born without parents: even as he was a 6 years-old wandering in the forests at the edge of new suburb developments in search of food, he could talk and count and behave around others. In fact he simply could not remember who took care of him and why he ended up in the wild of Maine State, neither why he was able to change his appearance. At least he knew it wasn’t normal to do so. Furthermore, when he was approaching kids his age playing it the woods, he would make sure to always keep the same outer shell and never reveal his abilities.
One of his best friends -although the feeling wasn’t mutual- was the young and bratty Aaden Connor, son of an old and relatively rich family that would search for the Wild Boy of the Wood when his mansion bored him too much. A nice summer day, at their homemade teepee deep in the woods -and running out of cool critters to show his spoiled friend- the shapeshifter decided to reveal his morphing abilities. However, the little demonstration definitively frightened the human kid and, rendered mad from the horror and trying to get away from the monster, the well dressed little boy ran blindly to a short but steep hill and fell over the edge. If he didn’t die right away, he surely did before the night.
The wild boy couldn’t forget the sight of the little broken body down the cliff, and the thought of his family came to his mind: he couldn’t let them down, but he couldn’t reveal what horrible accident happened. So he covered the corpse with the largest rocks he could find and decided to take Aaden’s appearance and identity: he could then replace the little human and avoid saddening his parents and schoolmates so he thought. He went back to the mansion under the traits of the other boy and began his life of pretending, trying to behave the best he could in hope nobody would tell the difference.
The father, a busy and stern industrial, the school teachers and the mother, always away at a women’s club or so, only thought their boy finally decided to grow wiser; the domestics and the governess knew something was different with the boy but their comments on the matter were ignored by their bosses. So the fake Aaden studied hard, trained hard in his school sport teams, was nice to the grownups and the kids his age and would never let others know about his abnormality in his attempt to be the best son any parent wanted.
At 18, his father died of natural causes and leaved his relative richness -yet not the factories he owned since he still had living partners. Soon after, probably inspired by all those adventure novels he used to read when he had to pretend being sick or mildly injured like any normal young man, Aaden decided to join the police academy. He succeed very well, was a good recruit and was about to be promoted when his life took a strange turn.
In fact, he was unlucky enough to be noticed by a hunter with radical methods when the human perceived Aaden’s retinal flare on a security feed on a screen above the counter, at some convenience store. The man found the trace of Aaden’s adoptive mother and ambushed him a day the shapeshifter came by for his weekly visit. The killer and the monster fought hard, but in the action, they managed to propel burning embers out of the fireplace, and the old mansion was quickly devoured by the flames. The opponents managed to escape alive, the hunter ran away and was never found again, but Aaden’s adoptive mother wasn’t so lucky.
Connor was deeply shaken by the death of the last person from this family; half convinced he was the cause of this destruction, but mostly alarmed by what he learned: there were people out there that only wanted to kill beings like him. He quitted his job, placed his inheritance in a secret bank account, sold what remained of his family’s property and moved to the capital in a lousy apartment. He officially became a Private Eye, but this was only a cover: in reality he was spending his days searching information about hunters and monsters, using his inherited money to bribe, buy books, weapons or drinks.
The realization struck him many time: he wasn’t alone; the other creatures would however kill countless humans, and some humans calling themselves Hunters were fighting back by wandering across the country in search of supernatural preys to slay.
That last thought worried him both for emotional reasons than by his police officer training: although saving people was good, he couldn’t allow psychopaths to kill everyone in their path -kill innocent humans but also innocent creatures that meant no harm like him. Vigilantes were illegal after all, and even if he wasn’t very close to his adoptive mother, he couldn’t let other families get broken by careless hunters. So he decided he’d secretly track down hunters, spy their hunting habits and make sure any of them harming in any way institutions or guiltless people would end up pretty quickly under arrest if not dead if he was forced to. This is how began his own traveling across the country, his shifting power, training and never aging body being assets in his own hunt."
"Name: Sarah Novak
Age: 30
Species: Human
Height: 5'8"
Build: Slender
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark Bruenette, Waist Length, Straight
Bio: Sarah is fun loving, sarcastic and witty. She has a habit of being able to see through bullshit to the truth of the matter. So when she stumbled into the supernatural, she curiosity was peaked. For 16 years she lived in a world full of growing technology and dwindling superstition. When she found out her best friend was a witch, she tried telling her parents. They of course didn't believe her. Sarah tried talking to her brother, but Jimmy was too busy with his college courses and his bible studies to really pay attention. Left with no recourse, Sarah investigated on her own. Lani was in way over her head, and Sarah was eventually forced to kill her, though all the official reports say Lani's death was an accident. Sarah spent two years learning as much as she could about the supernatural and even took on a few minor hunts around her home town. When she turned 18, Sarah packed a bag and never looked back. She hitchhiked around the country soaking up as much information as she could. On one such information hunt she ran into Rufus, who was on an actual hunt. Sarah showed great prowess with a shot gun, explaining it by say her dad was a deer hunter and taught her how to shoot. Rufus, impressed by Sarah's calm during the hunt combined with her ability to get people talking, and, more importantly, talking about the truth, decided to take her under his wing and teach her about the hunt. Through Rufus, she's met both Bobby Singer and Ellen Harville, and was once a regular at the Road House. She also dated Ash for a time. A prolonged chupricabra hunt outside DC had kept her occupied when the Winchesters had rolled in, and a second hunt in Albequerque saved her when the Road House had been burned down by demons. Her only regret was that she hadn't been able to convince Ash to come with her on that second one. Though she has heard much of the Winchesters, she's never met them, but when apocalyptic omens started flying around, Sarah tracked down her brother only to find that Jimmy was missing, and Amelia and Claire didn't know anything about it. Almost a year later, Sarah gets a frantic phone call from Amelia saying Jimmy's an Angel and demons are after them. Sarah gets the full story as she helps Amelia and Claire resettle and ward their new home.
[( ok, so yes, i went there
Sarah's looks are based loosely off of Misha (he's 5'11" and will be turning 37 this year, which translated to Jimmy being 37 and a 7 year age difference is acceptable) and god, doesn't he look great for being nearly 40? )]"
okay, so that's the background info! this way to the story!
"The only RP I know about is what I've seen on Gateworld. I joined in with a story for a while that got me into writing. It was really fun.
We had OC's in a Stargate World...an AU Atlantis. We were Commanders, Docs and variety of ragtag people. :P We had Lorne (and Carson) as well because the whole thing was spawned from the LorneLovers thread. Shep and Ronon turned up occasionally. :)
Anyway...no one actually played the part of Lorne and the others...just their own characters...but they were included in the storyline.
For that RP we used our online names as our characters and each wrote a small piece of the story - as much as we felt like, but not a huge amount - using any characters as they came into the story.
We did have an outline of the story to start us off and had a discussion every now and again to keep it on some kind of track.
This worked well for quite a time, with everyone jumping in to write a bit when they had time. Sometimes someone would write a bit that messed up with what you wanted to do...but that was part of the fun of it tbh, you had to think creatively as you went."
and now for character bios.... the first was Mac's character, and the second mine
"Name: Real name unknown, assumed identity: Aaden John Connor
Age: in his late forties, yet he always appears 30 years-old (when under his assumed identity of course)
Species: Shapeshifter
Special Abilities: a shapeshifter can take on another person's physical appearance and access the thoughts of any living person they mimic, according to Superwiki (supernatural’s wiki), yet Aaden’s “thought reading abilities” are not well developed. On the other hand, his “shifting” speed is a little above the usual shifter speed. the process is still tiring, longer than putting on a new pair of jeans and gruesome nonetheless. Plus, since shapeshifter can only be killed by silver or iridium through the heart - either a bullet or a blade- and decapitation, you can assume they are more resistant to other injuries and able to heal themselves at a rate slightly faster than regular human beings >:D
Physical Appearance Aaden is not even sure if he has his own appearance since he has been shifting for as long as he can remember. The only trait he knows truly belong to him are those deadly pale irises he however has to hide behind a more human color to go unnoticed. However, he sure has a favorite appearance, one he had the chance to choose and manipulate through the years, as long as he would keep it the same or so(see character background).
He is a 6.2 feet tall Caucasian with light-brown hair -short, in a practical cut many soldiers and policemen wear- and pale blue eyes -Arctic Blue, more specifically. He is fairly well built and fit, with a sturdy frame and firm muscles that speak more of an active lifestyle than of the use of steroids and endless gym sessions.
His nose is straight and slightly aquiline; his facial bone structure, jaw and cheekbones are strong, giving his face that subtle Slavic look. While at it, he made his teeth straight and white, and made sure he would always look perfectly shaved -he’d make the beard or mustache appear if he wanted to anyway. Add to that an uniform and you’d think you are facing the typical bold young war hero like those portrayed on soviet propaganda posters.
Of course, instead of the characteristic woolen coat, Aaden rather wears more ordinary clothes, mostly dark jeans and dark dress shirts -of a casual cut-; dark t-shirts for the warm days and the old but clean black leather coat whenever the time gets colder -or when he is “hunting”.
Personality Aaden is rather dedicated to whatever he is interested in. He is always eager to learn more about almost everything and proves to understand and think quite fast. He values very much the law and knowing the truth behind things, so much he can sometimes appear self-righteous. However, one can call him hypocrite when thinking of all the little secrets he keeps from the world, something that is reflected when he is with other trying to bound with him. At least he means well and he still proves able of behaving like a gentleman or even like a knight in shiny armor when someone is in danger. He also prefers sarcasms and cultural references based humor, but that doesn’t mean he is a bitter and stern man.
Character Background
He knew he had parents and not only because he couldn’t phantom a creature being born without parents: even as he was a 6 years-old wandering in the forests at the edge of new suburb developments in search of food, he could talk and count and behave around others. In fact he simply could not remember who took care of him and why he ended up in the wild of Maine State, neither why he was able to change his appearance. At least he knew it wasn’t normal to do so. Furthermore, when he was approaching kids his age playing it the woods, he would make sure to always keep the same outer shell and never reveal his abilities.
One of his best friends -although the feeling wasn’t mutual- was the young and bratty Aaden Connor, son of an old and relatively rich family that would search for the Wild Boy of the Wood when his mansion bored him too much. A nice summer day, at their homemade teepee deep in the woods -and running out of cool critters to show his spoiled friend- the shapeshifter decided to reveal his morphing abilities. However, the little demonstration definitively frightened the human kid and, rendered mad from the horror and trying to get away from the monster, the well dressed little boy ran blindly to a short but steep hill and fell over the edge. If he didn’t die right away, he surely did before the night.
The wild boy couldn’t forget the sight of the little broken body down the cliff, and the thought of his family came to his mind: he couldn’t let them down, but he couldn’t reveal what horrible accident happened. So he covered the corpse with the largest rocks he could find and decided to take Aaden’s appearance and identity: he could then replace the little human and avoid saddening his parents and schoolmates so he thought. He went back to the mansion under the traits of the other boy and began his life of pretending, trying to behave the best he could in hope nobody would tell the difference.
The father, a busy and stern industrial, the school teachers and the mother, always away at a women’s club or so, only thought their boy finally decided to grow wiser; the domestics and the governess knew something was different with the boy but their comments on the matter were ignored by their bosses. So the fake Aaden studied hard, trained hard in his school sport teams, was nice to the grownups and the kids his age and would never let others know about his abnormality in his attempt to be the best son any parent wanted.
At 18, his father died of natural causes and leaved his relative richness -yet not the factories he owned since he still had living partners. Soon after, probably inspired by all those adventure novels he used to read when he had to pretend being sick or mildly injured like any normal young man, Aaden decided to join the police academy. He succeed very well, was a good recruit and was about to be promoted when his life took a strange turn.
In fact, he was unlucky enough to be noticed by a hunter with radical methods when the human perceived Aaden’s retinal flare on a security feed on a screen above the counter, at some convenience store. The man found the trace of Aaden’s adoptive mother and ambushed him a day the shapeshifter came by for his weekly visit. The killer and the monster fought hard, but in the action, they managed to propel burning embers out of the fireplace, and the old mansion was quickly devoured by the flames. The opponents managed to escape alive, the hunter ran away and was never found again, but Aaden’s adoptive mother wasn’t so lucky.
Connor was deeply shaken by the death of the last person from this family; half convinced he was the cause of this destruction, but mostly alarmed by what he learned: there were people out there that only wanted to kill beings like him. He quitted his job, placed his inheritance in a secret bank account, sold what remained of his family’s property and moved to the capital in a lousy apartment. He officially became a Private Eye, but this was only a cover: in reality he was spending his days searching information about hunters and monsters, using his inherited money to bribe, buy books, weapons or drinks.
The realization struck him many time: he wasn’t alone; the other creatures would however kill countless humans, and some humans calling themselves Hunters were fighting back by wandering across the country in search of supernatural preys to slay.
That last thought worried him both for emotional reasons than by his police officer training: although saving people was good, he couldn’t allow psychopaths to kill everyone in their path -kill innocent humans but also innocent creatures that meant no harm like him. Vigilantes were illegal after all, and even if he wasn’t very close to his adoptive mother, he couldn’t let other families get broken by careless hunters. So he decided he’d secretly track down hunters, spy their hunting habits and make sure any of them harming in any way institutions or guiltless people would end up pretty quickly under arrest if not dead if he was forced to. This is how began his own traveling across the country, his shifting power, training and never aging body being assets in his own hunt."
"Name: Sarah Novak
Age: 30
Species: Human
Height: 5'8"
Build: Slender
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark Bruenette, Waist Length, Straight
Bio: Sarah is fun loving, sarcastic and witty. She has a habit of being able to see through bullshit to the truth of the matter. So when she stumbled into the supernatural, she curiosity was peaked. For 16 years she lived in a world full of growing technology and dwindling superstition. When she found out her best friend was a witch, she tried telling her parents. They of course didn't believe her. Sarah tried talking to her brother, but Jimmy was too busy with his college courses and his bible studies to really pay attention. Left with no recourse, Sarah investigated on her own. Lani was in way over her head, and Sarah was eventually forced to kill her, though all the official reports say Lani's death was an accident. Sarah spent two years learning as much as she could about the supernatural and even took on a few minor hunts around her home town. When she turned 18, Sarah packed a bag and never looked back. She hitchhiked around the country soaking up as much information as she could. On one such information hunt she ran into Rufus, who was on an actual hunt. Sarah showed great prowess with a shot gun, explaining it by say her dad was a deer hunter and taught her how to shoot. Rufus, impressed by Sarah's calm during the hunt combined with her ability to get people talking, and, more importantly, talking about the truth, decided to take her under his wing and teach her about the hunt. Through Rufus, she's met both Bobby Singer and Ellen Harville, and was once a regular at the Road House. She also dated Ash for a time. A prolonged chupricabra hunt outside DC had kept her occupied when the Winchesters had rolled in, and a second hunt in Albequerque saved her when the Road House had been burned down by demons. Her only regret was that she hadn't been able to convince Ash to come with her on that second one. Though she has heard much of the Winchesters, she's never met them, but when apocalyptic omens started flying around, Sarah tracked down her brother only to find that Jimmy was missing, and Amelia and Claire didn't know anything about it. Almost a year later, Sarah gets a frantic phone call from Amelia saying Jimmy's an Angel and demons are after them. Sarah gets the full story as she helps Amelia and Claire resettle and ward their new home.
[( ok, so yes, i went there
Sarah's looks are based loosely off of Misha (he's 5'11" and will be turning 37 this year, which translated to Jimmy being 37 and a 7 year age difference is acceptable) and god, doesn't he look great for being nearly 40? )]"
okay, so that's the background info! this way to the story!