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damecharlie
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:14 pm


ORIGINAL CASTLE RP

In the middle of a dark wood, far enough away from any human settlement to be discrete, is a castle. Somewhat in ruin and disrepair, this castle was once a place of laughter and intrique. Now this castle holds only mysterious secrets; Secrets of the night. Secrets of vampires.

We play in a modern world setting with fantasy elements. The main story is based around the group of vampires and humans who live in the Castle. The castle has no name and it's true location is never stated. We also interact and RP in the town/cities near the castle.

We have dark elements, limited by the restriction of Gaia rules. PG13! Madness, death, and blood is welcome! We also have romantic elements, mostly between vampires, and mostly tragic. Humans are generally considered food, tools, or sometimes companions. Come to join us in the dark.

Before this guild was created, the RP began on an individual thread. A summary is available but the full history of the rp is here at: “The Castle of Unknown Secrets”

This castle has a rich history which may be covered later. The castle is currently ruled by Master Evander and Mistress Chaylante. Evander is leader of a coven consisting of: Benedict Chambers, David Marceso, Crosifista, Lyssette, and Lukas Belmont. Other vampires are currently residing or visiting the castle such as Sebastian and Takahashi. Master Evander has a renfield, John, who is in charge of the human staff: John’s assistant- Matt, Sebastain’s renfield-Crimson, and a cleaning staff.
 
PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:12 pm


CREATING CHARACTERS


Please run your character idea by damecharlie or decorera. It just makes things easier in the long run and we can help you get integrated into plot faster. Feel free to play multiple characters if you have the time. Or if your character not longer fits in the game feel free to bring a new one in and have your other character exit.

VAMPIRE: There are no set guidelines about type of vampire. Use your imagination! However, characters should not be all-powerful or ridiculously old. It gets really boring RPing with all-powerfuls and I will call you a cave-vamp if you are really that old. We have all different types of vampires so far as characters, in regards to powers and weaknesses. Mostly, players decide for themselves the loose limitations of their character. Knowing those limitations and abiding by them prevents one-up wars, if you know what I mean.

HUMANS: To vampires, humans are generally servants or food. Some vampires do hold affection for humans but the best way to get into the castle as a human is as a Blood Human (food kept and cared for in the castle "domesticated" ), Servant (Castle employee: not usually fed upon. They are under the protection of the Master.), or Renfield (Personal servant/food for a particular vampire)

To be a renfield, you must have a vampire patron. Your status can change during the RP. But if you blunder in as a human, you will most likely get made into a blood human or servant.

Supernatural Elements: There are other supernatural creatures in this world but we ask that you do not play them as PC. However werewolves and etc may be mentioned. Magical ability is usually rare in humans or reserved for the very old vampires. Currently we have three magical characters; which is pushing it, so please get magic ability approved by a thread mod.
 

Decorera
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Decorera
Vice Captain

Dapper Shapeshifter

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:16 pm


((OOC: hehe, I made dec's posts girly...heeee))

GLOSSARY

Master/Mistress of the Castle: the Head vampire(s), In charge and responsible for the castle and its inhabitants. Current Master and Mistress: Evander Ovile and Chaylante Liseral.

Ancient: Any vampire exceeding 750 yrs. Vampires older than 1000 are very rare and generally quite reclusive.

Elder: Can be used interchangeably with Ancient. Is also used to describe the leader and/or oldest member of a coven/clan/house.

Sire and Childe(r): A Sire is a vampire who turns a human into a vampire (childe). Childer is the plural.

Blood-Clan/Family/Kin: The vampires connected by line of sire and childe. Example: Evander(sire), Chaylante(childe), Benedict(childe), and David(childe) are a Blood-clan because Evander made the other three into vampires. Evander's sire and any childer from the other three would also be Blood-clan.

Coven: A group of vampires not related by blood but bound together as a group. Sometimes bound with pledges of loyalty to the master/mistress.

Renfield: a human who serves one particular vampire. This service varies according to the vampire: personal food, personal assistant, personal caretaker, etc. The vampire is responsible for the human's deeds, good or bad. Under Evander's Mastery, Renfield wear a ribbon of a specific color to signify their status. A drop of blood from the Renfield's master must be placed on the ribbon (scent marker).
Current Renfields
John: Renfield of Evander: Gold ribbon
Crimson: Renfield of Sebastian: Black ribbon

Blood Human: a human used purely for feeding, kept in the east wing of the castle and wear RED ribbons

Human Servants: humans under the direction of John. They are the servants of the castle: cook, clean, laundry, gardening, fetch and carry, etc. They wear BLUE Ribbons
 
PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 6:58 pm


Quick and/or Helpful Resources


List of Characters and Their Handlers
damecharlie – Chaylante (Vampire), Crimson (Human), Edward (a.k.a. The One) (Vampire), Claudia (Vampire), Lena Eva (Vampire...for the moment. XD)
Darky Darling – Crosifista (Vampire), Sei (Human)
Decorera – Evander (Vampire), John (Human), Benedict (Vampire), David (Vampire)
Halicon – Lukas (Vampire)
misskatiekins/Katilys Heartsong – Lyssette (Vampire)
Nastrodamus – Yoshihiro (Vampire, now gone), Takahashi (Vampire)
Tactic_Fai – Matt (Human), Sebastain (Vampire), Elliot (Vampire)
krusnik05 – Saffire (Vampire), Sofie Anne (Vampire)

Character Ages
(V) Chaylante Liseral – 563, looks late 20’s
(V) Evander Ovile (Of Isle) – 804, looks about 28ish
(V) Edward Grimm – 483, looks about 24
(V) Claudia Stockshire – 901, looks late 20’s/early 30’s
(V) Benedict Chambers – 363, looks about 25/26
(V) David Marcenso – 113, looks about 24
(V) Crosifista LeClair – over a thousand years, looks 12ish/like a child
(V) Lyssette Ellis Ward – 26, looks 26 (recently turned)
(V) Lukas Belmont – 170, looks 25
(V) Yoshihiro Ishige – between 200 and 400, looks 21
(V) Takahashi (a.k.a. Brother 10) – unknown ancient, looks 20’s/30’s
(V) Sebastain – unknown, looks 18
(V) Elliot Valin – unknown, looks 17
(V) Saffire Nightlord – about 853, looks 20’s/30’s
(V) Lena Eva and Sofie Anne Schiffer - 399, look 23
(H) John Callahan – 25
(H) Crimson (a.k.a. Kayia Nakia Sanguine) – 18 almost 19
(H) Matthew Callahan – 17
(H) Sei - 17

Countries of Origin
Chay – Russia
Evander – Ireland
Edward – England
Claudia – England
Ben – England
David – Italy
Crosifista – Romania
Lyssette – country of the rp
Lukas – Southern States, USA
Yoshihiro – Japan
Takahashi – Japan
Sebastain – Unknown
Elliot - Unknown
Saffire – Spain
Lena Eva - Holy Roman Empire, area now known as Germany
Sofie Anne - Holy Roman Empire, area now known as Germany
John – Louisiana, USA
Crimson – country of the rp
Matt – country of the rp
Sei - Japan

damecharlie
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damecharlie
Captain

Versatile Lunatic

PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 7:02 pm


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Character Connections
(V) Evander: Sire of Chay, Ben, and David (in that order). In love with Chay, also loves/has deep relations with David. Fatherly figure to Ben. Boss of John. One of the Ancients who used to live in the castle before Edward became master. Old friends with Claudia and Saffire. Current Master of the House. Soon-to-be-killer of Edward.

(V) Chay: Childe and past lover of Evander. Sister of Ben and David. Lived in the castle before Edward became Master, close friend/best friends with Claudia, acquaintance of Saffire. Current lover and past murderer/ mistress/ torturee of Edward. Also staked him. Was poisoned by Edward into loving him. Currently has no vampiric powers (except for the most basic like superhuman strength, senses, and healing). Current Mistress of the House.

(V) Edward: Brother of Crosifista. Long time friend of Takahashi (not clearly state in the RP yet). Stealer of Lyssette and Chaylante's vampiric powers for his own gaine. Previous lover/torturer/poisoner of Chay and previous Master of the House. Previous torturer of Sebastain.

(V) Claudia: Kin to Edward through vampire blood and human blood, old friends with Evander and Saffire and close/best friends with Chay. Was one of the ancients who lived in the castle before Edward became master. After Edward became master, she ruled along side him as Mistress until Chaylante took over. Currently helping look after the inhabitants of the Castle until the present Master and Mistress are feeling better.

(V) Ben: Childe of Evander. Brother of Chay and David. Teacher/Guide of Magic for Crosifista. Budding romantic relationship with Lyssette. Castle protector magician. Current Castle Coven Member.

(V) David: Childe of Evander. Brother of Chay and Ben. Wants/has romantic relationship with John. Also has deeper relationship with Evander. Current Castle Coven Member.

(V) Crosifista: Sister of Edward. Pupil/student of magic with Ben. Past Mistress of the Castle. Sire of Claudia. Current Castle Coven Member.

(V) Lyssette: Childe of Edward. Related to Crosifista and Claudia through Edward. Budding romantic relationship with Ben. Currently has no vampiric powers (except for the most basic like superhuman strength, senses, and healing). Current Castle Coven Member.

(V) Lukas: Slight acquaintance with Ben. (RL brother of Dec). Current Castle Coven Member.

(V) Yoshihiro: No past connections. Works for The Brotherhood, knows Takahashi because of it.

(V) Takahashi: Long time friend of Edward (not clearly stated in RP yet), works/worked for The Brotherhood, knows Yoshihiro because of it. Helped dispose of Golgotha.

(V) Sebastain: Previous resident of the castle under Edward and Chay. Was banned from castle by Chay. Boss of Crimson, also budding romantic relationship with Crimson. Previous torturee of Edward. Has pledged himself to Chaylante.

(V) Elliot: Somehow knows Edward and use to live in the castle. Friends with Sei. Knows Lena Eva and Sofie Anne.

(V) Saffire: Lived in the castle before Edward became master. Old friends with Evander and Claudia and acquaintances with Chay. Knows all the old Ancient residents previously in the castle. Castle Doctor.

(V) Lena Eva: Twin sister of Sofie Anne. Knows Elliot. Any other connections are unknown as of now.

(V) Sofie Anne: Twin sister of Lena Eva. Knows Elliots. Any other connections are unknown as of now.

(H) John: renfield for Evander, love interest for/with David. Has adopted Matt as his son.

(H) Crimson: renfield for Sebastain, also has a budding romantic relationship with him.

(H) Matt: assistant in training and recently adopted son of John.

(H) Sei: somehow has ties to Crosifista. Friends with Elliot. Any other relationships unknown as of now.
PostPosted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:37 pm


SUMMARY of RP EVENTS in OLD THREAD



“Prequel” – basically everything that happened before Evander came into the rp. The setting is these teenagers (keep in mind I did not create this rp, lol) go on a camping trip, get lost in the woods and find a castle on a hill. (How surprising, yes?) Well, (even more surprising!) the castle is owned and lived in by vampires. The master of the castle is called Edward (no, not like cullen, damn books). However, he is no where to be found and after the teenagers finally find their way INTO the castle, they meet some “teenage” vampires. These teens and vampires go about trying to scare each other for about six pages. The only one you really need to know about is Matt (Tactic_Fai) because all the rest leave the rp later on. However, we (decorera and I) have decided that the humans were kept on as staff (cleaning, doing vampires bidding, etc) and are now NPCs, Matt (Tactic_Fai) became a “trainee” and is being looked after by John (dec) who you will learn more about later. Chaylante (damecharlie) entered the scene on page 8 as the mistress of the castle (and consequently Edward) and told the vampiric children to stop being retarded and to do something with the humans (i.e. kill them, enslave them, or never let them leave, hence how they became staff). Since then, dec and I have taken control of the thread and pushed it into a better, less teenagery, direction. That leads you up to the numbered section. Please read on, my friend.

1. Evander (decorera) and his renfield John (decorera) entered castle, met with Chay (damecharlie) and Angel (doesn’t matter bc she left the rp).

2. Evander (decorera) took over Mastery of the castle from Edward (because Edward did not respond to Evander [dec]’s challenge, because he is “aslumber” and has been for 20 some odd years) and seems to be sharing power with Chaylante (damecharlie). Evander (dec) ordered the ribbon rule put in place. (Red ribbons of "okay to feed" humans, blue ribbons on “staff", and personal color ribbons for renfields (black for Sebastain and gold for Evander).

3. Yoshihiro Ishige (Nastrodamus), a samurai vampire, arrived at the castle via deliverymen in a crate.

4. Emily Rose (doesn’t matter left rp), a vampire who slaughtered castle vampires and humans in a mad rage 200 yrs ago, woke up and was felt around the castle.

5. Evander (dec) got into a standoff with Emily, which resulted in Emily fleeing to her coffin. Later the rper left the RP.

6. Lyssette (misskatiekins) entered castle and became human staff.

7. Sebastian (Tactic_Fai) entered castle and confronted the human staff (John [dec], Matt [Tactic_Fai], Lyssette [misskatiekins]).

8. Yoshihiro (Nastrodamus) and Evander (dec) got into a very intense fight/duel witnessed only by Lyssette (katiekins).

9. Crimson (damecharlie's new human) met Mr. Ward (Katiekins NPC, abusive husband to Lyssette) and they entered the castle. Crosifista (Darky Darling), a child-like, vampires came in.

10. Sebastain (Tactic) began long conversation with Crimson (damecharlie), which finalized in her becoming his renfield.

11. In the kitchen, human staff got vampire lecture from John (dec), was interrupted by Mr. Ward and his dogs, one dog was shredded by Crosifista (darky darling), and Ward was taken down by John (dec). Ward was sent to the dungeons to wait further attention (must be kept alive!)

12. The blood humans arrived and were installed in the east wing.

13. Lyssette (katiekins) was brutally beaten to near death by her husband Ward, but was turned (into a vampire) by the mysterious villain (The One [damecharlie]). She was carried away; not to be seen for a long time.

14. Nobody knows but the villain (also called The One [damecharlie]) performs a dark ritual with Lyssette.

15. Benedict (dec’s other vampire char) arrives along with David (dec’s other OTHER [lol] vampire char). The VERY obvious sibling rivarlry between Chaylante (damecharlie) and her brothers, Ben and David (both dec) is seen. (As in, Chay dislikes them both but especially hates David).

16. The blood humans were killed in a freak magical accident of Crosifista (darky). Benedict (dec) began to teach Crosifista magic and how to control hers better.

16. Emily Rose was found murdered in her coffin. All vampires (but Sebastain [tactic]) investigate, find hidden occult library, find Lyssette (katiekins), now a vampire, there. She has lost all her vampire powers. Benedict (dec) takes her under his wing.

17. At some point during this time and maybe somewhere during all this craziness, Chay (damecharlie) admits to Evander (dec) why Edward never woke up to accept Evander’s challenge of mastery and why Edward has been slumbering for all these years. The reason? She staked him. Yes, she killed him. It is also revealed that apparently he had been abusing her, but it is not revealed what kind of abuse. (No one except Evander and Chay [maybe Ben] know that Chay staked Edward.)

18. Yoshihiro (nas) overheard Evander (dec) complaining to Chay (damecharlie) about being Master. Yoshihiro (nas) and his Masters, called The Brotherhood, decided to punish him. One voice activated Order 38, which sent invisible insubstantial creatures to attack Chay (damecharlie). Yoshihiro (nas) disappeared accidentally leaving the key to defeating the creatures.

19. Evander (dec) had planned for something like this and had Benedict (dec) activate the castles wards. No one can enter, exit, or communicate outside without permission.

20. The One (damecharlie) decided to take control of the creatures and send most after Evander (dec) and a few after John (dec). Evander (dec) and David (dec) fought them until Ben (dec) and Crosifista (darky) could banish them.

21. David (dec) went to help John (dec) and found him badly wounded. David (dec), Matt (tactic), and Crimson (damecharlie) took John (dec) to a hospital.

22. The organization behind Yoshihiro (nas) [aka The Brotherhood] sent a new danger after the castle. It has not arrived yet.

23.
Another Japanese vampire, related to The Brotherhood, Takahashi (nas’s new char) has come to the castle and has infiltrated the wards.

24. As all the vampires (Sebastain [tactic] excluded) are ordered to convene in the same room (Chay’s bedroom) for protection/strength in numbers, Chay (damecharlie) and Evander (dec) confront Takahashi (nas) and exchange words causing Chay to get pissed and storm out of the room.

25. Takahashi (nas) tells Evander (dec) what The Brotherhood is sending (Golgotha – a very large, nasty beast that can move through walls and in-between the spaces of dimensions/time/space/etc.) and they are sending it because there is some sacred/dark magic book/scroll in the castle that they want back.

26. Chay (damecharlie) storms back into her room, causing all the other vampires to go to the next bedroom over so they don’t have to endure her wrath. While alone in the room, Chay (damecharlie) is captured by The One (damecharlie) and dragged off down the secret/service passages in the direction of the catacombs. It is also revealed that The One (damecharlie) is actually the dead/slumbering/absent Master of the House, Edward.

27. Ben (dec) and all the other vampires in the next room (all except Takahashi [nas] and Evander [dec]) hear the struggle between Chay (damecharlie) and The One (damecharlie). David (dec) runs to help her but Ben (dec) stops him with magic, for his own protection.

28. Takahashi (nas) and Evander (dec) make their way back to the other vampires, Ben (dec) tells Evander (dec) that Chay (damecharlie) has been taken by “Him” (damecharlie) and Evander immediately knows that Edward (damecharlie) is alive and has taken Chay. He goes into Chay’s bedroom and has a mini-temper tantrum which results in him breaking Edward’s coffin, revealing that it is empty. Evander then calms himself and goes back into the room with all the other vampires and waits for Takahashi to hatch his plan.

29. Lukas (Halicon), a new vampire who is briefly acquainted with Ben (dec) enters the castle.

30. Takahashi (nas) tells the vampires that the mages will be doing most of the work and that the fighters will also need to be there. David (dec) and Lukas (Halicon) are sent to gather weapons from Evander (dec)’s belongings and armor from the armory of the castle. They gather said items and then start putting symbols on the armor and weapons that will enable the weapons to harm the monster that is on its way to the castle. They get enough of both items so that all the vampires (Chay and Sebastain excluded.)

31. While the boys are getting weapons, Taka (nas) and Evander (dec) move all the rest down into the occult library. The mages are sent off to research in separate corners of the room and Taka (nas) instills some of his magical knowledge into Ben (dec) causing him to collapse on the floor. Once he awakens he is asked to gather supplies for Taka (nas), while Evander “remodels” the room to make it bigger for battle. (By breaking down a few walls). Lyssette (katiekins) helps in this.

32. The boys return with the weapons and armor and the vampires, one by one, come up to the bags and claim weapons/armor suited to their abilities and their stature. Even the mages adorn the items. Ben (dec) has all the items Taka (nas) requested and all are now awaiting orders/directions from Takahashi and the imminent battle between the vampires and the mythical creature Golgotha.

33. HOWEVER, during ALL OF THAT, all the battle preparations, Edward (damecharlie) has been busy down stairs with Chay (damecharlie) and, surprisingly, Sebastain (Tactic_Fai).

34. Sebastain (tactic) seeing his old master (Edward [dame]) again, dragging Chay (dame) down the hallways towards the catacombs, decides to follow after him, making his choice to “go to the darkside.” (All the other vampires know this because he made his choice visibly in front of Evander (dec) and the room of vamps, by turning away from the offered protection room and going off to find Edward. He is now considered the enemy.) Sebastain (tactic) follows Edward (dame) pulling Chay (dame) by her hair down the stairs and continues to follow them until Edward throws Chay on the ground in a large, cavernous room filled with odd devices (torture instruments/machines). In the middle of the large room is a ten-foot or so pole with suspicious ashes piled around the pole and shackles. The middle of the ceiling (which is about 100 or so feet up) are panels where the roof is missing, revealing the stars and moon. Faint moonlight is filtering down to rest upon the pole. (Hahah, can you tell this is the part I wrote? I gave a LITTLE bit too much information for a summary. OOOOH well, onward!).

35. Sebastain (tactic) tries to talk to Edward (dame) and is thrown into a wall by him. Sebastain tries again and is socked once more. The idiot tries one or two more times which results in Edward shutting him in an iron maiden and then evil villain monologuing to him. He then forces (by threatening him) to watch what he does to Chay (dame).

36. Edward (dame) commences to torturing Chay (dame) brutally and relentlessly while Sebastain (tactic) is forced to watch. Sebastain makes feeble cries begging Edward to stop, to no avail. During the torture, Chay fazes in and out of consciousness and has several flashback/memory sequences in the midst of the torture. We learn a few inconsequential things about her past…as of now at least.

37. During all the castle craziness that has been going on, the humans (John [dec], Crimson [dame], and Matt [tactic] have been at the hospital, trying to get John checked out and stable. Not much that is important has gone on with them, only silly games and meanness, such as Crimson telling Matt that John has died while the man was out of the room being examined. Hilarity ensued. As of right now, they are our comedic break. But, now their plot is moving again. Another vampire, Saffire Nightlord (krusnik05), entered the scene as a doctor in the hospital the humans are in. Oh yea, and Golgotha finally attacked and Edward (damecharlie) is currently flaying Chay (damecharlie) while poor Sebastain (tactic_fai) is still being forced to watch. Claudia [damecharlie] (one of the old ancients from the original castle) came back and is currently in the hospital with the humans (dame, tactic, and dec) and Saffire (krusnik05).

38. A huge battle ensued between Golgotha and the vampires. After long strives and struggles of brave vampires, Claudia (dame) went through the wards at the original castle and got involved with the tail end of the Golgotha battle. We won…yea. During the fuss and hubbub of the aftermath, Evander (dec) takes off alone to confront Edward (dame); leaving a very pretty blood trail.

39.
The humans load up with black market weapons and go fetch some more blood humans. Good for them. Takahashi (Nas) bound Edward (dame) with magic after confronting him.

40. By the time everyone has noticed Evander (dec) is missing and head down after him, the Master and Former Master of the castle are before each other. Evander (dec) is cut off from Edward and Chay (both dame) by a large area of sunlight. Edward, the coward, takes the opportunity to taunt Evander and Chaylante with many things; the most important: 150 years ago, Edward slipped Chaylante a love poison which took 50 years to take effect. Evander got a little pissed off and walked through the sunlight to attack the b*****d. So by the time everybody else arrived, Evander had gotten Chay down from her chains and bound the half-eaten Edward with chains and his own entrails.

41. Sebastain (Tactic) was let out of the iron maiden and forgiven all around. Now Chaylante is his best friend. ["Yay," Chay says dryly.] Evander left Takahashi (Nas) and Benedict (dec) in the catacombs to watch over Edward until everyone had recuperated enough to try to take back Chaylante and Lyssette’s (Katily) vampiric powers from him. Everyone else went upstairs to the blood humans wing and began recuperating.

42. Lukas (Halicon), Crosifista (Darky), and Lyssette (Katily) are feeding in the blood human wing. Claudia (dame), Saffire (Krusnik), and David (dec) installed Evander (dec) and Chaylante (dame) into spare bedrooms to recover. Crimson (dame) let out the human staff and set them to cleaning up. John (dec) and Matt (Tactic) began cleaning up Chaylante’s bedroom and Sebastain (Tactic) and Crimson (dame) are on their way to help. Claudia (dame), noticing that more humans would soon be needed, is getting ready to venture out and is in the garage.

Names in () or [] beside character names are the gaian’s screennames who play the characters.
Up-to-date as of December 21, 2009.

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