Mutagenesis: Dawn of a New Age (Sign up/OOC)

[Klom89]

Second temp. is completed.

 

[Rii]

Name: Tobias (Toby) Frazier


Alias: Pyre


Age: 16


Gender: Male


Alignment: Hero/Villain


Appearance: Toby is a nice height for a sixteen year old, reaching 6'2" and still growing. Pitch black hair sweeps down his forehead and just brushes his stern, deep green eyes. His complexion is clear except for the few scars every child seems to wind up with by their teen years, and his skin tone is average. He isn't the tannest person around, but he certainly isn't the palest either. Years of playing soccer and baseball gave him a good physique, and taking up football in middle school only improved upon it.


Personality: Toby has a slight case of split personality. It's not something that's evident unless you stick with him for a while, but it's definitely there. Most of the time, he's a generally happy, sarcastic, know-it-all. His intellect is exceptional, and he's pretty well liked among his peers. He's generally thought of as funny, and a lot of girls describe him as "my best gay, who's straight", though his humor and sarcasm are often used as defense mechanisms. It's generally easy to make him laugh, and generally easier to laugh when around him. Though most of his humor was lost when the end of the world came.

His other personality is the cause of his anger, and when he finds himself in his separate personality, people are shocked by things he says and does. The phrase "you won't like me when I'm angry" generally makes people laugh and think of the Hulk, but it pretty accurately describes Toby. His thoughts turn to a dark place whenever he's upset, and now that the radiation has altered his brain chemistry, he mostly won't be able to stop himself from doing whatever he thinks when angry, including murder.


Primary Power: Super (Controlled) Speed -
When the asteroids hit, and the radiation spread, his entire body was mutated, allowing him to move faster than any human being. However, with no training, he can only run about one hundred miles before he begins to slow down. What this means is that, while running across the Hudson River would be a piece of cake, he probably won't be running across the Atlantic Ocean anytime soon. Similarly, as he punches, the speed of his swings make it seem as though he punches harder than normal, but this increased force of his punches also has backlash. The pain he feels from his punches is enhanced as well.

Individual cells in his body and mind were also altered, giving him the ability to mentally tell his cells to move faster and rub together at high speeds. The resulting friction can cause him to burst into flames, similar to The Human Torch. He can throw balls of fire he conjures from his flames, or use the blasts to "fly" a short distance. However, the more of his fire he uses in each transformation, the closer to human, and less flame, he is. This means that he can blast himself the the top of tall buildings(about 20 stories max at the beginning), but he can't fly across the country. After each transformation, Toby is exhausted, and unable to transform again for a varying amount of time. Also, he has the ability to only heat up parts of his body, a hand, for instance, to do things like start fires. However, once the fire is no longer apart of his body, he has no control over it.


Secondary Power: Enhanced Heat and Flame Resistance
Because the cells in Toby's body have been altered to the point of bursting into flame at will, they've developed an unnatural resistance to hear and fire. When the radiation first reached his cells, they began to encase themselves in a flame retardant covering. The cells are basically in a cocoon of heat resistance, but his skin still looks and feels the same as a normal human being's.

The downside is, the covering isn't fire proof. If Toby stays in his transformation for too long, or if he gets too hot, the covering will melt, and his skin will be exposed to the flame or heat, and while the casing has the power to grow back, this will initially take a few days at a time(though the time gap will shrink and the covering will become more resistant as he hones his skills.)


Weapons: Anything he can find to use, as well as his fists.


History: Tobias Frazier was born and raised in Oklahoma. Before the blast hit, he was a more or less average kid leaving his Freshman year of high school. He was incredibly bright, his intelligence matching that of even college students, but he had made the decision to take school one grade at a time, as he determined it was easier making friends with people his own age. Toby wasn't the most popular kid at his school, but he was definitely the most well known. Everybody liked him, though some pretended not to. He was funny, tall, athletic, hardly anything not to like about him. He had some problems, ADD and some anger management issues, but what high schooler didn't have some kind of mental trauma?

When the blast hit, everything changed. He got sick almost immediately, coughing and throwing up all the time, and then he passed out just days after the last asteroid struck. When he came to, he was in one of the last hospitals still operating in Oklahoma. Nobody was in his room, so he wasn't sure what was happening to him. He called out for a nurse, but nobody came. He looked down, and realized that he was just there, he wasn't hooked up to anything, so he got out of his bed and stumbled out of the nearly empty hospital. What doctors and nurses he saw had no objection to him leaving. He realized that he was in Tulsa, at the hospital just down the street from his house. He walked home, barefoot in a paper gown, and found his house locked. He climbed up to the second story, and opened the window to his sister's room(she always left it unlocked in case somebody needed to get in the house and didn't have a key.) He took a long shower, slowly remembering everything from before he passed out, and put on fresh clothes. The boy went into the living room, to find his mother dead on the couch. He knew she was dead from the stench that filled the room, and the way her face was sunken in. His dad and his older sister were nowhere to be seen. He went into the kitchen, and found everything they had on their refrigerator was gone, and a single folded piece of paper was there instead. It told Toby that his father and sister had left Tulsa and driven to Joplin, where Toby's uncle lived, and if he made it out of the hospital, he was to meet his family there. And that's when he realized how fast he could run. He ran the first 100 miles in about twenty minutes, then he began slowing down, and made it the last 13 in about the same amount of time.

He found his way to his Uncle's house, and has been living with his family for the last two months. He learned of CORE and developed a hatred for them. He told his family about his speed, and his sister revealed that she could fly(or, at the time, hover). Their father and uncle both agreed that it was best that the kids keep their powers to themselves. And so Toby's family has lived quietly, under the radar that was CORE.


Notes: I intend for Toby to discover his pyro-type powers towards the beginning of the story, and for his sister to die soon. Also, if you dislike his sister having the ability to fly,I can cut that out, if you so choose. And before I write up his Secondary Power I wanted to check with you that it was cool that the fire thing was part of his Primary. It can be his Secondary, if you would prefer that. Lastly, I'm going to explain why I chose Hero/Villain as his alignment when I write up his personality.

 

[Artemis]

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I offer up the souls of the people who keep offering up souls.

Name: Discarded his name ages ago, only goes by his A.K.A., Mode.

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Alignment: Neutral Evil or Chaotic Neutral. Interpret as you will.

Appearance: http://oi40.tinypic.com/20nytw.jpg

Personality: Mode is the embodiment of "Schadenfreude." He gains pleasure from the suffering of others. He does not discriminate his targets nor does he single any of them out. The entire world is one massive enemy that should, and can, be wiped out. This evil manifests itself in battle. He will degrade the opponent, over-use killing techniques, and strike any when they are down.

Philosophically, Mode takes the idea of "Natural Selection" to heart. The strong devour the weak. To him, compassion is useless sentiment that degrades the human psyche. Only through trial and hardship can a sentient being develop and evolve to stave off degradation.

He sees Supers as a superior race. He uses derogatory terms (self-made) for non-Supers, such as "normies" and "Homo Inferior." While he isn't a "conquer the world" type, he is more than willing to follow (or at least hasten) humanity's downfall. This has resulted in a slight respect for the Afflicted.

Despite his villainous approach to the world, he has a warped code of honor. He cannot be bribed or set up to betray another employer. Any who betray him are retaliated against. He also has brief bouts of clarity in which he displays rather soft emotions. While he won't exactly be the type to hold your hand for the loss of a loved one, he will show minor sympathy for those under his banner. (If he ever ends up with anyone joining him) This doesn't make him any less of a sadist, though it shows he isn't emotionally inept. Scientists theorize that he may suffer from mental instability, (potentially Schizophrenia) which explains these sudden bouts of vulnerability.

His weakness is his mindset. His urge to make others suffer make him Public Enemy #1 to pretty much anyone who doesn't think as he does. Needless to say, this doesn't make him many friends.

Primary Power: Super Strength
Mode has immense physical strength stemming from experiments performed on him, as well as the radiation released from the Blast. During his tenure, the drugs he had been given (See his History) granted him brief bouts of enhanced strength. However, The Blast's radiation has combined with what little side-effects of the drug had remained. This has completely re-written his DNA sequences, allowing his body to output extraordinary amounts of strength and exert mass amounts of energy.

As a side-effect, this also causes him to exert much more energy than normal if prolonged, making him extremely vulnerable to fatigue and exhaustion.



Secondary Power: Predatory Instincts

Mode possesses an intense biological knowledge of hunting, tracking, and predicting the moves of his enemies. This is implied to be a mixture of biological and external factors. As such, he hunts for his food, and uses these skills to take down more logical opponents and minor Afflicted.

Army Training

Being a former soldier, Mode is well-versed in basic evasion and take-down tactics, as well as Ju-Jitsu grappling and boxing.

Weapons: Mode uses his fists in battle, covered with spiked gloves. When weaponizing is necessary, he will usually use objects, or even people within the immediate vicinity.

History: Mode was formerly a member of the United States Army. He was notorious for his tendency to switch from a calm demeanor to a dark, sadistic persona. This made his squad tense whenever interrogations were necessary, because seven times out of ten, he would end up killing the enemy, rather than doing his job. This earned him the nickname "Mode." (As in switching between "modes" of personality, if you will) After a year of the carnage, he was dishonorably discharged and barred from ever applying again.

However, the Secret Service took interest in Mode and asked him to volunteer for an experimental drug in exchange for amnesty for his past mis-deeds. The experiment was a success.....Too much of a success. Mode began to become belligerent. The strength gained from the drug contributed to his ego. Scientists began to go "missing," and what should've been basic tests turned into ordeals. The drug required constant surveillance to analyze, and this eventually led to him being incarcerated within the facility, for fear of what public exposure, much less conventional combat use, would entail. Mode was locked up within a special tube, and all doses and physical instances of the drug were disposed of.

Then the blast hit.

The bunker used by the Service was protected from the physical effects of the blast, but the radiation quickly seeped in. As time marched on, the scientists were prevented from leaving the project. The radiation mounted and built up within the facility. The team was wiped out or infected. The protections of the facility rotted with time and less man-power. The radiation even made it into Mode's tube. The radiation entered Mode's body through wires and holes within the containment tube. It began re-writing DNA sequences and changing biological prowess. His entire body was melded into something superior. After a year of imprisonment, Mode broke out of the facility.

Mode clawed his way through scientist, Afflicted, and soldier, all for the sake of freedom. As he open the doors to the world after the longest time, it all dawned on him. The blast was a catalyst. An omen. Humanity was finished. If the blast made him into what he was, who knows what it did to others? Humanity's time was over.

There was a new food chain.

Extras: N/A

I like him, I like all that you put into his personality. Very despicable, he will make a good villain I'd just request that you add more to his super strength, like what exactly his limits are. Being that it's super, they can be a little ridiculous, but I just want a set point for him so everyone else knows.

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I offer the soul of the Pharaoh Atem, because spoiler alert.

Name: Michael Jackson(not that one) AKA, Jackal
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Alignment: Unaligned
Appearance: He's covered from head to toe in clothing because the virus covered his body in weird scars. He wears black converse, the bottom part of an orange prison uniform, a gray shirt, a green hoodie, black gloves, and a jack-o'-lantern mask.
Personality: At first glance he seems carefree, but he's actually very disturbed. Ever since the mutagenesis outbreak his life hasn't been the same. He has his morals about killing and all that but he realizes he has to sometimes if he wants to help take down CORE. He is still a child and that limits him, but also inspires him to do better.
Primary Power:
Secondary Power:
Weapons:
History:
Extras:

I'll finish this up later because I can.

Keep working on him, he looks like he'll be a thriller

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Name: Tobias (Toby) Frazier

Alias: Pyre

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Alignment: Hero/Villain

Appearance: Toby is a nice height for a sixteen year old, reaching 6'2" and still growing. Pitch black hair sweeps down his forehead and just brushes his stern, deep green eyes. His complexion is clear except for the few scars every child seems to wind up with by their teen years, and his skin tone is average. He isn't the tannest person around, but he certainly isn't the palest either. Years of playing soccer and baseball gave him a good physique, and taking up football in middle school only improved upon it.

Personality:

Primary Power: Super (Controlled) Speed -
When the asteroids hit, and the radiation spread, his entire body was mutated, allowing him to move faster than any human being. However, with no training, he can only run about one hundred miles before he begins to slow down. What this means is that, while running across the Hudson River would be a piece of cake, he probably won't be running across the Atlantic Ocean anytime soon. Similarly, as he punches, the speed of his swings make it seem as though he punches harder than normal, but this increased force of his punches also has backlash. The pain he feels from his punches is enhanced as well.

Individual cells in his body and mind were also altered, giving him the ability to mentally tell his cells to move faster and rub together at high speeds. The resulting friction can cause him to burst into flames, similar to The Human Torch. He can throw balls of fire he conjures from his flames, or use the blasts to "fly" a short distance. However, the more of his fire he uses in each transformation, the closer to human, and less flame, he is. This means that he can blast himself the the top of tall buildings(about 20 stories max at the beginning), but he can't fly across the country. After each transformation, Toby is exhausted, and unable to transform again for a varying amount of time. Also, he has the ability to only heat up parts of his body, a hand, for instance, to do things like start fires. However, once the fire is no longer apart of his body, he has no control over it.

Secondary Power:

Weapons: Anything he can find to use, as well as his fists.

History: Tobias Frazier was born and raised in Oklahoma. Before the blast hit, he was a more or less average kid leaving his Freshman year of high school. He was incredibly bright, his intelligence matching that of even college students, but he had made the decision to take school one grade at a time, as he determined it was easier making friends with people his own age. Toby wasn't the most popular kid at his school, but he was definitely the most well known. Everybody liked him, though some pretended not to. He was funny, tall, athletic, hardly anything not to like about him. He had some problems, ADD and some anger management issues, but what high schooler didn't have some kind of mental trauma?

When the blast hit, everything changed. He got sick almost immediately, coughing and throwing up all the time, and then he passed out just days after the last asteroid struck. When he came to, he was in one of the last hospitals still operating in Oklahoma. Nobody was in his room, so he wasn't sure what was happening to him. He called out for a nurse, but nobody came. He looked down, and realized that he was just there, he wasn't hooked up to anything, so he got out of his bed and stumbled out of the nearly empty hospital. What doctors and nurses he saw had no objection to him leaving. He realized that he was in Tulsa, at the hospital just down the street from his house. He walked home, barefoot in a paper gown, and found his house locked. He climbed up to the second story, and opened the window to his sister's room(she always left it unlocked in case somebody needed to get in the house and didn't have a key.) He took a long shower, slowly remembering everything from before he passed out, and put on fresh clothes. The boy went into the living room, to find his mother dead on the couch. He knew she was dead from the stench that filled the room, and the way her face was sunken in. His dad and his older sister were nowhere to be seen. He went into the kitchen, and found everything they had on their refrigerator was gone, and a single folded piece of paper was there instead. It told Toby that his father and sister had left Tulsa and driven to Joplin, where Toby's uncle lived, and if he made it out of the hospital, he was to meet his family there. And that's when he realized how fast he could run. He ran the first 100 miles in about twenty minutes, then he began slowing down, and made it the last 13 in about the same amount of time.

He found his way to his Uncle's house, and has been living with his family for the last two months. He learned of CORE and developed a hatred for them. He told his family about his speed, and his sister revealed that she could fly(or, at the time, hover). Their father and uncle both agreed that it was best that the kids keep their powers to themselves. And so Toby's family has lived quietly, under the radar that was CORE.

Notes: I intend for Toby to discover his pyro-type powers towards the beginning of the story, and for his sister to die soon. Also, if you dislike his sister having the ability to fly,I can cut that out, if you so choose. And before I write up his Secondary Power I wanted to check with you that it was cool that the fire thing was part of his Primary. It can be his Secondary, if you would prefer that. Lastly, I'm going to explain why I chose Hero/Villain as his alignment when I write up his personality.

I really like the character you've made, I'm excited for you to share with me his secrets and whatnot. The sister is okay to fly too, is she someone you'll be playing or just a background character? I appreciate you checking with me. As far as his primary power, I'd say that his ability to catch fire is fine to accompany the speed as it is a consequence of his fast moving molecules. However, his ability to control that fire and being able to resist burning to death should be his secondary. A type of minute pyrokinesis, allowing him to manage the fire his body generates as a result of the speed and prevent himself from burning. Does that sound okay?

These look good guys, keep up the nice work and finish up those templates! I'll add you all to the roster soon.

 

[Rii]

I really like the character you've made, I'm excited for you to share with me his secrets and whatnot. The sister is okay to fly too, is she someone you'll be playing or just a background character? I appreciate you checking with me. As far as his primary power, I'd say that his ability to catch fire is fine to accompany the speed as it is a consequence of his fast moving molecules. However, his ability to control that fire and being able to resist burning to death should be his secondary. A type of minute pyrokinesis, allowing him to manage the fire his body generates as a result of the speed and prevent himself from burning. Does that sound okay?

Thanks! No, I won't be playing the sister, she's kind of like the Sirius Black to Toby's Harry Potter. She's just there to get the ball rolling in Toby's story before he interacts with the rest of the Supers. Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking actually. I'll write that up and finish his personality and have my original post edited sometime later today.

 

[Klom89]

Limits be added. Mode is rarin' to go.

 

[Rii]

Sorry it took so long to get my personality up, describing a person's personality is one of my weak points, so I don't really think it's exceptional. But my template's done now, unless there's something you want me to improve on. =)

 

[Artemis]

Nope, both yours and Klom's are good to go!

 

[Xane_Moreau]

I offer up the souls of all those who have fallen prey to the vicious, man eating hamsters of west Texas.

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Name: Dexer Monroe AKA Jolt

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Alignment: Lawful Good

Appearance: Dexer is 5'11'', with the ultimate in farmers tans. He has curly, brownish black hair that covers his ears, and deeply blue eyes, with gray flecks. He's toned and big boned, but fairly lean. He wears what was left of a family relic suit of armor, shiny silver with blue under tones, that his father brought home from the service. all that was left was a right shoulder guard, with attached sash which holds the sheath for his weapon, and a left gauntlet, which he has modified to hold and protect his smart phone, and shin guards, his fathers combat boots, and the armor belt with intact right hip plate. Underneath the armor he wears a blue and silver tunic, which is slightly water resistant.

Personality: Dexer Has a strong, deep set sense of morals. He doesn't know much about life outside of the farm he was raised on, except that he wants to help wherever he can. He tries to follow in the footsteps of his father, protecting those who can't protect themselves.

Primary Power: Electromancy.
Dexer is a sort of human conduit. He can conduct electricity from both an internal 'battery' of sorts, as well as redirect it from other sources, and manipulate its form. His main attack, and subsequently his best defense, is a sort of point to point lightning bolt, beginning from the palm of his hand, and ending wherever he wants it to. It has enough power to severely injure/kill normal humans and most weak afflicted. Each super is affected differently by it, depending on their particular powers.

As he progresses in the mastery of his powers, he will be able to do more extraordinary techniques such as compress multiple separate currents into a spherical projectile that works like a powerful grenade. Other techniques will include a missile-like blast of concentrated energy, capable of dispatching multiple enemies at once as well as destroying cover, augmented punches and kicks, magnified, shock wave like landings after high falls, and ultimately, the ability to create miniature lightning storms that concentrate on his targets, but are easy to lose control of.

He has little to no defensive capabilities aside from his armor, which he can electrify against melee attacks. He also has a very meager store of power initially, enough for only ten to twelve blasts. Once he has used his personal supply, he has no way of replenishing it aside from waiting the half hour it takes to regenerate naturally. As he grows, it will last longer and replenish more quickly. However, the lower he gets on internal power, the more fatigued he becomes, to where he begins to lose all mobility, and when exhausted, faints. In extreme cases, over usage can lead to death.

He is also extremely susceptible to water. A rainstorm will magnify his abilities, but it also drains him more quickly. A puddle will empty him, but anyone exposed to it will be jolted pretty painfully, and goes unconscious. Any magnitude of water in which he can be mostly submerged will suck him dry within five seconds of consistent immersion, and any longer than that results in death.

Secondary Power:Rapid Regeneration. Dexer heals much faster than the normal human. For example, the first and second degree burns he often gets on his palms when frequently blasting things can heal completely in the space of an hour. His body is able to regenerate tissue it wouldn't be able to otherwise such as major organs. He is still susceptible to any injury that would kill him faster than he could heal, and the more serious and life threatening the injury, the longer it takes to regenerate. Also, the more injuries he heals from, the more exhausted he becomes.

Weapons: A razor edged, Damascus steel cutlass, which his father once showed him the basics of wielding. This weapon is able to conduct his powers and act as sort of a lightning rod to keep him from getting hit if and when he loses control of his powers. It is also able to hold current and release it when it collides with, for example, someone else or their sword.

History: Dexer was born and raised on his family's farm about 20 miles outside of small town Santa Maria, Texas. His father, Rev. Justin Monroe, was a retired navy seal, and pursued ministry after retiring from the service. Dexer learned his morals and ethics while working alongside his father in the fields. From his mother he acquired a strong empathy for those in pain, and he also developed a heart of humble service. His fifteen years of life pre-impact were as quiet as can be.

That all changed the night of the first impact. Santa Maria was about 30 miles from Del Rio, and it was hit by the full brunt of the blow. He awoke to the blinding flash of light as the meteor tore the skyline in half. the Impact itself was only immediately identifiable by the wall of debris obscuring the horizon, followed momentarily by the earth shattering ka-boom. A minute later the earth did shatter. The shock wave was visible just long enough for him to say a final prayer before it hit, and everything went black.

When Dexer awoke, his father and sister were dead. the latter was killed by the initial impact, while the former died shielding his wife, who had survived, and blacked out like her son. However, something had snapped in her while she was unconscious. Her eyes were empty and feral, her throat filled with guttural, inhuman cries as she feasted hungrily on the remains of her husband.

Dexer didn't know what had killed her at first. He saw as she recognized his presence in the room, and turned her beastly gaze on his flesh, saw her muscles tense as if about to pounce, and raised his hand palm outward, almost instinctively, startled as her body began to convulse with the intense energy arcing from his hand. He watched as the last remnants of life faded from her eyes. He was alone now, in the overwhelming chaos of a larger than life world in utter turmoil.

Extras: Theme song.

 

[King Naruto]

I won't be able to do this rp. I've started working too much to really focus on rping currently.

 

[Artemis]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

*dies*

It's okay, I understand, but I'm sorry to see you and your amazing character go. Best of luck in the real world And if this ever gets off the ground, you're always welcome back.

 

[King Naruto]

I might be back within the rp scene in a week or two. Depends on if I change jobs or not.

 

[Artemis]

Well, based on the current activity of this thread, it might not start for just that long. There's lots of unfinished temps still and some more villains that need to join, so you might luck out should that be the case.

Also, Xane_Moreau, I'm liking what I see so far, keep up the good work on your character!

 

[Xane_Moreau]

Finally finished my temp. Looking forward to this RP.

 

[Orion]

Got back from three weeks overseas and am resuming university, sorry for the delays. I'll try and get everything together soon.

 

[arcticfox8]

I (finally) updated Jackal's temp. He now has a history. Not all of it but some of it. I plan to clean it all up once everything is down.

 

[Artemis]

Finally finished my temp. Looking forward to this RP.

Very nice, I was wondering when some electrically based powers would come into play. I don't think he should be able to regenerate limbs, that's a bit much, but I'd say that he would be able to recover from such an injury faster and heal better than a non super. And, if the limb was somehow reattached, he'd probably be able to use it again after a period of intensive healing.

I'll add you to the roster!

Got back from three weeks overseas and am resuming university, sorry for the delays. I'll try and get everything together soon.

Take your time I hope you had a lovely trip and welcome back!

I (finally) updated Jackal's temp. He now has a history. Not all of it but some of it. I plan to clean it all up once everything is down.

I like your idea of Broken Cities, that was a really cool addition to your story! Keep working!

 

[Xane_Moreau]

Very nice, I was wondering when some electrically based powers would come into play. I don't think he should be able to regenerate limbs, that's a bit much, but I'd say that he would be able to recover from such an injury faster and heal better than a non super. And, if the limb was somehow reattached, he'd probably be able to use it again after a period of intensive healing.

I'll add you to the roster!

Thanks. I removed limb regeneration. I can't wait for it to start.

 

[King Naruto]

I'm back in so to speak. Will be a bit slow though.

 

[Artemis]

That's okay, we're just glad to have you back at all ^^

 

[Artemis]

So are people still on board for this? I'd hate to see everyone's lovely characters fall through :/ I'm going to be packing up to go back to college soon so my schedule will become a little more busy, but I still really want to see this through.