Fantasy Specters | Modern Fantasy

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Introduction

There are two layers in this world. The ordinary, and the supernatural. Seeing both is the way of life for a select few only, and these people act as a bridge, experiencing things invisible to most of the population. The ability to see into both layers of the world is known as the Gift.

But there are an even fewer number of people that dare to go further than that. Humans have an aura that emits life, and this aura attracts spirits. The ones that can see both world are those with strong auras. Spirits that haunt people have all kinds of effects on the person, such as good luck, injuries, or even unnatural powers. Most of the time, however, their presence has a negative impact on the person, due to the fact that they literally drain life essence to feed themselves.

Since this holds true for spirits, it’s possible to do the reverse, and drain the essence from, or literally consume, a spirit.

Doing so grants the abilities that that spirit once held, manipulating your life essence for newfound powers. These humans are called Specters. The get more powerful over time, as either their life essence develops like a muscle from usage, or they consume more spirits. Consuming more spirits lets them either develop existing powers or gain new ones. There are some with many different weak powers that overall give the person strength, and then there are others that choose to hone one or two abilities.

But, aside from that, you’re just a normal high school student in the suburbs of Eden City. That is, until somehow you managed to get yourself stuck in a mess that just dug itself more and more into the ground, maybe even becoming a Specter. And with that, you found your way into the secret, forbidden side of Eden City.

A turf war. Rival gangs. Black market trade. A government agency hellbent on destruction. A worldwide conspiracy? Everything that you couldn’t possibly imagine being concealed in such a seemingly innocent city. Welcome to the world of the Specters.


Excuse me for this thread's blandness while I get accustomed to the new site's BBC coding. I haven't been on here in quite a long time.

I am currently still editing in most of the other stuff necessary for this RP. Please post only in the OOC until the all-clear sign. If you would like to know more for what I have in mind, then please, don't hesitate to ask. This will be a slightly darker roleplay, with some graphic scenes, and I will for the most part attempt to keep to plot going. I ask that if you do take interest in this, that you can consistently post without disappearing, and that you put plenty of detail into every post and character form.


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RP Rules

> Please attempt to keep up with the RP before posting, to guarantee there are no confusions or discrepancies.

> Post appropriate posts to appropriate threads. There's a reason I created IC, OOC, and CS threads.

> Don’t start arguments in this RP. If it’s just a short debate about something, take it to the OOC. Otherwise I may attempt to break it up.

> I am very fond of accurate grammar and spelling. Please make your writing comprehensible and accurate for others’ sake. Of course, we’re all not perfect, but just try to keep this in mind.

> Posts should be at least one paragraph long. Unless explained ahead of time, disappearing for long periods of time drag down everyone else interacting with your character, and so we may simply start to ignore your character. Posts should also be in 3rd person past tense.

> If you have what you think may be a great plot element or idea, feel free to PM me about it. I’m always open to suggestions and creative ideas.

> Attempt as much as possible to integrate your character into the RP’s world. I could easily create posts telling everyone exactly what’s happening around their characters and what they need to react to, but honestly that’s not too much fun for me, and if I were to not post for a tiny bit, the RP would die.

> Remember that this takes place in the modern world. Everything, even the spirits and Gifts and all, have a “scientific” explanation, so please attempt to keep everything as realistic as possible.

> We all know that romance is probably going to happen. You know the rules. Just keep it appropriate, and fade to black when you need to.

That's all, but rules may be updated after certain events happen. You never really know if you've covered everything...

 

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Breaking News

“And once again the city is plunged into chaos as the police scramble to figure out exactly what happened. At 9:30 this morning, the mayor was found dead in his office, completely dismembered in quite a gruesome scene. This is an unprecedented attack on the city of Eden, as while the death count each year due to murder is relatively high, a ranking government officer was never targeted in the past. Law enforcement from every district is being assembled to find a lead on the perpetrator. "In the meantime, the Special Elimination Task-force is now tirelessly searching for a correlation between this new development and their top suspects. The Special Elimination Task-force has had incredible success in the past several years, bringing down criminal after criminal regardless of whether the individual was a serial killer or something less serious. Nevertheless, many continue to remain at large, and the Special Elimination Task-force has issued a statement that they will not rest in the coming days until the find the culprit involved in the mayor’s death. "In other news, currently districts 7, 9, 10, and 13 are red zones in terms of violence and activity. Residents of these areas are recommended to stay indoors when possible, and only travel during the day. Additional law enforcement have been sent into these areas, alongside SET officers. And now for the weather…”

Jaden looked away from the TV, and concentrated on breakfast again: cereal. Something that he had decided a long time ago was something he couldn’t live without. He could honestly have cereal three times a day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and in fact a couple days where he was short on time he did have it for every meal, if it weren’t for the fact that Mrs. Joy insisted he have a much more varied diet. And besides, he knew he couldn’t just subsist on carbs.

After he finished drinking the remaining milk, Jaden stood up and brought the bowl over to the sink. As he did, a slight gust of wind blew across the kitchen of the apartment.

“Good morning, Rin,” Jaden said without turning. In his mind’s eye, he could already see her face, the downcast and stormy expression, emphasized by black circles and a frown or a smirk depending on how she was feeling this morning. Sometimes Jaden wondered whether Rin actually slept during the night, or just pretended to. He always thought that she acted like a super grumpy and rebellious 12-year-old little sister, seeing as they shared the apartment, and her health worried him from time to time. But Rin’s next words dispelled all thoughts of concern.

“What the fuck are you doing up at this hour?”

“Who the hell teaches you that language?” Jaden turned to face Rin. She was definitely smirking now.

“You do.” Jaden sighed.

“Alright. Fine. Rin, it’s seven in the morning. Most sane people get up at this time.” Jaden picked up his backpack leaning against the leg of a table, and slung it over his shoulders.

“Not on the weekends…” Rin mumbled as he grabbed the keys. Jaden rolled his eyes and stepped out the door.

Jaden had to admit, District 10 wasn’t a morning district. Because it was more suburban than the districts closer to the center of Eden, it wasn’t like there was jobs 24/7 to be attended to. Still, Poetry was in the city section. Cars and people went by in front of Jaden with purpose.

 

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Lilia Jones (Doll)

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Present day, February 4, 2016.

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Lilia stood in front of the wide glass window inside her room, staring at the view outside of her apartment. A two storey, modern designed apartment that she was able to buy for herself with solely with the money that she saved after working for SET for years now, doing research and experiment for the organization. She looked at the trees outside and the blue sky, it was so peaceful that she could believe that the wold was not on war but she knew better and that the world was never a peaceful place.

After minutes of admiring the scene, she walked out of her room and went to the living room. She sat at the white couch before picking up the remote at the round glass table in front of her. As soon as she turned on the TV, a man wearing suit appeared on the screen anchoring the news. She stared at the screen blankly as a blurred picture of supposed to be the Mayor's corpse appeared when her wristband beeped.

It was a gadget provided for the SET officers to communicate with each other and get hold of datas. It is a thin silver bracelet and has voice detector and also voice operated. The wristband functions and directed straight to SET's AI called Seth, the computer machine located inside the Head Quarters that helps the organization get the information that they needed around the globe. Seth uses only the aliases of the officers to prevent revealing the true identity of the officers to the enemies, if ever they were able to get hold of the wristband.

Spoiler: Seth wristband

Dogman calling...

The AI Seth spoke through the wristband as soon as the beeping stopped. "Answer call..." Lilia said and the line was instantly connected. "I believe you have seen the news about the Mayor...Be at the head quarters in 15 minutes. They will be forming a team to go to the site. You make sure to find something." The Elite officer that had been with her since her parents died instructed her, his voice was serious with no affection even if he basically stood as Lilia's father for years. Her eyes still looking at the screen as another anchor appeared to say something about the weather that doesn't even matter. "Understood..." She answered and the call quickly ended. She didn't waste any time as she turned off the TV and went straight to the shower.

After ten minutes she was ready to go. Wearing a black turtle neck and white pencil cut skirt under her white lab coat. She walked across the room with a pair of black boots, her steps echoing all over the place. She caught a glance of her reflection as she passed the big mirror wall around the living room. Her white hair bob hair, pale blue eyes, pinkish lips and white porcelain skin, everything kinds of compliment each other making her look like a living doll but that expressionless face was what really coined the name Doll around the organization. She locked the door of her apartment before riding her white Nissan 370Z and went straight to SET's HQ as she was instructed.

 

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District 10Jaden knew that there was going to be plenty of activity in the following weeks, both SET and the underground rushing to figure out what exactly happened. He knew vaguely of a pact that the major gangs had to not target any important officials in the city, and knew that they would be searching for a scapegoat now.

Typical of the powerful. Jaden decided to walk to the park.

SET HeadquartersA guard at the entrance of SET Headquarters nodded after seeing Lilia’s identification tag. He gestured her towards one of the meeting rooms immediately at the front of the HQ.

Inside it was absolute chaos. But in somewhat of an orderly fashion. People were hurrying around, scattering papers here and there, and some were on various communication devices, talking to people that appeared to already be on-site. Large screens on the walls displayed information: numbers, people, statistics, locations, and plenty more. A man in a white lab coat that designated him as Research Division took notice of Lilia and hurried over to her.

“You’re the one they call Doll, yes? Head to preparation room #7. You’ve been assigned under the command of…” The man drew in a sharp breath.

“Shander Iza? Wow, you’re lucky. Anyway, this is for you.” He handed Lilia a couple of papers designating mission orders and a report form.

 

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Lilia Jones (Doll)
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The trip didn't took long before Lilia arrived at District 1, it was the most peaceful and safe district for most citizens of Eden, but for Lilia this place means nothing but pure ignorance. The tall buildings, new business that keeps on appearing every single day, those buildings under construction that was owned by people who thinks that making a business while other district are in war would be most beneficial to them, and lastly, these people that are walking down the street ignoring and not caring about anything but their self interests. If not ignorance, Lilia doesn't know what to call it at all.

As her car entered the HQ building, there was a change of scene. The place felt completely cold and professional with all the monochromatic colors of the buildings. After parking the car in the spacious parking lot, she went straight to the entrance where the guard directed her towards the meeting room. As soon as she walked inside, it was complete mayhem inside the room. People are everywhere, walking back and fort, but for Lilia this was daily life for her. In fact, back in their department, it far more chaotic than this.

She noticed a man approaching her, who she could guess was in charge around the place. She nodded, when the man asked if she was the Doll. She was quite surprised that she was assigned under the famous Shander Iza, but her lack of expression, it was hard to tell. She took the papers, and read through it as she head to the preparation room.