Marvel Revolution Staff (mrev_staff) wrote in revolutionmuck, @ 2008-02-20 14:23:00 |
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Entry tags: | info, oc, sample app, sorceress |
Sample Application: Non-Mutant
I realize that most of these samples have been mutants... oops, so here we have a non-mutant app. Remember, we also take cyborgs, mutates, humans, clones and various other creatures of imagination. However, whatever the race, the same quality and comprehensiveness is expected.
IC Information:
Name: Tristiana Oldershaw
Race: Human, Mystic
Age: 28
Sex: Female
Alignment: Neutral
Codename: None
Affiliation: none
PB: Sonja Kraushofer
Background:
Isn't a dream of most parents for their children to follow in the family footsteps, or take over the family business? In Tristiana's case, that's exactly what happened. The beginning starts a long time ago so let's start in 1603. Coenwalh Oldershaw was to create an amulet that would change his linage forever. Dabbling in magic, he created the Amulet of Letselina that would grant its owner incredible power: Omniscience. When coming in contact with someone or something, true intentions, names, history, pasts and possible futures would come into view. The amulet would protect the wears mind along. There was an unforeseen side effect of the amulet though. When the wearer died, the soul would be forever trapped inside the amulet and only be able to communicate with the next wearer. The amulet takes tremendous preparation and skill to learn, and thus Oldershaw cast one last spell on the amulet, only someone of his bloodline can only use it. Thus it came to pass through the ages, family member training the next worthy kin. Through out the years the Oldershaw's have been academics of the occult. Where some family's this might make you the black sheep, to not study was to be an outcast of the family.
Thus we flash forward to Trisitana, born in Boston. Her parents knew about the family heirloom their great aunt had, and her family raised their daughter. Her father knew all about the occult and specialized in small spells but, over all the Oldershaw's kept their magics secret and led 'normal lives'. Tristiana was raised with bedtimes stories of ghosts, goblins, elves, faeries, and was taught about them existing. She grew up learning minor spells, on top of her classroom homework. When she was eight though, her Great Aunt started teaching her family history and tricks to hone her mind. It was decided when she was born that Tristiana would be the next to hold the amulet. Trist's Great Aunt Minerva was the current holder.
After school she would have additional lessons with her aunt and was told that she would be the next to bear it. Tristiana was excited, and to her, she was special. In school Tristiana didn't have many friends, and was accused of being a liar when talking about things as Elves stealing babies and other occult. As she got older she learned that most people don't accept the truth and became her own independent free sprit. She didn't care that she was different, she was always very accepting of who she was.
Trist never went to college, instead she would spend days on end studying with her aunt. The lessons got more intense, longer, and it seemed her Aunt Minerva was trying to teacher her everything she could in as little time as possible. The lessons were hard, but Trist enjoyed every minute of them.
This resulted in her 21st Birthday being quite different than others. While the Oldershaw's got together for the ceremony, Trist was dressed and decorated with various flowers and herbs for the occasion. After having a light lunch, her Aunt took her to another room that had nothing but sigils on the walls, ceiling and floor. The ceremony was preformed and took about two hours. When it was done, Minerva was gone, her soul now had become one with the amulet and Tristiana was the official wielder. Trist knows how to perform this ritual now, but it can only be done once on the next wielder's 21st Birthday. The family knew what was happening, so when it was over there was a celebration of death and renewal. Minerva chatted through the amulet to Trist all night long.
Now Trist is a 28 year old, 5'8" black haired, skinny, pale faced goth. She runs a new age/mystic shop, The Purple Moon, in New York City. She is not a witch, nor does she belong to a coven, but she is a mystic. In her shop there are many strange trinkets and books on religion, ruins, occult, vampires, and other such unnatural phenomenon. She is learned in the occult and mystic ways You can usually see something in the shop that defies all logic, as it is her illusions at work. Many times something strange will appear and then disappear almost as soon. She has a bit of an airy, mysterious presence about her, people either think she is amazing or a loon. The airiness is gone when she gets into arguments with her relatives' souls in the amulet.
Personality:
Tristiana believes that knowledge is free to all and has no problem helping those that come to her. In Tristiana's free time, which is very little when she's not running her store or studying the occult, she enjoys listening to music (mostly ambient goth, EMB, syth pop, industrial). Very rarely does she go out to the movies. Her apartment where she lives is located behind her shop, basically the back room is her small apartment. You will rarely find her outside of dark coloured clothing, as she is a stereotypical New York City goth. She enjoys going to goth clubs on weekend, or indulging on red wine with a good book. She knows how to use a computer a bit as she has a website for The Purple Moon and her myspace/live journal pages. Occasionally she writes poetry. She is very much your stereotypical goth girl. She does carry a bit of a 'I know more than you' air about her.
Resources: Her shop is where she gets all her resources from, taking home about 50k a year so that she's comfortable but not overly wealthy.
Tristiana also has an old and ancient library passed down through the years on magic, supernatural, the occult, ect. She also has a few magical items that she has come to acquire.
Powers:
Amulet:
Omniscience: This is the main power of the amulet, when Tristiana comes in contact with someone she can sense the facts about them, know things that they might think are hidden. She just knows. Through out the years she has learned great mental control so this does not drive her insane. She can see pasts, possible futures, know names, ect. Not everything comes flooding to her, just select information. Almost always a name, maybe a purpose, Trist has to be focused on what the answer she wants to receive it. If she's not curious about what your favourite flavour of ice cream is, she won't know, but if she did want to know then it would come to her.
Resistance to Mental Attacks-The amulet protects her mind from mental intrusions, really powerful mental attacks will be able to get through, but if someone tries to read her mind the wouldn't be able to.
Communal mind - The Amulet is home to the spirits of her relatives that possessed the amulet before her. She can concentrate and ask for advice and the spirits will decide if the cause is worthy to help. Example: If she had a question concerning the occult that she didn't know, she could ask the souls. Occasionally the souls will commutate with her asking about things pertaining to the current world, and sometimes it's mundane stuff concerning the date she had last night.
If the Amulet of Letselina is removed, her powers will not function, if it is destroyed, she will die and her soul along with all the ones trapped inside will be destroyed . (Completely and utterly destroyed) Because of that the Amulet is resistant to physical damage (getting dropped, stepped on, hit with a hammer won't break it) and fire (house burning, burning at the steak). Extreme physical damage (eg, Wolverine's Claws, Juggernaut punching it) and intense heat (human torch, very intense heat) will cause it to break.
Known Spells:
Protection Ward, self, others, trinkets and buildings.
If the protection ward is cast via verbal incant it serves as a force field that can protect against minor damage, nothing more than 5 tons.
Mystic Bolts:
Think Magic Missiles, bolts of magical energy (It is magical) can be fired via a verbal incant that can inflict upto 5 tons of damage.
Detect Magic:
Tristiana needs a mirror to detect if something is magical or not, if it is she can use her amulet to determine the properties. She needs a mirror and a quartz rock to cast this spell.
Cantrip:
Tristiana can use simple cantrips to create light, make small stuff levitate, and just small little parlor tricks. Nothing that can hurt anyone, it's just small tricks.
Speak With Dead:
Trist can cast a spell to talk with the dead, she can only talk to them for 10 minutes and for this she needs something that belonged to the deceased, an obsidian shard/stone, and Devil's Claw.
Healing Spell:
Trist can heal minor cuts and bruises and stop bleeding, she can't mend bones, or anything serious. At the most she can ebb the bleeding so that someone has a longer change of surviving. Trist needs some witch hazel, rose water, blood root, and ginseng all ground together in a paste.
Skills and Talents:
Magic, occult, and business. Tristiana runs her own shop and has the business skills to run it successfully. As for anything occult, magical