[OOC] Afterlife [M]

[Highland Sniper]

Spoiler: Yuriko Teran (Wraith) 

NAME
Yuriko Lerain Teran

TYPE OF SPIRIT
Wraith

AGE AT DEATH
21

METAPHYSICAL AGE
19

CAUSE OF DEATH
Rape/Murder

DEPARTMENT
Potential Recruit.

RANK
Potential Recruit

SPECIALTY
Film production and acting.
This does include knowledge and skills in:
Acting, lighting, scripting, special effects, snacks, editing, sound systems, cameras and other recording equipment, makeup, and more.

APPEARANCE
5' 7" and slim with a good figure.
Unique purple eyes.
long brown hair.
good tan.

Spoiler: image for visual aid 

HISTORY
Yuri was born in America. Her Asian mother had gone out with her father and ended up getting pregnant before deciding to move to America with him and getting married.
Her first years of life were perfectly fine, but then her parents got divorced after having another child. Dad got custody for a few months before going back to live with mom for the rest of the year.
The rest of her life was court cases on who would have how much custody, what the other parent should be doing. Blah, blah, blah.
Besides living with her dad over the summer, and helping to take care of her younger sister, she went through 2 moves with mom, 5 relationships, 2 of which she had sex in, and a friend's suicide.

She left as soon as she graduated and, since she didn't seem to get along with her mother so well, moved in with dad.
In the following two years, she got a job and had moved into an apartment building close buy and was in another relationship working at a local production studio as set crew and occasional background character.

One night, once she got home, her boyfriend had come over drunk. She let him in without knowing that he had brought a bunch of his drunk friends as well.
It was disturbing at first, and grew terrifying in the moments to come as they started to force themselves on her.
She was gang raped and murdered as people heard the screams and shouts, called the police and tried to force their way in to stop it, but she was gone by the time they got them to stop.

[Lady Celeste]

Your profile still says WIP, but everything looks to be in order and more or less complete, so welcome aboard!

Feel free to overwrite your accidental IC post with your starter.

Would you like an update on the story so far?

[Highland Sniper]

sure, I'd appreciate it.

Now I do want to be clear that I'm recently deceased and have no idea what the hell is going on.

[Lady Celeste]

Alright, here we go:

Spoiler: The Story So Far 

The Grimm family business (played and operated by @SikstaSlathalin; ) centers around creating and selling an elixir of life made from the drained essence of captured spirits. Mortimer Grimm, the current head of the business, dispatched two servants to capture a ghoul haunting the Texas Midlands Bank for this purpose, but Aidoneus receives word of two suspicious figures stalking the bank.

Aidoneus sends Kari and Stitches to investigate at the bank, but starts to have second thoughts soon afterward. Not only is Kari his adopted child-spirit daughter (unbeknownst to either the Guild or the Grimms), but he begins to notice a possible connection between the incident and the secret society that murdered him centuries ago (which in turn has some connection to the aforementioned elixir of life).

An allied psychopomp named Elouise (whose player has since left) senses Aidoneus’ distress and insists on helping out. They arrive at the bank just in time for Aidoneus to confront the two servants, who recognize Aidoneus immediately and bolt. Realizing that his suspicions were correct, Aidoneus orders Kari and Stitches not to confront the men again without his (Aidon’s) direct clearance, and one of the traps used in the attack is brought to a nearby safe house for analysis.

Meanwhile, the servants inform Grimm of Aidoneus’ interference in the capture of the bank ghost (whose player has also since left), leading Grimm to wonder what drove Aidoneus to show up so openly when normally he and the Guild stay well-hidden. Determined to find out, Grimm dispatches a pair of ghost-spies (the little boy and shovel guy from Siks’ last post) to the safe house where Kari and Stitches are now.

Meanwhile, Cindy (Sheppard’s character) has just finished dealing with a rapist in her own way, which may or may not be near where your character is now. Either way, I may either have Kari sent to take care of it, or have Aidoneus happen upon the scene first; I haven’t quite decided yet.

Spoiler: A Possible Route 

You mentioned that Yuri would be recently deceased and have no idea what’s going on, so I could send either Kari or Aidoneus (whichever one does not encounter Cindy) to offer help and give Yuri someone to interact with. This would leave Stitches to interact with the spies Siks sent earlier, but that way everyone has someone to interact with.

[Highland Sniper]

Alright.

[Lady Celeste]

Added an update with a possible interaction route. Would something like that work for everyone?
@SikstaSlathalin; @Heson Shadowbane; @KRCmdrSheppard; @Highland Sniper;

[Highland Sniper]

Yeah.

Time to start wondering the halls.

[KRCmdrSheppard]

Added an update with a possible interaction route. Would something like that work for everyone?
@SikstaSlathalin; @Heson Shadowbane; @KRCmdrSheppard; @Highland Sniper;

Sounds good to me.

[SikstaSlathalin]

I'll check it out.

[KRCmdrSheppard]

NAME: Vera Rosemary Rösch née Grimm

TYPE OF SPIRIT: Hexenbeist

AGE AT DEATH: 23

METAPHYSICAL AGE: 23

CAUSE OF DEATH: Killed by her family/burned to death.

DEPARTMENT: Unrecruited

RANK: Potential Recruit

SPECIALTY: Extermination

APPEARANCE: https://img.nbc.com/sites/nbcunbc/fi...71808_0008.JPG
Transformed: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/08/05...7082a0bcdb.gif

HISTORY: Vera was born into the Grimm family. As a child, she did not know anything about what they did. All she was told was they were making the world a better place by getting rid of evil. As she got older, she was brought into the family business. She was never as into it as her father was, she viewed it more as an obligation, a demand. She did what was asked of her and nothing more.

Over time she started pulling away from her family, distancing herself. She attended college as far away as possible. While at college she met Raymond who she fell in love with. He was part of a group that knew what the Grimms were doing and were trying to stop them.

After college he proposed, Vera said yes and introduced him to the family not knowing his true reasons. While Vera and her mother were planning the wedding, Raymond snuck into a part of the estate even Vera was not allowed. He attempted to sabotage the Grimm business and set free their captives. He was caught by Vera’s father.

Vera was forced to watch as they killed Raymond. Raymond became a ghost that they captured and held captive for them to use like so many before him. They forced Vera to ingest the Elixir of Life made from Raymond. She vowed to destroy her family that day, starting with her father, Malik. She planned her plot out for months all the while playing the part of the loving and dutiful daughter. When she was ready, she made sure escape was damn near impossible. She went to go get the highly flammable liquid she was going to use to burn the house down. Before she could bring it into the house, she heard a gunshot moments before the canister of highly flammable liquid went up in flames taking her with it.

She woke up in a shallow grave, she dug herself out. She was still on the estate her father owned. The house was in a ruined state. Some of the walls were crumbling, some had holes. She went to the house to find out what she could about herself and where the others went. She spent over a year living in that house. She found little information about where her family went. One of the first things she discovered was a ritual site in the basement. There was a scroll it clearly older than the rest of the papers in the house. She kind of recognized the language, she thought it was German. She suspected it was a curse. One word stood out to her, Hexenbiest. She transcribed the curse onto less fragile paper. She then made her way to Germany and to do some digging. She eventually found someone willing to talk to her about it. Selina Rösch was cursed just like her. She spent several years training with Selina. They developed a romantic bond. Their idyllic life came to a screeching halt when one of their Zaubertränkes went awry, no one was hurt, no property was destroyed but the villagers were a cowardly and superstitious lot. The villagers came for them en masse. Selina gave herself up to save Vera. Vera escaped to the woods with their Zaubertränke Recipe Book. She watched as a savagely beaten Selina was burned. Later that night after the fire died down Selina still lived. The villagers were about to attempt some other cruel injustice upon Selina when Vera forced them to see each other as witches. The villagers killed themselves. Vera wanted to try and create a Zaubertränke to help Selina but Selina knew there was no Zaubertränke strong enough to help her. She taught Vera a Zaubertränke that can never be written down, a forbidden Zaubertränke. Vera reluctantly created it and held Selina as she drank the Zaubertränke killing herself. Vera burned the village to the ground she then ensured nothing would ever grow there ever again.

Spoiler: Hexenbiest abilities 

Hexenbiests in their woged form possess superhuman strength, able to casually overpower a grown man and rip him apart; they do not possess this strength in human form though.

They possess telekinesis.

They can create illusions.

They have a sixth sense they can "smell" and identify magic using their noses.

They also can harness seductive powers on others who are within their immediate proximity.

They can create chemical or alchemical concoctions and potions known as Zaubertränke. These are used to many effects, such as bewitching a person and have many highly emotive, compulsive, and/or deadly effects. They have an innate ability to make Zaubertränkes, they know exactly how much or what percentage of a particular ingredient should go into preparing them. They still need to know the recipes.