forum The Labs (Open!)

Started May 15, 2019 by @Mojack group

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Before I say anything, blood n’ swearing is allowed. Just want to clarify before I start. Also, I do like open RPs, so yes, like most of my RPs, this will be open.

What secrets are hidden from the public?

Located in the cold, frozen Antarctic is a hidden base. It’s been described as nearly impossible to escape, due to many doors only being accessible with certain cards that lab personnel carry with them.
Now, what is in this base, you might scratch your head at?
Anomalies. Things that cannot be described by the public. They must not be seen, they must not get out. Some of them change form. Others look human, while the rest embrace the chaos. Each of them contained in a cell suited to their needs.

Some things may change, soon however.

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Alright, so you’ve read that. But what do you do in this roleplay? Well, for starters, you can be a lab personnel. It’s tough work but it pays at least. You might be someone who feeds the anomalies that needs food. Maybe you study them. Or perhaps you’re a guard? Maybe even a risky job, containing them in the event that something does happen?

Of course, you can also be an anomaly. I will leave it open to you, but I will ask that your character is not too overpowered, or unbeatable. Alright, here we go.

The Rules

1. No autohitting, but don’t dodge everything either. Give other people a chance in a fight!
2. Hate the character, not the human behind it.
3. Do not kill another person’s character without permission.
4. I will mention that the doors needed to get out have to be unlocked with a key card, so if you’re escaping, you’re either gonna need one of them cards, or be very, very creative.
5. You can have multiple characters!
6. Nothing too overpowered. Applies to humans, too.
7. Not really a rule but as an anomaly, you don’t necessarily need to have a desire to escape. Maybe you want to help the humans recapture other anomalies? Get creative!
8. Have fun! Or not. Your choice.

Templates

Human
Name:
Age: (A note on this, I don’t think there’ll be 15 year olds at the lab.)
Gender:
S.O:
Background: (Optional. Maybe something about their previous life?)
Job: (If unsure, ask me! Examples might be the recapture teams, scientist, guard, etc etc. You can even be a janitor, if you want!)
Appearance:
Attire: (Remember your character’s job, and also where the lab is located.)
Personality:
Extra info: (Strengths? Weaknesses? Fun facts? Nothing at all?)

Anomaly
Name: (This could be many things. It might be numbers, it might be a codename, it might be both.)
Gender:
Cell: (What does their cell look like? Doesn’t have to be an entire essay. Is their cell humid? Does it have water in it? Does it look like a normal room?)
Personality:
Abilities: (What sort of abilities do they have?)
Weaknesses:
Appearance:
Attire: (Optional, as some Anomalies might not be humanoids. Or they can’t wear it for whatever reason.)
Extra info:

This is always open. So even if we’ve started, you may join! If you need a brief explanation of what’s occurred, ask!

Ooo, I would love to join this
I will try to have a skelly up soon when I have time if that is alright

Can I join?

Can I join too?

All of those who asked to join may join!

If I need to change anything, simply let me know:

Username: Dragoncita
Name: Specimen 0962, Devourer
Gender: Unknown
Cell: Specially designed with unknown metal. This unknown 'metal' is seemingly one of very few things the Devourer is unable to chew through. The temperature is lowered to near freezing, as it prefers colder climates. The room is mostly clear, being massive in order to hold the beast
Personality: The Devourer hates anything that gets too close. It shows extreme territorial behavior, but also highly intelligent. Attempts have been made to try and contact/speak to it, but it ignores all questions
Abilities: Ice manipulation and control. The creature has been observed, when hunting, to create ice shards to spear prey. Its breath is enough to freeze unlucky individuals
When enraged, the Devourer enters a furious frenzy. The bindings around its other 'heads' seem to break when enraged, its speed and mobility increasing. It has been known to chase down anything relentlessly when enraged, breaking and destroying anything in its path to get to the focused individual or thing.
Weaknesses: Extreme heat weakens the beast, a lumbering hulk so it isn't the most flexible
Appearance:

Nearly 35ft in height, bipedal, having a heavy duty tail which helps balance
Attire: N/A
Extra info: Due to its voracious appetite, it has earned the nickname; Devourer

Anomaly
Name: The Desolation
Gender: Female
Cell: It's just a medium-sized concrete room with white lights, a cot in one corner, and a notebook and pencil. The guards have found that writing and drawing helps calm her down when she is going insane.
Personality: The Desolation has two different sides to her- the ancient, though sane, being, who is cunning, and quiet, and witty, and then there's the insane side, where she goes full-on creep mode. She will try to attack anything that moves, and mutter to herself, and throw herself against walls.
Abilities: Chaos magic
Weaknesses: Bright lights, loud noises
Appearance: The Desolation looks just like a young girl. She has pale skin, circles under her eyes, and a small, slender frame. She is about 5 feet tall, and seems to be a girl in her early teens. She has long, oily black hair pulled back in a braid. Her eyes look ancient, though, like polished stone, a deep reddish color. She also has large black demonic wings that she likes to wrap around herself.
Attire: She usually wears a black dress, no matter how dirty, and goes barefoot.
Extra info: She's kind of insane…

Hello! May I join?

Yes!

Everyone who posted a character so far is good, expect to see my own two characters soon!

May I join? I have a character perfect for this!

May I join? I have a character perfect for this!

Yes!

I'll get the sheet done when I can! I have gym class in like 7 min tho.

I would like to join, please!

Anyone may join!

I’m glad this RP is proving to have a lot of people wanting to join, considering that it is a reboot of a roleplay I did around 5 years ago (long before I joined notebook) so thanks everyone!

Name: 0174, Otherwise called “Nevid”
Gender: None
Cell: Just a metal cell, a very bland one. At the centre of the room is a glass box where Nevid is contained in. The room is, temperature wise, kinda cool. Like a soft breeze, though there are no windows.
Personality: Lacking in general personality, Nevid seems to, while not require food, be attracted to biological beings and may attempt to consume them. It does display intelligence however, as it will often choose the shortest paths available and learns from experience; as well as retreating if needed.

Abilities: Can consume most types of matter but for the special glass it is contained in. Can split into halves. Can change size, but it needs to consume suitable matter first.
Weaknesses: Fire, high temperatures, high pitched noises.
Appearance: Amoeba like being. General body is cool (temperature wise) and it’s almost see-through. Adapts a cloudy appearance when outside. Pretty featureless and bland. Has been (rarely) observed attempting to take the form of a humanoid, but this fails most of the time. Semi-liquid being, almost like a goo. No visible organs or bones or pretty much anything, implying it can get through small spaces with ease.

Attire: My boy Nevid’s just gonna eat the clothing.
Extra info: None ATM.
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Name: Anton, last name classified.
Age: About 32 years old.
Gender: Male
S.O: Straight
Background: Most of his background is classified for whatever reason, but he does mention coming from Europe, so he probably lived in one of the countries over there at one point.
Job: Focused on the recapturing teams, although when there isn’t a breach he usually just walks around and observes interviews or the anomalies.
Appearance: Most of his appearance isn’t really shown, but he has fair skin and greenish eyes. Fairly tall as well, about 6’’. Brown hair. Assumed to be short hair.
Attire: Anton has taken into consideration of the climate he is probably going to experience. Most of his attire is heavy, suited for the cold conditions. He’s probably going to experience some blizzards, so he wears face gear as well; a furred helmet covering the entire face. Helps him blend in too. Sometimes.
His jacket he commonly wears is a brown one, lined with fur as well. His pants are usually a darker brown, and he wears thick black boots. He does wear black gloves sometimes.

Personality: Gritty humoured fellow, described as not being very merciful at all. He will go to any level to get his job done. Also described as fairly hard to anger unless something goes wrong. Very persistent.

Extra Info: Has a lot of tracking devices. Usually prefers to keep his distance when on a job. Is known to have a negative opinion on anomalies, and he views most of them as beneath him (and humans, as a whole.) he does know an intelligent creature though when he sees one, and takes his job seriously. So he doesn’t like underestimating his foes.

Human
Name: Azalane Firewind
Age: can't remember, she's delirious quite frequently
Gender: Female
S.O: ??
Background: (Optional. Maybe something about their previous life?)
Job: Librarian, if that's okay
Appearance: long black hair usually up in a neat bun, Tumblr glasses, big blue eyes with grey flecks,
Attire: red polo, jeans, fleece coat, blue tie, yellow converse
Personality: shy, if you get to know her, she is teasingly sarcastic, doesn't talk much but is very smart.
Extra info: pushes up her glasses constantly

Anomaly
Name: Flamethrower
Gender: Male
Cell: large, made of tungsten as it has the highest melting point of any metal
Personality: sharp, annoying, caustic
Abilities: Controls fire and air
Weaknesses: water, light
Appearance: usually manifests as a tongue of flame, but will appear in a vaguely human form, a ghoul made of flame
Attire: none
Extra info: none

Anomaly
Name: Xenia.
Gender: Female.
Cell: There are no lights in her room, keeping the entire room in darkness. Besides that, it's pretty much a normal cell.
Personality: Quiet, Calm (till you make her angry), and Merciless.
Abilities: Can make a copy of herself, it doesn't do anything, just acts as a stand in.
Weaknesses: Intense light.
Appearance: She's humanoid. Made completely out of darkness, and has a dark aura of sorts flowing her. Besides that, her mouth seems to be stitched into a permanent smile, and seems to have a unknownable amount of eyes.
Attire: She doesn't wear anything.
Extra info: N/A

Looks good!

Here’s another character I plan on using, although this anomaly is what I mean when I speak of ‘helpful anomaly.’ Just an example if anyone wishes to make one.

Name: Tool, otherwise coded as 3370.
Gender: None.
Cell: While permitted to wander the lab, its cell is set up like a display room, a rather fancy one at that. The room is comfortably warm and at the back of the room is a single display case that could technically also be classified as an anomaly due to being a portal of some sorts that only Tool can use. The display case also has red curtains.
Personality: Tool surprisingly hosts a personality, although this should be expected; it learns with relative ease and has worked with a number of people and other anomalies.
Tool seems to be extremely loyal but also have a sense of humour, though it takes its job seriously. Tool has been described as adaptable, and somewhat easy to work with.
Abilities: Tool can shapeshift into nearly any sort of tool in its database, including weaponry. Tool seems to possess telepathic abilities as well, though it can only send them to other anomalies. It can also float, and this is its preferred form of movement.

Weaknesses: While in its original form it can’t be harmed, it also cannot harm others. The weapons and tools it shapeshifts into are not immune to damage as well; if they sustain enough damage Tool is forced to come out of them. Tool cannot talk verbally, which might make communication in certain situations tricky, although all personnel are recommended to have paper on them so that Tool is able to communicate with them.
After being forced out of a form Tool needs time to recharge as well.
Appearance: In its original form, Tool is a blue orb with yellow dots for eyes which may change depending on how it feels. It’s relatively small, could fit in the palm of one’s hand. It’s appearance, otherwise, varies.

Attire: None
Extra info: Helpful Anomaly.

Human
Name: Harley Michels
Age: 32
Gender: female
S.O: straight
Background: She is a Harvard graduate. She was immediately shipped to the labs when she graduated, and she has been studying the anomalies since.
Job: Scientist
Appearance: Tall and slim, she has light brown hair and green eyes. Her skin is pale, since she doesn't get a lot of sun pent up in her lab.
Attire: A long white lab coat over a white-collared shirt and black pants.
Personality: Very amiable, but can seem distracted. If someone were to ask her what she was thinking at any given moment, it would be about one of the anomalies.
Extra info: She is deeply fascinated by the anomalies, and is usually the one who tries to interact with them. There have been several instances when something has tried to eat, roast, or in various other ways kill her. Still, she views intelligent anomalies with curiosity and some respect.

Anomaly
Name: 049 (Yes this is a reference)
Gender: unknown
Cell: It looks like a normal room, but if you look closely you can see dolls piled in the corners. The door remains unlocked, but 049 rarely leaves.
Personality: Very shy, but fiercely loyal to any who have shown it kindness.
Abilities: 049 is able to control inanimate objects for short amounts of time; it does this daily with the dolls.
Weaknesses: It is susceptible to loud noises.
Appearance: Humanoid in appearance, it has elongated, bony fingers, arms, legs, and feet.
Attire: A thin black cloak.
Extra info: It is docile, only attacking when threatened. Helpful Anomaly. It has limited speech, but it is able to get its point across.

Can I join? Do I need to ask?

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Human-
Name: Bella Infernum
Age: 26
Gender: Female
S.O: Pansexual
Background: Majored in Xenoarchaeology (extraterrestrial cultures/languages) & minored in Anatomy (structures of living organisms) at Yale, finishing at the top of her classes.
Job: Assistant
Appearance: https://s3.amazonaws.com/notebook-content-uploads/content/uploads/original/d128ad39-cb3c-4424-88d0-471e6576108f.jpg?1557512021
Attire: Bella usually wears a white lab jacket over her regular clothes. But will sometimes put on a heavy winter coat if it ever gets too cold inside the base, refuses to go outside no matter what.
Personality: Very child-like, forgetful, ADHD, will hug everyone & everything no matter what, prefers to be around the anomalies rather than her co-workers.
Extra info: She will sometimes go into some of the anomaly's cages & hang out with them on her breaks & such.