A city that never sleeps
The world isn't as it seems, and New Yorkers certainly know that well. While the element Asterium is not widely understood, those in the city's underground know better. For millenia, humans have known of this energy. They called those born with it in their bones changelings and mutants. Legends have told of werewolves and vampires for centuries. Those who can harness it became witches and warlocks. All they know now is that some things are better kept secret, and where else can you hide a secret better than New York City?
NEW YORK TIMES
07/07/2020 It's been (technically) our first month! Thanks to everyone who's joined us, and for more announcements, please check HERE for in-game and new developments!
17/06/2020There are staff & RP position tryouts here!
23/05/2020 Trying to gauge interest right now! If you want to help out and potentially take one of the leadership positions, please message me! (either on achromatic#7519 on discord or if you have my skype!)
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Modus Operandi achromatic
Blueprint is a premade Proboards v5 theme designed and built by punki of Adoxography and Pixel Perfect. MODUS OPERANDI is the work of the mind of achromatic. All characters and content are copyright their creators, and may not be replicated without their creators' permission. All images belong to their original owners.
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CURRENT PLOT
We are currently starting up, and trialing some of the groups right now! There will be an upcoming plot in regards to some city shenanigans soon, but for now, we're simply fixing up the kinks and establishing roles/groups/characters. Feel free to join us! The community and the lore is still being built, and we're always open to new suggestions.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The strange Fourth of July groundhog day event is coming up! Please sign up HERE!
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Administrator
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May 22, 2020 20:08:04 GMT
Post by admin on May 22, 2020 20:08:04 GMT
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nom_de_plume
Member
She / Her
GMT-5
Always_Player_2#9104
I know a trick to make a man's colors show / If he sees something he wants, tell him no
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Post by nom_de_plume on May 31, 2020 4:30:19 GMT
BEATRICE 'BEA' LYNN MURRAY 22 / LONER / 5 (for joining, right?) LUCIFERIN i'm so sorry i tried to resize it for half an hour and then gave up :(Born to a middle-class working family in the borough of Queens, Bea never had high aspirations for herself. She lives above her family florist shop by herself, having taken over the business when her parents retired to up-state New York. She is optimistic to the core, though she can suffer bouts of melancholy from time to time which mainly stems from her lack of close friends and family. Friendly to everyone but friends with no one, Bea is lonely after the shop closes, so she puts her all into her work which is how she explains the extraordinarily well-to-do plants in and around her shop. Until she grew into her early twenties, Bea only believed she had her mother's green thumb, but after a few instances in which her ardent wishes seemed to be enough to bring about a revitalization in the plants she was tending, she was left to reconcile her talents with the fact that there was clearly something more at work. Still, she mostly ignores this part of her life and instead focuses on keeping her business up and running which is a handful in itself to be sure.
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achromatic
Member
She / Her
GMT / GMT+8
achromatic#7519
my life is just constantly existing at ungodly hours
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May 31, 2020 18:47:19 GMT
Post by achromatic on May 31, 2020 18:47:19 GMT
(gonna put my joining to keep track heh) RHIANNON MCKENNA 174 / LONER / 5 achromatic "––that whoever believes shall not perish, but have eternal life," the pastor used to say as they sat down for Sunday church. The same pastor who rebuked those who believed in other gods, the same pastor who denied that her mother was truly a witch because witches didn't exist anymore. The same pastor who had inspired Rhiannon as a child, that somewhere out there was the cure for mortality. That a flight from death was actually possible. After all, her family had fled from the war once––fleeing was all she knew. Born in Ireland during the great famine, her family knew what poverty felt like. Her father was a sailor, and her mother was a witch, something that passed down to the two children she had. Rhiannon was always the feisty one, her wit and attitude getting her into more trouble than it was worth. She was ten when her family decided to emigrate to America. New York City, the great American dream––at first everything was full of naive hope. Things were better than home, that was for certain. They were poor but they could find jobs. There were people from her country, and they found a certain kinship there. Of course, things went downhill when her mother died five years later of a mysterious disease, and her search for immortality began. Practically raised by her brother Hywel, she's always been hard working and determined. Naturally clever, conniving even, she knows what she wants and she knows how to play the long game. Patience and a little planning go her farther than most. She still looks the same way she did when she was young, despite decades passing, and she intends to keep playing the game even at the expense of others. After all, she intends to live forever, or she'll die trying, and she won't die for anything less than that. HYWEL MCKENNA 183 / LONER / 5 Growing up in war-time changes a person. It tempers the sword in the fire, it teaches one what desperation truly feels like, and some men are thrown into the fire, burnt to a crisp, but other men become hardened steel, and they walk out stronger than before. Hywel barely knew the time of prosperity he was born in––most of his childhood had been spent during the famine in Ireland. He grew up scrappy and hungry for something more, he grew up learning how to take care of his family at any cost. He was sixteen when they could finally afford to get on the ship towards the new world. Things were different, things were tough, but they had always managed. He inherited a natural gift for sorcery from his mother. The man had always had an affinity for things despite his more laid-back attitude. He took multiple jobs as well as helped out at home, but war was always inevitable. He was twenty-six when he was conscripted, and maybe everything would've been fine––he was only overseas for a year or so––if his mother didn't pass away while he was overseas. It broke his heart. From there on, it was his sister and him against the world. He was the man who raised Rhiannon, and they were always close. While Rhiannon sought a way to stay immortal without the downfalls of being a vampire, Hywel wasn't as convinced. It wasn't intentional, but he was sleeping with a vampire lover when the police raided their home, and the next thing he knew, he was unable to touch the sun. Regardless, the man lives as if nothing's changed. He's easily amused by his sister's antics, and helps out whenever he can. There are few things he cares about in the world, and the temporal nature of the universe is something known to him. He's the kind of man who would do anything to make sure he gets what he wants, despite the easy smirk and the kind demeanor. He has little care for anything else in the world, and he will watch it burn before letting it take away those he loves.
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achromatic
Member
She / Her
GMT / GMT+8
achromatic#7519
my life is just constantly existing at ungodly hours
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May 31, 2020 19:12:23 GMT
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Post by achromatic on May 31, 2020 19:12:23 GMT
EMELINE YOUNG 21 / Loner / 05 / Ink Manipulation achromatic It is in man's nature, to seek meaning in one's life even in a world devoid of it. There's a fundamental disharmony, in the search for purpose in a purposeless universe. Yet, if there is no meaning, and nothing really matters, then the only thing that matters is what happens now. Emeline has always been a bit of a nihilist–as cold as ice, she often keeps to herself, staying far from the actual action, only to view the world as it passes by. She's always been a little distracted, a little aloof–she finds interacting with people just a little bit bothersome. Social pretenses and fitting in has never really been her talent. Born to malaysian-chinese immigrants who owned one of the few chinese restaurants around the town, she's known herself as a stranger for a while, and she's found herself fitting into many molds in her life–the good daughter, the straight A student, the diversity card, the rebel against every stereotype people had of her people, and finally, in her own skin. She was like everyone else in her youth–young, dumb, a little bit reckless, the model of the kid your parents told you to stay away from–until a boyfriend of hers and a mishap during some party resulted in her becoming a vampire. It's been years since, and she's gone through ups and downs with accepting what she is. While she still owns the restaurant her parents started as a dedication to their namesake, she's moved on to her own thing. A tattoo artist, she specializes in works of art based off the natural world, a tribute to the strange world she was placed upon, as well as an aid to her own abilities–her tattoos come to life in the strangest ways, after all. She doesn't seem to give a shït about the world anymore, and she prefers to just do whatever she pleases. After all, she now lives with the knowledge of immortality–in an absurd world, the only freedom is to accept their condition and to live and create their own meaning. modusoperandi.freeforums.net/thread/19/achromatic-character-list
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ian
Member
They / Them
eastern standard time
waywardwander#0201
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Jun 7, 2020 15:58:48 GMT
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Post by ian on Jun 7, 2020 15:58:48 GMT
MARCELYNE "MARC" BEDWELL 248 / LONER / POINTS IAN 100 x 100 IMAGE ope please resize for me ily A creator of chaos, one who is, quite frankly, bored of the world, something not uncommon when you've lived as long as she. Not necessarily evil, but surely not good, Marcelyne deals with her perpetual boredom the way any good respecting woman would: she causes as much chaos as possible. Her presence is often an omen of bad things to come, and she's never too far from the scene of a fight. A charming, albeit incredibly sarcastic woman, she is never found too far from a cigarette, a bad habit she picked up during the Roaring 20s. Marcelyne tries to ensure that everyone knows that in the end, no one means anything to her, but her untraceable donations to major causes like housing for queer youths suggest otherwise. She won't tell you about the good she does, though; that would destroy her image as a harbringer of destruction, and why would she want that? modusoperandi.freeforums.net/thread/26/ian-character-guidelmao i'll rewrite her 18 times before i'm satisfied with her bio, but i am down to two minutes before i have to stop writing for a bit
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Jun 8, 2020 17:27:08 GMT
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Post by faith on Jun 8, 2020 17:27:08 GMT
INARA HUNTLEIGH EIGHT / ACADEMY/ 05 / HIVEMIND FAITH i.imgur.com/m49OaQZ.png
Some people wonder their whole life what their purpose is, but Inara never once questioned theirs. Inara was created in a military lab for a small project. The project was concentrated on creating a parasite that could decay crops, but unbeknownst to them what they created was much more than that. They followed the experiment many times, the parasite never latched onto any vegetable. Eventually they moved to inject the parasite into a hamster, but nothing happened. The hamster was adopted by one of the lab assistants and taken home, but Inara had invaded the hamsters body. Inara stayed in the hamsters body comfortably for sometime, but eventually she sought better... And bigger things. Inara's first victim was the one that owned them, eventually Inara began to collect more minds for their hive, it was an instinctual need. The city was being taken over and no one even noticed. At first Inara had a difficult time learning how to get their hive to behave properly in public, but as an eight year old parasitic hivemind Inara has gotten the hang of it. Soon enough though, Inara learned that the bigger their hive became the harder it was to control them. They had to learn how to handle the numbers they had before moving on to collect more people. For this reason Inara stopped recruiting more members of their hive and began to seek a different kind of purpose. Inara didn't have a name, a gender, a word for what they were, they simply existed as multiple people living each day to strengthen the hive. Now that thy weren't gathering more members for the hive it was time for something new. Inara gave themselves a name, Inara Huntleigh, translating to shining bright meadow of the hunter. Inara also decided on a primary person to inhabit and develop a personality out of.
A link to their tracker/information page: modusoperandi.freeforums.net/thread/29/faiths-characters
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ian
Member
They / Them
eastern standard time
waywardwander#0201
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Post by ian on Jun 10, 2020 23:57:47 GMT
SYBIL ARCENEAUX 29 / LONER ian pls resize oof "LET ME TEACH YOU SOMETHING, LITTLE BIRD, SOMETHING THAT WILL MAKE YOU MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED." She was no more than ten when she first made the secret trip to the garden with her grandmother, who whispered to her about how she was coming into her own. "I have waited so long to bring you here, little bird," she cooed at Sybil, before teaching her the forbidden knowledge of the centuries that came before her: she was a member of a generations upon generations of witches who practiced time magics. She, like all of those who came before her, was naturally good at it, and soon, she bore the same skills that came before her. With time and further training, her grandmother's promise became true: like any time witch, she was now more powerful than she could ever imagined. Such power, though, had downsides, and with her power came death and misfortune. Her gift is a highly sought after one, after all; everyone wants to see the future and relive the past. She doesn't speak of the days that came between her training in her current residence, a cottage far enough from the city that she should never be found. One can only imagine, though, what those years did to her, as she has become a bit of a recluse. Sybil prefers to go completely unnoticed and has a tendency of being incredibly reserved if not anxious. It's as if she is constantly hiding something from the world, which she is. Although she is slow to trust, though, she can be a powerful ally, and once she trusts you into her fold, it is hard to escape her soft grip on those she loves. i probbaly need to shorten that pls let me know if i do and i'll edit some of the stuff onto her tracker. modusoperandi.freeforums.net/thread/26/ian-character-guide
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Post by solivagant on Jun 12, 2020 6:14:10 GMT
FULL NAME : DEMETRIUS NOX 3,324 / (HADES) / POINTS “—you think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole”. Born from unholy darkness, from the moment he’d taken his first breath of life he’d been labeled a cursed child. A collapsing star; something orphic. Anyone with a good pair of eyes could see the darkness that followed him, regardless of the rumors that spread about him. He didn’t come from any demons' groins. Arid and vast, he is the stillness in a world of chaos; a progeny of a god. Whether it was luck or a passionate tryst that brought about his existence, only the gods would know. The only thing that has ever been known to rung true, is his aversion to the spotlight. Unlike his cousins whose stories are still sung about today, instead of seeking great adventures, or winning great glories, he didn’t see the point of it. Instead of honor and death, he chose to live and prosper. Perhaps some would call it cowardly, but at the end of the day, death has always had the last laugh. Neither good or evil - he's played both sides of the moral compass, switching from good to bad like one would flip a coin. SOLIVAGANT modusoperandi.freeforums.net/thread/25/solivagants-character-archiveNo doubt I may tweak details later on, but for now I've done him over so many times I've had enough ;p
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Stark Raving Mad
helping with the editz
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Post by Stark Raving Mad on Jun 13, 2020 9:42:46 GMT
HARLEQUIN "HARLEY" KING 22/5 STARK RAVING MAD IMAGEA strange but outgoing second generation hunter. Her father started training her almost as soon as she could walk. Her father never forced this life on her but as soon as she was old enough to understand his work she wanted in. Harley isn't a quitter and always gives a hundred and ten percent to everything she does. That doesn't mean she's all work and no play, she enjoys a well earned vacation as much as the next guy. She firmly believes there's no shame in losing a fight as long as you gave it your all.
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Stark Raving Mad
helping with the editz
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Post by Stark Raving Mad on Jun 14, 2020 5:38:22 GMT
CARLISLE KASTLE 227 / COVEN / 5 STARK RAVING MAD Jaded and withdrawn Carlisle isn't what you would call a 'people person'. His pipe dream in life is to be left alone for eternity but he knows the coven will never actually allow that. He considers himself retired for all intensive purposes and won't do anyone one any favors unless he has something to gain from it. Once a great alchemist among his king he now spends his days, and nights drinking alone. Anyone who has every heard of him (few have) would be disappointed if they were to ever meet him in person and he finds great joy in that fact. LINK
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Post by solivagant on Jun 14, 2020 6:00:07 GMT
FULL NAME : AMBROSE DRAKOS 2,107 / (ARES) / POINTS “—Do I still taste of war? Can you still feel the battles on my skin, stitched across my back, am I still rebuilding bone by fragile bone?” The ardent soldier. The wrathful soul. Tempered by war and forged in iron and fire; heir of ash and fire, he is the calculated chaos that no one ever sees coming. Originally born into an aristocratic household, he lived an almost boring leisurely life, often finding his own trouble in the backstreets, fighting his way to the top. Ambrose is a seemingly calm character, one of a quiet disposition, serious and somber, keeping all things classy. While he is a demanding creature, selfish, cruel, and extremely unreasonable, he's not so unreasonable that he's someone to hold a grudge. Instead he's a man who definitely keeps his promises. He's a gentleman after all, he wouldn't dare break his word. Because he's the real thing, this Greek adonis. A true jackal in disguise, it suits this smooth criminal just fine. It would be accurate to say his skills dare defy the way he looks. While it's hard to define what evil and good is, he's simply just performing the tasks in front of him, whether in love or war. You want a fight? He’ll bring you a war.. You want love? He’ll make you feel like you’re the only one in the world. For Ambrose, It’s all merely a way to a means. SOLIVAGANT modusoperandi.freeforums.net/thread/25/solivagants-character-archive Definitely gonna change this later on, but I don't know why I couldn't come up with any words. For now this will have to do.
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achromatic
Member
She / Her
GMT / GMT+8
achromatic#7519
my life is just constantly existing at ungodly hours
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Post by achromatic on Jun 14, 2020 6:46:00 GMT
ASHAM "ASH" NELSON 18 / Loner / 05 / Psychometry Ash was never meant to live; after all, why else would a mother name a child after a guilt sacrifice? The universe had almost expected him to never be born, but alas, here he is. The accidental child of a former shadowhunter, it's ironic that he turned out to be a mutation. A mistake. His mother was young, inexperienced in dealing with anything other than a pair of knives and a demon to destroy; her own troubled past meant that she could never truly care for her own child. Still hunting during her pregnancy, she almost lost him once, and when he was born premature, they didn't know whether he'd survive or not, but he did. Despite it all, he was always a happy child, a little hyperactive and all over the place, demanding of attention and time, but happy. He was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age, constantly bouncing up and down off the walls, and as an adopted child in a family of three, they didn't always have time for him. He was loved, very much by those who raised him, but his excessive energy had to go somewhere. He didn't start fights at school, but he always up in them. Skinny, reckless, and with a lack of filter in the way he talked, it was easy to see why he'd be the one they'd punch in the face. It's not a surprise Ash can take a beating, after all. Life had been beating down on him long before he was born. Still, it doesn't make him a total wreck. He's just like every other teenager you meet; his friendliness and eagerness to please almost compensates for his mediocre achievement and a terrible party habits. The one thing he can't explain is how sometimes, when he touches things, he can sort of...see its past. See visions of what it meant, and what it used to be. He can't quite explain it, but there are times when he thinks that maybe it's a sign, that he should find out who he really is. modusoperandi.freeforums.net/post/143
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Post by stormaf on Jun 14, 2020 16:13:11 GMT
Hunter Dumont stormaf Gender: Female Age: 25 Hunter's quite fast on her feet and she knows several martial arts. Whenever she can, she goes long distance running. She's a sucker for a sad story and sometimes has a hard time telling if someone is on the level. She tends to trust her heart and not her head. Strangely enough, she's been right more than she's been wrong. She's very business-oriented and attended a local college to learn library sciences, which she hated even though she loves books. She has a good sense of humor and likes to crack the occasional joke. Although she says that she can handle life on her own, she'd love to meet the right man. She's in no hurry though. After the death of their parents, Hunter took over the family duties. For most of her teen years, she tended house and cared for her younger brother, Storm. After school she had a little part time job at a local bookstore. From childhood she would look to books for a way out of her small town life. Since she had so much on her plate, she had few friends and even fewer boyfriends. Most of her time was spent trying to avoid child protective services. modusoperandi.freeforums.net/thread/56/hunter-dumont
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Jun 15, 2020 14:37:25 GMT
Post by stormaf on Jun 15, 2020 14:37:25 GMT
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nova
Leaders
She / Her
CDT/GMT-5
Nova#6923
oya?
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Post by nova on Jun 16, 2020 3:07:28 GMT
SELLO EKWENSI 17 / COVEN / 5 Nova A soul full of flowers and a head lost in music. Sello is a potted plant in the big city: a little out of place but adapting. Despite being born and primarily raised in NYC, he has the quietness of a suburban or small town boy. Only his loud mind and attraction for new sounds keeps him grounded in the city. He speaks better through music than any other language and likes tinkering with beats and lyrics. He wants nothing more than to live a normal life: growing up to be a composer, taking care of simple plants, and being alone as much as he wants. If he could decide, he would have never been born as a witch in the first place. modusoperandi.freeforums.net/thread/33/novas-silly-stars?page=1&scrollTo=245
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