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 Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:15 pm
River of Discovery
In the near future, the world has changed little. People continue on their merry ways oblivious to another world beneath the waters. Mermaids and mermen exist, and they have been doing quite well for themselves. Though like the humans, most are oblivious to the existence of the other. Elder merpeople know of the humans, and have always known. The eldest make up a parliament who govern the seas and tell their people not to stray too far from the lines they have drawn to keep the merfolk from the ever inquisitive eyes of the humans. Of course, the elders expect to be obeyed without question, and as everyone knows, when one is not given a reason, one rarely follows the rules.
(Zaydin's Note: Skye & I developed this RP together. As such, it is a collab) (Skye's Note: Zaydin, I put that in the rules XP)
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:11 pm
IntroductionThis story takes place in and along the Mississippi River that runs through Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. There are many sub-species of merperson which include Classic Merfolk, SharkLike Merfolk, WhaleLike Merfolk, and many other types. Merfolk are both good and bad, as are people.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:15 pm
Rules.
[x] No godmodding
[x] Literacy is a must.
[x] We reserve the right to refuse anyone enterance/ reentry into the rp.
[x] Pm SkyeBaby Profiles under the title "Flipper!"
[x] SkyeBaby and Zaydin Are running this rp, direct questions to either of them and treat them like the gods they are.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:20 pm
Profiles
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[b]Occpuation[/b][size=9] [/size] [x]UsernameSkyeBaby NameCurri (Pronounced "seeree") Age20 GenderFemale Appearance Curri Race Mermaid Bio Curri is one of the few children who continue to have Siren blood flowing through her veins. If she were aware of humans she would be able to sing them into any situation she wished. As it is she has the ability to conjure an assortment of sea creatures. Curri was raised by her mother, as her father vanished shortly after she was born for an unknown reason. As such Curri is very independent and hardly has many friends because of socialization issues. Occupation Unofficially she gathers items to sell in markets, but officially she is her mother’s second assistant in the parliament in which her mother is a patron of.[x]Username: ZaydinName Nathaniel Hawke; Nathan for short Age: 26 Gender: Male Appearance: Nathan Hawke Race: Human Bio: Nathan is a history buff, & loves to dive on the wrecks of some of the larger ships that have sunk in the Mississippi. Nathan is a fully qualified diver, & is one of the more experienced divers around. Nathan is a skeptic about a lot of things, the existence of merfolk among them. He'll believe in their existence if he is shown solid proof that can be backed up. Nathan holds a degree in history. Occupation: Historian/Diver [x]Username Halokat Name Serenity Age18 Gender Female Appearance Serenity Race Mermaid Bio Serenity is a very disobedient, temprematic teenager. Although her age explains everything. Her parents didn't raise her to be this way. They tried their best to have her behave, but it's in her natural to disobey. She like to hang around ship wrecks and find jewelry, that looks nothing like her own. She often takes a small pouch with her to carry her discoveries, then she hides them in her room. Occpuation doesn't have one yet [x]Username Rinel_Underwood Name RayneAge 20Gender female AppearanceRayne Her hair is a mixture of blue and green, with some silver streaks mixed in.Racemermaid Bio Rayne's family is large and well known in the clan of Mississippi merfolk. Many of them help out in the tavern or farm for a living. Its a very tight knit family, all of them are content with the way things are... except for Rayne, and her crazy grandfather. He goes on and on about the land-dwellers... the humans. Everybody says he's insane, they say the stories aren't real, but Rayne's grandfather claims that he's seen them. Rayne believes every word he says. She wants to see the humans for herself, and often goes farther out of bounds than anybody else in the clan, even daring to surface once or twice. She and her grandfather are the black sheep of the family, but they don't seem to care much. Occpuation She's supposed to harvest seaweed and clams... but she's rarely doing her work. She helps out at a tavern in the city on occasion, but seems to mostly drift from place to place, job to job. [x]Username Maelthra SerisoName Genevieve CrialysAge 22Gender FemaleAppearance GenRace MermaidBio Genevieve has led a normal life for a mermaid, for the most part. The only abnormality would have to be that, instead of being raised by her parents, she was raised by a normally grumpy old man, who now has a soft spot for none other than herself. Now that she is older, and so is he, the two have traded places, for now she must care for him.Occupation She runs a store of sorts, which the man she cares for had run when he was able. Most of the things she sells are odd, though many have practical uses as well.[: x :]Username (Losing Consciousness)Name RyuuAge 19Gender MaleAppearance Ryuu has slightly dark, Japanese skin, and a dolphin-like tail. He has short black hair, down to the back of his neck. His eyes are a dark brown. He's fairly attractive, in a foreign way (to the mermaids of his clan.)Race Whale-like mermanBio Like Rayne, Ryuu has a grandparent - his paternal grandmother, Toyotama - who claims she has seen a human, a soldier she saved from drowning during the attack on pearl harbor when she was sixteen. She, however, has never been foolish enough to proclaim it loudly outside of her family, so she stays unridiculed. Ryuu himself is, because of this, more open-minded to the possible existence of humans than most other mer, but isn't positive either way. Both of his parents are Japanese mermaids, his father being born to two immigrants, Toyo and her husband, and his mother having immigrated herself, so he looks very little like the other mer. Also like Rayne, he has a fondness of wandering out of boundaries, mostly because he finds his home to be utterly stifling, and so has some acquaintance with her.Occpuation Works for Genevive, collecting out-of-bounds items for her.[: x :]Username Kowsauni Name Terylee Schultz Age ] 23[/size
Gender female
Appearance From the waist up Terylee looks like a beautiful blond haired blue eyed tanned skin beach vixen. However from the waste down is a different story. She has the body of a Maine Lobster. She wears a simple top made form water plants and stands about 6 and a half feet tall with massive formidable pinchers underneath her normal arms about where her legs sprout. From pincher to tail she’s about 10 feet long. She also has a pair of long thick antennas that run back from her head and are about as long as her body. ((I might get a pic eventually. For a bit of a reference here is a pic of my scorpion gal))
Race Lobsterfolk
Bio Terylee is a bit of an eccentric who lives nearer to the surface than anybody else. She lives alone in a house she built from scrap metal she cut from sunken ships with her claws. The humans are no mystery to her. A matter a fact she eats them. She occasionally lures a drunkard into the water with her gorgeous top half where she will then devour him. She quite enjoys the nice fuzzy feeling she gets after eating them. However she has never told anyone about this as no one has ever asked. Terylee gets along quite well with the other merfolk even if they do find her a bit crazy. She is an endless source of interesting items that she salvages from the strange mysteries ruins that litter the river floor. (aka sunken ships.))
Occpuation Terylee is an entrepreneur, doing a variety of jobs. She is mostly a salvager and scrapper and deals heavily in the strange artifacts she pulls from the ruins. However she also has been known to act as a body guard for the elders and their families and to utilize her immense strength to do heavy labor jobs.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:16 pm
Nathan sighed, checking out his diving equipment before his dive "Looks like everything is in order" he muttered, double checking the anchor line of his boat "Time to suit up" he said, slipping into his wet suit. Next, Nathan threw the dive-line over the side, his guide down to the wreck he was going to be diving on, making a loud splash as it hit the water
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:29 pm
Curri swam along the floor of the water, a small satchel made of reeds hanging over her right shoulder. Her dark hair streamed out behind her like a thick net. Her bright blue eyes peered through the dim waters, no longer bother her well adjusted eyes. She was well beyond the border line the elders, and her mother, had set, but she knew she always found the best stuff well beyond the saftey lines. Curri was unsure as to why they were told not to go beyond the lines, in all of her adventures she had never expirianced anything dangerous... maybe the monsters or whatever lay beyond the lines only came out during the sun time?
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:33 pm
Nathaniel strapped his SCUBA tank onto his back, slipping his mask on, put on his flippers, & slid over the side of his boat, splashing into the water. Nathaniel grabbed the dive-liner & began his descent to the wreck for today. Nathan flipped his radio on, to keep in touch with his assistant on the boat, making a radio test.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:41 pm
Curri continued along the floor, oblivious to the slight slope of the land but aware of the change of the world about her as she finished shifting from salt water to fresh. She lurched as she hard the distant sound of a splash on the surface. It was unusual, never before had Curri heard disturbances on the surface here. Curious, Curri begant to rise to the surface to investigate.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:44 pm
Nathan flipped on his search-light, spotting the bottom of the river as he did so "Wreck ought to be nearby" he thought to himself, shining his light into the darkness "What's my position in relation to the wreck?" Nathan asked over his radio "You are about 75 feet from it. It should be to your right" he was told by his assistant
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:51 pm
Curri rose until she could see the surface, and notice an odd shape floating above her. Instead of rising all the way, she moved benteath the object and swam up to it, her hands streached out to touch it. CLANG! Her hands made contact with a large, heavy and very cold object which scared her, made her scream in fright and turn, hitting her back against it as she flipped and dive straight to the bottom.
After dropping several feet, she turned, only able to see the dim shape wobbling lightly, but obviously shwoing no signs of pursuit.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:54 pm
Nathan scanned the river-bed in-front of him, finally spotting something protruding from the river bed. "I found her, bud" Nathan said "Going to do my best to positively identify the wreck" he added "Let me know if the weather changes"
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:37 pm
"Alright, I can't take it any more." Rayne mutters, setting down the stack of seaweed and sneaks a peak around the underwater field. Yup, she was alone. Not a cousin, sibling, aunt or uncle in sight. She was unsupervised. Didn't her family know by now what that meant?
Rayne grins, tying shut the basket she'd just filled, then tucks it under a rock. Grabbing her bag made of kelp, she slings it over her shoulder, then turns from the fields. Sneaking a peak towards the surface, she smiles again. Time to have some fun. Rayne looks around the fields one last time, then kicks her tail and swims out of there as fast as she could. She planned to go to the trench today, see if there were any new wrecks or treasures to find, or at the very least some sea turtles to bother. Anything that wasn't work.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:42 pm
Serenity, with her blond hair swimming around her face swam around inside the wreck. She had no idea what she was in, but because she had done this several times, she knew nothing was going to harm her. Or atleast that's what she thought. She slowly sunk into a room, with a giant chest. She swam away from the only door and opened the top. Inside, she found what she was looking for. Jewelry, but not regular mermaid Jewelry.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:45 pm
Nathan swam over the wreck, shining his spot-light around the wreck. "Where is the name-plate?" he thought to himself "It should be here somewhere"
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:53 pm
"Jackpot" Serenity said to herself, as she opened her pouch, made of seaweed, with one hand, and grabbed the jewels with the other hand. She pulled out jewels of red, blue and green. She also pulled out a gold substance that was shaped into different designs. She then pulled out a necklace made of black pearls. She was shocked. She had never seen any thing as beautiful. She immidiately fastened it around her neck.
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