Minerva Project

Roleplay:

Set in the gloomy city of Nightraven, there are two dimensions that are merging to one, spreading an infection towards the soul. People don't notice this until it is too late and become listless drones without mind of their own just doing their everyday life based on their habits.

Monsters hide themselves in human societies posing as humans. They prey on unsuspecting human and the dead human gets replaced by another. These are the impostors.

Every end of the month, rises the red moon. Time warps differently and the monsters begin preying on humans that are too apathetic to care to live, consuming them and posing as them to avoid suspects.

Roleplayers:

Take on the roles of the Investigation Squad, the Midnight Runners. They are the half child of both a human and a monster developing a special soul that come from another dimension.

Their goal is to find a way to unmerge two worlds and stop more monsters preying on humans.

How to interact with the monsters:

Monsters are human impostors. They act perfectly human. I recommend not actively hunting impostors at daylight but at the special time at midnight where the influence of the other world is the strongest. The impostors will then have zombified looks and attacking them will reveal their true form as monsters.

How monsters affect the world:

Humans that died will appear apathetic. They are still alive but their mind is gone entirely, moving like corpse like but still do their daily habits. Impostors will play perfectly as humans to hide from society and when killed in their impostor form, they appear human.

How can Midnight Runners fight:

The background of the Midnight Runners depends on tapping to their half blood powers as monsters. Their souls can affect objects they strongly resonate. Some resonate with swords, some resonate with pens, some even resonate with their fists.

The souls vary from person to person and they are only exclusive to each one, meaning the souls are shaped in the beginning and can't be changed later.

Making the Character:

Name: (Example: Yuki Ishimura)

Age: (Example: 19 years old)

Home Address: (Example: Hope Haven Orphanage)

Soul: (Example: Decaying Soul)

Backstory:

(Example: Yuki Ishimura is an orphan who lives in Hope Haven Orphanage who had a rough childhood where he had to fend for himself as people treated him like menace of society and thugs taking advantage of children. Yuki Ishimura learned to be tough and not afraid to defend himself.

He fought monsters during his adolescent days and he is using a pipe as his main weapon of choice. He awakened his decaying soul, destined for ruin by fate. One of the leaders of one of the Midnight Runners group, Cassius.)

I'd like to join, but I'm not clear on the soul portion of character creation. If you could provide some details on what the types of souls are and what they mean, I'll edit this post to be my joining the story.

The soul is where your character's set personality inherited from any kinds of monsters.

The characters that will be roleplayed have the background setting where they are the children of both human and monster and its possible they are the descendant of said monster.

The soul can give abilities such as the ability to infuse elemental powers into their weapons, cast various spells, or power up one's body.

The soul can be the same but can never be changed around people. Some have the exact same abilities like the ability to strengthen the muscles or cast fire. For example, five people can have the same raging soul where the owner channels their anger into their fighting style. How it differs is how people use their soul's ability, like some use it to boost their physical trait or use it to strengthen their fire spells the more they are enraged.

To give a better example, I will explain how Yuki Ishimura's soul works.

His is the decaying soul. He taps to his necrotic nature to infuse necrotic damage towards monsters and also for story purposes, have a particular aura that threatens some monsters to see him as a living dead. Ishimura can either channel his necrotic energy to his pipe, or he can use it to become resilient to pain at the cost of his life.

I can provide more souls to choose from:

The Vengeful Soul: Gains the rage inherited from a vengeful monster.

The Cold-hearted Soul: Cold-hearted and channels icicles to pierce towards enemies.

The Charming Soul: Makes oneself be very attractable to all humans inherited a charming monster.

The Toxic Soul: A soul that induces harm to others with venom, based on a monster's forked tongue.

The Blessed Soul: Talents are easily acquired and opportunities bring success thanks from the monster's influence.

The Fiery Soul: Have a fiery spirit burning in their heart and channel the element of fire to energize or overload oneself.

The soul shapes one's personality so I recommend describing your character's personality and associate an element based on their personality. The anger can represent fire. The sadness can represent water. The carefree can represent wind, and so forth.

The monsters can only be hurt by monsters, and as descendants from monsters, the Midnight Runners can protect humanity from the invasion from another realm

Name: Tanaka Hiro

Age: 57

Home address: wanderer/homeless 

Soul: the lightning soul (used for quick bursts of speed)

Backstory:

    Hiro was once a middle class factory worker, until a leg injury made it impossible to continue his work. He struggled for many years, doing what he could for money. But as he got older, with his leg never fully healing, it became more and more difficult to find work. he lost his home and was forced to live as a beggar. He has no family and few friends, leaving him all but alone.

    He did not fight monsters, or awaken his soul, until just a few years ago, at the age of 54. His weapon of choice is the cane he uses to help him walk.

Name: Daemon Young

Age: 26

Home Address: St. Stephen’s Apartments, Downtown

Soul: Charming Soul

Background: From a young age, Daemon always seemed to get what he wanted. Whether it was a toy, a piece of candy, or something of the sort. As it got older, his requests got wilder and wilder, until one day he was given a brand new car from a dealership. He later returned it, but that was enough to draw the attention of his mentor, one of the leaders of the Midnight Runners. They took him under their tutelage. He is now an Officer among the Midnight Runners, recruiting new members and hunting down leads.