Mad science!

003 - Answers and the carnival

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:56:33 GMT

. . .

We're here for entertainment, if Miss Eleanor is correct. I am attempting to ask Master Theo what's going on, but . . . it might prove difficult. He doesn't like us very much and I wouldn't blame him if I were in his position.

. . . At least an experiment would have made more sense . . .

. . .

As this man stated, we have each been given a blank ticket. I think . . . I think that might be what the Ringmaster wants us to do. So . . . I'm going to go and see what happens, but . . .

I'll be honest. This place frightens me and though I want to see it, could someone please accompany me to the carnival tomorrow?

. . .

. . .

. . .

My coat! It's missing!

002 - Personal Notes

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:16:25 GMT

[Screened || Moderately Hackable]

Well, that was enlightening. As was reading this.

It appears there's something unusual about the playground and that dead children - possibly spirits are present here.

Multiple Universes are definitely in play here. Timelines, at least. Does time even flow at the same rate here as in our own Worlds? Are we even missed in our own Worlds?

Furthermore, I should probably keep an eye on this entry. It might be useful to keep a list of my own in case something regarding these marks begin to happen. Perhaps I should follow this boy's lead and ask for who else has a sun symbol? And perhaps the star symbols as well?

Still to be answered: Why are we here? How were we brought here? Is there any way to send us back? Could there potentially be a Safe Point to access Gummi Space from? I've never even been in Gummi Space, but I've worked with the material enough I could potentially make a vessel. I could perhaps ask someone to pilot it. I won't know until I try.

Goals: Find a way to communicate with the Ringmaster; seek out and speak with Eleanor, Theo, and Cosette;

[Private || Unhackable]

. . .

I wonder how it went. I'm amazed by how easy it is for me to twist things as I have so far. Maybe Lord Ansem was right and I really would make a good politician?

[/Screened]

[OOC: Ciara, if you'll be on-line at about 8:00 PM EST, we can do that log we talked about? Either way, I'll post it up in the logs comm since I have it drafted. I just want to be sure you're still up for it.]

001 - Excuse me?

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:38:51 GMT

Ummm . . . this definitely is not the Royal Court.

Could someone . . . could someone be so kind as to tell me where I am? Or how it is I seem to have gotten here? This town appears to be abandoned, so I'm unsure as to whether or not anyone is even here. However, someone had to have put this brand on me. And given me this key. And this ticket. There also appears to be strange wisps of light I see out of the corner of my eye. I do not know if this is due to my shock at finding myself here or from the environment itself.

Is there anyone else here who is in a similar situation? Were you branded as well?

Xehanort? Ienzo? Are you here as well?

Original Applications

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:01:14 GMT

- Nihil application

PLAYER
Name/Handle: Cassie/Dichotomy
Timezone: EST
Gender: Female
E-Mail Address: roleplayerdichotomy@gmail.com
AIM/other form of IM (MSN etc): RPDichotomy
Personal LJ Journal: rpdichotomy

CHARACTER
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Canon: Pre-series
Name: Kairi [AU]
Age: 15
Gender: Female
History: Kairi was born in a small farming village on the outskirts of Radiant Garden to parents she would never know. At the time a war between the Light and the Dark was being waged on Radiant Garden and many people were left homeless as battle after battle was raged between Keybearers. Kairi's village wasn't destroyed by the war, however it was ravaged by thieves leaving only a handful of children alive. The children would have either starved to death or grown up to become thieves themselves when the King, Lord Ansem, arrived rounding up refugees with a young, amnesiac Xehanort in tow, having just found the boy as the only survivor in the last village he looked through. He took the children to his stronghold in Hollow Bastion where he had been taking in war orphans in hopes they could have a better life.

Once there, Lord Ansem's mother (the Queen Mother Evangeline) grew fond of the girl and took her in as a surrogate granddaughter. She was raised as a sibling alongside Xehanort, who was adopted by Lord Ansem, and Ienzo, another refugee orphan who was taken in by Ansem's bodyguard, Eleaus. She even went so far as to follow those two to the labs where they eventually gained apprenticeships under Lord Ansem and grew close to the other apprentice, Dilan, and the three researchers who also worked there Braig, Eleaus, and Even (the last later became her personal tutor).

When she was five years old, she, Ienzo, Braig, and Xehanort were eavesdropping on a meeting Lord Ansem had with a strange visitor from another World. The Mouse bade Lord Ansem to stop the experiments they had been performing on the nature of Darkness and Light in relation to the Heart and, to their shock, he agreed. Xehanort, who had bee the most enthusiastic and saw the research as a way to regain his lost memories, rushed in to try to talk reason into Lord Ansem, but was denied his request. Xehanort had been crushed and retreated into a depression for a few years afterwards.

Kairi, though, was given a top education and herself eventually became an Apprentice to Lord Ansem in the lab. By this point, Xehanort was out of his depression and had started doing his own experiments in secret, but was unable to get effective results without help or access to a proper lab to perform them in. He eventually asked Ienzo and Kairi for help in them, having developed a scanner to read what was in a person's Heart. The three of them used this device to make observations of the people in Town and in the Bastion and made several interesting discoveries - including that Darkness isn't necessarily evil and that there were some people running around who didn't even have a Heart to begin with, but were living perfectly normal lives.

At around this time, people were starting to go missing from Town and from the Bastion. The Mouse-King returned from his World claiming that the creatures involved in the war that ended thirteen years ago were back in a greater number and in all the Known Worlds, they were concentrated highest around the Bastion.

Unfortunately, Lord Ansem discovered what they were doing and was very hurt by this betrayal. However, since it was three people he considered his own children he was willing to give them a chance to report their findings before the Royal Court and to explain themselves before deciding their fates. Even though all they had been doing was reading what was in people's Hearts, several recent disappearances in Town had made people suspicious and the three main suspects at this point was Xehanort, Ienzo, and Kairi.

It was during the trial that Kairi was brought into Nihil.

Personality: Kairi is nominally a quiet introverted girl, but years of learning courtly etiquette and having to present results in various experiments for the last two years has given her a charisma and charm to be able to cover this up when she needs to. Overall, though, she is pretty cheerful and sunny and likes to keep the people around her in good cheer. Due to being raised in Hollow Bastion by the Queen Mother and her son, the King, she was isolated from most children her age and has little experience with handling people her own age on a social level. Being a lab assistant didn't help this very much, but she has a curiosity she always tries to satisfy to the best of her ability. She hates being in the way and always tries to find a way to be useful. Furthermore, if you're a friend of hers, you'll find she will be fiercely loyal to you almost to a fault and she will do anything within her power to help you in any way she can. She is also a bit on the spoiled side, having essentially been handed everything to her from childhood and is can be fairly naive when it comes to people outside the Royal Court.

Third-Person Sample Roleplay:
Fact: She had been surrounded by at least a dozen guards, the Bastion's finest. Two of which she'd work with personally in the labs and had seen in action on more than one occasion. On either side of her had been her brother, nervous, pale, but hopeful. On the other had been her best friend since childhood, calm, collected, but filled with doubt.

Fact: She had merely blinked and had found herself in a strange little town with no people in it. The fountain cracked, the stores open, the sun setting. No one, not even her brother, was here with her. And all she had was a blank ticket, a key with a number in it, a communication device of sorts, and . . .

Fact: There was a brand on her wrist. In a tribal design resembling a celestial body.

Hypothesis: She had either been kidnapped or someone had really botched a teleportation spell.

Now . . .

How did she get out of here?

First-Person Sample Journal Post:
This is not, in the least bit, humorous.

While I do appreciate being brought here when I was, you forgot two very important things - my brother and my friend. Furthermore, how did you even manage to bring me here when I was surrounded on all sides by guards? A teleportation spell?

Nevertheless, I believe there are others here, yes? Has anyone seen a tall man with white hair and dark skin? Or a young man with graying hair who keeps it over one eye? If so, please let them know Kairi is looking for them?

Player Notes

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:17:30 GMT

Historical
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Personal
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Relationships
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Possessions
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Resources
+ Kingdom Hearts Wiki
+ Wikipedia Entry
+ GameFAQs entry
+ KH Insider
+ Kingdom Hearts Ultimania

Abilities, Strengths, Weaknesses

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:01:10 GMT

Abilities
Kairi has no special powers

Strengths
Intelligence:

Machinery:

Poltics:

Weaknesses
Naivety:

Social awkwardness:

Self doubt:

Inability to perform magic: At all.

Appearance and Personality

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:53:57 GMT

Appearance
Kairi is a pretty young girl with waist-length red hair she keeps pulled back into a braid or bun and long wispy bangs. She has blue eyes and is rather pale from being in the lab most of the time and from being raised in the upper class. Unlike most upper class women, however, Kairi's hands are rather calloused from the various work she's done with machinery and chemicals over the years. Upon arrival in Nihil, she was wearing a pink dress with black tights and a black undershirt, pink dress shoes, a white pendant, and her brother's labcoat that is several sizes too big for her.

Personality
Kairi is nominally a quiet introverted girl, but years of learning courtly etiquette and having to present results in various experiments for the last two years has given her a charisma and charm to be able to cover this up when she needs to. Overall, though, she is pretty cheerful and sunny and likes to keep the people around her in good cheer. Due to being raised in Hollow Bastion by the Queen Mother and her son, the King, she was isolated from most children her age and has little experience with handling people her own age on a social level. Being a lab assistant didn't help this very much, but she has a curiosity she always tries to satisfy to the best of her ability. She hates being in the way and always tries to find a way to be useful. Furthermore, if you're a friend of hers, you'll find she will be fiercely loyal to you almost to a fault and she will do anything within her power to help you in any way she can. She is also a bit on the spoiled side, having essentially been handed everything to her from childhood and is can be fairly naive when it comes to people outside the Royal Court.

History (Before, During, and After Nihil)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:41:20 GMT

Before Nihil
Kairi was born in a small farming village on the outskirts of Radiant Garden to parents she would never know. At the time a war between the Light and the Dark was being waged on Radiant Garden and many people were left homeless as battle after battle was raged between Keybearers. Kairi's village wasn't destroyed by the war, however it was ravaged by thieves leaving only a handful of children alive. The children would have either starved to death or grown up to become thieves themselves when the King, Lord Ansem, arrived rounding up refugees with a young, amnesiac Xehanort in tow, having just found the boy as the only survivor in the last village he looked through. He took the children to his stronghold in Hollow Bastion where he had been taking in war orphans in hopes they could have a better life.

Once there, Lord Ansem's mother (the Queen Mother Evangeline) grew fond of the girl and took her in as a surrogate granddaughter. She was raised as a sibling alongside Xehanort, who was adopted by Lord Ansem, and Ienzo, another refugee orphan who was taken in by Ansem's bodyguard, Eleaus. She even went so far as to follow those two to the labs where they eventually gained apprenticeships under Lord Ansem and grew close to the other apprentice, Dilan, and the three researchers who also worked there Braig, Eleaus, and Even (the last later became her personal tutor).

When she was five years old, she, Ienzo, Braig, and Xehanort were eavesdropping on a meeting Lord Ansem had with a strange visitor from another World. The Mouse bade Lord Ansem to stop the experiments they had been performing on the nature of Darkness and Light in relation to the Heart and, to their shock, he agreed. Xehanort, who had bee the most enthusiastic and saw the research as a way to regain his lost memories, rushed in to try to talk reason into Lord Ansem, but was denied his request. Xehanort had been crushed and retreated into a depression for a few years afterwards.

Kairi, though, was given a top education and herself eventually became an Apprentice to Lord Ansem in the lab. By this point, Xehanort was out of his depression and had started doing his own experiments in secret, but was unable to get effective results without help or access to a proper lab to perform them in. He eventually asked Ienzo and Kairi for help in them, having developed a scanner to read what was in a person's Heart. The three of them used this device to make observations of the people in Town and in the Bastion and made several interesting discoveries - including that Darkness isn't necessarily evil and that there were some people running around who didn't even have a Heart to begin with, but were living perfectly normal lives.

At around this time, people were starting to go missing from Town and from the Bastion. The Mouse-King returned from his World claiming that the creatures involved in the war that ended thirteen years ago were back in a greater number and in all the Known Worlds, they were concentrated highest around the Bastion.

Unfortunately, Lord Ansem discovered what they were doing and was very hurt by this betrayal. However, since it was three people he considered his own children he was willing to give them a chance to report their findings before the Royal Court and to explain themselves before deciding their fates. Even though all they had been doing was reading what was in people's Hearts, several recent disappearances in Town had made people suspicious and the three main suspects at this point was Xehanort, Ienzo, and Kairi.

It was while the three of them were being brought before the Court that Kairi will be pulled into Nihil.

During Nihil
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After Nihil
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