Genetic Manipulation?, For a character idea?

[Zaak Fulke]

Right. Ok.

First of all, interesting changes guys. Very, very interesting changes. I kinda like 'em but it is slightly irritating have no forewarning about the dramatic changes to setting and stuff.

As a result, I'm going to "archive" all my characters because none of them will work in a futureistic enviornment. But I'm having some ideas to fit in with this one.

Ok, so since we're 500 years into the future, it would be safe to assume that advances in science have exploded, and that if you've got the grounding in todays modern science, you can apply it here?

So basically my idea is a genetically engineered humanoid, with some of the traits of a vampire (heightened sense of smell, ability to see in the dark, senstivity to sunlight....) that was formed through the experiements in Aeternitas (sp?) cos obviously their research will have advanced as well.

I'm not saying that the character would be a super human (a la Blade or something), just have slightly more advantages than a normal person and maybe funky looking eyes, inept social skills as they were born and raised in a labratory, and an odd craving for blood and flesh that sometimes gets the better of them (but no pointy vampire teeth.) And extreme photosenstivity.

More sort of an inbetween stage of the ultimate vampire hunter and human?

Just an idea mind you, and if it's not suitable I'll scrap it.

Cheers!

[Prince Vladislaus Draculea]

Well the setting is mainly the changed thing, although because of the way it was done, the ground level has been left mainly in the poverty of the past, scarcely advancing, so if you still want to keep things a little less advance, I would suggest having your character's life centred around the ground level. But the warning was in the thread, that there was going to be a new Obscura, and also on the offline notice, that new plots and things were going to be created.

As for scientific advances, this is how I see it. 2015, there was the great war. For a long time things will have remained destroyed and it would have been a hard life. Then you have to allow a time for the city to be rather backward technology-wise. This last for a great time as things are slowly rebuilt and people begin to re-populate the city. It is only at the point when enough of the rich finally get together and decide the city is too populated and overrun with poverty that they hatch a massive plan to create this three tier system.

Then there is of course a huge time span while the whole city is under construction, and they slowly catch up with the level of technology they had before. It is only many, many years after that, that they begin to exceed their original technological level.

So, by 2506, we have a fairly complete three level city, still advancing. Transport and most necessities are more advanced, as you can read in the various information topics. Electronics and so forth are advanced and generally the upper levels are far ahead of the ground in that respect. Although nothing is close to how advanced another civilisation might be over a 500 year gap, given the war and the fact it was infested with vampires and Lamia lol.

As for Aeternitas, we have some potential ideas and some plots in mind to come in future if the site gets up and running. Your idea seems interesting, and its fairly similiar to something I was thinking of that we may include with the potential ideas. It'll be considered with those ideas, after we see how the site goes. Thanks for the suggestion!

Don't forget, you can re-use those characters if you like, you might fit them better in the ground level. Or you could change details of the profile more greatly than just background and dates, so that it fits even better. It's up to you! :D

--Andy

[Zaak Fulke]

I missed the general warning on the site because I was on my 8 week archaeology trip, so when I got back all I could see was the "site down" message. So, I wasn't being ignorant or anything, I just genuinely had no warning about anything.

and 500 years is a very long time span, so even though the war is dramatic things politically, socially and scientifically will have changed, and sadly Fall and Fabian (who I didn't like very much) aren't the kind of characters who work well in the dramatic class devisions.

So, basically the gist of what you said is..."Nice idea, but not right now."

?

[Macy Ciar]

Yes, we'll think about it. We love to hear ideas and will certainly think about it. We might even corporate it into some canon characters, when this is the case, we could contact you if your interested.

Basically we want to start up the RP a bit, and steadily work on advancing the plot and introducing canon characters (these canons are still quite free to fill in, but their basically characters we need for the plot or stories to work out).

Also, when you've created a new character, you can have a name change of course if you choose for new names for your characters. We also have Lamia's available now ;).

So yeh, I can't wait to see what you come up with :D.

[Zaak Fulke]

Well right now I have nadda. Zip. No idea what so ever. I tried converting one of my other characters into here as a Lamia but he's too steeply involved with magic for that to really work.

Felix would probably die a death here because he's scum, and I'm fresh out of other ones.

Gimme a bell though if a canon character comes up, or you get around to the genetic manipulation dealy.