Sign Up The Ripper Program [M for V,L & possible S]

[missrelena]

[COLOR=SeaGreen] The Ripper Program

It all started in the year of our Lord, 2236. The technology over Historical Remote Viewing (or HRV) had been perfected and the failsafes made foolproof. Viewing techs could choose any point and place in history and watch what truly happened without worry of being seen or the capability of altering the past ? at least that was what was we believed. Then it all started going wrong. Then the Ripper Program was found.

Buried deep in the HRV systems, a loophole glitch had been created, and through that hole some unknown programming genius had created a way to destroy the world as we knew it. We couldn?t destroy the Ripper Program, it had too many protections that would have taken over all the computerized systems in the galaxy had we tried to disable or isolate it. We could, however, read what the Program was intended to do.

Seven critical targets had been chosen from the nobility of Victorian England to die. They would either die to prevent something they, themselves would do, or something some future descendant would do that would be crucial in forming civilization as we currently knew it. We couldn?t tell which. We couldn?t even find out who, exactly the targets were. The Ripper Program would use the Viewing Technology to hunt down and kill the targets, all in ways and forms that would be explainable in that era?s limited experience.

We couldn?t let it happen, so a handful of Psy-techs were chosen to exploit the Ripper loophole and go back in time to stop the murders and preserve our way of life. We all knew the trip was one way. Once in the past, there would be no return. So we said our good-byes and stepped though the vortex into a life that the HRV?s best techs could create for us without upsetting the delicate past we were so desperately trying to preserve . . . but there was another glitch.[/COLOR]

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[COLOR=Navy]The Psy-techs that went back into Victorian England suffered a major setback. The only thing they could take into the past with them was their abilities and their knowledge. Unfortunately, something went wrong, and each appeared remembering only bits and pieces of their mission. None could recall whom the others were who came into the past with them. Fortunately, a failsafe was subliminally planted in their minds. When they first encounter someone who is from their mission, a blue aura appears around them. When they find an intended target, their aura is red. The problem is, not everyone recalls what the blue and red mean.

The other information that everyone remembers is no matter what, the Ripper Program must kill seven people. If an intended target is discovered and saved from attack, the Program will run wild till an innocent member of the general London population is destroyed. Thus the moral dilemma. They also all know that whoever set the program up must be taken alive. There is a deadman?s switch built into the Ripper Program. Should the programmer die, an unknown catastrophe of total destruction will befall Victoria?s Empire. The Psy-techs all came back in time, trusting in total faith that the authorities of the future would be careful in their apprehension of the dark perpetrator. All of their lives would depend on the master-mind surviving in the future till the Ripper Program played itself out.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Red]The Psy-techs each have ONE of the following abilites:

Telepath: If you have never previously spoken mind-to-mind to a person, they must be within line of sight. Otherwise, you have about a hundred meter radius in which you can use your ability to speak to another mind.

Teleport: You can shift yourself and up to three other people touching you within a hundred meter radius. It is impossible for you to reappear inside a wall or table or whatever, so ?jumping? blind is not an issue.

Telekinetic: You can move and manipulate inanimate objects weighing up to your own equivalent weight. The more intricate movements needed (like cocking the hammer, then pulling the trigger of a gun) the harder it is to do. Since you need to see what you?re doing, you can only move objects within your own line of sight.

Also, since each target, whomever they may be, are a part of the Social Ton (money and/or rank nobility), the HRV programmers have created social equivalent ranks and backgrounds for each Psy-tech that has traveled back through time. Everyone you come in contact with remembers you and has definitive memories of you from their pasts that coincide with what you remember your new pasts to be. As a matter of fact, because of the travel glitch, the Victorian past usually seems more real to the techs than the true past of the future (Who would believe that easily? A past in the future?) [/COLOR]


Your sign-up should look something like this:

Future Name:
Victorian Name:
Gender:
Age:
Social Rank: (This would be the rank you hold in Victorian England)
Psy-Tech ability:
Appearance: (A pic would be great, but a description is just fine.)
Personality:
Victorian Bio:
Future Bio:


For Example (this is my character)

Future Name: Jenni DeSul
Victorian Name: Lady Geniveve Monroe
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Social Rank: Countess & Debutant (this is my first social season in London)
Psy-Tech ability: Telepath
Appearance: See below. Strawberry blond hair and big green eyes. 5'6" tall.

Personality: Bubbly and friendly, but she's not one to sit back and let someone push her around (unless it's her Victorian Parents). She's smart, sometimes too smart for her own good. She loves looking pretty, but HATES corsets. Sometimes she acts older than her 17 years of age.

Victorian Bio: Her father is the Earl of Salsibury, and although his title and lands are intaled away to her younger brother, she still stands to inherit her mother's title of Countess and all her lands. This makes her prime marriage material. Her partents are bringing her to London for her first Season in society. They are hoping to catch a noble husband for her that is worthy of her status. She's not so sure about that idea, but at least it get her to the capital. She vaguely remembers another life where she did things with machines that just couldn't be possible. She knows she has the ability to hear other's thoughts and speak to them mind-to-mind if they are open enough to recieve her. She also remembers that she was trained how to keep other minds out if she wanted and that it is unethical to probe other's consiousnesses without permission unless it's a life-or-death situation. She does not, however, remember when or where she obtained this training. She hasn't spoken of it to anyone. She knows that she needs to get to London, and that seven people need to be protected from murderers. She knows that others are also trying to save these people and that they will have a blue aura around them. That's all she knows.

Future Bio: Jenni enjoyed working as a Psy-Tech for the HRV. She's been a telepath as long as she can remember. She has no family nearby, her parents are part of a colony on an M-class planet loacted near what Earthings know as tha North Star. She is an only child. She is also 24 years old in her past life in the future. She was honored to be chosen to help attempt to circumvent the Ripper Program. The only person she left behind (she thinks) was an on-again/off-again boyfriend who was also a Psy-tech.

[natchan]

Yay! I'm so in! :animesmil

Future Name: Helena Yvo

Victorian Name: Elcair Delahaye Chamberlayn

Gender: I'm a girl!

Age: 21

Social Rank: Dutchess Camberlayn

Psy-Tech Ability: Telekinesis

Appearance: You'll see at the bottom!

Personality: She VERY sweet and absolutely a social butterfly. She loves parties and visiting with people, especially people she doesn't know. She's trustworthy and would never betray a friend or companion, she would rather give her own life before betraying those that trust her.

Victorian Bio: Elcair was born the wealthy Delahaye family in Paris France and was raised with the best of education, but she always preferred to chit chat rather than study. Through the years Elcair found that she had a rare gift that not many people she imagined could have, she could move things simply by consentrating her thoughts on them hard enough, and she also began to have memories of what she suspected to be another time. She never told anyone about these stange images from who knows where, in fear that they might think that she's crazy. Her parents loved her dearl and often took her trips to eangland with them, that is where she met Vincent Chamberlayn. Vincent was the son of Duke and the perfect marriage material, but Elcair never really thought of him this way, she only ever looked forward to seeing her close friend. They met when Elcair was 7 and Vincent was 10, after their first meeting and Elcair had to return home to France she recieved a letter from Vincent, and the teo of them continued to write eachother everytime they were apart. When Elcair was 18 Vincent asked her to marry him, and she gladly accepted. The two of them were married in December of that year and they lived happily in England. A year after they were married Vincents father died of sickness and Vincent recieved the title of Duke in his place. Unfortuneately the two of them would only be married for 3 years before Vincent himself died fo the same illness that took his father, and now Elcair has taken up residence in London as the Widowed Dutchess of Chamberlayn. Well at least that is the background the the Techs created for her.

Future Bio: Helena is a 23 year old Pys-tech that loves her job. She is the only child in her family and her parents died in a accident at sea. Though she does not allow this to alter her or her work. Most people see her as the quiet but kind tech who sits alone at lunch, or on occasion is sitting with a man. Shes really shy, but once you strike up a conversation with her she'll open up and talk. She was a little saddend by having to leave the world of technology behind, but she was also excited to feel the victorian times frist hand. She knew that her husband would understand, after all no one knew that they were married.

[Lord Dante]

ok, here we go.

Future name: Keitaro

Victorian name: Lord Dante

Gender: male

age: 17

social rank: lord Dante

Psytech ability: Teleportation (called by dante "phase-shifting")

Appearance: (see attatched image)

Personality: Dante is the type who neither wants or needs help, he is quiet and reclusive, often called a "lone wolf" and "the strong, silent type". dante can seem harsh, cold and uncaring, and while he is, also he is extremely trustworthy.

Victorian Bio: Dante is the only son of the late Lord Kypher-Requis, the former high milletary advisor to queen victoria's war council. DAnte never got on well with his father, and was sent overseas to study. Instead of studying religion and poletics in rome, Dante took the vessel carrying him to the far east, and took up study of the blade, the art of war, and poltics. Upon his return from parts unknown, dante was a man, and an expert swordsman, rivaling his father in the arts of both diplomacy and war. When his father passed away, (there is rumor that Dante himself killed him) the title of Lord, and all of his father's lands passed on to him. Many members of the house of lords grow jealous of Dante's rise to power, and his favor with Queen victoria, and there have been many attempts to discredit him, many constantly doubt his sanity.

Future Bio: Keitaro a relatively new psytech, at 17 he has risen through the ranks, and was hand-picked for the ripper program mission. Keitaro is often alone, and is described as a "lone wolf" and the "strong silent type" it is thought that there are unimaginable horrors in his past, which would explain why he has no parents, but this is only speculation. Keitaro is an excellent swordsman, and practices alone in the physical complex daily - he refuses to use the provided phaseblades, preffering to use his own, some people (most ofthen people who think that there is somethuing strange about his past) speculate that it has something to do with his supposed "shadowed past"

[0ber0n the Neko]

Is this post dead...? If not, HERE I GO!!!

Future Name: Kinas Tiring
Victorian Name: Nathan Hobbs
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Social Rank: Sir Nathaniel Hobbs
Psy-Tech ability: Telepath
Appearance: Has short blond hair, steel blue eyes, and light colored skin
Personality: From his years of being a telepath, he is a generally agreeable person, excelling in the use of many different languages. Though mild mannered and calm, he is perfectly capable of killing anything dead. His preferred weapon is a rapier he fashioned himself, but he is capable of putting any conventional Victorian weapon to satisfactory use.
Victorian Bio: Sir Nathaniel Hobbs has been in the service of Her Majesty the Queen Victoria since he can remember. His memories after a certain point are a bit frayed. They come in jumbles and painful headaches. His current status is a Watchman in the Night Guard.
Future Bio: A famous swordsman, and a brilliant Psy-Operative. His skill lies in his speed and ability to not only think, but to read others' thoughts quickly.

A sharp mind, and a sharp sword. Together, they will fight to stop the Ripper Program.