Sign Up Beatlemania Redux [PG]

[Ozymandius Jones]

[CENTER][SIZE=4]Beatle Mania-
Redux[/SIZE]
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/ozyssite/redux.jpg[/IMG]

[B]The Past:[/B]
[I]
In the 1960s on Earth, a band became popular beyond belief. They had fans everywhere on Earth. Everywhere they went, screaming hoards would follow. Over time, it began to wear on the band?s nerves, until in 1966 they just stopped touring.

For four years after that, the band continued to record, growing in popularity even as their style grew, evolved and changed. But time and differences grew to be too much, and in 1969 the band broke up, never to record together again.

This is not their story alone. [/i]

[B]The Present[/B]

[i]
The year is 2105; exactly one hundred and forty one years after ?That Band? made their first trip to America.

Exactly 55 years after the creation of Temporal Shift equipment.

Exactly 5 years after Earth?s first contact with aliens.

Exactly 3 years after it was discovered that the aliens first set out to Earth after hearing Earth?s music.

And exactly two months since the aliens helped to end ?The Five Year Plague?, a mysterious recurrence of the Bubonic Plague.

The United States of Earth was deeply in debt to the aliens. The aliens insisted that Earth was deeply in debt to that band from the past. To most of the general populace, it didn?t make any sense. To one man, it did.

That man was Julius Rathbone, a mad scientist in the maddest term of the word. The son of the man who?s genius brought about the Temporal Shift Department, his genius tended more of the ?resurrect long-dead diseases and unleash them on the public? genre, and his grasp on reality was shaky at best. And if the aliens could credit ?That Band?, well then?so could he.

It is not his story alone. [/i]

[B]Cause: The past[/B]
[i]
[strike]In the 1960s on Earth, a band became popular beyond belief. They had fans everywhere on Earth. Everywhere they went, screaming hoards would follow. Over time, it began to wear on the band?s nerves, until in 1966 they just stopped touring.

For four years after that, the band continued to record, growing in popularity even as their style grew, evolved and changed. But time and differences grew to be too much, and in 1969 the band broke up, never to record together again. [/strike]

In the 1960s on Earth, there was a band that showed the potential to become popular beyond all belief. They first hit the charts in 1963, becoming insanely popular and being followed by insane crowds of fans everywhere they went ?

Until 1965, when they disappeared, never to be heard from again. Ever. The disappearance of the Beatles has remained a mystery for the last 141 years.
[/i]

[B]Effect: The Future[/B]
[i]
In the year 2105, something happened. Or, more specifically, something didn?t happen. The aliens never heard the music. They never set out to Earth. Therefore, they never arrived?and they were not there to heal the plague.

Humanity, as a result, is dieing. All to satisfy the whim of one mad scientist, and all because that one band is missing from Earth?s past. Only problem is, no one knows it?s missing?except us.

We are the members of the Temporal Continuance Department. We monitor the past to ensure our future ? that?s our motto. We live detached from time for most of the year, watching; waiting for something to change while we hope it doesn?t. Temporal Mechanics is a tricky science at best?and occasionally, while fixing things, while making them go back to the way they were, we have to let things get worse.

But not this time. This time, this was not the way things were meant to be. We?re going to fix that?
This is our story.
Mostly.[/I]

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[COLOR=Purple]As you may have figured, this is going to be a kinda strange RPG. The main characters are employees for the Temporal Continuance Department, or the TCD. The headquarters of the TCD are in another dimension, separate from the passing of time as we know it. From this headquarters, they can see all time in the last 5000 years or so. Since they themselves are separate from time, they can see when things have changed, and fix them. Nobody else knows when things have changed ? it?s a thankless job, but somebody has to do it.

In this case, Dr. Rathbone has managed to take out the Beatles before they really hit the peak of their creative careers; and before they recorded the fateful album that changed the human world 137 years later.

This is what I need from you:

[list]
[*] Name: Keep it fairly normal. It can be a reference to a Beatles? song, for example, my character?s name is Prudence.

[*]Age: These are government employees, so no younger then 19, please.

[*]Appearance: Fairly normal, please. They?re trying to fit in with 1965 culture. Green hair is not common, neither are yellow eyes.

[*]Biography: Can be short, we?re not really going deep into character at the very start. No super powers.

[*]Personality: VERY important, as it shows why your character reacts in the way they do.

[*] Team Position: [list][*]Leader [*]Technician [*]Supplier [*]Historian [*]Tactics[*]Other (explain)[/list][/list]

I will be playing two characters: Prudence Jones, team leader, and Dr. Rathbone, ze evil villain. There is a possibility later on (depending on how this goes) that the Beatles may become playable characters. When it?s a possibility, I will be giving them to the players who have demonstrated the best ability to keep them in character.

Signups Will Be Open for a Month. Yes, month. I want to start this as my "EEEE SCHOOL IS DONE!!" celebration. The underground is [url=http://www.otakuboards.com/showthread.php?p=769800]here[/url], I will answer any and all questions. Let's try this again, shall we? [/COLOR]

[Skye]

[size=1][color=purple][b]Name:[/b] Amy Zhou

[b]Age:[/b] 24

[b]Appearance:[/b] Amy is actually kind of short, about 4?6?, and very curvy. She has little feet, little hands, and is very nimble. Her black hair is so dark as to have blueish highlights, and is braided rather simply, falling to just below her butt. Asian in origin, her heart-shaped face is golden-brown with a plump, pouting rosebud mouth and large, slanted chocolate brown eyes. She favors close-cut clothes: straight-legged jeans, turtle-necks, and ankle boots.

[b]Biography:[/b] Amy has a rather mixed heritage - her father's side is English and Irish, her mother is pure Japanese. She was encouraged to take whatever course in school she wanted, especially after her father died, and she generally chose art or - later in highschool - technical courses. She took every computer class she could get her hands on. When she graduated, she went to college for a little while, and took only the best classes. Combining her knowledge of computers with Strategy, Government, and such related classes. When she graduated, she was the most coveted tactician of her year.

[b]Personality:[/b] Amy is quiet and calculating, with the occasional witty comment. Her sense of irony and sharp, sarcastic comments can get under some peoples skin, but those who know her really well learn that underneath there is no malice in its meaning. Then again, she doesn?t always make comments. She usually just sits back and lets the others do the talking, while she assesses and comes to analytical conclusions. Very rarely relaxes, and only two people have seen her that relaxed.

[b]Team Position:[/b] Tactician

Heya, where exactly are these people supposed to come from? I mean, if they work outside of time? couldn?t they be from anywhere? I?ll write my bio soon as I know exactly where they?re supposed to come from. Gracias.

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[Muad'Dib]

[COLOR=DarkSlateGray][FONT=Palatino Linotype]W-what?! A Beatles RP? Time travel? It sounds too good to be true...

Name: James Kite

Age: 26

Appearance: James stands at roughly 5'9'' with short black hair that never lays down and stark, blue-green eyes. Almost nothing about him says 'tough' or 'formiddable'. He's got thin limbs and a set of wiry glasses that just barely surround his eyes. He sits with a slight slouch and tilts his head sideways when looking to the side. He always seems to stare and his smile looks almost maniacle in it's wide, open-mouthed way. He likes to wear shades of blue, with loose, long-sleeved shirts and jeans or similar attire.

Biography: James Kite came from a shady background, raised as one of the 'Holiday Children'. However, as the Holiday kids go, he was at the bottom of the class. Smart by normal standards, but a bit of a flunky as one of [i]them[/i]. Nevertheless, he fought tooth and nail for a position in the TCD, seeing it as his greatest obtainable goal. In leeway of a social circle, he turned to human history and fiction to wile away the hours in their seperate dimension, which led to his position as a team Historian. He was never really good at the other stuff anyway.

Personality: James is very friendly and open... almost [i]too[/i] friendly. He has a tendency to say things that have nothing to do with the topic of conversation and also tends to say them rather bluntly. He has attempted to completely detach himself from the constraints of being a social animal, living with the necessary isolation of being a member of the TCD. Some say it's gone to his head, that he's gone insane and can no longer function in a normal society. But mostly, he's harmless.

Team Position: Historian[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Ozymandius Jones]

[COLOR=DarkSlateGray][SIZE=1][B]Name: [/B]Prudence Dukakis

[B] Age:[/B] 24 (Y.O.B: 2081)

[B]Appearance:[/B] Pru has blonde hair and grey eyes. She stands at five feet, four inches tall, and usually looks friendly until it's too late and she's annoyed. then she tends to get red. She dresses somewhat classy, always tending to look professional. She likes to stand out, but still be modest.

[B]Bio: [/B] Pru was an only child, and usually got what she wanted. Despite that, Pru's childhood wasn't that loving. Her father and mother stayed together for appearence sake only, and often spent their entire evenings shouting at each other over anything and everything.

Thus, Pru spent as much of her time out of the house as possible, playing sports, joining after school clubs, anything to avoid going home. Because of all the extra studying she put in, Pru graduated both high school and the Academy with flying colors. Her best subject was Past Cultures, especially that of the 1900s.

Graduating in 2101, Pru is already a veteran of three other missions: an observer mission to Victorian England, a mission to prevent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1862 and a scientific research mission into the cause of the Tunguska Incident, all sucessfull, but boring in her opinion; she had very little to do with the missions; being relegated to supply officer, a position she dispises.

She was given this mission after it was discovered she was an expert on 1960s culture, and the only other expert on that particular time was busy with the Cuban Missle Crisis timeline.

[B]Personality:[/B] An only child, she's very used to getting things her way, and is also used to suceeding at things. She doesn't take failure very well. Easygoing unless stressed. When she is stressed, she tends not to show it - until she's too stressed. Then she has a tendency to snap and yell a lot. Her main character weakness is a tendecy to be overconfident about her own abilities.

[B]Position:[/B] Leader. Normally stuck in the research department, Pru isn't usually the first person thought of when missions come up, but due to her close study of this particular decade and the fact that she has had some field expirience left her open for the next assignment from this time. Nobody expected the mission to be this urgent.

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[COLOR=Navy][quote name='Lapis][size=1][color=purple]Heya, where exactly are these people supposed to come from? I mean, if they work outside of time? couldn?t they be from anywhere? I?ll write my bio soon as I know exactly where they?re supposed to come from. Gracias.[/size'][/color][/quote]

They're supposed to come from RP "current" time, which is 2105. Since your character is 24, she would have been born in 2081.[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=RoyalBlue][SIZE=1][B]Name:[/B] William ?Walrus? Rigsby

[B]Age:[/B] Twenty

[B]Appearance:[/B] [URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/DeSotoDiceFreak/William.jpg]William[/URL] is about six foot tall even, and has a slight build. He has very aristocratic features, delicate features, and a thin aquiline nose set between narrow, chestnut brown eyes.

His hair is a dark walnut brown, with red highlights, and kept cropped fairly short. It naturally waves, though he tries every morning to tame it with gel.

The mode of dress William prefers is layers. Normally you?ll find him wearing corduroys and a t-shirt with some vintage sneakers and a mechanic?s jacket. He doesn?t wear any jewelry aside from a thin black leather thong tied around his right wrist, and his thick watch which he wears on his left.

William walks with a bounce in his step, and most of his movements are hurried and ? for the most part ? uncoordinated. He smells of grease and electronics parts, and his voice is lower than you would think.

[B]Biography:[/B] One of the Holiday Children, William doesn?t tell anyone much about his life as to date. He always says that it was nice, he was treated well and that Mr. Holiday treated them as if they were his own children, but nothing really beyond that.

William, it would seem, was well taught in all areas of academia, but the profession he excels in concerns mechanical functions, electrical occurrences and anomalies, and engineering.

Through his training at the TCD, he has always shown a single-minded interest in
only one position. Never were there any fluctuations from his planned course of action, and so when he became an acting member of the TCD he took on the job of Technician.

[B]Personality:[/B] William?s personality can be classified as flamboyant, extravagant, easily flustered and spastic. He?ll bounce from

One subject

To

Another?

?and he does it without fully realizing that he may be confusing others. He doesn?t have a good grasp on the concept of what is considered polite, always speaking his mind but not because he?s blunt but just because he does.

When William is really excited about something, or quite flustered, he tends to speak in what ? if written ? would be run on sentences.

He has a decided sense of right and wrong, and is very protective of his machines and electronics, almost as if they were his children.

[B]Team Position:[/B] Technician[/SIZE][/COLOR]