.:Plot... sorta:.
In a daze you wake up in darkness. You remember going about your usual day then something happened. After the darkness clears you realize that you died. You also notice some others and that the darkness forming into something. The darkness forms into what looks like a man wearing pitch black clothing. It raises its hand as a book appears in its hand. After thinking about it, it hits you. The figure before you is Death.

RULES

1. The basic forum/RP rules

2.No god modding, that includes auto dodging, auto hitting, or auto killing. There will be 3 exceptions though.

1a. If your hit at least 15 times in combat you die, no dynamics or miracles, boom dead. However, your aloud to make a new charater if this happens and you happen to be a demon or angel (see rule 3a).

2a. If your hit 10 times and your a demon or a angel your aloud to go into sort of Rage mode which you can not take damage for 3 hits, allowing you time to escape or kill the enemy

3a. After thinking about it, Humans and Mimikkos will have there soul immedeatly transfered to their previous realm. So if you went to hell, got out (<---teaser thing!!), and died while in the living realm. You go back to hell. Same if your from heaven. Demons and Angles die only once, so if your one of thoese and you die. Thats it, perma game over for your charater. But remember rule 1a.

3. Dont be Death! I'll make a charater for it. That and dont be ruler of heaven or hell, and dont try to wiggle your way to it thtough using relasionships, that wont work with me.

4. No excessive cursing, if you must curse censor it.

5. I couldn't stress this enough, no you-know-what its PG-13

NOTES:

We shall start where the plot at the top of the page ended.

There are 5 races: Demons, Angels, Humans, Mimikkos(i.e.: Nekos/Inus), Elves

There are 4 elements: Wind, Water, Earth, Fire

There shall be fighting and at one point gore, so if you dont want to see that dont join.

You dont decide if you go to Heaven or Hell, that will be decided after I review your Character.

.:A quick explaination on magic:.
Magic is seperated into 4 seperate elements. Each element has a advantage over the other (see figure 1). The races, being so different, have a certain control on magic. Demons can naturaly control their birth element type of magic with the greatest of ease. Angels, training vigorously every day if they should meat their enemies (demons), can control upto 2 elements easily. Humans, having no intrest in magic for the longest time, can barely control one element without training for life. Elves can control every element of magic easily and with grace, but because magic sometimes takes a toll on the body they are frail and cant stand up in a non-magic fight. One last thing about magic, its like a double edge sword. Using powerful magic before your ready can KILL you. That and using multiple elements makes you weaker if you havent trained enough.

I.E: (figure 1)
Water->Fire
Fire->Earth
Earth->Wind
Wind->Water
(dont ask about the last one, not even I get it...)

-Level of literousy: some literousy required, feel free to do a one liner if you cant come up with more than that, it would be nice for more than that but I understand that some cant come up with a paragraph for every post. And I ask for no shortening of words.

Character forms:
(Please PM these to me with the title 'Damned or Blessed')

[put what you want to look like here]
User Name:
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Element:
Known Magic:
List your recent Crimes: (evil deeds)
List your recent Deeds: (holy deeds)
Weapon:
How you died:
History:

Characters:

Death:


User Name: Fortune Cookie
Name: Death, Grim Reaper, etc.
Age: millions
Gender: usualy Male
Race: unknown
Element: all
Known Magic:
-Hell Hound Eyes (see this spell done three times and you experience death yet still live)
-Judgement (sends a soul to either heaven or Hell)
List your recent Crimes: N/A
List your recent Deeds: N/A
Weapon: to defeat any cliches, none
How you died: N/A
History: He, or she, is death. Who's job is to guide spirits to their respected destinations. When he isnt working he is usualy laid back and somewhat friendly, if he isnt being sarcastic or in a bad mood.

Demons:


User Name: Fortune Cookie
Name: Feuer
Age: 400
Gender: Male
Race: Demon
Element: Fire
Known Magic:
-Fire Bolt (sends a blast of fire from palm)
-Lava (makes a mini volcano that blast firey molten lava)
-Dark Fire: (like Fire Bolt but uses a dark fire)
List your recent Crimes: N/A
List your recent Deeds: N/A
Weapon: Claws
How you died: N/A
History: Feuer is what you would call 'merciful', when its a good day. He is known for his knowledge of most of hell's souls and demons. Feuer is usualy in charge of the river Styx but was demoted after helping a soul escape. Other then his job he is preety laid back when there is not alot to do.


Angels:


User Name: Fortune Cookie
Name: Jo
Age: 16
Gender: F
Race: Angel
Element: Wind
Known Magic:
-Wind blade
-Agility Strike
List your recent Crimes: ...
List your recent Deeds: ....
Weapon: short sword
How you died: N/A
History: Jo was brought up in a blacksmith family. Her parents are usualy hard at work making weapons for a sort of Angel army. Her job is to be a teller at their shop untill she is given a soul to look after.

User Name:renene12
Name:Kyoko Hinakami
Age:16
Gender:Female
Race: Dark Angel
Element:Earth
Known Magic:can make earthquakes and can read minds
List your recent Crimes: stole money from mom to buy drugs
List your recent Deeds:helped an old lady cross the street (mom made her)
Weapon:sword
How you died: One day I was driving to a friends party late at night and the next thing I know a car came crashing into her front on front. The other driver was drunk and survived (she thinks). She died instantly.
History:She lived a teenage life. Gets drunk sometimes, goes partying with friends, and has parents who worry about her everytime she is out late.
looks like:

Originally Posted by Iori Vytenson

[A lithe man of medium hight, his skin is fair but vibrant, and his lustrous black hair is pulled into a topknot. Wears tan slacks tucked into pointed, calf-high buckled boots, and a knee-length cream colored shirt that laces at the neck. Over the shirt he wears a tabard of sorts, blue with elaborate runic designs embroidered onto it, that reaches down to just above the knee. His forearms are usually bound with laced leather bracers, and a broad leather belt holds various tools and materials, as well as a quiver of arrows.]
User Name: Iori Vytenson
Name: Shodo Kasyr
Age: 320
Gender: Male
Race: Angel
Element: Water, Wind
Known Magic: Elaborate control of water (it's shape, it's movement, it's density, etc), uses wind magic to propel his water attacks to higher velocities and guide his arrows
List your recent Crimes: (evil deeds) Hunted down and killed a man who threw his child into the river
List your recent Deeds: (holy deeds) Rescued a drowning child from a fast-moving river
Weapon: Composite longbow, silenced using a pair of bowstring dampeners
How you died: Shot repeatedly by friends of the man he killed
History: An angel charged with the protection of a particular river and those that used it for peaceful means, he had always fulfilled his duty to the utmost. Over the decades, the cruelty of humanity built sadness in his soul until he finally lost control after witnessing a man with a child he could no longer feed hurl the sleeping child into the water and leave. Saving the child, he hunted the man down and killed him, forgetting magical concealment in his rage, the companions of the man shot him down.

Humans:

User Name: Opalistic8
Name: Magenta Clarrisse (cla-rees)
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Element: Earth
Known Magic: None
List your recent Crimes: helped in the planning and playing-out of a set-up, stole $500, was part of an evil organisation
List your recent Deeds: Saved the person she helped set up in the nick of time, gave the stolen money to the person so they could get away, didn't lie about helping the man in the organisation.
Weapon: None
How you died: Shot in the head after the organisation found out what she'd done
History: Her parents were murdered by the organisation when she was 7, but the leader took compassion on her and took her in as his own daughter. Then he got killed when she was 10, and the role of leadership was placed on a man who hated her. He made her do all sorts of terrible things, but the set-up was the final straw.

(don't have a pic, sry) black shoulder-length hair and black bandages over his whole face except for one black eye. clothed entirely in black so nothing but his hair and that eye and the space around it is showing.
User Name: Hauntu4ever
Name: Shadow
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Element: Earth
Known Magic: X
List your recent Crimes: Assassination of the Mayor of New York, car theft, arson, and murder of a crime lord and almost his entire organization.
List your recent Deeds: rescued his love from a crime lord and set 8 prisoners free.
Weapon: HUGE sword, automatic rifle, 9mm pistol, 2 daggers, and a knife in his boot.
How you died: killed by his fellow assassins.
History: Horace was separated from his parents by a crime lord at an early age (took Horace and burned the apartment to the ground) and raised as an assassin. Killing people is the only life he knows, it's either that or death. During one of his missions, he met a girl and eventually fell in love. When she was taken by his employer, he decided to forfeit his life for hers and performed a spectacular rescue, killing his employer in the process, but got caught during the escape and forfeited his life to buy time for the escapees.

Mimikkos:

Originally Posted by dianakitsune

User Name: dianakitsune
Name: Momo
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Race: Mimikko
Element: Fire
Known Magic: None
List your recent Crimes: Seducing men to steal their money
List your recent Deeds: Used stolen money to help orphans
Weapon: Pepper Spray and a stuffed rabbit
How you died: Hit by a car on her way to the orphanage
History: Momo has no idea who her really family is or if she even has one. She was experimented on and turned into what she is. She eventually managed to run away and came upon a small abandoned house that some orphans were living in. Since then she busied her time trying to help them.

Elves:

Originally Posted by Firemare

[Blonde wavy hair of a foot or two in length, put back in a loose ponytail. Tall, about 5'10. Fair skinned and fine featured, as are all elves, but with a mischevious glint in her bright blue eyes. Usually wears loose and easy to move in pastel clothing.]
User Name: Firemare
Name: Alora
Age: 132 (human equivilent of 17)
Gender: Female
Race: Elf
Element: Primary Water, Secondary Air, Thirdly Fire, Last Earth
Known Magic: creating weapons from the air around her, including water condensation.
List your recent Crimes: (evil deeds) Eradicated a wolf pack without mercy
List your recent Deeds: (holy deeds) Showed mercy for the pups of the pack and has been trying to raise them.
Weapon: Bow and Arrows made of Ice and wind, occasionally a massively oversized sword of Ice (Hollow so she can weild it, it's designed to shatter on contact and injure through shards)
How you died: Crushed by a rockslide.
History: Born to a regular elven family she was always something of an outsider to them. She enjoyed watching and interacting with humans and even picked up some of their character traits, to the horror of her fellow elves. When she placed cold logic over elven ideals she was banished. It hurt her deeply, but she continued as best she could by going to live with her human friends, yet her long lifespan played her false. Her friends all aged much faster then her and moved on with their own lives and moved away. The human community viewed her with suspicion and distrust for not being one of them and attacked her in the middle of the night. Wounded, she retaliated, then fled in the ensuing chaos. She staggered into the woods where an old hermit found and took care of her. She lived with him happily for a few years until he was killed by a wolfpack while she was out gathering. When she found out what had happened she saw red with rage and hunted them down, slaying them to the last wolf. Only when her anger faded did she heard the whimpers from the den. As the pups had played not part in the murder of the hermit she tookk pity on them. She was carrying them over the mountain in search of a new place to live when the rockslide happened. Her hastily erected shields of Ice were simply no match.

And it is a good time to start with a good amount of RP'ers ^^

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Seeing the souls appear in the darkness, Death formed and looked at them as he toke out his book to see what their recent sins and deeds were. This would determine whether they go to hell and take torture that would most likly be worse than anything they ever experienced, or if they would go to heaven and bask in its warm glow being safe from harm.
Elsewhere, Jo, an angel, was tending a desk in her parent's shop somewhere in heaven. The only thing keeping her from total boredum was a small mouse that had died and ended up in heaven that was sitting on the desk. She was also waiting for Death to come visit, its was somewhat normal for him to visit.

((oh... we were supposed to wait... sorry, i'll fix, do you want me to just stay asleep or wake up while death is doing all this?))

((2 things, wait for what? and your already awake and saw death ^^))

((ah, kk :D and I meant wait for you to post. seems kinda obvious after it happened... *rereads storyline* ok, now i see where i am. lemme try this again.))

Shadow stared at Death for a moment, then finally said, "So you're Death."

Kyoko looked at Death. Then at the other creatures. Then at death again. She wondered why he had that book. It must mean something if he has it with him. Staring at death, she wondered why she was here.

Death looked up from his book and then at Shadow. "Yes, I very much am Death..." he said before looking into the book again. He fliped through some pages then closed it. "To make this interesting, why dont you guess if I'm going to send you to heaven or hell."

Magenta hardly moved. She'd flinched when Death had smacked her on the head with the book, but she felt she deserved that. Was this some kind of dream? Was she in a coma? The last thing she remembered was him pulling the trigger... maybe this was going to be one of those games one played when they died, taking a chance to see whether they were allowed to live or die. But if that were so, why were there going to be so many others taking the test with her? It didn't even occur to little Magenta that there was no such thing as the game.

It didn't take long for Shadow to figure it out. He grinned ruefully. "Hell, unfortunately. I've done too much bad in my life to end up in Heaven."

"Correct, now I'll send you there in a minute Shadow." he then looked at Magenta. "Now, Magenta, your crimes and deeds nearly balence out. So its your choice." Death then procedded to fire up the spell to take them to their destined stop, it toke a minute or two for it to work.

(I'm assuming we start at when we die, if that's wrong I can change this)

Momo could hear voices from where she lied. She tried to open her eyes, but she couldn't and she wondered if she was dreaming. The voices began to fade and she began to worry about the orphan children. She had to bring them the food. They would starve without it, but she couldn't move and soon she was absorbed into the silence. She was sure she could open her eyes now, but she was afraid to and decided to wait till she had to.

Magenta gasped a little too loudly when Death's 'eyes' rested on her. She was terrified; what did he mean? Heaven or hell? Balanced crimes and deeds?
Pushing the terror aside, Magenta raised her gaze to Death, and replied with a question.
"What do you mean?"

"Oh, well you stayed in a evil sort of organization so that gave you some points towards hell, that and you set up someone. But, your deed of helping the man escape and giving the money away to that same man was a good act. That and not lying to the organization about it. So your crimes and deweds balanced out." he said smiling through the darkness of his hood. Death then looked into the book and saw a name appear. "You got to be kidding me..." he said cancling the Judgement spell and waiting for the Mimikko to appear.

As soon as Alora realized she was awake she braced herself for pain. To her great surprise, none came. She lay still trying to take stock of herself. She felt fine, whole in body and mind. Her eyebrows creased slightly with confusion and she wiggled the fingers of her left hand. That shouldn't be possible, she remembered shielding her face with her arm and feeling it break. Perhaps, perhaps she had been found and healed? Then where was she? Finally she opened her eyes and sat up. She glanced around and her eyes widened. She was in no hospice, there was a collection of strange people nearby, but this place looked like nothing more then... well, nothing. Like an infinite grayness in all directions. She looked down, even the ground was an indistinguishable gray. Only then did she realize that the pups she had been carrying were gone. "No..." she muttered and quickly stood, looking around anxiously. If she was in a spell, fine, she could deal with that, but where were the pups? They wouldn't be able to survive without her! They were too young! For that matter, even with the best healing spells her recovery must have taken more then a week! Eager now to find out what was going on she quickly approached the group, asking desperately "Where are we? What happened to me? Where are the pups I was with?"

Shadow grinned, happy that he had gotten the answer right, but then his grin faded as he wondered what Hell would be like. Definitely painful, but of what kind? Would it be back-breaking work? Would he be tortured forever? would he end up as some kind of servant? As he thought, he watched Death start up a spell, probably the one that would send him to Hell, then listened as Death asked a girl whom he addressed as Magenta whether she wanted to go to Heaven or Hell. Lucky... He snapped out of his thoughts when she asked what he meant. It seemed obvious to him: pick Heaven and get on with it. But, he reasoned, that was just his thoughts. Perhaps she had different ones. He listened as Death recounted her final acts, but was distracted at the end by a girl who was obviously an elf who suddenly stood up and asked about some pups. She probably doesn't realize she dead yet, he thought. Since Death was occupied with another new arrival, he decided to give her a basic explanation. "We're who-knows-where, you died, and i've no idea about the pups."

"We're dead." Stated Alora flatly. "Right. I can deal with that." She stood in silence for a moment before stating "Damn." and running her hands nervously through her hair. "Then this must be limbo, he must be death. The pups... agh, if they aren't dead now they will be soon." She began to pace back and forth, slowly working herself up into a frenzy. "They can't hunt, we were in the mountains, there's no game... Ah hell I'll never recieve a proper burial! My family will offer no prayers, they hate me, my friends are gone, the hermit is dead... Gah! Am I stuck here then?" She turned suddenly to the figure she assumed must be death. "Death! How many prayers must be made in my name without a proper burial service before I can pass on from here?" She gripped at her hair almost frantically "I should have gotten someone to pray for me sooner, I thought I had another few centuries at least! Nnnnrrr..."

Death turned to the elf. "You obviously didnt count the pups..." he said with a rather unsurprised tone in his voice. "Prayers or not, I'm bending that law that the pompus God set forth and sending you to Heaven."

"I- Oh! Oh. Thank you." She calmed suddenly then looked confused "Of course I counted the pups, there were four. Did... did they survive? What happens to animals when they die? Do they just automatically go to heaven? For that matter, it was never really explained to me what heaven was like at all." She looked around at the motley group "Is everyone here going to heaven?"

"O-oh..." Magenta furrowed her brow, thinking hard. So, she got to choose whether she went to heaven or hell, huh? No games, no tricks? The obvious choice was to go to heaven; stories Magenta had heard about the fiery pit still made her cringe. But...
If the choice was so obvious, then why would Death even bother giving it? Maybe it was a trick: maybe if she was selfish and chose the bliss of heaven over the pains of hell, she'd commit her final crime and be thrust down into darkness. But what if this really was just a choice? As Magenta mulled over this, she only half-heard the new girl and Death talking.

"I'm not," Shadow said. "Unfortunately, I was an assassin in life. No hope for me." He was half smiling, but his eyes were obviously thinking. Then he suddenly asked, "Hey, Death, do you happen to know what happened to the prisoners i set free when i died?"

Momo didn't know how long she laid there in silence, but she began to hear other voices and listened. She caught bits of words like heaven and hell and death. Did that mean she was dead? Curiosity got the best of her and she opened her eyes. There were others here as well and they were all talking to a cloaked figure that she assumed must be death. "Am I dead?" She decided to ask the obvious first.

Death looked at the elf and then started to think with his hand on something along the lines of a chin hidden in the blackness of his hood. "Animals.... well I guess it depends on what they do. Aparently if they attack someone out of rage they get sent to hell but following natures intended path they get sent to heaven. Then there is a whole mess of techniqle crap.... buuut I guess I can be friendly and send them to you, elf."

Turning his attention to the Mimikko he reached out and picked her up by what ever cloth was on her back, since he is somehow that strong, and held her up so they were eye to eye. "Yes, yes you are."