A Small Group Roleplay

open to corliss - quentin, corliss

2008-11-24T06:20:33Z

WHO: quentin, corliss
WHAT: talking at home
STATUS: unfinished, open thread

The age gap between Quentin and Corliss left little room for brotherly teasing. While most older brothers beat their younger ones up and teased them, Quentin more or less had spent a lot of his time growing up taking care of his younger sibling. Their father was a very busy man, and while Quen's schedule was starting to get that way too, he was still the one that stayed behind to look after Corliss whenever their father was too far away to do so. Someone had to look after the kid, he still had a lot to learn. Sometimes Quentin wondered if they really shared the same DNA, but when you put them next to one another it was quite obvious. They had the same color hair and very similar features, both slim though Quentin had a bit more cut to him than his scrawny little brother. He knew how difficult things were for Corliss, how much the boy tried to do his best to please their father but sometimes it just seemed as if the kid was a walking disaster. While their father could be so hard on him, Quentin tried to just take care of him and show him the way as best as he could.

Tonight he was waiting for his little brother to come while he cooked them something to eat. He'd rented some movies and was even planning on making rootbeer floats, something Corliss had loved since he was small. Well, smaller, because the kid was still small. Quentin had some steaks on the grill and he'd just finished the mashed potatos and set to work on the corn on the cob when he heard the front door open up.

"Cory, that you?" he called out.

Ben, Corliss

2008-11-13T00:18:39Z

Corliss' father had always told him that Hunters could pick shifters out of a crowd. It was an inherent sense honed into a sharp skill. Unfortunately, even with all of the boy's training, Corliss had never been very good at it. Sometimes his father would just look at him and shake his head, and Corliss could hardly stand the disappointment so evident on the man's face. Because of this, he spent a lot of time on his own, trying to improve his skills.

This afternoon was one such time, and after work, he was sitting at a Starbucks in the middle of the Safeway. It was a brilliant invention really, a cafe right there in the middle of a grocery store. It was the perfect place for people watching, and even better for shifter watching because even werecreatures needed to eat. He sat with both hands wrapped around his hot chocolate, letting his eyes drift from person to person, trying to look for the small things his father had told him about. Sometimes he would close his eyes too, trying to listen to the signals his body may be sending him, tingling skin, a quickening heart, anything that might indicate a shifter was nearby. Nothing came and he sighed with frustration, leaning dejectedly back in his chair.

Holds/Taken

2008-11-10T10:05:48Z

Alphabetical by First Name

PB	TYPE
Ami James	TBA
BellZ	Ermine
Brandon Boyd	Coyote
Brandon Flowers	Coyote
Brendon Urie (2)	Otter Human
Caleb Followill	Wolf
Dave Grohl	TBA
Dougie Poynter	TBA
Eric Victorino	Hunter
Gale Harold	Hunter
Garrett (Original)	Hunter
Hayley Williams	Fox
Hugh Jackman	Hunter
Isaiah Garnica	Wolf
Jackson Rathbone	Wolf
Jared Followill	Wolf
Jared Leto	Wolf
Jason Statham	Human
Jay Lyon	Wolf
Jenna Elfman	Bear
Jeremy Davis	Mt. Lion
Jon Walker	Hunter
John Patrick Amedori	Wolf
John Mayer	TBA
Jon Radtke	Fox
Josh Farro	Mt. Lion
Levi Beamish	Ermine
Lindsay Lohan	Mt. Lion
Matt Good	Wolf
Matthew Followill	Wolf
Matthew Gray Gubler	Ermine
Mikey Way	Coyote
Oli Sykes	Bear
Paolo Nutini	Mt. Lion
Paul Rudd	Wolf
Pink	Mt. Lion
Raquel Reed	Fox
Robert Downey Jr.	Hunter
Rose Mcgowan	Mt. Lion
Ryan Ross	Ermine
Samantha Ronson	Lynx
Shannon Leto	TBA
Taylor Hawkins	TBA
Taylor Kitsch	Wolf
Trent Reznor	TBA
Valerie Poxleitner	Coyote
Vin Diesel	Bear
William Beckkett	Mt. Lion

Game Info

2008-11-10T09:45:00Z

Wendigo is a small group roleplay set mostly in Missoula, Montanta. All characters are Hunters, Shifters, or ordinary humans. Information about each group can be found below the cut.

A list of Held/Taken PBs can be found HERE.

§ HUNTERS: In 1884, when the pressure from large cattle companies forced Montana to issue high bounties for wolf skins, the tradition of "wolfers" was born. While werecreatures had existed in the Rockies long before this, it wasn't until the wholesale war on wolfkind that anyone dangerous found out. One group of wolfers, after killing a small pack of wolves, were horrified to find human skins hanging in place of their hard earned wolf pelts. Disgusted and angered by this abomination of nature, this group of men charged themselves with finding and destroying these creatures. And so a secretive coterie of hunters began. Their knowledge and techniques have been passed down through a strict family lineage.

§ WOLVES: The oldest and most common breed of shifters, wolves follow a strict social order based on strength and cunning. They exist in a close knit group and lone wolves living outside of the pack don't survive long. Unlike the other breeds of shifters, the wolf gene is passed only through the father, and resides heavily in males. While a female mutation of this gene exists, it is extremely rare and the few female wolves that exist today have survived a werewolf attack. An attack will create a wolf if the human survives the fever and the first shift. Born werewolves have their first shift around puberty.

§ COYOTES: Coyotes bond together in much smaller groups than wolves. It is not uncommon for only three coyotes to form a working pack. As a result, no "alpha" exists for the coyotes. Their shift comes more easily than any of the other species, but most of their other shifting dynamics are the same as their larger cousins the wolves.

§ BEARS: Naturally, bears are solitary and fearsome animals. Because of this, their shifter counterparts have very little social structure and many prefer to stick by themselves. Their bites are deadly and no known survivors of werebear attacks exist. As a result, their numbers are few and all bears are born that way. They shift later in life than the other breeds, bodies needing to be fully mature to handle the uniquely difficult shift. The average age for the first shift is 21. Bears are extremely powerful and few dare mess with them.

§ MOUNTAIN LIONS: Even though their animal counterparts follow no social structure whatsoever, the werelions of the Rockies have a king. This is determined through family lineage and not fighting within the pride. It has been said that this is the reason the Mountain Lions are, as a group, weaker than the wolves, even though they are more powerful animals individually. Unlike the wolves, the mountain lions do not live together. They are extremely secretive as a breed and little is known about them to the other shifters. Mountain lions have immense control over their shifts, and their first shift can take place as early as 8 years old.

§ ERMINE: A hardy and highly adaptable creature, the ermine is a small but mighty white weasel, just as at home in the suburbs as it is in the forest. Likewise, weremine have an easy time living and shifting in more human populated areas. Hunters are often not interested in this breed as it seems to pose no threat to humans and its bite is too weak to be contagious. Often times, a weremine will offer information to hunters in exchange for protection from the other breeds who look down on them as pests and rodents.

§ OTHERS: There are many other breeds of shifters residing in the Rockies as well as the rest of the world. Little is known of them, however, and frequently they are the only one of their kind, a strange anomally of genes sparking after generations of suppression.