Fear Not The Night [Closed]

Hey kids,

I've been throwing around the idea of an urban supernatural horror RP for a bit. After brainstorming a while I came up with this, a fun mix of Delta Green, SCP Foundation, and a couple RPs a good friend of mine played a long time ago.

I’ll likely be adding more info as time goes along, but I’ll give a quick run down of what’s what’s right now.

You are a member of the Bureau, a secret international organization formed to keep the abnormalities of reality hidden from public perception, study and understand strange phenomena, and protect the world from threats beyond human comprehension.

The Bureau draws from all kinds of people, human and otherwise, to act for the betterment of humanity and reality at large. When making a character keep this in mind, even if you’re a regular human person, you still have a set of skills or knowledge or experience that the Bureau sees as very valuable and seeks to utilize.

I’m open to all kinds of wild ideas, and if you have any questions or concerns please run them by me. I also wanted to make a couple things clear below.

- Please obey all site rules and guidelines. Don’t be a jerk.
- I reserve the right to deny your sheet or remove you from the game if need be. Hopefully I won’t have to but I prefer to nip trouble in the bud before it blossoms.
- This setting is somewhat dark, if there is anything in particular that makes you uncomfortable or you want to avoid please let me know.
- Character injury/death is a possibility. This game deals with your characters facing things that can take a toll on your body and mind. I won’t go out of my way to chop your arm off or crush you with a chandelier, but things could happen if you’re careless or make a sacrifice. Also, I usually reserve character death for extreme circumstances, and you’ll see it before it comes (or if you’re being a dick.)

The overall "vibe" of this game is dark with a splash of silly and lightheartedness. I'll let you know if something is a bit too far out, but most of the time I appreciate creativity over grimdark.

Sorry about that. I’m on mobile rn and it looks good to me but I’ll see about changing that. Thank for letting me know.

Edit: I consulted the Old Wise Men on Discord and I think I fixed it. 

Okay, it’s no problem for me just to switch over to desktop mode to read. I like the idea so I’m interested, kinda like MIB meets the X Files. I’ll be considering a character, just not sure which way I want to take it just yet. Never been one to play strictly human. Now that I think about it, it’s been years since I have lol.

Name: Alexander Miller, Research Materials Curator

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Race: Human, Caucasian

Nationality: United States Citizen, born in Washington state

Properties:
There is nothing out of the ordinary to document regarding Alexander's physical form. If anything, his physique is rather underwhelming when compared with individuals from similar demographics - perhaps owing to a distinct lack of interest in any athletic extracurriculars during his youth. However, his mental anomalies are of high interest to the Bureau, and are the subject of ongoing investigation.

The Bureau's current understanding is that Agent Miller is able to psychically tap into an alternate plane of reality; one filled with knowledge of many things. In Miller's own words, this space is described as, "Roads and paths winding across a vast expanse. There are no signs, but there's always something that knows what I'm looking for and tells me which way to go. It never tells me the answer, but it always shows me where to look for it."

Functionally, Agent Miller's extradimensional space seems to behave in a manner similar to an elaborate library classification system, containing information on books, reports, video footage, scripts, paintings, research articles, diaries, maps, tape cassettes, magazines, and various other forms of documentation from this realm and others. As per Agent Miller's description, he is unable to directly access information through this extradimensional space, but he is able to use it as a directory. Exploration of the limits of Miller's abilities are ongoing, but to date he has been tasked with producing documentation concerning:

• The first recorded sighting of a penguin by European explorers
• An ancient Egyption bread recipe, circa 1278 B.C.E.
• Additional surviving copies of the Mayan Codices
• The birth certificate of a bartender who served aboard the R.M.S Titanic
• All known photographs of the 1979 sighting of the 'Aegean Octopus' (Bureau investigation report no. Foxtrot-5753)
  
• Seven certificates of authenticity for rare coin collections from various nations (Belarus, Argentina, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Iceland, Lithuania, and Malaysia)

All tasks were completed successfully, with the exemption of the surviving Mayan Codices, which serves as tentative confirmation that the only existing records are already accounted for by historians. Copies of the relevant documents are stored in Miller's employee file.


Fields of Expertise:
Agent Miller is formally trained as a librarian, having acquired his Master of Library and Information Science degree from Washington University after completing a bachelor's in classical studies at community college. This being said, his domain expertise extends far, far, beyond the subject matters covered in his academic degrees. Between his unique abilities, gifted recall ability, and thirst for knowledge, Miller has gained extensive knowledge on a wide variety of topics.
The Bureau finds Agent Miller most useful as a research materials curator. He is also frequently tasked with locating materials marked for seizure by the Bureau - typically, photographs and videos of things that the general public should not be aware of.

Greatest Fear:
Open water. Alexander cannot swim, and finds any water deeper than his waist to be intensely unsettling. Depths above his head are frightening. And murky waters are the most terrifying of all.

Psychological Profile:
Grade: Probationary, continued observation recommended
Agent Miller is amicable, respectful, and has a strong work ethic. He has a calm demeanor and a keen eye for detail. In his time with the Bureau, Miller has never once missed a meeting, deadline, or failed to follow up on even the most menial of requests. He has a penchant for organization, perhaps bordering on obsessive, but is mindful of the fact that this trait is not shared by all of his peers.
While recent psychological assessments have identified no immediate threats, the Bureau recommends that Agent Miller be scheduled for continuous observation. The nature of his abilities is not fully understood, and there is risk that he may be exposed to knowledge that the human mind is unfit to entertain. The following behaviours should be immediately reported to a Supervisor: sudden inability to comprehend the English language and/or speaking in tongues, unresponsiveness, excessive daydreaming, accessing extradimensional literature, or astral projection.


Physical Appearance:


Agent Miller stands at 5'11" and weighs approximately 145 lbs. The Bureau has recommended he eat more. The Bureau has also recommended that he get a haircut. Miller is exceptionally nearsighted and wears eyeglasses with a -6.0 prescription. He is not particularly adventurous when it comes to his wardrobe. At age 16, Agent Miller decided on his favourite pair of shoes, and has been wearing the same style ever since, replacing them when the sole wears through. He owns the same oversized sweater in six different colours, and rotates through them throughout the week - Sunday is laundry day, he wears a different shirt for laundry day.

Pre-Service History:
Report cards from Alexander's early childhood education reveal that he has always been studious. From a young age, he has demonstrated a love of media in all its forms - artwork, literature, film, poetry, and music. Despite his penchant for daydreaming, Alexander is academically gifted, and always ranked at the top of his classes. It's easy to pass a course when you know exactly where to find the best study materials.

Alexander passed high school with honors, and obtained extensive scholarships throughout his bachelor's degree. He went on to complete his Master of Library and Information Sciences degree, again, with considerable funding at his fingertips. During both of his degrees, Alexander filled up his free time by sitting in on additional lectures, in topics ranging from advanced calculus to history of the Ainu people. On five separate occasions he was removed from lecture theaters for classes he was not enrolled in. Upon graduating, Alexander accepted a position at a New York Public Library branch.

Four years into his career, a notice concerning the behaviour of Alexander Miller reached the Bureau. The case report, at first glance, was unremarkable. There were a number of staff feedback forms mentioning how helpful one of the librarians was. A helpful librarian in New York City...rare, perhaps, but 'anomalous' seemed like a bit of a stretch. But upon closer examination, a trend worth investigating emerged. Alexander Miller had never used the library's digital catalogue. Not once had he searched the location of a book. Even if he had memorized every detail of the Dewery Decimal System, he still would have had to query whether a specific book was in their collection, or whether it had been checked out, or how many copies were available. There was not one single catalogue access record with his name on it.

The Bureau reached out. Six interviews, two psychological assessments, three field aptitude tests, and a potluck dinner later, they offered him a position.

Name: Vivian "Vi" Jones

Age: 27

Gender: Female, She/Her

Race: Caucasian

Nationality: USA, North Carolina

Properties: Vi doesn't seem to have any physical supernatural properties, however, she seems to have the ability to alter/change the memory of others, changing the past 4 hours of a person's memory. But for it to work, the individuals have to see or have viewed Vi recently. This also includes the ability to continuously focus their ability and essentially becoming invisible by wiping herself, and if need be others, from a being's short-term memory on a second to second basis for a maximum of 10 minutes before the invisibility fails and causes Vi to collapse. This as well as altering the memories of populations larger than 30 people has been seen to take a severe physical toll on her, causing stress on her body. Affecting 1-30 people causes minor migraines, 31-60 people has been observed to cause nosebleeds, 61-100 causes a risk of Vi momentarily falling unconscious and/or fainting, and affecting more than 100 individuals has been seen to cause seizures which incapacitate her for anywhere between 5-30 minutes.

Fields of Expertise: Vi is an expert in firearms, reconnaissance and explosives due to their time spent as a LCpl in the US Marines MARSOC, allowing them to be utilized as an effective field-agent.

Greatest Fear: Arachnophobia

Psychological Profile: Vi is a loyal, respectful and lighthearted person who has regularly shown a willingness to help the bureau and those within it. Although when her military service is brought up, she usually tends to keep quiet on it. It's thought it is due to the post traumatic stress it brings to her. There have been worries about their ability and whether they'd turn it on the bureau, however they have agreed to wear a special wrist bracelet to inhibit their abilities whilst inside of bureau as to not cause any incidents.

Physical Appearance: 

Pre-Service History: At 18 years old, Vi joined the US Marines and would early on show that her aptitude and strengths were useful for the Marines. After her first four year deployment into Afghanistan, she was approached by one of her COs with an opportunity to join MARSOC, as he had believed she'd be a good addition to one of their teams. After passing the required tests, she was placed within a squad and was soon redeployed to Afghanistan. Two fireteams of MARSOC soldiers were gathered in a briefing to wipe out a small group of enemies who had been believed to set up within some caves in a mountain range and spotted by a recon drone. When they were sent out to infiltrate the caves and wipe out their targets, they were surprised to find that they had in fact set up at the entrance of the cave, but were nowhere to be found, having left a lot of resources behind. The further into the caves though, the worse of a feeling they all had, thinking this might be an ambush, and they were partially right, it was, but not by enemy forces.

The two fireteams regrouped further in the cave when they were suddenly attacked, two marines being sent flying into the cave walls by an unknown force. That's when they also noticed that some sort of black mist had rolled in at their feet. That's when their squad lead was also sent flying further down into the cave. The mist was lashing out at them, seeming to somehow stab through the body armor of some of the marines. They tried at first to fight it, but to no avail. Vi, however, was one of the lucky ones, depending on how you look at it. She had been knocked down as a marine was thrown into her, and the mist started to slowly seep into her lungs, giving a burning sensation, as she described, that felt like directly inhaling tear gas. She was sure she was about to die there, when another marine ran over and helped her up and the two managed to escape, leaving the fate of the rest of their team unknown to them. After a while of running and coughing, she collapsed and was carried further by the other marine. 

Eventually they managed to contact command and get evac to a nearby base where they were treated for their rather minor wounds. Nothing seemed off at first, but Vi noticed when some of the staff treated her, they seemed sometimes confused on what they were doing, as if they had forgotten something. One of them had left, come back and even had seemed to have forgotten that Vi was there in the first place. Vi didn't think too much of it at first, but when she was in a one on one debrief with her CO, talking about what happened, he seemed to stop for a few moments before looking at her and wondering when she had gotten there, saying he had been waiting for her and she was late. Instead of fighting with him and arguing that she was there, she simply let it slide. She explained what happened, and her CO didn't believe her, thinking that she was making it up due to some sort of psychotic break. He decided to have her medically discharged from the military and sent back home, suggesting she seek mental help. After this, she had slowly realized that she was able to cause others to lose memories, make up memories and if she focused hard enough, could even make people forget that she was there and unable to see her.  She did still go back to the US, having a bit of a rough time readjusting to civilian life. It was then that her file reached the bureau, and they reached out at first for an interview to talk about what happened. After a bit of talking, the interviewer revealed who she really worked for, and extended an offer for her to come work for the Bureau. She thought it over for a bit but accepted, and now works at the bureau as a field agent.

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Name:
Janice Amaryllis Culver
Just Amaryllis when her mother is angry
Senior Lead for the Field and Discovery Research Team

Age:
27

Gender:
Female

Race:
Human, though she’s perhaps more coffee than woman at this point

Nationality:
American, Caucasian descent
Indianapolis, Indiana

Properties:
Much like Bruce Wayne and Batman, Janice and sleep have never been seen together in the same room. This is likely just an exaggeration made up by the fellow members of her research team and she does require sleep like a regular person, even if she has never been seen in the act of sleeping.

Fields of Expertise:
A master’s degree in Anthropology and Archaeology focusing on early and modern civilizations and myths with a minor in literature. Outside of her knowledge base of what might be referred to as cryptohistory to some and pseudohistory to those of a more skeptical inclination, she is quite skilled at the categorization of new anomalous objects and creatures

Greatest Dislike:
There’s this one dream you know, you get up in front of class and you’re in your underwear and it’s finals week and you haven’t been to class all semester but also you’re all falling and your teeth are loose and your alarm goes off before you can finally see how it ends. Hate that.

Psychological Profile:
As with most things, let’s start with the positives. Janice is dedicated to the accomplishment of a given goal, should it be a personal or work related matter. If overloaded, she breaks complicated tasks down into smaller much easier to accomplish segments and works towards the completion of the task from there. While management praises her output, employee evaluations are dogeared with consistent notes of concern about how Janice often allows her personal health to lapse, be it rest or meals, in order to throw herself fully into work. Further observation and mandatory vacation time are recommended should this trend continue.

A constantly open mind has served her well in this field, along with an ability to roll with the sudden punches that can be offered by the unknown. Natural curiosity and a desire to understand the world as it truly is motivates her incessant work habit. Care must be taken she doesn’t burn herself out.

Physical Appearance:
She looks like any young woman you might meet on the street, really. Sure she’s a bit on the short and thin side, her blond hair is tinged with pink, and of course the deep rings under her eyes aren’t something you see every day and that her hairstyle swings wildly between looking well made up or like she had just rolled out of bed six minutes ago, but look past all that she’s just any normal woman you might meet anywhere.

Pre-Service History:
Born and raised in central Indiana Janice found herself with a burning desire to be anywhere but. To this end she applied herself in school, making exemplary marks, before seeking her master’s degree from Indiana University. It was cheaper to learn in state than it was out of state. Here too she scored remarkably, as well as picked up what might be an addiction to caffeine.

She made waves, many would say for wrong reasons, with a thesis paper outlining the likely real creatures behind the many myths and legends humans have created to explain the creaks and cracks of the night. While well researched and presented, the speculative nature of the paper gave her a reputation, a reputation that soon led to her name coming across the Bureau's desk.

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