<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 15pt;">Putting It Together</span></span><br/><br/>I've prepared a questionnaire to help you flesh out your character, but you'll want to come up with a concept first before you embark on it. Consider the following before you start:<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Life and Death:</strong> Your character has had multiple near-death experiences in his/her lifetime. For the normal person, even a single near-death experience is highly unusual. Consider what sort of lifestyles and circumstances would lead to this rather unusual state of affairs. Did your character engage in an extremely risk occupation or lifestyle? Or was poor health or even extraordinary bad luck the cause of his/her repeated brushes with death? Is your character even still alive, or did s/he finally experience something s/he couldn't come back from?</li><li><strong>Orpheus:</strong> Your character works for The Orpheus Group. Consider just how s/he came into contact with the group and what his/her relationship with the organization entails. What does s/he offer Orpheus, and more importantly, what does Orpheus offer him? I've provided a list below of sample possibilities.</li><li><strong>Crucible:</strong> Crucibles are bound together in a way that transcends simple social ties. Consider how you met the other members of your crucible, and just why it is Orpheus brought you all together. I strongly recommend you all discuss this in the OOC thread - http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=96452.0 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=96452.0)</li><li><strong>Lifestyle / Occupation:</strong> With the above in mind, you should determine what lifestyle / occupation choices your character has made that led to so many near-death experiences. While you've joined Orpheus since then, these details will have significantly impacted your character's life and development. I've listed some sample occupations that could easily lead to multiple near-death experiences.</li></ul><br/>With those in mind, develop your ideas for a character before going on to the questionnaire and figuring out your Shade and Lament.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Sample Lifestyles / Occupations</span><br/><br/>Abuse Survivor<br/>Bicycle Messenger<br/>Bounty Hunter<br/>Cab Driver<br/>Cancer Survivor<br/>Cashier<br/>Cursed Fortune<br/>Eco-Terrorist<br/>Emergency Room Doctor<br/>Firefighter<br/>Fisherman<br/>Gang Member<br/>Hobo<br/>Inner-City Graduate<br/>Jane Doe (amnesiac)<br/>Journalist<br/>Mountain Climber<br/>Police Officer<br/>Prospector<br/>Prostitute<br/>Reformed Criminal<br/>Sadomasochist<br/>Security Guard<br/>Social Worker<br/>Soldier<br/>Stockman<br/>Truck Driver<br/>Veteran<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Sample Orpheus Recruiting Experiences</span><br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Delivery:</strong> You delivered something to Orpheus, chatted up the receptionist who found out about one or more of your near-death experiences, and had you interview on the spot - and get offered a job.</li><li><strong>You Came to Them:</strong> Something drove you to be interested in becoming a projector - likely deaths of loved ones, bizarre circumstances probably caused by ghosts, or a sheer drive to experience it. You had the requisite near-death experiences, and passed their tests with flying colors.</li><li><strong>A Job Turns into a Job:</strong> While asking Orpheus to investigate an occurrence in your life, or being around an Orpheus job going down, they find out about your history and ask you to come interview.</li><li><strong>Death Regular:</strong> Whatever you do, you end up in the hospital. <em>A lot.</em> Someone took notice, slipped your name to Orpheus, and you were contacted for a job interview.</li><li><strong>News Story:</strong> Something happened. Something big, something terrible - just, something <em>really newsworthy.</em> Whether you were the lone survivor of a disaster, a heroic civilian rescuer, or a freak accident, your name in the press brought Orpheus to your door.</li><li><strong>Paranormal Professional Referral:</strong> You knew some professional of the paranormal - a professor, a medium, a psychic, a parapsychologist - and from what they knew about you and what you talked about, they ended up referring you to Orpheus.</li><li><strong>Just Another Ad:</strong> You saw some ad looking for people with multiple near-death experiences. All you had to do was take some tests, talk to some psychologists, and spend a little of your time for some easy money. Well, your test results got notice - and a job offer.</li><li><strong>Pigment Addict:</strong> You got hooked on the latest craze - pigment, "black heroin", the designer drug that gives hallucinations, makes you feel wonderful, and comes pretty cheaply. At first, you thought it was the usual trippy shit, but then you started seeing things that were just <em>fucked up</em>. When one of your hallucinations talked to you and led you to where it stashed some stolen money for his wife, but died before he could give it to her - you realized something was up when you woke up with the money in your hands and an address written on a scrap of paper. After you took your story to Orpheus, you got offered a job dealing with the dead, without the help of pigment... and they're helping you get clean, too.</li><li><strong>They Found You, Vaguely:</strong> Whatever you were doing before, someone in Orpheus discovered your history of near-death experiences and came to you with an interview and job offer.</li></ul><br/><hr/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;">Basic Character Concept Template</span></span><br/><br/>You can use this to reply to this post with for now, so people can get a snapshot of each other's characters. Feel free to hunt down a photo to use as a character image.<br/><br/>You can post responses to the<strong>Character Questionnaire</strong>on your Concept as well. If you've figured out your<strong>Nature</strong>, please post that, too.<br/><br/>Full Name:<br/>Sex:<br/>Ethnicity:<br/>Age:<br/>Previous Lifestyle / Occupation:<br/>Orpheus Recruiting Experience:<br/>Personality Concept:<br/>Appearance: