Yeah... ummmm... who are those guys? I don't think you mentioned that name, until now.

Well it was in the very first post.

Il Palazzo Sama, how's my new character look?

He mentioned them alright. I got it a bit wrong when I first read that paragraph and thought that the 3 groups he listed were PART of The Patron Saints, not competition. Got that corrected. Maybe you should go in there and clear things up a bit Palazzo.

Darkhan, it's fine. It's just there was nothing wrong with it that I would complain about.

I think it's pretty clear when I say, "You are a member of the Patron Saints".

Mwa hahahaha!!! Il Palazzo Sama has nothing to complain about my character. That's cause it's better than yours. MWA HAHAHAHA!!!!!

err... i mean, "ok."

LOL I think we're driving poor Palazzo up a wall Well, here's my other character.

Name: Andrew Nighte

Age: 42

Specialties: Forensics, sample collecting (what kind of physical specialty WOULD a forensics detective have, anyway? o_O), access to forensics labs across the US.

Mundane skills: Street defense (nothing fabulous, but hey, when you're often in iffy areas...), keen observation, trivia buff, drawing/sketching, handguns, getting rid of annoying superiors, dabbling in psychological profiling (admittedly a specialty, but its more of an informal thing based on experience for him...)

Bio: His mother was raped and murdered when he was 16. The killer was caught, tried, and convicted to life term in prison. But on appeal, the defense convinced the presiding judge that the evidence had been compromised by on-scene police officers. The case was dismissed, and Andrew crushed. He vowed to strive to keep scum like Mike DeGotts off the streets.

In fulfilment of his vow, he entered police academy at 19. Throwing his life and soul into it, he excelled. But though he was making a difference, it didn't seem that he was doing anything to catch those who got away. So, at 23, he went to forensics school. Just as before, and this time with the help of government sponsership, he threw everything he had into it.

Once again, he excelled, and graduated with a doctorate a mere four years later. As years passed, his celebrity in the national police forces grew. His instinct was impeccable, almost supernatural (not attributing it to some innate magical ability, just really good instincts) in its ability to penetrate the surface of a crime scene.

At the age of 41, he had dozens of successful cases under his belt, with everything from local police cases, to state police, to a number of Federal cases. With the aid of the teams of detectives he inevitably found himself with, he was one of the few police officials to have a near 100% rate of apprehension.

Yet, as these years passed, he began noticing strange occurances, evidences and patterns that defied possibility. Initially, he passed them by as freak incidence. But, after a year, he went back to the evidence of one of his oddest cases, only to find the evidence wasn't there. At first, proper evidence appropriation forms kept him from investigating any further. But after another three years, he realised there was a pattern, and it didn't apply only to him. Though admittedly few, freak cases did come up, but the evidence was inevitably lost at some stage, and no suspect ever found.

At 32, he did something he wouldn't have done previously, because of its highly illegal nature. He began taking evidence samples and report copies himself, and hiding them away for a personal collection. As his collection grew, his curiousity grew. The material was painting a far different picture than any other collection of evidences. Had he been superstitious, he would have called it inhuman. As it was, he was simply mystified.

Then, at the age of 41, he was approached by an organization called The Patron Saints. He has been working for them for a year now.

OOC: I think that's got some potential... What do you think?

You guys don't even hae a clue what I'm playing . . . MWAHAHAHAHAHA . . .

quite you...

Posted Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:46 am:

Darkhan, by that I mean you fall within the established parameters...


hmm... nothing from hendo yet....

Hey folks. Sorry about the long bio, I included a short version for those who prefer it .


Name: Jonathan Merrill
Age: 46
Specialties: extensive knowledge of the mythical creatures, exceptional skill with a sword and shield, connections to some high-ups in the Catholic Church
Mundane Skills: multilingual (Latin, Portuguese, Spanish), multilingual (Greek, Italian, French), knowledge of European history, knowledge of healing techniques, knowledge of Catholic Church dogma/ritual/history, etc., basic martial arts training.

Sorry about the long bio. Here’s a short version: Parents killed by creature, gets raised by church, becomes demon hunter, loses use of arm, splits from church, carries on the hunt alone.

Bio: Formerly known as Father Merrill, this tall, aging man goes simply by his last name now. His life is one marked by tragedy and loss. When a boy he lived with his family in Brazil who were missionaries, helping the natives, and, of course, converting them to Catholicism. When only 12 his parents were killed before his own eyes, and the eyes of the village that they stayed in, by a fearsome creature of the jungle like none young Jonathan had ever seen or heard of before. The locals called it o diabo preto: the black demon.

With nowhere else to go, Jonathan became a ward of the Church and was taken to Vatican City where he studied to become a priest in honor of the work his parents died doing. It was here that he added the Latin, Italian, and French languages to his repertoire that already consisted of Portuguese (the language of Brazil) and English, and also where he gained his knowledge of history and the Church.

Aware of his past, an Italian Cardinal approached him when he turned 18, asking him if he wished to take the opportunity to serve God in a way that few have done so before. Intrigued, and sensing a link to his nightmarish past, Jonathan agreed and so became a member of a specially trained group of priests in the Catholic Church dedicated to the secret crusade against the mythical demons that haunted today’s world from the shadows. It was here that he acquired his limited martial arts training, his knowledge of healing techniques, and most importantly, his skill with the sword (he chose to fight the demons in the same way they had been fought for centuries: hand to hand). His skill with a shield came later.

When he was 26 and one of the most talented of the Churches holy warriors he lost the use of his left arm in a ferocious battle with a beast in a London alleyway. He slew the beast, but limped away with his left arm hanging as dead weight at his side. Eventually, through years of effort, he became able to use it again, to an extent, though it was gruesomely disfigured and full mobility was never realized. Another thing that in the end became more a blessing than a curse, was loss of all sensation in the limb. He now wears a shield on that arm in battle and he is able to withstand fearsome blows to it without feeling much in the way of pain.

At this point, however, Merrill will end his story, leaving 15 years of his most recent history untold, though the fruits of those mysterious events are easily observed. No longer does he bear the title of Father, though he still wears his cross and counts himself among the faithful. And no longer does he call the Catholic Church his patron or patronage. In fact he is more likely to declare it his enemy, though he does retain some friendships with those connected to the Church’s sect of holy warriors. Today, he wanders the earth in a solitary hunt for the creatures he still calls demons and still hates with a righteous passion. He is, however, growing restless and desires to find another group of warriors to go into battle with and pass on his wisdom and skill.



Hope I met all the requirements

Don't lie, Il Palazzo Sama, it's ok that you like my character more than everyone else's. I don't mind at all.

Yay, I was first, I am the original one. Nyah to all of you, except Pallazo. *Hugs palazzo*

Palazzo tells people to stop making characters with all the same skills, namely martial skills, so what does eveyone do? They all create hybrid combat/detective characters with all the same skills . . .

sshhh.....

Posted Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:28 pm:

you're a bunch of children...and DemitriFlameGG, Grumlen had submitted a character long before you...he PM'ed and that's why you know nothing about him...

Well, Grumlen, at least I was the first of the smart-type characters. Does that mean I get presidence, Il Palazzo Sama?

Also, I feel the need to point out that my character is not all that investigative; Criminology is a mundane skill, not a specialty. My character is mainly for finding weaknesses and tendencies once we know what it is, and getting help from/access to Universities/Research Centers and the occasional occult/Buffy/Anne Rice follower.