NationStates Jolt Archive

The general idea of this thread well be about any adventurers, treasure hunters, secret societies, and corporations which are after an ancient ‘cursed’ treasure of Valgard which was long ago hidden by the Valgardian Empire during a centuries long war and contained the wealth of entire empires as it held all the spoils gained from them and was hidden to prevent the enemy from using it. Yet, there is an ancient Valgardian society which is powerful and guards the treasure as they believe an ancient legend that is houses weapons of unparalleled power, which is might, and also ancient secrets about the world which they think should never be known.

So just sign up.

Character Sheet:
Name:
Age:
I.Q:
Race (optional):
Height:
Eye Color:
Hair Color:
Education:
Training:
Bio:

Character Sheet
Name: Leonti Artur
Age: 32
I.Q: 121
Race: Caucasian Male
Height: 5'11"
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Education: Studied at Lucianus Grand Academy. Graduated 41 out 345. Majored in History and Geography. Minored in Foreign Languages*.
Training: After his study period at the Academy was over he was inducted into the military due to Granate's Required Military Service.He was trained as a Translator. Made it to the rank of Corporal before being discharged at the end of his required service.
Bio: He was born to a middle-class family in Lucianus, the Capital of Granate. He spent most of his childhood as any child would, learning. He was shown to be very smart at a young age. He grasped many harder concepts very easily. He studied hard throughout his school tenure. Once he was done with that he was accepted into the Grand Academy and was given a leave for his required service, which usually happened right after High School. After his military career was over, he moved to the north and spent time in the Hills up there. There he found he had a natural knack for finding stuff, be it old coins or older weapons. This lead to his off and on hobby of Treasure Seeking. His day-job is a historian in the Northern Granatian Institute of Fine Learning.

Name: Doctor Vladimir West
Age: 30
I.Q: Rumored to be in the 400's
Race (optional): Romanian
Height: 4'9
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Black
Education: P.H.D. in Physiology and pharmacology, Biochemistry and medical genetics, microbiology, Medical sociology, Neuroscience, Psychology
Training: 9 years at Miskatonic University, two years in the Romanian Army(Dishonorably discharged)
Bio: Doctor Vladimir West has always been fascinated with life....and death. His morbid obsession with both has lead him to science as well as the underbelly of the occult world, believing that magic is nothing more then psychological stimuli. West had already made himself notorious at the school through his wild theories on the nature of death and the possibility of overcoming it artificially. His views, which were widely ridiculed by the faculty and by his fellow-students, hinged on the essentially mechanistic nature of life; and concerned means for operating the organic machinery of mankind by calculated chemical action after the failure of natural processes. Holding with Haeckel that all life is a chemical and physical process, and that the so-called "soul" is a myth, he believes that artificial reanimation of the dead can depend only on the condition of the tissues; and that unless actual decomposition has set in, a corpse fully equipped with organs may with suitable measures be set going again in the peculiar fashion known as life. In his experiments with various animating solutions, he had killed and treated immense numbers of rabbits, guinea-pigs, cats, dogs, and monkeys, till he had become the prime nuisance of the college.

Several times he had actually obtained signs of life in animals supposedly dead; in many cases violent signs but he soon saw that the perfection of his process, if indeed possible, would necessarily involve a lifetime of research. It likewise became clear that, since the same solution never worked alike on different organic species, he would require human subjects for further and more specialised progress. It was here that he first came into conflict with the college authorities, and was debarred from future experiments by no less a dignitary than the dean of the medical school himself -- the learned and benevolent Dr. Allan Halsey, whose work in behalf of the stricken is recalled by every old resident of Arkham.

Dejected, West joined the army and further engrossed himself and further tested his theory that will and consciousness are stronger then organic life itself, so that if a bodily frame be but originally healthy and carefully preserved, it may through scientific enhancement of these qualities retain a kind of nervous animation despite the most serious impairments, defects, or even absences in the battery of specific organs. He now sought to not only raise the dead...but to extend life itself.

West got kicked out of the army for unspeakable acts commited against the bodies of dead soldiers, and has roamed from slum to slum, setting up secret labratories for his diobolical work. West has heard of the expedition and views it's treasure as not only invaulable to his studies, but could hold the secret he has been searching for. His skills are that of medic, surgeon, and doctor in one, and is invaulable to any expedition. He always wears his classic attire(seen in picture) and never, ever removes his mask.

Tag for interest.

Treasure Details:
500 tons of gold
800 tons of silver
320 tons of precious stones
10 archives of books
Details on how to achieve immortality
How to build a chaos machine
The Fire of Atlantis
The Spear of Destiny
The Spear of Achilles
The Sword of Agamemnon
Neptune’s Trident
The Thunderbolts of Zeus
The Army of Atlantis
The Demons of Hell
The Original Book of Genesis
The Tome of Odin
The Rod of the Sun God
Limitless other artifacts

Tagged for Entry

I want in on this, sounds cool!

sooo...

TAG

I'm interested.

Thanks for the interest, so just set up a character template and you are in.

Artifact Powers:
The Fire of Atlantis
The Spear of Destiny: Grants the user the ability to never be killed or harmed in battle.
The Spear of Achilles: Gives the user 20 times their original strength, skill, and speed.
The Sword of Agamemnon: Ability to command any army in perfect unsion.
Neptune’s Trident: Commander over all water in sight.
The Thunderbolts of Zeus: Able to literally through lighting at people.
The Army of Atlantis: Army of monstrous machines which are inhumanely powerful.
The Demons of Hell: Fiery servants of great power who will follow any command.
The Original Book of Genesis: Gives the person insight into all the past, and the future.
The Tome of Odin: Grants the person the wisdom and strength of Odin.
The Rod of the Sun God: Gives control over elemental fire and light.
The Lance of the Immortals: Gives the holder the power to know what others are thinking and the ability to fly in a powerful force shield of light.
The Eye of Gnash: Gives the user the ability to be omnipresence.
The Ship of Ra: The user can travel anywhere in the world instantly.
Thor’s Hammer: The user can cause great damage with sound waves and is also able to garner the strength Thor himself.
The Bow of Artemis: The user fires energy arrows of great accuracy and with the ability to destroy entire neighborhood.

Does this take place in the NS world, or the (obviously modified) RL?

Modified RL world map, but NS or fake nations/corporations and persons, if you want.

Okie-dookie. I just happen to have a rather nice character, a Russian fellow he is, that I thought I could use in this. But, if there are many NS people, countries and weapons around, I should perhaps forget that idea...

In any case, I guess I'll join up tomorrow. Bedtime now.

Character Sheet
Name: Leonti Artur
Age: 32
I.Q: 121
Race: Caucasian Male
Height: 5'11"
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Education: Studied at Lucianus Grand Academy. Graduated 41 out 345. Majored in History and Geography. Minored in Foreign Languages*.
Training: After his study period at the Academy was over he was inducted into the military due to Granate's Required Military Service.He was trained as a Translator. Made it to the rank of Corporal before being discharged at the end of his required service.
Bio: He was born to a middle-class family in Lucianus, the Capital of Granate. He spent most of his childhood as any child would, learning. He was shown to be very smart at a young age. He grasped many harder concepts very easily. He studied hard throughout his school tenure. Once he was done with that he was accepted into the Grand Academy and was given a leave for his required service, which usually happened right after High School. After his military career was over, he moved to the north and spent time in the Hills up there. There he found he had a natural knack for finding stuff, be it old coins or older weapons. This lead to his off and on hobby of Treasure Seeking. His day-job is a historian in the Northern Granatian Institute of Fine Learning.

*Note: Foreign Languages in Granate are anything but German, Russian, and English. As those are the Official Languages of the country.

Okie-dookie. I just happen to have a rather nice character, a Russian fellow he is, that I thought I could use in this. But, if there are many NS people, countries and weapons around, I should perhaps forget that idea...

In any case, I guess I'll join up tomorrow. Bedtime now.Alright, then feel free to post you person within the next few days at your lesiure then.

Character Sheet
Name: Leonti Artur
Age: 32
I.Q: 121
Race: Caucasian Male
Height: 5'11"
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Education: Studied at Lucianus Grand Academy. Graduated 41 out 345. Majored in History and Geography. Minored in Foreign Languages*.
Training: After his study period at the Academy was over he was inducted into the military due to Granate's Required Military Service.He was trained as a Translator. Made it to the rank of Corporal before being discharged at the end of his required service.
Bio: He was born to a middle-class family in Lucianus, the Capital of Granate. He spent most of his childhood as any child would, learning. He was shown to be very smart at a young age. He grasped many harder concepts very easily. He studied hard throughout his school tenure. Once he was done with that he was accepted into the Grand Academy and was given a leave for his required service, which usually happened right after High School. After his military career was over, he moved to the north and spent time in the Hills up there. There he found he had a natural knack for finding stuff, be it old coins or older weapons. This lead to his off and on hobby of Treasure Seeking. His day-job is a historian in the Northern Granatian Institute of Fine Learning.

*Note: Foreign Languages in Granate are anything but German, Russian, and English. As those are the Offical Languages of the country.Accepted.

By the way is he good at translating languages?

He's a little Rusty, but he could possibly translate a good 7 or so languages. And then the translations would be slightly off. But he would get the picture. His English, Russian, and German are superb. The other languages he knows are:
Latin
Swedish
Norwegian
Spanish.

I apologize, I meant to say decipher languages, like the more archaic form of High Valgardian which only a few thousands people speak of which their numbers will not help you translate any of this, but that language will be the one in which all the clues and text are ‘in’.

High Valgardian has it's roots in what Language now? Or it is most related to.

If it is near one of the languages he knows, he could dechiper it. Other then that, he might have a hard time, but he does have a few friends in high places. They might not know anything, and I doubt they will.

Well, the closest language to it was Bronze Age Norse to which was only due to them trading with it and aside from that is has 12,000 years of being itself and now resembles nothing save low Valgardian which it only is similar due to the names of a few places and words, to the other modern languages though it bears only one or two sounds at the most and that is most limited due that of the Sámi.

Well, he's fucked. Oh well. I can deal with it.

The Rosetta stones only fifty times harder.:p

Is there any chance my guy could be some kind of Merc tasked with over seeing the artifacts found...like making sure that they are taken care of.

He'll just be present for the company that's doing the search...

Well, feel free to.

Character Sheet:
Name: Tyrone Heights
Age: 24
I.Q: 120
Race (optional): African American
Height: 6'4
Weight: 235Lbs
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Body type: Rock solid
Education: Completed highschool(High honors)
Equipment: Frag grenades, MP9(modifications), H&KP3000, Urban cammo, tac vest,
Training: Hand to hand, many small arms, explosives
Bio: All that is currently known about Tyrone Heights is that he is currently working for a Mercenary group known as 'Black Sword'. Recent reports state that he has been hired to protect certian artifacts that have been known to exist for thousands of years, no nation specified in the report.

Accepted, thank you for joining.

Awesome

A.K.A.: The thread will be set up by Thursday, maybe Friday.

Ok cool

By the way I am looking for far Eastern powerful artifacts, anyone have any suggestions?

I suggest looking at some Japanese or Chinese Myths. From their you could make some stuff up.

:D Thanks, got two new things.

It could easily be researched..

I shall look further into it.

bump

Im still here...and waiting :)

A.K.A.: The thread will be set up by Thursday, maybe Friday.May, move it up to Wednesday if people do not show more interest in making character templates.

How ironic. I am watching The Da Vinci Code and I watched National Treasure earlier....

Awesome! i love all those channels that discovery has....

National Treasure is a wicked movie

But anyways...

SIGN UPS, GET YOUR SIGN UPS...

Scandinvans:

Remember when i played as NS Reallydrunk?

Maybe we may find some artifacts for Osteia on our search....and Wed's sounds good.

Creppy.:confused: :p :confused:

Lol yeeeah!

This should be a decent Rp i think, fun for sure...

Awesome! i love all those channels that discovery has....

National Treasure is a wicked movie

But anyways...

SIGN UPS, GET YOUR SIGN UPS...

Scandinvans:

Remember when i played as NS Reallydrunk?

Maybe we may find some artifacts for Osteia on our search....and Wed's sounds good.Yeah, I do and that will be good, but please do not use anything godly in regular NS.;)

Huh?

I mean just like ...junk and shit..

No real serious things lol

Ohh what about that large golden eagle my emperor gave to your ruler?

Name: Doctor Vladimir West (http://www.halloweencostumes4u.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000003/73222.jpg)
Age: 30
I.Q: Rumored to be in the 400's
Race (optional): Romanian
Height: 4'9
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Black
Education: P.H.D. in Physiology and pharmacology, Biochemistry and medical genetics, microbiology, Medical sociology, Neuroscience, Psychology
Training: 9 years at Miskatonic University, two years in the Romanian Army(Dishonorably discharged)
Bio: Doctor Vladimir West has always been fascinated with life....and death. His morbid obsession with both has lead him to science as well as the underbelly of the occult world, believing that magic is nothing more then psychological stimuli. West had already made himself notorious at the school through his wild theories on the nature of death and the possibility of overcoming it artificially. His views, which were widely ridiculed by the faculty and by his fellow-students, hinged on the essentially mechanistic nature of life; and concerned means for operating the organic machinery of mankind by calculated chemical action after the failure of natural processes. Holding with Haeckel that all life is a chemical and physical process, and that the so-called "soul" is a myth, he believes that artificial reanimation of the dead can depend only on the condition of the tissues; and that unless actual decomposition has set in, a corpse fully equipped with organs may with suitable measures be set going again in the peculiar fashion known as life. In his experiments with various animating solutions, he had killed and treated immense numbers of rabbits, guinea-pigs, cats, dogs, and monkeys, till he had become the prime nuisance of the college.

Several times he had actually obtained signs of life in animals supposedly dead; in many cases violent signs but he soon saw that the perfection of his process, if indeed possible, would necessarily involve a lifetime of research. It likewise became clear that, since the same solution never worked alike on different organic species, he would require human subjects for further and more specialised progress. It was here that he first came into conflict with the college authorities, and was debarred from future experiments by no less a dignitary than the dean of the medical school himself -- the learned and benevolent Dr. Allan Halsey, whose work in behalf of the stricken is recalled by every old resident of Arkham.

Dejected, West joined the army and further engrossed himself and further tested his theory that will and consciousness are stronger then organic life itself, so that if a bodily frame be but originally healthy and carefully preserved, it may through scientific enhancement of these qualities retain a kind of nervous animation despite the most serious impairments, defects, or even absences in the battery of specific organs. He now sought to not only raise the dead...but to extend life itself.

West got kicked out of the army for unspeakable acts commited against the bodies of dead soldiers, and has roamed from slum to slum, setting up secret labratories for his diobolical work. West has heard of the expedition and views it's treasure as not only invaulable to his studies, but could hold the secret he has been searching for. His skills are that of medic, surgeon, and doctor in one, and is invaulable to any expedition. He always wears his classic attire(seen in picture) and never, ever removes his mask.

Umm, good bio....

My charactor will only be assisting, he won't be doing any of the real work :)

Well.. maybe some lifting and stuff..

He is a big boy....

He could be Vladimir's henchman.

"You fool! Bring me my copy of the necronomicon and my scapel!"

So my guys is up against a man who wants power to help with his Morbid Scheme.

It don't matter,

He's a Merc hired for this expedition....

Where ever he gets placed....

By the way...my Romanian doesn't speak very good english. Here he is describing a shuttle launch

"All systems gone, Prepare for down-count! 5.. 4.. 3.. 1.. OFF BLAST!"

Wow..lol

His english isn't that bad...

Well since I'm a bit bored, I think I'll develop my character a bit more.

Vladimir bent over the makeshift operating table, staring into the eyes of his frantic prisoner. Healthy...good. He casually walked over to a strange contraption resembling a methlab more then a medical machine. Inside the machine a host of swirling colors were suspended in a strange container. A tube, blocked now, ran down to a second container, housing a black, wispy smoke. Vladimir pressed a few buttons, causing the liquid to fall into the smoke.

The reaction was instant, and the smoke swirled like a hurricane inside the container. Behind his mask Vladimir smiled and walked back to his "patient." "Now Kruzchev, I want you to remain...calm. I am giving you eternal life, am I not?" He slipped a strange gas mask apparatus over the man's panicked face. The prisoners eyes drifted to his left. eyeing the tube connecting the vile black smoke to the mask. He struggled against his restraints and tryed to say something...anything at all.

"Now now, you know my serum will silence you. Just surrender now. Eternal life is....yours" With the last word said he fliped a nearby red switch. A gate was opened and the black smoke rushed into the man's mask. The man struggled to hold his breath, but couldn't. His lungs were screaming for air, his brain now becoming foggy. He gave in, and sucked in the smoke in one gulp.

The man died instantly, and Vladimir waited patiently. Soon the man's hands jerked and his back arched violently. The strange throws did not alram Vladimir he recorded the events. The prisoners eyes shifted and glowed a deep red.

"Zhar-othligg! Zhar-othligg Phatsogogug Haot Aothach!"

Vladimir lifted his voice recorder to his mask.
"Subject 16 was successfully killed, and Subject 8's mind has been pulled into the body. Animation appears complete." Vladimir walked around the possessed body, studying it like a work of art, oblivious to the devilish words spewing from it's throat. "The voice box, which had been dissolved with Serum 67, is of no use to Subject 8, who speaks through will alone." He pressed a stethascope against the man's chest. "No heart rate and...pulse is gone as well." The Doctor pulled out his scapel cutting off a piece of the man's flesh, the prisoner seemingly unfeeling. Vladimir set it aside, and preceeded to cut out both of the glowing eyes. He took the 3 samples across the room, to his stack of test tubes, droping them inside along with his special perserver liqiud.

"Experiment a resounding sucess. Eliminating subject now." Vladimir walked over to the counter and lifted the cleaver off the table. He walked behind the prisoner and preceeded to chop at his forhead repeatdly. The prisoner was yelling in defiance, but not in pain. The top part of the skull was taken off, revealing only the brain. Drenched in blood, Vladimir ripped out the brain with his bare hands, ending all the prisoners motion. It will have to be studied to see if there is any residual intelligence, he thought, plopping it into a modified fish tank. He walked upstairs, wiping his gloves clean along the way. Closer, each day I come closer. It shall not be long before I have it! Vladimir lifted the hatch, allowing him to leave the lab and enter his closet, returning to the world of his two room shack. He walked to the kitched and cleaned himself off and wondered on the expedition he was about to take.

Dear Fredrick,

You have asked me why I would join such a crazy expedition and how my experiments have been going. I shall answer both.

The experiments in Rna Psychodestablization and Skeletal Exoirradiation have proceeded wonderfully, while I find in the fields of Biological Cryptotransition I have found nothing but disaster. Just last week I had to kill Subject 32 after he almost escaped. I swear to you his mind was not that of Subject 3...but of something darker. The Integrated Ressurection Stunner had readings off the roof and the voice spat vile incantations from The Revelations of Chaos at me. I scanned it with the Skeletal Chemoprobe and found huge quantities of Pyroepithelium and Gravitic Cellizers. My conclusion is that somehow I pulled another-perhaps darker-entity from the open Hades Zone. I retuned the Gate Irradiator and achieved success in Technoepitheliumizing subject 8.

As to why I would join what you call another "fruitless adventure into the occult," I will simple state the facts. The treasure is rumored to include:
500 tons of gold
800 tons of silver
320 tons of precious stones
10 archives of ancient books
Details on how to achieve immortality
How to build a chaos machine
The Fire of Atlantis
The Spear of Destiny
The Spear of Achilles
The Sword of Agamemnon
Neptune’s Trident
The Thunderbolts of Zeus
The Army of Atlantis
The Demons of Hell
The Original Book of Genesis
The Tome of Odin
The Rod of the Sun God
and limitless other artifacts

Naturally you can see why I would be interested in such a project. And might I add my adventures have not been as "fruitless" as you think. I saw things no mortal should view in vile Leng, descended into crypts in the Big Cypruss Swamp built before mankind, and have spoken to an entity I can refer to only as a night guant. Ands do remember the line in the Revelations of Chaos:

John Whateley lived about a mile from town,
Up where the hills begin to huddle thick;
We never thought his wits were very quick,
Seeing the way he let his farm run down.
He used to waste his time on some queer books
He'd found around the attic of his place,
Till funny lines got creased into his face,
And folks all said they didn't like his looks.


When he began those night-howls we declared
He'd better be locked up away from harm,
So three men from the Aylesbury town farm
Went for him - but came back alone and scared.
They'd found him talking to two crouching things
That at their step flew off on great black wings.

---Your Friend,
Vladimir

Welcome, into this as the one who must reminds of a horror book doctor.

bump

Eager to rp

About three hours into I put it up.:p

Arrgh. Can you at least...idk...rp some agent of yours founding the expedition and meeting with West?

That will be the starting rp.

You could just show up at his squalid shack in the middle of the ghetto. The letter I wrote can come after. Dr. West will be waiting...

I am ready when all of you are....

IC Thread Up: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=510092

Awesome, preparing a post...

Thanks, sorry for lack of effort, but I have now the first twenty pages planned out.

bumpers

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