Amulet of Altheaka
(Rated Mature for violence, language and sexual content. No sex scenes, please)

You are a student at St. Benivere's Boarding School, a correctional facility for troublesome students. You've just recently been enrolled, and you're not exactly eager to see your new temporary home. Despite what you thought, it's built on a beautiful campus with a lake, forest, and even a mountain or two. Plus, the teachers are all stuffed shirts, and it'll be great fun playing pranks on them.

One night, you are out exploring the woods because you've heard a rumor about the existence of a gigantic hollow tree, which would be ideal for storing items that would otherwise be confiscated, and for lying low when the heat's up. After a few hours of searching, without any success, you begin back in the direction of the school. However, before you can leave the forest, you are greeted with a strange sight.

The first four students that arrive at the wooded glade are greeted by the sight of four beautiful people in strange clothing, hunched over on the ground. They appear to be fatally wounded, but despite the profuse amounts of blood, they are strangely calm. You make eye contact with one of them for what seems like an eternity, then there is a bright flash of light, and they are gone. You hurry back to the dormitories, not sure what you've just witnessed.

The second group, having seen the bright flash, arrives at the same spot a few minutes later. There is nothing there now, but for a few spots of blood on the grass. However, you get an ominous feeling, and the glade seems darker than the rest of the forest. You rush back to the school, anxious to get back indoors, where it's safe.

The next day, you awaken to find that all is not as it should be. You've changed and quite drastically. If you were one of the students to see the Elves, then you've become the one whom you made eye contact with. If you were one of the ones to show up afterward, then your body, while still human, is noticably demonic in nature.

As you go through your school day, the teachers accept your story that you are a late arrival to the school, but insist that you get registered at the office and acquire a copy of your scheduale. Eventually, one by one, you find that there are triggers that cause you to transform between your normal self, and the wholly new one.

In your dreams that night, you are contacted by either the elve or demon whose appearence you've taken on. They tell you that they are from another realm called Arudynae, and are seeking a sacred artifact that lies in the school, so that they may use it either to destroy the portal between the two worlds or open it up as wide as can be. It appears that you've become their vessel, as they're too weak to be able to use bodies of their own. Instead they guide you, telling you how to summon and use your new powers. They also tell you that there are enemies in the school, and that it is your job to stop them before they can get the artifact.

And so you embark on a quest to keep up with your dual set of classes, ensure that the teachers and students don't notice that you're really two people, and save/destroy the world. Hey, no one said High School was easy.

Ok. Right off the bat, I want to say that, unless you are going to be commited to this RPG, don't post/reserve. By committed, I mean that you'll be able to, and actually will post once a week, bare minimum. Even if it's a tiddler of an RPG post, just put something out. I'll accept absences involving a lack of Interweb access, but for Chrissake, tell me beforehand. If your excuse is of the "Too... much... work..." variety, tough. Throw a post together in your spare moments.

Now, with that out of the way, let me say that this is a pretty free form RPG. It's supposed to be a comedy, so unlikely plot twists are all right, and even encouraged, as long as they don't outright contradict the game's world. You can be as outlandish as you like.


Pure Powers (Elve Only):
Light - The ability to manipulate, well, light. Also involved in healing, it's a power that can help to rejuvinate people emotionally: Katherine Tenko (VirtualPlay)

Wind - Control over the air itself. Be imaginative: Drew Ruehide (Krystalline Kabutops)

Water - Since water is a component of pretty much every living thing, the ability to control it can come in handy: Nixie Tempest (Asilynne)

Plants - Probably the most versatile Pure Power, you can do almost anything with plants, ranging from offensive to defensive: Mashio Kouhei (EngiMatikul)


Tainted Powers (Demon Only):
Darkness - The opposite of light. Involves poisons and negative emotions: Kyrie McKraye (Bulbasaur4)

Earth - This is almost as versatile as plants, except that rocks generally can't heal you: Naomi Wildfire (classy_cat18)

Fire - The most destructive power. Play with fire, and you're bound to get burned: Maura Banks (Nabooru23)

Animals - Complete control over animals. Use them as spies, minions, whatever: Arcadia DeVille (Tokyo Magnum)



My characters!

Student
~Name: Drew Ruehide
~Gender: Male
~Age: 17
~Appearence: Drew is five foot nine, with a thin, lanky build that indicates his gymnastic ability. His hair is dyed black, with flecks of brown showing through a few areas, and extends down just past his ears. His eyes are a light shade of gray, and have perpetual shadows under them. He's very pale, and no matter how much time he spends out in the sun, he can never get a tan or, failing that, even a sunburn. He wears sandals and black-and-red cargo shorts, of the baggy sort that extend down past the knees and have more pockets than you can count using all your fingers and toes. For a shirt, he wears a white, long-sleeved one under a black, short-sleeved shirt covered with macbre imagery (Skulls, entrails, large amounts of blood). To finish it off, he wears a black scarve on his head, leaving only his bangs poking out.
~Personality: Drew is what most people would call a freak. He's sometimes melancholy and moping, but usually lively and smartassed. Everyone's a target for a joke (And anyone but his friends is a fair prank target, too), and his antics get him in trouble a fair amount of the time. Highly nonsensical at first glance, he's always plotting. However, in his transformed state, he's very vulnerable. He's not used to possessing a female body, and so has no idea when someone's taking advantage of his ignorance. He's very prone to mood swings as Evalynne.
~Relationships: Drew is friends with Maura, because they share the same look (And because Maura's the only person who can get Drew to be serious).
~Normal to Power Trigger: Drew gains Evalynne's body whenever he yawns, which is a lot, seeing that he doesn't think too highly of education.
~Power to Normal Trigger: Drew changes back to himself when someone yanks out one of the long, purple hairs that Evalynne possesses.
~Word: Canberra (Austrailian capital :3)
~Other: His favorite country's Australia, because of all the deadly little beasties that live there. He's also good at using various accents.

Elve/Demon
~Name: Evalynne "Brown" (The last name is what Drew adds when he's in her form during the school day)
~Race: Elve
~Apparent Age: 17
~Gender: Female
~Appearence: Like this when she's in battle, but during the normal school day she wears her hair with a black scrunchie such that it all comes together at the back of her head, giving her a long pony-tail that, for some people at least, is irresistable to tug on. It's a style that (somehow) manages to hide the points of her ears (which are both pierced at the earlobe). As to her clothes, she wears a typical school-girl uniform during the day, with a blue pleated skirt that comes down to her mid-thigh, and a tight, white, button-up, collared, short-sleeve shirt with a lavender tie. Oh yes, and she wears those black dress shoes that most schoolgirls wear as well.
HOWEVER, once she (finally) procures a pass to wear whatever the hell she wants (If you're not wearing some sort of school uniform, you need one of these), her attire changes dramatically. She swaps her button-up shirt and tie for a black halter-top (It's tight too... she can't find any shirts that aren't xX; ) with Invader Zim on the front. In place of her blue skirt she has black, ripped-and-repaired capris, and to replace her dress shoes she has black platform boots (No, not the sixties kind, the kind that you can find at Hot Topic!). She even puts her hair down (Although she uses a special pair of earrings to keep her eartips in her hair).
~Personality: She's very wise, but has no patience with Drew, and his lamentations about now having to attend dance class. She is determined to get the Amulet of Altheaka before the demons do, so that she may finally seal the portal between the two worlds. Although she does have a soft side, she doesn't display it often, as she's constantly having to kick Drew into gear.
~Power: Wind
~Other: *Starts playing airball with other*


/>-Drew Ruehide-<\

It had not been a very productive day for me. Sundays aren't generally productive for anyone, including me, but today had been a real waste. Right after breakfast, I had filled my spare pack with food and ill-gotten goods, and managed to convince Maura to come with me into the woods to find a tree I had heard rumors about. It wasn't any ordinary tree, but a tree of enourmous proportions, and it was supposed to be hollow.

We'd searched through lunch, and well into the evening, but to no avail. Having split up a couple of hours ago, we had agreed to meet back at the castle once the sun set. It was only a half-hour before it was to set at the moment, and I was willing to bet that Maura was already back at school.

I sighed as I trudged through the semidarkness, wishing I hadn't eaten all my snacks at noon. Pulling my pack off my shoulder frustratedly, I rummaged through it again, but didn't find anything new. Some shoes, a well-sealed bag of itching powder, fake vomit, a flashlight, and dozens of other prank items were nside, but nothing edible was to be had (excluding a few items that you could eat, but would regret shortly thereafter).

Slinging the pack back on my shoulder, I set off through the forest again, in the direction that the school's lights were very barely emanating from. At least, that's what I thought they were as I worked my way through the close-knit trees, until I abruptly entered a clearing and saw their real source.

In the center of the glade (It was rather spacious) were four people. They were kneeling on the ground, each holding a lamp in one of their hands, which I guessed was the source of the light. They were wearing the strangest clothes I had ever seen, and as I looked I realized that they were covered in blood. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that the people themselves were the source of all the gore.

Strangely though, they didn't look like they were too scared. In fact, it seemed that they didn't have the faintest idea that they were bloodier than the second World War. As I stared at them, transfixed, my eyes slid to one in particular. She was tall, had long purple hair, pointed ears (o_O; ), and was perhaps the most gratuitously dressed female that I had ever seen in the flesh (With a body to match!). As I stood there, drinking her in, her head turned and our eyes met.

It couldn't have been for more than a second that we held each other's gaze, but it felt like days. I wasn't sure what she could read in my eyes, but I could discern a few emotions in hers. Hope. Reluctance. Skepticism. And just the tiniest hint of fear.

However long it was that she held my gaze, our reading of each other abruptly halted as a pure white light filled the area. There wasn't any sound to accompany it, just a sudden burst of luminescence. I believe that the people who witnessed the dropping of the first atomic bomb must have had a similar view.

After what I guessed to be a minute, my vision was completely back. What I saw was not what I had expected. Where the girl and the others had been, there was nothing but a lot of bloody grass. With a start, I realized that I wasn't the only one to have witnessed the strange occurence.

Around the perimeter of the clearing were a scattering of other people, all of whom I knew from class. Mashio Kouhei, the preteen claiming to be sixteen, was a ways to my right, still rubbing his eyes. Across from me were a pair of girls, Nixie Tempest and Katherine Tenko. Nixie, I knew, was blind, so I was a little uneasy to realize that she too was staring at the spot where the four bloody people had been. Katherine looked a bit confused at what she had just saw.

I gave out a forced chuckle, causing them all to turn to me. "Did... Did you guys see that too? I'm not hallucinating blood-drenched cosplayers from World of Warcraft, right?" Mash (My nickname for him) nodded. "Affirmative. I saw them too, although I'm not exactly sure WHAT they were." Kat and Nix (More nicknames - the more the person they apply to dislikes them, the better) also nodded, but neither said anything.

I felt kind of awkward with the silence that followed, and made a hasty exit of the clearing. Mash was just a nerd to me, but Kat and Nix... Something about them deeply unnerved me. They'd been doing that to me ever since the start of school a week ago. I couldn't put my finger on why Kat spooked me, but Nix probably did it because she was blind. It was always hard for me to feel comfortable around disabled people, because I never knew how to act. Thankfully, she didn't insist on much interaction between herself and anyone besides Kat.

Putting all these thoughts to the back of my head, I set to work on finding my way back to school. It took me about a half-hour, and cut me up like a slab of chicken breast, but the forest finally relinquished me onto the school grounds. To my irritation, the mess hall was closed and dinner was over. I retired to my room, throwing my pack in a corner and flopping down on my bed. I gave a little smirk, thinking how lucky I was to have my own room. The guys, for the most part, had individual rooms, but I'd heard that so many girls had been sent to the school that a good two-thirds had to share rooms. Maura wasn't one of them, which I was very happy about, as I liked to spend my afternoons studying in her room. It was very well-decorated, filled with dark imagery, and it stayed cool during the school day due to the fact that the cafeteria's jumbo freezers were just on the other side of her wall.

Yawning, I pulled a book and my iPod Shuffle off of the nearby shelf, and began to read as I listened to Green Day and Linkin Park. Before long, I was snoring loudly, my mouth agape and my Shuffle and book lying on the floor by my bed. I needed all the rest I could get, because even though I didn't know it, tommorrow was going to be a busy day.