Masquerade Inc. Applications

[Funny Valentine [Silentgod]]

Please input the following info into your character apps. Please note it will be possible to die in this game and due to short length, you will be unable to reapply as another character. So make your decision wisely.

Your character’s name

An image of your character

A short backstory detailing who your character is and why they joined Masquerade Inc.

Your character’s faction

Choose up to 3 activities your character undergoes before joining Masquerade Inc.

Activities (you may choose the same activity multiple times)

Physical Training (improves base stats)

Skill Training (grants a unique passive or active skill)

Trading (grants a large sum of money)

Treasure Hunting (grants a unique item)

Magic Use (grants the ability to use magic from the start of the game, but if you choose this activity you cannot choose any other activities)

Factions: Just as in Tower, you can choose from a variety of factions or choose to be a normal Demon Hunter. You get great benefits from choosing one of the following but will suffer drawbacks. Demons are also more likely to attack you since you are more of a threat. Others in the world of Masquerade Inc. may also try to manipulate you for their own ends depending on what faction you chose, so choose wisely.

Possessed Humans

Pros:
Extremely high stat growth
No skill restrictions
Extremely high magic resistance
Magic Use automatically unlocked

Cons:
Hated by everyone else due to their nature of demons taking over the body of a human.

Omega Samurai

Pros:
High physical stat growth
Omega Samurai Style Swordsmanship
Powerful Sword based skills

Cons:
Limited capabilities outside of sword based skills
Must follow the Omega code

Magicians

Pros:
Extremely high magic stat growth
Powerful magical skills
Magic Use automatically unlocked

Cons:
Must choose 1 type of magic, any magic skills outside of that type has their cost doubled

Vampires

Pros:
High Physical stat growth
Unique Vampire Skills
Magic Use Unlock

Cons:
Requires blood to survive
Sunlight negates all magical skills
Reviled by most humans

Werebeasts

Pros:
Extremely high physical stat growth
Special transformation skill
Able to communicate with animals

Cons:
Silver can deal double damage and are always fatal
Full moon forces transformation
Chance of blood lust if full moon or in transformed state too long

Hackers

Pros:
Extremely high proficiency with items and special equipment
Extremely high sensory capabilities
All-Seeing information network
Lightbearer stance automatically unlocked

Cons:
Low physical stat growth
Requires internet connection for all-seeing information network and to have access to specific items and skills
Has enemies from the Dark Web

Symbiosis

Pros:
Demon NPC, controllable separate
Able to fuse with demon, making an average of their combined stats (Add Human + Demons / 2)
While fused, will have access to both Human's and Demon's skills (and potentially powerful skills only available while fused)
Demon has very high stat growth
Accelerated Unlocking of Magic Use

Cons:
Demon NPC and Human will grow separately
Human will have weak physical stat growth from fusing with a Demon constantly
Human will need to maintain relationship with demon

Exorcists

Pros:
High overall stat growth
Psychic Mastery is automatically unlocked
The ability to see spirits and commune with the dead

Cons:
Other groups are suspicious of them due to the damage rogue exorcists have caused
Is more focused on purging/exorcism type abilities than any other psychic skill
Is especially targeted by demons

Psychics

Pros:
Psychic Mastery Unlocked
Unique telekinetic and mental skills
Can use 2 Psychic abilities per turn

Cons:
Limited physical capabilities
Low physical growth
Chance of being attacked on the Mental Plane

Awakened

Pros:
Extremely high physical stat growth
Powerful body modifications skills
High magic resistance

Cons:
Limited magical capabilities
Low magic stat growth
Modifying your body puts a massive strain on it, causing damage

Foundation Deserters

Pros:
High Physical Stat Growth
Granted 1 Special Item
Has hidden contacts
Specific knowledge of the Foundation

Cons:
Constantly hunted down by the Foundation for betraying them and to make sure they don't reveal their secrets

Contract Holders

Pros:
Extremely high overall stat growth
Extremely powerful skills
Extremely high magic resistance
Magic Use automatically unlocked

Cons:
Has special responsibilities for Masquerade Inc. and high expectations from them
Might be subject to special assassins and spies aiming to weaken Masquerade Inc.

Avatars

Pros:
Unworldly overall stat growth
Unworldly powerful skills
Unworldly resistance to magic
Magic Use automatically unlocked

Cons:
Beware he who tells stories…
Everything has consequences

[Satori]

Name: Alice Minerva

Backstory: Alice was orphaned as a child and raised in an orphanage. She had a terrible childhood as she was considered an outcast by the other children and was the target of constant bullying. Despite all the abuse, she tried to endure it. But then one fateful day, she discovered that she possessed terrifying psychic abilities and out of rage used her newfound abilities to drive all the children in the orphanage insane and made them kill each other. The caretaker tried to stop Alice but she was too powerful and was eventually made to kill themselves. Alice then soon collapsed and lost consciousness from having used up too much power. She was later found by a mysterious man named Psychic Sam who recognized her power and decided to teach her how to control her power and use it for good. Eventually, Alice was recruited into Masquerade Inc.

Faction: Psychic

Activities: Skill Training (3x)

[Zote]

Name: Walter

Backstory: A fisherman’s boy born and raised, Walter spent much of his early life on the waves with his father - where he was supposed to have learned the virtues of patience and tranquility. Unfortunately he ignored all of that.

On their final trip together, he and his father’s ships were attacked by a colossal, demonic Kraken. His father sacrificed himself to give Walter time to flee - but it was in vain, for the Kraken sunk Walter’s own ship soon after.
Of course, Walter was not content with dying in such a way. Under the water, the pressure beating against him, he wrestled the **** kraken with everything he had left, knocking himself out, but earning some fine bragging rights in the process. Eventually he washed up on the shores of an island and was found by some of the Omega Samurai Order, who treated his wounds and heard his story. Once they heard of his encounter with a Demon Kraken, they quickly ushered him into their ranks - much to his own satisfaction.

He technically doesn’t act how one from the Order is expected to - he’s brash for one, vulgar for another, and isn’t afraid to speak against his superiors - but all in all, he has potential, and the Omega Samurai realise this. Perhaps one day he’ll even find that damned Kraken again, and he’ll end it thus.

Class: Omega Samurai

Activities: Physical Training, Skill Training, Treasure Hunting

[Barrett Bear, esq.]

Name: Barron Haltman

Faction: Avatar

Backstory: A former child soldier, Barron was raised into the belief that only power and dominance mattered, and that if one did not pursue these things, they were not worth keeping alive. With a genius intellect, he led his platoon to victory against many paranormal foes before suffering a brutal defeat. Resurrected by unnatural forces and made to be a powerful slave, he rejected their mind control through force of will and joined Masquerade Inc. as a way to repent for his failure.

Activities: Skill x2, Physical

"The greatest weapon is one you never have to fire."

[Grug]

Name: Garrick Falgrim

Faction: Magician

Activities: Skill Training x2, Physical Training

Backstory: Originally believing himself to be proficient in Restoration magic, Garrick aspired to be a professional healer and dreamed of being able to heal nature itself. It was because of this dream he foolishly began experimentation on an elixir that he hoped could heal damage to nature. However, what he did not know was that his true proficiency was in Necromancy, which caused his experiment to backfire horribly, creating an aura that killed the environment around him, replacing it with death and decay.

Now while this itself could be worse and was ultimately one of the better possible outcomes of this incident, Garrick saw this failure as a slight from nature itself declaring him unfit to help repair it, as any 'insane' person would do, and decided he would exact vengeance upon nature for this and defile it through decay and corrupting the so called 'natural order' by utilising necromancy to raise the dead for his own "perfectly reasonable and sane" purposes.

It was because of this insane and idiotic perfectly reasonable goal he chose to join Masquerade Inc. in order to discover the more ancient and eldritch magics of the Necromantic arts for use in his "war against nature".

[Hans]

Name: Bronzodia, the Exiled Unforgiven Rogue Wuju Hunting Glorious Grand King of Shadows

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Backstory:

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{Spoiler}Bronzodia was "born" in a village of samurai ninjas with many eyes; however, his parents were killed by a demon. He was taken in and taught a windblade technique as well as ninjutsu. After spending years tracking down and capturing a masked serial killer obsessed with the number four, he grew angry at his master for sparing the murderer. However, at this time, a war started and his village was dragged into it. He learned the shadow arts and murdered his own master instead of defending him, and during the war, his sword was broken and many of his fellow soldiers were killed in a horrific chemical attack. After his treachery was discovered, the survivors from his village, including his brother, attempted to hunt him down as he wandered around in exile. However, they were not as unseen nor swift nor strong as his windblade, which in fact is the deadliest. Over his time wandering in exile, he became a farmer, hunted the darkness, taught a child soldier how to fight with a gardening instrument, taught a monkey the way of the blade, and taught a girl who wanted to fight a resurrected bird emperor how to throw rocks. However, the universe has begun to deny his very existence, which leads him to meet with the Masquerade.

Faction: Avatar

Activities: Skill; Physical; Treasure

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

(The Image was the smallest I could find of it, sorry)

Name: Lux Voltaire
Faction: Contract Holder
Backstory: Lux was the genius child who was raised in the Masquerade Inc., she doesn't know her parents or about her birth. All her memories as far as she can tell are to do with Masquerade Inc. She trained hard to become the best student she could be, and when she was finally old enough she was allowed her own contract. She's here to keep her "family" proud and is strengthening herself everyday. Short and Sweet Babyy
Activities: x2 Skill Training x1 Treasure Hunting

[King V]

Name: Hikariko Aosagi

Faction: Possessed Human

Activities: Skill Training, Treasure Hunting, Trading

Backstory: Aosagi used to live in a nice swamp in the demon world until other stronger demons started invading, destroying her home and killing her friends. Aosagi fended them off, but quickly realized she would be overwhelmed fighting by herself, so she sought help from Masquerade Inc. in exchange for assisting them with their growing demon problems.

However, because Aosagi is incredibly antisocial, it has taken her several decades to muster up the courage to ask for help, and she has not yet realized that the demons who attacked her home are most likely the same ones invading the human world at this very moment.

[Yamcha]

Name: Dio Brando (...Again)

Backstory: Dio has been somewhat infamous as a vampire. Dio is a narcissist, with his power helping to stroke his ego. However, not many people know why Dio acts like he does. Being a Vampire deters most people from talking to him, anyways. All that is known aside from his violence and narcissism is that a certain someone loosely related to him wants to hunt him down.

Class: Vampire

Activities: Skill Training (x2), Physical Training

[Karenina]

Name: Shiki Ryougi

Backstory: ? ? ?

Class: Exorcist

Activities: Skill Training (x3)

[Xaniks]

Name: Olna

Faction: Magician

Activities: Skill Training (3)

Backstory: In ancient times, Olna resided in a forest as a spirit of nature. A wandering magician befriended her, and she became his assistant as to dissuade him from using harmful magic on the wildlife. The mage developed a dangerous spell of primordial origin and, in his hunger for power, used it on himself, becoming a corrupting beast. He spared Olna, but not without inflicting a crippling injury to her leg, cursed to never recover.

In the following era she learned to use restoration magic and, upon hearing about them, sought to join Masquerade Inc. to assist in their mission to keep the earth safe.

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

Name: Midas

Backstory: Midas, a very wealthy vampire, was once just a very wealthy person. Luckily for him, after his conversion he found he was able to continue amassing his riches despite being a vampire and still sate his more unique needs. Of course, a wealthy vampire wasn't going to go unnoticed and he eventually was brought into the Masquerade due to his willingness to cooperate on the condition he could continue his self indulgent lifestyle. Lacking any desire to work under duress, he uses his extreme wealth to act as a support for the Masquerade. This method of operation, once enough years passed that his original life would have ended, led him to take on the fake name of Midas. A mild tithe to Lord Dracula and his immediate support services to the Masquerade now keep him on the good side of society, with the best blood money can buy, while he continues to sate his unending greed.
Faction: Vampire
Activities: Trading, Trading, and Trading.

[John Dark Souls]

Name: Naoya

Faction: Hacker

Activities: Treasure, Skill, Trading

Backstory: Genius programmer, nuff said. (Really though, I'll write up something good once I finish the game with Naoya route, don't wanna spoil myself going on wiki to copypaste descriptions)

[Snakeperson]

Name: Nahesa


Backstory: There's a funny similarity between a girl trying to prove something to her parents and a demon desiring to be the strongest.

Caitlin is a young human who was abused all her life. Her parents were convinced she would amount to nothing and they continued to physically and mentally break her over it all throughout her childhood. While they didn't fully manage to do that, they did leave a mark on her. She joined the Masquerade to prove them wrong but was quickly found to be too weak to do anything useful for the Masquerade. She had no experience, physical strength or anything. She left, upset by this result, but that is when she met a particularly interesting demon. A demon that was extremely power-hungry, beyond any other. A demon that was fighting to make even her own kind kneel before her. Caitlin was almost murdered in cold blood when she had a moment of clarity. She explained what the Masquerade was and what they did. However... a demon wouldn't just get in there that easily. Not by herself. So they made a deal, and named themselves "Nahesa".

Now they work together, albeit with different end goals. Caitlin is happy to be of use for once and she feels appreciated. Her demon is happily gaining strength, waiting for the moment everything is calm on the outside, so she can destroy everything within the Masquerade.
Faction: Symbiote- I mean Symbiosis
Activities: Physical, Skill, Treasure

[Ryobin Soluna]

Name: Enkidu
Faction: Awakened
Activities: Skill, Physical (2)
Backstory: Born from clay molded by the heavens, Enkidu was made to be a weapon of the gods. Through their experiences with humanity, the puppet assumed a soul very much like that of a human's. To protect the earth which formed them, Enkidu stands by Masquerade Inc.