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The Lab:

A Crow and Unicorn Production

Intro:
It’s cold, cold and dark, and your memories are fuzzy. How did you get here? Why would you fall asleep on what feels like a table? Why...

Why can’t you move? You try to tug your arms free from the restraints and notice you can’t move your legs either. You bite the inside of your cheek, hard, since you can’t pinch yourself, but this is no dream. Suddenly there are bright lights and dark figures. You can’t make out faces, just shapes, and you can barely keep your eyes open with the blinding light shining right at you. You feel a pinprick in your arm and the world goes fuzzy, and then completely black.

You wake up once more in the dark and the cold, but this time you can move. You clutch your head and blink, trying to make out anything, and you see in front of you the bars of the cage. Your body feels strange and you realize what happened. They changed you. Whatever you were before, you are their experiment now, and you want out.

World Info: (probably to be continued)
You are all teenagers and children, no younger than 6 and no older than 18, who have been kidnapped by a shady organization, one who’s name they keep confidential from you, to be test subjects in experiments. You have either been made part animal or part machine (that’s your choice, try not to be absurd with your traits). The transition is not perfect, and there have been test subjects before you killed by the changes. This time they have a better handle on things and you came out able to survive. You are kept in cages and the scientists perform various tests. You aren’t told what they are testing for or why they did this. To them you are no longer a person.

RULES
1) Crow and Snowpelt are the moderators, what we say goes, we promise not to be too harsh
2) No godmodding or metagaming
2a) godmodding is controlling another player’s character in order to have a better outcome. For example “My character punches your character so hard and fast that they can’t dodge, and your character is knocked out on the floor.”
2b) metagaming is having your character use (to their advantage) information that you, the player, learned out of rp, and that your character did not learn. for example knowing which way to turn to get out of a maze because you read what another player did to escape, but your character wasn’t there.
3) You must be able to roleplay in complete sentences. One word posts will not suffice. You should be aiming for a paragraph or so, but at least one full sentence is required
4) to prove that you’ve read the rules, in the “anything else you want to say?” category somewhere add the word syzygy (it means an alignment of the planets or other celestial bodies. It’s Crow’s favorite word) Once your character sheet has been put up on the post after this, please edit out the word so people don't cheat c:
5) Keep out of character (OOC) chatter to a minimum. If you have to say something ooc in the thread (for instance to clarify what happens when your character does something, ask a question, or for any number of other reasons) please use either OOC: what you wanted to say, or ((what you wanted to say))
6) Everyone is allowed in the roleplay, but if you intentionally and repeatedly break rules, we will kick you out. This goes especially for godmodding and metagaming.
7) We're going to limit everyone to one character for now. Later on we may bend this rule, but this is going to be a pretty in depth roleplay with lots of room for character development, so please take the energy you would have put into those extra characters and instead make your single one more real and more in depth.
8) Have fun! This is going to be great!

Character sheets:


Name:
Username:
Age:
Gender:
Experiment number (must be 7 digits):
Type of Experiment (animal or technological):
Description of changes due to experiment:
Character’s Appearance(or a picture):
Description of Personality:
What is your character good at:
What are some faults and fears:
Example paragraph (Basically show us how you rp, you can also make that your introduction upon waking up in the cage room):
Anything else you want to say?:

Rules for new Characters:
1) The experiment number must be higher than all previous ones (the current highest number is 3113459)
2) They must be a new arrival
3) they should probably be a more functional experiment
4) we will only be accepting tech experiments, due to imbalances with the numbers.

(If you want to play as a scientist or one of the lab people you’re going to have to ask specifically, though I doubt we’ll say no! ))

Character Sheets
Name: Matthias, responds to Matt
Username: Crow
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Experiment number (must be 7 digits): 0000251
Type of Experiment (animal or technological): animal
Description of changes due to experiment: He has the wings of a crow, as well as a much lighter bone structure. Too light in fact, because just about anything can cause him to break a bone. His fingernails and toenails grow differently now, and look more like talons than anything else. He can no longer wear shoes comfortably because of this. The skin of his lower arms and legs is scaly and rough, similar to a bird’s feet. His skin and hair (originally pale and brown respectively) have darkened considerably. His skin has a strange gray tint to it and his hair is jet black.
Character’s Appearance(or a picture): He is 5’8” and very slim, looking almost starved and very bony. His skin has a deep gray cast to it, making him look inhuman. His hair is matte black and has a very soft texture. It reaches a little past his shoulders and looks bedraggled and unwashed. His eyes are a deep desaturated blue, somewhat dark.
Description of Personality: Matt started out in the lab with one of the first batches of kids. Most of the people he knew from when he was caught have already died. He started out optimistic, but as time went on, as people grew unstable and their animal parts shriveled and died, as the others were subject to painful tests that would leave corpses by the end he hardened. He closed himself off from the world, becoming more unwilling to form attachments to people who would only die. He considers himself lucky to have been one of the best working animal test subjects, considering he’s still alive, but he’s frail and weak and he’s drawn into himself because he has nowhere else to go.
What is your character good at: In all the tests he’s gone through, he’s gotten very observant. He’s very good at figuring out what the test is for, and giving all the right or wrong answers. He’s a survivor. He has also gotten if not skilled, at least adept at flying. He gets taken out to fly in very larged, but still closed in spaces, and he’s allowed free time to fly every so often. He knows that what they’re really doing it yet another test, but he doesn’t mind all that much.
What are some faults and fears: He’s so closed off that he doesn’t even try to make friends with the new kids anymore. He’s even more scared of the day when the scientists decide they’ve gotten enough data from him. He doesn’t know what happens to people they’ve finished with, but he’s sure it happens. Because he is an earlier experiment, his body is less stable than it should be. He is very weak and susceptible to diseases. If he doesn't get fed enough he's likely to pass out. He is also mildly claustrophobic, but only when he’s with people he doesn’t trust. He’s okay alone in his cage, but not in a small room with a scientist. He has long since given up on escaping.
Example paragraph (Basically show us how you rp, you can also make that your introduction upon waking up in the cage room): Matt stays quiet as he’s led (nearly carried) with a lab technician on either side of him, back to his cage. He grunts as he’s thrown back inside and the door is slammed, and responds, “You really don’t have to act like I’ll run off every time, I’ve been here for years is it really too much to ask for less bruising on the return to the cage?” He’s annoyed and slouches in the back of the cage, leaning up against the cold metal and wondering what time it is and whether it’s close to feeding time. That experiment was a long one and he wasn’t allowed to eat beforehand because they also had to draw blood, and he feels like he could eat a horse right about now. He kicks the side of his cage, where the next one starts, and calls, “Hey, you awake?”
Anything else you want to say?:

Name: Sarah (Last name unknown)
Username: xSnowpeltx
Age: 14 (though she doesn’t know that)
Gender: Female
Experiment number (must be 7 digits): 0000127
Type of Experiment (animal or technological): Tech
Description of changes due to experiment: Her right arm and left leg (from mid upper arm and mid thigh) are mechanical, but very roughly so, formed of metal rods and chains and pulleys. As a more recent experiment, her left eye is mechanical, working as a small camera that connects to her brain.
Character’s Appearance(or a picture): She has straight brown hair that is messy and tangled. Her one eye is brown as well, and her skin is so pale it looks sickly. She is gangly and stick thin, and wears a threadbare t-shirt and pants, both gray.
Description of Personality: She is very obsessed with order, and making things as fair as possible within the lab. She’s self-conscious and has self-esteem problems. She’s generally fairly quiet, trying not to draw attention to herself but instead affect things indirectly.
What is your character good at: She likes to tinker when she can smuggle parts from the labs, and has managed to make a few devices, though most of those have been confiscated. She’s very smart
What are some faults and fears: She is afraid of never getting out of the lab. She is not strong physically, and can’t stand up for herself very well, whether against scientists or other experiments. She’s afraid of dying.
Example paragraph (Basically show us how you rp, you can also make that your introduction upon waking up in the cage room): Every night it was the same dream. She was just six years old, waking up in a room tied to a table. She heard voices. “Are you sure this is going to work? Shouldn’t we perfect more simple changes before trying to imitate something as complex as the-“ “Shut up. It’s awake.” She was scared. She didn’t know why, though, and she didn’t understand what was happening. One of those voices sounded familiar to her, but a needle was now entering her arm, and she fell asleep once more. When she woke up, without waking from the dream, and found her arm and leg and eye replaced with cold metal, blending abruptly with her warm skin, she screamed. She woke up, for real this time, no longer six, she sat up slowly, wishing that it could all just be a dream.
Anything else you want to say?:

Name: Max
Username: Waterheart
Age: 15
Gender: female
Experiment number (must be 7 digits): 0000989
Type of Experiment (animal or technological): Technological
Description of changes due to experiment: (her design is steam punk like) she has large machanical wings that hurt to move and a metal mask around her eyes. She also has a mechanical tail with a barb at the end
Character’s Appearance(or a picture): She has medium brown hair and bright green eyes. she's very pale from lack of sun and rather thin.
Description of Personality: She's very protective of the people she cares about but seeing as this has gotten her and others in trouble she is also rather unfriendly.
What is your character good at: She's rather good at fighting not that it ever dose her any good
What are some faults and fears: She's terrified of large spaces and afraid of sleeping.
Example paragraph (Basically show us how you rp, you can also make that your introduction upon waking up in the cage room):
When she woke that first day Max blinked and glanced around. "where am I" she hissed quietly to herself before trying to sit up. Pain shot through her back and she gasped. She glanced behind her at the two metal wings sprouting from the space bellow her shoulders.
Anything else you want to say? She doesn't remember anything before waking up in the lab

Name: Zigmas, will respond to Ziggy, Zig, or Zig-Zag
Username: Tigrrrlily2000
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Experiment number (must be 7 digits): 1648329
Type of Experiment (animal or technological): Animal (Snow leopard)
Description of changes due to experiment: He's developed a 2-foot long-haired tail with white-ish fur and dark grey rosettes, still growing quite a bit each day, as well as his ears migrating up his head to rest more on top of it than on the sides. They've also become more pointed and larger, and are coated in a fine layer of fluff that lengthens bit by bit to resemble feline ears. His already pale skin is getting paler, the roots of his hair are turning the same colors as his tail, and his multitude of freckles are faded, but still visible. His teeth and nails are sharpening, as are his senses, and his digestive system can only handle meat with barely anything else.
Character’s Appearance(or a picture): Zigmas is just under 6'0", with curly bright orange/red hair and hazel-green eyes with dark bags under them. He's skinny, but not extraordinarily so, but lacks that 'healthy glow' all people are supposed to have. This is partially due to how pale his skin has become, but also attributed to the way he (And obviously the others) has been treated by the scientists. He wears blue/silver wire-frame glasses, an old blue t-shirt, and loose, slightly torn dark jeans.
Description of Personality: He has always been wary of others, and and is slow to really trust others. He does talk to the others, but only for the sake of having something to do. As one of the slightly newer experiments, Zigmas hasn't yet lost his will to live as some of the older experiments has, but he doesn't struggle to escape as he's already decided that any effort to do so would be futile.
What is your character good at: Zigmas is excellent at climbing and figuring out puzzles. He loves to sing, but doesn't do so often as he doesn't wish to be punished by the scientists for it. He does, however, hum almost inaudibly to himself quite a bit. He also has a very high tolerance to cold and high altitudes.
What are some faults and fears: Zig suffers from moderate aphenphosmphobia, a fear of being touched. He hates physical contact, and flinches away from it. He's not very good at physical feats other than climbing. As he was suffering from depression, anxiety, and mild insomnia before he became an experiment, he does experience the occasional panic attack, and has been put onto a rather significant dose of depression medication by the scientists, which he takes once a day.
Example paragraph (Basically show us how you rp, you can also make that your introduction upon waking up in the cage room): In one of the numerous cages, a tall figure lays sprawled on the bottom of his cage, eyes closed and limbs stretched out haphazardly. Though he appears asleep, the boy has been awake for far longer than he wished. Eyes that could only be described as brown-green snapped open and stared at the ceiling blankly. "I don't get why they keep me. Sure, I guess I've adapted well enough to this whole mess, but I'm not exactly the most stable being here." He grumbled to himself, huffing out a deep sigh. Sitting up, Zig looked around at the others he could see. "So...What's up?" He asked boredly with a yawn. "Anyone new? Anything particularly interesting going on? Don't really see why there would..." He mumbled the last part softly.
Anything else you want to say?: I prefer the term antonomasia (when a trademark is used as a generic term, for example, Kleenex being used to refer to all tissues) or anopisthograph (something with writing only on one side).

Name: Rio (Last name unknown) known as Jacket to the other experiments
Username: Zeo
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Experiment number (must be 7 digits): 0127563
Type of Experiment (animal or technological): Animal
Description of changes due to experiment: He has fur over most of his body except for the mid section of the front of his body, and his face which has fox like features still resembles that of a regular person. He's ears have changed from human ears to point fox ears that now now rest near the top of his head covered by his unaturally white hair. He has white fur on most of his body except for the black fur on his arms and legs as well as the black stripes on his new bushy fox tail. He also has a black mark on his face that goes around his now silver eyes. The palms of his his hands, and the soles of his fox like feet are now padded, and have long sharp nails on them.
Character’s Appearance(or a picture): He looks like anthro(Zolnixi) fox wearing torn black jeans, and a red shirt under a special black straight jacket made specifically to hold him.
Description of Personality: He's does trust anyone, and appears to be a cold hearted savage who'll attack anyone who'll attack anyone near him. However that's not who his really is it's just who he became after the scientist changed him when he was a child using Dna from his beloved fox cub who this dissected to extract specific genes. The experience broke him, and made something inside him snap turning him into a the monster that everyone knows him as in the lab.
What is your character good at: He's a clever escape artist which is another reason for the straight jacket that has to wear. He's a great fighter, and knows how to ration his food so that he doesn't become weak like the others.
What are some faults and fears: He's broken, and afraid to let anyone get close so he pushes everyone away. He is impulsive sometimes letting his emotions get the best of him often resulting in fight with other experiments. He is hated, and untrusted by the others because his out of control behavior. There is even a rumor going around that he slaughtered his cellmate.
Example paragraph (Basically show us how you rp, you can also make that your introduction upon waking up in the cage room): "Huh what going on where am I," asked an afraid, and confused Rio waking up from a drug induced sleep. He tried to get up, but fell flat on his face hitting the cold hard floor with a loud THUMP. "What happ...Aaahhh...what happened to me?" he asked in a panicked voice as he got a look at his new fur covered legs attached to fox like feet. A strange man in a white lab coat came over to him, and said, "You've been reborn with some help from you little friend..."
Anything else you want to say?: He was an orphan

Name: Shanali (can go by Sha or Li)
Username: domby
Age: 16
Gender: female
Experiment number (must be 7 digits): 0000183
Type of Experiment (animal or technological): animal
Description of changes due to experiment:
Shanali is covered in a fine layer of white fur. Her skin, much like that of a polar bear, is black (no, not brown, black as pitch). She has a small stub of a tail, but that is rarely seen.
Character’s Appearance(or a picture): Shanali is tall, reaching 5'11 when she stretches to her full height (which is rare, because she is accustomed to slouching), and incredibly skinny, with a concave stomach and boney body. Her eyes are brown, with flecks of green, and are often slitted in anger. Her face is incredibly shrunken in, with hollowed cheeks and sunk in eyes. Her finger nails are ragged and worn from constant biting, and her hair billows around her head in an unkempt mass of greasy curls.
Description of Personality: Shanali is 75% anger and 25% protective. She hates the people that have locked her up and do experiments on her, but even more so she hates them for hurting her friends and the young ones that she wishes she could help. She cannot stomach screams of others pain, even as she handles the pain that is inflicted on her without wincing. She is the picture of stoicism, rarely revealing any of her emotions, except at night where she cries for the babies and toddlers she wants to help, but cannot. Arrogant, but not self centered, Shanali tends to prefer the company of the little ones while avoiding those her own age (particularly those of the opposite sex).
What is your character good at: tending to young ones, being protective, being angry
What are some faults and fears: She is terrified that her friends will die. Her anger often goes out of control. She can be reclusive when she is forced to deal with huge numbers of people.
Example paragraph: She could kill for a bath. No, honestly. She reeked. Her hair was greasy and frizzy and out of control, her skin felt like it was caked with dirt and grime. She longed to shower off the uncleanliness, just as she longed to escape this hell. She would trade freedom for a bath, if she had it. That was how badly she wanted a bath. Since she couldn't have a bath, however, she sat up and reclined against the cool bars of her cage.

"Once upon a time," she whispered to herself, "there was a girl who didn't listen to her parents and went walking around the city at night. Once upon a time..." she trailed off. Oh god, were those footsteps? She held her breath, praying that they walked past her, praying that they didn't. She heard them stop at the cage next to her, heard them pull a shrieking 7-year-old out of a cage, heard them carry her away. Then the screams.

Tears streamed down her face as she uselessly gripped the bars, wishing she could escape.
Anything else you want to say?:

Name: Max
Username: Waterheart
Age: 15
Gender: female
Experiment number (must be 7 digits): 0000989
Type of Experiment (animal or technological): Technological
Description of changes due to experiment: (her design is steam punk like) she has large machanical wings that hurt to move and a metal mask around her eyes. She also has a mechanical tail with a barb at the end
Character’s Appearance(or a picture): She has medium brown hair and bright green eyes. she's very pail from lack of sun and rather thin.
Description of Personality: She's very protective of the people she cares about but seeing as this has gotten her and others in trouble she is also rather unfriendly.
What is your character good at: She's rather good at fighting not that it ever dose her any good
What are some faults and fears: She's terrified of large spaces and afraid of sleeping.
Example paragraph (Basically show us how you rp, you can also make that your introduction upon waking up in the cage room):
When she woke that first day Max blinked and glanced around. "where am I" she hissed quietly to herself before trying to sit up. Pain shot through her back and she gasped. She glanced behind her at the two metal wings sprouting from the space bellow her shoulders.
Anything else you want to say? She doesn't remember anything before waking up in the lab

You're accepted!

Okay thank you

Name: Zigmas, will respond to Ziggy, Zig, or Zig-Zag
Username: Tigrrrlily2000
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Experiment number (must be 7 digits): 1648329
Type of Experiment (animal or technological): Animal (Snow leopard)
Description of changes due to experiment: He's developed a 2-foot long-haired tail with white-ish fur and dark grey rosettes, still growing quite a bit each day, as well as his ears migrating up his head to rest more on top of it than on the sides. They've also become more pointed and larger, and are coated in a fine layer of fluff that lengthens bit by bit to resemble feline ears. His already pale skin is getting paler, the roots of his hair are turning the same colors as his tail, and his multitude of freckles are faded, but still visible. His teeth and nails are sharpening, as are his senses, and his digestive system can only handle meat with barely anything else.
Character’s Appearance(or a picture): Zigmas is just under 6'0", with curly bright orange/red hair and hazel-green eyes with dark bags under them. He's skinny, but not extraordinarily so, but lacks that 'healthy glow' all people are supposed to have. This is partially due to how pale his skin has become, but also attributed to the way he (And obviously the others) has been treated by the scientists. He wears blue/silver wire-frame glasses, an old blue t-shirt, and loose, slightly torn dark jeans.
Description of Personality: He has always been wary of others, and and is slow to really trust others. He does talk to the others, but only for the sake of having something to do. As one of the slightly newer experiments, Zigmas hasn't yet lost his will to live as some of the older experiments has, but he doesn't struggle to escape as he's already decided that any effort to do so would be futile.
What is your character good at: Zigmas is excellent at climbing and figuring out puzzles. He loves to sing, but doesn't do so often as he doesn't wish to be punished by the scientists for it. He does, however, hum almost inaudibly to himself quite a bit. He also has a very high tolerance to cold and high altitudes.
What are some faults and fears: Zig suffers from moderate aphenphosmphobia, a fear of being touched. He hates physical contact, and flinches away from it. He's not very good at physical feats other than climbing. As he was suffering from depression, anxiety, and mild insomnia before he became an experiment, he does experience the occasional panic attack, and has been put onto a rather significant dose of depression medication by the scientists, which he takes once a day.
Example paragraph (Basically show us how you rp, you can also make that your introduction upon waking up in the cage room): In one of the numerous cages, a tall figure lays sprawled on the bottom of his cage, eyes closed and limbs stretched out haphazardly. Though he appears asleep, the boy has been awake for far longer than he wished. Eyes that could only be described as brown-green snapped open and stared at the ceiling blankly. "I don't get why they keep me. Sure, I guess I've adapted well enough to this whole mess, but I'm not exactly the most stable being here." He grumbled to himself, huffing out a deep sigh. Sitting up, Zig looked around at the others he could see. "So...What's up?" He asked boredly with a yawn. "Anyone new? Anything particularly interesting going on? Don't really see why there would..." He mumbled the last part softly.
Anything else you want to say?: Well, I must say, syzygy is a rather interesting word~ I prefer the term antonomasia (when a trademark is used as a generic term, for example, Kleenex being used to refer to all tissues) or anopisthograph (something with writing only on one side).

((Sorry it's so long...))

It's fine! You're accepted.

Name: Rio (Last name unknown) known as Jacket to the other experiments
Username: Zeo
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Experiment number (must be 7 digits): 0127563
Type of Experiment (animal or technological): Animal
Description of changes due to experiment: He has fur over most of his body except for the mid section of the front of his body, and his face which has fox like features still resembles that of a regular person. He's ears have changed from human ears to point fox ears that now now rest near the top of his head covered by his unaturally white hair. He has white fur on most of his body except for the black fur on his arms and legs as well as the black stripes on his new bushy fox tail. He also has a black mark on his face that goes around his now silver eyes. The palms of his his hands, and the soles of his fox like feet are now padded, and have long sharp nails on them.
Character’s Appearance(or a picture): He looks like anthro(Zolnixi) fox wearing torn black jeans, and a red shirt as well as a black jacket that he made out of an old straight jacket before he was captured. (He left some of the straps on, and had a friend help him make it look more like a regular jacket.
Description of Personality: Jacket is a wild, and rebellious trouble maker who was always causing trouble for others. He'd get into fights, pull pranks on people, and with the help of his little fox cub(bandit) swiped some cash from gullible suckers who had to help a poor homeless little fox cub. Even though he seemed like a bad guy on the outside he was really kind, and caring guy who tried to help out other orphaned children, and animals when he could. However that all changed when he once he captured, and mutated by the scientist. He is now cold, and hardened appearing only to care about his self, and finding away out of the lab. He now spends quietly sitting in his cage waiting for his next test to begin. Doing what ever the scientist say only because it's the only time that he can get a chance to look around, and hopefully find a way out.
What is your character good at: He's a good fighter, and know has had some experience in picking locks well the locks at the pound at least. Since sometimes things didn't quite go the way that he wanted them to with his pick pocketing routine (long story short bandit got caught).
What are some faults and fears: He afraid to get close to anyone since he doesn't want to get hurt again. Losing one friend was enough for him. He's still haunted by what happened the day he was mutated, and freaks out when ever sees even tiniest drop of blood. He can't stand high pitch noise like the ones cause by dog whistles.
Example paragraph (Basically show us how you rp, you can also make that your introduction upon waking up in the cage room): "Huh what going on where am I," asked an afraid, and confused Rio waking up from a drug induced sleep. He tried to get up, but fell flat on his face hitting the cold hard floor with a loud THUMP. "What happ...Aaahhh...what happened to me?" he asked in a panicked voice as he got a look at his new fur covered legs attached to fox like feet. A strange man in a white lab coat came over to him, and said, "You've been reborn with some help from you little friend..."
Anything else you want to say?: . ()