Welcome to The Duality of Man, an original animanga role-play that features numerous supernatural creatures. Unfortunately, these various species have distanced themselves because of the war that occurred thousands of years ago, plaguing some with eyes that only see their dualism. While others meddle themself with their differences, two groups fight, each attempting to eliminate the other in for their definition of worldly peace. These two groups of the Terror Response Syndicate (TRS) and the Assembly of Phantoms (AP). With individuals fighting merely over their differences, it brings uncertainty to the outcome of this war.
We happily accept all role-players as long as they obey the rules and are capable of meeting our word count of 50. This does include those who are unfamiliar with this style of role-playing. The staff of The Duality of Man are willing to happily help those who are new to the role-playing world so they feel comfortable on site. Feel free to message the staff if you need help, they can be found here or in the site Discord and will gladly answer questions alongside calm concerns. If you have any suggestions we would love to hear them; guests may use the support board as a suggestion area as well. Should you decide to join, may I say welcome to the site and we all hope you enjoy your time here.
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Summer 2024
Heat has broken through into a glorious summer. The snow has entirely dried through the spring, leaving to the brilliance of the warmer months. Terror activity has risen as people are brought out of their homes, leaving the TRS in a position of consistent work. Each are attempting to maintain victory in the endless struggle for power.
Since the wonderful members of TDOM enjoy the site enough to play around on it, this thread is to assist with the site's tidying! Functionality is important and we want to make the site functional even if its activity will be minimal at best!
[attr="class","srptPost"] Nighttime murders. [break][break] Stephan hated hunting at night. He was NOT a night owl. If anything he was an early bird, though he considered himself a midday cockatrice. [break][break] But the guy he was after only REALLY hunted at night. There was some indication of dayitme activity, maybe, but the connection was not certain. [break][break] He also had another MO: he hunted criminals. So the guy was a vigilante. Kind of like Stephan was. [break][break] But with one big, crucial difference. [break][break] That ccrucial difference was why the local RCMP office had asked Stephan to handle this. To arrest this man. 'Doing the right things in all the wrong ways,' Stephan thought. [break][break] He wore his suit, the stars and stripe prominently displayed upon his body. His tri-band mask rested on his face, curled up so his mouth was entirely uncovered. He was eating a burger, double third pounder with chream cheese and peanut butter on a holeless bagel bun. [break][break] 'Where oh where could they be...' Stephan continued walking down the street. With so little to go on, he was more likely to pick up a random criminal than the person he was after.
Ah, the Starlight Beach. It was a beautiful place. Especially at night. On another evening, Adam might have been enjoying himself and partaking in the local cuisine, but this is not one of those nights. He was after some blood tonight. Dirty blood for a matter of fact. Fiona Valentine. A German-Canadian government official who had connections with criminal groups like the Assembly of Phantoms. The local authorities have tried investigating her, and even the Terror Response Syndicate had difficulties getting any proof of said connections. Well. While she may have eluded the authorities, she would not be able to elude Adam. He had descretly followed her during the day, and managed to get a hold of information incriminating Valentine, although he might have broken a few laws in doing so. After all, this woman was a respected member of the community.
Which leads to where Adam is now. Some of the info he obtained pointed to Valentine having a secret meeting with some rather shady folks at a condo by the Starlight Beach. She's sure to have guards with her at all times, but there's 95% chance that they are dirty as well. So, Adam is currently 1 kilometer away on the roof a building facing the condo where the mystery meeting is currently being held. He is in his female form, and currently wore black jeans, dark combat boots, a black t shirt, a dark blue hoodie, full gloves, and a ghost skull mask to cover most of his face. The weapon he is using for this operation is a Barette M82A1 .50 Caliber sniper rifle set to semi automatic with a scope and silencer. He brought his right eye to the scope and took aim. Instead of pulling the trigger, Adam, or in this case Alice, waited to see who else might come. Alice sighed. This is gonna be a long night.
[attr="class","srptPost"] It was late. Stephan was tired. He really wanted to just get his search done. Find SOMEONE to take in. They would just send him back out tomorrow. Or, really, ask him to come back out tomorrow, since they had no direct control over him. But tomorrow, his sleep cycle would be adjusting. He would be OK going out at night. Or at least, more OK than he was now. [break][break] That did not make tonight any easier. He sighed. It would be obnoxious, and it took a lot of thought to pull it off, but his best bet was to get airborne. He would have to carboload tomorrow, to make up for this. [break][break] Number and formulas shifted through his mind at blazing speeds as he finished the burger. With a thought, a thought loaded with all the numbers he had just calculated, he accelerated upwards. Zero to sixty in one tenth a second. [break][break] There is a saying "It's not the fall that kills you, it's the landing." The landing kills you because one part of your body decelerates before the rest. This is true regardless of circumstance, regardless of severity. Except Stephan cheats. He can some control over kinetic energy. Well, not control. He can create kinetic energy. If he wants to stop, he can apply kinetic energy in the opposite direction. [break][break] And he can apply this energy extremely finely. Each and every cell in his body was uniformly accelerated. He imagined that every molecule in his body, with rare exception, was uniformly accelerated as well, but his control was not that fine. [break][break] Ten stories up. Twenty stories up. Twenty five, now higher than the tallest buildings in the area. Stephan expends more energy, stopping his body uniformly. For a moment, he hangs, before starting to fall. Small boosts, not requiring such fine control. Push up the feet a bit, the body will follow. He bobs slowly in the air while accelerating outstretched hands to turn, scanning the area. [break][break] He spies... an oddity. Is there a stakeout in the area? No, he would have been informed, and that did not look like a telescoping camera. He was pretty sure it was a sniper. Stephan propelled himself forwards, small bursts of energy near his back, slowly speeding up more and more, while keeped the feet blasts going, losing no height in the long term. [break][break] He flies over the figure. Female, he can now tell. A few more bursts position him parallel to the ground, instead of the perpendicular he had been until now. And then he stops. Stephan begins falling, trusting gravity to do the job. Fifteen stories of distance. His head began running calculations. How much stopping force to exert to not kill the woman.
After about 10 minutes of sitting in one place and waiting, Alice spotted some heavy activity. Valentine's guards were moving into position, and a few unmarked cars pulled up. They had tinted windows and probably are bulletproof. Alice tensed up and held her breath to steady the rifle. She can't fuck this one up. The door to the first car opened up, and out came Yadama Shuuichi. A prominent member of the Yakuza based in Lorsette, and also a member of the Assembly of Phantoms. He was also accompanied by a pair of armed guards himself, despite being a deadly pyrokinetic. The other person who was invited to the meeting was Gentleman Connor Howard. While he didn't have connections to the AP, he was a member of the mafia, and was also a Gifted. While not much was known about his powers, it was suspected that Howard had the ability to manipulate time. And even then it wasn't clear how far his abilities extend. All Alice cared about was that they were there, and they were going to die.
After everyone got into the building and started discussing business, Alice lined up the shot and put Valentine in his crosshairs. She adjusted the rifle to compensate for wind speed, breathed in, and breathed out. During that, Alice pulled the trigger, and there was the muffled bark of the rifle. She felt it slam into her shoulder and took the recoil. There was a flash of light and the bullet soared towards its target. Before anyone could react, Valentine's head snapped to the side. Blood and brain matter splattered over the wall on her left. Alice picked up the rifle and made to clear out, but something made her look up. Someone was falling from quite a ways up. When the person was more visible, it became more clear they were aiming for her. That was the que for her to leave asap.
[attr="class","srptPost"] Stephan watched as the woman shot. He was too late. Someone had likely died, or at least was critically wounded. Now this person had to go down. [break][break] Nonlethal force, still. Stephan was not judge and jury, and he did not want to be executioner. [break][break] The woman started to pack up to leave. She looked up at him, and began booking it. Stephan scanned the roof. One doorway down, into the interior of the building. A fire escape near it Micro-adjustments, rotating his body. Then one push to accelerate him downward faster. Adjust elasticity, enhance strength. Land at the perfect angle. Rebound. [break][break] Stephan's back would be the thing to impact the raised edge of the roof. The exact elasticness of his back fat caused him to bounce. The angle of incidence meant he was launched along the roof, angled slightly up. He was careening down the path leading to the doorway in. If the woman instead decided to run for the fire escape, he could adjust once he actually saw where he and she was going. Falling back first was great for good bounces, but it was a seriously informational defect.
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The skin is created by Wolf of Adoxography and Gangnam Style. The thread and conversation remodels are by Kagney. The Strange Reality board list, Heal My Soul info center, I Remember Now mini profile and Electric Requiem profile remodel is made by Pharoah Leap. The Who's That Member member list remodel was made by Tictactoe. The Cbox.ws Shoutbox remodel was made by Trinity Blair. All templates used for claims, information sheets, applications, etc are credited to their owners; credits for these can be found in the threads the templates are use on. Images that are used on The Duality of Man are credited to their owners, however, they have been edited by Zac with a few being edited by Chibi Magician. The plot, rules and various other information pieces for The Duality of Man are written by Chibi Magician with the assistence of her co-admins, Finnegan and Dremulf, alongside other unlisted people who were kind enough to give their input. The TRS, AP and face claim were all created by Fleur for specifically the use of TDOM. All plugins used on The Duality of Man are credited to their owners. The templates my members use are credited to their maker, if you find a template that belongs to you, but is uncredited, please speak to Chibi Magician or the member themself. Characters created on The Duality of Man are credited to their owners and should not be used elsewhere without the creator's permission.
Special thanks for the members of TDOM who make suggestions to help make this site better. Even though we can not accept all suggestions, we immensely appreciate it. Thus, we give credit to any additions that you thought of and were later implimented by the staff, because we are glad you give us these excellent ideas.
