Post by Indiana Jones on May 19, 2007 21:17:26 GMT -5
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Name: Trish
Age:28
Email: pm me here
YIM/AIM: shorewins
CHARACTER INFORMATION:
Name: Indiana Jones
Age: 41
Hair: Short, sandy brown
Eyes:They are that magical kind of hazel that changes colour according to what colour clothing he is wearing. So they can appear to be blue, green, or brown.
Build: Medium/Lean
Strengths and talents: While his main area of expertise is archaeology, his secondary specialization is linguistics. He speaks a total of 27 languages to greater or lesser degrees, including Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, Mandarin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese and American Sign Language.[citation needed]
Weakness': He has a fear of snakes
Occupation: Professor/Archaeologist and Adventuerer
History: Totally stolen from Wikipedia because he's a complicated kinda guy...
Indiana Jones was born Henry Jones Jr. to Scottish-born professor of Medieval literature Dr. Henry Jones Sr. and his wife Anna Lauren Jones on July 1, 1899, in Princeton, New Jersey. His birth certificate shows the address of 10 Creighton Avenue, Princeton, NJ. Although his father calls him "Junior," Henry Jr. adopts the name of his beloved malamute dog "Indiana", insisting he be referred to as "Indiana Jones" ("Indy" for short). It is unclear exactly when this decision is made - however, he was already being referred to as Indy by his peers at the age of 13.[6]
In 1908, Henry Jones Sr. embarks on a lecture tour around the world together with his wife and then 9 year old son. Numerous adventures ensue for the young Indiana Jones, including following an underground railroad in the Carolinas, meeting T.E. Lawrence in Cairo, archaeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of Kings, Princess Sophie (daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand) in Austria-Hungary, Leo Tolstoy in Russia, and visiting Nairobi, India, China, Paris, and Florence.
In 1912, Jones is a Life Scout with the Boy Scouts of America in Utah. In April of that year, Indiana's mother Anna Jones contracts Scarlet fever and dies. Shortly after her death, Jones (whilst on a Boy Scout trip) attempts to secure the Cross of Coronado from thieves (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). This incident forms the 'origin' of many of Jones's personal trademarks; one of the villains can clearly be seen as the inspiration for later costume choices, Indy first attempts the use of the bullwhip (receiving a small scar on the chin that would stay with him to adulthood), and he is given his first fedora. It is also during this incident that he first develops a strong fear of snakes. Three years later, Jones (at the urging of his father) enrolls at Princeton University. During a spring break trip to Mexico, he is kidnapped by Mexican revolutionaries and reluctantly plays a part in the Mexican Revolution, under Pancho Villa. When he leaves Mexico, he travels to Ireland, then England, and finally Belgium where he joins the Belgian Army.
He joins the Western Front, participating in the Battle of the Somme. During a German attack, he is taken prisoner. With the assistance of Charles de Gaulle, he manages to escape and is assigned to the French army as a courier. He is sent to Africa and commissioned as a lieutenant. His inability to read a map causes him to lose his intended unit, and he instead joins the historic 25th Royal Fusiliers of the British Army, commanded by Frederick Selous - a team collectively known as "The Old and the Bold". Amongst other missions, the team destroys a German train-mounted cannon, and briefly kidnap the German military genius Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck. During his stay in Africa, Jones becomes ill, and is treated by Albert Schweitzer (in the process meeting Barthélémy Bouganda). Shortly after his recovery, he is transferred back to the French Army and assigned a position as an intelligence officer. Jones worked for French Intelligence for the remainder of the First World War, going on undercover intelligence missions to Austria, Barcelona, Russia, Prague, Turkey, Romania, Italy, and Istanbul.
Shortly after the end of the war (in 1919), Jones embarks on an expedition to retrieve the Eye Of The Peathingy, a large diamond once owned by Alexander The Great, traveling through Alexandria and Java, eventually arriving in the South China Seas. Unable to recover the diamond, he returns to France and takes a position as a translator at the Paris Peace Conference, becoming involved in the production of the Treaty of Versailles, once again meeting T.E. Lawrence. He then returns to Chicago, where he earns an undergraduate degree in archaeology, takes up the soprano saxophone, and briefly works as a stuntman on an early John Ford western.
After completing his studies, he enrolls in a linguistics graduate program at the Sorbonne where first meets French archaeologist Rene Belloq, a student studying for his Master's degree in archaeology. Belloq manages to win the Archaeological Society Prize with a paper on stratigraphy, the majority of which was plagiarized from Jones' work. After completing his graduate program, Jones is hired for his first professorial post at London University. The head of the university's archaeology department, Joanna Campbell, invites Jones to a dig in Whithorn, Scotland, on an expedition to investigate the legend of Merlin. There meets his future wife, Campbell's daughter Dierdre. Their marriage was cut short when she was killed in a plane crash during an expedition to Brazil in April of 1926.
Jones begins studying post-graduate archaeology at the University of Chicago under Professor Abner Ravenwood, also entering into a romantic relationship with the Professor's young daughter Marion. For reasons which are not documented, Jones leaves the Ravenwoods in approximately 1926, leading to a rift with Marion and his former mentor. After completing his Ph.D. in archaeology, Jones begins operating under the patronage of Marcus Brody (a friend of Jones's father who, in conjunction with prestigious museums, funds archaeological expeditions and digs), and begins a regular post teaching Archaeology at Marshall College in Connecticut. (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
In 1935, Jones journeys to Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) to retrieve the idol of Kouru Watu, in the process meeting Nazi Albrecht Von Beck for the first time. Following his return to America, he is retained by the Chinese government to recover a mystical gem named The Heart of the Dragon from the ancient tomb of a Chinese emperor. (Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb)
Personailty: He's knowledgeable on artifacts and has a thirst for adventure. Indy, to me, uses sarcasm, intelligence and integrity to get through his every day life. One to coin a oneliner every now and again, Jones can typically get himself out of just about any situation. He's a brave soul, one whose thirst for knowledge and insatiable urge to find truth.
Apperance:The leather jacket, The bag - a modified Mark VII British gas mask bag. The whip - a 10ft Bullwhip crafted by David Morgan. The revolver - usually a World War I era revolver. He has also been seen using a M1917 revolver. The Fedora. One cannot play Indy without the fedora.
Relationship History: (Thanks to Erinz)
*he lost his virginity to mata hari
*then he fell in love with an italian girl whose name escapes me
*then there was molly, a schoolteacher who was shot by a double agent and died in his arms
This was all before he graduated!
*he falls in love with the daughter of the head of londons archaeological department, deirdre campbell, and they went on a bunch of adventures together before she got herself killed in a plane crash
*then he started working with professor abner ravenwood, and fell in love with his daughter, marion, who was rather young for him, so he broke it off.
* then there was lilah rogers, who was a fling
* joan starbuck, a missionary
*Marla Evans
*then there was the nightclub singer, willie scott, who was in temple of doom
*then he found marion again and was with her for a while, but soon they broke up
*'congo' kate crawford
*fransesca something something... a professor
*elsa from indiana jones and the last crusade who ended up being a nazi
*sophia hapgood, who was indy's former assistant, comes back and helps him uncover atlantis
Sexual Preference: Straight
Turn ons: Women of beauty, intelligence and adventure
Turn offs: things that don't fit into the above...and snakes...why does it always have to be snakes?
Allies: Those that acquire his services by whatever means.
Enemies: Rival Archaeologists, Nazi guys
Things most likely to do in spare time: Research, quite possibly things that would better hone his skills as far as accuracy with the whip or the gun go
SAMPLE RP:
"Boy these ships are slow..." Jones said as he removed one foot from the chair it rested on as he secured the lace of his shoe. He watched the watery scene before him. Gulls cawed over head, they were close to shore for certain. The storm clouds moved in from the west as the ship docked finally. Indiana had been hiding below decks out of sight; the stowaway couldn't wait to get on land. His fingers coiled around a hand wound rope and at the end of it a hook. When the ship was fully docked in the bay he popped his head through a porthole in the side of the ship and slung the hook as hard as he could upward. "Come on come on..." He pleaded with it as if praying to it would help it to find it's way better.
When he was preparing his escape, Indiana found himself prey to yet another bump in the road: Being Caught. Just as he had gotten the hook to snag on the dock he heard the voices of the captain and ship's steward grow louder and louder, "We're on the verge of discovering it, I just know it!" The captain slung the door open. Tucked neatly within Indie's pocket was the map that so carefully had the location of the artifact he was searching for circled on it. Indiana had managed to squeeze his masculine frame through the seemingly smallish porthole and climb up. "WHERE'S THE MAP!?" The captain roard as he saw the rope wiggling just to the left of him.
The old man stuck his head out the porthole just in time to see Indiana Jones climbing his way up. "HEY!" he growled as he tried to pull his pistol. Indiana's bag was weighing him down, but there wasn't a thing he could do without. He needed everything he had on him from his bull whip to his trademark hat. There was a sword at his hip and a bag of necessitites on the other.
Indie cast wide eyes downward in time to see the man push his pistol through the hole and shoot upward blindly. "UH OH!" He gasped as he swung back and forth. It was still a little ways to the top. "Me without my scuba gear..." He sighed as he continued averting the blind shots.
"I got him!" The Ships steward said with an anxious swat with his sword, shredding part of the hand wound rope.
"GREAT!" Indiana Jones shouted as he tried to climb past the ripped section only to find that he was now dodging a gun and a maschette. "This is wonderful, cut to ribbons or shot to death...?" His expression deadpanned as he looked around for his options. Considering the situation was pretty dire Indy took it upon himself to dive straight down into the water. He was close enough that he could easily escape under the dock. SPLASH!! He hit the water and instantly began swimming, much to the chagrin of the captain of the vessle and his steward.
"Call the boss...you need to explain how he got away." Said the captain. "Oh, and it's been nice knowing you." He added with a wicked curl of his lips.
Meanwhile, Indiana Jones had climbed from the waters. The soaking sopping wet adventurer of Land and Sea had found many things, but in his hands now he clutched the secret to finding the Legendary Jade Jewel of the Jaguar. This was the first step on his quest for the Fountain of Youth...
Name: Trish
Age:28
Email: pm me here
YIM/AIM: shorewins
CHARACTER INFORMATION:
Name: Indiana Jones
Age: 41
Hair: Short, sandy brown
Eyes:They are that magical kind of hazel that changes colour according to what colour clothing he is wearing. So they can appear to be blue, green, or brown.
Build: Medium/Lean
Strengths and talents: While his main area of expertise is archaeology, his secondary specialization is linguistics. He speaks a total of 27 languages to greater or lesser degrees, including Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, Mandarin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese and American Sign Language.[citation needed]
Weakness': He has a fear of snakes
Occupation: Professor/Archaeologist and Adventuerer
History: Totally stolen from Wikipedia because he's a complicated kinda guy...
Indiana Jones was born Henry Jones Jr. to Scottish-born professor of Medieval literature Dr. Henry Jones Sr. and his wife Anna Lauren Jones on July 1, 1899, in Princeton, New Jersey. His birth certificate shows the address of 10 Creighton Avenue, Princeton, NJ. Although his father calls him "Junior," Henry Jr. adopts the name of his beloved malamute dog "Indiana", insisting he be referred to as "Indiana Jones" ("Indy" for short). It is unclear exactly when this decision is made - however, he was already being referred to as Indy by his peers at the age of 13.[6]
In 1908, Henry Jones Sr. embarks on a lecture tour around the world together with his wife and then 9 year old son. Numerous adventures ensue for the young Indiana Jones, including following an underground railroad in the Carolinas, meeting T.E. Lawrence in Cairo, archaeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of Kings, Princess Sophie (daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand) in Austria-Hungary, Leo Tolstoy in Russia, and visiting Nairobi, India, China, Paris, and Florence.
In 1912, Jones is a Life Scout with the Boy Scouts of America in Utah. In April of that year, Indiana's mother Anna Jones contracts Scarlet fever and dies. Shortly after her death, Jones (whilst on a Boy Scout trip) attempts to secure the Cross of Coronado from thieves (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). This incident forms the 'origin' of many of Jones's personal trademarks; one of the villains can clearly be seen as the inspiration for later costume choices, Indy first attempts the use of the bullwhip (receiving a small scar on the chin that would stay with him to adulthood), and he is given his first fedora. It is also during this incident that he first develops a strong fear of snakes. Three years later, Jones (at the urging of his father) enrolls at Princeton University. During a spring break trip to Mexico, he is kidnapped by Mexican revolutionaries and reluctantly plays a part in the Mexican Revolution, under Pancho Villa. When he leaves Mexico, he travels to Ireland, then England, and finally Belgium where he joins the Belgian Army.
He joins the Western Front, participating in the Battle of the Somme. During a German attack, he is taken prisoner. With the assistance of Charles de Gaulle, he manages to escape and is assigned to the French army as a courier. He is sent to Africa and commissioned as a lieutenant. His inability to read a map causes him to lose his intended unit, and he instead joins the historic 25th Royal Fusiliers of the British Army, commanded by Frederick Selous - a team collectively known as "The Old and the Bold". Amongst other missions, the team destroys a German train-mounted cannon, and briefly kidnap the German military genius Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck. During his stay in Africa, Jones becomes ill, and is treated by Albert Schweitzer (in the process meeting Barthélémy Bouganda). Shortly after his recovery, he is transferred back to the French Army and assigned a position as an intelligence officer. Jones worked for French Intelligence for the remainder of the First World War, going on undercover intelligence missions to Austria, Barcelona, Russia, Prague, Turkey, Romania, Italy, and Istanbul.
Shortly after the end of the war (in 1919), Jones embarks on an expedition to retrieve the Eye Of The Peathingy, a large diamond once owned by Alexander The Great, traveling through Alexandria and Java, eventually arriving in the South China Seas. Unable to recover the diamond, he returns to France and takes a position as a translator at the Paris Peace Conference, becoming involved in the production of the Treaty of Versailles, once again meeting T.E. Lawrence. He then returns to Chicago, where he earns an undergraduate degree in archaeology, takes up the soprano saxophone, and briefly works as a stuntman on an early John Ford western.
After completing his studies, he enrolls in a linguistics graduate program at the Sorbonne where first meets French archaeologist Rene Belloq, a student studying for his Master's degree in archaeology. Belloq manages to win the Archaeological Society Prize with a paper on stratigraphy, the majority of which was plagiarized from Jones' work. After completing his graduate program, Jones is hired for his first professorial post at London University. The head of the university's archaeology department, Joanna Campbell, invites Jones to a dig in Whithorn, Scotland, on an expedition to investigate the legend of Merlin. There meets his future wife, Campbell's daughter Dierdre. Their marriage was cut short when she was killed in a plane crash during an expedition to Brazil in April of 1926.
Jones begins studying post-graduate archaeology at the University of Chicago under Professor Abner Ravenwood, also entering into a romantic relationship with the Professor's young daughter Marion. For reasons which are not documented, Jones leaves the Ravenwoods in approximately 1926, leading to a rift with Marion and his former mentor. After completing his Ph.D. in archaeology, Jones begins operating under the patronage of Marcus Brody (a friend of Jones's father who, in conjunction with prestigious museums, funds archaeological expeditions and digs), and begins a regular post teaching Archaeology at Marshall College in Connecticut. (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
In 1935, Jones journeys to Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) to retrieve the idol of Kouru Watu, in the process meeting Nazi Albrecht Von Beck for the first time. Following his return to America, he is retained by the Chinese government to recover a mystical gem named The Heart of the Dragon from the ancient tomb of a Chinese emperor. (Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb)
Personailty: He's knowledgeable on artifacts and has a thirst for adventure. Indy, to me, uses sarcasm, intelligence and integrity to get through his every day life. One to coin a oneliner every now and again, Jones can typically get himself out of just about any situation. He's a brave soul, one whose thirst for knowledge and insatiable urge to find truth.
Apperance:The leather jacket, The bag - a modified Mark VII British gas mask bag. The whip - a 10ft Bullwhip crafted by David Morgan. The revolver - usually a World War I era revolver. He has also been seen using a M1917 revolver. The Fedora. One cannot play Indy without the fedora.
Relationship History: (Thanks to Erinz)
*he lost his virginity to mata hari
*then he fell in love with an italian girl whose name escapes me
*then there was molly, a schoolteacher who was shot by a double agent and died in his arms
This was all before he graduated!
*he falls in love with the daughter of the head of londons archaeological department, deirdre campbell, and they went on a bunch of adventures together before she got herself killed in a plane crash
*then he started working with professor abner ravenwood, and fell in love with his daughter, marion, who was rather young for him, so he broke it off.
* then there was lilah rogers, who was a fling
* joan starbuck, a missionary
*Marla Evans
*then there was the nightclub singer, willie scott, who was in temple of doom
*then he found marion again and was with her for a while, but soon they broke up
*'congo' kate crawford
*fransesca something something... a professor
*elsa from indiana jones and the last crusade who ended up being a nazi
*sophia hapgood, who was indy's former assistant, comes back and helps him uncover atlantis
Sexual Preference: Straight
Turn ons: Women of beauty, intelligence and adventure
Turn offs: things that don't fit into the above...and snakes...why does it always have to be snakes?
Allies: Those that acquire his services by whatever means.
Enemies: Rival Archaeologists, Nazi guys
Things most likely to do in spare time: Research, quite possibly things that would better hone his skills as far as accuracy with the whip or the gun go
SAMPLE RP:
"Boy these ships are slow..." Jones said as he removed one foot from the chair it rested on as he secured the lace of his shoe. He watched the watery scene before him. Gulls cawed over head, they were close to shore for certain. The storm clouds moved in from the west as the ship docked finally. Indiana had been hiding below decks out of sight; the stowaway couldn't wait to get on land. His fingers coiled around a hand wound rope and at the end of it a hook. When the ship was fully docked in the bay he popped his head through a porthole in the side of the ship and slung the hook as hard as he could upward. "Come on come on..." He pleaded with it as if praying to it would help it to find it's way better.
When he was preparing his escape, Indiana found himself prey to yet another bump in the road: Being Caught. Just as he had gotten the hook to snag on the dock he heard the voices of the captain and ship's steward grow louder and louder, "We're on the verge of discovering it, I just know it!" The captain slung the door open. Tucked neatly within Indie's pocket was the map that so carefully had the location of the artifact he was searching for circled on it. Indiana had managed to squeeze his masculine frame through the seemingly smallish porthole and climb up. "WHERE'S THE MAP!?" The captain roard as he saw the rope wiggling just to the left of him.
The old man stuck his head out the porthole just in time to see Indiana Jones climbing his way up. "HEY!" he growled as he tried to pull his pistol. Indiana's bag was weighing him down, but there wasn't a thing he could do without. He needed everything he had on him from his bull whip to his trademark hat. There was a sword at his hip and a bag of necessitites on the other.
Indie cast wide eyes downward in time to see the man push his pistol through the hole and shoot upward blindly. "UH OH!" He gasped as he swung back and forth. It was still a little ways to the top. "Me without my scuba gear..." He sighed as he continued averting the blind shots.
"I got him!" The Ships steward said with an anxious swat with his sword, shredding part of the hand wound rope.
"GREAT!" Indiana Jones shouted as he tried to climb past the ripped section only to find that he was now dodging a gun and a maschette. "This is wonderful, cut to ribbons or shot to death...?" His expression deadpanned as he looked around for his options. Considering the situation was pretty dire Indy took it upon himself to dive straight down into the water. He was close enough that he could easily escape under the dock. SPLASH!! He hit the water and instantly began swimming, much to the chagrin of the captain of the vessle and his steward.
"Call the boss...you need to explain how he got away." Said the captain. "Oh, and it's been nice knowing you." He added with a wicked curl of his lips.
Meanwhile, Indiana Jones had climbed from the waters. The soaking sopping wet adventurer of Land and Sea had found many things, but in his hands now he clutched the secret to finding the Legendary Jade Jewel of the Jaguar. This was the first step on his quest for the Fountain of Youth...