A Duel of Minds: The Sampson Estate

[Shadell]

You've received notification that you've been selected as one of the possible heirs to the Sampson Estate. Jeffrey Sampson, the famous multi-millionair recently died. Per his will 6 to seven contestants have been selected by lottery to stay in his countryside mansion for a week. During that time they will have to discuss the distribution of Sampson's fortunes for themselves. At the end of the week, the fortune will go however it has been decided between those six people.

What people don't know until they arrive is this. Inside the grounds of the mansion, people change to match their actions. If you act submissive and clean your room a lot; you'll become a maid or a butler. Putting on woman's clothing will make a woman. The mansion is quite large and has numerous opportunities to trap one's rivals. The mansion may contain other traps as well. The changes are relatively small though, and a significant number of changes will be needed to completely transform an opponent.

In essence, you try to manipulate your opponents into acting in such a way while avoiding the general traps. Call them on the action, if its legitimate, they change a little to match the cliches associated with that action. The victor would be decided by whoever retained the capability to make a claim for the inheritance the longest.

Also, repeating an action won't have the same effect. So wearing an outfit could change one opponent a little; but it wouldn't continue to change them until they took the outfit off.

Lastly, every contestant has to choose between three items, a pen, that when used to doodle, will invariably make predictions about the environment, a ring that enables its wearer to differentiate between truth and lies, and a choker that enables its wearer to speak with incredible elegance and conviction.

Character profiles should contain the following info:
Name:
Age: (Must be at least 17)
Gender:
Brief Backstory: (Career/education and current situation are all that's really necessary.)
Anyone interested.

Edit: Oops, meant to put this in the free-form Rp section, not the dueling sub-section. If some mod would be so kind as to move this I would be eternally grateful.

[Ookalf]

Name: Ashley Grayson
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Brief Backstory: High school graduate. Currently in college, working on a degree in paleontology. (I'm willing to expand this if you need more.)
Item: The choker

How's this?

[Alissa of Someday]

Sounds interesting...

Name: Will Greyspire
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Brief Backstory: A would-be writer, Will is fresh out of college with a degree, a diploma...and a menial job, thanks to his lack of any money...and his stories selling rather less then he had hoped.
Item: Pen

[Shadell]

Both work; it's better if the character's aren't particularly developed to start, since everyone should end up changing rather dramatically through their own actions.

[Zoey]

Name: Emil Caster
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Brief Backstory: Emil is in financial trouble. He tries his best to obtain money, even if sometimes he may have to bend some rules. He dislikes that method, but he's learn that in the real world only the strongest survive.
Item: The ring

[Shadowmaster]

Name: Jim Myers
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Brief Backstory: High School graduate, attending his local university, he hopes that by winning this money, he'll be on easy street.
Item: Ring

[Mystic Mina]

Name: Samuel Chen
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Brief Backstory: An aspiring and rather eccentric computer programmer who just graduated from high school. His friends goaded him into entering the contest, so he did, figuring that he probably wasn't going to be chosen anyway. Guess he got lucky.... Or unlucky, depending on how you see it.
Item: The Ring (Oooooh, scary!)

[Shadell]

Hmm... I'll close sign ups after one or two more sign up, I'll try to start this before thursday; but, don't count on it. Finals may very well steal far more of my free time then I've planned for.

[AshK]

Could you reserve a spot for me? I need to think of a character. If you can't reserve a spot for me, it's okay as well.

[Shadell]

Given that I'm requiring next to no information for profiles I'm hesitant to reserve spots.

[Kether]

Name:Roger Green
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Brief Backstory: Slacker/professional Beaurocrat.
Item: Ring

[Shadell]

... That is perhaps the shortest profile I have ever seen. Approved.

Approved.

[Knight Errant]

Wow... this looks fun XD

Name: Jacob Stiles
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Backstory: Still in college, he dropped his classes for the chance at this... He figured it was worth it if he played his cards right.
item: The choker.

[Shadell]

Hope it works out like I've planned.

Approved.


Erika, since you did ask and since exams are to the point where I doubt I'll have time to rattle off a serious post till thursday evening; you have till then to submit a character blurb.

For everyone else, admissions are closed.

[AshK]

Thank you Shadell. I appreciate it. I have exams this week too. So I know how you feel.

*Begins to think of a character.*