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  • We've been radio silent for a long time now. We posted an announcement in our Discord server back in April of 2025, but never updated the forums. So what's up with Gateway Roleplay?

    After 5 long years, we've decided to place the development of Ties That Bind on an indefinite hold.

    This doesn't mean it's cancelled. We fully intend to run Ties That Bind: What Lies Beneath and Ties That Bind: City of Angels eventually. But to do so, we need to take a step back. In the meantime, we'll be working on smaller, invite-only projects.

    Thank you to everyone who has stuck with us this long! MindGate and I (Pika) have been working on this server for over a decade now. It truly is a passion project for us.

Loreen Lennard | Venom

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Age
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Personality
She's a generally friendly individual though at the time of the crash she's beginning withdrawal. Her current goal is to get clean and fix herself as she never wanted to go down this path. Hopefully find a level of peace with her condition or a way to overcome it. Due to events she's survived Loreen suffers from extreme fight or flight not thinking rationally about her actions. (She's on the edge of being either pretty crazy or setting foot on the path to recovery.)

Physical Appearance
With a height of 5'6 and a weight of 109 lbs, her dirty blond hair normally done up in a ponytail. Her face had beautiful steely grey eyes, some faded freckles on her cheeks along with deep bags under her eyes. Loreen was wearing a black pullover hoodie with 'Remember Reach' on it. A tan carhart hat along with her aviators. A set of old hiking boots along with her old ranger green pants from her time as a forest ranger.

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Unemployed

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Would you like your character to start with any items?
(Her dog Bud - a husky - Dead or alive is good with me. Just flip a coin.)

Her wallet with some cash and her ID
A pack of gum
An Iphone 6s (No idea what sorta looks like a phone.)

[She was bringing camping gear due to heading back outdoors. Winter clothing and journal. Just thought if you decide to place thing would be nice to see it in there somewhere. At the very least the Journal.]

Biography
Loreen was born in Astoria, Oregon January 12th, 1981. She had a mostly quiet upbringing throughout elementary school and middle school One summer before the start of 8th grade her father got to take her to work with him for a company event. Arriving at the airport he sat her down in the cockpit of the 747 he flies for North West Airlines and let her call in to the ATC tower for him and the flight and she loved it to bits. After the flight she practically begged her father to take her with him again sometime.

High school comes around a year later and Loreen was having a rough time with her classes. Loreen was how you say not the most studious student, but when something really piqued her interest she really got going. Not doing so well halfway through her sophomore year Loreen’s dad made a deal with her. If she passed her classes he’d help her get her private pilot’s license. She got by in her classes passing with B’s and a single C in PE. That summer Loreen got to spend a lot of time with her father as she learned how to fly and got her licence. Her father made a deal with her that if she got through the rest of high school with A’s and B’s He’d help her pay for half of her own plane when she wanted one. Surprisingly that got her priorities straight enough to get her through the rest of high school without many more problems. Graduating in 1999 passed with a GPA of 3.4.

It was early January of 2001 where Loreen had an apartment in town, her aviation hobby flying to remote islands off the coast for camping trips. She’d visit her family quite a bit when she had time off from her job as a manager at the local dinner. She’d try to make up for lost time with her older brother and sister. She always felt ignored by the two growing up but it didn’t help that she was a bit of a brat tattling on the two in their youth. Her birthday was soon coming up which always excited her to spend it with her whole family turning 20 was a momentous day which her dad decided to get her a puppy. A cute friendly Siberian Husky named Bud.

The early 2000’s were a rough time for Loreen, losing her brother to an IED in 2004, her parents getting a devorce later in 2006, and even the freak accident that caused her to crash her plane. But the toughest thing was on a fateful day while on her weekly trip into town, she got rear ended by Skinny D. Leading to a car chase with local police she assisted them in apprehending the individual due to the low staffing of the towns police making it difficult to get more than a couple to respond to such a situation. Skinny D broke into a home on the south side of town and unfortunately the family was still there. He took them hostage and didn’t leave law enforcement time to get SWAT. Doing what she could, She’d set up across the street with her rifle, normally meant to take care of bears, as she waited for any movement from the upstairs windows.

As Barry and Joel, the only other officers on duty, went to move in on Skinny D. Just as they got inside Skinny D burst out the window only giving Lorreen a second to get her shot off before a hailstorm of bullets struck her. Most of what happened that night was still fuzzy in her mind.

She woke up in the hospital a few days later, getting news that Joel had taken a shot but was fortunately recovering like her. Although she wasn’t so fortunate, as 5 rounds had struck both her arms leaving them with severe nerve damage not to mention how destroyed the muscles in her arms were. She could still handle things though most fine motor control was out the window. She retired a few days after getting discharged from the hospital and sold her home to move in with her father while she recovered and learned how to cope with the events she had to go through.

She had been looking at finding someone to help her better come to terms with the incident she had in 2006. She struggled to hold jobs until for several years, struggling with depression preventing her from doing things that normally people could do. She used to be extremely independent and was forced to become dependent on even the little things in her life. With it only seeming to get worse as she stressed out about trying to hold a job and her medical debt that thankfully her father was helping with. She’d lapsed a few times into substance abuse between heroine and alcohol.

Loreen’s father had been looking for a place to send her to try and get better for the last time, it had to be the best for his daughter. He wasn’t cheeping out again like he had before. Settling on a summer camp in Switzerland with some counselors that could help her better that what she was getting at the moment. It would be a long flight but she’d appreciate being able to get her mind off of work. If only he hadn’t waited so long to get her the help she needed.

Getting her a first class ticket all the way there to give Loreen and her service dog which thankfully they were able to do for Bud. The question is will she be able to fight her demons long enough to arrive at yet another rehab?
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Heya, Venom! I've reviewed your application and it's accepted!

Here's your login info:
Username: Loreen Lennard
Password: laurel
You'll be whitelisted once the server is up and running.

A dog almost certainly would have died on impact. Animals are kept in crates in the cargo hold of planes, so Bud was most likely crushed. RIP.

I can definitely give you the journal! We'll be having some cargo spread around the crash site, anyway, so I can most likely drop Loreen's winter clothes there.


If you have any questions, feel free to respond and ask. Thanks!
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Service Dogs cannot block or obstruct aisles on the plane, they may not sit in a seat, and for safety reasons, the handler and dog cannot be seated in an emergency exit row. While Emotional Support Animals are not granted access under the ADA, the ACAA does allow them to fly with their owners. I

It's still possible the dog died but her dog wouldn't have been in the cargo hold due to it being a service dog.
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OH Okay, I wasn't aware of that. There's still a low chance that he would have survived, though, so we've decided to go with him being dead!
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You all mind if I rp the dog dying? Regardless it's going to die just want to go through the motions of trying to save the dog.
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We'll be starting off with the actual crash, so you definitely can!
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We can have the dog alive but heavily injured at first. But considering that the poor thing isn't wearing a seat belt and doesn't weigh very much when ejected from the plane at high speeds, it probably will die fairly swiftly from its injuries if not put down. Sorry, pooch!
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Works for me!