Line #59 Roleplay/RulesOfNature


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:All the stars in the sky are souls. ]]
3	The world is a place many beings call home. Humans. Cats. Dogs. Whales. Trees. Vampires. The last one may have been a bit out of the ordinary, but even creatures as mythical as them can inhabit this world, though they currently prefer to conceal themselves from prying eyes for a multitude of reasons. It could be survival, or it could be the fact that they prey on humans and do not wish to be hunted down.
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5	1995. The absolute decimation of almost all of India alerted all of Humanity to the supernatural. Previously, unnatural events were covered up and discreetly taken care of by groups properly equipped to handle these oddities. The efforts dedicated to those coverups were completely ruined by this chaotic occurrence. Now the whole world is aware of what was hiding under the bed and in the closet. The monster in the dark has manifested into a reality.
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7	The powerful SDA (Supernatural Division of America), the organized EUMF (European Union Magic Forces), the cunning SEAJ (South East Asian Justiciars), and the brave ARC (African Restoration Committee). These main organizations with smaller Private Military Companies specialized in combating these monsters were created for the sole purpose of protection.
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9	What’s left in the space of destruction is a pocket in the world that leads to where the unnatural ones make their home. They came pouring out into the world, creating their own smaller pockets and corrupting areas to make it their own. Normality was twisted into abnormality and humanity united against a common threat. It's these distorted areas where humans are preventing the normal world from being encroached upon by this crawling chaos of foreign and unknown malice.
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11	Rules of Nature is an ongoing online quest run by Parasection on Space Battles that began in 2020. The protagonist of the story is a young man named Leo Wilton, a school student that used to be a delinquent until he went to juvenile prison and his brother begged him to stop. Now that Leo is going back to school, it is your job to keep Leo’s life straight and narrow while also helping him to add color again.
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13	.....but come on, when has a quest about school life ever stayed about school life
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15	Rules of Nature is a quest set in the VisualNovel/ShinzaBanshoSeries, but canon flew out the window. So now it's up to you to find out just what the hell is going on.
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17	"Come, gather and bear witness to my opera, now in the making. Its script is the height of cliché, I am forced to admit. And yet...Its actors are of the finest fold; beyond exquisite. Thus, I believe you will find it enthralling"
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20	[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/rules-of-nature-shinza-banshou-au.828145/]]
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26	* AbstractApotheosis: Becoming a God means becoming one, which is one of the reason Akasha has to wait for a challenger. He CannotSelfTerminate because he is the law the universe depends on and his body composes the universe, so only another universe (Hegemony) can kill him.
27	* AbsurdCuttingPower: The monster Blade exemplifies this trope, and he even has the ability to cut certain kinds of Perks.
28	* AchievementsInIgnorance: What the entire Airport fight between Leo and the Progenitor Pride amounts to, because of what was essentially prioritizing the right skills, picking the right perks, having the Social Link Perk geared to survival, along with getting equipment that just so happens to negate Pride's AttackReflector skills. What should have been a game-ending battle instead turned into a victory that was BeyondTheImpossible.
29	* AllLovingHero: Leo is this, as is Michael.
30	* AnIcePerson: Yonah [[spoiler:Wilton]].
31	* BareFistedMonk: Leo focuses primarily in hand-to-hand combat.
32	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:This is what the quest players collectively realized when it was shown that this quest is in the Shinzaverse, as they had knowingly steered Leo to a build where he resembled a certain golden-haired AllLovingVillain,and then they and Leo realized just how bad that would be for the world. ]]
33	* BigBrotherInstinct: Terry Wilton, CoolBigBro to TheProtagonist has this and desires to be an example of maturity and responsibility to his little brother [[spoiler: Which of course includes hiding the fact that being a BloodKnight is InTheBlood.]]
34	* BloodKnight: As a child Leo was one [[spoiler:to the point Felix and Micheal had to place a RestrainingBolt on him.]]
35	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Considering the source material this was all but guaranteed for most of the important characters, listing them all would consist of almost everyone Leo has ever met.
36	** [[spoiler: Every possible hegemony has this: For Micheal, his obsession with StatusQuoIsGod defines him and is explicitly called out for why the progenitors just want to EndItAll, as his obsession has led to him killing anyone who could possibly create a new world--with the only one he regretted being an AllLovingHero.]]
37	** [[spoiler: For Haru, caring about fairness, only to see the world be filled with people in despair and just the horrible state of society in general, caused his craving to change from a WorldHealingWave into making him a WalkingWasteland, as he wanted to reveal to the world just how rotten he felt the world and its inhabitants are. Leo had to give him a GetAHoldOfYourselfMan in order for him to revert to his true desire, which was he wanted everyone to be saved-naturally as such a possibility is flat out impossible in Akasha's world, and his law is entirely non-confrontational, instead of having a battle between gods, Haru got NoFinalBossForYou.]]
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39	* CallingYourAttacks: Averted:[[spoiler: Leo noticeably tries to avert this in one of his battles, as actually, CallingYourAttacks would have drastic consequences on reality.]]
40	* DeathSeeker: Most people and Monsters who are aware of the nature of the world are this, as to the monsters the world of Akasha is a place they want to leave, as there is a certain point when they became aware of the world via TheReveal, that they can no longer get stronger as they are paralyzed by the infinite possibilities afforded to them. [[spoiler:Lust even mentions that only humans have ever had the chance to be gods and to replace the world and that she's sick of FailureIsTheOnlyOption being only for her side.]]
41	* CentralTheme:[[spoiler:A major theme of the world of Rules Of Nature is that actually living in a world of shonen is actually pretty awful, The BrokenMasquerade might be cool on the surface level --but actually living in a AdventureFriendlyWorld isn't as great as it sounds with SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome being one of the biggest problems and it's not uncommon for the CreatureHunterOrganization (primarily the North American one) to have TotalPartyKill of some of their forces on the daily to the point where one of the top guys even remarks they'd actually lose effectiveness if they didn't operate on the idea that WeHaveReserves. The constant fighting between humans and monsters has affected everyone's lives: People are tired and broken by living in a world where the best they can do is keep StatusQuoIsGod despite numerous efforts to change and trying to ScrewDestiny because the two GodInHumanForm want the opposite of each other. As noted in one possibly canon side story, there are some people who are so scared of entering the supernatural world that they consider DeathIsTheOnlyOption. Much like every Shinza Bansho setting, the universe is hell for those living in it. Everyone remotely aware of the world's situation besides Leo has hit the DespairEventHorizon in different ways, even TheBigGuy just wants it to end.]]
42	** [[spoiler: Another theme is whether or not one should be content with their lot in life simply because to many people, HardWorkHardlyWorks when TheChosenMany can casually upstage what you have been spending your entire life on in a week. Leo, while noting that having TheGift or being a BornWinner does help out to the point it's unfair in life--him basically winning the lottery on that--genuinely believes that people should be able to EarnYourHappyEnding, no matter their situation in life as long as they work hard at it regardless of circumstances. Ben however believes that there is a clear difference in terms of will and ideals between those who can become heroes who save the world and normal guys,and there is no way to cross that gap.]].
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44	* DeityOfHumanOrigin:[[spoiler: Anyone who becomes either a Hadou (those whose desires relate to the world around them) or Gudou (those who have desires related to themselves) God is one--only a Hadou God can take the throne and become a Hegemony God: the Hegemony God is a CosmicEntity.]]
45	* DespairEventHorizon:[[spoiler: Akasha had three, one was understanding that one can't experience everything in the universe due to time still being a thing, so he could not fulfill his wish of exploring every possibility. The second was a collective despair event horizon with his friends when they fought an EldritchAbomination known as Naraka, just when they finished their GoalInLife of reaching the origin coordinate it was taken away. The third which just went FromBadToWorse was reigning so long as a hegemony god, to the point he was DrivenToSuicide along with all the sensories: they just want his world to end and have tried numerous times to get someone to DestroyTheWorld.]]
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49	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: There's been pretty much one constant of the universes besides Naraka, anyone who's a sensory of Mitra has this. Which makes seeing Lust fail at all her plans sad and hilarious at the same time, to date she's failed 245 times to kill one single man.
50	* GodInHumanForm: Hegemony gods have something like this, called a sensory. As a God who reaches the throne, [[spoiler: and the Naraka rangers]] are way too big conceptually to interact with people in the world, beings who act as their sense of touch and sight are born into the reigning Gods world--they might not know if they are sensories, but a lot of them are exceptional one way or another. [[spoiler: The Progenitors are this to the Naraka Rangers, one of their members is even the sensory of the reigning god himself.]]
51	* GodhoodSeeker: Everyone with the potential to become a hegemony god is this on some level.
52	* GoodIsNotSoft: Micheal dreams of YeGoodeOldeDays and has no problem killing all monsters because their trying to destroy the world.
53	* GreenEyedMonster: Envy, for obvious reasons. Yonah showed signs of this when Leo asked her the whereabouts of another monster.
54	* HuMons: Much remains unknown about certain parts of the game setting but quite a few monsters certainly fit this.
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58	* InTheirOwnImage: Alluded to by the universe being called a "heaven", as the act of a Hadou God becoming Hegemony God dyes the universe in said Gods colors, making it their heaven even if the resulting new universe might be more like hell to everyone else.
59	* {{Invocation}}: Surprisingly few in the setting, might be explained as the first Shinza(Universe) being close to the age of Zero which didn't have any invocations. The only ones shown are for invocations of a law.
60	**[[spoiler: Leo and Haru use one when invoking their respective laws that are almost the same:"—Om— Abokya Beiroshano Makabodara Mani Handoma Jinbara Harabaritaya Un.Vajra Thathuvam.Naumaku Sanmanda Bodanan Abila Unken Sowaka!Tenchi Genmyo, Shinbe Hen Tsurikiji."Translation: "Praise be to the flawless, all-pervasive illumination of the great Mudra. Turn over to me the jewel, lotus, and radiant light.O Vajrayana, omnipresent in earth, water, fire, wind, and sky. Now universally devoted to the light! Heaven, Earth, Mystic, and Divine, have transformed their power to" with the last word being different in that Leo wishes to ravage the heavens, while Haru wants to save everyone]]
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62	* ICannotSelfTerminate: Hegemony Gods being the universe themselves cannot kill themselves--sorta. As a defense mechanism in case a god or in some cases a high-powered being ever gets tired of living, an Apoptosis is born. They are the self-destructive factor of gods and others, and exist to help them fulfill their true wishes. They always help the one they are born from, even if in not so obvious or counterintuitive ways. The only problem is if the being they came from dies, then they die as well.
63	* KamehameHadoken: Leo performs a fantastic example of this during the final battle of the Japan Arc.
64	* LoveInterests: Subverted as far as TheProtagonist is concerned according to Parasection.
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68	* NighInvulnerability: Over the course of the game Leo has certainly developed into a StoneWall, first by obtaining limited ResurrectiveImmortality through ThePowerOfFriendship then becoming an AttackReflector through his FantasticFightingStyle and later on gaining a HealingFactor and SuperToughness.
69	* NonLethalKO: Hinted as being the only solution to some enemies. [[spoiler: A FateWorseThanDeath is likely to await their capture though.]]
70	* OminousLatinChanting: When characters engage in this the effects are bordering on BlackSpeech
71	* OurGiantsAreBigger: These are veritable ExperiencePoints pinãtas in the game, if you're strong enough to take them down.
72	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: George is ThePatriarch of the SDA and beyond being a ColonelBadass he's also considered by Leo to be a BenevolentBoss
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76	* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: Later in the story [[spoiler: it was revealed that Leo was a sociopathic murder machine as a kid and an expy of the antagonist from Dies Irae, [[VisualNovel/DiesIrae Reinhard Heydrich]]. He would've become a [[CosmicEntity Hegemony God]] while in the middle of a fight with the Vanguard, Michael, if his brother hadn't convinced both of them to back down. After that, Felix put seals all over his mind, body, and soul, locking away his memories and power before the start of the quest.]]
77	* SpiritedCompetitor: Through the trials and tribulations of Leo has developed and asserted himself as a BoisterousBruiser with just a hint of SociopathicHero.
78	* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: CuteMonsterGirl falls for the ActionHero after what she believes is a RoaringRampageOfRescue on his part and becomes a StalkerWithACrush in the background. [[spoiler: However, Parasection might see this as a VillainousCrush by an AbhorrentAdmirer.]]
79	* StandardEvilOrganizationSquad: What the Progenitors basically are, with each of them representing one of the SevenDeadlySins down to their very names (or what they're called at least).
80	* TerrorHero: How do you pass a an intimidation check when that skill is at zero? With an IntimidationDemonstration.
81	* TheBeforeTimes: [[spoiler: What Michael's true desire was, to return to the past and happier days. He doesn't want the world to stop, nor does he want an ending--what he wants is for the world to be happy, and for people to live their lives as the selves they feel is their best.]]
82	* WorldOfBadass: the world is one, noticeably it does resemble our original world with additions such as mana--the real divergence for the AlternateHistory was only in the 90's after all.
83	* UnskilledButStrong: Leo has been accused of being this more than once and is a bit annoyed at people telling him MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours.
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