First non-GM post! Woot woot! 
Gun Cat Enthusiast
Guten Tag, alle! I promise I'll have my character up tomorrow at the latest. Shit got a littke busy today.
Just to clarify, one character per player, correct?
Gun Cat Enthusiast
Yeah, I think that was the rule. (Don't know how that affects characters with friends or family, though, especially if anyone would wanna bring them into the story, albeit as normal humans.)
"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me
Definitely only one herald per player, but if anybody wants to bring their acquaintances into the story, that is fine, and the player will still get to control them.
On the subject of the story, there are two potential openings I'm now considering and I've decided I may as well ask all your opinions on this. Would you rather all get your powers and then be immediately magic-idol-teleported to the same location, or would you rather the story starts several days after everyone gets their herald powers and conveniently happens to be relatively near by each other/were told to go somewhere when they got their powers and travelled by normal means? From that point it would essentially be the same (and spoilers) but it would make some difference as to which leads up to that point, and I'm willing to let you guys choose.
Gun Cat Enthusiast
(I'm writing this at 3 AM, so if nothing makes much sense here, I apologize.)
As of this minute, I'm a little on the fence. On the one hand, traveling through more normal means would allow the characters some time to become somewhat acclimated to their new powers. On the other hand, if teleportation via Icon interference is shown to be a thing that can occasionally occur to help the characters, it could open up some other possibilities for later on.
I dunno, I think it really depends on what long-term plans you might have for all of this, oh great GM. Unless you're the kind that writes by the seat of their pants, but considering how much though you apparently put in just the backstory alone, that's probably doubtful. 
Also, me staying up this early probably isn't the best thing when it comes to my inane chatter.
Combat mode, engage
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You're chatter is fine, I've heard much less coherent from the sleep-deprived
Personally I favor the second option but chalk that up as personal prefrence rather than a good in-story reason
Maid of Time
I'd go for the first one. :I
The 10th Sync
I think the second one would allow time for character development more than the first, so I'll vote 2
Casting my vote for II as well.
Gun Cat Enthusiast
Okay, now that I'm a little more lucid, I think I'd rather go with option two. Better chance for individual character intros in the RP. (I just hope we don't meet in the airport—I don't think that you're allowed to wear bandanas in airports.)
(EDIT: On a completely unrelated note, I just realized that we have two guys named James. Yes, I'm aware that I'm an easily-exciteable moron.)
edited 27th Jul '13 5:45:45 PM by NaomiHansen
"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me
The 10th Sync
I guess my James will go by Jast then.
Gun Cat Enthusiast
Seems like it. Asking the Englishman to change his name would sound very rude, indeed. [nods]
Russell: Indeed! 
Although personally, I would've loved to write how Dr. Mansart inexplicably disappeared during a lecture. 
"The Song of Roland is an epic tale regarding one of Charlemagne's greatest victories over the Iberian Penninsula. While the tale depicts Roland's foes as heathenistic Muslims, historical research has discovered that Charlemagne was actually fighting his fellow Christians, and that—"
POP!
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Yea there is good potential for humor in that route. I could have Julia complaining because she got ripped away just as she was getting paid.
-dramatic music ensues-
Gun Cat Enthusiast
Pff! Yes, we must be courteous to the gentlemen in our little family. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
OK, so we have one but maybe two but also maybe three people we're still waiting for, but we should be starting soon. By which I mean I'm probably going to post the intro soon after one more acceptable app is posted and point out, yet again, that it is perfectly acceptable to join the RP after it has started.
Going on what seems to be the general consensus, I'm going for option two. We will start with everybody being in Hyde Park, London (yes, England), a week after having gained their abilities (this should be adequate for everyone to have got there, given that the possible end of the world would be quite a good motivator) and I'll leave it up to you as to whether your first posts include a description of the events between getting powers and being there, although I do recommend that you do include such a thing.
Gun Cat Enthusiast
(Okay, let's see if TV Tropes doesn't eat my posts this time.)
My sister just approached me this morning, saying that she's created an account here just to join this RP, so unless she messaged you without my knowledge, it's now probably four at most. And she wants to create a Herald of Entropy. This should be… interesting.
Well then, four people. Again, perfectly viable for people to join after the start, especially not long after the start, hence why I'm most likely to only wait for one more before we begin and just introduce the others when they're ready. Which, again, is a perfectly viable option.
So when should we expect the first post? Tomorrow?
Most probably.
Gun Cat Enthusiast
Yay, the sister made it.
[continues to scramble with editing her own profile]
"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me
OK, RP thread is up. Everyone already accepted may start posting now and, as for those still working on their characters, you can still apply, as I have said a hyperbolic million times by now.
edited 30th Jul '13 4:20:41 PM by Replica
Gun Cat Enthusiast
I'll be off to read it and formulate an introduction. The sister tells me that she'll wait a little bit before bringing in her character, but she is currently writing it right next to me as we speak.
"I do not approve of the fact that my favorite quotes are too long for this character limit." - Me
Signup here.
A long time ago, our world was born. But when rocks collided and combined and Earth was born, there was already one sentient being inhabiting the space where it formed. It was a being of great power and who many would think a god. Its power was not ultimate, but it was strong enough to see the humans who would one day inhabit the world, and it knew that if it remained they may not evolve. As such, it gathered its power and it unleashed it, creating a pocket dimension attached to Earth, within which it started to execute its plans. It created land and shaped it into a great plateau charged with its power, and from itself it created many beings, each given one aspect of its power and trusted to use it to protect the planet and ensure the evolution, then survival of humanity. Although the being created what it desired to create, its power was drained and as such it travelled to the middle of its world and raised a great crystal pillar out of the ground, surrounding itself in it. It begun to gather its power, a task that would take billions of years and left the planet to those it had created, who awoke in their own crystal pillars just as it fell dormant. Although the beings, who quickly came to call themselves icons, at first watched over the Earth and managed it as they had been created to, conflict started between them. Four, the icons of fire, water, earth and air, rose to the positions of leaders among the beings and for some time kept peace, but eventually they became too hungry for power. Soon, each of the four convinced other icons to join their side and a four-way war occurred, with Earth being heavily damaged in the process, the dinosaurs becoming extinct as a consequence, and peace only occurring once major damage was done by a weapon created by the icons of void and sound, leaving the icons of blood, ice and metal seemingly dead and causing the icon of spirit to create an impenetrable barrier to seal herself inside her pillar. The remaining icons realised that peace was necessary and managed to salvage some life on Earth to give their mission a chance of success, but decided afterwards to exile the icon of Void to the empty space at the edge of their dimension and to close the portal between their world and Earth, leaving them the ability only to observe. When the icons of void and sound unleashed their destructive attack, they caused an unnoticed crack in the side of the great pillar. While the original being, the creator, was not disturbed, a fragment of its power escaped before the crack repaired itself. This creation energy formed into a new being, taking the template of the icons that were created a long time before it but drawing in the energy of the land to fuel itself. In taking in the energy, the new icon witnessed the war that had occurred, and it took in their hate and made it its own. The icon of hate saw through to Earth, but it was not yet powerful enough to move through as the other icons could. So it waited and when the link was closed, it managed to use the residual creation power left in it to create a small hole which it could use to enter the world, starting to build a plan to destroy what the others worked to protect. Slowly, the icon of hate gathered its power. Only when human society was already advanced did it find enough power to go through the hole it had created. The year was 2013 and within a week it started to wreak havoc. At first, it pretended to be normal threats, but slowly the people started to get suspicious. Just as humanity realised that there was something more to their present misfortune, as did the icons. But as hard as they tried to move through the small portal the icon of hate had created to pursue it, they could not. It was then that the icon of void retuned to them, with an idea to save the Earth. The icon suggested that they each chose a human and imbued them with their power, each icon making a herald to protect the Earth and pursue the dark icon in their place. The divine icons took the advice of the exile and picked humans to represent them in their fight and as the icon of hate revealed itself, a small group of humans were given the power to defeat it.
Any discussion of the Heralds: The Pursuit of Darkness RP goes here.
Characters as of now are:
Players currently can still join.
edited 31st Jul '13 1:03:25 AM by Replica