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neobullseye R.I.P. Stuntel: 1-9-2012 from Here, of course. Since: Jun, 2011
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#1: Aug 25th 2011 at 2:02:56 PM

"Let me tell you about our history... The kingdom you are the heir of is just a small piece of the world, with kingdoms vaster than you can imagine and ancient ruins scattered amonst the land, telling of an age where everyone could use magic. In this age that power is limited to only a few, and even then in a much smaller way than in ages past. However, they say that when this world was in grave danger, heroes arose with abilites far beyond those of normal men. Some say they've had these abilities from birth, others say that they were given these by higher beings after they reached a certain age. According to the legends, the heroes all had two things in common: A crest somewhere on their body, depicting a rune of an element, and a crystal shard. These were imposible to get rid of. If you threw it away, it would just find it's way back to you. If the sources are correct, these shards would start glowing if they were close to one another. One can only wonder what would happen if they were all brought together..." - Sage Kira to Sino, the Prince of Septira, at the year 1349 after the Great Spellstorm.

This is a free-to-all RP, with a twist: because of the nature of the RP, i need to know in advance who will join and how many. In other words, you can't join when the RP has already started. There is also a limit in how many people can join, but i can stretch this out a bit.

As noted in the quote thingie, this is a magical world. Because of the elemental spirits, all characters will have access to magic naturaly, but only of their element. They can still learn other spells, but it won’t be as strong and will take more effort. For the rest of the setting, just think of a medieval earth. There will be some changes, but those will come apparent when we’ll get there.

I also need everyone who wants to join to choose an element when they make their character, this for obvious plot reasons.

Character Skeleton :

  • Name:
  • Sex:
  • Age: (just keep it realistic, old geezers of 65+ won’t be able to roam the lands easily, nor will 6- kids.)
  • Race: (Human, Elf, etc. Crossbreeds are also allowed, just keep it a bit realistic. In other words, no Troll/Halfing breeds or anything like that.)
  • Appearance:
  • Weapons:
  • Clothes: (sorta overlaps with looks, i guess, but meh)
  • Abilities:
  • Personality
  • History/background: (I don’t really care if it's short or long, but at least try to get it more than two sentences. This is mostly so that we know how your character will play, though you are obviously allowed to make changes and evolve your character, as long as there is a logical reason for this.)

Accepted characters:

Elements taken:

edited 10th Sep '11 8:35:22 AM by neobullseye

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NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#2: Aug 26th 2011 at 8:11:35 PM

  1. Name: Jon Etheim
  2. Sex: male
  3. Age: 19
  4. Race: Human
  5. Appearance: A tall and very muscular young man, he has a handsome, but boyish appearance, somewhat sloppily cut black hair, dark gray eyes, and a scar on his torso from a training accident. His rune appeared at the small of his back.
  6. Weapons: A single claymore style sword, and two small swords at his waist just in case.
  7. Clothes: Very practical dark steel armor, smooth shoulder guards, gauntlets, long steel grieves, and underneath the armor he wears a chain mail shirt, under that a sleeveless gray shirt, under the tassel and leg armor he wears tanned leather pants, and boots. He wears a green cape with his family insignia on it. He wears a small amulet which has his crystal shard inside of it.
  8. Abilities: He mainly uses his Charles Atlas Superpower, speed and incredible skill with a sword to deal with enemies. Otherwise, he uses water elemental magic.
  9. Personality: Jon is, unlike his sixteen year old brother Eric, a kind and honest person at heart, though he has a lot of the family's glory on his mind at the moment and so, he can be a little bit aloof and seem like a jerk, when he's really a nice person inside. He adheres to his ideals first and foremost, trusting his heart. He is Hot-Blooded, and loves a good fight to the extent of counting as a Blood Knight.
  10. History/background: Jon is the oldest son of the Etheim Family, a group of very powerful Dukes. He has three siblings, one of them an older sister named Morgana. It is remarked several times that Jon is very close to the throne, approximately the eighth from it.

edited 27th Aug '11 7:21:25 PM by NickTheSwing

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neobullseye R.I.P. Stuntel: 1-9-2012 from Here, of course. Since: Jun, 2011
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#4: Aug 27th 2011 at 12:06:18 PM

@ Nick: Accepted. Though, where is your character's crystal shard? Fix that, and you're in.

In any case, let me post my character:

  • Name: Ryu Aeria
  • Sex: Male
  • Age: 23
  • Race: Human
  • Appearance: Though not very muscular, Ryu has a athletic build. He has deep blue eyes, medium-* short brown hair falling straight down and normal white skin (Normal in the sense of not albino). A wind rune is somewhat wrapped around his left leg.
  • Weapons: Twin shortswords for standard battle, along with a small knife for stealth.
  • Clothes: Ryu wears a black, eastern-looking suit with metal padding sewed in and one decorative wind rune on each shoulder. His pants are made out of standard clothing dyed brown. He wears brown leather shoes. He also has a ring fitted with a strange color-changing gem which he wears on a small necklace around his neck.
  • Abilities: Ryu's combat stile is mostly built around a combination of speed and stealth, in that he tries to either kill his enemies before they can see him or overwhelm them with sheer offense. As a result, he has rather poor defense, though if he gets in a losing situation, he can use his wind-based magic to get out of battle fast. His magic skills are also built around speed, with his only real offense consisting of air blasts and cutting edges.
  • Character: Ryu is cold and calculating. He finds it hard to trust strangers, though he will protect true friends with everything he has in him. Though not a coward, he knows when to leave a losing battle, but will never do so if someone depends on him.
  • History: Ryu was raised an orphan. His mother died when he was still very young, and the only thing he has of him is a picture of her, and her ring, fitted with a strange unidentified gem. Whenever he was sad, angry, or otherwise depressed, he felt a calming, soothing energy flow out from it. Because of the way he was treated in the orphanage, he quickly learned that if you want to survive in the world, you need to take care of yourself. Yet at the same time, he felt the need to adventure like any other boy. Later, at the age of 18, he decided he had enough of the bullying. He took whatever personal things he had, including two shortswords and his mother's ring, said he was going out to hunt, and ran. He headed for the mountains, since that would be the hardest route for the people of the orphanage to follow him. However, this route turned out to be a bit too much for him too. As he searched for shelter in a cave, the gem on the ring started to glow. A sweet, familiar voice sounded from the air.
    • ???: "Ryu..."
    • Ryu: "What the... Am i going crazy? Just perfect... I'm only out on my own for a few hours and already i'm losing my mind."
    • ???: "Ryu, listen to me. I don't have much time...'
    • Ryu: "That voice... What do you mean, you don't have much time? And why am i talking to you?"
    • ???: "Ryu, you are special. The crest on your leg and the crystal are both signs of that. You are linked to the light spirits of the wind. But just as there are light spirits, so are there evil spirits..."
    • Ryu: "Evil spirits?"
    • ???: "Yes. There are great demons sealed away in stone. But the seal is weakening, and will soon be destroyed. If it does, they will once again roam the lands, causing destruction in their path."
    • Ryu: "And you're telling me i can stop them?"
    • ???: "No, you can only stop one of them. There are more men and women like you. The pendant will guide you... Find them... This is your...
    • Ryu: "My what? Where are they? What's going on?"
The light from the gem dims again, leaving Ryu in the shades of the cave.
  • Ryu: "Wait, come back! ...What just happened? That voice, it sounded so familiar..."

He wanted freedom, but he couldn't know that there was no freedom for him to find. Not until he has fulfilled his destiny... Ryu then went travelling across the lands, doing his own thing while searching for others bearing a crest.

PS: I used those asterikses as a linebreak for now: Does anyone know how to make proper linebreaks without them?

edited 27th Aug '11 12:18:56 PM by neobullseye

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Shadowbell Macinatrix Insana from Massachusetts Since: Jan, 2001
Macinatrix Insana
#5: Aug 27th 2011 at 10:17:22 PM

  • Name: Cornelius Le Blanc
  • Sex: Male
  • Age: 20
  • Race: Human
  • Appearance: Cornelius has a handsome, some might say androgynous face with short, neatly groomed black hair. He's tall, with a thin and somewhat willowy build. His elemental rune appeared between his shoulder blades.
  • Weapons: His primary weapon is a rapier, and he usually carries a dagger as a backup weapon.
  • Clothes: A white and blue nobleman's outfit with the Le Blanc family insignia (a red falcon) on the right shoulder. He always wears an amulet with his crystal shard set into it.
  • Abilities: What Cornelius lacks in brute strength, he makes up for in agility and wits. He was trained in swordsmanship from an early age, and studied at the prestigious Blackwood Academy. He can use fire magic, but as this power emerged recently, he hasn't had as much training with it as he has with swordsmanship.
  • Personality: Despite his adventurous nature, Cornelius hasn't forgotten the etiquette that was taught to him; he's quite at home in a formal setting. He considers his word his bond, and will never break it. He's a bit of a romantic, and loves poetry and music. When he was young, he saw a maid suffer a painful sting from a dire hornet. She survived, but Cornelius was left with a fear of stinging insects.
  • History/background: Cornelius is the second child of Count Marcus Le Blanc, an influential nobleman. His sister Minerva is two years older than him. The Le Blancs are a highly prominent family in Blackwood, the southernmost province of Alminia. The Le Blanc family motto is “Wisdom shines brighter than gold.”

edited 5th Sep '11 2:07:40 PM by Shadowbell

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neobullseye R.I.P. Stuntel: 1-9-2012 from Here, of course. Since: Jun, 2011
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#6: Aug 29th 2011 at 4:47:50 AM

Shadowbell: Accepted. Also, i'll add some character info to the opening post... If i can get my idea to work out.

EDIT: Hmm... Shadowbell, you might want to change your character's last name a bit due to generating broken links. Either add a space somewhere or remove the second capital letter.

edited 29th Aug '11 5:05:08 AM by neobullseye

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kagescorpionakki Breath of the Sun from Long Ago Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Breath of the Sun
#7: Aug 29th 2011 at 4:02:02 PM

  • Name: Shade Silvertongue
  • Sex: Male
  • Age: 18
  • Race: Human
  • Appearance: Pale, with black straight hair, and a black crystal in his right eye socket. His left eye is sealed shut by a rune of darkness.
  • Weapons: A staff.
  • Clothes: A black hooded robe and black cloth shoes.
  • Abilities: Though blind, Shade's hearing and sense of smell are far greater than a human. In addition, he can 'feel' things by extending his shadow. Using this, he lashes out with powerful shadow magic when he so much as hears a sound from an opponent. He can manipulate shadow as easily as he walks, but physically is very weak.
  • Personality: Calm, cold, and very cruel. Shade cares for none but himself and seeks only to be the strongest.
  • History/background: His father was an alcoholic warrior and his mother was also an alcoholic warrior. They rarely taught him anything, preferring to occasionally throw him into a gang of thieves, and then run off laughing before going home and fornicating on the dinner table. A goblin shoved the crystal in his eye one fateful night causing his rune to appear, and when his parents learned of his blindness, they tried to pry the crystal out. They died that night. Shade has roamed the land ever since.

edited 29th Aug '11 4:02:37 PM by kagescorpionakki

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#8: Aug 29th 2011 at 6:54:45 PM

  • Name: John (No last name)
  • Sex: Male
  • Age: 20
  • Race: Shade (a human born without a soul)
  • Appearance: John's has extremely pale skin. He has pure red eyes, and sharp teeth. He has long white hair.
  • Weapons: A crude club. What ever he picks up off of the ground.
  • Clothes: Tattered grey clothes that look like they were once expensive aristocratic clothes, but look like they have been worn uncleaned for about five years.
  • Abilities: John is quite strong, but not to a supernatural level. He can also use elemental magic, but he has a really strange element, Void. His element is the lack of everything else. With his void magic, he feels no heat, nor pain, nor needs any food, nor water, nor can he taste any food, or be killed by any poison. His wounds heal themselves over time (not at the speed of Wolverine, for instance). He can read people's surface thoughts. He can either take out a single target's ability to see/hear/smell/etc. anything, or prevent a group to see/hear/etc. a specific thing, but not both at the same time.
  • Personality: John feels little to no emotion. He has trouble understanding people, but he is able to interact with them, however, his speech sounds rather halting and unnatural. He has the tendency to solve his problems as pragmatically and efficiently as possible. He trusts no one.
  • History/background: John was born into an aristocratic family, and it was immediately obvious to them that he was a shade, as his eyes were already red, and his teeth already sharp. His family tried to raise him, believing that if they cared for him enough, he would regain his soul. They were wrong. On his part, he tried his hardest to be the perfect son, but he could never achieve success in anything. In addition, he never understand others. Nine months before his tenth birthday, he a voice began to speak to him. It would tell him what to do, and what to say. At first he ignored it. When he was 15, his parents figured out that he would never regain his soul, and promptly disowned him and kicked him out. In his despair, he gave in and listened to what the voice told him to do. Under the voices direction,he learned how to fight and survive in the wild. Under its direction, he fashioned for himself his club. Under its direction, he could talk to people. As he listened to the voice, it would whisper to him secrets of those around him, and would tell him that he had the power in him to find them out on his own. Eventually, he asked for the secrets of magic, and the voice taught him how to use the magic of the void, and it revealed to him its identity. It was the void shard (I know, shocker right). At birth, he was implanted into John's heart by a strange man who had bribed the doctor to let him see John before his parents, and when the shard was planted in him, he lost his soul. The void shard explained that it felt guilty for what the man had done, so it had built up its power in order to tell John his secrets. The voice never spoke to him again.

edited 31st Aug '11 7:26:28 AM by deathpigeon

neobullseye R.I.P. Stuntel: 1-9-2012 from Here, of course. Since: Jun, 2011
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#9: Aug 30th 2011 at 10:47:40 AM

Kagescorpionakki: Accepted... Why do i get the feeling that the party is going to regret this? >_> Deathpigeon: Please clarify "Void Magic" a bit. Otherwise, accepted.

Also, i like how your character's backgrounds match up with a certain plot event i have in mind. What plot event, you ask? Hehehehehe....

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#10: Aug 30th 2011 at 12:26:01 PM

[up] The void element is essentially the absence of the elements. Using void magic makes it so that you feel no pain, need no food or water, have a slow wound regeneration (essentially wipe the wound out of existence, similar to how Orihime heals people, but only on himself, and it takes a long time), and the power to hear the surface thoughts of others (destroying the barriers to the mind). It has side effects, though. Prolonged usage of void magic leads to the loss of all sensation, and extreme hunger (it only wipes away the need for food, not hunger). More prolonged usage than what John does will lead to blindness. I essentially made every power in some way an effect of something being "wiped away" and/or undone.

neobullseye R.I.P. Stuntel: 1-9-2012 from Here, of course. Since: Jun, 2011
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#11: Aug 30th 2011 at 12:50:03 PM

Do you have any offensive ideas for it though? Because as far as i can see now, you only have support skills for yourself with almost zero offensive abilites. Hmm... maybe blind or deafen the target (Make their senses void), or otherwise affect their energies and/or senses? I'm just curious how your element of choice would behave itself in battle. (Mostly because i don't want to see you just throw the "final boss" into oblivion, or so to speak :P)

Also: If anyone else wants to join the main group, you'll have to take the Earth Element. I can play around with secondary groups a bit, but due to this RP being heavily story-oriented... yeah.

edited 30th Aug '11 12:56:16 PM by neobullseye

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#12: Aug 30th 2011 at 1:39:02 PM

[up] I like the blinding and deafening idea. Also, perhaps, he could wipe himself from his tagets vision (like invisibility, but more complete (takes away evidence of his presence from sight such as foot prints, but its only against one person).

neobullseye R.I.P. Stuntel: 1-9-2012 from Here, of course. Since: Jun, 2011
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#13: Aug 31st 2011 at 7:23:25 AM

That's a niceidea, i guess; He can either take out a single target's ability to see/hear/smell/etc. anything, or prevent a group to see/hear/etc. a specific thing, but not both at the same time. That would work.

That would make your character into someone based on buffing and debuffing, with relatively little attack power though (Especially seeing as he only has a club). Is that okay with you?

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#14: Aug 31st 2011 at 7:25:42 AM

Yeah. That's fine. Also, I noticed you capitalized deathpigeon in the op. Please don't. I don't want to hide another body. Its getting quite a pain.

edited 31st Aug '11 7:27:45 AM by deathpigeon

neobullseye R.I.P. Stuntel: 1-9-2012 from Here, of course. Since: Jun, 2011
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#15: Aug 31st 2011 at 7:27:53 AM

Cool ^_^

Now only to fill that last Earth slot... -starts to bug every last Troper around-

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#16: Aug 31st 2011 at 7:33:50 AM

...deathpigeon is still capitalized. deathpigeon SHOULD NEVER BE CAPITALIZED!!!!!!

neobullseye R.I.P. Stuntel: 1-9-2012 from Here, of course. Since: Jun, 2011
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#17: Aug 31st 2011 at 10:44:51 AM

>_>...

It's decapitalized now :P

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neobullseye R.I.P. Stuntel: 1-9-2012 from Here, of course. Since: Jun, 2011
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#19: Aug 31st 2011 at 11:20:41 AM

Meh... I dunno how i missed that one. Ah well, it's fixed now.

Also, people: There's still one slot open :P. I'd like to see a full magician, seeing how we pretty much only have melee characters yet, but W/E.

edited 31st Aug '11 11:22:16 AM by neobullseye

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deathpigeon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#21: Aug 31st 2011 at 12:29:31 PM

I have another character idea, if that's okay.

neobullseye R.I.P. Stuntel: 1-9-2012 from Here, of course. Since: Jun, 2011
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#22: Aug 31st 2011 at 1:09:36 PM

Hmm... I'd rather wait a few more days until i let someone make secondary characters. If nobody has shown any interest in this RP come next sunday, then we'll see again, okay?

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neobullseye R.I.P. Stuntel: 1-9-2012 from Here, of course. Since: Jun, 2011
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#23: Sep 2nd 2011 at 5:57:47 AM

So, just to make it clear to everyone... In terms of charater/party balance, we still need:

  • Someone who uses the Earth Element
  • A healer
  • A magic-heavy character.

Of course there can be some overlap between the two, but that's a different matter.

EDIT: Also, Nick Theswing, feel free to post your character, as long as it fills some of the niches put up above.

edited 2nd Sep '11 6:00:00 AM by neobullseye

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YoungMachete from Dallas Since: May, 2011
#24: Sep 3rd 2011 at 8:51:16 PM

Interested in this. I'll post a character tonight, just need some time to brainstorm.

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Aralyn from Land Downunder Since: May, 2011
#25: Sep 3rd 2011 at 9:00:01 PM

Interest, but I'm not sure if I can think up a character...

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