Samurai Warriors? Sweet!
But seriously, posting interest.
edited 29th Sep '11 8:39:12 AM by KarlKadaver
Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.Four people, in just a couple of days? Sounds like as good a reason as any to start up the Discussion Thread!
- Name: Shingo Aizaki
- Gender: male
- Appearance: A rather handsome young man with an unassuming face, he is always rather sleepy looking and oddly relaxed even in the middle of the fight, even if he is going on the attack. He has sandy blond hair and green eyes. He wears a white shirt with one long sleeve and one gauntlet on the opposite arm. He wears slacks and armored boots. He is tall and wiry.
- Character Summary: Shingo seems like a typical, idiot heroic type who always seems lazy and does not want to finish fighting someone, he just usually leaves them there. He is a jokester and a bit Adorkable, always having a fanboy fit when he sees someone with a recognizable style. He is a cheerful young man who claims to see the world as being "Half Full", but he is also very frank when he sees something that he thinks is dumb or such. He has a secret side to him which only rarely emerges, as his stupidity is merely a cover for a deadly calm killer.
- Abilities: He uses a short katana with a small ring at the end, he likes to put this ring around his finger and spin the sword around. This can be a deceptively deadly tactic. His sword has two "incredibly lethal attributes." It can extend up to 14 kilometers, and move twice as fast as sound. He himself can move pretty fast, and he has a number of battle aura enhanced attacks he can use. He is very good with his sword, to the extent of a Master Swordsman. He has definitely been practicing.
- Brief Backstory: He claims he has no dark and angsty background, and that he is just a kid that has a nifty sword. He is quite a liar. In reality, another lord killed his family, and then was let free of any involvement. Shingo wants revenge.
edited 1st Oct '11 4:16:35 PM by NickTheSwing
- Name: Akihiro Maruyama, (Greatest Ninja In The Land)
- Gender: Male
- Appearance: Akihiro is a…*ahem* rather large man. He is 7 and a half feet tall and tips the scales at around 450 pounds. He is normally dressed in a bright red, loose vest and red breeches. His hands and feet are wrapped in bandages and he wears light armor on his forearms and shins. He has short, spiked, black hair and sports a red headband. His primary weapon is a giant, long-handled cleaver attached to a heavy chain.
- Character Summary: He is a loud, fun-loving man who doesn’t let anything get him down. Challenge him to a fight, he’ll gladly accept. Defeat him in battle, he’ll shake your hand and congratulate you on a job well done. Lose in a battle to him, and he’ll help you up and say “Better luck next time, chum!” He holds his friends in high regard, and if he swears fealty to a lord, he is fiercely loyal to said lord.
- Abilities: Although the title of “Greatest Ninja In The Land,” is a self-proclaimed title, he is actually possessed of a great amount if skill in the art of ninjitsu. His steps are nearly silent when he’s creeping or running. (Attacking is another story.) He carries smoke bombs, in case he need to disappear quickly and possesses kunai and shuriken for distracting foes. His favorite combat ability is creating two clones of himself and rushing into a horde of enemies. “Triple the Fun!”
- Brief Backstory: Not much is known about Akihiro’s past, as he doesn’t tell anyone about it; he’d rather look to the future than dwell on his past. At the moment, he wanders the land seeking a lord worthy of his Great Ninja Skills who will unify the land. His motivation can be explained something like this: “If the land isn’t united, people will fight. If people fight, the land will be destroyed. If the land is destroyed, the peach trees won’t grow. If there are no peach trees, there will be no peaches. I like peaches. Therefore, I fight.”
•Name: Yuki Yamane
•Gender: Male
•Appearance: Looks very much like a girl, though that's really the point since he's Disguised in Drag most of the time. Of smaller than average height and a very slim build, is frame is usually hidden by the shrine maiden style outfit he wears as part of his disguise; instead of hakama, though, his has a wide red skirt instead. His looks are very effeminate to begin with - that is to say, Yuki is solidly in the bishonen category. To accentuate his look he's grown his black hair out to below the waist, usually keeping it back in a ponytail tied by ribbon.
•Character Summary: On the surface a well groomed and polite warrior who's unusually compassionate for someone whose job description involves killing people. He will commonly spare lives when a downed foe has yielded or is too injured to be a threat to him, even if this might be an affront to honor in some way. While generally very accomodating in dealings with others, Yuki refuses to answer any questions about his past and can get very confrontational if such queries are posed. Yuki also acts in such feminine ways that, combined with his looks, he's hard to pin down as a guy. And maybe that's the whole point. Even when he's known for what he is, he still acts that way anyhow. Not unlike a Yamato Nadeshiko, he has a quiet determination about him that makes him a particularly loyal ally in a fight.
•Abilities: Despite appearances is for all intents and purposes an expert wielder of the naginata, and wields a rather ornate one with a larger than normal blade and gold inlays. While small in stature and thus lacking in brute strength, Yuki is incredibly agile and talented at reading an opponent's body language. This allows him to make an educated guess as to what the foe will do or perhaps where a weak point in their defense lies. It doesn't work all the time, but it's effective enough to be kind of spooky. Some training in the use of the bow and unarmed combat round out Yuki's fighting capabilities, but he's deadliest with his polearm. He can claim one special technique - one in which he swiftly strikes multiple opponents in the flash of an eye, or one opponent multiple times. The blade itself is remarkably sharp, and is actually pretty old... yet still in excellent condition.
•Brief Backstory: Yuki's past is a mystery, and he isn't letting anyone in on the details. Rumor has it that he's the illegitimate son of one lord or another by way of an exceptionally rare samurai-ko. His effectiveness at his role while in dusguise might well be the result of training by actors, which would negate the illegitimate son theory. In actuality there is some truth to both of these ideas, and the reality is somewhere in the middle. On those few occasions where others see through the outer looks, he simply states, "I just prefer being like this. There's nothing wrong with beauty on the battlefield, ne?".
edited 6th Oct '11 9:53:30 AM by Bombadillo
Avatar from: http://x0whitelily0x.livejournal.com/5953.html N: 5 F, 0/40 S- Name: Katsuki Nakakami
- Gender: M
- Appearance: As a retainer of Date, he wears the typical blue-and-black armor seen worn by the majority of Date's forces. This could lead some to assume that he's merely another Mook in the Date army. They would be in for a shocking surprise.
- Character Summary: As befitting his status as a retainer of the One-Eyed Dragon, Katsuki by and large fits into the 'delinquent' stereotype common amongst Date's army. Deeper than that, however, is a man who holds honor and love in the highest of regards, and that is the reason why he finds his loyalties conflicted between his family allegiance to the Date, and an unwillingness to fight against his beloved and her family. He's focused and relentless in battle, though he actively refrains from garnering attention to himself. Speak ill of his wife, clan, or situation at your own peril.
- Abilities: He fights with his ancestral daisho, the enchanted weapons Shinaijou and Kagetaku. The two weapons house the souls of an ancient warrior princess of the Aoyama clan and a ninja servant of said warrior princess, respectively. Kagetaku has the unique ability to allow him to summon the ninja servant, Kazue, to be used for battle, espionage, etc. Shinaijou's bonded soul can't be summoned, but is still sentient and aware of what goes on, and grants the sword its unique abilities that give the sword its name: it glows in response to love, and cracks in response to dishonesty (and their opposite effects, of course). Combative, he dual-wields and his abilities are basically the moveset of Shinmeiryu techniques.
- Brief Backstory: Head of his clan, and a retainer of the Date clan. Married to Kouya Aoyama, heiress of the Shinmeiryu swordsmanship school, said to be able to divide the heavens and cleave mountains in half. They have two children between them, a boy and a girl, twins. Both nominally serve under Date. However, the Aoyama are bound to loyalty to the Toyotomi remnants, the Western Army. Both are aware of this, and of the state of the Warring States that could lead toward a confrontation between Tokugawa and the Toyotomi remnants. Both are actively working to prevent this from coming to a battle which would see them divided by their family loyalties.

I've been a part of a few RPs in the past, but I've never attempted to start my own before. Considering I've spent most of my recent free time playing a copy of "Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes" for the Wii, it's as good a background to start from as any.
Premise: Japan, circa...a rather long time ago. Just as the continent has been united under the banner of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, his ambition for global domination quickly led to his death by the hands of a former retainer. Chaos spreads quickly, and it appears that another war for unification is underway. Will the final conflict be between rivals Ieyasu of the East and Mitsunari of the West, or will someone else step in during the conflict to try and claim dominance? You better be ready, guys, 'cause it's time to put ya guns on!
How The RP Will Work: In a nutshell, the players (you) will be Original Characters united under a single banner, and tasked with helping your commander (the GM, AKA me) conquer Japan by fighting against the armies of other lords and ladies (also played by me). Given the nature of the series, players are allowed to take over enemy camps and fight bosses in any manner they wish to, as long as it doesn't detract from other peoples' fun or break the story too badly. The main plot has yet to be set in stone; akin to the game I'm taking inspiration from, while the RP's setting and the personalities of many characters are set in stone, you should have the freedom to choose which areas you wish to conquer or form alliances with. Opening information, such as whether you start as a band of mercs or are already aligned with a lord or lady, shall be decided in a Discussion topic.
But why pull out your hot pot if you've got no veggies to cook? ...In other words, I'm not making a Discussion topic until I know people will post in it (Edit: A Discussion thread has now been created; see below). All I'd like is a post saying that you're interested, but if you wish to sign up immediately, a rough sheet is as follows:
....One last thing. Yeah, I know this is already a large post, but just hear me out on this. I have University classes all of Tuesday and most of Wednesday, and in the past, I've had to leave RPs after illness or computer problems causes me to fall too far behind. Rather than have this idea fall apart in days to come if I'm gone too long, should someone with decent experience and grammar wish to be my Co-GM, I would be more than willing to form an alliance.
The Discussion Thread!
The RP Thread!
Confirmed Players and their Characters:
edited 10th Oct '11 4:57:23 PM by EndarkCuli