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"NO ONIME DON'T DO IT!" "I HAVE TO, ONIME! THE IDEAS ARE BURNING IN MY SOUL!"
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Topic Started: December 3, 2014, 7:21 pm (458 Views)
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Onime No Ryu
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December 3, 2014, 7:21 pm
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I'll be your Undertaker this evening
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Hey I got some RP ideas.
If you wanna do 'em vote and comment.
If you don't just let me down easy or I'll cry okay?
GENERAL NOTES:
- Both RPs are urban fantasy. This means they take place in a setting equivalent to our Modern Day one, complete with technology and weaponry. Certain aspects will make these less viable, though, so fear of not being bulletproof is no reason not to give them a shot. (haha shooting pun)
- I'm still not fond of being the admin of an RP, but I just can't help having all these ideas in my head. Anyone at all who wants to offer their help will be accepted, however in order to really help you would need to not care about spoilers, not abuse your metaknowledge, and be focused on making things fun and fair for everyone.
- One RP is based on an existing story, the other is not. You do not need to be familiar with the story in order to participate.
- Both RPs are intended to be rather short, but will end at what would normally be the end of "Chapter One" so they'll be capable of continuing if people want them to.
ARMS ALCHEMY Alchemy: A protoform of chemistry, an ancient study of the world around us with some overlap with occult practices due to the belief systems at the time. The end goal for many alchemists was the transmutation of base materials into gold and the attainment of immortal life.
However, only two products produced by Alchemy have survived to the modern day. Both have been hidden from the public eye for hundreds of years, for if their existence were known it would tear asunder the world as we know it. These two products were the Homunculi, and the Nucleus.
The Homunculi are near-immortal monsters. By creating a Core using alchemic techniques and the cells of living creatures, then bonding the core to a living Host, a Homunculus is created. The Homunculus uses its human form to blend into the surroundings, and then transforms into a monstrous beast in order to feed. Their primary food source are the very humans they once were. No modern weapon can destroy them, and any damage they take quickly heals. Alchemy created them, and only Alchemy can destroy them.
The Nucleus (known in Japanese as the Kakugane) is the weapon created to fight the Homunculi. It is a hand sized hexagonal medallion with a hexagon at the center on both sides. On the front it features the classic alchemical symbol for amalgam and below it a roman numeral which represents the serial number. It is of simple gray steel in construction, at least at first glance. Within is a baffling array of alchemical machinery. The Nuclei awaken the fighting instincts of the humans who wield them, and transform into a supernatural weapon uniquely tailored to that individual with its form and its powers.
The organization that created both of these things, the Alchemist Army, now works to eliminate the Homunculi by using the Nuclei, to atone for their past mistakes and to keep the world safe as they continue to conduct their research.
When a Rogue Alchemist tries to steal a number of Nuclei for his own purposes, extenuating circumstances scatter the weapons among an unknowing group of individuals. To get the devices back, the Rogue Alchemist sends his experimental army of Homunculi, without regard for the consequences...
TL;DR - THERE'S SOME MONSTERS, SOME PEOPLE USE SOME WEAPONS AND SUPERPOWERS TO FIGHT THEM. A BAD GUY TRIES TO STEAL THE WEAPONS, THEY END UP IN THE HANDS OF THE RPERS. HE SENDS THE MONSTERS HE MADE TO KILL THEM AND GET THE WEAPONS BACK. RP ENDS WHEN WE BEAT THE BAD GUY, GET THE WEAPONS BACK, AND EXPLAIN THINGS TO THE ALCHEMIST ARMY.
ACES Ability Capable Entities
In this world, everyone is born with the capacity for an Ability, a supernatural skill or power that surpasses logic and science in many ways. It's not a magical skill one can learn, and everyone is born with it...but whether or not they awaken it is, in most instances, left up to chance. Out of the 15.6 billion people that populate the planet that is this story's setting, only .05%, or roughly 800,000 individuals have activated their Abilities and become known as Aces. Their presence has radically altered the foundations of this world and its many cultures and societies.
In the Independent City-State of Riverine City, a sprawling and massive city surrounded by a few settlements with little distinction between where one ends and one begins over 4000 kilometers, there exist three major and official facilities focused around Aces: the Ace Approval Academy, or AAA; the Ace Strike Force, or ASF, and the City Guard Aces Division, or (CG)AD.
The ASF and AD are both organizations dedicated to keeping the peace; the ASF is associated with the City Police, like a SWAT team dedicated to criminal incidents involving Aces, and the AD is part of the City Guard, or basically, Riverine's military. They exist to handle whatever the ASF can't, and to counter any Ace-based threats from other countries.
The AAA is an organization originally privately owned but now working as a still-independent, but well entrenched part of the government. In order to make sure that the Aces of Riverine are not a danger to themselves or others and to keep tabs on those that go rogue, the AAA holds an Ability Application Test every year. On average, one million people apply to the test, hoping to be selected to become Aces. Less than 1% pass. Those few who do, however, are taught how to activate their Ability and registered with the government.
This year's test, however, will be vastly different from those that have come before...for a powerful terrorist group plans to infiltrate the AAA and destroy it, along with any other Testers who refuse to join them...
TL;DR: IT'S A WORLD WHERE YOU GET SUPERPOWERS BUT ONLY IF YOU CAN PROVE YOU DESERVE THEM. THE PLACE WHERE YOU GET TESTED FOR YOUR SUPERPOWERS IS GONNA BE ATTACKED BY TERRORISTS. PLOT ENDS WHEN WE GET OUR SUPERPOWERS AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO DEAL WITH THE TERRORISTS. USES THAT ABILITY SYSTEM I MADE IN THE EXPERIMENTAL TOPIC. MIGHT ALSO MAKE USE OF THAT WORLD BUILDING IDEA I DISCUSSED TOO.
I got other ideas too if you don't like these.
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Arcvalons
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December 3, 2014, 8:39 pm
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Lord of the Octoroks, all hail!
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I like ACES better because it reminds me a lot of A Certain Scientific Railgun. Though you should probably work on the initials for organizations, it's a little confusing.
ARMS ALCHEMY sounds rather vanilla/generic.
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Onime No Ryu
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December 3, 2014, 8:42 pm
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I'll be your Undertaker this evening
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- Arcvalons
- December 3, 2014, 8:39 pm
I like ACES better because it reminds me a lot of A Certain Scientific Railgun. Though you should probably work on the initials for organizations, it's a little confusing.
ARMS ALCHEMY sounds rather vanilla/generic. Was aiming more for Hunter X Hunter actually, with the similarities to the Hunter Exam and the Abilities being very similar to Nen, especially in the Rules they require.
Arms Alchemy is basically just a translated version of Buso Renkin, I figured it'd be accepted better that way instead of calling everything by the Japanese name. And Buso Renkin is generic, but it's generic done excellently. It never pretends it's deeper than it is, and it never tries to be anything it's not, and it has great powers, characters, and fights. I really recommend it if you haven't read it already. It's by the same guy that wrote RuroKen.
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December 3, 2014, 8:45 pm
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I recast my vote to Aces o3o
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Onime No Ryu
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December 4, 2014, 4:44 am
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I'll be your Undertaker this evening
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That makes the new tally as 3 for Aces, 2 for Alchemy, and 1 for neither. Would anyone who voted for Alchemy be willing to do Aces, or vice versa, if that option wins?
EDIT: And now one for the other ideas. Which would you like to hear:
- An RP based on Tite Kubo's manga/anime Bleach, without all the stupidity that is Tite Kubo's actual writing.
- An RP based on Okubo's manga/anime Soul Eater, which is also an application of my Pairing RP experiment, wherein RPers take the role of students at Death's Weapon Meister Academy and are sorted into Demon Weapons (people who can change into a weapon with varying abilities) and Meisters who wield the weapons in order to perform assassinations based on the Grim Reaper's Naughty or Nice list in a world straight out of Tim Burton's LSD visions.
- An RP based on Fullmetal Alchemist which also uses alchemy, but a much more generally magic version.
- An RP based on Jojo's Bizarre Adventure where we develop psychic powers that take form as fabulous muscly figures known as Stands and punch each other a lot and have incredibly complex mindgames.
- A reboot of the Gryphon Wing Fairy Tail RP where we were all mages in a magic guild.
- A reboot of my Knights of Logres RP, which was basically Game of Thrones the Animoo Version.
- An RP based on Digimon, which again makes use of the Pairing RP, UNLESS you wanna go the route of just controlling your own partner/transforming into the digimon/being the digimon from the start.
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December 4, 2014, 4:58 am
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Best to sleep on it.
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Oh, hey, Gryphon Wing was fun. I don't mind that coming back around. Might use another character instead, though.
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 Mover, Shaker, Brute and Breaker.
Master, Tinker, Blaster and Thinker,
Striker, Changer, Trump and Stranger.
Worm: Power Classifications Mover - Powers that allow movement over great distances at a time. Includes flyers, Teleporters and speedsters. Shaker - Powers that affect their surroundings in some way. Can, for example, bend or compress the space in the world or creating forcefields. Brute - Powers that grant extreme durability and/or have above average strength, either through superhuman toughness or an incredibly effective healing factor. Breaker - Powers that "break" the laws of nature for themselves, allowing them to survive in impossible states. For example, when dealing with an Elemental Shapeshifter (being able to breath if they're made of fire) or the minor aspects that allow them to survive the use of their powers (like altering how friction applies to speedsters). Master - Powers that allow them to control others or create minions. Tinker - Powers capable of highly specialized technological/biological creations years ahead of their time: from building laser guns or a hover board to growing chimera-like creatures. Separated into two types: Specialty tinkers have a specific type of thing they build, while method tinkers are unique in how they tinker. Wide-scope method tinkers theoretically can create anything but with a catch, such as the inability to create the same thing perfectly twice or narrow-scopes that are more limited but can create extra effects with what they do have. Blaster - Powers that grant a ranged attack, such as emitting lasers, hard light, or elemental powers. Thinker - Powers that deal with the mind, allowing for instant analysis, efficient information retrieval, or outright precognition abilities. Striker - Possible subgroup of Breakers. The ability to apply an effect at point-blank range, whether it be an elemental punch or healing at a touch. Changer - Powers that allow changing or shifting forms. Effects range from changing parts of their own body to weapons to morphing into a more suitable body for a given situation. Also known as Shifters. Trump - Meta-powers that copy or interfere with other powers, or which give them access to many different powers in some other way. Includes those whose power adapts on the fly, copies other people's powers, granting other people minor powers, and nullifying powers. Stranger - Powers that can be used for stealth purposes, such as invisibility, lacking any notability, or erasing any memories of their existence.
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December 4, 2014, 5:26 am
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I stand by my Aces vote and hall not change!
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Onime No Ryu
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December 4, 2014, 10:32 pm
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I'll be your Undertaker this evening
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So currently we stand at 2 votes for Arms Alchemy and 4 votes for ACES, because of Kaze moving his vote. There is 1 vote each for hearing about the other ideas, and for none of the ideas at all. There's been 1 expression of interest in one of the other ideas, and 1 of the votes for Arms Alchemy has said they would consider joining ACES anyway.
So unless someone specifies which of the other ideas they'd like to hear more about, or more people vote to change the majority, we have 5 people who would at least consider joining ACES. I didn't ask if the people who voted for it would have also considered joining Arms Alchemy because that option wasn't in the lead, but 5/8 seems to me enough of a majority that I should at least start getting things ready.
Are there any comments, concerns, offers to be co-admin, etc?
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December 5, 2014, 12:09 am
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- December 4, 2014, 4:58 am
Oh, hey, Gryphon Wing was fun. I don't mind that coming back around. Might use another character instead, though. this
Edit: I'd also be open to Knights of Logres. If we can cut out the whole Japanese island thing.
Edited by oniskieth, December 5, 2014, 12:10 am.
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Onime No Ryu
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December 5, 2014, 3:59 am
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- oniskieth
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Oh, hey, Gryphon Wing was fun. I don't mind that coming back around. Might use another character instead, though.
this Edit: I'd also be open to Knights of Logres. If we can cut out the whole Japanese island thing. What about the primary two ideas of the poll?
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December 5, 2014, 1:22 pm
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I also support Knights of Logres. Or maybe another Silvarneen?
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Onime No Ryu
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December 5, 2014, 1:37 pm
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- December 5, 2014, 1:22 pm
I also support Knights of Logres. Or maybe another Silvarneen? Silvarnen's failed too many times for me to bother attempting it again. Its whole gimmick, the weapons that change to suit the users, would be better executed through the RPs based on other things since they have better establishments/foundations for how the weapons and their transformations should work. For example, Arms Alchemy, Bleach, Soul Eater, those kinds of ideas I listed.
Anyway, I can only do one at a time, but I'll definitely keep everyone's suggestions in mind for the future.
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December 5, 2014, 5:37 pm
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I would be interested in Knights of Logres too- after all, I've been itching to find an excuse to reuse Jake after rereading the old CoH topics on gamefaqs a few months ago. I was originally planning on having used him for Veil but decided it would be more interesting going with my trickster like character instead since he got to play uncle for the Princess and whatnot.
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December 5, 2014, 6:03 pm
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Someone else voted for ACES it looks like, so although I see some of you are enthusiastic for a reboot of Knights, I think that's what we're going to go ahead with. Like I said, though, Aces is intended to be a "Chapter One and Done" kind of situation. If we like it, we can continue, or if it's not that great or if we just want to do something different for a little while to re-charge our creative batteries, I'll probably try Knights next.
Now, the Ability System as it currently stands will need a little bit of a re-rewrite, but for the most part everything will stay pretty much the same as it is in the rewritten version in the Experimental RP Ideas topic I made before. I think the biggest changes will be that Wood/Plants will be merged and Steam will be removed entirely. A few new combinations might be added but off the top of my head I'm not sure.
If you think the Ability System is too complex or hard to use, though, try this: Come up with a singular, succinctly defined "power" that can be used in a lot of ways, rather than individual spells/skills that all do different things. PM or Skype me about it, and I can help you sort out what Element, Type, etc it would all be.
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[b][big]Name:[/big][/b] X [b][big]Age:[/big][/b] X [b][big]Gender:[/big][/b] X [b][big]Race:[/big][/b] Don't make anything super dumb (as in stupid, not intelligence). Don't make anything that lives forever/is better at everything than every other race/is invincible/has natural superhero-level powers without unlocking an ability. Some things, like faster healing due to being reptilian, or night vision due to being a catperson, is okay. Just not super stuff. Avoid "Our Elves are Perfect."
[b][big]Appearance:[/big][/b] X [b][big]Backstory:[/big][/b] X [b][big]Goal:[/big][/b] Character's life goal. If it changes over time (as it probably should) list those changes and what led to them.
[spoiler=ABILITY] [b][big]Ability:[/big][/b][color=X][b]Name of Ability[/b][/color] - Short description.[list] [*][b]Element[/b] - Element Category with Stacking, use (x#). Influence, list the element of influence and its stack. [*][b]Description[/b] - In depth description of objects produced, effects cause, etc. [*][b]Rules:[/b] List limits and conditions and their level bonuses () here.[list] [*]limit or condition[/list] [*][b]Suitability and Choice:[/b] List type percentages with choice bonus () here.[list] [*][u]Advance[/u] - X [*][u]Guard[/u] - X [*][u]Utility[/u] - X [*][u]Dynamic[/u] - X [*][u]Unknown[/u] - X[/list] [*][b]Power Level - # of Levels[/b] [*][b]Applications[/b]:[list] [*]#. Name of Technique [Type] - Description.[/list] [/spoiler]
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Onime No Ryu
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December 7, 2014, 5:22 pm
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I'll be your Undertaker this evening
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So uh, if you guys weren't aware, there's a character topic in the Other RPs section...
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