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| Onime No Ryu | December 24, 2014, 10:30 am Post #1 |
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I'll be your Undertaker this evening
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So I decided to scrap ACES due to its system needing some reworking. I tried thinking of some other stuff to do, and a few folks have been mentioning that sci-fi or modern day stuff might be a good change of pace, but currently there are a couple of those, like Niroth's Cyberpunk RP, in the works. So I decided to go for a Modern Day setting with a Supernatural bend, as a kind of happy medium between fantasy and science. NTNP's Megido Effect also falls under this, I think, but he's wisely biding his time. This RP is based on the anime/manga by Tite Kubo, Bleach. You do not need to be familiar with the source material, because a lot of it is going to be changed anyway. Series Information Plot Synopsis and Basics: In this RP you play as a Soul Reaper, a kind of death god that defends humans in the Living World from soul eating creatures called Hollows. Your primary abilities come from your sword, which changes its shape to suit your individual character. The Living World is modern day Japan, but it's anime-land so don't worry about getting the culture right or whatever. Soul Society, the afterlife, is mostly based on feudal Japan, the samurai era, in terms of architecture but there are some anachronisms here and there. In the anime it's never discussed, but I believe Soul Society is like that because it's Japan's personal afterlife and thus influenced by their beliefs not only spiritually, but about their culture's heyday. We're using the Soul Society from the main series and not some other western countries' Soul Society because I don't want to spend time transferring all the analogues from one culture to another. This is a completely Non Canon RP. No Anime Characters will make an appearance here and the universe will be vastly changed in some respects. Quincies, Fullbringers, Bounts, Mod Souls, and Hybrids don't exist because they've proven to be stupid, un-unique, and un-necessary in the main series. Especially the quincies, goddamn I hate the quincies. You have Humans, who can die and become either Soul Reapers or Hollows, and that's it. The possibility of Hollowfication, Visoreds, and Arrancar will be explored, but not in the same way Kubo did it. The Plot will be somewhat similar to the anime, but without all the parts that made it drawn out and stupid. It'll basically be me trying to show off whether or not I can do a better job than Kubo did. There is a traitor in the midst of the 13 Divisions, one who seeks to blur the line between souls, and become a god. Who will stop them? Who can? Character Creation Code Available Positions: Since we're not using any anime characters, that means you guys get to be Captains right off the bat if you want to! Call dibs on your preferred Division and Position! If you're at 20th Seat or Higher, you HAVE to have a Shikai. If you're a Captain level, you HAVE to have a Bankai. Shikai can be sorted out here, but for that "flair" of revealing your powers Bleach so prides itself on, SEND ME YOUR BANKAI IN A PM SO I CAN APPROVE IT. ON THE CHARACTER SHEET, ONLY INCLUDE THE BANKAI TAG IF YOU HAVE A BANKAI, AND DON'T SAY ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT IT. If you're lower than Captain level you can work your way up to a bankai, or if you wanna be like Ikkaku and Renji and have one despite not being a Captain, PM me about it and we'll talk. Questions, comments, concerns, let's go. 1st (Commanding): Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 2nd(Special Forces, stealth/espionage/military police): Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 3rd: Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 4th(Medical): Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 5th: Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 6th: Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 7th: Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 8th: Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 9th(External Security): Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 10th: Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 11th(Close Combat Blood Knights): Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 12th(Research and Development): Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? 13th: Captain - ? Vice Captain - ? Seats 3-20 - ? Edited by Onime No Ryu, December 28, 2014, 7:37 am.
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| Primera Espada Yggdra | December 24, 2014, 2:46 pm Post #2 |
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For the names of Zanpakutous, do they have to be in Japanese? I know that in Bleach, all of the Zanpakutou names are in Japanese, but not all of us here actually know the language. Of course, if you can translate the names of our Zanpakutous to Japanese, then I guess that's fine. If I find the time to join this if it's a go, then I call dibs on one of the captain seats. |
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| Arcvalons | December 24, 2014, 3:49 pm Post #3 |
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Lord of the Octoroks, all hail!
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I don't know anything about Bleach and consider it a blander version of DBZ, so I'm pretty lost just by your explanation. And wasn't Silvarneen much like Bleach? Or at least as how my mind thinks Bleach is.
I think you should do a space thing. |
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| Onime No Ryu | December 24, 2014, 4:15 pm Post #4 |
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Nope, they don't have to be in Japanese, although if you'd like me to translate them or if you wanna use Google Translate that's fine. Just remember that Google translate offers multiple translations for things, and to do a reverse-check (put the kanji it gave you back into the translator and do it from Japanese to English) to make sure of what it's giving you. I also find this Kanji Dictionary useful because once you've used Google Translate to get a kanji, you can place it here to find more meanings and sound bytes of how it is pronounced for each meaning. It only works for one at a time, though, so for let's say "Zangetsu," you'd have to put the kanji for "Zan" in first to get "kill, cut, slay, destroy" and then Getsu to get "moon" and whatever other meanings it has. |
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| Onime No Ryu | December 24, 2014, 4:17 pm Post #5 |
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I tried thinking of some futuristic ideas, but couldn't really get anything flowing. I'm not really a Star Wars/Star Trek/Warhammer 40k kind of guy and stuff in that genre is harder for me to enjoy, personally. Silvarnen was kinda like Bleach, but I made it more complex because I was trying to differentiate it. Bleach's magic sword mojo is a little simpler and simpler is, for explanation purposes, better. If you really don't know anything about the series, I tried to condense everything you'll need in that first spoiler there up top. |
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| NTNP | December 24, 2014, 8:29 pm Post #6 |
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I am not against this idea but there are some aspects that really need narrowed down. Firstly, I would explain some information about each division in detail. Secondly, providing a few explanations of the storylines you want to explore, some of the non combat aspects and perhaps even giving some 'daily expectations' of the characters in the narrative too. |
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| Onime No Ryu | December 24, 2014, 8:48 pm Post #7 |
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What kind of info do you need about the divisions, specifically? I tried to keep things as simple as possible so as not to overcrowd anyone with information like what happened with Aces. Storyline information: In the original canon, the main antagonist for the largest part of the series wanted to become a godlike being by breaking down the barriers between Hollows and Soul Reapers to make himself something that could use all their powers and abilities. Except Kubo did it with the most literal kind of plot device I've ever seen, so I'm going to do it differently. The antagonist will be among the players from the beginning, but their identity will, for a little while at least, be unknown. That might be something I'd ask for help with over PM, actually, because whenever I try to do that kind of thing it's immediately obvious what character it is and I'm left like "DAMMIT THEY FIGURED IT OUT ALREADY." This antagonist will have a similar goal to the canon version, but will go about it differently, experimenting on Hollows and their growth. Anyone familiar with the series will know what I mean, but for those that don't the simplest explanation is that Hollows start out like monsters, and as they grow more powerful and intelligent they regain some human features. The most powerful Hollows are almost completely humanoid in appearance save for things like skin color, spikes, mask features, etc. By tampering with this process the antagonist will create numerous situations for the player characters to deal with, while they must figure out the villain's identity and end-goal. Of course, the villain will try to stop them from doing this. One thing I actually thought about is that, once people actually start calling dibs on their positions, PMing someone I thought had the most likely character type and asking them if THEY wanted to be the villain, or part of the villain's team, or whatever. Non combat aspects of the RP would revolve around different groups of players putting their heads together--if 8th division goes on a mission to the Living World and comes back with some info, and 11th division goes to Hollow World and comes back with some info, they'll need to meet up and trade what they've got and try to put all the puzzle pieces together. Then of course there'd be the typical interactions we're used to. I want to give this a little bit of a mystery bent to it even though the original series didn't really have much of that at all, just because I feel like it fits with the plot. Daily expectations for characters would probably include hunting hollows, investigating crimes or other such happenings in the Seireitei, excursions into Hollow World to stop larger-threat Hollows, performing burial rites on Good Souls in the Living World, etc. |
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| Sin | December 24, 2014, 10:35 pm Post #8 |
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Slow and steady...
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Is there puzzles? I can't deal with RP puzzles.
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| Primera Espada Yggdra | December 24, 2014, 10:48 pm Post #9 |
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Now you mentioned the Visoreds and the Arrancars. I have some questions on that. 1) Will the Visored be former high ranking Shinigami officers like in Kubo's story? 2) Is it possible for players to have a Soul Reaper that can manifest a Hollow mask, AKA like a Visored? Can we have characters that are a part of the group once the Visored are introduced? 3) Will players have the option to play as an Arrancar when the group has been introduced? If so, will they have the option to play an Espada (if people don't know who they are, it's just the Arrancar counterpart of a Shinigami captain)? |
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| Onime No Ryu | December 25, 2014, 3:20 am Post #10 |
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Not Zelda puzzles or dungeon puzzles, no. I'd like for there to be detective style stuff, but if I can't do it well I may just reveal what needs to be revealed and let the pieces fall as they lie. The idea behind what I said is that the antagonist is causing problems in Living World and Soul Society. The players will need to use the clues left from those events to figure out who the antagonist is and what their plans are. |
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| Kazemitsu | December 25, 2014, 3:26 am Post #11 |
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Assassin
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No. I am disappoint. |
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| Onime No Ryu | December 25, 2014, 3:41 am Post #12 |
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1) Possibly. Haven't figured out how I'm going to handle that just yet. 2) If I choose to introduce those groups, I'll consider letting people make other characters to be part of them depending on what needs to be done in context of the story (for instance, if they're all gonna die, I doubt people would wanna make characters just to have them killed off.) 3) Same as above. |
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| Onime No Ryu | December 25, 2014, 6:26 pm Post #13 |
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At NTNP's suggestion, I'm going to post an example synopsis of the first "chapter," so to speak, of the original version of Bleach compared to this RP. To be honest even though early Bleach was one of the better parts, it was still pretty enemy-of-the-week, but it served to set up the rules of the universe. So really this first chapter is more like the first arc I guess. ORIGINAL MY VERSION |
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| NTNP | December 25, 2014, 6:44 pm Post #14 |
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So, basically we are completely disregarding the previous plot for one of your own creation? Alright, so let's go over the pros and the cons of this idea. Firstly, why would the hollows attack Adventure Town without the presence of an individual of considerable spiritual pressure there? Perhaps explaining that there is someone (something, etc) there that is drawing them in might help us understand the comparison that you are making with the original plot and your own take. Secondly, why would they go to Hueco Mundo before dealing with the current issue at hand? Aren't there creatures there that greatly dwarf the strength of regular Soul Reapers? I remember - for example- a scene early on where just seeing into that world showed hundreds of massive Hollows just waiting for the chance to walk in onto this world or to attack any soul. I would potentially argue that instead we should probably consider the usefulness of playing up a "comparable" storyline instead. Say the soul stealing diamond, how could that still be in play? Could we have a character with it already? Could we maintain some aspects that are closer to the original narrative while you show us your superior capabilities? |
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| Onime No Ryu | December 25, 2014, 6:57 pm Post #15 |
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There will be a special clue left over that reveals how the Hollows are being drawn in, yes. As to why someone wanted to draw them into the town to feed them Human Souls? That is what the players have to figure out, though with a little bit of in-series knowledge the goal can probably be guessed. I'd ask that anyone who does think they've figured it out ahead of time hold it until the time comes, though, instead of immediately revealing it.
By the time the Hueco Mundo excursion occurs, the current issues--the two mass Hollow feedings--will have been solved by the PCs. They'll have killed the hollows and recovered the clues and whatnot. There are much more powerful Hollows in Hueco Mundo, but remember that, unless for some weird reason absolutely nobody wants to be one, some of the characters are going to be Captain and Vice Captain level, which is more than enough for something that's intended to be a cleanup force rather than an all out army. They won't be going deep enough in to encounter the real horrors, just enough so that they can start clearing out the weak hollows who wait along the edges of the border to slip into the Living World. Like sprinkling that dust stuff on fire ant nests that kills some of them off but doesn't always get the queen. The reason they're doing it that way is to buy themselves some time to devote to investigating the root cause, so that they can make sure they're killing the right queen, so to speak.
That's actually one of the things I want to avoid. The Hogyoku or however the fuck it was spelled, the special gem thing, is one of the most literal plot devices I've ever seen. Its power is to basically do whatever the user wants it to do, and it's not even a "you get one wish" thing like the Dragon Balls. Literally everything after a certain point in the series is "Because the Hogyoku did it!" and it makes no freaking sense. |
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| Onime No Ryu | December 26, 2014, 8:47 am Post #16 |
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Addendum post, I realized that I should probably remove the 1st Division Captain spot from the free-for-grabs, because the captain commander has to be A, the biggest badass of all badasses to ever badass, and B, a sort of Mission Control Leader type figure who won't have the freedom of movement all the other characters will. Sorry if that throws a wrench in anyone's plans. |
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| Sin | December 26, 2014, 10:30 am Post #17 |
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Name: Albane Volf Age: 25 Gender: Female Race: Human Themes: Henry's Death Truth Be Known Stardust Appearance: Casual Combat Albane stands at an average five feet, six inches tall and weights a lithe one hundred and ten pounds. She is of German and Japanese heritage, the German lightly evident in her accent. Many scars litter her flesh to symbolize her rough upbringing. She has long, black hair, violet eyes, dark skin and a slim build. She has a golden stud in her right nostril as well as other piercings not immediately visible. Her casual attire consists of a loose-fitting denim blouse which she often rolls the sleeves of up to her elbows. Faded leather pants are worn on her legs, obviously and black, flat-toed shoes cover her feet; the heels of which add about two inches to her height. Finally, asymmetrical bracelets are worn on both wrists. Her combat attire is a futuristic-looking bodysuit, teal and white in color. A flexible, tight-fitting black leather guard keeps her neck protected from small blades. She wears her hair in a loose ponytail to keep it out of her face. She carries a pair of SIG Sauer P225 pistols in holsters on each thigh and a Karambit talon knife in a sheath beneath her right collar bone. Backstory: Albane was taken when she was only four years old by men who wore ski masks and dressed all in black. They took her to a compound far from civilization and put her amongst other children her age, including her sister. The children were subjected to physical, and psychological torture for days on end before being given weapons and forced to fight one another. The survivors--the strong ones--were taken to the next level of training. They were all kept together for many years, rewarded with a meager amount of food and a place to sleep if they performed well and punished with beatings, torture and and other punishments if they failed or performed poorly. Like her sister, Albane's body is littered with many old wounds from those days. When she was finally liberated from that place and released into the outside world, she knew nothing beyond death and killing. Again like her sister, she eventually fell in to the mercenary trade: performing infiltrations, assassinations and theft for payment. Her natural knack for sneaking and stealth as well as her keen eye for judgement allowed her to excel at her trade. She still looked up to those of power however and is capable of respecting just about anyone more skilled or experienced than herself provided they deserve it. Powers and Abilities:
Edited by Sin, December 26, 2014, 10:36 am.
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| Onime No Ryu | December 26, 2014, 10:35 am Post #18 |
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Yay! Just a few things: Remember to edit the race section, she can only be one of the three. And a few questions about her backstory and equipment-- How was she freed from the terrorists who kidnapped her or whatever they were? Is she still a mercenary, or is she employed as something else? If I could make a suggestion, being some kind of investigator or detective would really help her get involved in the story from the get-go. Lastly, the suit's fine since we discussed having it, but does she currently have it on her, or will she get it later after becoming involved with the Soul Reapers? |
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| Sin | December 26, 2014, 10:37 am Post #19 |
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Fixed the race thing. Forgot all about that. :o I left her background somewhat ambiguous because it tends to change between RPs. I want to understand the world a bit more before I continue adding to that. It'll be built upon regardless though. I would put that she's wearing her "Casual" attire in the first post I made with her. |
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| Onime No Ryu | December 26, 2014, 10:39 am Post #20 |
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Alrighty, that sorts it all! As far as the background goes, this is pretty much the modern real world, so if you wanted to incorporate some aspect of terrorism or political radicals or whatever you could draw from plenty of real life sources. She's approved! |
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| Kazemitsu | December 26, 2014, 12:25 pm Post #21 |
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Name: Julius Blackmantle Age: Unknown, stopped counting, stopped caring. Gender: Male Race: Soul Reaper Position: Vice-Captain of Squad 11 Appearance: Julius is tall, dark, and handsome to some. He's six foot three with a natural all over tan. No one asks how he did it. He's well built, when you have an almost limitless "lifespan" you can get in shape pretty easily. His hair is close cut on the sides and halfway up the back, the rest is tied back in a short tuft of a tail. Eyes as gray as stone and fairly vulpine facial structure. Meaning angular and fairly narrow, giving a shady look. Aside from that he has a tattoo of a snake going up from his elbow across his shoulders, and seemingly coiling around the other arm. He refuses to wear the traditional get-up most soul reapers wear, mostly because it looks stupid. Instead he wears thick leather boots, he has to make the damned things himself, black jeans with a leather belt, dark gray muscle shirt, and a black leather vest over that. Anything leather he had to make himself. The clothing, well he found a seamstress. Backstory: Julius doesn't remember a whole lot. Mostly because he doesn't care what happened in the past, alive and dead. All the matters is now and the future. Which means more training, more killing (purifying), and more bitching about taking orders. He was always the rebellious type, preferring to do what he wanted over what others wanted. Aside from all that there isn't much to Julius. He's a troublemaker and likes it. Why? Because he doesn't care! One thing that he's consistent with, a severe lack of fucks given. Which makes him seem like an asshole and makes it so he lacks friends. But who needs friends when you got a shape-shifting sword that talks to you. Or boobs. Boobs fix everything except death. Powers and Abilities:
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| Onime No Ryu | December 26, 2014, 5:13 pm Post #22 |
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The only things about yours Kaze are the name and appearance, not because you can't have 'em, just because they'll make him fit a little less. Maybe add something in his backstory for other characters to take note of like "oh hey a foreign dead guy in Japan's afterlife" or whatever, maybe add just a minimum of samurai flare to his clothes just so the higher ups are like "eh he's...kind of wearing the uniform. Sorta." Just stylistic stuff. Other than that it's fine pretty much. Okay guys I'm having trouble coming up with my own character so, *puts on Dora voice* I NEED YOUR HELP! Sin helped me a lot with the idea for a concept I want to explore through this character (thanks Sinny!), and that is a facet of depression that I've faced, a lot like some of my ideas with Lee deal with my feelings towards my martial arts training. This character is a loner. Things that describe him would be "cold," "distant," "composed," "aloof," "stoic," "introspective," "passive," and other things like that. On the inside, however, he often feels "alienated," "afraid," "lonely," "isolated," and "stuck in place." He wants to have friends, but he is afraid to take risks. When it comes to doing important things, he's indecisive. He can fight Hollows, once they attack, he can take orders although he can't give them, and he can talk to people...when they talk to him. But he can't initiate on his own very well at all, and he holds himself back, spends too much time thinking and planning and not enough time stepping out there and getting shit done. For his Inner World, the place where you go when you meditate and your Zanpakutou spirit speaks to you, he finds himself atop the flat plane of ice formed at the peak of a mighty glacier. The sky is black and the wind howls with bitter cold. Ahead of him there is a figure, and he wants to go to it...but there is a deep black rift in the glacier that he cannot cross. The figure calls out to him. "Step forward, or fall back. Only you can make the choice. And whatever you choose, resolve to follow that path until the end, without stepping back!" I'm thinking that his Shikai will be ice themed, but rather than being like Toshiro Hitsugaya or Rukia Kuchiki's ice-themed abilities, his will be based on freezing over the surface of his weapon to change its shape or reach, and then a few other attacks branching off from that basis, like maybe shooting ice spikes or a wave of frozen blades. But, I can't decide what to make it look like! CAN YOU HELP ME CHOOSE?! *waits patiently for audience reaction* OKAY! LET'S CHOOSE! Greatsword Option 1 Greatsword Option 2 Greatsword Option 3 Broadsword Axe
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| Primera Espada Yggdra | December 26, 2014, 6:45 pm Post #23 |
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I think it's wise that you keep the Captain Commander post to yourself, since you are the roleplay head and it makes more sense. |
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| NTNP | December 26, 2014, 7:42 pm Post #24 |
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Since the original was fire, I think you should also go with a primary element. Perhaps absolute control over lightning (and with Zeus like affects) or perhaps dominion over the all forms of water? |
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| Primera Espada Yggdra | December 28, 2014, 1:56 pm Post #25 |
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Now yes, you need help for the weapon... I'd say probably the first option. |
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