A few little birdies told me about Essence's restart and that they've been enjoying the IC and OOC so far.

I miss writing with you old mates. If you'll have me, I'll continue my CSes (one of which is a Musician: whoever came up with the Academy idea is a freaking genius) and then post them here for corrections.

I have read the whole OOC and most of the IC. Very well done and entertaining (and I see that Mary is still the best realistic character). I request, however, if anyone is willing, that someone tell me if there are any other tidbits of info that I should be aware of: things that might not be immediately obvious despite implications within the plot at the moment. I mean, I've read that the last Ess run was made noncanon, which is fine. I agree with the reasons for which it was done. Actually makes things easier for me as well.

Anyway, ttyl.

Mikael said
A few little birdies told me about Essence's restart and that they've been enjoying the IC and OOC so far.I miss writing with you old mates. If you'll have me, I'll continue my CSes (one of which is a Musician: whoever came up with the Academy idea is a freaking genius) and then post them here for corrections.I have read the whole OOC and most of the IC. Very well done and entertaining (and I see that Mary is still the best realistic character). I request, however, if anyone is willing, that someone tell me if there are any other tidbits of info that I should be aware of: things that might not be immediately obvious despite implications within the plot at the moment. I mean, I've read that the last Ess run was made noncanon, which is fine. I agree with the reasons for which it was done. Actually makes things easier for me as well.Anyway, ttyl.

Welcome back, maybe?

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Also, Essence has it's own collab pad site (created by myself and Syn) which you can find here. I do, respectively ask that this stays within this roleplay solely, the server can't handle more than that right now.

Hey. Yeah, I feel hesitant too...

BTW, sent you, Yosh, and Syn an email.

Mikael said If you'll have me, I'll continue my CSes (one of which is a Musician: whoever came up with the Academy idea is a freaking genius)

Welcome back man! Long time no see! :D Now all we need is Slade and it'd be the old group again! (Not the original group though. That's just Wind and me...jesus I feel old now). Le Academy was Wind's idea I believe. But she's not here so I will take your lavish praise in her stead. ;P

Mikael said I have read the whole OOC and most of the IC. Very well done and entertaining (and I see that Mary is still the best realistic character).

No, Mary's just freaking out still. That title can't be claimed ever until she's back to normal. I honestly don't think there's been one solid minute in this RP series where she hasn't been, terrified, suicidal, or emotionally unbalanced. Not one.

Hey Mika, welcome back~! Yeah, the old team is reforming but with some invaluable new additions. And heh, Rtron, you’re actually right, you’ve been with me since the start on this forum. Thank you. ^^,,

Anyway, I’m glad you like the Academy, Mika. Syn insisted that we reboot Season 2 and we had to come up with some new concepts to crank things up. Aaand me, personally, love school settings so.. yeah. xD

As for additional details for this season I’m not sure if there’s much to talk about. The major differences I can think of are as follows:
1 – There’s a peace between angels and demons that’s monitored and regulated strictly by the Academy and the Peace-keepers;
2 – The strongest things around are now the Musicians, Chimeras and Nephilims;
3 – Hell’s Gate is broken and many demons now reside (in a less violent manner) on the Surface and there are programs to keep them well nourished;
4 – More humans have a tendency for magic;
5 – We have masks now >}
6 – Hazumi exists but in a new shape and form;

Season 2-A as I call the previous attempt can still be played out should you or Slade (or someone else for that matter) decide to GM it. I left the events of it pretty vague for that reason.

Forgive me if I do seem rather pushy on this matter, but I do have a character on the bottom of page 14 I'd like to know if he is approaved or not...

Thank you for the warming welcome and plot pointers, Wind. I'll work on my character sheets today and post them when I can.

Sorry Cypher, I'm currently on an airport and the last few days have been busy, as will be the next.

Syn, Yoshi, if you can please check Cypher's CS for me.

Also, the Academy's intro is up.

So my inspiration tends to be from music. Take Lazarus for instance. I'm Shipping up to Boston was in inspiration for the character. Then I just grafted that musical concept onto a very Harry Dresden style wizard, add a little bit of Dungeons and Dragons and stir in a few World of Darkness and The Mummy references and Ideas and you have Lazarus. Ian was born from listening to Victor and his Demon's by Fiddler's Green and Sugar we're going down by Fallout Boy. Add in a serious dose of my own martial arts training, a concept I used for a Vampire in Vampire the Requiem by the name of Koshmar and then give him the instrument I play and my favorite weapon. That's how my creation process typically happens

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Hey Cypher.

I like this character so far. He seems quite fleshed out for his young age. His youth could be the reason why he failed to realize the existence of the Wildlands and it's inhabitants, the immensely wise Blood Reavers. The Keepers of Knowledge. But that is a discussion for another time.

My main concern here is the fact that there are very few things that he can't absorb. Which leads to me the following thought. Are those few things his weaknesses? What are they? (If you don't want other players to know, just answer me with a PM).

I don't really have any problems with the character either. Just answer Synth's question(s) and you should be good :)

Well, sort of like how having a doughnut shoved into your mouth could kill you, consuming things is a deliberate process. Simply having things go into him does not count as consuming. Which means that yes, you could still stab him, bash him, slash him, and kill him, though it would take a bit more effort than with others thanks to his physiology, but that does not make him immune to such things as pain or getting perforated by bullets. If rocks fall on him he's likely dead, though if he survives somehow he can easily escape. Things that he can't eat typically don't have much of a form to grasp, such as fire or electricity. While not necessarily a weakness (He's not more weak against them than any other demon), he has no real means to protect himself from such things. Magic in general is something that he doesn't have much defense against aside from not getting hit by magic.

If it's a physical thing, typically a liquid or a solid, Damon can consume it as long as it's not entering his body with hostile intent. He can't do much against Gases or Plasma. Magical things maybe, on a case-by-case basis. Eating a flaming sword is going to hurt if the flames are a constant feature. If it's a flame that you can control however, he could eat it. He'd suffer if he got caught in a poison cloud, but he could consume and create a poison cloud bomb as long as he gets to it in it's unexploded state first. I should also mention that Damon doesn't "Breath" so he can typically survive oxygen-less environments with no real issue, like underwater. However he'll still be affected by poisonous things unless he builds up an immunity, which involves being exposed to said poison anyways.

Well then. I believe you are Accepted, kind sir!

Awesome, I'll get something up eventually. Got things to do and what not.

Ok so I read the Damon CS and have just one correction and a few little remarks.

The thing you should keep in mind is that Essence operates on a "no time/space" alteration policy. That also means no parallel dimensions. Now, there's a way around it, if you say for example that the place inside an amulet is alctually hidden in hell and the amulet is just a link to that space.The reason why I'm pointing that out is because I think your character resembles a black hole too much and I would like to avoid situations where he can pull just about anything from his sleeve. So what I suggest is that you tone it down a bit by saying that he can only keep so much matter inside himself and for only so long. Thus he can take it out if it hasn't been there too long to be digested and can only hold as much matter in as his own volume. Also, Id prefer it if he can only alter matter into a similar substance in order to avoid god-like powers of turning water into gold and completely altering the rules. Of course, its still possible for him to have remembered how to alter one thing into another even if he doesn't have the ingredients at hand at the given moment, but would at least know where to look.

My other remarks are more minor.

1 - Demons evolve as they become wiser and learn everything about their current shape. Keep that in mind.

2 - In really liked the story with the demon and the village and just want to remind you that here angels are NOT about faith and have nothing to do with it. Accidents like the one you wrote can be an exception but they're not the usual in any way.

Overall, really interesting character and definitely an original and amusing idea. Will be looking forward to seeing him and your bard in action. :)

I'm not quite sure how that pertains to Damon. Can you clarify?

Lol silly tablet posted it too soon. NOW its complete and probably makes more sense lol.

Ah, I see. Well, I suppose that he could, after some time, leave bits of himself behind as the things he consumes simply becomes Biomass for himself. Thinking pooping. Additionally in a gameplay sense, imagine that instead of having an MP Bar for his powers, they all come out of his HP Bar. He has a set max, but his standard is usually never actually at the max unless he takes in the required mass. HP in this instance not actually being Health Points but Hunger Points; when it is near max Damon isn't hungry, when it's low he's starving, etc. The more he creates the more hungry he gets, so at some point he has to stop creating things else what he kills starves to death.

As well with the Conversation, while he isn't quite certain what the rates are, there is a general rule of thumb that if he wants to create something he needs to get the right material first. So while he can't turn lead into gold, he can at least turn a bunch of lead pipes into say, a lead slide (Assuming that he has eaten both pipes and slides in his past). Now he can do things such as extracting what little water he can from say, a cactus, but that's under the impression that there was already water in the cactus. He didn't make water out of the cactus, he just isolated it from it's source. Though I should let you know that when Damon becomes much more powerful, this Conversation will also allow him to transform matter into a different type ala Alchemy. The Conversions, while still unknown, are much looser, allowing him to potentially create the water into gold example. Not something he can do right now, but one day when he isn't just a minor demon.

Damon is still fairly young despite being over 70, though I don't imagine that the Underworld is a very great place for educational pursuits and he's only achieve sapient for maybe twenty or thirty depending on how you define sapient. That and by young I mean that this isn't even his strongest form; as far as I know about the demon hierarchy, he still mulls around with Imps and such. Hence why he left; to grow and become stronger.

Also I know that the accident is likely an isolated case (Unless things get really bad later on). The Angels themselves aren't part of any large nefarious organization, just a local threat at that time. Though since they did have knowledge of the Revenge Cycle and there was a survivor, time will tell if Damon meets them again to collect on his debt.

And also, Damon and Noel will be traveling together. That's what I'm writing right now, their adventure of how they met and what they've been doing. Addendum: Where is everyone at? I want to make sure that Damon and Noel are within the area so I don't have them just bumming around themselves.

As for the inspiration. My inspiration also sometimes comes from music (Essence was inspired greatly from DMC3's theme) or art and very rarely from what-if scenarios. Usually what I like to do is transform real-life occurances into stories.

Say the scene where a demon wakes up on the shore to find his girlfriend mauled and dead next to him. He doesn't remember how it happened and feels both sad and... happy about it. He eats her. Tenderly. Turns out later she was a Tamer and had manipulated him into thinking he's serving her out of love.
^ That scene was inspired by my bf hugging me in bed one morning at the seaside and I thought "Ooh, such a heavenly feeling. I wonder what could make it grim and tragic."

The scene where Zi kills a demon in a bar was inspired because I had the misfortune to have to attend one gross bar full of half-naked people and bad music and I had to amuse myself. So I thought, "If I was a vampire, I'd hunt here and no one would notice."

For characters in RP, I usually see what other people have created and try to think of roles I can take to make the story more diverse and the team a stronger and better connected one. And obviously they're always a manifestation of some part of me and some part not-me that I'd like to explore.

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