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@Prince of Seraphs Coolio. If you wish, I could maybe rewrite that his power draws on something more taxing, like focus or some crap..
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Backstory: Before the VR Event, Tiny was a young man with not much going on in his life. Reeling from a breakup, and seeing this VR as a chance to escape his life, he wrote a narrative for his character. One where he had died in reality, and had been revived in dark souls 3 as one of the undead, so he could be a hero. As such, he is one of the few people in the VR event that still has a grip on his actual life still. He believes that by beating the game, he will be free to go back to his girlfriend. A poor delusion now made his reality. As now, he seeks out powerful souls so he may save the world of DS3, which will kill him. However, he believes this is what must be done to escape...


Before I cover anything related to his power levels I wanted to address this. What do you mean by "wrote a narrative for his character"? Do you not have a defined past in Dark Souls 3? Does the game allow the player to input one for the protagonist as flavor text or some such? Or does it say start with something like "You have died, your life is over but you cannot rest yet for you have been raised." or something? I'm just trying to figure out where this comes from.



Kaiser Asterisk - A badge indicating he is the Kaiser, and that he is a powerful foe, or adversary. Should someone else take the badge, they can temporarily replicate his abilities.


From what I understand the Kaiser abilities are all things that Denys has learned himself so unless he obtained this badge that gave him the magical ability to do these things it should have no bearing on whether he can use Kaiser skills or not. It can indicate his rank but shouldn't have power over his skills.

Prosthetic Arm - A magical replacement for his right hand, which was sliced off when he was younger.


Does the prosthetic have any added advantages? Increased strength or the like or does it simply act as a normal hand would?

Blinding Light - Deal damage relative to current health as a physical wave in front of Denys.


I believe in game when Denys is below 10,000 HP this move will deal half his HP in damage so for our purposes perhaps it allows him to inflict a wound he has taken on himself onto an enemy. If he had a broken arm he can give an enemy a broken arm. Does that sound like a reasonable interpretation?



I would prefer that the Weaknesses and Limitations section be a little more specific to Six's own weaknesses rather than simply that of normal humans but given his power level I can accept him the way he is.

Not really super important as it is true either way but you could add something along the lines of "Because he can't feel pain he can end up injuring himself accidentally such as touching something hot and burning his skin without realizing it." Not really necessary because as I said regardless this would be true but just something for you to think about.

I'd say you can add him to the character tab.

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I have assembled two groups for characters which fall into separate areas. I will be posting it tomorrow along with the first of the IC posts.
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Before I cover anything related to his power levels I wanted to address this. What do you mean by "wrote a narrative for his character"? Do you not have a defined past in Dark Souls 3? Does the game allow the player to input one for the protagonist as flavor text or some such? Or does it say start with something like "You have died, your life is over but you cannot rest yet for you have been raised." or something? I'm just trying to figure out where this comes from.


Dark Souls is one of those RPGs where your character is a total blank slate, save for how they've died and are now in the game setting. Technically there's no real "narrative" you can input beyond how you imagine they used to be before they died.

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I have assembled two groups for characters which fall into separate areas. I will be posting it tomorrow along with the first of the IC posts.

Sounds great! I'm excited and I know Gaige is too. >:3
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Dark Souls is one of those RPGs where your character is a total blank slate, save for how they've died and are now in the game setting. Technically there's no real "narrative" you can input beyond how you imagine they used to be before they died.


Fallout NV is similar to that but you don't necessarily need craft a narrative for the games protag. I didn't need to craft such a thing for Six.
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You don't have to, but Courier 6 does have a canon backstory that extends beyond "is mailman, got shot." He's also canonically not an amnesiac. Word of God states the dialogue options asking questions that would normally be obvious to a citizen of the NCR are there strictly for players to learn about the environment they're in. 'Course that still leaves a metric ton of info you can decide for "your" courier if you so choose.
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From what I understand the Kaiser abilities are all things that Denys has learned himself so unless he obtained this badge that gave him the magical ability to do these things it should have no bearing on whether he can use Kaiser skills or not. It can indicate his rank but shouldn't have power over his skills.


You're correct, it doesn't have any bearing on his skills. It can, however, allow someone else to replicate them, albeit at a much lower power level. Basically should he give it out, you have one Kaiser, Denys, and one mini Kaiser, his minion, that could probably only use Blinding Light. Of course, he's probably not going to just hand it over.

Does the prosthetic have any added advantages? Increased strength or the like or does it simply act as a normal hand would?

Simply acts as a normal hand, with the exception that it can twist a full 360 degrees.

I believe in game when Denys is below 10,000 HP this move will deal half his HP in damage so for our purposes perhaps it allows him to inflict a wound he has taken on himself onto an enemy. If he had a broken arm he can give an enemy a broken arm. Does that sound like a reasonable interpretation?

That seems a lot less nebulous, but it also makes Centurion useless for now. Maybe if you do it regularly, you can pass a broken arm as major pain to the arm regularly for all enemies, but with Centurion, it fully replicates the broken arm on one person?

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I have assembled two groups for characters which fall into separate areas. I will be posting it tomorrow along with the first of the IC posts.


Get hype! Fingers crossed Denys is with Bayo, or Red is with Terra. I feel like both pairs would get along together real well.
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@Prince of Seraphs Not even. You just sorta choose a class which chooses a general (and I mean very, very, general) idea of what they did before death. Tiny was a herald, a soldier for a church that lacked enough faith to be a true cleric, and I had it so he had become a herald after appearing in the universe, wishing to keep himself alive, where he then learned soul smithing after, as where I had him arrived was renowned, and hated, for the art of soul smithing.
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Can't wait for the Hildibranding when this rp starts!



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@Prince of Seraphs Not even. You just sorta choose a class which chooses a general (and I mean very, very, general) idea of what they did before death. Tiny was a herald, a soldier for a church that lacked enough faith to be a true cleric, and I had it so he had become a herald after appearing in the universe, wishing to keep himself alive, where he then learned soul smithing after, as where I had him arrived was renowned, and hated, for the art of soul smithing.


From your description you could create a background based on the Dark Souls 3 world however there are two things you should take into account. The first is that the backstory isn't really for you. If you are choosing to use this character you already know them well enough to play at least somewhat competently without compiling their history. The backstory is for anyone unfamiliar with your game including me to give us some insight into who this character is and the kind of first impressions our own characters might have of him.

That said he cannot remember real life before the virus. No one can. You could create a similar ingame background in which he believes he can return to his lover if he collects enough souls or some such but he cannot know that this is a game in any way shape or form no matter if no one would believe him or not. It's just not in the cards.

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I am incredibly sorry everyone, I was expecting to have a good four or five hours tonight to work up the first IC post and get the locations sorted out however on return from my Grandparents there was a detour involving two great aunt, a farm and a cemetery. We were delayed by about the time I was planning on using to create the first post. It is now around 1:30AM where I am so I will likely be going to bed soon. I hope to get everything sorted some time tomorrow morning/midday but as I do work in the evening if it does not happen tomorrow I have a day off Wednesday so for sure it will be up by then. Very sorry for the delay, Real Life can be such a bother sometimes.
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That's alright. I just hope that everyone's still hyped to get started.
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That's alright. I just hope that everyone's still hyped to get started.


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Gourd Lake - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Candy Cane @Royzooka
Spy @Scarifar
Doom Marine @Lmpkio
My Second Character @Prince of Seraphs
Riku @2b3heart
A.B.A @Treue
Henry @Lugubrious
Kaiser Oblivion @Kafka Komedy

Hyrule Field - Ocarina of Time

Red @Kafka Komedy
Scout @Scarifar
Bayonetta @Lmpkio
Hildibrand Manderville @Happy Go Lucky
Gaige @ProPro
Mirela Djuric @Assallya
Birdie @Lugubrious
Terra Branford @Prince of Seraphs
Six the Courier @ClocktowerEchos

I used a random number generator to pick the groups. If two characters controlled by the same person ended up in the same group I used another random number generator to pick which character they swapped with. If anyone picks up a second character before we disembark these areas they will be placed into the opposite group from which their current character is in. So no complaining.

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@WrongEndoftheRainbow Did you want to try picking a less overpowered character?
@James Marshall Are you still interested in playing Ryu or taking part in this RP?
@supertinyking How's Dark Souls?

I got it up, it's a bit late so I hope the hype hasn't died but I got it started.

If there are any questions particularly about the people landing in Gourd Lake feel free to ask. I haven't decided on a second character yet who I was planning on using to develop Gourd Lake as a location.

I'm sort of thinking Eleanor Lamb from Bioshock 2 but I need to play more of the game to get a feel for her.
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@Prince of Seraphs Hahaha, ah man, it's a funny coincidence that Gourd Lake is one of the locations. I was actually thinking of playing Phoenix Wright or Miles Edgeworth at one point.
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I was thinking of having the following character as my second for a while until I decide to bump her off for someone else.


However, at the moment I am being a little too lazy even bother with it. I may try at some time, that could be tomorrow or next week or whenever. She is a bit murderous so I am not too sure how well it would go down? She is my favourite LOL character, though I am not a great fan of the game itself.
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Hey guys, I will be away for a couple weeks, so there's a chance that I won't be able to be active. Don't expect me to do anything in that time frame.
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And so it begins!

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@Happy Go Lucky Heh, hilarious. I'm on lunch now, so I'll start working on a Gaige post and show up to save you from the stalchildren. Imagine, a "gentleman." being saved by a 17 year old girl covered in engine grease. Heh.
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Making a post now!
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@Lmpkio I'm interested in seeing how we'll have Gaige and Bayonetta interact. Heh heh heh.
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@Lmpkio I'm interested in seeing how we'll have Gaige and Bayonetta interact. Heh heh heh.


Gaige will have to learn her place then. ;) Cheeky monkeys will be disciplined.
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