So... If it's shonen action, how ridiculous are we allowed to get with it? As in, um... How over-the-top are we allowed? I mean I know it's not going to be DBZ-levels (at least not from the get-go), but will I eventually (as in, nearing the end game) be able to punt someone into the sun just because that would be amazing? >.> <.<

...I am being a bit silly here. But I love the craziness inherent in shonen action manga, so I just want to know if we're allowed to go all out and eventually end up with something completely ludicrious in scale.

Rin said
So... If it's shonen action, how ridiculous are we allowed to get with it? As in, um... How over-the-top are we allowed? I mean I know it's not going to be DBZ-levels (at least not from the get-go), but will I eventually (as in, nearing the end game) be able to punt someone into the sun just because that would be amazing? >.> <.<...I am being a bit silly here. But I love the craziness inherent in shonen action manga, so I just want to know if we're allowed to go all out and eventually end up with something completely ludicrious in scale.

Well, as one if the original writers, I'll give you an idea of the original endgame:

The main characters each led a small militia force protecting a city from an army of villains. Each hero pushed into the enemy advance using their specific powers, and had to battle one-on-one with a superpowered alcolye(think a enemy general). After hurting them, they were teleported to the main enemy citadel for a huge final battle where things exploded, things fell from the sky and all sorts of cool stuff.

Also my character had a cool battle in a church once. I suppose in terms of craziness it was more akin to Advent Children levels than DBZ planet destroying levels.

Dirge said
Interested whoa! So just to clarify, an cosmic imitated-elemental energy blast would deal less damage because it is less connected to the elements? And obviously there are "better" uses for it?

Fixed for accuracy, but yes. If the blood of the elements doesn't flow into your veins it would be generally as a rule less powerful. Arcane is sort of a "jack of all trades" sort of thing and generally most high magic fantasy stuff it can do.

DruSM157 said
Well, as one if the original writers, I'll give you an idea of the original endgame:The main characters each led a small militia force protecting a city from an army of villains. Each hero pushed into the enemy advance using their specific powers, and had to battle one-on-one with a superpowered alcolye(think a enemy general). After hurting them, they were teleported to the main enemy citadel for a huge final battle where things exploded, things fell from the sky and all sorts of cool stuff. Also my character had a cool battle in a church once. I suppose in terms of craziness it was more akin to Advent Children levels than DBZ planet destroying levels.

And we all flew into the sky.... yeah I remember why I retconned that part.

Hmmm....I'm probably gonna go for a Psionic deal...sounds like it could pretty fun to talk to the dead or whatever....

We've actually only had one clairvoyant in the entire time I've run this setting, so there's a lot to figure out and play with there. =)

Good times, good times. We still going with elemental magic bloodlines = same elemental resistance?

Not to rush anything, but is there any idea of when this RP is going to start up? Just curious, since I have holiday in a few days and I'm free all of today XD

All this interest might spur Gowi forward. Lord knows I'll be called in to help, and I gotta work for...about 5 more hours give or take

This sounds like the perfect idea for an RP! If there's still room, then I'd like to try for a place - a long-running roleplay is something that I've been trying to find for a while.

DruSM157 said
Good times, good times. We still going with elemental magic bloodlines = same elemental resistance?

Of course. Fire Elementals will not get burned, etc.

I have about 2,000 words of the OP done and I still need to have Drew look at the plot section. Still need to clean-up the rules and CS section and elaborate on magic and world info.

Oh goody goody! Editing after work!

Gokiburi7 said
This sounds like the perfect idea for an RP! If there's still room, then I'd like to try for a place - a long-running roleplay is something that I've been trying to find for a while.

At this moment I'm not even thinking of capping population of the playerbase as I don't know the skill level, general activity, or creative ideas of the players interested just yet. So for now its sort of a "feel free to be interested! =D" thing.

So, with regards to Celestial abilities, could a morally corrupt character still use Light and Harmony?

Gokiburi7 said
So, with regards to Celestial abilities, could a morally corrupt character still use Light and Harmony?

I'd wager not since they are tied into a force that is ruled by the aspects of virtue. Though I imagine characterizations are a lot more complex than "saturday-morning evil" and "lawful stupid", it's likely there could be a priest who follows the path of light who is zealous to the point of murder but still believes in helping people and such.

Though that's not to say harmony is GOOD, as the virtue of justice is as ruthless as the sin of wrath can be.

Gowi said
I'd wager not since they are tied into a force that is ruled by the aspects of virtue. Though I imagine characterizations are a lot more complex than "saturday-morning evil" and "lawful stupid", it's likely there could be a priest who follows the path of light who is zealous to the point of murder but still believes in helping people and such.Though that's not to say harmony is GOOD, as the virtue of justice is as ruthless as the sin of wrath can be.

That's just what I was thinking; about the pursuit of justice and purity steadly leading a character towards immorality... Thanks for answering my question, I think I've got a good idea for a character now!

Also a little bit of a breakdown....

This Force was discovered by four races: the ehki, rakir, lazeruzi, and uburu. Each of these would hold on to the runes of which they held (ehki with harmony, rakir with light, lazeruzi with chaos, and uburu with darkness). The danger of these runes is that they overwhelming of power and domination of their nature.

Chaos Magic is a sort of red colored generic energy, it is innately corrupting as mentioned outside of the race that FOUND the rune of chaos. So other races that aren't the Lazeruzi will feel a sort of sickly radiation when they are attacked or near an abudnance of chaos energy. Harmony is more-or-less the same in the opposite field (blue colored generic energy).

Holy and Dark magic are sort of malleable multi-purpose curses and blessings (as well as summons, divine/demonic magic, etc) that are colored white and black respectively. They have the same radiative effect, etc etc.

However this is not to say there havent been chaos/harmony/dark/holy users of different races/cultures-- but it slowly corrupts or "enlightens" them depending on the frequency of use; changing their mental state and even their personality. For example in one RP, a mercenary named Marlux got a hold of a chaos artifact he began to use and his brain over-time gave in to impulses, hunger for chaotic results and actions, and ultimately made him insane.

So, in theory, I could replicate Marlux's fall by using the other end of the spectrum - creating a character who gradually becomes a slave to his own desire for order and purity after coming into possession of a holy or light artefact. Could that work and if so, which division would be better to go for; harmony or light?

I don't know if you still have room available or not, but I'd be interested in this.

Gokiburi7 said
So, in theory, I could replicate Marlux's fall by using the other end of the spectrum - creating a character who gradually becomes a slave to his own desire for order and purity after coming into possession of a holy or light artefact. Could that work and if so, which division would be better to go for; harmony or light?

Holy - blessing, healing, smites; the basic paladin skillset. More connected to Ancestros (the celestial plain of heaven) then the Virtues of Harmony.
Harmony - raw energy, the antithesis to chaos energy: can be molded into barriers, projected attacks, energy bombs.Connected to the Virtues of Harmony.

Actually this makes me realize I made a minor whoopsie: holy/dark and harmony/chaos are supposed to be seperate magics... will fix.