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@Lugubrious Tell me which, if any or even both, of these you like the sound of.

Dante has undertaken this contest in only the robes of his paladin order, as he pits his will and strength alone against his foes as a testament to his faith. (Possibly allowing sword or spear, or just barehanded, whatever. Possibility of reacquiring his stuff later on)

Whatever place this tournament takes place in is cut off from the gods, severely limiting the holy magic that Dante can draw upon. Additionally, he feels the strength of his faith weaken ever so slightly, putting him at greater risk at falling prey to his dark instincts. (This one doesn't combine too well with absolutely no weapons, since it leaves him almost totally unarmed)


I'm glad to work out a compromise. I think that the first stipulation, the one that deprives him of his armor, would be the most appropriate. As for the weapon allowance, I would suggest that you choose one of the two, and I will add the other to the roster of items that can be found in the City of Echoes. This way, he would still be a competent melee fighter, but his main focus would be his holy magic, and he wouldn't be as much of a defensive powerhouse. How does that sound?
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Well, the bio hasn't really been changed, but the power nerfs suit me. One more question: what's the deal with the katana? It's not really dealt with elsewhere, and it makes more sense to me at least she would supplement her mage-esque lighting and shielding with savage melee strikes with her limbs and tail, rather than use a sword.


What exactly did you want me to do with the bio? I thought I deleted the notion about any other dimensions really.

The katana is supposed to be a weapon when dealing with other swordsmen... think of her as Palpatine in a sense. But then again I can see where your going with it. It doesn't truly make much sense or use if she has all these other more powerful abilities in tow.
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@LugubriousPerfectly reasonable. I'll probably let him keep his sword, and I may give him a mask to shield his face from the sun, which his helmet normally serves the purpose of.

How much do you need edited for him to meet acceptance?
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Fuck it. I was going to just sit back and read, but after keeping up with it so far I've been convinced. It's probably a terrible idea to take on another RP but hey, Three Realms War is moving slow for now, right? So I'll get to work on my CS tomorrow for captain Bartholomew K. Runch, eater of the bori bori no mi.
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What exactly did you want me to do with the bio? I thought I deleted the notion about any other dimensions really.

The katana is supposed to be a weapon when dealing with other swordsmen... think of her as Palpatine in a sense. But then again I can see where your going with it. It doesn't truly make much sense or use if she has all these other more powerful abilities in tow.


Well, it still mentions that she finds the tournament in a corner of the galaxy, or something to that effect. Deal with that and remove the katana (or just have it with her as a namesake or decoration rather than a useful weapon) and you're good to port her over into the Characters tab

@LugubriousPerfectly reasonable. I'll probably let him keep his sword, and I may give him a mask to shield his face from the sun, which his helmet normally serves the purpose of.

How much do you need edited for him to meet acceptance?


I would need him to be edited to meet the agreed-upon parameters, thereby limiting his equipment and abilities. The mask to shield his face is fine. With this in mind, his weaknesses would be speed and durability. I would also prefer specifics in terms of his offensive holy magic, as 'tear through enemies with holy light' doesn't make a lot clear. Once you make the edits, I'll check over the character again to make sure I think he's in a good place, and then he'll be accepted or run through the mill again.
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Well, it still mentions that she finds the tournament in a corner of the galaxy, or something to that effect. Deal with that and remove the katana (or just have it with her as a namesake or decoration rather than a useful weapon) and you're good to port her over into the Characters tab


Well... is there a better thing I should put for it? I mean if anything I can just avoid in her backstory in how she found the games if anything. As for the Katana, I removed it already so that's done.
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I'm aiming to get my jet-pack akimbo nun finished tomorrow as well.
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Alright, I placed my character into the CS. I deleted the whole "how she found the tournament" and left it blank for now.
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Alright, I placed my character into the CS. I deleted the whole "how she found the tournament" and left it blank for now.


Yeah, that's perfect. According to the game plan, the RP starts with your character being approached in regards to the tournament anyway, so that's best left unstated in the backstory.

I'm aiming to get my jet-pack akimbo nun finished tomorrow as well.


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Here's mine.

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I'm not sure if I can finish my sheet tonight. =~=
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Here is my sheet, I hope she seems reasonable! Her portrait was pretty rushed but I really felt like the mech needed an actual image, even a rough one.


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Name: Saria Silverlocke
Alias: “The Blood Devil”
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Class: Sword fighter

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The Red Blade: An heirloom passed down through countless generations of Saria’s family, and the weapon central to Saria’s fighting capability. Its true origin is unknown. However, tales told to her throughout childhood claim that it was forged by the Jogun, a race of perfect warriors, with the ore of Baskarite, a metal originating from the deepest depths of the earth. The Red Blade was their legacy.

However it came to be, and whoever made it, the Red Blade seems to be nearly indestructible, withstanding the most scorching temperatures from a smith’s forge as well as seemingly repelling the strikes of a blacksmith’s hammer without the slightest scratch. Attempts to dull it have been fruitless. Strangely enough, attempts to sharpen it also have no effect. Wielded properly, the Red Blade can cut through most types of armor, excluding metal.

Silverlocke Armor: Saria wears head-to-toe armor composed of ordinary steel plate, blackened and custom fitted to the shapes and contours of her own body. More steel plates hang from her armor, covering the hip and shoulder joints. The armor is mostly made for intimidation and ceremonial purposes rather than practical purposes, but still functions as effective protection.

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Reactionary Quickening: Saria’s sword fighting capability stems from countless hours of brutal, grueling training designed to create a warrior worthy of using the Red Blade. This included “exercises” such as dodging and deflecting lethal projectiles from all different directions, blindfolded. She learned to not just use her sight in battle, but sounds and instincts. Combined, Saria possessed the reaction speed and precision of a warrior.

Enhanced Strength: Saria not only needed to keep up with the rest of her siblings in terms of speed, but also in strength. Even though she was a girl, she was required to fight her brothers as well as her sister in order to become worthy of the blade. She seldom won against her brothers in hand-to-hand combat, since they possessed much more brute strength than she did, but to the average person, she is a bear in a woman’s skin, capable of extraordinary feats with the use of her strength alone, such as throwing people twice her weight over her shoulder, or caving in bones with her bare handed strikes.

Blood Blade: Saria is connected to the Red Blade in more ways than one. Sure, it is an heirloom bestowed upon her with the highest honor of the Silverlocke family, but per tradition, Saria was cut with the blade, imbuing her blood with the sword for the first time. From then on, she had become the only one in the world who could tap into the blade’s true power: Blood. Through the imbuement of her own blood, a crimson coat covers her sword, effectively sharpening it even further by using her own life force as a blade. Of course, this has a negative effect. The use of her own blood as a blade slowly drains her strength, and could kill her if left unchecked.

Pain Resistance: Saria is no stranger to pain, and can overcome and ignore wounds most people consider “grievous” or “crippling”. However, this does not make her immortal. She is still human, after all.

Fighting Style: Perfection? Form? Technique? Elegance? Merely an afterthought. Through raw, unhinged power, Saria aims to destroy completely and indiscriminately, and this is shown through her fighting style. Saria is rarely, if ever, on the defense. During combat, she will do anything possible to get the edge in a fight, including letting opponents injure her in order to gain an advantage.

Saria is a close range powerhouse. Her own unfettered rage powers her strikes, aiming to put all of her effort into physically breaking her opponent and their defenses. Fighters who use ranged attacks or sorcery infuriate Saria, since she sees combat as a purely melee-focused altercation. To her, ranged attackers and mages are cowards who cannot stomach the will to fight honorably. This style of combat does have its disadvantages. For example, Saria is weak to ranged attacks, since she cannot fight back against a ranged attacker, the only thing she can do is try and get closer to them. Also, Saria is tough, but not immortal. Attacks that slip through her defenses will hurt her, and usually, they hurt her severely.

Personality: Saria is by all means a hot-headed individual, and rightly so. From the day she could walk, she knew nothing but war. Risen by any other family, she may have had the passion for things such as the arts, or scholarly pursuits, but the Silverlocke family has effectively ironed out troublesome things such as these. The only thing left in her mind was an unfaltering fire, a will to fight, conquer, and destroy.

Bio: Raised in the Silverlocke family, Saria was one of five siblings, three of them being boys and another a girl. From the day she could walk, she was subjected to cruel punishment from her parents and her siblings alike. The reason for this abuse was to inject into her a sense of hostility and pain from the earliest age possible, and begin to kindle the flames of a warrior. However her sister, Alina, was more merciful to her than the others.

At the age of five, her training began. She was taught to wield a sword, and study the one “form” of fighting shared in the Silverlocke family: Darh Krile. (Jogun translation: Death Blow). The Silverlocke style of combat focused on overwhelming opponents with pure offensive capability. She was taught to never hold back in a fight, that self-preservation was a vice, preventing her from reaching her true path as a warrior. Years passed, and her sense of self deteriorated, her only savior was Alina, who seemed to be the one compassionate voice in her life.

At twelve, Saria began to “make progress”, or as her parents had put it. She began to best her brothers in combat, albeit not often. Alina wasn’t the warrior her parents wanted her to be, as she grew to be more of a pacifist. In a tragic “incident”, Alina had a large stone tied to her feet, and was told to swim across the lake nearest to their home. She never made it. Saria became filled with rage at her death, even moreso when her family seemed not to care much about it. “A good riddance,” as her parents called it. Saria began to plot her revenge, and she would become the Silverlocke heir in order to achieve it.

By nineteen, Saria had struggled through years of abuse and training, her only goal was the destruction of her entire family. Her personality took a dark turn, and she mercilessly beat her brothers, as they did to her before. When she won the right to the Silverlocke armor, and therefore the Red Blade, the first thing she did was slaughter her parents and brothers, not only for Alina, but for herself.

Afterwards, with her only companion being the Red Blade, she wandered the world, seeking worthy opponents to fight. Part of this was to reinforce her sense of self, her own identity, and part of it was to find an opponent she deemed worthy of killing her, to rid her of this cursed existence. Until this happens she searches still, a woman wanting to die.

Wish: Saria’s wish is to die to an opponent worth dieing to. She doesn’t know exactly who this would be, but it should ultimately be someone who has been through the same pain as her, who could best her in fair combat.

Echo: The Silverlocke lake, the place where her sister drowned under the cruel hands of her family.

Frenzy:


It is said that the Red Blade contains demonic origin. From the depths of the earth it was forged, and from the depths of the earth it came to be. Therefore, a bit of demonic influence was inevitable. When Saria’s pain is more than she could handle, her sword fuses to her hands, and forcibly draws blood from her body in order to create a blood blade (Blood Blade ability automatically activated). In this state, Saria is on her last legs, and will fight purely to survive, like a feral animal.

An aura of fire surrounds her, presumably an effect of the Red Blade binding to her soul. Her strength and speed is immensely increased, such that she could shatter boulders with the strength of a sword strike.

This state is what earned her the nickname, Blood Devil. When she slaughtered her family, the only thing onlookers saw was her, clad in black, bloody armor, emerging from her family’s home, now in flames.

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Here's mine.



The character is far too powerful. My wariness of Dane the Marauder's Warp was a clue that unless it's balanced out by severe limitations, I'm not a fan of teleportation, and instant teleportation where the weakest version is 100 meters is absurd to me. Superhuman strength and speed are to be expected, but your character's particular brand are too strong to be considered subsidiary powers. The strength to flip a car with one hand and the speed to catch up with a car are powers in their own right. I'm basically not okay with any of his abilities; that arsenal on its own is extremely potent.

I'll be honest: I really, really dislike memey characters. I can't imagine why any of this would come across as funny, or be fun to play after the initial lolrandom humor value has worn off. Like a stale joke, I imagine the whole thing would get old quickly. However, in the sake of fairness, I'll put it aside to judge your character on balance alone. If you were to eliminate the entire Abilities section, as well as the teleportation in his Frenzy, I'll consider accepting your application.

Here is my sheet, I hope she seems reasonable! Her portrait was pretty rushed but I really felt like the mech needed an actual image, even a rough one.



I'm a big fan of your application. Without any vague or overblown powers, she would depend completely on the durability and firepower of her mecha in order to win fights. Kudos for an imaginative and appropriate Frenzy. In terms of both combat and actual character, there's pretty much nothing to complain about. The one thing I would like is an estimation of the destructive ability of the Gatling guns and her pistol, though I expect that the pistol would be your standard peashooter, only really effective with headshots. Once that's cleared up, you're good to port her over into the Characters tab



A very interesting and powerful character--essentially a classy berserker. Thinking of her skills in terms of Lady Maria's gives her potent slew of abilities a useful context. Despite the adequate protection afforded to her by her armor, I get the overall vibe of 'glass cannon', with extremely high mobility and damage but limitations on durability and range that keep her from being too overbearing. Since from a reasonable standpoint the Red Blade is a katana, however, I would be happier if it was unable to cut through metal armor, just as a real katana would be. That's pretty much it though, since in the fighting style section you gave a pretty good approximation of her weaknesses.

With that done, she, too, can be moved over to the Characters tab.
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suddenly 40k

also probably the first instance of logistics being a weakness in this rp


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Alright, edited the red blade entry, going to port her over to the character tab
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I've always want to work/rp with you @Lugubrious since that Heores of Beacon which I never got the chance to join or am I looking at the wrong author?xD

I was observing this. I thought of using Reverse Flash/Thawne and nerf him but nah speedsters of Flashverse are too OP despite the nerfs they get. My pre-idea was Thawne was chasing Barry(as always) and ended up in this RP but got nerf so bad because this is a different verse like that Marvel-DC crossover and therefore his connection to the speed force weakened.

I got many characters on my list that I wanted to revive so thank you for making this RP.

Before I even make a CS, I need your input on Gray Fullbuster(Fairy Tail) or Sasuke Uchiha(A lil iffy cuz Naruto series is a power creep).

I'll get up a CS soon.
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suddenly 40k

also probably the first instance of logistics being a weakness in this rp



I was not expecting to have the upper boundary of the general power level I'm looking for pushed by one Warhammer character, let alone two. Yours doesn't present all the same problems that Dante initially did, but the three pillars of defense, high ranged damage, and high mobility remain. Having the jet pack as a weak spot is a good starting point, as well as her relative lack of proficiency in melee combat, but against characters with limited ranged ability such as Saria, my incoming character, and others she could become very tough to challenge. It does, as you say, come down to logistics: how much ammunition she has, and how much fuel for her jet pack. That way, outlasting her becomes an option aside from creative use of takedowns. With realistic usage of ammo and fuel, the character is, I would say, balanced enough to serve the RP's purposes. There will be supply caches located in the city, but whatever expenditures you make in a fight would deplete her resources, possibly rendering her very vulnerable until she can resupply.

If that sounds alright, then then application is accepted.
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I've always want to work/rp with you @Lugubrious since that Heores of Beacon which I never got the chance to join or am I looking at the wrong author?xD

I was observing this. I thought of using Reverse Flash/Thawne and nerf him but nah speedsters of Flashverse are too OP despite the nerfs they get. My pre-idea was Thawne was chasing Barry(as always) and ended up in this RP but got nerf so bad because this is a different verse like that Marvel-DC crossover and therefore his connection to the speed force weakened.

I got many characters on my list that I wanted to revive so thank you for making this RP.

Before I even make a CS, I need your input on Gray Fullbuster(Fairy Tail) or Sasuke Uchiha(A lil iffy cuz Naruto series is a power creep).

I'll get up a CS soon.


I'm gratified to have made such a good impression! Hopefully I won't disappoint. Heroes of Beacon was indeed my last RP. I wanted to make a fresh start with this story, something fast-paced and completely different.

You're welcome! I'm glad I could make something to afford you an opportunity like this.

From what I can glean, I think you're aware of this, but just in case I'll clarify: existing characters that belong to companies or individuals as intellectual properties are not usable in this RP. I assume you're asking about those characters to get an idea of what power level you should strive for. Having watched -and regretted wasting so much time on- Fairy Tail, I would say that Gray's average power level from the first arc up until the END arc would be acceptable. Defensive and offensive Ice Make, with the chief strength being versatility and creative application over raw power, would gel pretty well with the RP. However, I would definitely exclude Ice Devil Slayer magic from this. It's also worth noting that we already have an ice mage in the RP in the form of Lazo's Lady in White, Pithy. As for Sasuke, I am pretty much in the dark about what all he can do. My best guess as to what level would be acceptable would be early-to-mid in the series.
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I'm nearly done with my CS, I'll post it tonight. I finally understood what echo means lol
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