Konosuba: This Wonderful World's Alternative Paradigm
Just like the plot of the original anime of Konosuba, this roleplay will be mostly the same but different as well. In this world Kazuma hasn't died, Aqua still works as a goddess, and most of the canon characters we know and love are off doing something somewhere else while we do our own thing, but we will get into some of the stuff that happened in cannon sooner or later.
To start off everyone at the beginning is a noobie in your class, even characters that are natively born are just as beginners as much as the people new to the world around them. The reason for them to be beginners at the start is so characters can get a feel of their class and who the can work with best, Everyone will physically be at the bunk house getting the orientation about the rules around the house, getting to know each other and the rules around the place, it's mostly for getting everyone together, unless they want to find their own place to live without money or family support.
Rules: -No Godmodding -No metagaming -Don't get out of hand with romance, if things are getting toasty take it to the pms -Take Drama to the pms if they are getting really bad -A maximum of 3 characters for each person -Please don't speed post, allow at the least 2 people to go after you. -What my CO-Gms and I say are law please abide by it.
Character sheet: Appearance: Anime Picture, try not to be too edgy. It'll be assumed what you have in the pic is the only clothing you have. Feel free to add anything we don't see/don't know.
Name: Go nuts.
Age: Lowest you can go is 15.
Class: You can choose the basics such as Knight, Rogue, Mage, but you can also go further and choose the classes such as Paladin, Monk, and Bard, but you will start from the bottom.
Race: While most everyone is human, you're free to be a more fantasy race. No demons, angels, or gods. If you're some weird race that gives you extra advantages "but is totally normal for them", as us first. I know your munchkin ass wants as much of an edge as you can get. Reincarnated have to be human unless their blessing turns them into something else.
Reputation: Basically your backstory. If you're a native to the world this is what you might be well known as. But since you'll all new adventurers, this will mostly consist of your upbringing, why you're in axis, and why you're an adventurer. If you're a native you can write about how you died and your life before then.
Personality: Self-explanatory
Skills: What you have some training or knowledge in. No masters, no super talented people, not even if you're 200+ years old and needed a hobby. This just gives us an idea of what you could bring to the table once you go about doing quest and/or getting a job.
Belongings: Important shit you have. I don't need to know about how many pairs of shirts you got, but if you have a magic ring of immortality than you better damn well tell me. Obviously don't get too OP right out of character creation, you're all poor noobs. A weapon or perhaps a spell focus for the more magically inclined. Also include pets/familiars if you have any.
@Zelosse LOL I was thinking like "Seems interesting. Let's see what the comments say." Then comes your comment catching me completely off guard hahahahaha.
Appearance: -> His expression whenever some random guy tells him about the awesome power of his product.
Name: GonuTsuki (I'd like to thank the GM for inspiring me for this name)
Age: 18
Class: Knight-Mage who sings(bard?)
Race: Human..but since coming to this words he has tried many things which have planted their marks on his DNA. Well for the time being, their effects will wear off...right? He tried a fruit which gave him cat ears. He drank the juice of a single yellow cactus in the middle of a deserted and dead area, part of a lush forest. It gave him a snake tail. He cut and ate some blue hair hanging from a hanging tree on the bank of a river. It was the middle of the night when he stumbled upon it...and the hair were glowing a neon blue. After eating it his hair started glowing in the dark a neon blue.
Reputation: One day he was greeted by an old gypsy on the front of his house which offered him a cherry. "Eat this"- she said and you will be transported to a fantastical world. While taking the cherry from her hand, she had a bag full of them, he answered:"Not buying any of your crap old hag. Now get lost."- while eating the cherry. Just as he was about the close the door everything blacked out and he awoke on a dark place in front of a goddess. She was called Eris and their conversation went something like this. Eris:"Oh you poor soul. A foul creature tricked you so now you are here. But I won't let your bright flame extinguish like that. You have still lots to experience"- she went on while hugging him. At this point all he could focus on was her boobs ignoring all her words. Eris:"Wish for any one thing and I shall granted it."- Still not listening to her words he murmured."That gypsy was right, I feel so lucky." Eris:"Luck you say? If that is what you wish, then luck you shall have. Now go, start a new life and live it to the fullest."- and saying that he was thrown through a hole to end up in the middle of a village. All he could see were her boobs getting farther and farther away, smaller and smaller. Gonu:"KAMI-SAMA! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"- and that "no" lasted for the better part of 5 minutes while he was laying on the ground with his hands extended towards the sky.
Since then he has trusted every gypsy/street seller that he has come across. Still ignorant of the fact that he actually died in the start.
Personality: Self-explanatory <- as you mentioned yourself, it will explain ITself
Skills: Scout or more like bait. See a dark place that might as well be a cliff falling down to the center of the earth? Maybe you venture in an ancient maze filled with traps, he will run straight threw the middle either way.
Belongings: 7 necklaces / 4 rings / A staff of "Eternal demonic fire" Rings
The pelvis bone of the fairy - Grants the user understanding of every language. Looks like a chicken bone, leftover from supper. Ring of the Great Hero Razmodaus - Gives the user bravery. He already has an extreme case of it, called stupidity. Ring of the earth dragons - The user can communicate with Mother Earth. He is totally not talking to himself while gently rubbing his hand on the floor. Ring of Rejuvenation - Grants increased healing and rejuvenation to the user when they are resting. If he wasn't sleeping like a pig before, he sure as hell is sleeping like one now.
His staff - Grants him a one time use super powerful max effect level explosion spell said to rival big bang. "If he isn't careful on how/when he uses it, he could bring about the end of the world. Better yet, it is best not to use it at all"- or so the gypsy who sold him the twig with a red stone glued at the end told him. That's what every street seller told him when they sold him the rings and necklaces.
Edit: How he sees life everytime he finds a street seller with a fantastical item.
Reputation: Ian's upbringing is of little consequence. Typical two parent household, nothing truly spectacular or defining. His death, however...was a little less boring. Falling asleep at a bus stop wasn't uncommon, it even caused some trouble at work from time to time. No, Ian wasn't narcoleptic. No, he didn't have any excuse to lack sleep. Truthfully, sleep was just appealing. It was that kind of thinking that began his final nap. His normally light sleep was interrupted by a loud smash as a car slid off the road and collided with the glass structure housing the bench. He barely reacted in time. Rolling forward, directly into the road, Ian avoided the crash for just a moment before being hit by a second car.
As for Ian's conversation with the goddess? It was mostly him looking through the items previous people had been given in an attempt to find something to make lazing around easy. Eventually he settled on a hoodie that could help him avoid notice. Apparently, his attributes had him fit to be in the thief class despite never having stolen anything before. Even after being recognized as an adventurer, he just hangs around town and does odd jobs. His ability to hide after snatching items would be incredibly helpful in quests, if he wasn't so busy using it to nap instead.
Personality: Pretty easy to eek out from his reputation, but to keep things simple...Lazy, but goal driven.
Skills: Concealment
Belongings: Cowl of Avoidance- Just a simple hoodie that when covering the user's head pushes away the attention of others. Unfortunately, if anyone was already actively watching or paying attention to him it has no effect.
Reputation: originally she was but a your average goblin fighter, I.E. fodder for low level adventurers. That is until she and her mob fought against a particularly incompetent party who, after suffering a humiliating thrashing, ended up dumping most of their possessions in their panicked flight. In the fighting she ended up biting off one of the human's fingers and later while looting discovered it featured a pretty looking ring. She ended up put it on out of curiosity.
About 3 days later she wakes up, her int and str score having been quadrupled up to that of the average human. She had been left for dead by her mob with only the ring on her finger, her hammer and some of the books from the adventurers packs, that were of no interest to her kin, left behind. It was within one of these books that she found the secrets to human power and unlocked one of the great mysteries of the universe. That book was “a beginers guide to adventuring”, specifically the pages about the class system. She learned how someone could gain power from killing their enemies. For a now tribless goblin, set apart from the others by her new found intelligence, she needed some way to ensure her own survival and the power of the humans was a tempting solution of that of preserving her own existence. To gain the power of the human adventurers she must become one, and thus gain a character sheet, class and the ability to gain xp.
After about a month’s worth of close shaves she finally managed to break into Adventurer Guild when it was practically empty and forced Luna to sign her up as an adventurer. This was done by grabbing onto her hair, planting her clawed goblinoid feet on her boobs to stand and scream into the poor womans face till she agreed to register her. This was as far as her plan went. Her standing holding her little card triumphantly in the air is probably where she will be when this rp starts.
Personality: She has your average goblinoid traits of being a vicious little seak but now with a massive overconfidence boost gained from being the most powerful goblin ever. This fact is nowhere near as impressive as she thinks it is. She has developed empathy alongside her increase of intelligence and the two combined have curtailed the desire to commit evil for the sake of evil. However make no mistake, she is ultimately in this for the power: no more relying in strength in numbers, no more being a source of xp, she is going to be the most badass goblin this world has ever seen! She just needs to figure out how to get to that point from her starting point of rookie adventurer.
Skills: Sneaky Git: being small sometimes has it’s advantages, she can squeeze into places a bigger person could not. She is also fairly versed in climbing and ambushing people. Killer instinct: She is being a creature ostensibly made for violence. This doesn’t mean she is very good at it, but she is experienced in combat and easily motivated to fight things. Disproportionately strong: A tiny goblin lass should not be able to hit as hard as a fully grown human. Combine with a goblins natural dexterity it makes for a pretty nasty fighting style. She is hard to hit and hits surprisingly hard.
Belongings: Ruby Ring: boosts her normally abysmal strength and intelligence stats to something approaching beginner adventurer levels. Used to belong to some guy who wore a floppy red hat with a feather in it. Warhammer: A wooden pole with a chunk of metal on the end. Good for smashing.
Race: Succubi (Formerly a human from the Crimson Magic Clan)
Reputation: Xiang was a member of the Crimson Magic Clan who arrived to Axle to become an adventurer. Unlike most others from her clan, Xiang had poor magical skills, which she tried to make up with physical strength. She certainly was much stronger than your average mage from the Crimson Magic Clan, though that didn’t mean much compared to other, more professional fighters. So Xiang made a deal with the succubi from the Succubus Club to become one of them for increase magical and physical power, in exchange she has to work there for the rest of her life (But with negotiable hours). So she can still be an adventurer when she doesn’t have to work at the club for the season.
Personality: Xiang is cocky and confrontational. While her assertiveness allows her to stand her ground, more often than not it just gets her into pointless arguments and fights with people, and even at the succubus club patrons might be turn off at how blunt and aggressive she is. She generally has a good heart though and wants to be a hero, however her brusque manner of approaching things and her inability to believe she is wrong often makes her the cause of trouble.
Xaing is brave not because she’s fearless, but the fact that she actually does get scared pretty easily despite her cockiness. She tends to bite more than she can chew, more so if she thinks she doesn’t have to prove herself, but when push comes to shove she will back up her claims. Or at least try. Still, Xiang is a bit of an idiot. Even the succubus couldn’t help her with that.
Skills: Sword Fighter - Xiang had trained with the sword in her journey to become an Eldritch Knight, and is actually pretty decent now that she’s a succubus. She’s fast enough to keep up with master swordsmen and tough enough to withstand their blows even upon a clean strike. However she lacks proper sword technique and in turn, the strength to be a deadly fighter. Even her “Super Moves” are just involve her flipping around before hitting someone or something as hard as she can.
Eldritch Magic - Because her own magic skills are mediocre, Xiang made a deal with the Succubi to harness magical energies, becoming a succubus herself. Her magic… Is still pretty bad. Not because she lacks power, but because the spells she has chosen are fairly useless in a fight, or at least have utility outside of battle. She has a few reliable combat spells but beyond that they’re mostly for tricks or making life easier for herself.
Weapon Bond - Xiang can summon her weapon to her wherever it’s at, even if it’s not with her or even within the same location. As long as she’s in the same plane and magic can be used, she can summon her weapon to her hand instantly.
Dark Flame Blade - Xiang’s weapon becomes wrapped in dark fire. Whenever she strikes something, the blade explodes into black flames, damaging her target and any nearby enemy with foul energies. The main and only “combative” spell Xiang has.
Prestidigitation - A common spell nearly every mage learns, this spell can perform a variety of minor but useful tricks, such as lighting campfires, washing things, or flavoring food.
Mending - This spell allows Xiang to fix objects. Useful when Xiang’s stuff gets broken during a fight.
Tiny Hut - This spell creates a small hut out of local materials that can fit up to about nine regular sized creatures. At the center of the hut is a magic fireplace that keeps the hit warm and comfortable. No matter what the building material is made out of, the hut is actually much more durable than it appears, and anyone who wasn’t within the hut when it’s made cannot enter without Xiang’s permission. It lasts for ten hours and requires ten minutes to cast.
Summon Familiar - This spell allows Xiang to summon her familiar, Sfyr, directly to her. Sfyr is a magic cat who is capable of everything a cat does but is better at it. Beyond that, it doesn’t really do anything else aside from providing Xiang company.
Silent Image - This spell creates a visual illusion. It cannot be physically interacted with, but Xiang can make the illusion look and do whatever she wants it to do, since it’s an illusion. She has to concentrate on it however, preventing her from casting any other spells while maintaining the illusion.
Identify - With this spell, Xiang can instantly learn and understand the power of an object, such as any magic enchantments on it or what purpose it serves. Whether or not Xiang can do anything with that knowledge is dependant on her and anyone smarter than her.
Dark Cloud - Arguably a decent spell Xiang can use for combat, this creates a large cloud of pitch black darkness. Only creatures with nightvision can see through this darkness, and it can either be locked onto one location or attached to an object.
Heroic Feast - This spell creates a ten-foot long table. On this table is a variety of delicious food and drinks. Each time a plate or bowl is eaten clean, a new type of food will appear. Those who eat from this feast is cured of all poison and diseases, are immune to poison and diseases, won’t be hungry for the next 24 hours. This spell lasts for one hour and takes thirty minutes to cast.
Traveling Treasure Chest - This spell summons a huge magic treasure chest. Xiang can put any non-living object in this chest, and when she summons it again it will still be in there the same way it was when she put it in. Living things that are put into the chest will not be teleported when it vanishes, and will just fall onto the floor where the chest was.
Phantom Orchestra - This spell summons an entire orchestra of ghostly musicians to provide musical accompaniment for Xiang. They can play any type of music or song that Xiang can think of, or at least something close to whatever Xiang has in mind.
Succubus Powers - As a Succubus, Xiang has a new new powers she can use. For starters, she can grow wings on her back and fly whenever she wants. She can also travel into people’s dreams and change their dream from inside. Xiang can drain energy from mortals to sustain herself, and occasionally has to in order to feel “full”. Even eating from her Heroic Feast wouldn’t satisfy her. Alternatively, she can also just have sex with someone. However this drains a lot of energy from a person and could potentially kill them. Even a kiss will drain someone of all their stamina. Her eyes are capable of seeing in the dark and reading emotions, though Xiang doesn't know about the second part and just thinks everyone has a magical aura surrounding them at all time.
Belongings: Angel of Agony (Aka Angela) - Xiang’s dark magical sword. A weapon with no equal, a cursed blade that has caused millions of creatures a lifetime of suffering. It is said to be used by the demon lord himself. Who says this? Xiang does. In truth, while it is a masterwork magical sword, it’s also cursed. The curse is that it cannot kill anything. The blade can maim, bruise, break, and beat the snort out of anything it strikes, but it ultimately cannot kill them.
Regalia of the Queen - Xiang’s armor, loosely speaking. While there are some armored bits, they’re more like stylish clothes than practical protective wear. Still, while wearing the full regalia (That’s all the armor bits), Xiang does have a protective forcefield around her that deflects and absorbs hostile attacks. Strong attacks can break through this barrier however.
