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In a world not dissimilar to our own, everyone in the world is born with 'Soul'. Utilizing the power of Soul, magical abilities will manifest and are powered by the amount of Soul one possesses. These people are known as mages, and their powers vary greatly. From being able to create and manipulate fire, to putting up barriers, to simply moving very fast, anyone and everyone is born with the potential to use magic. However, not everyone truly becomes a mage for magic, you see, is a strange and mystical power that not much is known about. Most that is known that one needs to it to be invoked, generally through a powerful or traumatic event, though at birth or it just manifesting from the blue are not uncommon.

Our setting takes place in Mahoukyo, where three powerful families have long been feuding over a rare resource known as Soul Essence, the purest form of Soul and that can only be found in the city. It only appears during the night, when strange magic washes over the city. Unbeknownst to all bar those involved, a strange alter reality known as Zero Time is created where Soul Essence is found in abundance. However, strange beasts lurk in Zero Time, preying on those who cannot see them or fighting the families as they fight amongst themselves.

Other strange things happen throughout the city. People disappearing, a serial killer on the loose, mutterings of a dark force pulling things behind the strings, pizza being stolen and people just turning up dead are just a few of the strange rumors circulating throughout the city. Most mages cannot function in the city without being a part of one of the three families, though it is not unheard of for unaffiliated mages to be found. Will you join one of the families, or be a lone wolf?

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Well first things first, I thank you for visiting this check and getting this far without leaving. Not the most original concept going around, but for anyone looking for an anime as fuck rp trending towards ridiculous anime-inspired powers and themes then I think you've found what you're looking for. Lunarlord34 is my name, and being a bad rper/gm is my game. Been around the guild for a while, and have GMed before but not on this site. Only ever been Co-gm to doomed rps.

I'll get into the rules in a moment, but for now, I'll give a brief explanation on the families:

The Rikimaru Family: Those who value strength and honor tend to drift towards this family. More of a splattering of gangs, this family is currently made up of roughly 30 different factions all united under one banner and each group ranges from 10 or so to upwards of 50+. The troublemakers of the three families.

The Akechi Family: Sticklers for the rules and traditions, this family is less open towards outsiders however even their own leadership is fragmented. They're far more elitist and picky on who can join their circle, however, so long as you can serve a purpose they'll tend to have you.

The Isamu Family: For those that don't belong, who need a place to go, the Isamu will greet all comers with open arms. United as one big family under the current leadership, they're the most chill of the three families.

With that little snippet out of the way, let's get to the crux of the matter. As explained above, Soul is what powers magic here so yes it's just renamed Mana because mana is overused and boring. Magic items/tools exist in this world. I will rank them in levels of rarity/usefulness. Grimoires, wands, scrolls, rings/jewelry and weapons. Grimoires allow access to larger spells and better control, while Wands offer only better control. The other two will vary a lot more, however, but it leaves it open for whatever you wish. If an item you want isn't covered by these 4 terms, I'm more than happy to talk about it to see where they would fall.

For the ranks, I shall be using a 3 tier scale system which me and my co Leslie ended up making.

Experience, which is as it sounds. It's more an age-related matter, so no 10 year old child with the highest level of experience.

Potential: One's ability to contain and sustain Soul and magic. I have the likely hood of people having each tier listed in the sheet below.

Aptitude: Basically how good you are at controlling your magic. Once again, it will be a bit of an age-related matter however I'm more lenient age-wise to this as prodigies do exist and adults with basically no control will as well.


1. GM's words are final. If I say you can't have this, or do that then that's that. I am happy to debate things though, but be aware that I will just resort to this if needed.

2. Take any drama or nsfw stuff to pm's, don't want to deal with it. However, if you need me to solve any issues, once again just PM me.

3. There is basically no limit to the whacky magic/powers you can have. So long as I approve of the idea, you can have it. I want an open power system with whacky powers that either match or contrast personalities. Also whacky character ideas would be pretty cool.

4. Ideadlly we'll be taking 9-12 players, so roughly 3-4 in each faction including not being affiliated. You may play multiple characters if you wish, to a limit of three however they cannot all just be in the same faction. This limit doesn't count towards characters of NPC status though. Also, if you don't make the cut but if someone drops I will leave it open to you to join later if you so wish. May also increase the limit depending on interest.

5. There are 4 factions for players to join. One of the three families, or simply not being involved with the families. Straightforward.

6. If you need help with anything, don't be afraid to ask. More than willing to help accommodate players' ideas, and if you have subplots or the like ideas more than happy to hear them as well.

7. Now because I'm sick of dying rp's, I will be doing something of a check on players who wish to join as a warning. Mostly for activity and whatnot. There'll also be a semi-strict posting policy, which will vary in length though no shorter than a week, or I'll just skip you if it comes to it. If you want to drop, or are too busy to post then just tell me. In the case of the latter, I will look to accommodate you. I know sometimes you just can't post and I don't want to stress you out.

I think that should cover just about anything. As I said, any questions just ask. Anyways thank you for reading this far and I hope to see you in the big city.

When I get home, I may tinker on a character for this. I have one in mind.

@Shard
Sure, thanks for showing interest. Will have more info available when we get a few more interested players and the OOC is up.

Tentative interest too. Especially as @Shard is here.

I am very interested. I am envisioning a blind character with a seeing eye dog. One aspect of his magical ability would be to see through his dogs eyes (So he is blind color blind!)

I am leaning towards him being a sort of sideline/benched member of The Akechi Family. Not really the black sheep or anything so sever, but he is never the one to hear news first hand.

Plenty of thoughts in my mind, but I will wait till more information drops before I fully commit to drafting up a character sheet. Excited to see where you take this in the long run @Lunarlord34

I'm in

@jetipster Good to hear :)

@World Traveler Fair enough mate, sounds like an interesting idea to say the least. There will be a fair bit of fighting though, so I'm interested to see how this magic would work. I'm working on a notable NPC list for each family right now, and I'll probably expand a little on the families when I'm done with that and then make up the OOC.

@Zelosse I would hope so mate ;)

I'm throwing in my hat for this too.

I am probably leaning more to a lone wolf character with some sick ass telekinetic magic (or maybe weapon summoning?) but instead of being the brooding lone wolf character, they're like this happy-go-lucky helping character who's open to being hired by any of the families.

They just want to go around fighting and helping along the way.

I'd be interested in this too. Still don't have a clear idea for a character.

@Polaris North
Fair enough, will look forward to looking at the character then :)

@Killy
That's fine, when I get the OOC up it'll have a bit info to work with. And if I miss anything/you want to know more when it's up just say or ask, and so long as it isn't a spoiler/secret I'll be more than happy to help.

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@World Traveler Fair enough mate, sounds like an interesting idea to say the least. There will be a fair bit of fighting though, so I'm interested to see how this magic would work. I'm working on a notable NPC list for each family right now, and I'll probably expand a little on the families when I'm done with that and then make up the OOC.

As I don't have a completely full understanding of the magic system I can't obviously go into full detail, but maybe my magic has to do with summoning more dogs and they can fight (Wolf pack sort of attack maybe)? My character would work as partly a scout who helps find the desired Soul Essence while also assisting with locating rivals and helping impede their abilities to gather it for themselves.

Maybe because of his ability instead of being attached to one person he simply hires his skill set out to who pays him? Maybe due to the fact that he kept losing fights as one group wasn't using him to his best abilities or something.

@World Traveler
Not gonna lie, I'm not going to go super in-depth into the magic system. I'm going to let people have a very open and wide variety of powers all under the guise of 'magic'. The big things are it's powered by Soul, not mana, and that I approve of it lol. I'm loving the sound of your power though on that note, although obviously a limit would need to be put on how many wolves he can summon at once. And as I told someone else via pm's, a merc is fine so long as they don't constantly switch sides. Although I would rather people choose a family and stay there please, it'll help with organising XD

I should also note that the families won't be the only obstacle during Zero Time, I hope I mentioned there were monsters involved lol. Might throw in some rogue mages every now and then. I should have the OOC up by hopefully tomorrow night, work is a pain unfortunately so I haven't had much of a chance to work on it besides a few notable NPC's.

@World Traveler
Not gonna lie, I'm not going to go super in-depth into the magic system. I'm going to let people have a very open and wide variety of powers all under the guise of 'magic'. The big things are it's powered by Soul, not mana, and that I approve of it lol. I'm loving the sound of your power though on that note, although obviously a limit would need to be put on how many wolves he can summon at once. And as I told someone else via pm's, a merc is fine so long as they don't constantly switch sides. Although I would rather people choose a family and stay there please, it'll help with organising XD

I should also note that the families won't be the only obstacle during Zero Time, I hope I mentioned there were monsters involved lol. Might throw in some rogue mages every now and then. I should have the OOC up by hopefully tomorrow night, work is a pain unfortunately so I haven't had much of a chance to work on it besides a few notable NPC's.

Completely understand. I would fine it far more interesting to be a member of a family rather than being a merc. Basically every conversation would be "We don't trust you merc" And me going "But I am worth the coin you toss me valley of plenty!"

I am happy to limit the powers but I demand the ability to summon a thousand wolf puppies to drown my enemies in cuddles! NO one shall paSS!!!

@World Traveler
Idk cuteness is a little too OP. Even with no attack power, you could overwhelm and defeat all just with one pup, let alone a thousand! (jk obviously lol). But yeah I would be disappointed if you didn't drown someone in pups.

IN a last act of complete and selfless heroism my character stands before the rising tide of evil and with one phrase brings them to their wicked knees.

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"O is that a puppy!!!"

@Lunarlord34

I currently have a character in the other RP I am participating in, and I thought that his powers would be fun to translate into Magic, rather than a mutation which is the setting in that RP.

I'd export my character from that RP to this one, and get another feel for the whole concept. Naturally, the character would need to be edited properly to fit.

So, what kind of society does this take place in? Like, how prominent is magic in this society? Is it like well-known or more like one of those "behind the scenes" things?

@Shard
Fair enough, I’ve done similar before so interested to see how it goes for you.

@GamerXZ
That’s some info I’ll cover in the OOC, which I’ll work on when I get home from work tonight. Long story short, magic is known throughout the world but isn’t accessible to all for various reasons.
But Zero Time is on the hush hush.

I'll consider this.