The school, Saint Valerius Academy is a year-round academy that's located in a relatively remote place in Northern Europe, with the closest civilization being the town nearly twenty miles distant. The academy proper is atop a small hill in a valley, surrounded by lush, heavy forest. Its classes are for a high-school only, with college level classes available for the more advanced students. Dorms are provided on-site, and located away from the main school buildings. With each advancing grade level, students are awarded with more freedom(Both in selecting classes and outside of school hours.) One day(Sunday) is given as a relaxation day each week, and the students are allowed off the premises to go to the village.
The Nobles are sons and daughters of the very, very rich, making this a school that's very exclusive and almost impossibly(For an average person)expensive to afford. In return, the school promises to create an exceptionally safe(Via both the highly-trained and paid guards, and the Knights) learning environment that promotes interaction and skills that such future captains of industry would need. While all the classes are available to everyone, the Nobles will only get Nobles as classmates, and so on(The Knights may, in fact, sit in on these classes).
The Middle Class are usually local children who graduated with exceptionally high grades from their schools, and got a scholarship into the academy. The others that make up the Middle Class are rich(But not the super-rich) who can afford at least some of the school's fees and then the sons and daughters of the faculty and staff.
Knights can be selected from the Middle Class, but more often than not they are transferred into the school for the explicit purpose of being a Knight to a specific noble.
Duels: Duels are a more specialized way of climbing the rank very quickly. For a Knight to enter a duel seriously, they must be ranked. However, all knights are allowed to call a duel, ranked or not. Each Knight, beginning the duel, gives up their pin, the representation of their rank. Each is allowed time to prepare, being able to bring their own weapons and/or magic to the table, and then they battle. All weapons must be approved by the supervising teacher prior to the duel. The victor is the one that does not concede defeat and/or the supervising faculty deems the winner while watching (They are given rather strict training on when to do this, such as if a student might get seriously injured, or if the battle has gone on for a very long time, they must try to find a winner so that the Knights do not fight themselves to death.). The winner then gets the pin (out of the two given up) with the highest rank and moves on. The loser gets the lower pin and must accept it. There are extreme cases where the pins the Knights get at the end of the duels do not remain the same (as in in some cases, the teachers will elect to move a Knight up or down the rank forcibly.) however the rule is to treat the duel as over when it is over and the ranks as solid until the next supervising session. If a Knight loses a duel, they are allowed one consecutive duel before they are suspended from calling duels for the next month.
Ranks: There are a total of 25 ranked positions each with their own specialized pin. They go down in number and color as you get higher up the rank. Rank 25 -16 are bronze, Rank 15 - 6 are silver, 5 - 4 are gold, and 1 is purple. Every other week or so, the Coordinator makes rounds for "Rank Sessions" where he/she watches several Knights brawl with each other and then assesses their rank within the school. All students are watched, however only those that are Ranked are watched by the specialist (Coordinator), others are simply watched by normal teachers. After the "Sessions" are over (often without the knowledge of the students) a board is posted with the Rankings (one is also posted online on the school's website via the Newspaper 'Club'). The other unranked students remain unaware of their progress towards the rank but are allowed to seek advice from teachers about what they could do better. It should also be noted that Knights are not only ranked based on fighting ability, but on a whole expanding to their studies and social life (what the teachers see of it, anyway).
Dorms: Each dorm is associated with a class level, however Seniors need not stay in the senior dorms. However, freshmen must stay in the freshmen dorm. Each dorm as it travels up the class level, also travels up the other 'class' level as it increases in price. The dorms are all co-op and males and females are even allowed to stay with each other depending on the family's wishes. Knights are generally required to stay with their nobles in the same dorm room and so each dorm room comes with one large bedroom and one smaller one for the Knight. All students in the school are required to stay on the campus for training purposes.
Weapons and Technology: This world is fairly advanced, but magical, taking places several years after our own modern day. The Knights are split into two factions, those who use physical non-magic based weapons and those that use magical means to defend their charges. They are the Order of Twilight (Magic Knights) and the Order of Shield. Neither Order is restricted to just physical or magical means, however many students take the tradition very seriously and shun students who mix methods.
School Rules: They don't have many, but Students are only allowed to leave the campus on urgent business or otherwise on the weekends like everyone else. The closest nearby town is a 30 minute walked and is called Little Helm and many of the school's students hang out around there on the weekends (it's apparently become a tradition to hold a dance party every Friday night in the Little Helm local bar).
Nobles are not allowed to fight in duels, but they can call them for their Knight. If a Noble breaks this rule and fights in an illegal duel, they are put under Dorm Arrest and they cannot leave their dorm until the suspension is lifted. Their Knights will get all food, schoolwork, and other such things as the Noble needs during this time. Duels are absolutely not allowed without faculty supervision. And, any faculty caught allowing an illegal duel will be punished severely along with the students. If a Knight breaks this rule, they are put into forced detainment and punished (Usually through pretty harsh training) and a Substitute Knight is called in from the Institution (a place where Knight gather and are hired, ye.)
1)GM and co-GM reserve the rights to kick players out of RP for reasons they deem... well... reasonable. These could include disrespect, lack of posting for extended periods of time, or other various malconducts. 2)The RP will only wait one week before moving on without players who haven't posted. Eventually, your character may even be written out of the story. Just be aware of this. 3)Please make sure that if you have plans that they are run by either the GM or co-GM before implementation. That goes for changed character background, plot ideas, etc. 4) The GM and co-GM reserve the right to change these rules anytime they see fit. 5) Please, Please always keep the best interest of the RP in mind. That means being mindful of how what your character does affects the RP and the world and whether or not to do said action. Just... be mindful. 6) If you've read the rules, please tell us who your favorite video game/anime/manga/TV show Character is! 7) Have fun! :3
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**For this section, if you'd like some help coming up with talents, please DM me![/center][/i][/color]
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Little Helm is the small town located nearby the school and it is a place of hang out on the weekends for Saint Valerius students. Little Helm Shops/Buildings - Barber - Clothing Shop (Boutique) - Hannah's (A small bar and grill) - Courthouse - Knight Outfitters - Bar - Graveyard - Cafe - Local School System (Little Helm Elementary, etc etc.) - MartMart (WalMart)
*will fill in with excel sheets to mark roommates and such later
Freshmen Dorm: Name: Edwards Hall
Sophomore Dorm: Name: Carterson Hall
Junior Dorm: Name: Biggs Hall
Senior Dorm 1: Name: Masters Hall
Senior Dorm 2: Name: The Village
Gym Main Office President's Office Dean's Office Meeting Room (For Representatives and such) Nurse's Office Infirmary Teacher's Lounge Classrooms Stables
Alright. I haven't done RP like this in a very long time, so excuse me if I'm rusty but I really wanted to get back to my roots of rping. I wanted to highlight a few things I'm thinking about below so you can weigh in on those when/if you express interest.
- Expected writing level. I'm adding this RP into Casual, but we are going to expect at least some level of para RP (multiple paragraphs). This does mean that writing might be slower than the average RP so you can probably expect to post at least once a week, once a month at minimum. We're not going to do novella here by any means. - Co-GM. I would like a Co-GM. If you have any interest in this, please DM me with what you would be able to help me do. - Fighting. I would love for fighting to have an actual like.. minigame/dice roll aspect to it? The idea here is that characters pick abilities and talents that suit their character's skills and general plot/direction. Those abilities are assigned modifiers to the base dice roll or allow them to add an additional dice to the roll, etc. So, Knight 1 creates an ability called Strafe where they can deftly dodge. It adds +5 to their main attack roll. And in the minigame, perhaps, both knights roll a d20 and whoever rolled higher wins. Then the players write out their battle with the intent for the battle to come to the conclusion the dice gave them. So if Knight 1 rolled higher, their player would write the battle with the knowledge that at the end, Knight 1 should win the duel. - If that's too complicated and we'd rather scrap it entirely, I wouldn't hold it against you. Lol. - My role will mainly be NPC running. I'll set up certain areas and side plots an give little plot hooks to your characters using the NPCs. I may fill some of the Knight Ranks with NPCs to give the world a bit more flavor/color. But that will depend on how many folks we get it. - Character(s) per writer. I would like to keep this at 1 per writer, but due to the nature of the pairings, we may need duplicates. We can decide that after we've seen how many show interest.
And I think that's it? I'll add anything else later should I have anything else I'd like to share with you. Weigh in on whatever you'd like to weigh in on and let me know if there's anything that you're curious about or "if you changed just this one thing, I'd be way more excited about joining" if you're thinking something like this.
Alright then! With at least 5 people showing tentative interest, I'll get started on setting up a thread for us a little later today(pending work). On there, I'll ask that people weigh in a bit more on certain things that I'm thinking about (age, combat, npcs, plot direction, etc). Of course, "I have no real opinion" is a valid answer, but just means I'll make a decision that I feel is right. yatta yatta.
Thank you all for expressing interest! I know that concepts like this can be a dime a dozen, so really, I appreciate it!
Interested in playing a Noble myself! Though if duplicates are needed, then I'll play a Knight as well for another player's Noble.
6) If you've read the rules, please tell us who your favorite video game/anime/manga/TV show Character is!
My absolute best favorite is none other than Saya from Saya no Uta. I'm someone who's exceedingly difficult to cry, so I distinctly remembered that Saya no Uta was the first fictional piece of media that managed to get tears out of me, the visual novel's story spoke to me on so many levels, but I've rambled long enough. So yes, Saya.
I spent some time in England, almost everything was closed on a Sunday. If that's the one day students are allowed in town, some of these shops must have Sunday hours. MartMart, of course, doesn't care what day of the week is, nor will the local newsagents.
Favorite Anime characters are Ed from Cowboy Bebop and Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries.
Interested if there is still space! Would prefer to play a knight, but I don't mind rolling with a Noble if pairings are skewed.
When you get the ooc up, do you mind throwing up some example talents (minor and/or major)? I want to get a feel for where to aim when making those.
My favorite characters change pretty often, but Lain Iwakura from Serial Experiment Lain and Kaoru Yamazaki from Welcome to the NHK are pretty high up there.
@Izurich Hi! Thank you! We'll look at the potential for needing dupes once we figure out our numbers. I know a lot of times for things like this (pairings) it means that it's very important that both writing partners stick around. So we'll navigate that sort of stuff as it comes up. We'll just all need to be a little flexible with that as needed! My intention is to try my best so that we only need one character per person.
This could be fun, yes.
I spent some time in England, almost everything was closed on a Sunday. If that's the one day students are allowed in town, some of these shops must have Sunday hours. MartMart, of course, doesn't care what day of the week is, nor will the local newsagents.
Favorite Anime characters are Ed from Cowboy Bebop and Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries.
That's an excellent point! I'll have to amend that in the lore bits. If you have any more tidbits about life in England, I'd love to hear it so I can potentially use that for lore stuff!
Interested if there is still space! Would prefer to play a knight, but I don't mind rolling with a Noble if pairings are skewed.
When you get the ooc up, do you mind throwing up some example talents (minor and/or major)? I want to get a feel for where to aim when making those.
My favorite characters change pretty often, but Lain Iwakura from Serial Experiment Lain and Kaoru Yamazaki from Welcome to the NHK are pretty high up there.
Absolutely! I've got that on my docket of things to do for the RP.
