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[OOC] Another Life in a Fantasy World (Invite Only)

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Prologue


Between the simply-cut throne of marble atop a grand set of stairs and the spiraling stars flying overhead, one could have easily mistaken the scene at hand from something out of a movie. The intent to draw awe in the scene's presence alone was evident at a glance, but what served to draw the eye amidst it all was a somewhat boyish young man seated upon that throne. His gaze, at once sharp and listless, seemed to linger upon something in the skies above for but a moment before they turned to face whatever lay beneath him.

"I suppose we are due for something interesting this century..." he mused to himself as he moved to rest upon one of his arms. "Maybe Luni's suggestion will be worth testing. Bringing otherworlders in to bring a spark to this world may be just what it needs."

With a limp-wristed gesture, the man raised his free hand towards the sky, then down towards the ground below. Slowly, a small handful of those stars were dragged down from their seats, pulled into the orb that the man had been so intent to place his focus upon.

"New forms, same minds. A scant few boons to aid in their acclimation. No more, no less," he spoke as the sphere flashed with every new light added to it. "Scatter them to the winds. Their lives shall be theirs, and theirs alone; whether they live or die again matters not compared to what change they may bring."

But to what end those souls plucked from beyond would have upon this world... Only they themselves could say now.

Scenario

This is an isekai fantasy RP. No fancy gimmicks (other than player cheats and a little helping hand). Invite only. If you're here, you know what this is about.

Here's a breakdown of the relevant mechanics outside of the usual fantasy stuff.

Cheats: Standard fare. Something that breaks the rules of logic relative to even the magic of the new world.
Skills: You get one new skill independent of your past life. This one needs to be reasonable relative to the character, be it conceptually or otherwise.
System Access: Free text-based communications line that cannot be intercepted or interfered with. Can store records and send messages to other reincarnators. Basically a glorified notepad and chat room.


Anyways, form below.

Name: Use whatever here, honestly. Taking up a new name? Standing by the one your parents gave you? Live life as you see fit; it's a second chance, after all.
Age: You can split it into physical and mental or just use one if you want. Please be clear, though.
Gender: In the here and now. If you know, you know.
Race: Classic fantasy triage? Sure. Something custom? Run it by me first and we'll talk.
Appearance: Text, images, what have you.
Personality: Self-explanatory.
History: Also self-explanatory.
Cheat: Because is it really an isekai without some bullshit power on hand? You could argue that these are a bit more balanced than most, which obviously means they'll be vetted
Skill Name:
Skill Description:
Other: Anything else of note? Put it here.

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Name: Abe Hikari. It's her original name, and she sees no reason to swap it.
Age: Mentally, Hikari is definitely in her 30's. Physically, it could go either way: she looks like a nine year old, but there's enough to go on to suggest she's actually been reincarnated at the grand old age of over 900. She's a bit all over the place.
Gender: Female.
Race: Kitsune. It has racial abilities, but she doesn't know how to use any of them.
Appearance: Fluffiness without compare.
Personality: Hikari has a polite and agreeable demeanour. Do you need something done? Well, she's happy to be of assistance, as long as it's within her ability and job scope. This betrays a lot of the rest of Hikari's attitude, even after dying and being reincarnated... well, she can't help but think of herself as an employee working for her long-term prospects.
She seems quite able to take the absurdity of this reincarnation in stride; this sort of lowest common denominator writing was a guilty pleasure in her limited free time, and it's nice to enjoy it from a first-person perspective. It certainly lends her an air of unflappability in all things, which fits her new role quite perfectly.
Besides, even if she dies again and nobody has access to resurrection, she's already got some great times out of this, why complain?
History: Hikari's life before reincarnation was about as dull as could be imagined: a studious and education-focused childhood with little time for doing things just for fun, followed by an equally boring university education before getting a tedious office job as a normal salaryman... no time for relationships, of course, nor as many hobbies as one would have liked. Trashy isekai setups? Oh, they took little enough time and thought that they were easy to follow, but...
All of this in service to one goal: securing a safe and long-term career, with prospects of advancement to management and a cushy retirement when the time came. Or, at least, some time clawed back from socialising with co-workers and networking so that there was the potential for a family, as annoying as that often felt.
This eventually lead to a promotion and Hikari was thrilled to be selected for an overseas meeting. this was the best opportunity to advance and--well, spending one's last moments obsessing over a prepared powerpoint presentation wasn't exactly the ideal way to go.
Of course, this came with the opportunity for reincarnation! Not that Hikari remembers the process, or quite why this has lead to being a tiny little foxgirl, but that's not objectionable. Why her new cheat is so... what it is? Oh, she can guess, but really, past Hikari? Why had you argued so strongly for something that would give you that nice cushy job you wanted, with good accommodations and...
Well, at least she's cute now.
Cheat: Perfect and Elegant Maid: When it comes to the art of being a maid, nobody can be more suited or a faster learner than Hikari. For a start, this has granted her instant proficiency across a whole suite of domestic skills, from cleaning to cooking to managing a household staff. No more instant ramen for her! If it's been invented anywhere here yet, of course.
There's a lot of semantics intrinsic in this, of course. While at a baseline it just gives Hikari a surprising level of aptitude for learning how to use supportive magic or knifework, if she were to find a proper employer... well, anticipating and fulfilling their needs would give her a lot more avenues for growth, depending on who they are.
Skill Name: Shapeshift: Fox.
Skill Description: The only racial skill that Hikari has any immediate access to, it's the ability to transform into a fox. Either a perfectly normal fox with a single tail, or one keeping her full magnificent array. She can speak in either case.
Other: Was once on the kendo team. Not terribly useful, if she goes into knives instead.

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Bio

Name:
	Vladlena Belyakova
Age
	The doll body appears to be around 18
	Vladlena herself, though, was 25 when the accident happened.
Gender:
	Female
Race:
	Living Doll
Appearance:
	Vladlena's new body appears to be that of a well taken care of petite, human sized doll. Standing at just five three, she's rather diminutive and fairly unassuming with long white hair, gold colored eyes, and wearing and elegant dress. She could easily be mistaken for a human, if not for the very visible joints on her hands, knees, and arms and the slightly almost too glassy appearance of her eyes. Her hair is typically seemingly tied effortlessly into two bows on either side of her rather impressively long amount of hair. The only downside, is that she wishes she was just slightly taller. She lost a few inches when being reincarnated.
Personality:
	Vladlena, on the surface, seems like a fairly normal person if a bit eccentric with a love for being overly dramatic sometimes. Mixed with an almost mad-scientist level passion for engineering, she can come off as a bit overbearing at times. Mechanical engineering? Mapping out a new bridge to be built? Calculating stress loads for said bridges? Making an entirely new mechanical contraption using physics?

hold her vodka, she'll have this figured out in an hour.

	Her self proclaimed geniuses' aside, Lena takes something of a hedonistic approach to life. If it feels good, so long as its not overly dangerous, why not give it a try? To say nothing of her penchant for teasing others and being a right smug bastard sometimes. This might be a dangerous combination if it wasn't for her moral compass leaning mostly right. She at least won't harm others just to get something she wants. No, shes too great to stoop to such things.

	Her only flaw, if she had to say, would be the fact she rarely thinks or takes time to consider other people in her plans. Her way or the highway, as one might say. She doesn't mind going alone.
History:
	Vladlena hails from Russia. A land known for its Vodka, that one song somewhat memey song about it, and its not so stellar past in the grand scheme of things. Not that she ever really put too much thought into such things about the hows and whys. She had a fairly normal life growing up in the Motherland, well, as normal as anyone growing up could in Russia. Middle class, friends, loving family. It was all rather boring really.

	The only thing one may note of particular exception, was Vladlena's excellence in academics. Specifically in maths and in the Engineering sectors. She was able to graduate full marks from one of Russia's finest institutions. Not without a fair share of hiccups. She became known for being something of both a troublemaker and someone who did things a little unconventionally. Not that they could do much - she was still one of the top students in Uni even if she spent half her free time being something of a functional alcoholic and generally skipping a good portion of the classes to pursue her hobbies and other things that caught her interest, for however long they did.

	It was shortly after graduating at the age of 25, just after spending the last five years in college getting a degree and getting hired at her first place of employment did she end up passing away. Killed by a drunk driver on her way home from the first day on the job.

	Why a Doll though? She can't remember the specifics, but it was probably along the lines of 'a perfectly cute and eternally adorable body'
Cheat:
	Auto Forge
		In effect, this allows Lena to take an amount of raw materials and use magic to effectively shape them into some usable. Effectively, effortlessly machining or 3D printing an object with just some sort of magical ability. She does not currently understand how this works. 

	The more complex something is, the time it takes to do it increases exponentially. Complexity is a combination of both intricacy of parts as well as the material itself. That is to say something like wood would be made faster then something like some sort of metal alloy. Just as well, she has to actually have some idea of how it would work for it to be made. The first time she makes something it may be better to make the individual parts and manually put them together, for example.

	Theoretically, there's no upper limit to what she could make with this. Its just a huge time investment the more complex and difficult the material is to work with. A simple replacement part for her body? Should only take a few minutes at most. A brand new part she hasn't made before and isn't familiar with, or she's just learning the theory behind? That's going to take awhile. The inverse is also, true though. The more practice and familiar she is with what she's making, the faster it will be made.
Craftsmans' Psychometry
Skill Description:
	Traditionally known as object reading, or rather the ability to learn information about an object and its history simply by touching it. In Lena's case, she can use this entirely just for inanimate objects and only to learn about what went into making them. It doesn't tell her the proper ratios of alloys in an object, how to forge it or put it together. Just the materials that went into making it.
Other:
	Lena's body is well, entirely hollow. She has no idea how this works yet, but it means that at the moment she's both rather difficult to actually injure or kill really. She can't really bleed out, and while it does hurt when stabbed as one may expect, it really is just a flesh wound for her. Her body is also extremely flexible.

	This does have its downsides though, the most notable bit being that she can not heal naturally and healing magic is typically less effective on her, if at all.

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Name: Yukimura Souji/"Sephily"
Age: 19
Gender: Female("what")
Race: High Elf
Appearance: Standing at an intimidating 139 CM.("Why do I have to be so short, too?!")
Personality: Souji is a studious person, but not the type to completely neglect his own free time. A fan of fantasy games and related media, he'd make time for them whenever he could in order to keep himself from burning out. Even after the accident, it's unlikely that Sephily will ever cease to approach things with that mindset. With that being said, it doesn't change the fact that her serious outlook leads to an easily exasperated personality. Her patience quickly wears thin when faced with foolish behavior or aggravating situations. While she deals well with complex problems in studies or in free time, she dislikes having to deal with stupid people and will vocally voice her displeasure. Due to her studious nature, it shouldn't be any surprise she takes well to things involving magic, commonly playing mage characters in games she enjoyed in her past life. Perhaps quite ironically, Souji's taste in female characters tended towards petite, surly types, which certainly adds another layer to her new form. Entirely embarrassed by this situation, she is unlikely to directly introduce her previous identity, though she's rather poor at hiding her awkward feelings about her new body. Why did she have to end up a cute girl, and why did she have to end up so short?! Why did she have to end up her type?!
Regardless of her temperamental demeanor and awkwardness over her new body, Souji tends to try and do the right thing when presented with dangerous situations even if she might vocally complain about it. She has a habit of keeping new people at arm's length, and is likely to be embarrassed easily be close proximity to others for a variety of reasons.
History: Prior to the tragic incident that claimed his life, Yukimura Souji's life wasn't particularly eventful. A capable student often sought for assistance with homework, he had a small number of friends that largely shared his own personal interests, and was able to maintain his own hobbies while succeeding well in his class work. Perhaps this induced some jealousy in some of his classmates during Middle School and High School, but he didn't suffer much of the effects from such feelings. Having just recently entered university, he was convinced to visit the US for vacation and---
There was only one very unlucky casualty of the crash.
Cheat: Her staff, which will begin with fairly basic but useful capabilities as a magical catalyst. As her skills develop, so to will the capabilities of her staff, permitting an increase in mana output, a decrease in the cost of spells, and various other benefits.
Skill Name: Star MirrorSkill Description: A living reflection of the world's stars. A special trait for a mage with an intrinsic connection to starlight, most common in high elves but overall very rare. Normally, learning star-based spells would require study of the cosmos, but Sephily has a natural affinity for the stars. The School of Astromancy is a variant of offensive magic drawing on celestial bodies, particularly the stars. It is known for highly destructive offensive spells, with even the basic level spells being fairly potent in combat.
Other: Souji's favorite light novel is The Elf Mage Doesn't Approve, about a petite and tsundere elf mage and the protagonist's difficulties with her.

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@Raineh Daze@Rune_Alchemist@VitaVitaAR: All OK.

Name: Nicolas Li
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: "Need something from me?"
Standing at a somewhat respectable 5’10”, Nick carries himself with an air of reserved confidence. His clothing now isn’t exactly suitable for the mess of procuring ingredients or the controlled chaos of the workshop, but it certainly conveys the atmosphere that someone in his newfound line of work “should” have.
Personality: With a somewhat relaxed demeanor in his day-to-day life, Nick does not seem like the type who one might mistake for a chef—or, at least, not a chef who treats his kitchen like a battlefield (though it may as well be one). In a sense, that judgement would be correct; having never actually had to work in a proper kitchen, the pressures that he is used to are mostly with regards to long-term goals, and towards those he has had ample time to prepare. Paired with a humility and desire to learn from those who know more than he, though, one could consider him an eternal student.

This is not to say that Nick is a doormat or spineless, though; while he may struggle at times with responsibilities thrust upon him, any acceptance of such is built upon a mix of patience and, ideally, mutual respect. Absent of either, the young man is more than willing to simply abandon endeavors in favor of paths that are more productive.
History: Nick’s life was fairly unremarkable, as most are. Born of the love between Chinese and Japanese office workers who had moved to America for business opportunities, the young man was, in essence, caught between three worlds instead of the “usual” two. For most of his childhood, the young boy grappled with his identity—who he was and how he fit into the world didn’t align neatly, if at all. It was only when he began high school and, half on a whim and half because he was forced into it, began to cook did he find some direction in his life. While a need to excel in academics was more or less forced upon him due to the circumstances of his upbringing, the young man found that the food that he made, be it at the behest of others or for his own personal desires, was the best way to express himself.

Of course, the life of a chef in any capacity was financially reckless, and his parents made that clear as day. For the most part, it was relegated to a side hobby—one among many side hobbies of a young man his age. Thus proceeded his daily life until he got into college, at which point he, by some odd set of circumstances, ended up going to cooking school on top of studying for a degree in biochemistry. This, naturally enough, consumed a rather significant amount of his time and left him the de facto friend that people flocked to in order to get a good meal for cheap. Would that it had continued until he had finished college, though; a rather unfortunate encounter with a student athlete who had drunk a bit too much and was behind the wheel made certain that he was just another life snuffed out a bit too soon.

For what little it was worth, the impact took him out quickly enough that he wasn’t conscious for more than a second after being sent flying.
Cheat: Dimensional Atelier - Nick has access to a "small" pocket dimension, accessible only to him and those given his OK, that contains a variety of equipment tailor-made for chemistry, alchemy, and the culinary arts that never seem to degrade in quality. It is, in essence, a personal workshop where he can work and store goods, and even rest in a pinch. The entry and exit point is bound to the location where he deploys it, but it can be moved or dispelled at will.
Skill Name: Fundamentals of Synthesis
Skill Description: This skill provides a basic understanding of the usage and functionality of all tools related to alchemy and chemistry. As an added bonus, any items that are produced by someone with this skill will have naturally higher quality than other goods made by the same process.
Other: Though it might not necessarily need to bear repeating, Nick is quite proficient at cooking despite a lack of any dedicated skills towards doing so.

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