[OOC] Academy Wars: Rituals and Technology in the Modern World, a Magitech School RP

[VitaVitaAR]

Thaaat about answers that, really. ^^;

[Raineh Daze]

Student:

• Name: Tachibana Kaede
• Age: 18
• Gender: Female
• Appearance

  
  She's actually on the tall side. The 'very tall' side, probably being in the top ten students of the academy for height. It runs in the family, since her father's a massive guy.
• Personality: Kaede is a pretty laid back girl, hard to get riled up or shake out of her general comfort zone of nonchalant acceptance. Her friendly demeanour makes her rather approachable to younger students and she's happy to help them out with preparation for the Academy Tournaments... or anything else. Unless she's left completely incapable of helping, she has an extremely hard time resisting the desire to help other people.
  If something is threatening another person in her view--or worse, actually hurts them--then the relaxed joviality falls away entirely. Her serious demeanour is quite scary, particularly as she's a very practical person: if you're already being dangerous, there's no point talking you down... flooring you is quicker and safer.
• Skills: Kaede is an all-around good student, though her homework submission leaves something to be desired and she's somewhat lazy about ruminating on the arts and tends to do better in science--and, for many reasons, she's absolutely prohibited from taking part in PE. From a combat perspective, she's got basic training in more than a few martial arts but, when the situation calls for it, is most skilled at simply brawling and ignoring pain. Additionally, the redhead is great at dealing with children, whether alone or in groups.
  For obvious reasons, she's also pretty good with her feet when the situation calls for it.
• Equipment: A Ritual Device dedicated to Heracles, made as a belt so that there's no reason she should ever not have the damn thing (especially because she doesn't wear skirts). The fact that without the belt, Kaede can't put on the belt is a Catch-22 situation she can't miss.
  So far as pacts go, it's a pretty easy one for her to satisfy base requirements: some measure of athleticism, helping children, or general heroism is enough to get it going, though this makes it something she can't easily use for her own sake--such as purely academic reasons--which is quite annoying. Circumstances that actually call for feats of strength and indomitable confidence--or uncontrolled anger, which makes Kaede glad she's level-headed--are necessary for more than the mere base abilities, however.
  The actual limits of her pact are dictated by more grandiose feats of worship: on top of all other factors, without replicating in some great quantity the Twelve Labours, it's limited to the current potential despite the god in question. Actually replicating one (the Nemean Lion) in a way was necessary to get the pact in the first place.
• Abilities: Kaede's Ritual Device... gives her arms. They're obviously not organic arms, being a translucent mix of marble and Ritual Technology, but they're solid and she can control them like they were her own. They're also strong, even at a minimum--enough that it's a bad idea for her to take part in PE due to having a much larger potential for injuring people than a normal teenage girl.
  When properly activate, the substantial strength boost is enough to dent rock with a punch and Kaede moves noticeably faster, though this is more of an equaliser against dexterous opponents than a game-changing boost. The final ability it gives her is good aim, whether throwing something or randomly handed a bow.
• Brief Backstory: Kaede is the eldest daughter of a rather large family, with her father a prominent researcher in Light Engines specifically--not the uses they're put to, but the engines themselves. This leads him to spend a lot of time travelling and, after his daughter received her Divine Gear just after starting middle school, he sometimes brought Kaede along if she was free--both as an educational experience for her, and because the Gear's construction was often useful as a physical reference.
  One experiment she was brought to, the winter before graduating from that school, was conducted in Greece and revolved around using a Light Engine to power a stable portal. Though the portals worked, it turned out to have a crippling flaw: an open gateway circumventing the Gate of Samhain. Only one entity got through before the power was cut, but the beast was larger than an elephant and disturbingly violent. Given the lack of armament professed by anybody else in the area, Kaede put herself in harm's way to take the thing on.
  From her current appearance but survival, it's quite clear how that fight went. Fortunately for her continued manual ability, the lab had a shrine to strengthen its Ritual Technology and Heracles was somewhat impressed with her success, consenting to a Ritual Device for the girl. Given that her previous Divine Gear was a pair of fists, it meant that her ability to take part in Academy Tournaments when older wasn't obstructed. To her irritation, her previous mock battles tended to restrict her ability to take part.

[VitaVitaAR]

As discussed, accepted.

[Crimmy]

How many players are you aiming for before starting?

[VitaVitaAR]

However many show up in the next couple days, since I'm planning on starting Wednesday at the latest. ^^;

[Polaris North]

Ryu Amatsuki

Faculty

• Name: Ryu Amatsuki
• Age: 26
• Gender: Male
• Appearance

  
  He's around 5'9".
• Personality: Despite what his looks might entail, he’s actually a pretty nice guy. He’s not very approachable thanks to his appearance but when you do, you learn that you really can’t base someone from their appearances. He’s helpful to the students who are having trouble. He isn’t at all embarrassed that he is teaching Home Ec of all things. He gets along with people who actually has the guts to talk to him. However, when he gets mad, he gets furious. He mostly hates seeing students hurting themselves because of sheer stupidity which either ends up with a verbal or physical punishment.
  He loves partying though and often goes to party clubs to spend his free time when he has it. There has been multiple cases of people dropping down unconscious. It is said that he unknowingly releases his power while partying which causes the other people present to keep on dancing until they literally drop. He is not aware of this at all. He’s also quite a drinker, but that’s understandable considering his pact. He smokes too but he rarely does this within school grounds.
• Skills: As a Home Ec teacher, he knows his ways around the house. Cooking, carpentry, sewing, those kinds of things he’s skilled at. He also manages to sneak in bartending lessons for the older students just for the heck of it (as long as someone doesn’t get drunk of course). He can fight while drunk but it isn’t any form of formal martial arts.
• Equipment: Ritual Device: A pact with the God of Wine and Merrymaking, Dionysus The guy has a complete array of clothing, usually casual. Just a shirt, pants and shoes. Most of the time, however, he is drunk and happy so Ryu usually needs to keep an eye on him. The device itself is the plating over his left arm. It includes a wooden alcohol flask that Ryu always carries around. It’s filled with wine Dionysus himself gives him. The flask itself can be used as a weapon as it is near indestructible.
• Abilities:
  Blessing of Dionysus: His pact with the party god has given him the power to essentially push those around him to their limits and beyond. Something like a ‘power-up’. The more people involved, the more powerful the power-up is. This doesn’t affect Ryu in any way. There is one more thing to be concerned about when it came to powering up others. His ability can essentially make the pain from attacks go away, or in other words numbing it, making the person think that they could go on forever. However, their body recognizes that there’s something wrong and might shut down after too much damage. And then there’s when Ryu revokes the power up, they would feel the full-force of the pain they had received.
  
  Drunken Power: For him to get his own power up, he must get himself drunk. And that’s where the Dionysus alcohol (he calls it) comes into play. He drinks from that and gets his power-up. However, his body cannot take more than two flasks of that certain alcohol (power). It will result in his coma, the duration, however, is based on how many extra alcohol he took in. It should be noted that normal drinking doesn’t activate his ability as it only activates when he chooses to.
• Brief Backstory: Not much is known about Ryu’s past as he denies to talk about it. Only the headmaster and a handful of teachers know at least some parts about it. Everyone at least knows that it’s shady but no one is sure if he’s born in a yakuza, or the son of a drug dealer or other things like that. They just know that when Ryu came into possession of the ritual device, he enrolled in Otsuki, graduated, went to college then went back to Otsuki to teach. No one knows the real reason why though. It is said that his name might not be real after all.
• Position:Oddly, he’s the Home Ec teacher

Note: He is prevented from going to any tournaments because of his abilities that could help his side and it would be considered cheating. That’s why he only watches from the Academy itself. However, Otsuki Academy allows him to watch and mediate mock battles.

[Raineh Daze]

... could you... make the ability section clearer? I have no idea what his power-up IS. I'm also not sure what the first one does. O_o

[Polaris North]

Ah well basically his power-up is just getting stronger and faster.

And that's basically what the first ability does too. But it only affects those around him. They get stronger, faster and they wouldn't feel some of the pain that they receive from an external source.

[VitaVitaAR]

I'll give it a final look-over tomorrow.

[VitaVitaAR]

Okay, he shouldn't be able to force the buff on people just in case someone doesn't want it or something.

[Silvan Haven]

I might end up having to post my profile after the game starts. I'm not the fastest at coming up with them at the best of times and this one is particularly tricky.

Also, a bit of clarification. Only the students take part in the fights, right? I'd normally just assume that but one or two of the profiles have made me question it.

[VitaVitaAR]

Only the students take part in mock battles and tournament battles, yes.

Teachers CAN mock battle one another, though, and some lessons might have students fight a teacher.

[VitaVitaAR]

Also, starting on Wednesday for sure.

[Polaris North]

@VitaVitaAR

Alright, he can only give a buff when someone allows him to. Don't really mind.

[VitaVitaAR]

Accepted.

[VitaVitaAR]

As a reminder, we'll be starting tomorrow!

But people can keep joining after that, no problem.

[VitaVitaAR]

I don't like posting this many times in a row by myself, but I'm going to say the RP's starting tomorrow one last time!

... Before, um, actually doing it after I sleep and stuff.

[Crimmy]

Gotcha boss.

[Renny]

Lol I think we're all just waiting like shadows. Stalking the corners lol.

[VitaVitaAR]

I'm kind of worried people keep missing stuff or something since the site has been temperamental. ^^;