[OOC] All In (Video Game Multiverse)

[supertinyking]

@Prince of Seraphs Coolio. If you wish, I could maybe rewrite that his power draws on something more taxing, like focus or some crap..

[Lady Seraphina]

Backstory: Before the VR Event, Tiny was a young man with not much going on in his life. Reeling from a breakup, and seeing this VR as a chance to escape his life, he wrote a narrative for his character. One where he had died in reality, and had been revived in dark souls 3 as one of the undead, so he could be a hero. As such, he is one of the few people in the VR event that still has a grip on his actual life still. He believes that by beating the game, he will be free to go back to his girlfriend. A poor delusion now made his reality. As now, he seeks out powerful souls so he may save the world of DS3, which will kill him. However, he believes this is what must be done to escape...

@supertinyking

Before I cover anything related to his power levels I wanted to address this. What do you mean by "wrote a narrative for his character"? Do you not have a defined past in Dark Souls 3? Does the game allow the player to input one for the protagonist as flavor text or some such? Or does it say start with something like "You have died, your life is over but you cannot rest yet for you have been raised." or something? I'm just trying to figure out where this comes from.

Kaiser Oblivion

Denys Geneolgia, Kaiser Oblivion

Gender: Male
Age: 29
Game: Bravely Series: Bravely Second

Equipment

• Kaiser Asterisk - A badge indicating he is the Kaiser, and that he is a powerful foe, or adversary. Should someone else take the badge, they can temporarily replicate his abilities.
• Prosthetic Arm - A magical replacement for his right hand, which was sliced off when he was younger.
• Claymore - A large blade he wields in his right arm. Nothing particularly remarkable about it.

Abilities

• Jack Of All Trades - Denys is fairly good all around, good strength, speed, intelligence, etcetera.
• Swordsmanship - Denys is good at wielding blades large and small. He can also wield a rifle in a pinch, but that's about it.
• Kaiser Abilities

  • Blinding Light - Deal damage relative to current health as a physical wave in front of Denys.
  • Centurion - Focus a multi-target attack into a single target attack for double the damage.
  • Spring Awakening - Heal all combatants mildly every few seconds. Lasts about 25 seconds.
  • Westwind - Swap all combatants Physical resistance and Magical resistance. Lasts about 25 seconds.
  • Winter Storm - Nullify all forms of recovery for all combatants. Lasts about 15 seconds.
  • Noble Eagle - Double all combatants strength and Magic power. Lasts about 25 seconds.

Weaknesses and Limitations

• No Magic - Denys possess no magical offensive abilities currently, even though he's decent at magic.
• Power Over All - Almost all of Denys's abilities affect both ally and enemy. This gives him many opportunities to screw over himself and his allies, if he's not careful.
• Master Of None - Though Denys is good at a lot of stuff, he'll never be truly great at anything.
• Prosthetic Arm - Denys's prosthetic can be temporarily disabled with any "dispel magic" spells.

Personality: In one word, Denys is determined. He is a kind, noble soul, but is serious, willing to do absolutely anything to rid himself of the guilt of his family's past. He absolutely will put innocents in danger to accomplish his goal. Despite all this, he's a cool man, charismatic, observant, and unlikely to lose his head. He also bears responsibility heavily, believing that he has to fix his own house's heritage or horror. He also is willing to display mercy, especially to those who serve him.

Backstory: Denys was the older brother of Yew, both of whom were potential heirs to the house Geneolgia. Though Denys was a strong young man, their father instead chose Yew as Lord of house Geneolgia. For Denys to succeed Yew, he would have to find the legendary Sword of Brave and bring it to their father. Both Yew and Denys searched for the blade independently, and Yew found it first. By the time Denys arrived, Yew had promised the blade what he held most dear in order for its allegiance. In response, the blade severed Denys's right hand, and revealed itself as a demon before disappearing forever.

Denys also disappeared after that. He began roaming the land, and did some research into his home's history. It appeared, to him, that the house Geneolgia was responsible for the downfall and corruption of the Crystal Orthodoxy, a well respected religion that controlled most of the world. Denys was at a loss for what to do, but dearly wanted to change the past. That's when Anne came in. She told him about the Sacred Compass, able to harness the energy of the Holy Pillar that erupts when the world is destroyed to travel through time, and right the wrongs of the past. All he needed to do was capture Pope Agnes, and take her to the four crystals that powered the world.

Entry Point: The beginning of chapter 4, just as all the crystals have been overpowered and the Holy Pillar has appeared.

@Kafka Komedy

Kaiser Asterisk - A badge indicating he is the Kaiser, and that he is a powerful foe, or adversary. Should someone else take the badge, they can temporarily replicate his abilities.

From what I understand the Kaiser abilities are all things that Denys has learned himself so unless he obtained this badge that gave him the magical ability to do these things it should have no bearing on whether he can use Kaiser skills or not. It can indicate his rank but shouldn't have power over his skills.

Prosthetic Arm - A magical replacement for his right hand, which was sliced off when he was younger.

Does the prosthetic have any added advantages? Increased strength or the like or does it simply act as a normal hand would?

Blinding Light - Deal damage relative to current health as a physical wave in front of Denys.

I believe in game when Denys is below 10,000 HP this move will deal half his HP in damage so for our purposes perhaps it allows him to inflict a wound he has taken on himself onto an enemy. If he had a broken arm he can give an enemy a broken arm. Does that sound like a reasonable interpretation?

Six the Courier

_{"Who are you, that do not know your history?"
— Ulysses}

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Courier Six

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Name

Courier Six/The Courier/Six/THE MOTHERFUCKING MAILMAN

Gender

Male

Age

26

Series

Fallout New Vegas

Equipment

- Courier Outfit
- Sniper Rifle
- 10mm SMG
- Pipboy 3000 - A pre-war electronic Personal Information Processor (basically a mini computer on Six's arm), it acts as the inventory screen for Fallout New Vegas. Also provides Six with V.A.T.S., a computer assisted targeting system which allows Six to place some very good shots.
- Stimpacks for healing

Abilities

- Weapon Proficiency - Although he has no formal training, Six seems to have a knack of instantly figuring out how to use weapons, even being able to know exactly what kind of ammunition it uses and its durability.
- Elemental Resistance/Durability - Probably a result of being shot in the head, Six no longer feels pain and instead only feels tingling numbness in its place

Weaknesses

- Six for all his badassery is still a human (and a glorified mailman), sure he can tank a few extra shots but any solid explosive hit or knife to the face will kill him; he suffers from all the weakness that a normal human does.

Backstory

The Courier is an amnesiac, having lost his memory after being shot in the head over a package he was to deliver, a simple Platinum Chip. Roused from the dead by one Doc Mitchell after the bullet failed to kill him, the Courier remembered nothing of his past, not even his name. From the fragmented shards of memories he scrapped together along with some of his old stuff, he named himself "Six" and then began a personal quest of vengeance to find the man who killed him, knowing little how he would direct the fate of the post apocalyptic Mohave Wasteland.

Personality

Along with knowing little of his past, the head wound he suffered also seemed to make him forget what kind of person he was and leaving some mild form of Multiple Personality Disorder, causing him to sporadical change moods and even world outlooks at random. Six is fully aware of this fact but admits that there is no solution that he can think of that would fix it.

@ClocktowerEchos

I would prefer that the Weaknesses and Limitations section be a little more specific to Six's own weaknesses rather than simply that of normal humans but given his power level I can accept him the way he is.

Not really super important as it is true either way but you could add something along the lines of "Because he can't feel pain he can end up injuring himself accidentally such as touching something hot and burning his skin without realizing it." Not really necessary because as I said regardless this would be true but just something for you to think about.

I'd say you can add him to the character tab.

Everyone

I have assembled two groups for characters which fall into separate areas. I will be posting it tomorrow along with the first of the IC posts.

[ProPro]

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Before I cover anything related to his power levels I wanted to address this. What do you mean by "wrote a narrative for his character"? Do you not have a defined past in Dark Souls 3? Does the game allow the player to input one for the protagonist as flavor text or some such? Or does it say start with something like "You have died, your life is over but you cannot rest yet for you have been raised." or something? I'm just trying to figure out where this comes from.

@Prince of Seraphs

Dark Souls is one of those RPGs where your character is a total blank slate, save for how they've died and are now in the game setting. Technically there's no real "narrative" you can input beyond how you imagine they used to be before they died.

Everyone

I have assembled two groups for characters which fall into separate areas. I will be posting it tomorrow along with the first of the IC posts.

Sounds great! I'm excited and I know Gaige is too. >:3

[ClocktowerEchos]

<Snipped quote by Prince of Seraphs>

Dark Souls is one of those RPGs where your character is a total blank slate, save for how they've died and are now in the game setting. Technically there's no real "narrative" you can input beyond how you imagine they used to be before they died.

@ProPro

Fallout NV is similar to that but you don't necessarily need craft a narrative for the games protag. I didn't need to craft such a thing for Six.

[ProPro]

You don't have to, but Courier 6 does have a canon backstory that extends beyond "is mailman, got shot." He's also canonically not an amnesiac. Word of God states the dialogue options asking questions that would normally be obvious to a citizen of the NCR are there strictly for players to learn about the environment they're in. 'Course that still leaves a metric ton of info you can decide for "your" courier if you so choose.

[Kafka Komedy]

From what I understand the Kaiser abilities are all things that Denys has learned himself so unless he obtained this badge that gave him the magical ability to do these things it should have no bearing on whether he can use Kaiser skills or not. It can indicate his rank but shouldn't have power over his skills.

@Prince of Seraphs

You're correct, it doesn't have any bearing on his skills. It can, however, allow someone else to replicate them, albeit at a much lower power level. Basically should he give it out, you have one Kaiser, Denys, and one mini Kaiser, his minion, that could probably only use Blinding Light. Of course, he's probably not going to just hand it over.

Does the prosthetic have any added advantages? Increased strength or the like or does it simply act as a normal hand would?

@Prince of Seraphs

Simply acts as a normal hand, with the exception that it can twist a full 360 degrees.

I believe in game when Denys is below 10,000 HP this move will deal half his HP in damage so for our purposes perhaps it allows him to inflict a wound he has taken on himself onto an enemy. If he had a broken arm he can give an enemy a broken arm. Does that sound like a reasonable interpretation?

@Prince of Seraphs

That seems a lot less nebulous, but it also makes Centurion useless for now. Maybe if you do it regularly, you can pass a broken arm as major pain to the arm regularly for all enemies, but with Centurion, it fully replicates the broken arm on one person?

Everyone

I have assembled two groups for characters which fall into separate areas. I will be posting it tomorrow along with the first of the IC posts.

@Prince of Seraphs

Get hype! Fingers crossed Denys is with Bayo, or Red is with Terra. I feel like both pairs would get along together real well.

[supertinyking]

@Prince of Seraphs Not even. You just sorta choose a class which chooses a general (and I mean very, very, general) idea of what they did before death. Tiny was a herald, a soldier for a church that lacked enough faith to be a true cleric, and I had it so he had become a herald after appearing in the universe, wishing to keep himself alive, where he then learned soul smithing after, as where I had him arrived was renowned, and hated, for the art of soul smithing.

[Happy Go Lucky]

Can't wait for the Hildibranding when this rp starts!



Glorious Gentleman of Liiiight!

[Lady Seraphina]

@Prince of Seraphs Not even. You just sorta choose a class which chooses a general (and I mean very, very, general) idea of what they did before death. Tiny was a herald, a soldier for a church that lacked enough faith to be a true cleric, and I had it so he had become a herald after appearing in the universe, wishing to keep himself alive, where he then learned soul smithing after, as where I had him arrived was renowned, and hated, for the art of soul smithing.

@supertinyking

From your description you could create a background based on the Dark Souls 3 world however there are two things you should take into account. The first is that the backstory isn't really for you. If you are choosing to use this character you already know them well enough to play at least somewhat competently without compiling their history. The backstory is for anyone unfamiliar with your game including me to give us some insight into who this character is and the kind of first impressions our own characters might have of him.

That said he cannot remember real life before the virus. No one can. You could create a similar ingame background in which he believes he can return to his lover if he collects enough souls or some such but he cannot know that this is a game in any way shape or form no matter if no one would believe him or not. It's just not in the cards.

Everyone

I am incredibly sorry everyone, I was expecting to have a good four or five hours tonight to work up the first IC post and get the locations sorted out however on return from my Grandparents there was a detour involving two great aunt, a farm and a cemetery. We were delayed by about the time I was planning on using to create the first post. It is now around 1:30AM where I am so I will likely be going to bed soon. I hope to get everything sorted some time tomorrow morning/midday but as I do work in the evening if it does not happen tomorrow I have a day off Wednesday so for sure it will be up by then. Very sorry for the delay, Real Life can be such a bother sometimes.

[Lugubrious]

That's alright. I just hope that everyone's still hyped to get started.

[ProPro]

That's alright. I just hope that everyone's still hyped to get started.

@Lugubrious

[Lady Seraphina]

Gourd Lake - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Lake Visuals

Candy Cane @Royzooka
Spy @Scarifar
Doom Marine @Lmpkio
My Second Character @Prince of Seraphs
Riku @2b3heart
A.B.A @Treue
Henry @Lugubrious
Kaiser Oblivion @Kafka Komedy

Hyrule Field - Ocarina of Time

Field Visuals

Red @Kafka Komedy
Scout @Scarifar
Bayonetta @Lmpkio
Hildibrand Manderville @Happy Go Lucky
Gaige @ProPro
Mirela Djuric @Assallya
Birdie @Lugubrious
Terra Branford @Prince of Seraphs
Six the Courier @ClocktowerEchos

I used a random number generator to pick the groups. If two characters controlled by the same person ended up in the same group I used another random number generator to pick which character they swapped with. If anyone picks up a second character before we disembark these areas they will be placed into the opposite group from which their current character is in. So no complaining.

Everyone else

@WrongEndoftheRainbow Did you want to try picking a less overpowered character?
@James Marshall Are you still interested in playing Ryu or taking part in this RP?
@supertinyking How's Dark Souls?

I got it up, it's a bit late so I hope the hype hasn't died but I got it started.

If there are any questions particularly about the people landing in Gourd Lake feel free to ask. I haven't decided on a second character yet who I was planning on using to develop Gourd Lake as a location.

I'm sort of thinking Eleanor Lamb from Bioshock 2 but I need to play more of the game to get a feel for her.

[ProPro]

@Prince of Seraphs Hahaha, ah man, it's a funny coincidence that Gourd Lake is one of the locations. I was actually thinking of playing Phoenix Wright or Miles Edgeworth at one point.

[Royzooka]

I was thinking of having the following character as my second for a while until I decide to bump her off for someone else.

However, at the moment I am being a little too lazy even bother with it. I may try at some time, that could be tomorrow or next week or whenever. She is a bit murderous so I am not too sure how well it would go down? She is my favourite LOL character, though I am not a great fan of the game itself.

[Scarifar]

Hey guys, I will be away for a couple weeks, so there's a chance that I won't be able to be active. Don't expect me to do anything in that time frame.

[Happy Go Lucky]

And so it begins!

[ProPro]

@Happy Go Lucky Heh, hilarious. I'm on lunch now, so I'll start working on a Gaige post and show up to save you from the stalchildren. Imagine, a "gentleman." being saved by a 17 year old girl covered in engine grease. Heh.

[Lmpkio]

Making a post now!

[ProPro]

@Lmpkio I'm interested in seeing how we'll have Gaige and Bayonetta interact. Heh heh heh.

[Lmpkio]

@Lmpkio I'm interested in seeing how we'll have Gaige and Bayonetta interact. Heh heh heh.

@ProPro

Gaige will have to learn her place then. ;) Cheeky monkeys will be disciplined.