[OOC] Last Train Home--An 'Alternate World' Fantasy RP

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

"This is a train bound for -----. The next stop is--"

A late-night train ride is anything but glamorous, but at least this one seems to be fairly calm (even with the announcer being unintelligible as he was). There seem to be a few others riding in the same car as you, each probably with their own things to handle and own worries. Well, there's only one for you right now: get back home. Or, well, back to a hotel if you're visiting this place for the moment, but regardless. After all, it's well past midnight, and crime never sleeps.

Of course, the day was tiring, and so as you sit idly by, the LED display overhead begins to flash, a wave of drowsiness comes over you. Grasping tightly onto whatever belongings that you have, the screen above shows something that seems... Seriously out of place.

Next Stop: Relfan Town, Empire of Tewan

Before any thoughts of panic or confusion can kick in, though, you pass out.

However much longer later, you wake up. It's groggy at first, but the light streaming into the car through the windows shows that it's daytime. Given how it was nighttime when you dozed off... Was it possible that you were at the train yard now?

A quick glance around shows that those people with you also seem to be in a similar predicament, but before anything else, a chorus of cellphone text chimes goes off. Everyone seems to grasp instinctively at their phones, and each text reads something like this:

"Sorry~! I'm kiiiinda in need of some help here, so I dragged you and everyone else here to this world. Don't worry, I've handled all that messy stuff about possibly being missing, so could you please help me with some stuff? I know you're, like, not all strong or anything, but I've given everyone here a special ability~! The details are in the next message you'll get.
After you guys get your bearings straight, pop out of the train car and follow the road to get to the nearest town. You'll learn more there. Have a great adventure~!"

...
What?

A second message pops up, just as promised, but before anyone can take a look at that, the doors to the train car open.
And so it begins.

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So yeah! A classic isekai RP. I've tried variants that were more 'out there' in the past, but this is the stuff boiled down to the basics. Complete with cheats for the characters dragged in! Granted, these cheats will be nowhere near as broken as they usually are in such light novels, but hey! Cheats!

Of course, prospective RPers also have the ability to play characters from the world itself, so you're not locked into playing what I like to call 'imports'.

So, without further ado, a form!

Form

Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Personality:
Abilities:
Native or Newcomer?:
Cheat: Only fill this part out if the character was on the train (aka Newcomer).
History:
Other:

So yeah. Questions? Concerns? I'm all ears.

[Rin]

@PKMNB0YSo I guess it's okay for me and @VitaVitaAR to move our characters to the character tab, right? ^^;

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

@Rin: The answer is yes.

[ERode]

Alternate World Part-Timer

"Ahaha, no need to cut me any slack. I'll keep up even without speeding up."

Darius Jacks

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Age: 18
Appearance:
Darius Jacks is pretty much a normal teenage kid, standing at an average height of 5’7, with messy brown hair and light brown eyes. His complexion could be considered on the darker side of things, but definitely not enough that it’s tanned. Freckles can be spotted on his face and shoulders, which he attributes to that one-eighth of Irish blood that pumps through his veins, and his hands are large, callused not due to lifting weights or playing sports, but through handling tools. While he’s a little fat around his stomach, his arms are well-defined and sturdy. He can’t run like a marathoner, and he can’t stop swords with his one-pack abs, but Darius prides himself in being the undefeated champion of Shot for Shot, Mercy, and Arm Wrestling.

Personality: Darius Jacks is an individual that’s amiable and relaxed, taking everything in stride and calmly responding. His experiences have made it difficult for anything to really take him by surprise, and regardless of the situation, he is a firm believer in his ability to chug along swimmingly. To him, the world exists because he exists, and thus, there is nothing that is out of his reach if he reaches out for it. Unfortunately, there is also nothing significant that he really cares about, leaving him to simply be an ambitionless individual who lives life at his own pace. A slow and steady pace is ideal, after all, because there's too much he might miss if he went too fast.

Abilities: Darius has worked in a variety of jobs, from being a daycare volunteer to tech support to a line cook to construction work. He’s a fast learner, especially when it comes to hands-on work, and his confidence in doing well shows in how he interacts with others. His most prominent ability, after all, is to be confident even when he has no idea what he’s doing, because, hey, everything’s going to work out eventually.

Cheat:
Dimensional Shift
No creature or creation on heaven and earth can bind him.

Total, unrestricted flight. That is the cheat granted to Darius upon crossing the boundary into another world. With clockwork wings, he flies in ways that even birds can not, ignoring inertia as he acrobatically maneveurs through the aether. And if he can ignore the laws of physics, then there is simply no way that mere magic can stop him. As long as he is aware of it, he can negate any sort of curse, bind, status effect, or magical barrier that is placed before him. As long as he's willing, as long as he can imagine it, there is no place that those clockwork wings won't take him.

At least until he bugsplats against a transparent window.

History: His parents taught him to stop dawdling and get shit done. His teachers taught him to do what he wanted to do while he still could. His employers taught him to suck shit up, because the world’s a cesspool. His friends taught him that life was much too short to stagnate in. With all those inspirations, Darius cruised through life trying to experience all that he wanted to experience, and, by the time he became 18 years old, he came to the realization that there wasn’t much else that he was interested in.

That was somewhat disappointing. He had thought that the world was a bigger place than that. So, with some help from his parents, he went off travelling around the world, searching for something new in the world that he had been born in. Mexico, England, Brazil, Russia, Tibet, Mongolia, and finally, Japan. On that last stop, he took the midnight train on a whim, and found himself a new world.

Wub wub, cheats be just normal abilities OP. Time to not NTR Excalibur.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

@ERode: That cheat gets too far out of hand once you encounter even one legendary weapon, and the second you get one the world cowers in fear at your makeshift Gate of Babylon. Too much. No go.

I mean like... Having a legendary weapon in and of itself is not a problem (obviously not necessarily at full strength from the get-go), but this is a fantasy world. There are too many of those for that to be even remotely feasible (and also because that's how you make enemies out of every nation in the world really fast: by stealing their heroes' weapons and leaving their powerhouses defenseless).

The rest of the form is fine, though.

[ERode]

@PKMNB0Y
A fantasy world where there are too many? Like, do you plan for every country to have a dozen or so legendary weapons that only chosen heroes can use? Since when were those things so common? XD

And conversely, that cheat means nothing if he doesn't encounter a legendary weapon, because surely they aren't going to be going through endgame dungeons in the beginning of the RP. And hey, even if he does get da Excalibur, the ability to wield it does not equate to being able to excaliblast shit, due to his personal limitations as a normal human being.

But hey, ok, I'll think up of a better cheat then.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

@ERode: Have you seen fantasy worlds these days? Legendary weapons are a dime a dozen.

But in all seriousness, though, legendary weapons usually have plot relevance, and worst comes to worst, they can be used to lead plots places. That sorta power kinda limits my design space as a GM, even if they're unusable (hell, it's mind control lite on sentient weapons). So yeah.

Not saying I'll use them liberally, but hey, never hurts to have options, right?

[Aix]

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This maid has been passed down the Winterbloom family for generations!

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"I recognize that you may have the worth to be my master."

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Personal Information

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Name: Cecilia von Rozenheim
Age: 203
Gender: Female
Race: True Vampire
Occupation: Maid

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Appearance

As a True Vampire, Cecilia is quite the beauty. She is of average height, and thus a bit taller than Angelese.


Source: pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=mediu..

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Personality

Cecilia has the powerful sense of duty and pride one might expect more so in a noble than a mere maid. This may make her excessively strict as the head maid of the Winterbloom household. Quite traditional and judgmental, Cecilia has expectations of everyone depending on their station, including expectations for our heroes arriving from another world. She never raises her voice, but rather delivers scathing remarks with an impassive face to those who fail to meet her expectations. Although, she disapproved strongly of the union between a noble and a maid, Angelese's determination to be an upstanding noble has won Cecilia over. To make up for the fact that she didn't give much attention to Angelese as a child, Cecilia has decided to become Angelese's personal maid to oversee Angelese's transition into an adult.

The fact that she is a maid makes it inappropriate for her to freely engage in conversation, and her cold demeanor dissuades others from approaching her. However, when given the chance, Cecilia can be quite cordial and talkative. Her long life with the Winterbloom family gives her a wealth of knowledge and anecdotes as conversation topics. She is used to how surprised people can be by how friendly and, well, normal she is in casual instances.

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History

Cecilia's station in the Winterbloom household is a strange one. Although she is merely the head maid, the fact that she has personally raised each generation of the Winterbloom family, taught them their numbers and letters, and disciplined them as children means everyone has trauma a hard time going against her.

Seven generations ago, the head of the Winterbloom family, a Sword Saint, was tasked with dealing with the purported appearance of a vampire of the Rozenheim bloodline. Such an existence could pose a threat to the entire country, yet all he found was a young girl. There was no doubt she was a vampire, but rather than killing her, the Sword Saint decided to take her back home as a companion for his daughter. Cecilia was shocked by the warmth and welcome she got there. Eventually, she decided to become the guardian of the family and has served as a maid since.

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Abilities

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Cecilia has never sought to hone her abilities as a vampire despite possessing the blood of the strongest vampire nobility. Her true nature is only known to the Winterbloom family and select trusted servants. Due to the special characteristics of her bloodline, she only needs to drink a bit of blood every week to remain in top form.

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• Level 100 Maid: Having served the Winterbloom family for generations, Cecilia has honed her housework skills to perfection. Her cooking is also top class; some nobles pay excessive visits to the Winterbloom estate just to taste her meals.
• Superhuman Physical Ability: Cecilia has five times the physical strength, speed, and stamina of a trained knight. If she actively fed, this number would probably rise.
• Unarmed Combat Mastery: As it is inappropriate for a maid to be carrying weapons, Cecilia decided to train in the art of unarmed combat. History has given her quite a few opportunities to show her skill in defending her master.
• Rosy Blood Requiem: The signature passive ability of the Rozenheim vampires. Cecilia's blood takes the form of thin rose petals that swirl around her in the air. Right now, she can only use the power to return the petals to her and heal herself for about 60% of the damage she sustained.

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Misc.

Theme: Blood Purity

• She keeps a cat at the estate and gives the duty of taking care of it whenever she is gone as a reward to the servants for a job well done, regardless of whether the recipient wants it or not.

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@VitaVitaAR I remember you were asking for a maid.

[VitaVitaAR]

While her bio isn't like bad or anything, um, I did want to talk about things beforehand. ^^; Would you mind PMing me any more details you might have had in mind at least? ^^;

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Well, since that character's got relevance for two people, let me know when you're both done discussing everything. Looks good to me, but just in case, I'll refrain from accepting it until you two are done with everything.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Quick bump.

@Aix, @ERode: How go the forms? I'm waiting on you two to submit before I get this thing rolling. Well, either that, or I'll start in the next few days anyways.

Edit: If neither of you respond in the next 18 hours, I'm starting the RP with or without you.

[ERode]

So basically, it's actually better not to respond, because if we did respond, you'd start the RP in a few days instead of in 18 hours? :3

Man, these cheats might as well just be normal powers though. Outside of having Wikipedia as a superpower, because geez, that's so OP for nation-building.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

@ERode: Response means I have the okay to delay the opening further because people are coming and I'll wait for them. =3=;;

And, uh... Well, 'cheat' is just the generic term, though. They're abilities that nobody else in that world (Earth) is likely to have, anyhow, so they may as well be... In that context. In the world the characters will be entering, though? Probably quite powerful, but not overwhelming. Also balancing for 'cheats bashing into cheats'.
Also, having read a ton of WNs and LNs at this point? Yes, the internet can theoretically be an OP piece of shit. Problem is, though, if all you have is info, then somebody else needs to do the heavy-lifting.

Edit: But in any case, that form's fine in my book post-update. Accepted. Drop it in the Characters tab whenever.

And then there was one.

[Aix]

I don't think @VitaVitaAR has any problems with my character, we talked in PM.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

@Aix: Then accepted. Place it in the Characters tab whenever. We'll start momentarily.

[VitaVitaAR]

Trying to figure out a good intro for Angelese right now. Hmm.

[PetiteAmbivert]

Oh this is certainly quite the interesting thread. I just might be spinning a character for this, dont mind me.

[Rin]

...I wish I was better at small talk really. The OOC seems kind of barren. D:

[VitaVitaAR]

It is. D:

Smalltalk does help keep RP's thriving but sometimes it is hard to get it going. ^^;

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

True, true.

Yo, @SilverDawn! I think your character is the only sleepyhead left on the train, so hop to it! owo;;