[OOC] Konosuba: Resurrection

[Zelosse]

@Spriggs27 I shouldn't have to. A good gm checks their rp regularily.

[Lucius Cypher]

While I'm not a GM by any stretch of the word, I can't help but look over some of these CS and question them a bit.

@Zelosse
A Crowd-control character isn't necessarily bad, though it is unnerving just how loaded with shutdowns and paralysis your character has. his first ability, just what prevents him from literally stopping his enemies with just a touch? Direct skin contact? Does it work on creatures who don't have flesh at all, like golems or skeletons? And just how long does it stop them? Five seconds is more than enough to paralyze someone and then slit their necks. Flash Freeze is even more questionable because that's an AoE freeze. While it may be short duration, how does it affect creatures who are immune to cold, like ice-based monsters or creatures constantly on fire? Just how intense is the freezing itself, or is it more like a stun? Does thorn vines rely on plant matter to create the thorns and vines, or can he just make that wherever he can use his magic? I think there was an actual spell in the anime that does something similar, but only does the binding. And while Steal is certainly magical in and of itself, Disarm seems more like a skill thing. But who knows how Konosuba handles such stuff so I'd say Disarm is just a more specific, but powerful form of steal that only removes weapons. Just my two cents.

@liferusher
Doesn't seem too bad all in all, though it could use some more details. Maybe a few more things about her personality? And what exactly does her new abilities as a Nekomimi grant? For Yaj, a human who came to the new world as a new race, he got heighten strength and durability while gimping his magical abilities. From what I've read it looks like Joy is more agile but has lower intelligence, but maybe you can add a bit more details to what a nekomimi grants. It is a god gift after all, so it should be sufficiently powerful. Maybe it gives her the ability to change into a cat, or survive great falls without being harmed, to create claws to slash her enemies, or even have nine lives. Something along those lines anyways.

@Lady Athena
I don't know who you had in mind for a Co-GM, but I would like to formally ask if you'd accept me as a Co-GM. Some of these people are friends of mines too, so if they cause any trouble I'll make sure to straighten them out. Seems like we have a lot of players now and I'd hate to see this RP grind to a halt because the players don't have a GM to guide them.

[Zelosse]

@Lucius Cypher alright. Ill touch uo on the details of each skill just so that it's a little more understandable power wise. Naturally though if a monster is on fire the freeze skill wouldn't do much, same with cold immunity.
As for the vines, no real plant material needed but soil is required. Cant shoot through stone to snare someone.

[Hammerman]

@Otaku95
Wow, Rex already got a nosebleed just by seeing beautiful women. He'll probably faint if he accidentally looks up Metel's skirt.

[Jurassic Weeb]

@Hammerman

[Spriggs27]

Somebody knock over a girl with a skirt or lift a woman's skirt, either one works in this situation.

God what has my life devolved into? Telling people to do perverted things.

[Zelosse]

Steal their underwear and then do that. Guaranteed kill.

[Ryougu]

Man, I go to sleep once...

Now I have no clue what to react to first xD Ah well, nothing to do but to try anyway.

[Lucius Cypher]

Looks like I'm a Co-GM now. Good.

Let's get down to business.

Shana Grimmweiss

Name: Shana Grimmweiss

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Appearance:

Appearance

Personality:

Rather formal, Shana is the sort who would often wish to cut down on useless chatter. If it doesn’t have to do with a mission she is a part of, there is a low chance she would discuss it given a normal setting. However, she would fight thick and thin to assist her allies, regardless of her somewhat cold demeanor. On occasion, Shana expresses a notable sardonic wit in the face of certain situations, often utilizing this to distance herself from others by belittling their actions or character, or even to simply make a dry joke.

Despite Shana’s “cool and collected” aura, there are instances where she might break these walls and choose to infatuated herself with another’s actions, but even these sorts of “deviations” from the normalcy of her standard actions tend towards subtlety. Even if it has to do with something she truly cares for, such as her sister, she would still tend towards this subtlety. But to those paying attention to her minute details shifting can clearly see these changes occur. In addition to this, Shana also dislikes either repeating herself, or following back the way she had came, often finding it to be a bother or a “meaningless task.

Biography: Shana hardly knew her parents. Her parents were adventurers who had met an unfortunate end at the hands of the minions of the demon lord. Orphaned at a young age, the older sister was forced to look after the younger twin.

As long as she could remember, Shana’s sister had been struck with an incurable disease which caused her to be weak of body. Her loves his sister deeply and strives each day to provide for her as best she could through paying the doctors and those who take care of her sister.

When Shana was young, she had chosen to take up the role of an adventurer, despite the fact that her mother and father had died on their quest. Partially as a memento of respect towards those parents who had died in the service of the country, but as well as a means to obtain the funds that those born as orphans would likely never obtain in their lifetime to provide for her sister.

Trained by a retired adventurer who had been close with her parents, Shana began to improve her skill through the man’s training. Though at first the retired adventurer had told Shana that he was not interested in taking upon himself a pupil, not wishing to once again march another to die like he had in the past. Eventually Shana’s “daily persuasions” of constant requests came to fruition as the old man had decided to take her as a pupil, reminding him in a moment of nostalgia of the young girl’s mother. Shana had explained her position, claiming that if her sister was to be able to live, the price of a medicus would eventually supercede the inheritance left behind by their parents, and though still wishing that Shana were to choose another occupation, her stubbornness over shined these thoughts.

Though the task of an adventurer seemed impossible from her perspective, she had left her sister in the care of the old man that had trained her so there was nothing to hold her back in that regard, Truth be told, the old man didn’t seem to mind the girls, perhaps wishing to fill the void of losing his wife to old-age and son to the same wipe that had taken the young girl’s parents before. In fact, he had given Shana a weapon he had held dear during his own travels. Something he likely would have given to his son if he had not passed on.

Moving from town to town as a sort of drifter, Shana will continue to accept adventuring jobs until she is able to cure her sister’s condition.

Skills: Two-handed Single Edged Weaponry: Able to proficiently utilize larger single edged blades. Though the stance and techniques can be utilized on smaller single-edged blades, it tends to diminish the prowess of the teachings.

Virtuous Contact: Though not directly a skill, the weapon which Shana utilizes. A rather large sword of oriental design. Gifted as a show of faith towards Shana after she had completed the old-man’s training. Perhaps the sort of weapon best suited for someone like Shana, whose actions tend to distance others.

Protection of Arrows: The ability to utilize senses to detect the paths of projectiles in an effort to dodge such or force the projectile off its course. Skill diminishes in the event of effects which deafen and/or blind.

Foresight: Through observation, Shana is able to see the defects of an item’s structural integrity. The effects of armors are diminished, so long as Shana is able to view the target.

Wind Slash: The user is able to produce an “Echo” of an attack through manipulation of the wind. In addition to this, one may also improve their mobility through empowering the spell beneath their feet instead of their weapon.

Other: Shana cannot hold her ale in the slightest, breaking down her normal barriers at the slightest ingested drop of something alcoholic.

Though she would seldom admit it, Shana loves cute things, such as small animals or children.

@Fonniku

This CS looks fine. Posted into the CS and post IC.

Erlend Viridian

Name: Erlend Viridian

Gender: Male

Race: Human (native denizen)

Personality: A smooth talker. A soothe sayer. A man who stands by his word to the fullest, unless he doesn't want to. That's what a liar does. You make people believe every word you say without questioning it so you can lure them into that perfect sense of security then spring the trap, robbing them blind before leaving them for dead. That's the kind of person Erlend is in his heart.
A criminal.
A lowlife with little regard for anyone but himself and the treasure he hopes to collect. Though it is worth mentioning that there is a strict no killing policy when robbing non-monster folk. That is not because Erlend carries any kind of real personal attachment to people but instead believes that if he kills everyone he robs successfully then all the easy targets will disappear.

Biography: None. No personal stories. You wanna know about the past you gotta pay. Pay hard. Thousand gold coins gets you a glimpse into my past, my mom and dad, my adventures, but it's double if you wanna know about what I've done in the last five years. Walk away kid you can't afford what I know.
Far as I'm concerned, until I get paid, I don't know nothin' about anything.

Skills: Erlend is a Restraint mage, meaning that a majority of his learned skills involved removing an opponents ability to retaliate or move.

Paralyzing touch - Hand contact on an opponent releases a surge of magical electricity, paralyzing the target for a few minutes based on natural resistances. Multiple uses are less effective on the same target.

Flash Freeze - A quick blast of cold temporarily freezes the surrounding area for 30seconds, preventing movement until the frost dissipates. Less effective on monsters with natural immunity or large bodies.

Thorn vines - Druidic magic learned on his travels, Erlend creates rapidly growing vines that will wrap around the enemies body until they cannot move their arms and legs. Attempting to escape the vines will cause the thorns to tear into exposed skin. Effect persists for 5 minutes or until cut.

Blind - Less a spell and more of an alchemic creation, Erlend tosses sand into the eyes of his opponents. Usually followed up by a flash freeze. This skill is not long lasting, persisting for about 15s, but it does cause mild eye irritation making it harder to see until washed out.

Disarm - Similar to a thief skill 'steal' this ability will remove an opponents weapon forcibly from their grip. The weapon is flung from their hand about 10 feet away. Heavier weapons will not go as far. Only removes weapons currently in hand.

Silence - Elrens signature skill, removing any sound he makes for up to 10 minutes. It is limited to only himself and the actions he makes. Even an explosion would make no noise if he was the reason for it.

It is good to note that none of these skills do any real damage.

Other: Wears a plague doctor mask. For flair, more than function.
Main choice of weapon is a Sharp dagger and a concealed club used to knock out unsuspecting foes.

@Zelosse

Looks good except the paralyzing touch. As I mentioned before, a lot could happen in five seconds. A lot more could happen in a minute, and without a solid idea of resistances and such, it'll be hard to determine just how long something might be stunned. I'd say just leave it as "paralyzed for ten seconds". Plenty enough to get the job done. If you want a longer lasting paralysis effect, you'll have to justify it by making it more difficult to land, longer to prepare, more costly, etc.

Joy Hirasawa

Joy Hirasawa

Age
16

Gender
Female

Race
Nekomimi

Personality

Joy is a very cheerfull hyperactive individual, she always is very sweet but can have her teasing bad moments from time to time too. She usualy acts out of kindness and can be very caring to her friends when needed. She liked to play around with others and is a very bad trickster.

Background

A human NEET that lived on her own in a rented appartment, she didn't have a real job but earned plenty by her twitch donations each month to live around from. She was a high level osu player that participated in country tournaments and usually came in second or third with their country team. She streamed each day on twitch, mostly she was just playing osu but she would do some fun small indies came she enjoyed from time to time. Her twitch fan base mostly stuck around for her cute appeal and cheerfull and upbeat personality. All the twitch donations made her able to buy like manga and a soft bed together with a whole lot of small cats that she really adored and played with all the time. She didn't have any cages or anything for them, they would be sleeping in the bed with her she did everything together with them. She was so obsessed with cats that she usually wore a pair of cat ears too, it raised her fanbase a whole lot. People would donate a lot of money to see some girl say cat like stuff it was a strange world that Joy didn't really understand but accepted.

One day at heral l time high she was furiously clicked away in her osu game. At the end of the song it appeared that she rose the last rank that she needed and became number one. Out of victory she jumped and danced all around her room accidently tripping over an empty cola bottle. She bumped against her bookshelve close to her pc and had broken her neck in the progress live on twitch. There was nothing to see on the cam except for the bookshelve having hit her and a quick yelp. At the end of the day they had traced her down and shut down the broadcast while recovering her body and kittens. The kittens all got a new home after the story came on the news. It was confirmed Joy had died after being crushed by the bookshelve leaving many in tears.

Meanwhile a new life began. She sat across a mighty goddess explaining to her what had happened and what was gonna happen. She had choice, obviously she chose the cool one, being reincarnated into another world. It was like one of her favorite novels no game no life. She was told that she could chose an item, aqua had given her a special offer. To be like the ones she always wanted to be. A nekomini! It was obvious she was gonna chose that and so set so done. The only downside was that she had the traits of a cat too. Very high agility but not very intelligent.

Likes
Fish
Being pet
Balls
Yarn
Mice
Pieces of grass

Dislikes
Water
Being called dumb
Mean people
Dogs

Theme

[This is an extra you can erase it]

@liferusher

As I said before, this CS looks good. But the more the merrier, if you feel like it.

[Zelosse]

The petty thief is LIVE

[Lucius Cypher]

Not yet son. Edit dat paralysis ability.

[Zelosse]

@Lucius Cypher 10 seconds isn't so long. A minute.

[Ryougu]

@Zelosse
Have you ever been in a fight? A punch, jab or stab can be done in a second. 5 seconds is already a dangerous amount of stun, 10 is already more than I'd give you. : /

[Zelosse]

@Ryougu you ever robbed a persons backback? Pockets? Coat? Can't be done in 10s. You fall down and its already been 10s

[Ryougu]

@Zelosse
A proper pickpocket does it while walking by or picks a target that stands still for a couple of seconds, without stunning his target. So 10 seconds is 10 seconds more than you need. Pickpocketing is all about speed and precision.

If you wish to simply take your time and scour through someone's backpack, then you aren't really pickpocketing and you might as well just steal the entire backpack.

Then finally, in the KonoSuba universe, just use the damn 'Steal' skill.

[Jurassic Weeb]

And may your results be as follows:

[Lucius Cypher]

@Lucius Cypher 10 seconds isn't so long. A minute.

@Zelosse

Ten seconds is long enough to run up to a guy and knock them out with a kosh. As Ryogu said, a minute is long enough to kill, even if your only intentions are to steal. In this instance, the potential of your ability is far more important than the purpose of it.

[Spriggs27]

Wait I just Realized, Elren is a shitty thief, he takes too damn long. He takes a fucking minute what someone more skilled could do in seconds.

[Zelosse]

I mean.. in the written world where a second can be an hour, and an hour can be a second, none of this really matters. Nor is thebsake of arguing about it.

Ill change paralyzing touch to better suit your aesthetic at the cost of mine. Hehe

[Ryougu]

@Spriggs27
Wow, calm down dude. Harsh.

@Zelosse
Cool you're not making a big deal out of this. (I've met some people...) Glory to you.