[OOC] Royal Rumble!

[Letter Bee]

Dibs on the 600th post!

[AtomicNut]

-Edited-

[Letter Bee]

Anna Suvurova (NPC)

Name:

Anna Suvurova

Age:

65 but looks 25.

Grade:

Teacher at St. Laurel's.

Biography:

Anna Suvurova was born in the Tsardom of Yekatrina, to a military family that had distinguished itself in wars against Demons, other Superpowered Humans, and bandits. The Tsar of that time, Boris VIII Nikiforov, had dreams of conquering the world out of megalomania, and instituted a regime of propaganda, conscription, and harsh military training for his people to turn them into conquerors. He also began programs to experiment on people who had promising Blessings or Mutations in order to gain 'the secrets of the Gods'. The Suvurov/Suvurova family was part of that plan, and as Anna demonstrated strategic and tactical thinking in her youth, she occupied a place in the Tsar's agenda.

When she grew to adulthood, Anna rose up the ranks quickly as the Tsardom interfered in the affairs of a dozen smaller nations, claiming to want to protect them from 'demonic incursions' in exchange for 'closer ties' and 'border adjustments'. In time, this interference became open war, a war that drew in another dozen nations and a few 'military advisers' from Rhea. This war caused the deaths of tens of thousands, and it was seemingly a stalemate until Anna was promoted to 'Lieutenant General of the Yekaterine Armies'.

In a swift and relentless campaign, Anna crushed the armies of the coalition opposing Yekaterina, capturing several of Rhea's military advisers. Then, Tsar Boris VIII suspected her of plotting for the throne because she was too successful, and tried to arrange an accident for her. The accident failed to kill her; the resulting revenge was swift. With the help of the Rhean advisors that she had taken prisoner mere weeks earlier, she launched a military coup against Boris VIII, kicked him out of power, and put his not-so-bad nephew, Viktor, on the throne.

Then, when everyone was expecting her to stay on as the power behind said throne, she eloped with one of the Rhean advisors - one Rain Spring - and went to Rhea with him, asking the new Tsar Viktor for the grace of Dual Citizenship between Rhea and Yekaterina.

The following years were of retirement into 'security consulting' and teaching jobs, including her new and cushy assignment in St. Laurel's, where her son, Snow Suvurova - Rain had taken her last name instead of the reverse - studied. But now, Anna hears whispers of a new threat, a Greater Evil than the Ancient Evil, and an Alien named King who brought warnings of it.

Will her past catch up to her, and if it does, will her family be destroyed in turn?

Powers:

Core Power - Real Time Tactics: Anna can make a contract with the God of Games, sacrificing gold, silk, cash, or something of great material value like fine paintings; this causes them to vanish into a vortex to be (presumably) lost forever. In exchange, the next time she accesses the Internet, she gains access to a mysterious site called 'Creator's Assembly', which holds the following three functions:

First Power - Hire the Divine Host: Anna can spend further sums on hiring squads, platoons, and even battalions of the divine creatures that live in the heavens; angels, nature spirits, psychic beings, and even dragons (for 1,000,000 Rhean dollars). These divine creatures are obedient to her commands for 24 hours; an extension of said time will require more money.

Second Power - Money Contract: Whenever Anna gets money from a legal source, such as a business deal or a lawful job (such as teaching), Anna can double the money gained from said legal source as long as she has a copy of the actual contract; the money just magically appears in gold, silver, or other valuable items just after her pay day.

Third Power - Potion Shoppe: Anna can also buy Potions of Healing, Cure Disease, Life Extension, and Cure Poison in exchange for cash. Needless to say, it is expensive.

Relationships:

Rivals and nemeses, reputations preceding, perhaps even some special feelings for a special person. This section is optional, but it's nice.

To be added.

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[Ebil Bunny]

Hey guys, I'm really sorry but I think I may have to drop out. I hate to do so because finding a lasting community like this is very rare, and the things that have been happening have been so interesting, but I've just not been able to find time to post. I don't want to hold anyone back, so I've been kind of stressing over it.
Feel free to take over Cyan either as a PC or NPC if you want, I know Bee's wanting to do a collab. I also still plan on sticking around here and in the discord, even if I'm not playing playing. I'm too curious about the shenanigans ensuing not to. Plus, you guys are an absolute blast :D
And who knows, maybe time will open up for me at some point and I'll be able to jump back in again!

[Letter Bee]

Note: This RP is still ongoing!

[RoflsMazoy]

The tournament's beginning soon, and the first post will be starting right when everything begins. To act as a primer, this post will contain all the rules of the tournament.

The main event of the tournament consists of a 3 on 3 capture the flag tournament in which every team currently registered in the tournament participates in. In fact, signing up for this event specifically is the base received for paying just the minimum to register a team. The other events are more or less for the larger schools to show off the quality of their students. Ranking can be gained here, but due to the unique nature of the main event, a person who didn't participate at all in any other events might have a chance to shoot past whoever scored first in all of them.

The battles will take place on a field roughly equal to a soccer field, with various walls and terrain to limit approach options. The field is symmetrical along the longer side. To win a match involves taking the enemy team's flag and reaching your team's home point while still holding the flag.

You can even take your team's flag, and use it as a weapon. Bopping someone with any part of it will activate a medium-strength repulsor shield which will knock enemies away. Planting it into the ground at any point will also create an impenetrable shield, only small enough to contain the user for a few seconds. You can only use the shield once per round.

The first rounds are fought as a best of 1, so if your team loses that round, that's it. Semi-finals and the finals will be a best of three. Winning in the quarter, semi, and final finals will gain you ranking even if you lose afterwards (can't lose after the final final round of course). The amount of ranking gained increases per level, but generally speaking you'll at least end up above the opponent you defeated.

The specific amount of ranking gained however, is decided by judges. You'll gain a certain amount of ranking depending on how they felt you performed in the match. This judgement can be based on performance in previous events, you can say that they build the expectation for your performance in the CtF tournament, but for the purposes of the RP it's not going to really affect much.

The faction leaders will be taking the role of team captains. Participating schools and organizations assign a leader for their teams. One leader can lead every team, or they can have many leaders for multiple teams.

Team leaders act as team coordinators for the most part, managing the team's communications and relaying tactics to proceed. They have an overhead map of the battlefield with their current team's positions, as well as the position of their flag. They can only see the battlefield through cameras affixed to an emblem on their teammates clothing. Taking out the emblem will also disable communications for that teammate.

Team leaders are judged based on how their team performed, and how much it seemed like the leader did to boost the performance.

That's about it for tournament rules. Quick note on rankings, I made one because it's a huge part of high school tournament stuff, but in the end I don't have a real good way of utilizing it, so for all intents and purposes ranking won't exactly give you anything in this RP, and probably isn't going to be tracked.

I'll try and get the tournament intro post done by the end of this week, and then once I've got the map sorted out we can start.

[Bartimaeus]

Kheraket

I'll just put this here..

[Letter Bee]

This RP isn't dead; we're just readying a long collab!

[KillamriX88]

@Hammerman

OK, two things. We're making teams for the tournament on discord.

So far we have:

Team #1: Rurik - Bak - Christine/Thobias
Team#2: Cel - Vittorio - Yuuto/Christine
Team#3: Vernon - (Fill) - Gilliam
(Fill = whoever is left over)

Which means Christine could literally end up on any of the teams, depending on how things go. Thoughts?

Two, I had something in mind for after the training fight involving Rurik and Christine. Should only take 4 posts max, two from each of us, to tie that off. You game?

[AtomicNut]

Once more with feeling...

Diana(v2)

Hider

Name:

Diana Graeca AKA " The Witch of Bones."

Age:

18

Grade:

Rhean Technical 3rd year. - A school for those with less financial support and that is flexible with temp jobs. Currently unaffiliated to any of the big three.

Biography:

Diana is but the latest descendant of an ancient bloodline, that predates the Great War, and whose arts are also from before the emergence of Blessings. Diana's family and tribe practised what was considered a dangerous and taboo endeavour. Black Magic users all of them, it was their rituals and spells who warped the rules of nature, god and men, that helped humans survive against the Ancient Evil onslaught. However, their situation quickly changed as the Gods decided to hand out Blessings, and from that point on they would also be shunned and more than often put in the same bag as demons due to their philosophy being sometimes in opposition to those of the Gods.

In modern times, there is few people who still practice these family arts. But Diana is one of them. At a young age she renounced to her blessing (it was a very useless one, as she could only talk to flies), and undergoing the ancient ritual passed down by her family, gaining the ability to use the dark arts by sacrificing something "dear" to her. (Diana is glad that this is the modern age as she can sacrifice her blessing as payment. Before such an era, one had to sacrifice a loved one to gain these powers). However, Black Magic usually doesn't give much in the paying of bills, so she had to constantly be on the move avoiding loan sharks alongside with her family.

She found a certain respite in Rhea, after joining a rather modest school with temporary job compatibility, she settled in the big city. Her parents were somewhat successful in getting odd jobs to make ends meet, such as telephone customer service and supermarket cashier. She herself settled for comic book store attendant, even though she is always threatening to quit because her boss always makes her cosplay in comic and anime dresses to boost up the sales.

Of course, for those who step in the vibrant world that is beyond what meets the eye... her powers are also for those who can afford her prices.

Powers:

• Core Power: Spark of Magic: If one has to determine what is a black mage compared to a human one needs to imagine a ladder. Humans are at the base, and at the top of the billion or so of steps, is a Divine presence. Mages have stepped up one or two steps, and they have an inherent spark in themselves which allow them to twist and bend the seams of natural order as long as they have proper procedures. However, Magic is not a toy, and often than more, trying to be too greedy or trying to approach much more intense sources of magic and divine power can cause severe backslash.
• 1st Power-Sorcery (Od): Sorcery is the use of one's own internal magical energy (od, another word for this kind of energy is Ki), to perform some pretty basic spells. Diana is adept at using the od to heal minor wounds, launch small blasts of energy, that hurt as much as a punch, and reinforce her body to resist some enemy attacks and not die at the first time someone kicks her hard. Od is also employed in a mage's favorite trick: Flight. Useful for getting away and launching overhead attacks.
• 2nd-Power- Necromancy: Necromancy is a foul art, but the materials for it are readily available. Everything in necromancy has to be paid in life. From the art of divinating using entrails, to raising corpses. The most basic spells of this art require a few drops of blood or small animals. A single pigeon can make a very basic zombie or skeleton automaton. The most powerful forms of this art can raise the dead back to life for a single day, however the price is equally steep. Another person at the least must die to resurrect someone. Similarly, this cruel ritual can be inverted, and by paying with someone's life, Diana can drag a target into the underworld forcefully(although the effect is only temporal)
• 3rd Power- Ritual Magic: Ritual magic refers to the complex rituals and scriptures a mage has to use in order to manifest powers that otherwise their Od would not be able to. These usually involve painstakingly intricate circles, chants, and exotic components. Sure, Mages can rain blizzards and fireballs on top of people's enemies with the right catalysts, but such a bizarre display would flush out months of work and years of savings in pretty fireworks. For example, a fireball would require a desiccated salamander ritually sacrificed under a new moon and smoked in a 100 year old tree's wood, and making a Wall of Ice would require to carve a single block of pure ice made from a pristine spring, and then melt it with purifying salt. She is currently trying to learn solar magic, but given the catalyst of those is pure gold... her studies are slow and frustrating. It is possible for her to make lasting enchantments and curses, although the time and effort involved in those is proportional.

Relationships:

Whoever pays her prices.

[AtomicNut]

Since the tournament is here, the training subplot is gonna be skipped through.

[Hammerman]

@Hammerman

OK, two things. We're making teams for the tournament on discord.

So far we have:

Team #1: Rurik - Bak - Christine/Thobias
Team#2: Cel - Vittorio - Yuuto/Christine
Team#3: Vernon - (Fill) - Gilliam
(Fill = whoever is left over)

Which means Christine could literally end up on any of the teams, depending on how things go. Thoughts?

Two, I had something in mind for after the training fight involving Rurik and Christine. Should only take 4 posts max, two from each of us, to tie that off. You game?

@KillamriX88

I'm fine with being in any of the teams though I think I prefer Team 1.

And I'm game for the stuff with Rurik. We can make it a collab post if you want.

[KillamriX88]

Shit this wasn't supposed to go here... IGNORE ME!!!

[AtomicNut]

Updated characters as @RoflsMazoy approved Diana.

[Letter Bee]

Five months as the Ascots and it turned out I went too far with them...

[AtomicNut]

@RoflsMazoyMinor tweak on the necromantic power.

[Letter Bee]

Might not be able to post for a few days.

[Letter Bee]

On second thought, I might - might - go on hiatus from this RP; I'm having a bad time right now.

Edit; then again, it seems I won't have to...

[Letter Bee]

Louen de Bretonny

Name:

Louen de Bretonny

Age:

16

Grade:

1st Year, Rhean Military Academy

Biography:

Louen de Bretonny was born to a side branch of the De Bretonny family, the hereditary monarchs of the Kingdom of Bretonny since time immemorial until two centuries ago, when the current ruler, Giles de Bretonny, married his daughter off to another Royal Family, the De Bearns... Shortly before his sons died when their cruise ship ran into an iceberg. Because of this, the De Bearn family had the most powerful claim to the Kingdom of Bretonny, and they promptly told the cadet branches to 'put up and shut up'. In response, Louen's family went to Rhea to try and raise support for an invasion to take back 'their' throne.

They failed. Even after 200 years, they failed, especially as future generations preferred to stay in Rhea and enjoy its advanced technology, magic, and entertainment instead of fighting for a throne that was more trouble than it was worth. And Louen was no different; as a full Rhean Citizen, he identified with Rhea more than he did with Brettony, and while he was a military nerd, he preferred to hear about Rhea's proxy conflicts and 'peacekeeping missions' while enjoying Bretonnese culture from the comfort of his city instead of his family's former homeland. Instead, he was going to focus on his life in the Rhean Military Academy, where, as a 16-year old, he was allowed to join.

There, he will become an officer and a gentleman of Rhea, learn to charm hot gals and guys, and perhaps engage in hilarious antics when not practicing how to be an officer and gentleman.

Powers:

Core Power - Gun God's Blessing: Louen de Bretonny is capable of bending firearms to his will. He can move firearms independently of his person. He can also shoot, reload, jam, switch firing mode, and deconstruct the weapons at his will. Doing so is much easier for his custom firearm, however, because he is attuned to the layout of his weapon, down to each screw and scratch. He can manipulate only a couple weapons at a time.

First Power - Memory of L'Ourtemer: Memory of L'Ourtermer is a specially-designed weapon made specifically for use with Louen’s abilities. He is attuned to this weapon, and every facet of its design, which makes him able to manipulate it as if it were an extension of himself, which it kind of is. He can change the basic shape of the firearm to resemble almost any ballistic weapon on the military market by taking 3 seconds to concentrate. However, this weapon can only fire Louen’s specially synthesized rounds, which he creates using his third power.

Second Power - Rhean Military Exorcism Kit: A collection of silver-and-rowan religious symbols, holy water, and holy oil, that can harm demons, spirits, and astral beings. The weakness of this is that it is not an official power and can be lost, stolen, or just used up. For full disclosure's sake, there are six religious symbols, one small canteen of holy water, and one thumb-sized bottle of holy oil.

Third Power - Custom Organic Non-Lethal Bullets: Louen's blessing can act independently of its owner, turning all bullets in his possession into custom non-lethal rounds. These rounds are as follows:

- Gel Round: The bullets turn into immobilizing sticky slime when striking their target.
- Sleep Powder Round: The bullets turn into a pellet that breaks instantly when in contact with skin, releasing a powder that can cause severe drowsiness to an average person in three to six seconds.
- Inorganic Non-Living Matter Demolition Round: Louen's blessing acts independently of its owner to ascertain if the target is both non-organic and non-sapient (aka not a robot or doll), before allowing special explosive rounds to be used.
- Blanks: Paper, Wax, or Plastic Bullets not meant to damage, just explode.

Relationships:

None yet.

[KillamriX88]

@Hammerman So the Potato (6slyboy6) has returned from their 10 day absence and very strongly suggested that they want Thobias on the same team as Rurik and Bak.

This would leave Christine on a team with Yuuto and Vittorio.

You said you were fine anywhere, but that you did prefer the team with Rurik and Bak.

I'll let you decide how you wanna handle this.

(Also gonna ping @6slyboy6 I guess)