[OOC] World of Light

[Grimnir]

@Lugubrious
Wow, thought I was pretty niche with my picks but alright. No big deal if the Ghast appear.

Let's go with putting Jester in Hollow Bough. Seems like a natural place to jump in.

[Lugubrious]

Sounds good. A possible reason for him being there is that he was delving in the area directly above Hollow Bough in the Underground, a multi-leveled dungeon called Mercy Dreams, either alone or with a party that he was then separated from for one reason or another. Tonight's update will include an introduction of Hollow Bough and setting the scene for the first of the three weeks we'll be spending there, so once you've seen it you can work on an OP to introduce the Jester. If you want you can expound on what he was doing in Mercy Dreams (looting, killing monsters, trying to hunt down the area's demonic-looking boss monster Ten Piedad, etc) his other three party members, and what happened to him (or them) prior to having him stumble onto the scene with the team.

[Grimnir]

Attempt 2

Name: Nocturne
Game Origin: Lamplighters League

Personality:
Nocturne is the broken shell of the late Dr. Elsa Reis and the lady that she was has been fractured into a simpler caricature. She is rather emotionless in her tone and words. You wouldn’t find her expressing anger with tense body language or joy with things like laughter. Essentially, she is emotionless. Yet despite this monotone expression, she is still capable of feeling emotion, but she can’t easily express it. Instead, her emotion tends to come out in musical expression, namely humming. She isn’t quite forward or obvious despite her usual direct to the point responses. Her words can twist suddenly into abstract, poetic language that seems she’s reciting lines of play that has long been forgotten.

Background:
“To go where no woman or man has gone before.”
That was the idea at least. Dr. Elsa Reis sought to prove the other side, or alternate universes, existed but due to the limits of understanding on wavelengths and light, mankind could never see the other side even if they were looking right at it. It wasn’t just a limitation of mankind but also a limitation of their universe. We could only ever see the shadows that these realms projected, like the means of magic granted by the Tower in her world. If magic was granted by a mere shadow, imagine what you could do with the actual light…

Dr. Elsa Reis worked on a device capable of sending her to the Tower and she was driven for her results by any means. Funded by the Banished Court, a nefarious group who planned on using her research for their own ends, Elsa built her device and plunged to the other side only… it didn’t go as planned.

The woman that had left this world was overwhelmed by the radiant existence on another plane, returning only in part as a shell of her former self. From brief moments of clarity, Nocturne can only theorize what had happened, that maybe Elsa was left behind and is still there. Her soul trapped while her body had to return. Perhaps Elsa is better off but one thing is for sure:

Elsa was gone, but Nocturne was here to stay.

In a rare time of motivation, Nocturne tried to find Elsa. Reconstructing the device that sent Elsa beyond but only this time, Nocturne was taken elsewhere. The radiant experience was something different, owned by an individual being: Galeem. It was like a moth to a flame and Nocturne was pulled in.

Specialty: Saboteur
Level: 1
Experience: 0/10

Powers:

I. Shocking Skirmisher

Nocturne is immune to Electric damage due to her suit and altered biochemistry. When she is struck by electricity or when she activates her suit, she becomes Charged for a brief time. When Charged, her Volt Gun recharges instantly and her other suit powers are overcharged to have greater effects.
Volt Gun: Fires a powerful electrical projectile that applies a stunning shock to enemies and can apply a Shocked status effect for damage over time.
Spectro-Suit: Durable suit that provides Nocturne with survivability in void or empty realities. Harnesses electricity to power the suit. When Charged, applies a Shocked on contact.

Strengths:

• Top Mind - While Dr. Elsa Reis was the brilliant spectrophysicist, Nocturne does retain that knowledge somewhere in her head. When moments arrive for her to put her brain to work out a solution to any issue she may face, it will come out in flashes of brilliance that she can’t control.
• Inventor - One of the few intellectual attributes of Nocturne’s former self that hasn’t become scattered. While she can’t explain how she knows these things, she can inspect devices and understand a great deal on how they work, how to repair, and possibly even how to replicate.
• Dead and Back - Nocturne is not technically living, nor is she dead. She just is. Pain is relative, danger is subjective. She is always fighting fit, tireless, and resilient. Any sort of scanners set to detect a normal living being would also have issues noticing Nocturne.

Weaknesses:

• Scatter Brained - Nocturne’s brilliance is present but fragmented, as if her mind is a collection of film reels cut up and reattached. She might not even remember a thought she had a few seconds ago. In the truest sense, she is a ditz without any of the colorful charm of the usual type.
• Grounded - Damage/Condition susceptibility to earthen, rubber, or other electricity dampening abilities.

Spirits: (See Spirits section for details. Start with none)
None.

Inventory:

Guest List:
Trace Marteau - The American Inventor from Nocturne’s world. A man who ended up stealing Elsa’s legacy from Nocturne and a face she remembers. [Lamplighters League, not a lot of info for this game btw]
Atlas - Bioshock
Styx - Styx: Master of Shadows

[Lugubrious]

That's an interesting alternative. I wouldn't measure the duration of any effect in the number of posts since the amount of time posts encapsulate can vary wildly. Establishing a set amount of in-universe time would be better. I assume that with 'Dead and Back' she can still be destroyed despite her increased resilience since we can't have an indestructible character.

[Grimnir]

Oh alright, I can do that. I'll just drop the specific description of post timing then and leave it a little more up to the story.

And yes, she can be destroyed. She is still physical and can be destroyed.

[Lugubrious]

That sounds pretty good then. Nocture replacing the Jester as your starting character is approved and you can start working on an opening post. In tomorrow's update the Under team will be reaching Mercy Dreams, which as an underground prison is a great place to introduce a new character.

[Lugubrious]

At last, the Under team has reached Mercy Dreams, the Prison of Hope. A place of despair where bodies are captive and minds are captivated. Nocturne isn't the only character held prisoner here, either. As your characters explore Mercy Dreams, three kinds of special events can happen on top of normal encounters.

First, your characters may begin to see and hear someone close to them. In addition to that someone's voice, which can be traced to a specific cell somewhere in Mercy Dreams, your character might see a fleeting, ghostly vision of that person in the prison's halls. These familiar faces can communicate with anyone fully and possess all their original memories (as is normal for a Gleamer), faculties, etc, although they can't offer any more details about what they're doing here other than that they awoke here or were imprisoned here. They may ask to be freed, maybe telling your characters to find the keys or the warden. Notably, the bronze locks on each of these cells is oxidized and nonfunctional, meaning you'd need to get the silver keys to open them.

Second, you can collect pages as they fly around like origami fairies or butterflies. Each one describes a random creature, not necessarily from this area, including description, a picture, statistics, and applicable lore.

Third, in the Prison Office directly opposite the 'entrance' on the first layer of Mercy Dreams, there's a ring of twelve oxidized bronze keys, corroded and laden with greenish patinas. You can have your character take a key (or maybe two) and open a standard cell door of your choice, at which point the key breaks. Who's inside the cell? Well, that's up to you, with a couple rules...

• The prisoner cannot be from the same game series as any player character in the area
• The prisoner has at least a couple things in common with your character
• The prisoner is in a dreamlike trance and will fly into a desperate rage when his or her cell door is opened
• The prisoner has seemingly been driven mad by being awakened. If still able to speak, there could be ranting about everything and everyone being 'fake', or about nothing mattering, or about dreams. He or she won't act coherently or answer questions, but is very likely to attack

I would ask everyone bringing in a character to message me their choice/s for approval. If you want me to give you character/s as a sort of grab bag, you can do that too. Oh, and also, there's a larger cell near the Prison Office. That's where the Seer is, behind a door with no bronze lock, beneath which trace amount of soft orange-pink light seem to leak. If you want to converse with her, I'm happy to help. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Have fun with Mercy Dreams!

[Dark Cloud]

Osvald V. Vanstein

Game Origin: Octopath Traveler II for Nintendo Switch, Ps4 and Ps5

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Personality: Often times Osvald could be described by his peers as a brilliant yet aloof man, whose focus upon the pursuit of knowledge outweighed all other aspects of his life. Osvald is more often than not a man of few words when he has no reason to speak, or to simply not speak at all. Though Osvald enjoys debates and discussing opinions, he finds some conversations a waste of time.

Osvald is quite the astute gentleman, but he is more often consumed by his thoughts than he would like. His approach to things that require thought is thorough and methodical, not one to gloss over any detail he can scrutinize.

Though the Scholar can come off as a bit too gruff and serious beneath that hard exterior is a kind hearted man. Yet the trauma of past events in his life, of loss and the mistreatment he suffered for years after effect him greatly. He has no qualms taking from others what he sees fit or to take back what he views as his.

It's not clear whether his state of mental health is a sign of something more serious, he often suffers from dreams of a tragedy he keeps to himself. Not one to bother others with his goals but willing to work with others as even though he doesn't understand most people he values the conpany of those who share common interest.

Osvald is a mathematical genius in his scope of field, as it gave him insight into quantifying his formula of the One True Magic yet as much as he understood numbers in an equation he has more a lack of understanding of emotions like love yet he still feels it strongly for his family, especially his daugther Elena.

Background: Once a renowned scholar who lived happily in his home near the sea, with a loving wife and a daughter Osvald cherished above all things even his own work. He had everything he had wanted, until he met one man who would change it all...Harvey...

He met his soon-to-be research partner when attending a lecture in a city away from home interested in the man's own approach to Gratton's hypothesis of the One True Magic they shared their work. At first Osvald came to admire Harvey's intellect unaware of his true intentions...

You see Osvald's approach to Gratton's hypothesis of the Seventh so-called magic would actually prove to be a leap in the field of magic. Nobody had figured out yet that using the elements could be boiled down to such things as equations.

No one except Harvey, the man who took everything from him. Osvald came home to a house smouldering, without sign of his wife or child nor their call as he shouted desperately for them except the cruel laughter of the man he had once admired. Harvey took his life's work, and the things he cherished most all to claim the discovery of the One True Magic all for himself.

Osvald found himself being bound in chains by the towns authorities, who later would claim that only he was present at the scene of the crime and the only one with the ability to set his home ablaze Osvald was found guilty of murdering his family via magic at the order of the court receiving a life sentence that he would serve far away in the frigid north upon an island prison camp to the far north.

Muzzled like a dog, and forced to toil in the mines at the hands of cruel jailers. The prisoners of Frigit Isle were put to work in inhospitable conditions, many would die either from the cold or at the hands of the men watching them.

He suffered for years, enduring the beatings, the whipping, the abuse...Not even the freezing cold could extinguish the raging fire in his breast.

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Specialty:
Scholar: as a scholar Osvald is a master of magic and can use his magical abilites to great effect with his spells but works better at a range rather than in the center of all the fighting.
Level: 1
Experience: 0/10 EXP

Powers:

• Fireball: Fireball is a spell that deals fire damage to all enemies in a group when cast. Highly effective against large groups of enemies, but less effective when cast upon singular targets as the spell is more potent the more enemies there are in a group.
  ^{(Starting Power) Power Level: 1}

Strengths:

• Scholar of the Six Magics: Osvald is a renowned scholar, applying his skills with the elements and his own mathematical formulae to amplify and strengthen the cause and effect of all spells, with this he can effectively use most powers he gains if they are magical in nature. All elemental based spells and attacks Osvald uses deal significantly more damage. (Fire, Cold, Wind, Lightning, Light and Dark.)
• Intellectual Pursuit: As a mage and a scholar, Osvald is better equipped to deal with enemies and their weaknesses, upon entering a fight he can make out at least one random weakness from each enemy.
• Scholarly Aptitude: Though Osvald may be a magical scholar, he is no slouch when it comes to combat, he is proficient with staves as blunt weapons that can function as more than just a tool to cast spells with, Osvald also has a high magical defense taking less damage from damaging spells and attacks that are magical in nature.

Weaknesses:

Osvald's Flaws

• Overly Analytical: Osvald's one caveat is that he approaches everything from a logical standpoint that he at times can seem out of touch with things like understanding others emotions as he thinks of things logically most of the time.
• Single-Minded: Driven by his desire for revenge, Osvald can miss the details that are most important when faced with the opportunity of exacting it. He will drop everything at the opportunity of chasing what he seeks. And might even resort to less than ethically moral choices to get what he wants.
• Scholar Not A Fighter: As a mage and a scholar Osvald is better equipped to deal with foes from afar, since he isn't as proficient in melee combat than others. He takes more damage from physical attacks if not well equipped and deals less physical damage.

Spirits:

• N/A

Inventory:

Weapons

• N/A:

Clothing & Apparel

• Prisoner's Rags: Osvald wears tattered and moth eaten rags, consisting of a ragged shirt and black linen pants that look as though they'd seens better days. His boots are scuffed and beaten and an iron manacle hangs upon his neck with the chain hanging down to his legs.
• Spectacles: A set of old circular spectacles with a wire frame.
• Overcoat: A large heavy brown overcoat that is worn over Osvald's attire to keep him from freezing.

Currency: N/A
Other: N/A

[Lugubrious]

That application seems good!

[Dragonfly 9]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

So, I wanna join, but question: Does my character's personality and goals have to be at least a bit fleshed out by the game they're from's narrative, or can I just use a player character which is basically the audience surrogate in the game they're from, and go from there?

Because, right now, all the characters in my mind that I wanna play as are:

Disney's Enchanted Journey's Princess of Gentlehaven,

and

Wizard101's "Young Wizard" and Pirate101's "Young Pirate".

It's okay if I can't, I'm just wondering! :)

[Lugubrious]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

So, I wanna join, but question: Does my character's personality and goals have to be at least a bit fleshed out by the game they're from's narrative, or can I just use a player character which is basically the audience surrogate in the game they're from, and go from there?

Because, right now, all the characters in my mind that I wanna play as are:

Disney's Enchanted Journey's Princess of Gentlehaven,

and

Wizard101's "Young Wizard" and Pirate101's "Young Pirate".

It's okay if I can't, I'm just wondering! :)

@Dragonfly 9

Hey there, I'm glad you're interested, and I'd be happy to have you. Having a concrete personality at least is a must-have, although in the past we've had players assign create-a-characters personalities of their own, so that's an option. Our characters are not just mindless combat machines after all, we need to be able to play off one another and the elements we encounter in the world. I'm not too familiar with the games you mentioned, but keep in mind that any games with Disney characters that originate from a medium other than a game are off-limits. If those games have strictly original characters made by Disney's game division or whatever, that's fine.

[Dragonfly 9]

Thank you for answering my question! The "Young Wizard"/"Young Pirate" are "create a characters", I think, given how you choose what they look like, their class(pirate)/magic school(wizard), and much more in the "Create a Character" section of the game's tutorial. And I'm also fine with giving the "Young Wizard"/"Young Pirate" a personality! I find it pretty fun to do things like that, honestly! :D

[Lugubrious]

Okay, doing that sounds fine then. I'll look forward to what you come up with.

[Dragonfly 9]

Thank you, I'll see what I can do! :)

[TruthHurts22]

New join, new me!

The Man Who Erased His Name

Name: Joryu (Kazuma Kiryu)
Game Origin: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Personality: A man with very little to live for. A man who can’t truly live. A man known only as “Joryu”, the burden of both his past and present heavy on his shoulders. At his core this man holds strong to his convictions; his willingness to sacrifice himself for others, his care for what remains in his life, his steeled determination in the face of adversity. His circumstances have led to a new disposition, one that’s quicker to snipe and insult, less willing to take fluff or guff, and more open with his thoughts. Even though he remains aloof, there’s deep empathy behind the jagged edges. He stands up for those who can’t stand up for themselves, from what he believes is right, standing up against the cruelty of the world. While he doesn’t tend to show it, his passion can spread far and wide, to places you wouldn’t think he’d be into, and his situation has bolstered his appreciation for life, even those that may not deserve the mercy. But don’t let that fool you - he is very willing to dish out pain and punishment.
Background: Kazuma Kiryu is dead. He died in 2016, in hospital, from severe injuries and gunshot wounds. This man is not Kazuma Kiryu. That’s the so-called existence he’s had for the past 3 years, under the thumb of the Daidoji Faction, a cabal of political elites with a hold on Japan from the shadows, a network of spies and assassins at their command. After uncovering a national conspiracy that could’ve upended foreign relations, a deal was made: Kiryu would fake his death, leave his friends, family, his entire life behind, and remain hidden from society so his knowledge of the conspiracy could never get out. Ever since, Kiryu, now named “Joryu”, has worked as a Daidoji agent, occasionally sent on clandestine missions to support the faction’s power plays. All other times, Joryu spent his days at a secluded temple, learning to meditate from the priest that lived there.

In 2019, as governor Ryo Aoki began to amass power, and the fragile balance in the city of Ijincho came to a head, Joryu’s latest mission - helping with a supposed gold exchange with a foreign rebel leader - ended up being a ploy to kidnap Hanawa, his handler. The culprits turned out to be members of the Omi Alliance, after Kiryu, believing his death was fake and requiring his help with a special plan cooked up by Watase, the Omi’s chairman. Embroiled in this plot, his service to Daidoji, and catching the eye of a dangerous Omi lieutenant aboard a ship-based pleasure center for rich hedonists, Joryu tries his hardest to stay afloat and keep Kazuma Kiryu dead, for the sake of his loved ones.
Specialty: Brawler, Crowd Control
Level: 1
Experience: 0/10
Powers:

• Wrist-based Wire - Spider: a gadget in the form of a wristwatch, the Spider allows Joryu to shoot microwires from itself. These wires are capable of ensnaring people and wrapping around objects, with enough strength to hold Joryu’s weight & enable him to pull, yank, or whip a person around. It can also be used as a grapple when wrapped around structures. As of now the Spider has enough wire to ensnare 1 person.

Strengths:

• The Daidoji Arts - Agent Style: Working under Daidoji, Joryu was trained specifically as one of its agents. Daidoji agents utilize a special combat style made from various martial arts around the world. The Agent Style is a technique of fighting focused on quick, decisive strikes to an opponent’s weak points and vital areas, favoring defense and avoidance tactics. In this style Joryu is light on his feet, capable of fending off multiple attackers at once through fast hits and quickstep dodges. He’s also learned various ways to disarm opponents as self-defense.
• Legendary: While he’s no longer Kiryu in name, he’s every bit as capable as he ever was. Befitting his status as a legend, Joryu is a veritable powerhouse in his own right. He boasts impressive strength, agility, reflexes, flexibility, and coordination. Joryu can lift people with little trouble, control the battlefield with his prowess, and hit like a damn truck while doing so. He is familiar with weapons, too, whether improvised from objects he can get his hands on to actual tools, swords, knives, guns, etc. If he can pick it up, he can beat someone senseless with it.
• Unyielding: All that raw power would mean nothing if Joryu couldn’t take a hit himself. He can take quite the beating, as much as he can give one, and still muster the energy to keep going. There’s obvious limits to this, but outside of genuinely debilitating injuries, Joryu won’t let anything stop him, and very few people can say they’ve managed that before.

Weaknesses:

• Dragon in Name Only: For all of his strength, for all the stories told about him, for all the myth the Dragon of Dojima holds… at the end of the day, he’s human. Humans are still capable of amazing feats in the World of Light, but without any outside help, Joryu will find himself against things he simply has no chance at overcoming.
• Morning Glory: The very reason for Joryu’s current state; his orphanage. The kids that lived there, that he raised, that he died to protect from his criminal past. It kowtows him to Daidoji’s commands, and is a very easy button to press to manipulate him. Most people who threaten the orphanage are met with anger more than anything, but should there be real danger involved, there’s not much he wouldn’t do to keep them safe.
• Bad Habit: Joryu is a smoker. He has been for a long time, and he has no plans to quit anytime soon. On top of being something of an addiction that he's saddled with, the many years of it might just start taking their toll very soon...
• Nameless: Joryu is compelled to stick to his oath to Daidoji, keeping his identity secret. To this end he'll often shy away from situations that might reveal himself as Kiryu; keep his face from the public eye, unable to utilize services where ID is necessary, and avoid those that might already know of him, if he can help it. Even if Daidoji aren't as far-reaching in the World of Light, he isn't willing to break the oath without good reason.

Spirits:
Guest List:

• Shun Akiyama - Yakuza 4, 5, 6: a moneylender and owner of Sky Finance, situated in Kamurocho. He loans massive amounts of money with zero interest and no deadline to clients, so long as they pass his tests of character. Despite his lackadaisical nature he’s very astute and can hold his own, primarily fighting with his legs.
• Agent 47 - Hitman: a nameless assassin operating under a top secret organization, the ICA. His only purpose for existing is to carry out assassinations the Agency requests of him, an existence he sometimes questions, but continues to adhere to with cold efficiency.
• Rufus - Deponia: a selfish, narcissistic, danger-prone klutz of a tinkerer. Living on a planet made completely of garbage, Rufus has his sights set on a better life, and is willing to do most anything to achieve his goals. No crime too petty, no taboo too unbreakable, no piece of equipment too well-made... I mean, most of it's accidental collateral really, he just never thinks of the consequences.

Inventory: the Spider wristwatch, a smartphone, a pair of sunglasses (to obscure his face, very helpfully)

[Lugubrious]

That application looks pretty good, however the whole smoking thing might be a bit more of a realistic weakness than the 'Nameless' thing since his reason for erasing his name in the World of Light is very much diminished.

[TruthHurts22]

That makes sense, I think I'd wanna keep some form of it still, cuz even if it isn't a practical weakness it would be something he'd consciously avoid regardless. Would it be alright if I reworded that weakness and added one for his smoking habit, so it isn't just a "fake" weakness?

[rush99999]

Heyo! I'm thinking of joining this RP as my Roblox avatar. I know from the spirit board that Robloxians are already present in the world, so have there been any events involving them over the past five years that I should keep in mind going into this?

[Lugubrious]

That makes sense, I think I'd wanna keep some form of it still, cuz even if it isn't a practical weakness it would be something he'd consciously avoid regardless. Would it be alright if I reworded that weakness and added one for his smoking habit, so it isn't just a "fake" weakness?

@TruthHurts22

Sure.

Heyo! I'm thinking of joining this RP as my Roblox avatar. I know from the spirit board that Robloxians are already present in the world, so have there been any events involving them over the past five years that I should keep in mind going into this?

@rush99999

Hey there and welcome, thanks for checking out this RP! We haven't done anything with Roblox really, there are just Robloxians as background characters in the world, so nothing in particular to be aware of. So your idea should be fine, I assume you envision your avatar with a certain personality and such?

[rush99999]

I assume you envision your avatar with a certain personality and such?

@Lugubrious

You are correct in your assumption.