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DanMachi: Alter Oration

Synopsis:

The Labyrinth city of Orario, the home of the towering Babel and the sprawling, underground dungeon. Home to all the world's various races and many of the Gods and Goddesses who descended onto the earth to live alongside their children, Orario is the home of many Familia and even more adventurers. Some specialize in exploring the dungeon and its depths, while others focus on crafting items or even providing other, certain, services.

But regardless of what they do and how they make their living, each Familia is busy with their own lives and their own goals. Our story in particular however, follows the road of a few, select children, new to both the world and the vast opportunities - as well as dangers - that Orario and the dungeon beneath it can offer. Will they come to grow into legends and earn renown? Or will they like so many others bcome corpses and food for the monsters in the dark depths below?

Only time will tell how, where and what will become of these young, fledgeling adventurers and their small, budding Familia. But the time is now for them to take their first step, to march forward into the world of adventure, exploration, magic and even intrigue.

Welcome to an alter oration, of DanMachi.


Story Information:

this story is a semi free-roaming roleplay set in the DanMachi universe, several decades prior to the events of Bell Cranel and the Hestia Familia. Players have the freedom to do pretty much what they want, be it exploring the city of Orario, going into the dungeon, visiting the market and shops or just hanging out with each other at an inn or their Familia's home. Actually doing things is what matters in this story, so get out there and try everything!

The main plot is divided into seven chapters, and each chapter has a specific event or goal that needs to be completed in order to progress to the next chapter. This means that you, the players, have the choice of deciding how long or short the story will be. It also means you're free to focus on what you want to do yourselves, rather than feeling rushed or forced by a GM to do certain things in a certain order. Complete and finish the chapter's goals and events at the pace you all want and feel comfortable with.

Of course, you don't have complete freedom. As the story is set in Orario, you'll have to stay within the city limits. There is also a day-night cycle, which will prevent you from stalling or taking all the time in the world to do things. In addition, you will have to eat food and drink water at least once a day, as well as sleep at least four hours - otherwise, you risk bad things happening.

But other than this though, you are pretty much free to explore and do whatver in Orario, Babel and the dungeon. So go forth and have fun!


Rules:

If you intend to take part in this roleplay, please follow these few rules.

1. You must make at least one post each week. If you have something that prevents you from doing this, contact me before your time-limit expires.

2. Do not start flame wars or act hostile towards your fellow players. It's fine to argue and discuss, but don't become destructive or toxic towards each other.

3. You may only play as one character at a time. If you want to make a new one, you'll have to retire, kill off or make your current toon into an NPC first.

4. Avoid meta-gaming always. If someone thinks about something inside their head, your character should not have knowledge about it. You should not be aware of events that took place in a location you wasn't even close to, unless someone told you about it. In general, don't be omniscient and be fair.

5. Nobody has plot armor. Your character is neither all-powerful nor indestructible. You can and will die if you aren't careful. Poison, disease, bloodloss, burns and other things are very real hazards that you can't just shrug off - unless you have the proper skills to do so. Be careful, be reasonable and be willing to not be in perfect condition all the time.

6. Have fun! This is a roleplay meant to be enjoyed and make you smile. You're not supposed to feel that it's a chore or a nuisance to deal with. IF you're not having fun, send me a PM and let me know why and we'll see what can be done.


Important Information:

DanMachi Fandom Wiki
Map of Orario
Map of the Dungeon
List of Races
List of Basic/Personal Skills
List of Development Skills
Magic, Spells & Chants

In case you aren't overly familiar with the DanMaci series, please visit the link above to read up on and/or find answers to some of your questions. Even those familiar with the series should pay a visit every now and then in order to brush up on certain things.

If you have questions, please do ask. It's much better to ask if you don't know, rather than wing it and end up having to redo an entire post or character sheet simply because you made incorrect assumptions. I'll be happy to answer anything you want to know, and if I don't know the answer myself, someone else might help you instead!


Character Sheet Template:



Class Information:

Adventurer:
This class gains a small bonus to all things related to physical combat. They are more likely to develop combat-oriented skills.

Alchemist:
This class specializes in making potions, salves, medicines and bombs. They collect ingrediants from the dungeon to produce these goods, which they then either sell for money or use while exploring. They typically develop a mix of utility and crafting-related skills.

Mage:
This class focuses more on using magic and spells to achieve their goals. Be it blowing up large groups of enemies, smiting a large opponent or healing their allies, mages focus more on spellcasting than physical prowess. They are more likely to develop skills that augment magic.

Smith:
These people mainly focus on crafting weapons, armor and accessories for use in battle. They can repair damaged gear and, given enough skill, can even forge Magic Weapons. They typcially develop a mix of combat skills and skills that help with crafting.

Supporter:
This class focuses on helping their party-members. Be it carrying extra gear, collecting the Exilia from slain monsters or buying the items needed before a dungeon-crawl, their job is to make life easier for their allies. They typically develop utility-skills, as well as being very good at haggling.


Player List:

Here's the list of all active players and their respective character:

0. Xaltwind - GM
1. Torran Doal, Male Boaz, Supporter (Duoya)
2. Triss Honeyforge, Male Pallum, Adventurer (ERode)
3. CLOSED
4. Ayame Sakanoue, Female Renard, Mage (Vertigo)

Athena Familia NPCs:

1. Athena, Goddess, Familia Leader
2. Grentiloch Tyln, Male Chienthrope, Adventurer, Familia Captain
3. Tiramis Welren, Female Pallum, Alchemist
4. Brozar Fjordstone, Male Dwarf, Smith
5. Chylvie Mithral, Female Dark Elf, Adventurer
6. Doneth Skrayer, Male Human, Supporter



Familia Information:

Name: Athena Familia
Type: Exploration
Home: Warrior's Rest
Emblem: [No image available]

Funds: ???

Alliies:
- None

Enemies:
- Ares Familia
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Reposting here, not sure is we still need to decide a Familia, but if we do, Athena would be pretty cool!

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Reposting as well!

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Good, good. Then we got the two pre-OOC characters submitted now. Now we just gotta wait for the rest of the peeps to start submitting their character sheets as well.

I'm gonna go through Torran and Leela's sheets again before I head to bed in a couple of hours. But unless something major was done to them, I'll be sending each of you a PM with information about any stat or skill-related tweaks that'll be allowed to be added by you.
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Sheet updated with her stats!
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Congratulations to Duoya and RisqueBoots.

Both Torran and Leela have been accepted and added to the official cast. Two spots remain open to be claimed (three, if I'm feeling generous).

A round of applause for our two initial recruits! *golf-clap*
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Woo! Looking forward to seeing who else joins the group.
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Well, time for sleep.

To anyone who has immediate questions, I suggest you go take a look at our old Interest Check, and if you can't find your answer there - well, just leave a post here and I'll get back to you tomorrow after I get home from work.

I'd like to remind anyone applying that, in the case of more applicants than we have available slots, this is not a first come, first serve-based recruitment process. If there are too many applicants, you will be evaluated on the quality, diversity and detail of your character.

But for now, I wish you all a good night. Looking forward to see what'll be waiting for me when I get back home tomorrow. :)
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"Gahn~!"

Really? Nothing? Nothing at all? No VMs, PMS, OOC or Char posts? Not a single one...? *Deflates into empty sack on the ground*

Well, maybe I should give you all something to do then, while we wait for more applicants. It just so happens that we still haven't fully decided on what Familia you lot want to belong to in-game, we've had two votes for Athena, but that's from a very small list I provided in the Interest Check. To remedy this, I've gona ahead and included the entire list of possible candidates I had in mind. You'll find them in the hider below.



But that's not all. I'd also like you to find a picture to go along with whichever Goddess you choose to vote for. There's no guarantee I'll use it for the official profile, but it might! And at the very least it'll help me get ideas and get a feel for you guys' tastes and preferences. Not that such a thing matters overly much, since I got a pretty good idea in my head already, but suggestions and new ideas never hurt to see/hear.

On a different note;

You know when that feeling when you're only going to buy a handful of groceries at the store. You come come up to the register and there's this one old guy infront of you. And of course, rather than use the provided shopping-baskets that the store supplies, he uses his own litle satchel-wagon which forces him to bend all the way down, and then back up again, to put one item at a time on the conveyor belt...

... Yeah... That...
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Thats a very oddly specific feeling, but I do think I know the one.

Also, shame about no new profiles or nothin so far, but it's early yet!

As for the expanded list, hummm... Athena, Artemis, Hathor and Bellona would all be good, and I wouldn't mind Bastet, Sekhmet or Kama either. The others are also okay with me if people lean that way, too!

Edit: My google fu is a little weak, but here's some contributions to the possible-images thing for some different goddesses:





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So, you're fine with anything? xD
That doesn't narrow it down though~ T-T

Alright, new rule. You may only choose ONE! >:(

Also, I'm going to be taking a brief nap... For like... 2.5 hours... Still a bit sick and tired from work. I won't go anywhere though, I'll be right back here when I wake up.

On that note... Torran and Leela really should get pictures... Just sayin'. ;)
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Apologies for not being helpful in narrowing it down! I am pretty open to any given goddess, since the way I see it if it's one that's very "fitting" for Leela, like a war goddess, then well that makes sense. If it's one that's not fitting for her, then that could be fun to play off of at times and likely it was the only Familia she could get into or it was simply the first one to grab her up. So for me at least, it really is pretty open! That said, if you really need one specific vote then I suppose I'll just say Athena, since that's still my "top pick".

Enjoy your nap and hope you feel better! Being sick sucks.

On the note of pictures, I'll dig around and see what if I can find anything suitable for Leela. At the very least face-wise, since the entire thing is pretty specific and I doubt I'd find an exact match unless I drew it myself or got super super lucky.
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I've updated the "Important Information"-section with links that go to various parts of the wiki that may be very useful to anyone looking for more information. Please note though that the map of both Orario and the Dungeon are going to be slightly different in this story, since it takes place in the slight past and the supplied maps are of the "current" or "present" Orario/Dungeon.

Also, note that the Skills Lists aren't complete. There are plenty of other skills, in both categories, out there. I just thought it would be helpful to add these so you could all see how Skills work and such.
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Dahlia seems like a lot of fun, in a serious and not knowing how to have fun sort of way!
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Hah, nice work, OWO.

I'd suggest you just think about what you want her focus to be though. Do you want her to be able to fight, but use some magic, then maker her class Adventurer. If you want to focus on magic, make her a Mage. There's no rule or anything that says Adventurers can't learn and use magic (see; Bell Cranel, Welf Crozzo and Ryuu Lion), nor that mages can't actually fight (see: Riveria).

The classes are mostly there to help you decide what you want to focus on majorly. Also, don't forget to vote for what Goddess you want from the little list, and don't forget to add the 'Class' and 'Familia' sections to your sheet (check the updated Character Sheet in the first post of the OOC).

Other then that, Dahlia looks real nice. I don't see any reason why I shouldn't accept her right now. So once you finish editing the missing bits, I'll go ahead and contact you cia PM regarding stats and skills and whatnot. :)
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i just didn't want to start out as a mage because magic is hella expensive and rare but if it's just a future focus, we up in real mage hours

Also, don't forget to vote for what Goddess you want from the little list


i vote for rolling a dice to see who we get because i have faith in my luck
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To clarify any misconceptions:

All classes can learn magic/spells, Mages just have an easier time increasing their Magic Stat and gaining Magic-related Personal Skills. Mages can fight using weapons, but they're usually not as good as Adventurers who primarily focus on that aspect.

A die, huh? I just so happen to have a Online Dice Roller app open in my internet tab here...

Edit:
I've added OwO and Dahlia to the list of crrent players. Please remember to post Dahlia's sheet in the Char-tab of this thread. :)

I've also added the 'Magic, Spells & Chants'-link in the 'Important Information' part of the first post, in case anyone wants or needs to read up on that. It contains some very useful information, like the different types of magic, what happens if you fail at spellcasting and contains a long list of spells and their respective chants.

I'm going to head to bed very soon however, so I bid you all a good night and hope to see you all tomorrow again. ^^
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Just to give my two cents, I don't mind voting or dice - dice might actually be kinda fun just because then we could end up with someone nobody really would have voted for, and that can lead to all kinds of interesting things that normally wouldn't happen depending on how the goddess in question is, what their domains are, etc.
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Working on my character!

Considering I don't know much about the Gods and Goddesses of Danmachi, my vote goes for the die. It's never let me down before. Except that time I was rolling HP for my Rogue in D&D and got three nat 1's in a row...

Also, thanks for adding stuff on magic, that'll be useful. Maybe not my brightest idea to focus on magic in a magic system I know nothing about, but ay, I'll do my due diligence and read up.
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