[OOC] Champions Have Arrived in the New World: A Problem Children and No Game No Life-Inspired Isekai RP

[VitaVitaAR]

@Raineh Daze: Accepted.

[VitaVitaAR]

• Name: Lila Loren Lovelace
• Age: Physically appears somewhere in her late teens, from 17-19.
• Gender: Female
• Race: Dragonblood
• Appearance: "Maybe... this way we'll get back everything we lost...!"
• Personality: Lila is not someone who is utterly without pride. As one of those possessing Dragonblood, she is among Nova Terra's nobility from birth, standing as one of the few with the authority to officiate challenges due to their position. Even now, after Silver Sun has fallen so low, she still has this ability, her body intrinsically tied to Nova Terra. As a result, she does take some pride in her heritage, in her bloodline, and she is not above boasting at times of this. However, in spite of her pride, Lila's primary concern is with the well-being of her community. She desperately wants to help those suffering due to the state of Silver Sun, desiring to help bring it back to its original glory so that those who are a part of it can be happy and thrive once again. Even in spite of Silver Sun's dire circumstances, Lila is still a polite and cheerful girl. Perhaps this is motivated in part because of her desire to draw in people who can help Silver Sun flourish once more, but that doesn't make it less genuine. Even considering her politeness, however, Lila can become quite frustrated and angry if someone successfully gets a rise out of her. She will not back down for any reason if it's for the sake of Silver Sun, but she is also surprisingly easily flustered and embarrassed.
• Abilities: As a Dragonblood, Lila is enormously fast and strong and has the natural ability to control and breath fire. This is something inherent to all of her kind. Due to her nature, she is also directly tied to the existence of Nova Terra, able to officiate Nova Challenges and even cancel them or alter the rules. However, she must have strong justification for this, and the game will simply resume unaltered if she does not. Lila possesses the ability to tap further into her dragon blood, manifesting fiery wings from her shoulders and enhancing her capabilities greatly. She is also incredibly durable and resistant to physical damage. In the absolute most dire circumstances, Lila is also the holder of Dragon Slaughter Ascalon, the murderous lance that annihilated a mighty dragon in a single blow. It may seem odd that one with dragon blood carries such a weapon, but it is not something she will even draw without due need. Dragon Slaughter Ascalon is devastatingly powerful, vaporizing the target on impact in an enormous blast of magical energy, but it is also taxing and can cause considerably collateral damage in addition to Lila's usual reluctance to actually use it.
• Skills: Lila is extremely competent and knowledgeable when it comes to the rules of effectively any game in existence. But this is practically required of anyone of the Dragonblood who still serves as part of Nova Terra's nobility. She is a remarkably competent fighter, though not the most skilled among anyone who has ever been a part of Silver Sun.
• Backstory: Lila was born among the Dragonblood, and naturally served as part of Nova Terra's administration of Nova Challenges. Eventually, she came to be part of Silver Sun, and grew attached to the community and was happy to be one of its members. Unfortunately, she has seen the community fall apart, and have all of its strongest members killed or torn away by challenges. Even she has been an intended target... Finally, desperate to save Silver Sun, she has sent letters beyond the world of Nova Terra, into other universes...
• Origin: Native

[Crimson Paladin]

Here's my completed submission.

Star-gazing Warlock

Name: Augis

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Appearance: Unknowable ones from beyond the stars, hear my pact and lend me your power!

Personality:
Augis is a seeker of truths. He wants to know how the universe ticks, and why Nova Terra seems to tick differently. He wishes to gain insight into the unknown, and understand the uncomprehended, but he is not a fool. Augis knows the risks of delving too deeply into things beyond man's ability to perceive, and the dangers that the unknowable beings from beyond can pose, thus believes it is best to take it slowly than risk his mind being destroyed. If anything, his limited knowledge of his patron makes him all the more terrified of such beings, and he dreads the prospect of ever meeting one in person.

His pact with a being from beyond was not solely to sate curiosity, however. He cares deeply about his home, and has watched as more and more were taken from it as others took advantage of Silver Sun's weakness and misfortune. The only hope for the fallen kingdom's survival, he believes, is with the aid of those from beyond Nova Terra. Those beings may be terrifying, incomprehensible to human minds, and unknowable in their intentions, but they are at least far removed from the predatory politics of Nova Terra...he thinks.

In person distrustful of outsiders, especially those native to his world. Silver Sun's neighbors are nothing but opportunistic predators, and those beyond the world are unknown, possibly unknowable, wild cards. At the same time, Augis is aware that having faith in outside help is Silver Sun's only hope for survival

Abilities:
Warlock's Pact:
Augis has struck a deal with a powerful cosmic being and has been granted many powers. His contact with the entity has affected his mind, causing him to be immune to telepathic or psychic attacks from mortal beings, but at the same time it has become attuned to the whispers of his patron- and those of any related or similar beings. He is capable of casting a number of spells that touch the minds of others, suchas charm, suggestion, and telepathic sendings. Additionally, his pact has granted Augis a few special powers that do not expend his own mana:

Eldritch Blast- Augis fires a powerful magic beam at his foe. He can optionally choose for the beam to knock its target back.

Disguise Self- Augis casts an illusion upon himself to appear as somebody or something else. It does not alter his voice, however.

Levitate- Augis can suspend someone- or himself- in the air.

Skills:
Eldritch Lore
Both through his own studies and communing with beings from beyond, he has obtained not-inconsiderable knowledge of eldritch matters.

Universal Interpreter
As part of his pact, Augis can read any written text.

Telescope and lens crafting
Augis was taught by his father to craft and maintain telescopes, and knows how to craft all the necessary parts, including the glass lenses. He can produce lenses for other purposes, as long as he knows the needed dimensions.

Astronomer
Augis is learned in the field of astronomy, and the associated mathematics.

Backstory:
Augis was the son of an astronomer who lived in Silver Sun. He was brought up to follow in his father's footsteps of charting the stars and determining the laws that govern the universe. He was taught mathematics, learned how to build and maintain telescopes, and when necessary, navigate using the stars. When he was 17, his father died, but Augis continued to carry on his legacy, observing the cosmos and making calculations. One thing perplexed him, however- he could not make his calculations add up. The laws that more less consistently governed much of what he observed did not seem to apply to Nova Terra. No matter how he tried, he couldn't make the math work out. Finally, he made a breakthrough- he observed something in the night sky that behaved similarly anomalously. He built a more powerful telescope to observe it, hoping that it'd lend insight into his own world. When he observed it, something gazed back at him and sent whispers into his mind.

Terrified, Augis smashed his telescope to pieces and for the next few weeks, he could not even bring himself to look into the night sky. As time passed, curiosity eroded his fear, and he began studying what he had found. He traveled to other communities to learn all he could of what he had made contact with. He traveled from place to place, studying these unknowable beings. As he learned more, the prospect of forming a pact with whatever he saw became more tempting. He was not blind to the plight of his home community, and here he had found something seemingly removed from the vicious politics of this world with no stake in the further debasement of Silver Sun. He built a new telescope and began observing the corner of the cosmos where that...thing resided. Soon enough, it noticed Augis, and with the knowledge he learned, he struck a pact with it for power.

For the next several years, Augis endeavored to develop his newfound powers and deepen the pact in hope of gaining even more power. He served as a mercenary with various communities, and made contact with others who had struck similar bargains. He occasionally got into trouble or associated with the wrong people, and it isn't a coincidence that he has focused on obtaining powers useful for keeping less enlightened folk from skewering him. During this time, he also witnessed firsthand the gruesome consequences of delving too deeply into or associating too closely with the unknowable things beyond the stars, lessons that he has taken to heart. When he felt that his powers had developed sufficiently, he returned home to Silver Sun, now even more diminished than it was when he left, and offered his services in hopes of helping to save it.

Origin: Nova Terra

[MonkeyBusiness]

Just a WIP and hopefully holds the spot for an Isekai character.

Rina WIP

• Name: Rina Yamasaki
• Age: 25
• Gender: Female
• Race: Human
• Appearance: "Promise, you chose the right person."
• Personality: Rina is an open book who wears her emotions on her face. She is not very good at telling lies as people can tell as her face will give her away and makes her way to honest of a person. She is embarrassed by the fact that someone in her line of work is not able to keep a straight face most of the time and generally hides behind a mask when dealing with other people. It takes some time for Rina to trust other people and is cautious until she can warm up to them and become friendly. Rina is matter of fact with people that she has just met and people that want to use her skills, but towards those that she considers to be friends she is kind and willing to help them out without anything in return.
• Abilities: Rina was not blessed with a flashy ability but for as long as she has known she has had superhuman speed and strength. She is able to move faster than most other people in reflex as well as natural movements and her mental processing speed seems to be heightened as well. She is stronger than everyone that she met back on her own world and is able to punch through steel with ease and swing her sword with enough force to cut through most obstacles. Rina has an artificial arm from the elbow down on her left arm which was specially built to withstand her increased strength and speed along with her favorite sword that appears to be near indestructible.
• Skills:
• Backstory:
• Origin: Isekai

[VitaVitaAR]

@MonkeyBusiness: I'll wait until she's done to provide full judgement.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Crimson Paladin: Accepted.

[HereComesTheSnow]

No issues with people from modernity or futuristic worlds, right? I've a few ideas floating around, but they're kinda trending in that direction at present. Additionally, do powersets need to be baked into the backstory, or are they allowed as "something gained in the shift" I.E. "my power is that the usual gun I tote now has unlimited rounds and doesn't need maintenance"?

EDIT: Never mind the second part looks like i can’t fucking read, preexisting powers are integral to the setup

[Randomness]

Alright, Attempt number two.

Warning: Long Back story.

Doric Alasdair the Fallen, Knight of Anguish

[TheFake]

After a lot of false starts...

Character Sheet

Name: Rook 'Cold Iron' Hollander, Commander
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance:

Personality:
Rook is patient and generous leader, each soldier under his command being a part owner in the legion. He get's deeply involved with people, but becomes cold in the midst of combat with the need to distance himself from his men and the consequences of his actions. As unsuitable as his compassion is for his profession, he strives to make the best of it, using strategies to minimize loss where possible.
Abilities:
Rimewind Blade: A near mythical sword given as a gift at the resolution of a campaign far to the north. Drawing the blade coats the wielder in supernaturally tough ice, protecting them from harm but still allowing movement. The ice is self repairing but because of the extreme cold it can only be used for relatively short periods of time.
Seers Gamble: a deck of cards hand painted on wood by Rook. They are black on one side and feature people, places or ideas on the other. By dealing a spread he can infer things about the subjects on the cards and their relationships to each other.
Skills:
Rook prides himself on his strategy and skill in command to lead himself to victory. He is also a match with a blade for any of his soldiers.
He is a skilled painter, having done the work on all of his cards himself.
He has picked up a myriad of other skills, ranging from agriculture to civil engineering by taking on side projects between conflicts and helping populations to recover after a costly war.
Backstory:
The world Rook is from world where professional, mercenary armies have supplanted standing armies for the nations of the world. These forces adhere to a chivalric code of professional conduct. They protect civilians, minimize damage to infrastructure and treat each other civilly.
Rook is the commander of the iron legion, versatile fighters that act as shock troops and skirmishers in their leather and chain armor. He came up through the ranks, showing competence and taking leadership when taking command and avoiding a rout after the death of the previous leader. He used his particular abilities to tremendous effect.
They take on jobs ranging from stand up warfare to simple law enforcement and tax collection.
Origin: Isekai

[HereComesTheSnow]

wait a minute

[VitaVitaAR]

I'll go through bios tomorrow, but I'm posting to let everybody know I'm aware of them!

[VitaVitaAR]

@TheFake: Accepted.

@Randomness: I'll look this over more shortly.

Also, aiming to start this by next week!

[Pyromania99]

Well, I'm here to put a character up! Tell me if anything needs changed, I'm open to it.

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Name: Aoife De Chuid Mag Mell

Age: Three hundred and some years

Gender: Female

Race: Dullahan (Fae)

Appearance:

Aoife

Personality:

On the surface, Aoife is somewhat aggressive person who is ready to fight anyone that challenges her. Her expressions are rather aggressive as well. Otherwise, she’s a rather kind person. When she encounters a lost person, she offers to lead them to safety. When she encounters a lost soul, she helps it with last requests within her ability before sending them off to Mag Mell.

Abilities:

Dullahan Anatomy: Dullahan have their head separated from their bodies. They can slightly move their head through a small amount of magic but they need to hold them to move it best of course. Their bodies can move independently of their head of course. When separated by a large distance, they can sense the head and move towards it. Luckily, it has a sort of radar to not bump into every little thing along the way.

Summon Spectral Horse: Dullahans have the ability to summon a spectral horse to ride around on.

Spirit Magic: Dullahans have the ability to collect souls of the dead or dying and therein communicate with them. That said, Dullahans have a reputation in that there are spells that these souls are used for which may or may not be true. People are wary of them for this.

Gold Burn: Dullahans have an innate weakness to gold, causing them to burn when exposed to it.

Skills:

Martial Weapons Proficiency: Aoife has practiced with weapons for many years for fun, for the most part as she has traveled Nova Terra. She has fought a number of skilled individuals and has become a rather infamous person in many circles not to mention the dungeons.

Smithing: Weapon wear is bad on someone that uses their weapons a lot much as Aoife does. She took a year or so of time to learn to smith from a dwarven smith since she heard they were the best in the industry. She learned that from another dwarf, of course.

In addition, she has some lesser skills. Riding, cooking, woodworking.

Backstory: Aoife is a Dullahan from the land of Mag Mall, a place that is considered a paradise. In truth, it is a land that houses the souls of the dead though it is true that the actual citizens of this land are treated well. Dullahan are those that collect spirits and souls and bring them to Mag Mell.

They are “born” fully grown or created through odd magics. Aoife was born a Dullahan. When they are born as such, they are required by the Royal Family to serve as soul collectors for one hundred years. After such service is over, they are allowed to do as the please within the borders. Most become nobles of sorts and are granted land to become knights of sorts.

Aoife, for her part, disliked that idea. As much as she loves her land of Mag Mell, she loves exploring the world outside her island more. She requested leave to the lands of Mag Mell to explore the rest of Nova Terra. She was granted it, as long as she delivered lost souls she found to Mag Mell. It was a sort of “you scratch my back, I scratch yours” deal to which Aoife agreed. Mag Mell was a better fate than being lost on the roadside, so there should be little issue here.

Now she travels the lands of Nova Terra as Adventurer and Soul Keeper. She travels on her spectral horse across the land, exploring and sightseeing. She also enjoys dungeon-diving for treasures, helping failing adventurers and recovering souls of the lost while she’s at it. This is what her life has mostly revolved around for the last 200 and some years.

She’s made some friends over this time and had even more people distrust her because of rumors of Dullahans, though she never lets this keep her down. While it’s not everyone who believes baseless rumors, it’s enough.

Origin: Nova Terra

[VitaVitaAR]

@Randomness: Declined. The perfect antimagic that absorbs all magical energy with no limit and buffs him with no limit is too much.

@Pyromania99: Accepted.

Expect the OP this week!

[RolePlayerRoxas]

This took a while to finish.

Swordgirl within

• Name: Muramasa "Kensei" Kamiko
• Age: 19
• Gender: Female
• Race: Human
• Appearance: Traditional swording garb

• Personality:
• A polite young woman that nevertheless gives off a feeling of being distant or detached from her surroundings, Kamiko tends to drift through her day-to-day activities, ruled by boredom. She may be immensely proud of her skill with the blade, but she can't deny it's made her battles rather bothersome and tedious. She no longer sees a point in training, and has thus developed some bad, laziness-related habits. And Speaking of bad habits, should Kamiko come across an enemy that seems capable of challenging her, it becomes her highest priority to duel that entity, regardless of circumstance.
  
  Whenever a topic happens to strike Kamiko's fancy, however, she can be quite excitable, almost childishly so. Obviously, sword-related discussions are the most likely to evoke this, but she has some other surprising interests, like sentai, or generic fantasy light novels. It's somewhere on her bucket list to finda spandex costume in the off-chance she woke up in an unfamiliar land, apparently.

• Abilities:
• Wielder of the demon blade, Juuchi Yosamu - The cursed blade passed down the Muramasa bloodline, this sword should never be drawn without the intent of drawing blood. When wielded, it grants a boost to the the user's physical capabilities, but consumes the user's blood in worryingly large quantities. Although this can be mitigated with the blood of her foes as well, it's unwise to use this for anything but a quick, preferably messy finish.
  Given the nature of this weapon, Kamiko also carries a normal katana with her, for general use.

• Skills:
• Unrivaled Sword Saint - In her world, Kamiko is known as a Kensei, or Sword Saint, due to her immense skill with the blade. She battles as if she can see her opponent's moves minutes in advance, and her strength and speed are overwhelming. Relatedly, Kamiko's actions in battle can be rather ludicrous, from blocking swings of a sword with her bare hands, to outright deflecting thrusts with the very tip of her sword.

• Backstory:
• The youngest of two siblings, Kamiko was born into the Muramasa family; once known for their renowned ability to create powerful, fearsome swords, it was now an affluent family of swordsmen. Kamiko had displayed great promise from an early age, thought to surpass her elder brother. Though she wasn't particularly interested in becoming the head of their family, Kamiko quite enjoyed training and sparring with her family or her house's students. By the time she was a young teen, she was said to be the strongest swordsman their house had ever produced.
  Her brother, however, died during a duel with another clan, trying and failing to properly utilise their cursed sword's power. His loss was mourned, though Kamiko felt no strong desire for revenge - as far as she was concerned, it was his own stupidity and lack of skill that led to his death. And now that she was next in line to become the head of the Muramasa family, she would simply have to ensure she was more than strong enough to wield it, if need be.
  Officially declared head at age sixteen, Kamiko has yet to lose a fight, or even draw the cursed blade passed down in her family. While amazing for their clan's reputation, it's done a real number on her ability to enjoy a duel.

• Origin: Isekai

[VitaVitaAR]

@RolePlayerRoxas: Accepted.

[Randomness]

@VitaVitaAR

The point of the armor is to stop magic from being used against him. All other forms of combat will work. It increases the characters survivability, yes, but it’s not impenetrable or indestructible. In the backstory it appears that way because he was facing against opponents who weren’t equipped with like-powered magical equipment.

The main inspiration was to have a character that magic would not work against. The buffs provided are temporary, and dissipate when the fighting is done if there was any fighting. Otherwise, he’s just not affected by magic. The initial boost the armor provides is there to put him a step above your standard knight in armor.

I see it story-wise as at first potential opponents see how strong he can be when magic is used against him and as the story unfolds, start to either come up with other strategies without magic or use more martial challengers.

If you have any suggestions to make the character more acceptable, I'll see what I can do. I mainly want a character that punishes opponents that think only using magic as their “be all, end all” strategy. At the same time, I don’t want him to suffer from the common “I’ll overload him” trope. Theoretically, he is only as strong as the magic used against him. If there is a way we can compromise, I would be appreciative.

[Raineh Daze]

It feels like the obvious problem of taking everything that can ever be used under magic and parcelling it into a little black box that you go and hard counter. Whilst being utterly incompetent when faced with like... a mechanical dragon using no magic at all.

It's not an ability that forces adaptation; it's one that forces the entire magical world to not use magic at all. It's not exciting. It's not balanced. It's a plot headache.

[Randomness]

@Raineh Daze

I can see your point. I don't want to completely shut out magic with his interactions. I want to make it hard to use it effectively against him while making him worthy as a person the desparate people of the Silver Sun would call upon. This way seemed like a good fit that could use story telling as well as mechanics to deal with. I have thought of several ways you could counter him while still using magic. The armor would protect him from direct magic, meaning magic attacks, or nullify enchantments at the time of impact without removing them entirely. However, if you were to throw a rock at him propelled by magic, or if you set a field on fire (normal fire anyway), or if you broke the ground underneath him then the armor would be much less effective. He is also still susceptible to other environmental changes such as heat, cold, dust, fog, etc.

Using magical fire as an example: Lets say this magic fire cannot be extinguished, burns really hot, and will stick to anything. The armor would protect him from being burned by it if use directly against him, extinguish if thrown against him, and he would probably feel little heat. However, if the fire is use around him like as a deterrent, or trap him in a room and that is set on fire using it, then he would not be able to put it out, it'd continue to burn even if he stepped on it, the armor taking any damage that might have caused, and he would feel the heat put out by the flames. He would not be burned by touching the fire, he'd be burned because he is really close to a heat source.

EDIT: reworded part of first Paragraph.

[Pyromania99]

Yay~ Put Aoife in the character tab!