Silver Gate Academy - Interest Check [Negima inspired magic school RP]

[Sho Minazuki]

@stone There is an overarching plot yes. But for the most part, these arcs will be for learning more about the world and such.

[Sho Minazuki]

Oh yes. A unique opportunity for anyone here who can speak multiple languages.

Incantations can be done in any language as long as intent and meaning remains the same or is close enough.

There'll be more info on incantations revealed through classes so pay attention.

[stone]

@Sho Minazuki

Time to find the densest word-to-meaning language lol

[Letter Bee]

I might not have the time for this RP, sadly.

[Sho Minazuki]

@stone I mainly recommend it if you already speak another language.

@Letter Bee Understandable, you got a lot on your plate afterall

[Sho Minazuki]

@stone@Anakin@Ithradine@ERode

The Skill System is generally done now. More than enough to get started with at least, but do remember if there are problems along the way I can modify it.

You can also find the whole thing in the Character Sheet section.

Skill System

SKILL SYSTEM

The purpose of skills is to be an indicator of the knowledge that you have attained, not necessarily the techniques you know or the spells you can cast. Anyone can learn the incantation of a spell, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they can cast it. Simply put, having Skills simply means you are knowledgeable of it, and knowledge is the first step. Once you have knowledge, Techniques and Spells related to that skill become open for you to learn and use.

To learn Skills, you will be required to spend points. The general costs are as below.

• Major Skills. These can cost 3, 5, or 7 skill points, depending on the skill.
  
  • Standard Skills [3 points] These are accessible by anyone.
  • Advanced Skills [5 points] These are compound skills that require prerequisites.
  • Secret Skills [7 points] These only become available under special circumstances.
• Minor Skills cost 2 points to learn.
• Mastery Skills. This requires you to have a Level 3 skill, and the effect is different depending on if it is Magic, or a Martial Art. A Mastery cannot be upgraded, but multiple can be acquired with every 3 levels in the Major Skill. The cost for Mastery is only equal to the Learn cost for the Major Skill it is from.

Skills can also be upgraded, and the upgrade cost increases as the level gets higher.

• Major Skills
  
  • Upgrading from Level 1 to 2 costs equal to the cost of learning it. (eg. If the Major skill costs 5 to learn, then it will cost 5 to upgrade)
  • Upgrading from Level 2 to 3 costs double the previous cost. (eg. If it cost 5 to upgrade to 2, then it costs 10 to upgrade it to 3)
  • Upgrading to level 4 and beyond costs the same as the Level 2 to 3. This can be done continuously.
• Minor Skills
  
  • Modifiers and Training skills cost only 2 points to upgrade no matter the level.

Final Note. Minor and Major skills can be leveled to at max level 99. The effects or benefit for having very high level Major Skills is in obtaining a wider tree, while high level Minor Skills is expanding or enhancing what it is you have. Some Minor Skills scale with level (eg. Multiplier modifier may multiply your spells by far more with a higher level).

[Floch]

I will put all my skill into Megumin's explosion.

[Sho Minazuki]

@Anakin A bold strategy to be sure.

[FlappyTheSpybot]

Very tentative interest.

What kind of RP are we looking at here, what with all the stats. Will there be dice?

[Sho Minazuki]

@FlappyTheSpybot I'm trying to avoid the use of dice, but I won't disallow it.

If a spell or some other factor you're using is down to chance, then feel free, otherwise I'd like to minimize it's usage.

All the numbers are mainly for creating a character, and are reference to which you can figure out if x is stronger/weaker than y.

[Floch]

@Sho Minazuki my man. I sent ya PM about character types didn't I.

[Sho Minazuki]

Well I've answered that now.

That said if anyone has questions or wants some help, feel free to send me a message.

[stone]

Ya, sorry about slow responses, just comin up with stuff :)

[Sho Minazuki]

To help out I'll try get two or three teachers done over the week.

[Sho Minazuki]

If anyone wants to see one of the teachers. You can find his spells in the Spell Compendium under the Arctic Ash tab. It won't be all of his spells, but they are the ones unique to him.

Teacher for Commerce and Business, Economics in Highschool

Name: Kreydon Ashcroft
Age: 32
Race: Beastkin, Snow Leopard
Nationality: Northern Tundra, Country of Crystis Talon
Overview: The esteemed professor of the business and commerce studies, quite a popular man among women, but only until they work with him. His policies and ethics are ruthless in efficiency and effectiveness, making him a difficult man to keep up with, as such it can be expected that those who study and train closely under him are just as skilled as he is. He is a master of ice magic, summoning, rituals, swordsmanship, and bartitsu.

Tier: Master

Combat Data: Kreydon is a master of general ice magic, as well as his family's brand of it. He has a distinction in his ability to summon, as well as some light necromancy skill, allowing him to create allies in combat. It makes him a decent yet very strict teacher when teaching magic, and as a result of his summoning and necromancy skill, will often forgo fighting himself, leaving his summons and reanimations to do the work. Not to say his CQC abilities are bad, in fact they're excellent, and often catch many of his opponents off-guard when they finally fight through his minions.

[Sho Minazuki]

@stone@Anakin@Ithradine@ERode

Locations has been added to the first post, as well as more locations for Arcanis Mundus.

EDIT: I feel there's almost enough to start up a proper OOC, so we can expect that this week.

[Ithradine]

Spring break is here for me so I'll be able to work on making my CS

[Sho Minazuki]

@Ithradine If you're still intending on the elf I'll need to give you the details.

Then again elves aren't completely unknown. So I can sum it up here.

Elves are exceedingly rare but not extinct. Their home is unknown and the only elves people ever see are ones separated from their clans. Elves are an ancient race with highly dense mana flowing through their bodies giving them natural resistance to near immunity to disruptive or altering magicks like poison and confusion, but also the cost of magic to elves is trivial.

Since you're a student, you'll likely be an elf under protection of someone within the school, someone who is separated from their clan, or the child of one who was separated. Your protector is either assigned, or is your guardian from the magical world. The rare biology of elves make them a very tempting subject, usually for extraction of their blood which is incredibly rich in mana, and has special properties in alchemy.

An elf from a hidden clan will be the focus of one arc.

[Ithradine]

@Sho Minazuki

I am still interested in playing an elf but if it would flow better for the story I can play something else.

My concept for my character was that she was a princess of an Elven kingdom/country where there was an assassination attempt on her family's lives, with her being the sole survivor. She was born blind at birth but with the ability to 'see" the aura of living things through magic. One of her abilities is to read people's emotions through touch which can evolve into telepathy/mind reading far down the line. Her magic is focused primarily on buffs and healing, with AoE spells being her only true combat magic. In she finds herself in a physical fight, she uses a weapon with a wide-arc to compensate for her lack of sight.

[Sho Minazuki]

With the amount of years that have passed since elves disappeared as a dominant race, the royalty angle would be quite difficult unless you were thousands of years old. Though I can say such a character can exist as an inner clan member, in fact such a character is part of the elves arc.

Anyways yes, something else might be easier to do.