[OOC] Crystallis

"All is not as it may seem, your life is little but a dream"

-Asra

[Maglar]

Welcome to the world of Crystallis!

A fantasy adventure where you can play any number of characters from:

• Oracle: one of the chosen who awaken in this world with a destiny to save it.
• Person of the Realm: one of the people who live in this world and desire to save it along with the Oracles.
• Evil Lieutenant: One of Draygon's evil lieutenants who desire chaos, destruction, and suffering. Their job is to stop the Oracles from succeeding.
• Incredible Beasts: The world is filled with incredible beasts of your own creation, choose your beast and aid either the Oracles or the Lieutenants, save the world or destroy the world, the choice is yours.
• Whatever your imagination can create, I'm willing to work with you to create something or someone whom you desire to be.

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The world of Crystallis is fluid, powers and abilities can vary greatly, this RP is open to imaginative play.
However, there are some rules.

• I play Draygon, the BBEG, and I play Wizards who are spread throughout the world. I also play the challenges and monsters who exist to help you grow. Lastly I play Asra, an enigmatic entity that can communicate with the Oracles and help guide them on their quest.
• There are magical swords of elemental capability. The Oracles are made to wield the swords and they are found at specific villages throughout the world. If you don't like the sword you have you can trade it with another player or find another sword.
• All lieutenants will have a weakness against the swords, some more than others. If a lieutenant finds one of the swords then they can use it, the Oracles are not protected against the power of the swords.
• Creative characters and abilities are welcome, however they have to be approved before you can post in IC so that we can prevent any over powered peoples.

Contact me or post in the OOC if you want to play. This RP is meant to be fun and easy, a stress reliever at the end of the day with little rules other than to respect each other and do good work.

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There is a Discord chat thread HERE but you don't have to join the chat to play, I know some people don't like to use Discord.

[shadowsaint007]

Would this setting be based on this game?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystalis

Also, will the game be here or on the Discord server?

[Maglar]

This game will be played here, the Discord is for chat and prep.

Yes, and good work finding the game, it was one of my favorites growing up and one of the first adventure RPGs I ever played all the way through. This world is loosely based on the game. The wizards guarding the swords, Draygon, and the weapon system in the floating tower are major plot motivators. The lieutenants are new, based on letting people play the villain if they like. There will be more than 4 wizards and swords, and a bigger world to play in.

I'm also taking notes from this game: Ultima: Quest of the Avatar From which I plan on pulling the character classes for the people of the world that you guys can play, however I'm sorry to say that I haven't gotten that part up yet. Expect to see a list in the character section soon.

I posted in the OOC without everything being completely put together, I could've put this in the Interest section, but I like to feel like I'm building, and I would love to build collaboratively with you all.

[shadowsaint007]

This game will be played here, the Discord is for chat and prep.

Yes, and good work finding the game, it was one of my favorites growing up and one of the first adventure RPGs I ever played all the way through. This world is loosely based on the game. The wizards guarding the swords, Draygon, and the weapon system in the floating tower are major plot motivators. The lieutenants are new, based on letting people play the villain if they like. There will be more than 4 wizards and swords, and a bigger world to play in.

I'm also taking notes from this game: Ultima: Quest of the Avatar From which I plan on pulling the character classes for the people of the world that you guys can play, however I'm sorry to say that I haven't gotten that part up yet. Expect to see a list in the character section soon.

I posted in the OOC without everything being completely put together, I could've put this in the Interest section, but I like to feel like I'm building, and I would love to build collaboratively with you all.

@Maglar

Mostly because a) I don't live in America, so a Discord live RP would be pointless for me, and b) I can at least understand the general setting. And looking forwards to the classes, though I'll have to check if I have time.

[Ponn]

This looks interesting.

I think I might give it a shot.

[Maglar]

@shadowsaint007@Ponn I really appreciate the interest guys, I'll have information in the character section in the next couple of days so make sure you subscribe to the thread and once we have a couple of characters put together we can begin role-playing. This is a casual thread so we don't need a huge amount of depth It just consistency and reliability.

[Ponn]

Okay, sounds good.

I'll get to work on a tentative CS, and hopefully have it ready by tomorrow.

[Maglar]

Sorry I don't have all the character classes up yet, I've got them started in the 0th post but there's a lot to fill in, I should have them complete in the next day or so.

Also, if you have a character you want to play I can work them into my character scheme, so don't worry about being limited by the templates I am putting up.

[shadowsaint007]

Could you put another invite? I couldn't access Discord earlier.

[Maglar]

discord.gg/7prk9N

Here is the naked link, I hope I works

And the character classes are up, you are not limited to play these classes but there they are for your enjoyment.

[Maglar]

Sword descriptions with accessories are posted, character sheet requests are up. The character sheet is as simple as a picture and a description of how you'd like to play your character. For Persons of the World you can formulate a complete history and fully realized character.

Once a few persons have committed their interest and manifested a character I will post a kicker IC post which will encapsulate the moment when the Oracles awaken and set the villains to play.

Thank you for your interest, this program has been brought to by players like you :)

[shadowsaint007]

Here's my character sheet:

Sarah

Name: Sarah
"Class": Oracle
Description:

Appearance

Sarah is a slender girl with bright green eyes and soft, shoulder-length pink hair and pale, almost alabaster skin. She stand at about 5'4" (162.6 cm) and weighs 100 lbs (45.3 kg). She has a curious glint in her eyes, and tends to see everything as though for the first time.

Personality:
Sarah is a warm, compassionate soul, always worried about other peoples' welfare and willing to go to any length to protect them. Despite her lack of social experience with the world, she can tell when people are being hurt or abused, and will try and ease their suffering any way she can.

Due to mostly being a blank state, the world around her entices her curiosity, and she will try to learn as much about it as possible. She will try and know more any new sensations or experiences she might encounter, giving her the feeling of a wide-eyed newborn child eagerly gawping at the beautiful world around them.

Her lack of experience with the world means she's also very naïve and clueless about current events or about certain social cues or behaviors that more worldly people would pick up easily. She does have a general sense of social decency and behavior, but the nuances or subtler plays are a bit beyond her experience, and a cunning operator can out-think her until she catches on.

However, despite this, one should not push her too far. She is still an Oracle, and programmed with combat skills and powerful abilities, and can end up fighting back rather tenaciously when she or those she cares about are threatened.

RP Notes:
Sarah is basically a blank slate, one with little to no knowledge of the outside world, and must learn more about it to survive and complete her destined mission. Fortunately, she does have a certain amount of combat skills programmed into her, allowing her to fight competently and survive long enough to get stronger.

Sarah's main virtues are compassion and empathy, the ability to feel for those around her, and a strong desire to reduce their suffering and help them find happiness.

Role-wise, Sarah would lean towards a mage-knight with an emphasis on magic and healing. While she is still an Oracle, she prefers to use magic and healing to support her allies in battle and help them out of battle.

Will edit when the full CS template - assuming it isn't already and I'm completely clueless to notice it.

[Ponn]

Here's my tentative CS-

Stephanie

Name: Stephanie Anderson

Class: Oracle/Sleeper

Appearance:

Steph

Steph is an average looking fifteen-year-old girl, if a bit on the small side. She has short, black hair and piercing blue eyes.

Personality:

Steph is usually quiet and soft-spoken, preferring to silently observe a situation, rather than impetuously rush into the unknown, a trait that should serve her well in her current circumstances. When it comes to her areas of interest (science/technology/learning about the stranger facets of her new world), she can get very intense and focused. She is also quite inquisitive, but she never allows her fascination with something to compromise her sense of caution. She has always loved computers, robotics and technology in general, and is very skilled when it comes to working with it. Naturally, she is very distressed by the current, primitive, state of the world. She is very much a fish out of temporal water, and this has a major impact on how she views the world and interacts with its inhabitants.

History:

The brilliant daughter of two equally brilliant scientists, Stephanie’s genius was recognized at an early age, and by the time she turned fifteen, she already had her first doctorate. She routinely assisted her renowned parents with their work, and was well on her way to becoming one of the world’s brightest minds. Unfortunately, that world would soon come to a cataclysmic end… As the world of science and progress crumbled around her, Stephanie’s parents hastily worked to ensure her survival. She was given a series of highly experimental genetic enhancements, coupled with an equally experimental cybernetic nanotech control system, and placed in a cryonic stasis chamber. Since their facility was located deep underground, and hardened against even the strongest forms of attack, her parents hoped that she would be safe until the world was once again hospitable to human life. Promising Steph that they would join her in stasis shortly, her parents sealed her chamber and hoped for the best.

Abilities:

Enhanced Physical Attributes- Besides her genius-level intellect, Steph has received extensive genetic enhancement, making her stronger, faster, and more resilient than a normal human. Her senses are also much more acute.

Nanite Swarm- In addition, she has access to a small swarm of nanites, which she can control with the use of a cybernetic implant. These nanomachines are limited to performing minor to moderate healing on herself or others (only one person at a time), as well as providing information and manipulating anything made of metal (although in the future, they may be able to expand their capabilities further). The inhabitants of this backwards time will probably consider this to be magic.

Equipment:

Steph was sealed in her cryochamber with nothing other than the pictured outfit.

There was a rather large supply of advanced weapons and survival equipment at the complex in which Steph’s cryo chamber is located, but the state of them after the indeterminately long amount of time she has been asleep is anyone’s guess…

RP Notes:

Steph's story is one of coming to terms with her new world and finding her place in it. She is (at least initally) completely alone in what seems to her like a primitive, alien world. At first, she is understandably overwhelmed by her situation, seeing the inhabitants of this new world as little more than backwards savages, but as she begins to learn more, she starts seeing them in a better light, and eventually comes to greatly respect them and the civilization they have built.

While at the start, she might look down on the People of the Realm, she doen't do this out of hatred, but out of a mixture of pity and dissapointment. She hates the fact that the world is so primitive, and wants to do her part to restore at least some of the technology of her original time. Despite this unintentional air of suprioirity, Steph is still a kind person at heart, and one who is always willing to help others.

[gummiecandies]

Can I be a incredible beast?..
I don't know why, I just wanna be one.

[Maglar]

@gummiecandies absolutely! Create a character sheet with a Picture, a description including but not limited too personality, and how you want to play the beast

[Maglar]

@shadowsaint007@Ponn

Character sheets look great, I added some CS templates to the Oth post in the Char section, don't worry about adjusting your own sheet to match what I posted there.

The only thing to change about your sheets: Add one individual section for Abilities and one for Equipment. As we go through the adventure you'll pick up both and we will need to keep track.

[Hazelrah]

-withdrawn-

sorry I don't think I'll be able to commit to this after all, have fun!

[shadowsaint007]

At @@Maglar 's request, here's the CS for Jabberwocky:

Jabberwocky

Name: Jabberwocky

Appearance

Human Form


Beast Form

Physical Description:

Human:
A tall, athletic man who spends most of his time under robes, making it hard to get a good look at him. Those who do manage more than a peak would note he's strangely handsome and chiseled in appearance, but that his smile feels 'off' and disturbing somehow, particularly as it never seems to reach his eyes. He is estimated to be 6'1" and roughly 170 lbs. Under his hood, he has rust brown hair and brown eyes with a hint of either orange or red around the rim of the irises.
Monster:
In beast form, Jabberwocky is a monstrous draconic being with long, sharp claws, cruel fangs, and a burning wrath in his fire-orange eyes.
His face is almost piscine, like some primordial beast from the depths, but the rest of him is evocative of the tales of dragons. He is 65' from tip of the tail to his muzzle, is about 9' at the shoulder, and has a wingspan of 63'. His weight is unknown, but estimated to be 10 tonnes.

Class: Lieutenant (Lt.) of Draygon

History: (To be filled in)

Abilities:

Human Form:
While being in human form limits the range of his abilities, he nonetheless possesses a considerable array of skills and abilities that make him a formidable opponent:

• Hand to Hand Combat: Even in human form, he is a dangerous and accomplished adversary, not needing to switch to his more powerful form to dispatch most of his foolish opponents. He is equally skilled in barehanded combat and swordsmanship, and is incredibly strong and tough for a human. Approach with caution at all times.
• Assassin's skills: Sometimes you need to kill a foe before he even realizes you're there. Jabberwocky is surprisingly light on his feet, and can use his dagger to silence foes in the shadows.
• Healing: While the art of healing is not as gratifying as the ability to crush your foes and drink in their laments, Jabberwocky nonetheless has learned some respect for it. After all, one might need to patch oneself up after a nasty fight with a surprisingly tenacious enemy.
• Phasing: Jabberwocky can use his magic to phase through walls, allowing him to infiltrate fortresses and sanctums with impunity, and making him even more dangerous as an assassin. However, there are limits to this ability, as he cannot simply phase through a mountain or go deep underground lest he get trapped and suffocate.
• Transformation: As with all of Draygon's Lieutenants, he can transform into his Beast Form, becoming an even more formidable foe.

Beast Form:

• Flight: Those wings of his aren't for show. They allow him to fly great distances and with considerable speed.
• Immense Strength: While he is very strong in human form, he is nothing short of monstrously strong in dragon form, capable of grabbing and tossing tossing humans with minimal effort, as though they were toys.
• Razor-sharp claws and teeth: With razor-sharp teeth and claws, Jabberwocky can rend and tear humans to shreds, and can even create great gashes in stone and rock.

Equipment:

• Assassin dagger, poisoned blade.
• Alchemist's kit for poisons and chemical study
• A tome of notes and secrets.

RP Notes: (To be filled in.)

JabberWocky

Jabberwocky

BY LEWIS CARROLL

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Source: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983)

[shadowsaint007]

Updated Character sheet with the given template.

Sarah

Appearance

Name: Sarah

Physical Description:
Sarah is a slender girl with bright green eyes and soft, shoulder-length pink hair and pale, almost alabaster skin. She stand at about 5'4" (162.6 cm) and weighs 100 lbs (45.3 kg). She has a curious glint in her eyes, and tends to see everything as though for the first time.

Class: Oracle

Personality:
Sarah is a warm, compassionate soul, always worried about other peoples' welfare and willing to go to any length to protect them. Despite her lack of social experience with the world, she can tell when people are being hurt or abused, and will try and ease their suffering any way she can.

Due to mostly being a blank state, the world around her entices her curiosity, and she will try to learn as much about it as possible. She will try and know more any new sensations or experiences she might encounter, giving her the feeling of a wide-eyed newborn child eagerly gawping at the beautiful world around them.

Her lack of experience with the world means she's also very naïve and clueless about current events or about certain social cues or behaviors that more worldly people would pick up easily. She does have a general sense of social decency and behavior, but the nuances or subtler plays are a bit beyond her experience, and a cunning operator can out-think her until she catches on.

However, despite this, one should not push her too far. She is still an Oracle, and programmed with combat skills and powerful abilities, and can end up fighting back rather tenaciously when she or those she cares about are threatened.

History:
Sarah recalls nothing of her past, practically having been 'born' to the world with the opening of her case.

Abilities:

• Enhanced physical attributes: As an Oracle and genetically engineered being, Sarah possesses a certain amount of enhanced strength, increased agility, and improved durability and stamina, as well as a small measure of enhanced senses. However, the emphasis are on stamina and agility, making her a poor choice for a heavy fighter.
• Healing: Aside from no small skill at normal healing, she possesses the ability to heal injuries and wounds almost instantly. Currently, she's still learning how to use this power, so she can heal mild injuries and cuts.
• Protective 'magic': Sarah can use her 'magic' to protect her allies by casting a small, protective halo to absorb some of the damage that hits them.

Equipment:
Sarah barely has anything beyond the shirt on her back and a few items and supplies given to her by her mysterious caretaker.

RP Notes:
Sarah is basically a blank slate, one with little to no knowledge of the outside world, and must learn more about it to survive and complete her destined mission. Fortunately, she does have a certain amount of combat skills programmed into her, allowing her to fight competently and survive long enough to get stronger.

Sarah's main virtues are compassion and empathy, the ability to feel for those around her, and a strong desire to reduce their suffering and help them find happiness.

Role-wise, Sarah would lean towards a mage-knight with an emphasis on magic and healing. While she is still an Oracle, she prefers to use magic and healing to support her allies in battle and help them out of battle.

[Ponn]

Ditto-

Stephanie

Name: Stephanie Anderson

Class: Oracle/Sleeper

Appearance:

Steph

Steph is an average looking fifteen-year-old girl, if a bit on the small side. She has short, black hair and piercing blue eyes.

Personality:

Steph is usually quiet and soft-spoken, preferring to silently observe a situation, rather than impetuously rush into the unknown, a trait that should serve her well in her current circumstances. When it comes to her areas of interest (science/technology/learning about the stranger facets of her new world), she can get very intense and focused. She is also quite inquisitive, but she never allows her fascination with something to compromise her sense of caution. She has always loved computers, robotics and technology in general, and is very skilled when it comes to working with it. Naturally, she is very distressed by the current, primitive, state of the world. She is very much a fish out of temporal water, and this has a major impact on how she views the world and interacts with its inhabitants.

History:

The brilliant daughter of two equally brilliant scientists, Stephanie’s genius was recognized at an early age, and by the time she turned fifteen, she already had her first doctorate. She routinely assisted her renowned parents with their work, and was well on her way to becoming one of the world’s brightest minds. Unfortunately, that world would soon come to a cataclysmic end… As the world of science and progress crumbled around her, Stephanie’s parents hastily worked to ensure her survival. She was given a series of highly experimental genetic enhancements, coupled with an equally experimental cybernetic nanotech control system, and placed in a cryonic stasis chamber. Since their facility was located deep underground, and hardened against even the strongest forms of attack, her parents hoped that she would be safe until the world was once again hospitable to human life. Promising Steph that they would join her in stasis shortly, her parents sealed her chamber and hoped for the best.

Abilities:

Enhanced Physical Attributes- Besides her genius-level intellect, Steph has received extensive genetic enhancement, making her stronger, faster, and more resilient than a normal human. Her senses are also much more acute.

Nanite Swarm- In addition, she has access to a small swarm of nanites, which she can control with the use of a cybernetic implant. These nanomachines are limited to performing minor to moderate healing on herself or others (only one person at a time), as well as providing information and manipulating anything made of metal (although in the future, they may be able to expand their capabilities further). The inhabitants of this backwards time will probably consider this to be magic.

Equipment:

Steph was sealed in her cryochamber with nothing other than the pictured outfit.

There was a rather large supply of advanced weapons and survival equipment at the complex in which Steph’s cryo chamber is located, but the state of them after the indeterminately long amount of time she has been asleep is anyone’s guess…

RP Notes:

Steph's story is one of coming to terms with her new world and finding her place in it. She is (at least initally) completely alone in what seems to her like a primitive, alien world. At first, she is understandably overwhelmed by her situation, seeing the inhabitants of this new world as little more than backwards savages, but as she begins to learn more, she starts seeing them in a better light, and eventually comes to greatly respect them and the civilization they have built.

While at the start, she might look down on the People of the Realm, she doen't do this out of hatred, but out of a mixture of pity and dissapointment. She hates the fact that the world is so primitive, and wants to do her part to restore at least some of the technology of her original time. Despite this unintentional air of suprioirity, Steph is still a kind person at heart, and one who is always willing to help others.