[OOC] Broken Empire (Asian/Wuxia/Martial Arts Roleplay)

[Fabricant451]

Raineh Daze said
An attack named tequila Sunrise, though?

There was a wrestler who had a finishing move called Tequila Sunrise.

[TJByrum]

I ain't against it... ;)

[Raineh Daze]

Don't look like a drunken master, though. XD

[Fabricant451]

Is that Id the Demon of Elru :O

[Raineh Daze]

To the best of my knowledge, it's Hong Meiling.

... this time I will probably not make the character blind.

[Fabricant451]

Hong Meiling looks like a Rule 63 version of Id, the Demon of Elru. Or at least that image does.

Which is totally cool with me. Id is totally hoss.

[Raineh Daze]

And behold, the character whose very name includes booze!

... there's multiple versions if you want eyesight. XD

Name: Huan Baijiu
Age: 27
Gender: Female

Image

Belongings: Well, her clothes are really nice. That's about it.
Martial Art Style: Drunken Fist: an extremely well-earned name. Even when Baijiu is sober, it may as well not be, since she practices a style that just seems to be... bits of everything, strung together in a way that makes it nigh impossible to tell what's going to come next as she just won't stick to one stance. In the long run, this is only going to get worse as she poaches more and more off the styles around her.
For some bizarre reason, it does work better drunk, probably because literal unpredictability is added into the already baffling cocktail of styles. And also because the martial artist in question is very good at holding her drink and pretending to be more drunk than she is.
Chi Abilities: She may as well have a chi radar, and the stronger you are, the more likely she is to notice you immediately. This is doubtless useful for someone who's actually blind. Not so useful for someone blind is her ability to just dump chi into an alarming rainbow-like projectile. It rather... hurts, and is possibly the bluntest use of the stuff conceivable: make ball, whack person with it. She's been working on more subtle stuff... but her progress with that just seems to vary the size of the sphere people are getting assaulted with.
She decided to call that Tequila Sunrise for... some reason.

Personality: Baijiu is arrogant and combative. There's not that much room for serene contemplation of the universe, or exercise for exercise's sake: she's good at fighting, enjoys it, and knows this. She won't hesitate to try and prod people into conflict if they seem like they'd make a good fight, even if they're people who're either likely to far outclass her, or with the political power to get her in a hell of a lot of trouble. If, however, you've already fought, aren't a challenge, or have otherwise managed to distract her from petty violence... Baijiu is pretty much the most laid-back person you could meet. If she isn't fighting, she's eating, drinking, or sleeping. Meditation? Everything is meditation!
History: Baijiu learned to fight, not because she terribly wanted to--at least, not back then as a young child--but because she was rather... clumsy, both for the normal reasons and due to not being able to see anything. So, with nothing better for her to be doing, it was fairly simple: learn martial arts. Initially, and still evident with the moves she most uses, she was just learning a very solid, down to earth style. The young girl took to it like a duck to water and, as soon she was old enough, went to learn from some other people, learning about chi and developing her radar trick. But perfection of the one style never appealed to Baijiu, and so she's been going around learning what she can, when she can, and trying to string it together into something workable.
That it works better when she's drunk is just a happy accident: one of her teachers was an extremely gregarious old man, and he took the barely-an-adult (even then) girl drinking with him after every bit of training, and she ended up picking up the habit. This temple is just one more stop on her tour of the world.

[TJByrum]

Okay, let's take a look at these bios shall we!

@Kalas: I see Rin is still a work in progress so we can get to him later.

@Fabricant451: Moon is 21, and you say when her father was in a war while she was being born; there was no war 21 years ago. The last war(s) occurred 35 years ago (the Warring States Period). 5 years after that, Kang Xu attempted to abdicate the throne, but that only lasted a few hours and took place entirely in the Imperial Palace. After those two conflicts, Kin Sun has remained in relative peace. If you'd still like your father to have been in the war, I suppose we could work something out; perhaps a levied army was raised to deal with barbarian natives in the south about 21 years ago?

@Jangel13: Angelo Lee is accepted, although I'm wondering if you intend to do first-person IC posts.

@Raineh Daze: Hah! I love Drunken Fist! So is Huan actually blind or what (being blind is actually fine)? Also, perhaps you could explain a little bit about her life before she came to the academy, most specifically when she began to fight and how she initially learned (although Drunken Fist seems to be something she just picked up from a bottle of booze).

EDIT: Also, I'd like to talk about the RP will roll out. We'll all begin in Dragon's Peak Temple, obviously. You're just going to slide into the character's shoes, get to know some of the big characters (Master Wu, for example, and the Five Dragon Generals), get to know each other. And after that your characters will be thrust into the world. Now, from here you guys have a set of 'objectives' you need to accomplish. How you accomplish them is entirely up to you; you'll decide - as a group - on where to go, what to do, and make decisions; each one of these decisions can and will affect the RP in the long run. You guys can split up if you think that's better, but the main thing is that you work towards fulfilling this set of goals.

[Raineh Daze]

Yeah, she's actually blind. And updated the backstory. XD

Not sure what the range on 'huh, people/strong people' should be. @_@

[TJByrum]

Not sure what the range on 'huh, people/strong people' should be. @_@

If by that you mean her chi radar trick, then I suppose it should be 'general vicinity'? For example, if she walks into a teahouse or an inn, I would reckon she could sense everyone within that teahouse or inn. If she was in a fight, then anyone who could possibly pose a threat to her I would assume she would be able to sense.

This particular talent could come in handy when/if you guys meet Illusive Jang. ;)

[Fabricant451]

TJByrum said
@Fabricant451: Moon is 21, and you say when her father was in a war while she was being born; there was no war 21 years ago. The last war(s) occurred 35 years ago (the Warring States Period). 5 years after that, Kang Xu attempted to abdicate the throne, but that only lasted a few hours and took place entirely in the Imperial Palace. After those two conflicts, Kin Sun has remained in relative peace. If you'd still like your father to have been in the war, I suppose we could work something out; perhaps a levied army was raised to deal with barbarian natives in the south about 21 years ago?

Moon's father wasn't actually in a war. He used that as a lie to trick young women into sleeping with him.

[TJByrum]

Fabricant451 said
Moon's father wasn't actually in a war. He used that as a lie to trick young women into sleeping with him.

Oh... alright then. I'll look over Moon's bio at a later date.

In other news, Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), and I think Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill?) are confirmed to at least appear in Star Wars 7, according to Yahoo! anyway. It is officially confirmed R2-D2, C3PO, and Chewbacca will make a return.

[Dblade26]

Name: Hei Ganglong

Age: 12

Gender: Male

Appearance: sort of like this?

Belongings: a pointy, slightly wavy black metal pendant with his name sliced into it.

Martial Art Style: Dark Storm Style: A martial arts style designed mainly for assassinations. It relies on mobility, stealth and high-speed, supernaturally damaging techniques to strike down opponents before they can react or else wear down or overwhelm their defenses and break them if that can't be accomplished. It has no true stances and no defensive forms, preferring to rely on movement, evasion and constant striking in fast, accurate bursts to blocking. The closest thing it has to forms are a mix of two identifiable aspects. The first is the use of hard-power strikes to break and overwhelm opponents in a manner similar to Leopard Fist, called 'Thunderclap-Fist'. The second is the use of accurate and piercing soft-power attacks on weak-spots, joints and pressure points, to debilitate or kill opponents, called 'Lightning-bolt Fist'. It possesses only one weapon-form, making use of flexible weapons like chains, meteor hammers and the like for unpredictable assaults: The Heaven Reaper-form. Hei seems to have aspects of the style practically hard-wired into his muscle memory, although he has no idea about the true nature of the style, nor can he use it's full abilities.

Chi Abilities: Hei mainly uses his chi to enhance his movement speed and acrobatic abilities. Although he has at least once demonstrated the ability to generate and direct electricity using his Chi in order to shock an opponent, a hallmark of Dark Storm Style, he has no idea how he did so or how to do it again.

Personality: Hei has no memory of his past before a few years ago when he found himself lost just outside the temple, but he's found that he likes life there. He's easygoing and tries his best to get along with everyone else, accepting his role as a very junior student in exchange for trying to live an otherwise happy and carefree life. He enjoys fighting perhaps a little too much, and a good fight is just about the only time he'll get fired up, although he keeps his friendly demeanor even then. Mostly he just wants to live as happy a life as he can, only occasionally wondering about his past.

[Jangel13]

What do you mean do I intend to do first person ic posts? I usually write in the first person unless you want me to try it a different way that's just what I did in my old site

[Dblade26]

a lot of people here write in the third person past-tense.

[Jangel13]

Oh, that will be hard to get used to, but ill work on it again this is only my second rp.

[TJByrum]

I would prefer it to be in 3rd person myself, honestly, but I won't force anything on my players.

[Jangel13]

Thanks I'm just used to first person

[TJByrum]

@Dblade26: I can't see your image; says 403 Forbidden. As for Hei himself, my only problem is his age. 12 years old is a pretty young age, and I'd prefer characters to, at the very least, be somewhere in the 17 or older range. But if you honestly want to play a 12 year old, then I won't deny them. Everything else seems fine, but I'll need to see the History before I accept them.

[TJByrum]

I have updated the OOC if anyone wants to read it again.