Hunter X Hunter: Into The Dark Continent

[racoonman]

The Zodiac Gather To Discuss The Dark Continent

TL;DR Summary:[b/]

-An Expedition To The Dark Continent has been announced by a man claiming to be the son of Netero
-The Zodiac do not, as a rule, trust this man
-They are in fact correct not to as he has already sent a primary scouting expedition of experienced hunters to do a preliminary job, get around, get information and get back in time to warn him.
- The Dark Continent has been confirmed to be the most dangerous place known to man, full of horrors.
- the players are all experienced hunters, with enough general and combat experience to handle most situations, whether as a team or by them self.

[B]In Character Info:

This is the mission, You will travel with a small team of hunters to the dark continent. Upon reaching it you will begin a series of scouting excursions around the main trip's designated landing areas. You must keep an accurate log of everything you find, see or hear. You have been handpicked for your skills, failure is not an option. Remember, this operation is top secret, absolute pragmatism is required. Should one of the party die, their remains must be completely destroyed. Any signs of camp should be gone as well at least three days before the main trip arrives. In the extremely unlikely event that you run into any other hunters, your objective will be capture, extract information and dispose. Remember also that you are not expected to survive, even with your advanced skills, however in return for completing this mission you may ask of me anything within in the human race's power. Should you not reply within 2 hours of opening, or decline, this message will self-obliterate. Good luck hunter's for you will surely need it. -Beyond Netero

Out of Character Info:

This is a hunter x hunter rp set just ahead of the current place in the story. In depth knowledge of hunter x hunter is not required, however I strongly reccomend that you get to grips with the power system in it, as it's fairly complex by shounen manga standards. As far as rules go it's the standard plus some Hunter x Hunter specific stuff:
1. No relations to characters featuring in the series, genetic or otherwise.I don't want any 'Zoldyck-Freecs's or 'Lucifer's running around!
2. With nen abilities the strength of the ability is directly related to the strength of your character, this is exlained in the manga but often forgotten. The example is your ability can not be a sword that can cut anything, as how good your sword is at cutting would then be fixed, instead you would have a sword which grows sharper according to the characters abilities and the restrictions placed upon it.
3. No copying nen abilities. This is kind of like the first point, try to create something unique to you.
4. As far as restrictions go, 'it has a massive cool down' or 'my character must rest for a day after using it' are pet hates of mine. Expect me to come up with extremely contrived, somewhat deus-ex-machina-y situations to exploit this with the end goal of your character being maimed and fed to gold-plated hover lobsters.
5. The god-modding limits for this is your power limit should be somewhere similar to Morel (the guy with the huge pipe) and Knov (portal guy).
6. Thanks for bearing with me, have fun and stick with it. Dedication is what I want most!

Potential Character Sheet:
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance: (picture and/or physical description is fine)
Hunter Tpe: (e.g. criminal hunter, gourmet hunter, treasure hunter)
Nen Type: (Only one!)
Nen abilities: (remember the nen hexagon)
Personality:
History:

That's all! I can't wait to here from people! Even if you're not interested, feed back and ideas are welcome, thank you!

[IVIasterJay]

I've just been keeping up with the anime, not the manga. How much of what happens in that gap would it be good to know for this RP? I'm caught up at episode 131 (Gon v Pitou). On that topic, you wrote no god-modding in the rules, but what about no Gon-modding? That kid could kick Goku's ass at this point, and he's only like twelve!

And oh yeah, I'm in. HxH is the best shonen anime ever created, and nen is hands-down the simplest and most comprehensive power system I've ever seen. There is nothing that doesn't fit into it in some way.

[racoonman]

Excellent, good to have you in! I'll reserve a spot. Nen is awesome, it allows you to be wildly inventive, as you said it's basically all encompassing haha. Not a lot to be honest, I won't spoil anything for you. Not a lot has been revealed post Chimera Ants so there isn't a lot you would be missing. I want this RP to work for people who have a basic grasp of the universe and nen, so you should be fine.

Haha, I think that you'll find that Gon breaks all most all of my rules:
1. He's related to Ging and himself, and his mother haha
2. Ok, he's alright for this one
3. If you were to use him as a character he would be copying his own power
4. His super saiyan power has a massive cool down as its limit
5. He's much much stronger than Morel, even if morel is significantly smarter, with a more interesting ability.

So you're spot on!

[KiltmanBagz]

I'm very much in! Just need to decided which of my characters I want to plaaaaaaay...

[Demous]

Interested off to research!

[racoonman]

Awesome to see some support! If you have any questions about nen or just want to check character aspects of your character, feel free to ask!

[OtomostheCrazy]

You know, HunterxHunter got updated on mangahere earlier. Also, I'm interested

[racoonman]

Awesome :) . Yeah I saw that, but nothing came up that changes this idea, I might feature some of those horrors though!

[KiltmanBagz]

Here is my CS for your review.

Ivy K Raven

Name: Ivy Katrina Raven

Gender: Female

Age: 28

Appearance:
Ivy's body is covered with tattoos. Well it would be more accurate to say two large tattoos. All along the left side of her body is a set of twisting winding thorny vines like that of a rose bush, with a few scattered roses among them. On her right side are various silhouettes of black birds, Likewise these are in various sizes and cover the majority of her right half of her body. Both tattoos stop short of her neck, wrists, and ankles. The rest of her body is presumable covered in that tattoos.

Hunter Type: She refers to herself as a battle hunter, one who's goal is to find and defeat worthy foes and overcome great challenges. Despite that she is widely thought of as a criminal hunter as her quest for combat often has her beating down wanted, violent criminals. It is not a bad way to pay the bills after all.

Nen Type: Emission

Nen abilities: Bitter Unkindness: Ivy can create up to 8 Nen-constructs in the form of large black birds. Primary detail and restrictions of Bitter unkindness are as such: Each one comes from one of the tattoo's on her right arm. She can make no more than 8 at a time or in a row, and after one is 'used' in one of several fashions it 'returns' to her arm and can't be used again until all the others have been returned as well. This of it as a gun with 8 shots that can only be reloaded once all shots are fired. The reloading time for BU is two minutes even, she can shorten it to a single minute if allowed to stay still and focused solely on it.

Each construct she makes resemble ravens but is roughly the size of a hawk. She can manipulate them individually, though when she has all 8 out and active she must stand perfectly still to move them with any decent level of speed or precision. They are very solid, their wings are able to cut like a razor and their bodies can pierce through stone. They are, at the end of the day, a form of pricing projectile attack. She can fright with then in a couple of different ways. Once they hit a target or are struck with significant force they dissipate and return to her tattoo to await the reloading processes.

'Chambered mode' is rather obvious. The nen focuses about her arm and a pair of 8 small ethereal wings appear along it. At this point all 8 constructs are armed and ready to fire. In this mode she can only fire them in a straight line from her open palm. this is when her Ravens are at their fastest and her arm is basically an 8 shot cannon.

'Flight Mode' she summons the construct fully formed, 1 to 8 at a time. The overall speed with which they can move depends on the number she is summoning. after 4 her own speed and mobility will become effected. At 8 she has to remain more or less still as she controls them. In this form they have the widest mobility and versatility, able to be used as shields, decoys, or unpredictable attacks. They can even perform simple tasks as well. such as searching for things or guarding a location.

'Sky Boss' Only available to her if she has not used a single one of her shots and using it will result the consumption of most of her power. She uses the energy of all 8 shots to make a single construct roughly the size of her. She can have it fight for her, it able to do the most amount of damage compared to all 8 of her birds combined. It can actually engage in proper combat rather than deadly kamikaze's like her normal construct, but it's kamikaze is bar far the most deadly move she has. Alternatively she can hop on it's back for travel or to flee. either way, after about an hour or after it has been 'used' it'll dissipate and she'll only have enough nen for about 2 rounds of 8 and if skyboss wasn't enough to end the fight than theirs a good chance that the remaining rounds won't do her much good. Given that choice, fight or flight, This is an all or nothing move,

Personality: Ivy is rough around the edges to say the least. Hot blooded and hard headed, the key word anyone would use to describe the young woman would be aggressive. She has more courage than common sense. That's not to say that Ivy dumb, she just prefers to listen to her gut and her hot temper more than her brain. The only things she values as much as her quest for glorious battle is loyalty and respect. Cross either of the latter two and you'll likely find yourself engaged in the former.

History: Ivy is the only child of a influential mob don in a collection of mafia families known as the 'Chimera Alliance'. They are named such because each of the Dons has taken some manner of creature as their last name. An old, large, and powerful group of crime lords, Ivy was slated and trained to one day take her father's place as a don. Though the older she grew the more she was sure that wasn't the path she wished for herself.

What she truly loved was combat, her favorite activities were the fighting lessons she had and better yet, employing those techniques on worthy foes. Eventually this drive for combat lead her to leave the family and peruse the path of a Hunter. Took her a few tries to make the pass, but she managed by the time she was 18. While her father washed his hands of the business and began grooming another successor, the other members of the Chimera Alliance didn't like that the daughter of a Don had 'cut ties' with the family. While she did her best to make it clear she had no intense of every attacking or betraying her family or the Alliance as a whole, Dons tend to be suspicious and careful of any and all potential threats.

It is not uncommon for them to commission assassins to attack her. She normally doesn't mind all that much; they often prove to be entertaining fights and when they hire someone outside of the family she'll turn them in for the bounty.

[Ljett]

Very Interested, I have read the manga, but will brush up and submit a CS soon.

[racoonman]

Ok, good to have so much interest! I think I'll be moving this to OOC.

Kiltman, I love that character sheet. The nen power is so cool! I love the idea of a a raven shotgun! The history really supports the hunter type as well so it all checks out. This is all quite a long winded way of saying accepted!

[Masaki Haruna]

FINALLY!!!! An HxH RP!!!!
fINALLY THe Manga is back, chapter 341.

[IVIasterJay]

Still working on a fun and creative nen ability for my character. It's so hard to think of something original! I started with a chess-themed ability that reacted to the enemy's movements as if they were a chess piece moving across the board, but now I'm thinking about one based on marbles and the different planets, with each special planet marble having a different effect when struck. Or maybe that would work better with pool balls... I really need to stop thinking right now. Whatever it ends up being, it'll probably have something to do with a game.

[Masaki Haruna]

I might create a Pedo/Hisoka OC but anyhow...... I got no idea what Nen ability to use.

[racoonman]

OK everyone OOCs up, but don't rush your characters haha! Nen abilities can be tricky, it took me so long to come up with something I was happy with that wasn't over powered! The game idea sounds reaaally cool. If you went with pool balls you'd presumably have the added benefit of being able to smash enemies over the head with a pool cue! For some reason that brings to mind for me the Zoldyck family guard who could flick coins like bullets haha.

OOC: Hunter X Hunter

[KiltmanBagz]

Glad you liked my character xD Hunter x Hunter characters are interetsing to make, it is easy to put more thought and effort their power than their past lol.

[racoonman]

Yeah I know exactly what you mean, I had thought of my character's power way before anything else about him haha.

[drel8787]

mind if I can join please:)