[OOC] Invocation of the Divoria: The unfurling wings of Ondulish

[Jerkchicken]

The calm before the storm

The world called Ascindus is great and colorful world filled with all sorts of wonders and oddities be it natural or otherwise. From chilly expansive mountain ranges, verdant forests and jungles, roaring oceans, and the varied fauna. Yet all is not well and signs of something of a ruinous and potentially destructive nature are at foot. Monster sightings and attacks have been noted to be increasing and other wildlife appear to be getting skittish. Hushed whispers amongst the Great Council of Magi Scholars in the Country of Kyos speak of some strange magical energy that was previously undetected floating through the aether. Perhaps emanating from a ruins that recently discovered or that it is the result of ley lines being tampered after recent seismic activity of the islands of Dolmos.

But that does not matter for it is nothing but hearsay; merely whispers in the wind. In the city of Nele the annual Festival of Cotopa. It is a large and noisy event that gathers travelers from around the world. The city gets all prettied up with lights and decorations while the shops go into overdrive to reap the profits from the people brought in. Your characters are here either for business or pleasure. On the evening befalling the start disaster strikes! Predictably enough you and others form a crew of sorts and head off for a world trotting adventure as you learn things are all not right as it seems.

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The premise in a nutshell
This game is the product of some serious jonesing with a bit of nostalgia over JRPG’s and their unique flavor mixed in with more than a little bit of animu. And by that I mean the general style over substance,dorama, occasionally bonkers plots, and clashing elements. That at least for me, made them a nice change of pace from the generic D&Dish type fantasy settings.

Much like the Barkley Gaiden game(s) this roleplay will be featuring said elements and poke some fun at them. Unlike the gaiden games that are more parodic in nature, this game will be slightly more serious. Also I’ll be handling the fighting and flashy moves using a pnp system. Didn’t get scared off by that? Well read on to see how this will work out.

So how will this work?

Not liking how messy freeform combat gets, wanting to handle flashy moves, and liking the spice elements of chance gives. I decided to use the ruleset of OVA: Open Versatile Anime role-playing game. Fear not it will not be a nightmarish mess of long and byzantine rules that'll make your head hurt. Quite the opposite it's rather on the lightweight side of things and shouldn't be too hard. As for rolling don't worry it'll limited to certain situations and will be the next topic!

Rolling. When and how to do it

In regards to when there will be rolls the first and obvious one will for combat. Outside of combat however, rolls will be used when the chance element seems appropriate. Everything else will be your standard freeform roleplay. Rolls themselves are particularly easy and will be handled using orokos roller. Anyway you start off with two six sided dice or 2d6 and if you got an appropriate skill or bonus you add that many dice. After rolling them you take the highest roll out of the results, but if you manage to repeating numbers you add those up and if that's your highest number you use that.

Links
This be the link to get the rules
http://orokos.com/roll/
Link to put approved character sheets in

Your homework & character creation guidelines

• Open up the book and read Chapters: 2,4,5&6


• Make an account on orokos


• Everyone has 25 points to begin with and can get up to 30 with weaknesses


• You begin with three power different attacks using power move.


• There is no witchcraft. It's been combined with arcane magic. But you should probably clarify on your specialty though if applicable


• If you're a magician or some sort of ranged user your power moves get the free ranged perk.


• Hobbies totally cost half off

Character sheet

Name
Sex
Race
Appearance You gain more brownie points if you type it out, but pictures work.
Personality
Gear
Misc
Abilities & weaknesses
Background blurb I want it descriptive but not necessarily a massive wall of text either.

Rules and other stuff you should know

-I don't particularly care for tacking on extra rules; standard casual and guild rules apply here

- With regards to the game world and the lack of details. I don't care for role plays with massive information dumps in like twenty hiders you need to read before play nor can I be bothered to do that. Plus show not tell. The world is made of taped together Schrodinger's cats.

- I can be accommodating towards things like races or background things like countries, religions, organizations, etc. If it works it works if not then we can try working on it till it works but it might have to be rejected outright.

-When in doubt in regards to rules ask

-Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
-Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
-For some California grass.

Completed example character will be uploaded later.

[Descartes]

GET BACK JOJO!

[Jerkchicken]

Anyway Im still watching the world cup.

Will post the example sheet after it ends.

[Jerkchicken]

And here's what it should look like completed

Finished character

Name Rez
Sex male
Race Human
Appearance A sharp dressed man from way outta town who proudly wears his group's uniform. That being: A matching midnight blue jacket with a white shirt and pants embroidered with an natural elemental motif and with some silver decorations on the latter end of the sleeves. And most importantly a hat worn low that gives off that sexy and mysterious wanderer vibe.

The man himself is clearly foreign as indicated not only by that warm latte skin tone but also his accent which has been muddled to keep it ambiguous. He is a man of average height and in good physical condition due to his prior training. He carries little aside from a black rectangular box strapped with rope on his back and his sword in an elegant scabbard.

PersonalityNaturally passionate and fickle like the winds he's grown a bit distant and aloof due to his prolonged questing. That isn't to say he's directly rude, just not exactly openly friendly or talkative.

Gear Clothing, sword, and case full of stuff
Misc HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN>
Stats
Health 60
Endurance 80
Abilities:
Acrobatics 2
Hobby: music 3
Hobby: Swordsmanship 3
Defense 3
Martial art 1
Quick 4
Perceptive2
Strong1
Tough 2
Vitality 3
Weapon:Sword 2
Willpower 2

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Power move 2

Cleave!: Extra damage, Armor piercingx2, no knock back. 20 endurance
Blink strike: Multiple Targets X2, Rapid strikes, Activation, no knock back, decreased damage 20 endurance
Beat: Endurance Drain, Stun, Extra stagger. 30 endurance

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Weaknesses
Obsession 2
Stubborn 1
Special weakness:Jerk 1
Impulsive 1

[OtomostheCrazy]

Sorry for not posting. I'm still trying to work out the kinks in the Character

[Jerkchicken]

It's cool.

If you need any help or clarification on stuff just ask away.

[zeke_]

Name: Adonis Slax
Sex: Male
Race: Human
Appearance:

(only the guitar is also an ax.)
Personality: Adonis is kind of an asshole, hes an egotistical jerk. Really, his one redeeming quality is that he plays guitar really well. I guess he's alright once you get to know him.
Gear:
1x Custom modded Ax/guitar
1x armored leather jacket
Misc: Adonis is in a band.

Abilities-
Weapon(guitar) 3
barrier, offensive 2
hobby guitar 3
strong 2
beauty 2
Flunkies 3
vitality 2
Filthy rich 3
Armor 1
combat skill 2
Passion - Rock 2
power move 2
-Hard Rock
Extra damage x2 Extra knock-back, armor piercing, Open to attack, slow.20 endurance.
-Jam session
Ranged, rapid attack, Decreased damage, no knock-back. 10 endurance
-Rock your world
stun, entangle, AOE, open to attack. 20 Endurance

Weakness-
Overconfident 1
Girl magnet 3

Health- 40
Endurance- 60

Background: Adonis is the lead guitarist of the the band named Skies of Hunger. One day he decided to become an adventurer, so he disbanded the band and set off to become a great hero.

[Jerkchicken]

Other than not using your full 25 points and not gaining brownie points for using a written description it's fine.
It just needs a background blurb which I forgot to add the sheet skeleton and example.

But yeah accepted and just dump the edited version into the CS link and we're golden.

[OtomostheCrazy]

Firstly, does puppet magic go under arcane as well?

Secondly, if puppets are allowed, would they need their own stats?

[Jerkchicken]

There are two ways of doing it

The super fast and easy way would be for you to make a Hobby: puppets and then take weapon levels and maybe give the puppets some perks or just use your power moves for the puppets doing cool things.

However if you wanted to have it stats we can just do it like the example characters of Karis and her ro-bro; use the servant ability for the puppet and maybe have your puppet skill act as the attack roll

[Professor_Wyvern]

Name: Hiraku Oshiro
Sex: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: Hiraku Oshiro is what you would typically expect of a Salaryman. His face is well shaved; he is always in a clean pressed navy blue suit, with black dress shoes. He has dark grey eyes, which he wears a pair of glasses over and he has dark black hair. Hiraku is almost always carrying a dark black suitcase with a brass number locking the suitcase shut. He always carries it in his right hand.

Personality: Hiraku Oshiro is a diligent employee, and he always works hard at his job. And he has moved a bit up in the company for his diligence, though he still views himself as a Salaryman. He is an aloof man, who keeps his distance from most everyone, even part of his family. While he may not always be able to properly show his affection, he cares deeply for his family. However, Hiraku is far different off the clock, and is known to drink people under the table and act like a general wild animal while he is in the bar. In fact, that is one of the few times he actually lets loose, whenever he is at the bar, and occasionally alone with the family.

Background: Hiraku was a normal child, who lived a normal life. Well other than having really good luck, and manifesting some weird powers. But he ignored those strange things in order to get a business degree, get a job in a company, loyally do that job, get various promotions and have his own family. Now higher ups at the company have moved him to a new position where he has to adventure. Hopefully he can return to basic paper-work soon, and return to the family. Then again, like a Foreign business trip, it should be an experience to remember.

Gear: A pair of house-keys, a business briefcase, his suit, and a wallet.
Stats
Health 40
Endurance 40
Abilities: Agile 2
Weapon (Briefcase) 2
Heightened Senses 3
Lucky 4
Sixth Sense 1
Shape change 3
Position of Power 2
Transformation 3 ((When transformed, Super-speed 2, Strong 3))
Power move 2
Willpower 1
Weaknesses
Secret 3
Short Temper 1
Business as Usual: Area of Effect, Armor Piercing (x2) 20 Endurance
Drunken Flurry of a Restless Businessman!: Area of Effect, Rapid Strikes, No Gesture, Extra Damage 30 Endurance
Cheap Shot: Stun, Blinding 20 Endurance

[Jerkchicken]

I don't know what to feel on this

[Professor_Wyvern]

*Shrug* OH ah, I forgot about uh transformation stuff... Gotta add that in. And hope that it is right, I think I'd have six points to spend right?
,,,Also just want to make sure I have the numbers right. Er, I do have them right, right?

Uh, but yeah. I can not tell you what to feel on this. LOOK INTO YOUR HEART AND LET IT TELL YOU WHAT TO THINK OF THIS GUY!

[Parser]

Name: M-23/Tanya Tinker
Sex: None/Girl
Race: Robot/Human
Appearance:

pics

Personality:
M-23 is pretty much defined by its constant desire to wrestle things and its desire to protect Tanya. Not a whole lot else to say.
Tanya, on the other hand, is a spastic, absent-minded mess of a girl who has two loves: Chocolate-Chip Cookies, and SCIENCE. Mostly SCIENCE, though.

Gear:
M-23: None
Tanya: Toolbox, Glasses
Misc: ROBOTS

Abilities:
Servant 2 (Tanya)
Tough 4
Armor 4
Barrier 1
Life Support 4
Vitality 4
Strong 4
Combat Skill 1
Martial Arts (Wrestling) 1
Intimidate 1
Hobby (Wrestling) 4
Power Move 2
SUPLEX.BAT (Extra Damage x2, Extra Knockback, Empty Hands) cost 25
PILEDRIVER.EXE (Armor Piercing x2, Empty Hands, Slow) cost 20
FULL_NELSON.CMD (Entangle, Empty Hands) cost 15

Weaknesses:
Bizarre Appearance 2
Size 1
Guardian 2
*Emotionless 2 (Closer to 1.5, really)
*Amnesia 1

HP 120
Endurance 120

2+4+4+1+4+4+4+1+1+1+2+2-2-1-2=25

Tanya said
Abilities:
Invention 4
Smart 2
Hobby (Mechanic) 2
Passion: SCIENCE 2
Pilot 1
Hammerspace 1

Weaknesses:
Absent Minded 1
Ageism 1
Jittery 1
Impulsive 2
Obsession: SCIENCE 1
Size 1

HP: 40
END: 40

Background Blurb: Tanya was exploring the Ancient Ruins of Generica one day when she came across an old-ass broken-down robot. Deciding that robots are cool, she lugged the thing back to her house where she fixed it up, turned it on- and watched as it immediately went about suplexing everything in sight. After getting it turned off again, and making some more repairs on the thing, she set out with her horrifying killer robot pal on a journey of excitement and SCIENCE.

[OtomostheCrazy]

Well this is strange, since I'm using Freya, and everyone else has modern and futuristic character. I guess this will have a touch of Chrono trigger in it, only maybe without the time Travelling. I don't know though. What about your thoughts, JerkChicken?

[Jerkchicken]

It'll work, after all FFX and its sequel had this weird magical technology land that had modern cultural elements like pop concerts and underwater soccer and firearms. And SaGA Frontier which also did the same melding and had also odd party members.

Then you got Phantasy Star where the twist is you're living on a massive spaceship as part of an exodus and everyone forgot and reverted into a quasi-medieval world.

Though the salary man might tilt this more to Shadow hearts which is fine. Anyway post your character and I'll look over it much like I need to for salary man because I went to sleep when this was posted.

[OtomostheCrazy]

I'm about to double post, but I wanted to say tha I'll use the easy way. The servant thing doesn't sound it would fit Freya to me. Also, it would take a bit more time anyway, and I'm too lazy. :P So I'll just have it for the moves

[OtomostheCrazy]

Name: Freya Yates

Sex: Female

Race: Human

Appearance: 
With traveling clothes

In normal clothes
She is usually addorned With oddities. To many, her pants, boots, and gauntlets look normal enough, but she wears strange armor and an even stranger helmet. My armor is covered in various trinkets I had collected over the years. These trinkets range from antique medals to various scales from previous monster attacks. The only other thing on it is a sheath to carry her knife. Her helmet is the strangest item in her possession. It is a unique horned helmet with a marking at the eyes that resembles glasses. There are two slits on this marking that allows her to see. It also has a single slit near the mouth for her to breath and speak easily. It is not uncommon for people to mistake her for a unique monster when they see her. It's also not uncommon for them to mistake her for a man when she wears her armor. When traveling, she carries a large blue cloth, which acts as a bag to carry a seperate, rare set of armor and a greatsword.

The Armor Puppet


Personality:

Freya Yates said Hmm...I would say that I have a generally upbeat attitude towards others. The only moment I show annoyance is when others touch my puppet. I have a love of odd items, often attempting to collect those items if no one else claims them, or if they are of no particular use to anyone. My eyes have grown accustom to viewing the smaller details, which helps me see silver tongues and whatnot. When it comes to fighting, I tend to act according to what I think would get me to walk away alive, rather than what I can do to defeat my opponent. That is, only if I don't think I can prevail. I only resort to survival actions when I'm in a pinch. That isn't to say that I would be cowardly enough to strike deals with intelligent enemies in order to save myself. One trait of mine that I expect people to dislike is the fact that I will loot a body if it has something that interests me. The one thing that will enrage me is when a person touches my little sister's doll. It would take a considerable amount of time for me to get over it. I wouldn't go so far as to let them die or anything.

Gear: a small knife, a greatsword that her puppet uses, a large suit of armor as a puppet, and light armor covered in trinkets and oddities that make it thicker and stronger than the usual light armor
Misc: She carries her sister's doll on her person at all times, and does almost anything to keep it from damage.
Stats:

Freya

Health:40
Endurance: 80
Strength 3
Perception 4
Defence 2
Weapon: knife 4
Hobby: Magic Puppet 4
Vitality 3
Quick 3
Empathy 3
Servant 3

Weakness:
Oblivious 1
Curiosity 1
Special Weakness 3: Protect hidden doll

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Power Move 2
Assembling Dash Attack: X2 damage, knockback, 30 endurance

Puppet Sky Attack: X2 damage, no Knockback, armor piercing, 20 endurance

Shockwave Crush: Area of Effect X2, 30 endurance.

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Armor Puppet Stats

Health: 80
Endurance: n/a
Armor 3
Toughness 3
Weapon 4 Greatsword
Strength 1
Quick 1

Weakness:
Emotionless 3
Size 1 (Large)
Guardian 1
Bizarre Appearance 1
Special Weakness 3: Owner is the one who supplies the attack rolls and Power Moves

Background Blurb: Born in a small village, she grew up adventurous and curious with her sister. It was when her sister became ill that she took up travelling. She searched for an herb that could help her sister get better, finding along the way a multitude of strange objects that developed her interest in strange things. Eventually she found her armor and helmet, along with the herb that she needed. When she returned, however, Freya found that a travelling doctor had visited the village and cured her sister of the illness. Her sister had gone to travel with that doctor, while Freya went on to travel some more, seeking more oddities and adventure.

[Jerkchicken]

Alright wyvern your dude is in, for not even ancient evil can deter the threat of shamefur dispray and unemployment when overtime is happening.

Parser you need to take off a point of something because I'm getting a 31; get rid of that single digit and we'll be fine. Also I believe I told you we could just make a special ability up that declares the robot's inorganic nature and the benefits it might confer.

Aight otomos. Rules say you shouldn't start with 5 anything in char gen which I am abiding by. So change that and you're golden. Anyway servant could work if you wanted it to do slight more stuff such as legit meatshielding, also I could help stat it if you wanted.

Anyway might want to reword magic puppet into Hobby:magic puppet just so I don't forget and to implicate you know about the subject beyond knowing to use it. And if you're attacking with the puppet more often than your character herself I'd give higher damage with the puppet; which I'd probably reword it as Weapon: Puppet with greatsword[Insert number here]. Also while I up for custom skills you should probably explain what Loot does

Also with your power moves you got the endurance values wrong, by default you're burning 10 plus whatever effects that add or subtract.
So that in reality

Assembling Dash Attack would be 30 endurance
Puppet Sky Attack I'm not allowing decimal values so let's have it as being extra damage 2, in which it be eating 20 endurance
For puppet guard, would be better served by the barrier ability, unless you took the servant ability and then it would simply be having it taking the hit for you.

[OtomostheCrazy]

If it works better, then I'd like some help with servant, please. I'm not used to this type of CS. Also, I think change loot to something like item finding or something, any suggestions or something? If perception is all I really need for stuff like that, I'll just change it completely

Also, if you wanted to know, I meant for it to mean something like "looting a corpse" or "looting ruins" or something.