[OOC] Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

[Arrayah]

That's what I was thinking, but I'm pretty sure someone said that all of the kingdoms besides blue and yellow were lost.

Maybe I misread x.x

[Lucius Cypher]

A lot of the territories are being contested. People think the Ebon Stykers are taking territory because they're highly active, but as you can imagine, the truth is a bit more complicated. It's like of like a game of "King of the Hill"; sometimes the Ebon Strykers can hold it, sometimes they can't. The fact that four of the guilds just lost leadership and that the Ebon Strykers just came out of hiding has really put people off their game. But no, it's more accurate to just say that the Ebon Stykers are being really, really aggressive right now and are actively trying to take over territories. Whether they succeed or not, depends on how you all play things out.

I'll try to get a post up eventually.

[Lord Santa]

By the way, how many arcs will there be?

[TheWendil]

Lord Santa said
By the way, how many arcs will there be?

Yet to be determined. Including the last one, at least 3.

[Lord Santa]

Can I make another character? I want to make a 13 year old level 1.

[OverconfidentMagi]

Here's my character for the position of Orange King. I tried working the previous king and his death into the character, but since I don't know exactly what happened with him there might be stuff that's wrong there. Just point out mistakes and I'll change them.

Aaron Carther || Conquest Pantheon

"Yes, did you need something?"
Height: 5’06”
Weight: 129lb
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue

Name: Aaron Carther
Age: 16

History: Aaron comes from a family that didn’t do well during their tie in Deep Ground Online. He grew up with very little, and he valued what he had. He started off his time at Purple Crown Academy as a loner. He rarely talked to anyone, spending most of his time outside of the game holed up in the school’s library with his nose in a book. That person is still him, and indeed very few people would be able to see any difference between that Aaron and the one today. He still keeps to himself a lot and spends too much time by himself inside books, but there was a difference.

One day while Aaron was off by himself with a book, a boy with black hair and hazel eyes approached him for no apparent reason. The boy kept trying to talk to Aaron and eventually it became annoying. So Aaron challenged the boy to a fight in the game… and promptly got his ass handed to him by none other than the Orange King himself.

To say Aaron and Garth were ever really friends would be difficult to judge. Rivals would be more accurate, since their interactions usually involved Garth pestering Aaron in the real world and then Aaron retaliating in the game world. Though he never officially joined Garth’s guild, their sparring led to Aaron knowing and being well-known by many in the Silent Marauders, and they never saw him as their enemy even when he tried taking out their king repeatedly in one-on-one combat. Quite a few even saw him as an ally, as on more than one occasion a Silent Marauder was saved by a well-placed spear appearing out of nowhere.

When Garth inexplicably died, the Marauders began to fracture. There was infighting as smaller groups challenged who would lead the guild. The acting Orange King could barely do anything. All that stopped when Aaron showed up and destroyed any who were opposed to him taking the throne for himself and keeping the old system exactly as Garth had fashioned it. His attitude and methods may be dramatically different, but Aaron will do what he can to keep the Silent Marauders strong. And outside of the game, he’ll find out exactly what happened that caused the death of his rival.

Personality: Aaron is, to put it bluntly, an extremely lazy person. The simple fact is that he dislikes having to do things that require effort on his part. He acts bored or tired most of the time, just to convey to others how little he cares about whatever he’s doing at the time. But when something interesting comes along that manages to catch Aaron’s interest and hold it, he’ll go as hard as he needs to in order to get his way. He does enjoy being in the center of things, even if that just means he’s there listening to those round him. When it comes to running his guild, he’s more likely to let others do whatever they want and then deal out praise or punishment after the fact. Despite how he acts most of the time, Aaron is completely serious about doing well in the game.

"Let’s make this quick."
Avatar Class: Brawler (Berserker spec)
Avatar Title: Conquest Pantheon – Orange King
Avatar Level (Initial): 9
Avatar Guild: Silent Marauders

Avatar Abilities
Skyborne: Gives Aaron three midair jumps. He can maneuver in the air by dodging or dashing, each of which is counted as him using a jump. His jump height is also increased.

Thunder Crash: Aaron jumps at an enemy with his weapon over his head. He lands slamming his weapon into the ground, dealing heavy damage to the target, minor damage to nearby enemies, and knocking up all targets unfortunate enough to be within range. His defense is reduced during the leap, and taking damage increases the power of the slam. Has a 30 second cooldown.

Parting Wind: Aaron swings his weapon to the side making a powerful gust of wind that pushes enemies, allies, and projectiles aside. While dual wielding, it can be used twice in quick succession or both at once for a stronger effect. Has a 30 second cooldown.

Slipstream Shot: A ranged attack where the thrown weapon pushed aside any enemies in its path and then violently pulls enemies towards it as it passes. Any magic or projectiles that get close to the thrown weapon are pulled in its wake, adding to the damage of its final strike. Upon reaching its destination, the weapon deals major damage. Even if it misses, the weapon releases a damaging shockwave when it reaches its target destination that knocks back nearby enemies. This throw is unaffected by gravity until it has hit or passed its target. Has a 3 minute cooldown.

Sky Climber: Can activate to suspend a weapon in place in midair by stabbing it into the sky. Weapons return to the user’s inventory after 30 seconds if the user is not touching them.

Storm Flash: Aaron travels with a thrown weapon by turning it and himself into one thin stream of lightning. Can be used in conjunction with any throw skills, though the thrown weapon may not always take on the appearance of lightning. Has a 20 second cooldown.

Stream Lightning: Arcs of lightning appear between any weapons the user has thrown and not retrieved and the user. The lightning continues for 15 seconds, during which the user can move and the lightning will follow him, dealing damage to any enemy it passes through, after which it disappears the all of the affected items return to the user’s inventory. Has a 3 minute cooldown.

Steel Wings: Creates seven copies of Aaron’s weapon that circle around his body. The weapons are vertical, with points down, when Aaron is in midair, which helps defend him from damage, and are horizontal when he’s on the ground, points outward, which damages enemies that get too close. Upon landing, the weapons fan outwards, stabbing surrounding enemies. How far the weapons shoot out depends on how high Aaron fell from. The speed that the weapons rotate around Aaron is relative to the speed he’s moving, with a slight delay. 10 minute cooldown.

Heavens Torn Asunder: A throw that can only be used when the user is in midair and high above the target. There is a charge-up period required before each use. The thrown weapon becomes a column of lightning, reaching its destination almost instantly and dealing immense damage. In addition, the thrown weapon releases a powerful shockwave when it is thrown and when it makes contact, powerfully knocking back any projectiles and enemies nearby. Can be used on the ground if used immediately after Stream Lightning has returned seven or more items to the user’s inventory. Using Stream Lightning reduces this skill’s cooldown relative to how many items are returned. Has a cooldown time of 10 minutes.

Perks
4 Pain Infliction: Increase all damage done by 15%
5 Titan’s Grip: Enables you to dual-wield two-handed weapons.
6 Gyro Strike: Offense skill in which the user performs a powerful spin attack, using centrifugal force as a means to enhance the attack even further. Deals heavy damage to anybody within range of your weapon(s). 30-second cooldown.
7 Icarus Strike: Armed skill in which the user - from high above - comes down upon the opponent, using gravity as a means to enhance the damage even further. The user also takes no falling damage when using this skill. Requires you to be at least 50 feet above the target.
8 Boomerang: Ranged skill in which the user throws one or more of their weapons at the target, where it deals damage before returning to the user (this damage is treated as melee damage). 10-second cooldown per weapon.
9 War Horse: Summon skill that conjures up a War Horse; a very fast-moving mount that is capable of running up walls and over water.

Other: Most people call him by his real name or Pan in-game. He has a metric shit ton of spears in his inventory, but the one he’d be seen with most often is the Spear of Zeus, which he likes because it fits with his lightning motif. If he’s in a real battle though, expect to see his full arsenal of legendary spears. Aaron’s favorite color is a faded gold, while mine is a deep forest green.

Theme:

[TheWendil]

Lord Santa said
Can I make another character? I want to make a 13 year old level 1.

Yes you can. Eveyone is allowed 2 characters.

[TheWendil]

OverconfidentMagi said
Here's my character for the position of Orange King. I tried working the previous king and his death into the character, but since I don't know exactly what happened with him there might be stuff that's wrong there. Just point out mistakes and I'll change them.

Accepted. Seeing as we didn't know much of the Orange King's past to begin with, we can assume his relation with Aaron were true.

[TheWendil]

A Brief Notification: All of the Perks for the Healer Class have been posted in the OP of the OOC. That means that all of the Character Classes now have their full Perks and Specs for all of your viewing pleasure. The next GM post will be up tomorrow. That is all.

[Arrayah]

Yaaaaay. I'll updatey CS sooner or later.

Also. All of these characters are like anorexic. I'm 5'1'' and my normal (thin) weight is 120. Why are there 5'6'' people at 130 D:

Crazy.

[TheWendil]

Arrayah said
All of these characters are like anorexic. I'm 5'1'' and my normal (thin) weight is 120. Why are there 5'6'' people at 130 D: Crazy.

It's a strange, strange world...

[Lord Santa]

Here it is!

Appearance:

Think of this guy but shorter. Like, 13 year old size shorter.
Height: 5 ft
Weight: 46 kg
Name: Taro Kamakura
Age: 13
History: Taro comes from a standard family. Mother, Father, younger sister. He’s kind of timid, however, but will stand up to his beliefs. He is often more of a little brother than a big brother as his little sister is very mature for her age. Even though he’s extremely timid, there’s one thing he will go to any lengths for: Becoming a space pirate. First, he’ll figure out space travel and then he’ll be a space pirate. For that, he needs to be successful and even though he’s quite bad at deep ground online, he puts most of his effort into it to succeed and become a space pirate. The reason he’s so obsessed with becoming a space pirate is because he promised a childhood friend of his that he’d become a space pirate.

Appearance (Avatar): Normal appearance + this coat
+ this hat

Avatar class: Gunner
Avatar title: Grim Bucaneer
Avatar level (initial): 1
Avatar guild: None currently, may have him join a guild sometime
Avatar abilities:
Fast retreat
For 5 seconds, Taro triples his move speed and doges every attack, taking half damage from area of effect abilities. Cooldown is 2 minutes.
Perks: none
Other: Taro’s favourite colour is blue, he likes cats and he’s afraid of barking dogs. He hates haunted houses and is no good with spooks. He’s also pretty bad at studying so Deep Ground is kind of his last lifeline to be a space pirate. And he sucks at that too. He's only been playing Deep Ground for 2 weeks, by the way. Oh, and pls help me come up with a theme. Cause yolo

[RoflsMazoy]

I'll be posting a second character as well probably tommorow morning if that's okay

[Scarifar]

Oh right, guys, if I remember correctly, it's only at level three that you gain Avatar Abilities. That's how I remember it, ask Windel for confirmation.

[TheWendil]

Scarifar said
Oh right, guys, if I remember correctly, it's only at level three that you gain Avatar Abilities. That's how I remember it, ask Windel for conformation.

^^^

Lucius Cypher said
Indeed, every level you get a unique Avatar Ability, and at level Four you get to chose Class Perks. Which means at level 9 you should have 9 Avatar Abilities and 5 Class Perks.

[TheWendil]

A Brief Notification: Due to the story having progressed into the second Arc, the CS for the Black King has been updated in the OP of the OOC, including their real-life identity. Keep in mind that no character IC should know this knowledge at this point in the RP, the only exception being Cypher's character Dark Wraith/Retsu Goroshi. That is all.

[YandereNoodle]

Definitely interested, mark me down for the Red King. I'll have a CS up soon.

[Scarifar]

Say, Windel, why is it that Black King only has 3 abilities anyway? Or is it just the known abilities?

[TheWendil]

Scarifar said
Say, Windel, why is it that Black King only has 3 abilities anyway? Or is it just the abilities?

That and I've yet to find time to make the other 6.

[RoflsMazoy]

New character for me, time for some RAINBOW

Name: Reiko Kimura

Appearance:
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Height: 5’1”

Weight: 128lb

Age: 14

History:

"RAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIINBOOOOOOOW."

Reiko is by all means fairly average, besides personality that is. She could most probably do well if she studied more in class but she is somewhat lazy so she does fairly average in terms of schoolwork.

She started playing Deep Ground because it seemed to be a somewhat easy way to settle her future. Sure, if you did well you were set no matter what and if you did badly your life would become a living hell; but the way she saw it was, if you were at least average, you would stay average and that was one way to guarantee a future.

As with most other players, she got it on her 13th birthday and was excited to play the game. As it turned out however, her in game avatar was what she said “Way too girly for me”. She spent much of her first few days grumbling and complaining about it to all who would listen. She even complained to administrators who explained that there was no way to change it so she was stuck with it.

With the fact that she was staying that way accepted, she resigned herself to what she thought would be long years of arduous self-loathing every time she saw her reflection. That is until she gained her first victory in Deep Ground.

The battle ended with her taking almost no damage and her enemy’s body parts were strewn around in various places. She would later say when recounting the tale: “It died in RAINBOW.” With much gusto.

Afterwards she was later reported to have garnered a liking towards her Avatar, and also gained an interest with becoming something big in the game.

Personality:

Reiko is rather tomboyish being somewhat loud and showing little restraint. She can often be seen in many random places during the school day, shouting at other students, arguing with teachers and occasionally getting into fights and winning them. As a result, she is also often in the nurse’s office with a Band-Aid or two.

She is also sometimes seen shouting at her childhood friend Taro Kazuka who she had promised to, to become a princess in the future. They separated soon afterwards and the next time she saw him, he didn’t seem to remember her. She isn’t sure whether or not he remembers the promises and doesn’t ask in case he does. She had forgotten about the promise for a long time because her interests changed and she got a bit lazy. But, when she entered Deep Ground, her avatar’s name reminded her of her promise.

In-game, she is much the same as in real-life, often challenging dissolutions that are higher in level than her for the extra experience. Her personality is also translated into her fighting style, as though she is a wizard, she will always be in the middle of combat.

Her aim in Deep Ground was originally to have fun and at least do somewhat well to live an average life, but when she remembered the promise, it changed to her wanting to fulfil her promise and become an actual Princess in real life.

Appearance:
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Avatar Class: Wizard, Sorcerer

Avatar Title: Princess Rainbow

Avatar Level (initial): 3

Avatar Guild: None

Avatar Abilities:

Abilities

• Rainbow Rush: Reiko temporarily boosts her speed to 3 times normal and gains the ability to run up walls and over water. She also gains a bright rainbow trail and her unicorn horn gains a solid rainbow aura which grows 1cm for every second she travels using this skill. She can travel for 5 seconds per level with this skill. The skill ends when she wants to end it or if she hits someone with her horn dealing 150% magic damage, which is treated as melee, as well as dealing an extra 2% magic damage (in magic damage) to the target for each extra centimetre her magic unicorn horn has grown. Her rainbow trail also emanates her theme song (without the words) while it is active. The skill cools down in however many seconds she used it for and in addition, enemies killed by this ability explode into RAINBOW.

• RAAAAIIIIINBOOOW: Reiko spews out a large amount of fluorescent, rainbow coloured fluid that pools onto the floor and creates a pool about 5 meters in diameter. The pool heals allies and damages enemies in it for 25% of her magic damage per second and persists for 20 seconds. This skill cannot be completely interrupted as if she is debuffed by anything that would normally stop an ability of this nature, the liquid will still spew out until the full 5 meter pool has been created. The pool is created at wherever the first of the liquid happens to land, and she can choose to spew it at high velocity or simply let it pool at her feet. In addition, any liquid that falls onto the ground away from the pool is drawn to it over surfaces until it is part of it. The skill cools down in 30 seconds. In addition, an unknown deep voice says the title of the skill when it is being cast.

• Rainbow BEAM: Reiko emits a ray of rainbow coloured laser from her unicorn horn for up to 10 seconds. The beam does 25% of her magic damage each second and the beam also ignores defence and pierces enemies. Reiko can still move while using the beam but at a slightly slower speed. She cannot use any other ability while Rainbow BEAM is active. The skill cools down in double the time she used it for and also causes enemies killed with it to explode in RAINBOW.

Other: Her favourite colour is RAINBOW.

Theme Song: [youtube]ZZ5LpwO-An4[/youtube]