Massive Multiversal Crossover: Interest Check and Signups

[Dinh AaronMk]

Name: Anon
Age: 420
Gender: Male
Appearance: Faceless green male standing at 5'11". Wears a formal dress suit always. Or, mostly.

Anon

Canon, AU, or OC?: OC
Universe of Origin: Internet
Personality: Unpredictable. Harsh, biting, and critical one moment. Kawaii, amusing, husbando-material the next. Or very possibly one of several, it's hard to tell.
Abilities/Weapons: Shit Posting, Dubs, Trips. Fedora.
Backstory:
In the beginning, there was Moot. And then Moot said, "There was light".
But no light came. Only Bee. And so Anon grew up in the darkness, in Bee.
After the dissatisfaction Moot declared, "Let there be skies"
But no sky formed, as there was nothing to separate. And he was annoyed. There was only Vee. and so Anon grew up in Bee and Vee.
Still to give up, Moot declared: "Let there be dank land to stand on."
But dank land did not form. Only Co. So Anon traveled to Co.
Again, Moot declared: "Let there be fruiting plants!"
But fruiting plants did not bloom. Only Fruity LeG-BeT. And Anon avoided that.
After Moot said: "Let there be animals."
But there was no animals. Only Pol, where strange things appeared. And so Anon went.
And Moot was angered. He looked down his vast creation and said: "There will be one like me!"
And then he saw Anon and got angry and went home. Then followed the rest of the lands from Anon's travels.

After the departure of the Lord Moot, Anon was left to flourish. Spreading behind him even more as he went. They became one of the same over the next 9000 years. One of many, many into one. A legion of sorts. And to the outsiders who witnessed the glory of the otherworldly Anon they became infatuated with him. Or terrified.

To many, Anon was an aloof symbol of chaos and discord, best left ignored. He was a symbol of vice and everything they were, but did not want to admit. He facelessness frightened them. They tried to give him an image, but none ever made good to his glory. Even if to condemn.

But there were others still who looked to Anon and felt pride. Or even happiness. For even if aloof he was a sage of satirical quips and humor. He took no thoughts of anything being sacred. Everything was fair game. And in the absence of any preconceived notion of loyalty he and his brethren could break down the topics into their core components. Then smash it with a hammer.

It is only expected that as Anon's world expands that it might leak over into a greater universe and concepts.

Faction: Factionless

[SillyGoy]

Dank memes, Dinh. I would rather if you didn't, though.

[VitaVitaAR]

@LaXnyd: It... still doesn't entirely sit well with me but I'll give it some thought, okay?

@Dead Cruiser: I'm still a bit worried about how difficult it is to find out the extent of her abilities, I apologize for how long this is taking.

@Revens Exile: Since her appearance is not filled I will not be looking the bio over. When it is complete, I will.

@SillyGoy: Well, for the canon thing, apparently he is like the complete opposite of what his chapter is actually like from what I've been told. ^^; Apparently they're some of the nicest Space Marines. I'm also worried for the chance that people sign up with non-human characters or characters who display powers he would see as heretical.

@Gingerboi: My issue here is playing characters so closely associated with one another, honestly.

@Dinh AaronMK: Er. I'm not even quite sure what to say here, but I don't think I can really accept this. It's not so much a character as a slice of users on an imageboard?

[Dinh AaronMk]

VitaVitaAR said
@Dinh AaronMK: Er. I'm not even quite sure what to say here, but I don't think I can really except this. It's not so much a character as a slice of users on an imageboard?

Oh contraire. He also features as a character, and there are many interpretations.

And:

VitaVitaAR said
except this

[VitaVitaAR]

... I'm sorry I made a minor typo.

If you want me to get into the deeper issues I have with your bio, I can easily point out that he appears to have no actual personality(you say it changes from one monent to the next) and his abilities are completely undefined.

[Dinh AaronMk]

VitaVitaAR said
I can easily point out that he appears to have no actual personality(you say it changes from one monent to the next)

D.I.D

and his abilities are completely undefined.

I could also point out the lack of definition in the thread itself which leaves a lot to be interpreted. So there's not only a large diversity in abilities people may choose to have; which may or may not compliment each other in the literary sense. Given these characters come from their own worlds with their own magical rules, and we now expect them all to work in one setting will lead to a lot, "Well the rules of my character's world has this exception for that therefore I can win". There's nothing re-defining the perimeters of power or ability, and regulates that. At least in a story-telling capacity.

[Raineh Daze]

Dinh AaronMk said
I could also point out the lack of definition in the thread itself which leaves a lot to be interpreted. So there's not only a large diversity in abilities people may choose to have; which may or may not compliment each other in the literary sense. Given these characters come from their own worlds with their own magical rules, and we now expect them all to work in one setting will lead to a lot, "Well the rules of my character's world has this exception for that therefore I can win". There's nothing re-defining the perimeters of power or ability, and regulates that. At least in a story-telling capacity.

Stop being antagonistic towards the DM. :|

[Lost Cause]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole point of Anonymous that it's a concept, not an entity with defined characteristics?

[SillyGoy]

VitaVitaAR said @SillyGoy: Well, for the canon thing, apparently he is like the complete opposite of what his chapter is actually like from what I've been told. ^^; Apparently they're some of the nicest Space Marines. I'm also worried for the chance that people sign up with non-human characters or characters who display powers he would see as heretical.

Well, yes, boss. Like Avitus of the Blood Ravens, he has got no hope left as, for most of his lifetime in the service, he has seen nothing but his chapter getting beaten, battered and broken time and time again, but carries on anyway because of the oaths he took a century ago. Or would you rather I modified his personality to be that of the stereotypical Lamenter? I'd be fine with that.

In the event he does go full belligerent, all the better for Shadow Eternity, right?

[Dinh AaronMk]

Raineh Daze said
Stop being antagonistic towards the DM. :|

This is Interest Check. It's still in the clay molding phase to work out imperfections.

Lost Cause said
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole point of Anonymous that it's a concept, not an entity with defined characteristics?

Maybe around Tumblr and the concept of posting Anonymously. But it's also evolved to become a character, which often takes on the general personality of a homogeneous community. So there can be one, or there can be many. In one instance of a general I like to frequent, Anon IS treated as a character.

[Lost Cause]

Dinh AaronMk said
This is Interest Check. It's still in the clay molding phase to work out imperfections.

And if the GM says no, it still means no.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Dinh AaronMK: I'm not particularly certain that it will be an issue given I see no reason for rules from one setting to somehow overrule others in any capacity. Just because characters originate from different settings with different rules does not mean that they cannot interact within a crossover RP. I see no particular reason that, for example, Saber's magic resistance and vulnerability to magical weapons cannot apply to all settings across the board. I expect a magic sword to hurt her but magical lightning to have no effect. Neither do I see a reason to randomly change the abilities of characters involved in order to somehow solve this non-issue, a tactic I see as somewhat defeating the purpose of a crossover RP.

This may be an interest check, but in this case I have my ideas mostly finalized.

But perhaps this isn't the RP for you if you take issue with how the vast majority of crossover RPs I have seen are run.

[Dinh AaronMk]

VitaVitaAR said
@Dinh AaronMK: I'm not particularly certain that it will be an issue given I see no reason for rules from one setting to somehow overrule others in any capacity. Just because characters originate from different settings with different rules does not mean that they cannot interact within a crossover RP. I see no particular reason that, for example, Saber's magic resistance and vulnerability to magical weapons cannot apply to all settings across the board. I expect a magic sword to hurt her but magical lightning to have no effect.

This is a small point in the entire issue, not all of it.

First and foremost it's the nature of magic that can end up conflicting. Questions like, "Where does magic come from" demands consistency or else you end up with a wild tied-up string of nonsense that leads no where and just leads to the inevitable "I have developed a game-over spell".

In some universes magic is innate in a person and can be brought out in training, as often seems the case in things like Elder Scrolls. Where as magic can only be born into a person as in Harry Potter or The Witcher as per genetics passed down or mutation. And in other rules magic can only be given through use of items, or is made incredibly easy as in Runescape.

These things are not necessarily compatible and leads to issues when they meet. It's in the same sense as someone crossing into another dimension where the physics are different. You may burn when you touch water. So what's to stop someone from exploding if they touch a trace amount of someone else's magic? They could go on a sub-atomic principle with universe-unique particles lending "magic" or it's more spiritual with the dead; though then if you're summoning the dead what's to say you can actually call them if you're in technically a higher plane of existence as them, that being the multiverse?

Or is everyone already dead and all fights will end up being like Sisyphus' bolder where they effort to finish the fight but can't?

[VitaVitaAR]

... The come from different universes. Magic functions differently in different universes. It's not some homogeneous force across all of them. It's like how people have different blood-types, they can't use blood from a person with a different blood type but nothing stops them from interacting with it.

I'd assume no-one will decide their character explodes when they touch magic from another universe.

Nothing like this is ever an issue in any crossover RP I've ever seen, it won't be an issue in this one.

[Revans Exile]

VitaVitaAR said @Revens Exile: Since her appearance is not filled I will not be looking the bio over. When it is complete, I will.

I have an image of all three of my characters, I have to upload them to the internet before I can put them in the CS. I will upload and put into the CS after I finish writing my third character.

Second Character of Three:
Name: Marian Hawke
Title: The Champion of Kirkwall, Viscount of Kirkwall (formerly)
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Appearance: DA2
Canon, AU, or OC?: Canon
Universe of Origin: Dragon Age
Personality: Marian resents mages a lot of the time, due to her father and sister being mages they were forced to move around a lot to prevent them from being caught but she still loved them with all her heart. Marian veiws mages who turn to Blood Magic as weak who would do anything and use even the flimsiest of excuses to justify murder to achieve a goal. When it comes to her family and friends Marian will stop at nothing, such as the time she killed the Qunari's Arishok. She killed the Arishok a man she greatly respected even though she disagreed with some of his methods to save Isabella the woman she loved.
Abilities: Dual Weapon expert, Archery expert, master lockpicker
Weapon: Dual Volcanic Aurum daggers, Gilt Breach Longbow, & Murder Knife (not used in combat)
Equipment: Mantle of the Champion armor set (ignore the weapons on the back)
Backstory: During the Blight Marian, her mother Leandra, her sister Bethany, and her brother Carver are all fleeing Lothering before the Darkspawn can overrun their town. On the way out of town they encounter Aveline and her husband. During their final push out of the wilderness they encounter an Ogre, Carver is killed. The survivors are being overrun by Darkspawn, they had no hope of survival until Flemmeth shows up in the form of a dragon and saves them. Aveline's husband has been stricken with the Darkspawn disease known as the Taint; he was killed as an act of mercy. The Hawke family & Aveline eventually arrive in Kirkwall as lowly refugees with nothing but what they carry.

In Kirkwall they are refused entrance their only chance is Gamlen, Marian's uncle. His plan was to sell Marian & Bethany into indentured servitude for one year, Marian at least had a choice, smugglers or mercenaries.

After a year of indentured servitude, Bethany is afraid of being caught by the Templars since she is an apostate. Marian hears of Bartrand a Dwarf who is looking to explore an old and abandoned Dwarven Thaig, Marian hopes to get hired on to the expedition as hirelings to use the money to bribe corrupt Templars, but they are refused. As they leave Varric, Bartrand's brother tells them they are looking for partner to help fund the expedition. Marian saves up enough money and fulfilling a promise to Flemmeth. After fulfilling the promise to Flemeth and adding Merril an Elven mage to her list of companions she encounters Thrask and helps him with several apostates and eventually deals with a band of Qunari criminals. Marian also needed a map of the Deep Roads to help them find the Thaig. They turn to Anders an apostate mage who was once a member of the Grey Wardens serving under Elissa who may have maps they need. After completing a job for him he turns over the maps and joins Marian on her adventures. After acquiring everything they need Marian takes Bethany, Anders, and Varric into Deep Roads. During the expedition they are betrayed by Bartrand. They find another way out of the Deep Roads but Bethany has contracted the Taint, Marian was devastated at the thought of losing her sister. Anders suggests finding Stroud a Grey Warden who could potentially save Bethany's life but it would make her a Grey Warden and she would be forced to leave.

Three years later Marian is wealthy and Qunari are maintaining a very big prescence in the city, there is also a serial killer on the loose. The Qunari's Arishok asks for Marian's help in dealing with an Elven fanatic who has stolen a poisonous gas formula. Shortly after Marian begins an investigation into the serial killer but fails to find him. A Templar by the name of Varnell has taken a Qunari delegation hostage under the orders of the Chantry's Grand Cleric. Marian refuses to side with the hostage takers. Eventually Leandra comes to the attention of the serial killer and Hawke races to save her mother's life but ultimately fails and Leandra dies in Marian's arms. The Chantry's Grand Cleric continues her mission to fuck things up with the Qunari by killing a human willingly converted to their religion and framing Marian, the plot fails and the Grand Cleric is murdered by the Qunari.

The Arishok eventually grows sick of Kirkwall's dysfunction and decides to deal with it himself by attacking the city. During the attack on the city Marian has to fight her way to Viscount's Keep to put a stop to the Arishok's machinations along the way Marian encounters a group of Grey Warden's caught in the middle, Bethany is with them. Once at Viscount's Keep you are forced to decide to turn over Isabella a friend met three years earlier while as a refugee or duel the Arishok for her safety because Isabella stole from the Qunari. Marian is named Champion of Kirkwall for saving the city and driving the Qunari out.

A year later Marian is attacked by a Dwarven gang known as the Carta, they are deranged and looking for her blood so they can free their master one of the very first Darkspawn, Corypheus a Tavinter Magister who broke into the Golden City the seat of the Maker and creators of the Blights that nearly wiped out all life on Thedas. Marian and her friends killed Corypheus.

Two years after the Qunari leave, Marian meets Tallis an Elf who converted to the Qunari's religion. She is looking for something and Marian agrees to help. They eventually kill an Orlesian noble who was working with rogue Qunari. Before they part ways Marian and Tallis kiss intimately, Isabella doesn't care.

Three years after the Qunari leave, Meredith the Knight Commander of the Templars is ruling the city, the tensions between mages and Templars are starting to boil. Due to the tensions and mistreatment of mages several mages escaped. All but three mages were recaptured, Marian is asked to find the last three, one was just a man looking to live a little since being locked up in the circle since he was six the other two turned into murderers and Marian was forced to put them down. When Marian returned to tell Meredieth of the resolution Marian berated her for her heavy handed rule and blamed all the murders on her. Mages are sneaking out sometimes for days at a time, Marian is sent to investigate, her investigation uncovers that mages & Templars are working together to oust Meredith and put a Templar that is less confrontational in charge. The group had kidnapped Bethany to use as leverage against Marian. When Marian confronted the group Thrask tried to contain the situation but was killed by his second Grace an apostate mage who wanted revenge for a fellow apostate Marian killed during her time as a refugee.

The Divine Justinia V sends Sister Nightingale to assess the situaion in Kirkwall and to determine if an Exalted March is needed or not. Marian goes to meet with the Sister and is met with hostility an extremely aggressive rogue mages whose goals are to abolish the Circles. Sister Nightingale arrives in time to slay the reinforcements. Marian recognizes Sister Nightingale as none other than Leliana a Chantry Sister from Lothering. Marian assures Leliana that an Exalted March isn't needed, Leliana departs leaving a warning, war is coming and Kirkwall is no longer safe.

Anders had become a fanatical terrorist, destroys the Chantry. All hell broke loose in the city, Marian was forced to chose between siding with the mages or the Templars and how to handle Anders. Marian wanted to rip his head off and shove it up his ass but his death would have served no one and the Spirit of Justice that Anders corrupted into the Demon of Vengeance may have escaped so she chose to let him live so he would be forced to clean up the mess he created.

Marian's support meant little in the end she was forced to kill Orsino the leader of the mages and Meredith who was driven absolutely mad by the Red Lyrium sword she possessed. Marian's support for the Templar led her to become the Viscount of Kirkwall. The Kirkwall Rebellion was concluded but the Mage-Templar War had only just begun throwing all of Thedas into turmoil for years to come.

Eventually the Templars of Kirkwall started to use Red Lyrium, they grew paranoid Marian was forced to step down as Viscount. She turned to Stroud the man who saved Bethany's life from the Taint to help her investigate.

Marian & Stroud eventually became concerned about the corruption in the Grey Warden ranks, and went into hiding. Varric contacted Marian so she could help Evelyn Trevelyan of The Inquisition deal with Corypheus since Marian had previously fought and killed Corypheus before. Marian introduced Evelyn to Stroud. Together they put an end to Corypheus' plot to take over the Grey Wardens at the cost of Stroud's life. Marian traveled to Weisshaupt to brief the Grey Wardens of what had transpired.

Faction: Factionless

[SillyGoy]

So, boss, what about Chalcedon?

[Dinh AaronMk]

VitaVitaAR said
... The come from different universes. Magic functions differently in different universes. It's not some homogeneous force across all of them. It's like how people have different blood-types, they can't use blood from a person with a different blood type but nothing stops them from interacting with it.

It's almost as if we were on the same wave-length...

I'd assume no-one will decide their character explodes when they touch magic from another universe.

Nothing like this is ever an issue in any crossover RP I've ever seen, it won't be an issue in this one.

But then this.

They may not explode. Or they may not have any effect. Or their magic is just a light-show. The important part is that outside of their universe their cut off from the source of their power and now in a new universe with new natural rules. They most likely can not draw from their old rules and there's something in the new universe that commands them.

Now, perhaps in this higher plane there's something that can allow them to use their power. In a literary sense this may create an incentive for people to act more since it comes with a reward of being connected to this as-of-yet-unknown-plot device. And with there being so many unaffiliated characters it'd be an extra material weight for when they feel naked without magic missile as they know it.

This also allows for a sense of balance between abilities. No one has the useful loopholes writers eventually write into their own magical systems so the hero can defeat the villain at the end. This creates a mechanical balance and keeps already wild abilities in check.

And no one may have ever brought it up because no one stopped to think about how disastrous someone joining as a character with infinite mind-reading potential can be and who can summon black-holes on a whim without any thought of how this happens in their universe in the first place and if it's compatible. Or folk are too polite and afraid of offering out feedback, as I've seen here. There's a lot of confusion about giving criticism with being rewd.

[Raineh Daze]

Dinh AaronMk said
It's almost as if we were on the same wave-length...But then this.They may not explode. Or they may not have any effect. Or their magic is just a light-show. The important part is that outside of their universe their cut off from the source of their power and now in a new universe with new natural rules. They most likely can not draw from their old rules and there's something in the new universe that commands them.Now, perhaps in this higher plane there's something that can allow them to use their power. In a literary sense this may create an incentive for people to act more since it comes with a reward of being connected to this as-of-yet-unknown-plot device. And with there being so many unaffiliated characters it'd be an extra material weight for when they feel naked without magic missile as they know it.This also allows for a sense of balance between abilities. No one has the useful loopholes writers eventually write into their own magical systems so the hero can defeat the villain at the end. This creates a mechanical balance and keeps already wild abilities in check.And no one may have ever brought it up because no one stopped to think about how disastrous someone joining as a character with infinite mind-reading potential can be and who can summon black-holes on a whim without any thought of how this happens in their universe in the first place and if it's compatible. Or folk are too polite and afraid of offering out feedback, as I've seen here. There's a lot of confusion about giving criticism with being rewd.

Summation: 'blahblah must homogenise, assuming the gm won't gm so all powers must be innately balanced because BACKGROUND'.

[SillyGoy]

I think it is understood that for the sake of this RP, all characters will have their abilities fully working no matter what.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Dinh AaronMK: Frankly I assumed it was irrelevant. Incidentally, the multiverse(I assumed this was obvious) is literally the space between dimensions. I didn't even think it was worth explaining why it can function because, again, it's not immediately irrelevant, but I'd assume people from different universes still have a link to their universe, or simply inherently operate under the rules of their own universe. As would be, you know, logical, simple, and consistent.

I am absolutely not depriving people of their characters' abilities just because they decided not to place them in a faction at the start. It's grossly unfair and quite the opposite of "balance". Frankly there are plenty of plot hooks I can devise for something vast like this without doing something that eliminates the abilities of unaffiliated characters.

As for the abilities you mentioned, I would never accept someone who can read minds infinitely or effortlessly generate black holes, so it's really rather irrelevant.

@SillyGoy: Try adjusting the personality and I'll consider it.