[OOC] Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

[Eklispe]

TEAM MATES!!!! POOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTT!!!

[SevenStormStyle]

I'm trying. D:

I'm getting on an 11 hour flight in like 20 minutes though.

[Ookawa]

@Eklispe
Already working on a collab with Lucius. Ryo hasn't showed up to the collab yet, though.

[Ryonara]

I'm there right now, won't be on for long.

[Abillioncats]

Man I haven't been in this rpg for very long and I've already got the basic idea of another character in my head. I should stop doing that. XD

[Lady Seraphina]

I'm trying. D:

I'm getting on an 11 hour flight in like 20 minutes though.

@SevenStormStyle

International flights such as that usually have wifi.

[Suku]

back and I am going to have to switch internet providers at this rate. sorry for being late my internet went out for some time

[Lady Seraphina]

Alright just to confirm. Is anyone working on another entree for the contest cause if they are I could give you another couple of days. If no one else is interested I'll go ahead and judge it.

[harinezumikouken]

That's a 'No' on my end, boss. I couldn't motivate myself and get any inspiration for your contest.

[Ookawa]

Sorry, I had absolutely no idea what to write. I mean, I had some ideas, but they were blown out of my mind by my aforementioned brother.

[Eklispe]

Nah not feeling any motivation for it.

[HereComesTheSnow]

I'm in no good shape to think of anything, the one idea I had wasn't exactly fitting to what you're looking for

[Lady Seraphina]

Hey guys, not really relevant to the RP but I wanted to ask for some help brainstorming for a short story I'm writing.

Alright, firstly the main character has really awesome magical powers. Too awesome in fact. She was born with such extraordinary powers they would consume her if they were ever fully unleashed. To protect her her parents sealed her powers away within a partition in her soul. Now the story starts when she's about fourteen. She encounters an ancient ruin a couple miles from her village and the local kids dare her to go in. She does and finds some sort of magical artifact inside. She touches it and whatever it is damages the binding magic holding her powers. She gets super magical abilities and when the towns people find out she is reported to the royal guard and taken to the palace cause in this world all mages belong to the crown. As the story goes on and she uses more of her powers they grow stronger and the binding magic weakens then we have to deal with the issue of when if fails completely she will violently explode. Now what I need help with is what exactly was that artifact in the ruins. It needs to be something dangerous that she won't tell the king about but past that I'm at a lost.

On another note I could use help with naming some of my characters.

Here they are:

• A dragonlord who is capable of taking human form. He is special among the dragons in that he can summons wild blue flames that are hot enough to melt dragon scales.
• The king of Brendol where our hero grew up. His leadership owns mages and trains then into fearsome warriors or else they die in training. It is not a fate to be envied.
• The hero's foster father. A book binder and something of an expert in magic. After her contact with the artifact he bound her a grimoire to try and contain her abilities.
• The prince of the land, a man of mischievous intent and not nearly as cruel as his father.
• The Arch Mage of the realm. An older man who commands powerful magics. He is not malicious but is not above causing incredibly pain or pushing someone beyond there limits to gain knowledge. The hero's teacher at the castle.
• An ice mage who is partnered with the hero. Though an honorable fighter is completely devoted to the king. At some point the hero betrays him.
• A young girl with fire magic that the hero is sent to apprehend in the name of the king. Remind the hero of how she once was.

Any of these you could help with would be amazingly helpful. I've sort of hit an impass.

I'm in no good shape to think of anything, the one idea I had wasn't exactly fitting to what you're looking for

@HereComesTheSnow

If it's a good enough story then losing a couple of the rules won't matter to me as long as it follows the spirit of the contest.

[harinezumikouken]

Sounds pretty cool.

[Sho Minazuki]

Hey guys, not really relevant to the RP but I wanted to ask for some help brainstorming for a short story I'm writing.

Alright, firstly the main character has really awesome magical powers. Too awesome in fact. She was born with such extraordinary powers they would consume her if they were ever fully unleashed. To protect her her parents sealed her powers away within a partition in her soul. Now the story starts when she's about fourteen. She encounters an ancient ruin a couple miles from her village and the local kids dare her to go in. She does and finds some sort of magical artifact inside. She touches it and whatever it is damages the binding magic holding her powers. She gets super magical abilities and when the towns people find out she is reported to the royal guard and taken to the palace cause in this world all mages belong to the crown. As the story goes on and she uses more of her powers they grow stronger and the binding magic weakens then we have to deal with the issue of when if fails completely she will violently explode. Now what I need help with is what exactly was that artifact in the ruins. It needs to be something dangerous that she won't tell the king about but past that I'm at a lost.

On another note I could use help with naming some of my characters.

Here they are:

• A dragonlord who is capable of taking human form. He is special among the dragons in that he can summons wild blue flames that are hot enough to melt dragon scales.
• The king of Brendol where our hero grew up. His leadership owns mages and trains then into fearsome warriors or else they die in training. It is not a fate to be envied.
• The hero's foster father. A book binder and something of an expert in magic. After her contact with the artifact he bound her a grimoire to try and contain her abilities.
• The prince of the land, a man of mischievous intent and not nearly as cruel as his father.
• The Arch Mage of the realm. An older man who commands powerful magics. He is not malicious but is not above causing incredibly pain or pushing someone beyond there limits to gain knowledge. The hero's teacher at the castle.
• An ice mage who is partnered with the hero. Though an honorable fighter is completely devoted to the king. At some point the hero betrays him.
• A young girl with fire magic that the hero is sent to apprehend in the name of the king. Remind the hero of how she once was.

Any of these you could help with would be amazingly helpful. I've sort of hit an impass.

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If it's a good enough story then losing a couple of the rules won't matter to me as long as it follows the spirit of the contest.

@Prince of Seraphs

I can give you some names, but I've no idea what their full backgrounds and personalities are to make rather fitting names.

Instead, probably assign naming conventions to certain civilizations, towns, etc. And simply abide by them.

If you go to the site "behindthename" you can also assign meanings if you find a fitting one.

You can have fun with it. Make the names ironic, fitting, an allusion or foreshadowing to their fate or destiny, you can make it both ironic and fitting because maybe they were fitting for the name early in their life, but changed greatly later on, making it ironic.

Loads of neat things you can do.

[Lugubrious]

Hey guys, not really relevant to the RP but I wanted to ask for some help brainstorming for a short story I'm writing.

Alright, firstly the main character has really awesome magical powers. Too awesome in fact. She was born with such extraordinary powers they would consume her if they were ever fully unleashed. To protect her her parents sealed her powers away within a partition in her soul. Now the story starts when she's about fourteen. She encounters an ancient ruin a couple miles from her village and the local kids dare her to go in. She does and finds some sort of magical artifact inside. She touches it and whatever it is damages the binding magic holding her powers. She gets super magical abilities and when the towns people find out she is reported to the royal guard and taken to the palace cause in this world all mages belong to the crown. As the story goes on and she uses more of her powers they grow stronger and the binding magic weakens then we have to deal with the issue of when if fails completely she will violently explode. Now what I need help with is what exactly was that artifact in the ruins. It needs to be something dangerous that she won't tell the king about but past that I'm at a lost.

On another note I could use help with naming some of my characters.

Here they are:

• A dragonlord who is capable of taking human form. He is special among the dragons in that he can summons wild blue flames that are hot enough to melt dragon scales.
• The king of Brendol where our hero grew up. His leadership owns mages and trains then into fearsome warriors or else they die in training. It is not a fate to be envied.
• The hero's foster father. A book binder and something of an expert in magic. After her contact with the artifact he bound her a grimoire to try and contain her abilities.
• The prince of the land, a man of mischievous intent and not nearly as cruel as his father.
• The Arch Mage of the realm. An older man who commands powerful magics. He is not malicious but is not above causing incredibly pain or pushing someone beyond there limits to gain knowledge. The hero's teacher at the castle.
• An ice mage who is partnered with the hero. Though an honorable fighter is completely devoted to the king. At some point the hero betrays him.
• A young girl with fire magic that the hero is sent to apprehend in the name of the king. Remind the hero of how she once was.

@Prince of Seraphs

The Artifact: (What items are so dangerous to possess that someone wouldn't dare speak of them to authority?) a collar once used for human enslavement by a maniacal mage of days now past. The heroes who defeated the madman were able to damage the collar, but not fully destroy it, and the collar is a central thematic piece of the legends surrounding the madman, and is demonized along with him.

-Dragonlord: 'Archon' Emile Caelum
-King: King Sergei Richter
-Father: Alum Libris
-Prince - Prince Anton Richter
-Archmage - Master Lavernius Gosselin
-Partner - Milo Ramshatter
-Girl - Wendy Desrochers

[Sho Minazuki]

I would've given the dragon lord something like Dirge or Draeden. It's cooler, has a sense of strength to them too.

Naming for the Prince and King seem to switch between Russian, German and French. The rest are pretty standard though.

Probably give an ice mage a cooler name, since I assume he'll be somewhat of a rival character too (and romance option maybe were this a game).

Some names you really need to think through.

Have you thought about naming conventions? In the long run, having a naming convention set out and abided by, will actually increase immersion. So say you have a distinctly French naming convention for one nation, whenever a new character is introduced by name alone, you can already tell they're of that particular nation, or related to it in some way, without needing the description that they are from that nation. It's pretty neat.

[Crimmy]

Draeden reminds me of the Gym Leader in Pokemon Black and White.

You know, Drayden, the guy whose beard takes over his face.

[Lady Seraphina]

The Artifact: (What items are so dangerous to possess that someone wouldn't dare speak of them to authority?) a collar once used for human enslavement by a maniacal mage of days now past. The heroes who defeated the madman were able to damage the collar, but not fully destroy it, and the collar is a central thematic piece of the legends surrounding the madman, and is demonized along with him.

@Lugubrious

Not a bad idea but this also has to be the magic that damages the binding spell on the main characters powers. While a slave crown (to quote Final Fantasy XI) would be both an interesting idea to toy with and something to be kept out of the king's hands I don't see how it would be able to do damage to another kind of enchantment.

[HereComesTheSnow]

At long last this mission's over

We did it Fam

We did it

Time for some comfy Slice of Life ooh baby