[OOC] Protea - The Ebon Flow

[Lord Santa]

Edited my sheet too. Turns out I have wifi at school so it's all g

[harinezumikouken]

Yay, for the joyous discovery of free wifi at places!

[Lord Santa]

Yay, for the joyous discovery of free wifi at places!

@harinezumikouken

Exactly. Too bad I don't have it at home, but better than nothing.

In other news, I got a pirate/bandit coming up so look forward to it

[harinezumikouken]

@Lugubrious - Oi, I added a greatest love/motivation to my CS. Also, gave her freckles.

Because I f*cking wanted to and they're adorable. Expect a bunch more spells to be added too.

[Oswald The Penguin]

Alright, I've migrated my character sheet, added a greatest love, fear, and motivation, filled out my spell list, and added a trait section similar to Burthstone's Strengths & Weaknesses section.

[Lugubrious]

Fantastic, you three! This is shaping up to be a heck of an RP, thanks to you all.

[Blubaron45]

Hello, blub! Thanks for applying. Your sheet is great, and Haydrex is accepted, though make sure to include some of the recently-added character sheet sections like 'greatest love'.

@Lugubrious

Sure thing, I'll be sure to edit it.

[Burthstone]

*Does a little 'hope this starts soon' dance in.*

This is indeed looking quite nice.

Though, I will admit, I did feel like I was being borderline daft when I decided to have my character affiliate with four affinities (See what I did there?). Now, that looks about normal compared to the person with ~5 and the person with ~10.

Edit: Oh, and I'll be adding the needed incantations to Riad's spells as need be. I don't want to come up with all of them at the moment, and it's difficult to be ambiguous enough to use in any situation and not sound weird, while still being relatively specific.

I like my one for "Flash Pain" though.

[harinezumikouken]

@Lugubrious - Oi, gave her a middle name because I felt like it. Also fleshed out her spell repertoire. Give it a look see and tell me what you think, I'll omit those which you think may unbalance her power and save those for a future 'character upgrade'.

[Lord Santa]

Here's my pirate. It's a bit rushed and all, and I'm purposefully trying to toe the line as to what's acceptable so feel free to poke holes in it. Want @Lugubrious to see if all the things I tried are alright.

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Name: Aron ‘The Shark’ Aurum

Sex: Male

Age: 35

Race: Human

Affinity: Lucrum

Personality: Aron isn’t exactly a smart man. He’s rather flamboyant and outspoken and lets his emotions go pretty often. He’s rather upbeat and lighthearted, however. When he’s drunk, he’s about the same, with less balance. He’s kind of petty at times as well, and he likes laughing in most forms (including laughing evilly). The biggest thing about him, though, is the fact that he loves money. He wants a lot of money. He's a huge cheapskate, a cheat and doesn't like being stolen from. He can gain people's trust through a drink and some banter but don't be surprised if he makes you pay for it, and if you're wallet's gone, it'll be his fault. Basically, he's a reasonably cheerful rogue with a fab beard. He has a comedic outlook on life because he feels that it can't be much worse.

Greatest Love: Gold, gold, gold and gold. And maybe alcohol.

Motivation(s): Gold, gold, gold and gold. Wants to be a real pirate one day. Wants to steal the Ankou.

Fighting Style: Pirate fighting, even though he isn’t really a pirate! Dirty tactics, wild chops, all of that! Semi-skilled swordplay offset by whatever he found on the floor!

Pirate fighting is somewhat similar to bar fighting. Use whatever you have and some of what others have. Aron mixes semi-skilled swordplay with one-handed gunplay. He’s not a great marksman, but it won’t matter if their close enough. Aron’s kind of proficient in most one handed weapons and he’ll figure out a way to use any he isn’t proficient in. He’s pretty good with most firearms as well, and he knows how to fire a cannon.

With that said, his fighting style revolves around doing everything possible to win. Kicking sand, dirt, rocks, throwing rock, bottles, setting stuff on fire. It emphasises dodging over defence (as pirates don’t really wear armour). In constant life and death situations, Aron has learned how to live life on the edge. Think of something, he’ll probably use it. He also adds biting to his list of moves, and you’ll see why in a second.

He's got a steel sabre and a revolver, as well as bombs, cigars, a lighter and spare bullets. Also has some spare metal stuff for food.

Spell List

He’s a power user, so these are the things he can do. Only a few things, but things nonetheless.

Iron stomach

Form: Self (Passive)
Affinity: Corpus, Fames (to some extent)
Aron’s power revolves around the fact that he can eat anything, no matter how unfit for consumption it might be. His digestive tract renders poison useless and he can digest literally anything, no matter how hard or inedible. It gives him some passive toxin resistance but he’s not immune to it by any means. At least he won’t get food poisoning, though.

Metal consumption

Form: Self (passive)
Affinity: Corpus, Lucrum, Fames
Aron can eat metal. That’s pretty much it. His teeth are made of an unknown metal and he can chew metals without damaging himself. Upon consumption, the metal heals his wounds. He can eat any metal to heal but the effect is increased the more precious the metal is, as well as how much he eats. For example, eating a copper sword will regenerate shallow gashes while if he got his arm cut off, if he ate a solid bar of really good gold it’d probably stitch itself back on. Sound OP? Don’t worry! It’ll be balanced in the bio, I assure you.

Bio

Aron was born in the slum districts of Ebb to parents who already had too many kids. They would’ve kept him with his 6 brothers and 4 sisters if he didn’t have that one kind of birth defect. Well, his teeth were made of some kind of metal, and he ate money. Literally. He couldn’t survive on normal food and his parents found him eating metal for sustenance, metal which they collected to make a living. They kicked him out because they couldn’t really live with him and he had to fend for himself for his childhood. He was about 4 years old.

Living in the slums of Ebb is hard. It’s wet and when the tide comes in, you better hope you’re somewhere high. Aron became wily, and became adept at stealing. He stole to make money, he used money to buy metal which he ate. He stole metal as well sometimes, so he could eat. It was a hard life, but one thing gave him hope.

When he was about 11, he found a book about pirates. To him, pirates seemed to be the best thing to be and he aspired to be a pirate.

Eventually, when he was older, he became the leader of a gang. A boat gang. It was pretty much the closest thing he had to a pirate crew. He'd learned how to fight like a pirate from the gang wars he fought in. Unfortunately for his crew, he had a run-in with a whirlpool. It sank his boat gang and left him alive, but after it, he saw tha Ankou. Now he had something he wanted to do. Steal the Ankou, drive it into the sunset.

Appearance

And if anyone missed it, he can't live without eating something metal.

[Lugubrious]

Santa, you've created a magnificent bastard. All you need to do is pick one affinity (while anyone can use multiple affinities in their spells, only one gets to be in the Affinity section), and maybe add a little more to his personality as you think of it. Oh, and in your second spell, you can eliminate Metallum, because Lucrum already has it in. Also, I feel that this would probably help you: Mentus plus Bestia equals Fames - Hunger magic. His last name couldn't be more thematically appropriate, by the way.

Everything's good to start with but Heavenly Storm and Wings of the Seraph, Harine. Those can come later.

[harinezumikouken]

@Lord Santa - Mmph. Antonio Banderas as a pirate. I can already see Marianne becoming hopelessly smitten with him.

PRE RP PAIRING APPROVED. -Bangs gavel- I love the simplicity of his character.

@Lugubrious - Got it boss. Omitting 'em.

[Lugubrious]

Oh, and if anyone has any areas of magic they feel aren't covered by the current Affinities and their divisions, let me know so I can incorporate it or add a new one. I might go ahead and make a subsection with a few combo affinities.

[harinezumikouken]

Oh, and if anyone has any areas of magic they feel aren't covered by the current Affinities and their divisions, let me know so I can incorporate it or add a new one. I might go ahead and make a subsection with a few combo affinities.

@Lugubrious

So, the question on everyone's mind. When the f*ck is this party gettin' started, boss?

[Lugubrious]

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So, the question on everyone's mind. When the f*ck is this party gettin' started, boss?

@harinezumikouken

Thursday afternoon, mostly likely. That's after most of my worrisome finals.

...sorry about the wait. We can continue to worldbuild in the meantime, though!

[Lord Santa]

Ok, did the edits. Is it alright now?

[Oswald The Penguin]

On the note of world building, I was going to try to create some monsters to populate whatever places monsters may populate. I might still do that.

[Lugubrious]

Yep, Santa! Good to go.

I'll look forward to it, Oswald.

[Lord Santa]

Oh, in regards to world building, I kind of want to make some antagonists or just bad guys. I want to have more fun with spells, see, and the forbidden affinities are begging to be played around with.

Or at least NPCs, I have some ideas for stuff. I just want to play around with what I can do, basically.

[Lugubrious]

Oh, in regards to world building, I kind of want to make some antagonists or just bad guys. I want to have more fun with spells, see, and the forbidden affinities are begging to be played around with.

Or at least NPCs, I have some ideas for stuff. I just want to play around with what I can do, basically.

@Lord Santa

Please do exactly that. When I was choosing from my characters, I realized that I have more bad guys who fit into this setting than good guys. Ended up with Mancer, but I'm going to have more. Just be sure to give a credible reason for your character being evil. It can be anything from being a demon to having a magical affliction to circumstance to insanity, but bad guys with interesting backstories are always way better than the 'for the evulz' fellas you sometimes see.