Chasers: Boundary of the Crimson Sky

[KoL]

Chasers: Boundary of the Crimson Sky

When night falls, the boundary is pierced...

Summary

Mysterious occurrences have been happening through out the city. Rumors tell about queer looking creatures stalking the shadows, people disappearing from the street during the night, crime syndicates so powerful that the law can't even touch them and much, much more.

The common men dismiss such tales as nothing but urban legends, fabrications of the collective sub-consciousness of all who inhabit this sprawling jungle of concrete and steel.

However, there are few who know the truth that lies beyond the edge of every corner, within the back alleys where the light never shines and above the rooftops where the night wind howls fiercely. These persons are know as Chasers, men and women of every age and path in life that always have at least two things in common.

First, they all know that the world is much more than the eye meets, that the supernatural beings wait inside every shadow, waiting to prey on the unwary. And second, somehow everyone of them has seen what lies beyond this world, the other side of reality that is best left unknown to the everyday man, this second world is know as the Crimson Sky.

The Crimson Sky

And beyond it lies a world bathed in red.

All Chasers know of the Crimson Sky, in fact the ability to get in and out of there is the first and foremost difference between a normal human and a Chaser, and most of them gained their other abilities when they were sent there by accident, or dragged there by one of the Crimson Sky's inhabitants.

Entering and leaving the Crimson Sky can only be done during the night, for those who know how to do it, it is just a matter of crossing the right street or turning a in the correct direction corner. However, the easy with which it's done, meaning the number of places where the crossing can be done varies with the phases of the moon, being much harder on new moon and almost childishly easy on the full moon nights.

The Crimson Sky is home to a number of different creatures that the Chasers dubbed Youkai for easy of reference. Some of them are friendly, some indifferent, but the great majority are nothing but predators always seeking their next meal of human flesh.

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Ok, this is my new idea for an urban fantasy RP. Actually, there's a little more to add, but this is more than enough for an interest check. If it stroke your fancy, please let me know by stating your interest or even posting an early CS. Thanks for now and bye!

EDIT: Additional Info

Here's some extra stuff I've posted on as a reply to @Medjedovic' questions, it might help you guys plan your CSs.

Extra Info

Are there any limits for power or bio?
Because there is little information in OP are we allowed to create supernatural monsters and organizations for our backstory?
Are we all located in the same city? If so, what's its name?
Do Chasers keep in touch with each other in some manner? Is there some organization that handles Chaser affairs on the world level? (like Magic Association in Nasuverse, for example)
Is Crimson Sky filled just with roaming monsters, or is there some social order there?

@Medjedovic

Your answers, in order:

- None, for both. You could do the president of the United States as a Chaser of you wanted and I wouldn't care, or do a character like Shiki and still it would be game as long as you don't abuse things. I'm putting a great deal of trust in the players to behave like adults, you see?

- That was my point the whole time, give a blanc slate in which they could exert their creativity. There's no way one single person can come up with all that I would need to weave this story.

- Yeah, we are, and it's on Japan, being part of Tokyo's metropolitan area, however I felt that must calling it "This City" would be more fun. You now, to feel less grounded in the real world. But there's nothing dating that you couldn't have come from another place in the world, as the Crimson Sky is basically a parallel Earth, so it covers the whole world.

- Some do, some don't, they are basically humans anyway, so disagreements between them are far from rare. Though for the purpose of this RP I'll have your characters be contacted and work together, by an NPC in the first IC post. You'll be free to deny, of course, but since the story will involve a big supernatural occurrence (think of Kyoukai no Kanata) the safety of a loner won't be granted. Yes, there is a Chaser organization, I guess that I should have put the Chasers section of the OP after all, the organization is know as the Hunters' Association, BTW. Also, I should add that the Association pays monetary rewards to the Chasers for their kills, add long as they bring the Soul Stones left behind when an Youkai dies.

- As I said, there are civilized Youkai, some even work with the Chasers to help deal with the ones they call Strays, the troublesome Youkai that the Chasers generally hunt.

- Oh, I nearly forgot, but I'd like to say that you can play as human like Youkai, or half-Youkai, too.

I would make all of this c least on the OOC, by placing a Glossary post, but guess it's better to left you guys know it now. This easy you can plan your characters better.

[The Fox Without]

I'm gonna keep an eye on this, looks like it could be interesting. Gotta ask, did you pull some inspiration from Persona? Kinda feels like grand prix ultimax

[AiyvaGuard]

I AM INTEREEESTEEED

[KoL]

@The Fox WithoutSadly, even though I wanted to, I don't know a thing about the Persona franchise. Actually, this is inspired in a wellspring of different sources, the biggest ones being Big Trouble in Little China, Ninja Slayer From Animation and Kara no Kyoukai.

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@AiyvaGuardNice, I'm looking forward to seeing you.

EDIT 2: I'll probably do an example CS when I wake up in a few hours for anyone who might have dificult figuring out what to do.

[AiyvaGuard]

Name |
Alie Windred

Age |
14

Gender |
Female

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Height| 4.7ft [] Weight| 113.4lb [] Build| Athletic

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Personality |
Alie is a drawer, expressing her current emotions by drawing. Multiple pictures within her mind that express her feelings. Feelings in which she couldn't show because she was too shut in. Alie was too scared to realize that she was pushing away others and her mother pushed her to the edge until she suddenly stopped, Alie began to accept that her mother just wanted a writer instead of an artist and due to her rewards she felt as if she'd gain money and power out of her books...but instead only pain came from it. Alie is confident, shy, and bubbly all at the same time. After she discovered her powers and her effects she felt stronger because of it. Now she is able to keep her state of mind without being scared.

Skills and Powers |

• Time | The user can manipulate the fabric of time forwarding it, stopping it, and replaying it. But at the cost of mass use is parts of her life force. When using it for 'mass use' Alie's life time would decrease at the use of 'mass use'. But if Alie were to pick certain areas to rewind/fast forward/ or stop then the effects wouldn't be caused. But her powers effects can only vary by her physical and mental state. So if she is scared or tired her powers would be temporary. But if she was confident and active her powers would reach full potential.

Bio |
Alie was born in a line of writers, her mother wrote 3 books and two of them received a reward. Her father was abusive, after Alie was born he began beating the mother and to the extent in which broke a bone. Later on he killed himself while drunk and since then Alie's mother began writing her experience as a victim thus she won a trophy. But Alie wasn't as creative as her mother, she lingered around drawing and wanted to become an artist. Though her mother decline, wanting a line of writers instead of artists she pushed her way through the boundaries, but it didn't work. No matter what her mother did to become a writer Alie wanted to draw... her passion for it was unbelievable and at a young age she could draw better than any artist...almost, though. Finally her mother accepted her passion and continued writing books, leaving Alie be she was finally free to do what ever she wanted with her profession. At occasions Alie would venture near her home climbing, running, and walking the lonely streets near her house. " Boundaries? You venture these streets and simply draw...humans. " Suddenly on a fateful day Alie was forcefully dragged into the Crimson World. He left her there alone scared and distraught. Demons or some kind of creatures were drawn to her by her scent and then...bang. Time surged through her and forcefully time stopped by Alie's will. Creatures in which slowly moved towards her and thus she planned her escape. Quietly crying as she pushed away the creatures that tried to devour her. Alie fell back into reality, facing the effects of her powers she began realizing what she encountered. Alie attempted to find multiple ways back into the Crimson World and thus she did, during full moons she entered the Crimson World and thus she explored it with confidence.

Equipment |
Time Key

Time Key

Alie found a sword within the crimson sky. At the remains of a man beside a drug store she claimed it as her own, though oddly she found that the sword reacts to her powers and activates if used. The sword can correctly pick a designated area without the focus of the user and decrease the life force absorption. The sword itself is actually larger than Alie but it is extremely light for someone her size. ( Some kind of magic is infused to it and also the sword is 5.5ft )

Other |
Casual Outfit

Added with Gray Ballerina Shoes

[Valhalla]

Interested, but before I start making my CS, I was wondering if I could get a little more info on the setting? Or should I just wait till the OOC for more info?

[KoL]

@AiyvaGuardI liked your idea, perhaps a little too much, even. Alie is just too adorable to not accept, however you should bear in mind that time manipulation is a much more complicated power than you might imagine. I got a whole bag of nasty tricks to deal with it in fact. This I'm not disinclined to allow you to have this power as long as you don't start abusing it. Else we will have things like shattered glass and steel shrapnel popping up more frequently than necessary.

.@Valhalla What more information you might want? I guess that I covered anything necessary for people to do their characters on the OP, but if there's anything more that you need you can ask and I'll be glad to answer.

[AiyvaGuard]

@AiyvaGuardI liked your idea, perhaps a little too much, even. Alie is just too adorable to not accept, however you should bear in mind that time manipulation is a much more complicated power than you might imagine. I got a whole bag of nasty tricks to deal with it in fact. This I'm not disinclined to allow you to have this power as long as you don't start abusing it. Else we will have things like shattered glass and steel shrapnel popping up more frequently than necessary.

.@Valhalla What more information you might want? I guess that I covered anything necessary for people to do their characters on the OP, but if there's anything more that you need you can ask and I'll be glad to answer.

@KoL

AiyvaGuard
Alrighty! Alie is a bit too sweet and caring for abusing her powers.
Oh! And this does mean I am accepted? Right XD

[Medjedovic]

Are there any limits for power or bio?
Because there is little information in OP are we allowed to create supernatural monsters and organizations for our backstory?
Are we all located in the same city? If so, what's its name?
Do Chasers keep in touch with each other in some manner? Is there some organization that handles Chaser affairs on the world level? (like Magic Association in Nasuverse, for example)
Is Crimson Sky filled just with roaming monsters, or is there some social order there?

[KoL]

@AiyvaGuard Yeah, you're accepted.

Are there any limits for power or bio?
Because there is little information in OP are we allowed to create supernatural monsters and organizations for our backstory?
Are we all located in the same city? If so, what's its name?
Do Chasers keep in touch with each other in some manner? Is there some organization that handles Chaser affairs on the world level? (like Magic Association in Nasuverse, for example)
Is Crimson Sky filled just with roaming monsters, or is there some social order there?

@Medjedovic

Your answers, in order:

- None, for both. You could do the president of the United States as a Chaser of you wanted and I wouldn't care, or do a character like Shiki and still it would be game as long as you don't abuse things. I'm putting a great deal of trust in the players to behave like adults, you see?

- That was my point the whole time, give a blanc slate in which they could exert their creativity. There's no way one single person can come up with all that I would need to weave this story.

- Yeah, we are, and it's on Japan, being part of Tokyo's metropolitan area, however I felt that must calling it "This City" would be more fun. You now, to feel less grounded in the real world. But there's nothing dating that you couldn't have come from another place in the world, as the Crimson Sky is basically a parallel Earth, so it covers the whole world.

- Some do, some don't, they are basically humans anyway, so disagreements between them are far from rare. Though for the purpose of this RP I'll have your characters be contacted and work together, by an NPC in the first IC post. You'll be free to deny, of course, but since the story will involve a big supernatural occurrence (think of Kyoukai no Kanata) the safety of a loner won't be granted. Yes, there is a Chaser organization, I guess that I should have put the Chasers section of the OP after all, the organization is know as the Hunters' Association, BTW. Also, I should add that the Association pays monetary rewards to the Chasers for their kills, add long as they bring the Soul Stones left behind when an Youkai dies.

- As I said, there are civilized Youkai, some even work with the Chasers to help deal with the ones they call Strays, the troublesome Youkai that the Chasers generally hunt.

- Oh, I nearly forgot, but I'd like to say that you can play as human like Youkai or half-Youkai, too.

I would make all of this c least on the OOC, by placing a Glossary post, but guess it's better to left you guys know it now. This easy you can plan your characters better.

[Medjedovic]

Ok, thanks :)
I'll try to post a CS until the end of the day.

[KoL]

@Medjedovic Perhaps looking at this example can help you, this will be the NPC who'll contact the players at the beginning of the RP.

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EXAMPLE CS

Name: Akane Chikage

Age: Looks like she's 16, but in truth is around her mid 1000's. (Don't mention her true age if you value your life.)

Gender: Female

Height: 1,59 m | 5'2"

Weight: 47 kg | 103,62 lb

Appearance:

Normal Appearance

True Form

Personality: Akane generally is calm and collected, though if someone pisses her off she's prone to bursts of rage and can be very unpleasant to stay around during those times. She also loves expensive things, specially precious gems, and will burn her money to buy anything that strikes her fancy without any consideration for the future or how much she's spending.

Skills and Powers:

- Shadow Manipulation: Akane can control the shadows around her in a wide radius, being able to command them to take shape and attack foes, meld with them and either disappear or teleport as well as any other varied of tricks that she can think about.

- Magic: In her human form Akane is also able to perform relatively advanced witchcraft that she has been studying over the past century, ever since she came in contact with human mages for the first time. Her specialty is witchcraft powered by magical jewels.

- Martial Arts: Akane has been training martial arts as a hobby for as much time as she has been training witchcraft, so she's an expert above 10th dan degree in her favorite style, Kenpo Karate mixed with a dash of Kung-fu that she learned from a chinese monk about a hundred years ago.

Bio: Akane is very secretive of her past, not telling about it to pretty much anyone other than the most close of her acquaintances, all that's know about her is that she's a Youkai who has been mingling with humans ever since the beginning the Meiji Restoration, constantly traveling between Japan, China and Korea in pursuit of fun and interesting experiences after living for isolated for eons on the Crimson Sky's darkest places. She's an important bridge between the Hunters' Association and the civilized Youkai and thus is treated with deference by almost anyone who knows of her true identity.

She's also know as a legendary odd ball, and recently her interests shifted heavily towards pop culture which is simply cringe inducing when one realizes who the girl wearing visual kei clothing and and listening to loud music on an c-Pod truly is.

Equipment: Akane doesn't carry any kind of special weapon or anything like this, relying on her magic powered by the Youkai Soul Stones that she collects and her natural powers/martial arts skills to survive. Up to today it has never failed her.

Other: Akane loves music, specially pop and rock songs and is specially fond of the Visual Kei sub-culture, she is a drop dead fan of Janne Da Arc and L'Arc-en-Ciel, insult them near her at your own peril.

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Yeah, what I did was shamelessly pooling Rin and Sakura's powers together and thrown a fresh coat of paint above her.

[SlamJamcity]

Will be applying KoL.

[KoL]

@SlamJamcity Nice, I was going to advertise this, later on one of Lvl's RP, but you coming up now is a surprise. Anyway, I gotta go now, I have to get ready to work, feel free to drop a CS if you wish.

[The Fox Without]

Are the youkai restrained to staying in the other realm, had a half shark character I've been floating around for awhile I might be able to adjust to this.

[KoL]

@The Fox Without Of course they can, but those who live out of their world for extended periods of time trend to assume a human alternative form to save energy(like Akane does). Humans inhabiting the Crimson Sky, however never ends well as the twisted world slowly changes when into mindless Youkai, unless they are very powerful humans.

[RolePlayerRoxas]

This looks interesting. I'll have to decide if I want to use an illusionist character of mine, or something much less broken.

[Medjedovic]

Ayato Sawagami

Name: Ayato Sawagami

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Height: 1,71m Weight: 72kg

Personality:

Ayato is very relaxed person who rarely gets visibly upset by the events around him. He rarely panics and rarely gets absorbed by his emotions to the point of making foolish decisions. In his job as a youkai hunter Ayato doesn’t consider himself the “protector of the weak” or a “hero” and is in fact quite above such delusions. Despite that, he believes that youkai who step out of line and cause large disturbances in the human world need to be stopped and he is quite willing to do so, especially if there is monetary compensation for it.

Although Ayato has seen quite a few gruesome acts committed by youkai, and even had some of his Chaser comrades killed by them, he holds no grudge against the entire race and is willing to communicate and cooperate with them, which he has done on more than one occasion. This professional approach has earned him a reputation among the Chasers and youkai alike.

When not hunting or otherwise dealing with supernatural, Ayato has a few hobbies he is quite dedicated to: motorbikes, firearms and video games. He is also an avid smoker and goes through a pack of cigarettes a day.

Skills and Powers:

Spectral Form: Ayato instantly turns incorporeal. His appearance changes, becoming a transparent white-blue silhouette shaped like him. Anything smaller than him he touches that is not a living being will be turned incorporeal with him. In this form Ayato moves extremely fast and his reflexes are boosted. He can’t be touched by physical objects and can move through them as if they didn’t exist, but he also isn’t capable of touching and harming anything in this form. Also, Ayato is capable of levitating up to 10 meters above the ground and doesn’t get injured by falling from high places.

Marksman: Guns are Ayato’s hobby and he is very good at using them.

Athletic Ability: Because his job is hunting down supernatural monsters Ayato has trained his body to be fit. He is stronger and has better reflexes than average person.

Bio:

Ayato was a firstborn child in a fairly normal middle class family. His father was a salaryman, his mother a housewife and three years after his birth he got a younger brother. His childhood and teens were completely average, without anything happening which would set it apart from any other Japanese his age. He went to school, participated in club activities, hanged out with friends, went on dates, studied for tests... If there was anything that stood out was his athletic ability, he was the ace of the basketball club. It is during this period where his interest for guns and motorbikes began to exhibit, but he never obsessed over his hobbies to a degree which anyone would consider weird.

When Ayato enrolled in college it seemed as if his life was going to continue in the same manner, but it was during the winter of his first year when an event took place which changed his life forever. As he was walking back to his flat from a drinking party with his college buddies his was attacked by a monster and dragged into an unknown world. Back then he knew neither what it was nor where it took him; the only thing he knew was that he had to escape if he wanted to live. That is when it manifested. To this day Ayato doesn’t know if his spectral form was something he was born with or if that first visit to Crimson Sky somehow imbued him with it, but that newly found ability saved his life. He turned incorporeal and somehow managed to escape the youkai and Crimson Sky.

First few days after the experience he was so terror stricken he wouldn’t leave his flat or answer calls, but this didn’t stop second attack from happening. The youkai, whom he eluded before, found him and decided to finish the job. In the first bout of panic Ayato desperately attacked the monster and managed to wound it. Seeing it injured increased his confidence and, after a fierce struggle using everything at his disposal as a weapon, he managed to slay it. Once the fight was over Ayato realized he was again in the weird crimson effort and this time it took more effort for him to get back into human world, but once he was back thought over everything that happened to him. Beginning from the assumption that he was not insane, he came to the conclusion that there is another world inhabited by monsters which prey on humans. The process of thinking everything through helped him regain his peace of mind, although it would take months for Ayato the fear of that other, crimson world completely leave Ayato.

For a while life continued normally for Ayato. He returned to college and his studies, but he also explored both his new found power and the other world. If, he rationalized, there is other world filled with monsters, it would be wise to learn about it and how to counter the danger it posed. After avoiding danger for some time and just sticking to passively observing, Ayato eventually began involving himself with monsters. This chiefly means he would try and stop them from catching unsuspecting humans. Several times he managed to do this without big problems, but soon he ended up in hospital after a particularly fierce battle.

It was during his stay in the hospital that the second event which changed his life drastically happened. A man introducing himself as the representative of the Yotsuba Technologies Corporation (YTC) offered Ayato a job. Apparently, someone saw that last battle and took interest in Ayato’s power. YTC was already involved with the world of monsters and wanted to hire Ayato as a specimen-hunter and a security. In return, aside from a big paycheck, Ayato would receive intensive training, state of the art equipment and education about the Crimson Sky. Ayato took the time while he was in hospital to think about it but in the end agreed.

The time he worked for YTC was the darkest part of Ayato’s life. The corporation used its findings from the Crimson Sky to create powerful fusions of technology and magic which it then sold for profit. YTC was ruthless in achieving its goals, performing all manner of illegal or borderline-legal activities. Initially Ayato managed not to care about what he witnessed as the employee of YTC, but as years passed he couldn’t stand it anymore and tried to leave. However, you don’t just leave YTC after witnessing its operations, especially not if you had a power like Ayato. Immediately upon learning his plans to quit YTC sent henchmen to abduct Ayato. If he didn’t want to be their employee he would be their research specimen. Things didn’t go as planned- Ayato wiped out the entire team sent after him. YTC sent another team and Ayato eliminated it too. This process repeated for a while until Ayato decided to counter-attack and destroyed one of the bigger research facilities, almost exposing some of the corporation’s darker experiments. In the end YTC decided that trying to deal with Ayato violently wasn’t worth the expenses and risks and stopped pursuing him.

Left alone, Ayato stopped involving himself with supernatural for a while, but eventually he came in contact with Hunter’s Association and began hunting violent youkai for money. It has been a year since then.

Equipment:

Weapon's Locker: Less of a locker and more a room, this is a hidden space within Ayato's apartment filled with firearms of all kinds (all illegal, of course). Don't be surprised when he appears in front of a youkai with an assault rifle... or a rocket launcher.

Spectral V20: A bike custom built by YTC for Ayato. It's shell is very resistant to damage and he can pull it with him into spectral form despite it being larger than him.

SEDOD (Supernatural Entity Detection Optical Device): Another one of YTC's gadgets, it is a pair of glasses capable of identifying youkai hiding in human form. Also, it allows user to see life signs of beings, mortal or supernatural, through the walls. This second function doesn’t work through more than one wall or if wall is over 30cm thick.

[KoL]

@RolePlayerRoxas Fine, I'll be waiting, then. With this much early interest I'm getting a really good vibe from this RP.

@Medjedovic Gosh! That was an awesome character. Just reading up that CS was a pleasure for my storyteller side. You even gave me some good story hooks to use in the future. You're approved, of course and as soon as the RP thread is open you can post your CS on the CS tab and begin posting IC after my intro post.

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I want everyone to know that I'll be waiting for whoever expressed their interest but didn't came up with a CS yet for a little more time, so you guys can take your time. I plan to begin the RP for real sometime on Monday afternoon (by my local time). Pre-applications will be open until I get the thread done, but after that anyone who didn't posted a CS here, please do it there.

[Lvl Down]

I want to apply too! I'm thinking of doing some weird crazy power though if that's fine!

Edit: BTW do these monsters speak our language?