[OOC] Aether Eternum

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Alright, good to know. I guess signups will remain open until either a) there's another person or two or b) the RP hits page 2, whichever comes first. I think that's a good estimate of closure.

[Tokki]

@PKMNB0Y Once we have more people, will there be a posting order so that no one gets left out?

[WeepingLiberty]

I'll try to get a post up before I leave for work. Sorry for the late start.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

@TokkiQuite likely there will be, but things may get muddled depending on who's reacting to who. I'd say that there should be an established order (generally), then have exceptions when only one person is being referred to and only one person and it calls for their response immediately.
What do you think?

[VitaVitaAR]

Name: Kobayashi Rika
Age (Prior): 18
Appearance (Former): Don't let the pleasant look fool you. She stands at 5'3.
Appearance (Current): Hey, not much has changed! Her hair's a bit lighter, she has pointed ears... oh, wait, she's also a giant snake from her thighs down. About 5'0 at rest. The tail portion of her body is around eight feet long and causes her height to vary depending on how coiled it is or how upbright she is making her position.
Race: Naga
Personality: Rika looks like a pleasant and friendly girl. To be fair to her, this isn't really what anyone would call totally inaccurate, as she can be quite nice and friendly to people she likes. But that's people she likes. If you don't give her an excuse to be nice, she's a surly, argumentative, and sarcastic girl who tends to insult others for what she perceives as stupidity and complain rather openly. She's prone to teasing somewhat, as well, but any counter-teasing easily flusters her. Rika is easy to embarrass and tends to become something of a stuttering mess when she is, trying to find the quickest and most direct path out of an embarrassing situation and take it. That being send, deep down, part of her motivation for the insults and complaints is driven by a desire not to see people do something stupid and get themselves hurt... though a lot of it is low tolerance for what she sees as stupidity too. Putting it simply, Rika can be quite irritable.
Skills: Prior to suddenly taking a trip to "I'm a naga now" fantasyland, Rika had very few skills based on strength. She wasn't that athletic, but she did know how to start a fire, learned from her father who was an avid camper. She is also a decent cook and can identify some forms of edible plants and fungi due to her father's nature lessons. Currently she retains this skill, as well as a new one. While the humanlike portion of her body is not too different in strength from her human self, everything from her thighs down is a massive snake tail. And a snake tail is, essentially, a giant tube of muscle. Incredibly heavy and extremely strong, it can be used as a remarkably potent offensive or defensive weapon. Her back teeth are like they are in a human, regular molars, but her front teeth are sharp and can, however awkwardly and likely as a last-ditch defensive measure, be used to deliver a painful bite. To her disappointment she lacks any kind of venom.
History: Born in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo, Rika has lived a fairly normal life. Her father was an avid nature fan and her mother was a more down-to-earth individual. This resulted in something of a dual upbringing, where her father brought her on camping trips and taught her about nature, and her mother taught her about practical things she'd need to know in life. While she did not at all dislike her father or their camping trips, in the end Rika ended up as rather critical of anyone doing anything silly, like her mother. This was likely because, in spite of all his knowledge, her father was something of a clutz who constantly got himself banged up, bruises and scraps all over from his hiking and camping trips. It was, to put it simply, a good thing he knows basic first aid.
Rika went through school excelling in all her classes and scoring very highly in every class, proving herself to be quite an intelligent girl throughout her life. However, in middle school, one of her friends was injured in an accident caused by fooling around. This made Rika, already a girl who didn't suffer fools, even more vehemently outspoken against what she felt was stupidity. And now, on the day after her high school graduation, well...
She's going to awaken to a bit of a shock.
Other: As a naga, Rika can only eat meat.

[The Roman07]

@PKMNB0Y so.... Does that mean im accepted? Since you want more people...

[Tokki]

@TokkiQuite likely there will be, but things may get muddled depending on who's reacting to who. I'd say that there should be an established order (generally), then have exceptions when only one person is being referred to and only one person and it calls for their response immediately.
What do you think?

@PKMNB0Y

I think that'll be good. How about for each person, wait for at least 2 posts before posting again? That way we can get rid of speed-posting and such. Or just the standard posting order.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Hm... okay, let's see here...

@VitaVitaAR:
-Some sort of... Well, height would be useful. A general estimate, at the very minimum, would help immensely.
-I think history could be fleshed out a tad more; another paragraph or so should do it. Things like place of birth, where she lived, and all that other stuff would do quite nicely here.
And... I think that's all my comments.

Now, @The Roman07, that's not necessarily the case now, seeing as how I've still gotta run checks over again. As for critiques...
-Can I ask if you could separate the images from the text so it isn't a giant jump from looking from the middle of one sentence to the other half of it?
-'WolfBeast'... That's... Okay, so what difference is there between a transformed werewolf and one of these, then? I'm not seeing one, and if someone's picking a race I need to flesh it out on my own to make it fit within the story as an established one. Eventually, of course, but still.

That's all I can see as of right now. I think a party of 6 will do fine, but 7 is definitely pushing it. I think one slot will be available, considering how I project this in the near future.

@Tokki Yes, I am COMPLETELY on board with that. Two posts in between makes for good pacing.

[The Roman07]

@PKMNB0Y
The bio cleanup is no problem. It may just look different on my phone than on the site due to the way my phone browser works but thats fine.

As for "Wolfbeast" your OP said beast races are okay. Hes essentially a beast race not a werewolf, all be it a bit hard to decipher since there are many different types of werewolf lores. Its simply a beast type race that closely resembles a wolf. Im going to assume there are different categories of "beast-like" races in the game otherwise you probabbly would of specified :) my bad... Ill get to cleaning it up a bit now

[VitaVitaAR]

Made some edits. ^^;

[The Roman07]

Okay fixed problems (i hope) and stuck the revised version in the character tab. Hope that was okay...

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Ah... I... Why did you put it in the Accepted Forms even though it wasn't accepted...?
._.;;

Sorry to say, but... @The Roman07, you got edged out in the end. Your character felt a tad out of place at the end of my deliberation, as compared to the alternative. I also liked the idea of having a gender balance a bit more, so that an a couple other factors pushed it in favor of @VitaVitaAR. Sorry.

As for @VitaVitaAR, you can place your form in whenever.

[The Roman07]

When did i get edged out? You asked me to fix and explain the race so you could put it in the game down the line.

Why ask about these things when you werent going to accept me anyway? Thanks for wasting my time...

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

I never said as much; I asked for a few more details regarding it as a whole. Clarification was nice, yes, and I appreciate you putting in your time to do so, but with the group as it was I wasn't sure if it'd fit in with the group mechanic. The way I see it (and given how people are), your character would be ostracized from the get-go, which I don't believe would be conducive to much of anything I had planned. I ran through multiple possible scenarios when I saw your character initially, and barring a few OoC actions it'd have been very hard for him to have joined the group easily, or at least without large incident. The fact that Cubone's char was making spears and your character was a giant bipedal wolf...

Look, I'm sorry about not being able to accept you; I really am. But I honestly found a character that would probably be hunted down (and cause the party to be hunted), as well as being unable to step foot in almost every town to be a tad unusable in this RP. My apologies for taking up your time.

[Zombehs]

Huh, tempted to have Adam have no idea what Rae is saying because Marcus noted it was English Adam spoke.

Hm... Probably will and just have Adam switch to the, hopefully, universal language of the world midway through my post.

[WeepingLiberty]

@Zombehs

But most Asian countries teach English in school don't they? She could very well be speaking English so... @Tokki, would Rae know English? I mean she's already talking to Cubone's charry

Didn't take into consideration where your charry was from. Lol oops

[VitaVitaAR]

I assumed we were getting magic translation. ^^;

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Uh... Yeah, since the issue's come up, let me clarify it for everyone's convenience.
Everyone now knows a new 'universal' language, but that was mainly for the sake of being able to read/write whatever the heck other people are writing/reading. Translation magic shenanigans makes the issue between Cubone and Tokki make more sense; it'd probably make what everyone's speaking sound like whatever language they're familiar with.

[Zombehs]

And let's just roll with that then I guess.

@PKMNB0Y I guess you'll be making a post soon or?

[WeepingLiberty]

Uh... Yeah, since the issue's come up, let me clarify it for everyone's convenience.
Everyone now knows a new 'universal' language, but that was mainly for the sake of being able to read/write whatever the heck other people are writing/reading. Translation magic shenanigans makes the issue between Cubone and Tokki make more sense; it'd probably make what everyone's speaking sound like whatever language they're familiar with.

@PKMNB0Y

Alrighty then. I can accept that.

On a side note, I'm heading off to work now. See you all in about three hours! *Floats away*