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Gathered friends, listen again to our legend of the Bionicle.
In a time before time, we, the Matoran, fled from the great disaster, and formed our great city, of Kongero Nui.


I'm looking for a few people, six to be perfectly frank, to play a short campaign (I'm thinking writing level High-Casual or Advanced.) similar to a story from the early/mid years of Bionicle.
Specifically, a select group of Matoran (villagers with an elemental affinity, but no elemental powers) from different parts of the city, become Toa (warriors with elemental powers, tools/weapons for combat, and masks called Kanohi which grand them varied additional powers) during a festival. I won't include any complex plot machinations yet, and I'm doing this mainly to test how well a Bionicle roleplay will work (but also because I really like Bionicle and I want to have some fun with something that was around for half my life at the time it ended). The relatively short-term nature is to allow the story to be expanded upon later if the group wants to, without having a long-term commitment attached. The plot will focus on the team forming, and learning to deal with each other and the implications of their new-found powers as they travel towards a common, seemingly simple goal thrust upon them by their transformation.

I'd personally like to keep to the tone of the original series, which was somewhat serious, but had room for fun and comedy. Well, to be honest, it will be a little more real/darker. Not like, super gritty like the Power/Ranger short that was made, but the city of Kongero Nui will be more like a real city, with its own problems, both from a slight criminal element, and the imperfection of those who run it.
Speaking of the city- it will have one area for each element, but only six leaders, hailing from each of the common elements of the series. (Leaders being called Turaga- elder-looking individuals with slight elemental and mask powers who serve as guides and sources of wisdom.) The elements are Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Stone, and Ice, as the common elements, (earth referring to the actual terrain, whereas stone is specifically rocks and the manipulation thereof) with Plantlife, Lightning, Iron, Magnetism, Plasma, Sonics, and Psionics as additional elements, and Shadow as an element mainly for enemy characters, and Light as a legendary element that's not touched on all that much from a character-usage standpoint, or, rather, won't be in this roleplay.

In the original storylines, each element had a specific gender with which it was associated. I sorta feel like that's a bit cheap, and one of the weak points of the Bionicle story. That restriction will not be placed on any of the characters here. Your character can have any gender you want (no offensive/vulgar stereotypes though), have any personality you want (that's not uninspired or too grating/abrasive), and be of any of the available elements. What I would rather stay the same, however, is that the color schemes of the specific elements be generally kept to. So a fire Toa should look in some way like a fire Toa. Listing all the color schemes now would be a bit tedious for now, but once I get to the OOC stage, I will probably give a chart of the language-prefix and color association(s) of each element.
When the Matoran transform into Toa, they will gain power over their specific element. This typically does not change from what element they had as a Matoran. Toa also utilize Great Kanohi, masks whose power can actually be used, unlike the powerless masks that keep the Matoran conscious, or the Noble Kanohi masks which the Turaga can use, but function weakly. Masks can change from what they were as a Matoran when they become a Toa, but certain masks with more dangerous or devious powers are typically considered immoral to use by Toa. On the subject of masks, no, Legendary Golden Kanohi won't be a factor. They are far too powerful, and they can't even exist as anything less than their legendary states. You can make a custom mask for this rp, or use a previously established mask, but I will check them all to make sure they're not unreasonably powerful.

As always, if you have any questions, remarks, or concerns, I'd be happy to hear them.
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@tobiax God bless you for posting this. I'm in. :D
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bless you're heart call me in
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I'm interested in this.
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Oh, wow, almost a full group already. May I ask which element you might be interested in playing?
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@tobiaxI love you already :)
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@tobiax I'm sure most of us would choose one of the main six elements, but I'd prefer to go with Sonics.
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@tobiaxI love you already :)

Oh, well that's sudden, haha.
@tobiax I'm sure most of us would choose one of the main six elements, but I'd prefer to go with Sonics.

I mean, I personally wouldn't talk for others. Like, unless you super know these guys, then whatever, but I'd venture that at least some would have interest in some of the other elements. Sonics isn't a bad choice though. It would be interesting to see which mask(s) jive with it or not.
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@tobiax i have already made a M.O.C of my player character he the toa of something thinking air due to color scheme but something else but it is up debate with myself at the moment
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Ah, cool. I was debating on how to handle the whole depicting-or-describing-the-character-as-if-they-were-a-set thing, but I guess you have that down. I'd love to see it some time. I'm fine with filling in something to help balance out the group, or pick an element we don't have, but, that being the case, I have ideas for Plantlife and Ice characters.
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I'd hit this for sure, though it makes me feel guilty about not posting in my other bionicle RPG XD
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Ah, cool. Thanks. There are other ones? I tried to see how many, and there were, like, none. Anyway, what element are you feeling? I'd rather not have repeat Toa though.
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Air or fire. And not here, on BZP. Big bionicle fansite. Anywho.
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Ah, I see. Noted. Well, @Billsomething might use a Toa of Air, so I'd let you two work that out amongst yourselves. Although it makes me feel good that what appears to be a consummate fan has appeared in my humble rp.
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I've played that RPG for going on three years now. Whatever element you want me to handle, I can cope with it, though I am partial to fire. Exploring the massive anger boost would be fun.

Uh... What's your opinion on how "human" they are?
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Ah, I see. Any you want, although typical isn't really what I want all the characters to be, ya know?

Hmm, what do you mean? Like, psychology wise or physical wise?
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Put me down for, say, ice, though again I'm open to other options.
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Ah, cool. We can work everything out once I have an OOC up. Not everything will be typical, and I have the equivalents to all the Metru/Wahni/Koro all set up all ready.
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Ah, I see. Any you want, although typical isn't really what I want all the characters to be, ya know?

Hmm, what do you mean? Like, psychology wise or physical wise?


Both, though more physical. Mostly because I think I can have a little more free reign with mindset and whatnot.

And trust me, the character I plan on using won't be typical. The anger boost is a thing that happens though, I wanna roleplaying coping with it.
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