[OOC] Chasers - Boundary of the Crimson Sky [remake]

[TheWendil]

I'm going to enjoy the temple scene. Heh.

[Hawlin]

Nooo! Sustained conversation! My Luciel's one weakness!
While I hope Luciel doesn't expose himself as some kind a child-torturing monster, we can only see how things unfold. >_<

[Queue13]

<.< Oh look, a beacon of light. Like a moth, maybe Odelia with gather.

[KoL]

Hey, I'm gonna post again today, but of the people at the park don't take a decision, I can't move the scene further, so my next post will be directed mainly at Ling-Ling.

[Rune_Alchemist]

SO, uh...slow days, huh~

[Queue13]

eh, its the weekend. fri/sat night i usually don't expect much. <.< i might get in a post mid day tomorrow (saterday gmt -6)

[IncredibleBee]

Oh hello yes I would like to join

Name: Vincent

Title: Executioner Vincent. Partly because it's his codename, partly because of what he does.

Gender: Male

Age: 23

Height: 6'10"

Weight: 450lbs.

Appearance: A hulking figure nearing seven feet in height, Vincent's body is tightly wrapped in thick, incredibly hard muscle. His face looks haggard and weathered, topped by a mess of blonde hair over green, tired eyes. His skeleton is thicker than a normal humans, and bone has broken through his skin on the knuckles, elbows, and other striking points.
Every inch of the man's skin is covered by a set of gray BDUs and heavy combat boots. Black gloves and a heavy, hooded leather coat cover the rest. Vincent's face is concealed by a plain white mask, with a pair of black lenses covering the eyes.

Personality: A grim, silent figure, Vincent saves his words until he spots his next target, at which point he tends to declare his intention of killing said monster with extreme prejudice. Since the death of his sister, he's lost a spark inside of him, replaced with a deep hatred of Youkai. This has become his raison d'etre, and he rarely considers anything else.

Vincent had a huge soft spot for his little sister, and that can extend to people who remind him of her. Most other people get a blank glare at best.

Short Bio: Vincent spent much of his previous life mostly normal. He was a young man, working to support himself and his younger sister. Though life was tough, he was happy. One night, a wrong turn led the pair into the other world. Assaulted by man-eating monsters, Vincent saw his sister killed, and barely escaped with his life.
The crazed pleas and police report soon filtered to the upper echelons of society, and Vincent found himself drafted into a government black project. The joint partnership of Japan, the USA, Germany, and England, had begun research into the paranormal and especially the Crimson Sky. While much of this new world is unknown, it was quickly apparent to government officials that many of its occupants were hostile to human life, and as such it was deemed necessary to create a new type of soldier to cull off these hostile beings. Vincent was abducted and offered a chance to join the first generation, on the basis of two reasons. The first was that he was healthy enough to potentially survive the dangerous process of enhancing his body. The second was that he had developed an extreme hatred of Youkai. There was no way he'd go rogue, and would happily oblige with defending humanity.

Of the forty-three chosen to undergo the augmentation process, twelve survived. Of those, ten were hospitalized with permanent disabilities, some unable to move. Vincent is one of the only two to fully become an Executioner.

In the time since then, Vincent has devoted himself fully to fighting off the Youkai menace. Every night he enters that crimson realm, and a trail of destruction is follow.

Powers: Vincent has gone through extremely heavy biological modification. His muscle and bone density has been increased several times, giving him superhuman levels of strength and durability. In addition, the bone thickness has increased and changed shape. His ribcage has fused, covering the gaps between ribs. He's also been implanted with a secondary set of adrenaline glands, giving him the ability to push himself further even during extreme bouts of fatigue or stress. Even his platelets have been altered, allowing him to better stop bleeding during combat.
Though he lacks magical potential, the sheer physical prowess achieved by his augmentations allow him to fight the most ferocious of youkai.

Weapons: Initial contact equipment consists of a primary long gun, a handgun, and a melee weapon. Vincent's typical setup consists of a Saiga-12 with a thirty-round drum, a S&W Model 500, and a claymore sword with a high durability blade.

However, Vincent also possesses a Trump Card: the Executioner Special Armament System. A satellite is kept in geosynchronous orbit above Vincent's current location, passing into the other world by carefully weaving through the shadows in moonlight created by space debris. This satellite is capable of quickly deploying highly specialized heavy weapons via a drop pod, often of such a high weight that only Vincent, with his enhanced strength, is capable of using them. These range from immense, oversized swords, to gatling guns and anti-tank rifles.

Equipment: A small, red ribbon bearing no special qualities.

Other: Currently bears no affiliation to the Hunters' Association.

[Queue13]

*picks up unpick-upable heavy weapons with psychic powers and tosses them like feathers against the newcomer.*

[Shisa]

Professional Alice

Name: Mami Koizumi

Title: The True Alice

Gender: Female

Age: 15

Height: 4’6”

Weight: 87 lbs

Appearance: The way Mami really looks and how she presents herself are two entirely separate things. Most of the time she looks like a perfect young Japanese girl, with long, silky black hair, pale skin, and brown eyes. During this time, she often wears traditional Japanese clothing depending on the season, like a padded kimono in winter or a yukata in summer.

When on a job, however, she becomes Alice. She dresses in various types of Lolita styles, depending on her mood, and changes her hair color to blonde and eye color to blue.

Personality: While Mami is usually sweet and docile, her Alice persona tends towards over-the-top declarations and a severely haughty attitude. When she is Alice, she is bold, overconfident, and tends to talk down to others. However, this is just a constructed persona and is easily shattered once she notices she’s made someone feel bad in any way. She really is Mami through and through, and always falls back into trying to help and comfort others with a ready ear and a kind word. N-not that she likes you or anything!

Short Bio: Mami didn’t grow up in a loving, proper Japanese household. Well, she lived in one, but she barely grew up at all. Throughout her school life, she was often teased about her height and development which were both incredibly stunted. She ended up finding refuge in Lolita fashion, which catered to the aesthetic of the short and under-developed, and through Lolita she also gained a fascination with the west. Western girls were all so pretty, with their light hair and beautiful eyes, and Mami wanted to be just like that. She knew that if she looked pretty like that, height would no longer matter. She thusly bleached her hair, grabbed up some colored contacts, and went to school where she was teased once again for looking like a shrimpy delinquent. She left school crying and dejected and, not paying attention to where she was going through the tears, she found herself lost. It was then that she saw a white blur rounding a corner, and something inside of her screamed to follow it. She chased the blur for a while, and found herself in a strange place with a red sky. A small white rabbit awaited her at a table, upon which were a variety of snacks and two cups to tea. She took a seat opposite the rabbit and, almost instinctively, she nibbled a scone and took a sip of tea. The rabbit told her that she had the soul of a true Alice, and that it was time she claimed her birthright now that the previous Alice had gone. Her tiny body overflowed with power, and suddenly she found herself safely tucked in bed at home. At her bedside was a tea set on a tray, engraved upon which was the phrase “For the one, true Alice.” Currently, when she isn’t being Alice, she works for her parents and helps manage the family onsen. When she is Alice, she works as a Chaser to help protect people from bad things. She was finally special, and it was important to her to put that specialness to use. She’s completely new to the job, and her true identity is unknown to all but her. Other chasers, the few that have heard of her, know her only by title.

Powers:
Teatime- Mami can create teatime beverages and snacks out of thin air. These beverages and snacks each have healing or ability-enhancing properties, which may stack as long as one has room in one’s stomach. There are diminishing returns, however, and eating more than three of the same product results in somewhat negligible increases. After all, teatime is about enjoying a variety of things. It would be a waste to fill completely up on muffins of speed and not try a scone of power.

Dress up- Mami can change her appearance in a flash, whether it’s clothing, hair color, eye color, or any amount of cosmetic items including makeup. She can’t change her height, weight, or gender, however.

Weapons: None.

Equipment:
Unbreakable tea set- No matter what happens, nothing in this tea set can be in any way damaged or broken.

Other: Kind of a westaboo.

[Hawlin]

Edit:

Ehrm...

[Ashifili]

Those are some interesting new things.

And, more specifically, youkais are immune to handheld firearms, for various reasons. Dunno about their ability to take on tanks, but you could solve the problem just by saying that your shit is magically enchanted.

[Queue13]

<.< not gonna lie, sorta likin the alice

[IncredibleBee]

Those are some interesting new things.

And, more specifically, youkais are immune to handheld firearms, for various reasons. Dunno about their ability to take on tanks, but you could solve the problem just by saying that your shit is magically enchanted.

@Ashifili

Magic goes against the motif I had in mind for Vincent. His whole point is he's powered by science and bullets, not wizardry.

Furthermore, can you state why Youkais are immune to firearms? Or what those reasons are? Or how magic differentiates from standard physical damage? I see a couple of characters who fight with regular projectiles or physical damage, and a few incendiaries.

[Hawlin]

I would also like to know how physical armaments fail to impact the youkai in any way. What are they that they would be completely immune to physical influence yet able to walk the physical street?
During the nights of Crimson Sky, are they vulnerable in their own terrain as it blurs the borders? If not, what is "hope" in a world where malicious ghosts run rampant? How would nobody notice other than us?

I've been waiting for someone to ask since Ive been less than thrilled with the ambiguous excuse for their immunity which is never elaborated upon...to the point of using magic to excuse the effectiveness of melee. (Why would there be a 'Weapon' section if weapons did nothing? (I assumed there would eventually be enemies where weapons mattered...but then what about characters without damaging magic until then?))

Sorry to be the devil's advocate, but it was a question I've been meaning to ask for the sake of everyone with physical weapons.

Just read the posts after this one...

The answer is that there is no advantage to having weapons and that only casters have any real power.

[Queue13]

to dig from privious post on topic of fire arms:

That varies from Youkai to Youkai, some are literal steel walls, that aren't even tickled by canon fire or such weapons, while others can regenerate from virtually any damage. Of course, there's those who are as resilient as a human as well. It's really a lottery, whenever you pick a foe you don't know. That's the fun part of it, right?

KoL

[Ashifili]

This was the answer I got from KoL a week or so back.

That varies from Youkai to Youkai, some are literal steel walls, that aren't even tickled by canon fire or such weapons, while others can regenerate from virtually any damage. Of course, there's those who are as resilient as a human as well. It's really a lottery, whenever you pick a foe you don't know. That's the fun part of it, right?

And it's also been implied before that some other youkai are simply intangible ghosts of energy. I mean, really, yeah, youkai are tradiationally ghosts. Why would plain ol' physical weapons effect them the first place? That's why the OOC has this:

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.

Your character is a Chaser, a human with supernatural powers/skills that allow them to bring the fight back to the dwellers of the Crimson Sky.

Not sure about how the Crimson Sky is in this particular incarnation of the RP, but I got the impression in the past that the Crimson Sky was essentially another dimension. Not totally sure about the whole 'why are no other humans aware that youkai are popping around everywhere', but I think it might be because only people who have crossed the boundary into the Crimson Sky are aware of their existence.

Sorta like gaining a supernatural sixth sense? Guess that's also why you don't have Trump telling the public that they need to build a wall to keep the Youkai out.

And eh, maybe there's a weapon section for people who require tools to channel their powers through? Maybe it's expected that Chasers have unique supernatural weapons, or at least ones that have been enhanced by Carver?

[IncredibleBee]

I would also like to know how physical armaments fail to impact the youkai in any way. What are they that they would be completely immune to physical influence yet able to walk the physical street?
During the nights of Crimson Sky, are they vulnerable in their own terrain as it blurs the borders? If not, what is "hope" in a world where malicious ghosts run rampant? How would nobody notice other than us?

@Hawlin

Furthermore, a number of characters are already in who fight with physical

I would also like to know how physical armaments fail to impact the youkai in any way. What are they that they would be completely immune to physical influence yet able to walk the physical street?
During the nights of Crimson Sky, are they vulnerable in their own terrain as it blurs the borders? If not, what is "hope" in a world where malicious ghosts run rampant? How would nobody notice other than us?

I've been waiting for someone to ask since Ive been less than thrilled with the ambiguous excuse for their immunity which is never elaborated upon...to the point of using magic to excuse the effectiveness of melee. (Why would there be a 'Weapon' section if weapons did nothing? (I assumed there would eventually be enemies where weapons mattered...but then what about characters without damaging magic until then?))

@Hawlin

Elaborating on this, there's no distinguishing features or details about magic to why magic is able to hurt them. I mean, you could stab a Youkai with a sword, or with a big spiky thorn you created using your magic, but at the end of the day it's still just a stab wound.

[Queue13]

Sorta like gaining a supernatural sixth sense? Guess that's also why you don't have Trump telling the public that they need to build a wall to keep the Youkai out.

@Ashifili

xD Trump for Prime Minister 2016

[Hawlin]

@IncredibleBee

I edited my post to admit, based on the posts after it, that my assumption is that only casters have any hope to slay youkai. I am sorry, appeal to GMs.

This is not a thread that is tailored to anyone focused on melee. Its a "Magic Girl" thread in disguise.

This is my understanding.
(The more I understand the unspoken rules of this thread, the more quickly I lose interest)

[IncredibleBee]

This was the answer I got from KoL a week or so back.
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And it's also been implied before that some other youkai are simply intangible ghosts of energy. I mean, really, yeah, youkai are tradiationally ghosts. Why would plain ol' physical weapons effect them the first place? That's why the OOC has this:
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Not sure about how the Crimson Sky is in this particular incarnation of the RP, but I got the impression in the past that the Crimson Sky was essentially another dimension. Not totally sure about the whole 'why are no other humans aware that youkai are popping around everywhere', but I think it might be because only people who have crossed the boundary into the Crimson Sky are aware of their existence.

Sorta like gaining a supernatural sixth sense? Guess that's also why you don't have Trump telling the public that they need to build a wall to keep the Youkai out.

And eh, maybe there's a weapon section for people who require tools to channel their powers through? Maybe it's expected that Chasers have unique supernatural weapons, or at least ones that have been enhanced by Carver?

@Ashifili

Even if some Youkai are intangible, I imagine many are still physical. Even if they have heavy armor, they're still flesh. Furthermore, you still haven't explained what makes "magic" guns different from regular ones.

Again, there's no discernable different between the monster getting a stab wound from a sword, or one of Hawlin's thorns or GrafRoy's ice spears.
And another character also uses mundane firearms. What about her?