I died and reincarnated into fantasy world- WHAT'S WITH THIS LIGHT NOVEL-LIKE SETTING!?!

[Medjedovic]

I died and reincarnated into fantasy world- WHAT'S WITH THIS LIGHT NOVEL-LIKE SETTING!?!

You have died. It’s unimportant how. We-ell, unimportant for the bigger picture, but I guess it is pretty important for you, eh? What can I say, tough luck bro (or sis). But let’s not dawdle on depressing things! You have died and just as you were expecting a dark tunnel with a white light at the end, you are confronted with a peculiar message:

“GAME OVER.

RESTART IN ANOTHER WORLD?”

The whole thing looked like it was taken from the video games you used to play, except for the question about restarting in another world. What's with that? Shouldn’t it say “restart at the last checkpoint”? Hm, guess not. Right bellow the question there were two buttons: -[YES]- and -[NO]-.

Naturally, you choose yes. Why? Because this story needs you to! How do you expect me to lead this RP if you decide you are fine with being dead? Stay on the rails lad (or lass)! I mean, on figurative rails, not real ones, because then you’ll probably just die again. Unless you are Superman (or woman). Which you may very well become in this new world we’re going.

Just as you press YES (yes, you need to press it) a new message replaces the old:

“PLEASE CREATE YOUR CHARACTER

-[OK]-”

NOW WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN? Aren’t you already created? Your mom and dad worked hard at it too! Does this shitty reincarnation system want to pick a fight with you!?! You are perfect the way you are, they said so at school! A special little snowflake!

...Hm...

Are you sure you are perfect? Maybe you wanted to be a little (a lot) slimmer, or a little (a lot) taller? Maybe you wanted bigger boobs or longer ****? Maybe you even wanted to be the opposite gender? Be honest, I won’t judge (le_totally_not_suspicious_grin.jpg)!

Here’s your chance to fulfil all of those fantasies, and even more (I just hope they are not particularly weird or perverted ones, we are on a PG13 forum)! So press that OK button and let us dive in this fantasy world filled with magic, adventure and annoying anime tropes!

Little soundtrack to get your blood pumping

As you press the -[OK]- button colours explode around you. What was previously a pitch black void of death was now dyed in a cloudy combination of white and blue. Message telling you to create your character was gone and in it is place some kind of form appeared before you. It took only a quick glance to realise what it was. A character sheet:

Character Sheet

Paint yourself like one of those anime girls. Ugh, that came out lame... (put appearance pic here)

Character Concept: Describe yourself in one short to medium sentence. Like "A dense protag who doesn't realize all the girls in his surroundings want his di.. his dish."
Name: This one is simple. Write down the name by which you want to be known in this world. You can pick your Earth name, but that would be boring. Nobody likes boring people.
Gender: Are you a boy or a girl? Maybe neither? Or both? Hey, it’s a fantasy world, you can find all kinds of stuff.
Background: Tell us about yourself. What did you do in your Earthly life? How do you feel about your death? What are your plans for the future?

Level: This is your character level. As you do stuff you grow more powerful and it reflects in your level. You start at level 1.
Class: Hey, it’s a fantasy role-play, it just wouldn’t be right without class system! What, you don’t like class system? Filthy commie! Don’t worry too much: you make your own class and it has no actual influence on your development, its purpose is descriptive.
Race: Similarly to the Class field, you make up your own race. Now you can be that extraterestrial transgender leprechaun you always wanted to be! Isn’t that great?
Attribute: There are 3 attributes: Force, Finesse and Focus. Because modern kids dislike math and number crunching, we will not be having an actual stat system. Instead, you pick one attribute and it serves as a descriptor of your physical and mental abilities. Here’s what each attribute means:
Force: You rely on brute strength and overpowering your opponents- when thing gets tough you endure the pain and push through the obstacle.
Finesse: You are a more tactful sort, relying on speed, stealth and good positioning to carry you through trouble.
Focus: You’re a wizard Harry! This attribute is not actually required to cast spells, but it means your spells are more powerful and you can use them more than others.

Below are 3 categories of supernatural powers you can possess. At the start you can either have 3 Techniques, 3 Spells or 1 Power. During the course of the RP you'll get both more abilities of the same category and abilities of other categories.
Martial Arts: A type of supernatural abilities where practitioner learns to instinctively channel magic within his body through training his body and meditation. Individual Martial Art ability is called Technique.
Thaumaturgy: Good old wizardry. Thaumaturgy is usually earned through diligent study of magic for years, decades even and wizards use it by channelling their spells with chanting and hand signs. Abilities of Thaumaturgy are called Spells.
Gift: A blessing from the Gods, a curse, an inborn power or something along the lines, Gift is a single supernatural power which doesn’t fall into either of the above categories. Unlike Martial Arts and Thaumaturgy where you can have multiple Techniques/Spells, your Gift only has one Power, though that power may be further developed as you grow stronger.

Equipment: You’re dead. You got nothing. Nothing! But you may acquire things on your journey around the world, so this field here is where you’ll list all weapons, armours and other such items in your possession.

-[FINALIZE]-

Now that you pressed FINALIZE you have officially made your character. Or, better say, remade yourself. Congratulations! Now, our journey can begin. Fasten your seatbelts kid because we are about to land! Reincarnation world, here we come!

Once again, light explodes and you get engulfed by a rainbow-coloured whirlpool. A sudden feeling of being launched downwards possesses you and the instinctive fear of falling forces you to scream. As you look bellow you the rainbow colours clear and an unfamiliar landscape began rapidly approaching you. Your eyes water from the speed, making you unable to properly inspect the features of the world around you. Not that you’d have enough composure to do it anyway, as your destination became clear: a gray, rocky mountainside. You show no signs of stopping as you draw closer and closer until finally you hit the mountain’s surface at full force, exploding from sheer force of the impact into a spectacle of gore...

That didn’t happen. Before you collided with the surface, either out of fear or something else, you lose your consciousness and darkness envelops your mind.

[Rin]

*presses OK button*

...If I can get something figured out for this I guess. ^^;

[RolePlayerRoxas]

This certainly looks fun.

[Damiann47]

Huh, I actually might be up for this. Count me in.

[Medjedovic]

Nice, nice, let the interest flow through you!

[Scarifar]

It's flowing, alright.

[Medjedovic]

Added character sheet and that will be all for now. Feel free to ask me anything you find unclear.

I might as well move this to OOC.

[Damiann47]

@Scarifar

Do you mean it's flowering? Eh? Ha... I'll see myself out.

[ClocktowerEchos]

Ermergerd, I want in but not sure if I have enough time ;-;

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Oh? You've caught my interest, for sure.
...
That reminds me, I should go check if Mushoku Tensei has any new Redundancy Chapters TLed.

But yeah, I'll definitely be drafting something up. Looking forward to seeing this kick off.

Edit: Question: In what state should we be assuming our characters be dropped into the world? Like, age-wise and stuff.

[Katakon]

I'm interested in joining this~
I have a character sheet up after the ooc is up~

[Rin]

So here we go, I guess! I wasn't sure about whether she should have Force or Focus for her attribute, but I figured that since her power is supposed to run on hotblood and guts Force was probably the safer bet. But if you'd prefer I can easily change it to Focus. ^^; Anyways...

Ranca

I feel weird directly pasting my own stuff into posts, so have a link instead.

• Character Concept: "The idiot hero, powered by hotblood and guts, who finds injustice UNFORGIVABLE."
• Name: Ranca Blom
• Gender: Female
• Background: A girl enamoured with stories of heroes, the one who would eventually become Ranca Blom always had her heads in the clouds. She was kind of a nerd, and never really had many friends, with most people thinking she was just kind of weird, but she always stood up for the friends she did have. She was happy enough with her lot, but always felt something was missing despite not being able to figure out just what that something was. Unfortunately, her fixation on heroics proved to be her undoing, as one day whilst returning home she spotted a young child in the middle of the road, about to be hit by an oncoming truck. Acting as fast as she could, she was able to save the child... And was left right in the way of the runaway vehicle. Naturally, there was no way a girl with her head full of heroic nonsense could defeat several tons of rampaging steel, which... Leads us to her current predicament. Life after death is a bit different than what she expected, but she's going to take it at her own pace and grab the afterlife by the horns. Maybe this time she can be the hero she'd always dreamed of being.
• Level: 1
• Class: Wannabe Hero
• Race: Human
• Attribute: Force
• Martial Arts: N/A
• Thaumaturgy: N/A
• Gift: Soulblaze: A simple power for a simple person, this allows Ranca to fire a bullet of spirit energy from the tip of her index finger. Apparently it's powered by her willpower, and the more fired up she gets the more powerful the bullet will be. Theoretically, at least.
• Equipment: N/A

-[FINALIZE]-

[Pathfinder]

I'm totally for this ride. spark it up Ghostrider, it's time to fly.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Well, when a burst of inspiration hits me, it hits hard and it hits quick... I guess.

Time for a support mage to join the fray!
He's... Really focused on economics and magic. Hopefully his gift isn't too... Crazy.
I mean, he can't analyze things mid-combat and can only learn them, so...

Takeyoshi

Character Concept: A workaholic who never stops striving for the top.
Name: Takeyoshi Sakujima
Gender: Male
Background: Despite the current name, Takeyoshi (formerly known as Tony Lin, the son of an Chinese banker and an American chef) was an up-and-coming banker interning for a major firm on Wall Street, thanks to a few lucky series of events during his studies at Columbia (and a few strings pulled by his father). A few years out of college, Tony was making enough money to buy his own little apartment in midtown Manhattan, and though he never really got off the ground when he kicked the bucket, it'd be difficult to say that he didn't work himself dry every day until then. Though he always tried to turn a profit, Tony never really splurged on anything; anything left, he used to either send to his little brother (who would, in turn, pester him on his off days to hang out and watch anime) or try and play the stock market.
'course, markets don't matter much if you're dead, after all. Having been caught as a bystander during an armed heist and a bullet shot right between the eyes and two in the heart, Tony found himself floating in limbo after bleeding to death in the middle of the street. His subsequent jump into another world was... Well, unexpected, to say the least, but at the very least he decided to change himself to fit (what he assumed to be) his brother's ideal setup in this sort of situation. Learn from the most knowledgeable and all that... Right?
Granted, that didn't mean he wasn't going to try and add his own little spin on things as well. Cheated of the career ahead of him, the only thing left to do now was, well... Do it again.
Level: 1
Class: Magician
Race: Tengu
Attribute: Focus (Because, really now, what's drive without focus?)
Martial Arts: N/A
Thaumaturgy: N/A
Gift: Takeyoshi has an increased learning aptitude compared to how he was as a human; learning things like trade routes, money conversions, the state of the markets, and even magical incantations and diagrams and how to use them all come to him... Relatively quickly. On the downside, he might not necessarily have the ability to apply them practically. So, for example, he might know how to use a spell or set up a barrier, but he might not have the energy required to even use it at all.
Equipment: Zilch.

-[FINALIZE]-

[Rin]

@PKMNB0YFor some reason the mention of economics immediately made me think of Spice & Wolf. XD

[VitaVitaAR]

Going to be doing a spellsword kind of character, need to work out the last few bits of her first though. ^^;

[Damiann47]

So I came up with a well-rounded warrior with hopefully fair and balanced martial arts techniques, I tried not to make them too powerful of course. Then the actual character is a little more interesting, or well at least I tried to make it so.

Sonia

Character Concept: "A man turned catgirl because life is too short to be serious all the time."
Name: Sonia Falkren
Gender: Female
Background: Seeing as the last life doesn't matter anymore, neither does his former name so instead he'll be known as "Mr. A" This Mr. A didn't lead a terribly exciting life, actually his life was anything but that in every sense of the word. Mr. A was just a simple salaryman who worked from nine to five every day of the week and Mr. A didn't have much to show for the mind numbing daily grind. He was unmarried with no children, and no real property to speak of, in all honestly Mr. A quite literally had nothing. In the end death didn't have much of an effect on the poor man, as far as Mr. A was concerned he was already gone. Now how did he die? Well... he choked to death on a poorly chewed piece of food during dinner, and seeing as no one was around to save him, you could say the rest was history. Then something for once happened, he was presented with something amazing, he of course was given a chance at a new life. As Mr. A stared at the empty character sheet a single spontaneous thought came to him.

"Fuck it, I'm going to be a catgirl."

Then so it was, Mr. A became Sonia the Catgirl. He... or she as it was now, was determined to actually make something of hi- her new existence, to make it worthwhile, to basically make up for her absolutely bland years as a boring human. She looked forward to the new world. It was going to be fun.

Level: 1
Class: Vanguard
Race: Catgirl of course.
Attribute: Force

Martial Arts:
Bullrush: A very simple Technique that grants a very temporary boost to strength and speed.
Rend: A purely offensive Technique that increases weapon penetration through raw power for a single strike.
Bulwark: On the flip side, this is a purely defensive Technique that temporarily improves defensive prowess.

Thaumaturgy: Nothing.

Gift: And again nothing.

Equipment: And again... again, nothing.

[Pathfinder]

You basically gave me an excuse to use a character I've been brewing, thanks!

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Germ

Character Concept: "A very crass but ultimately caring little gremlin."
Name: Germ
Gender: Male or Female... sometimes neither
Background: Whoever Germ was before is a close guarded secret, so allow me to divulge all of it right now. To put it bluntly, Germ wasn't in the best situation. To spare any nasty details they had to become a "Person of the Night" to make ends meet, a profession Germ was not very happy doing. But like a soldier they pushed on, not willing to give up like the others fate dealt a crappy hand to. All was tolerable until Death came knocking, one of those wrong place, wrong time deals. Two of the various local gangs were having a turf war and a stray bullet just happened to find it's way into a new home, Germs chest. And so they died, a nasty hand in fates little deck of cards. But, all is not lost. With a second chance at life Germ has found a new form and a new purpose, to be better than they could ever be before.
Level: 1
Class: Thaumaturgic Scrapper
Race: Darkling
Attribute: Finesse

Martial Arts: N/A
Thaumaturgy:
-Shadow Surf, Germ can "dive" into something's shadow and ride shotgun for awhile. Should one shadow meet another Germ can travel between them if they wanted. Bright/magical light forces Germ to eject from their ride.
-Magi Vomit, a solid, crimson beam of magical energy. Very powerful, VERY painful. Takes at least an hour to "recharge".
-Gunk Shot, at its core the gunk shot is an adhesive, slightly acidic ink ball that Germ can throw at people.
Gift: N/A

Equipment: Nada

-[FINALIZE]-

[Damiann47]

@Pathfinder Oh look its the Adversary, guess he's just done with Isaac and all his crying.

[Pathfinder]

@Damiann47
Yeah, the influence is pretty clear.