[OOC] My High School Life is Filled With Magic!: A semi-comedic magical school RP

[ClocktowerEchos]

@VitaVitaARI am afraid I will have to bow out of this for now. I might return in the future should fate allow it tho.

Good luck to everyone else in the RP and have fun! ^^

[VitaVitaAR]

I'm sorry to hear that, I hope you can make it back sometime.

[VitaVitaAR]

So, for anyone who has yet to post, do you need some help getting something up? ^^;

[Cuccoruler]

Things have slowed too much for my liking. Welp time for my favorite saying to come into play!
"If it's not getting done, Do it yourself."

[Damiann47]

I think part of the issue is characters had spread out a little too much and are simply sitting there waiting for someone else to come along, my own character included here so hey I'm not innocent either.

[Cuccoruler]

HA! Found a way to make mine interact! Seamless!

[Raineh Daze]

HA! Found a way to make mine interact! Seamless!

@Cuccoruler

Except for walls.

[sakurasan]

I swear xD He just jumps in during club? Sheesh.

[Cuccoruler]

I swear xD He just jumps in during club? Sheesh.

@sakurasan

He is a fish man, he requires water from time to time.

[sakurasan]

@Cuccoruler Going to include a girl that was blushing from seeing him xD

[Damiann47]

Man, I probably should find ways to interact. Yeah I should do something soon.

[VitaVitaAR]

I did notice people sort of split up, which isn't really conducive to roleplaying.

[Lucius Cypher]

Yoooo, mind if I hop into this?

[VitaVitaAR]

I don't mind at all.

More people need to get posting though. ^^;

[Lucius Cypher]

Cool, but one question before I start getting too far into this CS. You mentioned "No nonhumans by birth". What about Half-humans and such? I was thinking apping a half-orc, cause his mother was very much to my pop's taste... That is to say, strong, interested in cosplay, and green.

[VitaVitaAR]

I say it's limited, I'll say when I'm not letting any more in.

That being said, I just don't know about orcs for this. ^^;

[Lucius Cypher]

Fair enough.

As for the orcs, I was actually thinking them more akin to green oni, and they're simply called orcs for the sake of convenience. That or a convenient race if we ever need brutish monster men to beat up.

[VitaVitaAR]

Hmmm.

Well, I mean, to be honest I wasn't sure how I was doing oni in this. This setting doesn't exactly have a lot of "lore".

Though there could easily be big monstrous oni, I also was considering more human-like ones.

[Lucius Cypher]

If you don't mind, I could always write a bit ol lore for my oni's at least.

The green onis, also known as orcs, often have physical features similar to boars. Tusks, fur, snouts, and large amounts of fat that hide their immense physical strength. They have a bad history of rape and violence, often making them the pariahs of magical creatures, more hated than even demons. There's no denying that such things have happened, but there are more to these green oni's than just what the stories would tell. The orcs were skilled craftsmen of the mountains, with a nose for metal and gems. Their crafts were well known for their sturdy composition and effectiveness despite sub-par materials. Where some legends tell of heroes who use weapons of god-given materials, orcish heroes make due with mortal iron, with the best heroes making their own equipment with materials gathered themselves. The orcs have built their community with family honor but also an unspoken rule. And that rule was that no crime against a family, not matter how minor, will go unpunished. While the severity of the judgement varies, there was no doubt that any slight was accounted for. This rule was carried in all orcs, making them hesitant to go to war with one another as their honor demanded that their family be protected, not dragged into genocide. While peace and cooperation was still rare due to internal hostilities, the orcs knew that if they expected to survive their world, they would need to work together.

Of course their cooperation did not mean things ever went well. Not for anyone who wasn't an orc; orcs who found alliances with each other often then directed their combined might onto others, dwarves and elves in particular. They always had competed for common resources, but orcs had the advantage of stronger bodies and greater numbers, typically to off set their shorter lives and lack of development. Thus orcs were in a perpetual state of conflict with other races until humans came into power. While and individual orc was still stronger than a single human, they could match the orcs numbers but combine it with the intelligence of elves and the craftsmanship of dwarves, forcing the orcs back. With the arrival of humans the orcs were forced to reevaluate their lifestyles, knowing that continued warfare will only result in all their deaths.

The orcs were divided. Many loyal to their old code demanded that the orcs gather their people together and wipe out their enemies in one go. An equally large side, more concerned about the lives of their people, wanted to coexist with the other races, seeing no point in perpetuating senseless violence for honor which will only get them and those they love killed. A small civil war disrupted, but ultimately the two sides left each other.

The orcs who intermingled with humans have largely saturated into humans, losing many of their more orcish traits such as snouts and tusks. Many of these orcs have gone through so many generations among humans that they are hardly orcs in appearance or temperament, causing them to vanish as a distinctive race. The isolationist orcs, seeing that their heritage could be lost if they intermingled with humans, became even more isolated, with only a few families or individuals to ever leave their hidden homes to explore the world around them. Despite orcs inevitably losing their monstrous traits as generations went by, they gained a new sense of humanity that allowed them to do greater things.

And that's more or less a rough draft of who the orcs are and what they're up to.

[Raineh Daze]

I think you might have... just... missed something?

This is a modern-fantasy setting with a Masquerade going on. That's pretty clearly an epic fantasy backstory that would not lead anywhere near this scenario.