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THΞ UNIVΞRSΞ [Ready Player One inspired RP]

Finished mine... actually I'll never feel like it's done 😝

Leon Hart

"Challenge Accepted."

ɴᴀᴍᴇ

Leon Hart

ᴀɢᴇ

28

ɢᴇɴᴅᴇʀ

Male

sᴇxᴜᴀʟ ᴏʀɪᴇɴᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ

Heterosexual

ʜᴇɪɢʜᴛ

5’ 9”

ᴡᴇɪɢʜᴛ

165 lbs

ʜᴏᴍᴇ

Resides in an underground apartment below his office in the City Ring's lower tier

ᴏᴄᴄᴜᴘᴀᴛɪᴏɴ

Runs a courier service with his brothers out of a small office located in the ‘nicer’ part of town

ʀᴇᴀʟ ʟɪғᴇ sᴋɪʟʟs

• Adept at parkour
• Can hold his own in a street fight
• Has an excellent sense of direction
• Tinkers with computers quite often
• Can actually do a thing or two with a sewing machine

ʟɪᴋᴇs ᴀɴᴅ ᴅɪsʟɪᴋᴇs

✔ Electronic music
✔ Puppies
✔ Big tippers
✔ Customizing frickin everything
✔ Vintage gaming in The Universe

✘ Disappointing or losing a client
✘ Thieves
✘ Spiders
✘ Awkward silences
✘ Try-hards

ɪᴛᴇᴍs

• Backpack - for toting deliveries and other necessary items
• Electric bike - for short distances or when the streets are too crowded
• Sewing machine - for whenever Leon decides to rock a new look
• Rugged smartphone w/ matching smartwatch - gotta stay connected
• Standard Arc System - gets the job done, plans to upgrade in the future
• Retractable club - for when routes get a bit rough...
• Hunting knife - for when they get really rough...
• Small handgun - ...ok, so carrying precious cargo through a poor district can be pretty dangerous (getting a license was a b*tch)
• Weight set/yoga mat/pull-up bar - gotta stay in shape
• Action cam - he likes to shoot a parkour vid every once in a while

ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ

Leon has a heart for adventure and is a bit of a thrill-seeker. He lives for an adrenaline rush, though he knows when he's verging on dangerous...no thrill is worth losing one's life over. When he's not getting his blood pumping, Leon loves to flex his creative muscles, experimenting and tinkering both IRL and in the Universe. If you need something done, Leon is one of the most dependable people you can know --which translates quite well in his work life. Leon despises people who only seek to disrupt the well-being or fun of others. Most times, he does his best to avoid such people, but there are occasions where he would rather just go ahead and put them in their place.

ʙᴀᴄᴋɢʀᴏᴜɴᴅ

Leon had a fairly decent upbringing for having grown up on the Ground Floor. His father climbed his way to plant manager at one of the countless factories in the Manufacturing Ring, and his mother worked as a secretary at Gaia Farms. One would think that the two made really good money, but when you factor in five children and three dogs, the grocery bill alone brings tears to their wallets. Their living space was pretty cramped for such a large family, and Leon felt the walls closing in on him. At an early age, Leon started sneaking out to traverse the alleyways and rooftops of the Lower Tier. The perpetual artificial night didn't seem to put a damper on his explorative spirit as he became more and more adjusted to his environment. Soon, the Ring became his neon playground.

As he got older, however, play time gave way to responsibilities and his world steadily grew smaller. Leon eventually used his knowledge of the city to start a courier service, Lionheart Transport, with the help of his older brothers. In no time, the business gained a reputation for being fast and reliable, and brought in a fair amount of income. It wasn't long before Leon decided to purchase an Arc System.

Leon had heard about the simulation where pretty much anything was possible, and he had always wanted to give it a go...but he never could have imagined how wonderfully expansive The Universe actually was. It was definitely more than he could cover in even a few lifetimes. He became immediately addicted and spent every free moment he had immersed in The Universe.

3N1GMA

"The possibilities are endless"

ᴜsᴇʀɴᴀᴍᴇ

3N1GMA

ʜᴏᴍᴇ

A small section of huts in a mystical treetop village located in one of the more exotic parts of the Universe

ғᴀᴍᴇ ᴛɪᴇʀ

Relatively Known

sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟᴛʏ

Shaman [master of elemental magic with some healing and enhancement abilities]

ғᴇᴀᴛs

★Known for concocting some rather unique potions
★Holds the fastest time for completing the ‘Fairy Tale 100 v 1’ Challenge

ᴡᴇᴀᴘᴏɴs

• Sun Staff

• Rarity: Common
• Appearance:

Sun Staff

• Functionality: Standard staff for channeling magical power

• Scorpion Knife

• Rarity: Common
• Appearance:

Scorpion Knife

• Functionality: Short dagger with a wicked scorpion design

• Starseeker

• Rarity: Rare
• Appearance:

Starseeker

• Functionality: Serah Farron's bowsword from Final Fantasy XIII-2. Fires arrows of magical energy.

ᴀʀᴍᴏᴜʀ

• Mage's Robes

• Rarity: Common
• Appearance:

Mage's Robes

• Functionality: Enhances magical ability, though it doesn't add much in the way of physical protection

ᴜᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ

• Smoke Grenades

• Rarity: Common
• Appearance:

[+]

• Functionality: Emits a thick, lingering smokescreen when it detonates

• Arcane Amulet

• Rarity: Common
• Appearance:

Arcane Amulet

• Functionality: Amplifies the power of elemental magic

• Spirit Stone

• Rarity: Common
• Appearance:

[+]

• Functionality: Standard mystical stone used to communicate with and summon lesser spirits

• Corrupting Potion

• Rarity: Rare
• Appearance:

[+]

• Functionality: When activated, it shrouds the target in a noxious fog that lingers for 30 seconds. During this time, the target takes increased damage and their ability to heal is significantly reduced

sᴛᴇᴇᴅ

• Fenrir

• Rarity: Legendary
• Appearance:

Fenrir

• Functionality: One of the legendary beasts that roam the Coerthas highlands

ᴀʀᴛɪғᴀᴄᴛ

• Hidden Leaf headband

• Appearance:

Hidden Leaf headband

• Functionality: Allows the user to perform the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique used by Naruto Uzumaki. The clones dissipate after 5 minutes. This can only be used once every _ hours.

(I couldn't decide on a fair cooldown for my artifact...little help?)

The Absolution Wars (Hunger Games/Death Race-inspired Island Survival)

America 2225

.::It's the year 2225 and America has become a hellhole. Due to a massive spike in national criminal activity many years ago, the prison system had become extremely overcrowded. The financial burden of keeping up the prisons was so heavy on the government that a number of the nation's largest corporations had decided to step in and acquire nearly all of the prisons in the country as assets. Though the prisons were now privately owned, that did nothing about the surplus of inmates.

A few of the more eccentric owners saw a unique opportunity for a bold and exciting endeavor. The idea was for a contest held for inmates to win their freedom. And so, in 2150, the Absolution Wars were born. Every five years, fifty inmates are selected by lottery to participate in the Wars. Entry is eligible to lifers and death row inmates -- both male and female -- who have served at least ten years in confinement.

Participants in the Wars are given a small team to build a mech for a battle to the death on a massive deserted island. The last surviving person wins total amnesty and a home on Redemption Row, a private and secure archipelago owned by the sponsoring corporation where liberated inmates can live out the rest of their lives outside of confinement::.

Reaper Island

.::Reaper Island's specific location is undisclosed to the public for obvious reasons. At around 70 square kilometers, the island is quite large. The island was once inhabited before the corporations bought it and evacuated the population. The structures were left intact and over the years have fallen victim to the destruction of the Wars. New structures are built for each Wars (mostly for looks). Among these are supply stations equipped with fuel and ammo for the mechs and food for the competitors. The island is also surrounded by a massive impregnable electric forcefield to prevent both escape and entry::.

Redemption Row

.::A remote archipelago that most people would kill to live in...but that's kind of the point, isn't it? The winners of the Absolution Wars reside here in semi-freedom. They are each under a contract with one of several companies as indentured employees. They are free to do and own whatever they please but are not permitted to leave the Row::.

Characters/Mechs

The Absolution Wars are open to both male and female inmates of all ages.

Name
Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Height
Weight
Appearance (description or picture)
Location and Date of Confinement
Crime (be careful here...nuff said)

Mental Health State (how does your character feel about confinement/being in the Wars?)

Personality/Habits

Skills/Talents

Background (a few paragraphs about personal history both before and during confinement)

Blank

[b]Name | [/b]
[b]Age | [/b]
[b]Gender | [/b]
[b]Ethnicity | [/b]
[b]Height | [/b]
[b]Weight | [/b]
[b]Appearance | [/b]
[b]Location and Date of Confinement | [/b]
[b]Crime | [/b]

[b]Mental Health State | [/b]

[b]Personality/Habits | [/b]

[b]Skills/Talents | [/b]

[b]Background | [/b]

There are three mech configurations and three battle classes. The configurations are Bipedal, Quadrupedal, and Vehicular while the classes are Omega (Tank - heavy armor, slow movement, brute force), Delta (Speed - light armor and weapons, quick attacks, possible stealth), and Gamma (Power - versatile weapon systems, mid armor and speed, lots of utility)

Each mech is allowed a special ability which can be of one of the following types:
Enhance (amplifies mech or weapon for a short period)
Disable (impairs enemy for a short period)
Blast (large explosive ability that does a ton of damage at once)
Transform (changes the form of mech)
Shield (increases defenses for a short period)
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Name
Configuration (Bipedal, Quadrupedal, or Vehicular)
Class (Omega, Delta, or Gamma)
Height (Maximums: biped - 4m; quad - 2.9m; vehicle - 2.5m)
Weight
Fuel
Piloting Method (sit or stand? how does it steer? voice command? touchscreen? motion sensors?)
Appearance (description or picture)

[Outfitting]
Armament (melee or projectile? ammo? material?)
Defenses (what kind of armor?)
Auxilaries (any non-weapon equipment?)

[Special Ability]
Name
Type
Description

Blank

[b]Name | [/b]
[b]Configuration | [/b]
[b]Class | [/b]
[b]Height | [/b]
[b]Weight | [/b]
[b]Fuel | [/b]
[b]Piloting Method | [/b]
[b]Appearance | [/b]

Outfitting//
[indent][b]Armament | [/b]
[b]Defenses | [/b]
[b]Auxilaries | [/b]
[/indent]
Special Ability//
[indent][b]Name | [/b]
[b]Type | [/b]
[b]Description | [/b]
[/indent]

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The RP is aimed at being rather dark, twisted, and intense...feel free to ask anything

So where were you when the world erupted...?

*bump*

THΞ UNIVΞRSΞ [Ready Player One inspired RP]

Definitely a WIP, but I wanted to get this up to show progress

Leon Hart

"Challenge Accepted."

ɴᴀᴍᴇ

Leon Hart

ᴀɢᴇ

28

ɢᴇɴᴅᴇʀ

Male

sᴇxᴜᴀʟ ᴏʀɪᴇɴᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ

Heterosexual

ʜᴇɪɢʜᴛ

5’ 9”

ᴡᴇɪɢʜᴛ

165 lbs

ʜᴏᴍᴇ

Resides in an underground apartment below his office in the City Ring's lower tier

ᴏᴄᴄᴜᴘᴀᴛɪᴏɴ

Runs a courier service with his brothers out of a small office located in the ‘nicer’ part of town

ʀᴇᴀʟ ʟɪғᴇ sᴋɪʟʟs

• Adept at parkour
• Can hold his own in a street fight
• Has an excellent sense of direction
• Tinkers with computers quite often
• Can actually do a thing or two with a sewing machine

ʟɪᴋᴇs ᴀɴᴅ ᴅɪsʟɪᴋᴇs

✔ Electronic music
✔ Puppies
✔ Big tippers
✔ Customizing frickin everything
✔ Vintage gaming in The Universe

✘ Disappointing or losing a client
✘ Thieves
✘ Spiders
✘ Awkward silences
✘ Try-hards

ɪᴛᴇᴍs

• Backpack - for toting deliveries and other necessary items
• Electric bike - for short distances or when the streets are too crowded
• Sewing machine - for whenever Leon decides to rock a new look
• Rugged smartphone w/ matching smartwatch - gotta stay connected
• Standard Arc System - gets the job done, plans to upgrade in the future
• Retractable club - for when routes get a bit rough...
• Hunting knife - for when they get really rough...
• Small handgun - ...ok, so carrying precious cargo through a poor district can be pretty dangerous (getting a license was a b*tch)
• Weight set/yoga mat/pull-up bar - gotta stay in shape
• Item 10

ᴘᴇʀsᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ

Leon is a bit of a thrill-seeker. He lives for an adrenaline rush, though he knows when he's verging on dangerous...no thrill is worth losing one's life over. Naturally curious, Leon loves to tinker and experiment.

ʙᴀᴄᴋɢʀᴏᴜɴᴅ

WIP

3N1GMA

"The possibilities are endless"

ᴜsᴇʀɴᴀᴍᴇ

3N1GMA

ʜᴏᴍᴇ

A small section of huts in a mystical treetop village located in one of the more exotic parts of the Universe

ғᴀᴍᴇ ᴛɪᴇʀ

Relatively Known

sᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟᴛʏ

Shaman [master of elemental magic with some healing and enhancement abilities]

ғᴇᴀᴛs

WIP

ᴡᴇᴀᴘᴏɴs

• Sun Staff

• Rarity: Common
• Appearance:

Sun Staff

• Functionality: Standard staff for channeling magical power

• Scorpion Knife

• Rarity: Common
• Appearance:

Scorpion Knife

• Functionality: Short dagger with a wicked scorpion design

• Starseeker

• Rarity: Rare
• Appearance:

Starseeker

• Functionality: Serah Farron's bowsword from Final Fantasy XIII-2. Fires arrows of magical energy.

ᴀʀᴍᴏᴜʀ

• Mage's Robes

• Rarity: Common
• Appearance:

Mage's Robes

• Functionality: Enhances magical ability, though, it doesn't add much in the way of physical protection

ᴜᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ

• Smoke Grenades

• Rarity: Common
• Appearance:

[+]

• Functionality: Emits a thick, lingering smokescreen when it detonates

• Amulet

• Rarity: Weapon 2 Rarity
• Appearance:

[+]

• Functionality: Key Functions of Utility 2

• Utility 3 Name

• Rarity: Utility 3 Rarity
• Appearance:

[+]

• Functionality: Key Functions of Utility 3

• Utility 4 Name

• Rarity: Utility 4 Rarity
• Appearance:

[+]

• Functionality: Key Functions of Utility 4

sᴛᴇᴇᴅ

• Fenrir

• Rarity: Legendary
• Appearance:

Fenrir

• Functionality: Key Functions of Steed

ᴀʀᴛɪғᴀᴄᴛ

• Hidden Leaf headband

• Appearance:

Hidden Leaf headband

• Functionality: Allows the user to perform the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique used by Naruto Uzumaki. The clones dissipate after 5 minutes. This can only be used once every _ hours.

THΞ UNIVΞRSΞ [Ready Player One inspired RP]

Currently at work on my CS...so excited!

THΞ UNIVΞRSΞ [Ready Player One inspired RP]

@CaptainSully
So how do stats and status effects work in-game? Can you get poisoned or sick? Do the characters sustain realistic damage or is everything sort of superficial? And if it is realistic, does it last until it's fixed?

For instance, let's say someone is shot in the leg with a bullet. Would they (a) only take damage to their leg which would hinder their ability to walk until it's fixed or (b) take overall damage to some overall HP?

So where were you when the world erupted...?

I'm definitely interested, but I'm already committed to a lot of RPs right now so I might not have time. But I'll be watching this progress and if I can I'd like to join!

@Kinjaav

I've been there! It'll be open for a while so if you end up jumping on board, you're more than welcome!
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How much can a person be legally be bionic or robot?

@fer1323

Any bionics, cybernetics, or robotics are fair game at long as it makes sense. The tech in this world is pretty advanced so a few bionic body parts are perfectly plausible.

So where were you when the world erupted...?

As a side note, I should mention that there aren't any hard limits on tech, so use your imagination. If I feel like it doesn't fit into the setting, I'll let you know.

So where were you when the world erupted...?

They look like normal humans just with violet eyes. Some Noetics wear contacts to change their eye color to hide the fact that they have abilities.

So where were you when the world erupted...?

I figured someone might ask :)

And the answer is no, unfortunately...Aetherians only copy the appearance even though a Noetic's abilities are a part of his/her DNA. Also, Aetherians copy the current appearance, so the form doesn't age. They can slightly alter the appearance (hair/eye color, skin tone, etc.) but that's about it.