It's always calm before a storm. Unbeknownst to most, disaster will strike soon. This will be an optional slice of life interaction period, to those that want to engage in some pre-disaster interactions feel free to run some collabs with people. You don't have to participate, this is mostly just to pad out some time for those that still haven't made their sheets but give something to the players that are waiting. If you wanna wait for the big event TM that is perfectly fine. Your social collabs can include time periods from the first week prior to friday, or the week prior with the closing of summer break. Friday the 13th at 12:15 is the cut off point to where the main event will happen. Solo posts can generally be about whatever too, recommended to situate yourself near that event time, especially to those not at the school. If you also want some solo posts with npc's or want npcs in your collab feel free to hit me up. Keep in mind you are allowed to make your own minor npc's provided they are just ordinary people.
For collabs I recommend using this pad.riseup.net and contacting whoever you wish to collab with. You may also join in other collabs if you feel like you'd want your character there or to show up, just feel free to communicate among yourselves n all that. Make your posts in the pad and someone will be in charge of posting the whole thing here. Any questions feel free to pm me, especially to characters who aren't in the school and need direction. Chapter one will start next monday in real time to close off this interaction period, that should give enough time for those to finish their characters and get out your social interactions; however delays can happen if there are those that still need time for characters and/or posting. If you feel like you can't get your character up within the week that is fine, but we will be moving on without you. You are still free to join in later of course!
A terrorist Group known has Phantom has been blamed for several reported bombings, and a raiding of a military base in Nevada. Gov has been mostly quiet on details. Official reports claim use of explosives, however details of the weaponry used, and casualties in the acknowledged attacks haven't been revealed to the public. Rumors ranging from a full on military invasion from another country to the rapture with demons and hellfire being responsible circulate from surviving accounts but lack credibility. One low quality video however reported some kind of big, flying beast breathing lightning that has been running around on the internet though with heavy skepticism.
Paranoia has started to increase in the public and some religious groups have already started civil gatherings proclaiming rapture and whatnot, expect some nutcases in the city with picket signs. Conspiracy theorists are also gaining a bit more popularity with blaming of aliens and other strange claims such as flat or hollow earths and what have you.
Increasing paranoia has also lead to a crime increase in cities; in Lakewood looters and robberies are being reported more frequently. In the past year the average missing person rate in the area has also increased substantially. Though this isn't as widely reported as with everything else going on.
First day of school is September 9th, Monday, 2029. Weather for this week ranges from high 80's in the day to mid 70's at night. Getting a bit windy but fresh off summer the air is still warm. Fairly frequent rain; on the 8th it is partly cloudy with some rain expected later in the evening.
School starts at 7:30 AM and ends at 2:50 PM.
Expect typical high school classes with some extras like art, computer science classes, advanced mathematics/calculus for some over achievers, etc. Lunch time is at 12:15 to 1:00 and everyone regardless of grade/scheduling should be there at the same time for convenient social potential. Since it's the first week there is not a whole lot of after school activities beyond detention, school store, and just people hanging out.
I think this mostly works out, though I think the matter phasing could be nerfed slightly. Is it fine if we apply a limit in that Sandy can't breathe when phasing through matter, like swimming under water, and therefor can't remain doing so without suffocated to avoid any super cheese with it; Not that I don't trust you with that ability I just like some expanded limitation on it.
Lakewood High: Lakewoods high school which is joined together by Lakewood middle school on the left wing.
Lakewood City: A bustling city of moderate size between forest and ocean. Sky Scrapers acting as hotels and casinos (It's the future gambling is legal more I guess), and old abandoned factories make up the business district. Expensive shore town houses, cheap broken down apartments, and plenty of taverns litter the city, with a few parks sprinkled in between.
The Pier: A pier with a lighthouse, amusement park, and of course, the beach. Long docks make up popular fishing points.
Peark Lake: It's a lake. A big lake nestled in the middle of the woods, next to the school and a camp.
Camp Lakewood: A summer camp nestled on the far end of the lake's shore.
The Suburbs: Middle Class housing
Jebediah's Farm: A large plot of farm owned by an old man named Jebediah, most of it's wide open corn field with a few ranges for cows and horses. A small barn and silo for hay with a modest farmhouse.
Slums: Closely pact together poor houses with the occassional shady bar sprinkled around.
The Foxhole: A Cafe right by the school in the outlet.
Harry's Burgers: A fast food place, but the owner's name is actually Larry.
Jerry's Pets: A local pet store owned by a guy named Jerry, go figure. He's a bit weird.
Normally appears like that without the demon gloves. He often wears shorts and t shirts. Restricting his attire to casual clothing. Amber Eyes and Golden hair.
The demon gloves are his channeler's catalyst, not even giving much of a proper disguise. In addition to a strength increase the armored claws deliver powerful volts of electricity and pressure with each blow.
Appearing as a beast of black smoke Balguul is a demonic entity of nothing short of raw might. Noteworthy beyond it's sheer strength it's claws clash with strikes of lightning.
If your sheet has already been approved, put em here.
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Normal Appearance:
Medium Appearance(Their magical girl transformation/armor up/magic clothes they use when either channeling or summoning)
Channeling Abilities, Spells, Stats, etc(Remove Channeling details if your medium can only perform Summoning.):
Grade (If a student):
Personality:
Background:
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Spirit Name:
Spirit Classifications:
Spirit Personality:
Spirit Appearance(Their True Form):
Sealed Appearance(Their disguised Form):
Summoning Abilities and Stats(Leave Blank if your Medium can only channel):
Spirit Charge (Leave Blank if you choose not to have Spirit Charge move):
Other Information:
Weakness and Limitations(List of weaknesses and/or limits to the abilities and powers of both Channeler and Spirit, full extent/maximum limit of their respected thresholds):
Contract(Write of the scene between your human and spirit character and the creation of their contract. Describe the dream room of the spirit, what the spirit specifically offers, etc.)
This RP will start in the city of Lakewood, located on the coast of Maryland, United States. The year is 2029, expect minute changes at best to modern technology and luxury. The city is a moderate metropolitan shore town with an extended suburbs. The center of the story takes place at Lakewood High. I expect most players to play as a student Medium (Mediums described below). While I can allow one to play a faculty member or someone else entirely, I highly advise you run by me the concept first. Since I want to balance the story between a slice of life high school with the secret identities of magical teenagers fighting monsters I'd like to emphasis to make a character around that role.
The premise of the world is an alternate reality, where a thousand years ago, an event known as the Yggsdrasil Contract sucked away the world's magic, spirits, and other supernatural elements off of the world. However rumors of strange happenings, mysterious disappearances, and strange disasters have been creeping up on the web. Although official reports and governing bodies do their best to cover up the returning of the supernatural, rumors still leak through.
Players will be playing a Medium; humans who possess an abnormally high amount of spiritual energy, which manifests as an Aura. While Spirits are compelled towards what would otherwise be a far more nutritious snack, Mediums can weaponize their own Aura in a way that repels Spirits to a limited degree, making them more trouble than they’re worth for less powerful Spirits, though it’s perfect for attracting Shades in need of a Contract. Mediums can expand and increase their powers towards more practical means through Pacts with Spirits. Mediums that have formed a pact are known as Spirit Mediums.
Spirits are monsters that have existed since time immemorial. Blessed with magic powers and superhuman strength, Spirits had reign over the Earth until the first Pact with Yggdrasil resulted in the destruction of over half the Spirits on Earth. Spirits cannot truly die, however, instead reduced to a harmless, ethereal form known as a Shade, which cannot even be perceived by humans without the potential to become Mediums. These unlucky Spirits have little choice but to make a pact if they wish to have any hope of regaining their form.
You may either have your character start a contract before the events of the first act, or during the first act at your request (All I'll spoil is that it will be a life or death situation; so naturally it's a much better incentive to get your magical powers there.) Otherwise Spiritual contracts are initiated by the spirit, and will try to make the deal sound as pleasant to the medium as possible; ranging from anything like vague threats of what may come, to wish-fulfillment promises (That could just as well be lies fabricated from the spirit to help convince the character). A spirit will typically approach a character like this in a dream, or dream-like state. Taken to a separate room of the spirit's own design and control.
Spirits come in many shapes and sizes, usually bearing similarity to more contemporary animals or mythical creatures, though more humanoid or even mechanical-looking Spirits have been known to exist. They are united by their unique magical abilities as well as a shared grudge against humanity, as many have taken their defeat at the hands of such weak creatures rather personally. Many can speak, though they are often far too proud to speak any human language, and are far from fluent in them. Any communication with a human is almost always done through the spiritual connection of a Pact.
Each Spirit possesses one or more special powers, each known as a Focus. A Focus can be control over an element or force, like fire or inertia, or physical power, like enhanced strength or speed. Having more than one Focus will evenly split their total magical power. For example, a Spirit with only a fire Focus will always have more powerful flames than an equally powerful one with its Foci split between fire and three other elements. A Spirit that is bound through a Pact is typically known as a Familiar, though they tend to detest the connotations behind the term.
Classifications of spirits are determined arbitrary rankings and types. Classifications aren't public knowledge, developed from study under an underground research team not yet revealed in IC.
Elementals: Spirits embodying a pure element or force, such as fire or magnetism. Guardians: Spirits embodying natural areas or objects, such as spirits of forests, mountains, or even celestial bodies. Machina: Spirits embodying man made machinery, objects, tools, weapons, or technology. Meta: Spirits that embody abstract concepts such as desire and nothingness. Null: Spirits that defy all other categories. Broodlings: Broods consist of one or multiple broodlings; spirits born asexually from another spirit, and have yet to make their own identities. While most broodlings retain free will they are ultimately bound by kinship to their parent spirit and other broodlings until they have grown enough either by incredible age or power to become their own independent spirit. Broodlings will often share at least one if not many characteristics of their parent spirit, most often based on appearance and/or ability. Over the impossible stretch of time of existence countless broodlings have ascended to an independent spirit and made their own offspring, which is why there are similar broods of appearance and/or ability.
The classifications can be rather loose, and a Spirit can easily end up falling under two or more categories.
Threat Level
Threat levels are a general assessment of how dangerous and/or powerful a spirit is. Keep in mind however that just because a spirit may be ranked at a 2, doesn't mean it can't challenge or defeat a spirit of a higher rank(Though more often then not they due tend to be weaker then a higher rank spirit for obvious reasons.) Cat. 0: Shades, with absolute no power to wield shades can only exist and hopefully talk and contract mortals to help fix their existence. Due to the theoretical temporary nature of being a shade, Cat 0's aren't officially classified to any known spirit and are only used to describe an encounter with a shade. Cat. 1: The lowest rank of spirits, these creatures are often smaller creatures and beasts of mundane power. While to the natural world they can still pose some danger they are considered a generally low threat compared to other spirits. In addition to being the weakest official class, Cat 1's are believed to be the most common of existing spirits; at least in theory. Though attacks are rare outside of group based attacks. Cat. 2: Category 2 spirits are a formidable force, though still low on the ranks. Category 2 spirits are most often powerful broodlings, guardians that have since lost their guarded domain, lesser demons and other spirits. Powerful in their own right but below the more commonly encountered high threat level spirits. Cat. 3 Most infamous encounters of Spirits consist of Cat 3. Great mythical beasts like dragons and pheonixes, Spirits that resemble angels and demons, powerful guardians, and more. Cat. 4 Cat 4 aren't too different from cat 3, but tend to be a bit higher either with conceptual powers or overwhelming strength that place them into something more akin with a demi-god. Cat. 5 Don't bother running, you're already screwed. Cat. CLASSIFIED
The ultimate bond between a human and a Spirit, a Pact establishes a special link between the two that allows each to draw upon the other: The Medium gains the service and powers of the Spirit, training their spiritual abilities and improving their Aura, while the Spirit can merge with and feed off the spiritual energy of a Medium, eliminating its need to feed, allowing it to gain power through absorbing the spiritual energy from the physical form of a defeated Spirit, and (for better or worse) allow them to experience a variety of emotions and sensations that they may not be able to experience otherwise. Spirits (for the most part) must follow the directions of their Medium, and can be wielded in two ways: Summoning and Channeling:
Summons the Spirit in its true form to fight for the Medium. While Spirits are usually far better at moving in their own bodies, and Mediums are usually far better at coordinating from their own, the Medium is largely defenseless aside from their base Aura power, potentially making them an easy target.
Note that even if you do not have a channeling form, your medium will still have a medium appearance. Also note that while the appearance may be purely aesthetic, Channelers can incorporate their new look as a form of ability or boon such as magical armor, wings, weird tentacle shit, etc.
The Spirit merges with the Medium, allowing them to channel the Spirit’s power as if it were their own, able to use superhuman abilities and channel their Foci, through a special tool known as a Catalyst that is generated through the fusion, which can vary from the more stereotypical wand or staff to a special piece of armor or even a weapon. This merge alters the Mediums appearance somewhat, though depending on the Spirit and the Medium’s own influence this can change from unique clothing to armor to a fully merged body where the Medium takes on some of the physical traits of the Spirit.
Though this makes the Medium a far more effective combatant, the amount of power that a Medium can use is wholly dependent on the Medium’s own level of synchronization with their Spirit, which almost always leaves the merged Form less powerful than the Spirit on its own. It’s also taxing and the mind and body of a Medium, meaning that it can’t be maintained for nearly as long as a Summon, and Channeling a Spirit far beyond one’s abilities could lead to rather… corrupting side effects. The negative effects of Channeling tend to scale with the power of the Spirit: Fusing with an exceptionally powerful spirit for more than a few moments could be tantamount to suicide, while weaker spirits are far easier to synch with to the point that it may even perform better when Channeling.
In addition, the two can pool their power together in a process known as a Spirit Charge. This is a unique ability that allows the Medium to both Summon and Channel their Spirit at once, using all Foci in a single attack with more power than even the combined total of their spiritual energy. Though extremely powerful, it leaves both the Spirit and the Medium exhausted afterwards.
As taking a Spirit in public areas draws all kinds of attention, many Spirit Mediums like to hide their Spirits in what is known as a Sealed Form. Sealed Spirits cannot use any of their powers, but they take on a far more mundane appearance and suppress their spiritual energy to obscure them from other Mediums. Sealed Forms vary from more mundane creatures that reflect their natural appearance to physical items like gemstones, cards, jewelry, and similar clothing and accessories. The more powerful the Spirit, the larger the Sealed Form needs to be to suppress their power, though inanimate forms are more efficient than an equally sized animate one.
After a Pact has been in effect for a long time, both the Spirit and the Medium will likely have grown considerably in power. A former Shade may have regained its energy to the point that it no longer needs to feed off the Medium to maintain its physical form, at which point it will usually attempt to break the Pact. The Medium may even let it go willingly, though there have been instances of the two remaining bonded even without a mutual need to do so.
If a Medium’s Spirit ever has its physical form broken, the Pact will be broken along with it. This has drastic effects on both parties; The Spirit's form will be so thoroughly destroyed that it may take anywhere from days to centuries to reconstitute to the point of becoming a Shade again, and the Medium's Aura will be changed, hurting their ability to wield it and form further Pacts like a wound that may never heal. If the Medium dies, the Spirit's energy will be similarly wounded, causing it to slowly lose its physical form if it doesn't consume more energy. If a Spirit ever becomes completely enraged with its Medium, it may attempt to break free of the Pact. If it succeeds, it may eventually fade back to a Shade, depending on how much power it has accumulated over the course of their partnership. However, it is then completely free to turn on its former master or whatever else it sets its sights on to feed its renewed hunger.
A spirit that has absorbed enough energy and has retained a physical form long enough can remain on the natural world indefinitely, provided they aren't destroyed. However due to the nature of certain spirits this may not be feasible for certain exceptions. In general, Independent spirits that have obtained self autonomy are referred to commonly as monsters, though more a more classified nomenclature are miscreations.
While it is possible to form Pacts with multiple Spirits at the same time, this is ill-advised, both due to the increased difficulty of coordinating multiple Spirits and due to the fact that the spiritual energies that the Spirits consume can exceed the amount that a Medium can produce, killing them. It often requires pacts to be made with multiple weaker Spirits to be successful, which can lead to excessive wounding of the Medium's Aura should they be careless with their Spirits in battle.
Format the character sheet however you want. Picture and Description for appearances preferred but just a description is sufficient if you can't find a good picture reference.
By default mediums have access to Channeling, Summoning, and a Spirit Charge. However you may revoke access to any of those categories to specialize further into another. For instance if you want rely solely on Channeling you can remove the summoning option, and vice verse. You can also remove your super charge to improve either your summoning or Spirit Charge generally.
Also note to remove the () in the character sheet lines.
Rules: Standard stuff here.
No godmodding or Metagaming. Don't be an asshole OOC. The GM and CO have the final say, if we don't like something then that's that.
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