Boomrocker

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@Shisa Crocodavid seems like a brand of cereal.

By the way, am I the only one who noticed that El Ruidoso and Augur are near perfect expies of Rock Lee and Shikamaru. One is extremely energetic, has no real powers, values training and honorable fights. The other is extremely smart, an excellent strategist (in the case of Augur, it seems to be implied) and also lazy.

One could also argue that my character could be a male expy of Sakura, what with all the anger management issues and what not, but I drew more inspiration from Shizuo of Durarara!

@Teal

I do not know who these people are. El Ruidoso is merely a luchador, and has the showmanship of one.

High School Rumble! [open for applicants]

@Clev Hey, yeah, and I can replenish my supply every year at the rumble. I doubt I'll get 30 years out of this RP, but it's a mechanically viable strategy. I don't think Kingsley wants to, like, eat people though. People and crocodiles are two things I'm pretty sure he's not cooking.

@Shisa

I would rectify that if I were you. Crocodile meat is delicious.

Dungeon Crawling Adventure

@Boomrocker: That's not enough of a drawback at all. Honestly if he can deadlift that much that easily and run that fast without effort I really can't accept him. It's not like all the characters for this are weak or anything but someone who could pretty much effortlessly knock down the walls of any dungeon they go(and destroy most other things with that much strength) into isn't acceptable. And not being able to jump is basically just "you can't go here", it's not a drawback when it comes to that kind of thing.

@VitaVitaAR

"Tag" Dacote cannot be made acceptable without negating that which defines him. Therefore, he is inappropriate for this role-play.

I have spent a significant amount of time on this new character that should hopefully pose no problems.

Marc Ferrus, Paladin of Mayon

Name: Marc Ferrus

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Class: Mayonite Paladin

Appearance:


Personality: Marc is a noble, proud man with nothing but kind words for everyone, even his enemies. All individuals are worth his time, as it is his duty to aid those in need. He possesses a deadpan sort of humour but is not snarky or given to jibes. Most of all, though, Marc is honourable, and willing to be fair and noble towards all and will never judge an enemy without hearing the full story. All can be redeemed in his eyes! He is, however, a little self-conscious about his height, being six foot five and towering over most people.

Brief Backstory: Born to the noble Ferrus family of Velt, Marc was encouraged early on to join the Holy Order of Mayon due to his peaceful and wise nature. While he was a studious, yet strong boy, the Moon Goddess appealed to him, and he found it a great honour to be in her service. As such, he became a Paladin of the Moon Goddess, sworn to uplold the peace in her name.

Equipment: Marc wears a suit of heavy armor to protect himself. It is not enchanted, instead being sturdy and solidly built and held up by Marc's exceptional strength. He also possesses a heater shield, embossed with the rose of Mayon, and enchanted to temporarily freeze any weapon that comes into contact with it. He does not use the traditional tower shield, though he is trained in its use, as it is too cumbersome for tight fighting environments. He wields a spear, Guardian, kept very sharp and pointy and enchanted with icy powers that are activated when the spear is impaled into an enemy, chilling them to the bone and, given a bit of time, freezing them solid. He also carries Protector, a very sharp arming sword with the same enchantment as his spear at his hip.

Abilities:
Trained Fighter - Marc is exceptionally skilled in the art of sword, shield and spear, leading him to a defensive yet rapid style of fighting where he wears the opponent down while remaining in top form.

Physical Powerhouse - Having trained for many years, Marc Ferrus is absolutely a walking tank, able to take blows in his armor while barely flinching. Despite this, he is not cumbersome, instead rather quick and precise, as he has trained in his armor and with his weapons for so long that they no longer encumber him. He may not move so much, but he rarely needs to.

Charismatic - Marc is a really nice guy. People tend to flock to him and he is perfectly happy to lend them his time.

Dungeon Crawling Adventure

@Boomrocker: Okay, first thing that sticks out to me is that he can deadlift several tons effortlessly and run fifty-five miles an hour. That's a bit ridiculous in terms of strength and speed.

@VitaVitaAR

He possesses an incredible downside in that he cannot jump. At all.

High School Rumble! [open for applicants]

The Boxing Ring

The crowd was silent, watching the interaction between the luchador and the cheerleader with interest. A pin drop could be heard! All breath was held! Some poor kid in the stands was going blue, and it was not the guy who had the power to turn into a blueberry muffin!

"Then it is, A DATE!" roared El Ruidoso de Marad, Mighty Lucha Wrestler, with his FIERY PASSION! The crowd immediately burst into cheers and applause! Camera flashes went off, women threw their underwear, and all around them was the chant of 'Lu! Cha! Lu! Cha! Lu! Cha!' Truly the audience appreciated the dramatic showmanship of El Ruidoso!

The chants continued as El Ruidoso through his arms wide, rose in his hand, basking in the glory and attention and showing of his magnificent oiled six pack! Then a thrown bra hit him in the face. THAT DID NOT DETER HIM! With grace, he removed the bra from his face and turned in the direction it came from. With a dramatic bow and a blown kiss, he acknowledged the bra before placing it neatly on the edge of the ring. One must treat the undergarmets of females with respect!

But a man had addressed him, and El Ruidoso was not the type of man to leave a comrade in the lurch! "Greetings Señor! It is truly an honour for I, El Ruidoso de Marad, to meet a man who defeated such a terrifying enemy so!" boomed El Ruidoso, paying no attention to any damage his loud voice might cause to the man's eardrums! He bowed deeply, one hand to chest and the other out behind him, the true form of respect for a martial combatant such as himself! The crowd cheered further, witnessing the beginning of the apocalypse to come.

Finally, he re-adopted the kneeling pose to face Misaki and handed her the rose. "My fairest lady, I am at your service! The strength of El Ruidoso de Marad is yours to command! My true power and FIERY PASSION will be invested into your cause! A noble cause..." and on that ominous note he stood again to behold the crowd once more... "AND IT'S NAME IS BOXERMANIA!"

The crowd achieved the impossible! They cheered as loud as El Ruidoso de Marad himself! This brought a tear to the lucha's eye! He felt true pride in his companeros here this fine day! They had honoured him with their presence and he shall honour them in kind! For it was his FIERY PASSION that would bring Boxermania to new heights! For the love of a lady and the fight of a lifetime, El Ruidoso de Marad knew no greater honour!

Dungeon Crawling Adventure

I have created a new character that should be more acceptable since you do not wish for any sort of inter-party conflict.

"Tag" Dacote [+]

Name: "Tag" Dacote (First name unknown)

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Class: Soldier

Appearance: Tag is encased entirely in a full set of knightly armor with greathelm, coloured jade and silver. No one knows what he looks like underneath. The armor glows faintly, hinting at possible enchantments or hidden powers. For some strange reason, he carries no sword or weapon with him besides a spiked knuckle duster specially forged to fit over the fingers of his armor.

Personality: Tag is quiet almost to the point of silence. Some would say he has no personality, but that's just because he never talks about himself. He is very obedient towards authority, owing to his past as a town guard, and will fight for them without hesitation like an oddly-quiet berserker. When put in a fight, he is very determined, and even serious injury has not kept him down. He has no interest in financial gain, only in finding the largest weapon that he can find. However, due to the strength of the armor he often breaks said weapons, meaning he has to always find more.

Brief Backstory: Tag was a soldier in Velt's army before he was kidnapped by a rogue mage and sealed into his armor. The mage wasn't very good, though, and the enchantment was fundamentally flawed in unknown ways. However, the mage underestimated Tag's tenacity and Tag destroyed the mage's workshop, along with the mage. Now he travels as an adventurer, testing out his armor and poking about for cool weapons. Any other details about him are unknown, because he never talks about them.

Equipment: Tag's enchanted armor is his only gear, along with a spiked knuckle duster.

Abilities:
Speed - The armor makes Tag move fast. Really fast. When going at full pelt, he can clear one hundred metres in four seconds. However, this has the downside of rendering him completely unable to jump, a flaw present in the original armor enchantment.

Strength - The armor boosts Tag's strength to the point where he hits like a freight train and can lift an elephant without difficulty.

Energy Projection - Tag's armor can fire blasts of pure unstable magic at extremely rapid pace straight from his hands. Due to the flaw, his gauntlets heat up and he risks cooking his hands off if he fires for any length of time.

Dungeon Crawling Adventure

1. Well, again, really depends there but the vast majority were still magic-users. I guess some might not have been.

2. I will point out that at least two characters would probably not be very receptive at all if he tried to recruit them, possibly more. They'd be just about the opposite of receptive.

3. Well, I kind of thought it was clear with how I mention they eat people and have generally pretty terrible relations with every other race. Orodagor is also just a single fortress, which is also a ruined mess and was cleared of orcs when the Witch-Queen took it over before it was quite as badly a ruined mess. The only reason orcs were really in Orodagor, though, was when they were rallied as an army by Hidroroth. Aside from the occasional passing raiding party they haven't really been able to find anything they want in the ruins of Orodagor, so they don't really go there anymore.

@VitaVitaAR

1) There was no indication that the Witch-Queen's army was killed to a man. You may wish to update the OOC post with this information.

2) OOC knowledge is not IC knowledge. I know this, but No-Point does not.

3) In that case, since I have noticed a significant number of Tolkien elements used in this plot, the logical conclusion was to assume that the Orcs lived in the expy of Mordor. That being said, I will be stripping No-Point's bio entirely, as you have said it is optional, to maintain the mystery about the man and sidestep these issues. Is this acceptable?

High School Rumble! [open for applicants]

The Boxing Ring

"BEHOLD!" cried El Ruidoso de Marad, Mighty Lucha Wrestler from his place in the stands! He stood, showing the assembled crowd his wondrous biceps and truly magnificent pecs, all forged by the power of eating well, training hard, and FIERY PASSION! "I WILL ASSIST YOU WITH BOXERMANIA, ON TWO CONDITIONS!" he roared, promptly sending the assembled crowd deaf! So loud was El Ruidoso that eardrums burst in his presence!

He leapt from his place in the stands, sailing through the air with all the grace of a thrown brick! He struck a pose mid-air, his smile wide, before landing in front of the ring with a thump and a flourish! For some reason, a rose had appeared in his teeth! He removed it, and, holding it aloft in the air, he declared "¡OLE!"

With another mighty leap, he propelled himself over the ropes and into the ring itself. "UNO!" he bellowed. "I WISH TO FACE A MIGHTY GRAPPLER, SO THAT I MAY SHOW YOU ALL THE FIERY PASSION OF LUCHA!" he spoke thusly, the crowd bursting into cheering and applause when they heard they were going to get a fight. The bloodlust ran high, and El Ruidoso knew how to play a crowd!

"DOS!" was his second declaration, and to the surprise of absolutely everyone he spun on his heel and fell to one knee, facing the cheerleader Misaki on the sidelines. "It is rare that I see such beauty in such a horrendous school environment! Truly a rose such as yourself should be permitted to bloom in the sun!" he explained, pointing the rose at the cheerleader. "And such a skilled fighter, with a true understanding of FIERY PASSION! Truly you are, as they say, the complete package! El Ruidoso is a kind man, but a man who appreciates the true beauty that stands before him! So it is thus, that my second requirement, is a single date with YOU, KUROSAWA MISAKI!"

Dungeon Crawling Adventure

@Boomrocker: Sorry, I have some issues here. To start with, him possibly being trained by the remnants of the Witch-Queen's army doesn't much make sense. She was running an enormous coven, her army was largely magic-users. Even the ones still around went into hiding when she was seemingly killed. Basically he'd have to be over eight-hundred years old and a mage for that, and while that's possible he's clearly not a mage.

If he just appears in random places why exactly is he going to a party? He seems more like the type of character who'd be working towards gathering an army or something.

Speaking of his armies... just about the only two people who have ever achieved a large army of orcs were Hidroroth and his successor, Izandrath. They were respectively a god and something comparable to an angel. Not even the Witch-Queen got them following her, because they're pretty nasty in their outlook on anyone but other orcs or things they can use to fight. Even if he killed a lot of them, they most they ever do with humans that isn't killing or capturing them is sell captives they don't eat to slavers.

@VitaVitaAR

1) Understandable. I will change 'remnants' to 'descendants'.

2) He is a former warlord with ambition. Adventurers make fine generals. Why would he not adventure with a party?

3) Please provide all pertinent details on the history of Orcs within Orodagor as much of the information stated above is missing from the first OOC post. I will update No-Point's bio with these details in mind so that such mistakes will not be made again.

Dungeon Crawling Adventure

Name: No-Point

Age: ?

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Class: Warlord

Appearance: The warlord known only as No-Point is a big guy. He stands at approximately six foot six and is built like a brick outhouse. His face is always hidden by a bandit mask. His hair is sparse and thinning, revealing that he may be older than his strength implies. Notably, his rounded ears are always on display, as they are the mark that identified him as a non-orc and a point of fear for orcs from his time in Orodagor. His clothes are thick and rough, his jacket long, but removing it he reveals his huge, bare arms.

Personality: The best way to describe No-Point's personality is 'clinical'. He is stoic, methodical, and slow to anger. He is surprisingly jovial to his allies, and disarmingly polite to his enemies. His methods are pragmatic, rarely defined by emotion. While he speaks eloquently, it is rare that he raises his voice in anger. As a result, he is very capable of playing the long game as he possesses patience far beyond most other warlords, and would never destroy anything that could eventually serve him. Many 'donated' orc weapons and tools have been graciously accepted for his armies.

For some strange reason, No-Point is an avid patron of the theater, enjoying the sound of song and dance.

Brief Backstory: The man now known as No-Point has a past shrouded in mystery. His true name is unknown, or even if he had one in the first place. Rumour has it that he trained under the remnants of the Witch-Queen's army, but no one had heard from her in years. What is known, though, is that he earned his name from the screams of the orcs and goblins as he killed them one by one, entering their culture as a terrible demon, possessing ears with no point.

For some time, he led an army of orcs he had beaten into service in Orodagor, until he finally crashed it into one led by another aspiring warlord. There were no survivors. Since then he has been on the move, working as a mercenary wherever his travels take him, and always eager to build an army to conquer the land and give the people their freedom. Soon, the fires of his own empire will rise. But he is always wearing the mask, causing many to wonder about its purpose...

Equipment: His tremendous strength and the clothes on his back.

Abilities:
Terrifyingly Powerful - No-Point is outrageously strong and intimidating. Someone punching him poorly is likely to break their hand. His fists are like giant meat-covered anvils. In addition to his size, No-Point has somehow received training in the ways of the orc. He is not only strong, he is fast, precise and ferocious in his fighting technique. The end result is, not only is he a combat monster, but a terrifying man, gaining followers on fear alone.

Unexpectedly Clever - For a brute, No-Point has a very canny mind, capable of making inferences that none would expect from a brute like him. His chief weapons are fear, surprise and ruthless efficiency. He is capable of strategy, tactics and logistics and a skilled orator. He speaks far more eloquently than one would expect of a warlord.

Good At Being Where He Shouldn't - For some strange reason, No-Point is able to appear in places where he is completely unexpected, and though there is often a logical explanation he will never explain how he actually got there.

Creature Of The Night - Nothing so dramatic as vampirism. Having been born and raised in a land of darkness, that is where No-Point operates best. When in Orodagor, or during the night, he is much more comfortable and focused, becoming even more dangerous.