CaptainManbeard

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

When it comes to being from a plane/world other than Earth, we can just make up our own shit more or less, right?

@Light

Yeah, think of it like a multiverse. Each Mortal Plane is like it's own universe existing in the same space as other universes but at different vibrational frequencies. So races, culture, level of technology, if there are multiple planets accessible on that plane, what those environments are like, etc. are all in your hands. We don't need to set a predefined amount of planes - we'll just say there are "a lot," lol. At least several dozen.

For instance, one of my characters will be based on Ian Lightfoot from Onward, and he comes from a plane that has lots of magical creature running around, but magic itself is fairly rare there, so him going to Qrowdell is a huge deal, especially to his older brother, who thinks it's the coolest thing ever that they now have a Magi in the family.

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

Okay, it's not finished yet, but figured I'd share what I have for one of my characters - Tommy Miyazoko.

Tomayasu “Tommy” Miyazoko

Age: 18
Birthday: January 7th
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan, Earth
Height: 6’0
Body Type: Athletic
Race: Human
Eyes: Brown (Green when powered-up)
Hair: Dark Brown (Green when powered-up)
Pronouns: He/His
Orientation: Heterosexual

Voice

Peter Sudarso

Musical Themes

Personality

Coming soon…

Arcane Conduits

MagiTech Card Reader (Arcane Runic Cards teleport inside)

Arcane Runic Cards

(Cards teleport inside kind of like this:)

MagiTech Katana (trigger separates blade from hilt so Arcane Runic Tokens can slide inside like loading a shotgun)

Arcane Runic Tokens

Talents & Magical Abilities

Tommy’s primary focus is electric-based magic, which he uses to create lightning attacks and achieve superhuman speeds, but he also dips into other types of magic to bolster his physical capabilities, including strength, endurance, and dexterity. He utilizes his Arcane Conduits for more powerful and complex abilities, for which he has a variety of spells pre-written on Cards and Tokens in the Arcane Tongue. Additionally, they are imbued with tiny memory fragments so that he knows what Cards and Tokens he is touching without having to look at them.

When not in active combat or practice, Tommy has a black backpack in which he keeps all his belongings. The interior space has been expanded to about the size of a large vehicle trunk/boot with a Bag of Holding enchantment, and straps against all four sides inside keep everything from jostling around.

When he is in active combat or practice, he wears a black utility belt with a thick strap reaching up along his chest and over his left shoulder. Square leather cases along the belt hold his Cards, Tokens, herbs, potions, and anything else he might need in combat, all with easy snap-open covers. His katana is held along the strap on his back, which he can reach up over his left shoulder with his right hand to unsheath when necessary.

Biography

Coming soon…

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

When can we expect the ooc thread to go up? I think we can work more on lore and setting ther while also getting things moved forward towards starting like with cs's. I'm all for world building but it's something we can do/decide on as we play too, as we encounter a need to establish lore or meta rules.

Based on the things we've deemed important so far, it seems that our sheets will require the basic suite and a few tailored items:

Name
Race/origin
Age
Appearance

Attunement
Arcane Focus
Skills/Abilities

Personality
History

Is there anything I missed?

@Light

Yeah, greater lore will come later, right now I'm just focusing on the initial lore I'll have to have ready in my first few posts so that once we get rolling we can go full steam ahead without me having to slow the flow down to come up with too much stuff on the spot. I'm also getting my image folders in order so that I can have them ready to go for my character sheets, the info post, and the intro IC post. My character sheets are not finished yet, I'm still defining the layout I want to use, but I'll post those as soon as I can. I am waiting to post the main thread until I have mostly everything ready to go, but like I said, since it's a holiday week and I have family here, it's been hard to get time away to write and image hunt.

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

I'm considering using Old Sharlayan from FFXIV as Feywood Valley, and saying there is a giant lake with a town on its shore that services the Academy, kind of similar to Hogsmeade and Hogwarts. Not sure yet, but we'll see. Here's a look at it in-game and also from the CGI trailer:




EDIT: And here is a Wiki and a greater tour of Old Sharlayan. I'm thinking the Studium can be Qrowdell Academy proper and the Noumenon can be the Library of Allandia. As for the exact layout of the Academy beyond what is shown in the video, we'll just use our imagination to say there are plenty of halls and classrooms, as well as a Dining Hall and dorms. More info on that when the main thread goes up.

https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Old_Sharlayan

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

So, I'm still getting together stuff about the school, so the intro post won't have the Keeper arrive just yet to get them, but rather set the scene with the students arriving at Port Zone S-9. That will give everyone a chance to finish getting their characters ready and have some back and forth between them in the waiting area while they are waiting. I'm hoping that intro and my characters will be up tomorrow, but I'm not sure. Our visiting family is here till Tuesday, so how much time I can spend at my computer until then will still be limited. For those of you who celebrated Thanksgiving, how was it? Any cool stories to share?

When I was working on food stuff in the kitchen, Mr. Butters (one of the cats) jumped up on the counter when I wasn't looking and tried to run off with the raw turkey neck, and then after I threw it and other unneeded parts away, Cleocatra (another cat) climbed into the trash to drag out the raw turkey tail, LOL. I was like "thanks guys, you made me have to scrub everything down two extra times!" XD. I still gave them some of the turkey once it was done cooking, though. I always make it super juicy, saturate it in melted butter and broth, cover it in foil, baste it with the juices every 45 minutes or so, and then leave it uncovered for the final half hour to let the skin brown.

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

Oh, and I realize I never finished my post about how the RP starts - so we are all arriving at Hub City from whatever planes we are coming from, and we've been told to gather at Port Zone S-9, which is reserved only for Qrowdell Academy students and faculty. There is an airport-like building with a large seating area, and all the freshmen are gathering there in early August 2023 to go to Orientation at the Academy. The school's Creature Keeper - who happens to be the Headmaster's son - is the one arriving to escort the freshmen to Feywood Valley via Pegasus-drawn carriages that hold 12 people each. Different types of portals are used by different methods, but there is a specific way people get to Feywood Valley.

The Pegasuses are trained to navigate wormhole-like tunnel portals, similar to transport in TERA but without the circular structure. In this case, the Keeper will fling out a tiny energy wisp that then grows into a giant glowing circular portal, which the Pegasuses then fly through, pulling the carriages along behind them like Santa's sleigh. To give you an idea of that visually if you've never seen or played TERA, here's a clip. As said, just imagine there is no metal structure, the portal just opens in mid air.

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

<Snipped quote by Blizz>

I might put together an actual list of what characters to make

Might put this on it

@Blizz

At this point, it seems like you've had ideas for like eight wildly different characters XD.

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

Oh, and to give everyone an idea of where we will be at when the story begins, our characters will all be gathering at Hub City, named so because it is the largest hub for interplanar travel. It's a floating city (I'm using Cloud City from Star Wars for visual references) that sits in a void between planes, encased in a bubble that gives it an artificial atmosphere and simulated a day and night cycle. Usually, people will first depart from their original plane, arrive at Hub City, and then depart to their destination plane. The Hub City Transportation Authority monitors interplanar travel to avoid collisions between various people jumping back and forth. Basically, the Authority has thousands of Seers who can sense incoming and outgoing travelers and can pinpoint exact locations for magical portals to open to avoid collisions, and then use their minds to move portals to those locations. So, because of that, Arcane runes or incantations used to open the portals when going through Hub City don't specify an exact location, only one of the many Port Zones, and then let the Seers guide their incoming portals to an exact location within the specified Zone. The same is done when exiting Hub City, using a small, predefined geographical radius if no participating Port Zones are at the destination area.

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

It's been difficult to find options to sneak away to write (family stuff), I leave all my stuff open on my computer and try to sneak away to work on stuff when I can, lol. Anyway, got most of the stuff figured out, right now it's just a matter of getting the time to edit everything together and get the images ready and the formatting and everything.

As I'm thinking about my characters, I decided to make the Dark Acolyte not actually related to anyone in the Cult of Tiamat, but rather an orphan who was saved from the streets by a high-ranking member and became her apprentice, similar to a Sith arrangement. I want to have the option of him encountering a long-lost sibling at some point who may be able to pull him back some from the darkness, but I'm not gonna decide whether or not that happens until later.

Also, I should note that when the ultimate climax of Volume I comes to an end, any of the student villains who publicly participated will probably get expelled from Qrowdell, but prior to the three year time jump, we can say they just began training with the Cult full time. And I'm sure there will be ample opportunity throughout for student who began regretting their dark path to reverse course, but I imagine anyone who plays a Dark Acolyte character intends on reveling in their evildoer ways XD XD XD.

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

One aspect I will probably implement is user-controlled combat NPCs. Since there will be wildly inconsistent power levels and god-tier abilities, player vs player or gm vs player duels will be a nightmare to manage, so instead, each co-writer will also be controlling any NPCs/monsters they fight with so that they can write out the battle scenes as if doing it for a novel. Basically, what that means, is that at the beginning of any combat situation, I will throw enemies at any participating characters, give a little info card at the bottom of the post saying what the enemies are capable of and how difficult the fight should be, and then the co-writers will take over that fight their characters are engaged in.

So, if it's a group combat, I will just throw out a bunch of enemies and then co-writers can claim targets in OOC like, "Okay, I'm going to have John focus on the ogre," or "Jack and I discussed via PM that we are gonna double team the troll."