Dark Eternity

Dark Souls: Sins of the Lords

@Lauder
Character is fine. If you feel like it, you can add a picture later on. Post the character in the CHAR.

@POOHEAD189
You can join in.

As for posting. I will see and try to post either sometime soon this day or tomorrow.

@Shoryu
I will allow your character for the time being, unless someone decides to disagree and throw in a veto by tomorrow.

Dark Souls: Sins of the Lords

As far as I am concerned, it is an interesting mechanic, but as I said to @Shoryu that it might not properly portray in this RP, or in RP in general. It is more something that feels well prepared to be implemented in a Tabletop/Pen-and-Paper, rather a Play-by-Post RP. My own doubt left me to see what the group thinks of it.

So from what I have read, you appear to be on my side, that the mechanic looks well made, but should be addressed in a proper gaming system, am I right?

@SimplyDebonair
Your character looks good to go. You can post him over at CHAR.

As for the size of the group and such, what do you think should we go on: Start IC soon or wait for a few more jolly cooperationists? I was thinking of posting soon, maybe Saturday.

Also, my last group left the RP after telling me that I was focusing it too much on combat. How much combat is "enough" for you and how much is "too much", so I have a general idea where to go with the encounters.

Dark Souls: Sins of the Lords

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Well, I can help a little bit about that.

Hollows, from what I understand are basically just mindless undead, to an extent. As the saying goes, all Hollow are Undead, but not all Undead are Hollow.

Not sure there's much of a difference there, but as for the Unkindled...

As from what I remember, they're basically people who tried linking the first flame or a bonfire, but were consumed by the flame in the process, later revived by the bells. Read this for a good theory on what Unkindled are: Unkindled

Almost done with my Cs, by the way.

@Rune_Alchemist

Unkindled are different from the Undead, as the later will Hollow with time and the Unkindled remain a human appearance and never grow insane (or at least are far more resilient to Hollowing). The third option (Hollows) are Undead that are still conscious and sane, even when in the deepest forms of Hollowing (See Dark Souls 3 - Londor, Dark Sigils). So the choice of the curse is pretty much whether your character will stay human in appearance, grow Hollow or IS Hollow in their looks.

@Bright_Ops@Rune_Alchemist@Eisenhorn
You guys are okay to go. You can post those into the CHAR section if you want.

Dark Souls RP - Pitching in an idea.

@Lauder@Shoryu@Eisenhorn@Rune_Alchemist@dragonmancer@Tojin

I opened up an OOC page. You are welcome to join in :)

Dark Souls: Sins of the Lords

For centuries, Lords from all the worlds gathered
nourished the flame, sacrificed embers.
But the Dark withstood the shackles of Lords,
posed a threat to those that sought light.
Three Lords and their champions gathered once more
to ignite the Flame again, to zeal the Hollowed.

Viraahn, the slayer of wyrms, wandered from the East,
with his champions, the Silent Twins, slaying Unkindled.

The Gatekeeper of the Grand Capital and his Custodian,
together bonded by chain and flame, igniting the North.

And Queen of the Blazing Forest and her demonic presence
of Hellspawner, piling up the dead beneath their feet.

But the Bell does not toll for their reign, for Unkindled,
Undead and what lurks the Dark rise from all the arches of the world.
It is their revolution once more...

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In between the fissures of reality, the Undead and Unkindled walk the lands, each calling their own piece of Thrones and Flames. Even the wretched Knights of Londor roam the sacred land of Ayree, the center of the wildlands, the root of a new Kindling. Covenants have banded up, joining in a gathered task to become a Lord, or kindle the First Flame, to return the Light to the world, or to break their curse.

Whatever motivates your kin, you wander the lands. To your feet, the mud of the Rotten Swamp, a place of dread to keep the sane and the weak from these lands.

Will you as a group become a new Lord of Cinder, ignite the Flame, steal it for your gain, or do something out of different motivation altogether, it is up to the individual bounded together through the thread of fate...
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Hello people. I welcome you to my Dark Souls RP. It will be a little different. It will be a different world, in a different time. There are similarities and differences, so treat it as such. For those that wish to join, there will be a set of rules to abide, that I wish people read carefully before.

They go as follows:
1. If problems arise throughout the IC, please remain polite and address such problems in the OOC. Should people not come to terms, it will the GM (me) or Co-GMs to decide what will happen.
2. Joining this RP, you accept that you will not leave without telling the people in OOC and that you follow the unwritten(?) guidelines to Casual RPing, which are one paragraph at least, no double-post unless it is necessary and discussed, no "auto-hitting", no "God-modding" and a clean environment inside the OOC. Your character may use foul language as he pleases, but the OOC is to talk about problems and plan with others ahead.
3. Please clean up grammar mistakes, typos and assorted mistakes. It helps the players understanding your post and actions more thoroughly.
4. Sexual content should not be addressed inside a group RP. If it is necessary for you, then please PM-RP that person.
5. Try and post frequently. Semi-daily would be enough to suffice. If you cannot post for a while, make sure you give us a heads up and finish some actions, so you missing out on some days does not hinder the overall flow.
6. Some rules might follow or change...
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Character Sheet:

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance:
Weapon:
Armor:
Curse: (Are you Unkindled, Undead or Hollowed?)

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Achievements

Carry a Tome to a Gunfight [Shadowrun RP]

Name: Asaki Watanabe

Gender: Female

Race: Dryad (Elf Metavariant)

Appearance:
While Dryads usually smaller than Humans, Asaki reaches proudly 1.7m, reaching the average human size. Her hair is in a silver shade, turning darker during summer time and lighter during winter. Her skin is snowwhite, blemished with scars from various encounters.
Like Dryads usually are, they appear graceful, even while acting normal. Something supernatural always envelops their appearance.

Image

Age: 41

Archetype: Decker

Equipment:
Cyberware:
(0.4) Cyberdeck Implant (Novatech Navigator)

Bioware:
(0.1) Sleep Regulator

Weapons:
Parashield Dartpistol (With Taserdarts)
Ares Predator V
Shockgloves

Other Equipment:
AR Gloves
AR Glasses (as Shades)
Medkit
Handcuffs
Fake SIN under her alias "Natayashi Kabuki". SIN works for usual security scans, but at deep security level will show aberrations (e.g. fingerprints and DNA do not match, as they are remains from the SIN that was reconstructed for her).

Abilities:
As many Decker, Asaki is trained in Hacking, specialized in Firewall Hacking and Decrypting. She is known to quickly tap into cameras and open up archives without much of a problem. Her weakness is Matrixcombat, making her an easy target when she is spotted. Furthermore, she is paranoid about Biofeedback and even more so afraid of damaging the Deck in her head (and damage to her head). She taps in and out really fast.

Backstory:
Born in 2031, Asaki learned that life was hard on her. During school, she lost her family to some Yakuza thugs that were going for the little hardware shop of her parents, killing them when the two were defending their property. She could hardly afford graduating and turned to her knowledge about computers. First, she was tinkering with hardware, both to survive and for hire, having found a way to keep herself some food with her. As she grew, she learned to sell herself more than anything else, working for "bath houses" for a while.
Only after the Matrix Crash and the establishment of the Wireless Matrix did Asaki try out her talent for hardware for something more practical. She dumped her employers from the bath houses and turned back to the hardware selling, adding her growing potential in Decking to it.

Just a year after the second Crash, Asaki established herself as the Shadowrunner Natayashi Kabuki. With only a spare-parts Deck in hand, she managed to get a group going for a while. With that group, she managed to gather enough Nuyen for two years to get herself a Novatech Deck implanted, making her a formidable Decker in the area east of Neo-Tokyo.

Notes: Fluent in Japanese, German and English. Bareboned knowledge of French and Spanish.

Where do you currently live: North Kamisu, Ibaraki prefecture.

Dark Souls RP - Pitching in an idea.

I guess that this should be enough people to pitch in an OOC. I will do so shortly. Should be up either tomorrow or the day after. I will post the link in this thread, then.

[Adult] Looking for 1x1 RPs [Always open]

Knocking around to see who else might find interest.

Carry a Tome to a Gunfight [Shadowrun RP]

I follow @The Survivor's question.

Also, can we chose sub-metas such as Dryads etc.? They are in the 5th edition in a sourcebook.

Dark Souls RP - Pitching in an idea.

Any other interests?

@Lauder are you up for a 1x1?