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@Zeroth Gaki looks great! You're free to put him into the CS tab. Sorry for missing him the first time around.

@Sam12435, @Prewiga, tagging you guys just to make sure you know the OOC is up.

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Alright, once we get everyone elses' CS up I'll get onto the first IC post. The name of the first monster you guys will be hunting is:

The Greater Jak-Jak

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@Otaku95 Rex looks good to go!

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@Lmpkio Lyra looks fantastic! All of her equipment and skills look good. All I ask that you add a sentence in the Personality Buff section describing how her buffs work in-game, and she's good to go into the CS tab. I'm really excited to see what she'll do.

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@Kazemitsu
No problem. Just add the clause onto the personality buff and then you are good to go.

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@Kazemitsu Kaze looks good. You got the Personality Buff nearly dead on, all I would add to it would be a sentence saying, "Kaze deals extra damage to a monster whenever he attacks it from one of its flanks", or something along those lines.

Also, would you mind adding a piece of artwork that depicts Kaze outside of armor?

Once you have both of those things, feel free to add him to the CS tab.

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@Kazemitsu

It's essentially a personality quirk about your character that augments and improves their abilities.

For example, if your hunter has a particularly short temper and fast disposition, you could have his attacks deal more damage. Or his attacks could have the ability to chain together into longer and faster combos. Think of it as your hunter's passive ability, based on their personality and fighting style.

You can look at my character, Tetsu Ken, for reference.

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Tetsu Ken

鉄の拳
(Tetsu Ken)

Age: 68

Gender: Male

Gear:

(The following set of armor was harvested from a group of Ceanataurs that had been nesting in a volcano not far from Tetsu Ken's village. They were slain by the hunter's late father, Hetetsu Ken.)

Ceanataur Helm
Ceanataur Mail
Ceanataur Braces
Ceanataur Tassets
Ceanataur Greaves

+ Ludroth Bonesword

+ A set of three Pitfall-Traps.

Fighting Style/Tactics: Tetsu Ken provides a rather tanky role to any team he contributes to, his stature and equipment always reflecting his tactics of stay put and stay fighting. He believes creating scenarios that keep a monster in place and grounded are one of the key strategies to completing a hunt successfully. He also believes he is an essential part of that strategy; his core strengths lying in his expertise of keeping a monster interested in him, and keeping himself standing. To take on a monster with your own great power, is to take on a hunt with certainty; this is a motto Tetsu Ken always hunts by.

Useful Skills: Tetsu Ken is proficient in the setting of traps, particularly those that impede the movements and attacks of monsters. Furthermore, Tetsu has a helpful background in the maintenance of melee weaponry, particularly the designs of katakanas, bows, and greatswords.

Personality Buffs: Tetsu Ken is an older, wanderlusting adventurer; the practical avatar of a grizzled hunter. his body is coarse and worn, ancient muscles rippling across his back from his lifetime as a dockworker. Thus, he finds himself taking the head-on confrontation against a gigantic beast more often than not, put there by his own wishes and want for battle prowess.

Whenever Tetsu Ken is engaged in Melee fighting with a monster, he has a better chance to execute successful mounts and keep himself mounted on a monster. Furthermore, Tetsu takes a lesser amount of time to get back on his feet after being thrown down by a monster.

Miscellaneous:

Tetsu Ken was once a strong dockyard hand, passing his days by loading and unloading cargo as he looked out at the exciting seas ahead. Seas he would never be able to sail or reach. With a family of seven children and a stay-at-home wife, Tetsu Ken spent many of his years merely trying to support his wealth of children. They were his pride and joy, of course, but something nagged at the working giant. He had never possessed adventure, nothing had ever excited him. He had thrown his young adult freedom to the wind in order to settle down into a family. Now, here he was, stuck as a Dockyard worker.

Slowly, Tetsu's children left home and struck out into the great green yonder, finding careers and families of their own. One by one Tetsu's household became smaller, and one by one he started to lose purpose. His children, the reason he worked and thrived, had now left him for their own adventures. Where was his?

Three months after his last child went to live with his own, new family, the continental impact happened. It sent gigantic tremors through Tetsu's village, his family, but most importantly; his sense of purpose. Scouts soon came back to the giant's dock town saying that a grand new land had been discovered, and that monster hunters were desperately needed to help clear out and set villages into the new frontier. Here was Tetsu's chance to find adventure and excitement; he had never lost his chance, he had just been waiting for it. So out the man strode, ripe with newly found vigor and a will to gather the trophies of great beasts.

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@Lmpkio Awesome! Dragon-wasps for days. I'm excited to see your hunter, too.

For future reference, though, I would ask that monsters be PMed to me so that the Hunters only have a chance to strategize against in the IC, where it will be revealed. They should only know the name of the monster beforehand.

However, I love the Yellow Javeryn concept so much. I have a monster already prepared for the first hunt, but if you would like to play the Javeryn in the second hunt, I'd be fine with filling you into that slot.

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@Zeroth I really like the idea and the mechanics. Dual blades with impact, love it. Personally, I don't see too much of a balancing problem with it, but we'll test them out with your first monster encounter and see how the combo-mechanic performs.

Also, I give you great kudos for going into such great depth with your weaponry. It really helps me get a grasp of how your weapon would execute in combat, and is definitely going to spice up combat. I'm excited to see you go in guns-blazing with your gauntlets.

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Suit up, Hunter.

@Zeroth@Kazemitsu@Sam12435@Prewiga@Otaku95@Lmpkio

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