icmasticc

[♛] 𝓡equiem. // the rise of soldier.

@The Survivor - Great! You're approved bro, post up in the character tab when you can.

Also, MGS3 got me into the series as well! We're gonna be cool man, we're gonna be fucking cool lol.

[♛] 𝓡equiem. // the rise of soldier.

@The Survivor - Let me start by saying you're tugging at the heart strings, man. Naked Snake (I know that's not him, but you understand lol) is one of my favorite characters ever and seeing that face claim made me a bit bias haha. Bruce is awesome though. His background is actually pretty damn intriguing to be honest and there's some real potential for development in there. We also like the fact that someone finally took the Lightning aspect of Red and ran with it lol. Our only concern is the Lightning's Wrath ability and The Demon ability. For normal offensives, they're particularly strong what with Lightning's Wrath dissolving the thing it touches, devouring the life instantly, and getting stronger from it. They read like mini-overdrives. If you can tone those down a bit, that's our only issue.

Break {Icmasticc & Ace}

C a l u m J a e g e r

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The interrogation room was pristine.

This was the first of many swirling thoughts that stood out to Calum as he awaited his mystery visitor. The brief rays of light that sauntered into the room when the door opened before had revealed the abnormal cleanliness of the area. It was a not a detail most would pick up on, but being forcibly isolated had the tendency to cause one to reflect on previously insignificant things. The tiled floor appeared to have been mopped just hours prior and the table was free of any sort of dust. The walls and door all shimmered when bathed in light and they appeared to be regularly cleaned as well. The heavy presence of floating dust that usually enveloped rooms like this was even absent. Whoever this people were, it was clear that organization and structure was important to them. That, or someone was just a germophobe.

A large sounding deadbolt slid across the outside of the door and the heavy metal piece opened with a small creak. Light once again filled part of the room, preceding the entry of a female stranger. Calum raised an eyebrow as she closed the door and took her chair, the smell of coffee replacing the metallic chemical aroma floating around the room. Although he should have expected it, the mere delivery boy was not ready for his captor's unique physicality. The woman was well put together and obviously knew as much based on her choice of fitting attire and the sensuous color choice of black. Of course, those feelings jumped straight out of the non-existent window when she spoke. Her words were not harsh or cruel, but they did raise some annoyance. "Who am I?!" Calum replied, his voice rising an octave. "You can't be serious. You guys kidnapped me, remember? Hell, I can't even tell you where I was before this or how long it's been since I was brought to wherever the crap this is, much less the date. But I can tell you how much I apparently missed - a freakin' shit ton."

The coffee mug rose to meet his captor's lips as Calum watched, helpless to really do anything else. Her eyes bore holes into his own even after he was done speaking, a sign that she was probably trying to discern lies from truths. None of that mattered to the man at that moment. In the end, his mysterious kidnapper had not provided any info and only seemed to demand such from him. It was not entirely unsurprising considering kidnappers generally did not cater to their victims, but it still only caused more upset. Just as his blood pressure began to go up, the woman abruptly decided to reveal her name as Karen - and raised an interesting point. "What do you mean you can ensure my safety? Aren't you kidnapping me? How could I be safe with the obviously dangerous people who kidnap others?!" Calum said before noticing a pointing finger. He followed the direction and found himself gazing at a wall. The meaning quickly came together. He slumped in his chair a bit and felt his adrenaline begin to rush. "H-hold on now... No need to be hasty... " He sheepishly stammered. "My name is Calum... I don't know what day it is or where I've been at all."

[♛] 𝓡equiem. // the rise of soldier.

@Rockette and @icmasticc thank you for the swift responses, they have been helpful. Oh, one other thing. So Rockette did say that there are minor mutations/scars and whatnot on a given SOLDIER's body, but nothing so bad that they'd appear inhuman. Could, perhaps, ones ability make them appear inhuman during use?

Conversely, could it manifest something? Akin to a summoner calling forth things to fight for them. It's not something I'm likely to do, but I like to know the breadth of my options.

@yoshua171

A SOLDIER's ability could indeed give them an inhuman look, but it'd be temporary and probably only during use as you've already stated.

The Aeon's power is varied to a great degree and I, personally, see no problem in one allowing its SOLDIER to summon things - dependent upon what is being summoned, however. That would obviously have to be within reason.

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For everyone else, Rockette has to be at work a little longer so we'll have character comments up later on tonight (I'm on the east coast US and she's central). Thank you for your patience.

[♛] 𝓡equiem. // the rise of soldier.

Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and clear this up, regarding the battle system. I won't be going into detail because, frankly, it's not really important at this moment considering we're still early in the submission process.

The numbers you see by the classes are not arbitrarily chosen. This battle system is set up similarly to those of video game RPGs. If you've played a few of them, you know that there are many skills that grant 100% of this or 400% of that. Don't get wrapped up in the real world meaning considering that has little to do with anything. In a game, 100% damage increase for a particular attack does not mean a boss-like character will die instantly, for example - it's the same theory here. The battle system Rockette created uses a mathematical equation to calculate damage, among other categories. Rest assured, every number listed makes perfect sense within the context of this roleplay and the battle system will be explained more in depth once we get a solidified cast.

Also, I've only just gotten home myself, so I'll begin taking a look at the sheets and talking to Rockette. Stay tuned.

[♛] 𝓡equiem. // the rise of soldier.

Myself and @Rockette will be going over the new sheets later tonight. She has to get home first lol. I do too, actually.

[♛] 𝓡equiem. // the rise of soldier.

@FantasyChic - Once we get to a state of having a full cast, we will go over that.

[♛] 𝓡equiem. // the rise of soldier.

@yoshua171 - Well, hot damn. This is completely unexpected. Nice to see your potential interest. Rockette knocked out every question, but I do want to add to the power structure question you asked about using the spells/skills and how power manifests.

You were asking if the spell list is the only way to manifest an Aeon's ability? I'd think my character is a perfect example of this. I looked at the spell list as special attacks, if you will, specific offensives that are used when in desperate need or some such. In truth, my character's actual ability is an over-complicated version of teleportation which he can use at will within the limitations I laid out. In that case, an Aeon's power, in my own opinion, bestows the SOLDIER with a special ability of their own and the following list of spells are just specific attacks that fall in line with the theme of the ability. This is how I interpreted the matter, personally.

As I said though, good to see you again - a nice surprise.

[♛] 𝓡equiem. // the rise of soldier.

@FantasyChic - Alright, I'll be first up. This is a nicely done sheet. A character who can not only heal, but buff is a good addition and honestly someone needs to play the support role. I don't see any glaring issues so it's all good on my end.

Once Rockette gets on, she'll run through and give you the final approval. Good job though, I expect she'll like it too.

[♛] 𝓡equiem. // the rise of soldier.

@FantasyChic - Lol, I just made an edit about that too haha. Yeah, go ahead and submit here in this thread. Once approved, you can post it in the tab.