Do you already have a developed setting and an outline of a storyline in mind? While I'm not averse to a create-my-own-story roleplay, I'm hoping this could be something more solid.
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My name is Liar and I have been roleplaying for over a decade. My hobbies include reading, writing, roleplaying, and fan fiction.
I am currently working as a freelance editor, looking over various manuscripts and making sure the quality is well enough to be published. However, I am also attending university for a Political Science degree (I have already earned an English and Psychology degree).
My current plans are to join the United States Marine Corps. as an officer and establish a military career. From there, I hope to expand my influence wide enough to the point that I am able to take over the country.
I am currently working as a freelance editor, looking over various manuscripts and making sure the quality is well enough to be published. However, I am also attending university for a Political Science degree (I have already earned an English and Psychology degree).
My current plans are to join the United States Marine Corps. as an officer and establish a military career. From there, I hope to expand my influence wide enough to the point that I am able to take over the country.
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I think I'll expand a little bit more on my character's biography and avatar biography if that's allowed.
Alright then. Let's bring back some activity to this roleplay.
Name: Ciaran Caelum
Age: 21
Kingdom: The Dragon Mountains
Gemstone: Mag’rithil, the Stone of Earth
Appearance:
Of all of Prince Edgard’s knights, there is none as fair as Ciaran. Her hair is described by bards to have the coloring of a succulent, ripe apple, worn by the lady-knight long and loose beyond her waist as a testament of her confidence in her skills. Songs are sung by how tall and slender she is, standing on equal ground with the others of the brave prince’s entourage. As pale as lovely moonlight with the smoothest of complexions, peasants and nobles alike vie for the hand of the virgin queen of the Dragon Mountains. Though those descriptions hold truth, reality is also much more different. There is no kindness in the lady’s eyes. Sharp and calculating, her golden eyes glimmer with cunning and ambition like the dragons of legend. Her lips, described by minstrels to be luscious but full of innocence, are almost always twisted into smirk or a false smile.
Background:
There had once been a little girl who caught the attention of a king.
In an alley where street urchins lied were the breathing corpses of orphans. Dirty, starving, and without hope, their eyes stared at nothing, dead to the world, and each waited for the mercy oblivion would grant them. All of them wanted to die, all of them… except one. When the king appeared at the mouth of the alley, a little girl noticed only the fine linen of his clothes and the jingling of a heavy coin purse. She rose from among the dead, a knife in one hand, and threatened the king.
“A coin for bread for your life, your grace,” she spoke softly, but her eyes blazed with the intense ferocity of a million suns. Unlike those around her, she was no cadaver.
The king, despite the danger, laughed. “That is too cheap a price for a king.”
For his life, the king adopted the little girl, bringing her back to his castle. Thus the story of how Ciaran was brought into the royal household by King Armagen.
Under the patronage of the king, Ciaran flourished and thrived. She learned the comforts she never knew one could have, she learned how to administer the state, she learned how to fight and kill, but, most important of all, she learned ambition. Ciaran knew she could never become queen, and she resented Edgar for it. Edgar, the perfect prince. Edgar, the promised king. Edgar the Great.
Ciaran wanted more, but knew she could not have it.
She saw the opportunity to become more than she could be once madness was set upon the man that adopted her. With no regrets and hesitation, Ciaran was more than happy to join Edgar in war. She served the prince well, acting as both a strategist for his battles and a politician for when battles were fought with words. Perhaps some of her methods had been unsavory, but Ciaran followed a principle of pragmatism than one of honor.
Eventually, for all of her trouble, she was rewarded with the Earth Gem and the task of bringing order to the Dragon Mountains. With her newfound abilities and her famed skills, she brought the various warring tribes of the Dragon Mountains under her heel. There she founded her own house, Caelum, and crowned herself as the region’s Pendragon, a rank equivalent to that of a king.
Ciaran was content to spend the rest of her days building up her new kingdom into one of the most powerful force on the continent, but when she received word from Prince Edgar of a looming threat that needed to be dealt with, Ciaran reluctantly left the Dragon Mountains.
Personality:
She holds herself to a strict standard, following a set of pragmatic principles that she rarely shares with others. Ciaran keeps a sharp mind that she uses alongside a silver tongue. Everything she does is with a purpose, and very rarely does she allow herself to act frivolously. Perhaps the only one that could truly say to know her and her intentions are Edgar who remains the only person she has shown some modicum of affection for. Ciaran has little regard for the other knights, acknowledging only their skills and how they could be of use to her. However, despite her seemingly arrogant nature, she does truly care for the well-being of her people and her background has made her partial to ensuring that nothing like starvation and poverty would plague her demesne.
Fighting Skills:
Ciaran is a master warrior whose main armament is a spear. She is a great rider on account of her education and is proficient with a sword if she must. She has even begun developing her own new unique style of combat that utilizes hand-to-hand techniques working in tandem with her earth gem powers. However, for all of her abilities, her greatest strength lies in strategy and tactics.
Earth Gem Powers
Stone Summoning and Control
Metal Summoning and Control
Earth Sense
Age: 21
Kingdom: The Dragon Mountains
Gemstone: Mag’rithil, the Stone of Earth
Appearance:
Of all of Prince Edgard’s knights, there is none as fair as Ciaran. Her hair is described by bards to have the coloring of a succulent, ripe apple, worn by the lady-knight long and loose beyond her waist as a testament of her confidence in her skills. Songs are sung by how tall and slender she is, standing on equal ground with the others of the brave prince’s entourage. As pale as lovely moonlight with the smoothest of complexions, peasants and nobles alike vie for the hand of the virgin queen of the Dragon Mountains. Though those descriptions hold truth, reality is also much more different. There is no kindness in the lady’s eyes. Sharp and calculating, her golden eyes glimmer with cunning and ambition like the dragons of legend. Her lips, described by minstrels to be luscious but full of innocence, are almost always twisted into smirk or a false smile.
Background:
There had once been a little girl who caught the attention of a king.
In an alley where street urchins lied were the breathing corpses of orphans. Dirty, starving, and without hope, their eyes stared at nothing, dead to the world, and each waited for the mercy oblivion would grant them. All of them wanted to die, all of them… except one. When the king appeared at the mouth of the alley, a little girl noticed only the fine linen of his clothes and the jingling of a heavy coin purse. She rose from among the dead, a knife in one hand, and threatened the king.
“A coin for bread for your life, your grace,” she spoke softly, but her eyes blazed with the intense ferocity of a million suns. Unlike those around her, she was no cadaver.
The king, despite the danger, laughed. “That is too cheap a price for a king.”
For his life, the king adopted the little girl, bringing her back to his castle. Thus the story of how Ciaran was brought into the royal household by King Armagen.
Under the patronage of the king, Ciaran flourished and thrived. She learned the comforts she never knew one could have, she learned how to administer the state, she learned how to fight and kill, but, most important of all, she learned ambition. Ciaran knew she could never become queen, and she resented Edgar for it. Edgar, the perfect prince. Edgar, the promised king. Edgar the Great.
Ciaran wanted more, but knew she could not have it.
She saw the opportunity to become more than she could be once madness was set upon the man that adopted her. With no regrets and hesitation, Ciaran was more than happy to join Edgar in war. She served the prince well, acting as both a strategist for his battles and a politician for when battles were fought with words. Perhaps some of her methods had been unsavory, but Ciaran followed a principle of pragmatism than one of honor.
Eventually, for all of her trouble, she was rewarded with the Earth Gem and the task of bringing order to the Dragon Mountains. With her newfound abilities and her famed skills, she brought the various warring tribes of the Dragon Mountains under her heel. There she founded her own house, Caelum, and crowned herself as the region’s Pendragon, a rank equivalent to that of a king.
Ciaran was content to spend the rest of her days building up her new kingdom into one of the most powerful force on the continent, but when she received word from Prince Edgar of a looming threat that needed to be dealt with, Ciaran reluctantly left the Dragon Mountains.
Personality:
She holds herself to a strict standard, following a set of pragmatic principles that she rarely shares with others. Ciaran keeps a sharp mind that she uses alongside a silver tongue. Everything she does is with a purpose, and very rarely does she allow herself to act frivolously. Perhaps the only one that could truly say to know her and her intentions are Edgar who remains the only person she has shown some modicum of affection for. Ciaran has little regard for the other knights, acknowledging only their skills and how they could be of use to her. However, despite her seemingly arrogant nature, she does truly care for the well-being of her people and her background has made her partial to ensuring that nothing like starvation and poverty would plague her demesne.
Fighting Skills:
Ciaran is a master warrior whose main armament is a spear. She is a great rider on account of her education and is proficient with a sword if she must. She has even begun developing her own new unique style of combat that utilizes hand-to-hand techniques working in tandem with her earth gem powers. However, for all of her abilities, her greatest strength lies in strategy and tactics.
Earth Gem Powers
Stone Summoning and Control
Metal Summoning and Control
Earth Sense
Obviously it's just some sort of alchemic formula. Maybe.
Should I go ahead and write a post?
@RoflsMazoyI know, right? In the 8 years since this site has been up. No one bothered to take my particular username. It's hilarious.
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Yes, we're still accepting! You two might be the last though because I know I might have someone else coming, what do the rest of you guys think?
@Pyromania99 I'll get the IC up when we've got the majority of our characters up and the ones that still need to get them up give me an indication that they'll be done soon
I think we should cap it if we reach 7 or 8 people. That's just enough to have a good group going. Any more than that and it can get cluttered.
I posted my character. I thought it would be funny to make a guy that people think is like the main bad guy in the game. People think he's an event NPC or something, ha ha.
Real Life
Name: Makoto Date
Age: 17
Birthday: 29 February
Personality
Prideful to say the least, Makoto is intelligent, calculating, and patient, while simultaneously unwavering in his principles. Because of his steadfast convictions which he never hesitates to espouse when appropriate, he possesses a natural charisma and ability to leader others. However, in spite of his pride, Makoto is shown to be pragmatic and determined, willing to cast aside pride and using whatever means necessary in achieve success. Despite acting with an iron fist, Makoto shows care for those under his dominion despite his seemingly harsh and strict nature.
Biography
Makoto Date descends from a line of leaders heavily involved in government. He can even trace his lineage to the famous warlord, Masamune Date. In the modern day, his parents are politicians in the Diet, having served for several years already. It is expected of Makoto to follow in their footsteps once he comes of age, a legacy he is more than happy to continue.
Despite possessing the maturity and discipline to meet the responsibilities and expectations he accumulated, Makoto understood to take care of his physical and mental health to avoid burning out or snapping from pressure. He overheard several students mentioning a VRMMORPG that just recently went out of beta and was about to be launched. Makoto researched the game that was being released and found it sufficient for his dilemma. When the game was launched, Makoto was one of the first players to join.
As Makoto rose in infamy in the game, he also managed to rise in his own life as well. He reached his third year in high school as student council president, a title he held since his first year in middle school, while maintaining the number one position in the class rankings. There were few people who didn't know Makoto-taichou. There were even fewer that he spent his free time playing a VRMMORPG.
In Game
Avatar Name: Nacht
Avatar Title: Night’s Emperor
Appearance: His face is hidden by an aquiline helmet, sharp and foreboding in appearance and colored black by the dark metal used to make it. He stands a head above most, bedecked in armor of dark palette with robes of fine linen over it. His slender frame is hidden by a long, black cape that is often wrapped around his body, giving him the appearance of a bird of prey hovering over its captured meal.
Class: Great Conqueror
Signature Moves:
Avatar Biography:
Nacht was one of the newcomers to the VRMMORPG when it was first launched. Despite his research into the mechanics of the game, he lacked general experience when it came to video games. It was because of his inexperience that led him to choose "Tactician" as his character class, having thought of it as a role most suited for him when it was offered to him.
Unfortunately, a majority of players considered Nacht's chosen class as useless or boring. The beta players rated it poorly and this opinion was imbedded in the players. Tacticians had no noteworthy personal skills and attributes because the class relied primarily on directing non-playable characters. However, despite the mockery and disdain Nacht endured in the early stages of playing, he grew fond of the unique playstyle his class provided.
In the game, players were able to gain reputation in the various organizations and factions scattered throughout the setting. Because no one cared to party with him, Nacht focused on completing quests for NPCs with his small band of NPC soldiers. His reputation among the militaries of the game's setting grew with time and eventually his class changed into "Strategist" (a more advanced version of his original class) and there were many high-ranking non-playable characters clamoring for him to join their kingdoms with the rank of a noble or general. He and his group would come to be called "The Black Cowls" for copious amount of black clothing and armor they wore.
After months of playing, Nacht took note of the intricate relationships a player character can have with non-playable characters. Though they were all AI, a majority of them all acted like they were real people. It was an astounding technological development and Nacht saw how many reacted similarly to how humans would. Not only that, the various leaders of several organization, factions, and even kingdoms changed with startling fluidity.
An idea sprouted Nacht, "What if I took advantage of this?"
He took the Black Cowls to the city-state of Caevum, a port city that served as a major trading hub between the frontier and the insular "safe" regions of the game. The region Caevum was settled in was mountainous, difficult to invade by land and sea. Even the ruling monarch's castle was carved into the face of the largest mountain that stood looking over the city and port. Nacht pledged his allegiance to the king of Caevum.
However, Nacht's pledge was only a ruse. In the game's history of Caevum, it was said that no outside force was ever able to conquer it. For Nacht, it was only a simple manner of manipulating his way into the trust of the king. In a move no other players thought was possible, he deposed the king of Caevum and executed him publicly. He then proclaimed to the masses that he was now their ruler. He was not to be their king, but their emperor.
In the castle of Caevum, after crowning himself as emperor, Nacht found a quest item that immediately changed his class to "Great Conqueror." There was a legend in the game that talked of a mighty emperor that once controlled the entire world. His conquest of Caevum triggered the quest and urged Nacht to continue forth with his mission. Spurred by the thought of war, political intrigue, and state administration, Nacht was more than willing to begin his conquest of the world.
Nacht began conquering and taking more and more territory, marking him as one of the hated villains in the game. Nevertheless, there were many that was willing to aid him on his ambition.
Name: Makoto Date
Age: 17
Birthday: 29 February
Personality
Prideful to say the least, Makoto is intelligent, calculating, and patient, while simultaneously unwavering in his principles. Because of his steadfast convictions which he never hesitates to espouse when appropriate, he possesses a natural charisma and ability to leader others. However, in spite of his pride, Makoto is shown to be pragmatic and determined, willing to cast aside pride and using whatever means necessary in achieve success. Despite acting with an iron fist, Makoto shows care for those under his dominion despite his seemingly harsh and strict nature.
Biography
Makoto Date descends from a line of leaders heavily involved in government. He can even trace his lineage to the famous warlord, Masamune Date. In the modern day, his parents are politicians in the Diet, having served for several years already. It is expected of Makoto to follow in their footsteps once he comes of age, a legacy he is more than happy to continue.
Despite possessing the maturity and discipline to meet the responsibilities and expectations he accumulated, Makoto understood to take care of his physical and mental health to avoid burning out or snapping from pressure. He overheard several students mentioning a VRMMORPG that just recently went out of beta and was about to be launched. Makoto researched the game that was being released and found it sufficient for his dilemma. When the game was launched, Makoto was one of the first players to join.
As Makoto rose in infamy in the game, he also managed to rise in his own life as well. He reached his third year in high school as student council president, a title he held since his first year in middle school, while maintaining the number one position in the class rankings. There were few people who didn't know Makoto-taichou. There were even fewer that he spent his free time playing a VRMMORPG.
In Game
Avatar Name: Nacht
Avatar Title: Night’s Emperor
Appearance: His face is hidden by an aquiline helmet, sharp and foreboding in appearance and colored black by the dark metal used to make it. He stands a head above most, bedecked in armor of dark palette with robes of fine linen over it. His slender frame is hidden by a long, black cape that is often wrapped around his body, giving him the appearance of a bird of prey hovering over its captured meal.
Class: Great Conqueror
Signature Moves:
Presence of the Emperor – When in the same party (for PCs) or presence (for NPCs) of Nacht, players and non-playable characters have increased stats and are unable to fall victim to mental pressures.
Tactician’s Perspective – When used, Nacht is able to have an overhead view of the battlefield and is able to mentally send commands to NPCs.
Call-to-Arms – Nacht is able to summon NPCs to fight for him. The amount he could summon is dependent on a non-playable character’s strength. This means he has options of whom he could summon. He can summon an army of weaker NPCs or he may summon a single swordsman that is capable of taking on even the strongest of players.
Geas – Nact is able to place a geas, an absolute command, on a NPC. While under his geas, the NPCs that are controlled are buffed considerably until that command is met. When used on other players, they are paralyzed and stunned for three seconds.
Tactician’s Perspective – When used, Nacht is able to have an overhead view of the battlefield and is able to mentally send commands to NPCs.
Call-to-Arms – Nacht is able to summon NPCs to fight for him. The amount he could summon is dependent on a non-playable character’s strength. This means he has options of whom he could summon. He can summon an army of weaker NPCs or he may summon a single swordsman that is capable of taking on even the strongest of players.
Geas – Nact is able to place a geas, an absolute command, on a NPC. While under his geas, the NPCs that are controlled are buffed considerably until that command is met. When used on other players, they are paralyzed and stunned for three seconds.
Avatar Biography:
Nacht was one of the newcomers to the VRMMORPG when it was first launched. Despite his research into the mechanics of the game, he lacked general experience when it came to video games. It was because of his inexperience that led him to choose "Tactician" as his character class, having thought of it as a role most suited for him when it was offered to him.
Unfortunately, a majority of players considered Nacht's chosen class as useless or boring. The beta players rated it poorly and this opinion was imbedded in the players. Tacticians had no noteworthy personal skills and attributes because the class relied primarily on directing non-playable characters. However, despite the mockery and disdain Nacht endured in the early stages of playing, he grew fond of the unique playstyle his class provided.
In the game, players were able to gain reputation in the various organizations and factions scattered throughout the setting. Because no one cared to party with him, Nacht focused on completing quests for NPCs with his small band of NPC soldiers. His reputation among the militaries of the game's setting grew with time and eventually his class changed into "Strategist" (a more advanced version of his original class) and there were many high-ranking non-playable characters clamoring for him to join their kingdoms with the rank of a noble or general. He and his group would come to be called "The Black Cowls" for copious amount of black clothing and armor they wore.
After months of playing, Nacht took note of the intricate relationships a player character can have with non-playable characters. Though they were all AI, a majority of them all acted like they were real people. It was an astounding technological development and Nacht saw how many reacted similarly to how humans would. Not only that, the various leaders of several organization, factions, and even kingdoms changed with startling fluidity.
An idea sprouted Nacht, "What if I took advantage of this?"
He took the Black Cowls to the city-state of Caevum, a port city that served as a major trading hub between the frontier and the insular "safe" regions of the game. The region Caevum was settled in was mountainous, difficult to invade by land and sea. Even the ruling monarch's castle was carved into the face of the largest mountain that stood looking over the city and port. Nacht pledged his allegiance to the king of Caevum.
However, Nacht's pledge was only a ruse. In the game's history of Caevum, it was said that no outside force was ever able to conquer it. For Nacht, it was only a simple manner of manipulating his way into the trust of the king. In a move no other players thought was possible, he deposed the king of Caevum and executed him publicly. He then proclaimed to the masses that he was now their ruler. He was not to be their king, but their emperor.
In the castle of Caevum, after crowning himself as emperor, Nacht found a quest item that immediately changed his class to "Great Conqueror." There was a legend in the game that talked of a mighty emperor that once controlled the entire world. His conquest of Caevum triggered the quest and urged Nacht to continue forth with his mission. Spurred by the thought of war, political intrigue, and state administration, Nacht was more than willing to begin his conquest of the world.
Nacht began conquering and taking more and more territory, marking him as one of the hated villains in the game. Nevertheless, there were many that was willing to aid him on his ambition.
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