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Rift Warriors X: An Isekai RP

It looks like his shield already has a link to the Gorgons vis a vis Perseus' mirror, so that should work in place of Poseidon. It looks like The Spartan is shaping up to be a status effect focused fighter. I think the real outlier is the hammer. It would make sense if its use was doing more damage against enemies inflicted with effects from the other weapons.

Rift Warriors X: An Isekai RP

@TheNoCoKid You're imagining it exactly correctly. Full body Tower shields forming the outer armor of the titan, soldiers lining up their zweihanders to make the giant swords, and there are cavalry units at the bottom to give the thing mobility. The shieldmen comprising the chest are hiding crossbowmen behind them, so it can open up and fire in front of it.

That sounds cool, but I dunno if I could give up having the second ult be activated through doing a horn call with her taunt, though. I pictured that not even being something listed in her commands, it's just something players of VII figured out by using the taunt to mimic the horn call she did during the phase transition cutscene of VI. And I think it would be bad to have all her supers and her regular ult be activated that way, too, that would make her nearly unusable since the taunt doesn't pause the action and the calls would take longer to input than regular commands. XD

Rift Warriors X: An Isekai RP

@TheNoCoKid I was thinking a full screen cavalry stampede. Obviously it would be blockable, but since I imagine blocking would be the only way to avoid it, it wouldn't do any chip damage. It was probably a way more bullshit attack during her first phase boss fight. Also, castle titan? Now I want her castle to be able to transform into a mecha as well. It probably wouldn't be used in the games themselves but it would give Marie one more cool thing to make use of in the world.

Also, really glad you like the idea! :D I'm honestly in love with it, too. I mainly wanted to combine a slow heavy fighter with a partner summoner, and portals kind of fit theme of "widespread influence of royalty", it just made sense she'd also be able to teleport herself around.

Any chance this RP will have a Discord server/PM group set up? I can't stop thinking about this RP or my character and I want to gush about it with people in real time. XD

Rift Warriors X: An Isekai RP

Queen Morag

Player Name: Marie O'Hare

Appearance: Standing at 5'1" and typically covering herself with sweaters and slacks, Marie would have an easy time fading into the background if not for her long, frizzy, bright orange-red hair. Black, rectangular-framed glasses and a smattering of freckles add more defining features to her otherwise plain face, which her round, dark brown eyes don't stand out much from.

Nationality: Canadian

Age: 25

Personality: A shy wallflower, the kind of girl who hid her developing body with sweaters and stayed home during "Kick a Ginger Day" during high school. But with the anonymity of the internet, through which she can connect with people she became friends with through games, she is able to express her inner fire and be the excitable, outspoken woman she wishes she had the confidence to be around people in person.

Backstory: The daughter of two very supportive parents, she was introduced to video games through her father, who enjoyed them as one of his primary hobbies. In her teens, she was attracted to the Rift Warriors series, during the later end of the eighth entry's lifetime in particular, after being exposed to its community online, which seemed full of fun and supportive people. She found herself drawn to the character Queen Morag, since playing as her gave her a great rush of power and confidence. She would go on to get a pretty high online ranking through Rift Warriors IX's lifetime, putting her fast learning skills to use in exploring the ins and outs of the game's mechanics and data, but it wasn't until the announcement of Rift Warriors X's strange release schedule that she decided to take after Morag and begin attending tournaments, albeit with her face fully hidden and always going by her console handle ForTheRedQueen. Applying that learning ability to picking the brains of better players whenever possible and getting as much feedback on her play style as she could, the result was framed by commentators as a rookie's phenomenal shoot up the rest of the rankings, edging in at being the fifth highest ranked player at the last opportunity.

Rift Warrior Character: Queen Morag

Rift Warrior Appearance: Standing at 5'11" and adorned with long, raven hair often seen blowing in the wind, Morag cuts a stunning figure when posing dynamically during rallying speeches. Her grey plate armor hides a toned, muscular body, while the rod-supported skirt of black fabric hiding her greaves helps reinforce her femininity. The leer of her narrow black eyes strikes fear into the hearts of her enemies, while a scar running from her right cheek to the edge of the left side of her jaw reminds them why that fear is justified. She even makes a point of not putting her black lipstick over the scarred sections of her lips to make it clear she isn't ashamed of any wound sustained in battle.

Debut: Rift Warriors VI, in which she had the role of the two phase final boss of the arcade mode. She was also playable in the same title, with her super armor naturally less powerful despite her attacks being just as slow, and without access to the second phase form.

Rift Warrior Backstory: The queen of a kingdom of little renown that existed in 8th Century England, the tail end of what is often known as the Dark Ages. Have grown in a time of constant strife and unmet needs, Morag grew into a stern, charismatic, and ferocious woman and warrior, wresting rulership of her kingdom by force in a bloody coup in which she herself claimed the previous king's head, and went on to provide for her subjects by taking from other kingdoms. It was fresh after one such conquest that not only herself, but her army and her castle were pulled into the Rift. After being bestowed power by The Messenger, she vowed to conquer the world of the Rift, with the ultimate goal of uniting as many warriors as would fight by her side to defeat not only The Messenger, but also whoever it was that the so-called "Messenger" was meant to be relaying the messages of.

Rift Warrior Powers: Morag was granted the ability to open portals between her own location and any she'd previously been to. She utilizes this power to summon soldiers and knights from her army to herself, as well as teleport herself around her opponents. She also retains the martial abilities she obtained through her own life, possessing the strength and skill to wield a heavy halberd for close quarters combat. This halberd has a banner wrapped around the shaft, which conceals a war horn also strapped to the shaft.

Other:

• Queen Morag's taunt in the game allows the player to play the war horn on her halberd like a regular instrument a la Big Band in Skullgirls.
• The second phase of Morag's boss fight in Rift Warriors VI consists of her summoning a large platoon of soldiers, which stack up and combine to form the torso, arms, and head of a giant warrior wielding dual swords. The player would be tasked with avoiding the unblockable but slow sword swings, and using the shields of off-balance soldiers after each attack to jump to the head where Morag stood to cause damage. This form then became playable from Rift Warriors VII and onward as a secret secondary ultimate activated by using her taunt to sound the war horn in a specific way. It's treated more as an Easter Egg by most players because of how hard it is to actually land hits while it's active, though some clever players can still make good use of it since each attack can be delayed and aimed at a different spot for a maximum of three seconds.

Rift Warriors X - Isekai RP

Actually, upon reviewing the OP, it looks like we only create the fighting game character, and the player who played them is supposed to be us ourselves? If so then that takes that decision away. Hm...

Rift Warriors X - Isekai RP

So, crossdressing, potentially? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...tough decision on my hands, now. :D

Rift Warriors X - Isekai RP

4. What happens if a male character in the RP mains a female character in Rift Warriors or vice versa?

Lol I think I just figured out my queen's ultimate: she summons her entire army of soldiers, who then combine into a 3 story tall knight megazord (2 stories without its legs). In game it would be an install that makes her a pseudo boss that fills up the background from the waist up, with each of its attacks causing the appearance of platforms sticking out of it (shields of soldiers having trouble keeping their balance) that the opposing player would need to jump up to reach her head to deal damage. Damage could also be done to the limbs, but that would only decrease the active time of the ult without dealing damage to her.

Rift Warriors X - Isekai RP

Alright, so to be clear, the characters in Rift Warriors X are not pulled from other IPs and stories that exist in-universe, they were made for Rift Warriors by the game's own creative team, with each character being based on a specific place and time period in history. More Soul Calibur or For Honor than Smash Bros. or Multiversus. Is that the correct understanding? Sorry for the confusion, I sometimes laser focus on the wrong part of a sentence.

My initial thought was to make a dullahan with a claymore, fire/will-o-the-wisp powers, and a bear trap in place of teeth, but if we're going for characters more grounded in history than fantasy, I might go for more of a queenly lady-of-war who summons different types of soldiers.

Rift Warriors X - Isekai RP

3. That...doesn't quite answer my question. Specifically, what does "time period of origin" mean in this answer? My guesses are either the period he was first invented as a fictional character, or the time period in which stories depicting him were set. There's also the possibility that I misunderstood the phrase "fictional characters from across time and space" in the original post; I took that to mean they're fictional in-universe, pulled from different stories and IPs a la the aforementioned Smash Bros, but maybe you meant they're fictional to us, the players of this RP, but in-universe they're historical figures? Or maybe they are fictional in-universe, but they were created for Rift Warriors and based off historical depictions of warriors?

P.S. We haven't even started and we already have an annoying-to-fight zoner. XD

Rift Warriors X - Isekai RP

Black Cat recommended this to me. Seems like it could be fun, being so open-ended sounding. I'm already picturing a re:creators-esque mishmash of characters from different genres in this fighting game. I have a few questions since you mentioned them:

1. The winners are the top players of what game, exactly? Rift Warriors IX is what I'm assuming.

2. Considering the idea for the series is a crossover fighting game featuring fictional characters from across time and space, wouldn't at least some of these characters already have superhuman abilities? If so, do the non-superhuman ones just get as much of a boost as needed to make the characters roster balanced and be able to use the same kinds of tools as more powerful fictional characters?

3. The sentence about superhuman abilities also mentions they depend on "the era in which they were summoned." Am I correct in interpreting this as "their abilities will be themed not only around the character, but also the time period in which they were originally created"? Or is it a situation where, like, the same fictional character can have multiple iterations made in different time periods, and their abilities will relate specifically to the time period in which that iteration was penned? Or does it have less to do with the time period of authoring and more to do with the time period their story was set in?