Dusk has settled and another day was about to come to an end. Looking back at what you had accomplished today, you realized that it wasn't much. Whatever problems you were facing were far from disappearing anytime soon. Frustrating, I can imagine. Sometimes, you just wish that everything would just end. If you probably had a different life, you wouldn't be forced to deal with such dilemmas. What if I told you that this was actually possible?
Before I go into detail, you must be wondering who I am. For now, you can call me Vega. So. imagine a universe in which all the stars of the sky are another world and that every world was a interconnected into one massive dungeon. Fascinating, right?
Here's The Plot to our little story.
I present to you, the Dungeon of Samarkand, a City-Type dimension. It is also, to its own knowledge, the only dimension that actively seeks to make extensive contact with other dimensions. It is, in fact, an intrusive dimension, if not a pirate dimension.
Its denizens are hunters of riches and soldiers of fortune, merchants that want to make it big in foreign and exotic markets, adventurers and fearless ethnographers, collectors of the weird and people who simply want to make a name for themselves.
Central, therefore, to Samarkand, is its Dimension Door Hub, an access point to other dimensions. It is located at the core of Samarkand and pretty much everything in Samarkand revolves around it.
Merchants and administrator do their best to make most out of the riches that come and go out of those gates. There are four doors and most worlds have four doors as well. Samarkand is a bit special in that its door are very close together and form a sort of square, around which a quarter is often built beyond.
Once alignment is achieved with another world, you can jump to and fro to another place and time. Such a phenomenon has a time limit on it. Very often we see adventurers stranded in strange places because the gates have fallen out of sync.
Under extraordinary circumstance, some of them even make it back, if the dimensions sync with one another again within a lifespan. It is usually considered a death sentence – or exile, depending on the world they find themselves.
Of course, you can always stay home. Samarkand is a very nice place in itself. But I doubt that you'd simply live such a life. Now, let me ask you, have you ever looked at the stars and wondered what the world beyond looked like? Why wonder when you can go find out for yourself, right?
Embrace this novel life that some could only dream of; you definitely won't forget it.
As The Participant you have to fill this up. Its an application form to the organization that I'm handling. Its called Shonen Punk. Its pretty simple; just a formality required by the city.
[b]Name:[/b] Whatever you want; just remember, this is what I'm gonna be calling you. [b]Gender:[/b] Not that hard of a question. [b]Age:[/b] As strange as it may sound, labor laws do exist in Samarkand.
[b]Race:[/b] You're what again? [b]Personality:[/b] What are you like? I barely know you. [b]History:[/b] Tell me more about yourself.
@Orion Well, if you want to be an Alchemist, I could give you some sort of ability that would allow you to create your potions with your own body. I mean, you devour several ingredients, your insides facilitates their reaction with one another, then you excrete the new substance through your mouth, pores or in any other manner you'd prefer? With that, you'd probably have some sort of increased tolerance when it comes to toxins and foreign substances in general.
@Lucidnonsense I get the idea that you want, but I'm not really getting a concise them from it. Its a bit vague since I can't really determine the scope of the abilities you're looking for.
@Lucidnonsense Great to see more people interested. As for those classes, they seem quite vague. Doesn't really tell me anything.
@Orion Alchemists are cool. However, you could create your own class as long as the description is well made. Something like a pyromancer who summons sentient fireballs.
This RP was created by Medjedovic; I am merely using her premise and concept. In this role play, you will be playing an amalgamation of you and someone else or an alteration of yourself. Normally it's a fandom character or something of your own imagination. This will be an adventure-based story and will mainly be "urbanized fantasy". Specifics regarding the plot will be worked out in the thread before everything officially starts. This is a work in progress, so feel free to suggest and comment.
Introduction
Welcome! I'd like to inform you that you, have died. It’s unimportant how. Well, unimportant for the bigger picture, but I guess it is pretty important for you, eh? What can I say, tough luck? But let’s not dawdle on depressing things! You have died and just as you were expecting a dark tunnel with a white light at the end, you are confronted with a peculiar message:
GAME OVER. RESTART IN ANOTHER WORLD?
The whole thing looked like it was taken from the video games you used to play, except for the question about restarting in another world. What's with that? Shouldn’t it say “restart at the last checkpoint”? Hm, guess not. Right bellow the question there were two buttons: [YES] and [NO].
Naturally, you're going to choose yes. Why? Because this story needs you to! How do you expect me to lead this story if you decide you are fine with being dead? Stay on the rails! I mean, on figurative rails, not real ones, because then you’ll probably just die again. Unless you're some sort of superhero. Which you may very well become in this new world we’re going.
Just as you press [YES], a new message replaces the old:
PLEASE CREATE YOUR CHARACTER.
[OK]
Now, what the hell does that mean?! Aren’t you already created? Your mom and dad worked hard at it too! Does this reincarnation system want to pick a fight with you!?! You are perfect the way you are, they said so at school! A special little snowflake!
Hmmm, but are you sure you are perfect? Maybe you wanted to be a little slimmer, a tad taller or you might be unhappy with your gender? Be honest, I won’t judge. Sorry, I will, but I can promise you that I'll keep everything confidential. My lips are sealed!
Here’s your chance to fulfill all of those fantasies, except the particularly weird and perverted ones. This isn't the place for those. So press that [OK] button and let us dive in this fantasy world filled with magic, adventure and annoying anime tropes!
As you press the [OK] button colors explode around you. What was previously a pitch black void of death was now dyed in a cloudy combination of white and blue. Message telling you to create your character was gone and in it is place some kind of form appeared before you. It took only a quick glance to realize what it was.
A Character Sheet:
[Appearance]
Name: This one is simple. Write down the name by which you want to be known in this world. You can pick your Earth name, but that would be boring. Nobody likes boring people. Gender: Are you a boy or a girl? Maybe neither? Or both? Hey, it’s a fantasy world, you can find all kinds of stuff. Background: Tell us about yourself. What did you do in your Earthly life? How do you feel about your death? What are your plans for the future?
Level: This is your character level. As you do stuff you grow more powerful and it reflects in your level. You start at level 1. Class: Hey, it’s a fantasy role-play, it just wouldn’t be right without class system! What, you don’t like class system? Filthy commie! Don’t worry too much: you make your own class and it has no actual influence on your development, its purpose is descriptive.
Abilities, Mutations, and Weaknesses: This part gets a little tricky. Instead of choosing your abilities and whatnot, you shall simply give me a brief description of what you want. This would range from physical capabilities, talents, and skills. If you're not a fan of describing, you can simply give a theme and I'll give you a set that you can work with.
Equipment: You’re dead. You got nothing. Nothing! But you may acquire things on your journey around the world, so this field here is where you’ll list all weapons, armours and other such items in your possession.
Now that you pressed [FINALIZE], you have officially made your character. Or, better say, remade yourself. Congratulations! Now, our journey can begin. Fasten your seat belts, because we are about to land! Reincarnation world, here we come!
Once again, light explodes and you get engulfed by a rainbow-colored whirlpool. A sudden feeling of being launched downwards possesses you and the instinctive fear of falling forces you to scream. As you look bellow you the myriad of colors clear and an unfamiliar landscape began rapidly approaching you. Your eyes water from the speed, making you unable to properly inspect the features of the world around you. Not that you’d have enough composure to do it anyway, as your destination became clear: a gray, rocky mountainside. You show no signs of stopping as you draw closer and closer until finally you hit the mountain’s surface at full force, exploding from sheer force of the impact into a spectacle of gore...
That didn’t happen. Before you collided with the surface, either out of fear or something else, you lose your consciousness and darkness envelops your mind.
Uh, that's good and all, but you kinda have to tell me what you're capable of. If you aren't gonna regulate your abilities, I'll do it and I have a nerf stick with me. o3o
