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3 days ago
Current "You're me from the future, and you came back to the past to keep me from suffering like you did?" asks my childhood self. "Something like that," I reply as I load the gun.
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4 days ago
That bot left a number and email. Someone should cast "Unending Newsletters" for them.
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26 days ago
Writing horror is super difficult because it requires telling a story while shutting up at the same time. It's fear of the UNKNOWN, not fear of the well-written descriptions.
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2 mos ago
Say "thanks," when they compliment you and smile. Watch more of what's going on around you instead of staying inside your head. If eye contact's hard, stare at her forehead.
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2 mos ago
@ColdAtlus: Cheems.
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@Expllo If you go with the immigrant angle, all you really need to know is that Hino is essentially fantasy-Japan, down to the wire. Since your character would've been raised and gotten his grimoire in the Clover Kingdom it wouldn't be relevant, but in Hino the natives also have Scrolls instead of Grimoires.

For the purpose of the RP, I don't really know if it'll come up in the plot much outside of the presence of NPCs, but I had been considering that the two countries had begun to interact more in the 150 years after canon. Developments in seafaring, trade agreements, etc, and now along the coastline in the bigger cities of the Noble Realm, there will sometimes be a "Hino Street," "Hino Town," or something along those lines where immigrants have begun to congregate. Of course, that doesn't stop them going anywhere else in the Realm they'd like or marrying into Clover families. So those who want to take some kind of influence from that for their characters, feel free!
@ERode Ah man, it's starting to feel like it's time for another re-read of Negima, lol. Nice to have you aboard!

I've been working on the final drafts for the captain NPCs, since they'll be making an appearance at the exam, and within a day or two I should have a thread up so we can start officially stamping the CS submissions. I'll tentatively place our start date as sometime this coming weekend, if that's not too soon for everyone!
@SilverPaw Some elements within the series have specialized variants, like "Ice Magic" vs (granted, this type only appeared in the movie) "Ice Wedge Magic" so something like "Fire Dragon Magic" allowing you to be Fairy Tail's Natsu, or partially shapeshifting individual limbs for attacks and such, would probably work!

Also the anime DID eventually figure out that they were gonna kill Asta's VA if they kept up all the screaming so it got better after a while, lol.

I see, thanks. I'm not so much worried about being spoiled on the series, as I am with being able to keep up with the RP with somewhat limited knowledge of the series canon. At the moment I'm tentatively interested, so we'll see if I can come up with a character.


I don't think the RP itself will require any advanced knowledge of the series to follow. We're starting out as low rank recruits, so any magical techniques and their mechanics and whatnot would have to be explained to us by the higher ups as we go along--like the runes Duthguy mentioned, for instance. Even with the advancements over the past 150 years, a lot of those magical techniques are limited more by the fact that you need a high degree of magic power to perform them at all, rather than it being a "just now discovered secret."
How difficult do you think it would be for someone with only passing knowledge of the series to keep up with? Since this is a sequel and not an alt. universe. For reference, I've only read up until the elves first start appearing in the manga (which meant that at the time I was caught up, but its been some years since then... lol)


Well, none of the canon characters, and none of their immediate descendants (kids, grandkids, great-great-grandkids, etc) are alive/relevant. Even if their family lines are out there, we're just gonna say this generation doesn't quite have as much "red thread of fate" woven into them. So there won't be much in the way of direct references.

You might get spoiled on certain "concepts" of the series, but I think by and large any actual plot elements would be safe. The entire point of a few plot-related references is that it's been long enough people are getting stuff wrong and making their own interpretations--like, taking that line that says "The three leaves are faith, hope, and love. The fourth is luck, but within the fifth lies the Devil." and twisting it to say "The Anti-Magic King had a five leaf grimoire and he wasn't evil, so it's cool if we start a devil worshipping cult right?"

The manga's gone to a quarterly schedule, but is near the end of what seems to be the final arc. Even so, I tried to set things up in such a way so that aside from the general assumption that shonens are gonna shonen, I don't ruin the series for anyone.
@Duthguy Yep, image works now! The way I envision upgrading and adding our spells will work, as long as he's going through the stages of "Arrow > Arrow that spins/Arrow that homes in > multi-arrows > multi-arrows that home in" etc, he wouldn't necessarily need runes unless you just want that, thematically. What might be cool though is using the runes to essentially set up traps to make "arrow turrets" he could set up!

@Expllo Unless you'd like him to be an immigrant from the Hino Country (where Yami's from) Black Clover usually has Westernish/Fantasy names rather than the traditional Japanese ones. Also, so far as we know it's standard for every kid in the kingdom to attend a grimoire ceremony whenever it's held after they turn 15 (implied to be once per year when they tell Asta to try again). It wouldn't be a surprise for him to get one and he wouldn't necessarily need to sneak in, unless it's just his bandit buddy trying to avoid notice from any authorities who might've come to watch. Other than that I don't see any real issues, so let me know if you have any questions!
@DuthguyFirst with Sword magic, now Arrow magic--all we need is someone to apply with Axe magic and we'll have the Fellowship over here! XD

His image is borked at the moment, at least for me. The effects and drawbacks of his magic all seem good, I'm assuming that as he advances the idea is to add things like homing arrows or explosive arrows, and increasing the general numbers/power?

Backstory and other bits look good, so I feel confident approving him!

@imiaHi, welcome aboard! The first thing that jumps out to me reading over your CS is the emphasis put on her family history. I don't know if you intended any reference to canon characters in her ancestry or anything, but since Light magic is known as rare, powerful, and also has associations with the Clover Royals, did you have some sort of plan regarding her ancestry aside from their status as treasure hunters? If so, it's something that needs to be hashed out before I can approve the CS--for big reveals and whatnot, feel free to send me a PM.

As for her spells and skills, I know these are a work in progress so most of my feedback is just suggestions, not requirements. You've also got room for one more spell if you want it. I'll go piece by piece:

I think this will be a good application once you've got it a little more ironed out, so just let me know if there's anything I could do to help!
@Xaltwind@Duthguy@Expllo Glad to have you all! I'm hoping we'll get at least 5+ players for this, but I'm gonna go ahead and drop the Character Sheet if you guys want to brainstorm! There's the code format, the empty example, and the Player Character I'll be using as another example. Let me know if there are any questions!

Credit for the original format goes to @Shin Ghost Note





@King Cosmos You're good, all of that will work! Raising the rank of her martial arts skill increases the "small boost" of her counter attacks to "boost," and adds a "small boost" to her defense when those same traditional blocks are used regardless of if she counterattacks.
@Xaltwind Rather than being "secret and sneaky" about it (which is still a good idea lol) it'll just be based on what kinds of impressions the Players make on the captains. I have several of their NPC profiles finished already (though players won't be privy to them at first) and will be tweaking some others based on what kinds of Player Characters we get, so as to better meet halfway regarding plot, PC arcs, and so forth.

So after the exam is over, the captains express their interest in the Players, and the Players get to choose from among whichever squads want them. Of course, if Players have a vested interest in a particular squad, it can definitely be worked on! I'm also going to try and have a fair amount of overlap between which squads are the most interested, so that we don't end up with any Players who are the only "real" person in a team full of NPCs. XD
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