[OOC] The Doom Arena RP (OOC)

[DiamondBlizzard]

Since I want to run a battle/arena based RP, here it is....

Take a character from any previous RPs, like a hero of a game from the GDT RP, or a fantasy RP, pokemon RP, or even a sci fi RP! Or even use an existing character from an anime, videogame, or book!

Then have them fight other people in an inter-dimensional DOOM ARENA for their freedom.

As a bonus, the RP of origin didn't have to successfully start in order to qualify, so any characters you want to breathe some new life into are a-okay.

All technology and magic levels and types are allowed, and outright copies of characters from various fandoms will be allowed as a preventative measure to the strict "original character barrier" of the Sci-Fi RP I tried to start that only served to raise the bar to unwanted heights. The only thing I'm really going to ban is if someone creates a character which turns out to be godmodding. (I'm keeping an eye on myself!)

===APPLICATION FORM===

Character Name
Physical Description: Short description of species. Gender. Short description of equipment and clothing.
Biography: Short description of character's life before the canon events of their origin RP. Short description of character's life during the canon events of their origin RP. Short description of how they ended up forced to compete in the Interdimensional Doom Arena.
Weapons: Any weapons they use in combat.
Skills: Any physical skills they posses, do not confuse this for magicks.
Abilities: Any magical or supernatural abilities that can be used in combat.
===EXAMPLE OF ACCEPTABLE APPLICATION FORM===

Scarfy
Physical Description/Photo: A cute orange floating cat head. The face of an angel! As long as you don't make Scardy mad!

Biography: A scarfy in dreamland, serving as an enemy to Kirby, until it gets teleported to the Doom Arena to fight!

Weapons: N/A

Skills: Hard to hit due to flight and floating head.

Abilities: Suicide Bombing, Final Boom, Flight

(I will NOT be using the above example. I just wanted to be clear about how this works.)

==Rules==

1) No Godmodding/metagaming/powerplaying

2) I will NOT accept Yukari Yakumo (Boundary Manipulation), Reality manipulation, and OP Time-Space Manipulation, really anything that is way too OP.

3) Certain OP characters ARE allowed, but are placed in a different "tier" of fighters where they can only fight against themselves. Otherwise, when they fight non-OP characters, they are nerfed and are psuedo cosmetic. Don't be afraid to make O.P characters! (Though limit them and don't make a bunch of them.)

4) OHKO (Finishers/Fatality Moves)/OP Abilites must be listed in the Abilities section individually, they may be used as a finisher. NOTE: That this does NOT mean that if the opponent has one hit remaining until a win you can use it. You can use it pseudo-cosmetically AFTER the winning hit connected.

5) The Battle System is EMOTE! (For those who don't know; EMOTE is below)

6) Depending on your bio and your character's personality they will be assigned to one of four living conditions:

-Normal Living conditions is a clean prison cell, you are treated as a serf and are allowed to walk around the courtyard, prison, etc. No buffs/debuffs

-Better/Worse Living Conditions are for God tier characters, depending on their biography and personality, and weather or not they want to be at the Doom arena depends on their living conditions, Better living conditions are that of a small apartment with an ice box, microwave, bed, and sofa. Worse living conditions are that of a filthy medieval dungeon, which normal characters can also "achieve." No buffs/debuffs

-Wonderful Living conditions are usually for characters with a biography that went looking for the Doom Arena, or usually evil characters who approve of the Doom arena. They are treated like Roman Noblemen/emporers and have servents, a huge room with a beautiful simulated look, an abundance of food, roman-like furniture, clothes, anything you can think of! (Yes, even videogames) [Note that you can fake this as well for better living conditions, persuasion is hard, though] +Honor System Stamina Buff

-Torture/Starving Chambers, those for who are extremely morally good or who have acted super wrongly will be placed in torture/starving chambers, torture is dependant on how well you did on an arena, this will ALWAYS debuff your character untill you can get to the worse living conditions. +Honor System Stamina De-buff

7) Have Fun!

==Battle System==

The Emote battle system goes as followed: Each RP-er will take turns (posts) to attack each other, the defender picks if the hit hits or not, he can parry, counter-attack, dodge, etc. The attacker however can find out twists and turns to use Logic against the opponent, making it undodgable, can't be parried, etc.

To KO someone, you must have 8 attack hit sucessfully + a finishing move OR 4 Mortal Wounds (Neck/Head & Heart and attacks that go through the body completely.)

-A finishing move is an auto-hit, after the eighth hit, the opponent can't do anything Mortal Kombat style, and you decide how to finish off your opponent. AKA Fatality

-Breaking a limb will result in a NORMAL attack but incapacitate/disable that limb.

-Poison works for 3 turns (Activation which does no damage, then middle turn, then ending turn, the last two do damage) depending on where the poison entered the body is how much damage it deals per turn. Example: Poison enters the a "mortal hit" area: each hit does 2 damage per turn.

-If Poison enters the body, expect an auto KO, unless you can get around it!

-Also, a major thing about the emote system! It also uses the honor system! Please try not to dodge EVERYTHING.

[DiamondBlizzard]

Apparently no one wants an Arena RP? .-.

I feel lonely. Bump

[Charlie]

Is there a character limit?

[DiamondBlizzard]

Eh, not exactly but if there was one you're not allowed more than 10 charactera, once this RP gets started and IF it's active I'll need a GM.

[DiamondBlizzard]

Bump.

[Vigild]

I'll throw my hat into the ring!

Frami

Name: Frami Anthonio Zeppeli

Race: Human/Undead

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Height: 5'11"

Weight: 174 lbs

Appearance:

Frami stands at 6 feet tall flat and possesses a medium build to compliment his stature, not by any means bulky or commanding presence through sheer body mass but well toned as his general aesthetic would hint, most bodily definition could be hidden well enough under baggy clothing save for his lower body which commands the most size of all his muscular features. A fray of curly black hair lies atop his head which is often matted down by the black and white checkered hats he frequently wears which do good at providing shade to contrasting emerald eyes which sport small flares suggesting signs of distant oriental descent, which is challenged by his rather large protruding nose and olive skin tone. Diagonally across the bicep of his left arm and diagonally across the higher part of his torso to his waist there are 2x2 cm deadbolts bolted into his flesh.

Personality:

Despite the circumstances that have been imposed on Frami he's ever the optimist in his own breed of relaxed acceptance, which some have come to gauge as apathy which he laughs off, if he were truly apathetic about anything he wouldn't have survived as long as he has. He simply does not see the use in worrying over circumstances one cannot control, it only impedes their performance when the time comes that they can make an impact.

Abilities and powers

-Swordsmanship: Prior to his time at the monestary while exploring on his own he picked up the ways of swordsmanship and can wield bladed weapons from the size of a dagger to the size of a claymore with relative ease, though his skills were never honed his ingenuity in battle and his superior physical condition may make up for what he may lack in being considered one of the best. This is not the skill he chooses to rely on in most cases.

-Polearms: In inheriting all of the skills of the late Hamaon Grandmaster, Frami can use polearms of any nature as an extension of himself. His proficiency along with radically super human strength allow him to crush stone with ease.

-Hamaon/The Ripple: The Ripple is a breathing technique that harnesses the latent powers of an individual and force of their surroundings. It takes the form of a incandescent crackling form of electricity that is hazardous to those of the Undead family causing their bodies to disintegrate, the only reason Frami can withstand it is the inheritance from the Grandmaster. A very versatile art as it can be channeled through all surfaces, it can be channeled through a simple pipe to make it strike with the force of a ton. It can be used to alter the bodies electronic traction and cause the user to stick to surfaces, traction can be altered to allow the user to stand perfectly fine on a spike 1mm wide. The Ripple can also be used to heal severe normally fatal wounds, not only to the user but to those the user applies it to. Flesh becomes as durable as granite, even bordering on diamond, yet is not hampered by weight, in fact the Ripple can be focused through air particles to achieve flight. The Ripple can be used to superheat air to cause combustion and freeze water as well as extract it from the air. Pockets of electrons beneath the users feet can be manipulated to maneuver at speeds untraceable by the human eye. The Ripple can be used to augment every aspect of the body to large degree, this includes the five senses.

History:

Draws origin from a homely port island. Lived to the age of 10 with a relatively content if not under privileged childhood, most in his neighborhood did not have much and he was no exception so he took the simple inability to gain material desires to heart and never really pestered for much. Eventually his parents registered his incredible temperance in never pestering for things they could not provide as most children are known to do. The guilt of not being able to provide luxuries for their child led them to allow him to live with his Aunt and Uncle in the mainland where he could obtain a better living, and for a while, he did. He'd picked up language skills and academic opportunities he'd only thought were for the more privileged kids.

By the age 16 he'd grown under much better circumstances his parents could have provided for him. A pastor in Local church had been driven mad through the force of a cult uprising, the demon that had been trying to take hold in the area possessed the pastor and attacked Frami nearly severing his soul from his body, were it not for the quick rescue by Paladins in the area he'd been one soul sort of sound mind and sound body. To sustain the damage done to him magic deadbolts were implanted into his wound to anchor his soul to his body. After the arduous procedure and recovery he began to fear the potential of another brush with death and followed a path he refused to be steered away from, to travel the world in search of the best means of protecting himself from the harshness of the world.

Upon his travels he found a monastery on the Highest peaks of the East. The manner in which the Monks controlled their bodies and surroundings astounded him, practitioners of an esoteric art, Hamaon or The Ripple. He pleaded to be taught under their wing even going so far as challenging their Grandmaster to a duel to teach him what he knew, which he'd lost before he'd even known it began. It was then he learned why they refused to teach him, only the living could master the art of the Hamaon, Frami no longer was. The deadbolts that kept him animated were a form of binding, Frami was Undead, an abomination that should not be.

He was crestfallen at the news and returned to the village at the foot of the mountain of the Monastery. I the night he was set upon by the same Paladins that had save him those years ago and were revealed to in fact be Blackguards that had instigated his attack and implanted the seal on him as a manner of watching their plans come to fruition to use him as the Avatar for their deity and allowing him to go about his business to become strong to point of withstanding the possession. The ensuing battle between him and the Blackguards was one not without collateral damage but all throughout Frami made it his goal, even if it was to detriment of himself, to protect innocent civilians. When the Monastery above heard of his selflessness they retracted their previous bar and allowed him to study under them. Both for his inordinate Gentleness as a member of the undead and to stop the plans of the Cult bent on retrieving him.

It was soon that the Cultist began an attack on the Monastery itself to retrieve him and the battle dragged on until the Grandmaster was left to face the previous degredating avatar of the Deity. One careless move to shelter Frami cost him his life, but before his expiration he passed his knowledge of the ripple through way of transferring his own power causing Frami to become a link between the way of the undead and of the life of the Ripple. The battle concluded with Frami defeating the avatar and continuing his travels as despite his altruism he could not be allowed to lead the monastery.

[DiamondBlizzard]

Accepted! I see the Ripple is quite a buff, though OP you're normal tier level, from what I've read so far. Though I may move you up if I see it in use and lots of wina with that. XP

[Vigild]

Oh I can nerf the Ripple a lot trust me. I only made it so powerful cause I made him for a group of incredibly powered character. I actually prefer playing characters with more of a weakness.

[DiamondBlizzard]

Fair enough, the RP will start when three more people join.

[Lalliman]

The lack of popularity for this thread is probably because Emote is a pretty restrictive system. Because there are no degrees of damage (only no damage, damage and vital damage) hard-hitting and/or durable characters are essentially not viable, in the end it all comes down to speed and manoeuvrability. It shuts out a lot of characters that way and depersonalizes others by invalidating things like elemental resistance and standardizing things like poison. It also has its advantages over the system we use here (which some will call T1), but force of habit is powerful and those used to using T1 are unlikely to try Emote.

The extremely low population of the arena section also has something to do with it though.

[DiamondBlizzard]

How does the T1 aystem work, also element restrictions and such are allowed, the hits/health bar will just go into fractions, that's all.

[Lalliman]

It's largely the same but without the hit points. Just as one individually judges whether or not their characters can dodge an attack, they also decide how much damage their character can take. There's also no standard rules on poison, you would just specify in your CS what it does and how quickly. Basically, the core mechanics are the same but it's far more arbitrary, which has its up and downsides.

Personally, i would be willing to try Emote, if only i wasn't kinda busy already. I'm only one person anyways though. If you used T1 you might attract more of the common arena-goers. Then again, maybe not, it's hard to reliably get a group of people together in the arena in general. It hasn't had a large population in a looong time.

[DiamondBlizzard]

Oh no Emote doesn't have hitpoints either or a poison system that's just THIS RP's mechanics.