On Midway island Japan and United States began a project, to create a city intent for the brightest minds in the world, a modern city full of advanced technology. This came to pass and was crowned Academy city, a city built where only students and teachers lived, safe from war and strife. The students that attend the schools here normally want to specialize in a certain discipline from maids to mages. The was originally intended to be a prison Espers and Mages yet after consideration they decided it would be better as a school to teach and encourage there gifts. Thus the island was made a city of schools.
The Three Divisions
Making up the cities gifted populace are three kinds of people, Knights, Mages, and Espers. Knights are humans who train and become exceptional warriors relying on weapons and technology rather than natural gifts, they also the most common in the Enforcers, the all school security force that protects the students and deals with crime. Espers are those with psychic powers, born with a unique ability bestowed to them they focus and use it, Espers lack the variation of mages yet make up for it in strength. Espers also need there bodies to have energy to use there power. Mages however can cast spells learned from books or by etching runes on to a surface, magic is varied and utilitarian, some mages prefer to master one discipline while others enjoy being unpredictable and well rounded. A mages weakness lies in the need for a mana source, that can be the mage themselves or the air around them however, fights between mages drain mana from an area or themselves and it takes days to return. Mages often try to fight in mana rich area's or failing rest well and eat good before hand to ensure a strong mana reserve.
The Phase
The Phase is a plane parallel to our world, its where fights between students are carried out to avoid damage to the city or other students. the builds are immune to damage there yet you can touch them, you can even see in to the real world as if they are all ghosts. Yet you cannot touch any living object in the really world in the Phase, only buildings and inanimate objects. Which cannot be damaged in the Phase, likewise in our world we those in the fade as shimmering ghost like forms. Students who fall into the participating categories are issued a Phase-Watch that allows them to move between planes and battle others. These fights are normally done to settle disputes and Enforcers will show up to watch them and ensure both fighters live. Some fights are done in a official capacity to determine who is stronger, those fights often have special rewards or prizes for the winner.
The Plot And Summary
You are all new students attending Academy city, whether your gifted or just students trying get a good education your welcome here. Basically the plot will start at beginning of the school year and coming festival, this festival will have live combat games for all students and fights between gifted students, of course I'm leaving room to grow here as some people my want to play villain characters intent on beating everyone for personal gain or something along those lines.
RULES
1. Please follow the normal roleplay rules and avoid all powerful characters. 2. Don't be rude or mean to player in the OOC or I ask the offender to leave. 3. Remember we are all here to have fun so please don't parade around auto-hitting or insta-killing other characters. Collab posts are encouraged for fight scenes to help speed them up. 4. Write something about a red bow in to your character sheet to prove you read this, if I do not see it I will not accept. 5. All character sheets will be posted in the character tab once complete and approved. 6. As GM I will do my best to deal with any problems that arise, always feel free to contact me for help.
Character Sheet
Name: Age: (Can be anywhere from 14-17) Occupation: (If you've got a job in the city, not all schools have the same hours so jobs are viable and give you spending money.) Appearance: (Pictures preferred and no real life please, text is good minimum one paragraph though.) Gift: (If applies.) Spells: (Mages Only, can be any spells you like try to keep to between three and five. More can be learned.) School: (Type of school or a certain school you attend, these can be player made.) Personality: (Minimum paragraph here.) Biography: (Tell me how you got here, what your goals are, and all about who the character is, the more the better.)
Matthew, knew to things, blindness was temporary and he was panicking. Thus he did the opposite of what his opponent was thinking, he dropped his sword and tackled him as the blindness took hold. He couldn't see but he dragged the monk down and did his best to throw the spell book away, he couldn't see but he was much stronger, years of training and diligent sword play had left well toned though not as well muscled as warriors. He threw a couple punches in to the monk, trying unable to see. As his eye sight returned he found he successfully pinned the Monk and he landed a couple good blows, however the monk had grabbed his sword and gave him a strong whack with his own weapon, grabbed on the second try but the Monk had pulled his second spell book and the powerful blast not him away, getting up Matthew grunted and stood up slowly, fighting the pain.
The Monk had taken the brunt of the damage, but Matthew had hurt his leg in blast, no more dodging for him, he needed to get in close and finish this or the monk might just take him out.
Matthew smiled and raised a blade, it seemed the crowd was enjoying this, he smiled and bowed to his opponents staying silent, he didn't like boasting of taunting. He preferred a tough and simple fight. As the match began he hung back following the others lead in to the fight.
Matthew had to dodge a few stray spells as he followed up behind the others going right up the middle, he dodged some and others did little damage as he slide past them. He smiled at the one taking aim and unleashed his magic on them, twin bolts of fire flew from his hands as drew his sword and charged forth. Seriously, they were each taking one? They must not be smart, would have been better to focus and take out one at a time, he had the best each of surviving there attacks so why no focus on the others and bring them down first. He swung at the monk. "Sorry but I'm Anima user, so your magic just stings a little.
Matthew was still wearing his armor from the earlier fight so he just collected a wooden sword and a couple of weaker spells book, these kind of books were designed to cause pain but not injury no matter how hard you hit with them. "I'm swordsman and a mage, so I can swap between the two in combat." He said as he checked his straps and buckles. "The Bishops prefer to avoid fighting the, beside's Dark Mages are worse, light magic is the weakest against the average person, now if we were dark mages or nightmarish creatures, that be a different story." He said smiling at the tome. "But Light magic has a weakness, Anima magic my specialty, almost anima mages are highly resistant to there spells, kinda like how Pegasus Knights are resistant to it in all forms." He finished his checks placing a thunder tome in one hand and a sword in the other he smiled. "Jiro you want to lead us out?"
Matthew laughed as they walked towards the fights. "If I ever up on the other side of you two, I'd change allegiances. It would mean living longer, don't worry, I have a trick to dealing with mages, they don't take pain well so I lay down few thunder shoots maybe a fire ball or two. You two move in while I make them dance and get a cut in and there out, oh and Jiro don't call me Matty. It's Matthew and relax, tacticians only give orders when they commanding soldiers, no offense but there's a difference between mercenaries and soldiers, soldiers listen and fight, mercenaries just fight." He said stretching out his arms with a grunt swing them loosely as drew his spell book.
As they neared the place he smiled and walked up to the bookie. "Found a couple of tough guys, were taking on the Monks, can you set up everything?"
He said with a smile the old bookie just grinned. "Kid, your good but I'm still putting up 15 to 1 odds in favor of those priests, if you win I'll be here with your cut."
He said and disappeared off to set up the fight as Matthew walked back over to Jiro and Zaku. "There setting up the match now, this ought to be good. He's got 15 to 1 against us, I say he's under estimating us, especially if you two are as good as you appear. I've always been a good judge of fighters, comes with the job, anyway lets try to win this, I'd like to get back to the inn meeting a pegasus knight later to share a drink and swap stories."