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Log Horizon: Western Europe

This sounds like so much fun. >;o May I join the Cool Kidz Club?

@JustAriel

'Course, mang. So long as you don't bring the hoodies.

Log Horizon: Western Europe

@Ostarion FYI, you have the sorcerer and the summoner HP and MP stats flipped. You need to change that so it makes sense. LOL

@Kimono

Relics of the past. And he's asleep.

Log Horizon: Western Europe

Mary Kaw

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"Me, an American? How did you figure that one out?"

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IGN: Mary Kaw (Just goes by Mary)

Name:
Ari Washington

Age:
18

Gender:
Female

Personality:
Mary is, at least in the game, an omega patriot. She believes that America is the greatest country in the world and that freedom should be doled out to every single dungeon. She's loud, brash and pretty much a stereotypical American. In reality, however, all of this is a running joke that she shared with a few of her friends. In the real world, she was still loud and brash, but not quite the pinnacle of American culture. She was just someone who liked a good laugh.

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History:
Ari was born in the grand and mysterious American city of Gaylord, Michigan. There wasn't much to do in Gaylord. Hell, there was nothing to do there. Instead, Ari did nothing but play video games.

Her life changed when she found Elder Tale. Instead of playing DOTA 4, Team Fortress 2 Episode 2 Part 2 or Onlywatch, she began playing Elder Tale. Months passed, then years. Ari became a top enchanter on the American servers. She participated in numerous raids against all Kaida-level bosses and had been in numerous secret PVP events. Her life changed when her parents had to move to Europe for no specified reason.

Her life was in shambles. Months of grinding and fun, gone. It was terrible. Luckily, when she got to Europe, she saw that if Americans migrated to their server, they would get a neat American flag item. All was good. She happily used the flag in every situation. Running around towns, running away from PKers, et cetera. Her life changed when she found a guild that laughed at the flag. Of course, wanting more laughs, Ari called them "Commie scum" and it was "Better dead than red". They loved it. They invited the level 5 Ari (who had been playing for months, but not killing anything or doing any quests) to their guild.

Months passed. Mary was forced to go to do missions with them. She got to the point where she was level 69, and refused to go any farther. They gave her numerous gifts, and with that, Mary did nothing else. To pass time, she brewed "American beer" much to the laugh of her guild mates. She got that up to max level, and not much else happened.

The guild slowly drifted apart, and Mary was left alone, brewing her beer. It was pretty boring, not to have anyone laugh at her.

The next expansion came out and Ari saw herself as her character. As the old saying goes, the rest is history.
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In-game Information

Gender:
Female

Race:
Human
"Ain't no beasts in my land of freedom!"

Class:
Enchanter

Class Level:
Lv. 69
(stopped there on purpose)

Subclass:
Brewer

Subclass Level:
Lv. 90

Guild
N/A

Build:
Brewchanter
A build pioneered by Mary Kaw. She built it around buffing their teammates so much that they become a ball of death that rolls through dungeons, primarily using the "tipsy" buff. Never got to use it properly, though.

Spells/Skills:

• Astral Binding - This spell prevents a target from moving for a short period of time. It is a basic technique that can be used to keep them in place while the caster's party attacks or advances. It is also useful for crowd control. Visually, the target is surrounded by a tight ring of magical threads
• Mind Shock - This spell is cast as a dark purple sphere that the caster launches at a target. The sphere explodes upon contact with the ground and causes minor damage to all targets in the vicinity. It also causes confusion and lowers the target's attack accuracy and ability to dodge incoming attacks. Because the spell's cooldown period is 180 seconds (3 minutes), it can usually only be used once per battle.
• Pulse Bullet - Extremely low cooldown. Fires a bolt that deals low damage. Combined with "Cast on Beat", it can be cast over 30 bullets a minute. Drains MP like mad.
• Keen Edge - This magical support spell increases the base attack power of a weapon by 30% when wielded by a member of the caster's party, for several hours
• Magic Light - A non-offensive spell that produces light at the end of the user's staff, which then forms into a floating, possibly-sentient orb of blue and red-white striped light that follows the caster. The orb of light will turn its head as its caster turns his or her head, and cower behind the caster when faced with opponents.
• Accuracy Support - A buff that lasts for 10 seconds. All attacks will hit, no matter the circumstance. 10 second cooldown.
• Cast on Beat - Visually, a metronome appears above the caster. Whenever someone near casts a spell when the metronome clicks, all cooldowns are slightly reduced.
• Gain Immunity - Visually, the target becomes surrounded by a golden aura. Lasts for 10 seconds. The target this is cast on takes reduced damage and is immune to all forms of crowd control.
• Magi Howling - The user screams an intimidating warshout, increasing the magic damage of all nearby enemies for a short time.
• Haste - The user casts a red aura around them. Everyone within the aura gains movement speed and attack faster.
• Elemental Infusal - The user chooses an element and enchants a target. The next 20 attacks from that target do bonus damage of the chosen element.
• Reflex Boost - Passively increases the EVA of everyone around the user.
• Overrunning - A special skill that enchanters are defined by, if they're buff based. When activated, everyone deals 200% damage to non-boss monsters and gain 200% movement speed. All buff abilities known are applied to nearby targets. Lasts for 10 seconds. Can only be used once every two hours.

Equipment:
<Mary's American Clothes>
"Democracy!"
Production-Class Armour
A level 69 item made from Ancient and Phantasmal-class materials. Increases the duration of all buffs by 25%. Increases INT significantly.

<QT Jester's Cap>
"You are my QT3.14"
Production-Class Hat
Level 67 item made from magic materials. Makes squeeky noises when taking damage. Increases all stats.

Weapons:
<Deathfire Grip>
"It is said that every flame is a Takyon."
Ancient-Class Stave
A level 63 item that, every time an ability is cast, a wave of damaging fire extends in a circle from the caster's position. Increases all Magic Damage dealt by the user. Lowers the duration of Crowd Control by 20%

Inventory:
<American Flag> x 1
"Declare your independence with this cool item. Available only to American players who transfer to Western Europe."
Multiple use
A simple cosmetic item that looks like a giant American flag. Upon activating, a large flag appears in your hand. Disappears when in combat.

<Grandmaster Brew Kit> x 1
"Make the strongest of beverages!"
Multiple use
A set of barrels, hops and other brewing utensils. Used to make alcoholic drinks.

<American Beer> x 7625
"The best type."
Consumable
Gives the "Tipsy" buff, increasing STR, LUCK, DEF and WIS at the cost of INT, AGI and EVA.

Stats

Strength (STR): E (1)

Agility (AGI): D (2)

Intelligence (INT): S (6)

Wisdom (WIS): S (6)

Defense (DEF): D (2)

Evasion (EVA): E (1)

Log Horizon: Western Europe

Anyone know what's the difference between a Pharmacist and a Herbalist is?

@ClocktowerEchos

Ostarion fell asleep in the Skype call. what do?

Pharmacists are like pills and potions made from anything (meat, flesh, scales, etc). They focus on buffs and bonuses. Herbalists are gathering it themselves and making it out of plants. They focus on healing, regeneration and status effect removal.

It's mostly weird logic errors that Log Horizon has.

@SilverDawn Wow, I can't believe I over looked the Personality. Thanks for accepting, but if you want I can edit it in. (On another note: wow this is active, already four pages!)

@McFazzer

You don't need to. I don't mind that it's empty.

Editing this in because I don't want to post so frequently.

@Jangel13 Accepted.

If I accepted your character, feel free to put in the Character tab.

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@SilverDawn

Ayyy Boss

I was just making a Fox Tail and I'm wondering a) what the ratio of class skills to non-class skills is (or if it's just random chance) and b) do we have to follow the OOC directly? For example, it says that Sorcerers are long-range artillery but I was gonna make a Sorcerer that gets up in people's grills!

@NarcissisticPotato

The ratio is once every 20 levels, about. You could have a Fox Tail with some guardian skills, if you want to BM.

Sorcerers could totally be warriors. It'd be terrible, but it would work.

The OOC is much less a "defined rules" and more of a information, just in case.

Log Horizon: Western Europe

Man, now I'm curious as to what that PM was.

@Ashifili

Just critiques. I don't like critiquing in public forums. Makes me feel wrong.

Log Horizon: Western Europe

>12 users viewing the thread
>Ostarion isn't one of them

GDI

@Ashifili

He suddenly dropped from the call, so I think his house imploded unto him.

Anyways, application time (we already discussed most of it).

@Jangel13 See the PM.

@McFazzer I don't mind that you don't have the personality section (not in the original application, plus, they're hard to follow sometimes). Accepted.

@Ashifili Accepted. Nice.

Log Horizon: Western Europe

Thank you for your responses (except Jangel :P but I already talk to you enough), I'll keep them in mind the next time I barge into someone's RP with similar questions. XD Sorry for giving the wrong impression, I tried to make my wording as unbiased as possible, but I may have come off too cold anyways.

@Aurrorian

A good tip is to fill it with as many dank maymays as possible. People can't get mad at you if you meme them hard enough ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

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A more general question. Simply by watching the anime or reading the light novels or looking through the wiki, a whole bunch of problems presented by the Catastrophe already have solutions for them. Would Elder Tale EU have different solutions to said problems then (such as how to cook food with taste)? Or what.

@Ashifili

They would have the same solutions (or different solutions, if the logic is soundproof), but the means would be different.

Log Horizon: Western Europe

@SilverDawn It's essentially an entire website dedicated to Log Horizon RP, taking it to the level of a text-based MMO, and as far as I've browsed it seems very organized with character sheets and stat calculation (more for power gamers), multiple IC threads for "map" exploration, and as it's more established an increasingly developed lore. I'd just like to know what this thread can offer to the Log Horizon fandom RP that a dedicated website cannot. Not to discourage or put off your own dedication (and that OOC opener), but it seems a generic RP forum like the Guild is a bit inconsistent when it comes to users sticking with threads, and the work a GM puts in would have no return if interest is lost as soon as it's gained.

@Aurrorian

See, the thing about it, I don't mind if this RP dies off quickly. Sure, I'll be disheartened and saddened, but I never would think that my work would have no return. I had fun making the OOC with Ostarion. It was a great time slipping as many dank maymays into the OOC to make Scrub Mage upset, but I digress. I don't think that this thread will offer anything to the Log Horizon fandom. To be honest, I don't think that a lot of things will ever offer much to the Log Horizon fandom. Instead, I think that what we offer is fun while writing to the participants. We're making a story together. That story doesn't need to be bogged down by word-based levels (no offense to the creators of the Log Horizon RP site) and other mechanics that slow down the pace of the story.

What Ashifili said is a large part of it, too.

People get discouraged when they want to play in a story, but much of that story has already happened. They don't get to experience the emotional rollercoaster that not-knowing has. Sure, they get to enjoy a story, but they won't feel involved. It feels like a slog when you're a nobody. It seems like you have to force yourself into the story to get any action done, which doesn't feel nice. At least, that's my experience with RPs.

Website RPs do have a place, but so do forum RPs. I think that for more hardcore roleplayers who like mechanics, they will aggregate to more specialized websites. Forum RPs are more for the casual crowds who just want to make a story that they enjoy the background/theme of. I can't speak for anyone else, but that's what I am. I enjoy writing, but I don't enjoy a bunch of mechanics that slow down writing. I also don't like writing alone. That sounds really depressing, but that's what I think of it.