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The Order: Awakening the Dragon

I neglect AIM though, like a bad child.

The Order: Awakening the Dragon

IVIasterJay said Aaron Rayne

Before I can say anything, I need to see this finished—though naming conventions in Kataloni are uniquely Japanese as well as their weapons are reminiscent of that same culture. Keep me posted.

Gokiburi7 said Eden Kasratu

I know you understand the ramifications of the eternity force and the corrupting bits about it, so I’m sure you’ll be writing the overbearing virtuous natures of the eternity force. So I’m looking forward to that, and as I’ve said before I like bits about Ari—and the cultist background. Also, curious if you’re sticking with the Kasratu name as it sounds relatively Asian in nature? Was his family descended from the Salasi peoples? Kata? Ludosi? Curious.

“Over the course of Dalance's life, under the spiritual guidance of an ancient harmonic artefact, the group had laid the foundations of a plan to cease the very planet's orbit. Through this method, his father's insane notations announced, half the world would be scorched to nought whilst the other half would freeze and die. Life would be removed from the world, thus any scope for the creation of chaos would also perish.”

– I’d like to know a bit more about this even if it’s a bit laid in the backstory; also why does it sound to me like the totem here is one of the virtue named Justice rather than Humility, etc. Give me a reply on the above and I’m sure this thing will likely be ready to go.

GravityFlux said Tiberius Winter

The anglo-indian appearance intrigues me as you describe landeian origin, which I describe as “generic terran”. I wonder if that landeian ethnicity has been watered down through Khani (hindu) and Salasi (tibetan/shaolin) family members?

I have no questions or qualms with techniques or anything as is. Approved. Though I would like some notes on his earlier travels and such. =)

Noel said Lynnette Alwin

The only thing I’m really concerned about with this amazing piece of prose is the possession technique. How do you propose this is balanced and so on? Otherwise this thing is ready to go.

Ultimate One Universe: Marvel/DC RPG

It's short, but hopefully it's enough to get my shit in gear.

Ultimate One Universe: Marvel/DC RPG

Charles Xavier’s School for the Gifted

Charles Xavier understood; he understood better than M’gann could have imagined. But the information that he himself was a sort of telepathic creature had been information that she had not been told and for the first time since she landed on Earth she felt some sort of relative connection with a living being. Sure, Howard had been the savior of her woes on the dangerous gladiatorial “War World” and she was very grateful for his services but there was something about finding another sentient telepathic being that wasn’t distant and cold towards her. Perhaps blaming the other martian for his lack of connectivity with her was petty, but being a teenager was being all about petty and melodramatic—something of which she vocalized very well when in grief to her alien companion. But here she was in a room with somebody not even her own race who was in the powers scheme of things relatable to her in at least a telepathic level and she felt comfortable in her own skin.

“You don’t have to hide your true idenity at this school.” The bald man stated kindly as Howard shot a glance that spoke of his disagreement with the statement. The dissent towards aliens after the kryptonian invasion was something to note, but M’gann felt like there was a sort of truth to Xavier’s assurance and that it wasn’t untrue. Howard had warned her that they should worry about revealing their origins so quickly, but it was like Xavier had a way of getting people to feel comfortable which was very obvious with M’gann.

“I appreciate that.” M’gann stated and despite this comfortable feeling felt like she had to be cautious. “But this…”

“I understand. I’m sure you’ll see here at this school, that, we as people will accept you. Give it time.”

M’gann smiled as she looked on at the elder man in her human form. “I hope so.”

“Until then, you will be offered the services I offer to everyone else—your friend here, Howard, I’ll find a fit for him as well. You both earned such safe existence away from the paranoid, cynical world we live in.”

Howard raised a brow but nodded. “Well, I guess we’ll talk some more after we get M’gann sorted here.”

“Indeed.”

Mass Effect: Nova

I think work has swallowed Vatke until further notice, but I'm not going anywhere.

Mass Effect: Nova

I think I decided to wait like you guys suggested, so erm yeah. Loving the posts tho.

I'm just going to leave this here...

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

Shizuka Nadra
| Kumogakure |

Express something about yourselves and receive one question—all without their third student as well? Shizuka Nadra’s thoughts scrambled to think of what a question could be? or for that matter what sort of answer she should give alongside a polite introduction. Her expression remained blank despite such mental uncertainty. With her arms crossed as she looked over her fellow student, she began to think before returning her gaze to her to-be teacher, a person who seemed to want to get to the point of things rather immediately but not in an impatient matter.

“Right.” She spoke with a sense of obedience, albeit quietly.

“My name is Shizuka Nadra, and I’ve just recently become a genin as expected. I’d say… that I’d like to achieve something great, something worthy of the clan Shizuka.”

Nadra wasn’t quite sure of her answer though it did speak some truth—to become better and revered like her grandfather Shizuka Hitachi or her mother Shizuka Junko would be the most important thing. Though she couldn’t say she had independent hopes and dreams at all, almost like her aspirations were programmed into her brain and manner. It was important and it would garnish acclaim, but what would it really do for her? But personal happiness wasn’t exactly something Nadra ever had, even when she was younger.

As for a question, Nadra struggled but eventually thought of something that sdid greatly interest her.

“What was the most important mission you were ever assigned before becoming a jonin-sensei?”

Fanon vs Canon

A good subtitle for this would be “the nuisances of alternate universes in roleplay”.

Fanon. Fanon is a user-made setting loosely based on a world to that user decisions change the world due to whims.

Canon. Pre-made lore that stands as the roleplay setting’s backbone and where events in the canon do not change.

What I’ve seen on this website in my very short time here I’ve come to know several roleplay strategies and techniques that are employed in quantity and the big one I’d like to discuss is the idea of using alternate universes to make canonicity irrelevant. Canon is not a dirty thing we have to turn our backs on when doing a fandom roleplay, and some of my favorite roleplays in my time include a Naruto roleplay in 2007 where the player characters are ninja before the events of Naruto Shippuden unfold. This is a canon roleplay that played off events that happened in the canon lore and didn’t attempt to dismiss or twist them. It was about a gaiden—or a side-story. Here, I don’t notice these sort of things though perhaps I am blind to them. What I do see is the overuse and sometimes misuse of the alternate timeline cliché. Now, I am nowhere near negative towards alternate timelines as I am a huge fan of time theory as well as domino/butterfly effects amongst a timeline. “What if Aang was killed by the Fire Nation instead of going into stasis?” is one of my examples in the concept called Flames of Azulon.

But what I notice is not really an interest to make dynamic domino or butterfly effects but rather: “I want to wipe all of the lore in this setting to its barebones” and that’s fine, I did the same thing with Sonic the Hedgehog ten years ago to make a diverse and radically different setting. But the thing is I don’t ten to see diverse, radically different, or generally ambitious differences. It just seems like the approach is either “FANDOM in name only” or “this is different but it plays out exactly the same”. Why do you think this is?

I’m not sure why it’s in large capacity myself, but I can’t help but wonder how the roleplay’s could benefit if they tried to make the roleplay taste a little different instead of taste exactly the same despite holding no canon characters. Perhaps it’s an overthinking thought and it’s just due that people want to play the setting exactly like they’ve seen without strings attached.

I’m rambling, but I’d like to see thoughts about “alternate timelines” and “fanon vs canon” either way.

When you make a roleplay do you like making several characters or just one?

Depends on my inspiration and the activity of the RP itself.