Grey

Digital Soul Online

Awesome.

A new Demon student?! ((Ao no Exorcist RP, all welcome!!))

Kazuya chuckled. "Amen to that," he empathized, giving subtle nod, "Certainly seems like a good use of class time - s'not as if we were doing any learning anyway. Hell, I was doing the same myself just now." He gave out a long exhale and let the silence sit in for a few moments, letting himself stew in his thoughts. "...why do you regret it?" he asked, actually turning to face Jeffery this time.

A new Demon student?! ((Ao no Exorcist RP, all welcome!!))

Kazuya glanced around the classroom, looking over the other members of his class. They all had such interesting faces. It almost made up for the fact that there were less than 10 people even present. You'd think a school where you learn how to fight demons and use weapons would be more popular. But then again it took a certain kind of person to even know about the cram school's existence in the first place. He yawned and leaned into his seat.

"Hey man, you alright there?" he asked, smiling laxly as he whispered to the student behind him, Jeffrey.

Digital Soul Online

Night's cleared.

The elements in the game would be the same as the traditional range in media. Fire, water, air, earth, lightning, ice, etc. Non-elemental/pure magic is included.

EDIT:
Whoops, almost forgot to edit Moxy's character into the OP.

A new Demon student?! ((Ao no Exorcist RP, all welcome!!))

A scolding from the teacher was more or less what Kazuya had expected out of arriving late. Their demon-hunting demon teacher, Sen-sensei, was certainly a lot angrier than he had anticipated, but that was likely due to the fact he wasn't the only later person. Before he could pull out his kind-of-not-really bullshit excuse about kendo club, a hooded fellow, human by the looks of it, decided to pose a question regarding a fact that was probably controversial. Especially due to the make-up of their class.

A short 'heated debate' soon ensued, each side bringing up points, a part-demon attempting to stop all the ruckus and momentarily succeeding, before the human spoke up again, talking about his motivation of vengeance. The teacher then proceeded to talk about her own wish for revenge, and it seemed they all came to an understanding. Happy-ish endings for everyone!

"Alright. Suppose I'll get up then," Kazuya shrugged, stretching a bit before heading up to the front with his sword bag hanging from his shoulder. "Yo, Kazuya Mikazuki here," he gave a smile and a curt wave to the rest of the class, before continuing in that relaxed, polite-sounding tone of his, "Don't bother wasting your time on honorifics or formalities or anything like that, I really don't mind. I'm 100% human and gunning for the Knight-class of meister. Let's all work together and do our best!"

Strangely enough, though his tone, expression, and mannerisms gave off the air of 'pleasant and courteous young fellow', there was just something distinctly off about the look in his eyes... Not that any but the most perceptive would have time to dwell on it, as soon after he was done he headed back to his seat.

Digital Soul Online

Alrighty, let's check out some CSs.

@Stephen: You're good.

@Night: Can you use the established skills? I've included potential replacements below. Other than that, you're good.

Gunsmith = Mechanics
Espionage = Sabotage/Sleight/Disguise all seem to work, potentially.
Quickdraw = No skill covers it (Marksman and Sleight come close, maybe), but a beefed up AGI might. Or a perk. Probably a perk.
Lockpicking = Security

Also, for future reference, dual wielding doesn't necessarily require a perk unless you're dual wielding something that requires more than one hand/particularly absurd (even then if it stretches the imagination too much I'll nix it). So feel free to swap that out if you want.

@Yuki: Tactician?

Other than that, there's only a few nitpicky details on my end. Really just the bit about a creature changing race, but then again there exist widely accessible ways to change appearance so I don't think the change aspect is too far-fetched, just the method in particular. Though I suppose I can let that slide if you really want it that way.

EDIT: Oh hey, someone else!

@Moxy: You've got 29/30 of your points. Other than that, welcome aboard.

Will edit OP later.

Elder Scrolls <The Reboot>

"Tch."

Makoto sighed loudly once his call request was denied. Fortunately his remaining friend requests were accepted by Bootsy and Okami, which meant he could probably find their location easily enough. There wasn't any mini-map anymore, which meant he couldn't just follow the relevant icon to reach their location, unfortunately. Rather inconvenient, but whatever. Beggars can't be choosers. He swiped into his GUI and, with a few button presses, managed to fire off a conference call.

Once he'd dealt with that, Makoto got up from his seat, wiped digital dust off his digital clothing, and picked began to make his way towards the nearest town. His class wasn't one meant for combat, unfortunately, and all his quirky character building wasn't really enough to tip the scales into a satisfactory risk vs reward ratio.

A new Demon student?! ((Ao no Exorcist RP, all welcome!!))

Kazuya was pretty damn sure he was late, but honestly he didn't really care. Between regular studies, kendo club, and being 'persuaded' into joining the exorcist cram school, he just didn't have enough free time. Didn't help that his club and cram school classes overlapped just a bit. Would probably give him a decent excuse when it came to arriving late, at least, and if his attendance record managed to piss that bastard off, then bonus points. Seriously, just because you give a guy a full-ride scholarship to a prestigious academy and force him to attend an extracurricular class doesn't mean you own him. Still, the stipend, free lodging, and decent education was enough of a reason for Kazuya to actually make an attempt at attending.the exorcist classes.

The brown-haired student slipped his key into a the most secluded nearby door, unlocking it and stepping into the hallway of the magically concealed - and rather ornate looking - cram school. He took a glance down to the slip of paper in his hands, pointing out the proper classroom to enter. He finally located the door with the matching designation and popped open the door. Seemed like he'd walked in during introductions. Good, that meant he hadn't missed much. It was a bit surreal though. A quick glance around the classroom revealed that out of the eight people present, 5 had distinctly inhuman qualities. That included their teacher. Though if that bastard was right, partially-demonic exorcists weren't exactly rare.

Kazuya took a seat in the outer middle of the classroom. He set his sword bag containing both of his blades on the desk in front of him and reclined into his seat.

Digital Soul Online - A Virtual Reality MMORPG Roleplay

Be warned. I wrote up most of this at 1:00 some

....Also, OOC/IC up.

Digital Soul Online

Digital Soul Online
Status
Always Open!
GMs
Grey, HollywoodMole
Co-GMs


Premise

lmagine a world where gaming has advanced to the point where you, the player, are no longer separated from the virtual world by a screen, but instead are right there, fully immersed within the world of the game, controlling your character as you would your own body.

In the year 2026, this ideal became reality with the creation of the Neuro-Sync headset. Using nothing more than the eponymous virtual-reality headset and a comfortable place to rest, the Neuro-Sync allowed users to jump right into a game and experience the world from their character's perspective. However, despite the advancement of the single-player experience, many gamers were disappointed with the lack of multiplayer capabilities.

Enter Digital Soul Online, an urban fantasy MMORPG created by the developers of the Neuro-Sync themselves.

Ever since it's announcement DSO's release was widely anticipated, with many excited gamers going as far as to line up outside of stores the day before release in order to secure a copy. Upon release, the game was surpassed all expectations. Many players found themselves engrossed in the world of DSO, drawing their swords, loading their guns, or slinging their spells and completing quests alongside friends, old and new.

However, upon logging out many players were met with an unfortunate surprise. Head-splitting migraines, loss of coordination, hallucinations... And those were the lucky ones. Others met their fate at the hands of full-body paralysis or sudden seizures. The players remaining in the game soon received a message detailing the grisly effects of what exactly happens when a player logs off.

Now stuck within this virtual world, the players of Digital Soul Online must learn how to survive while they wait for a way back home.

Plot

As the premise may have so subtly hinted, this is an RP revolving around the time-tested concept of gamers getting trapped in a virtual reality MMORPG. Your character, having purchased DSO for whatever reason, is now effectively trapped within the confines of the urban fantasy world of DSO at the risk of death by brain damage. Fortunately you aren't alone, for there are thousands of other (un)lucky individuals unable to leave with their minds intact, just like you!

In terms of an actual objective, this RP doesn't have a grand, over-arching GM-imposed plotline to follow other than "Live out life in the game until someone in the real world saves us". It was primarily intended to be a character-driven, open-world RP focusing on the adventures of the players stuck inside, where any plot would be put together by the interactions of characters.

Information Dump

Setting

The game world of Digital Soul Online is circular shaped, with a huge starting hub/main city on an island in the center and a "huge and unnecessary moat" (- HollywoodMole) separating all the dungeons and wilderness on the 'mainland'.

The starting city itself is a very modern-looking locale, skyscrapers and such jutting into the sky. It's an on an island connected to the mainland by bridges in either of the four cardinal directions, and in the center of it is a plaza where new players spawn and dead players respawn. To the north are snow-capped mountains, with alpine forests and tundra below. Swamp and wetland are located in the south, while the west is all woodland and plains and the east is barren and deserted. Lastly, the entire game world is surrounded by a perimeter of coastline and signs of ruined civilization dot the landscape, making for a post-apocalyptic look all around.

Feel free to go wild with locations so long as they don't contradict the aforementioned description.

Stats

Stats are basically the measurement of a character's inherent abilities, which is different from Skills - values that measure how well a character's learned to perform a certain action. In Digital Soul Online there are five statistics, each designated with a number between 1 and 10 that cannot be altered outside of temporary status effects. There also exist secondary stats such as HP and MP, but for those we'll be using common sense instead of keeping track of exact values.

Strength (STR)
Represents a character's physical power. STR provides:

Bonus damage for weapons that use melee-based skills.

Bonus Projectile skill damage.

Improved ability to pull/push/lift/carry.

Endurance (END)
Represents a character's physical resilience. END provides:

Health points/HP.

Better resistance against physical effects such as poison and weather.

Improved damage reduction.

Agility (AGI)
Represents a character's speed and nimbleness. AGI provides:

Faster overall speed.

Improved reflexes.

Bonus damage for ranged skill weapons, except for Projectile.

Intelligence (INT)
Represents a character's mental power. INT provides:

Mana points/MP

Bonus Evocation skill damage.

Spell slots. 1:1 slot to INT ratio.

Willpower (WIL)
Represents a character's mental resistance and force of will. WIL provides:

Better resistance against mental/magical effects such as illusions and other assorted debuffs.

Improved resistance against magical damage.

Boosts damage done by familiars and mounts.

Skills

There are 35 Skills in Digital Soul Online, learned abilities that measure a character's ability to do a specific action. Skill levels can be increased at level up by allocating skill points, but there exist exceptions in the form of certain quests and such. For the sake of convenience, we won't be keeping track of exact values in the RP.

Weapon Skills
Skills that influence how much damage a player can get out of a weapon. and/or how well a character can block with it.

• Archery: Proficiency with bows.
• Blade: Proficiency with weapons such as swords, daggers, axes, etc.
• Blunt: Proficiency with blunt weapons such as maces, hammers, etc.
• Evocation: Combat magic. Spells that either cause direct damage, summon creatures, or set up defenses.
• Marksman: Proficiency with firearms.
• Polearm: Proficiency with long weapons such as spears, halberds, shovels, etc.
• Projectile: Proficiency at throwing things.
• Shield: Proficiency at using a shield to block or bash.
• Unarmed: Proficiency at hand to hand combat and the use of weapons such as gauntlets and greaves

Armor Skills
Skills that let players avoid or mitigate damage by evading, deflecting, or absorbing blows, as well as maneuver with more ease.

• Unarmored: Dodging blows and maneuvering more effectively without any armor.
• Light Armor: Moving and defending while wearing light-weight, flexible armors like leather. Fastest actual armor type, but also the most fragile (not counting above).
• Medium Armor: Use of durable yet flexible armors such as chainmail. A good balance between damage reduction and speed.
• Heavy Armor: Movement and defense while wearing large, rigid armors like steel plate. Incredibly durable, but at the cost of speed.

Crafting Skills
Skills that involve the permanent creation of something new and/or the improvement of an existing item.

• Alchemy: The art of brewing potions, poisons, and other related substances that provide one-time effects such as healing or status effects. Additionally, the ability to identify potential uses for ingredients.
• Enchanting: The process of applying a magical property to an item of choice. Used to create one-shot scrolls, spell tomes, enchanted equipment, or magical focuses. Requires knowledge of a spell with the same ability, i.e. fire spell = fire sword, no fire spell = no fire sword
• Mechanics: The skill used to create items, such as traps, equipment, or various gadgetry.
• Repair: The skill used to maintain equipment at top effectiveness.

Utility Skills
Skills that provide benefits outside of combat or crafting.

• Acrobatics: How proficient one is in vertical movement and performing gymnastic maneuvers. Also mitigates fall damage.
• Alteration: Utility magic. Spells that buff/debuff, summon illusions and equipment, inflict status effects, gather information, dispel spells, heal, etc.
• Analysis: The ability to discern information about the capabilities of opponents and their equipment.
• Athletics: How efficiently one can move through the environment by running and swimming.
• Barter: The time-tested art of obtaining better prices for sales and purchases.
• Detection: The ability to locate enemies, traps, and other dangers with instinct.
• Disguise: Changing appearances without magic, and successfully impersonating others.
• Listening: Use of one's ears to listen to the environment more effectively.
• Medic: Healing and getting rid of physical status effects without the use of magic. Also modifies how much HP/MP potions regenerate.
• Meditation: Becoming still and keeping the mind clear to dispel magical and mental status effects and illusions.
• Riding: Expertise in riding mounts and vehicles, as well as conducting mounted combat.
• Sabotage: Altering traps, technology, and certain items for varying effects.
• Search: Discovering hidden objects, characters, pathways when actively looking for them.
• Security: The skill of bypassing locks.
• Sleight: (of hand) The ability to pickpocket items and conceal items on your person. Also the ability to use feats of dexterity, like juggling or (fake) magic tricks.
• Stealth: Hiding and moving silently. Damage is increased significantly if successfully attacking while hidden.
• Survival: A skill for living in the wild. Enhances environmental resistance, mitigates hunger/thirst effects, and helps when tracking monsters.
• Taming: The ability to turn monsters and animals to your side and keep them as familiars and/or mounts.

Combat

TL;DR: Melee combat is melee combat, ranged combat does a lot of damage but can be blocked just like melee, and magical combat usually relies on enchanted tools as not to sacrifice room for utility.

Melee Combat
Melee combat is... melee combat. Not much else to it. You attack with the weapon and deal damage based off a largely-arbitrary number in relation to another set of numbers, combined with how fast you're attacking with it (which is determined by more numbers). Fortunately, I mentioned earlier that we won't be keeping track of the 99.9% of the numbers, so that's a moot point.

In terms of unmodified speed, lighter, smaller weapons are faster than heavier, larger weapons. Speed tiers, in terms of broad categories, would go something like:

Unarmed > 1 Handed Blade > 1 Handed Blunt > Polearm > 2 Handed Blade > 2 Handed Blunt

Damage tiers would be that in reverse.

Ranged Combat
Ranged combat, in this case meaning the non-magical sort, is conducted with thrown objects, firearms, and bows. Their use could be called fairly realistic, if not for one major exception: DSO runs on anime physics. This means that it's completely possible to dodge, block, or even parry bullets/arrows/throwing knives/etc. However ranged combat still generally inflicts higher end damage (greater or equal to two handed melee weapons) and are averagely fast (polearm speed), at least when it comes to bows and guns. Damage and speed for thrown objects, on the other hand, tends to fluctuate depending on the ammunition.

In terms of Bow vs Firearm, a bow would be preferable to stealth and magic-users due to their ability to use enchanted arrows along with the enchantment on the bow, and remain silent. A firearm would be more suited to a combat playstyle due to more damage output. Additionally, firearms are loud and tend to reveal your location enemies if you aren't far enough away.

Magical Combat
Combat magic in DSO is a rather peculiar thing. A mage gets a number of spell slots dependent on their INT stat and any perks, but they aren't allowed to change the spells within a dungeon and even then MP is still a concern. Between utility and damage, there's not nearly enough slots to cover all a mage's bases.

However, the Enchanting skill allows for the creation of equipment that can produce magical effects for combat and don't count towards a mage's spell slots or against MP. What this means is that a mage can bring in a staff of fire, use it to fire off all their fire spells to their heart's content and just use the spell slots for Alteration skill spells. Just like a warrior would haul around his sword or an archer their bow, mages in DSO tend to carry around various gauntlets, rings, wands, and/or staves to deal their damage.

Another method of dealing damage is via runes, but those are more the trap sort of spells when they aren't used to enchant items.

Fields to be added as necessary.

Rules

1. Standard rules apply. Listen to the GMs and Co-GMs, no godmodding, no metagaming, no sexytimes outside PM, etc.
2. When you post, make sure you at least try to do something that other players can react to, and not just react without doing anything. Keeps it all going smoothly.
3. If you need help figuring out what to do/getting back into the RP, contact myself or one of your friendly neighborhood co-GMs. If you wish to leave, please do the same so we don't end up awkwardly twiddling our thumbs while waiting for someone who'll never post.
4. Rules subject to change.

Character Sheet

HANDY DANDY CHARACTER CREATION GUIDE

Name: A-yup.
Username: A-yup.
Gender: Male/female
Age: Yuuuup.
Personality: Optional, if History was filled out. No need to type too much, but at least type something that isn't a single line or two.
History: Optional, if Personality was filled out. Again, no need to type too much, but something with substance would be preferable.
Appearance: Anime or description, pls. If your appearance in game is different, it's probably important you include that as well.

Race: When in doubt, human out. This section is more for people who want to make their own race and play elves or dwarves or something. Purely aesthetic, however.
Weapon: What you like to hit people with.
Stats: Point buy is 30, stats are out of 10 and minimum is 1. For information, visit the Info Dump.
-STR:
-END:
-AGI:
-INT:
-WIL:
Favored Skills: It's like a create-your-own-class kind of thing. Pick seven or less skills to 'specialize' in, so we don't have to keep track of numbers. Also visit the info dump for the stat list.
Perks: Optional. Maximum 2. Basically these are perks that either give a character special bonuses (attack speed is twice as fast, more spell slots) or a special ability of some sort (night vision, dual wielding two handed weapons, etc). Make sure it isn't stupidly overpowered and has at least some justification (i.e. a guy with 1 STR with a perk that let's them duel wield two-handers). Also, try to give it a name of some sort that's related to what it does. Example:

Pyromaniac - Twice as much damage from fire-based spells/weapons.

Name:
Username:
Gender:
Age:
Personality:
History:
Appearance:

Race:
Weapon:
Stats:
-STR:
-END:
-AGI:
-INT:
-WIL:
Favored Skills:
Perks:

See the guide above for any questions regarding the CS. If it's not covered there, then ask away.

Character Cast
arowne97 as James "Crimson" Hunter
ChibiYuki as Aaron "#~Genesi~#" Mendoza
Derpestein as Daniel "Cake" Watson
floodtalon as Ryan "Flood" Adams
HikikomoriMoxy as Eriel "Aries" Bunter
Nytem4re as Pyotr "Phantom" Markov
Parser as spambot_WIP.bat "winfhimght"
Professor_Wyvern as Johnny "Axebeard" Ace
Rancealot as Alice "Papa Gigante" Schaefer
Spice as Lucas "Lucky" Shaffer
StephenRouse as Elliot "Breaker "Thomas
TheRpgGamer as Tristan "Breeze" Carter
Zero Hex as Jack "Andromachus" Miller