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Fleshmonger had excellent affinity with blunt force trauma. However, this came at a price, the price being that his lumbering body carried a horrendous affinity with weapons that "cut." You can hit a sponge all day without achieving results, but if you slice it with a knife it is quick to break.

Thus, as he was cut into, the giant Kishin Egg let out a guttural roar, blood flowing from the slice along his midsection as he slammed both fists against the ground, shaking the earth and leaving craters where they fell, before he took another mad swing at the girl.

Schwarz meanwhile, was charged by a witch.

-And in doing so, that witch committed the very same error of "attacking without knowing the enemy's abilities."

The attempted slashes of claws, leg sweep, and heart stab all passed through his body, as if it were made of gas. Not a single one of the attempted blows had a noteworthy effect.

And then, as a retaliation to the failed assault, a pulse of black light rippled out from Schwarz, blasting Zyrik back without warning.
The issue with charging into battle as per Neku's approach was twofold. First, only a fool engages in battle without knowing the opponent's capability. Second, without a conduit for soul energy such as Soul Menace, and without the existence known as a Demon Weapon, a meister was merely a human with decent physical capability, a human which stood at a disadvantage to even the weakest Kishin Egg.

To make this matter simpler, the Kishin Eggs will henceforth bear the following names: Fleshmonger, Birdman, and Schwarz. Which name applies to which Egg should be obvious.

The double-kick dealt to Fleshmonger's face, quite simply, did little. This was the foolishness of charging in blindly, against such a gargantuan being as he, blunt force would do little. Punches, kicks, weapons such as hammers, his body was designed to take those unflinchingly as if he were made of some demonic variety of sponge.

The true folly though was in the instant later.

He quickly moved toward his second opponent, jumping off the first Kishin Egg to leap towards the other one, grab it by the arm and toss at the third egg.


While Fleshmonger was the slow one of the group, both Birdman and Schwarz were blisteringly fast by comparison, and not to mention that both individuals had the time in which they saw Neku kick at Fleshmonger to prepare themselves to react accordingly. It was thus that the second Neku had grabbed the arm of Birdman...

-His talons grabbed Neku's arm in turn, sinking into his flesh and rendering his attempted "throw" of Birdman as a useless mistake that only resulted in a wound to Neku's dominant arm.

Not stopping there, Birdman refused to let go of his prey and began an animalistic assault upon him. It is theorized that velociraptors used their wings for stability, staying on top of their prey with their hooked claws and tearing them apart alive.

This was an apt comparison to Birdman's approach. He was Neku's opponent now, and if the meister intended on surviving he'd focus on one target at a time.

Rather than being intelligent and taking a swing at the now-open Neku, Fleshmonger instead moved to lumber up the stairs towards the female who was rapidly texting her partner, taking a bestial swing at her next.

And Schwarz? He simply stepped towards the Instructor of the now-shattered group, peering at him with an eyeless gaze for a moment before stepping back, and watching his comrades fight.

Such was life for a Projection.
Puppetmaster

Name: Liam Ellis
Age: 30
Appearance:
Alignment: True Neutral
Personality: A layabout. A NEET. A pathetic, lazy, useless excuse of a human being who would be content to sleep away the day. And night. And day. And night. That said, if someone decides to get between him and his sleep...well...let's just say he suffers an alignment shift.
Bio: A boy who brought forward a puppet using the simple desire of "I want a pal to chill out with." One of those people with high aptitude as a puppet user, but whose personality makes the exercising of that a trivial and pointless task. Someone who plans to simply sleep the day away with their best friend puppet, nothing more and nothing less.

Puppet

Name: Type Mercury, ORT, ORT-tan, That Damn Spider
Appearance:
World: Nasuverse/Angel Notes
Bio: The "Ultimate One (?)" of Mercury. A being which is immune to and incapable of comprehending Gaian concepts, as they do not exist in its reality. A top-rate slayer of humans, and excellent offensive entity. Passively alters reality around it, rewriting and painting over it into an "impossible" existence. Is content to burrow beneath wherever it is summoned and sleep until its attention is forcefully roused.
In terms of tactics, power, abilities, in all considerations these Kishin Eggs were replications of what they were in life. This was the power of Erika, as when they were alive she had recorded their data into her mind as an image, and had used that data to recreate them once they no longer existed in the same form as with that image she had recorded.

That said, they were still low-level Kishin Eggs.

The one to attend to Neku's challenge was the gargantuan fleshmonger, Towering over him, the giant's arm had much more reach than Neku's own and so the giant was the first to punch, its massive appendage aiming for the entirety of the boy before him, and carrying a raw physical force that bordered on the absurd. This was an "earth-shattering blow" meant to utterly pulverize the target.
"Go to the city, muck around a bit, kill some things, then get killed by some students."


"Go to the city, muck around a bit, kill some things, then get killed by some students."


"Go to the city, muck around a bit, kill some things, then get killed by some students."


The order had been processed, and would now be followed.

City perimeter entered. Enclosed.

A screeching rustle of wind, a blur of a black silhouette, and a lumbering epitome of chaos rumbled through the city in a decisive, non-tactical, and utterly asinine matter.

Such were the orders of their Mistress.

Using the brilliant construct known as [Logic], also known in some circles as [Lateral Think], they had deduced that if they were to be ultimately killed by students, they should go to where students were.

Students went to school.

Thus, they had gone to school.

[Logic].

Students were already streaming out of the building upon the end of classes as they arrived, and so the trio of Kishin Eggs continued their mad charge, each of them cutting through the air with the intent of unmaking any unlucky meister or weapon in their path.

Such is life for a Projection.
The principle of control led to the desire to control led to the desire to command led to the desire to rule.

The desire to rule led to the question of how to rule which led to the question of "what must one be to be a ruler."

Charisma. Fleeting, weak, useless.

Regulations, disgusting.

In this world, consider what type of existence was sufficient to rule.

Gods.

Error: A god already exists. The mind is non-god, therefore cannot rule over god. Solution: Become god, dispose of old god.

Goshintai had been used a second time after Erika had abandoned the conversation with that flame witch, and now the young girl sighed to herself, crossing her arms behind her head. Of course she had seen the great "Lord Death" in her myriad strolls within the city, or rather had perceived him with the Eye of Providence a few times and subsequently exiting the city before she was discovered. Know thine enemy, and whatnot.

Regardless, she needed to...test the waters, so to speak. See how the city would react to a sudden threat.

Or perhaps this was all just a rationalization to do something, and shove off her inane boredom.

Devil's Projection, the capability to recreate "anything" the user has seen. While seemingly an omnipotent ability, it has its weaknesses. The first is that it can't make something which currently "is." Say Erika sees a sword, she cannot use Devil's Projection to make that sword as it exists in that form. If she breaks the sword though, then she can create the sword in its original state, because the unbroken sword "no longer exists in that same form."

By this logic, even living beings can be made, providing that they "no longer exist in their current form." Let's say Erika spies a little boy, then the little boy dies. She could theoretically use Devil's Projection to create the little boy, as the image she recorded of "the living little boy" no longer exists in the world in that same form. This however moves into the second weakness of Devil's Projection: its cost. When used directly, it operates simply; the stronger the thing being brought into reality, the higher the energy needed. A sword requires little. A magic weapon requires more. A living being requires quite a lot, and the stronger the living being the more energy it would cost.

She could manage creating a handful of Kishin Eggs without much issue, but something like a witch of roughly equal power to her would drain her of almost all energy. This is why she couldn't do something like make an army by creating thousands of dead people with Devil's Projection, she'd run out of energy due to the natural cost of Devil's Projection.

All the same, with what energy she had left, she could manage this next bit, she'd just have to go rest in some corner of the world while she watched the events play out.

Devil's Projection was activated, and three Kishin Eggs Erika had previously seen, all of which were of course long-dead, appeared. Since they no longer existed in the form she was making them, it was wholly possible.

One bore sharp, bird-like talons, its face a white mask with multiple eye sockets running haphazardly over it. One had the appearance of a stitched-up monster, the flesh beneath the skin just bursting at the seams. The other was a completely black entity, like a human wearing an utterly black skin-tight suit. Each were the "possession" of Erika, utterly subject to her will.

"Go to the city, muck around a bit, kill some things, then get killed by some students."

Such are the orders given as the newly-crafted Kishin Eggs depart for Death City.
Valhöll


If any of you have played the Visual Novel "Fortissimo," this is based on that. Here's a quick TL;DR so you can decide if you want to read everything below. Characters have magic weapons that operate along a certain theme/concept, what it is is up to you. Battle royale among these wielders of weapons, basically a tournament among OP characters. Yes you can be OP, I encourage it, as if not you'll probably die. Winner essentially becomes a god. You can fight your other competitors for the victory, or try and do something like challenge the Game Master, the endings you reach depend on your choices. You can kill characters without their RPer's permission.

Questions? Read below. Still have questions? Ask me.

Story

Thousands of years ago, generations before recorded history, great civilizations advancing farther than the modern world today fought for world domination. In an attempt to achieve an advantage over the others, the nations turned to the divine beings to grant them weapons. The Gods obliged, warning them that they would pay for it in a future generation. These weapons, aside from having immense power, were directly linked to their wielder's soul. The mortals foolishly took this immortal power and, upon realizing its uncontrollability, were destroyed by it.

Now, civilization has been rebuilt. The modern world has risen. These times were long forgotten, blown away by the test of time and memory.

But the weapons survived. Although scattered across the world, a mysterious entity gathered all of the current wielders of these weapons in the town of Haven. Although they may seem like normal weapons with the disappearance of magic, this mysterious entity created a special dimension, known as Ragnarok, during which these weapons regain their power and magic. The dimension does not disappear until a weapon has been destroyed, and with it, the life of it's wielder.

Able to call upon the darkness of Ragnarok at his will, the cruel battle royale between the wielders of divine power begins.

Explanation


The characters made will be wielders of "weapons" and participants in the battle royale. Your goal in this is simple: win the battle royale by killing all other weapon wielders. Of course, it may be a bit more nuanced than that. You're free to challenge the Game Master of Ragnarok, or any of the other NPCs. You'll "win" if you kill the other competitors, but maybe you can reach a good end for everyone under different conditions. Or maybe you'll just end up destroying the world, it all depends on what you do.

That said, I've got plans sketched out for just about any action you can take, so what sort of plot and ending is reached does depend entirely on you guys. Below is a rundown of how things work in-RP, as well as a character sheet so you can get an idea of how it all works.

Rundown


Below are the basics for this. If there's something you don't understand, ask. If there's something you can exploit, do it.

This has two sections. "Mechanics" and "Regulations". Mechanics are the rules of the in-RP world and cannot be broken, because they're just how the game works. Regulations are recommendations made by me for you to follow in-character. You can break Regulations if you decide you want to, but there may be consequences. Then again, there may not be. It is up to you.

Regulations:


Do not create an alliance with more than two people. Alliance is defined as "fighting together". Nonaggression pacts can be made in any amount.

Do not kill more than one person in a single instance of Ragnarok.

Do not destroy the city.

Do not destroy an area of effect larger than the city.

Do not impose on other universes or dimensions.

Do not attempt to stay hidden for all the war.

Do not attempt to harm, in any way (physical, conceptual, mental, etc) another competitor outside of Ragnarok.

Do not look for the Game Master outside of Ragnarok.

Do not contact law enforcement. Do not contact governmental agencies. Do not contact authority figures.

Do not inform non-competitors of anything regarding Ragnarok or the Weapons.

Do not kill non-competitors.

Do not bring non-competitors into anything regarding Ragnarok or the Weapons.

Do not attempt to become God.

Do not utilize the power of love.

Do not utilize the power of friendship.

Do not attempt to bring back the dead.

Do not violate the law during Ragnarok. The exception is murder.

Do not destroy property during Ragnarok.

Do not attempt to live the rest of your life in Ragnarok.

It is again worth noting that the above Regulations are recommendations, however the way in which the plot plays out depends on your own choices. It might be that following all regulations will necessarily lead to a bad end. Maybe a good end can only be reached by breaking a specific regulation in a certain way. Or maybe this is a lie and you should just follow them all. Up to you.

Mechanics:


Everyone can make one character. One.

Character standards are gonna be low. I'll put it right out there. The weapon's the important part. This means I won't force you to have incredibly detailed characters and backstories, they can be plain and relatively simple. Of course, if you want to write a nuanced character, please do. That said, this is still in the Casual section, so I do expect proper use of English and a propensity away from one-liners.

For all intents and purposes, every character has an equal amount of skill, physical strength, and speed in a fight. This isn't a matter of the fight itself, it's a matter of who has the best weapon and can use it the best.

Ragnarok occurs at a random time every day and lasts until an individual dies. All humans and animals who are not competitors vanish during Ragnarok; the rest of the city remains normal.

You pick a weapon, a name, a description, and either a theme or concept it operates on. Weapons don't need to be legitimate "weapons". A mirror or ring or toy or something is fine. Your OC and weapon functionally share the same soul, so if the two halves get separated from one another (ie your weapon breaks), you die. Don't let your weapon break.

You're allowed for an innate passive magical ability of the weapon, two skills which go along the same theme, and a Last Resort, the "ultimate skill" of the weapon. Skills and Last Resort must be non-passive. Skills can only be used up to 5 times a battle due to energy cost, and Last Resorts may only be used once due to their status as a Last Resort. If magical energy is somehow replenished in battle, the skill use meter will refill but the Last Resort one will not.

In battle, anything marked as "instantaneous" happens faster than something at the speed of light, which in turn happens faster than physical blows that aren't at the speed of light, and so on.

I'll be blunt about this next part: This is a contest of who can design the most broken character, but with style. The only things outright banned are things like Demonbane and similar concepts, and exceedingly vague stuff that lets you cop-out of everything (ie "this lets him change fate". Yeah, that's helpful.). If something seems too broken somehow then it might be prohibited, but otherwise just try and be as abusive as you can. You can loophole all you want, but all the information needed for the loophole to work must be there, you can't add stuff in ex post facto.

Stats are on a scale from E to A, with E being 10, D being 20, and so on. There are also half-steps you can use, for instance C Plus or B Minus would be a 35. The lowest a stat can be is 5. The highest one can be is 50. You can't put ranges (D-B), just put the highest point in that range. Max stat total value is 150.

There are two additional rankings called A Plus (51-100), and EX (101 or higher). Both are inaccessible in your initial profile, but you can reach them through things like Growth Potential.

Here's what each does:

Magical Energy: The "power" of your weapon. IE, if attacks clash, who wins out. This doesn't affect indirect clashes unless specified in one of the attack descriptions. For the most part, non-attack "effects" (IE inducing mental interference) will require the you have a higher ME than the target, so you can imprint your magic onto them. There might be exceptions, but those are up to you to find.

Durability: Material strength of the weapon. If Magical Energy is the magical attack and defense, this is the physical. Something with a durability of 20 or more than an oncoming attack's power (ME or Durability depending on the kind of attack) will not take any damage. This only applies to attacks, and not mental interference or things like that. Further, if there is a gap in Durability of 25 or more and two weapons physically clash, the weaker one will necessarily break. If the gap is 20 then two exchanged blows will be needed before it breaks, if 15 then four, if 10 then eight, and if 5 then 16. Weapons cannot be destroyed by non-weapon related things (ie a rock or something), but this doesn't mean that any weapon can cut through every non-magical substance. For all intents and purposes, a weapon's material strength is beyond that of anything non-magical, but if your weapon is something like a feather, then even with the material strength of Durability Rank A, the force needed to make it break something like a rock is still obscene, if not ridiculous. Basically just be rational when dealing with non-magical stuff.

Growth Potential: Potential for power to increase as battles go on. This is the reason it can be dumb to try and hide and let everyone else kill each other. Its effect is a direct function of how many people your character has killed. For every character you kill, add the numerical value of your GP stat multiplied by .8 (rounded to the nearest multiple of five) to your base stats, allocated as you see fit. If the character killed has killed other characters, multiply the number by 1.5 to the x, where "x" is the number of people the deceased character had killed. IE, if Zach kills Emiri and Hiroki, and then Kei kills Zach, then Kei would get 2.25 times his usual amount. No stat boosts may be given to Growth Potential.

Range: Exponential scale of range for a weapon's effect. If it's a plain old sword, it'd be E, but if it shoots laser beams then how far can the laser beams go? E means it barely affects an area around you, A means you can snipe things as you please. Keep in mind this is solely the max potential range of the weapon; if you don't give yourself the capabilities to exercise that range, it's your own fault. If someone's out of your range and you're in theirs you'd best move somewhere else. Here's an approximate scale for use, though these are general guidelines and specifics will be decided by the mods.

5: Limited exclusively to the user

10: About a 2-3 meter radius from the user.

20: About an 8 meter radius.

30: About a 50 meter radius.

40: Just about anything in the "area", IE a given neighborhood, the school grounds, a shopping mall, or something of that nature.

50: If the circle is a city, area of effect with a radius equal to half that of the city's.

Precision/Accuracy: Two purposes. First is a "tiebreaker" if two equally magically powerful blasts or physical attacks or whatever clash, which one comes out on top. In this case, the damage of the winning attack is equal to one-fifth what its power would be otherwise. Second is a more arbitrary scale like that of range, which determines how precise you can be. If you're just swinging a sword around, this doesn't need to be too high. If you're using a bow, you want your arrows to hit their mark, so make this higher. If the distance between two people on the range scale is greater than one party's Precision, then the difference between the two stats is placed over the range stat, and that becomes the likelihood of it missing. For instance, if Sena has a Range of B (40) and a Precision of C (30), and she fires at Takeshi who is at a range of 40 away from her, it is within her range, but the chance of the attack missing will be 10/40, or 25%. This applies to literally anything and everything, if you have a sword with a range of E but a precision of E Minus, then about half of your attacks will flat-out miss. With a sword. Don't be dumb about this.

CS


Name:

Age:

Gender:

Appearance:

Personality:

Backstory:

Theme Song (Optional):

ANYTHING BELOW THIS POINT IS NOT APPED NORMALLY, BUT RATHER PMED TO ME. This way, people can't metagame by knowing others' abilities ahead of time

Weapon name:

Weapon Appearance:

Weapon's magical ability:

Magical Power:

Durability:

Growth potential:

Range:

Precision/Accuracy:

Weapon Abilities (Two skills):

Last Resort:

Example CS


Name: Emiri Kamijou

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Appearance: http://i.imgur.com/LCHaXAZ.jpg

Personality: Emiri has a rather cheerful demeanor and never-give-up attitude, always acting the part of an idealist. Emiri is naturally competitive and bears an attitude to never-give-up at anything, often being called a hard worker. Despite being very determined and strong willed, she is surprisingly sensitive to things such as teasing, often getting aggravated easily when someone belittles her.

Known to have a hearty appetite despite her appearance, Emiri is known to be a big eater of sweets and the like, often going to places such as cake shops after school with a few of her friends.

When involved in Ragnarok, Emiri fights to the best of her ability, not wanting her life to end so easily. Though she does not like the idea of killing others, considering the nature of the game she has been placed in, she has no choice but to oblige to the game moderator's rules.

Backstory: Emiri was orphaned at a young age. Her parents died when she was a baby, so she does not remember anything that happened; she does not even remember her true parent's faces. She was adopted by a rather wealthy family who could not produce a child on their own. She was always treated as if flesh and blood. She never even knew about her origin as an orphan until recently and still considers her adopted parents to be her true parents. She also runs track at school. Other than that, she is pretty average. (Lazy bio is lazy)

Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_ARkwVYw5g

Weapon name: Zeus: Spear of the Eternal Storm

Appearance:http://i.imgur.com/q0zf0IJ.png

Weapon's magical ability: A spear that is given the ability to discharge and manipulate lightning. These lightning attacks can be discharged as a projectile, as well as being able to enhance the normal attacks done by the spear.

Magical Power: B (40)

Durability: C (30)

Growth potential: D (20)

Range: C (30)

Precision/Accuracy: C (30)

Weapon Abilities:

Soaring Eagle: Triumph of Old: As if lightning itself, the spear moves at speeds incomprehensible to human understanding. This allows for the user to make several attacks in the time it would normally take to pull off a single attack.

Anti-Enlightenment: He whom Keeps Fire from Man: Using her spear, Emiri can control light: electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye and which is emitted and absorbed in tiny "packets" called photons. One can generate, bend, shift, focus, scatter and/or manipulate light to various decrees and effects. Though she can use this ability on other objects, she cannot use it on herself or her own weapon.

Last Resort:

Olympus: The Primordial Olympiad: With a single slash, a wave of light is produced, carrying the concept of destruction with regards to anything in its path. As simple as it is effective.

Ending Notes


If you're theoretically interested, or have any questions about how this will work out, let me know. Thanks all!
I'm game. Here we go.

"Kyah, are you deaf on top of ugly and stupid?" Erika murmured with a slight sigh. "I need to keep prepping, and you're being a hindrance, so I'm gonna go ahead and leave."

Devil's Maze, Laguz's Requiem, activate.

Without warning, the girl of a grade-schooler's appearance vanished, her presence fading away.
"I'm hearing words, but I'm not seeing a lot of leaving. Go away." Erika replied with a feigned yawn, turning around in a half-twirl. "Oh, oh, are you maybe not leaving because you're so overcome by my beauty you can't think straight? Didn't think I'd meet a lolicon here, heh."
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