Lady Seraphina

All In (Video Game RP)

@Scarifar Long time no see. We missed you in HoB.

Load up a character, I'd be happy to have you.

Fae Courtis: The Wylde Hunt (Reboot)

@Prince of Seraphs Putting Sini in Winter permanently was not what I had in mind. And realize that she'd feel very torn -- on the one hand, she prides herself on being an excellent adviser. On the other, if she advises Winter too well, it may cause problems for Spring. *shrug* I think she can manage that as long as she still gets to move freely back to Spring when she wishes. So she'd be splitting her time between the courts.

@shylarah

I believe that would depend entirely on the kind of advise she gives. Regardless though you may be overestimating how much the Winter Court would value her input.

If you don't want Sini to do it Nyx can always send someone else.

All In (Video Game RP)

All In

The Game is your new reality.

Disclaimer: This RP is based on any and all game characters by the discretion and interest of those participating. There is a high chance of spoilers for the games involved occurring at some point in the RP. This is an unavoidable fact in this kind of RP. If you are worried about being spoiled for a series you like proceed with caution.

Netherplay Games has come out with revolutionary new Virtual Reality technology. Working round the clock this corporation has remastered hundreds of thousands of classic games from the arcade era all the way till the early twenty first century for use in their new program. People are lining up across the world to purchase or rent these new systems. However something (as with any story regarding VR) goes horribly wrong. Only days after the VR systems are first brought online a malignant virus in the source code causes the various gaming worlds to cross connect over the multiplayer servers creating a massive world amalgamated from ever retro game imaginable. Worse than this however is the fact that anyone engaged in the VR's system at the time of the viruses activation was trapped within world, the fictional backstories of whatever character they happen to be playing overriding their own sense of self. Journey with these video game heroes and villains as they struggle to understand what has happened to them, and the calamity that has befallen their world. Will they ever escape the VR system and regain the personas of those they used to be? Only time will tell.

Alright aside from hitting twelve out of twenty narration and opening cliches that intro might not have been as clear as it could have been so this is the basic idea. An enormous VR network has a massive glitch that has caused it to merge bits and pieces of all of the various video game worlds it has stored in its database. On launch these were "retro" games so basically anything that we have today and everything prior, ranging from arcade games to final fantasy IV to Halo to Mario to Ratchet and Clank to Zelda to Fall Out. Anything you like. We will be playing as the people that were currently engaged in the VR system when the glitch occurred. However as part of the glitch everyone's minds have been overwritten with the backstory and memories of whatever character they were playing as. So essentially this is going to be a giant mash up of whatever various video game characters anyone wants to play. We'll start off at base levels of course and I can make case by case decisions about power levels depending on who you want to play since villains are generally stronger off the bat than heroes. Certain alterations can be made to characters depending on who they are to allow them to more easily exist in this new gaming world. For example, if you wished to play as Wheatley from Portal 2 you might find it difficult as he is a robotic sphere, in that instance we could give him something like a robotic body though any such changes would be new in terms of when the glitch occurred so anyone playing Wheatley he would remember being a Core at Aperture Science and as such would have to become used to his new body.

Functionality of the Game World

In an RP that is based on not just one but a plethora of games there are some things that should be kept in mind while adapting a character. We are attempting to create a video game world that creates a merge between classic video games and something that resembles reality. Try to apply some logic to the character you are making. Some mechanics are designed specifically for games which would look ridiculous in this setting. Such as these:

• #1: There will be no turn based combat. We're not going to have our character stand on an open field, lob one fireball then wait for the enemy to hit us before we take another move. For those characters from games that function like this it makes little logical sense in a simulated reality and even less sense for those from games that don't have turn based combat. We will be taking our characters abilities and treating them as though they existed in something akin to the real world. If an enemy comes for us we will take cover, perform sneak attacks, do whatever we can to win. Perhaps betray our companions but we will not be taking turns with the enemy to see who gets pulverized first. Turn based combat if it exists at all in this RP will likely be only in a few select areas and will be for comic relief more than anything actually functional.
• #2: Stats have little to no bearing in this RP. When someone gets stabbed they will not lose some HP and keep fighting. They will start to bleed out if actions are not taken to heal them. When someone performs magic they will not lose points from an imaginary Mana bar and when they use a great deal of magic it will not simply deplete the bar and they are unable to cast. Magic comes from within, depending on the game your character originates from use of too much magic can range from expiring due to exhaustion to a violent death. How much damage a sword swing does is not reliant on your strength stat but on how hard you swing and where you hit. Some things about your character can be inferred from their stats like how much they could lift or how fast they move but stats themselves will play almost no role in this RP.
• #3: No one will have a magic inventory system in which they can store a thousand and one weapons and items, call on them when needed and make them go away when they are not. Our heroes and villains have essentially what they can carry. With this regard some characters may have an advantage if they are stronger and therefore able to carry more weight or if they have bigger packs which hold more items. There will be available magic items that help this such as Link's item shrinking pouch from The Legend of Zelda but even these will have limits.
• #4: There is no unlimited ammo without a reasonable explanation as to its source. A gun should not have infinite bullets just because that was how it was in the game. An energy weapon could have unlimited shots provided it had some means of restoring its energy internally.

If I am forgetting something more or less universal please inform me and I will add it to these rules.

Magic

Magic is a fairly common concept in most fantasy games unfortunately it is rarely ever universal. If your character has magic the functionality of said magic will be primarily informed by the game he or she comes from. However that is not to say there are no rules. The most important of which is this: Magic always comes at a price. Whether you be Dumbledore or Gandalf, Micky Mouse or Merlin himself magic must come at a cost equal to the effect it produces. In most cases this cost will be taken out on the body of your mage in the form of physical exhaustion or harsher maladies depending on the spell. The greater the spell the higher the cost. Casting a spell your mage is unprepared for can have the most dire consequences.

As more spellcasters from various games are added to our ranks and different types of magic integrated into our gaming world I hope to develop a compendium of the various gaming magic types and how they interact with one another.

For the moment however I only have one.

• If a spellcaster from an alternate series attempts to use a Fire Emblem Tome their magic and the magic within the book will clash causing the Tome to self destruct as it releases all of the type of magic it embodied. Tomes destroyed in such a manor cannot be repaired or refueled and instead must be replaced.

This RP will be widely shaped by those that join it as it is nearly entirely driven by character development.

I am an avid gamer but I am not an expert on all things gaming. I may make mistakes if you bring a character from a series I am unfamiliar with. If this should happen I would ask that someone point it out to me and I will do my best to make the proper corrections. With that in mind I may end up relying on you guys if our group happens to go into an area from a game I have no knowledge of. I will do my research but Wikipedia can only get you so far.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask.

Character List

Terra Branford From Final Fantasy VI played by Prince of Seraphs

Character Sheet

Name: (Video game character name, who they were before will likely not be particularly important)
Gender: (male or female or other I suppose)
Age: (Estimate if the exact value is not given in game)
Series: (What series they are from)
Appearance: (Picture please)
Equipment: (Whatever things of use they have on them when the virus struck, these should be exclusively items from your characters own game, items from other games can be acquired later, if your from a game that has equipment clothing or armor include that as well)
Abilities: (An outline of there powers or abilities, these should be based on the game they come from, a few liberties are fine but I don't want to see Bowser with telekinesis or something weird like that)
Weaknesses and Limitations: (In a world of heroes and monsters everyone has some weaknesses and their own limits. In this world where it would be painfully easy to take on the power of a god tell me what your character can't do. Tell me what could kill them. How far they can go before burning out. In a place of victory talk about their defeats.)
Personality: (Who is this character? Do I like him? Should I hate him? What drives him? What are his goals in life? Does he have a good reason for doing what he is doing?)
Backstory: (A paragraph or two describing who they are. Gear this towards someone who has never heard of your series. Keep it relatively brief, we don't need a synopsis of the entire game.)

If I've missed any categories in the CS that seem important let me know.

Fae Courtis: The Wylde Hunt (Reboot)

Nyx

Nyx's eyes darkened as Falk responded to his query about the Wylde Hunt. Nyx had been speaking metaphorically of the Hunt's ability to cause panic not a literal darkening of the skies. As if Nyx would be frightened of a simple mortal storm. He seethed under the guise of an uncaring grin yet he did not have time to respond before Ayrs spoke. At this Nyx's grin turned from a facade to that of genuine humor. "There is no reason my lady that I cannot be both concerned for you and wish to irritate the Fall King. Performing multiple actions at once is a great saver of time."

Nyx knew Arys too well however to guess that she would give anything of herself to another who completed the trial set before Falk. She was an honorable fae, at least publicly and she would never place herself in a position as remote as the possibility might be that Feoras might find the right spell and win her hand. Still he'd likely devote a few of his spellcasters to the task if only to annoy Falk further should he happen to win.

Nyx waited for one of the others to take one of Arys' ice chalices. Not that he did not trust her but he did not wish to seem eager either for the liquid contained within or to gain a sense of comradery with the other three. Instead however Falk chose that moment to made his overly dramatic exit leaving a few words behind for Arys about completing her trial. Throughout all of this Feoras had been completely silent and at times steaming. Clearly he was struggling to control his human emotions through the exchange between his former lover and one of his enemies.

Nyx nodded towards where Falk had vanished. "Most impressive." he said with a look on his face that suggested he considered it no more than a parlor trick. "Despite Fall's early departure I still have a few things I might ask." Nyx turned to address the Winter Queen. "Lady Arys I would propose an exchange of sorts with you. Our Kingdoms are not enemies which relieves me as I would hate to go to war with one as beautiful as yourself. Despite that however our peoples are not close and this troubles me more than I care to admit. In order that we may take the first steps to rectify this I would like to offer you this, an exchange of personnel. A valued and useful member of my court will cross the border and serve as an adviser to you so that you may gain more insight into Spring's way of doing things. Likewise you will send someone from your Court to serve the same function with me." Nyx smiled slyly. "If nothing else consider this a simple way bring a spy into my midst as Yggdrasil protects from unwanted eyes." All the Courts had at one time or another attempted to send spies into the other lands. Nyx's guards were skilled at unmasking such people and the Great Tree that served as his palace protected itself against outside means of intelligence gathering.
@Belle@Black Panther

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

@Onarax@Prince of Seraphs sorry xD i'll see if everyone else can be implemented, but I was kinda scared that @mentioning everyone would make me look... odd. @harinezumikouken i'm thinking about trying to write them from my own perspective!

@NarayanK

If she serves some purpose go ahead but don't just have her there because.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

<sub>@Kaithas@Krayzikk@Plank Sinatra@HereComesTheSnow@harinezumikouken@Guess Who@Lugubrious@Suku

Can I use Amy, Lauren, Ben, Lucas, Robert, Shiro, Cian, and Abel for a contest?</sub>

@NarayanK

Sigh, I feel so left out.

Fae Courtis: The Wylde Hunt (Reboot)

That's is why I made the cross iron, it may have been the mortals foolish believe that a iron cross would work. That's why I wrote fleeing from the iron and the thing with a holster with crosses, I based this of the legend of a laird (lord) who captured one making the Kelpie slave away. The only way to capture a Kelpie is with a holster that has crosses stamped in the leather.

EDIT: and the man who did this was Elenore's father, Laira's grandfather.

@Ojo chan 42

Yes but since Elenore was the one with a relationship with a Kelpie and this was several years after Caoimhin's capture and death so that wouldn't give him any special Kelpie knowledge.

Clyde may have run from the iron as it can kill him but there is no reason that his sister despite the pain of iron couldn't still drown the man. Iron in any form doesn't have the power to enslave a fae. It merely hurts or kills them. I respect that you're deriving this from old legends and lore but that's not the way it works in LadyRunic's fae universe. If it was the blacksmith's foolish idea that iron crosses would work then they shouldn't have, Caoimhin would have killed him and either died herself of iron exposure or had her brother remove the bridle before it killed her.

Also I think you mean bridle, my sister rides horses and I know of no piece of equipment other than the sheath she keeps her weapon in that could be called a holster. Plus if it was placed on Caoimhin's head as seems to be the case it would be the bridle.

Oh they know each other, but his father left the herd to make it easy for his son to take over the herd. he did not want to fight him for the position of stand-in-leader.

@Ojo chan 42

Wait, so the Kelpie Laira's mother mated with was Clyde's father? Doesn't that make them half siblings, in which case gross.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
So let's sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again
-Barbara Streisand in her remake of “Happy Days Are Here Again”

(and heck, the song above was done at the beginning of the Great Depression)

@Kaithas

Sure, business is bunk,
And Wall Street is sunk,
We're all of us broke, and ready to croak.
We've nothing to dunk,
Can't even get drunk,
And all the while, they tell us to smile:

Cheer up, gentle citizens, though you have no shirts,
Happy days are here again. Cheer up, smile, nertz!
All aboard prosperity, giggle 'till it hurts!
No more bread-line charity. Cheer up, smile, nertz!

Cheer up, cheer up, cheer up, cheer up, cheer,
Up, cheer up, cheer up, cheer, better times are here.
Sunny smilers we must be, the optimist asserts,
Let's hang the fat-head to a tree! Cheer up, smile, nertz!

The world's in the red,
We're better off dead,
Depression, they say's in session to stay.
Our judges are queer,
Our banks disappear,
And all the while, they tell us to smile:

Cheer up, gentle citizens, though you have no shirts,
Happy days are here again. Cheer up, smile, nertz!
All aboard prosperity, giggle 'till it hurts,
No more bread-line charity. Cheer up, smile, nertz!

Cheer up, cheer up, cheer up, cheer up, cheer,
Up, cheer up, cheer up, cheer, better times are here.
Sunny smilers we must be, the optimist asserts,
Let's hang the fat-head to a tree! Cheer up, smile, nertz!

Nertz!

Fae Courtis: The Wylde Hunt (Reboot)

@Prince of Seraphs Hey. You. So...setting aside my personal motivations. I think Spring has a serious concern when it comes what Fall is planning. It might be wise to make overtures to Winter, to discourage her from going along with an all out war, or at least from automatically taking Falk's side if he tries to start one with Spring. Sini, given her nature (respectful, cautious, and a disdain for decisions made out of emotion, a bit younger even than Arys though not by /too/ much...) might be a good person to have visit. On business, of course. But I'm sure we can find reasons for her to go there more than once, and possibly attempt to cultivate a friendship with Winter, both for herself and for the good of her court. Possibly with those instructions, though Sini might also think of the idea herself after her next encounter with Arys. ^.^

@shylarah

I believe one such as that is referred to as an ambassador.

Fae Courtis: The Wylde Hunt (Reboot)

@Prince of Seraphs PM them to me. Leaf and the other one.

Also, guys I'm slowing down my posts because it's getting hard for me to keep up in the OOC with family up (They leave late tomorrow). If you need something okayed or have a idea, PM so you KNOW I'll see it, and I WILL READ IT and not feel so overwhelmed!

@LadyRunic

I already posted them here in the OOC.

This isn't the same RP fully. It's a Reboot.

@LadyRunic

Then outlining those differences before I use outdated information to create a post would be most helpful.