Letter Bee

Final Fantasy 7 Redone

Akira Ayumu

Akira said to Jessie, “Let me look for some - Thanks for the idea, Jessie!”

I have an idea on how to lure them in as well, were his next thoughts, concealed. Either way. He’d find the heavy-duty cable - A glorified extension cord which nevertheless fit the required length and thickness - And plug it into one of the reactor’s sockets before presenting it to the AVALANCHE member, saying, “Is this enough? I can also lure the Sweepers inside through regular means - Pop myself right in front of the entrance and rely on my natural agility to duck in time and force them to pursue.”

His real idea verged on the Sweepers’ artificial brains having access to Shinra’s prisoner files and recognizing his father from their records there and thus deciding that he was a high-priority target there as well. But common sense eventually won out as he frowned, then said to Jessie, “Wait, bad idea - I’m sure that you have your own plan to lure the robots inside. That and my best friend would kill me if I risked myself for uncertain returns.”

Kanade was clearly not in a good mood than when she had messaged Akira last, and the latter knew enough not to further enrage her, even from a distance away. So the young man waited for Jessie to offer a better idea, before coming up with a second notion of his own. “Wait, water conducts electricity, right? If we get a fire hose and spray the Sweepers and the ground beneath them with it, then touch that with the live wire, we can probably shock them to nonfunctioning. Or just spray them directly with the fire hose and touch the spray with the live wire, although the person who does that will need to be in special hazard gear, so let’s do the former.”

If Jessie gave even so much as a nod of approval, Akira would go off to find a fire hose, hopefully connected to the water supply, while the others presumably bought them time. Hopefully, this tipped the scales, and this upset would not just set back Shinra’s plans, but also gain more recruits for Fort Condor’s cause due to the spectacularness of the victory… If there was a victory.

Academy of Noble Arms - The Golden Generation

@Ever Faithful, Yes.

Fate/Glimmering Oasis

Daniel Palailogos

Originally David Garcia Martinez from Lalin’s Curse, a Webcomic by Isaky on Webtoons. Used with her consent.

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Name: Daniel Palailogos
Title(s): Child of Chaldea (Self-given)
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Alignment: Neutral Good (self-termed)
Rank: Master
Purpose at Chaldea: Born into the organization and raised to believe in its goals.
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Command Seal: A Double-Headed Eagle.

Personality: Due to being born from a normally-forbidden union between Mage and Scientist, Daniel is loyal to Chaldea Security Organization because they accept him and his origins while the Mages’ Association and The Church would not. This loyalty plus the belief that Chaldea knows better than other associations makes him apt to arrogant behavior towards those who enter Chaldea from the Mages’ Association or from other organizations which know of the occult, an arrogance fueled by resentment at their prejudices and a desire to pre-empt them - Far better that others hate him on his terms, is his belief.

Despite this, however, Daniel desires friendship like other people his age, and is quick to accept offers of it from people who successfully convince him that no, they’re not prejudiced pricks out to get him. He is especially receptive to people his age, although as a hormonal teenager attracted to both men and women, he finds it hard not to rapidly develop feelings for the first cute person he sees.

Character Goal: Find something he values more than Chaldea and their vision of the ‘Greater Good’.

Bio: Daniel was born to two members of Chaldea Security Organization, a Mage and a Scientist, who would not have otherwise met if not for the reach of the group. Raised in a loving, but unorthodox manner, Daniel was taught the basics of both magic and science, of how the mundane and miraculous worlds worked. At the same time, however, it was drilled into him that his existence would be seen as an abomination by the Mages’ Association and that without Chaldea, he’d be killed gruesomely. This ensured that Daniel would see Chaldea as the only group which truly loved and understood him, confirming the boy’s loyalty.

Note however that his parents did genuinely care for him, making sure that whenever there were children his age in the organization, that Daniel had a chance to interact and play with them, whether they were offspring of other Chaldea members, designer children made by the organizations’ experiments (the inhumane nature of those were kept secret from Daniel), or even outright homunculi. This taught Daniel not to be prejudiced at people who could not control their biological origins, while at the same time entrenching his dislike of those who would dictate the lives and deaths of those people based on being artificially-created.

This suited Chaldea perfectly - It was true enough for Daniel’s consumption, after all.

But despite Daniel’s loyalty, he cannot have the wool pulled over his eyes forever, and the boy slowly began to have an inkling as to Chaldea’s darker side. But despite this inkling, his loyalty was merely tempered with a realization that a society or organization does not have to be perfect in order to be worthy of loyalty - Because perfection didn’t exist, and flaws can be repaired or mitigated, including Chaldea’s.

Besides, the Magus’ Association and the Church were far worse, right?

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Magic Circuit Switch: (Optional)
Number of Magic Circuits: C
Quality of Magic Circuits: A

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Elemental Affinity: Element is Fire, Origin is Convergence.
Magecraft:

Stellar Alchemy - A form of Alchemy mixed with some elements of Astromancy which claim to distill the essence of the Stars, Moon, and Sun into potions which reflect some of the magical qualities of the celestial bodies. With this, one can make substances that explode into literal Starfire, drugs which induce Lunacy or Lycanthropy (or suppress the latter) or even grant oracular visions.

Each individual 'recipe' for a potion takes different ingredients and procedures, as well as the light of the relevant celestial body (Sun, Moon, Stars) reflected into the compound as it is being brewed. Liquid Starfire needs the light of the sun focused into a clear bottle filled with alchemical compounds for six hours, while other types of potion need Moonlight or Starlight or specific planetary alignments focused on them for two to four hours in order to work. Daniel can theoretically make two Starfire potions and four bottles of other types if he works for 24 hours (and takes time to sleep while the potions absorb celestial light).

Not just that, but given a large-enough clear container plus mirrors and other facilities, Daniel can make up to 4 gallons of any compound within those timescales.

Second Magecraft: Heliocentric Astrology - Despite being thought of lesser ‘pedigree’ than the Geocentric Astrology used by the Animuspheres and their branch families, Heliocentric Astrology still has millions, maybe even billions, of believers across the world. Therefore Daniel uses this in order to confuse Magi who think little of the Heliocentric system and take them out through this blind spot, which is made easier by the fact that he’d be traveling to time periods where Heliocentric Astrology was unknown at all. In order to access such power, Daniel uses his third Mystic Code, the Planetarium Orb, to simulate planetary alignments and other celestial phenomena and draw from their inner meanings.

Crest: Seven Generations.

Mystic Codes:

Chaldea Master Uniform - A Mystic Code that allows for the use of pre-installed Magic Spells at the cost of the User's energy. These spells allow for the healing of minor wounds and injuries using small amounts of the user's mystic 'prana', and also the increase of one's capabilities to that of an Olympic-level athlete.

The uniform has also been modified with a ‘Utility Belt’ which contains ration bars, water, and ‘cartridges’ filled with compressed alchemical compounds (see below). Of the latter, there are 4 containers of Liquid Starfire, 4 containers of Healing Potions, 2 containers of Precognitive Compounds and 2 containers of ‘miscellaneous’ concoctions.

Alchemic Blaster - The Alchemic Blaster looks like a Toy Pistol from all outward observation, thus causing a double measure of contempt from Magi who already hate technology. However, the Alchemic Blaster does not fire bullets, but rather a liquid explosive which contains alchemical compounds along with mundane chemicals. The alchemical compounds, in contact with air, transform the liquid explosive into something resembling stellar fire which dissolves magical and mundane protection alike. Basically, a squirt gun that fires fireballs using alchemy.

Note that if the Alchemic Blaster is sufficiently cleaned-out, it can fire other, more beneficial compounds at people, such as healing potions and strengthening elixirs, as well as sleeping draughts and poisons.

Ammunition-wise, the Alchemic Blaster works by having ‘cartridges’ filled with the relevant alchemical compound (good for 3 - 6 ‘squirts’) loaded into the pistol’s stock, where a set of motion-powered pumps, enhanced by tiny engraved modern runes, then shoots out the compound at a speed and range that fits an actual gun better than a toy one.

Planetarium Orb - A small globe of pure crystal containing a replica of the Heliocentric Solar System, including the Sun, Planets, asteroid belt and Dwarf Planets inside it. When subjected to a flow of prana, the component parts of the Planetarium move according to their established orbits, with Daniel able to shift them into specific alignments or access the powers of any planet, including those which cannot be seen from the visible eye (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto).

More to be found here and here.

Fate/ Glimmering Oasis

Daniel Palailogos

Originally David Garcia Martinez from Lalin’s Curse, a Webcomic by Isaky on Webtoons. Used with her consent.

_____________________________________________________________________________________
Name: Daniel Palailogos
Title(s): Child of Chaldea (Self-given)
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Alignment: Neutral Good (self-termed)
Rank: Master
Purpose at Chaldea: Born into the organization and raised to believe in its goals.
_____________________________________________________________________________________

Command Seal: A Double-Headed Eagle.

Personality: Due to being born from a normally-forbidden union between Mage and Scientist, Daniel is loyal to Chaldea Security Organization because they accept him and his origins while the Mages’ Association and The Church would not. This loyalty plus the belief that Chaldea knows better than other associations makes him apt to arrogant behavior towards those who enter Chaldea from the Mages’ Association or from other organizations which know of the occult, an arrogance fueled by resentment at their prejudices and a desire to pre-empt them - Far better that others hate him on his terms, is his belief.

Despite this, however, Daniel desires friendship like other people his age, and is quick to accept offers of it from people who successfully convince him that no, they’re not prejudiced pricks out to get him. He is especially receptive to people his age, although as a hormonal teenager attracted to both men and women, he finds it hard not to rapidly develop feelings for the first cute person he sees.

Character Goal: Find something he values more than Chaldea and their vision of the ‘Greater Good’.

Bio: Daniel was born to two members of Chaldea Security Organization, a Mage and a Scientist, who would not have otherwise met if not for the reach of the group. Raised in a loving, but unorthodox manner, Daniel was taught the basics of both magic and science, of how the mundane and miraculous worlds worked. At the same time, however, it was drilled into him that his existence would be seen as an abomination by the Mages’ Association and that without Chaldea, he’d be killed gruesomely. This ensured that Daniel would see Chaldea as the only group which truly loved and understood him, confirming the boy’s loyalty.

Note however that his parents did genuinely care for him, making sure that whenever there were children his age in the organization, that Daniel had a chance to interact and play with them, whether they were offspring of other Chaldea members, designer children made by the organizations’ experiments (the inhumane nature of those were kept secret from Daniel), or even outright homunculi. This taught Daniel not to be prejudiced at people who could not control their biological origins, while at the same time entrenching his dislike of those who would dictate the lives and deaths of those people based on being artificially-created.

This suited Chaldea perfectly - It was true enough for Daniel’s consumption, after all.

But despite Daniel’s loyalty, he cannot have the wool pulled over his eyes forever, and the boy slowly began to have an inkling as to Chaldea’s darker side. But despite this inkling, his loyalty was merely tempered with a realization that a society or organization does not have to be perfect in order to be worthy of loyalty - Because perfection didn’t exist, and flaws can be repaired or mitigated, including Chaldea’s.

Besides, the Magus’ Association and the Church were far worse, right?

---

Magic Circuit Switch: (Optional)
Number of Magic Circuits: C
Quality of Magic Circuits: A

---

Elemental Affinity: Element is Fused Star, Origin is Convergence
Magecraft: Stellar Alchemy - A form of Alchemy mixed with some elements of Astromancy which claim to distill the essence of the Stars, Moon, and Sun into potions which reflect some of the magical qualities of the celestial bodies. With this, one can make substances which explode into literal Star-fire, drugs which induce Lunacy or Lycanthropy (or suppress the latter) or even grant oracular visions...

Crest: Seven Generations.

Mystic Codes:

Chaldea Master Uniform - A Mystic Code which allows for weak healing and reinforcement Magecraft which increases one’s physical capacity.

Alchemic Blaster - The Alchemic Blaster looks like a Toy Pistol from all outward observation, thus causing a double measure of contempt from Magi who already hate technology. However, the Alchemic Blaster does not fire bullets, but rather a liquid explosive which contains alchemical compounds along with mundane chemicals. The alchemical compounds, in contact with air, transform the liquid explosive into something resembling stellar fire which dissolves magical and mundane protection alike. Basically, a squirt gun that fires fireballs using alchemy.

Note that if the Alchemic Blaster is sufficiently cleaned-out, it can fire other, more beneficial compounds at people, such as healing potions and strengthening elixirs, as well as sleeping draughts and poisons.

Academy of Noble Arms - The Golden Generation

Pablo, Cynthia, Nuru and Vane

Virgil looked at Vane, then at Cynthia and Pablo, before turning up his nose and saying, “Don’t get in my way, Wilson - Not if you want access to the arena and other high-level facilities. You don’t want your training to be inconvenienced by suboptimal conditions, after all.”

A glare at Cynthia, “As for you, you’re an upstart. Not only do you refuse a date with someone like me, but you strut around so dedicated as though you’re better than others!”

Pablo interrupted, “You’re projecting, Virgil. Just go away before it turns into a fight.” He looked behind him and noticed Nuru racing for them, before smirking in triumph, “And look at that, the Academy’s own Nuru is coming! Do you really think you can take us all on, Mr. Vazquez?”

Virgil’s glare turned towards Pablo, as he shouted, “This isn’t over, wise guys! I’ll have my revenge on you all!”

Then he and his gang ran off, even as Pablo said to the people around him, “Sorry for the inconvenience - Virgil there and his cronies were trying to harass this girl here -”

“Cynthia, Cynthia Weissberg,” the young lady interrupted. “And yes, this guy here did rescue me, although I could have handled myself quite fine...”

Pablo then continued, “And thank you all for rescuing her and me from the wrath of those rich kids, although now they’re going to make sure all of you are blocked from using the Arms Master facilities unless a miracle happens.” He sighed, “People like him are the reason why Trinidad hasn’t risen up the ranks yet - Even though it has talented people such as you guys in it.”

Then a pause, “By the way, where were my manners? My name is Pablo Legazpi, pleased to meet you all.”

A glance at Nuru if he hadn’t left by now, and a temptation to find out exactly what was up with the other student using his Noble Arm’s power of Truth. But Pablo decided not to do it, because then he’d be confronted by his own truth - That he was being a callous invader of other people’s privacy and that was a violation of his own morality and that he’d be causing needless pain.

That, and he had to focus on redeeming - Or ‘redeeming’ - JeimSeu, whom he should be looking for right now, preferably before the latter put his shirt back on, although it might be too late for that already. But would even the Light of Truth be enough to turn him to his side, especially if it revealed to Pablo his own selfish desires?

@Renny, @Not Fungus

JeimSeu

The shower rooms were empty except for one other Arms Master, Glory Malenkov, a Russian student who regarded himself as the leader of the ‘Hammer Aspirants’ in Trinidad Academy.

Malenkov

With a characteristic smug expression, Malenkov approached the Korean-Filipino before saying, “Virgil and I made sure the showers were empty so that we can all have a chance to talk. But it seems they’re arriving late - Filipino Time is such an advantage, we can have some a few minutes to ourselves.”

As the eighteen-year old threw his jacket and other pieces of attire into a nearby basket, waiting for Jeim to do the same, he said, “You got the message, right? From the Handler? We’re to cooperate with Virgil to kill two of this country’s Senators coming here later.”

He then turned on the shower, letting the sound of the falling water obscure his voice. “Their part in it is to give us the information on who exactly will be guarding the VIPs, as well as what routes they will take. Once they get to the Founders’ Monument, we’re to snipe them with a long-range attack and kill them instantly - It must be clear that it’s a Noble Arm which did the killing, yet at the same time, it must not be obvious who did it for the first few minutes. Then we flee and join up with the Main forces of the Hammer in Mindanao, where we just killed some Islamic Insurgents and took their bases and stuff.”

Malenkov’s words as he showered both confirmed and contradicted the whispers of the voice. But a memory would intrude into Jeim’s mind, of someone saying:

The whisper takes precedence. Malenkov is a pawn.

@WindsOfFate

Fate/ Glimmering Oasis

@Heavy Snark I plan to set up an Out of Character soon. I can take sheets here, but I was planning to leave that until the OOC is up. But, after talking with Cu, you can post a character sheet if you want. I have a few sections I'm adding to character sheets, primarily stuff like fighting style. Usually to cover stuff that might get missed out on in a usual sheet.

Edit: Do you guys want a Discord chat?

@Reflection

Yes, we want a Discord.

Fate/ Glimmering Oasis

I might be interested, but no promises.

Letter's Own Persona Stuff

6/30/2020 - Oh, I also updated the pictures 7 months ago!

Iliad City: A Magical RP in an Original World (Resuming)

We're still open for players!

Academy of Noble Arms - The Golden Generation

@Bastian, Yes.