Lugubrious

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Also, Lug, the powers you see for Ghidorah are according to her RP profile. But do you want me to change the reason for her 'nerf' as well? I may have one ready if you don't sit too well with the original idea.

@Lmpkio

If the powers Ghidorah has are according to her RP profile, then she shouldn't need any nerf because her powers are already within the acceptable parameters, right? The way it's currently worded IC, it sounds like she had her full flew of powers before I asked for adjustment, and you're specifically nerfing to tone it down to what's in the character sheet.

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@Lmpkio
I don't like to butt into arguments, but LMP... there are literally only humans in the college. Not ghosts, not spirits, not anything non-human. In other words, it is non-negotiable, and - in every sense of the word - impossible for Gidorah's "recruiter" to be anything but human.

@kapuchu

I wouldn't say that this particular debate has gone on long enough to need outside involvement, though I appreciate the consideration.

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*shrugs* Just to be fair, he'll never be seen again so...

@Lmpkio

That is not true I'm afraid. I'm already thinking of ways to reuse the College's stuff later on in the story for important roles. I would not be logging each new person into the Characters Tab if they were all going to be one-offs.

Oh, before I forget, there was one more thing I wanted to address. This is mostly pertaining to players whose characters required adjustment in terms of power to be considered acceptable. I would vastly prefer it if terms like 'nerf' went completely unused. It's far too meta for my taste, and the idea of magic restrictions being placed on the various contestants doesn't sit well with the narrative. Instead, just as I suggested, adjust the character itself. If you can't find an IC reason like 'Dante chooses to fight in only his robes as a testament to the fortitude of his order' or 'X forgot this certain piece of equipment in his haste of leave' or 'Y's gear is on the fritz', make it so that the character was always at that power level. This may mean the character is essentially different from the original, but that was what was agreed to.

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Yeah you can say that was the main reason. Humans cant survive due to the lack of oxygen so an alien that doesn't need much oxygen or breathes something that isn't oxygen can work.

@Lmpkio

An alternative would be to outfit the College personnel in oxygen equipment.

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Well since everyone was creating their own IC characters, so to be unique I decided to put an alien-creature instead. But if you want a more in-story explanation, let me deliver. The world on Ghidorah's homeland is basically inhabitable for most signs of life, after she absorbed all of the golden mana from within. Most of the Ghidorahians have gone extinct, other than Ghidorah herself, except for a few loyal followers who help her achieved her rise to power. They were spared and given as her private retainers. Ironically she's a queen... without a livable kingdom. But her reputation of her tyranny in destroying worlds simply caused many alien species who had heard of her to worship and fear her as a goddess.

Now of course, for the tornument, she will be nerfed as stated by the alien figure himself so she won't be like ripping the entire place apart...

Unless you know... what she said:

My Hider

@Lmpkio

Thing is, no aliens work for the college. Only humans. A lack of oxygen can be handwaved in favor of sticking to this rule.

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@Lugubrious

Ah, I think I could probably answer that (Though please correct me if I'm wrong @Lmpkio)

Assuming she knew the College reps weren't from her planet, which they aren't if I am correct, then they would be classed as "aliens", regardless of appearances. Of course, thats just me speculating.

@Deadnaut

That'd be perfectly acceptable if the picture Lmp provided was of a human, but it's of some ghostly creature that doesn't look human at all.

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Finally posted! This took much longer than anticipated but alas its finally here!

@Lmpkio

It was a good one too, but there is something odd about it. What's the deal with the alien that's supposedly from the Inquisitional College? I'm curious.

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@Banana I regret to say that there are a couple of issues with your post. Aside from the City of Echoes being completely empty (of normal people), nobody is starting there. Nobody has received a phylactery yet (that'll play a part in the next turn of events), and the College people don't know about the Frenzy. They're also still studying the phenomena known as Echoes, so they wouldn't tell about that, either. All contestants are already 'registered' in the Crucible thanks to the ledger. Lastly, I'll go ahead and spoil the properties of one of the Artifacts, but here's the information on the Lantern carried by the staff: it facilitates warping space through an ambiguous, vision-obscuring element, which can be rain, fog, dust, darkness, snow, foliage, and so forth. In order to be warped, a non-holder of the Lantern must be consciously following the holder into the unknown.

The Lantern is just one element of a rather expansive subsystem I simply refer to as 'items' that I am eager to introduce later on.

There's one other detail: the Inquisitional College isn't exactly of the City of Echoes. Rather, it was established after the city became the way it is, in order to 'inquire' about what happened. Before that, the building was just a sort of research center.

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Some excellent posts so far! To see all the different permutations and expansions based on what little premise I put down is truly exciting.

@Lugubrious Lmp brings up a question I want to ask. Are we allowed to create secondary characters if our primary dies?

@Hostile

Yes, but I honestly wouldn't put any effort toward that just yet. We're only just now getting started after all.

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@Lugubrious Hey Lug. I've been thinking over my character alongside my newly made character and I feel like I may want to switch characters. Mine is technically "original", but at the same time compared to everyone else here it still feels less creative compared to everyone elses. I feel like Leonidas will be better fit for this RP than Ghidorah herself. What do you think?

@Lmpkio

If that's what you want, sure, I can make the change.

TWO BECOME ONE

Name: Grant Gospel/Ria Tsurara

Alias: Mika

Race: Human

Sex: Male/Female

Class: Exorcist

Equipment:
The Holy Bible.

Abilities:
Faith: Both are strong followers of Christ and as long as they believe Jesus is God, they are blessed with his love and mercy that endures forever. Their faith progresses from faith to faith through the practice of reading the holy bible daily. Faith is their energy reserves and therefore and equivalent to a Magician's mana and whatever terms is energy reserves labeled and called like how a ninja uses chakra. The premise of using faith is to cleanse iniquities because faith is holy so therefore Exorcist are given the power to kill demons and exorcise demons. An Exorcist's weapons are never carnal but spiritual.

Grant's powers are Faithblade and Passionblade. A near invisible sword that is mostly translucent in form and it is not physical but a spiritual sword. Faithblade is best described as Grant's faith taking in a form of a sword just like how a Mage shapes his or her mana into a sword.

Apart from Faithblade, Grant is able to add fire attribute into Faithblade which makes it entirely visible because Faithblade is shrouded in flames. With fire attribute added unto the blade, it is renamed Passionblade because the flame is colored gold and is twice as hot as the normal flame. Passionblade gives Grant offense which he lacks in Faithblade. Simply put that Grant is an ordinary Swordsman while using Faithblade but with Passionblade, he is a "Magical Swordsman" or a "Fire Bender wielding a sword".

Ria is the opposite to Grant's sword and fire for she wields the shield and the ice faith. Since she is an exorcist, her shield is also a translucent and near invisible and not carnal. She's able to use faithshield which is the equal of faithblade because neither can destroy each other. Ria is a lot smarter than Grant, she knows how to manipulate faith into different shapes and sizes.

Likewise she is able to expand, retract, throw and reshape her Faithshield. Apart from Faithshield, she is able to add ice attribute into faithshield which makes her faithshield cold but not frostbite levels. Ria is able to separately use ice from her faithshield and manipulate into different forms and sizes as a contrast to Grant who just knows how to spam it in blasts.

Grant is the offense while Ria is a balance between offense and defense but dominantly prefers defense.

ONE: At any normal circumstances they cannot separate otherwise Grant will die. Ria is doing all her best to keep him alive. As one body, Grant is fine for the time being just as long as they don't separate. However, both struggle for control. To put it simply, their appearance changes based on who is control at the moment. Whoever is in control, the other is not shut down but simply a conscience that is yearning for control and goodly enough acts as a guide. They can't use their abilities in a synchronized manner in this form unless frenzy triggered

Fighting Style:
Both are Elite Middle Class Exorcists by standards of Theoearth.

Grant prefers to use swords while Ria prefers to use ranged weapons. As Mika they are a combination of both but barely because that depends on who is in control and their state of mind. The former is a master of One Sword Style and the latter is a master of throwing. When Ria is in control, she prefers to fight long range and launch projectiles while in Grant's control he goes up close. Both are equally strategists but Grant prefers to use offense more whereas Ria uses creativity.

It can become confusing because one wouldn't know who is who because it depends on whose soul is in control of whose body. For example if Grant's soul is in control of Ria's body, he will still sound like Ria.

Overall, their performance is still the same as One Being. This however changes in Frenzy.

Personality:
When as one, it is easy to be lead into confusing situations because both sometimes struggle for control and the vernacular term that is best to describe Mika(The alias of this One Being) is Tsundere, a Japanese slang coined meaning of hot and cold. As a matter of fact, they are like fire and ice when one of them becomes dominant; Grant is an idealist and is willing to put others before himself and proactively helps with burning passion but has common sense when things are out of line whereas Ria is a realist and level headed who always plans ahead with sheer coldness of thinking. As Mika, it is different because it is tricky since either of the two's soul will be dominant to take control of the active body, for example; Ria's body but with Grant's soul in control etc.

Bio:
Universe: Theoearth
Theo Mundus or Theoearth is the universe where Grant and Maria belongs to, it is an alternate earth where theocracy is the origin and law; a universe where Exorcists of God defends Paradise Meteora(One of the main capitals from a certain country, amalgam of Israel-Japan-USA-Philippines-China-Russia-UK. Country is called Meteora and its capital is Astoria.) from the forces of Lucifer and any form of corruption. In this earth or rather world, the laws are rather similar to a degree compare to the original earth which is called "Uno Mundus" meaning Earth 1 but this world is where all supernatural seems little or not normal but normal is just an illusion because what's not normal to witness and enact for most earths in this world is normal. For starters, this is a world of Christianity and where Christianity reigns but it's not a paradise because no matter what legend, belief, stories, space and time -- God and Lucifer who are believed to be beings outside of time are always at odds.

Indeed, Theoearth as much as it seems like paradise is always at war, many people question God's will and while they know God exists; people like every other earth never cease to sin and so these sinners easily fall at the hands of Lucifer. Having supernatural abilities is normal because God Jesus is alright with it as long as it does good than bad. There are countless forbidden types of power in this world, one of the foulest would be black magic but foulest of them all would be Space Time Travel. In this world, those who commit time travel are sentenced to Hell as it is an atrocious sin, the epitome of all selfishness and it is extremely blasphemous to the eyes of Jesus.

This is Grant and Maria's origin story.........

During the Sevenfold Blood War, Christ was struck by the Spear of Longinus aka as The Spear of Destiny which struck him before on the cross of chivalry and he just disappeared thus leaving Theoearth at Lucifer's merciless reign. Both flee and Grant's body is nearly devastated which lead Ria use a high level faith spell and together they fused as one being.

Wish: To save Theoearth from the hands of Satan.

Echo: Satan ruling Theoearth.

Appearance:
"NONSTOP SWITCH!"

GIRL

BOY

Frenzy:
|TRUE ONE|
They can now use their abilities in a synchronized manner which makes it more effective.

Inventory: Phylactery

Other:
Upon agreement of Lub and Indra the maker of the character itself. By my statement, this character is Fairy Tail's Gray Fullbuster's level of power in IC regardless if Grant akin to Natsu, still Gray level w/o DeS as well as Ria, both are equally Gray's level of power:
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I am done with this. Hopefully this is approved.

@Indra

Fine by me. Go ahead and move them over to the Characters tab.

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Well folks, it's time to begin. First step is to get us introduced to your character, and to get your character introduced to the personnel of the Inquisitional College. If a general guideline would be helpful, my post might be able to assist in that regard. I'll also answer any questions you may have, as always. For instance, it's not the same College staff that will be visiting everyone. I can't wait to see you all in action!

Oh, and at this point, since there are four remaining NPC slots, anyone who has already made an NPC and wishes to make another may do so. However, I am reserving one of said NPC slots for myself.

@Indra @Mira Yasaka I would recommend finishing your CSes as soon as you are able. If one of you is unable to do so within three days or so, I may cede that person's spot to the first person on the guest list.