Psyker Landshark

Final Fantasy: Lightseekers

Also as an aside, Stranger of Paradise is fucking amazing and my game of the year for 2022. Literally Nioh 2 with a Final Fantasy skin and the best protagonist in the franchise.

Final Fantasy: Lightseekers

While we're here, I'm curious, who here has played an FF game, and which one(s)?

@Aisede

Most of the main numbered series except 5 and 11, also played the Tactics games and Dissidia. I had a lot of time as a kid and most of the games were easy to get on emulator lmao

Final Fantasy: Lightseekers

Yeah, but I can't find a description of what they do. What am I supposed to put under limit break?

@Aisede

Make up a super move and slap it in.

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Knight RP

Renar Hagen

The First Princess really did enjoy speaking of this book a tad too much. Still, Renar couldn't fault a sheltered teenager for panicking and holding on to some sense of normalcy. Still, if Sir Adeforth wasn't going to shut the conversation down, he took it as tacit approval to keep on with this line of talk. Sun and Moon, he couldn't imagine Felix trying to hold a conversation with the Princess. The idiot would probably either try to aggrandize himself or just be a sycophant.

Renar shifted his gaze towards the windows, keeping an eye out for intruders as he spoke. Nothing yet, but if the Crown Knights had the door well in hand, the other primary entrance point to these chambers would be the tower window, no matter how difficult it was a climb.

"Yes, I would say Fireheart had one of the better depictions of Rozenalt and the Redmarch." He stated, his tone still light and conversational. Hmm. Dame Tyaethe still had the younger princess well in hand, it seemed. "Of late, it seems authors have tended to portray the Bloody Lord as more of a joke and one-off than a proper threat. At least Fireheart did some justice to the character."

Final Fantasy: Lightseekers

If anything, I think I might've made my character a bit too heroic, I might look at tuning things down a bit

@vietmyke

Someone has to be. Meanwhile, Izayoi's a walking war crime.

Strange Gospel: A Heavily Persona-Inspired Urban Fantasy RP

Nakano Nagi

Nagi had kept the conversation on speaker phone from the moment Matsuoka mentioned Yuzu's name. She groaned quietly to herself as the man's response, resigning herself to her new task. Sure, it wasn't like there was much of a choice, considering she was one of the only active field agents they had at the moment. But it was still a huge pain in the ass to track down a bunch of students she barely knew, never mind having to convince the one next to her to follow along as she did so. Plus Matsuoka would delay explaining anything until everyone was gathered up, probably. Motherfucker.

"Yeah, yeah, I hear you." Nagi sighed, keeping the conversation on speaker for Yuzu's benefit. "Get Taniguchi to send me and Shiratori that shit, alright? We'll probably meet up eventually." She very deliberately didn't bother using any honorifics for either. No point, if they weren't around to not hear it. "Gonna drop the call. If you ain't explaining shit, guess I'll have to do it myself. I'll head out once I know where the others are."

After hanging up, Nagi turned back to Yuzu with a resigned look, keeping her voice low so as to not attract any attention with the crazy shit she was about to spout.

"Alright, Gotoh-chan, right? Hear you're smart, so I better not have to explain all this more than once. You saw some freaky shit just now. Don't deny it, I did too. The short version of this is that app Strange Gospel is some supernatural crap. First time it shows you anything, it comes true. Second time, you see a full moon, a tower, a mask, and blood. Third time, well, there's a reason there's been rumors going around about disappearances." She really, really was not cut out to give these sorts of explanations.

"This all happened to me too. Only difference is I got lucky enough to get bailed out by the guy on the phone just not. Anyways, point is, come with me if you don't want to get jumped and probably killed. I know this sounds crazy, and really, I'm the worst person we've got to try and convince anyone. Still rather not see random people get killed though, so just save me the trouble and follow along, would you?"

@Pitsuji

Yu-Gi-Oh GX: Next Gen

Valerie Durand

Huh. That description sounded familiar. A super short girl with dark purple hair and long bangs? Hell, that Obelisk was in their class, wasn't she? Well, that made things easier.

"Right, sounds familiar. Pretty sure she's in the same classes we are." Valerie hopped off the crate she was sitting on, offering Leo an appreciative nod. "Appreciate you letting me know. And for not telling me to screw off the second I started talking about spirits." She made to leave, but not before some mental prodding from Ceruli reminded her of something.

Ugh, did she really just start unloading her baggage onto a complete stranger, even if he was a classmate? God, that was embarassing.

"Oh, uh..." Valerie turned back towards Leo for a moment, scratching her cheek awkwardly. "Sorry for just dumping half my crap onto you like that. My bad?"

@King Cosmos

Final Fantasy: Lightseekers

@Ambra
I completely forgor about this earlier, but since you mentioned jobs being available later back in the int check, does this mean there'll be job changes/multiclassing later on?

Final Fantasy: Lightseekers

I fucking lied, this came together quicker than I thought

Ranbu no Izayoi

"I am the storm. I am the swell. I am the sword. You stand before Ranbu no Izayoi. Your doom has come!"

GENERAL INFORMATION

Name: Izayoi Furuya

Age: 33

Gender: Female

Race: Mystrel

Origin: Osprey

COMBAT INFORMATION

Class: Samurai

Weapon: Wields a daisho pair consisting of a katana and a wakizashi. Typically wields only the long blade, reserving the short blade as a backup weapon. Is capable of fighting in a dual-blade style, but doesn't favor it unless the situation is especially advantageous for the tactic.

Inventory:

• Daisho pair
• Traveling robes
• Potions
• Adventurer's kit
• Rations

Materia:

• Time
• Wind

Limit Breaks:

• Shin-Zantetsuken: Charge forward, unleashing a two-step iaijutsu strike. The first is a singular iai cleave of immense speed and force. The force of the draw creates a vacuum effect that draws in nearby enemies and readies them for the second step, in which the user uses the momentum of the first strike to spin around and deliver a second massive blow before their charge leads them to dash past their foe.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Appearance Details:
At 5'7", Izayoi is quite tall compared to other Mystrel women. Her body is lean and toned from healthy living and her years as a samurai, but her musculature has declined from her prime after years of not holding a sword or extensive training. Where once she wore war plate, now she wears the robes of a wanderer, with only slight pieces of her remaining armor to guard her hands, shoulder, and chest. Izayoi is often seen wearing a straw hat with her robes, specially made to accomodate her ears.

Personality:
Once, Ranbu no Izayoi's blood ran hot, and her passions fierce. She thought of little beyond the next battle, and how to win it. Thrill and victory were all that mattered to her, until she suffered what she believed to be her final defeat.

Then, Furuya Izayoi laid down her sword and found peace, becoming a devoted spouse and parent. She believed her eyes awoken to the pointlessness of the blood she'd shed, all in the name of pride and bloodlust.

Now, Izayoi is a bitter, cynical woman, having her world torn out from under her twice over in the span of five years. Her bloodlust returned, but not as it was before. Where once she relished challenge and adversity, now anything in her path was simply an obstacle to be disposed of. Still, her retirement has served to temper her, bringing caution and wisdom where once there was only aggression. Her hatred of Valheim is such that even her previous antagonism towards Edren in the war has been all but set aside in the face of what she believes to be the bigger threat.

Biography:
By all accounts, little is known of the childhood years of Izayoi of the Wild Dance. When pressed, all she would say was that she'd lost her family at a young age and was taken in by a wandering swordmaster. Presumably, Izayoi spent the majority of her childhood and teenage years learning the art of the sword from this person, but anyone with a similar sword style to hers has never been seen or heard from by the time her name was known among the masses.

The first known sighting of Izayoi was when she'd appeared at an open competition held by a major Osprean lord by the name of Kaien. The lord was searching for new additions to his retinue, and offered to employ the winner of his tourney. It was here that a nineteen year-old Mystrel with only the given name of Izayoi dominated the tourney, swiftly defeating any opponent placed before her, including one of Lord Kaien's own samurai. Kaien proved as good as his word, and honored his promise to take the winner as his new retainer. Izayoi's star only grew from here. Within three years of joining Kaien's retinue, she was known across Osprey with the title of Ranbu, the Wild Dance, from the ferocity and swiftness of her swordplay. Within seven years, she'd risen to becoming the captain of Lord Kaien's personal guard, receiving training in how to lead men while learning further from observing her lord do the same on a larger scale.

Nine years after Ranbu no Izayoi's first appearance, the war with Edren came. Izayoi followed her lord into war, but in the first battle, Lord Kaien fell to the enemy's bullets. With his forces in panic and on the verge of causing Osprey's entire left flank to break, she took action. Stories are still told five years later of how Ranbu no Izayoi granted mercy to her dying steed before countercharging the enemy cavalry on foot. Her blade butchered the Edren chocobo knights until they broke, rallying Kaien's troops and saving the battle from becoming a rout. For her role in the battle, Izayoi was brought before the Emperor of Osprey himself, who honored her with the rank of general, despite her commoner status. For the duration of the war, Izayoi proved to be one of the fiercest foes Edren would have to contend with, slaughtering champions, commanders, and entire units in personal combat while engaging in tactics both unconventional and unbecoming of any proper Osprean lord. Poison, assassination, and sabotage ensured that her own theater of war held, even as the other generals of Osprey were either pushed back or defeated altogether.

By the final weeks of the war, defeat was evident. But Izayoi would not go quietly. On a mountain pass close to Edren's border, near a remote village, Izayoi and her personal forces made their final stand, blocking Edren's armies from marching onward to Kugane. The battle lasted for hours, the dead piling up along the pass. But in the end, Izayoi fell, a final gunshot tearing through her shoulder as she staggered back and fell, her unconscious frame sliding down the hillside and into the woods. In the interest of making up for lost time on the march to Kugane, Edren's forces didn't bother to confirm her death or search for a corpse, and moved on.

Izayoi never expected to awaken weeks after, having been rescued and tended to by the local doctor of the village at the foot of the mountain. During her convalescence, news of Osprey's surrender reached even this remote mountain, and she despaired at realizing the last decade of her life had all been for nothing. All the blood she'd shed, the lives she'd destroyed. Meaningless. With her life's work come crashing down around her and with nowhere else to go, Izayoi stayed in the village she'd awoken in. Over the next few months, the doctor who'd rescued her visited often to check up on his former patient, and the two eventually fell in love and married, with a daughter born nine months later. If she couldn't live for the sword any longer, Izayoi resolved to live for her newfound family, and settled into village life, hiding her blades away.

When Valheim invaded, the only warning the village had was the sudden stop of news and travelers for some time. Nevertheless, life continued on as it had for some months after. On one morning, Izayoi left her toddler daughter in the care of her husband while she headed up the mountain to pick herbs for his medicinal ointments and poultices. It was halfway up the climb that the hauntingly familiar sounds of battle and slaughter began to reach her. Eyes wide with panic, Izayoi turned and looked down the mountain to see smoke, flames, and an unfamiliar blob of soldiers in the village. Even after five years of retirement, Izayoi still kept up a basic exercise regimen, and she'd made it back down the mountain in record time. But it was still too late. The village was in ruins, the inhabitants slaughtered, and what treasures it had were looted. When she'd returned to her own home, the corpses of her husband and daughter greeted her. For the second time in half a decade, Izayoi had lost everything again.

Days later, after mourning and giving her family their last rites, Izayoi returned to the foot of the mountain and dug up her blades. Then, she left the remains of what had been her home for five years and began to roam Osprey, searching for the perpetrators. It didn't take long before she learned of Valheim's occupation, and of the Blight, The dots practically connected themselves in her head. Of course Valheim was responsible for the vanishing of the Light. It offered them every advantage, weakening Ibros for invasion. These godless foreigners had taken advantage of Osprey's weakness after the war to invade here first, and it wouldn't be long before they nipped at the borders of the rest of the continent. While she had no love lost for Edren, at least they hadn't resorted to Blight or outright conquering her homeland.

For the next few months, Izayoi took the fight to the occupation in a savage, one-woman guerrila war. She'd attempted to search for active resistance groups first, but found none, beliving that either she lacked the contacts to reach out or that Osprey's spirit was simply crushed. Ranbu no Izayoi returned, ambushing patrol squadrons and beheading officers and magistrates in their sleep. But nothing she did served to even make a dent in Valheim's forces. What allies she could manage to recruit were never able to keep up with her, and died meaningless deaths while trying to match Izayoi's relentless pace. Eventually, she was forced to admit that what she was doing simply wasn't working. On the verge of contemplating her life's second run at suicide, news reached her of Leonhart VII's proclamation, and Izayoi decided to answer the call. At this point, she had nothing left to lose, and she was still convinced that Valheim was behind the Blight. Stop one, and the other would fall as well. With her goal set, Ranbu no Izayoi set out to step foot in the nation of her old enemy once more.

Traits:

• Nosy, and gets in people's business.
• Feels an undue sense of responsibility towards close companions, and tends to mother them.
• Has a basic understanding of medicine and how to make remedies thanks to her husband.
• Enjoys fishing. Oily fish simmered in soy and ginger is her favorite food.
• Detests alcohol, refuses to imbibe.
• Collects novels and fiction to read in her downtime.
• Is out of practice from years of retirement. While still more skilled compared to the majority of warriors, it will take time, training, and battle for her to return to the absolute mastery of swordplay she once commanded.

Relationships:
Known to anyone who was involved in the war between Osprey and Edren. Has a reputation as both a ruthless general and a peerless blademaster. Is assumed dead by most who knew of her during the war.

• Isshin Furuya (Deceased): Izayoi's husband and the father of her daughter, Suzume. Was the local doctor of the village of Atsu, until its destruction at the hands of an unknown unit of Valheim soldiers.
• Hien Rijin: Lord Kaien's son and successor. Izayoi has known him since he was a boy, and helped protect and train him as he grew from a child to a young man. While Izayoi had to leave the Rijin clan's service following her ascension to general, the two kept in touch until the war's end. Likely believes her dead.
• Kurogane: An old smith living on the outskirts of Kugane. Forged the blades of both Izayoi and her master. Rated as one of the greatest smiths in the nation, but refuses to forge blades for all but the most worthy of swordmasters.

EXTRA

Voice actor: Anne Yatco
Theme song: Somehow, it's not Bury the Light.

Bible of Ichor: Septet for the Dead

Dragan Meszaros

The presence of ice around the battlefield reassured Dragan that at least Aleksiya was still present. Raising so many zombies at once while he was still weak drained him significantly, but there was strength yet to match these beasts in combat. Dragan leapt out of the way of the beast lunging at him, drawing his hammer back as he did so. Upon touching back onto the ground, the Death Knight dashed forward, bringing his hammer down onto the large beastman's skull to crush it to pieces.

Between Dragan's zombies and Aleksiya's ice, the battle in the outer chamber began to wind down. Dragan's skeleton was brought low by what remained of the horde, only for them all to be summarily crushed by the vampire lord shortly after. With the immediate threats taken care of, he spied the torn open door and hurried towards it.

"Damnation." Dragan murmured before calling out to his companions. "With me! I fear this may not be over yet. What minions I've remaining will be enough to warn us should more appear out here."