Raineh Daze

Fu Sonzai no Genso: An Urban Fantasy Mystery RP(Raineh Daze and VitaVitaAR)(Eventually open to two more players!)

Once again, Ryuuko found herself examining closely something that Toshiko had already noticed. In this case, the blood stain. If there was one, then surely there would be more or a sign of a cut? Then... if she followed their path backwards towards the door she would have to find some clue: anyone that had removed all the previous bloodstains would have solved the last one. Sure enough, back by the door, there was another print that they had missed, a too-wide print that indicated quite a small culprit.

"I am going to trace this further back," the heiress stated, straightening from her position, "And head to the library if I lose the trail to examine it once again."

And maybe she could ask for the maids to not clean up any bloodstains that they found.

Fu Sonzai no Genso: An Urban Fantasy Mystery RP(Raineh Daze and VitaVitaAR)(Eventually open to two more players!)

"Your case is not fused with the flooring," Ryuuko stated, eyeing the vase's ultimate defence carefully. Having considered how their thief had bypassed all the other defences, here presented one avenue in that took even less work than moving the wall away: at least the wall was a single continuous structure, "Which leads me to assume that the thief could have removed the floor and worked their way beneath the vase. Or they could have displaced merely a part of their own body to be able to access and move the vase. Even without cancelling the defences on this case, they have displayed a potential ability to move the mansion's walls out of the way and I doubt that a clear container would be much impediment."

Blades of Iron Roses: A fantasy Knight RP

Sir Tyaethe Radistirin

"You've shown a willingness to lead people into battle from the front, you listen to advice when it's given, you aren't trying to use the Knights for your own personal gain. Compared to some examples, you're a tactical genius. There was one Captain whose only order was attacking... it was a good thing that was when we still had a lot of the original veterans to enforce some organisation anyway," Tyaethe stated, confused that Fanilly would look down on her own abilities so much. She didn't have a lot of experience but that was why she was there: nothing but experience to be drawn on, "And it helps that you're cute. It's already won you a few fans and they could be reliable delegates when you're older."

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Merilia

The floating projection adjusted her outfit and considered whether to put Jarde out of his misery. He was spectacularly gullible to still think that there was really a curse and she could lead him around all day without having to do anything more. That would be needlessly cruel and boring to boot and she couldn't keep the threat of a curse hanging in the air to set up some more sneaky tricks without being there in the first place. "No curse. It was a joke."

The other two seemed to be behaving themselves. Also good.

Ignite Heart! A Magical Girl RP

I wanted a better bio. Still can't think of a theme, though. :T

• Name: Yukimura Noriko
• Magical Girl Title: The Ripper. Being far from the most cheerful of magical girl names, you have to wonder why Noriko has something so blatantly angst-ridden. The answer? Having no naming sense whatsoever and cheerfully picking up the first thing the fan community called her because of all the knives. It's a vast improvement over "The Girl That Stabs Things With Sharp Knives", even if she has little idea what it could possibly by referencing.
• Age: 18
• Gender: Female
• Appearance:
  Definitely Traditional

  
• Magical Girl Appearance:
  Shorter or Magically Tied? Who Knows?

  
• Personality: 'Magical girl fangirl' would not be the first choice for a traditional girl's hobby and yet, in Noriko's case, it very much is--or as much as you can be without going on the internet and taking part there. She receives every magazine that she can get a subscription to and follows them religiously, even though she occasionally makes appearances herself nowadays. It would be accurate to say that she has a deep appreciation for magical girls and their work but such a description is only accurate for her childhood. She really likes magical girls.
  That being a magical girl allows her to get close to her idols and try to befriend them is an amazing opportunity that Noriko can't pass up. That being a magical girl means her identity is an unknown is even better. It means being able to act without having to keep to her upbringing every second of the day--and it exposes her vast enthusiasm for both her tasks and the girls around her. Yet she's still awkward about trying to get to know people and worries about her identity being exposed--which would mean a return to acting properly.
  Outside of being a magical girl, Noriko tends to be polite but rather distant. Not only does she have little idea how to go about making friends with someone of her own age, her upbringing has left her with few common interests with the majority of people that she meets. She's actually rather shy when not hidden by being a magical girl.
• Skills: Noriko's skills are conspicuously lacking in a large variety of everyday matters even despite her age. Her cooking skills don't even reach the point of being able to make tea normally and those rare attempts she makes at something as simple as rice tends to lead to abject failure, not least because of her incompetence with technological innovations of any kind. Her skill there looks like it should belong to a rural centenarian, with anything more complicated than 'make phone call' or 'turn on television' going badly.
  Conversely, her traditional skills are far better than the norm. For all her inability to not burn tea on a day to day basis, the white-haired girl can perform tea ceremonies flawlessly. If it has some element of ceremony or art about it, even her handwriting, Noriko tends to be as accomplished as she is technologically hopeless.
  Helpfully for a career as a magical girl, and a likely influence on why her abilities are so simple, is that her list of traditional skills include such things as being able to defend herself proactively. Such as by attacking someone with a sword. Or by punching them until they can't hurt her in return. Rather than any one style, Noriko is actually schooled in several different methods of fighting unarmed and a scale of how to use swords from 'I have a knife' up to 'am I supposed to be cutting through horses?' and 'I only have a stick'. Though mostly directly irrelevant to operating as a Magical Girl, it gave her a leg up on most new magical girls by actually having trained reflexes and an awareness for combat before being thrown in at the deep end.
• Abilities: Anyone discovering Noriko for the first time is bound to expect some sort of herculean magical girl, provided they don't recognise the reference. These people are often surprised to learn that she's perhaps in the running for the most physically meagre magical girl, as she doesn't receive any sort of enhancement to her strength. What gets boosted abnormally is her speed, allowing her to get in, make a single wound, and get out again. There's a limited effectiveness in inflicting a death of a thousand cuts, which is why Noriko is rather thankful that the speed is just a vector for the application of her real ability.
  She has the ability to pinpoint physical weak points. In doing so, it gives her the ability to severely cripple or even outright enemies if she can land her blow correctly. It was this surgical precision that lead her first followers to compare her use of knives to a famous murderer, despite her friendly attitude.
  Though only she can actually see the exact point and exploit it to maximum effect, it's still a physical weakness. Anyone that knows roughly wear to hit can take advantage of their attacks not being so easily dismissed, which makes Noriko a valuable ally even in battles against something too large for her knives to have a major impact.
  It is, perhaps, for the best that Noriko doesn't have a true finishing move because of her total inability to come up with a good name for even her ability to see weak points. When it has to be given a name in fact sheets, she picked "Knowing Where Things Break More When Stabbed".
• Weapon(s): Knives. Noriko didn't actually name them given that she has no limit on the number that can be pulled out and you could buy their kind anywhere in Japan. They're remarkably well balanced, suitable for stabbing, cutting, or even throwing as the situation arises. On the downside... well, knives. They have no special abilities like other magical weapons might possess nor much reach. Combined with her lack of any method for hitting harder, tough opponents can ignore almost all attacks Noriko might conceivably make until she discerns their weakness and manages to strike it.
• Brief History: Being born the only child of an old and wealthy family is no insurance against poor health, as Noriko found out. From infancy, the girl spent more time actively sick than capable of causing problems in the normal vein of young children. On its own, no amount of advanced medicine seemed to improve her condition and her parents took the opposite approach: aside from the medicine itself, limit her contact with modern life and cities. She was consequently sent to be raised by her grandparents in the country, a household as untouched by technological advance as possible in this day and age.
  Though her health was generally improved out here, enough that Noriko could start to learn the martial arts that had been passed down through the years, it was still marked by enough illness that her attendance at school was spotty and her time spent with her peers quite limited--they didn't even have similar interests, after all. But she enjoyed the surroundings and over time her health improved to the point that, after Junior High, her parents decided to send her to a selective high school in Umitori.
  In her first year back in a city, Noriko's health began to decline once again and her lack of socialisation made it difficult for her to form friendships, especially as she started taking time off for illness. At the beginning of her second year, she was home ill once again--missing the beginning of year and even what class she was to be in--when she received an unexpected visitor: a fairy. The disgruntled girl offered her a simple trade: Noriko would become a magical girl and in the process her health problems would be corrected, or at least suspended indefinitely. Simply not being ill was an alluring choice, but to be able to make friends with the magical girls in her magazines without her previous illness casting a cloud over things and get another chance to make a first impression...
  Noriko took the fairy up in it in a heartbeat, though even now she has yet to make any close friends this way but that's not going to stop the rich girl from trying her best as more and more magical girls are created.
  
  • Fairy Name: Hawthorne
  • Fairy Appearance: Such a fancily dressed fairy.
  • Fairy Personality: Hawthorne is quite... unfriendly for a fairy, and concerned only with her partner being the best magical girl possible, regardless of what this requires her to do. For instance, she specifically sought out someone in Noriko's situation, that would have no reason to turn her down and as many reasons to fulfil her assigned task as possible. In this, she's a very good support so long as Noriko has some desire to keep performing as a magical girl. If she were to give up on making friends this way, then she would have to get... creative. Even arranging a false friendship would be an acceptable step to Hawthorne.
• Theme Song:

Ignite Heart! A Magical Girl RP

• Name: Yukimura Noriko
• Magical Girl Title: The Ripper. Being far from the most cheerful of magical girl names, you have to wonder why Noriko has something so blatantly angst-ridden. The answer? Having no naming sense whatsoever and cheerfully picking up the first thing the fan community called her because of all the knives. It's a vast improvement over "The Girl That Stabs Things With Sharp Knives", even if she has little idea what it could possibly by referencing.
• Age: 18
• Gender: Female
• Appearance:
  Definitely Traditional

  
• Magical Girl Appearance:
  Shorter or Magically Tied? Who Knows?

  
• Personality: 'Magical girl fangirl' would not be the first choice for a traditional girl's hobby and yet, in Noriko's case, it very much is--or as much as you can be without going on the internet and taking part there. She receives every magazine that she can get a subscription to and follows them religiously, even though she occasionally makes appearances herself nowadays. It would be accurate to say that she has a deep appreciation for magical girls and their work but such a description is only accurate for her childhood. She really likes magical girls.
  That being a magical girl allows her to get close to her idols and try to befriend them is an amazing opportunity that Noriko can't pass up. That being a magical girl means her identity is an unknown is even better. It means being able to act without having to keep to her upbringing every second of the day--and it exposes her vast enthusiasm for both her tasks and the girls around her. Yet she's still awkward about trying to get to know people and worries about her identity being exposed--which would mean a return to acting properly.
  Outside of being a magical girl, Noriko tends to be polite but rather distant. Not only does she have little idea how to go about making friends with someone of her own age, her upbringing has left her with few common interests with the majority of people that she meets. She's actually rather shy when not hidden by being a magical girl.
• Skills: Noriko's skills are conspicuously lacking in a large variety of everyday matters even despite her age. Her cooking skills don't even reach the point of being able to make tea normally and those rare attempts she makes at something as simple as rice tends to lead to abject failure, not least because of her incompetence with technological innovations of any kind. Her skill there looks like it should belong to a rural centenarian, with anything more complicated than 'make phone call' or 'turn on television' going badly.
  Conversely, her traditional skills are far better than the norm. For all her inability to not burn tea on a day to day basis, the white-haired girl can perform tea ceremonies flawlessly. If it has some element of ceremony or art about it, even her handwriting, Noriko tends to be as accomplished as she is technologically hopeless.
  Helpfully for a career as a magical girl, and a likely influence on why her abilities are so simple, is that her list of traditional skills include such things as being able to defend herself proactively. Such as by attacking someone with a sword. Or by punching them until they can't hurt her in return. Rather than any one style, Noriko is actually schooled in several different methods of fighting unarmed and a scale of how to use swords from 'I have a knife' up to 'am I supposed to be cutting through horses?' and 'I only have a stick'. Though mostly directly irrelevant to operating as a Magical Girl, it gave her a leg up on most new magical girls by actually having trained reflexes and an awareness for combat before being thrown in at the deep end.
• Abilities: Anyone discovering Noriko for the first time is bound to expect some sort of herculean magical girl, provided they don't recognise the reference. These people are often surprised to learn that she's perhaps in the running for the most physically meagre magical girl, as she doesn't receive any sort of enhancement to her strength. What gets boosted abnormally is her speed, allowing her to get in, make a single wound, and get out again. There's a limited effectiveness in inflicting a death of a thousand cuts, which is why Noriko is rather thankful that the speed is just a vector for the application of her real ability.
  She has the ability to pinpoint physical weak points. In doing so, it gives her the ability to severely cripple or even outright enemies if she can land her blow correctly. It was this surgical precision that lead her first followers to compare her use of knives to a famous murderer, despite her friendly attitude.
  Though only she can actually see the exact point and exploit it to maximum effect, it's still a physical weakness. Anyone that knows roughly wear to hit can take advantage of their attacks not being so easily dismissed, which makes Noriko a valuable ally even in battles against something too large for her knives to have a major impact.
  It is, perhaps, for the best that Noriko doesn't have a true finishing move because of her total inability to come up with a good name for even her ability to see weak points. When it has to be given a name in fact sheets, she picked "Knowing Where Things Break More When Stabbed".
• Weapon(s): Knives. Noriko didn't actually name them given that she has no limit on the number that can be pulled out and you could buy their kind anywhere in Japan. They're remarkably well balanced, suitable for stabbing, cutting, or even throwing as the situation arises. On the downside... well, knives. They have no special abilities like other magical weapons might possess nor much reach. Combined with her lack of any method for hitting harder, tough opponents can ignore almost all attacks Noriko might conceivably make until she discerns their weakness and manages to strike it.
• Brief History: Being born the only child of an old and wealthy family is no insurance against poor health, as Noriko found out. From infancy, the girl spent more time actively sick than capable of causing problems in the normal vein of young children. On its own, no amount of advanced medicine seemed to improve her condition and her parents took the opposite approach: aside from the medicine itself, limit her contact with modern life and cities. She was consequently sent to be raised by her grandparents in the country, a household as untouched by technological advance as possible in this day and age.
  Though her health was generally improved out here, enough that Noriko could start to learn the martial arts that had been passed down through the years, it was still marked by enough illness that her attendance at school was spotty and her time spent with her peers quite limited--they didn't even have similar interests, after all. But she enjoyed the surroundings and over time her health improved to the point that, after Junior High, her parents decided to send her to a selective high school in Umitori.
  In her first year back in a city, Noriko's health began to decline once again and her lack of socialisation made it difficult for her to form friendships, especially as she started taking time off for illness. At the beginning of her second year, she was home ill once again--missing the beginning of year and even what class she was to be in--when she received an unexpected visitor: a fairy. The disgruntled girl offered her a simple trade: Noriko would become a magical girl and in the process her health problems would be corrected, or at least suspended indefinitely. Simply not being ill was an alluring choice, but to be able to make friends with the magical girls in her magazines without her previous illness casting a cloud over things and get another chance to make a first impression...
  Noriko took the fairy up in it in a heartbeat, though even now she has yet to make any close friends this way but that's not going to stop the rich girl from trying her best as more and more magical girls are created.
  
  • Fairy Name: Hawthorne
  • Fairy Appearance: Such a fancily dressed fairy.
  • Fairy Personality: Hawthorne is quite... unfriendly for a fairy, and concerned only with her partner being the best magical girl possible, regardless of what this requires her to do. For instance, she specifically sought out someone in Noriko's situation, that would have no reason to turn her down and as many reasons to fulfil her assigned task as possible. In this, she's a very good support so long as Noriko has some desire to keep performing as a magical girl. If she were to give up on making friends this way, then she would have to get... creative. Even arranging a false friendship would be an acceptable step to Hawthorne.
• Theme Song:
  Hider

Ignite Heart! A Magical Girl RP

• Name: Yukimura Noriko
• Magical Girl Title: The Ripper. As it turns out, you attract a rather strange following when your fighting ability involves lots of knives and even the most innocent person is prone to a disturbing alias. Further not helped by the lack of anything flashier to go by... but at least she's not named for her hair or something, right?
• Age: 18
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: A traditional girl and an old art.
• Magical Girl Appearance: Is the hair shorter or just tied implausibly well? With a magical girl, it's hard to tell.
• Personality: Being raised without much interaction with those of your own age and a certain set of standards to uphold has downsides. In Noriko's case, it means that her approach to friendly association, even with her fellow magical girls, is distant politeness. When in her magical girl persona and not recognised, she's far more expressive. Particularly with her appreciation for magical girls, their physiques, their beauty...
  If someone connects her exuberant magical girl persona to Noriko, it's much easier to work out that the admiration and interest is always there behind the layers of politeness.
• Skills: Noriko is perhaps unusual for a magical girl in that her ability to handle herself in a fight has nothing to do with her newly gained transformations. The style itself might be completely derived from her magical abilities, but her instincts for these things and her reflexes were honed through martial arts, armed and unarmed both. Following in her ancestors' footsteps, this extends to having learned the techniques of their old but unremarkable sword school. Outside of this, her abilities lie in polite society and such things as flower arrangement or tea ceremonies. Her more practical, and particularly modern, skills are significantly below average.
• Abilities: There are exactly two abilities that come with Noriko's transformation (three, counting the weapon itself): abnormal speed and an uncanny ability to locate vulnerable points on enemies or objects. On the plus side, this is a transformation with a nearly infinite amount of stamina provided that she can avoid getting injured herself, since it requires simply thrusting into weaknesses when available and taking full advantage of her surroundings to whittle enemies down through dozens of cuts. On the other hand, it lacks any specific means to end a fight other than repeatedly going for the weakest point. However, she can point it out (in general terms) to other magical girls if she can't land a finishing blow.
  It's strange to be a magical girl without a specific finishing attack.
• Weapon(s): Knives. It might be traditional for magical girls to name their weapons but when you seem to have an infinite supply of plain and unremarkable (definitely not double-bladed) knives to take on the enemy with, thrown or not, then it's hard to consider naming them.
• Brief History: Noriko's childhood was unfortunately marked by poor health. Her family, desiring a strong heir for their wealth, attempted to improve this through two avenues: the most advanced medicine money could buy and the most traditional lifestyle that could be arranged, with as much instruction in their art as she could handle. This instruction came at a social price, as Noriko's attendance to any sort of school was marred for years and, even when her health improved substantially, her ability to involve herself with her peers was limited.
  It was in her second year of high school that a fairy approached her, offering to solve her health problems entirely if she would become a magical girl. The icing on the cake, however, was the opportunity to get to know other magical girls without her former lack of presence or, Noriko hoped, her limited technological experience casting a shadow over things. More than a year later, she's let to make any strong friends this way but holds out hope nonetheless.
  
  • Fairy Name: Butterscotch
  • Fairy Appearance: Fancy.
  • Fairy Personality: Butterscotch is a worrier. If prevented with any indication that things are going wrong, she will take it to the worst possible conclusion. A shining example of this is her attempts to find a magical girl: the first two had neither the inclination nor the time to devote to it... and she concluded that she must be worthless. It was good for her that a third person was around to ask why she was so upset.
• Theme Song:

I can't theme song D:

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

Or people could make shorter than normal posts, which is my preferred choice. Especially for discussions in the middle of a room.

Fate/ Transcendent Paradigm (A Fate/GO Based RP)

Okay, for the Arm wrestling love triangle whose post is it now?

@Beloss

Well, Kintoki would be the logical next choice to respond to his Master, but Sjinflotlltltltl might be more inclined to say something about that.

Fu Sonzai no Genso: An Urban Fantasy Mystery RP(Raineh Daze and VitaVitaAR)(Eventually open to two more players!)

So instead of being able to isolate some actual thief, they could just rule out a family member performing the actual theft. It helped that there was more to go on in terms of what clues might be around--paper where it shouldn't be or some measure of misplaced damage--but any actual indications as to who might have made off with the vase...

The "how" answered itself when it came to escaping with what was doubtless a rather cumbersome item: take the exact same way of removing it that had been chosen with the wall. Or keep reapplying the same trick in reverse. Nevertheless, along with Toshiko, Ryuuko wished to see the scene of the crime rather than the approach to it.

"Daidouji-san, was the case protected against being displaced in some manner? It seems unlikely to me that your defences were constructed to be defeated by a single skill."

Fu Sonzai no Genso: An Urban Fantasy Mystery RP(Raineh Daze and VitaVitaAR)(Eventually open to two more players!)

"So they moved the wall and used that to bypass or disrupt the defences," Ryuuko said, following the logic. Well, the logic that existed in something inherently magical that allowed connections to remain despite objects being in an entirely different area or cut into pieces, "But is this really enough of a clue for us to find out the one behind the theft?"

By this point, Yuuno was pretty superfluous--except for keeping an eye on her to see if she reacted unusually to any of the mentioned terms. Toshiko had made it clear that anyone could be a suspect in a family like this, even if the methods employed would seem to rule them out...