Raineh Daze

Winds of Change: A Re:Creators-Inspired Multiverse RP

Shockingly, catching the massive beast had apparently acted to calm it, and Hibiki was glad for the chance to place Sif down rather than continue to hold something that otherwise filled her vision with a wall of white fur. Of course, it was a wolf and not a person, so the seeming next step of trying to ask what it was doing became rather more difficult. But a giant wolf was kind of like a giant dog, and so the magical girl went to the next step of trying to pet it whilst its head was still within reach. Which was still something of a stretch.

"Eheheh... I thought it might be dangerous, but it seems quite well behaved? Maybe someone trained them?"

Sif was certainly an improvement on the Noise or especially the Nephilim... giant sword aside--and even that wasn't so giant compared to Tsubasa's attacks--there was nothing terribly otherworldly or nightmarish about it. Now that she could get a good look, it was a remarkably good looking beast.

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If Klaus remembered Leo's last reactions in a fancy restaurant--or had noted them in the first place--then he was too polite to say anything as he began eating, thinking over his words for a minute before answering Ennis. "I would normally give an answer about how we assisted law enforcement with difficult cases but here it would be too easy to look up the details. Leonardo and I are members of Libra, an organisation for maintaining the balance between Earth and the Alter-World, but the authorities don't always appreciate our activities.

"Since we need some organisation for now that can operate independently from the UN, I went and found an appropriate site for an office. It will take longer to set up than Hellsalem's Lot, but at least this one shouldn't need to be rebuilt so regularly."

For instance, Leo would normally have invited destruction onto the restaurant with his mere presence by now, not that Klaus followed him constantly enough to notice this.

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"You seemed more interesting than the soldiers," was Evangeline's excuse--though Tenshi was sidetracked by the arcade almost immediately. Not a bad place to go... she'd rather get a console or something, since arcades didn't tend to have RPGs, but she'd played plenty of arcade ports in her time. The content of the games was another thing that had changed over time... and she was frustratingly rather lacking in the height department for playing some things effectively.

She could warn the pair that arcades were designed to make you keep losing and spending money. But what would be the fun in that? She'd just explain how arcades worked. And hope that they got past the row of crane machines without breaking into one for a prize.

Fate/Transcendent Paradigm—Take 3 (Closed)

With another Caster, Nero was determined to not let herself be shown up; her pride simply wouldn't allow her Master to believe that he had summoned an inferior magic user! Unfortunately, that meant taking time away from complicated meal preparation... whilst being able to get fresh fish helped, and she could certainly supply fresh fruit and vegetables--including for some reason a lot of different pears--the blonde could still be overheard muttering about liquamen for some reason. Something about annoying philosopher's disapproving, but he was right that it was troublesome to make...

The result was having considerable time left over before nightfall to start praying for protection--or, from her attitude, demanding it. The result was the same, with near-invisible clay symbols left littering the ground all around the outside of the city in time for the attack. Not a targetted defence, by any means, but as the wolves and zombies came closer its indiscriminate, if steadily ablating via force of numbers, nature became clear.

Every time one of the defensive charms was triggered, a bolt of lightning would strike the creatures from above. And Nero had sown the field quite thoroughly, which would drastically lessen the chance of something slipping past the Servants to the walls. A Caster, after all, excelled on the defence.

Of Gods and Men—An Urban Fantasy RP

Yang Chenlu

• Name: Yang Chenlu/Anna
• Age: 16
• Appearance: So far as things go, the ears are a pretty mild punishment for contract breaches.
• Personality: Chenlu is something of a ditz: she gets sidetracked easily and seems to miss the subtleties of a problem. She's also somewhat shy and reluctant to reach out to other people, though not to the point of social difficulty. Oh, and she has absolutely no problems with the idea of taking human life due to her upbringing, it's just that that's normally something that other people are meant to do whilst she stays out of the way.
  Really likes rabbits.
• History: Born into organised crime in China, Chenlu's purpose in life was made quite simple: exist, unless she contracted something so useful as to force a more active role in things. For a very brief period, it seemed that the young girl might indeed have made a contract like that... until the abilities it actually granted her was revealed. Indeed, someone after the martial power or immortality her contract might grant would likely never have been allowed to make it. Thus her future was fixed: exist until such time as she was old enough to marry, then continue as before.
  It was in Hong Kong, at the actual ceremony, that things finally took a turn for the better in her opinion: a hitman brought down her would-be husband, and for reasons she doesn't fully understand chose then to leave the business--an opportunity that the girl insisted on joining, having no desire to be forced into another marriage the instant things calmed down.
  And so the two of them arrived in Fairstone, on the run from organised crime and yet unavoidably getting tangled up in the local contractors. As for the ears? A punishment for celebrating the demise of her fiancé; behaviour that Chang-e certainly doesn't approve of, until such time as the girl learns her lesson.
• Affiliation: Soulflame
• Level: Low
• Primary Contracted Party: Chang-e (Deity)
• Abilities: Chang-e provides a quite eclectic group of abilities, being a lunar deity who perhaps derives more from her associations than her own direct actions. Shining down moonlight would be obvious, but cookery, rabbits, archery, and immortality? The latter is clear from her own origin, but the others stem from her location and husband: being on the moon, her association with rabbits is quite a clear one. The cookery stems from both the rabbits' own habit of making rice cakes... and that Chang-e was, before becoming a goddess, a housewife. To Hou Yi, who most notably did not attain immortality and become a contractable deity. Thus, only via Chang-e can that skill be accessed.
  Chenlu's current level of ability allows her to make rice cakes--though her cooking is otherwise appalling--and use moonlight in place of a torch. It also, and quite obviously, allows for her to summon moon rabbits of various sizes to be her familiars. Though quite smart and perceptive for rabbits, well... they're still rabbits. Even the really big ones can be quite skittish (of course there's large moon rabbits: the moon rabbit has to be quite large, surely).
• Skills: Fortunately for her, Chenlu is quite good with languages, which is probably the most useful thing she can really contribute to being in America right now. The rest of her life skills are pretty appalling and calling her a layabout is pretty fair. She burns everything that she tries to make except rice cakes, for instance. She's more able to defend herself than it might look at first glance, but she's by no means a great or trained fighter--more of a "conceal a knife and stab when you're not looking" type.
  If asked, she'll claim that her talent is burning in daylight so can she please stay indoors?
• Other:

Midnight Illusion Agency: An Urban Fantasy RP

@Eisenhorn Meanwhile I started looking up genealogical records to find correct personal names for the Nara period.

Pretty certain that name thus is more Chinese pronunciation than anything, or at least how it ended up in the Japanese imperial court at that point, but I am not a linguist. xD

Of Gods and Men—An Urban Fantasy RP

Pretty clearly waiting on another application for that backstory to make the most sense. xD

Hider

• Name: Yang Chenlu/Anna
• Age: 16
• Appearance: So far as things go, the ears are a pretty mild punishment for contract breaches.
• Personality: Chenlu is something of a ditz: she gets sidetracked easily and seems to miss the subtleties of a problem. She's also somewhat shy and reluctant to reach out to other people, though not to the point of social difficulty. Oh, and she has absolutely no problems with the idea of taking human life due to her upbringing, it's just that that's normally something that other people are meant to do whilst she stays out of the way.
  Really likes rabbits.
• History: Born into organised crime in China, Chenlu's purpose in life was made quite simple: exist, unless she contracted something so useful as to force a more active role in things. For a very brief period, it seemed that the young girl might indeed have made a contract like that... until the abilities it actually granted her was revealed. Indeed, someone after the martial power or immortality her contract might grant would likely never have been allowed to make it. Thus her future was fixed: exist until such time as she was old enough to marry, then continue as before.
  It was in Hong Kong, at the actual ceremony, that things finally took a turn for the better in her opinion: a hitman brought down her would-be husband, and for reasons she doesn't fully understand chose then to leave the business--an opportunity that the girl insisted on joining, having no desire to be forced into another marriage the instant things calmed down.
  And so the two of them arrived in Fairstone, on the run from organised crime and yet unavoidably getting tangled up in the local contractors. As for the ears? A punishment for celebrating the demise of her fiancé; behaviour that Chang-e certainly doesn't approve of, until such time as the girl learns her lesson.
• Affiliation: Soulflame
• Level: Low
• Primary Contracted Party: Chang-e (Deity)
• Abilities: Chang-e provides a quite eclectic group of abilities, being a lunar deity who perhaps derives more from her associations than her own direct actions. Shining down moonlight would be obvious, but cookery, rabbits, archery, and immortality? The latter is clear from her own origin, but the others stem from her location and husband: being on the moon, her association with rabbits is quite a clear one. The cookery stems from both the rabbits' own habit of making rice cakes... and that Chang-e was, before becoming a goddess, a housewife. To Hou Yi, who most notably did not attain immortality and become a contractable deity. Thus, only via Chang-e can that skill be accessed.
  Chenlu's current level of ability allows her to make rice cakes--though her cooking is otherwise appalling--and use moonlight in place of a torch. It also, and quite obviously, allows for her to summon moon rabbits of various sizes to be her familiars. Though quite smart and perceptive for rabbits, well... they're still rabbits. Even the really big ones can be quite skittish (of course there's large moon rabbits: the moon rabbit has to be quite large, surely).
• Skills: Fortunately for her, Chenlu is quite good with languages, which is probably the most useful thing she can really contribute to being in America right now. The rest of her life skills are pretty appalling and calling her a layabout is pretty fair. She burns everything that she tries to make except rice cakes, for instance. She's more able to defend herself than it might look at first glance, but she's by no means a great or trained fighter--more of a "conceal a knife and stab when you're not looking" type.
  If asked, she'll claim that her talent is burning in daylight so can she please stay indoors?
• Other:

Midnight Illusion Agency: An Urban Fantasy RP

Lunar Informant

• Name: Minamoto no Soushi
• Age: Her name certainly dates back to the Heian Period and Soushi is quite clear that she's been around since the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter... which is about as close an age as you're going to get from her.
• Gender: Female
• Race: Moon Rabbit. Technically a type of youkai, but she'd be quite offended to be lumped in with the rest of them.
• Appearance: Quite done with dressing in traditional clothing, thank you.
• Personality: Polite and demure, it's easy to underestimate how much Soushi observes and how persistent she can be in the face of adversity--quite unlike the normal animal that she resembles. Her most notable quirk is a habit of treating everyone else like a child to some extent or another, save for a few lunar inhabitants, even if they're a centuries old oni. On the plus side, this seems to extend to offering any and all visitors plenty of sweets on top of other food and drink.
• Abilities: As a moon rabbit, Soushi has two natural abilities: the ability to form illusions, and the ability to speak with rabbits. Of course, she's very good with the former--having had years to work with it--and can do far more than the common "make someone see something that isn't there." Whilst looking into her eyes is the easiest way for her to manipulate any of someone's senses for long periods of time, she's capable of influencing people simply from seeing her, or keying the illusion to a particular item--which is handy if, for instance, you aren't aware of exactly how many people are around. They're particularly strong illusions; knowing of their falseness won't dispell them even if they can be ignored, and illusory pain is no less incapacitating than actual pain.
  As an expert of applying illusions, it's not surprising that she's nearly impossible to place one on, and detecting light-based illusions is comparatively easy for her. As is magically breaking them.
• Skills: Do you need gardening, someone good at ceremonies and court protocol, or a supply of information? If yes, then Soushi's a good source--either because it's something that the moon rabbit herself knows (which is more often the case with simple knowledge) or because she probably has some way of finding out, so long as you can sufficiently persuade her. It should be noted that she is completely hopeless in fighting should her illusions fail.
• Equipment: She has a house/office, all nicely furnished. It's also full of strangely well-behaved and fearless rabbits.
• Brief Backstory: Like other moon rabbits, Soushi is on Earth to gather information--though that was far from her original purpose in being here. Instead, she was one of those rabbits to accompany Princess Kaguya in what would go on to develop into the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. However, when the princess returned to the moon, not all of her entourage did--Soushi, for one, ended up being part of the nobility in those periods, even getting married but generally concealing that she was a moon rabbit. Courts, of course, were the place to gather more information, and she's quite glad that such things no longer need to be done.
  With the development of more advanced communication methods and changes in society, the rabbit has been quite happy to independently supply any and all information that she can get her hands on, as well as passing it onto the moon. Though her primary role is to gather information, she also works as a point of first contact when new rabbits are sent: very few have the experience that she does (nor the wealth) to help with such a thing.

Midnight Illusion Agency: An Urban Fantasy RP

Bunny

• Name: Minamoto no Soushi
• Age: Her name certainly dates back to the Heian Period and Soushi is quite clear that she's been around since the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter... which is about as close an age as you're going to get from her.
• Gender: Female
• Race: Moon Rabbit. Technically a type of youkai, but she'd be quite offended to be lumped in with the rest of them.
• Appearance: Quite done with dressing in traditional clothing, thank you.
• Personality: Polite and demure, it's easy to underestimate how much Soushi observes and how persistent she can be in the face of adversity--quite unlike the normal animal that she resembles. Her most notable quirk is a habit of treating everyone else like a child to some extent or another, save for a few lunar inhabitants, even if they're a centuries old oni. On the plus side, this seems to extend to offering any and all visitors plenty of sweets on top of other food and drink.
• Abilities: As a moon rabbit, Soushi has two natural abilities: the ability to form illusions, and the ability to speak with rabbits. Of course, she's very good with the former--having had years to work with it--and can do far more than the common "make someone see something that isn't there." Whilst looking into her eyes is the easiest way for her to manipulate any of someone's senses for long periods of time, she's capable of influencing people simply from seeing her, or keying the illusion to a particular item--which is handy if, for instance, you aren't aware of exactly how many people are around. They're particularly strong illusions; knowing of their falseness won't dispell them even if they can be ignored, and illusory pain is no less incapacitating than actual pain.
  As an expert of applying illusions, it's not surprising that she's nearly impossible to place one on, and detecting light-based illusions is comparatively easy for her. As is magically breaking them.
• Skills: Do you need gardening, someone good at ceremonies and court protocol, or a supply of information? If yes, then Soushi's a good source--either because it's something that the moon rabbit herself knows (which is more often the case with simple knowledge) or because she probably has some way of finding out, so long as you can sufficiently persuade her. It should be noted that she is completely hopeless in fighting should her illusions fail.
• Equipment: She has a house/office, all nicely furnished. It's also full of strangely well-behaved and fearless rabbits.
• Brief Backstory: Like other moon rabbits, Soushi is on Earth to gather information--though that was far from her original purpose in being here. Instead, she was one of those rabbits to accompany Princess Kaguya in what would go on to develop into the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. However, when the princess returned to the moon, not all of her entourage did--Soushi, for one, ended up being part of the nobility in those periods, even getting married but generally concealing that she was a moon rabbit. Courts, of course, were the place to gather more information, and she's quite glad that such things no longer need to be done.
  With the development of more advanced communication methods and changes in society, the rabbit has been quite happy to independently supply any and all information that she can get her hands on, as well as passing it onto the moon. Though her primary role is to gather information, she also works as a point of first contact when new rabbits are sent: very few have the experience that she does (nor the wealth) to help with such a thing.

Blades of Iron Roses: A fantasy Knight RP

@Lucius Cypher Well, yeah, the warfare skills and languages aren't particularly unexpected. It's just simultaneously having a level of skill in things that are decidedly non-courtly, militant, or noble that would require every bit as much time given to working in a forge that get a bit questionable.

Once you've made the changes, I think it should be fine?

Blades of Iron Roses: A fantasy Knight RP

@Lucius Cypher Sorry for the delayed response, but there are a few issues here.

#1) That backstory. It's... too randomly dark to fit the setting. Not only does it not fit, there is zero chance that anything like it would ever be mentioned or touched upon in the roleplay. So... less dragon rape cults, please?

#2) Too many unrelated skills. This isn't an RPG where all skills are piled onto one or two characters. Master of many weapons, genius linguist, smith, and a carpenter--and not at subdued levels, but on a level of everything from making a chair to architectural carpentry and advanced work on making weapons... it's too many skills for one person to have.

Plus I'm fairly certain that the jobs of the peasantry and craftsmen have never been anywhere near a knight's education.

(More for information's sake, languages are more regional than race based. And talking with orcs is pointless unless you're morally bankrupt)

#3) Can we please have an appearance out of armour? Most people take it off quite a lot.

Blades of Iron Roses: A fantasy Knight RP

Sir Tyaethe Radistirin

"Seizing control of the terrain before we go in? It's almost like old times," Tyaethe said, hefting her shield before turning to Indrau, "If you're confident nothing is going to overwhelm that, then I'll let you lead once we're done with the orcs. If their first big spell gets stopped and we don't need to slow..."

Still, there was one more thing to establish before they split up: some sort of signal that they were both in place. She could create a candle flame, at least--probably nothing orcs would catch if it was only for a second, but with the other pair watching out for it then returning the sign (Tiral could surely do something so simple) they could actually move in together.

Whatever the case, once that was agreed upon, the paladin split from the captain to circle around to the westward entrance. If it was just orcs, this wouldn't take long.

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Lilianna Belwiss

"If you want to be a knight, then you need to work hard and act like one. Do you understand? That means doing what you're told and behaving," the white-haired knight said, not one to pass up the opportunity to make a moral lesson. Not that it was wrong; unless born with the privilege, then knighthood was something to be earned rather than merely awarded... as frustrating as that happened to be and as dangerous as it would be for someone like that to take to the battlefield.

With the gaggle of children around her, it would surely be easier for Klaus and Fleuri to answer the hat-wearing girl's request... not that this was supposed to be their duty, but it would certainly avoid any reprimands for not doing what Lilianna believed to be their current duty.