Stern Algorithm

Overlord Roleplay?

Just throwing my inretest in here for now. I've read the first page of this thread but haven't read the rest yet. I'll try to get an application up soon.

My initial idea is to be an NPC created by one of the players. An Angel of Law who is essentially a robot/automaton/mecha, whose lawful good nature gets to totalitarian levels of "for the greater good" and "Order above All". Someone with a real stick up their a** and zero-tolerance for what they perceive as evil. They manipulate the universal law, the Law of Universal Gravitation, as their magic of choice, using it to suppress, condemn, and imprison. They see them self as judge, jury, and executioner. Sees the player characters as gods, and therefore, infallible.

Despite being 'good', can really cause trouble when interacting with the world at large

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@Stern Algorithm Hey, how are you doing? Err, if you're not sure about posting, Lyra could be the one to start "negotiating" with the river... creature, person, elemental?

@Pseudo Stygian

Sorry for the wait. I'll get a post up later today.

Boku no Hero: Hands-On Experience

Aww man. Well, thanks for your honesty though. I hope to see y'all around.

Boku no Hero: Hands-On Experience

Sorry for the late response, I had a massive volunteering event on the 4th of July that took a lot out of me.but I finally got my post up.

Boku no Hero: Hands-On Experience

Samada reached the door only for his backpack to get stuck leaving his legs flailing at the air.'Come on come come on come on!'Gritting his teeth as he pulled with all his might and eventually got free, though in his haste had failed to notice the person who had gotten off ahead of him.' Aah WATCH OUT!?'Too late as he slammed into Shakti knocking both of them on the ground with Samada on top of him and his backpack smushing both.'owowowowow...huh?'Blinking after realizing what happened and flailed his arms in a panic.'Gah! sorry about that!'Nudging the backpack off to the side then hopped up while bowing his head, giving multiple rapid apologies.'Sorry so sorry!'He rambled out while trying to help and brush dust and dirt off him.

@samreaper

Someone barreled into Shakti from behind, knocking him to the ground. But before he even had time to register what had happened, he had been pulled back to his feet and was being dusted off and apologized to by a red-haired boy.

"D-Don't worry about it," Shakti replied with a weak smile and putting up his hands in a gesture of reassurance, still slightly bewildered. Shakti was a bit surprised that the boy was helping to brush him off. Due to his feminine appearance, most boys thought touching Shakti would be considered inappropriate. Shakti didn't mind, since they were both guys, but it did make him wonder if the red-haired boy could tell that Shakti was male, or perhaps just oblivious to the norms of gender etiquette.

Shakti sidestepped slightly, to allow the flow of foot traffic off the bus to be unimpeded. "Name's Shakti," he introduced himself, figuring that getting to know each other would be the best way to put the awkwardness of their collision behind them.

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Sorry for the late response guys, I had a massive volunteering event on the 4th of July that took a lot out of me. But I got a post up!

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With the way her eyes look, which is always far away, and the way she walks, which is always like she'll stumble into a pit without realising it, it's hard to tell whether Lyra is going somehwhere or just aimlessly ambling around. But be assured, this time she had a goal: finding the water squirters. to... you know what, she hadn't thought this through. To tell them off for their lame trick, she supposed.

"I-I don't think we should go looking for trouble!" ShiZen wa saying. Lyra brushed it off.

"My Dad always told me to leave no puzzle unsolved. I'm not leaving this one until I had it."

But with this fog and the dark and because the forest was unfamiliar, she couldn't manage more than running around on instinct, avoiding trees and sounds of trouble (was that a crashing sound? It's like someone---maybeee two students with the help of some wind magic?---fell off a tree).

"Hmm, it's a bit hard to find our way around, isn't it?" A thought occured to her. "Hey you're water elemental aren't you? Can you, mmm, sense something in the fog? Fog's made of water."

Then her ears perked up. Something was blowing in the wind too: sounds. There were chatters, footsteps, and, very faintly, the sound of running water. "I think I'm hearing something. Water? Hmm, the fountain?"

Was there something they were supposed to do at the fountain? Lyra couldn't really remember.

@Stern Algorithm

@Pseudo Stygian

Location: The river, #1

The river flowed down through the forest in complete serenity. A natural flowing body of water that trailed into the forested area just a few minutes from where the fountain was located and ended up looping back down and out just a few minutes away from where it had started. Not a particularly long way to follow.

Such comforts could be deceiving..

With no other way to go but forward the students would have to use one of the many provided little wood bridges to cross the wide river and stay dry.
Anyone attuned to the call of the water would feel something watching them.

@Zelosse

"Oh, umm..." ShiZhen thought about it for a bit. For her, her elemental powers had been nothing but a nuisance. She came to this school to get rid of them, or at least get them under control. It hadn't occurred to her to actually put them to some use."I-I've never sensed anything with my powers before," ShiZhen replied, but just saying it made her realize that that was incorrect. She remembered suddenly how there were a few times when one of her younger siblings got lost and she started absorbing moisture, she was able to find her lost sibling. In fact, whenever her power activated, she became acutely aware of the people around her, a sensation she had attributed to anxiety. She was already drenched anyways from the squirters guns, and something about this place was unsettling her. "Actually, I do feel something, but I don't know what. And that sound, I think it's a river. And there are...bridges? But there's something else..." ShiZhen didn't want to talk about the other thing she sensed more than she had to; the inability to identify it properly only served to make whatever it was seem creepier.

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@Kalleth whoever was near manilow will be approaching the fountains now. Dunno who to mention.

@Zelosse

Oh! Then Lyra @Pseudo Stygian and ShiZhen are close.

Boku no Hero: Hands-On Experience

Here. I could respond to @Samreaper, but I try not to make posts within two posts of my previous post to prevent too much advancement between two characters and leaving others behind.

Boku no Hero: Hands-On Experience

"...a game"

@ChickenTeriyaki

Shakti smiled gently, he could see that the boy was shy, and decided to respect his distance. Although that didn't stop Shakti from looking over Elpoy's shoulder and calling out, "Boom! Headshot!" when Elpoy scored one in his sniping game.

The bus suddenly lurched forward, prompting Shakti to shout, "WHOOOO! Gun it, Mr. Bus driver man!" before noticing that the bus driver had nothing to do with it. "That's the Mach Valkyrie!" Shakti said to no one in particular, noticing the jet hero fly past the bus. Full of admiration, Shakti was now super excited to have such a high-profile hero as one of their mentors. At least, he assumed Saturnia would be one of their mentors; it otherwise didn't make sense for her to playfully push their bus.

As they approached their destination, something nagged at Shakti. He didn't really notice, but there were more trees than he would have expected near the vicinity of New York City. When they stopped, something was definitely off; they were clearly out in the middle of nowhere. But Shakti didn't let this get him down, he'll treat it like an extended summer camp. Exiting the bus, Shakti sees the monstrous form of another of their mentors. "It's Saint!" Shakti called out in amazement. He had always looked up to Saint for fighting against the stigma associated with his physical appearance. In a similar fashion, Shakti wanted to become a hero despite what people may think of his lifestyle choices and means of self-expression.