The Irish Tree

Overlord: Momento Mori

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OK so fix the levels, the White Legion image and age got it. When you say defined do I just need to add the levels and rarity or describe them?

@Archangel89

Add the levels and rarity. Explanations are for nerds.

Overlord: Momento Mori

Think we should have a discord for this?

@Archmage MC

Nope. Short reason is that I'd prefer people to actually check in on the rp for conversation, so that its a more permanent thing for them to think about. Or spam memes.

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@The Irish Tree, do you have an idea of when we'll get started?

@Lugubrious

Was thinking of doing it this friday, if not by the end of the week. Finals are ramping up on my end so it might start a bit slow, but after December 10th I should be completely free for christmas break.

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Here's my finished product which stands ready for judgment. I am ready to make.any changes needed.

The Dread Lord

The Dread Lord

Name: Vae Dhayer
Gender: Male
Age:
Occupation: Commander of the Château Military
Residence: Chapter V: Imperium Immortuos
Character Focus: Tank/DPS
Personality:

• Cruel
• Meticulous
• Efficient
• Protective
• Loyal

Notable Equipment:

• Infernal Flaming Longsword - a longsword enchanted with a powerful flame enchantment giving a boost to damage output.
• Dread Lord Plate - A full set of blackened platemail carved and embossed with a terrifying visage.

Creator Information: The_Silver_Hand - Silver was an avid roleplayer who often liked to twist normal conventions to create new and interesting characters. When he created Vae he made him as a polar opposite of himself, who chose to be shining paragon of good and justice. He would often use his creation as a bounding board for ideas for his next novel trying to create a villain that would sum up the entirety of the evil his world possesed. Plus it was always fun to play an evil character and Vae gave him the chance to do so.
Total Level: 60
Class Levels:

• Dark Knight - 15 (B)
• Necromancer - 5 (R)
• Black Guard - 10 ()
• Antipaladin - 5 ()

Race Levels:

• Death Knight 5 ()
• Skeleton Squire - 10 (R)
• Skeleton Warrior - 10 (B)

Alignment: - 500 (Lawful Evil)
Stats:
HP: - 100
MP: - 50
PHY. ATK: 60
PHY. DEF: 100
AGI: 30
MAG. ATK: 40
MAG. DEF: 85
RESIST: 50
SPECIAL: 100

Dominion:
Imperium Immortuos - the Imperium is simple in design but effective in purpose. Designed to resemble a Roman Legion barracks on a larger scale, the entire structure is massive in size housing the entirety of the White Legion in different storehouses. Upon entering the Chapter high mountainous walls funnel you straight into the Castra with numerous Skeleton Archers lining them ready to impale any poor soul. Skeleton Warriors stand ready to fight anyone who gets past the Archers and Vae stands beyond them.

White Legion reference

@Archangel89

Wanted to point out real quick that a class listed as (R) can only go as high as level 5, and that some of your class/race levels aren't defined yet. Also that picture at the end for the White Legion Reference is broken, or I just flat can't see it. Also his age isn't listed.

Other than that though his cs is really shaping up a lot. Barring those minor fixes, I'd say he's pretty much good to go once you finish revising.

Overlord: Momento Mori

Would it piss off everyone here if Vae was an Overlord race class?

@Archangel89

The Wiki describes that most Overlords are at minimum level 80 or higher, buuuuuuut since this is already stemming far and away from canon anyways, I see no problem with him being like a variant Overlord that specializes in Martial skills. Maybe Death Knight instead, as a more fitting title for it?

Goblin Slayer: Newblood (CANCELLED)

Steppe Archer would beam as the fire was lit, ceasing her shivering as she crouched before it. "I'll have to remember that one. I'm not used to being without tools at hand, never had to think of it much back home," the nomad girl would say, hands stretched out towards the fire. Once she was dry enough, she'd start adding onto the pile herself in order to keep it going, having a second set of smallclothes to wear while her own were in her bag, needing to be washed when daylight came. now thankfully, the archer could don her tribal dress with pride, warming up with a grin on her lips.

Seeing the Lizardman bathing, Steppe Archer couldn't help but admire how...experienced he'd seemed. At least in terms of survival and fighting, he was leagues ahead of where Steppe Archer was in preparedness. Sure, she could probably kill most anything normal within a certain distance, but in a melee fight, she had to just hope that her skill was superior without confidence in her strength. Then, her attention turned to the druid girl, before she would offer an even larger smile. "You're really nice. Even though we could have gotten more pay, and more loot, you didn't want to step on the lives of a family. I can respect that."

Taking her bow free of her back, Steppe Archer looked at it, before chuckling and scratching her drying hair. "I'm no saint, really. My tribe hunts and kills a lot of animals, since the place we live in has bad soil. Only thing that grows there is grass fit for grazing animals," she would say before getting up to get more firewood, leaving her bow and quiver by a tree trunk left from the town's early development. Returning with a large bundle of dry wood and sticks, Steppe Archer would feed them in periodically to keep the fire going, but not growing. Sitting with her knees clutched against her chest and arms clutching her kneecaps, Steppe Archer rested her cheek against the pit of her elbow.

"...Adventuring is fun. Even just this much," Was all that escaped her lips before she fell silent, warming and drying more by the fire, and occasionally feeding it. She'd have to tell the Lizardman that she thought he was nice too, and compliment him on his skills. Maybe he'd even teach her a few secret swampy survival tactics.

Overlord: Momento Mori

@The Irish Tree Oh crap, everyone was supposed to be an edgelord? Welp, Light is creepy, but shes no edgelord. She will probably pick on any edgelords to be fair... Also shuffled Light's classes around a bit. I'm still not 100% on class stuff. xD

@Archmage MC

'Tis a jape.

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and as we all know Chaotic neutral is the edgiest of alignment of them all

@DracoLunaris

Oh boy is it.

Mainly having that be Rodias' alignment because in a way, its also very flexible. Wanna help orphans? Can do. Wanna murder a different set of orphans for spitting on your Jays? Can also do.

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So, a bit of a trigger warning concerning Salem's creator. I didn't intend for it to get so dark.

Click here if you want to know what the trigger warning is for

Implied suicide

"Can you survive Five Nights at Salem's?"

Salem Vicarious, Lord of Lost Things

Name:

Salem Vicarious, Lord of Lost Things

Gender:

Nongendered

Age:

10

Appearance:

Normally, Salem is a small, ball-jointed doll in the form of a young, androgynous child with short hazel-red hair, heterochromatic red and green eyes, and porcelain white skin. They keep their joints hidden under long sleeves and stockings, while their face and hands are covered in a magical 'skin' that mimics the real thing and hides any doll-like appearances. they are normally dressed in a boyish, dark-blue, frilly outfit, complete with a black top hat. However, like a true boss fight, Salem can take on increasingly monstrous forms by combining with discarded weaponry and the scattered remains of other dolls and mannequins, becoming a gigantic, monstrous, multi-limbed beast. In truth, Salem's true form is the red glass eye in the doll's head. When defeated, the body crumbles to sawdust and the eye attempts to levitate away to find a new body somewhere in the City of Lost Things. If the eye is destroyed, Salem dies. Permanently.

Examples of monster forms

Occupation:

Boss Monster, Surveillance Scout, Infiltrator, VP of Automation (title reluctantly accepted from Graft)

Residence:

Chapter 1: The City of Lost Toys

Character Focus:

Salem is a true, multi-stage Boss Monster focusing on self-preservation, control effects, area denial, and wasting the party's time with convoluted mechanics.

Personality:

To outsiders, Salem behaves like a precocious, coquettish youngster and is quite good at endearing themself to others, but this is simply a veneer to hide their condescension and general misanthropy. Salem hates humans, and by extension, sentient non-monsters, with a passion, having inherited this passion from their creator. Around the other members of Chateau Gothika, Salem is their true self, a bit bratty, and quite a bit sadistic, and plagued with thoughts of abandonment and worthlessness. On the one hand, it is in Salem's nature to please others to derive a sense of self-worth, on the other hand, Salem wrestles with the desire for independence and to be free from the shackles of needing acceptance and recognition. Salem frets constantly about appearances and putting on a good show, while tending to hide their insecurities behind a facade of sarcasm, and smugness.

Some images showing Salem's typical, bratty attitude

Creator Information:

Trigger Warning

Dr.Drd was one of the early members of Chateau Gothika, and the go-to guy for coding and otherwise fine-tuning all the original user-generated content for the guild. An automation programmer by trade, Dr.Drd raged against the inevitability that automation would replace human labor and recognized, with guilt, his own hand in creating rampant unemployment. Yet he also raged when human clerks or IT help-desk personnel proved inadequate. But mostly he just raged. A man with a lot of deep-seated frustrations, and unanswered emotional problems, it came as no surprise that he would create Salem. Salem was originally made as an experiment in ways to break or exploit the game's physics engine. Dr.Drd intended Salem to manage the automatons and mannequins that, in his mind, were to form the backbone of Chateau Gothika's workforce and defense force, but that idea was pushed aside in favor of skeletons and Brushen Penn's biomechanical monstrosities. For this slight, Dr.Drd signed off of YGGDRASIL for half a year. When he returned, he changed the as yet unfinished first chapter, the Dollhouse, into the City of Lost Things. Through his constant experiments in crafting, he made a plethora of low-level objects and weapons, and the City of Lost Things became a garbage dump for these discarded creations. Over time, it seemed that creative expression within Chateau Gothika softened Dr.Drd up somewhat, and he even developed a sense of camaraderie among his fellow guildmates. Everything seemed to be going well, until one day Dr.Drd just never logged back in. His last message ever sent in the game was, "I'm happy right now."

Notable Equipment:

• The Eye of Dread -
  Salem's true form is a small glass eye. The downside of taking advantage of so many object exploits is that Salem is technically an 'artifact' and does not follow the normal rules of healing and revival. If the eye is destroyed, no one exists anymore who can craft a replacement and imbue all the convoluted code into it. Even if recreating the eye were possible, there is no chance that Salem's 'consciousness' would revive within the new eye.
• The Toy-Box -
  The Toy-Box is an oversized coffin that Salem slings across their back when traveling. Compared to Salem's size, the coffin is ridiculously large. Only Salem can unlock the coffin with a skeleton key hidden in their right index finger, and within are stored myriad spare doll parts, filled with dangerous, spring-loaded (often bladed) mechanisms.

Notable Skills:

• Telekinesis -
  A simple low level concentration spell that allows Salem to levitate and move objects. This is Salem's main attack and the foundation of their physics engine-exploiting shenanigans.
• n-Stack Equipment Slots -
  Salem's primary exploit, any object wielded by telekinesis or fused to Salem's body is considered 'equipment', so all weapon and armor proficiencies that Salem has applies to the wielded weapons and armors, and any bonuses that that said weapons or armor confer to the wielder apply to Salem.
• Paranormal Activity -
  Telekinesis is, in and of itself, a bad combat spell because it is a concentration spell, and typically, multiple concentration spells could not be used simultaneously, and concentration spells break if the user is hurt, distracted, or otherwise breaks their concentration. Dr.Drd noticed a loophole with certain ghost types, particularly, poltergeists. Applying the loophole to Salem removes the restriction, allowing Salem to telekinetically wield innumerable thrown objects. This restriction is also removed for other concentration spells that Salem might cast, though Salem does this rarely, preferring their bread-and-butter attack spell.
• Aichmophobia -
  This translates as 'the fear of sharp objects', slashing or piercing weapons wielded by Salem get increased armor penetration.
• Possessed Item HP/Durability Paradox -
  Typically, only 'killable' entities have HP, whereas 'breakable' objects have durability. Certain monsters were possessed or animated weapons, and suddenly had HP in addition to the weapon's actual durability. Dr.Drd took advantage of this strange conundrum by tying Salem's health to the sum total of the durability of all wielded items, since item durability loss usually decreases at a much slower rate than health during combat. This does give Salem a particular weakness to item- and equipment-destroying skills but since those are typically niche skills the fight against Salem is fairly cryptic to most unprepared adventurers. This also prevents Salem from wielding items with the 'indestructible' tag, whether by touch or with telekinesis, as it causes a 'divide-by-zero' error in health calculations leading to cascading code failure. In the New World, this translates to a complete and total mental breakdown for Salem, whose philosophy is that all things break, all things become obsolete, and all things lose usefulness. Any attempt to wield an unbreakable item causes Salem to lose all their abilities, dropping all wielded items, and be reduced to having control only over the Eye of Dread, requiring Salem to retreat to the City of Lost Things to recuperate.
• Antique Affinity -
  Deal bonus unholy magic damage based on missing weapon durability, gain bonus armor and magic resistance based on missing armor durability. This ability helps to mitigate Salem's main weakness as well as making fights with Salem take longer than they should. The more time it takes the party to fight Salem and attempt to figure out their weaknesses and attack patterns, the more dangerous and harder to kill Salem becomes.
• Parts Cannabilization -
  The City of Lost Things provides a limited stream of doll and mannequin parts to Salem's boss room be incorporated into their body during the course of a fight, allowing health regeneration and to the ability to grow into a multi-limbed monstrosity as the fight progresses.
• Thrown object/Collision detection exploit -
  Thrown objects, attacks made with melee weapons, and attacks made with thrown or projectile weapons followed different damage calculation mechanics. Dr.Drd found a way to combine these mechanics for stacking bonus damage from collisions while not losing out on passive benefits for ranged attacks from Salem's various ranged classes, and passive benefits for melee attacks from Salem's various dueling classes.
• Creepy Doll Heads -
  Salem can see, hear, and speak through any mannequin or doll head that they wield as an item, allowing them to perform surveillance and communication throughout Chateau Gothika.

Total Level:

55

Class Levels: 40

(B) Archer 5
(B) Fencer 5
(B) Wizard 5
(H) Ranger 5
(H) Duelist 5
(H) Shaman 5
(R) Sniper 5
(R) Weapons Master 5

Race Levels: 15

(B) Ghost 5
(H) Mannequin 5
(R) Poltergeist 5

Alignment:

Chaotic Evil

Stats:

HP: 100
MP: 25 (but only uses low-level spells)
PHY. ATK: 100
PHY. DEF: 85
AGI: 75 (decreases over combat duration)
MAG. ATK: 20 (increases over combat duration)
MAG. DEF: 20 (increases over combat duration)
RESIST: 45 (As a construct, Salem is immune to most biological status ailments, but shares undead weaknesses and is susceptible to durability-harming effects)
SPECIAL: 85

Total: 555

Combat Summary:

Salem is a 'bullet hell' boss and fights primarily by overwhelming opponents with a cloud of thrown objects, mostly discarded weapons and weaponized doll parts, though they are not above wielding weapons themself, or attaching grotesque bladed limbs to their own body and engaging in melee. Salem primarily uses sharp objects, such as over-sized gardening shears or kitchen knives, though sometimes Salem brings in chains, coffins, iron maidens, and other torture equipment to immobilize foes. The esoteric mechanics that went into Salem's creation make it difficult to take Salem down. Salem prefers to fight in claustrophobic rooms and hallways, where their thrown objects are more difficult to avoid. Salem is most at home in the City of Lost Things, where they have access to all their items. Outside the Chateau, Salem must rely on whatever is inside the Toy-Box as ammunition and is much weaker, needing to rely on passing off as a normal human child and the element of surprise.

Some videos showing how Salem typically fights

Dominion: The City of Lost Things

The City of Lost Things is a physical mindscape representing Dr.Drd's vision of the concept of innocence lost. Originally the dumpsite of discarded crafted goods, The City of Lost Things takes the discarded and abandoned and pretties it up, giving it a second, grotesque life, like undeath but for already inanimate objects. The City appears like a Toyland, filled with childish decadence, like toys and sweets, juxtaposed with images of gratuitous violence, body horror, and lewd innuendo, such as mannequins forever locked in grotesque poses. The City is a mix of Victorian, Baroque, and Gothic art and architecture, demonstrating artistic intricacy and meticulous attention to detail, while completely lacking comprehensive high-level artistic sense as the various styles clash with each other, like the inhabitants, the style is borrowed and hacked together. The City is like a pre-modern metropolis with soot-covered cobblestone alleyways filled with junk and newspapers that make no sense. Tall, narrow, sharp buildings crowd togehter, and you never know if there was an animatronic jump-scare around the corner. The main danger of the City are its inhabitants: randomly generated dolls, animatronics, automatons, and gigantic stuffed animals wielding dangerous equipment. Their danger lies in the fact that no two creatures are the same, follow the same rules or patterns, have the same strengths and weaknesses, etc., making preparation a veritable nightmare. In the middle of it all sits a mansion, The House That Salem Built, where Salem plays very dangerous versions of 'House' and 'Tea' with the currently highest ranking subjects.

In away, the City is like the Factory, but significantly less organized, and in fact, Dr.Drd had commissioned the factory to provide automaton bodies as the workforce for Chateau Gothika. When the idea was scrapped, Dr.Drd never stopped the order, so a stream of mannequins continues to funnel into the City, a testament to the abandoned project and the resentment that Dr.Drd continued to harbor. As someone who dabbled in AI, Dr.Drd played with the idea of 'evolutionary machine learning', and experimented with the idea of programs that could change their own code while self-optimizing to compete for computational resources. This embodies the controlled chaos of the City as the discarded automatons tear each other apart to survive, like humans after the Rapture fighting each other for the forgiveness of a god that has long abandoned them. Salem rules over all this, like an abusive parent who outwardly shows love and caring beautifying the automatons, but then demands that the inhabitants of the City vie for Salem's favor. In the end, nothing is above being broken down for parts, and the refuse of this chaos is collected and returned to the Factory as raw materials, where the futile cycle begins again.

Themes:

Themes

@Stern Algorithm

Really interesting take on a doll-based character. I like the idea of the eye basically being a "phylactery" for him, and that as long as it survives, he's still technically "alive". The HP Paradox was an interesting read, and it feels like you've put a ton of thought into this character to make them balanced in a game sense, and logically balanced based on their design.

And with that, he/she/it/zey are accepted as our Keeper of Chapter 1! Go ahead and plop them into the character tab!

Overlord: Momento Mori

It does bear acknowledgement that aside from Rodias the only male character, and thus the only male NPC, is Graft, who's genial and obliging to just about everyone, though out of everyone so far I bet he'd want to be around Light the least. So there will be plenty of opportunity for catfighting, I imagine. Odd that there would be so few outright evil and egotistical jerks in a guild in what's supposedly an evil guild. Of course, it makes sense that allies would try to get along, and they'd certainly be pretty vicious to intruders.

@Lugubrious

Graft has completely ruined my plans for a harem, and as such must be executed with impunity. There can be only one Y chromosome in this guild house!

Also, its not that the Chateau is evil inclined. Its just that everyone in the guild was an edgelord.

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OK I'm having some trouble with my stats. Primarily my guy is a tank so I know that being tanky is a must but I want to make thing seem fair and balanced so any thoughts? This is by no means finished this is just to give you guys a look at what I'm working with.

Character

The Dread Lord

Name: Vae Dhayer
Gender: Male
Age:
Occupation: Commander of the Château Military
Residence: Chapter V: Imperium Immortuos
Character Focus: Tank/DPS
Personality:

• Cruel
• Meticulous
• Efficient
• Protective
• Loyal

Notable Equipment:

• Infernal Flaming Longsword - a longsword enchanted with a powerful flame enchantment giving a boost to damage output.
• Dread Lord Plate - A full set of blackened platemail carved and embossed with a terrifying visage.

Creator Information: The_Silver_Hand - Silver was an avid roleplayer who often liked to twist normal conventions to create new and interesting characters. When he created Vae he made him as a polar opposite of himself, who chose to be shining paragon of good and justice. He would often use his creation as a bounding board for ideas for his next novel trying to create a villain that would sum up the entirety of the evil his world possesed. Plus it was always fun to play an evil character and Vae gave him the chance to do so.
Total Level: 60
Class Levels:

• Dark Knight - 15 ()
• Necromancer - 15 ()
• Black Guard - 10 ()

Race Levels:

• Night Lich - 10 ()
• Undead - 10 ()

Alignment: - 500 (Lawful Evil)
Stats:
HP:
MP: (How many spells you can cast before running dry)
PHY. ATK: (How much you are capable of hurting something with your physical attacks)
PHY. DEF: (How hard it is for physical attacks of your level to harm you.)
AGI: (How fast/evasive you are)
MAG. ATK: (How much damage your spells do. Also influences their area of effect.)
MAG. DEF: (How hard it is for spells to damage you.)
RESIST: (Your resistance to abnormal status effects, such as poison, illusions, etc.)
SPECIAL: (The effectiveness of your unique racial abilities. For normal humanoid races, this will always be a 0. If your character relies heavily on unique features of their race for combat, this stat should be relatively high.)

Dominion: (For Chapter Keepers only! Describe your floor, as they will generally be tailor-made to fit a single powerful NPC's classes, and compliment their style. Make sure to note any minions, traps, extra facilities on the floor, etc!)

@Archangel89

Given his tankyness, I'd imagine that at the very least both Defensive stats would be in the 70-80 range, maybe with one going to 90-100. Agility would definitely be low, and I imagine his actual magical attack stat would be decently low, but with the reasoning that he kinda just raises a bunch of undead.

Other than that, obviously needs high HP. Also just wanna point out real quick that Necromancer is a High Class, not a base class, so it could only go to level 10. So, you have five free levels if you wanna diversify his class levels a bit more, or maybe take another caster class to take advantage of him being a lich.

Liches got magic, after all. Could focus on supportive buffs/debuffs. All just suggestions though. I sure hope he doesn't turn out to be somebody's father, because with his name that'll just be real awkward.

Overlord: Momento Mori

@The Irish Tree Should I add/change that Light is anti-caster a bit? She can catch, store, and use evocation spells fired at her, so yeah. And would that be part of a race or class? Still working out details and stuff like that xD.

@Archmage MC

That'd probably be part of her Classes. Something like "Mage-Killer" or something. I can see the need to add it in if that's a core focus of her character.

Overlord: Momento Mori

Okay I do have a pitch, but I want to make sure I'm not stepping on toes. Would it be ok if I made a chapter keeper for an orrery/arcane sanctum sort of zone? I would be making a Star-Spawn wizardly sort of character to suit it.

@Dead Cruiser

Sounds interesting, and incredibly useful for literally anything the guild would ever need done. Go for it if that's what you'd like.

Overlord: Momento Mori

So question, what level would one have to be to cast 7th level spells as per Overlord?

@Archangel89

I admittedly kinda tucked it away in the section explaining magic, but the characters would all be capable of casting 7th level magic if they have appropriate casting classes.

Overlord: Momento Mori

Let me catch up with my other RP, read through what we have so far, and I'll try and come to a decision.

If the head of staff position wasn't taken up I would offer up a Majordomo, perhaps this can still be arranged?

@Dead Cruiser

Hrm...to be honest, I'd rather not have character duties overlap in that way.