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Date A Live - Alternate

Yoshikuni Kageshiba and Reika Kuroki are accepted. :)

@Condor: Like the Windel and Nim, please specify what Acousitc Manipulation actually entails and allows your Spirit to do. Add that, and I'm sure she'll be accepted as well. :)

Date A Live - Alternate

Notice:

Please do not mind The Windel's Spirit-application, for douchebaggery favoritism, The WIndel is a VIP and was guaranteed a spot as a Spirit on the side, for... Plot... reasons... Yeah, let's go with that.

Or, to make it short: Only two Spirits spots are being grabbed at for the mment, there's still room for one more.

I will read the sheets soon-ish. I just woke up from an over-extended nap, my stomach's growling and I need nourishment first. :<

EDIT:

Also, thanks for letting us know in advance about your potential absence, drewccapp! :3

*pats on head*

EDIT 2:

@Al If you're using ajapanese name for your character, please do the following. Write both the western and the proper japanese way the name is spelled - as in, both with first name an surname and then surname and first name. Like so:

Kenji Matsumoto // Matsumoto Kenji

Also put italics or bold or underscore on the proper japanese name, so as to clarify. Thank you!

Now back to cooking and then readin' those sheets.

EDIT 3:

@Condor: You may mention Phantom if you so want, however, it will not make an immediate appearane in the story per se... I'd rather not spoil it more than that though. :p

Date A Live - Alternate

Alrighty everyone, sorry for the wait.

The OOC is up!

Go ahead and start the race for who'll get themselves a Spirit! :P

Date A Live - Alternate

Welcome to DAL Alternate. If you're arriving here straight from the Interest Check, then you likely know the deal already. However, if you're a fresh, new person who just happened to be dropping by, allow me to explain. This is a roleplay based on the Date-A-Live series, set in an alternative or parallel dimension where all canon characters like Shidou, Kotori, Tohka and Origami are non-existent. The Anti-Spirit Team (AST) was never bought by Deus Ex Machina Industries (DEM) and thus remains as a branch of the JSDF (Japan Self Defense Force). Aside from these minor changes to the world and story though, the rest remains largely untouched - the story takes place in the same city, same year, with the same locations you're all familiar with.

If you're not familiar with Date-A-Live but still want to join, I'd recommend you either go read the novels, the manga or watch (at least) the first season of the anime. There are a lot of terms and devices that won't be explained in the RP, as I will assume that those who join it are familiar with the franchise. For everything else, there's a (weak) Wikipedia dedicated to DAL that you can all look up and read over if there's confusion or question about a certain topic or such, I will put a link to it at the bottom of this post.

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Introductory things:

You're all anxious to get to creating your characters, no doubt, but before we do that, I'd like to take a moment to explain some things and establish some rules so that we can avoid confusion and needless messes. Please take the time to read all of the information below before you start working on a character, as you may find that making a character of a certain type might not appeal to your style of play.

The Factions:

- Ratatoskr: A philantropist-like group, masquerading as a company with its hand in many different markets and businesses, it's true face is taht of an underground association, dedicated to the peaceful pacification of Spirits. Ratatoskr values life, both human and Spirit, and are working towards a way to seal any and all Spirits' powers so that they can live as normal, harmless humans in society, without the need for violence. While certainly a wealthy organization, Ratatoskr does not - due to their policies - excel at fighting or combat, and their personnel and members are usually not trained in such matters. Their prefered method of operations is through stealth and covert operations, using their mobile airship as a command center to relay orders and instructions to their operatives in the field. Ratatoskr uses a newly developed device, known as a Sealing Crystal, to nullify and seal away the power of Spirits. These crystals are look like small gemstones and are typically set into rings, bracelets or other jewelry that is easy to wear. Be warned, once a Sealing Crystal is worn by a Spirit, trying to take it off can cause severe pain, and the Sealing Crystal can also break if a Spirit becomes too mentally unstable or upset,, at which point it will need to be replaced.

- Anti-Spirit Team: The AST has one goal and one interest only - the complete eradication of Spirits. They do not view Spirits as humans, but rather as something aking to living weapons or walking, breathing, natural disasters. The fact that some Spirits also attack humans have led them to label all Spirits as evil and malevolent, regardless if they try to just run away when attacked or not. They make no distinction between regular Spirits and Human-turned-Spirits, and will attack both. However, AST does not mindlessly assault their targets, and will not engage in large-scale operations if there are civilians around, nor will they risk harming regular humans. While not all AST members may consider Spirits to be evil, they are generally in agreement that Spirits are too dangerous and unstable to be allowed to wander around as they please - and as such, they hunt them down. AST has access to a large variety of weapons and equipment meant for battle.

- Spirits: Spirits are extra-dimensional creatures who take on the shape of human females. Their arrival in our world is usually heradled by, or accompanied by, a Spacequake that - to varying degrees - causes large-spread destruction in our world. Spirits have very different personalities and are most certainly individualistic, as some are very peaceful and timid, while others are brash and loud, while others still are violent and bloodthirsty. Spirits are jhowever constantly hounded by the AST and DEM whenever they appear, meaning their lives are always at risk. Some Spirits try to hide and blend into human society, opting to pass themselves off as humans. However, due to their powers being linked to their mind and mood, spirits can sometimes cause incidents or disasters unwillingly or unwittingly. There are also two kinds of Spirits, the regular kind that hails from their own dimension, and another variety which are actually humans who've been possessed by a Spirit. Spirits come equipped with an Astral Dress, a special garment that not only protects them, but also gives them many other abilities - flight, being one of them. They also each have their own 'Angel', a being that can comes in many various shapes and forms, and grants the Spirit a unique and special power.

Gender distribution and character limits:

Keeping in tune with the theme and setting of the world, we've opted not to change this. In short, this means that all spirits and all members of AST are female. You cannot bypass this rule. If you want to make a male character, you will have to make him a member of Ratatoskr.

You may make up to two different characters for this roleplay. However, you may not make two characters belonging to the same group (i.e not two spirits, two AST soldiers or two Ratatoskr operatives), your characters are also not allowed to help or otherwise benefit one another. You may not use one character to unfairly favor one side (i.e making a Ratatoskr agent who tells/reveals all their plans to your other character who belongs to AST).

Certain powers and abilities when it comes to Spirits have been disallowed, meaning you aren't allowed to use them. Below is a short list of powers you may not have - note that this list may expand over time.
- Time manipulation
- Space manipulation
- Death manipulation
- Gravity manipulation
- Mind control

At the moment, we're only allowing three[ Spirits in total among our players. There is no way to reserve or save a spot for this, you will simply have to come first and get your sheet accepted. And that's another thing, even if you submit your Spirit before someone else, if it's not accepted and you don't make the necessary edits before the next sheet is surveyed, you may lose out. Keep this in mind when making your Spirit.

Rules and boring stuff:

1. Obey and listen to the GM, and any Co-GM if such are appointed.
2. Do not flame, post destructive criticism or otherwise behave like a douchebag towards others in the RP.
3. No God-Moding, Auto-Hitting, Ever-Dodging, Mind-reading, Meta-gaming, Character Hijacking or other such dickery.
4. If you're busy, going on a trip or for some other reason will be away from the RP for a while, leave a message telling us about it! Failure to do this may lead to your character(s) untimely and irrevocable demise.
5. No one-liner posts. At least one full paragraph (five sentences).
6. No flood-posting, wait for at least two other people to post before you post again (only applies to the IC).
7. Have fun, socialize and talk about your favourite things!

These rules are subject to being edited, removed or added to upon my discretion.

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Character Sheets and You:

Well then, let's move on to the part that really matters, shall we? Below here, you will find two different templates, one for humans and one for spirits. Sections marked in bold are mandatory and must be filled out, but things in italics are just flavor-items and can be left out/removed if you don't want to bother filling them out. Make sure to use these templates and not your own, home-made version - sheets not using the templates will be ignored. Because we're dicks like that.

Human Template

Name:
Age: 14 - 29
Gender:
Faction: AST or Ratatoskr

Appearance: Text and/or picture
Height:
Weight:
Hair color:
Eye color:
Skin-tone:

Personality:
Quirks:

Likes:

Dislikes:

History:

Occupation: What your character does when not working for their Faction, such as being a high school student, librarian, delivery boy, etc.

Equipment: List the items your character iuses when on a mission or in the field, such as any weapons, communication devices, special gadgets, etc.

Magic Power: List as N/A if your character belongs to Ratatoskr, otherwise ranks go, lowest to highest; F -> E -> D -> C -> B -> A -> AA -> AAA -> S (for reference, Origami would rabout A or AA)

Spirit Template

Name:
Age: (Purely cosmetic in this case)
Gender: Female
Race: Spriit or Human-turned Spirit

Appearance: Text and/or picture
Height:
Weight:
Hair color:
Eye color:
Skin-tone:

Personality:
Quirks:

Likes:

Dislikes:

History: Only really relevant if your Spirit was a former human.

Occupation: If your spirit is trying to blend into society, otherwise, ignore this.

Parameters:

Code name: The name given to you by AST and/or DEM
Spirit number: 5+ (The number represents how early you've been recorded to appear and in what order you were sighted)
Angel: Your angel's name
Weapon: What type of weapon do you use
Astral Dress: Name of your astral dress, add picute and/or description if not already listed ib Appearance-section

Risk Factors: F to S rank, determines how likely you are to cause Spacequakes the higher your rank is
Spacequake: F to S rank, determines how large of an area gets blown up when you cause these, with a larger area going boom the higher your rank is.

(Remove this: These stats can range frm 10 - 220, with a higher number being more powerful or frequent. Note, not all stats can be high, 100 is about 'average')
Strength: Raw, physical strength. Decides how hard you can hit and ounch people or how heavy a thing you can lift.
Consistency: How frequent and often you can use your Angel's powers and your own, magical attacks.
Spiritual power: How hard your non-physical attacks are and how well you can defend against them.
Agility: How good your reflexes, coordination, manuevering and speed is.
Intelligence: How smart, cunning and how easily you learn, understand and pick up new things.

Ability: List the unique ability of your Spirit here, for example, Kurumi's would be Time Control, Miku's would be Mind Control, etc.

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Character List:

AST:
Kyoko Maya - drewcapp
Chou Wakahisa - Mr Nim

Ratatoskr:
Suichiro Hamani - drewcapp
Mayumi Inoue - CondorTalon
Nigel "Erin" Gladstone - LowKey123

Spirits:
Yoshikuni Kageshiba - Mr Nim
Reika Kuroki - TheWindel
Kouhime Tachibana - CondorTalon

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Links and other useful things:

DAL Wiki

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Afterword:

That is all for now. I hope you've enjoyed reading through the OOC and if you have any questions or ponderings, please feel free to ask and I'll get to answering them as soon as possible! For now, go ahead and make your character(s) and I hope to see you soon!

Date A Live - Alternate

Never said you can't have a bad/mean/wicked personality, I just said you won't be able to play as a major antagonist.
Besides, we got enough evil people story and plot-vise to fight as it is without adding an additional, independant variable of evil to the mix. :P

I think we have about enough peopole now, I'll start working on the OOC - which will likely be up on Friday or at least some time during this weekend. Look forward to it!

EDIT:
@Condor: Yes, that's fine.

Date A Live - Alternate

Hm, I'd really like to get one or two more people before I set up an OOC...
... In the meantime, does any ofyone of you interestees have any questions? Maybe you have suggestions, ideas or mini-plots you want to talk about and develop?

Date A Live - Alternate

Hooray, peoplez are coming~

Date A Live - Alternate

You can have multiple characters so long as they're not part of the same faction and don't give you an unfair advantage.

That is to say, you can't make an AST character who you then use to give information and/or other things to a character you made who works for Ratatoskr. Not that I think anyone would actually do this, but yeah, that's the rule.

I'd prefer that people not have more than two characters though - otherwise things can get messy.

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TheWindel said
Woot, woot! Wait, are you using my support video?

... Maybe... *shifty eyes*

Condor, we'll await your decision on whetever to join or not! Hope to see you sign on though! :3

Date A Live - Alternate

Warning! Misleading Opening! Kurumi Tokisaki will not actually be featured in this roleplay!

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Greetings everyone!

As you may have gussed from the title, this will be a roleplay dealing with and centered around the world, setting and overall universe of the Date A Live-series.To make the setting usable for an RP; we've decided that this story in particular takes place in an alternate version of the DAL-universe, a version of the world where canon characters like Shidou, Tohka and Origami don't exist. This naturally means that Ratatoskr, the organization seeking to seal away the destructive powers of Spirits, have been forced to find another way to do so, rather than relying on their trademark, plot-armor protagonist.

Other differences also include that AST - the Anti-Spirit Team, were never bought pp by DEM - Deus-Ex Machina Industries, and thus still remains as a part of the JSDF. To add a slight twist to things though, another group has recently emerged - calling themselves COA, or the Council of Ascension - a group that seems to share similar goals and intents as Ratatoskr, though trying to do so without the whole sealing away of spiritual powers. These groups, along with the Spirits who periodically appear, will all meet, fight and exist in the same city as the original series takes place in. Thus you will find locations like Raizen Academy and other canon locations, we've just removed any and all plot-relevant characters.

Moving on though, you're probably more interested in how this all affects you! Not to worry, for all will be explained. For now, know that you can play the part of either a member of Ratatoskr, an AST agent or a spirit. Now, for the last part there, I would like to stress that we'll be putting a limit on how many people can play as spirits. We're doing this so that not everyone ends up playing as one and we end up with a scenario where we just have a bunch of super-powerful extra-dimensional phantom-demi-goddesses, flying around and blowing each other - and the world - up and into pieces.

What is the overarching plot though? Why should you join? What's going to happen? Well, the story will be divided into chapters, or arcs, that each deal with different things. Each faction also has their own goal and set, primary objective - like AST wanting to kill all Spirits while Ratatoskr wants to seal their powers and let them live normally as faux-humans. Players of different groups and factions will not only try to pursue their primary objective, but also try to undermine and hinder the efforts of their enemies. In addition to this, big baddies and a 'final boss-like chapter" will occur at the end, where all your scheming, saboteuring and other actions will come into play.

If this sounds at all appealing, to you please feel free to drop a comment with your interest! If you've got questions, feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer!

Hope to see you soon!

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F.A.Q.

Q: So, if there's no Shidou, does that mean that you, or one of us players, will be taking that role?
A: No. There is no Shidou, and there will be no Shidou. We removed Shidou [u]explicitly[/i] because we didn't want the story to enter around one person's character.

Q: There's a lot of girls in DAL... I don't like playing girls... Can I play a Male Spirit?
A: Short answer? No. Long answer: If you're familiar with the setting and series, ytou should know better than to ask this. If you want to play a male, your best bet is to play as a member of Ratatoskr.

Q: Wait? No guys!? So this is just some Yuri-fanfest!?
A: A character's gender shouldn't determine how good or interesting that character is. We went with this decision to keep the feel and theme of the setting. If you don't like, well, tough biscuits I guess? :<

Q: Can we play as or join DEM, or this new COA-thing?
A: We decided that DEM will be one oif the big baddies and as such, we're not going to let you join them. There will be enough fighting and quarreling without some of you turning into mini-bosses and main antagonists. For similar reasons, you cannot join COA either. Sorries to all the folks who wanted to play stereotype-villains. :<

Q: So, we can't date the Spirit girls in this?
A: Who said that!? Of courser you can, in fact, I encourage you lot trying to romance the spirits - and each other! If you didn't, all we'd do is blow shut up, and as fun as that may be at first, you need variety to keep things interesting. Plus, love-traingles, jealousy and stalkerism are all fun little things, no? :3

Q: So, if there's no Kurumi, Kotori or Diva, does that mena we can use their code names and powers?
A: For obvious balancing issues, you may not. Well, you might be allowed to use Kotori's fire-power, but things like manipulating Time, Space, Mind Control and causing Instant Death are all off the table. We're removing certain powers simply because they'd be incredibly hard to balance or just outright unfair. That said, this doesn't mean they won't exist in the story, it just means you lot won't get to use them yourselves... >:)

Q: How many spirits will you allow? You said there'd be a limit!
A: It depends on how many people that join - the more people, the more spirits we can have. For the moment though, we've set the hard-cap to three. This number may change depending on how many peope that joins though, so be warned.

Q: I wanna reserve the spot of a spirit then! Can I?
A: Nope. It'll be first come, first serve - to keep things fair.

Q: If we play as AST-agents, can we use things like White Licorice?
A: Yes. Why wouldn't you? It's part of their armory after all.

Q: I've found a major problem! HOw are you going to deal with fights? I mean, in the series, AST usually only fought one Spirit at a time! But if you have three of them, what are they supposed to do when a Spacequake is announced? Just sit at the sidelines and wait!?
A: How perceptive of you. Yes, this is a major issue that could cause severe boredom for those players who won't participate in a fight - as they'll be locked down in the underground shelters and not have much to do other than, y'know, interact and converse with each other, build relations and what not. In order to let everyone join in on the action, whenever there is any, if any additional Spirits join in on a fight, AST or DEM will dispatch extra (read: NPC) units to try and deal with them.

Q: Spacequakes? Does that mean if we play Spirits, we have to return to the Spirit world and not do anything for long periods of time?
A: No. As proven with Kurumi, Kotori and Miku, as well as the Yamai Sisters, there are spirits who can stay in the human world seemingly indefinetly. So don't worry, you won't have to go back to the dark place and 'sleep' unless you want to.

Q: Can we have multiple characters?
A: At the moment, you may make up to two characters. However, you may not make two characters of the same group - as in, you can't have both your characters be part of AST or both work for Ratatoskr. You may also not use one of the characters to exploit and give the other side leverage/unfair advantages by purposefully playing or doing things that would tip the scales one way or the other. Not that I think anyone would do this, but if you thought to make something like a double-agent or something, then forget about it. Everyone has to be true to their faction, at least for now. :p