Krylo is using swords, Rhuhael is... kinda using half a sword, and Celes has a knife. That's it for the sharp thingees.

Krylo had swords first. The rest of you are all biters. Bitin' my style!

Actually... Kith is a fencer type of fighter... that's a lot different than oriental sword play like Ranger's character would be using, so I don't see why he can't keep his katanas...

Although if you want to go with something else, that's lightningish... actually, I can't think of a good physical weapon for lightning, as that it's suppose to represent energy... umm... maybe a polearm?

Edit: I was also the first person to have lost his parents... Gee... I must be a trend setter.

Also, Kith and Ecurt's characters are the youngest... and mine is the least trained, so by the inverse law of RPG power properties... Kith shall be the most powerful! Muahahaha!

My guy, basically one large walking chain with whips attatched.

Name: Catena Aple-pi (Cat-in-ah Apple Pie)
Age: 20
Affinity: Fire
Specialty: Capture, non lethal attacks, lock picking, thievery (Has not done this in a long time, so he is rusty), basic jobs
Weapon: Whips and chains (Five whips, seven long chains, three small ones)
Level: Novice

Bio: Catena thinks he was born on the streets and found by an orphanage. The truth is his parents were killed by their own… ‘servants’ who attacked from the basement. Catena’s personal maid (Legit) ran with the baby, since he would have most likely been killed. She also took a large amount of money before she left. She then dropped Catena off at an orphanage, then ran off and lived a rich life somewhere. While growing up, Catena naturally liked chains and whips for some odd reason. When he was rather young he left the orphanage, taking with him a whip he had found and two short chains. He lived on the streets of a city, learning to pick locks and steal from people. As he got older, he become stronger naturally, and living on the streets helped that even more. He later found that with the money he had, it was actually cheaper to travel and do random jobs at homes and farms, and live a better life style. On his travels, Catena has picked up several whips and many chains, along with many locks and lock picking equipment. Recently, he has joined Taez academy to work as a janitor, being given food, shelter, and a small amount of pay. Catena is still decided if he should join up to become a guardian.

Appearance: Take the guy in my avatar for the basic body of Catena.
Short, brown hair and brown eyes. Wear’s a black shirt and baggy jeans. Has a long chain wrapped around his torso diagonally, and another one opposite of that one. A long chain wraps around his left arm. Another chain is wrapped around his right arm. Long chain wrapped and hung from left shoulder. A smaller chain wrapped around his waist as a belt, every chain has a lock on it, except for five of them. Three of those unlocked chain has a whip holder on it, with a whip in them. The other two have locks on them, but pouches on them. One has lock picking equipment, the other money. Long chain wrapped around left leg. Two whips are held on small chains wrapped around a part of his right thigh and shin. Long chain wrapped around his left wrist.

Extra: Catena is new to Taez, but is very good at what he does. And despite being wrapped in chains, he can move rather flexibly, though he gets pitched from time to time.

IHMN--You should make your character earth aligned, and, as that he's a thief, have him try and steal the earth part of the Vera from the academy...

Or not.

It'd be amusing though...

Why earth? I don't see this guy as taking hits, but giving out hits... (Earth = Defense, Fire = Strenght)

And he isn't a real thief, but he knows how to steal.

Earth just because that's the part of the Vera they keep... but yah... fire is probably better for a thief anyway, and I suppose if he's not REALLY a thief, he's not going to steal the vera anyway.

Just a random crazy thought.

If you want, I'll have him try and steal the Vera. In fact, I shall go edit that in now.

You are my hero for making a bad ass, possible evil theif named Apple Pie.

Not JUST Apple Pie. Cat in a Apple Pie. That is absolutely hillarious.

It's hard to take a guy named Cat in a Apple Pie seriously... I feel like changing his name to Catenan, just so Cat in an Apple Pie is grammatically correct.

I'm so happy my name Aple-Pi went so far... *tears*

I'll give you a cookie if you do.

Wow. This make me happy that I use a name generator with RP characters :D

I applaud IHMN for actually using that name *claps*

My profile comin' up soon.

... Where did you find a name generator? I really need one of those...

And what element are you View? Don't be fire... I wanna be special...

I have a name generator, but I rarely use it. It comes up with stupid names. So I make up all of my names. ^^ (or take them from somewhere...)

And you don't want to know the real story behind Aple-Pi...

But I'm really happy you used that name. ^_^ (not just because of it being an inside joke. I am fond of the name Aple-pi for random characters.)

I can't remember where I got it, but it generates names for orcs, dragons, and names based off of some authors (not Tlkein, unfortunately...). I just keep clickin' on the'Generate' button 'til I get a cool name (like Blyr :D)

And sorry. I talked with Ecurt, and we got another flamey dude (Im goin' all-out warrior. we need one :D)

I want to know the real story behind Aple-Pi. Really I do... and I think IHMN deserves to know what kind of name he's taken...

My guy is all out warrior... Be the tank. We need a tank.

I just added the thief thing because it makes sense with his story. And Lock picking because that just seems to go so well with chains...

He has no formal training, but he can kick your ass...

I already said my guy will be fire, I just need to make him. I've got a lot of other stuff going on, so I'm falling behind in making my guy. I'm thinking a fire mage who normally uses his staff and fire magic, but has a rifle as back up.

But I don't want him to get rid of the name if he doesn't like where it originated from....

mage+staff fighter+ranged attacker? Sounds like a water person to me... Balanced out in everything.

Seriously, we've already horribly distorted and joked about one inside joke you've brought out, if your going to saddle IHMN's name as another inside joke, he should at least know what the joke is...

Perhaps I will drop the gun then, but fire magic is cooler then water magic, I'm not big on all the ice/healing spells, more into burning and devestation when it comes to my mages. And he might end up being a minor pyromaniac and constantly lighting things on fire, just for comedy relief.

All fire can do is burn things. Water you can make typhoons, tidal waves, pillars of ice, sharp icicles, water elementals...

See? That's why you go with guns. They're excellent multi-taskers.

But we've already got 2 water people, and only one fire person.

And I won't tell unless IHMN wants to know, after all, it is his characters name. (on that thought, everyone like to laugh and poke fun at my inside jokes that none of you know anything about.... interesting.)

Fire elementals, pillars of fire, wall of fire, fireball, volcano (depending on where you pull your magic from), rain of fire, inferno, we could go on listing magic spell each has all day long, but I still think the fire school of magic is cooler (The only other one I'd change to is Lightning, but it's already packed to the gills with people.)

We have three fire people, not one. Viewtiful, Forever, and Me. Twenty minutes ago I was the only fire, now I am part of the most used group...

Edit - If you went to lighting, there would be three lightings. Right now there are three fires... (And all those do is different way of burning people...)

And why don't you just PM the inside joke, so no one else knows...

Edit 2 - Changed character a little, he isn't really a thief anymore. He was, but he's gotten rusty.

Bada bing, bada boom! My profile is up!

And fire alignment is only for the strength emphasis. If you read the profile, you'll know why :)

Name: Jason Marinara

Age: 20

Affinity: Fire (Strength emphasis, doesn't really apply)

Specialty: Heavy sword combat, spell channeling

Weapon: Zweihander (huge two-handed German sword)

Level: Advanced (but doesn't really apply...)

Bio: Jason always wnated to be a hero. Ever since his father told him stories as a child, he wanted to be a hero. When he was young, his father (a merchant) bought him a sword, and Jason practiced with it every day, developing his own style of fighting.

Time passed, and the boy turned into a young man. At the age of 18, he was traveling to a distant academy, hopeful that he could join. It was then, about a three day's walk form the academy, he stopped by an inn. He was about to step in, when he saw a young woman by the name of Rena, 15 at the time, who was destitute for some reason. Knowing that he should do the right thing, he payed for her stay and tried to brighten up her spirits by being the kind gentleman he was to the businesspeople his father often met with during business meetings.

They stayed at the inn until Rena was well. Jason didn't care how much it cost, as long as she was alright. His father sent him off with quite a sum of money, so financial matters were pretty trivial then.

Rena practiced some water magics during the stay, and Jason had a strange feeling. One day in the inn, Rena summoned a snowball at Jason and playfully tossed it at him. Jason went to catch it, but somehow mentally change it's course to fly back at her. He performed the feat several times, and realized that he might have magic potential.

After Rena had gotten well again and they had discovered his secret powers, they talked about where he had been headed for earlier- the academy, and Rena was fairly clueless about it, so Jason went on to tell her about it and he eventually admitted to always dreaming of being a hero: going on grand adventures and protecting the weak and innocent. But now he thought maybe it would be able to help him learn how to hone his powers.
Rena seems to liven up after he mentions the 'protecting the weak and innocent' part and she decides to join the academy with him.

Now, he's been at the academy for two years, learning that he was a spell channeler' or a 'spell breaker,' one who can't create magic, but could manipulate others' energies to an extent.

Maybe now, I be a hero...somebody who people can depend on when needed...

Appearance: About six feet tall, 200 pounds (mostly muscle). Red hair that's kinda long for a guy (think Aragorn, minus the beard and 'stache). Wears a full suit of plate armor, no helmet. Light skin, grey eyes.

Other: Can't use his own magic. Basically, he's like a Spell Breaker from Warcraft 3: he can't cast spells himself, he has to manipulate the energies of somebody else to cast, whether it is friend or foe. Very skilled at using his Zweihander in combat.

Pre-RP Relations: Rena Dugerra

Inspiration: Siegfried of the Soul Calibur fame.

... Besides the Zweihander, that isn't fire at all... Spell Breaker could be anything... I see fire the worst for the idea of a spell breaker though. (Fire usually means powerful and doesn't think things through, while with the whole 'mental' thing, that sounds like a bad combo)

And did you even ask Celes if it's ok to have her be a large part of your bio? Cause she doesn't have anything about your guy in her's...

Ahh, so the criticism begins. Well, I can say one one thing...

BRING IT ON! WAAAH!

I dunno...until you said you'd be a 'spell breaker' I really thought you were going to be a wizard-killer. Heavy armor, huge sword, an element usually assosiated with rash actions...but whatever you want.

That was the basic of the concept of the skill, so those who didn't understand would have an example to look to. I didn't mean it literally...

So really he is just a big idiot with a gaint sword and has no real mental spell breaking powers?

Edit - I hope your not turning into Raiden View... Make up a pre relation to try and force her character to like yours (Raiden did this many times with Celes)

Hahahahaha...right.

My guy is no idiot ( I never said that), he has some power (which I mentioned), and you need to just let things roll, okay?

One more thing: let's let the GM criticize, okay? It's not your guys' jobs to insult people (and their chars) in such a way. It's the GM's job to see that any adjustments are made. You can make suggestions, but I'm sure Ecurt doesn't appreciate people spamming his thread with stuff like "YOUR GUY IS AN IDIOT"

I'm headed out. Have a good night, guys!

EDIT: no way. Being a nice guy is different from being possessinve of somebody else.

Obviously everything that is not a GM comment is a suggestion. (Not even sure where you get insulting the people themselves)

And what's the point of having elements with characters when you really don't take it into consideration...

Edit - And the 'big idiot' comment was more of saying 'rash actions' (since he is fire element), but in a simplier way.

Ok, so I guess the sheild would be white magic. And you could construe stat bonuses as either that or black. I got that.
So I guess I'll just go to magic, pure and simple. It works better. So just as long as I stay within the water profile I'm fine then?

Well, this is shaping up to be an interesting little adventure. Or an interesting train wreck, but I'm hoping for the first.

Water was balanced, so going all mage you should probably do a mix of defensive water spells, healing water spells, attack water spells, passive water spells, summon water spells, etc. If your going all mage and no fighting that is. (Before you were talking about ulitity magic, which seemed like things that are not white or black...)

I guess, but could we kill the summon and healing for defensive ability with the Shwung-dao Bo? And utility was basically all the passive shiz. But I'll go mage/tinkerer

Oh and btw I heard earlier some comment about polearms, that's what I have. The shwung-dao bo basically is a stick with a blade on the end. So just fyi.

For pole arm, he was talking about a weapon for wind people though. Water could use anything.

And sure, just try and keep the 'Balance' idea of water.

Okay so nothing incredible like tsunami's and no ressurection. Got it.

I have to agree with IHMN on the Celes thing, but until I hear differently, I'll just assume you talked to her first... because it'd be awfully irresponsible to include another character in your bio without asking them. And I wouldn't assume that you'd be irresponsible like that.

As for the fire thing... well... I couldn't really care either way. The way the bio reads he could be fire, earth, or water. Fire = strength to move that sword, Earth = his size and I doubt he's going to take much damage when hit by most things, Water = he can fight well, but also control the spells of others (balance). Seems IHMN just wants fire to be special. I was kinda hoping to be the only wind person too, but like everyone else, someone started bitin' my style.


Edit: And speaking of IC relations... Ciaran is SO going to start hitting on Carolina in the FF RP... just to piss Ark off. Because I doubt they'll get along very well (Ark is kind of a happy go lucky free-spirit type, normally... Ciaran is a calm, composed type. Conflicting attidudes)...

Don't worry. He talked to me first about it. I changed my bio around a little, but I'm just basically going with what he wrote.

If I can I would like to be the only fire (Who wouldn't want to be the only one of a certain element?) And I see his guy only Fire for the sword thing, thought that could easily make sense with Earth to. And Earth makes more sense with the spell breaker idea, since Earth people are the defenders, spell breakers defend from mages. Since none of the elements are mental, Earth is probably the closest thing for spell breaker with a gaint sword. Water after that.

And yes, he did ask Celes first. I still have my suspicious that he is turning into Raiden though.

Edit - And for your guy krylo, I'm assuming that he will be horrible at slashing people, and only stabbing works because of his rapier. Mainly he will be dodging most attacks, waiting for a good moment to do a quick stab?

More or less. When I say rapier I mean the kind of rapiers that Priest is always posting in those sword threads we have in general from time to time.

He CAN slash, but it wouldn't do a whole lot of damage because the blade isn't that sharp along the edges... so that part is mostly right... but the blade is thick enough to parry well, so he'll probably do about as much parrying as dodging.

His fighting style will be like a very very clumsy version of Ciaran's, when you get to see him pull out his sword.

A rapier may be meant mostly for thrust/puncture, but that doesn't mean the edges aren't sharp. Because they are.

I know that (Blunt sides), but I also meant because he was wind, he wouldn't have natural strenght like an earth or fire to do a good slash (Hence maybe the choice of a raiper over a claymore)

Edit - Since Ecurt put in elements with phsyical properties, it just seems right to try and stick to it...

At the same time, a slashing move in which only the last inche of the blade hits the person will be very effective. Even more so since a thrust, even a small one, puts you off balence and off gaurd.

Why should you get to be the only fire? (and FIRE, of all elements!) Fire is MY element (normally)... But I wanted to be different that usual.
...Well. I guess I can justify it by the fact that you used Aple-pi...

I said I would like to be if possible. And I just think Earth is the element View should be using, not Fire. If you used it, I would assume you would be doing big burning and blowing up thingies for spells, so as long as fit it would be fine.

Ah yes. Good point. I do like burning and blowing things up, don't I (when I'm a fire mage)

I hope Ecurt isn't angry at a massive amount of posts... how many people are signed up at this point?

krylo (Wind), Ecurt (Earth), Celes (Water), IHMN (Fire), Viewtiful (Earth... I mean Fire), Biran (Water), Rhuheal (Water), Stover (Forgot), Ranger (Lightning), and Forever (Fire or Lightning) later

So 9 people have signed up (Including Forever).

Wind.

Wouldn't that be 10 people signed up, including Forever?

1.Ecurt
2.Celesjessa
3.IHMN
4.Krylo
5.Veiwitful
6.Biran
7.Rhuheal
8.Stover
9.Ranger
10.Forever

Well...it looks like I'm going to be the only Earth Element...perfect.

Anyway, the first thread will be an introduction thread for all but me to be introduced. My guys introverted and won't be there until the second chapter, and also because I will be gone while all you all get to know eachother. It'll be posted sometime on Friday.

PS: Since the Vera fragment is highly important and kept in a place where Guardians are trained...I hope noone tries to steal it.

PPS: As spell-breaking goes, I would think Fire would be able to overpower most. That's why I think it would be alright.

PPPS: I'll let you all in a little secret. Do you know why the Fragment of Earth is kept at the academy? Sul (the world) was guarded by Eternal Guardian Tomoe, so it would be natural for her to be of Earth affinity, and she had been given the fragment. Just a little bit of trivia for you all.

I think he's giving us a minor hint...

...nah.

...Kinda wish I had made my character an adept wind element thief now. With a specialty in sword play and acrobatics...

He was talking about my guy, but I removed the main thief idea (He's not a good one, mainly he just picks locks) since it's more of a wind thing...

Edit - And now I feel as though I need to make up a random power for my guy, or Viewtiful is just going to be better then anyone, having fire strenght and being immune to magic...

I know, I was just emphasising the point for added comedic value.

Ahem. Let me say something.

It's very hard to concentrate on manipulating someones spell, especially if it's a powerful spell. Trying to do that to multiple spells...well, most would be fried. I'm also guessing that he has to be relatively close to the spells. You could (if you were fighting by cliffs) break off a piece of rock above him and he couldn't do much to affect it. If he tried...I'm afraid he'd be squashed.

Can't be affecting spells too far away, because that would just be...uber.

Hmm, I suppose I could congeal the water in the air into a slope of ice and make a swift getaway..... and then Sul would make a wall of rock and I'd run straight into it..... ow

Thats why you go with guns. They're nice and simple. You aim, you pull the trigger, you reload, and you hope someone really big will be nice enough to say in front of you so you don't die.

That, and guns are multi-taskers!

Thx, man! I'll have a bow for ranged fighting, if that's alright. A short bow, nothing crazy.

I love the flexibility of effluent magic like this. As long as you stay in your profile you're fine. It's spectacular! I can do just about anything! ...... Then Ecurt stabs me repeatedly through the heart with a ladle

Does anyone else think it's odd that a bunch of teenagers are about to graduate from a school that teaches advanced combat magic...

1.Ecurt - Earth - Fist fighting and Earth Magic
2.Celesjessa - Water - Balanced out many forms of Water Magic
3.IHMN - Fire - Beats down the other guy
4.Krylo - Wind - Quick fencing
5.Veiwitful - Fire - Guy with big sword, can stop weak spells that are about to hit him
6.Biran - Lightning - Lightning magic
7.Rhuheal - Water - Attacking water magic and defensive style fighting with gun staff
8.Stover - Wind - Riflemen
9.Ranger - Lightning - Staff fighter (May be electric staff) who carries a bow
10.Forever - Fire - Burns things with big spells

(More accurate list)

Edit - My guy is 20, and he isn't even in the school... He's a janitor.

No. Why?

Edit: To Forever.

Ahem. One few things to clear up one last time.

Sul: The world.
Taez Academy: Where you guys are. Trains you guys.
Tomoe: The Eternal Guardian.
Kal: The Devil Man.
Vera Stone: When complete, supposedly gives the power of a god.
Vera Fragments: Fragments of the one and ONLY Vera Stone, each have an element. All higly protected (except Fire, which has been stolen)
Level: Hierarchy of the Academy. They are Novice, Adept, Advanced, Mentor, and Master
Guns: Cannot be charged up by magic (in case you didn't know, but it's already been mentioned)
Omake: Should we have one for this too? I'll post it up after a chapter or two if you think we should.

When you say that guns cannot be "charged up," does that exclude things like enchantments on the rifle so it can stand up to more punishment without breaking?

Is it fair to say that beginners with water magic shouldn't be able to use ice? (as efficiently, at least)

And we're not ALL going to be able to cast the magic we have affinity to, right? Just the mages. (I think I understood this right. ^^; )

Stover-That's okay.
Zero-It's a generational thing...I guess. Or, I just don't feel like revealing. ^_^
Celes-Not all can cast spells...Affinity just means that it is their base element. Think of Chrono Cross, and the element system.

Yes, like my guy. He is affinity of Fire, but he can't cast any fire spells. He can however over power any of you phsycially.

But can he dance a little jig?

as in "getting juggy wit' it?"

Finally got a character up, based off of one I thought of a long time ago but never RPed. I now cleaned him up, fixed his required fields, and hes back.

Name: Gladwin "Zek" Feromus
Age: 24
Affinity: Fire
Specialty: Black Magic
Weapon:A simple metal staff
Level: Advanced
Bio: Gladwin, who always goes by Zek, lead a decent life in the city. His parents were poor, so they had to manage as best as they could, but Zek was happy. Until a gang of thugs and thieves moved in when he was 14. They began to extort local businesses, and Zek's father owned one of those buisnesses. He refused to pay, so they torched his buisness, his home, and beat him so badly he was hospitalized for a month, as a lesson of what would happen to those that wouldn't pay. Zek snapped, and ran away from home, desperate for the power to deal with these scum. As he traveled and made a living on the streets, he robbed, blackmailed, and stole everything he needed, not caring about morality and only revenge. He eventually amassed a fearsome collection of black magic tomes, and while he dabbled in lightning and water, the burning passion and rage of fire always called him back. He studied a balance at first, but soon all he studied was fire, and only the balck portions of it, the spells that let him hurt and kill and burn. When he was 19, he returned to face the bandits, now armed with an impressive array of spells. He came bakc to find that his mother and father had died on the street, along with many of his friends who had resisted. He went to the gangs hideout, and unleashed his power. He saw untrained, but the raw ability and basic learning unleashed burning wrath on the gang of thugs and scum. He burned the enitre building they used as a hideout down, killing all that resisted his vengence. None survived.

He was amazed at his own powers, and decided if he could do this untrained, imagine the power with training. He immediatly signed up for a local magic school, the Taez Academy. He has been training hard now for a long time, and is one of the most promising fire mages ever seen, even if he has some issues with anger manegment, and what seems to be a thirst for power. He has taken every basic and advanced class, in the Combat Fire disciplines of course, and is on the verge of graduation, when he will begin his goal in life, to begin assembling magical artifacts (Not the Vera Stones specifically, any artifact), learn all he can about magic, and perhaps long forgotten spells and abilities, and try to become one of the most powerful mages ever...

More like an Irish jig.

What's up, yo! I thought I'd be done for the evening, but...well, I'm not.

It seems that everything has been cleared up soncerning my character, but for the record [Rundown Mode: ON]
1) I asked Celes before posting my profile (she practically wrote my bio herself!).
2) My guy is by no means uber-powerful, but he's no pushover, either. Also, Jason can be brash at times, but keeps a cool head more often than not.
3) The concept of 'spell breaking' was supposed to be an original idea. The higher the level the spell, the more concentration must be used to manipulate it, but really strong spells are near impossible.
4) Hack & Slash, baby. That's the name of Jason's game.
5) Ecurt told me about his idea before he posted it, and I've been brainstorming my character since, so you could say I was the first Fire adept...okay, maybe not. Bleh.
6) Yes, that is 'Marinara' as in the excellent Italian dipping sauce. Try it sometime, it's good :D [Rundown Mode: OFF]

Hopefully that clears up any controversy that still remains.

On a lighter note, jigs are nice to dance :D

1) Cleared up long ago
3) It's a WC3 unit... And Jad did it before (Badly thoug). Ecurt said you can't really do higher leveled spells at all (Or maybe he meant the uber-powerful ones)
4) You have a gaint sword... How much hacking and slashing can you do? A Zthingy is limited to mainly just vertical and horizontal swings...

btw my guy's staff has metal running through the grip and covering the ends, so he can charge it with electrical energy. Might as well change my profile to say, Specialty: Bo staff combat, combining martial and magical abilities

btw, it's bedtime.

My character's not about to graduate... and he sucks at combat magic. SUCKS. He's also one of the two youngest though.

Of course... the fact that he's untrained, uses a sword, is fast, sucks at magic, AND is a 16 year old with an angsty past but a sunny disposition, states he should be able to kick all your asses with one hand tied behind his back, a leg chained down, and wearing a blindfold... Except maybe Ecurt's character. He's 16 too, and I think he had an angsty past. We'll have to see about his sunny disposition... although all that extra training really hurts him.

...I'm making fun of the general roleplay/anime/movie stereotypes, by the way.