Have you already signed up? It's not to late to sign up if you haven't yet.

Also, what is the head count on the RPers in this RP so far?


IHMN- be a Martial Artist, theif, I you could be one of those scroll mages (you know, the ones that cast magic through scrolls) It wouldn't be quite "black magic" per say, but you can exorcise demons/undead with them (depending on how week they are) increase power for a short time, and such.

Martial Artist = Fighter
Theif = Weak Fighter (How often will stealing be needed? 90% chance of never)
Other suggestion = None item version of a rune mage

I'll list some more ideas: Be a priest, a white mage, a berserker, trainer, a meat sheild..

Oh yeah, speaking of sheilds. Ecurt, your magical sheild can't expand much bigger than a person, so if you want to use it to protect somebody, you could make it as big as you, and then jump in front of the person with the sheild that you want to protect.

Let's see... um...

1. Can be set to explode after a short period of time.
2. Can be used to ward against various things, up to a point obviously.
3. Can be used to crudely animate something that is vaguely humanoid, but not alive (ie. Statues, dolls, Small trees, NOT corpses)
4. Can be used as a marker, to guide someone back to the point where the rune was left.

Those okay?

Berserker = Fighter
Meat shield = Ecurt
Priest/White mage = Possible, but boring.
Trainer = My idea of a summoner (Summons are defeated beast who go into jewels). Just the trained animal can go away every now and then.

So, so far I have a Priest/White mage...

The one thing I would be iffy about would be the crudely animated things. I'll have to think about that one.

IHMN: Dragoon (I know a fighter, but still..) Illusionist, Your little doll-master you used once before, regular peasant/servant who just got caught up in all of this...

Dragoon = The FF version is flawed. You jump very high up, your target could take two steps to the side and you will miss. Target has lots of time to do this. Actual Dragoons are meat shields.
Illusionist = Possible, I guess...
Doll Master = No. Just no.
Regular peasant = Would die early on I assume.
Servant (One of your bitches) = No.


So, possbilities are Priest/White mage (Basically the same thing), or an illusionist...

Maybe I'll just be a fighter of some sort again...

Edit - Do we have to be human?

I have a question IHMN...


You ask for suggestions, and people give them. Then you go overboard picky and crush it.

Personally, I think you should do something different. Like a priest sworn to silence or something.

"What was that? Little Tommy's in the well!? THE HORROR!"

JE-SUS! My computer goes screwy (For the last time. Mwhahahaha!) for two days and look what happens. Do you have room for one more, Celes?

Yeah, I'm weird like that.

And then I would just be a priest with a quirk. I go for different class first, then give them a quirk if I want one.

(I personally think you're just a jerk)

Tenjin, we have a grand total of about 5 people signed up. One more isn't going to be that huge of an impact.

We have 7 if you count me and FZ who are making character.

And I'm a jerk, so what? I consider you the opposite of a jerk (In a bad way, I can't think of the word for it).

I hope 2 isn't much of a bother, then. Heh, heh.

I'll get my sign-up finished soon, but I won't have computer access for about an hour.

So now we have 9. 5 signed up and 4 planning on it.

I'm waiting to know if we have to be human before I make my character. Have a human white mage ready (Illusionist is to offensive magey and we have enough of those) if we have to be human (Or pure human).

AFAIK the only non-humans in this game are monsters. You can be a Face Worm Baby if you want...

Aliright, I'm getting my sign up ready, so that makes 10. I just need to think up a good name for my guy and my weapon, so it might take a while(I'm not very creative if you don't know already, which you people probably do).

Pussy?

Pansy ass namby boy?

Momma's boy?

Whiner?

Door mat?

Umm... there are more, but that's all I can think of right now.

Pussy, just didn't seem right.

Pansy ass namby boy, to long for my taste.

Momma's boy, sure it's insulting, but momma's boys are usually rich.

Whiner, to simple.

Door mat, that's more of a person who gets pushed around, not exactly what I'm thinking off.

Oppo of jerk... wimp-ass hatfucker?

I don't know what AFAIK is supposed to stand for, but this isn't literally the Ragnarok manga.

And wimp-ass hatfucker is just words that are used in other insults put together. It has no real meaning.

I think AFAIK may mean, "And From All I Know"

Here's my guy
As usual, I'm the kind of quiet guy, and I still don't have the brain power to think up a good name.
Name: Dart
Age: 19
Appearance: He’s about 6’2” with short brown hair and blue eyes. He wears a suit of black chain mail which seems to be almost fire resistant(he can still be burned), with a normal shirt underneath, normal pants, and a pair of very worn in boots.
Class: Berserker
Equipment: A mysterious sword he found when he was looking for a group to travel with, which is about five feet long and seems to keep a warm temperature. It also seems to get warmer the angrier he gets.
Bio: Dart was a normal child for about ten years, before his family was murdered by a gang of bandits. He became an orphan after barely surviving the tragedy, and ever since then, his temper seemed to be out of control and he had a very short fuse, getting into fights with other orphans easily. He was adopted when he was twelve and left that family when he fifteen. He wandered through some battles, showing that he had a knack for fighting in serious combat.

When he was about eighteen, he found a corpse of an adventurer wearing a suit of black chain mail and a large sword, which he took. The sword seemed to have some sort of warm touch to it, but it was barely noticeable, unless he got angry. When he got angry enough, it seemed to melt through plate mail with relative ease. He kept the thing, even though it would burn his hands if he wasn’t careful.

After another year of wandering around, he found the city of Fayon. He joined a group there looking for face worms. He had no clue what face worms were, and didn’t really care, so he decided to join the group. He’s kind of quiet in the group, but he lends his combat skills when he has to.
Quote: “I’m going to KILL that guy!”
Extra Notes: His sword is fire based, but it doesn’t show what it can do unless he gets really pissed, which is kind of easy.

IHMN: What are you planning on being instead of a human? I intend for everyone to be a human, but it can't hurt to consider what race you have planned.

Lazy man- I'm working on looking over your character, give me a sec.

I was just going to make something up... Actually, it could just be a human with an odd skill. A mix between my mage slayer and a blue mage. Goes up to something, grabs it, sucks life/magic out of it, uses it's abilities and attributes until they wear off.

That sounds alright with me, as long as it's still human.

Lazy: How hot is the sword going to be able to get when he's really pissed?

It could melt plate mail once he gets REALLY pissed, but that's about it.

Could my guy drain powers from weapons and put it into himself or a weapon he is holding?

But it can burn your hands too? That sounds alright with me. You character gets the CelesJessa stamp of approval

(hm, for some reason, I want to make a stamp of approval now...)

EDIT IHMN: It would probably be okay if you have the ability of the weapon for a certain period of time. How long of a time are you wanting the effects to last?

Wait... Celes... you should ask how QUICKLY it can melt plate mail. Like, if it's hot enough to melt through platemail immediately, when he gets pissed it would be like he was wielding a light saber...

I.E. all armor would be useless, and you couldn't parry it with a normal weapon.

I don't know, how long do the powers affect Rouge from X-Men (Just realized I'm basically using her, but not super strong and can't fly and male)?

Depends on how long my guy holds the other person though, like every couple of seconds in a minute of power.

It would take about two minutes to melt through stuff cleanly. So it would be just alittle easier to get through plate mail, but still kind of hard.

IHMN: are you just taking abilities from weapons, or from people AND weapons?

Lazy: That sounds reasonable.

People... If it was only weapons almost everyone would have to have magic weapons (A piece of metal won't due anything). My guy is going to drain people and use their abilities/attributes, and I was asking if he can take the attributes/abilities of magical weapons and items into himself or an item/weapon he is holding for a short period of time.

Edit - If you still want a white mage, my guy could have accidently held onto a white mage for to long before and permanatly has some weak white magic.

I don't know if a minute per second would be too reasonable, but the idea sounds alright. Just make sure that you don't steal everyone's ability and then take care of the battle all by yourself. And all of the abilities you would steal would be slightly tones down from the original.

EDIT: And I don't mind if you don't have a white mage in your group.

This is popular!

Also: I'm ok with Lazy's sword now, too. As if that matters... and I'm disappointed in IHMN not pointing out the potential uber-power if it was immediate meltage.

He's slacking, I think.

Edit: Minute per second sounds ok to me. A second is longer than you would at first think when you're talking about grabbing someone in a fight... and a minute is shorter than you might think when you're fighting for your life.

If anything, it should get more time per second... but one minute per second seems reasonable.

I think he was just busy arguing his point to get his own powers first.

EDIT: How did I never realize you were in Central Standard time krylo...

I think he's just trying to see how he can manipulate everyone again... or maybe he's just thinking of something unique for his character.

I was thinking that the down side is what he absorbs is equal to the targets, but he also gets memories and their mind and such, so the more he absorbs the more he has to fight back in his mind, and the better chance of him going insane. Also, if he tried to absorb an insane person, he would go insane from a couple of seconds of contact.

And I said a couple of seconds per minute, so like four seconds of contact will give him a minute.

Edit - Actually, I'll go with what krylo said.

Also, when he absorbs people, they get weaker. So his allies aren't exactly going to like him absorbing them often.

Ok, here we go.

Name: Akira
Age: 25
Appearance: Akira wears all black, black pants, and a black shirt. He has brown hair, and blue eyes. About 6', he has a pretty good muscle build.
Class: Ninja
Equipment: Carries a Bo staff (or whatever it's called) and a small dagger, though he only uses it for hunting.
Bio: Akira was born into a poor family. His father died when he was young, and he was the eldest of his three siblings, so he was the one who had to hunt for food. They never had enough food to buy anything except occasionally a loaf of bread or a piece of fruit.
Akira trained frequently so he could protect his family and be fit enough to get food. He became quite skilled using various items as weapons, for he knew he would have to adapt lots.
One day when he went into town, he saw the reward for face-worms. He thought to himself, 'We could really use that money,' and he left, promising before he left that soon they would have a better future.
Quote: "Die."
Extra Notes: Always seems to be sullen and moody, and blames himself when things go wrong.

Oh ok. good point. A second is long in a battle, now that I think about it. Minute per second is alright, as if we'll keep track too. And I don't think IHMN would be too god-moddy with his powers.

EDIT: Argh. too many things happening at once! I'm alright with what you have planned for your character. The memories and everything you mentioned in your last post.

I don't know. Let's say he's trying to get Darilk's power.

The only part of Darilk's body he could grab would be Darilk's face. Now, I'd assume Darilk wouldn't be consenting to this.

He'd have to keep his hand on Darilk's face for the time it takes you to say "One-one thousand" Apparently four times (from IHMN's last post)... while Darilk is trying to stab him in the gut and pull his head away.

Seems the power would only be extremely usefull if the target was already restrained in some way, or much weaker/really shitty at grappling.

Edit: Added something to a paragraph... also just noticed that Celes ok'd the one second per minute thing.

Maybe he'll have the ability to grow tentacles or something for long-range grabs...

One-one thousand takes about 1.5 seconds to say. I use one-and.

If need be...

But that actually brings up a question.

If my guy grabbed a tenticle beast, would he grow tenticles, or just be as strong as the beast?

No way in hell is IHMN going to be able to have tenticles in any way, shape, or form. I'll just say that now.

CJ - No bigger than Truce? That's fine.

Just wanted to make sure of something. He does have some fighting ability, but since he doesn't have a weapon he'll be useless when attacking monsters or armed things; it'll be mostly to block or parry with his shield (obviously, he won't be able to swing a shield his own size very easily).

IHMN - Meh...my guy isn't that much of a mage slayer, more like a Flagbearer from MTG. Basically a shield (target) against all magic, and he won't absorb any of it. Nor can he cast a spell when using Runic, and even if he did it would just fly back at him. The same thing would happen if he had runic on and a friendly wizard cast the spell.

Didn't see why you couldn't be the mage slayer.

Name: Vace Durahan
Age: 28
Appearance: His suit of full plate mail covers his body, but underneath it he wears a black shirt and pants, and he is fairly muscular. He is about six feet tall, with short spiky hair, and a full brown beard and mustache, with calm brown eyes and a scar down his face running from temple to chin over his left eye.
Class: Fighter
Equipment: Full suit of extremely light plate mail, a special Great Sword that can be charged with electricity on will from Vace.
Bio: (I’ll think up something later… But he meets up with the party later, he isn't with them at the start.)
Quote: "I have no clue what it is, but I'm gonna kill it!"
Extra Notes: His skill with his sword is also an innate skill. Anything he touches can be electrocuted. He has been trying to develop this skill so he can project lightning, but he has been unsuccessful so far.

What if they are just small tenticles? When my guy absorbs something/someone, he gets a little bit of their appearance (Again, based on how long he holds them). So if he grabbed Darlik, his eyes would become Darlik's colored eyes, then a second longer he would grow a little (Or shirnk) and be Darlik's size, etc.

If he grabbed a face worm, at first small spikes (Really small) would appear around his body, then a second longer the spikes get longer, then a little longer, then he starts growing a small tail, then tail and his legs turn into worm kinda body, more spikes, etc.

Edit - Mage slayer = Can take magic (But has to do something with it) so probably shots magic back at enemies. That would be the major part of a mage slayer, which is what your shield does. After that he can drain magical energy and cancel out magic in an area, but that takes concentration.

AH HAH HAH.

Seriously though, I ahve a book here with a whole passel of tentacle attack powers... but then again, since Celes no like, it's no go...

Oh, these are famous last words.

You have no idea, I just had that demonstrated to me in UO about 15 minutes ago... It is still a very Vace remark however, no matter how much trouble it gets him in...

I certainly hope he doesn't say that when fighting a cthonic horror from the deeps...

IHMN: getting a few characteristics of the person/creature is alright, but if they aren't human, it should be kind of painful to change like that. And I'm still saying no to tenticles. I'll refrain from any tenticled monsters.

Forever Zero: Looks good. that's why I like fighters, you don't have to worry about rules or anything, just give your character a sword and say "time to kill!"

Well, that is part of the power, it doesn't hurt...

That's why I don't like fighters, to simple.

Meh...fine.

Not sure what one of those looks like or how powerful he is, but there is a sanity barrier built in where if the thing is large enough, eventually he'll say screw it and run. However it would have been fun to have made him during the Call game I had...

*A hideous, mutant abomination appears, and everyone runs scared. Vace is standing there with a .50 caliber machine gun.*
"You are only ugly SOB, but I'm still gonna kill ya!"

EDIT: IHMN - They may be simple, but it's still fun to play them every once in a while instead of always playing a certain type. Would you rather I ask to be an engineer?

So, is this still starting tomorrow, or tonight (Everyone is signed up (Besides me, but I'm almost signed up, I can join late) and everyone is on (Mostly))?

Edit - Normally yes, but you're always an engineer.

I am so tempted to point you to Ghastly's ghastly comic...

Tomorrow. I have too many things bombarding me at once, and I want to be able to write the first post well. I have a half day tomorrow, that will give me a good chance to write the first post.

IHMN: fine, it doesn't hurt.

Does anyone else find it ironic that Ecurt generally likes to play blue mages, but he decided to make a 'mage slayer' type dealie this time... which IHMN wanted to play... and so IHMN ended up making a blue mage?

I only remember playing as a blue mage a total of two times here. Mimic once. IHMN has played the blue mage at least one time before.

It's not really ironic.

So... taking stock of the new guys...

Celes - Fenris Fenrir - Blaak Mage
Dante - Chaos - Swordsman (?)
SS - Kal Angarion - Alchemist
JADGuy - Methuselah - Red Wizard
Krylo - Darlik - Blaak Kniggit
Ecurt - Troy Regalo - Shieldbearer
lazy man - Dart - Berzerker
BIran - Akira - Ninja
IHMN - Sangsue Maylr - Ability-draining Blue Mage

Yes... but you like (liked) to point out that there's always a blue mage in the group that saves the world, and that blue mages can use anyone's powers, even outside of the RP forum... meh.

Shush up and lemme enjoy it!

Name: Sangsue Maylr
Age: 23
Appearance: (Don’t feel like making one up, so he looks like Vincent. See picture) Just remove those metal claws on the left hand, and remove the gun.
Class: Life sucking, Blue Mage thingy…
Equipment: A bag full of random items (Compass, spoon, whistle, and more).
-Weapons: None
-Armor: See picture
Bio: (Can’t think of anything, so…) Sangsue was born from two blue mages, had odd power when born, eventually grew up and left home, now is just wandering around.
Quote: “Want to hear a funny story?”
*Sangsue grabs talkers head for a couple of seconds*
“Heard it already.”
Extra Notes: Sang will have random outburst of insanity, talk to himself a little, act funny, and other insane traits.

Alright, finally thought up a decent name(Dart), so now to go back and edit it in...

All nine of us have been edited in. See my above post.

1) In the original Final Fantasy there were no blue mages at all.

2) In Final Fantasy VII there were no true blue mages, and everyone is too busy using KotR to use enemy magic materia.

3) In Final Fantasy IX Quina just sucked.

4) In Final Fantasy Tactics (Original) there weren't any blue mages. Sure, you could learn some things via blue mage style, but no true blue mages were in the group.

5) In Final Fantasy X-2 there were no blue mages since you couldn't get a Ronso. I also refuse to call Gun Mage a blue magic class, even though I liked it better than some.

Blue Mages are cool, but Squarenix hasn't made good use of them, not really. I would love to see the main character be a blue mage, for once.

Edit - IHMN with random bouts of insanity? This does not bode well...

2) I always used blue magic in FFVII. White Wind is always a good spell to use, and there were a coupl eof good attack spells (Like Beta).

3) Quina let you get to high levels early on with level 5 death, so I found a use for her.

5) Gun mage is a blue mage, get over it.

What's with the z?

2) You tend to be one of the few exceptions, IHMN.

5) Nope. They used a special gun to copy the attacks; true Blue Mages cast it themselves.

3) All characters have a use; it's just that some are more annoying to use than others. Quina is very high on that list for me.

Sounds more chaotic and powerful. Would you want to be an pansy-ass "berserker" or a tough-as-nails "berzerker"? It's the diff between "Ug smash!" and "Ug want world peace..."

I liked FFVII blue magic too. I used it more than blue magic in most games... mostly because I don't have the patience to go and get attacked by everything just to learn abilities... but white wind and beta kicked ass. Beta especially, because you could learn it relatively early on.

Edit: Dante, you're insane. Also, it's Darilk, not Darlik... just to be annoying.

FFVII Blue magic was pretty much like BLue Magic everywhere else, except that it was called Enemy Skill. And learnign ROulette... oh, I still have nightmares of that.

You are welcome to edit it yourself. My login is Dante (duh), and my password is ASIFIDTELLYOU... :p

Except that they had those master materia things you could only get by learning a bunch of shit... so... I had more motive than just buffing a character (the blue mage) that I normally wouldn't bother using. And the fact that beta could be gotten early and kicked ass.

Edit: Also, you could equip more than one person with enemy skill, and use one person's enemy skills on another person... which made it easier. Less chance of an enemy hitting someone that can't learn, and you can have one person with a skill teach it to the other materia.

Midgar Zolom, no? And yeah, the Master Materia rocked, esp. Master Summon. KoR+Quadra MAgic +MP/HP Absorb + MPTurbo. THen have everyone Mime it like madmen.

I just realized there isn't a single RP that us regulars are in thay is going on... That's a first.

i hope there's still time

Name: Jerick

Age: 28

Appearance: usually wears a black cloak, he has brown hair that he most likely keeps hanging slightly in front of his face. he's about 6 ft even and has piercing deep brown eyes.

Class: sort of a warrior, he has weak psychic skills, such as lifting small objects, and, on occasion if he's feelling strong enough, his enemies.


Equipment: jerick uses a spear known as Zealera. it has a "holy aura" and keeps up his stamina just enough to fight back if need be, but even that doesn't last forever. he wears only light armor, if any, because he likes speed more than defense.

Bio: Jerick comes from a far land, his people are actually very skilled psychics, possibly from their sacred jewel, Gemini. This was kept in a forbidden chamber at the top of a mountain.
Jerick's closest friend, Ruland was a son of the protector of the Gemini, and was therefore next in line to gurad it. As a final test, Ruland was to guard the gem for a month without returning to the village at all. On the final day, although it was forbidden, Jerick (sixteen at the time) went to see his friend only to find his friend dead and the gem shattered. Not long afterward the town discovered the horror and accused Jerick of murder and destruction of the gem, so he fled with the Zealera, a family heirloom. he has been wandering for twelve years, searching for a "twin" to Gemini, because he was never able to complete his psychic training. His power continues to dwindle without it's rays. he also searches for his firend's assassain.

Quote: "It is as though fate enjoys conspiring against me; first i am accused of murder, then i meet you, and now this."

Jerick is a stern man, and although he keeps to himself, he is always willing to lend anything he can in a battle.

Is there a single RP going on right now though? I think everything is in the sign-up phase still.

EDIT: I stand corrected, there is one RP, the HALO RP.

I just noticed a small problem here...


A lot of our characters have abilities and stuff they've had to train to use...

So, say IHMN grabs Vace. Since he's never had to deal with it before, he's running around with lightning zapping everyone within two feet of him.

Grabs our shield guy...Shield starts bouncing between the two of them smacking people.

Grabs a Black Mage, magical death starts flying around at insanely high speeds.

Grabs my guy, everything starts turning into sand, or rice, or something.

And so on, and so forth...


Just felt like pointing that out.

He also gets some memories... and not even Vace can shoot his powers around randomly. Also: Magic has to do more with knowledge than innate abilities... at least in most universes, thus I assume it is such here too. He grabs someone and gains the knowledge of the abilities...

He can control what he absorbs.

Edit - I was just going to respond with "Because I said so", but I like krylo's idea better.

That's....kinda' creepy.

Someone would be standing there, and he would bump him, then look at him and say, "You disgust me."

The idea of him getting memories is....more than a little disconcerting.

And remember how I explicitly said my guy is an emotional wreck, that just needs a little push to go over the edge? What happens if IHMN gets into his mind, but doesn't have that personality that keeps him in line?