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[Deviruchi]

@ Johnny and Joker

I think it would be best if we make use of a system where we simply describe your abilities and improve them by adding facets/aspects to them throughout the RP (as previously mentioned). I was thinking of including attributes (Strength, Agility, Endurance, Dexterity and Willpower) but aside from assigning a numerical value to it along with what that number actually means, I can't think of a good enough way to do it.

[Johnny Paradise]

From personal experience, quantifying stats generally just serves to compare player characters to one another. If you'd really like to do that, I think ranking stats rather than quantifying them (A being really good, F being pretty shitty) is generally easier since, at the end of the day, it only ends up serving as a benchmark between player characters.

[Deviruchi]

Seeing as the player pool seems significantly small, I think we could skip attributes and rely on just the abilities you've given your characters. If the need arises, simply adding to the existing system would be easy.

With that, the character sheet is finalized. I apologize for the indecisiveness on my part regarding the system to be used in the RP.

[Johnny Paradise]

Reposting on this page for you since this site takes six years recently to open threads. Not really much change, but it is now completed.

 

Spoiler

 

 

Name: Vaska
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race: Human

Appearance: Vaska's left cheek, shoulder, chest, and left arm are covered in perforations, from which a ceaseless buzzing emanates. He covers these holes with long strips of cloth wrapped around his body; to hide the ones on his face, he wears a mask around his nose and mouth. He tends to instill in others a sense of revulsion, as the palpitations of insects crawling beneath his sickly white skin are frequent and obtrusive. Vaska has a faint scent of a flowery perfume, beneath which lies an odor of decay and dying flesh. His body is slight, his posture limp, and he is overall lacking in energy.

Personality: Vaska is by all means a nice person. He is considerate and sensitive to the needs of others. He also lives with a harrowing resignation that the needs of others often necessitates he remove himself from their lives. As such, he is a young man lacking in confidence and in backbone, who isn't sure what it means to live for himself. He is a lonely person and jumps awkwardly and uncomfortably into many foreign situations in order to maintain a sense of connection with other people, which is often to no avail. Although self-described as weak willed, there is but one thing he will not give up on: eking out a place for himself in the world, with people who can, through some miracle, look past the conditions of his affliction and not cast him away. He is certain there are people out there capable of doing so, and he will sail every sea in order to find them.
Backstory: Vaska was born on an island in the East Blue known as Feln. By nature, it was a swampy island and its residents were well accustomed to dealing with bog insects and the various diseases they carried. They thrived in this environment, creating a vast catalogue of medical knowledge in order to combat the diseases carried by such insects, and by the other denizens of the swamp. Vaska, too, was a student researching these diseases, and a bright one at that; he dreamed of becoming a first class doctor and of curing diseases like the Red Ache carried by the indigenous insects.

 

One day on field research, Vaska and another colleague came across a strange fruit. They had never seen a fruit such as this before, which was very strange considering they were in a very well settled area of the bog, and decided to collect it for study. They placed it in their packs and tried their best to forget about it for the time being--there was data to be collected. Later that evening, when returning to the lab, the two took the fruit from their packs and began performing all sorts of tests. One such test involved ingesting a piece of the fruit. An unfortunate round of roshambo later, and Vaska sampled a piece of it.

 

Horrible convulsions wracked his body as, beneath the skin, something pulsated and writhed, soon bursting from his flesh as a colony of locusts. There was no pain, nor did the locusts proceed to do anything; they simply returned to their nest inside his body. Vaska screamed and his body shook with revulsion and shock. He vomited many times and the other student with him brought their professors in to see what had become of him.

 

Upon further examination, Vaska's teachers came to understand what had happened to him. The fruit they had found in the bog was not a normal plant, but a Devil Fruit, and Vaska had fallen prey to its horrible curse. The islanders of Feln viewed this a curse of pestilence, as an omen of plague and ruin for their island; they chased him out. Vaska could hardly believe it--all the people he had once loved and called a family, who had in turn loved him and called him their family, cast him aside without a second thought. Only one person, the doctor who had examined him, showed him any kindness in these dire moments, giving him a small pack of supplies and the money to pay for a voyage off the island.

 

From then on, Vaska has tried his best to hide his condition, but to little effect. He may be capable of hiding the porous holes upon his body, but he is betrayed by his convulsing flesh, by the beating of a thousand wings, and by the scent of decay. He has most recently arrived in Port Razule, ambling along aimlessly, searching for purpose. Though distant and tainted with betrayal, he still holds some level of passion for medicine--perhaps some nascent crew in need of a doctor should overlook the insects and take him along with them?

 

Abilities 

• Tsu Tsu no Mi: A Devil Fruit which transformed Vaska's body into a hive. From this he has gained the ability to create insect-like creatures that live in symbiosis with his strange body, providing him with protection against disease and the various dangers the world has to offer in exchange for food and shelter. Vaska must eat nearly twice as much as someone his size in order to sate the insects. They respond to his will and follow his commands to the best of their meager ability.
• Student of Medicine: Vaska has a textbook knowledge of medicine and, though slightly lacking in its practical application, is very talented with research and diagnosis. He is capable of administering first aid and providing long term care.

 

Inventory:

• Equipment: A mask around the lower part of his face to hide the entrances.
• Others: Various surgical implements and other medical accoutrements, neatly filed away in a medical bag slung around his shoulder.

[Deviruchi]

I appreciate the concern. I thought it was just me who took so long to open threads around here.

 

As much as I want to get this thing running, we currently only have two characters. There are two others who expressed interest though. I'd be willing to start with at least three if not much people actually join.

[Wandering Rogue]

Spoiler

 

Name: Orzo
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Race: Shandian

Personality: Orzo is a great man of many enviable traits.  He's gentle in nature whose natural state is an infectious restful calm.  Indeed, he would often sit in the same spot without ever saying a word for hours a time or even days if the mood took him.  Many would come to him and lay out their problems while he sat and responded with an understanding silence.  When they said their piece he'd give them wise counsel.  It is for this reason he was known as the Great Bear Sage Orzo!  There was also the fact that he wore bear pelts, made bear puns, and was known to wander out into the jungle and fight bears.  Of course, he is also a great trickster with a love of mischief and gossip though whenever a trick is played or a rumor spread they never blame him.  No, how could it of been Orzo?  Just look at that constantly straight face not to mention his constant lethargy that keeps him rooted in place for so long.  Ohh no, it couldn't be him.

 

Backstory: Orzo is not only the hero of his own tale but of every tale for he is a great man.  This is known.  Just look at this giant man filled with a vast, humble wisdom.  How could Orzo not be among the greatest of heroes?  Well, probably because nobody has ever heard of him thanks to the fact he lives on an island in the sky that is by and large thought to not exist.  Such was the burden of the mighty Orzo.  Even within the great warriors of the Shandians he was counted as near the top in most qualities.  Many were his tales of greatness.  Orzo single handedly had broken the will of an invading band with displays of his vast strength and fortitude.  Another time, he had saved orphans from a burning house and then had built them a new one the next day without any tools but his fists as he bludgeoned trees until they agreed to take the correct shape.  These are but a few of his accomplishments that are oft forgotten as they are overshadowed by his one weakness.

 

Bears.

 

That's not even a real weakness though is it?  Bear's are a great and noble beast.  Such power and strength yet they have the wisdom to rest for long periods of time.  Truly, if ever Orzo were to die he hopes that he would be so lucky as to be reborn as one of their number.  They are the greatest of creatures yet people would mock him for this admiration.  Orzo fills with pity for them all at their ignorance.  It was Orzo that learned their secrets after all.  All those years ago when he had become lost in the jungle it was the Bear God Yorken that had saved him from the wild beasts that had sought to eat him.  Orzo had gone into the jungle to try and find a prey that he could hunt and show to the hunters so that they would know his strength and accept him as their apprentice.  As soon as he saw the strength of Yorken he knew though that no other master would do.  

 

Of course, Yorken would not accept a human student easily.  There were many trials the young Orzo had to undergo before the god would accept him.  He did though and over the years he did teach Orzo the ways of the bear to the envy of all.  He learned right along size the bear's own kin.  Orzo grew strong fighting his fellow apprentices despite their natural advantages what with being bears.  He would not let them out do him though.  Orzo would surpass them all and in time it would take at least three of them to even pose a challenge to him in spars.  When Yorken had nothing left to teach the young man cub he presented him with a wondrous fruit to honor his accomplishment.  

 

That fruit was the Kuma Kuma no Mi and it allowed  Orzo to at long last live out his dream of being a bear.  Which everyone in his tribe for some reason found unbearable.  They constantly complained at the fact that he would sit in bear form all day even if it was an active detriment to the rest of the tribe.  Orzo argued that it was more offensive not to honor the gift he was given but they wouldn't have it.  This would become one of the reasons his chief would pressure him onto going out into the world on a journey of self realization.  The main reason was the puns.  Orzo loved them and would use them constantly and despite how hilarious they were people just seemed to get very upset whenever he made them.

 

Orzo didn't want to see his impawsibly great puns cause pain any longer and agreed to leave the tribe for the world below.  Sadly, he was caught in a storm on his departure and was blown quite a distance away from where he had planned.

 

Abilities: 

Kuma Kuma no Mi:  Model Grizzly- Orzo's devil fruit that allows him to turn into a giant bear much like his master Yorken.  It increases upon his already prodigious strength, and stamina along with claws and teeth and a nice warm fuzzy coat.

Bear Style- The fighting style taught to Orzo by his master.  It's really just a simple barbaric style that requires a ridiculous amount of power to use without any actual finesse or subtlety. 

 

Inventory:

• Equipment: Bear Pelt Coat.
• Others: Smoking pipe.  

[KDPtheKing]

If I may chime in on a system, I believe a system where perks are introduced as you move on would help give versatility and stuff to abilities. Something that can be progressed writhing the need for making it techniques like Logia reflexive transformation or Zoan transformations.

Even special abilities like Gears 2-4, asura, diambe Jamble, and awakening. Just my thought

[Deviruchi]

@Rogue I've seen that image several times already, but I just noticed its lack of a left shoe? I don't see anything wrong with the character. Glad to have you around.

Just a question, what exactly is Bear God Yorken? An actual giant bear who talks? Or just a regular massive grizzly? Ohm did have that giant dog with boxing gloves.

 

@Kid Sorry, but chime? You want to agree with the system? Maybe you could give me an example of what you mean. I apologize, but I'm having a hard time understanding your suggestion. 

[KDPtheKing]

Perks would be a way to advance a person's ability and keep track of them.

Depending on how you govern the perk could give people very versatile abilities.

For example:

If I was a Zoan,
The Zoan he abilities of being able to turn into an animal with varying degrees of transformation.

Basic ability is to transform into an animal and hybrid
A perk could be something along the lines of having poison saliva because a person is a snake Zoan. Being able to grand form one part of a person's body into a specific animal body part instead of a full on hybrid form. Things like that.

Yiu wild still need techniques for application but at least people would not be pulling stuff out of their asses
awakening can also be a perk since its advancement of an ability.


Swordsmanship perks
Giving people the ability to cut through steel or even Karoseki

Perks can serve and measuring sticks and limitation buffers in order to show who can do what. I feel it makes it easy on the GM and everyone to be Honest

[Deviruchi]

That's similar to the facets/aspects I was talking about with the abilities.  They'd still be able to advance in terms of what they can do and its easily monitored.

 

Let's say Rogue wants to give Orzo the ability to be able to selectively transform specific body parts instead of his entire form, that would certainly be possible with the system being employed now.

 

Having poison saliva because you're a Snake Zoan? Wouldn't you be able to produce poison already and you'd have that ability right from the start. The point of the system I decided to use is to allow people to "pull stuff out their asses" as they see fit as long as its within the scope of the description they gave their ability. Awakening would be achievable later on if they become more proficient with their fruit and decide to go for it.

 

Regarding swordsmanship, if we take Han as an example, he's only has the a vanilla sword style and the ability to be able to cut steel or launch blades of air would come later. 

 

Everything you suggested is quite within the range of the system I'm using right now and isn't taxing on my part whatsoever. I'm not really getting the point of your suggestion since everything you just said already exists right now.

[KDPtheKing]

Oh Kay cool: then I am agreeing with it don't worry about stats because perks can make up for it

[Deviruchi]

I'm actually not worried about either since both of those are already integrated into Abilities. Anymore concerns?

[Johnny Paradise]

Do you have any plans of having a captain, or is everything being left to us? I think I usually prefer an NPC since it gives the GM a way to nudge us in different directions, but wouldn't mind either way.

[Deviruchi]

Honestly, I was debating with myself on the same topic. I've already typed up the first post and it doesn't involve an NPC Captain to be controlled by me, but given the scenario I came up with, it would be easy to just introduce one. I was thinking that someone amongst the players would want to be captain. If the majority prefers an NPC Captain, that would be fine with me. It wouldn't change the plot that much.

[Unbelievably Majestic]

Han wishes to be captain. It is known.

 

None yet have trusted him with such a position, or any position in fact.

 

Take that as you will. :3

Edited by Unbelievably Majestic, 19 June 2016 - 10:45 AM.

[Johnny Paradise]

I don't think anyone would willingly devote their service to Han. Maybe you can find a ragtag team of vegetable-themed ten year olds, but otherwise you're probably out of luck.

[Wandering Rogue]

@Devi

It's just a giant bear that's cool with his tribe because they give it things.  Since shandians love their giant animals and calling them gods.  

[Deviruchi]

@Majestic I got the feeling that Han wanted to take the role of Captain.

 

@Johnny Maybe he earns Orzo and Vaska's trust?

 

@Rogue I thought so. I was just thrown off by the whole fruit giving aspect of the story.

[Unbelievably Majestic]

Maybe his sword fighting will actually be impressive. He'll dazzle the others with a fantastic display of combat prowess and cool poses. That's all a Captain needs right? Sword skills and cool poses. In theory he's perfect for it. It's a shame he's also the worst guy of all time.

[KDPtheKing]

When did useless become so mean?