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message 51: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments Basic-outline-try-#2-which-is-a-gifts-based-magic-class-system-with-restrictions begin:

Everything is based on the power unit of aura. When you use your gift, you use some of your aura. The greater the gift and the more to its extent you use it the more aura is used. If too much is used, the user becomes unconcious until their aura is refilled sufficiently.

But only if the user accepts their body's request to become unconcious, otherwise the user will begin to burn into their life force and gain incredible power. Until they die.

There are 4 types of gifts:enhancements, adaptation, manipulation, and innate.

~manipulation is the ability to manipulate the world and universe around the user so that they control some aspect of it.
~ex: controlling the elements, or animals etc.
~Those who are manipulators can lose control of something if that thing is changed by an adapter[more on that later]. The manipulator must be in constant contact with a sample of whatever it is they manipulate. Otherwise they must remain in contact with a sample for an ~hour(?) before they can control it.

~Adaptation is the ability to change some aspect of their environment in order to better benefit the useer. Changing something into something else so that it is not in its original state is adaptation.
ex: A manipulator who can control earth can control rocks and such, but if someone with an adaptation ability changes a rock so that it is a sword, the adaptor's aura has been infused w/in said rock and so it can no longer be manipulated. Because it is now in an aura filled state.

~enhancement is the ability to enhance the physical body/part of any creature or person so that their natural ability in that area is greater then it normally would be
~ex: Ability to increase senses, increased speed or reflexes, ability to increase strength

~Innate abilities are innate to the user and give the user special powers that don't directly increase the users strength.
~Ability to see aura, being psychic, reading minds, sensing things


message 52: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (mashley310) Once again, I like it.


message 53: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments The supporter has spoken, and now for the important one, the critic.


message 54: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
hehe I like this one


message 55: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (mashley310) Okay.. so if le petit parapluie and Jane agree... then this one is good??


message 56: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments It would appear so, that if they [D': the final surviving members of this group who haven't said anything] agree than we're using it.


message 57: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
hehe *waits*


message 58: by Allison (new)

Allison (abriea) | 1211 comments LOVE Graceling!

I like the Elements thing, but I kinda feel it is too limiting (like if it was used before Juliet's darkness wouldn't exist :( ) anyway... I think we could just take the general outline and apply it to all powers.
Like so: ((btw I just took her post and edited it))

If the character can do major magic [aside from healing minor wounds and such] or use magic to attack they must follow these guidelines:
~The character must be either a mage[single power], wizard[multiple powers]
~Wizards: Can use combinations of two powers, advanced ones can use 3, and at the cost of the charrie's life they can control at most 5 [makes for suspenseful plots/ways to kill off charries without sounding overly cliche] However, the more powers they have, the less powerful overall they are. (like someone can only have so much power and it is sparced across many superpowers)
~ unless their powers are combined, any magical structures they make can easily be destroyed by a mage
~They choose their first power [the one they will be best at] in character creation and their second one during the RP (if wanted)
~Their only weapons can be weapons that peasants used [shurikens, short swords, bows etc]

~Mage: has total control over 1 power [that must be chosen at character creation]
~All of their magic is imbued with that 1 power. So if they battle another mage with that is dominant towards their power, their magic is all but useless.
~Mages can only use staves/staff as (a) weapon(s) (IDK about this rule but whateva)


And my revisions make below useless:

~the elements are: earth->air->water->fire->earth
~Wizards can combine their 2 chosen elements to create and use psuedo elements like storms [water & air] or magma [earth and fire]
~elements can increase the power of another element, if they're used together: air augments fire[greater flames], earth augments water[makes it more solid] and whatever else you can think of.
~the 5th element is: life. Any healers can use this element, but cannot use any of the other elements to fight. They can use this element to fight though [w/o instantly killing the enemy, think diseases and poison and aging. Of course this would come at a cost to the users own body]


message 59: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments Actually, Juliet would have had access to her powers. that's why I made sorcerers, characters who can use non stand elemental powers. I tried to make mine so that the checks and balances are evident, since we don't have actual stats. Otherwise it'll just be one person arguing with another about who's stronger.

The mage's rule about weapons is because wizards[stereotypically] always have staffs.

yours creates the chance of a subjective argument, about who's overpowered or don't have their powers spread out enough.


message 60: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (mashley310) I like aura's better. Personally. But either is good with me. Any other suggestions? I'll make a poll. And if other suggestions are posted, I'll add them to the voting list. I'll close it on like Monday, so we can open charrie creation.


message 61: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments We have only 5 people...


message 62: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments Ashley you should ask Anna, and whomever else you invited, to vote also.


message 63: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (mashley310) so.... this is so much more fun. Because yeah. I get to make things complicated. And... it's much more simplified. I don't have to interpret complicated posts that say "I like this but I don't like this" or whatever. So yeah.


message 64: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments riiiiiiight. well, we shall see how it goes.


message 65: by Allison (new)

Allison (abriea) | 1211 comments ok. that makes sense.


message 66: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments what does?


message 67: by Allison (new)

Allison (abriea) | 1211 comments what u guys said about the 3rd person.


message 68: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments 3rd person? what do you mean by that?


message 69: by Allison (new)

Allison (abriea) | 1211 comments i mean that ur discription of ur method makes sense now.


message 70: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (mashley310) waiting on two... Jessica and Adeolu i think.


message 71: by Adeolu (last edited Nov 14, 2010 02:01PM) (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments It would be unethical for me to vote in this. I'll just let you all decide.

ah ok, Jane.


message 72: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
Haha at this point I don't care I just want to rp.


message 73: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments You can always set up a temporary rp, like a waiting room, while we set this up. And then we can have our characters escorted to our true rp.


message 74: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
Bleh I dunno


message 75: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (mashley310) In which case... The first system won... so... yeah.. you'll see the results on Tues when it closes or w/e 'cause I can't edit the stupid things after I make them :-/

So... charrie page!! :-) And we can start whenever :-)


message 76: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
Can I post the god system thing?


message 77: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (last edited Nov 14, 2010 04:41PM) (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
This is kinda what I was thinking if we had a Government or Head of The Gods System

............Head Pair............
Vice Pair............Vice Pair
Followers..............Followers

The Head Pair would be like the King and Queen. Basically two immortals. A God and A goddess that rule together.
Below them they have the Vice Pairs. Again a god and Goddess for each pair. Each Pair has different views..like Democratic and Republic. Then they have the Followers. Which I'm not sure exactly who they are, maybe the kids? I just threw that line in there for anyone who wants to can complete.
Of course each Person in the Pairs have there own guards and servants and such.


message 78: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
The followers could be like the scrolls or scribes or something like that if you want.


message 79: by Allison (new)

Allison (abriea) | 1211 comments cooli


message 80: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
mmhmm!


message 81: by Adeolu (last edited Nov 14, 2010 06:35PM) (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments Sounds cool, so its like emperors>kings>duch's?

wait, what was the name of the system that won? aura or elemental?


message 82: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
ummmm sho? (idk what you just said haha)


message 83: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments In terms of nobility the order of descending power is: Emperor->king->archduke->grand duke etc. Understand now?


message 84: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
haha yeah that's pretty much how it is. :D


message 85: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (mashley310) elemental


message 86: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments We should probably decide the outline of how the country-or-wherever-they-are works. Is it magical? Non magical? Technologically advanced for their time [gunpowder etc]? Who rules? What are the other countries like? Will new realms and areas be created as we go along? And by who? The first one to enter? And doesn't this count as part of setting?


message 87: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
no technology! :D


message 88: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments Then it would be ancient, not medieval.


message 89: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (mashley310) ummmmm... Maybe we can be on a supercontinent, where all the countries are joined, and are surrounded by oceans? idk...

And maybe we can split it into like 5 countries so it's easy to keep track of. And we can give different ethnicites to different countires


message 90: by Adeolu (last edited Nov 15, 2010 01:52PM) (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments Anthropologically unless they were all like just lighter and darker shades of the same skin color; Or the continent was that huge,But if it was it would be very hard to travel between countries. Maybe with teleportation magic and city states... either way I don't think that would realistically work.

But I just like things to be as realistic as possible. The super-continent idea sounds interesting. We should have islands and some city states too!


message 91: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (mashley310) lol... that would be cool... maybe we can have portals and a minor god whose in charge of powering and maintaining them? and and and..

Say we have 6 head gods, one for each country, then another for any "no man's land" (like your city states, or anything just not claimed). And all the minor gods and godlings and w/e are all under that??


message 92: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
why cant it be one big happy country? like australia?


message 93: by Ashley (last edited Nov 15, 2010 02:03PM) (new)

Ashley (mashley310) We could do that too... I just think it would be fun to have some political issues, different government loyalties, spies, that sorta thing. But I'll be just as happy with one country.


message 94: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments Because The Awesome Creator Person said so, and she has a higher rank than the Brilliant Assitant person.

Gods for each country and one for the rest...sounds intriguing. :I>~ *strokes squiggly beard*
With all of these Gods, we may need someone to keep track and control them.


message 95: by Ashley (last edited Nov 15, 2010 02:12PM) (new)

Ashley (mashley310) ADEOLU!!! THIS IS A DEMOCRACY!!!

And we could split them.. or make them NPC's (as in whoever calls them plays them until they leave again, and then somone calls them again or whatever.. we can figure something out for them if we want to do this.)

((Oh.. if you wanna change your tittle, feel free.. I was being bored and uncreative.))


message 96: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
:D now I'm interested haha


message 97: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (mashley310) Okay... now I need feedback from Jane and Little Umbrella... So we shall wait on them to say something.


message 98: by Adeolu (new)

Adeolu (quoter) | 685 comments hahaha XD Whatever you say oh glorious leader.

For every step forward we take towards starting RP #2, we take 2 steps back. ((<- me remarking on how this is getting. ^_^ The fun's really starting)) We should discuss the limitations we will create for the transportation. And exactly what the city states and islands do and are for.


message 99: by Ashley (new)

Ashley (mashley310) Okay... so I put everything into one central location for now.. please continue discussion there. :-)


message 100: by ~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~ , The Brilliant Assistant!!!! <3 (last edited Nov 21, 2010 05:06PM) (new)

~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awesome ♥ ! ~  (jessicatheawsomeone) | 1895 comments Mod
~ ! ♥ I rp therefore I am Awsome ♥ ! ~ wrote: "This is kinda what I was thinking if we had a Government or Head of The Gods System

............Head Pair............
Vice Pair............Vice Pair
Followers..............Followers

The Hea..."


Does anyone not understand what I'm saying here? "Each Pair has different views..like Democratic and Republic." When I say like I was giving an example.


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