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Blackshard 2 - Revenge of the Nethermancers (Chat RP game interest check)


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So, perhaps in an attempt to double up the Special Hell's chatroom's constant RP count, I'm tossing an advert for a freeform roleplay that will be happening in there if I can get a high enough interest, with occasional feedback either coming from this thread or my archive thread in Blank Page.

Right, here's the story pitch:

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As the title suggests, this story takes place in the fantasy realem used in my Blackshard stories, primarily the continent known as Kalifer, although in the roleplay other continents may also be visited regularly. Tens years have passed since the events of Blackshard, in which a young explore accidentally awakens one of these infamous living artifacts. The remaining Blackshards are eventually destroyed for good, and the continent of Kalifer returns to peace and prosperity.

Ten years go by, and in the Abyssite port settlement of Spine of the Abyss, bodies have begun to wash up onto the shore, bearing the features of the Helius people - A tribe of humans who's home island was sunk beneath the waves many thousands of years before the Rift Wars, due to the goddess's jealousy of their soul manipulation to the point of empowering constructs with the mere touch.

More terrifying, however, is the fact that these bodies bear what appear to be malformed and half-mutated Blackshard Parasites, Nether creatures that do not exist in the human plane and the original source of the Blackshard artifacts.

The four great leaders of Kalifer's nations have sent out for aid to any masters of thier craft who feel they could assist in the search for what is the cause of the Blackshard's appearance in this reality, the cries going to the technological-advanced kingdom of Braxil across the sea in one direction, to the Shiri Islands to the south, Dragonkin Empire of the Scaletail Islands to the far east, the religious zealotry of the island nation of Nullim to the southwest, and even far beneath the oceans to Helios itself.

Should there be a perfected Blackshard in this day and age, it could only spell doom to the kingdom of Kalifer, and the rest of the world shortly after.

You are to take control of one of these various heroes, your mastery in your craft having led you to assume you could find a way to discover the source of these new Blackshards. Whether a strong warrior, a diplomat from a far land, or trained in arts such as alchemy and technology, you may become the hope of Kalifer against this new threat.

For good examples of the playable creatures to come in this idea, check out this post. - http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread.php?p=612371#post612371

Feedback is always welcome, of course!
 

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Re: Blackshard 2 - Revenge of the Nethermancers (Chat RP game interest check)

This definitely seems interesting to me so yeah, consider me interested.
 

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Herpy serpy signny uppy wuppy meza amu.

Yes, interest shown.
 

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I'm also interested. :3
 

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Sounds like an interesting story. Count me in.
 
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Well this is a good start, so I guess I can add more to here. Also, if people want to ask questions, feel free to either ask questions here or if you can catch me on Special Hell. I'll be a tad busy tomorrowish but hopefully can work the basics of the background stuff for the RP fully there.

For now though, here's a ok enough character sheet setup to think of.

Player Name - Your chatroom name or forum name, just something so I don't get confused later.
Character Name - Obvious stuff.
Character Race - One of the main races off the Kalifer notes linked above in the main post. Most of them are self-explanatory, though if you want specific details, well, ask ',';
Description - Basically how your character looks. Obviousness though some species may require a bit of clarifications.
Items and Equipment - The stuff your character will be lugging with them to the meeting about the royal request for assistance. Pretty much any adventuring gear is ok, and the world does work in a mix of steampunk, magitech, and high fantasy tech. Just please no hammerspace items!
Motivation - Basically a basic backstory. Why is your character going to reply to the royal summons? Are they in it for the glory? Have they been ordered there? Perhaps they are a bit darker of heart, trying to claim this new generation of Blackshards for themselves...

That'll do for now, has fun!
 

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Is there a sort of good non-corrupting version of blackshards? Such as their natural form before the corrupting magics making them the evil and corruptive version?
 
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Is there a sort of good non-corrupting version of blackshards? Such as their natural form before the corrupting magics making them the evil and corruptive version?
As far as background is concerned, noone's bothered to try. The Nether Realm has been taboo to the Abyssites long before the Rift War, and openly declaring oneself to be a worshiper of the Nether Realm is just asking for a execution. Naturally this has twisted the mindset of a lot of Nether Mages as well, causing disdain towards the ruling houses and monarchies and as a result a lot of hate-filled situations.

Of the five shards, Ashur was the only one who was able to develop a pure, full-on personality to the point that by the end of Blackshard she winds up somewhat towards the Chaotic Neutral side of the alignment chart, but considering a few factors (extended period of time assimilating a ID from a easily-corrupted host, further enhancement right before the end of the Rift Wars) she was no ordinary Enhanced Blackshard even. Standard Blackshards tend to be non-sentient, and even the others in the Rift Wars after the enhancement had only the near base of a intelligence, as the rest of the hosts were made of much stronger willpower and thus avoided the level of manipulation and assimilation that befell the original Ashur.

As for other parasites that could be created into armor, the only other ones I've thought of in the lore was the Blots, another Nether species that is essentially living slime of a latex consistency- however, earlier experiments by Nether Magi have found the base intelligence of the creatures to be much higher than the Blackshards, making them extremely dangerous for someone attempting to control one to be essentially taken over by the creature, forced like a marionette around as the beast causes havoc. The closest that the main population of Kalifer would have to a Blackshard suit (that I had originally planned) would be some form of Construct or Mechoid powersuit, but making non-intelligent versions is much more viable should something of that nature ever be invented.
 

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Ah. With the Blots, if the character was a mage or something with a lot of willpower, could they potentially make a sort of deal with them?

Also for dragonkin characters, are they half dragon sort of hybrid, or a full dragon?
 
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Intelligence doesn't nessisarily mean benevolence. The Blots really don't care about material stuff, just feeding on blood and flesh. And naturally, if one was to make it go into the bodysuit form, it'd only really keep the host alive for form and substance. If the host dies, another meal before finding a new host. Win-Win!

Seriously, if anyone was able to keep the the Blot-Armor happy, the only way to sate it would be a steady supply of corpses and mayhem. If you come across someone who has beyond all matters managed to TAME one of these, I got one bit of advice.

RUN.

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As for the dragonkin, I guess the bluntest way to put this group is 'dragon furries'. Appearencewise they hold all the basic visual bits of either European Dragons (Western Dragonkin) or Asian Dragons (Eastern Dragonkin). For Western, this results in stocky, bulky frames, solid scales covering their hide beyond their belly, heavy tails and occasionally long wings. Head decoration includes horns that alternate between curved ram horns or longer ones jutting backwards, and occasionally hair of various lengths and shades. Eastern meanwhile are much thinner, with softer, fishlike scales, longer and thinner tails, tufts of hair on the joints of the limbs and on the tailtip, long ears and very commonly hair and stag horns. A good example of a Eastern Dragonkin can be found in the gallery I've started to set up on my profile for example images.
 

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Re: Blackshard 2 - Revenge of the Nethermancers (Chat RP game interest check)

What is your stance of halfbreeds? Are you allowing hlaf breed characters such as a dragonkin and cubite?
 
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Halfbreeding is certainly a option, yes, there's no social taboos about it at any rate.
 

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Okay. :)

Also how much Erp would this game have? Using Maiko's Smut-o-meter, such a useful thing.

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I'm gonna shoot for a 3-4 personally, though it may vary depending on player actions. Best way I can explain is I'll be pointing the players towards a plot point, but considering the world itself and some of the inhabitants, I won't be surprised by a few 'sidetracks' here and there.
 

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Ah okay. :) Good to know. Should have a character for you tomorrow.
 

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Re: Blackshard 2 - Revenge of the Nethermancers (Chat RP game interest check)

Likewise. Hehe, dragonflies...
 

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I hope this is alright Lurker.

Player Name
- Rathuris

Character Name - [SIZE=+2] Alkaia[/SIZE] Rune Scale

Character Race - Dragonkin Cubite Hybrid

Description -
Alkaia looks very much like a western dragonkin, though her form is much slimmer then others of her kind. Her scales are a snow white and are almost so fine they appear to be a single sheet. Her eyes are a piecing pale blue and glow softly in the dark. Loose wavey white locks fall down to the base of her tail. Two white horns curve back from her head, a fin with a almost white blue membrane trails down to the her shoulders. A cute little horn stick up from the tip of her muzzle.

Her body is slim and curvaceous, with a full bottom and a large bosom. From her back sprouts two draconic wings. The membrane has quite a few rips, tears and holes clearly the result of battle.She has a strong tail emerging from her backside and ends in a spaded tip. Starting from her chin and leading down to halfway down her tail are thick triangular scales are are a brighter white then the rest of her scales. Her body is covered in intricate magical runes and tattoos, that tends to glow a soft ice blue. She seems to have control of when the tattoo is visible

She typically wears a sheer white tube top that just conceals her nipples. The tube top has translucent white pieces hanging down to her hips from the center, the sides and between her wings. The tubetop has delicate gold scroll work on the front meant to draw the eye to her large bosom. She wears a white g-string with gold scroll to hide her intimate parts. Her waist is covered in a four piece skirt that hangs down to her ankles. The skirt is also sheer with intricate traces of gold scroll work that emphasizes her figure when she is still. She has delicate gold bracelets around her wrists and ankles. The bracelets have a dozen little crystal pieces that makes a soft chiming sound when she moves.

Here is a picture, though minus the nose ring.
Items and Equipment - Her slutty dancer outfit, a set of revealing set of sorceress armour, and several pairs of very sheer lingerie and undergarmets, a small bag of holding, a magical body tattoo that can store extra magical power to use later, a simple oak wood staff, and a warm and very comfy bedroll.

Motivation - [SIZE=+2] Alkaia[/SIZE] was born with a great aptitude for magic, though unlike the rest of her kind, she had barely any power of her own. Leaving her barely able to cast basic magic. When she reached adulthood something strange happened, she no longer found food filled her and she was hungry all the time. After a brief sexual encounter that scared her to seek out her dragon father he explained that she was half cubite.

She soon learned that to survive she needed to feed off of other people. After the first time she feed, she found that the power she had siphoned soon gave her greater reserves of magic, allowing her to cast spells she had not been capable of before. After much study her her new found powers she set out to make a name for herself as a sorceress.

She was working as a dancer at a fancy tavern, using her magic to help various customers and making quite the name for herself. When she recieved the summons to help with the Blackshards she jumped at the chance. The chance to study a blackshard's magic being motivation enough to help out.
 
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Player Name - Hope62

Character Name - Doctor Kaylia "Red" Smythe

Character Race - Human Were-Lioness

Description -
Kaylia appears to be an attractive twenty-two year old human with pale skin, full lips, and shoulder-length red hair. She used to be a very skinny woman, but lycanthropy seems to have enhanced her feminine assets, filling out her curves. Kaylia found this to be an annoying side-effect, as it necessitated purchasing new clothing and proved to be a distraction for her co-workers.

She's most commonly seen in a lab coat or an engineer's coveralls (with goggles), but when she's expecting danger she wears leather armor reinforced with small strips of steel woven into the fabric (think primitive kevlar), a rifle with scope (strapped onto her back), a bandolier (full of things that can hurt or harm), and a rapier swinging in an ornate scabbard.

Kaylia can choose to adopt her hybrid or lioness form at any time, and is generally forced to assume either lioness or wereform when the moon is out and full (or mostly full). In hybrid wereform, Kaylia has an anthropomorphic shape, with orange fur, red markings, and blue eyes. As a lioness, Kaylia looks... well, pretty much like you'd expect, though she still has the red markings and blue eyes, making her relatively easy to pick out from a pride.

Picture of her in human form (with an injured beast... keep reading :p ), and a picture of her in hybrid form (though the red markings are absent and her eye colour is wrong):
Items and Equipment -
Reinforced leather armor, one .30-06 repeating rifle (flarestone-powered, encased in a thin nullmetal layer, magazine or side loading, high-power scope) sling over her shoulder/back, an ammo belt (the belt contains four dozen cartridges, including four each of high-explosive, puzzle, stun, arousal, smoke, magnet, lightning, screamer, and flashbang cartridges; as well as eight cartridges with "fat bullets"; also two magazines with ten conventional cartridges each), Lenses of Legal-Ease (magically enhanced to assist in proofreading, revision, and legal review), spyglass, two blast powder vials, two mooncloud vials, two medicine vials, two empty vials for extracting samples. Two tranquilizers and two adrenaline doses in metal syringes, capped to avoid accidental injection, in a concealed pouch on her right thigh. Goggles around her forehead. Notepad with small pen tucked into her back pocket. Backpack containing cooking gear, food, bedroll, a one-woman tent, and a small field laboratory kit. Wears drider silk panties (has three pairs, which she washes religiously). Drider silk-reinforced fencing cape. Sharp nullmetal stiletto in concealed boot sheath. Magically-attuned katana (acquired by Zizth from Malady Quinn and bokken (carved from discarded branches of Captain Skyray).
History -
Doctor Kaylia Smythe (PhD, MD, JD, DSc, DM (DM = Doctor of Magic, as opposed to MD, Doctor of Medicine)) is one of the brightest scientific minds to ever grace the various academic communities of Braxil. She completed her undergraduate studies at the age of twelve, and had her first Juris Doctorate by fourteen. She moved on to gain her JD in all of the human communities that admitted attorneys/advocates, and became familiar with the laws of the other races, as well. As no court would permit her to practice law yet, she expanded her studies to include medicine, biology, animal husbandry, alchemy, natural philosophy, linguistics, ballistics, aeronautical engineering, and magic.

Her hobbies include horsemanship, fencing, and rifle marksmanship, with a heavy emphasis on the latter. At sixteen, having acquired enough higher education to get a position at any university she pleased, she decided to branch out into more practical study and became a pirate. The next two years were the happiest of her life--she soared through the skies on an airship, engaged in her first criminal activities, and saw a world that she had only read about in books. The pirates she flew with found her equal parts amusing and useful (despite the fact that she refused to sleep with any of them).

Kaylia was bitten and infected by a were-lioness during a poorly-planned raid (and she even WARNED the pirate captain of the plan's folly). She had the antidote on hand, but decided against curing herself, for now. After all, she could always figure out how to fix it later (or so she believed), and this was an opportunity to not only observe but also to experience lycanthropy first-hand!

Kaylia accounted for the moon cycle and took proper precautions to defend herself and the crew (they dropped her off in a savannah for the duration of her time as a lioness), but she was unprepared for the strength of the estrous cycle. Every so often, Kaylia goes through a several-day period in which she becomes extremely sexually aggressive, to the point of inflicting harm upon her partners (the beast in the picture was severely wounded during a particularly violent mating session). At one point she ended up using a solid-steel dildo, and bent it before she was finished.

While the timing is semi-irregular, she (and her close companions) have learned the warning signs: her canines become more pronounced and fang-like, her fingernails harden and sharpen somewhat, and her patience gets very thin. Sometimes she even slips into her hybrid form either shortly before or during coitus. She has found/invented various serums that help with her condition (and that prevent pregnancy), but nothing to completely suppress her urges when she is in heat. She's also developed a mixture that permit her greater control over her lioness transformations throughout the moon cycle, but she hasn't quite perfected it yet--it doesn't always work.
Motivation - Kaylia has come to assist in the study of the Blackshards out of academic curiosity, and also as part of a deal with the Kingdom of Braxil to have all charges of piracy against her dropped (sometimes it helps to actually be a lawyer).
 
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Guess now we got people we need to decide what time is best to get everyone together in. I'm running around on Pacific Standard, so my time's butt behind everyone else around here. Still, I'm mostly free almost all days minus Saturday, other house occupants permitting and my random nap shenanigans of course.
 
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