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Mythy the Dragon-Wolf

Hopeless Romantic
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Posting Speed
  1. One post per day
  2. 1-3 posts per week
Writing Levels
  1. Beginner
  2. Elementary
  3. Intermediate
  4. Adept
  5. Adaptable
Preferred Character Gender
  1. Male
  2. Female
  3. Primarily Prefer Male
Premise
Agents Temporalis: A genre-bending, full-dive VMMORPG where the players are part of a special group of soldier. The Agents Temporalis, a taskforce created to protect the timeline from the time-travelling Temporals, an alien race hoping to colonize Aurastia for themselves. The Temporals travel into the past to change history to weaken the Aurans in the war that is happening in the current time. And so the agents complete quests (in standard MMO fashion) that protect and put history right to keep the balance as it is.

The Players will be a small group of friends who play the game together, knowing each other in RL. Even though it is an MMO, each player or group has their own instance of each would, with the Nexus being the place to meet, group, and trade.


Times

Bronze Age (Ancient Rome )
Feudal Age (Medieval Europe)
Powder Age (Colonial America)
Steam Age (Industrial Revolution)
Network Age (Modern Times)
Cyber Age (Cyberpunk [Matrix/Robocop Tech])
Ascension Age (Medium-tech Sci Fi)
Nexus (High-tech Sci Fi)


Combat/Mechanics
During all direct combat scenarios and actions against the enemy will have overall structure from me but the details will be up to the players (i.e. I'll write something like "you can kill three guys, or two and strike at the mini boss" or the such, and allow the player to improvise how he kills them). If players would like to take some sort of direct action not offered, simply run it by me in I'll give you the possible results of that action.

All enemies you must post strikes, bolded attack attempts for, rather than outright killing them unless stated otherwise. Your characters can also take wounds. Wounds will be emoted by me in combat posts, and will be bolded like strikes.

Gambits
are high-risk, high-reward maneuvers that can turn the tide of battle if successful, or seriously hinder you is they don't work.

The players accept quests from the nexus to gain rewards and experience, as well as advance the story. Or, once level five is reached, the party can go into a specific time and area to do dungeon, grind for loot, etc. The party would be allowed 3 deaths a mission/hunting trip before being kicked out and penalised with the fourth.

Loot is in the form of crafting materials, which every character gets one copy when it is picked up, except for rare loot which will be distributed by the players. Weapon and armor upgrades will be crafted between missions and/or game sessions, made from loot and handled OOC.



Equipment/Classes
Most types of weapons, including swords, axes, bows, guns, polearms, etc.
Armors From fastest to Strongest: Speed Armor, Flight Armor, Fight Armor, Tank Armor

The look of the equipment will be chosen by the player {For swords: [Feudal Style (European Longsword)" "Feudal Style (Asian Katana)" "Sci-Fi Style (Plasma Blade)" Etc.]} in order to personalize the character, the skin being the same no matter what time they go into. The weapon and armor stats would be influenced by which materials are used to create it.

Each player will have two 2 weapon sets and a secondary. However, you will be locked to 1 set for the first ten levels.

Each set has 2 hands. So for a ranged class with 2 sets, you can take a rapid-fire weapon and a precise weapon, or a close-ranged gun and dual pistols, or dual pistols and a explosive weapon, or a pistol and armshield, and a rapid fire weapon...

Also, depending on the subclass you choose (unlocked at level 10) you will begin to gain skills and such that will make certain types of weapons better choices.

Frontline (Causes most damage) [Fight Armor]
Tank (Can take most damage) [Tank Armor]
Ranged (Causes most precisely damage & best crit. hitter) [Flight Armor]
Supporter (Healing & Buffs) [Speed Armor]

And each class will branch in 2 talent trees.

Frontline into full-attack DPS (dual-wield or two-handed) or Cavalry (gets a battle-mount)
Tank into Mobile Fortress (1H weapon + Tower Shield; or Tower Shield two-handed) or Balanced (1H weapon + Shield)
Ranged into Gunner (Bow & Arrow, automatic weapons, etc.) or Destroyer (Crossbow, Missiles, Sniper Rifles, etc.)
Supporter into Bio-Engineer (heals ppl, also has poison stuff and stim-packs) or Robotics (set up automated turrets, other traps and use other technologies such as mobile stealth fields, shield generators, etc.)

How Leveling works-

When you Level (Generated purely by narrative) You gain 1 point. For the first 10 levels you only have the base class tree, unlocking the sub-class trees at Level 10.

You can spend your single point on any of the talents (Active Skills) or traits (Passive Bonuses) that I come up with. The trees will evolve based on your actions and skills, So, in theory, two characters will not get the same trees, even though they are both Ranged classes.

Also, the more you spend on a tree, the better the choices will be for that tree.

Skills will be given per character, at a choice of three picks per level, given in OOC. Cooldowns and effects will be handled by me.

About Rezzing:
Rez spell, or recovering the spirit stone out of battle, or reincarnating at the nearest portal

The spirit stone emerges out of a dead body, and can be interacted with after battle to rez without using items.


About Damage to bodies IRL and IG:

IG body Damage: The virtual body feels it, but no damage or pain gets transferred IRL
IG Severed limbs and such: What happens is the divegear locks down any waves going to that arm, and doesn't transfer them. Therfore, no moving a non-existant arm
IRL body Damage: The game comes up with a warning stating that your body is compromised, and gives you an emergency logout option, saving what loot you got from the mission and getting you out quick

Despite all the rules, this is not a serious RP. It is somewhat comedic, for fun, with ability to meta in the game, and plan stuff for the game in the RL scenes. Romance between characters is not forbidden. Please be able and willing to post at least once a week and be active in OOC.

~Characters~

IRL Character
Name-
Age-
Gender-
Looks-Pic, Description, or Both are fine
Personality-
History-

In-Game Character
Name-
Age-
Gender-
Looks-Pic, Description, or Both are fine
Class-
Equipment- Pic, Description, or Both are fine

CS SHOULD INCLUDE
Weapon Set 1
Weapon Set 2 (After level 10)
Secondary Weapon
Talents and Traits [Preferably in Spoiler]
IC THREAD

 
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Alright, I'm going to make the toastiest toast as long as nothing distracts me.
 
Alright, I'm going to make the toastiest toast as long as nothing distracts me.

I look forwards to the toastiest toasty toast. :toast:
 
I feel like for an RP a more sandbox style might be better. The quests could still have some sort of objective that flows. "Complete a few of these objectives", where it gives us flexibility in how we finish the quest so as long as we reach the objective. A living dungeon?
 
I feel like for an RP a more sandbox style might be better. The quests could still have some sort of objective that flows. "Complete a few of these objectives", where it gives us flexibility in how we finish the quest so as long as we reach the objective. A living dungeon?
Well, I was going for more of an open-world vibe, where one can enter buildings in the villages, explore, sneak and speak with NPCs, etc. Like that in each era. Though I wouldn't be against dungeons being a bit more unorthodox. Especially if the dungeons are run by the Temporals, maybe gotten to via the nexus.. though in the Eras, dungeons might be more linear or so.. if that makes sense.

But yeah, I think I'll go with maybe a single quest per Era with one over-arcing objective, which can be fulfilled in many ways through exploration and combat.
 
Aaaand it's up! So what do you all think we want to do, quest-wise? :-)
 
Tough to narrow down, but I have a top three:

Steam Age Murderer - this has the feel of a mission that has a smaller impact on the game's story than the other events, and therefore there isn't as much pressure. Plus, there's a chance we end up killing a substitute for Jack the Ripper, which is kind of awesome.

Feudal Age Peace - this feels important as well as the sort of thing that can define us as heroes by the game's system. Given the time period, this could be the defining moment for the existence of certain countries. Plus we have two from that age and with Mythy as our leader we might get some sort of influence bonus having him negotiate for the group.

Bronze Age Temporal Assassination - feels almost like a kick-start for our war against the alien time travelers. Plus, there's the fact we all have a technological edge over that time period.
 
Then, at least at the moment, it seems that the Steam Age quest has 3 votes, which is the most. :-)
 
Probably going to have a poat today. It's all worked out in my head. Just needs conversion to word form.
 
I was waiting for the others to post but I suppose if they're not going to I can do another.
 
I was waiting for the others to post but I suppose if they're not going to I can do another.
I'm hoping this isn't becoming a 3-person (including me) group, but I really don't want it to die. Prefer 3 people to no one.
 
Same here. If that is the case I am fine with once a day/every other day posting. I mean RP is my hobby. Or we can just recruit 2 more people to fill those slots.
 
@Esper whenever you're ready to post, feel free to. Without hearing from the others, I don't want this to die so I'll keep it going.
 
Interest check! I'm hoping we can get up to maybe near-daily posts perhaps, and I do hope that this post helps jumpstart the plot on the side of me, @Crow and @Quiet One

At the same time, should you have questions about how the combat works, feel free to ask! I'm sure as we do it more it'll become second nature. A bit.
 
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