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[OOC] Spheres of Soul: The 14th Cycle
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This thread is for Out Of Character [OOC] discussion about the game and for posting character and world-building information.
I will probably eventually put an organized glossary of Characters and other things in this post.
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Dec 16 2016, 06:36 PM
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We can also talk about OOC stuff outside of this thread, obviously, but if you're RPing in the setting, you should probably keep up to date with this thread and post things in this thread if you want them to be included in the setting's canon or if you want other people to definitely see them.
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Dec 16 2016, 06:39 PM
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Here is a character, probably.
I will probably edit it over time.
Name: Summ
Race: Human
Age: (45-63?)
Sex: Male
Description:
Summ stands at an impressive height of 6 feet and 7 inches. His body has been ravaged by his extensive "red leaf" usage.
His left eye, the better part of six of his fingers, and most of both of his ears are missing.
Summ wears a strange patchwork he made from leftover fabric scraps in a way similar to a cloak. It's hard to tell exactly how much of his body is missing underneath his clothing, but it's likely fairly significant.
Summ's remaining eye is white and his hair is mostly grey, though a few brown hairs are still left. His facial hair is a disaster of wildly varying lengths.
Bio:
"Once. Yet."
Summ is known by most as "the partial man" because he speaks only in strange fragments and is missing much of his body.
Next to nothing is known about his past, but Summ is a clear example of someone who has used "red leaf" too extensively. Red leaf, an herb that many cities have banned the usage of, grants those who eat it a small amount of power, knowledge, and peace of mind—or a temporary strong burst of all three—in exchange for taking away a part of the user. For those who only use it once or twice, it generally means losing a memory or two. Those who overuse the substance, however, find themselves losing cohesiveness, the ability to use certain words, body parts, and other vital things.
Summ is tolerated by the locals out of a mixture of pity and fear. They empathize with the desperation he must have felt to resort to red leaf reliance, and they fear the power that must have come with such extensive usage.
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Dec 16 2016, 07:01 PM
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Spoiler: click to toggle >Name: Gorika Fress
>Species: Human
>Age: 24
>Personality:
Sad and confused and quiet. For a long time now, she's mainly been focused on surviving and improving herself, as she has great difficulty coping with life in general.
She loves speed and she loves magic. She's been running and practicing magic since she was a child. Going fast is probably the one thing that she's best at, but overall she is a very formidable magician.
She hopes to somehow become immortal, one day.
Every day, she pushes the limits of her speed, her magic, her spirit, and her body. Even if nobody notices, she keeps doing it every single day.
>Story:
Lived a relatively uneventful life. Devoted her attention to her studies of magic, and before she knew it, she'd grown up.
Even now, she sometimes gets made fun of and discriminated against for her name and appearance. People acknowledge her skill and power with regard to magic, but in the end, they don't really pay much attention to her.
With her magical ability, she could do so much more, but she only takes on part-time jobs that don't come with too many responsibilities.
>Appearance: Black hair, which she keeps trimmed very short. Black eyes. Plain pink blouse and skirt. Plain shoes that are meant for hard travel. Carries around a plain bag that she keeps stuff in. Her build is a bit on the small side, and she's not very tall. She's a bit androgynous, but only a bit. She wears pink bloomers under the skirt that blend in with it pretty well and don't stick out too much.
>Ability: [sorry about the wall of text]
Speed magic - Her main magic. It is mainly concerned with managing and increasing kinetic energy. Even though human society generally does not see it as useful, she has improved her speed so much that only a handful of other people on the entire continent of Rea can keep up with her. Of course, outspeeding others does not necessarily keep her safe from them. But at the speeds that she can move at (currently about 12000 km/h is the limit), it is usually close enough. Her speed magic has progressed to the point where she can use it to fly, but she can move faster on the ground, because of the next item on this list. In the air, about 10000 km/h is the limit currently. This magic can also be used freely on anything that she maintains physical contact with.
Bodily enhancement & protection magic - The enhancement magic increases her durability and strength overall, and the protection magic is like a weightless suit of armour that covers every inch of her body. Neither of these magics are exceptionally powerful, but they decrease her reaction time dramatically (if not for that, she would have died from her speed a long time ago), and she gets a speed increase when on the ground or another surface. They also help her avoid injury when she slams into something. As things stand, if she slammed into something at 5000 km/h, she would get utterly crushed. She can barely withstand it (while suffering severe injuries) at 3600 km/h, though that alone shows that she has put a lot of effort into improving these. She can apply a somewhat weaker version of these effects to one person or thing that she maintains physical contact with.
(mostly) Specialized wind magic - With this, she can avoid causing sonic booms and being burned and crushed by the air by nullifying the friction between herself and the air she's moving through, and making it so that she transfers no kinetic energy to it when she hits it and moves it out of the way. Getting rid of the air friction is also part of the reason that her top speed is as high as it is. She can use this wind magic to protect people and things that she maintains physical contact with, too. Outside of these applications, her wind magic is not strong. She can make small gusts of air, but nothing particularly impressive. She once thought it would be cool to learn to make tornadoes, but when she was experimenting with that one time, the results terrified her, and ever since then, she only uses her wind magic to help her go faster.
Life magic - A magic that manipulates the life force of the target. She must touch and/or be the target in order to use the magic. Life force can be manipulated in different ways, but the long-term (semi-permanent) effects are generally much lesser in magnitude than the short-term effects. At the current level, one possible short-term effect is boosting the target's life force to such an extent that the target can recover from many kinds of severe injuries in a matter of minutes. This kind of healing has no downsides aside from it being a short-term effect. Natural healing abilities can also be increased semi-permanently with the usual downside that the increase is far less. Ability to recover from diseases is another thing that can be increased both in the long-term and in the short-term. This magic tends to have a much harder time fighting poisons, but it does help against them. Some other currently possible long-term effects are increased lifespan, slowed aging, less likelihood of succumbing to death in general, and decreased appetite and need to eat. While Gorika has increased her lifespan by entire decades and exhibits all of those other long-term effects to similar degrees, this is only because she has used this magic on herself extremely extensively. Currently, this magic can bestow and/or manipulate residual life energy in both living and non-living targets (one example application of this is making food much more satisfying and nourishing in general), but it cannot be used to actually bring non-living things to life. She has not trained in using this magic to kill, but she can probably use it for that too and basically she will need to resist the target's life force, which of course is more difficult for targets with greater life force. If she wants to kill them on the spot then that will generally need to be done by making use of a short-term effect, which means that if it fails then the target will recover completely in a short while. If it succeeds, however, then the target will experience death in whatever way is normal for them (which, depending on the target, may not be short-term at all). Life force can also be weakened as a long-term effect with the usual downside that the weakening is far less. She learned this magic as part of her pursuit of immortality and to help her recover from injuries (especially all of the ones that her recklessness earns her), as well as so that maybe she could help others by healing them. However, because she is somewhat cowardly and has trouble managing stress, she does not end up being as useful to others as she had hoped.
Barrier magic - With this, she hopes that she can more easily avoid fighting and protect herself and others, but even though she is pretty good at making barriers, in practice it's usefulness is limited because she still doesn't have the resolve to make a lot of the difficult decisions that she faces... And yet, that's a lot of why she learned to make these barriers in the first place.
Minor bodily modification magic - Some time after she hit puberty, her reproductive instinct and functions became targets of a wide variety of her negative emotions, and she used magic to turn them off. A few people have tried to talk to her about this, but she feels no need to reverse the change, and has no intention of ever doing so.
Minor bodily cleaning and hair-trimming magic - It reduces the amount of work and tedium that she has to go through that much more.
She probably also learned a bunch of other miscellaneous stuff while going through magic classes and studying on her own. No clue about that stuff.
Edited by yeti, Dec 21 2016, 10:39 AM.
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- pantsukun
- Dec 25 2016, 10:17 AM
haha noice balls noice maru
- ragnarokio
- Dec 30 2016, 10:41 AM
it stalled on the thread about balls i will investigate
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yeti
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Dec 16 2016, 07:04 PM
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Is the other thread in this forum the in-character thread?
If so, I wonder where we should start out in the setting
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- pantsukun
- Dec 25 2016, 10:17 AM
haha noice balls noice maru
- ragnarokio
- Dec 30 2016, 10:41 AM
it stalled on the thread about balls i will investigate
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Rubik
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Dec 16 2016, 07:07 PM
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Yes, it is.
Because of the scope of the RP, I'm a little worried that the one thread approach might eventually run into some problems, but it's probably better to start with one anyways.
Probably in some sort of village in Rea
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Dec 16 2016, 07:13 PM
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Hm
Any ideas for what the village might be like?
Why don't we say it has at least a decent school for learning magic, as a starting point
Hm
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- pantsukun
- Dec 25 2016, 10:17 AM
haha noice balls noice maru
- ragnarokio
- Dec 30 2016, 10:41 AM
it stalled on the thread about balls i will investigate
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Rubik
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Dec 16 2016, 07:22 PM
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i've got some ideas for a few things and some half-ideas for characters
i've also got some ideas for the winner of the previous contest, so i'd prefer other people refrain from delving too deeply into them
i will probably start with this character, but i doubt they'll be my main character
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