[OOC/Sign-Up/Interest Check] Figments of Imagination: An Adventure of Some Sort.

[Hal Henderics]

Discord Help and Discussion can be found here.

IC thread is Here.

 

Setting

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 In this world, there exist people with the power to bring their Imaginations to Life, to create Companions, Tools, and Weapons, from the Fabric of their very Willpower, to extract energy from their own minds, to access a World wholly their own.  This power's origin is unknown, all but it's name has been lost to time.  Though we know it as an ordinary word, to those with the power, this manifestation of willpower and intent is known as a Figment.

 

 In this world, there are those who use the power of Figments for good or evil.  Though the most powerful among these groups uses it for both.  The West Amberacre Secret Police is the sole organization who is devoted to the Control and Usage of Figments in upholding the law.  Their names scratched from all records, their homes forfeit, these soldiers of law and order utilize the power of Figments to further their own ends.

 

 In this world, the existence of Figments is something of an open secret, an obscure rumor that people simply cannot bring themselves to quite believe, a hoax that has gone on a bit too long.  Perhaps this is caused by the very nature of Figments themselves, or perhaps it is a fact of life that Seeing is Believing.  If you decide to disregard the cause or pursue it, the masses without figments will always hold skepticism towards their existence, and most people simply do not know of them at all.

 

  In this world, the year is 2008, and the lay of the land looks very different.  Though states and countries remain the same as the ones you know, Cities and Towns have been warped beyond recognition.  This is not the place you know, not exactly.  Keep this simple fact in mind as you navigate this world, and hold a flame of curiosity towards other places.  The world is your oyster, and this one can be as well.

 

Plot

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 Players take the role of ordinary people, given extraordinary powers.  Initially, you will not have any powers at all, and must first find one another at the behest of a mysterious benefactor, in order to activate the odd objects he has forced upon you.

 

 Players will find themselves occasionally assailed by Figments and their users from time to time, but this is far and between the times when they must use their wits and talents to progress through a world where crime is on the rise, and they will find themselves in very mundane conflicts against law and crime.

 

 Lastly, Players will find themselves at the heart of a conspiracy.  The Characters themselves will learn this as well, in time.

 

Sheet

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Name: (This is your name.  You can include what you are called, as well.)

Age: (This is your age.)

Gender: (What gender you identify yourself as.  If this is different from your sex, include that below this.)

Sex: (What your biological gender is.  This does not need to be filled out unnecessarily.)

Personality: (A short summery of your personality.  It does not need to drag on too long, unless you simply would like to describe it in that much depth.)

Passion: (What aspect does your life revolve around?

Hobby: (What aspects do you partake in?)

 

Aspects: (Three subjects you feel are valid for your character.  One primary, and up to two secondary aspects.  Any amount of tertiary aspects, but they must pertain to specific source material, and must be something that your character vigorously partakes in.)

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Stats:

 

Level: 1 (This will be 1 for now.)

 

Health: 30/30 (For each Physical Aspect you take part in which is not a tertiary, add 10 to this.)

Vision: 10/10 (This can't be increased until later on.  With that said, for each Tertiary Aspect you take part in, add 1 to this.)

Energy: 0/0 (Nothing increases this for now.)

 

 

Guidelines

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 I expect players and characters to get along, any complaints can be directed to the complaints channel in discord, or the Arguments one, if need be.

 

 I am ideally going to be updating this at least once per day.  If you disagree with this, please say so when joining, so that any scheduling issues can be resolved.  In addition, if you are unable to post, and inform me of such beforehand, that would be ideal for maintaining game flow.  If you explain afterwards, I will have no problems with that, either.

 

 Unless you qualify for the above, I expect everyone to post before I update. Even if you don't have a reason to post, or are simply affirming something you were already doing. This is NOT optional, and you get 9 strikes for not posting under the justification of not having a reason to.

 

System

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All conflicts in this game are resolved with a series of 2d20 Checks, with the first result being your own roll, and the second result being your opposition, whatever it may be.

 

Your remaining health and vision are added to your checks where physical and mental trials are concerned, however, only ones directly pertaining to Mundane feats of Strength and Thinking are applicable for this bonus.

 

If you have gained skill in something, or have pertinent knowledge, this does not influence your roll, but rather, the results of it.  Someone with high strength fails a strength check differently than someone with low strength, and being skilled in something can mean the difference between failing to lift something, and lifting it, but doing so poorly.

 

Examples of some Rolls.

 

The user attempts to craft something from metal.  They roll a 5 (Poor) and the Metal also rolls, in which case they roll a 10 (Mediocre)

 

This means that the user did poorly, but the work was also not very difficult.

 

The user attempts an attack. They roll a 19 (Nearly Perfect) and the enemy rolls a 5 (Poor)

 

This means the User made a nearly perfect attack, and the enemy failed to properly react to it.

 

The user tries to beat someone in an eating contest.  They roll a 1 (The worst) and the enemy also rolls a 1 (The Worst) Whether they won or lost, both of them did horribly.

 

The user tries to solve a puzzle. They roll a 20 (Perfect) and the puzzle rolls a 20 (Perfect).  The Puzzle was phenomenally difficult, but using 100% of their brain, the User was also phenomenally good at it.

 

System 2 (Timeslots)

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Days will be split into 5 Sections, and Nights will be split into 4, this denotes the amount of mundane actions that should be taken in a day, based on the Character's Daily Schedule. Use your best reasoning in scheduling of this nature.

 

Timeslot 1: 7:00 AM to 9:30 AM

Timeslot 2: 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Timeslot 3: 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Timeslot 4: 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM

Timeslot 5: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Timeslot 6 (Night): 9:00 PM to 11:30 PM

Timeslot 7 (Night): 11:30 PM to 2:00 AM

Timeslot 8 (Morning): 2:00 AM to 5:30 AM

Timeslot 9 (Morning): 5:30 AM to 7:00 AM

 

System 3 (Figments)

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Figments are objects made from the substance of the mind, as such, Users are only able to have as many as their willpower allows.

 

Figments have 3 main stats, Force, Will, and Cleverness.

 

Force is the Figment's inherent ability to use Energy, the more Force a Figment has, the more energy it can expend for more powerful effects, Figments with a lot of Force can make use of a Lot of energy.

Will is how durable a Figment is, if a Figment needs to be Strong in and of itself, it will need a lot of will, and the more will a figment has, the harder it is to break.

 

Cleverness is how Clever a Figment is, either because it is a useful tool, or an intelligent being.  The more clever something is, the more able it is to do intriguing things.

 

Allocating Vision when creating a figment determines how much of each it can have.  A figment that takes up 3 Vision can have 3 Points to allocate between these stats, and so on.

 

When a Figment is used, It will succeed or fail, depending on what you attempt to use it for.  Unless the circumstances change, a figment that has failed at a task will not succeed at it with repeated attempts.  You are usually unable to know if a figment is capable of something or not until you try, and some actions may have multiple stats that have to succeed.

 

A Figment's Class is a VERY short explanation of what it is, one to three words, usually.  Examples include "Ranged Weapon" "Humanoid Helper" "Autonomous Turret" and the like.

 

A Figment's Description is a more in-depth explanation of what it is, and what it can do.

 

 

Figment Template

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Name:

 

Class:

 

Description:

 

Vision:

-Force:

-Will:

-Cleverness:

 

Are there any initial issues, problems, or questions?

Edited July 22, 2017 by Hal Henderics

[Hal Henderics]

Currently Accepted Characters

 

Endlessblaze: "blitz knight"

Monsieur Divergent: Akitsuki Tetsu

Cool Girl: Asahi Sei

ATHATH: Arthur McBroodyson

Edited July 24, 2017 by Hal Henderics

[StormLord]

Interest checked.

[Daniel Blackworth]

Interested.

[Cool Girl]

I'm interested. Let's see how this goes.

[Endlessblaze]

finally ready

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Name: Eric lance AKA “blitz knight” if you pay attention to his online life.

Age: 19

Gender: male

Personality: friendly and smart, Eric lance is a quick thinking and adaptable gamer. Enjoying both competitive action and casual fun, he enjoys a good variety of games. He thinks of the world in terms of narrative and fun, frequently being reminded of games and stories by various things in life, and drawing comparisons. Often making his decisions based on what would be the most fun or interesting option, rather than practicality (not that he can’t be practical when he has to). Although not much of an outdoors person he’s always up for a trip to the beach and a swim in the ocean.

Passion: games

Hobby: swimming/beach going and nerding out about various media.

 

Aspects: (Three subjects you feel are valid for your character.  One primary, and up to two secondary aspects.  Any amount of tertiary aspects, but they must pertain to specific source material, and must be something that your character vigorously partakes in.)

-  games

- swimming

-  nerdy stuff

- beachgoing (tertiary)

 

Stats:

 

Level: 1 (This will be 1 for now.)

 

Health: 40/40 (For each Physical Aspect you take part in which is not a tertiary, add 10 to this.)

Vision: 11/11 (This can't be increased until later on.  With that said, for each Tertiary Aspect you take part in, add 1 to this.)

Energy: 0/0 (Nothing increases this for now.)

 

 

 

[Daniel Blackworth]

Character Sheet:

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Name: Akitsuki Tetsu
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Sex: Male
Personality: Akitsuki Tetsu is a guy whom you'd typically refer to as an 'Otaku'. He is an eager reader and watcher of all kinds of manga/anime from Action to Romance to Adventure to Thriller to Magic and so on. He thinks that all manga and anime have something important to impart to real life. He often fantasizes about how wonderful it would be to live in one of the worlds in manga or anime due to the fact that the stories featured in the media he reads and watches often are more exciting and amazing than the encounters he has in real life. Though he thinks this way, he does have real friends [otakus and gamers, at that] and a supportive family, and believes that this kind of life isn't that bad at all. He prefers to stay indoors often times, either reading manga, watching anime, playing video games, or do his other hobbies with his circle of friends. Despite loving the indoors, he does enjoy travelling to places he's never been to, and he's quite interested in going to various areas which have been used as inspirations for manga and anime settings.
Passion: Manga and Anime
Hobbies: Tactical RPGs, Fiction Books, Board Games [especially Chess], Travelling
 
Aspects: 
  -     Manga [Primary]
  -     Tactical RPGs [Secondary]
  -     Fiction books [Secondary]
  -     Chess [Tertiary]
  -     Travelling [Tertiary]
 
Stats:
 
Level: 1 
 
Health: 30/30 
Vision: 10/10 
Energy: 0/0 

[ATHATH]

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Name: Arthur McBroodyson

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Sex: Male

Personality: When you think of a film noir protagonist or an Investigator from Call of Cthulhu, what immediately comes into your mind? That's basically this guy.

Passion: Solving mysteries

Hobby: Tabletop gaming (only in his free time, of course)

 

Aspects: (Three subjects you feel are valid for your character.  One primary, and up to two secondary aspects.  Any amount of tertiary aspects, but they must pertain to specific source material, and must be something that your character vigorously partakes in.)

Primary: Detective

Secondary: Occult

Secondary: Pistols

 

Stats:

 

Level: 1 (This will be 1 for now.)

 

Health: 40/40 (For each Physical Aspect you take part in which is not a tertiary, add 10 to this.)

Vision: 12/12 (This can't be increased until later on.  With that said, for each Tertiary Aspect you take part in, add 1 to this.)

Energy: 0/0 (Nothing increases this for now.)

 

Edited July 17, 2017 by ATHATH

[Cataline]

My interest is totally piqued but I've never joined anything like this so I'm not sure what to ask.

[Daniel Blackworth]

  On 7/15/2017 at 1:39 PM, Cataline said:

My interest is totally piqued but I've never joined anything like this so I'm not sure what to ask.

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You could join the Discord server and get the general idea of the game and the characters, I suppose.

[Paul25]

I am interested.

[Cataline]

  On 7/15/2017 at 1:53 PM, Monsieur Divergent said:

You could join the Discord server and get the general idea of the game and the characters, I suppose.

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I suppose I could! That seems pretty sound. I am interested in what characters everyone's been submitting hehe"

[Cool Girl]

Ok here goes. This is my character sheet. Hope you guys like it!

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Name: Asahi Sei

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Sex: Female

Personality: She will stand up and fight for her friends and classmates. However, she is a completely different person with her family. When she is home, she is very serious and trains in martial arts nearly all day. But once she goes to school or anywhere, she is very outgoing and will try almost anything. She takes her martial arts very seriously and will even encourage anyone she meets to do martial arts.

Passion: Martial Arts

Hobby: Fighting (but also any sports), Video Games, Murder mystery novels, and anything that involves strategizing and being a leader.

 

Aspects:

- Sports (Primary)

- Writing (Secondary)

- Murder mystery novels (Secondary)

 

Stats:

Level 1

 

Health: 30/30

Vision: 10/10

Energy: 0/0

 

 

[Hal Henderics]

The IC thread is currently up, it is here.

 

EDIT:

 

Figments

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Figments are objects made from the substance of the mind, as such, Users are only able to have as many as their willpower allows.

 

Figments have 3 main stats, Force, Will, and Cleverness.

 

Force is the Figment's inherent ability to use Energy, the more Force a Figment has, the more energy it can expend for more powerful effects, Figments with a lot of Force can make use of a Lot of energy.

Will is how durable a Figment is, if a Figment needs to be Strong in and of itself, it will need a lot of will, and the more will a figment has, the harder it is to break.

 

Cleverness is how Clever a Figment is, either because it is a useful tool, or an intelligent being.  The more clever something is, the more able it is to do intriguing things.

 

Allocating Vision when creating a figment determines how much of each it can have.  A figment that takes up 3 Vision can have 3 Points to allocate between these stats, and so on.

 

When a Figment is used, It will succeed or fail, depending on what you attempt to use it for.  Unless the circumstances change, a figment that has failed at a task will not succeed at it with repeated attempts.  You are usually unable to know if a figment is capable of something or not until you try, and some actions may have multiple stats that have to succeed.

 

A Figment's Class is a VERY short explanation of what it is, one to three words, usually.  Examples include "Ranged Weapon" "Humanoid Helper" "Autonomous Turret" and the like.

 

A Figment's Description is a more in-depth explanation of what it is, and what it can do.

 

Figment Template

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Name:

 

Class:

 

Description:

 

Vision:

-Force:

-Will:

-Cleverness:

 

Edited July 21, 2017 by Hal Henderics

[Yours Truly]

Because I was faced with the ever important question of "Why not both?" And I couldn't think of a good enough answer for not.

 

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True/False Name: James Franklin
False/True Name: Keanu Reese
Offline/Online Handle: XD
Age: 29
Sex/Gender: Male


Personality: James Franklin is a kind yet calculating person, who has a marked tendency to not exert any more effort in something than he deems to be absolutely necessary, and so far the only thing that he has deemed to be absolutely unnecessary would be blind hatred, as he doesn't feel that the idea of someone hating another person due to their race, or creed and nothing else is a bit pointless. The man mainly spends his time by pursuing the one passion he has had in the entirety of his life...the spread of his terrifying politics, or as the man himself would put it "the furthering of anarcho-syndicalist views, chiefly by using his considerable skill as a cyberwarfare specialist to manipulate the media to show or otherwise contain pro worker's revolution/revolutionary worker's union/regular labour union memes in the form of videos, quotes, lines, and images, while also doing his best to point out holes in the concept of a social hierarchy". 
The rest of his time is split between performing charity work to try and ease the load on the common man, and de-stressing by curling up with a good and ridiculous book about 'magical' rituals. 
To put it simply James tries his best to follow his conscience and do what he thinks and feels is right.
Passion: Politics
Hobby: Hacking, Occultism
 
Aspects: (Three subjects you feel are valid for your character.  One primary, and up to two secondary aspects.  Any amount of tertiary aspects, but they must pertain to specific source material, and must be something that your character vigorously partakes in.)
-Politics (Primary)
-Hacking (Secondary)
-Occultism (Secondary)
-Anarcho-Syndicalism (Tertiary)
-Virus Creation (Tertiary)
 
Stats:
 
Level: 1 (This will be 1 for now.)
 
Health: 30/30 (For each Physical Aspect you take part in which is not a tertiary, add 10 to this.)
Vision: 12/12 (This can't be increased until later on.  With that said, for each Tertiary Aspect you take part in, add 1 to this.)
Energy: 0/0 (Nothing increases this for now.)

As the character would say quite often..."Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!".

[Notus]

Just took a look at the IC and this caught my interest. Are sign-ups still open by any chance?

[Yours Truly]

Well considering how we only have four players, and since I just got accepted it is probably still open. So yeah have fun! And join the Discord.

[Notus]

  On 8/1/2017 at 3:43 AM, Cronos5010 said:

Well considering how we only have four players, and since I just got accepted it is probably still open. So yeah have fun! And join the Discord.

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I´ll take a look there and start preparing a character then! It´s been waay too long without playing an RP, I´m itching to get back!

[DigitalAmber]

is it too late to join?

[Endlessblaze]

don't think so. youll have to ask shade.

[Notus]

New character coming up! 

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Name: Leo Mayer

Age: 13

Gender: Male
Sex: Male

Personality: Timid, hard to trust others, reserved and a tends to day dream a bit. Leo lived in the streets for as long as he can remember, him and his parents not having any money to their name. In that harsh and often violent environment, in which he was constantly beaten up - or worse -by older kids, his comfort was in the stories that his father came up with and the books in which he managed to lay his hands on. 

Passion: Stories and books.

Hobby: Reading and writing

 

Aspects:

- Story Creation (Primary)

- Reading (Secondary)

- Pain Resistance (Secondary)

- Star Gazing (Tertiary)
- Writing (Tertiary)

Stats:

 

Level: 1 (This will be 1 for now.)

 

Health: 40/40 (For each Physical Aspect you take part in which is not a tertiary, add 10 to this.)

Vision: 10/10 (This can't be increased until later on.  With that said, for each Tertiary Aspect you take part in, add 1 to this.)

Energy: 0/0 (Nothing increases this for now.)

 

Edited August 2, 2017 by Notus