Descendants of Time (Role-Play Act 5: Revolutionary Moment)

Write up your character profile by filling out the necessary details in the character profile sheet and send it to me via PM. If you have questions, or want to submit a draft profile with a PM for my opinions, go right ahead.

So, below is technically two profiles, but merged into one due to my laziness. Basically, you must decide what kind of a character you’re going to play. There’s Time Warrior, Mage, and the Mundane, in other words, the Ordinary. Time Warrior slots are limited. Some of them are NPCs, and the rest are †˜new’. Two of the †˜old’ Time Warrior slots are already taken. Not exactly taken, but my friends are gunning for them. Throughout the profile, you’ll notice something that only applies to either Time Warriors or mages. Exclude the parts meant for the type of character you’re not going for.

The character profile sheet is as follows:


Basic Information:

Name: Your character’s name. It’s not limited to names of a country since your character’s nationality may be from anywhere.

Alias: If your character has an epithet or a nickname he goes by; it goes here.

Age: Your character’s age. Time Warriors may opt to have their original age hidden here. No characters may be younger than 16 years of age.

Birthday: The month and day at which your character was born.

Gender: State whether your character is male or female.

Nationality: Which country your character originates from.

Handedness: Is your character right-handed, left-handed, or ambidextrous? I personally feel that everyone should not go for ambidextrous.

Appearance: How your character looks. Provide an image. It may not be a screenshot from an actual anime episode, however. A fan-image that is original is most preferred. You may add any descriptions via text to make distinctions from the image.

Character Type: State whether your character is a Time Warrior, Mage, or a Mundane.

New or Old: State whether your Time Warrior is one of the newer ones, or the older ones. This only applies to Time Warriors. New Time Warriors have a limit of 300 years while old Time Warriors have no limit, and they must be at least 700 years old.

Legends: This applies only to Time Warriors; state your character’s names of legends, achievements, and events of fame (words that defines them). All of them. Remember that you will have to write about them in your character’s background.

Affiliation: Which Organization, or Magic Organization your character is affiliated with. Regardless of whether his loyalty is sincere or not. To be a part of any organization, your character must have an appropriate Flaw or Virtue for it.

Country: You may pick one of the following: England, Japan, or Russia. Your character will be starting in the country that you state here, when the RP actually starts, so the character may have differing nationality.

Personality: How your character acts and whatnot; the quirks of his everyday behavior. You must explain how his mind works, which includes both his demeanor and his inner mind. You must also explain the Personality Flaws that you took for your character here. The actual cause of the chosen Personality Flaws are best described in the background.

Background: Your character’s backstory. In other words, his past. Explain how he had lived up to the point where the RP starts. You must include a piece of information about his origin – home, family, bits of his childhood life. You must explain here – how your character got to either England, Japan or Russia (whatever you picked above in †˜Country’), since regardless of his nationality, he must somehow get to the chosen country before the story starts. This is where you may write out why your character has the Virtues, Flaws, and the Abilities (possibly spells, if they may apply) that you chose during this process of character creation. After all, these things shapes your character’s very life. Other than that, you should sum up what your character expects of his life, and what he wants out of it – if he has it all decided, anyway… it may help me to come up with some events later. For the Time Warriors, they’ll have to write about their character’s legends too, and how the actual events differed from the legends told by the textbooks and online webpages. You have most freedom in changing whatever legend you pick for your Time Warrior.


Technical Information:

Zodiac Sign: This only applies to Time Warriors. State your character’s chosen Zodiac Sign. Not the one from birth, but the one your character is a Time warrior under.

Statistics: Your character’s statistics, it measures your character’s general capabilities. You have 35 base Statistical points to spend on the stats listed below:

Strength: Your character’s physical prowess. Your character will mostly need this for raw physical damage, or pulling off feats requiring brute strength.

Dexterity: How fast your character is physically. Generally, your character would be able to use it to run away from all kinds of dangers with this, as well as outrun others.

Endurance: Grants your character 30 HP per point if he is a Time Warrior, otherwise your character gains 20 HP per point. This shows how much stamina and physical tolerance your character has.

Mana: It grants 20 MP per level. This is only available to the Mage type characters. Ordinary characters may or may not have it. It measures how much mana your character is able to harness from the appropriate realm to cast magic.

Spirit: It grants 20 SP per level. This is only available to Time Warriors, Spirits, and those with only Supernatural Abilities (sometimes Mundanes may have this stat too). It shows how much spiritual energy your character possesses.

Intelligence: Your character’s mental capabilities. The five senses all pertain to this, because your character’s brain must process information fast enough for him to react. It also encompassess memory and knowledge.

Wisdom: In other words, willpower. Your character’s ability to keep things together instead of going insane and not wetting his pants. This allows your character to resist lies and befuddlement, as well as casting spells. Getting tired lowers it; if this goes down to 0, your character will faint.

Charisma: Ability to charm, socialize, approach to simply speak anyone, or catch the attention of the peers with venerating aura of reverence. If it is high, the right people may just come to your character on their own. This is sometimes necessary to talk with certain kinds of people, especially the nobles of England.

Luck: Obviously, your character’s luck. When there is no better way to crawl out of a dire situation; luck may be your character’s greatest salvation. However, lady luck is a fickle mistress; it is very unpredictable. The base limit of this stat is 5. If your character is a Time Warrior – you may not use any of your Stat points to boost this stat up. Instead, your character is provided a default Luck stat point (completely free stat points), which you may check in the List of Zodiac Signs below.

Flaw: Write up the names of your character’s Flaws that you picked. The points may amount to 10 at maximum. Whether it is free, minor, major, or special should be informed in parenthesis.

Virtues: Write up the names of your character’s Virtues that you have purchased with the points you achieved from picking Flaws. Again: whether is it free, minor, major, or special should be informed in parenthesis.

Abilities: Write up all the Abilities that you purchased, including their levels just beside the names. Abilities are bought with the base Ability points provided for every characters, which is 35. More may be gained via purchasing Virtues or Flaws, but they may be restricted to particular types of Abilities that you may spend them on – Heaven’s Commandment Virtue, for instance, provides 10 Ability points, 5 of which may only be spent on Time Warrior type Abilities, while the rest may be used freely. If your character specializes in a particular Ability, put “(+1)” beside the original number of level. Keep the Abilities in order. I.e.: General, Academic, Arcane, Martial, Supernatural, Time Warrior.

Specializations: Your character may specialize in 3 Abilities. State the specialized Abilities here.

Arts: Your character’s Arts – this includes the Techniques and Forms – must be listed here. This only applies to Mage type characters. Certain Techniques are gained from certain Academic Abilities, while certain Forms are learned from the Lore-based Arcane Abilities.

Primary Technique: It is the first Technique your character started learning magic with. The first 5 spells that he learns must be under this particular Technique, combined with the primary Form.

Primary Form: It is the first Form your character started learning magic with. The first 5 spells that he learns must be under this particular Form, combined with the primary Technique.

Other Techniques: Through buying and leveling up certain Academic Abilities, your character may gain access to other Techniques.

Other Forms: Through buying and leveling up certain Lore-based Arcane Abilities, your character may gain access to other Abilities.

Mage’s Sigil: This only applies to mages. Every mage has their own unique qualities mixed into them. Even if they all use the same spell; there will be a small difference. Someone may cast Aurum spells that blows with wind but leaves a rose scent as an aftermath, another may cast a Terram spell and the earth would be controlled in a very orderly manner. Or a mage casting an Aquam spell could cause the water to glow and turn to ice at one point regardless of her wish. There are many kinds of sigils mages have, and they become more and more apparent as a character gains more Warp Points.

Equipments: Information about your equipments must be provided here.

Weapon: Depending on the type of weapon your character wields, a base damage is provided. Your character may use a weapon if he has the appropriate Martial Ability to use it. Each Martial Ability is bought for each type of weaponry. Minimum base damage of any weapon is 5. You may purchase the Relic Virtue to have a mythical weapon (usually owned by Time Warriors), but you’d have to talk to me about it before picking a weapon. Otherwise, you may pick the Magical Item Virtue.

Attire: Most people don’t really wear armors anyway, they happen to wear enchanted clothing instead. No Ability, Virtue or Flaw in particular is required to have an armor, and the enchanted clothing provides a default 2 Defense value but may break easily from taking damages, while the invisible armors donned by Knights and Dark Knights usually provides 5 Defense value. If you want your character’s attire to be special, pick the Magical Item Virtue (it only lets you pick one item from the list).

Treasure Item(s): Usually, crafters and alchemists happen to have these as they make them. Otherwise, you’d need a Virtue that makes your character wealthy to be eligible for having at least one of them. Each social status proving your character’s wealth and power allows 1 Treasure Item. Otherwise, Magical Item Virtue lets you pick one.


Confidence Score: Every characters starts with 1 score, but a Virtue, or story events may raise it. Each score raises the point limitation by 3. The limitation may be surpassed temporarily by the effects of a Flaw or a Virtue.

Confidence Points: Every character starts with 3 points, but a Virtue, Flaw, or story events may raise them. They may be used to make a dice roll check pass even when they fail. However, they’re lost forever once used, and must be gained anew. There are other ways to gain them, refer to the mechanism section below.

Reputation Type: State the type of Reputation and its level your character has. This may only be gained through a Virtue, Flaw, or through story events after the RP starts.

Spells: List all the spells your character had learned – this is only for Mage type characters. They must be listed chronologically, but the spells from your character’s primary Art comes first, before the rest. We don’t want things to be out-of-order, especially when we have to look up what spells your character has learned later on. Please put the Technique and Form name combination over the class of spells. I.e.: Write †˜Rego Corpus Spells’ then list off all the spells of Rego Corpus that your character learned. Mages have no real limit to learning spells, but characters are limited by Magical Education and Magic Theory Abilities.

This contains all the Zodiac Signs your Time Warrior character may hail from, along with some basic or useful information about them. The full information about the powers will be sent via PM to the player by me. Zodiac Signs that are not taken before the RP starts will be used to make NPCs instead. To be honest, all these Zodiacs except for Aries and Libra are being targeted by my friends already… try taking your pick, anyway.

Be careful, though. Once you get the actual full information about the chosen Zodiac Sign; you may not change to another Zodiac Sign.

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[size=15]Aquarius:[/h]
Symbol: The Water Bearer.
Color: Blue.
Classification: Knight.
Element: Water.
Physical: Cool and Balanced.
Realm Affiliation: Faerie Realm.
Ruling Planet: Uranus.
Lucky Stone: Amethyst, +2 Luck.
Time Ability: Seeing a vision of the target’s past. He must sin after using this power.
Vice: Your character’s sin is taking pride in his accomplishments. He is unable to boast, nor is he allowed to make statements that distinguish between †˜positions’ of himself and another.
Time Span: January 20 - February 18.


[size=15]Aries:[/h]
Symbol: The Ram.
Color: Red.
Classification: Rogue.
Element: Fire.
Physical: Hot and Active.
Realm: Infernal Realm.
Ruling Planet: Mars.
Lucky Stone: Diamond, +5 Luck.
Time Ability: To go to the future. He must sin after using this ability.
Vice: Your character’s sin is showing rage and anger through speech and words. He may not raise his voice beyond the ordinary level of speech.
Time Span: March 21 - April 19.


[size=15]Taurus:[/h]
Symbol: The Bull.
Color: Brown.
Classification: Vanguard.
Element: Earth.
Physical: Active and Warm.
Realm: Infernal Realm.
Ruling Planet: Venus.
Lucky Stone: Emerald, +4 Luck.
Time Ability: Aging. Your character grows older by three years despite being immortal, in an instant. This ability only works if your character sins.
Vice: Your character’s sin is hatred. He is disallowed from expressing any form of hate. He is disallowed from speaking words of hatred in any way.
Time Span: April 20 - May 20.


[size=15]Gemini[/h]
Symbol: The Twins.
Colors: Sky Blue and Emerald Green.
Classification: Summoner.
Element: Air.
Physical: Cool and Move.
Realm: Infernal Realm and Divine Realm.
Ruling Planet: Mercury.
Lucky Stone: Aquamarine, +3 Luck.
Time Ability: Your character constantly see what would happen five seconds into the future.
Vice: Your character’s sin is greed. Every time he finds himself fulfilled from self-satisfaction by completing an ambition – he has sinned. This only applies if your character had to step over some other person’s feelings of any kind to accomplish it.
Time Span: May 21 - June 20.


[size=15]Cancer:[/h]
Symbol: The Crab.
Color: Silver.
Classification: Assassin.
Element: Water.
Physical: Cool and Passive.
Realm: Magical Realm.
Ruling Planet: Moon.
Lucky Stone: Moonstone, +2.
Time Ability: Acceleration of the process of something in an object, say, a cancer, for instance. Your character must sin after using this ability.
Vice: Your character’s sin is rest. She must not rest or stop to relax in any case. Even when she has nothing to do, she must find something to occupy herself.
Time Span: July 21 - August 22.


[size=15]Sagittarius:[/h]
Symbol: The Archer.
Colors: Purple.
Classification: Archer.
Element: Earth.
Physical: Cooling.
Realm: Magical Realm.
Ruling: Jupiter.
Lucky Stone: Turquoise, +3.
Time Ability: Unwind reality – your character is able reverse the time of something. Your character must sin after using this ability.
Vice: Your character’s sin is lying. She is not allowed to lie in any way, even about something trivial. She must answer any and all questions truthfully and faithfully.
Time Span: November 22 - December 21.


[size=15]Capricorn:[/h]
Symbol: The Goat.
Colors: Black.
Classification: Warrior.
Element: Wind
Physical: Cool and Strong.
Realm: Magical Realm.
Ruling Planet: Earth.
Lucky Stone: Garnet, +2 Luck.
Time Ability: Your character may completely stop the time of something. Forever. He must sin after using this ability.
Vice: Your character’s sin is food. He must not express his hunger in any way, nor he show his desire to eat.
Time Span: December 22 - January 19

Flaws, Virtues, and Abilities:

The system of Flaws and Virtues provides features to your character that makes him or her unique after you put them all together. When you’re making a character, you should pick Flaws and Virtues, first. A minor Flaw or Virtue is worth one (1) point, while a major Flaw or Virtue is worth three (3) points.. You are limited to 10 points when taking up Flaws. The accumulated points of the Flaws you took for your character grants you the same number of points required to buy Virtues. So if you buy Flaws equivalent to 10 points, you basically gain 10 points to buy Virtues.

A Flaw is defined as a kind of issue in your character’s life that is sometimes considered not preferable. However, it is not always exactly †˜bad’. Selfishes is sometimes frowned upon, but it may be endearing for parents. Kindness is often seen as a good trait to have, yet it isn’t always necessarily good for a particular person to always show kindness. You must take the Vice Flaw to play a Time Warrior. Or the Blatant Gift to play a mage

A Virtue is defined as something arguably helpful or nice to have, but it can make a person’s life harder. Work, responsibilities, power. They seem nice, but they add a weight to pressure to a person, most of the time. There are times when one may wish that they weren’t particularly skilled in something. You must take the Heaven’s Commandment, and the Mythic Blood to play a Time Warrior. Or take The Gift, or the Gentle Gift, to play a mage.

If you wish for your character to be an ordinary, mundane character who is going to delve into the Magic World after the story starts; do not take the Heaven’s Commandment or The Gift (or any of its variations). Instead, take a Virtue or Flaw that justifies your character having supernatural connections. I.e.: Ghost Warder, Guardian Angel, Plagued by Supernatural Entity, etc.

Please note that you must pick at least one personality Flaw, and one Social statue Virtue/Flaw during the character creation process for the profile to be legitimate.

After you’re done picking Flaws and Virtues – it is time to look towards the Abilities. There are 35 base Ability points provided when creating a character, but several Flaws and Virtues gives extra points, albeit in some cases they may only be spent on particular types of Abilities. You must note that Academic, Arcane, Martial, and some Supernatural Abilities are locked. To unlock them, you must take a particular Flaw or VIrtue. You will come across various Flaws or Virtues allowing you to unlock them during the process of character creation. However, to unlock the few Supernatural Abilities – your character must be a Time Warrior.

To buy Abilities, you must spend Ability Points; 1 Ability point per level, up to level 4. For levels 5 or above, you will have to spend 2 Ability points per level. For levels 8 and above, you must spend 3 Ability points per level.

Do not forget that certain Flaw, Virtue, or Abilities may have you specify their type in the very names.

Here is the list of the Virtues, Flaws, and the Abilities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZfRWOvsSi4dOYDP-NUt5FjfouSXXDsC9VY1UMtf0-tI/edit#

Abilities your character has not learned may still be used unless it is marked with a * mark. The list may go through small changes as time passes.


Arts and Spells:

Mages practice the Arts to be able to cast spells. An Art consists of Techniques and Forms. Only by combining a Technique and Form, can a mage cast a spell. The first Technique and Form your character learns is his primary Technique and Form, as they are the first he had studied and understood. Hence, your character’s first 5 spells must be from that particular combination of Technique and Form.

A Technique arises from studies of different fields. They’re not particularly related to magic, but they do grant one knowledge and wisdom. Techniques are a set of beliefs that tries to connect with a mystical Realm. Theology, for instance, teaches the Techniques of Creo and Rego. Techniques may be gained from certain Academic Abilities. There is no limit to learning Techniques for any characters.

A Form is an element. Through the studies of a particular Realm may one delve into its properties to manipulate it. By mastering a Form, one may draw the mana of its affiliated Realm to fuel a spell. The Mana stat only determines how much Mana your character is able to harness before he drains himself out. A Form may be gained from the lore-based Arcane Abilities.

Here is the list of Techniques, Forms, and Spells: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rbbnHP_X3AI4dBK80Db-vFq2xMxiffEWw7bwbLtbNWs/edit#

The list may go through some changes as time passes – I may add more spells… I may not, too. We’ll see.


Equipments:

Weapon, attire, and Treasure Items – the set of equipments possibly usable in game terms in this RP. Your character may start with any ordinary weapon and clothing, but they may be enchanted. It is possible to have a Treasure Item from the start – but your character has to be wealthy to be eligible.

A weapon is obviously a tool meant to wound and kill a target. For it to contain magic, or be a mythical weapon with special properties – you must buy the Magical Item Virtue, or the Relic Virtue, respectively. Weapons usually provide a base damage, which adds a number of damage into every normal attacks your character makes with that weapon. Ordinary weapons comes with 5 base damage. A Strength roll adds more damage to it. To have an absolutely ordinary weapon, say, a sword – you simply need to have a Single/Great Weapon (Sword) Ability for it.

An attire is what provides protection up to an extent to your character. Mostly from the prying eyes, however. Ordinary dresses or attire of any kind comes with 2 Defense value. These attires may break as soon as your character is hurt, however. You must pick the Magical Item Virtue or the Relic Virtue if you wish your attire to have enchantments or special protective properties. Defense rolls allows a character to gain lowered damages.

A Treasure Item is an enchanted item that usually comes with various effects. They are crafted by Crafters or Alchemists, and usually has mysterious effects. You may pick one from the list if your character is wealthy in any way. The most dangerous yet commonly seen Treasure Items are ones that possesses vis, usually worn by powerful mages. Vis is raw magic that may power up spells, by the way. You may pick more with Magical Item Virtue. Those under Relic type may not be picked during character creation, unless you use the allowance from the Relic Virtue.

Remember that the Relic or Magical Item Virtue may not be picked twice. To dual wield a weapon (I.e.: two identical guns on both hands), your character must have the Martial Ability Single Weapon or the Ranged Weapon Ability at the appropriate level (4 for Single Weapon or, 3 for Ranged Weapon) of that particular type of weapon (I.e.: gun.). To use two different kind of weapons at once (I.e.: sword and wand on both hands), you must pick the Multiple-Weapon Martial Ability. However, you will have to purchase Single Weapon Ability or Ranged Weapon Ability (or Great Weapon/Thrown Weapon Ability) appropriately. So if you wish to have your character fight with a sword and a wand at the same time – you’d need to buy Single Weapon (Sword) at level 1 at least, and Single Weapon (Wand) at level 1, at least. Note how this Ability had to be bought twice, but under different type of weapon.

You may justify four weapons if your character is an android or a marionette (after buying appropriate Virtues) by claiming that two weapons are fitted into legs or other parts of the body, while the rest are in both arms. Of course, you’d need to invest quite the number of Ability points for them. Those who wants over four weapons should just shoot themselves.

Here is the list of Weapons, Attires, and Treasure Items: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MLNCLQ3geMOHgkFGrlff7E7wTugJNVw7jEJCHz9eSV0/edit

If there’s any grammar issues or major game-related issues, don’t hesitate to tell or use the comment function.

Protip: Use ctrl + f to find something specific. You may use the Table of Contents add-on to navigate easier, especially for the spell list. I have the Table of Contents set up on most docs.

I think most of the mechanism was explained as I explained other things, but I suppose I’ll try to explain things in more game terms now.

For actions – for well, anything – I’ll be using a d10 to determine the result. There are no plans to change to a different dice so far, but I may make changes almost anywhere as we go along the story.

These dice roll checks takes place not only when your character takes an action, but also to react. For instance, noticing a punch coming towards oneself. However, that only happens in ordinary situations. When in combat, if your character is unable to dodge, or counter – reaction rolls don’t really influence the occurrences of a battle. Reaction rolls are usually Intelligence rolls, they’re done mostly for contextual purposes. Intelligence not only covers memory and knowledge, but also the ableness of the main five senses.

Speaking of combat, it operates in a turn-based system. An initiative roll decides which side goes first. This is done by adding in the Dexterity of a team, then rolling a d10. The team that has the highest resulting number goes first. The members within a team may decide it between themselves who goes first, second, third, etc. A Dexterity roll is usually done for physical attacks to determine whether an attack hits the opponent or not. Same for ranged weapon usage. Strength roll comes after that, to add a damage over the base damage of the weapon (or power). Ranged weapons do not get a Strength roll; only their base damage counts, usually.

After taking wounds or becoming emotionally taxed after the battle – your character will sustain these damages. Mental pain and tiredness takes place whenever your character suffers Wisdom stat penalty in any way – it is the stat for your character’s willpower, after all. If your character loses HP – he is wounded. Knight mages who dons invisible armor are able to hide these wounds as they go home to recuperate, but those without them will not be able to cover their injuries from the public eyes so easily. Injuries – physical or mental – may temporarily lower your character’s Charisma. After all, good looks and presentation is required for social actions. To avoid getting high damages – one may equip themselves with attires that comes with Defense value, or try to get them from certain spells or powers. A defense roll is done before receiving an attack. If it succeeds, it is possible to gain reduced damage. In some cases, they may be used to avoid an attack altogether.

For HP recovery, an Endurance roll is done each time your character goes to sleep to rest. Likewise for recovering Wisdom – a Wisdom roll. In this case, temporary penalties are not counted unless they are permanent. For the MP or SP, a Mana or Spirit roll is done, as your character do not immediately recover all used-up MP or SP after a battle is over. Time Warriors usually recovers fully after resting once. Ordinary characters, however, heals much slower. Rapid Convalescence Virtue helps to recover faster.

Not to mention that certain Flaws and Virtues may influence all this, however. I’m totally being lazy about providing an in-depth explanation about each of the stats, so I’m not doing it for this RP, but from all the details provided – it should be obvious what they stand for.


Confidence:

Characters have a Confidence Score and Confidence Points. This includes both central player characters (magi and companions) and important NPCs, such as recurring antagonists and allies. These characters start with 3 Confidence Points. Most such characters start with a Confidence Score of 1, but this can be modified by Virtues and Flaws. There is no limit to the number of Confidence Scores that a character can have, but the points are limited – each score raises the limit by 3. Confidence points gained from Virtues or Flaws are not counted towards the limit, however.

Using Confidence:
A player may spend Confidence Points on most rolls to get +3 to the total result per point spent. He may decide to spend the point after the dice is rolled and the putative result of the action is known. He may not spend Confidence points on a Stress roll. A player may spend any number of points up to, but not exceeding, the character’s Confidence Score. Once a Confidence Point is spent, it is gone forever. Confidence Points are not recovered over time, but may be gained by various actions or events. Confidence points may not be spent on rolls which represent a whole season’s activities (including any time skips).

Gaining new Confidence Points:
I may hand out Confidence Points to characters at the end of an event or a time skip. To qualify for Confidence Point gains, the PC or NPC must have been played for a significant length of time and contributed to the event. Characters may be awarded 1 Confidence Point for each of the following that they managed:

- Achieve a personal goal.
- Contribute to the achievement of a group goal, even if it wasn’t a personal goal.
- Success in a difficult task.
- Entertainingly well role-played. This means that the player portrayed the character well, and in a way that entertained and enhanced the fun of the other players.
- Bonus: This point is awarded if I think that the character or player did something that deserves a reward, but which does not fall under the above categories.


Stress rolls:

Usually done when a character is performing something that he is usually unable to do so (Ability not purchased), or in cases where your character has some trouble with performing something. Examples may include trying to lockpick in time, or scaling a mountain when your character has no initial experience in doing so. It may take place most often due to the use of other skills, abilities, spells, etc.

First, a d10 is rolled for a Stress roll. If the result is 1, it is re-rolled. If the result is 0, it is not taken as 10, it is simply a 0. In which case, your character botches. This would lead to a terrible result, which is likely undesirable. Any other result determines whether the character has succeeded or failed, depending on the resulting number.

Note that if a character botches a roll after a re-roll, the number of re-roll is taken into account. Depending on that number – the botch result may be particularly worse than expected. I do not want players to lose their characters in the RP so easily, so I’ll try to play things nice.

Flaws, Virtues, and Abilities:

These were explained in the earlier parts, but the Flaws and Virtues are what causes the most rolls in events. This includes casual and simple social meetings. You may notice that the Ability list has quite the assortment of social skills. Social success may be more beneficial than you may assume. Your character may sometimes learn things he wouldn’t expect to.

Even if your character has not bought an Ability, like say, carouse – he may still attempt to use it in an event. In this case, he has no experience or innate skill towards power drinking or endurance towards alcoholic drinks. Hence, your character must go through a Stress roll – he’d need to get at least 5+ in most cases to pass by the situation safely without going drunk or losing consciousness. However, there are Abilities with the * mark – this implies that your character must have prior experience or training to be able to undertake the task that requires the use of such an Ability.

Take the Ability known as Nursing, for instance. Can you imagine yourself being able to nurse a person back to good health, without any prior knowledge or training? One must have the know-hows of it to an extent and cannot just †˜wing’ it easily.

For more insight, you should note that a †˜minor’ Flaw or Virtue refers to something that may influence an event due to the particular trait, but a †˜major’ is so big a deal that it is enough to create an entire event out of it.

I think it goes without saying that the Flaws and Virtues you pick for your character should usually not contradict themselves. At least not to an unrealistic extent. There aren’t many specifications as to which Virtues may not make sense with what Flaws, for instance. So you have to apply some common sense.

Not taking certain personality Flaws does not necessarily mean that your character is completely incapable of such emotions. If you do not take, say, Envious Flaw, it doesn’t quite mean that your character never feels jealousy. It just means that your character doesn’t go out of his way to do something due to that feeling. We humans are able to experience all kinds of feelings. after all.

Note that you may take Flaws or Virtues that would take effect in the future after the RP starts. In this case you’d essentially be taking said Flaws or Virtues in advance. Especially because I’m against changing Flaw and Virtue details after a profile is finalized. This specifically concerns a few Virtues, in fact. Such as the Relic or Magical Item Virtues. Many characters may not outright start with a relic or magical equipment, especially the mages and ordinary type characters. They must earn one as the story progresses – in which case you don’t need to pick an equipment during the character creation process, and simply gain a magical or relic equipment through story events. However, your character must have the appropriate Virtues to be eligible for such items. In the same way, there are other Virtues or Flaws that may be taken in advance to be later experienced… say, the case of True Love and the Lost Love Flaw. Your character clearly can’t have both of these for one particular character. You may have a Lost Love who was your character’s previous love, and the True Love must be for a different character he’d meet later in the future.

To add, Compulsion Personality Flaw totally not to be taken for the urge to eat. You pick Gluttony Personality Flaw instead. Why? Because I say so.


Status Effects:

In the case, it is when your character suffers from an effect that renders him useless in some way, for a certain period of time. I’m too lazy to come up with a list of Status Effects, but the most are generic, such as: Burned, Distraction, Fear, Frozen, Paralysis, Petrified, etc. There are some special Status Effects possible from the use of spells or skills. They’d often be seen from Time Warrior’s unique powers.

Reputation System: You may be wondering what that reputation thing in the character profile sheet means, or may have noticed it in the Virtue, Flaw and Abilities list already. The only way to gain reputation is through story events after the RP starts – this is possibly done through doing something notable. Otherwise, you must buy a Virtue or Flaw providing the reputation levels. The levels are stackable, and you may not buy them with your Ability points.

Every characters may have a type of reputation. This may be good, or bad. If the level is high enough, and someone your character meets is supposed to have heard of the reputation – a d10 is rolled. The result – with the number of the level added to it – is compared with the Ease Factor. If it is equal or over the Ease Factor; the person your character had just met recognizes him. Depending on the type of reputation, this could produce a good or bad situation.

If your character is a wanted rogue – an innkeeper may recognize your character and let him buy a room, but secretly contact the authorities and leak the news to earn some cash. If your character, for instance, is a recognized celebrity, most people would undoubtedly side with him in debates and arguments regardless of right or wrong.

Warping: Warping is the side effect of living in a strong mystical aura, or being subject to mystical effects over a long period of time. Every character has a Warping Score, which is increased like an Ability, but by Warping Points rather than Ability points. To increase the Warping Score by one point, a character needs five times the new score of Warping points. Thus, to increase from a Warping Score of 2 to 3, a character must gain 10 Warping Points. Warping Points are gained from exposure to any of the supernatural realms, Divine, Faerie, Infernal, or Magic. The points are not distinguished based on their source.

Gaining Warping Points:
The following lists the four main sources of gaining Warp points:
- Living in a strong magical aura – occasional visits do not count.
- Being affected by a powerful magical effect, unless your character created the effect, or it was designed especially for him.
- Being continuously under the influence of a magical effect, whether powerful or not.
- When a character botches the roll to invoke a magical effect (for example, a spell or an exceptional ability), he gains one Warping Point for every zero on the botch dice.

Note that these are separate sources of Warping Points. Thus, if a mage designs a powerful magical effect, such as a Longevity Ritual, for himself, he doesn’t gain Warping Points for being under a powerful mystical effect, but he does gain them from being under a continuous mystical effect.

All sources of Warping Points stack. A character continuously affected by a strong mystical effect that wasn’t designed for him and that he didn’t cast gains Warping Points both from being affected by a strong mystical effect, and for being continuously under the influence of a mystical effect.

Effects of Warping:
The effects of warping depend on a character’s Warping Score, the nature of the character, and the source of the warping. Mages are made more prone to Wizard’s Twilight by their Warping Score. This replaces the normal effects. Mundane characters gain a Minor Flaw when they reach a Warping Score of one (does not provide a point for a Virtue). Note that most inhabitants of most societies in the world have no Warping Points at all, because they live in a low aura and have never been the subject of a magical effect. Even those who have been affected by a powerful magical effect once only have one Warping Point, not enough for a Minor Flaw.

This Minor Flaw should reflect the predominant source of the Warping Points. If they are mainly due to an aura, the Minor Flaw will reflect the aura, and most characters will get the same Minor Flaw. If they are mainly due to magical effects, they will reflect the effect. For example, a character who has been repeatedly healed with powerful magic might gain a stigmatic wound, which neither hurts nor causes damage, but looks and feels real. When the Warping Score reaches 3, the character gains a second Minor Flaw.

At a Warping Score of 5, the character gains a magical Minor Virtue attuned to the primary source of Warping Points. This stops any further gain of points from living in a strong aura of the same type as the Minor Virtue. At a Warping Score of 6, and every point thereafter, the character gains a Major Flaw appropriate to the main sources of the warping.

Wizard’s Twilight: Whenever a mage gains two or more Warping Points from a single event, rather than from prolonged exposure, he must add them to her current total, possibly increasing her Warping Score, and then roll to avoid Twilight.

Twilight Avoidance
Endurance + Concentration + Vim Form Bonus + Stress roll vs. Warping Score + Number of Warping Points gained + local aura + Stress roll

If the roll succeeds, the mage spends four turns bringing his magic under control, but there are no further effects. If the roll fails, the maga enters Wizard’s Twilight. If the mage botches, he enters Twilight and cannot comprehend the experience.

A mage may choose not to resist Twilight, in which case he makes no roll and automatically enters Twilight. In some situations, such as combat, taking four turns to control the magic may be very dangerous, and in such cases a mage may wish to enter Twilight in the hope of comprehending it and thus getting through the experience more quickly.

Comprehend Twilight:
A mage within Twilight must comprehend his surroundings in order to get out:

Twilight Comprehension:
Intelligence + Wisdom + Stress roll vs. Warping Score + Stress roll

If the mage is unable to comprehend the Twilight, something bad may happen. Well, something annoying, in fact. Say, lost knowledge, new Mage type Minor Flaw, or a spell forgotten. The opposite is also possible if the mage is able to comprehend the Twilight.

People have been rather lazy or ignorant about the terminology section, especially in the fanfiction RPs. So I’m not sure why I’m even writing this section. Perhaps out of obligation. All information here is the tip of the iceberg. They’re the Time Warrior and Mages’ common knowledge. Either way, you’re free to skip this if you’re lazy.

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Setting: It is currently the 21st century. More specifically, the 2025, May 1st as the RP’s story starts. This is the †˜real time’ according to the mages. The rest of the world is quite ordinary; with mundanes living alongside magi. Of course, magi lives as discreetly as ever. Generally, the bigger countries with long-running histories seems to have the most magi. The world is currently facing a rather strange situation… for quite some time. No one knows when or how it happened due to a strange memory loss regarding an incident – among those familiar with the Magic World, but England, Russia, and Japan ended up becoming warped before anyone knew it.

England is back to the 19th century, and is back to the old steampunk setting. The once-gone nobles are back and thriving, along with the state of monarchy.

Japan faced the completely opposite situation, as it was in the 23rd century instead. The cities are impossibly clean, and there are robots all over Tokyo, as well as a completely foreign area with the reign of holographic technology. It entered a state of a futuristic setting. They have marionettes that apparently substitutes for guards and police that the government controls.

Russia is absolutely out of the loop. It literally has no sense of time. It always has a dark cloudy sky and it is always snowing there. None of the mundanes understand the concept of time. The Soviet Union dominates the lands, and they have the Machine Knights as their enforcers of law. They also tend to hire freelance bounty hunters known as Riders – the type of people who work for anyone as long as they’re paid well. These Riders contain all kinds of people, ranging from mages, demi-humans, skilled mundanes, to even androids.

What’s truly baffling is that no one can enter these three countries normally. There is a barrier of cloud that shrouds said countries, and no aircraft are able to go past them. Russian mundanes don’t even seem to know what an airport or an aeroplane is. The Japanese indeed has aircrafts but they’d seem to have cut off connection with the outside world already. As for England, they’re likely the only ones honestly confused about why they’re stuck inside their country. So how do they enter these countries? Mages were smart enough to conjure magical portals, of course.

One thing in common with these countries, is that their skies are shrouded with clouds, for one reason or the other.

Time Warrior: Otherwise known as the Descendants of Time in ancient text. People who possesses extremely strong powers that may bend the laws of the world beyond the limit. It is unknown how they came to be. What is known is that the apparent †˜will’ of a particular Zodiac Sign chooses a person they believe is – qualified. The original Zodiac Sign from the birthdate of the chosen one is apparently irrelevant, and those with matching signs are through coincidences, so far. There are some Time Warriors who’re gone or went into hiding – their death is rather hard to confirm, but a replaced figure usually confirms it.

There are several ways to identify a Time Warrior. One of the common way is the fact that their pupils glow when they use their powers. At the center of the pupils one would notice the insignia of their Zodiac Sign, and a particular color. Each Zodiac Sign has its own color (refer to the list above). Time Warriors also have a mark – comparable to a tattoo – etched over a part of their body in differing size. So, they are unable to undress before just about anyone. Their youth and immortality is also another factor, but this is usually the harder way to speculate. A ridiculous power and mass destruction occurring when no feeling of magical aura is present in the air also confirms the usage of the †˜power’ of a Time Warrior. Lastly, inhuman features in a person also identifies a Time Warrior.

Several cases of a Time Warrior seemingly looking inhuman have appeared before. It is unknown why they turn like this at one point, but it is assumed to be a side-effect of their powers. A confirmed and prime example living, and being hunted even now is Countess Dracula – the leader of the sinister BLoodLuSt Organization that continues to do terrorist activities who appears to be an actual vampire; this is common knowledge to most informed members of the Magic World. Since the mundanes cannot stop them, the mages have to fight to protect the mundanes, as well as for their own laws. There is apparently the Organization run by Steel Princess, but there has hardly been an incident from them, or confirmed movements. Only their services of android creations were confirmed.

Magic World: A †˜world’ comprised of magicians, mythical creatures, mysterious beings such as faeries, as well as Magic Organizations. Organizations hiring mages and participating in the events of this side of the world are considered to be a part of it, generally. One of the bigger Magic Organization – the Royal Council situated in England manages this world. Queen Victoria is their current leader, and has laid down the laws (look below) that all magi must abide by, to an extent, at least.

The Magic World is in no way a realm of its own, but a word used to differentiate between the mundane societies and the mages. For Organizations to be a part of said world – they must register through the Royal Council. Otherwise, such Organizations are illegal and may be hunted down. The Royal Council usually rewards such deeds, so most mages are encouraged to follow the laws. That really isn't everything, however. Queen Victoria has no true control over all Organizations, and she also seems to prefer the concept freedom herself. Hence, she simply lets the government of the respective country deal with its problems, most of the time. Likewise, governments and high officials are aware of magic, and usually set their own rules against mages in their country.

This particular †˜world’ was established so long ago that there is no information as to when it was officially formed. Some say that it has existed for centuries, other claims several millenniums; all one can tell is that it has existed for a long time. The mages were much more unrestrained in the medieval era, and things would get bloody fast. Things are much more calm and civilized nowadays. Except that the hunt for Time Warriors and illegal activities, the search for rogues takes place as always. However, this change of calmness brought with it the devolution of magic. Ancient forms of magical spells are forever lost, and now mages experiments to bring out new spells throughout the Magic World today. Recent centuries had brought about one of the greatest inventions – Parma Magica. It is restricted to select members of the Royal Council and awarded scholars, however.

Most of the Magic World’s activities takes place in the western side of the world. Eastern magic is often unheard of, and they have their own styles, but they generally cast the same spells that the westerners use.

Mages: Individuals born with The Gift, or its variants. Practitioners of magic. Borrowers of Mana from the various Realms. This includes wizards and witches alike. They’re often able to manipulate spiritual powers with the application of Mana, too. Mages study Dead Languages, Theology, and Philosophiae, as well as lores pertaining to the mystical realms. These teaches them the Techniques and Forms which they combine in order to cast magic. This is the foundation of their so-called magic. Magic certainly performs feats beyond the ordinary, and are able to bring fear or awe to those witnessing them. There are many different usage of magic, and past centuries of researches and experiments led to the existence of magical potions, weapons, enchanting clothing, magically imbued accessories, etc. Usually, crafters makes the aforementioned items.

So far, mages are known to exist from bloodlines and rich lineages. Wealthy noble houses supply mages every generations, albeit some families falls as time pass. Sometimes, as per the will of fate – some people born into ordinary families are born with The Gift. There are many that enters the Magic World as mages via a Magic Academy (look below). As England had went back in time – noble lineages still thrive, in both the Magic World and the society. Thus, England currently has the most mages.

Mages often have a laboratory in their home – full of potions and other books and collections. This is why mages can heal faster in comparison to the mundanes from injuries overnight.

Lastly, exemplary mages tries their best to blend in with the mundane societies. They try to leave no room for a mundane to question their activities, even going as far as having a job in their society. Mages of the modern era definitely don’t don cloaks, robes, or capes; they wear casual clothes befitting their position in the mundane societies. Only a few old traditionalists wears the cloaks. Sometimes mages wears fashionable clothes, but makes sure that their attires were weaved with protective magic. Knights are famous for wearing casual clothes, but wearing invisible magical armors outside their clothes.

Rules of the Magic World: Some of the oaths mages must make pertaining to the Magic World by the Queen is:

- One must never influence the mundane society, or bring them any harm.
- One must not deprive or attempt to deprive another mage of their magical powers.
- One must never use magic to simply kill, unless a Magic Duel is formally suggested and agreed by both parties.
- One must understand that the Magic Duel is an open conflict between two magi who may slay each other without breaking this oath, and that should they be slain in a Magic Duel, no retribution shall fall on the one slays the other (the same applies for a Magic Duel containing more than two sides with more than one mages).
- One must abide by the rules set in the Queen’s Meeting, and will only be allowed one vote per rule suggestion. Hence, one must never attempt to vote twice for a particular rule.
- One must never attempt to disrupt with the affairs of the mundanes or unfairly abuse their Gift of magic to do whatever one pleases and have his or her way.
- One must never deal with devils, lest they wish to bring peril to their friends, family, and society.
- One must never use magic to invade or abuse others’ privacy.
- One must never use or practice the use of forbidden spells.
- One must never use magic to abuse the domains of the faeries to extract vis lest they wish to incur their wrath and endanger their friends, family and society.
- One must register his Organization to the Royal Council, if he or she forms one.
- One must train an apprentice if they’re a user of magic so that they may pass on their art of magic (albeit, this does not strictly apply and not everyone trains an apprentice).

Other than these rules, each and every Organizations containing mages have their own rules pertaining to the use and conduct regarding magic. Well, they †˜should’, anyway. However, those rules should not conflict with the official rules set by Her Majesty The Queen Victoria.

Magic Organizations: Organizations are usually companies with a hidden face. Every Organizations have a public front in the world. A food franchise company may be hiring mages and dealing with peculiar activities in the Magic World, for instance. These companies do business mainly to finance their secret activities. Paying mages can be a rather tough issue, as some can be demanding. The more traditional Organizations includes the Royal Council, Roman Catholic Church, The Society, Shrine, Soviet Union, etc.

Then there’s the many neutral Organizations running Magic Academies, as well as the neutral Organization known as Steel Union (S.U). The most well-known terrorist Organization is BLoodLuSt – run by Countess Dracula, a Time Warrior whose every breath spreads terrorist activities across the globe.

Magic Academies: These academies are hidden from the mundanes, and are kept separated from the world with Boundaries. Basically, their entrances are invisible to the ordinary human beings, even to most mages. The academies teaches the Arts and grants knowledge of the Magic World, Time Warriors, the mystical Realms, and teaches the mages combat abilities, among other extra-curricular studies. These students are referred to as †˜scholars’.

There are only two ways to enroll into a Magic Academy, either by: paying loads of money and be sponsored by an Organization, or be gifted with natural talents. Apparently one must have a strong Gift for the latter condition, and only the brightest of the children are accepted in this case. Those Gifted and talented ones accepted into the academy enters through a scholarship – they’re never charged for money.

The academies provides the best of environments, and truly appears to be royal and fancy. The facilities are clean, and the teachings are apparently topnotch. They have their own dormitories, but some allows the scholars to choose whether they’d live in the dormitories or their homes outside the academy.

Every scholars are revered and respected, even the most poorest ones are often reputed individuals; much to the distress of the studying nobles and wealthy family members. The most popular and well-known Magic Academy is the Royal Institute made by the Royal Council. More information may be found in the details of the Scholar Minor/Major Status Virtue in the Virtue list.

Annual Queen’s Meeting: Letters from the royalty are sent to the many Organizations and important members of the Magic World for an yearly gathering in the Royal Council. This is where the laws of the Magic World are revised and many reports are presented by the Queen to the invited peers. The Queen proposes a law as she sees fit. Well, she is supposed to, anyway. The Queen likes to not have too many rules, while the others want more laws, instead. Thus, other mages suggest laws, but must debate to make them legitimately acceptable. When the Queen accepts that the suggested laws are plausible; every invited mages are allowed to vote for them.

Usually, not all invited members comes. Organizations usually sends a representative who is good with arguments for the debates, or they send a familiar just to vote and participate.

Realms: The mystical Realms are the realms from which mana is derived by mages, for the sake of casting spells. There is the Magic Realm, that basically exists alongside the world. The Faerie’s Realm is hidden by doorways known as Boundaries. The Infernal Realm lies beyond the gates of hell, but certain forbidden magic may open temporary passage to them. Lastly, the Divine Realm is the realm of the dominion – holy and light overflows it; only devout religious beings are usually able to deal with it. It is said to exist beyond the horizon.

To cast the appropriate spells, one must be able to borrow magical powers from the appropriate realm, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to make their magic work.

Vis: Raw magic. Vis is one of the most popular businesses in the Magic World. Since they may directly power up one’s spells. They’re also applied for experiments among other activities. Some of the most common Treasure Tools are basically accessories containing vis. This symbolizes one’s supremacy in magic, and the fact that they’re not quite powerless if one picks a fight with them recklessly. There are various forms of vis. These forms correspond with the Forms that the mages study – they are different elements. I.e.: Herbam vis, Rego vis.

Vis are counted in a particular manner: a Pawn is the group containing the lowest amount of vis, a Rook is worth ten Pawns and are very rare and expensive, and a Queen vis are said to be incredibly rare and hard to find, it contains around 24 Pawns.

Treasure Tools and Relics: Treasure Tools are basically similar to relics, except that relics are more mythological and rare, possessing exceptional properties – as they contain lost ancient powers; they are priceless. Treasure Tools are simply enchanted items or accessories the Crafters and Alchemists makes nowadays. They possess their own properties, but are nothing like relics.

So I’ve been getting questions pertaining to how the RPs work and all. Time to provide some general answers to frequently asked questions. Those who had been in at least one RP in Fakku probably don’t need to read it.

Q: How do RPs in Fakku generally work?

A: Basically, as soon as an RP starts; players will receive the link to the Google Doc in which the actual RPing takes place. How each GM facilitates things differs, but here in Fakku, a GM usually writes up the opening of a scene and provides direction – by adding paragraphs here and there – to keep the flow going, throughout the scene. After all, the GM knows his world best, and it may not be so good an idea for players to keep guessing what said world contains. Sometimes, when it comes to RPing with another player’s character, it may become difficult if the schedules don’t match, and you’d have to find a way to try to match the timings, or just add to the †˜scene’ when you can.

Q: Do I absolutely have to get Skype…?

A: Yes, for god’s sake, go make an account if you’re planning to join any of the RPs. We use a group chat in Skype in which we add all the relevant players and provide said players with the Google Doc link. Currently, we’ve decided to use one chat for any and all RP discussions, as multiple chats can be rather messy. If you join this RP, for instance, I’ll be making sure to try to add you in Skype, then add you to our group chat. Only requirement to join the group chat is your willingness to enter any one of the RPs.

Q: I have a life, would it be alright to join even then?

A: Who doesn’t have a life? You’re not able to get on a day or two in the week? Well, that happens often with the players of other RPs, honestly. It’s a common issue, and if you’re really interested, it shouldn’t hinder you that much.

Q: But I have commitment issues… ?

A: WELL, THAT’S YOUR GOD DAMNED PROBLEM. No one should be committed if they’re not interested. Joining an RP requires interest, motivation, and the want to have fun. An RP is something you delve into the world of, to experience this very fun. No one is forcing you into this. RP is not some kind of a mandatory homework, but you do have to be considerate about those having fun, about those whose scenes are likely delayed because you can’t move your lazy-butt to writing. Busyness and commitment is one thing, but laziness is another. Then again, I’m pretty lazy, so whatever.

Q: How does posting work as we write in Google Docs?

A: So, what we do is; we write up some scenes. Well, I say †˜some’, but in previous few RPs we’ve written up over 30000 words before even considering posting. Google Docs do get clogged and harder to load the more text they get. Hence, we post them off eventually. Usually, the GM will ask you to post a specified scene – either half of it, quarter of it, or all of it (depends on how large it is). Otherwise, if the player who participated in the particular scene is not online – the GM may opt to post it off into the RP’s thread, to get rid of excess text from the Google Doc. Don’t post without the GM’s approval.

Q: Do I have to be able to write very nicely?

A: Of course not. We don’t have such required standards. There are many casual RPers out there, anyway. It is always good to be able to have an artistic sense, but that is a plus. RPing is otherwise a good way to learn to gain said sense and style.

Q: What’s expected of me?

A: Good question. Since this is a hentai site, it doesn’t matter even if you’re underage in reality – you’re expected to show maturity to an extent, and well, preferably have the superpower most human beings nowadays lack; common sense. Also, try not to be a power-gamer.

Q: Can my character be based off an anime character, or be a self-insert?

A: Well, no one is certainly stopping you from doing so. First time I made a character was based off an anime character that I liked, anyway. I still make characters based on my waifus, too. I dunno about self-inserts, though. Things can get rather messy with self-inserts, due to the number of comparisons made between the real-life self and the character.

Q: Hi, I'm from CTFG. It's cool, right?

A: If you don't have at least 3 years achievement (and maybe have some posts in post count) in your profile; you're not joining my RP, if you're a user from CTFG. Because newfag CTFG'ers are liars and incompetent people.