Post by Golden Emblem on Nov 13, 2011 2:57:57 GMT -5
The day was August 31st, and it was late at night when the breaking news came in, right in the middle of a baseball game. Someone had been found dead in their home, cause of death unknown.
This was the second time in a week. For a town of about 9200 people, this was an alarming fact. It didn’t help that rumours spread quickly. Apparently both of the murders had taken place around midnight, and in the rooms where each of the victims had been found, there was a mirror. A man had been found carrying a hand mirror, while a woman had been in front of her washroom mirror.
The children and teenagers of the town spread rumours of course. It was going around that if you stood in front of a mirror at midnight; the mirror would turn red or black because the spirit going around killing people wanted to hide itself from prying eyes. That fact changed based on who you asked. But it was just a stupid rumour, spread by bored children who were going back to school the following day. It would probably turn out to be a killer from the big city, thinking a small town was easy to pick on, or an angry lover.
Human cruelty was much easier to believe in than angry spirits in mirrors.
Introduction:
For those of you who have not played any of the games or watched the anime, the Persona series combines a role-playing game with a simulation game, and often focuses on teenagers going to school while fighting using Personas, which are explained in the Definitions section. This is going to be a very in-depth RP, and as such, you should be entering this RP with some knowledge of the Persona world.
That is why I ask, if you have not played Persona 3 or 4, that you watch the first two episodes of the Persona 4 anime. Here’s a link:
anime-media.com/category/persona-4/
Like in the games, your character will be dealing with the stresses of a school setting, but also fighting Shadows in order to fulfill a certain purpose. This RP will be a blend of both settings, with a bit more emphasis on the action.
This RP will not follow the same structure as ones before it. It will work almost in a quest style, with objectives being posted occasionally when they are called for. Some may be small, but others may span pages. These objectives will usually not be very specific, as to allow as much freedom as possible. However, I do ask that attention is paid to the objectives.
Also, in this RP, your sign-up profile will determine what abilities your Persona receives. These abilities will be handed out at the end of each completed objective.
Rules:
1. I cannot stress this enough, but WATCH YOUR INBOXES. While objectives will be posted in the RP thread, sometimes you will get a role or set of instructions specific to your character via PM. I’ll let everyone know that PMs have been sent out of character, but it is your responsibility to read messages sent privately.
2. To join, I’ll need to approve your profile. I usually approve/decline within a day.
3. No godmodding. This should be an obvious rule, but don’t do it. I’ll be pretty generous with warnings, but be careful of your actions.
4. No trolling. It won’t be tolerated at all.
5. I’m asking for some love and tolerance towards your fellow RPer. Don’t be a jerk.
Definitions:
Arcana: The arcana are what, in normal tarot decks, are referred to as the major arcana. There are 22 arcana types (19 are available), each with a different meaning and associated ability. Each character will have their own associated arcana, and no two characters can have the same arcana. While an arcana might say a Persona is known for a certain aspect, you do not have to follow this like a rule. The arcana can influence the Persona of the character in question. The arcana are as follows:
0. The Fool: THIS ARCANA CANNOT BE CHOSEN FOR USE BY A CHARACTER.
1. The Magician: This arcana represents action, initiative, self-confidence, manipulation and the power to harness one’s talents. Personas under this type are known for excelling in magic.
2. The Priestess: This arcana represents hidden knowledge or other untapped power, wisdom, female mystery and magic. Persona under this arcana are known for healing and support abilities.
3. The Empress: This arcana represents prosperity, creativity, sexuality, abundance, fertility and comfort. Persona under this arcana are known for often being users of ice skills, and having abilities in healing.
4. The Emperor: This arcana represents the desire to control one's surroundings. Persona under this arcana are known for being good with physical skills.
5. The Hierophant: This arcana represents education, authority, conservatism, obedience to rules and relationships with the divine. Persona under this arcana are known for having no glaring weaknesses, and no obvious strengths; instead focusing on balance.
6. The Lovers: This arcana represents the different paths of life, and is a symbol of standing at a crossroad. Persona under this arcana are known for being good healing and support units.
7. The Chariot: This arcana represents victory, conquest, self-assertion, control, war and command. Persona under this arcana are known for their physical strength.
8. Justice: This arcana represents a strict allegory of justice, objectivity, rationality and analysis. Persona under this arcana are often skilled in light-based attacks.
9. The Hermit: This arcana represents wisdom, introspection, solitude, retreat and philosophical searches. Persona under this arcana are often known for having skills that inflict ailments or change things such as strength and speed in their friends and foes.
10. Fortune: This arcana represents fate and varying luck, fortunes and opportunities. Persona under this arcana are often known for having skills related to wind, or being related to fate and time myths (such as the Norm sisters).
11. Strength: This arcana represents morality about the stronger power of self-control, gentleness, courage and virtue over brute force. Persona under this arcana are often tank-like, having great physical skill.
12. The Hanged Man: This arcana represents self-sacrifice for the sake of enlightenment, the bindings that makes one free, paradoxes and hanging between heaven and earth. Persona under this arcana are known for having excellent defenses.
13. Death: This arcana represents a sense of foreboding, metamorphosis and deep change, regeneration and cycles. Persona under this arcana are often skilled in dark magic and weak to light.
14. Temperance: This arcana represents synthesis, prudence, harmony, and the merging of opposites. Persona under this arcana are well-rounded.
15. The Devil: This arcana represents urge to do selfish, impulsive, violent things and be slave to ones' own impulse and feelings, and commitment. Persona under this arcana are often dark-based.
16. The Tower: This arcana represents an overly arrogant, prejudiced and authoritarian organization, which walk to their own ironic demise. Persona under this arcana are often skilled in the physical arts.
17. The Star: This arcana represents hope, self-confidence, faith, altruism, luck, generosity, peace and joy. Persona under this arcana are normally fire-based, while being weak to ice.
18. The Moon: This arcana represents creativity, inspiration, dreams, madness, illusions, fear, fantasy, the subconscious and trickery. Persona under this arcana are known for physical skills, and average magic abilities.
19. The Sun: This arcana represents happiness, joy, energy, optimism, and accomplishment. Persona under this arcana are often known for having skills in fire or light based attacks.
20. Judgment: THIS ARCANA CANNOT BE CHOSEN FOR USE BY A CHARACTER.
21. The World: THIS ARCANA CANNOT BE CHOSEN FOR USE BY A CHARACTER.
Persona: A Persona is a manifestation of one’s personality; a tamed and trained Shadow that can be commanded in battle by a Persona user. To summon a Persona, one must first face their Shadow, which is a malevolent manifestation of their inner thoughts. Personas are often based off of myth or folklore, and can have a wide variety of appearances.
A Persona, for the sake of our RP, will often take damage for its user unless an enemy directly attacks a Persona user; however, Persona users feel the pain their Persona do.
Shadow: There are two types of Shadows. First is the normal type of Shadow, which is a being made of negative human emotion. There are simple ones, and stronger ones made up of multiple Shadows. The second type is the Shadow Self. A Shadow Self starts off looking like the person it is based off of, albeit with yellow eyes. However, it is an incarnation of negative personality traits and repressed emotions, which it uses to its advantage to make the person it is based from deny being the same person. When they are denied, the Shadow Self changes into a monster and attacks everything in vicinity. If the person the Shadow Self is based on can admit their faults, a Shadow Self will change into a Persona.
For our RP, while I am asking you to create Shadow Selves right away, they will not come in until much after our characters have their Personas. They will be explained later.
Profile for Sign-Up:
Human Sign-Up:
Name:
Age: (High school student ages please, so around 14-18. I’ll accept other ages if you can have good reasoning behind it, but please try to stay within the range.)
Gender:
Arcana: (See the definitions for details.)
Weapon: (Weapons should be something that could be found by a high school student. Guns are heavily discouraged, and will probably be declined.)
Personality:
Appearance:
Summoning Method: (Get creative. In Persona 3, characters used gun-like objects called Evokers to mimic suicide, and in Persona 4, they destroyed manifestations of their arcana.)
Persona Sign-Up:
Name: (Personas are often named after mythological figures, so keep this in mind!)
Arcana: (it will be the same as your character.)
Element: (You can choose between fire, electric, ice, light, dark, and wind; this will determine your weakness.)
Special Talent: (A Persona is often skilled in something: you can choose healing skills, magic skills, support skills, or physical skills; one will be your main strength, and the other your secondary. Note: if choosing support skills, you need to choose between buffing [helping your comrades] or debuff [harming your foes]. Whatever you choose will determine your moves.)
Appearance:
Shadow Sign-Up
Name: (A shadow is the dark, corrupted form of your Persona, and it also represents the dark, twisted feelings your character carries within themselves. The name of a shadow is always “Shadow [insert name of character here]”.)
Appearance: (Your shadow should have some similarities to your Persona, but not enough to be a carbon copy.)
What It Represents: (What emotions does it represent? In Persona 4, it ranged from questioning one’s sexuality to resentment towards being treated like a child, to wanting to control how someone felt. This will reveal your character’s evils.)
This was the second time in a week. For a town of about 9200 people, this was an alarming fact. It didn’t help that rumours spread quickly. Apparently both of the murders had taken place around midnight, and in the rooms where each of the victims had been found, there was a mirror. A man had been found carrying a hand mirror, while a woman had been in front of her washroom mirror.
The children and teenagers of the town spread rumours of course. It was going around that if you stood in front of a mirror at midnight; the mirror would turn red or black because the spirit going around killing people wanted to hide itself from prying eyes. That fact changed based on who you asked. But it was just a stupid rumour, spread by bored children who were going back to school the following day. It would probably turn out to be a killer from the big city, thinking a small town was easy to pick on, or an angry lover.
Human cruelty was much easier to believe in than angry spirits in mirrors.
Introduction:
For those of you who have not played any of the games or watched the anime, the Persona series combines a role-playing game with a simulation game, and often focuses on teenagers going to school while fighting using Personas, which are explained in the Definitions section. This is going to be a very in-depth RP, and as such, you should be entering this RP with some knowledge of the Persona world.
That is why I ask, if you have not played Persona 3 or 4, that you watch the first two episodes of the Persona 4 anime. Here’s a link:
anime-media.com/category/persona-4/
Like in the games, your character will be dealing with the stresses of a school setting, but also fighting Shadows in order to fulfill a certain purpose. This RP will be a blend of both settings, with a bit more emphasis on the action.
This RP will not follow the same structure as ones before it. It will work almost in a quest style, with objectives being posted occasionally when they are called for. Some may be small, but others may span pages. These objectives will usually not be very specific, as to allow as much freedom as possible. However, I do ask that attention is paid to the objectives.
Also, in this RP, your sign-up profile will determine what abilities your Persona receives. These abilities will be handed out at the end of each completed objective.
Rules:
1. I cannot stress this enough, but WATCH YOUR INBOXES. While objectives will be posted in the RP thread, sometimes you will get a role or set of instructions specific to your character via PM. I’ll let everyone know that PMs have been sent out of character, but it is your responsibility to read messages sent privately.
2. To join, I’ll need to approve your profile. I usually approve/decline within a day.
3. No godmodding. This should be an obvious rule, but don’t do it. I’ll be pretty generous with warnings, but be careful of your actions.
4. No trolling. It won’t be tolerated at all.
5. I’m asking for some love and tolerance towards your fellow RPer. Don’t be a jerk.
Definitions:
Arcana: The arcana are what, in normal tarot decks, are referred to as the major arcana. There are 22 arcana types (19 are available), each with a different meaning and associated ability. Each character will have their own associated arcana, and no two characters can have the same arcana. While an arcana might say a Persona is known for a certain aspect, you do not have to follow this like a rule. The arcana can influence the Persona of the character in question. The arcana are as follows:
0. The Fool: THIS ARCANA CANNOT BE CHOSEN FOR USE BY A CHARACTER.
2. The Priestess: This arcana represents hidden knowledge or other untapped power, wisdom, female mystery and magic. Persona under this arcana are known for healing and support abilities.
4. The Emperor: This arcana represents the desire to control one's surroundings. Persona under this arcana are known for being good with physical skills.
5. The Hierophant: This arcana represents education, authority, conservatism, obedience to rules and relationships with the divine. Persona under this arcana are known for having no glaring weaknesses, and no obvious strengths; instead focusing on balance.
6. The Lovers: This arcana represents the different paths of life, and is a symbol of standing at a crossroad. Persona under this arcana are known for being good healing and support units.
7. The Chariot: This arcana represents victory, conquest, self-assertion, control, war and command. Persona under this arcana are known for their physical strength.
8. Justice: This arcana represents a strict allegory of justice, objectivity, rationality and analysis. Persona under this arcana are often skilled in light-based attacks.
10. Fortune: This arcana represents fate and varying luck, fortunes and opportunities. Persona under this arcana are often known for having skills related to wind, or being related to fate and time myths (such as the Norm sisters).
11. Strength: This arcana represents morality about the stronger power of self-control, gentleness, courage and virtue over brute force. Persona under this arcana are often tank-like, having great physical skill.
14. Temperance: This arcana represents synthesis, prudence, harmony, and the merging of opposites. Persona under this arcana are well-rounded.
15. The Devil: This arcana represents urge to do selfish, impulsive, violent things and be slave to ones' own impulse and feelings, and commitment. Persona under this arcana are often dark-based.
16. The Tower: This arcana represents an overly arrogant, prejudiced and authoritarian organization, which walk to their own ironic demise. Persona under this arcana are often skilled in the physical arts.
17. The Star: This arcana represents hope, self-confidence, faith, altruism, luck, generosity, peace and joy. Persona under this arcana are normally fire-based, while being weak to ice.
18. The Moon: This arcana represents creativity, inspiration, dreams, madness, illusions, fear, fantasy, the subconscious and trickery. Persona under this arcana are known for physical skills, and average magic abilities.
19. The Sun: This arcana represents happiness, joy, energy, optimism, and accomplishment. Persona under this arcana are often known for having skills in fire or light based attacks.
20. Judgment: THIS ARCANA CANNOT BE CHOSEN FOR USE BY A CHARACTER.
21. The World: THIS ARCANA CANNOT BE CHOSEN FOR USE BY A CHARACTER.
Persona: A Persona is a manifestation of one’s personality; a tamed and trained Shadow that can be commanded in battle by a Persona user. To summon a Persona, one must first face their Shadow, which is a malevolent manifestation of their inner thoughts. Personas are often based off of myth or folklore, and can have a wide variety of appearances.
A Persona, for the sake of our RP, will often take damage for its user unless an enemy directly attacks a Persona user; however, Persona users feel the pain their Persona do.
Shadow: There are two types of Shadows. First is the normal type of Shadow, which is a being made of negative human emotion. There are simple ones, and stronger ones made up of multiple Shadows. The second type is the Shadow Self. A Shadow Self starts off looking like the person it is based off of, albeit with yellow eyes. However, it is an incarnation of negative personality traits and repressed emotions, which it uses to its advantage to make the person it is based from deny being the same person. When they are denied, the Shadow Self changes into a monster and attacks everything in vicinity. If the person the Shadow Self is based on can admit their faults, a Shadow Self will change into a Persona.
For our RP, while I am asking you to create Shadow Selves right away, they will not come in until much after our characters have their Personas. They will be explained later.
Profile for Sign-Up:
Human Sign-Up:
Name:
Age: (High school student ages please, so around 14-18. I’ll accept other ages if you can have good reasoning behind it, but please try to stay within the range.)
Gender:
Arcana: (See the definitions for details.)
Weapon: (Weapons should be something that could be found by a high school student. Guns are heavily discouraged, and will probably be declined.)
Personality:
Appearance:
Summoning Method: (Get creative. In Persona 3, characters used gun-like objects called Evokers to mimic suicide, and in Persona 4, they destroyed manifestations of their arcana.)
Persona Sign-Up:
Name: (Personas are often named after mythological figures, so keep this in mind!)
Arcana: (it will be the same as your character.)
Element: (You can choose between fire, electric, ice, light, dark, and wind; this will determine your weakness.)
Special Talent: (A Persona is often skilled in something: you can choose healing skills, magic skills, support skills, or physical skills; one will be your main strength, and the other your secondary. Note: if choosing support skills, you need to choose between buffing [helping your comrades] or debuff [harming your foes]. Whatever you choose will determine your moves.)
Appearance:
Shadow Sign-Up
Name: (A shadow is the dark, corrupted form of your Persona, and it also represents the dark, twisted feelings your character carries within themselves. The name of a shadow is always “Shadow [insert name of character here]”.)
Appearance: (Your shadow should have some similarities to your Persona, but not enough to be a carbon copy.)
What It Represents: (What emotions does it represent? In Persona 4, it ranged from questioning one’s sexuality to resentment towards being treated like a child, to wanting to control how someone felt. This will reveal your character’s evils.)
I mean, I still need to post my profile, and I'm hoping we can get one more male and female character each. If you want to think about it, go for it! To be honest, the RP probably won't start until next week.