Aura Aether, 1389. Our world is crumbling. Society has become currupt, and while people still have food and places to live, they can barely survive. The rich and royalty are the only ones without worries, while everyone else struggles to get by. Cities have become nothing but barren wastelands and small villages, and while kingdoms still exist common folk don't dare go inside unless invited. Crime is worse then ever as well. With barely any laws anymore, people are fearing for their lives. Not only that, but terrifying beasts and terrors exist outside. Only in the villages near the knights can people feel remotely safe, and even then they might not be. Everyone is treated very cruelly by the royals, sometimes even demanding the knights to go out and torture the townspeople; Knights have a sworn duty to serve and protect.

People do what they can to stay alive. Royals live easily. Knights serve. People suffer... and there are those that seek power. Pacts. A pact with a demonic creature in exchange for power to do as one pleases. However, each pact comes with a price. A sacrifice of importance or value to the person seeking strength. Some consider this a small price to pay for possible freedom. While certain people use pacts just to help them survive, others may plot against the source of their pain. The one at the head of the throne... but who says there may not be more to it then that?

"Watchers look on as they dance in their merciless sky. Watching me... watching you..."*
Even worse, this is a time everyone fears in their dark world. Once the fog rolls in and the world becomes bloodstained and ruined... once the sky becomes a dark crimson shade and the clouds start to gather; the Watchers come out and strike disaster and fear on us all.

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So, it seems a little vague, so I'll try to explain things. Villages are no more advanged then they would be in the middle ages. Castles exist, but only royals and knights and anything associated are allowed inside, with the exception of someone being invited or called in. People who try to get in without permission are executed for tresspassing.

Most people nowadays have a pact. A pact is a bond to a mythical creature such as gnomes, naga, demons, pixies, faeries, dragons: anything you can think of. Because of this bond, once one dies, the other dies as well. However, because they are bonded with them, they are forever allies and gain power from this creature.
Each pact comes with a price, meaning you lose something by gaining a pact. This 'something' is not usually small. People may get a pact for a number of reason. Maybe they're even forming resistance groups? Or flying solo? You decide.

As for the Watchers, they are meant to be kept mysterious. No one knows what they look like, and no one really knows what their true intentions are. All they know, is they seem to love to torture. Once the fog rolls in and the sky changes colour, people tend to rush inside where it is safest, even though they aren't entirely. Watchers do as they please for sport, sometimes posessing people, or even killing them.


Rules - RPG Commandments

1. Post as often as you like, but don't spam.
2. Spamming OOC in the RP will not be acceptable. Please try to keep OOC within the OOC thread (will make later, so OOC doesn't clutter the planning thread either)
3. The posts don't have to be long, but I would like at least a few sentences. No one liners.
4. NO GODMODING! Fights or anything similar to such should be considered 'turn based' and hits should never be assumed. Always wait for the other user to respond and act according. However, the same goes for people who constantly dodge. Try to be realistic.
5. Do not kill off or assume anything otherwise with someone elses character (like that they're related, lovers, etc. This can be very irritating to some people) without their permission.
6. Romance and Violence is allowed, but don't go overboard. I.E. NO BORDERLINE PORN.
Conflict in encouraged.
7. Double posting is not allowed. Admittedly in a planning thread it is sometimes unavoidable and therefore can be over looked, unless it is a blatant disregard for the rules.
8. Notify us here if you are dropping out, or will be absent for a while.
9. You will be given a maximum of two weeks to post. If you do not at least notify of your absense by then, you will be assumed to have dropped out and your character may be killed or taken by someone else (with permission)
10. Write as little or as much as you want in the Profile, but don't say 'unknown' or anything like that.
Plot devices are also encouraged. If you have any ideas PM me, or we can discuss it here or by other means. (MSN, Skype, etc)
-Have fun!

*This line comes from the song 'Growing Wings' sung by Kari Wahlgren for the games Drakengard and Drakengard 2. I claim no ownership, but the rp was greatly inspired by Drakengard.

I'll set up some basic roles, but really you can be anything.
I ask though, for not too many dragons because I'd like variety; and for them to be no larger than the average sized house.

Roles -

Villagers:
SilverCinder - Growan "Seki" Trennung - Assassin - The Watcher: Seki - Profile

Knights:
CB Squall - Adele - Mage - The Hawk Spirit: Veros - Profile
Davina - Cyril Bosch - Warrior - Profile
Davina - Alya Raine - Mage - The Drake: Malus - Profile
Ebony - Levi The Slasher - Magic-Knight - The Dragon: Fortitude - Profile

Royalty:
Ecko - Sophia Ignis Laumbert - Seductress/Manipulator/Murderer - Profile
GR The Thief - Elaine Of Khurne - Potion Maker/Spellcaster - Profile
SilverCinder - Growan "Seki" Trennung - Assassin - The Watcher: Seki - Profile

Pact Partners:
Bimugen - Porshia - Emotions Mage - The Pixie: Mixolydia - Profile
CB Squall - Adele - Mage - The Hawk Spirit: Veros - Profile
Davina - Alya Raine - Mage - The Drake: Malus - Profile
Ebony - Levi The Slasher - Magic-Knight - The Dragon: Fortitude - Profile
lycraduckzrule - Lukas Vakkinerus - Naginatajutsu Warrior - Aleindarthanix - Profile
SilverCinder - Growan "Seki" Trennung - Assassin - The Watcher: Seki - Profile
twistedhands - Zu Enlil - Pugilist - The Shade: Ereshkigal - Profile

Foreigners:
Lordzias - Hibachi - Ninja/Adventurer - Profile
Mime Harlequin - Theios Thaorthain of Rathil - Warrior-druid - Profile

Others:
Bimugen - Porshia - Emotions Mage - The Pixie: Mixolydia - Profile
GR The Thief - Poppy - Toxic Temptress - Profile
Lucalibur - Reisy Magus - Berserker - Profile
lycraduckzrule - Lukas Vakkinerus - Naginatajutsu Warrior - Aleindarthanix - Profile
Mime Harlequin - Aelthain - Rogue-druid - Profile
twistedhands - Zu Enlil - Pugilist - The Shade: Ereshkigal - Profile


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RP Thread - http://blazblue.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=9279
OOC Thread - http://blazblue.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=9280
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Name: Characters name of course.
Age: How old are they?
Gender: Self explanatory.
Role: Villager? Pact Partner? Knight? Royalty? Or something else?
Race: What species is your character? Most pact characters will most likely be human.
Class: Basically description of their specialty. Are they warriors? Mages? Thieves? Or maybe just travelers?
Height: The height of your character.
Weight: The weight of your character.
Appearance: What they look like. In description, images or both.
Weapons: What weapons they may carry, maybe because they are a knight, or maybe just for protection.
His/Her Pact Partner(s): What they have partnered with. Put N/A if they don't have one.
Pact Exchange: What they had to sacifice in order to gain a pact. I.E. The ability to age, to sleep, to speak, loss of sight, etc. N/A if they have no Pact Partner.
Bio: A description of your character and their life. Can be as long or short as you like.
Extra: Anything else you would like to add.




Questions? Feel free to ask.

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~Q + A Section~
I'll post the Q&A stuff right here so it makes it easier for people. That way they will know if their question has already been answered or not.


Royalty can be pretty much anyone that resides in the kingdom or basically is related to anyone there (like maybe the daughter of the king so like yes there are princes and princesses and stuff) or someone that is wealthy. Basically like the nobles, that are most of the time stuck up and feel superior to everyone else. Not all of them have to be like that though, but most are.



The exchange comes in many different forms. Some examples from the actual Drakengard games...

Caim lost his voice.
Arioch lost her womb.
Inuart sacrificed his talent. (he sang and played the harp)
Leonard his eyes.
Seere lost time. (He's six, he will never grow up basically.)
Zhangpo lost taste (and his stomach always felt empty)
Hanch lost her beauty and charms.
Etc...



Yes. You could probably also lose some more of the senses like... feeling/touch.

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Name: real name is unknown, though she goes by; Levi the Slasher
Age: Unknown.... though around 16-20.
Gender: Female
Role: Knight
Race: Human
Class: Magic-knight
Height: 6'3"
Weight: Why would I tell you?
Appearance: Here you go. However, on the side of there face is a large scar, and she's missing an eye.
Weapons: Force Edge - That huge sword is called the Force Edge. Due to her being a mage, she can make it either turn into a bow and arrow, catch on fire, or into a whip that can stretch out to the length of a fully grown dragon, but this causes immense strain on her mind.
Hræsvelgr - "Corpse Eater." A sword granted by Fortitude, a katana with a sheath. Due to him being her pact partner, she is an instant expert with it. Using her partner, it can cut through almost anything, though without, it's simply a katana, though a pretty one at that.
His/Her Pact Partner(s): A dragon named Fortitude. He's a black and very, very spiky dragon with leathery wings and has purple cat-like eyes. Can turn into a "fun sized" version.
Pact Exchange: Due to Fortitude being a rather strong dragon, along with the new weapon, she had to pay up bigger time. She lost an eye, and then lost the ability to reproduce.
Bio: As a child, her birth parents always saw her as being expendable. They were deranged occultists, and each tried to get a pact partner themselves. Strangely, the fates wouldn't allow it. So they mated, and had a girl and gave her a name, though they never called her name; instead she was just "girl." Once she was young enough to walk, they forced her into making a pact partner, and succeeded. Her guardian monster, Fortitude, ironically cared more for her then her parents did.

"Take this blade," he said, "and kill them."

So she did. She impaled them on Hræsvelgr without a second thought, and from then on, they became closer. However, due to the price, they took her eye (leaving a massive scar) and the ability to create others. She was illiterate and mute, due to her parents not teaching her anything but the basics.

One day, when she was eleven, several bandits ran into the noble district and held several people hostage. Before the knights got there, she was there, and all the bandits were dead. She simply put Hræsvelgr back in its sheath and looked at the knights. Seeing her as a strong warrior, they took her in. They taught her and now she's one of the best knights they have. They gave her the name Levi the Slasher after her skill with blades.

Levi managed to keep Fortitude under the radar, and gained a new family, one that cared for her, the Wolfsbane. This marked the start of her life.
Extra: Has a regal air to her. People tend to be stunned when she walks into the room, and keeps a cool, calm, and polite composure even when faced with death, almost to the point of being emotionless. However, her social skills are... low. Levi knows only the basic things when it comes to talking to people, which she fails at horribly. She shines in combat though, analyzing the situation and how strong the opponent is. If it'll be hard, she keeps up the defense and tires the opponent out, then tears them to shreds. If not, then she shows no mercy. Levi taunts the opponent, trying to piss them off, so that they'll be more reckless and it'll be easier for her to take them down.

Oh, and she likes crepes, cute, and furry things.

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Lol at the weight thing.

She looks pretty cool Eb.

My Cyril character also has a missing eye. WTF. O_O Although with him it's just that he's blind in one, not necessarily that it's gone. He doesn't have a pact, it's self inflicted.

I won't post my two right yet(Yeah I need two...) because one is a Knight, and one is kind of Ex-Knight. All we'd have so far is Knights XD Nothing wrong with that but yeah, I need to revise their bios a bit. Don't have time tonight.

And I also wanna see if anyone else pops up ^^;

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I will join.

But I have no idea what kind of character to make. :/

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Name: Reisy Magus.
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Role: Pact Makers hunter.
Race: Human.
Class: Beserker.
Appearance: http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/3/32 ... _large.jpg only without the pistol(s) for obvious reasons.

height: 185 CM.
Weight: 90.0 Kg.
His Pact Partner: N\A
Pact Exchange: N\A


Weapon: Reisy has a total of 3 weapons: An average sized wood Katana used for non-lethal takedowns. The Wood this Weapon is made of is of high quality, and thus wont break easily.


an Long, Sharp Katana used for killing. The Katana Is made of Extremely High Quality Steel, which he Made himself. It Can Easily Destroy Low Quality Weapons and Stand Blows from Heavy weapons. It is a Bad idea to Block Such things with a Sword because it Damages the weapon, however, so he learned to avoid attacks instead of guarding them.


And an special, Giant, Extremely powerful and heavily enchanted Greatsword Magically Created by using one of the metal objects on his shoulder in fusion with his normal Katana. the process is that he puts the katana inside the hole of the round object, which then becomes smaller to fit the katana size, and increases the Weapon Mass and power by using the magic that is inside of the metal object(will be explained on the bio). the sword is around 2 meters tall, and cannot be kept for more than a few minutes without causing negative effects to Reisy body. Using both objects on the Katana instead of just one makes it even more powerful, but is more dangerous to Reisy.

The Metal object is not removed by simply taking it off, but by flexing the muscles on his arm, which causes the object to detach from his Arm and float in front of him( http://youtu.be/8xKOXiQzftY 0:33 is a great example of how he does it). he then Puts the blade into it, and the transformation process starts. Because it only requires his normal Katana he can still use the Wood Katana in combo with the Greatsword, although that is not very effective because of the Sword size and weight.



Bio: Reisy was trained ever since childhood to be a Knight by his own decision, which his rich parents helped him with. on a particular night when he was a teenager a Human that had made a pact with a unknown Being(the being was not with the human at the time, although it was confirmed later he had made a pact) attacked the squad he was with, killing the entire squad but him, although he lost both arms. when Reisy was found he was in critical state and required urgent medical attention, but even that was not enough to save him. the only way to save him was through magic, and so the mages put both of his arms back and fixed them by putting "Life-force-powered" Round, metal objects on both of his shoulders. that saved him, but since the objects are powered by Reisy Life force then he is never at 100% physical condition, and thus never capable of fighting at full power.


The objects can be removed to empower an weapon, or any object of choice with Life power itself, which is considered a extremely powerful source of magic. Removing the object does not cause negative effects on Reisy body right away, nor will cause any of his arms to fall off at any time. after 10-20 minutes without one(It depends on how many he removed, as taking both off cuts the time he will stay fine without suffering negative effects by half) of them, however, he will start to lose power, for those objects are what is keeping him alive(The damage caused on his body on that night was far too big for him to survive without those round objects) and hours without them will result in death. removing the objects also allows him to fight at 100% power because nothing is sucking the life out of him anymore, but like mentioned before he will start to feel the effect of losing what is keeping him alive after a few minutes. for that reason he tries to the best of his abilities to avoid using this.



Ever since that day he decided to hunt dangerous folks that made pacts because he wants revenge. He does not attack anyone with a pact unless they either show themselves to be extremely dangerous or are searched by the community because of evil acts(Evil by his own justice, so what some might consider evil wont mean Reisy himself considers it a evil act). Money might be hard to come by, but he refuses to be hired for particular hunting jobs unless he is paid for it.


Extra: The white part of his hair is because of the Round objects that suck the life out of him, although he honestly doesn't care about it.

His personality Varies as his Mood can shift quickly, but most of the time he keeps a calm, Cold behavior because he learned that to lose his cool in battle means he already lost. He takes His Job Very seriously for he believes Most Pact Partners are one of the most important reasons as to why the lands are in such an pathetic state. Like mentioned before he will only attack those that are clearly Evil or he was paid to kill, but he dislikes Those that made a pact in general.



Despite his ability to turn his Katana into a Giant, Destructive Greatsword he is not actually capable of any Magic outside of Making his shoulder objects float in front of him. The object itself is the one doing all the job.

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@Ecko - No hurry. Honestly, we could use lots of different types of people. Even just regular townspeople do just fine. I wouldn't mind some royalty though. There's gonna be Dukes and Princes and whatnot in the Kingdom after all. Not sure what kind of person/thingy you'd want to play.


Oh I should also note that you CAN play a pact beast without a pact, or have someone else play your pact partner. So if anyone wants to do this, just ask. Just consider that if you're going to play something that can enter into a pact, expect to bounce ideas around with other people.

@Vienna - Not sure how I'd feel about someone rping as a Watcher. It kind of ruins the whole "WHATINTHEHELLARETHEY" illusion. Sorry.

@Lucalibur - He looks pretty good. His role is interesting.

Although the weight thing: I was once told that when you make a character, you need to know everything you can about them. Some details don't seem relevant, but it gives a sense of realism.

It's not that necessary in this case and I guess you don't have to put it, but it gives a sense of a characters size or mass and whatnot, and especially helps with people who prefer not to use pictures for their appearances. Not a big deal if you don't put it though. I like putting height because I like having an idea of how tall characters are all compared to each other.

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It's just that i am horrible weights, sorry. i will see what i can do.



Also, i worded myself wrong. he doesnt search for folks that made pacts to get revenge, he hunts them BECAUSE HE WANTS REVENGE. i will go edit that as well.

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Oh it's okay, you don't need to add it. I understand it being difficult to figure out.

I used to use this to help me get a general idea.

http://www.flat-stomach-exercises.com/i ... ght.html#1

You'd probably need to convert it into KG or whatever you use though. And cm.

I used to use both measurements XD

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Eh, i weight around 85 KG and i am about 183 CM tall, so i figured a guy a few CMs taller than me and with a bit more muscles would weight only a bit more.


I really dont want to convert it, specially because the result would probably be around 85-100 KG anyway.

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