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Within your home of flesh, you twist the mind of mortal toward evil. This job, is the lowest of the low, but the most important. Without it, hell could never match heaven and nothing could protect you from those holier-than-thou bastards. But while you're here, you can't make deals back home, can't raise your rank and will remain at the bottom. Not to mention you have to be in contact with the mortal, you see their live and become...attach. And then you watch they descent in evil. It seem even beings made from pure hate have some sympathies. You suppose it like those rat-catchers who get pet rats. Great you're using human things to explain something to yourself.

A large clang sounds. A quick check through your human shows it not from the outside. You feel back home with mounting worry. A lack of demonic energy tell you the worst has happened. The gates of hell are closes and you are outside. Your options are limited. Without a connection to hell, you will fade away. You could wait, but the gates of hell never close, every second closed is a second that a damned soul could be diverted to reincarnation. The decision to close them is not one taken lightly. You could devour souls, but while most of humanity think your kind is a mere myth, there are still groups more then willing to dust off their anti-demon stuff when word reaches them. Besides, you're too 'attached' to your current host to eat their soul, damn feeling.

Attached...attached, yes that may work. A little give and take. Of course the human would have to agree and human seem to view deals with the devil with the oddest reactions. It not like every deal is paid in souls.

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In this game you play as a demon-human pact duo with 5 others(E.G. 6 players). The demon is sustained by the human's soul(energy given freely is worth more) and the human gains power from the demon. Since the gates of hell are closed, if the human dies, demon goes byebye.




Remember, ask questions if something not clear and 6 players. All characters are in the same city or surrounding rural land.

Chapter one:From one room into another.

You open your eyes. You are lying in an alleyway with red stains along it's walls. It is sunny. One way of this alley lead to a park, the other is a set of grey buildings.

Not related to any ip of a similar name.

You are (Name), a young (Race, see spoiler) (gender) in the lands of Arenor. Here you live in the small village of Bern and all 13 of your years you have heard of how the monsters of the land are unfeeling constructions of Markon that seek the end of that is good and they must be kill on sight. With this in mind you, on the way to get water from the river, came across a injure (monster, see spoiler) and you prepare to use what little training you had in (class, see spoiler) to finish it off, but a single eye/whatever a slime would use turns to you causes you to turn away your training weapon at the last moment. Cursing your bleeding heart, you carry the beast to a nearby(location, see spoiler). Nursing it back to health, you fully expect it to be gone back into the wild, but there it is, waiting for you at the (location).

As the title says, this is a Mass crossover suggestion game so first thing:

Pick a starting character, any character with a link to their wiki page so I can stats them. Within the ground rules.

1. must be a canon character, no Rose Potter, no Akane the Kyuubi, etc.
2. must have a set character so no dragonborn. people like commander Shepherd is fine if you mention if it the pargon or reg one.
3. no reality warpers, not even unaware ones like Haruhi suzumiya.
4. hentai characters are fine as long as there more then just porn to their stories like Hatsune from Atlach Nacha or Lightning Warrior Raidy from Lightning Warrior Raidy.
5. must have a canon name so no 3-13 archer or background pony from Stargate
6. if they have a canon name, but only appear for a scene, they are also veto.

So let see who does win the poll.

Main thread
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RP heavy(maybe, no one will bite your head off if you don't uses 32 adjectives to everything(Fun story: I got banned from a mmorpg within 5 mintues of starting it because I broke the immersion, by asking a combat question. No trial, no second chances, just the law of a mod(who was the only other player I saw).)) game. Combat included, I'm just a referee and stage hand here.

Standard fantasy world, no non-humans I'm afraid (Not including demons and angels), magic common enough to have shops in major cities, but rare enough that the mundane is used(no worker golems, no transport powered by magic, etc). The dark races(undead and werewolfs) are kind of rare.

You start out as normal humans, soon gaining the powers apart from the human, who forges his/her.



Questions?

Rise of the magic girls* OOC
_{*some magic girls are actually boys but magic boys sound wrong and magic person is just odd. Beside most magic users in this verse for some reason are girls.}

I know, I know, I did say no games till I pass my driving test, but I get bored and thus a very light mechanicals game. The stats are the most complex part of this game.

Anyway, the setting is a normal Earth but with a hidden magic girls element. Up till now, the only effects are that some historic figures had powers. For the most part, there been nothing for magic girls to use their powers on so most of them live normal lives and keep their powers secret. Of course that going to change soon.

I will pick the six that bend the best and the rest shall be on a waitlist for when the active ones retire or die horrible deaths.



Please ask questions about anything unclear.




npc list

And a trope page

game thread

Persona: We need a title.

As a big fan of the franchise shin megami tensei, it should be no surprise that something of that would be made into one of my games. Probable going to horrible butcher it, but what can you do?

I never played shin megami tensei and/or persona!

Relax, you don't need to know about any of the shin megami tensei's games(but you may miss Easter eggs about them) and I'll give some background about the persona spin off line. For persona fans just skip to info dump end.

What a persona?

At first, demons in the first “persona” a title call 'Shin Megami Tensei If'. They are then change to manifestation of a person ego or mask in the actually first persona title called 'Persona'. I not play the first two(three, 'Persona 2' was two games that could stand alone, but stories could feed into one another), but in 3 and 4 everyone has one persona(If they could use persona) apart from wild cards that could change their, but are very rare(three to six in those two games depending on the three assistances). And when I said everyone I mean everyone with a dog and a robot in 3 and a shadow in 4.

What a shadow?

It a repressed ego, something that a thinking being(4 has that shadow being attacked by it's shadow, yo dawg) can't face in themselves at least in 4, 3 not clear on the matter. They tend to attack persona users and when the fog lifts everyone nearby in 4 while in 3 anyone awake in the dark hour(a 25th hour). When a being faces it fears and embraced it's shadow, then it become a persona.

Elements

For someone who not play a shin megami tensei play, the elements can be confusing. It is, physical, fire, ice, wind, lightning, light and dark with a non-element one called almighty.

 Simple right? No. First resistances are very random, just because the shadow is a ball of fire does not mean that it's weakness is ice, hell sometimes it fire! The shadow type resistances will stay the same so if a glass sword shadow is weak to light so is all others glass sword shadows, but the similar looking ruby sword shadow might be weak to fire, but then so will the others of that type.

Second, spell names. Agi=fire, Bufu=ice, Garu=wind, Zio=lightning, Hama=light and Mudo=dark with Megido=almighty. There also the weird world of buffs and debuffs, but that can wait.

The final niggle is that light and dark are, bar a few odd balls, all instance death spells which has probable made the new guys and gals think “no light or dark for me because instance death spells are useless.”, but you would be wrong. A weakness to not only increase the chance of hitting with a  instance death spell, but will give a one more or extra turn which in a turn-based RPG is awesome. Sure bosses are immune to light and dark, but ask a persona player who in persona 4 was their most valuable character is will say Naoto, the light and dark user(barring the main character because of his wild card ability).

Also physical skills cost health, but most physical focused personas tend to gain regeneration passives.

Info dump end

What the setting?

A college named Longslade with a off land student apartments as the base(like in 3). The name of the city is Linmend(Place name generator) and a company called Paragon is who you are working for. The country is a mismatch of places because I don't care getting everything right, let call it Japanican.

So how do I sign up?

Using these sheets, however there a rub. If you are not one of the first 5, then you are a lost person who will appear on a mission and must be rescued before you can use a persona, but you still fill out a persona sheet long before awakening it.

OOC

A dance of wanderers

I'm going to give players games a go again. The setting is all of you have appeared in a different place/dimension, not necessary in or from the same place as the others. After that, well there is a plot, but no king/punky girl/bard is going to try and poke you along it, you don't have to stick together and you can be hero or villian.

So what the tech level?

Because of plot reasons, all over the place. Stone age here, space age.

Why did you call it 'A dance of wanderers'?

I got a rough crossover story sitting on my comp(rough=bare bone plan) call the tale of the wanderers with a similar idea.

How do I sign up?

Fill out this(I sense okay turnover so first come, first served. GM reserve the right to ignore the dumb ones like Class:Mary sue)


Six spots then waitlist.