Ultimate Galactic Gladiators! (INTEREST/OOC/SIGN-UP) OPEN!

[Qwanch]

This RP is set on a floating city that exists outside of time and space named Sparzantinople. The inhabitants of this city have long enjoyed watching the various battles of the planets of various galaxies. They long have considered themselves a peaceful culture and had banned fighting among themselves centuries in their private timeline earlier, but as they observed the skirmishes from across history and the cosmos, they grew restless. A new contest was founded, "Ultimate Galactic Gladiators," and they began to abduct marginal fighters from the past, present, and future of all worlds. Despite being against the will of the gladiators to fight, they are offered the following option: "Refuse and die, or fight and possibly go home if we find it fit."

Of coarse, this ultimatum is never really fulfilled, as the captains of Sparzantinople never see it fit to send home their fighters and as there is a mortality fail safe in the UGG arena, which pulls combatants out of the arena instants before the moment of death and heals them back to full vigor.

The RP has two parts on one forum:


Battles

The core of play... the arena will often simulate a hybrid of landscapes that should be a mesh of the competitor's experiences. For example: A cowboy saloon in 1880's Arizona Territory and a bar from the 2040's post-nuclear horror Chicago area would mesh to provide an urban environment like Chicago that would be in a desert with robot cowboys with ion phasers...

The early part of the game will be one on one battles, but there will be tag team (two on two) battles later on as a result of the social game.


Social

The social game is largely under development and it is being decided how it will affect game play. However, the basic use for the social game will be to see how characters of different time periods and planets get along and possibly unlocking tag team battles as part of the battle game.

Virtues and Vices

With the new Virtues and Vices system, you can add additional depth to your character by choosing personality traits to enhance your character. A virtue is positive trait like patience, compassion, or ambition. A vice is a negative trait such as impatience, overconfidence, or greed. Your character does not need to have Virtues and Vices, but if they do, remember that for every virtue, a vice is needed, and vice-versa. If a player desires to use the Virtues and Vices system, they may tag on two more fields to their application. For those that have already signed up, they may add to their application if they wish. Removal of Virtues and Vices after using them in character is frowned upon.


Applications

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Name:
Species:
Gender:
Age:
Planet:
Region on Planet:
Time Period (A specific year is generally preferred):
Appearance:
Type (Gun Duelist, Knight, Samurai, ect.):
Weapon of Choice:
Bio:
Misc:.


OOC Chat

The OOC chat group can be used for any non-application purpose, but its primary function is to answer OOC questions in real time. This is useful if there is a lot of people online. For low-traffic times of the day, the OOC forum is better as messages are deleted from the chat screen when everyone logs off. Do not post applications in the XAT chatroom!


Accepted Players

Emilio Aguinaldo - Gyras
Retrovia - Andres Bonifacio (Master Boni)
Valecia - Cpt. Emmet Skyler
Frigola - Hippolyta
Qwanch - Logan Byrd


Important Links

OOC Chatroom
IC Thread

[Caecuser]

Definitely looks like an interesting RP concept, curious to see where this goes.

[Qwanch]

Chatroom is up and running! This should be perfect for OOC small talk, as it is less awkward than the forums and will alert you of new post with a sound and people coming online with another distinct sound. Remember not to post anything of more than minimal importance, as it will not be logged. Post on this forum for apps, or anything you want to be remembered about your character. I personally find it prudent to post a summary of what you have to say on here, so people not online can inquire about it later.

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

Name:Gyras
Age:32
Planet:Earth
Region on Planet:Middle East
Time Period (A specific year is generally preferred):384 BC
Appearance:
Type (Gun Duelist, Knight, Samurai, ect.):Spearman?
Weapon of Choice:Sarrissa spear, hoplon shield (made the hoplite famous) and short sword (which I will not name)
Bio:He was the ones who formed the battle lines for the Seleucid Empire the main backbone of its army, he like many others are dragged into a war they did not wanted to be in. While his unit was getting ready for battle against the Ptolemies he saw a white light and he got sucked into it (oh wait bios are stuff about this guy)
He was a tall and strong man, he was taught how to fight and how to coordinate with others at a young age of 16 for war. (okay it sucks deal with it)
Misc:.

[Retrovia]

Name: Andres Bonifacio (Master Boni)
Age: 33
Planet: Earth
Region on Planet: Philippines
Time Period (A specific year is generally preferred): 1897
Appearance:
Type (Gun Duelist, Knight, Samurai, ect.): Peasant Revolutionary, Poet
Weapon of Choice: Bolo , Revolver Pistol , well almost anything he can get his hands on
Bio: The Supremo or Leader of the Philippine Revolutionaries who revolted against Spain. Orphaned at a young age. He raised himself and his siblings through selling fans and canes. Self-educated. Formed the Katipunan (Filipino Revolutionaries Organization) after reading the works of Dr. Jose Rizal, Lives of the Presidents of the United States, the French Revolution and many more. He is a master of Escrima- the Philippine Martial Art of fighting with bladed weapons. During the year 1897, the Philippine Revolutionaries split in two factions. One was the Magdiwang, headed by Bonifacio, the other was the Magdalo, headed by Emilio Aguinaldo. At the Tejeros Convention, a rigged election was held and Emilio Aguinaldo won the Presidency as the first President of the First Filipino Republic and Bonifacio was appointed to the lowly position as Secretary of the Interior. Even at this position, Daniel Tirona of the Magdiwang contested the results since Bonifacio does not hold a Law Degree and that the said position requires such. An angered Bonifacio thus drew his pistol and shot Tiron on the collar, almost killing him. As people left the room, Bonifacio declared: "I, as chairman of this assembly and as President of the Supreme Council of the Katipunan, as all of you do not deny, declare this assembly dissolved, and I annul all that has been approved and resolved." When Aguinaldo sworn to office, he ordered the arrest of Bonifacio. He was charged with treason and was condemned to death. Accompanied by his brother, Procopio and Aguinaldo's men, they proceeded to the Maragondon Mountains were it was believed that the Bonifacio brothers were executed. Little did they know that as the executioner's bullet raced towards Bonifacio, a white portal suddenly appeared, taking Bonifacio with it. The rest as everyone know it is history.

[Qwanch]

Emilio Aguinaldo and Retrovia are accepted.

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

Quick question Are the battles going to be close combat or just "Fuck it use everything!" cause that would suck for me since I have an 8 meter spear vs (idk) a mother truckin ray-gun.

[Qwanch]

Quick question Are the battles going to be close combat or just "Fuck it use everything!" cause that would suck for me since I have an 8 meter spear vs (idk) a mother truckin ray-gun.

My Internet connection is coming and going, so I'm using a phone right now. I'm unsure rather or not to introduce tiers that give older characters an advantage… but that might get too restrictive to the game is too young. Another choice, and I have been receiving telegrams on this from somebody wanting to merge into my RP (about the same age), would be to have fairness judges… sounds stupid, I know, but it would judge "who fought harder". There is a third and final choice where we allow characters to gain skills while players play the social side of the game. It really is a tough choice, but I lean a bit closer to options one and three. Three even a little more. I guess we could implement whichever policy appears most plausible. Nothing beats good old fashioned tactics, by the way.

[Sentinel XV]

Name: Morpheus
FULL INFORMATION: Link
Planet: Sentinel XV
Region on Planet: N/A
Time Period: Post-First Galactic War Era
Type: Assassin/Soldier Hybrid

All information regarding Morpheus can be found by following the above link.

[Qwanch]

The best way to start is to describe your character doing something in their everyday life, when all of the sudden, you get teleported to the steel containment unit in Sparzantinople where you are told you must fight. By the way, until we get like five accepted characters, we are in the social where everybody has really no idea what happened and don't know why they where just living life and then ended up there. If you post OOC in the IC before you get this… be sure and edit it out to like how I have it now.

[Len Hyet]

Name: Michael
Species: ArchAngel, Prince of the Seraphim, the first order of Heavenly Beings
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown, over 4000
Planet: Earth
Region on Planet: Heaven
Time Period: Infinite
Appearance: Here
Type: Angelic Combatant (IE if it has been used as a weapo on earth, he is an expert with it)
Weapon of Choice: Sword of Michael
Bio:

St. Michael is one of the principal angels; his name was the war-cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his followers. Four times his name is recorded in Scripture:

(1) Daniel 10:13 sqq., Gabriel says to Daniel, when he asks God to permit the Jews to return to Jerusalem: "The Angel [D.V. prince] of the kingdom of the Persians resisted me . . . and, behold Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me . . . and none is my helper in all these things, but Michael your prince";

(2) Daniel 12, the Angel speaking of the end of the world and the Antichrist says: "At that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people."

(3) In the Catholic Epistle of St. Jude: "When Michael the Archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body of Moses", etc. St. Jude alludes to an ancient Jewish tradition of a dispute between Michael and Satan over the body of Moses, an account of which is also found in the apocryphal book on the assumption of Moses (Origen, "De principiis", III, 2, 2). St. Michael concealed the tomb of Moses; Satan, however, by disclosing it, tried to seduce the Jewish people to the sin of hero-worship. St. Michael also guards the body of Eve, according to the "Revelation of Moses" ("Apocryphal Gospels", etc., ed. A. Walker, Edinburgh, p. 647).

(4) Apocalypse 12:7, "And there was a great battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon." St. John speaks of the great conflict at the end of time, which reflects also the battle in heaven at the beginning of time. According to the Fathers there is often question of St. Michael in Scripture where his name is not mentioned. They say he was the cherub who stood at the gate of paradise, "to keep the way of the tree of life" (Gen., iii, 24), the angel through whom God published the Decalogue to his chosen people, the angel who stood in the way against Balaam (Numbers 22:22 sqq.), the angel who routed the army of Sennacherib (IV Kings 19:35).

Following these Scriptural passages, Christian tradition gives to St. Michael four offices:

To fight against Satan.
To rescue the souls of the faithful from the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of death.
To be the champion of God's people, the Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament; therefore he was the patron of the Church, and of the orders of knights during the Middle Ages.
To call away from earth and bring men's souls to judgment ("signifer S. Michael repraesentet eas in lucam sanctam", Offert. Miss Defunct. "Constituit eum principem super animas suscipiendas", Antiph. off. Cf. "Hermas", Pastor, I, 3, Simil. VIII, 3).

Misc:.

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

May we have another char if ours dies?

[Retrovia]

In my humble opinion, would it be unfair for us who are armed with 18-foot spears, a bolo and a pistol against an angel who wields power from God and an extraterrestrial who uses advanced technology? Would the battles be close combat based solely on skill? without powers? or magic toys? etc?

[Valecia]

Name: Cpt. Emmet Skyler
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Planet: Earth
Region on Planet: Valecia(nation)
Time Period (A specific year is generally preferred): 2200s
Appearance: Tall, robust, long brown/blonde hair, sea green eyes.
Type (Gun Duelist, Knight, Samurai, ect.): Knight/Gladiator
Weapon of Choice: Plasma sword, Axe
Bio: Son of the commander in chief Julius Skyler, Emmet joined the U.S.V Marine Corps aged 23 and soon became one of it's best soldiers and was promoted to Captain. His father is a god, so Emmet is a demi god, with formidable powers such as super strength, speed, agility and stamina.
Misc:.
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OOC Chat

The OOC chat group can be used for any non-application purpose, but its primary function is to answer OOC questions in real time. This is useful if there is a lot of people online. For low-traffic times of the day, the OOC forum is better as messages are deleted from the chat screen when everyone logs off. Do not post applications in the XAT chatroom!

Important links:
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IC Thread[/quote]

[Facist-Germania]

Okay, I might get a post in. Just maybe, if I can juggle all of my other RP's. However, I am a big line-artist. When I saw in the OP that you mentioned Post-Nuclear Horror Chicago. This just felt so right.

http://i.imgur.com/Q8cZf.png

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

So what now?

[Utceforp]

Name: Pan'deimos
Species: Former God
Gender: M
Age: 14600000000+
Planet: Earth
Region on Planet: The nameless realm: An alternate dimension that literally cannot have a name, the nameless realm was created long ago by Pan'deimos as both his citadel and a show of his power. There are few consistent things there, as strange and nonesensical things happen regularly, and physics, logic or memory may or may not work, depending on the "mood" of the place. The only thing that is stable is that the sand all flows towards the center, and in the center, surrounded by a more concentrated swirl of random and unreal objects, is a palace made from red brick, which is empty aside from Pan'deimos's throne. There are no humans here in the realm, but creatures who were once human roam the wasteland, "disciples" of Pan'deimos who have purposely changed their form using the magic of the place. They are loyal to Pan'deimos, but even they have trouble navigating the chaotic and ever changing world that is their home.
Time Period (A specific year is generally preferred): 2012
Appearance:

Type (Gun Duelist, Knight, Samurai, ect.): Chaos God, Expert Fencer, Terrorist
Weapon of Choice: A thin sabre coloured blood red and embellished with drawings of snakes and fire called Gravioris, which causes those he cuts with it to experience powerful and nightmarish hallucinations.
Bio: The entity known as Pan'deimos existed from the moment the universe existed, one of the immortal Gods who wandered the universe until life was created on earth, at which point he began to take interest in the planet. He was one of the more hands on gods, preffering to appear to followers and direct them in their work. He, being the god of chaos, was also notorious for his "pranks". He would go down to earth and cause anywhere from slight inconvenience to the murder of hundreds of people, all for his own enjoyment. Eventually the humans became fed up of his games, and started to fight him. Although the omnipotent Pan'deimos was winning, the humans used powerful magic to remove him from his Deitic status, turning him into a creature that was somewhere between god and human. He roamed the earth for ages, having retained his immortality, and has regained a tiny fragment of his former powers. However, this fragment was more than enough to tear upon a rift into his old world, and he is preaparing a mighty horde to conquer earth and cause enough Chaos to regain his Godly form. However, this army would be left leaderless and broken if he were, say, plucked out of his time period.
Misc:. Nothing I can think of, I will notify you if I remember anything though.

[Frigola]

Name: Hippolyta
Species: demigod
Gender: female
Age: 24
Planet: Earth
Region on Planet: Sarmathia (i.e. Ukraine)
Time Period: 12th Century B.C.
Appearance:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/QueenHippolyta.png

Type: Amazon
Weapon of Choice: bow
Bio: Daughter of the god Ares and Otrera. She was hunting with her sisters when she is whisked away to Sparzantinople
Misc:.

[Qwanch]

In my humble opinion, would it be unfair for us who are armed with 18-foot spears, a bolo and a pistol against an angel who wields power from God and an extraterrestrial who uses advanced technology? Would the battles be close combat based solely on skill? without powers? or magic toys? etc?

Magically endowed creatures will find it harder to join for two reasons:

1) This RP is more science fiction than fantasy.
2) Those that do make it will need to have it toned down a little (or a lot...), plus a science fiction explanation of what allows them to do all those things.

With the exception of a couple ranged weapons, this game is largely close combat and very much based on skill. The planet and species fields are there because this game assumes that humans invent spaceships and come into contact with alien races. The farther into the future you are, the harsher your app is judged. I see a couple of good, medium-powered apps I'm about to accept.

[Qwanch]

Valecia is accepted.
Frigola has some mythological tie-in's but is accepted nonetheless.

Alright.

Mine should be coming up.
I'm eyeing a few other apps as well.

[Qwanch]

Name: Logan Byrd
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 46
Planet: Mars
Region on Planet: Cydonia
Time Period (A specific year is generally preferred): 2042
Appearance: Hazel eyes, brown and gold banded hair, Caucasian, 5'9" (175 cm)
Type (Gun Duelist, Knight, Samurai, ect.): Scientist
Weapon of Choice: Small, self-defense laser
Bio: Born on Earth on March 15, 1996. He first heard of the civilian manned mission to Mars, Mars One, in August 2012. He waited until he was finally old enough to apply (25) and did so in 2021. He made it to be the sixteenth human on mars ten years later in 2031 after traveling with the fourth group of four to land on the planet. He settled into his new home and began work as a geologist. Though not in a fighting profession per-say, he was trained in hand-to-hand combat and he carries a small, self-defense laser. He was taken to Sparzantinople while doing routine research. He had been living on Mars for eleven years.
Misc:.

[Qwanch]

Alright... time for everybody to start posting IC! This is exciting!

[Valecia]

Emmet arrived at the arena, armed with his golden axe and plasma energy gun.

[Qwanch]

Emmet arrived at the arena, armed with his golden axe and plasma energy gun.

oh... wrong thread... use the IC thread link...

[Hamste]

Name: Olov Bectensky
Species: Centaur
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Planet: centuria
Region on Planet: The centraurs are totally unified under the all powerful overruler so there is no "regions"
Time Period (A specific year is generally preferred): 2475 ADEO (After Death of Ernold the Overruler)
Appearance: A muscular man with the body of a horse. His hair is dark black and he has a goatee. His eyes are hazel brown and his skin his quite tan.
Type (Gun Duelist, Knight, Samurai, ect.): Archer
Weapon of Choice: Bow (arrows depends usually explosive tipped but he does use others depending the situation.)
Bio: Olov grew up in a some family with 2 brothers. When he grew of age he was drafted for The Fight Against The Worlds (TFATW). A colonization project that the Centaurs were working on to take over more land that they can then preserve. Their life goal is to destroy all sentient races in the universe that would seek to damage the natural land.
Misc: Virtue: Great aim even under pressure
Vice: He wouldn't attack someone he has reason to believe helps nature a lot.