The Dance of Chaos [OOC-Fantasy-DEAD]

[Remnants of Exilvania]

As long as they are balanced, I have no particular problem with having stronger characters, but I tend to judge each character individually. As an example, my (former) main character, the Archbishop of Envy, is quite powerful, but he finds it difficult to control magic - his spells can get out of control, and he has less mana than a mage of his caliber should have. The Archbishop of Wrath is well, too impulsive and while her offensive skills are great, rage can easily make her lose sight of what's important in a battle. Pride is well, blind, and also very indecisive and hesitant. Rafal has a relic, his sword, but he has no idea how to properly use it. And so on.

Totally balanced indeed.
Exil has a regular woman with nothing special about it...apart from the fact that a nation is mostly playing by her strings.
Exil has a sick, ugly, old man whose only perks are experience and an army of mercenaries to back him up.
Exil has a weird little vampire girl which is still pretty young, inexperienced and not too powerful.
Exil has a weird undead davy jones girl which is really not that much of a problem I dare say.
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Exil might have another undead girl that also might not be that much of a problem I dare say.
And lastly Exil might have a big bad black knight to go punch some protagonists for Dietrich. Nothing too powerful I'd say here too.

[Charlia]

Rafal does just fine. Or maybe I'm biased. XD

Meanwhile, in contrast with him, Alina is very physically weak and not much use in a fight if all she has is a conventional weapon, but her magic could be terrifyingly strong if she learned to control it correctly... (However, since it's not human magic, I like to think that the only way for her to really master it would involve slowly giving up more and more of her humanity until she can no longer be called truly human... because that sounds interesting. Yes, I have put some thought into this.)

Regarding this topic, I shall quote myself:

"Here we can see a Homo charliens, a human subspecies that clearly delights in nervousness, sadness, and mental breakdown. Observe how she twiddles her thumbs waiting for the next paragraph of suffering."

Hi. *smiles at observers* You using those souls for anything?


On the other hand, it might actually be good for her mental state... after all, if she isn't human, can she really be bound by human values? If she's no longer Alina Kryszka, undeniably a human from the moment of birth, but instead simply Alina, a being that can't be truly classified, caught between the human world and the world of the supernatural... then how can anyone judge her for 'sins' supposedly committed by someone she is clearly not?

Also, if total mastery of her power was attained, she'd be pretty scary. After all, her magic allows her to be in tune with and manipulate nature. At the moment, it's too weak to apply to much more than small plants and occasionally larger things like tree roots or vines when she gets really upset, but if she had complete control of it... 'Nature' encompasses a heck of a lot--'the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations', according to the dictionary.

See what might happen if she was able to use it to its full potential?

But of course that would take a good while to accomplish, and would involve the loss of most of her humanity, so yeah. At the moment it's just 'potential'. But in the future, at some point... it would be so epic.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Regarding this topic, I shall quote myself:

"Here we can see a Homo charliens, a human subspecies that clearly delights in nervousness, sadness, and mental breakdown. Observe how she twiddles her thumbs waiting for the next paragraph of suffering."

Hi. *smiles at observers* You using those souls for anything?


On the other hand, it might actually be good for her mental state... after all, if she isn't human, can she really be bound by human values? If she's no longer Alina Kryszka, undeniably a human from the moment of birth, but instead simply Alina, a being that can't be truly classified, caught between the human world and the world of the supernatural... then how can anyone judge her for 'sins' supposedly committed by someone she is clearly not?

Also, if total mastery of her power was attained, she'd be pretty scary. After all, her magic allows her to be in tune with and manipulate nature. At the moment, it's too weak to apply to much more than small plants and occasionally larger things like tree roots or vines when she gets really upset, but if she had complete control of it... 'Nature' encompasses a heck of a lot--'the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations', according to the dictionary.

See what might happen if she was able to use it to its full potential?

But of course that would take a good while to accomplish, and would involve the loss of most of her humanity, so yeah. At the moment it's just 'potential'. But in the future, at some point... it would be so epic.

Homo Charliens busy plotting I see.

I actually quite like that. Best excuse to start finding ways of mass destruction more potent than an artificial, human caused forest fire.

[The Land of Golden Blobfish]

Okay finally have two character ideas now, will have apps maybe sometime this weekend. Ones an orc raised by humans and the other is an individual affliated with the Sin of Gluttony. How so, I'll leave for the app to explain :^)

[Tracian Empire]

Okay finally have two character ideas now, will have apps maybe sometime this weekend. Ones an orc raised by humans and the other is an individual affliated with the Sin of Gluttony. How so, I'll leave for the app to explain :^)

An orc raised by the humans is possible, just beware the extremely strong racism that exists against the Orcs. They're hated in the nations who are often raided by them, and severely disliked by the rest - so for humans to raise an orc they'd probably have to live on their own, somewhere away from the large cities.

[The Land of Golden Blobfish]

Okay finally have two character ideas now, will have apps maybe sometime this weekend. Ones an orc raised by humans and the other is an individual affliated with the Sin of Gluttony. How so, I'll leave for the app to explain :^)

An orc raised by the humans is possible, just beware the extremely strong racism that exists against the Orcs. They're hated in the nations who are often raided by them, and severely disliked by the rest - so for humans to raise an orc they'd probably have to live on their own, somewhere away from the large cities.

Yeah that was what I was planning. A rural farm with only small villages near it

[Zapatha]

Really interested to get back into this, I did indeed like rping as Arthur.

[Tracian Empire]

Despite how this might look like, I am still alive, I am still here, and I am still working on this. I haven't been able to finish my work on the reboot I'm afraid, due to a combination of me lacking the necessary motivation and real life being rough.

I haven't given up on this, of course, it's just that I'm not sure when I'll be ready. I'll start working on the design itself soon, but then I have to see what I'll do with the map, as the friend who helped me do it currently lacks a computer.

Anyway, it shouldn't be that long until this is done, but I would rather not set a deadline for this, a deadline that I might still miss.

[Charlia]

Despite how this might look like, I am still alive, I am still here, and I am still working on this. I haven't been able to finish my work on the reboot I'm afraid, due to a combination of me lacking the necessary motivation and real life being rough.

I haven't given up on this, of course, it's just that I'm not sure when I'll be ready. I'll start working on the design itself soon, but then I have to see what I'll do with the map, as the friend who helped me do it currently lacks a computer.

Anyway, it shouldn't be that long until this is done, but I would rather not set a deadline for this, a deadline that I might still miss.

Take as long as you need. We can wait.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Despite how this might look like, I am still alive, I am still here, and I am still working on this. I haven't been able to finish my work on the reboot I'm afraid, due to a combination of me lacking the necessary motivation and real life being rough.

I haven't given up on this, of course, it's just that I'm not sure when I'll be ready. I'll start working on the design itself soon, but then I have to see what I'll do with the map, as the friend who helped me do it currently lacks a computer.

Anyway, it shouldn't be that long until this is done, but I would rather not set a deadline for this, a deadline that I might still miss.

I was already wondering when this post would appear. But it was very gleefull wondering. You are making progress Thrac in building a higher sled esteem. You aren't appearing daily anymore, apologizing to everyone and saying how bad whatever you did was.

Okay, screw whatever I wrote above. It feels insulting which is not my intention.

Anyway, as you very well know, we are a super patient bunch so you don't have to worry about anything.

[Tracian Empire]

Oh, and a random thing, I've decided to make some changes about certain characters. I can't go back and edit all the posts they were in, so I'll just put them here. You guys will just have to pretend that they have always been like that

So, the first change is rather small, that weird boy with the skull mask, he always had dark, pitch black eyes, sclera and iris and all. I did a small change to his unknown back story, and this is how that change would be reflected.


The bigger change is with the second princess of Duivene, the still nameless sister of Princess Alexis (though, I will give her a name before the reboot). I'm basically remaking her entire character. So everyone will just have to pretend that she hasn't existed so far, she hasn't met any characters, she hasn't done anything ICly. Just pretend that Alexis did everything instead of the other princess. Eric saved her, then Alexis was there to fight in Sedia.

Those characters who were familiar with the royal court of Duivene during the War of the Seven Realms, or well, some of those who fought in that war might be aware of the fact that Princess Alexis had a younger, twin sister. The two sisters were both in the group of heroes which led the human realms and their allies to victory, the temporarily named Knights of the Light, but her sister was one of the Forsworn who were killed during the final battle for betraying their comrades and siding with the Mage-Emperor.

[Tracian Empire]

Despite how this might look like, I am still alive, I am still here, and I am still working on this. I haven't been able to finish my work on the reboot I'm afraid, due to a combination of me lacking the necessary motivation and real life being rough.

I haven't given up on this, of course, it's just that I'm not sure when I'll be ready. I'll start working on the design itself soon, but then I have to see what I'll do with the map, as the friend who helped me do it currently lacks a computer.

Anyway, it shouldn't be that long until this is done, but I would rather not set a deadline for this, a deadline that I might still miss.

I was already wondering when this post would appear. But it was very gleefull wondering. You are making progress Thrac in building a higher sled esteem. You aren't appearing daily anymore, apologizing to everyone and saying how bad whatever you did was.

Okay, screw whatever I wrote above. It feels insulting which is not my intention.

Anyway, as you very well know, we are a super patient bunch so you don't have to worry about anything.

Insulting? Nah, it's alright, don't worry. It is true that I used to and still do worry a lot about my activity here, being an OP is a lot more difficult that what I had imagined before starting this.

And I still have a bad opinion about most of my posts in the last year or so, but well, I'm not going to apologize every time a day passes without me posting.

Right now, I'm a lot more focused on finishing the reboot and finding a way to deal with the new players.

[Tracian Empire]

Despite how this might look like, I am still alive, I am still here, and I am still working on this. I haven't been able to finish my work on the reboot I'm afraid, due to a combination of me lacking the necessary motivation and real life being rough.

I haven't given up on this, of course, it's just that I'm not sure when I'll be ready. I'll start working on the design itself soon, but then I have to see what I'll do with the map, as the friend who helped me do it currently lacks a computer.

Anyway, it shouldn't be that long until this is done, but I would rather not set a deadline for this, a deadline that I might still miss.

Take as long as you need. We can wait.

Thanks

[Charlia]

So Alexis is now the one who put a lance through Alina's shoulder.

Lovely girl, that. I'm sure it helped Alina with the whole 'they'll kill me if they find out what I did' thing.


(i'm just here waiting for the inquisition to find out, it'll be great) um i mean evil plans what evil plans i don't have any evil plans ha ha ha ha ha you're so silly

[Remnants of Exilvania]

Oh, and a random thing, I've decided to make some changes about certain characters. I can't go back and edit all the posts they were in, so I'll just put them here. You guys will just have to pretend that they have always been like that

So, the first change is rather small, that weird boy with the skull mask, he always had dark, pitch black eyes, sclera and iris and all. I did a small change to his unknown back story, and this is how that change would be reflected.


The bigger change is with the second princess of Duivene, the still nameless sister of Princess Alexis (though, I will give her a name before the reboot). I'm basically remaking her entire character. So everyone will just have to pretend that she hasn't existed so far, she hasn't met any characters, she hasn't done anything ICly. Just pretend that Alexis did everything instead of the other princess. Eric saved her, then Alexis was there to fight in Sedia.

Those characters who were familiar with the royal court of Duivene during the War of the Seven Realms, or well, some of those who fought in that war might be aware of the fact that Princess Alexis had a younger, twin sister. The two sisters were both in the group of heroes which led the human realms and their allies to victory, the temporarily named Knights of the Light, but her sister was one of the Forsworn who were killed during the final battle for betraying their comrades and siding with the Mage-Emperor.

Noted. Dietrich will be remembering stuffs from the war.

I was already wondering when this post would appear. But it was very gleefull wondering. You are making progress Thrac in building a higher sled esteem. You aren't appearing daily anymore, apologizing to everyone and saying how bad whatever you did was.

Okay, screw whatever I wrote above. It feels insulting which is not my intention.

Anyway, as you very well know, we are a super patient bunch so you don't have to worry about anything.

Insulting? Nah, it's alright, don't worry. It is true that I used to and still do worry a lot about my activity here, being an OP is a lot more difficult that what I had imagined before starting this.

And I still have a bad opinion about most of my posts in the last year or so, but well, I'm not going to apologize every time a day passes without me posting.

Right now, I'm a lot more focused on finishing the reboot and finding a way to deal with the new players.

faghaskgbkaghkaghksa most of your posts were bloody gorgeous! Atleast in comparison to mine...

Well, maybe streamline the whole thing a bit more. Sandbox RPs for one attract players because of the freedom they offer but also a lot of those players go inactive pretty quickly because of that because they lack interaction in this massive world.

And it puts a major strain on the OP if he needs to manage and entertain people in 6+ different locations.

[Kingdom of Irhk]

So Alexis is now the one who put a lance through Alina's shoulder.

Lovely girl, that. I'm sure it helped Alina with the whole 'they'll kill me if they find out what I did' thing.


(i'm just here waiting for the inquisition to find out, it'll be great) um i mean evil plans what evil plans i don't have any evil plans ha ha ha ha ha you're so silly

Charli, one does not simply wait for the Inquisition.

Because you never expect the Spanish Duivenian Inquisition.

[Charlia]

So Alexis is now the one who put a lance through Alina's shoulder.

Lovely girl, that. I'm sure it helped Alina with the whole 'they'll kill me if they find out what I did' thing.


(i'm just here waiting for the inquisition to find out, it'll be great) um i mean evil plans what evil plans i don't have any evil plans ha ha ha ha ha you're so silly

Charli, one does not simply wait for the Inquisition.

Because you never expect the Spanish Duivenian Inquisition.

[Tracian Empire]

So Alexis is now the one who put a lance through Alina's shoulder.

Lovely girl, that. I'm sure it helped Alina with the whole 'they'll kill me if they find out what I did' thing.


(i'm just here waiting for the inquisition to find out, it'll be great) um i mean evil plans what evil plans i don't have any evil plans ha ha ha ha ha you're so silly

I knew from the beginning that this change was going to create at least a few continuity problems


Now, I have to think about it a little, and I'll probably have to read that entire situation again, since it wouldn't fit her personality to just hurt Alina because she had to. It could be connected to her sense of duty somehow, or it could have been a mistake in the heat of that situation.

Or something like that. Alexis is a good person, but she is torn apart by her guilt, by her duty and by her loyalty to both Duivene and the Ecclesiarchy.

But yeah, overall, the Ecclesiarchy will probably try to hunt Alina down if she becomes a non-human force of nature xD

[Tracian Empire]

Oh, and a random thing, I've decided to make some changes about certain characters. I can't go back and edit all the posts they were in, so I'll just put them here. You guys will just have to pretend that they have always been like that

So, the first change is rather small, that weird boy with the skull mask, he always had dark, pitch black eyes, sclera and iris and all. I did a small change to his unknown back story, and this is how that change would be reflected.


The bigger change is with the second princess of Duivene, the still nameless sister of Princess Alexis (though, I will give her a name before the reboot). I'm basically remaking her entire character. So everyone will just have to pretend that she hasn't existed so far, she hasn't met any characters, she hasn't done anything ICly. Just pretend that Alexis did everything instead of the other princess. Eric saved her, then Alexis was there to fight in Sedia.

Those characters who were familiar with the royal court of Duivene during the War of the Seven Realms, or well, some of those who fought in that war might be aware of the fact that Princess Alexis had a younger, twin sister. The two sisters were both in the group of heroes which led the human realms and their allies to victory, the temporarily named Knights of the Light, but her sister was one of the Forsworn who were killed during the final battle for betraying their comrades and siding with the Mage-Emperor.

Noted. Dietrich will be remembering stuffs from the war.

Insulting? Nah, it's alright, don't worry. It is true that I used to and still do worry a lot about my activity here, being an OP is a lot more difficult that what I had imagined before starting this.

And I still have a bad opinion about most of my posts in the last year or so, but well, I'm not going to apologize every time a day passes without me posting.

Right now, I'm a lot more focused on finishing the reboot and finding a way to deal with the new players.

faghaskgbkaghkaghksa most of your posts were bloody gorgeous! Atleast in comparison to mine...

Well, maybe streamline the whole thing a bit more. Sandbox RPs for one attract players because of the freedom they offer but also a lot of those players go inactive pretty quickly because of that because they lack interaction in this massive world.

And it puts a major strain on the OP if he needs to manage and entertain people in 6+ different locations.

But of course, what exactly happened in the palace of the Mage Emperor is only known by the Seven Heroes themselves - they were the only ones to leave that place alive.

Probably, but they're still bad compared to how active I used to be two years ago.

That's the rough idea that I have for now. I'm planning to somehow create a couple of groups of characters and a couple of plots. So that everyone will have something to do. The trick will be to create groups that are just the right size, and I hope to make those plots so that the players will be able to roleplay and to interact with each other without me having to push them all from behind.

[Charlia]

So Alexis is now the one who put a lance through Alina's shoulder.

Lovely girl, that. I'm sure it helped Alina with the whole 'they'll kill me if they find out what I did' thing.


(i'm just here waiting for the inquisition to find out, it'll be great) um i mean evil plans what evil plans i don't have any evil plans ha ha ha ha ha you're so silly

I knew from the beginning that this change was going to create at least a few continuity problems


Now, I have to think about it a little, and I'll probably have to read that entire situation again, since it wouldn't fit her personality to just hurt Alina because she had to. It could be connected to her sense of duty somehow, or it could have been a mistake in the heat of that situation.

Or something like that. Alexis is a good person, but she is torn apart by her guilt, by her duty and by her loyalty to both Duivene and the Ecclesiarchy.

But yeah, overall, the Ecclesiarchy will probably try to hunt Alina down if she becomes a non-human force of nature xD

Actually I was just talking about the whole Luxuria thing but I mean if we want to pull a Forbidden Scrollery that's fine too XD


I mean, in fairness, as she is right now the Ecclesiarchy can take her, easy. Put her on trial for heresy and stuff because OH NO SHE WAS CAPTURED BY LUXURIA CLEARLY SHE IS THE MOST EVIL OF ALL THE EVIL THINGS AAAAAAAAA


But if they tried to do anything to her after the whole transformation thing, she'd probably just be like 'Uh, we've already been through this and it wasn't any fun then either' and wipe the floor with them. (Preferably just a sort of 'I'm going to throw stuff at you until you go away' thing, but if necessary she could probably make trees grow through their bodies or something like that. She'd feel bad about it afterwards though. )

[Kingdom of Irhk]

I knew from the beginning that this change was going to create at least a few continuity problems


Now, I have to think about it a little, and I'll probably have to read that entire situation again, since it wouldn't fit her personality to just hurt Alina because she had to. It could be connected to her sense of duty somehow, or it could have been a mistake in the heat of that situation.

Or something like that. Alexis is a good person, but she is torn apart by her guilt, by her duty and by her loyalty to both Duivene and the Ecclesiarchy.

But yeah, overall, the Ecclesiarchy will probably try to hunt Alina down if she becomes a non-human force of nature xD

Actually I was just talking about the whole Luxuria thing but I mean if we want to pull a Forbidden Scrollery that's fine too XD


I mean, in fairness, as she is right now the Ecclesiarchy can take her, easy. Put her on trial for heresy and stuff because OH NO SHE WAS CAPTURED BY LUXURIA CLEARLY SHE IS THE MOST EVIL OF ALL THE EVIL THINGS AAAAAAAAA


But if they tried to do anything to her after the whole transformation thing, she'd probably just be like 'Uh, we've already been through this and it wasn't any fun then either' and wipe the floor with them. (Preferably just a sort of 'I'm going to throw stuff at you until you go away' thing, but if necessary she could probably make trees grow through their bodies or something like that. She'd feel bad about it afterwards though. )

Hey, she needs to meet Eric. That cool old guy who's laughing at the face of the Inquisition because "Ha you tried to kill me but look who's laughing now".

And I might need to adjust some things on the said character too, specially minor adjustments in skills and background.

[Charlia]

Actually I was just talking about the whole Luxuria thing but I mean if we want to pull a Forbidden Scrollery that's fine too XD


I mean, in fairness, as she is right now the Ecclesiarchy can take her, easy. Put her on trial for heresy and stuff because OH NO SHE WAS CAPTURED BY LUXURIA CLEARLY SHE IS THE MOST EVIL OF ALL THE EVIL THINGS AAAAAAAAA


But if they tried to do anything to her after the whole transformation thing, she'd probably just be like 'Uh, we've already been through this and it wasn't any fun then either' and wipe the floor with them. (Preferably just a sort of 'I'm going to throw stuff at you until you go away' thing, but if necessary she could probably make trees grow through their bodies or something like that. She'd feel bad about it afterwards though. )

Hey, she needs to meet Eric. That cool old guy who's laughing at the face of the Inquisition because "Ha you tried to kill me but look who's laughing now".

And I might need to adjust some things on the said character too, specially minor adjustments in skills and background.

They do need to meet. He might be very helpful. *nods*

[Kingdom of Irhk]

Hey, she needs to meet Eric. That cool old guy who's laughing at the face of the Inquisition because "Ha you tried to kill me but look who's laughing now".

And I might need to adjust some things on the said character too, specially minor adjustments in skills and background.

They do need to meet. He might be very helpful. *nods*

... Uh oh.

[Remnants of Exilvania]

They do need to meet. He might be very helpful. *nods*

... Uh oh.

I will worry for you Irkh so you won't have to.

[Tracian Empire]

Despite it not being 100% original, I'm vaguely thinking about having one of the principalities of Velikiya be led by a vampire.

I don't know, but the idea of a vampire crushing armies of the Orcs with his men and impaling them seems good.