OOC Discussion

[sorrow made you]

Dude that would be great this is the color I want to use
edit, you know what, I can do this, I think

If you need help still later on, let welian know I'll code it for you. xD


I'll be stepping out for a bit here... soon.. eAe;;


When soon is, I'm not sure. Waiting for my bf to get home.

 

[Uncultured]

I'm basically a code expert at this point, lawl people go to school for this shit? Pfffft

 

[M0N0]

Staying up all night to complete that character profile was beyond worth it.


*Bathing in satisfaction*

 

[welian]

Turns out I don't have a Precalc quiz this weekend, time to trawl back a few pages and start reading profiles.... Remember, you all are encouraged to talk about each other's profiles as well.

 

[TheDaftStudent]

I'm demon Hulk...

 

[welian]

One of my characters will be a teacher and I was wondering if I could reserve a class for mental resiliency to control powers.

If no one else has claimed the Mental Discipline class by the time you're able to make a second character, I don't see why not.

My first iteration profile.

Tag me when you're done, yeah?

[QUOTE="Manic Muse]Morgan, Page

[/QUOTE]
A great start! There's a few minor errors I'd like you to fix - Adjective should be Objective, and the limiters for C rank are Level 1 - and I think you should reconsider her second power of empathy. It doesn't fit the fire theme of her other powers, and feels like it's there just to be there.

Akachi, Ime

Not bad at all! Looks like you survived the coding. The powers are interesting, but I'd like to see you try to squeeze a few more negative aspects of them in there. The personality section needs to be reorganized a bit so that it's clear what his four main personality traits are. And... this is optional of course, but the history is longer than what I was expecting anyone to submit. I would suggest condensing it, but I can tell you had a lot of fun writing that out, and I'm not going to force you to do the backstory over.

SHAO JI, YOJI

Like Hunter's character, I'd like you to reorganize the personality section a bit so that it's more obvious what Yoji's four main personality traits are. The biggest issue by far though, is that you have a LOT of sub-powers listed under his primary power of data manipulation. I think it's awesome that you got into such detail, but I did specifically ask for descriptions of powers to stay concise, and to stick to only two secondary/sub-powers. I would suggest making the initial data manipulation description a bit longer, and wording it in such a way that all of Yoji's observed moves are implied in the primary power description.

One thing I'm wondering, are we allowed to be S rank or is it limited at A, I remember it being A as the max earlier but I'm not sure if that changed or stayed the same.

Teachers and faculty are allowed to be S Rank. At some point I had a rule that students go only be up to A Rank (I wanted to prevent roleplayers from going power crazy), but I couldn't come up with an in-universe justification. As it stands, I'm quite pleased that lots of people went for medium-powered characters, and of course, like I said before - any S Rank characters will be intensely scrutinized, and I will be checking the roleplayer's post history to make sure that they can handle not being a dick with that much power.

 

[TheDaftStudent]

Tag me when you're done, yeah?

But I mean, thoughts would be nice... you know.. so I know how little more effort needs put in.

 

[welian]

But I mean, thoughts would be nice... you know.. so I know how little more effort needs put in.

It's been over two years since we met, you should be able to read my mind by now.

 

[TheDaftStudent]

It's been over two years since we met, you should be able to read my mind by now.

Okay, I'll finish out the relationships section and then say I'm done. :3

 

[sorrow made you]

//chugging away at history with a cheesesteak in hand


OMNOMNOM 8U

 

[simj26]

1000 word story in the flash fiction section

I dont know about your education system, but my teachers immediately stop reading past the 300 word limit for flash fictions, and grade you on just that. Going past the limit is tantamount to getting marks docked off.


I'm just saying.

 

[simj26]

Also, content over length, mate. It's a personal thing, and maybe you don't agree with me, but to spend 500 words describing what can be done in 50 tends to be a mark of a person who's trying to compensate for something.


That's just my opinion though. I'm sorry if I sound harsh or curt when I say these. I have issues with social communication, especially in text, so take my words with a pinch of sugar.

 

[sorrow made you]

Also, sorry about the history section, as you can probably tell I have a long winded way of writing that delves into everything.

//slowly looks over to history that's almost a page long in google doc


>_>.......

 

[call me rae]

[QUOTE="CRiTiCAL ERR0R]
//slowly looks over to history that's almost a page long in google doc
>_>.......

[/QUOTE]
Lol omg I'm so glad I'm not the only person that writes things up on google docs too. Actually history is usually pretty long too now I think about it.


Laurel ( my character ) is one of the few that I just half assed - I think her original backstory was like a paragraph or two. But I got to figure out how to add her partner "Tom Cat" the talking cat.

 

[simj26]

half baked 250 word snippet

Flash fictions are meant to be short, though, right? Theyre supposed to convey a story in the shortest manner possible. I would disagree with this sentiment, honestly. 250 words can speak more than a thousand can sometimes.

 

[welian]

I am lazy.


I expect others to be lazy like me.

 

[call me rae]

I am lazy.
I expect others to be lazy like me.

I try to be.. But I'm one of those people that rambles. Like when I talk to my friends I can take talk for hours about random shit. I once talked for two hours on the use of parchment of Harry Potter universe.


Unfortunately this habit translates to writing too.


Not to say I can't half ass things but that's only if I'm just slapping something together. And I respect your roleplay too much for that sadly.

 

[sorrow made you]

Lol omg I'm so glad I'm not the only person that writes things up on google docs too. Actually history is usually pretty long too now I think about it.
Laurel ( my character ) is one of the few that I just half assed - I think her original backstory was like a paragraph or two. But I got to figure out how to add her partner "Tom Cat" the talking cat.

I got in the habit of writing in a doc when the website I was previously on used to auto-log you out after so long of inactivity. So I'd have a 700-word post that just disappeared off the face of the planet.


Ahh the good old days of being rage induced by a lost post~


Leo (the character I'll be using) is one of my personal favorites. His history generally stays along the same lines but varies depending on rps. But that also means each time I write it up differently instead of just attempting to fill in blanks. xD ;;

 

[Uncultured]

Flash fictions are meant to be short, though, right? Theyre supposed to convey a story in the shortest manner possible. I would disagree with this sentiment, honestly. 250 words can speak more than a thousand can sometimes.

Also, content over length, mate. It's a personal thing, and maybe you don't agree with me, but to spend 500 words describing what can be done in 50 tends to be a mark of a person who's trying to compensate for something.
That's just my opinion though. I'm sorry if I sound harsh or curt when I say these. I have issues with social communication, especially in text, so take my words with a pinch of sugar.

Clearly overcompensating..... for awesomeness (this was the piece I handed in, still had it in my documents)

Spoiler

Contrasting the utilitarian and angular style of human craft, the architecture and design of the tomb ship was extraordinarily ornate and every surface within the dead ship harbored countless curves and arbitrary designs meant to enhance aesthetics while leaving functionality unobstructed. As foreign as the ship was, what astounded the crew more than anything was the age of the well preserved vessel. The readings, taken by exploratory probes, had estimated the age of the deceased beauty at roughly fifty thousand years, long before even the earliest recorded human civilizations.



Within the silence of the dead vessel, the ground crew that had delved into the torn hull of the craft admired the gilded artwork inlaid upon the walls of the main causeway. Carvings made from the rarest materials known to man flowed in a river of expert craftsmanship, glittering dully in the somber glow provided by the light strips upon the helms of the spacefarers. Etched in gold of both pale white and metallic yellow lay scenes of glory, honor, and courage, displayed in finery for the explorers to admire while also giving the human crew insight into the naval history of beings long since perished within the harsh vacuum of the small moon.



With hardly a word spoken during the course of the journey from stern to bow, the group of pioneers came to a halt before a massive and ornately furnished pair of doors that lay before the bridge of the boomerang shaped vessel. As if choreographed, the members of the group aligned themselves before the doorway in a broken line, admiring the impressively detailed carvings that decorated the metal surface of the elegant, yet imposing gate that lay before them.



Within the center of the tapestry where the two halves of the door came to meet, a perfectly round stone of pure onyx lay embedded within the gilding, symbolizing the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way's galactic disc. The volcanic rock served as a perfect antithesis to both the somber gems and dull yellow gold that twisted around it's black surface, each one colluding with the other to form the swirling rivers of stars that one would see if looking at the galaxy from afar.



The first mate wondered to himself if they had crafted the artwork from merely a hypothetical point of view or if they had crafted the beautiful piece after coming to know what the Milky Way truly looked like from an outsider's perspective, a technological feat that would require knowledge of space travel far exceeding that of even the quickly expanding human race.



As the first mate turned to signal his demo man to breach the door, a panel on the right side of the massive gate came to life.



From a hidden lens by the small panel's housing, a thin crossbeam of light scanned the line of pioneers that had arranged themselves before the doorway, reading each one before flickering into non existence once more.



Against the anxious expectations of the crew, instead of triggering some further security measure, the electronic panel emitted a high pitched note. Then, as if held in hibernation, the doorway came to life with the dull vibration of gears and ancient electrical systems, long since frozen in time.



The doorway held it's position without movement, sending nervous thoughts through the minds of the crewmen, but after a short time, as if on cue, the two halves split down the middle, releasing thousands of near microscopic particles, each one floating outwards from the crevice of the portal, settling slowly upon the deck before the spacefarers in the low gravity of the small moon. Several seconds passed with the door open by only a hair's width, giving the first mate cause to turn to his demolitions man once more in order to prep explosives, but as he turned his neck to face him, the massive blast doors parted ways in one smooth motion, peeling back to reveal the pure darkness of the bridge.



As the crew cautiously stepped through the doorway, light strips older than the Book of Genesis came to life, flickering on one by one, casting their callous luminescence onto the round bridge of the ship from the domed ceiling high above the explorers.



Gradually, after the initial shock and denial became lost in the wake of time, the eyes of the crew came to accept what the light had revealed, and with this revelation, the men began to disperse and break from one another in their disbelief. Some leaned against the walls of the cylindrical room, unable to support themselves with their legs alone, while others stepped back into the hallway to digest the implications of their discovery, and one fully turned from the sight, unable to accept the new reality of the human race. What their reactions lacked in solidarity, their emotions shared, for each one struggled equally to understand what they had come to find within the heart of the ancient ship.



Unlike the motley crew of marines, geologists, astronomers, and biologists that he led, the first mate of the

UNSF Columbus

stood motionless, seemingly unaffected by the sight, but despite his outwards calm, within his mind raced the thoughts of a man lost within a universe once understood.



After a few dozen seconds, the lights of the control room stabilized, halting the incessant flashing and sputtering that the crew had grown accustomed to, leaving the first humans to arrive in the Alpha-Centauri system within an awkward vacuum devoid of motion or radio chatter. In an almost hesitant manner, the crew turned to face one another, each one staring at the others with a mixture of confusion and wonder, lacking words in the aftermath of the discovery. For within the ancient and infinitely advanced ship that they had found almost five light years from Earth, the seemingly fresh corpses of humans lay strewn about the bridge, perfectly preserved for over fifty thousand years within the absolute vacuum of the airless moon.

 

[crackedbat]

Ah, heck. Time to meander out of lurking to post this profile. Of course, let me know if anything's out of place/could be elaborated on/fixed.


RINALDI, REI

• General
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
• Gallery

• Full Name	Rei Rinaldi
  Codename	N/A
  Gender	Bigender
  Age	Sixteen
  Rank	C
  Role	Student
  Subject	N/A

  Race	Mixed - Middle Eastern, Asian, Caucasian
  Eyes	Blue
  Hair	Dark brown
  Height	5'2"
  Build	Somewhat stocky
  Limiter	Level 1, active
  Notes	Always seen in tacky glasses

• Heroism Meter
  
  
  

  Less Heroic	Points	More Heroic	Total	Description
  Flighty	?????????​	Courageous	06	Do they have a pair of steel, or do they prefer to exit before chaos strikes?
  Selfish	?????????​	Altruistic	04	Are they motivated to help others, or do they help themselves first?
  Chaotic	?????????​	Orderly	08	Are laws and regulations "suggestions", or written in stone?
  Cruel	?????????​	Kind	04	Are they genuinely nice to people, or do they enjoy causing distress?
  Reactionary	?????????​	Proactive	07	Are they content to watch events unfold, or do they jump in and guide things?

  
  
  Personality
  
  
  Passionate - Rei's very dedicated to whatever cause they've laid themselves to. Born with the innate ability to rally people against or for something. Steadfast in their belief that one should always do what they think is right.
  
  
  Ambitious - Practically radiates ambition. Rather studious and goal-oriented.
  
  
  Careful - Likes to examine all of their options before carrying out any serious plans of action, even when they can be a bit emotional during arguments. Slow to open up to people.
  
  
  Dogmatic - Unfortunately convinced that their own idea of righteousness is the true one, despite it being objectively morally ambiguous; they've absorbed whatever rhetoric their brother has passed down to them. Has trouble questioning and changing their beliefs because they're too stubborn to admit to mistakes if they're not blatant.
  
  
  History
  
  
  Of a modest, upper-middle class upbringing in New England; Rei's father works at an architecture firm and their mother is an electrical engineer. They grew up the youngest of three children, and have the horrifying tales of carpet burns and always getting the bathroom last in the morning to prove it. Rei's powers didn't manifest until near the end of middle school, but their parents would always say there was some unusual circumstance about them prior to this revelation.
  
  
  It first became apparent that Rei harbored superhuman abilities when they seemed to deflect every water balloon during field day, which was declared "just plain unfair". (They've not set foot into any sort of water-based competition since.) Later came turning condensation on glass into fractals of ice when their emotions were heightened.
  
  
  Rei was enrolled into the Aegis program after they turned fourteen, so they've been in it for about two years. Despite their stance as an "unofficial mediator", they're known to get into an inordinate amount of verbal smackdowns just outside of the Main.
  
  
  
• 
  
  
  Family
  
  
  
  
  Rinaldi, Riva
  
  
  Rei's middle brother. Rei ultra-admires him, but this is hardly reciprocated. A normal human. Upholds rules at all costs (even if the rules are skewed a bit unfairly), a behavior which Rei has readily adopted.
  
  
  Rinaldi, Francis
  
  
  The oldest sibling of the Rinaldi family. Known to be cool and reckless, but without any superpowers to exacerbate said cool-recklessness. Rei doesn't approve of how brash they act, so their relationship is somewhat strained.
  
  
  Parents
  
  
  Rei's mother is an engineer and their father is an architect. They think highly of Rei and definitely baby him more than they do for his siblings. There's some friction between them as of late, which comes naturally with a child becoming a moody, superpowerful teenager; Rei doesn't believe they trust him enough or offer him many personal liberties.
  
  
  The only other super in their family that Rei knows of is their older cousin, Sen.
  
  
  Teachers
  
  
  
  
  Classmates
  
  
  
  
  

• Ability	Points	Total	Description
  Health:	?????????​	02	The ability to resist illness and recover quickly from injuries, overall health.
  Strength	?????????​	02	Physical strength, the ability to strike hard, lift heavy objects, and so on.
  Toughness	?????????​	02	Endurance and stamina, the ability to take a hit and still keep going.
  Agility	?????????​	04	Speed, dexterity, nimbleness - agility is the ability to move quickly.
  Intelligence	?????????​	04	Not book smarts, but the ability to perceive and retain lots of information.
  Willpower	?????????​	02	Strength of mind, the ability to stay focused and determined.

  
  
  Primary Power
  
  
  Capable of manipulating liquids, works best with water.
  
  
  Secondary powers
  
  
  Can cause water to change state; cryokinesis.
  
  
  Capable of condensing water in air into snow/ice, but only within a smaller radius (5-10ft). Also depends on humidity. (Hates when people ask for snow days.) Still a bit difficult to get a hold of, as mentioned below.
  
  
  Weaknesses
  
  
  Cannot manipulate liquids outside of a certain radius/their line of sight.
  
  
  Can easily be countered by heat (or those who can control it). Has difficulty condensing steam back into liquid, especially when he's flustered/cannot focus.
  
  
  Can't control blood unless it's free flowing, so no puppetting of other people. Even then, he just doesn't like to out of the principle that it's gross.
  
  
  Thicker fluids are harder to control/can only work when in smaller amounts. For example: manipulating paint is more strenuous than manipulating water, and can only be manipulated in smaller amounts.
  
  
  Not impervious to cold.
  
  
  
• 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

 

[call me rae]

[QUOTE="CRiTiCAL ERR0R]
I got in the habit of writing in a doc when the website I was previously on used to auto-log you out after so long of inactivity. So I'd have a 700-word post that just disappeared off the face of the planet.
Ahh the good old days of being rage induced by a lost post~


Leo (the character I'll be using) is one of my personal favorites. His history generally stays along the same lines but varies depending on rps. But that also means each time I write it up differently instead of just attempting to fill in blanks. xD ;;

[/QUOTE]
Yeah I started because the old site I was on the reply feature and edit feature were close together so I would continuously edit an existing post and lose momentum in a story.


So I did docs to keep a log of my posts.


Yeah I'll probably have to redo hers because she was a part of a twin duo and I would have to create her sister at the same time and that's not allowed. And since I can't bring in her partner right off the bat I'm working on having him be like an uncle. lol. Uncle Tom....Cat.


but it also depends on how long I get to work on it, since I'll be filling the profile in during brief batches at work.

 

[call me rae]

@crackedbat - very nice I liked the way you used the power it's very creative.

 

[call me rae]

@welian so this is probably a stupid question but if she dyes her hair would I put the original hair color in the appearance and that she dyes it in notes?

 

[TheDox]

Ah, heck. Time to meander out of lurking to post this profile. Of course, let me know if anything's out of place/could be elaborated on/fixed.
RINALDI, REI

• General
• Biography
• Relationships
• Superpowers
• Gallery

• Full Name	Rei Rinaldi
  Codename	N/A
  Gender	Bigender
  Age	Sixteen
  Rank	C
  Role	Student
  Subject	N/A

  Race	Mixed - Middle Eastern, Asian, Caucasian
  Eyes	Blue
  Hair	Dark brown
  Height	5'2"
  Build	Somewhat stocky
  Limiter	Level 1, active
  Notes	Always seen in tacky glasses

• Heroism Meter
  
  
  

  Less Heroic	Points	More Heroic	Total	Description
  Flighty	?????????​	Courageous	07	Do they have a pair of steel, or do they prefer to exit before chaos strikes?
  Selfish	?????????​	Altruistic	04	Are they motivated to help others, or do they help themselves first?
  Chaotic	?????????​	Orderly	08	Are laws and regulations "suggestions", or written in stone?
  Cruel	?????????​	Kind	04	Are they genuinely nice to people, or do they enjoy causing distress?
  Reactionary	?????????​	Proactive	05	Are they content to watch events unfold, or do they jump in and guide things?

  
  
  Personality
  
  
  Passionate - Rei's very dedicated to whatever cause they've laid themselves to. Born with the innate ability to rally people against or for something. Steadfast in their belief that one should always do what they think is right.
  
  
  Ambitious - Practically radiates ambition. Rather studious and goal-oriented.
  
  
  Careful - Likes to examine all of their options before carrying out any serious plans of action, even when they can be a bit emotional during arguments. Slow to open up to people.
  
  
  Dogmatic - Unfortunately convinced that their own idea of righteousness is the true one, despite it being objectively morally ambiguous; they've absorbed whatever rhetoric their brother has passed down to them. Has trouble questioning and changing their beliefs because they're too stubborn to admit to mistakes if they're not blatant.
  
  
  History
  
  
  Of a modest, upper-middle class upbringing in New England; Rei's father works at an architecture firm and their mother is an electrical engineer. They grew up the youngest of three children, and have the horrifying tales of carpet burns and always getting the bathroom last in the morning to prove it. Rei's powers didn't manifest until near the end of middle school, but their parents would always say there was some unusual circumstance about them prior to this revelation.
  
  
  It first became apparent that Rei harbored superhuman abilities when they seemed to deflect every water balloon during field day, which was declared "just plain unfair". (They've not set foot into any sort of water-based competition since.) Later came turning condensation on glass into fractals of ice when their emotions were heightened.
  
  
  Rei was enrolled into the Aegis program after they turned fourteen, so they've been in it for about two years. Despite their stance as an "unofficial mediator", they're known to get into an inordinate amount of verbal smackdowns just outside of the Main.
  
  
  
• 
  
  
  Family
  
  
  
  
  Rinaldi, Riva
  
  
  Rei's middle brother. Rei ultra-admires him, but this is hardly reciprocated. A normal human. Upholds rules at all costs (even if the rules are skewed a bit unfairly), a behavior which Rei has readily adopted.
  
  
  Rinaldi, Francis
  
  
  The oldest sibling of the Rinaldi family. Known to be cool and reckless, but without any superpowers to exacerbate said cool-recklessness. Rei doesn't approve of how brash they act, so their relationship is somewhat strained.
  
  
  Parents
  
  
  Rei's mother is an engineer and their father is an architect. They think highly of Rei and definitely baby him more than they do for his siblings. There's some friction between them as of late, which comes naturally with a child becoming a moody, superpowerful teenager; Rei doesn't believe they trust him enough or offer him many personal liberties.
  
  
  The only other super in their family that Rei knows of is their older cousin, Sen.
  
  
  Teachers
  
  
  
  
  Classmates
  
  
  
  
  

• Ability	Points	Total	Description
  Health:	?????????​	02	The ability to resist illness and recover quickly from injuries, overall health.
  Strength	?????????​	02	Physical strength, the ability to strike hard, lift heavy objects, and so on.
  Toughness	?????????​	02	Endurance and stamina, the ability to take a hit and still keep going.
  Agility	?????????​	04	Speed, dexterity, nimbleness - agility is the ability to move quickly.
  Intelligence	?????????​	04	Not book smarts, but the ability to perceive and retain lots of information.
  Willpower	?????????​	02	Strength of mind, the ability to stay focused and determined.

  
  
  Primary Power
  
  
  Capable of manipulating liquids, works best with water.
  
  
  Secondary powers
  
  
  Can cause water to change state; cryokinesis.
  
  
  Capable of condensing water in air into snow/ice, but only within a smaller radius (5-10ft). Also depends on humidity. (Hates when people ask for snow days.) Still a bit difficult to get a hold of, as mentioned below.
  
  
  Weaknesses
  
  
  Cannot manipulate liquids outside of a certain radius/their line of sight.
  
  
  Can easily be countered by heat (or those who can control it). Has difficulty condensing steam back into liquid, especially when he's flustered/cannot focus.
  
  
  Can't control blood unless it's free flowing, so no puppetting of other people. Even then, he just doesn't like to out of the principle that it's gross.
  
  
  Thicker fluids are harder to control/can only work when in smaller amounts. For example: manipulating paint is more strenuous than manipulating water, and can only be manipulated in smaller amounts.
  
  
  Not impervious to cold.
  
  
  
• 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

I hope you don't mind me having a pure cryokinetic.

Uncle Tom....Cat.

My cat's name is Tom, I approve

 

[call me rae]

My cat's name is Tom, I approve

I like to be punny. I think his code name is people mocking him, as his name is actually Thomas. ( he was a human whose power is turning into a talking cat. Just that no turning back into a human he's just permanetly a cat )