OOC: Black Rose Academy - Reaper Training Program
^^; sorry for the delay on getting this thread made guys! Thanks to @Valkarma for the reminder. :D
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As for the question on magic: As a spirit, you have powers beyond those of normal human beings because you have control over your spiritual energy. Human beings can learn this, but very few are aware of its existence and it's much harder to manifest as a physical body rather than a spiritual body. So, even though you're all reapers and you all can now control this energy, you still have to learn how to use it. It's mainly concentration based. You don't have to mutter words or spells.
Learning magic works in a tier system.
1st years learn elemental because it's the basic magic. In this way, spiritual energy is manifested to control the elements of fire, earth, air, water, and light.
2nd years learn how to manipulate people with their spiritual energy. I.e. two drunken men get into an argument over a woman, the reaper controls the one man to kill the other.
3rd years and 4th years basically just work to better control and hone their magic. In this stage, they often learn what @Hollow Ichigo 's character has been doing with clothes and so forth.
Magic can also become something new. In this world it's malleable and can do whatever you want. Literally, you're the god of death, so do what you will with it and run with it and have fun with it. :) If there are further questions, please let me know.
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Oh no...
Please tell me for the sake of our sanity that it has some limits.
Maybe something similar to 'Mage:The Ascension'. That the more overt the use the harder it is, and that backlash is possible, maybe if someone is not strong enough?
I don't want to imagine what Hollow would come up with limitless power. Or myself. Or anyone for that matter. Quick we need some kind of spiderman montage so that people learn responsibility.
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Oh god, no limits on power? Bad move, bad move. Of course being a student I still have to learn but still
bad move u.u
@Valkarma
You would bring spider man into this.
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If I understand correctly, if my character is in second year she took minion class and study fied. so...
1. what is study field?
2. will we get sceduals or smth?
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Incidently, What Am I supposed to teach in minion class? Is it practical or theory? And please for the love of god impose some form of limit. Else the power will go to my head and Ill end up wrecking things.
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Arg! I'm currently answering ppls questions. In my sleep deprived state, I totally hit the back button and deleted a huge post of answers. FML. Please hold for further information. This post will cover the restraint on magic and all questions asked.
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@Esiphas , @Folter , @mrpineapple , @Valkarma , @~Shobu~ , @Luzifer , @Hollow Ichigo , @Kiss of Death , @Light Buster
XD Oh, Valkarma. Everybody gets one. Tell em Cleveland. ^^; I assume everyone likes Family Guy the same way I do.
Magic Restraint
Ok. Yeah. I forget who I'm RPing with sometimes. ;) You guyz do like your badassedness and crazy magic. So. The restraint will be a weakness/backlash effect created by use of magic via depletion of your spiritual energy.
During a battle everyone will start with 100% sp. energy, and throughout the battle, as you use different techniques, it will begin depleting. The more sp. energy you use, the weaker your character will become. They will get tired and find it hard to move around quickly. If your sp. energy gets to 0%, it's an automatic GAME OVER for your character. In other words, no sp. energy = no spirit = no Reaper. Yes, you are not techinically dead, but you're still made of spiritual energy, so if you don't have any of that, you can't exist.
NOTE: Please be reasonable with how much energy you use. If the technique is awesome/some big crazy cool thing that can easily wipe something powerful out, it's going to use at LEAST 30% of your power. UNLESS YOU ARE A MAGIC PROFESSOR. Then you can use little sp. energy with crazy cool techniques...because...that's kinda what you signed up for. :D If you're using awesome magic and I feel like you're not depleting enough, I'll probably either send you a PM or let you know in the OOC thread.
Make sense? (God I hope so. Rewriting this thing is sucking so bad right now =_=)
Also: I'll be re-doing the tier system for how you learn magic in the near future, so watch for that as well. 1st years will still learn elemental though. That will not change.
QUESTIONS
mrpineapple
Q1) Yes. Students have dorms. They are called suites and in the near future, before students actually GO to their dorms, I will post who has what dorm and your suitemates (the person you share your dorm room with). Currently, I'm trying to figure out who to put with Enoch and Finrir.
Q2) No, there are no visitors at Black Rose Academy. The only time a spirit comes back to Black Rose Academy is when someone decides to make it their minion INSTEAD of crossing it over, and remember, you only get 2 minions unless otherwise noted by me personally. Now. It's techinically illegal in reaper law (I will post the 6 Laws of Reaping very soon), but your character can visit people in the physical realm via astral projection, which is learned in second year magic. But hey. I won't stop you and it'd make the story line interesting.
Q3) I posted this in my latest RPG post, but I'll post it here too. There are two major rules.
1) No fighting with or without magic, unless sparring under the direct supervision of a faculty member. 2) Don't act up in class.
Punshiment is decided depending on the number of infractions accumulated by the student (fighting w/o magic = 1 infraction, fighting w/ magic = 2 infractions, acting up in class = 1/2 infraction) + the severity of the infraction at hand. After six infractions, the student is expelled.
I.e.: A student's 1st infraction for fighting would result in on week of chore duty. 2nd infraction = two weeks in chore duty. 3rd infraction = three days exile and one and a half weeks of chore duty, and probationary period for the rest of the semester. 4th infraction = six days exile, two and a half weeks, and strike one on student's probabtionary period. 5th infraction = twelve days exile, three and a half weeks chore duty, strike two on probationary period. 6th infraction: expulsion from Black Rose Academy.
Kiss of Death
Q1) For a more in-depth explanation of Field Study, please look at the Sign-Up thread's initial post, in the section where classes are outlined. A simple explanation is this: field study is the student's hands-on training for soul reaping. You are in it year round. Your characters will be given specific missions to cross-over different souls to the Otherside. During your first, second, and third years, a professor must accompany you on your missions because you haven't learned the art of teleportation from one realm to another.
Q2) Schedules will work like this:
Lecture/magic class in the morning
Break for lunch
Field Study in the afternoon
You have the rest of the day to goof around and be students or professors.
The only problem I see with this is the magic teachers, because they all teach the various levels and Black Rose Academy's student body is larger than I'd anticipated. However, the inconsistency isn't enough to effect the plotline of the story, so I'm going to keep it this way for now.
Esiphas:
Where to begin. So. You're teaching "Your Minion, Their Guardian". Basically, you teach students how to control their minions and how to destroy spirit guardians. What's a spirit guardian? Every human has one and they present a problem for Reapers because they protect the human from death. Their strength depends on how in touch with their spiritual side (for lack of a better phrase) said human is, and how old. For instance, a guardian of a 20-something year old fanatical Christian is going to be strong; while a 75 year old fanatical Christian's guardian is going to be weaker because they're closer to death. Also: a practicing Wiccan's guardian will be 10x stronger than a firm Atheist's. A guardian presents a problem to Reapers because they can drain their sp. energy. Minions are often used to fight guardians because their sp. energy is different from a Reaper's, so the drain does not affect them. So. The more minions you have, the easier taking down a guardian is. Thus why your professor teaches "Your Minion, Their Guardian".
Man...I hope that answers the questions. Anymore??
Please, feel free to ask. I have no problem explaining.
On the side: Folter
I messed up in the original post in the sign-up thread. I forgot to take out the "assessment" for third years and put your professor's lecture class "Human Weakness and Death". I'll have a better explanation for you later, when I can think more clearly, but essentiall this class is a college, psyc 101 class. It explains how the human brain works and the different ways that human beings can be manipulated. For instance, a fanatically religious human will listen to their 'god', so by getting into the human's head and manipulating them to believe that you are god, you can get them to go around and kill other people.
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Ok, I think i just Epigasmed reading my class teaching dutys. This is gonna be fun.
My only other question is- How does one make a minion? Is it an animal soul? Or a creature drawn to you becuse of your personality?
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@Hollow Ichigo :
Go for it! If that's the power you want your character to come into, I am in full support.
Hate to say this, but I haven't really had the chance to think out the Otherside as much as I probably should have. Black Rose Academy exists in a little bubble within the Otherside. The Otherside is a relatively safe realm where spirits co-exist with one another. I haven't finished mapping the area out yet, but BRA exists on the shores of the Otherside. There are cities and towns, places where spirits have congregated, but I haven't gotten that quite drawn out yet. I'm thinking there are five major cities and several villages, including one located near BRA. Although the Otherside has existed just as long as humanity has existed, there is no purpose in attempting to explore it. It is infinite.
The problem with young reapers is that they like to go exploring, and though there isn't anything particularly dangerous about the Otherside, it is possible to get lost out there.
And thanks for bringing this up Hollow, I've been meaning to talk about what you'll be fighting. There are two major combatants: guardians and dark souls. Dark souls are essentially the same thing as 'hollows' from Bleach, and can be created two ways. They are either the souls of evil people or they are lost souls who have become corrupted over time. Most souls who remain in the physical realm for too long eventually become corrupted. It is rare for them to remain uncorrupted, but it can happen, and these souls tend to make amazing reapers. However, they are few and far between. Reapers like Valkarma's professor and others are coveted, but because it is SO unlikely that a soul will remain uncorrupted, it's generally thought of as better to cross-over or create a reaper early on in a soul's after-death state rather than wait and see.
@Esiphas
Good question! Actually, your minion tends to be your original guardian from life. It just takes time for it to manifest itself as your minion. However, this occasionally doesn't happen, so Reapers may use the soul of a dead animal or person.
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you said earlier that our characters are going to be put in dorms with pairs
1. when will you do that?
2. in what topic we'll find this info?
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Sorry I have not been very active, I have been dealing with a lot. I should be back online soon and be able to post something once more. I'm not sure if I missed anything but I will read through the RP anyways.
I might be another day or so late. When this crazy life of my slows down a little bit. Sorry for the inconvenience and I hope everyone understands. Until then
Keep at it!
~HateSpawn98
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@HateSpawn98 - take it easy and remember to breathe. :) We will survive until you get back. I'm going to move the rp along and out of the cafeteria for now, just have Alexander end up wherever when you get back to it. Thank you for the heads up.
@Kiss of Death - I'm about to make that post now in the rp thread.
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Wait so Atheists are easy to kill... so thats why Enoch died young in freak accident. You thought of everything! Poor atheists of the world... die young and leave a beautiful corpse godless heathens
OOC: I should point out that I am being veeery facetious
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Yeah...haha. I don't believe in god or the afterlife either, but it makes sense for this world, no?
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Wait, what the hell would happen wrre *I* to come to.this world? I think Im the only.one of my religion out there.
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Hey just letting you know I'm going to be gone camping for about a week and i leave tomorrow so... yeah.
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This RPG sounded very interesting, but the story teller is very inesponsible. For me it's too slow. Srry, not to be rude, but it's true
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Well im waiting on @pleasant_disorder and @Shobu as well, but i reckon they've got their reasons. Heres me wakting guys.
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Esiphas
Well im waiting on @
pleasant_disorder and @
Shobu as well, but i reckon they've got their reasons. Heres me wakting guys.
That's really the only thing we can do right now anyways, just wait.