Founded 05/25/2002 by three friends; ended 09/19/2012.
It pains me to say this, but we're done. Thank you to those who have participated and followed along these many years. We had a lot of fun, and your contributions will be remembered for a long time to come.
Strangers and visitors of the future, please respect what is ours. If there is anything in the form of writing or rules you'd like to borrow for your own RP, please e-mail me on the gmail account "onsoku" for permission. Chances are I'll grant it if you are a nice, intelligent person, and agree to just a few small stipulations regarding proper crediting method. But please, leave our characters alone.All fan-made, original, non-SEGA characters, character art, and concepts remain property of their respective creators. Please show respect and don't try to take any of them for your own use.
I hope that some of us will be able to move on and have some more fun writing hobbies in the future. No matter what, we'll stay in touch, and this group will live on, even if it has nothing to do with RP.
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What is your character's name? > Renais
Species? > Eurasian Red squirrel
Age? > 19
Give us a couple paragraphs of general info about your character. For example, what's the character's personality like? What kind of things does he or she do? Why does he or she do it? (Please don't give us your character's point-by-point life history, though.) > Renais is practically driven by self-consciousness. A klutzy and slightly moronic girl at heart, the only thing she takes pride in in her life is her position as a university girl, studying mechanical engineering and even there, she has practical skill but no factual skill meaning she only passes by the skin of her teeth. Her university course was a spur of the moment thing, something that she leapt upon after failing to make the big leagues in the local women's baseball team (her claimed reason being that she injured herself before the final local league match and was unable to attend). Her lack of self-confidence is what bother empowers her and hinders her. Seeking the approval of her peers, she shows great ambition and goes to great lengths to show others what she can do... unfortunately, a deep fear of failure and ridicule rests on the other side of her coin. Though innately skilled (and she knows, but never admits it), she will often retract from difficult situations in the worry she'll muck up and only cause more problems.
She does have a breaking point towards her self-consciousness, however, where any semblance of fear or disdain is abolished. It was this fact, after being brought about by group at her university teasing her over her remarkably stupid project ideas, that she became extremely ambitious and took on a project that was currently in progress by a Masters Degree group. Sneaking into the project with the intent to prove she wasn't as unskilled as others said she was, she began messing with the project's machine to produce results, a machine that focused on utilizing condensed Chaos Energy. As a lowly undergraduate, she had no idea what she was doing and quickly overloaded the machine, causing it to detonate right before her. She managed to survive the blast, but the aftermath left Renais with a great deal of chaos energy radiating through her. She was capable of controlling a small amount of it, after a brief amount of practice after it's discovery, but the rest just remained as excess, which she was unable to harness no matter how she tried (or so she thinks right now).
Outside of her self0consciousness, Renais can be friendly and cheerful but most often resides in shyness, stuttering a bit during speech. Thankfully, she's easy to befriend and after gaining the trust of someone, she relaxes a fair bit more. She can also be quick to snap or break, emotionally, getting angry at jokes and being easily frightened by loud noises. Though she's never exactly been in a dangerous scenario in her life, she will display a great deal of will and courage, which may blot out her lack of confidence, when faced with adversity. Whenever driven to fear or anger, she will often utter out a few phrases in French.
Does your character have any skills or special abilities, a gimmick, or anything that makes it stand out as an athlete or fighter? If so, talk a little about it here. Be sure to include an explanation or origin story for anything unusual, extraordinary, or supernatural. > The explosion of the instrumentation gave Renais a great deal of chaos energy within her, an energy that she barely has any control over. While she is able to throw out small bursts of chaos energy, she has little refinement or power behind the attacks and often, the most power she gets out of that energy is by condensing it around her fists and feet. After achieving this minor level of control over the energy, she adopted her former skills from while she was a part of the baseball team, coupled with other athletic abilities she practised during her lower school life. She fights much like a common brawler would, but with an added level of speed and evasiveness and a little extra oomph added to her attacks thanks to the chaos energy.
However, her offensive capabilities pale in comparison to a power she herself has no idea about – her own emotions. The chaos energy inside her is constant and far greater than anything she can presently manage. However, whenever Renais feels a strong emotion, such as fear, joy, excitement or anger, the energy is vented in the form of an aura. This aura applies itself to individuals that Renais feels she has a bond with and it enhances their own capabilities. The particulars of this enhancement are based on the emotion she is presently feeling, some being relatively obvious while others being not so. If pushed far enough by opponents, these auras may even attempt to affect them also, degrading their abilities. This ability could one day be refined into something far more controllable... Does your character have any purpose? (It's okay if you don't have this fully figured out yet, but all the better if your character does have an agenda or some sort of driving force to it to make it interact with other characters.) > After learning of her chaos abilities, Renais was quick to drop out of her university course. The reason being? She feels now she would be far better suited to serve and protect rather than study though this is more her finding an excuse to get out of a course she felt she had no hope in and moving on to something she feels she'd fit more better in-to. As for a deeper purpose, she has none yet – she simply intends to travel and find those in need. She's aware of some of the threats to the world right now and is presently drawn toward those problems.
Does your character have an image? You can post it here, if so (as long as you follow the rules mentioned in the character guidelines). If not, please write a description of your character's appearance. > As her species states, her fur colour is a shade of cornell red, while her hair, which is long but kept in a ponytail that reaches waist length, is typically in a state of messiness associated with bed hair. Her hair colour is a darker shade of red, maroon red. She stands at approximately 95cm, with a slight bust. Her ears are shaped like long triangles and are closer together at the top of her head. For clothing, she often wears simple attires. Her most-seen style is a yellow tank top, beige shorts and a pair of brown boots made for heavy walking.
Will you be around to play your character regularly? (i.e. Keeping daily tabs on any threads you involve yourself in, and posting whenever it's your turn?) > I have a fair amount of free time in my life so I will be able to keep track of my characters.
Do you live in or near the Americas, or elsewhere? (It may be difficult for you to participate in any of the fast-moving sessions if you're only online when the rest of the group is asleep, so we ask this just to be aware of any potential problems.) > I live in England, Britain. I'll be doing my best to push my sleep schedule to a more favourable hour and can usually stay up till about 10/11pm EST or be up at around 2/3am EST. I'll make sure my character wont be in the way if posts are going thick and fast during a time I'm away, also.
Are you okay with having your character information and image on this website (such as on the wiki)? > I'm good with that.
What is your name? (This question isn't optional. We need something to call you by that isn't your character's name. Don't post your last name, though! This forum isn't private.) > Just call me Gen. Or Jenny... or something like that.
((Hopefully this character will be up to snuff and not stamping on any character's feet this time. Please let me know any issues there are with it.))
Admin
Post subject: Re: Renais the Red Squirrel
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:13 am
More like adMAN
Joined: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:32 pm Posts: 397
Rings:2
This is good. There's nothing really wrong with this. The power is vague, but, those often are, being a Sonic RP and all. I think all that it needs are some limitations so that it is never perceived as unfair to others.
I am of the belief that the personality information could probably be more concise and, well, more personality-oriented, and less about her academic history. I understand that she is an academic, but it would be nice if her description felt more like a Sonic character, which tend to seem more whimsical and disconnected from the mundane aspects of life. But, this is really just a matter of personal opinion, and one you can choose to follow or not as you move on to the wiki, as it won't affect whether or not it's accepted.
Anyway, as for abilities, a rudimentary way to start with "limiting" her weird aura stuff would simply be to ensure that, while using it on someone else, she can't continue to do energized attacks herself without weakening the effect. Another would be to assume that the "degrading" powers would be less effective on enemies who themselves have especially high levels of chaos energy, and more effective against characters with average or weak levels (which should be fun, since it seems chaos energy is one of the things most often sacrificed by new players in favor of gaming the star ratings for greater physical abilities). Some sort of limit to its range would probably be good, too. Sound fair enough?
Hope so. I know you're away for a couple days, so, comment as you wish when you get back. For now, we're gonna go ahead and toss this one to the wiki stage.
Okay, I've filled out the wiki... I've also split up and rewrote the general info segment so as to give more detailed info on her personality and to try and abridge her backstory a little better.
As for the Chaos Aura, there are limitations in place... since it's invoked by particular emotions, and the effects of the auras are based on that emotion, it isn't something that can be used willy nilly right now. She needs to sincerely feel the emotion also, so nobody can clock her over the head in the hopes of angering her and getting the power boost. As for limiting her energy attacks - her energy attacks are already pretty weak as they are. She can only bind energy to her hands/feet for single attacks every so often and her energy blasts aren't particularly strong either. I am interested in the idea of having the negative effects be based more on the power of the foe rather than how powerful her emotion is, but I would ALSO like to do something like that as a plot point or such... serving as development for this ability. It's presently something wild and uncontrollable and it might take others some time to even realize the link to the power.
Admin
Post subject: Re: Renais the Red Squirrel
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:34 pm
More like adMAN
Joined: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:32 pm Posts: 397
Rings:2
Quote:
As for the Chaos Aura, there are limitations in place... since it's invoked by particular emotions, and the effects of the auras are based on that emotion, it isn't something that can be used willy nilly right now.
No offense, but this means little because she's still a character controlled by a player, and her emotions are whatever you decide they are in the moment. We don't yet know you or if what you consider fair is in line with what we consider fair, so this is not an effective limiting factor from a perspective of RP "gameplay" balance.
I think you misunderstood the last admin post to be some sort of list of "ideas" for your character's abilities. They were requirements. For now, until we see first hand how well and fairly you RP a character with such vague and potentially powerful supernatural abilities, these limits will be in place if you want to join.
If you can deal with this, we'll move on to reviewing the wiki profile.
Genbuster
Post subject: Re: Renais the Red Squirrel
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:29 am
Visitor
Joined: Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:57 am Posts: 9
Rings:0
Okay, I've changed it, then. She can't use chaos powers for a long while, after an aura has been used and for now, I've gotten rid of the auras being able to affect opponents. I'll save that one for later.
Admin
Post subject: Re: Renais the Red Squirrel
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 3:21 pm
More like adMAN
Joined: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:32 pm Posts: 397
Rings:2
Stamped, approved, all that good stuff. You can see the notes on the review here.
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