Final Fantasy-esque roleplay. Anybody interested?

[Peter McCoy]

I was thinking of doing a roleplay that ran similar to the Final Fantasy series, with loads of monsters and enemies to fight, a lot of globe (in this case, galaxy) trotting, an immensly powerful enemy to kill in order to prevent him from destroying the universe/galaxy/world/whatever.

It would require quite a few people, including the "goodies" and their allies, minor villains to make a few reqular appearances, major villains to pop in now and again, the villain's henchmen and lackeys to do his dirty work, informants, townspeople etc to give the heroes that extra push in the right direction. The main villain will be played by me.

The main plot will likely be vaguely discussed between the roleplayers involved in the main storyline. Anybody interested? With dedication, it could be quite epic - just like the FF games.

[Riley Chambers]

OH OH OH!! Count me in! Count me in!!!!!! I can do whatever role is needed. :D I'll just make a new account for it. ;) *is bored so HELP!* lol

It's a good idea. Mainly because I'm an FF fan. ^_^

[Peter McCoy]

Yay!

You don't neccessarily need to create a new account - Riley Chambers is a good FF-style name. I've heard Riley as a boys name but I assume your character is a girl by the avatar.

[Lord Gue]

Id be there

[Riley Chambers]

lol Thats exactly why I wanna new account. The boy is too.. bisexual for my taste. o_O I'm thinking something around the lines of Lael Allias Verity.

EDIT I want to draw my character. So I'm gonna do that right now. :D Hehe.

[Peter McCoy]

Two people, yay! Lots more need though.

What kind of characters are you two going to play?

[Lord Gue]

the evil minion the main bad guy uses to get stuff done!

[Dante]

sure.... [is a big Final Fantasy fan.... mainly 8....] im basically a bad guy..... [Ultima! Woomph!]]

[Riley Chambers]

I'll be one of the heros. My character's name sounds very noble, so she's going to be nobility.

[Peter McCoy]

Three people so far :)

Gue, I guess you're gonna be kinda like Seifer in FF8, or Reno in FF7 (the only two FF's I've played besides FF3).

Dante - you in the same boat as Gue?

[Dante]

Sure. Dante Igniz at your service, as long as you want someone hunted down and burned to death.

[General Hein]

This is gue BTW, Ill be usin a diff name for this, something more FF-ish hehe

yeah, seiferish

[Dante]

Igniz is FF-ish enough, innit? but i got an old char who didnt do much originally who could be a help.
Idolon Mortiferus, crazed lab-rat genetic accident. neither use nor ornament.....

i prefer Dante

[Peter McCoy]

Ooh Dante. Just had a cool idea. How'dya like to be a hitman/hunter for the main villain - kinda like the ringwraiths in LOTR?

EDIT - I think plain Dante is more effective than having a surname. Makes him more mysterious and intimidating.

[Dante]

sure
[puts on trenchoat, no shirt, leather pants and Doc Martens.]
[selects a really big sword]
[leans against the wall, looking menacing]

[Geist Laich]

Count me in, but I'd rather be an informant, good or evil!



Male or female dun matter, I'm too lazy to log out w/this name.

[Kal Jericho]

I'll use this character to be the protagonist (like Cloud/Squall). So so far we;ve got two heroes (Riley and Kal), two villains (Dante and Gue) and the head evil honcho (Garrett). Still a fair way to go.

I've got a few ideas for a theme. Expect a nice spot of time travelling in this rp.

[Dante]

aiiie! may i just say, that pic of Nightcrawler is so darn cute!

so, how many peeps dya need?

EDIT - Kal Jericho? as in the guy from Necromunda?

[Kal Jericho]

Another one! Where did you come from?

Are you going to be a goodie or a baddie? You seem like a goodie. Or are you a wolf in sheeps clothing?

As for sex, I'd say go with your own. It's easier to relate to (IMO).

EDIT - I only know him from Warhammer Monthly - I just thought the name was cool; I don't read it though. I think he is from Necromunda though. Not 100% sure.

[Dante]

yeah... i might have a few pics of him if u wanna see what he looks like.

he has cool dreadlocks

[Geist Laich]

I most likely will be female then.

And if'n ya need more goodies then sure.

Does that mean new name? I have some laying about *digs around Fans*

[Peter McCoy]

Give the character a sexy name! That's what this rp's all about. Debauchery!

Well, maybe not what it's ALL about! :crack

EDIT: I'm off to bed now. I'll be back on tomorrow sometime around midday. (it's midnight here now).

Have a think about some of the stuff you'd like to do in the rp and post it here for me to read tomorrow, or PM me. Whatever's easier. G'night everyone :)

[General Hein]

night! also to help visualize my character, heres a quickly made sig!

[Geist Laich]

Nite Petah.

:wave

Sexy name? How the heck do i do that???

*gets a jap/persian/german dictonary*

[Lael]

I was too lazy to color it so I made a crappy sig for now. :p

[Lael]

Dang sig.

[General Hein]

well that was quick, nice

[Lael]

Yeah. I'm known for being quick and made a better one that matches the colors that I see SWFans in(Star Wars- Purple). :p

[Mahvash]

hee-hee, This be Geist.

Likey me name?

*works on sig*

[Lael]

When is this gonna happen? :D

*is gonna color the pic and make a better sig tomorrow after work*

[Makoto Neosis]

Hell, Throw me into the mix!

I'll be the lone sniper! Off to ride again!

Or.... something...

And teh name is irrelevant, this nick's been used in god-knows how many Senerios.

[imported_Grev Drasen]

I'm in.

The role doesn't matter.

[Lael]

Found a cool FF thing for the fans. :D http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=58184

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=64822 I warn you, this second one has some bad language and situations. But its funny. LOL Big Brother meets final fantasy.

[Morgan Evanar]

Your sig is way too big Lael. (filesize)

[Lael]

As in size size or some computer technicals that I can't understand that in the end I cannot fix? O.o *is a dummy when it comes to computers so she can't tell when something is over the size limit (insert computer word here) wise*

[Nathanial K'cansce]

O.o


Count.

Me.

In.

!

[DarthHERA]

I'll be in too :)

Goodie, Baddie, whicheva you require.

[Vega Van-Derveld]

OH OH OH!

; waves frantically ;

Pick me, pick me! :D I can play a good Seifer-esque chracter, suprisingly :rolleyes

EDIT - I wouldn't mind taking the Sephiroth/Edea style role either :)

[Dark Lord Dyzm]

Hmmm, I could of Sworn I had already given a link to the Chocobo Remix thing already here once before...

well anywho, Count Me in, I want to be a sub boss which is off the main quest but if you defeat me, you gain something that will really really help in the final battle. But as a sub boss, I am just a tad short of Imbossibly Hard.

(Note To All: From what I understand, this is NOT a final fantasy RP as in magic, same charachters, etc. This is just a Star Wars RP BASED on the Final Fantasy Story lines. I.E. Bunch of people questing for an Ideal, get pulled into something bigger, and wind up saving the world.)

[Vega Van-Derveld]

From what I understand, this is NOT a final fantasy RP

Yep, I think we're just questing, like you said. So that would mean no General Hein, but you could have a character similar to him. I mean all of the FF games have prototype personalities which they apply into every game, just changing the image really, so you just need to take on one of the personalities - ie. silent leader guy with a sword, loud mouth hyper active guy, the heroine/damsel, cocky sub-boss, egomaniac/insane main boss, loyal sniveling servants to the main boss, etc etc

[General Hein]

Whos to say I dont exist in the SW universe, just a lesser general of the Empire for all you know

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Well then I'm Seifer in disguise as a Dark Lord, trying to find Edea so I can carry on my lot as her ever faithful slave.

NOT. :rolleyes

[Dante]

heh. why not just say its AU? that would solve any probs of the characters being on opposite ends of the galaxy/having to team up with people they wouldnt usually team up with.

that is if anyone is using an existin chara....

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Second thoughts I would play a good guy or a bad guy. I could play anything from Final Fantasy and still enjoy it/do it pretty well I reckon :D

;hugs FF forever; ^_^;

[Dante]

[pushes Jenny out of the way, and hugs FF]

[Vega Van-Derveld]

:mneh BAH

[Peter McCoy]

Hello again everyone. A few more people I see. Excellent. I'll just draw up a list of everyone involved so far so I can start thinking about the story.

Garrett (Me) - Main Villain
Kal (Me) - Initial Central Protagonist
Riley Chambers - Protagonist ally
General Hein - Villain lieutenant
Dante - Villain lieutenant
Mahvash - Protagonist ally
Lael - Protagonist ally?
Makoto Neosis - Protagonist ally/neutral?
Grev Drasen - Neutral?
Darth Snack - Antagonist?
DarthHERA - Antagonist?
Vega Van Derveld - Antagonist
Dark Lord Dyzm - Antagonist-guardian type...thing! :)

Have I missed anybody out?

Question - who's Lael? Are you Riley? I'm confused.

Anyway - still more people needed. Although we could get them once the RP's started. And I'd prefer it if you decided whether or not you want to be a good guy or a bad guy. No good me putting you on a side and in the middle of the rp you're not happy with it. You COULD change sides, but it'd have to be planned in advance to make it interesting and perhaps controversial in the storyline.

Right - input people! What do you guys want to get up to in this adventure? (Here's were my experience as a gamesmaster and storylteller for SWRPG and Vampire: The Dark Ages and Vampire: The Masquerade RPG kicks in.) If I'm going to design the shadow plot then I need suggestions and ideas and requests etc. One element I want to incorporate, which I mentioned before, is Time. Time travel and time manipulation. I'll expand on that theme as I get input. So start talking.

[Lael]

Yeah I'm riley. LOL Its okay, so am I. ^_^ *pats you on the head*

[Elena Van Derveld]

I think playing it with a storyteller, or narrator, would be excellent. It'd be way to hard for us to keep on track otherwise. Plus that way the GM/ST could introduce little plot points and clues that the characters are supposed to find out, or maybe that they don't know yet.


One element I want to incorporate, which I mentioned before, is Time. Time travel and time manipulation.

FF8 style? That'd be kind of cool, to have some elements of the 'elusive time kompression'. I think we should have some sort of Lifestream/Jenova element too, that always seems to work well :)

I have a good idea for my character which I will PM you about, Peter.

[Garrett Blade]

Plus, it would allow me to play the parts of other characters who we don't have roleplayers for, such as an old bum on the seafront who happens to know the secret whereabouts of an object that the characters need to get to the next part of the adventure, only he turns out to be the guardian of that very item, and won't give it up without a fight!

[Elena Van Derveld]

Exactly! It'd be pointless to have an account registered for every NPC. Sheesh, you'd need thousands for the rate FF games go through them.

BTW, is this going to be set in the SW galaxy? o_O

[Peter McCoy]

In the SW Universe YES
In the "Star Wars" locale NO

If I set it in a place nobody knows about in the SW universe then it gives me more leeway with what's going on politically etc. And if it's in the SW universe then it's still familiar.

I'll elaborate in about 30 minutes - dinner time.

[Dante]

hm.... whats the deal with magic/weapons.... i mean, i set people on fire, its just what i do....

[Elena Van Derveld]

Oh yessss... what do we do for that? Materia? Maybe when we start each character could pick something to specialize in, a la the early games - black mage, white mage, thief, fighter, etc and then choose maybe one or two spells ? :)

[Xenodoros Stormrider]

Interesting........


If Lance wasn't in his small break, he'd be the first one to post here.

[Peter McCoy]

Hmm - that's a good question.In the FF games things were all about numbers really. But that's a cause for argument on the boards. So I think it would have to be qualitatively different. So the different magics would be relatively the same in terms of damage caused, until things such as strengths and weaknesses played a part. Eg mechanical things are weak against lightning, ice monsters weak against fire magic etc.

[Dante]

coool.
so what is it then, choose one type of weapon or magic or somehting?

bags i Black Mage... [Ultima! Woomph!]

[Peter McCoy]

For weapons I think so. For magic, it depends on the character. To get the classic FF feel for things, it'd be unfair to limit the protagonist (goodie) party to one kind of magic, since that's not how it was in the game. As for antagonists and bosses/guardians etc, it's more limited but more characterful. So I'd say it goes on alignment. The further away from neutral you are, the less magic variety you have. But with limits could come benefits, ie specialist magic only one or two have. This will have to be clarified with me though. We can't have somebody with amazing magic out of the blue. And it can only be used at thew dramatically appropriate moment. The one thing that wa sbad about FF was the fights. They looked spectacular but got tedious. It was like "Oh look he's using Ultima. Again!" ESPECIALLY when fighting Sephiroth on FF7. That damn Supernova spell was so long and tedious - he used it on me 4 times!

So the better the magic, the less uses methinks. But I'm not going to start keeping track of MP and spell numbers as it detracts from the fun of the roleplay. Just be sensible.

[Makoto Neosis]

Magic's touched, what about the GF/Summons?

[Dante]

ooh ooh! summons would be cool!
say that the planet were on has guardians or somehting... so they attach to us as we arrive or something... i just really want an Esper!

[Elena Van Derveld]

I don't think we need Summons really. They're just like powerful spells, we could probably do without, plus it'd save the confusion of who gets which summon - since there should only be one of each - and such.

[Peter McCoy]

I'd rather make that a plot device/story aspect of the roleplay. Maybe give the heroes one or two they can summon from the start, and they can get more as it goes on. As for the antagonists, they can have guardian forces (I'd prefer not to call them that in the roleplay though) if they wish, but only one per individual antagonist. And they can only be summoned once per encounter, preferably at the dramatically appropriate time. Again, this must be discussed with myself if you want to use it. We can't have the heroes killed off at the start of the adventure!

[Dante]

true.
and if a charas killed off here, do they die in the other rps as well?

[Elena Van Derveld]

Maybe the heroes could 'draw' GF's from some of the sub-bosses/lieutenants, like with Fuijin and Pandemonium :)


and if a charas killed off here, do they die in the other rps as well?

Doubt it.

[Peter McCoy]

Definitely not. This won't affect other roleplays. Too much will go on to incorporate it into or merge it with the rest of SWFans. It will therefore allow things to happen that would affect the rest of SWFans in a big way, but won't, so we can do pretty much whatever we like! :)

[Nathanial K'cansce]

Hmm....

I think I might sign up for the brooding dark and quiet loner -good guy type thing..

Sorta like what Vincent was in FF7. ^_^

[Dante]

lol. so whove we got now?

and does this mean i can incinerate entire planets?
.... maybe we should set up a seperate board for it, so as not to confuse people

[Elena Van Derveld]

I'm playing the Cait Sith of the RP :D

[Makoto Neosis]

I got Dib's on Irvine of the RP

[Dante]

dibs on Seifer

[Dark Lord Dyzm]

Change materia to something like Sith Force Crystals, and find a way to purge the Darkness out of them so you can start using them.

Question on my Guardian Status, I was thinking, lets not make this RP as simple as FF1, we need it complex, turns, twists, etc.
So, can I start out as almost an Advisor? Poping up every once in awhile and then attacking once, before disapearing until you fight me again later in the "game".

I have a Zakatiel Rhinehart account. (True name of Dyzm)

[Peter McCoy]

Kinda like the Dungeon Master in the cartoon of "Dungeons and Dragons"? He was amazing! :)

I'm not having materia. We need SOME originality in this :)

I think in order to learn a new spell you have to witness it being cast - similar to the Enemy Skill materia in FF7 - and then learn it over time, which may require a teacher .

[imported_Grev Drasen]

Meh... too much reading.

If any of those evil bosses need a right-hand man, I'm the lackey to come to.. ;)

[Dante]

good idea

[Zatania Duvall]

I'm bored! lol Start it soon cuz I'm going crazy. :p

I think my character is going to be all original, not having any qualities of any of the FF women.. At least for now. :p *is Riley too*

[General Hein]

hehe, im ready to lead the smaller forces of evil on to death and to eventually die at my masters hands or kill myself in an attempt to kill the good guys

[Taro Idol]

Hi, this is Peter. I'll try my best to get the thread started at the very latest by Friday. Hopefully sooner. Expect quite a big post to set the scene. I'll have to PM people to find out a few things to include in the introduction, so expect a message soon. I have a lot of free time on Wednesday so I'll probably do it then.

[imported_Lance Stormrider]

Oh damnit why didn't I see this thread before >_< Just look at my ava and you know my answer. :p

[imported_Lance Stormrider]

Originally posted by Elena Van Derveld
I don't think we need Summons really. They're just like powerful spells, we could probably do without, plus it'd save the confusion of who gets which summon - since there should only be one of each - and such.

That'd be awesome though, sheesh I haven't rped summons and magic spells ever since I quit my old RP >_< wonder if I can still doo that

[Sene Unty]

I am so in on this!!!!!!!!!!!!

Should I create a new character or what!!!

I love FF!!!!! :D

[Peter McCoy]

You don't have to create a new account unless you want to. It could be a fresh character under the same account if you like. Safe to say you'll be able to develop things mych better if its fresh from the beginning - this will be very long.

[Zatania Duvall]

Originally posted by Peter McCoy
Safe to say you'll be able to develop things mych better if its fresh from the beginning - this will be very long.

Minty fresh or dryer fresh? Just kidding, lol. But I'm pretty sure that it would be a lot easier to just have a new character(not necessarily a new account) because you can do anything without having to worry about past things you did in other RPs or what not.

[Taro Idol]

Exactly! :)

Expect the thread to be started tomorrow.

EDIT: To clarify those who are participating, please PM my "Peter McCoy" account. Thanks.

[The Keeper of Chronicles]

NOTE TO ALL PARTICIPANTS - If you plan on entering the roleplay in the same scene as my "Kal Jericho" character, consider making your post from your characters point of view, from as early in the day as you like, to the point when the explosion is heard.

[The Keeper of Chronicles]

Okay I've started the thread, entitled "FF 1: Turn Of The Time"in the Roleplaying Forum. Remember, this will be a multi-thread roleplay in order to keep things comprehendible. One large thread would be off-putting, whereas multiple threads breaks the entire tale up into manageable chunks. Enjoy! :)

[Ozamel Asp]

This is my new character for the role play. His name is Ozamel Asp (as you can see) I couldn't come up with anything better. Oh and by the way this is Sene. I would like to be neutral at the beginning and choose sides later. If that is okay. I'll PM you Peter......

[Vega Van-Derveld]

My character's name is simply "Trent" :D

[Xenodoros Stormrider]

Go Sephiroth! Hehehe.

[Sean Piett]

Looks cool, maybe I'll join in later if that's possible.

[Lael]

It's good so far. :) I havent had this much fun with an RP in such a long time! :):):):)

[Zakatiel Rhinehart]

I'll jump in during the first "problem"

[Ozamel Asp]

I agree with Lael...this is alot of fun! :D I just posted!!!

[Nathanial K'cansce]

Hmm... I'm gonna have to talk with Petey sometime in the near future.

[Vega Van-Derveld]

;waits for the right moment to jump in;

:)

[Darius Van-Derveld]

[waits likewise]

[Vega Van-Derveld]

Need a moment to lull you all into false securities so I can EXPLOIT you for evil purposes :D :crack

[Sene Unty]

No one has posted after me!!!! GET TO POSTING :D

[Peter McCoy]

I've posted.

Let the mayhem begin. >D

[Ryan Kinase]

Tis' Makoto here if anyone's wondering ^_^