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Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:34 pm
What are the school colors? What about a mascot?
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Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 10:30 pm
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What are the school colors? What about a mascot?
The school colors are gold and black and the mascot are gargoyles.
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:21 pm
So, you mean to say, our school colors are yellow and yellow? 3nodding
I thought you said black and gold the other night on tiny chat? =O
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 3:56 am
TYPO. I edited it. Gold and Black. ^_^
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Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:34 am
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1. In part 3 of your rules, Characters & Powers, rule 5 within that section to be exact,"XX[X] About different races and powers; as of October 22, 2013 we decided that we are only going to allow the OPTION of ONE power to each race and TWO characters per race The powers you are given by your race is not affected by this rule... unless your race itself is powerful then there is no need for the extra power. (All supernatural races will vary.) However, as a human you are allowed TWO powers. One being your major ability and then another power that must relate to the major one some way. (NOTE: This does not include the ones that have already joined before this date.) Any power you see on this list is no longer available. However, anything else is so go ahead and throw it at me. As long as it's not overpowering, I'll probably let you have it!" I'm very confused. I was wondering if you could clarify for me. Are you saying:
>That as of October 22, 2013, everyone who joins is only allowed to have one power, but the abilities of your race does not take part in it? >>So lets say I'm a vampire and I have the power of shooting lasers through my eyes. In relation to this rule, I'm also allowed to have the ability to turn into a bat and suck people's blood for energy?
>You mention that this rule does not take part for those that have applied within the school before the date of October 22, 2013. >>Doesn't that just show an imbalance between the students? Or do the students gain more powers once they pass into the next year (thus taking part into your rule about being able to change parts of your profile once run through with Delirious)?
Question #1: Perhaps that is a bit confusing. Maybe we should minimize the amount of words we said in it so it doesn't seem so repetitive... I'll try to work on that for all the questions you have so I can help prevent people from being confused in the future.
Basically as of October 22, 2013, yes I am saying that if you are a Vampire and can turn into a bat and suck blood out of people then yes you can also have lasers shooting out of your eyeballs. Haha. In other words, your race does not part-take in the limit of powers you have, unless you already have an over powering character. It all depends on the character. For example if you wanted to join as a vampire, I would allow lasers (what a really bad example, but it shows the point), but you wanted to join as one of the four horseman I would not allow lasers. Is that more simply understood?
The thing is before October 22, 2013, we hadn't really payed much attention to the diversity of the students/staff powers and races. We didn't care, but then we started realizing everyone wanted to join as a vampire and we already had a lot of them. The first vampire of this role-play was also getting annoyed. "I feel like I'm being challenged. School for the supernatural and I'm with a bunch of vampires," they had quoted. We had came to realize we thought that if we wanted people to be a little more open-minded that we were going to have to enforce a new rule to the table. Therefore the limit was born. I do realize it may create what seems to be a imbalance between the two, but when you think about it, there's actually not. The people before the date, which is a few, actually limited their powers too-- especially after I mentioned the new rule. The "extra" powers they might have some how relate back to one of the pain powers they have. Say my character, Azazel Gallagher, for example. He has pain manipulation as a power. Ultimately he's more experienced in bringing pain to someone, but he can also do the opposite. It can even do more then psychological pain. It can be realistic. A bone breaking. An organ bursting. A muscle being ripped. The feeling of being punched in the gut twenty times by godzilla. Once again, these can be reversed. So if I said he can heal too. I wouldn't exactly be adding more powers. It'd be more like explaining what he could do in the single power even if he can't do it in this exact moment of time. That helps you understand the point I'm trying to get across, right? If not, please say so. I want to help you understand... for any of these questions I am answering.
So as I was saying above, yes. The next year you are more than likely going to learn a lot. That's Estelle's goal for her lovely little grasshoppers. Learn as much as you can about your power within the little time you have. You never know at what point you will need to use these powers. Whenever you gain a power (a power that is very similar to the powers you already have) for the following year, you will pass it through delirious and you can edit it yourself. It's easier for us all this way.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:35 am
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2. Part 3, rule 4. Characters and Powers: Weapons
>Just to clarify. You can't have weapons, unless it's somehow conjured through the ability or? >>I was checking through the staff profiles for inspiration of my own, and found that their most trusted means of attacking is with his daggers. (http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=24222829 , last sentence under "nifty powers") >>>So does this mean that teachers are are the only ones' allowed to have weapons?
Question #2: Hm, how should I answer this. This rule is meaning no weapons for anyone with the exception of an ability through either power or race. So technically you can be a teacher or a student, and unless your power or race allows you to have a weapon, you are not allowed to have a weapon. Shall I explain? Kieran Law. I'm sure that's the profile you looked at. He's power is the ability to conjure daggers out of thin air into his palms with poisonous liquids. Sure, I will allow this because his body creates them. He doesn't make them using hot rocks, a hammer, and steel so why shouldn't I? Dirge Clades. He's power is anima. He can create objects using a part of his soul. It drains him massively, but this includes weapons. I will allow it, because once again he can make this weapon come and go as he pleases without ever leaving the comfort of his dorm room. Laris Ionos. He is a Dullahan, or a reaper. His race automatically gives him the right to summon and wield a scythe at any given moment; and like all the ones before I have accepted it. It's because his race or power gives him the right to. Now if someone was a vampire, for example, and they wanted a weapon. My question would be, does their body make it? Can they make it appear and disappear as they please? If the answer is a no then I reject it. The only way I'd let someone have a weapon in the school when they didn't have a power or race that had to do with weapons is if they sneaked it in... but there's no promises even that will get by with it-- teacher or not. The only one without powers for weapons who can have considerate "weapons" is the nurse but only things like scalpels and the sort.
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Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:36 am
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3. Staff: So... I want to apply as a teacher, but I have questions
>You don't actually provide a list of classes that are open, and that need to be filled by teachers. So am I allowed to have the assumption of making up whatever class I wanted? As long as it's not ridiculous like.. hotdog cooking classes? (I don't even know)
>Are teachers allowed to run tests? Give out assignments? Does it go that intense? >> If so, how does grading work?
Question #3: Well, hit me with the questions. I will try my best to answer them fully and completely without trying to confused you.
I honestly never put much thought about it with the classes list. I guess a classes list would be very useful for newcomers who doesn't completely understand how that works. I'm still trying work out the kinks to this role-play and it's been well over two months since I made it. I don't have a list written out in front of me but I'll try to create one this weekend since I'll have so much free time. However, we do have schedules of what the students do have day-to-day, with no change. The staff can also teach an elective or sport which is listed in the very next post from the schedules. The ones that are taken are said so in the accepted teachers post, fifth post down on the first page. Your staff member could also be a miscellaneous staff member that doesn't teach too, if you'd want. He could take on the role of gardening, being a janitor, a guard (of something), or anything you could think of. I'm sorry, but for now that's just what you're going to have to work with. Off the top of my head I know out of main classes, Mathematics is still open, and there are several electives and sports open as well. You'll just have to take your pick.
I had originally planned for there to be no such thing as assignments and the nine yards for a school. I wanted it to be focused on the students and staff interacting rather then them actually learning. Of course they are going to learn, but it'll not be one of those "stand in front of the crowd" kind of things. Other words, I'm not enforcing anyone to go through boring classes to learn about things they don't care about and spend endless hours. days, and possibly even weeks upon days of school no one wants and has plenty enough of in reality. As far as grading goes, I wouldn't even worry about them. Unless someone comes to you and personally requests you to say someone did a bad job on an assignment, I wouldn't really pin point anyone doing an amazing or horrible job. You can say a student made a bad grade or good grade, but you don't have to get into specifics. I'd like everyone to use imagination for this sort of thing, in all honesty.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:38 am
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4. Powers: So you list powers that you're not allowed to have here
>I know it may sound like a lot of work, but could you possibly give a definition of each one for me? Or at least provide me a link to the definition. >>You see, just listing those powers are very vague. And because I think to the details and technicals, I actually can't think of an ability that I could give my character.
Examples: >>>I cannot choose the ability talk to plants, control plants to grasp onto a being, create mini earthquakes, conjure pillars of soil from the ground, land surf (almost like surfing on water, but on land), etc. because of earth manipulation >>> I cannot generate stronger gusts of air to blow someone away when I flap my arms, redirect tornados, quicken the speed of an ally through the swiping of my arm forward, redirect a current of air to somewhat deflect a debris of shattered metal, etc. because of wind manipulation >>>I cannot shoot fireballs from my hands, or allow a dying flame to last longer because of fire manipulation >>>I cannot turn the lights on and off by blinking my eyes, or puppetteer a robot for a brief moment because of technology manipulation.
(I think you get where I'm getting at..)
Question #4: Okay, wow. Yeah that is a lot of work. To be honest, I'm not so technical with all that. I will, however, tell you that I use Superpower Wiki for the powers I use for the list. It will give you the definition of each power you look up and it will give you powers that go along with the power as well as limitations, things that associate with the power, and so on. It literally has every power/ability and race(physiology). Like I told you about with Azazel. Even though he can heal, make your organs burst, etc., doesn't mean I'm going to add it to the list. He can do it, but it's still part of the pain manipulation. That part isn't changing and in the same sense makes healing as an available power.
Please don't think so technical about the powers. You see the way I have it to the list is what they can mainly do. The person who does earth manipulation is a werewolf, Tever Valens. His powers isn't based on earth manipulation. He can only do the basics. He can't talk to plants or make plants do anything for him. I think that would be a different power in itself, then again I also believe if Trever got more experienced with earth manipulation he could be able to control plants. If this happened recently, I still wouldn't add it to the power list because it still relates back to his main power. Katerina Forester, a ghost-angel hybrid, has wind manipulation. She can't control the direction of tornadoes or anything, but once again, controls the basics. Sure, whenever she gets more experienced, she'd be able to but I still wouldn't add it to the list because it relates back to the power. Veronyka Kalinnkov has technology manipulation as sort of power. She can only do the basics to technology too. Her main power is electricity but not in the form of creating lightening bolts out of her hands. She can send electricity through electronic equipment and hack the electronic equipment that way. She can't really make the electronic equipment fly and smack someone in the face repeatedly, but since we already had someone who was a main eletricity person I had decided to add them both.
I know there are several powers that could allow something to be different then what it is even if they don't have the power that will change that said something. For example, Aldra Gough has the the power to manipulate kinetic energy. He could make fire occur by making two things rub together really fast that it doesn't even look like it's moving. He created fire and he doesn't have fire manipulation. I'm sure he could even make a flame last longer through his power.
There's a lot of people who sort of "share" the same power because of their race or power allows them to have an "extra" power that reflects to the "shared" power. That's probably really confusing. Allow me to explain. Azazel Gallagher, Veronyka Kalinnkov, Kevin Micheals, and Mari Casti all have majorly different powers. Azazel has pain manipulation and mind reading, but is an undead. Veronyka has technology and electricity manipulation, but is a human. Mari Casti has Energy manipulation, but is a Thunderbird. Azazel can heal even though that's what he specializes in. Veronyka is able to electrocute someone to close their wounds. Mari's thunderbirdness makes her have electric too. Kevin has energy manipulation. That will close up a wound if used correctly.
Caspian Michealis, Jack Foast, Mirari Christopher, Winters Farraday, along with Azazel Gallagher are all different races and have different powers but their powers and races allow them to be able to regenerate their health quickly. Caspian is a human but he has sleep manipulation. Sleeping allows himself to heal very quickly. Jack has cold manipulation, but he is a wendigo, so whenever he gets harmed it hurts but his body puts itself back together again. Mirari is a shapeshifter, so add a little more mass to hir with food and ze'd be filled up and healed by hir putting hirself shapeshift back together. Winters is a sorcerer who masters in healing, so whenever he is wounded he puts a spell on him to heal him. Azazel is an undead, not only does he not feel pain but he also regenerates very fast.
All those people share some sort of healing power yet I still don't have healing onto the list... why? Because it's not a main and it doesn't belong. I hope this is making any sense to you, because I'm starting to confuse myself.
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Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:39 am
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5. Part 5, statement 3. Need Help? Want something change?: Questions concerning the roleplay that a staff can help?
>This confused me the most, even though it has almost has nothing to do with the core plot of the rp. >> You put "Do you have a question concerning the role-play that a staff can answer? Post it here. If not then PM Delirious Illusion or I about it." >>>Now I don't know if I'm allowed to post my questions there, especially since Im pretty sure all the people that posted there are members of the rp already. I didnt want to post there and then be told that im not allowed to. So in other words, am I allowed to post my questions there? >>>> By staff, did you mean your teaching staff, or you and Delirious. Because I'm pretty sure anyone in staff could answer my questions because they've been there for a while. I'm also pretty sure you and Delirious are part of the staff as well, so I go even more confused.
Question #5: We will still answer your question regardless who you send it to, or where you posted it. We might act all mean, but we're really not until you give us a reason too. A question is a question... there is no harm in asking a question, despite you being a member or not. So to answer your first question: Yes, you are allow to post in the thread we linked even if you are not a member.
By staff we meant people of the guild who are labelled higher than "member". Me, Delirious, Sharai, and Kurisumasu are the only staff members of the guild. (I could have possiblly spelled all their names wrong, but you get the idea, right?) Although I'm sure anyone in this role-play, honestly, could give you answers to your questions. I can't be sure any of them would be right or not, but they would sure try. We're all a rather nice role-playing family here. ^^
Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 7:29 pm
alright so i have a question.
i would like to join the rp, but my characters aren't really on your list of things.
i would like to play the gemini twins from greek mythology. the story of it is that the two were twins (twin brothers of helen of troy), only one was the son of zeus and the other the king of sparta (b/c greeks never had 'the talk' about how twins work). anyway, the mortal one died, so the other begged zeus if he could share his immortality with his twin, so zeus sent them both up into the stars to remain together in their constellation.
i was hoping to mix science and mythology and have one of the stars making the constellation run out of gas/turn into a supernova, breaking the curse that holds them, leaving them to plunder to earth. both have shared immortality like promised, and both have the power to control the weather (because of zeus's immortality gift and parentage over one, affecting the other as well).
i really wanted to run this by you, sorry if it seems like i'm writing up a profile. you were saying two to a race and such, and i didn't know whether to classify this as it's own race. just wondering; is it okay?
i would like to join the rp, but my characters aren't really on your list of things.
i would like to play the gemini twins from greek mythology. the story of it is that the two were twins (twin brothers of helen of troy), only one was the son of zeus and the other the king of sparta (b/c greeks never had 'the talk' about how twins work). anyway, the mortal one died, so the other begged zeus if he could share his immortality with his twin, so zeus sent them both up into the stars to remain together in their constellation.
i was hoping to mix science and mythology and have one of the stars making the constellation run out of gas/turn into a supernova, breaking the curse that holds them, leaving them to plunder to earth. both have shared immortality like promised, and both have the power to control the weather (because of zeus's immortality gift and parentage over one, affecting the other as well).
i really wanted to run this by you, sorry if it seems like i'm writing up a profile. you were saying two to a race and such, and i didn't know whether to classify this as it's own race. just wondering; is it okay?
I don't know if Evan or Delirious got to your question yet but here's my bit:
It sounds like it would be its own race. I don't know what you would call it but Caspian has some relation to Hermes which is just labeled as him being a half blood on his profile. The reason behind the race limit is that we just don't want 4 vampires and 15 werewolves.
Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 11:26 pm
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alright so i have a question.
i would like to join the rp, but my characters aren't really on your list of things.
i would like to play the gemini twins from greek mythology. the story of it is that the two were twins (twin brothers of helen of troy), only one was the son of zeus and the other the king of sparta (b/c greeks never had 'the talk' about how twins work). anyway, the mortal one died, so the other begged zeus if he could share his immortality with his twin, so zeus sent them both up into the stars to remain together in their constellation.
i was hoping to mix science and mythology and have one of the stars making the constellation run out of gas/turn into a supernova, breaking the curse that holds them, leaving them to plunder to earth. both have shared immortality like promised, and both have the power to control the weather (because of zeus's immortality gift and parentage over one, affecting the other as well).
i really wanted to run this by you, sorry if it seems like i'm writing up a profile. you were saying two to a race and such, and i didn't know whether to classify this as it's own race. just wondering; is it okay?
It's fine. I appreciate you asking us before taking it upon yourself to make the profile up and then getting rejected. That would be a depressing thought to us both. Before I continue, I would just like to apologize for taking so long to get back to you. Even as the vice captain of this guild, I do not get notified every time someone posts something in the guild so I normally have no idea what anyone says.
So without father ado, I would like to say I would gladly accepted your characters as it's own race but from what you gave me, it sounds like they are physically older then the normal high school student age, so I assume your characters are going to be teachers or staff members, correct? Also, I assume since they are two people, you will be sending in two different profiles in or exactly how was you planning to go about that?
As for Delirious thoughts, I don't think she could care less. All I have to say is, make sure your character isn't OP.
One more thing, I would like to know if you are making up this race completely original, from ideas from other things, or if this race actually does exist somewhere in this world but is just uncommon? Your acceptance won't matter by this question so please don't feel like I'm asking you a trick question.
If I happen to think of any more questions about your character, I'll ask you whenever you reply back or PM you as I think of them. Anyways, I hope to hear from you soon and I, again, appreciate your questions. Thank you.
i would like to join the rp, but my characters aren't really on your list of things.
i would like to play the gemini twins from greek mythology. the story of it is that the two were twins (twin brothers of helen of troy), only one was the son of zeus and the other the king of sparta (b/c greeks never had 'the talk' about how twins work). anyway, the mortal one died, so the other begged zeus if he could share his immortality with his twin, so zeus sent them both up into the stars to remain together in their constellation.
i was hoping to mix science and mythology and have one of the stars making the constellation run out of gas/turn into a supernova, breaking the curse that holds them, leaving them to plunder to earth. both have shared immortality like promised, and both have the power to control the weather (because of zeus's immortality gift and parentage over one, affecting the other as well).
i really wanted to run this by you, sorry if it seems like i'm writing up a profile. you were saying two to a race and such, and i didn't know whether to classify this as it's own race. just wondering; is it okay?
It's fine. I appreciate you asking us before taking it upon yourself to make the profile up and then getting rejected. That would be a depressing thought to us both. Before I continue, I would just like to apologize for taking so long to get back to you. Even as the vice captain of this guild, I do not get notified every time someone posts something in the guild so I normally have no idea what anyone says.
So without father ado, I would like to say I would gladly accepted your characters as it's own race but from what you gave me, it sounds like they are physically older then the normal high school student age, so I assume your characters are going to be teachers or staff members, correct? Also, I assume since they are two people, you will be sending in two different profiles in or exactly how was you planning to go about that?
As for Delirious thoughts, I don't think she could care less. All I have to say is, make sure your character isn't OP.
One more thing, I would like to know if you are making up this race completely original, from ideas from other things, or if this race actually does exist somewhere in this world but is just uncommon? Your acceptance won't matter by this question so please don't feel like I'm asking you a trick question.
If I happen to think of any more questions about your character, I'll ask you whenever you reply back or PM you as I think of them. Anyways, I hope to hear from you soon and I, again, appreciate your questions. Thank you.
- Evan
thank you for your reply!
i was thinking about making them students, because they were in the constellations (so everything was paused, in a way) until they were let go. the twin died whenever they were both around 16 or 17, so it was kind of like a long (like several millennia long) sleep.
yes, i'm planning on having it two different people. do you need more boys, or more girls, or are both sides equal? that can determine the genders of the twins.
and i'm just having them control the weather, they can't control where lightning strikes or anything just that it's going to strike. so they shouldn't be OP, especially compared to some of the other powers i've seen on here xD
as for species... even though it doesn't seem enough, they're demigods. i heard you have another demigod, though, so i hope it's okay that they're children of zeus and a mortal.
thank you for answering, and the more questions you ask, the better character development i'll have, so don't hesitate to ask more ^^
