Hey guys, MDS here, thanks for having a look at my new RP Skyline! If you're strapped for time feel free to just skim this and you can put in a character submission. Otherwise I hope the idea is intriguing to some of you and I've love to have another awesome RP going, so if you think this might suit your interest, please don't be afraid to sign up! Thanks again!

 

-MDS

 

 

Story Overview

 

2015, the modern day. Your lives were everything you thought them to be just yesterday. Dreams, aspirations, work, friends. The day-in-day-out routine of modern life. There were things to be counted on every morning you woke up; the place you lived, the people you knew, the person you were. Today that all changed. You didn't wake up in your home, nor your town, nor your country. You woke up in The City, and today your life changed.

 

Skyscrapers dot the landscape in various sizes and shapes, and the crisscross of roads is reminiscent of most of the huge metropolises of the world, but there is something different about The City from any urban area you've ever seen; it's pure white, from the buildings to the roads to the parks, and it's entirely empty. Only a select handful of people appeared in The City this morning, but beyond that there is not a soul in sight. The shops are empty, the buildings abandoned, and the streets eerily quiet. There is however, a dark foreboding in the air, as if  something darker and more malevolent lurks just beneath the chalky pavement; waiting.

 

But you arrival here changed not only your surroundings, but you as well. The City is not simply a stagnant husk, for you have the ability to change it. You have been given, or discovered within yourself, an Ability of Creation. In small ways at first, and soon in greater amounts, you can change The City. Perhaps you have the power to morph bits of building and road into weapons, maybe you can change the streets into a vehicle to move around in, possibly you can form keys and badges to unlock hidden areas. Each Ability of Creation will differ and match the person from whom it derives. And not only can you create from the foundation of the city itself, but as you do, you change its very fabric. Where you build colors spring and spread to nearby buildings and sidewalks. And as you complete certain strange challenges spread around the various districts the effects of your actions bring even more life to the white empty world. Bit by bit you can begin to bring The City to life.

 

And as you all wake you receive a strange message that seems to resound from within your mind itself. It is a woman's voice, but there is an odd element about it you can't seem to pinpoint. Something... wrong you sense as her voice seems to whisper in your ear.

 

"Welcome to this place. The City. You have many questions I am sure, and I am sorry to leave you in such a state of mystery, but some things must be discovered with one's own eyes, and this City holds many truths you must discover. You have gained powers unlike any human has ever known; the ability to shift the very foundation of your reality and build anew from it. You must use this power to bring life to this blank metropolis, district by district, overcoming obstacles and coming to understand many harsh realities. I shall be your guide through this place. My name is Q, and I will show you the way.

 

Welcome to The City."

 

Whatever the reason you are in The City, you have the tools and desire to discover it, and oppose the forces that may seek to destroy you. And you shall have people to fight alongside - and possibly against- as well, and together you may discover the nature of The City, your powers, and the reason you were sent here in the first place.

 

Structure Overview

Skyline is an open-world roleplay about creation, discover, and companionship. Players will be brought into The City in various groups, and from there can consult a world map (which will be provided and constantly updated in the RP thread) and travel to different districts to overcome challenges there to bring The City to life and discover the truth about both the place itself and about themselves. All throughout several mysterious characters may come into play, slowly unraveling the truth as they interact with the players. Players are free to move to various districts in their groups and contest the various challenges at each area to further the story. They can also switch between groups if two happen to come in contact. Overall, as the City will come to life, the story will come to light.

 

Rules

 

-No over-powered abilities; keep your powers reasonable and in check. They can grows as you all get more powerful, but never so much that you can effortlessly overcome another player.

 

-No taking control of other players

 

-No explicit sexual content. Romance is totally fine.

 

-One character per-player (The point of this rule is to force a player to focus on the actions of a single character so all the characters have a lot of relevance)

 

-Only five posts per-person between every updating post I make (basically any time I post as an NPC or detail a challenge) This is just to make sure we don't have rampant over-posting.

 

-Keep out-of-character chat generally relegated to the Signup/Discussion thread to keep the RP thread mostly on-point.

 

Character Template

 

(Quick note here: get creative with the Ability of Creation, if anything goes too far I'll let you know and you can dial it back, but the more intriguing the better)

 

Name:

 

Ability of Creation:

 

Age:

 

Gender:

 

Appearance:

 

Personality:

 

Background:

 

 

 

And with that, I look forward to seeing everyone's submissions! The signups will be up for approximately a week before the RP starts, I can't wait to see what kind of characters you all come up with and I look forward to getting this RP going!

Edited February 14, 201510 yr by MDSVeritas

Slight misconception. I wouldn't be using my gravity on the sword, if just be using it on the character to the point that holding the sword would be impossible. A few other things that would be impossible at that point would also include standing and normal breathing.Anyway, you're right that Maxwell is the only one who can properly shut down end game Nathan. The only reason he was beaten by Tristan was because his powers reached their limit and it ended in a slug-fest.Also, there's no way I'm giving up the role of the main villain from user side of the Rp to Shao Khan. Not to be funny, but he actually doesn't stand a chance.

Cough* Tristan was injuried before the fight was even started Nathan hasn't taken Tristan on when he's at his best yet cough*

That's fair and good, but Nathan's strength doesn't come from manipulating matter. Gravity is a force and a force should remain out of your characters control completely. So basically, Nathan can crush her into dust using nothing more than control over gravity from at most 50ft away.

I assume your control over gravity isn't strong enough to do something like that since Tristan was able to basically straight ignore a desperation attack from you.

I assume your control over gravity isn't strong enough to do something like that since Tristan was able to basically straight ignore a desperation attack from you.

That time i had Tristan use a one off elemental add on that aloud him to ignore Nathan's gravity powers for a short time but I restricted it that that one time from here on out if Tristan has to deal with Nathan's gravity i'll be having him use a force equal the force Nathan is causing to have them cancel each other out i'll admit gravity is a powerful force but when its meet by a force equal to or stronger then itself it can be dealt with if that concept couldn't be used we wouldn't be able to move around freely like we do every day would we

That time i had Tristan use a one off elemental add on that aloud him to ignore Nathan's gravity powers for a short time but I restricted it that that one time from here on out if Tristan has to deal with Nathan's gravity i'll be having him use a force equal the force Nathan is causing to have them cancel each other out i'll admit gravity is a powerful force but when its meet by a force equal to or stronger then itself it can be dealt with if that concept couldn't be used we wouldn't be able to move around freely like we do every day would we

 

Alright then.

 

In any case, should Nathan attempt the straight up gravity crush move again, I suppose I could do something... drastic. In any case, I will concede that Alysa v. Nathan would be a poor battle, at least for me.

 

But the other powerfuls,

Tristan

Shao Khan

Yuki

and Maxwell

 

can be more easily taken out

 

Assuming me and Aro can actually move through the story at a decent pace.

Alright then.

 

In any case, should Nathan attempt the straight up gravity crush move again, I suppose I could do something... drastic. In any case, I will concede that Alysa v. Nathan would be a poor battle, at least for me.

 

But the other powerfuls,

Tristan

Shao Khan

Yuki

and Maxwell

 

can be more easily taken out

 

Assuming me and Aro can actually move through the story at a decent pace.

Sounds like a challenge 

I just wanted to say something here and ask a few of you on your opinion. You see, all of you guys are playing the good guys (mostly) and I'm seemingly playing the bad guy in the story (or at least the mentally deranged one). Currently, I understand that we're all developing our abilities at an even pace, but here's where the dilemma comes in. By the end of the story, if I'm still the villain, then I'll most likely have to fight quite a few of you all at the same time. Now to do that effectively, I'm going to need my character to become a hell of a lot stronger than what he is now. But then again, a few of you seem to treat Nathan as if he's just some power hungry brat instead of an actual threat and honestly, it's kind of insulting, just saying.

I just wanted to say something here and ask a few of you on your opinion. You see, all of you guys are playing the good guys (mostly) and I'm seemingly playing the bad guy in the story (or at least the mentally deranged one). Currently, I understand that we're all developing our abilities at an even pace, but here's where the dilemma comes in. By the end of the story, if I'm still the villain, then I'll most likely have to fight quite a few of you all at the same time. Now to do that effectively, I'm going to need my character to become a hell of a lot stronger than what he is now. But then again, a few of you seem to treat Nathan as if he's just some power hungry brat instead of an actual threat and honestly, it's kind of insulting, just saying.

In that situation it is simply generally assumed that the villain has more power than the other heroes, else wise it is a boring fight.And we're treating him like a power hungry brat because that is the identity you gave him as a character. If he does something actually evil, then he'd be a villain. But for now, he just goes around looking for power. A villain needs to be villainous.

Sorry Oblivion I'm with Disgust on this one

In that situation it is simply generally assumed that the villain has more power than the other heroes, else wise it is a boring fight.And we're treating him like a power hungry brat because that is the identity you gave him as a character. If he does something actually evil, then he'd be a villain. But for now, he just goes around looking for power. A villain needs to be villainous.

 

 

Sorry Oblivion I'm with Disgust on this one

 

*Sigh* ... Well, I guess I do have the opportunity to spice things up a bit with Vladimir in control now, so I guess I can act a bit more evil.

IF you can make him seem more like a villain, good.

 

and for the record Maxwell is no good guy, at all, he is purely neutral, he is just stuck there, and just wants to get out, he doesn't care about whats happening in the city  

 

 

Sounds like a challenge 

 

Agreed 

Okay, okay. I must say it would be fun Let's not get ahead of ourselves. So if, and that is a BIG IF, we have to fight you who may be the villain and can control gravity, doesn't that mean some characters like Yuki would have to step out of the fight because of the weaknesses? Personally, I definitely don't want to be on the sidelines of the final battle.

Okay, okay. I must say it would be fun Let's not get ahead of ourselves. So if, and that is a BIG IF, we have to fight you who may be the villain and can control gravity, doesn't that mean some characters like Yuki would have to step out of the fight because of the weaknesses? Personally, I definitely don't want to be on the sidelines of the final battle.

 

Nah, no one will sit on the sidelines that doesn't want to. If you want to help, help. But remember, in order to make it cooler, everyone fighting him has to take a few more hits, make a few more mistakes, and collectively, we have to let him beat us up a little bit. 

 

MDS put it the best way, don't think of it as actually fighting each other, think of it as us collectively telling the story of a fight.

The fact that MDS was online not too long ago is really teasing.... DX

 

Still, in any case, this is some good discussion, I must say.

I just wanted to say something here and ask a few of you on your opinion. You see, all of you guys are playing the good guys (mostly) and I'm seemingly playing the bad guy in the story (or at least the mentally deranged one). Currently, I understand that we're all developing our abilities at an even pace, but here's where the dilemma comes in. By the end of the story, if I'm still the villain, then I'll most likely have to fight quite a few of you all at the same time. Now to do that effectively, I'm going to need my character to become a hell of a lot stronger than what he is now. But then again, a few of you seem to treat Nathan as if he's just some power hungry brat instead of an actual threat and honestly, it's kind of insulting, just saying.

Remember that all the role players here are RPing their characters as they see yours [aka staying in character] Just because you place information in the character sheet doesn't mean that everyone should know it, and therefore their character. If you think that some of the characters are viewing your character wrongly, look instead at how you are RPing the character, and change it to better reflect how you want the other characters to view yours without deviating from what you posted in the character creation sheet...

Edited July 29, 201510 yr by Javelin434

Remember that all the role players here are RPing their characters as they see yours [aka staying in character] Just because you place information in the character sheet doesn't mean that everyone should know it, and therefore their character. If you think that some of the characters are viewing your character wrongly, look instead at how you are RPing the character, and change it to better reflect how you want the other characters to view yours without deviating from what you posted in the character creation sheet...

i personally always try to get Tristan's knowledge base of other characters limit so if some character actions our out of view to him i might now what happened but Tristan himself will be clueless unless someone out right tells him

Remember that all the role players here are RPing their characters as they see yours [aka staying in character] Just because you place information in the character sheet doesn't mean that everyone should know it, and therefore their character. If you think that some of the characters are viewing your character wrongly, look instead at how you are RPing the character, and change it to better reflect how you want the other characters to view yours without deviating from what you posted in the character creation sheet...

 

Fair enough.

I just wanted to say something here and ask a few of you on your opinion. You see, all of you guys are playing the good guys (mostly) and I'm seemingly playing the bad guy in the story (or at least the mentally deranged one). Currently, I understand that we're all developing our abilities at an even pace, but here's where the dilemma comes in. By the end of the story, if I'm still the villain, then I'll most likely have to fight quite a few of you all at the same time. Now to do that effectively, I'm going to need my character to become a hell of a lot stronger than what he is now. But then again, a few of you seem to treat Nathan as if he's just some power hungry brat instead of an actual threat and honestly, it's kind of insulting, just saying.

I will fight with my senpai

just a quick heads up I'll be gone for the next week working on a film so Star has permission to control Tristan in my place if anything major happens also if anyone is a big fan of zombie flicks I'll give a heads up for when this short film is on Youtube 

Weeeeell Shade still has no use,nor will she ever. STOP WITH OVER POWERFUL CHARACTERS! 

Hey guys, just checking in to say that I'm still here. I'm having a look at the thread here and there, but due to some new work stuff I haven't been able to make any updates just yet. Expect some in the next few days (including some for you SB).

I swear I'll post tomorrow. I think I can squeeze some free time for a post

Hey guys, just checking in to say that I'm still here. I'm having a look at the thread here and there, but due to some new work stuff I haven't been able to make any updates just yet. Expect some in the next few days (including some for you SB).

*Waves arms about*

*Waves arms about*

 

Wave them faster, one day you'll be noticed.

Wave them faster, one day you'll be noticed.

They shall be waved until they produce singularities!

 

...wait, that's not my power.

They shall be waved until they produce singularities!

 

...wait, that's not my power.

Senpai shall never notice you.

 

Desu.