A New Reckoners' RP - Signups and Interest thread

[Lunamor she/her]

6 minutes ago, Aeternum said:

We haven't really picked a location yet. Likely somewhere around the Niagara Falls area because my Epic will need to be around a large body of water (I'll finish and send my character sheet soon, I promise). Open to suggestions.

Buffalo might be a good location, it’s a pretty large city that’s on Lake Erie and relatively close to Niagara Falls.

[Lord Spirit he/him]

7 minutes ago, Lunamor said:

Buffalo might be a good location, it’s a pretty large city that’s on Lake Erie and relatively close to Niagara Falls.

A reckoners story that takes place on a great lake? Why does that sound familiar...

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

Will the city it takes place in be renamed like in the actual Reckoners series?

[Aeternum]

24 minutes ago, Lunamor said:

Buffalo might be a good location, it’s a pretty large city that’s on Lake Erie and relatively close to Niagara Falls.

Yeah, that sounds good!

15 minutes ago, Lord Spirit said:

A reckoners story that takes place on a great lake? Why does that sound familiar...

Shhhh, I just wanted to have an OP water Epic haha

 

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Will the city it takes place in be renamed like in the actual Reckoners series?

Up to whatever everyone wants! @TwinSouls

Edited February 27, 2024 by Aeternum
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[Aeoryi she/her]

32 minutes ago, TwinSouls said:

Will the city it takes place in be renamed like in the actual Reckoners series?

Yeah, probably, if that's what people want. 

[Lunamor she/her]

Random name ideas in the event that Buffalo is picked derived from skimming the city’s Wikipedia page (could probably work for other places):

Damascene, Amstel, Dusk, Lorian, Verglas

[Lord Spirit he/him]

if this is New York, and pre-steelheart, Regelia would still be in power. plenty of water there...

[TheFrugalWizard he/him]

What if the epic there froze the city over? Just going off of the regailia idea.

[Aeternum]

I believe originally we chose a large body of water because we wanted one of the factions to be based around water, and because I was planning on having my Epic, who's going to be a major faction leader, need a large body of liquid water for his power (coming soon within the next few hours!). Also: does being away from water count as an acceptable weakness? Otherwise it shall be a quirk of his power.

If you think frozen lake sounds cooler, I'd be willing to roll with that idea and change my Epic into something ice-related to play into that. I just want to be a faction leader haha

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

2 minutes ago, Aeternum said:

I believe originally we chose a large body of water because we wanted one of the factions to be based around water, and because I was planning on having my Epic, who's going to be a major faction leader, need a large body of liquid water for his power (coming soon within the next few hours!). Also: does being away from water count as an acceptable weakness? Otherwise it shall be a quirk of his power.

If you think frozen lake sounds cooler, I'd be willing to roll with that idea and change my Epic into something ice-related to play into that. I just want to be a faction leader haha

 

Oooh!

can I/phalanx be a faction leader?

[Lunamor she/her]

Just now, Aeternum said:

I believe originally we chose a large body of water because we wanted one of the factions to be based around water, and because I was planning on having my Epic, who's going to be a major faction leader, need a large body of liquid water for his power (coming soon within the next few hours!). Also: does being away from water count as an acceptable weakness? Otherwise it shall be a quirk of his power.

If you think frozen lake sounds cooler, I'd be willing to roll with that idea and change my Epic into something ice-related to play into that. I just want to be a faction leader haha

 

There’s a really cool (hehe) phenomenon in some areas of the Great Lakes that could be fun to have around permanently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake-effect_snow

And imo being away from water as a weakness feels like a restriction that would be inherent to water manipulation powers rather than a specific weakness.

[TheFrugalWizard he/him]

Just throwing around ideas . What if the war had something to do with faction leaders disagreeing on use of epic motivators? Like morality kind of thing. I dunno just brainstorming out loud.

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

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Epic Name (if epic) ignis 

Real/Pre-calamity name: roy

Age: 25

Gender: male

Primary Power (if epic):  fire manipulation(firebending)

Other powers: heat manipulation allows one to basicly boil something without creating any fire.

Weakness (if epic): ice or water that is below 0 degrees Celsius 

Personality (highly encouraged): impulsive, impationt, he also believes one becomes strong by struggling and fighting for what they want.

Backstory (highly encouraged): he was a thermal dynamic expert and was majering it in university when the calamaty striked. when he first got powers it was uncontorlable casuing him to burn down his entire naboorhood killing everyone in the fire(this was over several weeks).

 

Edited February 27, 2024 by RoyalBeeMage
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[Lunamor she/her]

24 minutes ago, TheFrugalWizard said:

Just throwing around ideas . What if the war had something to do with faction leaders disagreeing on use of epic motivators? Like morality kind of thing. I dunno just brainstorming out loud.

That would be cool! It’d need a roughly balanced split between good and evil characters to keep it from being awkward/unfair, I’m not sure where everyone would fall right now. I can confirm that my character would be on team evil.

[Scars of Hathsin he/him]

I will join, it sounds fun.

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Epic Name (if epic): Aries

Real/Pre-calamity name: Aaron

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Primary Power (if epic):  Gravity Switching

Other powers (if epic): Better Balance and Athletic Prowess

Weakness (if epic): Any Darkness.  

Personality (highly encouraged): He is a restless person, who is always looking for something new to learn, and control. He is a bit intolerant of most people. 

Backstory (highly encouraged): He was aspiring to be an author, and was writing one of his drafts for his books, when Calamity rose in the sky, and as he wrote in his book, ... stuff happened, and thing around him that he touched, began to fall . He began playing around with his power, coming under more and more control under Calamity. THough he is a naturally empathetic and gentle person, that has been curbed ... somewhat.

Maybe he will learn how to control his fear ... maybe. 

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I may want to try a villian ark. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 28, 2024 by Scars of Hathsin
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[Lord Spirit he/him]

50 minutes ago, RoyalBeeMage said:

 

0 degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius 

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Or Kelvin

 

 

[Scars of Hathsin he/him]

4 minutes ago, Lord Spirit said:

0 degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius 

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Or Kelvin

 

 

It is impossible to get to or below zero kelvin... physics

So it may take an equally powerful epic to kill him. 

Edited February 27, 2024 by Scars of Hathsin

[Lord Spirit he/him]

2 minutes ago, Scars of Hathsin said:

It is impossible to get to or below zero kelvin... physics

So it may take an equally powerful epic to kill him. 

That’s why I’m asking for clarification, although epics don’t care about physics too much

[Scars of Hathsin he/him]

Yes but it is not possible for a regular human to do that, so killing the epic is almost impossible

[Lord Spirit he/him]

1 minute ago, Scars of Hathsin said:

Yes but it is not possible for a regular human to do that, so killing the epic is almost impossible

Except he doesn’t seem to have a prime invincibility, so you could, y’know, shoot him. 

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

20 minutes ago, Lord Spirit said:

0 degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius 

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Or Kelvin

 

 

Sorry about that. It will be kelvin. Not really. Probably Celsius as I don’t use Fahrenheit 

[Aeternum]

1 hour ago, TwinSouls said:

Oooh!

can I/phalanx be a faction leader?

Yup! Unless you want to work for Fish

 

1 hour ago, Lunamor said:

There’s a really cool (hehe) phenomenon in some areas of the Great Lakes that could be fun to have around permanently.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake-effect_snow

And imo being away from water as a weakness feels like a restriction that would be inherent to water manipulation powers rather than a specific weakness.

Interesting! 

And thanks for your input on the second part. I agree with that.

 

1 hour ago, TheFrugalWizard said:

Just throwing around ideas . What if the war had something to do with faction leaders disagreeing on use of epic motivators? Like morality kind of thing. I dunno just brainstorming out loud.

That's far more elegant than what I was thinking with "NO THIS IS MY HOME MY CITY" type of faction wars!

 

1 hour ago, RoyalBeeMage said:

Epic Name (if epic) ignis 

Real/Pre-calamity name: roy

Age: 25

Gender: male

Primary Power (if epic):  fire manipulation(firebending)

Other powers (if epic): lava, lightning, heat manipulation (lava bending, lightning bending, heat manipulation allows one to basicly boil something without creating any fire.)

Weakness (if epic): ice or water that is below 0 degrees

Personality (highly encouraged): impulsive, impationt, he also believes one becomes strong by struggling and fighting for what they want.

Backstory (highly encouraged): he was a thermal dynamic expert and was majering it in university when the calamaty striked. when he first got powers it was uncontorlable casuing him to burn down his entire naboorhood killing everyone in the fire(this was over several weeks).

Firstly, if his weakness ice / water, why would he be around a large body of water? Second, I'm a bit worried fire, lava, heat manipulation, and lightning all being for one Epic. Maybe consider taking some of those out or having two Epics?

 

25 minutes ago, Scars of Hathsin said:

I will join, it sounds fun.

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Epic Name (if epic): Onomatopoeia

Real/Pre-calamity name: Aaron

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Primary Power (if epic):  He can write glowing script in the air, and what he writes happens. It is limited to elemental like control, not anything under the sun, as he needs to picture what happens, and to learn a new thing, he needs to memorise what would happen if he did it. e.g. Cant write for a random person to die, he needs to know that person, and what would happen if they disappeared. 

Other powers (if epic): Memorisation skills (Not flawless, just better than average)

Weakness (if epic): Any Darkness where you would not be able to read. 

Personality (highly encouraged): He is a restless person, who is always looking for something new to learn, and control. He is a bit intolerant of most people. 

Backstory (highly encouraged): He was aspiring to be an author, and was writing one of his drafts for his books, when Calamity rose in the sky, and as he wrote in his book, ... stuff happened. He began playing around with his power, coming under more and more control under Calamity. THough he is a naturally empathetic and gentle person, that has been curbed ... somewhat.

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I may want to try a villian ark. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hate to shut down such a cool idea, but that is waaaaaaay too powerful. Has been tried in the past, and super powerful Epics just don't work in this setting. Ask Aeo about Cy  

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

2 minutes ago, Aeternum said:

Firstly, if his weakness ice / water, why would he be around a large body of water? Second, I'm a bit worried fire, lava, heat manipulation, and lightning all being for one Epic. Maybe consider taking some of those out or having two Epics?

I can remove the lighting and lava but keep the heat and fire?

the weakness works as he could in most cases just evaporate it

[Scars of Hathsin he/him]

Changed it up above now, less powerful, coming right up.

[Aeoryi she/her]

Just now, RoyalBeeMage said:

I can remove the lighting and lava but keep the heat and fire?

the weakness works as he could in most cases just evaporate it

The problem with this is that several epics will be very Territorial about the water (and also you can't evaporate large lakes hopefully). There's a planned water epic and a plant epic who also wouldn't like him, so you'll have to keep this in mind.

Heat and fire are great starting points, but you also have to consider how your epic's powers will interact with their weakness. Does contact with frozen water instantly surpress their powers? Just some things to consider!