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The War on Giygas!

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Note: This RP is based off of Earthbound. However, it takes place in Foggyland, and so very little knowledge of the series is required.

Once upon a time, a group of brave children underwent a perilous quest, overcoming many obstacles, and struggling with all their might, to save the world, destroying Giygas forever.

Or so they thought...

Ten years later, a video game based on their experiences, called Earthbound, has finished developing. Made on the mysterious Kilo Isle off the coast of Foggyland by Infinity Games, it was given critical acclaim, and now almost everyone has a copy. But around the same time, people started developing strange powers, and having horrible nightmares about eldritch monsters being awakened by the game.

Calling himself Cube, a man has gathered a group of people affected by the game in the town of Unes in Foggyland. Their mission: To stop Giygas from reawakening.

Mechanics:
Every ten posts, a character levels up: They get to choose a new skill or PSI power, and add two points to their stats. When you want to assign points and skills or powers, just PM me and I'll add it.

Stats:
Strength: Defines how powerful a character is, and how much damage they do with weapons.
Speed: Defines how fast and/or agile a character is.
Guts: Defines how well a character can take a hit.
PSI Points: Every PSI ability has a cost. see PSI Use.

PSI Use
Each PSI ability has a cost, which is deducted from how many PSI points the user has. Once the user hits zero, they can't use any more until they recharge, which takes the entirety of one post. A PSI power can make the user go negative in points, but if the amount of PSI points hits zero, they can't use PSI. So Paul could use PK Fire Omega, which costs 8 PP, even if he had only 2. It would set him at -6 PP. Then, once he spent a post recharging himself back up to two points, he could use it again, though he wouldn't be able to use any more PSI until he recharged again.
Each PSI power has a rank. Higher ranking powers are more powerful, but cost more PP, take longer to cast, and require a higher level to use. Here's a chart of PSI Point costs and levels needed to learn them:

Rank: Cost: Level:
Alpha 1 1
Beta 2 5
Gamma 4 10
Sigma 8 20
Omega 16 30

PSI powers manifest themselves differently in different people. One person's PK fire might throw a fireball, while another might set their weapon on fire. So write down exactly what each power lets your character do when you get it.

Skill Use
Skills are different from PSI in that, while PSI powers come from the mind and can only be used by some people, Skills come from the body and soul, and can be used by anyone. They have no point cost, and can be used any time.


List of PSI Powers and Skills:
PSI Powers
-PK Fire: Allows the user to manipulate heat.
-PK Freeze: A cold based PK attack.
-PK Thunder: The user can use their mind to control electricity.
-PK Quake: The user can control the ground itself.
-PK Block: Prevents the target from using PSI.
-PK Gravity: Lets the user alter gravity.
-PK Wind: A user of this technique can alter the direction and force of the wind,
-PSI 4th-D Slip: Allows the user to control time.
-PSI BrainShock: A PSI technique that attacks the subject's brain, confusing them and making them occasionally attack their allies.
-PSI Darkness: Allows the user to lower the light level in an area.
-PSI Lifeup: Allows the user to heal themselves or others.
-PSI Healing: Allows the user to remove status conditions from themselves or others.
-PSI Leech: Allows the user to drain an opponent of their PSI energy, giving it to themselves.
-PSI Shield: Summons a PSI barriers.
-PSI Teleport: Allows the user to move themselves or an object from place to place.
-PSI Hypnosis: Puts an opponent to sleep.
-PSI Geas: Allows the user to control a subject with their mind.
-PSI Mirror: Reflects PSI moves back at the attacker.
-PSI Paralysis: Stops the subject from moving.

Physical
-Temper: The user's attack increases the more damage they receive.
-Wind Walk: The user moves short distances extremely quickly, so fast it looks like they're teleporting.
-Vacuum Burst: The user slashes the air with their weapon, shooting a powerful burst of wind at their enemy to slash or bludgeon them from afar.
-Aerial Recovery: Allows the user to quickly recover if tossed in the air.
-Parry: A powerful blocking technique that the user can use to stop many attacks, and even bounce back PSI attacks.
-Spy: Allows the user to view an opponents stats, abilities, weaknesses, etc.
-Copy: Allows the user to copy a technique they have witnessed. Only one copied ability can be had at a time.
-Home Run: An attack that does massive damage to airborne enemies, sending them flying.
-Sunder: A physical attack that leaves the foe susceptible to subsequent attacks.
-Cripple: This attack attempts to cripple a foe, making them hit less hard.
-Dizzy Strike: A blow to the head which may leave the foe confused, causing them to occasionally attack their friends.
-Cleave: This attack allows the user to target an object's weak points, allowing them to cut or break apart almost any material with ease, though they must hit the object at that precise point.
-Sky Steps: Allows the user to jump a second-time in midair, making it possible to dodge attacks while not touching the ground. Multiple sky steps cannot be chained.
-Metabolic Strength: The user of this technique can adjust their metabolism, expending caloric energy to make them faster and stronger, at the cost of shortening their lifespan.
-Meditation: This technique allows the user to slowly regenerate HP while standing still.
-Focus: The user focuses on an opponent, allowing them to trace the opponent's movements even if they cannot see them.
-Shield Crush: A powerful blow that breaks an opponent's PSI shield.
-Uppercut: An underhand attack that throws the subject into the air.
-Disarm: Makes it so the user can knock a foe's weapon from their hands.
-Shadow Steps: A user of this technique can blend in with the darkness easily, making them invisible.
-Healing Override: Anyone with this technique can override their bodies natural functions, allowing them to directly combat foreign bodies. This effectively makes them immune to poison.
-Mental Override: Most people don't use all of their body's strength. This technique allows a person to use all of it, granting them incredible strength. However, anyone who uses this technique will need to heal for a long time.
-Charge: Allows the user to store energy for an attack.
-Chef Etiquette: Allows the user to cook food with healing powers.
-Machinist: Lets the player create useful gadgets and tools from scraps.

Rules:
-No godmodding.
-No tennising.
-Keep romance PG-13.
-If you read this, put "The War on Giygas" somewhere in your sign-ups.

Sign Ups:
Name:

Age: (Preferrably around 12.)

Appearance:

History: (Since most of the characters are pretty young, this is optional.

Stats: (You get six points to distribute among the stats.)
Strength:
Speed:
Guts:
PSI Points:

Preferred Weapon: What kind of weapon does your character prefer to wield?

Skills and PSI powers: (You start with two skills or PSI powers.)

Other: (Anything else?)


Example:
Name: Eliot Nadel

Age: 12

Appearance: At exactly six feet two, Eliot's a little tall for his age. He has fairly long blue hair, mostly because he hates the barber's shop (He's worried about getting his ears chopped off.) He usually dresses in formal styles, usually wearing a tuxedo vest, button up shirt, tie, slacks, and dress shoes. He always wears a pair of pink heart-shaped sunglasses, and has uncommonly large blue eyebrows.

History: Eliot was working in his parents bakery in the town of Autumns when a homeless man named Cube came in. He gave him some candy on the condition he meet him in the nearby town of Une ti help fight The War on Giygas.

Stats:
Strength: 2
Speed: 0
Guts: 3
PSI Points: 1

Preferred Weapon: Frying Pan

Skills and PSI powers:

Skills:
-Chef Etiquette

Powers:
-PK Fire Alpha: Allows Eliot to use PSI to heat up his frying pan, doing extra damage with each hit until it cools down.

Other:

Characters:
Name: Red Thorndyke
Level: 1
Stats
Strength: 2
Speed: 1
Guts: 2
PSI Points: 1

Skills:
-Temper

Powers:
PK Fire Alpha: Allows Red to shoot a burst of fire out of his fingers, engulfing an enemy in flames for 1 second. Has a range of 6 feet.
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Name: Kamri Kane
Level: 1
Stats
Strength: 1
Speed: 1
Guts: 3
PSI Points: 1

Skills
-Parry

PSI Powers
PK Thunder Alpha: Kamri creates an orange ball of crackling energy between her hands that she can throw at an enemy, giving them a nasty shock.
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Name: Jacob Grey
Level: 1
Stats:
Strength:2
Speed:2
Guts:1
PSI Points:1

Skills:
Shadow Steps

Psi Skills:
4th- D Slip Alpha- Jake's eyes glow green as he is surrounded by a cube to enter another dimension and control time. This allows him to slow down the flow of time.
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Name: Eliot Nadel
Level: 1
Stats:
Strength: 2
Speed: 0
Guts: 3
PSI Points: 1

Skills:
-Chef Etiquette

Powers:
-PK Fire Alpha: Allows Eliot to use PSI to heat up his frying pan, doing extra damage with each hit until it cools down.
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Name: Cube
Level: 10
Stats:
Strength: 5
Speed: 5
Guts: 5
PSI Points: 10

Skills:
Focus
Shield Crush
Mental Override
Healing Override
Metabolic Strength
Spy

PSI Powers:
PK Freeze Alpha: Cube fires a beam of cold, which bounces off of reflective surfaces and freezes targets.
PK Fire Alpha: Cube breathes out, shooting out a cone of fire.
PSI Shield Alpha: Cube creates a thin shield around himself, reducing damage from attacks.
PSI Lifeup Alpha: Allows cube to heal a target.
PK Thunder Beta: Cube can fire lightning from his fingers. It bounces from enemy to enemy.
PSI Shield Beta: Cube creates a wall of PSI to obstruct foe's movements.
PK Fire Gamma: Cube summons a wave of heat, radiating from him, engulfing the area around him in flames.
 
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Name: Red Thorndyke

Age: 12

Appearance: Standing at 5'8", Red has messy black hair with red tinges at the tips that he always hides under a baseball cap(which his mother dislikes, telling him to get a haircut). He usually dresses pretty casually, usually wearing a t-shirt with a Creeper(from Minecraft) on it, black fingerless gloves with red wristbands, a pair of jeans, and red sneakers. He also carries around a orange backpack. He sometimes wears a red scarf if the weather is colder than usual.

Stats
Strength: 2
Speed: 1
Guts: 2
PSI Points: 1

Preferred Weapon: Baseball Bat

Skills and PSI powers
Skills
-Temper

PSI Powers
PK Fire
Alpha: Allows Red to shoot a burst of fire out of his fingers, engulfing an enemy in flames for 1 second. Has a range of 6 feet.

Other: May we use our SU post to keep track of our character's stats? Oh, and The War on Giygas.
 
Ooh, this looks like fun.

Name: Kamri Kane (f)

Age: 13

Appearance: Kamri is 5ft tall, has brown eyes, tan skin and bright, blue-green hair tied back in a short braid. She swears that she was born with that hair color and that it has something to do with her PSI power. She speaks with some kind of foreign accent, but no one is really sure where she is from. She wears a pale yellow T-shirt, green shorts and tan hiking boots, but if it gets colder she has a pale yellow sweater with orange and pink-striped sleeves. She wears one gold bracelet on each wrist and a small silver pendant on a string around her neck, and carries a small brown backpack.

History: Kamri met Cube while walking on the outskirts of her hometown. After the recent death of her father (her mother is absent), she was assigned to be shipped to a foster home--but after Cube's offer, she decided to run away and hopped the next train to Une instead.

Stats
Strength: 1
Speed: 1
Guts: 3
PSI Points: 1

Preferred Weapon: Fists/feet

Skills and PSI powers
Skills
-Parry

PSI Powers
PK Thunder Alpha: Kamri creates an orange ball of crackling energy between her hands that she can throw at an enemy, giving them a nasty shock.

Let's get ready for The War on Giygas.
 
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Accepted! Here's Cube's, just to give an example of what a higher-level character might look like.

Name: Cube

Age: 64

Appearance: Cube has been a drifter for many years, but before that, he was a video game developer, symbolized by the video game merchandise he wears. He wears a jacket identical to Travis Touchdown's, and a green shirt with a 1-up on it. On his back, he has a replica of The Master Sword. He has an odd, floppy black hairdo, and a kind face.

Weapon: Sword

Stats:
Strength: 5
Speed: 5
Guts: 5
PSI Points: 10

Skills:
Focus
Shield Crush
Mental Override
Healing Override
Metabolic Strength
Spy

PSI Powers:
PK Freeze Alpha: Cube fires a beam of cold, which bounces off of reflective surfaces and freezes targets.
PK Fire Alpha: Cube breathes out, shooting out a cone of fire.
PSI Shield Alpha: Cube creates a thin shield around himself, reducing damage from attacks.
PSI Lifeup Alpha: Allows cube to heal a target.
PK Thunder Beta: Cube can fire lightning from his fingers. It bounces from enemy to enemy.
PSI Shield Beta: Cube creates a wall of PSI to obstruct foe's movements.
PK Fire Gamma: Cube summons a wave of heat, radiating from him, engulfing the area around him in flames.
 
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Name: Jacob Gray (Jake)

Age: 13

Appearance: Jake is 5'7", with pale skin and snow white hair. He has blue eyes, which light up green whenever he uses a PSI power. He normally dresses in a Green Lantern shirt, jeans, and a pair of black converse. He has leather fingerless gloves with silver bands. He also has a scabbard on a belt.

Stats:
Strength:2
Speed:2
Guts:1
PSI Points:1

Preferred Weapon: Sword

Skills and PSI powers:

Skills:
Shadow Steps

Psi Skills:
4th- D Slip Alpha- Jake's eyes glow green as he is surrounded by a cube to enter another dimension and control time. This allows him to slow down the flow of time.

Other: Let's get ready for The War on Giygas. Hooray.
 
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Accepted, so long as you define what level 4th-D Slip is at (Alpha is the only one available( and exactly how it lets him control time - Does it speed him up? Slow an opponent down?
 
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