Sparda's Curse RPG - Resources

[Draconorn]

Anyone who's been on my deviantART page lately will know that I'm writing a story with Danny (plus Thanatos), Dante, Vergil, Karwan, Echo and L in it.
Problem is, I'm stuck already XD So, I thought it would make an interesting RPG. It might help me get rid of my writer's block.
I probably won't include any additional characters in the actual story, but that doesn't stop you RPing them.
If you want to use one of the story characters, just ask.
Anyway, this is just the resource thread. Your character profiles go here, and the item list will. Yep, I'm doing what I did with old old DM RPGs; I'll make a list of items, assign a number to every character and hand them out using dice.
Items will be generally inspired by Devil May Cry items.
Now you'd all better put in some decent effort for this, I spent AGES making up and typing out all this.

PLOT:

Up ahead comes a whole ton of spoilers, to make the RPG work I need to mention a whole lot of stuff that happens in the story. If you don't like spoilers, I don't recommend that you read this or join the RP.

I'll summarize the general plot...
L hires Danny and Karawan (and in this RP, more people I suppose) for a mystery 'personal case' which later turns out to be hunting demons. However, there's more to this job as everyone finds out when the other 'guy in charge', Dante, turns up. He has a personal interest in having certain types of demons eradicated, and he seems to be searching for something.
Later on Danny finds Echo hanging around in the streets of the nearest town, and since he's apparently homeless Danny drags him back to L's agency so that he won't be.
When they all get a week off, Dante takes Danny and Echo to his home for the week and it turns out that he lives by himself in a massive, haunted old castle. He explains that they should never, under any circumstances, wonder off into the dark parts of the castle on their own, but since Danny's reckless he drags Echo off for a walk around the spooky corridors. They get attacked by the furnishings there and end up being rescued by Dante.
Dante explains that he and his castle are cursed, buy says no more on the matter.
Danny finds a photo of someone who looks surprisingly like an older version of him, but when he asks Dante who it is Dante snatches it off him and replies "Nobody."
After that there's quite a bit of character revelation. Dante finds out about Thanatos trapped inside Danny's head. Everyone finds out that Dante's half demon. Karawan reveals his own dangerous Dark abilities. Echo reveals that he's a light mage and ran away from home because his parents didn't like that.
Since everybody's a bit happier now, they go off a-hunting moar demons and have a run in with one of the big bosses- Mephistopheles, the demon overlord of war. They defeat him and as he's dying he mentions that the legendary demon hero Sparda could be closer than they think.
When the others question Dante on this he feigns deafness XD
With the downfall of Mephistopheles, his part of the underworld is thrown into chaos, so the gang have less demons to deal with.
Danny takes a walk one night and runs into a ghost that he recognizes as the person in the photo he found at Dante's castle; he tries to question the ghost but he disappears. Danny tells Dante and Dante finally reveals that he had a brother called Vergil, who looked very much like Danny.
He explains that Vergil was a great guy, until he started behaving strangely. He became dark and evil so Dante was forced to kill him. He seemed to be freed of whatever possessed him on his deathbed and his last words were "Thank you Dante."
Later on the group fights and defeats Umbra, the demon overlord of magic a particularly evil demon that can possess and control lesser beings.
Dante thinks he/she/it had a role in Vergil's change, and he's proven right when Umbra taunts Dante as he/she/it dies.
They later find out that Dante's curse was originally a spell Sparda created to protect Dante, Vergil and their mother, but when Vergil went evil the spell became a curse. The only way to break it is to somehow bring Vergil back to life.
Echo reveals that he's learning how to resurrect people, but he says that getting him to bring back Vergil would be a gamble; if he gets it wrong, Vergil's soul could be destroyed...

... That pretty much sums it up. There's boss fights with Balor, overlord of misery, and the Trickster, overlord of deception, in the story, but I'll leave them out of the RP since they don't have plot relevance. Reckon you guys can RP along to that, generally?

[Draconorn]

All demons come in either non-elemental or rare and extremely dangerous Dark types, while some can also be elemental.

ENEMIES:

Lesser demons...

Imp - Imps are weak demons and on their own are easily dealt with. however, if they attack in swarms they can be more than just a nuisance. Imps are popular mage familiars. They can also be any of the five basic elements
bloodhounds-manga.deviantart.com/art/Creature-Design-Imp-82220694

Rikusho - Sword demon. Fairly fast and nimble, they have a powerful attack using their sword arms. They are covered in metal, but it's brittle and not a particularly good defense. There are occasionally Yellow(lightning) Rikusho.
bloodhounds-manga.deviantart.com/art/Rikusho-and-Shinigami-82221058

Shinigami - Mage demon. Their spells are deadly at long range, but if they get themselves into melee combat they won't last long. They can also be any of the five basic elements
bloodhounds-manga.deviantart.com/art/Rikusho-and-Shinigami-82221058

Pox - Plague demon. These demons are very dangerous, since they can poison and disease their foes. Because their bodies are made mostly of slime and fungus, they shrivel up in heat. They can also be Blue(water) or White(ice) oriented.
bloodhounds-manga.deviantart.com/art/Creature-Design-Pox-82220857

Shard - Stained glass demon. Strong demons that are difficult to defeat in melee combat. They are made entirely of sharp glass, which gives an extra edge to their attacks. They can also be any of the five basic elements.
bloodhounds-manga.deviantart.com/art/Creature-Design-Shard-82220688

Charnel - Death demon. These are some of the most feared demons of all. They are skeletal and are nearly impossible to kill with guns or arrows. Their scythes have curses which slow the healing speed of the wounds they inflict. There are also Red(fire) Charnels.
bloodhounds-manga.deviantart.com/art/Creature-Design-Charnel-82220161

Bosses...

Mephistopheles - Demon overlord of war. Mephistopheles is infamous for his fiery temper and bloodthirstiness, and rules his part of the underworld with an iron fist. He's incredibly strong, but not too bright.

Umbra - Demon overlord of magic. No one has any idea what Umbra's gender is, or if he/she/it even has a gender at all. Umbra is evil to the core and is skilled with magic from all elements except Light. Watch out for Umbra's Hollow powers; he/she/it can possess mortals and can also control feeble-minded creatures. bloodhounds-manga.deviantart.com/art/Creature-Design-Umbra-82219891

[Ember Lee]

JOINING!!!!

Name: Celyna
Age: 17
Gender: Female of course
Race: Human
Homeworld: Good old earth
Element: Fire
Allegiance: Good
Looks: Firey red hair that comes to her shoulderblades, green eyes, and freckles. Wears A dark green, long sleeved shirt, and dark blue jeans. And sneakers, can't forget the sneakers.
Personality: Celyna is very intelligent, and like all red heds, has firey temper. She's into sports especially soccer, but usually ends up in a fight. Don't make her angry. When calm tempered, she's very social.
Abilities/Skills: Combat Fighting, and team sports.
Weaknesses: Water- her short temper
Weapons and personal items: (done some thinking, and still got more to do) she's got a soccer ball with her

[Draconorn]

You should've waited until I posted the profile, it has more to it than that.

[Ember Lee]

Oh well, I can edit it

[Draconorn]

There's a few changes to the items rules in this RP. The user decides when the item wears off, but don't powerplay or forget. It just makes the RP more interesting.
Try to be creative when using items ;D

ITEMS

Cerebus frost - Adds extra ice damage to the user's melee attacks. One use, wears off after a short while.

Balrog magma - Adds extra fire damage to the user's melee attacks. One use, wears off after a short while.

Weatherdragon sparks - Adds extra lightning damage to the user's melee attacks. One use, wears off after a short while.

Leviathan scale dust - Adds extra water damage to the user's melee attacks. One use, wears off after a short while.

Gatekeeper sand - Adds extra earth damage to the user's melee attacks. One use, wears off after a short while.

Lightwater - Damages demons that are splashed with the water. One use.

Life orbs - Heals the user. One use.

Mana orbs - Recharges the user's magicka. One use.

Sun phials - Blinds enemies near the user. One use.

Reaction phials - Causes an explosion that damages enemies when thrown. One use.

Ring of Shielding - When used, creates a forcefield that reduces the damage taken by the user. Requires some time to recharge after use.

Ring of Agility - When used, enhances the user's speed and agility. Requires some time to recharge after use.

Ring of Constitution - When used, enhances the user's strength and stamina. Requires some time to recharge after use.

Ring of Temptation - When used, the user can hypnotise and control an enemy. Requires a lot of time to recharge after use.

Siren's Song amulet - When used, causes enemies to fall asleep. Requires some time to recharge after use.

Demon Claw - When used, summons an Imp to aid the user. Requires a lot of time to recharge.

[Draconorn]

Some of the story characters can be controlled by you, if you know what you're doing with them. Don't start asking if you can use a character yet, I'm not ready to start character signups D:
Once this is sorted out, I'll assign numbers for dice rolls (that's how the item system works, you know)

CHARACTERS:

Main

Danny/Thanatos - Draconorn - 2

Dante - Draconorn - 3

Echo - ...

Karawan - Draconorn - 4

Mephistopheles - ...

Umbra - Grendel Man - 5

RPG

Celyna - Beatfreak3 - 6

Fibre - Sfot - 7

Sek - KC11 - 8

Demetris - KC11 - 9

Jesten - KC11 - 10

Idani - Grendel Man - 11

Miyako - Grendel Man - 12

NPC

L (He doesn't do much anyway)

Vergil (for main plot points I'll probably be controlling him, but for when he randomly appears to certain characters he's an NPC)

[Draconorn]

At long last...
You can all start joining now.

CHARACTER SHEET

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Race:
Homeworld:

Element: (If applicable. This is for when you're fighting elemental demons)
Allegiance: (Good or evil. Good means that you're fighting demons, evil means that you're working with them)

Appearance:

Personality:

Abilities/Skills:
Weaknesses: (Including opposing element)
Weapons and personal items: (so you don't forget during the RP)

Other notes:







NOTE: The elements are ice, fire, water, lightning, dark and light, for this RP. This is how they're opposed:

Fire>Ice>Earth>Lightning>Water>Fire
Dark and light cancel each other out.

So if a water-oriented character fought a fire demon, they'd have the advantage.

[Sfot]

I swear Ice is just a sub-element of water.... That, and this is far more in-depth then my current profile for her. That needs updating...
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Name: Fibre-Optic
Age: 13 as far as anybody else cares.
Gender: Female
Race: 1/2 Ghost, 1/4 shapeshifter 1/4 Banshee
Homeworld: Galdria, Over There

Element: Lightning
Allegiance: Good

Appearance: Fibre optics for hair, pale grey eyes and pale skin, Fibre could almost be called an albino. Wears a white shortsleeve shirt, grey jeans and always ties up her hair regardless of what it is she's doing.

Personality: Obbsessive over tech, Fibre is the type who is not only excellent at gaming, but slightly morbid too. Doesn't get out much. She has moodswings at the drop of a phone, so try and avoid pissing her off too much unless you want to be famed as the kid on youtube that sung 'Never gonna give you up' word perfect.

Abilities/Skills: Intanglability, Invisability, ectoplasmic manipulation, power over technoledgy, can blast people with electricity.
Weaknesses: Suffers from aquaphobia despite her advantage over it, Earth.
Weapons and personal items: Has a bound weapon, one of the croquet mallets from American Mcgee's Alice. More info below. Nothing else.

Other notes: The croquet mallet of hers can smash balls of electricity at foes, and give them a slight electric shock if she smacks them with it. Can absorb electric attacks thrown her way.

[KC11]

Name: Sek
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Race: Human, witch
Homeworld: Nomad

Element: Darkness
Allegiance: Good
Appearance: 5 foot 4, black hair, slightly pale skin, large green eyes. Always wears a black cloak with a picture of a skull on it, the symbol of a Dark Witch.

Personality: Generally a very blank, angry person. it is rare to see her smile.

Abilities/Skills: Can fight quite well, can use dark magic
Weaknesses: Blinding light and fire
Weapons and personal items: Ring of Agility

Other notes: None that I can think of right now.


Name: Demetris
Age: Youth
Gender: Female
Race: Draconian norn
Homeworld: Nomad

Element: Darkness
Allegiance: Good... sort of
Appearance: Black draconian with horns on the back of her head pointing down and wings.

Personality: Insane, and evil, but also good. Has only three emotions: Giddiness, fear, and anger.

Abilities/Skills: Can fly, roll into a spike ball, and wield a knife very well.
Weaknesses: Light and pure Sanity
Weapons and personal items: Knife

Other notes: None that I can think of right now.

Name: Jesten
Age: Youth
Gender: Male
Race: Bengal norn
Homeworld: Nomad

Element: Light
Allegiance: Good
Appearance: Skinny bengal with glasses

Personality: Sane, a little skittish and fearful, allergic to nearly everything.

Abilities/Skills: Can make books come out of thin air for either reading or throwing purposes
Weaknesses: Dark (although he's used to Demetris)
Weapons and personal items: a copy of "Of Populice and Plants"

Other notes: None that I can think of right now.


(Let's see how Sek deals with Demetris and Jesten. )

[Draconorn]

Aug 9, 2008 9:44:05 GMT Sfot said:

I swear Ice is just a sub-element of water....

Yeah, to me it is too, but for this I'm going by Final Fantasy elements.

@ KC: XD lol

[Grendel Man]

Is Umbra open for being an RPG character? If he/she/it is, I'd like to play him/her/it.

Drac, if you could somehow work it in there somehow, I think Earth could conquer lightning rather easily.

And now, my character(s):

Name: Miyako
Age: ?
Gender: Male
Race: Nekomata ('Forked Cat')
Homeworld: Who knows?

Element: Dark, although he has some fire traits.
Allegiance: Evil

Appearance: Miyako looks like a large (around human sized), white cat with long hair, yellow eyes, and two tails. He walks on two legs, using his front paws as hands. Unless he is battling, he is usually wearing a black cloak with the hood up.

Personality: Miyako can be a nice and friendly feline, or he can be a raging monster. It depends on what his mood is and what he intends on doing.

Abilities/Skills: Miyako is capable of summoning up ghostly fireballs that he can control without touching them. He is also capable of "reanimating" corpses and controlling them like puppets. He has also learnt to take on a human form, but as he dislikes it he doesn't use it often.
He is capable of performing dark magic, but as he prefers to fight with his fire, teeth, and claws he doesn't use it very much either.
Weaknesses: Light, and that seems to be about it.
Weapons and personal items: As his personal weapon, he wields a large, black-bladed scythe with a slightly curved handle that he can cover with fire as a devastating attack or channel his other powers through.
Items - 2 life orbs, 2 mana orbs, 1 Ring of Shielding

Other notes: Had his tail been cut off when he was a kitten, he would not be a nekomata. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like cutting off his tails can reverse the transformation now.
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Name: Idani
Age: ? (probably around 18-20ish.)
Gender: Female
Race: Human (although not a normal one)
Homeworld: Wynd

Element: Dark, although she can also be considered Lightning to an extent.
Allegiance: Good

Appearance: Idani has pale skin, which contrasts deeply with her shoulder-length hair and eyes, both of which are a dark, silvery blue. Although it's not real strong, she seems to be slightly Chinese appearance-wise.
In terms of clothing, she is normally wearing a light blue tank-top, and blue jeans with somewhat wide bottoms. What kind of shoes she wears depends on her mood.
Her most unusual feature is a large, feathered wing the same color as her hair that is attached to her left shoulder. It is usually folded up tightly against her body, as she tries to keep it hidden as much as possible.

Personality: Idani is usually friendly, and even tempered. However, she tends to keep to herself. If you notice her wing, it's really best not to say anything about it, as she's rather sensitive about that subject.

Abilities/Skills: While Idani is skilled at magic, her main abilities center around her fighting skills. She can run fast, and she can use her wing to jump higher than normal. Her wing also comes in use during hand to hand battles - if it strikes someone, it hurts.
Magic-wise, she has excelled in learning spells that drain life from enemies to heal herself, but she has also learnt to combine lightning and darkness when using magic. In addition, if an enemy can go ethereal, thus rendering itself immune to most physical attacks, she has learnt to be able to wound it like a normal enemy.
Weaknesses: Light (and to some extent Earth), and any weakness that a normal human has.
Weapons and personal items: Her main weapon is a short dagger with a silver blade. While on its own it can create deep wounds (like any bladed weapon), it can be made even more potent by Idani's dark magic, which in that case it gains the ability to drain life out of whoever touches the blade (the hilt remains safe to touch).
Items - several Mana Orbs and a Demon's Claw.

Other notes: Idani's wing was not there at birth, but good luck trying to get her to tell you just how she got it.

[Draconorn]

Aug 10, 2008 8:04:55 GMT Grendel Man said:

Is Umbra open for being an RPG character? If he/she/it is, I'd like to play him/her/it.

Drac, if you could somehow work it in there somehow, I think Earth could conquer lightning rather easily.

Yep, Umbra's open for playing. You can write the profile and make up whatever, the only thing I've ever really designed is its appearance.
You can pick the gender too. The main reason no one knows it is because I couldn't make up my mind <_<;

Hmmm... I could try and work earth into the element circle, it'll just take a lot of thinking... *goes off to think*

EDIT: Actually, ice overpowering earth makes a bit of sense, because frost shrivels up plants and stuff...
Mmkay, I've fixed the element and creatures posts, and also edited character sheets that needed their elements fixing.

[Draconorn]

Name: Dante
Age: ?
Gender: Male
Race: Demon/Human
Homeworld: The currently nameless world in the story <_<;

Element: Fire
Allegiance: Good

Appearance: Tall, slim and muscular, as you'd expect from a half-demon. He has short-ish silver-white hair, ice-blue eyes and a sharp, heart-shaped face. His outfit is dominated by red and black, most noticeably his red trench coat.

Personality: Dante at first seems to be cold, aloof and unfriendly but underneath that he's actually mischievous, immature and overconfident (very much like Danny, actually...)

Abilities/Skills: Dante is unnaturally strong and athletic compared to the ordinary human and seems to be able to take an incredible amount of damage, and on top of that he has the ability to transform into his demonic form when he has enough magical energy. If he has a soul gem with a demon's soul in it, he can use it to take on that demon's characteristics in his demonic form.
Weaknesses: Water
Weapons and personal items: His massive sword, Rebellion, and two life orbs.

Other notes: Dante likes pizza ;D

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Name: Danny
Age: 327
Gender: Male
Race: Human/Ghost
Homeworld: Malurien

Element: Darkness (he would also class as an air element if it was on the list)
Allegiance: Good

Appearance: Eternally trapped as a teenager, Danny's shorter than all of his adult friends but he's taller than the average fourteen year old and rather skinny. He has spiky black hair and unnaturally blue eyes. He tends to wear a black hoodie, a T-shirt supporting some kind of roc band and jeans.

Personality: Depends on his mood. When he's happy he's cheeky, cocky and he's rude to just about everyone. When he's not happy he can be grim, cynical and pessimistic. He also has a short and explosive temper.

Abilities/Skills: His ghost powers allow him to fly, become ethereal, throw ghost-fire, etc while in ghost form. He also can't be killed like a normal person. He's very fast and nimble after years and years of training and can pull off some impressive moves.
Weaknesses: Mythril renders his ghost powers useless while he's in contact with it. Weapons that are enchanted to ward off ghosts can cause him excruciating pain and are one of the few things that can kill him. Dream-catchers can paralyze him if he gets to close to one. His opposing element is Light.
Weapons and personal items: Aeon, his ghostly bound weapon, and 1x Weatherdragon sparks.

Other notes: Danny has a dark side, Thanatos. This malicious spirit usually hangs around in Danny's mind, watching the goings ons of the world and occasionally offering cryptic advice to his host. If Danny's will weakens however, especially when he's angry, Thanatos won't hesitate to take over for a few minutes of fresh air. When Thanatos is in control of Danny's body he's not likely to differentiate between Danny's friends and enemies. To him they're just more living creatures that have physical forms while he doesn't, thus they need to be exterminated.

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Name: Karawan
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Race: Dunmer
Homeworld: He was born in Morrowind but grew up in Roia

Element: Darkness
Allegiance: Good

Appearance: Karawan is very tall and muscular and has dark grey-blue skin. His face is long and a little gaunt, but attractive. He has red eyes, like all Dunmer, and long-ish light grey hair.
While using his dark powers his eyes are violet and he has black, flame-like patterns all over his body, especially his hands.

Personality: Karawan may look rather scary, but he is actaully a perfectly lovable fellow. He's cheery and optimistic and it's impossible to make him angry.
In dark form he's essentially the same, if a little more bloodthirsty and aggressive. He also tends to use a lot of one-liners.

Abilities/Skills: Karawan is fast and strong and is very good at taking down mages. He's skilled with guns of all kinds, and he can also use magic. He can absorb low-llevel spells to recharge his mana.
In dark form his magic, strength and speed is enhanced.
Weaknesses: Karawan takes damage easily, so he tries his best to avoid being hit. His opposing element is Light.
Weapons and personal items: He has two multi-purpose utility guns, Hex and Hekate, two pistols and a katana.

Other notes: If you ask Karawan about how he came to be an assassin or why he has dark powers, he'll pretend to be deaf.

[Grendel Man]

Name: Umbra
Age: ?
Gender: ? (Although it has a bit more feminine qualaties than masculine ones)
Race: Demon Overlord of Magic
Homeworld: ?

Element: All of them, except for Light. However, Umbra can't be all of them at once - it can only be one element at once, and if it wants to change it switches. This can make battling it a pain (if not ridiculously hard)
Allegiance: Evil

Appearance: *Already been described*

Personality: Thoroughly dedicated to the cause of Evil, Umbra is enigmatic. However, it seems to be somewhat sadistic, often possessing people and making them hurt others for the heck of it. It also tends to use others for its own purposes - and that includes other demons.

Abilities/Skills: Umbra can use magic of all elements except light, no matter what element it currently is. It also can shift between a solid and an ethereal form, but is usually ethereal most of the time.
Weaknesses: What Umbra's elemental weakness depends on what element it currently is, but light magic seems to deal a lot of damage regardless of element. Because it's ethereal most of the time, physical attacks mostly do squat, unless one has learned to attack foes such as this in a normal fashion.
Weapons and personal items: Umbra carries a book with a strange symbol on its cover aroind most of the time. As it doesn't use it for combat just what it's for is anyone's guess. It's main weapon is a ghostly, normally ethereal chain that floats around Umbra when not in use. Umbra can control this chain with its mind, and switch it between solid and ethereal form much like itself can.
Items - Life orbs x 2, Mana orbs x 2, Siren's song amulet

Other notes: Calling Umbra a ghost is a surefire way to commit suicide.

[Draconorn]

Aug 10, 2008 20:45:52 GMT Grendel Man said:

Other notes: Calling Umbra a ghost is a surefire way to commit suicide.

XDDDDD

Anyhoo, I'll start the RP soon once I'm totally sure everyone's ready.
I'll give every character a number, which I'll use during dice rolls.
Dice rolls will be every five posts (remind me if I forget) and will be used to decided if a character has a chance of finding an item.
I'll also use dice if a character comes across an unknown enemy; it'll randomise what ends up jumping out at the gang.

[Draconorn]

I'll assign numbers and start the RP tomorrow... I can't be bothered right now

[Grendel Man]

Drac, It's been 2 days since you posted that. Figure it's time to get this show on the road?

[Draconorn]

<_<; Yep

[Draconorn]

Anyway, I've changed my mind about the numbers. Why use dice when you can pull names out of a hat? XDDDD
I'll start it now