[Other FULL] Vale Institute of Magic (M) (OOC/SU)

[Songbird]

Thanks for posting. Hopefully the activity jumps back up soon. :D

I'll try to give the arena some better description soon.

 

[Sephear]

(Alright, here it be! I think I've made all the necessary tweaks, and with that finished I'll go back to reading every single IC post while I wait to be accepted or informed of what still needs to be fixed.)

Spoiler:

"Plaid is Rad haven't you heard?"​

Name: Jack Marrick (Marr, like in mars - Ick)

Nickname: Spades

Age: 17

Gender: Sexy hunk of man Male

Element: Metal

Spells:

1. Flash Armory: Jack Creates any of a number of objects almost instantaneously. He can create just about any physical object with this spell, so long as there's a conceivable way to make it completely out of metal and he in fact has enough metal to create it. Otherwise the spell is only limited by his imagination and his energy. Flash Armory can also be used to modify objects already made out of metal into other objects on the fly, including things made from the spell itself.
2. Ferrokinesis: Fairly self explanatory, a basic control over metal. Jack can manipulate the movement of just about any object made mostly of metal or moved by metal. From making folding chairs float or...fold, to swinging an aluminum baseball bat without touching it, to remotely controlling any humanoid constructions made with his Flash Armory. It is as with just about any variant of telekinesis limited directly by Jack's power, he can only lift so much mass at once, current;y he can lift roughly three times what he could lift with his own body while at his best. Also if he uses it to control some sort of humanoid construct he can only manipulate one at a time because he has to use his whole body to control the object, making it mirror his own movements.
3. Generation: Jack can produce iron from his own blood in excess. It requires an open wound to let the iron escape his body, and either more wounds or a larger wound the more he wants to generate at once, but he can produce it for usage indefinitely... as long as he doesn't pass out from loss of blood first.

Appearance: Jack is a handsome individual but he's no Adonis , or jock for that matter. He is tall and wiry with light skin and deep green eyes that are somehow intense and kind at the same time. Jack is a healthy 6'2 despite having an average sized torso thanks to his disproportionately long legs. His hair is bright blond and curly, with bangs that curl down and stop right above his eyebrows. It goes to the bottom of his chin in the back and his side burns end just a few inches higher than the bottom of his ears. With a nose normal enough there's no point describing it, a well-shaped sort of angular face containing a complete lack of blemishes make for a pleasant visage. His arms are a bit more tan and have the only freckles on his body because he prefers to wear short-sleeved shirts even when it's cold. His arms and legs are strong and muscular from working at the smithy, but since he didn't do any real exercises he doesn't have 6 pack abs or anything.

Jack of course has more than one single set of clothes, but all of his pants are fairly plain blue jeans and he has a shirt he wears as often as possible to the point of practically being his trademark apparel. This shirt is covered in white blue and green (with more green than the other two) lines and squares forming a pattern known as "Plaid". Jack's plaid shirt is short sleeved with buttons that he usually leaves undone, as he almost always wears either a light blue or white T-shirt underneath it. His shoes are some sporty design of skater shoes incorporating mostly black and white, with little bits of red or goldish yellow trim here and there.

Personality: Jack can be described by many words, some of which conflict with each other yet somehow still fit. He is: kind, sarcastic, snarky, intelligent, lazy, clever, charismatic, and creative, but still prone to moments of extreme selfishness, absent-mindedness, and not being able to think of what to say or do. Jack's sense of humor is filled with lot's of sarcasm and innuendos, but always has a playful tone to it, more friendly teasing than insults unless he has a damn good reason not to like someone. Sometimes he can blurt out his thoughts bluntly before he realizes his words may be too accurate or rude and cut right to someone's insecurities, but when he says something like that he always feels bad, he doesn't like to hurt people's feelings. However, he is likely to point out any mistakes he sees because he believes not telling someone they've screwed up leaves them more likely to do it again, and you don't have to be a jerk to inform someone of their failings.

He's very smart, often piecing things together in ways people would notice by looking right at them or thinking normally, but also has a great capacity for logic. Even with his intelligence though sometimes things go right over his head until they're spelled out for him, or he can't think of anything to say, and there seems to be no explanation for these lapses in thought processes. The greatest part of Jack's personality is his charisma, he's very good at talking whether it's for the sake of persuasion or simply conversation and often fit's his twists of logic into his speech to be even more convincing. Anyone who knows him well wonders why he doesn't walk everywhere with a girl on each arm, or at least why he's been single his whole life, and he doesn't really have an answer to the quandary. He always tries to consider other people's feelings in any event but he doesn't care what somebody thinks of him unless they are someone important too him or they actually do a good job of pointing out one of his own character flaws he wasn't aware of before, in which place he's glad for the opportunity to work on it.

He is often reluctant to start on anything that could be called hard work unless he has a good reason to be excited about it, but once he starts something, whether or not he wanted to in the first place he becomes determined to see it through. He also isn't one to watch people suffer in front of him and do nothing, even if it's none of his business or they outright tell him to stay out of it.

History: The Marrick family is strangely enough one with little prior history of having mancers, or really any involvement with magic at all. Daniel Marrick was very interested in traditional weapons growing up, loving stories of knights and adventurers but never paying too much attention to firearms. This interest never waned like so many childhood fancies do and led Daniel to read as many books on warriors and metallurgy as he could get a hold of, and once he felt knowledgeable he even got some basic metalworking tools. Perseverance payed off as it always does to anyone with a modicum of intelligence and after a couple years of pounding cheap iron into pleasing shapes and fixing nails and such for people in his basement for cheap Daniel was able to stop working boring regular jobs and get an apprenticeship under a professional blacksmith. Even though Blacksmiths nowadays usually just make simple metal tools and fixtures or at best knives for people thanks to more traditional weapons not being viable for every-day use Daniel's love of weapons that were aesthetically pleasing AND deadly wouldn't allow him to stop thinking of them.

Daniel started to make his own custom knives and sell them on the side at some unknown point, both of extra pocket change and just to see if he could do it. At first his knives were functional, but nothing too pretty, not good for anything more than utility knives but useful at least. Once he started to get a name and some money he could afford better materials and find better contacts to acquire such materials, and so as the quality of his knives grew so did his small amount of fame and his profit. After he became confident he could actually make a living as a Blacksmith Daniel thanked his teacher for all the help, resigned as his apprentice and offered to rent some of his tools and work stations every once in a while. He really enjoyed being around a good friend and already had a way to make tools and weapons for people, but his first and foremost goal was to get to a point where he could strike out on his own so he saved up to buy the exact tools and implements his teacher had piece by piece until he could furnish his own smithy.

Finally feeling he had the very minimum of what he needed to really be a blacksmith Daniel cleared out the first floor of the basement in the small house he'd inherited from his grandparents and set up his small smithy inside of it. Years went by and word spread that there was a blacksmith in a small town in Northern California who was not only talented but truly seemed passionate about his work, and even offered to make custom-ordered weapons for people who could afford it. It was slow going at first, and with most people who needed knives in his town already having come to him before Daniel still had to make his living off of common things like nails and regular tools, but every person that did order a weapon fed both his wallet and his skill.

Even later after Daniel had managed to get a hold of his own building so he could finally feel like his smithy was a real business someone quite important made their way to him. There was a man from England, sir Reginald Collifer was from a well known family and was a self made business man, he never even accepted his inheritance until after his own company proved successful. He'd brought his daughter Carol who was the fencing champion at her school and was thinking of competing on higher levels, she wanted her own special foil and she had apparently asked to be taken to him. Marrick couldn't comprehend why on earth she'd chosen him, or how they had even heard of him. What better place to find someone to make a A rapier or a Foil than England, and especially why some only recently popular blacksmith in America?

The flustered young man certainly wasn't complaining though, besides the fact that he could expect good payment for such an endeavor Carol was the most beautiful women he'd ever seen, with an angelic face, full lips and she was taller than he was at 6 feet. Daniel had an interesting idea, he of course not only made weapons but practiced with some of his own, he challenged her to a fencing match to get a feel for her movements so he could make a more fitting tool of victory for her. She agreed but despite his love of weapons he was a prodigy at making them, not using them, unlike Carol. In what seemed like an instant upon starting the match she had the end of her foil on the padding right in front of Daniel's heart, the second round was no different and just for good measure she swept his feet after the third and giggled at his failure. The moment the beautiful woman knocked him on his ass he knew she was "the one"

Courting is a long and difficult to describe process, so let's skip to the magic shall we? As you may have guessed by now Daniel and Carol ended up falling in love, and there's definitely a reason Daniel has the same last name as Jack. At some point Daniel realized there was a reason everything he made, every piece of metal he shaped came out so perfect, so...exactly how he felt it should. One day when Daniel was making the guard on a particularly ornate and complicated cutlass somebody wanted for a pirate movie (why they wanted a real sword for a prop was beyond him, maybe for an extremely well-detailed model for a digitally added sword) He was scratching his beard (because as we all know all blacksmiths have awesome beards) and wondering how he was going to finish it. How could they ask for something so complex and expect him to finish it in only a few days? Obviously they didn't want it to be so authentic it could really kill people in a swashbuckling adventure but that just wasn't good enough for him anything made by him absolutely had to be functional.

He was racking his mind trying to think how he would make such flowing and and intricate bands of metal without them being as delicate as hot gold, he slammed his fist on the table next to the anvil and rubbed his temple. When he stopped gritting his teeth and opened his eyes he was astonished to see the guard was shaped exactly the way he thought it should be, all he had left to do was attach it to the hilt properly refine the whole sword in minute details. Daniel learned what he could about magic and found out that there were in fact people known to have magic abilities pertaining specifically to metal, and they were called "Ferromancers" He never really tried to learn any spells though, just went on as he always did, happy with the knowledge that some force was passively helping him make the best weapons he could hope to.

Now on to Jack, the star of this Sign-up sheet but not really of his own history section. This has gone long enough without him after all. In time Carol grew pregnant with and gave birth to little Jack, Daniel noticed right away that the baby had his mother's beautiful eyes. Of course when Jack grew older and started to really come into his own body Carol was quick to point out he had his father's masculine jaw and shoulders, to which Daniel countered he had Carol's beautiful golden locks. Whether it was because of a natural affinity for it or because he revered his father so greatly Jack was always watching him and constantly so glad to learn everything about smithing he could. Jack proved to have his father's talent for crafting metal tools, but even better he seemed to far surpass his father's magical prowess. Jack didn't simply make especially high quality weapons, he could make them purely by imagining how they should be and concentrating intensely in the presence of the proper metals. He could even make the metals denser, stronger and more flexible than any normal person ever could even with good materials and a lot of folding.

Jack's father tried to keep him making weapons the way he had, good old fashioned hard work with one's own hands was the best way to make a weapon, and really put one's own heart into it. But Jack no longer had any intention of hand crafting weapons, he was obsessed with mastering his own craft, and his mother saw the rift it opened between them. The two needed space from each other before their kinship grew too strained. Fortuitously, a few weeks later Carol brought Jack a rather fancy looking letter and told him to open it himself, it was none other than a letter of invitation from the Vale Institute of Magic. Jack had no idea how they heard about him but he was ecstatic, finally a chance to refine his own special talent! He wasted no time in packing up and Daniel reluctantly brought him to the Institute, he was sad to see his son go and that he couldn't continue teaching him, but he wanted his only son to be happy more than anything else.


Code: Challenge Me!

Other: You could say Jack has a little bonus ability called "Smith's Eye" Thanks to the way he grew up he has a near encyclopedic knowledge of melee weaponry, and when he makes weapons with Flash Armory they are almost perfect representations of the weapons instead of crude but functional imitations or unique but strange designs one might expect from magically created weapons. They even seem to gain their proper colors, mimicking any paint they might have or the appearance of where a non-metal material would usually be.

 

[Songbird]

It is now accepatepaded, since Colony seems to have approved and you added your limits. :3

You make first post now!

 

[Colony]

For those of you who've posted I personally want to thank you, but for those who haven't get to posting! I really don't like to give deadlines, but for those who haven't posted or given me or Songbird a good reason why you've been inactive since class was let out by the tenth of February then you will be placed on a 72-hour probation. If you fail to post within the time frame of the probation, then you will be removed. Of course, this is not what I'd like to see happen, so please post within before the tenth.

Just to be clear, the following individuals are considered inactive:

• Dualik
• Ziposaki
• DarkMoonPhase
• Resolution
• Genesis

 

[Songbird]

Just as a warning, the people Colony had listed above will have until tomorrow (the tenth, for most of us) to at least give either of us a good enough excuse for not having posted.

 

[disciplish]

...In the meantime, Sytano is up for interaction, guys! o/

 

[Colony]

Okay, so in an attempt to revitalize activity SongBird and I want to know what you, the players, would like to see in Vale IC Day 2 and even further in the RP. We really want to know what you guys want, just so we can make it more enjoyable and interesting for everyone. Is there a big event you guys would like to do? Maybe a certain class? Please, let us know!

 

[Colony]

Note to all currently active members of Vale. If at all possible, please start wrapping up your interactions for the end of the IC day. We'd like to start the next IC by the 21st of February, so that gives about a week, which should be plenty of time for day conclusion posts. Thanks in advance.

 

[disciplish]

Okay, so in an attempt to revitalize activity SongBird and I want to know what you, the players, would like to see in Vale IC Day 2 and even further in the RP. We really want to know what you guys want, just so we can make it more enjoyable and interesting for everyone. Is there a big event you guys would like to do? Maybe a certain class? Please, let us know!

Ah, I finally thought of something. I definitely would like to see a few normal days thrown around among eventful days. Maybe days where classes assign group work or something like that; generally just a day that's just like any other day. I think what some RPs lose in the value of fun you have is that they have too much stuff going on, and sometimes I'd rather have a regular day to get a feel for what my characters do. Just a day where everything's relaxed, chill, and it's probably just interaction driven.

Not that I'm not for action [because action is usually fun, especially here |3], but it's always been a thought of mine. The only thing is that it'll hold interest for only so long, so I guess it's a bit of a faulty idea; hence why you don't see it often.

 

[Songbird]

You will be getting plenty of regular days to relax and have classes, and fighting is completely optional on days that don't have special events (which will not include genderbending). Healing magic doesn't get rid of the fatigue from trying to kill each other.

We'll also have stuff for the students to do that doesn't involve studying and blowing each other up; more options will become available over time to get some recreational use out of your magic, and make use of non-magical talents. Along with that, feel free to talk with Colony and me about ideas you have for making your character stronger or otherwise more capable (like making up a teacher/student that mentors them in learning a second element), or even making another character entirely—just make sure you talk with us about it. :3

 

[snakeyem12]

Name: (First, Last, Middle Optional)Elizabeth Rose Stewart

Nickname: (Optional) Ellie

Age: (13-17) 17

Gender: (Male, Female) Female

Element: (Fire, Water, Earth, Metal, or Air, refer to the available slots to see what elements are available) Water

Spells: (1-3 based on the element of your choice)
Water Manipulation: Generally moving water, Ellie has no idea how to use this in combat but knows it is good at embarrassing people.
Water shoot: With water nearby she can either create a Channel of water to aim at people or to use to fly/hover.
Water growth: Ellie can create more water from not much, this joins well with water shoot and also allows her to flood small areas.


Appearance: (Picture, or 100 words)
Very short blonde hair with bright blue eyes, fairly short and has very pale skin. Has a small mole on her right cheek and a few scars or various parts of her body that have been caused by sheer stupidity. The most prominent scar is found just above her left eye and was caused recently by her splitting water just as she was trying to dive. She has a very odd fashion sense and is almost never seen in anything but leggings. She almost never wears makeup and is never found in a dress unless it is required for something hugely important. Sometimes Ellie will be found walking around in her leggings and a hoodie and be mistaken for a boy, but she doesn't mind.

Personality: (100 word minimum, preferably over 200)
Ellie is very strange. She isn't very good at making friends but she isn't particularly unsocial or mean, people just don't seem to get her. She is fairly comfortable around large groups of people but much prefers to be on a computer. She enjoys both playing on the computer and reading lots which don't really match together and she also gets very good grades. She is good at focusing but is awful at being creative. She enjoys swimming and if she doesn't go swimming in the morning then she will be in a bad mood for the rest of the day and when she is in a bad mood she is very argumentative and slightly violent. Comes across as very shy and people may even think she is mute.

History: (200 word minimum, preferably over 300)
When Ellie was young she was always obsessed with water, she was obsessed with the way it moved, how it reacted to different things. Her parents were sure it was just a stage but her grand parents always said it was more but refused to explain. At around 5 Ellie began to watch a TV show about mermaids, she wanted to be just like them and control the water whenever she was near it. Her parents sent her to say swimming lessons and she enjoyed them lots, she would never want to leave the pool. She went through primary school with few friends, none of them being her age. Sometimes when she had a new teacher they would be concerned by now much water she would consume, she drank about a litre an hour and that number has only increased as she has gotten older. Her few friends that she did have left her when she went to secondary school and there she made no friends.
She was a loner, that weird kid that just goes to school, goes through the day and then leaves. Many people thought she was mute for a while and would tease her. That always turned out badly for them, imagine being in science boiling water over a Bunsen burner and then it shoots out at your face, no sensible person is ever going to blame anyone for that, definitely not the weird kid that doesn't talk. Ellie never realised it was herself either, she just believed it was karma. Most "karma" seemed to happen in science class, it was when Ellie was happiest.
She had always enjoyed science but at the beginning of secondary school it was awful, in her first science lesson they were told they weren't allowed water in the lab. She had a double lesson which meant it was just under two hours long. She had fainted just under halfway through that lesson. After waking up she drank a litre of water in just under 5 minutes. The science teacher was informed that she had to have a way of drinking water and so it was sorted out. Ellie was never away from water. Whether she was swimming or had her water bottle, she even had multiple water bottles in her bed for drinking in the night. Ellie went swimming more often, at one point she was a lifeguard but she found that hardly included any swimming so she instantly gave up.
At around 15 the people at school got worse, they told her she was getting fat from drinking too much water but she knew the opposite was true, she looked anorexic. Even knowing this though, she tried to please the bullies. She ate less, exercised more strictly and began to drink even more water. They were never pleased though. Soon she began to believe them, she would look at where she could find all the fat on her body. Karma stopped working. She hated how she was, and the water did too, test tubes constantly shot water at her face, kettles would overflow and burn her fingers, her only true friends through all the years had turned against her just as she was doubting herself.At 16 she weighed less than she had at 13 and it was strongly showing, everyone would call her weak and would bully her, mainly verbally. She had her first fight at sixteen, it was terrible, she got beaten horribly and the teachers complained at her for causing trouble when she had been attacked.
Early seventeen was her worst though. It was the end of her second to last year of school. She was attacked at school, this had become a regular occurrence. She went swimming after school, it was her way of calming down, even if her old friend the water did hate her. She did some diving, the first few went fine but then she considered how easy it would be to just jump sideways off of the top board, it would be painless, she would hit the floor and all the pain would be gone but she couldn't bring herself to do it, instead she went to the 7 metre board. She jumped off and as she approached the water a flicker of doubt ran through her head, why couldn't she have gone to the ten? It was with that flicker of doubt that the water opened beneath her. She thought she was imagining it.
When she awoke at the hospital 5 hours later with many stitches above her left eye, it was clear she hadn't been. She tried to look around, there were nurses and one other person, it wasn't her mum or dad, they were too busy to worry about her almost dying. It was her best friend from primary school, Hannah. Hannah had always enjoyed swimming too but they had drifted apart, Hannah was at the pool swimming when Ellie had dived. Ellie saw Hannah staring at her on the table and noticed her expression. Ellie was about to explain that she knew she was fat and ugly but then Hannah started complaining about how skinny she was. Ellie was convinced they were looking at different people to begin with but Hannah was very convincing. The next week Ellie had gone into school, she had begun to eat properly again and was already feeling stronger but still unsure of herself. She was at the water fountain when it happened, the large confrontation.
The bullies came up to her again, everyone obviously on their side. This time though, she retaliated, she explained to them how she was better than them, skinnier, prettier and much kinder than they will ever be, whilst the onlookers stared at her, shocked she had spoken. She watched the bullies faces turn to dismay, and then she knew that she was right, she was better than them, and it felt good. The water fountain then began to spray very strongly directly at the bullies, soaking them thoroughly, karma was back. The next day Ellie's Nan wanted to talk to her, her Nan mentioned magic, and although it sounded crazy, it made sense. Ellie had her confidence back and her Nan was sending her to magic school.

Code: (To make sure you read the rules)Challenge me!!!

Other: (For anything not included in the other categories)

 

[Songbird]

Okay, we can only really comment on two things, because we can't properly evaluate your SU in its existing state.

Your choices in spells are extremely limited. You cannot do much with what you have, and in general, it's just extremely basic and uncreative for someone who's supposed to have been obsessed with water their entire lives. Think outside the box a bit? Look at other character sheets, maybe? (I suggest doing that anyways to get some ideas.)

Please separate your character's history into multiple paragraphs. It's kind of a wall of text.

For her personality and appearance, it just needs to be detailed better. There's not much to either of them. (A picture could have been excusable for the appearance, though, if you'd like to use one instead of describing them in text.) Aim for about 200 words on the Personality (and you can use a word counter to figure out how far you're from it), and give her some better characterisation in the Appearance—all you've really given us in the latter section is her hair and two facial features, so we can't visualise the rest of her body at all. Right now, I'm thinking a midget Ellen DeGeneres with a mole and a scar. That's probably pretty far from what you had in mind. xD

 

[Satan.EXE]

I'm guessing there's room here? I'm thinking I might give this RP a go again, with a new character. Anyone willing to give a synopsis so far, and possibly let me know what the situation is with elements and sexes so I can possibly balance it out (or at least avoid making it any worse)

 

[Songbird]

Day 1 is finally ending (all the latest relevant posts should be on the last page of the IC); all elements are available; no one has been genderswapped. Sexes are pretty evenly split.

 

[Satan.EXE]

I mean how many of reach element are being taken and what's the sex ratio at the moment?

 

[Songbird]

Sex ratio is 4:5. Girls are winning. They're still winning if I counted Imari and Soren.

Elements are: 3 Air, 2 Metal, 1 Earth, 1 Water, 1 Fire, and Zane is Light.

 

[Mochika Rage]

I wrote an SU earlier, but due to the PC logging you out if you're afk for too long, it disappeared. Now, before I rewrite it, can I ask something? Would nature and wildlife count in earth? I don't think wildlife would, but I originally made a spell where vines would wrap around people. I'm also wondering if I'd be able to talk to animals, which I'm 99.9% sure that the answer will be no. Thanks ^-^

 

[Songbird]

Earth magic is restricted to the ground itself; dirt and stone. You won't be able to control any forms of life with earth magic, plant or otherwise. Likewise, water magic is also restricted to its liquid state; you can't use water magic to make ice, despite the obvious connection. Still, nothing says you can't make a dirt-vine or something. Work with what you get, and all that jazz.

And no, you most definitely cannot talk to animals. You get a lot more in terms of options for spells as the RP goes on, but talking to animals will simply never happen. The first reason is that there are few to no animals in this RP; the second reason is that I've never seen it done in a way that warrants having that kind of ability, making it one of the worst choices in trying to make a creative character. I'm a little sad that it took accidentally losing your SU to ask us, but points for having asked at all. :3

 

[Colony]

Great seeing some new faces and even the return of some old ones as well. I'd like to reiterate on what SongBird said about the elements, also add something about one in particular. There are distinct reasons why elements have such strict boundaries, if a GM, Birdy or me, turns down an idea for a spell and we say it doesn't fit the element, then chances are there is a more advanced element that can do what the incorrect spell is meant to do.

As mentioned earlier, there are two particular elements that I would like to make clear are off limits. The element that I am speaking of are the Darkness and Light elements. There is quite literally dozens of reasons as to why this is so, most of which are extremely plot relevant, so you must understand I am unable to delve any deeper in the matter. The available list of elements can be found on the initial post in both the IC and OOC, and at the moment, every primary element has at least one spot open.

Edit: The new IC day is up, have some fun before class starts, maybe get a bite to eat!

 

[Songbird]

Day 2 is now officially underway! That means wake up. :3