Everfree Cult (Sign-up and Discussion)

SIGN-UPS ARE CLOSED!!!​

All right, here's the sign up thread. Um, the story (or general idea anyways) is here:

http://www.everypony.com/forums/showthread.php?5061-My-first-(possibly-successful)-hosted-RP

Here's the Roleplay:

http://www.everypony.com/forums/sho...free-Cults-(The-Roleplay)&p=207108#post207108

And here's the general information I'll need:



Name/Nickname
Gender
Breed (No alicorns please, Unicorns Pegasi and Earth Ponies)
Special Talent/Cutie Mark
Personality/Background



And then, here's how the stats will work. (Yes, I plan on having stats, and definitely using them.)

You will get to choose your own stats. Here are the categories:

Strength (Brute strenth/muscle)
Agility (For dodging/hitting)
Marksmanship (kinda obvious, skill with projectiles)
Intelligence (How much your character already knows)
Perception (How quickly your character learns, how observant your character is)
Willpower (...yeah.)
Lore/Magic (Your character's skill with/knowledge of magic, even if they aren't a unicorn)
Luck (how much dumb luck your character has)

You have 40 points to place, you can place up to 9 points in any one category. Your stats will stay the same for the whole RP, except for items which might affect these stats.

I also will give your character a unique ability based on their general info. Hopefully you'll all like it!

And if you have any suggestions, please make them quick before we get too far into this thing.


Ponies signed up so far: (Glitchy Spoilers are Glitchy)


Quill Inkwell:

Spoiler: Cloud Kicker

Name/Nickname: Cloud Kicker (“Kicker”)
Gender: Male
Breed: Pegasus
Special Talent/Cutie Mark:
Ricocheting (“Triangle Jumping”)
Three White Clouds with a Triangle connecting them
Personality/Background: Kicker is a fairly laid-back pegasus and there are very few things he takes seriously. This can be a little off putting to others as it can be hard to tell when he’s being serious, or when he’s just clowning around (case in point: His nickname in flight school was “Clown Kicker”).
He performs his job (Weatherpony) with reckless abandon (i.e. Bouncing from cloud to cloud to start the rain), almost putting him on the same tier as Ditzy Doo with regards to property damage (mostly rain-related). Maybe he’s distracted by thoughts of a certain cyan-colored, rainbow-maned coworker…
Nah…
Appearance:
Coat: Storm Cloud Grey
Mane and Tail: White with a light blue streak. Short and messy.
Eyes: Light Yellow

Spoiler: Stats

Strength:3
Agility: 8
Marksmanship: 2
Intelligence: 5
Perception: 6
Willpower: 6
Lore/Magic: 3
Luck: 7

Reckless Rain-maker: During weather-related rolls, Cloud Kicker will have a mininmum of 5 for whatever stat is being tested.

Darkshine:

Spoiler: Grey Mane

Name/Nickname: Grey Mane/ The shadowed hoof
Gender: Female
Breed: Unicorn
Special Talent/Cutie Mark: Sneaking in the shadows picking out what she is after/ A shadow of herself.
Personality/Background: She is a vicious Pony only caring for a few. Although if you were chased into banishment from your home you would also be bitter. She is and always has been a collector. She managed to make her own spell, a Camo spell, through extremely bad memories causing her to flow with magic. Her best friend is Perfect Melody and anything bad mentioned about her is the last thing said by one who makes that mistake. She allways carries the essence of hate around her.
Appearance: Black body, small, Grey Mane and tail and red eyes.

Spoiler: Stats

Strength: 3
Agility: 10
Marksmanship: 1
Intelligence: 4
Perception: 7
Willpower: 5
Lore/Magic: 5
Luck: 5

Sticking to the Shadows: When in a dim or dark area, Grey Mane gets +1 luck on detection rolls, and Grey Mane takes one less perception penalty from dim light and absolute dark.

Firebreeze

Spoiler: Firebreeze

Name/Nickname: Firebreeze (Fire)
Gender: male
Breed: Pegasus
Special Talent/Cutie Mark: A fireball
Personality: Very brave and tough. He treats friends with kindness and respect, and treats enemies with sarcasm and rudeness.
Background:
Firebreeze was born to a daredevil Pegasus father and an adventurer earth pony mother. His parents decided to move to Ponyville and calm down their lives a bit when Fire and his twin Ember were born. When in ponyville, Fire's parents opened a sandwich shop, which eventually became rather popular. Fire's father often took some time out of his day in order to teach him the ways of a daredevil. The family eventually moved to canterlot in order to boost business. The change of scenery didn't stop Firebreeze from continuing his daredevil training, which lead to the discovery of his special talent, the ability to manipulate a fire trail when flying. When he was old enough, Fire moved back to Ponyville to join the 'Extreme Weather Team', which was a dream he had since he was a child. His ability to manipulate his fire trail proved to be useful in the fight against extreme weather that arose out of the Everfree Forest, and Fire was eventually promoted to second in command of the team.

Spoiler: Stats

Strength: 8
Agility: 8
Marksmanship: 2
Intelligence: 5
Perception: 3
Willpower: 7
Lore/Magic: 3
Luck: 4

Extreme Weather Containment: Any time Firebreeze comes into contact with "extreme" weather, he gets a +1 bonus to perception and willpower.

Cobrabrony

Spoiler: Fireheart

Name/Nickname: Fireheart (Fire)
Gender: Female
Breed: Pegasus
Special Talent/Cutie Mark: a flame in the shape of a heart shows her ability to control fire with love

Personality/Background: daughter of cobraheart and silver lining she was brought up in cloudsdale living a fairly normal life. She is a kind and loving pony who is always calm and peaceful. Even in war she keeps a calm and fairly cool head. Fire currently works both in the territorial guards like her father but also works in the fire department at the weather factory.

Appearance: crimson pony with blue eyes and a black flowing mane and tail with red highlights.

Spoiler: Stats

Strength: 4
Agility: 6
Marksmanship: 4
Intelligence: 9
Perception 4
Willpower: 5
Lore/magic: 4
Luck: 4

Burning Love: When another pony in the same area as Fireheart that is a player takes damage, Fireheart gains +1 Strength and Agility. This is not cumulative and does not apply if only Fireheart takes damage.

Zephyr

Spoiler: Illudo

Name- Illudo
Race- Earth Pony
Gender- Male
Appearance- Will post the concept art later.

Personality- Complicated. He's rather controlling due to being controlled by his boss and this compensates by being manipulative towards others. If someone is able to elude his grasp he grows gradually paranoid at a fast pace. Otherwise he is a rather apathetic individual who often replies with sarcasm and malice.

Cutie mark- A monocle; represents his keen abilities of observation and deduction.

Spoiler: Stats

Strength: 2
Agility: 6
Marksmanship: 2
Intelligence: 9
Perception: 9
Willpower: 2
Lore/Magic: 2
Luck: 7

Master of Manipulation: Illudo can test Intelligence -1 and Perception -1 and, if he passes, force a re-roll of willpower check on an NPC if they pass and when is not beneficial for them to do so. This automatically occurs when Illudo is attempting to convince, sway, or otherwise manipulate said character. This does not work for combat willpower rolls (i.e., how scared the enemy is).

Snow M

Spoiler: Winter Warmth

Name/Nickname: Winter Warmth
Gender: Male
Breed: Unicorn
Special Talent/Cutie Mark: Controls fire and ice/a frozen fireball
Apperence: Light blue coat, orange eyes, red mane
Personality: Generally nice and relaxed, but is very dangerous when angry
Background: Even he doesn't know where exactly he was born, who his parents where, or even exactly how old he is, all he can remember back to is waking up in a hospital after an apparently very serious incident, and now spends his time doing odd jobs (Usually pyrotechnics and even special missions for the royalty) trying to get enough money to find out about his past.

Spoiler: Stats

Strength: 6
Agility: 7
Marksmanship: 2
Intelligence: 7
Perception: 3
Willpower: 3
Lore/Magic: 9
Luck: 3

Fire and Ice: Winter warmth takes 1 less damage, both mentally and physically, from any fire or cold damage done.

SaulLaski

Spoiler: Hunt Scavage

Name: Hunt Scavage
Gender: Stallion
Breed: Pegasus
Cutie mark/special talent: A wooden rifle. It explains his abilities with rifles and crossbows.
Background: Born in Manehatten, he had played in an ambulent circus with his family since he was a filly. He had went to ponyville in search of himself, a 'quest of self-discovery', as well as attracted by money and fame.

Spoiler: Stats

Strength: 3
Agility: 5
Marksmanship: 9
Intelligence: 4
Perception: 6
Willpower: 7
Lore: 2
Luck: 4

Crack Shot: If a stat is checked (that is not marksmanship) that involves guns, Hunt Scavage gets +1 to that stat check.

Lightning Mustang

Spoiler: Lucky Clover

Name: Lucky Clover
Gender: Stallion
Breed: Earth
Special Talent: Able to find items and artifacts that others consider lucky.
Cutie Mark: Green four leaf clover

Personality: Lucky is a happy-go-lucky (pun intended) pony. He enjoys seeing other ponies, as well as being outdoors. It is difficult to get on his bad side, but for those that do, it can be just as difficult to get an amiable reaction from him. Lucky has a curious streak about him, which lends itself to his special talent.

Background: He never got a chance to really get to know his parents, as they mysteriously vanished when he was a very young foal. The elderly mare that took him in knows what happened, and told him when he was older. According to what he has been told, the area that his parents were raising him had been viciously attacked by creatures from the Everfree. Nopony knows what they wanted, and some of those in the same area simply disappeared. Whether they got out alive or not is a mystery (his parents included), and one that the elderly mare doesn't know the answer to. She found him while traveling through the destroyed and abandoned area, and decided to take him in (thus starting his lucky streak). The mare has been teaching him about the ways of the world, as well as enrolling him in the pony public education system. The one subject that never interested him much was magic and its lore. Growing up, he has mostly just done the odd job here and there... until the elderly mare discovered his penchant for finding lucky items. Since that moment, his main career has been finding various items for other ponies that they have lost.

Appearance: White coat color; midnight blue mane and tail with streaks of green through the center of each; yellow eyes.

Spoiler: Stats

Strength: 4
Agility: 7
Marksmanship: 3
Intelligence: 5
Perception: 5
Willpower: 5
Lore/Magic: 2
Luck: 9

Item Locator: Lucky Clover can test Luck -3 and, if successful, may be alerted of the presence of one item, if there are any, that is important to the story that is nearby.

Nthitho1

Spoiler: Orda Nurzak

Name/Nickname: Orda Nurzak (Ore)
Gender: Stallion
Breed: Unicorn
Special Talent/Cutie Mark: Able to morph and manipulate metal or rock/ A boulder with a iron chain wrapped around it
Personality/Background: He is a some what fun pony but mostly he is an irritated and angry pony he dosen't like to talk that much but sometimes he can be a happy pony only if he finds some kind of large mine filled with ores./ He lived far away from Equestria when he was born but his family decided to move when their land was under complete warfare when in Equestria his Mom and Dad lived in a poor village when Ore had enough bits to move he traveled around Equestria, stopping at towns for only a week.

Appearance:
Coat: Light Brown
Mane and Tail: Light Brown
Eyes: Silver

Spoiler: Stats

Strength: 9
Agility: 4
Marksmanship: 2
Intelligence: 5
Perception: 7
Willpower: 6
Lore/Magic: 5
Luck:2

Earth Magic: When performing stat checks involving Rocks, Earth, or Metal (Not metal objects, just pure metal), Orda Nurzak gets +2 lore.

Derpyderp

Spoiler: Nioxen

Name: Nioxen
Gender M
Breed: unicorn
Special Talent/Cutiemark: A question mark surrounded by smaller ones. talent: Rare magical outbursts.
Personality/Background: A quiet rather clumsy and dumb pony considered by others Stupid or Derpy. After many years of working at the rainbow factory doing jobs such as: Cleaning, Removing bodies, replacing blades and Strapping helpless victims into the harness. One day one of the scientists strapped Nioxen to a chair and injected him with a serum. The results were a lack of intelligence and odd eyes.

Spoiler: Stats

Strength: 6
Agility: 4
Marksmanship: 3
Intelligence: 1
Perception: 2
Willpower: 4
Lore/Magic: 2
Luck: 9

Bumbling Magician: Whenever Nioxen tests Lore/Magic, he tests Lore/Magic +1 beforehand. If he passes the first test, he may instead test luck to determine the results of the test. If not, he rolls and tests Lore/Magic again as normal.

 

I was thinking of (kind of) using the system from Mansions of Madness, which would be D10, but if that's too small a die then of course I could change it.

The smaller die decreases the randomness of the results, but sometimes the randomness is more fun...

And the results of the die rolls would be mostly up to me. Not quite as exact or unbiased as in Eight Star's system, but hey, I said it was simple. xD

 

I have not.

-downloads rulebook-

I shall look at it later.

 

Just skimmed it, looks pretty awesome. Gives me some ideas for possible later RPs, but for now I think I'll try this out. Who knows, it might even work well. ^^

Edit: Looks good, darkshine! Now, to make your special abilities!

 

Goodness, I was gone for two hours...lol well time to get to thinking up a few unique abilities.

Sorry guys, I'll be a little while putting all of your info up on the Original Post. Gimme a bit, kay?

 

Zephyr, Snow, Saul, I'll put your charachters up tomorrow with their hastily thought out ability. xD

I'll also post a few more specifics about the rules. Right now, it's time for bed. :/

 

Ahh! Every time I get done with one, another pops up!

Also, I tried to negotiate with the spoilers, but they refused to cooperate. Sorry to anypony whose spoilered stats are messed up.

 

Okay, here is an overview of how I am thinking the game will work.

You guys will roleplay as usual, and I'll control non-player characters. You can split up at any time, or not at all if you want to. It'll be very open-ended, I won't really force you to do anything (except you do have to go into the everfree forest), but the longer you wait the harder it will probably be to "win".

Here's how the stat checks will work. If you have, for example, an agility stat of 6, then when an enemy attacks you (in a way that would allow you to dodge), then I will roll a 10-sided die. If you roll 6 or less, you pass, and I'll determine what that means (just trust me to be fair, okay? It's not like I'm trying to kill you or anything).

However, say an enemy attacks you with magic. Well, it depends on exactly what kind of spell they use, but it's most likely you will then have to test your lore to defend. You won't ALWAYS test lore if attacked with magic, but you would do well to assume that you will.

The same goes for if you want to do something. If you try to throw a rock to hit a switch, for example, you test marksmanship. If you pass, something "good" (likely hitting the switch, in this case) will happen. If you don't, thenyou probably won't hit the switch. However, keep in mind that the switch might trigger spikes from the ceiling or something, so it might not neccisarily be "good".

Luck is used for things that are out of your control. For example, say you were incredibly stupid and ate an unknown variety of mushroom that grew in the everfree forest. Luck could be used to determine whether it was poisonous, or even how poisonous it was.

Luck can also sometimes decrease negative effects of failing checks, increase positive effects of passing checks, or just get tested when I feel like it and it makes sense, and something good or bad might happen.

Each pony will have 12 physical health, and 12 mental health. As physical health decreases, it might affect your stats negatively in a way that correlates to how you were damaged, and same for losing mental health. If you lose all of your physical health, you die (though perhaps I will let you make a new character and keep playing, not sure yet). If you lose all mental health, then your pony goes insane and becomes an NPC, which may turn out to be better or worse than just plain dying (again, maybe you can start as a different character).

Any questions?