[OOC Board] - All the World's a Game - Season II

Name: Chaos_Grand

Timezone: EST (Florida)

NPC Character of Choice: Richter Belmont

Game of Origin: Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (the first game he appeared in.)

Power: Richter is a powerful member of the Belmont Clan. A clan of famous vampire hunters. Richter is said to be one of the most, if not most powerful Belmont there was (and currently is.) This is shown with his sheer will power, strength, skill, and sense of justice. He was also capable of performing very powerful magical attacks called "Item Crash" where if he has a sub-weapon (Cross, dagger, Holy Water, Axe, and Magical Book sub-weapons) he can perform a very powerful attack depending on the sub weapon. Like say if he has the Cross sub-weapon and uses enough magic he can summon a holy tornado of large Grand Crosses which will tear apart any demons within range. Will go more in depth as the RP goes on.

Weapons:

The powerful Vampire Killer whip. The Vampire Killer is a chain whip with a small mace ball tip (really small, about the size of a golf ball.) The length is normally about 1 to 1 ½ length of a man's height (5-7 feet long).

The Vampire Killer is a really powerful whip imbued with alchemy, that is incredibly powerful against vampires. The whip not only does serious damage to vampires, but to any demon. Even the Grim Reaper, Death himself, is damaged by the whip. As Leon says at the end of Lament of Innocence - "I have the power to destroy all related to the vampires. Though you (Death) have divine powers, you are no exception." This signifies that the Vampire Killer whip could damage most fallen angels that took tangible form in the physical world.

However despite it's power, it was revealed in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, it is revealed that use of the whip by a person who is not a direct descendant of the Belmont clan is potentially deadly, and that it was indeed the Vampire Killer that killed John Morris, whose life was drained away by the legendary weapon. However, before it can reach this level of power, the specific indirect descendant (or anyone else that's not a Belmont) who wants to use the Vampire Killer must undergo a trial to unlock its true strength. Otherwise, the whip will not manifest its legendary power, and seem for all intents and purposes to be a fairly ordinary. So despite it's power, only a Belmont can fully use it. Anyone else that wishes to use it must go through a trial. Even then anyone who does manage to use the whip at it's fullest risks cutting their life span quite short.

Also it's not that effective against Holy beings (like angels and stuff), or those pure of heart.

I'm also giving him the Cross Sub-Weapon which is a holy magic imbued cross that acts like a boomerang. Useful against demons and stuff.

Weaknesses: Richter despite being powerful, is still relatively human. He can be killed like most other humans, but is incredibly tough due to his training and experience fighting Dracula. As such he is vulnerable to many things ranging from gunshots, to poisons. Anything that can kill any other human, can kill Richter.

Appearance: Richter holding the Cross, and Vampire Killer.

Personality: He has a strong sense of justice and unwavering will as he is known to fight even when things are looking bleak. He always stands tall against evil, never backing down, and will always try his best to take out Dracula and his evil forces (or anything else that is nessecerily evil.) He can also be a little hot-headed and can occasionally get cocky, and is prone to anger which when angered he can lose sight of what's right. Yet despite all of that he is a very skilled vampire hunter capable of taking on Dracula (at full power) head on which only a few Belmonts, and Alucard are capable of doing.

Morality: I'd say a Lawful Good.

Biography: Richter Belmont is a descendant of Simon Belmont, a renowned vampire hunter. Every generation of the Belmont clan has produced tougher, more dedicated vampire hunters — yet Richter stood above all others.

He had fought against Dracula, and his unholy army several countless times. With each time Richter pushing Dracula to the brink of defeat. However he was not fully able to defeat Dracula for good. Countless times Dracula had been resurrected Dracula.

In Rondo of Blood Dracula was resurrected by evil humans, who sacrificed a young virgin female's blood and life, commanded his forces to kidnap Richter's girlfriend, Annette and villagers, Maria Renard, Tera, and Iris. Richter, obligated to battle the dark lord in every incarnation, single-handedly slayed the Count's massive army, including Shaft, and arrived in time to save the women — proving to himself that he was worthy of his vampire-hunting destiny.

During the events of Symphony of the Night it was revealed the after defeating Dracula (in Castlevania: Dracula X I believe), Dracula's minion Shaft had put Richter under a spell in an attempt to resurrect Dracula once more.
Richter betrayed his people at that time and resurrected Dracula stating: "Count Dracula rises but once every century and my role is over. If I can resurrect him, then the battle will last for eternity!" Alucard then arose from his slumber, braved the evil castle, and with Maria's help freed Richter from his delusion.

Afterwards Alucard had parted ways with Maria and Richter.

In Akumajo Dracula X: Tsuioku no Yasoukyoku Richter sent a letter to Maria, warning her about vampire attacks in the village that she and Alucard were staying in, he also tells her to be wary of the vampire.

It wasn't long before Richter tracks down the vampire attacks. There, he encounters Cyril and Alexis, the self-proclaimed vampire hunters. He rescues the two from a skeleton, making himself known.

Later on, Richter rescues Maria, who was hurt by the potion that Cyril made. He brings her back to Alucard, there he tells him that the ones closest to him will be sacrificed once he gives in to his vampiric urges. He advises Alucard to tell Maria why he is letting her stay with him.

On his journey to find the vampire responsible for the attacks, he meets Cyril again. He tells Richter that Alexis had been kidnapped by a black-winged demon. Richter immediately knew it was Magnus and sets out with Cyril to rescue Alexis.

Richter and Cyril finally meet up with Alucard for the final battle against Magnus, where they had successfully defeated Magnus.


After that Richter had passed the Vampire Killer to the Lecarde Family, stating that until the new century arrives (1999) and Dracula rises once more that no Belmont shall touch the whip. During that time the Lecarde Family then passed the Whip over to the Morris family until 1999 when Julius Belmont came to stop Dracula, the Morris family politely handed the Vampire Killer back to the Belmont clan. During the time that no Belmont was allowed to touch the whip Richter was known as "The Last Belmont" since he was the last one to use the whip. As such the whip contained a memory of Richter which had to be fought as part of the ritual to bring the whip to it's full power.

Traumas: I'm not sure of any, aside from possibly being scarred mentally after being brainwashed by Shaft in Symphony of the Night to resurrect Dracula. The dreaded enemy of the entire Belmont clan.


His theme:


Also I don't know where I should start Richter at all. I heard that I could have had it to where Richter could have been brought into the real world three years ago RP wise when the Horizon Incident or something happened... but I don't know where or how I should start him.
Notes:

@Chaos

Looks pretty good. Just going to point out that there is a few places where the sentence just feels like it ends a little bit to early. Item crash is the most noticiable of them.

...magical attacks called "Item Crash" where if he has a sub-weapon... (if he have a sub-weapon what?)

Other than that. You don't have to say it, but could you elaborate a little with his personality. How is he like as a normal person. Another thing you could provide is if he is chaotic good, neutral good or lawful good.

A vampire hunter? Well, it appears that there might be a story arc involving Flandre and Richter in the future.
As for his starting location, you could ask someone about having Richter start near their characters.

@Katrix

Oh... damn >->

Well I should edit in that the Item Crash is basically an incredibly powerful attack that say with the Cross sub-weapon if Richter uses enough magic he will summon a cyclone of large magical crosses that will tear apart enemies. Basically it's a super move. I need to edit that in when I get time >->


@TRXD

It would be interesting to see the cute little vampire and Richter interact in the future. I'll also be sure to do that.

@Chaos

Alright looks good. Now let's just wait for cucoo to get here so he can add it to the archives. I have another app he needs to add too anyway.

@TRXD

Here is a video of Xigbar. The attack he is currently using is at 1:35

Name: Zarem

Timezone: +1 GMT

NPC Character of Choice: Doomguy

Game of Origin: DooM

Power: No overnatural abilities.

Weapons: Mostly just a pistol and a spiked knuckleduster

Weaknesses: He's not an extraordinary person. He's just a normal person.

Appearance:

Personality: As he is in the game you don't really see any personality or emotion from him. But he sets out to fight the hordes of hell by himself so I would assume he is somewhere near the classic hero just with a gun instead of a sword and shiny armor.

Morality: Neutral Good

Biography: From DooM:
The Doomguy, "one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action", has been incarcerated on Mars after assaulting a senior officer when ordered to fire upon civilians. There, he works alongside the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), a multi-planetary conglomerate and military contractor performing secret experiments on interdimensional travel. Recently, the teleportation has shown signs of anomalies and instability, but the research continues nonetheless.

Suddenly, something goes wrong and creatures from hell swarm out of the teleportation gates on Deimos and Phobos. A defensive response from base security fails to halt the invasion, and the bases are quickly overrun by monsters; all personnel are killed or turned into zombies

A military detachment from Mars travels to Phobos to investigate the incident. The Doomguy is tasked with securing the perimeter, as the assault team and their heavy weapons are brought inside. Radio contact soon ceases and the Doomguy realizes that he is the only survivor. Being unable to pilot the shuttle off of Phobos by himself, the only way to escape is to go inside and fight through the complexes of the moon base.

From DooM II
The Doomguy, who, after being stranded on Phobos and subsequently fighting his way out of Deimos and Hell itself, returns home to Earth — only to find that it too has fallen victim to the hellish invasion.

With all the major cities in the world in ruins, the remaining leaders plan to use spacecraft to transport the survivors of Earth's population. However, the starport is the only way for the ships to depart and the demons have protected it with a force field. All of humanity's remaining soldiers make a desperate assault on the starport, but eventually they are decimated and only the Doomguy remains.

The Doomguy manages to enter the infested starport, slay all the demons in his way and is able to shut down the force field. Humanity is able to escape, and he sits quietly waiting for death, knowing he saved his species.

Then, the remaining humans have discovered the source of the hellish invasion: the Doomguy's own hometown. He gets back into the fight and exterminates the hellspawn from the town, and finds another entryway into hell.

To close the portal, he must enter hell again to stop the invasion. After journeying through its twisted surface, the Doomguy manages to confront the Icon of Sin, a gigantic demon, and kills it. Its gruesome death causes devastation on Hell, and the portal to Earth has been sealed.

Traumas: I don't think he got any. He has faced several hell legions and survived.

Notes: Pfft, I tried to get the text screens from Doom and Doom 2 in here but it always showed up in "too small to read" size so screw that. If you get too curious there should probably be some gameplay on yourtube where the texts appears (I cba to look for them after having struggled with these text screens for almost 2½ hours now).
I'm mostly around the evenings of my time except for weekends where I'll be around most of the day.
What else can I put in here..? Oh yeah, I like cake. I've no idea how that is relevant for this application but now you know.

@Zarem

Looks good to me. This makes three apps cucoo have to put into the archives. I do understand that you don't have too much information as it's a very old game. Just a question. Are you sure that he doesn't have any traumas? What he have been going trough do sound like traumatic things. Seeing a ggod amount of humanity being killed and all that.

@Katrix

Nah, I said I don't think he got any. But since the game let's the character be as close to be the player itself as possible I guess it really has to depend on thoughts. The ending text in doom II is probably the only time we get into his mind where it says "You wonder where bad folks will go when they die, now." And then there's "one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action".
You might be right that going through that might leave something to a normal person, and he is certainly not that special, just highly skilled. (Or lucky)
Maybe I'll include it as it goes on in the story, but for now I still don't think it would have had that much of a traumatic effect on him

@ Katrix

Aye, I'll get to that after my only class today.
Just prep the links to the posts themselves (click the number of the post then copy the resulting URL...this is more for those that don't know how to do it.)
(primarily the third one ye mentioned cause I see the two here...)

@ Kristia

I think ye have name confusions

if it's the man of the ranch, it's Talon

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otherwise the "sir" in the first line needs to be changed so it would work for Malon

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