Well, We Now Have An FFX RP!

About: A Summoner's pilgrimage is undertaken with a group of Guardians to protect him or her. This is the story of one such pilgrimage, or at least that's how it all begins. To try & keep things fair, I'll save my character until I'm fairly certain we aren't going to get any more sign-ups in a timely fashion. That way, I end up with the leftovers, & everyone else (hopefully) gets their first or second pick. As such, this RP will probably wait to start for a few days, to give everyone ample time for creativity, & me time to come up with the best way to start it off.

Map: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071228041946/finalfantasy/images/b/be/Ffxmap.jpg

~Story~

950 years ago, a war raged between the cities of Zanarkand & Bevelle. The circumstances of this conflict are unknown, but in the end, Zanarkand was destroyed when a mysterious giant monster emerged on the scene: Sin. The world of Spira is no stranger to monsters, but Sin was worlds apart from any beast ever seen before. Even if it weren't for the fact that it was the size of a city & its magic could reshape the earth, it could regenerate & create other monsters out of its flesh.

After destroying Zanarkand, it took to the seas, attacking city after city & reducing them to almost nothing. Scholars say that Spira's population was cut in half, maybe more. Eventually, a Summoner from Zanarkand, Yunalesca, set out to destroy the best. She succeeded, but at the cost of her own life. After the battle, her summon went berserk & killed her. Worse yet, a few years hence, Sin made Spira aware of its most terrifying power yet: Ressurrection.

But all was not lost! Lady Yunalesca returned from the afterlife, imparting a new religion onto Spira: Sin was a monster born of the people's sin, most chiefly the usage of Machina (machines). If the world would repent, it would one day disappear. The most crucial of dogmas that she brought to the world was the Summoner's pilgrimage. Summoners would learn how to summon & travel the world, gaining new summons in an effort to prepare for the Final Summon, which they would then use to battle Sin.

Since then, only 3 Summoners have managed to complete this pilgrimage & become known as High Summoners. Gandof, Ohalland, & Lady Yocun have each defeated Sin, each time being killed in the same manner, & each time it manages to come back. It is the 50th anniversary of the day Lady Yocun defeated Sin, & sailors are beginning to report giant fins on the horizon....

~Terms~

The terms aren't really that important to start with & can be picked up fairly easily. FFX happens to have a very convenient excuse for not knowing these kinds of things. Namely, Sin is believed to secrete a toxin that causes temporary memory loss to those in close proximity to it. That said, the more you know at the start, the easier the exposition stage will be.

Yevon-The dominant religion of Spira. Its practitioners are sometimes called "Yevonites." Yevon has temples scattered all throughout the world. These temples offer the traditional religious ceremonies, in addition to housing the Aeons. The temples are presided over by priests & nuns. The church is headquartered in Bevelle, one of Spira's 2 only remaining cities.

Aeons & Fayth-The summoner prays to a statue called the Fayth. The Fayth contains a soul willingly pulled from a living body to become an Aeon. If the Fayth hears the Summoner's prayers & recognizes him or her as worthy, they are granted an Aeon. An Aeon is a sort of holy monster that a Summoner can call to fight for him or her in battle.

Pyreflies, Sendings, the Farplane, & Fiends-Pyreflies are a form of energy that exits a life form after it passes away, resembling luminous trailing orbs. Often, if the soul is not given a sendoff ceremony by a Summoner--referred to as a Sending--they will become resentful, turning into monsters called Fiends, who prey on the living. If they are Sent, they go to the Farplane. There is a physical entrance to the Farplane in Guadosalam, where the dead can be witnessed, but not interacted with. This leads some Al Bhed to theorize that they're just Pyreflies reacting with peoples' memories, not departed souls at all. For what it's worth, Pyreflies are sometimes seen just drifting around in odd places in the normal world.

Unsent-This differs from your typical Fiend, because it will retain its individual form, & sometimes even its mind & what it was capable of in life. They are also usually more dangerous than ordinary Fiends, & can gain power by taking in Pyreflies.

Crusaders-Hundreds of years ago, Lord Mi'ihen created a group called the Crimson Blades, to protect people from Sin & Fiends. The church branded the group as heretical, but Mi'ihen travelled to Bevelle to plead his case. He convinced the Maesters that they were only there to help, & the group was made a branch of the church, being renamed the Crusaders. Today, there are Crusaders in almost every village in Spira.

Maesters-The highest authority in the Yevon church. There is a Maester representing each of the races (save for the Al Bhed & the Hypello), & a Grand Maester presiding over all of them. The current Grand Maester is a young human man named Mika.

Blitzball-Spira's most popular sport. It's played in a spherical, underwater tank. It's a lot like an aquatic version of rugby.

~Races~

Name: Humans
Home: Most areas of Spira
Description: Really? You can't tell?
Notable Characteristics: Not really, no.

Name: Hypello
Home: The Moonflow
Description: A bipedal blue amphibian creature with a slender frame. They tend to be very physically weak & very lazy. Some suggest that, if a Hypello were to seriously apply him or herself, he or she would make a great mage.
Notable Characteristics: Very adept swimmers, but not so great on land.

Name: Al Bhed
Home: The city of Home in Bikanel desert, nomads
Description: The Al Bhed are more like a subset of humanity. Their only real differing feature is swirled pupils & another language. They make up about 10 percent of the population.
Notable Characteristics: Often despised & ostracized for their kind's tendency to use Machina.

Name: Ronso
Home: Mt. Gagazet
Description: Muscular, bipedal, panther-like creatures with horns on their heads--although females tend to be more slender & don't have horns--Ronso guard the snowy Mt. Gagazet & are a proud warrior race. They can fight like man or beast & soak up a lot of damage.
Notable Characteristics: Using the ability Lancet to obtain some of the skills of Fiends.

Name: Guado
Home: Guadosalam
Description: Elf-like humans with long fingers, nails, & limbs. They tend to have rather squashed faces with lines around the eyes & hair straight out of an episode of Dragonball Z. Guado are surprisingly efficient at both magic & physical combat.
Notable Characteristics: Due to their close proximity to the Farplane, Guado sometimes have odd skills, like the ability to identify Unsent or create & control Fiends. The latter is a sin to Yevon, though.

~Classes~

Name: Warrior
Examples of Weapons: Swords, spears
Description: A speedy fighter with some knack for white magic.

Name: Samurai
Examples of Weapons: Large blades
Description: A slow character, but with a lot of strength & defense. This class is designed to get through thick-shelled foes & weaken targets' defenses.

Name: Ranger
Examples of Weapons: Bows, balls, shuriken, guns
Description: A long-range fighter who specializes in attacks inflicting status ailments & hitting evasive aerial foes.

Name: Thief
Examples of Weapons: Fists, daggers, claws
Description: A very fast fighter with little to say for defense or strength, but great skills in theft & alchemy. They can dismantle mechanical foes. They can learn powerful magic eventually.

Name: Black Mage
Examples of Weapons: Knives, rods, enchanted dolls
Description: A class specializing in elemental & offensive magic. Not very good with strength or defense, but incredibly evasive.

Name: White Mage
Examples of Weapons: Staves, books
Description: A class specializing in healing & protective magic. Little to say for strength or defense, but very powerful magic.

**New Class!**
Name: Soulscribe (AKA Blue Mage or Gun Mage)
Weapon: Glyphgun
Description: A Glyphgun is made of natural materials & fires bullets of magic, so it is allowed by the Teachings. Soulscribes cannot learn class abilities in the usual fashion, but learn every ability possessed by a Fiend they kill. Enemy Skills possessed by a Soulscribe are weaker than a Ronso's, but can be used freely.

~Sign-Up~

It's unusual for us, but I want this to be a one-character-per-person thing, at least for now. The goal is to create a single party that functions as one.

Name: First is all that's necessary, although Ronso & Guado use their race as a surname.
Age: I don't think any of the races have drastically different lifespans.
Race: One of the above. The races will have a slight effect on the character, so I would recommend picking a class that complements the natural affinities, if you want to pick anything fancy.
Appearance: What the character looks like. Bear in mind the character's race & class.
Home: Where the character lives. The map's not as good as the one I used to have, but it'll do the job. If you have any specific questions about the locations, you'll have to either search or ask. I found a map with summaries, but it also had spoilers.
Bio: A little about the character's personal history.
Weapon/Class: One of the classes. One person to a class. First come, first served. They may be condensed if we don't have enough members for all of them.
Other: For anything I've missed, really. It is highly advised that you put a LOT of detail in the class section.

Name: Ark
Age: 17
Race: Al-Bhed

Appearance:

Home: Home, Bikanel
Bio: Ark was born in Home, where he lived with his mother till his 15th birthday. After turning 17, he joined the exploration team, exploring ruins and ancient machina in different parts of Spira. He's currently on his first mission with a small group, which is to investigate the ruins at Besaid, which is more of a training than anything. They have been at Besaid for a month, and have a small camp in the woods. Being a lover of Blitzball, Ark gets most of the underwater assignments, and is currently studying what seems to be a large machina with a rusty iron door at the bottom of the lake. He is a cheerful and determined person, but also pretty lazy, tending to sneak over to the beach and play Blitzball when he should be working. He goes by the following motto: Oui lyh'd red sa, ev oui lyh'd lydlr sa, which means You can't hit me, if you can't catch me in Al-Bhed. Oh, he loves climbing. Trees, cliffs, ruins, you name it. He's there.
Weapon/Class: Thief. He carries a dagger he uses to fight with great agility, evasion and accuracy. Being an Al-Bhed, he is also very skilled in item synthesis, making many kinds of bombs, grenades and potions to help his comrades or defeat enemies. He is also great at handling machina.

Name: Hitomi Alla
Age: 18
Race: Human
Appearance:

Spoiler:

Home: Bevelle
Bio: A bookworm from Bevelle who spends more time in the library than she does at home or anywhere else. As a result of her lifeestyle she doesn't doesn't talk much as there's no one else to talk to.
Weapon/Class: White Mage. A big fat book with a blue cover.
Other: No.

Name: Max Oryone
Age: 14
Race: Human.
Appearance:

Spoiler:

Home: Bevelle.
Bio: Max is a young apprentice Black Mage. He was taught mainly lightning and fire magic while he was learning. He used to have a master to teach him magic, but he suddenly died one day of an unknown illness. Ever since then, Max has been scarred for life and gets quite nervous when anything happens too sudden. He grew up his whole life in Bevelle, and has lived on his own most of his life. He's seemingly weak in all areas of physical combat, and he can't stand up for himself at all, but he tends to lose his nervous personality and become surprisingly courageous whenever he or one of his friends is in trouble.
Weapon/Class:
Class: Black Mage
Weapon:

Spoiler:

Max is an inexperienced Black Mage with hidden potential that he doesn't know of. In battle, he uses a small rod/wand weapon with some sort of bird at the top of it. It's small and compact, small enough to fit in his pocket. His master gave it to him before he died.
Other: Nothing.

OOC: If I screw up somewhere let me know, unlike FFIX and FFVII I have very little knowledge of X ><. Also blargh for the name, I spent the better part of 10min coming up with one so if it's cliche I apologize.

Name: Zephyr
Age: 18
Race: Human
Appearance: The guy obviously, no gun and equipped with whatever weapon he currently has.

Spoiler:

The following is tatooed on his back.

Spoiler:

Home: Bevelle
Bio: Zephyr's memory is kinda hazy. He knows his name, knows how to fight, and knows he's from Bevelle, however he recently suffered a massive heat fever that seems to have induced temporary memory loss. He's currently inthe care of some Al-behd at Besaid. They say they picked him up in the desert on the way there. They found him on a giant flat black rock in the desert with a tent and several mangled, lacerated, and dehydrated bodies around him. He was clearly the survivor of some sort of attack. He's learning the language slowly. Luckily the group he's with know how to speak the human tongue roughly so communication, while rocky, isn't impossible.
Weapon/Class: Samurai - His massive sword looks more like a sharpened steel boar oar. The metal has a slight bluish tint to it. Its retanguler except for the very tip which curves inward slightly. There are five holes along the edge ofthe blade. The wholes have a metal ring loped inside them. The metal rings are wrapped in purple, blue, and red cloth. The handle of the blade is slightly longer than required and is wrapped in black cloth to give it a better grip. The cloth thickens near the blade forming into a makeshift guard as the weapon lacks one. As a samurai, and because he wields such a large weapon, he is fairly slow when wielding the weapon. However he has learned to deal with foes that posses greater speed than he by being smart, aka not swinging wildly at them with his large hunk of steel in the hopes of swatting them away. Instead he has learned to use hand to hand to deal with them when they get close combined with minimalizing the amount of openings he leaves in his defensive via use of body posture and stance placing. Typically a sharp elbow to the jaw, clavecal, or a pressure point is enough to deal with the speedier foes. However this is purely used for defending himself and he is in no way skilled at using these tactics as direct offensive measures. As for his skill with his giant "Battle Oar", his time wielding the weapon has allowed him to learn how to best use its size and weight to his advantage. Using fulcrum, velocity, and good old fashioned balance, he can use less energy swinging it by keeping it in constant motion while fighting.
Other: Again, sorry if I messed up somewhere.

I know nothing about Final Fantasy...only played X-2, ya the worst one... But I'll give this a go!

Name: Syrona
Age: 21
Race: Human
Apperance:

Spoiler:

Home: Bevelle
Bio: Syrona is a young marksman that earned a reputation in shooting competitions. At age 18, she became one of the best marksman in Bevelle. While she holds no permanent loyalty, she often freelances her talents to the highest bidder. When her services aren't being used, she remains in Bevelle to enjoy an easy life with the winnings she gets from competitions and occasionally use her skills to help keep peace in the city. She has no family that she can remember. She was raised by the Yevon church to be nun, but after sneaking off one night to see a shooting competition, she ran away to make her life an adventure. However, she is grateful to the church for the time they took care of her and often makes her way their to donate her time and money to their causes. Since her freelance days, her relationship with the church has been rocky, but her regular monetary donations keep it alive. As long as she continues paying, she'll always have a home with them.
Weapon/Class: Ranger, Dual pistols and semi-auto sniper strapped to her back for longer range. She relys on the distance of her weapon and her quick agility to stay alive. If she is ever cornered, or in close combat, she weaves in and out of enemies, pistols blaring, to try and escape. She never gives up with out a fight.
Other: She wears a pendant with a strange design around her neck. Nobody knows what its meaning is, only that it was left at the church with her by her parents.

X-2 is way better than XII.

*Still reading shit.*

So much better.

Okay, now that I've caught up, everyone's good, except Harley needs to go with Warrior or White Mage.

And I'll just pick whatever's left.

I'm waiting to see who you make the summoner for this game if you're going to do this without any characters fromthe actual FFX.

ah well i've never played any others. Just know I wasn't widely fond of X-2 and my FF friends would tell me cuz it was the worst so ya xD

Ya, I'm very interested to see who will be the Summoner! I will pledge my loyalty to them ^^

Most likely, my character will be the summoner. It doesn't really matter, I plan to have everyone control a different summon anyway. I could just pick anyone in the Sign-Ups to do it.

I was going to say Thiera but... I had a feeling you were going to subvert your use of her for this game.

If I end up as a White Mage, there is a good chance that it'll be Thiera. But inventing someone more sociable might be a good move.

There's always Binah >.> though she can be scary.

What are you talking about? There's nothing scary about electroshock torture.

And with that, Neo has outpaced Harkey as the forum's offical degenerate.

What's this shit about me being worse than Harley now?

Sexual, sexual degenerate.

I didn't say anything sexual....

Neo Bahamut wrote:

What are you talking about? There's nothing scary about electroshock torture.

That sounded sexual for some reason.

Because you're fucked up?

well beyond that, lets get back on track.

Harley, change your char to warrior or white mage or Neo will do... something... unspeakable.

That leaves you with Warrior Neo.

Name: Luna Guado.
Age: 18
Race: Guado
Appearance: Her eyes, & the lines around them (which form a vague, vein-like frame on her face), are blue. Her hair is brown. Like is common for the Guado, it tends to twist around into branch-like structures in the back. The two form about a 35 degree angle down her back, to a little above her shoulders. A few of her bangs hang over her face. She wears chainmail with blue plate armor.
Home: Guadosalam
Bio: A congenital defect left her with stout fingers, which would actually be slightly long for humans. She retains her claw-like fingernails, but because of this, she was ostracized by many of her fellow Guado. She found solace in Yevon, a religion that the Guado had just recently accepted, & moved to Djose when she was 15, to serve as a nun. Unfortunately, she was never very good at white magic, and not as learned as older priests, she eventually found her prospects there dwindling as well. When she first encountered a Summoner on her pilgrimage, she decided to become one herself, even though non-human Summoners are almost unheard of. For that, she would have to go to Besaid. After a long trip with religious groups, merchants, musicians, Crusaders, & more, she finally ended up on the island. Now she just needs to find the village.
Weapon/Class: As a warrior, she specializes in hitting fast enemies. She uses a blue spear with a curved head to extend her reach & make up for her lack of claws.
Other: Actually, it’s the inverse of what the bio & class fields say: I made her fingers short to justify the usage of a spear.

I know it does. That's why I hate Harley. But this actually turned out okay, in my opinion.

Worst. Title. Ever.