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[razieltwelve]

Apocalypse (RWBY AU Snippet)

Note: This is set in the same AU as Emissary, I Am Become Death, Thunder and Paperwork, and Ice and Fire.

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Ruby breathed a sigh of relief as her father and sister finally woke up, so she could explain to them how the goddess of bureaucracy had brought her back from the dead to help stave off a demonic invasion by increasing faith in the gods and dealing with any demons that might already have snuck into the mortal world. Oh, and the goddess had this awesome raptor as one of her assistants.

“So…” Ruby said as she finished her explanation. “That’s what happened.”

Taiyang stared at his daughter. “Are you serious? We buried you, Ruby.” His voice shook. “You… you were dead.”

“And now I’m not.” Ruby hefted the colossal book that had dropped out of the sky. “Plus, I have awesome powers now except I’m not entirely sure what they are. I haven’t had time to learn yet.”

“Ruby…” Yang pulled her into an embrace. “I’m so glad you’re back even if you’re a zombie.”

“I’m not a zombie, Yang.” Ruby paused. “At least… I don’t think I am. I mean I don’t feel like I have to eat anyone’s brains or anything…” She trailed off as a vast sphere of crimson flame appeared in the sky. The world was suddenly awash in blood-coloured light.

“Uh…” Yang pointed. “I don’t suppose that’s something your goddess did, is it?” She gulped. “Please, tell me it is because I’m really starting to freak out here.”

Ruby cringed. “I… don’t know.” She flipped through the book. There it was! Written on one page was a very simple instruction: tear in case of emergency. But was this really an emergency? She had a feeling that Weiss would be pretty cranky if she tore the page and it wasn’t actually an emergency.

In the sky, the sphere of crimson flame shattered to reveal a vast, gaping hole in reality. For a moment, all was still, and then twisted shapes began to pour out of the hole. Demons, Ruby realised. There were thousands upon thousands of demons pouring out of some kind of portal.

Okay. This was definitely an emergency. She tore the page.

And Fred appeared.

Unlike before, the raptor was no longer wearing gloves and reading glasses. Instead, the dinosaur was covered in gleaming power armour.

“Did you just summon a robot dinosaur?” Yang blurted. “Because that is a seriously cool power to have.” She glanced up. “Maybe you should tell your robot dinosaur to start fighting those… uh… things up there.”

“Silence, human.” Fred’s voice was deep and powerful. He turned to Ruby. “How were you able to bring me here?”

Ruby pointed at the book and the torn page. “With that.”

“I see.” The slits of sapphire light that served as the power armour’s eyes narrowed. “You are fortunate. I come with grim tidings.”

“Uh, dinosaur guy,” Yang said. “I don’t mean to burst your bubble. But the tidings here are already pretty grim. There are demons coming out of the sky.”

“I am aware of that,” Fred replied. “But the news I bring is graver still.” He turned to Ruby. “The Goddess of Bureaucracy has vanished, and someone has sabotaged the defences she was in charge of. The mortal realm is no longer protected from demonic invasion, and the gods have been stranded in the divine realm.”

“Okay…” Taiyang took a deep breath. “That all sounds awful, but what does that mean exactly?”

“You see those things?” Fred pointed at the demons. “Those are demons. WIthout the defences my goddess was in charge of, your world will soon be overrun by billions upon billions of demons. Worse, the other gods cannot come to help you, nor can I call for aid. The only reason I was able to make it here at all was because of the failsafe built into the page you tore. Somehow, it allowed me to bypass whatever is keeping everyone stranded in the divine realm. With a few years of research, I might be able to replicate it, but…”

“We don’t have a few years,” Yang said.

“Exactly, human.” Fred put one armoured claw on Ruby’s shoulder. “Human, your world lies under siege. There are precious few with the strength to defend it, but you are one such person. You must use the powers our goddess gave you to help drive the demons back.”

“I’d love to,” Ruby pointed out. “But… I haven’t even started reading that book you guys sent me.”

Fred stared. “That is a problem.” He growled as some of the demons in the sky began to angle toward them. “But there is no time to learn like the present. Reach deep inside yourself for the power you have been given and unleash it on your foes! I will do my best to hold back our enemies!”

“What about us?” Taiyang asked.

“Do you have arcane powers?” Fred asked. Taiyang and Yang shook their heads. “What about psychic powers?” Again, both of them shook their heads. Fred winced. “I don’t suppose either of you are demigods, spirits, or anything else exotic?” Sadly, both of them again shook their heads. “I see. In that case, I would suggest you each grab a stout stick and whack anything that gets too close. Leave the heavy lifting to me.”

As Ruby closed her eyes and searched for the power within her, Yang and Taiyang each went to grab a stout stick. Fred, meanwhile, turned his gaze to the horde of demons approaching them from the sky.

“Do you remember me?” Fred boomed. “Sixty-five million years ago, your kind overwhelmed this world! I lost countless friends and kin to your dark powers, but I stand here before you now, and I say to you, you may have killed most of the other dinosaurs, but there is one dinosaur yet that still draws breath! And I will have my vengeance!”

Fred’s claws wove through the air in an intricate pattern, and a vast, complex sigil appeared in front of him. There was a flash of light, and the air was suddenly filled with thunder and lightning. Huge bolts of electricity rained down from the sky, striking demon after demon after demon. But Fred wasn’t done yet. His hands continued to move as did his tail, and several even more complex sigils appeared before merging into a single, gigantic sigil in front of him.

The ground in front of the raptor rippled and buckled, collapsing into a sphere of incredibly dense material at the centre of the sigil. Flames whirled into existence, and the sphere grew brighter and brighter. As the demons drew near, Fred drove both claws into the sigil.

There was a great, echoing boom, and the sphere exploded outward. A cone of molten rock shot forward, each fragment heated to thousands of degrees and propelled to speeds far greater than the speed of sound. Everything in front of Fred died, shredded, burned, and exploded by the attack.

“Okay…” Yang gulped. “We’re definitely staying with the dinosaur.”

“Oh, yeah,” Taiyang agreed. “But… there’s still more of those things coming.”

Indeed there were. Fred gave a mocking laugh as thousands more demons poured out of the portal and headed toward them.

“I have studied the bureaucratic arts for sixty-five million years, demons. I have learned how to bend the rules that govern Creation from the very goddess who crafted them in the first place. You will not find me easy prey!”

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Ruby was sorely tempted to open her eyes, but she needed to find the power inside herself. Whatever Fred was doing, it had to be cool. She could hear explosions and screeching, and the stuff he was saying just made him sound like such a badass. As if being a dinosaur didn’t make him cool enough already…

But no. She had to awaken her new power. Her family… and the entire world were counting on her!

Alas, the only thing she’d awakened so far was her hunger. She could really go for some cookies right now. No. Focus. Find her power. Find her power. Find her…

A flash of blood-red cloth.

Eyes like stars.

A scythe as black as the dead of night.

Ruby gasped was that her power? She really hoped it was. It looked awesome. She tried to reach for what she’d seen but it slipped out of her grasp. No! She grit her teeth and tried again. She had to find something - anything - to help the others.

“We are all echoes of something greater!” Fred roared. “Ruby! We are mortals here and now, but there are many worlds! Our goddess knows every loophole, every flaw, every mistake that can be turned to her advantage. You are not a god, but something within you is connected to one. Draw upon that power! You might become only the shadow of a god, but even the shadow of a god is mighty beyond measure!”

“Everything he says sounds so cool,” Yang muttered.

“Yeah,” Taiyang agreed. “Wait! Get ready. There’s more coming this way!”

Ruby’s jaw clenched. A shadow of a god? Yes. She could feel it. She could -

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Countless worlds away, Death paused mid-stride. Her gaze shifted, peeling away the layers of the world she was in to follow the thin tendril of her power that was seeping into the great void between worlds. Interesting…

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Ruby opened her eyes, and silver light poured out of them. The shadows around her formed into a scythe, and she grasped the weapon with utter familiarity despite never having held one before. Images from the lives of countless different Rubys filled her mind, and she found her body moving of its own accord. She couldn’t move like they could, but she wasn’t a complete novice like she should be.

“Fred,” she said. “Let’s go kill some demons.”

The dinosaur laughed and pointed at her with one claw. “Yes… that’s the power our goddess foresaw!” A sigil formed around his claw and then drifted to circle Ruby. “That sigil will give you the power of flight! Let us take the battle to them, human!”

“Yeah!” Ruby cheered. “Uh… but maybe do something about my dad and my sister first.”

“I will send them to your home.” Fred pointed again, and both Taiyang and Yang vanished. “Now, we fight!”

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Yang and her father reappeared on their couch. Zwei trotted up to them and tilted his head to one side.

“Did we just hallucinate Ruby getting god-like powers and going off to fight demons with a talking dinosaur?” Taiyang asked.

Yang hurried to one of the windows. There were people running around screaming everywhere as demons flooded the streets, but up in the skies, she could clearly see Ruby and the dinosaur unleashing pure devastation on as many demons as they could reach. “No. I don’t think we did - gah!”

The wall of the house exploded, and a demon lurched into the living room.

“Get out of here!” Taiyang shouted as he grabbed a baseball bat and slammed the weapon into the demon’s face. It staggered for a moment before tearing the baseball bat in two. “I’ll hold it off!”

“Dad!” Yang cried. “I’m not going to leave you here!”

At their feet Zwei let loose a low growl. And to their amazement, the demon actually retreated. Was… was it scared of Zwei? No. Slowly, Yang turned her head. There was… a thing standing behind them. It was vaguely canine in appearance, but it was as big as a horse and growing quickly. Fire roiled over flesh that was seemingly hewn of obsidian and magma. The creature opened its mouth and roared, and the demon in front of it simply disintegrated. Still growing, the creature rumbled forward, ripping an even bigger hole in the house as it turned its ire on the other demons on the street.

“What… the…?” Yang stared.

At her feet, Zwei let loose a happy bark and ambled over to the giant… thing. It was bigger than a house now, but it turned to Zwei and made a sound that was almost playful. It was then that Yang realised something. It’s eyes… it had the same eyes as Zwei. Sure, they were way bigger, but she’d know those eyes anywhere.

“Are you… another Zwei?” Yang asked.

The massive creature nodded and then rounded on the remaining demons. Another bark obliterated thousands of them in an instant, and the flames rolling over the creature’s body lashed out, slaying even more. It was cleansing flame, Yang realised, because although it incinerated every demon within hundreds of yards, it didn’t harm anything else.

“What is going on?” Taiyang whispered.

“I wish I knew, dad,” Yang said. “I wish I knew.”

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“What’s that?” Ruby asked, pointing. “Is it a meteor or something?”

Death followed Ruby’s gaze and frowned. At this distance, all Ruby could make out was something bright in the sky. Death saw far more clearly. “That is not a meteor.”

“Then what is it?”

Death’s eyes narrowed. Something was hurtling toward the ground. It was wreathed in tendrils of something that was far darker than mere shadow. It was the power of the Void, the emptiness that had come before Creation. The Salem of her world had tried to wield that power, but even she had not been equal to the task. No god was. The Void was its own entity, the antithesis of Creation that hungered only to return all that was to how things had once been: empty, barren, devoid of anything even remotely resembling life. 

One day, Death knew, she would have to confront that power. For on the day that Creation ended and the Cycle of Death and Rebirth was restarted in earnest, the Void would seek to unmake all that was, had been, or could ever be. On that day, Death would have to stand alone, the last of the gods, and if she failed…

Death shook her head. That was a thought for another time. The Void should not be here, not now, not in this world. Something must have learned to harness its power, but that should have been impossible. Then again, moving her to another world without her permission should have been impossible too, yet here she was. Her lips firmed into a thin line. This might tell her more of how she had come to be here.

But first…

Death raised her hand to lash out with her power when there was a burst of blinding radiance so bright that even she could barely stand to look at it. The Void reeled away, the tendrils of darkness beyond darkness shrivelling to reveal a god that did not come from Death’s world.

“Is that… a person?” Ruby murmured.

“No.” Death chuckled. Night had given way to day, and it seemed as though the sun had risen. “That is no person. That is a goddess. If I had to guess… I’d say she was the Goddess of the Day.” The goddess in question noticed them, and the light dimmed as she reined her power in and dove toward them. “Yang,” Death said. “You might want to brace yourself.”

“Huh? Why?”

“You know how I’m a divine version of Ruby,” Death said as Day landed in front of them in all of her splendour. “Well, Day is a divine version of you.”

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Author’s Notes

The plot thickens as more is revealed! Whoever is behind it all has laid siege to one world, unleashing demons upon it while sending Bureaucracy!Weiss to Remnant. Meanwhile, Death’s version of Zwei has also turned up, which should help Fred and Emissary!Ruby even the odds.

Back on Remnant, Death and the rest of the gang have run into another god, Day!Yang. Moreover, Death has finally gotten a glimpse of what they might be up against. After all, if it’s strong enough to give her a challenge, you just know things on Remnant are going to get dicey. Who could be controlling the Void, and what new horror are they going to unleash on Remnant? With several gods around, it’s got to be terrifying.

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[arakhiin]

Skyrim Romance Review

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, took the world by storm in 2011 with its free-roam method, legendary music, and dynamic environment; the game did pretty well despite being released in the same year as Batman: Arkham City, Portal 2, Dark Souls, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution; titles that are critically acclaimed and far superior in graphics, animation, and gameplay compared to the most recent Elder Scroll installment. Less than a couple of months after its release, Bethesda introduced the Creation Kit which allowed players to modify the game to their liking.

The Skyrim community has never been more alive with the accumulation of talented writers, programmers, modders, and designers; banding together to create free AND high quality content that enhances the user experience on the game. SKSE, RaceMenu, SkyUI, patches, and FNIS are essential mods to download as most aesthetic and immersion-enhancing mods support them, some would even require SexLab that can be downloaded from a separate site (Loverslab.com). One of the most downloaded mod of Skyrim is ‘Alternate Start – Live Another Life’ where the long introduction of Skyrim is replaced by the Racemenu, and the player beginning at a locked cell where they have to approach a medium-sized Mara statue to choose their origin story. ENBs may not be the most downloaded mod, but, everyone who has downloaded one can agree that it can improve people’s Skyrim experience, why not many people download ENBs is due to the complexity of having to download a third-party application, and altering the SkyrimPrefs folder, unlike the RealVision ENB where you simply have to download via NMM or Mod Organizer and voila. There are many impressive and large quest mods such as Bruma and Enderal that completely changes Skyrim, and there are the fair-sized quest mods such as Helgen Reborn and it is equally as amazing. The Skyrim modding community is also famous for unique custom-voiced followers, some hot and some that looks badass, most of these follower mods have personal quests that allows the player to better understand the characters like Inigo and Vilja. In 2014, a small team of ambitious Skyrim modders decides to create Skyrim’s largest follower mod focusing on character development and romance.

Despite having a marriage system in Skyrim, the game failed to deliver character and relationship developments between the player and NPC, a point in which the Skyrim Romance team focused on producing for this mod. Skyrim Romance has been founded by Mara (not the Skyrim Goddess Mara though), the newest (and  their biggest) update on the mod was on May 2017 called Skyrim Romance 3.0 where they fully released an upgraded Bishop: new voice actor, outfit; added three major NPCs, post-marriage content, post-Alduin content, animations, and much more! The mod’s target audience is Skyrim’s female community and therefore all 100 newly added NPCs of the mod refers to the Dragonborn as “she” and would cat-call or address your player as a feminine i.e. princess. The mod completes every female fantasy such as: going to a magnificent ball with a handsome knight/(in this case) Paladin who pays for the expensive ballgown of your choice, a handsome and flirty bard that dedicates a song to you during his concert, and a ragged ranger who accompanies you which is the biggest mistake of his life due to the never-ending jealousy, and torment of not being able to bed your sexy ass-that is until after you’ve visited at least three main town and she finally agrees. The mod requires (like many major mods) SKSE, SkyUI, FNIS, Racemenu, SexLab, plus Realistic Ragdolls with Force, XP32 (mainly for physics and skeleton), Shape Atlas for Men/Schlongs of Skyrim, and UNP/CBBE (the last two are mainly for better experience of SexLab).  There are sex options in the mod, however the player can simply turn Bishop down if they do not want to participate. There are always three choices for the player when responding to the characters of Skyrim Romance, this is to allow the player freedom to create the personality of their character and see how Bishop reacts to a sarcastic, nice or flirty Dragonborn.

To begin the mod, the player must meet Bishop outside the Sleeping Giant Inn at Riverwood and accept his request to help him find his companion, Karnwyr, a beautiful brown wolf with custom textures. The player can flirt, ask questions, speak, trade items, and disband with Bishop, however, the player cannot ask him to do something because it is against his nature. To progress the mod, the player must speak to Bishop recurrently and trigger events found in different cities of Skyrim. The player can show interest but not pursue romance of any npc from the mod except for Bishop. Over the course of your journey, Bishop realizes his growing feelings and tries to deny it though eventually he lets his lust for the player trickle out: complimenting her, kissing her, sleeping with her; eventually he admits that he “love[s] you”, and he wants something more than casual sex. On the 3.0 update, Bishop marries the Dragonborn and has a child with her, Bishop is still recruitable but the son, Julian (named after someone dear to him) is not. To prevent incompatibilities and problems in the marriage system, the mod does not replace the player’s current spouse (if they had one) or force the player to kill or divorce their spouse, instead it has a new NPC to wed the two characters in a private wedding ceremony at a chosen custom location completed with a bittersweet atmosphere, and sweet music. Upon having a child, the player can watch Bishop bond with the son through short cutscenes, the player can interact with the kid such as speaking to him, asking him questions, or getting him to go to bed. Outside the mod, Bishop reacts when the player leaves to defeat Alduin, you can find him back at the Sleeping Giant Inn after the quest where he will drunkenly patronize you. The following paragraph will contain spoilers on the mod.

Bishop is a rugged ranger who travels only with his trusty wolf. Not much is known about him except that he is sharp-mouthed, handsome, charismatic, and over-powered with the bow and dagger. Trust comes hard to the ranger considering that he grew up surviving for himself and his siblings with no support from his parents. He stole a dagger-the one he currently uses- when he was a kid, joined banditry, made trouble for a renowned Paladin, and crossed paths with a sadistic band led by Thorne -who you later stumble upon in a dungeon near Falkreath-. Upon marriage, he reveals that his parents cared little for his siblings and him, his father going as far as sleeping with one of his brother’s (Jack) fiancé then murdering the him after he tried to duel the father. Bishop trained so once he was 17 he avenged Jack along with the help of his half-brother, Jules; freeing himself and his nine siblings-who were none too pleased- Jules was the only one that truly followed Bishop away from the nightmare and stayed with him. The two brothers lived a life in poverty, they developed their charisma-which you’ll be able to observe when he barters for a room at whiterun- through days and days of bartering for food and money, used their skills in battle to become mercenaries and eventually banditry. One fateful day, Jules betrayed Bishop and their bandit group for the sake of his own family, unfortunately, it was too late that by the time Bishop realized his brother’s intention…he was gone, killed by the bandits, killed by him. The only memento of Jules that Bishop had was the wolf ring that he made; and when Bishop parted with it to the player, it’s a symbol of a new beginning for him.

There’s more to Bishop than meets the eye, he’s your typical Coodere guy; at first he is cold and distant, later he tries to act cool and rebellious, just to impress you. He does not understand the purpose of helping other people and ticks him off whenever you attempt to do pointless quests such as killing random npcs, or fetching heirlooms, this leads to him trying to seduce you into leaving Skyrim with him just to avoid the War and your fate as Dragonborn. Bishop is not just another Batman, he has his flaws such as being a terrible drunk, openly-jealous, always picks a fight, and has “Florence” for his middle name. To you he can be your knight in shining armour, your guy next door, your best friend, your guardian, he can be the light when you are at your darkest pit of loneliness and depression, he can be who you need him to be. But think what he can be to your child, a loving father who is willing to provide everything for his kid even if he has nothing, he spends his free days at home nurturing your child, he would make sure that he grows up to be modest, strong, smart, generous, and better than himself. That is who Bishop is, because he would never wish upon anyone to experience what he had when he was a kid, a childhood devoid of happiness, and surrounded only by the harsh realities that life would ever offer.

For the last three years, the Skyrim Romance community have grown to thousands of active followers on their website (SkyrimRomance.com) creating amazing stories, beautiful screenshots, and artworks. With Skyrim Romance finally fully released, the following updates related to the mod are simply bug fixes, the team announces a long-time planned mod that centres one of the major NPCs in the Skyrim Romance mod, Cael, a young forsworn man and the chief’s son. The mod, called Forbidden Love, is currently in the works with the team looking for extra helping hands in writing, voice acting, art, animation, video editing, and textures. The SR team aims for the Forbidden Love mod to be “five times larger” than Skyrim Romance, with new enemies, music, locations, armour, and races being announced in the span of 2 weeks. If you prefer the knight, another team has taken upon themselves to join the Skyrim Romance community to work on a Casavir Romance mod which is currently on 50% completion, they are also looking for volunteers for graphics art and voice actors. With Skyrim Romance’s success, the team pushes on with greater motivation and innovation to expand the world of Bishop and Skyrim Romance, there is no doubt that the future of Skyrim Romance will strive.

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[daydream-gaming]

Character Template For Chester White “The Watchman” -Using Flint Dille & John Zuur Platten - The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design  + Concept ART

Name

Chester  White “The Watchman”

Story Purpose

Main Character

Gameplay Purpose

Main character

Persona

He’s lost his family and friends when his village  was destroyed 10 years ago from ancient beast known as “The Watcher”. He’s  spent the last 10 years training and adapting his skills to slay the ancient  beast, he’s learnt numerous skills along the way.

Special  Abilities

Using Fire Essence to create fire balls.

Education/ Intelligence

Was head’s watchmen, and head of the training for  the village’s swordsmanship and hunting survival skills in a forest.  

Family

A young son (age 5 when died) and a Wife (Age 25  when died).

Aspirations

Slaying the beast and restoring his village to make  peace with the past. He also wants to restore life to cities such as Aniopia.

Addictions

To Mushmen caps, these are rare highs you gain from  eating Mushmen’s hats, this will also kill the Mushmen in process, or can be  obtained when they die. The Cap is a drug used among many and is usually used  as a pain killer or anti-depressant. The drug is hard to obtain due to  Mushmen’s lethal attacks and rarity. Mushmen hide in dark locations, normally  near caves or huge shadows. Weakened by light.

Occupation and attitude towards it (good or bad)

Former Watchmen, hunter and trainer, it was his  dream Jobs. Now he is a Beast Hunter.

Objective(s)

Killing The ancient beast and uncovering the truth.

What does this character want?

Redemption for his “sins”. He sees his village  getting destroyed, his family and friends getting killed as his fault this is  why he seeks redemption from his mistakes.

Who or what do they love?

His family, his wife and son.

What are they afraid of?

Failing, not being strong enough to beat the beast.  He is also afraid of moving on with his life, he is afraid of finding a new  settlement and it all happening again. He’s afraid  finding new love, and having his family be  disappointed by him in the afterlife therefore being cast away to the  underworld.

Why are they involved in this situation?

The ancient beast attacked the night Chester was out  on a hunting trip on a nearby mountain by himself. The beast is quite and has  unbelievable power, thus killing the village.

Other  roles and identities?

A good drinking buddy with a light-hearted sense of  humour.

Single adjective to describe this character

Robust.

Skills

Survival skills, his swordsmanship and his use of  Fire Essence.

Reports/ Answers to?

Himself, Sprits of the dead he sometimes sees.

Who reports to this character?

Nothing. Not even monsters dare to talk to him

Trademark Object

He has nothing but the blade that forges he forged  long ago, the blade he forged now forges his way into the future.

Common emotions

Chester fights his past in everyday life and doesn’t  want to move into the future leaving him conflicted between leaving in the  past and wanting to kill the beast.  Chester is a courageous man due to him being  the only one ever in history challenging the beast to a fight.

Chester  is also intelligent, a quick learner that makes him good against new  opponents. Lastly, he is demoralized because he pulls through with his plan  of killing the beast he fears judgement day, the day he dies, when it’s time  to face his sins and atone for what he has done.

Signature  move or Tic

Fire  Essence weaver

Nationality

Ellikian  

Ethnicity

White male

Religion  

Vakian (Va-kian)Vakian is an ancient religion  followed by many, however numbers of worshipers have dropped after “Insight  Day” where a portal was opened to another world (Earth) 2 years ago.  

Favourite Food

Rabbit

How does this character dress? 

Leather armour, likes to wear light clothes, due to  his old age his speed has dwindled therefore wearing light clothes make him  able to move around the way he used to in heavier armour.

Locations where this character is mostly likely to  ‘blend in’

In a village.

Where was the character born?

In the Ellikan continent called Jokoro, country  Herrika. Five thousand miles away from the “Insight” portal.

Where has the character been?

He was originally trained by mountain monks at a  young age but later on left to live in a village and became head trainer due  to his unique style of fighting and impeccable swordsmanship

Where does the  character live?

He is Nomadic as for now.

Where will (did) he or she die? And how?

He will die after defeating the beats.

Objects the character wears on his or her body   

He believes his skin is a temple due to his religion  (Vakian) so therefore has no intentional marks on it. He also doesn’t wear  any Jewellery due it being lost when the village getting destroyed.

Dichotomy of character (inner conflict in the  character)

He doesn’t want to move on, yet he still does, this  creates conflict in his mental mind.

Character reaction to different events in the game  (walk through a few beats)

He is clever but yet still attacks stupid in moments  due to his over confidence, this leads to him getting injured. He also picks  his prey carefully, he waits till the right moment to attack at times.

What would you think if you saw this character on  the street?

I would think the man is part of the old huntsman of  that was founded in Aniopia's temples, which are now ruins.

What was your character doing 3 days before the  start of the narrative?

Preparing for the fight, training and resting up,  collecting resources.

How did your character lose his or her virginity? 

He had sex with his wife and thus had a son.

Morality: Moral choices the character makes in the  game. Does this affect how the player should play him/her?

The  character makes quite moral choices, however also quite bad choices at times,  this is shown on how he approaches the monster. This does not affect the  player so they shouldn’t worry on playing the character differently.

Emotional  Stability

The character sometimes sees “beings” the beings do  no attack, or interact with the player, the player can slay theses “beings”  but nothing happens. The main character also constantly reminds himself of  the past therefore always being upset with himself making him unable in cope  with simple emotions such as joy.

What do they do to comfort themselves?

Eat Mushmen Caps, this helps him calm down due to  the drug being an anti-depressant.

Phobias

Monophobia, fear  of not being accepted into Vahallen (Heaven) due to not being able to safe his family, and the fear of moving on and meeting a new lover.

Vanity

His sword skills and his blade, the way he was able  to survive by himself so long and finally being able to face the monster.  That he has made it so far.

Epitaph: what will go on the characters tomb stone?

Nothing because he wont be getting one as no one  will know that he died.

Age and health

He is 46 years old, his old age slowing him down a  bit, this is also due to all the battle injuries he has acquired over the  years, but otherwise healthy.

Height

5“9

Weight

14  stone

Body Type

Wide shoulders muscles with a heavily trained body  and massive muscles on arms and legs.

Hairline/Colour

long grey hair as it represents the character's  maturity, indifference, immoral personality and his old age.

Eye Colour

He has white eyes due to his heavy intake of Mushmen  Caps, this is a side effect they give out, however do not blind the person in  anyway

Facial  Hair

He has a beard to represent that he hasn’t lived  within a civilization in a long time and not needing to shave. This also  shows of his old age.

Why Did I use this?

I used this character Template because I am familiar with it and the content is easy to lay out with the questions. It goes into detail without making you, it also makes you think about the questions, creating lore easier and making the character seem more alive. I also like how you can skip questions if you do not need them, there is more than necessary questions meaning that I do not need to fill them all out and then later cut them out as I have done. 

This Template also made me think about how I can make the world seem more real, how I can make a magical fantasy world have issues that we have in a modern world into a medieval world. This made me think of drug abuse and alcoholics. I put these problems in with the Mushmen, although they’re dangerous people are still craving the anti depressants they get from them. The main character is using these to stay “Sane” in a way however he won’T be needing them in game, or eating them. 

The template was really useful and I am glad I used it. It really allowed me to progress the world of Ellika and make it seem just ta little more real with more continent and countries, background stories and tales.

Concept Art

This is my concept art for the main character, This is how I would like him to look, rather casual I know and not really a “Warrior Look” but he is in leather armor and I am not that great of a drawer. This is why I made him like this. I used “FireAlpaca” to make this drawing. I have also drawn him in a sketch book to get a different version of him and explore the possibilities of what he could look like. I have drawn him without a berard in this because I wanted to see how he looked without one.

This is my concept of him with an axe and a eye patch, this is more leaning to my final concept that I had of him and made him look a lot more badass, I didnt really like the eye patch so I got rid of it. The necklace was going to be a theme of the game series because in the game “Ellika Flyers” (my previous game) the main character wore a necklace too. However I decided not to have that. I wanted the theme to be “overcoming your fears” this goes into both games and will continue in the games. 

This is the main character’s final concept as you see I have made the pixel art for it, I used a  template character from Heartbeast who has given me it in one of his videos. I like the way the sprite turned out, the process of taking ideas from 2 different concepts really helped me for it allowed me to use more of a variant ideas. I also will try to continue to do this in the future.

Dille, F. (2007). The ultimate guide to video game writing and design. 1st ed. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, pp.128-169. 

  [Beginner Tutorial] Make an RPG in GameMaker [P3] Variables and Character Sprites. (2015). [video] HeartBeast.

Dropbox. (2017). RPG Sprites.zip. [online] Available at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s4gky4st9biym5m/RPG%20Sprites.zip?dl=0 [Accessed 18 Apr. 2017].

[new-atlas]

I give you the fully armoured combat ready Aperture Science Body Armour.  this armour is equipped with the best that Aperture has to offer   state of the art portal technology    wrist mounted turret mini guns    using Apertures famous long fall boots technology in this body armour to protect the armour from being damaged by the test pilot    and sporting a powerful AI to control the parts of the armour that humans are to dumb to use