Memories of a Shinigami (Invite Only): OOC

[Oathkeeper13]

Im glad were still here. I havn't heard from anyone so I was kind of getting worried. But looks like were still here, most of us.

[Evangel]

Well, I planned to get a post in today, but as long as I'm the last person to have posted, I doubt that'll be happening. I'm not trying to force anyone into a post, but I'm just saying....

[~WP-Night]

*sigh* I'm still here, I'm just waiting for the tests to end. Once everything is completed then I will be frequently posting, I'm still very much interested in the Rp.

Also, Xeim, would i be required to have my first post as everyone else? That is the bus trip, Ichigo soul burial etc Just wanted to know so I can begin it earlier. If I dont need to, then my first post will be the Exorcist.

-WP

[Andromeda]

I'm here as well, but I can't do too much for now. I probably could make some smaller post if you need to post again. Though I'm currently writing for another RP, so it would have to wait until then. But I could probably do something to allow others post again.

I'm pretty sure that Xeim will just have you in the Soul Society Waterprince. That is what she did with the other one. But that will be up to her to decide in the end.

[Xeim]

Alright, I've made my post. Evan, I hope I've portrayed Mugen alright. I haven't quite gotten a feel for his character, but I've set us up for further interactions, so I hope I'll get better as I go. >_>

Anywho...that wraps up test day for me. I know I ended with a flashback, but I don't plan on going any further. So, Oath and evan, we just need you to finish, and Toph to start (And finish)....right? Correct me if I'm wrong. As soon as we're about down to just one person, I'll be posting all the information for what's going on next.

Sound good? Ok. xD

Hurry, hurry! This has gone on long enough! ^^;;

And waterprince, yeah. You just start in soul society. A post on your death at fuji would seem out of place at this point.

[FF Ace Cid]

I'm still here, I haven't made my post, obviously. Should I bother with a flashback to Fuji, or just start in Soul Society as well?

[Andromeda]

As she just told Waterprince doing a death scene would be unnecessary. You'll just be doing the same thing the others are doing. I would imagine that will be going for everyone that is joining us in the second test/year.

So has become of Haruka's friend? Is Lady Rika no longer going to be posting in the RP? Or is there still the chance that she will be returning later? I know it has been up in the air since she disappeared making it sound like she might be returning. However, it has been a long time already and no word from her.

And I think Shadow is through the first test, I think. I know he was writing the swordsmanship the last time I was talking to him. I don't know if he had finished it for all of his characters or not yet. But I'm figuring he still has a lot more to write.

[~WP-Night]

Yay! Thankees Xeim and Andromeda! *glomps* ^^ I'll get started right away! And sure sure, Soul Society it is. Should I post with my character(s) getting introduced to the Academy first? Or like just some random filler? Or both? Honestly, I'm glad to do anything. ^^ Yay I'm all excited now! ^^ *skips away*
-WP

[Evangel]

Well, I'm back from vacation. I don't believe that I made the announcement that I would be gone for the weekend. Anywho... I just posted in repliance to Xeim. I hope I got everything right, I'm still a bit tired and probably made a mistake here or there.

[Andromeda]

Well seeing as Xeim is going to be having the next entrance exam in the following year. You probably will just want to do something with your character in the Soul Society. Then when the new year starts up in a month or two hopefully, you'll just do the academy thing then. That would be my guess. Xeim is the final call.

[Xeim]

All of this stuff is going to be explained in the info I put up, just to let you guys know. But I might as well answer this question. >_> WP, you'll go straight to the Academy for a week of basic training. After that, you'll join up with the rest of the students in normal classes. Anyone who misses this basic training, however, will probably have to wait until the next year.


Ok, so, we need:

Oath to finish
Toph to start (I know he's been writing, but he hasn't posted anything yet)

And I think that's all? Hurry guys, post post post! We need to move on before everyone loses interest again! >_>

[Sinister]

Well...somebody drop the cue when I should start writing my intro into the Seretei. I need to get the timing right and I have little or no grasp on how long the above will take...so Xeim or somebody give the word to start writing.

-Sin

[Xeim]

Are you tired of waiting? I'm tired of waiting. And I haven't been waiting half as long as some of you.

Therefore, I am going to post up the info on what happens next. This opens the OOC up to discussion, and I'll take questions, comments, and suggestions. This includes yelling at me if I put you in the wrong class. ^^;

You may now begin writing your next posts, however, you are not allowed to post them until Toph and Oath have finished test day.

I also need to include the same old thing you've heard a million times already: I'm very busy right now. I'm sure some of you have noticed the drastic fall in my activity. It's the end of the year, which means teachers start speeding through their lessons so that they can get everything in that they need to. It also means we have bucketloads of tests. Therefore, I can't make any promises about when I can come on. I often lurk the forums, and if I happen to see something that needs my attention in this thread, I'll try my hardest to log in. Promise. =P

The following information will also be added to the (recently updated!) first post. Please check there for easy reference. =P I will also try to update it with any changes that are made.

Information on Normal Classes

Class Roster:

Swordsmanship

Class A-Mai, Mugen, Haruka
Class B- Tamashi, Kgashi
Class C- Shino

Nature of Zanpukto

Class A- Tamashi
Class B- Mai, Haruka
Class C- Shino, Kagashi, Mugen

Shunpo

Class A- Shino, Haruka
Class B- Mai, Kagashi
Class C- Tamashi, Mugen

History of Soul Society

Class A- None
Class B- Tamashi, Mai, Mugen
Class C- Shino, Kagashi, Haruka

Hand to Hand

Class A- Shino
Class B- Mugen, Haruka
Class C- Mai, Kagashi, Tamashi

Kidou

Class A- Tamashi, Mai
Class B- Mugen
Class C- Shino, Kagashi, Haruka

Schedule:

Breakfast/ Morning Break- 8:00-8:25 AM
Hand to Hand- 8:30- 10:30 AM
Nature of Zanpukto- 10:35 AM -12:35 PM
Shunpo- 12:40- 2:40 PM
Lunch/Afternoon Break- 2:45- 1:10 PM
Kidou- 1:15- 3:15 PM
Swordsmanship- 3:20- 5:20 PM
History of Soul Society- 5:25- 7:25 PM
Dinner/Evening Break- 7:25- 8:25 PM
Leisure Time- 8:25-9:30 PM
Suggested Curfew: 10:00 PM

The schedule is relatively simple. We all have the same classes at the same time. However, depending on your class rank, you’ll be in different rooms with different teachers. So, just because we’ll all be in a hand-to-hand class at 8:30, doesn’t mean it’ll be the same one. Class A students are all in one room, Class B students are in another room, and class C students in yet another one.

The normal classes are going to be a lot like basic training, only more complex. Teachers do reserve the right to assign you homework to be done during your “Leisure Time.” But they don’t do so often. We’ll go at this for two weeks this time, before time jumping again. Use the time to get a better hold on the Academy, and explore more. It’s also going to be useful for getting a feel for where you want your character to go, now that we’re in tiered classes.

We’ll only show four days of classes, but you should talk about a few things that happened on the other days. Perhaps mention a test, or have a test in a class on one of those days. But Rpers remember, if someone in your class writes in a test for that class, you need to make sure you take the test too.

I expect you to write for your classes so that your character knows what level of class he/she’s in. If they’re in a level C class, they better darn well know so. No fancy kidou moves if you suck at it. xD

The structure of this is as follows: 1 day and then a time jump to the end of the week. We can discuss writing for the weekend and whether we want weekends to have classes or not.

Then, we do a day of the next week, and time jump to the end of the week again. In the second week, the people who joined the RP late will be with us as well. From there, we’ll jump to the end of our first year.

Information of Basic Training/ Information for New Recruits

For those of you joining late, you have to undergo a week’s worth of “Basic Training” before joining regular classes. You’ll start your post by arriving at the academy. If you want a short scene in Rukongai, go ahead, but make sure you get to the academy by the end of your post. From there, you are assigned a room, and spend the rest of the day getting used to the academy. The next day, you’re thrust into your training.

Swordsmanship
Food/break
Kidou
Food/break
Shunpo
Food/Break
Sleep

That’s your schedule. I don’t think we ever worked out set lengths or anything, so if you want to go into more detail feel free. At the end of the day, you time jump to the end of the week. Rping each day of the week would just take too long.

At the end of the week, you face a test day. You have five tests with a break in between each. Whether or not you make anything of the break is up to you. Your tests are as follows.

Swordsmanship
Kidou
Shunpo
Written Test
Hand to Hand

Shinigami Academy BASIC TRAINING Test Data:

Swordsmanship

Demonstrate your knowledge of the sword. Basic stances, thrusts, slashes, and slices will be preformed for this test. Do not perform combos, aerial assaults, or advanced swordplay. This tests the basics. It shows your knowledge of the basic information regarding swordplay. If you know nothing, look swordplay up (OMG writers actually research) or ask an RP member who seems to. I don’t want these tests to be as hard as a real one. Obviously, you’ve already decided what’s going to happen with your characters.

If you major or minor in this subject, your character will rank into an A or B level class.

If swordsmanship was not one of your choices, where you are placed is up to you.

Kidou

Basic spell casting. You will be casting the spells on a medium ranked shinigami. How he/she is described is up to you guys. Add onto what the first person says about them. Mold the character your own way. You may also choose to have the shinigami tire from being under all the spells and bring in a new one. Spells you must perform are as follows:

-binding spell #1 restrain

-destructive spell #4 White Lightning

If you major or minor in this subject, your character will rank into an A or B class level.

If Kidou was not one of your choices, where you are placed is up to you.

Shunpo

If you guys were to go overboard with a test, this would be the one. Your character will NOT be doing all out shunpo. You’ll be doing two successive jumps, one right after the other. You will be graded on the overall length that you jumped, as well as how far you got with each jump. To measure, you’ll carry a small stick. As soon as you feel your feet hit the ground, drop it and then jump again.

Single jump

12.1 feet to 13.5 feet for class A
8-12 feet for class B
2-7.9 feet for class C
below 2 is a fail

Notice I said to 13.5 for class A. I don’t want ANYONE going over that number.

If you major or minor in this subject, your character will rank into an A or B class level.

If shunpo was not one of your choices, where you are placed is up to you.

Written Test

Ah yes! Everyone’s favorite! The written portion. We did not study any of the material on the test, so how you perform is based on the knowledge your character has of Soul Society prior to entering the academy. I don’t want anything huge on this test. Just basic questions that people have probably heard about through gossip or news.

Big topics to be discussed here:

-arrancar (nothing detailed like “What espada number was Ulquiorra”)

-current captains

-zanpukto

-duties of shinigami

I’ll give 5 sample questions. The test will be closer to 50, but I don’t expect you to list them all. Simply use these five, or make up some of your own. You will not do well on this portion unless you are a gossip queen/king. I don’t expect a lot of A classes, or even B’s. Most of us will probably end up in a C class on these subjects. However, where you want to be placed is up to you. Though, make the decision based on your character’s personality. This test affects where you rank in the History of Soul Society and Nature of Zanpuktou classes.

Sample Questions:

1)Who is the current Captain of division ten? HINT: He is the youngest captain

2)Who led the arrancar on the attack on the king of Soul Society? HINT: He is a former shinigami captain

3)True or false. Zanpukto are the physical manifestation of the shinigami’s memory. (the answer is false before you become confused. Though, this part of the question wouldn’t be on the test…)

4)What kind of souls to shinigami perform konso on? (good/bad; pluses/hollows)

5)What is the reason you are in the academy? (What job are you trying to acquire?)

30-50/50 for Class A.
20-29/50 for Class B
2-19/50 for Class C
below 2 is a fail

-The scores you don't really even need to talk about. But, if you like being detailed....go ahead and thrown them in there somewhere. Just make it's...in an appropriate spot (you can't know how you did 2 seconds after the test).


Hand-to-Hand Combat

Ok, we didn’t have a class for this. So, we’re saying that hand to hand was originally part of swordsmanship. Basic punches, kicks, and blocks will be demonstrated. You will be practicing against another shinigami, once again. And, once again, I don’t expect anything fancy.

If you major or minor in this subject, your character will rank into an A or B class level.

If hand-to-hand combat was not one of your choices, where you are placed is up to you.

By test day, you need to PM, email, or give me through MSN/AIM the level of classes you wish to take. I said in the “Info on Normal Classes” that we’d have two weeks of normal classes. You guys will only have one, as you’ll be in basic training during the first week.

Also, if you want your character to start out in a C class for their major or minor, that’s ok. Just make sure you include within your PM that you know what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. xD You don’t need to supply me with any details; I just don’t want you putting your character into the C level class for their major by accident and then going- “Oh crap, I can’t believe I did that!” afterwards.

One last thing before I leave you to your posts: If you don’t join up now, you’ll have to wait until we’ve taken our end of year test (details later). And, when you do end up joining, you’ll be joining basic training and then as a first year. That puts you behind everyone else some. I’m being flexible this time since I don’t see how joining a week late would be TOO big of a deal. But if I go to two weeks, then three, things will get out of hand.

Point: Make sure you join now. ^^; Joining later is perfectly fine, but it will become a little more complicated.

[Sinister]

Since my character is officially dead on paper, I'm wondering if it's okay if he registers under an assumed name? (just the registry, he'd be recognized by all of you, seeing you were his classmates for a time)

And while we are under the subject, I made a clever joke and no one got it Then again, it prolly wasn't THAT clever. But still...><

The nickname that my character's adopted sister calls him by: "Kuishi-chan" Haku Ishikawa. "Kuishi" is how the Japanese pronounce the English name: "Quincy" Just fyi, factoid. Also something of a...nah...

Anyway, the registry alias will be: Kuishi Sato. Sato Kuishi if you use the Japanese name system(placing the surname first).

Pending approval, of course.

-Sin

[Xeim]

I have no problem with that. It might prove to create some drama for your character later, though, after he's joined the Protection Squads. But as long as you're willing to deal with situations that might arise from it realistically, I think it's fine. Go right ahead. ^^

[Oathkeeper13]

Im alomost done with all my tests. At the latest I should post this weekend. But im goanna shoot for Friday.

[Xeim]

It's good to hear from you Oath. ^^ I look forward to your post. So, it seems as if we should be able to move on early next month! =P

I'll try to start my next post soon, so that we can move on as quickly as possible after Oath and Toph post. That's about all I can say at the moment, but know I'll be working on it!

[Sinister]

*kicksthread* C'mon people. POST

Just two more posts. TWO. We've come this far. This is fun as hell, no need to stop now.


None of us are even Shinigami yet. I must become a Shinigami before this thing is done, dammit! POST, YE VILLAINS!!!

*This is an apology that indemnifies this particular poster from litigation resulting for any offense taken by the above words. I am sorry if I've offended anyone

-Sin

[Victoria]

I think we all want to be Shinigami to be honest.
Sometimes I even think this whole school crap is a waste of time and work. I ask myself "Why cant' we just skip to being shinigami? I'm sure that's what everyone wants."

Sometimes I even wonder if the whole school thing is the reason why the RP is so slow.

[Xeim]

The reason the RP is slow is because no one's posting. If people had problems with the RP, they shouldn't have joined. It's that simple. The school arc wasn't supposed to take very long. However, people decided not to post very often. There's nothing we can do about people having lives.

There's no reason to complain. It's not going to change anything. ^^;;

Now, I agree with Sin, obviously. Oath and Toph, you both need to post. I'll be starting my next post soon, and once I finish we'll be moving on. Even if we have to move on without the two of you. You'll just have more to catch up on. I've made everyone wait long enough.

I know you all want to be Shinigami. But I want to see us through the academy. I'm probably going to scratch out the whole end of year test thing. After these weeks, we're jumping ahead to get our zanpuktous. After that, we're jumping ahead to graduation. If people post, it won't take more than a few months. If people post avidly, it won't even take that long. But we'll have to see.

--

Though, how many people here can honestly say they can post more often? I'd like to start moving at a quicker rate, if everyone thinks they can keep up. This includes the people waiting to join- Fishie, FFcid, Sin, Yuuki, WP, and anyone else I'm missing. I have a list of you somewhere. =/;;

[Andromeda]

So if you are going to do a couple weeks and then skip ahead to the Zanpukto how does that affect me with Steph? Would I just jump ahead with you to the Zanpukto and ignore the need for him to retest?

But I'm pretty sure I've been fairly on top of posting. I might not always post the same day or day after, but pretty close. I should be able to keep up roughly if you speed things up. I have a lot of things in mind for Steph, so it should not be too difficult to find things for me to post.

[Oathkeeper13]

Im really sorry guys, this next post im working one is goanan go through all my tests. I know im probably holding you guys back. I'll catch up to you guys when my school year ends.

Cause school is almost over for me. Again sorry for the delay, school is ruining my life.

[Sinister]

No worries. I wasn't particularly concerned, I was just bored and this RP was easy to take it out on. You're fine.

-Sin

[Victoria]

Alright, I posted. You can tell I halfassed near the end, but that's cause I just wanted to get it done and out here.

From now on my writing style is going to change because I'm going to try something new and see if I like it better.

[Oathkeeper13]

Alright I posted mine. Sorry if this post I made wasn't very good, like Fong I want to get it done to.

[Xeim]

Alright, thank you, you two.

So, everyone is free to post in the RP now. If the newcomers are unsure of what to do, wait for Andro's post to get some guidance. Otherwise, re-read the info posted in the first post and jump right in.

Anyone who's been in the RP and is unsure of what to do should wait for my post. Otherwise, re-read the info in the first post (it has the schedule!) and jump right in. Don't forget to check the class roster so you know what characters you can interact with in each class.

If anyone has any other questions, feel free to ask them. I'll be PMing the people who were waiting to join in just a moment.

[Sinister]

Ooh, I'm going to make a thing of it. Should have my post in by tonight at the latest. I'm going to eat, shower, *insert other normal activity performed by earthlings* sit down, look over old RP posts and write it up.

Haku, or I should say Kuishi, will be enrolled by tonight. ^^

Who are we going to be bunked with? I assume we aren't given single rooms all to ourselves.

-Sin

[Oathkeeper13]

When you say post freely in the rp meaning the one were still in?

[Victoria]

....What other RP would there be, Oath....seriously.
Of course this one. >_>;

[Xeim]

Sin- You can be bunked with whoever. I don't quite remember the bunking arrangements for everyone, and I don't know if everyone even made bunking arrangements. Obviously, you'd be with other guys, however. If there's someone you want to bunk with, talk to them about it and see what their arrangements are. Otherwise, just make up a few NPC's.

I do believe we said it was four to a room. Two bunk beds.

Oath- Yes, this same RP. I have no plans of making a new one for this club while this first one is still in existance. ^^;