Memories of a Shinigami (Invite Only): OOC

[Xeim]

Well, they weren't really out for blood like you and Evangel were saying. He's just doing it to do it. But yeah, we're on similar pages. So, unless the others decide on a mission, it looks like we're diving into the story arc. ^^

I'm glad that's all wrapped up. Now I need to finish my essay. >_<

[Victoria]

Ah, voting.

I believe I shall vote for jumping straight into the story.

[Andromeda]

If that is case there is one last thing then. I assume you want to run things. So I would suggest starting on an intro post now so that you can post it when we finish the graduation arc. I know that you have a busy life, so a little time over the week or two while we finish this up. You'll be prepared for it and won't be in a rush to write the post when we are finished and waiting on you.

If not I would be more than happy to write it up if you don't have the time. I know you said you wanted to ease back into things rather than going all at once. I'm here to help.

[Xeim]

I have an essay I have to finish for school by Wednesday. I am not even going to be able to consider writing a post until that's done. If this current string of events if coming to a close and I have not made progress on an intro post, then you might need to to write it. I'm really sorry to put that on you, though. I'll be back into writing things soon, but the deadline of my summer homework draws near and it has to be my first priority (though I'd rather chuck it off Mt. Fuji). I appreciate your offering to help, Andro.

Okay, with Toph's vote I don't think we have enough active members to skew things the other way.

So, jumping straight into the arc it is.

[Andromeda]

Alright. If it comes down to me. Just pass along any info you want me to have present in the intro post. Like character actions or whatever you deem necessary. Since we are starting it out to look like any normal mission, it doesn't sound like there will be a lot of immediate details needed, but if you had anything you wanted started in the first post just let me know.

Either way, we'll see what comes. It is currently Shadow's character(s) and mine with Evangel's out cold. I don't know if he has anything further planned or what. So things may or may not progress quickly. Shadow and I talk on a regular basis so its pretty easy to coordinate things.

[Evangel]

Well, Mugen is out of the fight. He took a decent amount of the attack. My next post'll be Rei coming to his aid.

[Andromeda]

Alright, that was my guess for what you were planning to do. I just wanted to make sure if you were still in the fight in some way or not. As you could see I brought in Hana to tend to Mugen's injuries as well.

[Sinister]

No amount of RPing is going to allow us to beat arrancar Sin. That's why we have to be saved.

Isn't that cute, but it's wrong... No amount of RPBing is going to allow us to beat arrancar; we can RP our way out of anything.. Don't assume a meaning in someone else's words. You're going to asphyxiate yourself if your not careful, Andro. A good RPer can write in a rescue or adapt a plot to overcome situations like those...which is what we are doing in this arc...

Also, I'm fine with just jumping into the arc. I will try and stay on top of all this, but I also have school obligations. I will post, homework permitting.

-Sin

[Andromeda]

I said that same thing you just said. You're making assumptions about what I said now. You weren't clear enough in your words and I wasn't clear enough in my words. Let's leave it at that.

[Victoria]

You know, I just remembered something.

Haku's arc. Are you still going to do that, Sin? o.o;
I remember we were going to do that after Andro's arc, but then Xeim came back and presented her own story arc. I suppose Haku's arc got pushed down further to after that arc?

IMO we should do Haku's arc first (if Sin still wants to do it), because he had dibs first. =P

But that's only if he still wants to do it, or if he's okay with it being pushed back even further. o_O;

[Xeim]

I thought he was going to do that while Andro's arc was going on, honestly. >_> Unless he's planned two character arcs, he's had this in the works since before I left... and I thought he had planned it to take place before graduation and stuff. However, if he's changed it to wait until after graduation, It'd be nice to push it back until after this arc.

Because like I said, I don't want to start with a character arc of any kind. I want the real part of the RP to open with us on equal footing, not with one character shining above the others. If he's totally desperate to get his arc out of the way and it won't take to long, then I'll give, but if he's okay with moving it around, I'd prefer to do this arc first.

[Sinister]

I postponed it already, anyway, I can do it again. I'll take care of it afterwards. No worries, Toph, it will happen. I'm looking forward to it.

-Sin

[Andromeda]

Alright! We are coming up to the three week mark on posts for the RP. Which means that when that does comes I'll be concluding the event and passing things on. I think the time comes in like the end of the week. So like five days, Friday. Sounds like a good time. If Friday comes without a post I'll just wrap things up.

In that time, Xeim let me know if you need me to make the intro post for the new arc or if you have it written up. So I know how much I need to write. I had hoped that the new found activity was going to persist. Oh well. Naturally, if someone posts that'll all change and the counter will be reset. But anyway, looking forward to the new fun to come.

[Xeim]

As of now, I don't have anything going for a post. I'll try to at least get an outline for the beginning of the arc written up by friday... but seeing as I have seven classes that aren't cutting me ANY slack right now, I can't say anything better than try.

I'll certainly have some guidelines for you if I don't have a post or definite outline.

I'm hoping people post so I can grab a little more time. =P

[Andromeda]

Friday has come and gone now. So I'll begin working wrapping up the graduation event. Xeim when you can please pass along whatever you need if you aren't ready. Depending on how things go I'll end up writing it completely tomorrow. It shouldn't take too long to close up. It'll just be a matter of how much you have for me Xeim if you aren't ready.

[Xeim]

One of my AP classes hit me with a bunch of homework and a big test, so I haven't had much free time. I haven't gotten any of the non school related stuff I wanted done this week done. It's made me really sad. I think things should start evening out soon though...

I've actually been picking together a post for the past few minutes, but I'm out of practice for Haruka's character. I might keep trying, but I don't want to hold things up.

I think it'd be best to start the arc in a separate post from the graduation one. It just keeps things more organized. If you're willing to give me a little while, I can try to keep working on a post. I can't promise anything, though, because of my schedule at the moment.

Andro, if you'd like to post the opening:

Assuming you write as Steph for this, I'd just open with Hitsugaya briefing Steph, Haruka, and Haku on the "mission" to eliminate hollow. It doesn't have to be massive or anything, just enough to initiate the arc. You can end with them arriving in the town in question. I'd wait a little while before doing anything else, though, so that we can see who else is going to participate. The second round of posts would have us joining up with the characters from other divisions and then beginning the fight.

I just feel bad pushing it off on you. I'm really struggling to adapt to my new schedule, though. I have more homework over the weekends than is healthy... I have ten pages of reading from a textbook to do every night, three chapters from a book... and a weekly packet of Java programming questions taken from a textbook that thinks its totally hawt but makes the lamest jokes ever. I'm hoping to start getting in the swing of things soon so I can post here (and in factions), but it might not be soon enough to make a good opening arc post. I'm sure I could make a cruddy one, but that's no fun.

-The initial "mission": An abnormal number of hollow have appeared in Shibuya, Tokyo. I'm thinking we'll start with a Japanese setting since the arc will be focused on hollow. If you want to go "foreign," though, then I don't really have any qualms. We have a lot of time to go to different places on the globe, though. Shibuya gives us a nice urban setting, at least. We'll have to be careful not to blast the 109 building. D: Obviously, all divisions are working on this.

I'll get things together and update the first post as well as I can and as soon as I can.

(Italics are making key points in my post stand out without going all red, not to make me sound like I'm trying to hammer stuff into your skulls.)

[Andromeda]

Alright, I've finished the post, but I'm not posting it until tomorrow. It's a little late and I want to read it over before I post it. So I would expect it to up around the afternoon. It covers pretty much every thing though in some fairly vague terms.

I pretty much did everything as you posted, but I made some slight tweaks to things. I made things a little less crowded and I know you said to wait on the others, but with the way things are divided there is at least one currently active person in each of the groups. So it shouldn't be much of a problem.

So I'll explain what I did. I divided us into four teams mostly based on Squads. If there is an unusual amount of hollows appearing I figured that the best strategy would be split and go out into several locations at once. I also enlarged the area. I made Shibuya the central point, but I sent teams to Shinjuku, Chiyoda and Meguro all cities that surround Shibuya. Shinjuku, Chiyoda and Meguro I made into hollow hot spots, fairly weak, but several hollows appearing in those cities. In Shibuya there's just been strange readings like hollows, but no direct contacts. I sent a team there that are backing up some people from Squad 12 that are going to investigate the readings they are getting. The team is support if there are hollows. I did that to mix things up a little so not everyone had the same thing that they were doing. Whatever you want to make of it will be up to you, it can just be hollows or something worse. I figure later the other teams will get drawn into Shibuya as things end up getting worse and being in neighboring cities the distance will not be too great. They are all slammed in Tokyo together so yeah.

So that is the game plan I set up. It's pretty much what you had I just added a little extra to it.

[Xeim]

I think that sounds very good. If you're posting it together with the graduation stuff, just make it clear where one bit ends and the next begins. It's just a visual/organizational thing that makes me happy. ^^;;; Otherwise just do two separate posts. So, we'll all gravitate into Shibuya as things get worse. How about the hollow in the other areas stop coming at one point, and the people fighting there move into Shibuya since the hollow haven't stopped coming? I'm guessing that's what you had in mind, I'm just clarifying.

Thanks for starting things off, Andro. I've been looking at my schedule, since I have the assignments for the whole year from some of my classes, and I'm going to try to work ahead a little so I get more free time.

I need to learn how to manage my time on a whole new level. Bleh.

[Andromeda]

Yeah, however we wanted to make it go I figured something would draw everyone into Shibuya. I wasn't planning so far ahead to determine what was going to be the reasons. I'm just getting the ball rolling since this is your show. I figured you had ideas in mind of what was going to be happening next.

As for the post I'll make it clear one way or another that there is a division. It should be up within the hour.

[Evangel]

Phew, that had to have been the longest post I've ever done for the RP. I'm quiet impressed with myself! Anyways, early AM/ late night post. If there is anything off or anything that looks like it needs to be changed, PM me. I'm getting some sleep, gotta get up in like, 3 hours XD.

[Andromeda]

Hey Xeim, question for you. Since Sinister is back. I'll assume that he'll be posting with me since he is on the Squad Ten team. But Haruka is as well. I know that you will be having difficulty managing your time. So how do you want Haruka managed from a story point of view. I'm not saying I want to control her or anything. Did you just want us to make some vague motions that she's staying with us and fighting or that she's sitting on the sidelines? Right now she is sort of there and not there if you get my meaning.

[Xeim]

I've been thinking about this lately, actually. Thanks for bringing it up. I actually think I'm going to have her sit this one out. If I have time, I'll post for her loitering around SS so that I can get back into her character (it's been six months, after all).

I want to post for her, but I'm trying to be realistic. If everything settles down, then I'll bring Asahi in when the arrancar come out, or maybe RP as one of the two NPC arrancar until they kick it. I don't think it'd be a good idea for me to throw a Haruka that I haven't written for in a long time into a heated story arc that I may not have a lot of time for. I will be directing things from the sidelines, though.

And, hopefully, my routine will have solidified by the time we're drawn into Shibuya. We don't have to rush through this arc. This RP is a bit slow, but it's still been steadily chugging along. ^^;

[Evangel]

Like a choo choo train chugging along with only but one shovel full of coal as fuel.

[Evangel]

Sorry for double post but any updates?

[Andromeda]

I haven't heard anything in updates from Xeim. Though I do probably need to start up the nag engine on Shadow, who's yet to post. There is also Sinister as well as Sato and Azetuer who are both missing as well. They are supposed to be present for these since I included them.

I was holding off posting until others joined in, but I guess I can make another post.

[Sinister]

I apologize. I was gone on a two week vacation. A more...tactful person would have told his friends... But things were pretty stressful. I'm back though. Working on a post tonight...

-Sin

[Evangel]

I might as well post my secondary character since there hasn't been much activity. It's still kind of a work in progress, so expect some minor updates. If you have any feedback, PM me.

Name: Engel Weiss (Most commonly called just Weiss)
Age (of death): 25
Current Age: Unknown
Birthday: Unknown
Birthplace: Unknown

Hair Color: Dark Green
Eye Color: Dark Green
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 9''
Weight: Unknown
Appearance: Weiss has messy green hair that extends down to his shoulders on the sides, covers his forehead in, front, and down to the middle of his back . His green eyes are accented by black outlining his eyes. His ears are slightly pointed, the ends barely sticking out from his hair. He has a tall, toned body and lightly tanned skin. His Hollow Hole is located in his chest over his heart. Weiss wears a tight, dress vest like top with a tie. He wears kimono like bottoms, and socks with sandals. His clothing is standard white and black Arrancar colors. Weiss' mask fragment resembles the Espada Grimmjow's and Halibel's. His mask fragment covers his entire lower jaw and upper jaw up to his nose and around his head from ear to ear. It appears similar to a pair of dragon jaws. In his human form, he fires cero blasts from his mouth and bala blasts from his fists.

Zanpakutou Name: Aliento [de dragón]
Sealed Form: A straight edge, average size katana. Has a green hilt with a gold cap on the end and a gold guard with a rectangular design and four, identical square openings in the design.
Release Phrase: "Arroyo, Aliento de dragón!" or "Arroyo, Aliento!" (Translation: "Burn, Dragon's Breath!")
Ressurection Form: Takes the appearance of a bipedal emerald green dragon with a green fiery mane, >> Similar to: http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-02/art/kh2-nobody-dragon.jpg<<
He still fires ceros from his mouth. His speed has increased greatly and so has his hierro. In this form, Weiss can launch lightning fast, dense spiritual energy attacks from his wing tips. He is also twice the size than his human form. This form has more in common with his Adjuchas form than his Vasto Lorde form.

Fighting Specialty: Swordplay, Sonido (Arrancar equivalent to shunpo)

Personality & Background: Weiss was once a very powerful Hollow, one of the few to reach the “Vasto Lorde” form. For days he would devour thousands of Hollow in order to retain his powerful form. Weiss grew tired of this way of life and searched for an alternative lifestyle. His search took him on a journey to places he had not seen in a long time.

Weiss traveled across Hueco Mundo for decades before he stumbled upon a Hollow who had gone through shinigamification. After a brief conversation, during which Weiss discovered the existence of Arrancars and Aizen, Weiss ate the Arrancar and proceeded to rip off his mask. The transformation was violent and painful, a feeling that Weiss had not experienced since his days as an Adjuchas.

When the transformation was finished, Weiss found himself no longer hungry for Hollow, but an empty feeling still lingered inside of him. Weiss tested his abilities and found them… weak. The transformation cut his power in half. The test of his ability brought several more Arrancar and Gin Ichimaru, Aizen’s comrade. Gin made an attempt to persuade Weiss to join Aizen but refused. Weiss destroyed the Arrancar, took some of their clothes, and fled into the deep reaches of Hueco Mundo.

Weiss vowed to never join Aizen’s forces, a remnant feeling from his solitary Vasto Lorde form. He would never be the puppet soldier of a foreign dictator, especially a rogue Soul Reaper.

Despite Weiss’ status as a Hollow, he is more compassionate than his fellow brethren. He blames this “humanistic emotion” on the shinigamification process. Since his transformation into an Arrancar, he has only killed only a few humans and Soul Reapers. He plays with them until they are fatigued and then he injures them to the point where they cannot fight back anymore. Some might say he is merciful, but Weiss would ignore their comments. In simplicity, the shinigamification process made Weiss more like the Soul Reapers than he would comfortably admit.

I've also updated my main's profile, but nothing too exciting.

[Andromeda]

Well I've been meaning to do this for a while since I wanted to start practicing it. Since I finally managed to finish it I figured that I post it. As usual I'm not completely happy with it, but it is pretty fair likeness to what I imagined for Steph. The links are all the same image just resized because the original was very large.

http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/9563/stephfull.jpg

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6292/stephfulls.jpg

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/8236/stephfulls1.jpg

[Evangel]

Very nice work, Andro. Speaking of RP art, what ever happened to Azuteor?

Any ways, if not by Monday someone has posted I'm going to type up my secondary's first post.

[Andromeda]

I don't know where Azuteur is. Though we haven't seen him in a while. I've been meaning to write stuff for Kagashi, but I was hoping to see others posting. I guess it is just going to be us. Which if that is then I'll just post normally.