Persona 4 RP Topic

*Edited for More Info more to come*

Starting Point: Chronilogically this takes place after P4's ending,
and about half way through the school year at the beginning of
summer vacation. Beginning Date: July 25th 2012

Discussing the plans for the summer Rai mentions his parents want
him to go to Junes to buy a flatscreen TV for the family. The next
day when carring the TV into the house, Masuyo is pushed against
the screen and falls into the mysterious Midnight Channel. Upon
finding this strange dimension shadows that lurk there begin to lure
or kidnap people from the human world who have the potential to
become very powerful Persona users, namely by the form of their
complex or internal strife. Our group decides to try and discover
why and how the shadows are sneaking into the human world and
stumble upon a plot that threatens the very world

Crisis Point: Unknown

When characters are kidnapped by the shadow they design the dungeon
based on their complex and also control their shadow self till they
are saved, then they must accept their true self.

Order of Kidnapping: Masu, Syn, Catbread, Rita, TLS, MetalRabbit, Tsukune and SnakeEyes


Rules:
Persona 4 RP Potential Rules

A day in the RP is as long as a day in real life.
Characters can take 4 actions each day (Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night).
Storyline events may or may not take up actions (they do in the game so I dunno).

Characters can use their time during the day to do various things around Inaba, including:
-Spend time with people (party members or NPSs) to increase Social Links, this should require effort.
-Buy/Sell things (Should this not take an action?) (What should items do?)
-The other stuff that can happen (Talking to cats, fishing, eating at the stats restaurant, etc).
Some actions are only possible on certain days and at certain times (Shopping channel, people’s schedules, etc).

Social Stats (Expression, Diligence, etc) should increase the odds of success and effectiveness of things that require these stats (like jobs).

Social Links with party members should increase the odds of success and effectiveness of combos or support actions (helping someone up, taking a hit for them, etc).
-Alternate: The higher the Social Link, the more of these actions become possible (You can choose to take a hit for someone, but only if your Social Link is high enough with that person).

Social Links with non-party members should do something, possibly allowing you to use skills you wouldn’t otherwise have, based on their arcana and/or personality (extra health, element resistance, scan ability, extra magic skill, etc).

Dungeons:
These take up the whole day. The whole group has to decide when to attempt one.
A dungeon is made up of several floors and a boss at the top (Later dungeons will probably be slightly longer each time). They are designed primarily by the person whose character is trapped inside.
Floors will most likely have randomized content, such as 1-3 enemies, 0-2 treasure chests, and so on.
The earliest dungeons will probably have 3-4 floors, which will increase by 1 every couple of dungeons.
Every couple of floors will have special effects that make things difficult for the party.
Each party member has 10HP. Any hit will cause the loss of 1HP. If a party member dies, they are revived at the end of the battle with 1HP. If the group dies, there is a penalty, possibly kicking the group out and preventing them from attempting it again for 3 or so days.

Enemies:
These will be based on the arcana of the dungeon’s creator as well as the theme of the dungeon. They will most likely be controlled by the creator as well. Their HP will be very low, 1-2 usually, with 3 or so in a group, and have various elemental weaknesses and resistances based on type.

The battles will be more freestyle than in the game, allowing the players to take creative actions and the enemies to respond. Each player and enemy should be able to attempt one thing per turn.
(It might be a good idea to leave whether the attacks connect as unknown until the target responds, for example, saying that you launch a fire attack instead of having fire just hit the target.)

There should be a midboss which is themed and much stronger than regular enemies around the halfway point.

The boss (which most likely looks similar to the creator’s Persona) will be extremely powerful, with 10 or more HP and possibly doing 2 damage per hit.
(Should there be a “YOR NOT ME LOLZ” cutscene before these?)
(In that case, should there be a “OKAY I GUESS I DO KIND OF HATE EVERYTHING” cutscene afterwards?)

In order to keep the number of participants high, the first dungeons should work in the same way as the game:
-The leader’s Persona is automatic.
-The second character’s Shadow attacks right away. (Defeating a shadow allows you to receive a Persona.)
-The third character’s Shadow is the midboss of the first dungeon.
-The fourth character’s Shadow is the boss.
UNLESS each person wants their own dungeon or something.

Possibility: PCs without Personas can take actions during the day normally, but not enter dungeons.

I am signing up here is my profile

Name: Kishin Nakai
Arcana: Hanged Man
Persona: Hell Biker
-Strength and Agility are its best stats, Luck is its worst
-Reflects Fire, weak against Light
-Can use lots of Fire spells and some physical attacks and Dark spells
Weapon Type: One-handed blunt objects

Kishin values winning over all else. He loves to compete, but can overreact if he loses. Other than that, he's pretty easygoing, although people trying to talk to him often have to put up with his tendency to get lost in his thoughts- usually strategy-related. He was raised in a family steeped in military tradition, and when he is thrown into the TV world, his dungeon takes on the appearance of a war-torn battlefield. He currently lives at his parents' home in Inaba.

Kishin is 17. He's tall and kind of thin, with black hair that's usually in a crew cut. His eyes are grey. When not in a uniform, he usually wears t-shirts and shorts, usually red and white.

Name:Masuyo Mito
Arcana:Magician
Persona:Jack Frost
Weapon:Kendama won from the school festival.
Fighting style:Attack Magic, slight support magic
Absorbs Ice,Weak against Fire,Str light resistance.
Best Stats:Mag&Speed
Worst stats:Def & Attack

Skills:Bufula,Mabufu,Mediarama,Mind Charge,Sonic Punch,Matarakunda,Ziyonde

Masuyo is an outgoing 17 year old just looking to have some fun. He currently is living alone, as his parents became drug addicts and abusive, so he decided to move away and live on his own. Life is rough for him, but its much better going to school with friends and being able to socialize than going into an abusive household. He surprisingly holds little to no grudge towards his parents for what they've done in the past, because "Whats done is done" is his favorite saying. Hes usually wearing blue jean shorts with a dark blue or red polo shirt, with his short black hair down. Masuyo is currently working at Junes and as a tutor to have enough money to live alone, hes hoping to make a close enough friend to room with sometime.........god forbid a girlfriend.

Name - Rai Natsuyama
Arcana - Hierophant
Persona - Kohryu

Spoiler:

Weapon - Spear or Pole Weapon
Fighting Style - Fights with his spear, Heavy Magic and Healing skills.
Persona Abilities: Blocks Light
Skills: Ziodyne, Maziodyne, Mediarahan, Samarecarm, Mind Charge, Spell Master, Elec Amp

Personality: Rai is calm and easy going. His mature attitude towards most things make him the target of jokes at school but he ignores them. He takes everything in a a steady pace and attempts to make all his judgements on fact and logic rather than on emotional bias. He is fine with the way his life goes but sometimes wishes for something more exciting to happen in his life.

Appearance: Rai's hair is black to be attributed by his light brown eyes. His general build is slim and fit from walking in his free time. His pale skin shows his lack of time in the sun and more time spent studying. His relaxation outfit is a grey short sleeve shirt with tan shorts.

Character:
Name: Antonio Kurou
Arcana: The Tower
Persona: Cu Chulainn
Ultimate Persona: Yoshitsune
Appearance: Medium Build, Short Brown Hair, Brown Eyes, A Black Fedora (Which is sometimes exchanged for a Green Newsboy's Cap), He wears a Black Trench Coat over his school uniform.
Weapon: A Rapier he bought after taking up Fencing.
Fighting Style: Physical, Minor Offensive Magic
Backstory: A Transfer student from Italy his mother was Italian while his father was Japanese (Although they've been divorced for many years), He's un-trusting and easy to anger and he has a hard time making friends.
He spent the first 14 years of his life in Italy raised by his Mother and Grandparents, he never had many friends but the few he had were trustworthy, he mainly played videogames and started fencing when he was 12. Just as he was entering High School his life changed drastically. His mother and grandparents were killed in a car wreck leaving his Japanese Father as his only living relative.

He was moved out to Japan to live with his father who he was meeting for the first time, over the next two years he learned Japanese, Entered High School at 15 and kept up his Fencing. Despite this he was somewhat of an outcast for his heritage and his temper.

(No I didn't just copy the stats mine has in the game shut up.)
Persona: Cu Chulainn
Pic: https://2img.net/h/i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn179/Fireemlem/CuChulainn2.jpg
Skills:
Magarula
Deathbound
Mediarama
Mind Charge
White Wall
Endure Dark
Garudyne
Wind Amp
Agilao
Inherit: Physical/Wind
Resist: Physical
Reflects: Garu
Weak: Bufu

Ultimate Persona: Yoshitsune
Pic: https://2img.net/h/i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn179/Fireemlem/250px-P4-Yoshitsune.png
Skills:
Mazio
Brave Blade
Power Charge
Ziodyne
Heat Riser
Repel Elec
Elec Amp
Hassou Tobi
Inherit: Light
Resist: Fire
Block: Phys
Reflects: Elec/Light

*Bumped for editing to the first post*

added rules

Rozencrutz wrote:
(Should there be a “YOR NOT ME LOLZ” cutscene before these?)
(In that case, should there be a “OKAY I GUESS I DO KIND OF HATE EVERYTHING” cutscene afterwards?)

Yes

Name: Daichi Takamura
Arcana: Fortune
Persona: Leobel (imagine a demonic, bipedal lion)
Appearance: (short kid with dark brown hair, black shirt and light pants, blue goggles)
Weapon: Knuckles
Fighting Style: Orthodox right handed boxer
Persona Stats: High Magic and Power, low luck and speed
Attacks: Agilao, Zionga, Mudoon, Vorpal Blade (all attack moves, no support)
Weakness: Ice
Resist: Fire, Elec
Persona Evolution: King Leobel (color swap and added null dark)

Backstory: He's always been a bit of a loner. The few friends he has know him as kind and understanding. When he meets himself in the "other" world he gets locked in there BY himself. The shadow that manifests is a cold, lonely soul who's willing to kidnap friends and never let them go because he fears lonliness. The stage takes place in a prison.

I've never seen an RP through to the end, so if you need me to do something then message me. I'll get it done.

Can everyone be ready to get this started on sunday? I highly doubt anyone else will join, and 5 ppl seems like a good enough number to go with atm

I suppose so. Any questions about the rules will probably be resolved more quickly when they come up in-game.

How's this?

Name: Shinta Nagase
Appearance: Tall with average build. His signature outfits seems to involve a red shirt with a silver cross on a chain necklace. Has black hair and brown eyes which tend to be half open or only one open at a time. When asked about it he shrugs and says "For the life of me I don't know."
Arcana: Justice
Persona: Angel

Weapon: Knives
Fighting style: Knife fighting and throwing.
Weakness: Darkness
Resistance: Wind, Light
Absorbs: None
Best Stats: Speed and Skill
Worst stats: Defense
Skills: Gama, Patra, Hama, Sukukaja, Regenerate 1, Hama boost.
Personality: A sarcastic and somewhat cynical youth who is usually seen with a book or handheld video game console. He constantly asks people to consider the consequences and tends to space out.

I'm good for Sunday.

one thing that just came to mind, 2nd lvl personas. Since we're doing Slinks, I would assume we will have them right? I thought of an interesting thing though, since this isnt like P4 where the Main character triggers another's ult. persona since we ALL have the freedom of Slinks. What if after maxing out, we unlock a 2nd persona(stronger obviously) AND gain the ability to use the persona of our "Irreplaceable best friend whom you share an unbreakable bond with"? This gives us the "Persona switch" ability the MC had, to a limited extent, and like the 2nd lvl personas do in P4 (save Yukiko and Teddie), cover weaknesses.

Works for me.

Name: Hisoka Suzuki

Arcana:Emperor
Persona:Barong
Weapon:Falcon Talons
Fighting style:short-range fighter
Weakness:Wind
Resistance:Null EL
Best Stats:ST
Worst stats:Lu
Skills:Maziodyne, High counter, Heat Riser, Power charge, Arrow Rain, and Null Wind.
Appearance:Tall, average guy with a normal school uniform, except with the sleeves both torn off.

Backround:A 17 year who likes to do sports a lot but he switch's clubs pretty often since he likes them all. He also takes walks around his town when he's bored. He has average grades for the most part since he sometimes falls asleep in class as well.

Tsukune wrote:Name: Daisuke suzuki

Arcana:Emperor
Persona:Setanta
Weapon:Halberd
Fighting style:Mid-range fighter
Weakness:Fire
Resistance:Electricity
Best Stats:Defense and speed
Worst stats:Luck
Skills:Counterstrike, Power Charge, Auto-Maraku, Null Fire
Appearance:Tall, average guy with a normal school uniform, except with the sleeves both torn off.

......gonna have any offensive skills besides counterstrike which is a counter? You should have at least either Rampage,Kill Rush,Gale Slash or Fatal End.......

FFFPERSONA wrote:

Tsukune wrote:Skills:Counterstrike

......gonna have any offensive skills besides counterstrike which is a counter?

[louis]This is just like Counter-Strike[/louis]

will fatal end and Zionga work?

Also can a couple of the new profiles get a backstory and a emotional strife or complex, that will cause them to develop a persona when they are taken by the Shadows.

Rozencrutz wrote:Also can a couple of the new profiles get a backstory and a emotional strife or complex, that will cause them to develop a persona when they are taken by the Shadows.

Mine's okay right?

*goes to angst it up a bit*

TLS wrote:

Rozencrutz wrote:Also can a couple of the new profiles get a backstory and a emotional strife or complex, that will cause them to develop a persona when they are taken by the Shadows.

Mine's okay right?

*goes to angst it up a bit*

Im sure he means Tsukune,Syn,and Cat.
Also a problem, Tsukune named himself after an already existing Persona 4 character.

TLS your fine the people Masu named are the ones, also I forgot about Daisuke being used in the game lol.

Rozencrutz wrote:TLS your fine the people Masu named are the ones, also I forgot about Daisuke being used in the game lol.

Yah, hes the Strength S.Link with Kou. On the soccer team, so tsukune will have to change his name........

-.- are you serious I didn't even know that wtf