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Year: 2250
Setting: Post-Apocalyptic Earth.

History:

In the year 2020, the world was quickly depleting many of its natural resources, mainly petroleum oil and fossil fuels. Pollution was on the rise, and temperatures climbed at an exponential rate. Because of this global outcry, countries began to demand other countries to share some of their resources. The constant feud over eventually sparked a global resource war, which quickly escalated into a new missile crisis. China, Russia, Iraq, Japan, Cuba, France, Great Britain, and the United States of America along with smaller allied countries began to fight their wars with fire. Nuclear bombs went off in major cities all around the world, killing millions. The radiation and debris caused a thermonuclear winter that eventually killed off 70% of the world population and caused a sixth mass extinction.

150 years later, the nuclear winter ended. Now, deserts plague the Earth with very little green patches left. Humanity began to pick itself back up after surviving in primitive conditions. Cities began to pop up, but they were nothing like they were before. There were cities made of metal. Everything ran of electricity generated by steam. It was a new steam-punk style era. Cities were vastly spread apart, so one would need to brave harsh terrain to get to another city or village.

A new natural resource was found as a result from the radiation. This strange new element, element 119, had new strange properties. They were magical in a sense, which gave it its new name -- Magium. It was dangerous to handle raw, so they were placed in specialized pills. These pills were eventually implemented in machines and weapons, primarily to combat a new threat -- Monsters.

The wildlife that once inhabited the Earth mutated as a result of the radiation. They turned into ravenous beasts. Humans fought back with their new magic infused weapons to keep them at bay. Humanity began to pick itself up again, but who knows what threats may come. Now, the year is 2250, 80 years after Magium's discovery.

Plot: Players start out in a city called "Haven", and it is running out of Magium. They volunteer to go either go to a new city and find more. Along the way they will face many dangers. The story will slowly change plotlines once major goals are finished. For example, when Haven's Magium supply is replenished it may be invaded by a neighboring city's militia or attacked by monsters and such.

RPG Weapon System:
Everyone will start off with a single, rather weak MAIN weapon. Later on in the RP you will acquire a secondary weapon. It can be almost anything within reason. They can also have a secondary weapon which cannot utilize Magium. It's a simple, normal weapon, but it cannot be the same or similar weapon as the primary weapon.

Main weapons:
Sword
Spear
Bow
Hammer
Lance
Guns
Katars
Axe
Gauntlets
Every weapon has 3 stats:

--Rate of attack, which would determine how many times "actions" it can prepare in a turn/post without drawbacks.
At the start every 15 points above 30 points will grant you another action.
Every 6 points under 30 will cause your weapon to need to prepare it’s attack for an additional turn.

29-24=2 turns
23-18=3 turns
17-12=4 turns
11-6=5 turns
5-0=6 turns


--Damage: this damage represents the damage your weapon does per hit landed

--Wind-up: How long the weapon takes to get ready after the queued up actions are done and how much it increases for every action stacked.

At the start every 15 points above 30 points will eliminate the drawback from an additional tier of extra actions, see the table for actions at rate of attack under 30 for it.
Wind-up will scale up the same way the rate of attack does but the drawback gives the foe more turns to prepare for your attack and while that attack is being preformed you can not stop it. If wind-up is 15 higher than the base stat (30), then you are able to prepare another action while the previous action is still happening, imagine a bow firing an arrow and then quickly reloading and firing another arrow as the first one still is flying towards the enemy.

As the RP progresses, it’ll be possible to edit and modify the stats on most weapons.
However currently the weapons have fixed stats which are as followed
[Damage/Rate of Attack/Wind-up]
Sword [35/35/30]
Spear [40/30/30]
Bow [25/30/45]
Hammer [50/25/25]
Lance [45/40/15]
Guns [30/25/45]
Katars [10/45/45]
Axe [40/20/40]
Gauntlets [20/30/50]

Weapon Magium Ability System:
Abilities (Max 2 per category): You can spend 100 points on ability power per category divided by the two abilities. Each category has separate points cap, but each category is totaled to 100. Spend them wisely. Players must also choose what the main thing about their abilities are. For example; pyromancy.

Template:

Weapon ability types: Depending on what type the ability is, it can be countered by the appropriate ability type.
For example, if someone has a Physical Defense ability in place, it can be countered by a Special Attack. Here is a chart that explains which beats which and a weakness scale.

Special Attack:
Weakness: Special Defense x .5 damage
Super effective against: Physical Defense x 2 damage
Normal damage against: Physical Attack
Special Attacks cancel eachother out, unless one is 25 points stronger.

Physical Attack:
Weakness: Physical Defense x .5 damage
Super effective against: Special Defense x 2 damage
Normal damage against: Physical Attack
Physical attacks cancel eachother out, unless one is 25 points stronger

Special Defense:
Weakness: Physical Attack x 2 attack damage
Super effective against: Special attack x 2 defense
Defense doesn't have an attack value so using it against Special defense or Physical defense is useless

Physical Defense:
Weakness: Special Attack x 2 attack damage
Super effective against: Physical attack x 2 defense
Defense doesn't have an attack value so using it against Special defense or Physical defense is useless

Shops:
Shops will be scattered around the world in various locations and will stay in those locations. These shops will have items that will ONLY appear at those specific shops. Some shops specialize in certain things. There can also be wandering merchants you can talk to to sell or buy items.

The general shop will be in a separate topic. There will be various items that can be useful to someone, such as ammunition, or resharpening a blade. There can also be potions that cure status effects, weapon parts to improve a weapon's stats in a certain area (but decrease in another), and other things. You can return any item you bought for half the cost of what you bought it for in return.

Merchants:
Wandering merchants will randomly appear throughout the world. You can sell or buy items from them, or if you are low on gold, you can also trade items, but they drive a hard bargain. If you befriend one of these merchants, they may even give you a discount on your next purchase.

Blacksmiths:

Blacksmiths are a special kind of shop. This is where you buy attachments and parts for your weapons to enhance them. Details will be in the general shop. You can also buy extensions to the max level cap of your weapon. Basically, this is where you improve your weapons.

Gold:
You can gain gold in various ways. You can earn some by completing quests, selling items, defeating enemies and bosses. Sometimes, an item drop can be a bag, chest, or box. Each net an automatic rending of gold and increase in rarity.
Bag: 30 gold - Uncommon
Box: 70 Gold - Rare
Chest: 150 Gold - Very Rare
You can trade an item you don't want to someone else for either a certain amount of gold or another item. Trades and sales between players will be confirmed in the general shop.

Magium management system:

Since Magium is stored in special pills, there will be a limit of how many pills you can carry per level at any given time. All characters start with a magium case type I, which holds up to 5 Magium pills. Each ability they use expends Magium, so early on it is very easy to run out of Magium pills.

Quests:
Sometimes, a random side quest will pop up. These quests render different amounts of loot depending on the difficulty of the quests, and whether or not a character participated or not.

Item Drops:
Items will randomly generate within the world, and you may get some when completing Quests and after defeating Bosses. These can vary greatly in value and rarity, and be some unexpected things.

Stamina system:
Each player has 50 stamina.
During a battle Stamina is consumed at these rates:
Every post: 2 stamina
Activating a Weapon ability: 5 Stamina
Fighting while you don't have any Magnium pills left and used an ability that fight: 5 Stamina When the stamina reaches 0, the player passes out.
In quests you will expend 1 Stamina per post.

Day/Night Cycle: Every page is equal to 1 Hour in the RP night/day cycle. (Fights are exempt from this. That would be complicated af.) I can also change the night or day hour at will, when plot appropriate.

Homeostatis System: Player keeps track of all status effects, stamina, Magium pills, and inventory.

HUD Template: This will be at the bottom of every post when in a fight
Stamina: ?/50
Status effect: (Exclude if not applicable)
Weapon in hand: Weapon you are currently using
Weapon on standby: Weapon not in use(when one has more than one weapon)
Inventory: ?/30
Magium: ?/? (Max depends on the Magium case)

Character sheet template
Name:
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Appearance: Picture preferred, but you can also use a physical description.
Personality:
Traits:
History:
Weapon Ability Type: What is the main point of your weapon? Is it a certain type of magic like Aeromancy?

Weapon (Primary):
Name:
Kind of Weapon:
Damage
Rate of Attack
Wind-Up

Template:

Physical Attack

Spoiler:

Physical Defense

Spoiler:

Special Attack

Spoiler:

Special Defense

Spoiler:

Name:
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Appearance:
Personality:
Traits:
History:
Weapon Ability Type:
Spear
Name:
Kind of Weapon:

Power Template:
Physical Attack:
Name:
Duration:
Drawback:
Cost:
Effect:
Power:

Name:
Duration:
Drawback:
Cost:
Effect:
Power:

Physical Defense
Name:
Duration:
Drawback:
Cost:
Effect:
Power:

Name:
Duration:
Drawback:
Cost:
Effect:
Power

Special Attack:
Name:
Duration:
Drawback:
Cost:
Effect:
Power:

Name:
Duration:
Drawback:
Cost:
Effect:
Power:

Special Defense:
Name:
Duration:
Drawback:
Cost:
Effect:
Power:

Name:
Duration:
Drawback:
Cost:
Effect:
Power: