Log Horizon: Create Your Own Character

[ArmaniWeston]

Originally Posted by Lazgrane

lvl 90 plz if you actually want him to appear in a raid. The image of a noob sitting in a corner while waiting for everything to blew up and get out looting left over hurt my eyes.

Anyway, some setting for Unholy Legion

Spoiler for :

The Unholy Legion is a loosing group of Necromancers, with about 3500 members (After CataStrophe) around the world. There are many kind of players here, but most of them have one thing in common, that is the liking of swarming over their enemies with waves after waves of necros. with that kind of tactic, they easily topped most of the raid dungeons, left only those that is difficult to get to, or specifically designed to punish casters.

After the Catastrophe, they were also a bit shocked at first, but quickly get back in track to see what this world has to offer them. However, not until Lazgrane and Minaz come to tell them about overskill, could they start constructing their own armies.

Of course, ideas and ideology conflictions do exist, and that split the Legion into 4 divisions, each station their force on their own continent, still officially under the Unholy Legion banner, but technically on their own now.

The Death Knights stationed on North America. This division focus their power on creating necrolic enhancement that support their direct battle power, so they can crush their enemies by themselves. They have high and mighty attitude, and often being arrogant toward other normal players which they see as soft and naive.

The Death Knights is the main antagonist in America servers.

Their leader is Strajker. They have a Necropolis in far north east to Big Apple.

The Undyings stationed on Europe. Their cold weather make it easy to keep fresh meat, so they choose fleshs as their main focus. This lead to the creation of many abomination that was slapped together from various pieces of meat. They keep neutral stance with other players. However they are hated by many. People think they are crazy.

Their leader is Renaizzar. They have a Necropolis in Scandinavian Peninsula's southern coast.

Necrolicane stationed on Africa & Middle East. they choose their way of skeletons and mummified corpses. They also hold neutral stance to other players.

Necrolican later in time ally with The Undyings to hold the "Unholy Crusade" to reclaim Jerusalem from a Genius overlord.

Their leader is Xsi. They have a Necropolis in the East side of Red Sea.

Spirit Shroud stationed on SEA and Oceanic. They enhance their bone warriors with ghost power. People are friendly with them due to the fact that most Asia cultures do associated with spirits. Of course they hold friendly stance with other players. This lead to the fact that they became the most powerful out the 4 division.

Their leader is Gladius. They have 2 Necropolises in Perth and Leon City.

Although picture themselves as the bad guy of the world, they mainly use their power to fight the monsters. There are various conflict here and there, but there are no large scale war with other adventurer forces... yet.

Minaz was the only one capable of creating "liches" (basically are intelligent caster minions that can summon skeleton minions) That allow her to single handedly enmass her own army. She was the first one to create a ghost dragon. Her Necropolis is in south of Nakasu

The point is to be comedic, think less in a corner and more running wildly in fear while meteors rain down.

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by ArmaniWeston

Ever-lost Adventurer's Cloak of Wonderlust: Phantasmal-grade joke item achieved from partaking and surviving in a suicidal raid through the sheer combination of luck and stupidity. Defenses are that of a lv50 magical grade cloak plus the bonus of moving at 150% movement speed, can use the Fairy Ring to get where ever he wants (1 week cooldown, but can bring more people along by adding to the cooldown by a week for each person and up to 5 people,) and can use the inner-city transport gate once a week to transport to another random transport gate anywhere across the world. Sadly it has the downside of having a 5% chance of teleporting him anywhere in 10km radius once a minute (if he isnt transported in a day then there added 5% to chance of teleporting which resets when he teleport,) and is permanently bound to him so he can only remove it to repair it. "Oh come on I wasn't finished eating my sushi! Wait is that a chest full of gold" *opens booby trapped chest*

If it's an item with level 50 stats, wouldn't he have to be level 50 before he could equip it?

And really, if you want him to travel around the world, you don't need that cloak. The fairy rings are still working, you just don't know where you'll end up.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by ArmaniWeston

The point is to be comedic, think less in a corner and more running wildly in fear while meteors rain down.

The thing is that you could do that with a mid to high level! Remember that players have gone from a mouse & keyboard game to a all full new reality, so not everyone have the balls of steel to wrestle a 2.5 meters tall minotaur in person, a clothie cleric female or G.I.R.L much less so. It's also in the personality of the character, maybe he was a dirty coward who felt safe as long as he was in a group with people telling him what to do and was chilling in his Geekcave until he got snatched to a world similar to the MMO he was playing.

[agetreme]

Originally Posted by Sheba

The thing is that you could do that with a mid to high level! Remember that players have gone from a mouse & keyboard game to a all full new reality, so not everyone have the balls of steel to wrestle a 2.5 meters tall minotaur in person, a clothie cleric female or G.I.R.L much less so. It's also in the personality of the character, maybe he was a dirty coward who felt safe as long as he was in a group with people telling him what to do and was chilling in his Geekcave until he got snatched to a world similar to the MMO he was playing.

Some Summoners don't even have the balls to summon their own Skeleton Servants....

Even for role-players.... the effect of real undead are really creepy....
=

Suggestion for other type of Comical Players:

A player who still think it is all a dream (despite of waking up multiple times) and decide to go all out (of control). Like certain Fuuko from Disgaea.....

Player who do serious things (disturbing local politics by making things go off the rail) for lol and Giggle.... (yea.... the Cult Leader create the Laquniess cult because it amuse him.)

Make an army and go all Rider (Fate/Zero) on everybody's ass. Gather an Army of Loyal warriors and CONQUER THE WORLD!! Need to be a big Ham.

[ArmaniWeston]

Originally Posted by Sheba

The thing is that you could do that with a mid to high level! Remember that players have gone from a mouse & keyboard game to a all full new reality, so not everyone have the balls of steel to wrestle a 2.5 meters tall minotaur in person, a clothie cleric female or G.I.R.L much less so. It's also in the personality of the character, maybe he was a dirty coward who felt safe as long as he was in a group with people telling him what to do and was chilling in his Geekcave until he got snatched to a world similar to the MMO he was playing.

Well think of Soujiro's reaction in his spin-off manga. He was like "Awesome! I'm in the game" but since it's Armani being a noob he does a lot and makes a lot of comedic situations out of it. Also he joined the raid cuz he saw a lot of hot guys joining also and he was allowing as a part of the raid had the condition of "boss's special attack target weakness adventurers for 10-50% of their max HP" meaning having a lot of noob makes for great meat shields.

[Keroko]

Actually, lowbies make terrible meat-shields. They take up valuable raid slots (which, mind, are limited) and die in one hit. There's absolutely zero reason for a raid leader to take low levels in place of high levels.

That's not to say you can't have a story about a low-level character bumbling around, just that you should keep the story centered around low-level aspects, not throw in hard to explain high-level ones. I can see you're trying really hard to justify this guy being taken to raids, but it just comes of as trying too hard to justify it. You should take a step back and look at the concept. What is the story you're trying to tell?

Is it the story of a newbie bumbling around with wide-eyed ignorance?

Or is it the story of an adventurer who sets out to explore this vast, now real world?

The former you can tell without Phantasmal items gained from improbably raid scenarios. The later could have acquired such items naturally.

[ArmaniWeston]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Actually, lowbies make terrible meat-shields. They take up valuable raid slots (which, mind, are limited) and die in one hit. There's absolutely zero reason for a raid leader to take low levels in place of high levels.

That's not to say you can't have a story about a low-level character bumbling around, just that you should keep the story centered around low-level aspects, not throw in hard to explain high-level ones. I can see you're trying really hard to justify this guy being taken to raids, but it just comes of as trying too hard to justify it. You should take a step back and look at the concept. What is the story you're trying to tell?

Is it the story of a newbie bumbling around with wide-eyed ignorance?

Or is it the story of an adventurer who sets out to explore this vast, now real world?

The former you can tell without Phantasmal items gained from improbably raid scenarios. The later could have acquired such items naturally.

It's meant to be both, the phantasmal is meant to be a catalyst for rapid travel that unexpected and a source of many gags like "How does a noob have a phantasmal drop! Give it to me." Also raid wise, they were using Zerg tactics, using noobs to set off traps, scout for you, and exploit the bosses special nature, it is multiple raid groups not one.

[agetreme]

Originally Posted by ArmaniWeston

It's meant to be both, the phantasmal is meant to be a catalyst for rapid travel that unexpected

Rapid Unexpected travel = Fairy Ring (you don't know where you will end up)

and a source of many gags like "How does a noob have a phantasmal drop! Give it to me."

The reason why I avoid giving most of my character phantasmal grades item is because Phantasmal Item are sort of like rare and legendary items.... It's like that rare card you never get from a trading card game despite of knowing that it is there somewhere.

Also raid wise, they were using Zerg tactics, using noobs to set off traps, scout for you, and exploit the bosses special nature, it is multiple raid groups not one.

The same thing apply: It is better to give the Empty slot to players who can actually contribute to the boss fights.

Besides exactly how many N00bs are there in the party? Don't tell me one, because that it not going fly.

Also the raid party has to be seriously incompetent if they have to rely on newbies as canon fodder.

Whatever the Newbies are being used for, the Summoners could easily substitute with their summons...

And like Keroko mentioned: LOW LEVEL PLAYERS MAKE BAD MEAT SHIELD.

They die from normal attacks alone(you know attacks without cooldown and occur more often). Every single attack from the Boss is fatal so how can you even expect them to survive long enough to exploit the Boss' system?

[ArmaniWeston]

Originally Posted by agetreme

Rapid Unexpected travel = Fairy Ring (you don't know where you will end up)



The reason why I avoid giving most of my character phantasmal grades item is because Phantasmal Item are sort of like rare and legendary items.... It's like that rare card you never get from a trading card game despite of knowing that it is there somewhere.



The same thing apply: It is better to give the Empty slot to players who can actually contribute to the boss fights.

Besides exactly how many N00bs are there in the party? Don't tell me one, because that it not going fly.

Also the raid party has to be seriously incompetent if they have to rely on newbies as canon fodder.

Whatever the Newbies are being used for, the Summoners could easily substitute with their summons...

And like Keroko mentioned: LOW LEVEL PLAYERS MAKE BAD MEAT SHIELD.

They die from normal attacks alone(you know attacks without cooldown and occur more often). Every single attack from the Boss is fatal so how can you even expect them to survive long enough to exploit the Boss' system?

Well the raid heads weren't the smartest/nicest of ppl. Basically them are there greedy guild rounded up anyone and everyone they could grab. Since there still is a "fear of death" using anyone lessens the overall chance of themselves dying and getting the loot. They sent 100s of players in Zerg waves while they themselves where spread evenly across the last waves, Armani was lucky enough to be in one of the last mid to low level zergs waves that was meant for recon and softening the targets. Basically if you were to equate age to level, the guild used child soldiers (like Hamelin.)
Also the phantasm drop is a joke item meaning it gives a lot more trouble than it's worse and he can't remove it limiting his growth gear wise as even Artifact-grade items could be considered better, it's only phantasmal in its rareness and quirkiness.

Edit: So I've decided to rehash my character and how he got his annoying phantasmal coat.

Spoiler for Here it is:

Name: Armani
Level: 10
Race: Race of Ceremony
Gender: Male (Homosexual)
Class: Medicine Man (North American Server's Druid)
Subclass: level 30 Scholar (learns about how to use all sorts of magic)

Equipment:
Ever-lost Adventurer's Cloak of Wonderlust: Also know as the "Most trollish phantasmal drop ever." This phantasmal-grade cloak is the ultimate troll item given its numerous "curses"
-Has stats 1/4th of a production-grade cloak of your current level (So at lv90 you only get lv23 (rounding up))
-Increases your movement speed by 100% but cutting weight limit by 25%.
-Every 10 minutes there is 5% chance of getting randomly transported somewhere in a 10km radius, if you aren't teleported in 24 hours an extra 5% is added and stacks until you randomly teleport.
-Every day you have a 1% chance of being teleported to any shrine in the world, if you aren't transported in a day an extra 1% is added and stacks until you randomly teleport.
-Has a companion AI that gains 1 low-end ability of its previous owners (will go into more detail of this later) Note: The AI is a really annoying know-it-all little Alv kid that teases Armani.
-Can ask AI while next to a Fairy Ring to teleported to your desired location (accuracy is that of a 10km difference,) it has a 1 week cooldown and can teleport up 5 other people but at the cost of increasing the cooldown by 1 week per person. (this is useful as Fairy Rings work by Lunar Cycle meaning you can remove the waiting time)
-Can ask AI to teleport you anywhere in 100 meters and has a 4 hour cooldown.
-Is permanently bound to your back-piece equipment slot, can only be removed to be repaired or using by a "transfer point" which allows you to give the item to another person. (there was 10 points in all but by the time Armani gets it there are no more transfer points.)
Armani got this phantasmal item a week after the Catastrophe from a crazy old man who scams it off to him for his entire gold. He was promptly teleported to Akiba a day later.

Light-weight Book of Infinite Width: A special book/weapon that it given to lucky new characters with subclass of Scribe, Scholar, Apprentice, or Pathfinder. It gives you low-grade infinite paper and ink half your level to make spells, recipes, maps, and notes through magically compressing the paper and storing the ink and paper in a sub-dimension. Many people didn't choose this item as there was better items for later levels as they are permanently bound to you.
Armani got this when he first logged for the first time and decided this was the best item for you, it was also first one he saw and was the worse options (the second option was an option for Support classes that auto-made special recovery potions every thirty minutes)

Bracelets of Useless Pearls of Wisdom: A joke item that creates "Useless Pearls of Wisdom" once every 12 hours, the pearls are consumables the give you a 1-time use low to med level spell with 2 random modifiers and 1 random negative effect. It is permanently bound to your wrist slot and can only be removed to repair. Armani has 1 on both wrist slots after he got them from grinding with a kind lv90 who warned him not to pick them up.

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by ArmaniWeston

It's meant to be both, the phantasmal is meant to be a catalyst for rapid travel that unexpected and a source of many gags like "How does a noob have a phantasmal drop! Give it to me." Also raid wise, they were using Zerg tactics, using noobs to set off traps, scout for you, and exploit the bosses special nature, it is multiple raid groups not one.

Why must it be both? As it stands now, trying to tell both stories with one character just ends up in a flimsy attempt to patch things together with tape (how does he even wear a Phantasmal cape from a level 90 dungeon? That thing would be way above his level, joke item or not).

Really, I suggest you drop the Phantasmal cape. It serves no direct story purpose that can't be told in another, less forced way. Fairy Rings still work even without that cape, it's entirely unneeded for him to have it if you want him to explore he world. The gags could instead be focused on him being a newbie and having no knowledge of MMO games, leading to many comical misunderstandings. Which would also be more varied than "He has a rare cape. Get him." A gag that will outstay its welcome rather swiftly.

Also, if a boss allows multiple raid groups, that generally means the encounter requires those multiple raid groups. Filling half your slot with newbies would still be hamstringing yourself.

[ArmaniWeston]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Why must it be both? As it stands now, trying to tell both stories with one character just ends up in a flimsy attempt to patch things together with tape (how does he even wear a Phantasmal cape from a level 90 dungeon? That thing would be way above his level, joke item or not).

Really, I suggest you drop the Phantasmal cape. It serves no direct story purpose that can't be told in another, less forced way. Fairy Rings still work even without that cape, it's entirely unneeded for him to have it if you want him to explore he world. The gags could instead be focused on him being a newbie and having no knowledge of MMO games, leading to many comical misunderstandings. Which would also be more varied than "He has a rare cape. Get him." A gag that will outstay its welcome rather swiftly.

Also, if a boss allows multiple raid groups, that generally means the encounter requires those multiple raid groups. Filling half your slot with newbies would still be hamstringing yourself.

I adjusted how he got to make it more comedic and not requiring him to have partake in the raid.

Spoiler for Here it is:

Name: Armani
Level: 10
Race: Race of Ceremony
Gender: Male (Homosexual)
Class: Medicine Man (North American Server's Druid)
Subclass: level 30 Scholar (learns about how to use all sorts of magic)

Equipment:
Ever-lost Adventurer's Cloak of Wonderlust: Also know as the "Most trollish phantasmal drop ever." This phantasmal-grade cloak is the ultimate troll item given its numerous "curses"
-Has stats 1/4th of a production-grade cloak of your current level (So at lv90 you only get lv23 (rounding up))
-Increases your movement speed by 100% but cutting weight limit by 25%.
-Every 10 minutes there is 5% chance of getting randomly transported somewhere in a 10km radius, if you aren't teleported in 24 hours an extra 5% is added and stacks until you randomly teleport.
-Every day you have a 1% chance of being teleported to any shrine in the world, if you aren't transported in a day an extra 1% is added and stacks until you randomly teleport.
-Has a companion AI that gains 1 low-end ability of its previous owners (will go into more detail of this later) Note: The AI is a really annoying know-it-all little Alv kid that teases Armani.
-Can ask AI while next to a Fairy Ring to teleported to your desired location (accuracy is that of a 10km difference,) it has a 1 week cooldown and can teleport up 5 other people but at the cost of increasing the cooldown by 1 week per person. (this is useful as Fairy Rings work by Lunar Cycle meaning you can remove the waiting time)
-Can ask AI to teleport you anywhere in 100 meters and has a 4 hour cooldown.
-Is permanently bound to your back-piece equipment slot, can only be removed to be repaired or using by a "transfer point" which allows you to give the item to another person. (there was 10 points in all but by the time Armani gets it there are no more transfer points.)
Armani got this phantasmal item a week after the Catastrophe from a crazy old man who scams it off to him for his entire gold. He was promptly teleported to Akiba a day later.

Light-weight Book of Infinite Width: A special book/weapon that it given to lucky new characters with subclass of Scribe, Scholar, Apprentice, or Pathfinder. It gives you low-grade infinite paper and ink half your level to make spells, recipes, maps, and notes through magically compressing the paper and storing the ink and paper in a sub-dimension. Many people didn't choose this item as there was better items for later levels as they are permanently bound to you.
Armani got this when he first logged for the first time and decided this was the best item for you, it was also first one he saw and was the worse options (the second option was an option for Support classes that auto-made special recovery potions every thirty minutes)

Bracelets of Useless Pearls of Wisdom: A joke item that creates "Useless Pearls of Wisdom" once every 12 hours, the pearls are consumables the give you a 1-time use low to med level spell with 2 random modifiers and 1 random negative effect. It is permanently bound to your wrist slot and can only be removed to repair. Armani has 1 on both wrist slots after he got them from grinding with a kind lv90 who warned him not to pick them up.

[Sheba]

People who have appeared in chapter 2 (still in beta reading phase)

Spoiler for Profiles:

The RP Club

The RP Club is actually a small circle made up of various members of a student council in a japanese highschool. They were tabletop RPG players who eventually switched to Elder Tales as the logistics for a MMORPG were less demanding. They were in their third year when the Catastrophe took them.


Character Name: Galatea Bluedawn nicknamed "Kaichou"
Level: 90
Race: Elf
Class: Sorcerer
Subclass: Scholar
Guild: The RP Club

Items
• Staff of the One-Week Wizard- An Artifact item obtained from "The Unmovable Great Library" quest chain. It's crafted from an old tree, circled with bands of copper. Obsidian, Ruby, Aquamarine, Sunstone and Moonstone ornates the tip of the staff. The entire construct had the symbolize of the Japanese weekly calendar in mind. In game terms, this had the ability to boost an elemental power according to the day, knowing that Sunday will boost all elemental offensive spells of the party while Monday will increase the elemental defenses of the party.
• Shroud of the Erudite - Production-class robe that increase casting speed.
• Bracelets of The Sir Astolfo- To symbolize the hyperactivity and blabbermouth of the legendary Paladin of Charlemagne, those bracelets protects against Sleep and Mute status.

Persona
Galatea is the main leader of the group. As befitting of someone who was a student council president before the Catastrophe, he is level-headed, rather calm even tho he had his times where he joked around especially when it came to his little sister. Knowing that people can't shoulder everything, he was one of those presidents who distributed roles to his fellows in order to lessen the burden and make the group work together. He had a nerd side to him, inherited from his mother, which made him enjoy RPGs in general. This eventually led him to Elder Tales, via his mother. The Catastrophe had not bothered him much, excepted for one thing. His little sister who had not adjusted well to being a guy.

His character build is Magical Battery


Character Name: Hekmar Thundershield nicknamed "Imouto"
Level: 90
Race: Dwarf
Class: Guardian
Subclass: Blacksmith
Guild: The RP Club

Items
• Stone Guardian Knight's Shield- Production-class item. A large round shield that is as big as Hekmar is. Increase stamina as well as ice and lightning resistance.
• Stone Guardian Knight's Armor - Production-class item. It boost stamina. Defense is increased according to Hate rate.
• Hammer of Weyland- Artifact class item that boost Blacksmith subclass' abilities.

Persona

Hekmar is Galatea's little sister in real life. Bookworm, short and a little chubby, she suffered from a slight inferiority complex toward his brother which clashed with her pride. As a result, she worked hard to improve herself. Having fallen in her mother's hobby like her brother did, her roleplaying choices always gravitated toward tank classes and hardy races, she also made a rule to play guys.
As a result, she didn't take the Catastrophe as good as her fellows did, especially when she had to attend to "bathroom emergencies".

As a Guardian, she is a Fortress build.



Character Name: Kaya Greywillow nicknamed "Sensei"
Level: 90
Race: Elf
Class: Assassin
Subclass: Animal trainer
Guild: The RP Club

Items
• White Death- Artifact weapon. This white bow sees its damage rate significantly boosted when its user stand in its optimal range, as in far enough for the arrows to be still deadly and accurate.
• Silent Snake Cloak- A production class leather armor. Decreases the mana consumption and cooldowns of Assassin class' movement skills.

Persona
Unofficially the co-leader of the RP Club, she is the supervising teacher of the student council. She found herself swept in the Catastrophe with her students. A free spirit, this made her walk a questionable path in her teenage years until she decided to become teacher. Of course, this had not been easy for her to match up the standards of japanese society and education system. Being stuck in Elder Tales, the experience displeased her at first, then she eventually came to like it since the absence of rules made it so much more relaxing. However, as an adult and a teacher, she reminds herself that she had responsibilities toward her students. Upon meeting Céline (the main character of the story), she eventually found a mischievous side in her.

She is a sniper build assassin.


Character Name: Getafix
Level: 90
Race: Wolf Fang Tribe
Class: Druid
Subclass: Alchemist
Guild: The RP Club

Items
• Brainbiter- Production Class item. This combat axe is crafted from a supernatural alloy of steel, obsidian then the essence of the Queen Lich, a Artifact-class drop from a raid where the guild participated as allies. Its moderate damage is complemented by the ability to inflict random negative mental status in addition of draining a % of mana from the enemy then add it to its user's.

Pet
• Dogmatix- Getafix's large brown Dire Wolf. He is his assist.

Persona

Getafix was a trap in real life. He is endebted to the student council for accepting him for what he was. Goofing around the Club made him more open and the Catastrophe was seen by him as a blessing.

Being of the Absorber build, Getafix plays a midfield role, switching between offensive or defensive support.


Character Name: Felizzio
Level: 90
Race: Werecat
Class: Monk
Subclass: Tailor
Guild: The RP Club

Items
• South Dipper Fist of the Lone Eagle - Production Item increasing Strenght and damage against demi-humans
• Waterfowl Fist Disciple Cloth- Production Item that decreases cooldown and mana consumption of monk skills.
• Sewing needle of the three Norn- Artifact class needle to boost tailor subclass's skills and increase the quality of crafted items in turn.

Persona

Son of a fashion designer father and a lingerie shop owner mother, Felizzio was called the Marriage Saver because of his skills in tailoring. While this made him a success among housewives, the schoolgirls were less nice to him, especially because of the lingerie part. He joined the student council as treasurer and joined them in their hobbies.
The Catastrophe was seen as him as one of the best role playing game section he ever had.

Felizzio is a representant of the Kung fu Monk build.

[Marcus H.]

Character Name: Katze Laikanaiph (pronounced as "cuts like a knife")
Level: 75
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Class: Assassin (melee)
Subclass: Bounty Hunter
Guild: Nasankaman (Filipino: "nasaan ka man", lit., "wherever you are")
HP: to be followed
MP: to be followed
Server: SEA

Items
• Wasteland Business Suit - A Production-class set of clothing that resembles the attire the typical office worker wears, although creased up, dirty and tattered on the edges. Disregarding the average stats it gave, he chose the outfit because it simply looks cool.
• Ripper's Gauntlet - Two light gauntlets that have a single-edged blade attached to it. The blades are installed such that it can be removed by the user with ease, but is strong enough to be used on parrying incoming attacks without being disarmed. A variety of daggers and short swords can be attached on this weapon, but switching to them is severely inconvenient in battle. In some cases, this weapon is called as the "Mega Man Gauntlet" because of its functionality.
• Bony Abacus - An accessory made out of the skeletal remains of monsters. It carries the basic functions of a calculator and doubles as a trinket that weakens attacks from skeletal mobs against the owner. Trinket Walk also becomes twice as effective when equipped.

Background
Katze is Orix's long-time friend and the reason why Orix began playing Elder Tale. In the real world, Katze is an unemployed college graduate that was considering studying medicine until various real-life issues made him reconsider. Up until the Homesteading the Noosphere update, Katze has been exploring the content of Elder Tale with Orix and they have even shared some of the spoils of war with each other, although Katze often leaves the lore to his Cleric friend because it was uninteresting to him. One notable facet of the relationship between the two is how they prevent the other from quitting Elder Tale for good.

Following the events of the Catastrophe, Katze was forced to engage more in affairs with the Nasankaman guild, as do most well-organized guilds in Elder Tale, leaving Orix to face death in the midst of increasing PK activity in the player city of Manila. He eventually reunites with Orix in exploring, retaining their usual interactions. However, he is now all the more cautious about Theldessia, which he soon realizes is more than just a game setting to explore and pillage.

Skills Overview
When deciding for a class to use, Katze initially chose one of the Warrior classes because of the armor and weapons involved. He eventually shifted to the Assassin class because of the hype brought by the Assassinate skill in various videos displaying its might. Katze then initially learned skills for the Sword Dancer Assassin, but he regretted his decision when he began struggling in his fights due to an Assassin's poor survivability. Eventually, he moved to the path of the Shadow Blade, but continues to carry the burden of being a "failed" Sword Dancer.

Because of the presence of Blade Dancer skills in his Shadow Blade build, Katze managed to create a playstyle that combines the assassination techniques known to the Assassin with the parrying effect of the Ripper's Gauntlet, turning him into a Swashbuckler of sorts when forced to go melee. However, Katze truly shines when in the shadows, using mobility and stealth to tear down through mobs with ease.

Noted skills: Assassinate, Stealth Blade, Fatal Ambush, Silent Sniper, Accel Fang, Sweeper, Paralyzing Blow, Hiding Entry, Gust Step, Trinket Walk

Build: Shadow Blade with Blade Dancer skills
Signature Skill: Fatal Ambush
Overskill: Blade Sandstorm - Prolonged usage of Gust Walk and Accel Fang especially in dry terrain allows Katze to whip up a blinding storm of winds in the battlefield, creating a second layer of stealth for Katze to use for high-Hate attacks like Assassinate.

[MeisterBabylon]

Originally Posted by ArmaniWeston

The point is to be comedic, think less in a corner and more running wildly in fear while meteors rain down.

Blemy, in games these days, DON'T STAND IN BAD STUFF is already a lost art.

If a noob can flee from meteors and telegraphs popping left and right, I'd say he's just new and doing very well.

[agetreme]

Note: One interesting fact that is not mentioned in the English Wiki:

Druid can talk to animal with a skill..... Reaching an understanding is impossible due to different thought process.

But being able to talk to animals, does make things a little more interesting.....

Player: Err... why are you talking to that Boar

Druid: Oh, I am just asking it for direction....

Player: ?! (Think that Druid has gone crazy)

=

Guru: "You know what is the most dangerous summon?"

Player: "Tiamat? Bahumut? Cockatrice?

*Guru point to a chicken*

Spoiler for Lethal Joke Summon:

The story of a Summoner go like this:

There is a tutorial quest that require the Summoner to acquire their first summon.

You can buy a magic contract for 100 gold, do a chain of simple quest and get something like a Pseudo-Dragon as first summon.

or

Alternatively you can buy a Chick for 10 gold from a Local Farm and make a contract with it and end the quest with: "After thinking for a while, you decide that it is too much of a hassle and bought a Chick from a local farm and make a contract with it."

Probably due to the fact that it is not actually magical, its stats is based on Summoner's Physical stats (which is very low and it is impractical to have a Physical Build Summoner since all other summons depends on Magic stats), making it the weakest summons...... Not to mention, even at its peak, it's HP is too low to be considered useful.

That's however, is only on paper.

The Summon can actually remain useful throughout a Summoner's entire career. If anybody actually bother to keep it around....

It turn out that the Chicken can hit very fast (though dealing little damage), ignore enemies' evasion stats and is very hard to hit (due to its size, granting additional evasion bonus).

Even if the Chicken is killed, the summoning time is so fast that you can just summon another one to replace it instantly.

Increase its proficiency and you get a Vicious little bastard (Game-Fowl/ Fighting Cock) who is as ill-tempered as a Certain Rabbit. It ignore defense, deal blind and critical damage (read: because It always go for the soft parts (the eyes)).

Note: Keyword is Unexpectedly dangerous. Could have done it with other Animals but since chicken are normally eaten as a meal, nobody would have expect a chicken to be so lethal.

[ArmaniWeston]

Originally Posted by agetreme

Note: One interesting fact that is not mentioned in the English Wiki:

Druid can talk to animal with a skill..... Reaching an understanding is impossible due to different thought process.

But being able to talk to animals, does make things a little more interesting.....

Player: Err... why are you talking to that Boar

Druid: Oh, I am just asking it for direction....

Player: ?! (Think that Druid has gone crazy)

=

Guru: "You know what is the most dangerous summon?"

Player: "Tiamat? Bahumut? Cockatrice?

*Guru point to a chicken*

Spoiler for Lethal Joke Summon:

The story of a Summoner go like this:

There is a tutorial quest that require the Summoner to acquire their first summon.

You can buy a magic contract for 100 gold, do a chain of simple quest and get something like a Pseudo-Dragon as first summon.

or

Alternatively you can buy a Chick for 10 gold from a Local Farm and make a contract with it and end the quest with: "After thinking for a while, you decide that it is too much of a hassle and bought a Chick from a local farm and make a contract with it."

Probably due to the fact that it is not actually magical, its stats is based on Summoner's Physical stats (which is very low and it is impractical to have a Physical Build Summoner since all other summons depends on Magic stats), making it the weakest summons...... Not to mention, even at its peak, it's HP is too low to be considered useful.

That's however, is only on paper.

The Summon can actually remain useful throughout a Summoner's entire career. If anybody actually bother to keep it around....

It turn out that the Chicken can hit very fast (though dealing little damage), ignore enemies' evasion stats and is very hard to hit (due to its size, granting additional evasion bonus).

Even if the Chicken is killed, the summoning time is so fast that you can just summon another one to replace it instantly.

Increase its proficiency and you get a Vicious little bastard (Game-Fowl/ Fighting Cock) who is as ill-tempered as a Certain Rabbit. It ignore defense, deal blind and critical damage (read: because It always go for the soft parts (the eyes)).

Note: Keyword is Unexpectedly dangerous. Could have done it with other Animals but since chicken are normally eaten as a meal, nobody would have expect a chicken to be so lethal.

*applauds* I wish my OC was a summoner still so he could summon a chicken now, or a cat... But Medicine Man seems really cool! xD why don't you make a joke for the Medicine Man class?

[agetreme]

Originally Posted by ArmaniWeston

*applauds* I wish my OC was a summoner still so he could summon a chicken now, or a cat... But Medicine Man seems really cool! xD why don't you make a joke for the Medicine Man class?

Because not sure if it is an official class yet....

Druid's Nature Talk seems legit (found it from the Japanese Wiki), it was originally mean to boost Summons' (yes, Druid can summon animals) ability but after the disaster, they can use this skill to talk to animals.... However, conversation is difficult due to different thinking process.... Cat think like a Cat, Wolf think like Wolf, Human think like human.

===

Chicken is not official, just something I added for fun. Cat work just as well... in fact even better due to Night-vision and Sneak attack bonus.

However, Chicken not as threatening as Cat (since people eat Chicken rather than Cat.... they just assume that Chicken is not as dangerous)

Imagine a Boss seeing an army of summons (Skeletons, Golems...etc) and among the midst is a freaking chicken.... who slowly gorging your eyes out while the rest of the summon go down in one hit.

Your best option is attack the Summoner directly. The problem is: Can you still see the summoner with your eyes gorged out?

It's totally asking for trouble when you compare a Shrimp like Akatsuki to the Chicken as a praise rather than an insult.....

[ArmaniWeston]

Originally Posted by agetreme

Because not sure if it is an official class yet....

Druid's Nature Talk seems legit (found it from the Japanese Wiki), it was originally mean to boost Summons' (yes, Druid can summon animals) ability but after the disaster, they can use this skill to talk to animals.... However, conversation is difficult due to different thinking process.... Cat think like a Cat, Wolf think like Wolf, Human think like human.

===

Chicken is not official, just something I added for fun. Cat work just as well... in fact even better due to Night-vision and Sneak attack bonus.

However, Chicken not as threatening as Cat (since people eat Chicken rather than Cat.... they just assume that Chicken is not as dangerous)

Imagine a Boss seeing an army of summons (Skeletons, Golems...etc) and among the midst is a freaking chicken.... who slowly gorging your eyes out while the rest of the summon go down in one hit.

Your best option is attack the Summoner directly. The problem is: Can you still see the summoner with your eyes gorged out?

It's totally asking for trouble when you compare a Shrimp like Akatsuki to the Chicken as a praise rather than an insult.....

Medicine Man is an official class on the American server. Look at the oversea classes on Mamare's website. It's a replacement for druid(?) that's focuses more on communing with the "great spirit" (great reference)

[agetreme]

Originally Posted by ArmaniWeston

Medicine Man is an official class on the American server. Look at the oversea classes on Mamare's website. It's a replacement for druid(?) that's focuses more on communing with the "great spirit" (great reference)

It is not confirm yet... (you aren't even sure what class it is replacing).

Beside, it's freaking Medicine Man...

How crazy do you want him to be?

He is already wearing weird mask and swinging stuff to allegedly cure thing. That's is pretty crazy for me....

Edit:
Having a cold?

Medicine-man? Dekomori (from Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!): DEATH!

[J4n1]

Not writing fan fiction, nor intending to, but somehow i ended up making up my own character.

From what i understand, summoners are limited to 12 contracted servant summons, and are capable of having more than one out at same time, and can summon same contract (depending on contract, high level rare ones not being included) more than once making skeleton zerg a viable build.
level is 90+, signifying that he started out as level 90 when the Apocalypse happened, and will gain more levels over time because he is active in going out to saly monsters (or, more accurately, have his minions slay monsters as he is shouting orders from behind).

The character is based, extremely loosely, on a warlock i used to play in WoW years ago (fairly high level raider in Vanilla/Crusade/Wrath, but quit after guild dispanded little before cataclysm came out).

Feel free to critique if i have managed to break lore somewhere.

Name: Torian
Race: Human
Class/lvl: Summoner/90+
Subclass/lvl: Sigilmaker/90+
Guild: none (his previous guild dispanded few years back)

Gear:
Black Grimoire of the Necromancer:
Artefact class Grimoire that boosts magical attack, but also boosts undead type summoner spells, dungeon drop.
Mystic robe of the summoner:
Production Class robe that gives protection against magical damage and gives a minor boost to servant summons.
Talisman of Calling:
Can turn a summon spell into an instant cast once every 12 hours, a possible quest reward that few bother taking (or hang onto) because of the long cooldown and wasting an equipment slot better used for something more powerful.

Description:
Mid sized (for caucasian) human male, wearing deep blue, almost black robes covered in red sigils, carrying a black sinister looking book/grimoire, with a bald head covered in red sigils and sigils at the back and palms of his hands.

As a sigilmaker, Torian has covered almost all of his body, and most of his gear with sigils.
Because sigils won't work if covered, the sigils in his gear, and sigils on his body serve different purposes.
Torians robes have sigils to boost magical power as well as mana regeneration, while his body has sigils that boost

the defenses and provide protection against various status effects (paradoxically, making it so that less he wears, more protected he is).
A sigil drawn direclty over Torvals right eye offers him dark vision, but only for his right eye, while the sigils surrounding rest of his head where the hair would be boost the power of his spells, and the sigils on his hands increase casting speed and lower cooldowns (sigils are somewhere between weak to moderate artefact level items in power, and he is unable to wear a hat or gloves if he wants to gain the effect from them).

Spoiler for Background:

An european solo player (former raider who stopped raiding after his guild disintegrated some years ago) who was visiting Yamato server to do a summoning quest not available elsewhere (having lost access to internet, he has no clue where to even start it, or what the quest was called, or the name of the summon).
For some reason, Torian found himself capable of talking to other adventurers after the Apocalypse, reason is unknown though he suspects it might have something to do with different language game clients allowing him to talk to landers while ET was still a game.

When things starget getting worse in Akiba (little before Shiroe and co left of save Serara), Torian decided it would be safer to simply leave the place far enough to avoid meeting anyone trying to find easy marks to PK, eventually making a temporary home of a large graveyard zone filled by low level undead mobs, avoided by landers and adventurers alike (dangerous to landers, creepy to most adventurers).
From there, he started exploring the world, training in using his skills and commanding his minions, eventually learning to do it without the use of game interface, slowly (very, very slowly) raising the level and number of enemies he could fight without endangering himself, and eventually going further out from his home, to close by lander villages to by food and supplies, as well as talking to them to learn about the world.

After hearing about the formation of RTC (sometime between events of bovels 2 and 3), Torian eventually made his way back to Akiba, where, after learning about the new cooking and crafting method, he threw himself into sigilmaking and trying new ways of to use his subclass abilities, eventually learning how to craft sigils without menus, gaining the ability to put sigils into almost anything (phantoms are too hard to actually thouch, and trying to draw on a dragon ended with extensive burns and almost cost him a hand).

While Torian managed to miss the initial Goblin invasion (he was outside Akiba gathering materials for sigilmaking), he took part in later hunts for surviving goblin tribes, and has since then thrown himself wholeheartedly into grouping and exploring dungeons, and is thinking of trying to get into raids (though he remains adamant about not joining a guild to do so).

When not running mid to high level dungeons in groups, Torval spends time soloing low level dungeons, exploring the world and visiting lander villages and towns, trying to learn and experience as much as he can of this world, using his dragon summon in conjunction with Soul Possession and Castling to travel distances normal mounts would have trouble crossing, with the drawback that to use it, he needs to first find a safe location to store his body (or carry it with him while keeping it from harm).

Playstyle:
Torian uses a fairly standard necromancer build, specializing in summon strengthening spells and zerg tactics with large amounts of skeleton soldier summons, using Graveyard Walk to zerg individual strong enemies with large numbers of individually weak skeleton soldiers, or Death Scythe to take out weaker enemies through surprise attacks, while Phantom summon acts as an evasion tank.

While not specifically focused on synthetic summons, Torval does have a fairly decent Rock Golem to fall back on if evasion tanking fails him, though not as high a rank as Torians undead summons, sigils carved into its surface make the rock Golem a formidable, if a short lived, tank, capable of taking and holding agro provided the dps can control their attacks.

Torian also has access to a dragon type summon, capable of calling forth a large western type Dragon.
Dragon has decent defense and physical attacks, but its greatest strength is the powerfull breath weapon causing aoe fire damage.
However, due to firebreath causing damage to everything in its path, be it enemy or ally, and Torians other summons exceeding the Dragon either in defense (Phantom/Golem), or single target dps (Skeleton Soldier), the Dragon sees little use, though it has proven very good for scouting (Soul Possession), and for usage in large scale battles, where it can do hit and run attacks deeper into enemy ranks without the danger of damaging allies, covering them in fiery breath, or dropping explosives, before running away before enemy can retaliate or significantly damage it.

Torian does have both Undine and Salamander, though only at the most basic level, and had been thinking of replacing them with other summons, though after Apocalypse happened, he has been very glad for having kept them.

Outside of combat, Golem, Salamander and Undine see lot of use, carrying heavy loads, providing light and warmth as well as clean water for drinking and bathing.

Torian is supposed to have full 12 servant summons, but can't think of other 6 right now, probably mostly some type of undead, with one or two other kinds.
If combat summons also use these slots, then Deadly Swarm is definitely one of them.

Spoiler for Kouden:

Rune Golem: Standard summoned golem covered in sigils made by a sigilmaker, boosting its power and defenses, or otherwise enhancing it depending on sigils used. Sigils persist after between summons, except if the golem is destroyed after which next golem summoned will not have sigils and needs to have new sigils added.

Bombing Run: dragons can fly, and after the catastrophe, they can also carry things, be they people wanting a lift, or barrels filled with explosive potions, very effective, and expensive, way of delivering lot of hurt in a small period of time to any given location (that lacks a roof).

Dragon Ride: Torval is able to summon a dragon large enough to carry him in the air, unfortunately the dragon does not come with a saddle, making the whole thing sound more awesome than it is, use of summon -> Soul Possession -> Castling is lot better for transportation purposes.
Still cool though, and usefull if you want to impress people.