OOC
Hitorigoto-
The world known as Hitorigoto is a world invisible to the living world. What it is exactly is a world created by the noisy minds of the world. This world is nothing but a mirror of the real world we live in now, or as the inhabitants of this world call it, the "world of the living". These inhabitants are known as the Speakers, wielding peculiar powers known as Noise, Speakers are in a fight for a second chance at life, or supremacy, and the title given to the one who reigns supreme, is the Reaper. Why do they aim to become Reaper? Being the Reaper means to be able to twist the laws of Hitorigoto, meaning they can give themselves life in the world of the living, or even destroy Hitorigoto.
This Mirror of a World-
When I say it's a mirror, I mean it's a mirror. It's an exact mirror of this world, meaning while you're sitting at your computer reading this, a Speaker in your house in Hitorigoto would be watching you as you read. It's an exact mirror, if I lifted my hand now, my "mirror" self would be lifting it's own hand too. But the difference between the two worlds, is that in Hitorigoto, hearing actual conversation is impossible, all the Speaker would hear is the thoughts of the person, not exactly hear, but pictures and scenes and words appear over the person's head, to depict what that person is thinking.
Our mirror selves, are called Monologues, called so because when people are thinking to themselves, they are actually in monologue. These mirror selves, well killing them or something similar would not affect the living self in any way. While all you killed was something physical, you cannot kill their thoughts, which keep on going, as if nothing happened. If you left for a minute or so and came back, they'd be back in their place, doing whatever they were doing, as if nothing had happened.
Speakers-
Speakers, hundreds of them, actually they're the souls of the dead, so there's probably billions. When people die, they end up in Hitorigoto, with two choices. Fight for the top and get their chance at life, or live in Hitorigoto. Speakers, they're like our everyday people, casual, ignoring the fact they're dead. Actually, some Speakers have actually tapped into new technologies of the living world, and were able to sell things to Speakers. Clothing, games, just about anything. The thing is, Speakers are limited to things that are portable, meaning your favorite Wii game or latest computer is impossible to get. Though iPods and Nintendo DS, they're possible to get.
How a Speaker buys from a shop... Well it's simple, they find the "mirror" shop in Hitorigoto, there'll always be a Speaker or two working there. That's where you buy your things, like go to a mirror clothes shop, buy your clothes there, go to a mirror JB-Hi-Fi, bye your new music players there. Loads of stuff really, as long as the store exists, you can go access the portable things sold there. Remember it's limited to portables.
How do Speakers "buy" things one may ask... Well, Speakers actually accumulate a sort of currency called Forte. Through defeating another Speaker, they gain this currency, it's a lot like your game's Experience. The output of Noise during the fight helps with how much of the currency is accumulated. The amount is recorded in the Speaker's music player, with an F next to the number. Now, to make it simpler, 10F is equal to 1 dollar there. So 100F is 10 dollars. American or Australian currency, I don't care. Well, that settles the matter of Speakers currency.
As the main opening has said, Speakers fight or live, well, there's a system or not, to this fighting. Call it a system or not, but the stronger a Speaker is, the higher the Forte is given for whoever beats them. There are two Speakers here, the Outlaws, called Outlaws because they're like Outlaws, a bounty is placed on them depending on strength. And the ones that live, called the Innocent. Since they don't aim to become strong enough to defeat the Reaper, which is the aim of Outlaws, they're Innocent. The Innocent can also have a sub-group, called Hunters. Hunters don't aim to become Reaper, some seek joy in fighting other Speakers, so they become a Hunter, and go after bounties. Though, to be hunted, it doesn't have to be a Hunter. An Outlaw can actually hunt another Outlaw, for bounty of course. So to make it simpler, an Outlaw would be our criminals in society, Hunters are somewhat like police, but like Jango Fett, are bounty hunters, and the Innocents are our everyday civilians.
Though, since the two worlds are mirrors, there is the issue on transportation. Well that's easily solved by teleporters set up in every phone booth in the mirror world. It's simple, there are two giant books, one for local, one for worldwide. They'd probably be the yellow pages in the living world. Look up where you want to go, put in the number, then after a few moments you're at the phone booth with the number depicted. Say Washington DC's number 128234, from somewhere else, far away, I type those numbers in, and after a few moments I'd find myself in the phone booth. Though since there are hundreds over thousands using the service, there is sometimes a minute or two of waiting.
Noise-
Now that Noise has been mentioned, let's move onto what Noise is shall we? Noise is the peculiar power that every Speaker carries, Innocent, Outlaw or Hunter, it doesn't matter who it is. The source of each Speaker's power is their music player, which makes sense, since music emits an actual noise, thus, the name of the power, Noise. Noise has elements, sometimes the genre of music the person likes affects it, but it doesn't have to. There are 7 elements. Fire, Wind, Water, Earth, Thunder, Light and Darkness. Since there are only 7, not everyone is unique, sometimes someone can have no element at all, but such is rare. And being non-element makes it hard to find weaknesses. But being non-elemental often means they're weak, since they call this non-element, "Infancy", since Speakers believe that those without an element have underdeveloped powers. But this isn't often the case.
So, Forte is accumulated through the more Noise is output during a fight. Forte in actuality means "Loud", meaning the more Noise, meaning the louder it is, outputs more Forte, which is currency. How the amount is measured, is how much power one has used during the fight. Some Speakers have Noise abilities that cause them to use a whole lot of Noise, which causes them to accumulate a lot of Forte, some don't use as much, but this often means they can control their power, and not let it fluctuate everywhere, causing them to faint much more quickly.
The Reaper-
You may be thinking "The Grim Reaper", well this is what a Reaper is. The Reaper of Hitorigoto is the Reaper that controls that world, he is more or less the King. Thing is, without the Reaper, Hitorigoto would be destroyed anyways. But the rule that has been made by the first Reaper, is that whoever kills the current Reaper, becomes the next. A Reaper always carries around a special Scythe, it's black completely, solid and has a strange looking skull where the blade begins. That skull is the sign of the Reaper. The Reaper is only a very powerful Speaker, he isn't some sort of god, but he is a dead soul who has attained power worthy of the rights.
Well, the thing about a "2nd life", is that this is actually fake. A Reaper is only able to materialize in the real world, and live there with an infinite life span, they can go back and forth whenever they want to really. But it's nothing but a fake, you can't actually "live" twice in reality, granting a second life is impossible in reality. But not one of the Speakers except the Reaper and the Reapers before the current knows this. The Reaper can change the laws... Well, it is only as long as the law is something that Hitorigoto itself will approve. In reality, Hitorigoto is the true Reaper.
RP Timeline: Year 2008
Roles for Players: Speaker- Outlaw/ Hunter/ Innocent
Rules
1. No godmoding
2. No posting in the IC thread with OOC posts
3. No flaming
Template-
Name:
Age:
Gender:
DOB: (date of birth)
DOD: (date of death)
Occupation: (what did you do while you were alive?)
Hitorigoto Occupation: (Outlaw, Hunter or Innocent?)
Appearance-
Facial:
Build:
Clothing:
Height:
Weight:
Listening Device: (earphones or headsets? or anything else that's akin to it)
Design: (the design for your listening device, it always has a symbol representing your theme and element on it, this is also for how it appears and such, go crazy with this if you want)
Picture: (it's be nice if you provide a picture)
Speakers-
Element: (7 to choose from, earth, fire, water, wind, thunder, light and dark)
Theme: (can be anything as long as you can get it to work with your element)
Basic Noise Ability: (this is the basic ability, like shooting thunder or blades of wind, you cn have more than 1, but too many will result in a need to edit this)
Noise Finale: (a form or a sure-kill attack, forms last for 3 posts, and sure-killers are only a once-per-battle-use. You can name it too)
Backstory-
Time of Death: (more specific, the TIME of death)
Cause of Death:
Backstory: (usually the life before death)