[ichijin]

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)

[ichijin]

(I do wish someone would actually though)

-The Notice Board-

Updates will be added here, in every medium to large sized shop, there will be a noticeboard somewhere with news of the latest brands for sale, clothing and music players as well as music player upgrades alike. But the only thing I'll be putting here is updates on something to do with the RP

[rainbow_sharingan]

OOC: yay! ooc thread^^ no more messy ooc's during roleplaying!!!

[Kyoshiro-san]

Can i be in this rpg?

[ichijin]

Well, the problem is, is that no one's joining D:

[Grit]

Ooh. Can I recreate my character ichi? I'd like to use a different one.

Name:Kirimado Izure
Age: around 25
Gender: Female
DOB: Unknown era near the 4th century
DOD: Unknown era near the 4th century
Occupation: A scholar
Hitorigoto Occupation: Innocent

Appearance-
Facial:Long golden hair
Build: A bit busty, mid-weight build.
Clothing: A rather classy looking bussiness suit for women. She has a ribbon that laces her hair into a ponytail. Reading glasses are usually on her face.
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 43 kg.
Listening Device: Yellow iPod with a dash of red on the ends.
Design: Has a window like design on the back of the iPod.
Picture: http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/to...SWR_yukari.jpg

Speakers-
Element: Darkness
Theme: Portals
Basic Noise Ability: By opening tiny holes in Hitorigito's boundaries, she can fire up energy from places visible to her. She could also fire normal everyday objects found on the city, like vehicles, signposts, etc.
Noise Finale: Miserable Loop, Purgatory Pitfall. Traps or sucks an enemy into an entry portal. Once inside, she slowly opens the exit portal the puts it closer to the entrance, making the opponent fall endlessly in a loop. When the portals have collided, anything trapped inside is doomed to fall forever. Though if she is merciful, she can yank the person out.

However, controlling the portals to move where the target is located is quite hard. This is one of those abilities that are quite powerful yet hard to use.

Backstory-
Time of Death: Unknown.
Cause of Death: Died of sickness and was quite regretful to live such a pathetic life
Backstory:
Spent most of her life as a scholar. Izure felt a certain want she could never fulfill.

When she arrived at Hirogito and discovered his new found powers, she used it to fulfill the dream she never achieved, to become a merchant. Years passed and more people came and went. Her shop began expanding into other forms of businesses to accommodate the ever growing mass of the mirror world. She's heard as much stories about battles and gladly shares these tales with anyone.

Izure's current business is a small bar with her as the bartender. Her bar serves as an inn as well with the rooms on the second floor. Her shop's name is called: The Misty Window. She accepts any kind of customer as long as they abide by her house rules. Break them and you'll be given the boot out of her inn. Inside her inn is a large noticeboard for anyone interested in the current news and happenings on Hirogito. It also has the most current high reward bounties posted.

Her nickname is " The Sleepy Mistress "

JOIN UP PEOPLE! WE NEED TO KICK THIS RP UP A NOTCH! ^^

[ichijin]

Well we have 3 interested people... That should be enough, just make a template when you can

Really I don't wanna give this idea up

[Kyoshiro-san]

well i like the idea... I'm in....I'll get my post in when i edit this post...OK? and what does OOC mean?

Name-Simon Clyde
age-17
gender-male
DOB-1990
DOD-2007
Occupation-student
HItorigoto Occ-Hunter(for the fights and reaper)

Appearance-
facial-black shaggy hair with grass green eyes
build-lean lightweight, black belt kick boxer
clothing-black hoodie and black shorts with green belt and green fingerless gloves
height-5'6
weight-157lbs
LD-earphones
Design-the earphones have a full moon insignia resembling the worlds ocean tides
Pic-(cannot get pic onto forum at all. need assistance)


Element-Water
theme-Song of storms
BNA- Has the ability to use water from the vapors in the air or use any other water based source for combat
Noise Finale-Lunar Ocean Wave-Pressure Impact-(much like Sand coffin, Sand Burial) once activated under a full, crescent, or three quarters moon, using the gravitational pull of the moon, a gigantic tsunami comes and crashes down on opponents then once they are underwater the second part of the attack, Pressure Impact, comes and crushes the enemy's body using the water pressure..Last resort..If there is a New moon in the sky or it is daylight, most likely, Simon will create an artificial moon to make up for that....(thank you DBZ...credits to them..lol)
TOD- 10:30am
COD-Poison
Backstory-

Simon was a real fighter.He always wanted to challenge people to all sorts of fights. Whether it was a real fight or even through a video game, it had to be a fight. He couldn't get enough of the thrill you get when you are in the middle of a fight. His experience in kickboxing gave him the edge. He won most of his fights and the ones he lost, he wanted a rematch. Even though he liked fights he was a very good boy and he knew when it was time to be serious and when it was time to fight.

Then one day, a guy he beat down was really mad because he lost so he wanted revenge.. Simon finished training a while ago and was strolling through a park wondering who he should fight next.. The other guy had stolen a snake from an old man's yard and shook it up...Then the guy let it loose where Simon was now sitting. Simon had caught the snake coming but it was too late.. Turns out that the snake was deadly and Simon died within minutes, even before he got to the hospital...Of course the other dude didn't know it was poisonous all he knew was he wanted revenge then the guy tried to flee but was caught bcuz of a witness.

Now Simon resides in the Mirror world of Hitorigoto. He puts a positive spin on what had happened. He decides that his death was good bcuz the mortals were weak and now he will have a challenge. When he learns of the other Speakers and the overall Reaper he trains extra hard and anticipates many battles to come..

He earned the nickname of The Everlasting Sea Storm bcuz of his will to fight and his never say never, don't hold back attitude. He doesn't really want to be the reaper, but he wants to fight the reaper..So if he beats the reaper most likely, if possible, he will give up the position to someone else and try to beat them too. He says it won't be any fun if he is the strongest.

[ichijin]

OOC = Out Of Character, meaning we're not using out character

[Kyoshiro-san]

oh thanks and i promise once my character is situated he will come to Hitorigoto he just hasn't been bitten yet, so he isn't dead yet..lol