Oh no! You, yes, you over there. You are part of a thing known as the Mega Man RPG Prototype. You know that the creator and leader of this buiseness is the one and only Adrian Marceau. But, wait, he's invited you to this odd, murky dungeon. With you and other people you may or may not know, you walk into the mansion. It's remarkable, it's beautiful, but, wait, something seems odd about it. The lights are turned off, and the curtains are pulled shut, there's a note on the ground:
Wow, this "Fellow Program" seems to have kidnapped Adrian! Will you be the one to save Adrian? Or will you just be a big weenie and run away home
Now, onto the rules of this hot mess1. Sign Ups: Okay, this'll be a bit harsh I guess, but I'm still enforcing it. Only characters based off the user, like if you're Ender, your character will be based off of you. BUT, also, you can also use characters from Web Comics/Fanfics floating around this site, as long as they aren't official Mega Man characters. For example, do you want to be Rhythm_BCA's Melodia? Perhaps you'd like being EEKADO from Beta and Mega's comic? What about the fabled Moonstone from MusicalKitty's Megabound? What about [REDACTED] from SSN's game? BUT(t) here's a twist! IF these projects use an official Mega Man character, but are able to make them different to the official character, you can choose them. Pun-Loving Cut's Corner Cut Man and Short Alien Megabound Slur are on the table, however, Super-Fighting Robot BCA/Beta and Mega Mega Man is not on the table. Also, I will deny Non-Project fan characters like Blaze Man or Ninja Man on sight, and likely Official MM Characters that aren't featured in any projects like Fan or Drill Man, unless if you provide a good spin on them, like Emotionless-Killer Fan, or Renowned Mathematician Drill Man.
As of now, I'm starting to consider the use of OCs as player options in Mystery Mansion. I will accept OC characters, but as long as you give them a proper bio and at least something about their personality. If you need help with developing a character's personality, I know how to help: So, this is only one little thing, but it does go a very long way. Don't describe what the character is, but more what the character does. For example, instead of "She likes animals" you can say "She regularly holds bake sales in order to fund repopulation projects for her favorite endangered animals." And if you even want, this article by TVtropes may or may not help you out with your bio
2. Sign Up Bios: You must provide information about your character. Their personality, motives, likes and dislikes are good. You may go into more descriptive if you want. I can understand if you pick a character from like Megabound and you cannot provide a really big bio because of the character or whatnot. As for official characters you are willing to take a spin on, I expect a descriptive bio, and at least so it doesn't seem like all you did was make Mega Man green and slightly shorter.
3. Combat-ish system: Along with the Roleplay itself, there will also be a combat-ish system I guess. In your character bio, specify whether your play-style is AggressiveAssertive or Passive and the combat-ish system will be ultra simplified:
-There will only be three stats: Health, Charisma, and Attack There is now five stats! And I've gone into much more detail about these stats as well!
Health: Health is what keeps the player moving. Health, as in most games, is a value used to calculate how much a player can take before giving out. Every player starts at 20 Base Health, but there are many ways that Health can be boosted: 1.) Being hit by an attack that inflicts more than 1 point of damage will increase the player's Max Health by 1!
2.) Eating different foods. Luxurious or event foods will usually increase the player's health by 10-20. Some more common foods may only boost Health by 2-5.
3.) Quests/Dungeons will also occasionally increase Health when completed.
When a player's Health reaches 0, the player is taken to the entrance of the mansion with one of their items stolen by SSJ3 the moose. However, the player can always try and bribe or persuade him to give the item back.
Charisma: Charisma, however, may be proven to be a bit more difficult to explain. Charisma is used for many things, such as: 1.) Interacting with enemies. Players may find themselves interacting and conversing with enemies. They might have an item a player is interested in, or the player may be trying to convince them not to attack. The general calculation for if an enemy will listen is usually Charisma = % Chance. Some more stubborn enemies may follow Charisma/2 = % Chance.
2.) Merchant Discounts. Most of the items bought in Mystery Mansion are through the merchants. Charisma will act as a percentage discount to these goods, the equation is (Charisma/10 = % Discount) although the cap for said discount is at 50%
3.) Enemy Drops. Enemies, when defeated, will usually have a small chance to drop an item. These item drops will have a base drop rate, but said rate will be increased by Charisma. The equation for said act is [BaseDrop * (Charisma/10)] = NewDrop. Most item drops will be simply healing items or other trinkets, but in the rare case that the enemy will drop a weapon, it will usually have a base of around 0.1%
4.) Entering Dungeons. Sure, being able to slaughter through anything possible is fun, but if you do not have enough Charisma, your options for dungeons are limited. However, there are always an assortment of quests in places like the Garden,Floor 4,Outside and the Chef's Room. As said earlier, quests are rather quick and give a well amount of money and Charisma.
There are many ways to gain Charisma as well. Many Luxurious foods will raise Charisma, doing quests will give around 5-20 Charisma per quest, and simply befriending an enemy in-battle nets a base amount of 5. Finishing dungeons will even raise the player's Charisma stat as well, although it is possible to lower your Charisma as well, although the only few recorded times it happened in Mystery Mansion were through less conventional means, so no need to worry about randomly losing 15 Charisma if you bump into an enemy on accident.
Attack: Attack is the stat used to determine the strength of attacks, as well as strength-based overworld actions (such as pushing a heavy rock, the equation for that would be Attack = % of success). The actual damage an attack will do is calculated by [Attack - Defense]. Defeating an enemy will always increase the player's attack, along with getting new weapons, and sometimes even eating Luxurious or event foods!
Immunity -Although players do not have the Immunity stat, some major enemies will have them. Immunity is simply just a defense stat for defense-piercing weapon-based attacks, no need to worry about the stat.
P.Defense: P.Defense stands for Player Defense, and is the defense stat used when attacked by player characters. This stat was mainly added in so players have a harder time with killing each other as easy as a 1000 C hot knife through soft butter. Player Defense can be increased by using items (such as the disposable equipment such as knives or ribbons that provide a +10 stat boost) and by getting hit by another player character as well will increase it by 5. Don't worry though, the mansion is a rather peaceful place and there will never be a 24/7 fear of being knocked out by other players.
N.Defense: N.Defense stands for eNcounter Defense, and is the defense stat used when attacked by enemies. N.Defense is a rather hard stat to upgrade, only really being able to be increased by high level merchants on the higher floors of the mansion, or taking up any quests that involve creating an armor.
I'll also explain the three Play styles as well: Aggressive Starting stats: Attack: 85Charisma: 35 A play style for those who don't really want to befriend any encounters in the mansion, and just fight them. I should note that just because you pick an Aggressive play style, you aren't prohibited from befriending encounters.
Assertive Starting stats: Attack: 60Charisma: 60 A play style for those that cannot choose between Aggressive or Passive, or want to be able to have the options to effectively kill or befriend encounters.
Passive Starting stats: Attack: 35Charisma: 85 A play style for those who want to befriend the encounters in the mansion. I shall note that I will try to make the three play styles as equal as possible in terms of difficulty
4. Literary Roleplaying- Yes, I know that this'll be hard for me to explain unless if I do this, so: Case A: "He flirts with the encounter, attempting to compliment its looks Case B: "*flirts with encounter*" I'd rather you to do this in the style of Case A. Write this as if you are writing a story, and please make your posts longer than three words.
Okay, I think that's it. If you do indeed have questions, I will answer them. This roleplay will start when at least two people join and are accepted, but you could join any time you want
Sign Ups?/? People
I don't care, you can join when you want to, I don't mind
(Sign Ups end 10/31/4016)By the way, Mystery Mansion has its own Discord chat now. check out the thing
The Discord server is great for players that want to improve their characters and get feedback on them, or give feedback about Mystery Mansion itself. Don't be afraid to check it out; I'm the only moderator and the server itself doesn't have any rules beyond "Don't be r00d and don't ruin the servers vibes"First to hit 700 Comments- 11/27/16 First to hit 800 Comments- 12/24/16 First to hit 900 Comments- 1/13/17 First to hit 1000 Comments- 1/30/17 (Woo!) EDIT: hah dead thread
Adrian's Mansion (The Dramatic Mansion Mystery) Posted by Musical on July 20th, 2016 at 10:55pm Viewed 33872 Times
SO THEN CUT MAN MAGICALLY APPEARED IN FRONT OF THE LYNX WHO HAD ASKED HIM TO EMBARK ON THIS GARDEN QUEST, SO CUT MAN---Oh wait, that Nerd Bear looks interesting, let's go see what type of conversation Cut Man could strike with the guy!
Posted on July 24th, 2016 at 2:54amEdited on 2016/07/24 at 3:30am
Posted 2016/07/24 at 2:54amEdited 2016/07/24 at 3:30am
#3
@MegaBossMan : The Nerd Bear pushes his glasses up, looking down at Cut Man "Why hello there! I saw you dozing into space over there, so I don't know it you saw this, but I rolled this Cutter-Plated Die, and it raised your Heal- I mean Vitality by a value of 4. I could roll it again for you, but I have to sacrifice 10 Pieces of Paper to it every time I roll, or else the magical effect wont work..." The Nerd Bear rolled again, showing that it does absolutely nothing, a voice comes from it, yelling "Sacrifice 10 Pieces of the Finest Writing Material!"
Gardener Ghost seems to have paper Tree seems to have paper
What will you do next?@TheDoc : Nice! The Angry Fish is now just a pile of sliced fish, but an intact Sushi Roll sits on the top of the pile of fish like a cherry. Then, before Ring Man could act, the Fat Dragon falls from the air!
Fat Dragon Heath: 800 Attack: -- Defense: 0
>Fight >Feed >Pat >Screech >SushiThrow
What will you do next?@Nice Ice : The Pumpkin takes damage [-35 Health]
Pumpkin Health: 35/1 Attack: 0 Defense: 4
The Pumpkin seems overwhelmed. It screeched an ear-bleeding sound [-2 Health to NiceIce] The Pumpkin spits seeds about wildly [-1 Health to NiceIce] The Pumpkin's stats mess up (new stats below) The Pumpkin is making tea
What will you do next?@StupidStudiosN : Hungry Tiger sighs, and takes [REDACTED] to the elevator, then gasps, seeing no elevator at all! "Oh my god! How did they steal the ele-" Hungry stops himself "Wait, I remember. I had a pretty vivid dream about two days ago. There was like, an elevator, and a panther. Pretty fun dream, that panther was cute, maybe I'll go to sleep and talk to him again" Hungry yawns, and falls asleep where the elevator should've been.
What will you do next?NiceIce has Key, LynxKey, Expensive Wineglass, Luxurious Eclair, and Ghost Badge Cut Man has Key, Luxurious Fortune Cookie, LynxKey, Green Feather, and Ghost Badge Ender has Key, and Ghost Badge Ring Man has Key, Sushi Roll, and Perfected Lion Claw [REDACTED] has Useless Ghost Powder, Journal (12/100 pages), NoteBundle (2/20 Notecards), Pen, Water (5 uses), Gold Key Meta has Key NiceIce: 135 Charisma, 35 Attack, 42/45 Health Cut Man: 120 Charisma, 30 Attack, 24/24 Health Ender: 85 Charisma, 70 Attack, 30/30 Health Ring Man: 20 Charisma, 115 Attack, 8/20 Health [REDACTED]: 60 Charisma, 75 Attack, 15/20 Health Meta: 60 Charisma, 65 Attack, 18/20 Health
@MusicalKitty-SST- : *Meta takes the Food, showing the paper lion the slime was defeated*"Alrighty, i'll be taking that!" I'll talk to the Electric Fox next, seems like an interesting character.
Posted on July 24th, 2016 at 10:48amEdited on 2016/07/24 at 10:56am
Posted 2016/07/24 at 10:48amEdited 2016/07/24 at 10:56am
#5
Wow. That thing is FAAAAAAAAAAT. Let's attempt a different approach. Mr. Happy Dragon, sir, despite what you just saw, I'm actually not here to fight. I have entered this dungeon in order to procure a treatment device out of necessity for my dear old friend. That-that device. Right over there.
Ring Man points to the inhaler. He tenses as the Fat Dragon turns to look, crossing his fingers and hoping the dragon doesn't accidentally crush it in doing so.
In the spirit of establishing a non-violence truce between us, I offer this sushi roll, as well as the fish mush you see in front of you, as a peace offering to mark the start of our new, *ahem*, friendship (Eugh, that word leaves a bad taste in my mouth). What say you?
@Nice Ice : The Pumpkin seems unaffected, and starts getting bored. It slowly melts away into a thick, orange liquid and goes into hiding in the crevice of a nearby couch. Soon after that, Jovial opens the door, he seemed disappointed. "Hmm, you shouldn't be worried about hurting those things. They can't feel pain if they're plants, even if they're eldritch liquid plants. You did hit it though, so that's a plus, I guess." Jovial looked toward the couch that the monster slipped into "Hey, did you talk to Mr. Baudelaire yet? He kind of owns a company that manufactures the things that gets rid of them." Seconds later, a Black Panther walks into the room, he looked tired, and decided to lay down on the floor. "I went up into the third floor to look for Iniquitous's mirror, but there's just too many of those creatures up there. There's an eggplant monster up there, every time I subdue it, it comes back with a new friend. Like, vegetables everywhere, it's even scarier because I'm a carnivore" the Black Panther fell asleep almost immediately, then Musical walked in "Yeah, go talk to Mr. Baudelaire, he should have something that'll guard you from the vegetables. Like, those things can mess with your mind and like melt your brain if you don't have one."
What will you do next?@TheDoc : The Fat Dragon does not speak English, but seems to understand Ring Man's words. He took the Sushi Roll, and ate it. The Fat Dragon even walked away from the inhaler, eating the fish mush in the middle of the dungeon
What will you do next?@Meta : The Paper Lion purred loudly, knowing the Green Slime was defeated, and gave Meta a container of Green Ink. As Meta walked to the Electric Fox, she looked up to him. She seemed to be eating a pastry, despite not needing to eat at all, and led Meta into the room on the right. The room was large, and many people were lined up to get a dish from The Chef, all holding Green Objects
The Chef seems to want to talk Ghost Dancer seems to want to talk
What will you do next?NiceIce has Key, LynxKey, Expensive Wineglass, Luxurious Eclair, and Ghost Badge Cut Man has Key, Luxurious Fortune Cookie, LynxKey, Green Feather, and Ghost Badge Ender has Key, and Ghost Badge Ring Man has Key, Sushi Roll, and Perfected Lion Claw [REDACTED] has Useless Ghost Powder, Journal (12/100 pages), NoteBundle (2/20 Notecards), Pen, Water (5 uses), Gold Key Meta has Key, and Green Ink NiceIce: 135 Charisma, 35 Attack, 42/45 Health Cut Man: 120 Charisma, 30 Attack, 24/24 Health Ender: 85 Charisma, 70 Attack, 30/30 Health Ring Man: 20 Charisma, 115 Attack, 8/20 Health [REDACTED]: 60 Charisma, 75 Attack, 15/20 Health Meta: 60 Charisma, 65 Attack, 18/20 Health
Gardener Ghost seems to have paper
Tree seems to have paper
What will you do next?
Um....I don't quite have the best of history with trees, so I guess it'd be better to strike a conversation with the Gardener Ghost....
Cut Man walks over to the aforementioned ghost, and says
Hello, excuse me? Not to bother your work or anything, but I'd like to ask if you have any spare paper that you could perhaps gift to me, please and thank you?
@MusicalKitty-SST- : *Meta Talks to the chef and waits in line, when he gets up to the front of the line he says...*"Hello, I saw everyone else with green things, so i will pay you in this green ink, as I assume thats what you want. I will take whatever I can get at this price. Thanks!"
@Meta : The Chef looks at the Green Ink, and takes it, shoving the Ink container in his pocket. He comes out a few minutes later with the Chicken Cordon Bleu "I'd call it the Luxurious Chicken Cordon Bleu, but the dish is already Luxurious, adding the Luxurious adjective to it would probably make the universe explode!"
The Chicken Cordon Bleu was given to Meta!
What will you do next?@MegaBossMan : The Ghost Gardener looks up, she was attempting to water a Strawberry crop. "Oh yeah, I have a Ghooost Diary! Well, not really, diaries can't become ghosts, isn't that sad?" The Ghost Gardener rips out 14 Pieces of Paper from the Ghooost Diary! and gave them to Cut Man
What will you do next?@Nice Ice : "Oh, just go up to Floor 2, and go into the room by the Guardian Fox (Room 5) and unlock the door with a certain cat-shaped key (LynxKey) and just tell him what you need."Jovial answered. He lied down on the ground with the Black Panther, and went to sleep. Musical was the only cat in the room that was awake at the moment.
What will you do next?NiceIce has Key, LynxKey, Expensive Wineglass, Luxurious Eclair, and Ghost Badge Cut Man has Key, Luxurious Fortune Cookie, LynxKey, Green Feather, Paper (14), and Ghost Badge Ender has Key, and Ghost Badge Ring Man has Key, Sushi Roll, and Perfected Lion Claw [REDACTED] has Useless Ghost Powder, Journal (12/100 pages), NoteBundle (2/20 Notecards), Pen, Water (5 uses), Gold Key Meta has Key, and Chicken Cordon Bleu NiceIce: 135 Charisma, 35 Attack, 42/45 Health Cut Man: 120 Charisma, 30 Attack, 24/24 Health Ender: 85 Charisma, 70 Attack, 30/30 Health Ring Man: 20 Charisma, 115 Attack, 8/20 Health [REDACTED]: 60 Charisma, 75 Attack, 15/20 Health Meta: 60 Charisma, 65 Attack, 18/20 Health
The Ghost Gardener rips out 14 Pieces of Paper from the Ghooost Diary! and gave them to Cut Man
What will you do next?
Cut Man quickly runs over to the nerd bear, drops the 14 pieces of paper he has, and states that hopefully he'll have more on the way. Cut Man then detaches his cutter and places it on a nearby piece of land, completely unsupervised but at the same time away from prying eyes. Cut Man starts walking towards the tree, acting nonchalant, and whispers under his breath....
No cutter....No pieces of paper....And with both of those things away, there's no grudge that the tree could possibly have against me....
[robot:right{cut-man}Hello, excuse me? Not to bother you or anything of the sort, but I'd like to ask if you had any paper that you could spare?
@MusicalKitty-SST- : "I'm sorry Musical that I did not kill it. If I see it again I will kill it." *Move over to room 6...or was it room 4. and use the key on the door*
@Nice Ice : Before NiceIce leaves, Musical gives him the Crescendo HairbrushAs you walk into room 5, Mr. Baudelaire, the Lynx, is sleeping. He wakes up as NiceIce shuts the door, and looks at him. "Hello, I'm guessing you want to go up into the third floor? Well, you need to at least know what's up there before I give you the tool to go up there. There's one in the Cat Village, so do you have proof you met one of the cats?"@MegaBossMan : The tree stares at you "Sure, I will give you the grand total of 20 Pieces! But first..." The tree danced.
Tree Health: 90 Attack: -- Defense: 70
"First: What is the 3rd President of the United States?"NiceIce has Key, LynxKey, Expensive Wineglass, Crescendo Hairbrush, and Ghost Badge Cut Man has Key, Luxurious Fortune Cookie, LynxKey, Green Feather, Paper (14), and Ghost Badge Ender has Key, and Ghost Badge Ring Man has Key, Sushi Roll, and Perfected Lion Claw [REDACTED] has Useless Ghost Powder, Journal (12/100 pages), NoteBundle (2/20 Notecards), Pen, Water (5 uses), Gold Key Meta has Key, and Chicken Cordon Bleu NiceIce: 135 Charisma, 35 Attack, 42/45 Health Cut Man: 120 Charisma, 30 Attack, 24/24 Health Ender: 85 Charisma, 70 Attack, 30/30 Health Ring Man: 20 Charisma, 115 Attack, 8/20 Health [REDACTED]: 60 Charisma, 75 Attack, 15/20 Health Meta: 60 Charisma, 65 Attack, 18/20 Health
@MusicalKitty-SST- : "They said there are these...Vegetable things up there. I Punched one in the face in request of Musical Kitty." ( What does this hair brush do exactly)
Ring Man dodges to the side to avoid the oncoming mass of fat and quickly moves to pick up the inhaler
Sweeeeet. Hopefully this gets me (finally) to the 3rd floor. I bet everyone else is already on the 4th.
>Item: Ring Man exits the dungeon and finally treats himself to the Lion Claw. It actually tasted a lot better than he initially thought. Then again, his expectations weren't exactly high...Exasperated at the hoops he had to jump through, Ring Man impatiently entered Door 5 and strutted up to Mr. Baudelaire.
Thank you for telling me he'd lost his inhaler! He'd be miserable without it. If you'd allow me, I'd like to get it to him post-haste! Also, do you happen to have any food around here? I've been very hungry recently, and I'd very much appreciate a bite to eat!
Posted on July 24th, 2016 at 10:33pmEdited on 2016/07/24 at 11:57pm
Posted 2016/07/24 at 10:33pmEdited 2016/07/24 at 11:57pm
#18
@Nice Ice/Doctah :Ring Man ate the Perfected Lion Claw [Health Fully Restored, +5 Maximum Health, +20 Attack]. As Ring Man enters the room, Mr. Baudelaire stirs about, noticing Ring Man. "Oh, okay then. I see you got Musical's hairbrush, so you did meet her! And Ring Man got the inhaler, so I guess I'll take the hairbrush" Mr. Baudelaire steals the Crescendo Hairbrush "And I have something to bestow upon the both of you!" Mr. Baudelaire pulls out two small badges, made out of what looked like plastic, and had a drawing of Pumpkin on it. "Those things are Anomaly Badges and they really just basically prevent those monsters up in the third floor from doing some spooky things. Like, now you can kill them, kinda. Just show them to the Guardian Fox, and he'll let you up there" Mr. Baudelaire curls up back into a ball, and falls asleep.
What will you do next?@StupidStudiosN : Hungry Tiger watches as [REDACTED] phases to the 5th floor, and goes to sleep. [REDACTED] phased up to the 5th floor, and was in the Master Bathroom. Soap, Paper, and a Bottle of Juice is in the bathroom. There is screaming heard outside of the bathroom....
What will you do next?NiceIce has Key, LynxKey, Expensive Wineglass, Anomaly Badge, and Ghost Badge Cut Man has Key, Luxurious Fortune Cookie, LynxKey, Green Feather, Paper (14), and Ghost Badge Ender has Key, and Ghost Badge Ring Man has Key, Inhaler, and Anomaly Badge [REDACTED] has Useless Ghost Powder, Journal (12/100 pages), NoteBundle (2/20 Notecards), Pen, Water (5 uses), Gold Key Meta has Key, and Chicken Cordon Bleu NiceIce: 135 Charisma, 35 Attack, 42/45 Health Cut Man: 120 Charisma, 30 Attack, 24/24 Health Ender: 85 Charisma, 70 Attack, 30/30 Health Ring Man: 25 Charisma, 135 Attack, 25/25 Health [REDACTED]: 60 Charisma, 75 Attack, 15/20 Health Meta: 60 Charisma, 65 Attack, 18/20 Health
This kinda looks like something Kalinka made when she was younger. She was awful at arts and crafts, even by toddler standards. But if you say so...
Ring Man carried the badge out of the room and to the Fox, bumping Nice Ice along the way and giving him a warning glare before turning to the Fox and flashing the badge.
I'm as glad to see you as you are me, so let's get this over with. NOW can I go up?
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