Castle Oblivion

[halen2020]

Castle Oblivion Plot

Minimum players required:
10 Heroes
10 Villians
3 Organization XIII
2 Dark XII

Mikhael Rutherford has received intelligence that the Organization has taken over Castle Oblivion. This doesn’t bode well for anyone else, because of the castle’s unique properties with memories. While it doesn’t actually erase the memories of those that travel through it, it makes memories much easier to manipulate. The Organization has begun to experiment once again with altering memories. It is much more difficult without Namine, but they are beginning to succeed in changing people`s memories and alliances. Of course, the Guardians aren’t the only ones who have noticed. The Dark XII also dislikes the idea of the Organization in control of Castle Oblivion. Ansem, for his own reasons, is seeking to dislodge the Organization from this stronghold of memories and hearts.

That’s where you come in.

Heroes, Mikhael need your help. His organization, the Guardians of the Worlds, can’t handle this alone. Report to the Frosted Flame if you want to fight the Organization. For story purposes, only 10 heroes may apply.

Villains, you have been called. Castle Oblivion has many floors, but too few guardians. Take over the castle, pick your floors. Keep these misguided “heroes” from dismantling the work of the Organization. Be warned, the Dark XII may show up as well. For story purposes, only 10 villains may apply. Players wanting their villains to participate will be contacted IC by the Organization.

For purposes of fairness, players may not have more than two characters total in this plot. Players may not have two character in any category. There is room for a maximum of twenty-seven players in this plot, divided into four threads.

The threads:
Five heroes and five villains split the castle in half; one group taking the aboveground section, and one group taking the basement. The Org XIII characters operate in an independent threads, watching the progress of the heroes, plotting and scheming, and dropping into the other two threads as required by the storyline. The Dark XII characters will operate on the same principle for the first three floors, then they will each make an individual choice about which group of heroes to assist. Both groups must have at least one Dark XII member. One group might have two.

Edit: The character count is perhaps limiting. so, I'm making the requirements the minimum.

[halen2020]

Castle Oblivion Card Rules

The Cards
The Cards are divided into multiple categories.
Weapon: Weapon cards are your weapons. They are used to set up special combos, called Sleights.
Magic: Magic cards are used for spells. If you wish to use magic, you must have the card. Magic cards are cast at the highest level you have learned. If you don’t know the spell normally, you cast at the lowest level.
Item: Item cards are used to restore the cards in your deck without having to reload. Cannot be used in sleights.
Heartless: Heartless cards allow you to activate special abilities. Cannot be used in sleights.
Friend: Friend cards allow you to call upon the abilities of allies. Not included in deck count.
There is another category, but it is not used in battle, so it doesn’t count here.

Card List
List of cards drawn on when building decks. If your brand of magic isn’t listed, tell me and I will add it to the list.
MAGIC
Fire: Casts a basic fire spell.
Blizzard: Casts a basic ice spell.
Thunder: Casts a basic lightning spell.
Cure: Heal some of your health.
Gravity: Does 20% of damage to the target.
Stop: Halt time for one enemy for 1 post.
Aero: Casts a whirlwind of wind that blows enemies away from you.
ITEM
Potion: Reloads all attack cards that have not been deemed unreloadable. (I.E
cards that have been broken, and the first card in a sleight.)
Hi-Potion: Reloads ALL attack cards, even those deemed unreloadable.
Ether: Reload all Magic cards that have not been deemed unreloadable.
Mega-Ether: Reloads ALL magic cards, even those deemed unreloadable.
HEARTLESS
Air Pirate: ITEM BRACER: Make Item cards unbreakable. Lasts for three reloads.
Air Soldier: RELOAD KINESIS: Reload cards while moving. Lasts for three reloads.
Aquatank: AUTO-RELOAD: Automatically reload cards when they run out. For one reload.
Barrel Spider: QUICKLOAD: Reload cards instantly. Lasts for three reloads.
Black Fungus: RANDOM FLUSH: Activate random enemy card. Lasts for one reload.
Blue Rhapsody: BLIZZARD BOOST: Increase power of ice based moves. One reload.
Creeper Plant: LEAF BRACER: Cure cards unbreakable. Lasts for one reload.
Crescendo: FRIEND BOOST: Powers up summon cards but magic can’t be used. One reload.
Darkball: CARDBLIND: Hide cards from enemies. Lasts for 3 reloads.
Defender: PROTECT: Decrease physical damage. Lasts for one reload.
Fat Bandit: BACK ATTACK: Increase damage when hitting enemies from behind. 2
reloads.
Gargoyle: VANISH: Become invisible. Lasts for one reload.
Green Requiem: CURE BOOST: Increase effect of cure abilities. ONE reload.
Large Body: GUARD: Physical attacks to your front do no damage. Lasts for one
reload.
Neoshadow: BIO: Enemy’s health gradually decreases. Lasts for one reload.
Pirate: ALL ZEROES: All card values become zero. Lasts for one reload.
Powerwild: RETROGRADE: Reverse the level of cards, I. E, 1 becomes 9, 2 becomes
8, ETC. Zero cards are not affected. Lasts for one reload.
Red Nocturne: FIRE BOOST: Increase power of fire based moves. Lasts for one reload.
Sea Neon: RANDOM VALUES: Randomize the level of cards. Lasts for one reload.
Search Ghost: DRAIN: Absorb health when attacking with attack cards. Enemies
drop fewer items though. Lasts for one reload.
Screwdiver: DECREMENTOR: Decrease the level of all cards by one. Lasts for 1 reload.
Shadow: INCREMENTOR: Increase the level of all cards by one. Lasts for 2 reloads.
Tornado Step: RELOAD HASTE: Subtract 2 from the reload counter. One reload.
White Mushroom: HYPER HEALING: Restore HP when friend cards are played. 3 reload.
Wight Knight: FLOAT: Jump higher and fall slower. Lasts for three reloads.
Wizard: MAGIC BOOST: Magic cards are more powerful, but Friends can’t be used.
One reload.
Wyvern: RELOAD LOCK: Reload without affecting the counter. Lasts for three reloads.
Yellow Opera: THUNDER BOOST: Increase the power of thunder moves. One reload.

Deck Rules
Decks may be built however you wish within these limits:
Decks may be up to 30 cards.
You may only have four of any spell card, and one of any item card. You may have two item cards max.
Each deck may have two Heartless cards. Decks cannot have Boss cards, unless you participate in defeating the boss, or trade with someone who did.
Decks can be stacked in whatever way you chose. However, when selecting cards in battle, you may only move four cards in any direction per post.
Example:
WEP3,WEP7,WEP2,MAG4,WEP9
If you want to use the WEP9 card in a slight, starting from WEP3, you move four cards down the list. You cannot move more than four cards up or down the list per post.


Sleight Rules
When setting up sleights, you may add up to three cards at once, if they are within four cards of each other. Example: The A cards are the ones you wish to combine. You start on the first a card.
(a)[n][n][n][n][n][n][n]

You select the first a card. You are then on the first n card. You may then move three cards down the list to select the second a card.
[n]-1->[n]-2->[n]-3->(a)[n][n][n][n]

You are then automatically on the 4th n card.
[n][n][n](n)[n][n][n]

You may move one more card down the list, putting you on the fifth n card.
[n][n][n][n]-4->(n)[n][n]

Then you need only move two cards down the list to select the final a card, and unleash your sleight.
[n][n][n][n][n]-1->[n]-2->(a)[n]

So you take two turns to gather your cards, then you may unleash your sleight whenever you wish.

Weapon Cards are not used for normal attacks. They are only used to build Sleights. Players may have up to 4 deck sleights, and one friend card slight per friend card. Players may have access to two friend cards, but you must have the permission of whoever you wish to use (unless it is a character that you control).

Players can only start with two Sleights. The sleights can be anything you wish them to be, to activate one of your special attacks. Say you want to use a fire based physical attack. You select one fire card and any two attack cards. Then activate.

Activating sleights consists of simply saying the name of the sleight after stocking the cards.

After a sleight has been activated, one may not be used for two posts.
Example
Turn 1: sleight activated. Turn 2: wait. Turn 3: wait. Turn 4: sleight activated.
Be careful not to get caught in a pattern. Vary your sleight use, because activating first will allow your opponents a chance to counter, or worse, to attack when you can’t do anyhitng to stop them.

Gameplay rules
Moving through castle oblivion is accomplished by using Map Cards. Doors will require certain card criteria be met before opening. Once a door is opened, you may change the room beyond, but doing so brings the Heartless (if any) back.

Battle: Initiating battle is simple. In the rooms, single Heartless move about. Touching or attacking one will begin a battle. Up to two players may participate in a battle. Normal Heartless will not use cards or sleights. Boss level heartless and enemies will be able to sleights.

Breaking Sleights
To break a sleight is to use cards that equal a total that exceeds the total amount of the opponent’s sleight. For example the opponent uses cards that equal a total of 15. A sleight worth less than 14 will be broken, one with a value of 15 will break the opponent and be broken, and one with a value of 16 or more will break the opponent. Or
You<Opponent=You get broken.
You=Opponent=Both get broken.
You>Opponent=Opponent gets broken.
Individual cards cannot be broken. We aren’t playing war here.

Magic cards: Magic cards are used to cast spells, as well as set up some sleights. Using a Magic card is simple. Your character simply holds it up and the spell is activated.

Friend cards: When you are lucky enough to pick up a friend card, it is automatically added to the top of your deck. Using a friend card is like using a magic card. Hold it up, and the friend is summoned for a single post to use a single special attack. If you stock friend cards, you are able to keep them around longer, and they attack the entire time. Stocking 2 of the same friend cards will increase the attack length to two posts, and stocking three will increase it to three turns. This does not count as a sleight.

If you choose to use a person as a friend card, only to have them fight alongside you in battle of their own free will, you will not be able to get them as a friend card, nor can you use them in a sleight.

Reload Rules
If you run out of cards, and you will, you will have to reload. This can be accomplished by willing the cards back to you, which takes a full turn, or by the faster method of item reload. When reloading normally, the first cards in a sleight and any cards that were broken do not come back. Item cards allow you to bring back those cards that are broken or sleighted.

Map Cards
Cards that can change rooms.
RED
Tranquil Darkness: A room where only a few Heartless appear.
Teeming Darkness: A room where many Heartless appear.
Feeble Darkness: A room with weak Heartless.
Almighty Darkness: A room with strong Heartless.
Sleeping Darkness: A room in which Heartless are asleep.
Looming Darkness: A large room filled to the brim with Heartless that actively seek out foes.
Endless Darkness: A pitch black room with a huge amount of Shadow Heartless.
GREEN
Martial Waking: A room that increases weapon card levels by 2.
Sorcerous Waking: A room that increases magic card levels by 2.
Meeting Ground: A room where Friend cards appear at battle’s start
Stagnant Space: A room were Heartless move slowly.
BLUE
Calm Bounty: A room containing treasure, with no Heartless.
Guarded Trove: A room with treasure guarded by Heartless.
False Bounty: A room with trick treasure chests that contain Heartless.
Moment’s Reprieve: A room where people can rest and heal.
Mingling Worlds: A room with random effects.

How the cards are handled in game

Now, characters do not actually handle their deck in battle. The deck remains in their pockets, pouches, etc. The characters are mentally linked to their decks, and use their minds to use the cards. They literally think the cards active. Stacked cards are held foremost in the mind, and when activated, vanish from the deck. Individual magic and item cards teleport to the hand when they are to be used. Heartless cards stay in the pocket. The only cards that actually are handled regularly are room cards.

Story cards
These cards are key to advancing the plot. They are given to key players who must find the rooms the cards unlock. Inside, friends and foes play out the story, and players find out a little bit more. Most floors has three story cards: Key of Beginnings; Key of Understanding; and Key to Truth. The pattern behind the story for each floor is as follows: Introduction to situation, learning of problem, defeat boss and solve problem.

World Cards
These cards allow the villains to choose which world they want to rule. Heroes cannot access or change the world cards. The worlds are pre-set. Deal with it.

[Deleted]

Okay, first of all; was this even approved by the staff?
Second, how would Mikhail have even come across this information? Only the Organization and I believe one OC even know where it is.

It may seem like a nice plot, but unless it has been approved and makes sense...*fill in blank*

[halen2020]

I was told to post the idea here, so I posted it.

[iuma]

Personaly I am very intrigued by the first post.

There are a few major kinks that need to be worked out of course.
Like the Organization hasn't taken the castle over, it has always belonged to the Organization.
The biggest one is that the Organization hasn't been experimenting on altering memories without Naminé yet. But for the purpose of the plot they could start such things.
And a lot of other things that would require a lot of preparation through other roleplay threads to even create the circumstances that this plot could ever happen in.

I like the concept of pitching villains against heroes.
But I do feel the miss of being able to truelly determen what would happen. With the scenario written out to such detail.

The second post on the other hand I personaly dislike.
Yes the cards are important but to bind them by the rules as in CoM strips roleplay as members will be more focussed on using these cards and rules. If the plot does happen with this directive then I won't particpate.

But still the overal idea has potential.

[Ellie who has 0%]

Seedling chillax. XD This area is caaalled plot ideas for a reason FREE SPITBALLING!

I'm sitting in the same spot with IUMA, but it doooes pokes the Organization XD to do something or something to explore, which would be quite difficult without Namine. >> That was the only way Castle Oblivion worked the way it it.

[halen2020]

Well, as SeeD pointed out in a different post, Marluxia, who is no longer a member of the organization, is currently the one who is in possession of Castle Oblivion. So, the organization would have to re-takeover the castle from him. Or work with him. The reason I posted it here was to expose it to constructive criticism. Also I was told to.

Regarding the cards, to be honest, the game makers wouldn't include the cards without a reason. In CoM, everyone and everything had to use the cards. For everything. I tried remaking the card system to be freindly to RP. There is also the fact that the cards were NOT created by Namine, which leads me to believe that Castle Oblivion was set up that way by Aqua, so as to fulfill her mission of making it so no one could figure out the Castle's secrets. If there are things you think should be changed, tell me.

[Ellie who has 0%]

woooooo last time I checked Marluxia doesn't own it, since that board was brought back...by Xemnas...well a Xemnas.

I would brain vomit a way to clean up the card system, but it wouldn't matter now if this storyline is in jeopardy of even existing.

[halen2020]

Ellie, you'll have to argue that out with Seed. I'm just telling you guys what I have been told.

[iuma]

I do believe the entire thing is a big miscommunication.

Marluxia thinks he owns castle oblivion since nobody has bothered his hideout for more then a year. this by lack of active organization members in the past, and the new members picking up the roles were never informed of this.

But with the new members getting active they are currently returning to castle oblivion. Vexen and Axel are currently in a plot thread in Castle Oblivion.

So it's all an ingame roleplay thingy. It's not that SeeD as got to say anything at all about the board. Only staff do. I believe the big confusion revolves about this issue.

[halen2020]

I got a question: How the hell did the Organization ever find out about Castle Oblivion to begin with?

[iuma]

EDIT: To the WIKI-CAVE! nana nana nana nana ...

the organization discovered it, no further info is avaible.

[halen2020]

No, it was originally the Land of Departure in Birth By Sleep. At the end of BBS, Aqua remade it into Cstle Oblivion, making the inside of the castle confusing so that anyone trying to find it's secrets would be "lost in oblivion."

[Ellie who has 0%]

EDIT: WARG I'VE BEEN CORRECTED

Xemnas found Castle Oblivion --> Xemnas was Terra Grandpy Xehanort --> Terra Grandpy Xehanort would know where Land of Depature is at, but found Castle Oblivion instead...

o-o now that just was concluded from stating the obvious about the character background...making his discovery...not an alarming one.

//=3= you see how much I reeeally care about BBS? -3- bull-bullshiz

[Deleted]

Sorry bout the gnerd rage I thought this was posted in a different board, and yes IUMA, Marluxia does not OWN CO but more or less is just there and calling it his since...no one...is there. And I know I have no authority to call it Marluxias so henceforth I'm not.

*Back on topic*

Only concern I see is the same as the others, make the card system..into something...else. Not really sure what though