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Behold, BACKSTORY!

Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria, there was a simple mailpony by the name of Ditzy Doo. Most people however called her Derpy Hooves due to the lazy eye she got. The day started off normally, just eating a breakfast muffin while watching the stars before the dawn arrived. As soon as she finished her muffin, she put on her saddlebag full of mail, and started her day. Everything seemed to be normal, until she went back home for her lunch break.

There, at her doorstep, was a package which looked very strange. The packaged was addressed to Ditzy, so she took it inside to inspect it. The package was a black and red box with a lid which sealed the contents of the package. After struggling to get the lid open, Ditzy looked inside, only to see that the box looked very deep, despite being small. While she was looking, a beam shot out of the box, making Ditzy jump back in fear. The beam soon transformed into a vortex which started to suck her inside the box. She tried desperately to resist, but the pull was too much for her and she was sucked inside.

She awoke in a strange cavern, where an old man was standing in front of her. Ditzy then said angrily, "What the hay just happened!?"

The old man simply looked at her and said, "You will find out in due time, Derpy Hooves."

Shocked, Ditzy said, "How do you know about my nickname?"

The old man simply stated, "That is not important, for you have an important task to do."

Ditzy then said, "Yeah! And that's finishing my mail routes before I get in trouble!"

The old man looked at Ditzy and said, "You will not be able to return home just yet, a more important task awaits."

Ditzy, not believing the old man, headed for the exit of the cave, but she only took 5 steps before the old man shouted, "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this!"

When he said those words, a letter opener appeared before Ditzy. It was pretty sharp and when Ditzy picked up the letter opener, she heard a jungle from nowhere.

Not knowing where the sound came from, she headed out towards the exit of the cave.

I hope this isn't too much backstory. I wanted to include the famous, "It's dangerous to go alone, take this!" statement.

Character: Omomon

Abilities:
Tail whip- lowers defense
kick in the nuts- paralyzes enemy,
trap- i change into a cheerleader outfit and confuse the enemy
strike- I attack the enemy.

Weapons:
Two baseball bats-

Appearance:

yeah like that.

Appearance: (So you get a better idea of what I would like)

Age:

About 18.

Backstory:

Just a regular day at home on the computer listening to music on youtube set for auto-play while browsing KYM. All of a sudden he gets a text from his girlfriend, Leslie. He's surprised she is texting him so late. He looks at the message and notices something strange. It says,

"Come find her."
"Who is this?" he responded.
"You will learn very soon."
"What did you do to my girlfriend!" he texted back. But there was no response. He looked at his computer screen and noticed there was nothing but black on the screen. All of a sudden, a window appeared that said "Click me to learn more." So with caution, he pressed "OK", and at that instant he fell two feet down. He was no longer in his room. He was in the middle of a forest. All he had left was the clothes he was wearing, and his laptop. All that was there was a button that said "Research". He saw a passing animal, aimed the laptop's camera at it, and suddenly all of the animals stats appeared on the screen.

He saw a town off in the distance, and set off, not knowing what dangers lie ahead.
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I'm not very good at that type of stuff, but hopefully it's good.
Also, now that I think about it, I would like to remove the "Dislogic" ability and replace it with "Research".

I propose that we finalize the story and plot for this game around the end of this month.

Are you guys introducing TK?

I agree.

Also, I am finalizeing my character design, I shouled have it cleaned up and colored by the end of the day.

I second this motion. Also, what's the link to where we write the plot and story down?

Lets see, so I think we got the obvious teleported to an unknown land by something strange schtik down. I think that would be the best thing to work with as a beginning plot, each character dealing with a different area. I kinda thought it would be cool if all party members were close in vicinity towards each other, but now it will kinda be like Final Fantasy 6, and that's cool. Appearance…Hmm.
Well, I guess I can find a close enough looking picture. Or do you guys think it might be better to use imagination? I'm saying because I don't exactly have a scanner lying around to copy drawings down. Oh, might I suggest we have a sort of build for each character? I added a Statbuild row for my little guy, just to clear up when you might be using him for.

Again, just saying what comes to mind since we don't have anything concrete. I assume the stuff that's concrete is gonna be posted with Katie up above on page 1, right?

…As for memes, do you mean we shouldn't address them at all? We have a character that is an actual pony from the series. I think some mild sayings and foresooths wouldn't hurt, but having no acknowledgement towards any of the main memes would make it rather difficult to carry out with the rest of them. Reminds me of Copyright…Scary.

Gaston, we said we would use memes but not in every single joke. You know? And for the picture, what could be good is making a picture with all of the main characters, but their faces inside of the KYM logo. I have Photoshop, so we could get several people to make a picture and see what the people like the most.

Can I be the annoying user who blocks the road so you cannot proceed?
A WILD SCHIZOJACK BLOCKS THE PATH…

Could you shoop this inside a kym logo?

Hmmm… I think this would be a perfect opportunity to insert a Monty Python and the Holy Grail joke here.

@suiseiseki That is damn godly.

And I was a character in the last attempt at this, by angrypwnser. I don't remember what my char was like though.

If it wasn't in 3D, and more anime or drawn, then yes, I might be able to.

SchizoJack-
DOES NOTHING EXCEPT SLEEP IN FRONT OF PATH.
When the player gets a set item I will move and they can proceed…
BTW- for those of you who don't know this is a RPG joke…

Outa the way Snorlax, we gotcho dang flute :T And leading on to what the others have thought, In that case I'll (try) to draw my character. I can't exactly color it though, lack of good pencils for that kind of drawing. I'll see if I can submit it by…maybe tonight?

Character: Dane

Abilities:
First strike (Takes first turn attacking, no matter what)
Steal (Can steal their choice of secondary weapon, but only if they have one)
Attack (Only with stolen weapon)
Hamburger Throw (Throws hamburger, causes damage, lowers opponents damage rate when they attack me)

Weapons: Hamburgers.

Backstory: W.I.P.

Appearance: My profile pic, but Google hamburglar if you want to see rest of me.

So, yeah. I might decide to change my attacks, idk yet.

Character: Troll King

Abilities:

Trololololo – Deals damage to the enemy (does not affect moderators).

Feeding the trolls – Temporarily makes attacks by the enemies restore health instead of causing damage.

Proxy – Temporarily becomes immune to banhammers.

/B/ackup – Summons a weak army of trolls from the underworld to assist in battle (can only be used once every five turns).

CHAAAARGE! – Deals 50% damage to yourself, but deals the same amount of damage to the enemy.

Weapons:

None

Appearance:

The face looks like my logo and the body is made up of several smaller troll faces.

Backstory:

Nobody knows where this strange troll came from. Sometimes he fights off enemy trolls, sometimes he fights KYM.

That's actually a good idea for TK. He can be a person that appears with us for a short amount of time and at other times fights us. He will be a major minor character. But not part of the main cast.

A Hidden Agenda sort of character? Sounds nice. Wonder what Katie herself will make for a character. I mean, I can tell some people are putting up the basics for now.

Why would you want to put ED in the game? I know a few members from ED forums came over here and trolled a bit, but I've also heard KYM staff saying they like ED. By making them the enemy, aren't you kind of bringing up old drama?
All I'm saying is, why make them the enemy?

Anyway, don't worry, I'm not here to try to tell you how to do your game, just sharing my opinion.

Garlic, it's a game. No one is going to take it seriously.

Ok, I got the lineart for my character mostly done, I will color it later:
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Name: Natsuru Springfeild
Age: 20 (Im guessing I will be that old when we finish this game…)
Class: Mage (Fire, Lightning, Light, and eventually Darkness).
Wepons: Two bracelets, one on her wrist (the one she swaps out to equipt diffrent "wepons") and one on her upper arm (A custom braclet made by a freind).
Attacks:
•Lv1: “Kampfer Fire Ball”
•Lv3: “Lightning”
•Lv5: “Illusion Laser”
•Lv7: “Kill it with Fire!”
•Lv10: Pikachu’s “Thunder Shock”
•Lv15: Magic Missile
•Lv20: “Flame”
•Lv25: Jupiter's Storm of Thunder
•Lv30: Overlimit Number 1: Starlight Breaker
•Lv35: “Lava Rain”
•Lv40: “Special Beam Cannon”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R1otk2ALFs
•Lv45: “Mikuru Beam”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWz0zrfYBk4
•Lv50: Blazeing heat in the sky
•Lv55: “Indignation”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CCMlHjtkjM
•Lv60: “Judgment”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JRpNCBE__g
•Lv65: “Rexflame”
•Arte Alter: “Flare”
•Lv70: “1000 Bolts”
•Lv75: “Love Sign, Master Spark”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wznfELxkEds
•Lv80: Spell absorb from Negima.
•Lv85: “Screamer”
•Lv90: “Evil Sign- Giygas Image”
•Lv95: "Balberith"
•Alter Arte: "Big Bang"
•Lv99: “Magicannon- Final Spark”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8U_M0iO_Hk&feature=related
•Side Quest Learned Arte: “Cole Train Summon”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZrSILng78
•Final Overlimit Arte: “Lunatic Bullet Hell”.
Bio: TBD

I just want to be the really rowdy drunk guy at the pub. Plzzzzz? I can ask u a riddle *hic and give u a badass pint of ale that boosts exp.

Alex, I think you can be classified as a "Major KYM User", so you can be playable if you want.

Out-freaking-standing. ^^

Well… I must start my BIOS then. It will be so good…

People will BOW TO IT!

Story idea:
(setting: Internet main conference center)
Rage face: the trolls are striking again, major this time.
Socially awkward penguin: what ae they doing?
Rage face: they are planning on blowing up the western memestream. If we do not stop them, the internets will leak.
Courage wolf: how will we do it?

(large explosion blasts the whole center aside, troll kings face seen through the smoke)

Troll king: you can't stop us now. Trololololol! Tomorrow it will end for you!

And then it will show the main character wake up, and on his/her/horses way to school/work, is knocked aside by an explosion. From it emerges a small troll and the first battle begins.

Something about that picture makes me think of the lovechild between Nicholas Cage and The Matrix. Is he off to stop a Bee Invasion that will wipe out the remnants of humanity?

Oh man, cool spell list Natsuru. Mind if I suggest an idea though? I'm thinking for extra memetic lulz
lv3: "Lightning"
should maybe instead be "Lightning Bolt!" https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lightning-bolt

What about me?

You have been here barely a month and you are asking?

Natsuru, your making me think this is similar to Pokemon. I like your thinking. (I'm Mrs. Nezbitt!) Still, without insight, all of us seem to have very different takes on what to start with.
Katie, if your around, do you have any insight? I figure your the head pepper jack when it comes to official. Unless you are Natsuru.

Put me in. Not as a player, but there's something I can definitely do in the game.

I wasn't trying to make this game like Pokemon (but if we were aiming to include all the users possible a rom hack of Pokemon wouled not be that hard), we were more trying to aim for the Final Fantasy style of gameplay.

And I'm head programer and one of the script writers. (But from the looks of it I will also be co-directing this as well).

Well, if it's like Final Fantasy, then should we be buying the spells at stores, or do we learn them on our own? Also…Tell me, is there a specific program that your using to work on this (possible) game? I probably don't have it, but I could possibly research it to learn what might be made.

…I guess I'll ask one more thing (sorry!), but do YOU have any ideas on how the story should commence? I get the feeling that if this is what I think it is, some people will be starting later on in the game (Probably me :T, unless I aint startin at all). Should some of them be a specific kind of character? Like, maybe we will have one person designing possible bosses or characters gone bad.

…Okay, one more thing, do you want me to stop brainstorming? If you'd rather have the work done on your own accord or by someone else, it's okay…
…Now I'm done. Time for Hayhitting. A.K.A snoozing, accompanied by sleeping.

Oh, and Pat Sajak? If I were the fella working on this game, I'd make you a special random encounter. We could fight you, and if we win, you delve some of your powers into stat enhancing potions. That's just me, though.

We learn them by leveling up or Alter Arte into them by spamming certain attacks. I am going to be useing Game Maker 7 Lite to create the game (However, I hope I can upgrade to full soon).

This question feels kind of broken, but I will answer it the best I can: I feel that the story shouled be split into 2 or 3 acts. The first one is a battle against ED, the last one is fight against Internet Censorship, and the middle wouled be to bridge the two. We arn't at the point of Character Introduction Order. It wouled be nice to have another artist with us, however it wouled mainly be spriteing as most bosses are Memes or KYM Users (but I think an artist is needed for the later).

No no! Please continue shareing your ideas! However they might become more valuable once we have announced the official storyline.
And even though you might not get into the game as a Main Playable Character, you couled get in as an NPC or Temporary Party Member.

Also, if I am counting correctly, we only have 4 slots left for the final Playable Character list…

KYM RPG characters:
1.KYM-Tan
2.Kaite Starshine/Real Genius
3.Kalmo
4.Derpy
5.DrPepperfan
6.Natsuru
7.Captain Badass/tht gy
8.Omomon
9.Suiseiseki
10.Dane
11.Alex
Temporary Party Members:
•Troll King (Rival Character)
•Ashbot (He requested that he dies)
NPC's/Enemys:
•Pat Sajak
•Dxpenguinman
•SchizoJack
•PwNeDoScAr
•Taryn
•Stoffie
"Do Not Use" Users:
•Russian Fedora
•Captain Blubber (Old request)
Maybe List:
•Angrypwnzer/Death The Kid (It was his idea in the first place)
•Wsxdas (Will bump to NPC)
•Gaston Raveslikenoone! (Will bump to NPC if not made Temporary Party Member)
•Jostin (will bump to Temporary Party Member if he is not made full time member)

I want in.

backstory: An ex-merchant framed for attempted assassination of Natsuru. because of this, he's always wearin a jawa-style hoodie.

Weapons= Katana, dagger

Magic: Distract (minor troll-post @ enemy 2 distract) Rage (gives plus1 to strength) Derp (makes minor enemies blow up)

FRont:

BAck

EDIT: can i haz evilness? then i like convert or sumthin?

I'd like to make an appearance I suppose, in whatever capacity you see fit, whether that would be as a PC, Temp Party Member or NPC. I'll give a bit more info about the basic characteristics about the representation and it's personality and such when I awaken though, given that I've got to sleep at some point.

For the bridging act, maybe you could set up some mysterious disappearances of major players within the established verse that either went unnoticed in the commotion of the final motion of the first act, or maybe precipitated the need for major action at the end of act one. From there you could easily start hinting at the final plot while keeping things generally as one continuous train of thought sort of thing, like maybe have sort of a info hunt type thing on the missing persons that involves some pretty deep movement within the community or something.

Another idea is set it up so that the victory came with a price tag attached that ended up dividing and scattering the main cast, kind of like FFVI, but less cataclysmic, and more personal, like, you know, occasionally internet drama happens and people sort of end up scattering for a while, and the bridge act is about discovering the final plot and reuniting the main cast so that in the final act they can devote themselves to the prevention of the Final Censorship or whatever.

Wow, that actually sort of makes sense, I'd be proud were it not for the insomnia.

Aight, and Danke. By the way, IF you do just leave me as a NPC, I hope I'll be one of those Engineer people if a city is eventually formed. Or someone else. I figure though, if this is gonna be an RPG, it vould be nice to have some kind of person that will either modify or make certain weapons. Then there is guy that gives you an item (Multiple NPC's should do that I hope), The important storywise character that is useless outside of that (More because of convenient plot), Soldier Action Guy that gets killed off by being clueless (I saw that someone is requesting to die, but I think he might earn a more meaningful death since we gotta have drama)…What else…Oh right, we need a 4th wall breaker too, unless of course the characters are self aware, which would fit very well considering the story. I…also have a strange idea involving the majority of NPCs being Anonymousses. Some look like Farmers, some look like farmwives (Which would probably make for amusing emotions), some are soldiers, with larger ranks acting like positions on a forum. Doctors, Stupid anonymousses (Which have bent out of shape masks, masks with cracks in them, etc etc etc…) Ohh Ooh Ooh, or maybe an anonymousses life depends on that mask, like when the mask is broken, revealing their identity, they die. So many idears…I'll keep thinking, okay?

…Also, your right, most of this will be more fruitful when we got something going, but I might as well get some thought agoin. As said though, if you'd rather wait for me to say this stuff later, sure thing.

(Oh, and I'm Autistic. Incase yer wonderin why I have such a dumb way of talking. Infact, I'll put that on my profile if I haven't already.)

Anyway, how long will complete this game, download or flash, is looks like download for me =w=b. Anyway I want to be character too!!!!!!!

I've got an idea. The way you find me is you try to cross over a bridge, then I jump out of the bridge and try to fight you. Once you defeat me I run away. Later when you're in s battle with MrHcFortan I'll come and help you. After that I'll constantly be changing who's side I'm on.

I like it. It fits you

Could I be a playable Character? If no I'll just be a helpful merchant that pops up in random town squares and locations to sell the playable characters weapons, health, food, and stuff like that.

Haha, troll king under a bridge. "Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?"

Btw, I just realized something. I have FL Studio 9. I can help make music for the game if you would like.

I wanna be the annoying character that follows you around and rickroll's you.

Pffftttttt, need a bunch more moves to fill out my attack list. I've got less than half as many as I need, and I'm getting stuck for ideas.

Also, what class would somebody who attacks with knifes be? A ranger?