In this Quest you'll be playing as the Shield Hero. Luckily for everyone involved you will...
Shield Hero, but hopefully Heroic
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Character Creation Part One
Sword of Mars
Magical Girl Aficionado
- Location
- Canada
In this Quest you'll be playing as the Shield Hero. Luckily for everyone involved you will actually have the chance to create your character. I'll be altering some stuff to make it flow better as a quest and will take some artistic liberties that I think will make the quest better as a whole and the world more interesting. Just a warning, I've not written anything creative for around two to three years so there's quite a bit of rust to chip off and I can be pretty stupid so if you want to call me out on some stuff in the quest? Do so and I'll discuss and hopefully become enlightened. Second Warning, Shield Hero can be downright edgy in its setting, to the point of it's detriment in world building and I'm going to patch that up a bit. However shit still sucks and you have to deal with that somehow, and I expect that we will handle this responsibly and hopefully I won't fuck up on handling sensitive topics.
I was inspired to make this quest after reviewing the manga and browsing the threads about it here. Despite how much I trash it, I love Isekai garbage even when it frustrates me to no end. Shield Hero could be better and I thought 'well why don't I do it instead of complaining about it'.
Now onto the actual quest. The character creation will be sorta abstract at first but bare with me.
[Character Creator]
Name:
Gender:
[Male] - [Female]
Age (From 14-60, this will matter):
Socioeconomic class: (Yes this will matter)
[Upper Class]
[Middle Class]
[Working Poor]
[Impoverished]
Society of your Earth:
The Modern Earth
It is 2200, you come from a world of mega corporations, futuristic technology built on the back of the crushed enslaved in all but name working class, a modern (to you) cyberpunk dystopia.
It is 1200 in the year of our lord Jesus Christ. Kings reign, Nobles languish and the serfs and peasants work in the fields, you are a member of a Feudal State. (Potentially Hardmode)
It is around the year 2120, 40 years after World War Three which lasted three days. Warlords roam the land, disease takes its pound of flesh and food is scarce yet civilization is showing itself once again on a large scale.
How did you discover the 'legend' of the Shield Hero?
You found it through a video game (locked for the 1200 AD society)
You read a Manga about some Isekai loser getting trashed on (locked for 1200 AD society)
You found it in a book.
You found it inscribed on an ancient tomb in Egypt, either in person or via the newspaper.
Your father told you the legend via oral tradition.
A mysterious robed figure referred to you as Shield Hero before vanishing, you never heard of it or saw him again
You hallucinated the whole thing on drugs.
How did you die?
You didn't, you just suddenly woke up with the Shield.
Suicide
Starvation/Dehydration
Disease
Car Accident (locked for the 1200 AD society)
Murder
Workplace Accident
Overdose
Fire
Terrorism (locked for the 1200 AD society)
War
End of Character Creation Part 1 as I'll need the above information to continue generating said character.
I'm posting the ruleset right after this, it's really simple. Afterwards I'll gauge the reaction to the quest give it a bit and then see about continuing the character creation.
I was inspired to make this quest after reviewing the manga and browsing the threads about it here. Despite how much I trash it, I love Isekai garbage even when it frustrates me to no end. Shield Hero could be better and I thought 'well why don't I do it instead of complaining about it'.
Now onto the actual quest. The character creation will be sorta abstract at first but bare with me.
[Character Creator]
Name:
Gender:
[Male] - [Female]
Age (From 14-60, this will matter):
Socioeconomic class: (Yes this will matter)
[Upper Class]
[Middle Class]
[Working Poor]
[Impoverished]
Society of your Earth:
The Modern Earth
It is 2200, you come from a world of mega corporations, futuristic technology built on the back of the crushed enslaved in all but name working class, a modern (to you) cyberpunk dystopia.
It is 1200 in the year of our lord Jesus Christ. Kings reign, Nobles languish and the serfs and peasants work in the fields, you are a member of a Feudal State. (Potentially Hardmode)
It is around the year 2120, 40 years after World War Three which lasted three days. Warlords roam the land, disease takes its pound of flesh and food is scarce yet civilization is showing itself once again on a large scale.
How did you discover the 'legend' of the Shield Hero?
You found it through a video game (locked for the 1200 AD society)
You read a Manga about some Isekai loser getting trashed on (locked for 1200 AD society)
You found it in a book.
You found it inscribed on an ancient tomb in Egypt, either in person or via the newspaper.
Your father told you the legend via oral tradition.
A mysterious robed figure referred to you as Shield Hero before vanishing, you never heard of it or saw him again
You hallucinated the whole thing on drugs.
How did you die?
You didn't, you just suddenly woke up with the Shield.
Suicide
Starvation/Dehydration
Disease
Car Accident (locked for the 1200 AD society)
Murder
Workplace Accident
Overdose
Fire
Terrorism (locked for the 1200 AD society)
War
End of Character Creation Part 1 as I'll need the above information to continue generating said character.
I'm posting the ruleset right after this, it's really simple. Afterwards I'll gauge the reaction to the quest give it a bit and then see about continuing the character creation.
Ruleset
Sword of Mars
Magical Girl Aficionado
- Location
- Canada
Ruleset:
Edit: Prettied up the formatting.
The game is covered by 5 main stats and their substats (of which some may be hidden and need to be unlocked, and they can be negative). You pass actions via skill checks. We're dealing with flat numbers because I can't be bothered to roll dice.
Now that it is no longer a spoiler, you can learn more main stats. Like the one we did in story, the Spiritual Energy Stat.
These will be assigned after character creation depending on what you picked and events in game will effect these stats and add new substats to the character sheet.
Here's the Stats and some examples for substats.
Might: Your general strength.
-Shield: How skilled you are at being a rip off Captain America
Agility: Your nimbleness, balance, etc.
-Gymnastics: From fancy artistic flips and elegant balance, to parkour and circus performance. Your general skill for actually putting your agility to use.
Awareness: How much you notice things with your senses, and how quickly do you catch onto things.
-Social Awareness: detecting how people view you.
Personality: Your general skill for raw charisma.
-Socializing: How good you're able at interpersonal communication.
Intelligence: How smart you are generally, and retaining information and learning.
-Reactive Planning: How quickly you can adapt to unexpected changes in circumstance in and out of combat.
By now you must have realized how I've omitted some of the rules, such as trauma. Let me just copy and paste the explanation from the character sheet:
Trauma. Allow me to explain the rules here now that we're far enough into the story that it won't spoil or meta game people now. Trauma has a max of 20, the more of it you get the more your character breaks. The more bad habits you get, the more fucked up personality you get, and the more they bleed into the default personality. Trauma also unlocks special actions that wouldn't be available otherwise, and also locks some things for you.
Edit: Prettied up the formatting.
The game is covered by 5 main stats and their substats (of which some may be hidden and need to be unlocked, and they can be negative). You pass actions via skill checks. We're dealing with flat numbers because I can't be bothered to roll dice.
Now that it is no longer a spoiler, you can learn more main stats. Like the one we did in story, the Spiritual Energy Stat.
These will be assigned after character creation depending on what you picked and events in game will effect these stats and add new substats to the character sheet.
Here's the Stats and some examples for substats.
Might: Your general strength.
-Shield: How skilled you are at being a rip off Captain America
Agility: Your nimbleness, balance, etc.
-Gymnastics: From fancy artistic flips and elegant balance, to parkour and circus performance. Your general skill for actually putting your agility to use.
Awareness: How much you notice things with your senses, and how quickly do you catch onto things.
-Social Awareness: detecting how people view you.
Personality: Your general skill for raw charisma.
-Socializing: How good you're able at interpersonal communication.
Intelligence: How smart you are generally, and retaining information and learning.
-Reactive Planning: How quickly you can adapt to unexpected changes in circumstance in and out of combat.
By now you must have realized how I've omitted some of the rules, such as trauma. Let me just copy and paste the explanation from the character sheet:
Trauma. Allow me to explain the rules here now that we're far enough into the story that it won't spoil or meta game people now. Trauma has a max of 20, the more of it you get the more your character breaks. The more bad habits you get, the more fucked up personality you get, and the more they bleed into the default personality. Trauma also unlocks special actions that wouldn't be available otherwise, and also locks some things for you.
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Hmm, interesting.
[X] Ternasta:
Name: Alexandra Gates
Gender: Female
Age: 23 (rolled percentile for that)
Socioeconomic Class: [Working Poor]
Society of your Earth: It is around the year 2120, 40 years after World War Three which lasted three days. Warlords roam the land, disease takes its pound of flesh and food is scarce yet civilization is showing itself once again on a large scale.
How did you discover the 'legend' of the Shield Hero?: You read a Manga about some Isekai loser getting trashed on (locked for 1200 AD society)
How did you die?: You didn't, you just suddenly woke up with the Shield.
How's this?
[X] Ternasta:
Name: Alexandra Gates
Gender: Female
Age: 23 (rolled percentile for that)
Socioeconomic Class: [Working Poor]
Society of your Earth: It is around the year 2120, 40 years after World War Three which lasted three days. Warlords roam the land, disease takes its pound of flesh and food is scarce yet civilization is showing itself once again on a large scale.
How did you discover the 'legend' of the Shield Hero?: You read a Manga about some Isekai loser getting trashed on (locked for 1200 AD society)
How did you die?: You didn't, you just suddenly woke up with the Shield.
How's this?
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Khona Moshr
Pink Flamingo Cabal Healer(they/them)
- Location
- Alabama
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[x] plan queen of the shield
-[x] Elisabeth of York
-[x] female
-[x] age 22
-[x] upper-class
-[x]It is 1200 in the year of our lord Jesus Christ. Kings reign, Nobles languish and the serfs and peasants work in the fields, you are a member of a Feudal State.
-[x] You found it in a book.
-[x] War
well this can either be good or bad, and I'll give it a chance since there was some interesting ideas that were wasted in the light novel due to the edge and creepiness
-[x] Elisabeth of York
-[x] female
-[x] age 22
-[x] upper-class
-[x]It is 1200 in the year of our lord Jesus Christ. Kings reign, Nobles languish and the serfs and peasants work in the fields, you are a member of a Feudal State.
-[x] You found it in a book.
-[x] War
well this can either be good or bad, and I'll give it a chance since there was some interesting ideas that were wasted in the light novel due to the edge and creepiness
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Sword of Mars
Magical Girl Aficionado
- Location
- Canada
It's good enough, but I'd appreciate it if we used the vote boxes.
Tbh I picked Shield Hero because I can easily sideline it into something interesting, has enough rules that I can do something, but it has a complete lack of rules to make things interesting to figure out. I'll endeavor to not train wreck the entire thing. I'll definitely treat the characters with more respect and give them more depth then the manga actually did though.
Hyacinthium
Writing about sad cannibals as we speak.
- Location
- Bedroom
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I've been thinking about an isekai quest... Or fic. Vastly different from Shield Hero though.
You have my axe in this endeavor.
[x] plan queen of the shield
You have my axe in this endeavor.
[x] plan queen of the shield
- Location
- Brazil
[x] plan Shield Princess
-[x] Sakura Yukihime
-[x] female
-[x] age 14
-[x] impoverished
-[x]It is around the year 2120, 40 years after World War Three which lasted three days. Warlords roam the land, disease takes its pound of flesh and food is scarce yet civilization is showing itself once again on a large scale.
-[x] A mysterious robed figure referred to you as Shield Hero before vanishing, you never heard of it or saw him again
-[x] War
-[x] Sakura Yukihime
-[x] female
-[x] age 14
-[x] impoverished
-[x]It is around the year 2120, 40 years after World War Three which lasted three days. Warlords roam the land, disease takes its pound of flesh and food is scarce yet civilization is showing itself once again on a large scale.
-[x] A mysterious robed figure referred to you as Shield Hero before vanishing, you never heard of it or saw him again
-[x] War
- Location
- Venezuela
[X] Plan Old Guard
-[X] Name: Kentaro Imamura
-[X] Gender: Male
-[X] Age: 50
-[X] Socioeconomic Class: [Upper Class]
-[X] It is around the year 2120, 40 years after World War Three which lasted three days. Warlords roam the land, disease takes its pound of flesh and food is scarce yet civilization is showing itself once again on a large scale.
-[X] A mysterious robed figure referred to you as Shield Hero before vanishing, you never heard of it or saw him again
-[X] Murder
-[X] Name: Kentaro Imamura
-[X] Gender: Male
-[X] Age: 50
-[X] Socioeconomic Class: [Upper Class]
-[X] It is around the year 2120, 40 years after World War Three which lasted three days. Warlords roam the land, disease takes its pound of flesh and food is scarce yet civilization is showing itself once again on a large scale.
-[X] A mysterious robed figure referred to you as Shield Hero before vanishing, you never heard of it or saw him again
-[X] Murder
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[x] Unlucky Youth
-[x] Taiga Kanzaki
-[x] Male
-[x] 15
-[x] Working Poor
-[x] It is 2200, you come from a world of mega corporations, futuristic technology built on the back of the crushed enslaved in all but name working class, a modern (to you) cyberpunk dystopia.
-[x] A mysterious robed figure referred to you as Shield Hero before vanishing, you never heard of it or saw him again
-[x] Murder
If it's Shield Hero might as well get into the angry, anti-establishment mood by growing up poor in a corrupt dystopian future, being suddenly murdered for what in our eyes seems like completely arbitrary reasons not long after meeting some mysterious robed weirdo, and then being shat on for our role and age in some far away land, without any friends and family nearby.
-[x] Taiga Kanzaki
-[x] Male
-[x] 15
-[x] Working Poor
-[x] It is 2200, you come from a world of mega corporations, futuristic technology built on the back of the crushed enslaved in all but name working class, a modern (to you) cyberpunk dystopia.
-[x] A mysterious robed figure referred to you as Shield Hero before vanishing, you never heard of it or saw him again
-[x] Murder
If it's Shield Hero might as well get into the angry, anti-establishment mood by growing up poor in a corrupt dystopian future, being suddenly murdered for what in our eyes seems like completely arbitrary reasons not long after meeting some mysterious robed weirdo, and then being shat on for our role and age in some far away land, without any friends and family nearby.
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ADeshantis
King on the Chromium Throne
- Location
- United states
[x] Plan: Shadowrunner
- [x] Name: Moira Chase
- [x] Gender: Female
- [x] Age: 23
- [x] SES: Working Poor
- [x] Time: 2020
- [x] Legend: Egyptian Tomb
- [x] Death: You didn't die.
If there is an option for "put a Shadowrunner in Shield Hero", you can bet I'm gonna go for it. That sounds awesome.
- [x] Name: Moira Chase
- [x] Gender: Female
- [x] Age: 23
- [x] SES: Working Poor
- [x] Time: 2020
- [x] Legend: Egyptian Tomb
- [x] Death: You didn't die.
If there is an option for "put a Shadowrunner in Shield Hero", you can bet I'm gonna go for it. That sounds awesome.
thePUNisher
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane
- Location
- Brazil
[X] Plan Old Guard
I like Mad Max gramps plan.
I like Mad Max gramps plan.
- Location
- Hollister
[x] plan queen of the shield
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
[X] plan Shield Princess
[X] Plan Archaeologist
- [X] Jorge Albright
- [X] Male
- [X] 45
- [X] Middle Class
- [X] It is around the year 2120, 40 years after World War Three which lasted three days. Warlords roam the land, disease takes its pound of flesh and food is scarce yet civilization is showing itself once again on a large scale.
- [X] You found it inscribed on an ancient tomb in Egypt, either in person or via the newspaper.
- [X] Starvation/Dehydration
- [X] Jorge Albright
- [X] Male
- [X] 45
- [X] Middle Class
- [X] It is around the year 2120, 40 years after World War Three which lasted three days. Warlords roam the land, disease takes its pound of flesh and food is scarce yet civilization is showing itself once again on a large scale.
- [X] You found it inscribed on an ancient tomb in Egypt, either in person or via the newspaper.
- [X] Starvation/Dehydration
Ghostdevil
The Devil of Ghosts
- Location
- United States
[x] Plan: Shadowrunner
FoolsandTools
Post-Depression Panic
- Location
- Spiritually Lost
[x] plan Shield Princess
Lets be homeless, it's always fun being a street tough cutie-pie
Lets be homeless, it's always fun being a street tough cutie-pie
[x] plan Shield Princess
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
[X] plan queen of the shield
Queen>Princess
Queen>Princess
