EDIT 10/16/07 6:33 PM - New class added - Knight!

EDIT 10/11/07 1:55 AM - MUSIC! At the bottom of this post. Important info about music.

EDIT 10/10/07 11:26 PM (Jeezus, the UPDATES.) - New class added - Dark Knight!

EDIT 10/10/07 10:57 PM - New class added - Monk!

EDIT 10/10/07 9:41 PM - Edge has given me an idea to only have two people in the starting team. Therefore, for the time being the Starting Party is closed.

EDIT 10/10/07 9:31 PM - I forgot to mention, we need a Mission Giver, an InnKeeper, Item Shop owner, Armor shop owner and Weapon shop owner. ALso, ideas for an item that takes you to the Party Change area and a save point would help too. SIgnup list updated.

EDIT (about 5 minutes later XD!) - New class: Myrmidon!

Oh yes. With my return, so comes the revival of a great gaming idea - TFS Adventures is back!!

Of course, I won't be using the exact same storyline though. After speaking with Iota, I came up with a great idea. Please don't kill me Bill XD;

Storyline: Life in The Fallout Shelter is peaceful. Members sprite and write, friends speak and argue, rivals duke it out in RPs.

However, soon the dusk comes, and with it a new terror. A hacker has been making plans to come and take control. Nobody knows who he is. He only goes by his handle... "Goodwill."

The hacker causes turmoil inside the forum. He takes control of many members who try to rebel against him, and use him against the rest. A war breaks out... but soon ends as the administrators throw Goodwill back... for now. He has taken most of the forum, and while Bill and Mewchu begin to make preparations for a rebellion, Iota, Edge and the rest of the survivors must prepare themselves to go in first!

(God, I suck at story summaries. >.<) (And, Mewchu and Bill, this doesn't mean you HAVE to be in the game. If you want you can just be mentioned by Edge and Iota in the game but never featured. It's both of your choices. In fact, you can both be playable later in the game (either taken by nor not taken by the hacker) if you choose to be.)

OKAY. This is a signup post. There will be 30, yes, THIRTY playable characters. There will be four to begin with, and 26 unlockables during the course of the game. You will be saving members from control and they will join your team afterwards. You can only have four people in a team at one time, and each character will have their own moves and abilities, so you can customize your team for any situation. I will post more classes later, but for right now these are the available ones:

Warrior - One- or Two-handed weapon user. Can use swords (medium speed, medium power), Axes (Slower speed, Better Power), Blunt objects (slowest speed, Best Power), or spears (same as blunt objects, but you can have poisoned spears). Has more ATK, DEF, and HP. Has less MP and INT.

White Mage - A cleric with the ability to heal other members. It is recommended you have one of these in your party, especially if you don't have many items. Each cleric will have the ability to make up their own healing spells, up to six. Low heal, Medium heal, High heal, Esuna, Life and Full-Life. (You can name all six.)

Black/Dark Mage - A magician with the ability to control magic and elements. Definitely the type to have when you want elemental advantages in battle. The elements go in this order of strengths: (> meaning is beaten by)

Fire>Water>Electricity>Ground/Earth>Air/Wind
Dark>Light. and Neutral>Dark.

Black/Dark Mages will have the ability to make up to six elemental abilities. You can have one or multiple (but one or two is recommended). You can only make them start off weak and get stronger (meaning you can't have six ULTIMATELY POWERFUL SPELLS of each type. If you only have one, it's weak. Second of the same element, it's semi-medium. Then Medium, then Powerful, then Super Powerful. Any sixth will be a SuperPower, which will give you abilities. You CAN make any of the spells in the chain grant strengths/resistances to the element of the spell, and it will still rise (if the Medium spell grants resistance/strength, it will grant Medium. Then next spell, powers granted or attack spell, will be Powerful.)


Rangers - Skill and speed are their weapons. Accuracy and swiftness are their aids. Enemies beware. - Rangers will be able to use any ranged weapon they choose (EXCEPT MACHINERY LIKE GUNS), like bows or crossbows or anything else they want (Slingshots and stuff can be used too). Rangers have higher Evasiveness and Accuracy than any class.


Gunners - Care for a piece of machinery? This is for all the gun-lovers. Any type of gun you please, even element-imbued ones, can be your tools. You also will be able to learn abilities connected to the weapons you equip. Any gun, from Handgun to SMG to Rocket Launcher to the almighty Nuclear Blaster, is available. Note that the last two I said can't be used right off the bat, it has to be something acquirable. You don't HAVE to start with a Handgun, Dual Handguns and Rifles/Shotguns may be used.

Myrmidon - Speedier than their Warrior brothers, Myrmidon have the ability to make quick lethal strikes. They also have higher critical hit ratios than Warriors do. A massive downside to this is that they have much lower HP and Defense, so be careful... (You can only use Swords for this class)

Monk - A class capable of decent damage with fists, nunchakus or claws. They can have the wind or earth elements/abilities. This is the mid-class; Monks have no huge weaknesses or strengths. (other than elemental) However, claws can be poisoned.

Dark Knight - Powerful, speedy, and quite admirable, the Dark Knight is the most unique of the classes presented thus far. The character will possess weaponry that will gain Dark attributes as the weapons upgrade. The DK also has the ability to use status effect magics, like Confusion, Stun, Poison, MP Drain, and many more. They won't know them all to begin with, but who knows? You could become very powerful as one...

Knight - The powerhouse! People of this class get to choose whether they just want high attack power (Above-Average DEF, High HP, Low Magic Res, Average Speed) or high attack AND defense power (High HP, VERY Low Magic Res, Less-Than-Average Speed). Knights can wield any type of weaponry, but due to the AA-speed of the less-armored ones it may be wise to take a larger weapon in...

There WILL BE MORE CLASSES. If you wish to submit one, please PM me. I will be glad to discuss it with you.

That's all for now. Here's what I want you who wish to signup to do.

-Make Overworld sprites. If you don't know what those are, PM me. DO NOT ASK IN THIS THREAD.
- Make one Battle sprite/Avatar. This will be shown in front of your stats while in battle, and beside your stats in the menu outside of battle.
- Decide on your starting weapon. OPTIONAL: Decide on the set of weapons you want (from three to seven acquirable throughout the game). I will decide how you get them.
-Make a note that a lot of "standard" weapons will be purchasable (sp?), so if you don't know, don't worry about it. At least have a 'final weapon' that you can acquire.

-PLEASE NOTE!- When you get freed from the hacker's control REALLY DETERMINES HOW MANY WEAPONS YOU CAN ACQUIRE. So please tell me how far into the game you wish to be freed, and make sure you tell me how many weapons you want. If you're near the end of the game, you might already just have your best weapon and have no other acquirables.

- Yes, I will be in the game too. As someone who's taken by the Hacker. I'll be released near the end of the game, just like last time.

This will be complicated, but mostly for me. I'm doing the entire game in RPG Maker XP. (Hey, at least it's better than what this game was ORIGINALLY going to be made in - RPG Maker 2003. MP3s instead of MIDIs, yay.)

If you think this is stupid, you don't have to join. This game can go on even without 30 playable characters. So don't flame. If you want to flame me so bad, use my email.


SIGNUP SHEET!

Mission Giver:

InnKeeper:

Armor Shop Owner: Kaliback

Weapon Shop Owner: Cador

Item Shop Owner:


People taken by the Hacker:
1. Xero (Released near the end of the game) - Warrior (Weapon: Cyber Swords (SPECIAL))
2. Glide (Released in the middle of the game) - Monk (Weapon: Claws)
3. craig (First TFSer released) (Gunner) (Starting Weapon: Handgun) (Sprites: Finished!)
4. Kelax (Second TFSer released) (Monk) (Weapon: Nunchakus) (Sprites: Almost Finished)
5. Wise (Released shortly after the middle) (Dark Knight) (Weapon: Swords)
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.

Starting Team:
1. Iota
2. Edge (Warrior) (Weapon: Blunt (Fists))

Not taken by hacker: Will join party sometime in the game (Doesn't have to be fought to join team):
1. Himo (Myrmidon) (Weapon: Katanas/Swords)
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Undecided roles:
1. Eshbaal (Knight) (Weapon: Heavy Weaponry)
2. Cassidy (Undecided)
3. Takura (Gunner)
4. Halo [AngelHalo] (Warrior) (Weapon: Swords)
5. FinalHazard/Steve (Unknown)
6. Edwardo (Dark Mage)


Post your sprites, what class you want to be, and let's get this thing started! Music recommendations and TileSets are very helpful too if you want to help with that.


MUSIC!

Currently I am browsing my music for suitable themes. Right now, we really need suitable tracks for:

Normal Battle Theme
Normal Boss Theme
TFS Ambience (Central area)
Fierce Boss Battle
Battle Versus Goodwill

More track requests will be put out as the game progresses, but I'd prefer to get these five out of the way. CURRENTLY I propose this for our Normal Boss Theme:

"Final Boss (End Chapter Boss)" - Rockman X Command Mission

If you have other recommendations, please PM them to me. I more than likely either have the song or can easily get it. If you have a link, please include it in your PM.

Hm. Well, I guess I'm in this then. I don't have any sprites for this, but my class would be Warrior (Leaning more toward HP and DEF than ATK) and my weapon would be Blunt (Fist type weapons preferably.)

I'll look toward getting some sprites later.

Gotcha.

- I may have to make Fists Medium/Medium, unless you want them Fast Speed/Lower Damage or something (actually levels out with your higher ATK power.)

EDIT: If you still want to use your old Forte-ish sprite for a battle sprite, that would work. It wouldn't be hard to make overworld sprites from that. And you don't have to make them if you don't have time - I can see if someone else wants to help with sprites.

I figured it'd be low speed, but Medium/Medium sounds fine.

Oh yeah! Before I forget.

CharSets MUST be near or identical in size to the RMXP charsets! (OR we can set a requirement otherwise). If you don't know what they are, don't post your sprites yet. You can still sign up though! Even if you don't have sprites, if you want to be part of this, all you have to do is post! We'll try to help you with sprites as things go along ('we' being whoever wants to help with sprites, and also 'we' being me).

-UPDATE- (look on first post!) - New Class: Myrmidon!

Gone to bed now, more updates in the morning.

I suppose that I'll be a Myrmidon, well, unless something with that wind/lightning feel comes up

Crap Question cause I'm an idiot, this a sprite comic?

Ignore that, I didn't read it entirely. i double posted cause I dunno how to edit without the button.

Damn. If I could actually sprite I would totally jump on this, though I'm not sure if Warrior really fits me that well, even if I primarily focus on strenght and defense... and none of the weapon types seem to appeal too much to me. Oh well, I'll have to think about that.

If someone could make me some overworld sprites and one for actual battle (as I assume it has to fit the RPGM style), it would be great.

If anyone wants to help with sprites, it'd be greatly appreciated. Until then, I'll see if I can find anyone.

More classes will be added as time passes on. If you have an idea for a new class, IM me or PM me.

Oh, and the Edit button works for me, Jamer. o.o; Just beside Quote, as always...

Edit: See? Anyway, if you have weapons you want to insert, tell me and I can probably make a class out of it.

I'd like to join this. My character would preferably be a monk with nunchakus, if that's ok.

And I'd like to see if I can help with the sprites, too.

Question would Pokemon style overworld sprites be ok?

I've always, I mean always, tried to go for a certain type of class in particular. I'd prefer, If I could, be a mimic. Plus, I'd need a ton of help with overworld sprites. >.>

Giving us some RPGMXP spritesheets would really help.

EDIT: Oh, and Warrior with a sword for me, thank you.

well i guess I'll be in it too gunner with a hand gun please

I like to sign up. I have sent you a question, note, and profiles in a PM.

Me! :P

Can't decide where to be, In starting Party or taken by Ze hacker


Claw Master :P (Claws/Blades attached to the wrists, close range combat) *Runs back to groundedness*

:P Sorry, I don't have the time at the moment. In fact, I MIGHT have the time in a few minutes, I just have to nab one, upload it to PB and then post it here. I'll have it up within an hour.

That also means that Pokemon-style overworld sprites are fine, as long as you have them like the size of the sprites.

Kelax, you can help, sure. I'll put you on the list of helpers.

-NOTE- Everyone that contributes to the game, either as being a player (+beta tester), helping with sprites, music recommendations, etc. will have their username in the credits.

NEW UPDATE! Check the first post in about two minutes from this post.

EDIT! People! You must tell me where you want to be in the game! The signup list is up there, there are about seven things you could be. Please make this easier for me XD I don't want to have to decide for everyone. If you don't know, that's okay, but let's not have everyone doing that!

And, all I need is your starting weapon (which craig did), all advancing weapons can be given to me later.

:P

I'll be taken by the Hacker, Released midway through the game.....As what? Dunno XD

I've decided that I want Halo Husk as my character. More details in my PM.

Edit:
For Recommendations on Music, here's the following:
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy Series
Final Fantasy Tactics
Kingdom Hearts Series
Lost Planet
Mega Man X 5-8
Mega Man Zero Series
Mega Man ZX
Metal Gear Acid 1&2
Namco X Capcom
SNK vs CAPCOM Chaos
Soul Calibur 3

Those I recommend are those I have (except for Kingdom Hearts)

released at the beginning of the game like the first one

If you like my monk idea, I would have wooden nunchakus as my starting weapon, and get ones made of tougher stuff as it goes.

Got it, craig. I'll edit the main post in a second. Thanks for the quick reply :3

And Angel, thanks for the recommendations, but I have all those games. In fact, it's having all those game musics that make it hard to choose what to use. XD And, I do use Galbadia Hotel as well. But I have about 20-25 soundtracks at my disposal, as well as 10 Non-MP3 soundtracks I can get MP3s of if necessary.

I'd also like to be released in the beginning

I must ask that people explore other classes, as I don't want 10+ Warriors in the game. If you still want to be one that's fine, but I'd like for there to be an assortment of people in the game. Everyone with classes right now is fine.

ALSO, if you ever want to make a change to your character, like classes/weapons, you can do so at any time. Simply PM me with the changes.

Thank you.

NOTE: There are already 10 playable characters! Yay! That's 1/3 of the characters!

Let me know via pm if there is any sprite work you would like me to do.

I'll be one of the ones not taken by the hacker: Myrmidon(Woo! first!)

First weapon: Katana or Zatochi

Second-to-last: Sword of Kusanagi
Last Weapon: Moonblade of Legend


No sprites yet though. well, the sword sprites in my sig might work, when enlarged(curse ye, RMXP! Curse ye and your bigger screen!)

Count me in as the Armor Shop Owner!!

Recommendations for the following requested themes.

Normal Battle Theme:
-Final Fantasy Tactics: Desert Land
-FFT: Unavoidable Battle
-FFT: Apoplexy
-FFT: Back Fire
-Chrono Trigger: Battle 2
-RPGMXP: Battle 1
-RPGMXP: Battle 2
Normal Boss Theme:
-FFT: Decisive Battle
-FFT: Bloody Excrement
-CT: Boss Battle 1
-CT: Boss Battle 2
-Namco X Capcom: Meeting a Profusion of Evil
-RPGMXP: Boss 1
TFS Ambience (Central area)
-FFT: Team Making
-CT: Peaceful Days
-RPGMXP: Field 1
Fierce Boss Battle
-FFT: Battle on the Bridge
-FFT: Ultema First
-FFT: Ultema Second
-CT: World Revolution
-NxC: Brave or Grave
-NxC: 99
-RPGMXP: Last Boss 3
Battle Versus Goodwill
-Lost Planet: Inside the Dome - Green Eye Battle

Gah. For some odd reason, Galbadia Hotel has NONE of the Final Fantasy soundtracks (Save for 7 for some odd reason). Know where I can find all those Tactics tracks? ALso the Lost Planet soundtrack isn't there either.

- And I'm not using any of the preset RMXP themes, either. :P (EDIT: I mean battle-wise. The REST, we'll see.)

I don't have a specific class idea, but I can at least tell you that I use my pencil for a weapon. Long as a spear, though quite thicker and harder, and weighs a LOT (since I base my fighting style mostly on Strenght and Defense) not to mention it has the whole "harpoon" aspect, but I'd prefer it to not be QUITE as slow as what a warrior with a spear would use... perhaps I could just have absolute minimum in stats like Magic and Magic Defense or the like?

Eshbaal - Perhaps a new class could be designed for what you just said. I'll check back in later and try to design one.

When I get home, I'll try to sort some of my music.

In the meantime, I guess I'll be one of the hacked; either as a weapon (Soul Tear, Dark Knight weapon maybe) or undecided (know sword, spear, and big sword, so most likely to be warrior).

Known Weaponset:
Beam Spear (initial/purchasable?)
Serpentine
Soul Tear

I guess that, in order to make the weapon choice stronger, that I'll be released at the end. In that case, either I aid the party as Soul Tear or I join the party with Serpentine or a weaker bonded Soul Tear.

Also, you might want to post a template/example and average size of the char/avatar for people to get an idea of how to make them.

Also, if I don't find my avy in time, you can kick me off.

There is a template of one of the RMXP Overworld Charsets. Please make them about that size. It does NOT need to be exact; I just don't want there being huge differences between one character and another.

Harosata, if you're in the end, unless you wait until the last minute, which is me gettig to where you would be released, there's nothing to worry about. Although you really can't join as a WEAPON... so if you want to be released as a person near the end, please confirm this. Also, you can be up to third-to-last, since second- and last are already taken (I'm second-to-last, the last is a secret).

I'm about to go to work for the next eight hours so I will not be able to update until I am home tonight. Please PM me any questons or suggestions regarding the game.

Got that link I sent you?

Edit: I forgot to mention, Halo's last skill (Angel) is only achievable if Halo has reacquired his Angel Sword.

UPDATE: So far I've received one sprite sheet. Until everyone else's is ready, I'll use the regular RPGXP sprites. Whenever I receive them, I'll swap 'em out.

Music has been looked at a lot. I'll be looking at your recommendations soon. Right now, this is what hs been offered by people via IM:

Me:
Boss Battle:
Romancing SaGa - "The Soul of Fire"
Rockman X: Command Mission - "Final/End Chapter Battle"
Battle versus Goodwill:
Romancing SaGa - "Calling an Awaking Memory - The Battle With Sherah"

Battle Theme:
Tales of Symphonia - "Full Force"


Edge:
Boss Battle:
Legend of Mana - "Pain the Universe"

Harosata:
Boss Battle:
Musou Orochi (Orochi Warriors) - "Incarnation of Evil"


I'm pretty sure that all of these can be found at Galbadia Hotel (Not sure about Musou Orochi/Orochi Warriors). Give them a listen when you have the time. They'll be decided on when needed. And yes Halo, I will listen to your recommendations tonight.

Edit by Xero: Well, guys, if you wanna listen to them, I can send you the MP3s via AIM or something, or you can get off your lazy butts and find them on Galbadia Hotel.

Well, this looks very interesting. I wouldn't mind being in this, but besides sprite issues, my character would be rather... different concerning class and weaponry.

You see: my character not only is meant to be physically defensive, but his main armaments are dual shield-type weapons, ranging from your basic forearm-bound protective metal sheets to tricked-out Xenosaga-like contraptions. The fighting style is mostly based on unarmed fighting, but uses the shields for offensive and defensive purposes.

EDIT: Forgot the elemental alignment. This dude mainly works with earth element cause he likes rocks. His final weapon set will end up as one earth-elemental shield and one wind-elemental shield, though, so I dunno how that'll work.

So basically, we have an earth-aligned dude with already high defensive stats and a decent yet unspectacular offense who uses weapons that further increase his defense. Can ya fix me up anything?

Attention forumers and contributers (...damn it, I forgot if it's e or o)!

Thank you all for your continued support of the game. I would now like to announce the game has RIGHT NOW begun to be designed! Music selections are still underway, so IM me at 'TheWarriorXero' or Skype as 'warriorxero' if you want to hear the recommendations I've received so far!

If your sprite sheets are not in yet, I will substitute them until they are ready! Your battle sprite should come first so I can give accurate screenshots.

Hopefully the rest of the spots will fill in soon.

- Lord, this is going to be a long year. XD

EDIT: One person has contributed his choice for what should be the boss theme: Soul of Fire!

Come on, guys, find the themes (or ask me for them via IM) and vote on the Normal Boss Theme!

I guess I'll join. I'll get my sprites up later, maybe tomorrow.

I guess as Cassidy, I'll be a Black/Dark Mage.

(I wanted to sign up MidgetMan, but Xero wouldn't let me. Ah well.)

You know, I'll be the Weapon shop owner.