As you can see, I've made public the first rendition of the new staff ranking system. The intention is to distribute workload out more and leverage an excellent and active member base, rather than shoving all work onto the few people who feel confident to do things like approve moves and NPCs.

If you have any feedback, please touch it here. Obviously there are some things that have yet to be slotted into this system, like our current story guides.

This would also be the place to put yourself forward if you feel you would be particularly suited for any particular rank. Be sure to include what you think you would be best at, whether its Sprite, Cherub or Angel.

I'm happy to have quite a few members on these teams, that way nobody feels too pressured; with everyone doing a little bit of help around the site, we should all be happy. This will also free up the senior staff members (angels) to focus on more difficult things like move approvals.

This will be up for at least a week before I make any decisions, so no rush.

Staffing Departments
In order to effectively maintain the Omniverse and ensure that every member of staff has an opportunity to let their particular skillset shine, the duties here will be split apart into various ‘Departments’ (or Teams). Each Department will specialize in a particular aspect of the website, whether that’s handling Move Approvals, grading threads, or performing OM updates. Departments will also have short- and long-term objectives they will work on to improve their aspects of the website. Departments will have one or two Team Leads who head them up and are responsible for helping out their Team Members.

READING/GRADING - Luci (Team Lead)
This Department is the people who love to read, have the time to read, and who will be impartial in how they assess bonuses in the Bonus Request thread. They must also be willing to serve as Judges for PvP when requested. 

MOVES - Daniel (Team Lead) and Wyatt & Ezhriel & Demetri
This Department will be behind the Move Approval thread, which everyone here ever understands is its own endeavor at times. This Department also handles issues of balancing in regards to other aspects of the system like Powers and Proficiency.

JOINING - ElFailzalot (Team Lead) and Yuuka Kazami & Civic & the Vision
This Department deals with Join Apps. They must be personable and willing to help prospective members who may be young or non-native English speakers. You will also be responsible for NPC Approvals, because they often take the same form as Join Apps. Team Leader will have ACP access to edit user names to process switches. Any complex Moves should be passed over to the Move Approval thread. 

STORYTELLER - Blink and The Humble Sage (Co-Leads)
This Department will head up the Storyteller account, which entails responding to IC events and/or being willing to write NPC vignettes. These Team members will also work with Alex to keep all the Info Threads up-to-date. In the event that Quests return, these members will be responsible for content creation in that realm.

Other:
Some staffers may have additional authority in certain areas, usually off the boards but still dealing with growth and development of the website.

Information Technology and Maintenance (Trixie/WhateverJoesAltIsAtTheGivenMonth)
Responsible for helping oversee maintenance of the board and coordinating upgrades and new features. Helps ensure that Alex won't blow something the heck up and be unable to piece it back together. If there's a serious tech bug or issue you come across, make sure Alex and Joe are made aware of it.

Public Relations (Jade/Pennywise/Ada)
Jade is an editor on the Omniverse Facebook, and she is also a point person for advertisement and any sort of community growth or outreach we may do here.

Finally decided on a new character. Could I please have my username changed to Hideaki Yajima?

Character name: Xehanort

Character source: Kingdom Hearts

Character history:

The forceful result of Master Xehanort's take over of Terra's, a keyblade wielder, body, this combination of the two has lost all memory of his past lives in the struggle of supremacy that followed. Left unconscious, Xehanort (or terra-xehanort by some fans) was found by Ansem the Wise of Radiant Garden and taken under his wing as on of his apprentices.
-might fill out later in depth-
Physical Description: (originals only)





Stats:
ATK:1
DEF:1
SPD:3
TEC:5

Starting Proficiencies: Physical Strength (1000)

Starting Powers: Insight (1600) Master Acrobat (400) Burst Speed (800) Suppression (1000)

Starting Moves: none at the time being. Character isn't combat oriented.

Character Name: Hideaki Yajima

Character Source: Linebarrels of Iron

Character History:
[spoiler]Hideaki Yajima had been friends with Kouichi Hayase and Risako Niiyama since elementary school, and had always protected them (mainly Kouichi) from bullies. Ostensibly, this was because he was a fine and upstanding person. In reality, it was solely to do with trying to impress Risako. She saw right through him, though, so in the end his act amounted to nothing. Eventually, he did actually come to consider Kouichi a friend, though, so he wasn't all that bad.

And then one day his life was changed forever when Hayase was chosen to become the factor (pilot) for a machina (mecha) called Linebarrel. Along with being a factor came the gift of super strength... for... some reason. As such, Kouichi clearly no longer needed his protection.

Unfortunately, all this new-found power went straight to his head. In an attempt at stopping him from getting himself killed, Yajima got into a fight with his friend... and then ended up being fatally wounded when a rogue machina called Apparition showed up and attempted to kill Kouichi. On the bright side, the realisation that his stupidity had directly led to his best friend's death caused Kouichi to (more or less) get over his delusions of grandeur. So it wasn't all bad, at least.

In a strange twist of fate, Apparition's AI then selected the practically-dead Yajima to be its factor. Not seeing how this could possibly backfire in any way, the leader of the Katou Organisation (the group to whom Apparition was supposed to belong), Hisataka Katou, used his super-advanced alternate-dimension technology to save Yajima's life. He also gave him a prosthetic right arm, to replace the one he had lost when he 'died'.

Yajima at first helped Katou, and once again attempted to convince Kouichi to give up on being a factor. When this failed, he joined the Juda Corporation (Hayase's group) instead. Proving once and for all that saving the life of your enemy's best friend, asking him to become a member of the organisation directly responsible for almost killing him and then giving him a twenty-metre-tall mecha and the power of super-strength to top it all off... probably isn't the best idea ever.

In the end, though, Hisataka turned out to be a traitor, so that may well have been intentional. The real villain was his second-in-command; a cyborg cowboy (yes, I'm being completely serious) named Masaki Sugawara, who was intent upon opening a dimensional gateway in order to allow the other cyborgs from his homeworld to invade their reality. Kouichi eventually managed to beat him, though, and everyone was saved. Yay.

Admittedly, he didn't manage to stop Sugawara until after Earth had been invaded, so it was a bit of a pyrrhic victory... even if the death toll probably wasn't nearly as bad as you'd expect from a giant robot invasion. At the very least, pretty much every nation in the world must have suffered billions of whatever-currency-they-used worth of property damage.

And then they all lived happily ever after... until Yajima was kidnapped by Omni a few days later.[/spoiler]
Physical Description:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
Stats: +1 (1000)
ATK: 4
DEF: 3
SPD: 2
TEC: 2

Starting Proficiencies:
Physical Strength (1000)

Starting Powers:
Advanced Super Jumping (500)

Starting Moves: N/A
Factor's Eye (600)
(Physical Strength)
Yajima's iris & pupil glow bright pink, and a horizontal dash of the same colour appears though them as he briefly focuses his energy. Whilst in this state, his next punch or kick is far more powerful, but also much more draining than it normally would have been. As such, overusing this ability will very quickly tire him out. One of these enhanced attacks can send someone flying backwards with enough force to break stone, should they actually strike some. The maximum distance they can be thrown is approximately five metres.

Block (300)
(Physical Strength)
Yajima places one or both of his arms or hands in the path of an oncoming blow or projectile. This does not actually reduce the force of the attack; it only reduces its severity by redirecting the damage away from his vital organs. Although he can block with either arm, he'll usually opt to use his right; since it's mechanical, he can't feel pain in that one, after all. Also, metal is harder to break than bone, so there's that too.

Crush (300)
(Physical Strength)
Thanks to his increased strength, Yajima is capable of exerting great pressure upon his opponents simply by grabbing them (by the arm, hand, neck, etc.) and squeezing. This grip can be extremely painful and if maintained long enough could potentially lead to broken bones. That said, against Primes and powerful Secondaries it will likely manage no more than to leave a bruise, if that. The main drawback of this technique is that he must maintain his hold for an extended period in order for it to have much effect on tougher opponents, and during that time he is far less able to effectively block or evade attacks.

Starting Items:
Mobile Dataverse Device (100)
Communicator (200)

I confirm that I have read and agreed to the Rules of Conduct.


Total Spent OM: 4,000.

It took only minutes to reach his destination. There were thousands of elevators strewn about the city, so it came as no surprise to Jaixe that one was so close-by to the library. Though, he wished the Taxi would take him further down. Apparently the elevators were the only permitted transit between tiers.

The elevator was large, guarded, and monitored with cameras, a tower of a security barrier to keep the tiers separate. Jaixe did not know the exact reason for such security, but he ventured a guess that it was simply to keep efficient track of those in the upper tiers, while the lower tiers could simply be ignored. Just what he would expect for the Empire.

As he stepped out of the floating yellow vehicle that transported him to the elevator, he took a quick glance around. He figured that it would be some time before he could see clear skies again, or light for that matter. This was going to be an intriguing endeavor to be sure.

He walked quickly across the metal walkway, his black boots thudding against the cold steel that kept him from the void below, eager to depart already. He had had it with the “peaceful, glorious visage of the Empire.” He wanted to see how dark this world could truly get.

The white-armored Stormtroopers that stood resolutely on either side of the wide entrance of the elevator did not stop him, probably recognizing him as a Prime and not some average civilian. When Jaixe entered the elevator, it quickly close and he felt the sudden lurch and the whirring as it descended to the tiers below.

It took a surprising amount of time to reach the third tier, having to stop ever so often for the other mindless civilians to either enter or depart from the cab. Not to even mention that each tier was truly massive in terms of vertical scale. It took tens of minutes, almost a half hour, to reach his destination, and he had one more elevator to find and ride to reach the fifth tier.

With how much time had passed, Jaixe felt somewhat irritated, with it mixing with his intrigue and comfort at how the environment got darker, smoggier, and increasingly poor and desperate. This was the city that he knew, the despair he wanted to see. However, it also made him feel yet more disconnected, as he could not truly feel the darkness surrounding him. This led to discomfort, realizing that he was merely an anomaly in this Omniverse, and the Darkness that he was so familiar with was subverted by Omni for his little game. It was not the same here. Not even remotely.

When the tiny cab of the elevator finally stopped at the fifth tier, Jaixe stepped out impatiently on the now concrete and dirty flooring of the fifth tier. All around him, it was dark, with people, cloaked and wearing ragged clothing, roaming about all around him. Just as he stepped out and started to observe his surroundings, however, he could feel a presence very close by to him, and a strange but loud whooshing sound and a surprisingly colorful blur of a figure came very close over top of him, almost throwing him off his feet as it passed over him to an area beside him. He turned to discern the source of the sudden annoyance that almost flew into him, an irritated expression gazing at the woman that landed on her feet with a loud thudding...

WiP

Character name: Connor Hound
Character Age: 23

Character source: Original, originally made for the RWBY universe, but this reiteration of Conner is different

Character history: WiP Connor is from a place, in a time where homicide, genocide, assassinations, and political unrest headlined the news, and the citizens saw it on holographic displays, that was projected by a device embedded in their hands, called a HandPad. One thing though, he never new that it was on the news, because he was usually working for those entities involved, either as a body guard, assassin, or just an ordinary mercenary. Until the day he fell....
He was on the tallest building in the city. Facing off of a bunch of grunts that worked against his current boss. Having run out of ammo in one of his pistols, and in is semi-automatic rifle, and having his tomahawk badly damaged, he discarded those weapons and left them near-by, thinking that he will return to pick them up later. He was only left with Lupa, his customized Glock 18, and first pistol he bought. One of the grunts detonated a bomb that pushed him off the roof. then he fell....into the white portal that brought him here.


Physical Description: Stands at about 5'6, is pretty lithe and agile, and knows martial arts, but they are a fall back when ammo is running low. He has significant muscle mass and can still can run circles around an opponent, as long as he has an area that allows him use of his free running. He is somewhat pale but has contrastingly dark brown hair and deep rich brown eyes. Usually seen wearing a trench coat and black pants, and currently has a holster on his left thigh, where he stores his Glock 18, Lupa, and has straps across his chest where he stores his magazines.

Stats:
ATK: 3
DEF: 2
SPD: 3
TEC: 2

Starting Proficiencies: Ranged Proficiency (1000) Physical Strength (1000)

Starting Powers: Super jump (Basic, 300), Master Accrobat(400), Stealth(1200)

Starting Moves: Lupa ((300)) : (Requires Ranged Profinciency) : A Glock 18 (caliber: 9mm) , full-auto (2 seconds to empty clip), uses sub-sonic bullets,has a laser attachment and it's magazine size is 33 bullets, not entirely accurate, it's bullet spread is aprox. 2 ft in vertical direction from intended target point. Is stored on my left hip, for is holstered so that I can grab it with my right hand

I confirm that I have read and agreed to the Rules of Conduct. Yes

Character name: Saryuu 'Simeon' Evan (Alias: SARU)

Character source: Inazuma Eleven Go: Chrono Stone

Character history: He is the former Leader to Feida, a organization of Second Stage Children, individuals that had been deemed as far descendants of the most powerful soccer players that have various psychic powers at the price of their short lives (since they cannot live beyond twenty) due to a genetic mutation, that has waged war against the adults of El Dorado for the future of soccer. After being vaccinated to end the mutation once and for all, his powers were deemed as dormant, however unknown to him, another mutation was happening and it was adapting to this change.

Several months later, his powers and other former attributes (exception of short life since that has been resolved) were returning, however in the mist of this, he simply vanished one day and was never seen again in his reality. Unknown to him, this was actually the work of Omni.

Physical Description: In the incident, he has white spiky hair and wears goggles with a black frame and yellow lens. He wears a sleeveless orange shirt over a full sleeved black shirt with black pants underneath and white boots, along with a small light blue scarf and white gloves. He also has big dark violet eyes, which are similar to Tenma's.

Nowadays, he wears more casual clothes, however he remains to have his small blue scarf around.

Stats:
ATK: 2
DEF: 2
SPD: 3
TEC: 3

Starting Proficiencies: Physical Strength (1000), Ranged (1000), Remote Control (600), Ranged Materialize (600), Area Attack (600) (3800)

Starting Powers: Telekinesis/ Basic (400)

Starting Moves: Static Burst (Area Attack, Ranged, Ranged Materialized) (300)
Inspired from Fei's Air Bullet and his own move, being of Shellbit Burst, it is a small ball of static energy that SARU creates between his hands in a rotating fashion as it grows to the size of a soccerball in a window of four seconds. As he tosses it over and kicks it for added power, it creates speeds going much like a bullet going down a straight trajectory as it cannot be manipulated. The maximum range distance is ten meters before the ball eventually bursts out in a violent shock affecting within five feet of the blast radius for moderate damage.

I confirm that I have read and agreed to the Rules of Conduct.

((The amount of OM I got from the Specter account is 5519.435, I halved it and had 519.435OM))

Greetings Mongrels,

For those of you who know me I'll be stepping down from my Mod position mainly for the lack of time I'm experiencing due to college. College turned out to be much more work than I originally expected and I don't currently have the time to be a staff member, let alone post. Hopefully once I get a handle on things I'll be become a more active member of the community and post more frequently. Thanks for everything you guys.

Yours Truly,
The King of Kings.

Basically, you post a section of lyrics from a song, any song, and people will try to guess the song.
Lyric posting will be taken in turns and decided by who guesses the song right and can post the correct answer first.
Make sure to wait until your answer is confirmed as correct before posting a new set of Lyrics.
Hopefully people don't just search the Lyrics on the internet for the answer.

I guess I'll start it off, and my lyrics are;