Fallen Feather: Mother F.E.L.I.C.I.A (A Revived Project)

[ConflictedX3]

Greetings Game Forgers, Today I'm here to shed a little light on a Project i first revealed here a while back that was on the brink of cancellation: "Fallen Feather: Mother F.E.L.I.C.I.A". Life got busy for me with school and everything but now that i'm finally a graduate and i have some time on my hands + a little incentive from reading a random topic here brought the project back 120%! However i'm more humble, i only wish to complete a Tech Demo by the End of the Month and based on reviews i'll decide if i want to finish the project or not .

Now that introductions are out the way, lets get down to business:

---The Plot---
Within' This Spoiler is the prologue To the story, Mind You this section is taken from my Unfinished Novel so there may be some inconsistencies with the Novel & The Game When you play it (as i had to make some changes for the game version to make a bit more sense). However I believe as far as the prologue goes it's pretty identical:

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Prologue:
~The Almighty, The Universe~
"The Almighty", Undisputed ruler of everything that exists. Going by no other name, The Almighty and his chosen bride, "Threa", Reside in a mystical realm all their own known as "Higher Plane".  It is here that they and their subjects remain for time eternal. Threa, queen of the cosmos gave birth to seven children.  Pyzra, God of Flame and Fire; Tsuzra, God of Wave and Water;  Groundra, God of Quake and Boulder; Wispra God of Wind and Twister. Boltra, God of Thunder and Lightning;  Bronza, God of Steel and Metal as well as...Azulra, The two-headed God of Light and Dark.
Centuries passed, the children grew older and more powerful. As their talents extended and became more formidable, The Almighty believed it was time to choose his heir.  He felt that the most unbiased procedure to conduct this decision would be by playing a game.
This "game" would test their ability to rule others. Without warning he flung his galaxy crushing hands above his head and spoke to his children: "This will be your playing field". With a blinding flash of light nothing but an endless path of black, lit by countless stars stood in front of the seven. Thus the Universe was created.  
~The PlaneT, The Separation~
The Children were sent into this Universe with the order to shape and form their own "Plane-Terrain", or "PlaneT", and govern it. Rules were set, once a PlaneT was created and 7 "Days" old, each god must enter a separate realm known as "Spiritual Plane".  From within' the Spiritual Plane no god may have physical contact nor interact with any life-form on their PlaneT. However they were allowed to send as many messengers on their behalf for whatever desire imaginable. Every "Period", approximately 1,020 "Years", each God would be allowed to return to their individual PlaneT. On that day any and all followers are to chant and give praise to their god, all who deny their god must give no recognition. The accumulation of praise will feed each god and ultimately make them stronger, which was the key to the game. Whoever receives the most praise and increases the most in power by that time The Almighty calls his children back will be the victor. Once the throne is passed, the heir must decide on his bride and begin their rules. The guidelines seemed simple enough, create a world and have your subjects love you of their own free will. However, for some that was irrelevant. Azulra, the youngest of the children, never could agree with one another since birth. When creating their PlaneT, the only thing they agreed on was naming it after their mother: Threa. Unable to decide if the life-forms, their destined followers, were to be primarily light or dark manifestations, the two heads battled one another until their body, ultimately, split apart into two separate creatures.
~The Arche, The Geno~
As of that moment, Azra, Phoenix of holy and light, along with Zala, Spirit of Sin and Darkness began their divided existence. Some found this as a blessing but the mighty beings saw it as a crutch. With both their bodies only retaining half the power their combined form once did, becoming the strongest to win their father's throne became twice the difficulty. This caused a sense of desperation within' both of them, too stubborn to rejoin as one, they  decided to wage war against each other during the seven days remaining before being pulled into their individual spiritual planes.  If successful in defeating the other, Azra or Zala could absorb their counterpart as pure energy allowing one dominant form to stand with all lost power regained. Too powerful to fight directly while among Threa, the two created warriors to fight on their behalf. Children of Azra, or "Angels" soared into battle against the children of Zala, known as "Ghouls". Three days passed by at a painstakingly slow rate, as quickly as lives were created, they were lost amidst the battle field that Threa had now become. Zala prompted to create a more powerful form of Ghouls, monsters infinitely stronger, they were titled the "Geno".  With improved, almost limitless power a single Geno took down hundreds of Angels before falling in battle themselves. Azra responded to these abominations by giving life to "Arch-Angels" often called "Arches" for short. Elite winged soldiers who matched the Geno in every conceivable way. Among the fleets that went to war with each other, the commanding gods were reported to be seen fighting in quick, short bursts of head-on battle themselves.  By the seventh day Threa was crippled to a chaotic state, yet Azra and Zala's men still kept complete faith in their creators.  The war left undecided, the two were reluctantly swept up into their spiritual plane only to stay in wait for exactly 1 period.  Although majority of the Angels and ghouls followed their leader to the spiritual plane, a good portion remained on Threa as its first residents of life. Arches and Genoes disappeared off the face of the PlaneT not to long after, and so did all memory of their existence. The rebuilding of Threa began.
~The Evolution, The Beginning of End~
A century or so went by quickly, The Angels changed and evolved into beings know as "humans", while others evolved into a species called "sprites". Ghouls, at first, remained as they we're:  savage beasts without a conscious, but a startling decrease in power and, in-turn, threat was quite noticeable. As another century went by another life-form emerged, a humanoid ghoul....one with a heart and conscious no different from a human. Although similar looking to a human, most had odd colored skin, and also showed signs of enhanced strength and fighting instincts. Around this time any and all recollection of the seven day war was lost to all, only printed documents and scriptures were around to tell the tale. In spite of this, most humans spoke in ignorance against this new life and put them in the same category as the Ghouls. Through taunts and name calling this species was finally given their name:  the "Inhumane". The Inhumane we're hated on and had no way to prove their worth. It wasn't until a band of ghouls attacked a human village and we're beaten back by inhumanes who were roaming the streets that they found their calling. In a decades time the Inhumane began a flourishing business of "Demon Hunting" where they were hired and paid to assassinate any ghoul that wreaked havoc. The business was very successful, the Inhumane we're able to afford a living for them selves while displaying their worth to humans around. Time passed and as thought, the Inhumane we're accepted more and more but always kept at arms length, science made amazing strides around this time as a professor came across feathers left on the planet from Azra himself and using it as a source of energy or even to perform feats of magic. Times we're good and the economy was never better but as each quarter (255 years, ¼ of the period) passed Threa grew closer and closer to the end of its first period. The Year is now 999, Quarter 4...merely 31 years before the end of the period and the re-arrival of Azra and Zala.....

---The Characters---

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--Protagonists--


Name: Brail Valiant
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Personality: Level headed, Cautious, Motivating.
Bio:The Champion, A Young Ghoul Hunter with an impressive record of Ghouls defeated for his Age. Leader of his group, Brail travels the Continent of Feare' Defeating Threats of evil like any other Hunter, only his motivation is not for money and/or social acceptance by humans like the others. Its simply because he feels its the right thing to do: if there's danger, he'll stop it.


Name: Zoomba Tupple
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Personality: Optimistic, Fun Loving.
Bio: All Inhumanes have Keen sensing skills, but very few are blessed with the speciality ability that Zoomba posses: "Seek Out", With this ability he can get a full reading on all types of life forms at various ranges of distance. With this skill he acts as The Teams intelligence network for located Ghouls, he sniffs them out then helps take them down. Also Brail's Bestfriend as the two often team up for 2-man missions, they''ve gotten close over the years.


Name: Sariss Tupple
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Personality: Obnoxious, Courageous, Egotistical at times and Protective.
Bio: Zoomba's older sister, when they we're children their Clan was attacked and their family kidnapped to be used in a "circus", during this terrible time Brail showed up while journeying the continent and catching wind of this crime, upon his arrival he met Sariss and young Zoomba where they immediately worked together on their first mission: Finding the kidnappers and freeing their family. Ever since this faithful encounter the 3 have been together. Sariss is greedy financially but has a good heart, a heart that has a soft spot for Baracks Red, but she refuses to admit.


Name: Trent Uprah
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Personality: Calm and Soft-Spoken.
Bio: An Inhumane trained in the arts of Musical Wizardry, where he casts spells through the sounds of instruments. Previously Journeying with Baracks as they enjoy each others company and sense of humors, they met Brail and the others some time ago when his name began to spread, After a few on and off co-op missions together between the both groups when targeting the same opponent, the two decided to officially be abducted into Brail's Camp. Trent Hunts as a way to progress his skills as a magician.


Name: Baracks Red
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Personality: Sarcastic, Lazy when possible, Strong Sense of Duty, Womanizer.
Bio: One of elvin descent, half-human and half-elf Baracks is both blessed and cursed with a life of about a 100 years or more. Fully aware of his life-span, he chooses to spend his time taking part in enjoying the world's greatest fruit: Women. He also finds sarcasm to be his personal cup of tea when dealing with people. Underneath his shallow exterior, Baracks hunts because he can't stand those who beat down on what they consider weak enough to be prey, as that "prey" is usually female. Is unaware of Sariss's hidden feelings towards him.


Name: Cecil Enaye
Age: N/A
Gender: Female
Personality: Upbeat and easy going.
Bio: A Sharp Shooter who meets Brail and the others during one of their missions on an island against a woman who tries to use her own body to evolve into the Ghoul of Lore: The Geno. Cecil is a bubbly and energetic lady who rarely panics and believes in Brail's abilities as a warrior to become a hero of legend, thus she teams up with him to support his efforts to save mankind from threats of evil.

--Antagonists--


Name: Dr. Zaidin
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Personality: Superiority Complex, Curious, Deceiving, Cooperative & kind only when beneficial to him.
Bio: World Renowned Scientist for first discovering the magical capabilites of "Fallen Feathers" (Proof of Azra's Existence) and "Catastrophies" (Proof of Zala's existence) that have been found scattered all over the world of Threa. Professor Zaidin,or Dr. Zaidin as he prefers to be called, wrote several books on extracting magical abilities from Fallen Feathers using his own invention: "Kiosk" which are now located throughout the world and using his by-product invention: S.R.P (Spirit Refillment Potions) to restore the spiritual energy it uses to cast the magic you extract from the feathers. These discoveries changed Threa completely, bringing in new businesses such as blacksmithing to bind feather magic to weapons. However after being named "The Worlds Greatest Scientist", Dr. Zaidin & his entire research facility Dissapeared from the public eye never to be heard from again. In Truth Dr. Zaidin came across a sponsor he couldn't refuse to work for and began production on his greatest work yet: The Secret "F.E.L.I.C.I.A Project".


Name: Hurtz Astridia-Valiant
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Personality: Loud & Overbearing, speaks in all caps most of the time.
Bio:Apart Of a subset group of Brail's Fallen Clan that were more extreme in their lust for battle, Hurtz is merely a product of how he was raised: Intoxicated with fighting. Only becoming a hunter for it's intangible license to kill, Hurtz is crazed for battle and enjoys nothing more than strong opponents, which is rare for him as he usually dominants all of his opponents with ease. Hailing from the Continent of Strengthe', he is known as "The Hunter Bully". Takes great interest in Brail and picks a fight with him every chance he gets.
His Battle Cry: "May my Victims shout my name as i crush them.....why??......BECAUSE IT HURTZ!!"


Name: Razale Astridia-Valiant
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Personality:
Bio: Hurtz younger Sister, knows as "The Cold Witch" Hunter. Despite the Astridia-Valiant Clan's reputation, Razale isn't fond of fighting, she simply battles to assist Hurtz as she worries for his well-being, who gets so caught up in fighting he constantly leaves himself open to surprise attacks. Fully aware that Her brother gets more and more twisted as they continue hunting, she still remains loyal as he's the only family she has and fighting is her only way she knows how to show her heart to him. After forming a crush on Brail -> Hurtz target of interest, Razale starts to see her brother's actions as a hindrance to other.

---The Features---
Unfortunately I'm not too Fancy, i'm being real humble and old school, i don't have the know-how to go ABOVE and BEYOND with stuff like CBS's and real-time battle systems, i'm keeping it reaaaal FF6 - FF7 level with the features, but you can look for yourself:

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PS3 (Or Any Controller) Compatible! - Play The Way a Gamer Should with a easy to configure controller, PS3 set up included! (JoyToKey)
Ex/m - Traditional Turn Based RPG is Stylized with The CRLS (Blizzard), your Ex/m (Exert Meter) Allows you to take on Foes with either "Exertion!" Moves (Soul Limits) "Extension!" Skills (Soul Rage/Weapon Magic) or Transform into an Inhumanes' deepest well of power, the "Excelsior!" (Chaos Drive)
Weapon Synthesis - Gather Materials From Chests & Ghouls to Forge New Weapons with Magical Abilities Via this Blacksmith System! (foreverZer0)
Mode7 - All Important Cutscenes Will Be Carried Out in Psuedo 3D Via NeoMode7! (MGCaladtogel)
Feather Fusion - Collect Feathers And Unlock New Spells to Fuse & Use with Your Heroes at Kiosks spread throughout the world of Threa! (LegacyX)
Dynamic Story - Traverse The World with companions as Hunters For Hire, all discriminated by others for your races, developing a sense of whats really "right" or "wrong" in a life of shaded gray...before destiny catches up with the present. (ConflictedX3)

---The Pictures---
All Still Under-Development, Subject to change:

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Title Screen -


Brail Valiant, The Star (Name Changeable In-Game)


The 7-Day War, Zala's Front


First Boss Battle, Rank C Ghoul - Shackles


Last Day Of The 7-Day War, Azra Alongside his General Arche Angel, I won't reveal names yet, Refer to this Arche as "The Wingless Arche"

I Hope you enjoyed looking, i will update here throughout the month, The Tech Demo is Heavily Story Driven, not much battle but i'm doing everyting i can so your not READING a 2D book but actually enjoying yourselves, Demo will include Mode7 Scenes, The First Forest, First Town, First Boss, First 2 Playable characters, & the CRLS Battle system.

For any questions and criticism please feel free now:
---The Feedback---

[Blizzard]

I have to admit the Mode-7 scenes look intriguing. xD Too bad the whole game won't be in Mode-7. ARC should be able to run Mode-7 so much better than RMXP. xD

[ConflictedX3]

I've been itchin to try out ARC, but knowing me once i get into it i'm going to try out a million different things i couldn't do wit rmxp and never get anything done in the end so i figured i'd give it a whirl when the demo's complete for the fun of it  .

[Blizzard]

Well, the engine beta is basically just a replacement Game.exe, there's not much you can try out. xD

[ConflictedX3]

Ooooh i see, Just downloaed the sir-lag-alot demo with the latest build to see what its all about  

UPDATE: For your Playing Pleasure Fallen Feather Is Now Game Controller Compatible! The Demo will come with JoyTokey and my Configuration for PS3 Controllers included (As long as you have DirectX6 it should be Plug & Play), but ofcourse all game controllers are usable, instructions will be included for seperate controller configurations help (w/ youtube video) if needed.
Note: JoyToKey Must Be Open (Able to Minimize) During Gameplay for Controller to work.