[Rail] Academy City OOC I : Biribiri.

[riccaru]

Little bit of what now? All I know is that there was an explosion, and now a head is missing. There are many variables unknown here. It could have been detonated from a far-away location. It could be an esper power and she was lying about being level 0. It could have been an explosion from above. He could have been decapitated conventionally then the money could have been spread around and set flame to, followed by setting off a loud explosiony noise to alert the authorities.

The last is not very likely, but you are thinking inside the box as to what exactly went down there.

I meant plastique... Like C4. All I know is, he ate candy from a stranger and then his head went 'splodey. So thats why you don't take candy from strangers! It all makes sense now! If you eat stranger candy, you'll conveniently be explosive decapitated!

[Purple Rose]

No comments? Sweet. I'll take that as an "All approved!"

[Shades of Gray]

I meant plastique... Like C4. All I know is, he ate candy from a stranger and then his head went 'splodey. So thats why you don't take candy from strangers! It all makes sense now! If you eat stranger candy, you'll conveniently be explosive decapitated!

Remember that mysterylady also had the same candy and did not have a splodeyhead.

[13_CBS]

No comments? Sweet. I'll take that as an "All approved!"

Not so fast, young lady.

Right! No clue what level this would be considered, so I'll let you tell me and such. Just a quick rough-draft.

Name: Rose Waterpool
Aliases: I'll think of some
Level: ?
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Groups:

Appearance: Rose is average height for her age. She has dark brown hair (long but usually kept in a tight bun on he back of her head) and brown eyes.

Personality: Rose is... eccentric... to say the least. It is speculated that she is more interested in holding a conversation with her toaster than with an actual person. It is also said that her current love interest is a fancy new cappuccino machine at a popular cafe. She is a known steampunk addict and her abilities tend to reflect this in their application.

Abilities

Esper Ability: "Macchina Affinità" Her name for it. Machine Affinity. Simply put, she has the ability to instantly understand the working of and deconstruct mechanical devices then reconstruct them in new and sometimes seemingly impossible ways. More interestingly, she is often able to do this without actually touching the machines she is working on. That is, she possesses a telekinetic ability in which she can swiftly deconstruct machinery around her and build new devices using only her mind to do the physical work. Her obsession with steampunk often reflects itself in how her ability manifest, giving the devices she builds an artistic flare that echoes this love of fantasy on her part.

Additional Uses:

Rose utilizes her abilities in two general ways. The first is device construction. She can build an astounding array of devices to accomplish whatever task presents itself.

The other way she uses it is a bit rarer and only utilized when she absolutely needs it. Body Gears. Also her term. She rapidly deconstructs machines and non-machine components from her surroundings and reassembles them into a set of power armor around her body. A very draining technique, Body Gears is reserved only in situations where fighting is unavoidable and the need for survival outweighs the cost of paying to repair the structures she pulls apart to build the armor with. The armor can be constructed to suit whatever her immediate needs are, often focusing on only one aspect at a time. She currently possesses three models: Speed. Strength. Firepower.

Speed: This armor is light and compact, with elongated, reverse jointed legs and sleet design. It is built to increase her speed and agility, allowing her to dodge attacks, catch fast foes, or run away very very well.

Strength: Build tough and and heavy, Strength is what she uses to deliver punishing attacks against her targets. This armor is massive and can take a lot of punishment, protecting her inside while she retaliates with powerful punches. It is slow, however, and not very maneuverable.

Firepower: Oh Firepower... This armor is less like a suit of armor and more like a gun she builds around herself. It is completely stationary but able to rotate. It is a cannon with guns stuck on it. The armor is thicker than Strength, compensating for not being able to move. he ammo it fires is the various material she collects from around her, making it the most destructive in terms collateral damage caused by the actual deconstructing process.

Physical Traits:

-Jujutsu: Rose trains rather intensively in martial arts, which comes in handy when she constructs her suits and puts them into use.

Mental Traits: Rose is a fast thinker and has a high aptitude for machines and technology. She is not very good at social interactions, though.

Notable Equipment: She doesn't usually have tools with her, her ability removing the need for them, however, she does have a... well... a companion. She calls it Spark and it appears between a ball, a dog, and a lemur. It is a construct slightly smaller than a cat and made of various machines. Its appearance is known to change, as Rose is constantly tinkering with it. It seems autonomous and has a somewhat inquisitive attitude.

Background: Rose is a foreigner, hailing from England originally. I'll come up with more later.

Interesting usage of Telekinesis, I must say. Her power as it is right now is easily a LEvel 4, maybe even a Level Five.

My only concern is this:

Rose utilizes her abilities in two general ways. The first is device construction. She can build an astounding array of devices to accomplish whatever task presents itself.

How flexible and powerful is this ability? What is the limit on the kinds of things that she can create?

[Shades of Gray]

The only comment I have is that you should go on MSN more, Purple. I got my hopes up when I saw that you listed your MSN on your profile.

My MSN address is available upon request to all. Unless I don't like you.

[riccaru]

The only comment I have is that you should go on MSN more, Purple. I got my hopes up when I saw that you listed your MSN on your profile.

My MSN address is available upon request to all. Unless I don't like you.

I'm really not sure if that was joking or not. Just in case I don't wanna ask, that way I won't be let down.

[Purple Rose]

Hmmm.... It is fairly flexible... Any suggestions on how to limit it?

[Callos_DeTerran]

Hmmm.... It is fairly flexible... Any suggestions on how to limit it?

Well first off, I see someone is feeling Sparky.

Second, I have to say that the Body Gear ability feels more like magic then an esper ability. There's been...zero examples of construction of objects as an esper ability. Plenty of manipulation of objects, but all the examples of building something (from a fiery demon-pope-thingy to golems, etc.) have all been magic which...>.>; Isn't allowed for a lot of reasons.

But a steam-punky technopath is it's own kinda of interesting though.

[Maximum Zersk]

It is quite similar to my technopath.. but different enough, I think.

^ A steampunk technopath and a cyberpunk technopath. All we need now is a Dungeonpunk technopath.

[Purple Rose]

Well first off, I see someone is feeling Sparky.

Second, I have to say that the Body Gear ability feels more like magic then an esper ability. There's been...zero examples of construction of objects as an esper ability. Plenty of manipulation of objects, but all the examples of building something (from a fiery demon-pope-thingy to golems, etc.) have all been magic which...>.>; Isn't allowed for a lot of reasons.

But a steam-punky technopath is it's own kinda of interesting though.

It isn't so much an ability that lets her build things without knowing how they work, but her affinity to building machines combined with telekinesis in such a way that she is able to build faster and more complex than if she had to do it all by hand without powers.

Also, I am a steampunk fanatic. =P

[13_CBS]

Hmmm.... It is fairly flexible... Any suggestions on how to limit it?

That would depend on what you were planning on using the ability for, I think.

Some baseline rules I would suggest:

1) No electronics, unless Rose's telekinetic power is so fine that she can convert nearby copper into electric wire and nearby silicon/similar material into conductors. By extension, no Artificial Intelligence. If she can pull all of this off, then she'd easily be a Level Five and, more importantly, you'd be intruding on Zersk's character.

2) Rose must provide her own fuel, ammunition, and propellants, unless she can manufacture those herself through her power. If she can make those things with her power, then once again such fine control over chemistry will probably bump her into Level Five territory. If she makes a gun with her ability, then she'll have to make not only the bullets but also the gunpowder, primer, and shell casing all on her own, or otherwise buy/steal them from elsewhere. If she makes a jetpack, then the fuel she'd have to get from elsewhere.

3) The more massive the object made, the more difficult it is to keep together, unless the object is made from another object (such as making a hammer out of a single piece of steel). If Rose is knocked unconscious, runs out of stamina, or otherwise cancels the ability, the object falls apart into its constituent components. Larger things may require more concentration to keep together.

4) The finer the parts of the device, the longer it takes for Rose to assemble it. A hammer will take much less time to make than, say, a fine, fully functioning semiautomatic pistol (which is a rather complicated device), which in turn takes less time than a fully functioning pocket watch/pendulum clock.

5) I suspect that you weren't going for this anyway, but just in case...no transmutation or unassisted chemical reactions. If Rose has steel, she's stuck with steel. She can't extract the carbon out of it to make pure iron, or add more carbon to make pig iron. She can't take chunks of copper and tin and make bronze without a sufficient heat source and metallurgical knowledge. And so forth.


(My other issue with Rose is her Steampunk flavor, which doesn't really mesh well with the Railgun setting...but that's a minor nitpick.)

[Kasanip]

Ooh, a Gundam reference.

Yes, my brother is to play a game called [A.C.E:R] very much recently.



To Purple Rose:

I think the ability to take apart and assemble with [telekinesis] is ok.
To make the armor maybe is such an ability with that skill... But of making "Guns" it is a similar problem of before with Callos' character and situation. Guns are very dangerous and I don't think it is a weapon that should be used by hero characters. To make a gun also, I already said my thought of this :

I am against it for any reason I think. Only because of 'plot point' is maybe it okay. There should not be 'genius gunsmith' or 'black market firearms' here. It is Academy City. Most of characters are Junior High School or High School students.

That is my opinion on this.

Notable Equipment: She doesn't usually have tools with her, her ability removing the need for them, however, she does have a... well... a companion. She calls it Spark and it appears between a ball, a dog, and a lemur. It is a construct slightly smaller than a cat and made of various machines. Its appearance is known to change, as Rose is constantly tinkering with it. It seems autonomous and has a somewhat inquisitive attitude.

I think this is a problem because of AI technology to be easily gotten by a young student seems difficult and troubling. To make it seem alive is certainly a case of [Magic] and not [Esper] ability I think.

[Purple Rose]

That would depend on what you were planning on using the ability for, I think.

Some baseline rules I would suggest:

1) No electronics, unless Rose's telekinetic power is so fine that she can convert nearby copper into electric wire and nearby silicon/similar material into conductors. By extension, no Artificial Intelligence. If she can pull all of this off, then she'd easily be a Level Five and, more importantly, you'd be intruding on Zersk's character.

My intention was that, when it came to electrical devices, she would be forced to rely on preexisting electronic circuitry. For example, she could use a calculator to ad a simple diode screen to whatever she was building, providing she also used the battery to power it. But it would be limited to displaying numbers. Adding a computer and all its wires and such would work, but it would need any pertinent programs already installed on it to do anything. She would not be crafting new materials with her powers.

2) Rose must provide her own fuel, ammunition, and propellants, unless she can manufacture those herself through her power. If she can make those things with her power, then once again such fine control over chemistry will probably bump her into Level Five territory. If she makes a gun with her ability, then she'll have to make not only the bullets but also the gunpowder, primer, and shell casing all on her own, or otherwise buy/steal them from elsewhere. If she makes a jetpack, then the fuel she'd have to get from elsewhere.

Again, she is not crafting new things, just taking the parts from around her and crafting them together in a new way. The more advanced the surroundings are, the more advanced she can build things. IE: Put her in a computer lab filled with ammunition, and... well... yeah... <.<

3) The more massive the object made, the more difficult it is to keep together, unless the object is made from another object (such as making a hammer out of a single piece of steel). If Rose is knocked unconscious, runs out of stamina, or otherwise cancels the ability, the object falls apart into its constituent components. Larger things may require more concentration to keep together.

Not sure how I feel about this. I agree for the most part. I was thinking, more than likely the raw power that drives her creations would be her abilities. The engine behind it all. If she makes a robot, she can drive it with her abilities and when she stops, then it stops and is pretty much useless. But it might not fall to pieces. I'll explain further down.

4) The finer the parts of the device, the longer it takes for Rose to assemble it. A hammer will take much less time to make than, say, a fine, fully functioning semiautomatic pistol (which is a rather complicated device), which in turn takes less time than a fully functioning pocket watch/pendulum clock.

This I agree with as well. The more complex the creation, the longer it take to bend metal and fit it all together.

5) I suspect that you weren't going for this anyway, but just in case...no transmutation or unassisted chemical reactions. If Rose has steel, she's stuck with steel. She can't extract the carbon out of it to make pure iron, or add more carbon to make pig iron. She can't take chunks of copper and tin and make bronze without a sufficient heat source and metallurgical knowledge. And so forth.

Fully with you on this. What she gathers from around her is what she has to work with. Complex parts or garbage bins and paper towel rolls, it all depends.

(My other issue with Rose is her Steampunk flavor, which doesn't really mesh well with the Railgun setting...but that's a minor nitpick.)

Aside from just liking steampunk, the reason I went this path is that it is far easier to explain building complex machines when they are made of gears and springs and larger moving parts like that. It is also easier to allow for bending metal plating pulled from the building next to her into cogs and whatnot. Also, gives a bit of an eccentric flare to the character.

To Purple Rose:

I think the ability to take apart and assemble with [telekinesis] is ok.
To make the armor maybe is such an ability with that skill... But of making "Guns" it is a similar problem of before with Callos' character and situation. Guns are very dangerous and I don't think it is a weapon that should be used by hero characters. To make a gun also, I already said my thought of this :

I don't mind removing that part at all. I'm only somewhat familiar with the setting and seem to be stuck in a slightly more militant mindset due to other games I've been running lately. It's hard to transition down from a campaign where the characters fired a magical blackhole cannon in the first encounter and we are all still level one.

I think this is a problem because of AI technology to be easily gotten by a young student seems difficult and troubling. To make it seem alive is certainly a case of [Magic] and not [Esper] ability I think.

Also removable with no complaints.

[13_CBS]

Not sure how I feel about this. I agree for the most part. I was thinking, more than likely the raw power that drives her creations would be her abilities. The engine behind it all. If she makes a robot, she can drive it with her abilities and when she stops, then it stops and is pretty much useless. But it might not fall to pieces. I'll explain further down.

Actually, ignore my comment on that part; I was thinking of some other thing and had gotten confused.

Aside from just liking steampunk, the reason I went this path is that it is far easier to explain building complex machines when they are made of gears and springs and larger moving parts like that. It is also easier to allow for bending metal plating pulled from the building next to her into cogs and whatnot. Also, gives a bit of an eccentric flare to the character.

I'm not certain that the ability to bend metals into gears and cogs must necessarily be explained with Steampunk, but I'm fine with the Steampunk flavor regardless.


So, once you've fixed those issues, we now need a place for Rose to go. If you haven't already, I would encourage you to do a little reading on our wiki, particularly in the "Schools" and "Factions" articles.

[Mina Kobold]

^ A steampunk technopath and a cyberpunk technopath. All we need now is a Dungeonpunk technopath.

If I had any idea what Dungeonpunk was, I might make that.

On another note:

Yay! Silver and Purple is here too!

That's super-mega-bladjiiba-tastic!

I'm afraid I don't have any comment on the character other than it being cool, everybody ninja'ed me and I'm the one with the speedster character!

[Maximum Zersk]

If I had any idea what Dungeonpunk was, I might make that.

Think Eberron...

[Mina Kobold]

Think Eberron...

Sentient robots, airships and magic trains?

[Fri]

Hey, I never played in this forum's freeform rpg, but I'm interested in this since I have a certain concept that I'd like to play.

The character that I'm thinking is a relatively senior student with a completely useless power, which they've tried to advance it into something actually useful but never succeed. But it still count as a power, so they can't really put him into 'powerless' level. I could either have him as a complete go-with-the-flow guy who don't really mind that, or an

I haven't checked the character list yet. Are there someone with similar premise?

Examples of his choice of powers that I had in mind are like:

1.A limited post/precognition power, that is the ability to completely predict future chapters of mangas and comic books as far as the creator planned, that works by... say combination of minor post/precognition with [paper] medium (that actually can work indirectly as opposed to postcognitions that work by touching something that's directly related to the subject!) and ability to see the intent of a creator from the combination of text and picture.

2.Ability to predict movements of goldfishes with 100% accuracy that works by seeing the flow of water and the vectors of the goldfishes' movement or something in that line. Haven't managed to make it work with any other fish yet, because they make different flow of water around their body.

3.Ability to move electron on inorganic matter with less than 10 μm diameter. Basically he can change the electric charge of dust, or at most snow crystal, and make them stick on something with static electricity, or make dustbunnies dance under the spotlight or something in that line.

Would my character concept work and are there any character with similar premise?

And completely unrelated to his power, I'd like him to have a detective agency that never actually solved any case

[Mina Kobold]

Hey, I never played in this forum's freeform rpg, but I'm interested in this since I have a certain concept that I'd like to play.

The character that I'm thinking is a relatively senior student with a completely useless power, which they've tried to advance it into something actually useful but never succeed. But it still count as a power, so they can't really put him into 'powerless' level. I could either have him as a complete go-with-the-flow guy who don't really mind that, or an

I haven't checked the character list yet. Are there someone with similar premise?

Examples of his choice of powers that I had in mind are like:

1.A limited post/precognition power, that is the ability to completely predict future chapters of mangas and comic books as far as the creator planned, that works by... say combination of minor post/precognition with [paper] medium (that actually can work indirectly as opposed to postcognitions that work by touching something that's directly related to the subject!) and ability to see the intent of a creator from the combination of text and picture.

2.Ability to predict movements of goldfishes with 100% accuracy that works by seeing the flow of water and the vectors of the goldfishes' movement or something in that line. Haven't managed to make it work with any other fish yet, because they make different flow of water around their body.

3.Ability to move electron on inorganic matter with less than 10 μm diameter. Basically he can change the electric charge of dust, or at most snow crystal, and make them stick on something with static electricity, or make dustbunnies dance under the spotlight or something in that line.

Would my character concept work and are there any character with similar premise?

And completely unrelated to his power, I'd like him to have a detective agency that never actually solved any case

Welcome! Glad to see new people have a go at this

I don't think anyone have a similar premise but I have some comments:

1. I think that's a bit too magic-like to fit in this setting, we have out-ruled magic in favour of ESPers who have powers based in science. Still a groovy idea.

2. Hilarious power but doesn't have much potential for fun tricks, no problem with it setting-wise, though. Nice idea

3. Now that is an awesome idea, I think it would be the funniest of them while still providing variation and uselessness at the same time

About the Detective agency I can't say much, where I come from it would never work (I think the police takes care of the cases instead and suchwhat) but I don't know how it is in Japan. It does sound a bit too much for someone that young, though. But that might just be me.

Other than that, have a fun and enjoyable time

[Anyr]

Ah, new RP, eh? Let's see...Irresponsible psychic teenagers unwittingly enmeshed in convoluted conspiracies and even more convoluted love dodecahedrons...Sounds interesting. I would have posted here sooner, but it's taken me a while to read my way through the relevant manga. Still, better late than never.

I've already got a character in mind, but since he's an Esper there's one thing I'm having trouble finding: Is there a convenient list somewhere that lays out the basic divisions between each of the five levels used to classify Espers? For such a fundamental system of IC measurement, it's been strangely difficult to find the rules that govern it. As it stands now I'm still not clear as to what distinguishes (for example) a level 3 ability from a level 4.

And yes, I know I could just post the character's powers here and get a perfectly good estimate for their level, but that's entirely beside the point. It's the principle of the thing...

[Mina Kobold]

Ah, new RP, eh? Let's see...Irresponsible psychic teenagers unwittingly enmeshed in convoluted conspiracies and even more convoluted love dodecahedrons...Sounds interesting. I would have posted here sooner, but it's taken me a while to read my way through the relevant manga. Still, better late than never.

I've already got a character in mind, but since he's an Esper there's one thing I'm having trouble finding: Is there a convenient list somewhere that lays out the basic divisions between each of the five levels used to classify Espers? For such a fundamental system of IC measurement, it's been strangely difficult to find the rules that govern it. As it stands now I'm still not clear as to what distinguishes (for example) a level 3 ability from a level 4.

And yes, I know I could just post the character's powers here and get a perfectly good estimate for their level, but that's entirely beside the point. It's the principle of the thing...

There's a guide here if it helps

Other than that, I can't help you. Sorry

[Callos_DeTerran]

I've already got a character in mind, but since he's an Esper there's one thing I'm having trouble finding: Is there a convenient list somewhere that lays out the basic divisions between each of the five levels used to classify Espers? For such a fundamental system of IC measurement, it's been strangely difficult to find the rules that govern it. As it stands now I'm still not clear as to what distinguishes (for example) a level 3 ability from a level 4.

And yes, I know I could just post the character's powers here and get a perfectly good estimate for their level, but that's entirely beside the point. It's the principle of the thing...

It's difficult to say too, but there seems to be some indicators on what determines a level.

-Endurance (how often/long can the esper use a power)
-Accuracy (this is pretty self-explanatory, how accurate is it and over what distance)
-Destructive potential (This is just a hunch on my part, but those abilities without destructive potential don't seem to be leveled that high or need to be more powerful then normal to get the same level. Possibly because it's easier to test a destructive power then a more subtle one)
-Control (Ties into accuracy and endurance but deserves it's own mention. If an esper has trouble controlling their ability, then that's a set of problems all on it's own)
-Power (More abstract. Deals with how strong the ability is compared to others of the same ability and tests to determine how powerful the ability is. Just as testing the max voltage an electromaster can emit, the maxium range of a teleporter/telepath, etc)
-What the ability can actually do. (to use one of the slightly jokier examples, if Fri's character can mind control goldfish with perfect control and such, he's still unlikely to be above a Level 1-2...because mind-controlling goldfish/predicting their movements doesn't have many applications)

Most of that's just conjecture on my part.

[Fri]

Welcome! Glad to see new people have a go at this

I don't think anyone have a similar premise but I have some comments:

1. I think that's a bit too magic-like to fit in this setting, we have out-ruled magic in favour of ESPers who have powers based in science. Still a groovy idea.

2. Hilarious power but doesn't have much potential for fun tricks, no problem with it setting-wise, though. Nice idea

3. Now that is an awesome idea, I think it would be the funniest of them while still providing variation and uselessness at the same time

About the Detective agency I can't say much, where I come from it would never work (I think the police takes care of the cases instead and suchwhat) but I don't know how it is in Japan. It does sound a bit too much for someone that young, though. But that might just be me.

Other than that, have a fun and enjoyable time

Well, on the first power, I guess I could scratch the medium-based-postcognition part and simply rationalize it as ability to get information from combination of pictures and writings (aka mangas and comicbook) (and with various external variables like the author's temperament, the work's mood, the time of the month, and such) and accurately deduce what will happen next.

I still haven't set on what power I'd like to have though, so I'll think about those more.

And on the detective agency, it's not real detective agency. You know, he acts like a detective and keep saying that he has a detective agency of some sort, like what we often do in school.

...I'm not the only one that ever pretend to be a detective in school, am I?

[Innis Cabal]

Welcome Fri.

Good to see you back Anyr, and Purple as well. Dips on Fri's kidney. Screw you Callos.

[InyutheBeatIs]

Yeah, her case was more "plants on hair", his is more "plants in or is hair.

I was thinking about what to do with him today, and if the plant hair will cause uneccessary problems, I could have him put them in remission most of the time, then when bad guys come, plant hair engage.

Which brings me to my next question. Should I elaborate further on his powers? I ask this because so far, his power description is basically just quoting Frozen Feet, and I've seen on other character sheets the power's abilities at different levels. Should I elaborate on how long it will take for him to grow one plant? How much of the plant's growth can he direct, and how precise is it? What about already grown plants?

I'm also wondering about the practicality and forthought on the Seed Implants he has. I mean, if he catches that syndrome that causes his powers to go ballistic, he's either becoming a vegetable (pun not intended) or dead.

Sorry for the barrage of questions. I can't help myself.

Reposting.

[Mina Kobold]

...I'm not the only one that ever pretend to be a detective in school, am I?

I prefer pretending to be a hippie

A combination of shyness and actually identifying as a drugless hippie has ruined that so far, though.

Square it!

[Moon Wolf]

Welcome Fri.

Good to see you back Anyr, and Purple as well. Dips on Fri's kidney. Screw you Callos.

The plot thickens...

(Sorry.)

[13_CBS]

Fri! Anyr! Good to see all of you!

I haven't checked the character list yet. Are there someone with similar premise?

I don't think so. There are a few characters with low power levels, but no one was designed to be quite the way you had in mind.

And completely unrelated to his power, I'd like him to have a detective agency that never actually solved any case

If it's a one man, informal detective agency as you say it is, then that sounds fine.

Ah, new RP, eh? Let's see...Irresponsible psychic teenagers unwittingly enmeshed in convoluted conspiracies and even more convoluted love dodecahedrons...Sounds interesting. I would have posted here sooner, but it's taken me a while to read my way through the relevant manga. Still, better late than never.

Don't worry, the IC thread's hardly started. There's still plenty of opportunities to insert charaters where you want them.

I've already got a character in mind, but since he's an Esper there's one thing I'm having trouble finding: Is there a convenient list somewhere that lays out the basic divisions between each of the five levels used to classify Espers? For such a fundamental system of IC measurement, it's been strangely difficult to find the rules that govern it. As it stands now I'm still not clear as to what distinguishes (for example) a level 3 ability from a level 4.

Unfortunately, no. You kind of just look at what a character is capable of doing and somewhat arbitrarily decide on what level he or she is. You get a better feel for it after you've read the source material and thus get an idea as to how powerful a Level 3 or Level 4 is, but aside from that you kind of have to guess based on what the character is said to be able to do. Callos provides some general criteria, but even that is just conjecture that doesn't exist in the canon sources.

[Terry576]

Looks like fun. Can I join?

Hello my friend.

You will be inducted into RailitP as I was inducted into FFRP:

Via inane conversation and ridiculous antics.

Be nice to him, I showed him this site, and he was interested in RailitP.

[Moon Wolf]

Ah Terry. Lookout for Bleach....they're hungry.