Disclaimer: I do NOT own RWBY, Dishonored, Assassin's Creed, or any other references and things I put in here (Sooo yea, I am/will be using elements of these video games and books for the sessions, 'cause I'm the Dungeon Master/Headmaster, the god of the game aside from the dice. Also because it makes the game more interesting)
And as always I will be using -0-0-0-0- as a scene break
Heyo, guys! Back in business (not really, especially with my inconsistent uploading)! So anyway, as you might have guessed, I'm the DM/HM of these RWBY Tabletop sessions, along with my friends and brother who are playing as their OCs, trying to survive, outsmart me, and do other stuff. In these stories, I will also be using parentheses (for the most part) to indicate Headmaster notes to describe comedic and cool IRL and/or out-of-fanfiction things that occurred outside the fanfiction. It is also good to note that there are and will be some changes from the game to the fanfiction story, usually small and minor ones though. Please do enjoy these first few trailers before I go into the actually campaign so far. And with that wall of text, I'll see you guys down below (with a longer wall of text)!
RWBY Tabletop: Player Trailers #1 and #2 (Livian Balt and Murito Hadwin)
"Balt's Business" (** Fun Fact: This test fight was the very first test fight ever and took place in Vietnam IRL)
It was a sunny afternoon on the beaches of Mistral. The shore was mostly abandoned and the perfect place for secret trading and deals. Men and women alike were carrying heavy wooden boxes, that contained smuggled goods, from a large ship to pickup trucks. In the meanwhile, they were all singing and whistling sea shanties. A young boy was overlooking them all, tapping his feet to said shanties.
Livian Balt was finishing up bringing in the shipment of Rose Poison, Goldleaf branches, Ember Spikes, and Springrazors (Dishonored anyone?). He checked off the last box and began to walk back towards a vehicle that would take him home. However, he noticed a girl walk towards him, leaving a sandy trail behind her. She had red hair and eyes, with a black and rose-colored outfit. Pink flower earrings fell from her ears. The working men began to leave, so it was mainly just him and her. Livian noticed a compound bow on her back and narrowed his eyes, reaching for his knives. Upon closer inspection, the girl's bow had a scope and a laser sight equipped. She was also quite pretty, but Livian would not let his guard down.
"Excuse me," he replied, "What are you doing here?"
The girl gave him an innocent and dazzling smile, "I'm looking for you. Word on the street is that a person named Livian Balt, matching your description, knows a place where I can get some tools of trade."
Livian frowned, "What did you need?"
"Rose Poison and Springrazors."
All of Livian's red flags flared up, "Huh, what a coincidence… We just got those. Are you with the police?"
The girl smiled, "Wouldn't dream of it?"
Livian thought for a moment and shook his head, "I'm sorry, but you're going to have to leave." To emphasize his warning, his knives flipped into dual double-bladed knives. (They are what they sound like: a pair of knives that can flip into two blades, the handle connecting the two together)
The girl giggled, "Oooo, that's cool." Her smile then became much more sadistic, "I got this." She instantly drew her compound bow and fired two arrows straight for Livian. The boy, surprised, was unable to dodge the first, but managed to deflect the second away from him. Though, he had to be quick with his recovery, as the girl turned her bow into a Dust sword (much like a lightsaber or laser sword). She charged at him and their blades clashed.
Livian had to readjust his footing as the girl was much stronger than he thought. He attempted to lash out with two sides of his knives, but she jumped away before he could. Livian groaned and connected the knives to form a rifle with a scope and bayonet. He fired two bullets which hit her square in the chest, but didn't stop her from going after him again. She swung the blade downward, but was sent flying into the air as a blue patterned platform appear out from under the sand. Two other platforms were summoned and boxed the red-haired girl in (Livian's semblance. Hint, hint). Livian took a breath, but only for a moment, Livian lifted his rifle and fired a bullet, but missed and in fact pinged off of one of the platforms he summoned. The girl frowned and struck against the walls that enclosed around her, which appeared to be a good hit, but was not able to completely break through. A red glint appeared in her eyes and her sword changed into a bow. She took a quick second and fired three arrows, arching them to hit Livian.
The knife-wielder widened his eyes and jumped towards the side. However, one predicted arrow, stuck into his left shoulder, but rebounded off due to his Aura (she landed a natural 20!). Suddenly, the sand around Livian instantly crawled up his legs and hardened into sandstone (The girl's semblance. Hint, hint). Panicking, he chipped away at the sand, but only a small chunk fell off. The red-themed girl then climbed up the platforms and jumped to land softly on the beach. Livian was lucky enough to chip off the rest of the sandstone before she swung her blade. Recovering, Livian ran straight forward and struck at her. However, the girl was suddenly enveloped by sandstone, acting as her armor. Livan frowned and went for another hit. Unfortunately, the sandstone that covered his opponent swapped over to trap him.
Livian gasped and tried to break free. The girl smiled and brandished her sword, the red glow waving around ominously. Livian widened his eyes and concentrated, and a blue glowing platform blasted out of the sand from under him, lifting him up and away from the entanglement of hardened sand. He then swapped to his rifle and fired a bullet. His opponent grimaced and switched to a metallic fan, deflecting the bullet harmlessly next to her foot. She then widened her eyes as Livian charged at her and struck her shoulder then failed to block another. She gritted her teeth and rolled out of the way, swapping back to the sword. She blocked two strikes coming at her at the same time and kicked him out of the way. Livian grunted and raised his hand, two platforms erupting out of the sand to sandwich and crush her. The girl winced in pain, her aura struggling to protect her. Fortunately, she wiggled out and escape. However, Livian flicked his wrist and the girl was raised up by one of his platforms into the sky.
She narrowed her eyes, and as she was falling she nocked two arrows into her bow and pulled the string back, letting it loose toward Livian. However, Livian brought his third platform downward, slamming it into her, and the arrows she fired twanged harmlessly next to his foot. An explosion of sand appeared where the girl landed, her aura flickering away and was knocked unconscious. Livian walked over and peered at her, thinking of what to do. He sighed and lifted her up and brought the girl up against a palm tree under shade.
"Perhaps you should try better next time." Livian sighed, "Train more maybe…" Then he walked away.
As he strolled away towards inland, the girl instantly stood up, stretching casually.
"Man, he was a lot stronger than I thought… Perhaps I should try better next time… Perhaps I should keep my eye on you." With that, she held up the rose in her pocket in her right hand and walked towards the opposite direction into the setting sun. A black hand replaced her left, and it stretched into a nearby tree, propelling her into the jungle (I would be surprised if you guys can guess what this is. Although, I think you guys can).
"Murito's Menace" (**This test fight was originally Murito vs. this character, but I changed it to fit Murito's lore)
Murito Hadwin was sweating in the scorching sun, though, the sun was beginning to set. The dark orange sky signified that the night was coming. Hadwin wore a red scarf, grey glasses, red hair, and a grey sleeveless shirt. Murito adjusted the axe on his back and looked at the boy beside them, a wrist-mounted crossbow on hand. The boy, Hans Beril, had white hair, darkish skin, brilliant blue eyes, freckles, ragged clothes, and a bright-red pendant. Murito was still surprised the boy was able to push through in the prairie they had trudged through for hours.
Murito continued to stare at him, before setting his sights forward.
"You don't talk much, do you?" Hans finally said in a quiet voice.
"Likewise," he rasped back.
"Point," Hans regarded, "Anyway, as much as I'm curious about you. I believe we're finally nearing the mountains… According to the map."
Murito sighed in relief. The mountains meant that the city of Vale was close, where Beacon Academy was located, the school where they both chose to enroll. The red-haired coughed, a bit of blood coming out. Hans looked at him, an eyebrow raised with eyes of concern. However, he did not comment.
Hans then opened his mouth, but he stood still, shivers along the back of his neck.
Murito looked toward him with concern, but before he could do anything else…
CAAAAWW!
Hans tackled Murito to the ground and fired a blue bolt at a black blur, the shot exploding in red fire.
SCREEEECH!
"Nevermore!" Hans shouted, getting off of Murito and pointing his crossbow into the sky frantically.
Murito widened his eyes and grabbed his axe, looking around. His eyes then locked onto a giant black crow that flown past them. However, they knew it would be back.
"We need to find cover." Hans said in an urgent tone. Murito nodded back and ran along side him to a distant plateau.
"If we can get there…." Murito thought, "We could have a shot at escaping."
Hans looked back and groaned, "It's coming back…."
Murito nodded and transformed his axe into a rocket launcher, firing a few rockets towards the Nevermore, which screeched again, but did not stop it.
"Shit" they both thought (Semblance! Hint, hint).
Murito looked up and stared at Hans, thinking, "Did I just hear his thoughts-"
"Jump!" Hans shouted.
Involuntarily, he jumped and found himself on the back of the Nevermore.
Hans' crossbow switched over to the top of his hand and a flaming pata (sword) replaced it. He slashed along the Grimm's back, but it lay untouched.
"What does this thing have?! Steel feathers?!"
Murito chuckled a little at the outburst, but quickly recovered from it, changing his weapon back to an axe and attempted to chop up its back.
The Nevermore was not happy with this and did a corkscrew maneuver into the air, getting them off his back. They landed with a loud thud into the earth.
"Oooww," Hans said wincing in pain, clutching his head on the floor.
Murito stood up and shook him himself, recovering from his daze. He looked to the Beril boy and gave him an arm.
Hans, still clutching his head, grabbed the arm and was helped lifted up.
"What now?" Murito asked quietly.
"We keep going. Get to the plateau before we get killed," Hans wobbled a little as he stood. Murito looked above and sighed. The Nevermore was not done with them. Murito looked at the boy next to him, who was coughing and still injured.
Murito held his hand and hid him and himself into the tall grass.
Hans nodded, "Yeah, good idea. As long as we have no negative emotions."
The Nevermore whooshed ahead, circling the sky to look for them. Murito felt his heart race.
Finally, after agonizingly long minutes, they were close to a pathway up to the plateau. Murito and Hans looked above and found the bird gone.
"Alright, let's go, and see where we have to go," Hans whispered (or so Murito thought), "But quietly."
Murito looked to the sky and aimed his rocket launcher in the sky warily, as Hans ran over. Murito froze for a moment, thinking that Hans had never actually opened his mouth when he talked to him just minute ago, but discarded the thought. No sign of a Nevermore. Hans and Murito climbed up the path to the top of the plateau, and the sun was almost down at this point. Before they reached the top, Murito handed Hans a canteen of water while they were walking.
"Here," The red-haired boy rasped.
"Thanks." Hans replied, taking multiple gulps, "Let's see what we can-"
Hans had reached the top first and froze. Murito widened his eyes and peeked over. The Nevermore was staring straight at them, a murderous glint in its eyes and blood and flesh dripping from its beak. A dead, rotting dingo was placed under its talons, viscera spewed on the floor. The two had to restrain every nerve in their body to not have their insides become their outsides. They quickly recovered as the Nevermore stretched out its wings. Murito and Hans immediately readied their weapons as the over-sized qrow let out an ear-piercing screech.
"Get down!" Hans grabbed Murito and tackled him downward, using his sword to block any incoming projectiles. Murito did the same.
The Nevermore flew up and launched a flurry of large, black feathers. It was a miracle that none hit them.
"Go, go!" Hans shouted, "I'll look out for the way. You distract it. Holler if you need help." And with that, Hans left Murito.
The rocket launcher wielder muttered quietly, "Not like I can holler." He looked up and found the Nevermore hovering above. Murito, taking his chance, fired three rockets, damaging the wings and body of the Grimm. In retaliation, it attempted to come down and peck the boy off the ground, but he rolled to the right just in time, firing another rocket that hit its face.
Murito looked to the side to see Hans running towards him, all while quickly firing two green darts at the Nevermore.
"The mountains are that way," he breathed, pointing to the direction behind the Grimm in front of them. Murito groaned.
Scrreeeeech! Though, it was quieter than the last one.
Hans swapped his crossbow to his flaming sword, "I hit it with sleep bolt, though Grimm won't fall asleep. They will weaken it though..."
That was all Murito needed to hear and they positioned themselves, Murito, swapping to his axe, on the right and Hans, sword in hand, on the right. The Nevermore eyed them carefully before deciding to charge into them. Murito and Hans did the same, charging straight for it.
However, last second, they dodged the Nevermore's low flying attack and appropriately cut its side, a distinct burn mark where Hans was aiming. The Nevermore, since it was charging, was unable to change its flight path in time, as Hans and Murito changed into their ranged weapons and fired. Explosions, slicing noises, and screeches filled the silence of the prairie.
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Two bolts sunk into the throat of the dying Nevermore, another in the talon. Multiple blast marks and cuts were scattered on its body, wings, and head. A burn mark was lined up against its side and down its back. The Nevermore kept cawing weakly on the surface of the plateau, ash and smoke beginning to rise from the massive bird. Murito and Hans sat down, taking deep, exhausted breaths under the moonlit night.
"We did it!" Hans cheered, sounding less enthusiastic than what he actually meant, "Hooray for us…" He collapsed in exhaustion on the rocky ground, landing with a soft thud. Murito gave him a weak smile and a thumbs up that was struggling to stay up.
"I guess we should sleep," Hans replied.
"I'll take first watch," Murito rasped.
Hans gave him a thumbs up and unequipped his pata, but let the fire on, providing warmth and light. Finally, he brought out a sleeping bag and mat, falling asleep. Murito looked to the starry sky and sighed, thinking, "Welp, off to be a Huntsman, I guess… I wish you were here with me..."
I wish you were here with me
Murito widened his eyes and turned around, but the only person in the vicinity was Hans, who was breathing softly. Before he could turn back around, Hans shifted himself toward the fire, revealing a single tear down his sleeping face. Murito stared at him for a moment before turning around again.
"Not my business," Murito muttered to himself, and continued to keep an eye out until it was Han's turn to wake up and take watch.
So that's the end of that! Hope you enjoyed! I'm sooo happy to finally upload the first chapter of this! And now for the author's ending notes... Here goes more walls of text!
Obviously enough, these two stories are the trailers of two of the four players. However, these are based off of one-on-one test fights we had together. These test fights were basically my friends wanting to test out their combat, so I take a random character and location for them to fight. The last(?) two trailers might be a little slow since those two are the friends that I never actually got to do test fights with yet... So yeah...
This really long story/campaign, if those of you wondering, will be side-by-side with canonical RWBY, however will be built around the events of canonical RWBY so it won't interfere with the story... unless my little brother rolls REALLY high numbers when trying to rescue Pyrrha. It's pretty much like a main side story of RWBY if that makes sense.
Now, I should probably tell you the origin story of this and why I got my friends (plus brother) and I went into this. I think it was either one of my friends or I found the RWBY: Unofficial Tabletop RPG by Andrew Diederich. Long story short, we got really interested and wanted to do it. Originally, my little brother was going to be out Dungeon Master and we would start soon, though things got in the way (e.g. school life, inability to meet up, terrible DMing). However, after those two years (yes, TWO F*CKING YEARS), we found solutions to those problems, thanks to the GM position falling to me and wonderful Discord, and began our first session. With that, I also constructed an intricate, but entertain plot line for the guys to follow. And yes, as stated above, I will be implementing elements from video games and books to make the sessions a lot more interesting for the guys (for example: Dishonored, Assassin's Creed, Confidants from Persona 5, Ni No Kuni, etc.). I do use the guide book, however, I don't use all the concepts in there as I add some of my own twists and rules.
Also, if you guys want, I can tell you what semblances, weapons, and stuff they have. Also, I have other important NPCs that the guys interact with, so I can upload that information if you want too. After all, one of those NPCs was originally the character I was going to play with, until I replaced my brother's sh*tty story telling and GMing skills to my own! I do have pictures for each character in this story, but I do not know how to link or where to upload it. If you guys have suggestions, please tell me so that I can show you guys (by the way, those portraits were created by Rinmaru's Mega Anime Avatar Creator. It was linked by one of my friends. If you're reading this, thanks again, Ryan!). In terms of backstory, that is something I can't show just yet for gaming reasons, but feel free to ask other stuff. Depending on the question, I will/will not answer it accordingly. I imagine the guys will go on this fanfiction just to find hints and stuff. :P
Finally, thank you for reading! I genuinely hope you've enjoyed and hope to see you beautiful lads soon! I really appreciate the constructive, yet positive criticism from Crashing into the World of Remnant, and ask you do the same here! Sorry about this LONG ending note and please do not hesitate to critique any anomalies you may find in this entire story once it develops. Thank you once again, and I shall see you later!
