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Dead Content Omassus - The Energy Within

Dead content awaiting restoration.
This is basically a long overdo project I've been working on and off of since the rmxp.net days. Enjoy.

UPDATE: PART 1 IS NOW AVAILABLE:

CLICK HERE: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZHDVOUTM


Estimated time to complete: 2-3 hours

Story

OMASSUS: The Energy Within

The world was once a place of peace, transquility, and faith. Entire nations co-existed, united upon their belief and devotion to the All-Mighty. Then came the day where life was destined to change.

A trial came to the inhabitants of Aguidran, a trial that they did not pass. It was the devils of the Omassus realm that began this tribulation, whispering into the hearts of men, manipulating them to desire something more that simple peace and faith.

Thus the leaders began asking the angels to establish contact and relations with these devils of Omassus. Never did the angels teach them this knowledge, except that they warned them of its risk; disbelief over faith, misguidance over guidance, blindness over sight, and darkness over light. Darkness that would forever stain the race of men.

They warned them that those who invoked the devils would have no share in the Hereafter, but how the hearts of men do not understand. And if they had believed and guarded themselves from evil and kept their duty to God, far better would have been the reward from their Lord, if they but knew.

So mankind, using their knowledge of summoning which was taught to them by the angels themselves, summoned the devils from Omassus to aid and serve them in their lives.

As time passed, the faith that mankind once had in its creator began to subside. Man had come to admire and worship these devils that were serving them. Division and conflict became inevitable.

War after war divided and destroyed the lands of Aguidran, the people knew nothing but hatred and contempt for one another. And such was life in Aguidran for many years until the day a faithful, righteous King disavowed himself and his nation from the help of the devils.

They re-established their faith in God, and began to invoke the Creator over the creation. They fought the devils from the lands, and called upon the help of the angels to seal them back within the realm of Omassus.

With the sealing of the Omassus, the leaders in power agreed by consensus to ban all forms of witchcraft and summoning. Only the use of basic skills was permitted for it did not draw energy from Omassus, rather from nature.

Over time, the history that once was became but a legend. It was the great tribulation that should never have been forgotten.

But there are those who always seek the revival of past sins. Those whose lust for power and control would destroy the very world they seek to possess.

Is the past just a memory long forgotten, or an evil longing to return

Character

During the game you will encounter friends and other important characters in the story. However, depending on how you play, you may not be able to befriend some of the characters. The following are the main
characters in the game.

Aziel Imna

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The main character of Omassus. Not much is known about Aziel, he was found unconscious in a Nuprean cavern while some Mercenaries from the kingdom of Uaron were searching there for energy crystals.

Echeal Walkyr

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/164/plechealji4.png[/IMG]

A native of Hildor in the region of Morgoth, his wife and children were killed when he refused to be drafted in the Commander's army. He now works as a mercenary for the kingdom of Uaron, and hopes for the day he can have his revenge.

Taina Rumil

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/1238/pltainawo7.png[/IMG]

An energetic young elf/human who was orphaned as a child. She is one of the last of her kind and travels the world searching for more like her. She seeks to discover her roots, who were her parents, what is her destiny.

Verann Kamril

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/7866/plverannwx7.png[/IMG]

His family died five years ago when their house caught fire, he escaped the fire but was unable to help them. Since then he has dedicated himself to the studies of healing. He is also an excellent student of elemental skills. He studies under the guiding hand of Mercius, Uaron's high Mage who adopted him after his family's passing.

Jarec Janix

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7017/pljarecnj3.png[/IMG]

Jarec Janix, or JJ is a top-level mercenary and long time friend of Echeal. He is a hard headed, stuborn fool who likes to play cards. He especially likes the game tens.

Aiden Safrin

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/350/plaidenwn0.png[/IMG]

A royal guard for Uaron's king Halien. He is honest, upright, and optomistic. He believes there's good in everyone and hopes for the Commander's reform.

Runus Rusanagi

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/211/plrunusno3.png[/IMG]

Runus is a hard fighting vetevan of Uaron's army. He gave up being a soldier after his son died in training.

Enigma

The head of a division for the Commander called hunters, his job is to seek out, question, or even kill any target which he is given. He is ruthless and psychotic, he even killed his own father for a mission.

Commander Gerrick

Once a general for the old king of Uaron, he was disgraced when the king chose Halien as his successor instead of himself. Thus he revolted against the king and formed his own fortress at the head of the Morgoth region. He has since drafted many of its citizens to hs army which he hopes will grow strong enough to challenge the rule of Uaron's new king Halien.

Screenshots

The Starting village of the game, Vallu

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A battle scene in a cavern

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The nothern caverns

http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/8868/screen3gt7.png[/IMG]

Worldmap Nuprean continent

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The Nuprean town of Ilthoss

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Menu screen

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Fighting a Cerebus, first boss in the demo

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Port City in Uaron

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On board ship battle

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The Noble town of Darlis in the Uaron continent

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Grass battle

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A battle in the late portion of the full game (warning spoiler)

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Progress

Story: 90%
Database: 99%
Maps: 70%
Events: 20%
Graphics: 99%
Scipts: 90%
Music: 100%

Overall: 55% (not an average)

Hope to get some feedback or any criticism. It's been along while on and off, and several aspects have changed over time and some have remained. :)
 
Who put that I'm a member of the "Erk fanclub", and changed my avatar!? WTH, this is ridiculous whoever put these Erk additions in my profile to appear when I post get rid of it, this is a breach of privacy agreement and I'm not laughing!
 
woow... Cool bro.. nice work but still 55% done is half way to go.. hope you finish this one up..

BTW.. your spoiler screenshot the one with the oversized monster.. the GRAPHIC is not well cleaned meaning there still some traces of white outlines but other than that.. good work just be sure to finish this one..

IT somewhat look like an FF game.. IDK.. the style seems familiar..
 
Thanks, 55% is the full game, the demo is completely finished, just need two things

1) a good server to host it on (any suggestions)
2) a net cafe or dsl connection

The giant monster you mentioned is much later in the game, and thus I didn't finish completely cleaning out the background from him (and other further bosses) but it's on my list on things to finish for the full version.

It was originally aimed to mimic the style of the famous FF series, I grew up on those games and although there's been many rpgs, I prefer their overall syle the most. So I guess you can say it influenced me in my style.
 
Looks like a pretty cool game. I like the story and the characters seem pretty cool. Like the other guy said, the only problem is the white around the monster and the fonts and window skin can be a bit nicer, not the default RMXP ones. Can't wait for the demo to come out! :D
 
I agree this DOES sound really good! :D Can't wait to see it. As far as hosting a demo, I like to use http://www.mediafire.com/

I've seen people here always use SaveFile, and Rapidshare though so I don't know if I'm missing something or what but MediaFire- no pop-ups, unobtrusive banner ad on download page, and they dont delete your files :-/ But your choice :)

Can't wait to see this! The battle system does look like old Final Fantasy style and thats a good thing ;)
 
Thanks lorddonk, I'm gonna check out mediafire now hopefully I'll be able to upload the demo soon at a net cafe in the upcoming days.
 
i love those battlers of the monsters where did yo uget em? also what battle system is that? ive seen one that uses charsets for battlers but not with the limit bar etc
 
Sorry for the late reply, I've been very busy with studies/family. To answer your questions, for the battle system, then it's a side-battle system made by a japanese author and it's available on this site, search a bit and you will find it, if not pm me.

The limit bar is an additional script also on this site, as well as the character name layeout (i.e from top to down, not left to right). I customized each script a bit, but overall it's those 3 script for my battle system.

The backgrounds are easy, you make a map to serve as the battle back in rmxp, then screenshot it (without any characters on it), then use the screenshot to serve as a battleback. That way you have a maching battleback for your carset battlers, and can make as many as you want using the titlesets included in rmxp.

As for the battlers, I had them saved on a cd from awhile back, I believe I found them on an rpg sprite site, and they were once included in rm2k3 I believe.

As for the demo, then there's two options available, I can either release the demo, or chapter 1 of my game (there's 3 in total, each longer than the last).

I think I may release chapter 1, as it may be awhile before I can complete chapter 2. Due to the bgm being mp3, chapter 1 would be about 70 megs, I hope that's tolerable for most users (it isn't for me with dialup :D).

Really, no jokes, I'll try to upload it as soon as possible, this is really getting delayed, once uploaded, I'll update the first post, as well as anounce it in the demo section of the site.
 
It was originally aimed to mimic the style of the famous FF series, I grew up on those games and although there's been many rpgs, I prefer their overall syle the most. So I guess you can say it influenced me in my style.

Well good job! The screenshots definately remind me of FF. Perhaps 6.

How long is part 1?
 

Anonymous

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I have to say, and don't take this bad, this game is pretty crappy. I don't know, it just seems like too much of a copy of FF and there is nothing original about it. It's all the sprites of RMXP, songs from FF games, sounds from FF games. I couldn't play this game for more than 15 minutes. I got SO FREAKING BORED!
 
This game while not a ff fangame does share elements with it. One point to mention is the music is mostly from ff games, but spread out enough that it still feels unique and fun in this game. And of course without any of the obvious ff themes like one winged angel, etc.

I hope everyone who tries this game out can play through and offer some feedback, I payed alot of attention to detail.

Please give it a try and enjoy ;)
 

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