So, I was just reading through one of the few, if only, RP's I've joined on this board(The conference for the elimination of superman. >>) And the idea occurred to me for something similar...
Villains have always seemed to act on their own- their plans all seem to have the same goal, but the means differ enough to keep them separated, and thus weaker.
Now, who's to say these power-hungry maniacs couldn't form and alliance of some sort? Make their goal all the closer?
That's what I'm asking all of you today... Who would get up and join me to eliminate the so-called "forces of good" and give us a chance for victory?
character skeleton:
Name:
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Organization:(otional. I know I can't think of anything >>)
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Include any close minions/sidekicks your character may or may not have.
Quote from: Miaka on June 10, 2007, 09:23:09 AM
Now, who's to say these power-hungry maniacs couldn't form and alliance of some sort? Make their goal all the closer?
I think you have the reason right there. If you form an organisation for global domination and have all powerhungry villains in it you would without doubt get internal powerstruggles.
Having the people in the RP fight for a common goal but at the same time try to backstab each other would be intresting. >:3
I am SO there. My villains need more plot anyway.
Quote from: ITOS on June 10, 2007, 09:32:56 AM
Quote from: Miaka on June 10, 2007, 09:23:09 AM
Now, who's to say these power-hungry maniacs couldn't form and alliance of some sort? Make their goal all the closer?
I think you have the reason right there. If you form an organisation for global domination and have all powerhungry villains in it you would without doubt get internal powerstruggles.
Having the people in the RP fight for a common goal but at the same time try to backstab each other would be intresting. >:3
It's true. ^^;;
But, y'know... who's to say they couldn't be rational in their power-hungry...
nevermind, that's crazy talk.
I'm with Black, my villains would benefit this too. Now I just have to pick one...
A few questions though; what sort of world does this take place in and what's the official stance on minions?
... Are you looking for any (god-moding) loyal opposition? ;-]
I'm evil. Does that mean that I am free to join if I wish? >:3
Hmmmm... sounds fun. I have just the villain[ess] in mind. :mwaha
EDIT: I've been using a fairly standard name/gender/age/race-species/type for the main details, like so;
Name: Sheridanna (Surname Unknown)
Age: Mid 20s
Gender: Female
Race/Species: Anthromorphic Feline
Type: Mastermind
Then appearance, notes, behaviour...
Then onto the real fun; Specialities, Motivations and Flaws. >:3
Quote from: Stygian on June 10, 2007, 05:26:12 PM
I'm evil. Does that mean that I am free to join if I wish? >:3
Yes, but are you a villain? Lets see your degree, Styggy.
Quote from: Boogeyman on June 10, 2007, 05:49:28 PM
Quote from: Stygian on June 10, 2007, 05:26:12 PM
I'm evil. Does that mean that I am free to join if I wish? >:3
Yes, but are you a villain? Lets see your degree, Styggy.
[raises eyebrow]
I think you've mistaken who you're talking to here? Maybe I should just hold you out a window from the 20th floor until you behave.
Well, villainy is a tough business and not everyone qualifies for a liscance. I mean yes, you've got the eyebrow and the catchphrases down pat, but where are your minions? Your death rays? How many cities do you hold hostage in a year, young women tied to train tracks, those sorts of things?
Quote from: Boogeyman on June 10, 2007, 06:57:46 PM
Well, villainy is a tough business and not everyone qualifies for a liscance. I mean yes, you've got the eyebrow and the catchphrases down pat, but where are your minions? Your death rays? How many cities do you hold hostage in a year, young women tied to train tracks, those sorts of things?
Hmm. I'm not usually very evil, but I know I can be. I mean, I laugh when I'm reading Hellsing. (Specifically, when Alu-sama and Anderson fight.) Any pointers? Styg? Boogey? My guys could use the tips!
And to think, just yesterday I was thinking up teachers for a fanfiction I'm doing called "Evil Night School." This should be fun... :bat
Holding hostages is for pussies or people who want attention, and tying young women to train tracks makes no sense whatsoever. I take money, kill people for it, and then possibly kill the one who gave me the money in the first place for being jackasses, or because I took money from someone to do it. And then I take jobs on the side; a bit of blackmail, aiding illegal research, funding insurgencies... But that's not to keep the economy up. Death rays? Pssssh. Try watching Alien a few more times, and less of James Bond.
Also, if you're going to take inspiration from Hellsing, Black_angel... then don't. Really. Alucard is just destructive and haphazard. He's a thrillseeker, not a villain. Father Anderson however... :veryevil
*Shrugs* Hey, I hear ya, but if you wanna get taken seriously in the biz these days you gotta make a performance out of it. The general opinion nowadays is that any thug can kill. Besides, attention has its uses.
As for pointers, Black, if you like Alucard a thug-type is probably exactly what you should go for; usually a lone operator, and doesn't have to worry about attracting too much attention with their methods because they're essentially a lone nut or a hired gun. Mebbe throw in some interesting flavor of anger issues or flat out crazy to keep them motivated in the whole "break things" objective. In a league of villains, that sort of character is typically the field operative, and while they may have less input than the masterminds they have a good deal of weight to throw around in the decision making process if used wisely.
I don't really play the "evil" character, I'm often good, or more often neutral. But...
Quote from: ITOS on June 10, 2007, 09:32:56 AM
Having the people in the RP fight for a common goal but at the same time try to backstab each other would be intresting. >:3
ITOS makes a good point. I agree, and can't wait until the RP actually starts so I can read it, as you people try to pretend to be all jack and friendly, while plotting, and thwarting, each others deaths and death plans. >:3 >:3 >:3 That will be very entertaining.
Only reason I've got a villainous characetr is that half-assed webcomic I failed at.
My friends decided that I was a wonderful evil mastermind, and should be the arch nemesis for some superhero... who ended up being a friend of mine, Guilia(Pillow Girl!) The webcomic failed because I'm lazy, but I ended up with these great characters that I really can't use anywhere else...
And yes, Llearch, this wouldn't be any fun without the opposition.
Quote from: Boogeyman on June 10, 2007, 06:57:46 PMBut where are your minions?
Strategically positioned so they can get the best vantage point to cover me and shoot you, should you make any sudden moves.
Quote from: Boogeyman on June 10, 2007, 06:57:46 PMYour death rays?
Aimed at you!
Quote from: Boogeyman on June 10, 2007, 06:57:46 PMHow many cities do you hold hostage in a year, young women tied to train tracks, those sorts of things?
1) Maybe one or two, depends.
2) Too much effort. I just toss 'em in the impact stress-tester. The crunches and screams are kinda fun!
>:3
Tempting, very tempting. Perhaps a bit more information is in order, though.
I happen to have a few villains lying around doing nothing, and it would be interesting to use them a bit.
Quote from: Stygian on June 10, 2007, 06:53:55 PM
Maybe I should just hold you out a window from the 20th floor until you behave.
... and then let him go?
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on June 11, 2007, 06:25:22 AM
Quote from: Stygian on June 10, 2007, 06:53:55 PM
Maybe I should just hold you out a window from the 20th floor until you behave.
... and then let him go?
Do you mean "let him go" as in drop him or "let him go" as in let him walk away alive?
*evil giggle*
Quote from: ITOS on June 11, 2007, 08:25:07 AM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on June 11, 2007, 06:25:22 AM
Quote from: Stygian on June 10, 2007, 06:53:55 PM
Maybe I should just hold you out a window from the 20th floor until you behave.
... and then let him go?
Do you mean "let him go" as in drop him or "let him go" as in let him walk away alive?
Depends... if it's toon physics, they might
live, but not walk away. :U
Quote from: Stygian on June 10, 2007, 08:19:46 PM
Holding hostages is for pussies or people who want attention, and tying young women to train tracks makes no sense whatsoever. I take money, kill people for it, and then possibly kill the one who gave me the money in the first place for being jackasses, or because I took money from someone to do it. And then I take jobs on the side; a bit of blackmail, aiding illegal research, funding insurgencies... But that's not to keep the economy up. Death rays? Pssssh. Try watching Alien a few more times, and less of James Bond.
Also, if you're going to take inspiration from Hellsing, Black_angel... then don't. Really. Alucard is just destructive and haphazard. He's a thrillseeker, not a villain. Father Anderson however... :veryevil
Ka-DUH. Any fool could tell you Alucard's not a villain. But he's not a good guy either. The way I see it is that he gets (ahem) creative with very basic instructions. Integra says "kill", he hears "Break your opponent mentally and physically, then feast off their dead body and rip away any last shred of dignity they had."
Anderson is clearly the villain; he thinks he's doing the right thing, he murders without a second thought, and he can't even control himself when he's just trying to deliver a message. He's a different spin on a classic villain template, but then aren't we all?
Oddly enough though, I don't intend to base my villain off of Hellsing. The guy I'm thinking of using acts more like Hannibal Lecter, but since he's half-demon and has a good-guy younger brother, I'm afraid he'll get yelled at for being too Sesshy-like. (I wasn't thinking of Inuyasha at the time I drew him, but the similarity hit me later.)
Quote from: Black_angel on June 11, 2007, 12:49:47 PM
Ka-DUH. Any fool could tell you Alucard's not a villain. But he's not a good guy either. The way I see it is that he gets (ahem) creative with very basic instructions. Integra says "kill", he hears "Break your opponent mentally and physically, then feast off their dead body and rip away any last shred of dignity they had."
I'm not really sure if Integra has a problem with this or not.
Really, the whole Hellsing series is a classic example of quis custodiet ipsos custodes, really. That and becoming that which you are fighting...
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on June 11, 2007, 12:54:58 PMThat and becoming that which you are fighting...
Gazing into the abyss and whatnot? I always liked that quote.
so when will this get started my croc would like to see the light of day again.
hello im the croc. my specialty?..... IM A F***IN CROCODILE! jeezuz throw me a g** d*** bone here people!
oh before i forget this is my apprentice dile lass. yeah shes my age but shes new to the game.
There's an edit button. Use it. :rolleyes Your attitude also seems unnecessary, as if responding to a post that no longer exists.
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Big post also. Finished profiling ze sinister kittyvillain, Sheridanna;
Name: Sheridanna (Surname Unknown)
Age: Mid 20s
Gender: Female
Race/Species: Anthromorphic Feline
Type: Mastermind
Organization: S.M.A.S.H - Scientific Masterminds Associated with Soldiers for Hire.
Motto: In Omnia Paratus - "Ready for all things"
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Appearance:
Sheridanna is fond of clothes that are more efficient for the job. Under her labcoat, she wears a pair of jeans and a simple long-sleeved white shirt. Being of similar body structure to humans, she wears a pair of titanium-capped, rubber-soled boots on her feet. Her fur is almost perfectly white and kept short - her hair is black and kept in a ponytail that's usually tucked down the neck of her labcoat. She keeps her claws short but sharp. Her tail is long with a rounded end, but not too thin (nor too thick), her ears triangular and perked up. Finally, her eyes are blue.
She's often seen wandering around with a clipboard and pen in hand when she's not busy plotting or sleeping.
She also keeps a loaded custom sidearm under her labcoat on her right hip at all times - remarkably similar to the FN Five-Seven, the pistol boasts high ammunition capacity (albeit low caliber) and relatively high rate of fire. She has spare magazines in the back pockets of her jeans and can reload quite fast.
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Notes:
Sheridanna is not afraid to fight, and moves surprisingly fast. Those fighting her often find a foot firmly planted in their vital regions before they can attack, or bleeding from a slash across the face. She is skilled only in unarmed/improv combat - her skills with actual melee weapons are lacking, and she only knows how to handle pistols in terms of ranged weapons.
She's immune to catnip, and doesn't like mice because "They're too stringy."
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Behaviour:
Sheridanna is no coward, but she knows the better part of valor and all that. She is cunning and underhanded - she does not hesitate to exploit weaknesses - but will only strike when the time is right. She also loves to flaunt her technological superiority in front of others, and is naturally very smug of this.
She has a fondness for lasers and impact stress test devices. Mostly due to the injuries these cause on those foolish enough to stumble into her lair. She does not, and will not, conduct biological research, be it genetic modification or biochemicals. She does do some chemical research, but nothing groundbreaking, except for her chemical lasers.
Sheridanna rarely gloats over captured foes, and simply disposes of them before they can become a threat. This makes her a major threat to stereotypical heroes. When she does gloat, it's often to show off her latest technological device, which she promptly unleashes on them at maximum effect. Which of course ends in their rather rapid demise - rather than just leaving them there long enough to wriggle free before the laser/etc. can kill them.
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Specialties:
Technology - Sheridanna possesses highly advanced technology, and is one step ahead of the world in technological terms. Her bases are defended by all sorts of technological trickery. The downside is high power consumption, but she builds her devices to last.
Competancy - Sheridanna's minions are well-trained and well-armed, unlike most. The major drawback here is that there are not many of them, as they are not cheap. They are, however, extremely effective, and losses are rare.
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Motivations:
Power - Like any 'good' villain(ess), Sheridanna desires power and control over all others. This is part of her feline heritage, unsurprisingly, and is one of the driving forces behind her plan for world domination.
SCIENCE! - Sheridanna wishes to have the world's scientific resources at her disposal in the search for scientific knowledge. She believes that rapid scientific development is the only way forward.
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Flaws:
Independance - Sheridanna is very independant and somewhat paranoid. She rarely trusts others to carry out her bidding. She only calls for assistance when it is direly necessary.
You Are Expendable - Sheridanna shows little regard for everyone other than herself, treating them as utterly disposable and expendable - with the exception of her minions.
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Minions:
Langdon
Langdon is Sheridanna's second in command, and manages the security of her island lair. He also regularly inspects the guards and keeps them in fighting shape. Langdon is a wolf 'morph, somewhere in his 30s, and his weapon of choice is a fairly nasty looking automatic shotgun and a pair of semi-automatic handguns.
Soldier
The rank and file of Sheridanna's organization, these soldiers have strict orders to kill any uninvited guests, and will defend their owner to the death. Most are armed with advanced assault rifles (see below), and have a pistol and combat knife as backup. Similar to the police-soldiers of Equilibrium in dress and appearance (right down to the helmets, though the visors are completely black) the Soldiers are armed, dangerous, and extremely deadly. Do not underestimate them - even one poses a significant hazard. The race/species and gender of the soldiers varies, as only the finest are selected.
APR Mk 7
Designed by Sheridanna and some of her engineers, the APR Mk 7 (or Advanced Prototype Rifle, Mark 7) is one of Sheridanna's finest kinetic/hybrid weapons. Capable of penetrating most, if not all known body armours, the APR Mk 7's rounds shred infantry and light vehicles alike thanks to their microexplosive warhead. Whilst they're technically illegal they are extremely effective.
Quote from: lucas marcone on June 24, 2007, 12:34:55 PM
so when will this get started my croc would like to see the light of day again.
Yeah, this RP has a lot of potential, it would be sad to see it fall into obscurity and go to waste. I'm looking forward to reading the actuall IC.
right, right, making threads and forgetting about them =/= good idea.
I'll get up a character skeleton(Based off Arcalane's, if you don't mind) in a moment, and after we've got a couple people, I'll start up the IC.
Quote from: Arcalane on June 24, 2007, 02:47:21 PM
There's an edit button. Use it. :rolleyes Your attitude also seems unnecessary, as if responding to a post that no longer exists.
i copy pasted directly from the other rp. the one this is supposed to be related to. besides my character is ALL attitude well 30%attitude 50% muscle 20% brains
name: If you know he's probably digesting parts of you already
alias: Croc
age: one can never tell but his mother if she were alive would say 23
Gender: male
race/spicies: Mutated human-crocodile
Type: strong man. tank basicly
organization: say what? i leave cleaning to Dile lass!
motto: if you stand in my way, remember you are squishy and good with mayo.
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appearance: A large humanoid crocodile dresses in what ever rags he has.
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Notes: Stay on his good side if you know what's best
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Behaviour: Large and in charge. Play by his rules and you're ok in his book
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specialty: breaking things, war tactics
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motivs: Greed and revenge
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Flaws: He may be big but he's stupid. With his limited knowledge and abundant muscle comes a stubborn personality. With out Dile lass he is for the most part useless.
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name: Lucy Mcantr....I mean oh shoot.....if you know Croc is probably oh darn what was it?
age: I'm allowed to answer this one right? ok 20
gender: *looks down* Female if it isnt too obvious.
race/species: Human
Type:ummm He'd say lacky but I'm more a ranged fighter like a blaster
organization:oh yes I LOVE to clean
motto: I'm the brain you're the brawn....if that's not too much trouble?
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appearnce: Young, shapely, pretty face, red hair. normally sporting a crocodillian type cotton costume(gotta keep with the theme :3).
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notes: i stopped passing those in 8th grade.
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behaviour: bubbly and precotious she can be naive. she may look innocent but she's out to make enough money to live comfortably while funding national parks across the US and africa by ANY means possible
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specialties: knowedge, sex appeal, lock picking, pick pocketing,
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motive: She wants all the animals to live in happy safety
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flaws: She can be naive. Though incredably smart she can come up with the idea but normally has to rely on Croc to carry it out or risk catastrophic failure. utterly useless without anyone who has the power to carry out her plans.
Might want to post my own character, hm?
Name: Kate
Age: 27
Gender: female
Race/Species: human
Type: Mastermind
Motto: Oh- hell, you'll screw this up. Let me get this one.
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Appearance: Kate is physically small, with nothing suggesting at the power in the little frame. Her hair is short, mousey, and, despite her constantly brushing at it, falls over her right eye at just about a constant. She has somewhat of a pretty face, though with that glare on it all the time, it's hard to tell. Her skin is pale, and her eyes are a bright, vibrant green.
Her attire usually consists of a black leather vest and green tank underneath it, black motorcycle pants, and black biker gloves.
At her command, she grows sets of wolverine-like claws on each hand. (not an x-men ripoff. sure.)
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Notes: She's never successfully been able to hold on to minions. They all seem to end up murdered.
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Behaviour: She has a very short temper, and very rarely find people that don't aggravate her. However, if you can match her intellectualy, she won't mind you much at all. She speaks quickly, gets to business fatser than most anyone would like, and has a very no-nonsense attitude.
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Specialties: technology(mainly computers and hacking) though she'd much rather be out in the feild, putting those claws to work.
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Motivations: Money. Power. Fame. You name it, she's thought of it. Her main motivation, however, is a simple, pure hate of laws and those that uphold them.
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Flaws: Short tempered. Elitist.
Name: Sebastian Hart
Age: ?
Gender: Male
Race/Species: Human?
Type: Assassin
Organization: Dolch (freelancer military cell)
Motto:
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Appearance: A finger's breadth over six feet tall, Sebastian is long-limbed and slender, but athletic and muscled. With a balanced, straight-lined face, long pallid blond hair and well-shaped features he is very handsome, though he also has an unmistakably predatory look to him. Also, he possesses a certain few oddities to his appearance, such as black veins showing slightly at his temples, tiny pupils, fangs and clawlike nails. He has two straight, thin scars in his face, one from the jawline and up his right cheek, and one over the right side of his lips. He also has a tattoo on his right arm of some sort of dragon or hydra that stretches up onto his back. He usually wears white and black clothes, round glasses and a simple golden earring in his right ear.
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Notes: He personally is only known as a messenger and representative, the only known contact to an infamous hitman called Stygian.
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Behaviour: Calm, calculating, charming but with a hidden edge to him. While normally a pleasant man, being verbal, loyal, honest and intelligent, he is a terrible, vicious foe, an expert manipulator, dissembler and spy. Also, what could be taken for humility or devotion in him, is actually the other side of self-loathing and passion. He has a borderline personality, with his darker self being callous, sinister, sly and fiery in contrast to his normal cool and thoughtfulness.
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Specialties: Assassination, weaponry and practical technology and applications. As Stygian he is known as the only "assassin without a trace", possessing extraordinary powers primarily affiliated with darkness that allow him a considerable edge in his profession. Apart from that, he is a very skilled martial artist and marksman, as well as a very apt driver, and an experienced and skilled engineer.
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Motivations: Pain. Self-loathing, hatred, revenge, money, prestige and neccessity are all things that drive him to a great extent, however mostly it is the agony of his own being, his pain from never having been loved and having been used and hated his whole life. His highest wish is to be able to escape his life and find some sort of solace, and if not that, to die in a "good way".
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Flaws: Pained and tormented, antisocial if this is used against him. Has a tendency toward secrecy and deception, even toward his allies. Very good adviser and lone operator, but a poor leader. Is still vulnerable to many forms of attack, despite his power. Weaker in bright and open environments.
shall we get to villinizing then?
Umm... Perhaps a little more patience?
Almost forgot this.
Name: Dr. Anastasia Etnacio
Age: About thirty
Species: Rabbit beastfolk (anthromorph)
Type: Mad scientist
Commonly used phrase: ARGH! Don't touch anything, you utter TWIT! That's a month's worth of- Hey, it's not supposed to do that...
Appearance: 4 1/2 feet in height, grey fur. Typically wears a lab coat with a collar pulled up to hide the lower half of her face. Whether that's because some lab accident left her terribly scarred or because she accidentally super glued it to her nose nobody knows. Her hair is usually swept back along with her ears, she has an almost permanent glaring look to her, and she's usually holding some project she's still working on.
Behavior: Like put upon geniuses everywhere, Anastasia is often frustrated with the stupidity of those around her and is resigned to have to rely on said stupid people for funding. This and a paranoid and conniving streak a mile wide should probably characterize her interactions with the other characters. In short, usually grouchy and bad-tempered.
Specialties: Anastasia is used to working for villains. Her best work is usually either something that goes boom, or something alive with a worse temper than her. Her best work, though, is accidental. While she's just as capable of cobbling together a death ray as any other genius, only she could be trying to repair her computer and get the same result. While she recognizes this tendency toward inadvertent masterpieces, it doesn't shake her unwavering faith in her own abilities. She also usually carries a few of her more easily concealed creations for self defense (creations such as quasi-intelligent robotic limbs, supersteriods, and of course guns).
Motivations: Money, more specifically funding, and somewhere to work on her own projects (one of the biggest of which involves a dragon and a large amount of hardware) free of little things like "laws".
Flaws: Without her hardware or other creations, she's rather weak on her own. Sometimes overestimates her own abilities, and at times the desire to complete her projects overrides her common sense.
Notes: Accustomed to various methods of manipulating her employers for more funding. Sometimes strikes one as working more like a college science major than a proper mad scientist, but gets results.
very colorful and creative! i wouldn't expect anything less from you boogey.
I think five is just about enough to start us off.
I'll make the thread in a moment.
Wait a sec! I can still post my bio, right?
Name: Liz
Age: Early 20s
Gender: Male
Race/Species: Being/Gecko
Type: Rich/Fighter
Association: Independent
Motto: Doesn't have one
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Appearance: Liz oozes self-confidence and power, but only hints at his wealth. He has blond, well-combed hair that he keeps rather short, blue eyes, handsome features, and emerald green scales with shiny little flecks here and there of no definite color. He's about 5'10, and wears a dark sport jacket, a white cotton t-shirt and ironed khaki pants. He wants others to know he's powerful, but he doesn't want to throw money around foolishly just for the hell of it. He's very good-looking, and his manner suggests that he knows this.
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Personality: Not nearly as spoiled as people would assume. He's always polite around others, and he has a healthy sense of humor. He's even sort of kind – he tries to avoid death if he can help it. Many people who know him want to hate him, but can't because he's such a nice guy. Still, underneath all this, he's a little condescending towards other people. Although he's not garish with his money, he has a dramatic streak and likes watching hell break loose from his work. Also, if he feels like someone's threatening him, he becomes rather scary. He knows he can kill, and if someone pisses him off, he's willing to do it.
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Specialties: He can produce gold and precious stones, just by thinking about it and flexing any muscle on his body. Depending on how much he moves, more or less wealth is produced. His most powerful attack is curling up in a ball and shooting gold needles in every direction. He's also pretty proficient with a blade.
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Motivations: Boredom and excess wealth. Liz doesn't really see how fulfilling someone else's life can fulfill your own. But he loves watching how trouble caused by his power and money plays out. The "results of his talent" add to his boredom. Since Liz doesn't like being flashy with his money, he needs to do something else with it. He can pay his own bills pretty well, his parents are well off enough, and his girlfriend prefers to pay her own expenses. So why not give some psycho doctor enough money to build a death ray and watch it explode in his face?
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Flaws: Since Liz works solely as a financial crutch for most villains, he usually doesn't have any really good friends to turn to when the chips are down. His main soft spot is his girlfriend, a light yellow-green gecko named Crystal. Crystal isn't good or bad; she's just weird and sweet and loves Liz no matter what he does. She makes shoes and can support herself, and for whatever reason, Liz loves her.
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Notes: Anyone who mocks his name usually ends up with a gold spike aimed at their throat.
Of course we're still open for profiles. ^^
five would be quite the boring rp.
[edited] Nevermind, I was being entirely uncalled for.
So there's still room in the RP? Your last post is kind of sending mixed signals. :P
Yeah, still open. Just after this point, I think your character would be a bit late to the meeting. >>
Yeah it seems like its already underway, either way I'll post his bio here.
Name: "Lord" Daemon von Vulkinstein
Nickname: Daemon
Age: Unknown
Gender: Male
Race/Species: Human (Angel)
Type: The Black Knight, so I guess tank?
Motto: Merely a flesh wound. (well as long as I'm going with the whole Black Knight bit. :P)
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Appearance:
His height is around 5ft 8in, incased in a black suit of armor. On his back he wears a dark flowing cloak, at its end it appears to be tattered hinting that he has seen alot of action in his time. If you just met him it would be clear that this guy is clearly insane to be prancing around like a knight in shining armor in this day and age. He also appears to have a large zweihandler sheathed onto his back as well and his gauntlets have hidden small arms on top of his hands. Under his helmet he appears to have black hair, white skin, a young charismatic face that appears to be in its twenties, white dimly glowing eyes, no facial hair. To be able to move around with all the armor and gear he has on with such grace it is hinted that he is pretty strong.
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Notes:
Daemon was frozen in a glacier until recently and has no memories of who he was prior or why he has 2 scars running down his back. His armor and other archaic gear was also frozen with him. Without purpose he quickly found his way into the darker parts of society, there he found a way to justify himself through the lives he takes, he believes that he is doing the ones he kills justice by shedding their mortal coil so that they may find true purpose in the next life.
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Behaviour:
Daemon usually keeps a calm demeanor.
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Specialties:
He is pretty skilled with the large sword he has on his back and is somewhat of a good marksman with the guns he has in his gauntlets, although his aim is american at best. When he's enraged his hands begin to burn in pitchblack flames, he can focus the fire through his sword into a makeshift "Zelda" style attack. His armor will repair itself given time and is very durable.
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Motivations:
He wants to do whats "right".
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Flaws:
He wants to do whats "right", so he can usually be manipulated if the hand guiding him is convincing. For this he is a bit naive.
Oi vey, gimme some time to write up a reply will you. :P
comic sounding names....? thank you boogey for noticing :) that is exactly what i was going for. by the way i love how analyzing you character is... the most careful and calculateing people most often pull the strings. >:3
Maybe i can join?
character skeleton:
Name: Dark eternal. DarkE
Age: centuries
Gender: male
Race/Species: demon
Type: pseudo religious
Organization:(optional. I know I can't think of anything >>) shadow demons of the underworld.
Motto: Like it or not i am as necessary as the next breathe you hope to draw.
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Appearance: time has not been kind to the dark eternal. he has become less and less like himself and take more and more the appearance of a demon lord. DarkE's normal form left him with 4 inch curving horn his fur has grown on his forearms and legs with a nearly burnt red hues. his ears have a pointed almost elvish cast and his tail is spaded. his feet are thick also cloven resembling hoofs. wile they are not normal on the few case where he take a direct hand in thing either in his dwelling or by temporarily setting up shop in a hide out top side he sprouts a set of large dragon style wings to complete the illusion of demonic grace.
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Notes: Dark E can shape shift but rarely does so for extended periods of time
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Behavior: sadistic when bored. known for peeling the wings off of demons one strip of flesh at a time
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Specialties: corruption. fire based abilities for both harm and healing. soul extraction. causing anarchy and mass destruction/ unrest.
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Motivations: Boredom. DarkE or As he calls himself the dark eternal fool. he sought power the potential for eternal life and in the end took the role of darkness incarnate. but while dark and corruption he's not necessarily evil instead he is merely a a bored. his followers gone and nearly DarkE no longer plays the god or devil that he once played in the past not he just tries to pass the time with out going crazy.
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Flaws: self destruction. rarely act directly wants to battles only the strongest of foes.
Include any close minions/sidekicks your character may or may not have.
Baika Nekochan: Feline angle kitten. sharpshooter by nature
Death Rue: shape shifting gollum(doll) that seems to be infuses with the essence of an alternate version himself. limitless potential but not limitless power. can only become something he has already defeated in battles. takes weakness along with straighted. is DarkE's right hand enforcer.
Shadow demons. : week expendable minions that seem to appear from the shadows they lurk in. often called upon to spy or act as pawns in battles. they are equipped with both long ranges burst attacks and short range blade / blunt force weapons
Okay, so... I did something stupid when putting myself up as the character Kate.
I'll be completely honest, I don't know the character very well, and at the moment, I hate her just about as much as she hates just about everyone else.
Now, before I do something even more idiotic, I was thinking of withdrawing her and replacing her with a character I'm a little bit more fond of, might be a little more challenging, and would definately be a hell of a lot more fun.
So, I was just going to ask you guys if you don't mind horribly my doing this. If you think it would be too disruptive, then I'll do my best to not feel the need for Kate to die slow and painful deaths. But, for the most part, I think Roulette would just make this that much more interesting.
Voyager, if you don't mind cleaning that up a little, then i think it'd be fine.
Have Kate die a VERY slow and VERY painful and very HUMILIATING death. It makes for good evil. :bat
Now, now, tech, that's just excessively nasty.
A bullet through the back of the cranium in a quiet place, followed by a burial at sea, preferably over an active reef, and you're sorted.
Don't forget to include weights to hold the corpse down until the crabs can remove all the flesh. :-]
I wasn't going to kill her at all, but... >>
I hope you don't think I was...suggesting anything, llearch. I ment humiliating as in do something personally humiliating, that utterly breaks the villain, like crushing their pride completely. Losts of villains have pride issues, so you hit them where it hurts. THAT's what I meant.
What, you mean kill her and leave the corpse on someone else's doorstep? Or boardroom table?
Yes, I spose that's another option, but it's risky - if they let the CSI guys in, you're in trouble... :-]
okay i looked through the spelling and some of the grammar how else does it need to be cleaned up?
i've givin you an out miaka, all you have to do is utilize it.
Dude, I had ways to get her out without anyone ending up dead.
Well... someone probably would die eventually, but not anyone that had to do with this plot. >>
Just let her go so I can use it. >>
there you go.....gave me some oppertunity for character development though.
and fyi croc and dile lass's dialog will appear in their colors
Croc speaks in green
Dile Lass in pink
if you have problems reading it or if it's just plain annoying let me know and i will stop
Voyager- perhaps a little more specific, if you don't mind. For example, what you've given for an appearance, as far as I know, could be a giant pink bunny with demon horns.
you dont know how awesome that would be
yes that would be awesome but i was editing my post before you suggest it. still it might come up but a doubt it. my character is one of those that it hard to play mostly he gives orders and his his minions running around. the shadow demons are like the creepling form Swat kats
Sure, go ahead, but I'm going to hope your character has more to their behaviour than just being bored and sadistic 24/7.
Here we go with the character I'm keeping. :rolleyes
Name: Roulette
Age: in her 50s or 60s. Visually... who can tell?
Gender: Female
Race/Species: even she doesn't know, but it's suspected to be from some reach of hell.
Type: just plain old crazy.
Organization: Whoever she decides to latch onto.
Motto: The world should have more lazers.
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Appearance: Roulette is... strange, let's say that. Tall, thin almost to the point of being disgusting, and obviously without much sanity left, and that's not even the most of it. Her skin is a bright, vibrant purple, of all colors, and her hair, cut about to her chin, hardly has any color classification at all- each streak seems to be a different shade. Her wide grin is full of sharp, pointed teeth and a forked tongue, and her large eyes seem to have got which color goes where mixed up- what should be white is blue, what should be blue is black, and what should be black is white. As if she couldn't get any stranger, her shoulders, spine, elbows, knees, wrists and ribs all seem to have sprouted spines- only one or two on each location, but enough to make her look menacing. ach spine is black with a reddish sheen, and they are extremely hot to the touch.
Her clothing choices hint at colorblindness, and consist of a bright orange top(sleeveless and cut off before the ribs, laced up in the back), and baggy, lime green pants with large holes in the knees to allow for the one spike on each knee.
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Notes: She most likely will act as if she's your best friend even before she knows who on earth you are.
If much blood get spillt around her, she goes into bloodlust, and she becaomes entirely the same kind of material her spines are made of, and becomes unbeleivably hot to the touch.
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Behaviour: Overly friendly, overly hyper, just about everything, she does to the extreme. Bubbly and happy, to dramatic and depressed, with almost no middle ground.
She'll freely admit that she's annoying, but if anyone else calls her that, then she'll bawl her eyes out.
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Specialties: element of surprise. With the insane, who can tell what their next move is?
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Motivations: She's morally against all of this. She's just doing the people she's telling herself are the best friends in the world a favor.
That, and her instincts lead her to do evil. It's what she's programmed to do, and she tries to fight it, but it's like telling yourself not to breathe.
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Flaws: Acts in extremes, none of her logic makes sense, doesn't give a whit for science, or math, or anything that needs a logical explanation.
so she doen't give a whit about gravity?
nope. ^^
she satys on the ground, why should she care how?
thanks i'll post in a couple of minutes. and don't worry as a game player my character plays to keep the game interesting and going. it's how he tries to keep his boredom at bay. to him this is like a game of survival and like all gamers he plays to win
Styg unless your character is a mind reader, he never actually hears my character's thoughts on how this seems like a videogame world.
Oh. Sorry. Hard to differentiate...
Quote from: Xeksue on June 29, 2007, 08:03:35 PM
Styg unless your character is a mind reader, he never actually hears my character's thoughts on how this seems like a videogame world.
I suggest you stop putting quotation marks around them, otherwise there's nothing to show that it's NOT speech. :P
Yea thats true. From now on when he does an inner monologue I'll use a darker font color like this and when he's actually speaking I'll use red font. Sorry bout that. :animesweat
Or you could use brackets of any flavour. "This would be speech." [Whereas this is thought.] (Or this) {Or even this} ~(Or this, if you're feeling artistic.)~ The problem with different coloured fonts is that there are multiple themes to this forum, with different backgrounds. Your dark blue text, for example, will be practically invisible on some of the CV-inspired themes.
But then I guess you can't please everybody. :B
question did Roulette open the door form outside were rue is waiting of form inside were the others are?
Oh, I'd though Rue was inside already. oops.
She opened the door from outside, but she probably wouldn't have noticed Rue anyways.
The easiest and simplest way to differentiate between though and speech is this:
"I am speaking aloud nice things about you right now."
I am contemplating in my mind the best way to bring you a painful death right now.
Simple. Most books that i know of use this format, though some books that have thought-to-thought communication as a major point, like the old Animorphs, they show thought speak with:
<I am talking directly to your mind right now.>
Simple and effective. You can't do any better than that. :)
ah no worries i can work with that. aster mint she probably seems normal to him anyway.
Ok diffrent colors is a pain in the ass when trying to be gramaticly correct so im going back to the old format.
well well said Xeksue. i am impressed with how you emoted you character and while Rue is under DarkE's influences he's not spell bound. the crystal in his forehead is part of his concerts it's called a life crystal and it it part of a dew prism. the dew prism is made of force and it is in it's self a model of that universe and posses a good amount of power much less then acutely relic it was taken form but still it can hold and preserve souls or lend rue strength when he's in need. it was made part of him for one reason to help him open the doorway and returned his creator Valen to the universe. this was reason was quashed when he was betrayed by Valen and turned against him to say the soul and life of the one he quested five years to save. (most of Rue's background is taken form the Dew-prism - threads of fate video game created by square. Rue is one of around 5 known brothers. the elders bothers Runician lost his soul crystal power the younger brother Rue lost his memory but not his power. the youngest bother Ruenicus had both memory and soul crystal power but was give a new purpose by rue shorty before mint's latest attempt for world domination lead to a distance. now in an attempt to fix things Rue encountered DarkE and enters his service for a price. since then DarkE for his own reasons has been slowly restoring to Rue's that which was destroyed. For the time being Rue but lead his minions as a general commander and most trusted aid. .
Thanks e_voyager. I kinda figured Rue wasn't under any type of direct mind control or the likes, merely that DarkE is subtly influencing his decisions or the like. I kinda went with that to make it appear that DarkE's essence was present which would allow me to develop my character a bit because Daemon is essentially a fallen angel so I figured that with a demonic presence nearby in the crystal it would cause that to happen.
Your latest post has me kinda confused in the second block right after where he mentions Croc. Is Rue suspecting that Croc is a demon/daemon?
no he merely believes that Croc has something on his mind. that maybe he's a little conflicted with what is going on here and wondering if this meeting is going to turn out to be in his best interest. also in the case of a daemon i misunderstand i was thinking war hammer in which case Daemons were humans that gains power form demonic gods becoming practically immortal themselves and demons of high power.
"Dile :ass"? leave it to E to make the funniest finger slipps i have seen in a while. heh if croc has his way that's exactly how he probably would treat her. but alas his mother raised him too well for that. but appearntly not well enough to keep him from villany
good and evil are relative but manners transect so boundaries. i'll see if i can find and fix it.
you're being a little liberal with the settings plot and the mysterious man miaka is controling. try not to god mod too much
yeah I know, but after 3 pages I figured she would have taken the initiative by now. =/
GMs do have lives. Be patient. :P
Gyah, I'm sorry, I've been douing this to roleplays a lot recently.
And I'll be completely honest, I'm stalling for time, I have no idea what the hell this dude wants.
probably world domination.
Not so much that I have a life at the moment(Summer vacation, come on. Who has a life during summer?) it's more of a writer's block/lethargic/slight depression for no good reason I can think of.
I'll try and do better, yeh?
Though Xeksue: I would appreciate it very much it you'd stop playing my shadowy character.
He is, in fact, a character, and not purely a plot device.
Thank you very much.
Hmmm.... methinks then maybe you may have started this RP a bit too soon, Miaka. As far as I know, most GMs actually figure out the major plot points of an RP before starting it. This RP is an excellent idea, but you might have rushed it. It's alright though. I'm sure you can find a way to salvage the situation. ;)
Its alright Miaka sorry bout that, if it makes you feel better you can kill off my character if you want. >:3
can I can I?!?!?!? :reaper :grave :dancinggrave just kidding. but honestly? how about contenental domonation first. maybe the shadoy guy is the leader of a nation looking to expand. like hitler minus the whole genoscide thing.
if we're talking ruling egomanics i would think him to be more like Doom form the marvel comics not movies. he rules a country and is forever trying to add the world to his dominion. he's succeed once or twice only to lose it all to to his ego getting in the way.
One thing that has me slightly confused is, it sounds like, if the villains come up against any resistance, it will be from the countries themselves. But in the beginning of the OOC, Miaka said something about "sticking it to those do-gooders" or words to a similar effect. But so far, the world that has been portrayed is one seemingly devoid or unknowing of any "super"-people.
Yet all (or most, or some) of you have designed what seem like supervillains.
My question is, if the characters really are super, the who, or where, are the superheroes?
The NPCs who will oppose the characters at every turn, always attempt to thwart your plots and plans? Who are they? What is their team? Do the villains even know about them? (They damn well should!) And do they even exist in this RP?
If there isn't going to be any real, true opposition to the villains (excepting themselves) then this RP won't seem terribly interesting.
Llearch(I think it was Llearch, anyways) asked something about playing a superhero for this, and yes, i would very much appreciate getting some people to play superheros for this, because, as you said, it really is quite boring otherwise.
And yeah, some resistance comes from the country themselves... but a lot of superheros are just annoyingly patriotic, and will stand up against us.
Any real super villain (or superhero, or super-anything for that matter) should be able to lay waste to any police force, or any conventional military, for that matter. (That is, military that is not specifically equipped to combat supers). Only a super would present any real threat or challenge to another super. That's kinda what I was driving at when I said "country resistance".
If there is an opening for an actual superhero, I would probably want to join, but since this RP is supposed to be about the Villains getting their way (most of the time) I wouldn't want to play a hero who's supposed to be on the losing side (most of the time, but ultimately losing in the final end). Villain maybe, but not hero. That's why you, the GM, should, instead of playing your own villain, Roulette (aside from Mr. Mysterious Shadow), play a team of heros as NPCs.
possible but improbable. a few good voluntary could make this game interesting bot the batman- gang buster skill without out physical super powers and the i have power but not really directed kind would be nice (kind of F4 that only have clear and present threat to the planet) an overly organized and powered set likes the justice league or some one like that could complicate the game a bit much
Oy. Sorry I had to dig up this topic from the depths of the board, but I needed to tell you guys that I'll be unable to post for about a week, as I'll be in Paris. (I really wish I had Liz's power for spending money...) So if Liz is really needed, could someone else post as him for me? It'd really help me out, seeing as my internet time will be pretty limited in Europe.
My apologies for the trouble, and I'll bring you back a mime. (flips a gold coin and bows out of the room)
anyone know of a good small asian counrty to take over? i could use google maps but i'd rather everyone feel that my hostile takeover be beneficial to the RP.
Well, are you thinking about asia specifically or that general eurasia area? Because I hear Ukraine's nice this time of year. On that note, so's Cambodia.
i was under the impression the mysterious man wants all of europe.
i'm kind of lost during this part of the planning? i think that i'll got set up the trail for the acts of green peace vandalism but i'll need a way to connect the others and to have them contact me to organise our efforts. i figure we'll attack the fur and auto industry first.
so is are we done? or are we just takeing a break?
Eh, kind of seems so.
(jolts the topic with defibrillators)
Granted, the post is more than a little sappy, but that's the way it is. Live with it!
Don't get me wrong I'd like to keep this going, but yeah it just seems like there's no real direction, or an opposing force. We need some kind of "Superfriends" that is trying to thwart our evil plans or something.
Hmmmm. Think we should start a "Hero's League"? Miaka, any ideas?
Well more or less I think each of us should try to come up with a good hero that we have some control over, but Miaka has ultimate control over them in that she can use them all to assemble a "super meeting" or something etc. Or someone could assume the role of the hero if they wanted too.
If a "hero's league" is started to oppose the "villain's league", I would like to be in it. While I know there will be victories and defeats for both sides, I'd rather not play on the side of the hero's if, in the ultimate long run, we are doomed to lose. Unless the RP ends in a continuous "stalemate" good an evil always balancing each other, neither ever acheiving an ultimate victory. That would be good.
I'm getting an idea. What if a "heroe's league" was started...but in a separate IC and OOC thread? They would tie together like this: In each thread, both sides try to track the other, but are never privy to all their details. If there is a combat, here's how it will work with two threads:
In the Hero's thread, the Villains are "npc"s, "controlled" by the GM(Miaka)
In the Villain's thread, the Hero's are the npc's, also GM "controlled".
Here's how the combat/overall game system would work:
Example:
Combat between Heroes A, B, and C, and Villains X, Y, and Z.
In the Hero's thread, Hero B makes an action against Villain Z(an NPC in the Hero's thread)
In the Villain's thread, the GM takes the action made by Hero B in the Hero's thread, and posts the action exactly the same for Hero B in the Villain's thread(an NPC), but decribes the action from the Villain's perspective.
Villain Z then makes an action in the Villain's thread in retailiation to Hero B.
The Gm takes Villain Z's action, and places it in the Hero's thread, where Villain Z is an NPC, and describes the action from the Hero's perspective.
Wha'dya think? Something else that would probably be good is some mod/admin programming that will prevent someone registered in the Hero thread from viewing or posting in either the Villain OOC or IC thread, and vice versa.
Is this a good, basic idea? (If it's to become reality, there's probably many other issues that will have to be worked out, but I can't think of them)
EDIT: Thought of one. With the two factions of players being separated from each other IC and OOC, something might occasionally be brought up that everyone needs to know about. Maybe a fifth "mutual" OOC thread for all-player discussion?
The forum can't limit people per thread. So we can't do that, as that - the closest we can do is filter by board.
And even that's a bit of overhead we really don't want to mess with...
Well then, we'll just have to rely on the good faith of the players not to peek.
Oh wait, am I being naive again? :rolleyes
Ah well. I don't see any other real option...
Wait a sec. llearch, aren't you the webmaster? I remember asking who was the webmaster a while ago, and you answered it was you. Can't you work some programming voodoo to add a function where admins/mods can ban forumites from individual threads?
That could actually be an extreamly useful admin power for this entire forum...
But even if your answer is no, this problem really isn't that big of one. My idea of the Heros Vs Villains multithreads could probably still stand with everyone staring at each other's threads. It might detract a little fun, but players might work it out for themselves that it's better not to look. But I'm asking if you can see any other immediate problems that need addressing, so I can think of a solution.
Of course, the real voice (and only real possible game-stopper to this :B) is Miaka. This is really all up to her whims; I'm just merely offering a humble suggestion to expand this RP. If she wants to, she can shoot this down like a WWII plane with an AA turret. Even if she doesn't think it's a bad idea, she might not be up to GMing two RPs at once.
.....
Yeah, I can whip up a change to umpteen -thousands- of lines of code in a language I don't have a lot of experience in, in a massive self-referential application, with no free time. Sure.
This in the same app I've been meaning to update the templates for, oh, about 6 months now. At least.
Have some idea of what you're asking, hmm?
Ok, Ok, I'm sorry. Just thought I'd ask. No big deal.
here's a problem...five freaking threads!? don't you think that somewhere something is going to get lost in translation? then that will lead to the more serious RPers to get into arguements and result in a less fun enviroment.
and glitch i joined the villians expecting to be crushed like a bug. you can't be picky when it comes to the outcome of an RP. infact sometimes it's fun to loose if you make a great story in the process.
Heh, yeah, five threads... I'll admit the logistics involed are quite--no, make that extreamly--difficult, maybe even borderline impossible, but not
absolutely impossible. If several people put their minds together, I'm sure a system could be worked out. Though now that I think about it, Miaka probably won't even want to consider something of that scale. Ah well.
About RP outcomes... you were expecting to be crushed like a bug? You give Miaka no credit whatsoever. She
said in the first post, and I quote:
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So, I was just reading through one of the few, if only, RP's I've joined on this board(The conference for the elimination of superman. >>) And the idea occurred to me for something similar...
Villains have always seemed to act on their own- their plans all seem to have the same goal, but the means differ enough to keep them separated, and thus weaker.
Now, who's to say these power-hungry maniacs couldn't form and alliance of some sort? Make their goal all the closer?
That's what I'm asking all of you today... Who would get up and join me to eliminate the so-called "forces of good" and give us a chance for victory?
In one way of putting it, you're saying you expected her to lie.
I also never said I had anything against losing, I specifically stated that I know that there are always victories and defeats in battles for both sides of any conflict. In the case of Good vs. Evil, it is a conflict where the battles are won and lost, but the war never ends. Neither can ever truely, totally, or permanently eradicate the other.
Yeah I think 5 threads would really be more trouble then it's worth. More so I think it's really a matter of whether we want the "heroes" to be NPCs or PCs, and if the former, whether the GM or someone delegated to that role will actually go through with orchestrating them. If the latter I think it would be alright to just keep it all in the same threads for less confusion.
i think we should have the OOC and IC and that's it. but i think we need to get some PC heros but if needed we can make more NPC.
should the need araise i could whip up a hero if you need one....however he or she will never face my own characters. if left to my devices and control over two opposeing parties more often than not an epic battle and death occurs early.
i kinda wish i had a necromancer villian in here though. but, the mastermind arctype is being used by quite afew people already .
It's kinda what I was going for in my last few posts, I wanted to illustrate that something tangible was trying to go against us, the only way I really saw to make that happen without overstepping too much was to have my character do battle against a nameless entity. From what Stygian has posted it seemed he was also trying to illustrate that something was against us.
The main reason why I suggested multithreading was that so the Heros and the Villains aren't posting in the same thread, primarily when there isn't combat going on, so the Heros and the Villains don't know each other's plans.
The very basic concept of it was probaly doomed, anyway. Oh well, though :/
I gues the Heros and the Villains will just have to share :P That is, if there ever actually is an opening for Heros :B ... If there is, I am first in line :)
To be honest for the sake of keeping this thing going I wouldn't mind making a hero as well. >:3
Quote from: techmaster-glitch on August 21, 2007, 06:20:33 PM
The main reason why I suggested multithreading was that so the Heros and the Villains aren't posting in the same thread, primarily when there isn't combat going on, so the Heros and the Villains don't know each other's plans.
The very basic concept of it was probaly doomed, anyway. Oh well, though :/
I gues the Heros and the Villains will just have to share :P That is, if there ever actually is an opening for Heros :B ... If there is, I am first in line :)
don't worry were all porfessional enough not to metagame
Thought metagaming is a small part of it, it's not the whole reason. The bigger reason was the "suspence" factor, you'd never know exactly what the other players were up to.
Y'know what? Xeksue's right.
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Don't get me wrong I'd like to keep this going, but yeah it just seems like there's no real direction, or an opposing force. We need some kind of "Superfriends" that is trying to thwart our evil plans or something.
You guys really need, if not someone to really screw you over (And no, I'm not really intending that), at least someone to start harrasing you and make things interesting.
Miaka, when you read this, I have a question:
Can I post my character I've already thought of and join in as a Hero to start opposing the Villains?
After that, my character can put out a "call" to gather a force of heroes IC, while you simultaneously put a "call for interest; Heroes!" OOC. Is that ok?
Agh, I'm sorry, I lot happened while I was out.
I tried posting to let y'all know that I was out of the country, but the computer in my hotel refused to let me post anything.
Again, sorry!
Actually, I really like the idea of having a Hero's league, but five threads really would be a lot...
I'd prefer to, if we ever did fight, to have a thread for that, and allow the characters to fight each other personally. It's so much more fun that way.
Also, I very much prefer to not be a DM. I'm a shitty one.
I get ideas for threads and things like this, I hate controlling them.
Sorry, but I'd very much prefer it if we could find someone else to.
*fidgets fingers* Errm, well,....I could be the GM for the mutithreads... I've been thinking about the mechanics, and I'm pretty sure I could do it.... but the problem is, I'm now so hell-bent on actually being one of the Heroes! I mean, last night, I picked up my pencil, and for the first time in probably about five years, I actually drew up my entire character so I could post him up so you guys would know what he looks like.
But I already pretty much dropped the multithread idea anyway. I was asking if I could just get my character in and start RPing in the current threads.
EDIT: whoawhoahwoawhoa, wait a sec, hold the phone. You're the GM of the Villains, yet you also have your own in-game character outside of the NPCs (Roulette). Maybe....I could be the GM of the Heroes, as well as having my charcter in? We actually can do the multithreading that way, you GM the Villains and I GM the Heroes, and you and I work together when they meet up. Wha'dya think?
Sounds like a plan.
Though, really, the only NPC I'm be playing would be the Boss who I still haven't thought of a name for.
i'm all on board a seperate thread for heros but i would like to see only one action thread... that's what youre saying right?
oh man now i have to find my character sheets and add to them a hero. curse you glitch a thousand curses for makeing me play for the good guys! :P
You don't have to. In fact, you're not supposed to. I'm gonna put out a call for other players to be heroes, not you guys.
I'm gonna see if I can get started on all this later today, when I get home and get my personal crap out of the way.
but...you don't see....i play city of heros. the hero creation is the biggist attraction for us! now i feel like i ave to make a hero just to make the most badass hero i can.
Sorrys, but I would rather not have anyone already on the Villains list to sign up as a Hero. It would be too strange. Not to mention when combat happens, if you make you're own characters fight each other, I'll have to smite you >:3
Player vs Player combat, in any RP or Dungeons and Dragons, is usually not tolerated becaus it usually means the players aren't getting along. However, that is going to be the name of the game once the Hero's League is started up, so it will be alright here. But having a player fight himself is just pushing it too far :rolleyes
Quote from: lucas marcone on August 21, 2007, 03:12:56 PM
should the need araise i could whip up a hero if you need one....however he or she will never face my own characters. if left to my devices and control over two opposeing parties more often than not an epic battle and death occurs early.
ahem?
Ok, I missed that. Still, I'd really rather not have someone playing both the Villains and the Heros simultaneously. part of the whole point of making separate threads is so that you don't go to the other thread.
....and what's there to hide in the heros ooc?
The only value in having a seperate OOC thread is to organize character sheets better. There's nothing stopping me or anyone else for that matter from looking through it, and you really can't trust people to be faithful, because lets face it we are all human.
besides we need to know what the heros look like if we are to actually use them in the rp.
To Xeksue: Yes, I realize that. That's what I was talking to llearch about earlier, but we'll just have to go as is.
To Lucas: Their appearances will be described to you when they actually meet you in the action thread that it seems will be made. At that point, you shouldn't yet know their powers or weaknesses.
Also, Miaka agreed to what I proposed earlier, with a slight modification. There is going to be a separate OOC and IC thread for the Heroes, but instead of a fifth mutual OOC thread, there will be a fifth IC thread for times when the two groups clash, because you won't alwyas be fighting each other. Most of the time you will be chasing each other or trying to enact your dastardly plans. That is what I will be doing once I get organized enough to start the three threads, hopefully tonight.
Yes, Miaka's the GM of the Villains, and I will be the GM of the Heroes.
Though the two DM's, I think, need to know what's going on in the other thread.
Might just be a given, but.... You can trust me to be completely oblivious when posting as Roulette or the Boss, or if you'd rather something else, that's fine by me. >>
I never said I was expecting us to not share information, quite the opposite. Like you said, we are the two GM's we need to know all the angles. That's exactly what I figured.
EDIT: I'm gonna start getting the Vs thread and the Hero's OOC started up. The VS thread becasue my chararacter's first actions, while not actually getting to you guys, is something the players might wanna know.
EDIT EDIT: The Hero's OOC is up now, as well as my charcater. You guys actually probably should check that out at least. But from there on it's off-limits >:3
i am sorry i cant do this anymore then... when you do things like this it gets too complicated. like say what happens when a villain turns good or a hero corrupted? anyway two action threads? i like to read my rps like a story. if some narritive is missing from that story then i don't follow (when reading through for pleasure) and i lose interest. sorry guys im out. so who wants to help me find a way to write croc and dile lass out of the story?
You could have the moon crash into the earth.....
To be honest that was my entire plan from the start. :sweatdrop
As I said before I really don't believe its necessary for THREE seperate IC threads. You can not stop people from looking at them all. If the whole point of them was to estabilish the premise for the scene of a current event you could do what people do in other RP threads and have a big bold message at the top of your post that says something relevent to the situation. FOR EXAMPLE:
QuoteMeanwhile at an undisclosed location. (If i knew what the code was for enlarging text I would have done it there.)
For labeling purposes Miaka can just rename the IC thread to "Heroes/Villians League IC Thread". Then you would just continue on at said situation from the point of view of whoever your suppose to be RPing....If your so worried about people "staying in character" that you feel the urge to follow through with said idea then the purpose of all of this "RPing" has already been defeated.
Ugh. I said that the no-looking was only a SMALL part of the reason, not the main one.
Ah, you know what? Screw it. I'll just have the separate OOC thread for Heroes just for the character sheets, and the villain's thread for all the action like Lucas said.
EDIT: Allright, edited the Hero's thread.
thats acceptable... so i still can't make a hero or did you lax that too? i'm back in either way. the multi thread thing was the major stick in the mud thanks for accomodateing.
Nope, No-He-Ro-4-U, capiche? >:3 >:3 >:3
What ever hero may be paired off with Croc and Dile Lass might fing the local opposeing militia a useful tool unless they are killed off imprisoned or disbanded before then.
Grrrmph...what with all the stuff's been going on, I really want to get at least my character in. But I can't do that until i have garuntee that there will be other heroes to back me up. Why is barely anyone even reading the topic?
well.... you could let some villians make heros and see if it attracts more...but you don't have to. you see i would like to throw black angel and xek some action because we all know working out financial aid can be boreing. i'm thinking of throwing a few expendable heros at some people who are more or less doing nothing other than being bored before i make someone worth their time. .....but you don't have to let me.
:yeahthat
sorry i've been offline for so long but even when i was here there was really nothing for me to do to any effect in the thread.
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For some reason he couldn't help but think that he was being watched by an unseen eye.
That actually works perfectly with what I've been planning for my character. I'm thinking that now, I should just get Quaddle to pop in, one confrontation to "gauge" each others powers, then he will go back into hiding until he can gather enough heroes. If you already had something specifically planned for that line, I'll PM you and tell you exactly what I've been thinking, then you can decide if it's alright.
Actually I did that line on purpose so you could bring your character in at some point tech. I was thinking, hey lets go blow stuff up! That'll probably attract some attention.
Alright, I'll just say it; Quaddle has indeed been watching everyone with his magecraft, waiting for the right time to act. And this whole business of you guys getting ready to go blow up bulidingsd...he sat still for the other stuff before, but this would be the last straw.
I'll get to brining him in ASAP.
I just need to know one thing, how much time has passed IC since the beginning of the RP?
Well it seems like a few weeks IC since the start.
I'll just put it at a month, then. That's what it seemed like.
Quaddle's intro up. Apologies for the excessive length. This is probably the longest intro I'll ever write. If you want me to, I can cut off the entire first half of it.
And Roulette and DL need something more interesting to do than just go shopping. ><
I see it getting boring fast.
If I can finish with Daemon and Liz fast enough, Quaddle could liven it up for you >:3
Go go underground rebellion ambush at the dealership!! :eager
Climatic showdown? Duel to the death? Insurance fraud? :erk
Quote from: Miaka on September 04, 2007, 09:41:39 PM
And Roulette and DL need something more interesting to do than just go shopping. ><
I see it getting boring fast.
if you think that's boring try infiltrating and take over or destroying most of the major business in a country while waiting on a sight to cause some havoc. everything is in place form sabotosh security to micro bombs in police stations and military Post with infiltrators ready to go into action the moment they are signaled. all of these plans are both interconnected and indepent and the net result will but to turn this county on it's ear the moment the main offense is ready. you may ask why tear down the county? so that they can pay me to rebuild it but mostly so that when the signal is give when can go into action send city after city into chaos. i'm a few days behind but Miaka it would be nice if you could send me a representative of any name or status so that Rue can catch on when the major offense is going to play or that we can help out in some other fashion.
Well, we don't know when we're doing anything else, so.... When we've got a better idea, I'll have the boss send someone to give you a heads up.
Resident Evil? :mwaha
I like. :P
Not zombies, but not bad. Rather proud of it meself. Hope you don't mind the inconvenience.
Quaddle will. He can't be everywhere at once, dammit! Now he's gotta gauge Daemon&Liz's power, see if he can convert Croc and Dile Lass, and now he's gotta try to reverse a mutant outbreak! He may be the Planet-Guardian, but he doesn't have any allies yet (No one's signing up for the Hero's League!)
Actually, I meant the inconvenience Liz and Daemon would be met with when they went to trash a city and found it swarming with deadly mutants. As for Quaddle... *shrugs* with a name like that he deserves it. Suffering builds character.
Quote from: Boogeyman on September 07, 2007, 10:06:49 PM
Actually, I meant the inconvenience Liz and Daemon would be met with when they went to trash a city and found it swarming with deadly mutants.
If Quaddle does things right, they will be too pissed off at him to remember what they were going to do.
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As for Quaddle... *shrugs* with a name like that he deserves it.
What the hell is wrong with Quaddle?!? >:O
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Suffering builds character.
If that's true, the Quaddle will be building a tower of character if he fails...
Well my character probably wouldn't care that much about swarms of mutants breaking stuff. Black_angel's though might flip out though because his girlfriend lives relatively close to the area in the suburbs.
Quote from: Miaka on September 05, 2007, 08:23:42 AM
Well, we don't know when we're doing anything else, so.... When we've got a better idea, I'll have the boss send someone to give you a heads up.
thanks i'll keep an eye out. for now i just i'll try to network with some of the more visible people in the game. the ones who's locations are known in general.
Quote from: Xeksue on September 04, 2007, 11:19:32 PM
Go go underground rebellion ambush at the dealership!! :eager
Climatic showdown? Duel to the death? Insurance fraud? :erk
Impromptu product placement by Liz?
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As for Quaddle... *shrugs* with a name like that he deserves it.
What the hell is wrong with Quaddle?!? >:O
The fact that a
guy named Liz is snickering at it, perhaps?
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Quote from: techmaster-glitch on September 07, 2007, 11:00:22 PM
Quote from: Boogeyman on September 07, 2007, 10:06:49 PM
As for Quaddle... *shrugs* with a name like that he deserves it.
What the hell is wrong with Quaddle?!? >:O
The fact that a guy named Liz is snickering at it, perhaps?
One, they haven't met
yet. Two, when
I first read the charcater profile,
I though Liz was a girl, purely because of the name.
But going serious now.
What is wrong with the name Quaddle?
Well, first of all, what does it mean? Liz makes sense because of his species. What exactly does Quaddle mean?
It doesn't mean diddly-squat. It's just a name.
I've always had a knack for just making up random names out of the blue.
...Wish I could do that. For a lot of my characters, I got their names out of a word search. Y'ever circle something that's not a word just 'cause it looks cool? Well, I do. And it works. (Their last names, I make up, Usually, they mean something.)
Hm. When I make up a name, it's extremely rare if it actually means something. Though when I make things up, that's not to say I don't sometimes have help.
The origin of Quaddle, for instance. Once I was watching an episode of X-Play, and they were reviewing the game Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends. They went though the three playable races: the technological Vinci, the desert-magic Allin, and the holy, god-powered... I honestly thought that Morgan Webb said "Quaddle". That's what it sounded like.
It wasn't until I saw the box that I saw the word was actually "Couatl".
When I was thinking up my charcater for the Hero's League, and I came up with the uber-archmage, I remembered that, and the name just seemed to fit in perfectly.
croc and dile lass have comic book oriented names. red anvil however got her name from her powers.
Couatl. Kinda like Quetzalcoatl, then? Cool.
So maybe it's not so funny. :3
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But listen. The guy who wrecked Dennis knows who you are.
Who's this "Dennis"? Your car? :B
Oh, and just on a completely unrelated note, Xeksue, B-Angel, you've been doing good with your own desciptions of Quaddle's outfit. They have been entertainingly accurate :giggle But if you're interested in know what he looks like exactly, (or close to it), check this (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=3287.0) out. Unless you've already seen it.
Quote from: Black_angel on September 09, 2007, 04:11:42 PM
Couatl. Kinda like Quetzalcoatl, then? Cool.
So maybe it's not so funny. :3
You kidding? It's a giant feathery snake thing, and it sounds like part of a chicken. Still funny >:3
Oh, BTW, B-Angel, Quaddle did drop a small hint at his age:
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I was not dragged out of my peaceful three centuries of hiding after my last crusade to deal with two bums of evildoers like you.
Just wondering if you noticed that ;)
Quote from: techmaster-glitch on September 09, 2007, 04:34:15 PM
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But listen. The guy who wrecked Dennis knows who you are.
Who's this "Dennis"? Your car? :B
To quote Liz if anyone asks:
(embarrassed and somewhat hushed) "Don't ask, it was Crystal's idea."
Quote from: Boogeyman on September 09, 2007, 04:39:02 PM
Quote from: Black_angel on September 09, 2007, 04:11:42 PM
Couatl. Kinda like Quetzalcoatl, then? Cool.
So maybe it's not so funny. :3
You kidding? It's a giant feathery snake thing, and it sounds like part of a chicken. Still funny >:3
Yeah I'm still reading it like its something out of kirby. Like Waddle Dee or something. :U
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Quote from: Boogeyman on September 09, 2007, 04:39:02 PM
Quote from: Black_angel on September 09, 2007, 04:11:42 PM
Couatl. Kinda like Quetzalcoatl, then? Cool.
So maybe it's not so funny. :3
You kidding? It's a giant feathery snake thing, and it sounds like part of a chicken. Still funny >:3
Yeah I'm still reading it like its something out of kirby. Like Waddle Dee or something. :U
>:O
Quote from: techmaster-glitch on September 09, 2007, 04:34:15 PM
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But listen. The guy who wrecked Dennis knows who you are.
Who's this "Dennis"? Your car? :B
Oh, and just on a completely unrelated note, Xeksue, B-Angel, you've been doing good with your own desciptions of Quaddle's outfit. They have been entertainingly accurate :giggle But if you're interested in know what he looks like exactly, (or close to it), check this (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=3287.0) out. Unless you've already seen it.
is that crayon? honestly he looks like little red rideing hood
Tech? Methinks we may not be on the same page. Anastasia's a good distance outside the city, nowhere near the mutants. She's watching via binoculars.
Oh...I didn't think Anastasia's in the van. You said
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The rabbit lowered her binoculars with a snarl and beckoned her (thing that looked like a) van closer.
I actually figured she's been watching fro the top of an office building. I thought the van was going to be some sort of robot. :B
I'll edit.
Nah, good distance away. And for the record, the van's mostly biological :3
Where does this bio-monstosity think Quaddle is? Right now, he's recharging his staff on a floor close to the top of an office building. Where's the van headed?
Oh, close to the top? I'll change it accordingly. I thought he was on ground level.
Well you did use your voice as a loud speaker, no doubt "someone or something else" heard you. Plus it can also probably pick up your scent too since it seems to be alive and genetically enhanced.
No, he
deliberately went high up,
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he turned the next corner, he went up, up, up, and through the window of an office building.
so he could recharge in peace.
To Xeksue: Alright. I'll give you that. But even if you find Quaddle, then you gotta catch him >:3
Can you say "all terrain"? :mwaha
Yeah, I figured as much. Guess he's not gonna have as much peace as he wanted :<
Villains: Not really all about peace.
Naw, ya think?
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The Van was trying for subtlety. While it couldn't think, it COULD hunt,
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The sought thing could fly and it could not, so it couldn't simply rush it without ensuring it would not go through the window.
H...How?!? How can it come up with that if it can't think?
Best way of putting it is to describe it in terms of a hunting animal. It's not intelligent in the way we are, it doesn't really think coherently, but it doesn't hunt stupid either.
There's a difference between not hunting stupidly, and actually figureing something out. If it can't think, I can't see how it could actually realize that Quaddle was setting it up. No animal, no matter how "smartly" it hunts, could ever come up with something like that, except for exceptionally intelligent creatures that aren't even hunters. Monkeys, dolphins, and some birds are an example of something that might, just might be able to deduce something like that. But I doubt it. No hunting animal is ever even that smart.
It's a dumb biological monstosity. My point is, I just don't get it :C
But oh well. I had actually thought Anastasia got out of The Van, so I guess having it barrel out a window wouldn't be too good for your character ;)
No, not good at all. As for figuring that out, it didn't know it was being set up. Just that going out the window would suck.
Oh, one thing that slightly confuses me. Where exactly is The Van? Is it right underneath Quaddle, ready to punch through the floor? That's what I'm visualizing...
Nnno. Same room. It just leaped up from the stairway, darted to the side, and roared at him.
Oh shite. Didn't notice that.
QuoteHe was Wrath incarnate.
I'd like to make one thing clear here, he isn't actually the Sin Wrath. I'm just pointing out that he is just really, really, pissed off. :D
Quote from: Xeksue on September 11, 2007, 01:07:37 AM
QuoteHe was Wrath incarnate.
I'd like to make one thing clear here, he isn't actually the Sin Wrath. I'm just pointing out that he is just really, really, pissed off. :D
Then you should probably make the W lowercase...
Little details, y'know... ;-]
I didn't assume the Wrath thing, but I could tell he's losing it...
And by the way Xeksue, you (like everyone else) seem to keep assuming that when Quaddle flys off to go find more mobs, he goes in a straight line down one street. Incorrect. He zigzags, turns corners, goes everywhere he can.
Yeah next time you should make that more obvious then.
I will. My apologies.
Sweet Mary and Joseph! I don't post for one school day and everything happens all of a sudden?! I need more spare time...
Quote from: Black_angel on September 11, 2007, 03:28:58 PM
Sweet Mary and Joseph! I don't post for one school day and everything happens all of a sudden?! I need more spare time...
The amulet my convenient plot device gave you should help you out though. :3
Like I said, basically it'll deflect any mystical attack, but won't help you if your meleeing. Eventually though it will run out of power. That won't happen within the span of the ongoing battle though.
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Sweet Mary and Joseph! I don't post for one school day and everything happens all of a sudden?! I need more spare time...
The amulet my convenient plot device gave you should help you out though. :3
Like I said, basically it'll deflect any mystical attack, but won't help you if your meleeing. Eventually though it will run out of power. That won't happen within the span of the ongoing battle though.
Plot-convenient... or self-convenient? >:O
Oh well. Makes no difference. I've been planning Quaddle's next moves, and he actually, coincidentally, is going to switch to melee, mostly.
Though this tornado-thing might be a bit of a problem...AND JUST WHOSE SIDE ARE THOSE TWO LITTLE FREAKS ON, ANYWAY??EDIT: Just reread and realized, the tornado is what
made the amulet. Right?
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Sweet Mary and Joseph! I don't post for one school day and everything happens all of a sudden?! I need more spare time...
The amulet my convenient plot device gave you should help you out though. :3
Like I said, basically it'll deflect any mystical attack, but won't help you if your meleeing. Eventually though it will run out of power. That won't happen within the span of the ongoing battle though.
Plot-convenient... or self-convenient? >:O
Those sound like the same thing...
Quote from: techmaster-glitch on September 11, 2007, 07:41:50 PM
Oh well. Makes no difference. I've been planning Quaddle's next moves, and he actually, coincidentally, is going to switch to melee, mostly.
Though this tornado-thing might be a bit of a problem...
AND JUST WHOSE SIDE ARE THOSE TWO LITTLE FREAKS ON, ANYWAY??
EDIT: Just reread and realized, the tornado is what made the amulet. Right?
Yes. And the 'two little freaks' helped out Liz. So they're on his side; and Liz is on the bad side. So by proxy (and through Quaddle's eyes if he ever happened to meet them), they're evil.
Quote from: Black_angel on September 11, 2007, 08:39:25 PM
Quote from: techmaster-glitch on September 11, 2007, 07:41:50 PM
Plot-convenient... or self-convenient? >:O
Those sound like the same thing...
Not quite.
plot-convenient means that his actions are intended to assist the plot, ie, the GM and, hopefully, everyone else, as well as himself.
self-convenient means that his actions are mainly to help himself.
Bear in mind that these are scales, and not absolutes, so there will be times when a person is more plot-convenient, and times when they are more self-convenient. What is required is -balance-.
.. this is all from a general point of view, and not naming any names or being at all specific, or even pointing at -anyone- - just in case anything thinks I'm making a subtle dig. ;-]
Well I effectively removed my character from the scene at the moment, thats because I'm going to have alot of stuff coming up in the coming weeks so I won't really be able to do much, yet at the same time I didn't want to leave the villians high and dry so I had the boys give Liz the amulet to help even the playing field.
They aren't on anyones side, they are mainly concerned/pissed off at Daemon, which will be "explained later". But since Daemon has spent alot of time with Liz recently it made more sense for them to help him out for their own ends and to win over Daemon for their own twisted motives (whether they succeed depends on whether I want to stay in this RP or not in the future).
Plus I felt I kinda jumped shark with Daemon in the post before the last one so I wanted to put a stop to that in my own way.
Um, Boogey? I'm a bit confused about direction. I'm pretty sure Liz and Red are fighting on the street. How could they be fighting above you?
That and the breif skirmish between Quaddle and Daemonn happened right outside the window, she should have seen it.
And, oh yeah--she doesn't know Quaddle's name yet! She doesn't even know who or what he is. She's gonna have to learn from Liz, probably, since Daemon is whacked up at the moment.
Quote from: Black_angel on September 13, 2007, 08:52:08 PM
Um, Boogey? I'm a bit confused about direction. I'm pretty sure Liz and Red are fighting on the street. How could they be fighting above you?
Sorry, thought you were on one of the rooftops. As for Quaddle and Daemon, after the skirmish didn't Daemon go chasing after our Red Wonder? Besides, she doesn't know his name. that's just the narrative. Off to fix stuff I am.
The narrative just sounds better when it's from character knowledge, but meh. It's not a real problem.
Nope, Daemon basically disappeared after Liz got the amulet from the boys, who also disappeared. No one saw that happen except for Black Angel's character. Luc's hero may have seen the tornado/orb of darkness though, which would tip her off that something wrong was happening over there though.
Dissappeared? Well, where the hell is he now? I though he was just going down the streets, sending out blasts with his sword.
He was for a few seconds until Liz showed up, then the tornado disappearing act occured. I'm going to assume that Boogey's character didn't see this because she was trying to get her van out of the building when this happened.
I thought the tornado thing only engulfed the two kids...oh well.
And no matter whatb you're doing, a giant tornado of black magic is pretty hard to miss >:3
Well yeah clearly. :mwaha
Unless it's dark out... D:
Not neccessarily the darkness, but all the shockwaves and gusts and atmospheric disturbances caused by it. That would be noticable
Quote from: techmaster-glitch on September 13, 2007, 09:43:33 PM
Not neccessarily the darkness, but all the shockwaves and gusts and atmospheric disturbances caused by it. That would be noticable
Yes....yes...of course it would be. Now if you don't mind I'd like to administer a free eye exam for you.
[/Memory Wipe]
:mwaha
What the heck...I'm watching that movie right now!
Hurray very unlikely but amazing coincidence/ESP? :U
(ive been watching comedy central for the past 4 hours so I didn't know it would be on.)
Yeah, Lucas? Liz jumped off the building he was crawling on a few posts ago. He's been running on the street this whole time.
And, not that I'm complaining, but THE HEROES ARE TOO FRICKIN' STRONG! :help
Well, we kind of have to be, as it seems we are only going to have three heroes against nine villains. And one is still yet to show up.
Like I said in the Hero's OOC, when we get into
real fighting (though Lucas is getting pretty damn close), I'm gonna talk with Miaka and see about setting up a dice-roll or coin-flip system to see who's attacks hit. If Lucas and Red Anvil keep this up though, I'm gonn have to improvise and do
something until I see Miaka again.
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And, not that I'm complaining, but THE HEROES ARE TOO FRICKIN' STRONG! :help
But I will say that Lucas might already be going a bit too far. He basically said your attack did nil damage, then had R-A grab you and throw you into the ground. Not even Quaddle can do that directly.
However, I'm hesitant to talk to him about this. I'm not the GM, I'm only co-GM, if even that. Miaka hasn't actually officially asserted that I am. I really don't want to take any chances with overstepping authority if I have none.
i direct your attention to red anvils character sheet. she is impervious. liz will figure this out(he's a smart boy) and try something a bit more.....ouch worthy if i might say so. but it isn't impossible to hurt her. infact it's rather easy. you just need to find the right way.
yeah just say she's fat. go for the emotional blows. :3
Quote from: Xeksue on September 14, 2007, 11:07:54 PM
yeah just say she's fat. go for the emotional blows. :3
She's not fat, she's just big boned! ;-]
Ah, crap, i need to pay more attention to this. ><
Yeah, T-G, I'm glad to have you be co-GM. If it'd even out the odds a bit, I'd gladly throw in a couple of heroes.
Actually, if I did, since we all have seen my wonderful ability to disapear off of the face of the earth, have heroes I'd create be controlled by either GM(maybe until/unless someone else is interested in playing them?) So they exist more often.
I dunno.
If I start to disapear again, feel free to bother me over IM if you can, that'll probably get me to post/adress any issues you might have.
Ouch. Second time I've been bitten in the ass for this...
I don't have IMs :<
Would E-Mails or PMs work?
As for the heroes, I'm thinking that once the third guy has come in, we just might, just might be strong enough to oppose the Villain's League on our own.
(And please don't give me any flak, Lucas, I do remember everything I told you earlier, but I've had to rethink it. Consider it all null and void)
Direct combat against all nine Villains at once is probably still out, but we might just stick to hit-and-run tactics against their dastardly plans when they're split up. Doesn't mean it will always work, of course, but that's the game.
On the note of IC, holy hell, the 'boss' already knows about Quaddle and Red Anvil? :eek He's even more powerful than I thought... he better not be able to find Quaddle's hideout, that's probably gonna be Hero's League HQ, and it is very well hidden and protected. And he's leaving his own hideout? (presumably to come to us?) Shee-it...
e-mail would be fine, and I think that's in my profile. Actually, so would PMs, since that shows up in my e-mail anyways.
I should probably write up a profile for him, eh?
Really, i'm still experimenting with what i want him to be able to do. I don't even have a name for him. He won't be doing much unless it comes to some big confrontation, most likely with Quaddle, and not for a damn long time.
As for how powerful he is... I, honestly, have no idea what he can do.
I'm experimenting with a kind of magic I don't entirely know how it works with him... Technomagic, if I can get it to work right. >>
I'll get working on a profile for him, it'd probably be a good idea.
Well, I don't have anything for names, but Quaddle's already dubbed him the 'Shrouded One', because Quaddle couldn't see him with his scry-spell.
Profile!
Name: "The Boss" (will be eidted once he has a name)
Age: questionable
Gender: Male
Race/Species: Korin (might get explained eventually)
Type: Mastermind/technomage.
Organization: his own.
Motto: Why bother when you can trick others into doing your work for you?
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Appearance: The Boss is far from the intimidating figure one would expect from his meetings, where he keeps himself shrouded, and for a very good reason- his first few attempts at villainy, so many years ago, he was laughed out of. Not like you could blame them, he's somewhat pathetic-looking. He barely even reaches 4 feet, and has a frail build. His skin seems to be tanned, despite the fact that he rarely leaves his building. He has very sharp features, and almond eyes which are usually narrowed. His face gives the impression of age, but maybe only in his fourties. He is more humanoid than most seem to be, despite a long, brown tufted tail, and pointed ears pointing out from his hair. Normally, even if no-one will be seeing him, he wears a beige business suit and gloves, though on the rare occaision he does his own dirty work, he abandons this for a simple t-shirt and jeans. When not wearing the gloves or long sleeves, both of his forearms and hands are shows to be fashioned from metal. He has other implants like this, though most are simple enhancements, and wouldn't be used as an offensive like these.
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Notes: Very condescending. He acts as if everyone is below him, and finds the "antics" of most very amusing.
Even with people he'd rather splattered all over the walls, he will speak with utmost respect, and will be as polite as he can be, with the possible exception of Roulette.
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Behaviour: The Boss has gotten very good at ignoring how he actually feels about a situation, and just pulling strings where he can until the situation is in his favor. Dislikes having to do his own work, but will when he needs to, or when none of his minions can do it correctly.
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Specialties: Technomagic and tricking others into beleiving that his best interests, are, in fact, theirs.
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Motivations: Power.
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Flaws: physically very weak. Korin's bones are hollow, so he's very light, but it also means that most of his bones will break very easily, past all of the metal and enhancements.
I knew it. He is a manipulator... Quaddle's already been planning to use this to his advantage...
Aw man, how can you do a mwahahah laugh with a good overtone instead of evil? :<
Oh, and on another note... Wow Lucas, you've got a dedicated good and dedicated evil paragraph in one post, that's damn trippy...
The briefcase was left back on the road where the car crashed, along with the rest of Daemon's armor outside the city. (he only took his gauntlets)
None of it is there now though.
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The briefcase was left back on the road where the car crashed, along with the rest of Daemon's armor outside the city. (he only took his gauntlets)
None of it is there now though.
Oh, I thought the whole reason of pulling the briefcase out from the crushed wreakage of the car was to take it with you. If it was left behind, Quaddle's spell can't reach that far. I'll edit.
No he just pulled it out to make sure it wasn't crushed by the boulder. Then he basically left everything there except his sword, gauntlets and Liz when he did his Yoshimitsu impression to reach the city.
Oh...
Um. Techmaster, sorry if this was your goal, but Liz won't be affected by Quaddle's spell either. I mentioned it in a previous post; biologically speaking, he's a normal gecko.
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Where did I say that Liz was affected? This spell is only grabbing gems, crystals, the like. Last I checked, Liz was a living organism, not a shiny jewel.
he's expensive to purchase? ;-]
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Where did I say that Liz was affected? This spell is only grabbing gems, crystals, the like. Last I checked, Liz was a living organism, not a shiny jewel.
Well, since he's associated with shiny jewels so often (particularly by his coworkers :tumbleweed ) that I thought that might've been your goal. I was just maing sure you knew. Glad to see you did.
If he makes any new gems while the spell is going on, they will be whisked away as well. But he won't be.
And I doubt he'd make more jewels when a river of them fly right past his face :P
Besides, with what Quaddle's planning with all the gems, a bloody body that's been made into mincemeat by a carnival of crystals won't mix well with a giant composite gemstone :tongue :tongue :tongue it'll just soil the compound and give Quaddle an impure crystal
Ah, Boogy? Anastasia seems to be acting awfully and unatturally calm for the situation, seeing as Liz is currently fighting Red Anvil, Liz just did his uber-porcupine-shooter attack (which probably got a bunch of darts stuck in The Van), and there is now a flurry of gemstones flying through the streets.
I'm not directly saing there's a problem, per se, just that Anastasia seems a bit...too calm...
That and I doubt red's gonna just let you two drive away...I don't even think she'll let Liz get in The Van.
Red's exactly the reason. She's been in this business a while, and one rule for when you're worried is that you don't let anyone know, least of all allies or immediate enemies. As for the Van... nothing a good paint job wont fix. She's not worried about red because she just doesn't think some overmuscled pyro chick's really worth the trouble.
Aw, dammit Anvil! Quaddle needs you to keep them off him for just a few more minutes! :O Nuuuuuuuuu!
Ah well, time to improvise and speed.
I am posting again here because I don't think I can apologize enough for the length of my latest post. I am terribly, terribly sorry, and I'll try to keep it from happening again. *feels guilty*
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Ah, Boogy? Anastasia seems to be acting awfully and unatturally calm for the situation, seeing as Liz is currently fighting Red Anvil, [and] Liz just did his uber-porcupine-shooter attack (which probably got a bunch of darts stuck in The Van).
I just wanted to mention how awesome the phrase "uber-porcupine-shooter attack" is. Crystal would approve. :giggle
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Quote from: techmaster-glitch on September 16, 2007, 08:21:18 PM
Ah, Boogy? Anastasia seems to be acting awfully and unatturally calm for the situation, seeing as Liz is currently fighting Red Anvil, [and] Liz just did his uber-porcupine-shooter attack (which probably got a bunch of darts stuck in The Van).
I just wanted to mention how awesome the phrase "uber-porcupine-shooter attack" is. Crystal would approve. :giggle
Why, thank you *bows* :)
anyone see that clip of a ufc fight when the kick boxer kicked the guy and cam back down and his shin broke in half on impact? yeah that just happened to red only her shin is gone completely.
Y'know, I'm very glad that The Boss is outside the limits of the city.
'cause otherwise, he'd have open wounds for arms right about now.
And quite possibly a few missing bones.
Ouch, Red, ouch.
yes even satan's minions get injured from time to time and to keep his fighting force strong... he has a medical staff. they are delicate and nice like ours when they replaced her shin they just rippede the bone out and oured pig iron into it all without anestetics. to answer and still hanging questions yes it is weaker than steel and yes it did start to rust before it disappeared.
hell isn't a nice place to go for a doctors appointment.
A note, Lucas, and all others, the spell only removed toxins and foriegn substances. I actually specifically imagined it not taking out any implants or surgical things or whatnot. And even if it did, it would have been painless.
But, everyone seems to have gone with the removal of stuff. For Red Anvil, it would have actually felt proactivly good, and she would regrow her shin and flesh with the expulsion of the metal plate.
EDIT: But, I guess I did say that the mutants were in agony. Oh well, disregard this whole post.
well you never said anything about regrowing anything. but post disregaurded.
Miaka, if that little robot's gonna find Quaddle, it better do that soon. Quaddle's only gonna need about thirty seconds of charging, then he's gonna grab Red and be gone.
No, the little robot's probably gonna fail at life.
It's no fun if he finds him right away.
Quaddle just flew a giant crystal into the air, shot a giant beam at it, made the thing into a beacon, and then flooded the city with gold light. That's a pretty damn hard thing to miss, even for a robot, which, by the way, would be completely unaffected by everything that happened. "Move towards the big beam". It's not that hard :P
how big is the city and how fast can the robot move are big factors considering you only have a thirty second turnaround time.
Just a heads-up Miaka, my activity is going to be short and sporadic, if at all, for the next week. I may not be able to post much.
Sorry.
Ah, yeah, gotcha.
See you when you're able to, I guess. ^^
Are character's still being accepted? if so I'd like to sign up with one of my chief villains.
Name: Alan "Release" Quad
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Race/Species: Human
Type: Psionic Sadist
Organization: N/A
Motto: *sadistic grin* Oh look, target practice...
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(http://[i][i][/i%5D%5B/i%5D)Appearance: Release is one of those guys you could see walking down the street on any given day. Normally sporting a combed back hair style and dark sun glasses along with sports coats or other jackets, he blends in with most people. Without the glasses his eyes are an obvious give away as they glow purple. He's about six feet five inches with a slightly athletic build and almost always sports a superior grin. Depending on the time of year he is usually sporting a slight tan, but is generally somewhat pale.
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Behavior: Release is primarily a sadist with a huge superiority complex to boot. He usually maintains a level head about things and enjoys using his powers to mostly play tricks on everyday people, however he is always looking for a greater rush to keep entertained and enthralled. He has on occasion been noted to help children, no one knows why, but it seems kids are Release's one soft spot.
Release has a serious superiority complex and will not hesitate to unleash his power on anyone he deems weaker than himself and who has been foolish enough to challenge him either directly or through insults. On the flip side those stronger than him garner a great deal of respect and he might even offer his help out of a general concern, of course loosing to anyone he has deemed weaker than himself and then asking Release for help would generally be regarded as a BAD idea as your rank would immediately fall below the weaker person.
This brings up Release's world view. Release was raised as a Catholic and now lives life as what ha calls a "Barely-There-Catholic" and tends to follow his own beliefs. He believes very firmly that the strong have the right to boss around the weak, but he also isn't blinded by his power and knows that abusing his gifts are buying him a one way ticket to hell, he just doesn't care. He also has a very unique way of looking at Democracy in that he believes everyone has a right to voice their opinion and beliefs, but he also believes they should expect the eventual retaliation by someone in power who disagrees. Release has been described by a few people as the perfect example of what Nietzsche meant by Übermensch, Release could honestly care less and usually just assaults people who say such things.
When Release is forced to (usually on a daily basis) face some form of superior than normal foe he takes great pleasure and pride in ripping them apart, either mentaly, physically or both.
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Specialties:
Mental Assault: As a psionic of great power Release is capable of bringing some of the greatest minds to their breaking point just by altering their perceptions and even going so far as to alter their memories. This is a tough skill and usually requires greater focus for more resilient foes.
Telekinetic Mastery: Release's true power lies in his mastery over matter. When angered he has been noted to lift over several tons and toss them hundreds of feet with out showing much drain on his focus. His mastery is so great he can even mimic other kinetic powers, and has been known to do so when close to defeat.
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Motivations:
Strong Rule the Weak: Release's primary belief is also his greatest motivator. He's a sadistic bully who likes nothing more than causing mayhem for the everyman.
Vengeance: Release does not like loosing, and unless someone can constantly prove they're stronger than him he takes every loss to that person as a personal insult and tends to obsess over such losses.
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Flaws:
Easily Obsessed: When Release looses he tends to run fights over in his head to the point where his is either convinced his opponent cheated or he needs more practice. No matter what conclusion he comes to though he always does the same thing, he stalks the person endlessly until he can prove himself the stronger.
Easily Bored: Unless he's obsessing over a current opponent Release is usually just causing problems for people, but everyday people usually have the same responses and tend to leave him committing multiple, multiple crimes in order to stave off boredom.
Limited Focus (Telekinetic): Release may be able to lift weights ranging into the tons, however, that much weight either requires all of his focus or an inordinate amount of anger. He is typically capable of lifting several humans up to 200 lbs each and flinging them several hundred feet, where as several cars collapsing in on him would be nearly impossible for him to repel with a push. Simply put, the more density an object has the greater the focus is needed to manipulate it.
Limited Focus (Telepathy): Release's mental capabilities also have a great deal of restrictions on them and he is limited to "messing" with the minds of those near his mental resistance level and even that requires focus and concentration. However, those lower than him are fair game for multitudes of mental torture. He has yet to master absolute mental domination and really doesn't care to (he's to into playing with people's minds.
Limited Focus (Physical Effect): Release's psionic powers may seem limitless, but they draw upon all the same energy any other type of biological gift would and as a result Release can be exhausted rather quickly if he does not maintain his focus and use his abilities wisely. For this reason he tries to keep battles with equals short.
Gloating: He's trying to stop honest, but well, can you blame him for flaunting his power right when his foes are at their weakest; giving them just enought time to recover. Yeah, he knows it's a problem.
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Notes: If this were D&D Release would be the epitome of "Chaotic Evil", he does what he wants when he wants and rarely lets others tell him what to do.
Anyone threatening kids is dealt with in a rage. No one knows quite why Release has such a soft spot for kids, but smart people tend not to push the subject.
A guide to the rankings of mental strength:
Since Release is a telepath he has found a way to keep tabs ion the mental strengths of any potential opponent. Usually ranking from one to ten, he rarely awards a higher number. To add to his odd way of life he usually address people by their "number" rather than named (IE, "That waitress is a niner... odd....")
1: Weakest of the weak, no resistance (Children, mentally disabled; never used)
2: Weak (Children to teens; Never used)
3: Still Weak (Teens and young adults; rarely used, unless he's freaking couples out)
4: Hey it's fighting back! (Adults and advanced teens and young adults)
5: OH! Fun! (Mentally trained or natural telepaths.)
6: Interesting... (Trained individuals, other Telepaths)
7: Ok, now we're talking! (Strong Willed individuals) (Green Lantern)
8: This is getting annoying... (Very Strong Willed individuals) (Batman equivalent) <---Where Release Really is.
9: Gah! (Telepaths with Great Skill, Iron Willed People, Alien Minds) (Superman to us)
10: OK... now we do it my way. (Almost an equal) (Dr. Doom/Lex Luthor equivalent)
11+: You're good... (Equal or higher...) (Darksied/Charles Xavier Equivalent) <---- Where he thinks he is.
(In Actuality Release is only about a 8.5 on his own scale, and usually has to focus to an insane degree to mess with minds on his own level.)
Italics= Edited info.
great....now red has yet another person to dealwith... with only three heros it'll be a chalange. oh the fun ill have playing both sides of the coin!
Quote from: lucas marcone on September 26, 2007, 02:54:51 AM
great....now red has yet another person to dealwith... with only three heros it'll be a chalange. oh the fun ill have playing both sides of the coin!
I wouldn't worry if you're a hero, Release thinks hero's so low on his scale he tends to ignore them unless they present an immediate threat. Besides, I haven't even been accepted yet; have I?
So do I just join in or do I have to wait for someone to stamp accepted on my head?
You need the GM to accept you, generally. That's Miaka and techmaster-glitch, in these threads, I believe.
Miaka is busy this month, and tech is AFK this week. Give it time. ;-]
Hola peeps. I'm back, Miaka.
F-Ghost, I've looked at your sheet. It look interesting...but it might need a change or two, I'm not sure. I'm just the co-GM. In fact, I'm the GM of the Heroes, not the Villains. Miaka's the one who's gotta give the word. And she's the one who has to get you into the Villain's League.
I'll see if I can get ahold of her if she doesn't show up. I'll put in a good word for you.
No prob, I just realized how strong he seems so I'm gonna go ahead an elaborate on his limits...
Much better and clearer. Good job.
Ooh, that looks fun.
Sure, you're in, and I've got a way to bring you into the whole thing if you don't mind going and having a little chat with the Boss.
(partially because I think it'll be fun to see the interaction, there.)
Well this could be interesting. I'm ready when you are.
Um, Miaka, why did you change the title to "call for interest"? I think ten villains is enough, no more, no less, because I think we may be having five heroes, and they way they're powered, they should be able to take on two villains each, so it's perfect.
However...you should do a roll call, find out who's still here. i have a feeling Stygy and Arc might not be around anymore. Insteadof "Call for Interest", why not say "Roll Call"?
I didn't mean to change it to 'call for interest'.
It hasn't been that for a while now, TG.
*shrug* I dunno, and I'll set Release up for an entrance in a moment.
All stuff surrounding relevant, but this in particular;
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He knows all our names - he even knew about Crystal.
Yessssss...let them fear Quaddle...let them fear his knowledge, let them fear his power, them them fear becasaue they know not what he can do... :mwaha :mwaha
Now all they have to so is discuss the golden explosion and subsequent effects to make everything that has happened so far complete :)
I'm
reeealy liking this roleplay >:3
COME ON! For f**k, stop bashing around Quaddle's name! Enough already! It's not that funny! Jeeze! He's not even human, why should he have a name that makes human sense?
>:O >:O >:O D:< >( >:[ >:D :censored :cuss :rant :tantrum :boom
just kidding.
But seriously, enough is enough. You had your fun earlier.
Seriously, it's not that funny.
*shrugs* They're villains. Sensitivity isn't a big thing with them. Besides, what villain doesn't insult their foe? It's what they have to work with so far. They'll have more later.
In my case, Liz held back in front of Quaddle partly so his own name wouldn't get mocked, and partly out of a feeling of solidarity for people with weird names. But once he had the chance to say it, he couldn't really help himself. I think that's about all the comment they're going to have for now, though. :) We'll stop.
EDIT: Oh, and one thing: Am I making Liz a little too soft? (I usually end up liking my villains, which ends up making them a bit less villainous.)
Quote from: Boogeyman on September 30, 2007, 06:04:01 PM
*shrugs* They're villains. Sensitivity isn't a big thing with them. Besides, what villain doesn't insult their foe? It's what they have to work with so far. They'll have more later.
*likewise shrug* yesh, I guess you're right...
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In my case, Liz held back in front of Quaddle partly so his own name wouldn't get mocked, and partly out of a feeling of solidarity for people with weird names. But once he had the chance to say it, he couldn't really help himself. I think that's about all the comment they're going to have for now, though. :) We'll stop.
Well, I guess the reason I reacted like that was because I'm sort of surprised/shocked that you actually find that name so funny. I never imagined it would be like that. After reading the IC posts, I was completely off-guard, and did the smiley rant. But, if you guys do want to make more cracks about Quaddle's name to his face next time you see him, go right ahead :)
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EDIT: Oh, and one thing: Am I making Liz a little too soft?
Well, with some of the things I have planned...
No.
*evil grin*
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He was an old contact and at times employer of hers who made it his business to know everything going on in what he simply called "the business." Time to see what there was on this "Quaddle" jackass...
Unless this guy's at least three hundred years old, it will sound like you're spouting gibberish to him. Quaddle's only been seen three centuries and ten cenuries ago, and he didn't go by that name, or form, then. He has had completely identities throught the ages.
Instead, try a fairy tale book. I garuntee, you might find something in there...
Do you mind if I make one or two lines of dialogue for this informant for you?
He's not quite that old, but may have heard something here or there. He's a magic user himself, and Quaddle hasn't thus far struck me as the subtle type. Capable of covering his tracks until he doesn't have to, yes, but everyone leaves a trail somewhere.
Sure, so long as you don't overdo it. This guy, Ace, is a villain character I've used in a lot of stories. Mastermind sorta guy, works with white magic a lot. Professional supervillain, with apprentices and everything, and he tends to give the impression of condescendinly knowing just a BIT more about what's going on than whoever he's talking to.
Quaddle has left a trail, but not the kind that's traceable. Like you said, he isn't really that subtle, but like I said, he's in children's folklore, not history. He isn't quiet, he's simply causes the kind of things that no one believes. That and he goes by a different form and identity every time he needs to make himself known.
However, what I've thought of for this guy to know shouldn't be a problem.
I didn't sit next to you, I sat at the table Liz and crystal are at. Boogey's character is up at the counter/bar area.
Whoops.
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Whatever it was, it was apparently prone to acts of charity. Wiping out dragons, putting a stop to a crusade...
Actually, the second crusade was supposed to be a
good thing. The point there was that Quaddle actually attacked the
good guys!
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With a sigh the madwoman closed the book and tucked it under her arm, grabbing the other three on an afterthought. He'll probably want these back.
I was meaning for you to keep them, so you could show them to the others...
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I added a little to the last part to make it clear:
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This man was old, very old, had a very long, white beard, and dressed in a long white-and-blue robe. His face was nothing like Quaddle's, but, sure enough, the old man was holding the staff.
Quaddle's Staff.
But this was conflicting! If Quaddle actually stopped the good guys, then just who's side is he on?!?
Dunno about the second one. A crusade is a crusade; my understanding was that they'd wipe out all people considered bad, and that falls under genocide. People can do bad things for good reasons, but that makes them no less bad things. Just Anastasia's impression.
Oh, well, that's what I meant it to be. in any case, I added a little. (look above)
Regardless, that's the impression Anastasia got. Really, did she strike you as someone who was a big fan of religion?
Alright. Maybe Liz or Daemon will get it instead.
Just a notice: Once again, I am going to be MIA for a little bit, this time due to a serious misunderstanding. Bad news, unlike last time, you probably won't see a peep of me unless I get really lucky. Good news, unlike last time, I will be back much sooner, Friday absolutely.
Sorry :<
I'm back. For good this time :boogie Yay!
B-Angel, I'm pretty sure Liz would be interested in the new 'information' that Ani has from that book. I want to see what Liz will make of it... >:3
You might want to add in Liz taking a look at the stories and drawings himself.
Okeydokey. Fixed it. Not perfect, but I blame that on the distracting environment right now.
*sits, silently waiting for Miaka to respond*
Anyone up for a game of cards?
Just a heads-up peeps, see if you all can try to wrap up what you're doing and cop out to morning. I need to get the Heroes to our secret hideout and finally bring in our final member, whos' been waiting a really long time to get in, ever since the Hero's League started, in fact.
familyghost/Release, you're best bet would probably be to find and hook up with your allies, Anistasia, Daemon, and Liz, who seem to be heading for Liz's house for now, and hang out with them for now.
Yeah, TG, I'll do my best do get over there.
Thanks a bunch :)
sorry to be gone for so long if i can return to the net/ forums soon i'll let you all know but for now things are kind of rough
It's ok. For now I think most of us are just assuming that your demon guy is just hiding and being mysterious ;)
i think it's about time for the boss and his new friend to hit a hotel or something for the night.
Ack! My internet is being cut off tomorrow and I won't have it back for at least a week!
Ouch. I sure know what that's like... don't worry buddy, it's not a problem :)
And here it is 3 days after they were supposed to turn it off and...
They were bluffing?
Don't trust the cable company.....and don't tell them anything they dont need to be told either. Words to live by. :mwaha
Quoteand what he was fairly certain was another human.
My character isn't inside the diner, he is waiting outside near a lamp post. :P
Oh I missed that then I'll go correct it
Reminder to villains, just asking if you could try to keep the introductions and explanations somewhat brief, so you can crash at Liz's place as planned. When you do that, we can finally switch to morning. The Heroes won't be reaching their destination until then. Say everything that needs to be said, but just try not to go on and on.
I'm just giving you a friendly nudge :) That is all.
yeah i still have to lay out the frame work for red's personality.
kay what now?
I think we're just waiting for Black_Angel...she'll be back in about 2-3 more days, if I remember correctly.
Ok then, was wondering what was going on.
Alrighty! Looks like everything's almost taken care of...Liz & Co. just need to get to his house, Release needs to...whatever he's gonna do, and I might see if Miaka can make one last post, and we can finally go to morning! And the Heroes will be back in business, wheeee!
Umm, I actually meant for everyone to just get where they were going to stay for the night, so I could transition the whole RP to morning at once, not everyone do it individually, but I guess this works. People who have already gone to morning, make sure you don't post anything else until everyone is at morning. Except for maybe Miaka, if she doesn't show up. We'll just assume that Boss slipped into the shadows or something...Then, preferably wait for the heroes to do some stuff, but you don't have to.
Alright...I do believe that Black_Angel is the only one who has to update her char status to morning. Then the Villains will all be on the same page, and the Heroes can start back up.
I planned on Release making a fashionably late entrance, so you guys can continue plotting with out him for a while.
Okey-pokey. Thanks for telling us. :)
well i'm back but i have a lot of pages to catch up on before i can post anything. man how busy you guys were
Yes. Very very busy indeed ;)
i kid you not the hero's league portion has jumped up like wildfire. then main thread my have only grown 3 to for pages but the Rp is alive and thriving form the look of it
:U
opps i wwas confisnes i with teh castle which is in it;s forth incarnaion snice it begain.
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( now would be a good time for the business man to encounter some of Quaddel's spying defenses. After all while when know how he fled the city the business man doesn't and is looking for him after a 2 minute 22 second gap in his surveillance cause by unknown interference during Quaddles city healing spell. )
Heh, well...Quaddle doesn't actually have any spying defenses, aside from a few miles around his base being hidden by an interference field (could be explained by being in the mountains >:3), and the base itself simply not existing, but when he's in the open, he's in the open :B
Damn, I did't realize that I would need some kind of protection from this, and if I put it in now, it's metagaming...
I'll have to wait for a good opportunity for Quaddle to realize they're being tracked when they leave the base without it seeming like metagaming...this is gonna be a toughie.
very well. how about this time the Deus Ex comes to your rescue. we know that Red was visited by the powers that be. surely they having kept in track with the times would realized what would happen and at the time of the meets which was several minutes after you recovered then could have set up interference of there own to protect their chosen and her allies. and electrical storm or perhaps sun spot activity.
You know if red's player scrips it well then Quaddel and the others need never know what occurred and the business man's warnings have that much more weight. this will hold true even throng the business man will have no direct proof of divine intervention and may not even suspect it at the point.
I have not objections because this is a gambit on the part of the DarkE and not who that he pinned his hopes one. also it's kind of hard for him to concentrate with his other lutenit using him as a scratching post and ruining another 5000$ dollar suit.(this happens when she feels he's been ignoring her and worrying too much about work) if not then he'll simply track them until he reaches the interference wall. need a rough estimate as to were he'll be blocked through you three decided that)
I'm not sure quite what you're on about the divine intervention stuff, but I'm mostly leaving that alone and treating it as affecting, and concerning only, Lucas and Red Anvil.
However, I think I may have a better idea...how about it simply be difficult to actually find them, but once found, easy to track? That makes more sense, and actually works almost the exact same way Quaddle's own scrying does, putting us on even ground. So, if your sats were frazzled by the mutation reversal explosion for roughly two minutes, the three have already gotten the heck outta Dodge, and are high-tailing to the base. To find them again, you would have to start searching in a grid-like or circular pattern because they could have gone in any direction, but of course, that kind of search wouldn't catch up to them unless they stopped or detoured (which they didn't), thus effectively making them 'slip away'. This makes it so the only time it's practical to actually look for them is when you already know what general area they're in or where they're headed.
How does that sound? No deus ex machina, no divine intervention, no metagaming :3
tech you may want to read up on when Red got her hammer then. even with the powers that be on her side, these are the affairs of mortals and thus they can not directly aid them.
Quote from: lucas marcone on December 03, 2007, 01:28:33 AM
tech you may want to read up on when Red got her hammer then. even with the powers that be on her side, these are the affairs of mortals and thus they can not directly aid them.
I think you're talking to E, actually, he's the one who seemed to have a suggestion regarding that.
As for me, I deliberately ignored most of that post, because those are particular waters I really don't like to swim, which is why I said I'm considering it as only concerning your charcater. In my imagining, Quaddle didn't even see it.
well concerning the theological origins of my character it was bound to pop up sooner or later. honestly that's the last you'll see of the big guy. though pleading ignorance due to contrversy seems kinda.....weak.
(discussion moved to Hero's thread)
nods got it the hard to find angle works for me. i've already stated that the businessman is both flustered and distracted and that the way he found them before was due to following the explosions. two minutes twelve seconds is a short time to recover and leave but it's possible. especially if your a regeneration of some sort and since most of the damage wasn't physical there no saying when you left the city i can work with that. it could buy you a few days to a few weeks time as the footage is gone over time and time again.
Oh Lucas i was not trying to suggest anything underhanded but as it was stated their meeting was private which would hint to me that not spying intentional or unintentional would be allowed so any surveillance equipment pointed there way would be disarmed or disrupted. he holds to the higher path and though he would protected his privacy he would do it in a way that the natural would would cover and compensate for which is why i mad the suggestions i made.
one last thing. why would magic affect technology? well i'm not expert but i would have to say energy. magic is in it's puts form a time of energy and energy affected the natural world and unnatural world as well. A spell the size of the one used to clear the city would have to set up shock waves of some sort and those shock waves could conceivably knock the computer systems off line or plug the sensors form feedback. if it can clear a sewers below ground then i'm sure it can affect the atmosphere and stop a satellites for at least a little while. the time i picked was random based on the aver time it took for my old windows system to boot up.
but now i need to go red the IC thread and consider my reply to what has been wrought.
(oh on last thing can you im me the profile i posted in the other thread i don't have a copy of webs profile that's been updated)
i didn't mean that in regaurd to you E
no worries. but i still need a copy of William Eric boareavs(however you spell the name of the guy Form FFtactites) if you get the chance. i promised not to read the thread now that i'm not applying to be a hero anymore. i'm waiting until about Friday to see before i bring the businessman back. you know to see what happens then the business man and Baika go shopping to please her and stop her form ripping up expensive suites off of her boss back. i think they'll spend the night in the hotel as well. she may be feline but she'd shill a teen age girl at heart and loves to shop. and play in yarn.
um what?
in the hero thread i had proposed a character. i don't have a copy of that character's details so i was wondering if you or glitch could pm them to me. i don't visit that thread anymore. the rest is just rambling due to lack of sleep from working all night.
Oh, you need your hero profile back? I'll take care of that now.
got it. Thanks glitch
it might be a while before i post because a friend of mine is being pretty much shuned by his entire church for playing Magic the Gathering tradeing card game. they want him to burn his cards in order to continue to go to church there and because i play the same game and am related to the proprioters of the establishment and am good friends with one of their children i am LIVID and need a while to cool down.
Quote from: lucas marcone on December 06, 2007, 10:43:08 PM
...is being pretty much shuned by his entire church for playing Magic the Gathering tradeing card game. they want him to burn his cards in order to continue to go to church...
I cannot believe the audacity and stupidity of these fundies every time I hear about them.
indeed i can't believe how often i see or hear about things like that. it's enough to drive one batty. i could rant for an hour on the subject but it would do no good and i'll just get myself worked up for no reason.
it's all fantasy. it's all that needs said. if you ban magic why not lord of the rings? better yet all fantasy books, science and rock and roll while you're at it! let's all have a good ole fashioned book burnin' yup yup!
just for those interested my Rue is a corruptions of this Rue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_of_Fate#Rue) who comes form a virtually dead world after on or two sequel of the game threads of fate. mint has found a relic who's magic react badly with her own and the demon that she an rue face namely my self darkE 3rd edition. ( so called because he is the melding of three souls and the third E to call himself evil or dark hence darkE3) in the current RP world he's been portraying the role of a mortal for about a life time and has spent the last 50 years or so creating a far spread virtually unknown organization who member barely know what they are part of including more of his expendable spies and corrupt officials. he is not the entity of evil of this world as he is a foreign visitor who's making a stop here and decided to play around about a century or so back keeping it pretty low profile and hiding as a business many in America since that is one of the best places for and evil entity to amuse power with out arousing suspicion.
his most powerful non transformation mode is when he loses his hat and his forehead crystal is visible. in this mode his strike takes on an aspect of death. his blocking power decreases by about half but his strike is such that it will cleave most things and it's very nearness will drag at the soul / life force of his enemy. Rue enters this mode ( which i call death_rue (http://profiles.yahoo.com/death_rue) ) on yahoo when he's temporally abandons his humanity. it's a little out of date i'll have too update it later this week or next but i've had this character for a while. his basice info shold be there as well.
I won't be around for the next few days so if anyone responds to anything I've been saying/doing it might take a bit to respond.
don't feel bad if you missed the post referring to the shadow demons or spies. they were written where those npc chares could easily be over looked despite attempt to call attention to the fact that they exisit. in many case the spies are low level npcs who only have basic information in some cases they are higher lever like the peope that DarkE was talked into sending the sat feeds to. i try to plan for everything including being caught by surprise like with the mutiation city thing i knew she had plans for it but now when or where otherwise i would have dispatched a higher level spy or even rue to study the outbreak instead of going myself after the fact. as for the letters it's to warn rue to be cation against the red robed mage who rue's boss has yet to find out about. it will warn him that this mage might b as dangerous to him as his elder brother Ruecian was. Rue over came Ruecian's power on several occasions but was powerless against one spell until Ruecian was able to give him the key to overcoming it. i won't name the spell as i don't want Quaddles play techmaster to have too easy a time finding it.
(clears her throat and blows a little dust off the thread) Yeah, Boogey, just pointing out that Rue isn't at the house yet. He's getting picked up by Liz.
*thumps head* I'll edit in a bit, sorry about the mix up.
sorry if i'm going a little heavy into rue's background but i don't really expect everyone here to know where Rue is taken from and on top of that it need to introduce Rue's one fears and concern. Rue actually is a kind soul and as it was mentioned before he Joined his boss dark e (see the first few pages) on the promise that if he served him for 100 years he'd get his world and all the souls that he managed to save brought back to life. yet as it seems Rue's kindness and concern over the kind actions of the Gecko Liz combined with his warriors spirit and desire to protect my lead him to disobey a direct order. if we get ambushed by Quaddle as i half expect we will then Rue expects Liz to book it with the drive and then he'll gage Quaddle and if he has the chance do the same.
and Liz don't worry if anyone is going to be in trouble it's be Rue for disobeying orders and not you.
I know that Liz and Rue are still busy . Crystal is playing Peace maker but we really need to see some some initiative on the parts of the other villains. just because we're lying low doesn't mean we can't plan and make a few surgical strikes. i'm sure miss scientist must be ready to launch a new attack on Some city or whip up the antidote For crystal just in case she or any of the other were infected.