Deathtrap Dungeon; Freedom is Slavery! (OOC; Closed)

[Ashen Star]

Hey!  Woah!  Watch where you're grabbing!  YEEP!  Oooof!  AHH!  POP!  ::Shakes herself off, showering everyone around her with a rain of pebbles.::  Right!  Like, I'm so glad I thought up this test.  Yup!  So totally meant to do that.  Right?  ::Gives him a huge toothy grin before she limps back to her lair.::  Ooooh... Like how'd I get rock up there!  Stupid mountain is like totally unfair.

[VAE]

...I simply found it funny that my character functions a little like an industrial clamp bulldozer

Who knows? That could end up being your real job after all!

Hmm, it seems like i am going to be the mr. Versatile - selling brains, messing with electronics, and now heavy construction

Hey!  Woah!  Watch where you're grabbing!  YEEP!  Oooof!  AHH!  POP!  ::Shakes herself off, showering everyone around her with a rain of pebbles.::  Right!  Like, I'm so glad I thought up this test.  Yup!  So totally meant to do that.  Right?  ::Gives him a huge toothy grin before she limps back to her lair.::  Ooooh... Like how'd I get rock up there!  Stupid mountain is like totally unfair.

The last sentence was excessively funny - i am adding it to my signature, if space allows!

[Drayco84]

The last line was actually aimed at Ashen, sorry for the confusion. (Yes, I could've written that better...)

Just because I'm bored, the following races are still available:
Angel
Mer?
Cubi
Fae?
Insectis?
Phoenix A?
Phoenix B (Avian)

The ones with a ? beside them are ones I'm not sure if Mechanisto/TEH GM will allow as they pose some... Unique challenges... (Especially since Mer are quite shy and are hindered by limited mobility.)
On the other hand, there's a crap-ton of monsters from the D&D handbooks left...

[Mechanisto]

Drayco84: The issue isn't really what you do for a living so much; your profession is already distinct enough. It's that both you and Ashen Star are dragons.

And actually, the only one that's hard to accept is the Fay; they seem to be... kinda... invincible. Also, having the Insectis move in would require the permission of their royalty, which might be hard to explain... but it could be done

[Drayco84]

I wasn't aiming the list at Ashen, I was just pointing it out.

And seriously, I don't know of much, other than a Tri-Wing cubi, that could power a ton of magically imbued cameras...
Plus, in no way, shape, or form could my char be considered a leader, especially among dragons...

Wait a tic... Angels...
I've just had a supremely evil idea...

[techmaster-glitch]

And seriously, I don't know of much, other than a Tri-Wing cubi, that could power a ton of magically imbued cameras...

...My character?

[Drayco84]

Well yeah, but do you really wanna be stuck playing a battery charger all the time? But hey, if you're fine with it, that's all well and good with me.

I'm checking something out, be back later... Might have to re-do my char sheet...

[Mechanisto]

Properly enchanted items power themselves.  They're magic.

...wait. Angel? Evil idea? Character re-do?

*shivers*

...storm's a brewin...

[techmaster-glitch]

Well yeah, but do you really wanna be stuck playing a battery charger all the time? But hey, if you're fine with it, that's all well and good with me.

Actually, now that you mention it, he isn't really a battery charger... he just sets a permanent magic enchantment on items, and they then function without him "powering" them, as it were.

EDIT:

Properly enchanted items power themselves.  They're magic.

Yeah, that.

[VAE]

Well yeah, but do you really wanna be stuck playing a battery charger all the time? But hey, if you're fine with it, that's all well and good with me.

I'm checking something out, be back later... Might have to re-do my char sheet...

Actually a plant monster, stormrage shambler might do - it heals from electricity and pulsates with electrical energy.
(just checking my DnD4 manuals)

EDIT: For a tech monster, i thing a gibbering orb would not be bad either - they are powerful, appear insane, but are apparently "perversely rational" as described by manual - should make for interesting RP
I thought of doing one but the chuul i liked better

[Mechanisto]

Yeah, that.

(Holds up hand)

High five.

[techmaster-glitch]

Meh... *not much of a high-five person...high-fives anyway for politeness*

So! After Draco and Ashen's characters are reconciled, will we be ready to start up IC?

[Drayco84]

Alright, char-sheet re-do complete! (Again...)

Name: Zyrais
Player: Drayco84
Race: Angel
Species: Draconic
Creature Rating: 5, Hostile (While few of his race may be around in this type of area, he'll have to keep three steps ahead of them if he wishes to maintain power. There may also be unexplained murders among his kind...)

Description: Zyrais has deep purple fur/feathers with silver talons and matching eyes. He has a large, pupil-shaped silver gem in the middle of his forehead and a similar one on his chest. Normally wears a long coat made of woven, cloth-like mithril and carries two matching swords with 2ft-long blades.

Responsibilities: Surveillance. Zyrais uses dark-colored discs with a silver, gem-like "pupil" to scry on certain areas within the dungeon. These discs are, potentially, capable to being connected into a network and used as a monitoring and early warning system. Once he gets more skilled with using them (And the offer is good.) he'll start making discs that fire laser beams made of brilliant, silver light.  

Real Backstory: Zyrais is better known as Zyrais, 47th son of Quetzalcoatl. However, he is among the youngest of the half-dragon/half-angel's offspring, who's numbers have dwindled to only a handful. He is one of the few that has met his mother face-to-face in combat, and so far, is the only one that's lived to tell about it. His father is rumored to be none other than Samael, the Divine Poison. Given Samael's reputation for sleeping around with whatever and whoever he can, and Quetzalcoatl's reputation for seeking out "powerful mates" to produce strong offspring, this is quite possible...
   While he has been exiled from the family that acknowledges him, he is far from being the complete monster that his mother and siblings make him out to be. Where his mother and half-siblings regularly sacrificed and devoured the souls of "worthy" victims, most notably creatures, Zyrais took a different route by taking part of a being or creature's soul. This has led him to discover a few things... One, that it's easier to "adjust" another's viewpoint to seeing things his way. Two, it allows him access to his victims' magical essence, which he slowly "feeds" off of. However, if he's far enough away, he can't use his victims' magical essence to power his own magic and to sustain him.
   Zyrais was doing quite well on his own. He had built a large town from the ground up using his particular methods of "persuasion", in addition to his natural charisma. In addition to a decent armed force of beings, he had a number of various creatures in his cult, including his lifemate Aegle, a succubus. He also had a fair number of angels under his command and was beginning to unlock the dark secret behind his species' infertility problems when disaster struck in the form of a few armies of beings, and several adventurers...
   Zyrais had planned for an attempt by one of his more powerful siblings to try and take over his city by force, and was prepared. His magical defenses were potent, he had rigged up a unique method of surveillance using crystals infused with scrying spells that enabled him to "see" his entire city at once, and his forces were well-armed and well-trained. However, somehow the adventurers had manged to sneak into the city and with amazing skill or just incredible luck, take out his unique surveillance devices, disable his magic-based offenses, open the gates to allow the opposing armies inside, and challenge him in the heart of his operations center.
   The battle was long, difficult, and exhausted Zyrais of most of the magical essence he had collected, essence that was just shy of allowing him to make an attempt for ascension. In the end, it was only when his strongest soldiers entered the command room and hold off the adventurers that he managed to escape to his panic room, an underground shelter where his most loyal followers had already fled to. Faced with imminent defeat, Zyrais activated the one-time, one-way teleport in the room to Zinvth. There, he and his remaining two dozen followers laid low for several months, making use of a safe house he had perviously purchased and kept stocked with backup supplies, "conditioned" assassins and "loyal" bodyguards disguised as maids and butlers.
   Eventually, he found an ad that mentioned a certain dungeon's opening and how it needed employees. Thus, he left his remaining followers at the safe house and went in to investigate...

Attributes: Zyrais's intelligence and raw magical power are his best and most obvious attributes. His capacity and ability to learn are impeccable, while his charisma is impressive. Meanwhile, his speed and agility in combat is just amazing. His bodily strength, however, is easily his weakest point. A close second is his stamina.

Powers:
Light Magic: This can range from bursts of blinding light to blades made out of pure magic, to light-based shields.
Immunity to Light-based Magic: He can walk right into it, through it, or stand there and take it.
BlindSense: Able to find living creatures by their magical aura. (Also works for magical objects, but magic-less beings are "invisible". Oh, and it doesn't help him find walls, floors, ceilings, nor other non-magic obstacles.)
Ambidextrous: "Oh, I have a slight confession to make... I normally dual-wield."
Spellcaster: Able to use quite a bit of non-elemental magic (Like scrying, for example.) and some elemental-based magic like most mid-level sorcerers. However, the latter takes a considerable amount of study, and even more practice.

Flaws:
Too Magnificent A Bastard: (TV Tropes entry omitted to keep site-wandering to a minimum.)
Backstabber: "If you can't get to their heart, the spine works pretty well too."
AntiMagic Vulnerability: Anything that disrupts magic, ranging from antimagic weapons to fields to dispelling magic, leaves him unable to protect himself from physical and magical attack. In fact, due to his highly-magical nature, antimagic fields and auras even make him physically sick.
Internet Addict: Internet disruption? Makes him mad. Internet goes down before he can grab that super-rare item he spent all week trying to get? May (Insert deity of choice here.) have mercy on your soul...
Perverted Voyeur: "Hey, I have to make sure the ladies' dressing/changing rooms are secure, don't I?" "But FIVE scrying devices?! Isn't that overkill?" "Not in my line of work."

Skills:
Linguistic: Knows pretty much any language under (Or hidden from.) the sun.
MagiTech Tinkerer (Surveillance): He knows how they work and when something goes wrong. Can make some modifications, but only to surveillance-related MagiTech. Still needs someone else to make the initial device.
All-Seeing, All-Knowing: Due to the fact that he manages the surveilence system, less and less escapes his notice. Especially once his devices are spread out all over the Dungeon...
Master Extortionist: (See above.) Want to keep last night's drunken escapade from being seen by your spouse and/or the internet? That's gonna cost ya...
Charismatic: You look into those soft, silver eyes and you'll do whatever he says... Time and time again... (Even if you're a male!)
Light Magic Offense: Knows a wide variety of light-based, offensive magic.

Best. Backstory. EVAR. For those that disagree, tell me, why would I have used the word "Expunged"?

[Liatai]

Magnificent Bastard: (TV Tropes entry omitted to keep site-wandering to a minimum.)

THANK YOU.    Although I ended up going there anyway because your line about him being ambidextrous reminded me of "I Am Not Left Handed."  DANG IT.

[techmaster-glitch]

MagiTech Master: If you didn't know better, you'd swear he developed some of this stuff...

I take offence to zis! Thar can only be ONE!

("artificer" is magitech)

[VAE]

Charismatic: You look into those soft, silver eyes and you'll do whatever he says... Time and time again... (Even if you're a male!)

Seems that being aberrant, and completely un-being like is an advantage for once

[Drayco84]

Magnificent Bastard: (TV Tropes entry omitted to keep site-wandering to a minimum.)

THANK YOU.    Although I ended up going there anyway because your line about him being ambidextrous reminded me of "I Am Not Left Handed."  DANG IT.

Hmmm... Not a direct bastard point...

MagiTech Master: If you didn't know better, you'd swear he developed some of this stuff...

I take offence to zis! Thar can only be ONE!

("artificer" is magitech)

Unfortunately, you can't go far in the extortion racket if you have to rely on others all the time. Sure, they're replaceable, but as the old saying goes: "If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself." Besides, that means he'd have to give your character a cut once he finds out about the "side business". (And interspecies murders are always, always messy...)

Well, considering that he can only enchant the stuff himself, he'll still need the physical crystal to act as a focus...

[techmaster-glitch]

Unfortunately, you can't go far in the extortion racket if you have to rely on others all the time. Sure, they're replaceable, but as the old saying goes: "If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself." Besides, that means he'd have to give your character a cut once he finds out about the "side business". (And interspecies murders are always, always messy...)

Well, considering that he can only enchant the stuff himself, he'll still need the physical crystal to act as a focus...

wait...what? who and what are you talking about with this 'extortion" and "murders" and things? All In was saying was that there's only enough room in this dungeon for one magictech "master"...

[VAE]

A point to make - Since when is Magnificent bastard (as for TVTr def) a flaw!?

[Drayco84]

Unfortunately, you can't go far in the extortion racket if you have to rely on others all the time. Sure, they're replaceable, but as the old saying goes: "If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself." Besides, that means he'd have to give your character a cut once he finds out about the "side business". (And interspecies murders are always, always messy...)

Well, considering that he can only enchant the stuff himself, he'll still need the physical crystal to act as a focus...

wait...what? who and what are you talking about with this 'extortion" and "murders" and things? All In was saying was that there's only enough room in this dungeon for one magictech "master"...

*Looks up from polishing a sword.*
Yes, and I'm simply too busy with my own tasks to worry about that kind of title. If you want it, you can have it. But, if you ever really want to dispute it... Eh, accidents happen... That reminds me, is your life insurance paid up?
*Goes back to polishing sword.*

A point to make - Since when is Magnificent bastard (as for TVTr def) a flaw!?

How many of them are alive at the end of the show/movie/series? And really, it depends on who you talk to.

[VAE]

How many of them are alive at the end of the show/movie/series? And really, it depends on who you talk to.

Havelock Vetinari for example?

[techmaster-glitch]

*Looks up from polishing a sword.*
Yes, and I'm simply too busy with my own tasks to worry about that kind of title. If you want it, you can have it. But, if you ever really want to dispute it... Eh, accidents happen... That reminds me, is your life insurance paid up?
*Goes back to polishing sword.*

Okay, serious now.

I'm just saying, my character was built to be a magitech character and nothing else; ergo, he should be the best at it. Other characters may dabble in things, but can't match the proficiency of a specialist. What's worrying me here is that it almost sounds like you're playing this guy up to be skilled enough to match my character, which he should not be able to do if he does anything else in addition to magitech. (and hypotetically speaking, if he -is- nothing but magitech, well then, that I would have a real problem with, as we'd have two characters with the exact same job/abilities/skillset)

[Drayco84]

*Looks up from polishing a sword.*
Yes, and I'm simply too busy with my own tasks to worry about that kind of title. If you want it, you can have it. But, if you ever really want to dispute it... Eh, accidents happen... That reminds me, is your life insurance paid up?
*Goes back to polishing sword.*

Okay, serious now.

I'm just saying, my character was built to be a magitech character and nothing else; ergo, he should be the best at it. Other characters may dabble in things, but can't match the proficiency of a specialist. What's worrying me here is that it almost sounds like you're playing this guy up to be skilled enough to match my character, which he should not be able to do if he does anything else but magitech. (and hypotetically speaking, if he -is- nothing but magitech, well then, that I would have a real problem with)

Joking and characterizations aside, he maintains the surveillance systems and dabbles in computers. That's it. The char sheet has now been significantly downgraded. He will have to go your character for any physical problems other than cabling or basic troubleshooting issues, and he will have to put up with any and all snide remarks your character can dish out. (Go ahead, feel free to tease him.)
My apologies.

[techmaster-glitch]

Joking and characterizations aside, he maintains the surveillance systems and dabbles in computers. That's it. The char sheet has now been significantly downgraded. He will have to go your character for any physical problems other than cabling or basic troubleshooting issues, and he will have to put up with any and all snide remarks your character can dish out. (Go ahead, feel free to tease him.)
My apologies.

Alright, just making sure. And don't worry, I don't play snide characters; your guy is safe from any heckling

And besides, my guy is an utterly weak and small mass of tentacles that has to inhabit a magitech shell to be physically effective at all. He can't really talk about much

(in fact, my guy would probably love any job dumped on him...would probably see it as the next challenge in magical engineering ...although there really isn't anything "challenging" about magic  )

[VAE]

Thinking on this - i think they can still work - just that the D84 one is a specialist - he probably knows more about magic surveillance than even the squid, but only has basics in other stuff ...

[techmaster-glitch]

...just that the D84 one is a specialist - he probably knows more about magic surveillance than even the squid...

Now that I grant.

[SquirrelWizard]

And besides, my guy is an utterly weak and small mass of tentacles that has to inhabit a magitech shell to be physically effective at all. He can't really talk about much

maybe he should sign up for the torture chambers, or at least the mistress's harem....

[otaku999]

Do you have any plans to design fiendishly nerve-wracking puzzles into the Dungeon's defenses? For example, those ones where you have to pull some (usually heavy) device and run through the door before it shuts? (Or worse, those same traps but with many heavy objects that you have to move out of the way just so you can get through the door in time?)

Oh! Jumping puzzles! TIMED jumping puzzles! I frigging hate those.


And also THIS DRAGON IS SQUOOSHING ME AGAINST THE WALL. Help me.

[SquirrelWizard]

"we'jer kin spin fert a bask defpck boot inna b'much." Urist holds up a schematic that basically outlines a lava pipe spewing red hot magma onto a crudely drawn adventurer.... or at least you think its an adventurer... it could just be a grease smudge.

[Drayco84]

Do you have any plans to design fiendishly nerve-wracking puzzles into the Dungeon's defenses? For example, those ones where you have to pull some (usually heavy) device and run through the door before it shuts? (Or worse, those same traps but with many heavy objects that you have to move out of the way just so you can get through the door in time?)

Oh! Jumping puzzles! TIMED jumping puzzles! I frigging hate those.


And also THIS DRAGON IS SQUOOSHING ME AGAINST THE WALL. Help me.

I was just hoping for something that left the would-be heroes too tired to move for an hour or so... Ooooh! Chambers that fill up with sleeping gas! Those are awesome!
But I now have a concern... Some of us can't EAT heroes... Where do we get food at?
Oh, the squishing... Right... *Pulls out a glittering, sparkling ball.* Hey draggy! *Toss.* GO FETCH THE SHINY!

"we'jer kin spin fert a bask defpck boot inna b'much." Urist holds up a schematic that basically outlines a lava pipe spewing red hot magma onto a crudely drawn adventurer.... or at least you think its an adventurer... it could just be a grease smudge.

Yes, and tell me, HOW are we going to collect the loot they had on them with all that lava in the way?
Well, flesh-eating acids will work, but it'll be hard to scoop out the lootables...