[OOC] The Crucible - Winner Take All

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@obliviousRoadie

I just, motherfucking. moved my second post from my pile of pulses and into the story, brother. It's pretty, motherufcking. a fin fucking forward front. Let me know if I'm displaying alright. I'm trying to keep to his key collection of characteristics and make him look competent and all that career path.

[obliviousRoadie]

@Lugubrious the doggo is Fixed

The Unstoppable Mlem (Special Recruitable NPC)

Name: Teru
Alias: The Unstoppable Mlem
Race: Dog (Unidentified Mix of Dog Breeds)
Sex: Female (although she insists Dog)
Class: Dog

Equipment: -Collar - Owner of Teru can attach their Phylactery to it.

Abilities: -Mlem of Life - Teru begins licking your wounds, healing all and any ailments. The amount of time she needs to lick them to fully heal you depends on how severe the wound is.
-Scratch the Ears - Boosts your energy and restores your sanity.
-Boop the Snoot - Touch her nose and she will sniff out the nearest supply cache for you.

Fighting Style: Although her bite is strong, Teru rarely ever actually fights. She will always cast her Mlem of Life at her owner if possible.
To become her owner, one must entertain her, play with her and bring her food and treats in order to gain her trust. If she is provoked in any way, she will bite. If her owner is defeated, the victor must gain her trust again.

Personality: When Teru first appears, she will be very shy and cautious of the participant who finds her - up until they gain her trust. Around her owner, she is a good, loyal and good mannered dog, but once an opponent is in clear sight, she will understand that as a threat to her current owner and will begin barking towards the enemy.

Bio: She was adopted by a few colleagues ever since she was a mere five days old. She has served the College as a sort of second mascot and loyal pet ever since.

Wish: "FOOD! and many big and cronchy bones! and plush toys and rubbery squeak-Orbs!"

Echo: A nice, richly embroidered soft couch in which she can relax, snooze and squish her snout. Around her is an incredible variety of different dog treats and many bones. In front of the couch stands a statue and altar of the diety of her choice, The Goodest Boy, Angel of Lemgth.

Appearance:

A Good Boy

A slightly fat, mixed breed, medium size black and white dog. She wears a black leather collar on which one can attach their Phylactery.

Inventory: Your Phylactery

[Remram]

I'm sorry, I had a breakdown and I had to be gone for awhile. I have to pull out of the rp.

[Lugubrious]

@Lugubrious the doggo is Fixed

The Unstoppable Mlem (Special Recruitable NPC)

Name: Teru
Alias: The Unstoppable Mlem
Race: Dog (Unidentified Mix of Dog Breeds)
Sex: Female (although she insists Dog)
Class: Dog

Equipment: -Collar - Owner of Teru can attach their Phylactery to it.

Abilities: -Mlem of Life - Teru begins licking your wounds, healing all and any ailments. The amount of time she needs to lick them to fully heal you depends on how severe the wound is.
-Scratch the Ears - Boosts your energy and restores your sanity.
-Boop the Snoot - Touch her nose and she will sniff out the nearest supply cache for you.

Fighting Style: Although her bite is strong, Teru rarely ever actually fights. She will always cast her Mlem of Life at her owner if possible.
To become her owner, one must entertain her, play with her and bring her food and treats in order to gain her trust. If she is provoked in any way, she will bite. If her owner is defeated, the victor must gain her trust again.

Personality: When Teru first appears, she will be very shy and cautious of the participant who finds her - up until they gain her trust. Around her owner, she is a good, loyal and good mannered dog, but once an opponent is in clear sight, she will understand that as a threat to her current owner and will begin barking towards the enemy.

Bio: She was adopted by a few colleagues ever since she was a mere five days old. She has served the College as a sort of second mascot and loyal pet ever since.

Wish: "FOOD! and many big and cronchy bones! and plush toys and rubbery squeak-Orbs!"

Echo: A nice, richly embroidered soft couch in which she can relax, snooze and squish her snout. Around her is an incredible variety of different dog treats and many bones. In front of the couch stands a statue and altar of the diety of her choice, The Goodest Boy, Angel of Lemgth.

Appearance:

A Good Boy

A slightly fat, mixed breed, medium size black and white dog. She wears a black leather collar on which one can attach their Phylactery.

Inventory: Your Phylactery

@obliviousRoadie

That's alright, I guess.

I'm sorry, I had a breakdown and I had to be gone for awhile. I have to pull out of the rp.

@hatakekuro

Sorry to hear that. I hope you will be able to recover.

@BCTheEntity, looks like you're up. Knowing that you weren't a proper part of the roster yet, I did not completely evaluate your character, and now that I've had the chance I wish to make some alterations. In his current state, Crue has the powers of: zombie creation, fusion, enhanced senses, Space Ripper Stingy Eyes, regeneration, contact freezing, flush buds, hypnosis, increased strength, increased speed, blood sucking, the unstoppable telekinetic abilities characteristic to a stand, and all the abilities of hamon, including disintegration/necrosis, self-healing, static charge, and martial arts.

Doesn't that seem a bit too much?

I ask that you remove all vampiric abilities except for enhanced physical abilities, regeneration, blood sucking, and enhanced senses. In addition, I would appreciate lessening the degree to which the negative hamon 'rapidly kills' whoever it touches. Right now, your character has so many powers, and such high durability coupled with a death sentence against any who touch him, that he seems practically unassailable.

[BCTheEntity]

@Lugubrious I feel like you should've checked the character before accepting him, even given that he was put into the guest list first. With that in mind, I have stated before that many of those abilities are things Crue can't do, having not taught himself how; I'm perfectly willing to reduce his vampiric arsenal to what you've suggested and limit the fatality of Heavy Fuel and the Anti-Ripple, perhaps by arguing that "it affects beings from non-JoJo settings less effectively for unknown reasons" or whatever (the actually-undead entities aside of course, who would be correspondingly less affected or even benefited from a Dead Ripple charge), though I'm tempted to suggest that zombification may also be an ability vampires can perform as standard, given that all vampires have "vampiric essence".

There's also the matter of Motley's Lightning Mode, basically his version of the freezing technique, though I'd imagine it's more limited defensively speaking, since where Dio could just lower his body temperature at the point of impact, Motley has to go through a somewhat more complicated procedure of internal rearrangement. If you like, I can explain the Lightning Mode and the associated techniques I have in mind in detail in a PM, or else whatever works for you.

[obliviousRoadie]

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That's alright, I guess.

@Lugubrious

that's not a very reassuring answer
is there anything else I should change?

[Lugubrious]

@Lugubrious I feel like you should've checked the character before accepting him, even given that he was put into the guest list first. With that in mind, I have stated before that many of those abilities are things Crue can't do, having not taught himself how; I'm perfectly willing to reduce his vampiric arsenal to what you've suggested and limit the fatality of Heavy Fuel and the Anti-Ripple, perhaps by arguing that "it affects beings from non-JoJo settings less effectively for unknown reasons" or whatever (the actually-undead entities aside of course, who would be correspondingly less affected or even benefited from a Dead Ripple charge), though I'm tempted to suggest that zombification may also be an ability vampires can perform as standard, given that all vampires have "vampiric essence".

There's also the matter of Motley's Lightning Mode, basically his version of the freezing technique, though I'd imagine it's more limited defensively speaking, since where Dio could just lower his body temperature at the point of impact, Motley has to go through a somewhat more complicated procedure of internal rearrangement. If you like, I can explain the Lightning Mode and the associated techniques I have in mind in detail in a PM, or else whatever works for you.

@BCTheEntity

I must have missed where the details of what he can't do were added into his character sheet. Right now, the links provided to the ripple and vampire pages seem to imply he can do everything on them. It's unnecessary to add some kind of arbitrary reduction where a power works less well in another universe when you could just lower the base power instead. I could compromise and allow the zombification.

I will admit that I made a mistake in not looking at the 'longhand' version of his powers, which I wrongfully assumed the 'shorthand' version gave a brief but complete summary of. It would be necessary to give all pertinent details about lightning mode in the sheet itself, so that opponents can read and use them.

[Lugubrious]

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that's not a very reassuring answer
is there anything else I should change?

@obliviousRoadie

Sorry, no, it's fine. It's still a bit jokey, and it modifies College history (though in a very minor way), but there's no problem. Go ahead and port her over.

[BCTheEntity]

@Lugubrious Sorry about the misunderstanding, then. I'll add in a more detailed description of Lightning Mode shortly.

[BCTheEntity]

@Lugubrious Alright, I've added a section detailing some of the uses of Lightning Mode in the sheet. Just to clarify, however, would you be against Motley developing new techniques and methods of utilising his vampirism in the future, or at least utilising techniques that aren't listed in the sheet right now?

[Lugubrious]

@Lugubrious Alright, I've added a section detailing some of the uses of Lightning Mode in the sheet. Just to clarify, however, would you be against Motley developing new techniques and methods of utilising his vampirism in the future, or at least utilising techniques that aren't listed in the sheet right now?

@BCTheEntity

Finding new ways to apply what he already has would be fine, but I would not be happy discovering or manifesting new abilities on the fly without some kind of outside influence.

One last thing before you're accepted: I would like you to indicate some of his weaknesses in the 'fighting style' section, specifically.

[obliviousRoadie]

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Sorry, no, it's fine. It's still a bit jokey, and it modifies College history (though in a very minor way), but there's no problem. Go ahead and port her over.

@Lugubrious

it was thought up on a whim and intended as a sort of "easter egg" kinda thing so there's not much of a way she wouldn't sound jokey
she could be like an extremely rare find cause how is one supposed to find a specific dog in a big-ass city? like a needle in a haystack except magnets don't work

[obliviousRoadie]

@ColouredCyan i forgot to mention that you actually played my character better than i did lmao

[BCTheEntity]

@Lugubrious So no mid-fight improvisation of new attacks. Got it. Weaknesses have been described in his fighting style.

[ColouredCyan]

@ColouredCyan i forgot to mention that you actually played my character better than i did lmao

@obliviousRoadie

That's very kind of you to say, but it looks like most people disagree with you there! Looks to me like there's going to be a climatic final round, I hope I haven't peaked already :D

[Sentel]

@ColouredCyan@obliviousRoadie
For what it's worth, in my opinion you guys were pretty evenly matched this round, it was a really difficult vote.

[Lugubrious]

@Lugubrious So no mid-fight improvisation of new attacks. Got it. Weaknesses have been described in his fighting style.

@BCTheEntity

Alright, should be good then. I'll get you started with an introductory post of Crue getting teleported into the city soon. You'll be appearing in Oldtown, matched against the Itinerant Exorcist in Actaeon's stead.

[DracoLunaris]

Looks to me like there's going to be a climatic final round, I hope I haven't peaked already :D

@ColouredCyan

The first to three rounds won is the overall winner of the fight, with that player's third round deciding the battle. If players feel like they want to go on longer, the amount of rounds needed to win can be changed.

@Lugubrious

actually you got 2-3 rounds left

[Deadnaut]

@Lugubrious

Yo boss man, sorry if this seems an obvious question, but how much in our posts do you want us to, well, leave up to you

EX:

Captain Teller opens a fridge, do I write "Within the fridge is an apple and three carrots" Or do I say "He takes what is within and moves on to do X, Y and Z"

I figure it's probably the former but I tend to ask these kinds of questions to avoid stepping on any toes.

[Lugubrious]

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actually you got 2-3 rounds left

@DracoLunaris

Thanks for pointing it out! Saved me a little trouble.

@Lugubrious

Yo boss man, sorry if this seems an obvious question, but how much in our posts do you want us to, well, leave up to you

EX:

Captain Teller opens a fridge, do I write "Within the fridge is an apple and three carrots" Or do I say "He takes what is within and moves on to do X, Y and Z"

I figure it's probably the former but I tend to ask these kinds of questions to avoid stepping on any toes.

@Deadnaut

No problem, thank you for asking such questions. In terms of everyday items like food and scrap, go ahead and decide for yourself. It's part of the freedom you have to create the world around you as a setting for your character's own personal story.