[OOC] Deep Ground Online: War of Strangers

[MasterOfCheese]

Oh yeah, is it just me or does Arms slave feel like a boss now? Like, to progress the story, we have to kill him or something.

[Lord Santa]

Please ignore that

[Lord Santa]

Let's just say I found out some guy's login but I forgot to log out. No really.

[Lucius Cypher]

MasterOfCheese said
Oh yeah, is it just me or does Arms slave feel like a boss now? Like, to progress the story, we have to kill him or something.

That would be an accurate guess, and you'll likely get to do that soon (Cause he pretty much just opened war against everyone himself) Though he's a "boss" in a sense that he's the leader of the Mayhem Rider, I think of him more like The Brute; he's the guy at the battlefield leading the mooks and being big and intimidating, while Dark Wraith is The Dragon who tells the Brute what to do and where, while Moon Rider is the Big Bad who generally is the one who allows all this stuff to happen in the first place. Arms Slave himself only commands the Mayhem Rider (Hence why he mentioned that his attack is only "A fraction" of what the Ebon Stykers are capable of) and isn't really all that deep into the Ebon Styker's hierarchy; at best he's a very outspoken and authoritative foot soldier. Even his title as "War Boss" was given to himself by himself, cause I think it's cool. He's not even one of the higher level players, but he makes up for it in ability, numbers, and giant weaponized vehicles.

[RoflsMazoy]

Lucius Cypher said
He's a level four Scrapper and looking for you. He has some gunners covering him, so his basic plan is "Rush you and beat you to death while everyone else shoots you". Also, of course, he's going to report your sighting. But that aside, go nuts.

Ah shit, I accidentally had him have mages and a priest and also he was a tank as well and level 5

So I kind of went against everything you just said

Sorry

[Lord Santa]

RoflsMazoy said
Ah shit, I accidentally had him have mages and a priest and also he was a tank as well and level 5 So I kind of went against everything you just said

But it was cool...

[Lucius Cypher]

Good enough. But don't make that a regular occurrence or next time I'll be controlling him, and make him fight like a real tank.

[Arrayah]

Everyone keeps forgetting the y on Ebony (so that its Ebon) Strykers. The perfectionist in me is dying x.x

In other news, I shall post again tomorrow. Tender Fern will be going after Arms Slave. Not to fight. Cause shed get her butt kicked. Obviously.

[OverconfidentMagi]

I was going to show some of the orange guild's current actions in-game, along with a little bit of Pantheon nuking the shit out of some glorified hummers, but instead I chose to rewrite what I had to be Aaron making plays in the real world. Lucky for Arms Slave, he almost found himself in a very bad position.

[Lucius Cypher]

Ah, that's kind of funny, cause that's exactly what Arms Slave is going to do. Why do you think he decided to openly show up to the Green Guild with just his Mayhem Riders?

[McFazzer]

NOTES: I'm still deciding on the Guild to join, I won't post until I decide. Also I'm a bit concerned with the balancing of the "Motivational Music" ability so I gave it a 1 day cooldown and a 3 minute charge, let me know if it's still too powerful.

Appearance (Real Life):
Height: 165 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Name: Alex Coleman
Age: 15

History: Alex was a quiet kid. He didn't fuss and he didn't complain regardless of what happened even that one time he was hit by a bus. When he finally turned 13 Alex was able to enter Deep Ground and was quite surprised. He chose the Assassin class because he figured the Avatar made for him would reflect how he was, hidden and unnoticed, but instead it gave him abilities to do with what he desired the most instead. Alex wanted to be seen and to be noticed to be a part of the world, to be the center of attention, so he got the ability "Soundtrack of Life" making his Avatar emit music whenever he performed a significant event.

This led to him being somewhat notorious as the Noisy Assassin. When Alex made it to Level 2 and he got a new ability he hoped it would be something more useful. Spoiler Alert: It wasn't. It was "Encore" an ability that made the music play longer for each successive kill. Level three finally came and since stealth was out of the question Alex became a Hitman and attained the ability "Fireworks" that changed the cosmetics of all explosions he causes into fireworks with a random colour, it is also notable for having the first decent effect: a 5% increase in an explosions splash damage. Eventually Alex made it to level 6 and as soon as he did he stopped playing. This was mainly due to the new avatar ability "Motivational Music" that basically turned him into a Bard. Having never actually used it and fearing the mobbing from "Friends" he would suffer if he did use it he just quit. One year later the Black King declares war and Alex decides it's probably for the best to get re-involved in Deep Ground again.

Personality: Considerate, polite and withdrawn. The withdrawn gets replaced with cheerful and welcoming while playing Deep Ground

Appearance (Avatar):
Avatar Class: Hitman
Avatar Title: Unrelenting Jukebox
Avatar Level (Initial): 6 (Now 7)
Avatar Guild: The Fanged Rangers

Avatar Abilities:
Perks:
Vicious Strikes: Melee damage increased by 20%
Grim Stride: Support skill that doubles your movement and attack speed. Lasts 10 seconds, with a two-minute cooldown.
Deadly Aim: Critical hit rate doubled.
NEW Engineer: Enables the Assassin to create remote-detonated explosives, smoke bombs, and grappling hooks. These items can be used by any class, but only Assassins can craft them.

Skills:
Soundtrack of Life: Fitting music plays when Jukebox performs a significant event
Encore: The music plays for longer for each kill made
Fireworks: Give explosions a firework cosmetic, a random colour, and a 5% increase in splash damage
Expanded Playlist: A larger variety of music is unlocked
Perfect Pitch: An activated power. Throwing weapon range, power and accuracy is improved by 20%
Motivational Music: Can only be activated when Soundtrack of Life is playing. All allies in audible range of the music increase movement speed, attack speed, rate of fire and reload speed by 25% 1 minute charge with a 1 hour cooldown.
NEW Dance Battle: The targeted character is forced into a dance battle with Unrelenting Jukebox. This cannot be interrupted by external players or enemies. No damage can be done to either player for the duration of the battle. Weapons and Abilities cannot be accessed for the duration of the battle. A list of 5 random songs appear and the other player chooses. The players dance off and are scored (think like the Just Dance games). The difference between the winner's final score and the loser's final score is dealt as damage to the loser. 1 point = 1 hp. 5min cooldown Can only be used on a player with equivalent levels of health with a 10% leeway.

Other: My favourite colour is green, but I do look rather awefull in a green shirt

[Lucius Cypher]

Join the Black Guild! We could use a good DJ and we got all the tech to make sure your music gets heard by the world. Plus, with the Ebon Strykers soloing all of Deep Ground, you can always be sure that there'll be a wide audience to listen to your tunes.

[Arrayah]

Oh my god I love that character. Freaking hilarious. I can just imagine him trying to sneak and all of a sudden music starts playing and his face is this: -_-

[Lord Santa]

McFazzer said
Dat character

Sounds great. We could use more music. I like how your real life appearance and your avatar look very similar but your avatar looks more vibrant, which fits.

By the way, I'm wondering how the throwdown with Arms slave is going to go. Because as far as I know, white king and tower have a beef with Arms Slave and Arms Slave is heading to take the guild hall, so I'm assuming green king will head over to. So will it be like Green King, tower and white king VS Arms Slave and his doods?

[RoflsMazoy]

Your motivational music should probably have a lower cooldown

We got some crazy ass skills with way lower cool downs, one of mine boosts by speed by x5 and its cool down is 2 minutes

[Lord Santa]

Oh, and also, if I want to hijack Arms slave's car, Is there anything I should note?

[McFazzer]

That makes sense, I was concerned because it theoretically could buff a whole lot of people at once, but I'll drop the cooldown to an hour maybe?

[Lucius Cypher]

Pretty Likely. Though while your characters are fighting Arms Slave and his posse, the rest of the Fanged Rangers are likely getting wrecked. Being uber powerful Kings is great and all, but with an army Arms Slave can spread his destruction beyond just melee range, maneuvering his forces where they need to be to do the most damage. And from the read of things, looks like most of the kings decided to solo the Mayhem Riders rather than bring their forces, sans the Green King, but than again Arms Slave went to find her first.

That being said, if Tender Fern does intend to parley with Arms Slave, mind doing a collab for that Arrayah? I'd rather not post back-to-back with that, plus I'd like to do some synchronized action between Arms Slave and Dark Wraith.

[Lucius Cypher]

Lord Santa said
Oh, and also, if I want to hijack Arms slave's car, Is there anything I should note?

There are blades everywhere that Arms Slave can use to cut your character up, it's highly armored, the gun ports are still good at close range, it weighs close to 3 tons, and currently going at around 80ish through the Green City. Hijacking is highly unlikely. Attacking it maybe, but the only thing tougher than the War Machine is Arms Slave himself. Also there's like ten other people inside who are a higher level than Arms Slave and would know you're coming, and respond as appropriately. And than there's Kill Dozer and Iron Maiden in their own battlewagons with their own players accompanying them, also likely aware of Carnage Liberated and have their attacks ready. They're expecting a fight, so that's thirty actions that go off as soon as they find the enemy, not including whatever is going on with war machines currently.

[OverconfidentMagi]

I almost feel bad for not having the Marauders help the Rangers. Oh well, I doubt they could get there it time to do much more than clean up anyways.