As the title helpfully suggests, this is going to be a fight between Terry Bogard (the player) and myself that takes place in South Town.

What might be less apparent is that it’s also some unholy crossover between SNK’s King of Fighters Universe and Roleplayer Guild’s Symphony of Esper Universe. Two worlds with a pseudo anime aesthetic where people fight each other but otherwise have almost nothing else in common. Yet if you can suspend your disbelief long enough, there might be something here that interests you.

Terry and I have talked about the duel extensively. It would be boring to cover everything or give you the play by play, so here’s where we’re at.

Terry Bogard (the player) is going to be playing as our very own, big and masculine, dad avenging, tournament winning, fist flying, seismic slamming, Terry Bogard (the character)! While I will play as some iteration of the tall and thin, monster slaying, syndicate toppling, dagger flipping, spirit summoning, Mika Fang! We’ll put up the sheets once we’re ready to show them to the world, but we keep getting ideas by looking at the other one’s sheet and I’ve decided this time I’m going to need to fold and let Terry have the better sheet.

The fight is going to take place in South town, preferably in or near China town. Yes, South Town is actually a city for those who didn’t know. So inside of South Town you have China town. I think this would be a good place given the influence Chinese characters have had on both of our characters. That and someone has to throw fried noodles at least once in our fight or I’m calling it a failure. Either way I thought of this just now and have not talked to Terry Bogard (the player) much regarding this specific detail. We did agree that the best thing to do would be to get things rolling so that we knew what we were forgetting.

Additionally, this is going to have some fighting game logic in it. Not an excessive amount, just a bit of fighting game flavor. Expect some meter management to take place during the fight. Terry Bogard (the player) has taken parts of several iterations of Terry Bogard (the character) and made them into a combatant. I turned Mika Fang, who is a PvE RP character, turned her into a fighting game character, then back into a PvP RP character. This strange conversion process plus KoF and SoE/SoH having vastly different settings and power scales is why some suspension of disbelief is necessary. We’ve agreed to scale our characters to something along the lines of Jojo’s bizarre adventure to smooth things out, though probably with a lot less dismemberment and death. Which is a shame, because I find those a lot of fun...

Is there anything else to say? No!?!??!

Let the insanity begin!!!

@Terry Bogard So yea, China Town.

@BrokenPromise LMFAO. What an intro! Some bits kinda remind of Rock’s promos, and I like that.

But anyway, I’ll be working on the first post ASAP. It might take a bit, but I can make sure that it’s gonna be dope. Right now, should I just drop my sheet on the Characters section? I don’t think I have much left to be edited anymore, though.

I don't watch enough wrestling to know how accurate your statement is, but I did take inspiration from a few announcers. Though the names of the movies they appeared in escape me.

You can put your character up. As I told you previously I just want to edit the note descriptions to make them more specific. They still read very general as they were copied over from the Doctrine of Combat Supremacy that all espers use. My goal is to get that done over the weekend, but I do most of my GM posts on the weekends and I've got chores galore today.

So a delay on a totally sweet intro post is fine by me.

Gotcha, @BrokenPromise! Anyway, take all the time you need, though. I know that being a GM could be exhausting at times. I still need to revise my Deathstroke post, as well as working on two other posts, so hopefully, after most of them has been done, I’ll start working on the intro.

Besides, here’s one of those Rock’s promos I was talking about:



Lol

Thanks for understanding sport! Good luck with your other posts. I just did a writing marathon so I can use a breather.

I'd have responded sooner, but I didn't want to do so before having my sheet finished "enough." I was going for an old boxing announcer vibe, but that indeed does sound a lot like the rock now that I see it.

Also, I'm subscribed to this topic, so it isn't essential to keep mentioning me every time you post. You can keep doing it of course, it makes me feel extremely important when you do so.

Aside from getting all of Mika's notes in order and adjusting some flavor text, I decided to ditch "The Final Lives of Stripes." A trio of free teleports that kick in just before you take damage in an RP where a single hit severely impacts a characters performance is a nice tool to have. But it didn't feel very fighting game esque to be able to instantly avoid all of Terry's supers, so I ditched it.

No prob, chief! I still have one more to work on ASAP. Then, after that, I can start working on the starter for this RP. And take all the time you need to respond, no worries. I understand that you have lots of things to do in regard to both RL and RP, and so do I. You have no idea, but I’ve actually subscribed to this thread way earlier than you did lol.

Anyway, I’ll be checking the latest revision as soon as I can. Actually, I don’t mind Mika having that as part of her specials/supers. After all, there are tons of fighting game characters who can teleport outta incoming attacks, like Athena for instance. Then, you have Rugal who can basically create a mirror to send a projectile back to its sender.

I can add it back in later if you don't think it's a big deal. We can talk about it after you've read her present sheet.

I’ve read it a bit. Just realized that Mika has a healing power similar to Elena’s now. Lol. Pretty nice, actually.

Anyway, the first post is out. Just wanna let you know that, if it’s ok, I might just be posting every once a week, unless I’m not too occupied. Though, of course, I can always try to post as frequently as I can in a week whenever nothing gets in my way.

Take all the time you need to write yours, though. As usual, I’ll see you in the DMs ASAP :)

Slower post rate is fine. Someone else is cruising for a bruising so that should work out.

We did cover that once a week would be fine. Posting more is always good, but sometimes that's all I can manage myself. That, and I have plenty of side projects to occupy my time. It's probably going to be a few posts before anyone gets punched or stabbed, so you have plenty of time to look over our sheets more if you need to.

Thanks for understanding, man! I did make that suggestion, didn’t I? I thought we both were equally occupied when it comes to RP and whatnot, so I thought that was an ideal schedule. No cap, but there’s even a RP group that allows you to post only once every two weeks, so I guess we can catch up with each other whenever either or both of us are available.

On the side note, I do plan on reading a bunch of stuff today. I thought I’d missed out a lot of good stuff. It’d be both our sheets and posts from one of the RP groups I’ve been part of. Hopefully, I can give you my two cents once I give the newest revision a thorough read in the DMs.

Uguu, I had planned on posting this earlier but the weekend was ABSOLUTELY WILD (in a not so good way) and I didn't have as much time to do things as I wanted. So here's my serviceable confirmation that I am still existing.

It’s all good. Life happens. Nice logo for Mika, btw. I’ll be catching up with you ASAP, fam

Posted! Sorry if it took a while. Was struggling most of the week, especially last Sunday. Feel free to catch up whenever you’re ready! (^_^)

If I recall correctly, we were going to hold off on doing signature and super moves at the start.That was good to provoke a fight, but I'm going to keep Mika's mana driven abilities locked until Terry throws another special move.

Indeed, but I just figured it was good for a show. Just for that exact scenario, is all. I do think of having Terry throw more punches and kicks to make the fight more grounded like we’ve discussed. Though, if you wanna use specials sparingly, I’d say go ahead. I might do that again only when Terry has to.

Btw, I’ll work on his post ASAP. About time, because I’ve just finalized the collab post with guys from the Smash RP.

Wow. I know we agreed to a pretty lax posting routine, but that was probably not worth the wait, kek!

I probably could have written a combo up or something, but without seeing how Terry reacts to pain, I figured there was a pretty high likelihood that Mika wouldn't get it all off. This is assuming her attack here even lands. That, and it's probably okay to have a few short posts here and there when we get to situations like this where positioning is hard to keep track of.

It’s cool. No need to rush. Btw, I’m in a really great mood to write, so I’ll catch up with you ASAP.

And like I said, Terry’s emphasis on the offenses can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, his strikes can take a good chunk of his opponent’s HP if connected, but on the other hand, it leaves him vulnerable for any of the incoming attacks, especially if his opponent is smart enough to expose his weaknesses.

I don’t mind short posts if that’s gonna make things easier to manage, though, and... yeah, I can have Terry sell Mika’s moves every now and then if possible.

Yeah... posted! Told you, he’s gonna sell.

He did, he sold all of his stocks. And he made a profit too.