[OOC] The War of the Three

[TheWendil]

@16 Bit

This is good to hear.

[thewizardguy]

Intended to post for Antaeus as well, but it's getting too late. Sorry. I'm going to fall unconscious now, I'll post for Antaeus tomorrow morning when I wake up.

[TheWendil]

@thewizardguy

Come to the Discord, as there are things to be discussed concerning your post.

[KoL]

I'll have a post to move the battle forward up to this Wednesday if nothing unexpected happens, those who still wish to do something before that; feel free to do so.

[thewizardguy]

So due to my mother becoming hospitalized I've been generally unavailable for the past week-and-a-half. My apologies for this. My life's been a bit hectic, but things are finally going back to normal over here. Hence my returning ability to actually post. My apologies for the lack of activity, however, it was an unavoidable situation.

So once again I'm checking whether I'm kicked out or expected to return.

[TheWendil]

@thewizardguy

Why would you be kicked out.

[The 42nd Gecko]

@thewizardguy We did have an ultimatum on "if Khaine isn't moved by Wednesday, we'll move him out of the way", but other than that, I think you're good. You have until KoL posts today, otherwise Khaine will probably get sidelined.

[thewizardguy]

@TheWindel@The 42nd Gecko
Eh, I was worried due to me being absent suddenly. I'll try and get a post up.

[TheWendil]

@thewizardguy

Khaine might be taken out of battle, but you're not out of the RP.

[thewizardguy]

Khaine has been posted for, but I made sure he can still be taken out fairly easily if this becomes necessary.

I've decided to balance Khaine by declaring he needs concentration to do things. When focusing on a large-scale attack with dozens of portals, he can't move at the same time. Figured it'd prevent him from doing a bajillion things in a turn, which appeared to be an issue last time.

Also, decided Godfall needs a while to recharge between shots instead of being a full-auto weapon like it was before. Prevents it from being all too OP. It needs to be actively summoned to charge, so he needs to hold this thing out in the open for a while in order to be able to use it again.

[Flood]

Deranged Devil

Why not laugh? Your life has been a joke and death is the punchline!
Thomas Insania aka
The Deranged Devil of Hell

Age: 547
Gender: Male
Allegiance: Hell
Race: Vampire/Demon
Height: 5'6
Weight: Who has the time to stand still on some scale?
Personality: To Thomas, everything in life is a joke. Whether it's the War, Factions, even the Nexus itself, nothing can be taken seriously. Why should he, his actions have no true consequences in a world without death. So he chooses to do whatever he pleases, which in this case is to spread as much mayhem and misery as possible in his pursuit of power.
History: One day a very important Demon was born and taken away from his mother. But the story of Thomas begins one hour after this. The Demon burst from his mother with a strange look in his eye. One could tell from the moment of birth that something about him was distinctly off. His mother died shortly after he was born, leaving him with only a name, Thomas Insania. Nobody would claim Thomas, so he was quickly thrown out into Hell, left to fend for himself amongst the overwhelming chaos of a dog eat dog world. Against all odds, he flourished. He managed to find someone to take him in and raise him until the age of 6, at which point Thomas killed the fool and burnt the home to the ground. He wandered from village to village, finding suckers to take him in and then killing them after he had driven their lives into the dirt. From the momene he learned to walk, all he knew was that he wanted to destroy everything he saw.

This continued until he turned 18, at which point he began wandering the battlefields for fun. He would taunt dying soldiers, offering to help them and then slitting their throats just to see the looks on their dumb faces. One soldier had a little more kick to him however, a dying vampire managed to bite Thomas to dry and heal himself. Thomas lashed out in a fit of rage, smashing the vampire's head into the ground over and over until nothing was left but a pile of mush. Then he began laughing as drained the corpse of all blood, a vampire had been born.

Hundreds of years passed and Thomas began to mature somewhat. No longer would he destroy simply for shits and giggles, no his tastes had matured. Now he planned things out to cause as much pain as possible, slowly poisoning a town's water supply, cutting off limbs one by one to hear the victims scream as much as possible. It was during one of these excursions that he met a fellow psycho by the name of Harley. She revealed to him the truth behind his birth, how she had tampered with his mother during the pregnancy and injected her own DNA into him while he was but a fetus. He cared not, he had no true connection to his parents. She then revealed that he had a brother who was a prince, who had managed to rise above the rest and kill his own father. This caught his attention.

"What fun it would be to kill my own brother! The despair in his eyes as he realises that his life has been ended by his own blood, the cruelest joke of them all!" Harley took Thomas under her wing with the promise of power, enough to kill his brother as long as he remained loyal to her alone.

Powers:
Cruel Joke: Thomas is an undead Vampire, meaning that he has no true vital organs. Any wounds he suffers are purely cosmetic, the only way to kill him is to completely destroy his head or sever it in an instant.

Punchline: But the joke doesn't end there, he regenerates from wounds he suffers slowly while regenerating even faster if he can get his fangs in some warm body with blood in it.

Absolutely Batty: Thomas can sprout bat wings to fly across the battlefield at high speeds.

Knock Em Dead: Thomas packs a real punch as well, without the limits of a fragile living body he can punch as hard as he wants and run as fast as he please. This makes him into a terror on the battlefield as he runs from squad to squad, tearing each one apart like confetti paper.

Weapons:
Shadow Glaives: A matched pair of mechanical glaives, enchanted to return to their owner after being thrown and capable of spinning at break-neck speeds. Their blades are capable of poisoning anything not venom-resistant should they break skin.
Edge of Insanity: This axe defies all logic. He can seemingly pull it out of nowhere, it weighs practically nothing despite it's immense size, and is never damaged. No scratches, chips, dents, the only reason you can even tell it's been used is because of the bloodstains that cover every inch of it.
Cutting Remarks: Two daggers just as hungry as their owner, able to drain blood and hold it inside themselves like a syringe. This does nothing for the lethality of the knives, but it makes an effective quick heal for Thomas if he's ever in a pinch. Every cut drains a little blood from whatever wound they make, while a full stab can fill the knives up to capacity very quickly.
Theme:

[TheWendil]

@floodtalon

A different text color would make it easier to read.

[TheWendil]

@floodtalon

We need to discuss your character. There are things that make me go, "Hmm."

[The 42nd Gecko]

Alright, I'd like to officially declare that Cass will take the highway to the palace, and Cydone will fighting retreat from the whale monster spawn, but I can't muster up the will to make a full post out of it. It doesn't involve anyone, so, it's not terribly important.

[TheWendil]

@floodtalon

He's fine by me.

[KoL]

@floodtalon

I suppose he's ok.

Anyway, You should hold on this CS until we see what happens when we try that thread change. After all, it's going to happen right after this battle and we will jump straight into another one, if everything goes alright.

[Flood]

@floodtalon

I suppose he's ok.

Anyway, You should hold on this CS until we see what happens when we try that thread change. After all, it's going to happen right after this battle and we will jump straight into another one, if everything goes alright.

@KoL

I'm aware, just wanted to get it out there sooner rather than later.

[KoL]

@thewizardguy

You realize that Unit-T attacks are Machina weaponry, right? While it severely pains me to have to do this again, I need to remind you that they are not "minor explosions" that can be dismissed with a handwave. Also, Khaine just basically noselled Saef's Angel based attack. You are overestimating your characters... again.

If they don't even feel an attack from the opposing faction that should have some advantage over them, unless it's a world shattering nuke, what's even the point?

I'm beginning to get bored to have to remember you about not overdoing it every time you do a post.

*: reposted this from Discord for the sake of organization.

[Lonewolf685]

That post makes the early days of Henry look tame. He just solved all his problems with liberal use of his Gates back then, but this is some intensive stuff. No selling attacks and then throwing himself into an inescapable sword rush in no time at all.

He's the unmovable object, the unstoppable force, AND Ultra Instinct Goku all in one. It's almost like I need to drop something into the battle just to give him an actual threat or he'll just wind up taking everyone out, filleting the sea monsters, getting the scepter, and going home victorious without a blemish on his armor.

[thewizardguy]

@Lonewolf685
.... what? Antaeus hasn't managed to get off a single hit. Khaine landed one hit on Bonesword after BS played right into Khaine's strongest abilities, and other than that he's just been taking blows this entire fight. All of his most powerful abilities have been nerfed. How are people convinced he's OP? He hasn't DONE anything.