[OOC] The League - Superhero Sci Fi and Urban Fantasy RP

[An Outsider]

MrDidact said
No one's post is lengthier than my second post haha. I'm somewhat busy at the moment and if i can't post in the next hour or so, expect one later tonight.

Challenge accepted!

[MrDidact]

Ha, to beat me it must also have copious amounts of pop-culture music choices.

[Asuras]

MrDidact said
No one's post is lengthier than my second post haha. I'm somewhat busy at the moment and if i can't post in the next hour or so, expect one later tonight.

Probably because you've got multiple characters.

[An Outsider]

MrDidact said
Ha, to beat me it must also have copious amounts of pop-culture music choices.

Now its starting to sound like too much work for my lazy ass

[Asuras]

NEUTRO SMASH.

[Dblade26]

okay um...what the hell? Asuras, they're not simulations or even actual terrorists. this is a training exercise, they're innocent workers. we were all specifically told to do this non-lethally and you're talking about painting yourself with their insides? Just...

what?

[Asuras]

Shit. Non-lethally? Forgot. My apologies.

In any case, I thought the non-powered actors were holograms, alongside the civilians.

[Yog Sothoth]

Asuras said
Shit. Non-lethally? Forgot. My apologies.In any case, I thought the non-powered actors were holograms, alongside the civilians.

even so, is your character an anti-hero? it sounds like he is okay with killing criminals

[Asuras]

*Holograms

[Rin]

...It's a simulation to see how you'd react under this situation. Thus he should be treating it as though it was actual people he was facing. Brutally murdering them would probably not make him look good in the eyes of a superhero team, since it still shows little value for human life since his first reaction was "remorseless slaughter". I mean I know you edited it but still, it's something to keep in mind.

...Sorry for being kind of a bitch, but I'm just kind of frustrated at the moment. I'm close to just throwing my hands in the air and trying to figure out a replacement character, since I have no idea how to make Natsumi work in this situation and I'm a little puzzled as to why the training excercise is so much more excessive than the actual field mission. Hurm... But again, frustrated so I dunno.

[An Outsider]

Why don't you have her use her tendrils to incapacitate some gunmen?

As for why you have the more difficult mission its probably because Pariah wants to separate the wheat from the chaff. Make it hard and get rid of the no-users. Between that, the fact that he wont show any leeway because the enemy wont, and that our enemies in the mission aren't the smartest, you guys just got unlucky.

[Dblade26]

Well yeah but the course is kind of designed so that it's REALLY difficult for anyone with mainly melee ability to do much at this point and honestly I feel like it is being a little excessive...

[MrDidact]

Yes, Neutro is supposed to be a gentle giant. That doesn't really mesh with him hulking out as it were.

Rin, your character has quite an arsenal of abilities, any character's powers used creatively can be useful in almost any scenario. And BlackSam is right, Pariah is putting everyone through their paces. The heroes thought that the training mission would be easier, and by making it as tough as it is he unbalances the heroes and forces them to adapt to the situation, both revealing who has what it takes and preparing them for the kinds of missions they would eventually have to do. The other players got lucky by fighting street-level enemies in the early stages of the roleplay. But I will scale down the exercise from my initial plans, so it will be somewhat more forgiving then I had originally envisioned. Once the players break through the latest challenge it shouldn't get that much more difficult. Also you could have your character help take out the nests on the rooftops as that is a close-range situation.

Also nice pun BlackSam haha.

[Dblade26]

Well yeah but I can understand Rin feeling frustrated and again, while IC it makes sense, recognizing that the intensity level seems a bit off for some people OOC seems pretty valid. Now that I'm back around I'll try and be helpful coming up with stuff too

Edit: Actually if she saw that Strix was having trouble taking out the sniper's nest, she could use the Tindalos Teleportation thingy to get in close and help him hit the sniper's nest close up, specifically. Which would make sense since they know each other previously maybe.

[MrDidact]

I understand that and I'll keep that in mind when ironing out details for future missions. This training exercise probably won't be matched in difficulty for a while, but then that is due to the intensive nature of the training.

EDIT: I'd also like to point out that there's nothing stopping people from picking up the enemy's weapons. Those non-lethal armaments should satisfy any silly moral codes your characters may have about using firearms :P

[Sep]

what would happen if someone were to join now?

If it is acceptable I am toying between my usual super hero concept of Mime (A guy who can basically use someone elses power for a short period of time (One power, he can't take multiple)) or a guy who can manipulate shadow.

Decisions decisions.

Eitherway I'm going my home nationality, cause... yeah...

[VitaVitaAR]

Um, wait, uh...

Blast Girl has personal gravity manipulation. Without getting into how she could have made herself heavier to prevent from even being picked up again in the first place, um, well... she could easily have made herself lighter again after being thrown so that she didn't crash through safety glass and a counter.

... Honestly I don't know what to do now because she would've done one of those things and without doing those things she's either seriously injured or dead...

[Dblade26]

MrDidact said
I'd also like to point out that there's nothing stopping people from picking up the enemy's weapons. Those non-lethal armaments should satisfy any silly moral codes your characters may have about using firearms :P

Okay, I don't want to make too big a deal out of this, but dismissing potentially defining character traits of some of the PCs as 'silly moral codes' is...kind of dumb from certain points of view. For example with Strix it's not lethality from firearms that makes him really dislike using them. They're a symbol of his parents' deaths and everything that's wrong with the world to him. The lethal or non-lethal nature wouldn't make a difference and calling it a 'silly moral code' is kind of meh. That said I was debating whether the grenade launchers would be different enough that he'd consider using one...

VitaVitaAR said
Um, wait, uh...Blast Girl has personal gravity manipulation. Without getting into how she could have made herself heavier to prevent from even being picked up again in the first place, um, well... she could easily have made herself lighter again after being thrown so that she didn't crash through safety glass and a counter.... Honestly I don't know what to do now because she would've done one of those things and without doing those things she's either seriously injured or dead...

...That's kind of a bigger problem though. One or two of your GM posts at least have involved auto-hitting the PCs which...is kind of bad for reasons similar to this.

Sorry for the criticisms, I haven't slept for a long while but this stuff's been bothering me.

[An Outsider]

Dblade26 said
That's kind of a bigger problem though. One or two of your GM posts at least have involved auto-hitting the PCs which...is kind of bad for reasons similar to this.Sorry for the criticisms, I haven't slept for a long while but this stuff's been bothering me.

To offer a counter argument (just cause I'm contrary by nature) I encourage ya to use you're GM powers to auto-hit Volt. A lot of Rp'ers I've seen in the past can lapse into Marty-Stu territory with their characters (Myself included) and I think its important for the GM to maintain that the PC's aren't invincible, especially in an RP like this. In my last post I was just gonna have Volt shock Shank into submission, but then decided against it, leaving it open ended for MrD, who then had Shank break free and auto-hit Volt a few times. Arguably this makes for a much more exciting scene, which I had to use my imagination to deal with.

[Polyphemus]

BlackSam3091 said
To offer a counter argument (just cause I'm contrary by nature) I encourage ya to use you're GM powers to auto-hit Volt. A lot of Rp'ers I've seen in the past can lapse into Marty-Stu territory with their characters (Myself included) and I think its important for the GM to maintain that the PC's aren't invincible, especially in an RP like this. In my last post I was just gonna have Volt shock Shank into submission, but then decided against it, leaving it open ended for MrD, who then had Shank break free and auto-hit Volt a few times. Arguably this makes for a much more exciting scene, which I had to use my imagination to deal with.

I agree. Victory should never come easy.