Crossfire

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@fer1323 I'll provide whatever help I can, just send me an outline of your character/chosen game either here on in a PM

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@Crossfire

Does "3 active abilities" mean that I need to pick 3 weapons? Or can it be something like 'use all Worms weapons' as one ability?

@Peaceless

That'd be one ability, just like my Weapons Locker ability

Need to post this now before I forget it, I've got a pair of announcements to make, but I'm waiting until we're ready to tart the IC before I let you all know, or maybe I'll keep em a secret until its time for these "events" to show up in the IC REDACTED. Hehehe *evil laughs*

Dirty Dozen/Suicide Squad in Space

Yeah thats cool man, take all the time you need, I'll be here and interested if/when it goes up

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@Lichthart@alexfangtalon@MechonRaptor@fer1323@Peaceless@DFA@Erklings25@Fabricant451@Chaotic Chao

Done already. So what I did was removed the Preferred Weapons/ Power up section, in favor of a Game Master Abilities section, which will be (excuse me while I copy/paste) Up to 3 passive abilities that act as buffs for yourself/the team, and up to 3 active abilities (with limitations) these can be anything from summoning weapons to providing a temporary damage boost, whatever makes sense for your chosen Game Mastery. All Game Master Abilities may not be usable in every game world.

I'm not sure where else to put this, but in the opening IC post we'll be equipped with something akin to the old Power Glove.

Obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZErvASwdlU

This is where our Game Master Armor/Abilities manifest from as well as acting as handy little tools to feed us intel about the Game Worlds and such. In the case of Game Master Abilities being blocked in certain worlds, we can use them to load in appropriate equipment from that Game World. Kind of like in the old show ReBoot (I'm adding in a couple clips below this just in case anyone's never seen it)

Clip 1

https://youtu.be/Mb48YDxhPkg?t=49s

Theres unfortunately a massive spoiler in the last 2 and 1/2 or so minutes of this one, so be careful unless you don't care/already know.

Clip 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6fDSYBl43c

Edit: Reposting the poll in case anyone hasnt voted yet, right now Dark Souls has the lead by 1 vote!
http://www.strawpoll.me/10948617

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@Crossfire Hmm, what do you think about The Last of Us or Mirror's Edge?

@alexfangtalon

Either or would be perfectly fine.

@Lichthart@MechonRaptor You guys won't need to wait long at all. I have a pretty good idea for how I want to do this, within the hour I should have figured out a way to put it into words and i'll edit it into the OP plus make a new post to highlight it for everybody.

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@alexfangtalon@Lichthart
Definitely still open, but I'm not sure about that need for speed based character, wouldn't really have much application in a lot of the worlds we'll visit, and I wouldn't want anyone to be locked out of using their special abilities for about 80% of the rp

P.S. to everyone else, I'm still thinking over possible changes to the way our abilities work, I'll keep you all updated

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@fer1323
No real limits I suppose, just as long as they're within reason, there may be story elements to upgrading skills later on, but for now I'll leave it up to each of you to decide if you want to leave room for power evolution or just have the full scale power from the get-go. General rule of thumb I used when designing my guy is a couple of passive abilities (increased strength, agility, tactical awareness) and one ultimate skill with a major limitation (he can summon any weapon (mainly from Gears of War) but once hes selected them, hes locked in until a 'cooldown timer' counts down) Sitting here now has me actually thinking it over, maybe I'll do a slight edit to that portion of the CS to have some hard guidelines on our abilities to reduce the need to just completely strip them away depending on the game world... I'll sleep on it anyway (3AM here now).

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@fer1323@Erklings25@Fabricant451@DFA@MechonRaptor@Chaotic Chao

So hows it going guys? Any questions or concerns about the CS?

EDIT: I threw this together http://www.strawpoll.me/10948617 don't know if I'll be doing up a poll like this for every game world, may just be easier to throw a bunch of options in a post and discuss it here. I'll play it by ear until I can get a consensus on which method is better. Sidenote, this was just the first couple of games that popped into my head. Zelda would probably involve some combination of a giant Hyrule Warriors-esque battle scene followed by a Boss Rush mode, or we'd take on one massive dungeon together with a single super strong boss at the end. Killer Instinct would be more or less a straight up 1 vs 1 tournament of us vs the evil NPCS. Dark Souls would be a lone portion of the game, we clear an area and beat a boss, then claim our prize. Pokemon would probably have to be like a tournament as well, Something like Gym Leader Castle from the N64 games, I cant think of any way to encapsulate the Pokemon experience in any other way that doesn't immediately turn this into a Pokemon rp for 6 months. Halo would most likely be a multiplayer match or 2. Doom would likely be a straightforward 'go in and kill shit' kind of mission, and Mario kart could be either a grand prix race or the battle mode (or maybe both)

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David Stark

Name: David Stark

Nickname: Dave

Appearance: Very average looking guy, he's 5'11, weighs about 170 pounds, has blue-green eyes and dark brown shaggy hair. He usually wears track pants and a t-shirt with a hoodie and a very cheap looking pair of sneakers. His Game Master outfit is a high-tech version of the COG Armor in Gears of War. It starts off in the Standard configuration, but on his command he can shift it into Battle configuration.

Standard Armor

Battle Armor

Gender/Age: Male/22

Gamer Title: Captain_Cross

Chosen Game Mastery: Gears of War (Character abilities consist mainly of slightly above average strength, agility, and tactical planning, as well as true mastery of the word 'shit'. He also has access to a digital weapons locker, where he can select and use any weapon from the Gears series on the fly)

Game Master Abilities: Passive: Increased Strength, Increased Agility, Increased Tactical Awareness
Active: Digital Weapons Locker: Can Select and Summon any base weapon from the Gears of War series on the fly. Limited by a cooldown timer and lock-in mechanism.
Tac-Com: A sort of active radar that he can use to easily identify and tag friends and foes. Able to share ability with team
Heavy Weapons Locker: Can summon one heavy weapon for limited use. Severe cooldown timer and locks out standard Weapons Locker ability for quite some time. Able to use once per game world

Background: At 22, David is kind of the de-facto 'leader' of his group of gamer friends. He attends the local community college where he's pursuing a writing degree. He has literally been gaming his whole life, a popular story told at family gatherings is that his father bought an NES "for his son" and proceeded to only use it himself since David was about 2 months old at the time. His love for gaming only grew from there, in fact, most of his childhood memories have to do with gaming in some form or another, like getting his old Game Boy Color and Pokemon Red from his mom the day before he was supposed to go into the hospital for tonsil removal, and his excitement at Christmas the year he got an N64 and the pure unadulterated joy of beating BassX in Megaman Battle Network 3 on a warm summer day with his best friend at his side. Like his Game Master Armor, he seems pretty hardened and cold on the outside (mainly to people he doesn't know or is not familiar with) but on the inside, he's very warm, and sociable, and he would do anything for his friends at the flick of a switch.

Other: David's other major interest is watching movies and TV Shows, so he has a penchant for busting out references or quotes from time to time. Video gaming is obviously his primary hobby though, his collection reaches nearly 400 games across 10 different systems, and even though his love for shooters, particularly Gears shines bright, he loves action-adventures, fighting games, a couple of sports games and RPGs too. Fallout 3 and the Mass Effect Trilogy are some of his favorite games of all time, in fact, the bounty hunter Wrex from Mass Effect is his favorite character in any game.

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Great ideas so far everyone!

So, this is what I'm thinking, to decide which world we'll tackle, I'll do up a poll or something that we can vote on, most popular choice wins, and then next time around I'll use the same choices, but with a new world swapped in.

No idea how many worlds we'll end up visiting in total, but it could definitely go on for a while. I feel like we should have a goal in mind, 8 seems to be the magic number for a lot of old Nintendo games like Mario and Zelda, maybe we'll be looking for artifacts from 8 different genres? Either way, we'll probably encounter some plot twist on the way to lengthen our quest.

@Peaceless everything looks good, go ahead and post it in the Character Tab whenever!