DracoLunaris

Tooth and Claw (Sci-Fi Pit Fighting and Societal War for Good Measure)[High Casual]

@ScreenAcne
I am afraid not.

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@Hostile normal people don't catch the interest of the Gman. Unless your talking about how he is technically just a smart fit guy in a ridiculously good for combat environmental suit, in which case yeah, only normal in the party. Gordon may have to be her rock in a sea of ego and snark. Apart from the actual rock, which I will have to find and then use to bludgeon our enemies till i get my first actual combat ability. which is something like lvl 4.

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@Hostile

not only are you 4 legends, 2 of you having leadership as a strength, we also have our full of himself Mario and Garrett is snarky and abhors killing, while she is a little fish woman with very little experience dealing with people. This is going to be interesting.

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@Zarkun

I look forward to Mario and other Legends being 100% flabbergasted by the lack of even remote knowledge of who they are. Simply because the looks on their faces when he says "All information on who you blokes and sheilas are to humanity was lost in a great cataclysm and we may have only MAYBE found something."

@Zarkun

Naija is kind of in the same situation. "sorry, everyone except me has been dead for ages, what is everything? I don't really get outside news in the ocean".

EDIT: Also, did anyone else notice that pretty much everyone with futuristic tech is on one team with Fox and Gordon being exceptions?

@Zarkun

Also that Crash's team is all melee chars with one caster and then the other 2 teams have a nice balance of shooting and melee. the random gen did manage too put one of our 3 energy damage sources in each team so that's nice. some other interesting things, our 2 support chars (at least they will probably be the only ones to have support skills when they lvl up) are both cooks, all the melee chars are unarmored and all but fox (who is kind of a hybrid anyway) of the ranged chars are wearing fairly heavy armor.

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Naija

Lvl: 1
Day: 1
Location: Tetris Castle Briefing Room
Speaking with: Luigi@Bright_Ops,Samus Aran @Lmpkio, Hapu @ToadRopes
Mentions: James Varrock@Zarkun Slayer @Lugubrious

"Yeah, you got the gist of it rather well. And now, you'll be having that chance to save the lives of billions from this virus. To really make a difference. And to you, along with everyone else in this room, I wish the best of luck."

That was a relief, she wasn’t sure why, but she felt like she had something to live up to when it came to Samus, like she in her adventure she had flowed a path Samus had first defined. She seemed like one who you did not want to draw the ire of and her well wishing and agreement to her awkward speech lit a little flame of pride in her heart.

”Thank you, good luck to you as well”

Samus turned to greet another armored warrior equipped with those boxy weapons. She should find out what those where and what they did. Luigi then responded to her query.

"Well... For what it's worth I don't really consider myself much of a hero either. My brother Mario's the one who generally leads the charge when it comes to saving the Mushroom Kingdom or fighting whatever threat has raised its ugly head... I just tend to go along because someone has to watch out for him..." There was a slight pause before he added with a sigh "Even if he can be rather... egotistical."

Ah, he was a bit like her, do the right thing but, while not for the wrong reason then at least not for the best one in their own opinions, she thought his was rather noble. His specific circumstances reminded her of Li, whom had dutifully followed her on her adventure and gotten kidnapped by the creator twice for his trouble. Luigi seemed like a nice person so far, hopefully they could become friends.

” Doing something to protect the people you care about seems like a good reason fight, particularly if they are endangered because they are saving a whole kingdom.”

saving a kingdom was definitely the kind of thing that sounded heroic, though If Mario was who she thought he was then the individual might have been in it for the glory.

”Mario being the one in red I presume?” She points over at the similarly dressed man ”He does seem rather... boisterous and a little full of himself. ”

She had noticed the rather Dandy gentleman while looking across the room. Had he been here this whole time? Surely she would have noticed him earlier if he had. More memory loss? That was worrying. She waved at him in greeting anyway. As she added this to the list of things to be questioned later, a large and intimidating mental document already, she absentmindedly added.

”The matching outfits you both have are cute though ”

....

Nope, nope nope she should not have said that, hero's probably did not like being called cute, goodbye possible friendship and dignity. No, wait, its OK, look Hapu is speaking, she should pay really close attention to that and just pretend what she just said never happened. Problem solved.

Hapu spoke up. "Perhaps, in regards to your brother, being willing to watch out for him and make sure that hero work does get done is heroic in itself," she remarked. "I believe it is a variable definition, with one constant: the desire to do the right thing..."

"A pleasure to make your acquaintances, and as representative of the world of Pokémon, Mudsdale and I will gladly work at your side to quell this new threat. That being said, it's more nuanced of a definition than some would like to believe. There are those who aware of the danger they themselves pose, and those that believe themselves to be the heroes and yet hurt so many people in the process... and I do not know which is more dangerous. Ah, I don't mean to intrude; that is a question I have thought about since my appointment as kahuna,"

”No it’s fine we don’t mind at all. So um...”

Actually what she had said was quite interesting even if it had involved several things she had never heard of, she hadn't minded focusing on that at all. Throwing caution and polite conversation protocol to the wind in her flustered state Naija’s inner curiosity bypassed the bureaucratic division in charge of the question document and instead loaded all of the queries straight into her mouth and fired them indiscriminately at the women.

”Who is Mudsdale? what's a kahuna? What kind of person does hurtful things but thinks they are a hero?”

Tooth and Claw (Sci-Fi Pit Fighting and Societal War for Good Measure)[High Casual]

happy "hooray we are half way through winter and we are not dead yet" celebration to you too.

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I swear if one of the teams randomly gets Quina Quen as the leader it is either going to be the most successful group by miles or a catastrophic party wipe. no middle-ground. Either way it would be amazing.

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Naija

Lvl: 1
Day: 1
Location: Tetris Castle Briefing Room
Speaking with: Luigi@Bright_Ops,Samus Aran @Lmpkio, Hapu @ToadRopes
Mentions:

"What makes you, for starters?"

"Just to clarify, are you asking about what traits I have that I believe make me a hero or are you asking after my own achievements?"

Ah, there was the question effectively turned back in her face, no chance to gauge the audience before speaking of herself, which is what she had hoped for. The arrival of the small(smaller than herself even, though with her crouched hopping gait she would still be the lowest to the ground in a lineup) gave her an opportunity to mull it over as Hapu sat down next to her and Luigi introduced them all.

”Hello Hapu. If your talking about dealing with the Virus then yes, we where summoned for that. I believe they are about to do a bit of exposition on the subject shortly”

She shuffled her chair back a bit to let Hapu so she wouldn't have lean forwards to speak past her if she wanted to say something to the others. Then she turned back to the 2 question askers with her response.

” I guess I’ve never met someone who could be called a hero. Honestly, I wouldn’t really have considered myself one till the cloud turtle appeared and was told there was a meeting of them that I was invited to. So I guess was trying to find out what the definition of a hero was in terms of this meeting, what I can expect from the people I will be fighting along side.”

She scratches the back of her head.

”In a sense your question outlines the 2 of the 3 general possible answers I was expecting you to give, and which you think makes a hero. But are people here because they are heroic in character, because they have been hailed as a hero or because they have faced down evil and prevailed? Why someone they think they are a hero is maybe a good indication of character, are they proud of their deeds, honored by their people or self assured of their noble motives”

She leaves that hanging in the air a bit before blushing

” “It was also a really weird question to try and get to know you… sorry, you and Samus reminded me of some Lumerean scriptures I read in their ruins, I think you were mentioned in them? They seemed to liked to wax philosophical about stuff like ‘what makes a hero’ when they weren’t writing about praising the sun or their weird machines, so it kind of put me in that mindset. Um to answer you Samus, I think it’s because I have… kill monsters and things that have done great evil, but more because they were in the way of the answers I sought than because it was right thing to do. But I am here now, so maybe I can fight for a world where the people still live. For all worlds I guess because it is a good thing to do.”

Also because the summoning let her escape mothers imprisonment. She left that bit out, it could make her look weak or not committed to this task. She watches them, legs swinging as she nervously awaits their response to here ramblings.

Tooth and Claw (Sci-Fi Pit Fighting and Societal War for Good Measure)[High Casual]

This was only their third bout and those 2 had been much smaller, only for advent crowds. Tryouts the master had called them, this was the real thing. Still they knew what to expect. carnage. blood. death. But also a freedom from the confines of the lab, the tests, the cramped quarters, and that awful stagnant synthetic smelling air. Out here the air only smelled of blood, sweat and fear which was a slight improvement and there would be space to run about.

They where both scared and eager to get out of this cage, fidgeting, constantly re-positioning their spike feet to try and get the best possible starting position. They eyed up their opponents, a large metal plated man, a skeletal thin man with a mutilated face and a man with no obvious changes. Humans they had never fought before, only advents post human horrors like the dancing Viper King or the centipedel Pain Train.

the metal man and the normal human spoke of mercy, traps and weapons.

"I offer no guarantees of your survival Xander, if you poison yourself on my spines as we fight it will be your own undoing. Metal-man may do well to not judge by appearance, who knows what the two man-things may be hiding, it could be a trap. It must be a trap. They will wait for us to fight and then spit acid or grow knives out their knuckles or..."

they devolve into unintelligible paranoid chittering.

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Naija

Lvl: 1
Day: 1
Location: Tetris Castle Council room
Speaking with: Luigi@Bright_Ops
Mentions: Crash Bandicoot@Argetlam350, Mario and the council@Holy Soldier, Edward Buck@Aether Spawn

Naija leaned back in her chair and watched impatiently as the rest of the group filtered into the room. Before if she wanted answers she would set out into the world and find them herself, she had never really had to wait politely to be told things but it was probably rude to pick fights with your host. She was also becoming aware that something that had happened between her capture by her mother had left her memories of her skills rather frazzled, either being repeatedly forced unconscious or the teleporter had left her without most of her knowledge of the verse. That was worrying, her most commonly used combat ability, the Energy Form, was currently locked away from her. She had to hope that she could recover her memory of the notes by getting into situations similar to the ones she had sung them before. Namely violence. She remembered that time she tried to beat a giant ammonite to death with a bolder. that had been a dangerous slog. This was going to be interesting.

In the meantime she watched the others arrive, one of the armored men took a position against the back wall, the red wearing human engaged one of the council in loud decision over some piece of paper, she waved back to the orange biped who who sat down next to the orange armored one and was promptly harassed by the floating mask that had been following him.

Finally there was a rather tall and thin human, with a handsome face and hair on his upper lip (a mustache? Li had jokingly bemoaned that he would never grow one after his transformation). Who was wearing a green and blue outfit and a matching hat with an L on it. She was wondered what it stood for when he sat down next to her and introduced himself.

"Hello. My name's Luigi. It's a pleasure to meet you Miss."

His name then. She placed her slightly damp small hand in his offered gloved and politely shook it.

”It is nice to meet you too Luigi. I am Naija. um”

she floundered around mentally for a conversation topic, anything to stave of the boredom of waiting.

“They specifically invited heroes here, so, if you don’t mind me asking, what makes you a hero?”

She hoped she could learn a bit about the character and deeds of those she was going to be working with, Aquaria was not a good place to learn outside information about these other kingdoms. All she had was vague inscriptions from dead civilizations and Li’s rather outdated information he conveyed in his rather poorly learned version of her language. Actually it was surprising all these surface dwellers from all these kingdoms spoke that language as well. Weird.