DracoLunaris

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not quite caught up yet, but the bowser bus will probably be available for boarding when I am done, or maybe I'll set it up so he lets anyone on board who wants on, then goes and lets em off after the platforming bit in one post and people can say if they rode or not at their own discretion.

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good news. we are back in business.

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Apologies for the continued delay. Have time to do the ps exchange tomorrow, so hopefully I'll be back with you then

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PC update: its probably the power-supply, ordered a new one and, so long as the problem has been correctly diagnosed and the replacement goes well, i should be back with you on Saturday/Sunday.

I appropriate the offer for help, @Archmage MC. hopefully I wont need it.

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I'm having computer problems so I won't really be able to post till they are fixed. A few days at worst I think.

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I should have made it clear earlier, but so you know, there's a limit on how many strikers you can have; the number is equal to your character's level. As such, you cannot have an immense mob of strikers, forcing characters to be selective about who they choose and keep as strikers.

First off, there are certain characters that are known for being in groups, as duos, or trios. An example is Techies; if they're defeated, there won't be three spirits -one for each goblin- but one spirit with all three inside. This is the case for spirits in the game, too; Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres are a single spirit. So, you could just get a spirit that's ten cuccos all together. Of course, it'd be a really tough fight.

Second, Linkle could just get one cucco as a striker. Since the cucco's defining ability is summoning more when it's attacked, it can be reasoned that doing so is simply its power, and it can bring out a bunch more cuccos for a limited time, thus getting your horde while only occupying one slot.

Third, she could just absorb one's spirit and take the cucco's power, gaining the ability to summon cuccos when attacked herself.

@Lugubrious

That limit seems fair. I was expecting to see something stopping Bowser for just taking every soul we find and amassing them in his army show up eventually.
That said I still want to have hordes of a single minion types acting as a singular striker slot, same as the chickens situation. That could involve squishing them all to a weird soul ball for deployment like this:

minion mash

or if I could keep a hold of the souls around in his pockets and use them as narrative explanation for Bowser's level ups unlocking some of his special attacks from Bowser's inside story.

PXO: Alpha Academy

Captain Piper

Captain Piper Faraday

Kingdom: Image & Form (Steamworld)

Appearance

Written Description: Piper is a steambot, a sentient robot that runs on coal and water. Has has a mainly copper build with a red chest plate, featuring her power supplying fornace, green pants and brown cowboy boots. Her arms are asymmetrical, with one featuring a three fingered claw and the other a more human 4 fingered hand. She wears an admirals hat on her head that covers her red “hair” and her eyes are solid green lenses.

Personality: Piper is headstrong, independent, fair and tough as nails. She's very friendly and popular among the common people of steamworld despite her profession as a pirate and smuggler. Piper has quite a bit of moral fiber in her, having only taken it up the life of the scoundrel after being branded an outlaw for refused to bomb a town of helpless steambots for the royal army.

Game: SteamWorld Heist

Current Story: After leading her cobbled together crew in first kicking out a necromancer pirate, then overthrowing the Queen and stopping the hive minded votbot threat they accidentally released from the royal vaults, piper, and those of her crew who wanted to stay on with her after their world saving adventure, returned from the depths of space to deal with the fallout of their escapades. Piper and her cowbots have been spending their time doing more legitimate transporting of goods to give aid to the unfortunate as their society recovers from the collapse of the red queen's tyrannical regime. It’s a safer life to be sure but one lacking in the daring adventure, something piper and her crew have come to miss.

Weapon(s):

Blacksmith Sniper

Carrion Pistol

Brass Knuckle

Frontier Shorty

Stats:
Level Two

(P)Damage 5
(P)Defense 6
(M)(E)Damage 1
(M)(E)Defense 6
Dexterity 2
0% crit
XP ////////////////////////////// (13/30)

Squad: NA

General Abilities

Slot One. Ricochet trick shot: Piper is able to predict, using a helpful laser sight and guesswork, the trajectory a shot will ricochet after it strikes a surface. This lets her pull of some impressive feats of marksmanship if the environment is accommodating. Using this she can ping bullets of walls, ceilings and other surfaces to hit targets outside of her direct line of fire.

Slot Two. Area Repair: once per mission Piper can generate a small field around herself repairs both too her own machinery and any other mechanical devices/characters in the small radius, restoring them to full functionality.

Special Abilities

Slot One.

Items
Slot One.
Slot Two.
Slot Three.

Strengths:

Markswoman: Piper’s an excellent shot, capable of pulling of feats of gunslinging that could be considered impossible by lesser shots.

Leadership: Piper has lead a rag tag bunch of misfits to save the world before and she can do it again if need be. She serves as an inspiration to her crew and tends to bring out the best in people.

Mechanical body: Being made of metal makes her a bit tougher than the average human and lets her parry attacks with her body rather than having to use a weapon or shield to do so. It also means that she can replace parts of herself with new components if she wants or needs to.

Space Pirate: her time as a rogue has given her plenty of experience in extraterrestrial crime, from how to properly board a target ship, to cracking open vaults and getting the job done before any security systems or armed reponses make a clean getaway impossible.

Weaknesses:

Steam powered: being a steampunk robot rather than a biological lifeform means that piper has to have access to burnable fuel and water in order to keep going, though she’s not as fuel hungry as might be expected. Also, if her internal fire ever runs cold she would die, so water in large amounts is rather dangerous to her, as is a lack of oxygen, both things other robots would not have to worry about.

Metal body: being made of metal has its disadvantages, like magnets and sinking in water. Also any damage has to be manually repaired rather than healing naturally over time as it would if she were flesh and blood.

Achievements

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I should probably ask this before bowser gets to hoovering up souls for striker army perposes: Does anyone actually want any of em for anything? It seems unlikely but i thought I should ask just incase.

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Level 1 EXP: //////////////////// (3/20)
New Power: Jump Good. Land hard
Location: 1-1, Central Road
wordcount: 351
Shouting at: everyone nearby

Linkle’s plan worked like a charm, the rather complex maneuver putting an actual end to the battle this time. The two hammer bros were popped and the mop up was complete. All in all the king was very pleased with his new army, highly effective and, as the last maneuver had shown, had a lot of potential for special moves which where, as everyone knew, moves where you use your minions to attack stuff. Congratulations where in order.

“HAHA, WE WON. BOWSER’S BADDIES 1, STUPID GOW BALL 0. GOOD JOB TROOPS. KEEP THIS UP AND WE’LL BE DONE IN NO TIME, MAINLY BECAUSE THE TREE ORNAMENT HAS NO LEADERSHIP SKILLS WHATSOEVER. SEE” the king scooped up the bunch of the goomba sprites that had poofed out of the stack in one claw and presented them for viewing as he continued “THESE GUYS ARE ACTUALLY PRETTY DANGEROUS IF YOU ACTUALLY KNOW HOW TO USE THEM” The king insisted in a highly delayed response to the others talk about how crappy his usual minions were. “WHICH I DO. OBVIOUSLY”

It was at this point he noticed that Tora had started to wander off back to the Master of Masters. Sensing/predicting that this might be a common thing people wanted to do, along with the fact that he wanted to take a quick breather before having to do a bunch of platforming anyway, the king decided to make it part of his orders “ANYWAY. YOU’VE ALL GOT 5 MINUTES TO REST, HEAL AND FINISHED UP HERE BEFORE WE ALL KEEP GOING TOWARDS PEACHES CASTLE. ALSO SOMEONE GO INTERROGATE THE HOODED GUY FOR ME AND THEN BRING ME THE SHORT VERSION OF WHATEVER HE ENDS UP YAPPING ABOUT”

Commands given the king decided to actually take a closer look at the sprites he had held in his hands. “WHAT EVEN ARE THESE THINGS?” He asked, mostly talking to himself even if his natural speaking volume meant everyone would have difficulty ignoring his musings, as he brought the sprites up to his face, giving them a sniff before ogling them up close with a singular eyeball.

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<Snipped quote by DracoLunaris>

So you're thinking of sending Gentlemanvaultboy Bowser's actions as a response to Linkle's plan, and that he would edit it in and then add Linkle attacking afterward? That would be a handy and helpful way to go about it, since then in my next post I can wrap up the Central Route fight, distribute rewards, and free everyone involved to proceed or return to the Master of Masters.

@Lugubrious

indeed