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Purple Heart Arcade

“ZA WARUDO! TOKI WA TOMARE!!”

The ticking of the clock slowed, and then stopped, as the sprite rendition of Bio Drando posed gloriously, both hands splayed to the side, repeatedly taunting an opponent that was frozen in time for the entirety of nine seconds. As an actual super, it was a complete waste of meter, simply due to how a nine second combo couldn’t do nearly as much damage as ‘Road Roller’ or ‘Zero Point Knives’, but on the other hand? When the opponent only had a sliver of health left, it was wonderful.

“Zero.”

A light jab KO’d the red-haired delinquent, before ‘Victory’ flashed up on the screen, prompting a long, deep sigh from Moe. Ah, even with all this pointless trolling and the sweetness of victory, she was just so bored. Her braided ponytail limped as she sagged over the arcade machine, even as everyone else had plentiful fun with their real life boyfriends and their real life dates. Hyperactive dancing games blared out pop synths, while zombies groaned and exploded into gory bits to the delight of the players. The happy click-clacks of the drum-beating game resounded above all else, as a veteran of the game actually danced and spun his drumsticks stylishly. On any other night, the atmosphere of Purple Heart Arcade alone was enough to get Moe in a bright mood, but now?

“Ah…………………………………..sucks to loseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.”

She flopped onto the machine, face pressed against the buttons. To think that the PvP specialist Guild actually lost to the Ivory Masks and their goons. How frustrating. Even more frustrating that she couldn’t go for salty seconds due to DGO being offline, and most frustrating of all? Moe Yumekawa didn’t even have a friend to bitch about this bullshit with. One of them was on a dinner date, another decided to take the weekend as a chance to go visit their parents, while a third was busy with a part-time job.

And the rest? Pshaw, she wasn’t interested in the comfort of those people.

Bio Drando spazzed out on the screen as she rocked her face back and forth. Maybe she was becoming a DGO addict. She couldn’t wait for the maintenance to end so she could get herself into a real, zero-consequence fight.

“DEFEAT,” screeched the machine, as a headache-inducing scream sounded from the pixelated corpse. Moe clutched her cute little head and groaned in irritation once more.

Soon, her stomach was groaning as well.

Edged Horizon

The two dodged, splitting off in different directions as the rift-beast ran through...and continued onwards, only picking up more and more speed. Odile was almost trampled by the bipedal monster as it smashed through pine and gouged out the earth, but even then, it continued. A trail of broken foliage and gargantuan footprints followed in its wake, as it cut a path through the silent forest. The three within the ruins meant nothing to it.

What it sought was farther ahead.
@Polaris North@Click This@Vega7285

Q - FLUX

Rash mobsters attacking as revenge? While the Wireforts may have been the real culprits? No, perhaps that wasn’t correct. Just because they, on an organizational basis, had reason to hate each other and send otherworldly nightmares, that didn’t mean they hadn’t accumulated grudges from others on an individual basis.

It simply would have been a clean answer if it were a large organization. End sighed. Still silence from Blitz. That flamboyant idiot didn’t do something stupid and get himself killed by that random thug he picked up, did he? End scowled as her Heinbox beeped once more. The slums huh? Looked to be an entire day wasted on trips down the memory lane.

With a shrug, she began the Iron Revolution once more, bits of metal disintegrating around her and forming into new bullets to slot into her handgun. It would be a pain to go there with nothing but six bullets in the chamber, and the slums was one place that she did not want to be caught bulletless in.

For better or worse, reaching the sunless landfill of Neo Babylon took only a half hour’s walk, and within the perpetual gloom of the dank streets, Josephine couldn’t help but wish she had a gas mask with her. Too many years spent in a comfy, odor-free apartment suite meant that the stench of blood and shit was particularly pungent, but, if nothing else, there were few down-trodden losers occupying the streets. If she wasn’t making sure to stare down every single one of those desperate plebians, Josephine could have actually ignored them.

But she used to be the ignored in here, and knew just how great that advantage gave.

Soon, the raven-haired woman found herself at a heavily bolt door to a tin shed. The others may have been heading towards Cash’s informants, but End had her own. With her left hand, she thumped thrice on the door.

“Jamieson? It’s your cousin.”

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@KoL
Mind giving us a summary of plot events so far? The story thus far seems rather out of date. XD

Imaginary District: An Urban Fantasy RP reboot

RPs die by people waiting for other people when said people go missing. Stop waiting and just post.

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@Gemini Tokenyeah dude. Gotta get swole as fuck now and head butt your way through life's problems.

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Thank you for the explanation, though I'm a bit on the fence seeing how this ability works. It's not as if you have an aim bot or anything, but only needing to hit a touch AC does make it hard for most avatars to deal with since not everyone is built for the speed meta. I say this because honestly, Moe doesn't really seem the type who wouldn't go out of her way to engage in actual PvP with other players, so I need to anticipate how this may later affect others who get into fights with her. Or I could just not care about PvP balance and let KoL and Windel decide. That's my thoughts on the matter.

I mean, I'd assume that by default anyone in Scarlet Harleys would be eager to go to blows with other people. And main concept for those no damage bullets are the lead bullets from World Trigger, where getting hit by them in any way is pretty bad. Perhaps I can set it so that if it's blocked or deflected, the Slow will only effect the weapon? Like, flavor-wise, it'd be as if the object became heavier and heavier, and, upon deflecting/blocking twelve shots, it becomes pretty much locked in space, instead of having the player be locked in space?

And then Good Night will do massive amounts of damage solely to the object, if there's such thing as object durability.

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Fairly short history. But maybe I'm just a stickler for detail. That being said this would make our fifth rich kid character, probs wouldn't be too adversely affected by DGO scores. Kinda removes the tension of DGO's importance when you could probably continue to live a cushy life with your parent's money. But hey, for some of us that's just our reality.

Not all parents are interested in putting up with a failure and a disgrace. But yeah, didn't find much point in waxing poetic about the life of a simple minded 14 year old. And also not a super big fan of waving around all the hidden secret tragedies of people's lives in a biography.

As for Avatar abilities, I'm going to guess that she'll be doing a mix up between melee and range since she has vicious strikes, which only affects melee attacks, while it seems like a core of her abilities rely on ranged attacks. Additionally by the combat rules KoL has, reach "round" has at a max a sort of movement action and an attack action, which is generally just one attack. Perhaps two if you're the duel-wielding type of a guy with multiple arms.

It's more of a case where Vicious Strikes was taken because there's literally no value in any other feat. 10% armor piercing for ranged attacks, when her ranged attacks specifically do no damage? Double damage from sneak attacks when her skills are optimized towards longer, drawn out battles? And yeah, I read the whole round thing. Think it's weird that each round takes up an entire minute for a maximum of two attacks, but eh, whatever.

So under the circumstances of duel-wielding, it'll take you about six rounds for a full Stasis proc, though Thirteenth hour does allow it to happen in one if all hits lands. Which brings me to another question: though your passive ability says it doesn't do any damage, does it still proc from simply hitting, even if it would normally be blocked or deflected? Super speedy characters seem to be the current meta right now, so traditional tanks or pretty much obsolete. And what about AoE Ranged attacks like explosive weapons? Would that proc on all opponents hit or does it need to be direct hits?

Six rounds under the assumption that she hits all those shots and doesn't get the Slow debuff cleansed, yeah. It procs from simply hitting. One of those cases where blocking and deflecting is a bad idea, which doesn't seem to matter too much in your speedster meta (though dat all-encompassing stackable slow will~). AOE ranged attacks from explosive weapons will not have AOE. THe missile would fly through the air, hit someone, and that'll be it. A flamethrower will spew out a stream of fuel, and that'll be it.

Also a question. How does attack speed factor in to stuff? So far, stats just seem to be a rather nebulous thing, cause there's no point system or anything here, but the ability to hit multiple times per single action is a keystone to my character's ability to fuck shit up, so yeah...attack speed, how's that work?

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Nice night, neh?

Height: 4’11
Weight: 110 lbs
Hair Color: Pink
Eye Color: Magenta

Name: Moe Yumekawa
Age: 14
History: The Yumekawa family had always been about competition. Her father was merely a middling academic with an above average score in Deep Ground Online, but through vicious backdoor agreements and cutthroat business deals, Yumekawa Fitness is now one of the largest health and fitness corporations worldwide, filled with sweaty macho men getting swole and 40 year old housewives trying to burn off body fat. On the other side of the spectrum, Moe’s mother was a competitive kickboxer, only recently retiring due to injuries. With such strong-willed parents on both sides, Moe’s childhood was filled with both loud, violent arguments as well as loud, violent love-making scenes.

It became obvious to her at an early age that love was a war she didn’t want to get into, and though she did want to become a princess as a young girl, what she wanted more was to become a princess that could snatch away the prince from some random tramp on the streets.

As she got older, that interest in being a princess faded, but working out and practicing martial arts never did, and Moe went into Deep Ground Online as a small demon child, quickly joining up with the Scarlet Harleys because beating the shit out of real players was way more satisfying than exploding Dissolutions.

Sure, rising to the top was fun, but so was kicking others down.

Personality: Cheeky and aggressive, Moe’s primary personality point is her absolute lack of empathy and her love for simple answers. A friend has crippling depression due to bullying in school? Either suck it up or break a bat over those bullies’ heads. Her cousin wants relationship advice about a messy relationship? Stop dawdling about and fuck the dude already. She’s foul-mouthed and direct, never bothering to hide her intentions or hesitate when it comes to getting what she wants. After all, there’s just so many things to enjoy and so many things to work for. Lazing about is for losers and backpedallers.

A meathead brute in the form of a 14 year old girl, Moe has yet to fully deal with the suffering that is puberty and adolescence.

Can’t keep up? Two words: git gud.

Avatar Class: Rogue - Ranger
Avatar Title: Mauve Night
Avatar Level: 3
Avatar Guild: Scarlet Harleys

Avatar Abilities

LVL 1 – The Clock Starts Ticking
Passive
Instead of doing damage, ranged attacks by Mauve Night inflict an 8.3% Slow over the target, a debuff that effects movement speed, attack speed, and casting speed and lasts one round, with debuff duration refreshed when stacked. This slow stacks up to twelve times, until it reaches 100%, in which case the target is completely stopped, afflicted by the ‘Stasis’ debuff for two minutes. Stasis cannot be removed by status-removing abilities.

LVL 2 – Good Night
Active
With a snap of their fingers, Good Night is activated, dealing a defense-piercing critical strike worth 200% x LVL damage to any player under the effects of Stasis and consuming the debuff. Their bodies are pummeled by a barrage of invisible impacts, and, if slain by this Ability, explode into glass fragments. Against Dissolutions, Good Night automatically kills any of them. This deadly technique has a cooldown of 4 rounds.

LVL 3 – Thirteenth Hour
Active
With the chime of an otherworldly clock tower, Thirteenth Hour is activated, simultaneously dropping Mauve Night’s HP to 1% and tripling their movement speed and attack speed, as well as granting them one extra Action for the remainder of the Round. At the end of the Round, the debuff ‘Temporal Judgement’ is placed upon Mauve Night, setting their current HP as their maximum HP for 5 minutes. The cooldown for this adrenaline boost is 10 rounds.

Avatar Feats

LVL 3 – Vicious Strikes

Other: Currently uses a level appropriate hand gun, enchanted to increase accuracy.

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Oh man, feels bad when all Lvl 3 Feats are basically useless.

Also, question about this.

Adaptive Ability: Allows you to take any Feat level 7 or lower you do not have.

Does that mean any Lvl 7 Feat, regardless of class restrictions?

Feats can't be custom made, right?