Gentlemanvaultboy

The difference between animal and monster

Here's what I came up with after thinking on it for a while:

A monster is any non-sentient creature that goes out of its way to menace and attack other creatures in and outside of its ecosystem for reasons that are not natural. Signs that you may be dealing with a monster are:

1. An inordinate number of the creatures kills are not consumed or used in any way.
2. The creature is actively destructive to its ecosystem and/or environment.
3. The creature demonstrates a willingness to go above and beyond what would be expected of a predator in pursuit of food, such as a willingness to scale fortified walls to kill those living within or attacking armed sentients when it is clearly strong enough to hunt for easier prey.
4. Persistence to the point of recklessness.
5. A willingness to incur injury in order to attack others.
6. A willingness to fight on even having sustained wounds that would cause a normal animal to abandon its hunt.
7. Any behavior that can be construed as "cruel" or "malicious" on the part of the creature where a rational explanation for the behavior can not be found.

Multiverse Rising: Reborn

Hey @supertinyking, you got a personal preference for which scrolls you get? I'm willing to bow to preference.

A-Z Movie Titles

Kingdom of Heaven

A-Z Movie Titles

Harry and the Hendersons

Kingdom Hearts: The Lights of the Multiverse Redux [No Longer Full]

@Arty Fox

"Appraise them of your current state of health." Came a level voice from the break room doorway.

After making sure the princess and her bodyguard were settled in her room and confirming the other princess had not suffered some sort of horrific book related accident while he'd been away v2 had again been left at a loss of important tasks to attend too. As it was clear that there were probably no hidden assassins or dangerous corners on this ship he had felt that simply guarding a princess in this environment would not be the most productive use of his time and, recalling the bodyguards comments about where to find heartless on the ground, had been on his way to ask their leader permission to head down and clear them out a bit until the others returned and they could move on to the next stage of their mission.

His way there had taken him close to the break room, where he now availed his expert opinion to Mac as someone that had pondered at length the theoretical idea of "having friends" but had never put his knowledge into practice.

"Inform them to your comfort level of the things that have happened since your departure. Make light banter about their day. Lie and use humor as necessary to prevent unnecessary anxiety on their part." He continued, walking into the room and looking down over the screen. "Send photos? Forgive my inexperience. Is this not what you are supposed to do?"

Multiverse Rising: Reborn

@Wraithblade6
@supertinyking

I'd like Blindness/Deafness and Finger of Death, because I think Eyebite and Ghoul Touch are better for Ozo because they'll help him eat guys easier and Energy Drain would be the most expensive spell to cast so it should stay on Damien.

The Hidden Superhumans ( Superhero Roleplay )

The tendril exploded through the monster stomach, sending sticky black chunks and jewelry to spray and clatter out across the ground. The monster let out a hideous shrike as arrows began burying themselves into its back one after the other, tracing a trail them ended with one one final solid chunk sliding into its upturned head. It's form began to shift, dissolving into the black blood slime it had begun as even as the sound again filled the air, whispers and buzzing escaping from its body like blood from an open wound. It howled out "OH GOD! OH GOD! SHE'S FALLEN!" in its sick parody voice.

Alex, meanwhile, had slid down had righted herself thanks to the ice pole and slid on down like a firefighter. Reaching into her bag she pulled out another cellphone, this one a solid black, and her fingers flew over the numbers. Satisfied, she ran toward the dissolving monster and held the phone out to it, pressing CAST again. There's something like a suction, but there's no wind or force. Nothing is pulled in. The entire area in front of the phone simply goes stone silent as the bubbling, dissolving mess of a creature and dragged toward the receiver. I tries to dig in its arms but the invisible force devouring all noise is two much for it to resist in its state. Its fingers tear themselves to pieces and the beast lets out a silent snarl as its dragged, like water down a drain, into the phone. Everything, from beast to blood to valuables, disappears into its hungry maw. Then she flips the hone closed and sound rushes back into the world.

Alex stares at the unconscious boy on the ground, then back at the girl who had helped her down from the pole. "To do that much damage to a six year old Call in such a short time." She mutters in amazement. "Unreal."

Then the guy woke up, and the awe of it was gone. Replace only by something white hot and red. "Sorry!?" she shouted. "You just tried to kill everybody here. Sorry doesn't cut it! Seriously, what's your problem?"

The Hidden Superhumans ( Superhero Roleplay )

"Yeah, let me just come down there where you can get me!" Alex screamed down in frustration as she watched the cheetahs explode into shards of ice. She reached over to the wire she had spliced into the lines and gave the wire a good strong yank. The device she had affixes to the pole came off with a soft pop and knocked against the pole. "Run." She grumbled derisively and she pulled the device up hand over hand. "Run where, you idiot. I'm on a stick hanging in the air. This is how they hunt raccoons."

She pulled the device into her grasp and hugged it to her chest. She hoped the yank hadn't done any damage. She hardly had the resources to build another one. She knocked the receiver out of its holder and let it dangle toward the ground as quickly went to work with the rotary dial. The number of a certain apartment within the nearby building was spun into the phone. There was sudden thrum of power, a blue light that shot out of the device and up the line. It merged into the normal phone line and sped away to the apartment before suddenly shooting back down as quickly as it came, landing back into the device with a sharp thump.

Dangling below, the receiver began to twitch violently back and forth while a strange noise began to emanate from it. It was like the sound of many people trying to speak over one another but too angry and full of vitriol to listen to what the others were saying. Buried underneath was a steady electronic screech. Something black and sickly began to bubble out of the end of the receiver, a putrid slime that smelled of battery acid and burnt ozone. It bulged a wriggled there at the end until it was the size of a bowling ball before being dislodged and falling with a splat on the ground where it broke open like clotted blood. It still continued growing though, becoming more solid. More defined. Features became apparent as it grew to the side of a large dog, then a man, the a car. It was like a lizard, dark scaled with a coat of platinum blond hair that ran in curls all the way down its back to the tip of its whiplike tail. It's four long legs ended in ruby red talons, and all throughout its body were embedded jewels and pearls and gold that twinkled in the sun when the creature moved. It settled there in the midst of everything, turning its hidden eyes this way and that before they settled on shadow boy. It raised a finger and pointed to them. "HELLLLLLLLP!" it screeched, its voice a shredded and distorted parody of a womans. "SHE'S FALLEN!" With that it rushed at his and his bears, rearing up on its hind legs to bring its claws down on them.

Alex looks sheepishly up at the ice lady. "I was here to kill that." She said. "That's why I was up here."

The Hidden Superhumans ( Superhero Roleplay )

"I'm not trying to listen to anything. I know what's in there already. I just have to get it ouHO CRAP!" Alex said as the giant shadow squirrel snaked its way up the pole. She slipped, losing her footing on the pole and slipping out of her harness. She feel for one agonizingly long second before the rope looped through her belt snagged on one of the metal footholds at the top of the pole, leaving her swinging upside down in the breeze as her tools slipped out of her belt and clattered to the ground below.

Not the first time this had happened, but it was the least embarrassing. Last time she had been wearing a skirt.

She saw the shadow streak back down down to face some new person that had wandered in, and wondered briefly if this pole was some sort of popular make out spot for circus freaks and monsters. It wouldn't be surprising. Shadow boy said he wasn't going to hurt the girl, but seeing as he'd already threatened to eat her for the crime of trying to render a simple public service, she wasn't inclined to believe that. Especially when he was calling up horrible shadow demons. She reached into the pants pocket of the brown workmens uniform she'd donned as a clever disguise. Out came a pale blue flip-phone.

She flipped it open, reveling the numbers had been replaced with strange, glowing symbols. Quickly she punched in a combination of them while he advanced on the unfortunate interloper, flipped the phone around so the speakers faced his, and hit the CAST button. The phone sparked with energy for a moment, then a melodious bass hum filled the air as it spat up a wave of concentrated sound three times the size of the speakers that descended directly on the shadow boy like a tidal wave.

The Hidden Superhumans ( Superhero Roleplay )

"You should see it from one of the cell towers." Alex replied casually, not looking up. "Especially at sunset. Looks like a pain...ting..." Alex looks up from splicing in the last of the wires to see her unexpected visitor. "Uhhhhhh..." She started. "I'm a lineman for the county. Working on the line. No?"

She looked round awkwardly. "Would you believe I have a legitimately good reason to be up here that's not going to hurt anyone?"