Ichypa

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The manliness that is Theodore Roosevelt.

We seriously need him to come back to life to have another term. If anyone can set our shit straight, it'd be him.

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In terms of battle potential?

I'd say my Caster, and Alysis.

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Are there even fodder characters in existence?

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Tbh, I had no intention of bringing out Elasa either. That was going to be second to last option before Judah's final NP, precisely because it was so risky to burn my bridges.

But then Ella metaphorically spat in their faces. Neither Alysis or Judah were going to take that shit lying down. So when they saw that justice was on their side, Judah used Elasa to nail them in place so they couldn't teleport off into the sunset.

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I guess, to use RPG terms, its a conflict of RAW and RAI. The way I wrote it, yes, there could be other ways to end the battle, but it was meant to be a death match, because it represents the battle of Elasa where Judah (in case you haven't figured it out, mani, ASaber is Judah Maccabee) and his loyal troops fought to the death without retreating. Elasa is meant to impose similar restrictions on everyone in it, leading to a fight to the bitter end instead of one side running away should the tide turn against them.

Its why I've been so insistent on it being a deathmatch despite the wording (I really should have just said "until the other side is dead" but ah well), because if you could just walk away peacefully from it, then it would defeat the logic behind the NP imposing those restrictions in the first place.

I apologize if I ended up strongarming you, that wasn't my intent.

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I guess, to use RPG terms, its a conflict of RAW and RAI. The way I wrote it, yes, there could be other ways to end the battle, but it was meant to be a death match, because it represents the battle of Elasa where Judah (in case you haven't figured it out, mani, ASaber is Judah Maccabee) and his loyal troops fought to the death without retreating. Elasa is meant to impose similar restrictions on everyone in it, leading to a fight to the bitter end instead of one side running away should the tide turn against them.

Its why I've been so insistent on it being a deathmatch despite the wording (I really should have just said "until the other side is dead" but ah well), because if you could just walk away peacefully from it, then it would defeat the logic behind the NP imposing those restrictions in the first place.

I apologize if I ended up strongarming you, that wasn't my intent.

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Elasa doesn't end until the battle is over, and none of the participants can retreat until then, thus the battle can't end with one side retreating.

So if someone pulls out a mutual KO, then this could end with no further deaths.

What would ME A++ even do? At A rank, it still only boosts all stats by one rank. Would A+ up the physical stats by a rank and a plus/two ranks, A++ all stats, and A+++ by all stats and requires manual control?

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We sort of forgot that VSaber was attacking the twins that whole time, didn't we?

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Serperion said
Venetus followed through with his attack on ASaber, his fathers blessing was running low soon he was fall, soon he would fail, but he would try and die not like a Roman, but as a child of Mars.He shouted out, his voice loud and powerful. The Spirit of Castor vanished from his sword, Venetus no longer having the mana to sustain him, but as he flew through the sky, Castor almost like a shroud floated around him, letting if he was to perish not to die alone. The Sistine chapel had finally finished, that would be his vengeance, his blades clashed with ASaber's his blade losing Castors essence couldn't hold up to the power of the noble Phantasm and ASaber's blade sliced through his own and across Venetus chest, red blood spurted outwards and the wolfen prince did not lament nor wail, but he smiled as he dropped his broken swords and slumped to the ground, naked and bloody. He looked up to the ceiling of the chapel and raised his hand upwards mirroring the image and in that moment, maybe he was hallucinating but he could see and feel an image of his father with his hand out reached ready to take his son home. But before this could be finished he looked towards ASaber and spoke possibly his last words."The Father and the Mother will come to end this suffering, take pride in your victory and know you are blessed." And he started to fade away."Venetus!" Ella shouted, Gabby who was fused with the Remus also made a whining sound."BROTHER!" Ruber shouted. "Romulus! I DEMAND OUR POWER!" He shouted up at the floating Roman spirit. Rubers skin on his arms started to rip, as muscle and fur started to force its way from his average sized frame, his eyes were deeply red, his rage had manifested into power, the gift of Mars and avatar of Quirnus given flesh! He started to grow in size as he held RBerserkers sword in his hands refusing to let go!

ASaber nodded farewell to the fallen warrior. "Take pride in your defeat, and know that you too are blessed." With that he turned back to the twins. "Well then. Let's finish what we started, hmm?" He and his remaining warriors charged the twins, ready to tear apart anything that might be left of them from their battle with VSaber that had occurred while he fought Venetus. If they were still alive, he would join his fellow Saber in battle and end them. Regardless, he readied himself to use his final card against Ruber should he become a problem.

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I don't remember that tbh. Were there deaths a result of the War, or the result of CK killing you with plot due to power creep?

No, I understand that. But at the same time, it feels like we get so dedicated to preserving our characters that we for get that character deaths are what we signed up for coming in to a HGW RP. Its meant to be a bloody, violent battle royale. Rather than trying to keep our characters alive, the focus should be on going out as badassly as possible.

Its probably why recent wars keep dying slow, painful deaths, honestly, or at least part of it. No one dies, so people lose interest, the hardcore afkers remain afk, so as a result almost no one is playing, so even the people who ARE playing have no one to fight, so they don't want to kill literally the only other people playing, so no one dies, so people lose interest, etc. Repeat cycle until game death. In the end, you get games like this one, were the dedicated few are playing six characters each because no one else can actually be counted actually do anything.

Admittedly, people using the Byrd-style of proliferative posting are the start of the cycle.

I really miss the Hive. It was so fucking good. It didn't even matter that your character probably wasn't going to last the RL week or in-game 12 hours, it was just so awesome.