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MINATO

Minato was unsure of what to think at this point. This whole situation was getting more unreal with every second that passed. Now they had to take in the concept of alien overlords putting the evolution of intelligent races in check and accept it as truth. In one hand that was one of the proposed solutions to the Fermi Paradox, which fascinates Minato as much as any other human beings enamored with space, on the other, it was something hard to swallow in such a casual way.

Either way, there were more important things to take into consideration now, like the question made by Jonathan. "Indeed, I second that question. If we have to fight, I'd like to know what are those tools you talked about as well as those enemies we are supposed to defeat. What are they and what do they look like?" Minato asked, taking a seat in a nearby chair. "Also, why is it that we are able to understand one another? The last time I checked I didn't know how to talk Alien, also some of the others don't look like they know Japanese either. Did you do something to our brains while we were unconscious?"

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The War of the Three

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“I’ll hold him down while you do your thing, then,” Diana replied to Suparna’s request. She tried another breath attack, but it seemed like even it wasn’t working as she expected, especially now that their foe pulled a massive weapon to strike them down. This time, Diana was prepared and rolled out of the blade’s path before it crashed on her.

It was clear that the dragon girl needed another strategy. With a cartwheel, she created some distance between them once again. “Ascalon!” she called her weapon, commanding it change forms to its staff mode along with her armor taking on a new form. She pointed her weapon at the wandering armor and smiled defiantly. “Ok, maybe we can’t take you down with brute force, but I still have a few tricks up my sleeve,” Diana said, streaking her staff around the snowy ground.

A glowing rune appeared beneath the feet of the armor exploding in a burst of golden flames that suddenly took the shape of fiery chains, trying to hold it down for the duo to do their thing. “There’s more where that came from,” Diana yelled. The dragon girl began to run in circles around the armor, shooting magic bullets as she did so. Every now and then, Diana briefly paused the bullet hell to draw a few lines on the ground.

What could her objective be?

The creature bellowed in a guttural voice that shook the very depths. It didn’t look like it aid any special attention to Jubilee or Cassiopeia’s presence or attacks. In fact, it all but ignored them, turning its massive, featureless skull toward Lenuria’s ruins as if it could perceive the battle happening in ancient city from this far off abyss.

With a movement certainly too fast for a being this massive, especially underwater, it launched itself above almost as if the abyssal current that dragged the duo of demons to these depths didn’t even exist. In the creature’s wake, all that was left was a black cloud of the oily ichor that coated its body as well as the bottom’s sediment. Naturally, such big creature moving would generate currents that the two demons could ‘ride’ to get out of this abyss faster if they so wanted.

However, something golden shone, even within this black darkness, right from under the creature’s previous resting place. If Jubilee and Cassiopeia would decide to investigate it or take the easy way back to the battlefield was their choice alone.

Lenuria’s depths shook as the leviathan rose from the abyss. The first sight that anyone in the main battlefield would have of the creature’s presence —after its thundering voice— would be the slow spread of foul darkness that emanated from it. Moments later, a large number of warped spawns, or maybe parasites in search of fresh food, invaded the ancient city, targeting Demon, Machina and Angel alike, trying to feast on the Triumvirate’s champions.

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Fate/esoterica

@KoL: Provided that numbers are equal and stay equal I'm willing to allow it.

Edit: Actually, on second thought, um, since the reboot is in part to make things more streamlined I'd prefer not to do that. Sorry. ^^; Spots dried up fast.

@VitaVitaAR

No worries.

Fate/esoterica

If it helps any, I don't plan on making a Master if we have more people who are interested.

@Cu Chulainn

That kinda goes against @VitaVitaAR's request in the OP rules.

I could potentially roll with it, but I acknowledge that it opens a bag of problems which I'd like to avoid.

Fate/esoterica

Well, as far as I can tell the spaces are filled already. Better luck for me next time, I guess.

The War of the Three

I'll have a post to move the battle forward up to this Wednesday if nothing unexpected happens, those who still wish to do something before that; feel free to do so.

Fate/esoterica reboot

It's fair with me.

I'll see if I can come up with something decent by tomorrow or the day after and shoot you a message if that works.

Does this count as godmodding or not?

@CryBloodwing

I guess that you are doing the same mistake that pretty much everyone did at some point when RPing online. Confusing godmodding and power gaming.

Godmodding is what @NuttsnBolts described, whereas power gaming is simply well... you are trying to be more powerful than others are comfortable with in their games. If you are absolutely sure that you don't want to regulate your character to the level people want them to be, you don't need to, but you also can't complain when they negate to accept someone that would completely ruin the power balance.

On the subject of character adjustment and characters taken from folklore. Legends exist in many ways and forms, and not every source agrees with one another. You are always free to reinterpret a legendary figure that you are using as basis for a character however you want. It's not because you didn't create a legend that it doesn't mean that you can't work around it. Legends themselves are basically a large collection of fanfictions that got told and retold util no one could keep track of what's right or not. Especially when the subject is someone like Lilith, who has a bajillion different versions around all manner of creative works, it's hard to tell how close to actual "vanilla" instead of a port from someone else's version of the character you are making.

But I digress. The subject of the thread was whether you are committing god modding or not. And, the answer is no. If people are complaining that your character is too godlike it's because you are power gaming. It's confuse, but it's what it's.

Harem roleplay?

@Chasebloodcrest

You... made me laugh, sir/lady.

Now, for the OP: @WanderingDragon From experience I can say that romance RPs die like flies, even faster if they are self-insert romances (like pointed by so many others). The Guild isn't really a good place for this kind of role play. More often than not, you'd be best served writing fiction somewhere else.

However, just like @BrokenPromise said, if you wanna go forward, at least give something for your partners to do other than grovel around a bland harem MC as if they were characters in an awful light novel series like the kind that bloat these days' market.

I'd suggest something more on the lines of Date a Live and Tenchi Muyo, than Love Hina, if you want the game to survive past a few couple days. Though, I'd abstain from making your character the center of the action, if you GM it. There are ways around it, but the truth is that most persons find it a bit irksome to play a game just to pander the whims of someone else, even if they don't say it because they may otherwise be interested in the plot.

Fate/esoterica reboot

I'm interested in this. If there's still any slots left, of course.