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Current Two days ago, Noble Arms is indisputably four years old, spread out across three threads, and the third thread is still ongoing and about to reach the endgame...
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Can't believe that I actually got an RP close to its endgame, btw...
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Noble Arms is now either four years old, or three years and eleven months. The third thread had lasted for more than one year.
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My Roleplay, Noble Arms: The ASEAN War, will reach its 4th year in June or July. It's been a long journey.
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Just dropping my two cents in here. I tend to be sort of wary of powers that can 'overheat' or damage the user when overused because, and let's be honest with ourselves here, you're not going to decide your character's used his powers too much and turn him into a vegetable. No, it'll just be something brought up occasionally for drama, while your character sweats and strains and gives himself nosebleeds as he wanders merrily around being... well, omnipotent. It's not just you, nobody ever makes the 'power overheat' matter in things like this. It's only ever a talking point.

But, hey, I don't work here. GMs get the final say, I just thought I'd mention that. If the GMs say that'll work, that'll work.


Yeah, I get your concerns.

It also doesn't help that this sort of power was supposed to be a Magic System for other RPs.

Ugh, I dunno, I want Lucas to be someone who's strong, but idealistic to the point where he doesn't believe that struggle and effort are necessary, which in turn holds him back. Problem is, I need him to actually be able to survive having those beliefs, as well as build up dramatic tension for when said beliefs bite him in the ass.
Hmm, I have two ideas:

1.) Lucas' power can only affect objects in sensory range; an exception to this are portals, but even then, he can only travel to a place whose image he has seen.

2.) Lucas' powers cause Brain Damage to himself when overused. This is further aggravated by his 'Concentration Pills'.
@Letter BeeDoes that mean that if he loses focus, he goes back to where he was before? If you ask me, that makes it very, very, pointless, though I could possible see the benefits of it, but still. In my opinion, I think the power needs some limits, cause what's to stop this guy from imagining everyone dead from whatever, instantly knocking them all out, or making it so that they feel they're dead, and finishing them off with his own weapons. This power just seems like it can be exploited really easily, and more than that, it's the kinda power that you have to physically hold back on to make it viable. Besides, the thing were you say he gets desperate when he starts doing what i described doesn't really seem to make much sense. That seems like the first thing anyone with such a power would do in any fight. I think you should impose some more limits on his ability, like instead of effects he can just bring things from his imagination into reality, and there are certain things that just aren't possible to create(like a black hole, which seems extremely possible with how you've explained this power).

Just my opinion, the Gm's have the final say.


Yeah, he goes back to where he used to be if he loses focus, although a way can be found around that if he uses a portal instead of teleporting. And, good points all.

Will think up of limits shortly.

@Letter Bee Lucas' power reminds me a whole lot of Gremmy Thoumeaux's power from Bleach. He could realize anything he imagined as long as he could concentrate on it, and if not it was cancelled out. Of course, he was near invincible.

There's a nifty trick regarding this type of near-omnipotent character, and it's that this specific limit of concentration can be bypassed by simply imagining say two copies of himself. They're exactly him, a fruit of his imagination. Their only goal is to imagine various things without losing concentration while the first one only has to concentrate on keeping them in existence.

Cool concept aye?


Yeouch.
Hi Bee! Welcome back to the Gifted! We have another teleporter character so I'm gonna have to check that there is some differences in the powers there but your characters look good to me! C:


There are differences; Lucas' teleportation works only if he can adequately concentrate on it, like all his other 'effects'.
Huh, ain't this a coincidence. Our RPs share the same name, well sorta.


True, but this 'franchise' came earlier.
@Letter BeeActually, in this iteration, Mu's going to be the more dominant of all the personalities, as he would've been before.


Damn. It. I really liked Jackson.

Anyway, brownout might be coming.
@Letter BeeYou have my permission, though you don't really need it since Eden's your character, and he has zero connections with Jaden, who currently doesn't exist. . . currently.


Cool; hope to be Jackson's rescuer again!
@NarcissisticPotato, @c3p-0h, @AcerRo

Name: Lucas Abd-al-Yasu (Lucas, Servant of Jesus)
Alias(s): Retribution
Age: 26.
Affiliations: Heroes
Factions: Reformists
Description: A brown-skinned man with perfectly combed, short black hair and green eyes, Lucas is a tall, atheletic, handsome man with a lean, scuplted physique who prefers to wear a flak jacket over a shirt and tan jeans, completed by a brown longcoat. For footwear, he chooses sturdy desert boots.

Powers: Lucas has the power to turn Imagination into reality temporarily, making any known effect happen as long as he can concentrate on it. For example, he can conjure up firestorms, earthquakes, or teleport himself to other places. However, this comes with two weaknesses: 1.) his 'effects' are limited by his concentration; if he cannot concentrate on the effect, it doesn't happen, and 2.) the moment he stops concentrating, any effect he inflicts, including death, is instantly reversed. Think of him as one of those Disney villains who cast great 'magical' spells, but who has those 'spells' reversed when he is killed. Pain from his attacks still remain, though; people temporarily killed by Lucas are knocked unconcious by it unless they are particularly strong-willed.

Another way around Lucas' weakness is for him to manipulate something that already exists, such as boulders and bricks, and use that against the enemy. So is teleporting others into a great height, or attacking them with mundane weapons while held prone by his powers. However, these are signs that the Meta is getting desperate, and so can be taken as signs to continue an attack on him.

Skills: History, Literature, Strategy and Tactics, Unarmed Combat, Firearms, Swordsmanship and Knives.

Equipment: Several types of Gun, Ammo, a Scimtar and a Kalis*, as well as Grenades, a First Aid Kit, and Pills that help Concentration (With Side Effects).

*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalis

Ranking: A

(Optional) Brief History: Born in Jordan as the son of a Chirstian Arab Lieutenant Colonel (Muqaddam) and a Filipino Domestic Worker, Lucas was a an immensely intelligent and skilled youth with Dual Citizenship, which allowed him entrance into Jordan's circles of privilege, while at the same time keeping him grounded by interaction with his poorer Filipino relatives. A good fighter and already a soldier in Jordan's Armed Forces, Lucas was 21 at the time of the Maybark Incident, when Metahumans came to the Public's Attention. Originally hiding his powers from people, he chose to go public when ISIS began overruning Syria and Iraq, which in turn was the same time Metas began being more accepted.

In 2015, Lucas was sent by the UN to relieve the city of Ramadi, then under siege by IS forces. He suceeded, and thereafter underwent further missions in Mosul, Tayl Abd, and Raqqa itself, where he killed the 'Caliph' of IS, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. After that, well, he's been wandering around, putting out brushfires all around the world.

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Name: Eden McFadden (If @Raijinslayer permits)
Alias(s): Eden.
Age: Unknown, looks 14.
Affiliations: Heroes, but very unscrupulous.
Factions: Independent with attendant NPCs, does business with everyone. Everyone.
Description:


Powers: Eden can take a willing person's powers, parts of powers, or just mundane talents, and give them to another willing person; the weakness is that the talent or talents given must be equal to the power or talent given in exchange. However, a way around this is to give multiple talents or powers in exchange for one strong power/mundane talent. Because of this, Eden has huge respect for both Mundanes and Metahumans, which is increased by the fact that he can blur the lines.

Another weaknesss is that he cannot use the powers/mundane talents he takes himself; he can retain them, but he has to give them to someone willing eventually if he wants the powers to be used.

Oh, and if a Metahuman can duplicate powers (coughJacksoncough), Eden can take and trade those duplicates as well.

Skills: Bargaining, Haggling, Bartering, Speech, Writing, History.

Equipment:

Hypercube - Made by an SS-class Metahuman who got a particularly good bargain, the Hypercube is a small box that can contain a lot of stuff, some much larger than it. Contents of the Hypercube include:

Money, Weapons, Food, Forged Papers, and even a small stall where he can conduct business.

Ranking: A

Brief History: The circus business has benefited from the emergence of Metahumans, due to the fact that even the milder bigots wanted entertainment. And so, the Flying Phoenix Circus, a band of Mundanes and Metas, went travelling all throughout the nation, surprisingly having few troubles from the not-mild bigots and legal authorities, even though certain...rumors preceeded them. Said rumors were of a boy, a master trader and bargainer, who can turn Mundanes into Metas and Metas into particularly talented Mundanes, in exchange for, well, money, weapons, legal services, anything, really.
Okay, one, I'm back, and two, I have to apologize for my behavior last game.

Can I still join?
Have to depart for an exam at 7:30 AM, Philippine Time; present time is 5:43 AM.
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