Lugubrious

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Do you senior players want to occupy yourselves while the freshman players are out having fun, or shall I give you something to do?

Character Crossover Crisis City (C4 Reboot)

Filia – Moon Over Bourbon Street

@vitavitaAR@flamelord@invisible man@raineh daze

One by one, the various people surrounding Filia broke off from the group in a rush, either to combat or away from it, and rapidly the schoolgirl found herself alone in the middle of a devastated Oreo road with the unappealing corpse of a taco monster growing ripe on the nearby curb. After moving a suitable distance away from the scarcely edible carcass to give her nostrils a reprieve, Filia turned her curious, ruby-red eyes on the skies and shivered. There looked to be no end to the things whatsoever. With hope and confidence she paid close attention to the work of Kyouko, Krieg, and Ed, as well as two new arrivals on the scene, Tailred and Chris. To be more precise, Filia watched the various attacks, from rain of bullets to flashing spear to dancing blade, for more often than not some building or bunch of bugs inconveniently blocked her view. For the time being, she knew her usefulness would be terribly low, given the woeful inadequacy of her ranged options.

Her considerate interest in the condition of the others did not, fortunately, hinder her ability to notice threats to her own. A pair of insects, having swerved to avoid gatling fire and traveled around the effective range of Kyouko, bore down on Filia now with jaws poised to rip and stingers ready to strike. When she saw that these particular specimens featured bigger, toothier maws on the ends of their tails, the schoolgirl instinctively flinched, but recovered in time to throw a long tentacle of hair and snare one. With a grunt of effort, Samson pulled the bug down and beat it into the crumbly, sugar-filled ground, not direct enough to splatter it but a sufficient bludgeon to keep it stunned. “Nahh!” Filia leaped to the side to avoid the second critter's charge, and a scorpion-tail made of hair whiffed the passing bug by a disappointing foot. Samson spotted a third monster approaching, and growled, ”Enough fooling around. Meta-morphosis!” The ebony hair arranged itself into four beetlelike wings and antennae, and Filia, recognizing the call-out, dived forward to initiate flight. Her wings beat frantically and managed to trap enough air beneath them to keep Filia from eating pavement, and with a suppressed shout of laughter the schoolgirl lifted a few feet into the air. Unable to engage the insects for now, she darted around low to the ground, keeping her speed up and leading them on a merry chase. It went without saying that Filia could use some help.

DIO – Joppa Road

@GameguruGG@Azakma

The brief battle between Juri and the vile arthropods narrowly preceded DIO's full restoration. After sparing a glance at the ruined and twitching husks of the insects left by his pretty friend on the pavement, he crossed his arms and observed with mounting disinterest a swarm crawling over a building further down Joppa Road. Evidently, the brownish sheen of the edifice's walls originated not from tinted glass or stonework, but from bricks now made of ham; these appeared satisfactory as appetizers to a ravenous horde of insects while they kept their countless eyes out for more suitable victims. ”Small wonder they're so hungry,” he commented offhandedly. ”Humans are simply worthless as food. Bone, skin, and intestines, really, no true sustenance to speak of. All most are good for is blood.”

Taking to the air, the swarm left behind the ham building, moving like a deadly chitinous cloud toward a bus whose human contents had betrayed themselves. Elsewhere, even greater shoals buzzed through the air or clustered on buildings. For the moment, however, DIO ceased to find them worth his attention. Instead, he focused his eyesight and interest on a rising column of fire several blocks away. If not for his experience with the supernatural, the vampire might have supposed this ascending shape to be some kind of rocket, perhaps fired by some overprepared cynic, or a missile launched by a daring do-gooder to strike at an unknown insect queen and end this invasion, but DIO could see nothing technological about it. It struck him as something more along the lines of a man on fire. ”Hm.” A pressure was building within his eyes. A lesser man might have passed out, imagining a balloon swelling inside his skull, but DIO just bared his teeth in a sadistic grin. ”Bad timing for you, burning one. Uriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!”

As DIO screamed, brilliantly-glowing pink jets of liquid erupted from his eyes, shooting with the force of an industrial water-cutter into the sky. It blasted straight through a single bug, a couple hundred yards away. When DIO turned his head, however, his Space Ripper Stingy Eyes altered trajectory, cutting a massive swath through an entire swarm of them; including, if fortune did not favor him today, the Super Skrull. Within the space of another two seconds, DIO whipped his head back and forth, slicing through the swarm multiple times.

The vampire let out a snarl as the beams died and he covered his eyes, dripping pink-orange fluid down his cheeks and onto his shirt. While his eyes regenerated, they could not see the deluge of bug juices and body parts raining down over the city. The swarm he'd blasted through splintered into several smaller groups, its numbers dramatically thinned. ”A lot of vampiric essence gone...be a dear and keep me safe for a few minutes, won't you?” By his side, the World blinked into existence, and turned its eyes on Juri. ”A high-power Stand requires direction, usually by sight...but if you call out, I will automatically send the World to attack wherever you are.” He stood still as a new sound greeted him. New insects were coming, ones without wings. ”Here they come.”

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

<Snipped quote by Silver Fox>

That or I'd move everyone down a number and make Prince the Ace of hearts. Lovey person reason.

@Burthstone

He could be literally anything of hearts and it would still make sense. A lower number might even make more sense given his power level, which everything else is seemingly arranged by.

Were you thinking Phoenix Wing = Diamonds, Dragon Fang = Hearts, Iron Enigma = Spades, Frenzy Plant - Clubs? If so, and people actually kinda want to make cards, then consider this for Frenzy Plant:

Ace - Cormorant Sanders
King - Zander Louvier
Queen - Indigo Afina
Jack - Ludo the Hermit
Ten - Hyun Sasithom
Nine - Demetri Argentum
Eight - Xyster
Seven - Sengoku Enma
Six - Thor
Five - Ike Riven
Four - Eliza
Three - Gabriel
Two - Cecilia Lenin

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

@Lugubrious Yes I did notice you of course. Just forgot to link you. But anyways, waddya say if there's like a Series 2 of this?

@Lmpkio

Someone had an idea about that actually, not too long ago in fact, lemme link you.

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/3081445

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

@Crimson Raven Then again, both were illustrated by Hiro Mashima anyways so clearly they're there.

@Lmpkio

You did notice me talking to you, right? I noticed you, though you didn't link me.

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

0-25 is the Major Arcana (with some liberties already taken). We could potentially do some based on the Minor Arcana, less powerful of course than the Major Arcana but strong nonetheless, like B-class to the Major's approximate A-class (note: some Majors exceed or fall beneath A-class, it's just a general baseline). They could be fairly freeform combination, as long as the title follows the naming convention:

Ace/Page/Knight/Queen/King of Wands/Coins/Cups/Swords/Staves/Discs

And in accordance with the Arcana theming, Wands and Staves have something to do with Fire, Coins and Discs have Earth, Cups have Water and Swords have air. I'd permit these being stretched of course. To make things a little different from the Major Arcana, why don't we say that the Minors were chosen by the Majors for whatever reason and elevated to their positions. Say, for instance:

Esau, Knight of Cups

Current Holder: Esau (Crocodile), chosen by Numa, Temperence, for his ferocious willingness to protect those in need

Of course, anyone who wants can try this, but I don't expect many will.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

As luck would have it, the bolt lay in precisely the worst spot it could have been. Not only did it highly de-incentivize flight by way of impressive pain, but it also eluded Clotho's best attempts to reach behind her and pull it out. Even when she did lay fingers on it, the positioning did not allow her enough strength to wrench the offending projectile free. Gritting her teeth against the pain, Clotho turned to face the trapdoor through which an increasingly loud noise promised to pour forth vengeful dwarves. No help had arrived, and the swarm queen expected none would be coming. How typical of an evil horde. I'll have to repay the favor some time. She limped over to the trapdoor, knowing that while such an act was unnecessary, it made her feel better. A shrill call resounded from the stridulatory organ in her neck, summoning some of her insect allies to her aide. Unfortunately, it appeared as if they would arrive, judging by the shouts and clangs immediately below, too late.

Clotho stepped back from the trapdoor, not trusting the dwarves to be stupid enough to stick their heads out one-by-one and be skewered. A moment later she watched in muted satisfaction as the trapdoor exploded, blown apart into splinters by a fired projectile from below, and immediately after the first dwarf, boosted up by his friends, popped through. Again Clotho decided to take the cautious route by instantly dodging to the side, but the dwarf, seeing no other enemies at the moment, took his time to aim at her. A steel ball burst from the metal device in his hands and smashed into Clotho's chest, crushing her newly-regrown armor and driving the wind from her lungs. These things, she thought as she gasped for breath, are too clever by half. When she looked again, two more dwarves had joined the first one, protecting him from the front and either side with hammers as he reloaded his blunderbuss. Thinking quickly, she darted forward, moving straight from doubled-over to lunging, and vaulted over the gunner's head. In midair, she twisted herself despite the pain and extended her stinger to nick the gunner's neck. While only one venom flowed through her systems at the moment, its paralytic properties ensured that the dwarf could not shoot her down as she sprinted for the edge of the building, leaped off, and was grabbed by a perfectly-timed Lambent that responded to her call. The oversized firefly made a speedy escape, and in no time was circling with its queen near the cavern roof once more.

Putting aside the agony still pulsing from the small of her back, Clotho took stock of the situation. The dwarves were putting up a stout and noble resistance, but Clotho's horde, guided by her commanding intelligence, was making steady progress. Though outgunned by the dwarves on multiple fronts, her bugs carried the advantage of adaptability; a single unit of Myrmidons could rush single-file through narrow alleys, form a shield wall to advance down a main street, or clamber over some of the more clustered buildings to appear where the dwarves wanted them least, and always were the dwarves harried by Lambent acid bombers from above. After making a few localized calls to specific groups, Clotho directed her carrier to zoom toward the nearest storehouse and set her down. Alone and unbothered for now, Clotho made a discreet entry into the building, intent on finding alchemy but prepared for combat with rapier at the ready.

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

<Snipped quote by Lugubrious>

Would you want to beat up someone who you had gone on a date with the night before?

@Burthstone

I hadn't thought of that, though it would be within the Beasts' natures if they hadn't thought of that either.

With that Make magic he could simply capture her however.

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

The Mystic Beasts fights are supposed to be short, which is why Burthstone's reluctance is irking me a little.

The idea is that they lose and get captured one way or the other.

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

"We were doing it all for fun"

"Now about that explanation..."

-more groans-