Lugubrious

Character Crossover Crisis City (C4 Reboot)

It's a conversation.

Just do short posts.

@Raineh Daze

You'd be making so much sense if only you were right. As it was, it wasn't going to be a conversation. Forneus was (still is, actually) bombarding both DIO and Juri with statements, declarations, challenges, observations, and questions. There would be three people reacting to the same thing, and in short posts it'll be janky and desynchronized, without any cooperation or planning. As that is pretty much the nature of RPs, and Vita seems convinced that Forneus needs to jump in for interaction midway through our reactions, it seems there won't be a collab.

Really, it's not my responsibility to encourage sensibility, punctuality, and cohesion. I'll post my piece tomorrow and I'll stop both complaining and offering to do collabs. Sorry to keep making such a fuss.

Character Crossover Crisis City (C4 Reboot)

Thank you for the clarification! You took the critique like a champ. I'm now looking forward to interaction again.

Character Crossover Crisis City (C4 Reboot)

Yeah, the collab would be only a response that would articulate our three characters' reply to Forneus's inhospitability, no real action necessary.

Character Crossover Crisis City (C4 Reboot)

Hm...@Luciansmentor, DIO's eyes are orange, his fangs would only be visible when talking (and not 'under his lip'), and how do voice and posture give away a vampire? As far as vampires go, Jojo's ones are pretty unconventional. Either way, it doesn't matter; the rest of your post made it clear that your character's pretty much omniscient, although I suppose I should have expected it from what's basically a god. You might want to add that to his abilities--that, and he can communicate silently and instantly with every soul he absorbs as power.

Just a note, I'm sure you meant 'spell' in the figurative sense, but just in case, DIO's persuasiveness and attractiveness aren't a magic spell. He's just that charismatic, not that that would make any kind of a case against a god-tier character.

I can hold one thing against you, though, which is that DIO has not created a zombie plague. Any spawn he creates are completely under his control, and he has confined them strictly to the Hotel California. His zombies cannot create zombies themselves; there's been no infection.

@Gamegurugg, @Invisible Man want to collab a response?

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

I owe a great deal of my personal ethnic background to a rather noteworthy figure in Japan's recent history.

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

@Lugubrious Interedt for that RP has been destroyed unfortunately. Will have to step out of it

@Lmpkio

You make it sound as if that were someone else's fault. Either way, perhaps you could pop by and let Grey Star know so she'll stop waiting for you.

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

@Lmpkio you still haven't posted on C4. It's been weeks.

Character Crossover Crisis City (C4 Reboot)

Well, you've replied like Kyouko didn't say anything. ^^;

@VitaVitaAR

Yes, because she didn't. She still can, though, so I don't see there being any big problem created. Do you want me to remove that line for you or something?

Character Crossover Crisis City (C4 Reboot)

Um, @Lugubrious, I was going to post. I was trying to figure out what I was going to do.

@VitaVitaAR

Have I done something that hinders your ability to post?

Character Crossover Crisis City (C4 Reboot)

Filia – Moon Over Bourbon Street

@flamelord

Perhaps lost in thought over the remains of the Tacodile from earlier, Kyouko opted not to respond yet to either Filia's thanks or her polite offer. “Huh.” She sat still as Samson attached a tendril of hair to the ledge before she carefully climbed off, rappelling slowly down. A few drops of blood fell loose and onto the spinach grass below, but the schoolgirl hadn't planned to eat it anyway. Now that she thought of it, in fact, she felt fairly hungry. After a quick think, she guessed that her parasite's Trichobezoar must have emptied both of their stomachs. Fortune could not have dictated a better world to be in when hungry.

Prior to going to find something suitable to eat, however, Filia felt obliged to go and thank the others that had no doubt kept a great deal of trouble off her back by slaying bugs. Krieg and the large-chested newcomer -how could a girl that small be so well-endowed!?- seemed to be doing their own thing at the moment, so Filia meandered over to the twintailed girl who'd joined the fight after the pink-haired kid had fled. A phrase of gratitude was on the tip of Filia's tongue when Tailred mentioned civilians, causing the schoolgirl to freeze. “Civ...civilians?” Uh oh. She'd completely forgotten about any bystanders during the invasion, but that in itself made her deeply consider the situation. The question had been bothering her for some time now, and she hadn't thought to ask it. Searching in vain for a good way to formulate her thoughts, she finally said, “Um, not that I'm not into helping people in need, but...are these City people even real? I know I must sound like an awful person. The Viewer...he, uh...”

Samson took initiative and jumped in for her, metaphorically speaking. ”What she means is the Viewer made this whole place for kicks. All the people we see, 'cept for a few like that waitress girl maybe, are prolly jus' chaff. Some kinda illusion.” The thought made Filia uncomfortable. Even if these civilians, despite being devoid of any identifying features, were nothing but holograms conjured by the Viewer to act as backdrop, the idea of leaving them to whatever came their way troubled her. She crossed her arms and expressed her worry in a frown. “I really don't know. I mean, we can't really help people. You're like, a superhero, and I've got Samson but we're not heroes. Back in New Meridian, we were just trying to survive.”

DIO – Joppa Road

@Gamegurugg@invisible man@Luciansmentor

For a little while the two walked along, weaving past twitching corpses. DIO made sure, as prissy as it might have seemed to onlookers, to avoid stepping in the puddled blood of any slain humans, for he did not wish to accidentally stain himself with soiled blood. After navigating around the grotesque cadaver of a bus-sized insect pockmarked with fleshy craters -no doubt from explosive ordinance dumped upon it by the City's charming residents- he listened to his companion's teasing and sniffed. “I am a vampire, but unless the situation is dire, I shall not share with you my gift. Higher wills are best enjoyed undiluted by my essence; there is no joy in commanding spawn minions. Servants with their own reasons for joining and staying loyal to me, ones with intellects fully intact and no weakness to sunlight, please me far more.” He cast a glance skyward, watching the faint orb of light hidden behind cotton candy clouds. ”If this cloud cover were to let up, I and any of my lesser minions would need to retreat inside. Most undignified, I know, but such is the price of transcending humanity.”

His hearing came under assault when a cacophony of shrieks and wails began not too far off. DIO exposed his fangs in an angry grimace. Did some stray bug happen upon a very crowded daycare or something? Nothing excused this caliber of noise. The vampire stilled himself and calmly waited out the din; when it ceased abruptly, he was on the move. ”I've a mind to permanently silence whatever mongrel is responsible for that unpleasant racket. Coming?”

Following the mental image he'd drawn in his head of the area after the reports of his underlings, DIO made his way to where the riotous screaming had come from. Past kool-aid fire hydrants, bread masonry, hamburger manhole covers, and pretzel bike racks he strolled with Juri doubtlessly close behind. Not a minute and a half into this new quest, he became aware of a steady and rhythmic metallic clanking. Soon after, though not so soon that DIO couldn't make an educated guess about whose feet it belonged to, the Overlord trundled into view and the vampire was proven right. ”Ah, I forgot to mention him,” he murmured to Juri, indicating the Overlord as he walked. ”Another ally of mine, I met him last night. He strikes me as the boring sort, terrible proud and ambitious and liable to mistake betraying me for a good idea. Compared to you, Juri Han, he is gutter trash. Gutter trash with strength, resilience, lightning, and most likely other powers, but garbage all the same. As you know by now, I treasure loyalty.” A few seconds passed after this before DIO and Juri grew close enough to the Overlord for the armored behemoth to be able to notice them. ”Good day to you, metal man. Off to find the source of that outrage, are we? We shall hunt together.”

The three continued on toward an upcoming intersection, and right away DIO spotted the odd man out. This new figure was lean, with utterly ridiculous clothing and hair. He did not seem either threatening or special in the vampire's eyes, but DIO would not take any chances. His charisma increased its flow, seeping from his body and his words like honey, drawing eyes and minds to him like moths to a beacon of beauty and power. ”Hello, hello. What have we here? A young man at the site of a terrific uproar, with occult imagery nearby. Am I honored to be in the presence of a great sorcerer...?”