Lugubrious

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all that is reasonable and basically what I was thinking anyway. The whole having to leave and get supplies also leaves her open to ambushes by melee characters when she returns from a supply run or having the enemy find and them occupy the cache, causing a stand off as her fuel slowly runs out.

would you want me to record the supply counts she has during the rp or go on a "she used a butt tone of bullets there, so she's probably out" basis. the second leaves it up to running out when it would be most dramatic which is probably better for writing purposes and stops my opponent and I from having to do bullet counting. In either case I should probably list the ammo counts per clip on the sheet so we have a general idea of how much firepower she can sustain.

@DracoLunaris

Well, keep in mind that you're only writing your portion of a fight, so only one person will ever be counting bullets for their side of the story. Not being ultra-specific is alright, but taking time for the character to, say, quickly see how much ammo she has left and furrowing her brow to see her supplies dwindling would be a good plan. And supply caches won't be frequent enough so that she can just fly off and get one mid-fight; they'll be hidden, too. Once you've done the listing, go ahead and port the sheet over.

@Lugubrious

Right, I've toned down my character's teleportation ability and nerfed his strength. I've also removed his super speed.

@Hostile

Not enough. I did say I wanted everything in the abilities section to be gone, sans a nerfed strength. Please remove the teleportation ability entirely. Additionally, I'd like you to eliminate either 'Dew Shield' or 'Illuminati Shield'; together, there's too much that just negates incoming damage. I also want you to remove the building-level properties of Nokia Rounds. Given that Nokias are supposedly indestructible, not almighty weapons, I'd say that they should be able to punch throw armor or walls, and nothing more, in exchanging for less overall stopping power. After these changes, he'd still have a ton of versatility and firepower, but not overpowered offense, mobility, or defense...and then, I suppose I can let you in, as much as I detest the character's whole premise.

@Lugubrious Whew, this felt like a rush trying to get it done during lunch and various smaller breaks at work. Let me know what you think, I'm happy to make any alterations necessary. :)

Captain K. Runch

Name: Bartholomew K. Runch
Alias: Captain K. Runch, the Cereal Killer
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Class: Devil Fruit Swordsman
Equipment:

• The Spoonsaber – A wildly impractical weapon for most, but Runch is proficient with it. The edges of the spoon head are serrated, allowing for a rip and tear style cut, while the overall shape allows Runch to swat some attacks away or launch objects similar to a catapult.
• Flintlock – A single-shot pistol on his belt,it is loaded with powder but never any ammunition, as Runch creates the most fitting shot he can think of at any given moment on the fly. Is only a sidearm used primarily for distractions or to take advantage of a lowered guard.

Abilities:

• Accomplished swordsman – Runch is by no means a master of the blade, but he is proficient in his own right and can hold his own. His weapon is so absurd and unique that most others wouldn’t even know how to use it, but if he were to go up against a dedicated swordmaster and rely on nothing but his own skill with a blade, then he would surely lose.
• Vast Endurance – Runch is not the strongest fighter, nor the fastest, but he can take a great deal of punishment and keep fighting on. Since his bori bori no mi powers require that he eat a type of cereal himself before he can create it, he’s been forced to expose himself to every single weaponized Krunch Berry he’s ever developed.
• Bori Bori no Mi (Crunch Crunch Fruit): Having eaten the devil’s fruit known as the bori bori no mi, Runch is a cereal man, able to create and manipulate any type of cereal that he has himself eaten. The amount he can produce is theoretically limitless, but once created and expelled from his body he has no power over it. At creation he first chooses which recipe of cereal he has eaten (some examples include poisoned, explosive via gunpowder, peanut butter, etc.), then creates it with the physical properties of his choice (size, density, etc.), and finally where and how it emerges from his body. The cereal can be weakened by moisture, and Runch himself is unable to swim due to the devil fruit’s curse. Instead he sinks like a stone.

Fighting Style: Field-control is number one in Captain K. Runch’s priority. Not being as strong or as fast as his opponents means that he has to manipulate the battlefield to his advantage, and he makes full use of his bori bori powers to do it. To trip up enemies he’ll leave berry pellets as dense and hard as steel. To block unavoidable attacks he’ll erect a wall of dense, heavy cereal pellets. To keep himself mobile he may propel around with a quick blast of cereal from his feet, and rain explosive cereal down from above, or even gum up his opponent and/or their weapons with peanutbutter-shot. Between it all Runch will generally launch quick hit and run tactics using his spoonsaber.

Personality: A pirate on the high seas, but a very friendly, jolly, and jovial man with a unique laugh (omnomnomnom!), Captain Bartholomew K. Runch is the kind of man to cheerfully make friends first, and battle second. He’d rather win you over with the perfect bowl of cereal and enjoy a night on the town than engage in a skirmish, but he certainly won’t shy away from a battle once it’s clear such a thing can no longer be avoided. He commands his crew fairly, but is stern and authoritative. Off ship, Runch treats everyone with respect until they prove it is undeserved, though certain formalities may fly over his head. Intelligent, but no genius, he’s an educated man that can nonetheless be slightly naïve or gullible, which owes more to his trusting nature than his overall intellect. Despite his epithet of the “Cereal Killer,” Runch goes out of his way to avoid killing unless there is no other alternative, or the victim in question has proven that they are the worst kind of scum, the kind of person which he claims, “don’t deserve the joy of seeing a child’s smile.”

Bio: Born a lad on a large island in the northern seas, Bartholomew K. Runch was raised as a wheat farmer. Though he enjoyed the family business well enough, his dream happened to be liess on the production side of the farming, and more on the manufacturing side. He desired to take the wheat and grain and fashion it into cereal that his family could market and sell under their own branding. So at a fairly young age, he took over the family business and expanded their process, investing in the tools and equipment he would need to fulfill his dream.

A few years had passed, and his new business was booming among the local islands. His product had become a major import in the area, his family gained a new height of profit, and his respect grew. Still, if you were to ask Runch himself, he’d tell you that the best part of it all was to see the joyful smiles on people’s faces, children and adults alike, as they scarfed down his latest recipes. If only there was a way to get his work out to the rest of the world! Alas, they were in a rather quiet and disconnected area, isolated from other people, and they didn’t have the fields or production to be able to reliably supply other places. Such ideas would remain a pipe dream.

At least Runch thought so, until he received summons from a far away island across the sea! The king of this land had heard tale of his cereal and invited Runch to a competition against other cereal chefs that were to gather together. Excitedly, Runch gathered his essentials and left to prepare for the competition, leaving his business behind for the rest of the family to take part of. Once there, he and the competition were treated to audience with the king and explained the rules of the competition. Each would have one day to prepare the best, tastiest, most delicious sample of cereal they could for the king to enjoy, and the winner would join his majesty on an expedition to the most dangerous and legendary lands on the planet in order to seek out new ingredients to even better their recipe.

More excited than he ever thought possible, Runch took the competition very seriously. He and the three other competitors provided their meals for the king to enjoy. After an hour of deliberation, a winner had been declared. Bartholomew K. Runch would be setting sail soon as the month came to an end. He and the king celebrated that night, but the joyous occasion would come to a terrible and tragic end. One of the other competitors, jealous and enraged over his loss, snuck into the king’s chambers and murdered him the next morning. Runch arrived just in time to catch the perpetrator red handed, but was not able to stop the murder from occurring. Still enraged, the killer turned his sights on Runch, who fought hard to defend himself, but was no warrior.

Nearly down and out, Runch had been knocked into a display case which held various objects the king had collected, spilling the contents upon the floor. The nearly beaten cereal chef spied a bizarre berry with strange swirl patterns and recalled the legends of the devil fruit, which could grant amazing powers. He quickly gobbled it up (instantly regretting this action as the fruit itself was the worst tasting thing he could have ever imagined) and reached out with his hand as his assailant charged. A stream of cereal blasted from the open palm, slamming into the murderer and knocking him out of the window. The royal guard, summoned by the sounds of the battle, kicked in the door to find Runch alone with their deceased king, and made the natural assumption. Instinct kicked in, and Runch fled the scene.

After that day a bounty was placed on his head, and so he could never go home again. Determined to bring the old king’s dream to reality, he set out on the only path left available to him, and thus he recruited a crew of buccaneers and brigands to sail the high seas free from any law, following only their hearts and adventure. One day he will explore all new lands and sample every ingredient so that he can create the perfect recipe, just as king Bonaparte desired.

Wish: Runch set sail in order to explore the world and find as many exotic and amazing places as he could, and gather every ingredient possible from these strange lands in hopes of being able to create the “perfect cereal,” one which is tasty and nutritious for both adults and children alike. To that end, he desires the perfect ship, which can carry he and his crew anywhere in the world they choose to go.

Echo: Within a faraway island kingdom, a palace sits crawling with guards and soldiers, while inside a monarch is dead, slain with a spoon through the heart…

Appearance:

G’day Cap’n!

Runch is not an especially tall man, standing at only 5’6”, with a lean but muscular build. Somewhat pale despite all the ocean sun he gets, with a snow white mustache jutting down nearly two feet from his face stylized in a razor-sharp looking V, he wears the coat of a marine that has been dyed blue. Adorned upon his head is a wide blue bicorn hat with a large ‘K’ emblazoned (somewhat poorly) upon it.

Frenzy: When forced into the frenzy, all trace of the jolly ol’ cap’n is gone. He could not even be recognized on sight, as he produces a thick armor of highly dense cereal and attacks with abandon, resembling some sort of mush monster fashioned from grain and wheat. He constantly leaks cereal of all kinds from every recipe he’s ever concocted. Most are harmless, of course, but many are poisonous, explosive, gooey, acidic, and other forms of very nasty. His intent in this form is nothing short of the complete smothering of his opponent so that they are buried in a large mound of mush until they succumb to the properties of the various dangerous cereal mixes, or die of asphyxiation.

Inventory: Phylactery

@ProPro

...Splendid. This is, I would say, a prime example of a character who goes beyond the joke to add something interesting and original. He's got a fun, jovial attitude that's a nice contrast to most of the stuff we have so far, and a skillset that, while rendering him one of the weaker characters, will still allow him to hold his own, particularly with some creativity. I have no alterations to ask for; go ahead and port him over.

On the topic of NPC characters, can I get one to be brought back? Not actually participating in the tournament but is more or less on the side and cheering on my actual combatant?

@Banana

If you mean brought back following this character's defeat in the first round of the tournament, yes, that could potentially be arranged. However, if you want to introduce an NPC that never does any fighting, that's a no can do, I'm afraid. All NPCs will be filling out the second half of the roster at first.

Just wondering, how would fights play out between rpers? Do we write out the entire fight, including a possible kill, or do we write it out section by section?

@Roughdragon1

The OP does give a lot of detail on it, but the basic run-down is that it's a best of five rounds system, so three rounds take it. Each person tries to create a medium-to-large post that encapsulates the beginning, middle, and end of the fight. Both contestants write their version of what happens in the given round, and the winning one becomes canon. The third round includes the 'possible kill'.

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@Lugubrious I added in her firepower, tell me if it sounds good and I'll move her over to the character tab. And thank you for complimenting my sheet ^^

@Sentel

Excellent! The description you added is very helpful. You're good to go.

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@Lugubrious Thanks.
I love Gray as a character and as much as I like the concept of his new magic, it was a really a let down because Hiro can't come up with a legit reason to say him and Natsu are still equals. I always see Gray = Natsu with Plotsu having the raw power and Gray the intelligence.

Plus, Gratsu currently is a cheap rip off of Nardo and Sauce.

CRAP! I was gonna revive my good ol' Ice Girl from my To aru RP. I guess ice is too famous these days.

I was gonna use weakened Accelerator lol.

How the heck do I use Akame from AKame ga Kill? cuz Poison Sword is the only issue here.

What about Current Jellal? or even Mystogan. Damian Darhk??

Rin from AoEX?then again that's the equivalent of Devil Slaying.

My brain hurts, I just need input on these and for now I will sleep. I will get a character later apart from your inputs.

@Indra

I looked up Accelerator, and his main ability -redirection of vector values- doesn't seem super overpowered at first glance, but it may be so by its applications, so I don't really have much of an idea.

I read Akame's abilities, and yes, the sword that can kill anything in seconds with just a scratch would be a pretty big red flag, but being able to run at mach 1 coupled with extreme combat skills is also a bit overmuch. To keep that sort of speed, it would need to pretty much be a character's sole gimmick.

Jellal's Heavenly Body magic and Darkness magic would be fine as abilities on their own, albeit not at his level of power, but no way could a character have the vast list of different magics he has, even if just Heavenly Body and Darkness at the same time. Mystogan's layered circles magic would also be acceptable on its own.

Damian Darhk's darkness magic on its own would be okay if it started at a lower base level, requiring killing in order to get good, and even then nowhere near Damian Darhk's full power. There would be stuff in the City of Echoes for a similar character to kill in order to 'charge' the magic. Of course, darkness magic paired with telekinesis, teleportation, and so forth is also untenable.

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I've always want to work/rp with you @Lugubrious since that Heores of Beacon which I never got the chance to join or am I looking at the wrong author?xD

I was observing this. I thought of using Reverse Flash/Thawne and nerf him but nah speedsters of Flashverse are too OP despite the nerfs they get. My pre-idea was Thawne was chasing Barry(as always) and ended up in this RP but got nerf so bad because this is a different verse like that Marvel-DC crossover and therefore his connection to the speed force weakened.

I got many characters on my list that I wanted to revive so thank you for making this RP.

Before I even make a CS, I need your input on Gray Fullbuster(Fairy Tail) or Sasuke Uchiha(A lil iffy cuz Naruto series is a power creep).

I'll get up a CS soon.

@Indra

I'm gratified to have made such a good impression! Hopefully I won't disappoint. Heroes of Beacon was indeed my last RP. I wanted to make a fresh start with this story, something fast-paced and completely different.

You're welcome! I'm glad I could make something to afford you an opportunity like this.

From what I can glean, I think you're aware of this, but just in case I'll clarify: existing characters that belong to companies or individuals as intellectual properties are not usable in this RP. I assume you're asking about those characters to get an idea of what power level you should strive for. Having watched -and regretted wasting so much time on- Fairy Tail, I would say that Gray's average power level from the first arc up until the END arc would be acceptable. Defensive and offensive Ice Make, with the chief strength being versatility and creative application over raw power, would gel pretty well with the RP. However, I would definitely exclude Ice Devil Slayer magic from this. It's also worth noting that we already have an ice mage in the RP in the form of Lazo's Lady in White, Pithy. As for Sasuke, I am pretty much in the dark about what all he can do. My best guess as to what level would be acceptable would be early-to-mid in the series.

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@Lugubrious

suddenly 40k

also probably the first instance of logistics being a weakness in this rp

An angel on wings of fire

Name: Sister Sophia Nordin
Alias: Seraphim
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Class: Bolter Bitch Seraphim: jetpack infantry
Equipment

Power Armor: Thanks to the electrically motivated fiber bundles this heavy armor acts as if she is not wearing it, allowing the same mobility as an unarmored combatant while offering considerable protection, allowing the user to shrug off low caliber rounds and potentially allow the user to (barely)survive direct hits by heavier ordnance. As with all armor its weakness is in the joints where the armor is weaker to facilitate the movement of limbs. The helmet contains an integral rebreather, allowing the Sister to operate in total vacuum for limited periods. The helmet also provides flash suppression, thermal vision, night vision, a com peice linked to speakers, a display that can let her review data and inbuilt binoculars.
Jetpack: this back mounted flight pack shaped like a pair of angles wings allows her to soar through the skies. The pack is much more vulnerable than the rest of the armor and she must go to great lengths to protect it lest she lose her major advantage.
Twin Bolt pistols: two immense hand-cannons that fire massive rocket propelled rounds, these rounds penetrate the target and then detonate inside their body.
Hand falmer: a small handheld flamethrower, useful for burning lots of heretics.
Inferno pistol: a short ranged anti tank weapon, this fires a blinding beam of light out of its barrel that incinerates everything in front of it. Useful for burned one heretic a lot more than usual.
These 4 weapons are stored in holsters attached to her hips, one bolt pistol and one special weapon each side.
Chain-knives: these close combat weapons are dagger sized chainsaws that ginde and slice through flesh and armor alike.

Abilities:

Seraphim training: The ability to be able to simultaneously fly around in power armor while dual wielding miniature rocket launchers. No other skills needed other than faith in the emperor.
Faith: For the emperor gives his miracles onto the faithful. He is the sun's rays in your enemy's eye, the bird’s flight they mistake for you, the branch they should not touch lest it make a sound when they are sneaking around, the dodgy masonry that crumbles beneath their feet. Prayer bolsters the likelihood of divine intervention and Sophia prays all the time in combat.*

Fighting Style:

Sophia soars through the air with grace and speed, reining explosive and burning death upon her enemies while sing the praise of the god emperor the whole time. The Seraphim doctrine preaches hit and run tactics, using your superior speed to come at your enemies from an unexpected angle, unload all of your ammunition, then retreat to reload. Sophia’s singing kind of gets in the way of the ‘unexpected angle’ part, but here fervent prayers can have the same effect as a the flight of the Valkyries, terrifying the target with the sound of incoming destruction and maybe making the emperor happy enough to give her a little help.

Her speed lets her get in relatively close where her flamer and incinerator are most useful and still be able to back out at a moment's notice should a particular skilled melee combatant come at her. The bolt pistols are a relatively effective medium range weapon, if slightly inaccurate and thus are similarly most useful at close range. They are also the weapons she uses if she is in melee combat, aiming to end the confrontation with a single deadly shot rather than engaging in a bout of swordsmanship, though if she has to parry the bulky weapons might do the job. The two knives are a final resort, used only if she has no ammo remaining and can’t get away to acquire more.

Sophia has a problem where her weapons are extremely ammo hungry and as a result she either has to carry large amounts of exposed volatile munitions on her person using bandoleers or have access to a nearby supply cache, something she would set up around the city if she has an opportunity.

If she loses her flight capabilities she goes into a more ambush style, actually striking from unexpected angles or having the emperor's guidance* leading her to useful supplies in the abandoned city to create rudimentary deathtraps (rings of blinding lights, hidden propane tanks, vehicles with bricks holding down the accelerator etc.).

Personality:

She is a proud individual, assured in her own worthiness and strength from her time in service to the emperor, anything that causes here difficulty is but a test from the emperor that can be overcome with faith and firepower. As a result her mind is hardened and her will strong, she is very difficult to break psychologically and willing to do anything to complete her mission. She is bold and will speak her mind loudly without hesitation, daring anyone else to disagree with her.

Full of religious zeal, Sophia is 100% assured in her beliefs and as a result view all that is magic or inhuman as blasphemies upon the face of the world, treating them with at best with scorn and contempt when she has to leave them alone and with a righteous fury and hails of bullets at the slightest opportunity.

If you are human and not a witch Sophia can be much more agreeable to be around and, apart from some insistence that you accept the emperor into your life, will act with honor and compassion to those of her kind. She has a lot of respect for those who are willing to fight against the magical and monstrous as she does, armed with nothing the weapons of humanity. A battle between two normal humans is considered a noble duel, she will be willing to accept the opponent's surrender, to offer respite if asked and is known to compliment her opponent on their skills. However her divine mission will not allow her to give up, although without her weapons she would be much easier for the merciful victor to subdue than a mage or monster.

On the more personal side of things she has never lost her love of flight, it is a glorious gift that she would loath to give up. As a result she will take any opportunity to use her jet pack to soar through the skies, even when walking would have worked just fine. When not fighting or preparing to fight she will practice her singing or read, either religious text or research about the world and its potential threats. She is also rather fond of mints.

Bio

Extract from religious text*
Long ago there was the Imperium and the god emperor of mankind who ruled it. The Imperium spanned the entire galaxy and all was right with the world. This world was once one among untold millions that served faithfully. Then one day heresy rose on this planet, ships from beyond stopped coming and in the ensuing chaos any way of contacting the other worlds was lost. Now the world is filled with inhuman monsters and foul magic and we are few. Yet we stand firm in our faith, in the name of the emperor we fight to cleanse this world.

Personal history
Sophia was not always a religious zealot, as a young girl she was enamored with the flying woman of the Seraphim and while extensive religious indoctrination have made her a devout follower of the imperial creed she still loves flying, taking every opportunity to practice the art of the flight pack. The Seraphim are one of the most elite of the Adepta Sororitas due to the years of training required to master the level of dexterity and battlefield awareness required to soar through the air wearing power armor without cybernetic enhancement and dual wielding massive pistols.

Among the Seraphim Sophia is one of the most skilled, her dedication and love of flight having lead her to the height of aerial mastery. She is also known to have a wonderful singing voice. Unfortunately she practices both of these at once which has somewhat limited her ability to climb the ranks of the chain of command but she doesn’t really care, she gets to fly and serve the emperor, that is all she needs.

It should probably be noted that the imperial creed is not a particularly large organisation on the planet, the state religion of a single relatively small nation that hits above its weight thanks to the support of the Adepta Sororitas warriors and weaponry. As a result she has spent as much time standing, or preferably hovering, around important religious or political figures as they argue about things as she has on the battlefield or hunting down witches or demons. Much of this time was spent either reading from the data display inside her helmet or learning the fine art of diplomacy second hand. It appears to involve a lot of shouting and insults.

Wish:

Her mission is to destroy the heretical artifact itself, the Adepta Sororitas have declared the object heretical and thus it must be destroyed, if the only way to do that is to have one of their won partake in its game then so be it. While there is obvious religious reasoning behind this it is also the case that many believe using a device from the lost city might cause the same to happen to more than just one nation. There is always the temptation to use it for selfish gains however, to use the device to call the Imperium back to this world.

Echo:

Imperial palace on holy Terra seat of the emperor of mankind and the most holy of sites in the imperium.* All of the imperial creed hope to someday travel here once their world renters the galactic stage. The image is an artist's depiction found in the monastery, one that she would often admire as she traveled from her quarters to the hanger where her armor was kept.

Appearance:

not pictured sensibly wearing her helmet

Frenzy:

Living saint: She becomes what she is normally but a pale reflection of, a divine angel sent to cleans this world. In this form she becomes even faster and gains a holly powerlance, a spear that can slice through almost any material. While under this transformation she shines like a beacon of light as she descends upon her foe, engaging them in melee combat proper as she aims to drive the lance through their heart.

Inventory:

phylactery

*the actual existence of the things described in these passages cannot be verified and is taken on faith.

@DracoLunaris

I was not expecting to have the upper boundary of the general power level I'm looking for pushed by one Warhammer character, let alone two. Yours doesn't present all the same problems that Dante initially did, but the three pillars of defense, high ranged damage, and high mobility remain. Having the jet pack as a weak spot is a good starting point, as well as her relative lack of proficiency in melee combat, but against characters with limited ranged ability such as Saria, my incoming character, and others she could become very tough to challenge. It does, as you say, come down to logistics: how much ammunition she has, and how much fuel for her jet pack. That way, outlasting her becomes an option aside from creative use of takedowns. With realistic usage of ammo and fuel, the character is, I would say, balanced enough to serve the RP's purposes. There will be supply caches located in the city, but whatever expenditures you make in a fight would deplete her resources, possibly rendering her very vulnerable until she can resupply.

If that sounds alright, then then application is accepted.

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@Lugubrious

Here's mine.

Gaben's Chosen

Mountain Dew Quickscope

Name: Mountain Dew Quickscope

Alias: Gaben's Chosen

Race: Human

Sex: Male

Class: Trickshotter

Equipment: Mountain carries much equipment with him, and it is normally stored on his person.

• Dragon Lore AWP, the Dewrito: The fabled AWP in its final form. Blessed by Lord Gaben himself, this is a weapon of true power. In addition to the legendary stopping power of a stock AWP, the dragon spirit inside the rifle can propel projectiles to absurd speeds and bestow infinite range. It can fire three different types of ammo: Standard, Doritos, and Nokia. The Standard ammo is a regular .50 caliber round. The Doritos round is visually similar to a .50 caliber round, although it is coloured orange and glows. This round leaves an orange trail of spicy Doritos dust as it streaks through the air. Upon hitting a target, it explodes, sending Doritos dust everywhere, before a secondary explosive ignites the dust. Nokia rounds are the most powerful of the three. They are essentially Nokia 3310s in the shape of a .50 caliber round. Thanks to the indestructible properties of a Nokia, it cannot be stopped, and has the power to destroy entire buildings. Used sparingly by Mountain as he can only hold a maximum of six Nokia rounds at any time.
• KAP-40: A powerful automatic pistol with a high fire rate and damage. Deadly at close ranges, ineffective at longer ranges.
• Doritos Sword: A one-handed sword constructed out of microscopic Doritos, with flavoured dust surrounding it. Very light, making it ideal for fast attacks. Regenerates all damage dealt to it. Can be eaten.
• Illuminati Shield: After defeating the Illuminati, Mountain gained this piece of equipment. It is a triangular green shield of the Illuminati, and is almost indestructible. The Eye of the Illuminati can open and fire a massive laser, although it has a lengthy charge up time and cooldown.
• Mountain Dew Grenades: Explosive Mountain Dew cans. Incredibly reactive and can deal heavy electric damage.

Abilities: After becoming a Quickscope Master and Gaben's Chosen, Mountain gained numerous MLG powers.

• Instant Teleportation: Mountain can teleport instantaneously to any location within a ten kilometre radius. The further the distance, the longer the cooldown. Short teleports of a hundred metres or less require no cooldown.
• Enhanced Reflexes: Mountain has the reflexes of someone playing CoD on 14 sensitivity. He can see and dodge thrown projectiles like knives and arrows.
• Super Strength: While not over the top, Mountain has the strength to flip a car one-handed, and can carry several dozen kilograms without effort.
• Speed: Mountain can easily catch up with a speeding car.
• Pocket Dimension: Mountain can store any object in his back pocket, including more guns, food, and even vehicles.
• Illuminati Summon: After defeating the Illuminati, Mountain gained the ability to summon a fragment of it. When summoned, it shoots lasers out of its eyes and constantly plays the X-Files theme song. It is a small pyramid that functions like an attack drone and follows Mountain around.
• Dew Shield: Mountain is surrounded by a Dew Shield, which works like an energy shield and can absorb damage. It can break after too much damage, and needs to recharge.

Fighting Style: Mountain is mostly a ranged combatant, hardscoping from a distance. Thanks to years of trickshotting and owning noobs at everything, he has lightning-fast reflexes, which he also gained after injecting himself with Red Bull. He is a frightening mid to close ranged fighter. He is a master quickscoper and trickshotter, being able to land headshots from across the map while doing a 1080. He is also incredibly skilled with his Doritos Sword and Illuminati Shield, able to parry attacks and bash with his shield. Mountain utilises his teleport ability to blitz opponents with either his sword or AWP, dealing heavy damage. He is nimble and as fast as an ADHD kid on speed, allowing him to easily dodge relatively slow-moving projectiles such as knives or magic bolts, but not bullets. He prefers to stay at range as his rifle is far more destructive, and he is generally more fragile than other fighters.

Personality: Cocky and confident in his abilities, Mountain is your typical MLG tryhard. He much of a trash-talking loudmouth, not afraid to vocally voice his opinions in the most offensive way possible. He loves taunting his opponents, and he often gets distracted by this. Although he isn't exactly the smartest tool in the shed, he is smart enough to plan ahead, and is highly unpredictable, moving in erratic patterns. He has a tendency to underestimate female fighters, normally yelling at them to stay in the kitchen, when he's not insulting physical appearance. Mountain has also shown to have an inability to pay attention, getting distracted and bored easily.

Bio: Mountain was a normal albeit highly skilled gamer who loved pwning noobs with his friend Daniel Doritos Blazeit. The two of them lived in the realm of Mlgolia, where everything MLG comes to life. The sun is a gigantic Dorito, the birds are airhorns, and the seas are salty from the tears of LoL players. One day, they were approached by an old man who told them that it was their destiny to stop an ancient hacker forever because their names were written in an ancient prophecy written by Gaben himself. So they went on a dew (see what I did there?) adventure. Eventually, after accidentally shooting the old man in the face and killing Thor, they found themselves in the hacker's dimension. They then battled the hacker XxXPu55ySlay3rXxX the Destroyer of Networks and managed to defeat him. However, Pussyslayer was not beat yet, and he ran away like a little bitch, vowing to pwn their asses next time.

Mountain and Daniel pursued him, gaining new weapons and defeating multiple threats along the way. Finally, after an overly long adventure through time and space and multiple universes, they managed to catch Pussyslayer. With their new weapons and powers, they prepared to defeat him once and for all. Unfortunately, Pussyslayer used the power of Ultimate Hax and very nearly defeated the two, and he almost killed Mountain until the quickscoper managed to distract him with his 500GB porn stash. Using his distraction, Mountain sliced off Pussyslayer's balls with his sword, before quickscoping him sixty-nine times. It was only then that the hacker was defeated, and order was restored to Mlgolia once more.

The two, having fulfilled the prophecy, were brought to the Temple of Gaben and met Lord Gaben himself. Mountain was then granted the title of Gaben's Chosen and became the newest Quickscope Master, legendary heroes with ridiculous powers. Daniel, unfortunately, did not become a Quickscope Master as he was based around shotguns, and he failed to meet the age limit of eighteen years. He was, however, given badass new weapons and accepted into the Steam School of MLG, a prestigious trickshotting academy.

Sometime later, word had gotten out that Electronic Arts, Steam and Lord Gaben's mortal enemy, was planning to unleash the tyranny of Downloadable Content and Preordered Games to the world. Mountain was called upon to stop this threat. Uniting with Daniel and several other heroes, they embarked on their quest into the heart of EA: Origin. The squad fought their way through swaths of Origin soldiers and made it to EA's headquarters. However, Andrew Wilson, the head of EA and evilest man alive, was there to stop them. He managed to defeat the entire Steam squad except for Mountain and Daniel (because they were the main characters). Mountain unleashed his True MLG form and defeated Andrew Wilson for good, ending Origin and EA forever.

Wish: To become the greatest quickscoper to ever exist, to smoke the dankest weed in existence, and to stop the threat of hackers forever.

Echo: In the realm of Mlgolia, there is a massive temple above the clouds. It is black and white, with flags of Steam fluttering everywhere. This is the Temple of Gaben, where Mountain met everyone's lord and saviour himself, and became the latest Quickscope Master and Gaben's Chosen.

Appearance: Mountain wears an unzipped black MLG hoodie over a black, white, and red FaZe Clan T-shirt, with dark blue jeans fastened by a black leather belt, and black and green sports shoes. He would look fairly average if not for his AWP strapped to his back and KAP-40 holstered by his hip. His sword and shield are usually not present, as he is able to summon them at will. He has short and messy black hair and a Flymemo EACH G4000 Noise Cancelling Headset hanging around his neck. His formerly-blue eyes are now orange after getting his powers, glowing slightly in the dark. He stands at a fairly average 5'11" and has a lean build.

Frenzy: Mountain is surrounded by a green aura, and rotating Mountain Dew crystals which render him invulnerable to damage until they are broken. The crystals shoot energy beams at targets. He can fly during this time, and he becomes even stronger and faster than before, able to block and dodge most attacks. His weapons also become incredibly powerful, such as the blade of his sword becoming monomolecular and rounds fired from his rifle travelling through the air almost instantaneously. Aside from this, he can freely teleport with no limits. His eyes also glow green.

Inventory:

• Phylactery

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@Hostile

The character is far too powerful. My wariness of Dane the Marauder's Warp was a clue that unless it's balanced out by severe limitations, I'm not a fan of teleportation, and instant teleportation where the weakest version is 100 meters is absurd to me. Superhuman strength and speed are to be expected, but your character's particular brand are too strong to be considered subsidiary powers. The strength to flip a car with one hand and the speed to catch up with a car are powers in their own right. I'm basically not okay with any of his abilities; that arsenal on its own is extremely potent.

I'll be honest: I really, really dislike memey characters. I can't imagine why any of this would come across as funny, or be fun to play after the initial lolrandom humor value has worn off. Like a stale joke, I imagine the whole thing would get old quickly. However, in the sake of fairness, I'll put it aside to judge your character on balance alone. If you were to eliminate the entire Abilities section, as well as the teleportation in his Frenzy, I'll consider accepting your application.

Here is my sheet, I hope she seems reasonable! Her portrait was pretty rushed but I really felt like the mech needed an actual image, even a rough one.

The Sentinel

Name: Ryan Harper
Alias: The Sentinel
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Class: Mech Pilot
Equipment:

“Sentinel” - Class C Bipedal Security Mech, Refurbished
>Two heavy gattling guns at each side
>Heavy steel plating mounted on top of kinetic absorbers - able to withstand considerable amounts of physical damage and keep the mech standing on its feet after stronger blows
>EMP Shield – weak protection against non-physical disruption of electronics (electric shocks and magnetic fields specifically)
>Standard Security Radar – detects moving objects within a 50 meter radius, has a lock-on function
>ShockSkin™ - a pair of electrodes at either side of the mech’s main body that when activated emit a strong electric pulse that arcs over the entire surface, shocking anyone touching it and dealing increasing amounts of damage if they aren’t knocked back or don’t pull away at a safe distance

Ryan’s Utility Belt:
>Mechanic’s Toolkit – an assortment of wrenches, screwdrivers, tape and similar paraphernalia. Usually most of it is left in the mech, as she doesn’t feel safe with the entre kit weighing her down outside of it, only opting for a few choice tools to carry with her in case she spots something she can use on the mech. Also includes a crowbar.
>Handgun – a simple handgun with a capacity of 8 shots per cartridge.
>An ancient looking CD player with a disc in it and a pair of headphones
>A box of colourful chalks

Abilities:
Outstanding mech pilot – the Sentinel is like an extension of her body, she has learned to use it at peak performance levels for its capabilities
Skilled Mechanic – able to fully repair her mech if given enough time; can figure out how most machinery and electronics operate with relative ease and adapt some of it to be used in different ways (such as an upgrade to the Sentinel)
Hidey Hole – although she is not particularly gifted in the physical aspect Ryan can practically stick herself in any cramped dark spot and remain there motionless and completely silent for indefinite amounts of time, making her extremely hard to find if she manages to hide before she is spotted

Fighting Style:

Outside the mech:
Ryan has zero fighting skills and is incredibly frail. Outside of her mech she will be skittish, perhaps slightly disoriented and will try to run towards the Sentinel as fast as possible while using any possible tactics to keep her attacker at bay. Despite her deadly accuracy within the mech itself she is not actually a particularly good shot with her normal handheld firearm. She panics without the shell of the Sentinel around her and is a little awkward and erratic in her movements.

Within the mech:
Once inside of her Sentinel Ryan seems to become a completely different person. Her movements are much more focused and anyone stupid or slow enough to remain in the way of the gattling guns is at risk of being reduced to a mushy pulp. The mech itself is decently mobile although not incredibly fast. Its waist swivels at a full 360 degrees and its bird-like legs are capable of the occasional long leap, however that risks its balance in the air and in the process of landing.

Personality:
Ryan is a little bit strange. Very awkward and quiet outside the mech, uncertain how to handle social situations and very uncomfortable without protection. She combats this near-crippling anxiety by listening to music – a violin piece she discovered long ago which helps her focus and remain calm – and drawing with chalk all over the floor and walls whenever she has nothing else to occupy her hands with. If she doesn’t keep herself occupied she begins to panic, sometimes to the point of physical discomfort (shaking, cold sweat, difficulty breathing, heart palpitations).
Once she is in her Sentinel she feels safe and confident, her demeanor almost entirely changing. Here she is a methodical person, even boasting an air of sarcasm at times. She is much more inclined to lighthearted banter or friendly interactions.

Bio:
Ryan was born in a run-down post-war community. Organized society was nearly nonexistent – surviving only in small groups living off scraps. Their village was at constant threat by bandits and Ryan learned early on that if you don’t hide and hold your breath you may as well be dead. It stayed ingrained within her as an instinct and it never went away.
She learned how to salvage machinery and electronics because it was a necessary skill to have and you couldn’t just not know something like that. She gradually found out that she had a knack for it and was soon praised by her peers and cherished by the community for her skill. A woman once gave her a large box of colourful chalk as a gift, for repairing the small heater that kept her from freezing at night. Ryan had never had such a non-utilitarian item before and she took to drawing intricate images whenever she felt uneasy. It took her mind off of things.
At some point she discovered an almost intact security mech from before the war and gradually managed to get it back into working order and outfit it with several additional gadgets. They now had a line of defence. With the help of the security mech several raids were fought off and Ryan began to feel brave and strong within it for the first time since she was born. She was their guardian. Their Sentinel.
Until the day her village was attacked by an army. This particular gang had managed to get their hands on an old military base and her Sentinel, although it made a fair stand, was no match for their equipment. A stray rocket took out a bearing wall off the already crumbling building that served as their shelter and crashed it on top of the lone mech and any people unfortunate enough to be around it.
Any survivors were taken as slaves and all supplies were looted. Ryan awoke in a battered but still functioning mech. She managed to dig herself out of the rubble but soon after realized that she was alone in her luck. There was no one to smile at her anymore and no one to tell her not to be afraid. So with that new layer of fear lodged deep into her heart she set off to survive.

Wish: All she ever wanted was to not be afraid anymore. To be safe.

Echo:
A large room, no windows, lit by fluorescent lights. The walls and floor are covered by intricate chalk drawings. A small radio in the corner plays a violin piece.

Appearance:
A young girl, not particularly tall and looking kind of sickly. She is very thin, her skin almost transparently pale and covered in freckles. Her eyes are large, round and bright blue, sporting a pair of dark circles underneath them and the look of a startled deer. Her hair is a rusty ginger colour, vaguely wavy and looking unkempt, her eyebrows – almost nonexistent. She moves awkwardly like she isn’t sure where her limbs should go whenever they aren’t on the controls. Her walk seems hurried and skittish, like the skittering of a mouse and her stature suggests that she’s trying to make herself smaller than she is.


Frenzy:

If outside of the mech:
Her limbs seem to extend, making her look ganglier than ever and her back arches down to place her on all fours. Her hair grows along the rest of her body and her nails and teeth take on a shape more akin to claws and fangs. Making her literally behave and look like a cornered beast. In this form she moves at incredibly high speeds and is very agile, able to climb walls and buildings as long as there’s a spot to hook her claws onto. She will circle the enemy trying to confuse them and make them lose her from sight, then lunge at them from cover.

If inside the mech:
Her body literally fuses with the mech, growing twice its size and taking it apart using it as armour. In this form she is in a state of bloodlust and will lash out viciously at her opponent, disregarding any and all environmental factors. Her strength and resilience are increased to incredible levels.

Inventory: Phylactery

@Sentel

I'm a big fan of your application. Without any vague or overblown powers, she would depend completely on the durability and firepower of her mecha in order to win fights. Kudos for an imaginative and appropriate Frenzy. In terms of both combat and actual character, there's pretty much nothing to complain about. The one thing I would like is an estimation of the destructive ability of the Gatling guns and her pistol, though I expect that the pistol would be your standard peashooter, only really effective with headshots. Once that's cleared up, you're good to port her over into the Characters tab

The Blood Devil

Name: Saria Silverlocke
Alias: “The Blood Devil”
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Class: Sword fighter

Appearance

Saria

Equipment

The Red Blade: An heirloom passed down through countless generations of Saria’s family, and the weapon central to Saria’s fighting capability. Its true origin is unknown. However, tales told to her throughout childhood claim that it was forged by the Jogun, a race of perfect warriors, with the ore of Baskarite, a metal originating from the deepest depths of the earth. The Red Blade was their legacy.

However it came to be, and whoever made it, the Red Blade seems to be nearly indestructible, withstanding the most scorching temperatures from a smith’s forge as well as seemingly repelling the strikes of a blacksmith’s hammer without the slightest scratch. Attempts to dull it have been fruitless. Strangely enough, attempts to sharpen it also have no effect. Wielded properly, the Red Blade can cut through all but the heaviest armor, even cutting through lower grades of iron and steel.

Silverlocke Armor: Saria wears head-to-toe armor composed of ordinary steel plate, blackened and custom fitted to the shapes and contours of her own body. More steel plates hang from her armor, covering the hip and shoulder joints. The armor is mostly made for intimidation and ceremonial purposes rather than practical purposes, but still functions as effective protection.

Abilities

Reactionary Quickening: Saria’s sword fighting capability stems from countless hours of brutal, grueling training designed to create a warrior worthy of using the Red Blade. This included “exercises” such as dodging and deflecting lethal projectiles from all different directions, blindfolded. She learned to not just use her sight in battle, but sounds and instincts. Combined, Saria possessed the reaction speed and precision of a warrior.

Enhanced Strength: Saria not only needed to keep up with the rest of her siblings in terms of speed, but also in strength. Even though she was a girl, she was required to fight her brothers as well as her sister in order to become worthy of the blade. She seldom won against her brothers in hand-to-hand combat, since they possessed much more brute strength than she did, but to the average person, she is a bear in a woman’s skin, capable of extraordinary feats with the use of her strength alone, such as throwing people twice her weight over her shoulder, or caving in bones with her bare handed strikes.

Blood Blade: Saria is connected to the Red Blade in more ways than one. Sure, it is an heirloom bestowed upon her with the highest honor of the Silverlocke family, but per tradition, Saria was cut with the blade, imbuing her blood with the sword for the first time. From then on, she had become the only one in the world who could tap into the blade’s true power: Blood. Through the imbuement of her own blood, a crimson coat covers her sword, effectively sharpening it even further by using her own life force as a blade. Of course, this has a negative effect. The use of her own blood as a blade slowly drains her strength, and could kill her if left unchecked.

Pain Resistance: Saria is no stranger to pain, and can overcome and ignore wounds most people consider “grievous” or “crippling”. However, this does not make her immortal. She is still human, after all.

Fighting Style: Perfection? Form? Technique? Elegance? Merely an afterthought. Through raw, unhinged power, Saria aims to destroy completely and indiscriminately, and this is shown through her fighting style. Saria is rarely, if ever, on the defense. During combat, she will do anything possible to get the edge in a fight, including letting opponents injure her in order to gain an advantage.

Saria is a close range powerhouse. Her own unfettered rage powers her strikes, aiming to put all of her effort into physically breaking her opponent and their defenses. Fighters who use ranged attacks or sorcery infuriate Saria, since she sees combat as a purely melee-focused altercation. To her, ranged attackers and mages are cowards who cannot stomach the will to fight honorably. This style of combat does have its disadvantages. For example, Saria is weak to ranged attacks, since she cannot fight back against a ranged attacker, the only thing she can do is try and get closer to them. Also, Saria is tough, but not immortal. Attacks that slip through her defenses will hurt her, and usually, they hurt her severely.

Personality: Saria is by all means a hot-headed individual, and rightly so. From the day she could walk, she knew nothing but war. Risen by any other family, she may have had the passion for things such as the arts, or scholarly pursuits, but the Silverlocke family has effectively ironed out troublesome things such as these. The only thing left in her mind was an unfaltering fire, a will to fight, conquer, and destroy.

Bio: Raised in the Silverlocke family, Saria was one of five siblings, three of them being boys and another a girl. From the day she could walk, she was subjected to cruel punishment from her parents and her siblings alike. The reason for this abuse was to inject into her a sense of hostility and pain from the earliest age possible, and begin to kindle the flames of a warrior. However her sister, Alina, was more merciful to her than the others.

At the age of five, her training began. She was taught to wield a sword, and study the one “form” of fighting shared in the Silverlocke family: Darh Krile. (Jogun translation: Death Blow). The Silverlocke style of combat focused on overwhelming opponents with pure offensive capability. She was taught to never hold back in a fight, that self-preservation was a vice, preventing her from reaching her true path as a warrior. Years passed, and her sense of self deteriorated, her only savior was Alina, who seemed to be the one compassionate voice in her life.

At twelve, Saria began to “make progress”, or as her parents had put it. She began to best her brothers in combat, albeit not often. Alina wasn’t the warrior her parents wanted her to be, as she grew to be more of a pacifist. In a tragic “incident”, Alina had a large stone tied to her feet, and was told to swim across the lake nearest to their home. She never made it. Saria became filled with rage at her death, even moreso when her family seemed not to care much about it. “A good riddance,” as her parents called it. Saria began to plot her revenge, and she would become the Silverlocke heir in order to achieve it.

By nineteen, Saria had struggled through years of abuse and training, her only goal was the destruction of her entire family. Her personality took a dark turn, and she mercilessly beat her brothers, as they did to her before. When she won the right to the Silverlocke armor, and therefore the Red Blade, the first thing she did was slaughter her parents and brothers, not only for Alina, but for herself.

Afterwards, with her only companion being the Red Blade, she wandered the world, seeking worthy opponents to fight. Part of this was to reinforce her sense of self, her own identity, and part of it was to find an opponent she deemed worthy of killing her, to rid her of this cursed existence. Until this happens she searches still, a woman wanting to die.

Wish: Saria’s wish is to die to an opponent worth dieing to. She doesn’t know exactly who this would be, but it should ultimately be someone who has been through the same pain as her, who could best her in fair combat.

Echo: The Silverlocke lake, the place where her sister drowned under the cruel hands of her family.

Frenzy:

The Blood Devil

It is said that the Red Blade contains demonic origin. From the depths of the earth it was forged, and from the depths of the earth it came to be. Therefore, a bit of demonic influence was inevitable. When Saria’s pain is more than she could handle, her sword fuses to her hands, and forcibly draws blood from her body in order to create a blood blade (Blood Blade ability automatically activated). In this state, Saria is on her last legs, and will fight purely to survive, like a feral animal.

An aura of fire surrounds her, presumably an effect of the Red Blade binding to her soul. Her strength and speed is immensely increased, such that she could shatter boulders with the strength of a sword strike.

This state is what earned her the nickname, Blood Devil. When she slaughtered her family, the only thing onlookers saw was her, clad in black, bloody armor, emerging from her family’s home, now in flames.

Inventory: Phylactery

@Roughdragon1

A very interesting and powerful character--essentially a classy berserker. Thinking of her skills in terms of Lady Maria's gives her potent slew of abilities a useful context. Despite the adequate protection afforded to her by her armor, I get the overall vibe of 'glass cannon', with extremely high mobility and damage but limitations on durability and range that keep her from being too overbearing. Since from a reasonable standpoint the Red Blade is a katana, however, I would be happier if it was unable to cut through metal armor, just as a real katana would be. That's pretty much it though, since in the fighting style section you gave a pretty good approximation of her weaknesses.

With that done, she, too, can be moved over to the Characters tab.

The Crucible - Winner Take All

Alright, I placed my character into the CS. I deleted the whole "how she found the tournament" and left it blank for now.

@Lmpkio

Yeah, that's perfect. According to the game plan, the RP starts with your character being approached in regards to the tournament anyway, so that's best left unstated in the backstory.

I'm aiming to get my jet-pack akimbo nun finished tomorrow as well.

@DracoLunaris

Nice!

The Crucible - Winner Take All

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What exactly did you want me to do with the bio? I thought I deleted the notion about any other dimensions really.

The katana is supposed to be a weapon when dealing with other swordsmen... think of her as Palpatine in a sense. But then again I can see where your going with it. It doesn't truly make much sense or use if she has all these other more powerful abilities in tow.

@Lmpkio

Well, it still mentions that she finds the tournament in a corner of the galaxy, or something to that effect. Deal with that and remove the katana (or just have it with her as a namesake or decoration rather than a useful weapon) and you're good to port her over into the Characters tab

@LugubriousPerfectly reasonable. I'll probably let him keep his sword, and I may give him a mask to shield his face from the sun, which his helmet normally serves the purpose of.

How much do you need edited for him to meet acceptance?

@Dead Cruiser

I would need him to be edited to meet the agreed-upon parameters, thereby limiting his equipment and abilities. The mask to shield his face is fine. With this in mind, his weaknesses would be speed and durability. I would also prefer specifics in terms of his offensive holy magic, as 'tear through enemies with holy light' doesn't make a lot clear. Once you make the edits, I'll check over the character again to make sure I think he's in a good place, and then he'll be accepted or run through the mill again.

The Crucible - Winner Take All

@Lugubrious Tell me which, if any or even both, of these you like the sound of.

Dante has undertaken this contest in only the robes of his paladin order, as he pits his will and strength alone against his foes as a testament to his faith. (Possibly allowing sword or spear, or just barehanded, whatever. Possibility of reacquiring his stuff later on)

Whatever place this tournament takes place in is cut off from the gods, severely limiting the holy magic that Dante can draw upon. Additionally, he feels the strength of his faith weaken ever so slightly, putting him at greater risk at falling prey to his dark instincts. (This one doesn't combine too well with absolutely no weapons, since it leaves him almost totally unarmed)

@Dead Cruiser

I'm glad to work out a compromise. I think that the first stipulation, the one that deprives him of his armor, would be the most appropriate. As for the weapon allowance, I would suggest that you choose one of the two, and I will add the other to the roster of items that can be found in the City of Echoes. This way, he would still be a competent melee fighter, but his main focus would be his holy magic, and he wouldn't be as much of a defensive powerhouse. How does that sound?

The Crucible - Winner Take All

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There's not really a section for weaknesses per say, but were there, I would discuss how contact with sunlight burns his flesh and saps his strength. How silver and living wood cause festering wounds, and that he goes blind from looking at moonlight reflected in silver or in water. How he must feed on the blood of the living to survive, and every passing day that he abstains drives him closer to the precipice of madness, like a rabid dog straining against its ever-weakening leash.

I present these vampiric weaknesses because altering how he is now kind of disassembles his entire character. He's an ancient legendary hero... who's a complete dumbass. He's a heroic paladin... who can't use magic for shit. A juggernaut of steel... but a stiff wind blows him over. He's been fighting for centuries... but he's as good as some guy that's been doing it for less than a decade. See what I'm getting at?

@Dead Cruiser

Not many of those weaknesses are pertinent to combat. Even if a couple of the vampiric weaknesses hinder him in specific circumstances, he has so much raw power that it's barely a rut in the road.

When I saw nerf him, I don't necessarily mean he gets some kind of arbitrary debuff that just renders him weaker for no reason. I mean things like he doesn't have his armor, he doesn't have his spear and sword, and similar stuff.

I see precisely what you're getting at, but that kind of immutability presents a severe issue. If there's no way to make him functionally weaker in order to bring him in line, I regret to say there may be no alternative but to choose a different character.

I hope this is still open for applications, I'm currently filling out a sheet :)

@Sentel

I noticed your presence. We're still open, for sure. I'll eagerly await your sheet!

By the way, to everyone: I have yet to make some sort of tally, but the RP does have only 16 slots. At the moment, only 12 remain. You may have noticed that I'm not turning away any newcomers. I have not completely decided yet, but if you do not submit an application before all the slots are filled, you may forfeit your chance to participate.

EDIT: Well, 11 slots, counting one for me. So get cracking!