Lugubrious

The Crucible - Winner Take All

Posting tomorrow morning.

The Crucible - Winner Take All

By my watch its about as late Thursday afternoon as it can get, it being Friday and all that. So with that said...

Garbage vs AngryDragon - Round 2 goes to @obliviousRoadie winning 6 to 2!

Congratulations! Time to work out how Shelly's going to wriggle out of this one. :D

@ColouredCyan

I appreciate the initiative! I got so broiled up in preparing for something this morning that I completely forgot.

So, that's 1 win for both of you. I wonder who will be the first to 3? I'm excited to find out!

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Alright, post up. I took something of a liberty in assuming there'd be some foodstuffs that hadn't spoiled in the houses, namely canned goods, but if that is faulty thinking just call me out and I'll merrily edit.

@Deadnaut

Well, the Village isn't a suburb -more like a bunch of condos in a partition of the inner city, a little roomier and less claustrophobic than the rest, but still without anything like lawns, so picture something like this- but that's your only mistake.

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I feel like I owe everyone here an apology. As some of you may have noticed there was a, shall we say, abundance of strange wordings, missing words, typos, and an assortment of other mistakes in my latest post.

Only a few of you know, but I use a voice to text program to write because I suffer from tendonitis. What that means is essentially that it is painful for me to type anything on a keyboard, or mouse, for any length of time. It is by no means 100% accurate, and me not being a native English speaker makes it a bit difficult for the programme to decide what exactly I am saying.

So there you have it, the reason for my errors and mistakes. I will endeavour to be more thorough when making my posts in the future.

Also, you can think Lazo for helping me go through and finding the mistakes in my most recent post.

@kapuchu

There's no need to apologize. Everyone makes mistakes, and not nearly everyone has as good as an excuse. You've been doing great so far. For my part, I would have only guessed you had a nosy autocorrect.

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actually you got 2-3 rounds left

@DracoLunaris

Thanks for pointing it out! Saved me a little trouble.

@Lugubrious

Yo boss man, sorry if this seems an obvious question, but how much in our posts do you want us to, well, leave up to you

EX:

Captain Teller opens a fridge, do I write "Within the fridge is an apple and three carrots" Or do I say "He takes what is within and moves on to do X, Y and Z"

I figure it's probably the former but I tend to ask these kinds of questions to avoid stepping on any toes.

@Deadnaut

No problem, thank you for asking such questions. In terms of everyday items like food and scrap, go ahead and decide for yourself. It's part of the freedom you have to create the world around you as a setting for your character's own personal story.

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@Lugubrious So no mid-fight improvisation of new attacks. Got it. Weaknesses have been described in his fighting style.

@BCTheEntity

Alright, should be good then. I'll get you started with an introductory post of Crue getting teleported into the city soon. You'll be appearing in Oldtown, matched against the Itinerant Exorcist in Actaeon's stead.

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@Lugubrious Alright, I've added a section detailing some of the uses of Lightning Mode in the sheet. Just to clarify, however, would you be against Motley developing new techniques and methods of utilising his vampirism in the future, or at least utilising techniques that aren't listed in the sheet right now?

@BCTheEntity

Finding new ways to apply what he already has would be fine, but I would not be happy discovering or manifesting new abilities on the fly without some kind of outside influence.

One last thing before you're accepted: I would like you to indicate some of his weaknesses in the 'fighting style' section, specifically.

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that's not a very reassuring answer
is there anything else I should change?

@obliviousRoadie

Sorry, no, it's fine. It's still a bit jokey, and it modifies College history (though in a very minor way), but there's no problem. Go ahead and port her over.

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@Lugubrious I feel like you should've checked the character before accepting him, even given that he was put into the guest list first. With that in mind, I have stated before that many of those abilities are things Crue can't do, having not taught himself how; I'm perfectly willing to reduce his vampiric arsenal to what you've suggested and limit the fatality of Heavy Fuel and the Anti-Ripple, perhaps by arguing that "it affects beings from non-JoJo settings less effectively for unknown reasons" or whatever (the actually-undead entities aside of course, who would be correspondingly less affected or even benefited from a Dead Ripple charge), though I'm tempted to suggest that zombification may also be an ability vampires can perform as standard, given that all vampires have "vampiric essence".

There's also the matter of Motley's Lightning Mode, basically his version of the freezing technique, though I'd imagine it's more limited defensively speaking, since where Dio could just lower his body temperature at the point of impact, Motley has to go through a somewhat more complicated procedure of internal rearrangement. If you like, I can explain the Lightning Mode and the associated techniques I have in mind in detail in a PM, or else whatever works for you.

@BCTheEntity

I must have missed where the details of what he can't do were added into his character sheet. Right now, the links provided to the ripple and vampire pages seem to imply he can do everything on them. It's unnecessary to add some kind of arbitrary reduction where a power works less well in another universe when you could just lower the base power instead. I could compromise and allow the zombification.

I will admit that I made a mistake in not looking at the 'longhand' version of his powers, which I wrongfully assumed the 'shorthand' version gave a brief but complete summary of. It would be necessary to give all pertinent details about lightning mode in the sheet itself, so that opponents can read and use them.

Project Crossover [Video Game Crossover RP]

Slayer
Level 2
Day 1
Location: Outside Abandoned Castle
@Hylozoist @Holy Soldier @Gentlemanvaultboy @Lmpkio @Zarkun @ToadRopes @Bright_Ops
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After sending the last valkyrie on her way, Slayer found that he'd finished his assignment, as it were, early. Around him, the battle still raged, but the all-out brawl with the small fry no longer concerned him. His cultured gaze lay on the twisted behemoth that towered over the posse of heroes, catastrophic and inescapable as a landslide, and sight of Odin approaching made the vampire furrow his brows. He did not know what to do. That conclusion, simple as it was irritating, did not sprout up for him often. In terrible situations, he had always been the knowledgeable one on the sidelines, but in a brand new world that worked on irksome rules like invincibility shields his advantages and airs of superiority availed him little. Slayer thrived on building rapport and connections with people, sharing his wisdom and gaining acquaintances in return, not skimming a mission briefing and then marching out like some hired thug to risk his neck. This scenario bothered him, to say the least.

Another point of annoyance needled him as he observed the phozons floating toward the Demon Lord once he removed his mask. One by one the little orbs, which the gentleman knew would be helpful for him, vanished into the gullet of the tyrant's hideous face. ”How...bothersome,” he muttered in an inconsolable tone, even before Odin's flesh began to swell with newfound power. As best Slayer could remember, the phozons could be saved and collected for the use of heroes using certain grown plants, but in the heat of a fight over the fate of the world there was precious little time for agriculture. Of course, the seeds had unceremoniously disappeared along with the majority of Slayer's comrades, so it made little difference.

The sunken, hateful eyes of the tyrant began to smolder with a cruel, hellish light. Slayer predicted some kind of attack, but not a barrage of fireballs. Thinking quickly, he dashed backward before throwing up his priceless cape. While the flames licked it, they did not consume it and the vampire was able to brush out the fire. Had Odin's attack been more targeted, he might have been in quite the pickle, but for the stroke of luck allowed him an opportunity. Once his enemy's attack concluded, Slayer began to move. He walked purposefully, chuckling to himself. ”Now, this is a quandary. My foe wields brutal power and overwhelming strength, and yet...unless I get closer, I cannot teach him some manners.” None of the other heroes stood at his side, but Slayer continued on at his characteristic dignified pace. He spread his hands apart, palms up, and shook his head with a smile on his face—a gentleman's taunt. ”All those phozons bulking you up and you go with a flurry of fireballs? Honestly! And not a single hero harmed.”

When he opened his eyes, they were fearless. They stared up at the giant. ”I'm beginning to think you're all bluster, my good man. Did the virus perhaps affect your faculties? Ah, how pitiable. In fact, I'm certain you couldn't even hit me now.”

Slayer wanted his foe to rage. He begged for a wrathful response to his good-natured mockery, and moreover, he begged that Odin's wrath would open up for his allies an opportunity to strike. Oswald, at the very least, should be able to teleport in and deal a crippling blow. However, he did not plan to make this ploy into a sacrifice. Light on his feet, Slayer made a wager: the Demon Lord's speed and power versus his invincibility frames. One split-second was all it would take; either his Dandy Step would allow him to evade the conquer of the world's blow, or he would be forced into early retirement from heroism. Slayer waited, muscles tense, to see what it would be.