Redking0380

Superheroes, Defend the City! (rotating GMs or more conventional, feedback welcome)

@Redking0380 cool, would be glad to see what ideas you have! TF2 is a fun game, btw. Pyro is my second main, after the Engineer.

@Zapdos

I was always a Medic guy myself, thoughI have the most hours on Soldier.

Discovery: A Broken Galaxy

The Arcadian
September 24, 2190

𝕯𝖔𝖈𝖙𝖔𝖗 𝕽𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖙𝖔𝖋𝖊𝖓 𝖁𝖔𝖓 𝕷𝖚𝖉𝖜𝖎𝖌

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“Hmm, a notice?” The doctor hums to himself, ignoring the small noises made by his associates around the room. Instead focusing on the chime of the nearby computer, technically his but it's more the medbays than anything.

Still, approaching it shows a message icon and clicking in that pulls up a very simple work order. One that just expedites his plans.

“Field kits?” Richtofen hums again. “It would be helpful to know who is going or any number of people, but I can still prepare a few. Those marine standard are woefully poor in quality.”

A push lets the chair roll over to a sealed door, standing and pushing it back away the doctor inputs a code into the glorified pantry. This room acts more as a storage for things adjacent to medical care than things important to it. Case in point, the stack of small lunch-box adjacent cases for portable supplies. He grabs a few, and a small amount of other supplies to play around with organizing. A touch of water testers, a radiation tag, a few odds and ends.

Richtofen leaves the room, letting the door close behind as he gently dumps the items on a metal table. Another moment is taken to wander the room and gather a few other things to fit in the boxes, before he sat once more.

It is a quick realization that he may have grabbed a few to many things, but in truth it was expected. There are simply far too many things to worry about to fit in a single field kit.

Maybe he should just volunteer and bring a proper rucksack full of tools?

Discovery: A Broken Galaxy

Okay, the ship has arrived at the Polaris System, and feel free to post. Which I will contact those who will be on the boarding team once I have that figured out.

@Theyra

Fun times I am sure

Superheroes, Defend the City! (rotating GMs or more conventional, feedback welcome)

Huh, that's a unique take. Mark me down for it, I do so enjoy brainstorming.

You know what's wild? Strippers don't take SNAP

@Redking0380well, these are samples of my writing style and the pitch as it were, is that if you find my quality compatible, then I'm down like charlie brown to either brainstorm a story or engage in anyone's starters.

@Mixcoatl

Interesting. Not what I would have expected honestly

Fist Full O'Crystals

ASH

Bruce ‘Ash’ Brisco
33
Male

Appearance: A tall man with charcoal skin and a more city-slicker style of dress than many in the west.

Brief Background:

Much more well known under the epithet ‘Gamblin Man Of Neworlawn’, Bruce is a gambler through and through. Been chased out of every establishment in the east and more than a fair share of the west, cause he just keeps winning. To the detriment of everyone including himself.

Smooth talking does little when you just did some daytime robbery, and at a certain point money does little to fix issues. Good thing he has a touch of luck and a good revolver to his name.

The magic helps too.

Strengths:

• Devils Luck - Maybe the Devil laughs at the misfortune around him or maybe he is just favored. Maybe he has nothing at all. At the end of the day, things just seem to work out.
• Heart Of The Cards - Even without luck, Ash is an expert of gambling games and all the little ‘legal’ tricks to make them better or worse. Though, just because the rules allow it doesn't mean the players will. Also knows some neat card tricks.
• Saloon Brawler - A few too many fights in a few too many odd places, mainly saloons, leads to one having really good improvisation skills in a fight. Course, he prefers to be able to draw and shoot someone but he has learned more than his fair share of using everything and anything around as makeshift weapons and being slippery as possible while doing it.
• Roulette - Magic is a fickle thing, but Ash has got it! Kinda…
  He might not be no spell slinger, but he can recharge the crystal chambers of his revolver on the fly. Issue being he can't actually dictate what the effects are or really know till he pulls the trigger. Least he doesn't have to buy ammo?

Weaknesses:

• Gamblin Man - Who can resist a good game of chance? Not this guy.
• Debts - Look, just cause he tends to win doesn't mean he always wins. Debtors are out there, and Ash tends to be rather recognizable and not very good at laying low.
• There Are Many Like It - There is one unique quirk about the magics of Ash in that it reacts rather…poorly with other Cristols. His revolver is one of a kind, and is the only one that doesn't blow up in his hands. Carefully attuned to handle the idiosyncrasies of his gambles.

Fist Full O'Crystals

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Nice Rango reference!

I have to point out a detail that I guess I didn't clarify well enough in the OP- the only moving parts of a cristol is the trigger, and any cristol only holds one crystal at a time; the crystal holds so many charges of a single spell (normally, put in that), like wands and such in D&D. It would only make sense to carry 2 or 3 spare crystals at least, twice that for martial types.

You've offered up some good balancing traits, how do you plan to randomize the effects? Is "backfire" among the risks?

@RickyG85

Of course, and others. I was just going to like, set up a wheel or some dice or something with effects on it.

And the Roulette could still work the same even with that knowledge. Random BS go!

Or could go the route of it being a unique and unusually design weapon.

Discovery: A Broken Galaxy

Should make an Email thread that doesn't have notifications that we have to check compulsory

Fist Full O'Crystals

I shall tip my hat, one legend to another.

ASH

Bruce ‘Ash’ Brisco
33
Male

Appearance: A tall man with charcoal skin and a more city-slicker style of dress than many in the west.

Brief Background:

Much more well known under the epithet ‘Gamblin Man Of Neworlawn’, Bruce is a gambler through and through. Been chased out of every establishment in the east and more than a fair share of the west, cause he just keeps winning. To the detriment of everyone including himself.

Smooth talking does little when you just did some daytime robbery, and at a certain point money does little to fix issues. Good thing he has a touch of luck and a good revolver to his name.

The magic helps too.

Strengths:

• Devils Luck - Maybe the Devil laughs at the misfortune around him or maybe he is just favored. Maybe he has nothing at all. At the end of the day, things just seem to work out.
• Heart Of The Cards - Even without luck, Ash is an expert of gambling games and all the little ‘legal’ tricks to make them better or worse. Though, just because the rules allow it doesn't mean the players will. Also knows some neat card tricks.
• Saloon Brawler - A few too many fights in a few too many odd places, mainly saloons, leads to one having really good improvisation skills in a fight. Course, he prefers to be able to draw and shoot someone but he has learned more than his fair share of using everything and anything around as makeshift weapons and being slippery as possible while doing it.
• Roulette - Magic is a fickle thing, but Ash has got it! Kinda…
  He might not be no spell slinger, but he can recharge the crystal chambers of his revolver on the fly. Issue being he can't actually dictate what the effects are or really know till he pulls the trigger. Least he doesn't have to buy ammo?

Weaknesses:

• Gamblin Man - Who can resist a good game of chance? Not this guy.
• Debts - Look, just cause he tends to win doesn't mean he always wins. Debtors are out there, and Ash tends to be rather recognizable and not very good at laying low.
• There Are Many Like It - There is one unique quirk about the magics of Ash in that it reacts rather…poorly with other Cristols. His revolver is one of a kind, and is the only one that doesn't blow up in his hands. Carefully attuned to handle the idiosyncrasies of his gambles.

You know what's wild? Strippers don't take SNAP

I'll admit theres a lot of interesting things going on in this, but find myself lost as to what exactly is being pitched or what's the purpose.