Rune_Alchemist

The War of the Three

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Capturing Bastion first or killing each other off first were always options to winning the battle. The 3 post limit was more of a technical aspect than a story one. But certainly, whoever gets Bastion away from the Elicitor or kills the other side completely wins. The 3 post limit just ensured that process didn't take forever.

@TheWindel

Honestly, I think a major factor that this can seemingly take forever is the four post resurrection thing. Its the only thing really making it possible for things to drag on forever.

Now, I get that you guys want to let everyone stay active and participate in the RP.

However, if everyone simply can resurrect after four posts, then it simply takes forever. Maybe instead of four posts, they simply resurrect after the battle? As such, being able to kill all the faction player characters means there is little to no more resistance from the side. Aside from some grunts, but most PCs can probably fend those off quite easily unless they're really super weak.

I mean, as far as taking forever goes, if the PCs are endlessly resurrecting the only way to 'kill' everyone is in a short time frame of four posts, which would kind of take forever, unless we made heavy use of collabs and managed to kill everyone in more or less the same exact moment.

But yeah, my thoughts on the matter. Off to find food!

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We haven't set the idea in stone yet, but the current idea is that you can only deploy two characters into any Battle, but you can have an expanded roster of characters already made, This way capturing people does more than unlock the canon ero scenes, but also keeps them out of the following conflict and may require you to use someone from the roster, assuming no prison break happens.

And yes, Slime Girls are glorious :3

@Lonewolf685

Hmm...that's not a bad idea, actually. Would also mean that the players didn't know which characters the others were deploying in the battle either, which means a bit of a surprise for everyone.

So yeah, cool. I'ma go make a slime girl CS now. Because I can, and they are squishy and soft and adorable and huggable.

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Also fear not. Lone has like two slime girls in their arsenal.

@TheWindel

@Lonewolf685

Only two? Pfft. I have like, five. I may or may not have a thing for our slimy friends. (As if my avatar wasn't any indication)

Also, having a more clear objective as to how to end battles would be nice.

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@Lonewolf685@KoL@TheWindel

...gotta be honest. Was not expecting to wake up to you guys actually asking for me not to leave.

Apologies if I seemed a little...hot headed in my withdrawal. I honestly probably was a little hasty in my leaving. It was like, three AM and I really need to learn to get off forums by then. Or go read my usual brand of kinky smut if I can't sleep xP

*Ahem*

Anyways, I'll refrain from withdrawing for now. @Lonewolf685 managed to at least alleviate some of my concerns with his post.

So...uh, yeah. Hail Rufus and all that~

Not much more to say here, really, so yeah. Apologies for the little...shitshow I started when I simply asked for the post limit to not be reduced so arbitrarily. Kinda got majorly off point there and I am admittedly, partly at fault for that.

Edited Gwynn's post again.

...whereupon we will have some new features such as an expansion and alteration to the Character Limit currently in effect.

@Lonewolf685

....

More characters? Am I reading that right?

....if so. I know what I'm making. You know what this RP needs? Slime girls.

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Because I thought that people would notice it, if they read my posts? I'm not even using random, complicated language to write them and still only a few persons get it.

Aside from that, it was because one had to think that it would (even if you disregard the above stuff) be logical that you can't run at god awful speeds inside of a mile long military ship, full of cramped spaces, tight curves and resistance. I mean, while the others on the ship encounter blockades and bulkheads everywhere, for Gwynn it was just a matter of "I slice everything on the way and get there in one post" how could I foresee that you would do that?

@KoL

I simply misread your posts or something. Not that it matters, as a GM it is your job to clean up misunderstandings, and when I asked, there was obviously a misunderstanding somewhere that needed to be corrected.

And she wasn't running at 'god awful speeds' She literally basically teleported. I has a charge up time, and is used for quickly closing distances between point A and point B. I can run a mile in under thirteen minutes if I want to really badly. And resistances? The demons had infiltrated it at that point and removed all of the defenses as far as I was aware.

I even said if anyone had a problem with my post, I would be more than happy to change it.

But well, this doesn't matter so much to me any more honestly, as I will be pulling out of this RP.

@KoL@TheWindel@Lonewolf685

As much fun as I have had in my brief time here, I will be withdrawing my participation in this RP. For various reasons I will not get into with too much detail, but its mostly because I feel as though everything at the moment, is being forced, rushed, and the decisions made by the player characters are not playing into the story, or otherwise how things play out. (save for conveniently, the GM characters but I shall spare you rambling with examples of how they seem to be doing more or less doing everything in a somewhat predetermined manner.)

I honestly can't really even end in a 'homogeneous and definitive' way in any number of round of posts, as the angels are still plotting to regroup for a second attack, not to mention the demons that are still aboard. Unless the humans manage to somehow wipe out the demons. It seems in my opinion, that its only a way to cut things short so no one has a chance to do anything when there are other people still definitely in the fight.

Take that as you will, but I will be editing my post accordingly to have Gwynn not surrender. As for Silana, I shall simply have her quietly fade into the background. Assume she quietly packed her things, got bored with this war, and dug her some home or something in a graveyard.

Apologies for the small bit of a rant, but consider this my withdrawal of this RP. I hope that perhaps we can RP again more amicably in the future, but I will not remain in this one any longer.

From Barren Shores: A Fantasy Survival RP

@PKMNB0Y So, how big is this snake? Is it only a few feet, or are we talking a full-blown boa constrictor?

@Hayazo

Sevita will kill it and then proceed to throw it over a fire and eat it regardless of size xP

...might just have some left over for others if its really big though.

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@TheWindel
I'd like to point out, Gwynn took major damage from Graffdakka. She avoided bullets easily because she has a a shield, and some pretty good reflexes.

She's currently, as I said, has major burns, broken bones, and more than a few scrapes and bruises. That was from a missile she basically took to the face.

But...yeah, cool, I'll not say anything more.

@KoL
I don't mind losing, if its done logically and believably. Honestly, though, this has gotten a bit off of my original concern of having three more posts with everyone be far too short of a time to conclude this.

...I'd also like to ask why I wasn't informed of this when I asked in the Angel PM thread if it was logical Gwynn would know the same route Diana took to get into the ship. If it wasn't, I wouldn't even have made an attempt to do that.

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Herm? Angels having the disadvantage? Let's see.....

Well, Gwynn basically flew from the outside of the ship to the cargo hold without hitting any significant resistance along the way, in spite of only having a general location for Diana and not knowing the layout of the ship....

@Flamelord

To explain, Gwynn is also a special unit. As in, a commander of Valkyries. She didn't fly anywhere, she expended most of her energy using brief little lightning jumps in an attempt to make a swift exit with Diana, which was summarily shut down without being able to give any actual resistance other than 'surrender or die'. (which, I honestly have to question how Regia acted in such a swift manner to effectively being ambushed by a Valkyrie charging at her at basically high-speeds. My fault for not bringing that up, I suppose.)

She didn't meet any 'significant resistance' because she cut them down with her blade, or moved too fast to be hindered that much. Remember, the Machina should have also been dealing with demon agents around this time so they should have logically been fighting among themselves, or otherwise in chaos.

Also, its safe to assume she knew about as much about the ship as Diana did, being a commander. She didn't know the specific location of Diana once she was inside, but she knew a rough area. After using a few of those jumps she was able to locate her through the process of elimination.

Azazeal pretty effortlessly ruined the whole acid rose trap Victiore had going on, without any serious loss to the angelic forces....

@Flamelord

They're angels. They have a natural advantage against demons. From where I stand, they shouldn't have incurred any heavy losses, especially if I remember right and they were burning away the corruption. (I could be wrong about that, as I haven't bothered to go back and read.) Yet, Victoire manages to get away unscathed, and still manages to lay down a powerful trap somehow with little to no repercussions.

Generally near totally unaffected by any automated or stationary defenses that might be present in the giant fortress, including anti-air fire, turrets, etc. I've been told that this is my fault for not being specific, but the point still stands when the non-PC Machina barely even pose a noteworthy challenge....

@Flamelord

What, we're supposed to describe every non-pc angel being shot down in graphic detail? I made a few references in my posts about angels being shot down I do believe. I assumed it was a given that it was happening, but I suppose that was wrong.

Basically, from where I'm sitting it's hardly like things have been unfair to the Angels. If anything they've been unfair to the Machina, since any natural advantage they might have in controlling the giant walking fortress of doom has been basically negated within a couple sentences besides the trump card.

@Flamelord

From where I'm standing, its honestly the opposite. The Angels have fought the hardest to be sure, especially Gwynn and Raziel, and have little to nothing to show for their efforts besides wounds, and any thing they try to accomplish get shut down before they can even do anything.

and eh...yeah, I think I'm done with this though, so whatevs. That's my perspective on things.

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I agree with @Rune_Alchemist on this one. The battle is far from over, and the Angels were kind of at a disadvantage from the start. Is Raziel the only person with a real injury besides Warboss?

@LokiLeo789

Remember, Gwynn has burns and otherwise some small bruises, a few broken bones, and scrapes from getting slammed with a missile. Another one of those and she'd probably be down for the count.

So yeeeah.

She's hurting a bit, even if she's not entirely showing it, since well, she's a bit of a berserker unit. Honestly, the BDSM thing these humans might attempt are probably just going to make her condition worse. Which is, kinda not fun.

[ E V O L U T I O N ] ♔ A Pokejinka Interest Thread

I will drop my interest in this.

Because I totally need another RP. hahaha, riiight.

My thoughts on stuff:
Greater goal/conflict at large? Should an opposing team (i.e. Team Rocket) be brought in? Maybe a team (of humans, Pokejinka, or a mix) arguing whether it's humane to continue keeping Pokemon. Eventual breakdown in society?

Its always a nice idea to have some sort of external conflict to help motivate players into action, especially those that may not normally work together to temporarily do so.

Should recruitable Pokejinka be played only by GMs, or should the option to play a recruitable Pokejinka be open to everyone? I'm leaning towards the latter at the moment, though if the former is chosen, that also brings up the question of who plays the Pokejinka (the GM or the trainer's player) after they're recruited.
Maybe a bit of both? The wild pokejinka is played by the GM when its wild, and when it is captured it becomes the players. Would be the simplest way, however if you're like me you don't entirely enjoy playing other peoples characters, so that might pose a problem. Might be best to just let them be created by the player.

Should this be opened up to a large number of RPers, or is it ideally confined to a small group? This is especially important in terms of how characters are going to travel.
Honestly, small groups have always worked better more cohesively in my opinion.

At least one other GM? Please help me, I am a mess at RPs haha...

I wouldn't mind, though I am admittedly a fairly bad GM myself, but if you want plot ideas I've been told I'm awesome at it. Though, they can get fairly grandiose and world-changing sometimes. (I like the drama and the 'save the world' sort of thing xP)

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@Lucius Cypher

I'm going to be perfectly honest, if that's your interpretation of it that's cool.

But honestly, I think the angels have pretty much have the shaft this entire time. Firstly, they're inherently weak against the Machina. I don't think any of the angels ever really just 'blitzed their defenses'. If anything, the only ones doing major damage to the Machina were the demons from what I saw, while the angels were mostly on the defensive most of the time looking for a weak point to try and get into the Elicitor. Because, for one, their holy arts are weak to man and their machines.

They made short work of the demons and their corruption, of course, as it was seen. Victoire was a major disadvantage there, and to be honest, the only demon that I ever saw that was even remotely hindered by the angels or machina. Silana and Suparna made short work of their foe and got in completely unhindered. They just apparently haven't had time to get further in, despite being inside of it.

As for the climactic moment? Hell goddamn no, there's so many ways this can play out at the moment from a strategic standpoint. The Angels still have the Valkyries for example. I'm not entirely sure of their power here, but what if they just used a goddamn giant solarbeam to unearth the elicitor or something? If that's the case, then we should have been informed from the beginning that's what the valkyries are capable of, so we could have better worked that into the planning.

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Also keep in mind here the Angels have been completely owning everyone else. I don't think that's a clear victory for the Machina.

@TheWindel

Again...I'm just going to offer a differing opinion there. The only thing the angels have actually done, is fight of Victoire, duel Grafdakka and barely get an agent inside, only to have her captured almost immediately whilst the demons have almost unhindered access to the Elicitor at the moment while the Machina in my opinion seem to be honestly the least injured out of everyone.

They've honestly made the least headway in regards to this fight. If anything, the demons have had the most progress.

...I dunno, I'm going to stop rambling here but I am admittedly, not very happy with this decision. This doesn't seem like it can end smoothly or logically in three posts from everyone else. There's too much that can happen.

EDIT: You have to remember a battle is always about more than just 'who kills the most amount of men', but is rather 'how quickly and efficiently you complete your objectives for that battle' At the moment, the Machina are simply smooth sailing and haven't had any major hindrances at all, despite apparently being infested with demons now, while the demons are making good progress and the only ones who have made zero headway are the angels.

Which is fine, if that's the way it logically plays out, but it seems like the Machina in my opinion have just had it...really, really, easy for it to end so completely early.