Stern Algorithm

Arpeggio of Blue Steel: The Phantom Fleet (OPEN --- APPLY)

From alongside the human ship, Ping Hai also formed a bridge to cross over to the humans who had been silently gawking at her for the entirety of the trip, stopping as she joined Shinano's side. Ping Hai had to admit, she was rather curious about humans. If the goal of creating mental models in an effort to emulate human tactical thinking, then that brought with it the assumption that human intellect was a credible threat despite their seeming powerlessness. Yet since intellect was not something immediately visible, because thoughts were hidden in the 'brains' behind their 'eyes', the humans were mysterious. Ping Hai wondered which of these humans was currently calculating a way to destroy the Phantom Fleet. her piercing red gaze scanned across the human sailors, making and maintaining eye contact with each one individually before moving on to the next, her attempt to see behind their 'head windows' a failure each time, though she did notice her prolonged gaze caused mixed reactions, most involving them turning a shade of red and fidgeting. Ping Hai stood silently by, waiting for Shinano to speak.

My 'Hero' Academia - Devil's Due

The speed trainee hero whistled, and paced back. "Yeah about that...Ummm...Guys...I think we're kinda fucked?" he stated with a bit of fear in his voice but to his credit he didn't bolt, and leave his friends to their doom. "Let's do the Tokyo Special! Now!" growled a voice from above as someone jumped out the window followed by a girl with wings on her back. The young speedster said something but he was too far away at this point to hear his muttering. But he started to twirl his arms in a circle and sent a large tunnel of wind at the direction of Diselpunk with the force of a hurricane. Though it was clearly taxing on the youth as his face got red suddenly. The guy who jumped out the window had a crossbow strapped to his arm, and was wearing goggles. The girl was extremely pretty for a young high school girl with long white hair, and red eyes. She grabbed onto the boy who jumped and he launched an arrow at the hurricane. Followed by another one. The arrow exploded into a puddle of water and the next one that followed sent a charge of electricity into it causing the hurricane like wind tunnel to not only be enough to make the other villains go barreling down the street just by the sheer force but the electricity was sure to give any hero a shock if they couldn't handle it.

@vancexentan

Hit by the 'Tokyo Special', Dieselpunk braced herself, widening her stance. Fortunately, she was heavy enough that the wind didn't send her flying away immediately, though she could still feel the air tugging against her. Little pops and hisses could be heard as the various fuses from the cars that she had consumed exploded from the electricity coursing through her. At least they were only non-essential, low-current fuses, like interior air or headlights. Though it was painful, the shock wasn't enough to knock her back into human form, nor was it strong enough to disable essential systems, which were mainly mechanical rather than electrical. Some of the batteries were getting strained, but it wasn't unbearable.

By widening her stance, she was making sure that she was grounding the electricity away from the most important thing beneath her, Midnight. She hoped to God that the rubble that she had serendipitously spread on the ground earlier was enough of a wind barrier that he didn't get sent flying too. But with the archer and the previously unknown wing girl revealed, Dieselpunk was sure that Midnight would disco-light the little brats out of the sky. As the 'tank', Dieselpunk was 'doing her job' by drawing fire and forcing the enemies to reveal themselves or otherwise abandon their advantageous positions so that her teammates could do some damage. Of course, that wasn't going to stop her from adding her own bit of fun into the mix. Instinctively using on arm to cover her face, she reached over with her other arm to the nearby, partially demolished building, morphed the metal plates in her hand into something of a shovel, and smashed the building. As it began to crumble, she again flung the debris into the sky towards the flyer carrying the archer. Dieselpunk was sure the girl could probably dodge it, if she wasn't carrying someone else while trying to avoid the hurricane beneath her. Or would she drop her friend a few stories down to save herself? As a hero, she probably wouldn't do the latter, so allowing both herself and him to get hit would be the dumb, but heroic thing to do.

Innocence Lost: Space Western Science Fantasy (Temporarily Open Again!)

“That bad? Well, if you have time to do it, please do. I don’t see a reason to wait, especially if it was to get worse. I’d like to avoid turning mostly deaf again, believe it or not it kind of blows.”

@Starlance

Since it didn't seem that anyone else was in need of healing or repairs, besides the usual pre-battle maintenance, Legion focused most of the rest of the period of travel operating on Rachel's auditory receptors, since she seemed eager to go on the mission. However, this was not something Legion could repair, non-invasively, so after explaining the entire procedure and obtaining Rachel's consent, Legion went ahead with the repair, which involved reaching into Rachel's ear with small probing wires. of course, Legion made sure Rachel was as comfortable as she could be, and since Legion was operating on an inorganic portion of Rachel's body, there was not fear of pain. Fortunately, the damage was something that could be repaired without the use of replacement parts, mostly loose wiring. When Legion finished, the ysent Racehl on her way.

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Stella grimaced a little at the reaction to the scan Legion gave. 'Even he can't help being surprised.' She tried to keep her cool as best as possible, but she didn't feel like asking any questions either. 'At least he's just reacting to me, and not any glaring hazards to my health... I think.'

She filled out the datapad as well as she could, before curtly excusing herself.

@Crowvette

Legion let Stella leave the medical office. Though the machine wondered if it should explain itself, it ultimately decided that right now wasn't the time. A part of Legion's mind also was afraid that Stella would lash out, blame Legion for being an unfeeling, unsympathetic machine, and declare how disgusting it felt for her to be made completely out of machinery. Legion didn't know if it could handle such an outburst of emotion, and decided that long-term trust would need to be established before they could communicate openly and honestly about how they felt.

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@Letter Bee

As the operation commenced, a quiet humming accompanied Legion as it approached Natasha's captain's seat. "You know, despite Moonstrike One's assurances, I am loathe to allow this operation to continue. First of all, how do we know these children will perform as intended? Secondly, they're children. Isn't us using them against the Ascendancy no different than the Ascendancy using them against the Coalition Against Humanity?" Though the words were harsh, they were spoken calmly. Though they sounded rhetorical, the questions were sincere. Captain Natasha had the unique honor of being the receptacle of Legion's doubts, since for the most part, Legion exuded a calm certainty, the illusion of absolute rationalism, in order to provide order and mental stability as routine protocol for staving off 'space madness'.

Overlord - Glory in a new World

Meh, tiny-ass post but it keeps the ball rolling.

Overlord - Glory in a new World

@Zelosse

"Absolutely!" Brunhillde replied, following Overzealous to the library. "I'll look for a scrying spell right away," She announced, finding one soon after and cast the spell, opening a scrying window in the air, the image showing above the guild hall. "Find village." Brunhillde commanded, and the image started zooming away.

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@Shadowman215

Mythos Biblios Omniac, as it turned out, did not follow it's creator or guildmaster to the library. One of it's scoutflies had noticed another guildmember approaching the entrance, and decided to greet him. "Welcome back, master Solace," Omniac declared, "Please help yourself to the festivities." Omniac was, of course, referring to the food and drink that had been set out to celebrate the end of the world.

Pariah Online | Season One

Ailanthus_Altissima

• The Dungeon •

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Tif almost died, Tessa thought to herself. In the back of her mind, she blamed herself for letting her guard down and not getting her spells back up in time. But it seems Rael had got there just in time, while Graves was capturing the creature's attention. He called out to the party to concentrate damage on the limb, but for someone who specialized in area control, concentrating damage was not her strong point. She did have one spell available though. Since all her spells were hemispheres centered around herself, she had one spell that required quite a casting period that converted all her spherical spells into cone spells. The spheres would split behind her and open up, angle by angle, much like Pac-Man's death animation. At this point, she had got all her spells up, so Arnaakus was being hit by period lightning strikes, slowed by a gravitational field, and slapped by chains; while a protective shield surrounded her allies, reducing their damage taken. if she converted her spells to cones, the damage and intensity would increase substantially, while the shield would block more damage, but was she willing to leave their backs exposed? Sure this brute looked like the boss, and often, for dramatic reasons, boss battles did not involve a random party of monsters suddenly coming in from behind. But did the game still work on such mechanical logic? And didn't Tiferet almost die partially because Tessa hadn't been paranoid enough? Yet the group seemed to be struggling.

"Hold on, I'm going to concentrate my spells!" Tessa called out, and began channeling her concentration spell. The hemispheres reached quarter-spheres (halfway to completion), lightning struck Arnaakus with higher frequency, the gravitational pull became more intense, and the chains started attempting to bind various parts of the creature, when suddenly it shot out exploding ice shards at the party. Tessa winced as the shrapnel hit her, feeling actual pain, and losing part of the channel. Fortunately, Tessa specialized in being able to muscle through interrupts, so instead of canceling her spell completely, it only set her back (to about 25% completion). "Give me just a little bit more time!"

The Vanguard

Interference

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Interference

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Name:

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Dr. Eileen Fang (Fang Ai Ling)

Alias:

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Interference, or Dr. Fang

Age:

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35

Race:

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Human

Homeplanet:

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Earth

Skills/Powers:

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Eileen was born with the ability emit, detect, and absorb phenomena that exhibit mathematical wave behavior: sound and light. She uses technology to augment her abilities, relying on harmonics. The light and sound is emitted from her body (skin). Being inherently able to solve mathematical wave equations, she is blessed with a very high intelligence.

• Sound Wave Emission/Reception: Eileen can emit as well as absorb/hear audible sound as well as sound outside the audible range, allowing her to mimic voices, make herself completely silent, send out shockwaves, fire disorienting beams of ultrasound, produce the brown note, have superhearing, tell when people are lying, etc.
• EM Wave Emission/Reception: Eileen can emit and absorb/see visible light as well as light outside the visible spectrum allowing her to fire microwaves, create flashbangs, camouflage, have x-ray vision, night-vision, etc.

Equipment(If any):

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Interference

Interference wears a caped, white enamel androgynous power suit that is easily mistaken for a robot. It looks something like the following image.

But the head has a single red camera in the center like the following image.

• Power suit: Provides minor protection, mainly used to focus or augment her sound and light abilities, gives her control of her 'locusts'.
• Surveillance Swarm: a swarm of microrobot drones in the form of beetles/locusts used mainly for spying and eavesdropping, though Eileen can also use them offensively by laying them around in intricate patterns that amplify the harmonics of an area, augmenting her powers.
• Blast Bludgeon: a long, bat-like triangular rod that functions like a tuning fork. Eileen uses this to triangulate the harmonic frequencies of objects she strikes with it. After several strikes, she is able to determine the vibrational frequency that is most destructive to the particular material she is striking. She already knows what frequency works best for concrete and bone-through-flesh.

Affiliation:

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Vanguard

Alignment:

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Anti-Villain (Lawful Good)

Personality:

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Eileen is soft-spoken and big-sisterly, often displaying cute, ditzy mannerisms. She can get excited when talking about technology or research, but is quite subdued most of the time. Yet her slow, quiet speech is accompanied with a certain gravity. She is very nurturing to her teammates, motherly as she takes care of their needs while also pushing them to challenge themselves and improve. Her quietness, at times, seems forlorn and determined as she stares off into some brave new future that she knows will one day come.

On the other hand, her personality slightly changes when she dons her power armor. Half of her powers being based off sound, Eileen understands the value of being loud, and often utilizes shock and awe tactics. In combat, she can be exacting, precise, and relentless. Control defines her, whether that is mastery over herself or the battlefield. She is determined to push onward and use the most optimum method to get the job done.

Short-Bio:

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Eileen was born to a poor immigrant Chinese family in the United States of America. While in poverty, Eileen managed to avoid the gaze of The Vanguard during her developing years, yet she and her family knew the fate of those caught exhibiting their powers. Taught to obey authority, Eileen went through life, hiding her powers, seeing supers who acted out as 'uppity', and running counter to the established peace and order. Besides, it wasn't like she could cause any harm with her power anyways.

At a young age, Eileen demonstrated a knack for complex mathematics and, by extension, physics. Through study and hard work, Eileen saw that she could live a perfectly peaceful and successful life, as long as she kept her secret and kept her head down. Complacently and blindly, Eileen powered through her education, gaining multiple honors and advanced degrees. Though praised as a prodigy, Eileen remained humble and reserved. She eventually found herself working in government laboratories, developing cutting-edge technology for The Vanguard, with whom she agreed with philosophically. Supers were too dangerous, and order must be maintained.

There she met a fellow researcher, many years her senior. They happened to be kindred spirits, and discussed their worldviews. The older researcher seemed much more tolerant of supers, despite where he worked, and reminding Eileen of her impoverished past, pointed out to her how the existing order was flawed. When it seemed that their disagreements were coming to a head, the man revealed that he was an incognito super, just like her.

They kept each others' secret, building a bond of trust, as the man continued to explain how supers were a part of humanity too, and that in order for humanity to truly unite in peace, they needed to be whole, to include supers as well. he explained how without supers, powerless humans would continue to cling to their petty differences, each world leader wanting the be the biggest fish in the pond. Besides, the Earth already knew that there were greater threats out in space, so there was no time for the political power squabbles that seemed such an ingrained part of human behavior. In order for humanity to get out of this rut, a united super-powered front would need to exert a heavy hand to divert the destructive course of humanity. The best way for this to happen would be through government-sanctioned supers, which they both knew was impossible without trust.

Then one day, the older gentleman went rogue. Using his powers, he wreaked havoc on The Vanguard's research infrastructure, threatening to destroy everything him and his fellow researchers had poured so many years of their lives into. In the end, only by using her powers, was Eileen able to take down her former mentor. Eileen was taken into custody for intense questioning, but it was clear; she had demonstrated her loyalty by using her powers to take down her mentor, to take down another super. It was then that Eileen realized the gambit her mentor had taken. Through his death, he had paved the first steps for her. With this incident, she would convince The vanguard that in order to fight supers, they needed supers. And she would help them. She would form a team. She would continue to develop technology, to train and equip the supers she took under her wing. She would continue to expand her influence, taking advantage of the resources that the government offered. She knew that supers were here to save the world, even if it meant saving it from humans.

Themes:

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Musical Themes

Here's something heroic:



And here's something a little more...contradictory and noisy:

The Crystal Gems

@rocketrobie2
i'm glad to be here too but to be honest, this my first Tabletop roleplay

@sassy1085

Don't worry, same for me!

The Crystal Gems

In that case let's do it

The Crystal Gems

I would say I'm down, but will we be able to use the dungeon world mechanics with just the two of us?