The 42nd Gecko

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Hell, I nearly cried when I learned about One Punch Man getting an animated series.

Lord Borous, Garou, and Tatsumaki all have fights with Saitama like what I just described. Minus the exhaustion bit on Saitama's part.

@LeeRoy

Indeed. That will be glorious. I hope they can do it justice.

Arena Chat Thread

I can respect that answer, honestly I wasn't expecting an articulate response. @The 42nd Gecko.

Cause I just re-read my shit and it's totally standoffish when I didn't mean it to be.

Also, Zabuza should have been later in the show. Like right after the chuunin exams. Because the animation quality got a bump, and Zabuza's story is genuinely good. Not like, oh this is the best thing ever.

No, Naruto isn't known for it's storytelling. It's story is kinda jumpy and gets really dumb. But Zabuza and Haku was a literally heartwrenching subplot that had writing that stood out like a sore thumb in early Naruto.

Though I'll be frank, I watch Naruto for the moments when they hit MY favored range of power and just decimate landscapes with their abilities. Coupled with the higher quality animation of those episodes, mmph. Beautiful.

Edit: I did it again, this isn't meant to sound standoffish, it's just 12 in the morning and I haven't had any sleep since yesterday.

@LeeRoy

Hah, no problem, that's fun too. It just isn't what I liked about Naruto. Though, I can appreciate some of the later fight scenes, I just feel it lost some of the essence of trickery when so many times it comes down to "My Jutsu is bigger."

@Tasuke If your question is about when I mentioned a ninja with bouncy balls, I was offering myself for the "two players send their messages to the GM, and the GM acts as a go between to describe what each player sees" game. If it's about Naruto, a question was asked, and I gave my honest answer.

Arena Chat Thread

Why is Narutoverse so popular? Just asking, because I've watched the show and like I'm not bashing on people who like it. I'm just saying I don't understand why it's so common.

While the open-endedness of the powers is neat and all, the outright limitations subjected to the characters is just like. Awful.

Like, you're never the best, because the protagonist literally becomes Jesus Christ right near the end.

The coolest powers are limited to ten people, the tailed beasts.

And if you make your character stronger than that, you're making a Mary Sue. At least according to other people who play with Narutoverse characters.

Like.

There's so many other ways that you could go about it, y'know. And I honestly don't see the appeal.

Edit: Also, @Melon, I'm on it. It'll be up in a lil' bit. Been distracted with the shite-ass holidays.

@LeeRoy

What I've always done and liked with Naruto Verse is when we go, "Nothing from canon is canon but the general powers available to everybody." Tailed Beasts? Nope. Super god powers? Nope. Setting? Nope, different countries and clans. Just the same magic system, effectively, with the crazy near the end cut off.

When I watched Naruto, my favorite battle was always Kakashi vs Zabuza, I really liked the power level and mind games of that fight, even if it was a little spy vs spy one upsmanship. And that's the power level I like in Naruto Verse RPs. When a person pulls out their super rage beast mode totally not a tailed beast power, I always responded "Kay, I throw a smoke bomb. Have fun ticking off your proverbial life bar while I hide."

Gunnaya Njordsdottir vs Blithe Marrowdwell

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Alright fair enough. Maybe a balance can be naturally struck as we keep going, because their is a slight difference in subjective enjoyment between the two of us. Of course, I'm still learning, and am up for sticking more to your style.

Sorry for the wait on continuing the fight. Lotta New Years stuff in the way. Might have to wait until the new year before I can really get back to this.

@Jotunn Draugr

No problem. I don't mean to say everything should be one long exchange that finishes the fight in one go. Fighters certainly do back off after an exchange sometimes. I just don't particularly like it if both fighters back off after EVERY strike. Having a quick one-two-three-back off is perfectly reasonable.

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@MelonHead@Tasuke I've got a ninja armed with bouncy balls*.

*Oddly not a joke character. He originated in a Naruto RP where they were holding a tournament to determine the next leader after they had just lost their leader in battle, and he was like, "It's really dumb for us to be fighting this tournament with bladed weapons and explosives and laser beam magic given that we're already in a super weak position. I'm gonna fight only using stealth items, guile, healing magic, and bouncy balls to protest." Managed to get second place, and his value on human life and sneakiness came to be defining factors in his character throughout future incarnations.

Arena Chat Thread

Something I was thinking about the other day, unsure if it would even be possible.

I was contemplating how the Arena is made up of interesting fights, but that the actual capacity to really utilize subterfuge and other less standardized forms of combat is really lacking, due to the nature of unconscious meta-gaming. To clarify, I mean that if an opponent chooses to lie in wait in a particular spot, their opponent can't unknow that knowledge, and will therefore be biased in their actions to a varying extent. This is just one example of this, but still.

I was thinking, a potential method for overcoming it would be a 'Hardcore Mode', which would essentially consist of three participants. The first two are responsible for posting and fighting, the third is the judge and mediator who also plays a special role, similar to that of a dungeon master they alone receive the complete posts from each player, and use these to describe the scene as the opponent would be able to see it. They may include subtle clues or remarks if they feel a character would have revealed their position in some way, and can reward smart play by giving a character an advantage on their attack.

It would be difficult to realize, but I think an Arena battle where you truly see through your own character's perspective and have only that to work with would really make for excellent combat, particularly at lower tiers.

@MelonHead

Certainly, it's a fun idea, just requires a lot of investment.

[Tuuj vs Innue] Kiyo vs Shio - Battle for the Island

Tuuj concedes this fight given that I have set up True Illumination on him in my previous post and has no counter to Grand Convergence.

(That and disinterest in finishing it).

@Innue

Awwww....

God's Shattering [Concluded]

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It's a good thing that the Imperium hasn't captured one of the Librarian characters yet then. Who said anything about the NPC being affiliated with the Imperium?

@TheWindel

So, were all those NPCs who were captured not actually librarians?

God's Shattering [Concluded]

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Hmm. A certain NPC. Heh.

@TheWindel

If the Impy-people can track down a teleporting person back to the Librarian base... And we've established that they can teleport Platy around... How do the Librarians still exist? I mean, they've got a mind reader too, so if they capture one librarian ever, they can teleport Platy around to each base that Librarian knew about then he renders it to dust. It'd be an afternoon tops. :P

God's Shattering [Concluded]

@TheWindel

All I've seen was a pretty flashy rat, to say the truth.

@KoL

MONKEY!