The 42nd Gecko

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Miyu, Traitor Angel Honorless Blade

"STOP YOU IDIOT! I INVITED HER IN THAT MEANS SHE'S A FRIEND!" Miyu yelled after beast as she splatted onto the floor, losing her balance as she yelled angrily.

Presuming BEAST backed down: "Ummmm..." Miyu took in a deep breath as she collected herself, which included getting off the ground and back on her feet. "Sorry about that, this is a thing that followed me home after I touched a glowy meteor. It ate one of my mechs, nearly killed me, then saved me, and has apparently filled my body with nanomachines which made it so I don't need glasses anymore. I'm honestly pretty confused and just trying to make sense of what it is right now. Again, sorry, I didn't realize it'd attack. I should have told you I had an unknown.. thing or something?"

If BEAST didn't back down: Miyu activated her Daimyos and sent them after BEAST. "Machina Hellbeast something, who cares, just blow it up."

@Flamelord[@InnerDemon]

Artoria, Master of the Maniacal Menagerie

"Harur?" Artoria's voice seemed a bit strained by surprise and whatever she had meant to say just got subsumed into a wordless vocalization. Goo girl had just touched her, well, hugged her. And that felt WEIRD. She was a bit stunned as Luci was on her and didn't really react to anything for a few seconds after that, even Henrietta's potential deathstorm.

And now she had Frog on her head. She remained in her sitting position, and her eyes flitted upward to try and and see him. Previously, she had been about to transform him, and now they both seemed to be the playthings of that goo. She shrugged, hands up in that gesture of "Uh, I dunno what's going on." Then, she relaxed and laid down tummy first on the ground, taking in the scenery. Today had been a good day, she had transformed three people, and two of them were still transformed as far as she knew. She'd have to get that one that transformed back sometime later. She figured Ira's fire'd be good at making the transformation harder to recover from.

@Banana@Lonewolf685

Alexi, Knight of Winter

@Banana@Awesomoman64

Alexi peeked up over Wolf's shoulder, to check the situation for that stump. With it out of the picture, she felt safe to follow Wolf's orders and disembark. "Thank you very much, Sir. OOOH! Someone left their food." Alexi flitted over to what looked like some fish and chips that had gotten dumped across the floor, and she sat down, legs to the side, next to the scattered food and started hungrily mowing down, completely unconcerned the fact that it had been spread across the floor and was half-eaten.

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So, I've been working on a bit of a ruleset/fight guidelines for a War RP of my own, any advice/comments?

Rules of Thumb

1. The more focused power beats the more general power. If Adam has "increased physical stats" and Eve has "increased speed", in a running contest, Eve wins. The more focused the ability, the greater the gap, for example, A:"increased physical stats" and E:"increased physical stats except defense" means the second will be faster, but not as much as if it was only E:"increased speed".

2. The power with more restrictions on its use or costs beats the less restricted/costly power. If Adam and Eve have "increased physical stats" but Eve's version can only be activated upon reaching 50% health or less, Eve's version will be more powerful. The more restricted the ability, the greater the gap. For example, an ability that deals 10% of your body's health per second of using it will increase your stats by more than an ability that deals 1% of your body's health per second of using it.

3. The more creative power use beats a power that is strictly stronger than it. If Adam has "Armor Suit" and Eve outmaneuvers him and strikes at a weakpoint in say the armpit, that wasn't specifically mentioned by Adam's description of the suit but makes sense, go ahead and be a sport and take some damage Adam. We want to make fights fun, and so, whenever you're not sure whether a creative attack would really make enough of a difference to overcome a stronger power, lean in the interest of the creative attack/defense/use of a power.

Power Tiers

Tier 1-
These are powers that give you personal benefits or specific tricks in your arsenel, but don't dominate the battlefield. Increased physical strength, a blade with supernatural cutting ability, the ability to cast a self-flight spell, resistance to thermal change. These abilities are typically very narrow (I cast laser blast), or have a personal effect (I'm stronger).

You get 4 Tier 1 powers, that provides your character with a small array of tricks to use in a duel with another hero and personalizes you and your gear.

Tier 2-
These are powers that are often incredibly flexible and/or have battlefield dominating effects. A really nice rocket launcher with a variety of special missiles is Tier 1. The ability to launch your own artillery barrages worth of these missiles, is Tier 2. Most general manipulation powers, such as the manipulation of an element, fall under this category unless they have a low power level or have harsh restrictions. For example, flat out telekinesis is a Tier 2 power, but if you can only use telekinesis on one particular sword attuned to you, or with a range limit of 2-3 meters, it is a Tier 1 power.

You should have 1 Tier 2 power (unless you have a Tier 3 instead), that defines why your character is a threat on the battlefield at large that has a real potential of single-handedly changing the tide of a battle between armies.

Tier 3-
These are powers that IGNORE how strong the opposition is, unless it's another tier 3. If your sword cuts through ANYTHING because it sends each individual atom or molecule it's edge touches to a different moment in time, 99% of targets will have nothing to stop that. If you can summon portals, it doesn't matter how strong the incoming attack is if you can create a portal in front of you and send it back at whoever attacked you.

In general, if you want a Tier 3 power, it should be extremely focused and/or have high drawbacks, and it will then take the place of your Tier 2 power. I recommend asking about any power you think might be a Tier 3.

Anyway, I'll post for Miyu and Alexi tomorrow morning now that I've gotten that off my chest.

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I'm not so sure I was in love with Mass Effect as a setting. What I liked about Mass Effect kind of began and ended with Garrus. Granted, I liked Garrus enough to buy the entire original trilogy.. But, yeah.

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@Mega Birb Huh, reminds me of Chen.

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@Lmpkio I meant, you never had a chance of being the first mech character, as there were mech characters before you joined the roleplay.

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@Lmpkio You are REALLY late on that. Miyu's been here since the second battle. She just really sucked.

Also, Grafdakka, now that he's piloted by Endian, counts.

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@TheWindel Yay for getting lucky with encountering the one Angel who'll fall for submissive puppy eyes!

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Artoria, Master of the Maniacal Menagerie

"Huh.. Where'd the Frog go?" Artoria seemed genuinely confused that her leap after Frog had not resulted in catching the Frog when Frog was thrown. Looking about a bit, to get her bearings. If Henry had immediately gone for the stab, he might have gotten her while she was figuring out that she had just tackled someone through a volcano.

But by the time Henry had recovered from screaming and pulled out the Cheater's Blade, Artoria had already looked down at Henry, smiled, and stolen her powers. Jumping back with the same exact speed Henry could charge forward, Artoria howevered on the magpie's wings.

"Hmm... I couldn't steal your eyes, that's interesting, guess I'll have to get stronger still before I can take those. Toodles!" Artoria shifted back into the Ira/Mephila form that represented her currently most physically powerful form and portalled back into the throne room, picking a spot close to that strange and intriguing goo girl, to try and examine her from behind and get a few sniffs to try and find out what exactly was going on there. It apparently liked and was liked by the Queen, so it couldn't hurt to be friends.

@floodtalon@TheWindel@Mega Birb@Banana@Lonewolf685@Lmpkio@Lucius Cypher

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@Mega Birb Hijacking Eos' anything sounds like a bad idea.

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@Mega Birb Now that I think about it, Eos' response to Marquis being captured was to hold a concert.