thewizardguy

The Blood Compact

Well, if during the day he's incredibly weak, I suppose it's far more balanced than I had originally perceived. Furthermore, the draculan coffine idea isn't a listed vampiric weakness. As such, it's unique to your character if you choose to include it.

The Blood Compact

I had written out a reply far longer than this however it seems it did not copy correctly before I posted and timed out. It seems general consensus is in favor of nerfing. I actually reread my post as found out I meant 0.1 milliseconds. Rather than the fuddle conversion. That is, I originally planned out to use 0.1 milliseconds, but then switched to 10 thousands of a second without changing the milli portion. I'll remove the ability to change into any form, limiting it to a Wolf, a Raven, Mist, and a Red Dragon, but also remove the cap on when can use such power such that he may use them in daylight. The Red dragon is a nod to some legend. He can travel between 2 lakes, natural or man-made, in/near NY and LA. They count as bodies of water large enough. He needs no plane. Which is also why I question how did Kami even know of Lord Bedivere's presence in the U.S. as he simply traveled via water. Or how did Kami know of Lord Bedivere's connection to Arthurian legend as he became a recluse during those times only resurfacing during the Normans. I assumed some form of intelligence was done, but even still, he does not tend to introduce himself as Sir Bedivere of Camelot, but rather "The Collector." During daylight hours, his one asset is absent, hence it is then when he is most vulnerable. During night hours, unless he uses his sword, modern technology renders his power useless as lights are everywhere in a city as already pointed out. Hence what utility does this have in modern times? Hence why he is designed to have unmatched speeds during the darkness as in the old days, there were no such lights and he would be a truly powerful force. It is an antiquated power which is befitting of the old knight. I will make the speed capped at Mach 3.2. However, do note that Bedivere is ridiculously easy to kill during the day. Especially when he is resting in his water bath per his Draculian coffin to maintain his power. All Kami needs to do is to find Camelot (it's somewhere in Wales), find lord Bedivere's resting place, stab him with a silvered stake. Or alternatively, drop high voltage into the water and watch him fry. Or even bring along a priest to pray over and bless the water and suddenly turn it into holy water. Here are the restraints to magic. What are the restraints to Technology? Kami's also got a magical compound running through him to extend his life, and I assume provide nourishment. His suit materials offer him general protection against the elements. I question if pain means anything due to the dose of narcotics he has for his increase reaction times. There is no mention of limit to his mechanized muscles with respect to time, nor energy consumption. His batteries I had mentioned earlier but again that is a grey area. Hence as technology advances, and stretches into the realm of magic, should it too have a limit?

@The Grey Dust

During the daylight hours, Bedhivere is as easy to kill as any other Oldblood, being very very hard. Not only would Holy Water not kill him, nor would electricity, but he has speed and strength superior to that of Kami no Kage. Unless you have some specific disability that makes you specifically weaker during the day, you're still an incredibly dangerous, fast-moving, nigh-unkillable, shapeshifting monster with expert swordsmanship capabilities. At the time I was unaware of Bedhivere's dedication to secrecy, and I made the assumption that he had arrived by plane. Seeing as how your ability does allow long-distance travel, I should not have made any such assumption. However, Kami no Kage would probably have obtained such information through the systematic slaughter and torture of vampires who had been associated with 'the Collector'. Although they're far harder to kill, this makes them far easier to torture, especially to one who specializes in such things. The limit of technology is that, at most, it brings Kami no kage on-level with the Oldbloods. Pretty much any blow that gets through his armor will instantly kill him. Killing a human being is easy, they have all these vital organs that all need to remain functional. If you break even one of them, he dies. He needs to eat, he needs to breathe. He needs to recharge once a day to keep his suit running. Even with this really badass suit, most oldbloods are still more powerful than he is, because he lacks all their magical abilities. Whatever way you look at it, humans are inferior to vampires in all aspects. As such, the Purge are an attempt to level the playing field a bit.

The Blood Compact

Let me clarify Gabe: Gabriel is a boss. Although it has never been previously established just HOW old he is, suffice to say he's old enough to have met Cain in person, and have been worshipped by the Mesopotamians. He is absolutely ancient, and he was created for the purpose of being a mystical, mysterious, thing. Now, the whole 'no magic' thing has already been shattered, this run has a lot more magic than previous ones (where Mith's pyrokinesis was a topic of debate, and Gabriel was the magicalest magic-man out there) so he's no longer as magical as he used to be. However, he's still massively psionic, capable of great mental feats. Gabriel can instil emotions in people, create illusions, generate insanity, read minds, and do many other things. He has never, however, 'mind controlled' someone. The act of mind control takes control away from a player, and this decreases people's fun. As such, I never plan on having Gabriel do anything like this. Instead, he merely shifted Kami's senses slightly, causing him to think the heart was a bit to the left. To balance out how rampantly powerful Gabriel is, I added in several factors. First off, he doesn't pick sides. He has no intention of saving humans or vampires in particular, and doesn't care for either. He might interfere occasionally, for fun, but he isn't going to 'fix' the results of any battle. As such, he doesn't take agency away from the players - their actions are still what determines the outcome of the battle, and the story as a whole. Furthermore, while this has almost never come up, Gabriel is physically weak. While he's still stronger than a human by far, his strength is barely above that of a Newblood, and any Oldblood should be able to beat him down in a physical confrontation. I created this so that, if one takes into account Gabriel's capabilities, there is an effective counter to them and chance of defeating him. He's certainly powerful, but use of robots, drones or people like Mith (who are immune to psychic tampering) will nullify his greatest abilities. Thus, to me, are the basic rules of making an overpowered character. If one 'side' has a truly OP character, then other character's actions become irrelevant compared to this overpowered character. In order to preserve agency, overpowered characters must always be neutral in a conflict. Furthermore, there must always be a method available to defeat them, if necessary they should serve as a 'boss battle' for other players to gang up against.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

Kishin, keep the OOC in the OOC. If he did, I don't recall him doing so. I chose the appearance of Tyki Mikk because I found him calling someone a 'stupid motherfucker' highly appropriate for his personality.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

Tiny. Who got tossed into the building?

@Wraithblade6

Good question. there was kind of a one-line combat scene there.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

A. Kilroy didn't know that. He was sorta tossed into the fight by Tsubaki. B. Most people probably see it as fire fighting fire... C. ....I just wanted to add in a C....

@supertinyking

Have you ever tried fighting fire with fire? Imagine if firefighters used flamethrowers instead of water. How well do you think that would work? Like, at all?

The Blood Compact

Darkness is localized. Hence he cannot travel across the country continuously at his current speed as in crossing outside of the field of darkness he would be unable to retain current speeds. His ability is also only retained at night, which is defined by the presence of natural sunlight. Hence while he could travel across the country using his speed, he can use another power far more easily to appear appropriately (his water travel abilities). And of course that is the point of the debate isn't it? You have science and I have magic. attempting to explain magic with science is tedious at best. As even you have yet to provide the formula which sustains life, (I may do so actually with having a Purge scientist, already working up on the concepts, I'd reckon it would be a throwback to modernized alchemy which how Crowley refined a sample for Bedivere. A similar process could be used to create the unknown formula. Although explaining the science of it's mechanics is tedious at best.) As for the localization Currently it is over Kilo Point, and removal of his presence from Kilo Point, and hence Excalibur, would slowly return the area to its natural order of light. Doing the same to an entire country would take far longer, and cause much greater concern. Hence please do not find the set up in creating a battlefield of darkness (especially at night) so unreasonable to do in 2-3 posts. I mean your purge members managed to do far more in 2-3 posts with your machines in setting up the battlefield after all. Anyways, we are in limbo.

@The Grey Dust

Once more. Light-speed. Once you have set up your area, you are impossible to defeat, or even harm in any feasible way. Furthermore, you gain the ability to instantly kill anyone within the zone. Had I given Kami no Kage the ability to call in laser-based orbital weaponry to instantly annihilate targets after setting it up, this would have annoyed you as well. Any ability that results in unavoidable instakill capabilities requires SEVERE penalties. It requiring some time to set up, and only functioning at night, still allows you to use it most of the time with ease. Seeing as how there is no effective counter to this ability possible, it's overpowered. My counterproposition would be to reduce Bedhivere's power to simply be more powerful at night, as his CS would imply. So at night, provided there are no powerful light sources nearby, he could move at nearly supersonic speeds, which makes him capable of instantly defeating anyone. However, it would allow the possibility of a counter - the use of light sources - and it would not cause the entire area to automatically shift to your advantage. Whilst still incredibly powerful, this ability would reduce Bedhivere from being capable of automatic annihilation. As it stands, I see no logical way for SOLDIER, or the Purge, to have any chance of victory whatsoever. If Bedhivere pleased, he could quite easily kill all of them instantly. Seeing as how Bedhivere's motivation is to destroy humanity, it's going to take constant bullshitting to prevent him from doing just that.

The Blood Compact

The point of having a blade with a monomolecular edge is that a simple piece of monofilament is flexible. It becomes quite hard to apply enough mechanical force in order to get it to cut. As such, the blade itself provides the mass and structure that allows you to provide mechanical force through the blade. It´s the simple difference between hitting someone with a string and hitting someone with a stick, the string is nearly incapable of cutting armor no matter how sharp it is due to the lack of kinetic energy. The composition of the blade itself makes it incredibly sturdy, meaning that it won´t break in battle. Being suddenly disarmed would be a severe problem for a swordsman such as Kami no Kage. We have not yet reached the point in our knowledge of the brain that we would be able to build a device quite on-level with the suit harnessed by Kami no Kage. However, we are rapidly reaching that point. Furthermore, I view SOLDIER and the PURGE as having access to the highest level of technology available, above what we know right now. As you have access to magic and awesomeness through that, I retain the right to travel into the near future, and use cool gadgets from there. Here's my case for your character being overpowered: You are capable of instantly killing any character in the country, without them having any logical chance at response. From kami no Kage to Mo to Gabriel, you could instantly kill any of them. The requirements for you activating this ability is that it's night-time, and that you get a couple of posts to increase the darkness, something that can only be countered by killing your character, which becomes progressively more impossible as time goes on. The idea of having a character that's more powerful in the darkness is awesome, and I would agree that he should be really hard to kill during the night. But making him capable of defeating the entirety of SOLDIER, as well as every vampire (oldblood or no) in the space of a single night, is a TAD retardedly overpowered. Keep in mind that it is heavily implied that you have a number of other abilities you have not even used yet, and are thus even more dangerous than has been seen up until now. Also, I had no plans for the dude. He was there to look cool, and die. I had planned to have him die fighting Lady Mo, but I would have been fine with you jumping in and killing him. That is not the issue here.

The Blood Compact

Molecular alteration relies upon forming the base atoms into a cylindrical shape. The tiny cylinders of air in the blade absorb the kinetic energy, allowing for incredibly brittle materials to gain the flexibility of traditional steel. This is not science fiction, this is something we're doing right now, in order to develop advanced ceramic heat shields on spacecraft, as well as in the creation of tank armor and in Plasma Forges (which need to be resistant to several thousands of degrees celsius). Boron Carbide IS harder than diamond, however it is significantly less tough. It is highly brittle, much like glass, and as such not suitable for anything like a blade. Using this technique however, it is quite possible to create the blade I mentioned. The blade is not monofilament, as monofilament describes a rope-like structure only a single atom thick. Instead, it utilizes an edge that is only a single atom thick, which lends it it's high cutting capability. The entire structure is thousands of atoms thick, besides for the edge, where it grows progressively thinner until it reaches a single atom in thickness. Actually, the electromagnet is embedded into the 'sheath' of the blade, placed at the hip of Onikage's suit. The blade itself simply has a small dose of magnetized steel placed within the hilt. This does not interfere with the sturdiness of the blade, and does not require a power source. In fact, I wouldn't even really need to use the entire space of the hilt to make this a feature, realistically. This blade is completely feasible in our own modern world. With the technology we posses right now, we could build it. The only reason nobody has is because it's a highly ineffective weapon in any realistic combat situation. We don't tend to fight many vampires in the real world. The exoskeleton is perhaps the most sci-fi thing. At this point in time, we already have direct mental interfaces, and more advanced ones are even now being developed for use with long-range drone combat in the military. In fact, we're so far that mental interfaces are going to become available in the game industry soon enough. However, you're correct in that creating a perfect interface is far beyond our current level of technology. But it doesn't have to be perfect. Just better than a human being's normal reflexes. As anybody who's studied the composition of the human brain would know, our current system for the translation and application of signals is far from perfect, using a series of chemical and hormonal triggers in order to properly translate the signal. A purely electronic method would work much more rapidly, about 50x more quickly than any organic method could hope to achieve. The batteries are the only unexplained thing. I will honestly admit that I skipped out on the issue of energy containment, and this is most likely the greatest problem facing modern exoskeleton development now. However, we already have batteries capable of lasting multiple years when powering important facilities. I'm pretty sure Kami no kage would need to recharge his suit on a daily basis, based on the application of these batteries as an advanced power source. Of course, more details could be added to this, as I myself have not entirely thought this aspect out. My friend, any particle has mass, and anything that has mass is incapable of reaching the speed of light. The reason light itself is capable of doing this is because it exists as a wave unless interacting with a Big Particle. Not even the smallest particle could reach the speed of light, because to do so would require an infinite source of energy. Light breaks these rules, due to it's very nature. And if you want your transformation capabilities to extend to subatomic particles charged with inherent energy, then I believe that's something you should have mentioned beforehand. No offence, but had your character not manipulated things the way he did, this place would be brighter than day. Not only is half of the city on fire at this point, not only is there the constant flashing light of gunfire, but I have several tanks quite literally firing massive beams of fire all over the place. And yet, each of these things are instantly dampened by your apparent capability to generate the absolute darkness you need at-will, even in the face of such great sources of light. I did not intend for this to become a fight, and I still don't want any offence to be dealt or taken. I simply find that your character has shown to be far more powerful than I believe such a character would be allowed to be.

HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

Also, why does everyone want to use Soular attacks on 5? Did I not explain what a bad idea that is? In detail? THREE TIMES?!