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Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Jedi Templar (ACCEPTING)

@Rethel34If Damar and Roka take his ship instead of going with Revan, will that mess with any of your plans? They'll still be heading to Taris.

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Jedi Templar (ACCEPTING)

Damar thought he saw another expression flicker across Roka's face, but wasn't sure if his eyes had simply played tricks on him in the sunlight. He dismissed it with barely a thought, as the man complimented his thoughts and offered his own on the matter.

"Of course, you may come along if that is what you wish. I would be proud to have another who seeks to understand the complexity of this situation at my side." Damar replied to the Balosaurian.

"If I may advise however, I know your reluctance to engage in battle, and that is a noble goal. However I will not hesitate to engage an enemy about to harm someone. The Mandalorians are ruthless. I would only suggest you consider when or if you would engage them."

"Oh, I am no stranger to combat, brother." Damar said, his eyes narrowing slightly. It was not an act of suspicion or aggression, but rather one that expressed the recollection of unpleasant memories. "As I'm sure we all do, I prefer violence as a last resort. But there is a reason we carry our sabers, after all. If I face a Mandalorian, it will not be the first time I have struck down one who sought hostility against me. And I am sure it will not be the last, unfortunately."

As they continued to talk, Knight Zale offered the use of his own ship. Damar thought that a prudent choice, as he saw the Republic cruiser come into view over the skyscrapers.

"Yes, if your ship is nearby, let us use it instead and follow them closely." said Damar. "Perhaps that will earn us some leeway with the Council--I'm sure that, once they leave their cloister and learn of all that has transpired, they will consider anyone who has joined Revan and Alek to be an active rebel against their orders. If we leave by separate ship, we can at least make it clear that we leave for our own purposes, and not theirs."

@Korkoa

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@MacDuffy I had Zehst crash into your mercenary thugs, since I figured that was the best way to cause a huge chaotic event that no one could possibly miss. Lemme know if that's not cool.

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The fisherman gave another tug, and hauled the net up out of the ocean as the sea salt stung his eyes. Wiping the tears away with one sun-browned hand, he gave a glance back towards the shoreline, now only a hop-skip-and-a-jump away. The trawler had been out all night, and had come back with a nice haul. Now he could finally head home, get a nice shower, a hot meal, and some much needed rest.

"HEEEEEEY MIIIIIISTEEEEEER!!"

He turned; was someone calling to him? Who could it be, out here on the water at such an early hour? Another night-fisher coming in?

No. It was a boy, in a dinghy. A...very fast dinghy. A very fast dinghy that was approaching more and more quickly, even though the boy had no oars, and in fact was clinging to the boat and leaning back, his legs rigid in front of him like a toboggan rider who was trying desperately to put his heels into the snow. A nervous smile plastered his face.

"DO YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE REVERSE THRUST?"

"Reverse what?!" the man shouted, just before he ducked under the awning near his ship's cabin. The dinghy shot by like a bullet, the young man's screams doppler-ing into the distance. The fisherman could have sword he saw a...large hole of some kind, spewing rocket fire, coming right out of the youth's back!

"ME NEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIITHEEEEEEEEERRR!!"

And so Zehst Messerschmitt came to Loguetown, though not at all in the fashion one might have imagined. The rocket propelled dinghy hit the sand and kept going, its hull shedding timbers as it ramped up off a dune and sailed into the air. Zehst looked around in awe at all the houses--the villages back on the Gecko Islands hadn't been near this big--then remembered he was falling out of the sky at something like a hundred and twenty miles an hour.

He'd finally figured out how to make the rockets come out wherever and whenever he wanted. Now he had to figure out how to put on the brakes. He supposed he could always just...turn them off?

Of course, by the time he came to this conclusion--having crossed his legs and put one hand on his chin, nodding sagely--he had already plowed through a line of laundry, an extremely alarmed cat, and some poor old man's cabbage cart. With bits of vegetable and an angry cat clinging to his face, he looked up with a grin and snapped his fingers. The rocket was sucked back into his flesh with a "shwoop" sound, and the boat began to gradually slow down. Of course, by this time there wasn't much left of it save the seat that Zehst was sitting on. As the momentum began to die off the boy found himself spinning in circles, then ricocheting off an uneven cobblestone to crash through the wall of someone's shop.

"Aha-cough! It did--huck, hagh, ew cat hair--it did work! Zehst my man, you're two for two today!"

As the dust and wood chips cleared, Zehst stood up with the cat from before now held in his outstretched arms and several new, apparently unnoticed, scratchmarks turning his face into bloody hatchwork. He looked around the crash site and spotted several people and an old man. One of the big guys had a nose ring.

"Hey, uh...I don't suppose you guys know where I could get a new boat, do ya?" he asked, nervously throwing the cat over his shoulder. It let out a loud yeowl, then in the distance there was the sound of someone's garbage being scattered and glass breaking.

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@Jabber Added the Inventor trait, will try to get an IC post up later today.

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I prefer the last one. Honestly I don't think numerical stats should be involved at all, just the traits and people's common sense seems good enough to me. A numerical stat system is pretty pointless without dice or some other form of random number generation and a great deal of calculation, because there's no way it can cover all the numerous variables that can come into play with writing--for instance, if you gave us a hard and fast "Bob has 8 Strength and Jim has 10, Jim will always win in a fist fight" Bob could still argue "what if I poison his booze? What if I attack him from behind? What if I shoot a cannon at him?" so on and so forth.

Plus, One Piece is supposed to be a whacky, ridiculous world. Bogging it down with numbers seems like it would hamper the fun.

The Legend of Zelda: Fragments of Hope

Who we waiting on for IC? Maybe we should skip them if they're taking this long.

@Sho Minazuki

I second this, although maybe railroad any missing characters a bit just in case whoever's missing comes back. That way they're not completely left behind.

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Guys, I need your comments on something. Is everyone fine without using some sort of system to quantify the power levels of characters?

@Jabber

I'm fine with the honor system unless people start doing things that are really overpowered. Maybe use the Traits as a way of letting people know when they're progressing--for instance, if someone earns a trait like "Enhanced Durability," they're just tougher than a normal person. By the time they work their way up to "Immense Durability," maybe they're like Zoro and can take enormous amounts of punishment and lose 9/10ths of the blood in their body and still be fine.

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@Jabber

Added Zehst to the Characters list.

So Traits will be something that we accumulate over time, or that are rewarded? Are they like extra abilities or just character descriptors?

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Zehst Messerschmitt

Name: Zehst Messerschmitt
Age: 18
Gender:Male
Race: Human
Height and Weight: 5' 10", 140 pounds (63.5 kg)

[Appearance]

 
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Personality:  Zehst is energetic and hardly ever takes things seriously. He makes friends easily and brushes off hostility up to a point. His primary want in life is freedom--absolute freedom, the ability to do anything and everything that he wants. However, this is where he begins to toe the line of eccentricity. He doesn't believe in laws, seeing them as oppressive, but agrees that freedom has to naturally come with consequences. He also rarely imposes on anyone else's "freedoms" as he sees them--such as the freedom of a thief to steal something. Yet a person who stops a thief also has the freedom to do that if they want to. All in all it's an extremely hypocritical way of looking at the world, and speaks to his inexperience as a person...but perhaps this is why he wants to be free in the first place.
 
History: Zehst was born to a wealthy family on the Gecko Islands archipelago, who made their fortune by designing weapons for the World Government. Knowing their inventions were tools of violence, destruction, and oppression, they always kept their son in the dark about the true nature of their careers. Zehst's childhood was extremely restricted and sheltered, to keep him from learning how cruel the world really was. But they could only keep this up for so long. As Zehst got older, he had soon read all the books they could give him and learned all his tutors had to teach him, and soon his fun-loving attitude could no longer be curbed and he could no longer simply be sent to his room. With nothing more to distract him, he began to escape time and time again. Until, one night, he witnessed an engagement between the World Government and a pirate ship that was targeting the Gecko Islands.

The Pirate Ship was coming close to the shore, almost close enough to begin assaulting the island. Though in doing so they were putting the lives of islanders who lived on the shore in peril, the captain of the Marines gave the order to launch a particular missile that had been designed by Zehst's parents. The missile was a direct hit, but the explosion that followed was so enormous that not only were the pirates completely eradicated, but so were the homes of several villagers on the cliffs overlooking the shoreline. Zehst couldn't help but think that even pirates didn't deserve to be destroyed so thoroughly as he watched the carnage subside. What was more, the people of the village blamed his family. For the first time Zehst saw the true nature of what his parents had done to build their fortune.

Over the next few weeks, he confronted them. There was a family shouting match that grew so intense Zehst punched his own father. Though he wasn't punished afterwards, this actually made it worse for him. His parents loved him, they truly did, but for various reasons they couldn't just suddenly stop making weapons. Unable to see their point of view, Zehst secretely stole an object his father had obtained for experimentation--a Devil Fruit. Using the fruit's powers to leave his home behind, Zehst started a new life, searching for the freedom he had never had.

Abilities: Roke-Roke no Mi - The Rocket Fruit, its name taken from the Japanese pronunciation "roketto." It is a paramecium fruit that turns the user into a Rocket Human, and allows them to produce various types of rocket thrusters and jets through the surfaces of their body.
Techniques: 

• Cruise Knuckle - A rocket thruster appears on Zehst's elbow, greatly increasing the speed and force of a punch.
• Stinger Strike - A thruster appears on the back of Zehst's shoulder and elbow as he darts forward, and performs a piercing elbow strike with the opposite arm. It resembles an elbow thrust from the martial art known as Bajiquan.
• Homing Kick - A roundhouse kick that uses thrusters on the back of Zehst's calves and heel to increase power, speed, and spin--he'll be able to chase an opponent to an extent, continuing to spin and fly after them. However, after several rotations he'll become dizzy and crash.
• ICBM - A flying kick that sprouts thrusters over various parts of Zhest, making this his most powerful attack. However, it hits so hard that it damages him as well, and uses up a great deal of energy.

Traits: 
Inventor - Having inherited his parents' knack for learning, designing, and application of science, Zehst makes a fairly good inventor. However, at the moment he lacks the experience or tools to make much use of it. Perhaps if he were to set foot on a ship, he could learn its workings and be a decent shipwright...
Inventory: A burlap duffel sack containing all his supplies, including clothes, food and water, a compass, a map, and not much else.