Question 2

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Well let's just say that upon receiving his powers the first thing Simon did was play a game of 'Simon says' with his family.

There were no survivors.

Terror upvote.

[Kobold King he/him]

Well let's just say that upon receiving his powers the first thing Simon did was play a game of 'Simon says' with his family.

There were no survivors.

I was going to use Synesthesia, which I still might but I also want to introduce her into Oregon at some point, she's not particularly terrifying, at least not on the same level as the others in Calamityville.

 

...I actually hadn't made a connection "Simon" and "Simon says." But I think everyone in the room with me just heard my whimper.

 

Simon might actually be the one Epic in the game so far to be a genuine threat to Slaughterhouse. Which means that eliminating him will be his top priority.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Should I bring in Quota, too?

[Kobold King he/him]

Should I bring in Quota, too?

 

Sure--he's terrifying enough for sure.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Sure--he's terrifying enough for sure.

 

An evil healer and an evil Soother, in the same game as insane!Mobius, everyday!Slaughterhouse, Simon, Crow, and a host of other nightmares. 

 

Goodbye, sleep.

[Kobold King he/him]

An evil healer and an evil Soother, in the same game as insane!Mobius, everyday!Slaughterhouse, Simon, Crow, and a host of other nightmares. 

 

Goodbye, sleep.

 

[Voidus]

...I actually hadn't made a connection "Simon" and "Simon says." But I think everyone in the room with me just heard my whimper.

 

Simon might actually be the one Epic in the game so far to be a genuine threat to Slaughterhouse. Which means that eliminating him will be his top priority.

Yeah, he's already giving me nightmares and I made him.

That would be a really interesting fight scene.

[Kobold King he/him]

Yeah, he's already giving me nightmares and I made him.

That would be a really interesting fight scene.

 

Short of exploiting his weakness, attacking Slaughterhouse's mind is the only way to fight him. There's nothing you can do to his body that he can't repair. He doesn't even feel pain, since he turned off his pain receptors years ago. Nighthound couldn't fight him. Saccharine couldn't fight him. Not even sinister!Funtimes could faze him at all.

 

But Simon might have a chance, and for that he must die. Horribly.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Pictured: Us, writing for the original RP, come November 1. 

[Kobold King he/him]

Pictured: Us, writing for the original RP, come November 1. 

 

That does seem accurate.

 

Since I'm so 100% sure that no one can exploit Slaughterhouse's weakness--and since I'm curious to see if any of you clever folks can figure out how--I'm considering making his weakness public. Thoughts?

[Voidus]

Short of exploiting his weakness, attacking Slaughterhouse's mind is the only way to fight him. There's nothing you can do to his body that he can't repair. He doesn't even feel pain, since he turned off his pain receptors years ago. Nighthound couldn't fight him. Saccharine couldn't fight him. Not even sinister!Funtimes could faze him at all.

 

But Simon might have a chance, and for that he must die. Horribly.

Simon would resent Slaughterhouse's powers too, he likes to be the only person controlling peoples bodies so they'd definitely have a conflict at some point.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

That does seem accurate.

 

Since I'm so 100% sure that no one can exploit Slaughterhouse's weakness--and since I'm curious to see if any of you clever folks can figure out how--I'm considering making his weakness public. Thoughts?

 

I would like to see this. 

[Edgedancer he/him]

Halloween will be horrorfying. (I´ll have Nighthound pick up a few tricks.)

 

I wouldn´t complain about his weakness but if you want to be mean you could only give us hints first.

 

Say how would Remington react, if in passing Nighthound mentioned that he smashed the Sadry´s heads in after they attacked him with Funtimes weapanory? (Of course ommiting that they already were zombies.)

 

Just saw Guardians of the Galaxy. Groot is now my favorite plant.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Halloween will be horrorfying. (I´ll have Nighthound pick up a few tricks.)

 

I wouldn´t complain about his weakness but if you want to be mean you could only give us hints first.

 

Say how would Remington react, if in passing Nighthound mentioned that he smashed the Sadry´s heads in after they attacked him with Funtimes weapanory? (Of course ommiting that they already were zombies.)

 

Just saw Guardians of the Galaxy. Groot is now my favorite plant.

 

He already knows that Lightwards killed them, and he's assuming Funtimes meant the first time. Hearing they had their heads smashed in by Nighthound would not place Nighthound on the (very) short list of Epics Remington is willing to tolerate. The Funtimes weaponry would lead him to ask more questions, most likely of Nathan (who is more likely to give honest answers than Funtimes, who would hedge around them). Learning about the details of the battle wouldn't make Funtimes his enemy, but it would remind him that she isn't quite trustworthy and she isn't quite a friend—just a very useful and dangerous ally. 

 

Basically, he knows Epics are not to be trusted, and he doesn't see Funtimes as anything close to a friend. They share a mutual hatred of Lightwards, and he'll work with her on that for as long as he needs to. And then he'll get out of there before she can turn on him, because that is what he'll assume she'll do. 

[Kobold King he/him]

I would like to see this. 

 

All right-y.

 

Right then. As I believe I've mentioned before, all of my Epic weaknesses are derived from things they hated in their pasts. Things that remind them of what they were before Calamity.

 

Slaughterhouse was an unscrupulous plastic surgeon named Arnold Grisslie. Arnold went to medical school with the intention of becoming a real doctor, but he only barely passed by the end. He tried to become a practicing physician, but he wasn't skilled enough. The stress ultimately made him give up on that idea and set up an unlicensed plastic surgery business.

 

He was a terrible person from the very beginning. He never cared about his patients--he only wanted to be a doctor because he envied the status. The truth was, he enjoyed causing pain more than making it go away.

 

Arnold Grisslie was an evil man--but unlike the Epic he'd someday become, there was a tiny, almost imperceptible shard of humanity buried within him. A lot of young plastic surgery addicts went under his knife, and many of them ended up dead from his lack of expertise. For the first couple of years, that dug at what little bit of conscience he had. He knew that the women he worked on trusted him to do his job, and he had a tendency to fail them. They would die because of it.

 

Eventually what little remained of his conscience was washed away by the blood of his patients. He started killing them deliberately, selling their organs on the black market. He was thrown in prison.

 

But when Calamity rose and empowered him, that old tingling at his conscience manifested in a new way. It became his weakness--if he found himself around a human being who genuinely trusted him, his powers would go away.

 

Only one person has thus far set it off--his mother. Even with his rampant immorality, he had a good relationship with her. He idolized her in what may have been a slightly unhealthy way. Once he figured out what it was about her that triggered his weakness, however, he murdered her in the most violent way he could think of.

 

Would you trust Arnold Grisslie? Worse yet, would you trust Slaughterhouse? Even Möbius keeps her guard up around him in fear of a sudden rebellion. He cultivates a psychotic, frightening personal appearance to put people immediately in fear of him. He kills gruesomely and randomly, partly because he thinks it's fun, partly because he knows it will make it even more impossible for anyone to use his weakness.

 

How do you kill a psychotic Epic serial killer who can only be killed by trusting him?

Edited September 21, 2014 by Kobold King

[Edgedancer he/him]

All right-y.

 

Right then. As I believe I've mentioned before, all of my Epic weaknesses are derived from things they hated in their pasts. Things that remind them of what they were before Calamity.

 

Slaughterhouse was an unscrupulous plastic surgeon named Arnold Grisslie. Arnold went to medical school with the intention of becoming a real doctor, but he only barely passed by the end. He tried to become a practicing physician, but he wasn't skilled enough. The stress ultimately made him give up on that idea and set up an unlicensed plastic surgery business.

 

He was a terrible person from the very beginning. He never cared about his patients--he only wanted to be a doctor because he envied the status. The truth was, he enjoyed causing pain more than making it go away.

 

Arnold Grisslie was an evil man--but unlike the Epic he'd someday become, there was a tiny, almost imperceptible shard of humanity buried within him. A lot of young plastic surgery addicts went under his knife, and many of them ended up dead from his lack of expertise. For the first couple of years, that dug at what little bit of conscience he had. He knew that the women he worked on trusted him to do his job, and he had a tendency to fail them. They would die because of it.

 

Eventually what little remained of his conscience was washed away by the blood of his patients. He started killing them deliberately, selling their organs on the black market. He was thrown in prison.

 

But when Calamity rose and empowered him, that old tingling at his conscience manifested in a new way. It became his weakness--if he found himself around a human being who genuinely trusted him, his powers would go away.

 

Only one person has thus far set it off--his mother. Even with his rampant immorality, he had a good relationship with her. He idolized her in what may have been a slightly unhealthy way. Once he figured out what it was about her that triggered his weakness, however, he murdered her in the most violent way he could think of.

 

Would you trust Arnold Grisslie? Worse yet, would you trust Slaughterhouse? Even Möbius keeps her guard up around him in fear of a sudden rebellion. He cultivates a psychotic, frightening personal appearance to put people immediately in fear of him. He kills gruesomely and randomly, partly because he thinks it's fun, partly because he knows it will make it even more impossible for anyone to use his weakness.

 

How do you kill a psychotic Epic serial killer who can only be killed by trusting him?

And here I thought Voidgaze´s and Lucentia´s weakness were hard to set of.

 

How about an inferno that would make vulcanos jealous cause in the worst case scenario that would be Crow´s response. Otherwise one could throw him into space, it might not kill him but he wouldn´t be able to do anything either.

Edited September 21, 2014 by Edgedancer

[Kobold King he/him]

And here I thought Voidgaze´s and Lucentia´s weakness were hard to set of.

 

How about an inferno that would make vulcanos jealous cause in the worst case scenario that would be Crow´s response. Otherwise one could throw him into space, it might not kill him but he wouldn´t be able to do anything either.

 

An Epic once melted Slaughterhouse into a mass of molten protein. He stitched himself back together in under a minute. In any case, he's mobile enough to escape most particularly dangerous situations.

 

If you put him into space, he would reconfigure his body to produce flammable gases, would light them, reforming his body into an organic rocket to sail back to Earth with.

 

In his own way, he's about as overpowered as Möbius is.

Edited September 21, 2014 by Kobold King

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

All right-y.

Right then. As I believe I've mentioned before, all of my Epic weaknesses are derived from things they hated in their pasts. Things that remind them of what they were before Calamity.

Slaughterhouse was an unscrupulous plastic surgeon named Arnold Grisslie. Arnold went to medical school with the intention of becoming a real doctor, but he only barely passed by the end. He tried to become a practicing physician, but he wasn't skilled enough. The stress ultimately made him give up on that idea and set up an unlicensed plastic surgery business.

He was a terrible person from the very beginning. He never cared about his patients--he only wanted to be a doctor because he envied the status. The truth was, he enjoyed causing pain more than making it go away.

Arnold Grisslie was an evil man--but unlike the Epic he'd someday become, there was a tiny, almost imperceptible shard of humanity buried within him. A lot of young plastic surgery addicts went under his knife, and many of them ended up dead from his lack of expertise. For the first couple of years, that dug at what little bit of conscience he had. He knew that the women he worked on trusted him to do his job, and he had a tendency to fail them. They would die because of it.

Eventually what little remained of his conscience was washed away by the blood of his patients. He started killing them deliberately, selling their organs on the black market. He was thrown in prison.

But when Calamity rose and empowered him, that old tingling at his conscience manifested in a new way. It became his weakness--if he found himself around a human being who genuinely trusted him, his powers would go away.

Only one person has thus far set it off--his mother. Even with his rampant immorality, he had a good relationship with her. He idolized her in what may have been a slightly unhealthy way. Once he figured out what it was about her that triggered his weakness, however, he murdered her in the most violent way he could think of.

Would you trust Arnold Grisslie? Worse yet, would you trust Slaughterhouse? Even Möbius keeps her guard up around him in fear of a sudden rebellion. He cultivates a psychotic, frightening personal appearance to put people immediately in fear of him. He kills gruesomely and randomly, partly because he thinks it's fun, partly because he knows it will make it even more impossible for anyone to use his weakness.

How do you kill a psychotic Epic serial killer who can only be killed by trusting him?

Under the right circumstances, something Koschei has a habit of doing could set it off.

[Kobold King he/him]

Under the right circumstances, something Koschei has a habit of doing could set it off.

 

 

This could come between their postulated friendship.

[Edgedancer he/him]

An Epic once melted Slaughterhouse into a mass of molten protein. He stitched himself back together in under a minute. In any case, he's mobile enough to escape most particularly dangerous situations.

 

If you put him into space, he would reconfigure his body to produce flammable gases, would light them, reforming his body into an organic rocket to sail back to Earth with.

 

In his own way, he's about as overpowered as Möbius is.

I dunno, we are talking about levels of heat that are only limited by the number of people that Crow can eat before hand, so I think he should be capable of doing a better job than just melting him but destroying his body on an atomic scale. (Really, without the moral limitations of not eating people Crow is completly op himself.)

 

Alright, ignoring the problems of lighting a fire in space, which admidetly isn´t impossible with a body changer like him, I doubt that a human body has the mass neccessary to create the amount of gas needed to propel himself to earth.

 

 

 

This could come between their postulated friendship.

He can still share a drink with Nighthound.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

This could come between their postulated friendship.

It would be a very difficult situation to create, because of Slaughterhouse's own habit of scaring children, but if the situation was created, then for a few minutes, a child might set off his weakness.

Edit: Edge, you have NO idea how badly your last comment made me want to make a Taco Bell joke.

Edited September 21, 2014 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles

[Edgedancer he/him]

It would be a very difficult situation to create, because of Slaughterhouse's own habit of scaring children, but if the situation was created, then for a few minutes, a child might set off his weakness.

Edit: Edge, you have NO idea how badly your last comment made me want to make a Taco Bell joke.

I think I´m getting an idea about his personality and I don´t like him one bit, which I love.

 

No, I don´t, I really really don´t.

 

I hope no one minds if there will be a lot of references between Nighthound and Lucentia.

[Kobold King he/him]

I dunno, we are talking about levels of heat that are only limited by the number of people that Crow can eat before hand, so I think he should be capable of doing a better job than just melting him but destroying his body on an atomic scale. (Really, without the moral limitations of not eating people Crow is completly op himself.)

 

Alright, ignoring the problems of lighting a fire in space, which admidetly isn´t impossible with a body changer like him, I doubt that a human body has the mass neccessary to create the amount of gas needed to propel himself to earth.

 

 

He can still share a drink with Nighthound.

Once he started moving, he could lie dormant for however long it took him to reach Earth. It would only take a small amount of gas to set him in motion.

I actually really want to see a Slaughterhouse vs Nighthound fight.

[Edgedancer he/him]

Once he started moving, he could lie dormant for however long it took him to reach Earth. It would only take a small amount of gas to set him in motion.

I actually really want to see a Slaughterhouse vs Nighthound fight.

Fair enough. A vacuum isn´t as destructive as most would assume, still lethal if you need to breath but apparently Slaughterhouse doesn´t. (I hope he has good aim. )

 

I doubt that Nighthound would stand much of a chance in a straight up fight, he can only deal basic physical damage afterall. Voidgaze on the other hand could just annihilate him.

[Kobold King he/him]

Fair enough. A vacuum isn´t as destructive as most would assume, still lethal if you need to breath but apparently Slaughterhouse doesn´t. (I hope he has good aim. )

 

I doubt that Nighthound would stand much of a chance in a straight up fight, he can only deal basic physical damage afterall. Voidgaze on the other hand could just annihilate him.

 

True, true.

 

Edge, did you have any plans for the Lucentia/Nighthound fight? I was thinking that if they got too destructive, Claudius could notice them on his patrol and alert Lightwards.