Question 4

[Fatebreaker he/him]

Actually, he's a second Epic. he's also been turned into a Panda.

 

Ah.

Well, Pandafication can happen to the best of us.

[Seonid he/him]

Thanks, everyone, for the words of encouragement. Much appreciated.

 

Flying squirrels!?! And pigs    !

 

My characters need to be in The Dalles like, yesterday.

 

LP, how would your pandas react to a dragon coming down unexpectedly out of the sky? Also, how would Panda's pandafication power work on someone who is being protected by an Epic with the power of Imagination? As in, this Epic is imagining this person in a very specific way, and their power is acting to make the person that way? I have the feeling that the imagination and the pandafication would kind of cancel out, leaving the vanilla human like they normally would be, but I wanted to double-check on interactions of powers.

[mail-mi he/him]

Actually, he's a second Epic. he's also been turned into a Panda.

 

Edit: And I'll refrain from going God-mode next time in my RP, mail-mi. I think anyone would stammer at the sight of a squad of Pandas charging into a room, though.

 

It's okay  . I worked it into the post, and it was an okay thing to God-mode. I God-moded Backtrack once (sorry about that Kobold) but sometimes it just can't be helped 

 

EDIT: I edited my post to match yours, Fate. Your version made more sense.

Edited November 12, 2014 by mail-mi

[Voidus]

He made a mental note to tell Vondra. 

 

I assume that was meant to read Quicksilver Fatebreaker?

[Fatebreaker he/him]

It's okay  . I worked it into the post, and it was an okay thing to God-mode. I God-moded Backtrack once (sorry about that Kobold) but sometimes it just can't be helped 

 

EDIT: I edited my post to match yours, Fate. Your version made more sense.

 

Sorry to directly contradict you, but taking a possible spy directly to headquarters is a rookie mistake, and Quicksilver is no rookie. 

And I've been thinking about how to use Busdriver in combat, and I've come up with some, fun, ideas.

 

I assume that was meant to read Quicksilver Fatebreaker?

 

Maybe Reflection is a spy!

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Or maybe I meant to say Quicksilver. Nice catch Voidus.

 

 

Just a warning, when Quicksilver and the Splinters get involved in the invasion, things are going to get messy. Quicksilver tends to be, thorough.

[Voidus]

The twins will probably come out of this quite a bit stronger, they don't use their powers offensively much, one of the reasons they've not been corrupted too much.

Thankfully they'll probably stick to kicking Backtracks shins instead of sending him through a wall next time he says something sleazy
He's had a bad enough day already.

EDIT: Completely non RP related but Edge you watch Tokyo Ghoul too don't you? Just read that there's a second season scheduled for next quarter. Not sure if I really want to watch it or don't even want to start it :/

Edited November 12, 2014 by Voidus

[Edgedancer he/him]

I want to say that the last Panda post is awesome but I want to get opinions first on something that seems like a pretty big flaw to me, not the viewpoint explicty said that it was their body structure that safed them, which by now is agreed on to be impossible and used the power difusi as justification, not that using Backtrack´s and Autmn´s conversation as a bench mark makes it unlikely that an hour has passed, those are minor but that for the post to work the Dalles city guard would have to be incompetent.

 

Let me list the points, whit each one becoming worse.

1)No outpost noticed the obvious change in scenery created by the forts.

2) A 50 pig squadron would be obviously different and probably more important than the other pigs, giving the guards more than enough time and opportunity to shoot them down, while they move towards the (almost) center of town.

3)The guards outside the bunker know they are under siege by bear people and yet they don´t shoot or make a call when the Pandas land but only stare dumbfounded at them like some rookies that never heard of Epics.

4)They left Reader alone! I don´t care how dire the situation is, if they can afford to position guards outside the building they can afford posting two guards in the same room as the high security prisoner. One aiming the rifle at the door and shooting as soon as it opens and another aiming at Reader and shooting imediately, if the effect of just shooting the intruders is in doubt, maybe even earlier could they get away with it.

One or two of these points I could take, with the exception of four but take all of them together and Arsenal´s complains go from being grumpy to completly justified and almost to soft.

[Voidus]

I want to say that the last Panda post is awesome but I want to get opinions first on something that seems like a pretty big flaw to me, not the viewpoint explicty said that it was their body structure that safed them, which by now is agreed on to be impossible and used the power difusi as justification, not that using Backtrack´s and Autmn´s conversation as a bench mark makes it unlikely that an hour has passed, those are minor but that for the post to work the Dalles city guard would have to be incompetent.

 

Let me list the points, whit each one becoming worse.

1)No outpost noticed the obvious change in scenery created by the forts.

2) A 50 pig squadron would be obviously different and probably more important than the other pigs, giving the guards more than enough time and opportunity to shoot them down, while they move towards the (almost) center of town.

3)The guards outside the bunker know they are under siege by bear people and yet they don´t shoot or make a call when the Pandas land but only stare dumbfounded at them like some rookies that never heard of Epics.

4)They left Reader alone! I don´t care how dire the situation is, if they can afford to position guards outside the building they can afford posting two guards in the same room as the high security prisoner. One aiming the rifle at the door and shooting as soon as it opens and another aiming at Reader and shooting imediately, if the effect of just shooting the intruders is in doubt, maybe even earlier could they get away with it.

One or two of these points I could take, with the exception of four but take all of them together and Arsenal´s complains go from being grumpy to completly justified and almost to soft.

Yeah I agree, I really liked the post but the overly-critical part of my brain that nit picks everything is kind of ruining it for me. I choose to believe there's an Epic called Quotient who has reduced the IQ of certain individuals at key points (He is Alterminds arch nemesis)

Also Edge, see above post for some news on Tokyo Ghoul, which I edited in just as you posted

[Edgedancer he/him]

Yeah I agree, I really liked the post but the overly-critical part of my brain that nit picks everything is kind of ruining it for me. I choose to believe there's an Epic called Quotient who has reduced the IQ of certain individuals at key points (He is Alterminds arch nemesis)

Also Edge, see above post for some news on Tokyo Ghoul, which I edited in just as you posted

I´m not the only one for once. (He´ll be the ultimate foe, cauusing all of Oregon to self-destruct.)

 

I did know (searched for it imediately after one of the worst cliffhanger endings ever) but thanks for the news, anyway. I did track down the manga by now and know how the story continues, which makes me a bit split about the next anime season. For what the anime did, switching around the continuity a bit, tweaking a couple of details and improving upon art and action I prefer what we currently have over the equivalent part of the manga but for time reasons they also neglect some details that will be important for the future plot.

 

I shall pay respect to your Epic´s reaction to a squirrel bombardment by the way.

Edited November 12, 2014 by Edgedancer

[Voidus]

Yeah I always read the Manga after the anime when possible, for the same reason that I would do that for books with movie adaptions, except I love books too much I find that if I read the Manga first I spend the whole Anime just nit-picking all the stuff they changed or skipped over. Ah the troublesome life we lead as nit-pickers

Thanks, I do my best an attack by squirrels is not exactly in my list of likely battle scenarios for all the various power-sets so I just pantsed it.

[Edgedancer he/him]

Yeah I always read the Manga after the anime when possible, for the same reason that I would do that for books with movie adaptions, except I love books too much I find that if I read the Manga first I spend the whole Anime just nit-picking all the stuff they changed or skipped over. Ah the troublesome life we lead as nit-pickers

Thanks, I do my best an attack by squirrels is not exactly in my list of likely battle scenarios for all the various power-sets so I just pantsed it.

Movies and Anime have the problem that they tend to have more restrictions both budget and for movies special effect wise as well as from their running time, puting them at somewhat of an disadvantage. Naturally, good adaptations can be done, regardless

 

I remember the time Nighthound fought Funtimes and Lightwards (well, more Funtimes prank tank but Lightwards was operating it ) I had to do quite a bit of pantsing, most of all after being carpet bombed... with an actual carpet.

[Voidus]

Movies and Anime have the problem that they tend to have more restrictions both budget and for movies special effect wise as well as from their running time, puting them at somewhat of an disadvantage. Naturally, good adaptations can be done, regardless

 

I remember the time Nighthound fought Funtimes and Lightwards (well, more Funtimes prank tank but Lightwards was operating it ) I had to do quite a bit of pantsing, most of all after being carpet bombed... with an actual carpet.

I still can't wait for the ThoughtTown/Whacko Brigade conflict to break out for this reason.

Altermind: With our superior intellectual capabilities we have easily predicted every possible outcome and devised the perfect counter offensive.

Soldier bursts into room

Soldier: Altermind sir! They're attacking! They're carpet bombing us!

Altermind: Ha! Exactly as predicted, We will send Strongsteel to shore up our defenses against the explosions, Voidgaze will attack the bomber direct-

Soldier: Excuse me sir! When I say carpet bombing...

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I want to say that the last Panda post is awesome but I want to get opinions first on something that seems like a pretty big flaw to me, not the viewpoint explicty said that it was their body structure that safed them, which by now is agreed on to be impossible and used the power difusi as justification, not that using Backtrack´s and Autmn´s conversation as a bench mark makes it unlikely that an hour has passed, those are minor but that for the post to work the Dalles city guard would have to be incompetent.

Let me list the points, whit each one becoming worse.

1)No outpost noticed the obvious change in scenery created by the forts.

2) A 50 pig squadron would be obviously different and probably more important than the other pigs, giving the guards more than enough time and opportunity to shoot them down, while they move towards the (almost) center of town.

3)The guards outside the bunker know they are under siege by bear people and yet they don´t shoot or make a call when the Pandas land but only stare dumbfounded at them like some rookies that never heard of Epics.

4)They left Reader alone! I don´t care how dire the situation is, if they can afford to position guards outside the building they can afford posting two guards in the same room as the high security prisoner. One aiming the rifle at the door and shooting as soon as it opens and another aiming at Reader and shooting imediately, if the effect of just shooting the intruders is in doubt, maybe even earlier could they get away with it.

One or two of these points I could take, with the exception of four but take all of them together and Arsenal´s complains go from being grumpy to completly justified and almost to soft.

The Reader thing...what got me about that was that the school was their bunker. Schools are notoriously difficult to defend. Big glass doors, wide windows, ceilings that can be cut through with relative ease--those things all make a school a rather unlikely choice for a bunker. And leaving Reader alone seems more like a rookie mistake than one a group of former police and National Guard soldiers would make.

Why not have the pandas ambush Reader's transport vehicle instead? Do it in such a way that it looks like they're attempting to kill everyone inside so the guards don't shoot Reader, use a combination of drugs and Kung fu to render everyone unarmed and unable to fight back, and take Reader and the guards all back to base?

[Kobold King he/him]

I want to say that the last Panda post is awesome but I want to get opinions first on something that seems like a pretty big flaw to me, not the viewpoint explicty said that it was their body structure that safed them, which by now is agreed on to be impossible and used the power difusi as justification, not that using Backtrack´s and Autmn´s conversation as a bench mark makes it unlikely that an hour has passed, those are minor but that for the post to work the Dalles city guard would have to be incompetent.

 

Let me list the points, whit each one becoming worse.

1)No outpost noticed the obvious change in scenery created by the forts.

2) A 50 pig squadron would be obviously different and probably more important than the other pigs, giving the guards more than enough time and opportunity to shoot them down, while they move towards the (almost) center of town.

3)The guards outside the bunker know they are under siege by bear people and yet they don´t shoot or make a call when the Pandas land but only stare dumbfounded at them like some rookies that never heard of Epics.

4)They left Reader alone! I don´t care how dire the situation is, if they can afford to position guards outside the building they can afford posting two guards in the same room as the high security prisoner. One aiming the rifle at the door and shooting as soon as it opens and another aiming at Reader and shooting imediately, if the effect of just shooting the intruders is in doubt, maybe even earlier could they get away with it.

One or two of these points I could take, with the exception of four but take all of them together and Arsenal´s complains go from being grumpy to completly justified and almost to soft.

 

1. Arsenal lampshaded the change in scenery not being detected, but I see how it could bug you. I guess Panda just arranged it very quickly, disguising the forts as trees? However it happened, The post-Panda Dalles is going to become a much stricter place. Expect Arsenal to receive even more power and credibility, which is bad news for everyone.

 

2. Not necessarily. I can't imagine what kind of keenly focused mind it would take to notice that out of six or seven hundred flying pigs rampaging through the sky and raining trained attack squirrels, a few dozen were moving in a straight line to a certain place.

 

3. and 4. The most inexplicable occurrences here are Reader's guards being something less than professional here. My best guess is that Informant actually does have the ability to implant subliminal messages, and he's been grooming the church's guards for particular reactions for weeks now.

[Voidus]

3. and 4. The most inexplicable occurrences here are Reader's guards being something less than professional here. My best guess is that Informant actually does have the ability to implant subliminal messages, and he's been grooming the church's guards for particular reactions for weeks now.

Sure, blame it on the Epic confirmed to exist in canon instead of Quotient

I think the problems are only really arising because of the scale that it is all on, in Portland we've mostly limited Epics to street-leveling battles rather than raging war on an entire city (Though that's sure to change) It definitely adds a bit of weight to the posts but it also makes it harder to overlook the small stuff, because the small stuff on that scal is big stuff on a personal scale.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1. Arsenal lampshaded the change in scenery not being detected, but I see how it could bug you. I guess Panda just arranged it very quickly, disguising the forts as trees? However it happened, The post-Panda Dalles is going to become a much stricter place. Expect Arsenal to receive even more power and credibility, which is bad news for everyone.

2. Not necessarily. I can't imagine what kind of keenly focused mind it would take to notice that out of six or seven hundred flying pigs rampaging through the sky and raining trained attack squirrels, a few dozen were moving in a straight line to a certain place.

3. and 4. The most inexplicable occurrences here are Reader's guards being something less than professional here. My best guess is that Informant actually does have the ability to implant subliminal messages, and he's been grooming the church's guards for particular reactions for weeks now.

Right, Informant! How did I forget about him? 0.o

[mail-mi he/him]

Yeah I was just trying to get my post to match Panda's. Tell me anything i need to change and i will.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Yeah I was just trying to get my post to match Panda's. Tell me anything i need to change and i will.

Both posts overall were awesome. We were just discussing/debating a few little things. (The same thing happened when I had Funtimes create a watch to check the time.) Don't change anything just yet.

[Kobold King he/him]

Both posts overall were awesome. We were just discussing/debating a few little things. (The same thing happened when I had Funtimes create a watch to check the time.) Don't change anything just yet.

 

Agreed, everything's been really awesome writing so far. It's just a given that when you combine men with supernatural powers, paramilitary organizations, and delusional panda samurai all in one RP, a few logical inconsistencies will start to build up.

Edited November 12, 2014 by Kobold King

[Edgedancer he/him]

1. Arsenal lampshaded the change in scenery not being detected, but I see how it could bug you. I guess Panda just arranged it very quickly, disguising the forts as trees? However it happened, The post-Panda Dalles is going to become a much stricter place. Expect Arsenal to receive even more power and credibility, which is bad news for everyone.

 

2. Not necessarily. I can't imagine what kind of keenly focused mind it would take to notice that out of six or seven hundred flying pigs rampaging through the sky and raining trained attack squirrels, a few dozen were moving in a straight line to a certain place.

 

3. and 4. The most inexplicable occurrences here are Reader's guards being something less than professional here. My best guess is that Informant actually does have the ability to implant subliminal messages, and he's been grooming the church's guards for particular reactions for weeks now.

1) From the they´ve been there the entire day and must be very big to shelter all the Pandas and pigs plus possibly some equipment. Doable alone but it stacks.

 

2) The suspicious part isn´t that they are flying in a straight line, it´s that they are missing baskets and squirrels, making them like a pice of calm sky in a rain storm.

 

3.4)I dunno, we got a profile for the informant (is that actually his name?) and it didn´t say anything about that ability. Otherwise point four would be a very big failure of protocaol that reaches further than just the guards themselves and even then at least one of them is confirmed not to be a rookie.

 

Both posts overall were awesome. We were just discussing/debating a few little things. (The same thing happened when I had Funtimes create a watch to check the time.) Don't change anything just yet.

Thirded. Although for some reason this reminds me that no one batted an eye at the Panda being able to create a back up brain, not even me. That´s the kind of thing I instantly jump out at with half a dozen questions, if not more, especially the part of giving a seperate organisem his powers.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1) From the they´ve been there the entire day and must be very big to shelter all the Pandas and pigs plus possibly some equipment. Doable alone but it stacks.

2) The suspicious part isn´t that they are flying in a straight line, it´s that they are missing baskets and squirrels, making them like a pice of calm sky in a rain storm.

3.4)I dunno, we got a profile for the informant (is that actually his name?) and it didn´t say anything about that ability. Otherwise point four would be a very big failure of protocaol that reaches further than just the guards themselves and even then at least one of them is confirmed not to be a rookie.

Thirded. Although for some reason this reminds me that no one batted an eye at the Panda being able to create a back up brain, not even me. That´s the kind of thing I instantly jump out at with half a dozen questions, if not more, especially the part of giving a seperate organisem his powers.

I guess that when you're dealing with an Epic following orders of the Radiant Panda who sees the Kung Fu Panda movies as an instruction manual, a backup brain seems normal.

[Kobold King he/him]

So... how have our plans for Baxter Game's introduction changed with this situation? Will Autumn and the Epics still push to his infirmary, or will we see him first tending to squirrel bites?

[Edgedancer he/him]

I guess that when you're dealing with an Epic following orders of the Radiant Panda who sees the Kung Fu Panda movies as an instruction manual, a backup brain seems normal.

That´s a good point. What just bugs me about it is this. If he can clone his brain plus powers (and most likely memory) why doesn´t he clone himself Mitosis style and if he can do that why not for other Epics. When does it end being the power pitched and turns into another? Those are limits that should be set before it becomes a problem.

 

So... how have our plans for Baxter Game's introduction changed with this situation? Will Autumn and the Epics still push to his infirmary, or will we see him first tending to squirrel bites?

Goos question, I´ll think about something.

 

Talking about plans, it seems the Dalles action kinda sucked attention out of Portland.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

That´s a good point. What just bugs me about it is this. If he can clone his brain plus powers (and most likely memory) why doesn´t he clone himself Mitosis style and if he can do that why not for other Epics. When does it end being the power pitched and turns into another? Those are limits that should be set before it becomes a problem.

Goos question, I´ll think about something.

Talking about plans, it seems the Dalles action kinda sucked attention out of Portland.

Maybe his backup brain has only the memories deemed absolutely essential, with other data stored elsewhere? And his powers wouldn't necessarily be stored in his brain; if it's his body that's enhanced, wouldn't his brain only have knowledge of how to use them?

Yeah, it kind of did. Joe, do you want to have the Reckoners go next, or should I have Remington respond? (also waiting on the meeting to start to catch up with Funtimes.)

[Edgedancer he/him]

Maybe his backup brain has only the memories deemed absolutely essential, with other data stored elsewhere? And his powers wouldn't necessarily be stored in his brain; if it's his body that's enhanced, wouldn't his brain only have knowledge of how to use them?

Yeah, it kind of did. Joe, do you want to have the Reckoners go next, or should I have Remington respond? (also waiting on the meeting to start to catch up with Funtimes.)

Aren´t we talking about a brain stored outside his own body?