Voidus Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Neverworld is a world that's never where you think it is and all the inhabitants ride awesome dinosaurs that they have strictly platonic relationships with. Adventurer-land is just a massive MMO. 2
Fatebreaker he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 So, I have a new epic idea. Not sure if I'll have time to write him in the RP, or where he could fit in, or if he even would fit in, but he came to me today, so I thought I would get him out of my head . Hopefully this concept doesn't overlap too much with any existing characters. Let me know if he does! My intention was for him to be quite powerful, but if he feels overpowered (even for an epic), I'm also open to edits. Also, apparently he comes with a side-kick, who may or may not be a mash-up of the character I was discussing before with some of the concepts we were talking about in the probability epic discussion . Anyways, Epic #1: Name : Sleepwalker Powers: 1. Sleepwalker has the ability, while unconscious, to astral project himself within a range of 50km from where his body is resting. While astral projecting, he can use his other powers and observe events, but no one can see, hear, or feel him. The exception is other sleeping people, who will see him in their dreams if he passes near them. The time he spends in astral form is limited by the time he can stay asleep, meaning he must 'reset' by waking up to see to his basic needs, and that he usually ends up spending about half of every 24 hours powerless. He has no ability to extend his sleeping cycle, and the use of medication to do so tends to interfere with his powers. 2. Sleepwalker, while in astral form, can put anyone to sleep instantly. Once he has put someone to sleep, he can control their bodies. That's right, he can create an army of sleepwalkers. Of course, all of his 'thralls' are released from his control whenever he wakes up. 3. Finally, Sleepwalker has the ability to manipulate dreams pretty much however he wants. Unless his target is trained to dream lucidly at will (which is the coolest thing ever), they will be completely unaware they are dreaming, and will believe everything that is happening in the dream is real. He can use this technique combined with his astral projection to send messages to his allies. He can also use this power to wake people up, but he has to kill them in dream to do it. Weakness: A particular brand of sleeping medication. If he is tricked into using knock off or similar products, his powers will be weakened, but only this one particular brand (or an absolutely identical homemade mix) will neutralize his powers, forcing him into a normal sleep. Also, people who use this medication to sleep are immune from his powers. Of course, his powerlessness while awake and his time and distance limit could also be exploited as potential weaknesses. MO: Basically he is looking for a kingdom to create and rule over while people sleep, like any good epic of his powerset. Since he has no prime invincibility, he relies on allies and bodyguards to protect him while he is awake and powerless, in exchange for his protection of them while they are sleeping. He has a good sense of humour, and likes to play with his food. Appearance: Sleepwalker is small, both short and thin, of Malaysian American descent. While he keeps himself clean, he doesn't put much effort into his waking appearance, wearing non-descript clothing, and keeping his hair medium length and unstyled. When astral projecting himself, he often adds colour to his hair, and spices up his wardrobe. History: He was an extremely hyper active child, so his parents put him on sleeping medication to "calm him down" and give themselves a break. He spent most of his early life constantly drowsy. His parents got him addicted, and he quickly became unable to sleep without the medication. His state of constant forced medication severely impacted his ability to perform academically, and he dropped out of school. In his teens, he left home and ended up on the streets, where he got into some harder drugs. When Calamity came, he was in his mid twenties, and was just finishing a rehabilitation program and his high school education, ready for a new start in life. And his loyal second in command: Name: Crush Primary Power: Standard Super Strength with a dash of enhanced reflexes just because. Passive Ability/Prime Invincibility: A twist on the concept of probability manipulation. She cannot actively manipulate probability, but it will protect her from any harm. To be clear, it does not affect the success or failures of her actions, it only foils attempts by others to harm her. Think of it this way: harming her is basically against the laws of nature. Just like gravity pulls things towards the earth and hot air rises, knives used to attack Crush will break, shots fired at her will always miss, a piano dropped on her from above will inexplicably break apart on the way down. If she is dropped into a pit of spikes, she will land between the spikes. You get the picture. This effect only works with immediate danger though. For example, you would be able to lead her unsuspecting into a furnace and trap her there, but when you tried to turn the furnace on, it would break down or something. Her invincibility also only protects her from the actions of people (including herself). Example: If she jumps off of a building, her power would find a way to save her. If someone pushes her, same deal. If she falls accidentally, through no intervention of another living person, then she would be toast. The key is causation. No person can cause her to die, but acts of chance or nature (that are not manipulated by epics) such as an avalanche or a bolt of lightening, can. (I hope this makes sense. Let me know if it isn't clear!) Weakness: A contrast to Sleepwalker, her powers don't work while she is asleep. I wonder why they are working together, hmmmmm... MO: Fiercely loyal, she will protect Sleepwalker at all costs. Her fighting style incorporates the full extent of her acrobatic abilities, as well as her incredible strength. Not prone to conversation, Crush never laughs at any of Sleepwalker's jokes. Appearance: Crush is a Guatemalan of mixed Q'eqchi and Ladino descent, with long dark hair and deep dark eyes. She has the figure of a gymnast and the skills to match. Like Sleepwalker, she wears clothing that allows her to blend in, avoiding flashy costumes in favour of simple utilitarian pieces that allow her to utilize the full extent of her flexibility and acrobatics. She is tall for a Guatemalan, which means average height in Canada/USA. History: Crush grew up in relative luxury as the daughter of a prominent Guatemalan drug lord who controlled a small rural region of the country. From an early age she excelled at gymnastics. In her late teens, she qualified for the Olympics, but Calamity came before she could compete. She was training in the US at the time, and met up with Sleepwalker shortly after her rending was complete. Thats an awesome powerset, but Sandman has pretty much an identical powerset of inducing sleep and controlling dreams. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, since I was waiting for the MEE attack on The MoNA. Hey, does anyone remember if we specified who had made the island for the Lost Ones? I checked the old question thread, but I can't find anything. It's not super important, but I'm writing a Lost One post and the though occurred to me. Also, I'd totally live in Adventurer-land. Fade-land would only exist sometimes, and Sandman-land would pretty much just be inception. The-Mad-Ballooner-land would be filled with balloons and outdated stereotypes.
Voidus Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Hey Joe would you mind if Longshot survived his fall through the collapsing building and developed a longstanding rivalry with Murphy?I think I'd enjoy having a Wile Coyote to play with in increasingly absurd circumstances 2
Kobold King he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Hey Joe would you mind if Longshot survived his fall through the collapsing building and developed a longstanding rivalry with Murphy? I think I'd enjoy having a Wile Coyote to play with in increasingly absurd circumstances * sigh * 3
Voidus Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 * sigh * I just like the idea that Murphy will go about the rest of his life unaware that he has an incredibly unfortunate sniper trying eternally to defeat him only to inevitably fall to his own traps. 1
mail-mi he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Hey Joe would you mind if Longshot survived his fall through the collapsing building and developed a longstanding rivalry with Murphy? I think I'd enjoy having a Wile Coyote to play with in increasingly absurd circumstances Just give him a minor healing PI. 2
Voidus Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Just give him a minor healing PI. I was literally just about to post that as an idea... can you read minds? *Reaches slowly for tinfoil hat* 1
Kobold King he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 I was literally just about to post that as an idea... can you read minds? *Reaches slowly for tinfoil hat* Wait a minute. Which character of mail-mi's has the ability to read minds? 3
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted March 31, 2015 Author Posted March 31, 2015 I was literally just about to post that as an idea... can you read minds? *Reaches slowly for tinfoil hat* Know how Reader can look at a person and know everything about them? mail-mi can look at an avatar and know everything that person is about to post. 4
mail-mi he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 I was literally just about to post that as an idea... can you read minds? *Reaches slowly for tinfoil hat* No, of course not! How could you possibly think that? *Discretely removes mind reading hat* 4
Voidus Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Wait... does this mean we're all going to start gaining the abilities of all our characters? I will be all-powerful!!!!!! 1
mail-mi he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Wait a minute. Which character of mail-mi's has the ability to read minds? Are you possibly suggesting that Reader is based off of me? How could you? I can't even--ugh. That's it. Kobold, Janine will never love you! Know how Reader can look at a person and know everything about them? mail-mi can look at an avatar and know everything that person is about to post. 1
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted March 31, 2015 Author Posted March 31, 2015 Wait... does this mean we're all going to start gaining the abilities of all our characters? I will be all-powerful!!!!!! I will make it rain jellybeans as I flee from Voidus who now has the powers of Metronome! 1
Kobold King he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Wait... does this mean we're all going to start gaining the abilities of all our characters? I will be all-powerful!!!!!! All I get are the abilities to see into the past to tell where dinosaurs died, and the ability to resurrect fossils. ...wait a minute. 1
Voidus Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 I will make it rain jellybeans as I flee from Voidus who now has the powers of Metronome! The only thing more powerful than an insane Hemalurgy enthusiast with the awesome powers of Metronome? An insane Hemalurgy enthusiast with the awesome powers of both Metronome AND the great Flowerface! Tremble before my might! I shall punctually cause you all to get a slightly stuffy nose! Mwahahahahahahahaha! 2
mail-mi he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 All I get are the abilities to see into the past to tell where dinosaurs died, and the ability to resurrect fossils. ...wait a minute. Well, I can teleport around and clean things. My mom is going to love me. 1
Kobold King he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 My mom is going to love me. As long as you don't spill all her valued secrets in front of guests, of course. I just realized that under this paradigm, TwiLyght is a matter-manipulating, teleporting Soother with a resurrection PI.
Voidus Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) So for a complete list based only on major characters:Kobold will be an incredibly snarky (I refuse to believe that Snarkiness isn't Sam's Epic power) resurrecting Necromancer with past seeing abilities, incredible leg strength, mental prowess and the ability to grow and shrink objects.Twilyght will be a matter manipulating, teleporting empath with double healing gifting abilities (From both Koschei and Panacea and also kindof the Unicyclist), resurrection and mathematical distortions while simultaneously using Autumns Epic power to not be an Epic despite having an awesome name and also upstanding morals.Edge will be a whiny (Lucentia's unmentioned ability) diamond creator with healing, enhanced physical abilities, some mind control abilities the ability to teleport and explode things in sparkles, manipulate blood and create portals with it, resurrect and manipulate white objects and create incredible pressure from the metal.Joe will have power neutralizing and a basilisk stare, impenetrable skin, a murphionic field, actualization and the ability to be a water manipulating pirate or a teleporting batman.Mail-Mi will be a teleporting cleaner with telepathy who can create busses.Mailliw will be a flying illusionist with minor fire and electric abilities, also electric lasers, can create chimeric creatures and is capable of manipulating friction and gravity, creating forcefields and altering density and manipulating resonant frequencies.Winter will be a mist controlling blood manipulator with danger sense, light manipulation and teleportation.Voidus will be a shadow manipulating, resurrecting momentum manipulator with astral projection, ink manipulation and actualization, spatial distortion, steel creation and drink refilling abilities who can heal, teleport through solid objects, has radar and can kill any Vanilla with a glance. Edited March 31, 2015 by Voidus 3
Sarcasm she/her Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Hi. Sorry to interrupt anything. I was just wondering if I could join the Dallas RPG. I have some Epics in mind that I've been toying with and would love to see them in action. Thanks! 3
mail-mi he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Hi. Sorry to interrupt anything. I was just wondering if I could join the Dallas RPG. I have some Epics in mind that I've been toying with and would love to see them in action. Thanks! Welcome! Of course we would love to have you. TwiLyght is the GM, so you can send stuff to her, and you can post your Epics here so we can critique them. 1
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted March 31, 2015 Author Posted March 31, 2015 Hi. Sorry to interrupt anything. I was just wondering if I could join the Dallas RPG. I have some Epics in mind that I've been toying with and would love to see them in action. Thanks! Welcome! Like mail-mi said, you can send me your Epic bios (or just the weaknesses) and then post them in this thread for feedback. 1
Voidus Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Hi. Sorry to interrupt anything. I was just wondering if I could join the Dallas RPG. I have some Epics in mind that I've been toying with and would love to see them in action. Thanks! Twi's the GM and Kobold has most of the control over the Dalles so it's up to them ultimately but I don't think it'll be a problem. I'd recommend posting your character ideas here first so that they can be discussed and maybe refined if they don't quite work with the story. Glad to have another RPer, sorry for all the ponies*. *Note: not actually sorry, we love our ponies 1
Kobold King he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 Hi. Sorry to interrupt anything. I was just wondering if I could join the Dallas RPG. I have some Epics in mind that I've been toying with and would love to see them in action. Thanks! It's welcome to all--though just to be clear, it's set in the Oregon city of The Dalles rather than the Texan city of Dallas. The protocol to join is simply to post your Epic's profile on the Question thread, either making the weakness public here or PMing it to TwiLyghtSansSparkles. Can't wait to see you in the city! 1
Mailliw73 he/him Posted March 31, 2015 Posted March 31, 2015 So for a complete list based only on major characters:Kobold will be an incredibly snarky (I refuse to believe that Snarkiness isn't Sam's Epic power) resurrecting Necromancer with past seeing abilities, incredible leg strength, mental prowess and the ability to grow and shrink objects.Twilyght will be a matter manipulating, teleporting empath with double healing gifting abilities (From both Koschei and Panacea and also kindof the Unicyclist), resurrection and mathematical distortions while simultaneously using Autumns Epic power to not be an Epic despite having an awesome name and also upstanding morals.Edge will be a whiny (Lucentia's unmentioned ability) diamond creator with healing, enhanced physical abilities, some mind control abilities the ability to teleport and explode things in sparkles, manipulate blood and create portals with it, resurrect and manipulate white objects and create incredible pressure from the metal.Joe will have power neutralizing and a basilisk stare, impenetrable skin, a murphionic field, actualization and the ability to be a water manipulating pirate or a teleporting batman.Mail-Mi will be a teleporting cleaner with telepathy who can create busses.Mailliw will be a flying illusionist with minor fire and electric abilities, also electric lasers, can create chimeric creatures and is capable of manipulating friction and gravity, creating forcefields and altering density and manipulating resonant frequencies.Winter will be a mist controlling blood manipulator with danger sense, light manipulation and teleportation.Voidus will be a shadow manipulating, resurrecting momentum manipulator with astral projection, ink manipulation and actualization, spatial distortion, steel creation and drink refilling abilities who can heal, teleport through solid objects, has radar and can kill any Vanilla with a glance. I like this a lot! But don't forget my power to make you all drunk out of your minds. Hi. Sorry to interrupt anything. I was just wondering if I could join the Dallas RPG. I have some Epics in mind that I've been toying with and would love to see them in action. Thanks! Welcome! As Kobold said, make sure you realize that this is the Dalles, not Dallas. I misread that the first time too and it would've been very confusing if I hadn't realized my mistake. 2
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted March 31, 2015 Author Posted March 31, 2015 ...and it would be kind of sad if you based a character's backstory on Dallas, only to realize there were entire places that had to be retconned out. The Dalles is a smaller city near the Washington border that I know best as a stop between Spokane and Portland when visiting family.
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