Discussion Topic

[Comatose he/him]

Let me get this straight. Now that the characters are created, we're free to improvise dialogue? Or is that not what you are saying??? I'm confused....

Sorry, I'm stuppid tonight...

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

Feel free with the dialogue, but the thing is that not all of the characters are created. Most of the Spheremorphs are undefined at this point.

[Cuaiir he/him]

Oh. I didn't realize that we could control some of what the NPCs do as well. I thought it was like, well, basically every other game out there, where players control their characters and the GM or whoever controls everything else.

Now things may go a little faster

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

To an extent, I'll veto things if you go too far, but feel free to experiment, I probably won't contradict you. If you need any specific information about what a character knows or how they act, ask me here or shoot me a PM.

[Cuaiir he/him]

Whew. You really shouldn't have let me have free reign like that, I'm going to be writing novels with every post now. Kinda like the one I just put up.

Assuming that Tori can make the most of that Gated Fuser I have, what sort of upgrades am I looking at?

I hope I didn't spoil any plans by saying that rewards will be given out at the end of each round. It seemed fair, since I've got a Fuser while everybody else just has their Grid, Spheres, and wits.

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

Okay, I wasn't intending for you to take quite that much control, mainly when it comes to characters, but what you have so far is good. We'll roll with this. I'll save what I had in mind for something else.

You've got a Gated Fuser, so the first obvious upgrade is to an Auto Fuser, but there are other options. You can extend it so you can cover more paths or even change it into a different sort of component with a similar functionality. Those are pretty cheap as far as Sphere work goes (which is still pretty expensive), but it's once you go above a Grid level that things start to get pricey. As a new Spheremorph, it's doubtful that you could afford something higher. And since you aren't bringing in any of the necessary materials yourself, that's gonna come out of your funds as well.

Hmm, we'll see how any rewards pan out. Winners will probably get something, but exactly how it'll work is something I'll have to think about.

Hehe, you think you have an advantage with just a Fuser, aren't you just so funny?

[Cuaiir he/him]

I know I don't have an advantage over someone like the armored man with his Allomantic Reactor, but over someone with just a mundane Grid I do. It's not much, but every bit helps.

Ack, funds. Forgot about that for a minute. Hmmm... [just thinking out loud right here] Suspension Point supplies the world with most of it's fish - they have the advantage, since they're the only city on the Lower Sea, of being able to bring in some exotic species, and even some common ones that have grown to extraordinary size. I've already established that Jay'el is a fishmonger's kid, which puts his family as having control over some of the fishing exports, and that he is the favored son of both his Ma and sister-in-law, Liira, who control the books. BUT, even though they control the funds, they aren't stupid. They know that if they expend too much money the business will start to crumble. Also, they've already spent a good chunk of money getting JL set to make his way in the world, and Tohu already sent them a bill for attaching the Gated Fuser. Ma loves him dearly, but at this point Liira may be getting a little P.O.'d. So, he should be able to get one more peice of work done before they cut him off, assuming it's fairly cheap. Which means nothing above Grid-level components, and after this Jay'el will have to pay for stuff himself. Or go back to Suspension Point and work as a Defender for a while, sigh.

And now that I've worked out backstory reasons for being able to afford this stuff, I'm wondering what my options are. Silus, you said there were other components with similar functionality? Like what? Obviously the Auto Fuser and Gated expansion are the cheapest options, but it's always helpful to know the spectrum.

It's good that you're laughing maniacally, it means you've got somethin creative up your sleeve. I'm looking forward to it. <wicked grin, which there should totally be a smiley for>

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

One thing you've got to learn is that the very fist thing you do as a Spheremorph is to ditch that mundane Grid ASAP, that's what just about everyone in this tournament has done. The Grid gives a cohesion to your style, a unifying trait to base your power around and build off of, and that's very important.

What I mean by similar functionality is components that do different things but work in the same kind of way. With a Gated Fuser you could turn it into another Gated component, where the other options upgrade the Fuser aspect.

There really, really should be a smiley for that.

EDIT: Just so you guys know, there is a dining hall, where you guys can go get food.

Edited June 29, 2011 by Silus - Shard of Flame

[Cuaiir he/him]

That's what I meant, though, is I get that each component made out of the Gated Fuser I have would be Gated, but wouldn't be a Fuser. I question was what would they do? Gated, I don't know, Power retention, item retention, weakness resistance? Give me some possibilities here, man!

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

I haven't quite figured that out yet. I'll edit this post if I think of something.

[Emeralis00 she/her]

Did you say...Jezebel? Silus. Do you know what the war of Bel is?

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

...No? I got it from the Bible. But she's not a harlot, so don't ask.

[Emeralis00 she/her]

...No? I got it from the Bible. But she's not a harlot, so don't ask.

:Suspicious face: good. The War of Bel was based on the Bible anyway...

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

Yeah, I have no idea what the War of Bel is.

Actually, quite a few kinds of components are Gated. In fact, most of the abilities marked on the Grids that I've made (which you can see in the Data Topic) have some kind of Gated functionality.

Gated components usually add something into the Form you're becoming that wouldn't be there before. Elemental abilities, new powers, all sorts of things. Really, just name it and it either is an ability that can be given by a Gated component, or it can be. It all depends on whether you can make it.

[Emeralis00 she/her]

Hey Silus. How many characters can we have?

After all, there are a lot of undefined shperemorphs in that room.

Edited July 18, 2011 by Emeralis00

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

Absolute maximum? Five. I will discourage having more than two during the tournament, though. So if you're wanting a new character, go right ahead. Just know that having more characters is making a commitment to posting more.

EDIT: Goshdangit, I was hoping to get the ST to have more posts than here.

Edited July 18, 2011 by Silus - Shard of Flame

[Emeralis00 she/her]

Absolute maximum? Five. I will discourage having more than two during the tournament, though. So if you're wanting a new character, go right ahead.

Cool, Its kinda hard to have a decent conversation with anyone when Ambro is...well...chaotic evil. And besides, I also like those other forms that aren't AFAIK being used.

Just know that having more characters is making a commitment to posting more.

Don't worry about that, its not the first time I handle more than one character in an RP, and I need something to do when no one is posting.

EDIT: Goshdangit, I was hoping to get the ST to have more posts than here.

Waiting for you to make the big tournament announcement.

[Eerongal he/him]

sorry it took me so long to get around to posting, guys. I've just been torn in so many directions lately. I'm gonna make a committment to be more active in the posting of these, so hopefully I should be around some more.

Also, with my most recent post, I left it open for anyone who wants their character to meet up with me before my match to do so (i refuse to control anyone elses characters. Controlling NPCs is fine, but I won't put words in the mouth of the other players so to speak. I'll set out to do something with/to/for another character, but i'll leave up to them what happens with it )

Also, I'm interested to see what happens with River, Ambro and Eero, because Eero implicitly trusts Ambro and Jay'El because of the circumstances of their meeting (and implicitly mistrusts river for just such a reason), and its pretty clear Ambro is at least indifferent to Eero (if not more because of his hate of paladin types)

As a note to both of you with the Ambro-Eero-River relationship thing, I have no problems with Eero being killed because of either his trust or mistrust in either character, as long as we work out something suitable, fitting, and with some good story telling leading up to it or something and not like "Har har har! Ambro/River hates Eero and kills him in sleep!"

It honestly sets the stage for a pretty nice betrayal at some point if we want to set something like that up. (and if we do, we can work it out via PM so as not to spoil the surprise for everyone else)

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

Only River has a match in the first round. Eero's is after that, then Jay, then Ambro. River and Eero are both in the Waterfall Arena, Jay and Ambro are in the Glyph Arena.

[Eerongal he/him]

Only River has a match in the first round. Eero's is after that, then Jay, then Ambro. River and Eero are both in the Waterfall Arena, Jay and Ambro are in the Glyph Arena.

Yeah, i figured I was in the second match because of my number, but Eero doesn't know what number his companions are, nor where they're currently at, so he was going to try to hit them up before he got called in to fight

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

I would have thought that everyone checked everyone else's number. Le sigh.

Edited July 19, 2011 by Silus - Shard of Flame

[Eerongal he/him]

I would have thought that everyone checked everyone else's number. Le sigh.

Heh, nope, I did that with Eero purposefully. He checked his number, saw it was low (meaning his turn would be up soon), and set about to get whatever he could done before his first match (though i didn't end up doing much in that time >.>). That was why i said i checked mine (and no others), and waited for a response, because depending on how high/low it was, it changed what I was going to do a little bit (checking his friend's numbers being one of them). Also, he wouldn't have noticed River's, since he still currently thinks River's name is Adolin, and I don't think he's happened upon anything with a way to connect his real name to him, yet.

Edit: basically, if I didn't say i did something, it's safe to say i probably didn't do it, either by intention or a slip of the mind on my part, but I'll continue with that continuity regardless of the reason for not doing it

Further edit: though, if we want, i can take out the part of him intending to meet up with his companions to speed things along towards the actual matches, if you want.

[Silus - Shard of Flame he/him]

So he didn't look at the door in the morning either? Cuz then he would know that River's name isn't Adolin.

[Eerongal he/him]

So he didn't look at the door in the morning either? Cuz then he would know that River's name isn't Adolin.

well, as for that part, its kinda ambiguous as to when he arrived, since that was in the time when i was kinda like not around for weeks, and it basically got to the point where he was in bed and slept and everyone else got up and left, and i was seemingly the last to leave, so i really didn't wanna take any liberties there since i wasnt really in on the action. Especially since River went through the trouble to conceal his name from him, and there has yet to be anything pointing out/showing/whatever that Adolin isn't his name (mostly because of the time that I wasn't around). I mean, if we want to, i we can just take this stuff as read and retcon it to say "eero knows this stuff", and assume I know this stuff if we want. I'm not trying to be difficult, it's just that at this point, because of my lack of activity mostly, there hasn't been any strong reason for me to say "Eero knows his real name now", know what I mean? I try not to take liberties with my character's knowledge (and, in fact, sometimes find roleplaying ignorance of some facts kinda fun). In fact, if Eero were to miss the first round for some reason, there would be a further opportunity to keep him in the dark about River's true identity

[Emeralis00 she/her]

Welcome back Eerongal!

About Ambro's stance towards your character:

Ambro is very wary about people who don't fit into his particular world-view, such as Eero, and kills them too deal with the inconsistency.

However, Eerongal introduced himself to Ambro, which makes it harder for Ambro too kill Eero. Therefore, Ambro won't just kill Eero unless it benefits in some permanent way.

Edited July 19, 2011 by Emeralis00