Edgedancer he/him Posted July 3, 2016 Posted July 3, 2016 10 hours ago, Mailliw73 said: Same goes for me. August 3rd is when I officially leave, but that last week before I really won't be on at all. Cog has requested that he adopt Chimera, and I think that's a good fit. So that's one down. The most important one to adopt would be Altermind, I think. Electro and Edgerunner aren't that high a priority, though unless they get killed there isn't much to do concerninc putting them on a bus. 15 minutes ago, Cognizantastic said: As Adelmo is currently waiting for Backtrack to break out of fear-induced muteness/paralysis, he decided to make a business card to pass the time. He even used some clever graphic design skills! Hide contents What a clever operative he is. Now I wonder what would happen if you add an Elmo to Lucentia.
Mailliw73 he/him Posted July 3, 2016 Posted July 3, 2016 Just now, Edgedancer said: The most important one to adopt would be Altermind, I think. Electro and Edgerunner aren't that high a priority, though unless they get killed there isn't much to do concerninc putting them on a bus. Agreed. Though I would prefer someone took up Edgerunner if at all possible. Electro can be killed without mercy.
Blackhoof Posted July 3, 2016 Posted July 3, 2016 I can take over Timeport, and once his scene is finished he can move to basically a background NPC soldier for Corpsemaker.
Kobold King he/him Posted July 3, 2016 Posted July 3, 2016 6 hours ago, Cognizantastic said: I have a confession. Every time I make a joke, part of my motivation is to lure out @Kobold King. Here' a visual metaphor of the situation: Reveal hidden contents …I wonder how he'll feel about this when he sees it. HOW DARE YOU THINK THAT ANYTHING YOU COULD DO, PUNY MORTAL, IS CAPABLE OF SUMMONING ME FROM MY-- --sparks. 2
Comatose he/him Posted July 3, 2016 Posted July 3, 2016 @Mailliw73 In the interest of getting more into Portland, I'd be interested in taking over Altermind while you are away (I've always loved illusionists). I'd also understand if it's preferred for a more established Portland player to have him. I'd also be okay with submitting an RP sample or something to see if I get his tone/voice correct. @mail-mi I think I mostly agree with Edge. Catching the bus is probably a good idea too, considering all of the characters on it could become inactive. The one character of yours I would really like to see someone adopt is Gregory since he's kind of a big part of the Corvallis rebellion plot line. If You'd rather Reader not be side lined, I would be willing to try him out as well, but I worry about over-committing, and it seems like he would work well as an NPC at least for the time being. 1
Edgedancer he/him Posted July 3, 2016 Posted July 3, 2016 2 hours ago, Comatose said: @mail-mi I think I mostly agree with Edge. Catching the bus is probably a good idea too, considering all of the characters on it could become inactive. The one character of yours I would really like to see someone adopt is Gregory since he's kind of a big part of the Corvallis rebellion plot line. The question becomes who could capture the bus. It would be kind of awkward for Deathwish or another one of the Epics engaged in the aireal fight to turn around and chase the bus after all. I guess the most effective solution would be for Scribbler to worry about wanting to help with the current siege and "recruit" Shiny into catching up with the bus after getting up to speed.
Mailliw73 he/him Posted July 3, 2016 Posted July 3, 2016 3 hours ago, Comatose said: @Mailliw73 In the interest of getting more into Portland, I'd be interested in taking over Altermind while you are away (I've always loved illusionists). I'd also understand if it's preferred for a more established Portland player to have him. I'd also be okay with submitting an RP sample or something to see if I get his tone/voice correct. That'd be great! That would help a lot, just to make sure he stays consistent.
Mestiv he/him Posted July 4, 2016 Posted July 4, 2016 I'm going to post my part in Corvallis today, sorry for the wait @Edgedancer, it's been a tough weekend
nmgrgtna he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 Hey, I'm new to this RPG. I have made an Epic, what do I do with it?
nmgrgtna he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 (edited) Ya know, how about I post him here Epic Name: Borrower Actual Name: Adam South Gender: Male Age: 26 Appearance: Varied Primary Power: Can use powers of Epics who part with them willingly: this leaves the donor without powers temporally but the donor can take back their powers at any time, leaving him powerless. Secondary Power: Can shapeshift without limits, but his mass will remain constant while shapeshifting. This encourages him to gain as much weight as possible. Personality: Supremely confident, someone who can lead others without qualms. Rather impulsive, but sees this as a weakness and over compensates. Insanely intelligent, with an IQ of 182. Weakness: Should I include this? Any suggestions are welcome! Edited July 5, 2016 by antgrgmn Fixing the formatting
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted July 5, 2016 Author Posted July 5, 2016 23 minutes ago, antgrgmn said: Ya know, how about I post him here Epic Name: Borrower Actual Name: Adam South Gender: Male Age: 26 Appearance: Varied Primary Power: Can use powers of Epics who part with them willingly: this leaves the donor without powers temporally but the donor can take back their powers at any time, leaving him powerless. Secondary Power: Can shapeshift without limits, but his mass will remain constant while shapeshifting. This encourages him to gain as much weight as possible. Personality: Supremely confident, someone who can lead others without qualms. Rather impulsive, but sees this as a weakness and over compensates. Insanely intelligent, with an IQ of 182. Weakness: Should I include this? Any suggestions are welcome! Firstly, welcome! Secondly, I'm going to post my thoughts, and others will chime in. The workshopping step is just how we make sure an Epic will be a good fit for the game. My first thought when I read the shapeshifting bit was that there aren't going to be very many Epics who part with their powers willingly. They're paranoid, and they depend on those powers, so why give them up? To them, it'd be the superpowered version of the Nigerian prince scam. Even if Borrower lets them know up front that they can take their powers back at any time, they'll have no reason to believe him, and wouldn't agree to the deal. So the power stealing would wind up being useless. (Not to mention that assumers aren't really allowed in this game.) The shapeshifting is a much more useful power, though I'd like to know what "without limits" means. Superhuman intelligence is a very difficult character trait to write; unless you happen to have an IQ of 182, you're not going to be able to portray someone with an IQ of 182 accurately. If you want to make him more intelligent than average, that's doable, but giving him an IQ that high is going to cause more trouble than it's worth. When your Epic is approved and you know which thread he's going to go in, PM his weakness to me and the GM of that thread.
The Swan Dragon he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 I can't seem to get pics to work but... HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY FOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mestiv he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 Welcome, @antgrgmn ! I'm afraid that as TwiLyght wrote, there won't be much use to your Epics powers of borrowing in the game. It's hard to imagine under what circumstances other Epics would agree to have their powers taken from them. How about copying powers? That would be more likely to work, but obviously, you'd still have a very tough job of convincing anyone to let him copy their powers. However, I like you idea, it's creative Shapeshifting without limits... does that mean he can shapeshift into a small tree? Would he be able to retain his mind/consciousness without a brain? I also agree that such high IQ is hard to write. Most of the times, there are no occasions to manifest it, as you don't have much control over the world and you cannot set up situations to let it shine. If done badly, this high IQ starts to look like precognition and that's forbidden and not really possible in this game. I really like that you didn't make a High Epic and tried to create a set of interesting abilities instead I hope we'll find a good final version for your Epic and you'll join the game soon
nmgrgtna he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 Well, if you really think about the shapeshifting abitity, it does kinda make him invincible. How about I just give him highly improved senses, and then he could shapeshift his body around the bullet. Even if he did get shot, he could immediately shapeshift to heal the wound. He might lose a bit of mass, but I don't think he could die. He could also move his organs around, so it would be hard to shoot his brain. How about he had to have room for his brain. That would make the ability less OP in my mind. However, he couldn't really be captured, unless his weakness was engaged. As for the borrowing powers, could he just mimic them, when they are given willingly?
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted July 5, 2016 Author Posted July 5, 2016 Just now, antgrgmn said: Well, if you really think about the shapeshifting abitity, it does kinda make him invincible. How about I just give him highly improved senses, and then he could shapeshift his body around the bullet. Even if he did get shot, he could immediately shapeshift to heal the wound. He might lose a bit of mass, but I don't think he could die. He could also move his organs around, so it would be hard to shoot his brain. How about he had to have room for his brain. That would make the ability less OP in my mind. However, he couldn't really be captured, unless his weakness was engaged. As for the borrowing powers, could he just mimic them, when they are given willingly? Okay, before we get into a discussion of OP-ness and th potential thereof, could you explain what "shape shift without limits" means? And again, I highly doubt any Epic in their right mind would let their powers be stolen or imitated. They're too paranoid.
nmgrgtna he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 So, he can shapeshift into any shape that has a spot large enough for his brain.
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted July 5, 2016 Author Posted July 5, 2016 1 minute ago, antgrgmn said: So, he can shapeshift into any shape that has a spot large enough for his brain. So it has to be a living being, or could be turn into a trash can? 1
Edgedancer he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 3 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: And again, I highly doubt any Epic in their right mind would let their powers be stolen or imitated. They're too paranoid. Eh, if they don't actually loose their powers and can get them back any time they want it might make sense for them to hand them over but that actually makes it worse from a narrative standpoint because they could just turn him into a mass of several powers to point at the biggest threat around let him take that out and then look him away again, essentially giving whoever's side he's on the next best thing to an "I win button" possible The question would also be what happens to the powers when the original Epic dies. Just now, antgrgmn said: So, he can shapeshift into any shape that has a spot large enough for his brain. Shape, not material, right?
nmgrgtna he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 1 minute ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: So it has to be a living being, or could be turn into a trash can? He could be a trash can, but he can't change his color. He was caucasian with brown hair, so he could be anything, but would be fairly obvious.
nmgrgtna he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Edgedancer said: Shape, not material, right? Yes. How about we have a limit to the powers he mimic, like say 5 or 10? Edited July 5, 2016 by antgrgmn Sorry for the double post!
Edgedancer he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 7 minutes ago, antgrgmn said: Yes. How about we have a limit to the powers he mimic, like say 5 or 10? As far as the shapeshifting goes that doesn't sound too bad then. For one even 5 powers is still a pretty big number, if all of them can be high tier and second the fact that he's dependant on other Epics for his powers to work would probably put him in a situation barely better than Conflux's.
nmgrgtna he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 1 minute ago, Edgedancer said: As far as the shapeshifting goes that doesn't sound too bad then. For one even 5 powers is still a pretty big number, if all of them can be high tier and second the fact that he's dependant on other Epics for his powers to work would probably put him in a situation barely better than Conflux's. Yes, but with his shapeshifting ability, he wouldn't really be able to be captured. That is a powerful enough ability on its own I think.
Edgedancer he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 2 minutes ago, antgrgmn said: Yes, but with his shapeshifting ability, he wouldn't really be able to be captured. That is a powerful enough ability on its own I think. Eh, requiring enough space for his brain means that a door can stop him just fine and he can still be killed by fire, suffocation (be it imprisionment in an airtight room or drowning), acid, poison (which includes sedating him), bludegons with a large enough surface and explosions just to name a few from the top of my head.
nmgrgtna he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 1 minute ago, Edgedancer said: Eh, requiring enough space for his brain means that a door can stop him just fine and he can still be killed by fire, suffocation (be it imprisionment in an airtight room or drowning), acid, poison (which includes sedating him), bludegons with a large enough surface and explosions just to name a few from the top of my head. Ya, I guess I see what you mean. Any ideas for his own more aggressive ability?
Edgedancer he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 (edited) 11 minutes ago, antgrgmn said: Ya, I guess I see what you mean. Any ideas for his own more aggressive ability? Personally I can't think of a way to make it work. Meta abilities are a pretty tight walk, especially seeing the emotional baggage that comes with them in the Reckonervese. Giving something that actually allows to accumulate power on top of a powerset that allows an Epic to stand on his own against advances of other Epics is pretty much impossible to balance in the RP format, at least if the character needs to be fit into an already established setting. Ironically, giving the limitation of needing anohter Epic's consent makes the power more problematic. What might work better is removing that limitation and instead making it so that he can only have a very small power pool and possibly downpowering them when compared to the original as well. Edited July 5, 2016 by Edgedancer
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