Kidpen he/him Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 2 minutes ago, The Young Pyromancer said: *Just realized I mistyped apocalypse guard as "alpacalypse guard* I would read that 1
The Young Pyromancer he/him Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 Now I want to read a fanfic about a team of Alpacas that somehow became Epics and rescue people from natural disasters and stuff.
Bladestorm Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 17 minutes ago, The Young Pyromancer said: Now I want to read a fanfic about a team of Alpacas that somehow became Epics and rescue people from natural disasters and stuff. Why a fanfic? That sounds like a perfectly reasonable extension of the recliners for Brandon to follow
DrakeMarshall he/him Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 33 minutes ago, Bladestorm said: Why a fanfic? That sounds like a perfectly reasonable extension of the recliners for Brandon to follow Quick, lets create a proposal, everybody sign it, and then send it to him
Bladestorm Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 20 minutes ago, Drake Marshall said: Quick, lets create a proposal, everybody sign it, and then send it to him He would stop reading as soon as he saw that it was from this particular corner of the site.
Kidpen he/him Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 3 minutes ago, Bladestorm said: He would stop reading as soon as he saw that it was from this particular corner of the site. That's fair.
Voidus Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 9 hours ago, Bladestorm said: Power level wise, I would say no prime invincibilities past fortuity level, no teleportation without serious limits, and no instakill abilities a la deathpoint. PIs and teleportation I agree with (Specifically I'd say no teleportation that can be instantly and endlessly used, either limit number of uses, or limit time to activate), but instakill abilities I'm in favor of. I mean plenty of abilities are essentially instakill anyway, at least with one that's literally just 'things die' you could put a limit that Epics are immune to it, or take longer to affect. 1
Edgedancer he/him Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 10 hours ago, Kidpen said: Alright, my epic. Almost everything is up for changes if people have thoughts, in particular the weakness. As it stands here, it has to be something he is constantly exposed to, and something he could reasonably try to stop. I also want a more realistic way for him to guess what his weakness is. Don't be shy about any objections you have whatsoever, or feel free to ignore if you'd rather focus on getting the RP actually happening. Reveal hidden contents Secrets. Reveal hidden contents Actual: Power: Being incredibly persuasive. [Name] can convince people of whatever he tells them. However, this has limits. He can only convince people with particularly weak wills, approximately one tenth of the population. He can also never convince epics. (Note: One tenth may be too much. Open to objections.) Weakness: Being wrong in his moral belief. His powers are negated if he were convinced that his belief that the destruction of humanity is the only way to save them is wrong. This would take affect by having all of the people convinced by him suddenly Power: Blowing up the Universe Weakness: People who would publicly disagree with his moral belief. (Very Long Range, extending to the whole planet) History: [Name] believes that humanity is horrible, and should be destroyed. He spent years homeless in the streets of [City near new city], and there saw the worst of humanity. After Calamity came, he desperately wanted the ability to end all life in this universe. He turned to chanting out to the people on the streets about his belief, hoping that people would agree, and turn their lives to his cause as he has. One day, he suddenly felt enormous power rush into him, and knew that his wish had been fulfilled. He immediately tried to use his power to blow up the universe, but it didn’t work. Confused, he suddenly realized it must be because he was exposed to his weakness (which he knew was people who disagreed with his want to blow up the universe) currently. So once again he turned to preaching-but this time, people listened. At least one in ten completely agreed with what he was saying and agreed to help him. Eventually he was able to get quite a few people-even if it was only 10% of the people in the city, that was more than enough to overpower the rest, who had no will to fight. Epics in the city provided resistance, but not enough to stop an army. Having became the dictator of the city years later, he was thinking about expanding his borders. However, one day a new epic came to the city. [Name] tried to put him under his dictatorship, but the man refused. Going on a rampage, the man killed [Name]’s entire army. Fleeing and worried, [Name] ran, eventually ending up in [New City], hoping to once again grow his army and convince the world that destruction is the only way. Spoiler Your text cuts off in the weakness section. Besides that, depending on the town's population, a tenth would really be an extreme number, assuming he can keep all of them controlled at the same time. Another way to limit him would be to make it so that for any objectionable/dangerous orders (so crimes or putting themselves in danger) he needs to be present to maintain the control. Making him a noticable and squishy target. 10 hours ago, winter devotion said: I mean, we already are in an alternate reality anyway, right? Edit: Re: Power levels, I realized my chaotic child is probably one of the most powerful Epic ever, despite their lack of a prime invincibility, because if someone ever reacted to something like it was an “mind blowing realization” in their company and they didn’t turn them back, there’d be... consequences. Namely, mind blowing ones. I think I kinda like the idea of them being totally OP but literally doing nothing with it, ‘shoving souls back in’ before anyone actually ‘keels over in surprise’ and what not. (They could probably low key destroy all life on earth, actually. If not more. Wow. I love them already) Would a comic mind blowing effect actually do anything but leave your face a bit sooty? Actually exploding heads on the other hand... that'd certainly give her a reputation. And then people lose their eyeballs and go blind every time they meet her. 7 hours ago, The Young Pyromancer said: Now I want to read a fanfic about a team of Alpacas that somehow became Epics and rescue people from natural disasters and stuff. You know what? I'm sure that with science advancing, you could make motivator implants. Meaning this would be actually possible. 6 minutes ago, Voidus said: PIs and teleportation I agree with (Specifically I'd say no teleportation that can be instantly and endlessly used, either limit number of uses, or limit time to activate), but instakill abilities I'm in favor of. I mean plenty of abilities are essentially instakill anyway, at least with one that's literally just 'things die' you could put a limit that Epics are immune to it, or take longer to affect. Right, there's a bit of a grey are on what is Fortuity level (For example, where's resurrection that makes it nearly impossible to permanently remove the Epic but doesn't make taking them out of the action for a while) but in general I agree. On the instakills, it's not just abilities like plasma beams that are bad news. Once people start packing guns, many offensive superpowers end up being slightly underwhelming. Assuming battles are actually lethal of course, but if they aren't supposed to be, then there's no reason to be worried about insta kill powers anyway. There's the matter of dodging and accuracy, so conditions should maybe be a tad more restrictive than just pointing at people but the general concept isn't a flat out no.
Voidus Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 And another character idea. Meta Epic so probably not likely to work in RP but just had the thought and my character creation compulsion is slowly taking hold of me again. Spoiler Iva, a canceler Epic who can cancel any Epic power that is used directly on him. Alternatively if he spends a number of hours with an Epic he can permanently cancel their powers. The Epic is aware of this process so he can't do it stealthily. Is aiming to slowly remove the powers of every Epic in the world, is very opposed to killing even Epics as he believes he has the means to redeem them all.
The Young Pyromancer he/him Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 Character Elaborated: Name- Nicroburst. (I assume that Brandon exists in the Reckonerverse, he just never wrote the Reckoners. If you guys could think of a good name that isn't Cosmere that would be great.) Occupation- Reckoner mimicker. He wanted to become a Reckoner, but the group he approached tried to kill him. So, he began going it alone. Power- Nicroburst. He can enhance other epic's powers temporarily, the length of time increasing as the strength increases, and then they shut off temporarily, again length depending on strength. Requires contact. Evil manifestation- Since his power isn't that strong, being a jerk after he uses it for a while. Goal- Finding a nice Epic who has a limited copying power, so he can copy Nicroburst's power and enhance him so he can superenhance him without it expiring so he can permacopy all the Epic abilities.
Bladestorm Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 18 minutes ago, winter devotion said: Meta Epics are pretty rare... This particular epic seems reasonably powered with intriguing possibilities, so I vote we allow it.
nmgrgtna he/him Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 5 hours ago, The Young Pyromancer said: Character Elaborated: Name- Nicroburst. (I assume that Brandon exists in the Reckonerverse, he just never wrote the Reckoners. If you guys could think of a good name that isn't Cosmere that would be great.) Occupation- Reckoner mimicker. He wanted to become a Reckoner, but the group he approached tried to kill him. So, he began going it alone. Power- Nicroburst. He can enhance other epic's powers temporarily, the length of time increasing as the strength increases, and then they shut off temporarily, again length depending on strength. Requires contact. Evil manifestation- Since his power isn't that strong, being a jerk after he uses it for a while. Goal- Finding a nice Epic who has a limited copying power, so he can copy Nicroburst's power and enhance him so he can superenhance him without it expiring so he can permacopy all the Epic abilities. Our epics will have to be in different towns with this powerset. Or one of our epics will have to want to kill the other. One of the two.
DrakeMarshall he/him Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 (edited) 7 hours ago, Voidus said: And another character idea. Meta Epic so probably not likely to work in RP but just had the thought and my character creation compulsion is slowly taking hold of me again. Hide contents Iva, a canceler Epic who can cancel any Epic power that is used directly on him. Alternatively if he spends a number of hours with an Epic he can permanently cancel their powers. The Epic is aware of this process so he can't do it stealthily. Is aiming to slowly remove the powers of every Epic in the world, is very opposed to killing even Epics as he believes he has the means to redeem them all. 7 hours ago, The Young Pyromancer said: Character Elaborated: Name- Nicroburst. (I assume that Brandon exists in the Reckonerverse, he just never wrote the Reckoners. If you guys could think of a good name that isn't Cosmere that would be great.) Occupation- Reckoner mimicker. He wanted to become a Reckoner, but the group he approached tried to kill him. So, he began going it alone. Power- Nicroburst. He can enhance other epic's powers temporarily, the length of time increasing as the strength increases, and then they shut off temporarily, again length depending on strength. Requires contact. Evil manifestation- Since his power isn't that strong, being a jerk after he uses it for a while. Goal- Finding a nice Epic who has a limited copying power, so he can copy Nicroburst's power and enhance him so he can superenhance him without it expiring so he can permacopy all the Epic abilities. I don't think either of these are too powerful. And I like that these powers could have interesting RP applications. But both of them are literally "powerful meta-epics who resist corruption and thus become antiheroes who want to use their meta-powers stop all epics" Maybe consider finding a way to differentiate the two somehow? Any one of those traits is extremely rare in epics, and this is a small town. Edited June 22, 2018 by Drake Marshall
Voidus Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 Iva would be in a permanent semi-corrupted state purely due to lack of opportunity to actually use his powers. Unless Epics frequently directly target him he can't really use it. So not really putting an active effort into avoiding his powers, just kind of stuck not using them for long lengths of time by coincidence.
Bladestorm Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 I’ll launch an Epics of Edmonton thread if that’s alright with everyone?
Voidus Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 I think using the old thread is probably fine, saves anyone who wants to bring an old character in from needing to rewrite the profile
Bladestorm Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 1 hour ago, winter devotion said: I’m probably gonna rewrite mine so I’d be up for a new thread. It’d be nice to keep things clean, as this is a reboot after all. Edit: oh @Edgedancer take another ray. Reveal hidden contents the gag is like symbolism or whatever This is what I was thinking. The old thread itself is pretty organized but still fairly intimidating, especially if it’ll be mostly out of date. Up to you, though, voidus, as you’re by far my senior here.
Voidus Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 Just a suggestion, if people would get more use out of a new thread then I'm all for it. 1
Bladestorm Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 13 minutes ago, Voidus said: Just a suggestion, if people would get more use out of a new thread then I'm all for it. We can decide when we’ve got a few more characters I guess lol. I’m probably just going to write two (Knox and Silhouette), and I’m not sure on anyone else’s plans, but it’s not worth a new thread for ~10-15 characters. 1
Voidus Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 I can guarantee that by the time the day is done I'll have at least another 40 1
Bladestorm Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 1 minute ago, Voidus said: I can guarantee that by the time the day is done I'll have at least another 40 We could use an Epics of Voidus thread more than an Epics of Edmonton at that point !
DrakeMarshall he/him Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 I have approximately three new characters I would be interested in doing. But two of them are vanillas. Would those go in a different thread or nah?
Bladestorm Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 (edited) Probably same thread. I’m pretty sure that’s what we did for Oregon, it was just called Epics for some reason. EDIT: Also, it sounds like there’s a good number of vanillas coming in! That should be pretty cool. Edited June 23, 2018 by Bladestorm
Voidus Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 Same thread would be easier I'd say, not much point separating Maples and Epics from each other.
Bladestorm Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 1 minute ago, Voidus said: Same thread would be easier I'd say, not much point separating Maples and Epics from each other. I think this is the first use of maple outside of a discussion on what to call non Epics. A momentous moment indeed. Plus maple is so much more flavourful than vanilla. Haha. Get it. 1
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