Alleyverse Prequel Planning

[xinoehp512 he/him]

25 minutes ago, Sorana said:

May I ask why youcreate a bio if he's no PC? And if he is, then yes, a complete bio would be better. If you can't post it, feel free to send a pm

You need a bio for NPC's, right? Anyways... it's weird. He's more of an experimental narrative device than anything.

[AonEne he/him]

9 hours ago, xinoehp512 said:

No, actually. 

Then how do they have that Investiture? 

9 hours ago, xinoehp512 said:

You need a bio for NPC's, right? Anyways... it's weird. He's more of an experimental narrative device than anything.

No, you don’t. 

[Voidus]

On 23/11/2019 at 8:49 AM, Ookla the Wine Shelf said:

Very much so.

Also, @Voidus, I would like to add in the weakness, “Mortifying fear of being burned,” because she is fire based, but not actually immune to fire.

If it's just being burned rather than fire itself then it'll be a little lower but that's still solidly a 50, which I think would put this below 300 again. Means only the first 3 previous weaknesses need to be used.
 

1. When she cares about someone she will go to extreme lengths to defend them. -5

2. When she tells a lie she begins to mix up the lie and the truth. -15

3. Absolutely hates slavers. -5

[Darth Woodrack he/him]

Alright. Thanks Voidus. Meaning her new sheet is as follows.

Spoiler

Name: Rustburn (Katherine)

Physical Appearance: She is a 6'3 tan athletic woman with long shocking red hair. Her eyes are hazel, and her face is narrow, with a light scar down the right side of the head.

Age: 23

Investiture: She is an epic with the ability to create, manipulate, and intensify fire. She can manipulate up to a square mile of fire, create up to one hundred square feet, and make it ten times stronger. She can not intensify, or expand, fire that she created. Her fire is an average heat for natural fire. In addition, she can instantaneously rust any metal within one hundred feet. Unless she can see the meta she targets a basic area and all the metal in that area rusts. She can have this rust take shapes that she wishes. Investiture does not stop this, only slow it down. A steel inquisitors spike would slow it to take about ten seconds. In addition, whenever something touches her that would harm her instantly turns to rust and breaks away, except for living flesh. Living flesh is slightly repelled so that it does not hit with momentum, and burns the flesh, turning the skin to rust. A specific trick she uses with her powers is to create a blade out of rust from the metal drifting in the air, and then ignite it.

Skills: She is an expert with her ability, and with swordplay, as well as hand to hand combat.

Weaknesses: Epic Weakness; Not having friends. As in, as far as she can tell, nobody cares about her. Other weaknesses; She has a very hard time trusting people, and utterly hates the taste of pineapple. In addition, she has a mortifying fear of being burned, hates slavers, when someone she cares about is in danger she will go to utter extreme distances to protect them, when she lies she will begin to mix up the lie and the truth, and absolutely despised slavers.

Personality: She is probably the nicest evil epic in history, as for her, being nice is selfish. She will be kind to people she cares about and torture those she doesn't to death. She will speak of the fleeting quality of life, and is constantly planning to turn the fledgling Alleyverse into her empire, a massive cult of personality dedicated to her.

Equipment: She wears a black leather jacket, and loosely fitting shirt, with leather pants. She has a short sword holstered under the jacket.

Backstory: To be revealed, through RP. If she doesn't kill you first.

 

[xinoehp512 he/him]

On 11/24/2019 at 3:12 AM, Ookla the Roleplayer said:

Then how do they have that Investiture? 

Uh... It could depend.

[+Sorana she/her]

10 hours ago, Ookla the Blue said:

Uh... It could depend.

Hey Xino,

I would be glad if you could explain that. It you can't put it into a thread, feel free to write a pm, but I can't approve/ rate a character without understanding them and their abilities.

Edited November 28, 2019 by Ookla the Dreamer

[little wheel he/him]

Can I create a character whose only special ability is a tenuous grip on reality? @Ookla the Dreamer

[+Sorana she/her]

1 minute ago, Ookla the Epic Gamer said:

Can I create a character whose only special ability is a tenuous grip on reality? @Ookla the Dreamer

Could you explain a little what he is able to do with that?

[little wheel he/him]

Modify slight things like the fullness of someone’s glass, make their socks mismatched, and also be confused as to whether or not they (the character) is ‘Me’, ‘You’, or ‘We’. Just running this through my head atm, even if it gets approved I doubt I’ll use it.

[+Sorana she/her]

12 hours ago, Ookla the Epic Gamer said:

Modify slight things like the fullness of someone’s glass, make their socks mismatched, and also be confused as to whether or not they (the character) is ‘Me’, ‘You’, or ‘We’. Just running this through my head atm, even if it gets approved I doubt I’ll use it.

To modify the slight things is definitely possible.

Regarding the other characters. This is something we usually try to avoid. Most people don't like it, if their character is influenced and they can't do anything about it. In general these abilities most likely just have a rule like "only choose a PC as target, if that person has agreed before you write your post". If that works for you, then yes, it is possible.

[xinoehp512 he/him]

On 11/28/2019 at 1:48 AM, Ookla the Dreamer said:

Hey Xino,

I would be glad if you could explain that. It you can't put it into a thread, feel free to write a pm, but I can't approve/ rate a character without understanding them and their abilities.

To be honest, I've never thought about where the powers come from. Silence, I guess... the idea of Silence? Not a Shard, though. It's more like Voidmaking than anything else, I think.

Edited November 29, 2019 by Ookla the Blue

[+Sorana she/her]

8 minutes ago, Ookla the Blue said:

To be honest, I've never thought about where the powers come from. Silence, I guess... the idea of Silence? Not a Shard, though. It's more like Voidmaking than anything else, I think.

Well, as the Alleyverse is based on Brandon's settings (apart from Voidmaking and WH 40k, with that little touch of WoT), we can only have characters, whose powers fit the setting. If you want to play a character that is able to use Voidmaking, I can tag Voidus, so that he can take a look at it, if you want me to?

Edited November 29, 2019 by Ookla the Dreamer

[xinoehp512 he/him]

1 minute ago, Ookla the Dreamer said:

Well, as the Alleyverse is based on Brandon's settings (apart from Voidmaking and WH 40k, with that little touch of WoT), we can only have characters, whose powers fit the setting. If you want to play a character that is able to use Voidmaking, I can tag Voidus, so that he can take a look at it, if you want me to?

Okay.

Edited November 29, 2019 by Ookla the Blue

[+Sorana she/her]

@Voidus

Could you please take a look at Xino's character submission?

There are two bios in the post, the first one is the character. According to Xino his powers are more like Voidmaking than anything else. Thank you

[little wheel he/him]

His powers can only change minute details, the tense, and the perspective. Not decisions or stuff like that. 

@Ookla the Dreamer

Edited December 1, 2019 by Ookla the Epic Gamer

[Voidus]

On 11/30/2019 at 2:51 AM, Ookla the Dreamer said:

@Voidus

Could you please take a look at Xino's character submission?

There are two bios in the post, the first one is the character. According to Xino his powers are more like Voidmaking than anything else. Thank you

On 11/24/2019 at 7:59 AM, Ookla the Blue said:

Here we go...

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Name: Antonio Ecnelis

Appearance: Dark red hair, blue eyes, pale skin.

Investiture: Silence. Can create invisible objects by shaping them in the air, can move without making noise.

Skills:(I don’t remember what’s on the list… He’s a little above average in a few things, including fighting).

Equipment: None

Weaknesses: Making noise nullifies his powers temporarily.

Family: Father, mother, one older brother, one younger brother, one sister

Backstory: Most of Antonio’s family are members of the Silent Guard. For years, he’s trained to join them, but now… now he’s not so sure. He’s come to Sanctuary to see if he can figure things out.

Guild/affiliation: Silent Guard

Personality: Somewhat antisocial. Doesn’t really expect that he’ll make friends, and acts accordingly. He loves to read, especially fiction.

And another, sort of.

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Name: The Observer

Appearance: [REDACTED]

Investiture: Invisible, inaudible, intangible and in general undetectable.

Skills: Very observant. Knows a language that allows him to transcribe large amounts of information quickly.

Equipment: A pen and clipboard that he can summon and dismiss (like a shardblade).

Weaknesses/Limitations: Cannot interact with the world; only observe.

Family: [REDACTED]

Backstory:[REDACTED]

Guild/affiliation:[REDACTED]

Personality:[REDACTED]

 

I may be missing something but I'm not seeing any similarities here between this and Voidmaking. Looks more like an Epic power than anything else to me, though Xino has said IIRC that it isn't. But if you were planning to use Voidmaking as a basis for this powerset then this is well outside the range of its capabilities. Erasing sound is not exactly impossible but would be an absolutely insanely difficult, whereas creating things is straight up the opposite of everything Voidmaking is about. The whole reason Voidus was so up in arms during the Plasmacore plot was that they were trying to use the Void to create stuff and he was justifiably worried that they'd end up unmaking the universe if they kept trying to do that.
@Ookla the Blue perhaps you could clarify if you meant something else but this would be straight up impossible to do using Voidmaking. I'd definitely suggest making this character an Epic if you still wanted to use the idea.

[xinoehp512 he/him]

3 hours ago, Voidus said:

I may be missing something but I'm not seeing any similarities here between this and Voidmaking. Looks more like an Epic power than anything else to me, though Xino has said IIRC that it isn't. But if you were planning to use Voidmaking as a basis for this powerset then this is well outside the range of its capabilities. Erasing sound is not exactly impossible but would be an absolutely insanely difficult, whereas creating things is straight up the opposite of everything Voidmaking is about. The whole reason Voidus was so up in arms during the Plasmacore plot was that they were trying to use the Void to create stuff and he was justifiably worried that they'd end up unmaking the universe if they kept trying to do that.
@Ookla the Blue perhaps you could clarify if you meant something else but this would be straight up impossible to do using Voidmaking. I'd definitely suggest making this character an Epic if you still wanted to use the idea.

It would not be the Voidmaking per se, no. Voidmaking draws on a place of nothingess (the Void) for power, right? Silence magic does the same thing, drawing on Silence.

[I think I am here. he/him]

20 minutes ago, Ookla the Blue said:

It would not be the Voidmaking per se, no. Voidmaking draws on a place of nothingess (the Void) for power, right? Silence magic does the same thing, drawing on Silence.

Are you trying to connect the CBST and Alleyverse universes? Because I think that might need community approval.

[kenod]

CBST?

[AonEne he/him]

8 hours ago, Ookla the Foxed said:

CBST?

Cosmic Battle to Save the Thread - it’s TLT plus plot. 

8 hours ago, Ookla the Maybe-Existent said:

Are you trying to connect the CBST and Alleyverse universes? Because I think that might need community approval.

And this ^, because we’ve had a poll (in the Chat Thread iirc) specifically about what materials people can use stuff from. 

[kenod]

1 minute ago, Ookla the Roleplayer said:

TLT plus plot. 

?

[Voidus]

9 hours ago, Ookla the Blue said:

It would not be the Voidmaking per se, no. Voidmaking draws on a place of nothingess (the Void) for power, right? Silence magic does the same thing, drawing on Silence.

Ah, then yes as others have said adding new materials to the AV would require some community approval. Given that this could conceivably be limited to pre-modern times then a poll in this thread would probably suffice but if you were looking for adding this to all worldbuilding and lore for the AV then would need to get a full poll up.
I would also question why this is required for something that is quite easily emmulatable from just running them as an Epic. Not sure what adding additional complexity of the universe contributes especially given that you'd already said you hadn't given much thought to where they get their powers from so I have to assume you hadn't intended for that source to be particularly integral to the story.

[AonEne he/him]

8 minutes ago, Ookla the Foxed said:

?

Have you heard of The Longest Thread? 

[kenod]

Ah, right. I'm not really familiar with that side of the shard.

[xinoehp512 he/him]

9 hours ago, Ookla the Maybe-Existent said:

Are you trying to connect the CBST and Alleyverse universes? Because I think that might need community approval.

Yes? I mean, they are sort of connected already.

28 minutes ago, Ookla the Roleplayer said:

Cosmic Battle to Save the Thread - it’s TLT plus plot. 

And this ^, because we’ve had a poll (in the Chat Thread iirc) specifically about what materials people can use stuff from. 

Silence magic was originally designed for the Alleyverse- I'm not advocating for allowing anything else.

22 minutes ago, Voidus said:

Ah, then yes as others have said adding new materials to the AV would require some community approval. Given that this could conceivably be limited to pre-modern times then a poll in this thread would probably suffice but if you were looking for adding this to all worldbuilding and lore for the AV then would need to get a full poll up.

Oh...I see, okay. We do need polls for worldbuilding now, then?

22 minutes ago, Voidus said:

I would also question why this is required for something that is quite easily emmulatable from just running them as an Epic. Not sure what adding additional complexity of the universe contributes especially given that you'd already said you hadn't given much thought to where they get their powers from so I have to assume you hadn't intended for that source to be particularly integral to the story.

Well, in theory anyone could learn it, although it would be impractical for most; it's more of a magical skill.

Edited December 1, 2019 by Ookla the Blue