Kobold King
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Helicopter-jumps are the bomb! * * not necessarily suggesting that actual explosives be involved. Though they could be. Also, mail-me's comment got me thinking. Thinking of a Mommy Pony Mark I. Open for criticism.
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Please tell me I'm not reacting seriously to what's meant to be a joke. Because I want this to happen.
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...Go on.
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This one of the wackiest Epics I've seen yet. By "wackiest," I of course mean "this guy looks insanely awesome and I want to see him in action right away." I for one would be perfectly happy with him launching an attack on The Dalles. He probably wouldn't succeed, at least not on his first try, but that could make for an awesome fight sequence that lets a lot of our Epic characters there show off their powers. (Just because you haven't ponified him doesn't mean someone else won't give it a whirl. )
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Warbreaker is made of awesome. Brilliant worldbuilding, fully realized paths of character development, a colorful magic system, and witty banter between living demigods. If Steelheart is amazing, then Warbreaker is incredimazible. I've had two settings existing in my head for a while now: a fantasy setting and a science fiction setting. Yesterday I had an idea for how to merge the two together into an epic science-fantasy universe, which excites me to no end.
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Quota: an evil Soother whose life ambition is making others miserable. He likes pushing others to suicidal depression while drinking lattes. If there's one thing Brandon Sanderson is good at, it's subverting tropes. You should read Warbreaker. I genuinely sat for a few minutes in silence after reading it, overwhelmed by how many surprises and subverted audience expectations I'd just experienced. I wonder what would happen if forum policy mandated that anyone who passed Brandon Sanderson in rep had to write an equal number of epic fantasy novels.
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I'm with you all the way. Steelheart had one of the most emotionally affecting prologues I've ever seen. ...Yay! We can be heresy-buddies!
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"David, there's something I've been wanting to ask you for a while now. Why do you put ponies into all your Epic profiles?"
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Steelheart tells us that David's father wore a comic book t-shirt on that fateful day in the bank. That wasn't entirely accurate.
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Excellent!
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Lawrence's relationship with Megan Pierce is a matter of intense scientific scrutiny, as the possibility of Lawrence somehow passing on his genetics would be seen as the permanent rebuttal of Darwin's theory. mail-me, I have two ideas for Reader quotes to use in his Epic file: "Unfortunately for you, you came to the Dalles, and the Dalles is my territory. Everything you know belongs to me. And everything I own belongs to Koschei the Deathless." Or my personal favored choice: "Let's have a chat."
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And thus through the power of science and creepiness, it was discovered that a specific sound frequency modeled after Nighthound's voice was capable of generating a primordial "ick" response in any female brain. Male brains are immediately placed into hyper-defensive mode, believed to be a residual instinct for defending the tribe against a predatory threat. The exception to this is the unique brain of Steven Lawrence, who bawled for forty-seven consecutive minutes when forced to listen to a Nighthound recording.
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I'm sure it can be done... after all, humans are no more related to ponies than pandas are. If a human can be compressed into an equine form, then anything can. Uh... I don't know all the details about him. But he's capable of fortifying structures and had a slight ship with Panacea.
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This was actually a thread at one point. But I agree with you--I think Nightblood would be fascinated by Sprenblades. I think his enthusiasm would be utterly adorable, though I tend to think Nightblood is adorable in general.
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Mostly better, in Lightwards' case. And I wonder if we've already seen Panda's first POV post... But yeah, Seonid's summary was as hilarious as it was informative.
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They've learned how to upload images to the Gallery. Thank the Light they haven't uploaded anything R-rated. (though there was a woman in a bikini, which is alarmingly close for a spambot.)
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Nice to have you with us! If you want full bios on the RP's characters, check out the Epics of Oregon thread. It gives plenty of details on each character, and should work as a handy reference. Most current players have more than one character--I've lost track of how many I have--but as an incredibly brief rundown, TwiLyght has Doctor Funtimes, Mailliw has Altermind, The Only Joe has CorpseMaker and Sightline, Edgedancer has Nighthound and his sister, and I myself have Lightwards. The city of Portland is currently the scene of very heavy political intrigue, just on the brink of a massively scaled Epic war. Many plans and schemes are already in action in this city, and High Epic characters are no longer permitted within its borders by the order of TwiLyght. The city of The Dalles is currently where new players are being encouraged to start off. It's a highly militarized city ruled by a normal human who managed to seize control. Epics entering the city are given the choice between working for the mayor, leaving, or dying; however, those uninterested in working for The Dalles City Guard may find employment in the superpowered crime ring running rampant in the city, headed by the enormously powerful Quicksilver. I hope that isn't too much information--I tried my best to keep it simple. You'll learn the lore best by immersion--I barely knew who anyone was when I joined, but now I can rattle off details about practically any character. Looking forward to learning more about the Panda, and especially seeing him in action!
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Writes his secretive unfinished novel, in which he plagues the main character with all of the dark secrets and woes he's ever divined from people in his office?
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I think he'd normally be left to his own devices, so long as he stayed around the cathedral or in other militarized areas of The Dalles. He's probably got a decent load of free time on his hands, but he'd be strongly discouraged from leaving the protection of The Dalles City Guard. The potential damage he could cause if captured by Quicksilver is too great to allow him free rein over the city. He must be guarded at all times. Since that doesn't really answer your question: essentially, he's made to stay where The Dalles City Guard can keep an eye on him. Every now and then crooks and prisoners would be brought in for him to interrogate; probably at least once a day, maybe up to three or four times during crime sprees. What he does when he's boxed up in the cathedral with no one to torment is entirely up to you.
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That's a good point. I wonder though... does that imply that the Doctor's real name is his weakness? I wonder if that's a fundamental characteristic of how Reader's power works. I've been wondering for a while now why Reader is incapable of divining other Epics' weaknesses; obviously from a meta perspective this was done to nerf his abilities, but there must be an in-universe explanation. Perhaps Reader is incapable of sensing the one thing a person considers to be their "weakness?" For an Epic this would be their actual weakness, the thing that makes their powers falter. But when Reader is in the presence of a regular person, is there any deeply held "weakness" that's withheld from him? Agh. I'm tired and not making any sense. :/
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Nightblood would pay for annoying pop-up ads that ask website visitors whether they'd like to destroy evil today. -
Awesome, I found it. I'll do the fancy-smancy black and white image filtering first thing tomorrow. Wait. If he existed in the Whoniverse, could Reader divine the Doctor's real name?
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"Ruin" would be the screen name of a very influential troll on 4chan. Much of his time would be spent altering text on Wikipedia to further his own political agenda, earning the eternal enmity of the usually mild-mannered moderator Sazed.
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I'll look. Thanks. "Doctor... who?" Funtimes only stuck her tongue out.
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All my character icons are hotlinked from Dump Your Photo. Somewhat awkward question for TwiLyght--do you still have the Reader pony code? I forgot to save it to my code file last time you shared it with me. * embarrassed smiley *
I thought that one would be universal across the classification systems. Well I'll understand if you want to immediately switch to using mine.