The Swan Dragon

http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/15990-epics-of-oregon/?p=297094

Thanks! He seems pretty cool.

Bai!

~Wpx

It is also fine to use characters that you control, that are not POV characters. I "own" Drainer, but he'll never be a POV character and I guess if anyone wanted to include him in his story they would consult me.

Ok. Just out of curiosity, what are Drainer's powers? 

Right. For a while, Funtimes wasn't a POV character (because I was still trying to get inside her head ). If anyone wanted to write something she did, or ask if something they wanted her to do was in character, they'd consult me on that. 

Alright.

Threre sometimes are also collabs where each player writes a couple of lines for their character and then they get posted as a larger segment to keep the post count down a bit, although I'm pretty sure that Brute was just a character he made up for that post.

Ok. That makes sense.

Thanks to all of you! 

Bai!

~Wpx

Sometimes, yes. Other times, no. 

 

Players often include other players' characters in their posts to write about their actions from their own character's perspective. For example, if I write that Funtimes giggled and turned Lightwards' coffee cup into a smiley-face-shaped pillow, Kobold could then include those actions in his next post, where he writes Lightwards' thoughts on it. It's a good way for players to develop their characters and to show how they see the same events from different perspectives. 

 

Other times, keeping action and reaction posts between characters separate would result in posts that are a line or two each. So players will collaborate through PMs, asking other players for their characters' reactions to their character's actions. It streamlines things and makes posts easier to read. 

Ok. That makes a lo more sense...though I come from RP forums where we pretty much did one liners. Just...a lot of them. XD

Thanks!

Bai!

~Wpx

I have a question about posting on a What Happened In *Blank*. I've noticed that while people are writing from one character's viewpoint, they are still using other characters in each post, instead of it being mostly between RP'ers. How does that work? Are they (with permission) borrowing another person's character? Are they using another character of theirs? Or are they just making a temporary character for that/a few scene(s)?

For example, Brute appearing to fight Ragnarok in Astoria.

Thanks!

Bai!

~Wpx

EPICS:

ThunderSpear

HUMANS:

Nijo

Thanks for reading, and feel free to message me with any input on my characters.

Bai!

~Wpx

Yeah anonymous usernames are always Anonymous X (Platypus, Grizzly, I think penguin once)

They're awesome.

I've also now seen panda, some weird one that started with c, cac-something. Mine isn't anonymous though XD. If anyone is wondering, I'm Swan Dragon.

I'm not sure—I thought I was Swan Dragon at first, but now I think I'm Anonymous Grizzly.

Ok. Mine should show up as Swan Dragon XD. I just wasn't sure. I'm signed into my Google Account

Thanks, but Google picked it for me. I WISH I could come up with usernames that great. 

What does mine show up as?

Yes, that works. 

Your username for that. Is. Awesome.

Could you make it public-access? I can't view it. 

O.O

Oops. This should work

The Totally Epic List of Non-Epic Dudes

This thread. 

Ok.

And now...presenting...the Totally Epic List of Non-Epic Dudes! (Let me know if I should change formatting, I'm not sure if this is the best.)

Characters you plan to play as should go in the Epics of Oregon thread. Character ideas should go here, or in a Google doc that's linked to here. If someone adopts that character, they can be added to the EOO thread. 

Ok. By "here", do you mean this thread, or this forum?

Thanks!

Bai!

~Wpx

Either one, though if you want people to be able to add to it, go for the doc.

Ok. Working on it now, I'll make a new post for it, though people should still put the characters in the epics of oregon thread, right? Or should we make an ice cream of oregon thread?

Bai!

~Wpx

EDIT: Also, most of my character ideas are going to be the more action-packed ones, more like David than Jo Shmo. Hopefully you guys can come up with the more passive roles on your own

If anyone wants, I've got some pretty sweet ideas for some vanillas. Should I put them here (via spoiler) or should I make a post for people to put up ideas on a google doc? I'm pretty sure I should be able to make one

Thanks!

Bai!

~Wpx

((Oh, and I call being a vaninja ninja!))

Answering Blaze's questions- ( I don't know how to quote)

Look at the bottom of a comment--it has an option called "Quote". You can also multiQuote by clicking on "MultiQuote" . Don't worry, that took me almost three hours to find, so you're not alone.

If he's new to the city, then entering through a checkpoint sounds like a decent idea.

On a little side note, if human weaponary isn't enough to kill him that means "conventional" methodes of assassination are of the table and that means he's tough enough to be considered High Epic.

Ok.

Oh. I thought that was for Resurrection/Immunity to harm/instant healing. Not for just being resistant enough to shrug off anything weaker than an energy attack

Also, planning on using Beazell Checkpoint, that sound good? What should I make sure to add for him starting there? (these to Comatose and anyone else important for Corvallis)

Thanks!

Bai!

~Wpx

Use the map Blaze linked and ask around

Thanks! (Next part to whoever knows the answer)

What is the best way to/how do I join in? ThunderSpear is the kind of guy to just want to check the place out, see if there is anything he wants, and take it. As in, a pretty passive role until he encounters someone who stops him from taking what he wants. He also doesn't really care about vanillas, as they don't have any weapons (that he knows of) that can hurt him. He isn't a High Epic, though he does have resilient skin. Sorry if that is way too much/not really enough, if you need more clearly stated information just check out my post for him, page 12 of this question.

Thanks!

Bai!

~Wpx

I also need to find a place in Corvallis

I would like to as well, with ThunderSpear.

Is there anything else about ThunderSpear (page 12) that doesn't seem right? I'm a really bad judge of when a character is ready to join in X_X

And also, is there a specific town/city that anyone would recommend for him? I'm going to look through but opinions are appreciated!

Thanks!

Bai!

~Wpx

You'll have to upload it to a photoshare site first, I usually use photobucket.

Ok. Thanks! Though that does seem kinda silly...

Bai!

~Wpx

EDIT: ThunderSpear updated, he now has a way to get his spear. Working on the pic thing now. Thanks to all the others who replied, I'll figure out which one works best

Same as putting a picture in a post, click the picture icon, just under the smileys one, then copy in the URL. But the Shard has recently established some rules concerning sig pictures, in particular on their size so you might want to check here if you do decide you want one.

What if I'm copying a picture from my hard drive? As in, I have no freaking idea what the URL is?

Thanks!

Bai!

~Wpx

EDIT: Sorry that I didn't see this, thanks Blackhoof!

If it's just a rnadom spear, not really, if he has a power for it that would make more sense I suppose.

 

Ok. I can add that in as a power. Secondary or passive do you think? Passive being that if he loses the spear someone, another one appears automatically (and the other disappears), or secondary being that he has to think about it.

Thanks!

Bai!

~Wpx

EDIT: Also, this isn't for this forum specifically, but how do I make it so that I can have a picture as my signature? I'm not positive I will, but it would be nice to be able to. Thanks!

 

As Voidus says, we tend to keep power levels on a rule by thumb basis.

 

So, what happens if his spear breaks?

 

O.O

Would it be reasonable for it to not break? Or he could have a power where he makes the spear, but he can only have one at a time. Feel free to reply with any suggestions (this too all reading)

Also, how do his powers look so far? I'm still in the very early stages, so advice helps

Thanks!

Bai!

~Wpx

Thanks for all the replies!

Welcome to the RP, first off, the forum generally discourages double or triple posting, just edit any new stuff in to your last comment.

On the character I honestly think a speed secondary would probably make them a bit overpowered when combined with a lightning primary like that. As long as the range isn't at Steelheart levels personally I don't see the problem with the first Secondary power of causing materials to become conductive, we do have Epics capable of terraforming or drastically changing areas, some of the most memorable scenes in the RP were just that, the Funtimes/Lightwards/Nighthound fight, the raising of the museum, the panda attacks, more recently the Arsenal/Quicksilver battle.

 

 

Regalia, Steelheart, Obliteration and Nightwielder all had powers capable of effecting an entire city, as did Conflux arguably. Brandon even has a specific set of rules for those types of powers so I don't think they're all that rare in canon. Steel transmutation was also probably Steelhearts primary but there's not really a clear distinction between a primary and secondary, just switch the first two powers around so the lightnings the secondary and it works I'd say.

On weaknesses yeah that has to effect everything, although the notable exception is that weaknesses don't effect the powers of large-scale effects like Nightwielders sun-blocking or Steelhearts transmutation.

OK. What I think I will do is switch the primary and secondary, with the new primary being the transmutation. I'm not sure yet if I'll make it permanent or not; what do you think? The new secondary will be his bolt of lightning; does that one seem fine, or should I reduce it's power a bit? (Also, do you have a standard rating for strength of powers? Or should I just describe as best as I can?) The transmutation can only happen when he is angry, as I had in his original example.

Also, just out of curiosity, how would the speed boost secondary and the lightning primary be really strong together?

And...panda attacks? I'm starting to like this place more...

On the secondary debate. I didn't really see anything wrong with making material conductive, except maybe that if the area is large enough he'd have a confirmed hit for everything on the ground, so I guess if you want to go with that power after all maybe do something similair to Steelhear's power where the AoE is tied to his emotions so he can't just create a kill zone at the start of the battle but his range increases together with the stress the fight puts on him.

 

On his passives, is there something special about his spear or does that power work on every object he throws, could he pierce himself by accident or others on purpose or does it just kind of float back to him? What about bullets?
I'd also appreciate a better measurment on how resiliant he is.

 

On the writing itself. In case you didn't just do it for the demonstration, I would like to see you to actually spell out characters names in game/text. Shortening them in discussion is of course fine.

Only effects his spear. It flies back to his hand, shaft-first. If it hits an obstacle, it goes around it until it reaches ThunderSpear. For resilience...let's see. Bullets, swords, etc. don't hurt him. Generic explosions can cause him to stumble, but don't actually harm him. However, attacks that are more energy based can harm him, such as the gauss rifle used in Steelheart. Epic abilities that are energy based hurt him, though not as much as they would a vanilla (as in, he isn't destroyed, but will probably be pretty banged up. Same for guns of that type). I'll add that in to his description. Was that helpful?

For the writing, I will write out names fully while in RP. That was just for demonstration purposes.

All right, first, I had misunderstood the secondary. I thought you were turning things to some superconductive material, as in transmutation, which is apparently incorrect. If I understand you correctly, you just meant that the materials within range would become super conductive. My apologies.

 

 

 

As noted, I was under the impression that this secondary would actually transmute the matter as well, and my comments were made regarding that. No other character in canon other than Steelheart does large scale transmutation. As noted, since I misunderstood what was intended, my comments regarding the matter don't apply.

That was my initial idea, but I realized as I was changing it to the speed boost that that didn't really make sense, and I forgot to write in that it didn't actually change the material. Thank you for looking over it, and pointing that out.

Thanks again, to all of you! I will update the original post soon, with the tweaks to powers and descriptions.

Bai!

~Wpx

The Secondary. No one in the game has a Power like that, and the only canon one we know of is Steelheart (remember Regalia's was through active use of her main power, and not some secondary). The real reason it's OP, though, is that it's a major disruption to the game. A single use of the power would alter everything in the setting permanently, potentially ruining plot lines  in ways that render them unsalvageable. 

 

Also, though, is that you can't have a weakness not negate all of your powers. You can have various degrees of your weakness do that (think of the Kool-Aid gal, whose powers were disrupted upon contact with the drink, but actively ingesting it cancelled her powers completely).

Ok. Also, it doesn't change the appearance or properties of the area--it just makes them superconductive. I'll see about how I can rework it though.

This doesn't work on clothes or other items someone is wearing right (secondary)?

Nope. Just the area. 

Thanks!

Bai!

~Wpx

EDIT:

Thanks for all the replies! I'l start reworking his Seconday and rewrite the weakness to nullify all powers.

Bai!

~Wpx

Hello again! Changes are in red.

I think that this secondary is pretty reasonable. It's just for a couple seconds, and it fits his theme. Also re-writ weakness to apply to all powers.