Voidus

Scribbler was bracing herself for another photo with Lyla, who seemed to be trying different positions to take the photo in. So it turned out she wasn't a wartime photographer, just a girl with a hobby. But Scribblers whole job was supposed to be protecting people like Lyla wasn't it? That's what Autumn had told her anyway. And if she could make someone happy by taking a few photos then she was more than happy to. And given that Lyla said she was in for head trauma (Which, frankly explained quite a bit) it was the least Scribbler could do to look happy and take a few selfies like a normal teenager for once. She smiled weakly at the camera as Lyla finished her adjustments. " 'Kay, so, on three, say 'Calamity'." The smile dropped from Scribblers face in an instant. A surge of anger welled up inside her, inexplicably sudden. The tattoos on her skin crawled around, beginning to peel off of her skin and sway in the air. A dangerous light entered her eyes and she stared harshly at Lyla. "What-" She stopped herself just before she started yelling, desperately she clung to the last vestiges of her control, she forced her tattoos still and her voice calm. Lyla didn't know what that word meant to Scribbler, she couldn't have known. She likely just meant it as a joke or something. "What kind of thing do you keep in your scrapbook?" She asked instead, trying to show some interest. She was not going to let herself start yelling at someone just for an accidental word. She was not going to become like the other Epics. She would keep her humanity, she would stop this cursed power from corrupting her like it had so many others. And then she would stop the other Epics, by any means necessary.

New Neverthere post up. Someone pass the brain bleach please.

As expected of a High Epic, Nighthound took care of the current residents of the house in just a few seconds. She'd barely followed him through the door and he already had both the tenants and the dogs in hand. It was certainly more efficient than her usual methods but she felt something was a bit lacking, there just wasn't as much of a thrill from success when it was gained so easily. "Now, it seems like it would be appropriate for their mistress to inform them just what exactly their fate will be.” Her assessment of his resolution methods went up, seemed they weren't done yet after all. Neverthere smiled sweetly at the couple, unsure of how much they could see or understand in this state, but she enjoyed herself nonetheless. She took a moment to enjoy the aspects of the situation that she usually couldn't in her astral form. The faint smell of blood, her own rapid breathing, the atmosphere of the room itself. "Well I'm quite fond of these two." She said, reaching down to scratch one of the dogs around her feet. "Such good dogs. The other two however might need more... training." Her smile slipped from sweet to sinister as her gaze flipped over to the two grovelling humans. "They've kept the house relatively clean I suppose but their manners leave something to be desired. Perhaps we should chain them outside for a while. I think there's a muzzle in the basement somewhere too if you need to release them at any point. We do have to make sure they don't keep whining all night just because you're not giving them your affections." Her eyes switched to Nighthound directly now. Pleased though she was to have such control over the two humans, Nighthound was a far more useful piece, if she had to chose between taking this chance to gain two loyal followers for herself or gaining Nighthounds approval then tactically the latter was far more prudent. "But you know." She said, switching back to her sweet-and-smiley voice. "A good dog does deserve a reward every now and then, so perhaps if she's a good dog you could show this one your affections some time." In Neverthere's experience all Epics gave into one sin or another, one pleasure that they had been denied when they were ordinary that they now indulged in abandon. Epics like Lightwards who wanted recognition, Epics like Funtimes who wanted approval, Epics like Lucentia who wanted respect. Nighthound's desire seemed to be more base than those if his growing collection of women was anything to go by. She'd known Epics of that sort before, though most contented themselves with normal people, not Epics. So, stroke his ego a little, let him know she didn't care if he used a plaything every now and then. Then, most importantly, make herself indispensable. She had no intention of becoming just another plaything to be used and thrown away, Neverthere's own vice was quite simple. She craved security.

I say go for it, I know you can write it in an appropriate and interesting manner.

It is something I had considered too, one of the things I was hoping to bring up in the final game was issues of gender identity, but for a casual forum RP I wasn't sure I was going to do it. So that being said, if other people are comfortable with it then it's definitely ok by me.

I am unsure how exactly the Bard would react to Snapchat but I'm sure he'd love potatoes. Yeah I'd love to!

Yeah I did mention that he could arrive either in the morning (Post-time skip) or at night. @Screwloose which would you prefer Crankshaft to arrive at? I didn't see anything in the post indicating one way or the other.

RL always comes first, good luck with all your amazing achievements there. Though I must say I'm disappointed at the lack of chess club presidency too. (I joke of course, you're doing an amazing job to balance all of that at this point in the year)

She did indeed, the common term is 'High Epic' although it's somewhat broader than a PI is. That being said I'd say the term 'invincibility' would be relatively common among non-scholars of Epics. I'm time skipping Salem for the moment since it's been stuck for quite a while, if anyone needs to add something in they can do it in flashback.

Sounds good, shall we meet in the marketplace? I'll send you a PM for a collab doc.

I'm in an RPing mood, anybodys character free for some interactions?

Yeah of course, I'd recommend trying to come up with a slight difference to the powerset (Something added, tweaked or an interesting quirk) but other than that I don't see any problems.

Certainly is, I'm just about to timejump it to morning actually so Arena fights are back on! Scrapyard? He was a minor Epic so I didn't put him in the thread but yeah he was in Portland for a bit then I think he died.

Yeah pretty much this. If anyone needs any help, information or wants to perform some kind of action but doesn't want to write a whole post just for that then let me know.

We're at 2588 now. Huzzah!

Shadow had barely left the town when he encountered a group of goblins, they were standing around a small campfire just off of the road, luckily he saw them before he managed to get into their range and watched them carefully before deciding on his plan of attack. Four at once might be a bit difficult for a fresh player but if they were at the same level as that Kobold he should be able to manage it. Two of the goblins had bows at their side, archers meant a long range which took away one of his advantages but arrows were physical attacks, his racial bonus should let him tank them fairly easily. More worrying were the other two goblins, they were both bare handed and unlike the other goblins who were only wearing a loin cloth these two wore long robes covering their entire body. Magical attacks were not something he could handle easily, in exchange for his high physical resistance Shadow was rather lacking in the health department, he'd taken an increased endurance skill to try to compensate but he wasn't sure he could take two mages at the same time. And he didn't know what happened if he died in this game, would he die for real? Decisions, decisions. Did he run back to town and try again later? Or did he ignore the danger, try and take them out and run away if his health dropped too low? On an impulse he crept closer to the goblins, he was going to need to risk something like this sooner or later, he might as well get it out of the way. If he died, well no one was going to miss a 23 year old shut in. First thing was first, he needed a decoy, something to take the attention off of him. He pulled a small stone from his pack, throwing it on the ground and yelling "Summon!" He wasn't sure that last part was actually necessary but it felt cool to do. As with the Kobold the air warped slightly before resolving itself into a creature, a goblin exactly like the ones he was trying to attack, only this one held a club. "Orders boss?" The goblin grunted at him. "Er..." He wasn't sure how detailed he could be, but for this he only needed a simple plan anyway. "Run over there and attack that group of goblins." With a nod his goblin charged off towards the others, quickly drawing their attention. The other goblins didn't react even as his goblin ran towards them. Some kind of glitch? Or did they assume he was with them? The goblin was almost in attacking range before the others finally took notice and decided to attack. The mages each fired off a spell at Shadows goblin, quickly shaving off a large amount of his health. [-13, -16] His goblin had little hp left, he couldn't see exactly at this distance but it looked like barely a quarter of his health was left. The two archers ran backwards, trying to gain room to use their bows. Shadow took the opportunity to get close enough to start attacking himself and fired a spell off at one of the goblin mages: "Magic bolt!" The bolt took off half of one of the mages health, his goblin followed up with a swing of its club taking off another quarter. The mages were chanting another spell but the archers took their shots first this time, both of their arrows took his goblin in the head, finishing off the last of his hp. The two mages now switched their targets to Shadow, twin bolts of magic energy flying towards him. [-20, -23] His health plummeted in an instant, falling to a third. But with that attack he also saw the blue mana bars over the goblin mages fall into uselessness. They'd be casting no more of those spells in this fight. And if it was just the archers he was confident he could take them even with his health already this low. "Magic bolt!" Shadow roared again, firing another blast at the weakened goblin. The goblin was thrown to the ground, its hp disappearing completely. The other mage began to run away while the two archers ran closer. Their formation had been broken when his summoned goblin charged in, they now had to rearrange themselves so that the mage could get out of his range but the archers could get him in theirs. He saved the rest of his mana, switching to a bow and fired a shot at one of the archers with his only archery skill. "Snipe." He muttered as the arrow flew towards its target The goblins health dropped the goblins returned fire but he ignored the damage they dealt, his health dropped slightly but not nearly as much as from the mages attacks. He shot off another attack at the weakened archer, the mage was now hiding far towards the rear, mana depleted it was now useless, he could clear it up once he finished off the archers. He didn't have much health left now, even archers could be dangerous. "Summon!" He said, throwing another stone to the ground, the goblin that sprang forth ran straight towards the goblin archers, drawing their attacks. As the goblins arrows flew towards his goblin, his arrow flew towards the goblin in turn, almost ridding it of its health completely. Finally his goblin reached the archers and took off the final portion of health. "1 archer left." The archer fired off one more shot before backpedalling to try and gain some distance. Shadow sniped the remaining archer again as his goblin stalked it down, the goblin abandoned its attack to try and flee back to where the mage was hiding and regroup. "Magic pulse!" Shadow cried, using his other magic attack. This attack dealt less damage but staggered the goblin instead, causing it to fall on its face and letting his summoned goblin catch up again, smashing the downed goblin with his club, Shadow followed up with another sniping shot, finishing off the second of the archers. He and his summoned goblin now turned towards the final mage, who cowered nearby. They ran him down before managing to dispatch him with another couple of arrows and finishing him off. Exhausted, Shadow examined the field, four goblin corpses lay in the grass, his first summoned goblin had vanished in similar fashion to the way it was summoned when its health was depleted. He managed to collect up the loot from the corpses, gaining a stack of 20 wooden arrows, 17 gold pieces, a handful of rat bones, and some vials of blood that the two mages had on them. Checking on his skills he saw that he'd managed to level up his magic skill and his archery had almost leveled too. He decided to head back to town and get some more equipment before going on, he wasn't sure if his encounter was just unlucky or typical for this area but either way he'd need better equipment in order to keep handling those.

He could watch a drugged Epic float past chasing a butterfly? Any more of my characters needing a post?

They would indeed, it's assumed to just be a missing persons case for most people. Beamed in tron-style. As balanced as I can make them There are some that are more useful early game since there's a limited number of enemies so if you pick the right option then the first few levels are pretty easy, once you leave the town of beginnings though they become more balanced.

Welcome Shadow_00002 to Game of Guilds, tutorial will begin in 3 seconds, or skip to continue. It had taken a few moments to adjust, that sudden dimming of his vision, the sudden flash as light was restored to the world, the realization that the world which was restored was not the world he knew. This is insane. Shadow thought, shaking his head. He felt oddly lightheaded as he did so. Or rather, light-everythinged, his entire body felt less... real somehow. Tutorial selected, preparing appropriate tutorial for assumed skills. Player has primarily selected ranged and magical spells, preparing suitable ranged combatant. A glowing path was revealed before Shadows eyes, seeming to beckon him onwards. By habit more than anything he followed the path along to the tutorial space, his ethereal appearance somewhat at odds with the plain shirt and trousers he was wearing. He eventually reached the prepare space, it was a small patch of dirt somewhat north of the town square, crude lines drawn in the dirt and some rough stakes had been hammered into the ground and then joined by rope to form a basic ring. The space at the other end of the ring distorted for a moment before solidifying into a creature. A short, reptilian being with a red sash across itself and holding a sling in one hand and a rock in the other. Like players, monsters can attack with a variety of combat types, for this portion of the tutorial you will be facing an opponent utilizing the same combat style as you. The Kobold stayed frozen at the other side of the arena, waiting patiently for the message to finish being read before suddenly attacking, the ston in its sling flying out to hit shadow in the face. But the pain he should have felt wasn't there, he barely felt the rock hit him at all, it felt like the lightest of touches brushing across him. In the corner of his vision he saw a small update to his user interface, his HP bar had dropped slightly and he could see the small damage counter next to it. -2 2 Damage? Compared to his 60 total hit points it seemed a little low, perhaps this was a really low leveled enemy. Your character has a high degree of physical damage resistance, this will lower the amount of damage you receive from ordinary weapons. Oh, right. Wraiths had high physical damage resistance, combined with the fact that this was a training monster and it was reasonable for it to deal so little damage. To deal damage to the enemy creature, equip your preferred weapon and then select the enemy and press !@#$$@# The helpful interface seemed to have bugged out, but Shadow got the gist, he'd played enough RPGs that he didn't really need a tutorial, but being in one was different to playing it. He equipped his bow and knocked one of the wooden arrows, nervously he sighted at the Kobold. He had tried archery in school once and missed the target even when it was only a few meters away, how was he supposed to shoot a living thing, especially ones that were moving and dozens of meters away? His hands seemed to be guided somehow as he released the arrow and it struck it's target perfectly. -6 A surprisingly large chunk of the Kobolds HP dropped considering it was only 6 damage, looked like these were a mob with relatively low HP. The two traded blows a few more times, the Kobod slinging rocks at Shadow, dealing a steady stream of 1s and 2s and even a 0 at one point, Shadow dealt damage in the upper single digits before finishing it off with one last arrow. -4 Congratulations, you have defeated your first opponent, now to test your abilities. To use an ability... The tutorial proceeded, taking Shadow through the basic combat steps, he defeated another Kobold by using magic, dispatching this one in just two hits. To regain your mana you will need to rest, while you are resting you cannot use any other skills, rest will be broken if you enter combat or activate an ability. Shadow watched his blue mana bar slowly fill back up again with excitement. Being suddenly sucked into an alternate reality was horrifying sure, but actualy being able to cast magic? To say a few words and hurl a bolt of magical energy from his hand? Well, suffice it to say his previous life of a shut-in gamer no longer seemed as satisfying as it had. You have an auxilary skill: Trapping. Would you like to proceed with a tutorial for this skill? Shadow skipped this part, he'd learned enough already. Even in the few minutes the tutorial had taken he'd grown more comfortable in his new body, he was already used to the slightly faint feeling and his semi-transparent flesh. Now he wanted to go on an adventure. Checking his XP totals quickly he saw that he was still a while off of actually levelling any of his skills. It seemed that he'd need to grind a few more of these monsters before he could manage to obtain new abilities. "Now, let's see what the lake district has to offer." Shadow said to himself, the wraith quietly walked down the street.

It's more a trickle than a wave, each first time login has a chance. So yes. Most of those messages are thought to be the aforementioned practical jokes, also a bit of amnesia going on, players start to identify with their character. They don't really forget who they were or anything but things like their name are harder to remember in the game, which makes getting a message out hard.

They don't know, the trapped players are a pretty small minority and most of the few attempts to contact someone either fail or are dismissed as being some kind of sick practical joke.

Voidus' character: Shadow_00002 - Wraith: Magic, Increase Endurance, Chanting Magic, Summoning, Trapping, Archery.

Either is fine.

You tell me the thing you want to do and i tell you how^if you can do it.

Pm me and I'll send you rolls and info. Then you can post.