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@Big Daddy P: How is anyone going to match up to someone who weilds a black hole as a weapon. Anyway I'm thinking of keeping the basics of the character but switching the Genre to Cyberpunk.

You do realize that using a black hole would be paramount to suicide and there would be no way to tell if you would achieve a critical size until it was too late. Plus I'm sure some of those bloody buggers would jump ship and survive the thing. I want them all dead, not just most.

It was an example. And good question, that could be one of the challenges. Maybe the scientist could imagine a sort of hadron collider which cancels it out, the magical girl can make it disappear ot teleport it to space... there's no limits to how you handle a problem, short of God moding.

I'm thinking of a kinda PI character.

• Name: Ike "Private Ike" Stewart
• Age: 34
• Gender: Male
• Genre: 30's noir stories.
• Fighting Style: He's quite sneaky, preferring not to get in fights. He's a big combat pragmatist of he gets into a fight though, hitting with the butt of his pistol in the stomach or groin.
• Weapons: A simple pistol, and his keen mind.
• Appearance: He wears a beige trenchcoat and beige hat, the traditional PI garb. Think of him as a beige Rorschach sans the mask.
• History: A simple man with an interest in mystery stories, Ike became an imagineer so he could live the dream of being a traditional Private Eye. He takes no nonsense, and isn't afraid to lay some serious hurting on his enemies. However, he prefers to stay hidden, only revealing him self with a well placed jab or bullet. Due to completely adapting the persona of a 30's private eye, he can be slightly demeaning to women, calling them "sugar" or "bird", but he doesn't mean anything by it.
• Miscellaneous: He narrates everything he does in the traditional Private Eye manner.

So a Bad Ass Normal? Also I like that term you made up, Imagineer. I'm going to make that the official term for these characters.

edited 28th Jun '13 6:36:02 AM by BigDaddyP

Basically, yeah.

What makes him so badass for a normal then? A nOsell ability? Or is he just sort of too boring for anyone to notice? These are people wielding super powers.

edited 28th Jun '13 6:46:11 AM by BigDaddyP

Well, I was going for a more sneaky recon character then a guns blazing fighter.

Alrivght then. If you're happy with it, I'm happy with it.

Question. What happens when people in the game start to imagine the Private Eye is some horrible monster or batman?

I don't see why you think becoming Batman is a bad thing.

For the cultists, it would be.

edited 28th Jun '13 4:57:49 PM by philosopher

Exactly. Now you're thinking straight.

Good question. The explanation for why you can't imagine other Imagineers is because by gaining the mental fortitude to create memories, vis-a-vis the corrupted touch of the Old Ones who want to enslave and/or destroy the Earth, is because the Gods themselves, or at least, the ones with sentience, are aware of the two-way street thing with unlimited powers. Cthulhu wouldn't like Ryleh being able to pull a The Starscream and Ryleh doesn't want to be a whim to Cthulhu. So, their own paranoia of each other transfers to the powers and so... yeah.

If you have a less convoluted explanation, please share.

EDIT: if someone is reading this thread and unsure of what to sort of character, perhaps try and incorporate August Derleth into the RP, either hating Nowhere or supporting him. In addition, I have now come up with a starting plotpoint.

There is a somewhat important ceremony for the Cult of Cthulhu going on at the moment in a rundown but maze-like church. The Neverending is there with his mooks and, possibly, player badguys, ready to empower the Gods more. Fortunately, our heroes have learnt of the location, via their own individual means, and are now storming the church, whether via secrecy, covert or just blowing shit up.

Let's You and Him Fight and lots of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder is encouraged. I don;'t want anyone to feel restricted in this rp.

edited 28th Jun '13 5:48:05 PM by BigDaddyP

When is this RP ready to start?

• Name: Pecos Sean
• Age: 18
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: United States of America
• Genre: Wild West Fantasy.
• Fighting Style: Gun-Fighter
• Appearance: Sean wears a full Black ensemble of clothes comprised of a shirt, jeans, a Poncho, leather gloves, an eye mask, a Cowboy hat, and a pair of cowboy boots.
• Weapons: Twin Six-Guns, named Wilde and Free, that he has with him at all times of the day. Even at night.
• History: Sean was born in a small town in Texas with a name that isn't really worth mentioning. He spent his life before the war hunting Chupacabras and other such critters with his Dad. When the war broke out they finally found one... Or I should say one found them and ate Sean's dad. Sean killed the Chupacabra and vowed to kill every last monster in the world, And so began the monster hunting life of Pecos Sean.
• Miscellaneous: Sean's Six guns shoot silver bullets.

edited 30th Jun '13 7:56:14 AM by Yeti0

I like that. His speciality is taking on the abominations rather than the cultists directly. However, yuou should probably find a way for him to take out the beast if someone like The Neverending imagines Godzilla.

The RP will start soon, but I would like others to jump in too. We also have to work out still whether we are OK with the church idea and then where to move on from there.

Would a big book of monster weaknesses describe a way to defeat godzilla?

Well, we've pretty much been culturally conditioned to believe in Godzilla's invulnerability, or something.

Objection !!! If shooting doesn't work, get a bigger gun.

"If only I had a way to defeat Godzilla" -thinking 'Ass Pull' 50 times- "WOOT AN ANTI-GODZILLA ROCKET LAUNCHER.

I'm tempted to allow this sort of thing, irregardless of the whole escalation warfare thing. I WILL SUMMON GALACTUS TO FIGHT GODZILLA! OH YEAH, WELL I I WILL SUMMON THOR TO FIGHT GALACTUS, and so on.

If it becomes too ridiculous, I'll make the elder gods do a mental bitchslap to make the imaginations dissolve. I guess it's something like, if you're making something so big and powerful it means more energy being trhrown around, and when it gets too big it irritates the Gods who will get rid of it. Or something.

Also, about starting this RP, I'm currently devoting most of my time to trying to ressurect my One Piece RP (Link in my signature) PLEASE GO AND JOIN I RECOMMEND IT.

Dude. Just bring in Destroyah, It killed Godzilla.

I'm ready to start. I know it'll be slow during the week but... eh. Making a discussiopn thread now where we can talk better. But the RP is still open, to anyone else wanting to join.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13726770930A48935000&page=1#1

edited 1st Jul '13 4:13:09 AM by BigDaddyP

Well, here's mine:

• Name: "Big Bill" Swanson
• Age: 34
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: American
• Genre: Cyberpunk
• Fighting Style: A combination of high tech and brute force
• Weapons: Lots. A mono-wire whip, a sub-machinegun that is cybernetically linked to his nervous system, a bandoleer of hand grenades.
• Other Equipment:
  • "Louise", named after his dead wife, a souped up Harley that has rocket boosters enabling it to leap tall, well moderate sized, buildings in a single bound and that is radio linked to Bill's brain so that he doesn't have to be on her to drive her.
  • A portable computer that he uses for hacking.
• Appearance: 6'7" of muscles, with long red hair in a pony-tail, bushy bbeard,jeans, black leather jacket[[note: The jeans and jacket are of synthetic, bulletproof material]]
• History: William Swanson was a professor of cybernetic sciences at MIT who dreamed of being an "outlaw". Those dreams would never have come to be if the horrors hadn't struck, ripping apart Boston, M It and his pregnant wife, bringing "Big Bill" into being.
• Other: Bill's left hand has a set of retractable ceramic claws that slide out over his fingernails

edited 5th Jul '13 2:32:14 PM by tricksterson

There, done with Caroline.