what about a non-video game equivalent of Cast from Hit Points so that she can only do so much buffing to hell before exhausting herself
moved to Oceanstuck because this handle was starting to bother me my tumblrYou mentioned the game should be starting soon, but can we get an ETA on the discussion thread? Just wondering.
What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?@Verity: My suggestion would be to establish that her buffs aren't overly major (e.g. she can't make her teammates move at the speed of light or heal off damage faster than they take it), and/or make it so only one of her buffs can be activated at any given time. What MsAmi suggested is also plausible.
I was planning on launching the discussion thread at the same time as the main thread, though I can launch that earlier if desired.
Edit: Also, one more thing: I've settled on naming the starting city "Newbury." It's up to you whether or not that's worth mentioning in your characters' backstories.
edited 28th Jun '16 10:11:37 PM by Yomegami
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Alright, I'll do something of the sort, I'll also swap out the "Ironborn's Lament" as thematically it makes less sense than the other abilities, and put in a Decoy/Shadow clone spell instead. Also question, will my flowers be able to synergize with the plant-related magical girl
It depends on how they wind up working in practice, but in theory combination attacks of any sort are perfectly fine.
Icon by Civvi the Civilian!I said I was interested, here's my signup.
- Name: Allison "Al" Fletcher
- Age: 15
- Appearance: She's a 1.64 m / 5'4'' lanky girl with auburn hair. She usually wears normal street clothes, caring more about function over form (things like sweatpants and T-shirts). She stands at 2 m / 6'7'' with her bark armor on (Think this
◊ but with this helmet
◊ and made of wood).
- Personality: Al is a very excitable kid that can't seem to focus on one thing at a time. She's a pretty sociable person and still keeps in touch with the many friends she has made during her life despite constantly moving. An idealist at heart, she always likes to help the people she cares about or at least try to cheer them up. Al doesn't care much about school but she doesn't have bad grades, she only pays enough attention to pass her tests. She also loves old sci-fi movies; for her the cheesier, the better.
- Powers:
- Bark Armor: Al can grow an armor made of unnaturaly tough (some would even say magical) reddish wood, that protects her from most physical attacks. The armor itself can regenerate but it takes a while for it to repair anything over a superficial cut. It also makes her strong enough to rip apart a car's door and jump several meters in the air.
- Wooden Crossbow: She can summon a crossbow on her right hand that's made of the same wood as her armor. Although her ability to create arrows depends on her emotional and physical state, for all intents and purposes, Al has an infinitely refill her crossbow. Mind you, she is not a great shooter.
- Plant Affinity: Al has an acute sixth sense that lets her know what the plants on her vicinity are feeling and it physically affects her (e.i. She would feel full of energy in Spring, and sick in Autumn). Unfortunately, she can't turn it off so she constantly receives useless information about every single vegetable near her.
- Backstory: Al's parents had to move several times due to their jobs so she grew up constantly moving every few years all over the country. Newbury is the last city her family has moved to and it hopefully will be the last. Apart from that, Allison has lived what could be considered an average life.
- Other: She is a bit of a potty mouth.
edited 2nd Jul '16 11:37:25 PM by DeisTheAlcano
I'm not seeing anything to object to here, so Allison is accepted.
And I was planning on creating a character of my own from the start, but it took me a while to figure out something. So here she is; although she's technically a GMPC, she'll play by the same rules as the other PCs.
- Name: Rosalie Chevalier
- Age: 13
- Appearance:
- Civilian: Rosalie is a little short, but otherwise of average height and build of someone her age. She mostly appears to be of French descent. She has brown eyes and straight, auburn hair that's usually around shoulder length and tied into two ponytails. She's usually wearing some combination of t-shirts, jeans, and tennis shoes, and usually at least some of her clothing will be pink.
- Transformed: Rosalie's eyes and hair both turn bright pink, and her hair grows much longer. She becomes clothed in a pink-and-white short dress highly reminiscent of a princess's, as well as white long gloves, white thigh-high stockings, and pink, high-heeled sandals. She also gains a white tiara, as well as pink ribbons tied into bows around her waist and ankles.
- Personality: Rosalie is a rather shy girl. Around people she doesn't know well, she doesn't tend to talk much, and when she does she's soft-spoken and tends to trail off a lot. While it's not for lack of trying, she has difficulty actually initiating conversation.
Once she's out of her shell, however, she's actually quite the tomboy. While not quite as rough-and-tumble as some and possessing some normally feminine interests (which she'll get defensive about if questioned), she's certainly not afraid to get herself dirty. She's fiercely loyal towards whatever friends she happens to make and will never abandon them unless they abandon her first.
Generally speaking, she's mostly agreeable and won't charge into things blindly unless someone she cares about is in danger. However, there is one way to get on her bad side extremely quickly: imply that she is or outright call her a "little girl," and/or treat her like one. - Powers:
- Rosalie needs to say a special incantation in order to transform voluntarily, although she'll automatically transform should she be in immediate danger. Changing back and forth takes a couple seconds and covers her in bright pink light that can blind the unprepared.
- She's somewhat tougher and stronger than normal, although not abnormally so.
- Psychic Powers: Rosalie possesses a number of psychic abilities, which manifests as pink, sparkly energy when used. If she puts too much effort into any of these, she'll wear herself out really quickly.
- Telekinesis: Rosalie can use a limited form of telekinesis. She's capable of dragging people closer to her, pushing them away, or simply holding them in place. She can also grab items from across the room with it.
- Psychic Weaponry: Rosalie can also use psychic energy to extend the reach of her attacks. This can manifest in a number of ways, from simply enhancing her punches and kicks to long psychic blades.
- Psychic Shielding: Rosalie can raise a psychic shield to block incoming attacks, either to herself or to anyone with her.
- Backstory: Rosalie was born to Hector and Augustine Chevalier. Her father was generally supportive of her interests regardless of what they were, but her mother was dead-set on making her a child actress and making the family rich, to the point of emotionally abusing her daughter. Fortunately for Rosalie, her father realized what was going on before it was too late and left her, taking his daughter with him. Since then her life's been generally pleasant, although to this day she's very insecure about herself and has yet to decide what she wants to do with her life. She's only recently moved to Newbury, and hasn't gotten the chance to really know anyone there yet.
The RP has properly begun now. However, for anyone who's still on the fence about joining initial signups will remain open until the end of the first loop.
As of right now, my plan is that signups will not be open for all loops as the setting changes for future loops might complicate character creation matters. However, every two loops or so there'll be a loop that's very similar to the first one, during which signups will be open again.
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@Sergey: That's perfectly fine.
@Magna: I'm not seeing anything objectionable here, so she's accepted.
@Verity: I'm a little wary that she'd be able to buff her teammates to downright invicible levels, so I'd add some limits to those. That being said, I'm not seeing anything else objectionable here, so address that concern in some fashion and she'll be accepted.
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