This was impulsive and irrational and stupid on my part, and, I'm sorry. Just...I'm so, so, sorry. I need some time. This rant was a terrible idea, and I can't apologize enough. Sorry...
edited 11th Dec '15 3:01:00 PM by SacredSpirit123
well then
REX: 100/100
I... don't summon rex just yet.
"I'm not summoning this thing until that debuff is destroyed, so... who wants themselves set on fire?"
"SO YEAH"
Carbon Dog: 31/50
I approach and moon the Godmodder.
- 1 Talist, Infinity, Kanye
![[up]](../../static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
It's ok. I understand. As someone who likes to do stuff, I get angry when my stuff is entirely blown off.
???: G! get up!
I'm fine! I'm f- (falls back on my knees) I'm not fine
???: oh good. I was about to reload. Anyway, Walpurgisnacht's been taken out. The house has collapsed. Under normal circumstances, I would be whipping that godmodder around and making him cry for mama. Unfortunately, he's got friends.
Tabbune....I think I've heard the name.....wasn't he the one who betrayed his friends the last time he attacked? The one who became a godmodder?
???: I wouldn't know. Anyway, Tabbune's got some sort of lightning barrier around him. her. I don't care.
easy! I run up and use mah short circuit to sap the ligh-
???: nonononono. You're far too wounded. I forgot to mention that reviving you takes a lot outta me. Besides. I don't think that's normal lightning. Even Benjamin Franklin wouldn't fly a kite near that.
okay. (in telepathic communication) "don't worry guys. I've remembered this thingie. Okay. Speed. Can you bring back akantor like ya said ya could? doesn't really matter. We'll take care of that later. right now we need to get to prepping an attack figgering out this singular agreement." (end telepathy) I, on the other hand, need to get helping!
- I use my last bit of australium charge to unleash a blast of healing to heal any allies and attack any enemies.
oh, did i mention sh!t just got real? I might as well play this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4VNZdsjveE
I'm saving megalovania for when sh!t gets even more real.
edited 12th Dec '15 3:43:16 PM by TheGWing
I reply to sp33d.
"Fair enough. Just make sure there's a target I can fire at once the thing's charged, and then we'll be good."
"In the meantime, I'd be perfectly willing to set myself on fire."
I activate the "Burning Robot's Agony" emblem.
Yellow Devil NEO: 18/45 (+1 from sp33d and Trip) Hint: Back from the dead and better than ever.
You cannot grasp the true form of this charge!: 23/50 Hint: You'll go mad from the revelation.
+1 to Kayne, sp33d, and Trip.
edited 11th Dec '15 2:13:40 PM by InfinityRyujin
(I was planning to reply on the next update, but I think I should explain now.)
(Sacred: I'm sorry that I pissed you off with recent events. This is the first thing I GM seriously (I had a few other DtG sessions that died from lack of players), not that I'm asking for sympathy or something. I'm experimenting on mechanics and plotlines a bit.
You were a bit too late to start the sidequest. This is the "Bad End" of the sidequest. And the +2 is for "refunding" the actions since the actions are targetting dead targets. You had 5 turns to start the sidequest, three of which you were AFK or moving, which I don't blame you, and two of which was you RPing with Kai. The Emblem is the "penalty" of the Bad End.
I'm sorry if you had plans with the Robot. Not that I'm dissing you, but you had time to do the sidequest. The Arc was over when Walpurgis is destroyed. This is already a different chapter of the plotline. The explosion was a semi-wipe to start a new chapter fresh.
Maybe my system for handling the kill is stupid. But it's a decision I made, and I want to walk with it. It's probably a stupid decision, I'm sorry.
If you want to leave, then goodbye and sorry. I just prefer if you'd come back. You are one of the best players I have.
I won't bring back the Robot to say sorry, as I feel that would be insulting you. It feels like giving a new doll to a kid when the old, beloved one breaks. But this can actually be a chance for character development in the Sacred Spirit.
I'm fine with your rant and even insults, it helps me to improve. Thanks for taking the time to write that.)
(Edit: Also, quitting everytime I murder something isn't gonna get you anywhere. I'm probably going to do that a lot.)
edited 11th Dec '15 8:41:00 PM by Tabbune
Infinity, I feel bad for bringing this up but... Sacred already did that. Right at the end of the rant. You may want to fix your post so it doesn't look like we have a second one.
...me, one of your best players? Er...eh...ah...uh...um...wow.
I...don't know how to react to that. I'm sure there have been others better than me. I mean, it's like you see me as a noble knight when I barely see myself as a simple foot soldier. That...was an unexpected, yet appreciated compliment. I just don't know how to react to it.
I...guess I'll come back, but I'm still burning the emblem. Like you said, it gives character. It'll even give a bit to Spirit's backstory in other things, happening canonically after DTG. Probably a hidden vulnerable side, and a heightened primal fear of fire. Definitely some triggerable PTSD. I mean, s/he's half-made of plant life. S/he's immortal, but s/he's going to be feeling every second of those flames, and their physical form is going to be pretty damaged. s/he's not going to be active for a while, and the rest of the Party is probably not going to have a high opinion of the others for a while. Since you don't do weekend updates, I guess that gives me some time to write an in-character reaction. Just...thank you for that sudden shock to my self-esteem.
Force of Nature: 77/? Hint: —
What Even Gods Fear: 77/? Hint: —
The Party stares in horror at the Burning Robot's death, barely even registering the massive explosion that caused it. They stand there in shock, tears filling their eyes. Neodyme, incapable of crying, and foreign to emotion, nevertheless grasps the trauma of the situation, standing in awed silence. Eventually, Fury voices what all of them had been thinking, but had been too shocked to say.
"...Oh, frick..."
The Sacred Spirit trembles like a windblown leaf, empathically wracked with the Burning Robot's death throes. S/he gazes at the robot's remains, watches the emblem appear from the wreckage, and takes a shaky step forward. Shadow snaps out of his catatonia, and tries to stop them.
"Spirit, no!"
The Sacred Spirit pulls away, facing them.
'The robot...it could think. Its last thoughts...its...dying thoughts...were full of pain...so much pain...nobody helped...I must do this...I failed. I failed! Nobody deserves this...this is all my fault...'
S/he turns around, and moves to the emblem, their body already beginning to singe from close proximity to the flames. S/he gives one last glance back to the Party, their tear-filled eyes turning black from the flood of negative emotion, then s/he embraces the emblem, bursting into flames with a heartbreakingly mournful, agonized wail. S/he clings to the emblem for as long as it burns. Fury tries to run forward, but is grabbed by Neodyme.
"NO! Let me go! Can't you see they're in pain?!"
Neodyme looks down at him with an eerie hollowness in his reflective eyes.
"I know...there is nothing we can do. You are the Aspect of Fire."
Fury fixes him with a pained glare, hot tears streaming down his face.
"Yeah, I am! I could feed on those flames, just absorb them!"
Neodyme shakes his head.
"Exactly. The more flames you absorb, and the more emotionally unstable you become, your body heat grows more intense. Your aura would only injure them more. You are helping just by staying back. They need to do this alone."
Fury ceases his struggling, staring with a look of shock and despair on his face.
"Spirit..."
When the emblem burns down, the Sacred Spirit falls to their hands and knees, singed, scorched, and covered in blackened patches. With a pained sigh, s/he collapses. Shadow rushes to them, cradling them, and fixes the nearest AG with a withering glare.
"How could you let this happen?! Why didn't you help the robot?! All of this could've been avoided if you had fricking done something! You fricking monsters! I'm taking Spirit back into cover to heal! You should all be ashamed of yourselves!"
He teleports away to a safe area of the field with Commander Protoh, and returns with a haunted look in his eyes.
"Let's just get this war over with..."
The Party regroups, and sees Tabbune.
"Et tu, Tabbune? Again? We don't have time for brainwashing...why is this happening?"
Shadow telepathically contacts Talist.
'Spirit's in a bad way. They just sacrificed their health for the team by using the burning emblem. They were probably thinking of helping Kai. I took them into cover so Protoh could tend to them, but everything is just unraveling here...we need help.'
Plus three to Talist.
The Sacred Spirit will heal around when the Grace Wolf returns, if not a bit later. That will be sure to both create/resolve some tension at the same time.
edited 12th Dec '15 1:35:38 PM by SacredSpirit123
That guy
Bookkeeping station: Got +9 total. Sacred, Speedon, Infinity
Fragment of the Song: 100/100 I'll be using this now. Well, after a lot of text, anyway.
Cynder: 191/()
Doing all this took me much longer than I expected... I've been writing this off and on over the course of a few days, so I didn't read what Sacred said until I was mostly done. ... I'll... respond to that...
ACTIVATE LONG PARAGRAPHS OF EXPOSITION WITH OCCASIONAL ALLUSIONS TO BACKSTORY NOBODY KNOWS/CARES ABOUT!
Oh yeah... I probably should explain these more clearly...
Emerald Dream: This is a dimension originating from World of Warcraft lore. I took it and changed it for my own purposes.
Companions: I didn't want all the entities I've summoned over the years to "die", so when they ran out of HP, they just left for my home base. Most of the time. I call the group of them my Companions (I have around 20 of them), so it's kinda like a faction. The only "normal" Companion I have with characterization/story relevance is Kai though.
Back in front of stone archway, I get annoyed at losing my post twice now and then say to Kai after she randomly takes 5,000 damage for reasons,
"So will you come with me to talk to Mikoto? I know that you two don't get along, but you should try to at least tolerate each others' existence. Plus, you'll help my case for trying to get his help."
Now that we're out of the more social based situation, I'll start putting her thoughts out of the labelnotes.
"Don't get along? What an understatement. Don't you remember? He tried to kill me! He hates me!"
"And that's an overstatement. I wasn't there, but from talking to both of you, I believe that he just wanted to scare you off. And by the sounds of it, he succeeded."
But... no! He wanted me dead! And it's not fair. You always let him off just because he's your favorite. He doesn't even do anything other than mope around and bully me.
"He's not my favorite. You know that I both can't and don't have a favorite. Except that Wilson is my favorite, duh. But he doesn't count. Besides, he's been through a lot. None of us have felt the kind of loss he has suffered. Twice. If nothing else, please try to get along with him just from respect. He is one of the strongest Companions after all.
... Sometimes, you sound so naive.
"Then you have that to thank."
... Okay, fine. I'll come along. But two things. First, I won't trust him. Second, please promise me you won't let him try anything.
"Of course. We'll leave if anything goes wrong."
I whirl around to face the unlit portal and go about activating it. Once I finish that, both me and Kai step through into my home base, the wild wacky magical land of the United States Yellowstone National Park Hey, using a labelnote for its original purpose! . Based on how the portals work, many of my Companions had been alerted to my arrival and were gathered around the exit portal. Slowly, I spoke to those who could understand it and thought to those who could understand that in order to make my way through. Behind me, I could feel that Kai was getting somewhat nervous. Eventually, we made our way over to where Mikoto was, as Kai had said earlier, moping.
He was in front of a little cave, grumpily preventing anyone from entering it. Everybody here had a section of land that was theirs, meaning that Yellowstone was almost like my little town. Well, a petting zoo town. Over the course of more than two years of playing DTG, I have only ever made 3 humanoid characters note . This includes entities, by the way. Maybe 4 depending on how you count it. So I have like... 20 non humanoid former entities. Mikoto was not one of the humanoids. He was like a silver colored panther, which biologically speaking, is an oxymoron because panthers are supposed to be black. Maybe it would be more accurate to describe him as a snow leopard, but without the spots. He was somewhat bigger and physically stronger than Kai, but that was comparing her best trait to his worst. I doubt he'll be seen much outside of now, so I'll cut the description there. Unlike Kai, he's not only capable of telepathy on his own, but is quite fluent at it. However, he doesn't technically need it to speak. Anyway, me and Kai walk up to talk to him, but he looks up from the metal chain he was twiddling and speaks first.
[[grey:"Hello Talist. You're back so soon. Do you know wh-"]]
On seeing Kai behind me, he narrows his eyes and gets more annoyed.
"Oh. It's you. ... What more do you want from me, traitor?
Making the accurate assumption that Mikoto was already reading her thoughts, Kai flared up. She hated and feared anyone reading her thoughts, but strangely she was less nervous when it was Mikoto rather than a stranger. She had nothing to hide from him because he already knew all of it and hated her for it.
"Hey! I'm... um... maybe I'm a traitor, but I'm a traitor for your cause!"
"Calm down. We certainly don't need an argument this soon."
"He starte-"
"Not worth it, Kai. Not worth it."
Slowly, Kai backs off, both verbally and physically.
She's a liability. Don't you remember how she fought against us?
"That was years ago. Yes, I took her in controversially, but we can move on. Besides, this isn't about her. I'll just tell you straight up. Could I please have your... I'm not even sure what you call it... that locket you have?"
Mikoto looked down to where he had a small locket made of greenish metal tied around his front leg. Light constantly ebbed and flowed on the surface, seeming to pulsate like a heartbeat. For me, applied phlebotinum is the entire dimension of the Emerald Dream. It's passively constructed from and molded by the dreams of most living creatures. Because of the diverse dreams, it has aspects of many different kinds of powers for those who are attuned to them. That's where (some of) Kai's powers come from currently. However, this item would improve her power.
"The metronome? Why would you want it? Nobody here can really us... oh... ... Hrmph."
He glares over at Kai.
"It's for her, isn't it?"
"Well, yes. Kai has a name, by the way. We're fighting the Godmodder back on the front. And you said it yourself, nobody here can use it very effectively. Granted, out of everyone here, you can use its rhythm and agility the best, but that's not much. Kai is better suited for it, so I'd appreciate it."
Mikoto looks unimpressed.
"... Well, fine. How about this: if you give me the metronome, I'll take Kai away back to the battlefield. Over there, she won't be able to annoy you with her existence."
... ... Whatever, fine. Take it. It hasn't done me any good.
Mikoto slides the locket off his leg and aggressively sends it skidding across the ground past me and towards Kai.
"Well, thank you. I don't know when I'll be back, but I probably will. Let's go, Kai."
I kneel down, scoop up the locket, and motion for Kai to follow me. I tied the locket around Kai's leg, seeming to cause a wave of power flow through her. Enchanted by this new opportunity, she popped open the locket and spent the rest of the day staring into it. Inside, it looked like there should be a mirror, but instead, there was a gem like transparent crystal, letting Kai see through it. She loved staring into her new pocket mirror, ignoring her slight reflection, and seeing the green tinted grass past it.
After a while, thanks to the power of undefined time flow, I get Shadow's message. Bolded so that Sacred can tell where this is.
"Huh? How is this working through dimensions? Probably by plot convenience. But what do you mean by the burning- I'll not waste time."
Shadow can probably overhear me call over to get Kai's attention. An arbitrary amount of time later, me and Kai are back in the Emerald Dream flying towards the point I had marked down for the battlefield. Kai spent the last flight in silence, but this one in excitement. Down in the hold, she was bouncing from wall to floor, practicing her new abilities. I could frequently hear her "voice" humming and howling throughout the ship.
DEACTIVATE LONG PARAGRAPHS OF EXPOSITION WITH OCCASIONAL ALLUSIONS TO BACKSTORY NOBODY KNOWS/CARES ABOUT!
Action: I reappear at (AKA: Move to) the Northeast Position.
Then I look at Tabbune.
"Really? Only 50,000 HP? Kai can two shot you in that case."
Speaking of her, The Grace Wolf follows me there. I've used my 100 post charge to upgrade her. (So please remove the current version) So, I've balanced her new stats around being a 150 post entity. Being now the flat out strongest entity on the field (until Cynder arrives a few turns later, that is), The Grace Wolf heals the Kill Sat for 20,000 and 4,000 per turn for 3 turns. Ah... I can feel the arms race into absurdly powerful entities starting. That's not even her at very high power.
(Before this upgrade, Kai was kinda below average in terms of complexity compared to my other entities. I spent a long time on this, so now she's quite safely above average.)
I look around for Sacred, but due to being on opposite sides of the battlefield, see nothing.
Grace Wolf Stuff:
Tempo: 0
Beat: 2
Mood: Heroic
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b3bpoi012oyjo32/TXT.rtf?dl=0
Aw... the image didn't attach properly. I'll just link it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5v02dljb3ppmej8/Comp%201_00000.png?dl=0
Now... the uglier part. Replying...
The first thing that strikes me is that five turns is NOT enough to establish a sidequest, especially in the middle of a boss fight. Getting that running for the first time is kinda like rolling a D20 each turn and you get someone to care on a natural 20. Five turns is only enough when you already have a character people know and care about. I'm sure you had a lot planned, Sacred, but I thought that if I wanted to do anything with the burning robot, it would take my actions. But... we were kinda in the middle of a boss fight, sorry. (Oh, and I've gone on big rants like that before. It's usually a bad idea, but we all feel so justified when writing.) And I finished my upgrade around now, so I left on a big RP thing for it. I feel like Tabbune wanted to kill off entities, but couldn't target the Grace Wolf due to the risk of a riot. That, and she was hidden.
More specific replies...
@Tabbune: Be REALLY careful when killing off anything that people do RP with. You might think quitting whenever something dies is stupid, but I'd probably do it. If you killed off Kai for some reason and didn't let me "Mary Sue" my way out of it (Which is the reason for that last passive of hers), I'd be really angry, but I'd probably not quit. On the other hand, I swear, if you kill Cynder... Oh man... It might seem like she's kinda a throwaway character who doesn't do anything, but she has a lot behind and ahead of her, even if it's not in this game. I didn't make up everything in this and my last post about Companions, the Emerald Dream, Mikoto, and all that on the spot. It's been built up over months of DTG-ing. So please don't kill Cynder. I'd probably quit from that and do my best to ignore your decree. You can have her beaten senseless, I don't care about that. Just not death. So... yeah. Even when they don't seem very important, the character probably is.
@Sacred: Yeah. You are one of the most known players here. I don't think you read anything on the other DTG sessions, like the MC Forums or Terraria ones, but I had heard about you before starting Tv T 2. In fact, you were the only person I already knew about (well, not counting people like Piono and Fseftr who I knew from the MC Forums session). On one of the DTG discussion threads, we all take the lore of the game WAY too seriously and have big long arguments about it. What commonly comes up is that the two most powerful player characters in the franchise are Engie and your party (From an IC perspective of the OP scale magically lifting, that is. For all practical purposes, everyone is basically the same strength in game).
Ugh... that took WAY too long...
Edit - Do people really purposefully link to tropes in their posts? Seems like more trouble than it's worth. Although, it's probably much faster if you, unlike me, know what the tropes are called by exact name.
edited 12th Dec '15 4:18:56 PM by Talist
There's a Youtube Channel... I do some stuff with it...
...oh my god. I'm like a frickin' celebrity, and I didn't even know it until now. Uh, thanks for telling me...I really have no words to describe how I feel, other than...thank you, for the recognition. I dropped by TV Tropes because I thought I could find a good home for my OC's and ideas, and I guess DTG and the Arena filled that gap. I expected to fade into obscurity, not become famous. I mean, my Terlen flock was a flop. Thanks to everyone who said I was popular, and you're not bad, yourself. I really needed the boost to my self-esteem there. Nothing like finding out you're an RP MVP to get the blood flowing. I...would like some links, though...I've been googling dtg and my tag for a while now, and only figured out someone quoted my quip about someone nuking my house. Who did I say that to, again? Was that IC? I don't remember.
edited 12th Dec '15 8:44:24 PM by SacredSpirit123
Yeah, you're like one of the coolest people I know. You got mad R Ping skills. And to be honest, I'd never heard of you, so I was completely new to your content.
That guy
/null
Nothin' strokes the ego like someone you've never met before recognizing you. When I joined the Terraria Session, some people recognized me. (It also feels pretty great that I am mentioned in the Destroy the Godmodder page. Well, my character, Wilson is, I'm not directly.) If you want links to some of our other glorious DTG products, check out the official DTG wiki, found at http://s15.zetaboards.com/DTG_Forums/index/ . You can find a bunch of stuff there if you poke around. We have long essays of backstory, fan made animations, and even our own forum games on it. But if you want to see all the locations of DTG sessions, go to the location directory. It's listed under forum discussion.
47/50 Watergate Brand Beer (+1 by Trip, Ryujin) | 7/50 Mega Fatty
I do a "Suck it, Walpurgisnacht" shuffle. It feels good to do something important for once.
I then play tic tac toe with G Wing for the last bandages i have. Naturally, he wins.
I am now going to write a summary of my lore, i guess that's all i can do in terms of R Ping since the Haven storyline had to be sadly aborted.
There are two characters right now considered "canon". Me as a player of the DTG games, Kayne and the Elsen who is my PC for DTG 2, K4yne. K4yne's storyline starts with my short story DOCTOR which you can find on the wiki, though it is still a work in progress. He is the "puppet" to my "puppeteer", just as The Player is the puppeteer to The Batter's puppet in OFF.
Canonically after DOCTOR comes DTG 2, where K4yne starts to play Minecraft on the Godmodders server where he starts to reinvent himself as a mad scientist. Over the course of DTG 2 the Elsen changes from Pro-Godmodder to Neutral and becomes Anti-Godmodder at the end of the game where he is revealed to be like most other Elsen when he's taken to Haven by piono's characters. He opened a hospital and has not been doing anything except healing people since.
After DTG 2 the timeline of my lore starts to diverge into Salvation, where i start playing as a real BLU Medic instead of a Minecraft skin, but with more of myself thrown in. That's basically it. I don't know where i'll go from here, but anyone with an idea feel free to share. Expect it to get more complicated when i launch DTG: Dungeons! (Working Title) next year/this year/whenever.
(+1 to Trip, Ryujin and Sacred)
Let's throw him in the fire said Thomas and Alfred.
Can't find anything 'bout me, though...
That guy
The exact arguement I was referencing was found here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/off-topic/forum-games/436320-dtg2-the-discussion-thread-and-forge-database?page=491
Here's a rather long quote from Tazz, the GM of DTG 0. Things in [square brackets] are my words.
"To clarify, the power levels go something like this: The Black Monolith (Word of Twin says it's the only legitimately omnipotent thing in existence and could erase the Conflict and Narrative from existence if it would destroy reality in the process to do so...It's just ultra-passive, so thank goodness for that for once), the Conflict at full power, the Narrative [The Narrative and the Conflict are kinda like DTG's god and devil, respectively.], the current state of the Conflict, <MASSIVE GAP OF POWER INSERTED HERE>, Secret of the Void (CREATED the Void and thus most of the DTG world as we know it, and would have out-powered the Shadow if not for a pair of snakes), The Shadow/Red Dragon/The Few (all roughly equal in my mind: The Red Dragon didn't instantly obliterate the Universe for the same reason Engie couldn't do so at all, the lovely OP Scale...And he was empowering the Incarnate AT THE SAME TIME, and Engie couldn't even eat all of it, just part, and this is all after being freshly uncanned and consistently nerfed by Talist [lol, I did that by being a massive pain in the neck. So proud of myself.];), The Author, Project Binary full-power, The Employer/Full-power Binary Prime, the OP King, Binary Prime in his DTG 0 state, the OP King in his post-DTG 2 state, <Small gap of power>, Eternis, Full-power Engie/Psi (Bit shaky on this much, but Psi-Scratch DID kill Engie off along with everyone else...With the Disc and the Fez. I'm putting them as equal here just to show they're close enough), Omega-Plus Godmodders, Fast Eddy in TV Tropes, Notch in Minecraft/Unity (if fully united), the rest of the Godmodding ranks in the obvious order, Herobrine/Arch-Sues/First Guardians (between Alpha Plus and Alpha in terms of raw power-also I am referecing Terraria for the Arch-Sues and Mary Sues in general, but they're (ironically) an interesting concept for DTG given the setting and wouldn't inherently obliterate canon), non-Arch sues/Alpha-rank godmodders/Descendants [AKA: players] when fighting Omega-Plus Godmodders/Ancestors, Wilson [my character]/The UOSS/Any other given high-power high-relevance entity who wasn't already mentioned, and then most everything else. This doesn't include a few others that aren't explicitly characters (IE the First Block and the Disc of Mojang) or some characters during some situations (The Incarnate, Godmodder Soul, Red-Dragon Richard), and definiitely didn't add characters I couldn't get a bead on (The Oracle of the Void), but really this gives a sense of position for everything as far as I can tell, and I'm reasonably unbiased."
How many of those names do you recognize? Don't feel bad if you don't know any. I played through DTG 2 and I still don't know half of them. You're around the middle of the list, but that's really good considering everything around that level is supposed to be an "unbeatable"note god.
Here's another quote from Piono on the same page.
"But even below that[the absurd, bigger stick levels of power that the Conflict/Narrative are supposed to have], Engie and Unity are top-tier characters, and intended to remain that way. We’ve had way too much power scale inflation (probably mainly my fault, I will admit to that) already, we need to try and keep the power scale down to reasonable levels as much as is possible at this point."
Random thing: I made a mistake back there by saying that the UOSS fought the Vord. It didn't. I think that was actually the Preston Cole.
edited 13th Dec '15 10:31:50 AM by Talist
There's a Youtube Channel... I do some stuff with it...
/null
Ah, took me a while to see Unity there. Yeh, the Aspects are pretty tough, and Protoh's no pushover, either. I've actually written any combinations out of my canon, though. They can link abilities for combos, but they can't amalgamate any more. That got too weird for me. e_e That renders any multi-Aspect combo in DTG non-canonical, now. But, yeah, if they unite powers for a big attack, they have most of the power of their former self. The whole reason they're divided Gods now is because Unity shattered themself to create their world.
edited 13th Dec '15 10:41:12 AM by SacredSpirit123
go ahead kanye. keep the bandage. I really don't need it. What I really want to know is who this mysterious voice is. Who is he? what does he want?
???: I can hear you. And since you were so nice to distrust me after I SAV Ed (insert laughter here) your life, I might as well explain myself. I won't tell you my name for....personal reasons, but I will begin by stating that I'm not from this dimension.
um.....Okay.....we're all not from this dimension.
???: no. Not that kind of dimension. In this dimension, the timeline is that the godmodder is evil, he's trying to conquer the multiverse, and you have to stop him. In my timeline, it's a little different. The godmodder is...or, at least, WAS a benevolent force. In my world, you guys are the bad guys trying to conquer the multiverse
pshhh! me? a bad guy? i'm just too merciful and kind.
???: In my world, instead of selling your soul then beating down the devil to get it back because you realized it was wrong, you went to hell, KILLED the devil out of pure hatred, then became the sadistic overlord of hell in your world. Wanna bet on that statement? Oh, and did I mention that heaven and hell are swapped in my world?
n-never mind.
???: Anyway, everyone's goal in that world was to impose tv tropes on the world, so to point out every grace of everything and sin it. You guys did it once, and you're probably doing it in that world too. I should know.
wait....you have near godlike powers and you come from a world where we're the bad guys? are you the anti-godmodder? cause that makes complete sense. and it's also an incredibly predictable plot twist it's so predictablethere'snowaywecouldnotseeitcomingit'ssoobviousyou'rethegodmodderblablablablablablablablabla-
???: i'm not the godmodder.
SEE! I TOLD YOU! HE'S N- oh wait.
???: really i'm surprised y'all haven't figured it out yet. Y'all know me, but yet you kinda don't.
hmmmmm............anti-sp33d??
???: no.
well then i'm stumped. 'nother round o' tic tac toe? I promise i'll go easy on ya.
edited 13th Dec '15 12:34:14 PM by TheGWing
(Will be a bit late today, slightly sick, I need rest.)
Edit: (Yeah, no. I'm way too sick at the moment. Update moved to Friday.)
Re-edit: ![[down]](../../static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_down.png "[down]"){kind=icon}
(No. You get another update (and another turn) on Friday.)
edited 14th Dec '15 5:19:58 AM by Tabbune
so we get a free turn?
These are the voyages...
"I'm baaaaack!"
Wow, a lot happened in a week.
Um. Bookkeeping: +3 from Sandvich, +1 from Trip, Ryujin, Kayne (total 6)
- 1 to Sandvich, Trip, Ryujin.
I throw a biotic Shockwave at the Godmodder and rabbit off to face down Tabbune.
Point Singularity Projector: 187/200
Jetpack: 25/(X+5)
Be careful what you wish for, 'cause you might just get it all...
![[nja]](../../static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/user_ninja_2074.png "[nja]"){kind=small}
Anti Ninja
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Speed does nothing. What? I won't let my GM take a planet-sized amount of damage! (No guarantees on Fira being safe. I can't let an entity freecast just because an upgrade is planned.)
Musha also does nothing. That's a whole lot of nothing in a round.
Sacred activates the Burning Robot's Agony Emblem. The Party is afflicted with Burning Agony. 2 stages of damage per turn. Also, the entire Party dies when Sacred dies. Nah, don't worry, the Respawn Lounge is nice.
Trip moons the Godmodder for 1 damage! I don't even get how one moons something. Do you just throw the moon at someone?
GWing heals himself because he's the nearest target for his heal. HE, DID NOT turn into a Godmodder. This is something else. And you better prepare Megalovania for soon, you guys are gonna have a bad time.
Infinity helps the Party from the Burning Agony. 2 other players are needed.
(Sacred's action has been moved forward because that makes more sense.)
Talist moves Northeast to Tabbune. He tries to upgrade the Grace Wolf but something's not right. (Yeah, I don't understand what the upgrades are. Also, I'm notching the Grace Wolf to Vivace because lack of interaction. I always forget that part.) The Grace Wolf moves along and activates Bardic Tune: Heal to heal the Kill Sat for 7400 due to her high tempo.
(And replying in a new paragraph. Who ever said that the sidequest was going to be long? It's just a 1-2 turn dialog involving a small amount of players dousing the robot's flames and then getting extra dps and body for the fight. And this isn't new either, I did this kind of thing at the TF2 arc as well with the crashed UFO. (cont. below.)
The Burning Robot is "my" character. I killed it for the purpose of creating "tension" or "drama" to the plot. It served it's purpose. If you had plans with it, I'm sorry. I killed it too soon because everyone ignored it for 4.5 turns. If it's "your" character, feel free to Mary Sue your way out of death. An character's (specifically your entities's) HP bar is just a mechanical representation of how long it can do it's damage/healing/utility. I might use the term murderify when talking about it on the End of Turn or actions, but you can talk to me about it and I'll revise my wording.)
(Sacred: That quote was your quote a bit after (or probably near the end of) the Civil War arc. (Short note: My favorite arc of DtG:TVT))
Ripsaw throws a biotic Shockwave at the Godmodder. The Godmodder pops a Paladin Bubble and becomes immune to it.
(Wow, a whole lot of nullposts/OOCs)
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End of Turn:
The Party becomes Moderately Wounded because of the Burning Agony.
Tabbune unleashes a Lightning Bolt at his northeast, Wounding Trip and Ripsaw, and the hit spreads to Infinity, the Kill Sat, The Party, and Fox. Applying a wound stack to players and dealing 10000 damage to the Kill Sat.
Tabbune prepares a frost spell and faces to his south.
(I'm going to have Ned poop out Zombies on command (when Kayne commands the Doctor to do stuff.))
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Battlefield
House of Tech
Tabbune: 50000/50000. [PG]
-North to Tabb's position
Godmodder HP: 84/100 [G]
Ripsaw: Moderately Wounded [AG]
Trip: Moderately Wounded [AG]
-Northeast to Tabb's position
Infinity: Lightning Spear: Durability: 4/7. Mini-Hakkero: 2/5. Searcher Emblem 2/3. Metal Blade: 24/28. Moderately Wounded. [AG]
Kill Sat: 40900/90000. Bombardment: 2/10, Wave-Motion Cannon: 3/10. [AG]
Talist [AG]
Grace Wolf: 72 300/ 100 000. Vivace. (Talist) [AG]
-East to Tabb's position
Musha: Wounded. [AG]
-Southeast to Tabb's position
Sp33d: The Healer Emblem. [AG]
Fira: 19000/20000. (Sp33d) [AG]
-South to Tabb's position
GWing [AG]
Kayne: Walpurgisnacht Slayer Emblem. [AG]
-Southwest to Tabb's position
Dr. Ned: 71250/75000. (Kayne) [AG]
Earl [AG]
-West to Tabb's position
Hyena [AG]
Seraph: 3700/6000. (Hyena) [AG]
-Northwest to Tabb's position
Zoukugai/Fox [AG]
Sacred/The Party: The Scrap Searcher Emblem +3. Strength of Gods Emblem +1. Burning Agony (1/3 help). Mortally Wounded. [AG]
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edited 15th Dec '15 12:54:27 AM by Tabbune
Speed sees The Sacred Spirit burning themselves. No. No he is not happy about that. Fira sees Speed's face, sees the tells that he is pissed, a red tint to his sky blue eyes and a forced smile, to say "I'm OK! You don't need to worry about me!" When he's not, and you do.
Uh oh. He's not quite fit to fight Tabbune, he's fighting back both his inner rage about being blunt about not saving that burning robot, and the aftermath, and an inner demon that feeds from that feeling. Be careful, guys. Right now, he has a hair trigger for lashing out. Also, try not to kill Tabbune. I'm sure Sacred would try to get them to do a Heel-Face Turn, they used to fight for us.
Fira sighs. She really knows she should go with Speed to help him stay in control. The Superpowered Evil Side of Speed can break free from Speed's subconscious if someone doesn't help... But there are so many things needed to be taken care of right now she can't. She tells herself that Speed can hang on.
T-Thanks for giving them the warning Fira, I think I'll go revive Akanator for the greater good of the team. Are you able to tend to The Sacred Spirit, Fira? They aren't going to be able to go back to their body while it's on fire.
But before that, he reads the Server Announcer's report on Upcoming Events.
Damn it. So who are we fighting, Chara or Sans? Because either way, it'll end poorly.
Speed heads off to G Wing and Kayne, and notices Akantor's corpse next to them.
Well, isn't that mighty convenient.
Both of Speed hands vanish from sight, after Speed sheathes his sword and pulls his shield back into his gauntlet. His main hand is painful to look at due to the light, and his off hand is covered by darkness.
You may want to step back. This could get bright.
Speed has been feeling a Telepathic Communication Channel aside from the one he created on G Wing. He is listening in, but keeping quiet.
Fira hurries past the busy Speed to Earl and Dr. Ned, who is totally not Dr. Zed from Borderlands 1 main campaign wearing a fake moustache. She is too tired to go further.
Damn it Sacred, why is it that you are on the opposite side of the battlefield when I need to get to you? I hope that you are OK, because I'm coming to help.
Action Summary:
Speed is angry, and struggling to keep control of himself. Nothing really special here, just thought you ought to know.
Speed moves to South of Tabbune.
Speed is doing a quick resurrection on Akanator. Resurrected Extremely Low Health. Like, 1/whatever he had health. I'm trying to balance out what I have while I DON'T HAVE ANY CHARGES LEFT. Speed is out of action on the turn after Resurrection. Any moves involving Speed's Light or Dark powers are unusable for the next 3 after as well, those power supplies are tapped out.
Fira is worried for Sacred.
Fira moves to Southwest of Tabbune.
Special Attacks:
Resurrection:1/75
Gauss Rifle: 9/225
Wrath of the Elements: (+2 total from Talist and Infinity.) 27/1500
- 1 to Talist, Infinity and G Wing.
edited 15th Dec '15 1:03:20 PM by Sp33d0n
These are the voyages...
"Ow."
I fire up the jetpack and go hover over Tabbune (Weaponized Exhaust). I also pull my Bolt Pistol back out of Hammerspace and shoot him.
- 1 to Kayne, Sandvich, Ryujin
Point Singularity Projector: 189/200
Jetpack (Discharging): 20
Be careful what you wish for, 'cause you might just get it all...
...frack. I never swear, but you get the idea! I'm ticked off! I need a moment. A measly little plus two and another quote unquote 'achievement' badge just aren't enough to cut off an entire plotline, just because someone kills the area boss a little too early. I know GM'ing is stressful and all, but seriously! That robot had potential! Wasn't that robot a whole effing room away, anyway? I had a whole list of tactics ready! W?! T?! F?! I love to play the diplomat and gain new allies, and I just love how beautiful and fleshed out cutscenes can be! Little note from a moderately-skilled RP'er from the Arena: Merely saying an explosion looks spectacular doesn't make it true! You gotta flesh things out! That's it. I'm done. Sorry for the tirade, but I need some time to collect myself. For the time that I'm gone, I want Talist to hold my things, but, Talist, please don't use them. I want them if I come back. Feel free to upgrade them, though. I might, MIGHT come back when I've cooled off. Way to go, destroying my efforts. Way to go, other people, ignoring the obvious sidequest. I take characterization and the emotions and personalities of characters very seriously, like they were living people. Murderer. Sorry for the insults, and, I know it's impossible now that you probably hate me for insulting you, but I hope you may change your mind, or at least work on your future presentation of ideas. I know I'd hate myself If I ranted to myself like this. Sorry for possibly hurting your feelings, and farewell. Sacred out, possibly for a long time.
Oh, and to illustrate my point if you're not going to backtrack, assume the Sacred Spirit took the emblem, and incinerated themself in grief, and the other Aspects took them away from the world to heal. How's that for taking one for the team? There. Now I've removed the debuff on the Entities as a last gift before my self-imposed exile. You're welcome.
edited 11th Dec '15 3:00:19 PM by SacredSpirit123