After having killed the heartless that were attacking him, Stratos heard someone speak up within his group of five. The girl, Karina, who he had seen do nothing but be annoyed about just about everything so far. Despite this, Stratos wasn't about to let his own personal feelings get in the way of this mission, and thus he listened to what his comrade in arms had to say. He was then relieved that it was actually sound advice that she was giving. Granted, Stratos had somewhat planned on killing the small fry seeing as he didn't have the strength to bring down a bigger heartless, but hey it was the thought that counted. He gave a quick salute to the girl as he said, "roger that." He watched as she bull charged the soldier heartless, knocking them out completely and then basically all but tapping a single behemoth. It was what she said to do alright...he just wasn't expecting it to be that little of a poke. Ah well. He then realized that there was something interesting about her. Despite her frame, she seemed to have some sort of ridiculous amounts of strength behind all of her attacks...which could only mean she was lacking in just about every other area. Being someone who basically threw herself in the center of the heartless, not having any bulk would probably be a bit of detriment to her. Spinning around his keyblade, he began to ready up another spell. "Breeze that flows, become a wall to defend. AERO!" With that, he thrust the keyblade into the air and created a wind barrier around Karina to help her defend against the oncoming onslaught. However, the heartless did not want him to continue being a back row supporter, and instead, three armored knights immediately came at Stratos immediately after he casted the spell. The three the began a relentless barrage against him as they brought down their swords onto him. Stratos brought spellbinder up and took his guard stance in order to prevent any damage from coming through to him. This was bad. He thought of using Vorpal Blitz again to get out of this situation, however he felt as if he could not use it again. Wait a second, that was a command. And commands had cool downs. Man that really sucked. He started to think about what he could do in this situation, though the options were really limited. Attacking was out of the question. With barely any strength to speak of, even if could push them away with his guard, there was no way he could kill them fast enough. Even with Vorpal Blitz, that only killed one at a time, and with the rest around he would get attacked instantly. Couple that with the fact that he didn't have enough to speed to actually react in time to guard against their attacks if he did break guard. Then there was the skill Gilgamesh taught him, but that had far too much of a start up time to be used here. And if he tried to cast spells he would just slashed before he could even fire them off. It was then that Stratos remembered something he could totally do in this situation. With his heart starting to glow, and skipping all useless chants, he slammed his fist against it, causing both him and the three heartless surrounding him to be engulfed in a giant dome of solar flame. With the dome dissipating on him, he quickly pointed his keyblade at the behemoth saying, "blah blah blah. FIRE!" With that quickened spell chant, a shot of fire homed in on the behemoth, only for it to swerve away from the horn and making it do minimal damage. Ah well, there were still many fish to fry before the big guy went down. Ooc: EXP Writer: 642 Words, 30 EXP Total: 60 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 4/55 Soliders: 11/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 0/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 297/300
As the attack of the telescope had failed, Stratos realized that heartless were actually really powerful creatures. Well this was going to be one hell of a gauntlet. As Beuce gave out the positioning orders as to where everyone should defend, he simply saluted and said, "you got it boss." Running over to the east side, he noticed that he was the first one there. Well that was certainly unfortunate. While he could have waited for the rest of them to get over there, that would only allow the heartless more time to roam, and that would be extremely counter productive to their mission. So he drew his spellbinder keyblade and stared down the army. He had to think about how to deal with these heartless logically at the moment. Not having the strength to full frontal assault them, just charging in there was a tad out of the question. However casting spells would take too long and he couldn't keep them up forever. So probably a mix of both would work out then. Though he had to start things off by being economical with his MP. And the only spell he knew that could get him the most bang for his buck was- but that was way too close range to be effective. It was then that Stratos had the great idea. Looking over at the bookcases in the library, he quickly ran faster than his speed stat would allow him to go, and grabbed a stack of eight books off the shelf. Running back to the hall, books in tow, he quickly laid them out on a circle around him and then started his spell up. "Oh earthen forces, set those that would trample you ablaze. MINE SQUARE!" With that, he sent his keyblade into the air and the light form the spell flickered off of it. With it, the eight mines were created and each mine laid atop a single book. Spinning his keyblade around, Stratos had begun the onslaught against the heartless before him. Gripping the blade with both of his hands, he kept the point in the air until he finally decided to bring it down in a...golf swing formation. He started line driving the books directly at heartless. The books sailed through the air, landing on multiple different heartless. Stratos realized it was important to take out the smaller fries first, and so he aimed at the small armor headed mooks with claws. He had no idea that these heartless had names, but going by what the ducks had said, he was going to assume that of all the heartless around, this one was probably befitting of the name "Soldier." The mines then detonated as they came in contact with the soldiers. Two mines hitting each soldier, killing them instantly. He watched as the soldier heartless exploded into black smoke and had something fly out of them until it too eventually flickered into dark smoke and disappeared. What was weird was that it looked like some sort of giant, glowing heart. That seemed like quite the misnomer if these heartless actually had those in them. It was during this time of thought that another heartless had scampered its way over to him. Its legs seemed to end in a point, and it only had one arm. The other arm seemed to be a sword of some sort. The thing then jumped at Stratos, only for Stratos to quickly put his keyblade him and use the guard skill. Trying to kill this thing as fast as he could, Stratos then unleashed a flurry of strikes from his keyblade, killing the heartless. Wait, when did he learn this command? Being confused at his newly acquired Vorpal Blitz, Stratos readied himself for more fighting. Ooc: EXP Writer: 628 Words, 30 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 1/55 Soliders: 4/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 0/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50
Name: Lucia Eltheria Age: 17 Appearance: http://i.imgur.com/yCKO3F8.jpg Academy or SF: Academy Focus skill set: A mix of martial arts and handguns in order to be an effective assault force. Short Bio That Takes Forever to Write for Some Reason: For as long as she could remember, Lucia had a certain aspiration for becoming a member of the Special Forces. Seeing as them as the protectors of the prosperity of their nation, Lucia had quickly become infatuated with the idea of enrolling in the academy. To this end, despite her clumsy nature, she began her training before even enrolling and joined the academy at the earliest possible age. Being the cheery klutz at the school, Lucia preformed her absolute best these past two years, doing all she could to become the best darn member of the special forces that would ever exist.
Stratos listened to the explanation that was given about what happened. About what was going on. Apparently Rin, a name he vaguely remembered Merlin saying once, was Nequa all along. Well damn, Mizu got kidnapped by her sister. That's something weird to think about. However, the more pressing matter was the heartless that were encroaching upon them. Heartless that seemed extremely threatening, no less. Truth be told, Stratos had next to no experience with dealing with Heartless, just the weaker kinds that existed on his home world. These however, seemed leagues above those. He started shaking at the thought of taking them all on. He was weak. He was completely unskilled. He had no defining thing that could stop an entire horde of heartless. And what if there were more like Nequa? There was no way he could take anyone like that on. It seemed like this was going to be their final hour here, or at the very least his. Looking to the others who had entered the Library he- Stratos then slapped himself. This was absolutely no time to be freaking himself out. Because Stratos didn't have to take these guys on by himself. He didn't have to rely on his strength alone to take these heartless on, not while there were others who were willing to fight alongside him for a common goal. Walking over to the group, Stratos drew out his keyblade. The group seemed to be split into those who wanted to flee and those who wanted to fight. And so, Stratos began what he hoped would have some semblance of a motivational speech. "All you guys here what Seiza and Merlin had to say? The only way out is through one of Yen Sid's magic mirrors, and that's going to take some time to start up. So those that wanted to leave, tough luck. And those that wanted to fight, well here you go! However! All of you are keyblade wielders with the same goal in mind. None of us are a one man army, and instead we are each one man in an army. So don't try any sort of solo mission bullshit. Working together, we can hold off any number of these heartless. Whether it be for an hour, a day, even a week. We will be able to hold. And once that mirror is up, we will all escape through it safely. Together. No man left behind, no one dies! Because a strong person fights when they need to. A stronger person fights and returns home!" After that was done with, he turned to Beuce and asked, "so Mr. Mavis, I've seen what kind of tactics you've got against a single witch, but do you have some for an army?"
Ironically he's weak to the one attribute that Rainbow Dragon is
Seeing as Rainbow Dragon already has an evolution in Rainbow Neos...which somewhat looks like a combination of the two you gave me anyway...but yeah, if you'd think something is more suitable, then go ahead and find something.
Ever since coming to the Hall of Records, Stratos had kept one ear open to everything that had gone around him, while continually trying to just learn more from this hall. This was a place filled with books as far as the eye could see, so clearly there was probably more knowledge here than he could ever fathom. But hey, something in here had to be useful. After all, the others had already found out about the Elemental Guardians...whatever they were. He also listened to Seiza's whole schpeel about the Mark of Mastery, and how it was needed to find the Guardians. While he was certainly interested in the concept of it, he wasn't going to go participate in one anytime soon. If the last world was any sort of indication, Stratos was far outmatched by just about everyone. It wasn't just Nequa, who had managed to completely and effortlessly knock out the entire group out. It was his other group mates as well. Between Kel's massive strength, Beuce's superior power and tactical prowess, and Ananta just being overall stronger and being the one person to not be knocked out in the fight against Mim, Stratos couldn't help but feel that he wasn't entirely the most useful member of the group. With everyone being just better than him, Stratos felt as though he wasn't deserving of being labeled as "Master" quite yet. Nevertheless, he wouldn't just give up at that. Stratos had spent a good deal of time reading up on all sorts of things. One of which had to do with the ten stances of a keyblade wielder. While some of them did seem rather impractical to him, Stratos had made a good mental note to keep these in mind for a later date. Then there were the books on magic he had found. Through them he had learned all about the seven tiers of magic. There was the regular spell, than the -ra form of it and finally the -ga form of it. However, after -ga, existed a -za form, said to be twice as powerful as the -ra form. Then there were the three ultimate tiers. The first of which was -gora, which existed to diffuse or nullify an element, to which Stratos remembered Nequa having used Reflegora as an example of it. Then there was -golem, which he remembered both Mizu and Nequa using. Then finally there -gedden. A spell that just encased an entire area in that element. Reading through some examples, he noted that Nequa's mega flare was one such example of -gedden spell. After putting the books down, Stratos resolved that he may be able to become stronger if he were to learn more about these different spells, and just how to use them. Sure the man who practiced one kick ten thousand times was terrifying, but at least the man who knew ten thousand kicks was ready for any situation. After contemplating whether or not that sounded stupid, he heard Seiza and Merlin talking about some sort of book with its pages scattered across the worlds. He approached Seiza saying, "well, if you need someone to go to other worlds and collect magic pages from them, I'm sure the crew I came here with would be able to lend a helping hand in getting them. After all, helping people is ultimately our number one objective." After he had offered his help for the task, he heard the duck, (whose name he couldn't remember in the slightest,) call out from help from someone. As such he ran over to the creature as fast as possible (with his totally unaltered speed stat.) Drawing out his keyblade, in preparation for the worst, he quickly asked, "what's the problem?"
I'm sorry I couldn't get those wiki entries done fast enough. But seriously have fun at the resident camp thing...unless you hate it in which case hate it with passion. Now go my bostonian comrade, and I shall see you in times of future to come.
So, for when it comes to using RNG and coin flipping in RPs, I think I'll go through each example one at a time. For this example, if a group were to be split up by some sort of like, event then yes. That's totally fine. Like, say your on a boat and you get caught in a freak storm and then you wash ashore in different groups, then sure. That's totally fine and a reasonable way of doing it. (Obviously not referencing anything.) However, if it were to be some sort of like, crossroads thing where your group is consciously aware of the decision that they are splitting up and the players or characters themselves have preferences as to where they would like to go or whom they would like to go with, then no. It makes no sense. No. Absolutely not. It's a bullshit way to reach an outcome that doesn't consider anything about either of the characters strengths/weaknesses and is just overall brainless. Doesn't matter when the flip happens (before/during the fight,) it's still a totally unfair way to decide an outcome and will ultimately make one (or more) people feel like they were totally screwed over. I mean, I doubt anyone wants to lose a fight because whoops, guess you weren't lucky enough. Depends. In the situation where you're consciously aware that you're going to die by random chance when you join the RP, then maybe. But other than that, again, bullshit. It's very unfair to a player to just kill a character off with them being unable to do anything about it, without their consent, and your only reasoning is that you pulled their name out of a hat, or again, they just weren't lucky enough. I don't think random choice should be used to determine what kind of an outcome you get. That should come from how the player's approach the situation and interact with it. If your mission was to escape from a collapsing building and a coin flip determined whether you made it or not (especially before you do anything,) then that is completely unfair to the players. It even dissuades trying to do anything, because your success is determined not by what you do, by what kind of numerical you manage to get by luck. These two fall under the same category for me. I do like a more fixed system (in terms of a stat based RP,) or a more common sense one (like in any other form of combat in an rp.) However, I'm fine with random chance for all of these as long as there's a min/max to it. Like, for damage, you have minimum damage you can do and a maximum and the roll just helps you pick which one. Obviously the min and max would be determined by what action your player is doing, the setting, what your opponent does in response, and just common sense. So yeah, overall, I don't think luck is a good method to determine how something happens in an rp, because it is unfair to players and in your totally non-relatable leveling up your character situation, it makes it pointless to even do so when all that work means literally nothing at all.
Random.org told me to pick number 2
Vote goes to the bromance of people who can and will regularly go into jojo posing fests.
And so as the two keyblade wielders began to clash, their fight was to be so epic that the entire world broke upon the mere initiation of it.
Dumbo used Rapid Fire, to strike Ana into the mines.
Stratos went an casted mine square around Ana...and stuff. Ow.
Stratos summoned Dumbo and had it immediately attack using DARK MAGIC ATTACK- I mean, splash.
Stratos had been extremely quiet, to the point of not even existing, the entire time they were in this new found world. Why? For one thing there was a crapton of in fighting stemming from one particular member of their group. As he learned her name was Karina, there was something about her severe rage towards just about everything and constant yelling about how bad off she was that just annoyed him, and so he took to it to be as far away from her as possible. He had no idea what the girl was actually like, but her first impression was easily not a better one. Then there was another reason he was silent for most of the time. He was absolutely fascinated and confused by this world. He had no idea what any of these weird flashing lights were for. No idea what the pieces of glass that displayed things were. He knew, just about nothing about what any of the stuff in this world was. He continued to be in wonderment of all the things in this world until the entire crew was greeted by three white bird people. He wasn't aware that there so many animal people in all the worlds. When presented with the choice of where to go, Stratos knew just where he wanted to go. "To the Hall of Records we go."
Buying Vorpal Blitz and equipping them. And buying Ferris Gear (getting the dumbo summon) Current Loadout would be -Mine Square -Cure -Vorpal Blitz Current money is 965 (2865-1500-400) Also equipping a Potion, Ether, Hi Potion, and Hi Ether (got these all from beating up to Owl in 100 Acre Home Run Derby.)
I mean, if Pat and the snakes are anything to go by, it'll probably get me my own holiday.
After all the injuries that the both of them had been delivered had been taken care of, the group of four had ended up traveling from where they were to a totally different location. The distance was covered in a process that took no time, otherwise known as a time skip, and as such, the group had absolutely no time in between said time skip to actually ask where they were going. However, once they reached said destination, Emi was gracious enough to tell them just where they were. A mystic tunnel filled with mystical spirits and the like. Well that was certainly different than anything the young maiden of justice was expecting. As soon as the Spirita started interacting with them, Jedediah started to actually react to the fact that Emi could in fact be an angel. As he did, Charlotte sighed towards the man's firm belief that he was indeed the chosen one of God to defeat Mordecai and save all humans. Once he was finished, she looked at Emi and said, "though this was quite the shocking reveal Emi. Though I have to wonder, if an angel is on our side, wouldn't that mean a demon could be just what we're fighting against?" She was clearly referencing the big wig of all the Lustors, when suddenly a voice came into the tunnel that made Charlotte feel a very unpleasant feeling. Lilith. A girl who reeked of injustice so much so that there was a part of Charlotte who wanted to do nothing more than decapitate her in various ways. The only reason she hadn't was because of plot she was a friend of Jedediah, who (other than some other psychopath) had just as large a passion justice as her. So she couldn't be a complete embodiment of injustice, right? Regardless she still looked at the girl and said, "so, what sort of vileness brings you this way?"
And so today, I leave behind high school...and so of course my mother took like 30 thousand photos Spoiler: Outside my natural element
