Muramasa - the black blade war OOC

[Animal]

Sent a couple of invites. Hopefully they will accept.

[Buio DiAngelo]

i''m terribly sorry to hear that Syl, my condolences

[Buio DiAngelo]

kestrel. i'm a fan of her second ability, but sadly not teh first one that it's based off on. Firstly, itallows her to be way too strong since she could take a massive amount of damage and still walk around like nothing was the matter, and that whole 'turn her bones into an exoskeleton' thing makes no sense, creatures with chitin (exoskeletons) move primarily through hydrolics, it would be impossible for her to move if she made those insect cover her like a carapace, plus, muscles are kind of attacked to bones, if the bone-bugs are moving around in her body, that means they have to ripe themselves off her tendons, and good luck attaching those back on. if you want to give her internal bugs that live in her body all shino-style from naruto and that she uses in her fighting through manipulation with her weapon, that's fine, but teh bone-bug concept can;t work.

oh, also, make it so that people with disciple blood in them are immune to the parasite egg ability.

[Kestrel]

The bugs would function like a skeleton, see, so it's not like she'll fall apart unless she does something completely idiotic. Obviously she wouldn't be able to move with an exoskeleton, but also take note that she would still be susceptible to sufficient bludgeoning force. Well that and rendering that part of your body immobile for the duration... It's a trade-off.

Moreso because she only has a limited amount of these bugs and to make that exoskeleton she would need to 'hollow' that actual skeleton, which would make her even weaker to strong impacts exactly because of those muscles attached (and obviously disallow her to exert strength because her bones wouldn't be able to take it.) The weakness to strong impacts might not be much of a weakness against characters such as yours, because katanas are meant to cut, but say Isa would be fighting this woman for some reason, she would be mad to use that ability. Alternatively your character could get around it by picking up a brick.

Also skin will still be cut and therefore veins are still exposed to cutting attacks. Sure, it saves your muscles and vital organs, but blood-loss, although to lesser extents than normal, is still going to be an issue unless it's bandaged... Which isn't too easy in a combat situation :P So if you cut her in enough places, you're going to gradually weaken her. Isa is tough, sure, but she's not the next juggernaut :P

And no descendants affected by parasites? Can you tell me why? Infection is harder to pull off than landing a fatal blow with a sword, the hivemind will unlikely save her in a combat situation because of the time it takes to take effect and I'm pretty sure you mentioned characters were going to die during the course of the RP anyway.

Also dude, Naruto? What the fuck :P

[Blandman]

You should all totally check out this thread: http://roleplayerguild.com/showthrea...77#post7474177

[Buio DiAngelo]

what do you have against me using naruto as an example? it's a popular and well-known anime, with well-known characters, even amongst people who don't like the series, thus it made the point i was trying to get across clear didn't it? should i instead rack my brain or scourge the internet trying to find some other bug-using fighter that you may not even know about?

anyways, the part about her being nigh-invulnerable to damage has nothing to do with the exoskeleton bit, it;s the fact that she can turn her bones into those insects to begin with. try hitting a piece of meat dangling in the air with a hammer, doesn't do much does it? now try hammering it while it's flattened on the table. it can only absorb so much kinetic force till it meets resistance against the table. eventually after hitting it repeatedly, the meat starts to tenderize from the damage.

well if say someone pick up a sledge hammer and swings it at her, she can nearly negate the damage done to her by the blunt force trauma by turning her bones into those insects, that way her body will stop offering any form of resistance against the blow and absorb the shock as if it was rubber. Yes she'll still take some minimal damage, most likely suffer some bruising, and a well placed shot might rupture an internal organ, but over-all the malleability that melting and reforming her bones at will would give her makes her too strong defensively.

secondly, as for the exoskeleton thing first of all, an exoskeleton has to be outside of the body, you know, 'exo', outside, like a carapace, and you said that the bugs would die in moments if they were outside her body, so what you're proposing isn't even an exoskeleton, more like just having the bones rest underneath the skin and on top of the muscle, which honestly would serve basically no purpose, since the mass-conversion would make the hollowed out bones as brittle as a bird's absolutely useless for defense, and again would leave you immobile. even if you COULD use it for defense, muscles don't work like that, to have the 'bugs' move all around her body, they would need to detach themselves from her muscle tissue. the stuff that keeps our bones in place, and moves them around so we can move our bodies? even if you re-formed the bugs into her bones afterwards, she would need absolutely inhuman healing capabilities for all the tendons to re-attach immediately so that she could move normally again (and that's not even mentioning how insanely painful severing all the tendon connecting your muscles to your bone structure would BE). her ability is just simply physically impossible and even if it was, the benefits you think you would get from it are actually nearly non-existent since the exoskeleton ability is also physically impossible.

the only benefits that parasite bones would give her is the aforementioned incredible resistance to blunt-force damage and also the ability to still fight past her body's limits by essentially puppeteering herself through control of the internal 'bugs' (which if is honestly what you'll be using the skill for, just make her capable of manipulating bones and leave out the whole bug-shifting aspect entirely)

as for the no infecting the other heads. it's the same reason why i limited animal's character to only copying 4 abilities at a time. I'm not gonna let someone have a character who could potentially use all the abilities of everyone else in the rp by the end of it, especially not a character who, unlike animal's, already has abilities of their own. Plus you made it quite clear that she already has a bunch of zombies at her command already, that's how she got to her current position of power, the fact that I'm allowing you to keep a potential army of mindless servants who will follow your character's every order is already enough of a grace from my end that i don't feel the need to allow you to potentially add other player characters to that army.

[Bad Wolf]

Name: Francis Williams

Nickname: Feather (not by his choosing)

[/b]Age:[/b] 23

Gender: Male

Nationality: American

Appearance: Francis is 5'11" in height and is built a bit like a stick. He's always been underweight and slender in build. It has done nothing for his ego, but it has its advantages. He's very flexible and graceful, which has helped him in more ways than he'd care to admit.

Francis has chin-length blonde hair which usually looks closer to brown unless he's just washed it. His eyes are green, and he has slightly tanned skin from much time being spent outside. In the way of clothes, he prefers loose-fitting attire. Makes it harder for people to judge his exact figure. His clothes may be loose, but they have some fancy touches to them like embroidery or some manner of accessory.

His nickname comes from the osprey feather he keeps tucked behind his left ear. No particular reason for having it there. Just a bit of flair to distinguish himself from his colleagues. If you can call them that...

Weapon: Ibuki no Kami (Breath of God)



Power:

- Kaze - By waving the fan around in particular patterns, Francis can manipulate objects through what can be referred to as gusts of wind, but the "wind" can pass through objects. Francis tends to use this ability to subtly lift wallets out of other people's pockets. He's never used it for defensive or offensive purposes, but he could probably whip up enough "wind" to blow someone back if necessary. This ability only works when the fan is open.

- Kaiteki - When the fan is closed, waving it around produces a sort of incense that makes others more inclined to like Francis. It is a subtle ability, but it has helped Francis worm his way out of several awkward situations.

Faction: Loyalist

Personality: Francis is someone who loves to have a good time. He doesn't like being told what to do, preferring to be independent and carefree. When he feels that a cause is worth fighting for, though, he is loyal to a fault. But it does take some convincing to make him do anything for the good of anyone else. He is very selfish, and few would consider him a good person. At least, not going by what's on the surface.

One thing that he hates above all else is quips about how unmanly his weapon is. It's something that has bothered him all his life, and he has not yet accepted that even though it's a fan, it's still a perfectly legitimate weapon. Of course, he does himself no favors with the whole feather thing. That's not exactly a masculine look, either.

History: Francis's ancestor was an honorable, respectful, and creative disciple. The Kuranai clan had a large number of artists within its ranks. Dancers, painters, poets... The clan did a fair amount of traveling, spreading around their artwork and their talents. Their travels took them outside of Japan inevitably, and their current location is in America.

Francis was born into the main branch of the clan, where the fan known as Ibuki no Kami was passed down to the eldest child. The clan seemed to have a greater proportion of female children than males, so the clan's surname changed often over time. That was for the best, in many cases, since women would usually end up with Ibuki no Kami. Nothing wrong with that in the least. But along came Francis, and he was less-than-pleased with the idea of inheriting a bloody fan.

His reaction when he heard about his inheritance was as follows: "Should I hand in my man card now, or is there a more official place for me to deposit it? A slit in a door, perhaps?"

He hated the idea of owning that fan, and he also hated his family for making it sound like it was some kind of huge honor. Sure he'd heard the story of the weapon's creation and all that, but that made no difference to him. It was still a fan, and he felt gipped. Other clan heads could have a badass katana or something else that was awesome. Not him. He got a fan. Whoop-dee-freakin'-doo.

There were many factors which led to Francis running away from his home, but that was a big part of it. And just to spite his family, he went ahead and took the fan with him. He had a little brother who he already suspected was batting for the wrong team, so to speak, and he certainly didn't want that little brother to have a nice pretty fan to play with on top of the dolls. Apparently his brother had already found a nice flair for fashion design. He certainly belonged in this clan. Francis, on the other hand, had found his own kind of artwork to excel in... Theft.

Francis has been living on his own for the past five years or so, stealing what he could in order to survive. It was an odd quirk of fate that found him using the fan more and more often in his exploits, seeing that having the thing wasn't so bad after all. His family had managed to contact him a few weeks ago, and they told him that he was required to go to Japan to meet with the other clan heads. Though it was not high on his list of priorities to do anything relating to his clan, something inside told him that he really did have to go. There was something big going on, and he would be making a huge mistake if he stayed in America.




Figured I'd go ahead and post this now. The history probably needs to be tweaked a bit, but that's what I have so far. Call it a rough draft, unless it's actually acceptable as it is.

[Kestrel]

what do you have against me using naruto as an example? it's a popular and well-known anime, with well-known characters, even amongst people who don't like the series, thus it made the point i was trying to get across clear didn't it? should i instead rack my brain or scourge the internet trying to find some other bug-using fighter that you may not even know about?

Saying my character's power is that bug dude's is like saying that rasengan is a kamehamea because they're both energy-based :P Well that and and admittedly I'm biased against Naruto. Basically because Naruto uses powers more as 'plot tools' than anything else.

Also blunt force without bones will make her insides one big mumbo-jumbo that's not exactly gonna work itself out without help, which would likely have to be of the magical sort :P Anyway, I can remove the 'exoskeleton.' The main purpose was mostly moving unpredictably, the whole exoskeleton thing was to work with the parasite-bug image. Although admittedly, I do like the bone-control ability you brought up and works with most of my ideas. I'll rewrite the skeleton ability.

As for the parasites; to be honest, I felt the reason you declined was because it would give me the ability to control other player characters :P Either how. Another head would be, at zombie-stage, be unable of rational speech and driving a car. So using their abilities, I take, would be out of the question. At zombie stage they would quickly degrade to pretty much nothing but leaping, biting and smashing. While they can still use their abilities, a reluctance to attack Isa would be most control she'd have. However this would take a few hours to take effect, so to use it while she could have dealt a killing or maiming blow would be a bad idea and put her at lots of risk.

Otherwise; would it be a possibility to make other heads resistant, rather than immune? ie; severely slowing down the process or the skill capping at the reluctance to attack Isa directly?

[Buio DiAngelo]

@badwolf, totally acceptable he's accepted

@ kestrel. I wasn't saying that your character's ability was the same as shino aburame's. I was saying that if you wanted to replace your current bug-bone ability which i did not accept with one more closely resembling the bug jutsus used by the aburame clan (for example, your weapon's ability could be controlling bugs in general, but your char's family might have special bugs they raised to have a symbiotic relationship with the members of their clan, living inside their bodies) that would be a fine alternative with me. Also, I'm going to contest that, in my opinion, while naruto has its definite faults, it's one of the shonen anime LEAST guilty of plot-tooling its powers since it gives them a specific structure and is based on a rule set, unlike say bleach where Tite essentially makes up new bankai and races as he goes along to fit the story, and non anime series like harry potter where they'll learn a magic spell that will come in handy for exactly teh situations they need to deal with in the book, hen hardly ever see that magic used again since it has nearly no other practical uses than that plot point it was specifically designed to resolve. If you want to continue the debate, i wholly invite you too (assuming you can keep it civil of course) but please move it to a PM addressed to me since it really has nothing to do with this rp anymore lol.

I'll agree for resistant rather than immune, she won't be able to control them, but subconsciously they will see her as a controlling figure, so attacking her directly would take great force of will, (so pretty much the only people who could manage to ignore it completely off the top of my head would probably be Evan, who could copy her ability and thus cancel it, or ana who has essentially the memories of hundreds of people inside her, giving her far greater strength of will). one question though, if you're re-writing her skeleton ability as just being able to control her bones, how are you gonna keep the mind-control ability? if you need help with that i would be happy to help with that if you need it.

[Kestrel]

I'd rather figure something out myself, to be honest. Her entire skeleton being one big parasite for example, would work and the infection would literally be laying eggs.