Some people might have a few issues with certain rules (myself included) but we can work them out. In the meantime, however, I will be inactive for a while.

Well if we're going to collaborate anyway there's no point continuing with the "I post then you post" system. It would make way more sense to just openly discuss how the battle will play out, weighing factors together, and then typing a single coherent post together.

Yes of course I understand its difficult to organize it with everyone having their own unique styles of posting and how they like to do it. But in the end its really up to the 2 sparing partners.

I don't really mind whether its simultaneous post by post, which is what I have experience with, or a collab between combatants. I think a unanimous decision to do one or the other has to occur though as post by post will take longer, probably, than a collab.

In terms of combat rules, I'm not so sure. In the past I've been very relaxed about it and no harm ever came of it. Plus, to every fight there are 6+ referees, shenanigans are going to get caught.

Things I've seen a bit of though are total posts/lines for a particular move determining its effectiveness between two equally matched opponents. Obviously, no forced hits, the opponent gets at least one post to write a rebuttal.

Right I don't know what happened to me really its the GM who gets to make the final call but the collab thing im still for.

It seems like most people are for the collab. But of course, I don't want to force people to do this, so perhaps, if anyone doesn't want to do the collab then they can do post by post if their other partner is okay with it (or if not I can use one of my characters). I'll say that specific rules are up to the two sparring, but it is established in the IC that this sparring is simply hand to hand combat and will not have their powers involved. It's meant to test their capability without their powers. Training won't be like this each time it happens (and even then we won't be focusing extensively on training), so sparring will only occur after all characters have gone through a good amount of progression.

And again I'm sorry that I can't be as active as I'd like to, but as I said I'm having some family issues. Thank you guys for being cool about that, and I think though it's a little hectic trying to figure things out for an RP this size, I think overall it's going pretty well, and you all are pretty awesome peeps.

Hand to hand. Gets burned by Scarifar's glove. That would be great XD

What about characters whose powers aren't under the best control?

Um... Keep an eye out for them and intervene if it gets too far? That's my suggestion.

I imagine he'll be made to remove his fancy robot gadgets.

I can't stop watching the "Go Bwah" video. I feel so bad but its so funny.

Gisk said
I imagine he'll be made to remove his fancy robot gadgets.

Yeah I already anticipated that that would happen. I mean, it does give him a bit of an unfair advantage.

athanshadow said
I can't stop watching the "Go Bwah" video. I feel so bad but its so funny.

I've never even heard of that and already I think it's funny.

If its any trouble, could Nathan be teamed up with someone who also has super strength? I know its a friendly brawl but shit happens.

Pathfinder said
If its any trouble, could Nathan be teamed up with someone who also has super strength? I know its a friendly brawl but shit happens.

Can't remember if anyone else does. After all, repeats were strongly discouraged. In the meantime, I will be playing TF2 to check out new updates, so don't expect me to respond to anything anytime soon.

We should aim not to use the characters powers, but I was planning on pairing the characters up based on strength and whatnot anyway because it makes sense in terms of the story, in case something does go wrong. I could create the pairings now if everyone is okay with it.

Yeah, I'm cool. Curious who you'll pair Blur with.

This is how I've configured it. Let me know what you all think!

Ming- Ming vs. Nathan (Vulcan)
Magara (Ponder) vs. Brookes (Cornelius)
Nikolai (Psybeam) vs. Bruce (Blur)
Eve (Stitches) vs. Press (Engineer)
Avis (Metzger) vs. Cora (Demon's Dog)
Leonard (Leech) vs. Kyle (Voltwave)
Feng (Overbite) vs. Linnette (Monsoon)

Man, Cora's fighting style will be hard to make up.
Especially since it doesn't exist.
She was always meant to be more of a stealthy character who destroys people from behind defensive lines and not really fight head on.

I see no problem.

Should we get on it, or should we wait in case someone does have an issue and we need to shuffle?