Alright, time for another exciting of Aeonumbra's "Two Cents!"

[hider=Bright_Ops: Thule Alexander]

I like it for the most part , well, what I read just now. I'm not sure what has been changed but again, I like it. I'm just wondering, did the setting have anything to do with your decision on him becoming a nature survivalist, because that nice two sentence paragraph at the bottom of your bio certainly clears up the questions I had one that (sarcasm.) It more feels like you thought "oh, forest setting, better make him a trapper and hunter," but you gave very little reasoning or background as to why this happened. This is what we call Metagaming. Giving your character an advantage through things you know in the OOC. Do not simply do something 'because' , have a reason. 

The tracking is a reasonable skill, and perhaps hunting in wendigo form because it makes perfect since, being a wendigo and all. It's just lacking.. flesh. You gave us the bones, but it's the meat we care about. The Why, when, how. Because It certainly doesn't seem like he was going to be a nature survivalist living with his aunt. But you "had that covered" with a quick tidbit at the end saying something along the lines of "of course he would become this" when I certainly did not expect it. When I read it in the powers list I was really interested on how you were going to fit that in logically, given the setting of the roleplay. Now I just feel it's more of a cheat skill to give your character an advantage in the roleplay.

I would really like for you to explain this to me in a reasonable way.

Also, before you try to turn the tables on my own character. Understand that his entire story reflects why he can hunt and gather. It gets a little bland when everybody is suddenly a survivalist. I did have an advantage, I knew this roleplay was coming before it was posted, I was not however aware of the setting. Could I have edited it out? Yes. Did I? No. I figured since nobody else was taking that route, it would be interesting to play especially with the king of troubled character I had created. He is by no means a survivalist, he can hunt game, and gather some useful flora items. I just really don't feel your use of these skills (other than tracking) has been justified by your CS.[/hider]

[hider=EldritchOne]

First lets start on the "appearances". Before that, we have to understand what this roleplay is centered around. Mythological creatures. The Gorgon is by all rights a mythical creature. But this roleplay is about shifting, not appearances. The Statue-man is a cool idea I admit, but how does it fit into the scheme of things with being a gorgon? It's more along the lines of a elemental, with poison but we'll get to that later. So you go from this essential earthen elemental (like gregory mills) to a snake. This roleplay is about shifting, so those of us with multiple appearances base it on that. Kapu's character human > half-fox > full nine tailed spirit demon fox thing. My character, human > (half shift) elemental > "unlocked" (full power, full shift) elemental. You character is human > and/or statue - snake? It's unclear how the statue fits between the full shift and the human form, assuming that it is a half shift. But the correlation between them is unclear. Perhaps if he became like a snake-o-taur or something? Snake bottom, manly top, that would make a respectable half shift. It feels like he is both Atlas and Medusa. 

[b][u]"Physically he is much slower in this form than either of his other forms, but is capable of surprising speed in close combat and deadly agility"[/b][/u]

So is he slow, or is he speedy? I mean he already has immense strength in his gorgon form, surprising speed and deadly agility (regardless on how you phrase it) kind of puts him over the top. A 3 foot thick, 26 foot long (I did the meters math) snake that can surprise you with a burst of deadly agility and speed and then crush you to death, while giving you extremely lethal doses of injected poison (which nobody in their current magical state can cure at the moment based on your description) doesn't sound a little OP? I know you're trying to stick to lore here (Reminds me of the gorgon on Clash/Wrath of the Titans)

The statue form I'm not going to talk about because I feel it has no place among you're character, especially lore wise.

The poison. Good god it's like you took something from steve irwin's nightmares (R.I.P you beautiful man). So first he can breath it at you, which is supposed to cause some unknown form of immobilization (it was not stated clearly how they are immobilized) But then he can inject it, and if considering he doesn't crush your bones, the poison is going to kill you anyways. The only know cure is his blood, which considering the attributes given in his appearances (flaky stone man, or stone-esque super strong and agile snake) seems pretty unlikely. Or intensive regenerative / healing whatever. (which no character can do as of the moment) Even if someone could find the cure, it would still wrack their body randomly for days, which means should a main character receive it, gathering the speed of most advanced roleplays, they would have to play a poisoned character for a month or more? 

The Gaze. I actually have nothing to say about this, it fits, it makes sense. Coupled with the breath of death (poisonous cloud) it's very over powered. The world's hardest staring contest while you're soaking up crippling poison. Awesome. 

Flesh of stone. What? So is his statue form a shift or a power? Does this flesh of stone apply to all of his forms? (except the stone man, because he's already stone?) I'd like a little more specification on this power so I know exactly what it is I'm looking at. Also he doesn't feel pain, and he can regenerate, assuming you get past his deadly-poison snake head and teeth. 

Your power set is unbelievably ... powerful. I have no doubt Kapu will say something about it but I'm going to beat him to the punch.

There were two things I liked about it. The size, which wasn't even that big, 26 feet long, 3 feet thick. and the gaze, which makes sense and it was kept at a respectable power while the need to maintain eye contact.

Also, why is everybody suddenly a survivalist? Your bio gives no information on how his acquired these traits, other than he read some books. Again, like the gentleman above you, it feels as if this was just thrown in there because of the setting.[/hider]

Perhaps the setting should have been kept hidden Kapu, everybody wants to be a survivalist now.