Right, I got my post up. I hope I didn't miss too much in my absence.

@Lazo @GreenGoat @Banana @ScreenAcne @RoughDragon1 @Hostile @Kapuchu @Sentel @BCTheEntity @DracoLunaris @Propro @The Wild West @FloodTalon @obliviousRoadie @Deadnaut



I'm wanting my next post, which will come in a little less than a week, to be the one that transitions over through the night to the next day, and starts off the second round of fights, where PVP will commence. Thanks to the precursor PVP between Cyan and oblivious, I'm sure most of you have at least a basic grasp of how it will work.

One other major factor is that I'm going to be traveling for a whopping six weeks starting just after my next post. I will have wifi, but I can't predict when, so I won't be able to consistently manage everyone. Because of that, there will be greater player freedom to navigate through the City of Echoes, with the ability to create the world around you to an extent as you head towards your individual fights. I'm definitely looking forward to it.

One stipulation of this greater character freedom is, however, that you can't introduce new factions, echoes, or big things like that on the fly. There is a replacement, though, and one already somewhat in use: guest characters. Astute observers might notice that the character of Souta, encountered by BCTheEntity's Motley Crue, belongs to another RP I'm in as well. During the next week, I'm allowing everyone to create and submit for approval a guest character (following the guidelines presented in the OP) who's arrived under mysterious and supernatural circumstances to the City of Echoes, and who can be interacted with as anyone pleases. This will, I hope, be an optional bonus to help spice up the experience while I'm less able to provide.

Additionally, due to me traveling, I am electing to choose a co-GM to monitor things and keep stuff running while I might be out of commission. I'm envisioning this as more of a substitute thing than a shared power thing, but it'll still be a position of responsibility and power. Specifically, I want someone who'll be available a lot of the time, who has some managerial experience, and who thoroughly grasps how the combat system works. If you'd like to nominate yourself or another person, feel free, and I'll pick from those nominated about the same time my transitive post comes out.

If you have any questions, fire away.

@Lugubrious
I have a question and a statement.

The question: Can I have Stride rezzed and use him as my guest character? He is involved with his universe's death, and I really like playing him.

The statement: I'd volunteer to be the substitute GM, but my past experiences with running setting have been not good.

Edit - Another question that's probably going to be ignored: Did I win with Bonesword?

@Lugubrious
I have a question and a statement.

The question: Can I have Stride rezzed and use him as my guest character? He is involved with his universe's death, and I really like playing him.

The statement: I'd volunteer to be the substitute GM, but my past experiences with running setting have been not good.

Edit - Another question that's probably going to be ignored: Did I win with Bonesword?

I don't know who Stride is. Any character of your devisement can be a guest character.

I'm not sure why you think I'd just ignore a question for no reason, though it is slightly confusing. If you mean did you win your first fight with Bonesword against Big Big, that's a yes. If you mean did you 'win' the encounter with the klowns, that wasn't something that could be won. Based on your character's actions, certain events I have in mind have been set in motion or altered, and new information has come to light.

@Lugubrious
I said it would probably be ignored because it was an edit, and if you saw the question before the edit you wouldn't have seen it. I was referring to the fact that the Klowns just ran. I"m gonna assume that Bonesword is not accredited with the win and just continue on my way to his next fight.

Also, Stride was the Crimson Cavalier, I refer to him by the last name. Sorry for the confusion.

Well, posted, and the theme of Teller having a different song for every situation continues!

I check up on this thread almost every day and could probably help out with the GMing if you're inclined to trust me with it. I have never managed an RP before though so if anyone more experienced volunteers they'd likely do a better job.

I've been writing straight on a big ass project since before my last post. Hence my absence. I didn't think it would be this intense but even Sentel told me I need a break and I've been writing like a whip dipped in ink.

I'm going to post tonight.

Posted!

I've asked two of my comrades to bug the shit out of me if I go a day without posting in this now. Because, in the midst of the moisture. I miss the mashup of makery that goes in here because my motherfucking. mind is a bit like search lights on a road. One track and full of blind spots.

Party time has arrived.

Aw man i was hoping to see a bit more out of smiley's encounter

Upon seeing the Historical District had been partially flooded, my initial thought was, "Oh cool, a borderline hopeless fight has given me a way to fight back! I can interrupt Crue's breathing with some good ol' fashion drowning to counter that nasty ripple!" Then I remembered I'm a devil fruit user, and water is not my friend. So... Yeah. One step forward, twelve steps back. The worst possible match-up against me has gotten twice as bad for the arena, hahaha.

I'll have an official matchups list available in short order. I toyed with the idea of putting it in my most recent post or waiting for a round of posting before doing so, but just putting it out in the OOC should be fine.

Aw man i was hoping to see a bit more out of smiley's encounter

Well, there wasn't much more to it than that, and I did say we were making hard progress in about a week about a week ago.

@Banana, I do not want to revive Stride for use as a guest character if I can help it. My preference would be to pull in someone else.

Out of the two people who nominated themselves as co-GMs, my choice is @Sentel.

@RoughDragon1, it's been almost a month since your hiatus began. You said that you'd finish your NPC battle, but that ended up not being the case. There's no better time to get back in the game, though, and I want to see you in action again.



@Lazo's Lade in White vs @Hostile's Gaben's Chosen in the Administrative Block

@GreenGoat's God Hand vs my Knight Sylvestre in the Residential District

@Banana's Fungal Knight vs @RoughDragon1's Blood Devil in the Port District

@ScreenAcne's Smiley vs @Deadnaut's Blackjack in the Commercial District

@Sentel's Sentinel vs @The Wild West's Tyrant in the Grassy Expanse

@Kapuchu's Inari vs @obliviousRoadie's Angry Dragon in the Industrial District

@Propro's Cereal Killer vs @BCTheEntity's Book Keeper in the Historical District

@DracoLunaris's Seraphim vs @FloodTalon's Sunspot in the Whispering Wood

@Lugubrious Damn, I apologize for my far-too-long hiatus. To be completely honest, I had lost interest in writing the fight for Rose Cythla, mainly because there were only so many attack patterns I could write without either getting confusing or just outright repetitive (Dodge tentacle, slice. Dodge beam, slice. Dodge limb, slice). Also, not having much at stake (an NPC battle) didn't help much as well. But yeah, since I will actually be writing against another person this time around, I am certain that I'll finish it this time. But when I do write a post, do you want me to include the Cythla fight as a flashback, then continue on with the current events?

@Banana, I do not want to revive Stride for use as a guest character if I can help it. My preference would be to pull in someone else.

That's fair. I'll figure out someone else I can bring into the game for socialization purposes.

@Lugubrious Damn, I apologize for my far-too-long hiatus. To be completely honest, I had lost interest in writing the fight for Rose Cythla, mainly because there were only so many attack patterns I could write without either getting confusing or just outright repetitive (Dodge tentacle, slice. Dodge beam, slice. Dodge limb, slice). Also, not having much at stake (an NPC battle) didn't help much as well. But yeah, since I will actually be writing against another person this time around, I am certain that I'll finish it this time. But when I do write a post, do you want me to include the Cythla fight as a flashback, then continue on with the current events?

Including the end of the fight would be best, but if you're utterly disinterested in it, moving on would be best.

@obliviousRoadie
You're going down! >:D

@Lugubrious Before I forget to ask, how big would you say that the Pot of Greed actually is? Is it scaled to the relative size of Tyrant or is it just some human sized pot making it pretty small in his eyes.

@Lugubrious Before I forget to ask, how big would you say that the Pot of Greed actually is? Is it scaled to the relative size of Tyrant or is it just some human sized pot making it pretty small in his eyes.

The Pot is about the size of a classic urn, two feet tall and about as thick I think, making it a touch large for a human but pretty small for Tyrant.

@obliviousRoadie
You're going down! >:D

That's the spirit!