Royal Rumble! (Modern anime high-school super-powers? Oh my!)

[6slyboy6]

Oh my. I tried to damage control, but Burger opened up the wound. And everything said above is correct, but I felt like I'd be a douche to point it out again. RIP

[Bartimaeus]

Well.. turns out I am quite fond of his new form xDD
Anyone here have any balance issues with his new form? I feel like it over-all makes more sense to me.

Edit: if anyone does have a problem still, i can revert back to the old form and do balance tweaks

[KillamriX88]

When you say new form what are you referring to exactly? Because you didn't post anything new or edit anything... unless you're referring to what I just suggested...

Either I'm dumb or you need to be more specific XD

[Bartimaeus]

i mean i changed his abilities lol. on a previous page I believe @KillamriX88

[Bartimaeus]

Samoth Maskono

Name- Samoth Maskono
Age- 18
Grade- 3rd Year (Transfer) St. Laurels High School

Samoth

Biography- Samoth is a boy of 17, and stands above average in height at six feet. He has sun-tanned skin and a thin, yet muscular body. He has broad shoulders, which are clad in a long, black trench coat, which falls down to his mid-shins. He wears black straight Khakis, yet the pair still allows him to move fluently. He wears black gloves that mostly keep his arms from view. Under his coat is a black, Kevlar long-sleeve. He wears black formal shoes that allow him quick movement. Samoth has brown hair that shifts from light to dark,that(while it isn’t covered by his ACU cap) is placed in a side-parting, shaggy cut.
He was raised in a military family, on a paramilitary training base. His mother and father were surprisingly un-strict with him, despite him being their only child. They allowed him many freedoms the other children at the base did not have. Yet he chose not to exercise most of them. Instead choosing to spend his free time learning, reading, searching the web, and developing his mind. He strives to be the smartest person in the room. He made his parents proud.
He didn’t need his parents to be strict, he was strict for them. He developed a schedule for himself that he follows relentlessly, everyday: Eat, Hygiene, Mental Training, Physical Training, Eat, Hygiene/Rest, Technique Training, Eat, Hygiene, Sleep, Repeat. He followed this schedule for several years, without deviation. Until his parents requested that he go to St. Laurels High School. He has utmost respect for his parents’ authority, so he obliged. Samoth’s Mental Training involves interactive activities to strengthen the integrity of his mind, as well as the expanse of his knowledge. Specifically, he studies various Martial Arts, Weapon Arts, and what information he can find about powers over the web, and various books. He also studies military and Hand-to-Hand combat strategies, heavily believing in the maxim “Mind over matter”.
He sets his own goals, and now, at St. Laurels, he seeks to further his knowledge on Magical phenomenon, as well as further his experience in tournaments.
One would identify Samoth’s personality as stoic. He remains silent unless spoken to, for the most part. But he watches everything. He analyzes the behavior and personalities of anyone around him, and usually only speaks up when he has important input. And when he does speak up, people tend to listen. He seems to have a very stable temper, never losing his cool, or his calculating gaze.
He is not known to be too fond of humor, though with close friends(of which he has none, at the moment), he can crack a joke or two. But you should consider yourself extremely lucky if you find yourself catching a glimpse of anything remotely close to a smile. He isn’t looking to make friends, and can be blunt at times. But he is not by definition rude.
He is very focused on his studies, as well as any chances to gain combat experience.

Powers-
Core-
-Newton Control- Samoth strives to be the smartest person on campus. A strong mind is just as important as a strong body. Even more so, actually. Samoth’s core ability was discovered when he was very young, as when he would throw tantrums as a child, objects around him would float, and be thrown across the room. His core power has many applications. Samoth can create a field of gravity up to 25 square feet. Within this field, he can control how much gravity is exerted upon each object within it, he cannot however change the weight of living beings. He can however, control the general mass of gravity in the area(to clarify, for example; he can give the area 2 times as much gravity, but he can’t exclude himself from the affected creatures, but he will take less of an affect because he does train in an increased-gravity environment).
One of Samoth’s favorite uses is to make a tube of decreased gravity around his arm, allowing him to punch at a much higher speed, and at the last second, significantly increase the gravity to make his attack have a heavily increased amount of force behind it.
Another application of Newton Control is the ability to manipulate friction. By doing so he can set things ablaze by striking his finger across them, like a match. He can also warm things up with a simple touch. Maybe the most pressing application is that he can cause his strikes to emit bursts of flame by heavily increasing the amount of friction between himself and the target.
Secondary:
-Telepathy- Samoth has the ability to communicate with, and manipulate, the minds of those around him.
He is able to communicate with any creature he can see that is within 100 feet of him. Creatures he cannot see, he can detect their presence, if they have a mind or magical aura holding them to the plane.
He can focus his mind to stab at his opponent’s conscious with a psychic blade. If they have no protection against mind-controlling attacks, they will receive an intense pain in their head, blurring their vision.
If he places his hand on a creature he can assert a slight influence over their thoughts, if they are unaware of his actions.
-Telekinesis- Samoth has the ability to manipulate his environment with the sheer power of his mind. He can lift and throw non-living objects and entities with his mind. He can only lift things if he could normally lift half of their weight(Of course,this can be manipulated with his core ability).
He can use this power to slightly change the direction of magical and physical projectiles, or slow them down, if he is aware of their approach.
-Telekinetic Combat- Having the ability to sense minds and objects around him, Samoth’s spacial awareness and reaction times are greatly increased.
With Telekinetic Combat, he is able to briefly make simple objects of pure mind power. Such as a transparent wall, or an illusion of himself making an attack/running away.

“The mind is a powerful tool, and WILL have more influence over a fight than the body that it commands.”

Relationships-
-Alto Ganze: Samoth has respect for authority, where it is deserved. And Alto seems to deserve it. Being so young, yet so talented is something to be proud of. He gets along well with Alto, and seems to be quite protective of him, and respects his opinion, as well as most if not all of his decisions as Student Council President.
-Clara Deimos Erdrigan: Samoth actually likes this one. Her personality is similar to his, and she is very focused on whatever task is at hand. Even being from a different school, he has no rivalry with Clara.
-King: Samoth does not like King. Not one bit. He does recognize that King may yield some power in the arena, but he thinks the premise of King being from another planet or being an alien, is entirely silly and immature. He would be insulted if King were to insist upon him that he was an alien, and would take it as an insult to his intelligence.

[KillamriX88]

Unless I'm losing my f*cking mind I think that's the version of your character we've been talking about for the last like page and a half...

Am I wrong?

Guys?

[RoflsMazoy]

Hold on, I'm trawling through this all and I can track that for you

[RoflsMazoy]

It seems like it is, although it's not necessarily the worst thing. I'm still compiling my responses right now, so I'll have my judgements on it out in a little bit

[Bartimaeus]

I was asking if anyone had any problems with it besides you know...the anime physics part..
You asked what new form, and I didn't really know how else to respond besides showing it to you again lmao

[Taytay]

Still open?

[RoflsMazoy]

Aye, we are! The OOC thread will probably appear some time today, but I've got a bunch of responses I need to write down right now still.

[RoflsMazoy]

Roight so, responses beginning, gonna have to go chronological order because there's so much XD. Seriously, you guys doubled the amount of pages in here overnight.

@KillamriX88 Ultimately I don't think that kind of relationship will fit, not because of Clara but because of how the Student Committee works as a whole. Ultimately I want pretty much every player in Mephisto's to be part of the Committee except for anyone in the Vigilantes. As a committee, the power to decide on any decision rests equally on the shoulders of all members involved. Being leader of the committee doesn't make Clara a supreme leader or lord, she poses ideas to the committee and echoes their judgements.

Clara can't be mad at being defied because it's not as if she can pretend her word is law. I would say their relationship would be one of mild to severe annoyance because Rurik has such a useful specialist power but he's unlikely to use it when she wants him to. However, in that respect you could say he'd be one of the only people who can consistently make her grind her teeth.

@6slyboy6 Katherine can melt steel beams!

@Bartimaeus I really liked the previous iteration of Samoth, he seemd like a tanky control character which is a concept I love. I will say though, Newton Control just didn't fit thematically, but now that it's your core concept and the rest of his powers were tweaked, things are bit different.

I'll say first, the concept of Newton Control backed up by psychic powers I don't have much of a problem with. It may not follow logically, but it's cohesive in a way. Him being strong should probably be one of my worries, but it won't make story mode easier, and his weakness is just that he's not omnipotent. Maybe one on one he would dominate, but no matter how learned you are, the human mind has a limit. You can't focus on two things at once that easily, for example, and in a team fight it'd be rather easy to distract him with the amount of thought he needs to put in to use his power and get someone to brain him from behind, even with his increased awareness you can still use a distraction in a distraction and brain him from the front. It'd be a bit annoying, but possible.

The biggest thing for me is that there's just too many abilities crammed within his abilities, but there don't need to be drastic changes. His second core component is honestly just too much.

The extra abilities on Telepathy just, probably shouldn't be tacked onto Telepathy either. Just detecting things isn't something telepathy by definition should be able to do, but if you made some kind of case for probing for minds or something along those lines it'd work.

I think the only problem with the psychic blade is making it a special kind of attack. Telepathy, again by definition as a psychic transmission of thoughts and ideas, wouldn't give you the ability to launch a psychic attack that you'd specifically need psychic shielding or training for. It just isn't Telepathy's definition.

I'll say you should make it separate ability because it doesn't make much sense otherwise, something like 'Psychic Assault' or something along those lines. Now that I think about it, his telepathy before made a bit more sense I suppose.

The two parts of telekinetic combat being together doesn't make all that much sense either, awareness isn't telekinetic and the psychic projection following the awareness doesn't logically follow. I'd say have one or the other, for simplicity's sake more than anything else.

The rest of the sheet seems alright to me, he's a little overpowered and he'd still be like that with all the changes I suggested, but you should probably remember you're going to spend most of your time not using those powers in a very interesting way. Take it how you will, using cool concepts is great and all but don't get too attached to them.

So I'm gonna cut off this post because it's getting a bit long. The rest of the responses are coming in a little bit.

EDIT: Oh wait, not quite chronological but oh well

[6slyboy6]

@RoflsMazoy Yeah baby! Melting steel beams like they're ice cream in summer.

[RoflsMazoy]

Huh wait, turns out there was only you left @Gentlemanvaultboy. That sounds like a pretty good fit, although I did want her in the Vigilantes but it's up to you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I wanted them to be neutral but they're leaning towards good a little too much. It'd be nice to have someone chaotic in there.

Hmmm, I think that's all? I'll start working on the OOC thread now. It should be up in a little bit. After that I think you can all put your character sheets in the character tab, they all seem fine if I remember correctly.

[6slyboy6]

@RoflsMazoy Room to grow maybe? I can boost her to like 2000 degrees

[Bartimaeus]

@RoflsMazoy would you suggest converting him back to how he was, or tweaking his current version? ill let you decide that

[RoflsMazoy]

It just depends on what you'd want to keep most, I suppose. His previous iteration was a bit healthier, and if you took one of his psychic abilities from the current iteration instead of Newton Control we'd be golden. Newton Control is a cool concept but I'd still lean more towards his previous iteration just because I like it a bit more.

[Bartimaeus]

alrighty. ill see what I can do to get that back into play, balancing permitted of course

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

Huh wait, turns out there was only you left @Gentlemanvaultboy. That sounds like a pretty good fit, although I did want her in the Vigilantes but it's up to you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I wanted them to be neutral but they're leaning towards good a little too much. It'd be nice to have someone chaotic in there.

@RoflsMazoy

Depending on how things play out she might end up swinging that way eventually. She's not a bad girl at heart, really. It's just that she thinks being blown up and pulling dirty tricks is all in good fun.

[rawkhawk64]

Okay, I've put in Brutus' relationships with the three leaders. On his end, there's respect for King and his goal, but some skepticism of his origin. Other than that, if anyone in St. Laurel's (older students from before he left) or the Viglantes that wanna figure out any relationships, just let me know.