[OOC] DBZ: The Sagas of The Z Warrior

[Eviledd1984]

Sorry guys I might have to drop out of this rp.

[CaptainSully]

@supertinyking I wouldn’t say big hero at all, just really want to visit King Kai and it’s better than getting bitch slapped

@Eviledd1984 Sorry to hear that. Quite like your character so be a shame to lose them.

[Weird Tales]

Sorry about the wait. I'll have my post out on Sunday

[Weird Tales]

i changed around the chronological order of your attacks for the purpose of making my post flow better.

[AtomicNut]

i changed around the chronological order of your attacks for the purpose of making my post flow better.

@Weird Tales

Uh, it was a pot, like the kitchen instrument, not a potted plant.

[Weird Tales]

<Snipped quote by Weird Tales>

Uh, it was a pot, like the kitchen instrument, not a potted plant.

@AtomicNut

Sorry. That's what came to my mind when I read that part

[Double]

*throws up hands*

Alright, I've tried making sense out of this absolute clusterfuck of a fight scene and I just can't do it. There's just too many people fighting over the spotlight and the longer this drags on the less fun it becomes to take part.

EDIT: And for all my efforts I destroy a scouter and get kicked into a building before Sully basically decided to steal the kill. Yippee! Anyone else having a good time? I'm having an absolute blast being Raditz's bitch and accomplishing nothing.

[CaptainSully]

My latest post is simply an attempt to get this mess done and dusted. I had no intention of killing Raditz when this started (made that clear many times) and to be honest, I wouldn’t have cared if Sam had died in vain with his plan. All I’ve wanted is to visit King Kai.

Simply the sooner this saga is done the better, that way we can move on and hopefully have the next one run better and without all the drama.

[King Cosmos]

@Double This seems more like an attempt to wrap up this fight as quickly as possible so we can move on and hopefully do things better next time. As for Sully stealing the kill, well, my only issue with that is that Sam's death seems forced; as in its really obvious the character is supposed to die and that was the only way to do it.

To answer your question... no, I'm not really having fun with this. The fact that every Raditz post involved him throwing one punch or kick and sending people flying is not great; there needs to be an allowance for us to take control of the NPC's during our posts so that every fight doesn't end up as 'attack villain, villain says ow, launches us away'. Add that to the list of ideas for making the next fight better.

So far I don't think we've had a single exchange of blows, just people trading big hits, mostly because that would require controlling another character or a collaboration post.

That said I'm willing to stick around and see what the next fight looks like, hopefully it'll address some of the issues we've been raising.

[Double]

My latest post is simply an attempt to get this mess done and dusted. I had no intention of killing Raditz when this started (made that clear many times) and to be honest, I wouldn’t have cared if Sam had died in vain with his plan. All I’ve wanted is to visit King Kai.

Simply the sooner this saga is done the better, that way we can move on and hopefully have the next one run better and without all the drama.

@CaptainSully

How does that not count as extreme meta-gaming? You're lucky I'm not running this show because I would punish that kind of shit by sending your ass straight to hell and denying you your precious King Kai training. Seriously, this supposed to be us telling a story, not some MMORPG where character builds decide everything!

[Reflection]

I'm sure we'll have time to create some own villains for our heroes, and slowly enter into dynamics that are more evolved than "Punch this guy because he's the designated villain of this arc."

[CaptainSully]

@Double so you’re saying this is about us telling a story yet you have a strop because I’ve wanted Sam to die, go for a trip down Snake Way and visit King Kai?

[Double]

@Double so you’re saying this is about us telling a story yet you have a strop because I’ve wanted Sam to die, go for a trip down Snake Way and visit King Kai?

@CaptainSully

Considering the insane boost you'll get from it? 10x gravity training, plus Kaiken and Genki Dama (Spirit Bomb) techniques. Everyone still on Earth... regular training (no increased gravity) and probably some made up techniques that aren't going to be nearly as heavy-hitting as Kaioken and Spirit Bomb.

The way this is currently structured, the first person to die is pretty much guaranteed to be the designated Goku who is always going to be leagues ahead and virtually impossible to catch up to.

[Reflection]

@CaptainSully To be honest, Sam is already the strongest character. Having him force a death so he can go train with even stronger folks, because he died in a noble battle against Raditz reeks of protagonist pushing. It was always going to come off that way to be honest. We had some of the other prominent higher level people quit or just vanish.

[CaptainSully]

@Double mate I have no interest in being Goku, the guys a prick. No interest in learning spirit bomb either. Don’t care about x10 gravity either, would happily have it count as standard Earth if it mellowed people out. Of course I want to learn Kaioken but if people are going to get upset about it then I won’t. King Kai is just good comic relief and something I want to explore. The rest of the shit from his planet are extra and stuff I’m willing to forgo if having it upsets people.

[Double]

@CaptainSully Oh by all means, acquire all of that stuff. I've said from day 1 that power levels don't mean a damn thing to me, and that still holds true. Hell, I have every intention of basically never using the Super Saiyan transformation at all, except for maybe one instance and even that isn't guaranteed. I have other things in mind and none of this is going to change that.

If I have any real gripe with anything right now it's the fact that Raditz is probably gonna be dead before my character can question him. And I've long since assumed that geminironin (Daiko) is gone and not coming back, so that means I need to find another avenue for Yang's personal quest. Actually, destroying that Scouter may have screwed things up for us because now Vegeta and Nappa don't have any way to hear about the Dragon Balls and thus have no reason to show up one year later. Oh yeah... that also means that Kami has no reason to vouch for Sam to visit King Kai.... whoops.

[Reflection]

See, this is the problem with following a pre-established story with different characters. we just end up screwing it up in different spectacular fashions.

[CaptainSully]

@Reflection I think the best bet is get Raditz out of the way and from there scrap the idea of following the standard sagas. Change the stories or create brand new ones to accommodate everyone.

[Double]

@Reflection It might not be hard to fix. I see too options for that. One is that Raditz's pod has some kind of connection to the Scouter, and when the Scouter breaks the pod automatically sends out a long-range distress signal that Vegeta and Nappa can detect. They may not care about saving Raditz of course, but they might be prideful enough to go in and finish what he started. The other solution is that Raditz simply has a spare Scouter. *shrug*

[Reflection]

To be honest, we can probably use this as a chance to have them develop their own ways, and stumble into the stuff from the original series in different ways.