[OOC] World of Light

[Potemking]

Laharl making people eat candy to the point of suffering is just absolutely some petty shit he'd do. I love it.

[Dark Cloud]

@Potemking He doesn't realize it's actually bad to eat, more like "MUHAHAHA I'll give them cavities! I'm so evil!"

[Potemking]

@Dark Cloud

Yeah lmao, it's just extremely in-character and I liked it

[Dark Cloud]

@Potemking Exactly and I think so too.

@Lugubrious Would it be more appropriate to discuss my level up power, via PM I mean as it won't clutter the OOC.

[Lugubrious]

@Lugubrious Would it be more appropriate to discuss my level up power, via PM I mean as it won't clutter the OOC.

@Dark Cloud

Yeah, that'd work!

[ModeGone]

I'm interested in joining but alas I am torn on whom to use. I did talk myself out of Xion (since I saw Master of Masters) and a White Mage though.
Here's the sheets as they stand. Suggestions on which to go with?

Jevil crashes a clowncar into the ring

Name: Jevil
Game Origin: Deltarune
Appearance: A short and seemingly portly imp dressed in blue and black motley. He has yellow jagged teeth and black paint down his eyes. If he has hair it is impossible to see under his belled cap.
Personality: Joyful, playful, and absolutely insane. There's only one person it cares about and the fluffy feline magician is not here. The only thing that will keep him from happily slaughtering everyone he met is that this is clearly not the World of Darkness.
Background: Driven mad by the Knight to rob the Four Kings of their trusted advisors and greatest protectors, Jevil has been trapped in his "little freedom" for untold time. The world's whispers spoke of a time when the door would open and he could play once more. Well, Jevil can play now but the door had yet to turn into a jar so wherever this strange place... He has no idea what's going on but one thing is sure: the jester is going to have fun.

Specialty: CHAOS. In practice, primarily attacks and magic but there is a chance that he'll do nothing at all or actively hinder someone on his side.
Level: 1
Experience: 0/10
Powers:

• Carousel Revolving - Illusion magic, though heavily weakened. Capable of playing tricks on someone else's mind and making them see attacks that aren't there.

Strengths:

• Rejected Reality - Pain and hunger do not slow him down. "I may be a fool but the body more fool than I and foolish for trying to trick me!"
• True Sight - As someone capable of casting illusions, illusions from another cannot hold him. "It takes a magician of a higher cut and softer paws than this to trick the jester wild."
• A Juggler's Trick - Gymnastics and clowning around are part and parcel of his trade. "Balls, pins, heads, lives! I can keep them all hanging in the balance!"

Weaknesses:

• Yet Darker Mind - Incredibly morbid and eager to play with lives. "This is a game of numbers. Let the pieces fall!"
• Whimsy - Attention span is... not so great. Prone to wandering off topic or on tangents. " "
• Stabbing from Hell's Heart - Has a fascination with knives and detests anything that claims to be divine or angelic.

Spirits:

Kindred Spirits:

• Pit - I just find the idea of Jevil meeting an actual angel after being freaked out over the Angel's Game to be too hilarious not to suggest.
• Nintendog - Just so he can kick the puppy. His world was barked into existence by a very trollish dog.
• Sephiroth - Someone claiming to be a god must be a fun fight!

Inventory:

• Devilsknife - Long handled version of the Jevilknife, a weapon with a curved serated blade and strange bells on the top. Definitely not a keyblade no matter how much it might look like one.
• 0 pieces of Lint

Echo Fighter unlocked: The Green Thunder

Name: Mr. L Luigi Mario
Game Origin: Super Paper Mario Super Mario series
Appearance:

Personality: A cocksure and abrasive person with kleptomaniac tendencies.
Background: In the middle of a scouting job for the Count, something extradimensional that definitely wasn't the Chaos Heart or the Void rippled out and cast the universe into disarray. More disarray than the Count's plans, anyway.

Specialty: Mix of Stealth and Melee due to lacking his Brobot.
Level: 1
Experience: 0/10
Powers:

• Flip Dimension (Weakened) - Capable of shifting on the Dimensional axis into an concentrated line. While this lets him dodge attacks and seem invisible, if something hits it deals more damage.

Strengths:

• By Leaps and Bounds - Incredible jumping ability that dwarfs whatever that red midget with the horrendous mustache is capable of.
• Electrical Mastery - Mr. L's affinity for electrical magic seems inborn. Its origin is shielded in mystery but there is a hint of the divine in its energies.
• Technological Knowhow - Brobotics.

Weaknesses:

• Anxiety - Underneath all his bluster, Mr. L is actually a bit of a worrywart. When things don't go according to plan he freaks. Although given his attitude rather than cowering like some green stringbean loser, Mr. L lashes out.
• Self-Deprecation Overinflated Ego - Easily distracted by his own pride. Does not handle insults lightly.
• Lost Origins - Memories from before signing on to Castle Bleck are... hazy, to put it mildly. He has no idea who he used to be but he must had been the best, must had been number one.

Spirits:

Kindred Spirits:

• Count Bleck - Have to find the boss...
• Luigi - Who the heck is this weak-looking copycat?
• Kamek - Why does that dumb turtle look familiar? I'll kick his old shell into next week!

True Kindred:

• Mario - Bro will know what to do.
• Bowser - I'll take one familiar face, even his.
• Princess Peach - She's in danger! Probably. Oh gosh...

Inventory:

Metal Sonic blast processes into the scene.

Name: Metal Sonic MS-025
Game Origin: Sonic CD
Appearance:

Personality: Driven and loyal to only one being. Will do anything to ensure that person's success but will obey any orders even if they conflict with pre-existing ones. Deems any non-Robotnik robots to be inferior heaps of slag.
Background: Created in the future and sent to the past by the great Doctor Robotnik to ensure his control of Little Planet and Time Itself. While it would never question its creator... perhaps abusing Time so much was not an optimal idea. Either Time crashed or something extratemporal interfered with Doctor Robotnik's plans.

Specialty: Scouting and Speed; will take advantage of local non-Mobian lifeforms to find a way back to its creator.
Level: 1
Experience: 0/10
Powers:

Strengths:

• Fastest Thing Alive Created - Capable of matching Sonic's speed.
• Unto the End - Once given a goal, nothing will stop it from trying to reach it.

Weaknesses:

• Priority One - Due to programming, if it sights Sonic it will attack him without hesitation or consideration of whether it is the optimal time.
• Cognitive Reset - Programming does not allow it to consider that Robotnik is anything but the pinnacle of organic life.

Spirits:

Kindred Spirits:

• Sonic - PRIORITY TARGET NO:1 BLUE HEDGEHOG SONIC
• Doctor Robotnik - CREATOR - LOCATION UNKNOWN
• Mario - PRIORITY TARGET KNOWN ASSOCIATE - ELIMINATE OR CAPTURE

Inventory:

[Lugubrious]

Hey there, and welcome. Whichever character you play is up to you; I could only say to pick the one you like the most. One thing I could say is that the Kindred Spirits you pick would be most useful as characters who haven't appeared yet but that you want to, since the only thing Kindred Spirits are for is ensuring that certain characters will appear at some point, so if they've already appeared, it's not much use.

[ModeGone]

Thanks for the welcome!

Mr. L is an easy fallback. Considering how much of a jerk he is, he's a fun jerk and has the most existing connections.
Jevil takes some work but whenever I write out his dialogue there's a certain rhythm to him. Also half the time I can't even predict what he'll do next. A friend jokes that the Jester Dimension beams his posts through me. He'd be the most wild card character of the bunch but at least he'd be entertaining.
Metal Sonic is also a fallback but I haven't done Sonic stuff in a long time. Which does mean he is admittedly the weakest of the three.

Wasn't quite sure how Kindred Spirits worked, I'll think them over.

[Dark Cloud]

I think I forgot to tag a couple people, but either way my post is done although I'll tag something at the end about which spirit Glenn grabbed/is grabbing as that is something I should have noted.

Anyways I'll post for Laharl after someone else posts, I have plenty of spare time for writing for the long-weekend.

[ModeGone]

I fixed up and updated the character. Here's the l-oser.

Echo Fighter unlocked: The Green Thunder

Name: Mr. L Luigi Mario
Game Origin: Super Paper Mario Super Mario series
Appearance:

Personality:
Although his true personality is suppressed, elements can still be seen past the abrasive ego and smartmouthed sass. He'll help someone... but only if he can get something out of it that he can't simply steal. He's loyal and a hard-worker... but those traits only go as far as the job for Castle Bleck. He's a team-player... but he'll mock them and feels that he's better than any of them even though he's the newest recruit. He holds his family dear and near to his heart... but he doesn't remember them so he's built a machine to fill that void in his life. Where Luigi is timid, Mr. L lashes out. Where Luigi would hesitate due to empathy, Mr. L breezes past without a care. Luigi would be generous to a fault... but Mr. L's greed and pride would seek to ruin a target. Mr. L is willing to play along with these Light World cretini until he either sees Bleck's Void in the sky or his Flip ability lets him reach the black castle.

Background:
Once upon a time, there was the best minion ever to be hired on to Castle Bleck! And his name was Mr. L. Nastasia scouted him from... uh... somewhere and convinced him that working for the Count would be a dream come true. The pay was... okay, the pay wasn't so good. And there's no dental what with the multiverse being consumed by the Void. But the rewards for aiding the Count would be everything you've ever wished for. A place in the perfect world that would be born after everything has been destroyed.

So, naturally, Mr. L said yes.

As the greatest thief in the known universes, Mr. L's skills were invaluable to the team. They already had the bratty mistress of transformation (mistress is... literal, actually, yeesh what a freak), a meatheaded brawny boob, a crazy clown who won't leave L a-l-one, and Miss Nastasia. They were clearly bereft of a good sneak and someone capable of something more techy than the rest's fists and spells. Honestly, magic's not so reliable. Look at the thunder-whatsit in his hand. It's good for a spark half the time and the other half it's like it doesn't wanna do anything!

So one day while on the job (those wedding crashers that interrupted the preparation ceremony for the Chaos Heart's manifestation need to be trounced)... something went... weird. So while a bunch of worlds have the Void hanging overhead, Mr. L was in the middle of Flipping to another dimension when he found himself in a completely unfamiliar world. To make matters worse, it's like the anti-Dimension D! Instead of letting him fight or use his powers at their full strength he's weak as a Goomba about to march off a cliff! Something weird's going on. No Void in the sky, no powers... Someone is gonna get trounced and the trouncer's name is Mr. L!

Specialty: Mix of Stealth and Melee due to lacking his Brobot.
Level: 1
Experience: 0/10
Powers:

• Flip Dimension (Weakened) - Capable of shifting on the Dimensional axis into an concentrated line. While this lets him dodge attacks and seem invisible, if something hits it deals more damage.

Strengths:

• By Leaps and Bounds - Incredible jumping ability that dwarfs whatever that red midget with the horrendous mustache is capable of.
• Electrical Mastery - Mr. L's affinity for electrical magic seems inborn. Its origin is shielded in mystery but there is a hint of the divine in its energies.
• Technological Knowhow - Brobotics.

Weaknesses:

• Anxiety - Underneath all his bluster, Mr. L is actually a bit of a worrywart. When things don't go according to plan he freaks. Although given his attitude rather than cowering like some green stringbean loser, Mr. L lashes out.
• Self-Deprecation Overinflated Ego - Easily distracted by his own pride. Does not handle insults lightly.
• Lost Origins - Memories from before signing on to Castle Bleck are... hazy, to put it mildly. He has no idea who he used to be but he must had been the best, must had been number one.

Spirits:

Kindred Spirits:

• Baby Bowser - A strangely familiar koopa brat who clearly deserves a swift kick in the keister. "Waaa I want milk and cookies waaa the yoshis are mean to me!" Go jump in a lava lake without a stupid old geezer to magic you out!
• Jevil - Oh no, Mr. L thought he was done with creepy grinning purple-and-black jesters! Dimentio's multiplied again and this time its not an illusion!
• Cecil Harvey - Looks like someone he's robbed before but way too tall to say for sure. All but a brother to someone brainwashed by a formerly caring but now evil and malevolent cape-wearing sorcerer.

Inventory:

• Worn Useless Wooden Mallet - Mr. L has no idea why he has this. Its not even a proper construction tool to repair his Brobot! +10 to Attack
• Shroom Shakes (x10) - Much more useful! Heals 10% of user's health and purges poison.

[Lugubrious]

Overall, seems mostly fine. The only things I could mention would be a clarification to his Power and a change to the end of his Background. After 'seem invisible' I would add 'if looked at from the front', since he's just flat rather than gone if I remember correctly. Lastly, the thing that brought everyone to the World of Light was less a subtle dimension shift and more a universal annihilation attack. Other than that, the sheet's okay.

[ModeGone]

I went with the dimensional shift because I imagined he was in the middle of changing locations when the Super Paper Mario multiverse got attacked. I can change it.

As for the "seen from the front" due to him being a 3D being rather than 2D sprite in a 3D map I was picturing his dimensional shift making him look like a line at all angles like when you look at a billboarded sprite and see the same exact flat image at every rotation.
One of the giveaways I was thinking of was that his shadow would still look normal in spite of him having a less visible form. Another was that seeing him from above or below gives him away.

Good to hear that the sheet's almost ready to go!

[Lugubrious]

I went with the dimensional shift because I imagined he was in the middle of changing locations when the Super Paper Mario multiverse got attacked. I can change it.

As for the "seen from the front" due to him being a 3D being rather than 2D sprite in a 3D map I was picturing his dimensional shift making him look like a line at all angles like when you look at a billboarded sprite and see the same exact flat image at every rotation.
One of the giveaways I was thinking of was that his shadow would still look normal in spite of him having a less visible form. Another was that seeing him from above or below gives him away.

Good to hear that the sheet's almost ready to go!

@ModeGone

I think I've gotten the picture, although it's still a little confusing. I do think that simply being able to make himself two-dimensional would be a very useful Power in and of itself, without any extra confusion. Is able to become just a line in his game?

[ModeGone]

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I think I've gotten the picture, although it's still a little confusing. I do think that simply being able to make himself two-dimensional would be a very useful Power in and of itself, without any extra confusion. Is able to become just a line in his game?

@Lugubrious

Kiiiiiind of? The thing about him becoming a line in the game is because when you see yourself use the Flip within a dimension you are turning your character sideways. Because they're a flat character and the rim of the paper-figure is facing the screen, they become "invisible". In the Paper Mario series you had all kinds of weird shenanigans playing on the "paper" theme like getting folded up into a paper airplane to fly across long distances or walking through iron bars because you're paper-thin. Changing dimensional perspective is following that kind of effect but with a result.

However like I said this is a 3D person. Trying to rework this effect without being a simple rotation implies that there's an actual effect. Since its not an Illusion and doesn't have anything to do with light I can't say that he looks invisible until you put your hand where really is and you feel him. So I'm overthinking this...

The two main effects that Flip has:

• Letting you walk around objects (be they enemy, prop, or attack) by going down the other axis.
• Travel to another world/dimension.

With the first form it is technically turning invisible and has been used to this effect by various characters. But you're still physically there so things like weight remains the same and since you only see the characters in the game from the side/front perspective I like to think that top-down would be a whole other story. Given the setup and how the effect has an actual upgradable timer in game, I'm going to say it'll last two or three posts in the current form. I also like the idea that light casting shadow on the "invisible" character would let you see the shadow as if the figure was standing there normally as it would give more of a challenge to sneaking around.
With the second I have it completely blocked until necessary because we're on one world and the character would take the opportunity to ditch given half a chance.

So in theory he could just be turning into a line because going from 3D to 2D would have a weird visual effect. Or following the displayed effect in the game he'd be "turning into a line" because of the way dimensional perspective is warping around him. In the end its the same kind of result but it has different connotations in my head that I'm having a tricky time spitting out.

[Lugubrious]

So in theory he could just be turning into a line because going from 3D to 2D would have a weird visual effect. Or following the displayed effect in the game he'd be "turning into a line" because of the way dimensional perspective is warping around him. In the end its the same kind of result but it has different connotations in my head that I'm having a tricky time spitting out.

@ModeGone

I see. In theory it would still be possibly to have the same effect of invisibility in a limited sense by turning 2D and then directly toward whoever he doesn't want to see him, but of course since this is 3D it would be trickier to manage. I was more or less confused because I was assuming we were going for translating the move itself into the new context rather than the outcome of the move, which is stealth. We may be able to compromise (and also not make up new abilities characters don't canonically have, which I'd rather not do) by saying that he can flatten into a 2D being in 3D space but be able to rotate himself to stay facing whatever target he focuses on, thus maintaining practical invisibility. The limitation would then transition from being shadow-projection to him being able to be seen from the side if there are multiple enemies. Plus, this would still allow him to do things like slip through tiny cracks and hug walls. Would that be alright?

[Lugubrious]

@Dark Cloud Would you mind saying what spirit you're thinking Frog should take for us OOC? That way we can get an idea of what's left for other people to take.

[Dark Cloud]

@Lugubrious Ah! Sorry, sure just a second.

[Dark Cloud]

@Lugubrious That would be Trento.

[ModeGone]

I see. In theory it would still be possibly to have the same effect of invisibility in a limited sense by turning 2D and then directly toward whoever he doesn't want to see him, but of course since this is 3D it would be trickier to manage. I was more or less confused because I was assuming we were going for translating the move itself into the new context rather than the outcome of the move, which is stealth. We may be able to compromise (and also not make up new abilities characters don't canonically have, which I'd rather not do) by saying that he can flatten into a 2D being in 3D space but be able to rotate himself to stay facing whatever target he focuses on, thus maintaining practical invisibility. The limitation would then transition from being shadow-projection to him being able to be seen from the side if there are multiple enemies. Plus, this would still allow him to do things like slip through tiny cracks and hug walls. Would that be alright?

@Lugubrious

So something akin to Kingdom Hearts's Heartless Shadow or Nobody Creeper effects, but along height rather than being "squished" to the floor? I'll have to work out how to write the description but it sounds good to me.

and also not make up new abilities characters don't canonically have, which I'd rather not do

I try to only pull things that a character could feasibly have at the point in their timeline. For example given the nickname Green Thunder, I tend to have Mr. L be still capable of the Thunderhand from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. However given Nastasia's brainwashing and the fact that the magical power was a gift I give it a psuedo-awareness that keeps him from having full control of the ability. If he gets it back over the course of the RP it would still nerfed even more, much to his frustration.

[DracoLunaris]

@Lugubrious That would be Trento.

@Dark Cloud

Don't suppose you could be convinced to take the Chicago instead so i can take the big girl for Bowser. Not to much of a big deal if you don't tho