[OOC] Nexus Of Worlds Multiverse

[ImportantNobody]

Was Onesie going to get backup pretty soon if I were to send her to the web world?

[Skallagrim]

We all sucked because we were still in thr MUD mindset. Gawd muds were the best thing going back then. LoL.

[ASTA]

Skallagrim said
I still have to post the updated approved characters and several posts.Remember you can submit non-combat characters if you want so a guy running a store who controls atms is fine.

Really?

Well that changes everything!

:3

[Skallagrim]

You're kidding right?

[LeeRoy]

I took a nap, and my entire face is still asleep.

[ImportantNobody]

So if he controls the ATM can he get money out of it or be able to telekinetically cause it to go flying around to bash into people? Believe it or not, more people die to vending machines crushing them then sharks, so a falling ATM could be more deadly then a shark character. ;)

[ASTA]

Skallagrim said
You're kidding right?

Uh.

No?

That's literally the last idea I've got left. My idea tank for this MV, so to speak, is pretty much on E.

Well actually that's a lie. It's more like I'm sticking to low tier or whatever, because all of my high-tier and mid-tier ideas either get nuked, they don't fit the setting or they flat-out blow ass.

ImportantNobody said
So if he controls the ATM can he get money out of it or be able to telekinetically cause it to go flying around to bash into people? Believe it or not, more people die to vending machines crushing them then sharks, so a falling ATM could be more deadly then a shark character. ;)

Well, that's an interesting idea. Maybe he could take control of inanimate machinery (you know, none-robots or AI constructs), like electronic cash registers and ATMs.

Unsure what use this power would have, but who cares.

Apathy.

[Skallagrim]

Hmmm. I dunno your ideas arent bad but by your own admission the arena is not your forte so finding the sweet spot to balance character and power is still fuzzy. Instead of arguing with me work with me and we can bring your character into the arena.

[Skallagrim]

Green said
If we're going to move into the territory of overpowered characters, we might as well just stop it.I was talking about the worst kind of viable character type to face in a battle. You know, the kind you could expect to see approved into the list.

As long as I can see several ways to beat a character then I approve them. Otherwise I ask for changes so I see more than one way to overcome said character. Fights aren't meant to be vanilla. You should have to think to overcome an opponent. Running into a fight willy-nilly and careless should earn you a loss. But the victory should be something you can boast about as well.

[LeeRoy]

If you can't come up with something original, use a Super-Trope.

Something SO tropey that it's entertaining.

I mean, there are of course some tropes that are entertaining on their own.

Like the Peasant Railgun.

Or the Arrowhead of Total Destruction.

[LeeRoy]

I hereby request that wandering Combustable Rats should be a thing on one of the planets.

[ASTA]

Skallagrim said
Hmmm. I dunno your ideas arent bad but by your own admission the arena is not your forte so finding the sweet spot to balance character and power is still fuzzy. Instead of arguing with me work with me and we can bring your character into the arena.

I guess.

I mostly base the power of my abilities off of existing powers seen in the characters already submitted to the MV, using them as a sort of template in which to gauge what I could and couldn't do with a power. Typically when it comes to power-scaling, I go for something in the middle, while my powers and abilities gravitate toward the mundane in overall functionality. Personally, I don't see the point in overly-flashy capabilities, since I put more faith into method and technique rather than equipment, if you know what I mean.

I normally run fighting techniques that favor either defensive-based characters or defensive/offensive characters, with a heavy focus on ranged power. I typically don't touch melee weapons with a ten-foot pole because I do best with firearms, tanks, anti-tank guns, x-ray lasers, and all of that jazz.

With regards to the wormhole bit, I flipped a desk over that because I couldn't wrap my head over what terrible and awful things people were actually expecting me to do with it. I was under the impression people were scared I was going to turn the entire MV inside out or something.

I have little problem with a nerf; most nerfs I get slapped with I fully agree on, since when I re-examine the idea, it does come off as wanky, broken or flat-out overpowered.

LeeRoy said
If you can't come up with something original, use a Super-Trope.Something SO tropey that it's entertaining.I mean, there are of course some tropes that are entertaining on their own. Like the Peasant Railgun.Or the Arrowhead of Total Destruction.

So, I looked up the Peasant Railgun.

I admit, I laughed.

You know, I wonder if thousands of peasants, all tier 0 characters, could effectively pull this off with a pencil.

That moment where 1,000s of people accelerating a writing tool to .5 % of c allows them to 1-shot a high-tier character.

[LeeRoy]

That moment where I'm the only player character with not one, but six rail guns mounted on his ship.

[Skallagrim]

Having fought off and on for almost two decades in arenas I can tell you time based powers and wormholes/blackhole based powers are usually never allowed because the abuse potential is high. Firearms are frowned upon by some people because they don't understand how they are used or how to combat them. I love firearms in the arena.

I think your mecha cat is a good character that few people here can handle. Not because they aren't good fighters but because most fights here are kept in a specfic box due to a lack of experience against diverse opponents.

People bitched and moaned against my gunfighter-esque character because he didn't fit into their box of knowledge. It happens.

[LeeRoy]

The one time manipulating character that I have is so convoluted. (Who isn't a god, isn't that a general assumed power of gods? Time manipulation? It is in my gods.)

His power is infinite temporal perception, he can stop time from HIS perspective. Allowing him to see everything static, and giving him an infinite amount of time to think about his movements. It's ridiculous, writing him is a pain in my ass, because one singular action requires five fucking paragraphs just to justify.

Oh, did I forget to mention?

He can't move when he stops time, he can only see what is in his field of view. It's so annoying to write.

[LeeRoy]

[ImportantNobody]

I don't find that time stopping thing OP at all in that circumstance.

[LeeRoy]

It's a power that's trying DESPERATELY to not be OP. So desperately that it has become incredibly difficult to actually use properly.

[Skallagrim]

ACCEPTED CHARACTERS NEXUS OF WORLDS ARENA MULTIVERSE

Skallagrim the Cughtagh (H)
General Freedom (I)
Dou'far Klaast (H)
Dynoz Tarr (I)
The Demon Elf Adinraen Barriurden (I)
LeeRoy Brightmane (I)
The Clockwork Man (I)
Shenestra (I)
Cathak Talon (I)
Vera Threi Shivan (I)
Niks Reklaw (I)
Sukoh the Spirit Bear (I)
Evvie (I)
Snarnorgul (Snore-Na-Ghoul) (I)
Fury(I/H)
Cathrel the Janus (H)
Erde Mensche the Bound Titan (H)
Ysolda Corinthus (H)
Vol’Nardoc The Tyrant/Liberator of Vol’Kariz (H)
Khazna -Lord Cardinal, Black Mask, Dark Skull (I)
Father Jack Alder (L)
Mercedes Kane (L)
Keezheekoni, the Aspect of Phlogiston (Calls herself Keezi) (I)
Blank 1-C (often called Onesie) (L)
Kholodny Zima, the Scion of Stribog (I)
S'kara, Madman of the Void (I)
Maxwell the Golden Flame (H)
Edmund Bask. (L pilot /H mecha)
Michael 'Mike' Aaron Faraday (I)
Arthur Greystoken (I)/ (H in armor)
Ade'er Ra'gn Ectr (H)
Daeh Nolem, The Mad God, (Background Character)
Beowulf of Trinity (H)

[Skallagrim]

Meh, I was in a fight once, with my Skallagrim persona when the guy after realizing that he didn't know crap about real fight mechanics and was about to get his head removed from his shoulders, whipped out some bovine scatological time warping power which he edited into the CS. claiming it was there to begin with. He teleported back a few feet negating his attack and then started a new attack.. LOL