[OOC] The Everlasting Arena: Main Thread

[Vordak]

Man, but stealth can be played in a very interesting manner! Sure, you might as well leave those abilities, but get rid of that attitude! XD

[HaltingBlooper]

Claws has been approved! When do I do my first post?

[Vordak]

The first IC (and OOC, if i remeber right) post has a list of locations. Post in any of these and pick a fight with whoever's free. Though it's going to be hard, since the only other tier 3 character is already occupied in a fight, and Schradinger's adjustable tier robot hasn't been construced yet.

Though i guess the arena's reality warping may solve that if having a character fight two fights at once is allowed.

[Green]

Vordak said
Man, but stealth can be played in a very interesting manner! Sure, you might as well leave those abilities, but get rid of that attitude! XD

Not sure which attitude you speak of :P

[HaltingBlooper]

I was going to have him start in the mountains long before I made my character :P

[Vordak]

Well, it looked like you were saying that stealth does not pose as much of a challenge to execute in roleplaying combat as do various acrobatics, melee clashes and various other elements of direct confrontation, making it less intreseting of a concept.

Sorry if i misinterpreted you, but that's how i saw it. :/

[HaltingBlooper]

Isn't there an order? Do I just wait for a certain person to go and then go?

[drallinix]

HaltingBlooper said
Isn't there an order? Do I just wait for a certain person to go and then go?

First you have to find someone else to fight in the OOC then choose where. Like it was previously stated your going to have a hard time of it considering my character is the only other tier 3 and right now he is engaged in a grueling 3 on 1 against a tier 5.

[Green]

Vordak said
Well, it looked like you were saying that stealth does not pose as much of a challenge to execute in roleplaying combat as do various acrobatics, melee clashes and various other elements of direct confrontation, making it less intreseting of a concept. Sorry if i misinterpreted you, but that's how i saw it. :/

Oh. Not at all. I was talking about how it is very possible to be used in a cheap manner, which I have seen on numerous occasions and have a strong dislike for, not towards using stealth as a whole. I apologize if it came off the wrong way.

[HaltingBlooper]

Am I allowed to intervene on your behalf against Arthur? (Sorry schradinger but it is just that my person favors group fights over being outnumbered)
Edit: His history means he tends to favor having allies.

[drallinix]

So far we need the help but your going to have to get the consensus of the others. Schradinger is one of the best Arena combatants ik so its probably not to much of a hassle for him, but the others may disagree so wait until everyone has said yes or no.

[HaltingBlooper]

Ok, and I assumes this means I will go after everyone if I am allowed to partake?

[drallinix]

more than likely if the others agree to let you join yes you will be last in the posting order.

[Vordak]

Heh. Then i might as well have Ido team up with Arthur. Or maybe just join the fight as an independent party, seeking to massacre everybody else.

Nay. Then it'll be just too clutered up ad slow paced. Better pick a 1v1 for myself.

[drallinix]

Vordak said
Nay. Then it'll be just too clutered up ad slow paced. Better pick a 1v1 for myself.

Nah vordak you've already been approved to join in ask the others when to make your entrance but a second hellwolf sounds good right about now.

[HaltingBlooper]

Should I PM the others?

[Schradinger]

Heh. I'm going to have half a dozen kills before this is over if this keeps up. ;)

@Green: Being able to pick up and use any weapon imaginable with perfect accuracy/dexterity is at least a tier 7 ability, especially when combined with his 500mph time hack. As far as the wall hack and minimap go, absolute awareness of your opponents location, regardless of any measures taken to attain stealth, is overpowered. It needs to be based on something concrete. Arty's awareness, for instance, is based on electrical signals, and Adrian's is based on whether or not the opponent has a soul. Perhaps for the minimap you could limit it to movement faster than 2 mph or something of that sort, so it wouldn't make stealth completely useless, but anyone trying to make a rapid sneak attack would still get picked up. For the wallhack, perhaps you could make it a pulse he can use once every five seconds (or per turn) that reveals anything within his field of vision and the 100 foot range as a stationary silhouette (or charge it to increase the range). On the subject of charging, though, LeeRoy's rules regarding that state that a charged ability can only gain half its full potency per tick, and I'm not going to approve an ability that breaks that rule. Sorry.

@Blooper: The only concern I have about Claws joining the fight is the amount of people getting involved. If Vordak still wants in that'll be six people in a single fight (seven if Goldeagle actually joins), so we'll probably have to figure something out to help move things along more smoothly. The only thing I can think of right now is if I was allowed to post out of order so that I could keep my responses up to date regarding the attacks made against me, thus allowing the remainder of opponents to also make their responses using up-to-date information. It would require a very high level of OOC collaboration to pull off a fight of that scale.

[HaltingBlooper]

Scratch the fight, I'm just gonna do my own thing. Can I just post now because it won't be in a fight?
Edit:Or is that not how this works

[Schradinger]

@Drall: 5 cubic meters is a LOT of volume for a power like that. In a single post, he could coat an area 20 meters by 25 meters in 1 centimeter of steel-hard material that burns at a temperature of several thousand degrees fahrenheit. According to wikipedia (which I'm aware is not the best of sources but it will suffice for our purposes) modern crematoriums burn at temperatures between 1,600 and 1,800 degrees fahrenheit, and the good ones can cremate a body at a rate of one hour per 100 lbs. Your hell energy can do it 30-60 times faster than that, which would require a significantly higher amount of heat, likely even more than Arty can generate, and he's a tier 5. Being able to instantly generate that much material superheated to that high of a temperature is overpowered for a tier 3 fighter I'm afraid.

All the added specifics to his physical stats are a great start, though I'm curious as to why you increased his strength so much. Where you had him before would have been around the 1,000 pound range. With the added durability and his already high speed, in addition to wherever the energy manipulation powers end up (since those are his main thing, as you stated), I think anything higher than 1 ton would be too much. I also don't see a speed on how fast he can launch his spikes or other energy constructs. You also mention that it can take any form he desires. Does that include liquids and gases?

[Schradinger]

HaltingBlooper said
Scratch the fight, I'm just gonna do my own thing. Can I just post now because it won't be in a fight?Edit:Or is that not how this works

You can post whenever and wherever you want in the arena, so long as you don't try to interfere in a fight in progress without getting OOC permission first.

Oh, and Vordak, I think that unless it's specifically mentioned in a CS, charging more than one thing at a time would be disallowed. Even if it is mentioned in the CS, it would need to be evaluated on a case by case basis.