[OOC] Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

[Ookawa]

@PyroDash888

New mission. Befriend Skyra.

@HereComesTheSnow

Hah! Give it a try! We'll see how it'll turn out ^.^

[Abillioncats]

Emmy's mission is to befriend everyone.

[Crimmy]

She'll have to work hard at it if she wants to befriend Gratia.

[Lady Seraphina]

And Sapphire, she's got enough trouble dealing with Shiro and he's not half as warm and fuzzy as Emmy.

[harinezumikouken]

Emmy's mission is to befriend everyone.

@Abillioncats

Emerald and Shiro should team up.

[Write]

Bianca's in a weird position of being friendly but not friends with many people, if that makes sense.

[Sho Minazuki]

@Guess Who Are we waiting for anyone?

[Abillioncats]

@Crimmy@Prince of Seraphs

She has the power of love and friendship nothing can stop her! Nyahahahaha!

<Snipped quote by Abillioncats>

Emerald and Shiro should team up.

@harinezumikouken

I don't know if the world is ready for that, it could destroy it. Turn everything into a Disney plot twist. ._.

[HereComesTheSnow]

@PyroDash888
Haha! Nobody's able to resist the natural polite friendliness of the Luke!

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

Alright, team MODA! Let's save this FUBAR situation.

Before it goes full meltdown.

Also, I never really went more into detail about how Oswald's Semblance works, OOC. He doesn't really understand it IC, but this is basically its parameters:

Closer operates on the function of "Instantaneous Movement". Being that my last character, Auriel Connolly, was....grossly overpowered with his Semblance (Called Blink-Instant movement to anywhere within 50 feet in line of sight), I decided to throw some more restrictions on it. As is, Closer can be used to move Oswald instantly to any living creature within 50 feet, arriving about four feet from his target.

I felt that was too broad, and with sufficient bullshittery, could also become vastly overpowered, since there are millions of little bugs all around, and they could be considered "creatures" by some interpretation. So I came up with the restriction of requiring "sufficient biomass." As this is also broad, I included an example in Oswald's backstory (which has obviously yet to be revealed). It's a small bird, about the size of a fully-grown robin. Any smaller than that, and his Aura can't detect it as a living creature.

Which goes on to the question of "How does his Aura know if something is a living creature that is big enough?" Simple answer: No idea, it's Aura, ain't gotta explain shit. But seriously, I dunno. Never could think of a reasonable way to explain that. Too bad. All I have is that his ability 'links' him to that creature for the instant of movement. Once he's moved, link broken. The link is what allows the movement to take place, though it doesn't drain the other thing's life or Aura or anything-just Oswald's, and it won't work if the creature is too small. It's simply a way to explain how it works, even if it's pretty...lackluster.

Another question some may have thought of- "Can it be any creature that's big enough, or does he have to see it?" I decided to go with a middle-of-the-road for this one. Oswald's training to use his Semblance (which has been extensive, for backstory reasons I am willing to explain OOC) is pretty intense. As such, he has a somewhat limited "life-detection" ability around him when he uses his Semblance. It's limited in that he can't detect all life around him, just that his Semblance can 'link' him with another creature if he uses it blindly, but due to risk reasons, he rarely if ever does so.

Additionally, instead of taking the "shortest distance between two points" approach, Oswald can appear anywhere along a four-foot spherical diametric space of his opponent. He typically goes for the sides or the back, for obvious reasons, but sometimes he likes to mix it up and pop up a bit above them too, just to add a little vertical momentum to his attack.

In the instant that he activates his Semblance, Oswald moves to where he chooses to move. The instant. It's not "really fast." If you lined Ruby, Jack and Oswald up and told them to race to a designated point, marked by lasers, and Oswald could move to that spot, he would be there instantly. Hell, if you marked the start with lasers too, he'd be there less than one quadrillionth of an attosecond after he disappeared. (That's 10^-33 seconds, btw). Yeah. You might say that this is overpowered.

It is. But it also comes with a glaring weakness: what happens when two pieces of matter violate the laws of physics and occupy the same space? Well, luckily for Oswald, Aura shielding protects him from the forces that control the Universe, but there's only so much Aura can do.

As Oswald learned the hard way. Teleporting into a gas results in a relatively non-violent negative pressure field developing around him, pushing the air away for the tiniest fraction of a second. Not even long enough to blink, or start breathing. Air is so not-dense, there's not much for his Aura to protect him from.

Liquids are a bit trickier. A liquid would violently burst outward, and drain a relatively substantial amount of Oswald's Aura to protect him from the damage. A dense enough liquid, or if he submerged himself completely, might even result in some nasty splicing.

But solids. Solids are a whole nother matter. While not unilaterally denser than liquids, the way solids are arranged atomically has a really wonky side-effect with Oswald's Semblance- his body disappears.

Yeah. Wherever he tried to teleport, where his body would have come into contact with the solid object, his body bits there just vanish. No trace. No blood. Just gone. Though the aftermath is a bitch to clean up.

Oswald's experienced that situation exactly one time. One. And he intends to never go through it again. Which is why he's very, VERY careful about using his Semblance. If he teleports in front of somebody who is swinging their sword down and isn't already in position to block, that hit's gonna get him.

Or traumatically and violently erase part of his body.

So, yeah. Oswald's Semblance. Useful, but potentially deadly.

Hope this hasn't crossed too many OP lines.

[Abillioncats]

It turns out Emerald is very serious about pizza.

[Lady Seraphina]

Guys I think something is very very wrong. This could be bad, I mean catastrophically bad. I think something is very wrong with Emmy. She hasn't spoken in the last two minutes. Guys what's going on?

[Lucius Cypher]

Kaben ate her. Because she can't practice her cannibalism in the RP, she has turn to EAT REAL PEOPLE!

[HereComesTheSnow]

I think something's going around in the game honestly

Luke stopped being silly for half a second

[Onarax]

Next thing you know, Napoli won't be cracking a joke in his next post.

[HereComesTheSnow]

It's a confirmed epidemic.

If it keeps up BAST might rise from their graves.

[Abillioncats]

We need to find a cure, before Emmy turns into a deranged sadist that makes demonic circles.

[Guess Who]

@Guess Who Are we waiting for anyone?

@Sho Minazuki

If you mean for the Jack and Clown fight: No, I just don't want it to end that easily or quickly. Now pick a clone and follow!

If you mean for the mission as a whole: I guess @Suku, but I think they warned ahead of time that they'd have trouble and to proceed without them.

EDIT: Just to add to the epidemic of character personalities changing topic, Robert isn't being a goofball anymore either. The epidemic has spread to even the most immune characters! Run for your lives!

[HereComesTheSnow]

I managed to explain everything with Luke's counterattack pretty clearly, right? I get a bit worried about going to hard on the jargon sometimes.

[Guess Who]

I managed to explain everything with Luke's counterattack pretty clearly, right? I get a bit worried about going to hard on the jargon sometimes.

@HereComesTheSnow

Had a bit of difficulty I'll admit, but your good don't worry.