[CHAR] Arena FAQ/Advice

[Skallagrim]

I thought it was pretty obvious, he is a mana junkie. In order to fight he needs to get his 'fix" and searches the multiverse for 'pure uncut mana"

[MelonHead]

I'm definitely hooked (heh) on the junkie mechanic at the moment, with Isaac and now this.

[Skallagrim]

I think it is a good idea and like I said offers a lot of rp with in the fight opportunities.

[ImportantNobody]

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Problem with cliche back-stories is that they're almost a necessity, there's literally no understanding the actions of a super-hero without sufficient motive, and most motives have already been stolen by comic book writers by now. Considering the nature of your character, I would just have random DNA mutation at birth be the cause of her body producing a number of proteins commonly found in Honey Badgers rather than humans, hence the superhuman stats, just an idea though.

@MelonHead

Mutants are a safe standby to describe how they got their powers. Nothing wrong with it or overly exciting. I'm not sure her motive yet.

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Maybe her hiding in a trench near a honey badger's nest amid a military operation in the African deserts, where she gets turned into a bloody mush by an explosion, bits of a poor, blown up honey badger mixing in with her own flesh. Most are extracted afterwards, when she is rescued and brought to a hospital, but some remain, and when she is put into a regeneration camera of some sort, this turns her into a chimera with both human and honey badger DNA in her organism .

@Vordak

Poor honey badger but not poor her?

Maybe she got into that situation by chasing the honey badger for play and the fight broke out suddenly. The badger could have even attacked an enemy soldier who came to get her (instinct rather than protecting her unless you claim it was an intelligent, mutated badger or something). Maybe her father is a very irresponsible arms dealer who had a "bring your child to work" day gone wrong.

Can Wolverine come back from the dead or does he just not die? This superheroine could probably die (nothing says a honey badger is immortal). If she came back to life after the incident then perhaps it was unrelated to her powers or she was barely clinging on to life already. Or maybe she could come back to life but there's plenty of ways to keep her dead so she can't just come back in a couple of minutes good as new or that would ruin the tension quite dramatically.

I like Vordy's idea. Maybe a few tweaks but it makes the most sense. Many superhero origin stories aren't as cheesy as you claim. Certainly there are some but then again many of those heroes were written in a time when pulp and cheese are what people wanted to read.

@Skallagrim

I'm mostly familiar with the older superheroes, so you caught me there.

[Crazy Scion]

Make the back story a scientist was working on a way to infuse people with animal traits, and yours was an experiment to get a honey badger as your animal of choice.

[Zmija Sebastian]

Perhaps it isn't much, as I expected it to be cleared up. So, I'll try and hazop it here as well.

The player Maglar tried to.. insinuate a dubious offer to an arena in the wrong ARENA sections. I know it's still a website not in my control but I'm an intelligent capable man. I rather appeal into a Court Ranger than be thought asa scoundral just because I didn't, like the atomic scum...

There're just two areas that didn't deserve their spam. The character section of "ARENA chat threads" and the in-character section of "2.0 battlegrounds".

[BangoSkank]

This is the Characters section.

No one else knows what hazop means. No one else knows what a Court Ranger is. No one else has any problem with anything Maglar has said ever in the history of space and time and other shit.

No one had posted in Arena FAQ Advice prior to you today in the last 2 years other than Maglar trying to get another Arena thing going.

Chill.

[Zmija Sebastian]

Hahah, this roleplayerguild is like created by characters. Yeah, I must of meant OOC... Or better.