[OOC] Arena FAQ/Advice

[Bartimaeus]

I feel for you. It is a horrible existance indeed. My laptop currently needs a new driver, as the previous one has broken somehow. But it has been basically torture with all the new content coming out this year and not being able to play it.

[Crazy Scion]

@BartimaeusWe find a way to live with it, or watch Let's plays. So how is your battle with Rilla going?

[Bartimaeus]

Unfortunately that is the way.

Well my bout with Rilla is not currently working in my favor, and is a bit unnerving. But my latest trick I feel confident in, and whether it works or not, I have a few strategies up my sleeve, but ive also made the mistake of keeping my distance from a more experienced rival, which is not working for me.

[Vordak]

Bartimaeus actually managed to surprise me. His most recent post gives him a solid opportunity to turn the tables around and retaliate, even though Kray did get painfully hit.

[Bartimaeus]

Yay! I love surprising people! :P

[Rilla]

I look forward to see what you have up your sleeve, though running - likely - won't help your clause. It actually benefits Stalker and 'Blow... Bang...' a lot more than staying close, as it means Stalker doesn't have to get close to you, at all.

[Bartimaeus]

Ah, I know, but if i can get some of my effects on ya, id say your a significantly smaller threat.

[Crazy Scion]

@BartimaeusI've just begun reading yours and Rilla's fight in earnest and Stalker is a very dangerous man. He would be an interesting person to get to know. If he didn't need you dead that is.

[Bartimaeus]

Indeed. Someone of his magnitude would be helpful to Kray as well, all stealth-like. Good spy.

[Crazy Scion]

Goblin Doctor Kray still has a good chance. Don't get me wrong. He still has all those different debuffs as well as that desperation drug to go through before things can be considered over.

[Bartimaeus]

True. It's not over till it's over against Kray.

[Rilla]

@BartimaeusI've just begun reading yours and Rilla's fight in earnest and Stalker is a very dangerous man. He would be an interesting person to get to know. If he didn't need you dead that is.

@Crazy Scion

I don't actually need her dead.

just, you know, if Kray ain't comin' quietly, I gotta merk him.

[Crazy Scion]

@RillaI unfortunately doubt that the people that want her are nice people. So, it may not be in her best interest to get captured, but then again. Living to fight another day is not a bad idea either. If things go really south.

[Rilla]

Not Stalker's issue. xD

Actually though, I think KRay would be a far better character is @Bartimaeus focused him more on the drug thing and the injector gun. The Tattoo manipulation seems an unnecessary add-on, and seems out of place; more like a random addition than anything that clicks with the character. I'd have replaced it with Kray being knowledgeable on various plants and poisons, and having altered his body to have less negative effects and more positive ones, and the opposite for his opponent. And perhaps having a 'blank slate' type of drug, where Kray can add any item(like wood, or so) into the mixture for varying effects(Concrete into the blank slate, weighs down the opponent for x amount of turns.)

[Bartimaeus]

With the thing where i can take aoes and use them against you, i was actually thinking about allowing it to absorb the environment aswell and use that against you, but i scrapped it for some reason.

Also, why do you assume the drugs are the main part of Kray and the tatoos dont fit?
Maybe its the tatoos are the main part of Kray and the drugs dont fit.

[Crazy Scion]

@RillaI might be inclined to agree with you on the magic tattoo's, but then I thought they were also created by some kind of drug. As for having more debuffs then buffs. Well I guess gaining more drugs over time could be part of her character arch. It would be similar to Stalker gaining runes or Kei'taro gaining keys.

[Skallagrim]

I hunt goblins for sport.

[Rilla]

With the thing where i can take aoes and use them against you, i was actually thinking about allowing it to absorb the environment aswell and use that against you, but i scrapped it for some reason.

Also, why do you assume the drugs are the main part of Kray and the tatoos dont fit?
Maybe its the tatoos are the main part of Kray and the drugs dont fit.

@Bartimaeus

Because you've talked to me about Kray before. :P

And in either event, one doesn't fit the other, making it look like the abilities of two different people fitted into one.

Such reasons are why people typically try and follow a general theme in their characters. Like Stalker focusing on runes, instead of runes, and then wielding a trident that can shoot out water, or a shield that pushes earth around.

[Rilla]

@RillaI might be inclined to agree with you on the magic tattoo's, but then I thought they were also created by some kind of drug. As for having more debuffs then buffs. Well I guess gaining more drugs over time could be part of her character arch. It would be similar to Stalker gaining runes or Kei'taro gaining keys.

@Crazy Scion

That would be good motivation for her character; learning about more potential drugs and stuff to bolster the character. Drugs AND the tattoos seem like two wholly different skill sets, fit for two characters instead of placed on one.

[Bartimaeus]

I hunt goblins for sport.

@Skallagrim

Hey! You watch that tongue!

Also, Scion, I really like that idea, if i decide to do that, I may transfer then tatoos to another characters and make Kray progressively gain more drugs.