[OOC] MORTAL KOMBAT

[Nerevarine]

Honestly I'm pretty surprised nobody is playing as Scorpion or Sub-Zero yet. I thought people would be all over that shit.

@ZeusTheMoose

I considered Scorpion before deciding on Claudius actually

[CAS1006]

I'd do a really shitty Sub Zero or Scorpion.

I COULD DO Sonya, but I probably will not. The only reason my CS is also taking so long because I'm trying to think of something new and fitting to the Race we discussed in PM that you seem to approve of. (I say wait before we do the reveal of that.)

My artist will hopefully be done with the finished design in the next day or two, so I am excited to throw the CS up when it is ready.

So far I'm thinking fast, counters, and wind to air, of course low damage that relies on DPS combos. (Damage per second, in this context many fast cumulative hits to acctully be able to do good damage. In short, weak, but versatile.)

[Mortimer]

@ZeusTheMoose
Attaboy. I'll do that right away. I am planning some surprises for Ermac once he crosses to the Earthrealm.

Also, I should recommend this...Shang Tsung, the Shokans and all the bosses in the series should remain NPCs or at least you, Zeus, should control them. We all know that if we control Shao Kahn or Motaro we can easily kill any of the characters, including Ermac or any canon fighter.

[clanjos]

Dynamite Sanchez

Name: Dynamite Sanchez
Homeworld: Mictlan, formerly Earthrealm

Appearance: Sanchez is the unliving skeleton of a luchadore, wearing red sweatpants and a white tanktop. As such, there's little in the way of defining features- aside from the fact that his skull is painted like his old wrestling mask.

Fighting Style: High-Flying Lucha Libre. While lacking muscles and blood seriously hampers your ability to build adrenaline or hit hard, it has two distinct advantages: zero air resistance and very little surface area. Because of this, Sanchez is a quick fighter with very high defenses who doesn't have to worry about elemental attacks- without nerves or blood, he has little to fear from fire, ice, or lightning. Because his bones have already petrified, he's also a good deal more durable than the average skeleton. On the flipside, his attacks (save his throws and grapples) are actually pretty weak and he's prone to falling apart during many moves requiring a jump.

Special Abilities:

• Collapse: a defensive trait, where he can mitigate damage by falling into a pile of bones- it can take a bit to reform, however.
• Undeath: poison... just doesn't work. Nor does trying to rip out his heart, shoot his head, or stab his guts.
• Dynamite Suplex: Sanchez's signature move. Performing a bellyslide under his opponent, he kicks up into a handstand, using his legs to catch the opponent under their arms and continuing forward to slam them headfirst into the ground.
• Palo Special: One of Jackie Pallo's signature moves. A leglock in which Sanchez wraps his legs around the opponent's from behind, forces their arms up, and pushes forward, dislocating the opponent's arms.
• Hurricanrana: Let's be honest- you've got to have SOME supernatural abilities to pull this off.

Fatality: Deluxe Dynamite Suplex: Sanchez grabs his opponent, and performs a Dynamite Suplex so hard it causes their skeleton to fly out in a geyser of blood, shooting skyward. He then proceeds to spin and catch the skeleton like a tango partner, catching a rose in his teeth.

Personality: A Technico from the Lucha Libre scene, Dynamite Sanchez is an upstanding citizen. He's annoyingly cheerful. A showman at heart, he's prone to hamming it up for the audience and performing spectacular moves. He will fight you if you say Lucha Libre is fake.

Backstory: Pablo "Dynamite" Sanchez, in life, was a famous Luchadore. His career took him all across Mexico, fighting for the honor of his ancestors against . For centuries, they had been warriors, and the ring was his way of following in their footsteps. However, one night after a match, he was hit by a bus and killed- still wearing his mask. He had a perfect 15-0 win record at the time of his death. This is the start of how he came to join the tournament of Mortal Kombat.

The rest of the story involves a four-year journey to the ninth level of Mictlan, the Aztec land of the dead. He had to pass many challenges, such as crossing a mountain range where the mountains crashed into each other, a field with wind that blew flesh-scraping knives, and a river of blood with fearsome jaguars. By the time he reached the ninth level, he was stripped of flesh and hardened to the horrors of true battle by his journey. He joined the legion of skeletons there... in a fairly normal life. He even continued wrestling- Mictlan's ninth level is more or less a constantly starlit version of Earthrealm, surrounded by the spirits of deceased friends and family. It was pretty sweet. But one day, he overheard the dead talking about a lethal tournament for the fate of Earth. Worse, the losers didn't end up in the afterlife they were supposed to. To the noble Dynamite Sanchez, this was bullshit- how dare someone interfere with the sacred cycles of the cosmos? And worse, how long before the jerk tried to conquer Mictlan?

It turned out that getting OUT of Mictlan is a lot easier than getting in, particularly due to Dia De Los Muertos festivities calling the spirits back to commune with their families. Sanchez took a little extra baggage- his now-calcified skeleton- and proceeded to burst from his grave, much to the surprise of his family. This tale of a warrior who fought his way through the trials of the afterlife twice was quick to reach the ears of Raiden, and the pseudo-revenant was brought into the fold.

Motivation: End the tournament for good and ensure everyone gets to go to the kickass afterlife awaiting them... or reincarnation, if they so prefer.

Aaaand done. Put in a hider to squish the page down.

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

Will Kotal Kahn be an NPC in this?

[CAS1006]

@ActRaiserTheReturned Kotal is so cool!

I can see him as an NPC, but not this early though mostly due to the current Kahn.

[Mr_pink]

Finished my app on page 1

[HHShetland]

On the topic of bosses, I was toying with the idea of playing as Kintaro, but now that I think about it, I suppose @Mortimer has a point.

That being said, one of my other kharacter ideas (and I have a lot of 'em), was a Shokan who relies more on speed and agility, as opposed to brute strength like the existing ones do. Plus, they'd be a good guy. Hope that's alright.

[Rin]

Heh, funnily enough I was considering a Shokan too, a runt who entered the tournament for the obvious reasons you'd assume a runt from a warrior race would enter a fighting tournament. XD Not entirely sure if I'm going with it though (the whole "fighting to prove I'm not weak" thing seems horribly clichéd, for one thing), although I seem to be discarding a lot of ideas for this for various reasons. Just can't seem to get anything to fit right in my head for some reason. Oh well, we'll see how things turn out I guess.

[CAS1006]

Zeus, I sent you another PM.
Mostly about more questions.

[Bonesaw McGraw]

@clanjos Dynamite Sanchez is accepted. Best Fatality.

@Mr_pink Williamson is accepted, love the idea of a ronin in MK.

And as to the boss character question, yes they are unplayable. Raiden is unplayabale as well, because he serves as mainly a guide for the heroes. And Kotal Kahn doesn't exist yet since this is early in the MK timeline. Although for what it's worth I think Kotal Kahn is pretty cool. Honestly, all of the new additions in MKX were great.

We'll be accepting a few more characters before we get started, and I still have to post my own CS at some point. I'll be playing as Johnny Cage. I'm curious to see if anyone else will step into the shoes of an existing MK fighter. Either way, we have a solid roster I think.

[CAS1006]

@ZeusTheMooseHold it, Kotal does exist in this time period, he just wasn't as known.

http://mortalkombat.wikia.com/wiki/Kotal_Kahn/Alternative_Timeline In fact, this is all canon.
But of course, your Rp.

[Bonesaw McGraw]

@ZeusTheMooseHold it, Kotal does exist in this time period, he just wasn't as known.

http://mortalkombat.wikia.com/wiki/Kotal_Kahn/Alternative_Timeline In fact, this is all canon.
But of course, your Rp.

@CAS1006

Fair enough, he's not a main character at this point, but he is one of Shao Kahn's generals. A lot better than fucking Reiko. If somebody wanted to play Kotal that's fine.

[HHShetland]

When I've finished my Char, still WIP, I'll post it here.

[CAS1006]

My stuff is finished and was approved, it is just the art used to show off the appearance is unfinished and should be finished in the next few days. I hope this isn't inconvenient for anyone curious.

[Mortimer]

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Fair enough, he's not a main character at this point, but he is one of Shao Kahn's generals. A lot better than fucking Reiko. If somebody wanted to play Kotal that's fine.

@ZeusTheMoose

We are using the Original Timeline as the basis to build a new storyline. Kotal Kahn and most new characters post MK4 are not here yet. But if you want to have all 70 characters already alive and stuff...then we can do that.

[CAS1006]

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We are using the Original Timeline as the basis to build a new storyline. Kotal Kahn and most new characters post MK4 are not here yet. But if you want to have all 70 characters already alive and stuff...then we can do that.

@Mortimer

Objection!

Nowhere in the First post did it say specifically that. (Believe me, I checked. )
So really you might as well say this is a third timeline leaning closer to an MK X like one based on what the author had in mind.

Even some of the approved characters are based on the ideas of Reverents, which were not present in the original timeline.

And, so far the only person or Persons I should say are using established characters.
Which would be you and Zeus.

[Bonesaw McGraw]

Arguing over the logistics of MK canon, lore and timelines is stupid and pointless. It is not a well written story or a particularily cohesive universe by any stretch of the imagination. If people want to use a character and it makes sense, they can. That's it. Also, spectres and revenants (not reverants) are essentially the exact same thing and that's what Scorpion has always been.

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

Sub-Zero has logged into the server.
Scorpion has logged into the sever.
>Quan Chi has logged into the server.
>Sub-Zero:"I'm in yer Clan, killin' yer family!"
>Scorpion:"What! NO WAIE!"
>Scorpion Action: :"GET OVER HERE!" ::paralysis effect succeeded!::
>Sub-Zero:"NO WAIE!"
>Scorpion Action: "I'm in yer spine, ripping your head off!"
>Quan Chi: "LOL YOU! I TROLL!"
>::Quan Chi has been banned from the server.::

[Mortimer]

Sub-Zero has logged into the server.
Scorpion has logged into the sever.
>Quan Chi has logged into the server.
>Sub-Zero:"I'm in yer Clan, killin' yer family!"
>Scorpion:"What! NO WAIE!"
>Scorpion Action: :"GET OVER HERE!" ::paralysis effect succeeded!::
>Sub-Zero:"NO WAIE!"
>Scorpion Action: "I'm in yer spine, ripping your head off!"
>Quan Chi: "LOL YOU! I TROLL!"
>::Quan Chi has been banned from the server.::

@ActRaiserTheReturned

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