[OOC] The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

[OfficerHeadbutt]

Shots fired

[AcerRo]

@Archmage MC How is Nancy gonna kill anyone? She's an inept klutz that can make zombies. Remember, we're throwing out anything that happened in third arc.

If you want I can go back and find where more than one person had this concern. I have it as well. Just explain why she needs to have near infinite power and immortality. Explain how the toon thing adds something to the character.

[Raijinslayer]

@AcerRoHey, what's the UGM looking like as far as a leader. Need to know if Sebastian should be locked up or not like last time.

[Archmage MC]

@Archmage MC How is Nancy gonna kill anyone? She's an inept klutz that can make zombies. Remember, we're throwing out anything that happened in third arc.

If you want I can go back and find where more than one person had this concern. I have it as well. Just explain why she needs to have near infinite power and immortality. Explain how the toon thing adds something to the character.

@AcerRo

You don't like Deadpool? She does what he does but without the offensive power of his weapons. Toon is just a way to explain the powers in one set without using technology. If you have another idea on that let me know. I know I'd like to have her be more faye related, IE, weakness to iron and silver, but that needs more details in linking all the powers together.

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Which one? Camille who had no troubles getting in or Patel, the NPC plot tool with the only goal to steamroll? Pretty sure they didn't stir anything in the administration. Pretty sure they could both die and both had weaknesses.

@Savato

Camille. They didn't complain as much because no one else complained about things, while you were so vocal with Light that you brought other people to your side even though she didn't win any of her fights at all. The other one was a player controlled baddie like in arc 2 so thats fine.

[Savato]

Right so your complaint is that she had no weaknesses and could kill anyone in one shot.

Here's the problem with your reasoning: A lot of powers that inflict a direct attack will kill you. May it be lava, acid (very similar to Camille's powers), super fire attacks like Eli uses, and so on. Pretty sure a knife can one shot someone if stabbed on the body or head.

You claim Camille had no weaknesses:

1) Low stamina, she couldn't use some of her powers for very long. Only reason she lasted with Light was because Cedric failed very hard.
2) Glass cannon, a simple punch to the face decommissions her. Shooting her with anything kills her.
3) Let's face it, if you didn't purposely dick around you'd have beaten her easily. Not even a weakness, just a huge difference in power.
4) Oh yah and she wasn't smart at all. She had pretty low intelligence, but good creativity.

Don't pin this on me. Camille was totally fine with all the GM's. And never one complaint.

[Archmage MC]

Right so your complaint is that she had no weaknesses and could kill anyone in one shot.

Here's the problem with your reasoning: A lot of powers that inflict a direct attack will kill you. May it be lava, acid (very similar to Camille's powers), super fire attacks like Eli uses, and so on. Pretty sure a knife can one shot someone if stabbed on the body or head.

You claim Camille had no weaknesses:

1) Low stamina, she couldn't use some of her powers for very long. Only reason she lasted with Light was because Cedric failed very hard.
2) Glass cannon, a simple punch to the face decommissions her. Shooting her with anything kills her.
3) Let's face it, if you didn't purposely dick around you'd have beaten her easily. Not even a weakness, just a huge difference in power.
4) Oh yah and she wasn't smart at all. She had pretty low intelligence, but good creativity.

Don't pin this on me. Camille was totally fine with all the GM's. And never one complaint.

@Savato

Mate, Light punched you in the face quite often at the start of the fight and your response was "Light was afflicted by Camile's time rot ability and turned to dust before her punch impacted Camille." So glass cannon doesn't work as a weakness. She also tried long range combat, which you countered with "blood wave" over and over which makes ranged or stamina not weaknesses either. And Light is sorta supposed to mess around while fighting, thats her personallity. Meanwhile I had to feed you exact instructions on how to beat her OOC because everyone was complaining when I said at the start when making her that Batman tactics are her direct counter.

[Savato]

Erm, you're kinda supposed to hit someone without being hit yourself, ya' know. Lol. Since we were allowed to auto-hit, that's what happened, you'd get automatically hit so your attacks would suck. Pretty self-explanatory when the context is put into place, right mate?

Pretty sure Camille got very tired.

Batman tactics -> Metagaming. And I agree, no one can beat her without it.

[OfficerHeadbutt]

This is getting heated. Where's my popcorn?

[Pirouette]

Hey butts.... Drop it. Both of you.

[Savato]

@Pirouette Yes mom.

[AcerRo]

@AcerRoHey, what's the UGM looking like as far as a leader. Need to know if Sebastian should be locked up or not like last time.

@Raijinslayer

Nothing so far. You want you got it.

You don't like Deadpool? She does what he does but without the offensive power of his weapons. Toon is just a way to explain the powers in one set without using technology. If you have another idea on that let me know. I know I'd like to have her be more faye related, IE, weakness to iron and silver, but that needs more details in linking all the powers together.

@Archmage MC

Now we're getting somewhere, I'm asking for some weaknesses, that we find a way that she can be beat.

Batman tactics -> Metagaming. And I agree, no one can beat her without it.

@Savato

There has not ever nor will there ever be a Batman like character. That combo is way too OP. We are gonna have some OP villains and that is by design, PCs need to be beatable.

[Archmage MC]

Erm, you're kinda supposed to hit someone without being hit yourself, ya' know. Lol. Since we were allowed to auto-hit, that's what happened, you'd get automatically hit so your attacks would suck. Pretty self-explanatory when the context is put into place, right mate?

Pretty sure Camille got very tired.

Batman tactics -> Metagaming. And I agree, no one can beat her without it.

@Savato

The way you auto hit though made no sense, but whatever.

Pretty sure you just used a healing pot afterwords to negate all the energy lost in the fight.

Batman tactics > something every character can do if they apply a little brain power behind it. A cop with a .45 and a rope/handcuffs could take down Light with how I have her weaknesses. but then since people don't wanna think outside the box and just wanna stick to "smash it til it dies", which is what Light hard counters, I've gotta do your thinking for you, which is incredibly unfair to me.

I didn't complain because I was having fun either way. But you wanted to bring this all up again because you didn't wanna think outside the box with the fight with Light and had me tell you how to win the fight. Meanwhile before that I had given you many warnings that you can't fight Light traditionally and you ignored them.

Honestly I don't think you've ever played DnD or any related games ever, because if you did, you'd know exactly how to deal with Light without me needing to explain a thing. Or you could just watch Fullmetal Alchemist, Brotherhood, and see how Edward deals with Gluttony in the trainyard. I'm pretty sure I gave that as an example but you know, I was ignored again so whatever. And you'd enjoy FMA:Brotherhood. Its easily one of the best Japanese animated stories out there, and Funimation spared no expense when it came to dubbing it so the dub is pretty much better than the sub unless you like the sub voices.

@acerro

If you don't mine a faye retcon I can try to make her powers work like that no problem.

Batman is just hit and run > non lethal takedown. Pretty sure you could do that IRL if you knew how to throw a boa.

[c3p-0h]

hey look a distraction

Aya

Name: Aya Lynn Germain
Alias(s): Cosmos
Age: 19
Affiliations: N/A
Factions: Honestly just trying to get by
Description:


Small and lithe, Aya's 5' build betrays none of her strength – she has years' worth of lean muscle hidden under her clothes, built up from doing aikido. Her long hair falls down her back, dark brown and thick. She's never been one for doing much with it. Aside from the occasional ponytail or braid, she's content to just let it rest where it falls. Her eyes are a deep brown color, and fairly weak. She's supposed to wear glasses, but she often finds them too much of a hassle to put on, and dislikes the idea of contacts.

Powers: Astral Projection
Aya is capable of extending her consciousness outside of her body. Invisible to others, her spirit form is capable of passing through solid objects or going into dangerous situations or environments that she otherwise would avoid. She can also create projections of other people if she's touching them, separating their consciousness from their bodies. She has to be touching them to bring them back for the astral plane, however. If Aya snaps back to her body without touching the other person’s projection, then the person will be stuck there until she snaps to the other side again to bring them back.
Aya also has the ability to glimpse into another person's soul when it leaves their body – that is to say, when they're dying. When on the astral plane, the soul materializes as a shimmering silver dust, floating from the body to the sky. If Aya touches this, she can get flashes of what they saw and thought in the moments before they died.
She’s still in the process of figuring out how her powers work and there are likely still things that she doesn’t know about them. In the past she actively tried to avoid using them because she was so nervous about the potential consequences she could face if they were discovered, but now it's more out of habit.

Strengths: Aya can keep up her projection indefinitely, and can hear and see everything around her, making her ideal for reconnaissance missions. So long as she keeps up her concentration, she can also sustain the projection up to three miles from her physical location. She also has a heightened awareness of the astral plane and everything on it, such as ghosts or other metas who might make use of it.
Weaknesses: When maintaining her projection, her physical body is more or less helpless. She's still conscious, and can talk to others, but it's difficult for her to move, and she is oblivious to her surroundings. Due to her projection's intangible nature, she's also unable to influence her spiritual environment or talk to anyone through it.

Skills: Aikido, fluent in English and Japanese, conversational in Spanish, intelligent, adaptable
Equipment: N/A
Ranking: C

Brief History: Aya was just a quiet girl from Oahu before all of this. The discovery of her power had been terrifying to say the least, but keeping it hidden was an easy task. It’s not like her ability was particularly noteworthy anyway – she couldn’t breathe fire or heal herself or anything like that… thus life went on as usual for her. Her parents separated when she was young, her mom moving back to Japan. Aya's relationship with her today is still strained, but she had a happy life with her father. That is, until her dad was diagnosed with cancer when she was sixteen. Then life got a bit harder.

They were well-off financially, so medical bills weren't much of an issue. But despite their best efforts, Mr. Germain continued to deteriorate. He passed away when Aya was 18, just before she graduated high school. The day that he died, Aya had been sitting at his hospital bed, holding his hand. He was asleep, and she'd already gone through the stages of grief, accepting that he was going to die. Then his heart monitor began to sputter. Aya snapped to attention gripping his hand and hoping for any way to make him better, or at peace, or something. Her hopes manifested in her powers activating on accident.

On the astral plane, Mr. Germain was as hearty and alert as he'd been before his diagnosis. They were both shocked at the turn of events… and then he realized what had happened. His daughter was a meta. It was no secret that the Germain house wasn't the most welcoming to metas, which was part of the reason why Aya kept it secret for so long. He didn't cry or shout or reject her as she feared he would… instead, he just sighed. Like he was disappointed. Aya thought that was probably worse. But he still loved his daughter and he smiled through the sadness and stroked her hair until he finally faded away. Aya hasn't used her powers since then.

After graduating from high school, Aya left "the rock” for college in LA. She’s not exactly a big-city girl, but she gets along fine. She takes her classes, works part time at a local bookstore, and makes her way through tense, weekly phone calls with her mom. Thus far she's done a very good job of keeping out of meta politics, and to this day she remains unregistered and undiscovered.

now how about we stop arguing and let the gm decide what is and isn't hax.

[Raijinslayer]

@AcerRoAs tempting an offer as that is, Sebastian wouldn't be good at leading people. Leading them on, yes, but actually leading would be tough. That and he doesn't really inspire people to follow him.

@c3p-0h Yeah, Aya's coming back, which means Sebastian get to meet his favorite t-, I mean, person again. Yeah, person.

[Savato]

@Archmage MC Mom said cut it out.

As for FMAB, I've seen it. I loved it. But it's beside the point. Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think outside he box. The pretentiousness is strong.

[c3p-0h]

@c3p-0h Yeah, Aya's coming back, which means Sebastian get to meet his favorite t-, I mean, person again. Yeah, person.

@Raijinslayer

uh oh

[Archmage MC]

myemail.constantcontact.com/Artists-Al..

Great. SOPA for Artists. Gotta love what the US congress wants to try to get away with. Even if you don't live in the US, this little law being passed will affect you dramatically due to how Google is a US business as well as many art selling sites and the like.

[Pirouette]

Honey

Name: -

Alias(s): Honey Day

Age: 32

Affiliations: None

Factions: None


Description: 5'9". Thin, pale complexion. Appears to never bathe and yet... She always smells of flowers, evergreen, or some plant in between.

Powers: Life Manipulation: Honey has ability to full manipulate life around her in a positive manner. If her optimistic smile and attitude doesn't make your life positive enough, she exudes an aura, (approximately twenty-five meters) of happiness that is a bit infectious and infatuating to those around her. People claim to be deeply satisfied with life around Honey, but some unfortunate few, do report only a mild increase of happiness. Her aura's ability is said to have the ability to slowly heal wounds and cure diseases and other ailments over time. The closer you are, the effects become noticeable.

Life Creation: Honey can create life, although she mainly uses this ability to create various flora, including but not limited to: local, exotic, and non-existent, being able to create mythical things with mythical effects. Plants are easiest to create but Honey can also extend her talents to create animals, difficulty ranging from simple bugs to primates to things found in only fiction. She can alter a subject to grow and mature rapidly, allowing a creation to skip the infantile stages in a matter of moments. Her Life Creation ability offers a huge variety of defensive possibilities, such as healing, non-lethal suppression, and protection. Anything she creates will follow any commands issued by Honey and Honey alone. But for everything she brings into the world, she must remain nearby as many of her constructs decay at a very rapid rate (eventually to ash) while she leaves them unattended for a span of time.

Weakness: Everything she creates ends up being very docile, even predatory animals, whose instinct is to kill to survive, will not kill. Honey, by her choice even, has no offensive abilities and will not be the aggressor in any fight. Another drawback is that Honey's Happy Aura does not discriminate and will cheer up and heal anyone in her aura, including opponents.

Skills: A very skilled gardener, animal-whisper, avid musician

Equipment: A small country home

Brief History: Honey Day is essentially 'non-existent' as far as the government is concerned. Her true identity was erased at around the time the "Hots" and "Colds" were a common saying (Pre-Arc) by a very Well-Spoken Man.

She makes her own food, sings on the street for money, and pays only a small amount to a landlord (thanks to a very convincing aura). Her tastes in 1970s music and fashion added with her hippie lifestyle, it is believed she died back then but that's really only a rumor circling around those that know her. As of two weeks ago, Honey has left her quaint little dwelling for the battleground that is Los Angeles. She felt a real urge to do good and find her calling in this second life.

[Raijinslayer]

@PirouetteHoney is going to be like kryptonie to one of my new character's forms.

[OfficerHeadbutt]

When I watched coven I found myself very attracted to misty day. Not so much with her characters in previous seasons. Haven't gotten around to watching freak show yet.