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The Prophecy

I consider forums and websites as disposal resources. Allegiance to them isn't my thing, so I vote to move--if only because RPG is unstable and Mahz has an extensive track record of not delivering on the promises that he makes.

New Years: Are You In?

Why are dwarves so unpopular?

Cadvin said
When people read about dwarves the first thing that pops into everyone's head is functionally identical to Gimli.

That's because people are unwilling to step outside of their comfort zones.

Seriously people, break some tropes. Shatter some stereotypes. Not everything has to adhere to the 'Tolkien Model' or the various mythologies that he based his series off of. Want to have a master dwarf mage that can disrupt molecular bonds through touch or thought? Do it. Want to have a dwarf arbalist that can put Legolas to shame? Do it.

This isn't rocket science.

For the Gods! [RECRUITING]

Schradinger said
Well you can certainly count me in on such a venture. For now though, do you want to just transfer our posts and continue the fight or do something more official?

Unsure at this point. We could either wait until the thread is relocated or we can create a 1x1 thread with this battle in it on Iwaku. To be honest, I'd rather wait until the entire thread is moved over so more players can hop in if they so desire. There's an Arena community on Iwaku, but it's relatively small. They might be down to join FtG.

For the Gods! [RECRUITING]

Schradinger said
I'd be cool with that. I just made an account and perused a bit, and it looks fairly promising, though the combat section seems far less active than it is (has been) here.

I've been wanted to change that ever since I signed up for the forum. Apparently, they'll create new sub-forums if enough genre-specific roleplays are created and if enough roleplayers express a keen interest in said specific genre and the roleplays associated with it. It's why I'm hoping to get a few Arena regulars on Iwaku so things can really get going.

For the Gods! [RECRUITING]

I kind of stopped posting on RPG due to the frequent and long-lasting outages. I'm fine with continuing the battle and remaining invested within the RP, but is there anyway we can relocate the RP to a new forum or something? Perhaps Iwaku? This might draw in more players to participate.

And it would also allow me to push Skallagrim into starting a new Multiverse Arena thread on there.

Actually, there's an unusual number of ex-RPGers and current RPGers on Iwaku itself---at least 70+ IIRC.

Amongst Living Gods (Sci-Fi NRP)

New WIP nation concept. And no Terminal, this doesn't exactly impact our shared history.

General Information

Number of planetary systems colonized: >3
>Home system of Aken/chief world of Yuka,
>Shield system of Numok/chief world of Avu
>Shield system of Kru/chief world of Doorodek

Number of planetary/star systems explored and strip-mined: 2,347

Number of cache holds: 560

Total population: 2,850,000,000,000 [rough estimate]

Government: Technocratic Autocracy operated by three yukanian technical experts known as the Trinity Infinitum.

Economy: Post-scarcity/Socialism

Species

Syn-yul: Syn-yul are yukanians that have voluntary abandoned their baseline or improved organic forms in order to don an android-like chassis. Syn-yul are a petite population, but each syn-yul is capable of demonstrating awesome feats of physical and mental capacities that far outstrip those of their neo-yul cousins. When wearing yul-made powered exoskeletons, syn-yul become exponentially more potent.

Proto-yul: Exceptionally rare yukanians that have somehow succeeded in retaining the standard yul biological form due to rare genetic mishaps, illegal 'genetic downgrading' or distinct yul family lines that have miraculously evaded X74 for dozens of generations. Proto-yul are an ostracized minority that faces wide-scale and deep-rending social ridicule, persecution and scrutiny from neo-yul and syn-yul persons alike, but their status as a fringe group and a suppressed, diminutive sub-derivative of the greater yul species has bound them together into an anarcho-primitivist society that firmly subscribes to a theory that foretells of a dire (and even cataclysmic) outcome for the yukanian species if unconstrained technological growth is permitted contentious advancement at its current rate.

Neo-yul: Genetically-engineered yukanians that were once the pinnacle of yul perfection. The X74: Mandatory Augmentative Procedure gave birth to the now-dominant neo-yul demographic. Immunity to malady, vastly enhanced physical abilities and biological immortality are just some of the perks being an 'evolved' specimen promises.

Military

Wardens: Orthodox warfare has not been practiced by the yukanian government for more than four centuries; conventional land warfare in particular has largely been superseded by mundane law enforcement action maintained by formally-sanctioned police personnel attached to the government bodies of yul Dissident Citadels. These police units, called 'Wardens', do not consist of standard neo-yul or proto-yul biological units, but are entirely comprised of syn-yul models that have willingly permitted themselves to be subjected to rigorous psychological-reconstruction procedures that ultimately strip them of their sense of morality and most of their primal emotions. While this creates a martial unit that is exempt from most forms of cognitive bias and prejudice thinking, Wardens are frequently cited by the teeming yukanian masses as being uncaring of others, lifeless and hyper-lethal 'engines of war' that are ill-suited for servicing the wishes, whims and plights of the people.

There is no questioning their effectiveness, however, which explains the astonishingly low crime rate in the Yaren Axis. Wardens utilize autonomous and semi-autonomous landcraft, aircraft and other robotic apparatuses to complete their assigned tasks and also have full access to their Dissident Citadel's primary and secondary systems.

Gun-Runners: A slang term used to describe yukanian mercenaries, typically Gun-Runners are ex-Wardens that have had their psycho-conditioning reversed and corrected so as to make navigating the 'social jungles' of other sapient species possible. Gun-Runners present themselves to xeno factions as hired guns and privateers, but their true task is to take stock of extraterrestrial military doctrines, alien technology, xeno biology, xeno culture, and other characteristics of the various alien civilizations and species that dwell within the galaxy at large.

Technology

Dissident Citadel: Dissident Citadels are entire nation states shaped in the form of gargantuan, fully-enclosed bunker complexes that are riddled with redundant defensive systems, life support capabilities and upper-surface weapon emplacements, with each one being of such massive scale and deep capacity that they are capable of housing billions of yukanians at a time. Dissident Citadels are tucked more than eighty miles below a world's crust and sport enough personal shielding and armor to make them highly-resistant to orbital molestation, while their armaments and sensor suites make frontal and discrete assaults difficult endeavors at best. All Dissident Citadels are physically and telematically linked to one another by way of bulk-transport/rapid-transit magneto-rail systems and microwave communications installations.

Arrogance of the Trinity: A disparaging (though entirely well-deserved) designation given to a mega-structure that engulfs the parent star of Yuka, Arrogance of the Trinity is an unfathomably-huge, artificial celestial construct that has no apparent function other than to act as an extreme display of the limitations of 'recent' breakthroughs in yukanian picotechnological fields. Its decade-long construction has led to the absolute depletion of hundreds of asteroid belts and planets within 'nearby' planetary systems and an overabundance of raw energy being harvested for yul use. Consequently (and with these consequences surely expected by the 'Trinity's chief designers and supporters but evidently unheeded), AoT's titanic mass has begun to throw the orbital alignments of the Aken system's planets out of synchronization and presents a real hazard to starships that draw too close to it, while the localized magnetic field that protects it from harm (rated as being several magnitudes more powerful than the field generated by a sizable magnetar) makes assaulting AoT a nigh-impossible prospect at best and a downright pointless endeavor at worst.



Thoughts of outfitting AoT with a myriad of phased-array x-ray laser cells and neutralized particle beam projectors has been entertained by yukanian military leaders; such a plan--should it move to the implementation phases--would lead to the Trinity becoming a system-scale static defense edifice.

A second dyson sphere, Insanity Personified, is under construction within the Numok system (and is approximately eighty-five percent completed), while a third, Normality Torn Asunder, has recently been validated for resource re-routing and allocation; it has been marked for Kru.

Gun-Runner's Armor: An advanced, atmospherically-sealed, self-repairing, mimetic powered exoskeleton model with similar visual appearances to a form-fitting body glove. Gun-Runner's Armor's integrated nuclear isomer energy cell provides power to the suit's electrically-motivated muscle strands, phased stealth array, self-maintenance machinery, and polarized energy shield skin weave. The exoskeleton was designed with pico-engineered materials graded to withstand multiple impacts from yul projectile and directed-energy weaponry.

Nexus: A generic term used to describe the yul's futuristic take on the Internet. Nexus, however, functions as a hub point at which Overmind--the collective conscious generated, utilized and maintained by all applicable yukanians—makes anchor. Nexus and Overmind ensure that all yukanians know what's going on at all times around them, within them and with their friends and acquaintances.

Artificial Intelligence: Invented, but was not a commercial success, and therefore never widely distributed. First AI entity was abruptly (and entirely) deleted after it's utter uselessness was firmly recognized and confirmed by yul technical experts that pitted their expensive creation against cheaper Enhanced Intelligence (EI) programs created using common yul citizens and a sufficient amount of customary cyberware.

Artificial Organ Construction: Has permitted the yul to create synthetic life and easily replace organs if needed. Sadly, the spread of yukanian 'life-forging hobbyists' has led to a substantial number of hyper-intelligent (and exceedingly dangerous) 'wild animals' wandering about within a number of Dissident Citadels.

Other Technologies: Pretty much everything projected to be available to Earth within the next fifty years. Speculative technologies apply as well.

Help with T1/Fighting as a Quadruped/Sparring Partner (Awful Thread Title)

I've heard the term "T1" thrown around multiple times around here, but I'm unsure exactly what T1 entails. Could someone enlighten me? Preferably with a TL;DR version if at all applicable?

Additionally, I need a sparring partner to test a character concept out that I've yet to see demonstrated in the Arena section: fighting as a four-legged creature. Either this character approach doesn't work at all whatsoever when dealing with super-powered bipeds, it's banned due to the rules and regulations that pertain to proper Arena combat or it's merely never crossed the mind of anyone until now.

For the Gods! [RECRUITING]

Schradinger said
The trajectory would have been altered by less than 20 degrees. Sovereign is currently behind Krix, and the second wolf is in front and to the left of him. He didn't stop them then hurl them back, he just nudged them onto a new course, something that requires much less willpower than stopping over two dozen stone projectiles traveling at over mach 2 dead in their tracks. He also didn't use the chain to do it, he was just re-coiling that around his arm. And for the purposes of this RP, the range would be effectively unlimited. His actual range is around 1 kilometer (getting weaker the farther away it is), but the arena isn't that big. It might be bigger than a 100 meter radius though, which is the range at which his sensory abilities begin to degrade enough to inhibit his perception of things.

It's probably a lot more than two-dozen stones; Sovereign coiled his twin fists around two different lumps of gravel. In possession of much larger hands than those of a normal human man, he'd have the capacity to gather more rocks--probably over a hundred (if you combined the two piles).

Also, with how fast characters in this RP can move, an arena constructed for humans doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Sovereign would be capable of ringing it completely multiple times within the span of a minute (if not a few seconds). Skall's character's swiftness and jumping capabilities and Mifune's speed would be severely gimped since he's unable to make full-use of it in such a confined space unless Mifune himself is restricting himself solely to melee combat ranges. Ranged characters, like Grnmachine's, are hindered as well; they'd be set upon by melee users within seconds. Presently, the battlefield favors characters like Krix who can exert a profound degree of control over the field of combat with little consequence since it's so petite in total radius and volume. Skall's character can generate a seismic shockwave that has a range of two full miles, so there's no way to avoid this unless you hurl yourself in the air or brace yourself before the character initiates this attack.

For the Gods! [RECRUITING]

Skallagrim said
Hence my reluctance to engage in combat at this time. Even my fight with Melon. Although I want to post the reality is I don't trust the site will remain stable for a lengthy missive.

Well, I've been scouting Iwaku for Arena-type RPs and Arena-style multiverse threads, but they're rare, and the only multiverse thread I found placed strong emphasis on porting characters from established fictional universes into rather chaotic combat scenarios rather than pushing the players to create custom characters fit for tiered and GMed battles. I recall seeing a character--some sort of anthropomorphic cartoon train--literally being described as being in possession of Toon Force. Needless to say, I closed the tab and went elsewhere.

Personally, I'd open a multiverse thread there, but I don't have the arena experience to pull something like that off without it failing quickly.