AtomicNut

Innocence Lost: Space Western Science Fantasy (Temporarily Open Again!)

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Innocence Lost: Space Western Science Fantasy (Temporarily Open Again!)

Hi. Refer to It as Bob

"Sloshy Fleshbags, rejoice, for It, Bob, has decided to grace you with its fiery presence. Also, keep your sebaceous secretions off its shiny crystal surface."

Name: -Unpronounceable-, The Sword of Mars, Lord of Charcoal, Heretic Rho, Burner of Batallions, among many names. It goes by Bob. It just loves how pathetically flappy are the moist operculums of organic races when trying to pronounce it.
Age: Really Old, Crystals grow at a snail's pace.
Physical Description:

Important items: "Does It look like it has pockets?"
Short Bio: "Ever since Bob coalesced in a tiny Crystal in the planet of Kaisoeki it gazed at the stars and their fiery cores. It always was marvelled on how all sorts of matter came to existence in such celestial forges. But what it found the most amazing was when some of these forges, when they run out of material, burned ever so brightly, spitting the laws of the cosmos in a last fiery stand only to leave a lasting scar of darkness in the fabric of existence itself. What you fleshbags called Supernovae, it was inspired by them. Others like it chose to weave. It chose to unravel. It was what you could call a warrior. It was what you could call an heretic. It burned across the cosmos the story of its existance. When the Thievers of light and Minerals, the Green mucks, what you refer as plant-folk Rau've it smiled in glee. It could turn into charcoal all of them, for they were vile. It did not really mind much the theft of our lessers cousins, as in the cosmos, the hard scratch and the soft are scratched. It served with what you call distinction and earned renown. It was again called to serve, this time by helping the green mucks against you fleshbags. But it drew the line when fleshbags tried to crush kin and put it inside them. It find it disgusting, and for that, they still must be crushed. Still, it does not harbour hard feelings to the fleshbags who were treated with our comrade's husks. For they were soft, and the soft are scratched. It finds amusing this fight between fleshbags, and it desires to join, so it can too, turn more organics into coal."
Special Spell/Ex. Skill List:

Phantom Limbs(Telekinesis-World): Bob can create force effects as if it had sloshy appendages, allowing it to manipulated devices like an organic would. It can also hit with the force of a punch and even fling people who aren't too heavy. Like an organic would.

Plasma Jet (World): Bob's spell workhorse, the spell causes to manifest dissociated hot gas to be blasted in a direction towards a target. Bob can either hit a target or propel itself through space at good speed. It has short range, but it packs quite the punch.
Gravity Prison (World): Traps a target into a field that increases the target's gravity self-pull significantly. Softer targets might implode instead of just merely be paralyzed.
Plunder(High): Steals the magic energy of a target in its vicinity.
Disgregate(Change): Bob can turn into a fine dust without suffering any ill effects. While this form allows Bob to seep through crevices, it also makes very vulnerable to attacks that might scatter it across a wide area. The spell is not instantaneous, and if sufficiently disgregated, Bob might eventually cease to exist. Bob can also use it on other targets to slowly and painfully desintegrate them, but it has to be maintaned.
Reaggregate(Change): The opposite spell of Disgregate, Bob can use this to reassemble itself should it suffer damage. It also serves as minor healing spell for fleshbags (but given their sloshy internal structures it won't be able to heal anything beyond clean breaks and cuts). It can also repair broken equipment.

Warp(Timespace):Bob is able to create micro-warps and travel faster than light without the need of a ship. However, the magic requires concentration, time, can be highly disruptive inside an atmosphere, can cause non Kaisoeki to randomly have their inner organs reassemble, can teleport itself inside a planet's core if it's not careful...etc. In short, only on void atmospheres, and only for Kaisoeki travel.

Force Shield(High): A shield made of raw mana. It's not the most efficient but works against a lot of things. It can protect other targets if they are near disgusting vicinity within Bob, and may allow them to Warp safely.

Exceptional Endurance - "It can survive in space. Can you, organic slush?"

Isle of Atria (Open World, Always Open)

I will wait a bit for @restless before moving on with the jerk and his pimped out ride.

Isle of Atria (Open World, Always Open)

Hm. Well. Alexander's response to the dragon would be "Murder it." Since, by my last post, he is waiting for Arlo outside.

I don't think that'll go over well. I guess I'll just wait and see.

@Valor

I mean you can try... but actions have consequences.

Isle of Atria (Open World, Always Open)

I expect that's true, depending on how they repopulate. Probably hurt during the war, maybe some lean times right after (10-30 years) but surged back as other populations recovered like deer or whatever. Probably peaked a couple hundred years ago if they breed like other animals. Or about now if the are pretty slow.

@Sophrus

I am going to make a guess and say they take 100-200 yrs to mature.

Isle of Atria (Open World, Always Open)

I'm sure some heroes did that during the war, if not dragons then maybe drakes or wyverns. Which is close enough for legends to run with.

And Darius has no idea how old it is, besides youngish.

@Sophrus

Also its funny but given a dragon's habits their numbers probably grew after the war collapsed the empires.

Before the war they would meet very organized hunting parties.

Isle of Atria (Open World, Always Open)

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That would make sense in current times, I would figure they would have been around during the war though. But I can edit (probably tomorrow) If you want. Not a big deal to me

@Sophrus

I mean theoretically it would be possible to make a bargain if you were rich an influential. But then your mount could think twice and eat you.

Btw this dragon in particular is the equivalent of a teenager.

Isle of Atria (Open World, Always Open)

@SophrusAh damnit, i was hoping to play Dragonriders as "something that should never exist". Given that dragons see the small races as thralls... if not food.

DBZ: The Sagas of The Z Warrior

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GT is not canon. Well, okay it is canon... kind of. It's in its own little alternate timeline. That was the explanation for it (and the Movies) offered by Xenoverse 2 and that's what I'm sticking with, personally.

As far as the actual mainline Dragon Ball universe... death follows an odd set of rules, not helped by them being retconned later in the series run on top of that.

In the beginning of the series, no one was supposed to be allowed to keep their bodies when they died. That's why all the dead people you see were characterized by the little cloud things. They're just souls with no bodies. Goku kept his body because of Kami. When Goku died, his body faded out of existence, and Piccolo confirmed that as Kami's doing. Even when Goku was wished back after his training with King Kai, he still needed to meet with Kami at the check in station in order to be transported back into the world of the living.

Fast forward to the Buu Saga, when Vegeta was about to blow himself up in a last-ditch effort to kill Buu. He asked Piccolo if he would see Kakarot in the other world, and Piccolo says it's not likely. He tells Vegeta that only those who were good and died selflessly are allowed to keep their bodies in the other world, and all the evil and horrible things Vegeta had done throughout his life up to that point probably meant he would just be another faceless soul and sent to hell to boot.

So there ya have it. Death was a lot harder to come back from in the early parts of the series even with the Dragon Balls. But once Kami was written out and fused into Piccolo, they couldn't use him as the explanation for fighters keeping their bodies or being able to return to the world from the check in station. So the rules were retconned into the way Piccolo explained them in the Buu Saga.

No matter which set of rules we follow (Personally I prefer the earlier rules that require us to make use of Kami, if just to give the old guy something to do) there's a pretty slim chance that a murderous Android who hates all of humanity is going to be keeping his body in the Other World.

@Double

Plus he doesn't like birds.

DBZ: The Sagas of The Z Warrior

@TheForgottenArc

Vegeta didn't escape from Hell. He was released and given his body back to deal with the threat of Majin Buu. Not even Frieza escaped from Hell. The only reason he came back was because the Dragon Balls. Hell is kind of... completely inescapable, otherwise every villain ever would have gotten out.

@Double

Unless you live in GT hell which is kinda cardboard.