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Power Rangers: Revival

@OGSG So um, I remember dropping a question in the interest check that went unanswered. I just assumed the game died or something. Now it seems I missed the ship entirely.

My question was about this particular Ranger...

Hider

...and whether they were available in some form, even as a rogue element to antagonize the team until eventually joining it or whatever.

Kingdom Hearts: Amalgam Hearts

@Aquaknight I'm interested as well. I also concur with Azure Flame's question about Transformable Keyblades. My interest lies firmly in Technoia. I'm thinking a student who has the conundrum of being inclined to agree with Hanyuu's theory but being thoroughly a student of science and logic over magic and mysticism. Yes I realize that sounds an awful lot like Ansem the Wise... and that's probably because I want to more thoroughly explore a character archetype like that.

Nothing incredibly specific, but I have thoughts about a Keyblade that can switch into a "gun mode" for lack of a better phrase.

Twisted Tales ~ Once Upon a Nightmare

@Fallenreaper@Raptra@Eric Horst@Darth Shadow@Rune_Alchemist

Apologies for all the delays, been trying to sit down and get the IC started only for something to come up or for writer's block to rear its head at me. I'm going to get the IC started tonight assuming nothing comes up. *knocks on wood*

Just wanted to address the concept of Glamours that I brought up earlier. They will work very similarly to the Wolf Among Us. They are basically disguise spells in a bottle for the most part. Glamours tend to require specific ingredients that are then kept together in a small, enchanted container of some kind. Imagine a vial or bottle small enough to fit into a locket or pendent or the like. Like with Fables, Glamours usually come in tiers of quality. The most basic Glamours are meant to be able to thinly veil a person's appearance in a way that can be obtained on the cheap. They are also the easiest to break. The quickest and most simple way to break a Glamour is simply separating it from the person wearing it, or even breaking the container outright. There are more advanced Glamours that can be used for more thorough disguises that are also harder to break and detect, but as you would expect they are also more expensive.

The info for Glamours will be added to the OP for future reference.

DBZ: The Sagas of The Z Warrior

@TheForgottenArc But how did he learn about them?

DBZ: The Sagas of The Z Warrior

How does anyone know about the Dragon Balls?

Twisted Tales ~ Once Upon a Nightmare

@Fallenreaper He can keep a low profile by avoiding areas with heavy traffic. It's impossible for him to stay invisible, but he's small enough to probably know how duck into places that are out of sight. Glamours will also become an option, but I can't really explain those in more detail right now because I'm not at my computer. I meant to start the IC over the weekend but didn't get the chance.

DBZ: The Sagas of The Z Warrior

@geminironin I posted a couple days ago, by the way. I don't know if you were alerted properly or not...

DBZ: The Sagas of The Z Warrior

@TheForgottenArc Eh, I'm just not very keen on the idea that someone can just escape from Hell. Especially this early when everyone is at their absolute weakest. Otherwise what's the point of even killing people like Frieza and Cell if someone as piss-weak as us can just escape and continue their rampage?

DBZ: The Sagas of The Z Warrior

@Double also worth noting that the Earth Dragon Balls can only bring someone back to life once. Which was why Yamcha dying to the Saibaman was such a big deal because he had already died once and couldn't be resurrected a second time.

Actually, that might have been the whole reason they went to Namek in the first place? Since their Dragon Balls were stronger and could be used to resurrect people multiple times? I don't know, it's been a while.

@King Cosmos

I think it was Ciaotzu that had already died once? I forget. But I do know that the reason they went to Namek was because Piccolo (and by extension, Kami) died and thus the Earth Dragon Balls vanished.

It's not even that Shenron couldn't resurrect someone twice. I believe the exact words were that he couldn't grant the same wish twice. So for instance, he couldn't even give Oolong another pair of underwear because he granted that wish once already. Weird limitation but then again Shenron's rules about wishes tended to get a little weirder as time went on. And that's not even mentioning GT where there was suddenly a set of Black Star Dragon Balls with no explanation for the their origin and the actual evil Shenrons that came about later because granting wishes apparently corrupts the Balls? Moral of the story is GT was stupid. <_<

DBZ: The Sagas of The Z Warrior

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Unless you live in GT hell which is kinda cardboard.

@AtomicNut

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.