ImportantNobody

(Discussion) A different type of MB for us.

@ImportantNobody
Hey, do you have discord?

@LeeRoy

What is that?

(Discussion) A different type of MB for us.

I... think, it might be best to discard the term 'multiverse' and instead focus on the persistent world element. If that means certain characters are excluded, so be it. The characters should mould to the setting, rather than stretching the setting to accommodate every type of character.

@MelonHead

I'm fine with this even if it means Evvie's out. We can still do other multiverse battles outside of this roleplay, after all. Perhaps I'll at last find inspiration to get a new character out once this setting develops.

From my point of view, persistent worlds could be the best if you have a thread for each location. For example, if a group of characters want to go to the Olde Woods, there would be a thread labeled as such as you jump into. I believe we did something similar in the past but not on large scale. This style of roleplay is best if the forum itself is dedicated to it, unfortunately, as it would take up a lot of threads and organization would be an issue on here. If we made another forum then getting a lot of people involved would be a separate issue, as we'd need advertisements and stuff.

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Ever read The Ballad of Edgardo?

Why not use that as a world?

@LeeRoy

We don't know much about the world's setting. A similar tone is fine with me, allowing muscular men with squids for faces and all if they really wanted.

It could be interesting to single out certain characters and try to make their lives miserable and they have to power through it. All in good fun, of course. So for those of you who don't know the story, mods kept trying to destroy two characters by throwing in "random event" challenges and then sent characters out to kill them, yet somehow the underdogs survived and exploited loopholes and stuff to win.

It seems like the way this multiverse will run will allow for random events and stuff as they progress through the story, so something like that could happen to willing victims.

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You may think the Olde Wood is unimportant, but it actually becomes the most sought over land in all the...land. It is where wars start and end. The land to launch 1,000 ships. Indeed, I shall claim that land or die trying. Possibly die trying many times as Evvie's track record will likely suggest.

On a serious note, maybe I'll create the battleground for Olde Wood.

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@ImportantNobody
What if they're...

What if the characters aren't real?

Like, Smash Bros?

But not dolls.

They're weaker copies of the original character, thrown into a wholly new world.

So they can be the character with reduced versions of their own powers, born into the world where the roleplay takes place?

@LeeRoy

Heroes from the multiverse have their essence collected by some cosmic entity and placed into empty vessels that take on their form and some of their power. This will also explain how they come back to life as the essence gains a new empty vessel to use. The taken essence is its own entity from the hero it was taken from even if originally meant to be an exact copy. They can learn and remember even if they die and transfer to another vessel. The essences are sort of like mercenaries because they can be summoned to aid in conflict across the multiverse.

The ability to be summoned is built into their vessel so they must obey the summon, although perhaps later on can develop a method to free themselves from such obligation.

This is similar to an anime series but has plenty of original ideas. In the anime its past heroes categorized into different classes such as archer and berserker and they fight over a McGuffin. For example, you can summon the anime's interpretation of King Arthur.

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So characters were summoned from all over the multiverse but in the process lost most of their power so they have the regain their strength over time. The world can't be traveled to through other means so there can't just be an all powerful alien race landing there to disrupt everything. Sound good?

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Taking place in a single fantasy world means, from my point of view, that it shouldn't really be a multiverse, but instead a roleplay simply for this epic world we all add ideas to. That would also help wrangle in the characters to a more consistent level rather than have Super Saiyans existing in the same setting. There would always have to be a hand wave why they couldn't help out in the lower tier fights otherwise.

Our setting could allow a lot of different paths that magic could take so characters like Evvie can still exist, or people with unconventional magic. Basically, a sort of magical evolution can take place in idviduals.

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We could have campaigns in addition to one central thread where characters of all shapes and sizes can enter to mess around more.

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I'd be up for this method.

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Jodar (name autocorrected to Kodak) looks inspired by megaman.

Kodak sounds like the name a mortal combat character would have. Or a cyborg humanoid dinosaur with an eyepatch. Random thought but it fits. Maybe I could add a random x to it. Kodakx. He uses a laser canon.