Lalliman

Boss Battle: Diabolus

Since Laios apparently hasn't had the time to judge you yet, i'll give you some feedback in the meanwhile.

Kitsune seems too powerful compared to our characters. All his powers are reasonable in themselves, but he has tons of different things going for him and very little weaknesses. He's both stronger and way faster than any of our characters, more durable by virtue of iron tails ánd has a bunch of really good offensive and utility spells. His only stated weaknesses are situational ones that you'd have to know about to utilize, and especially silver is unlikely to come up at any point in this rp.

That being said, there isn't an established power level barrier that i know of, so maybe Laios will allow him in at the later stages when the bosses' powerlevels are way higher. But at this stage, he could probably defeat any of the demons by himself.

Boss Battle: Diabolus

Seeing the beast's attention pulled by the other man, Shen decided to prepare an attack in return. He backed off, just in case, and raised his hand as a ball of flame formed in his palm. He would charge it for now to put more power into it, while waiting to see the demon's next move.

Boss Battle: Diabolus

As Shen was nearing ground level, he didn't expect the demon to be all too watchful of him, but kept his eyes on the beast anyways. When it bent over to effortlessly pick up a ruined car, he knew he had to be quick. He let go of the window sill he was holding and fell down the last 60 feet to the ground, getting out of the way right before the car crashed into the wall above him. He grunted and went through his knees when he hit the ground, but was overall unharmed. From there, he dashed to the side to avoid the falling debris that would soon follow.

Seeing that the other man was still on the demon's back, Shen figured that giving him a chance to attack was his their best shot. "Come get me, you cow!" He yelled at Diabolus to pull its attention, while keeping a safe distance in anticipation of a charge.

Boss Battle: Diabolus

Shen stabilized himself against the violent shaking of the building below his feet as he watched a third fighter emerge and position himself on the demon's back. Whoever he was, Shen hoped he could take advantage of the distraction provided. Feeling the building sag, he knew it wouldn't stand much longer, so he charged off to the right, jumped once he reached the edge of the roof and crashed into the next building right through the glass window. The shattered glass left tiny cuts across his skin, but he didn't flinch.

Now that the fight had begun, he knew he had to get on more even ground to do any damage. Figuring that the demon's bull charge into the wall will have gained him some time, he left out the same window that he came and began making his way down to a lower floor by going from lintel to lintel.

Boss Battle: Diabolus

"Heh, let's do this." Shen said as he saw the black steel monstrosity appearing down below. Without further hesitation, he stepped off the edge of the building, falling several yards before catching himself on a big rusty pipe that creaked and screamed under his weight. From there, he pushed off against the wall, launching himself across the gap between this building and the next. A few floors lower, he landed on the concrete roof of the shorter building, unharmed due to his superhuman physiology.

Against a foe that could tear down buildings, it’d be wise not to both be standing on the same one. In fact, if Shen could pull the monster’s attention to himself, perhaps the other man would be able to flank it. It seemed like a more viable plan than attacking the demon straight-on and hoping to get through its armor. Thus, he turned to the nearest rooftop unit and, with a little effort, tore it loose from its platform. He then lifted the heavy steel box above his head, moved to the edge of the roof and flung it down towards Diabolus. It wouldn’t harm the beast, he had no illusions about that, but it might be enough to get its attention.

Boss Battle: Diabolus

Hey Laios, how tall would you say the skyscrapers in this city are? "Skyscraper" could refer to anything between 80 and 800 meters tall, so it'd be good to have an indication. In the meanwhile, i'll just keep it ambiguous in my post.

The Doom Arena RP (OOC)

It's largely the same but without the hit points. Just as one individually judges whether or not their characters can dodge an attack, they also decide how much damage their character can take. There's also no standard rules on poison, you would just specify in your CS what it does and how quickly. Basically, the core mechanics are the same but it's far more arbitrary, which has its up and downsides.

Personally, i would be willing to try Emote, if only i wasn't kinda busy already. I'm only one person anyways though. If you used T1 you might attract more of the common arena-goers. Then again, maybe not, it's hard to reliably get a group of people together in the arena in general. It hasn't had a large population in a looong time.

The Doom Arena RP (OOC)

The lack of popularity for this thread is probably because Emote is a pretty restrictive system. Because there are no degrees of damage (only no damage, damage and vital damage) hard-hitting and/or durable characters are essentially not viable, in the end it all comes down to speed and manoeuvrability. It shuts out a lot of characters that way and depersonalizes others by invalidating things like elemental resistance and standardizing things like poison. It also has its advantages over the system we use here (which some will call T1), but force of habit is powerful and those used to using T1 are unlikely to try Emote.

The extremely low population of the arena section also has something to do with it though.

Boss Battle: Diabolus

Somehow the huge difference in height hadn't even occurred to me, i was just kinda following Drallinix' lead. Herp.

However, a better question might be what Free is gonna do if Diabolus decides to collapse the skyscraper...

Boss Battle: Diabolus

Shen's claws dug into crumbling concrete and thoroughly rusted metal as he climbed his way up the side of the skyscraper, fast and agile like a large green ape. He could already hear it, the distant hammering of a giant creature's footsteps. Soon the demon would be here, and he would fight it to the death to finally end its reign of slaughter. Whether he killed the beast or died trying, he would be freed from this blood-stained curse... for a time.

Upon reaching the top, he spotted the robed man. He figured there might be others around here, some heroes were all too eager to throw their lives away against an abomination like this. "Mage." he grunted as he pulled Usurper from the sheath on his back. The blade sang its violent song of bloodthirst, revelling in the approaching battle, a song only Shen could hear. "I assume we share a common cause. If you don't get in my way, i won't get in yours." He positioned himself at the edge of the building, awaiting the arrival Diabolus.