Snagglepuss89 — Roleplayer Guild

@GenkaiSo, I have a bit of an involved question that has more to do with the part of the setting I'm creating than the character directly (Although indirectly has a pretty big impact for him, especially in regards to the culture and history of the part of the world he grew up in).

Essentially, while this is a mixed fantasy setting where I assume tech is going to more or less be all over the place (For the world they started on) are metal ships a widespread technology? Particularly in regards to nations and their navies.

On another note: since the character is obviously going to be involved with a navy: Do you want a character with leadership experience to be off limits/reserved for GM and co-GM access? So as to avoid one character assuming control of the group almost by default.

Lawrence B. Ellison

Survived unscathed and full of contempt.
@erode@dragonmancer@Riffus Maximus@PapiTan@Chasers115@Piercing Light@Baklava@RedDusk@Deathmyster

Of course, Lawrence needed no healing after the match was over. Though he probably carried more scars than the rest of them combined- save for the Marcus kid- he'd managed to avoid the clusterfuck of violence that the match had quickly descended into. Taken in the context of a friendly game of "Capture the Flag" the experiment had been a complete failure. However- he couldn't argue the value that this match had given its participants. It was going to be harder for team 3 and 4 to work together after this but then again it would be easier for them to respond to a combat situation- and in a couple cases the shock of severe injury. Whether that was more or less valuable than what was lost Lawrence couldn't say.

Either way what was done is done. Part of him the part that was still pissed off- wanted to gather bother teams together and let everyone know how badly they had all fucked up during this exercise. While the collected part of him advised that he should focus on making as few enemies as possible amongst the people he would have to entrust his life to. As usual, the latter won out. While he wanted to write evaluations for his own team, for now he would have to settle for only having evaluated the first group that fought.

Team One

Sander - You're an aberration, I get it. I'm not criticizing you for not having self control yet, but the reality is you need to find a way to establish some stability with your power. Being strong is great until it harms your own team, and you will be killed if it saves you from hurting someone else. Focus on training your mind, not your powers. I think your life depends on it. ~ Lawrence

Angelique - What is there to say? You didn't fuck up horribly or excel. You managed to hold your own though against the challenges presented, and perhaps with some more actual experience you'll be able to turn that self sufficience into an actual benefit for completing missions. As it is, I mainly recommend involving yourself in more fights until you can keep a better awareness of the big picture happening around you. ~ Lawrence

Marcus - Did a passable job, the whole nose thing was unneeded, but I'm hardly going to criticize a bit of eye-for-an-eye when we saw what happened to his arm. For the most part he used what power he had in an effort to take flags instead of do harm and with his power compared to what he was up against he did a good job. Try to learn from the arm breaking thing though and not get injured in the first place. I'm not sure if you can rewind from a decapitation but it's best to never have to figure out. ~ Lawrence

Grant - You've earned a rest, and probably pound-for-pound was the most effective member of both teams for what you managed to accomplish. If you can perform like that on an actual battlefield then I'd say your chances of survival at USARILN East are pretty high. ~ Lawrence

Team Two

Callan - As potentially the strongest combatant in this match, with the fewest drawbacks, it says something about both you and the other team that you were taken out. While it's nice to see you took it as an actual game instead of just using your ability to splatter everyone against the pavement, you really need to keep your wits about you and exploit your power advantage. You don't have a stigma to hold you back or literal bloodlust like Sander does. Brawn doesn't exclude you from using brains as well, and I think some mental exercize would be more beneficial than physical at this point. ~ Lawrence

Christopher - I don't know how your brain works when in dragon form, I haven't had the chance to talk in depth with too many shapeshifters about their powers. When dealing with Angel though you clearly had some intelligence and sense of self. Letting yourself get baited at the beginning of the match though is a good way to get yourself and your team killed in a real life situation. I'd spend every free moment of every day that you have in that form, until you're able to control yourself properly both inside and out of it. ~ Lawrence

Siena - Honestly, out of everyone here I think practical experience with fighting would help you best. From what I've seen your power has perhaps the most utility out of everybody- but you're not at a point where you can use it to efficiently work towards an objective. If you could ever maintain the ability to keep a cool head follow through with a solid plan I'm sure you'd be an asset. Right now though I have no idea if placing you in a battle would result in success or failure, and I'm sure you don't know either. ~ Lawrence

Kusari - You need to evaluate costs and gains more closely at times like these. I get that you can regenerate, but I'm also assuming you still feel pain considering how you overreacted to that punch from Marcus. So, the pain of self dismemberment, plus the potential mental trauma of your classmates watching you do that, plus potentially making enemies out of the people you were fighting with, it's not at all worth winning a silly flag game over. I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I think old fashioned therapy might be a good precaution before any future endeavors. ~ Lawrence

Thinking back on the last one he had written in particular was a bitter experience after this match. It was, in the end, a good thing they only had to evaluate the matches that they weren't a part of, or Lawrence would have hesitated to put his name on this round of them. Still though, how much of it could be blamed on the participants? The organizers weren't stupid enough to not realize putting seven aberrations with hardly any experience or control into a mock battle was a bad idea. The fact that the match hadn't been stopped the second that Hazel sliced the building was a pretty good indication that they had expected at least some of what had occured over those ten minutes. 

“Hey, Lawrence, right?”

He was pulled out of his thoughts by one of the people he had just competed against. Specifically the one who had almost killed Hazel and subsequently was stripped naked by Lawrence himself. He found that he couldn't return the guy's smile in his present state of mind- not that Lawrence was prone to smiling on any given day- but tried not to scowl outright in response. Likely, given what he'd seen, the attempted murder was bred from inexperience rather than ill intent. 

“Name’s Brent. Mind handing my stuff back? Machete, gun, and phone. Don’t think there’s anything left of my pants though. Pretty interesting move, by the way, using that in place of rope. Where did you learn that from?”

"Experience."

He answered simply. It's not like he'd picked it up from a book or movie. He needed something to secure an overly violent hostage with and clothes fit the bill at the time. Overall Brent had made it out of the match with more clothing on than some of the participants, so Lawrence hadn't thought shaming him with a bit of nakedness was going to be a big deal. It seemed, by the guy's reaction, that he had been right. Still, he hesitated before giving the weapons back to their owner. They shouldn't have even been a part of the match in the first place.

"I'm not sure why you brought a gun to the match in the first place unless you intended to kill someone on my team- but I don't think it was a good idea to bring these things along. Maybe you weren't thinking, but if I saw you armed like this and thought I was in danger- I would have killed you."

With that, he finally handed the gun and machete back to Brent before walking away, offering a wave with the back of his hand and a reply to ease the tension as he did so:

"Everyone survived though, so just take it as food for thought for next time. I think your phone's still lying on the ground on the top floor."

With that he distanced himself from the rest of the group, in even less of a mood to socialize than he usually was. He just hoped everyone else was in the same sort of mood he was.

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