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18 days ago
Current Happy Halloween!
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20 days ago
I used to love the holiday season as a kid, but these days I’m terrified that the strange man in red is going to break into my home again and leave another suspicious package under one of my plants.
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26 days ago
Alright, that's it! I've had enough of this damn heat. Bring me my matches, it’s time to burn the sun down.
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1 mo ago
If there are 3600 rats living in my bones and I eat one every second, how long will it take me to eat all the rats? Assume each rat undergoes binary fission exactly once every hour.
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Adventurer, the rats in my basement have merged into a fractal entity! I will pay you 4 silver coins to slay the infinite rat(s) in my basement.
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Goblin Aya

When the goblin girl had first woken up she'd immediately begun to freak out. Being born was frightening, even more so when she was pretty sure this wasn't the first time it'd happened. Even if she couldn't remember the previous time, she was almost certain she'd had a different life, one that she'd been living up until she'd woken up wherever it was she was now.

Panic mounting she'd tried to pick herself up, but had found herself lacking the strength to do so, instead only managing to flail her tiny green limbs. Wait why were her limbs green? Oh right, she was a goblin now. She probably should have taken more time to consider the fact that she hadn't been a goblin prior to now, at least as far as she could recall, work out just how she knew she was a goblin in the first place, or answer any of the multitudes of other questions all this raised, but it seemed as though her current form wasn't quite yet as capable of handling as much excitement as her previous one so instead she'd begun to cry.



It was the third day since the goblin had first woken up. She probably could have continued crying up until now, had her body not quickly exhausted itself on that day and fallen asleep. The goblin girl guessed that made sense, she'd since worked out that she was a baby so it was only natural that she'd spend much of her time sleeping. Or at least she had been a baby, looking now she seemed to be the size of a young child now possessing more than enough strength to pick herself up. It seemed goblins grew faster than they had any right to, did that mean they'd also die young? If she continued to age at the rate she had been wouldn't she only live for... She forcibly pushed away that line of thought with a shudder, there were more important things to freak out about for now.

Now standing up for the first time since she'd become a goblin, well for the first time she could remember ever doing so really though she was pretty sure she'd stood in her past life, the goblin observed her surroundings. She was in a building of some sort, perhaps some kind of rundown church, though she failed to recognise any iconography. More importantly, she was surrounded by goblins, quite a few of which looked to be stirring to get up for the first time as she had just done or who had otherwise already done so.

She watched one of her... sisters(?) complain about wanting food, and another one chastisee them for it. Wait how did she understand her siblings? She was three days old and she was pretty sure she hadn't heard enough of whatever language they were speaking to properly contextualise it yet... another goblin, a large male, arrived carrying what appeared to be a rabbit but with a large horn protruding from its forehead.

The young goblin was realising now that she was pretty hungry, the sight of the horned rabbit causing her to salivate. Should she go up and ask for some? Maybe not, there clearly wasn't enough to feed them all and if it came to a fight she doubted she could do much. Actually, given how pointy her teeth felt in her mouth she was pretty sure goblins were preditors of some sort, so fighting her siblings would probably be a bad idea if she didn't want to get hurt. Then again what if avoiding fights just meant that she would never get food until she eventually starved to death? That sounded even worst than getting injured in a fight! Trying to push down the rising panic she felt the goblin took a moment to think things through some, the larger goblin with the rabbit had probably hunted it down and it seemed like one of her sisters was planning to do the same, so why couldn't she also go hunting? Because hunting in an unknown place shortly after birth seemed like a really stupid idea. What if she tried to go with her sister? That also seemed like a bad idea, but not nearly as much so, especially if they played things smart.

Unable to think of a better plan the goblin mustered up what courage she could before approaching her sister, "Er. Um..." Wait was talking to people meant to be this hard? Surely not when it was a sibling. Was she forgetting some kind of trick to it... oh yeah, that was right. The goblin let the corners of her mouth begin to twitch up into a smile before stretching the whole thing into the horrifying grin she'd perfected in her bast life. As long as she pretended to be someone else talking wouldn't be so hard. "Er.. sister are you going to hunt something? Could I come with? I think..."

The goblin paused, she should wait for a response before anything else and at the very least she should spend some time thinking her plans through before actually presenting them.



@Rune_Alchemist
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Alright! So basically I switched out the charm thing for a "copy abilities/items" skill with the theme of 'recreation'.

She can make a recreation/copy of items, and also recreate/copy the capabilities (aka: skills/techniques/powers/abilities) of others, as the effect of this skill by just perceiving/seeing them. Her senses and mind record the info and analyze things passively as a mechanical means for her to be able to recreate stuff at all, and basically doing that will never be a problem.

The hard rule is, however, that these 'recreations' both object and capabilities are always inferior to the originals and lose in a straight match of power. Like if you observed the spear-fighting skills of a guy, and then he got better years later, you'd only be able to recreate 'the skills that person had at that point in time' you saw him before and would have to go observe the guy again to be able to be able to recreate his improved skills. Either way if you tried fighting him with a spear and a recreation of his own skills, you'd always lose in straight up match of just his spear skills vs your recreation of his spear skills.

Further, something like a divine blessing given to or inherited by a specific individual can't be recreated. Certain powers like 'can shoot out webs cause they killed enough spiders', techniques that can be learned such as weapon-wielding techniques, skills like sewing, etc, can be recreated though.

Likewise and more so limiting this power is also the wielder's state of evolution, or the strength of their soul, so the stronger the wielder becomes through evolution the more powerful the objects and capabilities they can actually recreate. As a base goblin, for example, you couldn't recreate the skills of a hobgoblin or an item that only something stronger than a hobgoblin could wield for one reason or another...but could do so when it comes to other goblins and the things they can utilize or own. Or if a hobgoblin wields a weapon or shield or other item they made as or could still wield as a goblin, then a base goblin with this power could recreate those objects in such a case.

As a base goblin, these objects and capabilities only last for five minutes at most (aka just five minutes outright every time and then suddenly disappear) when recreated. On the other hand, this skill can always be used to recreate stuff over and over so you can spam copies since they are already naturally inferior but good-quality copies. :P

Finally, as an aside, in the specific case of 'recreated objects' there is another catch. If you 'overload' them with magical energy, then they can very very briefly match the power of the original item they were based after. Very, very, briefly. As a result, however, they are outright and immediately destroyed in the aftermath of using them in such a manner.

***(Sorry for this being so long and detailed, but I felt it'd be good to just tack on proper limitations to balance it...all whilst leaving it rather useable in its own ways in the short and long terms :D)

If this idea doesn't work then just tell me, or perhaps help me with suggestions for skills perhaps? I based this one in particular on her cosplay antics in her prior life, basically. XD**


Reading this suddenly gave me the idea for an ability that grants you bonuses based on others perceiving you as specific characters you make, with the main caveat being you must dress up as said character and people must perceive you as such for it to have any benefit with your power directly scaling off this recognition up to the level of the character themselves.

Maybe at its most basic, it'd provide only minor passive bonuses, something like dressing up as a merchant and having people recognise you as such providing a sleight benefit to buying and selling things, but should you cultivate a specific character, say as a highly renowned and successful merchant you'd receive a far greater boost in power.

Maybe as an additional drawback, it'd be ineffective against anyone that sees through the act or otherwise disbelieves your capabilities.
@Jangel13



Hey, a character I recognise. Is it just me or did we get their gender wrong so often last time that you've changed it?

@Shovel

Interesting character but might I suggest you take on a different skill rather then swarm tactics? Their is a similar skill you earn from wolves called pack tactics and it essentially does the same thing. From your past life you could instead gain a greed or merchant skill, at least if I'm reading your history right he seemed rather greedy for cash that feeling can transfer over to this world as well


Maybe something that increases her raw stats to scale with the numbers of allies working with her might work better? Possibly limited to allies strong enough to provide her with a meaningful threat and in her immediate vicinity to cover the obvious methods of cheesing it.
Having read the rules I can only conclude that rule number eight is a subtle way of telling us to turn against one another for there may only be one mightiest goblin. Rule number 6 must be telling us to be subtle about our actions against one another which in conjunction with rule number 4, which states that we may not kill each other unless both parties agree to the death, seems to imply that we are expected to use some kind of psychological warfare against one another. I guess that makes sense, goblins aren't known for their raw strength after all, so it only stands to reason that the mightiest of them would rely on their minds rather than brute strength.
No matter how I look at it orcs are just the inferior cousins to goblins. Sure they might be bigger, stronger and tougher than goblins but I'd bet they can't get splattered across a wall even half as good as a goblin can.
@Jangel13 A slight rework of a character from a previous RP.

I heard goblins. You have my interest.
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