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Post by sonoflaufey on Jan 12, 2010 0:13:51 GMT -5
alright, so based on the wikipedia article, I have absolutely no clue what's going on with Guren Laggan other than there's some sort of weird biological/sentient robot thing going on, but they have pilots or something? Also, Kamina is some crazy badass with a super tiny but powerful as hell robot, except the robot is not getting counted because that would put him at like 50billion ultra platinum stones. So Kamina is basically a super impulsive bad-ass type character, I think? Possibly the hammerer, if we're going to fit the character into the pre supplied archetypes, and also fit them in on my incredibly limited knowledge from the wiki article I read like four days ago. So I guess I'm asking for an intelligible description of Kamina as a character, and what sort of powers he would have without his crazy robot, other than being a good pilot and all in all badass?
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Post by playah on Jan 12, 2010 8:31:32 GMT -5
Dont worry if you dont understand Gurren Lagann - its not supposed to be understood, its supposed to make us drop our jaws from badasness overdose. Kamina on the other hand is less of a hammerer and more of a reborn, even in his own series. After living all his life underground, once he got outside he just decided to take away enemy mecha and pilot it, despite having no knowledge of it whatsoever... and he did it! Whats more, he kicked multiple assess and took names while on it! Besides, that Simon from Reborn description- its Kamina's younger brother, a sorta chibi-him (after time skip, at least). Without mecha, he'd have crazy fighting skills, huuge katana and badasness. Yes, badassness in his case is a legitimate superpower, making him do ANYTHING he wants just becouse he's THAT. AWESOME.
Most of the times, to be a badass you need to be strong and do all sort of crazy stuff. Kamina reverses it- he's strong and does all sort of stuff BECOUSE he's a badass. Its as if small power particles ran through his body and bent the laws of reality everytime he shows just how much guts he has (and brother, I cant find a single character in any fictional work who has comparable ammount of guts as he does). Come to think of it- Kamina as Jedi would be awesome!
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Post by dorkknight23 on Jan 13, 2010 1:29:29 GMT -5
1) Every episode of Gurren Laggan (the English dub, anyway) is available legally and for free on Youtube and Hulu. Watch them; I'm not huge on anime but I loved this show. alright, so based on the wikipedia article, I have absolutely no clue what's going on with Guren Laggan other than there's some sort of weird biological/sentient robot thing going on, but they have pilots or something? They are semi-sentient, not entirely biological. On a scale of 1-10, where 1 is mindless and 10 is a full AI, Lagann might be a 5, tops, and even then it seems more self-aware than any of the other Gunmen. Simon pilots Lagann (the super tiny powerful one.) Kamina was the main pilot of Gurren (which was pretty standard as far as Gunmen went, when it wasn't part of Gurren Lagann.) Also, he's going to be sans Gunmen to start. Yes. Kamina is a moderately skilled swordsman and mecha pilot, good at giving inspiring (if nonsensical) speeches, who, like the other Spiral Warrior Gunmen pilots in Gurren Lagann, powers his fighting robot on sheer determination and willpower. A lot of his stones were dedicated to Luck with a disadvantage towards "only works when kicking out reason and attempting the impossible."
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Post by sonoflaufey on Jan 13, 2010 2:08:25 GMT -5
I forgot hulu started carrying anime, I'll have to start checking this show out.
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Post by playah on Jan 16, 2010 21:41:18 GMT -5
Since I finally have time and strenght (and Im currently sick, literally, cought a cold recently), I can finally take some time to make my character... which I still dont know of yet. Since there are four of us (players) and one GM, Im guessing each one of us will take a character from different medium and take a different class. So Im guessing that so far we have:
Kamina - Anime - Reborn? Hammerer? Marty McFly - Movie - Bricouler, I guess Amadeus Cho - Comics - No clue. Reborn would work best.
That leaves me with... no idea which class and any medium other then anime, comics and movies... I guess I can still make Archer after all :] Although maybe I should go with a red spot token female instead.
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Post by Goats on Jan 20, 2010 0:34:00 GMT -5
Cant wait to see what you came up with Playah! Sorry i beat you to the punch with the Anime..
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Post by playah on Jan 21, 2010 15:17:36 GMT -5
Trying to elaborate on Archer's bio without spoilering some seriously shocking revalations is a pain, but I'll try. Do yourself a favour and DONT look up his wikipedia article, becouse thats the greatest secret of all Fate Stay Night. I reccomend you watch the show yourself, but no pressure.
In short about Fate Stay Night story: Every 10 years there's a Holy Grail War, where 7 mages called "Masters" summon 7 ancient heroes, called "Servants", and fight against each other. The winner gets his/her wish granted by the Holy Grail, and the war from story is the 5th one. "Masters" are mages who summon them, although its not a rule, becouse summoning works on many levels and elaborating on them here would take me hours. "Servants" on the other hand are ancient heroes from legends, myths and history. Examples include Hercules, Chu Chulain, King Arthur, Lancelot, Alexander the Great, Medusa (waaay different then usual interpretation), Gilgamesh and many more. Each Servant is summoned as a "class" and there can be only one representative from each class. Now these classess are EXTREMELY vague and Im still trying to find more info. The classess are as follows: -Saber: Master of Sword, generally the most balanced and thought to be the best. -Lancer: No clue, but said to be the most defensive warrior, usually with a spear -Archer: Master of Ranged combat, but actually their main strenght is having a large ammount of weapons at their disposal -Rider: Physically rather weak, but sly and has a powerfull beast at their disposal (like, say, Dragon or Pegasus) -Berzerker: Loses any conciousness and free will, but gets a great strenght boost -Assassin: master of stealth kills? Sorry, hardly any info on it -Caster: A powerfull magician with no physicall prowess at all What kind of class each hero is summoned as depends on both the summoner and hero in question. Some heroes can be summoned as only one class (Medea cant be anything else but Caster) and some can be summoned as more (Hercules was stated to be able to become any class except Caster, but ultimately become Berzerker). Again, there are a lot of unanswered question to it (by the way, a Fate game where people would become masters and servants would be pretty awesome!).
Knowing that, something about Archer: He was summoned by accident (Rin wanted Saber instead), and since ritual was messed up, he had no recollection of his past life and had no idea who he was, not to mention that no known heroes fit the description. Compared to other Servants, he seemed rather weak at first- his primary weapon were twin daggers (unusual for Archer) which he wasnt all that good with (at least, not as much as other melee oriented servant), not super agile, nor super fast or anything and aside from his incredible sight (a default for Archer class), he was pretty much useless... untill he stopped hiding his true powers. His power? Each servant has one or more legendary weapons at their disposal, called "Noble Phantasm". For example weapons like Excalibur or Gae Bolg. Archer has two rather weak ones, along with ability to copy any other Noble Phantasm he can imagine, to the point that sometimes its even better then the original! And while that is pretty awesome on its own, its still not that impressive, as it requires a lot of mana and he still doesnt get any stronger himself. Thats where his second special ability comes into action- a pocket dimension called "Unlimited Bladeworks", which teleports both Archer and his enemy there, and Archer has a full control over every single blade he ever created. And lemme tell you- his incantation isnt kidding when he says "I have created over a 1000 blades". Its an instant kill spell, which drains A LOT of mana and takes forever to cast (at least several minutes), but damn if it works!
Now for the character- I can live without Unlimited Bladeworks- too powerfull and no practical enough to use with MURPG (also, the frustration that comes from failing it is comparable to nothing), weapon creation seems awesome but other characters cant use them and Archer is good, but not grandmaster, so he wont be gamebreaking. But I can already imagine him summoning Mjolnir (which, since its a copy, can be used by him), Nth Metal Mace, Ultima Weapon or any other weapon from any reality he appears in (I guess that makes him a hammerer). Other stats are rather unremarkable- peak human abilities, low defense, default equipment good but not gamebreaking and as I see him, he shouldnt cause problems in gameplay. To preserve others from getting heavy spoilers, Im not gonna say any more details in his history, along with his real name or intentions, becouse, well, I was devastated when I found out before time and I wish nobody else this. Besides, they're not important outside Fate Stay Night anyway.
Wow, thats a lot of text @_@ in case you still dont want him, I have one more character in my eyes, a female from certain fighting game, but hush- not now :]
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Post by dorkknight23 on Jan 21, 2010 17:42:41 GMT -5
*Fingers crossed for Chun-Li*
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Post by playah on Jan 21, 2010 18:26:09 GMT -5
Nope, no love for Chun-Li from me. I was always more of a Camm fan... until I realized I hate Street Fighter as a game, so... nope.
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Post by dorkknight23 on Jan 22, 2010 2:35:48 GMT -5
I just want to come up with actions for her moves. "Spinning Bird, kick!"
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Post by playah on Jan 22, 2010 10:51:12 GMT -5
Iron Will with limited area effect?
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Post by playah on Jan 23, 2010 19:09:15 GMT -5
I know I should send CAD, but I dont think it hurts to just paste it here. I mean, its not like I should hide it from anyone. Feel free to comment. Im thinking of a different approach toward Weapon Creation (without AN at all, but still required to use energy). *** Real name: Archer Gender: male Hair: white Eyes: black Species: human Intelligence: 3 Strenght: 2 Agility: 3 Speed: 3 Durability: 3 Energy pool: 4 Energy regen: 4 ************** Actions: Close combat: 5 (Agility and Weapon or Two weapon modifiers) -Self defense -Improvised weapons -Kansho and Byakuya -Any created weapon (Archer gets knowledge and fighting style of any weapon he creates, negating every and any sit mod from using unknown weapon, but only those he creates himself) Ranged combat: 5 (Weapon modifier) -Longbows -Hrunting -Kansho and Byakuya as projectiles -Any created weapon (Archer gets knowledge and fighting style of any weapon he creates, negating every and any sit mod from using unknown weapon, but only those he creates himself) Acrobatics: 4 (Agility modifier) Imbuement: 4 -Can only Imbue objects -Works only on non-enhanced, ordinary objects (especially those that were never meant for fighting and mundane objects, turning them into capable weapons) -Repair item (any mundane object, including simple electronics, like radio or TV) -Can only Increase whats already there (cant add new powers, only hardness and weapon modifier) -Limited Duration (several minutes at best) Weapon Creation: 10 -Can create a copy of any weapon up to AN -Automatically gains any specialty along with it -Can have only one at a time (unless its twin weapons by default, but then AN is divided), upon calling new one, former dissapears (except Hrunting, which is explained below) -Can only create a weapon from given reality (except Kansho, Byakuya and Hrunting) -Creates Kansho, Byakuya and Hrunting with half the effort (1/2 stones for each) -1 rs per panel per creation (twin weapons still count as one) Social skills: 2 -Cynicla Remarks -Intimidiation ********** Modifiers: Reflexive dodge: 3 Mental Defense: 4 Leaper: 3 ********** Equipment: Battle suit "Made from and unknown, futuristic alloy" -Defense +1 -Indestructible Kansho and Byakuya "Twin daggers with Yin-Yang motif, can be thrown like boomerangs" -Close and Ranged weapon +2 (each) -Range: 2 -Comes back like boomerangs -Can recall one dagger as long as he has other in hand -Creation cost: 4 stones for pair Hrunting "Longbow made out of unknown futuristic alloy, same as his battle suit" -Ranged combat +2 of Energy attack or WM of any Close Weapon (for example: using a sword as arrow, but doing so will unsummon the sword) -Energy damage or Close Combat weapon type of damage -Range: 5 -Can turn on corners (only when using energy) -Creation cost: 5 stones *********** Challanges: Cynical 1ws - He's beyond heroics and just doesnt believe in it anymore. Cant blame him though, considering his past. Haunted past 3ws - Lets just say that trying to be a hero led to a lot of awful events, without elaborating further. Guilty Conscience 2ws - A lot, without getting into details. Compulsion to stick for underdog 2ws - Despite his cynical personality and rejection of usual heroic behavior, old habits die hard.
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Post by playah on Jan 25, 2010 5:23:37 GMT -5
So... comments?
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Post by dorkknight23 on Jan 25, 2010 17:10:01 GMT -5
...Not digging it yet, but maybe it'll grow on me...
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Post by thuellai on Jan 27, 2010 2:39:38 GMT -5
I call the videogame character. As to which, well... give me some time to think. There's a lot of odd possibilities out there. Probably a fantasy character of some sort though, be that Silmeria Valkyrie, the ever-classic Link, Wander... Alternatively very possibly one of the Guilty Gear characters, as one of the few fighting games with other established powers.
EDIT: Actually to a certain extent Silmeria seems like fun - Though figuring out how to make the Einherjar work, mechanically, would be incredibly odd. Still, an interesting thought.
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