[NEXUS] OoC VI: Do You Think You Can Handle It?

[Gullara]

Except for the fact that a lot of people didn't auto-teleport, a certain cat managed to get all eight of them, and now I'm pretty sure we have another potential villain with two rings.

Totally well-thought out.

Not to mention you never did background checks on new members. I mean, giving an assassin vampire a power ring, appalling.

EDIT

No no no, Who is on first base!


I just had to go rewatch that. So good.

Now I need to find out what this is and watch it

[Reinholdt]

You know what would be funny? If one of the power juggernaut characters who's the center of plot and drama got taken down by a really low-powered character almost by accident.

Butler kissed THE demon queen of the underworld, the and got her killed cause of it. Does that count?

It needs to happen more often though.

[TechnoScrabble]

I had a character like that. As others who played with him could attest he was rather a nuisance. The real limiting factor with him was that he wanted to die, so he wasn't causing a ton of havoc by being unkillable. Still if you plan for him to actually be an active character who tries to influence the event of the world I highly recommend not doing it.

Edit: it looks like you met immortal rather then unkillable. Ignore my previous advice then

Yeah, he wouldn't have any special powers or anything. He just wouldn't die. He'd be the guy sitting on the sidelines with a slushie just laughing when people do stupid stuff.

[Rae Artemi]

What villlain has 2 rings? Mercury has none, and Nite only has one, and Evil Maxios has 0?

I said potential villain, but villain isn't really the right word, I guess enemy would be more accurate. It was one of Recaiden's characters, the one that got a yellow and green ring, and Chezzy tricked into believing that normal Maxios was evil.

[VampireRot]

Now I need to find out what this is and watch it

Wait, what? Seriously?

Best skit ever.

[Gullara]

Wait, what? Seriously?

Best skit ever.

I just finished watching it as you posted it.

It really is

I was just going along with it earlier.

[Gnrlshrimp]

I am afraid you are mistaken, sirs.

It is a damn good sketch, yes...

But this is far superior!

[Beans]

On the whole OP thing, I think I've been able to work Carrie as a goddess without letting her do OP stuff by... well, she's actually a lesser deity anyway.

That, and I simply do not put her in combat that is not preplanned. Or very much combat at all. One would think a death goddess would win a fight quickly---I prefer not to bring up the issue by having her adopt mostly a "hugs and milkshakes" policy. Yay hugs!

Firefox discussed resource OP-status, like having a bazillion armies and a spaceship made of super bacon. At most, Carrie has maybe 20 Sable Guides (winged gals with top hats). Their main weapons are skull-topped canes primarily designed for incapacitation, not killing: they fire black plasms that sort of stick and weigh people down. And the Guides are usually working in Carrie's realm anyway.

Really, I don't think I have any significantly OP characters. I prefer to do other unwise things.

[Gullara]

I am afraid you are mistaken, sirs.

It is a damn good sketch, yes...

But this is far superior!

Currently watching. It's John Cleese so it's promising.

EDIT: That is most hilarious.

[ThirdEmperor]

I just realized that every single one of my characters could be killed just by sneaking up and shooting them in the head. I sincerely hope I never run into anyone who just shoots people instead of using ultra-fancy magic or superpowers.

Which just gave me an idea for a character.

[celtois]

Ah, you mean like my old rogue character. Who I'm bringing back soon as a pawn in my other characters games. Nope haven't heard of a single one.

*Pokes TE toward the Weald.*

[Beans]

I just realized that every single one of my characters could be killed just by sneaking up and shooting them in the head.

I'm sure your characters would all find various ways to somehow not die.
Even if you had to pull those reasons from the confines of your left nostril.

[TechnoScrabble]

I did that on another website once. Everyone had superpowers and crap. I was just a sane man with a gun.
Pissed them off.

[Terumitsu]

I just realized that every single one of my characters could be killed just by sneaking up and shooting them in the head. I sincerely hope I never run into anyone who just shoots people instead of using ultra-fancy magic or superpowers.

Which just gave me an idea for a character.

You don't say.....

Heh. I think several people have a character like that but most of them are honorable in some way... Except when they're not. But sneaky is fun to play too!

[Reinholdt]

*looks at Reinholdt*
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SAINT officially finished a contract! Yay!

[ApeofLight]

Nice Techno.

Also at other people posts

XD

Yay, SAINT! Go Teb you actually achieved something.

[TechnoScrabble]

Nice Techno.

Also at other people posts

XD

Dunca. (German for thanks. Gotta love that language.)

[ThirdEmperor]

Yeah, Chezchire can kick mega-mages and lanterns to the curb, but a normal character can rip him to shreds. Which is why he's died in every fight he's ver been in, except the one where his opponent tried to commit suicide mid battle.

[Darklord Bright]

I'm a little confused - where did it say the meeting place was? XD

[Murkus]

*looks at Reinholdt*
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SAINT officially finished a contract! Yay!

I honestly didn't think that would happen for a while, and not without large amounts of drama.

[Beans]

Dunca. (German for thanks. Gotta love that language.)

It's spelled Danke, actually... um...

I'm tiny! Look at me, tiny Beans!
Tiny Beans go night night nao.

[celtois]

I'm a little confused - where did it say the meeting place was? XD

Sorry that point of that was to make you unscramble the words xD. I realized after that I should have put an answer at the bottom so you could check if you were correct. My bad. The answer was Nineteen Nineteen Inside Place

edit: the inside thread, just to be clear

[Reinholdt]

I honestly didn't think that would happen for a while, and not without large amounts of drama.

Hmph! I'll have you know... I wouldn't have been horribly surprised about the drama part either.
But I've done everything I could think of to keep it minimal.

[Darklord Bright]

Sorry that point of that was to make you unscramble the words xD. I realized after that I should have put an answer at the bottom so you could check if you were correct. My bad. The answer was Nineteen Nineteen Inside Place

I only realized a little while ago that that's what that was... and even then I only managed to get "Place" on my own.

Being a little new here probably didn't help - I don't even think I've been to the Inside thread yet...

[TechnoScrabble]

It's spelled Danke, actually... um...

I'm tiny! Look at me, tiny Beans!
Tiny Beans go night night nao.

Ah. See, that's what I get for spelling and pronouncing things phonetically.

[celtois]

Yeah well you got some of it which counts for something. It was mostly just meant for flavour. I just forgot to make it so that it wasn't required. My bad.

[Darklord Bright]

Don't be all upset! I understood it was some sort of code fairly quickly, but after that point it was just a lot of cross-eyed arm-flailing trying to figure it out until I decided to post here.

Makes things interesting, it does.

[Darkcomet]

On the whole OP thing, I think I've been able to work Carrie as a goddess without letting her do OP stuff by... well, she's actually a lesser deity anyway.

That, and I simply do not put her in combat that is not preplanned. Or very much combat at all. One would think a death goddess would win a fight quickly---I prefer not to bring up the issue by having her adopt mostly a "hugs and milkshakes" policy. Yay hugs!

Firefox discussed resource OP-status, like having a bazillion armies and a spaceship made of super bacon. At most, Carrie has maybe 20 Sable Guides (winged gals with top hats). Their main weapons are skull-topped canes primarily designed for incapacitation, not killing: they fire black plasms that sort of stick and weigh people down. And the Guides are usually working in Carrie's realm anyway.

Really, I don't think I have any significantly OP characters. I prefer to do other unwise things.

Given my responsibility for the Empire, I figure I should probably weigh in on the 'resource-OP' thing. That would be why I've tried to be quite careful about things like specifying numbers and avoiding overwhelming numbers-type tactics.

I also avoid doing things like calling tanks out to curbstomp everything in sight.

Basically the core idea to keep in mind is: Just because you can call in massive firepower doesn't mean you should.

[celtois]

I occasionally do random stuff like that in my posts. It rarely does much but add flavour but I have fun trying to come up with it. Sometimes I make characters dialogue in other languages

I'm glad you found it interesting at least. I'll just have to think it out more thoroughly next time I try something like that.

[ThirdEmperor]

Because certain people have been rather annoyd by characters they belive to be OP (not denying that some of them were), I'm just going to post exactly what my new characters abilities are: He has a gun that negates magic, superpowers, ect. and works on whoever it strikes exactly as if they were entirly mortal beings, and actually does more damage to highly non-mortal beings. Someone with supernatural toughness wearing magicly summoned armor and protected by a spell of warding for instance would probably end up as a corpse if shot. He's also capable of using tropes as weapons, like scrying for crime by turning on a TV only to get a very convenient report on a crime, and has decent magic resistance.