Joe was purchased by the Thompson family in 2075, just a few short years before the bombs fell and nearly ended all life on Earth.
Bob, Doris... little Sally... they were all vaporized in one terrible instant leaving nothing but their shadows burned into the wall.
Joe had been baking brownies at the time and been knocked offline when the EM Pulse from the bombs hit. He regained consciousness five hours later when his built-in Geiger Counter sensed the radiation levels falling low enough to allow electronics to function and rebooted him.
He remembers that it was raining... raining blackened soot-filled tears that burned the few patches of vegetation that remained. The sky was blocked out by those clouds, those irradiated clouds that seemed to weep over the countless souls lost and to rage at the stupidity of men that had caused this.
Joe managed to right himself, his jet lifting him off the ground as his sensors tried to take in the devastation and make sense of it. He headed for his maintenance kit to see about fixing himself up.
Then he noticed the darkness, the storm up there Earth wasn't just the wind and rain abused by the atomic blast. There were hearts in it... seven billion hearts set free in an instant of devastation and fear. The rage and anger of seven billion ghosts howled through the darkness and tore at the land!
For those in the vaults, the nightmares they would have in those first few days would discounted as stress. For those who hid in caves or metro tunnels they would blame the radiation and fear. And for those out in the open... well they were dead from the radiation.
Joe didn't have that luxury and was out in the open when the storm hit... a rolling wave of darkness and green light that plucked him from the ruins of his home and tossed him into a sea of screams.
If he had a heart he would have gone mad.
There is no way of knowing how long he was lost in that place. Even his recorded video data looks meaningless to him... just a big black nothingness peppered with the distant sounds of crying or screaming.
He awoke a second time in the outskirts of Eclipse Town, laying in a dumpster somewhere in an alley. His mechanical limbs ached as he righted himself again and hovered away from the refuse.
He looked at this strange new world and his inner computer did a few nasty turns before it finally agreed that he wasn't in Kansas anymore. The robot sighed for a moment before he set about repairing himself and thought about what he had to do.
"Rotten luck... no home... no family... no RobCo dealership... whats a robo butler worth without someone to serve?"
He soon finished scrubbing off the radiation and tightening his bolts before setting out into this new world.
Powers and Abilities:
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Sensors:
Three eyes on movable stalks which can adjust to either give him full 360 degree view or to focus in one direction for precision work.
One Geiger Counter for detecting radioactive material
One built in radio receiver for picking up news or music (might not work on another world without radio stations).
Danger Sensor... for detecting danger (more of a threat assessment device that lets him know if that dog is a cute little puppy or a vicious rabies-infested monster. Humans have their own version known as a 'sense of self-preservation' or 'common sense'. RobCo insists on calling it a sensor for marketing reasons).
Tools:
Three extended arms that can be switched for a variety of different tools. So far he has two pincer manipulators, one saw blade, one torch that can be used as a flame thrower, and a variable laser that can be used for welding, cutting or killing. He needs at least one operating pincer to change 'hands' and it takes about two minutes to do so. He usually has two pincers and the laser.
One Atomic Fission power source - He can run for decades without refueling on his current power supply and has programming for automated refueling and radiation scrubbing (so that his owner doesn't have to risk handling radioactive fuel and he can clean up any hazardous 'spills')
One CO2 - methane converter. Using his atomic generator as a power source, he can convert CO2 and atmospheric water molecules into methane fuel. This not provides the fuel for his blowtorch but also can act as an alternate power source while changing his fissionable fuel.
Hover Jet - His jet engine provides enough lift to keep him hovering constantly above the ground. He's not really designed for actual flight, though. (This is more because RobCo doesn't want to hear about people trying to ride their robo butlers around... the extra weight would royally screw up his gyros and result in a crash... which could could nasty since he's packing an atomic power source. He doesn't take falling damage and largely stays ground-born due to hardwired programming. If someone really wanted to mess with his propulsion unit they could remove the fail safe and let him fly.)
Water Dispenser - Actually a byproduct of his methane converter and fuel cells, he can condense chemically pure and radiation free water. In general he creates about five bottles of water per week, though he might be able to make more if necessary.
Self-Repair - He can perform routine maintenance and repair work on himself as long as he's not too broken to do so.
UOS Operating system - RobCo's Universal Operating System has a variety of adaptive drivers built in, allowing him to work through almost any modifications to his hardware.
Alright, here's a rough timeline of when the various cities and worlds collided:
Eclipse town year one:
Kamina city(one year after simons wedding), collides with haven city(after the events of Jak 3).
Eclipse town year four
Drowtales verse collides with the eclipse world, however due to it's underground nature no one is aware of chel city becoming another district, highland raiders however tell strange tales of new surface creatures.
Eclipse town year six
Simon eventually wanders into the underworld and decides to attempt to free the cities increasing slave population, and being simon, his escape route is to pierce through the cavern roof into the heavens, leaving a large hole straight up into eclipse town, bringing the drow in contact with the other two civilizations. Dispute over their owning slaves, as well as their attitude toward nondrow in general makes several conflicts.
Eclipse town year seven
The jade empire crashes into eclipse town, and despite initial confusion has no conflict with most orginazations in eclipse town.
Eclipse town year eight
Tagami bachi verse crashes into eclipse. Heart bullets are revealed to affect heartless, DT demons(dispite being incorporeal), and many similar creatures and become more widespread than ever before. Letter Bees continue their dangerous job of delivering information between eclipse town and the outside world, navigating the mountains, wastelands, forests, and seas in order to send letters to and fro.
Eclipse town year nine
Los Noches combines with the other worlds to create the current makeup of the city. People are worried about it's inhabitants heartless esque apperance, as well as the fact that they are wounded by heart bullets, same as gaichuu, heartless, hollows , and demons.
The coming of each world is heralded by a week or so of earthquakes and several creatures arriving ahead of time.
City information
Eclipse town series used
Tengen toppa gurren lagann
Drowtales
Jade Empire
Tagami Bachi
Jak and daxter verse
Bleach
Eclipse town:
About seven years ago the heartless attacked two worlds at once, rather than destroying the worlds as per usual a huge black hand enveloped the world, everything went dark. When everything came to the worlds were merged somehow, the largest(or most important) cities will have been combined into one city. Occasionally a chain of earthquakes covers the world and a new world is wedged into the composite world, it's city wedged into the combined metropolis. The cities inhabitants rarely get along, arson, vandalism, riots, and fighting are common. The leaders of each community are rarely better, disagreeing on the basic rights inhabitants get and hows this city of several million should be run.
World: The worlds themselves were squashed together, wasteland runs right next to lush forest, mountains stop suddenly as one world gives way to the next, most town not destroyed by the initial heartless are relatively unchanged except for the "main cities".
Government: This world, called eclipse(city called eclipse town obviously), is run by a council of sorts, leaders of each world arranged in a circle. Meeting in the jade empires palace in the sky. As stated they rarely agree on basic humanoid rights such as slavery, freedom of speech, and such. These rights often change from district to district and travelers travel between them at their own risk.
The various groups: From across the worlds groups have collided forcefully, and many have altered themselves to fit this new world.
Kyorl'sulenurn clan: In true Drowussu fashion they've essentially grouped their enemies together, adding heartless, gaichu, metal heads, and the rest of a list as long as your arm to the things that "offend the goddess", grouping them with demons and tainted.
Vloz'ress: Again in true drow fashon they've reacted, and in the opposite direction, their experimentation with creatures that affect the heart is something of an "open secret", ranging from the demons they're an old hat with to gaichu eggs to remanants of the anti spirals(and anything else they can get their grubby paws on).
Kamina city government: They fought hard for their rights, to escape the underground, and they don't like it when others take those rights from people. As such they oppose the drow, creating conflict in a city with no shortige of existing trouble. They also regard other humans with curiosity, humans never born underground, never having to fight against beastmen for the right for life itself.
The Jade empire: The empire appears to be relativley nonplussed by these drastic turns of events. They see all these strange creatures as beings of and under heaven, no different from the toad demons in the caves or fox spirits in the forrests.
The bee hive: Full of those understanding the importance of heart they see the many dangers of the creatures infesting the outside world, heart stealers and spirit warpers. Their letter bees relay precious information between the main city and other settlements, as well as turning out spirit guns to combat the creatures around the world.
Freedom League: The freedom League works best against inside opponents, specializing in urban combat. They combat the various cultists, heartless, metal heads, and death bots in the city.
Monsters: Aside from the various heartless, the monsters of each world reside between settlements and in the sewers and lower class areas attacking with equal ferocity, preying on the minds, bodies, and hearts of anyone caught in their path. To combat this the Eclipse Town watch was formed inside the city, and outside several parties hunt monsters with weapons from every setting.
Los Noches: Having only recently lodged itself into eclipse town it is looked at negatively by many inhabitants of eclipse town, more or less entireley for it's residences resemblance to heartless in many respects(mainly the big freaking hole in the chest).
Spiral power is here more human based, since drow are so far removed from humans that they evolved from some sort of magic feline, not primates, and the Haven residences, if I recall from playing the game dissolve into eco when killed so don't have proper DNA either. This doesn't mean that no nonhuman could use spiral energy, just the ones present can't.
Aura, since it's also DNA dependent is a DT elf specific thing, since you're body needs to generate it specifically, and be able to sense and manipulate it.
Chi magic(Jade empire) is more generalist, since it's more vague than the other two and resembles KH's "fire, ice, other" type spells.
Spirit amber and heart bullets are heart dependant so if you have a heart and the spirit gun/other such items you can use them.
Various political stuff(or: A handwave as to why settings aren't trying to kill each other).
More or less it's a standstill between hostiles. On one hand you have the bee hive, grapearl squadron, and the freedom league. On the other is Los Noches and whatever drow he's allied himself with.
On one hand they can't simply ignore the various threats to fight each other, daily attacks, as well as the violence permeating every district keeps everyone busy, often too much to worry about the other districts.
Then there's how everyone sees one another. Yes Aizen has some super hypnosis, but team Dai-gurren's famous for the incident where they pierced through such illusions from a much more powerful opponent.
Kamina district has similar views regarding the drow, yes they have more than half a dozen gurren lagann types, and a squadren of grapearls, and the arc and chouginga gurren laganns. But they don't see drow clans led by person X or Y, they see a million drow being led by several thousand year old warriors, some of which have managed to create sentient life through artificial means, dragging innocent people underground. To them it's about a dozen Spiral Kings they'd no doubt have to take on at once, not to mention the fairly powerful warriors backing them up.
This is compounded by a delicate moral quandry, they really dislike the idea of stomping on people underground and getting them to do what they want, which conjures up horrible memories of hard lives with little space and food in their underground villages.
The drow see the Kamina district as yet another enemy, already barely holding back open civil war against each other and now have yet another enemy. To them this is essentially humans, things barely worth noticing at the best of times, growing too bold and antagonizing them. Humans who've gained some sort of insane power despite the complete lack of an aura, now wielding weapons that give them the ability to burrow underground at breakneck speed and cause mass destruction.
This isn't made much better by the fact they they have an obvious crapload of resources, up to an including a metal monstrosity larger than any of their moons dominating the surface sky.
Then theres the Jade Empire, who really seems apathetic to the whole mess and doesn't seem to want to do much regarding anything, no doubt afraid of again overstepping it's role in the universe.
Essentially the ones who want to do anything to their neighbor is caught in perceptions, it doesn't matter weather or not they could back these views up, it's what their opponent thinks.
Here's a question: What is everyone's characters favorite foods or meals?
I figure that in true RPG fashion our team of characters could use some healing or energy after our battles and what better way than with fresh-cooked meals made by a nuclear powered robot?
Here's a question: What is everyone's characters favorite foods or meals?
I figure that in true RPG fashion our team of characters could use some healing or energy after our battles and what better way than with fresh-cooked meals made by a nuclear powered robot?
Trinex-
Drink: Alchohol
Food: Long as it's edible
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Question for the players. I can't for the life of me decide how common actual keyblades are(discounting fake keyblades like riku's one from the first game and such). Since we've already got an eclipse town faction using heart based weapons, and another using sheer willpower, and a third using blades made from their souls, they definatly wouldn't be out of place.
I'm not saying everyone and their grandmother would have one but would there be a special group for keyblade wielders? Would some of the strongest characters have them? Would they be unheard of, an ancient relic of sorts?
Question for the players. I can't for the life of me decide how common actual keyblades are(discounting fake keyblades like riku's one from the first game and such). Since we've already got an eclipse town faction using heart based weapons, and another using sheer willpower, and a third using blades made from their souls, they definatly wouldn't be out of place.
I'm not saying everyone and their grandmother would have one but would there be a special group for keyblade wielders? Would some of the strongest characters have them? Would they be unheard of, an ancient relic of sorts?
Hmm, I know in that bonus video at the end of Kingdom Hearts 2 it showed a field practically full of keyblades stuck in the ground... so I guess they aren't meant to be extremely rare or unique.
But to make then feel interesting I think you could treat them kind of like green lantern rings. Maybe there is a sacred order of keyblade wielders who protect the worlds from evil but they generally spread themselves thin, maybe one keyblade wielder for each world. But since Eclipse Town is made up of many worlds, then more than one keyblade may have been assigned to it.
The keyblades could be relics... like the Excalibur the sword in the stone, or the Master sword in hyrule. They went to a world and their wielder used them to conquer a great evil and then put the keyblade to rest. Getting one is a matter of going to a world, finding one of its greatest heros and trying to track down his weapon to see if its a keyblade (or maybe keyblades can disguise themselves as regular weapons and only get all key-like when their ability to lock or unlock hearts and things becomes necessary).
The Order of the Keyblade (or whatever they are called) might be a universe spanning order that once protected the entire Realm of Light but was largely destroyed. If a keyblade wielder is slain, the keyblade finds another wielder who will take up the fight against evil... but if there is no suitable wielder on that world then it returns to the Field of Fallen Blades shown in the video where it waits for one of the order members to pick it up and find it a world or wielder to go to. The field of keyblades is probably sitting there somewhere with no surviving Order members to revive them (there might be someone like a sapient statue there... once who's lived for ages recording the history of the order but now infuriatingly unable to reach out and activate the thousands of keyblades right in front of them... he could give you the backstory while flat out urging you to grab as many keyblades as you can stuff in your pockets and hand them out to your best friends on other worlds).
And so, trinex will soon be retired. since im bored of making portals now. :p
So, without further ado, my soon to be, new character for this game (jayng OKed it, and I figure he has a PM of all the powers, the the fluff is pretty common knowledge to most gamers, so a pic will suffice.)
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Sounds good, I'm thinking that once he returns to base (or some other event you choose... heh, maybe having the Mechanist upgrade him using parts from a broken RobCo robot) he could have his electronic brain transplanted into another robotic body, most likely a RobCo robotic body.
Ideas:
A Mister Gutsy who's basically a highly armored Handy with a plasma blaster instead of a sawblade
A Sentry Bot likely equipped with a Gatling Laser and missile launcher.
Or he could be a modified Sentry Bot with some of his Mr Handy parts attached. Like his right arm has a Minigun (or a Gatling Laser in case 5mm ammo isn't readily obtainable) and his manipulator arm on the side (so he can still pick things up), and his left arm has a missile launcher and his flamethrower (so he can conserve ammo and use replenishing flamer fuel). His Hover unit is built into his legs so that in an emergency he can get about 30 seconds of flight to get out of a jam or reach high places, but he usually just drives on his tripodal base.
Also, as to which canon for Eva I'm using: All and none. I'm handpicking individual details from the movies, games, and manga and melding them together(and prolly jamming every eva ever into it, if you ask where I'm getting the Kawarous for all of the obscure one's I've got something cooked up).
Well, that update took me several hours without stopping to write, in the middle of the night. Not pleasant. Anyhoo we be skipping ahead six months. Ask any questions about bad wording and I'll answer them here.
Also, as another note keyblades aren't the only empathetic weapon you can and will find. They'll be some of the most powerful and customizable but certainly not alone. After all, what good is the crossover element if you ignore it's uber weapon of choice?
Also, as a note I've decided to implement an ansem report style journal entries. There are several sets of journals written from different perspectives scattered around the multiverse, they'll provide some backround information on the various types of heartless and other monsters, hints as to who's doing/ has done what, and sometimes even shows where the writer would be at the moment.
Bad news folks. I just got news that DMTibernius died a few days ago. So that means here we're going to be down to two players. I'll autopilot Samus in the backround of whats going on for a bit.
EDIT: Turns out it was just DMT's landlord/roommate screwing with him.
Ignore the above, im not dead yet, just a really annoying pratical joke by a less then favorable humanoid. Go back to your regularly sheduled boxing match.
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Sorry about the disproportionate amount of text NightSurgeon got. The thing is he's walking through well established canon areas and places I've well developed that aren't canon while you're in areas I've spent less time on and had to make from wholecloth.
Also, as per an above post every EVA is active, dispite the series destroying them. Here is exactly how they supposedly defy canon and live.
Unit 00: Attempting to detonate an explosive becomes unnesessary when there are several more warriors capable of unleashing similar power WITHOUT a Kamikaze tactic.
Unit 03: The angel Bardel has one thing that makes it different from the similar creatures attacking multiple times daily: It's visible to the naked eye, making it much more vulnerable. If you listen closley you can almost hear the espada and the Kyorl purge squads arguing over who gets to destroy it.
Unit 04: The S2 has been replaced in functionality with the A2 engine, which, given that the only unit seen using the S2 still needed external power most of the time, is superior.
Unit 05:It wields a drill and has a crazy awesome pilot in a world where spinning automatically makes things more powerful. Therefore it's got just enough more strength to beat the opponent that killed it.
Just watched the movie Coraline on DVD and it made me think of the Heartless a little.
Other Mother seems like a supernatural creature that needs to capture Hearts (or souls, or eyes... same thing really) to replenish her power. She can also use them to power her various creations and wonders. The ghost children could be considered nobodies... or at least nobodies of a weaker type. Once their hearts are freed then they could go on to the afterlife.
The various creations, the dolls and copies would just be replicas... probably close to nobodies in the Kingdom Hearts sense, but would be like artificial creatures. They don't have hearts of their own but might grow something similar if they learn to love but by default they rely on Other Mother and her captured hearts to exist.
Plus, there is the cartoon Making Fiends where Vendetta is able to make fiends by baking ingredients together. They are normally evil and follow her commands unless Charlotte wins them over with love... though there are plenty of Fiends that went against Vendetta because she didn't think things through when she made them.
Interesting. Part of what I'm trying to do is tie all those concepts to KH. Lots of magics wielded can be tied(all of Tai's abilities down to his most basic moves, Uliquarras physical body, drow aura, spiral power, and the AT fields to name less than a tenth). I've re-catagorised some as heartless, some as nobodies. There are even people with knowledge on Kingdom Hearts itself(or their name for it). The various methods of hearnessing heart are basically how eclipse towns fended off the heartless til now.
Just thinking, if Crossguard starts mass producing copies of Joe for combating Heartless attacks then we could have something like this happen.
I just really like this video, and the idea of a sheer flood of robots going into battle, either against an equally large number of Heartless (or monsters) or against heros is just awesome.
plus "We have control. We keep you safe. We are your hope." just makes sense when there are regular Heartless attacks and robots can fight them instead of people.
I'd like to switch to play Tron Bonne from the Mega Man Legends series. She normally pilots the Gustaff mecha and has a few of her Servebots on hand to help her out (like going into places where her mecha can't fit and providing some support fire).
Number 9 is a sniper, he has a plasma rifle he uses either for sniping enemies but more often firing it like a regular rifle. He reads comic books and tends to talk like a gunslinger (though he snaps out of it when people point out how annoying it can get).
Number 18 uses a bazooka and prefers to keep things clean in their down time.
Tron is capable of building more Servebots if she has the time and resources and usually has them piloting vehicles or giving her support on missions.
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