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9 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
I cannot even imagine trying to fight Storm Eagle without dash boots.
Oh wait yeah I could dash at that point. That would have been helpful. Would have helped against Octopus too but then I couldn't have cheesed the Penguin fight by wall-jumping the top corner and spamming homing missiles because screw actually playing a platformer the skill way.
12 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:Now this would actually be a pretty interesting story on its own. It seems quite in line with the melodrama the X series has historically tried to pull.
Me being me it got way more convoluted than that. The original idea was that the Fight Smith that X/Zero/Zero.EXE replaced would be swapped into their spot, then they would swap back after the protag beat the Megabeast(the giant thing in the sky, it's like YGO's Worm Zero but significantly grosser). However, the same amount of real time took place in their world, meaning that the world they go back to is dealing with the fallout of a machine with an immense stigma against humans and an arm cannon suddenly spawning in their midst, with Zero's world taking the biggest hit given that, you know, the resistance group is like half humans at the very least and they can't even seem to kill a single Pantheon if MMZ1's opening is any indicator. X's world would have suffered only light damage since it was post-X8 and that world's Zero was there to minimize the casualties of what essentially is just another Maverick to him, while a Fight appearing on the Net would have been wonky since NetNavis tend to look pretty similar to humans, but a good number of them can fight for themselves, plus Fight getting stuck in BN's combat format would have been a serious handicap.
28 minutes ago, indigoasis said:Anyway, here is the prompt, my fellow foresters:
My foresting skills need more work, I wouldn't call me a forester yet.This...I'll have to see if I have any of my older ideas still lying around to go through with. It's a good idea, I like it, I just don't remember where I put all my unused ideas, if I put them anywhere.
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Spoiler14 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
Pronto!
Now, onto @SoulWeaver! I demand City of Mist characters.
Ah, right, yes. Forgot about that, I got sick over this week and also picked up the X Legacy Collection and started that so I haven't got back to those yet.
Why yes, Capcom, I could play this game like a normal platformer where I shoot in a straight line - oooooooooooooooor HOMING ROCKET LAUNCHER LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWhoever said you should kill the Penguin or the Eagle first clearly doesn't know what they're talking about, Launch Octopus is the obvious first kill.
20 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:Yeah I feel like that's actually uh totally wrong because that's the exact opposite of "well-adjusted". All because being obviously fatherless is a more realistic psychosis doesn't mean it's not kind of a sin. I blame Catholicism, but we don't need to go into that story.
I mean when a cast has such stellar examples as the likes of Baby Bonnie Hood(What if Little Red Riding Hood was a bloodthirsty sociopathic mercenary devoted to slaughtering all creatures of the night in vengeance for her lost grandmother?) or Huitzil(So the Mayans made a robot army and they told the robot army hey if any of you ever boot up and we're gone then kill literally everyone on the continent), a friendly cat girl who becomes a broadway musical star, realizes there are tons of people out there with a sadder existence than hers, becomes a nun and founds an orphanage with her broadway money, and generally tries to advocate for more open tolerance looks incredibly well-adjusted. Still doesn't excuse the butt-naked part of course but she makes for a more interesting character study than Morrigan(ugh I'm bored of just being a sex demon I'm gonna go over to earth and get in a bunch of fistfights because why the frick not).
That said yeah when the main concept of the game is "hey we're gonna do Street Fighter but with a bunch of iconic old-school horror monsters," expecting well-adjusted happy normal people is probably a little unrealistic.
43 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:Aaaaaaaaaaaand here's where you lost me.
In fairness by knowing about the X and BN series but not Fight you're in the same situation as the characters, thereby making it easier to relate to their confusion, therefore this is NOT a writing flaw and is in fact writing genius, QED! What no, I'm not desperately pulling excuses out of thin air to explain the fact that almost every franchise I want to write about is either an OC or obscure enough that nobody who reads it will ever get what I'm talking about, what gave you that idea hahahahahahaha.
51 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:Oooog. Very interesting.
It's secretly Axl again.I might like to see where that was going. I was kinda hoping Double would be recycling people, but that doesn't sound like what's happening so, uh...good choice on my part to use Layer instead.Now I want to mix and match operator-"navi" duos. I'm sure there's a better term I could use.
snip snip robots snip snip Reploids snip snip
Actually no, there's an additional Mechanical God besides the list I mentioned in the CoR thread who presides over errors and glitches, the idea was that her influence affected the Operator selected and somehow brought a dead Iris back to life and transported her in exchange for causing a random unnamed Operator to go insane with a 'reverse-Maverick' glitch. Said Operator causes an alert to be sent to Hunter Base by killing every Reploid in her station, citing them as threats to humanity, before a rookie Maverick Hunter group is dispatched and has to bring her down, which would cause one member to more seriously consider the life he's facing - a life potentially devoted to destroying his own kind for the sake of humans.
Connecting different versions of the same world is something I've always wanted to see more companies do, that was part of why X Dive's concept appealed to me. If you ever think of a neat mix and match for Robot Masters, NetNavis, Reploids, the Star Force people, Carbons, etc., you know I'll always be down to see that.
Ok in fairness while I love the franchise and world my game experience is pretty limited. The X series specifically, I have only played Command Mission before last week, we found it at the DI(which is uh like Goodwill or Savers I guess if you have those but run by our church) one year and I picked it over Heroes of Might and Magic II because Megaman and we love that game. Anyways, yeah, I know enough to look knowledgable around noobs, but put me in with a serious fan and it pretty swiftly becomes obvious that I have a lot of holes in my database.
I MEAN UH IT'S BECAUSE IT'S ZERO.EXE SPECIFICALLY SINCE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD IS LIMITED HE SPECIFICALLY HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF ROBOTICS IT'S AN EXAMPLE OF ACTUAL COINCIDENCE TO LAUGH AT THE IDEA OF THE STAGGERING LEVEL OF COINCIDENCE THAT BOTH WORLDS HAVE A ZERO LAYER IS ACTUALLY GETTING SCREWED OVER BY PROBABILITY MATHS I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAHAHAHA
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Well, since Benice isn't here yet and I am, unless random people show up and throw the vote off worse @indigoasis I think this round is yours. Whenever you're ready to start us off feel free to drop it on us.
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Just now, AnonymousSpeed said:
no i'm on page 18 of 21
i can't
i made a promise
i can't break it for memes
I mean, as I said after reading it, it definitely fit both potential halves of the prompt as I imagined it very well, so I can't fault you for wanting to vote responsibly with it as one of the options.
BUT THE FOUR-WAY TIE MY MAN -
Anon skip reading Indigo's piece and just vote Chloey.
Do it.
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Benice this is like the fourth time you've posted one of my entries as "Untitled." I know it's my fault for not adding a title to the Serenes post myself, but I'm starting to feel like you're not reading any of these. Have you been hit with the Curse Of The Thread Updater(TM)?
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16 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
This might be an hour late but screw you, have it anyway.
Peacewood
Andy kicked open the door. "It's almost Halloween, guys- the gnomes are coming to gnome everybody again."
This was not an unusual occurrence at the Peacewood Supernatural Services building.Somewhere between a volunteer group and a social club, it was the where the schizophrenic weirdos of Peacewood gathered.
Peacewood itself was a quiet mountain town, surrounded by forests and valleys, where winter was crisp and spring was pleasant. A river ran through the valley to the south. The highway ran just close enough that people would stop there for gas.
Most of its population fancied themselves rational people- wealthier than they liked to admit and very opposed to the roughneck nonsense of Supernatural Services. Yet, when magic is real, the schizophrenic weirdos are closer to the truth than polite company.
Peacewood was in the midst of an occult activity hotbed, and its gentry were deeply involved in it. Occasionally something so beyond reason would occur that the rest of the town would have no choice but to call the number on the endless flow of flyers which Supernatural Services put in their mailboxes.
Every year around Halloween, Peacewood Supernatural Services, or PSS, would get a few more phone calls than normal.
"Witches believe that the barrier between the spirit world and the material world are thinnest on Halloween," Andy had explained to the rest of the group some years ago. "It's a time of high occult activity."
The other three "members" of the PSS nodded along, each putting different amounts of stock into that statement. Not all of them were quite as devoted to the study of their ostensible enemies, some of whom only Andy actively considered enemies.
Jonas was the first to speak up, growling bitterly. "Disgusting. I hate gnomes. Everywhere they go, they drive up your cost of living and sink your property values. They're almost as bad as pixies."
That was typical talk for Jonas. The story of how he'd had been forced to move to Peacewood was long, arduous, and involved Catholics, so it was generally not brought up. Yet almost invariably, for any magical creature, it had given him some other reason to disdain them. He didn't care much about occult sciences or whether witches were right about Halloween. He mostly just hated pixies, or any other sort of vaguely magical creature, for reasons which seemed to extend down infinitely.
Next to speak was John, who was sitting casually behind a desk. "Was kicking the door really necessary?"
John was the least esoteric of all of them, and that was why they had put them on the phone. He was always very attentive to what everyone else had to say, but was very private about how much of it he believed, or even what he disbelieved.
Andy waved his hand dismissively. "It's fine." He surveyed the room and noticed one absence from its normal roster. "Where's Sal?"
"Sal went to get roast beef," said John.Sal was a Latter Day Saint. Andy would've called most such people Mormons, but Sal he respected enough to use the "proper" term, although exclusively when in his company. He was polite, though perhaps passive aggressive, and embroiled in a parallel system of esoterics to the rest- which really just meant Andy, who was a Kentucky Pentecostal.
"Now, the door-" John continued.
"Come on. This place has stood up to worse."
"Right, but that makes me worried about how much more it can stand up to."Peacewood Supernatural Services was run out of an old painted-brick building which had been an auto-shop some thirty years ago. Much of the grey paint had chipped away or gotten dirty in the twenty years it spent abandoned after that. It was creaky, comfortably beyond the town limits, and held together with duct tape and dreams, which made it very cheap. Getting it back in order and the regular upkeep costs made sure it didn't stay cheap, but it had still probably cost them less than some newer place. They weren't doing any automotive work, so they could focus their renovations on the small office space, and the building had great parking.
It also had a landline, which started to ring through the silence during which Andy had been pondering a response. John politely held up a finger to let Andy know to pause his never-coming response. He brought the receiver from the yellowed-plastic phone to his ear.
"Peacewood Supernatural Services, John speaking, how may I help you?"
They paused.
"Oh, hi Sal. What happened? Alright, they'll be right over."
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Jonas and Andy hopped out of the Montero and walked up to the local Arby's. A cashier was pacing outside. "Is that a shotgun?!"
"Why, yes!" Andy proclaimed. He had the shotgun. Jonas had a crowbar because he was not legally allowed to open carry."Is it loaded?"
"Yes," beamed Andy."With birdshot or buckshot?"
"With blessed shot," said Andy with a grin. That really just meant birdshot. "The pellets are blessed.""With any luck," Jonas began, "we'll get to cripple the gnome with one shot and finish him off with a second."
Andy smirked. "And he's not just saying that because gnomes are hard to hit."The Arby's cashier started pulling his hair- long, dark, and unkempt. "Look, I don't know what's going on in there, but...go fix it! Your friend said you'd know what to do."
Jonas was already walking through the door, but Andy took a moment to focus on customer relations. "Don't worry sir. We're professionals!" That was a lie, but in Andy's mind, they were as close to professionals as it got in their field.
When Andy stepped inside, he found Jonas and Sal standing over some guy who was sprawled out on the floor, clearing tripping out. A milkshake was splattered on the ground beside him. "What have we got, boys?"
"I was getting a roast beef sandwich with some curly fries-" Sal began.
"I like curly fries," Andy added.
"Curly fries are pretty good," Jonas admitted.
"Oh yeah, definitely," agreed Sal. "Anyway, I had just finished eating when I heard a commotion behind me. This guy had collapsed on the ground. I checked his wallet, he's 23, seems healthy. No drugs on him. I told everyone to clear out and called right away.""What did he have to eat?" Jonas asked.
"A roast beef sandwich, curly fries, and a milkshake."
"I can see the milkshake," Andy added. "Hm...I wonder...did anyone else have a milkshake?"They all looked at each other. Jonas sighed and stormed out to ask the cashier.
Andy knelt down by the spilled milkshake. He leaned down slowly, sniffing at the melted milk. "Hm..."
"What are you doing?"
"I smell..." Andy sniffed again just to be sure. "Urine."
"Urine?"Andy stood up. "Urine and mushrooms. Just as I suspected."
Jonas popped back in. "Nobody else had ordered a milkshake today." It was only 12:30 as it was, so that didn't surprise anyone.
"That nearly confirms it," Andy began. "A gnome has pissed in the milkshake machine."
"Those sick jerks would," Jonas scowled.
"Indeed. How rude. I'm going to banish that gnome with my gun."Sal looked between the two of them. "I'm sorry. I'm a little confused. How do we know that?"
"No idea," Jonas said.
"Gnomes are creatures of the earth," said Andy. "They eat mushrooms, including psychedelic mushrooms. The shamans would drink the piss of people who had eaten psychedelic mushrooms because it still contained some of the hallucinogenic compounds."Everyone looked disgusted.
"Yeah, it's gross, but it's real. I didn't invent that, you can look it up."
They all looked around. The Arby's had two halves- the front half was the dinning area, all brick and glass. The other half was the kitchen, the managers office, the water heater- basically everything else.
"Gnomes are notorious tricksters. It may still be here, waiting for us to leave," Andy said quietly. "They can even live in your walls, but the walls in this half of the building are too thin."
Sal pondered that for a second. "So the gnome could be in the back, or..."
There was a skittering sound above them, barely louder than a pin dropping, but they all snapped their gaze to the drop-tile ceiling above. Andy pumped his shotgun and aimed up, but held his fire. He didn't have his bearings fast enough, even as trigger-happy as he was, and so his barrel merely traced a path along the ceiling towards the back of the building.
"It looks like the gnome is still here," he whispered.
Jonas scowled, but it slowly gave way to a grin. He slapped the crowbar in his hand, and the three journeyed behind the counter.
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With the quarters closer, they all agreed to put the safety on the shotgun. Andy held onto it at first, but the kitchen was cramped with just three people, yet alone three people and a shotgun, so he handed it off to Sal for safe keeping and his own dexterity.
They crept through the back as quiet as could be, ears wide open for the sound of the gnome. They checked the office, they checked the water heater, they moved back to the kitchen, barely saying a word, guiding each other by sense alone.
For the most part they set themselves up make sure their back was always being watched, but for just a brief moment they turned their backs to the milkshake machine, and then it all broke loose.
"Hoo!"
They all spun around. The gnome stood atop the milkshake machine, full of yellow ice cream. It hurled a milkshake at Andy. With a shriek he jumped to avoid it, slipping on a wet spot and landing on a sticky one. Jonas ran forward with his crowbar raised. He brought it down on the gnome. There was a resounding clang. A big dent was left in the machine, but the gnome had dodged.
"Hoo!"
It came from behind. A shelf. Jonas spun around and swung at the gnome in a great sweeping arc Seasonings went flying everywhere, but the gnome wasn't affected! It leapt onto the face of it's attacker and began beating him with his tiny fists.
Jonas dropped his crowbar and tried to pull him off. He was growling and crashing through the room, knocking over everything as he wrestled the two-hands-tall creature.
Sal was helping Andy back to his feet, and they watched with baited breath.
"Did you not get the crowbar blessed?" Andy yelled.
"No!"
"I told you to do that!"
"Why would it matter?" Jonas scowled through the mess of arms and legs on his face.
"Gnomes are Earth-elementals! They move through solid earth like we move through air! Unless a metal is blessed, it will pass through them harmlessly!'Finally and with a dramatic tearing, Jonas managed to pull the gnome off, holding it up and away from him. "You little jerk! I should dunk you in the fryer!" He started moving in that direction.
"Hoo!" The gnome panicked. He raised his leg behind him and pulled off his shoe, then swung his foot forward and tapped Jonas on the nose with his toe. "You've been gnomed!"
Jonas froze. All of the sudden he collapsed on the ground, screaming endlessly. The gnome jumped away and landed on top of the fryer that he'd been threatened with. Sal and Andy ran over, the forming raising the borrowed shotgun.
Sal stared down the barrel at the gnome. His thumb froze over the safety.
"Hoo!" The gnome did a tap-dance atop the fryer. "What's the g'matter? Not going to g'shoot?"
"Don't do it!" Andy exclaimed. "The spread could either ricochet off the fryer and hit us, or break the fryer and spill hot oil everywhere."
The gnome chuckled, tapping his heels together. Another foe outwitted.
"Thankfully, I always always carry a .44 Magnum."
Quick as he could Andy drew his Smith & Wesson Model 29, picked exclusively because it was Dirty Harry's gun, and fired at the gnome. The creature went bug-eyed and jumped through the ceiling, letting the blessed bullet punch a massive hole in the wall behind it. The gnome scampered through the drywall to avoid the shots that followed, filling the air with smoke and sound.
Things got quiet. Everything grew still. The gnomes magic wore, and even Jonas screaming died down. They were all left sweating and heavy breathing.
Andy holstered his pistol, and Sal forcefully returned his shotgun. "I think we need a plan."
The Latter-Day Saint started to help Jonas back his feet while Andy thought about that.
Once he was back on his feet, Jonas took a few breaths and spoke. "I say we put a salt circle around the building, then tear it down with him inside."
"Salt circles don't work," said Andy dismissively.
"There are talismans that might," said Sal.
"I prefer not use talismans.""Can we set an ambush for the little freak?" Jonas whispered.
That seemed to be agreeable to them.
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The cashier was outside losing his mind, and now the manager was there doing the same. The trio told them to remain calm, keep a safe distance, and not report the gunshots to the police.
Jonas, Andy, and Sal moved all the dinning tables to the edge of the room except for one. They put that one exactly in the center, and on it they put a cake of honey and oats. They scribbled a quick apology to the gnome on a napkin and left it beside the cake along with a hand mirror, then went behind the counter and waited.
A minute went by, then several, then almost an hour, but finally the group heard a rustling. They roused each other in hushed tones and peered over the counter to see if the gnome had accepted their Trojan gift. The gnome was standing on the table, holding the note in front of him to read with one hand and licking honey off his fingers on the other.
All of them suddenly popped up. The gnome turned around, frozen briefly by surprise.
Andy pumped his shotgun. The gnome jumped into the ceiling. Andy aimed up and fired, shattering a hanging light. Bits of ceiling tile and broken glass fell down in front of him. Now damaged, the ceiling began to give way. The gnome tried to scramble away, but the cheap metal frame holding up the ceiling tiles couldn't hold up his weight along with them.
The gnome fell onto a table behind Andy, who spun around and disintegrated a napkin holder with his shotgun. The gnome jumped to the side to try and dodge, but his leg got nailed by a few stray pellets.
"Hoo!"
The gnome howled in pain as he fell to the floor.
Andy, Jonas, and Sal rushed over. Andy turned his shotgun aside and stomped on the gnome's chest, pinning him to the ground. Jonas had his bare hands ready to tear it apart if he needed to; He was hoping he would. Sal pulled out a cross, and the shadow thereof loomed over the gnome.
"Hoo!" The gnome hooed and grinned mischievously. " Banish me if you want! Nothing will un-piss the milkshake machine!"
They all stared down bitterly at the gnome. Andy began to pray.
"In the name of the Jesus, I command you to return to under the world, where you belong! Amen!"
The gnome writhed underfoot and then suddenly vanished, a final "Hoo!" echoing through the air.
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Billing was often difficult for the Peacewood Supernatural Services crew. They had no accountant, and usually their fees got eaten up repairing the damages they caused. Though deeply satisfying, exorcisms using shotguns had their disadvantages.
"The Ghostbusters never had to deal with this," said Jonas. "They could threaten to release the ghost again if people didn't pay them. Why can't we capture the gnomes and pixies and enslave them or whatever?"
"Slavery sounds kinda wrong," said John.
"Yeah, that sounds kinda like alchemy," said Andy. "And alchemy is a sin."Jonas shook his head. "If what you said about Halloween is right, we're going to have to deal with a lot more gnomes, and I'm just saying-"
"No," John and Andy said in unison."Gnomes aside," Sal began, "I don't see what you guys have against Halloween. I mean, I like Halloween."
"Halloween is pagan," Andy said sternly.
"Didn't Halloween start as a Christian holiday?" John asked. John was Jewish, although someone of any religion could've asked that question.
"All Hallows Eve, Samhein, Reformation Day- there's a lot at play in Halloween. I find that kind of mixture highly objectionable." Andy shook his head. "Trying times, these are. It's like Jonathan Cahn said: Halloween has gotten stronger while Christmas has gotten weaker, coinciding with the precipitous spiritual decay of our times."***
Robert Long was a lawyer, a secular liberal, an atheist, and from New Jersey. That was enough for most of Supernatural Services to outwardly disdain him. The exception was John, and it was very hard to tell what John thought inwardly.
Yet when he knocked on the door of Supernatural Services, hospitality demanded they let him in. Sal gave him his chair and Andy offered him tea, which Rob refused. John sat attentively at his desk and Jonas sat casually on it, while Sal and Andy stood and waited.
"I want to let you know, to be polite, that I'm going to be pursuing legal action against you," Rob said. "And, if I can manage, ruin you so that you can't cause any more harm."
"That doesn't seem very polite," remarked John.
"Neither is shooting up an Arby's."
"There were gnomes," said Jonas."There are no gnomes!" Robert shouted. Realizing that sitting didn't make him look very tall, he stood up. "You can't go around pretending like magic and gnomes are real, using it as an excuse to muck up the public order! Society should not make rational, intelligent people cater to delusions like yours."
"We shot a gnome," Andy said. "He urinate in the milkshake machine. He danced at us-"
"That's disgusting," interjected Rob. "You did not shoot a gnome. You shot at some mi- person with dwarfism- while they were under the influence of drugs. Then you let them run off and concocted this ridiculous gnome story, just like you did with the skinwalkers and the undines and the thunderbird-"
"Those are all real things!" Andy shouted. "Look at where we shot. You'll find no blood."
Robert stared at him.
"Gnomes are Earth-elementals. They don't bleed."
Jonas narrowed his eyes. "Wait a second. Are you trying to flex on us? I don't take kindly to that."
"Come on Jonas," Sal said. "What would he be flexing on us about?""Quiet, no threats," said Andy.
The lawyer scowled at them all. "I stand corrected. You're under the influence."
"I don't take drugs."
"Yeah, drugs are for losers."
"I don't even drink coffee."
"I don't even take medicine.""That's your problem," he scoffed. "You're under the influence of something else entirely. I am being very polite in giving you a chance to stop adding damages to your rap sheet that I can sue you over. I'd say good day, but I honestly hope you have a rotten one."
Robert turned to the door and left.
"What a prick."
Responses tomorrow or later or whatever. I am tired.
Oh, so this is why you sent me that - ok. Not half bad, you got a good laugh out of me with the "you've been gnomed!"
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2 hours ago, TheSilentChloey said:
Interesting....
I didn't check the word count:
Title: This is Late...
So yea have a really last minute/late entry.
Aaaahahahahaha called it.
SpoilerThis one feels like it could really use more fleshing out, it's a shame you got it in last-minute because you're looking at a similar idea to what I was doing with Arilon in the FE worlds, which would have been really interesting to see, a fairly serious player with another world's potential resources on efficiency and consistency able to back up the protagonist, but without complete overpowered-ness since the anime had all kinds of bs stuff cards pulled that they don't at all for us.
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On 10/30/2022 at 12:04 AM, AnonymousSpeed said:
Soul.
Soul.
Please do not [shane dawson] the cat.
What, no, I meant hypotheses about it being a catgirl. Even if it were, why would I do anything to it? I'm not a furry, I just want to know if they exist is all.
On 10/30/2022 at 5:34 PM, TheSilentChloey said:Did not know this was a thing mate...
You've given me some food for thought.
-gasp- A surprise last-minute Chloey piece?!Even his original theme sounds like it came straight out of a Megaman X game, it was so powerful they had to nerf it after that one.
Meanwhile, America got cat. Like sure, she's a heartwarming character who stands out as the only remotely well-adjusted member of a cast of psychotic freaks, but...it's kind of hard to get over the fact that her big aspiration in life is basically to be a showgirl. Or that she's butt-naked at all times with fur only covering the absolute essentials. That part's...kind of important.
Anyways, here we go.
Post-Read:
SpoilerI only did half of the infodump I wanted to do and this still suffers from way, waaaaay too much exposition. This piece assumes you know Megaman X lore, at least from X5-X8, then Megaman Battle Network lore, specifically from Network Transmission, the one that the BN fans don't talk about because it's pretty much a BN game in theory only, which is just so you can understand the interaction between the two characters, and then you want to know about A Robot Named Fight in order to have maximum understanding of the setting.
I probably should have gone with Double or Iris, since my three ideas for this had different levels of understanding required - Double would appear with X, and Iris would appear with Zero as he appeared in the Zero series. In either of these scenarios, Tutorial Smith, the robot who in this version dies without contributing anything useful(source accurate at least 50% of the time btw), would provide actual exposition about this being a world where humanity had been wiped out millennia ago, prompting different reactions from each pair.
In the X-Double pairing, X(who would be appearing from a post-X8 setting) would find his resolve strengthened - after all, he now knows what will one day happen if he fails to stop the constant reemergence of Mavericks. Meanwhile, Double(who would be appearing from the middle of X5) sees this as an opportunity to take notes on how to prevent this from happening, not believing X when he says Double has already died and will just be doomed to do so again before he can report his findings. This would be kind of the standard mode from a game perspective.
In the Iris-Zero pairing, Iris(who would actually be appearing posthumously which spawned a whole other idea I may do at some point) would find herself shaken - she thought a Reploid-only world would be a paradise, not the nightmare she sees around her. Zero, meanwhile, in true Zero fashion, says worrying about the mission won't get it done, and asks what he needs to do. Unlike the other Operators, Iris is a completely non-combat unit, and so from a gameplay perspective this would be the 'hard' route, also in true Zero fashion. The other interesting part of this pairing would be that Iris wasn't supposed to be there, and in fact is technically a glitch - Tutorial Smith doesn't seem to see her, and apologizes to Zero for pulling him in without anyone to back him up before dying.
Anyways, I went with Layer-Zero.EXE since, well, for one Anon decreed so and he's the only one this will make any degree of sense to, and for another I wanted to have the narrative focus more on the Operator of the pairing, which works best here - in the X-Double pairing, the narrative would mostly be focused on X, while in the Iris-Zero pairing, the focus would be shared between them as Iris has to deal with the fact that Zero is doomed to forget her very existence, when at one point losing her caused him to have an entire existential crisis.
For those who haven't played Network Transmission(I haven't either it's ok), I actually did Zero.EXE's speech patterns on my own initiative rather than try to pull up his exact lines. Frankly I like ellipses way more than most people, and I tend to jump for chances to overuse them so this was also an excuse to do that, but yeah, him pausing every sentence is me taking creative liberties - if it helps maybe think about it as him stopping to take a Darth Vader style breath.
I didn't look Layer's actual voiced lines up until after I finished writing this, so she had a much higher voice in my head while writing this than in real life and that was trippy. For Anon, forgive me if any of her lines sound like they go with a different Operator, she sounds younger in my head.
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5 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
I didn't know Deseret had cat-girls. What a strange and magical place.
I didn't know Chloey had guys like this guy running around her country either but here we are.If we have catgirls I've never met one in her human form. One of my friends had a cat that seemed pretty interested in me but she went off the rails and ditched before I could test any hypotheses. The, uh, the friend. Not the cat. The cat is probably also crazy because cat but I can't confirm.
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Hey, I'm gonna need another day if that's ok with people, I won't be anywhere I have internet access on my comp tomorrow.
In other news, I got the Capcom Fighting Collection this week so I could try Darkstalkers. It is so not fair that Chloey gets this legend as her country rep while all I get is a naked cat girl.
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Just now, AnonymousSpeed said:
Based on the descriptions given, I guess I'll have to go with Layer.
I mean, I always heard it described as a Mega Man knockoff, so I assumed it was just a more blatant-than-normal attempt to make the same game with anime girls.
...This is gonna be weird and probably only make sense to you, but alright, here we go.
Yeah, I dunno, I just like the soundtrack.
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Just now, AnonymousSpeed said:
Just do all three.
Oh hey, is that related to Rosenkr-whatever it is? You must know what I'm talking about, right?
Nah, gotta be just one, this is gonna be weird enough as is.
Uh...I have no idea, actually, I just found the game on the 3DS eShop. The story seemed to imply there was some other media it came from like a manga or something, but I don't know about the wider story or world.
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8 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
Go ahead then, use the wilted (dead) Iris.
>using the generic Maverick Hunter X navigator
No.Oh hey, how about characters from Mighty No. 9?
Nah, if you're serious about Layer or Double I can make those work too, I just have more prior knowledge of Iris because, you know, absurd childhood fascination bordering on simp-dom. Basically, pick Iris if you want a super serious question right at the start, Layer if you want a more light-hearted What The Frick kind of story, and Double if you want to have edgy without it being full-on anime levels of edge like you'll probably get with Iris.
I literally didn't even know she existed until I looked up a list of Navigators. You could pick RiCO or even Ciel if you wanted, though they would be trickier to use for the idea I had in mind.
Just make a giant mashup of all the Megaman knockoffs, I like it. In that case I'll also suggest a cameo for The Legend of Dark Witch - a Megaman knockoff from a gameplay perspective but with a notably anime aesthetic, I actually really really like the second one.
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7 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
Iris. But dead.
Naw, I'm jokin', really. But, uh, y'know, let's go with Layer. Alia would've been a boring pick. Unless Double is an option, in which case you always pick Double.
Now then-
It's a shame, because the idea this question is for honestly lets me ask a really interesting question if Iris specifically is used.
I did mean any Navigator, yes.
I mean Megaman is always an option, but here...let's go halfway and I'll suggest
the Megaman ZX RebootAzure Striker Gunvolt and it's own spiritual pseudo-successor, COGEN Sword of Rewind. I can probably come up with some other options tomorrow, but that's all I got for today. -
Hey, could someone please select a Navigator-Type Reploid from the Megaman X series for me? Can provide a list of options if required.
This is, uh, 100% unrelated, definitely.
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17 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
And unlike the other prepromotes, they aren't royal siblings.
-Felicia and Jakob shift uncomfortably-
12 hours ago, Jotari said:Its the girls that seem more arbritrary. As Reina and Scarlet are definitely younger
I'd like to remind you that Scarlet gets murdered like one Chapter after you get her in Revelations, there's virtually no way that didn't contribute considering Gunter also can't S-Support in Revelations at all until the game is almost over. I'll totally give you Reina and Flora, considering how we can all see she was simping for Jakob I was surprised Flora couldn't marry him, maybe they were making a joke with the VA, but Scarlet, if not Gunter, is probably a victim of Fates trying to make three paths work(though Kaze is an argument against this).
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I'mma be honest, I'd rather it go mixed, with some children locked to mothers and some locked to fathers. It allows for more sibling conversations, which Awakening and Fates could really have used more of. I understand why they probably didn't do that, but still.
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22 hours ago, indigoasis said:
I do believe I'm ready to share something substantial for this month. What I'm sharing is only Part 1 of the full thing I plan on writing; I would have given more, but I felt that what I have so far is a good stopping point before it gets too long, and also a decent introduction. It's prolly gonna end up being a novella by the time I'm done.
Anyway, I think this should be a perfect fit for both the theme and the month. I hope you guys enjoy it!
Title: Resurrection
Word Count: 8300, 21 pages
Some post read notes, if you're interested:
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This is pretty much my ultimate passion project; a fanmade story for the cancelled Sega Dreamcast title, Castlevania Resurrection. I've had ideas for this running through my head for a long time now, probably since at least May, and I've got most of the important story beats worked out; it's just a matter of piecing them together and getting it all written down.
- The goal of this story is to bring as much of that cancelled project as possible to some kind of reality, exercising some creative liberties to make it fit in as much as possible with the canon timeline of the main series games while also including and introducing elements of other Castlevania media (namely the Netflix series and Lords of Shadow).
- Some of the locations described in the story are literary translations of screenshots from the Castlevania Resurrection demo, which you can find here. I obviously haven't gotten to everything yet, and I probably won't be able to, so I'm doing my best to bring over as much as possible.
- Another goal for this story is to be accessible as possible. Essentially, I want to make it so that anyone can read it, not just Castlevania fans. Similarly to the games where you can kind of start with almost any of them, I want this to be something that people can read and not be confused as to what's going on because they don't know the lore, but people who do know the lore can piece things together and understand it just as well. More will be explained as I get more written down, and it will hopefully be as complete of a narrative as possible without too much reliance on the rest of the series.
- It's still a WIP, so it's liable to changes as I move forward with the rest of the story, but I'm pretty satisfied with Part 1 as it is right now.
Hopefully, once I have it all written and complete, I'll share it with you guys on here. I'll post the full version once it's ready... which probably won't be for a long time, but I'll do what I can.
SpoilerA pretty solid choice for both halves of the prompt, I like it. You have a couple sort of weird sentence structures, like where you mention that Victor "Followed the moon towards the moon," but overall it's written pretty well, and you did manage to convert some traditional enemy actions to writing solidly. I don't have a whole lot to nitpick about this, about the only real issue I had was that sometimes your descriptions lost my attention a little, but that may also have to do with the fact that I've been undersleeping for the last week so I'm sort of fried. I'll try to come back to it once I can get reoriented and hopefully give it some more feedback.
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This is pretty much my ultimate passion project; a fanmade story for the cancelled Sega Dreamcast title, Castlevania Resurrection. I've had ideas for this running through my head for a long time now, probably since at least May, and I've got most of the important story beats worked out; it's just a matter of piecing them together and getting it all written down.
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17 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
Have you already forgotten my magnificent cast of NPCs, consisting of Charlemagne and other people who never showed up?
But enough about Legendary Dmitri. How's your brainstorming going? Even if we don't get enough people to actually start, I'm always interested to see your ideas.
Hey, hey, there were plenty of NPCs, most of them were just wearing masks so they accidentally seemed generic and forgettable, that's all.
Alright, I'll admit I laughed at that, thanks for that image.
I spent about two days seriously considering whether I could make Zero work for a Mythos - allowing him to surface more would cause the character to become more single-mindedly focused on one's own mission, while attempting to keep that from happening might have the effect of causing doubt in one's cause a la X4. I need to do some research on the Mechanical Gods of A Robot Named Fight(Tyr, Zurvan, Hephaestus, Wadjet Mikhail, Buluc Chabtan, Orphiel) to see if I can blend any of them with their other appearances(if they have any), since they were a thought I had, and I also considered Loki as an option for someone who begins to develop multiple personality disorder if they allow him/her/it/whatever to surface more. This week's been pretty busy, though, so I haven't really had time to do too much, I'll see if I can do some more fleshing out of those concepts over the weekend.
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16 hours ago, Lord_Brand said:
By "custom deck", I was thinking something closer to Mii Fighters. The precons would have unique backs and thus couldn't be customized.
Right, but in Smash 4 all characters had customizable Special options. Palutena was the only one with full-on Mii-level changes to each move(though Megaman had some that were sort of a similar level), but the feature did exist. You could have a pseudo-expansion where you released the Smash 4 alternate Specials with the same unique backs as the precons, allowing for customization, and implement a rule where both players have to confirm their opponent is using a deck with the correct number of Special Attacks before the game begins to deal with potential cheating.
16 hours ago, Lord_Brand said:Cool to see indies like ARNF! getting recognition. Maybe some of my own characters will one day enjoy that privilege.
Exceed got me to discover Fight, actually, which was great, it's got more hours clocked than everything else on my Switch bar Smash Ultimate, I just started a new file to see how many achievements I could get without ever dying last week. You're planning to do an Indie game, then? Or have you already done one?
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19 hours ago, Acacia Sgt said:
Ah, I... see.
Is this Areahdbar another member or was it one of the characters of Ruined World...?
No, it's Dimitri's Lance, specifically as it appears in Heroes attached to Legendary Dimitri.
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On 10/17/2022 at 1:33 PM, Lord_Brand said:
There could be custom decks in addition to the precons to allow for a degree of deckbuilding flexibility and thus for a TCG component.
...So the Smash 4 edition then.
If you want a group with some experience doing the "Fighter Deck" idea, I'll happily take another chance to plug for a game, this time Exceed. Think Street Fighter but as a card game(Season 3 actually is Street Fighter). Each character comes with a specific set of 8 Normal attacks that all fighters share, along with 7 Special Attacks and 2 Ultra Attacks, designed of course to represent Special attacks and Supers(so similar to Final Smash). There's about 100 fighters at time of writing, plus an entire community devoted to making Custom fighters, so I think it's safe to say the game is a pretty solid example of preset deck options that offer different takes on similar gameplay styles to ensure there's a fighter for everybody.
We even have Indie Knockoff Samus as a fighter if you want an example. Also Shovel Knight. Loooooots of Shovel Knight.
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23 hours ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
I haven't really tried 4.5 myself.
SpoilerSo you take Battle Network, right.
Then you make it so you have access to a bunch of other NetNavis in addition to Megaman, like every BN4 DoubleSoul option, a smattering of retro picks from previous BN games such as NapalmMan(no CutMan sadly), Bass.EXE(OH HECK YES), and one guy from Network Transmission, that one on the GameCube that tried to make Battle Network into a traditional Megaman platformer but also gave us Zero.EXE so we'll forgive the mistakes.
(Note: The base game, as far as I know, only included Megaman, Roll, GutsMan, and NumberMan, we had to find a different download to get the others since they were unlocked by connecting to a separate device and scanning a special BattleChip a la Amiibo)
Then you give each Navi some sort of unique feature that makes it worth getting them, like having gateways that only specific Navis can open, having Roll and StarMan do daily fortune-telling and a special item that randomly spawns in a different area each day, having ProtoMan get missions from the Officials or ShadowMan get assassination requests, allowing Bass to walk up to random NetNavis and murder them in broad daylight, you know, stuff that makes sense for each Navi.
Then you make it so the Tournaments(which I consider one of the best parts of BN4) are available all over the place by having you go to specific Comp locations, plus said Tournaments now give you a gacha-wheel spin to get a free BattleChip for winning.
Then you make it so you can't control your Navi.
...Wait what.
You can't control your Navi, instead you get a little "tactics" window where you tell the Navi which enemy is highest priority and how many spaces to keep in between them, then the Navi does it as a CPU. It's supposed to emulate the idea of the NetNavi being its own individual being while you "Operate" by sending them BattleChips that the Navi then uses on its own priority. It's a super interesting idea that probably shouldn't have been done on any device with fewer than two screens, but it's pretty clearly set up to be like a mobile game.
Write Your Butt Off 358/II.8 prompts HD Final Chapter Prologue
in Written Works
Posted
-gasp- NEW PERSON?! >pog
Anyways, I think I've got my idea down, looking forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with!
Wait, Chloey's moving to another forest? Don't go, where else will you find such wonderful discussion partners?! /s
In seriousness, that sounds exciting, hope you're able to get everything done smoothly!