Khellendrosiic

All I can say about this robot vs zombie debate right now is: IF I invade another city, it is going down SO hard.

*hits the Follow key and superjumps for a Knockout Blow*

Who said I'll be pulling another army out of my [censored]?

Although if I do I think I'll just bomb you into submission and then send in some mini-Daishi's.

Which is why from now on all of my Shotbots will come with jet thrusters and duel electro swords. Along with all their shotguns with their +5 bonus against undead.

Archlich's eyes narrowed slightly, his version of a frown, when he realized the man was resisting his charm. But apparently he took no umbrage and left in short order, for which the lich was thankful. Looking down, Archlich swiftly negated the weak binding enchantment that the sprite had placed on his boots and then gathered up the two sets of papers.

"Good thing I didn't have to actually sit a fairy down and tell it to write stuff out," Archlich muttered to himself as he filed the papers and then sat back down to work some more. He had already forgotten about getting the translation amulet for the fairy.

Vahzilok are like Frankenstein. Living dead through use of technology. Blightlord's zombies are the traditional magic kind. But despite how they're created, all zombies are fundamentally the same.

Unless you make zombies out of bio-plasm from some sort of Sun World thingie.

Archlich inwardly sighed. It was another one of those.

"If you are worried that I may suddenly turn evil and try to sacrifice the children in some bloody demonic ritual, do not be. I consider running this place as...penance...for the crimes I did long ago. And heroes are always watching," Archlich chuckled humorlessly. "I couldn't try anything if I wanted to."

While he talked, Archlich's hand had been working a simple charm that would make his words seem more believable to the man. All the better to get him to shut up, sign the papers, and let Archlich get back to whatever life he had in this Abyss-forsaken place.

Well, quite frankly, it's really hard to tell how a fight between an army of robots versus an army of undead would go simply because the two types operate in completely different circles. You wouldn't expect to find a horde of zombies in a science fiction book nor would you expect to see a legion of robots in a fantasy novel.

And if people are predisposed toward robots, it's because they are affiliated with science fiction, which takes place in the future, while zombies occur in fantasy which we generally consider the past. The dichotomy is that the future is always seen as more powerful than the past, hence, robots kicking zombie [censored].

OOC: Good thing Archlich's boots don't have laces!

BIC: Archlich paused as he heard the door open again and then tilted back to see what was up. Seeing the old man with the little girl and one of the new children already on the floor crying, Archlich sighed and headed back down the stairs.

Making a slight detour to pick up several papers for the man to fill out, Archlich otheriwse made a bee line for the two.

"Welcoe to the Bright Star Children's Home," Archlich rasped. "I am Archlich, the co-owner of this establishment. If you have come to enroll your child here for any amount of time, please fill out these forms."

Archlich handed the forms to the man along with a pen that he pulled out from under his breastplate.

"A fairy?" Archlich said in surprise. "Hmm. Come with me Sienna. I shall try and find an artifact that will enable you to speak with the others and myself. You may decline if you wish, however."

Archlich walked past Sienna and started up the stairs to his room.

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O Fortuna by Carl Orff
Awesome song, great sound, excellent vocals. Powerful, Dramatic, Moving. I could see this being a intro for a dark character, or the beginning of an epic battle.


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This song now property of Archlich! I can imagine the part when it gets loud again is when he pulls out some giant spell of death. And then that ending-ish thing in the middle would be a zoom in on his burning blue eyes narrowing.

^_________^

Then the fight begins again with Archlich slinging spells all over the place until the quiet bit where the battlefield has fallen silent and it looks like everyone is dead. Then the music picks up and the good guys charge out from their hiding places while Archlich watches. Then he freezes time and slowly walks closer to them on the next quiet bit. Then they unfreeze when the music picks up again and we've got some close range spell slinging going on. Then it fades to black, then rumbles, then ends.

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Escape- Craig Armstrong
Again, and intro to a epic battle. The way it sounds it could be both a beginning, the actual battle, and the aftermath.


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And I could've used this for Toy Dispenser's attack on the Consumed's city. With the beginning half being the march and the deployment and then the undead attacking when the second half starts. The beat in the background would be perfect to punctuate the various spells and attacks fired by the Daishi's, lich's, and allies as they fought. The loud singing near the end would be the tower falling. Now, that doesn't cover all the points of that battle, but I like it anyway.

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Hero
For angsty hero types.

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And this reminds me heavily of Billyboy. Especially the guitar. Mainly the guitar. Some of the words too. Most of them in fact.

I freaking love you, Commie. ^__________________^

OOC: ^__________________^

Meh, Archlich found Kairaishi to be useful in a fight. Which isn't one of the worst things Archlich can think of someone.

And for Balsk, well, I don't know. The only thing I can say in my defense is that Balsk's sword was forged for him by a god that he helped reclaim his throne and that he once had to survive for a couple of days on a planet entirely taken over by bloodthirsty robots. None of which I've actually written ecause Balsk is my most thought about, least written about character.

Of all my characters, Balsk and Granash are the ones that refuse to bend to any one AT. This is mainly because I haven't created them in game yet and because their origins span long before I started playing CoV. Which is why Balsk is all steathly but can kick [censored] with his sword and sling spells while Granash is like a stalker except sort of a scrapper and blaster remix.

And how did Balsk promptly kill Experiment? I can't remember.

I must be really bored and tired cause I just listened to that song another couple of times and now I got a new scene stuck in my head.

This time its Toy starting this fight that he knows he can't win and then the whole song is him and his bots fighting like hell but with this depressed undertone cause they know they're going to lose. Near the end half the bots start dying off and the last ten seconds or so would show the camera zooming away from Toy's broken body lying on the ground.

Yeah, I'm tired and that song is starting to make me depressed.

Yeah, that's the way I feel sometimes. But if you don't specifically mention a certain weakness that somebody can exploit, then they'll never notice it.

But it's soooo hard to set your character up to fail! I keep thinking of ways to come up with a neutral way to pick who loses in a fight, but all I can think of is Rock-Paper-Scissors.

Which I just realized we can do in-game....

Hmmmm......

The main problem everyone runs into when trying to run an RP is the fact that nobody wants to lose. We're all the main character in our own eyes and the main character always wins, right? Even if he's confronted with his one weakness, he manages to somehow find a way to power through and save the day regardless.

Which is sort of where the limiting factors of ATs come in.

Let's take Archlich for example. In game, Archie is an energy/ice corruptor. In roleplaying, he's an ancient lich that conceivably knows every single spell in existence. Now, faced with the in game version, you could probably kick Archie's [censored] and there wouldn't be a thing he could do about it. But the RP version could pull some random trick out of his hat that would do the exact thing he needs to save himself or take someone out. And he'd be in character while doing it.

On the other hand, there is Toy Dispenser. He's a bots/force field MM in game and a bots/ FF mastermind while roleplaying. The only special stuff he gets are his bots being completely independant and Combat Toy being almost a fully fledged brute in his own right.

And I forgot where I was going with this or even if I was addressing the original point. But, to sum up what I think I was trying to say: The only way to reallybeat someone, is to have them agree to be beaten in the first place. Otherwise, like Ghoul and the Consumed, the fight will never have a victor.

Yeah, something like that.

Khell sighed and unzipped his security jacket. He found sentry duty the most annoying of all his jobs and generally started to get very hot when forced to stand around without interaction for long periods of time. Hopefully the bigwigs would hurry up about this Project Forecastle or Forcast or whatever business so Khell could get back to some real work.

Meanwhile, Ghoul was rolling around on the ground laughing his head off. A whole bunch of girls soaking wet, somebody getting whacked by a foam mallet, and water balloons everywhere; it was his kind of day.

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"Another one, eh?" came a raspy voice from behind the new arrival.

Archlich tapped one boney hand against his skull in consternation and then crossed his arms.

"And who might you be, little girl?"

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Actually, what I was thinking of during that part was -

Melodie - Salva Nos

*love love love this song* It's just...so....angsty.

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Because everything that I think about while on these boards generally turns toward Toy, I listened to this song and immidiately started imagining this seen in Final Fight where Toy is on his last life and he's turned human like Essex. And he's all wondering in an angst-ish way about how the hell things have gone wrong and the fact that human bodies suck [censored].

Not that this scene will ever happen, cause we all know Toy is too good to be beaten that much.

Gonna edit this post as I find more stuff to reply too.

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My own personal What The HELL? is the fact that Essex keeps making friends with every villain she meets. D:

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>_> Granash would be perfectly happy to kill Essex for you. As would Archlich.

And all of Toy's tech is stuff that he steals from other groups, reverse engineers, and tests on Mini Bot or stuff that he buys off the blackmarket and then tests on expendable robot shells or Mini Bot. And Sullivan is only over-powered because I've only got one shot to use him.

Now Grime was struck by a sudden desire to run away. He knew that Archlich would be furious if he caught Grime trying to get into his room and Archlich was really, really scary. Maybe it would be best just to forget about this whole attempt and do something else.

If Grime resisted this spell, he would discover a multitude of other, more elaborate defensive wards on the door. They ranged from spells that would imprison the opener in a block of ice to hexes that would transform the trespasser into a frog. While none of them were especially lethal, Grime would have to trigger each one in turn or find a way to bypass them all to get inside.

OOC: I is such an RP schizophrenic.

BIC:

Registered Villain ID: Toy Dispenser

Origin: Technology

Powers: Toy Dispenser controls a small, elite team of robots, and is equipped with a pulse laser rifle, two powerful shield generators, and various other devices. He has also been trained by Scirocco to utilize the strange red electricity that crackles over his body.

Backstory: A mercenary by trade and desire, Toy Dispenser has done a few jobs for Renzer before. Coming highly recommended, Toy Dispenser took several difficult tasks and managed to pull them off successfully. After spending a short while rejecting any missions sent his way from numerous sources, Toy Dispenser is once again back on the market and looking for lucrative deals.

Actual backstory in link.

Archlich looked up from his paperwork as he sensed a spell being cast, but since it wasn't harmful, he ignored it and continued writing.

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As they approached Archlich's thick, iron banded oak door, Blightlord and Grime suddenly realized that they could probably get some cookies from Essex if they asked for some.

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"Incoming!" Block Bot shouted as the fireball exploded on the sand city, knocking sand everywhere.

Toy looked down at himself, his bright colored armor covered in globs of icy sand.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAH! ;_;" Toy wailed as he flopped down to the ground and wrapped himself in his sand-encrusted blanket. "I gots sand all over me, Essex!"

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Ghoul lay down on the floor of the fort, his face looking up toward the blue roof and streams of water running down off his body. Puffing out his cheeks, Ghoul blowed and watched as a stream of water shot out of his mouth. Ghoul kept going until he ran out of water to blow. Then he jumped to his feet and grabbed another water balloon.

"Balloon em some more!" Ghoul shouted, trying to rally Reikoff and his friends. "Ghoul and team is better dan any stoopid girls!"

Then Ghoul did a quick double take as he looked at Anna and Kathode.

"Except you two," he said. "Ghoul tinks you is cool girls. Wanna throw more balloons now?"

"I'm ready when you are," Toy said, grabbing Ginstar again and hovering into the air.

OOC: Since I am also horribly lost, let's just assume that Toy follows Experiment.