((Wait, I was under the impression that these were the 'One-Shot-and-You're-Dead" Drones. Which is it?
Also, Devious, just as clarification, the target of the orbital strike was the buildling the two were currently fighting in, yes?))
Jake nearly cackled with glee. Not a second after he had received his order, a literal army of Arachnos Drones emerged from the complex.
"Lieutenant C-... No. Cry will die, and the dignity of Arachnos will be restored." He tapped a button on the side of his helmet, attempting to contact his partner so that the two of them could join up with an assault group.
"Tamesis, stop playing around and get out here. We have an ex-lieutenant to assassinate."
OOC: *Cough cough*
Just thought I'd throw in my two cents here.
These arent the 'updated' drones. These are standard Arbiter Drones. You can find them at any major Arachnos installation. The drones you are possibly thinking about are the normal drones, which are black as opposed to silver and blue.
The drones that are chasing you are the kind you can find in PvP zones and so forth. The kind that will shoot through anything and ignore the one shot code, and WILL kill you in one hit. They are also completely invincible, and just from personally experience, it is impossible to even damage them. Attacks that arent completely invalid, dodged, or deflected simply register as 'unaffected.' If these drones catch you, you will die. It is as simple as that.
/e sarcasm
And back stories are FINE. But you have to realize no matter how much sparkle you throw into it, that doesn't directly make your character instantly powerful enough to tackle any given incoming threat. Ex: Council AV Archon? Telekinetic shielding. Psychic enemy? Chaos energy and absorption powers. Ghost Widow? One-shotting auto-hitting smack-down on the entirety of Arachnos. Arbiters + Drones? Now it turns out Cry has an alternate dimension where he is a god and can negate anything thrown at him.
/e sarcasm end
And it's not just you either, M.
Seriously people, what the [censored] do you think this is? I'm in a good mood right now. Which means I can suspend disbelief for an incredible amount of time, for an incredible amount of stuff. But even now, at this moment, my patience is wearing extremely thin. The point of a thread ISN'T to 'win.' Winning ENDS THE THREAD, which isn't the point. A thread, or a story, is supposed to go on for an indefinite period of time. If all everyone does is spend the entire time making their characters more and more powerful, bit by bit, megajoule by megajoule, we're just all going on power trips, which irritates other people in the thread, resulting in its fall.
I mean REALLY. There should be NO REASON ANYONE, even the OPer, should have to commission an ARMY OF DRONES just to take out one person. There is NO REASON WHY anyone should have enough power to obliterate entire city blocks. There is NO REASON this thread should have to wither like it has been doing before finally dying because one or two people cant play unless things go JUST their way
It's fine to use creative license to make your character seem god-like in proportion. Its fine you can write an epic history filled with the destruction of worlds and dimensions and boosting and blah blah blah. But then we enter the world of INTER-CHARACTER RP. Where MULTIPLE PEOPLE-Not just you-Multiple people who think for themselves-Things have to change. Not everyone enjoys having characters who can destroy entire cities. Heck, some people hate having characters who can level small buildings. The point is, its no fun when everything in the thread is just a game of seeing who can come up with the most ridiculous reason X to boost power by an amount of Y to do something where you auto-profit Z.
If everyone could be more like Mr. Grey, this forum could be amazing. Want to know why? Because Mr. Grey is very even-handed. He has weak and strong characters. They dont go around blowing [censored] up with amount of force N just because they CAN. He plays by the rules. His characters are mortal-they can be killed, they can be hurt. And usually, they can do the same to you. Then at the same time, there is the overall plot and story and the extra throw-ins, which make encounters and interactions with his characters fun to go through. Hes a damn good writer and RPer, and there is not a single person on these boards who can possibly claim he isnt.
Every time I read one of your posts, I WINCE. Everything seems so monotonous. Attack, permapowerboostcounternuke, attack, permapowerboostcounternuke+, attack, permapowerboostcounternuke++, attack
Hell, its even impossible to hold just a normal conversation with one of your characters without SOMETHING similar to that sequence going off.
Cant people have normal [censored] characters with normal [censored] power sets who actually have [censored] limits and who are actually [censored] possible to have FUN with, for everybody involved?
The answer to that question is no.
It was stated that entering uber-powerful characters would meet with retaliation on-par force to counter said uber-powerful character. Which is why we are currently in this whole crappy Ghost Widow/Lord Recluse/Arbiters/Drones/Explosions/Nukes/Auto-ing/Power Tripping RUT. And I [censored] HATE IT. When I look at this RP I find that there is no incentive for me to continue to post. Its no longer fun to do so, I find no joy in this place. But Im going to continue to post. Using just my PLAIN characters, who use NORMAL power sets, who CANNOT level entire cities and planets, who HAVE limits, and who are NOT god-like in proportion, I am going to use every resource available to KILL OFF YOUR characters. Preferably PERMANENTLY.
Now that Im in a considerably worse mood, Im going to withdraw for a while now. I need time to cool down. /e headdesk /e quit /e leave
BIC:
((occ: I like your negotiation skills dogma, very charismatic, perhaps we did go on our own power trips and forgot about the purpose of the RP in itself, apologies. RP felt more and more like a dragonball z storyline. As for negotiations stake, I want to kill off Cry, I have twisted him far too much from his original purpose he needs a scrap, end climatically please.))
((Acanous has been using normal powersets, with only one modification >.> ))
You can't spell Slaughter without laughter
All your gonna do is just farm behemoths anyways.
My thoughts on November 30.
((I had only planned to enter four char's in this RP. All with normal powersets who were neither the strongest or the weakest. . .But this seemed like a good way to write a decent death for two of my best toons. Once that is done I will resume my journey with my original four.
Maybe by then everything will have calmed down and this thread will have gotten back on track.
Oh and no worries En. I can always ret-con Bang and Dax into other RP's.))
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
((Apologies dogma, Bladewing's powersets are over the top yes, and I will admit to a power trip, but I'm gonna have him go back into seclusion eventually, and Build just brought back Dax and Bang because I sorta provoked him into it. And on the other front, Bladewing can die, and the only reason I ever make his attacks DBZish is because so very many people will say "oh a sword, how quaint, it bounces off my armor, i kill you with a missile." Bladewing's powers are my RP way of getting around things like that...and he can be hurt. TeChameleon's powers are very well explained, and while they may be DBZish, he almost took his main character out of the RP during the fight with cry and I had to get inventive to "save" him...though I have no doubt he had some alternate method of salvation, I was merely convenient.
And on a last note, yes I find that Grey has a even-handed RP style, but we cannot be him, and I for one am not willing to be him, I like me, and no amount of brain mashing from the bwerp hammer will change my mind......okay maybe a copious amount of bwerp hammer smashing would, but that is a story for another day.
Good night all, will talk to you when I recover from my case of thought twisting Japanese homework.))
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
((perhaps we need dogma to wield Castle's almighty nerfbat!))
((That is just asking for trouble.))
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
((Where TF is Anth? I need him to post dangit))
You can't spell Slaughter without laughter
All your gonna do is just farm behemoths anyways.
My thoughts on November 30.
((Honestly, guys, this has jumped off the rails so far that I'm kind of losing interest in it. The only reason E-X has even been able to compete is the 'overdrive' mode I included for this sort of situation, and I don't like using it for too long. And Target's pretty much hosed. That and we've been hemmhoraging people, there aren't too many left in this one :/
Unless something changes dramatically, I'm seriously thinking of bowing out. Sorry 
))
"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"
((We've been hemmhoraging people? I haven't really noticed.))
You can't spell Slaughter without laughter
All your gonna do is just farm behemoths anyways.
My thoughts on November 30.
((Well, what would you recommend then? There's not really a central plot that's being spun here, as it's more just a 'this is a world, have at it' thread instead of something with a core ongoing story. 
Where would these rails be that you speak of?))
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
Characters
((aye...Blood never really gave us a storyline other than "The world is going to hell in a handbasket, you cant hit the other guy's main base, and a few of the zones are techno-dystopias/freakshow kingdoms/crey controlled supercity...have at it"
Wait, Ive got one, for heroes since that is what almost everyone is, say that crey has developed a new device (no I have no idea what it does..i leave that to others), and you must recover/destroy it..but it is in their techno-dystopian fortress city area....HAVE AT THEE CREY DOGS!))
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
((I agree the power levels have gotten out of hand, both my characters powers are fairly easily limited, and I would actually prefer if this went back to a reasonable power level))
After Nyx had witnessed Acanous dispatch the demons she literally jumped onto his back. Wraping her legs and arm around him. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. How can I pay you back for this keeper?"
At the same time Anthius discarded the disemboweled corpse of the Imp, and made his way back slowly to the ATC. He didn't like this, why would demons be chaseing a lone girl?
He fell to the ground under the sudden weight, not being prepaired for it.
"Well, you can start by getting off my back" he said, starting to push himself back up.
You can't spell Slaughter without laughter
All your gonna do is just farm behemoths anyways.
My thoughts on November 30.
Bladewing scanned for chaos energy again, and quickly located Bang within the confines of The Fortress.
"Umm, Dax, Bang is sitting smack in the middle of Arachnos central....and no offense to him, but that place has arbiter drones and I'm not all that big on being disintegrated...so what say we go to my resort paradise and I yank him back?"
Not really waiting for a response, Bladewing turned once more towards Eden, engagin cloaking spells so that noone uninvited showed up at the paradise.
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
Cry heard the sounds of music, playful music. "If you get in my way I will...!" The mirage in front of him tore apart as Cry funneled psychic energy around him. The tear stood their for a moment and then returned to the land of dreams Cry was in. Cry tried again the entire scene tearing and being torn apart only to repair.
"Someone is being a party crasher, come on just relax your in our world now Cry, our world." Cry was frantic the essence of this dream was unbearable the music, it hurt. Cry's form started to waver the music growing wilder and louder, faster! A hiss and a Cry as slush came off Cry, his form was falling apart.
"Such a trap is it not, I didn't expect you Cry to be so stupid." Ghost Widow came down the stairs, Cry transfixed on her movements. "I maybe weak, your action destroyed what I nurtured! But now your are the weaker, your weakness my strength." Ghost Widow was standing toe to toe with Cry.
"I am stronger then you, I am always stronger then anyone here!"
"The crap that comes out of your mouth sickens me Cry, shut up!" Ghost Widow took her hand and stabbed it into the side of Cry, strangely the area she stuck was glowing. "In this land all nightmares of my enemy are true, and your weakness is my strength." The form of Cry, collapsed, covering the hand of Ghost Widow in tar and sludge of the manifestation of Cry.
"I knew what you were you demon, without your form your nothing but this." Ghost Widow held in front of her eye an elaborate bloody ruby in the form of a tear. "Nothing but a voice, and no one to manipulate, now that your in my hands. And with your power, Arachnos can become strong again."
((occ: I couldn't come up with the greatest end for Cry, but he isn't entirely dead, just back in the form he originally was before vodoo crap. I plan to bring back Cry in some form or another, but mainly just as an "echo." I used Ghost Widow, sorry Dogma for using her but I think you wanted the end of Cry no matter what.
Working on a new character concept who will be mainly technology, and I will provide a piece of digital art a friend of mine wanted to do. I will be back once I get my charcter concept together with a right fitting into the roleplay. Hopefully Cry's absence of a god mod power will put this RP back on track.
Another thought, wouldn't it be nice just to superficially end this RP with an actual story leading up to the revolt of the hiding heroes and the possibility of Arachnos falling apart. I mean it would give incentive, we already have a good amount of action going on right now to lead up to a climax.))
"That was hardly necessary." The radiant white figure atop the steps said scornfully to Ghost Widow as she clenched her fist, causing the bloody ruby tear to shatter, each piece turning to dust which was then blown away by unseen wind. "I had everything handled."
Ghost Widow turned to face the radiant figure, still on the stairs. The various dancers and guests had stopped dancing, and were looking over her musingly.
"I don't trust you." She said plainly. "Don't think I cannot remember what happened before."
"Ah. You absorbed him? Is absorbtion a specialty of everyone on this world? I'm getting quite tired of it." The radiant figure responded, stepping down to stand before Ghost Widow. "VERY tired of it. Too tired, as a matter of fact. I have no need of exaustion, so why don't you bear my burden for me?"
Ghost Widow gave a short gasp of surprise right before fading away.
"Sleep, Ghost Widow." The radiant figure said softly. "Sleep until I have need of you again. Dream of silent things and creeping darkness." The radiant figure said. He walked across the hall, and through the door that Cry had entered from, vanishing as he did so. Behind him, the guests all giggled and shuffled away through side-doors, until the room was empty. Remaining so for only a few seconds, the room slowly began to fade away. A minute later, there was nothing left except for the normal Arachnos hallway that had always been there.
OOC:
If Wolffe gives the go-ahead, fine by me. In fact, that might just be the central plot this thread needs.
Also, Krazy - get in here sometime. Or do I need to poke you with the Stick of Attention(TM)?
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
Characters
((*Pokes Anth*))
You can't spell Slaughter without laughter
All your gonna do is just farm behemoths anyways.
My thoughts on November 30.
((No, no, I was just away for the weekend. Gimme a minute or so to remember what was going on, and the post will come soon.))
"[censored]!" Tamesis shouted as he heard the not-so-subtle bang and crash of an orbital strike and the building it destroyed, respectively. "Was that necessary?"
As soon as he finished that sentence, however, he again teleported directly behind the draconian, and again attempting to strike him. However, his target had changed. Instead of sending a flaming and armored fist towards the head of the intruder, a sweeping kick attempted to knock his feet out from under him.
"Yes." Tamesis' opponent stated dryly, a toothy smirk upon his inhuman lips, "Now if you'll excuse me, I'd...not again."
The Arbiter's translocation placed him into striking distance of the odd staff yet again. This time, however, the weapon went wide, its tip sailing above Tamesis' head to strike naught but air. Before the blue-scaled being had even realized it, the Arbiter had already dropped low and made contact, knocking the towering draconian off balance.
Like a house of cards the creature came down. His wings flared open, throwing up a wall of wind to compensate, but it was already too late. The only thing the reflex succeeded in was to buy enough time to catch the fall in a roll ahead. Still, that allowed more than enough concentration to send the metallic staff's tip after the Arbiter's stabilizing leg, intending to floor the man once more.
At the same time, heavy claps of thunder came rocketing through the open door - the characteristic sounds of Malta pistol fire.
"Damnation, this place is infested!" a harsh voice roared from the crimson gloom of the Arachnos-styled hallway beyond the CC center, "He's alive - get him out! Dead - leave him! C4 there, there, and there! And someone get into the double-C! Blow through, friendlies out, angels one! Champagne in twenty...!"
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By now, the first ATC had made its way back to the Dark Rover, ferrying Energon X along. The miniscule Specialist uttered not a word as the small craft descended into the monstrous vehicle's hangar through the operating dorsal gate - the commotion about stood as a good indicator of the reason.
At seemingly random intervals, announcements would come over the hangar's concealed speaker systems, and one or more groups of personnel would shift their business elsewhere. Most people's attention seemed to be on the heavy fighter right now, though the breadth of those made sure to stay away from the thing. Quite likely it might take off at any moment to support the thundering energy artillery outside.
"I'll be quick and simple." Danger finally spoke, informing Energon of the idea, "The Chief's already arranged everything; all you need to do is head down two decks aft, port side, subsection blue-green..."
"If I had Force powers, vacuum or not my cape/clothes/hair would always be blowing in the Dramatic Wind." - Tenzhi
Characters
((*Pokes Anth* C'mon Anth, I need you to post >.>
)
You can't spell Slaughter without laughter
All your gonna do is just farm behemoths anyways.
My thoughts on November 30.
((occ: geez Entropy, way to go overboard on things I never said, there aren't any Arbiter Drones at Ghost Widow's tower, except the ones that my heroes eat everyday by day basis in Faultline. Thanks for summing up your own argument with a blatant fact, I will remember that I am "not invincible" I will remember that it took me simply 2 days of in RP to recover from a single blow from Energon-X, that I was casted out of reality from your spell, that I was simply just denied my rank within Arachnos, and that simply you are trying to ignore back stories by other characters to justify your moderating.
I don't get the fact where your simpleton argument starts and ends, are you disregarding made up facts in that area where I am RPing, or are you just simply trying to foretell within the next 10 posts what Dogma or some other is going to RP that the "updated" drones are heading to my location?
I have not stated that Cry is invincible, only through his voice and own self pride does HE BELIEVE THAT HE IS INVINCIBLE! O wow, you seem to forget that fact.))