Open Season (Unionverse Open RP OOC)

Just how old is Lucard? Im wondering wether I get to spring the 'He's how old?' card on him when him and Leon next duke it out. Because Leon is pretty frickin ancient

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I hear that it will soon be high time to pull out my Nighthunter "Nightseye" who will beat both in age... together. :P

Lucard is from Ancient Rome, if Leon is infact older than Lucard then my only defence is Lucard doesnt think any unknown vampire is older than he is.
How old is Leon?

Meh, Leons 905, born in 1105AD. Still fairly old, and hardly a pushover.
But how to get him to show up now without a ton of meta-gamng...? =/

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Ok just writing to say that Nychus is available as a target on Bathory's list if anyone wants to go after him or some such let me know and we can hash some stuff out.

...*steeples fingers* Yeeesss

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

We should plan something in-game for Wednesday night or Thursday. I'm thinking a Big Game, Leon DeFeurard (and any others) Hyenas/Nighthunters cross-hunter alliance meeting to form the basis of the next forum RP chapter now just around the corner; Open Season: Assault on Castle Bathory. At the moment I'm eager to see what the Corporation has planned. I also wonder if there might occur any in-game PvP 'clash of the titans', Leon vs Lucard etc.

It is high time a Pious vs. Elizabeth clash should be done. Good time to have Pious pick his stone/granite or he will be fried *evil grinn*

Gah! i gotta get Lucard lvled up quick then.

At first I thought it was a typo, but you've actually mistaken Altair for a boy? Codename is a girl.

http://union.virtueverse.com/index.php/Codename

A bit of brutal interogation later and a few greased palms, and Leon joins the party again.
Uncles home, kiddies! *manic grin* I need to draw him sometime...

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Tbh I wish to jump in here with something that has plagued me for a couple of years, its all well and good to *say* a char can do things such as solo storm a well fortified home filled with masses of well known powerful villains - but if that toon is sub level 50 and unable to do so in a PvP situation or even in a made AE mission - how is it actually possible?

Example - Kahn is repped big time by a lot of folks, ive never done so myself as in my eyes he is human, genetically altered but human - I put his powerlevel based on what I can and cant do in game, solo a Bane Spider executioner? - easy - solo a Ballista? tough but again, done, Solo EB's? yes, but solo a GM/AV etc? not without support no way, so I will never say he has spanked Babs for example IC.

Also I wouldnt add powers to my toon that dont exist ingame either, again im not singling out here this is all meant as a genuine question.

I just think that its a good call to use the powerlevels set ingame - hell longbow even use the 1-50 mark as a security slider. Im just a little intrigued of late with RP levels and IC levels and how a freshly made toon can suddenly be able to topple full supergroups.

Not mocking here, just genuinely asking in sincerity.

Because not all of us can maker uper IO'd up to the gills build yet still want to play characters who arn't neutred by game balance?

Take a psychic for example, most of thier things can't be replicated properly in game!

It bugs me for people to use OOC game level and so on to judge the power level of RP character myself. Though saying this I'm against excessivly powerful! Just ask some people what my average character power level is and see!

Hey dont take what I said as a snipe - far from it, hell I -know- the game doesnt allow for fun balance IC wise and stretches must be made, im on your side. I was just wondering where the acceptable line is, me personally I tend to try my best to use what I can-cant do in game as a base rule - if I can tank a team hitting Jurassik then I will use that IC, its only fair, but my squishy defender isnt going to be able to pulverise steel girders, its about sensible balance is all.

Like I said, im wanting an understanding of where folks draw a line - some seem to be more carefree and invent their own scales and others more rigid is all.

Again using the game scale, Frostfire is powerful sure but against BaBs would get facesmashed into the ground, thats where im asking, you can exaggerate sure but where do you draw the line of *ok thats not feasable for that toon*

Reason im asking is I -was- going to get Kurze into a few fights but wanted to fight OOC to garner an outcome but I wanted to check things here first as it seems a lot of things RP community wise can be volatile if not handled correctly and I want to make sure Big Games plot works well as I know the guys worked hard on it.

Hope that clears up.

hmmm, a little tough to call as many people rp differently, nothing wrong with that but it does cause clashes sometime, personally i agree with you and keep to the same thing, only have powers that i have in game, although maybe a couple of tiny ones in the case of my mage, such as pulling a drink to him with his mind, something daft like that, his has fire and electricity, best case the drink would explode...

Anyway i do tend to keep to the lv mark as well, if i have a low lv then hes not especially powerful but as he lvs my char ic grows and becomes more powerful, then again in the case of my one and only lv50 Storm, hes a villain, but i made him on heroes as well, same powers and everything, just so i have one on each side, not my hero is only lv38 but my villain is lv50, same guy but ones more powerful than the other, so in that case i keep them the same, im as powerful as my lv50 IC even when im on my hero, to keep in consistent, hes the one i would use for any IC fights in the arena or something as well.

As for rp fights it does depend on the rp for me sometimes, i mean yeah sure my guys powerful but if someone hit him over the head when he wasnt looking it would bloody well hurt or even knock him out so to me just because someones a higher lv ooc doesnt mean they can win in a fight ic, for example a lv50 whos easily mind controlled, a lv1 psy could technically win a fight by just controlling him or something.

I suppose the last major factor for me would be how often the char will be used, i know a tonne of chars who are used like twice then gone forever, hell when the magic pack came out and those cloaks where made available there were vamps everywhere, just for a friggin cloak! so to me i wouldnt rp with them much if at all, because i know they'll be gone soon and there power means nothing, but if someone uses a char often and is working towards lv50 then really they could use the chars future potential in a fight, someday they will be able to breath fire so in an ic fight i wouldnt mind then using it then, kinda contradicts what i first said but im willing to accept the chars potential if it gets played a lot, not if its a purely for rp char who will always be lv1.
Hope any of this makes sense...

No its a good point and something we all must be careful of. It's too easy to get carried away and overstep the limitations set for us to play by. Forum RP gives us the freedom to describe our powers extensively and prolong the drama of a fight, but we really shouldn't exaggerate beyond what said characters can prove doable in-game. That's my take on it. Pious for example during the Moth Cathedral fight would've been a Sword/Regen Hero (Hero as in the redside con of an AV) using weapons that are temp powers. Indeed he could only take out Countess Leeches's soldiers with the sword and ported Leeches with a temp power. Granted Bathory and Leeches would con as AV's which would bring them and the Heroes to an even combat level, as it happens in an in-game PvP situation. Can a level 20 scrapper defeat a whole team of level 50 MM's by him or herself however? I don't know. Maybe that's not so plausible. I guess as long as it's mutually consented, (as was Niatsu vs the Vultures) then its okay. We must make way for creativity somehow while retaining some level of realism.

With Leon, Im going off what (hopefully) he will be in game...once I've finished him. My problem is chronic Altitis, and my gaming hours (which will thankfully change soon as I head homeward) prevent me from teaming enough to level particularly fast. He's been sat at 32 for a while now.

Kat/Regen IO'd to the gills and with whatever goodies the Incarnate system throws at us, add in a grab-bag of experience, guile and a few dirty tricks and, hopefully, he won't be too far off. Although he probably still won't be able to blow a door off its hinges in game with a giant fireball, because they're stingy like that >_>

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Pious and Thunderar's points are cool and help explain it more as to how far you stretch it - but to go back - imho a lot of whats ingame canon regarding levels is misconstrued, the longbow security level i.e 1-50 is what they class you as IC wise so to push past that in my view is to break game canon - even if slightly, but still with forum RP I would see it as different as some other peeps have mentioned it depends how long the plot takes to unfurl on the forums, meaning your toon - if hammered might be at that point.

I just would feel a little cheated if someone had a high end toon they have worked a long time on - to be overdone if I decided to make a new character and state that he *hopefully* one day will be 50 and io'd up to the gills ergo he can do all of that right now. I would feel a little like im playing beyond the form of rule bending.

That said, my question comes to this - was here to ask who has a character, npc or otherwise that is on the *hunted* list that hasnt yet been attacked

Sorry if I can across a little harsh there Warcythe, it's a bit of apersonal bugbear of mine, as for what's reasonable? Well staying withing a powerlevel you defined as per the power levels established in teh canon, such as States being the strongest person on the planet so he'd still have the edge on any super strength characters.

But it's kinda hard to define what the set limits are, because to me a good fight is one where the characters are smart, play off strengths/weakness and the enviroment try to outthink the opponant and so on, os as opposed to jsut standing there and pouring a massive blast of enegery into each other it's more fly around trying the find a break in the armour as it were, if I'm making sense.

Perhaps an exmple would be thus, say I have a character with lots of tech devices, no obviously in a straight up fight they'd get pasted by Jurrasik pretty badly, but they could in theory lure said gaitn monster into a large rap laced with high explosives therefore beating it, works within established pwoer levels, in a stand up figth said char would be pasted by anyone, yet thier downing of Jurrasik in this cse makes sense.

That wouldn't work, Omy.
We all know the NPCs are cheating Haxx0rs

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

And Leon, who's about to go make himself a whole lot of enemys, and probably try and get a few good quotes out of it as well

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.