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Digimon Inheritance: A Heroic Lion's Turbulent Times (Finished)

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Something I'll say here is that this vote isn't about Verge directly turning down the offer. It's a bit about his priorities and what he wants/will be open to.

Agreeing doesn't make him Sorcerymon's apprentice, that would theoretically come at a later after he'd leave and then come back in time.

Disagreeing means he'll be less weighted towards "Civilian" style option in the future because he realizes that he has to get stronger for Flamemon and his *Family*

Edit: It also helps factor in his mental way of thinking how he could suppprt said mon.
 
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[X] Agree with the sentiment. Now that you think about it, that could be a life very well suited for you one day, well presumably there wouldn't be fighting involved anyway. It might even help support Flamemon & your *Siblings* somehow.

It does seems like the kinda life Verge would like, less fighting, and relies on numbers which he's good at.

Whether we actually get to do so is another story.
 
drexal15 said:
Something I'll say here is that this vote isn't about Verge directly turning down the offer. It's a bit about his priorities and what he wants/will be open to.

Agreeing doesn't make him Sorcerymon's apprentice, that would theoretically come at a later after he'd leave and then come back in time.

Disagreeing means he'll be less weighted towards "Civilian" style option in the future because he realizes that he has to get stronger for Flamemon and his *Family*

Edit: It also helps factor in his mental way of thinking how he could suppprt said mon.
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Basically something like:
-Agree - Hope for a less violent future. As already noted, Verge does not like fighting, so if he takes a more intellectual support route, he can help his friends without making himself unhappy.
-Disagree - Violence is the only future he can see. He has to get stronger to protect them himself.

Pros for Agree is that Flamemon and Lunamon are both of high power digimon lines, while Verge is of a distinctly average line, keeping up through violence will be difficult.
Pros for Disagree is that he's seen that fights so far were pretty close calls, can he trust that being support helps them enough?
 
[X] Disagree. While it could make for an interesting life... You don't believe it's a path you could possibly take. Between Lunamon, Thresh & Flamemon you'll have other obligations. You'll have to get stronger for them and what he's suggesting would only hinder that. ​
 
Hmm... I can see the merit in both votes so I'm gonna abstain for now to think this through for now.
 
Well I dont want to in conflicted... on one hand happiness , on the other personal strength is important ... then theres the cliche "I must get strong to protect my loved ones " thing going on... where as the agree opens up different Avenues of taking care of loved ones and supporting them.

Possibly through supplies, healing, connections and more civilized ways? Idk mannnn uhhhh

I hate these votes cus I just dont really have all the knowledge to work with.

Weve already promised to help flamemon , then we promised to protect lunamon, now were focused on raising lunamon and the sudden little bro, now we unlocked secret apprentice path and it's just a lot at onceee
 
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Well I dont want to in conflicted... on one hand happiness , on the other personal strength is important ... then theres the cliche "I must get strong to protect my loved ones " thing going on... where as the agree opens up different Avenues of taking care of loved ones and supporting them.

Possibly through supplies, healing, connections and more civilized ways? Idk mannnn uhhhh

I hate these votes cus I just dont really have all the knowledge to work with.

Weve already promised to help flamemon , then we promised to protect lunamon, now were focused on raising lunamon and the sudden little bro, now we unlocked secret apprentice path and it's just a lot at onceee
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Let us not forget we also unlocked the option of becoming Gramps successor too, so yeah all kinds of fun choices are open here.
 
Hey Drex hypothetically if Gramps were to digivolve what champion would he become?

Cause from how I seen the old man fight Aegiomon would be real fitting.
 
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Demenos said:
Hey Drex hypothetically if Gramps were to digivolve what champion would he become?

Cause from how I seen the old man fight Aegiomon would be real fitting.
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Yep. That would be his theoretical main digivolution. Sadly he isn't actually strong enough to reach said form.
Mr.rodent said:
Well I dont want to in conflicted... on one hand happiness , on the other personal strength is important ... then theres the cliche "I must get strong to protect my loved ones " thing going on... where as the agree opens up different Avenues of taking care of loved ones and supporting them.

Possibly through supplies, healing, connections and more civilized ways? Idk mannnn uhhhh

I hate these votes cus I just dont really have all the knowledge to work with.

Weve already promised to help flamemon , then we promised to protect lunamon, now were focused on raising lunamon and the sudden little bro, now we unlocked secret apprentice path and it's just a lot at onceee
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Ironforge said:
Let us not forget we also unlocked the option of becoming Gramps successor too, so yeah all kinds of fun choices are open here.
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Yeah, a lot of plot threads are kind of coming to a head now that we're breaching the final stretch of the prologue.

Sorry if it's overwhelming anyone.
Adhoc vote count started by drexal15 on Aug 5, 2018 at 2:46 AM, finished with 22 posts and 8 votes.
  • [X] Agree with the sentiment. Now that you think about it, that could be a life very well suited for you one day, well presumably there wouldn't be fighting involved anyway. It might even help support Flamemon & your *Siblings* somehow.
    [X] Disagree. While it could make for an interesting life... You don't believe it's a path you could possibly take. Between Lunamon, Thresh & Flamemon you'll have other obligations. You'll have to get stronger for them and what he's suggesting would only hinder that.
    -[x] Though profusely thank him for such a offer.
    [X] Disagree. While it could make for an interesting life... You don't believe it's a path you could possibly take. Between Lunamon, Thresh & Flamemon you'll have other obligations. You'll have to get stronger for them and what he's suggesting would only hinder that. ​
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    drexal15 said:
    I don't know if anyone really wants to know this, but I feel like it would be a good idea to just get this out there in case anyone is wondering how the various digimon relate to each other in terms of scale. I do have an actual height in mind for each of them. To those who've seen the various series, the height of rookie digimon can change dramatically between shows and species.

    Flamemon is just a few inches under five feet, and the second tallest digimon encountered by Verge in the story. Though compared to the other digimon he is pretty skinny since proportionally he's built like a human.

    Gnaw is just an inch or two taller than four feet, so as far as Gabumon/Backgabumon are concerned he's actually pretty large.

    Gramps the Elecmon, when standing on his hind legs is actually only around three feet tall. It's just that he's really, really good at making himself look larger than he actually is. Kind of like a peacock really.

    Lalamon is actually pretty small being only a little bit above 1 foot.

    Lunamon (recently evolved) is only about 2 feet tall, though her ears and head protrusions make her look bigger.

    Verge himself is about 3 feet tall when standing normally, though his habit of sinking low makes him think everyone else is bigger than they actually are. He's only a few inches smaller than Gnaw when standing on his hind legs. Though that's only now. He still has growing to do.

    Auger is technically the very biggest of the cast standing at four feet when standing normally, and being the very bulkiest one there because of his armor. His tail also makes him the longest digimon here. If Auger was ever inclined to "stand up straight" he'd be even taller than Flamemon.
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    no. said:
    Also, @drexal15, the other characters have all been training and improving alongside Verge, correct? Can we see where they are now and how that compares to the start of the quest? If you won't give exact numbers, can you maybe rank the camp members in terms of each stat? As in, from highest to lowest strength, from highest to lowest fortitude, etc.
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    drexal15 said:
    I actually have an entire spreadsheet dedicated to their growths over the weeks. I won't give it all away but I can say a couple things.

    Right now Verge is still behind pretty much everyone in his physical stats, barring Fu that he has higher ones excepting for agility.

    Hmm. To give a few examples, Auger has roughly 10 more strength then Verge ATM, though he's using best superpower along with more sessions than Verge to improve this fast.

    Flamemon has the highest stats in pretty much everything, though Gramps still has him beat on two things for now. In a week, Flamemons average growth rate is roughly 45 per stat.

    Gnaw is loading digimon and training hard so he's actually stopping himself from falling much further behind in his best stats. Only between 20 and 30 points behind there. Though sadly his other stats are not fairing so well in comparison.

    Verge for only training once a day, and not loading any digimon is actually coming along quite well. Really well in fact considering that every one of the other cast has at least one extra week of time they had to train and mature.
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    Verge

    McLuvin said:
    Yeah, let's try and get rid of the coward trait and, since we're pretty strong, we should do some damage
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    drexal15 said:
    Well getting rid of it isn't that easy. But it will be possible to chip away at it bit by bit.
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    drexal15 said:
    So, update is going to be later tonight. In the meantime, is there any ways you guys might like Verge to develop in terms of fighting style? Like how he fights in general, or special techniques/ moves that you might want him to acquire.

    As someone who's not the best versed for the games, I wouldn't mind suggestion from those more knowledgeable than myself.
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    Todorius said:
    Well given Verge's current stats, personality adn ability I would personally want to go for a trapping build. So using the flurry to aggro and weaken enemies then slowly back away to a previously prepared area filled with traps. Although I must say I wouldn't want Verge to digivolve based upon these tactics so... I'm honestly a bit tied.
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    drexal15 said:
    Hmm, well I suppose a problem with this is the fact that Verge has low agility. So any enemy that's faster could catch up to him before the traps. With that said, maybe he could eventually do something a bit similar? Use a trap like say a pit-fall to bring more agile foes to an enclosed space and thus leave him more able to hit them.

    Or it could be used in synergy with allies, like holding them in place while say....Gnaw blasts them.
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    Demenos said:
    While personality is a important thing to consider, so are stats. And with Verge's points to him being a Frontliner.
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    drexal15 said:
    He can potentially be a tanky build yeah. Supposing he gets to the point that he gets okay with regularly fighting weaker foes/ones at similar strength then you are correct that he could actually be rather useful as a front liner.
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    Demenos said:
    For now from what I seen Verge could fight like a bear with standing on his hind legs and slashing with his drill claws, Do hits and run(digs), or Charge at his enemys for Drill Spin and if he misses just spins around and repeat. Like a bull.
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    drexal15 said:
    Well, technically Verge already does the first.

    Second he's not fast or skilled enough to do the whole dig underground then attack quickly enough to use against a real opponent, not unless they're distracted for a half dozen seconds anyway. But given some higher stats and digging skill this will be a viable option.

    Third....well Verge isn't the best suited for charging currently, but with enough ability it could work. Currently the closest thing he might be able to do is kind of a short jump/lunge forward. But if his Agility does get night enough at some point it very much will be a way to get in a lot of damage through a single strike.
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    Ironforge said:
    You know, the more we do this the more I keep thinking our mon Verge might end being the heart of this party/group.
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    drexal15 said:
    Huh, I never thought of it that way but....strangely enough it kinda fits.
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    Cjdavis103 said:
    Can't we Mach jab with the claws? Because they seem to be our best weapon by far.
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    drexal15 said:
    Technically possible, but it runs into the problem that Verge has Drill Claws. They're really not suited to the quicker hit, then pull back of Mach Jab as they're meant to pierce, then be pushed through.

    Pulling them right back out after impact would be a difficult thing for Verge to do against any mildly tough foe, and certainly not fast for that matter. Furthermore the act itself would cause grievous damage to the mon in question.

    And that is something Verge doesn't want. Partly stemming over from the kind trait, in that he doesn't really want to hurt any digimon badly, and partly from his age. Verge is still very much a frightened kid, just since he's a digimon he's been able to adapt admirably fast.

    There's a reason that he subconsciously avoids trying to dig into enemies. The only times he's ever used his drills in a more direct way have been when he was A raging, and B panicking with his eyes closed.

    Now, this *mental block* so to speak can be worn down and removed, but just like Verge's base nature of being scared, it won't be quick or easy.
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    Demenos said:
    Huh. Verge has a natural resistance to low level ice attacks. Good to know.
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    drexal15 said:
    Key word is low level, but yeah. Verges fur makes him resistant to colder weather and a few icy attacks like that Goblimons breath. Won't stop more concentrated or powerful attacks though.
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    drexal15 said:
    So in the roughly 11 days since Verge started out here in this quest he's improved quite a bit. As a guy who likes to get an exact number for that kind of thing I decided to go check. Now I'm showing it to everyone else.

    I'll probably do this again once the prologue is near its end.

    Initial Stats
    Strength: 27
    Fortitude: 24
    Endurance: 25
    Agility: 14

    Total: 90 Points

    Current Stats
    Strength: 60.25
    Fortitude: 57.0
    Endurance: 52.50
    Agility: 36.0

    Total: 205.75
    That's a total difference of 115 points, meaning that Verge is 127% more powerful than at the start.

    Strength: 33.25 more stat points. Raised the most, not surprised really.
    Fortitude: 33 more stat points Is now the second highest stat surprisingly.
    Endurance: 27.50 more stat points. I'm surprised this came in so low considers its talent is tied with strength.
    Agility: 22 more stat points. This was actually trained the most and is closest to getting a + talent raise.

    Skills are also something Verge has improved on as well, though it's even higher than the stats admittedly thanks to how they work.

    Digging: 2/100->9/100
    General Fighting: 0/100->12/100

    For a total of 19 skill points gained since the start.
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    TempestK said:
    Mouth-swords are a thing, yes. Just look at Dark Souls. Also we do have hands in Drimogemon form, we can swap from quadruped to biped at need. Keep the blade sheathed on our back until we need it, then stand up and draw steel.
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    drexal15 said:
    Well the main thing there would be getting Verge to think of holding it with his mouth. Currently all he wants to use his mouth for is eating.
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    no. said:
    I was under the impression Verge was like a bear, in that he can stand and move around on his hind legs but can't run or jump while like that. Furthermore, while his front legs are sometimes described as arms, his paws are consistently described as, well, paws. I doubt they can wield a sword.
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    drexal15 said:
    That is indeed true! He's not the most agile while standing on his hind legs. Most he can do currently is shuffle around and walk awkwardly. His main method of moving around is on all four paws.

    Verge has a three fingered grip without thumbs. There's a reason why I describe his punches as Awkward.
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    Tam Lin said:
    [x] No. You... You just want to go back to the village and lay down.

    Fuck 'em. I want Gnaw back to teach us how to load other Digimon.
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    drexal15 said:
    Kek. Actually loading other digimon isn't even really something that needs to be taught. It's a very simple thing to do, just not something Verge has done yet.

    He'll get it it some day... Probably.
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    Ironforge said:
    Yeah, going to want to up our speed here. Since without a range attack or AOE of any kind we are screwed if we run into anyone faster then us like this encounter just showed us.
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    drexal15 said:
    Well Verge wasn't totally screwed in that fight. He actually won the melee engagement. He might even have won if it had co tinted and rage had been procced.

    But yes as of right now, in a straight up fight Verge is more or less helpless against any kiting build that's faster than him.

    Well, when not taking his ability to dig into account at least. At rookie level and indeed even champion level sometimes using the ground as a shield is quite effective, with the ambush potential being quite high.

    Still useless against flyers though.
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    Vanestus said:
    Poor Gramps. Though the fact that he told Verge about this means that we really have made progress.
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    drexal15 said:
    On yeah, Verge has come pretty far.

    Remember at the start of the quest he basically ran away screaming when Lunamon digivolved.

    The Verge as of roughly four weeks ago would be terrified of Thresh and more than likely broken down after the graceyard scene.
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    drexal15 said:
    Verge is not in that very last category, he can digivolve. Though he's also NOT a mon that evolves easily either.
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    drexal15 said:
    Evolving into [Monochromon] would require Verges *main* stats to be strength, fortitude (highest stat) and (the hardest part) agility for the speed aspect of the digimon.
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    drexal15 said:
    Strength, and agility don't have much of an exact need beyond being decently high.
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    drexal15 said:
    Though if I may say something in terms of Maximum Power! While Dorulumon is the strongest champion form form for Verge, another line actually offers more long term power.
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    runeblue360 said:
    Hmm.

    My initial thought was Gladimon -> Knightmon -> Alphamon, who's absolutely ridiculous. If it isn't him, then that takes the various Royal Knights out of the equation.

    Digmon could maybe get to one of the Ten, which is pretty solid. Gryzmon doesn't seem to get anything special. Dorulumon looks like kind of a dead end now that I look at it.

    This is mostly just equivocating though, I took another look at our current intended path and I found Monochromon -> Garudamon -> Daemon, who would also fit with our whole "wrath" deal. Looks like we need to somehow get Flamemon killed in action against the Blessed Host if we want to get the biggest numbers.
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    drexal15 said:
    While I won't comment too much as not to give things away, the path to utmost power for Verge is an unexpected one, but something that is at this point pretty much guaranteed not to happen. Still, there are a couple paths that could potentially lead to him being in the heavy weight class so to speak.
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    Vanargand said:
    Has high potential
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    drexal15 said:
    Well... In terms of base potential Verge isn't actually all that high.

    In terms of pure talent compared every other mon in the village actually has/had higher talents than him. Auger, Gnaw, Flamemon, Fu, Lunamon, etc. However admittedly the gap is higher for some than others. For the Armadillomon it's just that his fortitude talent is E whereas Verge's is F+++

    A lot of that has to do with the fact that Verge's species itself physically ain't all that impressive besides their drills. Though at the champion level they're not exactly all that powerful.

    If Verge were to digivolve now, or even soon then he'd never really have the ability to reach that far in the grand scheme of things considering the options available. Generally the more powerful you are as a rookie, the stronger you can become in the next form and it continues up from there.

    However I will leave off with one thing. With the right training, support and line he can potentially reach the heavy hitter level. It just really won't be an easy for fast route.
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    Wrath

    Cjdavis103 said:
    Now will our rage be Hulk madness rampage or Kratos laser guided beat down
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    drexal15 said:
    Hehe. Believe or not the new god of war game actually was part of inspired me to put wrath down as an option. The game handled it pretty darn well.
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    Ironforge said:
    As I rather not have one of our first major drives being anger and rage. Since that kind of thing will have a major effect on just what kind of mon we would end up becoming.

    Plus, being one strong of will seems like it would be a better core trait in the long run for us. As strong convictions usually form a much better bedrock of growth.
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    drexal15 said:
    Wrath is not neccessarily a bad thing. It can be a drive just like any other, and in some cases can even surpass willpower. But only if one is able to control it.

    Hmm. In digimon itself one is more tangible than the other. You can't really will yourself to evolve, but get angry enough? And it is possible, though usually not in a good way.

    Both options are viable.
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    Atam the Ork said:
    Because berserk characters are usually one dimensional and usually have to go through a traumatic experience to realize that they were an asshole and finally have friends again.
    None of those things I want for our character
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    drexal15 said:
    Hold your horses there man. This is no way gaurentees that Verge will become a berserker. Yes he'll have great anger and everything that comes with it, but that doesn't make him an asshole. Furthermore it's just one trait, the character won't evolve complelty around it.
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    drexal15 said:
    In other news I've added the Wrath (Hidden) trait to the character sheet. It can eventuslly lose the (hidden) part depending on decisions made in the far future.
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    Atam the Ork said:
    5 bucks that it's a hidden monster inside of us that gets released when we are angry and in the future have us be friends with it eventually
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    drexal15 said:
    No. This is not naruto or bleach. I will say it now. Verge does not have an entity or force of any sort inside him. He's just himself.

    A better question ask maybe is: Where did his last thought before raging come from?
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    Flamemon

    Cjdavis103 said:
    And I don't like friends who put others on the spot like that to " help" them.

    Far as I'm concerned right now only Flameon gets Friend billing everyone else gets acquaintance at best.
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    Atam the Ork said:
    She was doing it for the best intentions and it worked like it or not so treating her badly isn't nice.
    Besides Flamemon did almost the same thing when we were a baby and your not mad at him.
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    drexal15 said:
    Thaaat was a bit different. He just brought up Verge to the top of a tree, Flamemon didn't threaten him, with physical violence or get someone else to do it.
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    Zavvnao said:
    Does Flamemon have a rescuer personality type? I like our drimogemon protagonist better, but Flamemon feels very relatable with how unhealthily responsible he feels about Verge. Though since this is the digiworld and we are training a lot, I guess it is healthy?
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    drexal15 said:
    Due to certain factors, it is Flamemons ambition to be a hero and its a big part of his personality.

    He helped raise verge and considers him a good friend.

    More than that one of his goals is to help Verge grow from being a coward. Which feeds into his hero complex and makes him more attatched.
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    drexal15 said:
    If anyone was wondering, this is why Gramps is giving Flamemon such a hard time.
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    Ironforge said:
    So how long ago did all that go down and does Flamemon know about the fall of Veemon?

    Since I can't see Flamemon just brushing off that kind of story with what we have seen of the guy already. Though I could be wrong here.
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    Auger

    runeblue360 said:
    Did this ruthless little shit just intuit his way into compound interest? Is this a result of us convincing him to keep getting more money? Because I'm regretting that decision deeply now.
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    drexal15 said:
    Yes he did, and heh. Yeah that certainly didn't help things regarding his primary sin.
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    Gnaw

    McLuvin said:
    We are so god damn fluffy.

    How can anyone be so mean to us?
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    drexal15 said:
    Alas, not everyone appreciates true fluffiness. I'll say it now. Gnaw is kind of a dick
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    RomanceNinja said:
    I like Gnaw. He cares about the people close to him, even if he doesn't show it much personality wise. He is also respectful to Gramps as well, listening and doing what he says. Still a grumpy sod whenever it happens though.
    I also want to see where his ruthless views on the digital world actually come from, with how he lives in the village like the rest of the cast. He acts like how I would imagine a wild digimon to be, protective of any close to him and deadly to the ones that aren't.
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    drexal15 said:
    A lot of that has to do with his species actually. Well that and a bit of Fanon/GM leeway.

    As a Blackgabumon he naturally has a kind of *pack instinct* as a lot of the time they end up forming groups together.

    Beyond that as a Virus type digimon he's naturally inclined to be act in a....well more brutal *evil* manner. He's also picked up a few more gruff attitudes from Gramps.

    While that's not the whole story. It's all that I'm currently willing to divulge at the moment.
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    Cjdavis103 said:
    Gnaw... did he dark digivolve or is this just normal power mad? Either way we need to haul Suger to safety post haste.
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    drexal15 said:
    He didn't dark digivolve, this was his normal evolutionary line. He just went kind of power mad with the new rush of strength and the new mind set.
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    This waa gonna happen sooner or later. Remember when after dinner Gnaw was still hungry? Champion and up needs more nutrients. Sorcerymon has his own food
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    drexal15 said:
    Indeed. Gnaw would never have been able to stay near the village after digivolving. It simply can't support him and honestly? Gnaw wouldn't want to spend the rest of his days here in peace.
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    GwaedDraig said:
    That last line from 'Gramps' made me raise an eyebrow, wonder what sparked that....
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    Well, suffice to say he's been at this a LONG time. That means he's seen a number of his charges "not make it" to champion status.
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    Ironforge said:
    Though honestly I'm more interested in how gramps got a bag of holding considering the state of the village and why he felt the need to gift such to us.
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    Now for why he gave that to us it could be that we're simply his favorite. I mean look at the rest of the rookies. Flamemon is a heroic headache, Fu's haughty to everyone, Gnaw's Gnaw, and Augur is lazy and apparently greedy. Verge is just skttish and has a stuttering problem, other than that he seems to be a really good kid.
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    ....that may have something to do with it. Gramps would never flat out say that though.
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    Well duh. That Elecmon has most likely raised thousands if not millions of children in this village. He'd obviously learned that low level Parenting skill and now with his age he probably learned the Anti-Baby Eyes skill.
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    Isn't he only like 3 years old though? So wouldn't that mean this place is still rather young?
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    It's either really young or the last head recently got deleted I would fathom.
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    Hey @drexal15 just out of curiosity, but is gramps still stronger then Flamemon or are they about equal?

    Also, since it looks like it will be a thing, how do the mons stack right now in power placement?
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    Technically speaking Flamemon actually has a slightly higher strength stat than Gramps at the moment so he is *Stronger* Though in terms of Agility and firepower he's still completely outclassed.

    Your list is accurate, though Verge would best Lalamon/Fu in CQC. She'd win in an open space via Kiting though,
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    I'm guessing Gramps also wins on raw skill/experience.
    Knowing how to avoid leaving openings in your fighting style and anticipate your opponent's actions.
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    Yepyep. Gramps has been around for literal years and actually spent a portion of that fighting. He's beaten champions (albeit not too powerful ones) and in a straight up fight could defeat the rest of the current cast at once without so much as breaking a sweat.

    A number of Ultimate level digimon aren't as skilled as he is.

    Enough raw stat power can still overwhelm him mind you and he's not the toughest digimon out there so a lucky hit could take him down.

    But still. TLDR. Don't mess with Gramps.
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    I'm still curious the chief is unbelievably old for a Rookie digimon, as in nearly unheard of in normal circumstances. Plus the fact that he hasn't degenerated is also something that I'm interested in.
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    Well the thing with Gramps is that he's really too powerful to become a Numemon and his difficulty with digivolving itself only further seals that path off.
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    While many lead solitary existences in the wilderness, others have formed complex civilizations ranging from tiny hamlets supporting each other through teamwork and even friendship, to massive communities housing thousands of Digimon.

    Large city-states populate all but the continent's harshest places, forming the most powerful factions in the land. These independent entities are all ruled by powerful Ultimate or Mega level digimon and form the central power blocs ruling over large portions of the digital world.
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    If it's not spoilers are Digi eggs, crests and other such mcguffins going to be a part of this quest?
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    PC hatched from a digi-egg so yeah. If you meant Digimentals, then yeah they're also a thing just pretty rare (though far more than one each) in fact some mon actually know how to make them. (Though there's only one of each original)

    Crests are also a thing (the digimon side of them anyways) but are just not really something the PC can get. Legendary spirits are also a big thing, but I'll be saving that particular explanation for later they're a big part of this world.

    Ala digimon world 4 weapons are also a thing that can potentially be gotten, though only wealthy civilized digimon tend to have them.
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    Something like that. The digital world works in mysterious ways.
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    I don't trust that TV.

    For all you know it could be showing utterly terrible stuff like the 4Kids dub of One Piece! Or...Things like this!
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    Hah! The *teevee* doesn't show any dub or sub stuff. It's all like directly from that one eastern country. Lunamon, Verge and the rest have no idea what is actually being said from any of it.
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    Digging is our best bet for escape as I'm willing to bet that we are stronger than the Gobomon and he can't exactly follow us in the ground burrowing is probably the best escape ability a Digimon can have save teleportation as fans of Infamy will know. However that leaves Fu with a 3 v1 and while these are mooks I don't like her odds.
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    Save teleportation? Blegh. No I don't have that here. But yes digging from the looks of things isn the best way to escape, though Verge may get hit once anyway while he's burrowing down into the ground.
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    Ok first how the heck does this mon get something made out of Chrome Digizoid? As the stuff is suppose to be rare as heck if memory serves.
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    It is very rare aye, and very expensive. As for how he got it? Well remember the entry I made on weaponry? There are suppliers for this kind of stuff in the digital world, Sorcerymon managed to snag one thanks to a few of his connections. Though it should be noted that small time
    standard Merchants having access to these sorts of things is really, really, stupidly rare. Either Sorcerymon is lucky or.....
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    How the fuck are Gobbos smart enough to fix and pilot the Mechanorimon?
    Shenanigans be afoot
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    Generally speaking? They aren't. Though that's mostly on the fixing side. Piloting isn't actually all that difficult so long as you have proper hands. Piloting well on the other hand...
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    I'm still really curious as to what the whole point of this mining operation even is. If it's solely to dig up and put together some dead mechanorimon to use as military vehicles, then throwing over a hundred rookies at it for... what, five "champions"? I don't get why they would do that, it's way too inefficient. I bet there's some more to all this that we don't know.
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    Think of it like this.

    They were able to find those "Five" Champions in just less than two weeks of digging.

    Imagine what they might get out of it in a few months.

    Of course, there's also the green crystal that as we've seen Sorcerymon is willing to give quite a lot of bits for. They've been mining that in huge quantities as well.
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    Question am? Will we be able to find a gym to train our stats faster then 3-4 per turn...that seems awfully slow when you consider for rookies 200-300 is the standard before they start getting ready for evolution , and prologue is almost over.

    Especially when there are digimon out there like flamemon who can solo champions at rookie level... and city digimon prob are stronger by default of having more recourses/connections

    Hence sorcerymons "never seen anyone outside the cities pick up so fast" comment.
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    Gyms are a thing and do provide bonuses for training. But Sorcerymon has always sold the equivalent for rookies.

    As for Verge and training? That's 5 points (before modifiers) per session. It's entirely possible to train multiple times per day. Flamemon for example has been training roughly 3 times every day. Some mon can actually manage 4-5 times, though they don't have a social life.

    As stated before, Verge doesn't like training. He never has. If he'd had the opportunity Verge would have forgone it entirely in favour of just digging. The PC doesn't have a drive to be the strongest or anything like that, he's only recently been realizing that he has to get stronger. Before that he was forced to because of the Goblimon.

    City rookies would not necessarily be stronger. Actually in a lot of cases they'd be weaker since cities themselves are a lot safer than the wilderness. Well, mostly.

    Those like Flamemon are Rare. What they do have is better education and more mon suited to learning High Programming.
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    Question, how big is the little village they are in? How many rookies, in training, eggs etc?

    All weve seen is elecmon whose a grandpa but still a rookie?

    Flamemon, us, fu, gnaw and armidillamon. Oh and lunamon and the new fire baby.
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    The village isn't actually all that big. There's a few small huts (4) a large tree in the center with a single storage hut on the opposite side of the huts. There's also enough room for a couple very small fields. Plus a fire pit which now has Sorcerymon and his shop nearby.

    This is all surrounded by a fairly tall wooden wall. Overall not the biggest as far as civilization goes, but it's a nice size.

    Rookies? There are 7. Fu, Gnaw, Flamemon, Verge, Auger, Gramps. Lunamon is the latest one to evolve.

    Currently only 1 In-Training at the moment and that is the Demi-Meramon. Who oddly enough hatched right from an egg ignore the baby stage entirely.

    There are several eggs developing on the tree at the moment. But none of them are full size yet.
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    This is a very small village, was it always this small or did something recently cause it to become such a small size? The fact that gramps is only a few years old might also mean something, especially since we haven't seen any champion level digimon that would often be seen guarding areas like this.
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    It's pretty simple really. This has been a relatively low threat portion of the digital world. Low population without many easy to grab resources. For the most part, digimon move on from the area after becoming champions with Gramps being able to fend off anything that's target the village so far.

    It's always been this small.

    The recent happenings with the Goblimon and mines are not usual at all.

    Also Gramps is considered OLD in terms of Rookie standards. Most either become champions after a couple months or end up dying.
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    Something I'm going to mention is that of the Moralities being displayed here right now are in part more widespread in the digital world as a whole. Flamemon and his opinion whilst not common is present in some parts, while Gnaws more not really caring that much outlook is by far the most common.

    In a way each mon is at one side of things with Flamemon being very black and white, with what one could consider a very naive view on things. Gnaw is more strictly practical and doesn't much care about the lives of other digimon unless they're directly associated with himself.

    Gramps own opinion about not liking it, but being willing to bring the lighting down if necessary is very widespread by *normal* digimon in cities and towns.

    As for Verge, as a character he very much is a digimon who's opinion can potentially be milder depending on the events here in the prologue, who he interacts with and the choices made. Currently he has deleted a digimon, which when combined with his reaction to Gnaws choices has put him more into the grey area.

    We'll see how he develops as the prologue continues.
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    So how long ago did all that go down?
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    As for how long ago? The even happened shortly after Gnaw hatched. Just a week or two. He's older than Fu and Auger by a couple weeks, and Flamemon by roughly three.

    So time wise? Hm.. a couple months ago, though that's a fairly long time so far as the digital world is concerned,
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    Ironforge said:
    @drexal15, might we have a ballpark for what the numbers in stats mean?

    Like is 20ish in str good for a rookie, is it average, bad or something? As while the numbers are nice, having no frame of reference for them kind of make it hard to get a real idea of what they translate too unless we somehow are able to see the stats of other mon to compare.

    Also when one loads data from a defeated foe, does that process give a chance to gain any skills/stat/items from the loaded mon like in some of the other settings/games?
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    Heh. I actually have a spreadsheet full of that kind of stuff! While I can't show it all, I can give you a few ballparks yes.

    Rookies are generally at the point where they can digivovle when they reach between 60-100 in most of their stats. Edit: Fresh rookies usually start with between 10-30 though the latter is only for really powerful rookies like Flamemon.

    A fresh champion will most often have stats betweenness 180 and 300.

    The PC only digivled a few days ago, so his core physical stats aside from speed are actually pretty God for his age. It's just the others are all older than him, and thus have had longer to develop.

    I very much do plan to give some comparisons with other mons and their stats, it's just that there hasn't been any combat yet, so I haven't really felt like there was a reason for it.

    So as a comparison here are the the stats for Auger: (who's several weeks older than Verge)

    Strength: 35
    Fortitude: 45
    Endurance: 30
    Agility: 25

    Unlike the PC I'm keeping the stats for friends and NPC's and numbers rounded to the nearest 5 or 0. It makes things easier to calculate.

    As for loading? It primarily just gives stats unless you manage to grab most of their essence. Which is actually quite hard. They will drop anything they had which wasn't part of them, like items or money.
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    Another question: what are the general stat ranges for a typical member of each tier? I know there's plenty of variance within, but what's the low end and high end?
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    I'll give you a couple examples.

    A rookie will generally start out with his stats below 20 upon evolving, then once their stats have all surpassed 60 many of them can digivovle. Their hard caps though trigger around 150 points per star give or take (mostly take) 10-30 points depending on their species and talents. There are of course special exceptions to this. Flamemon being a good one as his species can potentially throw down with champions.

    Champions stand to start between 180-300 points per stat, and once decently trained can have anywhere from between 220 points to 500 points in each stat. So yeah. Things can get pretty high.
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    Ironforge said:
    Thanks, though I got one other thought.
    Are any of the gobimon we KO before still around? An if so does loading heal wounds and could we help Augar load in his current state if needed?
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    Loading would be able to heal wounds somewhat yes, but Verge doesn't have the mental readiness to kill the defenceless wounded Goblimon. It would also require the mon doing the loading to be conscious. Something Auger is not.
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    Ironforge said:
    You know that brings up a good point, how do digimon usually evolve in this quest? As it is just a age thing, a data thing, strong emotions, combat, outside factors or some other combo of effects?
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    Hmm. That would make a good lore entry. Will totally do that later.

    But to answer your question now it depends on a variety of factors. It's a variety of factors most of which you just mentioned.

    A digimon will grow older, accrue more strength and most will eventually reach a threshold in which they're able to evolve. This can be triggered by any number of things, such as being pushed physical to your very limits, overwhelming emotions such as anger (most common form of dark evolution) or in some cases just training really hard and passing that threshold. Loading acts in much the same way as that last point, bringing is a sudden surge of strength that can sometimes cause evolution to take place.

    Of course, stats play a big part too "the build" one has can very much affect what you evolve into.

    There are limits though, some species have very hard requirements to reach higher forms. Most Knightmon for instance never manage to make it Mega as they don't have the potential to get strong enough for it.

    Beyond that, there is also a factor of each individual mon themselves. Each one is different. Some find it easier to evolve then normal mon, while others can't really evolve at all barring the most extreme of circumstances, and a few are simply locked at a certain stage unable to progress.
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    Can a mon choose not to evolve too?
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    Generally speaking no it happens pretty much instantly and is really not something they can fight against in a normal way. Kind of like a kid growing.

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    Or even choose to evolve together with another in a fusion evolution?
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    Fusion evolution is pretty special in that it's super rare and not always permenant. It's wholly possible to discover it on accident, but generally both parties have to try. Also, the power of friendship (a tangible force in universe) also factors in.

    Though there are technical means to force it,
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    Since Mon's usually have all kinds of options for what they can grow into, or is evolution more a instinct thing then any more mental based choice?
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    It's mostly instinct and how they develop thanks to their environment. For instance most Drimogemon rookies would either evolve into digmon or just the champion form of Drimogemon.
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    So the first thing you can evolve into is what you are stuck with?
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    Generally yes. The only exceptions being the rare slide evolution, or when a mon a forcibly de-digivolved. As in goes to a near death state and then loses a level to survive. Though more often than naught such a thing might also causes permanent damage.
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    I think that's being a bit presumptuous here, though I am curious if you have any examples of that kind of thing.

    But from the way I'm handling things you need to getevery stat to a certain minimum threshold before you can evolve. Unless you're aiming for Numemon that is, but I think we can safely assume that's not true.
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    This basically. The more lopsided your stats the higher the risk that you don't have a promotion path other than Numemon.
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    Well for Numemon specifically, It's not a problem of stats being lopsided but rather a mixture of two things.

    1. Not having the minimum requirements in your lowest stats (Like 10 when you need 40) You don't actually need balanced stats you just can't have it be abysmally low
    2. Not getting the right stats in line to evolve to a the available choices. Like if Fu or Gnaw only trained agility and endurance to the exclusion of all else.
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    As for the Lunamon stuff...*shudders remembering bad naruto fan fiction* I do get it. But the character just learned the word in the night before and is very excited about it. If you're worried about it being a trend of her sayingng it a dozen times every time she's on screen, don't be. After she calms down on the phrase it'll be used a lot less.
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    Considering how she just evolved, will her mental ability jump too now or will it just have a rapid growth spurt?
    As the entire digimon life cycle has always been rather interesting to me, but I could never really tell if them grew fast for their age or it was more once they get to higher states they gain a massive boost to allow for such growth.
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    Her mental ability has grown a bit yeah, (and will slowly continue to grow) but not too much because of this particular evolutionary jump. She'll still be quite childish for quite a while though, but that's because of her personality.

    Other evolutions though, they can cause big jumps in personality. Especially rookie to champion.

    Digimon do grow incredibly fast for their age yeah. Everything moves faster for them by quite a bit. Of course, gaining stats constantly to the point off evolving doesn't speed their physical growth up if not their mental growth.
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    technically Digimons should be able to evolve into any other Digimon since they all are made out of data. Their evolution would depend on what type of data they were absorbing.
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    Hmm. Well to share my opinion on this subject, I'm not the biggest fan off this viewpoint of everything could become everything. I mean yeah they're all made out of data yeah, but it's not quite that sample. It's almost equivelant of thinking a human could become an elephant because both are made of meat.

    There's different types of data, how it's formed how it's structured, etc. Generally most digimon will follow along a standard line/chain (or a few branching paths) with the weird examples basically being the odd ones out.
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    I think Gnaw went mad with power there... now the question is, will Gramps be able to corral him or not?
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    Maybe just a little. Evolution can sometimes be a little jarring.
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    Ironforge said:
    Hey @drexal15, does digivovling heals all prior wounds too? As Gnaw looked rather good considering his state right before going champ.
    Also, how far did Gnaw ran off? Like is he just out of sight and might possibly be in yelling distance or is he just gone high on the hunt?
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    Digivolving heals wounds yeah, well mostly anyways. There are a couple exceptions two of which will come up in the future.

    Also, he ran off out of sight and Verge can't hear him anymore.
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    Indeed. As it turns out not having limbs kinda sucks, so he was very intent on getting back to his rookie form. The training really helped him advance, though I'll also note it has to do with de-digivolving itself. It doesn't knock someone back to square one of their previous evolution so Auger wasn't quite a *Fresh* In-Training mon. Normally it takes a couple weeks for one to become a rookie anyway so.... Yeah.

    Beyond that, as far as stats go, interesting note is that compared to the last time around Auger is actually a bit stronger now than the last time he evolved. Mostly thanks to that training.
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    GwaedDraig said:
    Ummmm there's quite a few digivolutions that require lopsided stats, the only one that really needs balanced stats is Dynasmon (Drexal will correct me if I'm wrong here).
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    There's actually a LOT more forms like that really, though Royal knights are not the best example. All of their stats are bullshit high, just some can be A LOT higher than others.
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    To be fair, Lucemon in general is a cheating whore. As who ever heard of a rookie that starts off at mega level and just goes up from there?
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    Mhmm. Lucemon is complete bullshit, his falldown mode in particular is above basically everything but Susanoomon.

    I'm not counting Xros Wars or the events therein.
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    drexal15 said:
    (Warning: This Digital World is not a canon one, but rather a Homebrewed version taking aspects from a variety of series like the spirits from Frontier. Beyond that this quest will be focused purely on digimon, there are currently no plans to include any humans. This quest will focus heavily on the narrative aspect of things, however I solemnly promise that votes will matter. Furthermore the Player Character of the quest will start out both weak and cowardly, though the point of such a thing is to gradually grow him out of that)
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    It is yeah IMO. My personal preference is tanky hardnhitting builds.
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    They may in fact be expies, though not direct copies. NEVER direct copies.
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    It very much is. Thanks for posting here man.
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    Huh so the Mystery mon is almost certainly a wizardmon derivative or other mage type. A tower of magic is also interesting.

    There's at least two mons besides the archangel the mage who owns the tower and the fighter with D as the first letter in his name. ( the fact it's grey scale still suggests the angel might not be the standard model but could be wrong )

    The protagonist seems to be some kind of aperantence, had a name ( likely given by the mentor) and judging by the end was important enough for someone to bite the bullet for him.

    We don't know if this just a bog standard or one of the big 3 angels but either way this suggests that whatever is going on is rather high tier if a Mega angel is going full ham. Likely we're not going to be buddies with the light anytime soon.
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    That's a lot of great speculation man! You're certainly correct about a number of things. I can confirm that it was me of the big three, mainly because just him missing attacks from a high altitude was causing very powerful shockwaves. Ones powerful enough to destroy stone buildings.

    As for the colouring, I'm laying that on the fact that it was a dream. Some details are abit foggy as it's not a perfect memory.

    Something else to consider is that Verge did reincarnate, which has a time gap that varies considerably. I plan to do a lore entry on the subject at some point, but it can potentially take years to be reincarnated. Or just a few days in some lucky cases.

    As for the light thing....well I'll just let that be a surprise. *Evil Laugh*

    I very much intend to have the previousl life thing show up every now and again, as it's a big part of the character. One might even say for him it's more relevant than most.
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    So probably not Machinedramon due to it being a composite of Ultimate level mon rather than Champions. But it's definitely made up of chrome digizoid of some kind. And I think those green crystals are raw Huanglong ore. It's not a homebrew mon is it?
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    Not a homebrew mon. I've only used one of those and plan for that to be the only one.
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    Some of our stats are in the range of digivolution now. So we may be able to digivolve in a couple of in-game-days or in-game-weeks. Maybe.
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    As a GM part of my responsibility is to give the player character the ability to reach the necessary level required to fight against the antagonists in the future. While it may cause some pain in the short term sacrifices have to be made, though it's also up to me to make sure the reasons as to why are completely logical in the presented narrative.
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    McLuvin said:
    Willpower is overdone. I've rarely seen decent bezerker characters, and I'd also rather not stay a coward for longer than we have to
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    drexal15 said:
    Hmm, well it is common for a reason. The whole "Willing yourself through X" can be pretty awesome, and is more flexible than Wrath, as it can be used on more stuff.

    As for what "Will" means here for Verge is that he'll be forcing his body or mind to do something, while that sounds nice it can have repercussion, especially if his body physically can't keep up. It potentially has drawbacks just like wrath, though they tend to be lesser.

    Hmm. In a sense, wrath is more extreme with all that entails higher chance for rewards and higher chance for consequences. Whereas will is a more general "flatter" thing with better utility.
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    Something to mention is that this is the 2nd character trait Vote. Between devotion and diligence.

    Devotion means Verge would be very good at applying himself to certain things, but that can go too far. It could make him a great friend, but also someone's most horrible enemies.

    Diligence as a trait is a bit simpler, in that it can be applied to pretty much everything he does. It's a more slow and steady type of deal.

    One can go to more extreme lengths than the other.
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    If anyone isn wondering what the first choice means mechanically I'll try my best to explain it further now.

    Agreeing now will mean that Verge will devote himself to helping Flamemon and his goal of becoming a hero. Mostly that entails sticking by him, and just trying to help in any way he can. Almost like a cheerleader except tries to help in fights. Basically he'd fulfill the "little buddy" roll.

    Focusing on personal cowardice instead will make Verge consciously attempt to overcome his instincts and thoughts if he consciously catches them. While he won't always succeed (especially not at first) he will be making progress throughout the prologue.
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    What about other shortcuts for speaking spells faster, such as just prior to a battle casting a continuously active spell that acts as a framework for coding (an Assembler spell that lets you code in your own personal Assembly Language instead of Binary)?
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    Before I answer I should make sure we're on the same page. You're referring to a spell that would in short automatically equivocate certain words with the spell itself, essentially using that to falsely master other spells correct?

    If so, then yes it would technically be possible, but the framework spell itself would have to be insanely complex to cover all the required bases and be a constant distraction/mental strain to keep up. Also likely to be fairly energy intensive considering the sheer length and the fact that it would have to be on constantly in order to work.
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    More a spell that takes like 10-30 words of one syllable each and maps each of them to a specific sequence of 8 binary digits.
    Creating a shorthand for the most basic of computing commands, such as "add" and "load". So that basic operations that will appear many times in each spell can be said in a single syllable instead of as a sequence of 1's and 0's.
    Still doing everything the standard way, but being able to say "instead of saying this specific short sequence of digits a bunch of times, instead I will say this one specific word whenever I want to use that sequence".
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    In effect, basically a buff spell that lets you speak faster.
    Alternatively, a spell that lets you speak in Hexadecimal. Using the digits 0-9 and the letters A-F to represent the 16 possible sequences of 4 binary digits. So that you say "E" instead of "1110".
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    The type of thing you're suggesting isn't really possible because it has to be said/thought in order. Or else the spell won't really work. At least if you're saying what I think you are.

    Otherwise using words as a shortcut for lines of code is part of mastering spells entirely. Thus I'll refer you to my prior post on why a spell for that would be difficult.

    But something to help someone speak faster would be possible.
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    Not talking about entire lines. Talking about small fragments of lines that appear in many different spells.
    If you think of one line as one sentence, I'm talking about shorthand for specific commonly used phrases. A shorthand that applies to all spells.
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    Akin to writing "TBH" instead of "To be honest".
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    Once again I'll say Technically possible as it is essentially the same process as "Mastering" a spell albeit to a lesser extent. The main problem is that using a spell to do it would be absurdly complicated and a rather large energy cost in of itself.

    At least that is going by the TBH thing.

    Going by your earlier words about using fragments in individual lines? No, not possible. They have to be in order and saying all those fragments at once to try and shorten the spell would mean they're used out of order. Thus preventing the spell itself from working.

    If in case I'm just not getting what you're saying Justinkal, would you be able to use an example of some sort?
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    So runic swords are possible?
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    Indeed they are wholly possible. Just require completely understanding the Programming overlaid on top of them and feeding them a constant supply of energy.
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    drexal15 said:
    It is entirely possible to create *physical* spells by writing code down on a surface. Though these require intent and forcefully inputting energy to activate, and must be hooked to a constant supply of power to keep ongoing.
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    Zavvnao said:
    A very practical application of this would be writing a binding spell on a strong prisoner to keep them weak and make them the source of power themselves. Unless I am mistaken.
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    Indeed that would potentially work. You'd just have to set it up so it's purposely drawing from the unfortunate mon instead of it being a matter of will.
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    Ironforge said:
    To be far, people trying to exploit scrolls and spells has been a thing since wizards and prepared casters became popular.

    As being able to prep stuff in advance to stock pile power has always been a weakness for those here.
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    Indeed. Trying to fight against a prepared Wizardmon with the right spells can be somewhat difficult. Though since those bound spells still take the users energy it's not quite as useful as one might think.
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    It's probably a good idea to mention how I plan to handle the whole High Programming and learning spells thing.

    It's actually pretty simple. The *Skill* level determines what spells can learn. The higher it gets the more complicated the meaning he's able to understand and the more numerous lines of code he's able work with.

    I'm thinking of maybe adding in a tutoring bonus from Sorcerymon helping Verge out as well. Which would increase his skill level by a few points retroactively. Any opinions?
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    Ironforge said:
    No biggie and fair enough, though if you don't mind me asking what kind of quest shift would happen if we did stay behind?

    Or is there no real difference in how things would be done, just a difference in what kind of events we end up dealing with?
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    Hmm. Theoretically speaking if Verge were to assume the role of village caretaker and protector in a similar aspect to Gramps without anything huge happening?

    Well it would very much be a kind of management quest. Keeping track of the various digimon helping raise them, reinforcing or discouraging certain personality traits to prevent "Evil" mon from being created in the environment. E.t.c. Would be kind of like herisnt cats for certain generations of mon.

    Then there's resources, bits, merchants and dealing with other visitors.

    There would be a certain combat aspect to it as feral rookies would occasionly try to delete the villages inhabitants. Occasionally there would be boss's to deal with. Feral Champions and the like potentially with the power to destroy the village.

    Plus dealing with any groups interested in the area's sources.

    There would also be a ton of downtime. Maybe some visits from mon who evolved and left to make their fortunes.

    If Verge hadn't made that promise to Flamemon it would basically end up being his lot in life. One he'd actually enjoy quite a bit. Until eventually he either A: got deleted by a powerful enemy, or B ended up in Gramps current position.
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    Though I will mention something you do have wrong. Verge himself doesn't actually have a strong sense of justice. Not currently at least. Sure morally speaking he's in the "Good" side of things, but he's never strictly wanted to punish evildoers or try to save others in the same way Flamemon does.
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    I have a question about the "General Fighting" skill. Based on the name, I was under the impression that it measures baseline skill at fighting(and will of course get harder and harder to raise as time goes on), and more specialized types of fighting would build off of it. Is this correct?
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    Yes that is is correct. Mon can move to specialize further into things like swordsmanship, fisticuffs, etc.
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    Out of curiosity what happens when we digivolve into something that doesn't have drills or can't really dig well?
    Does the Digging skill get reduced or becomes flat out useless?
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    It wouldn't become useless. Just take a temporary penalty until Verge gets used to digging with his new form and gets the right equipment for it.
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    Does the penalty become stronger and/or last longer depending on the form?
    Like hypothetically speaking if he became a serpent or bird like form would the Penalty be worse?
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    That is correct. It would be worse. Some forms might even make further digging near impossible.

    Monochromon as an example would make things pretty difficult with its very long horn sticking straight up.
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    Here, have a WOG compilation. I'll try keep it updated until the prologue ends but after that I'll be busy IRL for a while. If someone wants to take over at that point, feel free.
     
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    • [X] Agree with the sentiment. Now that you think about it, that could be a life very well suited for you one day, well presumably there wouldn't be fighting involved anyway. It might even help support Flamemon & your *Siblings* somehow.

    Because in a way, if we can figure out a way to increase income for our village, I wouldn't say no for an answer. And in a way, it can also serve to help with magic training (of which I'd bet we gained a bit of a boost to future learning, due to being dedicated on the training.)

    Bar that, well. If we ply our cards right, Merchant Chief!Verge and Auger, might be a good combo. Alternatively, we might even potentially suggest that Merchant wise, Auger might make a better fit, but that's a suggestion. :p
     
    Qm already said this wont ne a civ builder ck2 style quest.... like...I very much expect the village to be gone soonish. Or atleast for us to have a reason to leave it. Grandpa will be dying soon of old age, flamemon will be leaving. So too will wizardmon.

    And frankly verge isnt strong enough to protect the village by himself, even with fu and auger.

    In fact I fully expect auger to leave soonish to try and get more money, and fu may just follow him. Which would leave us with lunamon. A ticking timebomb virus dark digimon (thresh) and a scaredy cat digimon to take care of...
     
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    I was alerted to the fact I was quoted on something, but I can't find what you quoted me on.

    Nvmnd, I found it.
     
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    Qm already said this wont ne a civ builder ck2 style quest.... like...I very much expect the village to be gone soonish. Or atleast for us to have a reason to leave it. Grandpa will be dying soon of old age, flamemon will be leaving. So too will wizardmon.

    And frankly verge isnt strong enough to protect the village by himself, even with fu and auger.

    In fact I fully expect auger to leave soonish to try and get more money, and fu may just follow him. Which would leave us with lunamon. A ticking timebomb virus dark digimon (thresh) and a scaredy cat digimon to take care of...
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    Huh, maybe we'll be kind of like nomads after the prologue. We go on a journey, picking up all kinds of Digimon from far and distant lands, as well as helping them grow.
     
    [X] Disagree. While it could make for an interesting life... You don't believe it's a path you could possibly take. Between Lunamon, Thresh & Flamemon you'll have other obligations. You'll have to get stronger for them and what he's suggesting would only hinder that.
     
    justinkal said:
    So, could we get an infodump on the two new stats?
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    Right!

    Special is the stat which governed how powerful esteoric abilities are. Fire breath, magic, etc. The higher the special one has, the more powerful their abilities all.

    Spirit governs how much special energy one has at their disposal, basically acting like mana. The more spirit one has the more they can use their special attacks and the more energy intensive techniques they can use.

    Vote is currently 6-5 with disagree winning.
    Adhoc vote count started by drexal15 on Aug 5, 2018 at 11:43 AM, finished with 29 posts and 11 votes.
    • [X] Disagree. While it could make for an interesting life... You don't believe it's a path you could possibly take. Between Lunamon, Thresh & Flamemon you'll have other obligations. You'll have to get stronger for them and what he's suggesting would only hinder that.
      [X] Agree with the sentiment. Now that you think about it, that could be a life very well suited for you one day, well presumably there wouldn't be fighting involved anyway. It might even help support Flamemon & your *Siblings* somehow.
      -[x] Though profusely thank him for such a offer.
      [X] Disagree. While it could make for an interesting life... You don't believe it's a path you could possibly take. Between Lunamon, Thresh & Flamemon you'll have other obligations. You'll have to get stronger for them and what he's suggesting would only hinder that. ​
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    [X] Agree with the sentiment. Now that you think about it, that could be a life very well suited for you one day, well presumably there wouldn't be fighting involved anyway. It might even help support Flamemon & your *Siblings* somehow.

    TIEBREAKER :cry::cry:
     
    [X] Disagree. While it could make for an interesting life... You don't believe it's a path you could possibly take. Between Lunamon, Thresh & Flamemon you'll have other obligations. You'll have to get stronger for them and what he's suggesting would only hinder that.
     
    [X] Agree with the sentiment. Now that you think about it, that could be a life very well suited for you one day, well presumably there wouldn't be fighting involved anyway. It might even help support Flamemon & your *Siblings* somehow.
     
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