Avatar: The Last Dicebender (A:TLA/A:LOK Quest)

Derek58 · Feb 28, 2018

Vote Tally : Avatar: The Last Dicebender (A:TLA/A:LOK Quest) | Page 9 | Sufficient Velocity [Posts: 219-512]
##### NetTally 1.9.9

[X] Plan Officer in Training
-[X] You want to be a police officer in Republic City. (Ambition. +15,000 XP, +10 Chi Points.)
-[X] Agree to go, but only to keep an eye on them.
-[X] Siph
-[X] Bending
-[X]Physical exercise.
No. of Votes: 19

[x] Plan Kyoshi can do it, Tié can too!
- [x] (Bending Prodigy) Why limit yourself? Organize a sandbender militia, which you will be the leader of. (Ambition. +7,500 XP, +7 Chi Points.)
- [x] Disagree, but follow them to help the creatures get away.
- [x] Dad.
- [x] Bending.
- [x] Physical exercise.
No. of Votes: 17

Plan: ◈Kyoshi can do it, Tié can too!
A Nation's Virtue
AdraniBelegil
Artemis1992
BunnyLord
butchock
Derekc2
Easter
edboy49
Fabled Ranger
POTDL
RandomMan01
Rossum
Small Nerd
Somnia
UbeOne
Valkhir
Vanestus

[x] Plan Spiritual
-[x] Neither. Upon further thought,you wish to see the world and meet different people, like your father did.
-[x] Disagree, but follow them to help the creatures get away.
-[x] Mom.
-[x] Meditation.
- [x] Physical exercise.
No. of Votes: 2

Plan: ◈Spiritual
Oh I am slain!
wingstrike96

[x] Readying for a Journey
No. of Votes: 2

Dirk93
Leek01

Total No. of Voters: 40

Time for another tally since I think the normal vote close time is nearing.

Birdsie · Feb 28, 2018

Trondason said:
Mostly unrelated, @Birdsie Is the ability to fight while swimming through the earth like that one mole-fighter-guy gonna be it's own skill? Or can we automatically learn to fight like that? Because that, combined with Seismic Sense, would be a pretty darn strong combo.

It's an Earthbending technique.

Derek58 said:
Vote Tally : Avatar: The Last Dicebender (A:TLA/A:LOK Quest) | Page 9 | Sufficient Velocity [Posts: 219-512]
##### NetTally 1.9.9

[X] Plan Officer in Training
-[X] You want to be a police officer in Republic City. (Ambition. +15,000 XP, +10 Chi Points.)
-[X] Agree to go, but only to keep an eye on them.
-[X] Siph
-[X] Bending
-[X]Physical exercise.
No. of Votes: 19

Plan: ◈Officer in Training
Astaroh-M
biloly
DarkKing98
Derek58
dunk1010
Funeral Pyre
KnownParadox
LunarDreams
Ridiculously Average Guy
Rjrulew
RookDeSuit
Rustic
Scotchtape27
Sereg
sidestory
SoixanteZio
Timewinders
Trondason
veekie

[x] Plan Kyoshi can do it, Tié can too!
- [x] (Bending Prodigy) Why limit yourself? Organize a sandbender militia, which you will be the leader of. (Ambition. +7,500 XP, +7 Chi Points.)
- [x] Disagree, but follow them to help the creatures get away.
- [x] Dad.
- [x] Bending.
- [x] Physical exercise.
No. of Votes: 17

Plan: ◈Kyoshi can do it, Tié can too!
A Nation's Virtue
AdraniBelegil
Artemis1992
BunnyLord
butchock
Derekc2
Easter
edboy49
Fabled Ranger
POTDL
RandomMan01
Rossum
Small Nerd
Somnia
UbeOne
Valkhir
Vanestus

[x] Plan Spiritual
-[x] Neither. Upon further thought,you wish to see the world and meet different people, like your father did.
-[x] Disagree, but follow them to help the creatures get away.
-[x] Mom.
-[x] Meditation.
- [x] Physical exercise.
No. of Votes: 2

Plan: ◈Spiritual
Oh I am slain!
wingstrike96

[x] Readying for a Journey
No. of Votes: 2

Dirk93
Leek01

Total No. of Voters: 40

Time for another tally since I think the normal vote close time is nearing.

Yup, votes are closed.

Ridiculously Average Guy · Feb 28, 2018

Hey, instead of pro-bending (which wasn't all that interesting as a sport anyways) what about Bending-allowed racing?

Not with cars, but on feet. Well, on rollerblades/rollerskates. Basically, early Air Gear/free running whatever. SO not just on the streets, but on walls, roofs, etc.

For those that want to go pro, there is an arena for it. It's not a plain ring surrounded by a pool, It's a pit. A it's a tangled arrangement in which to race in. Loops, gaps, fake building, etc. Think like when, in Tales of Ba Sing Se, Aang build that zoo outside of the walls. benders work in concert to shape the arena to the specification for the race.

Aang might have started it himself actually.

Waterbender skates are partially bladed for ice maneouvers, earthbenders have super good grips, or are flat for sandbending, Firebenders have rocketboots, and nonbenders have either motorized or wind up skates, they pick up torgue when they brake so they can keep going. Airbenders, if any joined in, would probably basically be turbines.

SoixanteZio · Feb 28, 2018

I always felt that pro bending should have just be boxing with bending. Two benders in a ring duking it out.

Ridiculously Average Guy · Feb 28, 2018

SoixanteZio said:
I always felt that pro bending should have just be boxing with bending. Two benders in a ring duking it out.

Yeah, I can see that. DOesn't work with teams though.

If it was teams, better to continue the earth nations tradition of professional wrestling.

Trondason · Feb 28, 2018

Birdsie said:
It's an Earthbending technique.

So we DO automatically learn it? Alright, that'll certainly be fun.

Derek58 · Feb 28, 2018

Birdsie said:
Yup, votes are closed.

"In Republic City, I am the law."

DarkKing98 · Feb 28, 2018

Time to bust drug cartels and slave markets and other things!

Oh, and find that damn missing cat.

sidestory · Feb 28, 2018

Trondason said:
Korra was a prodigy. Aang wasn't. He was good, but no prodigy, and hardly the strongest. He was not a better earthbender than Toph, not by a wide margin. He was not a better Waterbender than Korra. He was not a better firebender than Zuko.

You don't get it
Korra, Toph and Zuko spend YEARS learning their element, while what we seen from Aang is what he learns in less then a 10th of the time they invested it and yet he grows powerful enough in these element to match trained warriors in their bending

Trondason said:
And really, by the sounds of it, we are a more prodigious prodigy than Korra. By the mechanics the QM gave us, genuine Word of God, with a Teacher it will take us 6.5 years to reach Rank 10 in every element, assuming we only do 1 training action per turn. We can accomplish by age 14 what Korra couldn't till she was 18.

And once again that are the mechanics speaking, from the narrative we haven't seen anything yet, that supports such a claim
Logically even with all the min-maxing we have been aiming at, it is completly unrealistic to master all the elements at the age of 14

@Birdsie, given that he isn't really wrong, you might want to rework the bending training system, to fit more the IC-time it takes to accomplish such thing or maybe introduce some other kind of mechanic that prevents exactly this

Rossum · Feb 28, 2018

Birdsie said:
Yup, votes are closed.

Fair enough.

You know, if we want to keep our identity as the Avatar a secret, we could become a costumed superhero while doing Avatar duties.

By day we're a mild mannered cop on the beat, helping out the people and working within the system. Possibly having to deal with prejudice and corruption on the force.

By night, we don the armor of Avatar Kyoshi. Bringing justice to those who consider themselves above the law!

Or we could go the Adam West Batman route and become a duly deputised officer of the law while wearing our Avatar outfit!

We wouldn't be a vigilante. We'd be an officer like any other, except we'd be the Avatar and keep our mortal identity a secret. We could have the authority of the Avatar while providing some protection from the Equalists, Red Lotus, and Earth Kingdom from being able to track down our identity.

Also, wouldn't be surprised if the metalbenders on the Republic City police force have a prejudice of sandbenders all being bandits or something.

Edit: Or if not Kyoshi, the Blue Spirit. The scourge of all who spread injustice! We could get the idea from a play of The Boy in the Iceberg.

Birdsie · Feb 28, 2018

sidestory said:
@Birdsie, given that he isn't really wrong, you might want to rework the bending training system, to fit more the IC-time it takes to accomplish such thing or maybe introduce some other kind of mechanic that prevents exactly this

Hmmm, I'll look into it.

DarkKing98 · Feb 28, 2018

Rossum said:
Also, wouldn't be surprised if the metalbenders on the Republic City police force have a prejudice of sandbenders all being bandits or something.

I think even other sandbenders have that prejudice dude.

SoixanteZio · Feb 28, 2018

Yeah, what little of what was shown of sand benders didn't leave them in a good Light.

Ridiculously Average Guy · Feb 28, 2018

sidestory said:
Korra, Toph and Zuko spend YEARS learning their element, while what we seen from Aang is what he learns in less then a 10th of the time they invested it and yet he grows powerful enough in these element to match trained warriors in their bending

Yep, Aang was pretty ridiculous.

Katara also, what with going from zero to master over the course of like...what, 6 months?

Rossum · Feb 28, 2018

DarkKing98 said:
I think even other sandbenders have that prejudice dude.

SoixanteZio said:
Yeah, what little of what was shown of sand benders didn't leave them in a good Light.

Yeah? And now we're gonna be wanting to join the police force who all want their cops to be metalbenders. That's going to be fun.

DarkKing98 · Feb 28, 2018

Rossum said:
Yeah? And now we're gonna be wanting to join the police force who all want their cops to be metalbenders. That's going to be fun.

This is why we work from within to rid the system of that prejudice.

Ridiculously Average Guy · Feb 28, 2018

Rossum said:
You know, if we want to keep our identity as the Avatar a secret, we could become a costumed superhero while doing Avatar duties.

By day we're a mild mannered cop on the beat, helping out the people and working within the system. Possibly having to deal with prejudice and corruption on the force.

By night, we don the armor of Avatar Kyoshi. Bringing justice to those who consider themselves above the law!

I'm down for this. Except, you know, not donning the armor of Avatar Kyoshi.

Just call ourself Avatarman or something. Or Blue Spirit if we want to lean on old stories.

Rossum said:
Yeah? And now we're gonna be wanting to join the police force who all want their cops to be metalbenders. That's going to be fun.

Yeh, should make for some fun storytelling as we strive to change our coworkers perception of ourself without leaning on the fact that we're the Avatar.

Derek58 · Feb 28, 2018

Rossum said:
Yeah? And now we're gonna be wanting to join the police force who all want their cops to be metalbenders. That's going to be fun.

I relish the challenge. We'll out-cop everyone else on the force and prove beyond any doubt that we deserve to be there

I don't think playing the vigilante will work that well IMO. I'd much rather be open about being the Avatar, that way we can use Air/Water/Firebending openly, and whatever other advantages it gives us.

Birdsie · Feb 28, 2018

sidestory said:
@Birdsie, given that he isn't really wrong, you might want to rework the bending training system, to fit more the IC-time it takes to accomplish such thing or maybe introduce some other kind of mechanic that prevents exactly this

I've written a revised training system where the perks work a little different and the multiplier for training is 8 instead of 3.

Ridiculously Average Guy · Feb 28, 2018

Personally, I'd rather hide the fact that we're the Avatar, as it makes it easier to dodge the omnipresent celebrity and criticism that comes with it.

Birdsie · Feb 28, 2018

Rossum said:
Fair enough.

You know, if we want to keep our identity as the Avatar a secret, we could become a costumed superhero while doing Avatar duties.

By day we're a mild mannered cop on the beat, helping out the people and working within the system. Possibly having to deal with prejudice and corruption on the force.

By night, we don the armor of Avatar Kyoshi. Bringing justice to those who consider themselves above the law!

Or we could go the Adam West Batman route and become a duly deputised officer of the law while wearing our Avatar outfit!

We wouldn't be a vigilante. We'd be an officer like any other, except we'd be the Avatar and keep our mortal identity a secret. We could have the authority of the Avatar while providing some protection from the Equalists, Red Lotus, and Earth Kingdom from being able to track down our identity.

Ridiculously Average Guy said:
I'm down for this. Except, you know, not donning the armor of Avatar Kyoshi.

Just call ourself Avatarman or something. Or Blue Spirit if we want to lean on old stories.

Yeh, should make for some fun storytelling as we strive to change our coworkers perception of ourself without leaning on the fact that we're the Avatar.

I am willing to go along with this idea.

On another hand,
I'll need someone to help me and write Combat Style Trees. I could use Fencing, Kyoshi Warrior Fighting, Brawling (grapple moves, etc,) Ninjutsu and anything else your minds can come up with. I offer CP for good work.

DarkKing98 · Feb 28, 2018

Birdsie said:
Ninjutsu

KAGE BUSHIN NO JUTSU!

Derek58 · Feb 28, 2018

Ridiculously Average Guy said:
Personally, I'd rather hide the fact that we're the Avatar, as it makes it easier to dodge the omnipresent celebrity and criticism that comes with it.

Sure, the criticism is a drawback, but in return we can use our Avatar status to affect greater change than if we pretend to be a normal earthbender.

Trondason · Feb 28, 2018

sidestory said:
You don't get it
Korra, Toph and Zuko spend YEARS learning their element, while what we seen from Aang is what he learns in less then a 10th of the time they invested it and yet he grows powerful enough in these element to match trained warriors in their bending

And once again that are the mechanics speaking, from the narrative we haven't seen anything yet, that supports such a claim
Logically even with all the min-maxing we have been aiming at, it is completly unrealistic to master all the elements at the age of 14

@Birdsie, given that he isn't really wrong, you might want to rework the bending training system, to fit more the IC-time it takes to accomplish such thing or maybe introduce some other kind of mechanic that prevents exactly this

He's better than Trained Warriors, but that is hardly saying much. Your average bender warrior ain't that good compared to the MCs. Like, ever. Katara, at the very beginning, where she is very explicitly stated to be bad at water bending, regularly beats groups of trained benders.

The mechanics drive the narrative. And I did no min-maxing, I was giving numbers for a very lax once per turn. No extra effort, nor any sped up learning due to training synergies or anything.

Birdsie said:
I've written a revised training system where the perks work a little different and the multiplier for training is 8 instead of 3.

The perks on the Character Sheet are the same. Assuming they work as written, that's mastery (Rank 10) of all elements by 25. 2 Trainings per Turn, mastery by 16.

Derek58 · Feb 28, 2018

Trondason said:
The perks on the Character Sheet are the same. Assuming they work as written, that's mastery (Rank 10) of all elements by 25.

That sounds pretty reasonable to me.

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