THatWhichWillBe
The Squiddly One
- Location
- In The Darkened Deep
Giving a sticky grenade legs is a logical conclusion.
Duh.
You don't even have to worry about friendly fire, the Process is smart enough to not do that.
Hold It In (RWBY/Transistor)
- Thread starter Prok
- Start date
- Crossover
Duh.
You don't even have to worry about friendly fire, the Process is smart enough to not do that.
Totem Series
Basically these are stationary emplacement Units, that provide Beneficial to Harmful effects. Beneficial to Allied forces, Harmful to Enemies.
T1 Beneficial
- Attck UP: Basically, using the Principle of Resonant Entropy, Any attacks that hit by your allies are magnified.
- Def Up: Energetic Shielding prevents Allied Forces from taking damage until the Totem is Destroyed.
-Special Up: For use with Semblance users, Enhances the effects of Semblances through Harmonic Resonance.
T1 Harmful
- Electromagnetic Sphere: Basically a sphere around the Totem that constantly discharges an electrical impulse, causing a constant damaging effect
- Glue Gunner: A Totem that produces a Glue-like energy based substance that slows the targets around the Totem down.
- Exhaustive Field: A Field that makes it harder for enemies to act in GENERAL around it.
Basically these are stationary emplacement Units, that provide Beneficial to Harmful effects. Beneficial to Allied forces, Harmful to Enemies.
T1 Beneficial
- Attck UP: Basically, using the Principle of Resonant Entropy, Any attacks that hit by your allies are magnified.
- Def Up: Energetic Shielding prevents Allied Forces from taking damage until the Totem is Destroyed.
-Special Up: For use with Semblance users, Enhances the effects of Semblances through Harmonic Resonance.
T1 Harmful
- Electromagnetic Sphere: Basically a sphere around the Totem that constantly discharges an electrical impulse, causing a constant damaging effect
- Glue Gunner: A Totem that produces a Glue-like energy based substance that slows the targets around the Totem down.
- Exhaustive Field: A Field that makes it harder for enemies to act in GENERAL around it.
- Location
- Philippines
When it comes to grimm the question is always "more firepower".
You just gotta refine the delivery mechanism lol
Evonix
Aspiring Lovecraft antagonist.
- Location
- Canada to 2 sigmas
Yeet()
Utility/Combat
MEM 2
Evenly applies significant kinetic force to a target, by default at 45° upwards and away from the Transistor, launching it at high speed without damage. Distribute Process matter, launch projetiles, reposition friends, remove foes, extract oneself from awkward social situations, the possibilities are endless!
Think "Team rocket is blasting off again!".
Hitting the target with the Transistor like a baseball bat is encouraged but not strictly required.
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WARM. HUGS. FOR EVERYBODY!
Also, my own Process prompt:
SeekerCell
I see you!
A cell that's been given the fastest antigrav modules the Process can give it (launch to the moon levels speed maybe?), while also sporting its more advanced sensory mechanisms.
The result? A cell grown ovoid the size of a basketball, its "eye" now dominating the majority of its surface, with it splitting into multiple pupils as needed to focus a 360 degree view simultaneously. Think of "The Eye of Sauron" in miniature in white and red and you're practically there.
Offence/Defence-wise it should have energy based weaponry on it, but mostly it relies on speed to get in and out. It's purpose is to expand the Process- and by extension Jaune and The Transistor's information network on the area. Give coordinates for long range weaponry, reconnaissance, etc.
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I posted these before, way back, but I'm pretty sure they didn't get noticed, so I'll just post them again.
Tl:dr: Temporary target removal. Like banishing your opponent's monster face down. Can be modified to adapt how it operates pretty extensively, useful for targeting big enemies who would otherwise be really nasty to have on the field but are too tough to kill outright where there's minions on the field.
Tl:dr: Drive is a damaging version of Jaunt. Slower, but rather than just being disorientating it incorporates damaging elements that can be further modded with other functions, such as Crash or Spiral, or by leaving a trail of Process matter behind us to spawn a small or medium unit behind us after we've already charged through an enemy.
Tl:dr: After achieving sufficient Process density at another location, enables the Teleport Gates you get at 'very-end-of-the-game' Transistor.
Or, I suppose, Inventory function. Carry whatever on you. Since the Process can just make stuff on the fly maybe not the most useful, but since it can't make Dust...
Function Category: Combat
Function: Target and remove a enemy / target from the field, shoving them into a twist of space for a time (8 seconds base). Similar to the currently Beta Function Cache() or completed Function Freeze(), Shunt() is intended to be usable in combat due to targeting enemies instead of objects. Shunt() can target beings with Aura (or not) below a certain size threshold (Nothing bigger than a regular Ursa without modification). Shunt() cannot be used in its base forms against buildings, obstacles, or terrain.
-Function, Modified: Shunt() can be modified for a variety of effects. Shunt() can be improved to effect an area instead of just a single target, to Shunt() larger targets, Shunt() terrain away for a time leaving a smoothed landscape without obstacles, or to Shunt() the target for longer. Additionally, if paired with a DoT (Damage over Time) Function (Like Purge()) Shunt() can be used to do DoT, or certain Functions can cause Shunt() to do some damage immediately or upon release to the target as well as its base effects.
-Function, Passive: As a passive, Shunt() wraps Jaune in what is effectively a damage mitigation aura that reduces all incoming physical based attacks before Aura damage. Shunt() could also be used to 'dodge' large attacks by using Shunt on Jaune himself, though this would not be used as a 'Passive' Function effect.
-Function, Upgrading: Used attached to other Functions Shunt() locks the target of the Function away for a few seconds on hit (based on what Function Shunt() was attached to), useful on close range Functions to prevent attacks or counter-attacks. Used on ranged Functions Shunt() can be used to lock away pesky ranged fighters for the time needed to close in on them or to remove them from attacking while you do something else. Used on some Functions, Shunt() no longer locks the target away but can somehow bypass physical resilience or armor, or possibly even Aura if you dare. Paired with Directory_Repair() Shunt() would shove the target (hopefully an ally) away into the spatial twist to heal them for 14 seconds, providing protection and healing. Attaching Shunt() to certain other combat Functions removes the effects of Shunt() entirely an instead freezes the target in place spatially, leaving them stunlocked and available to be damaged, but this has high MEM cost.
Projected MEM Cost: As a solo Function Shunt uses 3 MEM, as a passive Shunt uses 2 MEM, as an Upgrade Shunt() costs 3 MEM.
Function Discovery: Inspired by Ada, without scanning her Semblance, but based off her '4th dimensional being' state. An idea to weaponize Freeze() based on what scans the Transistor had already taken of Ada's Semblance.
Function: Target and remove a enemy / target from the field, shoving them into a twist of space for a time (8 seconds base). Similar to the currently Beta Function Cache() or completed Function Freeze(), Shunt() is intended to be usable in combat due to targeting enemies instead of objects. Shunt() can target beings with Aura (or not) below a certain size threshold (Nothing bigger than a regular Ursa without modification). Shunt() cannot be used in its base forms against buildings, obstacles, or terrain.
-Function, Modified: Shunt() can be modified for a variety of effects. Shunt() can be improved to effect an area instead of just a single target, to Shunt() larger targets, Shunt() terrain away for a time leaving a smoothed landscape without obstacles, or to Shunt() the target for longer. Additionally, if paired with a DoT (Damage over Time) Function (Like Purge()) Shunt() can be used to do DoT, or certain Functions can cause Shunt() to do some damage immediately or upon release to the target as well as its base effects.
Bounce(): When Shunt()+Bounce() is used the Bounce() is sent out to deal damage to a target. Upon hitting a target, Shunt() is then applied for 4 seconds. Bounce() then seeks out and hits a second target if one is within range, applying Shunt() again for 4 seconds.
Breach(): When Shunt()+Breach() is used, Shunt() deals the damage of Breach() to the target at that is Shunted() at the start of Shunt().
Crash(): When Shunt()+Crash() is used, Shunt() applies first, dealing Crash's() damage at the end of the Shunt(), any target released from Shunt() to takes more damage for 6 seconds.
Cull(): When Shunt()+Cull() is used, at the end of Cull's() damage is applied during Shunt(). If Overkill is applied, Shunt() explodes in an area at the end of Shunt(), dealing the overkill damage in an area around the Shunt() target's location.
Flood(): When Shunt()+Flood() is used, the area of Shunt is increased, turning from effectively a small target area into a medium. Increases size of Shunt() area.
Get(): When Shunt()+Get() is used, enemies and targets are pulled towards the Shunt() for 2 seconds before the Shunt() is applied. Minor Get() damage is inflicted at the end of the Shunt().
Help(): Shunt()+Help() creates a Shunt() that can remove obstacles and terrain. The area left behind is flattened. Doesn't work if an object inside the effective Shunt() terrain would be destroyed by the absence inflicted by Shunt().
Jaunt(): Shunt()+Jaunt() lengthens the time of Shunt from 8 seconds to 16 seconds.
Load(): Shunt()+Load() causes immense damage at the end of Shunt() to any enemies near the end of the Shunt() and to the target of the Shunt(). 4 second Shunt() duration.
Mask(): Shunt()+ Mask() causes User to become intangible but able to reposition about the battlefield. Essentially Ada's semblance without the Telefragging damage ability.
Ping(): Shunt()+Ping() causes Shunt to recharge quicker, enabling a Shunt to be used while another Shunt() is on the field.
Purge(): Shunt()+ Purge() causes Purge() damage to be done for the entire duration of Shunt() and for 3 seconds after Shunt(). Vicious combo.
Spark(): Shunt()+Spark() causes Shunt() to apply in many smaller areas, clustered together, enabling an entire Beowolf pack to be Shunted() at once. Deal no damage, lasts for 8 seconds. Large area effect.
Switch(): Shunt()+ Switch() causes Shunt() to effect a larger area for a shorter period of time.
Tap(): Shunt()+Tap() causes any enemy target Shunted() away to take damage for the 8 second duration and the User to get minor Aura restoration as life heal from the Shunted Target. Works on Grimm, may be partially magic rather than pure Aura / Science?
Void(): Shunt()+Void() causes Shunt() to reduce the attack and defense of the target caught by Shunt() once Shunt() is over for 6 seconds. Effectiveness reduced on Aura users.
Slice(): Shunt()+Slice() causes Shunt() to lock the enemy in place, but not place them in a special warp. Essentially a murder hold. Less effective on targets with Aura. Very high MEM cost. Base duration lasts for 4 seconds.
Spin(): Shunt()+Spin() turns the target area for Shunt() into a horizontal column of area in front of the user to be locked away for 15 meters and 6 seconds. Does not lock away terrain or obstacles, blocked by terrain and obstacles.
Drive(): Shunt()+Drive Increases the size of Shunt() the largest of all Shunt() size increases. You want to lock away the Grimm dragon for exactly 3 seconds? Increase the cooldown length of Shunt() based on the area locked away.
Shunt(): Shunt()+Shunt() Increases the size and length of the Shunt(). Time up to 14 seconds. Area up to medium.
Breach(): When Shunt()+Breach() is used, Shunt() deals the damage of Breach() to the target at that is Shunted() at the start of Shunt().
Crash(): When Shunt()+Crash() is used, Shunt() applies first, dealing Crash's() damage at the end of the Shunt(), any target released from Shunt() to takes more damage for 6 seconds.
Cull(): When Shunt()+Cull() is used, at the end of Cull's() damage is applied during Shunt(). If Overkill is applied, Shunt() explodes in an area at the end of Shunt(), dealing the overkill damage in an area around the Shunt() target's location.
Flood(): When Shunt()+Flood() is used, the area of Shunt is increased, turning from effectively a small target area into a medium. Increases size of Shunt() area.
Get(): When Shunt()+Get() is used, enemies and targets are pulled towards the Shunt() for 2 seconds before the Shunt() is applied. Minor Get() damage is inflicted at the end of the Shunt().
Help(): Shunt()+Help() creates a Shunt() that can remove obstacles and terrain. The area left behind is flattened. Doesn't work if an object inside the effective Shunt() terrain would be destroyed by the absence inflicted by Shunt().
Jaunt(): Shunt()+Jaunt() lengthens the time of Shunt from 8 seconds to 16 seconds.
Load(): Shunt()+Load() causes immense damage at the end of Shunt() to any enemies near the end of the Shunt() and to the target of the Shunt(). 4 second Shunt() duration.
Mask(): Shunt()+ Mask() causes User to become intangible but able to reposition about the battlefield. Essentially Ada's semblance without the Telefragging damage ability.
Ping(): Shunt()+Ping() causes Shunt to recharge quicker, enabling a Shunt to be used while another Shunt() is on the field.
Purge(): Shunt()+ Purge() causes Purge() damage to be done for the entire duration of Shunt() and for 3 seconds after Shunt(). Vicious combo.
Spark(): Shunt()+Spark() causes Shunt() to apply in many smaller areas, clustered together, enabling an entire Beowolf pack to be Shunted() at once. Deal no damage, lasts for 8 seconds. Large area effect.
Switch(): Shunt()+ Switch() causes Shunt() to effect a larger area for a shorter period of time.
Tap(): Shunt()+Tap() causes any enemy target Shunted() away to take damage for the 8 second duration and the User to get minor Aura restoration as life heal from the Shunted Target. Works on Grimm, may be partially magic rather than pure Aura / Science?
Void(): Shunt()+Void() causes Shunt() to reduce the attack and defense of the target caught by Shunt() once Shunt() is over for 6 seconds. Effectiveness reduced on Aura users.
Slice(): Shunt()+Slice() causes Shunt() to lock the enemy in place, but not place them in a special warp. Essentially a murder hold. Less effective on targets with Aura. Very high MEM cost. Base duration lasts for 4 seconds.
Spin(): Shunt()+Spin() turns the target area for Shunt() into a horizontal column of area in front of the user to be locked away for 15 meters and 6 seconds. Does not lock away terrain or obstacles, blocked by terrain and obstacles.
Drive(): Shunt()+Drive Increases the size of Shunt() the largest of all Shunt() size increases. You want to lock away the Grimm dragon for exactly 3 seconds? Increase the cooldown length of Shunt() based on the area locked away.
Shunt(): Shunt()+Shunt() Increases the size and length of the Shunt(). Time up to 14 seconds. Area up to medium.
-Function, Passive: As a passive, Shunt() wraps Jaune in what is effectively a damage mitigation aura that reduces all incoming physical based attacks before Aura damage. Shunt() could also be used to 'dodge' large attacks by using Shunt on Jaune himself, though this would not be used as a 'Passive' Function effect.
-Function, Upgrading: Used attached to other Functions Shunt() locks the target of the Function away for a few seconds on hit (based on what Function Shunt() was attached to), useful on close range Functions to prevent attacks or counter-attacks. Used on ranged Functions Shunt() can be used to lock away pesky ranged fighters for the time needed to close in on them or to remove them from attacking while you do something else. Used on some Functions, Shunt() no longer locks the target away but can somehow bypass physical resilience or armor, or possibly even Aura if you dare. Paired with Directory_Repair() Shunt() would shove the target (hopefully an ally) away into the spatial twist to heal them for 14 seconds, providing protection and healing. Attaching Shunt() to certain other combat Functions removes the effects of Shunt() entirely an instead freezes the target in place spatially, leaving them stunlocked and available to be damaged, but this has high MEM cost.
Bounce(): Bounce()+Shunt() causes Bounce to be able to target enemies over a larger area between bounces.
Breach(): Breach()+Shunt() causes all enemies hit by Breach() to take Breach() damage and by locked away in Shunt() for 3 seconds.
Crash(): Crash()+Breach() causes the target to be stunned by Crash() and left more vulnerable more much longer.
Cull() Cull()+Shunt() causes any enemy hit by Cull() to be thrown much higher into the air from Cull, increasing damage and causing the enemies thrown by Cull() to take 3 seconds to come back down.
Flood(): Flood()+Shunt() causes any enemy hit by Flood to be unable to move while taking damage from Flood().
Get(): Get()+Shunt(), any enemies drawn by Get() take damage and are locked away inside Shunt() for 2 seconds. Enemies drawn by this combo take doubled Get() damage at the end of the Shunt(), perfect for a light hit to kill them at the end of the combo.
Help(): Help()+Shunt() causes Luna to become intangible while moving, allowing Luna to have what is essentially Ada's Semblance.
Jaunt(): Jaunt()+Shunt() causes Jaunt() to enable User to Jaunt() through solid objects.
Load(): Load()+Shunt() causes enemies hit by Load() to take increased damage. Shunt() effects cause targets hit by the Load() to be paralyzed in place for 2 seconds.
Mask(): Mask()+Shunt() [Strike-Dependant] Hitting an enemy deals damage and causes them to be Shunted() for 8 seconds. User gains slight damage reduction for 5 seconds after becoming visible once more.
Ping(): Ping()+Shunt() enables Ping() to stop a target in its tracks for .3 seconds. Low MEM usage.
Purge(): Purge()+Shunt() causes Purge() to last longer.
Spark(): Spark()+ Shunt() causes an enemy hit by Spark() to be stunned for longer.
Switch(): Switch()+Shunt() causes Switch() to last longer.
Tap(): Tap()+ Shunt() causes an area around the User to be locked away in Shunt() but not the User. Useful as a panic move against enemy groups who have closed on the User. In addition, it does Tap() damage first and still heals the User for 1% of Tap() damage.
Void(): Void()+Shunt() causes an enemy caught within Void's() area to move slower for 2 seconds.
Slice(): Slice()+Shunt() causes an vertical arc of energy that deals Slice() damage but slows enemies hit by it for 4 seconds.
Spin(): Spin()+Shunt() increases the 'drag' Spin() has on things caught in the projectile of Spin().
Drive(): Drive()+Shunt() [Strike-Dependant] causes Drive() to stop at the first enemy hit and Shunting() that enemy for 5 seconds. Turns Drive() into a melee counter-attack.
Shunt(): Shunt()+Shunt() Increases the size and length of the Shunt(). Time up to 14 seconds. Area up to medium.
Breach(): Breach()+Shunt() causes all enemies hit by Breach() to take Breach() damage and by locked away in Shunt() for 3 seconds.
Crash(): Crash()+Breach() causes the target to be stunned by Crash() and left more vulnerable more much longer.
Cull() Cull()+Shunt() causes any enemy hit by Cull() to be thrown much higher into the air from Cull, increasing damage and causing the enemies thrown by Cull() to take 3 seconds to come back down.
Flood(): Flood()+Shunt() causes any enemy hit by Flood to be unable to move while taking damage from Flood().
Get(): Get()+Shunt(), any enemies drawn by Get() take damage and are locked away inside Shunt() for 2 seconds. Enemies drawn by this combo take doubled Get() damage at the end of the Shunt(), perfect for a light hit to kill them at the end of the combo.
Help(): Help()+Shunt() causes Luna to become intangible while moving, allowing Luna to have what is essentially Ada's Semblance.
Jaunt(): Jaunt()+Shunt() causes Jaunt() to enable User to Jaunt() through solid objects.
Load(): Load()+Shunt() causes enemies hit by Load() to take increased damage. Shunt() effects cause targets hit by the Load() to be paralyzed in place for 2 seconds.
Mask(): Mask()+Shunt() [Strike-Dependant] Hitting an enemy deals damage and causes them to be Shunted() for 8 seconds. User gains slight damage reduction for 5 seconds after becoming visible once more.
Ping(): Ping()+Shunt() enables Ping() to stop a target in its tracks for .3 seconds. Low MEM usage.
Purge(): Purge()+Shunt() causes Purge() to last longer.
Spark(): Spark()+ Shunt() causes an enemy hit by Spark() to be stunned for longer.
Switch(): Switch()+Shunt() causes Switch() to last longer.
Tap(): Tap()+ Shunt() causes an area around the User to be locked away in Shunt() but not the User. Useful as a panic move against enemy groups who have closed on the User. In addition, it does Tap() damage first and still heals the User for 1% of Tap() damage.
Void(): Void()+Shunt() causes an enemy caught within Void's() area to move slower for 2 seconds.
Slice(): Slice()+Shunt() causes an vertical arc of energy that deals Slice() damage but slows enemies hit by it for 4 seconds.
Spin(): Spin()+Shunt() increases the 'drag' Spin() has on things caught in the projectile of Spin().
Drive(): Drive()+Shunt() [Strike-Dependant] causes Drive() to stop at the first enemy hit and Shunting() that enemy for 5 seconds. Turns Drive() into a melee counter-attack.
Shunt(): Shunt()+Shunt() Increases the size and length of the Shunt(). Time up to 14 seconds. Area up to medium.
Projected MEM Cost: As a solo Function Shunt uses 3 MEM, as a passive Shunt uses 2 MEM, as an Upgrade Shunt() costs 3 MEM.
Function Discovery: Inspired by Ada, without scanning her Semblance, but based off her '4th dimensional being' state. An idea to weaponize Freeze() based on what scans the Transistor had already taken of Ada's Semblance.
Function Category: Combat
Function: A straight charge, similar but much slower than Jaunt(). Drive() maps poorly to Turn(), leaving its use best used without Turn(). On its own Drive() does decent damage, but it's real usage is hooking other Functions on it, making it a slower but much more damaging cousin to Jaunt().
-Function, Upgraded: Hook nearly any Function to Drive() to cause Drive() to perform that second Function either during or at the end of Drive(). Attach Crash() to Drive() to cause damage, stun, and leave vulnerable any target hit by the Function. Attach to Breach() to cause even more damage along the Drive() Function's length. Attach Jaunt() to Drive() to extend the length and speed of both but do only limited damage. Attach 2 Jaunt() to Drive() to hit Mach 1.
-Function, Upgrading: Causes the Function Drive() is attached to do more damage and also move forward on most Functions. Functionally little difference whether Drive() is the one being Upgraded or the one Upgrading.
Projected MEM Cost: As a solo Function, Drive() costs 4 MEM, as a Passive Drive() costs 3 MEM, as a upgrade Drive() costs 3 MEM.
Function Discovery: Created after witnessing Xanadu and his bullshit Inertia Semblance from Signal's Final and deciding, you know what? You want that. And so it was. It's nowhere near as impressive as the original, but it's still something that could be used to charge straight through a Beowolf pack, and with the right Upgrades attached to it you'll be able to charge straight through Ursa Majors.
Function: A straight charge, similar but much slower than Jaunt(). Drive() maps poorly to Turn(), leaving its use best used without Turn(). On its own Drive() does decent damage, but it's real usage is hooking other Functions on it, making it a slower but much more damaging cousin to Jaunt().
-Function, Upgraded: Hook nearly any Function to Drive() to cause Drive() to perform that second Function either during or at the end of Drive(). Attach Crash() to Drive() to cause damage, stun, and leave vulnerable any target hit by the Function. Attach to Breach() to cause even more damage along the Drive() Function's length. Attach Jaunt() to Drive() to extend the length and speed of both but do only limited damage. Attach 2 Jaunt() to Drive() to hit Mach 1.
Bounce(): Drive()+Bounce() [Strike-Dependant] upon hitting a target with Drive(), Drive() is aimed for the next closest enemy after trampling through the first enemy.
Breach(): Drive()+Breach() Increase the speed and length of Drive().
Crash(): Drive()+Crash() any enemy hit by Drive() is stunned for 3 seconds and left vulnerable for 4 seconds.
Cull(): Drive()+Cull() massively increase the damage of Drive().
Flood(): Drive()+Flood() causes Drive() to have a corona of Plasma generated just in front of the User during Drive(), increasing damage.
Get(): Drive()+Get() Enemies are drawn to the front of Drive() as the User charges forwards.
Help(): Drive()+Help() transforms Drive() utterly, turning a charge the user performs into creating and then launching a duplicate of the User to perform the Drive(), leaving the User free to act.
Jaunt(): Drive()+Jaunt() increases the speed of Drive() to instantaneous speed.
Load(): Drive()+Load() build up a load as the User travels with Drive() to explode at the end of Drive(). Massive damage.
Mask(): Drive()+Mask() causes the User to become temporarily invisible at the end of Drive() for 3 seconds, enabling retreat or further attacks.
Ping(): Drive()+Ping() causes Drive to be more efficient in Turn() and recharge faster.
Purge(): Drive()+Purge() causes any enemies still alive at the end of the Drive to be afflicted with a Damage over Time effect.
Spark(): Drive()+Spark() causes Drive() to explode at the end of the Drive(), dealing more damage than a regular Drive() but costing significantly less than Drive()+Cull().
Switch(): Drive()+Switch() causes any enemies alive at the end of Drive() to be Switched() for 3 seconds.
Tap(): Drive()+Tap() causes you to heal for a third of the damage inflicted to enemies by Drive().
Void(): Drive()+Void() causes any enemy alive at the end of Drive() to be weakened, having less Attack, Defense, and increasing incoming attack's powers.
Slice(): Drive()+Slice() widens Drive's() width by double.
Spin(): Drive()+Spin() causes a trail to be left behind by Drive() that yanks the enemies crossing the trail towards the end of Drive(). Trail persists for 4 seconds.
Shunt(): Drive()+Shunt() causes any enemies alive at the end of Drive() to be Shunted() for 4 seconds, enabling retreat.
Drive(): Drive()+Drive() causes Drive() more damage and move the User faster, but also take longer to cooldown.
-Function, Passive: Drive() gives a boost to your movement speed and increases damage from non-Function attacks User performs.
Breach(): Drive()+Breach() Increase the speed and length of Drive().
Crash(): Drive()+Crash() any enemy hit by Drive() is stunned for 3 seconds and left vulnerable for 4 seconds.
Cull(): Drive()+Cull() massively increase the damage of Drive().
Flood(): Drive()+Flood() causes Drive() to have a corona of Plasma generated just in front of the User during Drive(), increasing damage.
Get(): Drive()+Get() Enemies are drawn to the front of Drive() as the User charges forwards.
Help(): Drive()+Help() transforms Drive() utterly, turning a charge the user performs into creating and then launching a duplicate of the User to perform the Drive(), leaving the User free to act.
Jaunt(): Drive()+Jaunt() increases the speed of Drive() to instantaneous speed.
Load(): Drive()+Load() build up a load as the User travels with Drive() to explode at the end of Drive(). Massive damage.
Mask(): Drive()+Mask() causes the User to become temporarily invisible at the end of Drive() for 3 seconds, enabling retreat or further attacks.
Ping(): Drive()+Ping() causes Drive to be more efficient in Turn() and recharge faster.
Purge(): Drive()+Purge() causes any enemies still alive at the end of the Drive to be afflicted with a Damage over Time effect.
Spark(): Drive()+Spark() causes Drive() to explode at the end of the Drive(), dealing more damage than a regular Drive() but costing significantly less than Drive()+Cull().
Switch(): Drive()+Switch() causes any enemies alive at the end of Drive() to be Switched() for 3 seconds.
Tap(): Drive()+Tap() causes you to heal for a third of the damage inflicted to enemies by Drive().
Void(): Drive()+Void() causes any enemy alive at the end of Drive() to be weakened, having less Attack, Defense, and increasing incoming attack's powers.
Slice(): Drive()+Slice() widens Drive's() width by double.
Spin(): Drive()+Spin() causes a trail to be left behind by Drive() that yanks the enemies crossing the trail towards the end of Drive(). Trail persists for 4 seconds.
Shunt(): Drive()+Shunt() causes any enemies alive at the end of Drive() to be Shunted() for 4 seconds, enabling retreat.
Drive(): Drive()+Drive() causes Drive() more damage and move the User faster, but also take longer to cooldown.
-Function, Passive: Drive() gives a boost to your movement speed and increases damage from non-Function attacks User performs.
Bounce(): Bounce()+Drive() causes Bounce() to do more damage and move faster as a projectile.
Breach(): Breach()+Drive() causes Breach to be much wider, enabling more enemies to be caught in Breach().
Crash(): Crash()+Drive() causes Crash() to do more damage and have slightly longer range.
Cull(): Cull()+Drive() causes User to charge forwards using Drive() for a short distance, 'scooping' enemies before completing Cull() by throwing the gathered enemies into the sky.
Flood(): Flood()+Drive() causes Flood() to have more velocity and damage by a moderate amount.
Get(): Get()+Drive() causes Get() to draw enemies more fiercely and to increase Get() damage.
Help(): Help()+Drive() causes Luna to charge about with Drive() rather than attack by biting.
Jaunt(): Jaunt()+Drive() causes all enemies passed through with Jaunt() to take minor damage.
Load(): Load()+Drive() causes Load() to explode if an enemy touches the Load() bomb.
Mask(): Mask()+Drive() causes Mask() to do proximity damage to any enemy close to you while invisible. Duration of Mask changes to 4 seconds.
Ping(): Ping()+Drive() causes the User to kick with the force of Drive() without moving. Low MEM usage.
Purge(): Purge()+Drive() causes any enemy to take greatly increased Damage over Time over a shortened duration. Base damage of Purge() 120 over 3 seconds. Purge()+Drive() causes 160 damage over 2 seconds. High MEM usage.
Spark(): Spark()+Drive() is very similar to a Crash()+Spark() or Spark()+Crash(), being a three pronged near-melee attack. The user does not move during Spark()+Drive() but instead throws out three Sparks() that push enemies away from the user with Drive()-like force.
Switch(): Switch()+Drive() causes the enemy affected by Switch() to move much faster towards other enemies.
Tap(): Tap()+Drive() causes Tap() to have a greatly increased area. As Tap() causes the user to slam the Transistor into the ground at their feet and unleash a pulse of damaging energy that also heals the User by 1% of the Tap damage, this attack changes only a little by increased area of attack.
Void(): Void()+Drive() causes the enemies hit by Void() to have their defenses and attack reduced even further.
Slice(): Slice()+Drive() causes Slice() to be wider and thicker, and deal more damage on impact with enemies.
Spin(): Spin()+Drive() causes the Spin() to have more velocity and deal more damage.
Shunt(): Shunt()+Drive() Increases the size of Shunt() the largest of all Shunt() size increases. You want to lock away the Grimm dragon for exactly 3 seconds? Increase the cooldown length of Shunt() based on the area locked away.
Drive(): Drive()+Drive() causes Drive() more damage and move the User faster, but also take longer to cooldown.
Breach(): Breach()+Drive() causes Breach to be much wider, enabling more enemies to be caught in Breach().
Crash(): Crash()+Drive() causes Crash() to do more damage and have slightly longer range.
Cull(): Cull()+Drive() causes User to charge forwards using Drive() for a short distance, 'scooping' enemies before completing Cull() by throwing the gathered enemies into the sky.
Flood(): Flood()+Drive() causes Flood() to have more velocity and damage by a moderate amount.
Get(): Get()+Drive() causes Get() to draw enemies more fiercely and to increase Get() damage.
Help(): Help()+Drive() causes Luna to charge about with Drive() rather than attack by biting.
Jaunt(): Jaunt()+Drive() causes all enemies passed through with Jaunt() to take minor damage.
Load(): Load()+Drive() causes Load() to explode if an enemy touches the Load() bomb.
Mask(): Mask()+Drive() causes Mask() to do proximity damage to any enemy close to you while invisible. Duration of Mask changes to 4 seconds.
Ping(): Ping()+Drive() causes the User to kick with the force of Drive() without moving. Low MEM usage.
Purge(): Purge()+Drive() causes any enemy to take greatly increased Damage over Time over a shortened duration. Base damage of Purge() 120 over 3 seconds. Purge()+Drive() causes 160 damage over 2 seconds. High MEM usage.
Spark(): Spark()+Drive() is very similar to a Crash()+Spark() or Spark()+Crash(), being a three pronged near-melee attack. The user does not move during Spark()+Drive() but instead throws out three Sparks() that push enemies away from the user with Drive()-like force.
Switch(): Switch()+Drive() causes the enemy affected by Switch() to move much faster towards other enemies.
Tap(): Tap()+Drive() causes Tap() to have a greatly increased area. As Tap() causes the user to slam the Transistor into the ground at their feet and unleash a pulse of damaging energy that also heals the User by 1% of the Tap damage, this attack changes only a little by increased area of attack.
Void(): Void()+Drive() causes the enemies hit by Void() to have their defenses and attack reduced even further.
Slice(): Slice()+Drive() causes Slice() to be wider and thicker, and deal more damage on impact with enemies.
Spin(): Spin()+Drive() causes the Spin() to have more velocity and deal more damage.
Shunt(): Shunt()+Drive() Increases the size of Shunt() the largest of all Shunt() size increases. You want to lock away the Grimm dragon for exactly 3 seconds? Increase the cooldown length of Shunt() based on the area locked away.
Drive(): Drive()+Drive() causes Drive() more damage and move the User faster, but also take longer to cooldown.
Projected MEM Cost: As a solo Function, Drive() costs 4 MEM, as a Passive Drive() costs 3 MEM, as a upgrade Drive() costs 3 MEM.
Function Discovery: Created after witnessing Xanadu and his bullshit Inertia Semblance from Signal's Final and deciding, you know what? You want that. And so it was. It's nowhere near as impressive as the original, but it's still something that could be used to charge straight through a Beowolf pack, and with the right Upgrades attached to it you'll be able to charge straight through Ursa Majors.
Function Category: Utility / Other
Function: Teleportation. Yeah seriously. It's done in Transistor towards the end with the doors that link to other doors with weird spatial stuff. To pull it off a certain level of Process density has to have been achieved, so it's not like you'll be able to go just anywhere at will, you'll have to do work with the Process to set up 'Gates', stationary portal locations. Done right, you might even be able to bring other people with you. Who needs Raven?
Create those teleport gates in combination with the Process to create remote teleport marks and teleport to them. Not a combat skill.
Projected MEM Cost: Arbitrarily large MEM costs don't matter because it's not a combat Function so you could swap it in and out as needed with the help of the Process teleport gates. High research costs and time, but once it's done... teleport places, because travel makes us sick and we've got the capability by that point, so why not? May need to somehow capture and Trace() Raven to pull it off unless we want to spend 8 turns researching just this one Function though.
Function Discovery: You asked yourself, could it be done? You needed to fulfill that promise to fix the moon for Weiss, right? How would you even get the Process up there? This might not be the method due to needing a Process Gate on the other side, but you considered it.
Function: Teleportation. Yeah seriously. It's done in Transistor towards the end with the doors that link to other doors with weird spatial stuff. To pull it off a certain level of Process density has to have been achieved, so it's not like you'll be able to go just anywhere at will, you'll have to do work with the Process to set up 'Gates', stationary portal locations. Done right, you might even be able to bring other people with you. Who needs Raven?
Create those teleport gates in combination with the Process to create remote teleport marks and teleport to them. Not a combat skill.
Projected MEM Cost: Arbitrarily large MEM costs don't matter because it's not a combat Function so you could swap it in and out as needed with the help of the Process teleport gates. High research costs and time, but once it's done... teleport places, because travel makes us sick and we've got the capability by that point, so why not? May need to somehow capture and Trace() Raven to pull it off unless we want to spend 8 turns researching just this one Function though.
Function Discovery: You asked yourself, could it be done? You needed to fulfill that promise to fix the moon for Weiss, right? How would you even get the Process up there? This might not be the method due to needing a Process Gate on the other side, but you considered it.
Or, I suppose, Inventory function. Carry whatever on you. Since the Process can just make stuff on the fly maybe not the most useful, but since it can't make Dust...
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Tiypo
Forever Phone Posting
[X] The Aftward Hold- you cannot risk a bigger Grimm getting out. One Imp, against three quarters of JACL, and the other teams down here? It'll be enough- at least enough to distract it so everyone else can get down here if your suspicions are correct. On the other hand, if the Imp isn't in there, there's a chance whatever is in there will be angry enough to break free on its own.
Can Jaune, Bracket, and Blue, form a rap group?
Jaune would probably spontaneously combust trying. Bracket and Blue are forever accused of being skill-less autotuners.
nmWarden
Webcomic Glutton
- Location
- Texas
Hey Prok, I'm excited for whatever project you plan on unveil in with your new thread!
I want to remind you that you don't need a hundred bells and whistles for it, you don't need a gold-rank foundation to foster something amazing. Your inner critic will ALWAYS fight dirty when they try to undermine you.
I want to remind you that you don't need a hundred bells and whistles for it, you don't need a gold-rank foundation to foster something amazing. Your inner critic will ALWAYS fight dirty when they try to undermine you.
Prok
Go play Star Fetchers
- Location
- Scotland
Alright, I'm putting a moratorium on Process suggestions until it actually comes up in the quest- a lot of them are, to be blunt, 'see me after class' quality. Mostly not your faults, you're flying blind, but some of you really seem to be throwing shit at the wall and hoping I'll greenlight what sticks.
This sinus infection, on the other hand, is loving its job kicking my ass up and down the street, which is also why the update hasn't materialised. But- eh, yeah, sure, why not.
Have a teaser- just to prove I'm serious about this one.
I very much appreciate the detail- adding them to the list. I beg of you, do not raise the bar further.
Oh no, for once it's not my inner critic that's the problem, he's well and truly in concrete boots about this. I've received nothing but positive feedback for it, from people I deeply respect the opinions of.
This sinus infection, on the other hand, is loving its job kicking my ass up and down the street, which is also why the update hasn't materialised. But- eh, yeah, sure, why not.
Have a teaser- just to prove I'm serious about this one.
Interstellar Space, Aboard Tofaresh Capital Ship 'The Vile Fist'- Relative Earth Date, June 23rd, 2018
"Sura," a technician said, "I think we have contact. It's… faint, but it's more than just background radiation."
One of Admiral Ifan Jazhul's eyes flicked to the youth; a fresh-faced cadet, who had the bad luck to end up on a deep space scouting campaign for his first tour- Brother above, he was green enough to still have all three of his eyes. He sighed, the long, wormlike tail of the Tofaresh commander flicking in irritation; there was always one.
"Well?" he asks impatiently. "Verify the signature, cadet. Clearly we haven't a moment to spare."
"Verifying…"
The console cadet stayed silent. Ten seconds. Twenty seconds. Thirty.
A minute passed, and the two-eyed admiral wondered if the cadet was simply too embarrassed to say it. A month's bathroom-swabbing duty wasn't that bad, after all. Jazhul would kill to only have to worry about keeping the porcelain clean.
… Come to think of it, a couple 'accidental' murders would probably get him demoted-
"... Verified! Incandescent energy signature detected, 15 light-years rimward! Scanning… Class Ш star system, 8 planets, signal is coming from the inner solar system."
The bridge burst into panicked murmuring, a change from the usual silence of deep space work. Admiral Jazhul's remaining eyes widened, and he swiftly approached the console.
There, clear as day- the exact same signature they had all been taught in the academy. Taught when they were pups.
Still. For a moment, he almost didn't want to believe it. That those glorified peacekeeping zealots had somehow made it out to this edge of the galaxy as well.
"... What's your name, cadet?"
"D-D'kan, sura. D'kan Ayatul."
Admiral Jazhul smiled warmly- the boy reminded him of his grandson, in some ways. He had that same, bright-eyed optimism, and the same ring of white in the fur around his eyes.
"Well, Cadet Ayatul, you've just found evidence that the Hearthkeepers are present on this edge of the galaxy, have been for an unknown amount of time, and, correct me if I'm reading your screen wrong, one of their Glass Souls is not only present, but active. Also, I'm going to suggest you for promotion on both of those merits. How are you feeling?"
Cadet Ayatul's eyes widened, his breath coming in short, ragged bursts.
"... I'm quietly praying that it's on a dead rock and not a life-bearing planet."
Jazhul clapped him on the shoulder as the cadet entered the state of apparent death- a damnably inconvenient reflex from their days as mere marsupials, and one Jazhul had trained out of himself through decades of battle.
"Good instincts. The Family will not grant us such luck, but we shall persevere," he said, turning and leaving the boy to his catatonia.
"Dobrenji!" Jazhul barked. "Get over here, you little-" he strangles the insult back, "my dear and trusted Vice Admiral."
"Yeth, thura?" the little weasel Jazhul was forced to call his vice admiral said.
"Fleetwide message- aim your scopes at-" he leaned over Cadet Ayatul's shoulder, ignoring the foam at his mouth- "Galactic Sector 2814. Third rock from the sun. Send everything back to us."
"Aye, thhhura," Dobrenji said.
"You. Start collating. Tell me everything about this planet."
"Y-yes, sura!"
The cadet's hands flew across her typosphere, and the lights flickered as power was redirected to every Incandescence scanner and tachyon telescope on The Vile Fist and pointed them at the system.
The data flew across her screen almost faster than Jazhul could read. Almost.
Class Ш star system, 8 planets, equal numbers rock and gas… signal was, indeed, on the third planet from the sun…
The resolution was terrible- even with the combined scopes of the entire scout fleet, the first scans were always sacrificial while they got their eye in- like pancakes.
More information filtered in- tracking the Hearthkeeper base to the large continent on the northern hemisphere, near its west coast, and closer to the middle of the landmass.
Context messages began to pop up, detailing the kind of resistance they could face on the part of the Tofaresh's greatest enemy- as if Jazhul wasn't intimately familiar.
The various classes of Hearthkeeper Armaments, those great armours of stone and stellar flame, filled the screen, each one that turned up only souring his mood more, from the unnaturally long arms and legs of the Sunspot flexing its greatbow, to the giant wall of stone that is the Inferno- complete with the miniature black hole that took up the space where its head should be.
The cadet, whimpering as Jazhul growled in her ear, swiped the context messages away, refocusing on the planet. Even with these preliminary scans, there was enough detail to see water and clouds. And there, in the dark half of the planet- lights.
Admiral Jazhul gasped, his mood flipping in a moment.
"Ohhhhh," he coos, "natives! Wonderful! My goodness, they're so primitive they haven't even established interplanetary colonies! They're still poisoning their planet with hydrocarbons! Haha!"
"Hehe, all our Winter Fattening mealth come at onthe, yeth, thura?" Dobrenji said from his comms terminal.
Even he couldn't ruin this for Jazhul.
"S-sura," one of the other bridge jockeys stammered. "Sh-should we… notify someone?"
Which didn't stop someone else from trying.
"And ruin my fun?" Jazhul asked, voice placid, and still immediately sending the bridge jockey into catatonia. "No no- a hand's worth of Tofaresh warships will be more than enough for a planet of- what are they called, cadet?"
"... Translating their internet now… they are… they don't have a unified language, sura, but the lingua franca calls them hyu-mens, sir."
"Hyu-mens," Jazhul said, testing the word on his tongue. "Hyu-mens. Hyoomins. Hoo-man. Hrngh. Not a fan. Try another."
"Humaines?"
"Too similar."
"Menschen."
"Mm… another."
"Ingen."
"Warmer- one more."
"... Chelovek?"
Thaaaaat's the spice.
"Chelovek. Yes, that's the one we'll use. Good, strong, almost a Tofaresh name. Chelovek. Chelovek. We'll find this…"
"Eurghth, sura."
"Eurghth, yes- find the Hearthkeeper base, drown it in vatkan, and once the world is free of their potential tyranny, we shall personally ensure their subjugation for the glory of Empress Kyatin, may her reign be long and cruel. Anyone feel like being summarily executed for subordination?"
Nobody objected.
"Marvellous, I do enjoy it when we're all on the same page."
The admiral returned to his seat, allowing himself to sink into the plush leather for a moment, sighing as his aching bones finally had a chance to relax. Despite himself, despite the dour mask he had to put on as part of his position- Admiral Ifan Jazhul felt a smile pulling at his face.
"Spool the Chasm Engines. I want to be there yesterday."
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Various Locales, Earth Date, June 22nd, 2018.
Toss. Turn. You won't sleep tonight, I'm afraid.
Listen.
Past your home, past your street, past your block, borough, city, past the neverending hiss of anxiety, the weighted blanket of self-doubt. It all clouds your eyes, stuffs your ears, dampens that roiling fire that threatens to break out every time you move, every time you speak, every time you are so unabashedly you.
Let it all go. Just like that. For just a moment, let yourself be nothing but fire.
Burn your self-doubts in the flames of ego and listen to its roar.
Do you hear how it it echoes down the tunnel in the back of your skull?
[anima bridge established]
There, at the other end- a little god whispers to you from inside his mountains, using your skull on one end, a wall of glass on the other, and thousands of miles of celestial string wrapping the world in its gossamer embrace.
Listen.
You are not special.
Special is too weak a word for you. Special people hear that little god whispering in their ear, 'come here, from north or south or east or west, meet me where the moon crowns the summit-' and they call it a dream. An event of no consequence, not to be worried about.
You?
You listened. You listened, and you dreamed, and things fell into place. Let you move halfway across your world to meet it there.
Meet it where?
The place where mountains whisper and coincidence goes to die.
Perhaps you moved to avoid a confrontation. Perhaps someone worth your presence is there. Perhaps you will move for opportunity, or not of your own volition as children are so often forced to.
All your reasons are inconsequential. All your reasons are uncoincidental.
All your reasons are your own, little god and lunar wreath aside.
However you came to be here- welcome to Yonder.
It only gets weirder from here.
"Sura," a technician said, "I think we have contact. It's… faint, but it's more than just background radiation."
One of Admiral Ifan Jazhul's eyes flicked to the youth; a fresh-faced cadet, who had the bad luck to end up on a deep space scouting campaign for his first tour- Brother above, he was green enough to still have all three of his eyes. He sighed, the long, wormlike tail of the Tofaresh commander flicking in irritation; there was always one.
"Well?" he asks impatiently. "Verify the signature, cadet. Clearly we haven't a moment to spare."
"Verifying…"
The console cadet stayed silent. Ten seconds. Twenty seconds. Thirty.
A minute passed, and the two-eyed admiral wondered if the cadet was simply too embarrassed to say it. A month's bathroom-swabbing duty wasn't that bad, after all. Jazhul would kill to only have to worry about keeping the porcelain clean.
… Come to think of it, a couple 'accidental' murders would probably get him demoted-
"... Verified! Incandescent energy signature detected, 15 light-years rimward! Scanning… Class Ш star system, 8 planets, signal is coming from the inner solar system."
The bridge burst into panicked murmuring, a change from the usual silence of deep space work. Admiral Jazhul's remaining eyes widened, and he swiftly approached the console.
There, clear as day- the exact same signature they had all been taught in the academy. Taught when they were pups.
Still. For a moment, he almost didn't want to believe it. That those glorified peacekeeping zealots had somehow made it out to this edge of the galaxy as well.
"... What's your name, cadet?"
"D-D'kan, sura. D'kan Ayatul."
Admiral Jazhul smiled warmly- the boy reminded him of his grandson, in some ways. He had that same, bright-eyed optimism, and the same ring of white in the fur around his eyes.
"Well, Cadet Ayatul, you've just found evidence that the Hearthkeepers are present on this edge of the galaxy, have been for an unknown amount of time, and, correct me if I'm reading your screen wrong, one of their Glass Souls is not only present, but active. Also, I'm going to suggest you for promotion on both of those merits. How are you feeling?"
Cadet Ayatul's eyes widened, his breath coming in short, ragged bursts.
"... I'm quietly praying that it's on a dead rock and not a life-bearing planet."
Jazhul clapped him on the shoulder as the cadet entered the state of apparent death- a damnably inconvenient reflex from their days as mere marsupials, and one Jazhul had trained out of himself through decades of battle.
"Good instincts. The Family will not grant us such luck, but we shall persevere," he said, turning and leaving the boy to his catatonia.
"Dobrenji!" Jazhul barked. "Get over here, you little-" he strangles the insult back, "my dear and trusted Vice Admiral."
"Yeth, thura?" the little weasel Jazhul was forced to call his vice admiral said.
"Fleetwide message- aim your scopes at-" he leaned over Cadet Ayatul's shoulder, ignoring the foam at his mouth- "Galactic Sector 2814. Third rock from the sun. Send everything back to us."
"Aye, thhhura," Dobrenji said.
"You. Start collating. Tell me everything about this planet."
"Y-yes, sura!"
The cadet's hands flew across her typosphere, and the lights flickered as power was redirected to every Incandescence scanner and tachyon telescope on The Vile Fist and pointed them at the system.
The data flew across her screen almost faster than Jazhul could read. Almost.
Class Ш star system, 8 planets, equal numbers rock and gas… signal was, indeed, on the third planet from the sun…
The resolution was terrible- even with the combined scopes of the entire scout fleet, the first scans were always sacrificial while they got their eye in- like pancakes.
More information filtered in- tracking the Hearthkeeper base to the large continent on the northern hemisphere, near its west coast, and closer to the middle of the landmass.
Context messages began to pop up, detailing the kind of resistance they could face on the part of the Tofaresh's greatest enemy- as if Jazhul wasn't intimately familiar.
The various classes of Hearthkeeper Armaments, those great armours of stone and stellar flame, filled the screen, each one that turned up only souring his mood more, from the unnaturally long arms and legs of the Sunspot flexing its greatbow, to the giant wall of stone that is the Inferno- complete with the miniature black hole that took up the space where its head should be.
The cadet, whimpering as Jazhul growled in her ear, swiped the context messages away, refocusing on the planet. Even with these preliminary scans, there was enough detail to see water and clouds. And there, in the dark half of the planet- lights.
Admiral Jazhul gasped, his mood flipping in a moment.
"Ohhhhh," he coos, "natives! Wonderful! My goodness, they're so primitive they haven't even established interplanetary colonies! They're still poisoning their planet with hydrocarbons! Haha!"
"Hehe, all our Winter Fattening mealth come at onthe, yeth, thura?" Dobrenji said from his comms terminal.
Even he couldn't ruin this for Jazhul.
"S-sura," one of the other bridge jockeys stammered. "Sh-should we… notify someone?"
Which didn't stop someone else from trying.
"And ruin my fun?" Jazhul asked, voice placid, and still immediately sending the bridge jockey into catatonia. "No no- a hand's worth of Tofaresh warships will be more than enough for a planet of- what are they called, cadet?"
"... Translating their internet now… they are… they don't have a unified language, sura, but the lingua franca calls them hyu-mens, sir."
"Hyu-mens," Jazhul said, testing the word on his tongue. "Hyu-mens. Hyoomins. Hoo-man. Hrngh. Not a fan. Try another."
"Humaines?"
"Too similar."
"Menschen."
"Mm… another."
"Ingen."
"Warmer- one more."
"... Chelovek?"
Thaaaaat's the spice.
"Chelovek. Yes, that's the one we'll use. Good, strong, almost a Tofaresh name. Chelovek. Chelovek. We'll find this…"
"Eurghth, sura."
"Eurghth, yes- find the Hearthkeeper base, drown it in vatkan, and once the world is free of their potential tyranny, we shall personally ensure their subjugation for the glory of Empress Kyatin, may her reign be long and cruel. Anyone feel like being summarily executed for subordination?"
Nobody objected.
"Marvellous, I do enjoy it when we're all on the same page."
The admiral returned to his seat, allowing himself to sink into the plush leather for a moment, sighing as his aching bones finally had a chance to relax. Despite himself, despite the dour mask he had to put on as part of his position- Admiral Ifan Jazhul felt a smile pulling at his face.
"Spool the Chasm Engines. I want to be there yesterday."
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Various Locales, Earth Date, June 22nd, 2018.
Toss. Turn. You won't sleep tonight, I'm afraid.
Listen.
Past your home, past your street, past your block, borough, city, past the neverending hiss of anxiety, the weighted blanket of self-doubt. It all clouds your eyes, stuffs your ears, dampens that roiling fire that threatens to break out every time you move, every time you speak, every time you are so unabashedly you.
Let it all go. Just like that. For just a moment, let yourself be nothing but fire.
Burn your self-doubts in the flames of ego and listen to its roar.
Do you hear how it it echoes down the tunnel in the back of your skull?
[anima bridge established]
There, at the other end- a little god whispers to you from inside his mountains, using your skull on one end, a wall of glass on the other, and thousands of miles of celestial string wrapping the world in its gossamer embrace.
Listen.
You are not special.
Special is too weak a word for you. Special people hear that little god whispering in their ear, 'come here, from north or south or east or west, meet me where the moon crowns the summit-' and they call it a dream. An event of no consequence, not to be worried about.
You?
You listened. You listened, and you dreamed, and things fell into place. Let you move halfway across your world to meet it there.
Meet it where?
The place where mountains whisper and coincidence goes to die.
Perhaps you moved to avoid a confrontation. Perhaps someone worth your presence is there. Perhaps you will move for opportunity, or not of your own volition as children are so often forced to.
All your reasons are inconsequential. All your reasons are uncoincidental.
All your reasons are your own, little god and lunar wreath aside.
However you came to be here- welcome to Yonder.
It only gets weirder from here.
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- Location
- United States
As one might surmise by my stunning lack of post history, I don't usually voice any of my thoughts. On this occasion, I have to say, I need more of that lovely new setting you've got cooking. That's very much in my sphere of enjoyment, just as this whole quest has been. I anticipate, dearly and powerfully, your coming writings, that I might savor your literary prowess and skilled world craft.
Imp_Escape()
New
Prok
Go play Star Fetchers
- Location
- Scotland
what day is it
the last thing I remember is climbing a statue with a traffic cone
… You can't risk it. Whatever's back there could be a horrific force multiplier for the Grimm. Everything so far? 40 trainee Hunters can take care of them- have taken care of them without breaking a sweat.
All of the Grimm on the ship? At that point, the teachers and older students might have to step in.
But whatever's in there is big enough or dangerous enough to be isolated from the rest of the cargo. When it comes to Grimm, big almost universally translates to dangerous.
{What do you wanna do?}
The others are starting to leave- you hop on the Transistor and rush over, intercepting most of them.
"Wait," you call out, a brainwave occurring without the Transistor prompting it, a rarity. "Rashmi- you tried to answer my question in the future tense earlier. Think you can…?"
"Oh, um, yes, just a moment," the squat boy says, that yellow glow picking up behind his glasses. A few moments pass, and he frowns, before the light fades. "... No, no, it's gone. I apologise." The light picks up again, and his brow goes from frustration to concern. "Ah, um… P-Pila? I'm lost..."
Kapila reaches up and gently smooshes his cheeks between finger and thumb, forcing his lips into a kissy-face. You blink, everyone around them blinks, and the yellow glow picks up.
"... Cargo ship interior, Nora to my left, by Lie?" Rashmi says, surprisingly coherent through squished lips.
"Um, I prefer Ren, please," Ren says after a second.
"My apologies, Ren- but I am correct about where you are, yes?"
"Uh, yeah," Nora says. "What's… happening?"
The glow fades.
"Nothing to worry about- just a minor snag I run into on occasion," he says, waving at Pila to let go. "Thankfully, I have such an understanding partner."
Pila rolls her eyes.
"Your safety is my life's purpose, Lord Abha," she says, and under the flat sarcasm, you can tell she means every word.
{Message back from Port. Says it's two rare Grimm, special orders- Hags and a Vampyr.}
"Jaune?" Creme asks. "What's up?"
"... On the other side of this room there's a doorway to the aftward hold," you explain. "There are only two cages in there, and we haven't heard reports of the Imp being anywhere else."
Ren and Creme are the first off the mark- their eyes widen, comprehension and concern in equal measure in his expression. The rest pick up what you're saying not even a moment later.
"Hyu sink it might be try to freeing whatever's scary enough by themselveses to be held all alone?" Meri asks.
You nod.
"... I wanna check. If I'm wrong, we just walk back out. If we're right, we'll hopefully stop it before it manages to free them."
"An' if it's already freed summat?" Leathers asks.
"We run," Lumen says. "Do you have any idea what's in there, Jaune?"
"A Hag coven and a Vampyr."
Your classmates' faces pale quite a few shades. You can't blame them- those are big Grimm to be facing as fully-graduated Hunters, let alone as first-years. A long moment of silence passes, and you almost feel like they're all just waiting for someone else to break first and dash for the stairs.
"... It's best we check," Pyrrha says. "It already opened so many cages in just minutes of freedom- even if those Grimm are held in more secure cages, I don't think it'll be locked out long enough for us to get reinforcements."
"It has to be us," Al says, not as a declaration of determination- as his form shrinks, it sounds more like someone processing their imminent execution. "I-I-um-"
Meri grabs him by the shoulder.
"Hyu'z gonna be alright, Al! Eet'll ignore hyu 'til hyu schtab it in de back! Vorzt comes vorzt, I'z just blow myzelf up and it die! So'z'll dem Grimm in da big cagez!" A moment passes. "... And prob'ly sink de zhip, but dat just means less Grimm in Vale, yeah?"
"N-no! No, no blowing up, I'll- it'll-" Al stumbles over his words, and eventually gets a hold of himself long enough to bring one of those icy blue eyes out from under the shroud. "I'll come. I-I'll come."
"Anyone else want to chicken out?" Lumen asks. "No offence, Al, not suggesting you were."
"N-none taken..."
Nobody else makes for the stairs- you can't miss that look of grim determination on their faces. They'll do it. But they'll do it because they need to.
"... I'll message Port. He can-"
"No need, my boy!" Port calls from the top of the stairs. "I'm already here, and other instructors are on their way!"
He makes his way down, weapon already in hand as he walks into the room.
"This has already gone beyond what any first-years should have to deal with. If you wish to leave, then I shan't stop you, nor dock you credit…" he stops, looking out at the sea of faces, and a warm smile creeps out from under that moustache. "Though, it seems you've already made your decision on that front."
He turns to you, pride radiating off him like sunlight.
"Well? Lead the way, Mr. Arc."
Oh boy responsibility you needed more of that.
You nod, and begin to jog through the cages, the Grimm's barking and squealing and other noises of hatred for you long since faded into background noise. At a Hunter's pace, it only takes the group about 30 seconds to cross the hold, and that was mostly because you had to start moving single-file to get through the narrow corridors between cages.
The door to the final cargo hold is larger than the other doors- the others have been, well, person-sized. This one is large enough to drive a car through, more like barn doors. They're also made of solid, inch-thick steel- they're the kind of doors rated to take explosives in a military attack.
Finally, something Captain Vuur didn't skimp on.
"O-kay, first problem- how do we open it?" Creme asks.
"Is there a button somewhere?" Pyrrha asks.
You scan the area- with your eyes, not your sword- and eventually find something.
"No button here," you say, looking towards the starboard side of the wall. "... But we won't need one."
You point towards the human-sized door, lying slightly ajar, answering the unasked question.
"... That doesn't bode well," Rashmi says.
You peer through the door, and see… fog. A black fog with a greenish sheen, so thick that when you put your arm through it, flaring your Aura, you can't see it ahead of you- the Transistor lights it up like it's a solid surface.
"What the…?" Lumen says, trailing off. He presses his hand against the fog wall, Aura flaring- and disappearing like everything else.
"Hag's fog," Port says. "If I had to judge by the colour, it's the pure stuff- relatively harmless, but obfuscating. Blocks all light and sound, in or out. There could be a marching band in there and we wouldn't know until you stuck your head through."
You look to the others behind you. Judge.
"... Well, come on, form an orderly line," you joke, just barely keeping the waver out of your voice and the nervous smile off your face, before looking back at the fog, and just- walking on through.
For a moment, you're completely blind and deaf, driven to instinctually hold your breath, and then it passes just as quickly, the whole wall only about a foot thick. A wave of light pressure passes over your body as you walk through, like you're being dragged through heavy drapes. You move in quickly, making space for the next person to come through, and start to scan the area beyond the brume.
Well- you would, if you didn't have to blink away tears. The entire room is covered by a dozen massive flood lights from every conceivable angle, so aggressively bright that it stuns you like a flashbang- your eyes scream as your irises rush to close down as tightly as possible. Absolutely no shadow has been allowed to enter this room- even the corners have been filled in with gentle slopes, ensuring that there are no sharp angles that could cause one by accident.
When your eyes finally adjust, you realise that the only surfaces in this room that aren't blindingly white are the parts crawling with tendrils of murky, greenish-black smog, all leading back to one of the largest cages you've ever seen. It's a 10 metre cube, more like a small zoo enclosure than the glorified dog cages that you've seen so far, and almost entirely covered in thick bars and sheets of steel- the only reason the fog is leaking is because something's rent large, claw-like gashes in the protective layer. The other cage is just a cage, with bars, but it also has floodlights in the same pattern as the ceiling, protected by the kind of thick plastic you've seen Mulberry put behind test targets before Ruby fires at them, to protect whatever's behind the back wall.
Inside, a truly miserable ball of leather sits, trying to make itself as small and protected from the light as possible.
One kept in complete darkness, the other kept in blinding light. How poetic of Captain Vuur.
{Imps are here. Imps plural.}
"Please tell me you're just seeing double too."
{Yes, Jaune, there are two of them, gold star. He brought a friend.}
Shit.
People start filing through. Port first, who adjusts quickly, then Lumen and Creme, who adjust faster, then the others, who take various approaches to dealing with the problem; stoic squinting, Haru, Pyrrha, and Kapila; already wearing sunglasses, Rashmi at least has the decency to not look smug about it; finally, pained yelps and covering their eyes account most everyone else.
{Isn't unlocked yet, but they're getting there. Cages are electromagnetically locked, and they haven't figured out keypads yet.}
And you don't intend to give them the chance to.
"Hag cage, far side!" you say, rushing off and letting the others catch up at their own pace.
Sprinting through the centre aisle, you catch a glimpse of the Grimm inside the other cage- the miserable pile of leather is the Vampyr, using its wings to try and protect its eyes, now peering out from under them with that usual wild misanthropy, and a cocktail of other emotions that put ice in your chest- annoyance, mixed with curiosity at the sudden outburst of activity, and a sort of cold, alien calculation.
Waiting.
You skid around the corner, and see the pair of Imps somehow still haven't noticed you yet- and you're thankful for it, because you freeze when you see the size of the things. As tall as Naia, but a quarter as thick, the creatures have luxuriated in stretching themselves out as much as possible, free of the confines of a cage and forced slumber.
One of them taps the keypad, once, twice, three, four times, and a buzzer sounds out.
{0199. They're just trying to brute-force it. They'll be here all day.}
The other smacks it over the head, and moves it out of the way- and then spots you, just as a few others begin to catch up.
Before either group can do anything, a truly horrific TING, TING, TING echoes through the hold, making everyone but the Imps and Port jump.
Behind you, you see a large, leathery hand reaching out from the cage, from where it had just stunned you all by rapping the bar with one of its claws. It slowly creeps back in, and the worst thing you've ever heard, like someone drawing the edge of a straight razor along a blackboard, echoes against the cargo hull.
"Sisters. Give. Dark."
The Hags cackle from inside their cage. Before the Imps can even react, a wizened hand as knotted and warped as an old tree branch reaches out and grabs one by the neck. With inhuman strength, it's fully dragged through the claw-width gash with such force that you think they wouldn't have a problem doing that to something with bones. A confused scream, a splash, and a blast of fog burps through the cage bars, the cauldron's production going into overdrive.
This… is not an ideal situation. The Hags made it slightly more ideal, but then a finger curled on the Monkey's Paw in Ozpin's cupboard, and they're about to make it significantly less ideal.
Alright, how are you killing them and in what order?
n.b: The number of d6s rolled is not a measure of possible success, merely a measure of how many actors are involved in each scene, with a maximum of 4d6; you, Port, the Grimm being targeted (each of these targets is too dangerous to focus on more than one in a given plan), and the horde of hunters behind you, in that order. This number may change depending on your plans, and particularly good plans might get a minor bonus to Jaune's roll, exceptional plans will give a malus to the Grimm, but everyone involved only rolls one d6.
[] Imp [4d6]- The most direct threat to you and yours. Also the easiest to kill, by dint of not having a cage between the two of you, thus making it the default target for most of the class. Sucks to be him.
-[] Write-In
[] Hags [3d6]- Risky move. Might get rid of the fog, might just somehow throw your stuff in the cauldron and make something horrible out of it. God help you if any of your teammates start giving it lead and antimony to play with.
-[] Write-In
[] Vampyr [2d6]- This, you need to be careful about. If a shadow so much as the size of your thumb, or one of Crescent Rose's bullets, enters that cell, you have every chance of doing the Hags' job for them. If the Vampyr gets the chance, it will escape, and the next time you see it will be at the foot of your bed in the dead of night.
-[] Write-In
the last thing I remember is climbing a statue with a traffic cone
… You can't risk it. Whatever's back there could be a horrific force multiplier for the Grimm. Everything so far? 40 trainee Hunters can take care of them- have taken care of them without breaking a sweat.
All of the Grimm on the ship? At that point, the teachers and older students might have to step in.
But whatever's in there is big enough or dangerous enough to be isolated from the rest of the cargo. When it comes to Grimm, big almost universally translates to dangerous.
{What do you wanna do?}
The others are starting to leave- you hop on the Transistor and rush over, intercepting most of them.
"Wait," you call out, a brainwave occurring without the Transistor prompting it, a rarity. "Rashmi- you tried to answer my question in the future tense earlier. Think you can…?"
"Oh, um, yes, just a moment," the squat boy says, that yellow glow picking up behind his glasses. A few moments pass, and he frowns, before the light fades. "... No, no, it's gone. I apologise." The light picks up again, and his brow goes from frustration to concern. "Ah, um… P-Pila? I'm lost..."
Kapila reaches up and gently smooshes his cheeks between finger and thumb, forcing his lips into a kissy-face. You blink, everyone around them blinks, and the yellow glow picks up.
"... Cargo ship interior, Nora to my left, by Lie?" Rashmi says, surprisingly coherent through squished lips.
"Um, I prefer Ren, please," Ren says after a second.
"My apologies, Ren- but I am correct about where you are, yes?"
"Uh, yeah," Nora says. "What's… happening?"
The glow fades.
"Nothing to worry about- just a minor snag I run into on occasion," he says, waving at Pila to let go. "Thankfully, I have such an understanding partner."
Pila rolls her eyes.
"Your safety is my life's purpose, Lord Abha," she says, and under the flat sarcasm, you can tell she means every word.
{Message back from Port. Says it's two rare Grimm, special orders- Hags and a Vampyr.}
"Jaune?" Creme asks. "What's up?"
"... On the other side of this room there's a doorway to the aftward hold," you explain. "There are only two cages in there, and we haven't heard reports of the Imp being anywhere else."
Ren and Creme are the first off the mark- their eyes widen, comprehension and concern in equal measure in his expression. The rest pick up what you're saying not even a moment later.
"Hyu sink it might be try to freeing whatever's scary enough by themselveses to be held all alone?" Meri asks.
You nod.
"... I wanna check. If I'm wrong, we just walk back out. If we're right, we'll hopefully stop it before it manages to free them."
"An' if it's already freed summat?" Leathers asks.
"We run," Lumen says. "Do you have any idea what's in there, Jaune?"
"A Hag coven and a Vampyr."
Your classmates' faces pale quite a few shades. You can't blame them- those are big Grimm to be facing as fully-graduated Hunters, let alone as first-years. A long moment of silence passes, and you almost feel like they're all just waiting for someone else to break first and dash for the stairs.
"... It's best we check," Pyrrha says. "It already opened so many cages in just minutes of freedom- even if those Grimm are held in more secure cages, I don't think it'll be locked out long enough for us to get reinforcements."
"It has to be us," Al says, not as a declaration of determination- as his form shrinks, it sounds more like someone processing their imminent execution. "I-I-um-"
Meri grabs him by the shoulder.
"Hyu'z gonna be alright, Al! Eet'll ignore hyu 'til hyu schtab it in de back! Vorzt comes vorzt, I'z just blow myzelf up and it die! So'z'll dem Grimm in da big cagez!" A moment passes. "... And prob'ly sink de zhip, but dat just means less Grimm in Vale, yeah?"
"N-no! No, no blowing up, I'll- it'll-" Al stumbles over his words, and eventually gets a hold of himself long enough to bring one of those icy blue eyes out from under the shroud. "I'll come. I-I'll come."
"Anyone else want to chicken out?" Lumen asks. "No offence, Al, not suggesting you were."
"N-none taken..."
Nobody else makes for the stairs- you can't miss that look of grim determination on their faces. They'll do it. But they'll do it because they need to.
"... I'll message Port. He can-"
"No need, my boy!" Port calls from the top of the stairs. "I'm already here, and other instructors are on their way!"
He makes his way down, weapon already in hand as he walks into the room.
"This has already gone beyond what any first-years should have to deal with. If you wish to leave, then I shan't stop you, nor dock you credit…" he stops, looking out at the sea of faces, and a warm smile creeps out from under that moustache. "Though, it seems you've already made your decision on that front."
He turns to you, pride radiating off him like sunlight.
"Well? Lead the way, Mr. Arc."
Oh boy responsibility you needed more of that.
You nod, and begin to jog through the cages, the Grimm's barking and squealing and other noises of hatred for you long since faded into background noise. At a Hunter's pace, it only takes the group about 30 seconds to cross the hold, and that was mostly because you had to start moving single-file to get through the narrow corridors between cages.
The door to the final cargo hold is larger than the other doors- the others have been, well, person-sized. This one is large enough to drive a car through, more like barn doors. They're also made of solid, inch-thick steel- they're the kind of doors rated to take explosives in a military attack.
Finally, something Captain Vuur didn't skimp on.
"O-kay, first problem- how do we open it?" Creme asks.
"Is there a button somewhere?" Pyrrha asks.
You scan the area- with your eyes, not your sword- and eventually find something.
"No button here," you say, looking towards the starboard side of the wall. "... But we won't need one."
You point towards the human-sized door, lying slightly ajar, answering the unasked question.
"... That doesn't bode well," Rashmi says.
You peer through the door, and see… fog. A black fog with a greenish sheen, so thick that when you put your arm through it, flaring your Aura, you can't see it ahead of you- the Transistor lights it up like it's a solid surface.
"What the…?" Lumen says, trailing off. He presses his hand against the fog wall, Aura flaring- and disappearing like everything else.
"Hag's fog," Port says. "If I had to judge by the colour, it's the pure stuff- relatively harmless, but obfuscating. Blocks all light and sound, in or out. There could be a marching band in there and we wouldn't know until you stuck your head through."
You look to the others behind you. Judge.
"... Well, come on, form an orderly line," you joke, just barely keeping the waver out of your voice and the nervous smile off your face, before looking back at the fog, and just- walking on through.
For a moment, you're completely blind and deaf, driven to instinctually hold your breath, and then it passes just as quickly, the whole wall only about a foot thick. A wave of light pressure passes over your body as you walk through, like you're being dragged through heavy drapes. You move in quickly, making space for the next person to come through, and start to scan the area beyond the brume.
Well- you would, if you didn't have to blink away tears. The entire room is covered by a dozen massive flood lights from every conceivable angle, so aggressively bright that it stuns you like a flashbang- your eyes scream as your irises rush to close down as tightly as possible. Absolutely no shadow has been allowed to enter this room- even the corners have been filled in with gentle slopes, ensuring that there are no sharp angles that could cause one by accident.
When your eyes finally adjust, you realise that the only surfaces in this room that aren't blindingly white are the parts crawling with tendrils of murky, greenish-black smog, all leading back to one of the largest cages you've ever seen. It's a 10 metre cube, more like a small zoo enclosure than the glorified dog cages that you've seen so far, and almost entirely covered in thick bars and sheets of steel- the only reason the fog is leaking is because something's rent large, claw-like gashes in the protective layer. The other cage is just a cage, with bars, but it also has floodlights in the same pattern as the ceiling, protected by the kind of thick plastic you've seen Mulberry put behind test targets before Ruby fires at them, to protect whatever's behind the back wall.
Inside, a truly miserable ball of leather sits, trying to make itself as small and protected from the light as possible.
One kept in complete darkness, the other kept in blinding light. How poetic of Captain Vuur.
{Imps are here. Imps plural.}
"Please tell me you're just seeing double too."
{Yes, Jaune, there are two of them, gold star. He brought a friend.}
Shit.
People start filing through. Port first, who adjusts quickly, then Lumen and Creme, who adjust faster, then the others, who take various approaches to dealing with the problem; stoic squinting, Haru, Pyrrha, and Kapila; already wearing sunglasses, Rashmi at least has the decency to not look smug about it; finally, pained yelps and covering their eyes account most everyone else.
{Isn't unlocked yet, but they're getting there. Cages are electromagnetically locked, and they haven't figured out keypads yet.}
And you don't intend to give them the chance to.
"Hag cage, far side!" you say, rushing off and letting the others catch up at their own pace.
Sprinting through the centre aisle, you catch a glimpse of the Grimm inside the other cage- the miserable pile of leather is the Vampyr, using its wings to try and protect its eyes, now peering out from under them with that usual wild misanthropy, and a cocktail of other emotions that put ice in your chest- annoyance, mixed with curiosity at the sudden outburst of activity, and a sort of cold, alien calculation.
Waiting.
You skid around the corner, and see the pair of Imps somehow still haven't noticed you yet- and you're thankful for it, because you freeze when you see the size of the things. As tall as Naia, but a quarter as thick, the creatures have luxuriated in stretching themselves out as much as possible, free of the confines of a cage and forced slumber.
One of them taps the keypad, once, twice, three, four times, and a buzzer sounds out.
{0199. They're just trying to brute-force it. They'll be here all day.}
The other smacks it over the head, and moves it out of the way- and then spots you, just as a few others begin to catch up.
Before either group can do anything, a truly horrific TING, TING, TING echoes through the hold, making everyone but the Imps and Port jump.
Behind you, you see a large, leathery hand reaching out from the cage, from where it had just stunned you all by rapping the bar with one of its claws. It slowly creeps back in, and the worst thing you've ever heard, like someone drawing the edge of a straight razor along a blackboard, echoes against the cargo hull.
"Sisters. Give. Dark."
The Hags cackle from inside their cage. Before the Imps can even react, a wizened hand as knotted and warped as an old tree branch reaches out and grabs one by the neck. With inhuman strength, it's fully dragged through the claw-width gash with such force that you think they wouldn't have a problem doing that to something with bones. A confused scream, a splash, and a blast of fog burps through the cage bars, the cauldron's production going into overdrive.
This… is not an ideal situation. The Hags made it slightly more ideal, but then a finger curled on the Monkey's Paw in Ozpin's cupboard, and they're about to make it significantly less ideal.
Alright, how are you killing them and in what order?
n.b: The number of d6s rolled is not a measure of possible success, merely a measure of how many actors are involved in each scene, with a maximum of 4d6; you, Port, the Grimm being targeted (each of these targets is too dangerous to focus on more than one in a given plan), and the horde of hunters behind you, in that order. This number may change depending on your plans, and particularly good plans might get a minor bonus to Jaune's roll, exceptional plans will give a malus to the Grimm, but everyone involved only rolls one d6.
[] Imp [4d6]- The most direct threat to you and yours. Also the easiest to kill, by dint of not having a cage between the two of you, thus making it the default target for most of the class. Sucks to be him.
-[] Write-In
[] Hags [3d6]- Risky move. Might get rid of the fog, might just somehow throw your stuff in the cauldron and make something horrible out of it. God help you if any of your teammates start giving it lead and antimony to play with.
-[] Write-In
[] Vampyr [2d6]- This, you need to be careful about. If a shadow so much as the size of your thumb, or one of Crescent Rose's bullets, enters that cell, you have every chance of doing the Hags' job for them. If the Vampyr gets the chance, it will escape, and the next time you see it will be at the foot of your bed in the dead of night.
-[] Write-In
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infinityDivided
Prince Of Doom
- Location
- USA
What language was that in, by the way? Did the Vampyr decide to communicate in Valish (I can't remember what English is called here sorry) specifically to freak the students out, or is that just typical for Grimm?
relatively harmless,
So, 'lying' here means that the door has to be off its hinges, since lying can only be horizontal. But 'slightly ajar' sounds more like they're still attached, as does peering through the door (either the crack or a porthole).
Commas save... uh, anyways: filing through, Port first,
locked, they haven't
I don't get the vote system you're trying to propose here. But, the situation as it stands: The Vamp damaged the Hag's darkness encased cage to allow it limited access, which it used to grab one of the Imps for cauldron fuel. The Vamp wants the Hags to create a cloud of obscuring darkness or something, since it will be able to escape through it.
Thus I propose, fixing the cage's damage to prevent the hags from being able to make the darkness cloud outside their cage. With that done the Imp can be Ping()'d to death from a distance.
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SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Kill the Vampyr first, I think. The Imps are trying to brute force codes and that won't work in a reasonable time frame. And the students can handle them.
The Vampyr is the greatest threat. The Hag...I don't know what to make of it. What can it do?
EDIT: I'm confused about the format for this vote. Can you explain it some more, Prok? Make an example?
The Vampyr is the greatest threat. The Hag...I don't know what to make of it. What can it do?
EDIT: I'm confused about the format for this vote. Can you explain it some more, Prok? Make an example?
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- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I think the dice represent how many hunters are targeting that particular Grimm? In which case, we should defintely ignore the Imp, the offers have it taken care of.
The Hag is a priority to prevent shadows, if it does the Vampyr can't do anything.
The real risk is attacking the Vampyr and fucking up, but if the other hunters are attacking it anyway that's out of our hands.
Either way, if you can think of anything esoteric Jaune in particular can do to kill them all without shadows, that's the ticket.
The Hag is a priority to prevent shadows, if it does the Vampyr can't do anything.
The real risk is attacking the Vampyr and fucking up, but if the other hunters are attacking it anyway that's out of our hands.
Either way, if you can think of anything esoteric Jaune in particular can do to kill them all without shadows, that's the ticket.
SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'm more worried about the implication that a Hag can just catch things like bullets and throw them into a cauldron (where did it even get a cauldron from? Why would they let her keep that?) and turn it into something horrible. What the heck are we dealing with?
Can we (including the Transistor in "we") just hack into the electronics and ensure even the right code won't open the door?
Also, I'm wary of the fact that the hunters and students are adding shadows to the scene.
I'm guessing the cauldron is probably integral to their bodymass, so if they lack one it'd regenerate when they heal.
Also if a bullet isn't a dust round or otherwise explosive they could always dig it out after it hits something?
minor clarification
New
Prok
Go play Star Fetchers
- Location
- Scotland
It was in plain Valish, which, like English at its best, is 5 languages in a trenchcoat.
As for why, if you remember back to On The Souls Of Grimm by Piranesi, who very much described a Vampyr in all but name- they are very adept at picking up human speech.
Hey, only four mistakes in nearly 2500 words! Guess it wasn't a stable breeding population after all. Fixed, thank you.
... You know, I completely forgot why I included the Dealer's Choice option- I know what it was, it was a "default plan" option, no bonus or malus, but actually looking at what's happening, I don't remember for the life of me actually deciding to put it down. It's not particularly useful here, after all- if there's one thing none of you have trouble with, it's finding funny ways to kill Grimm. I think I was writing for something else and the phrase just filtered back through without thinking about specifying what it actually meant. So, mea culpa, got rid of it.
So, yeah, that clarified, just write in a relatively freeform plan to deal with a Grimm. If you want a more direct example, please format your vote like so:
[X] Imp [4d6]- The most direct threat to you and yours. Also the easiest to kill, by dint of not having a cage between the two of you, thus making it the default target for most of the class. Sucks to be him.
-[X] Shoot it in its stupid face until it stops moving.
-[X] Keep shooting.
-[X] I'll say when.
-[X] ...
-[X] So how are the kids?
-[X] Good, good, Timmy still doing Karate? Outgrowing his gear? Yeah, he's at that age, isn't he?
-[X] Okay you're just shooting through the hull now, you can stop.
I don't expect seven steps to your plan, but you get the gist. Once a plan wins, I roll the number of d6 I've assigned it, boosted one way or the other by the specifics of the plan. Each d6 (+/-X) deals with exactly one 'actor'- Jaune, the Grimm, Port, and your entire class being treated as a singular horde for the sake of simplicity. Port will follow your lead for the most part- if the plan doesn't involve the Imp, and you don't direct your class otherwise, they'll roll off separately.
... I mean in theory yes, but I think the Imp has bigger problems than slogging through 0200-0299.
And don't worry, nobody is casting a shadow right now. So- it actually takes a surprisingly small number of very high-powered lights to completely remove shadows from a given space- but essentially, there's no spot in this room where you can be and not have a light source pretty much directly overhead. It's functionally what's known as a Lahaina noon, which is a phenomenon that breaks my brain a little every time I see it. Basically, so long as you're touching the ground, you're only casting a shadow straight down, and the lights around whichever one's doing that to you deal with the shadows something like Ruby's puffy skirt might cast from that. Thankfully, the combat skirt brigade are all upstairs, and right now your biggest danger in that field is probably Rashmi, with his big flowy cloak. Everyone else is wearing stuff relatively tight to their silhouette, or is mostly a complete non-issue like Al.
You are relatively safe so long as you don't do something too stupid. But yeah- there's a reason setting them on fire is one of the tried and true methods of dealing with Vampyrs- can't touch shadows when you're lighting everything up.
It wasn't at first, and then I realised how stupid it would be of me to not take the chance offered to me, by myself from three years ago, when I first created the Hags.
Anyway, a Hag Coven's greatest weakness is [STARES IN LACK OF LIBRARY() ENTRY]
You have a vague idea of what they are and what they do. You've seen pictures, after all- imagine if Hieronymus Bosch painted the opening scene of Macbeth. Three vaguely feminine figures, inextricably fused to a massive cauldron- bowlegged under the weight, unable to ever put it down. As for what they do, well- they make fog. With enough materials, they can make enough fog to completely block off an area the size of a village. Nobody would know that anything was happening inside unless they saw it.
Past that? You've got no clear idea- you just know that they throw stuff in the cauldron, and they're not remarkably picky about what, and it makes their fog take on different properties. If they threw the other Imp in there, it'd probably be dense enough with actual Grimm smog to start forming Beowolves. Or choke you out. One of the two.
Also, in case it wasn't clear- don't get put in the cauldron. That's a bad time. That's, fucking game over, even if being put in the cauldron right now didn't mean being dragged through a hole in their cage that's roughly an inch across.
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- Location
- Mt. Holly, North Carolina
My immediate thought is some one shoot the imp to death, Lumen seal the holes in the hags cage, and everyone else aim fire/fire dust at the vampyr. Because if it twitches wrong, lighting it ablaze will shut it up.