Super Robot Wars SV: An End to Eternity
- Thread starter GilliamYaeger
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GilliamYaeger
M'crazy.
It's versatility paid for by pilot competence. You wouldn't have gotten any of the Sorcery abilities of you chose another pilot spec.
You gave us the ability to inscribe circles freely in three dimensions while connected to a specialized Grimoire of the UNLIMITED POWAH element
Are we allowed runeology? Because if so I'll just lift elements from my least favorite Nasuverses OCs formalcraft style
Competence can be compensated for in so very very many ways
- Location
- America
I vote we feed it to Kazuki.
Possible:hmmI vote we feed it to Kazuki.
@GilliamYaeger you familiar with Majestic Prince?
GilliamYaeger
M'crazy.
The main issue with that is that almost all combat-usable magic in Demonbane originates from Grimoires - you basically can't cast a spell that isn't contained in your Grimoire without a lot of preparation, and your Nameless Grimoire, being artificial in origin and designed for what seems to be a very specific purpose, lacks a lot of the versatility that 'natural' Grimoires possess. It only has a handful of spells, and the ones that aren't basic shit like barriers just throw energy around. While being able to quickly and physically etch magic circles is useful and tends to be more reliable, its not really anything special since most Deus Machina just spawn circles from the ether that fade away when they stop paying attention to them. Freely-scribed three dimensional magic circles would let you be pretty creative with your varying degrees of ZAP MOTHERFUCKER, especially since they'd continue existing once you stopped focusing on them, but you're not going to accomplish anything exotic with them during combat unless you somehow manage to plug a different Grimoire into Pantheon.
If you got hold of a nordic Grimoire, though, you could probably go nuts with runology.
Haven't seen it yet, but I know the basics.
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- Location
- A Place Miserably Bereft of Cats
Guys. Guys, lightning + fluffy tails.
She'll puff up like a bunch of extra-fluffy cotton candy when she starts casting spells. Static electricity is a wonderful thing.
Also, the Nameless Grimoire is clearly based on the original copy of the Otogizōshi. Or the Kojiki.
Edit: I noticed that it specifies that, before she entered the Nameless Grimoire, Tamamo was a wandering spirit. Does that imply that she's the Tamamo-no-Mae? Has the Sessho-shiki come unsealed?
Edit the second: Can Tamamo go into a mini-mode like Al Azif does? Because that'd be adorable.
She'll puff up like a bunch of extra-fluffy cotton candy when she starts casting spells. Static electricity is a wonderful thing.
Also, the Nameless Grimoire is clearly based on the original copy of the Otogizōshi. Or the Kojiki.
Edit: I noticed that it specifies that, before she entered the Nameless Grimoire, Tamamo was a wandering spirit. Does that imply that she's the Tamamo-no-Mae? Has the Sessho-shiki come unsealed?
Edit the second: Can Tamamo go into a mini-mode like Al Azif does? Because that'd be adorable.
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GilliamYaeger
M'crazy.
Now you're thinking with lightning!
That would be telling
Probably not.
Now you're thinking with lightning! Though they'd have a tendency to melt afterwards unless they were equipped with parts that'd let them do it safely. That said, the Hi-Nu's Very Big Gun That Needs A Battleship Reactor To Fire is suddenly a lot more practical.
Oh good, you read my mindNow you're thinking with lightning!
That would be telling
Probably not.
Now you're thinking with lightning! Though they'd have a tendency to melt afterwards unless they were equipped with parts that'd let them do it safely. That said, the Hi-Nu's Very Big Gun That Needs A Battleship Reactor To Fire is suddenly a lot more practical.
By the way, Fin Funnels suddenly become a puzzle game
Mix and Match Sorcery arrays for defensive and offensive purposes with Newtype bullshit cheating. It's like Sudoku
But with imminent fucking death for those involved.
Anyway, I'm sure we'll be teamed with disposable mook level equipment early on while we work out the kinks. Worst case scenario?
One time supercharge desperation move
Most funnels aren't big enough.
The stuff from CCA and beyond could work
Maybe
And Hi-Nu excluded, most funnel or bit using suits don't have enough on them to manage such tactics
- Location
- A Place Miserably Bereft of Cats
They don't have to be that big, they just need to be capable as acting as nexus points for magic. Just use them to 'outline' the circle, or something!
- Location
- Budapest, Hungary
Actually dedicted Funnel using mobile suits has more, smaller Funnels.
Sazabi and Jagd Doga used them as secondary weapons. CCA era Neo Zeon suits were kind of half assed compared to late series Axis units.
Deus Machina don't operate with that kind of symbolism based magic, iirc
Wed need stuff that has some magical properties to it. Maybe later specially manufactured funnels or bits maybe
But it's not something that should work on the fly. You'd need like...Elmeth or Quebley tier bit supplies to trace an array in that manner anyway, and that's a terrible use of such a machine
No, they need to be big enough for those tails to etch circles on them properly.
There's a certain level of precision and accuracy required that flat out needs space to work
Dr. Snark
Exactly As Planned...Probably
- Location
- Right where I want to be
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
Related to the subject of using our Super to abuse the properties of Reals, would it be possible to use the lightning to give Raiden infinite Blade Mode? That seems like a thing that should be seen at some point.
I'm wary of that since all these boosts come from our Grimoire s power supply
We'll need to be selective about this
1.0 - Awakening
GilliamYaeger
M'crazy.
You're not quite sure what it is that wakes you from your slumber. It could have been how you suddenly slipped sideways, banging your arm on some sort of console - the throbbing pain that results fades away in moments. It could have been the lights that are forcing you to blink blearily as you try vainly to focus on your surroundings. Or it could have been the pulsing headache that causes you to wince and hold a hand to your forehead. Christ, does it hurt.
Eventually your eyes adjust to the light, and you look around. You're in some kind of small room, in a surprisingly comfortable chair. There's something tugging at your senses, something like another pair of eyes waiting to be opened, but you ignore it for now as you try to think, to remember how you got here, and...
koujiscreamsasZERO
thelankymanstaresblanklyat
goesthroughthecockpitkillinghirotoinstantly
whydidyoukillthempeoplewerestillaliveinthere
looksattheruinedjeganitjustcouldnthandlehis
jinguujisenseiwasseeneatingwithanotherman
...you groan in agony as your headache only grows worse by an order of magnitude. In fact, worse is an understatement - you can feel the pain course through your skull like a tidal wave, scouring away what little memories remain in your mind. Trying to hold onto anything before it gets swept away is like trying to grab water in your hands, but you do manage to focus on something before everything fades away into oblivion. Magic. Pantheon. Lightning.
Grimoire.
You twist around, to look at the person in the seat behind yours. Slumped over there is a Japanese woman with sharp facial features - you'd imagine her golden eyes to be quite stunning if they were open (you don't even question why you know what her eyes look like). A pair of fluffy animal ears poke out from their mop of short, messy blonde hair. As your eyes trace their way down her body, taking in the archaic fur-lined robe she wears, you eventually notice that there's a group of golden tails limply sprawling out from her backside, each one even fluffier than her ears. It seems that this person isn't quite human - no, scratch that, they're not human at all. Something bubbling up from the back of your mind informs you that the body they wear is something artificial and not really theirs, and...
You shake your head, clearing out errant thoughts. Not the time for this. You need to focus, find out where you are-your thought process is cut off as your mind is flooded with a veritable deluge of information about the mech - no, the Machina - you're currently in the cockpit of. Useful, but it doesn't really help. While you know where you are, you have no idea where the Machina is...Until, once more, you feel a tugging at your senses. This time you let it pull you along, now understanding what it is. Your smaller body feels like it fades away, as your senses are linked to those of a significantly larger body...
Pantheon awakens, and opens its eyes.
Where does it find itself?
[] In the lifeless, half-flooded ruins of a city. (Japan Route)
For the last three years, Japan has suffered under the siege of the villainous Doctor Hell. Two years ago, the would-be dictator discovered a method by which he could penetrate the Photonic Barrier surrounding central Japan and send a raiding force inside it's borders, albeit only once a week. The teleportation-based invasions of the Human-Machina that still plague the world bypass the barrier entirely. And, worst of all, the Sadogashima BETA Hive lies inside the Photonic Barrier itself, resulting in a constant threat that Japan lacks the forces to eradicate on their own.
Living in constant danger like this, is it any wonder that the people of Japan are barely holding it together? While the heroes of the Super Robot Army, most notably Kabuto Kouji and Mazinger Z, that fight near-constantly to protect the populace are met with cheers, the Katou Organization are looked upon with very different eyes. After all, it hasn't even been four years since the former terrorist organization blew up the Tokyo Tower. How can anyone trust them, or the traitors who have flocked under their banner, with protecting anyone?
To make matters worse, there has been absolutely no indication that the UEFA will intervene to save Japan from the army of Doctor Hell. What's the point of being part of the United Earth Federation if they won't even lift a finger to save people that are supposedly under its protection? As a result, Japanese nationalism is on the rise, and people have started talking about abandoning the Federation entirely and resurrecting the Japanese nation by restoring the hereditary Shogun to power - despite her being an inexperienced young girl with a purely symbolic title, her words have done a lot to keep the spirits of the battered populace from breaking. As things stand, though, it'll only take a single spark to ignite a blaze of bloodshed...
SERIES:
-Shin Mazinger ZERO
-Muv Luv Alternative
-Linebarrels of Iron (post-timeskip)
-Shikon Gattai Godannar
[] Inside some kind of underground warehouse. (America Route)
With an ocean standing between it and the aliens ravaging Eurasia, America is the last intact superpower of the old world. As such, its only natural that it is utterly swamped with refugees from the lands consumed by the inhuman threat. Squalid, sprawling refugee camps dot the landscape, and the Federation government finds itself unable to support them all. There's a huge gap in living conditions between the poor refugees, who are often forced to enlist in the Federation military so their families can get access to proper living conditions, and the relatively well-off North American locals.
It was these conditions that led to President Armstrong gaining power, with his slogan of making the Federation great again. His central policy is the Wall of Life Initiative, which supposedly seeks to build a huge wall around the American continent to keep the monsters terrorizing the rest of the planet out, but what the wall is really meant to do is keep any refugees out.
President Armstrong's policies also include the largescale support of paramilitary companies, who frequently use AI-driven Unmanned Gears to fight rather than manned machines, to the detriment of the venerable Super Robot Army. The SRA has had its chance, Armstrong preaches, but they've failed to live up to humanity's needs. The worst part is that he's probably right - in combat trials, the UG system has proven to be more effective than the average pilot in combat, and the modified Metal Gear RAYs being used as practical demonstrations for the technology outclass equal-cost TSFs and Mobile Suits by a not-insignificant margin. It seems as though the Super Robot Army's days are numbered.
Despite his rhetoric, under Armstrong's reign giant robot-related crime has reached an all-time high. While the major population centers are often untouched, it is the often lawless refugee camps that are taking the brunt of the damage. The police won't lift a hand to protect them, and indeed that's probably the correct decision considering how stretched their forces are...but the innocent are not unprotected. Rumors have started to spread, telling the tale of a lone man, a new-age Zorro known only as Van, who has fought valiantly to protect the common people from those who would harm them. While the truth is not quite as pretty as the rumors make it out to be, Van is very real, and he's on a one man (and girl, and woman, and boy...) crusade for revenge.
That's not to say that the major cities are free of mech-based crime, however. New England's Arkham City, the home of the world-famous Hadou Corporation, has been under threat by the vile machinations of the Black Lodge for years now. While the police have been completely helpless to stop the Black Lodge's Destroyer Robots, the Hadou Corporation has recently reactivated the venerable Deus Machina Demonbane in an effort to fight them. Together with the mysterious vigilante Metatron, Demonbane has successfully driven the Black Lodge's forces away whenever they rear their ugly head.
So far, things in Arkham City have been going well, relatively speaking. But when a certain tuxedo-wearing swordslinger blows in on a fateful wind, a series of meetings has the potential to change the fate of the world forever...
SERIES:
-Gun X Sword
-Demonbane
-Rebuild of Evangelion 3.33
-Metal Gear Rising
[] On a small island in the middle of the ocean. In the distance, you can see a storm brewing. (Asia Route)
The legendary Tatsumiya Island, its true identity the submarine fortress Alvis 1, created in secret by a coalition of Japanese geniuses to protect their secrets from their enemies. Desperately sought after by the Federation for its advanced mech technology and the Mir it has carried since its launch fourteen years ago, it was eventually hunted down three years ago and forced into the open by Federation forces.
Despite only being shown greed and treachery by the Federation, the young yet skilled Fafner pilots of Alvis left home to protect the world from the threats that faced it as part of the Hokuten Irregulars. They fought valiantly until Doctor Hell's invasion of Japan, shortly after which Tatsumiya Island - and its heroes - once more vanished from the eyes of the world.
Now, three years after that day, a semi-rogue Federation task force seeks the island once more, guided only by the words of a strange young girl. But where before the men and women of Tatsumiya were chased for greed and glory, those who seek them out now have only the safety of others in their hearts. For the elite Londo Bell, led by legendary heroes Bright Noa and Amuro Ray, finding Tatsumiya Island may just be the last hope for peace and understanding between humanity and the alien races that threaten its existence.
And from afar an old mystery watches all, waiting for its chance...
SERIES:
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack - Beltorchika's Children
-Fafner Exodus
-Getter Robo Armageddon
-Mazinkaiser SKL
Eventually your eyes adjust to the light, and you look around. You're in some kind of small room, in a surprisingly comfortable chair. There's something tugging at your senses, something like another pair of eyes waiting to be opened, but you ignore it for now as you try to think, to remember how you got here, and...
koujiscreamsasZERO
thelankymanstaresblanklyat
goesthroughthecockpitkillinghirotoinstantly
whydidyoukillthempeoplewerestillaliveinthere
looksattheruinedjeganitjustcouldnthandlehis
jinguujisenseiwasseeneatingwithanotherman
...you groan in agony as your headache only grows worse by an order of magnitude. In fact, worse is an understatement - you can feel the pain course through your skull like a tidal wave, scouring away what little memories remain in your mind. Trying to hold onto anything before it gets swept away is like trying to grab water in your hands, but you do manage to focus on something before everything fades away into oblivion. Magic. Pantheon. Lightning.
Grimoire.
You twist around, to look at the person in the seat behind yours. Slumped over there is a Japanese woman with sharp facial features - you'd imagine her golden eyes to be quite stunning if they were open (you don't even question why you know what her eyes look like). A pair of fluffy animal ears poke out from their mop of short, messy blonde hair. As your eyes trace their way down her body, taking in the archaic fur-lined robe she wears, you eventually notice that there's a group of golden tails limply sprawling out from her backside, each one even fluffier than her ears. It seems that this person isn't quite human - no, scratch that, they're not human at all. Something bubbling up from the back of your mind informs you that the body they wear is something artificial and not really theirs, and...
You shake your head, clearing out errant thoughts. Not the time for this. You need to focus, find out where you are-your thought process is cut off as your mind is flooded with a veritable deluge of information about the mech - no, the Machina - you're currently in the cockpit of. Useful, but it doesn't really help. While you know where you are, you have no idea where the Machina is...Until, once more, you feel a tugging at your senses. This time you let it pull you along, now understanding what it is. Your smaller body feels like it fades away, as your senses are linked to those of a significantly larger body...
Pantheon awakens, and opens its eyes.
Where does it find itself?
[] In the lifeless, half-flooded ruins of a city. (Japan Route)
For the last three years, Japan has suffered under the siege of the villainous Doctor Hell. Two years ago, the would-be dictator discovered a method by which he could penetrate the Photonic Barrier surrounding central Japan and send a raiding force inside it's borders, albeit only once a week. The teleportation-based invasions of the Human-Machina that still plague the world bypass the barrier entirely. And, worst of all, the Sadogashima BETA Hive lies inside the Photonic Barrier itself, resulting in a constant threat that Japan lacks the forces to eradicate on their own.
Living in constant danger like this, is it any wonder that the people of Japan are barely holding it together? While the heroes of the Super Robot Army, most notably Kabuto Kouji and Mazinger Z, that fight near-constantly to protect the populace are met with cheers, the Katou Organization are looked upon with very different eyes. After all, it hasn't even been four years since the former terrorist organization blew up the Tokyo Tower. How can anyone trust them, or the traitors who have flocked under their banner, with protecting anyone?
To make matters worse, there has been absolutely no indication that the UEFA will intervene to save Japan from the army of Doctor Hell. What's the point of being part of the United Earth Federation if they won't even lift a finger to save people that are supposedly under its protection? As a result, Japanese nationalism is on the rise, and people have started talking about abandoning the Federation entirely and resurrecting the Japanese nation by restoring the hereditary Shogun to power - despite her being an inexperienced young girl with a purely symbolic title, her words have done a lot to keep the spirits of the battered populace from breaking. As things stand, though, it'll only take a single spark to ignite a blaze of bloodshed...
SERIES:
-Shin Mazinger ZERO
-Muv Luv Alternative
-Linebarrels of Iron (post-timeskip)
-Shikon Gattai Godannar
[] Inside some kind of underground warehouse. (America Route)
With an ocean standing between it and the aliens ravaging Eurasia, America is the last intact superpower of the old world. As such, its only natural that it is utterly swamped with refugees from the lands consumed by the inhuman threat. Squalid, sprawling refugee camps dot the landscape, and the Federation government finds itself unable to support them all. There's a huge gap in living conditions between the poor refugees, who are often forced to enlist in the Federation military so their families can get access to proper living conditions, and the relatively well-off North American locals.
It was these conditions that led to President Armstrong gaining power, with his slogan of making the Federation great again. His central policy is the Wall of Life Initiative, which supposedly seeks to build a huge wall around the American continent to keep the monsters terrorizing the rest of the planet out, but what the wall is really meant to do is keep any refugees out.
President Armstrong's policies also include the largescale support of paramilitary companies, who frequently use AI-driven Unmanned Gears to fight rather than manned machines, to the detriment of the venerable Super Robot Army. The SRA has had its chance, Armstrong preaches, but they've failed to live up to humanity's needs. The worst part is that he's probably right - in combat trials, the UG system has proven to be more effective than the average pilot in combat, and the modified Metal Gear RAYs being used as practical demonstrations for the technology outclass equal-cost TSFs and Mobile Suits by a not-insignificant margin. It seems as though the Super Robot Army's days are numbered.
Despite his rhetoric, under Armstrong's reign giant robot-related crime has reached an all-time high. While the major population centers are often untouched, it is the often lawless refugee camps that are taking the brunt of the damage. The police won't lift a hand to protect them, and indeed that's probably the correct decision considering how stretched their forces are...but the innocent are not unprotected. Rumors have started to spread, telling the tale of a lone man, a new-age Zorro known only as Van, who has fought valiantly to protect the common people from those who would harm them. While the truth is not quite as pretty as the rumors make it out to be, Van is very real, and he's on a one man (and girl, and woman, and boy...) crusade for revenge.
That's not to say that the major cities are free of mech-based crime, however. New England's Arkham City, the home of the world-famous Hadou Corporation, has been under threat by the vile machinations of the Black Lodge for years now. While the police have been completely helpless to stop the Black Lodge's Destroyer Robots, the Hadou Corporation has recently reactivated the venerable Deus Machina Demonbane in an effort to fight them. Together with the mysterious vigilante Metatron, Demonbane has successfully driven the Black Lodge's forces away whenever they rear their ugly head.
So far, things in Arkham City have been going well, relatively speaking. But when a certain tuxedo-wearing swordslinger blows in on a fateful wind, a series of meetings has the potential to change the fate of the world forever...
SERIES:
-Gun X Sword
-Demonbane
-Rebuild of Evangelion 3.33
-Metal Gear Rising
[] On a small island in the middle of the ocean. In the distance, you can see a storm brewing. (Asia Route)
The legendary Tatsumiya Island, its true identity the submarine fortress Alvis 1, created in secret by a coalition of Japanese geniuses to protect their secrets from their enemies. Desperately sought after by the Federation for its advanced mech technology and the Mir it has carried since its launch fourteen years ago, it was eventually hunted down three years ago and forced into the open by Federation forces.
Despite only being shown greed and treachery by the Federation, the young yet skilled Fafner pilots of Alvis left home to protect the world from the threats that faced it as part of the Hokuten Irregulars. They fought valiantly until Doctor Hell's invasion of Japan, shortly after which Tatsumiya Island - and its heroes - once more vanished from the eyes of the world.
Now, three years after that day, a semi-rogue Federation task force seeks the island once more, guided only by the words of a strange young girl. But where before the men and women of Tatsumiya were chased for greed and glory, those who seek them out now have only the safety of others in their hearts. For the elite Londo Bell, led by legendary heroes Bright Noa and Amuro Ray, finding Tatsumiya Island may just be the last hope for peace and understanding between humanity and the alien races that threaten its existence.
And from afar an old mystery watches all, waiting for its chance...
SERIES:
-Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack - Beltorchika's Children
-Fafner Exodus
-Getter Robo Armageddon
-Mazinkaiser SKL
[X] In the lifeless, half-flooded ruins of a city. (Japan Route)
Clearly, the answer is to punch BETA in the face.
Clearly, the answer is to punch BETA in the face.
- Location
- Pittsburgh PA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[x] Inside some kind of underground warehouse. (America Route)
All the options have someone I really want, but well I really want to have President Armstrong punched in the face by a giant mech. Even if he manages to tank it and then flip the mech.
All the options have someone I really want, but well I really want to have President Armstrong punched in the face by a giant mech. Even if he manages to tank it and then flip the mech.