Sablonus
Chibi Errant
- Location
- On An Adventure
..I might wait for the others to do so
So, Bubblegum. How can I best make Bram fail most of the mundane rolls so his goofiness is established?
The SVerse Of Kickass Cats [All Outta Bubblegum, Recruiting]
- Thread starter Hoshino Yumemi
- Start date
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So, Bubblegum. How can I best make Bram fail most of the mundane rolls so his goofiness is established?
Hoshino Yumemi
A Few Bulbs Short Of A Planetarium
Well, if the last time I did this on SV is any indication, trying to do something mundane in a kickass manner and trying to bet on a long shot kickass roll really early on is a surefire way to start down that road.
Dolly Fail Fail
Boss Leader
- Location
- Within dreams and memories
Hmm, would listening to Yog-Sothoth to get some random knowledge be a mundane or kickass action? Because it's a really simple and boring action in practice, but in concept it's tapping into the infinite pool of knowledge held by an omniscient being that resides between dimensions.
Hoshino Yumemi
A Few Bulbs Short Of A Planetarium
In this case I'd rule that it's the goal that counts. Unless it looks especially kickass, in which case it might, but here, nah, do it as a mundane action.
Sablonus
Chibi Errant
- Location
- On An Adventure
You go to the thingy that says more options, roll a dice, and make it 10 sided.
Dolly Fail Fail
Boss Leader
- Location
- Within dreams and memories
...You know, I can tell for a fact that if I had made that a kickass roll it would have been a 1 instead.
Heaven Canceler
I would like to have a cool title.
- Location
- Austria
Whelp, gonna post something tomorrow. Didn't have time to do it today due to other stuff and it is getting lateish here. Sorry about that.
Heaven Canceler
I would like to have a cool title.
- Location
- Austria
Right posted, hope this works as an introductory post.
SplicedHunter
Renata
A bit late, and with an avatar that has a power set that is not really direct.
Name: Riven, Wish Cat, Cat of a Thousand Voices
Description: A cat with black fur that turns pale brown at the ears and the tip of the tail, green spots, and bright blue eyes. Is sometimes lazy, and also ready to take the most antagonistic path possible.
Bio:
Riven was, at one point something that could be described as looking like a dragon, but she ended up granting a wish that left her stuck in the form of a cat. From there she was found by a man who handed her over to his older sister. When she found out about Riven's wish granting ability, the two entered a very agreeable partnership, until the woman disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Riven preferred not to stay with the man who brought her here, since he was incredibly easy to fool with an admittedly poor imitation, so she used him to move on to somewhere else.
From there, Riven wound up in the hands of an explorer who made a wish that resulted in him getting stranded in a jungle he didn't recognize. And then, Riven would finally found herself living with the explorer's sister who is quite possibly a witch. Riven finds her to be very unnerving, even by her standards, and she is far too cautious to make idle wishes. On the bright side, she lets Riven do whatever she wants.
She spends her time at the Cat Cafe because she finds it amusing to see what wishes other people have, and consider the most 'entertaining' ways to fulfill them.
Powers:
A Thousand Voices: Riven can telepathically communicate with others, using the voices of people the person knows.
Illusions: The ability to make someone see things that aren't really there. Riven prefers to use it to impersonate people.
Wish granter: Riven is a wish granter by nature, she can see and grant the wish of anyone who has some desire whether they willingly bargain with her or not. The only wish she can't grant is resurrecting the dead.
Shapeshifting: While having the default form of a cat Riven can alter her size and appearance depending on her mood.
Name: Riven, Wish Cat, Cat of a Thousand Voices
Description: A cat with black fur that turns pale brown at the ears and the tip of the tail, green spots, and bright blue eyes. Is sometimes lazy, and also ready to take the most antagonistic path possible.
Bio:
Riven was, at one point something that could be described as looking like a dragon, but she ended up granting a wish that left her stuck in the form of a cat. From there she was found by a man who handed her over to his older sister. When she found out about Riven's wish granting ability, the two entered a very agreeable partnership, until the woman disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Riven preferred not to stay with the man who brought her here, since he was incredibly easy to fool with an admittedly poor imitation, so she used him to move on to somewhere else.
From there, Riven wound up in the hands of an explorer who made a wish that resulted in him getting stranded in a jungle he didn't recognize. And then, Riven would finally found herself living with the explorer's sister who is quite possibly a witch. Riven finds her to be very unnerving, even by her standards, and she is far too cautious to make idle wishes. On the bright side, she lets Riven do whatever she wants.
She spends her time at the Cat Cafe because she finds it amusing to see what wishes other people have, and consider the most 'entertaining' ways to fulfill them.
Powers:
A Thousand Voices: Riven can telepathically communicate with others, using the voices of people the person knows.
Illusions: The ability to make someone see things that aren't really there. Riven prefers to use it to impersonate people.
Wish granter: Riven is a wish granter by nature, she can see and grant the wish of anyone who has some desire whether they willingly bargain with her or not. The only wish she can't grant is resurrecting the dead.
Shapeshifting: While having the default form of a cat Riven can alter her size and appearance depending on her mood.
AProcrastinator
You can Certainly Try
- Location
- Getting Somewhere
- Pronouns
- She/Hers
Actually, clarification from our DM requested:
@Hoshino Yumemi
I'd assumed that the cars would stop for my kitty automatically, but then again, he is trying to stop them on purpose. We think that would be a mundane roll (cat in the road, pretty normal), or no roll at all?
@Hoshino Yumemi
I'd assumed that the cars would stop for my kitty automatically, but then again, he is trying to stop them on purpose. We think that would be a mundane roll (cat in the road, pretty normal), or no roll at all?
Hoshino Yumemi
A Few Bulbs Short Of A Planetarium
...you know what, roll for it. It's very possible you'd get the impatient or the confused, say, swerving.
Sablonus
Chibi Errant
- Location
- On An Adventure
Just to make sure, trying to roll to do something mundane in a badass way would likely make it fail?
AProcrastinator
You can Certainly Try
- Location
- Getting Somewhere
- Pronouns
- She/Hers
throwed, and succeeded
Hoshino Yumemi
A Few Bulbs Short Of A Planetarium
Yes, and make things kind of crazy for everyone else I choose to involve.
Sablonus
Chibi Errant
- Location
- On An Adventure
How would I ah.. Write that, again? Is it like, something mundane, but I label it as actiony?
Hoshino Yumemi
A Few Bulbs Short Of A Planetarium
@Sablonus
Yeah. Do something really badass to accomplish a mundane goal, and label the role as a kickass one.
@SplicedHunter
It's early enough that I could let you through. Pick up 8 Gum and please introduce yourself in the IC Thread. Our heroes could use a shapeshifter and a face.
Yeah. Do something really badass to accomplish a mundane goal, and label the role as a kickass one.
@SplicedHunter
It's early enough that I could let you through. Pick up 8 Gum and please introduce yourself in the IC Thread. Our heroes could use a shapeshifter and a face.
Hoshino Yumemi
A Few Bulbs Short Of A Planetarium
Yep, you needed to exceed your current Gum score and you didn't. That's a fail.
munchkinomatic
Douchiest of Bags
- Location
- The land of Skepticism
Well damn. Spot for me in next episode?
Hoshino Yumemi
A Few Bulbs Short Of A Planetarium
Yeah, I'll definitely make sure you're in for next episode, since I feel we have enough cats for a quick ep already. You can totally get started on making a cat now, though.
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We Just Write
Blatantly Plural
- Location
- New England
- Pronouns
- Plural
I can do it too, yes?
Hoshino Yumemi
A Few Bulbs Short Of A Planetarium
Yeah. I'll start putting up a table of characters reserved for the next episode if I get enough.
Everyone, be sure you ask to be reserved first so I know who to keep and who to write out for the next episode when it happens.
Everyone, be sure you ask to be reserved first so I know who to keep and who to write out for the next episode when it happens.
We Just Write
Blatantly Plural
- Location
- New England
- Pronouns
- Plural
Welp, here we go. One nuclear-powered space warship in feline form, coming right up.
Name: Tiara / RSF Crown of Fury, Impaler 2 class Space Supremacy Vessel
Pictures
Tiara when in 'cat mode'
Tiara in 'ship mode'
Personality Data: Most of the time, Tiara is fairly laid back, simply looking forwards to a life of scritches behind her left ear and yummy bird meat. She is very affectionate, and is entirely willing to plunk herself on the laps and/or shoulders of any humans who come near and seem sad. Tiara also has a restless and adventurous streak, constantly searching for opportunities to explore new locations; she's already visited most of the inner planets (except Venus, screw Venus), and has briefly molested a couple of NASA's older Mars rovers.
On the other hand, when something truly raises Tiara's ire (say, by threatening her humans), she becomes an utterly terrifying engine of destruction. Tiara on the hunt does not play with her prey, or torment them before going in for the kill. No, she simply eliminates the target from consideration quickly, cleanly, and as thoroughly as possible. Considering the impressive array of options Tiara has for visiting destruction upon her foes, this usually doesn't take very long at all. She also absolutely refuses to retreat under most circumstances, staying in the fight until the very last shot has been fired.
Bio: Tiara started life as a kitten living in the same house as a japanophilic gamer who also happened to be a geek for hard science fiction. As such, her human was an enthusiastic player of both Kancolle Collection and Children of a Dead Earth. One night, Tiara's human was extremely drunk, and got it into their head to try a shipgirl summoning ritual to bring a ship they'd built in the hyper-realistic space combat game into reality. To the surprise of everyone involved, the ritual worked. Also to the surprise of everyone involved, Tiara wandered into the summoning circle at the last possible moment, winding up mashed together with a nuclear powered space warship.
After some brief adventures with her human exploring the moons of Jupiter (and accidentally leveling her previous home with her rocket exhaust) Tiara came home, and began wandering around looking for more humans to get scritched by, as her previous human was very upset with her for some reason. After a while, she found her way to a cat cafe full of other unusual felines like her.
Powers:
As a space warship superimposed onto a housecat, Tiara has access to all functions and properties of her ship-form, as convenient. She can toggle these options on and off individually as she desires.
-Mass: When in 'full cat mode', Tiara has a mass of roughly 4.5 kilograms. However, by shifting over a bit towards 'ship mode', her mass very rapidly increases to the point of being any where between 6,270 tons, and 17,500 tons, depending on how full her propellant tanks are. This doesn't increase her ground pressure somehow, but it DOES make her VERY hard to shove around. In addition, Tiara is capable of expanding to her full ship-scale of roughly 220 meters in length, with a radiator span of nearly 140 meters. When at full size, Tiara finds herself forced to use her true ship-size mass.
-Armor: When moving into full ship mode, Tiara's fur disappears to reveal the steel outer layer to a shell of composite armor that is extremely resistant to kinetic penetrators, lasers, and explosives. That said, while she's got full armor coverage over her entire body, her thickest armor is in the front. This contributes to her unwillingness to retreat from a fight, since by doing so she'd be exposing her rather less durable flanks.
-Power Generation: Tiara in ship mode is powered by a nuclear reactor delivering 3.78 gigawatts of electrical power and running at temperatures exceeding the melting point of steel. Not only can she share this power with electrical systems that need it by plugging herself into the grid, but at her discretion she can also release the 25 gigawatts of waste heat this reactor produces into her immediate surroundings, turning the area around her into a molten hellscape more befitting the inside of a volcano than an inhabited area. That said, she needs to rapidly vacate the area herself after doing this, seeing as her hull would melt in such extreme temperatures. In space, all that waste heat simply radiates out into the vacuum, harming no-one.
-Life Support: Being designed for a deep space environment, Tiara in 'ship mode' is obviously capable of surviving in vacuum for extended periods. She is capable of storing provisions internally for up to two years in the depths of space. In addition, Tiara has surplus habitat space for close to 80 passengers, which board through a hatch that appears on Tiara's right side when she goes full ship mode.
-Propulsion: In 'full cat mode', Tiara gets around using her own four paws like every other cat. However, ship mode Tiara has two varieties of rocket propulsion system available to her, both of which provide utterly obscene amounts of acceleration and delta V when Tiara is using her cat-mass.
--First, she has a set of seven Nuclear Thermal Rockets, with a total mass flow of seven tons per second of Methane propellant. She can keep up the resulting thrust for nearly half an hour at full blast, and when using her cat-mass she accelerates so fast as to be effectively uncontrollable, hence why she usually goes to partial ship-mass when using them. On the other hand, when she's got her full ship mass, the nuclear engines are quite effective for blasting someone with a high-velocity burst of superheated Methane.
--Second, Tiara has a pair of Magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters, using utterly stupid amounts of electricity to fire Methane propellant out the back at extreme speeds. This only provides about a thounsandth the thrust of the nuclear engines, but they have truly ridiculous propellant economy since they can run for nearly half a year at full thrust without depleting Tiara's propellant reserves, and they still provide more than enough acceleration when at full cat-mass. More problematically, they don't work very well in atmosphere, simply producing spectacular electrical arcs without much thrust to them. Thus, to get much use out of her electric engines, Tiara has to go to space.
-Sensors: Tiara is fully equipped to spot targets from extreme range in the depths of space. She can see far into the infrared and radio wavelengths, and can spot targets well enough to accurately target them with her lasers from a thousand kilometers out. She can spot targets for her missiles at ranges out to several light seconds.
-Weaponry: Tiara is a warship, and it shows. She has a variety of weaponry designed with the explicit purpose of ripping other spacecraft to shreds, and is very skilled in its use. Given the scale of targets she was designed to fight with, using this weaponry on anything smaller tends to result in hilarious levels of overkill. Tiara has two main weapon systems.
--First, Tiara has a total of 80 ultraviolet lasers firing with a wavelength of 77 nanometers. When all focused on a single target, these lasers can reduce nearly 16 tons of steel to molten slag every second, as they have a combined beam intensity of just over a gigawatt. Worth noting is that un-ionized air is actually opaque to the wavelength of ultraviolet these lasers use, meaning that they ionize the air they pass through into blazing white lines of plasma, easily highlighting the beams for anyone nearby. Further, since these beams consider plasma to be transparent, they can easily drill straight through a target, as the plasma layer that would normally block a laser beam from doing no more than surface damage is effectively irrelevant.
--Second, Tiara is armed with 620 anti-spacecraft missiles, of which she can fire four per second. Each missile has roughly 7 kilometers per second of delta v, and was supposed to mount a 19.6 kiloton nuclear warhead, but someone swapped them out for fragmentation bombs. They are somewhat useful for striking surface and aerial targets, but really weren't designed for it.
Name: Tiara / RSF Crown of Fury, Impaler 2 class Space Supremacy Vessel
Pictures
Tiara when in 'cat mode'
Tiara in 'ship mode'
Personality Data: Most of the time, Tiara is fairly laid back, simply looking forwards to a life of scritches behind her left ear and yummy bird meat. She is very affectionate, and is entirely willing to plunk herself on the laps and/or shoulders of any humans who come near and seem sad. Tiara also has a restless and adventurous streak, constantly searching for opportunities to explore new locations; she's already visited most of the inner planets (except Venus, screw Venus), and has briefly molested a couple of NASA's older Mars rovers.
On the other hand, when something truly raises Tiara's ire (say, by threatening her humans), she becomes an utterly terrifying engine of destruction. Tiara on the hunt does not play with her prey, or torment them before going in for the kill. No, she simply eliminates the target from consideration quickly, cleanly, and as thoroughly as possible. Considering the impressive array of options Tiara has for visiting destruction upon her foes, this usually doesn't take very long at all. She also absolutely refuses to retreat under most circumstances, staying in the fight until the very last shot has been fired.
Bio: Tiara started life as a kitten living in the same house as a japanophilic gamer who also happened to be a geek for hard science fiction. As such, her human was an enthusiastic player of both Kancolle Collection and Children of a Dead Earth. One night, Tiara's human was extremely drunk, and got it into their head to try a shipgirl summoning ritual to bring a ship they'd built in the hyper-realistic space combat game into reality. To the surprise of everyone involved, the ritual worked. Also to the surprise of everyone involved, Tiara wandered into the summoning circle at the last possible moment, winding up mashed together with a nuclear powered space warship.
After some brief adventures with her human exploring the moons of Jupiter (and accidentally leveling her previous home with her rocket exhaust) Tiara came home, and began wandering around looking for more humans to get scritched by, as her previous human was very upset with her for some reason. After a while, she found her way to a cat cafe full of other unusual felines like her.
Powers:
As a space warship superimposed onto a housecat, Tiara has access to all functions and properties of her ship-form, as convenient. She can toggle these options on and off individually as she desires.
-Mass: When in 'full cat mode', Tiara has a mass of roughly 4.5 kilograms. However, by shifting over a bit towards 'ship mode', her mass very rapidly increases to the point of being any where between 6,270 tons, and 17,500 tons, depending on how full her propellant tanks are. This doesn't increase her ground pressure somehow, but it DOES make her VERY hard to shove around. In addition, Tiara is capable of expanding to her full ship-scale of roughly 220 meters in length, with a radiator span of nearly 140 meters. When at full size, Tiara finds herself forced to use her true ship-size mass.
-Armor: When moving into full ship mode, Tiara's fur disappears to reveal the steel outer layer to a shell of composite armor that is extremely resistant to kinetic penetrators, lasers, and explosives. That said, while she's got full armor coverage over her entire body, her thickest armor is in the front. This contributes to her unwillingness to retreat from a fight, since by doing so she'd be exposing her rather less durable flanks.
-Power Generation: Tiara in ship mode is powered by a nuclear reactor delivering 3.78 gigawatts of electrical power and running at temperatures exceeding the melting point of steel. Not only can she share this power with electrical systems that need it by plugging herself into the grid, but at her discretion she can also release the 25 gigawatts of waste heat this reactor produces into her immediate surroundings, turning the area around her into a molten hellscape more befitting the inside of a volcano than an inhabited area. That said, she needs to rapidly vacate the area herself after doing this, seeing as her hull would melt in such extreme temperatures. In space, all that waste heat simply radiates out into the vacuum, harming no-one.
-Life Support: Being designed for a deep space environment, Tiara in 'ship mode' is obviously capable of surviving in vacuum for extended periods. She is capable of storing provisions internally for up to two years in the depths of space. In addition, Tiara has surplus habitat space for close to 80 passengers, which board through a hatch that appears on Tiara's right side when she goes full ship mode.
-Propulsion: In 'full cat mode', Tiara gets around using her own four paws like every other cat. However, ship mode Tiara has two varieties of rocket propulsion system available to her, both of which provide utterly obscene amounts of acceleration and delta V when Tiara is using her cat-mass.
--First, she has a set of seven Nuclear Thermal Rockets, with a total mass flow of seven tons per second of Methane propellant. She can keep up the resulting thrust for nearly half an hour at full blast, and when using her cat-mass she accelerates so fast as to be effectively uncontrollable, hence why she usually goes to partial ship-mass when using them. On the other hand, when she's got her full ship mass, the nuclear engines are quite effective for blasting someone with a high-velocity burst of superheated Methane.
--Second, Tiara has a pair of Magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters, using utterly stupid amounts of electricity to fire Methane propellant out the back at extreme speeds. This only provides about a thounsandth the thrust of the nuclear engines, but they have truly ridiculous propellant economy since they can run for nearly half a year at full thrust without depleting Tiara's propellant reserves, and they still provide more than enough acceleration when at full cat-mass. More problematically, they don't work very well in atmosphere, simply producing spectacular electrical arcs without much thrust to them. Thus, to get much use out of her electric engines, Tiara has to go to space.
-Sensors: Tiara is fully equipped to spot targets from extreme range in the depths of space. She can see far into the infrared and radio wavelengths, and can spot targets well enough to accurately target them with her lasers from a thousand kilometers out. She can spot targets for her missiles at ranges out to several light seconds.
-Weaponry: Tiara is a warship, and it shows. She has a variety of weaponry designed with the explicit purpose of ripping other spacecraft to shreds, and is very skilled in its use. Given the scale of targets she was designed to fight with, using this weaponry on anything smaller tends to result in hilarious levels of overkill. Tiara has two main weapon systems.
--First, Tiara has a total of 80 ultraviolet lasers firing with a wavelength of 77 nanometers. When all focused on a single target, these lasers can reduce nearly 16 tons of steel to molten slag every second, as they have a combined beam intensity of just over a gigawatt. Worth noting is that un-ionized air is actually opaque to the wavelength of ultraviolet these lasers use, meaning that they ionize the air they pass through into blazing white lines of plasma, easily highlighting the beams for anyone nearby. Further, since these beams consider plasma to be transparent, they can easily drill straight through a target, as the plasma layer that would normally block a laser beam from doing no more than surface damage is effectively irrelevant.
--Second, Tiara is armed with 620 anti-spacecraft missiles, of which she can fire four per second. Each missile has roughly 7 kilometers per second of delta v, and was supposed to mount a 19.6 kiloton nuclear warhead, but someone swapped them out for fragmentation bombs. They are somewhat useful for striking surface and aerial targets, but really weren't designed for it.