Shamitako

Black Idol "I don't know much about Bear's current attitude, I can only repeat what I've been told." Black Idol said, "But whatever the case, he is extremely powerful." Then the previously quiet member of the group finally raised her voice, asking the question that had no answer. "I don't know." She answered honestly, "As far as anyone knows, even the gods, this should be impossible, and yet the Tenth God exists. The only solution is to defeat him and forcibly take his godhood." A buzz suddenly sounded from Black Idol's earpiece, signaling that her concert time was over. "Oh, sorry to cut you guys of, but I have some other things to get done." She said, "You're free to stay here for the remainder of the free roaming period if you like." "Wait." Requiem interrupted, "Just tell me one thing, is Lord the one who gave you all of this information?" "Not all of it, no, but I'm not going to tell you who told me the rest." Black Idol winked and then turned on her heal and headed for the teleporter behind the stage. Once returned to her room, she breathed a sigh of relief, she hoped future concerts wouldn't be quite so tense, it was hard to keep up her facade with questions firing left and right. (OOC: This interaction technically qualifies as done now, feel free to hang around and interact for a little longer, but I'll be moving to the next chapter once Aries finishes with Mommo and Kagari finishes on Hiroki, or Murdoc and Acqui okay me to to move along)

Cardinal "I, um, I'm in another place entirely, I can't actually go there." Cardinal said, repeating her earlier assertion--it was more convincing the first time. In truth, she probably could interact with the gods, but she was too frightened of them to try. "You need to do it before the end. And you need to do it without fighting them." She implored, "But if you really feel that you cannot do it alone, then I may have a way to get you some help. After the next battle, talk to the Diviner, ask him about mental projection. If he's the same in this timeplane then he should be able to help." Tai hadn't realized it, but she had approached him and now reached out to place her hands on his shoulders, looking him squarely in the eyes. "Please." She said, and then suddenly let go, "I have to leave now." Her she faded away into the blackness, her body disappearing first. Her head slowly faded out until all that was left was that thin, soft smile. And soon that disappeared as well. (OOC: Don't worry, she has terrible social too)

Cardinal "Yeah, I'm here for something." Cardinal said matter-of-factly, "I need an advocate, and you seemed like my best bet. I'd like you to try to convince the gods to stop this tournament." She paused for a moment, debating exactly how much to tell Tai. She sucked in her cheeks and shifted around uncomfortably. Her eyes caught Tai's for a moment, but she quickly shifted them away. "Um, the God of Nil is super dangerous, so you need to stop them please." She explained, "whoever they end up sending will almost certainly die. They should stop being cowards and go themselves so innocent people don't get hurt."

??? The girl cocked her head and sucked her cheeks in as she thought. There wasn't really a good answer to Tai's question. "You can call me Cardinal." She said finally, "I'm, not really from around here. I mean, um, like, Tempest, I'm from a different reality." She rubbed her knees together nervously, the short skirt of her outfit waving back and forth timidly. Would he believe her? She wished she could have talked to a girl instead, it would have been nice to meet another girl. Not that there was anything wrong with meeting a boy either, but she would have been more comfortable with a girl. She'd dressed up in a cute outfit, or at least the videos she'd been watching said it was cute, but somehow that actually made her feel more uncomfortable.

The Diviner The difference in god and man? The Diviner knew the answer of course, there wasn't much he didn't know. However the secret to godhood was a simple one, and when mortals learned of it they often fell into rage. What did the lump of silver do when it learned that shimmering platinum was actually the same hue? It began to think it deserved to be worth the same as platinum. Foolish was man, thinking that a simple answer meant a simple task. "The difference between the mortal and the divine is the same as the difference between a coal and a diamond." He explained cryptically, "Though both carbon, the coal can never grasp the hardships needed to become the diamond and shall always look upon its shimmer with jealousy." "Oh dear, you seem to be upset." text_gun_alpha responded. "You know, I could deflect that, but then we'd be playing a game of question pong." "And I'm not here to give you the runaround." "They call me Aries, God of Wrath and denim jackets." "I just happen to be a kid who's good at reading people." "Although I'm sure most of us won't admit it, each of us has a favorite among the competitors." "And you, Sweet Mommo, are my favorite." "So please don't fall to the HUNTER's wiles." "A predator like that doesn't even deserve to be in this competition for godhood." "She'd probably steal Lust and then fill it up with little girls." It was quickly becoming apparent that "Aries," if he really was Aries, was not a fan of LOLI_HUNTER. At the same time that Mommo was having fun meeting a new friend, Tai had returned to his bed and was falling into a strange dream "Yo, can you hear me?" A voice tapped at the edge of Tai's mind, "Hello? Hey, yoo-hoo! You awake there ya dork?" Suddenly, a girl appeared in the darkness of his mind. She was a gorgeous young woman, somewhere around the age of twenty, dressed in a maid costume. She had pale skin, jet-black hair, and scarlet eyes. Her nose was like a button and her thin lips smiled gently. "Eeyy, you're awake." She said in heavily accented latin, "I was starting to worry I'd gone into the wrong head."

Alright, I'll reply PASA Added a sheet for Cardinal to the OP

Nah, even if I'd thought of it when people were making characters, I wouldn't have said anything. I was just randomly brainstorming the best possible character

Some random thoughts I had about the "optimal" character

I'd appreciate if you edited to make a response of some kind

Yeah, that was what you were supposed to get from that ^^ Divination Tech is basically a way of converting the metaphysical substance of Favor into electrical pulses and drawing it out through the human nervous system allowing for modifications of an extraplanar dimension held within each person's mind TL;DR it used to be a lot harder to create and modify your mech No. You can visit the food car to socialize, the diviner to prepare for the next battle, or the concert to learn about the world and gods. The keyword there being "or"

Black Idol "I mean, it's not my secret." Black Idol said indignantly. She noticed Silent Requiem clenching his fists and suddenly realized why Lord had said to say this at the end of the concert. She had no cares for godhood nor any of the gods besides the ruler of Greed, she had only agreed to this job because he had requested it of her. She didn't even know why, the little twat wasn't anything more than second best. Now that she thought about it, she had to admit she sort of understood Requiem and Revenant's reactions. What made Joshua King any better than the rest of them? And yet, she couldn't deny that he was a good ruler. A pest of a friend, but a good ruler. "I think it's more than luck." She said, "I think, you have to win it somehow. I know Sleeping Bear seems super lazy, but I've been told he's actually quite the genius. His mech was designed without any use of Divination Tech, he achieved a highly modernized mech purely through meditation. Pre-Divination mechs are almost universally primitive, but his is one of the most advanced mechs in existence. That takes incredible knowledge and skill." She wondered if she was saying too much, Lord said to tell them about how the gods came to be, but the knowledge of the individual gods had come from a different source. Should she be sharing it? "And while not many people know it, the Fifth god has no sight, and yet she has the finest control over any mech in existence, surely that can't be a simply fluke. The Seventh God is probably the most just being in the Tempest, even if he is a brat. And most everyone knows how the twelve-year-old Lord became the First God by being undefeated in battle. Even the gods who were gifted godhood had to earn the trust of their predecessors. "It's understandable that you would resent them for seeming to be nothing better than you, but they've proven themselves to be deserving of their roles. And isn't that what this tournament is about? Proving that you're deserving?"

Bfroger, were you intentionally ignoring me via the mechanics of the game or did you just miss that I posted something for Mommo to respond to? EDIT: *Waits for someone to notice the elephant in the room*

...OH. MY. GOOOD. //ded

I wanted the second stage of one of the "early game Bugs" and Leavanny is one of the ones that peaks latest, plus it isn't a butterfly/moth Just need to double-check, would it be plausible for a TM to still be intact? I wanted to write a Sunny Day TM into her backstory

...I haven't done a PKMN RP in a while. And even though Sneasel has been stolen, I shall persevere!

Adam - (Ask Black Idol a Question) "So this is quite the special story." Black Idol explained to her now much closer audience, "See, it's a story that's only ever been told once before, and that was when the First God told it to me." Adam held back a gasp of surprise, but it showed clearly on his features. There was only one story this could be, and he had never expected to hear it. He couldn't imagine the loss of not attending this concert. Black Idol continued, "It's known that a God can come to power by gaining a large amount of Favor and then being granted one of the Planes. But it's never been told how they are given their Plane unless another God gives it to them directly. And Lord was kind enough to tell me this secret to godhood so I could share it with you." She paused for effect, causing the itch in Adam's veins to grow stronger, the itch to hear this secret. "Each of the original gods," she continued finally, "are unique in power. It is not just having Favor, but also gaining it in a special way. For the First God, it was never being defeated, not even once. For another, it was learning to exist outside the Planes. And for one it was even killing herself. These feats beyond normal capabilities are what create Gods." "Wait, so you mean, the Gods are Gods just, because?" He stared in disbelief, that was the worst revelation he could have gotten, no wonder Lord had left it to a middleman. "Not quite," Black Idol responded, "To quote Lord directly, 'We are Gods because we overcame our humanity.'" "I see, that's, a bit less frustrating to hear." Adam still didn't like learning this. That there was no special secret to being a God, you just had to be good enough or lucky enough for a Plane to choose you. It didn't seem fair that someone like Astra could acquire godhood without knowing something that the rest of the world didn't know. He could certainly guess what that bastard's way of, "overcoming his humanity" was. His fists visibly clenched up in response to his rapidly growing anger. The Diviner "Very well then, take your shirt off, lay down on the operation table, and I'll extract the needed favor." The Diviner explained, leading Lawrence to a porcelain slab. Once Lawrence was laying down, he grabbed a tube with a small needle on it off the wall and inserted it into the center of Lawrence's chest, just below the sternum. There was a slight stinging, but any experienced pilot knew by now how this worked. The Diviner was loath to imagine the days before his technology, when people were forced to go into complex meditations to modify their armaments, nowadays they just had to have a needle stuck in them. A few minutes after the insertion, a ding spring up from a nearby monitor and The Diviner removed the tube. "Alright, I've gathered the Favor from your mech system, you're free to oversee the specifics if you like." The Diviner began tapping away at the monitor, shifting power from Ricochet's thrusters. It was convenient that the mech was still in its repair cycle, it would take a good bit less favor than normal to modify sections that hadn't regenerated yet.

(OOC: You know what, Ima throw Mommo a bone) "Boo." The text message suddenly appeared on Mommo's HUD. The sender was identified as "text_gun_alpha," a very odd name to say the least. Even more odd was that she was receiving messages during interplanar travel, that was next to impossible. "I have to say, sweet Mommo, watching your battle earlier, it was a bit painful." There was a pause between messages, giving Mommo a chance to wonder if she was simply losing her mind before a flurry of messages popped up. "You fought well, but then you let that HUNTER girl get to you. Is your will really that weak?" "You want to be like Sleeping Bear, right?" "Well Bear may be lazy, but he also has quite the reservoir of will." "It takes a lot to be so immovable that you become a god by taking a nap." "So tell me, sweet Mommo, can you be like that while also being so uncertain of yourself?"

Nope, Swagalicious is the real thing He's an innuendo-obsessive dork with the most annoying face I could think of Don't be too scared off by the silliness, I actually think he's a pretty well-done character