Shamitako

The Plant and Brumal Girls The second creature was smashed to bits by Ciri's swing, shattering into gushing waves of Red. The other remained frozen by Rei. The logical consequence of this was of course that the Plant Girl swung again and smashed the third foe. Unfortunately, there was no time for rest, as the Black creeped forward towards them. Ciri felt less urgency in escaping it now that she was covered in Red, but not safe enough to warrant waiting for it to catch up. Down the hallway the girls found a doorway leading out into a room full of spikes and square pillars of varying heights. In said room there was another girl standing on a ledge, she looked like she was contemplating whether to try to parkour her way through or not. Also at the end of the hallway, before the door into the spike room, there was a gap a ways up in the wall, similar in size to the one Ciri had entered from. ~~~ The War Girl With some struggling and a great deal of pain, Petra managed to successfully restrain the wasp. Her attack shredded through it, causing it to crumble into Red. She was now free to make her way to the exit.

Prei smacks Waddle Dee2 for 1 damage, killing it Tesla's attack hits nothing The Waddle Dee transforms into a star and winks out of existence Eon rains on Waddle Dee1's parade, dealing 5 damage to it Victoria's shot bounces off it harmlessly, dealing 0 damage Randomly, Tesla's earlier attack redirects itself into the Waddle Dee and does a minimum of 8 damage which is enough. It winks out of existence and the encounter ends Drops List: (You can distribute these OOC) Having cleared this obstacle, the group rested to regain their strength. Then Chronos led the party towards the ruins in the distance. They reached them without further interruption, but what they found was certainly odd. It was a giant grid of black and white. As soon as they saw it, the entire group, including Chronos, found themselves transported onto the grid. Across from them were a multitude of different enemies. A bunch more Waddle Dees, two strange, rotating creatures that extruded flames, two orange orbs of pure energy, and two armored creatures with swords. In the center of this enemy horde were two humans, Hiroki and Chronos recognized them instantly as Blink and Wine. On the left was Blink in a jumpsuit. On the right the aging Wine stood stock still in a heavy coat, the beads of sweat on her face indicated she had not dressed this way with the intent of visiting Wrath. "Merlin, you're supposed to be on this side!" Blink yelled out. Her shout directed the group's attention the the corner on their right, where they spotted a redheaded woman in a rather skimpy witch cosplay. "I like it better over here." Merlin replied. Noticing the rest of the group's confusion, she added, "Blink." Chronos looked just as confused as anyone. "Merlin? Blink? Wine?" It said, baffled by Merlin's poor attempt at exposition, "What are you doing here?" "What's it look like?" Blink said, "We're playing a fucking game." "What might the rules be to this game?" Chronos asked. "Chess." Wine said monotonously. The actual rules conveniently appeared in everyone's minds. Also Hiroki and Tesla found they couldn't summon the physical form of their mechs but could still use some of the basic functions and they were still guarded by Favor. Location: 0. Puzzle(?): Chess Initiative ~Chess Rules~ Alright, been looking forward to this one. The rules are complicated: Win by capturing the enemy king Everything moves every turn, actions are taken in order of initiative Each turn you may choose to do nothing, move, or attack When moving or attacking, place the coordinate of the location you are targeting as well as which action you are taking in bold in your post so I know where you're going You must move according to the abilities of the chess piece you've been assigned You must also attack according to these abilities. If an attack hits an enemy, that enemy is captured and removed from the game On attack, if you capture a piece you move to its location, otherwise you remain in place as if you had done nothing Except for knights, nothing can attack or move through another piece. If anything moves between you and your target square, your attack/move fails It is entirely possible to friendly fire so watch where your allies are attacking/moving The enemies will be moving as if I don't know what the party is doing, you're already at a disadvantage, I'm not going to make it worse <3 You don't actually use any actions, everything is single target one-shots If you are captured your max HP will be set to 3/4ths of its standard value until the end of your next battle If you capture an enemy it might drop an essence It probably sucks to be a pawn Here's the board: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11Ykr1wquv3a7CCDYAHFB1SPUooP46UI0a0xsVHqYf3Q/edit#gid=0 To start this turn off, here's the allied NPC actions for you to plan around: Chronos does nothing. Merlin attacks H4

Expired. Wat. That one shouldn't expire... 1sec EDIT: As best I can tell it's fine, so that's odd. Here's a temp one https://discord.gg/4nb2X

I decided not to limit it this time around. So it'll be as many put in sheets before the RP starts. And the RP will start when I feel like we have enough players So basically as many as I feel like

That's fine then. Lemme real quick grab a thing from a bit into the previous OOC And with that said, accepted

He is still a child Other than that I don't really have anything to pick at Tesla and Wally are accepted as per previous discussion

I'll be honest, I didn't count since there were more obvious issues than numbers. Also constantly running her mech is still dangerous. Also also I just remembered that Wally is already using the "breathing is hard" trait and while you can totally also do that he might overshadow you in that regard, just FYI ^^ A speaker of some kind would work fine Ah, let me clarify slightly: Everything is using Favor, I just mean that she can make it semi-freely I'm more or less imagining her piloting Zac from League, lel

Take your time, I look forward to it ^^// Uhh... It's literally impossible for a Body person to have an odd melee stat after the changes Favor-based tech (barring the stuff left behind by the Precursors/Ancients/I swear they'll get a name eventually) is a good 30-40 years out at this point in time (that's 5-15 from TTG-times), meaning for this to work you'd have to be constantly using your mech to function (not a recommended course of action, also in this case impossible, getting to that in a moment Meanwhile, chemical medicine could probably handle even the most severe of allergies pretty easily as of... probably last year, maybe the year before I don't have a date for the public spread of medication but it's between the Divination system and now. Although this is old Pride so you can easily excuse not having access to the latest medicines as they're slow to accept scientific advances ^ So I didn't mention it since I wasn't really expecting it to come up, but I'm fairly certain that at this point in the timeline HUDs (which are the primary form of short-range communications besides talking and may or may not use radio signals, I'm too lazy to figure out a good explanation) are still pretty expensive so most of the other kids aren't going to have access to them You can make more with more Favor, but absorbing other materials opens up way too many dangerous holes for me to be okay with it

Mega Star Cannon Merlin rubbed her temples in frustration. She wasn't really the best at dealing with stressed companions. If she were she wouldn't be in this situation in the first place. Then Anemone had her outburst, and that was the last straw. This was serious. Merlin hated serious, but this was it. And if her students were going to spend more time fighting each other than helping her, then she would let them and clean up the mess later. The tips of her fingers and toes started to glow orange and purple, as did her shoulders. There was a flash and suddenly her outfit was a whole lot more complete. Long black gloves with purple designs on them ran over her arms, almost all the way to her shoulders. Matching heeled boots climbed her legs to just underneath her skirt. The skirt itself had become attached to her top, forming a short dress with an open back and the same black and purple coloration. To cover this opening was a short cape which ran just past the edge of her skirt, once more using the black-with-purple-trim scheme. Also her hat got recolored slightly so the brim and the base where the point went up were circled by purple. Now properly dressed, Merlin headed for the exit. The door to the room flew open with such force that it nearly knocked the storming Anemone off her feet. Merlin ignored her and walked past Exile without even glancing in her direction. This was a side of Merlin that none of them had seen before; they certainly hadn't seen her wear so much clothing. She seemed distant, as thugh she wasn't even a part of the same world as them. And the way she walked was powerful and rigid, she looked as though every step could erupt in flames and kill them all. One word perfectly described her in this moment: Furious.

Fedora (OOC: MSC coming later. Also you are a prisoner, thus you are in front of Ansuz) Ansuz grabbed Feardorcha's shoulder (which definitely did not require any standing on tip-toes, nope) and made him stop and turn around. "I was saving this for Merlin, but it seems like you're going to be a pest." He said, "It's a shame to reveal this to someone less than her, but alas, it must be done." Ansuz's arm moved with blinding speed and suddenly Feardorcha's mouth was adorned with some kind of sticky grey plastic. "This multipurpose device has been reverse engineered from a powerful piece of ancient technology." Ansuz boasted, "According to the Carls scientists, it was used for everything from restraining prisoners to sealing holes in watercraft. Some have even said it was the single most transformative influence of human civilization. So don't bother struggling, you won't succeed." The pair continued on in silence, following the hall deeper into the facility. Eventually they entered a rather large room with a metal table in the center next to some eerie looking surgical tools. "Ignore those." Ansuz said calmly, "Carls just has a killer dental plan. Look over there instead." Ansuz pointed over at a strange cylinder with a glass front. "Get in that. Don't worry, it won't do anything to you besides lock you inside. Just looked captured and afraid and I'll let you free when this is done." (OOC: I'm so, so sorry for leaving you captured for half the plot, Cronos, I was intending for Exile to get you out, but, uh, that sort of didn't work out. Oops :c )

Mega Star Cannon Amelia detected Anemone's attempted tackle and reacted instantly, suddenly appearing between the pair with her arms outstretched to keep them apart. Cheryn's barrier actually appeared around her, shimmering against her personal field. "Okay, how about we not start infighting and you both explain to me what just happened." She said sternly. It seemed rather hypocritical considering she had just attacked the group. But meanwhile, Cheryn had successfully ruined the machine. But instead of a slow, groggy awakening from being sedated, Tallow's eyes darted open and he was instantly alert. Whatever the machine had been doing, it must have stopped. His eyes widened in terror at Cheryn's shield and Blink within it. Orbs of electricity about the size of a baseball began forming slowly in the air above him, moving between him and the threat. Merlin's jaw practically broke through the floor. "But, how?" She mumbled, dumbfounded. She didn't stay dumbfounded for long, however, as she quickly blasted several of the wisps out of the air with a storm of fireballs. Tallow screamed in fear. And then he was gone, in his place was another wisp, this one made of blue wind energy. The wisp darted out through the wall. Amelia removed herself from the barrier and dashed out the door after it. "And that is why we are waiting to help the children." Merlin said somewhat angrily, "However, I do admit I was wrong, apparently they can teach an unwilling child magic in such a short time." Exile Exile, just arriving outside in the hall, heard the scream and saw this strange swirling orb of blue dash out through the wall. It seemed to spot her and flew off in the opposite direction, heading for the building's exit. Amelia dashed out the door and chased after it. Apparently Merlin's plan had failed, seeing as Amelia was still running around freely. Fedora Feardorcha remained alone in his cage, looking for his would-be rescuer to return with help. Suddenly, a small girl in a white and black jumpsuit appeared on the other side of the cage. Feardorcha recognized him of course, it was Ansuz, the very traitor they were searching for. "Oh, I wasn't expecting you." Ansuz said, observing his capture, "Well, it's not like it matters who it is. Come on." Ansuz tossed down a piece of plastic with another symbol scrawled on it. The symbol glowed red and a green blade of wind ashed out and sliced open the cage, freeing Feardorcha to head deeper into the facility. "And for the record, I know you're terribly equipped for combat." Ansuz said, "Try to escape and we'll see exactly how terrible. Now start walking." Ansuz's girlish voice seemed strained and there were the remains of tears on his face, making him sound desperate. And that sense of desperation made him seem all the more dangerous.

EDIT: Got my mastery 6 for Middle, woot. Time to work towards 7 "Sona why are you mid?" - Twitch Apparently it was to CS very poorly

~NPCs~ Victoria McKay Tobias Hartford Cameron Argyle Jeff Carlisle Min-Su McKay

~Accepted Characters~ Tesla, Stratos Wally, Stratos Maxim, Mr. Divergent Aera, IntSys Debronee, Noir Artemis and Fowl (I AM SO MANY CRINGE I'M SORRY), Alexus

IC: http://www.rebornevo.com/forum/index.php?/topic/26478-ic-tpos-chapter-i-seven/ Original TPoS: http://www.rebornevo.com/forum/index.php?/topic/21831-oocthe-pride-of-sheep-a-ttg-prologue-sign-ups-closed/ Original IC: http://www.rebornevo.com/forum/index.php?/topic/22009-ic-the-pride-of-sheep/ TTG: http://www.rebornevo.com/forum/index.php?/topic/20182-ooc-the-tenth-god-sign-ups-closed/ Discord: https://discord.gg/nzBhsNE Alright, let's try this again! The following is the key stuff, please read through the old OOC if you want the full story. No character limits this time, old characters will be re-accepted with minor edits based on the changes being made to the system (Body got buffed). New characters will not be retroactively added to the group, you'll be written in as sympathetic kids who recently went through your own coming-of-age fight things who volunteered to help out ~Background and Previous Events Summary~ Two groups with varying opinions on how to practice the honorable art of mech wielding forced kids to choose a side at seven and then fight to earn their place in the culture. Then a third side popped up and a buncha people hopped over there, tired of the constant divide in their culture. But then they just ended up divided in three instead of two. A certain group of children containing the prodigy Victoria McKay were finally set to face off against each other but before they could finish what had become a vicious fight, they were interrupted by the powerful Watcher. He disappeared with Victoria and one of her friends, a boy named Wallace, leaving her young friends in their confusion. The young but brilliant Tobias Hartford stepped in before anyone could make any harsh reaction and calmly presented a solution: He would accompany a group of young warriors to go hunt down Watcher and bring back Victoria and Wallace. And thus we come to now, you shall play one of the children that helps Tobias bring back Victoria and Wallace. Also probably more dramatic-type stuff will happen (Warning, intense copy/pasting ahead) ~Mechs~ Each character will posses a suit of battle armor, usually a humanoid not much larger than they are, unique to them (think like IS or Accel World) which is usually referred to simply as a mech. Mechs are generally created via meditation, but the new Divination System allows for them to created via artificial means Speed: Pretty easy to comprehend, gives an idea of how fast you can move. Keep in mind that this is about mobility, not reflexes every mech is more or less even when it comes to the speed of their joints Melee: A mech's affinity for close ranged fighting. Takes into account strength and weaponry combined, so keep in mind that a high melee mech may still be physically weak or that an unarmed mech may still be able to overpower you in melee combat. Also keep in mind that melee weapons basically just means "not guns." Weapons that are thrown or have a long reach such as knives or flails still qualify as melee Firepower: How much a mech can shoot. Lasers, projectile weapons, and explosives all go under this category Armor: How much of a beating a mech can take. Most mechs have all-purpose armor, but there are specialty armors which can be used to keep this rating deceptively low for certain opponents (EX: anti-projectile armor that is useless against anything else is a low rating, but a projectile only user will be in trouble) There are also forcefields for dealing with energy-based attacks such as lasers and explosives Special Ability: An ability more or less unique to each mech (there's multiple people who can fly and stuff like that, but generally Tempest's residents go for more unique abilities, especially in the Plane of Pride) This ability can be used to cancel a weakness, play to your strengths, etc. A mech comes built in with an ability when a person activates it that is meant to fit that person, but the ability isn't hard to change with enough Favor. Signature Attack: Much like the above, but specifically an attack. A lot of people use this as a large finishing ability, but it can more or less be anything. The only catch is that it must have specific conditions under which it can be activated, thus the common condition of, "I'm going in to finish them off." ~Faction Limitations~ Each of the factions has different capabilities in their mech designs, so choose wisely (the bit in brackets is how many stat points you get) Mind[11]: Followers of the Mind gain the most control over their mech's design, allowing them to designate their points freely across all stats, but they are limited in their technology. They may use simple mechanical creations (such as primitive firearms), but cannot use computerized or energy based technology Tech[10]: Those who use Tech have free use of technology, but may put no more than five points into any one stat Body[6]: The followers of the body are limited to two points in Firepower, but are free with other stats. They must rely on very weak technology and may not use weapons or defenses beyond a medieval level. They do, however, get double the effective points when investing in melee (getting to 6 points in melee only costs 3 stat points) and don't have to spend stats on their signature so long as it makes physical contact ~Rules~ Keep calm. Things won't always go your way, don't freak out No metagaming. Your characters know very little about each other outside a few gatherings of the Table, a rather uncommon occurrence Try to keep Suism to a minimum. Instead of the default "no Sues" I'm going to keep in mind that Suism is a fluid concept and that there's no line where things go from "not-Sue" to "Sue." So instead, just try to keep yoursuelf in check. I'll certainly let you know if you go overboard No godmodding, powerplaying, and etc. The other generic RP taboos. Just because I'm not going out of my way to explain them doesn't mean you should do them DANCE I mean, um, have fun and stuff ~Personal Traits~ The biggest issue with the TTG system has been my crappy attempts are character skills. They're just too narrow. And attempting to make a list... Was bad... So instead you can give your character a minor advantage based on their own personal abilities. You can get a stronger one if you give yourself a disadvantage that justifies this, but I'll be keeping pretty strict reins on these, don't be surprised if you get a simple, "No, that's too strong." Without any further explanation ~Character Sheet~ As always, feel free to ask questions because I'm sure to have forgotten something important

Those Guys The ground shook as Gypsy's help slowly approached. Blinded by their gold and black cage, the group could do little besides wait. After what felt like an eternity, the shaking finally stopped. A voice exploded into their ears. Not through their comms, whoever it was must still have been out of range for that, but from a loudspeaker. "Sorry for the delay, this thing isn't built for speed." It said in a low, rumbling tone, "If you would, please send out a representative for me to speak with. I'd like to know what you're doing here and who that girl with the cannon was. The bees will open to let one individual through if you come peaceably." Gypsy seemed incapacitated. After him the one who had been around the longest was probably Bellona, although due to the infrequency of Merlin calling the Round Table together in one place, it was impossible to know for certain if she or Charity had actually showed up first. "Um, so... Gypsy is hurt." Charity spoke up, "I mean obviously, but I just mean he can't go or decide who to send, so we have to." It was apparent that Charity had no intention of taking the reigns here and was more willing to leave it to a group decision.

Mega Star Cannon Merlin lets out a long breath, indicating that she wasn't quite ready for the question. Blink stifled her laughter and sat up. "You want me to do the grand expose, not-assistant Cloud?" She asked semi-teasingly. "You know full well it had nothing to do with Leonard, and he offered a lot more than assistant." Merlin snapped. "Calm your bazongas, I'm just teasing." Merlin ignored her and finally answered the question, "So, first off, I confess a bit of this is just me. Magic was my dream when I was little, though it seems so long ago now, and after humanity came to the Planes I wanted to keep my dream alive, and pure. So part of it is my own want to maintain magic is a separate entity. But there's also the fact that magic is simply different from mechs. At their closest, mechs are a sort of martial art, a discipline of self-control and training, which might not be the worst route for magic. But now that they've become more mainstream, and I knew from the beginning that they would, there's a lot less discipline. For all I know someone could end up being a top fighter with some garbage like grapple hands, and who knows how someone like that might try to abuse magic? And having seen magic abused before, I'd rather not risk it again. Mechs are simply to accessible, it's much safer to watch over a small group of mages on my own." Merlin didn't have to voice her concern that she'd been wrong about that. She had only had one failure, but that failure threatened to ruin centuries of secrecy. (OOC: For the record, y'all do know that Merlin claims to have lived through humanity's relocation, although she doesn't share details)

Leon moves very suddenly and slashes Waddle Dee2 for 5 damage Prei deploys a set of very wet spears to assist her. She also regenerates 4 HP Tesla's attack deals 7 damage to Waddle Doo and kills it, she follows with 7 damage overkill Waddle Doo turns into a star and winks out of existence, dropping a trophy in its likeness Atton miraculously manages to hit Waddle Dee 2 for 13 damage Eon calls down 5 damage on Waddle Dee1, 5 damage on Waddle Dee2, and what would have been 7 damage on Waddle Doo's trophy Victoria deals 0 damage and applies Venom to the deceased Waddle Doo Sparky1 clenches up and unleashes a storm of electricity dealing 2 damage to Prei, doing nothing to Tesla, dealing 2 damage to Leon, and dealing 3 damage to Atton. It lowers all except Tesla's INIT by 3 Prei counterattacks Sparky1 for 1 damage, Her Elemental Spears follow with 7 more Dimitri shoots Waddle Dee1 for a solid 15 damage Waddle Dee1 wobbles into Argent for 5 damage Waddle Dee2 stumbles into Victoria, dealing 7 damage Argent erupts hellfire on Sparky1, finishing it off with 3 damage Sparky1 winks out of existence, leaving behind another Spark Essence Hiroki unleashes a storm of fire, dealing 12 damage to Waddle Dee2, 12 to Waddle Dee2, and 12 to Sparky1's remains Location: 0. Battle: Turn 3 Initiative Party Status Enemy Status