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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1215 on: November 27, 2015, 11:18:27 PM »
It has come to the attention of the GMs in a recent group deliberation and sorting of affairs left pending until now that there is a problem with Knick's antagonist character, Hamara. A big problem.

Due to some oversight on part of the current GMs, none of us had actually given Hamara's character sheet - which was approved as an antagonist when Elf was still head GM - careful appraisal (or even seen it, for some of us) until now. This was both due to us believing in prior judgement, and trusting Knick to run his antagonist and related developments fairly, not wanting to ruin things for ourselves narrative wise by ways of spoilers.

That trust, however, has been breached. Hamara's character sheet proper as was submitted and approved is lacking a great amount of what he has shown in the RP so far, and is grossly inaccurate or directly contradictory to much in the way he has been played so far. A great deal of Hamara's capabilities and resources have seemingly been added to the character over time without GM scrutiny or been altered significantly from the sheet, again without explicit permission.

This is inadmissible and incredibly disappointing. I apologize to everyone who has complained about Hamara in the past or butted heads in regards to the questionable details of the now stopped event for this blunder on my part. It was a painful miss of my responsibilities to not make myself privy to the full details of the antagonists when I became Head GM.

To Knick, I'm sorry to say, but you are not allowed to continue with Hamara. He is now removed from the antagonist position, and your ability to apply for further Antagonists permanently revoked.

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« Last Edit: November 28, 2015, 11:14:09 PM by YOLF »
[13:38:37] Helligator: Depends on the god, but gods by definition in Nasuverse are strong because they have divine authority.
[13:38:48] Kat: Even the toilet god?
[13:38:56] Helligator: No one worships toilets.
[13:39:00] Helligator: Don't be a shitlord.

[04:32:08] Helligator: I can't make dragons in power armor like this

[19:50:12] francobull III: [...] why are you being all assive aggressive?

[23:32:37] Helligator: use the narrative as a means to convey an interesting story and cool conflicts with the openness you're allowed
[23:32:43] Helligator: not to CHEAT stories and conflicts

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1216 on: November 28, 2015, 10:57:47 PM »
This will be quite a surprise for him to come back to.

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1217 on: November 28, 2015, 11:32:47 PM »
Assuming he comes back
[8:49:50 AM] Daniel Mahan: He can still get RAEG
[8:49:52 AM] Daniel Mahan: Just better at not loosing his marbles over it.
[8:50:09 AM] Helligator:> losing his marbles over it
                                      I seeeee what you did there


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[11:00:39 PM] Jennifer Bratcher: I'd bend her over and . . .
[11:00:45 PM] francobull III: woah woah

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1218 on: November 29, 2015, 04:19:31 AM »
So a decision has actually been made on the addition of a fifth sheet. If a player who has already shown they can be active in the RP over time commits to keep up with posting and not spread themselves thin, a fifth character slot will be allowed for them.

This fifth sheet may be revoked if they slow down sufficiently to drag out the RP.

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1219 on: December 21, 2015, 11:26:18 AM »
I figured out I don't have as much fun with Gintoki as I wanted, and he's kinda in a spot where he could be easily retconed out, so I'm dropping him. Franco and Nachos can disregard knocking, and I will try to post a replacement sheet soon, since I have an idea whom I want to play.

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1220 on: December 27, 2015, 06:25:57 AM »
So sinib is having dsm problems on his phone, so he's asked me to post for him. The post is word per word, so don't worry about authenticity.

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1221 on: December 27, 2015, 07:32:56 PM »
You know you can post as another user, right? As in, you can make your posts appear as if they're coming from someone else. I've done it for Bdoom before. It's a little less confusing that having you post as one of his characters, I think.

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1222 on: December 27, 2015, 10:50:11 PM »
tbh that sounds like effort and it's too late now. I mean, I posted in the gd and everything to let people know, it should be fine

I will keep it in mind though.

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1223 on: December 27, 2015, 11:20:07 PM »
Yeah, there's no point changing it now, but it's really not effort. You just have to enter a user's name into the "Post as alternative user" box.

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1224 on: December 30, 2015, 05:15:13 AM »
Allright Break there is a great, great deal wrong with your sheet. in a word, it’s shit. Total and complete garbage. The only thing that is okay about the sheet is the name and appearance sections. But don’t worry, I’m gonna tell you exactly.

Ok, so, first off, there are immense issues with spelling and grammar. Countless sentences aren’t capitalized, and there are several misspelled words throughout.
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Race: human/homunculus
What does this mean? The way you’ve described it in the origin is just a normal homunculi, really. If there’s a significant difference, you need to explain how and why, preferrably in other abilities.
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Physical attributes

Strength: Human

Agility: exceptional

constitution: exceptional

magic scale: Extremely high
You need to capitalize the stat names exceptional. But more importantly, literally nothing he has justifies an Extremely High rank in magic. That’s reserved for the best of the best, the most ridiculous of the most ridiculous, people who had ridiculously powerful magic and are also ridiculously versatile. You need to rethink the rank you gave him.

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Other abilities:

Deduction: the innate talent of the "detective" made manifest and honed over many supernatural and mundane cases, the ability to think outside of the box and solve seemingly unsolvable crimes. Somewhat lessened in the case of mundane crimes due to a magus' common sense.
This is really really awkward. Does it just mean he’s a detective?

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Magic Crest: the magic crest of his family, allowing for the use of spells his forefathers devised with relative ease; the Vogelsang family mainly focused on focusing the three elements of cold, wind and fire in tangible shapes; mainly finds use in elemental spears or walls, conjuring elemental "armor" was the ultimate goal of his family's magic research.

Magic: instead of continuing his family's research on elemental magic, Evan himself specialised in high-level structural magic, including an unusual expertise in structural analysis, which he can use to pick locks or find irregularities. He is also able to analyze living bodies, allowing him to determine many truths about others.
Aside from that, he knows the standard spells like strengthening and repair, as well as pure mana explosions.
Why is this under other abilities? It’s explicitly his magic, and thusly should be put underneath the magic abilities section. Also what kind of element is cold?

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equipment: Evan owns a quite peculiar Mystic Code, a mysterious trinket he picked up during one of his earliest cases and subsequently modified to be his personal mystic code: the "Nadel des Schmerzes", a syringe's needle that used to belong to one peculiar criminal; even without a syringe, it can inject several kinds of venom, drugs and even magic extracts that can cause various effects.
It can also be used to inject a magic "doping", that way turning a non-fighter like Evan into an extremely fast  berserker; this doping, however, causes great pain to the subject and uses up their prana extremely fast.
You need to elaborate a great deal more. What the fuck is magic doping? How is it normal from normal doping? What stats does it raise him to? What are some of the effects of the syringe? Etcetera.

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Origin:Evan is the result of a regressing magus family secretly resorting to alchemistical means to "revitalize" their bloodline; using a homunculus surrogate mother, Evan can be described as a Magus' version of a designer child.
As a result of that, his magic potential is unusually high; as his body houses the homunculus-typical amount of high-quality magic circuits as well as his family's magic crest, allowing him to use a plethora of spells with ease.
He spent years at the Clock Tower at the behest of his family, however he was always more interested in solving riddles than in studying magic; again and again, he would descent into the bowels of London, follow his "game" of detective; sometimes he'd be gone for weeks before returning to the Clock Tower.
Eventually, he decided to truly specialize in the field and became an Enforcer of the Magus association, while freelancing as "magic detective" whenever he was'nt called upon.
There are quite a few spelling errors in this, and could use a great deal more fluffing out. This section is there so people can get to know and understand your character a bit, and I don’t really know anything about him other than the absolute barest of bones.


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weakness:as a beeing close to homunculi, he is very reliant on his mana; while a high mana pool is a given, should it be endangered, so would his life.
He is also very reliant on his Mystic code when fighting, as he is physically very weak without it
Furthermore, despite his appearance, he is quite weak to women.
How is he physically shit if he’s on par with olympic athletes?
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likes: interesting cases, cute girls, punk rock, seafood

dislikes: heat, licorice
You could add a few more to both likes and dislikes.

Overall, the entire sheet is extremely barebones and would greatly benefit from the addition of a great deal of clarification, along with the other noted issues.

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1225 on: December 30, 2015, 05:32:08 AM »
Thanks for the advice, yeah i kind of wrote the sheet on the go with only the idea of "magic detective" in mind.

Didnt know how much fluff was necessary for just the sheet, as it differed greatly between the others in the thread

i wrote "human/homunculus" since he is a mixture like Illya, unlike a normal homunculus which would basically be a clone
His father is a human and part of the aforementioned regressing magus family, the homunculus surrogate mother was a loan from the Einzberns


the high magic rank is justified by him beeing a Homunculus, as they are always described as having extremely high magic potential due to basically beeing made of magic circuits


as for the deduction skill.... yeah, it just means he's a detective xD


ah okay, didnt know where to put the magic since its the first time i did a sheet for this
yeah cold is just ice.

yeah the needle's magic doping... its just saying that it's creating drugs with magic, both poisions and a kind of doping that heightens his stats
yeah i wanted to think up the other details of what kind of effects the syringe can cause later on, but i guess i should do that in the sheet itself huh


yeah i'll think up some more details than that, sorry.

My idea was that he's physically shit unless he's using the syringe and/or strengthening magic
so the stats there are him while using the syringe

yeah i guess ill have to think up more of a backstory for the likes and dislikes and stuff

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1226 on: January 06, 2016, 05:41:54 AM »
Blackburn post will be done tomorrow (Wednesday's) morning.

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1227 on: January 07, 2016, 03:09:23 AM »
Since when does Archer use or even know about memes
4chan memes, not even 2chan
[13:38:37] Helligator: Depends on the god, but gods by definition in Nasuverse are strong because they have divine authority.
[13:38:48] Kat: Even the toilet god?
[13:38:56] Helligator: No one worships toilets.
[13:39:00] Helligator: Don't be a shitlord.

[04:32:08] Helligator: I can't make dragons in power armor like this

[19:50:12] francobull III: [...] why are you being all assive aggressive?

[23:32:37] Helligator: use the narrative as a means to convey an interesting story and cool conflicts with the openness you're allowed
[23:32:43] Helligator: not to CHEAT stories and conflicts

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1228 on: January 07, 2016, 02:59:31 PM »
Only Blackbeard and Okita possess the knowledge of internet memes.

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Re: Cross Effects 3.0 - The Third Time's the Charm? General Discussion
« Reply #1229 on: January 07, 2016, 03:13:43 PM »
Let the memes flow through you. Embrace them, and join the dark side.
[8:49:50 AM] Daniel Mahan: He can still get RAEG
[8:49:52 AM] Daniel Mahan: Just better at not loosing his marbles over it.
[8:50:09 AM] Helligator:> losing his marbles over it
                                      I seeeee what you did there


[11:00:22 PM] francobull III: elf, will you do rin?
[11:00:33 PM] Jennifer Bratcher: I would love to do Rin!
[11:00:39 PM] Jennifer Bratcher: I'd bend her over and . . .
[11:00:45 PM] francobull III: woah woah

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