The Tower of Druaga (heroic fantasy- Started)

[hiei82]

I really didn't want to mention this either but I agree that this RP doesn't have alot of time left on the account of a lack of players and the finals(at least in America) taking place right now or at least in this time span. Hopefully Asc, you can get a new RP going or something but I do enjoy this RP enough to try and post more often.

You're right about the finals thing, I'm just lucky enough to have had all my finals be given as either essays or be in classes so easy I could sleep through the final and get an A (W00T paying attention in class!)

Also I can spend a full day on Tvtropes, just sayin

I'm sorry. I will try not to post anymore links.

 

[hiei82]

On the subject of dying RP.

I'm not convinced the RP IS dying... In the last week or so, nine different people have posted so the player base still exists. What more, it is crunch time (at least for those players who are in American colleges) so of course the posting is slower. As long as we hammer out the obvious problems with some characters being overpowered - the problem that seems to keep coming back to bite us in the arse - I see no reason to call it dying.

Possible solution: [b/]Aleister is ordered to take Stonefuse's soul, but he refuses. The so called reapers take control and try to destroy Stonefuse. Aleister resists, saving Stonefuse's life, but weakening Stonefuse tremendously. The reapers then take away Aleister's powers for his defiance and the reapers join the bad guys. Stonefuse has to learn what it's like to be mortal and Aleister has a whole score of villains that don't much like him.[/b] - And I made this up in 5 minutes.

Edit: Out-of-game, power balance is restored; in-game, more plot elements are introduced.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

On the subject of dying RP.

Possible solution: [b/]Aleister is ordered to take Stonefuse's soul, but he refuses. The so called reapers take control and try to destroy Stonefuse. Aleister resists, saving Stonefuse's life, but weakening Stonefuse tremendously. The reapers then take away Aleister's powers for his defiance and the reapers join the bad guys. Stonefuse has to learn what it's like to be mortal and Aleister has a whole score of villains that don't much like him.[/b] - And I made this up in 5 minutes.

Edit: Out-of-game, power balance is restored; in-game, more plot elements are introduced.

Or here's another idea, it could be that he has to take Faunra's soul, The Reapers saying that its she who is holding back his growth. But along the lines of your suggestion.

In any case, an interesting idea.

For another idea, he has to sacrifice a lot of his Reaper power, to save one of the groups life.

 

[hiei82]

On the subject of dying RP.

Possible solution: [b/]Aleister is ordered to take Stonefuse's soul, but he refuses. The so called reapers take control and try to destroy Stonefuse. Aleister resists, saving Stonefuse's life, but weakening Stonefuse tremendously. The reapers then take away Aleister's powers for his defiance and the reapers join the bad guys. Stonefuse has to learn what it's like to be mortal and Aleister has a whole score of villains that don't much like him.[/b] - And I made this up in 5 minutes.

Edit: Out-of-game, power balance is restored; in-game, more plot elements are introduced.

Or here's another idea, it could be that he has to take Faunra's soul, The Reapers saying that its she who is holding back his growth. But along the lines of your suggestion.

In any case, an interesting idea.

For another idea, he has to sacrifice a lot of his Reaper power, to save one of the groups life.

Either works and I like them, but they don't have the added advantage of fixing NastoK's problems with Stonefuse. Right now, Aleister is, as NastoK said, the only one who might be able to do something to Stonefuse. We could work in the first idea, having Stonefuse interject at the last moment to stop Aleister (who is being controlled), thus injuring him to the point where sacrificing the reaper power could save him (combining all three ideas)

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Any input? This does involve Stonefuse after-all and it is to help fix the problems you have with your character.

 

[TheNaut131]

Or why wouldn't I be the all so clever and smart inventor that never runs out of his doodads or the supplies needed to make them and also has a wicked slingshot that doesn't look like one and - oh yeah - also has a wind spell (if I remember correctly), and just so he'd be more awesome uses tons of, again, cliche jokes that we've all grown to either chuckle at or facepalm ourselves when we hear them.

Well, someone had to say it.

This has been bugging me for sometime, thinking about what I exactly wanted Atticus to be. I honestly wanted to make him...I don't know. I didn't worry about tropes and all that, I just sorta put whatever popped into my head at the time. I kinda shifted Atticus's tone after we arrived in hiei's level. I don't know, I just...well, it's the old Add-a-bit-of-yourself-and then-something-you're-not issue.

Wow, watching you're posts makes me feel like I somehow started all this. Eh, I've not been keeping up with my GM duties. Perhaps I'm a bit too controlling? Is too much happening at once? NastoK pointed out that we're not really letting our characters develop enough or perhaps a bit too fast. Eh, I'll think about this later...

And I've also got finals to deal with, plus other issues at home.

Oh, and as for some of Red's comments on Asc...Asc kinda did this in the Evangelion RP. We barely ever saw Nikolai. He was an 11 year old prodigy with HIV. I don't really ever remember him taking his medicine, going to get a check up, or anything. It could've been okay if he wasn't really fraternizing with the characters outside of the Eva's, perhaps being a bit reclusive, but we barely ever saw what his everyday life was like based on who he was.

Then again, things weren't like this game. We all rotate depending on the level, in the Evangelion thread Asc had to sorta set up everything.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Wow, watching you're posts makes me feel like I somehow started all this. Eh, I've not been keeping up with my GM duties. Perhaps I'm a bit too controlling? Is too much happening at once? NastoK pointed out that we're not really letting our characters develop enough or perhaps a bit too fast. Eh, I'll think about this later...

Perhaps now that the threat of miners is over for the time being, we could have some down time, you know, relax a bit. Help develop our characters on a more personal level.

 

[Redryhno]

Perhaps now that the threat of miners is over for the time being, we could have some down time, you know, relax a bit. Help develop our characters on a more personal level.

Yeah... slow down a bit.... In the middle of a level where the inhabitants probably see us as some kind of bad luck bringers? We can't exactly just leave either, I think Naut still has story for the level, and we aren't sure where the portal is yet.

 

[TheNaut131]

Wow, watching you're posts makes me feel like I somehow started all this. Eh, I've not been keeping up with my GM duties. Perhaps I'm a bit too controlling? Is too much happening at once? NastoK pointed out that we're not really letting our characters develop enough or perhaps a bit too fast. Eh, I'll think about this later...

Perhaps now that the threat of miners is over for the time being, we could have some down time, you know, relax a bit. Help develop our characters on a more personal level.

Yeah, that sounds nice.

Everyone just go back to Conrad's place and just lick our wounds while talking.

But the townsfolk are still a bit...iffy. And mad. You'll see, but for now let's just get back to Conrad's place.

 

[TheNaut131]

Perhaps now that the threat of miners is over for the time being, we could have some down time, you know, relax a bit. Help develop our characters on a more personal level.

Yeah... slow down a bit.... In the middle of a level where the inhabitants probably see us as some kind of bad luck bringers? We can't exactly just leave either, I think Naut still has story for the level, and we aren't sure where the portal is yet.

And there's that too. Right now, all Damien knows is that the "dragon guys" (Mark and a few "friends") went east.

Cecilia (Amanda as she called herself) has a couple of maps from the library but they're pretty much near unusable. But, Zavier currently has a book about some old kingdom known as the Fristic Empire, detailing a few landmarks that correspond with the readable parts of her map.

After the group licks their wounds, they get to working on that and get a bit of...encouragement from the townsfolk.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Perhaps now that the threat of miners is over for the time being, we could have some down time, you know, relax a bit. Help develop our characters on a more personal level.

Yeah... slow down a bit.... In the middle of a level where the inhabitants probably see us as some kind of bad luck bringers? We can't exactly just leave either, I think Naut still has story for the level, and we aren't sure where the portal is yet.

And there's that too. Right now, all Damien knows is that the "dragon guys" (Mark and a few "friends") went east.

Cecilia (Amanda as she called herself) has a couple of maps from the library but they're pretty much near unusable. But, Zavier currently has a book about some old kingdom known as the Fristic Empire, detailing a few landmarks that correspond with the readable parts of her map.

After the group licks their wounds, they get to working on that and get a bit of...encouragement from the townsfolk.

I presume that is negative encouragement?

 

[TheNaut131]

Perhaps now that the threat of miners is over for the time being, we could have some down time, you know, relax a bit. Help develop our characters on a more personal level.

Yeah... slow down a bit.... In the middle of a level where the inhabitants probably see us as some kind of bad luck bringers? We can't exactly just leave either, I think Naut still has story for the level, and we aren't sure where the portal is yet.

And there's that too. Right now, all Damien knows is that the "dragon guys" (Mark and a few "friends") went east.

Cecilia (Amanda as she called herself) has a couple of maps from the library but they're pretty much near unusable. But, Zavier currently has a book about some old kingdom known as the Fristic Empire, detailing a few landmarks that correspond with the readable parts of her map.

After the group licks their wounds, they get to working on that and get a bit of...encouragement from the townsfolk.

I presume that is negative encouragement?

Well, unless you're an admirer of hammers, pickaxes, and flames...

Yeah, it's pretty negative.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Perhaps now that the threat of miners is over for the time being, we could have some down time, you know, relax a bit. Help develop our characters on a more personal level.

Yeah... slow down a bit.... In the middle of a level where the inhabitants probably see us as some kind of bad luck bringers? We can't exactly just leave either, I think Naut still has story for the level, and we aren't sure where the portal is yet.

And there's that too. Right now, all Damien knows is that the "dragon guys" (Mark and a few "friends") went east.

Cecilia (Amanda as she called herself) has a couple of maps from the library but they're pretty much near unusable. But, Zavier currently has a book about some old kingdom known as the Fristic Empire, detailing a few landmarks that correspond with the readable parts of her map.

After the group licks their wounds, they get to working on that and get a bit of...encouragement from the townsfolk.

I presume that is negative encouragement?

Well, unless you're an admirer of hammers, pickaxes, and flames...

Yeah, it's pretty negative.

So, even though, we just stopped a huge storm of ice shards, because it happened when we arrived, they are just going to form a lynch mob, and run us out of town. Lot more people probably would of been killed if we weren't around.

I'm not criticising anyone's past or future plans for this RP, but for once, I'd like to see a town/civilization, that didn't want to kill us after we ended some big catastrophe.

 

[TheNaut131]

Perhaps now that the threat of miners is over for the time being, we could have some down time, you know, relax a bit. Help develop our characters on a more personal level.

Yeah... slow down a bit.... In the middle of a level where the inhabitants probably see us as some kind of bad luck bringers? We can't exactly just leave either, I think Naut still has story for the level, and we aren't sure where the portal is yet.

And there's that too. Right now, all Damien knows is that the "dragon guys" (Mark and a few "friends") went east.

Cecilia (Amanda as she called herself) has a couple of maps from the library but they're pretty much near unusable. But, Zavier currently has a book about some old kingdom known as the Fristic Empire, detailing a few landmarks that correspond with the readable parts of her map.

After the group licks their wounds, they get to working on that and get a bit of...encouragement from the townsfolk.

I presume that is negative encouragement?

Well, unless you're an admirer of hammers, pickaxes, and flames...

Yeah, it's pretty negative.

So, even though, we just stopped a huge storm of ice shards, because it happened when we arrived, they are just going to form a lynch mob, and run us out of town. Lot more people probably would of been killed if we weren't around.

I'm not criticising anyone's past or future plans for this RP, but for once, I'd like to see a town/civilization, that didn't want to kill us after we ended some big catastrophe.

Well, I might add a bit more reasoning behind their actions, but that's pretty much it.

People can be...irrational, especially when dealing with the unusual. But don't worry, not everyone wants to put our heads on sticks.

 

[Redryhno]

What he said.

Plus, if you look at it from the town's perspective, they let us in, ice falls from the sky, we've got a guy running around half-naked in zero and below degree weather, something they know isn't even human in the slightest just by looking at him.

We really have given them no reason to trust us beyond killing that fish, and even then it was just self-defense. And the L's didn't try to kill us, they just kinda wanted us gone, not that I blame them.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

So long as we don't get run out of town every single time something like this happens, then I'm fine with there being some negativity.

 

[NastoK]

You make me laugh

First off, Evrant, the wall of text was meant to explain what I'd like in an RP and in doing so answer Asc's question about what kind of RP we'd want, and it helped by showing what I didn't find all that gratifying in this one.

Secondly. Yes, everything has been done, and I know this, but I'd enjoy more if we took the G. R. R. Martin approach and let our PCs get wounded/killed/something we would usually dislike. Of course it helps, in an RP like this one, being powerful, as you don't have to wait after every post for the GM to tell you if you managed to do something. Yet here's an idea, one that I'll start using as soon as I get the dice needed for it - just like in tabletop D&D, keep track of my PC, have a sheet with his skills and feats, everthing, and make skill checks for every single thing he does. I imagine it would be interesting. We'll find out, hopefully, on Friday.

As far as the whole Aleister/Stonefuse thing goes

• I can't imagine why Aleister would care enough to save Stonefuse's life.
  Saves his life, but weakens him greatly, learn what's it like to be mortal...take away his powers, he's still not flesh, bone and blood....

I'm sure we'll think of something, but for now, I'd like to go to sleep as I've school in 7ish hours. On that note, although I don't live in America, I too have exams, or finals if that's what you'd call them, coming up, and it indeed is normal to slow down the RP because of it... though I wouldn't "pause" it like Evrant suggested. When that's done, I'll happily stay awake half the night as I did when the RP started, just so we can keep it flowing faster.

Oh, also, Mr. Framed, seems like the alchemist would've been fun.

P.S.

sign this,this, and this, and you get this one-of-a-kind, minted in Germany, scythe, super powers from every hero ever conceived

(happy? I made a big K.)

Well, someone had to say it.

Priceless

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Ignore

 

[Redryhno]

................................NO?..................................................

And don't change it now, you've had it cemented for more than three pages, it may as well be set in stone on who and what he is.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

................................NO?..................................................

And don't change it now, you've had it cemented for more than three pages, it may as well be set in stone on who and what he is.

you being serious, with that image?

 

[Raynoson]

Anyone mind summing up what has been discussed up and down around for the past two pages? I kinda

Edit got lost... but will catch up in a bit when I have access to a better screen.