Crazy_Dragon

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Burning_Brawler_NA View Post
    This sounds like a lot of fun. I do disagree with the idea of putting together a roster however. Having to wait for a specific person to post may not be a problem initially, but after the first week or so, the chances of the thread dying because someone has been unable to get on the forums (such as myself this past week) become much greater.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rock_Powerfist View Post
    Easy way around that issue is to give everyone a fixed time limit to post in, then if they miss the deadline the next person on the list can step in. We would have to agree what a reasonable time limit is. Also if you know your unable to post you can just PM the next person in line.
    One, maybe two days tops before the baton is auto-passed should do it.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DeviousMe View Post
    I really hope this part here's a joke. I ain't ashamed to admit that I can't tell just from the text. >_>
    Sadly not. I was suggesting an idea for another unrelated OpenRP (where characters would have lost their powers) in URP when at least one person declared that if people couldn't try and outdo one another with said powers, they wouldn't want to know.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rock_Powerfist View Post
    The other though I have is the issues of sequence and divergence, ie Man falls of roof, two or more people all write the follow up , so the one roof faller lands on multiple people in different stories, each having a different fate for the roof faller. You may need some clear way to hand off to the next writer.
    I've given this a little thought since posting the OP. I stumbled across a relay comic a while ago that was managed thus: People initally voiced their interest and a list was drawn up, serving as a looping queue that allowed for others to join in later in the cycle, adding their names to the bottom of the list, and for anyone to step out if they needed to stop for any reason. Nobody added their contribution unless they were actually next up.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rock_Powerfist View Post
    Lastly, a time line, how will you cope if story A takes place over an hour and story B over a week ,while story C wants to react to the first part of story B and only lasts for twenty minutes, and story D wants to run from the middle of story A to the middle of story C.
    Well, as a rule, the link between each story would have to be at the end of the prior story and at the start of the new story else it'd be doomed to fail in a confusing mess.
  4. This is a bit of a spontaneous and slightly surreal idea so it'll be a little difficult to explain, but here goes:

    An OpenRP where each post is its own mini-story that in some way connects to the previous one before it, no matter how significant the link, which would range from direct contact between characters of both stories to simply the current post's character passing by just as the events of the previous post comes to a close and the events of the new post begins. There's no overbearing arc and each story can be, quite simply, whatever you want it to be (within reason).

    For example, one poster's story could end with someone falling off a rooftop. Cue the next post where its author writes about his character narrowly avoiding being squashed by a falling body before continuing with his own story and so on.

    Of course, the problem with such a thread, disregarding for a moment that the general opinon of certain Onionites is that if there isn't ample opportunity to one-up one another for no reason other than to one-up one another then nobody will bother, is the risk of people constantly ninja-ing purely by accident and putting the thread on the fast track to derailment.

    Any ideas, suggestions, or such? :\
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rodoan View Post
    I've thought of renaming my tank a few times, since his name is rather long, but I have too much fun with people recognizing Streetwise Hercules, and playfully calling out "I need a hero!"
    So you're the one who swiped that name! D:<
    *dramatic fist shaking*



    To be honest, a lot of names pop into my head when I least expect it to. some good, some terribad beyond belief.

    Of my characters (off the top of my head):

    Crazy Dragon: DB/DA scrapper. This guy's proven to be a one hell of a speedbump-riddled road. He originally started out as Mr. Pointless (which has since become my Global again after the list merge) on account of only just getting the game (covermounted on PC Zone UK o_O) and wanting to give it a shot already and not even being aware of the RP community on Union at the time (seriously, it was pure dumb luck that I stumbled into Union RP the same week I started playing). After a tenner spent renaming him, I settled on Crazy Dragon. His backstory is that he's an ex-underground fighter who stumbled across a carrier bag full of spellbooks and then later acquired a couple of swords. He's also a little nuts and a bit of an idiot, so I thought the name fit well.

    Broadband Dragon is his Preat counterpart, who instead developed equipment to enhance his latent psionic abilities, along with other things. Mind/FF Controller.

    Reactor Party stemmed from the song by ****disco. The character's main "costume" itself was instead inspired by a different band, Late of the Pier. Rad/Rad Defender.

    High Tide, I honestly don't know where this name actually came from. What I do know it what kind of char to apply it to: An En/En Blaster with the additional mutant ability to breath underwater.

    Sure Shot Shirley is currently my favourite name so far. The character's a vampire treasure hunter born on the day the Texas became a US state. The first two thirds of name I actually got from an old shareware game, And the name Shirley I found suitable for further alliteration. Of course, now I've just found out that said name would have actually been unusual for a woman born in 1845. *bangs head* Anyway, DP/Kin Corruptor.

    Hellhog: Fire/Fire Blaster. He's a fat biker from Yorkshire whose powers stem from some magic ink his tattooist used in error. Ironically, he's a bit of a gentle giant on an everyday basis.

    Hundred: DB/WP Scrapper. Originally, the char started out as part of a RP Magical Girl SG, but when that slowly fell on its backside for a number of reasons I retconned the character into a Cumbrian woman with minor and very much localised Chronomancy powers (to the extent that she only used them on herself). I considered calling her Hundred Blades, but I thought it was too corny before I even checked for the name.

    Emerald Eileen: Illusion/Thermal controller. This sort of just popped into my head as I was rolling her. She's a mage from another universe who's been studying the Superhumanity phenomenon on Primal Earth since she first discovered it. As well as a reference to her green skin, the name's a pun on the poetic name for Ireland, though I haven't really considered whether Eileen would have any Irish blood in her.

    Mashup: Sonic Blaster. The name's both a play on the character's first name, Masha, as well as a reference to her music industry past.

    Sky Stormer: Storm/En Defender. Yeah, I wanted "Himmelsstürmer" (after playing a fair bit of Söldner-X when it came out) but I couldn't use the ü character).

    Wintertron En/Cold Corruptor, if I can remember right. I just wanted a snappy name that was suffixed with "-tron". I think it worked out alright, although contrary to what the name may suggest, he's an almost-nobody who depends on a rusty old pickup for transport and spends a good deal of his spare time cracking open a cold one to Spongebob marathons. And would most likely be played by a younger Bruce Campbell.

    ShoXtar Elec Brute. Snappy, stylish portmanteaus a-gogo, baby!

    And then there's Patsy Crusher, my classic SS/Inv Tanker. I'm not sure what the hell I was thinking with this one, but it's stuck, I guess. She's an immortal teen from the North-East of England.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    I wouldn't ask me that question when looking at some of the bios to walk through Pocket D >< ye gods, some of those things are painful...
    Not that "budding" necessarily means "promising". Or "good".
  7. Too many of my characters weren't even -in- Paragon or any other major city that could have been targeted by the Rikti at the time.

    There's Donna Lodge, my Magic Emp/Ice Defender, who -was- living in the city at the time, but seeing as she was only just entering her teens at the time, her magic skills wouldn't have been fully developed, so if she hadn't been shoved into the nearest bunker or panic room, she'll have likely been offering her contribution to the war effort. In the form of the nearest 9 iron from the comfort of her front door. o.O
  8. Can someone fix File:Confidentialimage.jpg on the Union Handbook? Someone managed to upload over the damn image and my attempts to revert ended in failure.

    [EDIT] Actually, scratch that. It's showing correctly now. For some reason it wasn't, despite registering the revert. :s
  9. A couple of business cards are pinned to the board, one below the other:

    Been robbed?
    Items of priceless and sentimental value stolen?*
    Authorities proving to be a chocolate fireguard?

    Call Midnight Max and get back what's rightfully (and legally) yours!

    Call: (XXX) XXX-XXXX


    *= Jobs not restricted to the priceless and sentimental. Within reason.


    ***********
    Sure Shot Shirley
    Treasure Hunter-for-hire

    Misplaced heirlooms recovered
    Lost ancestral treasures rediscovered
    Exotic artifacts of any nature excavated
    Intimidating competition for the above neutralized

    All while you wait, with regular secure client contact on request.

    Call (XXX) XXX-XXXX
    (Watch the phone bill, darlings, it's a cell number!)


    ***********

    Beside them is a Post-It, with two arrows drawn in black felt tip pointing to the two cards, along with "LOL WUT?" to accompany them.
  10. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    Patsy simply smiled before, scorched hoodie in hand, she super-leaped backwards, away from the scene, with little else more to say as she disappeared into the thick fog other than:

    "Toodles!"
  11. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blade Racer View Post
    Blade looked at Patsy for a few more minutes, but having not been present at Tomb's murder, he had never seen her before. Still he wondered as to just who she was.

    "I'd still like to know your name Miss, and a way to contact you incase your needed again. We need all the help we can get these days after all and you seem able to take care of yourself." Blade asked politely, hoping the woman would be truthful.
    "Alright," Patsy responded, gesturing to the discarded hoodie on the ground ahead of her. "Just need to fetch summat, then. Relax, hun, it's not a weapon. I've kinda gone off those last year."

    Strolling over to the garment, the immortal dug deep into its pockets, eventually brandishing a smartphone that remained surprisingly intact considering the manner in which she tossed the item of clothing aside earlier. The back of the protective case that housed the device popped open in her hands with almost zero effort on her part (all things considered), revealing inside a small stack of business cards bearing Patsy's full moniker along with a mobile number, email address and a P.O. Box address, one of which she offered to Blade.

    On the reverse, which didn't carry the gloss of the text-heavy side, he would find a 2D barcode - a QR Code, to be precise - that contained the same data in a smartphone-friendly format.

    "That do you, kid?"
  12. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    Patsy simply watched on as Ray was dragged off in the direction of the cathedral, bearing a somewhat surprised look on her face ((See final panel (clicky))) after what had just taken place before she had even had chance to refuse the man's fist-bump.

    "Ooo-kay," the immortal quietly commented before she turned to face Blade again and let out a mock sigh. "So, we've established he's a right pillock, then. Any more daft questions, elflord, or can I just bugger off and get on with more important matters?"
  13. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blade Racer View Post
    Having dismissed the police, Blade turned and walked over to Ray and Patsy, his shape changing back to his more human image robed in the classic Nighthunters armour. "now then, just what on earth are you two doing here? and the truth please, im not really in the mood for lies today."
    "Pfeh!" Patsy retorted, crossing her arms in a manner that suggested she was offended as she looked to Ray. "You see, you save the goit from gettin' chowed down on by a demon and this is the thanks you get. Typical."

    The unimpressed immortal, without moving her head, looked to the holy man's lackey once more to add: "If you have to knaa, hun, I was just poppin' by to visit a few graves, is all. Thought that bunch of LARPers I'd smacked about the other week had come after me with some bigger pets than last time at first."
  14. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    "Alas, poor Yorick!" Patsy declared as she stood on the spot, following a lengthy skid to halt her charge, and held the hound unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end of her grip by its jaw, staring it in the face. "I knew him, Horatio."

    Turning her attention from the down-and-out captive hellspawn in her hand to the remainder currently baying for her blood, she then tossed the monster up into the air gently (relatively speaking, given her strength), just high enough for her to grab its tail with both hands.

    "He was a right prat and all!" she finished, hauling the beast around her in a single 360-degree pirouette of blunt force, in the hopes of knocking a few of the oncoming beasts across the face, before bringing the hound back over her head and crashing down onto whatever was left.
  15. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    When she realised that the big explosion had subsided, Patsy rolled to assess the damage, only to be greeted by fire-drooling hounds and a defeated smirk from the caster.

    "Uuuuuuh-huh." Patsy responded. "Not much of an end there, Captain Japanimation. More like one of them cliffhangers at the end of Star Trek or summat. Where they flash up 'To be continued', ya knaa?"

    It was then that she launched herself onto her feet again and charged in once more, making a grab for a lone one's jaw as she advanced like a raging bull.
  16. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    It was perhaps a good thing that Patsy was still far enough away to skid to a halt when she saw the signal from the Centurion to hang fire, long enough to realise what the swordsman was preparing to do. And that she'd rather not get caught in any splash the imminent explosion may cast out from its epicentre.

    "WoahWoahWoahWoahWoahGETDOWN!!" she called over to the oncoming Ray as she swung round and promptly hit the deck with all due haste.
  17. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sniper_Three View Post
    With a sly grin he made his way over to her, positioning himself fairly close to her for a first meeting

    "Hey baby, y'feelin' lonely?"
    "Nee way, hun." Patsy answered, rolling her eyes. "And those five words alone are settin' off alarm bells that you're not me type anyways."

    The immortal girl watched the swordsman rush off to slice up the hellhounds.

    "Now there's a guy that knows his priorities." she said, charging forth to go add her contribution to grinding the dogs' faces into the dirt. "Might wanna consider takin' a leaf out of his book, like!"
  18. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    Strolling away from the remains of the demon, Patsy got to work straightening out the buns in her hair.

    "Transaction complete." the immortal cheerfully declared with a satisfied smirk before she then burst into whistling 'Popcorn' on her approach toward the church.

    She stopped to look around and noted that the other demon was well out of the picture thanks to the other brawler and that the hellhounds were, for some reason, trying to kill one another rather than seek out their quarry. As for the dragons, she could just barely see the one, which seemed to be having a nasty case of bad guts, evident from the sight of it hurling out a couple of figures, one appearing to be a mere shadow and the other shining brighter than a nuke-powered Mag-Lite, from its mouth.

    "Okay," Patsy sighed, placing one hand on her hip while casually pointing to the squabbling hellhounds with the other. "Anyone fancy helpin' me feed the dogs, then?"
  19. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Pious View Post
    And another and another. The demon's body had gone limp as nerve endings in it's human brain had shut down from physical trauma. As it slowly lost all consciousness, the demon's full weight rested against the woman. It shifted back into it true goat-like form, twice the size of a human male, then collapsed with it's skull in the dirt and it's rear-end pointed disturbingly skywards, tail hung loosely to one side.
    Patsy dragged herself out from beneath the demon and hauled herself to her feet, though the dizzy spell that brought on coupled with the pounding headache contributed to by both herself and the demon made that a little difficult. After a couple of minutes, she was able to stand up straight without staggering. Much.

    Seeing that the demon was well and truly out for the count, the immortal girl proceeded to get to work on making sure he damn well stayed down by tearing the hellspawn's head off with her fingerless-gloved hands, a feat acheived by grabbing the goat-head by the horns and pushing against the demon's shoulders. A slow but satisfying process for someone who only a few minutes ago was having her face stoved in by the very creature she was now decapitating.

    Patsy then picked herself back up onto her feet once more and carried the severed head around its owner's body not unlike a careless postal worker juggled a fragile package. Glancing down at the demon's exposed rear for a bit, her attention returned to the head then back again, almost as if calculating something in her own still-attached skull before she simply shrugged and lifted the head behind her. And then she...

    ((For the purposes of keeping things PG-13, cue one crash-cut to elsewhere accompanied by the classic Who "YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!"))
  20. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Pious View Post
    Back outside the fight was raging on. The white-haired brawler had been downed and the demon towered over her, roaring triumphantly. He was unprepared as the woman's heavy boots came from nowhere and connected with his pelvic area. But the look on his face was of stark indifference. He'd felt absolutely no pain in the region as there were no male genitals present. The demon responded immediately with a series of heavy blows, aimed square into the woman's face. He pounded away relentlessly as he knelt over her, his fists burning red hot with fire, blow after blow, hot enough to melt skin tissue, should they land.
    "AIIEE!" Patsy screamed as the first blow stuck, "OW! AGH! OW! CUT IT! OUT!"

    This continued for a good few seconds until the immortal finally caught one of the oncoming fists with one hand and proceeded to grab for the demon's remaining free arm with the other. Patsy's face, though intact, bore a combination of tearful agony (said tears rapidly evapourating as soon as the appeared) and burning rage.

    "I said," she hissed as she slowly pushed the monster's limbs away. "Knock. It. OFF!"

    With that, the demon found himself on the receiving end of yet another headbutt, Patsy pulling hard on both arms so that if the blow struck, the demon would likely be dragged back down for another. And perhaps another.
  21. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Pious View Post
    Meanwhile, the fiery demons were standing their ground. The one engaged with the white-haired brawler saw his opponent was fast, but not fast enough. He ducked the clothesline attack and spun with it to bring a fire-fisted strike aimed at the base of woman's spine, followed immediately by a bladed thrust from a bony spike hidden inside his wrist, intended to stab through the spine and paralyse the human.
    Patsy let out a pained grunt when the first blow struck, followed directly by an agonised roar that carried itself over the deafening sound of the rainfall upon the stabbing attempt. Though neither succeeded in penetrating the immortal girl's hardened skin, that didn't stop it hurting like hell fifty times over and bringing her to her knees in no time at all.

    For a moment she rested on the ground, doing her best to fight off the pain.

    "Well, Patsy," she muttered quietly to herself as she lay on the ground, in part to berate herself and in part to take her mind off her aches. "That was pretty daft of you."

    Figuring she had given herself more than enough time to recover, even if her back was still killing her (in a manner of speaking), Patsy then rolled onto her back and attempted to deal a swift below-the-belt boot - both of them - to her opponent before he had chance to react (hopefully). Depending on which direction the demon was facing, he might find himself in a lot of pain himself should the attack strike.
  22. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Pious View Post
    The demon who had just been headbutted was sent spiralling across the yard. He landed badly and broke several bones in his human body. But he healed almost instantly by reverting to his beastly goat-like form and then returning to his less agile but more capable human shape. His eyes flared bright red before bursting into flames, a streak of superhot fire shot out from them, directed at the hooded brawler.
    For the most part the girl had narrowly dodged the fire beam, only just catching it with her sleeve. Fortunately, though, she was quick to pat the flames out before they started to burn her skin, but the damage was done.

    "Typical." the girl muttered, looking down at the patch of scorched and melted fabric that still bubbled away on her arm. She then turned her attention back to the demon and barked over in a accent similar to that of someone from the North East of England, though with a hint of Irish in there too: "This thing set be back twenty dollars, you pillock!"

    Rather than remove the hoodie by way of unzipping it first, the girl simply grabbed the garment by the collar and tore the whole thing off in one go. It was perhaps a good thing that she was in fact wearing a similarly-coloured tee-shirt underneath it, though the other revelation - that in doing so, the girl revealed herself to be the white-haired, youthful immortal Patsy Crusher, previously responsible for the Nighthunters' failure in capturing a wanted criminal alive, may not have sat all too well with at least one or two of the belligerents in the immediate vicinity.

    "So here's how it's gonna work, alright?" Patsy announced, tossing the destroyed hoodie to one side. The disembodied roar of a concert audience, though currently non-existent, wouldn't have been out of place at all. "You're gonna pay me back. In full. On the spot. Right now."

    The immortal girl then charged toward the demon, readying her right arm to clothesline the horror as she yelled at the top of her voice: "WITH YOUR FLAMIN' GOAT HEAD UP YOUR BACKSIDE SIDEWAYS!"
  23. Crazy_Dragon

    Moth Cathedral

    Arriving on the scene from the general direction of the cemetery, a feminine figure casually strolled past Ray with her hands firmly in the pockets of the sky blue hoodie that kept her face obscured, which was surely the only reason she could have been wearing it, because there was no possible way that black pleated miniskirt was doing her any favours in the warmth department, Perhaps she hadn't noticed that grounds had become yet another warzone. Perhaps she didn't care. Who knew. What was clear, though, was that she did seem to be heading toward Pious, though it didn't seem like she was in any kind of hurry to reach him.

    Upon reaching the demon that was gunning for him she finally removed her right hand from the pocket it rested in purely, perhaps much to anyone's possible confusion, to tap the montrosity on the shoulder.

    Should the demon turn to face the woman that demanded his attention, he would simply be greeted with a powerful headbutt, the force of which would most likely knock the average non-powered joe's face through the back of his skull and across a wide street, though it remained to be seen what effect it would have on the demon's ugly mug. And it would also knock a few strands of very familiar white hair out of place to dangle out of the confines of the hoodie.
  24. I think "disgracefully ill-prepared" may be just a teensy understatement for Mechaniker.

    [EDIT] And how the FLIP have you managed to exceed your PB account's bandwidth, Tech? o_O
  25. Atlas Park...

    Before the holy man copped a spiked ball to the face, Derek finally charged in to strike, dashing toward the remaining machine masses, his still-sheathed sword - to anyone who could detect it - vibrating from so much power within that one would think it was ready to explode into a million pieces.

    But it didn't just yet. When the wanderer reached the oncoming horde, he then swung the blade around to bring it across his back as before, grabbing the scabbard and quickly drawing the weapon out in one smooth motion and bringing the charged sword up into one of the robot's hips.

    But he wasn't going to release all that power yet. Instead, the plan was to cut his way into the middle of the horde, using his sword in wide horizontal strikes to clear the way and the scabbard to beat any individual ones back if they got too close. It would be as if a ballerina had been trained in close combat by a swordmaster, really.

    If all went well and he finally reached what he figured was the centre of it all, -then- he would release all that power from the sword in a 360-degree arc of cutting Force.

    ****

    The Outsider, meanwhile, clenched her teeth as she watched this world's Mechano blast off out of dodge. She could have done with some answers from that man! Rather than stand there ranting about it while all Hell was breaking loose for the fourth time around her since arriving in this deranged world, she used the nearby car that Derek used earlier to launch herself over the cops, this time leaping toward a nearby streetlight that remained intact. Clambering to the top of the thing should give her a better view of the battlefield.

    And that it did. Almost as soon as she reached the lamp's pinnacle she spotted what the bad doc had been there for: the unconcious Mechaniker behind the machine army.

    Maybe, she thought to herself right before a stray shot took out the base of the lamp, forcing the woman to abandon her lookout point without further ado, her rolling landing as she hit the ground quickly shifting to a full-speed dash toward the robots herself. If I can reach that guy, he might have a means to switching off the robots!

    Of course, she hadn't quite thought her plans for getting to him though, but she figured she might get away with stealing a leg-up from one of the robots' guns and using their heads as stepping stones. It worked before against a regiment of gear knights back in Laskaster, though that was in a narrow alleyway, not an open area like this.

    Here's hoping.