Avvy RP VIII: Discussion IV; I'm With Stupid
 

So yes, another day, another discussion thread. Yeah so I am currently waiting on people to post right now, and I noticed that its slowing down, so I want to go ahead and ask me players, is there anything I can do to spice things up for yall or is real life just getting in the way with the holidays coming up and all?

It getting near exams and turkey break. Professors feel the need to squeeze in stuff so we don't all forget important stuff during our holiday ritual fattening.

Pyros also playing Left 4 Dead 2 demo and complementary Half life mod They Hunger.

All we wanna do is eat your brains. We're not unreasonable, no one's gonna eat your eyes.

I'm running around taking care of pregnant wife, work and dealing with the fact in 1 month or so I'm going to have a baby and trying to get things prepared for that so when she comes we have enough supplies we wont be running out every 2 days to get more. So yeah, life's kickin me in the nurtz for time right now.

What'choo talkin' bout I ain't slackin' fool!!!

I mean er, I'll get a post up soonish...:sweatdrop

I'm still here! Just waiting till I know where Pedros is going.

Writing project is taking all my time, but I should have a little free time when I finish it untill the next one comes up. Plus I'm waiting on Bard for this one. I'll post after I post in Nightmare, when I can.

Nothing particular is stopping me from posting aside from 2 things

1. Writer's block
2. Battle Field: Bad Company

I'll think up something before the day is out.

Aaaand finally I am posted! Strangely it took a not-insignicifant amount of alcahol to acheive this result.

And my new weapon is revealed, probably to dissapointing results, but it was the best I could come up with that made enough sense for me to get a hold of it in the first place. Still, I also have a secret item remaining, which is likely to come into play very shortly.

It's mostly just holiday stuff keeping me busy. I'm sure things will pick up after a break.

I will post something soon as soon as I am no longer mesmerized by Shyria's avatar. Might those be marshmallow and chocolate chip cookies?

Yep. Fifth made me some s'more cookies in his cookie avatar thread. They are delicious...

Shaky internets for me right now. Power supply in my computer is currently going bonkers and needs replacement. Should be done by sometime this week and I'll be stable again. Also thanksgiving dinners (like a bajillion) have slowed me down and put me in a small form of hibernation. Hopefully with work starting back up tomorrow I'll be able to get things rolling again. There are some people I would have liked to post post, but it doesn't really matter now, best to keep things moving.

Just barely noticed the new discussion, kinda waiting until Overcast is not traveling through the air toward his enemy before I can do anything else. Also noting the encroaching days to Boot Camp which will result in critical existence failure in all RP's. So awkward times preparing for that.

Pyros is full of turkey, has fleas (again) and has got an Iphone. Managed to get no work done on papers and short stories for class.

Will nap today, print out $30 in papers tomorrow to turn in Tuesday, and build final schedule for the rest of the school year.

Maybe post later, after scratching post is repaired after extreme levels of stress. And after I stop playing with the Smule instruments apps on Iphone.

I've mostly just been distracted with other things, plus not really knowing where to come in. Mauve and Arhra can assume we've arrived at wherever the hell we were going.

As a note, Thadius's stuff is allowed, so don't bug him about it.

*/francisvoice* I hate robots

I hate gimmick infringement.

I can only assume Bard's attack missed. In any case, I'll have a pot up later. Preferably one in which shit gets broken.

Oh please. It'd be gimmick infringement if ThadCo never actually produced anything and was an entirely vapor-filled concept that could be safely discarded. This is not the case. ThadCo actually procures a line of drinks, each one more hazardous to your health than the last one. ThadCo is also responsible for a line of high-energy guns, but that's the only information you get about that for free.

Oh, and in case it wasn't blatantly obvious: THERE IS NO DEATHWISH, ONLY THADCO. *Turns off the Zuul voice* The Deathwish is dead now, this new skyscraper is my modus transportation. It's a bit more energy efficient than the last model, as it can fully shift in and out of realities a few times a day. But if it shifts too often...well, it'll overload itself. Not in any sort of exploding way, I assure you. It'll just take a few minutes (hours, maybe a day) to charge its batteries back up.

There is a cloning bank, but it's smaller now, so if death happens in rapid enough succession, I'll be out for longer and longer. And there's a medical bay as well, for those injuries that DON'T result in death! What a concept!

ThadCo does employ security grunts from the nearby surroundings, but housing is a matter that the grunts take care of. Not that security should be much of a matter anyways, what with the secret alloy in the structure of the building, along with the retina, palm, and DNA scans one has to submit to in order to enter.

And in case it wasn't blatantly obvious, ALAN also lives and maintains the bloody building.

...I think I hit everything...

So wait, your only products are actively malevolent soft drink and guns you refuse to tell anyone about?

You... you don't get capitalism, do you?

I'm done. Enjoy your RP.

When people die, they should stay dead.

And the milk has gone sour. Not the right sour either. Going to chill for a bit and if anyone finds the head they can take it for a ride and it shall talk, but not be very useful elsewise. I'd prefer the possibility for the box to have the body finished pm'd rather than automatically done so I can shove it in there when it feels more suitable to the character. I'll be keeping an eye on it though, and that is all.

...It wouldn't be good advertising if I outright told my 'customers' that 'This drink will kill you!' No, I tell them 'Well, I can guarantee that this drink will be one of the most delicious things you taste.'

And as for the guns: I didn't say I wouldn't tell you about them. I just said it wouldn't be free. What're you prepared to offer for the information?

Man, I turn my head for a few months...year...something...and you guys start turning milk sour.

That's shenanigans and you know it.

The reaction when I saw your name was far too ecstatic for my own good. I literally feel completely idiotic to quite a severe level. On the upside welcome back.

Elsewhere, but if you sell harmful drinks, particularly with no prior fans willing to try it(especially considering the sordid reputation of the namesake) you are more likely to see an utter failure in the first news reports than a full sales explosion with no connections drawn to the terrible side effects.

Also have you been paying attention? We are the Avatars, we don't buy weapons, we TAKE weapons. Or make them. Gifts are cool too.

I have to agree. Pyros's bowl has gotten icky!

Also, I was under the impression that you were dead or something. Glad to see you not dead.

Or are you a ZOMBIE?

I suspect the earlier "trans-warp accident involving the singularity reactor, a cat, and a stick of butter" caused some sort of dimensional snag resulting in a Thaddyclone or two

It was after making this post that I realized Thadius arrived to NPF with a building, which is precisely what I'm destroying.

I would change it, because there is potential that I just destroyed the ThadCo. building, but I decided it's funnier this way. It's ambiguous to, so there's a chance that it wasn't Thadius's.

Bard, I continue to approve of your use of the alt-text tags.

And I'm on my phone so I can't really see detail in your avatar-- is that from To Kill A Mockingbird or Twelve Angry Men?



Also-- Raiden's a zombie?!?! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
(Welcome back!)

It's Atticus Finch from To Kill A MockingBird.
I admittedly didn't care for the book at the start, but towards the end it picked up. It was definitely worth reading.

Although I will never look at the Chifforobe in my living room the same way again.

And if Raiden is a zombie, I say we give him a day or two to make more zombies. A zombie apocalypse is like, my favorite form of apocalypse.

Y'see Thadius, consumers will go back to a product that not only tastes delicious, but won't make them vomit out their intestines and grow extra eyes. Just like Overcast said.

It takes about five times as much cash and effort to attract new customers than it does to retain old ones. And if you have a lot of pissed off former customers, well, you're screwed. Branding is entirely based around perceived quality!

And for the guns, I think I will go to one of the many other manufacturers of high energy weapons who are more than happy to show off their product to me. You see, to sell a product you need to tell people about it.

This isn't rocket science!

Oh Arhra, I'm so disappointed in you! Falling for Thadius' cleverly disguised trap like that. The answer to all this apparent ill logic is simple!

See, Thadius doesn't run a normal business, no, ThadCo is merely a deviously veiled front! All his money doesn't come from selling his apparently hazardous drinks, or even his mysterious guns!

No, it comes from his illegal and shadowy services.

Speaking of which, what can I get for a twenty?

I ain't a zombie. I was a member of the NPF Anti-Zombie Survival Coalition, or whatever it was called. There were...words. Big words. I don't...know...

Screw it. I was the guy who got pissed off at zombies.

And I was the faux-girl who cheered them on as they ate people. But now, I am a scientist!

Updates:

Moolah:
Current Funds: $6,500
Projects:

Purchase Base for R&D: $45,000. 6500/45000
(Optional) Purchase Building factory for Large Scale inventions $80,000

Samples:
Alien Rifle

Sample Projects:
Red Energy: Main Sample. Please make efforts to obtain some of the element known as "Fury", within an enemy or without, for research. 0/1
Alien Technology: Seems to be pretty hot stuff, so let's get some so I can pull a "Paycheck" on it. 1/10

Research Projects:
Alien Rifle reverse engineering: 5/20 posts.

Want to make a bad situation worse? Throw a drunk Intern into the mix.

*Crawls in half dead under uni work* Here, have post.

Welp, that took me far too long.

And my contribution to the General fight is... almost nothing!

Although I guess nuking the melee would have been negative contribution, so yeah.

Trying to work on a post, honest. But I prefer to do posting at night when people aren't around to annoy me as I type, and between working away from home and getting drunk at night I've had little chance to do so.

Hopefully tomorrow.

Grah, I had a really, really long post, but unfortunately, Google chrome and whomever decided "backspace" should be the perfect "back one page" button are assholes.

Am attempting to rewrite post, but GRAH.

Moolah:
Current Funds: $6,500
Projects:

Purchase Base for R&D: $45,000. 9500/45000
(Optional) Purchase Building factory for Large Scale inventions $80,000

Samples:
Alien Rifle

Sample Projects:
Red Energy: Main Sample. Please make efforts to obtain some of the element known as "Fury", within an enemy or without, for research. 1/1 PROJECT COMPLETE!

What is this stuff?


Alien Technology: Seems to be pretty hot stuff, so let's get some so I can pull a "Paycheck" on it. 1/10

Research Projects:
Alien Rifle reverse engineering: 20/20 posts.

New Technology:

Waser Wifle: Valker made firearm, simple make and model and uses some sort of universal ammunition feeder, essentially it's an Alien AK47 with a scope and optional hand warmer for those cold climate assaults.

Resell Value: $25,000 per unit with projected diminishing returns of 30% every thread. (need R&D lab to resell)

Wow that flash-back was wierd. No wonder Pyros has problems.

And I guess I didn't destroy the ThadCo. building, since Thadius didn't attempt to throttle Bard at all in his post.

People who have been around long enough to see my other flashbacks will enjoy it slightly more than people who didn't.

And Bard, Thad didn't throttle you because us NPF's are ultimately forgiven: water under the bridge and stuff like that.

Except when we drop giant Hamsterballs of Sundering on People and their courtrooms.

Eh. Pick a mod, I'll give 'em indigestion. And for figuring things out, you get a cookie.

Oh you. The building is a wee bit tougher than that!

Now if it was, say, Shyria, or Pyros, or any of a number of our pantheon tearing into the building, then I'd have a problem.

Also, yay for rehashing old tricks! And maybe I'll give Mauve a safe X-wing to replace her old one. One that isn't made of Explodium.

Er, Nin, the energy shield was Arhra I's, not III's. I really ought to make more distinctive nicknames.

Anyway, to tell them apart:
I: is a healer, wears robes, uses shields, loves everyone.
III: is a devil, wears too many belts, uses guns/maces/fists, hates everyone.

There, fixed it... sort of.

Yeah, unfortunately there's a bit of another problem in the fact that droid's probably at least a sub-boss. Dunno if Inbred'll be happy with some of the liberties you've taken.

Awkward...

I'm sure it'll just be waved away as before as Nin being crazy and actually having been knocked out halfway through the interrogation, then beating up a refrigerator.

At what point did my character give the impression that he was a raving mad lunatic who suffers from episodes? RP Nin's brand of crazy doesn't give him hallucinations, it's the kind that compels him to jump into dangerous situations and beat the hell out of people who he perceives to be bad guys(Usually the people pointing guns at him).

Hey, the droid's still functioning ain't it? Its just a lot less limbful now.

It got better. Good luck to you guys on taking it out, wish ya'll the best of luck.

Trump card played. Maybe this will stop 'em.

I doubt it though. It's not failure that scares me.

What scares me is what'll happen if it DOES work.

Hey IC, which battle should Ahrha V and I be noticing/heading towards? I'd like to get a post in, but I'm kinda lost.

Woo swordplay time!! Against the most powerful enemy we've faced all RP!!

Shit this ain't gona end well, especially since I'm at ground zero of an NPF blitz. Please refrain from using high powered explosives, at least until I get clear.

If only holding your breath in space didn't pop your lungs from the pressure difference!

d(^ ^d)

Remember kids, holding your breath in a vacuum kills!

There is only one battle currently, and that is the one with the mega-droid that is trying to tear into Arhra III.

Yay, I'm important!

Yay, we're all doomed!

That's a load of malarky.

Also, Overcast, I caught the box you and am currently giving it a great big effin' charge of cosmic energy. Why? Because I thought something awesome might happen.

Actually seems pretty spot on to me. Plus you went from normal earth preasure to 0 presure and back again with no preperation. That does some nasty things to the body, though I'd have to ask my father the scuba diver for details. Quite possibly it'd do nothing in those sorts of timeframe.

Still, Nin's lungs wouldn't have hyper-inflated and burst like Arhra thought they would, that's the point I was trying to make.

Hey, I just got an idea on how to beat the droid. We could start pointing out that him and his abilities don't make sense within the realms of science as we know it. We could reason him out of existence, just like the ending to The Flight of Dragons!

The Box was in the air because Bard threw it. The Box had not yet impacted with the droid. As the Box is an important part of my character I believe I have a right to have some control of the situation around him, and just as you cannot use a throwing coin that has been thrown until it has completed its battle phase you cannot say that my Box is on the ground until it has made his attempt to hit. Second, the Box is made of the awkward things that make anything that Overcast does possible. It is functionally awkward with most other things because it is literally fundamentally different to everything else in the universe and resists integration with it. That is why it cannot be destroyed, because it cannot be manipulated by anything other than Overcast. You can try tossing the Box when it is your turn, but charging it will just end with a waste of energy like trying to charge electricity into ceramics in a vacuum.

Edit it, or I will make him too heavy to pick up even if he does eventually meet the ground.

Nin caught the box as it was mid-air. He just threw it down and decided not to mess with it again until the end of the post.

Oh, please do. That sounds like it would be funny.

Edit: You know what, I'll just take that action out since I have to edit my post anyways and it seems to be kinda pointless. Fly, Overcast! Fly straight and true, you boxy immortal!
Edit the second: Okay, post is changed from me being choked to me mimicking another more famous ninja's move except with the addition of fire.

*cues up the inspirational 80's pop ballad*

Hmm, I'm trying to cook up a plan for cutting to the heart of the problem and directly assaulting the alien mothership.

Artist's impression.

I doubt we'll have enough time for spacecraft, so instead I'm thinking we should strap jet engines to dragons and then ride them into space.

The thing I'm not quite as happy about is I'd love to have a specific use for everyone, but some I haven't hit on a non-generic role yet. So yeah, what might people be able to contribute to a crazy plan like this?

We'd have to make a stockpile of offensive moves to smash through any defences in our way. For example, making some bigass attacks and getting Steel to freeze them in time to give us a one shot firepower boost.

Defensively, there's also handy things like use of magic to make a lot of ice. A lot of boulders means more targets for the mothership to shoot at, since I'm sure we'll be flying into the teeth of outrageous beam spam.

But jet engines always chafe on me...

Technically speaking, I could survive in vaccuum, if I pushed my air powers to breaking point, and could probably keep a couple of others alive as well if I created a big enough air bubble, but the problems I'd face are, 1) I'd have no ability to create momentum, 2) I'd be unable to provide fire-support and 3) I'd need a huge push to break atmo in the first place (gravity's a bitch!).

But I could at least keep some peoples alive until we breach the hull.

Overcast could survive in a vacuum because of his shirt. In space he should be able to survive both severe temperature loss and being hit by distant radiation because he is wearing clothes. Unfortunately I am unsure about how he would react to depressurization, his clothes are strong enough to stop radiation and keep him warm but stopping that might require he have some special anatomy or a secret onesie underneath it all that regulates stuff like that.

Anyway I call Kirby.

Find some way to de-age me, and I can teleport us there. It's an evil spaceship, plenty of shadow for 'portin. And plenty of darkness in space itself!

Then we make Shyria shoot lasers when she roars, and follow through with the thrusters. Dinotastic!

Silly Pyros! All plot critical locations are conditionally teleport-proof for the simple reason that if you can teleport a person there, you can teleport a bomb there.

I'll have a spaceship if Thad does indeed give me a replacement x-wing. So I dunno about the rest of you, but I'll be able to have a super awesome space battle.

I could always dust off the ol' Delorean and take her out for a spin.

Hopefully the amount of awesome contained in this plan alone will draw the attention of the laws of physics away from the fact that me and most of the attack crew can't breathe in a vacuum.

The Delorean is dead Nin. It is gone. It has ceased to be!

You need to accept this.

I thought Arhra IV was supposed to be dead as well. I also thought that imposing a strong continuity between Avvies was a crime punishable by griping and whining.

Anyways, it wouldn't be the same Delorean and I'd only be using it for the Grand Invasion scheme. No temporal shenanigans this time.

REVIVAL! And possibly just in time to save the day. Who knows.

I know I am due for a post guys, but christmas holidays have me pretty busy. I'll get one together as soon as I can okay, just hold on guys alright.

EDIT: New thread, new post, and more fun for all!

Yay I live! Lemmie know if I need to change that post for any reason, IC.

You didn't use the word "defenestrate" enough times. Oh, never mind.


So, uh, my hiatus is over, maybe! IC, is there room for another people, or should I wait for the next one?

Return of Tank Shyria! Maybe fire will have more effect when it's wrapped around 600 pounds of asphalt and concrete.

Also, I'd like to apologise to Hawk and Thad for almost making them into Chicken McNuggets. We cool?

...I wonder if an internet meme-based cosplay would be a good idea?

Bailey, I saw your character sheet via pm. Post it in the thread and feel free to join in.