Wyrd Bid Ful Araed

I refer you to my original statement Liuth:

Ah, my mistake. I thought he'd taken it from one of the twins in their big fight

Approved Can't help but notice the electro chute blade I asked you to alter is still there Ah, so basically its another Rahkshi with an Omega on his face Lets have a look at that last claim, shall we? Zex had in his possession a knife (despite being named, Assassinator had no special powers, it just channelled his power like any weapon), a series of throwing knives (also regular), a plain old sword and a net launcher which I believe he only acquired later from Silencer. So he had four things after starting off with three. Edge had the launcher built into his arm, vials which could be used as projectiles as well as ammo for the launcher, the medical kit giving him an array of knives and scalpels to use, and the chemical factory. Thats four things, assuming the tubes only count as one and not one per chemical he can make. So thats starting off with the same as Zex, not less, and thats even after Zex looted himself more gear. You see now why I didn't want you also running round with about twice as much stuff as he has now? And Timageness is right, it doesn't help that all the stuff you've wanted is really fancy elaborate stuff. If there's one guy carrying four knives and another carrying a sword made of fire, a mace that controls gravity, a whip infused with lightning and a cordak blaster, they both have the same amount of gear in their inventory, but who do you think is the better armed? I appreciate you lowering the power of the launcher, but could there be a bit more detail on how the chemical factory on his back works? Like, I'm guessing its just a big tank and he puts things in one end and they come out the other? For producing water dooes it just suck up what it needs from the air? Does the stuff it makes only come out in sealed tube form? Approved

Yeah the timeskip does seem just...irrelevant. You don't use it for anything. Like, you mention how the increasing number of supers have led to them being included in daily life as more than just heroes and villains, but then their dwindling numbers don't have any impact on that. Are industries like freight and shipping now paying ludicrous amount to the telekinetics and teleporters who made their work so much easier? Are there power shortages because there are fewer supers who control fire and electricity about working to provide energy? Have the remaining supers in regular jobs formed a union? And you say that tech has barely moved on, and I find that extremely unrealistic. Look how far our technology has moved on in fifty years in the real world. We're sending things into space on a regular basis, our computers can fit into your hand and not take up a whole room, our knowledge of how everything from physics to bacteria keeps moving along in leaps and bounds. And thats without the aid of the advanced alien tech or otherworldly energies that exist in TSTW! I'd be expecting something more like the world of Batman Beyond than our modern age. You are really going to have to define who and what Vanguard is. A Mary Sue is not less irritating just because they're created by the GM and are important to the plot. If anything that just means they're more irritating

You say in the intro that the number of supers has increased exponentially but mention later their numbers have dwindled. Which is it? And what are the tech levels like? TSTW! was supposed to be set roughly in the same time as it took place, and we still had futuristic or extraterrestrial tech showing up. With fifty years of advancement, where do things stand? Also...this Vanguard guy kind of sounds like a bit of a Mary Sue. How he's so super-duper awesome and can beat anyone and everyone wants him on their team (or on no-one's team at all if you're Naught)

@le-toa_rock: Ziinta approved @PhoenixFireBlaze: What does it say about Edge's arsenal that you can take out all that and I don't even notice? He's got too much. My request that you keep toning it down stands @Nato: His power allows him to produce the slime. Since he's a Rahkshi, that's not just limited to his kraata, he can just ooze the stuff from his hands. Demanding that he only secrete the slime from his kraata is like insisting Illusive can only create doubles of his kraata not the whole armour Tira: Kaitathulu approved Chumpu: Ezec and Aza approved Dane: Utal approved. Though what is an utal sigil? Liuth: I think other electro chute blades have been special pick ups from assignments. Would you mind making it a normal sword to start with?

Sorry 'bout that Dane. System is approved

IC: Acinaces was lifted up off Beat' shoulders, her arm soon following behind her. Limb and student both began to orbit around Icarax, until a flash of healing energy reconnected the two. Now in no danger of perishing, Acinaces was unceremoniously dumped into the spike ring. One down. Five to go.

@PhoenixFireBlaze: ...so I ask you to tone down the weaponry Edge is packing and you remove only the scythe? And you even leave in the firestarting blade, you just pass it on to the knife. Try again, and this time actually do more than take out one thing. I'm not approving a character who's equal parts Walter White and John Rambo @The Collector of Masks: Disco is approved @Sergei: Manipulation of the Gym is not allowed, no. Icarax will actively counter you if you try. Eliminated students will be lifted out via magnetism. Another thing the assassins have to watch out for, if everyone around them starts floating into the sky it becomes obvious what they're up to. Physical contact is required. It can be any bit of you, hand, head, foot, but it has to be you. @Ghidora: Not teleportation, see above. And while you are free to go anywhere within the Gym you cannot leave it @Arctic: I have no issue with Toxin throwing blobs of poison. I've always thought Lerahk slime would be more snot-like than sweat-like Right. Is that everything?

IC: Icarax surveyed the crowd of Rahkshi that had answered his summons. No, not a crowd. They were a horde. There were enough heavily armed, highly dangerous individuals gathered here to justify that title. If they had landed as an invading force on any island in the Universe then the inhabitants would be seriously...right up until the infighting began. The longer a leash you kept on them the more Rahkshi nature showed through and the worse they got at things like sharing. But here? Yes there were skirmishes and squabbles going on but there was not the level of carnage and demolition that Icarax would have expected. Perhaps there was more worth to this new breed than he had first anticipated. This latest assignment will be a battle of wits and cunning. There are some thirty or so of you here. I will select six out of your number, and these six will be the assassins. The rest of you will be civilians. Each team will seek to eliminate the other until only they remain. Assassins may do this by touching the one they wish to kill and thinking of their goal. I will remain in mental communication with them and lift their victim out of play. A ring of spikes grew up from the floor of the Gym, an enclosure clearly destined to be used as a drop point for those who had been 'murdered'. Civilians, you must resort to more direct means. Attack those you think are assassins, render them unconscious or broken enough that they won't be capable of taking out anyone else. I will take a dim view of any actual killing, and any interference from those eliminated. The dead cannot offer advice. Eliminating a member of your own team is entirely possible, a consequence of rash decision making. The assignment ends when only the stronger, smarter team remains, but it begins...now. He reached out mentally, selecting his six for the assassin team, and awaited to see what would happen next. OOC: So this is basically a game of Mafia: Corpus Rahkshi Edition. Six of you have the power to "kill" anyone they want, provided you're both thinking about it and in physical contact with them. If you've been "killed" then you'll be put in the rin of spikes, allowed to watch but not interfere. Icarax will put a Silence field around you if you try. If you're an assassin and you kill someone notify them somehow and they can post themselves being taken out of play as its going to be impractical waiting around for me to do it. I hope that covers everything...

Edge is not approved. That's just too much gear, you've got the vials, the gun that shoots the stuff from the vials, the scythe, the knife, the gun that shoots syringes, an apparently infinite supply of syringes to shoot... Also, a Rahkshi surgeon would not have a medical license. I don't think such things exist in Bionicle. Oh and for the assignment, have I got this list of everyone taking part right? If there's a question mark there it means it looked like they were but I wasn't 100% certain: Glaciem Ignis Snap (?) Spindle Malady Mu Sliver Zubarahk Ipartsa Numlef Feka (?) Botch Door Sepulchral Beat Footwork (?) Shrapnel Recherche Draco Shock Toxin Bullseye Vyper Gaever Diode Grim Percy Helix Shark Rider Acinaces Eps Alpha Fog Optis

IC: The tramping clank of Porter's feet marched through the school, a more rhythmic beat than their usual scuttling waddles. At the exact moment their patrol began, Icarax appeared in the Gym. No flashy effects, flares of light or clouds of smoke or the like, he was just there in the precise moment he wanted to be. Prepare yourselves, he said, his voice being echoed throughout the school by the Porters, I have prepared an assignment to further your education. Those wishing to take part will meet me in the Gym. Those not wishing to take part earn my disappointment.

IC: [Olari - Bionifight] Well this was just the universe having a laugh. To escape from one battle only to arrive at another in full swing? Some fate-spinning entity was enjoying a hearty chuckle at her expense and Olari didn't like it. She dropped those she'd rescued from the prison down at a distance, like Ismekne had suggested but it was only partly to try and flank the attackers. Mostly it was because she wanted them out of the way for her next move... For the days upon days they'd been stuck on the island she had been preparing for an attack, laying out her own personal set of defences around what she considered a vulnerable spot. Dozens upon dozens, perhaps hundreds upon hundreds of long, lethal spikes set up in the fog covered area of the arena. With her cargo of rescues dropped down she'd be able to retrieve and wield her oncoming storm with more power and accuracy. Maybe she should thank these latest attackers. They were certainly giving her a chance to vent some pent up aggression... IC: [Jorth - Bionifight] Looking from Kalatin to his unusual guest, and listening to the sounds of battle coming from outside, Jorth decided to take what felt the right option. "If I let you out, are you going to help us, or stab us in the back first chance you get?" he asked Hive. Sure he had no guarantee the robot would answer truthfully, but he at least deserved to be given the chance to do so. The whole reason he had come was to try and solve things diplomatically, seemed churlish not to extend the same courtesy to him IC: [skrall - Bionifight] At last, a real challenge of might and skill. The Skrall with no name was finally in a battle and he was loving it, prowling around looking for anyone left who hadn't quailed before the initial onslaught. He didn't want the weak, he wanted challenge!

A couple? I know Ismekne needs Olari to do something (yeah, yeah, working on it, working on it), who was the other one?

Thanks, that seems like good advice. Is this better? Name: Foot Variation: Chameleon Level: Two Gender: Foot considers itself an it, but would not be offended if gender specific pronouns were used in reference to itself. Gear: Two armblades, starting at the outsides of the wrists and extending towards the elbows, at a thirty degree angle. These blades can flip to be above the hands, extending directly from the wrists, for combat purposes, alternatively, they can stay in their normal position for defense or swooshability. Appearance: Tan and sand blue, although this colourscheme was painted on, and poorly at that, some of the natural red and gold colourscheme can be seen where the paint is scratched or faded. Also, out of humor, if nothing else, Foot's Kraata wears eyeglasses. Proportion sketch: http://orig01.deviantart.net/86ee/f/2015/223/e/8/foot_scale_chart_by_b_rex54321-d957fb4.jpg Detailed sketch: http://orig05.deviantart.net/6275/f/2015/223/8/f/rahkshi_sketch__foot_by_b_rex54321-d957eul.jpg Personality: It's definitely going to be a bit of an antisocial jerk. Foot takes pride and pleasure from next to nothing aside from combat, which it still steers clear of, for fear of defeat. Bio: The first thing Foot remembers looking at itself, and considering its colourscheme gaudy, apon changing the colourscheme, however, Foot became mildly less displeased with itself. Foot chooses to consider itself genderless for fear of choosing the wrong gender, though may begin considering itself to have a gender if others do. Foot is at Corpus for lack of a better option, and because the Makuta who created it found it useless. EDIT: I'd forgotten to link the character sketches. Approved. Kind of sounds like a bit of a tortured character, will be interested to see how that plays out

With the exception of the current Marvel-based RPG and its predecessor, RPGs based on pre-existing superhero universes have generally been greatly outshone by RPGs formed around original superhero universes

I'd suggest posting the full version rather than a link, Ben. Harder for people to miss it or skim over and ignore it

How is the levelling going to work? I mean, in something like Corpus its easy, you've got a whole BS01 page on how kraata evolve like they're tiny evil Pokemon. But here? Is it just going to be promotions within a faction? What if you're in a player-run faction, are you going to over-rule the wishes of the people running it? I can see a Matoran being "levelled up" into a Toa but that isn't going to work with any other species

It still fills unfinished to me. I mean...one sentence for a bio? And its just Foot looking at itself? No mention of how or why it's at Corpus. Kind of need a bit more from a profile really

Bikraata's punishment stands. That his presence has been retconned doesn't alter the fact that Liuth still posted them. The punishment is to make Liuth learn, not Bikraata. Is Foot's profile actually finished? The way the bio says "firstly" should mean there's a secondly or lastly. New Tesla is approved, I'll update the links when I'm on laptop not mobile

Yes we do. In seriousness though, a co-host or two is more considered helpful than required

IC: Palma sighed and laid a hand on the deceased Char's shoulder. She hated when she lost them... IC: Icarax eyed the brothers who were waiting for him. Delivery of new suits was the last thing Tridax accomplished before his dismissal. Yours should have been delivered to your quarters by now. Speaking of Porters, he believed it was a tradition to send them out to announce a new assignment. No reason not to continue that tradition, and he needed to send out the new orders for them

Its not really that more realistic, is it Akai? A sword which gets hit at least three times by what are apparently weaken disks, then a freeze disk, and yet somehow doesn't just shatter into teeny tiny pieces upon impact? I mean, one weaken disk alone would probably do something like that, but three? And intense cold making it even more brittle? Remember guys, your characters are all newbs. Thats kind of the whole point of you being at Corpus Rahkshi, you're coming to learn how to do stuff like this. This is not the sort of RPG where you get to just cut swathes of nameless, faceless goons down, I don't think any of the ones on BZP are. So I'm asking that each of you bears that in mind and doesn't try to pull god-modding like that again. As punishment, Bikraata and Leviathan are to receive some form of debilitating injury. Nyarl already has the recent face injury, which I'm going to count as his punishment simply read from my mind in advance by Stranger New version: Name: Tesla Variation: Magnetism Level: 2 Gender: neutral, generally recognized by others as female Gear: Two katana-like swords. Just not as sharp. Wears them on her back when she isn't using them. Appearance: Typical magnetism Rahkshi colors. Black head with yellow-orange eyes, black spine and golden feet. Golden hands have black spirals of various sizes on their back. She is a little shorter than usual Rahkshi. She wears round transparent glasses just for aesthetic reasons. Personality: Intelligent, teachable, likes learning, helpful, nice, communicative, awkward when tired, not feeling love Bio: Tesla doesn’t remember much of what was happening before she entered school. She didn’t have a name. She remembered only that she is a Rahkshi sent to a huge school complex. She soon discovered that she have some powers slightly affecting metals. She soon learned that these powers are called magnetism and spent much time learning about it in library. There she discovered a book about powerful Rahkshi of Magnetism, Tesla, who lived thousands of years ago. This Rahkshi was able to use traces of electricity powers. She decided to use his name and studied connection between magnetism and electricity. She soon found, that this connection is unreachable. Tesla now tries to spend less time in library and more time in gym, learning to use her katana. So...whats with the amnesia? Sorry if this has been explained in the RPG itself but I've been a little limited of late. Why does she have a cut off point in her memory like that?

Eh, I don't think there's anything wrong with calling the big rock monster Mr. Crunchy. Its the sort of name I can actually imagine worn and weary spacefarers calling the mortal nemesis who lies in wait for them to make just one mistake. Its not like we don't do the exact same thing. I brought up Moby Dick earlier, he was based on actual whale with a similar reputation called Mocha Dick. Because nothing strikes fear into peoples hearts like an infamous breaker of ships called Chocolatey Richard. Likewise a certain lion in the news lately, who wasn't given a name meaning "king" or some noble word from the local language. Nope, we called him Cecil. On the subject of distance and travel times, have you considered limiting the setting a little? Maybe instead of giving us the whole of space we're mainly based around a gas giant with a large number of moons and some decent sized chunks in its ring system. The more adventurous (and prepared) can head out try to discover other planets in the solar system, but for anyone else there's things (relatively) close by

IC: "Very well. I shall await on word from Grossh that you have reached a decision, whatever it may be." Johmak shattered into fragments and flew out the window in just the same manner as she'd arrived, a sandstorm of tiny black diamonds. "Well..." said Grossh, "That was all very dramatic."