As a side note I enjoy that your frustration with what to do with me has manifested itself in the game by just dumping max damage on me for no good reason.
I'd have to install AIM on this computer first and ugh.
Actually, hoodie-guy was doing somethign there with the 100% Stress but I don't know where it's going and it's all just sort of spiraling out of control.
Goal-wise I don't think he's much different than Sydney or Makali? Short-term he wants to survive, long-term he wants power. The only difference is that that goal is sort of put through a juvenile filter, instead of a sexual deviant one.
You're right though, delusional would be lame. I don't wanna be running around imagining that I am crushing Pokemon gyms while inadvertently advancing the plot. Make-believe bullshit like that is for loser babies like Chuck.
Goal-wise I don't think he's much different than Sydney or Makali? Short-term he wants to survive, long-term he wants power. The only difference is that that goal is sort of put through a juvenile filter, instead of a sexual deviant one.
You're right though, delusional would be lame. I don't wanna be running around imagining that I am crushing Pokemon gyms while inadvertently advancing the plot. Make-believe bullshit like that is for loser babies like Chuck.
There are basically a bunch of square-peg issues going on here.
As for his goals, those aren't really what's keeping him from fitting in with the BPs - it's his abilities. The BPs want Makali around because he could be a leader, a prophet. He can convince people that they should welcome incorporation. The BPs don't need someone who's good at killing people - they're already plenty good at that themselves.
Not to mention that Cobalt sort of has a narrative requirement - he needs to be the best at summoning RADemons, and he needs to go through the world fighting other people who do that. Thing being, people don't do that. He needs his a story entirely to himself, and trying to wedge that into the actual, global story would require some seriously awkward plot-gyrations. His character makes assumptions about the world that simply aren't true.
If he were just a kid who had been super obsessed with Pokemon before the Crash hit, became a Freaker, a decided to become RADemon master of the wastes, it would be... less troublesome. A psycher kid who used Telepathy to command mutant animals and was just influenced by playing a lot of Pokemon? Even better. A character that acts as if he was already the RADemon champion, has a ghost grandfather that new about RADemon, and narratively requires there be other RADemon trainers? Not so great.
Also, the RAD Ghost thing is utterly preposterous. No chance that could ever happen. No sir. Not ever.
This all sort of touches upon the problem you've expressed having with RADLands in general - it's an established setting, with its own rules and its own way of working. I've got the whole world in my hands, and characters are required to fit into that world within a certain tolerance. This is all in stark contrast to the original "yeah, fuck it" setting of Gloss (regardless of what it became).
Don't know what to say about all that other than hang in there, and "you'll love the next game".
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I personally can't wait for the Raidercamp people to meet their first group of Ebon Cultists.
E: DE?AD it probably would've been easiest if Makali personally met Cobalt before the BP and they hit it off. Then he could ask them if Cobalt could be his personal bodyguard or some such.
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I want to do with you
What spring does with the cherry trees.
Goal-wise I don't think he's much different than Sydney or Makali? Short-term he wants to survive, long-term he wants power. The only difference is that that goal is sort of put through a juvenile filter, instead of a sexual deviant one.
You're right though, delusional would be lame. I don't wanna be running around imagining that I am crushing Pokemon gyms while inadvertently advancing the plot. Make-believe bullshit like that is for loser babies like Chuck.
There are basically a bunch of square-peg issues going on here.
As for his goals, those aren't really what's keeping him from fitting in with the BPs - it's his abilities. The BPs want Makali around because he could be a leader, a prophet. He can convince people that they should welcome incorporation. The BPs don't need someone who's good at killing people - they're already plenty good at that themselves.
Not to mention that Cobalt sort of has a narrative requirement - he needs to be the best at summoning RADemons, and he needs to go through the world fighting other people who do that. Thing being, people don't do that. He needs his a story entirely to himself, and trying to wedge that into the actual, global story would require some seriously awkward plot-gyrations. His character makes assumptions about the world that simply aren't true.
If he were just a kid who had been super obsessed with Pokemon before the Crash hit, became a Freaker, a decided to become RADemon master of the wastes, it would be... less troublesome. A psycher kid who used Telepathy to command mutant animals and was just influenced by playing a lot of Pokemon? Even better. A character that acts as if he was already the RADemon champion, has a ghost grandfather that new about RADemon, and narratively requires there be other RADemon trainers? Not so great.
Also, the RAD Ghost thing is utterly preposterous. No chance that could ever happen. No sir. Not ever.
This all sort of touches upon the problem you've expressed having with RADLands in general - it's an established setting, with its own rules and its own way of working. I've got the whole world in my hands, and characters are required to fit into that world within a certain tolerance. This is all in stark contrast to the original "yeah, fuck it" setting of Gloss (regardless of what it became).
Don't know what to say about all that other than hang in there, and "you'll love the next game".
Squall: It was a mistake. You can have red paint.
That's how I've been envisioning him. I've only revealed one RADemon so far because my preference would be to wait on the others until Marsh has had the time to make their sprites for me, but I deliberately came up with ideas that resembled unevolved Pokemon because I want him to just be starting out.
Also the ghost thing didn't really seem that out-there and really I just needed some silly framing device for the intro I wanted to make, so I didn't think it would really matter. I didn't really intend for it to ever come up again.
Really though I didn't think there was such a thing as "utterly preposterous" when dealing with a force that completely warps the fabric of reality! I'm guessing the problem stems from the fact that people have more set rules with this stuff? Subneural networks and all that? I didn't make a big point of it, since again it was just supposed to be a silly joke to start me off, but in my mind "Professor Steele" was some weird amalgamation of a character from a video game and Cobalt's grandfather, and might not really even necessarily be a ghost, but a result of the same RAD application that Cobalt uses to summon his monsters, and his "dialogue" was really just Cobalt's own thoughts funneled through his imperfect conceptions of both his dead grandpa and the mentor figure in the video games he likes.
I put more thought into it than I really had time to explain in the context of a 7-sentence-long joke!
Yeah I am glad to hear that the next game is going to have a more malleable setting that we can help to create and define, since that was one of my favorite parts of gloss 1.
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Fuck everything.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
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take a break man
edit: speed that's just retribution for not sticking to a bloody character
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Actually, hoodie-guy was doing somethign there with the 100% Stress but I don't know where it's going and it's all just sort of spiraling out of control.
Goal-wise I don't think he's much different than Sydney or Makali? Short-term he wants to survive, long-term he wants power. The only difference is that that goal is sort of put through a juvenile filter, instead of a sexual deviant one.
You're right though, delusional would be lame. I don't wanna be running around imagining that I am crushing Pokemon gyms while inadvertently advancing the plot. Make-believe bullshit like that is for loser babies like Chuck.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I have a fear of commitment
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ox2OdHj2IA&feature=related
But I doubt I'd pull if off as well as Viscount has.
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intentional
He'd just sit around and smoke pot and play guitar.
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your last character then
With more guitar though.
And mustache wax.
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There are basically a bunch of square-peg issues going on here.
As for his goals, those aren't really what's keeping him from fitting in with the BPs - it's his abilities. The BPs want Makali around because he could be a leader, a prophet. He can convince people that they should welcome incorporation. The BPs don't need someone who's good at killing people - they're already plenty good at that themselves.
Not to mention that Cobalt sort of has a narrative requirement - he needs to be the best at summoning RADemons, and he needs to go through the world fighting other people who do that. Thing being, people don't do that. He needs his a story entirely to himself, and trying to wedge that into the actual, global story would require some seriously awkward plot-gyrations. His character makes assumptions about the world that simply aren't true.
If he were just a kid who had been super obsessed with Pokemon before the Crash hit, became a Freaker, a decided to become RADemon master of the wastes, it would be... less troublesome. A psycher kid who used Telepathy to command mutant animals and was just influenced by playing a lot of Pokemon? Even better. A character that acts as if he was already the RADemon champion, has a ghost grandfather that new about RADemon, and narratively requires there be other RADemon trainers? Not so great.
Also, the RAD Ghost thing is utterly preposterous. No chance that could ever happen. No sir. Not ever.
This all sort of touches upon the problem you've expressed having with RADLands in general - it's an established setting, with its own rules and its own way of working. I've got the whole world in my hands, and characters are required to fit into that world within a certain tolerance. This is all in stark contrast to the original "yeah, fuck it" setting of Gloss (regardless of what it became).
Don't know what to say about all that other than hang in there, and "you'll love the next game".
Squall: It was a mistake. You can have red paint.
E: DE?AD it probably would've been easiest if Makali personally met Cobalt before the BP and they hit it off. Then he could ask them if Cobalt could be his personal bodyguard or some such.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
"I'M IN!"
What spring does with the cherry trees.
That's how I've been envisioning him. I've only revealed one RADemon so far because my preference would be to wait on the others until Marsh has had the time to make their sprites for me, but I deliberately came up with ideas that resembled unevolved Pokemon because I want him to just be starting out.
Also the ghost thing didn't really seem that out-there and really I just needed some silly framing device for the intro I wanted to make, so I didn't think it would really matter. I didn't really intend for it to ever come up again.
Really though I didn't think there was such a thing as "utterly preposterous" when dealing with a force that completely warps the fabric of reality! I'm guessing the problem stems from the fact that people have more set rules with this stuff? Subneural networks and all that? I didn't make a big point of it, since again it was just supposed to be a silly joke to start me off, but in my mind "Professor Steele" was some weird amalgamation of a character from a video game and Cobalt's grandfather, and might not really even necessarily be a ghost, but a result of the same RAD application that Cobalt uses to summon his monsters, and his "dialogue" was really just Cobalt's own thoughts funneled through his imperfect conceptions of both his dead grandpa and the mentor figure in the video games he likes.
I put more thought into it than I really had time to explain in the context of a 7-sentence-long joke!
http://www.audioentropy.com/
micheal's logic is just too sound for chet to argue
chet's a simple guy
hoooo boy
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specifically getting bonuses for "being awesome"
What spring does with the cherry trees.
I like it a lot
And sometimes the audience would throw you healing items.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
What spring does with the cherry trees.
that game was the shit. my favorite thing was being able to block attacks and do more damage with a well timed press of the A button
never finished it, though
also I think I'm going to play some paper mario now
I am already excited.
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I don't know
hold meeeee
I'm not Viscount.