NLBFT 11 Chat Thread

[Kargath]

Inferno, I checked with my biologist sister before posting that battle segment, just to make sure, and she said it was right my way. Still, it's not something we can know unless we try it.
Any volunteers?

[Joker]

Uh, I know this is already like so old but.....I was 12 when my parents got married.



And my son was like 2 when me and his mother tied the not.....


And the best alternative word for bastard is...... "Mexican" !!! j/k

<------ is Mexican

[Kargath]

No-one's told me yet whether my length is a bad or good thing.

Also, I'd like contributions from anyone on my character. What I'd like to know is, did it make an impact? Did anyone get a feeling of foreboding when the Doll 'woke'? Most importantly, did anyone go 'eewww' or cringe?

[Joker]

[QUOTE=Kargath]

Joker, what issues happened with HotD/Saria as judges? I'm missing out on so much history here.

[/QUOTE]



Meh, just the same scenario but different writers and different judges. Its not that uncommon for others to fail in seeing the logic that is used when others are critiquing their writing. Often times it results in feeling of mistrust in that person’s ability to judge. Such was the case when a few warriors came to me about how HotD and Saria Dragon had gone about scoring their fights. When I reviewed the fights myself and looked over their scores and explanations I found nothing wrong. It was just two individuals who had viewed the fight vastly different than what the writers who wrote them intended. But, those warriors ended up accepting the judge’s scores and took their criticism as motivation to the next round our tournament. One of them ended up being the champion of the NLBFT that year.


But stuff like that has always happened from time to time. Don’t get me wrong though the moment a vast majority of the Gunjin community witnesses a true laps in a judges score or decision many voices will cry foul not just one.

[Scripture]

[QUOTE=Kargath]No-one's told me yet whether my length is a bad or good thing.[/QUOTE]

Length should be a by-product of having a lot of entertaining, worthwhile things to say. Length for the sake of length is pointless. There are two quotes that come to mind on the matter: "Perfection is not achieved when there is nothing more to add, but nothing more to take away," and "Quality over quantity," which isn't so much a quote as a philosophy. I haven't actually read your battle, but that's my two cents.

[Inferno Dragon]

[QUOTE=Kargath]Inferno, I checked with my biologist sister before posting that battle segment, just to make sure, and she said it was right my way. Still, it's not something we can know unless we try it.
Any volunteers? [/QUOTE]

I could try to find a wikipedia article to setle this thing once and for all.

oh and as for your "immortal doll" waking up, yeah it creeped me out but then again posessed dolls have always given me the creeps ever since I first ran across Calbrena in FFIV. *shudders*

Inferno: btw when this tourniment's over I'll be starting the new and improoved "Trial by Fire" tourniment and I'll be hosting it at my castle on draco for those interested. oh and just so you know, you won't be judged by your writing, you will be judged by your fighting skills and your ability in battle at "Trial by Fire".

[Repster]

I can't recall seeing them random. They usually go about with the standard
1-|
----2|
2-| |
-------4|
3-| | |
----4| |
4-| |
|
Winner
5-| |
----6| |
6-| | |
------6|
7-| |
----7|
8-|

Just you know... bigger since it's 16 not 8.

Edit: OKay... so spaces don't work apparently...

[Kargath]

^ Use CODE tags if you need spacing preserved.

Also, Selene, I guess the way you structured it conflicts with the way I know AIs to be structured internally. Plus the one that went on for half a page was a bit long.

[The Willful Wanderer]

Woo!

So, for everyone (Especially Repster):

Seles is a sorceress who literally cannot fight physically. She has basically unlimited variety of defensive spells, learned for just that reason. If you start actually hitting her, the fight is going to end, because she literally can't take a hit. Her defenses, on the other hand, can. Major-league.

There are two ways this can be handled.

1.) Some sort of contest that's not a physical fight. Favorites for mage-duels include a series of escalating challenges of wizardry for one another, turning a flame from half and half two colors to your own color, snuffing one another's candles, summoned creature duels, and precision/mass destruction contests.

2.) Go ahead and fight her but remember that you're probably not going to actually hit Seles herself until maybe the end of the fight. She has a limit to her amount of total magical power, but it's a pretty ludicrous one. More importantly, she has a much smaller limit on how much of that she can access at any given time- she's got an entire ocean of magical power to most people's shotglasses, but she's still only got a regular garden-hose to channel it through (compared to most peoples' bendy-straw. Yeah, it's still a lot more, but she can't channel as much at once, proportionally, as your typical spellcaster would be able to by the time they have that much sum power.).

Either way, it'll be a fun and interesting fight where we stretch ourselves. I look forwards to it.

Oh, a further note- there are various frozen zombies about in the city and the surrounding frozen wasteland- as well as a very large number of frozen things to break/use/enchant/whatnot. I leave the state of the city itself up to you- could be frozen like the Plague-horde, or in some other condition. It is, however, devoid of actual life by necessity- wouldn't make sense there to still be people or animals living in there, not with the undead and the inherent wrongness of the place.

Edit: Additional Note: Sorry about the double-post, I was about 1000 characters over and couldn't stand to cut anything.

[LOOT]

It seems that I should have described the battle system of Baten Kaitos more. Not that it matters, since t3hdarkness got the main point.

However, the idea of the Green Bananas card is actually a basic Attack card. Using it will attack the opponent with a base damage of 6 - About the strength of the weapons Kalas finds at the beginning of the game. I just based it off of that. I just wished I could have gotten more posts in so I could start using combos such as Chrono Yell.

Asnabel, we must duel again. Gunslinging is not common on the Gunjin, especially one between your guy's type and mine's.

[Kargath]

Lucas is a severe exaggeration of me, hehe. Or maybe not. (I drink Sprite Recharge, not V. :P )
As any person with technical knowledge at about my level will realise, I'm bending the rules as to how programming and AI actually work, but it fits the tourney better this way. Just as a note, Asnabel, I don't mean for Lucas to be solely under my control. Feel free to use him for your posts too - just make sure his actions fit with a off-kilter, sleep-deprived and jacked up mind hehe.
Ye gods I can't wait to see what you do with this one, Asna.

Selene, I got a massive tldr shock from your post. No chance I can catch up with that given that I haven't even read all of the first round ones yet O_O

[The Willful Wanderer]

....?

What's 'tldr'?

[Mikhail Gorbachev]

tldr = too long; didn't read

[Metal Man]

Wow. I didn't know I could make posts that long.

Er. *Clears throat* It is nice to have a strong opponent this round.

[t3hDarkness]

Acradius has missed his first 60 hours, he only has a few more before facing another deduction, that is, if he posts at all.

[The Willful Wanderer]

Regarding the tourney.

I have opted to use a mechanic that appeared fairly frequently back on SuperBard- the Delayed Attack. You may have noticed the boldface number at the bottom of my post- that is a timer. Each post I make, it counts down by one, until the attack launches during the post which would be followed by a '0'.

Typically, a Delayed Attack has drawbacks besides that it doesn't fire off right away- usually, they fall in the category of 'character must eschew combat during countdown', 'character must hold still during countdown', 'attack targets a place when initially triggered and launches there when the countdown ends', 'attack "charges" and can be interrupted to result in reduced effect', et cetera. Naturally, I'm not giving away which sort this attack is beforehand. If the judges (any or all of them) want to know what the particular limitations of the Delayed Attack I'm using are before it hits, they can go ahead and PM me- I'd rather not post it publically.

I'm sure it's being a little bit paranoid, but while I trust people to consciously separate character knowledge from player/writer/controller knowledge, I don't trust anyone (including myself) to do so subconsciously.

Thankyew! ^_^

[Kargath]

Well, no sign of Asnabel. Here's hoping I didn't blow a good intro for nothing...

[Metal Man]

Heh. The guy I'm fighting is timely, but I fear both Metal Man and Scripture will blow up the planet and be reduced to dust long before the time limit is over. O_o

[Kargath]

*fires energy beam into ground*
"I give you five minutes!"

... and ten episodes later, still punching...

[Scripture]

[QUOTE=Metal Man Metal Man]Heh. The guy I'm fighting is timely, but I fear both Metal Man and Scripture will blow up the planet and be reduced to dust long before the time limit is over. O_o[/QUOTE]

I'd say the same of you, you and your quick-replying. I don't think Scripture is quite capable of blowing up the planet in the state he's in. He's quite ready to be reduced to dust, though.