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Title: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 06, 2016, 10:40:48 pm: Spoiler: Story+Cover (click to show/hide)
(http://i.imgur.com/3v6kUwb.jpg)
Once every 60,000 years, the Mutagon Queen dies. In her lifetime she lays eggs on countless worlds.

These eggs hatch simultaneously. These levitating jellyfish-like infants may all seem identical to one another now, but they will each go on a seperate world ravaging and scouring journey, where they will assimilate the native fauna to become themselves the ultimate prodigy. However since only one Mutagon Queen is needed to proliferate the species, they seek each other out, and test which has become superior, absorbing the loser and addings its advantages to itself. Only when the final offspring senses there are none left does it take this perfect genetic strain and begin to lay, finding the most dangerous worlds across the galaxy to lay a single egg at a time.

HugeNerdAndProudOfIt really got my mind ticking with his (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=159862.15) Metroid game, ~~I didn't really get permission for this so if you have any problems Huge, just let me know. I'll take it down.~~ Sweet, courtesy upheld (http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/image/372). Lets drain some soul energy, shall we?

Gameplay will be kinda calculated like Wiki Wars - 1~10 rolls with buffs for abilities and reasonable attempts.

About sensing: this is an ability all players will have and it is the main way you seek the themes and specific abilities you want. It is a light form of God moding so take advantage. You can either choose to sense and environment or a prey item. You'll be limited to the number of words you can use for doing this but here are some examples and at the entry 2 word limit:

Hunt: shell, claws

Or

Seek: hot, mountains

You will need to 'shed' to take on a form capitalizing on your absorbed abilities, and you can only shed THREE times, plus one more each player you absorb. I adopt Notch's design philosophy that it is better to err on too hard than easy.

Infants
crazyabe
piratejoe

This game will be co-hosted by my alt account/persona GameBoyBlue. So please see these as real updates.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: crazyabe on August 07, 2016, 01:03:05 am: Interested
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: piratejoe on August 07, 2016, 01:12:17 am: Seems interesting.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: RoseHeart on August 07, 2016, 01:34:11 am: *rubs fly hands*
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: HugeNerdAndProudOfIt on August 07, 2016, 09:34:52 am: This is totally fine, I was actually worried about juggling 3 games, I am very interested in joining, if possible.
I get my information from http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Metroid_Wiki (http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Metroid_Wiki)
Also, please provide a link to my game, if possible
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: RoseHeart on August 07, 2016, 05:34:13 pm: Ok. Who wants to play?
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: crazyabe on August 07, 2016, 06:19:20 pm: Hot, Friendly(if that doesn't work: Massive), Hatch!
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: piratejoe on August 07, 2016, 08:40:47 pm: Munch? MUUUUUUNNNCH!....Stormy, Big, Hatch
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Post by: HugeNerdAndProudOfIt on August 07, 2016, 10:29:45 pm: Cold, Chozo Armored ( :D), hatch
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: Kashyyk on August 08, 2016, 08:04:13 am: Frozen, undying, hatch!
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: Zormod on August 08, 2016, 07:57:36 pm: Swamplike, acidic.

If added immediately, hatch!
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: crazyabe on August 09, 2016, 07:47:56 pm: Poke.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: pikachu17 on August 10, 2016, 10:44:06 am: So, the point is to kill other Metroid hatchlings, right? the environmental adjective describes where we start right? Gonna take someone else's adjectives to insure I'm near them and able to kill them.
Swamplike, acidic.

If added immediately, hatch!
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: GameBoyBlue on August 10, 2016, 02:47:39 pm: The nest of crazyabe

Hot... (2)
...friendly... (4)

*hatch!*

Size is One
Vitality is Two
New Abilities... Siphon... Scream...
New Traits... Durable... Sensing... Cold Intolerant...

...Water ...underwater.
She was in an ocean. Deep. Where things were bigger. And the water brighter... And hotter. Too hot. Intuitively she knew this is not where her mother intended her to be. The local geography had changed dramatically since then. But she sensed strength. This was a planet of strong beings, that had not changed. She sensed a lesser one... headed right for her(s2,v2). And then she was grabbed - scooped up off the cliff and... dropped... she senses the creature had been startled. She fell slowly into the burning abyss...

...Fear. Its' fear.

Spoiler: crazyabe(s1,v2) (click to show/hide)
Abilities:

Siphon: Know thy enemy. Add target's characteristics to your pool of options for molting. Target's combined size and vitality must be no more than twice your combined total. Can restore vitality up to double your size.

Scream: Loud noises! +2 agility this turn if combined with Siphon. Can't be used next turn.

Traits:

Durable:
Is that all you got? Physical blows ignored from creaters with combined vitality and size below your vitality. Can survive in the vacuum of space.

Sensing: Why, hello there. Can use a number of words equal to your current vitality to describe the next target environment or prey.

Cold Intolerant: Hold the ice. Your body can not tolerate the cold well in any forceful capacity. You also have an intolerance for assimilating related capabilities. -3
Some abilities will give less benefit in snowy and icy enviroments.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals
Post by: GameBoyBlue on August 10, 2016, 02:50:53 pm: Hello, this is still me, I have an alternate(actually older) account for hosting games.

At this time we will follow the adventures of Abe until she(all these Metroids are girls) chooses to molt. Then instead of a strict waitlist, it will be open entry with priority to players who showed interest first. Of course, default to what ever the OP says. (hops ever to RH to edit OP)

The next adventure will be hosted by me.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals: Birth of Abe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 10, 2016, 06:51:09 pm: That was gameboyblue, my alt account and persona. Consider it a... helper profile to help me stay organized. Hes a little egotistical though so consider me the heart account. I may be the primary head of this game despite his announcement, we'll see how quickly this game progresses.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals: Birth of Abe
Post by: crazyabe on August 10, 2016, 07:15:08 pm: I Hunt for Something Weak to Absorb.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals: Birth of Abe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 10, 2016, 07:35:43 pm: Quote from: crazyabe on August 10, 2016, 07:15:08 pm
I Hunt for Something Weak to Absorb.

OK! You will be refering to your sensing ability to progress. Here it is again:

Sensing: Why, hello there. Can use a number of words equal to your current vitality to describe the next target environment or prey.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals: Birth of Abe
Post by: crazyabe on August 10, 2016, 07:39:14 pm: Quote from: roseheart on August 10, 2016, 07:35:43 pm
Quote from: crazyabe on August 10, 2016, 07:15:08 pm
I Hunt for Something Weak to Absorb.

OK! You will be refering to your sensing ability to progress. Here it is again:

Sensing: Why, hello there. Can use a number of words equal to your current vitality to describe the next target environment or prey.
Whelp, i Did use *A* Word, "Weak", or was that somewhat overlooked?
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals: Birth of Abe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 10, 2016, 07:52:37 pm: "weak prey" it is.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals: Birth of Abe
Post by: GameBoyBlue on August 11, 2016, 10:56:26 am: crazyabe(infant, s1, v2)

Weak... (9)
...Prey... (7)

She decides to seek out something weaker, yet still the kind of prey her mother intended, something to help her adapt and thrive. She just so happened to sense something below her in the broiling abyss... Something... Just. Right.

...distress.

She came upon some sort of(premium,unfortunate) ancient creature(s2,v1) turtle like with six fins. It had lived far longer than most of its kind. She sensed a loneliness... Perhaps the last one. She targeted three advantages, but she could only choose one:

Dauntless: Grow a hardened core. Fatal blows have a 33% to leave you with 1 vitality. Warning... Unknown penalty.

Swimmer: Grow fins to improve underwater mobility. +1 agility underwater.

Magma Armor: Grow a glass like shell that deflects heat. +3 heat tolerance. -10% vitality.

Spoiler: crazyabe(s1,v2) (click to show/hide)
edits/updates will be in bold

Abilities:

Sensing: Why, hello there. Can use a number of words equal to your current vitality to describe the next target environment or prey. Think of this as minor god moding.. you DO sense these things, but the quality and accuracy is random.

Siphon: Know thy enemy. Add target's characteristics to your pool of options for molting. Target's combined size and vitality must be no more than twice your combined total. Can restore vitality up to double your size.

Scream: Loud noises! +2 agility this turn if combined with Siphon. Can't be used next turn.

Traits:

Durable:
Is that all you got? Physical blows ignored from creaters with combined vitality and size below your vitality. Removed: Can survive in the vacuum of space.

Cold Intolerant: Hold the ice. Your body can not tolerate the cold well in any forceful capacity. You also have an intolerance for assimilating related capabilities. -3
Some abilities will give less benefit in snowy and icy enviroments.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals: Birth of Abe
Post by: crazyabe on August 11, 2016, 12:18:38 pm: I Choose Fins.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals: Birth of Abe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 11, 2016, 02:09:19 pm: piratejoe, would you still like to join? Would you like to use the same words?
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals: Birth of Abe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 11, 2016, 02:40:58 pm: crazyabe(infant, s1, v2)

She closes in (3 vs 4+1) the turtloid gets away by the narrowst of margins, and begins to put some distance on the baby metroid.

Spoiler: crazyabe(s1,v2) (click to show/hide)
edits/updates will be in bold

Abilities:

Sensing: Why, hello there. Can use a number of words equal to your current vitality to describe the next target environment or prey. 'hunt' or 'seek' to clarify.

Siphon: Know thy enemy. Add target's characteristics to your pool of options for molting. Target's combined size and vitality must be no more than twice your combined total. Can restore vitality up to double your size.

Scream: Loud noises! +2 agility this turn if combined with Siphon. Can't be used next turn.

Traits:

Durable:
Is that all you got? Physical blows ignored from creaters with combined vitality and size below your vitality.

Cold Intolerant: Hold the ice. Your body can not tolerate the cold well in any forceful capacity. You also have an intolerance for assimilating related capabilities. -3
Some abilities will give less benefit in snowy and icy enviroments.
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals: Birth of Abe
Post by: crazyabe on August 11, 2016, 02:42:46 pm: After that Old' Turtle!
Title: Re: Metroid Rivals: Birth of Abe
Post by: piratejoe on August 11, 2016, 06:19:18 pm: I would still like to join and still use the same words.
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 12, 2016, 10:23:21 am: I'm having a lot of fun with this and I realize it's going to likely continue down that path. I've decided to remove ties with Metroid... What this means is very little game play wise as I was not really going to use elements from that universe other than your starting form and really a floating jellyfish is general enough to not need to rely on that IP. And what I have already done with it already moved it a step away as the original Metroid did not suck away DNA.

Why do this? I do this because this allows me to be an authority on the content. I can actually take the posts I write and do something with them. So I will.

Xenobrood: A documentary
I have no reason not to do this even if it doesn't sell more than a couple copies to my family, I want to offer this up. This is what I'm going to do I'm going to take the posts from this game and once this game wrapped up I'm going to make cool drawings for the updates and released it as an online downloadable ebook for a couple bucks. No I'm not charging anything here and anyway this is of course a totally free game.

If you have any ideas, comments, or concerns I'd love to hear them. I will continue with the game entirely as planned.
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 12, 2016, 02:03:16 pm: The nest of piratejoe

Stormy... (6)
...Big... (9)

*Hatch*

Size is One
Vitality is Two
New Abilities... Siphon... Scream...
New Traits... Durable... Cold Intolerant...

...Shaking ...ground shaking.
She was born just in time, her egg shell was quickly crushed by lumbering giant, who's thunderous ambulation was only challenged by the grey fierce rolling thunder clouds above. Rain drizzled over her soft round white figure. Pure blackness was challenged by the massive crushing sounds of this beast and flashes of lighting in the skies. This soon would pass, for the weather on this planet was caotic, and never settled on one track for very long.

...Sister.

(Birth disorientation. Local creature info revealed next turn. Sensing may/may not influence outcome.)
Spoiler: piratejoe(s1,v2) (click to show/hide)
edits/updates will be in bold

Sensing: Hunt Why, hello there. Post Can use a number of words equal to your current vitality to describe the next target environment or prey. 'hunt:' or 'seek:' to clarify(free word).

Seek

Abilities:

Siphon: Know thy enemy. Add target's characteristics to your pool of options for molting. Target's combined size and vitality must be no more than twice your combined total. Can restore vitality up to double your size.

Scream: Loud noises! +2 agility this turn if combined with Siphon. Can't be used next turn.

Traits:

Durable:
Is that all you got? Physical blows ignored from creaters with combined vitality and size below your vitality.

Cold Intolerant: Hold the ice. Your body can not tolerate the cold well in any forceful capacity. You also have an intolerance for assimilating related capabilities. -3
Some abilities will give less benefit in snowy and icy enviroments.

GBB will no longer be helping. Thank you GBB!
*yes, I am totally talking to myself. Just be clear.
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: pikachu17 on August 12, 2016, 02:18:13 pm: I want to join.
cold, cavern. can I choose not be cold intolerant?
If I must be cold intolerant, then hot, volcano,
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 12, 2016, 03:26:53 pm: Quote from: pikachu17 on August 12, 2016, 02:18:13 pm
I want to join.
cold, cavern. can I choose not be cold intolerant?
If I must be cold intolerant, then hot, volcano,

Thanks for your interest!

What I'm going to do since there seems to be a lot of interest and the story itself does call on a lot of these creatures, but I can only manage so much myself, I'm going to run it as an "emergent tournament". What that means is right now it's Joe verse Abe. Then maybe we can do more once that all goes well.
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 12, 2016, 05:23:09 pm: crazyabe(infant, s1, v2) #4

...Sister.

The terms were understood. It was more than genetic, it was practical. (6v9) The turtoid got smaller, and smaller, until it was beyond her sensing. She drifted in one direction for awhile. The connection with her sister spanned much greater distances, and yet, with what seperated them, they were the closest, and so it would them that joined to discuss who would go on. However her attention shifted to a new dialogue.

Prey Detected... (+1 to hunt sensing first word)

Enhanced Ability... Sensing...
Spoiler: crazyabe(s1,v2) (click to show/hide)
edits/updates will be in bold

Abilities:

Siphon: Know thy enemy. Add target's characteristics to your pool of options for molting. Target's combined size and vitality must be no more than twice your combined total. Can restore vitality up to double your size.

Scream: Loud noises! +2 agility this turn if combined with Siphon. Can't be used next turn.

Sensing: Why, hello there. Post can use a number of words equal to your current vitality to describe the next target environment or prey. 'hunt:' or 'seek:' to clarify(free word). You know what your sister is doing at all times.

Traits:

Durable:
Is that all you got? Physical blows ignored from creaters with combined vitality and size below your vitality.

Cold Intolerant: Hold the ice. Your body can not tolerate the cold well in any forceful capacity. You also have an intolerance for assimilating related capabilities. -3
Some abilities will give less benefit in snowy and icy enviroments.
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: piratejoe on August 12, 2016, 05:39:51 pm: Seance the big thing that's walking past me, its the only thing i can really go after all.
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: crazyabe on August 12, 2016, 05:46:58 pm: Hunt: Slow, Friendly Prey.
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 12, 2016, 06:21:55 pm: Quote from: piratejoe on August 12, 2016, 05:39:51 pm
Seance the big thing that's walking past me, its the only thing i can really go after all.

You can use two words to describe it, or leave and seek an environment with two words. Or you could perhaps attack what wver it is as is withut detecting further. I would recommend NOT rushing... unless u dont think u can play as often as Abe
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: piratejoe on August 12, 2016, 08:33:53 pm: Alright then, sense big, nearby.
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 12, 2016, 10:21:23 pm: crazyabe(infant, s1, v2) #5

Slow... (2+1)
Friendly... (6)

(boiling, trains, stitch) From the hot bright depths something ascends into her world. It acknowledges her presence, then quickly ensares her in a web! She is stuck in a cacoon, and as they rise she detects other beings in a train of captives, a rope that goes down and down with its' passangers in toe. She gets a better sense of them...

...Calm...

Ensnared... (-1 agility in web)
Spoiler: crazyabe(s1,v2) (click to show/hide)
edits/updates will be in bold

Abilities:

Siphon: Know thy enemy. Add target's characteristics to your pool of options for molting. Target's combined size and vitality must be no more than twice your combined total. Can restore vitality up to double your size.

Scream: Loud noises! +2 agility this turn if combined with Siphon. Can't be used next turn.

Hunt/Seek: Why, hello there. Post can use a number of words equal to your current vitality to describe the next target environment or prey. 'hunt:' or 'seek:' to clarify(free word).

Traits:

Durable:
Is that all you got? Physical blows ignored from creaters with combined vitality and size below your vitality.

Sensing: You know what your sister is doing at all times. Sensitive and perceptive of emotions.

Cold Intolerant: Hold the ice. Your body can not tolerate the cold well in any forceful capacity. You also have an intolerance for assimilating related capabilities. -3
Some abilities will give less benefit in snowy and icy enviroments.
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 13, 2016, 05:29:50 pm: piratejoe(infant, s1, v2) #2

Big...

And for all its' fanfare the storm had quickly all but dissipated.

(wabbling+stormy+marble)
Planet Warbby...
A flat-surfaced planet subject to sudden earthquakes and storms.

(itching+illegal+bushes)
Ittush Badlands...
(6) The land was covered in shrubs about three times her height. They seemed to have already sucked up all the moisture from the passing storm.

(big+banging+agreement)
Bingee Encounter... (3)(v1,s4)
(9) The thunderous steps of the creature had grown into a quiet rattling, but as she investigated the creature it turned back on her, and began to approach. It was pathetic really. It hardly had any liforce reading, however as it stumbled near, she realized it wasn't one creature at all. It was a network of interlocking smaller ones. (v1,s1,Bingites)

Hostility...

Whatever it was was preparing to attack however it would... But just then... It seemed to be completely swallowed up by the ground? As she drew near she sensed the individual entities dying off one by one; one dug its way to the surface exhausted it went away from what it now saw as a threat. She sensed a few advantages she could pick one of.

Network: Friends like you. +2 to physical tasks while maintaining physical contact with something of similar size trying to complete a compatible physical task.

Flexible Poses: Hey you there! +1 to limb function while stationary or being forcibly moved.

Cannibaserker: Family dinner party. If a member of your species is wounded in your presence, +1 to siphoning them, -3 to all other actions.

(a selection does not need to be made, a choice can be changed later before its final, siphon can be used just to kill)

Spoiler: piratejoe(s1,v2) (click to show/hide)
edits/updates will be in bold All abilities updated.

Abilities:

Siphon X: Know thy enemy. Add target's characteristics to your pool of options for molting. Harder on larger or higher vitality prey.

Scream Siphon X: Loud noises! +2 to siphon. Can't be used next turn.

Sensing: Why, hello there. Choose one word that describes a desired ENVIRONMENT(caps) or prey(lower). Nouns will be replaced unless a name of a previously encountered creature or region.

Traits:

Durable: Is that all you got? Physical blows ignored from creaters with combined vitality and size below your vitality.

Sensing: You know what your sister is doing at all times. Sensitive and perceptive of emotions.

Cold Intolerant: Hold the ice. Your body can not tolerate the cold well in any forceful capacity, or assimilating related capabilities.

***
To set the tone, I'm going to ask players to limit post content to that which is allowed by the sensing ability; or ability names.
***
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: RoseHeart on August 16, 2016, 03:22:30 am: (stealth update was stealthy

This is not a take-turn type scenario so either player may go right now.)
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: RoseHeart on September 12, 2016, 07:56:33 pm: I made another thread and I cant seem to find it @, @
Title: Re: Xenobrood Rivals: Abe vs Joe
Post by: RoseHeart on October 01, 2016, 02:53:15 pm: bump