c57111 No.7019[Last 50 Posts]
Hello, /storytiem/. I like this board, but the flow of content is too slow for my taste. To alleviate the wait, I’ve decided that the best thing I can do is try to chip in by writing a story of my own. I’m unfamiliar with writing this format of story, but I figure it’s worth a shot nonetheless. We'll be running the standard board rules for this game.
This is the story of a young woman transitioning from being merely a sidekick to being an independent hero in her own right. Without further ado, here begin…
The Adventures of Battlegirl
Here you are, right at the start of the rest of your life. The sights and sounds of your new town, Utopolis, excited you and make you anxious at the same time. You and your mentor, Battleman, parted on roughly amicable terms after you finished high school, but continuing your fight against injustice without his protection is unnerving. The training wheels are off and they will never come back. You aren’t completely alone, your best friend and the only one privy to your identity as Battlegirl is your roommate this year. She will prove to be invaluable moral and logistical support, you couldn’t right the many wrongs of Utopolis without her help. As a full-time student of the Central Utopolis Metropolitan University, you would have a hard time concealing your identity if you didn’t have someone willing to cart along your civilian clothes when you need to change in a pinch. It definitely wouldn’t help if people around you, or worse yet, supervillains had some reason to suspect that the athletic, blue-eyed, light brown-haired Megan Thompson is really the superheroine Battlegirl. Who knows what they would do to you if they had that information?
That’s getting ahead of yourself, though. Right now you haven’t done much to draw the ire of any criminal elements in this city. Even in Battlegirl’s hometown, she’s not really that well known because she was perpetually in Battleman’s protection. Battleman got all the credit for their exploits because he did most of the work. Here in the even larger, rougher streets of Utopolis, Battlegirl has very little notoriety. It’s time to change that.
You and your roommate, Kelly, are walking around the bustling commercial district of downtown Utopolis when you both suddenly hear a woman scream down the alleyway. You both duck into the nearest restroom where you quickly throw off your civilian clothes revealing the tight, blue spandex tights underneath. You slip on your domino mask that conceals your secret identity and rush out in the direction of the screams hoping you’re not too late to help. When you get to the end of the alleyway, you find a dead end where two thugs are closing in on a young couple. The man is on the ground being kicked repeatedly by a tall, lanky thug whereas his shorter broader companion is slowly approaching the woman, who continues backing up even though she knows she’s cornered.
How do you approach this situation?
A) Loudly and flamboyantly announce your presence so that the thugs change their attention towards you
B) Get a sneak attack on the lanky thug to stop him from beating the man
C) Rush in and attack the shorter thug to stop him from molesting the woman
D) Call the police
c89c1b No.7021
>>7019B. Free the man, and maybe he can help us fight them.
This looks like an interesting game! We haven't had a superhero story yet, I like the idea.
98e62b No.7024
>>7021This
Also, thanks for stepping up instead of flaking out.
929774 No.7029
c57111 No.7031
>>7021>>7024>>7029B it is then.
Going to need a 35+ stealth roll.
c89c1b No.7034
 | Rolled 97 |
>>7031sneaky sneak sneaks
929774 No.7035
>>7034Now that's what I call a roll!
c57111 No.7047
>>7034(Stealth roll 35+… 97 rolled epic win!)
Stepping lightly towards the lanky thug, you manage to avoid drawing the attention of either of the thugs who are both preoccupied with their current actions. You jump up and wrap the inside of your arm around the neck of the assailant. The attack on the man ends immediately and after mere seconds in your sleeper hold, the lanky thug is down and out. The sound of you taking out his bro has the second thug turn his attention from the tantalizing, now exposed breast of the woman he was about to rape. The woman remains paralyzed by fear, but the male victim is now almost on his feet and pissed off, first because of being attacked by the lanky thug, next because his girlfriend was just molested by the man that’s still standing. The remaining thug emerges from a brief moment of disbelief at his reversal of fortune, and assesses that you are the most relevant threat. Though the male victim is pissed off, he’s a bit too staggered after being assaulted to actually rush in whereas you’re fresh and obviously a superheroine.
As the remaining thug begins approaching you, you wonder how you’re going to deal with him. What’s the gameplan?
A) Try to talk him into surrendering
B) Rush in and attack him before he gets you
C) Lure him away from the couple
D) Help the male victim to his feet and convince him to fight alongside you.
e0aac8 No.7049
c89c1b No.7053
>>7047D. At worst, we can use him as a meat-shield
4f51ea No.7054
c57111 No.7056
>>7049>>7054Protecting the innocent comes first. You can’t risk them getting hurt either by the remaining thug as a distraction or by doing anything stupid. You step backwards and slowly walk away from the thug, keeping your focus on him and leading him down the alley. The thug is following your lead to a T, but you can’t help but notice that his angry gaze is quickly turning into a lust-filled one. As you reach a point that should be completely safe for the victims, you shift into a fighting stance. Now the only thing to do is to fight.
Battlegirl
Status:
Health: 10/10
Horniness: 0/10
Thug
Status:
Health: 15/15
Going to need a 50+ combat roll for Battlegirl
e0aac8 No.7057
| Rolled 68 |
>>7056fight!
c57111 No.7059
>>7057(Combat roll 50+… 68 rolled, win)
You successfully land the first attack, a side kick into the thug’s chest, staggering him backwards for a second. The thug, slightly damaged by your kick but still every bit as determined as before, rushes inwards and tries to make a grab for your waist.
Battlegirl
Status:
Health: 10/10
Horniness: 0/10
Thug
Status:
Health: 11/15
Going to need an avoid roll of 40+ to not get grappled.
fc8b14 No.7062
| Rolled 65 |
>>7059Avoidance roll
4f51ea No.7064
>>7062seems like we're actually comepetent.
c57111 No.7065
>>7062(Avoid roll 40+… 65 rolled, win)
You hop to the left to avoid the thug’s attempt to wrap you up. You follow up with a quick three-punch combo that leaves the thug yet again stunned. His will is wavering and you can see from his darting eyes that he’s considering running off. Now’s your chance to knock him out.
Status:
Health: 10/10
Horniness: 0/10
Thug
Status:
Health: 6/15
A) Go for a choke hold to guarantee a knockout (60+ combat roll required)
B) Just follow up with some attacks to knock his health down more (40+ combat roll)
C) Egg him on with some taunts to convince him to stay in the fight (50+ taunt roll)
D) Just prepare to chase him into the street. Maybe taking him down in public will help you start your superhero career in Utopolis.
43332a No.7066
e0aac8 No.7068
4f51ea No.7069
c89c1b No.7070
>>7065B. Simple and sweet.
c57111 No.7071
>>7066>>7068>>7069Battleman always taught you that superheroics weren’t about being a gloryhound, but then again his name was always on page 1 of the ‘’Battle Hill Tribune’’ whereas yours was always page 10a. In your experience, fame gives you the opportunity to network with the police, put fear into the hearts of criminals, and it just feels good to actually get recognized for the good you do. The nameless thug darts off into the crowded street, the way he’s carrying himself around makes it evident to anyone in his path that he’s running from someone because of something bad he did. You’re trailing at less than two feet behind him, the heads of all the men in the crowd turning as you dart by. When you get to a spot where you can take the thug down with a quick tackle once and for all, you decide to go for it.
40+ agility roll for the tackle, which will end this encounter.
4f51ea No.7072
| Rolled 35 |
>>7071agility
would be hilarious if we epically failed now
4f51ea No.7073
>>7072well at least it'a only a refular fail
c57111 No.7074
>>7072(Agility roll 40+… 35 rolled, fail)
Your attempt to tackle was admirable, but you fell just a bit short of wrapping up the perpetrator’s legs, resulting in him just stumbling into the nearest wall and causing a small amount of damage to both yourself and your opponent from your poorly-executed tackle. It’s a little embarrassing that the very first heroic action you did in the public eye in this city was slightly botched, but if you close this out cleanly, the public might not notice.
Status:
Battlegirl
Health: 9/10
Horniness: 0/10
Thug
Status:
Health: 3/15
Going to need a 45+ combat roll to really finish this off.
(sorry for making you guys roll so much. If you want me to just go ahead and roll for myself from now on I can, but I like leaving the luck in your hands.)
c89c1b No.7075
| Rolled 83 |
>>7074I don't mind lots of rolling. It gives us more control.
c89c1b No.7076
| Rolled 18 |
>>7075Combat, by the way
c89c1b No.7077
>>7076Aaaand I didn't mean to roll again. Whoops.
c57111 No.7079
>>7075(Good to hear)
(Combat roll 45+… 85 rolled, win)
You quickly get up from your tackle attempt and subdue the thug with a roundhouse. The thug is down and should not be getting back up for a little while yet. The crowd applauds at how you took the thug down, and you notice that Kelly is among the cheering. You try to make it look as if you didn’t especially notice her, so that no one begins suspecting that she and Battlegirl know each other. The police show up in a very short time, apparently they were called by the victims you had saved, so no explanations needed to be given to the uniformed officers, who handcuffed the thugs and put them in the squad cars without so much as a comment. They must be so used to this kind of stuff in the Big City that it doesn’t even faze them that a young woman wearing spandex just took down two hardened thugs.
Just as you’re about to leave the scene, a man who looks between 25 and 28 years old wearing a suit with a tie approaches you. He’d be pretty good looking if it weren’t for his cheesy seventies-looking mustache.
“The name’s Grayson. Detective Grayson.” The detective states, plainly. “That was some pretty solid work you did there for an amateur, but you clearly don’t know who you’re messing with.”
What do you say to Detective Grayson? (the two most popular happen)
A) Ask about what he means about “not knowing who you’re messing with”.
B) Ask him if there are any other superheroes in the city
C) Ask him what the best areas to patrol would be
D) Ask him for a number to contact him on
E) Leave him
And as always, if there’s a choice you want to do that isn’t spelled out by me, you can write it in.
43332a No.7080
e0aac8 No.7081
>>7079A and
Ask about any other big players/criminals in the city
c89c1b No.7083
>>7079A and D. Friends are always helpful
e5e077 No.7084
>>7079A and C
This is pretty well written so far OP.
c57111 No.7086
>>7080>>7084“What do you mean that ‘I don’t know who I’m messing with’? Those were clearly a couple of small-time thugs.”
“Gangs in this city are organized. While the two creeps you took in are small-time thugs, they work directly under enforcers who themselves work under kingpins. The tattoos on their wrists give away their affiliation to the Burger Kings. There’s nothing wrong in this city that the Burger Kings don’t have their hands in somehow: human trafficking, drug dealing, extortion, murder, rape. You name it, they do it. These small fry were expected to mug their victims, take their wallets, and skim off some of the pocket change while passing the rest up the ladder to finance the more expensive operations. By attacking these small fry in public, you marked yourself as an enemy of the Burger Kings. If you had kept the fight to that alleyway, you might have been able to get off scot-free, and even that would depend on if any of the arresting officers are on the take.”
“So I’m the enemy of a criminal organization? Isn’t that kind of the point of being a superhero?”
“Maybe, but for an organization their size, they don’t have a lot of enemies left. They’ve folded in a lot of Utopolis’ gangs under their umbrella because of their ruthless retaliatory policies. There’s only one major rival of theirs left, and even they’re on the verge of giving in. Even the police, who are supposed to be all about busting gangs like that can’t do much to them. A disturbingly large part of the Force is sympathetic towards them either as a result of being bought out or leaned on. The last superhero we had that tried fighting them was publicly humiliated in a way we don’t even like
talking about. You’ll find few friends who will back you up if you plan to not just go into hiding yourself. If I was you, I would.”
You also inquire about where the biggest areas of gang activity were in the city. Detective Grayson informs you that the Kings raise most of their funds on the south side, but as you’ve seen tonight the alleyways of the West-side commercial district aren’t immune to their violence. You might want to think twice before heading into their territory in costume. The north-side is almost exclusively controlled by the rival gang to the Kings, the Surgeon Generals, but it’s the only foothold in the city that the gang has. As for the East side, that’s where the weird superpower stuff ends up happening. It’s the city’s business district complete with all the banks, newspapers, and construction projects that super criminals seem to love. You might have your hands too full with this gang war that you’re now evidently embroiled in to go there much, but that’s ultimately up to you.
After saying goodbye to Detective Grayson, you meet up with Kelly, retrieve your civilian clothes, and go back to your room. Once you’re there you decide to:
A) Meet your neighbors
B) Talk to Kelly about your war on crime
C) Train (provides a +5 boost to combat rolls for the following day)
D) Check the evening news for a report about your exploits
c89c1b No.7087
74e186 No.7089
e0aac8 No.7090
9d5f45 No.7092
ea240a No.7094
>>7086is there a permanent bonus for training? if yes C
else B and D
e5e077 No.7095
c57111 No.7096
>>7094No permanent bonus.
>>7090>>7092>>7094>>7095Looks like D wins. I'll have that up as soon as I can(almost definitely within an hour).
c57111 No.7099
>>7096Once you got back to your room you plopped down on the couch and turned the tv over to the local evening news. Although the vast majority of the coverage was of sports games and assorted fluff pieces like creative project ideas grade-schoolers (or their teachers) came up with, you were pleased to see that you did score a mention. When the anchor (a supermodel-looking blonde woman of about 25) finally got to reporting your story you were a bit taken aback to see the picture of you they put on the top right corner of the screen was a shot from behind when you were talking to Detective Grayson that felt just a bit
too focused on your firm, spandex-covered ass. The report started with
“It looks like a new superheroine is on the streets of Utopolis as this afternoon a couple who were allegedly assaulted by gang members claims that they were miraculously saved by this pictured mystery woman in blue. We don’t know what the “BG” logo on her chest stands for, why she chose the color blue for her tights, or what motivates her fight against crime, but we wish her the best of luck in her future crime-fighting endeavors.”
That’s about as good of an endorsement as you could hope for during your debut to solo crime fighting. You suddenly feel as though you are considered a respected member of the superhero community (Respect: 750/1000). You and Kelly celebrate, almost letting it slip your mind that your victory today may have very real consequences for you down the line.
Tomorrow is the first day of college, so you decide it would be best to get some rest and wake up on time tomorrow morning.
Your morning preparation routine goes smoothly as usual. What is your first class at CUMU?
A) Physics
B) Psychology
C) Biology
D) Art
Any suggestions for candidates for subsequent classes will be taken. As usual write-ins are accepted.
(Megan is currently undeclared, so she can take whatever she feels like, but we’ll be assuming introductory college level regardless of which class is chosen)
c89c1b No.7100
>>7099B) Psychology. Learn to get inside the criminals' heads.
74e186 No.7101
e0aac8 No.7102
7c7eb1 No.7103
4f51ea No.7104
118c0b No.7105
>>7099C. Learn about dat baby makin were gona be doing when we get caught.
c89c1b No.7106
>>7099Do class choices provide benefits to stats at all?
70facc No.7107
c57111 No.7108
>>7106I'm not planning for them to, but I intend to use the classes as a way of introducing supporting characters.
>>7102>>7103>>7105C wins. I'll post it as soon as it's written out (ETA < 1 hour)
c57111 No.7110
You sit down in a crowded lecture hall and pull out your notebook. You’re about five minutes early for the start of your Biology class so you get the chance to look around. It’s tough to tell exactly how many people are in this room; your guess would have to be about 150, but it’s clear that this class is very popular. Oddly enough, while the gender ratio for CUMU is roughly 1:1, as you look around the lecture hall you see somewhere between 2-3 times as many guys as girls. As such, it’s no surprise that both seats next to you are almost immediately snatched up by guys. Listening to the scattered conversations around you, it sounds like some of your peers are discussing the new superheroine in town and you can’t help but blush a little when you hear one of them start talking about what they’d like to do with her. It seems as if you already have a little bit of a following, but not really for the reasons you were hoping for.
At two minutes before class a gorgeous looking redhead in a white labcoat with a red top and a black miniskirt with black high heels enters the room by the podium. All of a sudden the skewed gender ratio starts making a lot of sense. The professor, who you learn is named Pamela Evey, opens up the lecture with a long talk about characteristics common to all forms of life: use of energy, responding to environmental stimuli, and reproduction. You can’t help but notice the way Professor Evey makes the word “reproduction” linger in the air every time she says it and how the majority of guys in the class suddenly start perking up for a moment every single time. She clearly has that portion of the class enthralled. Professor Evey claims that all human behavior, including social behavior such as how we dress and how we act, fundamentally owes to biological impulses towards maximizing possible reproduction both in number and quality of offspring. Denial of this drive is denial of your self (generally speaking) and why you do what you do. It gets kind of bizarrely philosophical, but by the end of the lecture you got to admit if only to yourself that you almost got caught up in her lecture as bad as the rest of the class.
Emerging from the lecture you head to the dining hall and grab a quick bite to eat. You choose to have a balanced meal so as to make sure you meet all your nutritional needs for crime-fighting. The worst thing that could happen would be if you’d cramp up in a fight. After finishing your food, you head off to your next class (Your final class for the day). What was it again?
A) Psychology
B) Art
C) History
D) Computer Science
(Megan will be taking a total of four classes this semester, and will have the chance to join student organizations later on if you so desire. Any write-in vote prior to the fourth class selection will make the next rounds of voting as well.)
70facc No.7111
7c7eb1 No.7112
dabd57 No.7113
74e186 No.7114
8b94b0 No.7115
c87b21 No.7116
70facc No.7117
>>7111Changing my vote to A
e0aac8 No.7118
118c0b No.7119
98e62b No.7120
c57111 No.7121
>>7114>>7116>>7117>>7119>>7120Like many US Supreme Court decisions, A wins 5-4. I'll have it up ASAP.
c57111 No.7122
You find yourself in yet another lecture hall, this time a smaller one. You would estimate that at maximum capacity this room seats 100 people, but only about 80 or so of the seats are occupied. As soon as you find a seat, this time towards the back of the room, you notice that the professor is already at the podium, just waiting until the clock hits the start of the lecture. Evidently he believes in being totally punctual. The professor is an unimposing looking man in his mid 40’s with brown hair and a receding hairline. He introduces himself as Professor Hugo Cortex. As Professor Cortex starts his lecture, he talks about how psychology, more than just being the study of how people feel in certain situations, is the study of behavior as the result of stimuli. He rants and raves about some experiment in the 1960’s where a lot of mice were allowed to reproduce as much as they wanted and the result was the males turning meek and taking up self-grooming while the females became aggressive and had next to know interest in mating. The result being “the second death”, utter breakdown of an increasingly isolated society. You can’t help but shake the feeling that the reason Cortex is bringing this up is because he views himself as one of those meek male rats. If there’s a watch-list for potential mad scientists, this guy belongs on it. In any case, you find the unexpected levels of passion he brought to the lecture to be entertaining and hope to yourself that next lecture will be on a topic more applicable to your war on crime. The lecture ends without incident.
Now that you’re free of the lectures, your duties in maintaining your civilian identity are mostly complete. You’re free to meet up with Kelly and go on patrol if you want or you can continue doing civilian things to help bolster your identity. It’s all up to you.
What do you want to do? (you’ll have time to do one civilian activity before bed if you manage to get back from patrol unmolested)
A) Meet up with Kelly and start patrolling
B) Meet Kelly at you’re room and plan out an attack on the Burger Kings
C) Look into buying gear for your superheroics
D) Go introduce yourself to your neighbors
E) Look into signing up for a student organization
F) Train
G) Meet one of your professors at their office hours
c57111 No.7123
>>7122
>Next to no interest in matingSorry about that, I try not to make stupid typos, but that's the kind of shit spellcheck can't catch.
c89c1b No.7124
e0aac8 No.7125
118c0b No.7126
>>7122A and C when we have the time.
8b94b0 No.7127
70facc No.7128
A
c87b21 No.7129
c57111 No.7130
>>7124>>7125>>7126>>7127>>7128Your duty as a superhero must come before the simple joys of your civilian life. Battlegirl is desperately needed by the city, and you fully intend to give them her. The only problem is deciding where you want to patrol and if you want to start in costume or wait until you have to act to wear your costume. If you are accosted while in your civilian clothes you’ll have to risk jeopardizing your secret identity to protect yourself if running away simply doesn’t work. However if you wear your costume, you’re more likely to be attacked without provocation, which can result in humiliating yourself if your opponents get the better of you. Additionally where you patrol will affect what kind of criminals you fight (so far only the Burger Kings are immediately hostile towards you), your odds of encounter, and how many there are.
For those reasons you have two decisions to make: where to patrol and what to wear.
Choice 1:
A) Patrol North Utopolis (Surgeon Generals territory, site of current gangwar)
B) Patrol West Utopolis (Commercial district, lots of civilians who need saving)
C) Patrol Central Utopolis (Campus and surrounding businesses, neutral ground)
D) Patrol East Utopolis (financial district, chance of supercriminals)
E) Patrol South Utopolis (Burger Kings stronghold)
Choice 2:
A) Patrol in-costume until encounter
B) Patrol in civilian clothes until needed
c89c1b No.7131
>>7130Choice 1: B. We're still newbies, best to play it safe.
Choice 2: A
8b94b0 No.7132
>>7130Choice 1: B
Choice 2: A, changing takes too much time
c87b21 No.7133
c57111 No.7134
>>7131>>7132>>7133Gang wars don’t exactly sound like a good idea to dive head first into when you’re starting off your solo career, and fighting Supercriminals would be way out of your ballpark. You and Kelly head over to the Commercial district where you change clothes in the nearest available, unmonitored restroom, and let Kelly go her own way with her bag full of your civilian clothes. You start your patrol around the commercial district.
Going to need a 60+ luck roll to determine if you find a crime to stop (the fail range is the only one in which no encounter happens. Epic/phenomenal will result in something)
c89c1b No.7135
| Rolled 10 |
>>7134up all night to get lucky
c89c1b No.7136
c57111 No.7137
>>7135(Luck roll 60+… 10 rolled Epic Fail!)
Your patrol brings you back to the same alleyway you saw the couple getting attacked yesterday. You walk all the way back to the dead end, expecting that if there were to be an ideal spot for a criminal prey on the innocent, it would be here. As you reach the dead end, you turn around and realize that someone was in the process of sneaking up on you. It’s none other than the second thug from yesterday, the one you had to fight. As you think to yourself “shouldn’t he be behind bars?”, he rushes in and wraps around your waist in the same style he tried and failed to do yesterday. “Betchya thought ya saw the last of Tyrone, bitch. You had me locked up even though I dindu nuffin. Lucky for me, the Burger Kings look out for their own, so I got my bail posted and my judge bought. And now what do I get but a nice little gift wrapped slut to fuck.”
Tyrone’s hold on you will make it hard to escape. As strong as you are, he’s a strong man and you’re just a woman. Luckily he hasn’t begun to actually molest you yet and you still might be able to break his hold. Despite yourself you can’t help but get a little turned on at the way he’s holding you and how he’s talking to you.
Status:
Battlegirl
Health: 10/10
Horniness: 2/10
Tyrone
Status:
Health: 14/15 (still a little injured from yesterday)
Need a 70+ strength roll to escape Tyrone’s hold unmolested.
c89c1b No.7139
| Rolled 36 |
>>7137Time to redeem myself! Strength!
c89c1b No.7140
e0aac8 No.7141
c89c1b No.7142
>>7141I feel like someone else should do the rolling from now on…
c57111 No.7143
>>7139(Strength roll 70+… 36 rolled - fail)
“Yeah, keep fighting girl. I like it when they fight, it makes it all the sweeter when I make them beg for it.” Tyrone positions your hands so that they can slip inside your spandex tights. He gives your ass a quick, not overly painful, but very stern slap. “That’s a real nice ass you got there. It’ll be bigger with 8 inches of Big T’s bone in it.”
Obviously, you’re not going to escape Tyrone’s grip by overpowering him, he’s just too strong. Your lower body is pretty much immobilized by his grip on you, so your only shot now is to land enough body blows to free your legs and then try to kick out. You continue to get turned on at the way Tyrone’s treating you and you realize you need to get out quick or you might end up saying or doing something you’ll regret.
Status:
Battlegirl
Health: 9/10
Horniness: 4/10
Tyrone
Status:
Health: 14/15 (still a little injured from yesterday)
You’ll need a strength roll of 50+ to free your legs
dabd57 No.7144
| Rolled 75 |
>>7143lets hulk out
c89c1b No.7145
>>7144Good god thank you. I was probably going to kill us on the next roll
dabd57 No.7147
>>7145just doing my job, citizen
c57111 No.7148
>>7144(Strength roll 50+… 75 rolled - Pass)
Desperate to escape from being molested by Tyrone, you start raining body blows down on him. Tyrone is infuriated by it, but it’s enough to break his control over your legs. Now you’ve got to kick him to create spacing, failure means he re-establishes his grip and considering how angry he looks, you don’t think he’ll be inclined to hold back on you.
Status:
Battlegirl
Health: 9/10
Horniness: 4/10
Tyrone
Status:
Health: 12/15
Going to need a combat roll of 45+ for the kick
e0aac8 No.7149
| Rolled 44 |
>>7148combat roll
c89c1b No.7150
c57111 No.7151
>>7150If only you had trained last night…
Next part will be up asap.
c57111 No.7152
(45+ combat roll… 44 rolled – Fail)
You almost have the time to get off the type of kick you need, but Tyrone closes the gap just a little bit quicker than you can kick and immobilizes your legs again.
“You bitch, you really thought you could get away again. I’ll show you why no ho gets away from Big T.” With that, Tyrone pulls down your spandex tights a little showing off your tight pussy and firm ass to the full view of the alleyway. “They don’t make cunts like that where I’m from, that’s for sure.” Tyrone starts spreading your pussy with his left hand and inserts his index finger with his right hand. Immediately upon insertion, Tyrone stops in disbelief. “What is this that I’m feeling right here? There’s no way that a slut like dis is a virgin, but here it is.”
This is your only chance at getting out with your hymen in tact, you have to successfully headbutt him, which will definitely damage yourself no matter what.
Status:
Battlegirl
Health: 9/10
Horniness: 7/10
Tyrone
Status:
Health: 12/15
Going to need a combat roll of 60+ for the headbutt
c89c1b No.7154
| Rolled 84 |
>>7152Headbutt roll. Save us, based god
c89c1b No.7155
>>>7152
Will we have an option to run at some point? This really isn't going our way
d93255 No.7156
c57111 No.7157
>>7154(60+ combat roll… 84 rolled – pass)
You slam the top of your head into Tyrone’s forcing him to once again lose his control over you. You’re now back in the same position you were after the bodyblows, only you now are both a little more hurt and you’re both a lot more turned on. There may be a chance for you to leave this encounter without compromising yourself in any way if you land the kick and don’t let Tyrone get in a position to grapple you again, but now might be your only chance to negotiate before he really does take your virginity.
Status:
Battlegirl
Health: 5/10
Horniness: 7/10
Tyrone
Status:
Health: 7/15
What do you want to do?
A)Go for the kick (55+ combat roll now because your tights are restricting your legs’ movement
B) Run for it (70+ agility roll, escape the encounter if successful)
C) Try to negotiate to keep at least your vaginal virginity (60+ persuasion roll, penalty to respect, have to blow him or let him fuck your ass if successful)
First to three wins, then the rolls happen.
c89c1b No.7158
>>7157I would vote to get the fuck outta here, but 70 is REALLY high, so A, I guess
c87b21 No.7159
>>7157Well, A has the lowest check so,
A
dabd57 No.7160
>>7157you shouldn't tell us what our chances are of winning each roll, because then people will pick the easiest one.
A (would have gone for it anyway)
8b94b0 No.7161
>>7157A
Also, what
>>7160 said
c89c1b No.7162
>>7157Quick question, SuperOP: will we be able to obtain permanent stat boosts in the future?
e0aac8 No.7163
c89c1b No.7164
>>7160I didn't mind it. We're a seasoned fighter, it makes sense that we can evaluate our situation. Maybe just say "this option is easy" or "this option is hard" though?
dabd57 No.7166
>>7164vague (and sometimes unreliable) assessments of each choice would be ok with me.
c57111 No.7167
>>7160I understand, but I figured it was kind of balanced in that escape is presumably preferable to getting fucked in the face/ass which is presumably preferable to getting raped, but I totally see your point. Since consensus is with you, I'll cut out telling the probabilities before the decision is made.
I do like >>7164's suggestion about going about it. Does anyone have a problem with it?
>>7162I don't have any plans for it, but it seems like it's a popular idea, so I'll probably integrate it through either upgrades to equipment or permanent training (maybe under expert tutelage).
Also, since A won I'm going to need the 55+ combat roll.
118c0b No.7168
>>7166> (and sometimes unreliable) Not this
118c0b No.7169
| Rolled 84 |
>>7167combat roll
Vague with the stat were going to be using like (low STR roll) or (mid INT roll) is fine.
c89c1b No.7170
>>7168Yeah, if we're going to have it, we should at least have it be accurate, or it's useless
c89c1b No.7171
e0aac8 No.7173
>>7167I think it should be from the character point of view. If she think the action is easy or not for example.
>>7168It could even be unreliable in this case, but it should not be a trap for the players.
c57111 No.7174
>>7173I can't foresee too many situations where I'll have what Megan interprets be substantially different from what the actual circumstances are and I'd find it hard to intentionally mislead the players without punishing you too hard for it as a trap, so I probably won't end up doing that. Neat idea though.
Next update will be up in <1 minute.
c57111 No.7175
>>7169(55+ combat roll… 84 rolled – pass)
Once again in the same situation you know better than to give Tyrone too much time. Between the headbutt and your desperation, there is no way that Tyrone could have hoped to close the gap before you could fire off the kick. Big T has finally given you breathing room and for the first time this encounter, you feel kind of like you’re in control.
Status:
Battlegirl
Health: 5/10
Horniness: 7/10
Tyrone
Status:
Health: 4/15
Now that you’re in the lead, what do you do now?
A) Pull your tights back up (reduce penalty to agility-related checks)
B) Follow up with further attacks (mid combat roll)
C) stay on guard for another grapple (medium bonus to agility roll if he goes for the grapple again)
D) Run away (mid agility roll)
c87b21 No.7176
c57111 No.7177
>>7175For A I should say eliminate penalty, not reduce. Once the tights aren't in the way, there will be no need to penalize Megan's Agility.
c89c1b No.7178
>>7175A, let's stop standing here like a jackass with our pants around our ankles.
c89c1b No.7179
>>7177Sorry to keep asking you questions, OP, but when we buy gear, will there be clothes that are harder to strip off us? Maybe a full-body jumpsuit or something?
c57111 No.7181
>>7179That's a good idea. I honestly haven't given much thought to the gear system (I'm mostly making this up as I'm going along), but that will definitely be an option now that you've suggested it.
e0aac8 No.7183
118c0b No.7184
>>7175A
Will you do gallery requests of encounters? I wouldnt mind us failing to break is grip the first time and have him keep molesting us and talking dirty to us in his big strong hands untill we cant take it anymore.
>>7181I imagine that kind of outfit would make it extreamly hard to remove anything that managed to slip into or get under it without taking the whole thing off right?
c89c1b No.7185
>>7184That's what I imagined too. It's a trade off: safety in one area in exchange for vulnerability in another.
c89c1b No.7187
>>7176>>7178>>7179>>7184Thank god, at least we won't spend the rest of the fight waddling around
c57111 No.7188
>>7184I'd also like to see that scene happen (sounds weird to talk about your own writing that way), so I'll be sure to do a gallery on that. In my opinion galleries make good sense because they help mitigate the perverse incentive that practically drives a game like this. You want to play well, but what happens when you fail is the real reason why you, I, and everyone else are
really here. Galleries provide the best of both worlds, and I'll be glad to do them occasionally. I'll probably do that one at the end of this "day" and cut off this story until tomorrow after I post it. That seems like a good stopping point.
>>7184>>7185Noted. When I integrate it, I'll be sure to add that property.
c57111 No.7189
>>7176>>7178>>7184You hastily pull your tights up to their upright position. You can’t afford for them to get in the way in this fight. Surprisingly, Tyrone is a little more pissed off at the whole “headbutt then kick away” combo thing than you expected. Rather than trying to just grab onto you, he’s clearly rushing at you leading with his shoulder. He intends to pin you to the wall before he has his way with you. You need to get out of his path, pronto.
Stats haven’t changed since last update.
Going to need a 40+ agility roll for the dodge.
c89c1b No.7190
| Rolled 56 |
>>7189Dodge
118c0b No.7191
>>7185I can imagine a goon sneaking up behind us, pulling back the neckline and dropping a buzzing device that ends up sliding down to our lower parts and stuck under our suit. Maybe some kind of slime or gell gets under our suit and starts making us all hot and bothered as it mushes under the suit all over our body, unable to scrape it off us as the tight suit presses it all over our body.
c89c1b No.7192
>>7191Oh definitely. 10/10 would fap to
c57111 No.7193
>>7190(40+ agility roll… 56 rolled – pass)
You sidestep Tyrone’s shoulder charge and he ends up driving just himself into the wall. Without you to absorb the shock, Tyrone collides into the wall too hard for the meager hold on consciousness that Tyrone had to continue. Tyrone lies in the alleyway, knocked out because of his own poor decision-making.
Finally free of the encounter, you go ahead and call the police on your cell-phone and have them round up Tyrone. You know if history repeats itself, he’ll just get off the hook for this one just like last time. Maybe your fight against the Burger Kings has to begin with their undue influence over authorities; then again, the corrupt authorities are the ones with the most power to destroy you and your reputation before the public eye. In any case, you can ponder the philosophy of your war against injustice some other day, you’re victorious and Tyrone is back in a jail cell, even if it’s just for the night. You rush back to the drop-site for your clothes bag, change back into your civilian clothes and head back to your room as per usual. Luckily, your return back was uneventful. You walk into your room a little later than usual, but manage to catch a breaking news story about Tyrone’s arrest for assault. You feel as though your reputation has gone up today, though you are still just viewed as a respected member of the superhero community (760/1000), you almost don’t feel as if it’s worth it considering the tales you’re sure Tyrone is going to tell his associates about your encounter tonight. Good thing you’re not just in this for the fame.
Being that you were successful in your heroics tonight, you have the opportunity to do one more civilian activity, what is it?
A) Meet your neighbors
B) Hang out with Kelly
C) Sign up a student organization (online)
D) Schedule an appointment with one of your professors (the appointment would be tomorrow between classes)
E) Train (Still just the small temporary boost to combat rolls, experts will be able to train with you for permanent boosts once you meet them)
F) Shop for new superhero gear
e0aac8 No.7194
c87b21 No.7195
c89c1b No.7196
>>7193How much money do we have at the moment?
c57111 No.7197
>>7196$200 is the budget for discretionary spending this semester. It's not much, so I intend to provide opportunities for Megan to get a part-time job and use earning money as a civilian activity opportunity.
c89c1b No.7198
>>7193A for now.
We can shop when we've got some more cash
c57111 No.7199
>>7195>>7198If people in your building never saw you around, they’d either probably end up assuming you’re up to something or they’d start assuming things that aren’t true about your relationship with Kelly. Considering how often you have to be out of the building, it seems prudent to you to keep on good terms with your neighbors. That way they’ll be less inclined to snoop, you’ll be able to approach them if you need it to be quieter when you’re trying to sleep, and you might even end up being good friends. The way your hall is organized, you’re on the end of the hallway with one group of neighbors in the room next to yours and the other directly on the other side of the hall (see oekaki, did I just become the first person in board history to actually use it in a story?) Starting with the neighbors you share a wall with would be a good idea.
You head over to the room next door and knock on the door. After hearing about two minutes of nervous-sounding shuffling on the other side, the door opens and you’re greeted with the sight of a pasty-looking fat white nerd and a pasty-looking thin asian nerd.
Going to need a 75+ awareness roll as you gaze into their room
c87b21 No.7200
| Rolled 15 |
>>7199Awareness roll.
c89c1b No.7201
c57111 No.7202
>>7199Shit forgot to do the drawing.
118c0b No.7203
>>7199Both nerds are guys, right?
c57111 No.7204
>>7203yeah, sorry for not being clear about that.
Next part in < 1 minute.
c57111 No.7205
>>7204Fucking oekaki.
>>7200(75+ Awareness roll… 15 rolled – Epic fail)
“Y-you must be the girl from next door. I’m I-I-Isaac.”, the white nerd says. “This is my roommate, Hideo”
“Nice to meet you both, I’m Megan”, you say. Based on the nervous behavior of the two, they’re clearly not used to women like you making any effort to talk to them. There is an awkward silence where the two are really just looking at you wondering what to say. You break the silence. “Well, I just wanted to come over and say hi. If you guys need anything feel free to knock on my door and if I have anything I can help you with I can.”
“Y-y-you too” says I-I-Isaac as you head over to your neighbors from across the hall intent to introduce yourself in hopefully a less awkward manner to your other immediate neighbor.
You knock on the door directly across the hall from you and are met with a toned and tanned white guy wearing a backwards black baseball cap, a sleeveless shirt, and some cargo pants. Based on the tone of his muscle, he has clearly been pumping iron recently. “Woah, who ordered the babe!”
If you didn’t spend a good part of the night being molested by a convict, that might have made you blush. “I’m Megan from across the hall.” you say directly, not too interested in continuing this conversation longer than you have to.
“Oh, right your that Kelly chick’s roommate, right? Hey, if you don’t mind me asking, do you – like – have something going on?”
Going to need a 50+ spaghetti check
c89c1b No.7206
| Rolled 44 |
>>7205Mom's spaghetti
c57111 No.7207
>>7206(50+ Spaghetti check… 44 rolled – fail)
“She and I are real close, I mean we spend almost every waking moment together and she’s attractive and all, but…”
“Say no more. I guess it must not have happened yet, but be sure to send me an invite to your civil union. I always wanted to go to one of those…”
You want to try to convince this guy that you’re not like that, but you can see you’re floundering and he’ll probably keep pushing it thinking he’s flirting with you. Best to change topics, as smoothly as you can, considering the circumstances.
“And whose name would we put on that invitation?”
“You could put Tony on it. And then the three of us could get together and…”
“OK, nice to meet you Tony, I’ll see you around.”
“Don’t forget to send me that invite.”
You stomp off to your room before you have to deal with Tony any more tonight. You’ve got to get to sleep if you want to fight crime tomorrow, and that’s pretty much your purpose in life. No matter how mediocre things might go for Megan Thompson, you can always feel comfortable being Battlegirl.
(End of day, I'll post the gallery as soon as I get it done tonight, then I'll see you all next time I'm free to write)
c89c1b No.7208
>>7207Can't wait for the gallery. Loved the story OP, hope you're back soon!
118c0b No.7209
>>7207Nice story OP, looking forward to that gallery and the next session. Had fun, lots of potential with this story.
dabd57 No.7210
>>7174Any situation where Megan doesn't have the full picture could be possible, especially if the enemy is laying a trap for her. I find it unrealistic and maybe even a bit boring if our character is able to analye every situation 100% correctly. It would reduce the validity of the suboptimal options imo.
118c0b No.7211
>>7210It doesnt haveto be a guess from the characters perspective you know, Its just a bit of helpfull info on weather an action will need a roll and how hard it might be to help make decisions.
c57111 No.7212
The following takes place following breaking out of Tyrone’s grip with the bodyshots. Unable to mount an effective offense, Megan finds herself at Tyrone’s mercy. It is with pride that I present to you the first full erotica scene of the Adventures of Battlegirl…
Non-canonical Gallery 1: Tyrone’s Bitch
Your attempt to break free from Tyrone barely fazes him, each hit lightly bounces off Big T’s rugged abs like a crumpled ball of paper off the back of a student’s head. “Dass a real cute attempt to break free but you know as well as I do that the real reason why you haven’t isn’t because you can’t.” As he says this, Tyrone pulls down your blue spandex tights exposing your pussy and ass to anyone with a good view of the alleyway. “It’s ‘cuz you don’t want to. Deep down inside you want to have Tyrone’s big dick break your resistance. You want Tyrone’s hard cock to pound the inside of your pussy’s walls and you want to soak up Tyrone’s baby juice becuz you know that dat’s what you were meant for.” Tyrone’s hands reposition over your pussy and he starts stretching it open and shut with his left hand. With his strong right hand, he grips the inside of your right thigh then stretches his index finger out to be just shy of your vagina’s lips. You let out a moan of anticipation, no longer able to quietly tolerate Tyrone teasing you.
“Why haven’t you just fucked me yet? You’re clearly in good enough of position to.”
The frustration in your voice at your continued teasing is apparent to Tyrone.
“Dat would be rape, and Big T is no rapist.” Tyrone answers plainly. “If you want the T Bone, you gotta ask for it.” Despite what he was saying, Tyrone starts rubbing his strong right hand by the entrance to your pussy, noting to himself how wet you’re getting and wondering silently how long it’ll take before you submit to him. If you were in a state where you were paying attention, you’d realize that Tyrone’s hold over you is no longer so strong you couldn’t just break out and run for it.
Tyrone finally begins finger-fucking you savoring every moment of his conquest. On his first thrust when he reaches your hymen and stops for a minute. “Well I’ll be damned; I never woulda figured a little slut like you would actually be a virgin. What do they call you at college girlie, a butt-slut? There’s no way that you ain’t had at least a dozen dicks in you the way you prance around those outfits. This day just keeps getting better and better.” Tyrone resumes fingerfucking you and you moan uncontrollably, no longer caring about what the convict thinks of you. Tyrone exclaims “aww yeah dat’s the stuff, girl! Cum for me! Become the slut you was always meant to be.” Tyrone stops fingering you after your orgasm subsides and starts pulling out his dick. As he promised, it’s a full 8 inches and you stare at it in wonder. Sure you’ve seen dicks before, but usually in pictures or videos, never one that was actually about to fuck you. Completely free of his grip, Battlegirl falls to her knees, but her jaw drops in wonder and before she knows it her lips are wrapped around his T-Bone. She’s completely inexperienced at this, but Tyrone takes the lead and starts thrusting his hips. Tyrone places one hand at the back of her head and pulls her further towards the base of his cock than you ever intended to go, but she loves it. Her fingers have taken Tyrone’s place as she thrusts her own fingers into her cunt, pistoning in and out twice as fast as Tyrone’s hip thrusts.
“Alright girl, you know the deal”, Tyrone says as he guides Battlegirl’s head off of his big black dick. “If you want my baby batter inside you, you have to say so.”
“I-I-I want your baby batter inside me”, Battlegirl says looking Tyrone in the eyes.
“What’s that? I thought I heard something. Must just be the bitch who sent me to jail yesterday.”
“I want your baby batter inside me!”
“Where do you want it, slut?”
“In my pussy!”
“And you’re ok with losing your virginity to a criminal like that?”
“Take me Tyrone, I’m your bitch!”
c57111 No.7213
>>7212 continued and concluded
Needing to hear no more, Tyrone orders Battlegirl to stand up and bend over facing the wall. Battlegirl obediently complies and laces her arms against the wall to brace herself. After lining his cock up with Battlegirl’s virginal entrance, Tyrone begins roughly thrusting his big cock into her. Tyrone wraps his right hand around the back of her hair and yanks on it lightly every few thrusts. Almost every thrust Tyrone’s left hand slaps Battlegirl’s firm ass. “Do you think you need to be punished, slut?” Tyrone asks Battlegirl. Battlegirl passionately cries out “Yes, yes oh god yes!” “Why would a nice young girlie like you need to be punished?” Tyrone asks rhetorically thrusting into Battlegirl’s once-virginal cunt all the while. “Because I’m nothing but a slut for Tyrone and I’ve been denying my role!”
“And what does a good little slut for Tyrone do?”
“She takes his baby batter in her pussy!” Battlegirl lets out one last cry as she feels Tyrone’s cock twitching inside her. She knows what’s coming. Tyrone’s seed fills Battlegirl’s womb. Tyrone pulls his pants back on and leaves Battlegirl in a cum-filled heap at the end of the alleyway. “Consider the score settled, bitch.” Tyrone says after snapping a picture of the tamed superheroine with his phone and heading off down the alleyway.
c57111 No.7214
>>7212>>7213Little bit of commentary, I feel like there's a lot of potential here that I could have tapped better were I a better writer. Hopefully I'll improve by the end of the story, and as long as some of you enjoy it, it's worthwhile.
I did a bit of a perspective change as I went from second-person to third for the blowjob sequence to the conclusion. I know this is a formal writing no-no, but I did it intentionally in this context. For one thing I find it awkward to write about sucking on cock in the second person for obvious reasons. If you don't see where I'm coming from replace all the "Battlegirl" and "she" with "you" and all the "hers" with "yours" and try reading it out loud knowing full well that the audience it's going to is mostly (presumably) heterosexual men. For another thing, I think it kind of creates some disassociation between Megan and her actions. Up until that point there was some hope that she was in control, but when Tyrone took his dick out, some of her self-control just snapped. She couldn't restrain herself and she had to have it, at any cost to her own personal dignity. So although it's clearly from a technical standpoint a poor writing decision, I think it worked
and would be interested if any of you even noticed in the first place.
I'll be back to update tomorrow. Until then, take care, /storytiem/ and thank you for all the positive
and constructive feedback. It's been great.
118c0b No.7216
>>7214It definately felt like the perspective changed as I was reading it but I didn't go back and check if it did because I was actualy thinking that very same reason as for why it would change like that
or that it might have actualy been a mistake. 6eca54 No.7218
>>7214Thanks for this new awesome story! The superhero(girl) format is just awesome and I will follow this story from now on. About the change in perspective. You will always discover error in your writing AFTER it's been posted, that's just how these things work. I like to thing I've improved over time and I'm sure you will as well. Anyhow, thanks!
dabd57 No.7219
>>7214I noticed Tyrone got considerably better at talking as the scene progressed ;)
7c7eb1 No.7225
… so what's Battlegirl's power, anyway?
c89c1b No.7229
>>7225I think she's just a Batman-style vigilante
7c7eb1 No.7230
>>7229Well where's her gadgets? And her money? And her meido?
118c0b No.7240
>>7230Shes a non-superpowerd vigilante like Kick Ass with a little more compitance but not crazy skilled like Hit Girl. That a better analogy for ya?
b029c1 No.7242
>>7225>>7229>>7240That would be correct, Battlegirl is trained in various forms of martial arts and acrobatics, but she doesn't have any superhuman abilities.
>>7230
>GadgetsNone yet. All the gadgets she used while the sidekick of Battleman are Battleman's property and she wouldn't really feel like she was fighting crime solo if she took them to Utopolis. Megan's a bit more prideful than would be good for her.
>MoneyShe doesn't have anyone bankrolling her right now. Battlegirl wants to establish herself as an independent superheroine before spending big bucks crimefighting. She might come across an opportunity to get bankrolled by someone who is rich in the future, but let's just say that his support won't be free.
As for Megan's college expenses: tuition, rent, and her dining budget are covered by various financial aid (mostly student loans, some grants). The money she currently has ($200) is the excess on tuition paid.
>MeidoHer best friend/roommate Kelly more or less takes that function. Since Kelly is just a friend instead of an employee, this might cause some friction down the line, but I don't have anything specific involving that planned yet.
b029c1 No.7244
Between your molestation at the hands of Tyrone and her conversation with Tony last night where you was more or less directly accused of being a couple with Kelly, you was feeling in a weird state last night. As you tossed and turned in her sleep, your thoughts turned to Kelly. How had you gotten so close to that pretty, smart blonde girl again? Your memory of the incident is a bit foggy, but as you remember it, both your family and Kelly’s were visiting a bank at the same time when they were in the 7th grade. You and Kelly both went to the same school, but tended to sit at opposite sides of most of the classrooms you were in up to this point. While you were both in the bank, a group of masked and armed robbers decided to rob the bank by rounding up the hostages, forcing a teller to crack open the safe, and all the usual stuff.
Unfortunately, one of the robbers was a little bit of a psycho and lost his cool during the hostage taking, resulting in your father being shot and killed when he was trying to calm the gunman down. Your mother was enraged at your father’s death and threw herself at his murderer, throwing as many punches and kicks as her untrained body could manage before she too was fatally shot. Minutes later when you were all sure you were going to die to this madman, Battleman dropped down from a ceiling-tile and cleanly took the hostage taker out and let the hostages free. He resolved the robbery rounding up every single one of the criminals.
After being orphaned, Kelly was the first person to comfort you, telling you that she’ll be here for you. Together, you and Kelly founded your school’s first Battleman fan club while you were in the process of being adopted by Phil Physhe, a wealthy corporate mogul who happened to be near the bank that was attacked and apparently thought it was tragic that a girl your age was alone in the world. Your adoption was finalized, but as the most dedicated member of the Battleman fan club, you began dedicating your free time towards training to become a hero like him. After about a year of effort, you had been given enough pocket-change by Phil to actually afford your first Battlegirl costume, and wearing it with pride; you began following scenes where Battleman had shown up and trying to get a glimpse at him like some kind of obsessed groupie. You never actually fought any crime, but it felt good to pretend that you could. Phil eventually got wise to this and gave you a heartfelt talk about not chasing around dangerous vigilantes like Battleman, just because of the tragic way your parents died. Like any teenager torn between their idol and their provider, you snapped at Phil and ran off in a direction in the mansion you never went to. Pulling books off the shelf in frustration and strewing them about, you accidentally hit one very important book, and, just like in one of those cartoons you used to watch when you were growing up, the bookshelf slid to the side revealing none other than the Battleroom.
Your dream of recollection is cut off here by the screeching of your alarm clock and you pull yourself up and go through the morning routine to prepare yourself for all of your classes. Your second day of school starts here.
What class do you have first today?
A) Art
B) Computer Science
C) Theater
D) Gender studies
e0aac8 No.7248
>>7244C
Could be useful to keep our secret identity.
118c0b No.7251
>>7244C. Lets learn how to ham it up for the people and have a little flair.
2a7764 No.7252
>>7248Smart call. I agree.
c87b21 No.7254
b029c1 No.7258
>>7248>>7251>>7252>>7254The next classroom you enter is actually more like a small auditorium. There is a wooden stage front-and center complete with curtains, theatrical lighting, and everything you’d expect to see in a theater. The chairs facing the stage are standard lecture-hall style chairs where you’re supposed to slide out the desk from the side and use it to write your notes on. Your professor this time looks to be an Englishman with a goatee. Your professor, who introduces himself as Bill Smith, is wearing a clean-looking gray suit with a red tie. Professor Smith starts his lecture promptly on time.
“Theater is the study of how to make an audience believe something is happening without it actually being the case. All aspects of theater from the stagehands, to the actors, to the stagehands, to the playwrights serve to create an illusion of reality of the unreal. Unlike film, plays do not have the luxuries of post-production or shifting angles as it is convenient. Everything done to create believability must be through the strength of the narrative and its actors. As actors, you must interpret the stories you tell and react as your character would so that the audience could see the story play out before them and believe, if only for a moment, that the events would play out like they do given the circumstances. Grandiose performances for grandiose characters and meek performances for meek characters are key. Don’t let your pride overstep your part.” The professor’s lecture goes on to discuss the history of theater and why it’s still around today.
Once the lecture is over, you head off to the food court and eat your lunch as usual. The final class on your schedule is up next and it is…
A) Art
B) History
C) Computer Science
D) Philosophy
838896 No.7259
838896 No.7260
e0aac8 No.7263
118c0b No.7266
2226be No.7269
70facc No.7279
C
c87b21 No.7281
b029c1 No.7282
>>7263>>7266>>7281Art wins. I'll post the update as soon as it's written.
70facc No.7283
>>7282OP, I think it tied with Computer Science, maybe we should have a tie breaker?
b029c1 No.7284
>>7283The first vote for computer science was a late vote for Theater in my previous update. The user (838896) voted B) History for the current update. If he decides to change his vote to Computer Science, I'm fine with reopening voting for a run-off between the two. If he doesn't do that before the next update, Art wins.
b029c1 No.7285
Entering your art classroom, you see that it’s a pretty standard classroom setting composed of 3 columns of two-person desks with 5 desks per column. You arrive about ten minutes before the start of class, so you sit in an empty desk towards the center of the classroom. As the class starts filling up, you start hearing excited chatter from two guys behind you who are talking about the possibility of getting to paint pictures of nude models. As you’re thinking about how you’ll conduct yourself in that case, a familiar voice comes out behind you “Woah, I didn’t know you were into art too. Radical!” You don’t need to look behind you to recognize the voice as Tony’s. Without asking, he pulls out the seat next to you and sits down.
Fortunately for you, the professor enters before you have to deal with any inane conversation with Tony. The professor, a fat man identifying himself as Richard Oliver, immediately goes into his lecture.
“Why is it that we do art? You may as well ask why we live! What purpose in life is higher than that of creation of the beautiful? By bringing forth beauty through our works, we leave behind something of value, something of permanence. Art is the truest expression of human creation, the ability to make the aesthetically pleasing because it is aesthetically pleasing.”
He goes on and on about the nature of art. To be honest with yourself, you haven’t thought about any of it a lot. You never really had the time to do so, between high school, training, and crime fighting. Now part of your civilian identity calls for taking some time to enjoy yourself. Once the professor finishes his speech, he assigns the class to make one sketch of the most beautiful scenery they can imagine. You don’t have any practice at making art, but you give it a try along with the rest of the class.
How is it?
Going to need an artistic talent roll here (it's a gradient, so no clearly defined pass/fail this time)
e0aac8 No.7286
| Rolled 81 |
>>7285artistic talent roll
b029c1 No.7287
>>7286(Artistic talent roll… 81 rolled)
It turns out you’re a naturally gifted artist. Although your sketch of a tropical beach is probably the fourth or fifth best in the class, when you realize that the people you’re being compared to are art majors who want to make a living by making art, you can’t help but feel proud. Tony is pretty impressed at your work as he lets you know by saying, “That’s a righteous drawing, babe.”
As class ends and you’re about to leave you hear Tony say “Hey” in your direction, clearly trying to get your attention. What do you do?
A) Hear what he has to say and talk to him
B) Completely ignore him
C) Pretend you didn't hear him and leave
c87b21 No.7288
e0aac8 No.7289
>>7287A
I guess it is better to stay friendly to the neighbors
4d47ef No.7290
>>7287C, guys gonna sell us out.
74e186 No.7292
929774 No.7294
118c0b No.7296
b029c1 No.7297
>>7288>>7289>>7292>>7294>>7296“What is it?” You ask Tony, any residual frustration from last night seems to have passed by now.
“I got a couple of friends over at the frat house and they told me there’s going to be a party on Friday.” It’s Tuesday right now and you aren’t scheduled to have any classes on Friday. “You and Kelly should come to it. We could always use more babes like you guys. You don’t have to decide to come right now, but think about it, ok?”
You say bye to Tony and get to your room without anything major happening. You’re now free to do what you want for the day. What do you want to do?
A) Start patrolling
B) Meet Kelly at your room and plan out an attack on the Burger Kings
C) Look into buying gear for your superheroics
D) Apply for a part-time job to help raise money
E) Hang out with someone you know
F) Look into signing up for a student organization
G) Train
ea240a No.7298
>>7297apply at burger king cause irony :D
A patrolling in the civilian part again
118c0b No.7300
>>7297C. I wana see the gadgets and the prices so we know how much we need the money for stuff.
4a465d No.7301
7c7eb1 No.7304
e0aac8 No.7305
c87b21 No.7306
b029c1 No.7307
>>7300>>7301>>7304>>7306C it is. I'll have a lot of writing to do to cover gear, so it'll probably be a few hours, but I had to get to that eventually.
b029c1 No.7309
As good as you are at fighting crime; you need to be well equipped to do your job properly. Unfortunately, superhero gear isn’t mainstream enough to be available in just any store. In your training with Battleman, you learned of certain channels you can get gear through, mostly slightly shady online stores, but you’ve learned enough to know the good from the bad. Browsing through all the places where you know are safe, you’ve found a wide variety of available gear including weapons, gadgets, and vehicles. Naturally, you refuse to carry anything that will be lethal.
Your money: $200
Weapons available:
Throwing Darts (3 for $40) – For when you need to hit an opponent at a distance. Good for throwing on the fly. Agility is the primary stat which dictates their effectiveness and accuracy. Unless the perp is almost down it won’t knock them out, but it’s a reliable way to stop them from doing an action. You will suffer defensive penalties if an opponent attacks you immediately after you throw a dart. Once thrown, they cannot be recovered.
Escrima sticks ($80 apiece) – These may seem expensive for what they are, but they are a reliable and concealable weapon. You can use them to increase the power of your strikes compared to simple unarmed strikes by anywhere between 1 and 3 increased damage per hit. In a pinch they can also be thrown, with recovery of the thrown stick being dependant on a medium awareness check (and taking up an action in combat if you need to grab it before the end of the fight).
Mahogany Baseball Bat ($120) – What the baseball bat lacks in concealability it makes up for in raw power. A weak swing will almost definitely hit even harder than an escrima stick (3-5 increased damage), whereas a charged hit (which takes up another action in combat for the charge) can deal (6-8 increased damage). Holding the baseball bat confers a slight penalty to agility (-5), and dropping it mid-fight might mean losing it.
Bo staff ($160) – How the hell are you even going to get this thing out of your room? The Bo staff is a fine weapon, although it does less damage (only 3-4 extra damage) and costs more than the Baseball Bat . What a Bo staff has going for it is its reach. It is the only mid-range weapon you have available right now. You can hit opponents with it while being outside of their range of reprisal. Additionally, if you have a far jump to make you can pole-vault off of the Bo (extra +10 to jumping agility checks if equipped). Other than that, the Bo can function as a lever if you need one, for example, to move rubble off of an object where brute force alone wouldn’t work. If only you could figure out how to conceal it…
There will be some additional weapons available down the line.
Gadgets:
Grappling hook ($520) – A superhero staple. Unfortunately the high-tension rope required to support one or more people’s body weights is very expensive. This can be invaluable by providing you with rooftop access, which will allow you to spot crimes in progress easier and may help you get the drop on their perpetrators. Also good for some good old fashioned B&E if you end up needing to do it. Of course that is a crime and if the press or the police find out they will hold it against you, but sometimes the best intel can be found through raiding your targets directly.
Stun gun ($80) – Protecting your civilian identity may call for creating some distance between you and a would-be perpetrator. Use of the stun gun in your civilian identity can be just what you need to clear enough distance between you and the perp (eliminates agility check for getting away). In your actual superheroics, attempting to stun will require a roll for the perpetrator’s resistance to it, because the adrenaline from the fight might override the attempted stun. Each stun gun comes with three charges.
Lockpicking kit ($140) – Sometimes you just have to break into somewhere you’re technically not supposed to be. That is what lockpicking kits are for. You are currently untrained in lockpicking (Battleman never approved of that method of fighting crime), so these will be nearly impossible for you to use (requirement of a dexterity roll in the epic/phenomenal win range) until you find some way to receive some training in the arts of breaking and entry.
Fake ID ($180) – You’re not the kind of girl who you would think would need one of these. In a world where criminals hang out in bars and clubs which require being over 21, you’re missing out on a lot of possible intel by being a minor. The fake ID provides you a way to circumvent being locked out of public venues on the basis of your age, but your ability to pass for 21 will depend both on a charisma roll for you and an awareness roll for the bouncer.
There will be some additional gadgets available down the line.
b029c1 No.7310
>>7309Gear:
Utility belt ($60) – Holy, shit how don’t you have one of these already? If you’re going to want to take anything with you into the field that you’re not going to be carrying around in your hands, you’re going to need this. This is pretty low-tech so don’t expect any security measures, but it’s functional.
Cloth Cowl ($50) - Want to strike terror in the hearts of criminals? A good first step is not letting them see most of your face. This cloth is the cheapest (and currently only available) variation of the cowl. Damage resistance granted by it is negligible, but you do get a bonus +2 to intimidation related rolls, which seems light, but it might be the difference between success and failure.
Full-Body Jumpsuit ($320) – Your current spandex costume is alright, but after that encounter with Tyrone, it occurred to you that if criminals can just yank down your pants, you’re at a serious disadvantage. No more with the Full-Body Jumpsuit. If they want to disrobe you, they’ll have to take all your clothing off at once (which is substantially harder for them to do). The downside to that is that if anything does get inside your suit that you don’t want there, it is impossible to get it out without removing your suit in its entirety.
Leather suit ($750) – Now you can look just like one of those movie superheroes! The main advantage conferred by a leather suit is damage resistance. You are granted with +5 damage resistance by the leather suit. Other than the steep price, the major downside to this variant of your costume is that your vulnerability towards increases to horniness doubles compared to its base level. Also you can’t help but feel like a tryhard dork when you imagine yourself wearing one of these.
There will be more gear available eventually.
Vehicles:
Let’s just say that the Battlegirlmobile is not going to happen for a few years, unless the bank approves you for a loan.
Vote on what to spend your money on within your budget constraint. Choosing not to buy anything tonight is a valid vote.
(this is going to be a clusterfuck, I already feel it)
98e62b No.7311
>>7309Baseball bat and cowl. Let's go break some faces.
7c7eb1 No.7312
118c0b No.7313
>>7311But we cant conseal the baseball bat if we were in our civilian clothes so we could prety much only have it if we went out with it as BG, it also wouldnt do to great for our super hero image if we were to go around beating people with something loke thet. But we COULD have the escrima stick with us all the time and have them be suprise weapons so we can chang efrom public clothes to BG and still have a weapon handy.
Voting for the sticks, would get the cowl but if there will be better ones I think we should just save on buying that one for now.
118c0b No.7314
>>7310I realy think a lot of this stuff needs a bit of tuning, especialy the price of things unless were going to be earning big bux soon.
750 for what is esencialy a +5 damage resist bonus to rolls but with doubled hornyness from attacks doesnt seam worth it in the slightest, were never going to want that as it is.
Also not a fan of losing a weapon if it is droped or thrown, it makes sense and is fine with the stun gun but theres not much of this stuff that I realy want to get. Maybe it's just me.
7c7eb1 No.7315
>>7313You know what, you're right. Get a pair of sticks.
Though I do have to wonder where the collapsible batons are. Now that's concealable, ifyaknowwhatImean.
c87b21 No.7316
>>7310Utility belt ($60)
Stun gun ($80)
e0aac8 No.7317
>>7310>Stun gun ($80)>Utility belt ($60) b029c1 No.7318
>>7314My goal with the pricing was essentially to price a lot of gear way out of what's available with the starting cash, or at least force some hard trade-offs. Advantages and disadvantages to costumes as a whole generally gave me a lot of trouble. Suggestions for re-balancing equipment and new ideas for equipment are welcomed and appreciated.
118c0b No.7319
>>7318If the pricing is intentional the I guess all that needs to be changed is that the leather suit needs a buff to somehow make the price and negative part worth it and that meele weapons wont get lost for good. Just think if you were playing and saw the leather suit, would you want it and what would need to change for you to want it? Maybe something that does something outside of stats since it would be what we wear and be recognised by and would be kind of important.
7c7eb1 No.7320
>>7319I think the bonus for the price is fine, but the downside is fucking bullshit. Add a minimum arousal value while wearing it or something instead.
17c0ce No.7321
>>7309Escrima stick and utility belt
118c0b No.7323
>>7320I dont think the +5 by itself is enough for the price and the negative, maybe if it had some kind of passive atribute that affected how were generaly seen or somethingwith the media that takes us a little more serioustly?
c89c1b No.7325
>>7323A passive respect effect would be very cool
118c0b No.7330
>>7325I imagine it would look something similar to this.
Watch out crime
if we even buy it 7c7eb1 No.7331
>>7330Yeah that will totally improve our Respect.
e0aac8 No.7332
>>7330well this picture does double my horniness :p
b029c1 No.7347
>>7332kek, that joke makes my shitty balancing ideas worthwhile.
Anyway, regarding the Leather suit, I'll agree that the high price-point is enough of a penalty (although the idea of raising the minimum horniness is definitely better than my idea). The respect idea is interesting, but considering that the current read-out doesn't really give an indication of how seriously you're taken (and a lot of equipment especially weapons should have an impact on that), I think we'd need another form or respect to make it work. I'm thinking we need multiple respect systems. Allow me to indulge my shitty Oekaki skills to visually represent what I have in mind.
I'd like for the fear stat to be more practical than respect, but I'm having a hard time coming up with concrete ways to do that. If I make it more likely that criminals flee on sight from you or something like that, I think it might actually come off as an inconvenience because suddenly you'll have to start chasing down everyone instead of just getting into a straight-up fight, which seems like it adds a chance that the criminal just gets away for no real benefit. Obviously a bonus to intimidation would be a benefit, but I'm really not sure what else to do with it.
In any case, I agree that the current version of the Leather Suit doesn't work. It will be revised next time we shop, and I'd like to attach fear modifiers to some other equipment next time as well.
e0aac8 No.7356
>>7347If I understand you would only need two stats:
Public Respect and Criminals Intimidation?
b029c1 No.7358
b029c1 No.7366
Here's my current tally for our purchasing decisions
BaseBall Bat - 1
Cowl - 1
Escrima Stick - 3
Utility Belt - 3
Stun gun - 2
Looks like what we'd probably do is buy an Escrima Stick and a utility belt (leaving $60 left over). Considering that escrima sticks tend to actually be sold and used in pairs and the price I listed is absurd for a single one, I'd like to retroactively change "$80 apiece" to "$80 a pair". I don't like making this kind of adjustment because it feels like I'm trying to have our cake and eat it too, so if anyone has a problem with that, tell me.
e0aac8 No.7369
>>7358Sound good to me. As for the items price/ stats, don't sweat it. Worst case if the item doesn't seem good, we simply won't vote for it.
My personal preference is to keep the prices high, this way we have to work for it.
118c0b No.7373
>>7366I though it came as two anyway, doesnt realy make a differance besides how its going to be described as we use it in combat anyway so its fine, right?
b029c1 No.7377
>>7373Yeah, I didn't really have a system thought up for how using a single escrima stick would differentiate from the two anyway.
b029c1 No.7379
Your cart currently contains the following:
1 Pair of escrima sticks ($80)
1 utility belt ($60)
Remaining funds ($60)
Is this order acceptable?
A) Yes
B) No
118c0b No.7382
>>7347I'm thinking the higher our civilian respect the easier we can walk around in public and get help from people and police while a low respect would have people calling us slut and feeling us up and slaping ouy ass as we walk around aswell as having the police want nothing to do with us.
The criminal version could deterrmin how easily we can get lower goon types to surender before things get serious like if we showed up and said somehting like "this can either end two ways, you going to jail in the back of a police cruiser or in the back of an ambulance" ad it would be easier or harder to get them to surender peacefuly or have them laugh in our face and say they know a better use for our big mouth.
Or it could just be a subtle tone of how people talk to us and treat us. I'm sure the next burger king we run into will bring up that were the virgin butt-slut that got a fingerbangin from ol' T-bone to our utter embarassment. It can change depending on how molested we get before a fight is over.
118c0b No.7386
>>7379Wouldnt the utility belt be prety useless by itself? Maybe we should hold of untill we have something to put in it?
I guess we would get it eventualy and we shouldnt hold thing up with a revote so
A) Yes
b029c1 No.7387
>>7382That all sounds great. I think I'll conceptualize the system that way.
e0aac8 No.7390
c89c1b No.7396
b029c1 No.7401
>>7386>>7390>>7396With a couple clicks you submit your order and are notified that you package should be delivered via drone by tomorrow afternoon. You have to really love the efficiency of this day and age.
Browsing through all the various online stores ends up taking about as much time as you’d usually spend on patrol. On the news you hear reports of some gang violence on the North Side that was resolved by a mysterious vigilante. It might be nice to meet the city’s other super heroes. Surely they have some valuable information to tell you if you could get them to talk shop.
In the meantime, you find your night free to do one civilian activity.
What would you like to do?
A) Hang out with Isaac and/or Hideo
B) Hang out with Kelly
C) Hang out with Tony
D) Sign up a student organization (online)
E) Schedule an appointment with one of your professors (the appointment would be tomorrow between classes)
F) Train (temporary +5 boost to combat rolls tomorrow)
c89c1b No.7403
>>7401B) Hang out with Kelly
7c7eb1 No.7405
118c0b No.7417
>>7401F. Get fit, get abs, abs are god.
b029c1 No.7428
>>7403>>7405You decide that after all your roommate does for you, you should take an interest in what she is doing as well. She’s been your best friend through thick and thin, the good times and the bad (especially the bad) and nothing’s going to change that. You sit down next to her on the couch. She was busy watching her favorite show about pirates. Kelly loves that kind of escapist fiction where big adventure and romance happens. You used to love that kind of thing too when you were a little girl, but that all changed back when you were orphaned. You haven’t even had the time to see most of the major releases of the past few years. Luckily, Kelly is always there to fill in for your lack of knowledge about popular culture. Without her, you’d feel isolated. Despite your usual routine of avoiding works of fiction, you decide for the sake of bonding to join Emily in watching the show. The rugged-looking protagonist clings to a piece of driftwood, which is being pounded relentlessly by the waves. The soundtrack dramatically swells up as the sharks surround him. Like most good television, the show ends on that cliffhanger.
“So what did you think of it?” Kelly asks, knowing well that you usually avoid fiction
“It’s definitely more exciting than my classes”, you reply.
What do you talk to Kelly about?
A) Your dream last night
B) The party on Friday at the Frat house
C) Her college schedule
D) Your life as Battlegirl
e0aac8 No.7430
c89c1b No.7432
7c7eb1 No.7436
>>7428B
We should be elsewhere.
118c0b No.7439
>>7428B. lets go out and get FAKED AP.
b029c1 No.7443
>>7430>>7432>>7436>>7439“Do you know Tony from across the hall?” you ask Kelly.
“Know him? I’m waiting on him to ask me out”, Kelly responds. Unlike you, she has traditionally been a bit more receptive of the attentions of the opposite sex. If you knew your friend a little less well you’d be taken aback at her poor judgement.
“Well, he told me about this party that his friends are going to be hosting over at the frat house on Friday. He told me that we were both invited.”
Kelly immediately starts squealing a little in excitement. “That must be how he plans on asking me out. He’s such a romantic!” Tony really doesn’t strike you as a romantic, but considering that Kelly is more experienced in this era than you are, you really don’t want to dash her hopes; no matter how misguided you think they are.
“I’m thinking I’ll probably not going to go, but he asked me to tell you, so I figured you might be interested.”
“Come on, Megan, we both know that’s not true!” Kelly says looking in your eyes. “If you ‘’really’’ didn’t want to go, you wouldn’t tell me about it, you’d just let him ask me himself. The reason why you’re telling me about the party is because you ‘’want’’ to go, but you’d feel guilty if you left your duties as Battlegirl behind for a night. What did you do tonight?”
“Buy a utility belt and a pair of escrima sticks.” You reply.
“See? That’s exactly my point. Even on nights that you don’t have the time to patrol, you spend your time getting equipment for Battlegirl. Please, just for a night, live as Megan Thompson. You’re in college, enjoy yourself a little!”
You don’t feel like arguing with your best friend, especially when she thinks she’s arguing for what’s best for you, you reluctantly agree to go with her to the party on Friday.
You start to realize that your time with Kelly has actually eaten up most of your night. You go to bed for the night, eager to get back to crime-fighting tomorrow.
b029c1 No.7446
>>7443I'm going to have to cut off the story for tonight at that. Tomorrow I intend to carry on the next day (Wednesday (2 days before the party)), but I have a pretty busy day, so don't expect any updates until tomorrow evening. As always it has been nice writing for you all and I hope to make the events of Wednesday more eventful than what I've posted today. Until then, have a good one.
118c0b No.7450
>>7446Thanks for running, see ya tomorrow.
7c7eb1 No.7453
>>7443>set chick up as possible lesbian love interest>she wants to fuck some random dudeNTR as fuck, bro
e0aac8 No.7460
>>7453I personally don't need another story with lesbian main character.
>>7446Thanks for take time to build a hero story, it could become one of my favorite.
118c0b No.7461
>>7453Don't wory anon, we will have our chance. At the very least it doesn't look like our character has any strong feeling for her anyway, they're just good friends.
b029c1 No.7463
>>7453She still
might be bi. I'll just say it's interesting that Tony thinks Kelly's a lesbian and Megan thinks Kelly's straight.
I'll provide you with opportunities to cockblock Tony if that's what you want to do, but that will have to wait until he makes his move at the party.
118c0b No.7466
>>7460everyones no so much lesbian, just bi and into whatever. They usualy have female love intrests because its easier and more fun to dominate them and usualy guys are what we would consider to be the typical enemies and I guess it would be kind of weird to some people to be romancing a guy.
e0aac8 No.7476
>>7466Once again writing is a very limited form of communication.
You are not wrong, I understand completely why it is easier and I don't hate it. I actually enjoy the other stories very very much.
I'm just saying if it happen like this, I'm good with a girl who is not looking for sex or dominate everyone around her. It make sense for a hero to be more focus on the job.
118c0b No.7490
>>7476Yeah i would be ok with that
c2e44c No.7492
Nice thread OP, keep it up!
118c0b No.7493
>>7492Hey Onyx, good to see ya.
abd21a No.7827
>>7492Thanks, glad you're enjoying it. This is a great board you got here and your story archive at your blog went a long way for easing the occasional slow-times for new content coming out. Hope you start feeling better soon, man.
As promised I'll be continuing the story momentarily. I'm kind of bogging down the update with an in-universe explanation for why the job system works the way it does, so please bare with me.
abd21a No.7828
In your dreams, you remember what happened after you found the Battleroom. Your adopted father had chased after you once he realized you were heading in the direction of his secret base, but he was too late to stop you from finding out his secret. You stood stunned as you looked at his costume case in slack-jawed amazement. The sheer cognitive dissonance of going from being pissed off at your adopted father for telling you not to idolize Battleman to finding out that your adopted father is Battleman is just too much for your mind. Ever since that day at the bank, you had dreamed of seeing the inside of the Battleroom. That day became a reality and you just didn’t know what to do. Your adopted father, no, Battleman, explains to you that knowing that your parents had died in front of you because he hadn’t been on the scene in time tore him up inside. That is why he decided to adopt you. No girl that age should have to lose her parents like that. That is why he told you not to put yourself at risk by following him and idolizing him. Your alarm clock sounds and you wake up.
Your morning ritual goes the same as it always does: a shower, brushing your teeth, and eating some breakfast. Before leaving to go to your Biology lecture, you find an email sent to you (and every other potential work-study recipient in the school) from the staff at the office of financial aid explaining a change to the work-study system this year. Apparently, the university formed a series of private-public partnerships to allow participating students to work at jobs they want to try their hand at on a temporary basis at a whim. Boring bureaucratic details aside, the long and the short of it is you can try out any entry-level job whenever you want without applications, paperwork, or permanent commitments slowing you down. Jobs on a more permanent basis would pay more, but require such a serious and regular time commitment you couldn’t manage being Battlegirl on top of that.
You look at your watch and realize that it’s time to exit your email and get to class. You head for Biology and when you open the door you see…
Going to need a 40+ awareness roll here.
4a465d No.7829
| Rolled 39 |
>>7828Awareness
4a465d No.7830
| Rolled 83 |
>>7829so close…
abd21a No.7845
>>7829You see a number of empty seats but no one you recognize. You take a seat and as with last time, the voluptuous Professor Evey, who promptly begins her lecture:
“Seeing, hearing, touching, feeling, tasting – these are the senses that we at all times.” Based on the reaction of the guys in the room, they’re also things at least 75% of the classroom wants to do to Professor Evey. “Smaller forms of life, unicellular organisms may not have the same developed senses we do, but they can detect changes in their environment and respond accordingly. Changes in their environments can irritate them, disable them, or even kill them just like changes in our environment can. For an example of this look no further than a bottle of hand sanitizer. The rubbing alcohol in it is guaranteed to kill 99.9% of germs…” the professor’s lecture goes on and on. The class isn’t quite as attentive now that she isn’t talking about sex, but you can’t help but think to yourself that this actually might have crime-fighting applications. If you can get access to gadgets that can disrupt the sight or hearing of criminals, you might have an easier time fighting crime. Unfortunately, you don’t have any contacts that can get you anything like flashbang grenades or smoke-pellets, so that’s a no-go for the time being.
Class ends without much of an incident. You go to the dining hall to eat lunch and when you’re looking for a place to sit down and eat, you notice Isaac and Hideo from next door are sitting (at a table that seats four) and eating with a kind of dorky looking girl wearing a dark blue t-shirt and a plain-looking pair of blue jeans. She looks to be a white girl of an average build with curly black hair that hangs down at about her shoulders and a pair of glasses with rectangular lenses just a little too big for her face. You’re not real close with either Isaac or Hideo. Your only interaction with the two was awkward to say the least, but you think about joining them for lunch. Of course that would mean introducing yourself to their friend as well. They might not mind you join them, but there might be a misunderstanding between you and their friend (girlfriend?)
What do you do?
A) Eat alone
B) Say hi and join them only if they invite you to
C) Ask them to join and take a seat if they accept
D) Just sit down like you own the place
c87b21 No.7846
6d7188 No.7852
70facc No.7856
| Rolled 4 |
>>7845C
70facc No.7857
>>7856Shit, thanks God I wasn't rolling for anything
4a465d No.7860
6d7f9d No.7861
abd21a No.7876
| Rolled 28 |
>>7846>>7852>>7856You walk over to your neighbors’ table and greet Issac and Hideo. You introduce yourself to their female companion and explain that you’re their neighbor, Megan. You ask if they don’t mind you joining them to which Isaac responds “N-no. I mean yes! We’d like it if you joined us.” you can't help but notice Isaac's face turning red. Although when you met him, Hideo was almost completely quiet and didn’t seem to express much, you notice him crack a slight grin at his friend’s awkwardness. After you take the spare seat, the girl introduces herself as Becky (a lot more confidently than Isaac’s introduction when you met Isaac and Hideo) and says that she’s the other third of the CUMU Anime Club.
“What’s an anime?” You ask.
(rolling 70+ for Isaac’s spaghetti)
c87b21 No.7885
| Rolled 95 |
>>7876Spaghetti roll.
abd21a No.7887
>>7885I'm planning on handling rolls for checks involving other character's reactions for events, so I'm going to be using the 28 I rolled rather than the 95 you got there for the sake of the story. Thanks for rolling anyway. The next part will probably be up in <20 minutes, but I'm still in the process of writing it.
abd21a No.7893
>>7876(70+ Isaac spaghetti check… 28 rolled – fail)
“A-A-Anime is the greatest artform of our time. It is a proud tradition dating back to the 1950’s from the greatest nation on the planet – J-J-Japan. Unlike inferior w-w-western cartoons it is not for children. Mature stories are being told for adults in it. T-t-there’s blood and gore and s-s-sex. I-i-it’s n-not all fart jokes a-a-and sight gags. Moreover there is actual heart in it. I-I-I can’t count all the times I’ve been moved to manly tears b-b-by slice-of-life shows.” Your eyes dart over to Hideo and Becky in confusion. The pained expression on Hideo’s face shows you he’s cringing internally at his friend’s poor attempt at converting you into watching anime. Becky, however, is sporting a grin, no doubt because of what’s playing out in front of her. You still have no idea what the
fuck an anime is.
“So it’s like a cartoon?” you ask.
You can practically see the steam shooting out of Isaac’s ears. Luckily, before he could call you a baka gaijin (and later regret it), Hideo coughs loudly and intentionally into his closed fist and Isaac shuts off. You leave your lunch table shortly thereafter.
You go to your mailbox and check it and true to their word, the websites you ordered your escrima sticks and utility belt from delivered it via drone. “I’m going to have some fun with these” you think to yourself, pleased with your decision making.
You gear up for your next class – psychology. The unimposing, balding Professor Cortex starts his lecture.
“One of the things people are most interested in psychology for is abnormal psychology. Why are some people not
normal, whatever normal is? Psychology as a whole has an obsession with classifying and diagnosing the abnormal. We have to; how can we give treatment if we don’t know what we are treating? If we can’t lie out a reliable list of symptoms and therapies aimed at mitigating them, we can’t really call ourselves a science. But in our haste to correct the abnormal, it’s important that we don’t misdiagnose normal variations of behavior as illnesses. The most cited historical example of this is homosexuality’s former classification as a mental illness. This isn’t a course on sexuality studies, I’m not here to tell you how to think or feel about homosexuals, but there’s no denying that most people in this day and age regard it as acceptable deviation from the norm. These values shift and turn over time, but my point with this lecture is the following: to understand psychology, you must understand both the normal
and the abnormal. Class dismissed.”
You’re now free to do what you want for the day. What do you want to do?
A) Start patrolling
B) Meet Kelly at you’re room and plan out an attack on the Burger Kings
C) Work at a part-time job to help raise money
D) Hang out with someone you know
E) Sign up for a student organization
(I've removed some options that I don't think you're going to ever take in this phase. In future days I'm planning to change the schoolday layout so that you have one guaranteed time for civilian activity, one vigilante activity, and an extra civilian activity if your vigilantism goes well. I don't imagine anyone would object to that change, but if you do, I'd like to hear from you)
c87b21 No.7898
4a465d No.7899
0aa507 No.7903
A
6d7188 No.7904
abd21a No.7909
>>7899>>7903You’ve been aching to try out your new escrima sticks since they’ve arrived, and you don’t like that you spent yesterday not fighting crime.
As per usual, you need to decide where to patrol and what to wear until you get in an encounter.
Choice 1:
A) Patrol North Utopolis (Surgeon Generals territory, site of current gangwar, reported vigilante activity yesterday)
B) Patrol West Utopolis (Commercial district, lots of civilians who need saving)
C) Patrol Central Utopolis (Campus and surrounding businesses, neutral ground)
D) Patrol East Utopolis (financial district, chance of supercriminals)
E) Patrol South Utopolis (Burger Kings stronghold)
Choice 2:
A) Patrol in-costume
B) Patrol in civilian clothes
(I'm assuming you'll want to have the escrima sticks equipped, and although the utility belt doesn't really have a function yet, you're wearing it to get a feel for it)
74e186 No.7912
c87b21 No.7914
4a465d No.7915
e0aac8 No.7919
>>7909A
A
I feel this will to be a close vote
abd21a No.7920
>>7912>>7914>>7915>>7919You remember a news report yesterday saying a vigilante was settling gang violence in the north district. Considering the warning Detective Grayson gave you after your superheroic debut to Utopolis, you may need all the help you can get going up against the Burger Kings. An allied vigilante might be able to provide you with support in fights if you team up, contacts to buy equipment from, intel that you don’t have, and/or access to skills you don’t have (or trainers for those skills). Then again, you don’t really know what motivates them and anyone who would willingly pick a fight with warring gangs must be a special kind of crazy.
In any case, you decide that the risk is worth the reward and head out to the North Side. Even if you don’t find the mysterious vigilante you’re looking for, you might find a crime to stop.
Going to need a 50+ luck roll to determine if you find a crime to stop and what it is (the fail range is the only one in which no encounter happens. Epic/phenomenal will result in something)
e0aac8 No.7921
| Rolled 60 |
>>7920lucky!
abd21a No.7924
>>7921(50+ luck check… 60 rolled – Pass)
Your costumed patrol through the north district starts out uneventfully. The alleyways are unfamiliar and you don’t know much about this part of the city. Luckily, before you left your dorm room, you had the foresight to print out a map of the district including several landmarks to guarantee that you don’t get lost. You eventually hear the sound of a man screaming in pain.
“Tell me where I can find your enforcer.” – you hear a growling, but deep masculine voice order
“I-I already told you, man. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Oooh… wrong answer.” You hear the first voice turn into an almost mocking sneer.
thud! You hear the vigilante’s fist connect with his victim’s skull. “You see this tattoo on your wrist? That’s how I know you’re with the Kings. Now a guy like you clearly knows nothing, so you’re not an enforcer. That means you report to an enforcer. Next time you play dumb, it’s the bat. Now where does your enforcer operate from?” You’ve heard enough. You know you’ve found your guy and you want to get a look at him. You’re approaching where he is from behind, but he looks a little less imposing than you’d expect. His arm is definitely toned, and he’s definitely geared up for the occasion, but you were expecting someone almost superhumanly tough. His height is about average and he’s wearing a black sleeveless shirt, worn out looking blue jeans, and a pair of black sneakers. His hair is kind of wavy and black and his skin is tanned. He’s wearing a face-mask of some kind, you can tell by the strap running through the back of his hair, but you can’t see what the mask is from this angle. His ‘victim’ is a tall Hispanic male who looks to be in his early twenties.
“Ok, he travels around a lot, but he manages a tavern over on 3rd street where we do most of our laundering under him. You’ll find it immediately if you look for it, it’s got his name on it – Nemo’s Tavern.”
The vigilante pauses for a moment, “Lying to me is just as bad as withholding information. What do you think I am, stupid? You think I’ve never read
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea? You think I’ve never read
the Odyssey? Nemo is Latin for nobody. You’re trying the same ploy on me Odysseus used on the Cyclops. For that, it’s the bat.” The vigilante holds his victim’s arm out stiffly and draws a baseball bat from a sack you hadn’t noticed previously that the vigilante must carry around with him. The vigilante holds the baseball bat up, apparently intending to swing it down upon his victim’s arm and possibly break it.
What do you do about this situation?
A) Announce your presence by informing the vigilante that Nemo is a real name (medium charisma check)
B) Watch as the vigilante extracts intel from his target silently and take notes
C) Sneak up to the vigilante and attempt to disarm him before he can swing the bat (stealth check, medium combat check, initiates combat)
D) Sneak up to the vigilante and try to take him down yourself (Stealth check, low combat check, initiates combat)
E) Rush the vigilante down and attack him (initiates combat)
F) Try to distract the vigilante by announcing your presence (will result in attempt at diplomacy)
G) Throw an escrima stick at the vigilante (easy agility roll, initiates combat, disarms you but allows you to start combat at a distance from the opponent, thrown escrima stick may be lost subject to medium awareness check, you may also throw your other stick as a follow-up if you want to risk it)
As always, any approach you can think of that I didn’t lay out (so long as it is plausible) will be accepted as a valid vote.
118c0b No.7925
>>7924Do we KNOW that Nemo's tavern is a place?
F) Try to distract the vigilante by announcing your presence (will result in attempt at diplomacy). You can rough him up a bit but dont go smashing bones bro
unless this guy did some prety bad stuff and has it coming. abd21a No.7926
>>7925
>Do we KNOW that Nemo's tavern is a place?We don't and it's unlikely to be marked on the map because it's more of a broad overview of streets and major landmarks (lakes, parks, public buildings) than businesses.
e0aac8 No.7927
abd21a No.7928
Alright, well, I've got to go to sleep now. Fortunately, my schedule tomorrow isn't too busy, so you'll be able to expect updates throughout the day (subject to my glacial pace at writing).
Hopefully by the time I wake up we'll have enough votes cast to be at some kind of consensus.
929774 No.7929
c87b21 No.7930
1bdd0e No.7931
c2b23f No.7932
>>7924>D) Sneak up to the vigilante and try to take him down yourself (Stealth check, low combat check, initiates combat) abd21a No.7933
>>7925>>7931You can’t stand seeing that thug’s arm getting broken when he’s down and out like that. You don’t mind criminals getting a little roughed up, but sending a low-level thug to the hospital just for some information that might not even be reliable doesn’t sit well with you. At the same time, attacking this vigilante would be a mistake. He’s still a possible ally and if he’s telling the truth about his victim’s affiliation with the Burger Kings, chances are the ‘victim’ isn’t exactly innocent. You resolve that diplomacy is your best course of action.
“Excuse me” you speak up loud enough to definitely be heard across the alleyway. The vigilante pauses, but doesn’t turn around. “I’m normally all for beating up low-lives, but this guy is defenseless and he’s giving you answers. He doesn’t deserve to have his arm broken.”
Going to need a 50+ charisma check here
4a465d No.7936
| Rolled 40 |
>>7933charisma
abd21a No.7939
>>7936(50+ Charisma check… 40 rolled – fail)
“You really have no idea what the stakes here are, lady. I can’t just let this guy off the hook.” With that, the vigilante slowly lowers the bat to the floor and drops it. He then hits the thug in the face hard enough to knock him out. “Look, lady, I wasn’t planning on breaking this guy’s arm. I just wanted him to think I would so I could see if he was lying to me. Interrogation is half theatrics.” As the vigilante says this, he lifts himself off the ground and starts turning your way. You can now see his mask, which you recognize as a traditional theater tragedy mask.
The masked man continues, “Your costume shows you don’t know the first thing about intimidation. You might want to work on that if you want to keep up this line of work. Pretty girl like you, you’d probably be better off without it.” You can’t help but feel insulted. This guy is clearly good at what he does, but you doubt he’s been fighting crime half as long as you have and he’s already giving you lectures.
On the bright side, the masked man doesn’t seem to be looking for a fight with you and his victim probably won’t need a visit to the hospital.
What do you do now?
A) Ask the vigilante why he needs to find the enforcer
B) Ask the vigilante what you can call him
C) Debate the merits of intimidation with the vigilante
D) Suggest a team up (medium charisma roll)
E) Leave without interacting further with the vigilante
4a465d No.7940
e0aac8 No.7941
118c0b No.7942
>>7939B and D. Is it possible that some people we know could be costumed vigilantes or criminals?
abd21a No.7943
>>7942It's a possibility.
abd21a No.7951
>>7940>>7942The vigilante might have a good reason for what he’s doing and you do still need all the friends you can get.
“It looks like we both don’t like the Burger Kings very much. I don’t know who you are or what motivates you, but it seems to me if we can pull our resources together we’ll have an easier time dealing with them. How about we work together?” You ask.
Going to need a 55+ charisma roll
e0aac8 No.7954
| Rolled 94 |
>>7951Charisma Roll
838896 No.7955
>>7954God bless you, anon
abd21a No.7960
>>7954(55+ Charisma check… 94 rolled – Epic Win!)
“That actually doesn’t sound like a bad idea,” the man in the mask admits. “I could use all the help I can get and if you’re going to seriously go up against those punks, you’d stand a much better chance with my protection.” You can tell by the vigilante’s head’s movement that he is looking you over now. “If this goes well, I’d be open to working with you on a regular basis.”
“Great, before we work together I have a few things I want to ask you.” you respond, pleased with how easy it was to secure the masked man’s cooperation.
“Shoot.”
“What can I call you?”
“To tell you the truth, I haven’t thought up a
nom de guerre, myself. Usually you don’t need one when you’re just cracking heads and not caring what anybody thinks. You got any suggestions?”
Well do you?
A) Suggestion (you come up with, if it’s reasonable, it’ll be accepted)
B) Nope (the man in the mask stays as the Vigilante until that changes)
abd21a No.7961
>>7960Actually fuck the letters because we'll hopefully have multiple suggestions. Any variation of "no/nope/nada/etc." votes will be accepted as "no suggestions".
292b86 No.7965
838896 No.7967
>>7960I vote we embrace his theatrical disguise and call him Shakespeare
118c0b No.7968
>>7960Anonymuse. because its a theater mask. I cant tel if its clever or stupid.
abd21a No.7969
>>7965Simple but effective.
>>7967Nothing strikes terror into the hearts of street thugs like English Literature. I like it
>>7968I'd say clever, I certainly wouldn't have thought of it.
Loving the suggestions so far. All of them are much better than any of the names I've had in mind. Good job, guys.
118c0b No.7971
>>7960Battle Guy, Ulysses, The Critic, MacDeath, Homer (Homer's odyssey and a home run in baseball is sometiimes colled a homer).
abd21a No.7975
>>7971All great suggestions.
Since we have so many good ideas, I might as well put it up for a formal vote now.
What do we suggest to the vigilante?
A) Weeping Man
B) Shakespeare
C) Anonymuse
D) Battle Guy
E) Ulysses
F) The Critic
G) MacDeath
H) Homer
(in absence of a vote on this one I'll assume you're voting for your own nominations, which would leave the tally at A - 1, B - 1, C - 1, and one point to somewhere in D-H, but I'm going to need 118c0b to specify where he'd like his vote to go.)
838896 No.7977
>>7975Changing my vote to MACDEATH! Fuck yes!
ea240a No.7978
>>7975B what do they fear in school? Shakespeare! And now hes back to fuck them up again
118c0b No.7979
>>7975C is mine aswell so that shouldnt have an extra vote on it.
Voting for F, its a prety tough choice.
abd21a No.7980
>>7979
>C is mine aswell so that shouldnt have an extra vote on it.My bad. That's what I get for being inattentive. Thanks for pointing it out.
Current tally
A) Weeping Man - 1
B) Shakespeare - 1
C) Anonymuse - 0
D) Battle Guy - 0
E) Ulysses - 0
F) The Critic - 1
G) MacDeath - 1
H) Homer - 0
e0aac8 No.7983
28d76d No.7984
abd21a No.7986
>>7977>>7983>>7984You look at the vigilante’s theater mask “How about MacDeath?” you suggest.
“’Let not light see my black and deep desires’”, the vigilante lets out a chuckle. You can’t help but notice how odd it is to see a man in a weeping mask amused. “That will work.”
“I’m Battlegirl, by the way. So why are you so set on finding that enforcer anyway?”
Going to need a 35+ roll for charisma
(Also, the bump limit is 300, right? If so I guess I'm going to need to start a new thread after the roll.)
118c0b No.7987
| Rolled 8 |
>>7986tell me your secrets, theater man.
118c0b No.7988
>>7987Ahhhhhhhhh shit.
>>7986Are you looking this stuff up or is it stuff you are already familiar with?
abd21a No.7990
>>7988
>Are you looking this stuff up or is it stuff you are already familiar with?The bump limit or the content in the story?
If the bump limit,then the fact that we're now ranked below a thread with less recent posts than us seems to indicate that we are indeed at bump limit. Considering how few active threads there are on the board (4 at the moment), I'm not sure if making a new thread is really all that necessary yet. I'd like to get some feedback if you guys think I should go ahead and do that.
If you mean the content in the story, I've got a rough sketch in my head of what motivates the characters and what they plan on doing in case of either success or failure, but most of the direction of the story is the product of either routine or whims that I have to create new plot hooks in a way that makes sense with what I've already laid out. So basically I'd say I'm half making shit up as I go and I half have a plan.
118c0b No.7991
>>7990I was actualy refering to MacDeath's novel and play knoledge, if you knew most of it or if you looked it up a bit for the character.
abd21a No.7992
>>7991I had to look up the direct quote I took from MacBeth (I did read MacBeth back in high school but that was a while ago), but the rest was made up as I was writing it.
abd21a No.7993
>>7987(35+ Charisma check… 8 rolled – Epic fail)
“Can you stop with all these questions? I’ve answered all that you need to know already.” It seems that you struck a nerve. It must be serious if a guy whose idea of a good time is beating up gang members is this touchy about it. To be fair, he hasn’t hounded you with questions about yourself, so maybe you should just focus on the task at hand.
What you’ve got from the interrogation is that the local Burger King enforcer seems to be operating out of a bar called Nemo’s Tavern over on 3rd street on the North Side. You and MacDeath could just head in there and start busting heads, but you don’t even know if the tavern is a real place or not and going in in-costume might give the public the wrong idea about you, especially if you start causing fights at what appears to be a legitimate place of business. Scoping it out in your civilian clothes might work, but now that you’re teamed up with MacDeath, which would mean revealing your secret identities to each other. That may be a deal-breaker for his cooperation, especially considering that you pissed him off earlier. There’s also the possibility that the tavern is crawling with Burger Kings gang members, you wouldn’t be surprised considering that they do allegedly own and operate it. It might even be a trap or the manager of the tavern might not actually be affiliated with the Burger Kings in any way. It might even be a rival business they’re redirecting you to.
How do you approach this situation (assuming the tavern is a real place)?
A) Break off for the night and scout out the tavern in your civilian clothes tonight (consumes your civilian action for the night) and agree to meet again tomorrow (low persuasion roll)
B) Option A except instead of scouting out Nemo's Tavern tonight, you resolve to do it as your first civilian option tomorrow before patrol. (trades the night time civilian action consumption for a daytime one)
C) Stake out the outside of the tavern in-costume with MacDeath (consumes your civilian action for the night) (high awareness roll)
D) Go in in-costume and bust heads (guaranteed fighting even if you’re not actually fighting the right people)
E) Both go in the tavern in your civilian clothes (hard persuasion roll to convince MacDeath to reveal civilian identities to each other, consumes your civilian action for the night)
25ee6d No.7994
| Rolled 51 |
>>7993C
118c0b No.7995
>>7993A. Wil we be swaping phone numbers to contact eachother with or something else?
>>7994Rolls come after votes are made bro.
e0aac8 No.7996
abd21a No.7997
>>7995
>Will we be swaping phone numbers to contact eachother with or something else?My plan is that if the roll is a success, the two will agree to meet up tomorrow in kind of a "same time, same place" type deal. If you no-show, your partnership (for lack of a better word) is kaput, but he probably won't hold a grudge. Exchanging phone numbers will come later, but for now MacDeath doesn't have a phone that isn't tied to his civilian identity. Battlegirl does, however (she used it to call the police on Tyrone the second time she arrested him). I'll make an option to give out the number after the persuasion roll (if options A or B happen), but it'll be one-way until after vigilantism on Thursday)
abd21a No.8005
>>7994>>7996You and MacDeath decide your best shot at determining if Nemo’s Tavern is actually owned by the Burger Kings and operated by one of their enforcers is to head over there and stake it out. The tavern turns out to actually be real and it is located across the street from a side alleyway where you can potentially observe, the front entrance and observe its clients. There is also a back entrance from an alley on that side of the street where presumably only employees and the proprietor(s) would enter and leave where identifying someone positively as either a member or not a member of the Burger Kings would be easier (because your vantage point is closer), but the risk of being spotted is higher. Being spotted may provoke a fight (or a chase should you choose to run) and raise the alertness of the North Side Burger Kings (who already are constantly on high alert because they’re essentially operating in enemy territory).
Where do you choose to stake out?
A) Across from the front entrance (High awareness roll, only chance of an enemy encounter is epic/phenomenal failure)
B) Near the rear entrance (low awareness roll followed by a medium stealth roll)
4a465d No.8007
e0aac8 No.8012
abd21a No.8014
>>8007>>8012Alright then. Rev up those dice. First for a +30 check to awareness then to a +55 check to stealth.
e0aac8 No.8015
| Rolled 50 |
>>8014I'm aware
ea240a No.8021
| Rolled 53 |
>>8014stealth
c2b23f No.8022
| Rolled 65 |
>>8014>+55 check to stealth ea240a No.8024
>>8022should have let you roll…
abd21a No.8035
>>8015>>8021(30+ Awareness check… 50 rolled – pass)
(55+ Stealth check… 53 rolled – fail)
Setting up outside the rear entrance of Nemo’s Tavern, you and MacDeath observe the door for hours trying to draw as little attention to yourselves as you can (considering that you are so bizarrely dressed). You both know to keep conversation to a bare minimum because any attention you draw to yourselves can be very bad to say the least. Once closing time hits, you hear four young men (one average-sized Hispanic, one short but middleweight black, one tall and skinny white, and one Italian-looking heavyweight), probably about your age, grumbling about “the boss”. Apparently he has been pissed off by the constant string of attacks their shipments have been suffering at the hands of the Surgeon Generals. That alone doesn’t necessarily confirm anything (the shipments of legitimate businesses can be under siege by gangs), but when they start talking about “when they run the North Side”, they confirm that they’re interested in the gang territory. Still you find the absence of “the boss” from this group conspicuous. He’s either staying just a little bit later, or he wasn’t here at all tonight.
Ecstatic at the hours spent in hiding finally paying off, MacDeath pumps his fist, accidentally hitting the side of the dumpster he was hiding behind.
The thugs turn all their attention to where you and MacDeath were hiding. There are any number of ways you can play this, so what do you do?
A) Lay low and don’t make any sudden movements (hard stealth check, if successful avoids encounter without elevating The Enforcer’s suspicion)
B) Rush out and attack the thugs (you and Macdeath get your first movements for free)
C) Run away (medium agility check, if successful you run away but The Enforcer’s suspicion rises)
D) Pretend to be some extremely kinky couple and scram (Epic charisma check, no suspicion raised, avoids encounter if it works)
4a465d No.8037
e0aac8 No.8041
1e0676 No.8043
abd21a No.8044
>>8037>>8043Alright, give me a 65+ stealth check
c2b23f No.8045
| Rolled 26 |
>>8044>65+ stealth check 4a465d No.8047
| Rolled 29 |
>>8044sneaks
abd21a No.8057
| Rolled 1 |
Sorry that this isn't the update yet, but the reason for that is because my combat system is and has always been shit. It might have seemed alright the second time we fought Tyrone, but that only worked because it was 1v1 and scripted as fuck. The problems I'm having with writing it now are specifically exacerbated by the fact that I'm dealing with three elements that I wasn't last time: equipment, multiple opponents, and an allied partner. Fortunately, I can take cues from Seeker as far as handling of partner combat goes (although the fact that MacDeath is a dude complicates things), but basically what I'm getting at is that this is getting fucking complicated compared to the previous encounters. I've added so many rule-driven elements that I've pretty much forced to move out of using the cobbled-together bullshit I was running with for combat through the first two encounters and actually try to come up with something vaguely resembling a system. In fact, I'm seriously considering adding an extra complication to doing combat by trying to use oekaki as a way of presenting the map in a grid-based format. That sounds like a pain in the ass (because it kind of is), but it's relatively easy to erase and move pieces as need be (although you'll have to deal with some pretty funky changing shapes). The benefit, however is clear presentation of spacing, which tends to be important with how contextual I tend to keep combat. It's pretty much a necessary evil.
Basically my goal with writing this combat encounter is to come up with something where character's attacks can be applied in the same way from one encounter to the next. Give them "moves" rather than just "whatever the situation calls for". As such, combat will come with a bit more dice-rolling now, involve status effects, that kind of thing. Considering how bad I am at balancing things, I fully expect this encounter to be a trainwreck, so please bare with me. We can revise my shitty changes after the encounter if it's necessary.
Also as a consequence of my item system we'll be seeing a lot of non-board standard dice being rolled, namely D3s and D2s (or as they call them in my village, coins). Sorry about that, but I don't want to feel compelled to honor epic/phenomenal success and failure on rolls for additional damage by dividing a d100 role by 33 or 50 as appropriate. I think it'll help keep randomized damage distinct from combat rolls (which are still d100 and can still be epic/phenomenal with all effects that entails).
abd21a No.8082
>>8057(65+ stealth check… 26 rolled – fail)
You and MacDeath hide as low as you can behind the dumpster to avoid being seen. Unfortunately the band of Kings members has nothing better to do at this time of the night than to stroll over and check out every strange sound they hear in their alleyway. When they see you both crouched down and hiding, the Hispanic thug decides to pull you up and toss you into the wall behind him, causing you to bounce off of it and take some damage. All the while he says “Well, look at what we have here. Doesn’t this girl look just like the slut Tyrone described?” which is met with enthusiastic agreement by all his companions. The three other thugs start ganging up on MacDeath while he’s still getting up, hitting him with some light kicks that damage him, but don’t stagger him.
Status
Battlegirl:
Health: 8/10
Horniness: 0/10
Equipped: Escrima Sticks
Macdeath:
Health: 15/20
Equipped: Baseball bat
Thug 1 (Hispanic)
Health: 10/10
Thug 2 (Black)
Health: 13/13
Thug 3 (White)
Health: 7/7
Thug 4 (Italian)
Health: 16/16
What do you do?
A) Head Strike with your escrima sticks (medium combat check, 3 + (1d3) damage if successful)
B) Jab Solar Plexus with your escrima sticks (easy combat check, 1 + (1d3) damage if successful and stuns target for one round)
C) Feint strike with your escrima sticks (medium combat check, 2 + (1d3) damage, 1d2 roll for crit (2 = crit) for double damage)
D) Front Kick (easy combat check, 2 damage, knocks target one tile back, thugs that collide into each other take one damage each and have to spend a round getting back up)
E) Side Kick (medium combat check, 4 damage)
F) Roundhouse (Easy combat check, 3 damage)
G) Throw your Escrima Stick (Easy combat check, ranged, 3 damage, guaranteed stun, unequips escrima stick)
H) Move up to 2 tiles extra (indicate direction)
Who is your intended target (if attacking)
1) Thug 1 (any attack)
2) Thug 2 (any attack (so long as you move south))
3) Thug 3 (throwing only)
4) Thug 4 (throwing only)
What does MacDeath do?
A) Quick swing (easy combat check, 4 + (2 + 1d3) damage)
B) Charged Swing (medium combat check, 2 turns, first turn no damage, second turn 4 + (5 + 1d3) damage, failure results in wasting the second turn)
C) Bunt (hard combat check, blocks incoming attack from targeted enemy and deals half its intended damage to them if successful)
D) Jab solar plexus (medium combat check, 3 + (1d3) damage if successful and stuns target for one round)
Who is MacDeath’s intended target
(not in range)
2) Thug 2
3) Thug 3
4) Thug 4
(Clarification on movement, each character is granted 1 tile of free movement per turn. Because she's light, Megan can use her action to move up to two additional tiles. Heavier units (like MacDeath) can only move one extra if they choose to use an action. You cannot move through an occupied space, unless the occupant is stunned. 2 characters in the same space will generally indicate one is grappling or pinning the other.)
(note on prioritizing enemies: generally the heavier an enemy is the more damage they do, if they're the same kind of enemy (such as thugs))
c87b21 No.8084
Eh, this is getting a bit rules heavy for me. I'm sure others will appreciate the effort though.
abd21a No.8087
>>8084Can't say I blame you. Personally, I think I went way overboard. If others agree, I'll find some way to revert to a more making bullshit up combat system like the first two fights, so I encourage anyone else who agrees to step up and say so. Don't spare my feelings. These rules are a fucking headache for me too.
396bd0 No.8090
>>8082Oh my… here we go:
D1
C3
I think storytiem is best when it play like the COYA books and not D20. At the end however, it is writer choice and I'm always ready to try something new.
1c887a No.8092
1c887a No.8094
>>8082I don't have an issue with the rules themselves, but it's going to be very hard to get one option that wins the vote, with this many choices. Try deciding yourself who we attack, that might help. Also, the grid is a little unnecessary
abd21a No.8098
>>8090
>I think storytiem is best when it play like the COYA books and not D20Good advice. I think just looking at my most recent story post is kind of frustrating and I'd hate to do a whole game that rule-heavy. We'll get through this movement as quickly as possible and revert to a less rule-oriented system.
>>8094
>I don't have an issue with the rules themselves, but it's going to be very hard to get one option that wins the vote, with this many choices.True. If I could get clear winners to emerge it would take either a dominant strategy (meaning my rules are pointless) or a large (i.e. thousands) pool of players.
>Try deciding yourself who we attack, that might help. Also, the grid is a little unnecessaryNoted. I'll phrase the combat as you being engaged in fighting x enemy. No idea how I handle the whole 3-on-1 situation MacDeath is in along those lines, though.
I think the main reason I had to turn rule-nazi is because my gear system is garbage. It alright with everyone if I just say we use escrima sticks because they're cool (and maybe give them a simple bonus to combat rolls)?
1c887a No.8105
>>8098Totally ok with that. Whatever you need to do to make it work
396bd0 No.8108
abd21a No.8114
>>8090>>8092Between the two players charitable enough to put up with my bullshit, we got a little bit of a consensus going on the front kick to thug 1.
I doubt we're going to get a third player nice enough to decipher my rule system, so how about we get a roll between C3 and D3. Let's say 1-50 = C3 and 51-100 = D3.
I'm going to need a roll for what our second attack is followed by a 30+ combat check for ourselves. Once we know what MacDeath's attack is I'll announce what combat roll he needs. Then I'll de-abstract it and turn it into a story and we'll never go back to rule-nazism ever again.
1c887a No.8135
| Rolled 15 |
>>8114tiebreaker
abd21a No.8138
>>8135C3 it is.
Now I'm going to need the 30+ for us and now a 60+ for Macdeath
c87b21 No.8142
| Rolled 17 |
>>8138Rolling for MacDeath.
abd21a No.8143
>>8142Thank God that's not 2 points lower. Epically failing a bunt does not sound fun.
396bd0 No.8144
| Rolled 3 |
>>8138the other roll
abd21a No.8145
>>8143Also, fuck I'm stupid for letting my name slip. How am I supposed to run this thread that way?
c87b21 No.8146
>>8145We can still see your ID. No harm done.
396bd0 No.8147
>>7986I think it is time start a new thread. It could bring other players.
abd21a No.8150
>>8147Anything to bury the end of this thread. Next update will be in the next thread.
abd21a No.8169
>>8150For anyone who stuck with the thread to the end, the new one is up here:
>>8167