I say harpies. Predator bird people that swoop down and grab hamsters to take back to their nests

Holy FUCK I knew I should have checked up on this sooner.
Anyway, I'm cool with the hamsters being in the starting area, and having some predatory race that feeds on them. They can even end up approaching the colonists for help, in exchange for teaching them a little about the world.

>>4218
>>4219

How would you like them to act?

I'm having a cross with care-free dancers that enjoy the blue skies with harpies that act ruthless, intelligent, agile warriors of the sky with a bit of Valkyrie in them and in their society.

>>4219
>>4220
I was thinking of making them similar to sirens. They're excellent seductresses when they want to be; luring in people with the charm of their slender, slightly feathered bodies, and then murdering them.

They're carefree, they dance, they have their own culture. But when push comes to shove, they are indeed fierce and agile warriors with a carnivorous homicidal bloodlust while provoked.

There could be a peaceful, highly intelligent omnivorous(?) animal race. They act as traders between those races with the ability to do so. Few enemies since the supply a lot of resources to many races. Can harvest a lot of natural resources such as coal, etc. Probably living nearer to places with rarer fauna; habituating relatively dangerous areas where other races might not stake home. Lots of transport options (possibly underground travel being dominant, considering HARPIES). Very low in power.

• ..After considering that, I think moles or some critter along those lines would suit the description. Or just some species that's made use of drills.
• Something similar might have been done already, I don't know, I haven't read the entire thread.

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>>3951
If that's the case, then let's start with this. From what I know of the canon this guy came up with, the Hazard Girls are created by two different PMC groups. One of them is TRIDENT but there's another. How about we try to figure out which ones were created by which group so we know how they would probably interact. For example, since these are weapons, they would probably have each other's models in their database or whatever, so they would know on sight that ____ is the enemy. That also brings me to the other thing, how "Aware' should they be? Should they have their own decision-making skills and such, if so, personality quirks. Stuff like that. Technically, I guess we don't know what was done to these girls to make them this way, so we should just decide.

EDIT: It's been over a week with no responses to this. Should I assume I'm the only one that wants to get things rolling or..? There are a few more people who signed up for this than Marisa and I.

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Well, I guess at this point, I should just talk to Marisa and make up a backstory for these characters that fits. If I can, I'll contact Lilith too.

Midbro here, just to say that I'm still interested in Dust-tan. Admittedly, I'd almost forgotten about this thread since the discussions of the new world started.

>>4215
I'll make sure to talk to you about this as well, then, if you're on. Thanks for saying something. I'm not trying to leave anyone behind, here. I just want to actually do this thing.

>>4216
I'm still around, still interested, just relatively spacey and busy. (Specially now, with Diablo 3)

If you want you can reach me on the following;

• Windows Live: devartcassidy@gmail.com
• Skype: Real name "Ninja Twinkie"

I would still really love to have this get going and working, and I'm sorry for my lack of attention. Between college, trying to get a job, and trying to blow off steam, I haven't been very active.

>>4198
The advice still stands just as valid, as well as Lilith's concern.

Ok after a while, a post that i can try to work a bit better.

Yes, I know I've been bad in the past, mistakes made and such.

I don't "try" to be a bad person, hell the people I get on with I enjoy talking with quite alot and it seems likewise. I've come a long way I feel.

However, with some people there is just a big barrier of hate, negative stigmatisms, grudges etc. I have tried to talk it through with some and it has gone sour, and now it's admittedly going to be difficult to do it again, not just from my perspective I'm sure.

This place is in shambles from problems like this I feel (my perspective so don't lash at me). If this thread ideas come out and work then we'd all be happier.

Don't know what else to say atm, it's early and I'm no good with these kind of posts. So let me steal from an above post

>If someone and I butt heads, but we agreed to forgive and forget, we both remember everything, sure. But we just start with a clean slate, and try to not let the past affect us in a negative way.

>>4202
Like you said, it may be hard to do. I know that for sure and it's certainly true, but... Here's the thing. This is the time to try. If anything's gonna save this place, it's gonna be brotherhood and camaraderie. I support you, Jo. I don't think you're as bad as others think. You've been a friend to me and I believe there are others who don't dislike you either. Take up your drill and pierce through the heav- Like I said, I support you.

EDIT: If you need anyone to help you talk things out with someone, I'm more than willing, as well.

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I guess I'm going to end up posting in this thread at the risk of either seeming like I post just for the sake of agreeing or looking like a total asshole, after all... Here goes.

The whole forgive-and-forget thing is kind of cool ! And it doesn't really work unless all parts involved are willing to do it. Except for the forgetting part because you can't just retcon things that happened like that.
Forgiving is A-OK, though. I can do that.

Even though I won't necessarily start befriending everyone and their dog, because some people just don't go very well together, surely it's fine if I don't just shoot them down if they have a problem with me or want to ask me something, right ?
Well, I don't, and I don't believe I ever did. I'm entirely willing to talk any problems out.

I rarely do that myself, because most of the time, the only problem I have with certain people here is their attitude. Not only towards myself, but generally what I see in IRC, and I honestly don't think it's very appropriate to ask someone to change in such a way just because I don't like it. People are different, and that's just how it is.

All that being said, making new friends is nice sometimes, even though I'm afraid to approach people because who knows if they might be bothered by it, or maybe they won't like me, or I won't like them, etc. etc.

I can't think of anything else to say, so I won't !

Well, some of us may not particularly like each other, but if we're going to be a community, we should try our hardest to at least tolerate each other. If I've done anybody wrong, I apologize for that.

After thinking it through, I'd like to get the Dark Elves to work with. Having 2 people decide things for a race works very well, especially in my case. I need someone to kick my ass into gear once every blue Moon.

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Also, to bring up a point I made in the other thread, because it should be brought up here as well.

As a manager, you need to make sure that what you decide you want for your race is actually doable. We're going to have people making OCs and stuff out of this, and that means we either need to be able to get a pic base for it.

It is your responsibility to make sure that whoever helps and participates is able to pull this off with you.

Creativity and Imagination are good, but try to keep things at least a little practical for everyone as well.

I would also like to say that for those taking care of management, you'll need to use your head a lot. Actually think critically about what you're doing.

>>4109
I made this post on the other thread; if we're trying to be diverse with our races, then we need to be a little realistic about sub-cultures within each race. Please try to open yourself up and be decisive about what you want with your races otherwise we may end up with three or four different variation of elf that are all generally the same thing in different places.

>>4104
This is important for this thread too, so I'll say it here as well. There's one easy solution to this picture base problem. Like I said, you should use some vidya game race for your races. Anyone can make a character of that race. Hell, on gel or pixiv, people might even make pic bases of art as well. I've seen a few Tarutaru bases. I suggest TERA. They have many races that are very different and each race has a very good deal of options to them. It's just an idea, but this is the easiest way. Seriously.

>>4085
Of course I'll be managing the unnamed Elven race I mentioned before. The background I made should still be used as a basis, even though I'd love for people to make suggestions even if they change that story, since I'll probably have to change that story eventually, anyway.
This is what they generally look like, as a reminder. Now, secondly... While I don't plan to be shooting things down, this is, as you said, a race I'll have to play. I plan to enjoy it. So I think it's reasonable for me to reserve my right to creative writing, editing and decision-making.

>>4087
>>4088
>>4090
Does this include my silly little loli race of forest-paladins? If so, I'd welcome the help. I'd like for you to read the story I posted for them in the old new world thread, though, if not only so you can get an idea of what my current idea of them is like, so we can work from there.

As a beginning, I want to point out three things to get things rolling.

• This race is entirely female. I wish it didn't have to be this way, but the race is female-only in TERA, the game the pic base is from, so I can't do much about that.

• They are lolis. But they're more like fake lolis. They're bodies don't age past this point. Despite that, though, they're quite intelligent and while there are many exceptions, they should have a reputation for being a little stuck-up.

• I haven't decided on their magic, so let's work from there.

I'd be happy for you to introduce new ideas for this, but currently, I have two ideas...

• They're pretty good with magic and use it daily, without care.

• Each of this race only has a certain amount of magic to expend over their entire life. The amount could be different for each individual, but due to this, they would very often refrain from using that magic, as one day, they'll never be able to again. And for a race where everyone has magic, that'd be societal suicide. Anyway, in this case, their magic would probably be uncontrollably powerful and they'd have little input about it. Like, if they decide they want a flower, they'd probably manifest a field that is too long to be seen fully without meaning to..

Those are my ideas.

Lastly, I also haven't decided anything about their government or even a whole lot of their culture. I'd like assistance with that if possible as well.

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Well, the bulk of my posts have been about the forest elves, so I guess I'm in charge of them. I'm very open to anybody who wants to help, particularly in finding a pic base. Like I've said, I have one for now, but I don't think it's as large as I'd like it to be.

20

0 (wary)

20

Okay so, it looks like I can actually close debate now about this matter. The majority has voted for 20 characters and OCs to count toward that limit. I'd like to start implementing this limit in the near future. I mentioned 2 weeks in my first post during this revival, and that should be plenty of time.

>>4068

Sounds good to me.

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Alright...Fist of all..I completely support Kana,Jett,Mari and the others on this

Second of all, The whining and pardon the phrase bitching needs to stop, take a moment to step back, breathe, and calm down.

Third of all, This is a new world...Full of new chances, new encounters, so many ways to help character development...

And..Last of all..This is a community, a collection of people, minds, and so forth...We must work together to reach a decision

Now, I am willing to assist with monster/creature creation and I do apologize if this was asked before but will this new world have a set pantheon?

>>4006
Nay there is not a set pantheon.

>>4007
Ah, very good then, perhaps one will develop at some point oh and uh....(wary)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm_(Dune)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_death_worm

You know, I've read every single post in this damn thread about four different times each since it's been up and I still don't know what the hell is going on and don't even know what to say. In fact, for some of the things in here, I even find myself asking myself, "...Is that really something that even deserves an argument?"

I was thinking of writing some long and well thought out post, but screw that. I dont even know where to begin. I'm not blaming any specific person for this, but the amount of things thrown around in this thread is mind boggling. So I guess you could say I'm blaming all of you. Though I haven't contributed so I really do not have much room to talk.

HOWEVER, I also agree completely that certain persons here are attacking every little topic that's brought up and putting up these selfish, spoon feeding arguments about the smallest little things, like age, for lack of a better example, and quite frankly; it's annoying. Not only that but dividing the world into different settings? Is that just me, or did I read that right? Let's face it, with so many different settings, people ARE going to divide themselves whether they have to or "not". It's GOING to happen. In fact, I have reason to believe that even WITHOUT different settings people will still come up with reasons to not be at a certain place or post at a certain person. So why not limit the options and make things easier by not having some jumbled mess of different things that make no sense? Besides, this is a fantasy setting, right? And we're coming from a technology setting. There aint no reason there can't be any plots to develope an unfavorable area into something more favorable. The possibilities are endless really and leaves room for a few things to do. But regardless, not ever place is going to be favorable for every character from the start and we do need to have some groundrules that are set in stone to start off that are the same for everyone.

Huh. I guess I did write out something long.
Pic related: It's my face after trying to make sense of everything for the millionth time.

>>3992

The whole point of this is to work together and have everyone's voice in this so we all have fun. Pitch an idea here and there to see if people agree or disagree on it; work your imaginations and make everything enjoyable. Honestly we tried the splitting Regions and it went pretty bad. Which is why we have this thread.

Weren't we going to have everyone start in one place anyways and work from there then start having people explore? Really though, it's not about having everything resolve around one or two persons set of characters, it's everyone's. You're going to be in your characters shoes and think for once about what to do.

I'm repeating things people have already said, I just wanted to add I agree with Jett and Kana with this.

I vote for Fantasy. Building civilizations, the coming of tyrants and hero's is a fun start.

Vote goes to Fantasy as well.

Technology

I vote for fantasy. I just always had more of an attraction to it.

THIS DOES NOT MEAN FANTASY IS MY WAIFU! CALLING IT NOW.

>>3774
That sure was a great deter. Good job.

>>3700
>>3699
Yeah that's what I had in mind. I figured actually finding "the new world" would take a good while, even longer than the time they've already spent in space as of now. And they could find other random stuff until then.

Finding unsuitable planets is something I had in mind, in fact it's the center of a show here that only Lambda knows because Quebec, where the general plot is to find a new planet to move mankind on, but with every episode they find a new planet, there's always something wrong with it, in order to keep the show going. And then obviously the finale is that they actually find a decent planet and the series is over.

But I digress, yes I was thinking that people could search and explore while we were still deciding for the new world, and just have them not find anything suitable until we're ready and the new world is set.

I was asking to make sure if this was something that could work, since I wasn't sure how people wanted to go about this.

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>>3699
>>3700
>>3701
I was actually thinking about using Shepard and the Normandy for something like that. But I was waiting until I had that shit more fleshed out in detail. I.E ways the Normandy could go out and explore space for habitable solar systems. I am trying to learn everything I can about the Normandy and it's systems by playing through ME2 for the umpteenth time that way I can figure out how it can make precision jumps and stuff like that.

>>3702
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_Wiki
Might help

Also, if that is seen to be an all-around good idea, I can make an easily editable star-map(web, java, or GML; though Java would have to wait until I get further into my class) to help keep track of things.

If at all possible, I'd prefer the world be a fantasy-based setting, or at least, semi-modern-ish one.

While I don't necessarily hate the scientific-based one DS proposed, I don't exactly like it either. Honestly, we could simply take Moscow before or after it lands, and have it slowly transition into one such Technocracy since we practically have all that we need for it to happen. Once the colony lands, people would have the choice of either taking the nan-whatevers into their bodies and remaining on the ship, or disembarking into the new planet, deprived of many of the luxuries the colony had to offer. Another point mentioned by Aside is that the nanites would eventually be overcome with a serum.

One such scenario I had was slightly described in a post I made very early on in the thread. The world is not very amiable, and much of it is unable to support life on its own. lolDeities take energy from all living things within its domain of control and use that energy to protect everything in its control from the harmful world outside of its reach. In exchange, they use some energy they receive to keep themselves alive. They would take energy from "citizens" of their domains in non-lethal amounts; there's no need to kill the goose that lays golden eggs. However, if a character is overwhelmingly powerful, the lolDeity may prefer to "receive" much of the energy it needs from those individuals, possibly rendering the strong (nerfing) closer to the more mundane.

Additionally, monsters (anyone, really) from outside the domains would simply be able to walk inside. Once inside, they would be subject to the AoE nerf and have energy sapped. However, monsters with a natural need to devour things, such as say, humans, would not be nerfed to the point where they would not be able to kill one. As long as one doesn't stir up enough trouble, go on a senseless massacre, meaningless blood sport, or the like, the lolDeity may not wish to interfere or even care who it houses.

It's possible to live outside of a lolDeity's domain, but one would have to compete with the indigenous creatures living there for the limited resources. Needless to say, since Moscow is an arc (See Arcology), there wouldn't be much of a need to actually get off unless people wanted to or some technical problems were met... Or people didn't want nanites and had to leave (Also, yes, I am aware that doing so would possibly cause a split between people favoring fantasy and those favoring sci-fi. A very major Con.).

Close to like Sou said, each lolDeity would sap energy from certain elements, attributes, or aspects, depending on the lolDeity's personal values. One lolDeity may be proud of its physical strength and saps energy from anything possibly lethal that's close to magic or supernatural phenomena. Not all lolDeities would share the same views and many would have different ways of operating, or possibly just barely or not even operating at all. Some would nerf the shit out of people while others would take energy given off when people fight, while one (like mentioned earlier) would make everyone close realistically normal, keeping some traits or just traces of powers they originally had.

My laptop's dying and I'm not sure if a new world's already been decided on, but I felt like typing this anyway.

>>3720
This thread has been dead for too long so I'm going to be an asshole and revive it.

I don't like your post. Read the OP.

>I realized that the original idea just wouldn't work because there is no way to properly scale an overall nerf. Not without outright rewriting everyone else's canon entirely to make sure there were no loopholes.

The point of this thread was to discuss the possibility of a setting that didn't need a nerf or entities because nerfing would be far too hard.

It's easy enough to explain ways that it could happen; but when you compare different canons, how do you actually scale whether or not, for example, Overlord Prier's attacks would have much damage on, let's say, one of the most hax bleach characters?

A lot of their abilities are hax. And just taking energy that nerfs characters is way too vague.

The only real solution I have been able to think of is everyone making a thread to discuss ways to scale this. This would take time and effort that this community just isn't willing to put out.
How much attention has /de/ gotten in the last month? Not much. One person posted.
I said in the OP that the only way to make sur there are no loopholes, to make everything fair, would be to basically begin rewriting everyone's canons to make them fit the setting we come up with.

I've thought it over time and time again, and I'm sure that's the only way we can work with the original idea, which is why I don't want to work with it anymore. It won't go anywhere in the long run. I love it, but that's really just how things are.