War Of Machines.

[Kyon]

In the year 20xx, mankind discovered a series of independent machine models all containing incredible materials and abilities. To distinguish these machines, they labeled them with markings based upon the level of craftsmanship that was drawn into the machine's design. However, by the time of the White Void, civilization tanked and the robots were abandoned for unknown reasons...

Those machines were relocated today. Now, every one of us, you, and I possesses one. The machines, due to their size, were titled "Smalls", and the bigger forms known as "Bigs". You may pick any machine you desire. However, one of the facts of these machines that wasn't written in the history books was that they crave on human souls. In our case, our fighter's souls. In order for your machine to function, to evolve, you must devour other people's machines, and with each machine you devour, you gain one level.

Will you be the first to eat the other Smalls and make the biggest machine of them all? All just to become a "Big"?

I hereby claim Scott's Miracle Machine. A small cat food container that Scott found with his imagination, it contains a dog pedal engine and uses a single turbo cannon to fire super-concentrated beams of sugar, spice, and everything nice at his enemies. Its tripedal legs are interchangeable and uniquely defy gravity to an extent, likely an aspect of Scott's esper powers, and the machine's main fuel source is pop rocks and soda. Like all, he begins at level one (everyone's machine must be labeled with their level, and raised everytime another machine is wrecked). But he will gain power through battle.

NOTES:

*By eating other Smalls (players), you will automatically absorb all of their abilities and powers and traits. If you consume normal matter, you will merely become bigger.
* If you integrate a kind of "explanation" into why your machine would be bigger than a starting machine, its allowed. Like say I wanted I a giant robot, if a character had a backstory for machinery, then having a giant mech here would be appropriate.
* You can use ships instead of machines, ship-Small machines and plane-Small machines are accepted.
* If your machine is "destroyed", you will respawn and drop an entire level.

[Spudmeister]

If your machine is wrecked can you get another machine or are you eliminated permanently?

[Metal Chao]

Or join with another character and a different machine at level one?
Also are there restrictions on what your machine can do at the start or is it just common sense that people will shout at you if you're overpowered?

Cool idea though.
I mean both my characters have already worked closely with soul eating machines in their backstory so I can fit right in :V

[Kyon]

Dec 2, 2010 19:03:40 GMT -5 Spudmeister said:

If your machine is wrecked can you get another machine or are you eliminated permanently?

You can basically get a new one or try and fight out of your old one. Smalls are very durable, which is why they have great weapons or attacks to mess up other ones.

Dec 2, 2010 19:06:25 GMT -5 Metal Chao said:

Or join with another character and a different machine at level one?
Also are there restrictions on what your machine can do at the start or is it just common sense that people will shout at you if you're overpowered?

Restrictions are basically your machine will start small, and rather than PKing (unless done to awesome/humorous effect) all the time you should eat NPCs (draw yourself eating a rabbit-robot) other things to grow really fast. Your machine, at Lvl1, cannot do much beyond shooting cannon blasts, bashing other machines, running, sprinting, using jet thrusters, or turning a character's power into a weaponized form. My machine can slightly defy gravity due to Scott being able to defy gravity.

All machines are small until you reach at least Lv5. The objective is to get as big as possible by wrecking as much as possible and then consuming it, if anyone's played Katamari Damacy you'll pick up the concept really quick.

I mean both my characters have already worked closely with soul eating machines in their backstory so I can fit right in :V

That's pretty awesome then.

[DJGrandPa]

Eddie the Rocker joins the Brawl, he's good at fixing his robot-thingie since he's a greaser and has a monkey wrench, which obviusly means he can fix mechanical stuff. His coffee cup has one of them tank wheels or whatever they're called. The canon shoots hair wax that's sticky.

Uhm... that's all I guess?

[Metal Chao]

Is this ok? (:
Plan is that it gets more bigger as it... gets bigger... until it is a full body robot suit or something like that, but right now it affords basically no protection at all
Unless I have completely misunderstood the concept I think it should be ok, I didn't want to use another dome with legs. And if not I can always make it a little bigger.

If there's too much stuff I don't really need a jetpack (although it's currently not strong enough for sustained flight)
And I guess I could drop the cannons for now too ):

[destructin]

Because rocket boots would be really useless.

[Zarth]

Whats the max level?

[llllllllllll]

Is it OK if I join with a random character I just created? He seems fitting to this thread.
None of my chars I have right now seem to fit my creativity.

[pookerskull]

Ohay. ;D



Xarlot enjoys nice strolls on the beach, soothing heavy metal music and his most recent pastimes; whistling Mario tunes.

He attacks by using logic and a beam that he fires out of his own mouth. Xarlot has a sweet craving for other souls.

Nemi is only a puppet Xarlot uses to do his handy-work, just because he has pose-able thumbs. He tends to grin alot.

BRING IT ON MANG.

[pookerskull]

if anyone's played Katamari Damacy you'll pick up the concept really quick.

HNNNG. I love Katamari Damacy

So now...since you brought it up.. I love you C:

[Metal Chao]

Right so final few questions before I start trying to make some content posts:

You compared it to katamari damacy, is the consumption process a form of Megaman-ing in that the machine basically integrates the other machine into its body and gains its abilities, or does it just grow and develop in some unrelated way?
How smart are machines, or does it vary? Can they be sentient? Can they be non-sentient?
Do they even have any control over their own actions or are they simply piloted vehicles?
Do they consume the soul of the vanquished machine or the pilot? Does there need to be a pilot or can they just eat random objects? Does there need to be a machine or can they just eat people and animals?

Ok that was more than a few questions, sorry

[llllllllllll]

I think I'll give it a shot.

[MANstorm]

I shall join

[Kyon]

Dec 3, 2010 22:51:25 GMT -5 Metal Chao said:

Right so final few questions before I start trying to make some content posts:

You compared it to katamari damacy, is the consumption process a form of Megaman-ing in that the machine basically integrates the other machine into its body and gains its abilities, or does it just grow and develop in some unrelated way?
How smart are machines, or does it vary? Can they be sentient? Can they be non-sentient?
Do they even have any control over their own actions or are they simply piloted vehicles?
Do they consume the soul of the vanquished machine or the pilot? Does there need to be a pilot or can they just eat random objects? Does there need to be a machine or can they just eat people and animals?

Ok that was more than a few questions, sorry

All of that is really up to you, except for soul consumption. As long as your machine consumes another machine/object, or a person, it will evolve. The thread's longevity will depend on how much creativity you want in your machine, you can have an automated machine, you can have an Iron Man suit, boots, gloves, sentience, so on. The pilot is never killed (unless they intentionally mean to drop out or voulnteer). All machines involuntarily "grow" as they integrate other machines and parts.

You know that episode of Megas XLR with the Regis MkV, how everytime Coop smashed it it just reactivated and grabbed some piece of technology, then continue to get bigger and bigger? It could work like that as well.

Yes, it is a form of MegaManning, just with levels and more intricate evolutions beyond palette-swapping. Here's a good note - If you integrate somebody else's machine, you gain ALL THE POWERS/ABILITIES that machine had and parts of their appearance, if you just eat normal things you just get bigger.

Also you guys can attack whenever you want, you don't have to just "introduce" your machine. Whoever has a picture of their small machine is in the crosshairs for anyone willing.

[DJGrandPa]

So... I guess I'll start som action 'round these parts.

[Metal Chao]

I was bored so I spent a disproportionate amount of time on the first panel and background although those are the places where the least interesting things are happening
Feel free to continue fighting in the void, although it's likely to have considerably fewer useful consumable objects
I am going to eat this car

[MANstorm]

(Didn't kill her, just destroyed the car before she could)

Also, can you add guns when you aren't killing players(killing npcs and shit) or can you only add weapons when you do?

[Shackles]

[llllllllllll]

Dec 5, 2010 2:23:13 GMT -5 Shackles said:

[timeskipped]

I'm sorry I didn't see you enter this thread with a lvl one, even if you "combined" your mech with someone else this shouldn't be allowed from the start. Its a form of cheating imo.

are you even allowed to do this? If this was in the rules then I must've missed something.

[charlie]

what a minute, shackles, that reminds me of a thing we talked about before spud made those twin characters

[Shackles]

Dec 5, 2010 2:44:29 GMT -5 llllllllllll said:

Dec 5, 2010 2:23:13 GMT -5 Shackles said:

[timeskipped]

I'm sorry I didn't see you enter this thread with a lvl one, even if you "combined" your mech with someone else this shouldn't be allowed from the start. Its a form of cheating imo.

are you even allowed to do this? If this was in the rules then I must've missed something.

Dec 2, 2010 18:22:27 GMT -5 Kyon said:

* If you integrate a kind of "explanation" into why your machine would be bigger than a starting machine, its allowed. Like say I wanted I a giant robot, if a character had a backstory for machinery, then having a giant mech here would be appropriate.

Unless I read this wrong, shut the fuck up.

[MANstorm]

-deleted until starting level issue resolved-

[llllllllllll]

Dec 5, 2010 2:49:21 GMT -5 Shackles said:

Dec 5, 2010 2:44:29 GMT -5 llllllllllll said:

I'm sorry I didn't see you enter this thread with a lvl one, even if you "combined" your mech with someone else this shouldn't be allowed from the start. Its a form of cheating imo.

are you even allowed to do this? If this was in the rules then I must've missed something.

Dec 2, 2010 18:22:27 GMT -5 Kyon said:

* If you integrate a kind of "explanation" into why your machine would be bigger than a starting machine, its allowed. Like say I wanted I a giant robot, if a character had a backstory for machinery, then having a giant mech here would be appropriate.

Unless I read this wrong, shut the fuck up.

-cocks right eyebrow- Ok then, carry on.

[Spudmeister]

Heh you said cocks.

[Metal Chao]

Dec 5, 2010 2:49:21 GMT -5 Shackles said:

Dec 5, 2010 2:44:29 GMT -5 llllllllllll said:

I'm sorry I didn't see you enter this thread with a lvl one, even if you "combined" your mech with someone else this shouldn't be allowed from the start. Its a form of cheating imo.

are you even allowed to do this? If this was in the rules then I must've missed something.

Dec 2, 2010 18:22:27 GMT -5 Kyon said:

* If you integrate a kind of "explanation" into why your machine would be bigger than a starting machine, its allowed. Like say I wanted I a giant robot, if a character had a backstory for machinery, then having a giant mech here would be appropriate.

Unless I read this wrong, shut the fuck up.

There's no need to be so rude, his response was actually quite polite.
Besides I think he just meant that your machine could be larger than the one he drew, not necessarily a higher "level"

[scarecrowsoup]

i know they're not really too much like 'machines' right now but i figured the rings would level up as multi-finger rings to brass knuckles to gloves to gauntlets, et cetera.

anyway, everyone welcome Bachoura to his first fight!

CLAP, DAMMIT

EDIT oh shit, just realized that Shackles' machine has a fire-shooting power. should i change mine? does anyone care?

[Metal Chao]

I don't think anyone cares if two people can shoot fire

[MANstorm]

INTENSE ROBOT turning ACTION

[Shackles]

Dec 5, 2010 9:03:28 GMT -5 Metal Chao said:

Dec 5, 2010 2:49:21 GMT -5 Shackles said:

Unless I read this wrong, shut the fuck up.

There's no need to be so rude, his response was actually quite polite.
Besides I think he just meant that your machine could be larger than the one he drew, not necessarily a higher "level"

Whatever, man. I'm still going to wait to post another picture until the OP confirms whether or not it's cheating. Doppler is actually two seperate characters, so I figured that saying they combined would be enough of an explanation. I actually would've just made it level 2, but it seemed like the way I drew it was too big (since a grown man can fit inside it's head), so I just made it level 3, like the robots combined when they were level 1.5 or something. Just saying that it'd be kinda out of place if their robot was already 2x as big as most other people's but is level 1.