If he wants his character to have 2 for intelligence, then let it be. We can see how it plays out in the game.
Don't be surprised if you get called out for making your OC do (or say) something that's abnormally smart for its stat.
What Alak said. That's the worst that can happen.
And that link elders link isn't necessarily representitive of the original tv show, which is what I'm basing some of my fiction on. So there might be many elders or may just corrupt politicians.
I have been dying to make them corrupt for a long time just to add a spin on our game in the grand scheme of things.
I like the idea of the Elders being corrupt politicians.
Remember the episode where I had put that the Elders knew about the Beast and tried to use it as a weapon and when that failed they had killed anyone with the genetic mutation that Saber has now.
If you ask me, that example reeks of corrupt politics. If you can't make work for ya, destroy it along with any evidence related to it.
The corrupt Elder thing was only a rumor guys. But I do like the speculation. Perhaps the corrupt Elder has a connection to Saberfang's beast and the Tripedacus council know that and are using it to their advantage. Thus being forced to hunt her down.
Name: Dirge
Allegiance: Predacon
Alternate mode: Hellgrammite (I know right...)
Function: Enforcer
Height: 19 ft
Quote: "Yes my lord"
Bio: The Tripedacus council is one of the ruling bodies of the current fractured Predacon Alliance. It acts in secret, meeting in undisclosed locations to plot the return of Predacon glory and their eventual control of Cybertron. However they choose to be patient, growing stronger over time and waiting for the right moment to overthrow both Maximals and unworthy Predacons. They do this by operating under the Pax Cybertronia and eliminate anyone would expose their strategy or seeks to break the peace accord. This is no undertaken by the three council members themselves, they have many loyal agents at their finger tips. While most of these are assassins, scientists and schemers, some times circumstances require more force. The Tripedacus council to instigate experiments into indestructible sparks. This led to the creation of Dirge and was the prelude to further experiments. (Hint...hint...)
Most Predacons and Maximals deny his existence and disregard sightings and talk to just talk. Believing he is simply a fabrication of folk tale and delusion. He is rumoured to have entered Maximal police departments and wiped them all out with having to reload.The all the bits of bot and evidence wiped clean. On the streets of Cybertron he is known as some sort of on eyed demonic force that will find you if you can't keep your mouth shut. Rumors say that there are certain members of the Maximal Elders who have no choice but abide my outside influences in fear of being visited by this both with no name or face. Even some of the hardiest Predacon prisoners wont whisper his name.
Dirge has been personally assigned to Night Terror as his guard and muscle. He will follow his his orders to the letter, feeling no reason to do anything but. He will do all in his power to ensure that they, the True Predacons are supreme.
Weapons:
In beast mode his jaws are his main weapon. He can use them to grab and crush/slice his opponents apart. In robot mode, instead of a second arm it is replaced with his main battle cannon which two modes of fire. The primary fire is a direct laser blast, the second is cluster missiles which have the ability to hit multiple targets. On his other arm, mounted his wrist are the jaws from his beast mode which have the same function.
Abilities/additional form:
Striker 1 has the ability to change in a third form which is a weapons plat form. In this form he transforms into his a turret mounting his main battle cannon on top , giving it superior, accuracy and fire power.
Weaknesses:
He has a very long beast mode... has to be a problem. Has a slow movement speed and transforming speed. And he isn't very smart, will only retreat when he is told to.
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I like the idea of the Elders being corrupt politicians.
Remember the episode where I had put that the Elders knew about the Beast and tried to use it as a weapon and when that failed they had killed anyone with the genetic mutation that Saber has now.
If you ask me, that example reeks of corrupt politics. If you can't make work for ya, destroy it along with any evidence related to it.
The corrupt Elder thing was only a rumor guys. But I do like the speculation. Perhaps the corrupt Elder has a connection to Saberfang's beast and the Tripedacus council know that and are using it to their advantage. Thus being forced to hunt her down.
I know. I've just always wanted to make it "real" for our game because it would be interesting. It could certainly play a role in Saber's situation if N-H wanted, and a good reason for them to "conveniently" order Optimus and his crew to follow Megatron with the stolen golden disk even though they knew Protoform X, which was one of their experiments in the first place, was on board of the Axalon (as well as Saber-fang) and just wanted to cover it all up and be done with it without having anyone to silence them or confront their unethical creations since Optimus was also involved in X's creation and thinking the Axalon would never survive against Megatron and his crew. Kill three birds with one stone.
I approve your profiles, admiralgrim and Mystrea. And I thank everyone for their input, suggestions and help on their characters.
Alright I know we're far from ever doing third Season Profiles but I was curious since I said something about this off hand when talking with Una but I was curious. Could it be possible a Transformer can use Astral Projection in a way? Like the said bot can briefly have their spirit self or I assume their Spark leave their body but can return after?
I ask because of what me and Una have planned for Whitegrazer and Wintersong in the next episode. Because of the circumstances of Wintersong being gone up until Season 3 starts, which OOP is aware of, I thought it might be interesting Wintersong could still be there in her spirit or astral form, an ability she probably never was aware she had until being in stasis thanks to the Vok.
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Er.. it's a possibility. Clear it with OOP and just remember that you can't physically harm anyone using astroprojection. Just like Whitegrazer's abilities can't effect the physical plain.
Finally got around to updating Landslide's profile on the Electro laser cannon as well as his grenade launcher's status being on loan to Rattrap.
It wasn't intended for combat purposes anyway. It's just you basic astral projection of you astral form leaving your physical body, and to a point allow people to see you or not. More or less for recon purposes and getting in places others cannot, but I just wanted to know first if it was even possible for a Transformer. Which at any rate wouldn't surprise me if even the likes of Starscream could be a "ghost" and somehow Blackarachnia showed signs of telekinesis.
Kind of why I didn't ask if I could use it yet until I could be certain if any of you guys knew it might be possible at all.
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Well, specifically.. I can't think of anything being Astroprojection off hand for Transformers with the closest being Starscream as you mentioned.. However considering as you also mentioned, Blackarachnia gained telekensis (a Tm2 ability mind you).. as well as the abilities Primal gets during beast machines.. and past Transformers series/comics having psychic or mystical abilities.. It's not really something out of possibility. I mean some of the transformers martial arts have characters finding fracture points in structures causing them to explode like out of fist of the north star or throwing fireballs channeled from their sparks. Things get even weirder in later series, specially the IDW comics with characters like Drift using a spark powered sword.
So I suppose you could have Wintersong unconscious and stored away while her spark observes. So I don't see a big issue of it.
Wow, I never read the Transformers comics, just started reading Marvel comics in fact, so I never was aware things had gotten that weird. At this rate Wintersong having latent astral projection, which would be used probably more prominently in season 3, hardly seems farfetched honestly. Mean heck, they even had the likes of Sari from Transformers: Animated could fire Energon blasts and not to mention Cheetor has precognitive abilities of his own.
But I'll ask OOP about it, see if that's alright in the long run. But seriously, the writers of IDW seem to really come up with some weird stuff that hardly seems possible. But then again it is Transformers.
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The marvel comics were rather weird.. and the writers from those did end up in IDW though I'm not sure if they're still there. Energon blasts isn't that strange either. If a player character wanted the ability to do that as either their ability, or as a weapon it'd be fine since it'd just be treated like a gun.
In terms of astro projection, I'd probably explain it as Wintersong's spark leaving her body to observe the area. Either as her full spark, or a portion of her spark. Ofcourse since it's astroprojection and not a remote drone.. that does mean Wintersong's body would be a risk, or her spark would be a risk so she'd probably want to have her body in a secure hiding place or in the axalon.. or I guess even stored in Landslide's back compartment since he's basically a walking fortress.
If her full spark is projecting, that basically means her spark is outside of her body, if a portion then not so much a problem.. just means she's not consciously aware of her surroundings and until that portion returns, and is effectively a vegetable either way. Also while astro projecting outside of maybe Whitegrazer and her habit of talking to dead people, she wouldn't be able to communicate or interact with anyone.. however, there is one little issue that does come to mind.
While a spark is the equivalent of a "soul", the main difference is sparks can be physically seen and interacted with. Transformers have methods of containing and extracting sparks, normally Maximal and Autobot prisons extract Decepticon/Predacon datatracks and sparks instead of housing bodies because frankly it's absolute domination and Decepticons/predacons aren't going to change in their ways due to their programming.
So.. Wintersong may have some issues of being captured or attacked while astroprojecting.. either in a "crusher" cube like Megatron used with Rampage,a spark extractor, attacked by a energon blade, or even effected by natural energon still in parts of the environment.
Though.. some sparks have been shown to interact with some things, bodies or drones particularly in the case of Starscream taking over Waspinator, and Megatron taking over the Diagnostic drone. I'd have more problems with Wintersong taking over bodies, though drones not as much since.. there aren't many around other then Tarantulas's spideroids or Stag who is still sitting in a locker in Umbra's room until he can figure a trade or use parts off the thing. *LOL* So that's not really going to be useful either..
These are things to take into consideration anyway.. and I'm sure countless others may come up from experience with Whitegrazer's empathy,clairvoyance,psychic link,etc..
I just ran some of this by Wintersong in a PM. Haha My bad. NK brings up a lot more details, though, so I'm going to keep hanging around this thread, but right now I need to work on my next post in the game.
I'm aware of the vulnerabilities it'd bring but at the same time I don't have any intention of her being able to take over someone else's body like what Starscream did and if I'm correct there is possibilities that she cannot be outside her body for long periods of time to begin with, especially so if it was just part of her Spark which even for a few minutes it would no doubt put a strain on it and the fact it would certainly take a lot of mental focus and drain her physical energy. And there aren't many drones she can take over, so probably be rare that'd happen unless she got a hold of one of the Spider drones like you said NK. And I don't know about taking over Stag's body, that just might scar some poor bots. Happy late Halloween then!
Not to mention I hardly think her Spark would be strong enough to be extracted like that of Rampage's. If I remember correctly, energon directly touching the Spark of any normal Transformer would kill them outright and the Predacons would have no real advantage extracting her Spark to begin with except maybe having it as a trophy.
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Happy late Halloween then!