The Great Belgiuming (April Fools Forum Game)

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Do you have any suggestions for Waterzooi?

Edit: @Ferrus_coloni @doomlightning I need your votes.

[Ferrus_coloni]

Action 1: look at the information gathered from the destroyed swarm in its last moments to understand the capabilities of The Great Belguimer, and by extension, Belgium creatures like the Colossus

Action 2: after identifying patterns, send the information to other fighters, so that they may deal more damage to the Belgium-colossus as well as protect themselves from it more effectively

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@Ferrus_coloni

understand the capabilities of The Great Belguimer

That probably won’t be too easy to just do…

[Ferrus_coloni]

it doesn’t have to be, just a basic idea along the lines of “TGB crushes things, Belguim creatures are made/ruled by TGB, it’s possible that the Belgium-colossus is likewise able to crush fighters”

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I see. I can say that some insights might be coming between this battle’s end and the next’s beginning…

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo Overgod of Thrive and everything else. Semi-professor of botany and avid plant abuser.)]

1. move to loki to help him, becuse why not
2. charge more energy

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@doomlightning

charge more energy

you are already 5/5 on energy, any more will dissipate into the environment.

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo Overgod of Thrive and everything else. Semi-professor of botany and avid plant abuser.)]

I see
i will change that to to using DW on loki to mimic some of his ability and convert blob (one of the 2)

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I am afraid you’re too far away from loki to get to them in one movement action and hit them directly…

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo Overgod of Thrive and everything else. Semi-professor of botany and avid plant abuser.)]

soo double it down if possible

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Do you want to meet with the Loki catapult?

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BATTLE 1 - TURN 26

Waterzooi was busy rushing to the safe valley, managing to climb over the artificial wall created by Loki sometime ago. It arrived within the valley just before the big blob entered the small open area just before the wall.

Somnium gained much data about the large foe from the last moment of the now-dead Loki swarms that ventured beyond the valley. While big, the membrane of this enemy is potentially vulnerable to having holes puncture it completely, as it has hard time removing external objects when these membranes are damaged themselves. This will help both better attack and defend against this belgium-blob.

Loki’s catapult would fire a new shot at the troublesome enemy…
(Rolled 2/6)
While this shot could certainly have been better, it was the final blow needed to kill off the big foe, especially with modifications increasing the damage output of the boulder loaded last-minute based off what Somnium reported.

Loki’s Catapult Swarm and Waterzooi looked above the wall, alongside them Somnium, seeing that the big belgium-blob was splattered all around the place, dead and cold. Very soon the eyes of The Great Belgiumer emerged as the arena around the 3 fighters started to transform into shapeless forms…

I see that the last cellular defender has perished…

Well, you terran fighters may have won this time,

But the next battle is sure to end your for good.

Also I have a strange feeling something saw me from afar…

(+1 XP to Waterzooi, +2 XP to Somnium, +15 XP to Loki, All Fighter Health Replenished, Boost Removed)

(Removed not to take up forum space)

The trio of the surviving fighters has been again transported to the voidlike realm where they first found themselves as “terran fighters”, and alongside them Enkefaros emerged from the dead. They feel that their bodies can again change according to their will, but only to a certain degree - which is limited by the amount of “experience” gathered on the battlefield…

(You can now use your XP to upgrade your stats/abilities)

LEGEND:
Green - LOKI
Blue - ENKEFAROS
Orange - WATERZOOI
SOMNIUM - Together with other fighters…
(Darker Colour if inside or next to a same-colour legend element)

Red - BELGIUM FIGHTERS (First Spawn)
Purple - BELGIUM FIGHTERS (Second spawn - type 1)
Light-gray - BELGIUM FIGHTERS (Second spawn - type 2)
Light Blobs - BOULDERS (blocks movement)
Yellow - Converted BELGIUM FIGHTERS
Pink - Possessed BELGIUM FIGHTERS
Orange (When not a single dot) / Dark Grey (If not the border) - Toxic Gas
Lime - Loki Hives (Dark Lime - Reinforced Hives)
MAP MOVEMENT SPEED = (Speed Statistic / 2) Pixels (Map is 100 X 100 Pixels across in total, including the unclimbable walls)

SIGHT RANGE - 5.5 Pixels Radius From a Fighter’s Center

FIGHTERS:

Loki

ADVANTAGES:
1: Extra Form
2:

@willow

overstimulation immunity: the user’s brain adapts to the amount and types of stimuli it gets and actions it needs to perform at a time within minutes, resulting in the user being functionally immune to overstimulation

3:

@willow

decentralized body: the user cannot die from destruction of one vital organ, as they have multiple copies of every vital organ, and thus every copy of at least one vital organ must be destroyed for the user to die. the user can also start growing more of any organ on command, but it takes time to grow them, even if cells can just be tilapia-dteleported in in the shape of the organ, as generally tissue will need to be moved and spawning all the cells at once will simply make the whole thing either fall apart or otherwise not function.

DISADVANTAGES:
1:

@willow

legless: the user does not, and can not, have legs. if the user attempts to make legs, with a leg defined as a limb that has the intended main purpose of locomotion by pushing against the ground or a wall, the limb will disintegrate or be turned back into its raw materials.

2:

@willow

insomnia: the user is physically unable to sleep. they don’t have a biological need to sleep either, but they still feel the effects of not sleeping.

DESCRIPTION:

@willow

single entity
stronger but less agile than Numerous Bees

Numerous Bees
weaker but stronger than single entity form

@willow

Loki has no legs and any legs they try to make will simply vanish as soon as they appear, and as a result they had to know how to make limbs for flying, climbing, swimming, limbs to use the ground to rest, and all-purpose limbs built to do everything but just happening to originate in a spot that makes them useful for locomotion on ground to work around their chronic and incurable leglessness. unsurprisingly, the form they often find themself the most comfortable in is that of not one, but several, and up to thousands of, large bees. of course, as they can shapeshift and keep their most important part in a magical big words pseudoscience dimension, they have removed parts of their central brain they don’t need or want, like their internal thermostat(the bees have their own and having one dedicated to all the bees is simply a bad move), most of the medulla oblongata, as insects are small enough to not need much of a circulatory system, but these bees do breathe, and they all breathe in sync, and their breathing pumps their blood. when they are in bees form they have to modify their auditory and visual processing centers to hear and see things properly, but due to the great amount of bees they do away with their chemoreception processing centers and replace them with something to let all the bees know what bee is smelling what thing and let all the bees smell what all the other bees smell. in bees form they typically feel the need to be doing between 300 and 10,000 things at once, and can do so with their multiple bodies that can communicate near instantly through the magical sci-fi handwave dimension, said bodies also put themselves entirely in the dimension when they are nearing death by anything that won’t continue killing them once they are in the magical electromagnetism dimension(things that will include poison, viruses, parasites that enter your cells, cancer, and prions.).
as Loki is not able to make chitin, their bees for their bees form instead use a keratin exoskeleton with a bone inner lining for muscle cells to bind to, and when the exoskeleton needs to be shed, bones are summoned in their place. Loki also cannot produce venom, so instead for their stinger they use highly concentrated ammonia with all the toxic metals from the bee it’s produced in mixed in.

in ‘human’ form Loki cannot aqcuire brain damage as they keep their brain in the magical sci-fi big words pseudoscience dimension at all times, but they can still ‘die’ if their body is destroyed, but they are still alive when that happens, they just have no anchor to the universe and thus cannot remove any cells from the magic cells dimension, and have to wait until the next battle for their body to respawn. they can also ‘die’ in a similar way in any of their forms, whether or not they have multiple bodies, but if they have multiple bodies all of them must be fully destroyed to destroy their connection to the real world. in forms they have one skull it generally makes a hollow ‘thunk’ noise when knocked on as it is actually generally hollow in those forms, unless they fill it with smaller copies of their internal organs so they can turn into a head octopus if decapitated instead of loosing an anchor to the real world.

@willow

Loki is a human bard multi-dimensional changeling who tells their foes that their magic is very much not magic and is in fact [insert big sciencey word here] for the sake of chaos and just chaos, and that they sold their ability to have legs to an alien that calls its species the belgiums for the knowledge to do all the things they do, and that they were a human but the knowledge they had fed into their brain cannot be comprehended by a human brain so they couldn’t stay human and keep the knowledge, so they kept the knowledge and cast away their humanity. they were actually never a human, their magic is very much magic, the only knowledge the belgium blobs gave them is how to use the magic, and the knowledge is fully comprehendable by the human mind, it’s just useless to the human brain without access to the specific kinds of magic they have. Loki also likes playing instruments and threatening to cast vicious mockery on people who are being rude with no reason.

Loki likes cats, axolotls, octopi, clownfish, and sponges the most due to cats just being cute chaos contraptions, axolotls both being cute and having really good regenerative abilities, octopi being masters of disguise and extremely intelligent, clownfish literally being able to change their sex at will, and sponges being the best shapeshifters on earth, second only to Loki themselves. Foods Loki likes include pretty much anything a honey bee or a cat likes, chocolate, bitter almonds(they can just regrow the parts of the body that die), and the cerebrospinal fluid of kids who intentionally abuse animals they find in alleyways(not like they’re gonna grow up to be good people anyways, but they’ll still probably survive, they’ll definitely have the worst headache of their life though).

yes, my character is just a joke character based on how NBs, including me, tell people who can’t seem to get our pronouns right to refer to us as if we were a swarm of bees, but with shapeshifting, an optimized body and brain for it, leg(o)lessness, and chronic, incurable, and possibly weaponizable insomnia mixed in

STATISTICS:
(FORM 1 - Human):
STEALTH: 20
SPEED: 10
STRENGHT: 20 Normal Damage

(FORM 2 - Bees):
STEALTH: 20
SPEED: 20
STRENGHT: 10 Normal Damage

HEALTH: 30/30

EXPERIENCE: 79

ABILITIES:

PASSIVE:

Overstimulation Immunity: More effective attacks the more enemies are fighting you

Insomnia: Less chance of hitting enemies

Somnium

ADVANTAGES:
1:

@Ferrus_coloni

concept: can only be killed or wounded by attacking the idea/memory of its existance

2:

@Ferrus_coloni

pupeteer, other beings with a defined nervous system can be influenced to act on Somnium’ behalf, thinking its will is their own

DISADVANTAGES:
1:

@Ferrus_coloni

disembodied: lacking a physical form of its own, interaction with the physical world is only possible through its “puppets”

DESCRIPTION:

@Ferrus_coloni

Somnium is humanity distilled into its most elemental form: the desire to survive and improve, the recent attack of the Belgium blobs has reinforced this concept to the point people have begun attributting a name and will to it

STATISTICS:

STEALTH: 20
SPEED: 20
STRENGHT: 10 Normal Strenght, 10 Control Strenght
HEALTH: 20/20 + Partial Protection (Abilities)
EXPERIENCE: 60

ABILITIES:

PASSIVE:

Memory Attack: Can only be damaged by enemies who attack the idea of it’s existance (50% chance to miss attacks)

Disembodied: Doesn’t have a body for self, relies on puppets to interact with the world. The Puppets inherit their own statistics. Your own statistics are separate from them.

ACTIVE:

Pupeteer: If Control Strenght is higher than any strenght an enemy has, they can be pupeteed. MAX amount of puppets = 5.

(Before you Puppet anything, you can infect an enemy like an invisible parasite ghost, in that state you can’t damage the enemies)

Enkefaros

ADVANTAGES:
1:

@fralegend015

Time dilatation - Has more actions.

2:

@fralegend015

Telekinesis - Can attack at a distance.

DISADVANTAGES:
1:

@fralegend015

Vulnerable - takes more damage

DESCRIPTION:

@fralegend015

Big brain.

Literally, this is a giant brain with tentacles that uses psyonics.

STATISTICS:

STEALTH: 20
SPEED: 20
STRENGHT: 10 Normal Strenght + 10 Distance Strenght
HEALTH: 15/15
EXPERIENCE: 45

ABILITIES:

ACTIVE:
Time Dilation: When Active, can do 3 actions in one sub-round.

Waterzooi

ADVANTAGES:
1:

@doomlightning

Equilibrium zone: [Passive] Up to a certain range, anything that is defined as some kind of ability or energy at a higher frequency than ultraviolet, is neutralized, including mine. It is possible to change the range, but usually no more than 6 m. (Electricity is affected by this, kinetic energy [e.g. a projectile] is weakened upon entering the area but not eliminated).

2:

@doomlightning

Genetic manipulation: [Active] Allows a certain control over the genes of other creatures and their modification.

3:

@doomlightning

Dimensional Weaver: [Passive] Able to “borrow” other’s traits from anywhere possible, if not the most effective.

DISADVANTAGES:
1:

@doomlightning

E=MC2: [Passive] Any use of an ability means use of energy, and existence in which some external energy source is required.
[Equilibrium Zone allows you to ‘draw’ energy from the environment, only if it is real energy such as electricity, laser, lightning, etc.]

2:

@doomlightning

Vulnerable: [Active] A simple hit can cause great damage.

DESCRIPTION:

@doomlightning

Beige long Hoody. cant see his face. simmaler to human.

STATISTICS:

STEALTH: 20
SPEED: 20
STRENGHT: 10 Normal Strenght
HEALTH: 11/11 + Partial Protection (Abilities)
EXPERIENCE: 56
(DISADVANTAGE) ENERGY: 5/5

ABILITIES:

PASSIVE:
Equilibrium Zone: Energetic and Kinetic attacks are weakened if they are within this zone, regenerates energy if such attack is commited

Dimension Weaver: When Hit an enemy, temporarily adds the best advantage to The Fighter (Lasts until the fight with this/those entity/entities ends)

E=MC2: Special Energy Statistic which measures how many Active Abilities can you cast.

ACTIVE:
Genetic Manipulation: Can Modify an enemy’s genome, changing it’s statistics, abilities and even alignment. You need to first inspect an enemy in order to use this ability.

MISC.:

Other Stuff

10 XP can add 5 points to a statistic,
100 XP can add an advantage/ability OR upgrade an already existing advantage/ability.
XP can be gifted by one player to the other (with no fee for the gifting)

Fight will include cube dice rolls:
1- You miss
2- Strikes a worse area
3- Strikes a worse area
4- Strikes as expected
5- Strikes as expected
6- Strikes critical area

Damage is affected by the rolls of the dice, and is closely tied to strenght.
Various strenght types to various things (control S. allows for control of enemies, distance S. allows to hit enemies from further away.)

Damage drains Health.

If you have more stealth than an enemy, you will be able to attack them from surprise, giving you a lot larger chance of critical hit.

@doomlightning @Ferrus_coloni @willow @fralegend015

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

so, since we were missing a fighter for most of the first round, we should probably buy a revival ability(so fighters are only out of commission until they’re regrown or smth, rather than the whole battle)

so, should we buy an ability for somnium that lets them pull souls out of dying bodies and put them in new vessels for a faster but more reliable revive, or one for me that lets the BEES sculpt themselves into the body of a dead fighter to revive them, but likely needing some flesh to work(and obviously requiring i not die)?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

By the way, new players are free to join between now and battle 2’s start! This is going to be the only chance to join in the while!

[Ferrus_coloni]

hmm… my whole deal is about abstract/mental stuff, I could probably “download” the concept I had of a given fighter, but I’m not sure if putting them in charge of dominated bodies of enemies would be too OP

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@Ferrus_coloni

I could probably “download” the concept I had of a given fighter

What do you mean by “download” here?

[Ferrus_coloni]

During this fight, I basically set up an “internet” between the minds of all fighters so that they knew what everyone was doing, this network could also be used to take our collective idea of who someone was and move it to other parts of the network, possibly like this:

step 1: enemy is dominated, or a fighter summons something (like Loki’s swarms, for example)

step 2: Somnium has the concept of who a previously killed fighter was, tries not to think too much about the ship of Theseus, and implants those parameters into the mind of the “host” creature

step 3: since there’s a fully sentient being in the host, the effort needed to keep the host dominated is massively reduced, and thus there’s no risk of it breaking free after a couple turns, leaving it ready for use by the resurrected fighter

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I guess I’ll allow that, as it seems balanced.

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

can we route energy through somnium or just information?

oh and should we have a poll to see who wants to do what with their xp?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@willow

can we route energy through somnium or just information?

Just information, atleast for now.

@willow

oh and should we have a poll to see who wants to do what with their xp?

you players of this FG can do that.

Edit: @fralegend015 @willow @Ferrus_coloni @fralegend015

(Or rather XP-spendings in this case)

[fralegend015 (Shroudmaster)]

I will increase strenght 4 times.