MPC 53X: Screw the Rules, I Want Money!
Aug 8, 2018 16:05:04 GMT
Post by Rinji on Aug 8, 2018 16:05:04 GMT
“Rinji, we need to come up with OP movesets.”
The centipede startled. He’d been drinking from a stream in his usual forest home. “Ah! Who are you!? How do you know my name?” He turned around, shocked at the sudden human who’d turned up behind him.
“Uh, I’m the writer. At least one of them. Yes, probably. I couldn’t decide if this was meant to be written in prose or OOC, so now we’re doing both. Just roll with it my many legged friend,” I explained to him as I shrugged.
“B-but who are you?” Rinji continued questioning. Obviously shocked at my sudden appearance.
“Shh Rin-Rin, just pretend to be my partner and come with me. I need you.” I patted him on the back, trying to comfort him.
“But I already have a partner! Sort of.”
“No. I meant figuratively. And I know she’s not your real partner, you larper. Just shut up and get in the car, damn it.”
It only took another hour of freaking out and me trying to convince him to come, and soon we were holed up in Rosewood. Sure, a literal construction site? But some buildings were complete enough for us to plot inside. Plot the movesets.
“It was really convenient that the mods decided to make this place,” I commented as I pulled out a notebook and a pen.
Rinji appeared to be grumpier than usual from the sudden intrusion and kidnapping. “I’m sure you speak in tongues,” he sulked in the corner of the room.
I sauntered up to him and plopped down next to him. “Speak in Tongues? Could be a good name for a passive. Hmmmm.” I chewed the end of the pen. “No, it could be an ability. An ability that adds a new combat rule of the user’s choice. Meta af.” I wrote it down. “Rin, you need to contribute too. Otherwise I’ve kidnapped you for no reason.”
“Umm…” He mumbled quietly. “How about… uh, an ability that… um, freezes time?” It was obviously the first thing that came to his mind, but it was perfect.
“Yessss,” I hissed. “That’d be hilarious. Just think of the ridiculous positions you could put people in mid-fight.” That’s another one on the list. “I think I’ll call it… Pause Button. Yeah, that’ll do. And it has as long a duration as the user wants.”
“Oh, I have another one! Gravity!” Rin exclaimed. It seemed he was finally getting into the swing of things.
“Gravity?” I questioned.
“Yeah, flinging things around,” he explained.
“Ohhh, I see. Aha, imagine just flinging people into the sky Team Rocket style. Cya suckers! Let’s call that one Gravity Shift.” I penned it down.
Time to review what we had so far. “Okay, so right now we have three abilities. An ability that lets you change combat rules, an ability that freezes time completely for as long as you want, and an ability that just uses gravity to ruin everyone’s day.
“Hey Rin, you’re an electric user aren’t you? Isn’t there some type of electric attack that we can use that’d be OP?”
“What does OP mean?”
“Over powered.”
“Oh. Then how about… an attack that causes lightning to hit everyone at once?”
I paused. “Is that really OP though? I mean, I could imagine it being approved if it had a decent cool-down… No way, I’m not writing that down. It needs to be OP, Rinji.”
“Then make it cause them to faint for a while?”
“Oh fine, I’ll write that one down then. What else?”
Rin-rin appeared to be tiring from my shenanigans. “How many abilities do we have to come up with?” He asked me in a thinly veiled complaint.
“I dunno, they never said. Just ‘come up with unfair cheating movesets.’”
He sighed, defeated. I think he knew he wasn’t going to get much more from me. Which is good, because OOC knowledge is OP. WAIT.
“That’s it! A passive that lets you know all OOC knowledge! I’m a friggin genius,” I smiled as I wrote it down.
Rinji piped up again. “Can I suggest something?” He asked.
“Well that’s why you’re here. Fire away.”
“An ability that lets you transform into anyone you want?”
I hugged the centipede. “That’s perfect,” I said once I wrote it down. “Just think of the versatility,” I gave an evil laugh. “They’ll hate me.”
“Isn’t that a bad thing?”
“Nah, I will absorb it to become stronger,” I said casually. “What else can we do? Ooh, a passive that can make you immune to all non-damaging side-effects. Subtle but super OP.”
I turned around to face Rinji. The Scolomon appeared to be deep in thought. “An ability that lets you pass through all physical objects?”
“Fancy work, Rinji. Adding it.”
“And an ability that lets you change the weather to whatever you want?”
I almost strangled him. “No! That’s not OP! Shhhh… you’ll know why eventually. Although you’ll probably be too occupied when it happens to remember this weird day. Anyway, how would it be OP if you had to fight indoors?”
“Uhh… good point?”
“Hey, we’re almost done,” I said as I looked at my word counter.
“Thank goodness for that,” Rinji said with relief. I think the entire thing about being forcefully shoved into a car and driven to a random town in the middle of the forest might’ve had something to do with his tiredness.
“Just give me one more ability Rin, and I’ll get out of your hair.”
“But I don’t have hair?”
“Figure of speech, Rin. Figure of speech.”
“So you know… human video games?” He started, sounding unsure.
“Well yes, considering I am one. A human, not a video game.” I answered, tempted what he was going for.
“How about being able to save and reload when something goes wrong?” He suggested.
“Oh. My. God.” It was the ultimate OP ability. The ability that allowed anyone of any skill calibre to win any fight. “Rin, you’re secretly a genius. I don’t think people give you enough credit just cause you’re quiet,” I stated as I wrote down the last ability.
“Uhm… thanks?” I could see that he was glowing from it though. What a sweetie.
“Welp, that’s it. You might see me around some more, depending on if I either get told off for doing this or regret it in my sleep. Cya Rinji, thanks for the help!” I promptly disappeared into thin air.
“But… I didn’t even get your name,” Rinji said defeatedly. “Did she say she was doing this for bits or something?” He pondered, then shrugged it off as he wandered back down the road home.
THE END
The centipede startled. He’d been drinking from a stream in his usual forest home. “Ah! Who are you!? How do you know my name?” He turned around, shocked at the sudden human who’d turned up behind him.
“Uh, I’m the writer. At least one of them. Yes, probably. I couldn’t decide if this was meant to be written in prose or OOC, so now we’re doing both. Just roll with it my many legged friend,” I explained to him as I shrugged.
“B-but who are you?” Rinji continued questioning. Obviously shocked at my sudden appearance.
“Shh Rin-Rin, just pretend to be my partner and come with me. I need you.” I patted him on the back, trying to comfort him.
“But I already have a partner! Sort of.”
“No. I meant figuratively. And I know she’s not your real partner, you larper. Just shut up and get in the car, damn it.”
It only took another hour of freaking out and me trying to convince him to come, and soon we were holed up in Rosewood. Sure, a literal construction site? But some buildings were complete enough for us to plot inside. Plot the movesets.
“It was really convenient that the mods decided to make this place,” I commented as I pulled out a notebook and a pen.
Rinji appeared to be grumpier than usual from the sudden intrusion and kidnapping. “I’m sure you speak in tongues,” he sulked in the corner of the room.
I sauntered up to him and plopped down next to him. “Speak in Tongues? Could be a good name for a passive. Hmmmm.” I chewed the end of the pen. “No, it could be an ability. An ability that adds a new combat rule of the user’s choice. Meta af.” I wrote it down. “Rin, you need to contribute too. Otherwise I’ve kidnapped you for no reason.”
“Umm…” He mumbled quietly. “How about… uh, an ability that… um, freezes time?” It was obviously the first thing that came to his mind, but it was perfect.
“Yessss,” I hissed. “That’d be hilarious. Just think of the ridiculous positions you could put people in mid-fight.” That’s another one on the list. “I think I’ll call it… Pause Button. Yeah, that’ll do. And it has as long a duration as the user wants.”
“Oh, I have another one! Gravity!” Rin exclaimed. It seemed he was finally getting into the swing of things.
“Gravity?” I questioned.
“Yeah, flinging things around,” he explained.
“Ohhh, I see. Aha, imagine just flinging people into the sky Team Rocket style. Cya suckers! Let’s call that one Gravity Shift.” I penned it down.
Time to review what we had so far. “Okay, so right now we have three abilities. An ability that lets you change combat rules, an ability that freezes time completely for as long as you want, and an ability that just uses gravity to ruin everyone’s day.
“Hey Rin, you’re an electric user aren’t you? Isn’t there some type of electric attack that we can use that’d be OP?”
“What does OP mean?”
“Over powered.”
“Oh. Then how about… an attack that causes lightning to hit everyone at once?”
I paused. “Is that really OP though? I mean, I could imagine it being approved if it had a decent cool-down… No way, I’m not writing that down. It needs to be OP, Rinji.”
“Then make it cause them to faint for a while?”
“Oh fine, I’ll write that one down then. What else?”
Rin-rin appeared to be tiring from my shenanigans. “How many abilities do we have to come up with?” He asked me in a thinly veiled complaint.
“I dunno, they never said. Just ‘come up with unfair cheating movesets.’”
He sighed, defeated. I think he knew he wasn’t going to get much more from me. Which is good, because OOC knowledge is OP. WAIT.
“That’s it! A passive that lets you know all OOC knowledge! I’m a friggin genius,” I smiled as I wrote it down.
Rinji piped up again. “Can I suggest something?” He asked.
“Well that’s why you’re here. Fire away.”
“An ability that lets you transform into anyone you want?”
I hugged the centipede. “That’s perfect,” I said once I wrote it down. “Just think of the versatility,” I gave an evil laugh. “They’ll hate me.”
“Isn’t that a bad thing?”
“Nah, I will absorb it to become stronger,” I said casually. “What else can we do? Ooh, a passive that can make you immune to all non-damaging side-effects. Subtle but super OP.”
I turned around to face Rinji. The Scolomon appeared to be deep in thought. “An ability that lets you pass through all physical objects?”
“Fancy work, Rinji. Adding it.”
“And an ability that lets you change the weather to whatever you want?”
I almost strangled him. “No! That’s not OP! Shhhh… you’ll know why eventually. Although you’ll probably be too occupied when it happens to remember this weird day. Anyway, how would it be OP if you had to fight indoors?”
“Uhh… good point?”
“Hey, we’re almost done,” I said as I looked at my word counter.
“Thank goodness for that,” Rinji said with relief. I think the entire thing about being forcefully shoved into a car and driven to a random town in the middle of the forest might’ve had something to do with his tiredness.
“Just give me one more ability Rin, and I’ll get out of your hair.”
“But I don’t have hair?”
“Figure of speech, Rin. Figure of speech.”
“So you know… human video games?” He started, sounding unsure.
“Well yes, considering I am one. A human, not a video game.” I answered, tempted what he was going for.
“How about being able to save and reload when something goes wrong?” He suggested.
“Oh. My. God.” It was the ultimate OP ability. The ability that allowed anyone of any skill calibre to win any fight. “Rin, you’re secretly a genius. I don’t think people give you enough credit just cause you’re quiet,” I stated as I wrote down the last ability.
“Uhm… thanks?” I could see that he was glowing from it though. What a sweetie.
“Welp, that’s it. You might see me around some more, depending on if I either get told off for doing this or regret it in my sleep. Cya Rinji, thanks for the help!” I promptly disappeared into thin air.
“But… I didn’t even get your name,” Rinji said defeatedly. “Did she say she was doing this for bits or something?” He pondered, then shrugged it off as he wandered back down the road home.
THE END
