Quinneapolis
Another plurk on my robot OC setting
Quinneapolis
so, thematically, I'm aiming in a couple simultaneous directions
Quinneapolis
1: "AI characters who can still be huge dumbasses"
Quinneapolis
2: "Setting populated entirely by robots somehow still hitting a ton of fantasy tropes for kinda contrived reasons"
Quinneapolis
with a splash of leaning hard into small ways that your worldview and life outlook would be different if you lived in robot world
Quinneapolis
so with that in mind, let's talk about magic
Quinneapolis
which is, obviously, sufficiently advanced technology
Gabiluzbad
I touched on magic a bit
Quinneapolis
did you?
Gabiluzbad
My concept was a necromancer
Quinneapolis
ah right
Gabiluzbad
who hacks dead cores and gives them some semblance of life
Quinneapolis
well that can tie into this greater framework
Quinneapolis
potentially
Quinneapolis
so, there's a small module installed into some bodies
Quinneapolis
usually more lightweight models
Quinneapolis
nobody has any idea how it works, but it's an extremely powerful device that potentially lets the body's owner interface with the world in a massive variety of different ways via direct energy manipulation
Quinneapolis
with various poorly-understood caveats
Quinneapolis
an AI's ability to use a magic receptor is inconsistent - some can, some can't, some can use some but not others
Quinneapolis
most can only use them for certain kinds of things, which seems to just be whatever they figure out how to do early on
Gabiluzbad
Driver Incompatibilities
Quinneapolis
yes
Quinneapolis
also notably, a core can only form a connection with a receptor early in life
Quinneapolis
usually
Gabiluzbad
So is this like
Gabiluzbad
a physical object that you plug into yourself?
Gabiluzbad
And then it just stays there stuck to you forever and you can use "magic"?
Quinneapolis
generally a receptor is built into a body when it comes out of the factory
Quinneapolis
it's like a special organ
Gabiluzbad
oh right you can trade bodies around
Quinneapolis
this is however a motivation to consider not doing so
Quinneapolis
magic-users are powerful, but if they ever trade bodies they risk losing their powers permanently
Quinneapolis
It's possible to attempt to force yourself to try to connect to a receptor later in life, but it usually doesn't work, and can cause serious code corruption if it goes wrong
Quinneapolis
the same applies to trying to add extra receptors to the same body
Quinneapolis
sort of like the spine plugs in Gundam IBO
Quinneapolis
you can surgery more in and it makes you very powerful but it will also probably kill you
Gabiluzbad
So then you can have a fighter/wizard dichotomy
Gabiluzbad
Fighter types can keep upgrading their bodies to bigger and more powerful frames
Gabiluzbad
Wizard types get stuck in their tiny frail starter bodies but gain great power from their magic receptors
Quinneapolis
just so
Gabiluzbad
"I can't move things with my mind but I DO Have integrated chainguns on both forearms"
Quinneapolis
so going with the faux-fantasy-adventure scifi aesthetic thing
Quinneapolis
the core cast should probably be an adventuring party
Quinneapolis
on a Quest
Quinneapolis
of some variety
Quinneapolis
also Love Snake Kaja this probably wasn't QUITE what you had in mind but you were asking about OC casts that could use a JRPG endboss character
Quinneapolis
I'm roughly settled on Hopper for a protag name
Quinneapolis
random setting thought of the moment: the Common language in this setting probably has very little in the way of built-in gender indicators, because someone's gender is seldom apparent just from looking at them or talking to them
Gabiluzbad
Gender is probably pretty optional
Quinneapolis
yeah not everyone has one
Quinneapolis
but they are a thing
Gabiluzbad
But I think Necrobot is a dude
Love Snake Kaja
I'm interested. I'm going to say that her final form has an fleshy horror kind of thing going on even if it's all robot materials.
Quinneapolis
legit
Quinneapolis
robot body production is all supertech anyway so fleshy-ass bodies aren't impossible
Quinneapolis
as long as the core's in there somewhere
Love Snake Kaja
Also she's probably an experimental doomsday weapon with an abnormally high number of receptors in an abnormally tough body. There were many failures before her.
Quinneapolis
that's the exact kind of scenario I designed this magic system to enable
Love Snake Kaja
Basically she's overpowered but that's a requirement for endbosses facing off against an entire party solo. Of course she'll lose.
Quinneapolis
I think I'm sticking with Exploding Arm Fu as a fighting style
Quinneapolis
and I think hopper.gender = undefined
Quinneapolis
I know that Hopper's primary motivational force is, generally speaking
Quinneapolis
"someone told me I couldn't do the thing"
Gabiluzbad
they'd get along with Wizard
Quinneapolis
something along the lines of
Quinneapolis
"someone with a chassis like yours can't fight monster nests, you should just leave it to the dedicated combat models"
Quinneapolis
"oH YEAH"
Princess Emily
i really need to come up with a concept for this
Quinneapolis
then rounds up a friend circle of idiots too useless to get real jobs and it's off for fame and fortune
Love Snake Kaja
So like my endboss was indoctrinated with the idea that the world sucks and should be destroyed. She doesn't really begin questioning this until her defeat.
Love Snake Kaja
Though she does feel funny about what her creator did to her failed older siblings. But she privately counts said creator into the world's suckage.
Quinneapolis
sounds like the real villain is her creator
Gabiluzbad
Creator: "THE WORLD SUCKS"
Kajabot: "Yup that checks out"
Love Snake Kaja
Yeah. Though they wouldn't put up nearly as much of a fight as her.
Quinneapolis
She's the endboss, the creator is Dr. Wily
Gabiluzbad
"Villain" and "Endboss" aren't the same thing, after all
Love Snake Kaja
Basically.
Gabiluzbad
coughnecronandkujacough
Love Snake Kaja
At least my endboss won't come out of nowhere.
Quinneapolis
so the main recruitment requirements for joining Hopper's party:
Quinneapolis
- Not already a professional elite anti-monster killing machine
Quinneapolis
- Hopper is capable of convincing you to help them pick fights with robot murder dungeons
Quinneapolis
- Yolo
Gabiluzbad
Necrobot mainly uses his powers to like
Gabiluzbad
pull memories out of dead cores
Gabiluzbad
To give closure to grieving friends
Gabiluzbad
or to get useful information in general
Gabiluzbad
but has trouble getting jobs because most people find him creepy
Quinneapolis
Hopper I think does not have a receptor
Quinneapolis
just obscure martial arts and a sack full of repurposed bandit arms
Quinneapolis
and a chassis that makes replacing arms easy
Gabiluzbad
how human does Hopper look on a sliding scale from R2D2 to Data?
Quinneapolis
I'm not sure!
Quinneapolis
human sized and shaped but
Quinneapolis
I'm still waffling beyond that
Gabiluzbad
Necrobot name Paschal
Gabiluzbad
oh wait that guy has a big thing on Sex magic that's kind of weird here
Quinneapolis
does Paschal know sex magic
Quinneapolis
"is there sex in robot world" obviously yes
Gabiluzbad
Is it still tied to reproduction though or just something robots do for fun?
Gabiluzbad
But no Paschal does not do sex magic
Gabiluzbad
He just tries to help people so that they aren't creeped out by his powers
Quinneapolis
it's just something robots do for fun
Gabiluzbad
Not QUITE sure how he ended up with Hopper yet
Gabiluzbad
Honestly Paschal's inspiration was the bit in The Last Bastion when Bastion pulls the memories out of the dead robot and sees the height of the omnic crisis
Quinneapolis
he's also an A+ example of "take a fantasy staple and robotify it"
moontouched
hunterbot is probably named Laplace or something and is specifically designed to pick off like, roboanimals that might be threatening and keep population sizes small and is definitely not meant to see combat against murdermachines

but they'll do it anyway cos it sounds neat
Love Snake Kaja
Some neato characters here BTW.
moontouched
laplace wants to hunt Bigger Things because they want to make an impact on the world beyond doing the same thing day after day so a quest sounds fuckin baller
載入新的回覆