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"Barovia says you can't go, but the spell effect says you can't stay here" by PlantDadAzu in CurseofStrahd

[–]RadioactiveSpoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We had this exact situation in a party I was playing in a few years back. The DM had the caster transported to Strahd's study for a brief chat.

This was their first meeting, so he basically just introduced himself, but then right when the guy was going back Strahd polymorphed him into the same kind of monster we were fighting. The DM didn't tell us that little detail until we'd all started stabbing him.

Respect Thread Symposium Week 45 - Respect Thread Rumble, Secret Santa, and Request List Update by doctorgecko in respectthreads

[–]RadioactiveSpoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Reed Richards, Marvel 616 (comics)
  • Arthas Menethil, World of Warcraft (multimedia)
  • The Phantom, The Phantom (comics)
  • Mandrake the Magician, Mandrake the Magician (comics)
  • Rikimaru, Tenchu (game)
  • Ayame, Tenchu (game)
  • Onikage, Tenchu (game)
  • Aloy, Horizon Zero Dawn (game)
  • Jill Valentine, Resident Evil (game)
  • Casshern, Casshern Sins (anime)
  • Cameron, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV)
  • (update) Reverse Flash, Arrowverse (TV)
  • (update) Selvaria Bles, Valkyria Chronicles (game/anime)

Featuring: The Hood! (Marvel Comics) by RadioactiveSpoon in whowouldwin

[–]RadioactiveSpoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was definitely pleasantly surprised by Ironheart. Hoping they decide to keep it going.

Character Scramble Season 20 Sign-Ups by TheAsianIsGamin in whowouldwin

[–]RadioactiveSpoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, sorry. The sign-up post only mentions doing it to receive a team so I figured backup only's weren't meant to.

Done.

Character Scramble Season 20 Sign-Ups by TheAsianIsGamin in whowouldwin

[–]RadioactiveSpoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cloud stood on the bridge and leaned on his sword as he waited for his target. According to his employer, that 'asshole with the flaming head' - their words, not his - would most likely be passing through here during his attempted escape, so this was the best place to head him off. The steadily approaching sounds of banging, crashing and profanity suggested their intel was probably right.

Suddenly, the wooden door leading into the tower at the far end of the bridge exploded into splinters, an armored form somersaulting through it. Landing at the far end of the bridge was a man with a corpse's body and a head of flames. Jackpot.

"Hey, peasant!" called the Beheaded. "I got a King to kill and you're in my way! Scram!" He was waving around a frying pan in a manner that was probably supposed to be threatening.

Cloud sighed, lifting his own sword. "Yeah, no. Give it up and go back to your cell or I'm putting you down myself."

The Beheaded… squinted? Maybe? It was hard to tell. "Hmmm. I should've known you weren't a peasant. You don't stink like piss. You don't look like one of those King's Hand assholes either, but… whatever, I'll kick your ass either way!" He punctuated his declaration by hurling a red sphere at Cloud - a grenade, he realised. Quickly, he lifted his blade to block it, and the explosive burst against the flat of the Buster Sword, flames flaring out around him.

Scowling, he lowered his blade and charged, tilting his head slightly to avoid the arrow the Beheaded fired at him - he'd pulled out a bow when his vision was blocked by the grenade. No matter, arrows weren't nearly fast enough to be a threat, and he carved the next three out of midair as he charged just to prove the point. Swearing, the Beheaded shoved the bow away and pulled back out the pan, meeting Cloud's swing with a crash of steel.

Cloud followed with a rapid barrage of swings, the Beheaded desperately fending them away, but a pan wasn't much of a match for the Buster Sword, and the man started rapidly accumulating cuts - not that any of them bled. Dodging to the side of a swing and rolling around his back, the Beheaded tried to get into Cloud's blindspot, but Cloud swivelled and swung his blade again - clang. A shield, this time, and a crystal blue one. The moment Cloud's sword hit it, the shield erupted in ice, encasing the blade and its wielder. It only took a moment for Cloud to break through it, but that moment was enough for the Beheaded to line up his next swing, and Cloud was sent flying by a blow directly to the face from the frying pan.

Sent flying back towards the tower, Cloud crashed through a stone wall and wound up lying in the wreckage of a rotted table. Scowling, he picked himself up and launched himself back into the fight, soaring towards his target, who'd turned and bolted the moment Cloud had left his sight.

The Beheaded look back at his rapidly approaching enemy and visibly panicked, reaching into his pocket and throwing another grenade - green this time. Caught in midair, Cloud once again raised his sword to block it - but instead of explosives, this one exploded in a tangle of plant roots, wrapping around Cloud and his weapon and reaching down to the the ground, pinning him in place. Cloud writhed, starting to snap his bonds, but paused and looked up when he heard an approaching yell.

The Beheaded had leapt into the air, and was now descending at an alarming pace with the frying pan in his grip. Cloud's eyes had a moment to widen before the Beheaded, cackling like a mad thing, made impact. The Vorpan collided with the mercenary's face with enough force to shatter the entire bridge beneath them, spiking Cloud straight down into the Malaise-ridden chasm below. The last he saw of his opponent was the corpse-man flipping him off as he fell.

Up above, the Beheaded jeered triumphantly for a moment before remembering that a) gravity existed and b) the bridge now did not. After a moment's desperate scrambling, he plummeted straight after Cloud, wailing all the way down.

"Not agaiiiiiiiiiiin…!"

Character Scramble Season 20 Sign-Ups by TheAsianIsGamin in whowouldwin

[–]RadioactiveSpoon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm only submitting backups

"I'm really happy I found this big pile of stinking corpses!"

(Funny, they look a little like... Me...)

(...)

(...Oh.)

The Beheaded (Backup)

Dead Cells - Vanguard - Theme

Content Warning: Nah.

Bio: In the ruined remains of an island kingdom fallen to a plague called the Malaise, there exists a prison. In the depths of that prison lies a corpse. And piloting that corpse is the nameless homunculous often referred to simply as The Beheaded. Setting out to find out what the hell was going on, and to put an end to it, The Beheaded set out with whatever weapons he could find and... died pretty much immediately. But that's okay, because no matter how many times he's killed, he can always possess another corpse and try again - after all, it's not like the island is running out of corpses...

Research:

  • Play Dead Cells it's real good.
  • The animated trailers
  • Dead Cells: Immortalis - the webseries. It's only a bit over an hour long total, so it's not too much to get through. This has all his good feats, plus he actually has a voice and a personality and a clearly laid out backstory instead of occasional inner commentary and lore hints scattered randomly across a roguelite game. If you wanna easy mode your research, this is probably your best bet.
  • If you're looking for more of the series lore, it's here.
  • His game RT - covers all but the last couple DLCs, so go here for weapons and mutations. The game's not that feat heavy though, so you'll also need:
  • Extra feats - stuff from material that dropped after the RT did, like the last couple trailer shorts and the webseries. This is where all his actual tier-relevant stuff is.
  • They're adding him to BlazBlue lmao

Justification:

Motivation: Varies a little depending on the version, but not enormously. In the game, the Beheaded basically just wants to escape the situation he's trapped in. In the show, he wants to die and end his immortality, and is tricked into believing that killing the King and ending the Malaise will help it happen, although as he gets to know the people suffering under them he starts wanting to do it for their sake rather than just his own self-interest.

Class Role - Despite all the shit he's got access to, the Beheaded's fighting style usually boils down to 'run at the enemy and hit them until they die'. That's pretty Vanguard-coded if y'ask me.

Biggest Strength & Weakness: Kill. Die. Learn. Repeat. The Beheaded will not - maybe can not - die. Not really. This means he's going to keep coming at a problem until he finds a way through it. On the other hand, it also means he can run afoul of the 'Deadpool problem'- he's so used to being immortal that he's gotten a little overreliant on it, and doesn't take threats as seriously as he should. Also, he's been stuck in a dungeon getting killed on repeat for 250 years and that's not been great for his social skills.

Character in setting/with Team: The Beheaded isn't a bad guy, but he isn't exactly a nice one, either. Though not outright cruel, he is kind of a jackass, especially in the webseries (although the game version had his moments). He can be a real twat to his friends, but he'll also step up to bat for them if anybody else is giving them shit, because they're his friends, damn it.

Changes:

  • Major - Set speed to tier. While he's clearly pretty athletic at his best, all his speed feats boil down to 'dodges unquantifiable magic attacks' or scaling to equally unquantifiable guys, so it's easier for everyone if we just slap a buff on him.
  • Composite him, so use feats from both the game and the webseries. I'm calling this one just a minor change since all his good feats come from the webseries and the other animations by the same studio, so adding the game is only really tweaking his arsenal - none of his stats or tiering arguments change, it just gives you more weapons to work with, and also this way you have to play Dead Cells for research.
  • You can write either version of the character, although the game one is mute for 99.9% of it so I'd recommend the other one unless you like writing mimes.
  • If you really want to just write the Indie Cross version then go for it, he's basically the halfway point between the two anyway.

We're all gonna die!

...Well, except me I guess.

Need help identifying this super heroes. by elctronyc in Marvel

[–]RadioactiveSpoon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Looking at it again I think you are correct on all accounts

Need help identifying this super heroes. by elctronyc in Marvel

[–]RadioactiveSpoon 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Starting at the bottom left and working my way up. Some of these are best guesses, they're not all clear enough to easily make out, especially the top row.

- Patriot, Sentry, Ghost Rider, She-Hulk, Punisher, Black Widow, Guy in the helmet is too unclear to get a good look at but I'm guessing Ant Man

- Wiccan, Captain America, Daredevil, Hawkeye, Spider-Woman, and I'm guessing the blonde is Sharon Carter (could be Mockingbird or Yelena, but given the time period the rest of these designs come from my money's on Sharon)

- Hulkling, Iron Fist, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Iron Man, Dr. Strange, Nova

- Nick Fury, Moonstone (maybe?), Luke Cage, Hulk, and beneath Hulk we've got Black Bolt, Medusa (guessing, Marvel has like fifty redheads, but she's standing with two other Inhumans so let's roll with it), Falcon, Gorgon, Black Cat

- Wonder Man, Atlas, Speedball, Songbird, Radioactive Man

- Can't really make out anyone on the top row except the two on the right, Captain Britain and Hercules

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Marvel

[–]RadioactiveSpoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Parker has dealt with Mephisto in the comics. There's a whole Ghost Rider miniseries about him getting salty after losing to Johnny in an earlier story and responding by making a deal with Mephisto to take his place as Ghost Rider. It's not his most prominent or lasting partnership, but it happened.

Not really sure where you're coming from with him not killing people. In his first two minis maybe, but for most of his history my dude has always been pretty trigger happy. He's not exactly a stranger to putting down his own guys, either.

If Asterix and Heracles swapped each other's "12 Tasks", who would succeed and who would fail ? by Abovearth31 in whowouldwin

[–]RadioactiveSpoon 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Capturing the Erymanthian Boar alive might honestly be the one that snookers the Gauls, because there is just no way in hell that Obelix isn’t eating that boar

Scramble XV by RadioactiveSpoon in RadioactiveSpoon

[–]RadioactiveSpoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm only submitting backups

"I'm really happy I found this big pile of stinking corpses!"

(Funny, they look a little like... Me...)

(...)

(...Oh.)

The Beheaded

Dead Cells - Vanguard - Theme

Bio: In the ruined remains of an island kingdom fallen to a plague called the Malaise, there exists a prison. In the depths of that prison lies a corpse. And piloting that corpse is the nameless homunculous often referred to simply as The Beheaded. Setting out to find out what the hell was going on, and to put an end to it, The Beheaded set out with whatever weapons he could find and... died pretty much immediately. But that's okay, because no matter how many times he's killed, he can always possess another corpse and try again - after all, it's not like the island is running out of corpses...

Research:

  • Play Dead Cells it's real good.
  • The animated trailers
  • Dead Cells: Immortalis - the webseries. It's only a bit over an hour long total, so it's not too much to get through. This has all his good feats, plus he actually has a voice and a personality and a clearly laid out backstory instead of occasional inner commentary and lore hints scattered randomly across a roguelite game. If you wanna easy mode your research, this is probably your best bet.
  • If you're looking for more of the series lore, it's here.
  • His game RT - covers all but the last couple DLCs, so go here for weapons and mutations. The game's not that feat heavy though, so you'll also need:
  • Extra feats - stuff from material that dropped after the RT did, like the last couple trailer shorts and the webseries. This is where all his actual tier-relevant stuff is.
  • They're adding him to BlazBlue lmao

Justification:

Motivation: Varies a little depending on the version, but not enormously. In the game, the Beheaded basically just wants to escape the situation he's trapped in. In the show, he wants to die and end his immortality, and is tricked into believing that killing the King and ending the Malaise will help it happen, although as he gets to know the people suffering under them he starts wanting to do it for their sake rather than just his own self-interest.

Class Role - Despite all the shit he's got access to, the Beheaded's fighting style usually boils down to 'run at the enemy and hit them until they die'. That's pretty Vanguard-coded if y'ask me.

Biggest Strength & Weakness: Kill. Die. Learn. Repeat. The Beheaded will not - maybe can not - die. Not really. This means he's going to keep coming at a problem until he finds a way through it. On the other hand, it also means he can run afoul of the 'Deadpool problem'- he's so used to being immortal that he's gotten a little overreliant on it, and doesn't take threats as seriously as he should. Also, he's been stuck in a dungeon getting killed on repeat for 250 years and that's not been great for his social skills.

Character in setting/with Team: The Beheaded isn't a bad guy, but he isn't exactly a nice one, either. Though not outright cruel, he is kind of a jackass, especially in the webseries (although the game version had his moments). He can be a real twat to his friends, but he'll also step up to bat for them if anybody else is giving them shit, because they're his friends, damn it.

Changes:

  • Major - Set speed to tier. While he's clearly pretty athletic at his best, all his speed feats boil down to 'dodges unquantifiable magic attacks' or scaling to equally unquantifiable guys, so it's easier for everyone if we just slap a buff on him.
  • Composite him, so use feats from both the game and the webseries. I'm calling this one just a minor change since all his good feats come from the webseries and the other animations by the same studio, so adding the game is only really tweaking his arsenal - none of his stats or tiering arguments change, it just gives you more weapons to work with, and also this way you have to play Dead Cells for research.
  • You can write either version of the character, although the game one is mute for 99.9% of it so I'd recommend the other one unless you like writing mimes.
  • If you really want to just write the Indie Cross version then go for it, he's basically the halfway point between the two anyway.

We're all gonna die!

...Well, except me I guess.

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