Bleach: AoaNG OOC Thread

[zerohour]

Pretty simple, just a place for us to chat about the story, discusss what we want to happen, and of course, whine when somebody goes Mary Sue on us.

And a place for me to talk about the story status.


Anyways, right now I'm waiting for all the shinigami characters to make their introduction post, before I post their transfer to the human world. I'll wait until everyone has made at least one post, maybe longer if you guys want to have a nice discusion before moving on.

So right now, the pressure's all on you.

 

[decibels]

you mean on everybody else since I've already posted. I left a PERFECT opening for anybody who decides to take it to insert a little internal conflict but so far it hasn't been taken at all. COME ON people, if we're ever going to get somewhere with this thing you have to actually POST! :headbanger: :rant:

 

[Eyesxofxzero]

yeah i think it was a good idea, we just shouldnt let it turn in a fight now, we can insert the conflict but we should wait til we get in the human world for any fight. That way if some people's character arent approved yet they can still post since their powers wont matter if theres no fight.

im also thinking of proposing the formation of pairs for training purpose once we get in the human world, that way we'd have a reason to improve quickly.

 

[~NGD OMEGA~]

What are we going to do once we enter the Human world. I don't see much point in everyone going to the High School like Hitsugaya's group, given there's no Human-Shinigami... yet... and given that almost all of them look in their twenties. Just wondering really. Maybe they're forced to get a job, a'la Ganju and Hanatarou in the Anime... :hmm:

 

[Eyesxofxzero]

from what i could understand in Zerohour's posts we're basically going there to train to later be assigned to a division, kill hollows and stuff, he probably has a few things planned out for a plot or something.

I'm also guessing that since we're gonna be there for a year there will be some minor time skips.

 

[Jizzle]

you mean on everybody else since I've already posted. I left a PERFECT opening for anybody who decides to take it to insert a little internal conflict but so far it hasn't been taken at all. COME ON people, if we're ever going to get somewhere with this thing you have to actually POST! :headbanger: :rant:

One, Eyes kinda mangled your perfect opening. Sorry Eyes, but having a second unidentified person and making it so that things had for sure escalated to a fight confuses things. It was a fine idea, but it makes it harder for any one person to step forward.

Two, I did PM you about this. Would you care to reply? Please?

 

[Preventer Squall]

Sorry my own post took so long. I've had a rather long and irksome weekend. As for the post, my char's trying to diffuse the situation by taking attention on himself and the lead position.

I hope I left a good enough opening for everyone else to jump in.

 

[Jizzle]

I'm getting impatient, so I guess I'll just go for it. Squall, I'd appreciate it if you'd change "Yakumo and the man he seemed to despise" to "Yakumo and the woman he seemed to despise. Time for some internal conflict.

 

[Eyesxofxzero]

you mean on everybody else since I've already posted. I left a PERFECT opening for anybody who decides to take it to insert a little internal conflict but so far it hasn't been taken at all. COME ON people, if we're ever going to get somewhere with this thing you have to actually POST! ? :headbanger:? :rant:

One, Eyes kinda mangled your perfect opening. Sorry Eyes, but having a second unidentified person and making it so that things had for sure escalated to a fight confuses things. It was a fine idea, but it makes it harder for any one person to step forward.

Two, I did PM you about this. Would you care to reply? Please?

well the way he set it up looked like it was gonna turn in a fight so i simply took the initiative as having a fight at the very beginning would probably not help things (mostly to let characters that havent been accepted yet can still post since there wouldnt be any fight anyway).

All i really meant to do was evade the possibility of a fight until all characters are approved, sorry if i made things worse >.<

And by the way, this is my 1st time playing a game like that so if i do something wrong plz tell me as soon as possible and ill try to fix it as well as i can.

 

[Jizzle]

This is my first time as well, and I second the request that any errors I make be pointed out and explained to me. I would appreciate it.

Eyes, I don't think you made anything worse so much as just a little more complicated. I, at least, felt it was harder to figure out how to jump in given the extra player.

Trying to stop any chance of a fight is smart, though. I hadn't even thought of that as a motivation for your post, but you certainly accomplished it.

 

[zerohour]

Just want to say something real quick.


STOP HAVING SHIKAI!!!

Seriously guys, you're fresh from the academy. There's no real reason for you to have shikai, barring a few exceptions. Shikai is one of the major landmarks for your advancement, so having it basically raises your effective level to a much higher one than I anticipated dealing with at this point.

At this point, it's not too big of an adjustment, but I will have to soup up a couple of enemies I had planned early on. But for my sake, please keep yourselves in check. We don't want to power level through this. <_<

 

[Kerrus]

Zero: As per my OOB I don't /actually/ have Shikai. But because of the way Arms Alchemy works, there's no 'unreleased' form that I could have without getting my character into massive trouble (the unreleased form is HIGHLY recognizable as not being a Zanpakuto)

As for everyone else, I don't know. I have a reason for having Shikai that makes a moderate amount of sense. Others... *glances around* just seem to be jumping on the 'olol Shikai' bandwagon.

 

[~NGD OMEGA~]

You know... I never really considered it before, but Grand fisher would probably have been easy to defeat if said shinigami had a shikai... yet he's been evading them for years... shikai's must be pretty rare for the standard shinigami if that's the case.

Hmm... considering that I may have to power down some of the initial physical characteristics of the Exhaust Claw. Reach and strength will have to be reduced at this point, and the extension effect nulled... at least until a later point. However if the speed is lowered too much he's dead... so I may have to keep it at that level. Defensive capabilities are a must though, as anything cuting through it is near instant death on his side...

 

[decibels]

Just want to say something real quick.


STOP HAVING SHIKAI!!!

Seriously guys, you're fresh from the academy.? There's no real reason for you to have shikai, barring a few exceptions.? Shikai is one of the major landmarks for your advancement, so having it basically raises your effective level to a much higher one than I anticipated dealing with at this point.

At this point, it's not too big of an adjustment, but I will have to soup up a couple of enemies I had planned early on.? But for my sake, please keep yourselves in check.? We don't want to power level through this. <_<

Mine won't really be used a lot and there are extenuating circumstances behind even the existence of his Shikai that will be explained in some shape or form eventually. Right now though Yakumo's shikai is a last resort measure when nothing else works.

Afterall most shinigami in the care of the 4th division can recover from wounds in a couple days. It took yakumo over a WEEK to get healed to the point he could even go anywhere so what does that tell you about his using Shikai and his control over it?

 

[Preventer Squall]

Personally, I think it's interesting to not have shikai at the start. Makes its arrival much more notable, especially since my sword is a tad on the strong side. But bring on what you want to, and we'll just see how it all pans out.

 

[Jizzle]

Squall, Kerrus' character never mentioned alchemy aloud. So why would your character think anything about it?

And on the topic of the misreading of others' posts, why did you have Sachiko glaring at Yakumo Decibels? She was feigning indifference. Glaring is not indifferent.

And Squall, I totally agree with you on it not being as interesting to have shikai right off the bat. You can always start a campaign off at high level, but is that really as satisfying as starting low and building up to it?

 

[Eyesxofxzero]

well in the description of my character he already had Shikai, plus anyway my character's Shikai isnt that powerful ( "hey look a blade twisting in every possible way...waht am i gonna do with that..." ) its nearly useless to him,at some point during the RPG i'll mention why he has such a Shikai.

 

[Jinxyspellkeeper]

Sorry. i saw a trend and went with it. if you want i'll go back over it and edit my post.

 

[Preventer Squall]

Squall, Kerrus' character never mentioned alchemy aloud. So why would your character think anything about it?

I was meaning his abilities seemed different, and he was noting on that. Especially what with the Buso Renkin coming out of his..well..himself. But I'll edit

 

[decibels]

And on the topic of the misreading of others' posts, why did you have Sachiko glaring at Yakumo Decibels? She was feigning indifference. Glaring is not indifferent.

Are you talking about the part where Yakumo cut her off? I see her as being the kind of person that gets irritated if people interrupt her, especially if she's getting ready to go on some long spiel that she knows will drive him nuts as it's one of her goals in life to annoy him to no end just because and like you said in your post, the more angry he is the more likely he is to let something slip.

If I have your character pegged wrong say so and I'll try to change it without completely destroying the chain of posts.

 

[Jizzle]

I could see her getting irritated at being interrupted, sure, but I'm just saying that glaring sort of clashed with her being indifferent. It's a big day, though, so I guess her concentration could have slipped.

As for having my character pegged wrong, it's hard for me to tell. Yakumo clearly hates Sachiko with a passion, so he's certainly going to see her in an incredibly negative light. This sort of makes it tough to sift between what you, as a player, believe about my character and what Yakumo, as a character who hates Sachiko, thinks about her.

For example, "It infuriated her even further than no matter how little he studied he was still always in the top ten percent of the class." Putting aside that being in the top 10% of the class without trying is Mary Sueish and just being in the top 10% probably is contrary to the setup that put all our characters in this group, this statement is not true. As I said in the character thread, Sachiko quickly became disdainful of school and learned how to pass with minimum effort so she could devote more time to learning things that interested her.

But I could certainly see why Yakumo would think that was true. Sachiko spent a lot of time in the library, and how would Yakumo know that was on independent research and not schoolwork? Also, people like to have qualities that infuriate people they hate.

Another example: "Scowling in irritation at her need to have everything labeled sorted and thoroughly identified he spoke up before she was allowed to permanently damage them all with a stream of incomprehensible babble." I actually like the first part. I hadn't thought about it, but that's a good, slightly annoying character trait I could really see Sachiko having. (The need to classify.) Thanks for that!

But the babble thing? I doubt Sachiko really does that on a regular basis. But she certainly could have talked enthusiastically and highly technically in, say, a kido theory class she shared with Yakumo, and since Yakumo doesn't like Kido, he forms the opinion that she babbles incomprehensibly and all smarty pantsy.

I hope that makes sense.

 

[decibels]

Ok I edited my post a bit. It should be better now and Sachiko is not quite as overt in her dislike of Yakumo and she has more self control in my post as well because logically speaking when you are trying to irritate someone like Yakumo a lot of self control would be required I think to brush past his antics and deliver your own jabs.

Also I want to point out that yes Yakumo is almost too arrogant but I made him that way almost on purpose. Right now a lot of what you're seeing from him is a fake mask. Oh quite a bit of it IS the true personality of Yakumo but he's not a completely arrogrant lazy bum all the time who basically got by on natural talent (afterall why do you think he only knows the Kido/Hadou to pass but excels at physical arts like Hakuda, Hohou and Zanjutsu?) that he shows to the rest of the world. I'm going to try and give hints of this once the characters get sent to the real world a little bit at least.

 

[zerohour]

Hm... still waiting on initial posts from daniel gudman, fenix zero, Sunhawk, and (maybe?) Genocide Heart. If you guys would prefer to wait to post until after we're in the human world, say so. If you guys don't post by Tuesday, I'll go ahead and advance the story.

Edit: Sunhawk's off the list, since he decided to drop out.

 

[daniel_gudman]

STOP HAVING SHIKAI!!!

I think part of the problem is that we've seen very few shinigami in Bleach that don't have shikai. It's true the series focus on the upper-ranked Captains and Vice-Captains, with a smattering of lower-seated officers (still smaller numbers than 10 though), but even the relatively weak Hanataro is known to have shikai.

The only time we've really seen academy students fighting was during that flashback omake where Renji, Hinamori and Kira (and assorted redshirts) got jumped by those hollows... and Hinamori used her shikai release during that. Granted she was scouted as a genius by Aizen.

I think what makes it worse is that a shinigami that has shikai quickly adapts their fighting style to take advantage of their particular release; so every character that has a shikai is seen using it basically whenever they're fighting seriously.

If you want us to nerf shikai, that's cool, but I think most of us just assumed it was something that a shinigami was expected to have figured out by graduation.

 

[~NGD OMEGA~]

Note that Hanatarou is a seated officer, and not a grunt. And seated officers are pretty high up the ranks. :huh.: