Dual Persona OOC Plotting Post

[all_wound_up]

So, Dual Personas!  That sure is a thing.  I thought it might be nice to toss up a quick plotting post over here so that everyone can plot and work these out with their CR in one convenient place instead of having to track everyone down individually on Plurk or AIM or whatever.  So let's do it like this:

1) Everyone leave a blank comment with your character's name in the subject line
2) Your CR will tag you
3) Talk about designing a Dual Persona together
4) ???
5) PROFIT

Comments

[ghost_shield]

Hmm, that might be even better. A little more ephemeral.

[travelingtheworlds]

Okay! If that's what you'd like to go with, what skill would you like to contribute? From Nick's moveset, I mean. We can get to the new skills later. Sasha is most likely to contribute Agilao or Maragion.

[ghost_shield]

If we do the Dual Persona now, I can only probably offer a defensive spell. If we wait until I get a few more abilities, he can actually offer Endure Light as a contribution, which would be pretty useful since it's a Passive. Also, I've decided to rule that since the Dual Persona is a contribution of a more offensive character, it'll be a rare situation where he can actually USE the offensive spell, so bonus. :V

[travelingtheworlds]

I kind of like Marakukaja, as Sasha is a squishy mage and needs the defense. (Also, I think she gets Endure Light on her own a bit later.) Would you be okay with that, or would you still like to wait?

[ghost_shield]

Should be fine! Next is working on new skills, I guess. Nick's new ability, of course, is going to be defensive. Maybe like a will 'o wisp, he can make it so that someone is both less targeted and gains a little extra fire protection in the process?

[travelingtheworlds]

I like that. It's a bit like Red Wall/whatever the anti-fire Wall skill is called, but better. As for Sasha's new skill... I noticed that Nick has White Wall, so to go with the combination motif, maybe Sasha's could be a Light element skill? Not sure what it would be called though. As for the 5th skill (the one that represents aspects of both worlds)... do you think it would be okay if the name referenced their world-hopping natures? I know Nick only world-hopped once (...right?) but it might be a good place to start.

[ghost_shield]

Yeah, but his current home is a place which essentially becomes an amalgam of worlds, so it works just as well. Just gotta figure out what works within the realms of a level 2 Persona. Hmm... maybe something that functions a bit like D&D's dimension door? Sort of TP run except always within a certain radius, but with a lot more available options.

[travelingtheworlds]

Wah, my D&D-fu is weak... how do dimension door and TP run work? I'm liking the idea of a warpy attack though.

[ghost_shield]

You basically just sort of teleport to somewhere else within the range of the spell. Seems about as good as they can get if we're going world hopping here.

[travelingtheworlds]

Sounds good to me! I also thought of another effect: randomly changing the terrain in a small area around the users. How does that sound? I wouldn't have it be a consistent effect- it'd only happen sometimes. For a name... how does just World Hopping sound?

For Sasha's new skill... I think I already mentioned that it'd be light element. How about "Between Worlds: Inflict a moderate amount of Light damage on the enemy"?

[ghost_shield]

Works for me! Do you want me to compile it, or do you wanna make it?

[travelingtheworlds]

Could you get the information together for me? Then I'll make it. By the way, I don't think we named the new attacks that we each get, even though I think we discussed their effects (Sasha's getting a Light spell, but I forgot what you said Nick was getting for his new skill). Wait, maybe I named Sasha's, but I don't know if you named yours... bah, sorry for being so disorganized!

[ghost_shield]

Don't think I did, actually. How's Worldly Disconnect work? Not the greatest, but the best thing I can think of on short notice.

As far as the two donated moves:

Marakukaja (Increases all allies' Defense by 25% .(1 turn))

I don't think you specified which fire attack you wanted, so here's the two you mentioned:

Agilao (Inflicts a medium amount of Fire damage on one enemy.)
Maragion (Inflicts a medium amount of Fire damage on all enemies (Requires a small fire skill).)

And for mine, it'd be:

Worldly Disconnect (Increases an ally's fire resistance and reduces the chances of an enemy targeting them.)

[travelingtheworlds]

I like that! By the way, Sasha is hitting level 2 soon, so I can upgrade her contributed skill. I think I'm going to leave it as Maragion and not Agidyne though.

So let's see what we have here...

Marakukaja + Maragion for the contributed skills

Worldly Disconnect (Increases an ally's fire resistance and reduces the chances of an enemy targeting them.) + Between Worlds (Inflicts a medium amount of Light damage on one enemy.) for the new skills

And Worldhopping (Teleports the user to a space within a radius of the Persona. May also change the terrain sometimes.) (How big should the teleport radius be, by the way? I can't decide on a size.)

Is that correct?

Also, we need to decide on the arcana of the dual Persona. I took a look (it's here for reference) and I think Three of Cups or maybe Six of Cups would work, along with the Six of Swords or the Three of Wands. What do you think?

[ghost_shield]

I'd say the radius shouldn't be more than 20 or 30 feet to avoid being too hax. And I'd say the Three of Cups works best. Other than that, I think we're good.

[travelingtheworlds]

Alright! Tell me how this looks! Also tell me if Nick isn't actually level 2 yet and I goofed. X_X

[WILL-O'-THE-WISP]
LVL2 | THREE of CUPS
Sasha Fyer (OC) | travelingtheworlds | (LVL2,Phaeton) & Nicholas Reeve (OC) | ghost_shield | (LVL2,Anubis)

SKILLS
▶ Maragion (Inflicts a medium amount of Fire damage on all enemies.)
▶ Marakukaja (Increase all allies' Defense by 25%. (1 turn))
▶ Between Worlds (Inflicts a medium amount of Light damage on one enemy.)
▶ Worldly Disconnect (Increases an ally's fire resistance and reduces the chances of an enemy targeting them.)
▶ Worldhopping (Teleports the user to a space within 20-foot radius of the Persona. May also change the terrain sometimes.)

[ghost_shield]

Looks great! And yeah, he's level 2 on account of the "reserved when OCs were first allowed to" clause, so it's fine. Go for it.

[travelingtheworlds]

Alright! Got it sent in and waiting for approval.