Super OoC Chat Box II Turbo

Subforums are always private (which I just accidentally learned by checking out a discontinued public game that I left), so by archiving all of the old threads, we can make the final level public without exposing the posts of any former players.

And so, the final level of Hero•Girl•Sprite is public!!

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Dear Audience,
This game started off as a Streets of Rage rip-off, then it became a Secret of Mana, Dragon’s Lair and Zelda rip-off, followed by a Star Fox rip-off that neatly transitioned into Aliens, messily transitioned to a Final Fight subway ride… and now we’re starting the final level on Mario-Kartesque "Double-Dashers."

I have ADD and basically I’m embracing that. Enjoy the show.
~L.S.

Ha! The first driver got BOO’d! (And I now realize I forgot to change the emoji to a tomato.) While I had to mess with the code anyway—because I really think attacks should have a better hit chance than defense—I changed the language. Stunts use the rating system from Just Dance.

STUNT (DC 4)
💃💃💃💃PERFECT!!
🍺🍺🍺GREAT!
👍👍GOOD
🍅BOO
💢MISS


I like not using words that imply you’re beating someone up when you’re not. The easy way to code all this involved vowels, hence the renaming of fight/shoot:

SMASH / BLAST (DC 4)
💥💥💥💥ULTRA COMBO!!
💥💥💥SUPER COMBO!
💥💥COMBO
💥HIT
💢MISS


Defense still has a DC 5. I like the low odds. There isn’t a reward for different types of combos for defense. A "hit" is still like being grazed or jabbed, which doesn’t always hurt. I didn’t like seeing the word "miss" when you get hit, so I used a Secret of Mana term for the fail.

DODGE / BLOCK (DC 5)
🛡️SAFE!!
💥HIT
💔GET WHACKED!



I want a variety of items for the kart race (and also for the sequel to this game). Items should always work (unlike attacks that can miss completely), so the only reason to roll is for a bonus effect or for the item to kinda blow up in your face a little.

-ITEM (DC 5)
🧚🏻‍♀️MAGICAL!!
❄️COOL!
🔥HOT

It’s Hero•Girl•Sprite, so a girl sprite represents the bonus effect.

@Qralloq since no one got attacked yet, I’ll move things forward. I won’t treat the scene as if Luna didn’t act, but will instead double the effects of her next attack or stunt (or count a miss as a hit rather than double a zero), as if she was biding her time for a better result.

Hey, I'm just popping in to apologize for essentially disappearing here. :( It's not an excuse, but I really overestimated how good I am at adapting to life changes, and pretty much gave up on writing while hoping that I'll get a burst of inspiration eventually, which resulted in a cycle of being increasingly more afraid and therefore less inspired to post the longer I was absent. I feel bad about it, though honestly I should just know better and don't join fast games at all. I keep trying and I keep failing at it. But I'm glad to see that the games's still going!

I'm vaguely here, though I don't trust myself with it and I understand if I'm not welcome to return. But I'd like to at least follow along, if you don't mind! :) Maybe pop up with a meta comment at times, hehe.

(Also, I'm fine with this being public! I'm mostly hesitant with it because of stuff like in-character romance and tending to overshare personal info, but realistically, no one probably cares. XD)

@FlyingSucculent - no worries and thanks for popping in! It is good to hear from you.

You are welcome back, if you’d like to jump back in!

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And if you just want to follow along just to watch/read, but still pop in for the ending RP, that’s cool too.

I plan on happy endings for Pira, Kurumi and Diamond once we wrap up the level.

I'd love to jump back, although I might need a moment to catch up with the situation - unless someone can give me a recap of events after us visiting the suspiciously well-safeguarded mouse house. :P Also, let me know if I need to adjust anything on the sheet, in case there were any mechanical changes? I'll resubmit it in a minute.

Edit: actually, right, I can't apply since the game is closed. I'll wait for an invite back then. :D

Invitation Sent!!!

I’ll write your triumphant return into the game shortly. I’ll also send you the code for the Mario-Kart bit that we’re doing right now.


EDIT - Just copy-paste the red text-mess over the current roll table. That, too, will change post-Kart-race (though it’s only the layout of the buttons that will change).

[f=bold italic large color:orangered]Driver[/f]
[table=rolls]|[f=large]🕹️[/f][f=bold color:red]STUNT[/f]|[f=large]㊙️[/f][f=tiny] [/f][f=bold color:orangered]SMASH[/f]|[f=large]🕹️[/f][f=bold color:red]DODGE[/f]
[f=color:transparent tiny]DRV[/f]|[_$=joy]d6|[_$=sec]d6|[_$=joy]d6[/table]
[f=bold italic large color:orange background-color:transparent]Gunner[/f]
[table=rolls]|[f=large]☢️[/f][f=tiny] [/f][f=bold color:orange background-color:transparent]BLAST[/f]|[f=large]㊙️[/f][f=tiny] [/f][f=bold color:orangered]BLOCK[/f]|[f=large]☢️[/f][f=tiny] [/f][f=bold color:orange background-color:transparent]-ITEM[/f]
[f=color:transparent tiny]GNR[/f]|[_$=nuk]d6|[_$=sec]d6|[_$=nuk]d6[/table]

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You can also ditch the special commands for Pira’s move list. She still has the moves, but we’ll use the infallible -ITEM button for all item-use.

Got it, sheet updated, feel free to check if it works as intended. :D

@FlyingSucculent Looks good! When you get a chance,
• add +1❤️
• and + 1D to 🕹️, ㊙️ or ☢️.

I’ll update probably tomorrow to get Pira on-scene!

Okay… that post is much more likely to happen tomorrow. I’m taking my daughters to their first concert tonight. It’s a school night, but there is a very short list of artists I’ll watch with my daughters and Lindsey Stirling is pretty much #1 on that list.

I love her and would love to see her bend the bow on stage. Have a great time!

Two minutes to showtime and the row in front of us is still empty…


14th row from the stage, front/center section! Not a bad spot. (Even if the people in M-10 eventually sit down.)

That show surprised me in so many ways, all of which are good ways. She’s actually a very beautiful person.

@FlyingSucculent those actions were fine. I was curious whether players would defend or use stunt/fight/shoot. There wasn’t a wrong action last round.

For this round, @Qralloq,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac will need to DODGE or BLOCK. (If you don’t roll for the driver, I’ll have her DODGE if you’re in danger of taking damage.)

Question: am I a Driver or a Gunner? I imagine Gunner, but just to confirm. XD

Yes, everyone is currently a Gunner (to my knowledge), but like in Double Dash, you can swap seats.

(You can also roll both a Gunner and a Driver action.)

What's the downside of doing both? Or is it like you roll first, then choose which one to use?

There’s no downside. Both actions count.


I think for the remainder of this "race," if you roll one action, I’ll roll the other (and I’ll assume there’s a seat-swap if you roll Gunner one round, Driver the next).

@Qralloq,@FlyingSucculent,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac
We’re past the half-way mark on the track. I changed the music to match the change in scenery.

@Qralloq , I decided to push ahead since all of the Daughterbots are destroyed and the Motherborg could not be attacked (though she did actually take 1 damage from a flaming tire from Tickettbror’s Super Combo).

YouTube recently recommended me a compilation of Dragon's Lair cutscenes, apropos of nothing. Google do be spying. XD

I’ve been getting a lot of 90’s arcade-game playthroughs since running HGS! I guess it’s because of the game music searches.

I’ll hold out for @Qralloq because even a hit from ☢️BLAST will do significant damage.

"At Daphne's command", hmm? There is an impostor among us! :P

Whoopsie!! —thanks for alerting me to that! Fix’d.

@FlyingSucculent , you can free Vera without a roll. I won’t be able to post for at least a couple hours, in case you want to edit in the slashy attempt (which will succeed in freeing Vera).

Pretty much anything you want to do can work dicelessly, except for leaving that rib-cagey looking area.

Stab-stab succeeded! I'm good with it being my action. :3
Hehe, half of the idea was to get out of the way and free Vera to allow them to have a heartfelt reunion without pesky chains. For cinematic purposes.

PS: also, yes, I am stabbing chains. XD

Okay, I set up the health and item tracker for PEGATRON.

PEGATRON🧡🧡🧡

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I had a different giant robot in mind when we had six players, but I’m quite happy that the mechanical horse set up a fun wordplay.

Also, I have a coworker whose last name is Maximilian. I was trying to find the ultimate evil robot, and when I heard her name over the intercom a few days ago, I remembered that Maximilian is the only robot ever to die and go to hell. Bonus that Disney’s vision of hell matched the background of Vera’s image.

On that, credit to digital artist "Kate Foxx." That’s her pen name and the Kitsune’s name. And if you didn’t know, the Red Soil and Autocorrect imagery are from Disney’s The Black Hole.

Anyway, Pegatron has 40 HP (💝 = 5) and 16 "items." I gave Violet one item which allows her to intervene once.

You speak words beyond my knowledge (I must be not a Disney fan, haha), but I am entertained by them nevertheless. Also props to the artists indeed, I love the squad's avatars. :3

Pegatron is probably a reference to Metroid (I don't know the game, but the helmet is from it, right?), but I can't help but think of Power Rangers and sentai genre instead. XD Speaking of which, if anyone likes fighting robots and tactical videogames, check out Chroma Squad - it's a fun one! :D

Yes, Samus’ helmet coincidentally matched Vera’s and Absinthe’s color schemes. Vera couldn’t plausibly have a vehicle (like I really try for plausibility), so I ran with ‘she has a helmet… now.’

Pegasus and Voltron were combined to make "Pegatron," but how that’s a wordplay is that it rhymes with Megatron:


He’s the original main villain in the Transformers, a cartoon that was basically a commercial for Hasbro.


—not that I have a problem with Hasbro, considering my dad’s company made a few G.I. Joe toys.

Here’s an old photo of the original pattern for one part of a 1980s toy:

I think I have only seen one Transformers movie ever. XD I do have a Magic The Gathering card with Megatron, though. This one:


...Sentai shows still usually have better palettes on mechas. Fight me. :P

Well, yeah, but very few Transformers combine into one robot. Still, the ones who do prove your point since they’re all the same color:

Ooh, I do love the green and purple combo though! :D ..should've been a dinosaur too.

@Qralloq,@FlyingSucculent,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac

The final battle has started with a literal coin toss for the "initiative" roll, and the toss was in your favor. As Dystopian Mario would say, "Let’s… a-go."

@FlyingSucculent - You don’t need to block right now, so if you want, you can re-roll the gunner move (-ITEM) and use the Outrageous Heel to HARM.

The result will replace the block—and that would be a hell of a first move, since you already rolled ULTRA with the driver’s attack!!

Hmm, do I want to gamble with my lowest stat either ruining my good roll or making it truly fabulous? I suppose the original intent was the item, so I shall! :D
Edit: it is fabulous!!!

There was no gamble because you keep the Ultra. So you inflicted 8 damage with the ultra, plus another 12 from the "magical item" attack.

Hey, don't rain on my parade, I'm choosing to think that I won a risky gamble. XD (Jk, jk.)

@Dmbrainiac, There’s nothing to block (yet), so if you want to, you can reroll the Gunner move as Blast or -Item.

Sorry, I edited my post.

I've never played Mario Kart so much of this chapter I'm relying on memes to get me through it 😂. Like this one.

Love the meme… and wow! After the enemy got clobbered, his retaliation is nerfed by a hinder. Will update later!

@FlyingSucculent, when you get a chance, please change one of your 2D stats (🕹️or ☢️) to 3D.

You should have a 2D, a 3D and a 4D.

I don't think I stated it, but I did level up when you asked upon my rejoining, increasing the hearts (technically I forgot to level up and only remembered halfway through at which point hearts seemed easier to increase, but let's not focus on that). So I had the same amount of level ups as everyone else, I just put one in hearts.

For comparison, Thundra at level 4 was 6/2/3/2 and is now 6/3/4/2, two levels difference.
My stats at level 4 were 5/2/3/2 and are now 6/2/4/2.

Rather than examine all the choices/level-ups, let’s go with what’s fair now:

For the ROLL, everyone should have total of 9 dice: a 2D, a 3D and a 4D stat.

Everyone’s Pegatron-form has an ITEM+LIFE total of 12, which is higher than what you gave your characters:
• ✨5 / 💛7
• 👠4 / ❤️8
• 🚀3 / 💙9
• ⚡️3 / 🩵9

Can't say I like the inconsistency, but it's the last battle, so fair enough. I'll just increase 🕹️ since I already used the other two.

Same here. I’ve been working on a solution because the risk of inventing a system is that I know it, but I need to better communicate it to players.

I’m taking a proactive approach for the next game I run, using check-boxes for leveling so there’s little room for error. The only fillable-fields will be health and magic, but something like:
🩷🩷🩷/3

It's often a problem with playtests, hard to keep track of things when they're always in flux.
Are you basing the new game on this or similar system? I do like it, inconsistencies aside. I'd love to watch how it goes!

Yes. I like where it ended up, so the character sheets are set up to commit to a strikingly similar system.

Here are partial screenshots of the char-sheet.

@Qralloq,@FlyingSucculent,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac
Once again, the bad guys lost the coin toss!

I’ll post the final-form-equivalent later (likely, failing at a surprise attack). For now, feel free to RP if you want. I won’t be free to post for a while.

Not really a RP post but there you have it

@Qralloq
If you get a moment, please roll ☢️-ITEM.

The enemy got KO’d before you could act, so I feel I owe you a round 3 action. This works. I’ll count dusting the giant coin as "helpful." How helpful is up to the dice.

When Brainiac ran Pathfinder’s Fist of the Ruby Phoenix, I played my first (and so far only) character to reach Level 20. She was Hotcha Pom-Pom Pomegranate Twinkletoes, and she was f***ing awesome. Despite playing a five inch tall sprite with a dumb name, I was geeking out over Ruby Phoenix. It was martial-artsy, and had an eastern feel. You didn’t have to kill opponents until after the bad guys committed mass murder—but you could spare people in a regular fight, and generally opponents were gracious in defeat. (Or victory; we lost once.)

Point is, I had such a love for this campaign—and Brainiac deserves credit for that—I felt inspired to draw the team (once) and my own character (several times). Some drawings had Hotcha taking on video game fighters, including the Smash Bros. final boss, MASTER HAND and the secret boss, CRAZY HAND.



@Qralloq, since you said you never played Mario Kart, I wonder if you also managed to avoid Smash Bros. At any rate, Masher Hand is based on Master Hand. And Jigglypalm’s name is derived from the Pokémon character Jigglypuff, but it’s basically Crazy Hand.

(You earned the extra boss by keeping everyone’s HP above 5 upon AC’s defeat. So now the final boss has double the health and double the attack power. Uh… congrats?)

The behaviors of each hand are based on which operates the buttons, and which operates the joystick.

Smash Bros is a burger chain, right?

It’s at least three burger chains.

Why does this bull have a pink chest and human fingers. Deeply upsetting.

Honestly? None of these three look remotely appealing.

Look at us, slandering the Smash Bros. 😔

The third one actually seems to smash the burgers. Neatness and presentation are mutually exclusive, only at Smash Bros.

Happy birthday, @Legendary_Sidekick!

Thanks, Qralloq.

Also, @Qralloq,@FlyingSucculent,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac,
I’m glad you didn’t all burn through your items vs. Autocorrect. ☢️-ITEM Harm really hurts! The trick is, if Masher Hand forces you to ㊙️BLOCK, you can’t also use the item that round.

If you get attacked by both hands at once, however, I’ll let you choose your defense and 🛡️SAFE!! will stop both hands. It would be neither fair nor fun to make you choose between rolling two defenses or taking a hit. The only thing that should stop you from making any move vs. the enemy is a 💢MISS.

So when you roll, don’t do that.


Oh… and another thing. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom measures attack damage in billions, in case you didn’t get the reference.

@Dmbrainiac , the music-change in this round is the tune that was going through my head when the Ruby Phoenix end-boss was almost out of

(Granted, I was down to 3/306hp myself, and I blew my last hero point to turn a miss into a crit. So coulda gone either way.)

Running Vampire: The Masquerade tonight so just made a quickie roll.

All good. After @FlyingSucculent and @Tickettbror post, I’ll base my next post on whether you’ve inflicted enough damage to KO the hand.

@FlyingSucculent , I didn’t want to push ideas on you guys, but not defending is a valid tactic. I’m glad you tried it. (Too bad the dice were so mean!)

Happy New Year, everyone!

I’m back to work tomorrow, and I’m sure everyone else has some post-vacation adjusting to do. This game is nearly wrapped up, though I’d like to get actions from @Tickettbror before I update.

I’ll post an "official" The End sign after @FlyingSucculent posts. There isn’t a hurry on this, and anyone is free to extend their own endings (even after I make my final post).

You know, in hindsight I made my post too much of an ending. But I'm sure it's fine! :')
(Also somewhat belatedly, but Happy New Year! Hope it's been treating you all well so far. :D)

Edit: actually, I might've misunderstood how the portal works? Is it sending us all in one place? Let's just say Pira chose to say her goodbyes there and teleport to her game with the power of cheat codes. XD

It’s good!!!! That’s a wrap—thank you all for playing my first GP game! (And apologies to the real TJ, who owned the arcade of my childhood and might not be dead.)

@Qralloq,@FlyingSucculent,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac

Thank you for running it, and thanks to all other players! :D It was a fun time! See you all around the site, and here's to many more exciting adventures. <3

..Well, maybe a bit less exciting ones for me. I think I might not be the best fit for the action genre, as I found myself struggling with the pace a bit here and there. I must be too meandering of a writer for this; too much love for idle discussion. XD Still, I'm glad I tried it! And your gimmicky use of site tools was a sight to behold, LS.

Good luck with future games, everyone!

You deserve some credit on the gimmicky stuff. I learned 2 things from you.

1. Roll Tables. They not only save time and minimize typo risk, but they also add clarity.

2. [code], especially its use within a table.

Thanks Legendary_Sidekick, it was an amazing game, brought to life with your wicked sense of humor and genuine love for the source material!

I had fun too, even if, as usual, I had no idea what was going on half of the time. XD

Happy to contribute to the gimmick-ry! I've seen you mention somewhere that you got into snippets, bet that's going to open a field of possibilities. >:D Now you only need to make some GM handout sheets, and you shall be the master of the custom code!

One of my favorite new features is the 20-or-so health bar snippets I created!



I made a couple of GM sheets to store several graphic effects and the level’s music. For anything that involves NPCs, I type the name and face.

The bars look good! :O (Somewhere from the bleachers, Pira appreciated the kicking attack )

Handout sheets are for when you need to have a GM sheet available for all players to view! They're kinda useful for stuff like ship/crew/settlement stats, so maybe they can work for something in your games too? Like enemy stats? Although it might be handier to have it all in the thread as you do already, sheets are easy to forget. XD

Also, you might want to look into [npc] tag! It auto-arranges the NPC avatar and their dialogue, or whatever other combo of image and text you want to use. I personally prefer more chaotic arrangements, but maybe it can be useful somewhere else... Even in a combination with snippets.

Great game!

I know I'm late to say it; but I'm no less happy for the chance to play with you all, and look forward to the opportunity again! (Which came sooner for some than others XD)

The cast of characters was a lot of fun, too. I can’t picture the six playable characters any other way—!

Seriously, thanks so much for sticking it out until the end!

Less seriously, just today, I discovered a kicky-girl-like character like who resembles my very own Vermilion Vixen! (Not Vera, but a superheroine I made a few years ago.) Red hair, black mask, red qipao… She even has outrageous heels 👠!

Pira definitely approves! :P

Just now: a random thing on the internet popped up while waiting to pick up my kids at school.

I saw that post on Facebook today too, haha.

@Legendary_Sidekick, are you going to retire this game? Not that I mind an occasional arcade reference popping up, but my list of active games is cluttered with non-retired inactive ones, and it feels wrong to see this one among them. XD

@FlyingSucculent - done!

@Legendary_Sidekick, thank you! <3