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Welcome to Hell! Mullet Hell, that is! Go ahead and introduce yourselves a bit, and see which unlikely heroine interests you the most.

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THE DAMSEL
(Lacey O’Hara)Her days of getting kidnapped by giant gorillas and sociopathic gang leaders are over. Instead of pining for a hero, she’s become one!


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THE FAIRY
(Tickettbror’s Heroine)She’s made the transition from bottle-fairy to Battle-Fairy! Not coincidentally, fly swatters are now a popular item at the Villainsville Weapon Shop!
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THE MERMAID
(Brainiac’s Heroine)Though she couldn’t convince the other Bombshells to wear the shell uniforms she made, this aquatic amazon is second to none at those pesky underwater levels!🧘🏻‍♀️
THE SECRET HEROINE
(Eltesla’s Heroine)This mysterious woman knows so many Secret Moves, she’ll hafta scale dozens of skyscrapers and fight hundreds of Mullet Hellions just to use them all!

My preference would be mermaid first, then damsel, then fairy.

I see the mermaid as the muscular one, so I guessed that you’d end up with her!

Prefer Damsel.

Do you have avatar artwork already, or can we make our own?

Feel free to make your own.

I’ll post the character sheets soon, though not necessarily over the weekend as I was out all day, I’m cooking tonight, and I’ll be out a lot tomorrow.

@Legendary_Sidekick a question: how does the mermaid move around on land? Does she flop about or swim through the air or something else?

That’s up to you, @Dmbrainiac, though I was thinking like the movie Splash, where she can shape-shift. It could be at-will. She could also have a waistcloth that covers her like a skirt, or just-plain-magic, like this video of a Mermaid game. (She transforms @5:00.)

Well, good news, bad news.

Bad news: I’m sick.

Good news: being sick means my wife will take the kids out and I can finally get a moment to tweak all of the Character Sheets.

(Without getting into detail, I made some tweaks while creating the iPad sheets, so I want to touch up the Phone sheets based on that change.)

Hope you replenish your HP swiftly!

Well... I wasn't expecting to play the fairy but I think I can alter the character concept I had going for me... I may not get the chance to jump in with creativity till tomorrow though! (Sundays are usually just check-in days for me, time wise)

Haha… such is the price to pay for choosing last. Though I’m under the opinion that fairies are already kind of awesome, and this time around, The Fairy will have The Damsel to look up to as a fellow wimp.

But, video game logic means your heroines’ power levels are equal, regardless of the fact that they should not be.


So… @Eltesla,@Totes_McGee, the Damsel and the Secret Heroine sheets are ready. I added a note on the Game Details page, but I’ll reiterate my suggestion here. Please don’t edit the character sheet. Yes, have an avatar, and the name of the heroine is also up to you. But I mean don’t mess with the code (please) as the whole sheet is interactive.

Also, please let me know if the aesthetics are way off. I expect a PC screen is wider than an iPad, but here’s the look I’m going for:@Dmbrainiac, I’ll wrap up the other iPad versions, then prioritize the Mermaid when I do the phone versions.

@Tickettbror, do you phone-post, or do you always play on a PC (or an iPad)?

I only use PC... also (without changing anything) I humbly request to poke around in your code when I get to see it! XD

Cool. So I’ll finish up Fairy in a bit, then, before working on both versions of the Mermaid.

Feel free to check out the code. I mostly make that suggestion so players don’t end up with a glitchy looking arcade machine. I had to do a lot of tiny & gargantuan size-shifting to get that Fancy-VDU screen to not have a blinking green underscore, so you’ll see a lot of [/f][/f][/f][/f][/f].

@Tickettbror, the Fairy sheet is ready!

@Totes_McGee , Lacy’s approved!

Also, I noticed she’s got a gun. You start with 1 coin (in the right coin slot) at Lv.1, which you can spend to improve a stat:
🕹️ is for dodging attacks (DEF) and for pulling a stunt as long as you have Girl Power.
㊙️ is for fighting (ATK) and blocking attacks (DEF).
☢️ is for shooting (ATK) and spending Girl Power to use magic or the shoe phone.

So if you choose to improve your Nuke Button stat, Lacy will be a pretty good shot!

@Dmbrainiac , both versions of the Mermaid are up!

For the phone version, the number of Credits tells you that you have an unspent coin.If you open the [+]BOMBSHELL sign, that’s where you can spend the coin!…for some reason, when you play on a larger screen (or rotate your phone sideways), the image depicting all of the characters disappears. It’s weird, but all the interactive stuff still works, so it’s not a glitch I intend to fix.

I submitted a character for the human version of my character. I'd also like to submit a separate character for the mermaid version when she's in the water so the avatars match, if you'd allow multiple characters per player. :)

I've submitted my character! The lotus, heart and coin emojis show up as blank boxes on my end, but that's what happens when you're still rocking Windows 10.

I'll spend my starting coin on my joystick.

I've got an avatar in mind but I can't add it while I'm on a work computer, I've got it saved on my home PC, but I'll sort the character sheet! Does Fairy get a starting coin?

So, I guess I'll give a description of Gemini Starfire; radical, renegade skateboarding fairy. Out of the jar and onto the streets to feel the wind through her hair (and on her wings) in a way that flying doesn't quite seem to do. Sure, she might not be the best fighter in the world but she's good at worldly wisdom, gnarly fashion and, of course, sick tricks!

@Dmbrainiac , approved, and second avatar allowed.

@Eltesla , approved. I can alter your sheet so the coin is $1. Can you see the Purple Heart and the flower I added (just to the form fields)?

@Tickettbror , yes, she gets a coin! You can feel free to submit the character and add the avatar later if you want to.

It doesn't look like the mermaid had a starting coin on her sheet, either.

I can see them. I would also appreciate the coin being swapped out. A brief description of Murasaki will be coming shortly!

@Tickettbror Approved!

@Eltesla Fixed, including the Snippets!

@Dmbrainiac , I owe you a coin!!!! You, uh… had that coin the whole time! (fix’d)

Thanks!


The polite, taciturn hermit master who knows more secret moves than one could fit in a library. For as long as the nameless master could remember, she has meditated endlessly deep within a cave. Never moving, never stirring, not even when the nukes hit. She never questioned 'why' until Lacey came along to recruit her into the Bombshells. She realized that the world was out of balance, and for the first time, she was possessed with the alien desire to leave her cave... and fight. She needed a name to go by, so she decided on 'Murasaki'. Though Murasaki knows countless secret techniques, she is far less versed on what the world is like outside her cave, so she relies on her teammates' knowledge. She's recently managed to wrap her head around the concept of a phone.

@Eltesla Nice!!! I think I should add threads for each character (and I can move that post after I do that).

@Dmbrainiac , I goofed on the phone version. (Both sheets were identical other than the red telephone emoji!!!) That’s fixed now. Do you want me to swap your sheet to the phone version?

Nah, it's okay. I can work with this version.

I submitted the mermaid version of my character. I'll write up a little blurb later on.

Okay. But let me know if you change your mind. It occurs to me that with two characters, you could have both kinds of sheets. The avatar would matter more for the post-as, while the sheet type might matter more when you have to roll.

@Eltesla,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac,@Totes_McGee

I added a subforum so you can post anything you want about your character.

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Also, feel free to jump into the main thread when ready. If someone posts before Lacey, we’ll assume the Shoe Phone has a Speaker Phone feature. (Or we can opt to assume not, and everyone crowds around Lacey while she’s holding her shoe to her face.)

And for incoming calls, the NPC pays the toll. I have no idea who is actually getting paid. This is what I love about inserting video game logic into my games. I don’t have to explain stupid plot holes. I can even flaunt them, as if I didn’t overlook something, but put a lot of thought into how it adds to the flavor. (What I do find hilarious is that none of the other heroines have phones, and their emojis don’t wear shoes—which accidentally adds a layer of silly logic: well of course barefoot and fishtailed characters don’t have phones!)

@Tickettbror ,
Here’s a fad that will survive the apocalypse 965 years from now:

I'd forgotten about them! Perfect!

How does combat work? Is there initiative order? How do I do the "special effect" rolls?

Ah, I knew I forgot to do something in the Tutorial Fight: the tutorial part!


Okay, I’ll do that here.

Initiative is just a matter of who goes first:
• Heads: the bad guys
• Tails: the good girls

I flip that coin.

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You won the toss, so every player gets to post before the bad guys go.

I suggest you use the Roll Table to roll.

You can ATTACK:
• ㊙️ = fight
• ☢️ = shoot

Or you can use one of those 👠Girl Power moves. You roll 🕹️ or ☢️, and you can even post the snippet that tells how the move works.

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Note that the Shoe Phone depletes Girl Power when you use it. You can delete that on your "screen." (Also, the move that you spend Girl Power on always works, but has a lesser effect on a 💢MISS.)

@Eltesla , of all the possible first attacks, you picked my favorite move from any beat-em-up:

The Flying Knee



Only a heroine who knows all the secret moves could possibly know that’s the best possible first attack. Well played!

@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac - One major difference between this game and H•G•S is that (for now), you get one action per round.

The only thing I will add to that is
Trust me. I know what I’m doing.

I didn't even know about The Knee, but I'll take it!

On another note, if I wanted to pull off a Hadouken, would I use 🕹️ Secret Move or the ☢️ Nuke button stat?

Since it’s a ranged attack, the Nuke button.

Got it.

I decided to throw that into the main thread. Lacey and Gemini still get to act before I have the bad guys hit back.

@Tickettbror @Totes_McGee
I’d like to move this scene forward, but I’ll wait another day.

If I do end up (occasionally?) moving combat forward—which I’ll likely do if the wait is 48+ hours (72+ over weekends)—I’ll usually try to make the battle fair overall, either counting your next successful attack as more damaging or nerf the enemy attack. I’ll avoid botting, except when I need a defense roll or (re)action from that character.

Oh, sorry, I don't know why but I thought I'd posted in this!

Been a bit of a weird week, but I'll get something up tomorrow for sure!!

I don't see how to use this elusive "roll table," so I'm rolling the standard way for now.

Ah, it applies the special-ness automatically.

No worries! It happens!

I’m not sure how much of this you know, but…

Test.

Thanks! I didn't know any of that. Low tech guy here.

Wasted super combo. 😒

That’s the best roll this game has seen so far.

Oops… I wasn’t very clear in my post.

"Normally," you get 1 action per round.

D’n’A = You get 2 actions total as long as they are DEF and ATK.

Ah, I see. I'll edit my post then. Just ignore the second ATK roll.

No worries. You can leave the narrative as is, but if you do change it, I’ll alter my narrative accordingly.

@Totes_McGee - nice! You take no damage and you get to hit back with your good stat!

The 🧧 is not level-up money, but it is useful! You’ll find out what it’s for at some point when you’re in The Massholes.

Technically, Fitchburg, Sterling and Worcester are the airports along I-190, which is effectively where you’re going. But a middle choice looks too much like an obvious correct answer… and then would you go north or south from that middle choice?

So uh… the Sterling Airport is part of the giant craters that make fictional-2990s Massachusetts the Massholes. Problem solved.

Didn't mean to double-post, my mistake. The one with all misses should be kept, considering it comes first, at least on my screen.

All good.

Funny thing. It took a coin toss, a player vote and a bad roll to get this outcome that I thought of this morning. I was doing a workout and listening to the Bionic Commando music, and YouTube picked that Streets of Rage 4 track next.

If you never played SOR4, that’s the music from the stage where you survive a plane crash.

(The beginning of this Stage 12 video shows pieces of the plane Blaze fought on in Stage 11.)

@Tickettbror,@Totes_McGee
I just added a bit below the wanted poster for Gemini and Lacey.

@Eltesla,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac,@Totes_McGee

Gong-Ju succeeded. I will post the reaction to her siren song during lunch.

I’m phone-posting so let me know if I need to add more transparent text, so the TVs remain in the left side of the page.

I won’t normally have so much back-forth between NPCs, but wanted to establish that Emoticat has many faces. (Apparently, nine.) I promise he’s important.

I hope everyone appreciates the music I found for the ¥ii Shop. It was a leap of faith. Sort of a "c’mon, Internet… this has to exist." The instrument mattered. Being video game music was a must. I didn’t expect to get the best possible tune though!

@Eltesla - Yes, that is correct.

Great! That confirms it then, I'm definitely taking Extra Joy.

Murasaki’s Extra Joy has been toggled ON.

(@Eltesla - I mean I updated your character sheet.)

@Dmbrainiac - I added Button Mash to your character sheets.

@Tickettbror Nice! You got a post in as I was moving on! I’ll edit my post and add that snippet to your sheet when I’m at work.

@Tickettbror - you have Extra Joy!

(Fun? Fact: Extra Joy is the official Capcom USA term for the Final Fight spin attacks.)

Also, I added a response to the top of my post (the one immediately after yours).

Stealth Mode as Secret Move #0000 is a nice touch.

Thank you! I think I'll keep track of the Secret Moves in Murasaki's thread.

The nice thing about Extra Joy is that you can follow 🕹️Rising Upper with an ㊙️Uppercut (when not defending).

@Legendary_Sidekick I think my action was successful. :D

No matter what I had planned for that battle, I can’t argue with that perfect roll and the cost of 🌊!

Feel free to move the scene into the tunnel, @Dmbrainiac !

Sorry for a delay, am currently ill. I'm trying to keep up in my games but I'm kinda exhausted so I may take a moment. :')

No problem, @Tickettbror … Health comes first.

In case you would get delayed again, I had the (defeated) enemy make a harmless (hindering) attack.

The boss section of Stage 1 will be inspired by yet another game in which the damsel is a blonde in a red dress!

I was so fixated on the more memorable games of apes/gangs capturing blonde bombshells, this one had slipped my mind..!

@Tickettbror , glad you’re feeling better! My wife and oldest daughter have come down with something that includes a cough and high fever. It’s evidently debilitating. I’m trying not to catch it, as if pretending I can repel germs by force of will actually works as long as I pretend hard enough.

Had any of you fallen in the water, the names of the🐊s would have made it obvious what kind of creature they were.

But I actually wanted to address another fact: I almost used Game Genie as the fourth character.

🧞‍♀️

For all the weird shit I justify putting in a game (like my last post, for example), there were so many arguments against a playable genie. I had forgotten about the yoga girl emoji, and accidentally stumbled on it like a week or two before posting the interest-check.

Just a simple sketch while I wait for my daughter during her violin and piano lessons…

Violin AND piano?! Goodness! 😲

@Dmbrainiac
Button-Mash can only be done with buttons.

That said, I’ll repurpose your 🕹️ move as a successful dodge since the next round forces you to dodge.

(Boss Fight to follow. But there will be a coin toss to see if the boss can attack you first.)

Ah, right, sorry I got confused. I'll edit my post. I wasn't sure what else I could do without Girl Power to use my ☢️

No worries.

With or without girl power, you can always do ㊙️+☢️ as a melee combo attack.

In a combat round, if your first action uses ㊙️ or ☢️, you may take an additional action that also uses ㊙️ or ☢️.

• both actions must be different
• if your actions are ㊙️ATK and ☢️ATK, the first action determines the attack type and if it lands, the second action is a combo-finish (or it triggers a combo-breaker against you on a 💢MISS.)

At the level 2-5 Yii Shop, one of the available snippets is Double Flip, which will allow you to take any two actions per turn.

Okay, cool, thanks. :D

@Eltesla,@Tickettbror,@Dmbrainiac,@Totes_McGee

I’ll start up the boss fight later. (Please don’t roll attacks/actions until I post the ROUND 1…FIGHT bit, though you’re free to post to trash talk as you approach the villain, if you want.) You won the coin toss, so you get to wreck the boss and minions a little before I can start depleting health.

Gemini has one healing spell, if any of you drop. Winning the "initiative flip" and having full HP will keep odds in your favor, though. This is level 1, so… probably for the best you keep winning the coin tosses!

If you’re familiar with Final Fight, the health bars turn several colors before they can be depleted.

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👺 SWINGIN’ DICK
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👺 SWINGIN’ DICK
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👺 SWINGIN’ DICK
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👺 SWINGIN’ DICK
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👺 SWINGIN’ DICK
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👺 SWINGIN’ DICK
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Those are my 200%, 175%, 150%, 125%, 100% and 90% health bar snippets!

I just stumbled upon a classic arcade game with a playable mermaid: Athena!



I never made it to the water world, or the first boss for that matter. (I probably played it once, then gave up.) The game starts Athena with nothing but a red bikini. She kicks enemies in the balls until she picks up a weapon.

If you’re skilled enough to make a YouTube video of your gaming, Athena is eventually a fully armored giant with a cursed flameblade.