Actions Jack's Amusment Park Madnass (Comments)

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Was presumably one of the three, though I wouldn't know since I never heard of them.

[Zaleramancer]

Even he had the feel of a super-competent, highly intelligent, very trained and rather innovative person.

Like a few of your other characters.

[Zaleramancer]

He was trained by dragons.

Good fighter, intelligent, magical skill, draconic powers..

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Point is, you're characters are rather predictable to us....even if you don't think so.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Yup, that pretty much fits the bill...

[Mik_Hael]

You've got me there, I don't think I've ever made one that was incompetent unless it was a side, character and not the one I was using. either way it's off topic though.  Exactly what is wrong with the mad scientist mechanic, or not mad maybe, more along the lines of Riff from Slug Freelance.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

because the powers are more of a subtle thing and you have two blatant ones.

[Zaleramancer]

I mean, a Mad Scientist could work.. it's just I find it hard to imagine your characters acting in the matter Mad Scientists typically do.

To much self-possession and control.

[Mik_Hael]

...Machine construction seems like it would be more of a subset of the first one.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Still, its a bit too obvious and powerful....

[Zaleramancer]

Not if it's of the rebellious kind.

Babbling Mad Scientist that makes Machines that incontrovertibly turn on him and try to kill him would be an interesting character.

Particularly if the Mad Scientist was ignorant of the fact.

*Robotic Mascot attempting to kill him*

"Oh, he's just playing!"

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I don't think Mik has the mind set to play that kind of character.

[Mik_Hael]

So I was eating my breakfast the other day, and watching telivision, and reading a newspaper, and brushing my teath, when I realized that humans don't have enough arms to multitask! So I put together some spare parts from my last maintenanc ework, and created the solution to this problem. I present to you THE ARMAMATIC FIVE THOUSAND!!!!!!!!!!!!....whered it go?

Off in the distance: HELP FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, IT'S JUGGLING MY DOG AND CHILDREN, ARRRGH IT's GOT ME IT'S GOT ME RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!

....Be right back. "Grabs parts cannon and runs off.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I stand corrected....

[Mik_Hael]

Oh yes yes, of course it's tried to kill me and murder me in my sleep about eight times now "ducks as dagger flies over head followed by the sound of grinding gears. "make that nine that's to be expected!,Those are just kinks to work out, if I have any luck the toaster will be fixed by tommorow and toast better than ever before!

[Zaleramancer]

That was fine, up until the last part.

Instead, try having him go..

"Oh, see how helpful it's being!  A job well done!"


You may want to tone it down a bit with this one.

[Mik_Hael]

What are you talking about, the reason he ran off with the parts gun was because the lower gyroscope was off by thirty eight degrees, other than that it was doing it's job perfectly.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Anyways, until GV is on again you could be focusing your efforts into getting into KCoM is you are so inclined, but its up to you.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Hmmmmmm, I don't really think the park would keep someone on who exacerbated their problems like that, but the power itself is sound.

How about this; Have you ever read a webcomic called Girl Genius. I don't care for it, but it has a mechanic that I've always liked: Sparks. A spark is basically, from what I can tell, a dormant mad scientist. Totally normal for most of the day, a Spark super intelligence manifests as a form of temporary insanity, during which time they have an empathic understanding of machines and are able to invent some really out there stuff.

[Zaleramancer]

I read that.

Any reason you don't care for it? I'm curious.