Vault Challenges

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

I have all these characters lying around and they have nothing to do. I want to use them regardless, so I'm issuing an open challenge to any contender. C'mon! Hit me! Fight me! RAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Philote]

I can try to do a match with you, but maybe we should work out way so that it does not drag out so much like our last match.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

I think that only went so long because I tagged out in the middle. Trust me, if Maria hadn't gotten that rest period she would have gone down around form 5 or whatever we were on.

Besides which, I don't really mind if a fight drags on a while.

[Philote]

Well what sort of fight do you want to go for? Street fight, city fight, planet fight.

Also, any specific area you want me to pull a character from? NB, LoC, etc.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Why don't you use another core users, I'll use mine, and you can tell me everything I'm doing wrong.

[Philote]

Alright, so do you want to do a power level where your character is already past the prequel of the story so they are pretty decent with their power and already have their first Overdrive but do not have full control of it yet?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

A little while past. That way, I can run most of what I have planned by you.

[Philote]

What power range are you thinking of then? Also tell me the number of Overdrives you plan on using and their ease of use so that I can mirror it.

We could do a battle in that shallow sea area I described in NB with more geysers to hide behind or you can pick something else if you want.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

I don't know, all of them short of teleporting to a new location entirely. I'm not really sure how hard they would be to activate, which is the sort of thing I want your input on as the fight goes on. The sea is fine, but if you could make it adjacent to a deeper sea and throw in some hollowed out sea caves, that would be better.

Also, I suggest you using someone really aggressive because she's certainly not going to cooperate. Long range teleportation is off the table because, if she had it, a fight would not happen. I would also suggest someone fast.

[Philote]

Alright, so pre-aspect form. You don't get fancy things like regeneration, teleportation, etc unless its a direct part of your character's Core power (Since Core Users would automatically gain abilities like these once their strength got high enough). Three Overdrives with two being able to be activated by your character drawing up enough power and the other being not will based but instead activating after they've been pushed to it in battle. Around Green Lantern in power level, Superman with Overdrive.

Anything sound bad? Your other points I agree with.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

The sea breeze blew through Ginnys soft brown hair as she looked around at the wide open sea of blue water and white sand that surrounded her. Huge geysers blew up in the distant, rocketing water high up into the air where it descended as a fine mist that swept over the sea on the wind and obscured her glasses. She took the off and whipped them on her the sleeve of her white and red hoodie, then put them back on the enjoy more of the view. All was at peace.

"This is nice." She said, sitting down on the white sand. "I'm not really dressed for the beach, but I suppose I can't complain." She laid back, closed her eyes, and relaxed.

Little did she know that this peaceful scene would soon become a battlefield.

"Wait, what?" She said, popping up.

Soon, her opponent would appear over the horizon.

"Is this a fight club!?"

"Who could it be?", she wondered.

"No! No, no. No,no,no,no,nonono. This is not what I agreed to! I'm not going to fight someone for your amusement you... you freak! You, you....sick minded.....pervert!"

Stoically, she waited for them to appear.

"No, she didn't." Ginny said, hurriedly putting her shoes on.

Giddy with anticipation.

"She is walking away. She is going to find a hole to hide in. She will not be a part of this."

[Philote]

"Targets waiting for me just 80 yards away" Firefly says to himself.

A black shadow could be made out through the waters of a geyser as Firefly knelt down, adjusting his equipment to deal with the water. The location nor the target matched up with his usual contracts, but business was business. With one more pass over his gear, Firefly is satisfied that he is ready for the job. What he had was overkill for just a single girl, but in his line of work he never traveled without carrying a full arsenal and the girl would at least get a painless death out of it.

The man stands up, steps out from behind the geyser, and raises up his custom pistol in one fluid motion. A strange black garb covered the man from head to toe and a thicker dark substance could be seen padding his vital regions. Three blood red lights shine out from their triangular arrangement on Firefly's mask. The pistol in his hand seems to be made of the same black material padding his suit, but no other pieces of equipment can be seen. On his back rests a metal backpack with a similar set a lights and four glass firefly-like wings protruding from it.

Firefly pulls the trigger and a blood red bullet flies through the air, more energy than physical, while the sound of the shot seems to be unnaturally muted compared to a normal gun.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Now that she knew it was an arena, this pristine sea has lost a lot of its luster. As she sloshed off through the shallow water Ginny reflected that, in retrospect, this place actually kind of sucked. Really sucked. Nothing to look at. Nothing to hide behind. You see one part of this awful, stupid, downright terrible sea then you've seen it all. Oh look at how amazing all this water is, like one big shallow mirror designed to reflect light right up into your eyes. Water was stupid.

She felt that familiar nagging feeling behind her eyes, like tiny little hands trying to push them in some different direction. Ginny Syo's Patented Point of Interest Indicator. It meant there was something interesting to look at in this big huge waste of land. Seeing as how she had nothing better to do, she turned and looked.

And dropped as a bullet sailed over head. She looked up at it, eyes wide in terror, before letting the core have free reign over where she should be looking. She saw him, looked down and made a little whining sound, looked up again, and got to her feet. She quickly put her hands up.

"H-h-h-hi." she squeaked out, her voice strained. "Y-y-y-you look like a n-n-n-nice sort of p-p-p-p-p-p Oh what am I saying! Look at you! You're the worst person!" She wailed. "Look at that, what is that, living dark?! Add some spikes and you couldn't get any more bad guy than you! Why can't I go anywhere without this sort of crap happening to me!"

[Philote]

That was the trouble with Correnians. With no upper limits on their traits, even a mundane girl could dodge a bullet if she trainer her body the right way. (He doesn't know you have a Core yet)

"No time for talk mam. I've got business to do and places to be." His voice is calm and businesslike, as if he were out for nothing more than a stroll.

His left extends out and a red pulse emits from it. The pulse illuminates the blue(red?)prints of a second pistol hanging in air that materializes into the same black metal-like substance as before as he grabs it. Aiming both guns forward, he begins to unload.

(Bonus points if you can guess his Core )

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Her eyes widened, as if she were forcing them open against all instinct in her heart to cover her head and wait for everything to go away. Ginny turned. Ginny ran. Ginny focused on only one thing: getting away from here.

Down along the ground she could see, faint and branching off in all directions from her feet, faint red lines covering the landscape pointing in every direction she could go. She ran along in a cluster of them, terror pumping her legs, watching them. Then she heard the shot, and the line she was on withered and vanished. She dodged right as the bullet whizzed past and ran along another one. There was another bang, and this one vanished as well. She went left this time, aligning herself with yet another line. It was a while before she realized that he was actually firing very quickly, but the adrenalin was slowing time to a crawl. Left, Left, Right, Left, Right, Right, Left, she followed the lines perfectly as each one was cut off and regrew in the bullets wake. After all, wherever the Travel Core took her, it would never lead her to her own death.

(Give me a minute.)

[Philote]

(I'm not making it very obvious )

The girl did not only have a quick reaction, but she was fast too. A combination that only served to annoy Firefly at the delay in his job.

A red pulse traveled across his wings, filling in lines of the firefly-like pattern with a definite glow. He drops the pistols as he hovers into the air and they fade away in a red glow. Reaching over his shoulders, he seemingly grabs a scoped rifle out of thin air and aims its barrel down towards the girl as he flew after her.

"I tried to make it quick on you girl" he says as he loads an explosive round.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"Yeah, I get that." She says, never even bothering to look back. "And I'm really sorry about it. If this is taking up to much of your scheduled it's probably better just to call the whole thing off. Seriously, I wouldn't mind."

All she had to do was was keep focused on the road in front of her. But a rippling fluctuation shot though the branches in front of her, distorting them like static. That couldn't be good.

[Philote]

Firefly aimed beyond the girl, slightly in front of her and between her and another patch of geysers. If all went as planned, she would be diverted closer to him and into more open waters. He pulls the trigger and another red bolt flies through the air and into the waters where he aimed. A moment later, sand and water are flung into the air by the blast. All he had to do now was see how she would react and play into his hand.

(What knowledge of Cores does she have?)

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

(About the same level I do: a bunch of half formed ideas.)

Every path vanished. Every last one in front of her just completely disappeared.  She skidded to a halt and threw herself in the opposite direction, splashing face-down into the shallow water as the explosion threw up water and sand.

She pulled her head up and frantically searched for her glasses in the water, finding them and slamming them hap-hazard onto her face.

[Philote]

(Well, hopefully we can get that all cleared up )

Firefly lands twenty yards away as the girl scrambles into the water.

"Time to put an end to this business" he says as he readies a non-explosive shot.