Super-powered Rumble: Round 1

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Super-Powered RUMBLE

The fall of the great superteam

THE PROTECTORS OF FREEDOM

at the hands of

Uldarin the Conqueror

in 2035 was likely the darkest moment in Earth's history. For years, its good people were subjected to the tyrannical rule of this intergalactic monster. But then, in 2064, he disappeared. This mysterious event heralded a new age for super-powered heroes and villians.

The fight for a new dominant force begins. Which side will YOU fight on?

This is a game of Rumble. The rules for such are HERE.
A couple house rules:
1. Please PM actions to me as "Super-powered Rumble - Round X actions"
2. Rounds will be 48 hours long. 24 hours for giving in actions and then another 24 for post-round actions (Manifestation of the Cosmic Consciousness, Utlity belt, Batman Captions, Holy Exposition!). The default action if nothing is sent is to put all energy into defence. You can give yourself another one if you like. Unlike in the previous game this will be enforced. There are too many players to wait for everyone to send an action.
3. If anyone ends up with less than 40 energy at the start of the game they can sacrifice one of their powers before the game starts to gain Power Strength energy.

Send in your powers as you sign up. All powers will be subject to me editing for balance reasons (don't worry, I'll warn you if I find them over-powered ). I hope to have about 3.5x powers at the bidding stage, where x is the number of players. There are sample powers in the link provided.
If we receive enough players, I will use Random.org to divide the players into 2-4 teams AFTER bidding.
Flavour posting and Hero/Villain profile are appreciated. <--to be done after bidding.

Heroes/Anti-Heroes/Villians

'*' denotes that Round 1 actions have been submitted.

mykonian
AshMC1984
gorillaman
Wizardcat
Drench
animorpherv1
Empking

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[mrow]Heroes & Villains[col]Energy[col]Powers[col]-----Power Descriptions-----

Zagra

(animorpherv1)

[col]90[col]

Dense Forcefield

[col]Your

Defense

is multiplied by

1.5

every round but anyone who

Attacks

you recieves a bonus to their

Defense

equal to

25%

of the energy you spent on your

Defense

this round.

The Reaper

(AshMC1984)

[col]43[col]

Fractal Lens

[col]

Spend 10

: Any

Powers

directed at you this round instead affects a random Hero.

Black Dahlia

(Bizarro Clone)

[col]50[col]

Hypnotic Gaze

[col]

Spend 25

: Take an opponent's next round for them. You may not force them to

Attack

themselves.

The Shocker

(Drench)

[col]35[col]

Dodge this!

[col]

Spend 5

Energy and do not

Attack

as you move into close range against a single target. Your

Attacks

against that target are

unblockable

for the rest of the Rumble.

Spend 5

Energy and do not

Attack

for a round to switch the target at any time.[col][col][col]

Electrical Pulse

[col]Do an additional

10 damage

to all those you damage with an

Attack

and inflict

10 damage

to all those who

Attack

you.[col][col]

Charging!

[col]

Spend X.

For the next round only, you will be able to use

X

more

energy

.[col][col]

H.U.D.

[col]

Burn 10 energy

and do not allot any energy to

Attack

or

Defense

. Choose one target. This round, you will automatically

spend

enough energy on

Defense

to overcome all

Attacks

against you (or as much as possible with the energy available). All remaining energy will be

spent

on

Attacking

your target.

Don Mob

(Empking)

[col]60[col][col]

Crony

(Pawn 1)

[col]10[col]

Pawns

[col] If a

Pawn

survives to the 6th round its energy rises to

50

.

Crony

(Pawn 2)

[col]10[col]

Pawns

[col] If a

Pawn

survives to the 6th round its energy rises to

50

.

Crony

(Pawn 3)

[col]10[col]

Pawns

[col] If a

Pawn

survives to the 6th round its energy rises to

50

.

Crony

(Pawn 4)

[col]10[col]

Pawns

[col] If a

Pawn

survives to the 6th round its energy rises to

50

.

Crony

(Pawn 5)

[col]10[col]

Pawns

[col] If a

Pawn

survives to the 6th round its energy rises to

50

.

Nehkebonkau, the Radiant Serpent

(gorillaman)

[col]52[col]

Staggering Kick

[col]

Attack

a character for at least

20

. If damage is dealt, the victim is prevented from

Attacking

next turn.[col][col]

Containment Suit

[col]Add

30

to your all your

Attacks

and

Defence

. Discard this power when your total energy is reduced to

30

.[col][col]

Hypnotic Gaze

[col]

Spend 25

: Take an opponent's next round for them. You may not force them to

Attack

themselves.[col][col]

Super-sonic flight

[col]

Burn 15

energy. You can not be

Attacked

and all

Powers

have a

50% miss-chance

to affect you. Additionally, all

Attacks

you make are unavoidable. You may not

Defend

during this turn.

James the butler

(mykonian)

[col]75[col]

Extra Arms

[col]You may only assign one

Attack

per round, but a copy of that

Attack

is made against every other opponent.[col][col]

Power Battery

[col]You start the Rumble with a seperate pool of

5 energy

. Whenever you must

burn

or

spend

energy to fuel a power, you may decide for it to deplete this pool of energy instead. The power battery recharges

5 energy

each round.[col][col]

Sticky Floor

[col]

Burn 10.

This round, every

defence

will be

reduced to 50%

of the

energy

allocated to it (rounded down).

Enigma, the Mighty Mastermind

(Wizardcat)

[col]55[col]

Inhuman Might

[col]Add

20

to your

Attacks

. If you

Attack

more than twice per round, you lose

10 Energy

at the end of the round for each extra

Attack

.[col][col]

Master Planning

[col]You may choose to reveal your

Attack

and

Defense

values during the

Allocation Phase

. If you do so you may multiply either by

1.5

(rounding down) during the

Resolution Phase

.[col][col]

Obfuscated Mysteries of Distance

[col]Pose a riddle at the start of a round, and submit it's answer to the Moderator (for approval); without the solution, opponents'

powers

can't affect you.

Night Watch

(Superkid)

[col]50[col]

Superkid

[col]

Superkid

may

Defend

Wizardcat

.

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Hey! It's great that you're getting into your character's background and all that, but keep in mind that you still don't know what powers you'll end up with, or who your teammates will be. I'll be sure to give everyone time to develop their character and team names, etc. before the rumble starts.
Also: remember that you can either create your own powers, or use those from the power database in the link I provided.

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I could start with about 6-8, if we can't get any more. If we're really hard-pressed, than I'll start with whatever we get, so don't worry about this getting abandoned for lack of interest. 3 is... adequate.

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Yep. Getting a sudden influx of interest. I'll sort through them all when I can get to them, likely sometime tonight. Until then, I'm just popping you on the list.

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Okay. Sign-ups will be open for about 24 hours from now. I'm going through the backlog of powers I've received. If I PM you, I would like a response asap.
We should be bidding by Wednesday.

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Powers are up. If you have questions about a power, bring it up in-thread. Feel free to discuss them.
Bidding is due in 48 hours. I will prod in 24.

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How do we bid when we have nothing to bid with????

Read the rules. You all have 100 energy. You bid with that. Only highest bidder has to pay for each power, but remember, the more you bid, the less energy you'll have left when the rumble begins.

Looking at all the chosen Powers, each Hero may bid an amount of Energy (from their initial 100) for each. These bids are made in secret, then revealed simultaneously - the highest bidder for each Power gets that Power and loses Energy equal to their bid for it (losing bidders get to keep their Energy). The highest bid for a Power is known as that Power's Power Strength, and is a general measure of its potency.

Bid carefully. While bidding 40 Energy may guarantee that you'll win that enviable Nuclear Device, it'll also mean that you'll start the game with 40 Energy already gone. And make sure you don't overbid on everything - while high bids all round will guarantee you some Powers, make sure you'll have a good amount of Energy left if you happen to end up paying for them all... A Hero with 50 Energy and four Powers isn't necessarily going to be able to beat a mortal with 100 Energy.

If bids are tied, the tied Heroes bid again. Heroes can bid zero for a Power if they don't really want it; if everyone bids zero on a particular Power, it is discarded. (Further to this, Heroes are permitted to discard any Powers they have won but do not wish to use; this is most relevant for 'environmental' powers which affect all players, which can be worth bidding on just to ensure they don't get used.)

When all bids are resolved and Powers have been assigned to Heroes, each Hero is free to make up a suitable name for themselves, and the Rumble begins...

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Bid by PM, please.

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Mine!
chenhsi didn't submit any powers, and he is not competing.
Anyways, we only had 19 submissions, out of a desired 24, so I added a few.

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Okay, all bids have been received. Those that have been decided on are shown. Five powers wer not bid on, and have been discarded. There is one power that is being contested. The tied-highest bidders will be PM'd.

Rules for a contested power:
All parties for the highest bid will be allowed to rebid, once. If there is another tie, the power is discarded. Highest bidders may choose to bid 0. In the case that the highest bidders drop their bid by enough that another previous bid surpasses it that power will be given to the new highest bidder.
Rules for discarding powers:
After the contested power is dealt with, players will be able to discard any power that they have recieved. If they have 40 or less energy, they may discard one power and recieve it's power strength in refunded energy. All powers discarded after the first will have no refund value. There will be no bidding on discarded powers.

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Well, ani: You only bid on three powers, and you didn't bid all that high. Bidding for powers takes quite a bit of strategy. And no, you cannot bid for discarded powers.

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Okay. I've received the bids for the contested power. I'll be reorganizing the table to show hero statuses. This is bound to take a while, even though I've already started... *sigh*

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The highest bid was from AshMC1984 at a staggering 50 energy.

Now is the time for all the last minute details. Name your hero/villain, and any sidekicks you possess. Maybe provide a picture, or a description.

Drench is currently at 35 energy, so he is able to discard a single power to receive it's power strength in energy (the amount he bid on it).
Anyone else may discard a power, but they won't receive anything in exchange.

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No teams. There are, in fact, 7 players, not including sidekicks, and 7 is a prime number.

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Yeah, there's no rule against that.

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By the way: I'm going to put a 36 hour deadline on the "last minute stuff". If nothing is submitted before then, I'll do it myself.

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James, the many-armed butler? Egads.

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Nehkebonkau = Yah?
Well, that's one take on that...

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Okay, because the radiant serpent was a form of Yah(weh, aka Judaic "God") as a healer.

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On behalf of Drench, who has missed the deadline:

Umm... well this was awkward. All Diedrich Nugenphiesun wanted was a great double-entendré for his nom de guerre in the upcoming battle, but in his haste he'd made an unforgivable, cripplingly embarrassing blunder: the Shocker was already taken! None of his friends in the chat rooms would let him live that one down. But then, he'd been able to fix his problems a lot easier now, thanks to his newly developed power gloves. It's hard to bug someone when your mind's been been wiped, and

The SHOCKER

was generous with electro

SHOCK!

therapy. A shame they rarely lived long enough to bow down in front of him.
In the end, he'd take back his pride as he and his ego outshone the second-class villain-of-the-week that preceded him. Thanks to his power gloves and his built-in AI HUD "Nostradamus", he had the utmost advantage in reaction time and agility. Hang on ladies, 'cause this ride's a

SHOCKER!

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The rumble will resume later today.

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Sorry, I've been stalling it a bit, trying to write up the pre-round intro. Go ahead and submit whenever you want, deadline will be announced when I get it (officially) started.