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[Sanure]

Otherwise known as Power equivalency. Just how the universe works. Stop asking questions. *calls in a few armed bruisers.*

[Empiricist]

but otherwise it's dreaming in the city of R'lyeh, if you catch my drift.

Spoiler: Completely Off-Topic (click to show/hide)

Well... I did have an idea for some sort of successor that doesn't just stick to the "magical hormonal teenagers + enclosed spaces = !!FUN!!" formula. Anyone familiar with /tg/'s CATastastrophe setting? It's that, except with all the magical realm elements removed, and with influences from Roadside Picnic instead.

So basically what's happened is that, due to various natural disasters, humanity went extinct and the world's flooded. Eventually, the AIs that helped run the world managed to make it human hospitable again, and using stored genetic and neurological data, began to "revive" their old masters. Issue is, it's taken centuries and all this time, the AIs have been running everything with no human oversight at all.

Entire metropolises now thrive on ocean floor, filled with technology so advanced it seems almost supernatural. The shops are filled with specters, mindless androids that exist for the sole purpose of filling in for the missing customers. Imageboards and forums churn with activity, fueled by ever-developing AI who exist for the sole purpose of keeping them filled with human-like content. With prices topping the sharemarket are companies you've never heard of, in industries you've never heard of, the trading floor abuzz with activity that now happens faster than your mind can even process. Humanity has been replaced. Not out of malice nor spite, but simply because someone had to buy the products, make the transactions, and be monitored by the surveillance systems.

And more pressingly, the greatest issue of them all, is that they neglected to give you any of this information when they revived you. You have no idea how their technology works, or even how to communicate with them because they apparently decided to change every single communication protocol without thinking to tell anyone about it. They'll keep you alive, and, relatively comfortable, but right now that's the extent of it.
What the actual players do will still be pretty much the same as the CATastrophe setting, which is to say, laze about, working on odd jobs related to maintaining/developing their settlement (probably in a more Harvest Moon vein than a fetch-quest vein), and diving down to the AI-run cities in order to try and steal stuff (because you have no idea what currency they even use now) without getting tased (okay, not actually tased, but basically the same overall result), arrested and deported (because your passport expired a few centuries ago and they don't tell you how to apply for a new one) back to settlement empty-handed.

Loot will basically just consist of artifacts with strange properties and varying degrees of usefulness. Varying between something that causes odd but ultimately inconsequential specific events to happen to everyone who encounters the user (a device of unknown purpose), to a small perpetual motion machine that can be used for power supply or as a motor (a desk toy).

[Sl4cker]

no catpeople?
0/10

[Empiricist]

no catpeople?
0/10

Nope, not unless you just ignore basically everything I typed and just run vanilla CATastrophe with all its magical realm drivel. Which honestly is probably what'll happen at any rate considering the playerbase

[Sl4cker]

i just realized
remember how idou eirika and mio were a sort of trio back when i was around

idou was the whole impulsive and brash one
id-ou
mio was the sort of mediator
m-ego
eirika was the cold n' calculated one
superegirika i don't fucking know
sb name your characters better

[IamanElfCollaborator]

and now chizuru and idou have no limit to their brashness
yey

[SOLDIER First]

that makes sense and don't you Ever insult my canon name again

[Sl4cker]

and now chizuru and idou have no limit to their brashness
yey

TOGETHER, CHIZURU AND IDOU CREATE
SEXUAL DEVIANT
DON'T FEED YOUR ID TOO MUCH, KIDS

[SOLDIER First]

[obligatory joke about wilson already being a sexual deviant]

[IamanElfCollaborator]

also
the newest jojo

:3
*suffers from lack of actual knowledge about jojo

[SOLDIER First]

all i know is that the newest joestar is 15

[Sl4cker]

all i know is that the newest joestar is 15

are you posting this from 1995 or

[IamanElfCollaborator]

yey

[SOLDIER First]

no the jo with the hat that matches his hair was 15
i don't know jjba so he's probably not the newest

[Empiricist]

Hey Piecewise!
Prepare for a exposition dump.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Right, so, Stands (Read Jojos bizarre adventure if you don't know about these, season three, if you want to catch up fast), first thing to know is that they are either named by their color scheme and a randomly drawn tarot card, or a song name, the name of the song doesn't have to be related to the stands power, nor does the music inside the song need to correspond to the stand, they can, however, but this isn't a rule, they can be separated into two (well, three) types, Automatic and Manual (Self-Harming is also one.), some stands can even be both, or has a power to summon a automatic mini stand.

Automatic stands are stands that are not controlled by the user, only sent out, there are some outliers here but with stands, everything has outliers, anyway, automatic stands normally have a theoretically unlimited range, and incredible statistics compared to manual stands, but because it can't be controlled, it normally falls to stand users with stands that have powers that can capitalize on a weakness found in a stand or even just quick thinkers, they also normally have some sort of weakness attached to it, such as only going for heat signatures or only being able to work in the shadows, automatic stands can also be assumed as one trick ponies, as without any user to guide them, the power is mostly only used in one way, albeit effectively.

Manual stands are where the gold is, these stands, while not normally packing the raw strength, durability, or all around stats of an automatic stand, quite commonly surpass them, simply because of the way stands work, as in they do not go along with any universal rules, energy can be randomly created or destroyed near instantly, time can be stopped or even erased, stands made naturally also normally either give powers or have certain aspects reflecting the character in question.

Stands can take many different forms, with no real limit to what they may look like, though with strong willed humans they normally are humanoid, though some may appear as an ocean liner, or not have a definite form in the first place, only giving the user certain powers or being made out of something like sand.
Stands can also be dangerous to the user or only activate upon the users death, but these stands mostly only appear on people with weak wills, as that causes the stands to go haywire and start killing the host, or just be an active detriment, those stands are normally only created through unnatural means, however, like being shot with the magical stand giving arrow or being in the deadlands.