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[dgr11897]

Balloon of Damocles (3): The Ensorceler, Failbird, DGR
Split Assault ():

[Slick]

Balloon of Damocles (4): The Ensorceler, Failbird, DGR, Slick
Split Assault ():

[Happerry]

The Great Turf War of Spring, Year 2, has now Finished.

The Design Phase of Summer, Year 2 has begun.

[KitRougard]

"Aha! I have heard of this man, Zephyr!" A jellyfish cries as he comes flailing into the secret base. On that note, HOW DID HE GET IN THE SECRET BASE?
"Ah, panic not my fellow aqua-morphs! I intend to end this war with our side on safe land!" He then pulls out a scroll with old Octoine markings on it. "This is a letter from a Hero I believe could aid us - Zephyr is his name, and NINJA is his game..."

Type: Hero

Story: "So, I was wandering about the western reaches of Inkopolis, seeing if I could glean any top-secret information from idle chatter. After all, who would expect that a Jellyfish is a spy? Anyway, I wander down the wrong alley, and find myself covered with ink from behind! I turn to face the disturbance, and before me is a Splatted Inkling, and a strange Ling dressed in black.
"He was following you." The strange Ling says, pointing at the orange puddle with his sword. Then I realized he HAD a sword - A heavily modified Krakengard, longer and thinner than a normal one, that was always flowing. He had no visible guns, and I then realized there was a thin, hard to notice line of black ink trailing off from behind him. So, after that, we sat down, I explained the situation, and I hope I have convinced him to join our side!"

Design: "Oh, right, stories aren't enough to convince an army. Here's the notes I took on him..."

MODIFIED KRAKENGARD: A thin, longer version of the Krakengard, which seems to have a lighter draw on Ink Force, enabling a constant killing edge.

VANTA-BLACK INK: Absurdly dark, concentrated ink, of which even a thin line can be swam through, and my tests reveal that it takes at LEAST 5 layers of opposing ink to fully cover a line of Vanta Ink. It will likely take training for normal troops to be able to use it for movement, however.

ABSURD STEALTH: He claims to be one with "the Flow" of the Ink Force, enabling him to glide about the battlefield like his namesake. With how thin he can set his lines, he would be perfect for stealth missions, such as disrupting supplies, snagging zapfish, and even setting him to protect our resources from meddling Inkling hands!

POTENTIAL NEW FORCES: Should we recruit Zephyr, he has offered to set up an entire stealth force, and begin training them as soon as next season! Finally, our own version of those blasted Inkrunners!

So, whaddya say?

[piratejoe]

Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon.
An alternative proposal of the Octo-Balloon with a longer name and designed a little bit more to be focused to the meaning of what knowledge that the machine granted us with. The Sky Breeze is a small light balloon that has room for a single pilot with two propellers for turning and additional speed. The balloon has two large cloth 'fins' on the side of the balloon that are used to pick up wind to gain more speed along with additionally acting as a stabilizer and another method of turning. (Though some claim that it wouldn't really improve speed.) Naturally like the original balloon design it is equipped with a splatling, however due to the new rubber band wind up, instead of being cranked by peddles it's turned by a smaller crank attached to the front of the cockpits instrument panel (which also has a simple speedometer and ink tank gauge as well) to get it ready to fire. Speaking of the cockpit, it's made similar to the original design but the wheel is given a duel role and can be pushed in and pulled out from its starting position rather than relying on a lever for altitude control, instead the lever controls if the fins are extended or folded in. It should be mentioned that it does still have peddles, but they are used to make the propellers go faster rather than crank the splatling. Naturally, like the original design its made not to use a zapfish and the tanks are left unchanged from the original design. Lastly, as a fast hit and run, it is still very lightly armoured, but it's still more protection than the original idea.


This should fit the meaning of Zephyr, help in the towers and forest, and just be nice to have in general. Also, if we get it we can officially say the Winged Hussars arrived for the memes.

Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon (1): Piratejoe

[Failbird105]

Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon (2): Piratejoe, Failbird

[KitRougard]

Got Zephyr written out, might make some more edits later, but that's the basics.

Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon (2): Piratejoe, Failbird
Zephyr the Ninja (1): KitRougard

[dgr11897]

Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon (3): Piratejoe, Failbird, DGR
Zephyr the Ninja (1): KitRougard

[The Ensorceler]

Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon (4): Piratejoe, Failbird, DGR, The Ensorceler
Zephyr the Ninja (1): KitRougard

[Slick]

Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon (5): Piratejoe, Failbird, DGR, The Ensorceler, Slick
Zephyr the Ninja (1): KitRougard

[KitRougard]

OK, OK, fine, I just reskinned a hero idea that I had been holding for a while in order to force him into the Zephyr idea. But mark my words, VANTA WILL RETURN!
IN THE MEANTIME, AIR SUPERIORITY!

Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon (5): Piratejoe, Failbird, DGR, The Ensorceler, Slick, KitRougard
Zephyr the Ninja (0):

[Happerry]

Design : Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon (Hard Difficulty)
2+1-1+1 = 3: Buggy mess

To start with, the Octo-Balloon does, in fact, fly. Despite all rumors otherwise, it is not a falling machine. It's just... well, not that good at flying. There were issues with engine miniaturization you see. And attempts to let pilots apply pedal power instead of using an engine came to naught with the Splattling still needing cranking. Yes, it is pre-wound up, but the rubber band doesn't last forever. A pilot can crank the gun, crank the craft, and pilot, but they can't do all three of those at the same time with any, you know, actual effectiveness. And attempts to make an engine powered Splattling lead to the balloon being too heavy to peddle around, so we had to use the engine for movement. Inertia problems, you see. Even with an engine it moves, well, you know, stately like. And yes, slower then was hoped for. Well, it can go faster with a good wind, because we did fit some sail-fins on it, but those need a skilled pilot to actually use to their own benefit instead of equally out the better movement with good wind by being a bigger, more visible target and the risks of being caught in a bad wind. Only certain Octoling Agents can manage the trick at all reliably, and even for them it's kinda hit or miss.

Out of all the things they are trained for, balloon piloting isn't actually one of them after all. And the thing still does have to land eventually to refill the ink tanks. Perhaps a proper training course could be made for vehicles? Just a thought.

But it does fly, and it does fight. That is what is important, right?

Costs 5 Plastic, making it Very Expensive.

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Basic Resources
Plastics : 2
Super Sea Snails : 1

Advanced Resources
Zapfish : 2

Spoiler: Octoling Armory (click to show/hide)

Primary Weapon

• Bamboozler : A compression powered ink gun that was recently invented before the Great Turf War. It charges somewhat slowly, is hard to charge on the move, can not store a charge, has limited maximum range, has low ink usage efficiency hampering repeated use before one must refill their ink tank, and can not be fired while uncharged. In other words, a revolutionary improvement over all that came before. Despite being shaped somewhat like a hammer, it is not advisable to use it in melee to hit someone over the head with. Recent advances in Ink Tank pump speed have increased the Bamboozler's charging speed by around 5%, and an additional redesign of the nozzle and front half of the gun has increased ranged by an astonishing 15%.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Bamboozler Mk.2b : A reconstructed version of the Bamboozler that replaces the old ink compressor and awkward trigger/plunger set up with an entirely new selection of complicated gearing and valves, using a two tank air/ink pressure system to achieve greater range, charging speed, and ink usage efficiency then the Mk.1 Bamboozler. While originally the Mk.2 was overly complicated to build and maintain, a recent redesign has dramatically simplified and 'cleaned up' the inkarm. While this results in it working a bit better in most ways, most noticeably in Ink Efficiency as it has stopped being a bit leaky, the biggest result to this is that it's far easier to build. Additionally, new generation nozzle compression technology has increased its viable range by an astonishing 15% above and beyond its original specs.
  Expensive -  Cost : 3 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
• Splatling Cannon : A large crank operated automatic ink cannon. Has short range, extreme weight and size, and equally extreme inkpower. Can be operated at either a low firing speed, which actually has accuracy, or a high firing speed which can suck dry an entire ink tank in under thirty seconds using the higher pump speeds made possible by the Rotodynamic Pump but in return can barely hope to hit the broad side of a barn due to the crank and the pump knocking the weapon around as it fires as well as the increased recoil.
  Expensive - Cost : 3 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Wind-Up Cannon : A modification of the Splatling Cannon by way of the addition of a rubber band winder to the crank. Now can be wound up in advance for at least half a minute of fire where one doesn't need to work the crank, allowing for substantially increased accuracy until the band winder finishes unwinding. After that, users have to go back to working the crank because it takes to long to rewind the winder for the average skirmish.
    Expensive - Cost : +1 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Sub Weapon

• Balloon Mine : A large balloon, inflated close to bursting with ink. Being sturdy enough to avoid accidental discharges means it requires some amount of focused firepower to detonate, and it takes around a minute and a full ink tank to deploy in the first place. Covers a large area with friendly ink when it does detonate, however, and has an optional automatic pump to allow for deployment without manual operation.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails. When used with the Automatic Pump, gains the Complex tag and therefor becomes Expensive.
• Punt Bomb : A foot sized balloon designed to be kicked at enemies. Has a somewhat weird shape that makes it hard to throw, but easier to kick. Can be filled directly from an ink tank or with a Balloon Bomb pump. It's horizontal range is noticeably superior to its vertical range (well, you can still kick it high, but when you do it's almost impossible to aim), and it has some trouble with windows.
  Cheap - Cost : 1 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Specials

• Krakenblade : A average sized blade of raw Ink and Ink Energy, stabilized by an anchoring hilt and internal spine. Takes a moment to form and is only effective at melee range, but does hold the power to splat anything you get a direct hit on. The blades lasts for around fifteen seconds before loosing cohesion, and also allows the user to rechannel the Ink Energy to power a hyperspeed dash forwards three to four yards. This dash can either be done as a blade dash, where the user swings the sword as they dash, striking everything between their starting and stopping point but also burning through the rest of the special's energy. Or it can be utilized as a normal dash that merely uses up most of the energy and allows for up to five seconds of continued use after the dash.
  Expensive - Cost : 0 Plastic, 2 Super Sea Snails.

Ability
No Abilities start out designed.

Personnel

• Octoling Guardsman/Guardswoman : An Octoling member of a volunteer weekend warrior association, where they train in basic military skills and teamwork. The association consistently turns out professionalized militia with consistent if not outstanding fundamental skills as well as a well honed sense of squad wide mutual trust and teamwork. Now have improved physical conditioning from a new exercise program.
• Octoling Elite Agent : An Octoling graduate of the S.T.E.P Up Program, they are harder, faster, better, and even stronger then normal Octoling Guardsmen or Guardswoman. They also come with advanced tactical training, but their primary and greatest advantage is simply that they are all highly physically conditioned and drilled until responses and tactical calls are, if not genius, pretty much instant. The program for training them was suprisingly effective, so instead of being Rare these agents are Uncommon.
• Giant Octoling : A subspecies of Octoling which, as the name suggests, commonly reaches sizes far greater then the average Octoling. Their additional strength and endurance makes them natural heavy weapon experts, but also reduces their speed and makes them easier targets for enemy fire.

Cultural Artifacts

• Octo Valley Radio Network : A popular radio broadcast station in Octo Valley that broadcasts music, news, and humor, as well as speculation. Many though not all octoling soldiers are fans, and listening to its daily broadcasts can put a spring in their step.

Other Gear

• Mark 1 Ink Tank : A basic ink tank, invented by the same inventor that invented the Bamboozler, and designed to work with the Bamboozler. A quarter of its mass is taken up with the complicated gearing that connects it to a Lings primary weapon and the generator for the subweapon, limiting how much ink it can store. Still better then having to produce ink manually whenever you need a refill though.
  Cheap - Cost : 2 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.
  
  • Rotodynamic Ink Pumps : A new rotational pump for the Ink Tank. It's smaller size and more efficient form allows for an increased ink reservoir as well as faster pumping, both for refilling the tank and for output to weapons. The increased tank pumping speed for refills is partially countered by the increased tank size however, and ends up only being somewhat faster.
• Octoling Home Guard Program: A volunteer training organization that meets twice a week to train with weapons and with working together. Beyond the teamwork and unity drills, each meeting addresses a different subject of military life, from weapon certification and recognition to maneuvering in Ink Form to theoretical tactical studies, with specially formatted programs meant to drill the basics into the skulls of civilians. And it works. The Home Guard may not be legends nor cutting edge professionals, but they learn the basic skills they'll need to survive a war. And more importantly, they learn to trust one another. Now has an improved exercise program derived from the S.T.E.P. program's training.
• S.T.E.P Up : The Superior Trained Enlisted Personal initiative is an upgraded training program based on the older weekend warrior program. It scopes the best of the best out of the Home Guard Program and puts them through continual and dedicated training. Afterwards, what returns are Elite Octoling Agents, skilled and drilled to the max. Unexpectedly, they've managed to put many more Octolings through the training program then originally anticipated, and parts of their exercise regime has made it to the Home Guard.
• Society For Prevention of Biased Species Interaction : A group of sign waving fanatics whom are against treating any subspecies of Octoling differently in any way, shape, form, or ink. This represents a noticeable issue with any attempts to train Octolings to use their subspecies specific advantages to their, well, advantage.
• "Born This Way" Initiative : An art, music, and radio based initiative designed to show SFPBSI's repressive and chilling effects on Octoling subspecies. Caused a great reducement of SFPBSI's membership rolls, and also now allows subspecies with proper training and recruitment programs designed to be, well, recruited.

Vehicles

• Sky Breeze Octo-Balloon : A floating one octoling balloon ship, with sails and a small engine to power the propeller. Has a front mounted Wind Up Splattling, attached to a crank in front of the pilot. Not actually peddle powered motive wise, despite the designers best attempts, as well as being unfortunately slow and stately to move around. Still, it's air support. If fragile air support, that balloon can't take much fire.
  Very Expensive - Cost : 5 Plastic, 0 Super Sea Snails.

Superweapons

• Typhoon Assault Airship : A giant airship with four giant engines, a nose mounted respawn pad that fires respawned Octolings back to their squad, and a medium load of balloon bombs. Flies far to high to be attacked by any weapon, meaning it's only vulnerable on the ground, when it lands to reload. Or, well, to some crazy Inkling shooting its bombs out of the sky and back into the airship to send it careening down into the ground in a flaming crash, but who'd be crazy enough to do that?
  Needs 2 Zapfish to be deployed.

Heroes

• Dofley, Sketch Artist with a Big Gun : A Giant Octoling, equipped with a custom giant Splattling Cannon, custom giant Ink Tank, custom giant Krakenblade, and a second old style hilt only Krakenblade strapped onto his Spattling Cannon. A well trained wrecking ball of brute force, whom also does scroll art between combat missions as part of a failed PR scheme. Has unusually great control over his own personal Ink Energy, allowing him to use Krakenblades with unusual efficiency and also allowing snap activations or deactivations when needed or desired.

The Revision Phase of Summer, Year 2 has begun.

[piratejoe]

Flying It Now Successfully

The Flying It Now Successfully or FINS project is exactly what it says on the fin, erm, tin. To fix the Sky Breeze up. Specifically its engine issues and the crank issues in the hopes it will improve speed and it's ability to actually fly. First off, the small crank on the instrument panel is made to actually work, and the engine is given a good long look to try and get it to work optimally and hopefully get a better speed, though there is some work looking into replacing the engine with a battery charged with peddling and having it able to run on peddle power, battery power, or both at the same time along with a 'energy meter' should the method prove more efficient and effective. Also, there is a plan on the side to add a small lever on the instrument panel to determine what speed the pilot wants, but this is a simple side project to look into if things go well.

[Failbird105]

Well, for lack of another option and because it seems like a generally good one,

FINS (1): Failbird105

[piratejoe]

FINS (2): Failbird105, Piratejoe