Jumpchain CYOA Thread #1628: Chain Resonance Edition

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Well, now that I finally caught up with World Seed, I gotta say that I'm pretty disappointed. The world building seemed really good in the first and middle part, but once the sci-fi stuff started the quality took a big hit imo, and it seems like all other classes are trash compared to druid. Maybe I'm wrong and they have their own tricks and specialities, but there's no way to know because they got at most a single-sentence description.

To make that post actually a productive one:
Jumpers, have you ever been disapointed with a setting you got into because of its jump?

Jumpers, tell me, do you use familiars of any kind? Be it to aid you in a fight, your spell casting, research or just in your daily life. If so, have they any sentience of their own? How did you get them?

I KNOW RIGHT!? I loved it when I made the jump but fuck man the author lost his mind or something. I got some ideas on that front though.

As to your question, yes. Yes I have. But usually its not the jumls fault it is like where aomething starts out awesome then falls off, I used to love one piece for example but man it went to weird places.

I like to use faeries or demons if I need sapient ones, which I have a few. Otherwise I use necromancy for puppet pet needs, you can make a lot out of skeleton bones and magic.

Picked up some LIGHT familiars in Duel Monsters: Shadow Realm, which is able to help with magic, can cast some of it's own, and I can merge with it to take on a super form.

I don't know what it looks like though. I don't think it should look like Kuriboh or those little cube angel guys, but I can't think of anything else that's good.

Hello everybody, just wanted to drop this surprise Soul Eater update that the two of us collaborated on. It sprang up from a conversation about NOT! which she'd seen but I hadn't and turned into enough ideas for a major update, Val donating the grand majority of them for me to write up and turning this into a collaboration Jump as of this update.

The changelog can be found at the bottom of the Jump, but I can also post it if people would like.

Our super big, super cool update is now out! It's super duper awesome!

-21: Soul Eater 3.0 Update Changelog
>Witch Origin Updated Text
>Earth Shaman obtains minor text update
>Monster Cat "Witch Exclusive" Restriction Lifted
>New Race: Fragment, "Child of an Old One"
>New Race: Icon, "Artificial being of the Book of Eibon"
>New Racial Option: Hybrid "A mixed lineage"
>New Feature: Racial Perks "Expand on the identity bestowed by your racial selection."
>Maka Chop reduced to 50CP
>New General Perk: Enrolled/Wanderer "Your position in the plot is now your choice"
>New General Perk: Martial Way "Skill with a supernatural martial art, or Supernatural skill with a mundane martial art"
>Ripper Perk Updated: 'Slasher' "You now have a choice of themed powers based on a pop culture horror icon."
>8 New Drop-In Perks
>Soul Perception now has a second tier
>Anti-Madness Wavelength Price Reduced from 800CP to 600CP
>15 New Meister Perks
>8 New Demon Weapon Perks
>Magical Being & Totemic recombined into singular 200CP perk, New Perk granted optional upgrades
>Levitation Perk text updated to clarify its potential
>9 New Witch Perks
>New General 'Item': Star Ranks "Higher Meister star ranks grant higher rank & clearance"
>4 New 50CP General Items
>Dune Buggy discounted for Weapons now.
>8 New Drop In Items
>8 New Meister Items
>7 New Demon Weapon Items
>8 New Witch Items
>Weapon Section Update: "Weapons now have a discount for options from each tier"
>Special Ability Option Updated with Second Tier
>Elemental Manipulation & Special Ability Options "One Purchase Limit" Removed
>Ornamental Piece Price dropped from 100CP to 50CP
>Mix & Match Price Dropped to 300CP, Additional Purchases are now 100CP
>Organic Weapon Form Price Dropped to 300CP
>2 New Companion Options
>Drawback Cap Raised to 1000CP
>+0CP Drawback "Anime Continuity"
>5 New Drawbacks

>All of those perks
>More drawbacks and higher drawback cap

Will NuVal be posting Dark Souls?

>>Monster Cat "Witch Exclusive" Restriction Lifted
I love you, NuVal. Even though you are a horrible abomination created by the human fusion.

NuBee speaking, I'm doing that one mostly on my own.

YES!!

We love you too!

So... Has the restriction of becoming a Kishin in-jump being lifted? Because I'm not seeing it.

>That huge fucking number of perks
Even 10k CP wouldn't be enough to get all that I want.

There is always the option of importing companions, user.

It has not.

Hope you enjoy whatever you finally do end up with dude.

Looking forward to World of Warcraft?

Would anyone begrudge you for becoming one in your writing or plans? As long as you could justify the transformation.

The thing with WoW is that I don't know shit about the setting, so there shouldn't be too much I wnat from that jump. But Soul Eater was one of the first anime I watched, so I need all that stuff for muh nostaliga.

>Hey Gaunlet do an update to your build, because holy shit you an outdated bro.
^_^ this is what is being said to me....

Supernatural: I had only seen bits and pieces of the first episode before and the Jump made it sound more interesting than the series actually was.

Before I had a bat as my DnD wizard familiar, but I've since restarted my chain.

I do plan on picking up wizardry and a familiar again pretty soon though, any recommendations for a familiar.

Why would you want to? It's like asking "has the restriction on slamming a book shut on your dick been lifted?". Sure, it grants you power, but at the cost of everything about you that would make you capable of enjoying that power.

Ah... that sucks
WoW is great for Futa horse dick, that's all I'm going there for desu

I created mine using the Soru Soru no Mi and the Demon Spawn from Hero BBS. They are basically Big Mom's personal Homies, plus an earth and water themed ones.

They have sentience, and I usually use them as bodyguards and personal assistants. Their power outside their element is fairly limited, but they make good proxies to channeling more dangerous and exotic stuff.

>WoW is great for Futa horse dick, that's all I'm going there for desu
No it isn't, and you know it isn't.

I see. A shame then.

Well, it's like becoming a proto-primordial or other ascensions out there. The cost of warping your mentality can be easily mitigated with the right perks.

I don't know that. Most of my early exposure to the setting was through that porn, so it's canon to my subconscious.

That sounds like it could be interesting writefagging. Could you share it with us, please, whenever you make it up?

Dude, seriously. Fuck being a Kishin. Just look at the Fragment race. Don't be no bitch ass fake from the anime. Set yourself on the path to becoming an Actual Old One.

>Well, it's like becoming a proto-primordial or other ascensions out there. The cost of warping your mentality can be easily mitigated with the right perks.
No, it can't, because the fact that your mentality is warped is what gives you the power. If you haven't fallen to Madness, then you by definition are not a Kishin.

The fairy drawback says they are an all female race, does that mean I would have to be a female too, or can I be the first male one?

Oh, re your Cities Skylines jump, did you spot ?

Yeah, that's fine, go ahead and be a dude fairy.

If you take Nine Lives, would it take all nine souls to be destroyed for you to die? Actually, that should happen if you just become a Monster Cat anyway. Am I correct on that?

Okay, then, I'll take you at your word for that. But to make it clear: Draenei are not futa. They never have been outside of pornographic fanart, and they only are that way in said fanart because (so the story goes) one guy commissioned so much futa Draenei porn that it's flooded any market for Draenei porn that might exist and gotten that image stuck in the fandom's heads. But Draenei are a normal bi-gendered species, with females that are entirely female and males that correspond to the body image standards that humans in Western civilization expect.

I'm sad now...

In the case of soul destroying attacks, yeah, they'd need to destroy all 9 souls. You'd still die if killed once physically though. So it's not extra lives, just them needing to get through more spiritual meat.

Alright thanks for this and the jump too.

Think about it this way: I've saved you from a really awkward conversation when you get to WoW and otherwise would be asking a bunch of Draenei ladies how they hide their dicks so well. Do you want to be talking about the effectiveness of tucking strategies with women who have no idea what you're referring to?

See here

Yeah, of course. Another question about the souls though, would there be some spiritual/mystical rebound if someone attacked/destroyed one soul, or are they "seperated" enough that they'd need to attack them one by one?

You don't get to tell me how to destroy myself and all that I love. Besides, I'm not wasting 800 CP in something that you can do on your own.

That's a fairly limited point of view. A Jumper has access to a lot of powers and abilities to get around that kind of stuff: from multi-layered consciousnesses with different mind-trains running simultaneously and cooperating with each other, using familiar as proxies, having multiple sub-souls or soul constructs to handle the corruption and channel the power, among other things.

Huh, I don't know. Long combos aren't usually welcomed around here, and I find really hard to write things from the Jumper's POV, since his mentality is too alien.

Usually no rebound, unless the attack would normally be able to hit multiple targets/souls or possibly with spreading stuff like a soul poison or something.

...

Does Uplift and/or being the child of Eibon boost all your magic, or just Soul Eater magic?

Also, the notes still say by paying the price to gender swap you may become a Male Witch, but Witch doesn't say it forces you to be female anymore.

I wonder what the Madness Wavelength of Lust would be like.

Any Jump where you can pick up a plant-like Companion, besides Pokemon?

Probably like that chapter in the book dedicated to lust? Maybe without the genderbending.

Avengers has a Groot-race option

No problem, have fun dude.

Both of those work on any type of magic.

Thanks for mentioning that, I thought I caught most things like that but it seems some things always slip through.

I imagine something like the Lust Chapter in the Book of Eibon.

Could you add a bit more drawbacks? Something like "Asura hates you". I really need some more easy drawbacks.

Tut tut user. You can't be trying to sneak by your daily dose of suffering.

Oh come on NuVal, Asura is a serious enemy who deserves his very own drawback. Yeah I can't write that without laughing, that guy was a joke.

Well, you can't say I didn't try. I really meant that thing with the drawbacks though, 2-3 more wouldn't hurt with all the new stuff.

Suffer like me, I took 900cp worth of drawbacks before I couldn't grab the last 100.

>from multi-layered consciousnesses with different mind-trains running simultaneously and cooperating with each other
Then one of your minds is insane and, being insane, won't cooperate with the other minds anymore. Hopefully it will randomly decide to help you instead of randomly deciding to fuck you over. Either way, you don't get the powers.

>using familiar as proxies
Not relevant to the conversation, also I don't think you could effectively control a Kishin familiar.

>having multiple sub-souls or soul constructs to handle the corruption and channel the power
Same problem as multi-track minds, only now the Kishin you've spawned has access to your sol. Great idea.

Look, user, if you want to hammer nails into your penis go ahead. But there are more efficient ways to do it than this.

Er, I mean, did you only see the anime? He was still pretty strong there but in the manga he's by far the most powerful being in the setting.

I reckon there's enough drawbacks already to give people a good selection, especially since you can only take a max of 1000.

>Look, user, if you want to hammer nails into your penis go ahead. But there are more efficient ways to do it than this.

So if I buy witch and monster cat do I get both an animal and plant totem?

>He was still pretty strong there but in the manga he's by far the most powerful being in the setting.
Eh, my view of him was coloured by the whole courage punch thing, so I might be underestimating him a bit.

But yeah, you're probably right about there being enough drawbacks for the drawback limit. I probably missed it because I always houserule those limits away. Can't have too much suffering after all.

Oh, thanks
/reads
Er, no, the Starting Plot says you start with "100 Kilometers squared", while Great Tracts Of Land says it adds a "vast" "4 square kilometers" to "your original 100 square kilometers".

While 1 km sq = 1 sq km, 100 km sq = 10000 sq km and 100 sq km = 10 km sq...

Yeah, that's anime only. Though technically the manga ended up doing something similar.

>Village of Blades
...I want all the villages, also would my ninja village and this combine?

As far as I know there weren't /that/ many differences between the manga and the anime, besides the whole moon thing. But I wouldn't know, after how the anime ended I didn't have the motivation to read the manga.

Wow, yeah. The anime and manga are almost completely different beyond the start of the Arachnophobia arc. pretty much everything once they go into the spider castle becomes completely non canon. The manga goes on for a lot longer, has a timeskip and several more arcs.

Huh. Looks like I'll have to read it after all.

Nope, it'd default to the Plant Theme.

I highly recommend it. It's one of our favorite series of all time.

Oh I see I thought it was just the fact that you hadn't read something not me being dumb on something. Alright let's see here.... I think I cleared it up sorry for the dunce moment.How does this look?

More drawbacks needed

>You can be a fragment of fucking Excalibur
I'm scared, no jumper should have access to that kind of irritation.

I'm open to suggestions at this point.

So that's how the shitposter came to be. /Joke

>I'm scared, no jumper should have access to that kind of irritation.
Just think of the power, you wouldn't give that up would you? Plus maybe you can use it against Excalibur themselves

FOOL! DO YOU THINK SOMEONE OF EXCALIBUR'S GRACE WOULD BE ANNOYED BY SOMETHING SO PETTY AS THE TANTRUM OF THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER?!

I bet he named you Clarent.

What about everything you order to build takes real time?

I actually had the opposite recently. Started playing SS13 and I love it. Cargonia 4 lyfe.

>spoiler
I will have to swear vengeance and destroy them then.

Does he really treat me as a son or daughter though?

When I was looking at notes it says Asura is the Great Old One of Wrath like Excal

>and it seems like all other classes are trash compared to druid
Just like DnD.

But Clarent is an older sword than Excalibur.

It'd be totally in character for him, so probably.

That's a typo, I'll fix it when I go to post the final version to the drive. Thanks for pointing that out.

I assume it'd be mostly when he wants you to do chores for him.

Are there any perks that I can use to force someone to keep their promises? Specifically something that'd make it so that I won't immediately get backstabbed once I agree to let a certain character live in return for working for me?

>15 New Meister Perks
>8 New Demon Weapon Perks
>9 New Witch Perks
Seems imbalanced.

That feel you get when both of your posts are answered in one post. Hope Excal is cool dad.

I really really hope that will not happen. What chores anyway he just annoys others to do it for him.

Reading the jump does help. You might find that is addressed.

You really expect me to pick over every inch of a 73 page document? Come on. Instead of being sarcastic and showing your ass you could just tell me what you supposedly did to address that.

If Death finds a child of Asura he would probably try to raise them right, to make up for the 'mistake' he made with Asura?

>What are conceptually binding oaths

It's not my fault that your thinking is so limited.

Excuse me, but you know the Joge Joestar jump, could you give me some idea what an Ultimate stand can even do? I've looked at the wiki and it is decidedly unhelpful.

I guess you'll never know then. The mysteries of how the perk discounts for different trees work as detailed at the start of the perk section will remain completely unknown to you. One might think it an obvious place but alas.

I'll give you a hint - it's mentioned right at the start of the perk section, where it explains everything.

It's a normal Stand but a heckuva lot stronger. Think of it as basically a second Awakening or Requiem.

Soul Eater Jump 065:
CP: 1000
Drawbacks:
Soul Eater NOT [+0]
Slapstick [+100]
Cut Off Uppercrust [+100]
Temptation [+200]
Fool! [+600]
Location: The Moon
Origin: Student Meister
Race: Monster Cat [-300]
Perks:
The Face [Free]
Enchanter [-300]
Good Kitty [Free]
Weapon-Partner Proficiency [Free]
Wavelength Communication [Free]
Patience of a Saint [Free]
Soul Perception [-100]
Utility Meister [-200]
Anti-Demon Wavelength [-400]
Totemic Magic (Catnip) [Free]
Occult Practices [-600]
Gear:
Stylish Outfit [Free]
Death's List [Free]
Sick Wheels [Free]
Here Lies Jumper [Free]
Spin Me Right Round [Free]
Soul Sapping Water [-100]
Enchanter's Gloves [Free]

Demon Weapon Partner [Free]

Well I dunno if that's an instant loss condition or not. You'll be leaning on Collosal Order hard to get the win out of the Jump as is.

Well it is, basically, his grandson right?

It's not my fault if you wank the no limits fallacy so hard that you think your "binding oaths" can get useful control over a being of pure madness.

Thanks, Val.
Is it just improved stats or do they get new powers?

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Love Train Back in Black Distortion ACT 4 Ultimate Requiem Over Heaven when?

Varies? I think for the most part it's just improved stats/power level of abilities but some of them get new features. I think Kar's version of Killer Queen has a much freer to use Bites the Dust for example.

That's certainly one way you could twist it. Death has had no qualms with bringing in people like Black Star, or accepting Kim after she was revealed to be a Witch.

>Well I dunno if that's an instant loss condition or not. You'll be leaning on Collosal Order hard to get the win out of the Jump as is.

Suppose your right

Interesting. Thanks Val.
Also, the jump is amazing and the others you and NuBee have been releaseing are great too.
Thank you both for all your hard work.

Hmhm~ Always happy to please user. Glad you're enjoying our work.