CYOA Thread

Was expecting it to be OC symbiotes, but this is fine.

I pick Toxin first off, because I want to start out with a fresh symbiote and be their first host. That way our bond will be deeper and truer than otherwise.

Enhanced Shapeshifting
Regeneration
Strength

Decent all around powerset, nothing too fancy, nice and straightforward.

Bro
Scientist

Lets get a nice support group going. Got the support and got the best friend, that's a good start for my team. A lot of the choices are appealing though.
Venom has always been a little sweetheart, I'm rooting for it to get with Spiderman and him not to be a dick about it for once. But as for me, I don't wanna play second fiddle to anyone, never get with a girl, or alien symbiote, that's still attached to their previous relationship.

Ya, I was a bit worried Anti-venom would be a bit overpowered. His weakness is way more rare than the other two, but I decided to keep it more comics accurate anyway. Couldn't think of a substitute.
And in the comics it's actually "darkforce energy" but I didn't think anyone would get that.

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>Toxin
Easy to teach, easy to hold and control, easy to deal with
>Nemesis

>Natural Weapons
>Resistant
>Regeneration
>Strength

>Sidekick
>Vigilante

We are the ultimate vigilante team, punishing anyone that fucks up.

Also, how canon is comics stuff?

Huh. I haven't seen this version before. Is this new, or just obscure?

I think it was posted in the last thread.

OC from last thread. It's not Kingdom Crusher, it's a spinoff Kingdom Diplomacy.

Darkforce energy still isn't that common, though. Unless someone's purpose-building weapons to take you out, you'll only really have to worry about Cloak and Dagger.

I love the original symbiotes too much to make my own. I tried to change some of them a little bit.

And the symbiote has a really sad story. It was locked away in a prison on another planet, then this hero rescues him so it latched onto Peter and really liked him. The worst thing it did was take his body for a joyride at night while he was sleeping a couple times, because that's what it thought he wanted. To fight crime and stuff. The result just left Peter really tired in the morning.
When Reed told him his suit was actually a living being, that's when he freaked out. Everyone thought it was just some weird parasitic leech. Not even Reed thought it was capable of having its own thoughts and feelings. After it broke out and tried to forcibly bond itself back to Peter, that's when he fought it off him at the bell tower, and it ended their relationship on a very bad note before it found Eddie (though it did drag him out of harm's way before it left)

Peter's rejection really upset the symbiote, and when it bonded to Eddie, who really hated Spider-man and Peter, it got corrupted even further.

I'd welcome this jam.

>Dual Citizenship

>4-1=3 Knowledge
>4+1-1=4 Combat
>3 Property
>2-2+0 Treasury
>2-2+1=1 Resources

>Sorcery
>Warrior
>Noble
>Commander
>Armoury

>Tusk (Legendary Beast)
>Caer (Custom Outfit)

Be poor but still fairly strong and influential noble. Have some castles in mountainous lands between Tusk and Caer. Would have lots of money from trade through border area, but unfortunately dragon breeding business is expensive. Especially when you spend time fighting off barbarians and studying magic instead of developing business sense..... At least I have a nice set of fashionable dragon handling gear.

Anyone interested in buying a dragon can come and stay with us for awhile.

I know, and Peter is such and abusive dick to it sometimes. I remember one time he feigned being injured and hurt around Venom so the symbiote would abandon Brock and bond with Spiderman to save him, and then when it tried he just turned around and roasted the symbiote for its efforts. It's like goddamn, you made this thing think you were going to die and then you tried to kill it when it wanted to help you. How is that heroic?

Most of it is pretty canon. I made up the stuff about Scream forcing the user to be a girl, and Anti-venom isn't a real symbiote, just an extension of Eddie Brock's body.
I know, but like I said, I was trying to keep it comics accurate, but couldn't think of any balanced weakness. Antivenom in the comics is better than the other symbiotes in every single way, and I couldn't figure out how to balance it.

Maybe make taking Anti-Venom cost you power selections? It effectively comes with free Resistance, after all.

In conclusion: Spiderman is a dick.

Alright, that's both good and bad news. At least I know what crazy bullshit to avoid.

I remembered that much about the Venom introduction arc, I guess I just never thought the symbiote could be so ignorant of

>the worst thing it did
See, this is where I don't agree. Just because I feel for you, doesn't mean you get a pass on everything you put Peter through.

Love this.
Symbiote: Carnage
Abilities: Regeneration, strength, resistant, natural weapons, and spawning
Companions: Bro- give spawned symbiote to and Sidekick
Drawback(s): Menace! and Nemesis

Where's Clot?

this is 10/10 m8

Symbiote: Scorn
Perks: Strength
Regeneration
Resistant (Fire)

Companion: Henchman
Scientist

Doesnt put up with bullshit?
merges with tech and is fucking hard as fuck to kill?
well, either we'll learn to live together in peace or it'll leave me in five seconds after a hair-brained plan involving her, me and a Abrams tank is partially merged into power armor...

Toxin
Strength
Tendrils
Natural Weapons
Henchman
Reporter

I will be a great mercenary, and that is about it for now. Might have more later.

>Spider Man is a dick
Nah, he's a teenager who was scared of being bonded with a strange alien life form and understandably freaked out.
Later on they kept trying to make the symbiote more sympathetic, which is not exactly a bad thing but come on.

Are you still working on this? Cause if you are then you might want to make it so that each symbiote gives you an inherent perk. Maybe rule out a few too. Maybe also add something like a few factions or symbiote specific/named companions.

Yeah, I mean, it's not like Peter knew what he was getting into, either. Venom likes to characterize it as him taking this poor defenseless little symbiote away from its home and then abandoning it, but the symbiote made it worse with its decision to disguise itself as an inanimate object to get him to accept it. He went from "hey, cool, this alien tech I found on Battleworld sure is useful" to "oh god my pants are alive!" without any warning. Maybe you should have gone into that relationship with more honesty and you wouldn't have been rejected, Venom.

>Rule a few out
no

They should go on those reality shows where people debate their family/relationship issues.

Tomb of Qin because Immortality.
Suc [0]
Sur [0]
I'll need the extra credits from blowing the place up. And I'll take her with me.
Cr [10]
Lets start with required doctor : Don Cephal. I think I could get along with him.
Treasure Hunter: Winnie Yau. Cute asian, good rates, bonus for my china mission.
Grease Monkey: Ming-Na Wu generally just for the stats
And Ray Carver, also for the stats.
And Vara to round things off. I have 6 people including me and Sentinel Mio
Suc [0+5+25+30+30+0] = [90]
Sur [0+25+25+0+0+24] = [74]
Pretty decent chances to become rich and immortal.
Pity about the whole having to blow the area up thing eh?

Man I don't care, once you're at the point where you're taking advantage of a being's unconditional love for you to trick it into thinking you're dying so you can kill it when it tries to save you, you're the asshole now.

Anti-Venom (all the plusses of a symbiote without the "corrupting" negatives)

Powers
>Enhanced Shapeshifting
>Regeneration
>Strength
>Invisible (though Separate Form is tempting for STAND POWAH)

Companions
>Sidekick
>Reporter

Drawbacks
>Menace!

Literally my childhood fantasies of swinging around as "Venom" and fighting crime. There's a sidekick to train and mentor until she's a proper hero in her own right, and a reporter who can give me all the big scoops and maybe set the record straight. Powers are a good mix of offence and stealth to mix and match based on the situation.

Menace! is almost fun, in that it's kind of fun to be the underdog who has to earn the people's trust one good deed at a time. Plus, if it ever gets too dire, healing entire wings of hospitals at a time should be good for easy pr.

...

That's a good idea. Maybe you can only take 2 powers and 1 companion.
Ya, if the Venom symbiote had actually tried communicating with Peter, things might have gone very differently.
Eddie did corrupt it a ton with his hatred, and the symbiote just went through a very bad break up.
Thanks guys!
I have no idea what that is.
Nah, it's basically done.

Well damn. I didn't know about Scream before now but I cannot resist the genderbend option because I am a perverted degenerate. And I thought Scorn I was really cool, too...

Scream
Enhanced Shapeshifting
Tendrils
Invisible
Regeneration
Bro
#1 Fan
Menace!

Very close toss-up between Strength and Regeneration but I figured tossing a car is a good enough top-end. Sidekick would also have been a good choice.

I'm gonna teach that fan all there is to know about tentacle porn.

Didn't venom use to spout stuff about eating brains back in the 90s?
I mean, bruhv

>didnt the suits wearer spout stuff about eating brains back in the 90's?
FTFY

He's Anti-Venom's son. I think...

He said it all the time, mostly for intimidation purposes, but one comic did go into the fact that the symbiote did need a chemical found in the brain, but it's a chemical also found in chocolate.

When it bonded to Gargan though, he did eat people.

Who's the woman with the red bandana in the Nemesis drawbacks picture?

I'm too tired to look for better sources so wikipedia it is
"In some incarnations, the symbiote is depicted as requiring a certain chemical (most likely phenethylamine) to stay sane and healthy, which has been said to be found abundantly in two sources: chocolate and human brain tissue. Thus, the host is forced to steal/buy large amounts of chocolate or become an unwilling cannibal who devours the brains of those he kills. This peculiar trait has only been witnessed in the Venom symbiote. However, both Carnage and Toxin have threatened their enemies with aspirations to "eating their brains", as well as various other body parts. When Toxin teamed up with Spider-Man and Black Cat, he struggled to keep himself together, telling Spider-Man that he was only "joking" about eating the robbers' brains."

Yep, that's what I was refering too. Still, a guy that looks like that and says stuff like that, Peter thinking the symbiote was as crazy as the host is understandable in a sense.
That said, he's still a bit of an idiot.

Who wants a new car!

Anti-Venom
>Enhanced Shapeshifting
>Resistant(Both)
>Separate Form

Burglar
#1 Fan

Regular symbiote super-strength is good enough for me. Enhanced shapeshifting mean I can go where I please, resistance just makes sense, and separate form makes it easy to avoid a "why is Clark always missing when Superman's around" sort of thing from taking root in people's minds.

I sure hope the symbiote doesn't misinterpret my attraction to my companions, separating from my body and shapeshifting into their forms, pretending to be them, leading me into a huge misunderstanding that will piss both women off, until they eventually forgive me because how could I have known... nah, convoluted shit like then never happens in comics.

Silk.

Everyone knows that Peter Parker got bit by the radioactive spider. She was retconned in, getting bit first-er and then locked away in a bunker for a decade for dimension-hopping inbred aristocratic vampire reasons.

She was Dan Slott's (current ASM writer) pet. Absolutely pants on head retarded through the already inexorable Spider-Verse event. Her new solo is better. I don't know if it's really a good book on its own, but from what I've read, she's an actual character with a certain amount of charm. Plus, she's a cute.

I don't think you can take resistant with anti-venom.

I'd rather unicycle.

Scorn, methodical, adaptable able to understand it's own physiology better
Menace!
Nemesis

Regeneration
strength
Natural weapons
tendrils
spawning

going for the ability to put down people who deserve it fast, and in large numbers

Vigilante(recipient of spawn)
scientist(to build custom mechanics to interface with)

basically forming anti-hero team who kill people who we decide deserve it

>Slott
Everything he does is so retarded. At least Spock's midget waifu was cute I guess.

I think 2 powers and 3 companions makes sense, personally. Shouldn't it be easier to make friends as a good guy? Maybe prevent him from being friends with the outright villain, or she counts as a companion AND a drawback (guaranteed drama, and another power/companion).

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>that synchronized clap

>Venom
I really feel for Venom, and it's power is very apparent. Having multiple hosts beforehand doesn't bother me too much.

>Strength
Watch those gains, bra.

>Resistant
Make me more resilient towards fire and sonics. I could choose one over the other, but resistance in both is better than weakness to one.

>Regeneration
Regen is always good, and it meshes well with the other two powers.

>Bro, Sidekick, Hero
It's always good to have a friend when you need them, and the Bro is familiar with symbiotes too. Sidekick is good for busting crime or shitheads together with. Being friends with the Hero should help somewhat with keeping a good reputation amongst the populace, as well as help me and Sidekick become heroes ourselves.

>Nemesis
Spider-man's gonna be a very dangerous foe, but with my sidekick and durability, I should be able to handle him. Bonus points for being invisible to his Spidey-sense, since he originally used Venom.

You sure? Okay, free power, uh... let's make it invisible.

Haven't read the comics, so I've gotta ask. What are the limitations on shapeshifting and enhanced shapeshifting? Is it suit forms only, or is it actually changing my human shape, or maybe both?

And how does shapeshifting/enhanced shapeshifting work with separate form? Scream's fluff mentions you only go back to normal when completely separated from her, but what of any other symbiotes or willfully made forms? Naturally this would only be something to answer if Scream isn't the only one that can change your human body.

>Symbiote: Hybrid
Sure I have to listen to more people, but enhanced multitasking without dealing with constantly conflicting ideas is a nice boon. Plus the suit looks the coolest.

>Powers: Regeneration, Natural Weapons, Strength, Invisible
I wanted Tendrils and Separate Form for complete multitasking, but ultimately I figured Natural Weapons would come in handy for a variety of things and comboing it with Strength would only improve the effectiveness. Regeneration is par, and Invisible is just useful for scouting things out and in case I need to run like a bitch.

>Companions: Hero & Sidekick
A guy I can sort of relate to, what with us both randomly getting superpowers, and someone who we can then therefore both relate to and help out. It's a pretty decent team of... what, eight people counting the symbiotes themselves.

>Drawback: Menace!
People just don't understand. Hopefully me assisting the hero will help them understand. If not, oh well, they can't do much about it besides make getting a job hell and shopping really awkward. I'll have to work online.

>Hybrid
Multitasking is beautiful, and I'm lonely anyway
>Tendrils, Regeneration, Strength
With super strong, regenerating tendrils, I can multitask with more precision and power.
>Vigilante, Bro
I can go be a harbinger of justice with the Vigilantte and learn how to fire guns with all of my multitasking powers. And, let's be honest, who doesn't want a trusty bro by their side?

With this build, I intend to be the master of multitasking. With my numerous tendrils, I'll be able to get all housework done at least 5 times as fast and I'll be able to play as an entire team of characters all by myself in most MOBAs and RPGs. Although the voices in my head will likely be maddening, I'll try to get them to play games with me and my Bro.

As for actually going around and using my powers for more stereotypical purposes like fighting crime, I'm sure my fighting bro Vigilante can help direct me to where I need to be.

Rolled 6, 1 + 2 = 9 (2d6 + 2)

Silk's kinda cool. She had an interesting arc that got ruined when Secret Wars happened (what else is new) and is now getting muddled up with the somewhat confusing Spider Women event. There was a cool bit where JJJ liked her even though he hated Spider-Man for the same reason even though she was trying to trash her reputation to get in good with the baddies. Sounds kinda Mary Sue-ish but honestly it was pretty fun and now a problem, in my opinion.

>Challenges
Blind Expedition
Treasure Thief II
Competition

>Rewards
Crush
Icebreakers
More Treasure

The real treasure is friendship! And loadsamoney

>Contact
Lady Trevalyn

>Crew (-15/10)
Pollinus Satch (-5/35)
-Hoover (20/)
Donna Betelisi (15/15)
-Crush
Katie Marchand (20/10)
Lady Trevalyn

Base chance of success: 35%
Base chance of survival: 70%

Hard to build a team in general here. Credits seem in very short supply, but that seems to be the intent. Richard Kestrel and Sentinel Mio are complete non-options for me. And then on top of that Blind Expedition is super hard. As it ought to be! Also hope I got the dice rolling syntax right, never actually tried rolling two different dice at once. First d6 is for which expedition, second is for More Treasure, first d20 is for success, second is for survival.

Tried to build my team for overall agreeability as well as statistical performance. Not 100% sure on taking Lady Trevalyn with us since she doesn't really offer a ton but I figure she's paying for it she can at least come along. Plus I already have the other two best waifu options in my party. May as well bring all three.

Here's hoping I don't die horribly!

>shapeshifting
well venom takes the whole "mimicry" thing a bit far when it reveals it can A.) mimic super powers of previous hosts, powers its seen and interacted with for long periods of time and B.) tranform ANYTHING into a garagantuan weapons platform...you want biomechanical machinegun lasers? cool! you want spikes of death and a fuck HUEG form slightly more resistant to fire? done!

it just kinda depends on who you are user, and what perks you choose to enhance your little freind

I'm just going off what I remember from the various comics/cartoons over the years.

Peter Parker used the suit to shapeshift into articles of clothing (jeans and a t-shirt, tuxedo, etc.). Hypothetically, though, considering the mass it adds to Brock and the way it bonds with Kassidy (the Carnage symbiote is in his blood, I think he's able to regenerate from like a single cell or some shit like that) so that he can form and throw bladed weapons, the sky's the limit. Changing physical features of the body should be no problem.

Beyond adding the ability to mimic even animals, it probably includes more advanced, Mr. Fantastic-esque contortions. Things like flattening into a puddle, stretching, etc. are no object with a strong enough bond.

Presumably Scream's bonded enough to the blood that it's not entirely cut off even in its "separate" form.

Rolled 12, 97 = 109 (2d100)

Oh god. And to think, if it'd been Rhino Mountain we'd almost assuredly have gotten all 6 treasure. Well, here goes nothing. Rolling under 35 for the first roll, 70 for the second. I know the Challenge description said to ignore the required party member, but good thing I brought good ol' Satch along for the ride.

If we have to pick an exterior, and the minimum exterior cost is 5 credits, shouldn't those ones just be free and we start with 95 credits?

>Scorn

>Enhanced Shapeshifting
>Resistant
>Separate Form

>Burglar
>Reporter
>Scientist

>Nemesis

If Marvel did a buddy cop movie, this would be it.

user please keep up with this and add more stuff into it, my favorite kinds of cyoa's are making donut steels and sharing them and comparing them with friends.

Scorn

Natural weapons (always good to have a knife)
Enhanced shape-shifting (here spider spider spider...)
Resistant Sonic (Fire bad)
Regeneration (Bullet wounds also bad!)
Strength (Dual wielding minigun-axe arms though...)

Vigilante
Henchmen

Menace!
Hunted

insane ideas bounced off of a hard logic motherfucker! the bond we will form and the havoc we will wreak will be unimaginable!

and its not like it really wanted to bond with me...bakka...

also to give my own answers

>Toxin

>Enhanced Shapeshifting
>Resistant
>Regeneration
>Strength

>Best Bro
>#1 Fan

>Strong Willed Other

I just want my symbiote to keep me safe, in a really broad sense, so i can live life+. even if i am making a stupid fucking decision it will force me to stop. i think thats pretty cool.

>Scream
for fetish reasons

>Natural weapons
>Enhanced shapeshifting
>Resistant

>Reporter
>Scientist
>Hero

>Strong willed other

Location
>Tomb of Quin

Contact
>Sentinal Mio

Companions
>Winnie Yao (3 credits 25/25)
>Tekla Kallela (2 credits 15/15 success/survival)
>Sue Larenko (2 credits 10/20)
>Hoover (1 credit 0/20)
>Ming Na Wu (2 credits 30/0)

Total of 80% chance of survival and 80% chance of success

>Eventual mind death/mental sublimation to feminizing hedonist yandere

god speed user

Reposting my OC from last thread.

Since all of the kewl kids are doing it.
>Toxin
>Invisible
>Regeneration
>Enhanced Shapeshifting
>Henchman
>Hero
I like sneaking.

Really cool OC user, I've always loved the symbiotes and all their varieties of stabbing

I'll go with Carnage, as he's my favorite, but it was a close match between Venom and Scream Yes for fetish reasons

Drawbacks: Menace and Nemesis. If Spidey can handle that shit than so can I, even though a few cops will probably definitely die because I hate them. And as ridiculously strong as I'm about to get, I'm not overly threatened by another symbiote.

Powers: Natural Weapons (everything a man could ever need for stabbing bad guys in the everything!)

Enhanced Shape-shifting (I hate how I look anyway, and turning into animals and shit sounds fun. Yes, also for fetish reasons. )

Tendrils( for enhanced stabbing and attacking from weird angles.)

Regeneration (for not dying like all the cool kids)

Strength (for wrecking shit and tacking names. Try and kill me now assholes!)

Friends:Vigilante and Sidekick

The Punisher teaches me how to shoot guns AND I get to teach someone around my age the ropes of violent heroism? Life is good!

>Deluxe Passenger Quarters
>Can be purchased multiple times. Can be purchased multiple times.

>Transport Room
What is the range of this? Just outside the vehicle? Orbit to surface? Interplanetary?

>Workshop [10cr]]:

Man, picking Solar or Heat where I live would be a death sentence. 7 months of the year where average temperatures are below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and the vast majority of that time is cloudy to boot.

Whats the cyoa this user is talking about?

>Scream - "[...] whether you want to [our] not."
>Menace! - "[Her] considers you a public menace,"

Dilligence
Immortality

The one about being a Prince or Princess that was posted 4-7 threads ago. It was a pretty cool cyoa.

Can't wait for even more oc.

Royal Revival. The 9 page epic by Beri. Dig back a few threads and you should find it, or look in the pastebin for Beri's stuff

>That moment when you thought it was potentially possibru due to creator's wording to take scream and take separation to make her more "appreciative" of your male form.
>I don't think I have an image of a guy sweating enough in any of my lost reaction folders.

Does, Beri have a new project after Royal Revival?

Is it possible to take resistant twice to be immune to both Fire and Sonic?

I don't know if he's said anything, but I'm sure he will sooner or later.

The rate he works, I don't think he has "projects" so much as whims that materialize themselves into a professionally built CYOA in a single afternoon.

With the enhanced shapeshifting would I be able to change genders and the like on my regular body?

>Is it possible to spend 2 points to take godmode cheats?

You tell me.

It might be possible to convince her that it wouldn't be her being male if you do it while apart from her.
She would need a lot more convincing the first tine, though.

Yes. In fact, it's free.

Silk is great in her own book, and the main artist is fantastic, but unfortunately the replacement artist is pretty balls. The writer, Robbie Thompson, is really good at taking bad ideas/characters and making them great, just like he does with Venom: Spaceknight.
Remember, you still look pretty horrifying.
Without enhanced shapeshifting, you can change your symbiote's color, and to most different humanoid shapes, but you can't add too much mass or anything. You can also just shapeshift it to mimic basically any article of clothing. Unless you have Scream, you can't really make any huge changes to your actual body, but you can change small things.
Advanced shapeshifting let's you increase mass by a lot and actually change form.
In the comics, it really depends on how fully bonded with the symbiote you are. Carnage is bonded on a molecular level and can distort his body into all sorts of shapes. Using separate form causes the symbiote to completely leave your body (unless it's Carnage), and if used with Scream, you will go back to your original body.

In the Toxin comic, it took Pat, a pretty strong guy and physical made him a small, weak alter ego named Larry when it was mad at him.
I have different CYOAs planned and this one is pretty much done.
Hey, someone finally picked Carnage! They've all been picked now!

I'm happy to see everyone's enjoying this.
It's just like the Sunday symbiote threads on /co/
Thanks, fixing now. Who needs proofreading when I have you guys?
That's absolutely possible.
No, it's not. Antivenom's the only way, and I'm gonna nerf the amount of powers or companions he gets by 1, and force him to take a drawback without getting anything extra.
Yup, but just like Scream doing it, it will revert if the symbiote leaves you. And you're still technically a guy.

I always felt that the nanosuits from crysis were a little like the symbiote, both are really possessive of the host:

>It is a jealous skin, Roger, and it’s already been dumped once. Prophet had to literally rip it from his flesh and blow his own brains out to be free of the fucking thing. Maybe the suit doesn’t want to go through that again. Maybe it’s whittling me down so I won’t be able to -— leave...

>all this good taste
user, I'd suck your boobs if you looked like that.

I personally can't wait for your OC

Scream
Resistant (sonic-immune)
Tendrils
Regeneration
Hero
Fan

Naturally I had to pick Scream for the Be-the-girl option. Anti-Venom would be too easy otherwise anyway. I intend to go the hero, or at least not-villain route, so I took powers that aren't as likely to go out of control and kill people. The Hero can help keep me in line, the Fan should give scream a bit of an outlet for her to show off, plus better PR.

Chose Sonic because of the two, Sonic is more difficult to evade. Someone's using fire and you just GTFO or take cover or something. There's no hiding from sound, not reliably anyway.

>Abilities
Resistant > Fire
Resistant > Sonics
Regeneration

>Companions
Bro & Burglar.

I don't think I will do much good, but I definitely wont do much bad, either. I'd be like a much worse version of deadpool without all the jokes and way less action.

The drawbacks on most of these, leads me to pick Scream.