Jumpchain CYOA Thread #1221: Not All Who Wander Are Lost Edition

Only the Pure of Heart from Disgaea, and being a Herald in Shin Megami Tensei

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Time to find a gutter to crash in and recoup then.

This is so accurate my smile has transcended my face and radiates in my heart.

Thank you, user.

You're not as hot shit as you might think you are. Those who rush often die early so take your time with it. Moderation will keep you alive long enough to discern what to do when, where, why, and how. Sometimes the best things in life aren't things but experiences and others. It's a journey, what kind is largely decided by you and your greed.

Or did you mean as in jumps to take, general ideas to keep in mind, and just helpful to know things?

Oh ok.

I've started working on DC Occult again and have made some minor progress after getting some help from the IRC. Everything may be subject to change, but here's what I've got so far. Thoughts?

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

…Oh, wait, that's just good life advice.

>Or did you mean as in jumps to take, general ideas to keep in mind, and just helpful to know things?
Not that user, but yeah.

Get out into the world and have fun! If you're not having fun, you might as well have stayed home.

Actually, before I get into it with builds...
Anyone interested in collaborating with me on a few things?
I've got a shitton of jumps I wanna work on but as mentioned I work best with someone to bounce off of and help drum up at least some baseline ideas for perks/items and helping maybe with fluffing as well

Current WIPs: Jormungand, Der Langrisser, Sonic Classic,super WIP of an Endjump of Dungeons the Dragoning

Concepts and some various notes/ideas: Gold Digger, Kingdom Death, Sonic X, Code Geass, maybe Aion if that claim still holds water(though I haven't seen Aionon in ages)
pic is as related as you want it to be

Have fun, don't worry about power, try to avoid pissing off things bigger than you.

Get a good healing factor and find companions that would want to stick around for as long as you want to jump. Also keep in mind that for the first few jumps you'll want some source of money/shelter/food. Try to take full advantage of the warehouse.

Shoot, Digger! What you have for us to look at? We've seen Sonic Classic already, but I haven't seen the others yet.

Yay my fix, you are an excellent dealer CJ.

I'm up for working on Code Geass if you want. Mostly I just want to make a mecha customization part, if I'm being honest. Code Geass is full of cool toys, and I want to pack them all into the jump. Kind of picking the low-hanging fruit, though, I doubt you need help with that part.

>Sonic X
FORMULA ONE TRAFFIC POLICE

Do not pick drop in for your first jump unless you are very confident in yourself.
Definitely do not pick drop in if you intend to change your gender for the first time.
Get Forcewall
Warehouse utilities go from being super great to totally useless at 300 miles an hour.
Get Forcewall
Durability perks are your best friend.
Needs removal perks are your second best friend.
Get Forcewall
Don't jump any setting you don't know about within your first 20 jumps.
Don't companion anyone you don't want to spend hundreds of years around
Seriously get Forcewall it's god tier..

>Sonic X
Metarex background? It's one of the few things that are unique to Sonic X, and they're not that bad, actually. It's a good concept. Plus, Black Oak actually fought Super Sonic to a draw by himself. That's impressive.

>Sonic X
How do you plan to handle the timeskip?
It would be interesting as fuck and I'm enjoying all this Sonic love, but seriously the wibbly wobbly time stuff cuts out the best parts of the Space Odyssey if we only get 10 years.

+0 time extender drawback maybe?

Can The Green let you take a plant form like Swamp Thing, or grow plants from nothing like how The Red can grow animals?

I try.

Yes and yes.

They do the alt dimension tango and then Chris Chan's more successful alter ego gets deaged like the time difference between worlds never happened.
I'm not sure if that's really a time extension or a rewind.

Man... I really want to combine the Oblivion Bar with the rumours perk from Creepypasta. Be a mysterious bartender of a mystical bar.

Greatest Magician of the Age is awesome. Really like magic perks like that.

The Fountain of Youth honestly has no advantages for me at this point but I'll still probably get it because it sounds cool and I really like the idea of having it in my warehouse.

What happened to the perk that gave you aquaman level physical abilities?

I like it.

Who is the redhead at the end of the companion section?

My first guess would be the Ebon Dragon, second, the scarlet empress. Or is it a reference to something more obscure?

Jormungand's got the most substantial WIP

Der Langrisser is the same as I haven't done any major research on it yet
Honestly, I'm kinda bad with the subsections. Phantom table was my major foray and that was rough as fuck. If I come across the need to put one in I'll take you up on it.

Honestly enough, the major issue was handling Mobians. The mobians are the most obviously powerful beings in the early parts of the show and..in all honesty I forgot a lot of the stuff dealing with Space.
As for the timeskip, I'd probably put in a drawback to continue on until the end of the Metarex arc or the show in general, Need to do a lot more research on it before

Adjoran clone using splintering gale shintai

>the scarlet empress
it's probably her, desu

That will be in DC Mythic. If I actually do Mythic. I would need to do a lot of reading for it and I really don't have the motivation for that in the foreseeable future.

Glad you do.

OK question to all the sonic fags here.
Which one of these characters was the worst.
Be honest.

Awesome. This looks good, but are there going to be more drawbacks?

Just what sort of dimensions can be created with Greatest Magician of the Age? I'd assume less than the single dimension granted by the Dimension Lord perk?

Genesis. Frogs. I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

Drawbacks: Remembering a Past Life, Return of the Infernal Jumper, Love of Adorjan, A Hellish Rival, Demon Hunters, Past Lives Matter, Terrible Torment, Omen Weather, Demonic Aspect, Horrible Coadjutor, Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain (2700)

Savant

Caste: Defiler

Favored: The Ebon Dragon

Savant's Understanding (Free)
Beautiful and Terrible (Free)
Architectural Madness (2600)
Vitriolic Craftsman (2400)
Primordial Psychologist (2100)
Principle of Hierarchy (1900)
Pleasing to the Ebon Dragon (1700)
Crystal Clarity (1600)
Border of Impossibility (1400)
Coven: Perfect Circle (1100)
Demonic Retinue: Mini-Adorjan (1050)
Demonic Familiar: Mysteriously Mute Redhead (1000)
The Crystal Palace (800)
The Artful Temple That Is Not (400)
Sorcerous Initiation of the Yozis (200)
Staff of Forbidden Light (50)
Exotic Components (0)
Hellstar Guitar (+300, 0)

There comes a time when the enormity of your failure, the sheer grandeur of how badly you fucked up goes beyond mere rage or shame to describe. When you wake up, and realise not only a day has come that you have long feared, but that your suffering is such that you can barely react.

I have no emotion, and I must scream. I have the perfect voice for it, in fact.

But I also have a guitar. Two guitars, actually-the one I yanked out of my head, and Hell's.

So instead. Instead, before my fellow Green Sun Princes and the Yozis? I shall forge these guitars into a single beautiful instrument of absolute metal, a statement of our alliance. This is not the greatest guitar that will ever be. This is just a tribute.

And then, /I WILL PLAY FOR THE YOZIS THE SONG OF MY SUFFERING/

youtube.com/watch?v=15JCb6P60Vw

(Cont'd)

The text for Splintered Gale Shintai says that Adorjan frequently uses it to make pseudo-humans that fit the description of that companion. So presumably it's a piece of Adorjan, split off and turned human so she can be closer to you.

The maker confirmed a bit back that it was Adorjan.

What would be the best Yozi miniatures to get? I want the Ebon Dragon because it sounds like I'd find it amusing.

Is Dungeons the Dragoning really endjump material? From what I remember, PC feats don't get much above street level.

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>are there going to be more drawbacks?
Yeah.

>Just what sort of dimensions can be created with Greatest Magician of the Age? I'd assume less than the single dimension granted by the Dimension Lord perk?
I actually meant to change that. I had forgotten at the time that the character that perk is based on was able to create other worlds accidentally due to a seperate unique ability he had, not really his own magical power.

>Best
Girl I can't remember the name of, because all of sonic 06 was fucking terrible in such a way it became legendary.
>Worst
Chris, an enormous faggot

I don't even remember who captain shit suit is.

Sonic's furry-fetishist girlfriend, bar none. Christ, was that romance sub-plot the cherry on the top of an already horrible game.

The worst suffering inflicted by the Exalted was no conscious diminishment-it was the shame and debasement of having to submit to beings less than pets. I will reach into them to extract an echo of their power, merge it with the fire of my soul and return it a thousandfold to restore their faculties. Like my peers, I am cursed with a tainted energy-and here and now, I will EMBRACE that curse by channeling every last drop of Spiral Energy to heal vitriol into something more amenable to life.

I know, intimately, how they've been hurt. I know how they can be healed.

My greatest project for my time here is what I will call the Renovation: A side project of the Reclamation that will provide therapy to the Yozis. They commonly believe that making Creation mystically similar to them will enable them to escape their prison by subsuming it. I will, instead, show them that Creation as it currently is, is a mere cinder of what they once created-but from its' ashes, with my help they can create worlds in their image, free of weakness.

Each patient will have their own therapy session custom-tailored for them, with the aim of developing a series of charms such as these: pastebin.com/QuTHySae, that brings them a little closer to recovery-and peaceful coexistence. Therapy will vary greatly for individual patients, of course. Oramus will require specialised First Age reality engines to untether his wings, Elloge will require daily doses of refined Narrativium and Szoreny will need a multidimensional forkilft to right himself.

...also, for the record? Just because Cecelyne's therapy HAPPENS to require me ramming my elemental pole AND NO, NOT THAT ONE into her infinite depths, and Her therapy will involve these protoshinmaic anal beads I happen to have lying around, DOESN'T mean I'm involved with either of them. You can't deliver miracles with a mere suppository! Being stretched out infinitely thin means dimensional boundaries need to be massaged!

(cont'd)

Hey, fucker, don't forget to tell him to get Forcewall. The fuck is wrong with you, trying to set him up for failure like that?

Ted, Malfias, and SWLiHN are all fun miniatures to get

It wouldn't be about the PCs more or less, it'd be about the fact that the world is kind of a perfect place to set a series of challenges for a jumper since much like many jumpers, it's made of a metric fuckton of various elements from the other worlds, all mutating and mixing together. The entire point would be as a jumper shifting and changing the vastness of the wheel under certain conditions, there wouldn't be a singular victory condition

The idea would be to take a number of mini-scenarios of high level play and power and require you to complete x amount of point's worth to spark, while only given a PC's level of strength by the endjump itself.

Can you stack Avatars, and does Blue having swimming things mean Red can't?

Why do Half-Bloods get discounts on two 1000CP perks, while Chosen and Dabbler get one and an item discount, and Natural only gets the one 1000CP perk discount.

Would The Moving Finger Writes let you charge someone else the mana cost of your spells? If not you might want to note that.

I like the idea of a tiny, angry black boar.

And maybe pair him with a silver sapling that can only say 'I am Szoreny'

I will, of course, carry out my regular duties-all the better to make a point. Dragon wants me to traumatise the local God of Charities? I'll use that experience to make him grow as a person from the experience. She demands I annex a province? I'll do so by creating an peaceful egalitarian movement that provides communal living, with better living standards than the First Age.

The end of the decade will see the culmination of my last's scheming. While the Yozis have been so hellbent on escape, I have been orchestrating a much more direct solution:

I have rescued the youngest Solar Exalts from the Wyld Hunt and taken them under my tutelage-and retold the First Age as their greatest failure. Now, I will have them march upon Yu-Shan and exploit the Creation-Ruling Mandate to put the Unconquered Sun on trial.

For gross malfeasance.

It's going to take some time, but through sheer political pressure read: social attacks I will rewrite the Surrender Oaths to enable passage from Malfeas conditional on good behaviour. I can't expect to heal them all to be model titans in this time, but at the very least-I can heavily incentivise their recovery. This will, of course, be its' own kettle of hassle-but I'm confident at least She and Cytherea will be able to secure footholds given the opportunity to demonstrate their goals.

So. There you go. My time as an Infernal Exalt can be best summarised by a simple Kurt Vonnegut quote:

"I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.”

I want chibi-Sachaverall, cuddle up and fall asleep with him. Or chibi-Isidoros, this cute little piglet that likes to romp around. Make sure to get chibi-Szoreny to go with him, so chibi-Isidoros can fall asleep under his branches after he tires himself out.

>Just because Cecelyne's therapy HAPPENS to require me ramming my elemental pole AND NO, NOT THAT ONE into her infinite depths, and Her therapy will involve these protoshinmaic anal beads I happen to have lying around, DOESN'T mean I'm involved with either of them. You can't deliver miracles with a mere suppository! Being stretched out infinitely thin means dimensional boundaries need to be massaged!
De Nile, not just a river in Egypt.

Who the fuck is the guy in the middle, the dude from Shadow the hedgehog? He was barely a character.

Elise is the worst simply because she was so fuckin' pointless except as a damsel in distress

Have you seen the latest Guardians of the Galaxy 2 trailer, with little baby Groot? He's cute. I like that he's apparently still as strong as full-sized Groot, so he's bashing things around adorably. Chibi-Szoreny should be that.

Would amphibians fit under Red, Blue or both?

Elise a shit. Fucking literal mary sue who ends the world by crying.
Thank God she's retconned.

GUN commander is the human equivalent of an edgy Deviantart Sonic OC, heterochroma included, but he actually had a point and wasn't a huge cunt about it if shadow also wasn't. He's probably the best of the bunch.

Chris was a self insert rich bitch. Except he was socially retarded as well and directly ruined shit for everyone. Sure his upbringing was shit but that's no excuse for almost damning two worlds because he couldn't bear to let his friends go home.
He's the worst at his worst, and mid tier when he's not being a shitter.

Elise takes the cake because she's fucking trash personified.

In before "You like Marvel movies and cute things, which means that you're an idiot who should hang himself."

When considering taking a drawback, ask yourself what the point of having powers is if you're just going to be miserable all the time.

Willpower and Intelligence perks are under rated.
Charisma and Bard powers are OP.
Macross has the best Bard powers, but if you go there avoid being a senpai. They always get killed to raise the stakes
SCP has some really good regeneration and memetic protection perks, don't be warded away because everything not classified as safe want's to kill you at best.
Remember that you're not hot shit and will probably become the evil that you hate by the end of your jump and you'll stave off the inevitable for as long as possible.
Strike Witches Jump is underrated

>Needs removal perks are your second best friend.

This may be true but they violate the second law of Thermodynamics #triggered #purgetheheretic

I got a mini-Adorjan because with the splintered gale, that makes two mini-Adorjans to help put on my therapeutic puppet show for Big Adorjan to understand the true meaning of friendshipOW OW OW NOT THE FACE

>not "We are Szoreny"

I don't know what was going on last thread but, I'd just like to wish you guys a preemptive merry christmas too since I might be out of town on vacation soon

Bookmarking to give those a look later, as it were

>Can you stack Avatars
I... don't think so. I'll look into it.

>and does Blue having swimming things mean Red can't?
I think the Red can do fish and stuff actually. I'm not overly familiar with Animal Man, myself, but CCDT mentioned that the Blue was a retcon that threw stuff out of whack. I'm going to say the Red can do swimming stuff too, but not as well as the Blue and the Blue still has the water control over the Red.

>Why do Half-Bloods get discounts on two 1000CP perks, while Chosen and Dabbler get one and an item discount, and Natural only gets the one 1000CP perk discount.
Well, the intention was to give all of them two 1000 CP discounts, then some stuff happened when the jumps started getting split. I'm starting to think it'll probably be best to just give them each one 1000 CP discounted perk.

>Would The Moving Finger Writes let you charge someone else the mana cost of your spells? If not you might want to note that.
No. Will do.

>not "We are Szoreny"
Given his love of reflection, maybe even "You are Szoreny".

So what's your Devil-Tiger charmset going to be like?

>Strike Witches Jump is underrated
best witch companions?

I see someone is familiar with /tv/. What a waste of a good board concept.

JC is remarkably chill about idiotic cute things at least, desu. I imagine some of the other fanbases here would feel like throwing rocks in glass houses.

Hartman, she's based off an awesome pilot and is also the best witch combat wise.

For the 1000cp perks I would make each of them discounted for two origins so that each origin has a discount on two like half blood does.

"Synchrocity Wave Travelling" would also fit Natural as it is a blood line thing.

"Dimension Lord" could arguably be fitting for Chosen, especially if the given dimension is what chose them.

Don't think there is a decent argument for Dabbler to have Avatar though. . .

What are some other examples of "Real Magic"? I know Zatanna's backward magic was given. However would technomagic be considered Real Magic as well?

Wait who made the Eclipse Phase Jump?

Myrmidont. Why?

+ Don't worry if you don't have a theme.
+ Forcewall is not a bad idea, but not the only way to do it.
+ Spend a little time writing, or at least thinking, about the major events of a Jump. Just building mindlessly deprives the journey of much of it's fun.
+ Buy at least one Pod for your Warehouse. Your favorite characters aren't always as accessible as you think.
+ Don't roll randomly or ask the board for tosses until you are at least a dozen or so Jumps in.
+ With nearly 700 Jumps, popularity is extremely subjective. Do what Jumps interest you.
+ For the love of everything holy, post your build. Content is always appreciated, even if it is not commented on.

So long as you keep the perks in I don't mind. Also what does black protect exactly? I mean under the perk you say the each colour protects one form of life.

That sounds really good. I hope he goes with it. That might mean a new perk for Dabbler to get though, and I don't think the jump needs another 1000CP perk... Something for Craker_Jack to think about.

Merry Christmas to you as well Garlock.

Hey Gaunlet quick question.
Which anima power does She of Fair Eyes have?
Does she get the old one or the retcon version.

Or is that like a pick and choose thing since exalted erratta is all over the place.

Could work. We'll see what happens, since I still plan to do a lot more work on the jump.

>What are some other examples of "Real Magic"?
Man, it's just comic book magic. I'm just going to say like I did for JLD. Find an example of a character's magic style you like or make something up based on real magical traditions.

One I like personally is Traci Thirteen's City Magic.

>However would technomagic be considered Real Magic as well?
Probably.

Err... does undeath count as a form of life? Maybe it's just balance against the others.

Yep.

>Or is that like a pick and choose thing since exalted erratta is all over the place.
This one.

Give me a jump to do guys

Mononokehime, since that's the one I've got open at the moment. Dirge_ posted it last thread.

Slayers

Ever made a decision on that mysterious demon?

This one! I'll be doing a build and I'd like to see yours first, even if it does nothing to help me get out of the limbo I'm in on the choices I'm torn between.

VA-11 Hall-A.

Honestly, all the 1000 cp perks seem kind of weak. Especially Greatest Magician of the Age and Syncronicity Wave Travellling. The former has examples of Zatanna level feats at max power and the latter reads as just a large luck+ travel boost, although Constantine in the stories gets far more than that when riding the Wave.

I'd think SWLiHN was more your type than Cecelyne.

FLCL.

Because if I can't continue my trend of self-shilling, who will?

... have you ever looked at post and said, 'nah it'll stay like that so I remember' well that just happened.

Meant to direct you to

An alternative arrangement to try and fit better could be:

Greatest Magician of the Age: Natural/Chosen (Tim Hunter was chosen by the same magical force Merlin was if I recall correctly)

Synchrocity Wave Travelling: Dabbler/Natural

Avatar: Chosen/Half Blood (being the child of a nature spirit for instance)

Dimension Lord: Half Blood/Dabbler (could have won the dimension in a game of cards ala Constantine)

Thank you.
I guess Twilight essence reactor build is a go then.
Which probably isn't too Op in the context of Jumpchain.

Give examples of what you think are more appropriate for the perks?

>inb4 Endless background

Don't hold your breath
it's a long jump and I'm doing it while I wait for the boss to come in to work, I'll probably need to abandon it until the evening.