Jumpchain CYOA Thread #2103 Gib Mommies Edition

Okay, so I'm about to write a 600 cp perk that speeds up the rate you learn at, the more you learn. In theory, tied to how many times you've graduated college.

However, the other 600 cp perk for the origin is supposed to be you going all mad science.

Does the booster make the up front int irrelevant? Should I cap the booster somehow, maybe to a level of 'normal' mastery?

Boku no pico.

How tough are Grimm from RWBY? I've only seen a few episodes, so I saw Ruby go through through a bunch like a scythe through wheat (get it?) but given that she's the MC she's probably a lot tougher than the average person. Would a normal person basically have the "dies screaming while failing to run away" response, or do they actually have a chance?

Nah, just have no idea what this is.

Nice try motherfucker.

RWBY is stronger than the average person her age, but she's also two years younger than the main cast, so it balances out.

A civilian would get utterly wreck in combat. Aura and a decent weapon are a MUST, preferably actual training and knowing how to use your semblance.

Basically, they're physically less durable than humans because they don't have Aura due to a lack of a soul, so there's no extra protection for them. But that doesn't make them any less dangerous, they just don't have any soul-bullshit to fall back on.

So, as I'm working on Needless, one of the major things someone suggested was overhauling the capstone for Informant. I plan to turn the current boosted version into the base effect, but now I don't have any idea what I want to replace it with. Although, this guy did suggest introducing more supernatural information being added to the database, but I'm still not sure how I feel about that. Moreover I want to gauge whether there's anyone particularly upset by this change, or whether that one guy is really the only one that would want this change.

I'll post the current perk in response to this post for context.

Canon is inconsistent. Sometimes they are this super dangerous threat and other times they go down like chumps.

>Would a normal person basically have the "dies screaming while failing to run away" response, or do they actually have a chance?

Mostly the former, but Huntsmen - people who develop their Aura / soul power - have the latter.
If I'm gonna be honest with you user, the societal situation in RBWY makes no fucking sense. Humanity's split between multiple city-states, and Grimm are attracted to negative emotion. And we're supposed to expect that humans have SURVIVED this for long amounts of time.

Keep an Open Mind (600cp): Unlike most valuable resources, information is by no means finite in the conventional sense. There may be limits on how much you can obtain, but your own supply will never actually diminish, no matter how much of it you give away. Especially now that this collection is stored entirely in your own head. Every piece of information you have at your disposal in some form or another is up there. This library of yours cannot be forgotten or distorted, and will not negatively impact your brain as a whole in any way. Unfortunately, you cannot actively add to this archive, nor will it update for each world, what you get coming into this world is what you have to work with. As-is, your database encompases pretty much everything there is to be known in the modern world, barring anything considered private information or state secrets. This includes all (officially) documented history, laws, language, science, medicine, technology, and much more. If The average citizen could potentially learn it in their lifetime legally and without much authority, it’s guaranteed to be somewhere in your “shelves”. Still, it may take time to sort through when looking for any specific “books”.

(Boosted): You may find this more to your liking. Your archive now updates for each world you visit. Also, now that the archive is actively updating, that means that even after you’ve entered a world, your archive will add new books when amy new information becomes publicly available, you'll even be able to estimate how recent a piece of information is from the amount of “dust” it has. It’s not a big change, I know, but I’m sure that an extensive history of magic will do you much more good in a fantasy world than 500 written and heavily censored accounts of Japan’s edo period would.

Boogiepop, an anime from 2000 who just got a new anime announced. Though I liked it so I'm not mad, I'm mad at the reboot of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which upped the fujobait to 100 in the character designs.

Another one of my issues was that I really discovered the setting by reading Gamer fanfics set in it, which each add their own inconsistencies to things. I'm trying to figure out how well people would do if I gave them a bunch of lasguns or something similar (assault railguns maybe? Ferrous metals are common...)

>Mostly the former, but Huntsmen - people who develop their Aura / soul power - have the latter.
>If I'm gonna be honest with you user, the societal situation in RBWY makes no fucking sense. Humanity's split between multiple city-states, and Grimm are attracted to negative emotion. And we're supposed to expect that humans have SURVIVED this for long amounts of time.

As of Volume 4 they aren't just city states. There are outlying villages and such for farming but they are poorly protected.

If I had to guess there is a cycle where most grimm are utter chumps but if someone creates a massacre or other massive tragedy then the negativity creates an ubergrimm. That grimm then goes killing things to get more negativity to feed off but if there isn't enough then it hibernates until there is enough to feed it or dies.

Don't we already have that in a jump? I remember it being brought up that exact perk.

Also that's a really stupid and easily abused way to have it scale.

I don't think I've ever heard about this even when looking into older, well regarded series. Was it like a cult classic or legitimately popular?

>There are outlying villages and such for farming but they are poorly protected.

And given the numbers Grimm travel in, these villages SHOULD NOT EXIST.

Hell. They don't have the fucking infrastructure to support of the technology they're toting around.

>Also that's a really stupid and easily abused way to have it scale.
Diploma mills for everyone

On second thought, forget it. I only just realized how close I am to passing out here, I'd be out cold before I could respond to anyone. Probably for the best I get some sleep for not, I may come up with a solution to my problem on my own once my brain is fully rested.

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Tsukihime writeup still in-progress. Still not done. I feel like extensive Nasuverse writing may eventually spawn into its own plot if I stay on it too long.

...yes. Sort of?

I know what you're talking about, but it's an sb jump so i'm not sure it counts.

Wasn't intentional though. Well, not the learning enhances learning. The diploma/college thing is totally cribbed, simply because i needed a way to determine when you got the boost.

Open to alternatives, if you have one.

Grimm aren't ultra-invulnerable monsters, though. Remember, whats-his-face, the general of Atlas, fully expected his new robot mooks, to replace regular human and lesser robo mooks, to be capable of fighting and killing Grimm.

It seems to me that, if you're some untrained dipshit, then yeah you're gonna get fucked up fighting a Grimm, but if you're a soldier or something, then you can reliably win. Hunters are just people who receive the equivalent of spec-ops training and have super powers.

It was a hit in japan, but it didn't share that much of it's popularity in the west.

That is the thing. I figure Grimm are actually really weak and are only powerful when they have fed a lot on nearby negativity. In villages they aren't generally much of a problem because of limited population means they are really weak (as opposed to cities where higher population leads to higher negativity which leads to more/worse grimm in the area). Grimm like the Nucklavee or Kevin are really rare and need the negativity of massacres to keep going.

The robo mooks went down like chumps against the hunters though and didn't do that well against the grimm even before they got suborned.

>whats-his-face, the general of Atlas, fully expected his new robot mooks,
Ironwood was also working on Penny

That diploma thing is entirely retarded, especially if it's just a way to show how it works and not how it actually works.

Not all colleges are the same in how they give out stuff. Some are literally diploma mills where you just pay to get the qualifications with no learning required or only the most basic and easy requirements. It's also missing the point that it's broken as hell because even a single learning multiplier is fantastic and this lets you very very rapidly rack them up. Especially since there's no limits on what kind of college stuff you need to do, the length of time ti'd take, the difficulty and so on.

It's an awful, unbalanced idea. And it's straight up stolen from somewhere else anyway.

Gonna make a claim for bio apocalypse if nobody is doing that already

>fully expected his new robot mooks, to replace regular human and lesser robo mooks, to be capable of fighting and killing Grimm.

And again.
WHERE IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THESE ROBOT WARRIORS.
These city-states are fucking tiny - where are the mines, the space for production facilities, how the hell have they managed to get digital technology and ROBOTICS when they can't. Fucking. EXPAND.

Also the robots went down too easily to fucking STUDENTS.

>And again.
>WHERE IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THESE ROBOT WARRIORS.
>These city-states are fucking tiny - where are the mines, the space for production facilities, how the hell have they managed to get digital technology and ROBOTICS when they can't. Fucking. EXPAND.

Penny's Dad has a semblance that lets him fart them out of his ass

It's surprising Salem hasn't won yet.

>This is bad
Accepted.

>This is how you fix it.
You left this part of the post blank.

More seriously, yes I know. Should I just set it to a flat rate of ten or twenty or something?

Okay but how fast.
Literally, how fast can he fart them out.
Do they have him on a goatse machine, does he get breaks, how many minutes between robo-pumping.

Especially considering she's got god-knows-how-many of Ozpin's bois subverted.

>And again.
>WHERE IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THESE ROBOT WARRIORS.
>These city-states are fucking tiny - where are the mines, the space for production facilities, how the hell have they managed to get digital technology and ROBOTICS when they can't. Fucking. EXPAND.

Presumably it is in Atlas and because Semblances can apparently do anything (see Glynda's magic building repair and Weiss's do anything glyphs) they have people specialised in using their semblances for invention and production.

well that was a pile of shit

Question Regalus if you are still on do Companions from Comrades and Colleagues get their own Digivice in Digimon World DS (I'm not certain)

Aura basically gives people low-level super powers and ablative body armor, which is an obvious benefit if you're going to be hunting monsters. People can and have fought without.
Now for the downsides: There are more Grimm than there are dust rounds, and baseline people aren't really a physical match to melee with Grimm, especially when you consider their numbers.
Atlas is pretty much the cutting edge of technology, and it just recently introduced power armor/mecha and a robotic fighting force. (Or will introduce somewhat soon, for Jumpers.)

Did you read "Playing Our Roles"?

Again, hunters are basically spec-ops with super powers, and the robots are roughly equivalent to regular soldiers. Also, they're mooks.

I admit, I don't remember the end to that volume very well. Weren't the robots dealing with, like, a thousand different things at once? Like, you've Roman taking down the Atlesian fleet, a giant Grimm Dragon summoning other Grimm, the White Fang burning and salting everything they can.

>Do they have him on a goatse machine, does he get breaks, how many minutes between robo-pumping.

Fuck you, I did not need these mental images.

Looking forward to it

The majority of the robots got hacked by Roman - who used the equivalent of a fucking SMARTPHONE to do it.
And when fighting the students, the robots got taken out like they were just two-bit metal Grimm.

The ending has plenty of other bullshit too.

E.g The giant grimm bird attacks the stadium and all the ships flying around specifically to protect the stadium don't blow it up before it reaches them.

Torchwick and Co steal and airship and then blow up an airship with their cannon and none of the other airships defend themselves. (And they haven't hacked into and disabled those ships because Ironwood gets in one later to chase after them)

Hey Val, UQ Holder just released another chapter. The guy who stockpiled lives, he can release multiple lives creating clones. Also he gets more lives by doing good deeds.

A smartphone can actually hack into a lot of things. You also left out the part where Cinder hacked into the worldwide communication tower. Then another hacker took the codes from Ironwood's phone and gave it to Roman through Cinder.

So, no different from how those same students take out the Grimm themselves?

Also, didn't Cinder give him control of the robots? She did hack into Ironwood's terminal. That's how she knew Penny was a robot.

I left it blank because I know very little about what you're making, why you did this and also frankly, because I don't have all that much belief that you're going to be worth the time to give feedback to when you're nicking things from SB jumps.

But alright. Set it to an appropriate multiplier based on what is shown in the series that fits the perk. This is what you should have done from the start, quite clearly.

Yeah, but that's my issue - how was Ironwood expecting these robots to put up a fight against Grimm.

And I can't remember that last bit, it's been an age or two since I watched it admittedly. But the robots weren't useful in the slightest.

Nice. Glad we got more detail on what he could do.

>As-is, your database encompases pretty much everything there is to be known in the modern world, barring anything considered private information or state secrets.
Can you explain a little more what the boundary of 'private information' is?
For example, I presume that it doesn't exclude information behind a paywall?
If someone had a private diary and another person read it, would that information appear in the boosted version (because the information is no longer "private")?
Also, does the database include the (publicly available) fiction in a world?

Thanks user

Probably because you're just wrong. Obviously you don't know jack shit and are just biased, so shut the fuck up and admit that you're an idiot who doesn't know anything.

The only robot they need is pennyonce A2 upgrades her to a buster machine

Oh look, it's a RWBY fan.

They were useful, until they got controlled.

>A2

Literally who?

>Yeah, but that's my issue - how was Ironwood expecting these robots to put up a fight against Grimm.
With guns. We see that during The Breach, the robots are actually pretty effective when working in groups. I think the point isn't that these are some awesome super-robots that will kill all the Grimm on their own, but to create mooks that can handle the lesser threats while Aura-enhanced humans take on the big guys.

It means your health and mana are represented by five hearts and stars respectively, each heart/star representing 20 (percentage) points.

Nier Automata. She's a super prototype robot with fightan skillz.

It is just that it says truncated instead of represented and the two words have very different meanings.

I don't even like RWBY, I just know that you're wrong and don't know anything.

Gotcha.

The robots were weaker than Grim individually. But think of it like Starcraft. Two Zerglings (Grimm) will always beat 1 marine (Robot)

But a cluster of robots with overlapping field of fire are much better at killing swarms of grimm (but obviously not older ones)

>I don't even like RWBY
>but I'll insult anybody who besmirches it
>yet, definitely don't like RWBY
>not at all
>you shitlord

Oh my god and it's a tsundere one too.
I'd say "how precious," but it'll probably bite me in a second.

There are similar perks in Halo Covenant and Fate GO, which might have been what you're thinking of.

No, it was in an SB jump. The guy admitted he took it from there too.

That's true, the maker goofed.

NuBee Temperature Modulation + Assault, what would this allow?

Hey, what all Jumps do you guys know that have some flexibility in their worldbuilding? Different types of settings, options on race, that sort of thing. Stuff kinda like Civ or Total War with the options present there to decide on enemies or who you rule and such.

Dwarf Fortress, mostly in regards to your starting area / starting Fort. Plus the mods to add other species.

Stellaris might be what you're looking for.

Stellaris

Rolled 461 (1d1040)

Speculative fiction gauntlet
Hero BBS

Last Exile.

Minecraft

You're using a very outdated list.

Generic Alien Invasion allows you to literally create your own world as part of your build. It'sa great Jump.

Probably extreme hot and cold punching. Slam your knuckles into an enemy, have the temperature ride inside with the kinetic energy of the blow to cook or freeze things from the inside out. You'd probably keep the temperature resistances of Temperature Modulation and ability to not shatter your knuckles when punching really hard of Assault too. The power would probably stay centralized in the arms though instead of being a full body thing. That's my take on it.

Thanks kindly everyone, you've been a great help.

Remember when the thread traumatized a jumpmaker from making more jumps of their namesake because they were so attached to a non-canonical mixed race option that they REEEEE'd him into submission? Because I do. One of this community's greatest moments, probably.

>traumatized a jumpmaker

Pathetic manlet.

>Stellaris
Reminder that the devs fucked up the games with the 2.0 update and that you should completely ignore all the changes it makes.

I don't, actually. What are you referring to?

And don't forget the 12+ threads after that of "NO IT DIDN'T HAPPEN WE'RE IGNORING THAT THAT HAPPENED."

Are there any worlds that caused your jumper to significantly altered their activity in the jump, indefinitely, barring drawbacks? Like heroic jumpers writing off a world as a lost cause, or villainous jumpers deciding that abiding by their usual strategy is either too risky or not worth the effort? Just a world that caused you stop pursuing what would otherwise be your goal?

Different user, but continuing on the same topic of quirk combinations. How would Easter Eggs and Manifest combine?

Yep. Now Valeria keeps trying to throw him under the bus. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if she was one of the ringleaders of that little fiasco. She didn't even have a trip at that point.

Wrong comment, fuckass.

kek
What a tard.

How about Four Arms and that ability based on Shigaraki? If they are teched up to Tier 3

>reading SBURB jump
>notes on Pages
>the Page of Breath achieved jack squat

I dunno, giving that huge ghost army a sense of direction and purpose seemed like a pretty big Serve/Breath thing to me. Classpect stuff goes beyond the obvious.