Saintheart posted:1. He didn't know Vapaad, but rather the other form associated with Form VII, Juyo. Juyo and Vaapad are only associated together because of a lack of coordination between LucasArts on KOTOR 2 and its merchandising arm on ROTS. They weren't intended to be the same thing. And again you'd have to justify where Kev-Mas learned Juyo, given it's an ancient form not commonly practiced since around the time of the Exile. Wrong. Both Darth Maul and Palpatine knew Juyo, and Kev-Mas was an Inquisitor. Its possible that he could have learned Juyo as an Inquisitor, due to Palpatine's influence over all things Imperial. And, the fact that there was a lack of coordination beteen LucasArts on KOTOR 2 and its merchandising arm on ROTS means nothing to canonicity. It is still canon, and Vapaad was also retconned into a development of Juyo by Windu. 4. See Obi-Wan Kenobi for more details on why a Jedi Master wouldn't kill his old apprentice, but rather maim him and leave. No - Obi-Wan left for one of two reasons: (a) In the film the implication is that Obi-Wan thought Anakin was going to die as a result of the burning, and Obi-Wan knew he either couldn't save him or that Anakin would refuse his help anyway. (b) In the novelisation Stover points out that Anakin was in an inaccessible location to Obi-Wan. Additionally, Kenobi could sense/see the Emperor's shuttle on its way, and as such concluded that Yoda was possibly dead, leaving Obi-Wan (potentially) as the last Jedi. Obi-Wan had been told he was not strong enough to defeat the Emperor, and as such he left to hide himself. Additionally, Obi-Wan concluded that he wasn't going to murder a defenceless man, and throughout the battle we see Obi-Wan obeying Jedi principles and defending himself first; he's constantly on the retreat. Well, I'll go with the fact that Kev-Mas' master was a very strict follower of the Jedi Code, and believed that he couldn't just kill his apprentice like that. In fact, Kev-Mas' master, Seth Donara, was not only known for being a particularly emotionless Jedi due to being a Kaminoan, but he was known for not killing as a habit. So, when he was faced with killing someone who he actually was able to form a bond with emotionally, he couldn't do it. Again, this is something I will cover in my next sheet. 9. He knew Midichlorian Manipulation, which in this case, eliminates the effects of aging permanently. And, in Yoda's case, he died because of old age. That's how long his unknown species lives. If you go by film canon only, midichlorian manipulation was only ever mastered by one person: Sidious's master, Plagueis. And given the Emperor's increasingly craggy looks by the time of ROTJ I'd say he never did either, whether with Vader's help or otherwise. Or alternatively there's just as great an implication from Palpatine's performance that he was simply lying to Anakin about achievable immortality in order to secure Anakin's service. Either way, the film implies that such manipulation is a dreadful perversion of the Force - that the only way to eternal consciousness/life is retaining consciousness within the netherworld of the Force, which Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and (finally) Anakin achieved. If you go by the ROTS novelisation it's even more explicit: Qui-Gon, one with the Force and therefore semi-omniscient, describes immortality to Yoda at the end of the book as "The ultimate goal of the Sith, yet they can never reach it; for it involves the release of self, which they can never achieve. Love is the answer to the darkness." However, Dade was not a Sith, and he was capable of being selfless, so he was able to break that restriction of being able to learn Midichlorian Manipulation. This has already been covered before me, so I will not go over it in more depth.
Mitth_Fisto posted:Name: J9-85 (AteHive) Why ate hive? why not ate five? Gender: Drone/In flux based on colony stratification and social justifications. Age: Undetermined, approximately 60 You as the character's driver would know his age. Species: Droid Homeworld: Roche Affiliation: Droids/Self/Master(If applicable) Personality ---Traits: Though admititably loyal, still has hive/insectoid based core programing. With a predinatural attraction to fire and its effects, often uses fire as a basis for explaining his perception of organics.Why? Has little or purposeful ignorance of electronic privacy, and will often when left alone hack through systems and personal files of those organics encountered and those referenced as important in their personal files. And he never gets caught? I don't think so. Also, what about traits? You've listed some habits here, not traits. ---Likes: Computer codes, being of service to the hive. Fire, and religious conotations that pertain to fire.Why does he like fire? Insectoid races in general to better acceptance of his model, and a general distate for most non-insectoid races due to their inability to accept an insectoid protocal unit designated as a worker drone. ---Dislikes: Mistreated or oppressed droids being tasked beneath their station, and those largely responsible for such misguided and abusive uses. Touchy or emotional organics, and those that look out for only themselves and not the betterment of the current society/hive they find themselves serving. Humans and similar species in general for an abundance of these traits. ---Habits: Never stands still, always looking around. Lighting small fires for self amusement, and to assess new acquantances.If I found a droid lighting fires for amusement, I would scrap him FAST. I would rethink this one. Will often connect to nearby computers via communications package to garner information and for company if current form is too slow, boring, or abscent. Appearance ---Strengths: Computer codes, Languages/cultures, pyrotechnics/fire in general, loose electronic property ethics, and defensive fighting capabilities. ---Weakness': Overconfident in own judgments, preference for use of fire,You can't have the same technical thing for a strength and a weakness. and inability to attack/harm organic/machine directly without being immediately indangered itself or its master in some way. ---Skin Plating Color: Tarnished/grungy mustard yellow(To human based eyes, highly excentuated in colors to Verpine spectrum of vision) ---Photoreceptor Color: One-way Black Protective casing ---Other Attributes: Extensive knowledge of computer, ship, languages, and droids. ---Other Details: Has integrated components, legs where replaced with a Roche's 8D8 smelter droids. Also has incorporated one small internal smuggling compartment, and has a an attached backpack (Think B1 model for size and outward appearance) for extended comm capabilities and storage, and a multipurpose information sockets inside the palm of each manipulator. ---Weapons: Not that kind of droid, beyond a basic C-22 flame pistol usually kept in the backpack. Biography ---Personal History: To long and twisted to bore the common uninprisoned audience.Then why not make it interesting so we can have the whole story? Ammended is the Readers Regurgitation version. Being the 85th off the production line has its perks, most of the earlier bugs from prototypes have been worked out of the programing and parts, and just enough deeper quirks remain to yet be uncovered in the programing of personality. After an inability to be sold due to large missunderstandings about the droids role, misconcieving the label 'worker drone' as an inventory and loading unit instead of a protocal unit designation, by other sentients and a couple years of work programing other droids within one of the Roche asteroid hives 85 was acquired in lot with a hundred other operational members by an up and coming underground criminal smuggling and information based organization which eventually became known as the Smuglers Smugglers.Alliance years later after Karde took control of the organization when Cardaz dissapeared. After a short term in service and change of leadership 85 was relocated along with thirty other J9 units to an undisclosed location for 'mixing' as a favor for a hidden informate of the organization in the CSA. During the mission it was one of the few left active to help in the running of the ship and caretaking/spying on the 'delegation' they were transporting to an imbargoed CSA controlled planet. Due to a hip motivator failure during the mission 85 was unable to make the journey to be mixed with the crystaline sentience that was borne. The captain of the vessel kept 85 onboard ship and replaced his failed locamotion capabilities with that of an 8D8 unit, and continued with fiddling with upgrades ever since. After retireing for personal reasons the captain took the droid with him in relocating to the Trianii Rangers base where he and his wife raised the lost, where the unit opperated largely as controller of estate and caretaker to the family. After many years and upgrades and experiments later whilst in the droid rare enviroment of the Trianii and their attitude to droids as children or near equals his quirkes excentuated into his current personallity and outlook at treatment of droids by organics in the galaxy, views he hopes to someday share. Which perhapes is its greatest weakness as it will judge a person solely on their stance and treatment of droids, and not on other factors, nor will its mind be easily changed that an individual should be perceived otherwise or that they can change. ---Traumatic Experiences: A droid of a predominately failed model line, due to unacceptance by mammillian species due to insectoid appearance and misunderstanding of the Verpine designation of Worker Drone. A flawed and failed experiment into protocal droids. This would be much better to be incorporated into the bio than just simply put here. Is this better or too overboard or sloppy on revisions? Thanks by the way for the comments.
LightWarden posted:I'm also kind of confused as to why a guy who's acknowledging his own weakness calls himself Paragon, but whatever.
Saintheart posted:It's old school now, but damn it was fun. I know this isn't GDG, but as an aside "Graven Bay" was IMHHO the way one ought to do a horror RPG. I enjoyed this so much because it felt so Stephen King/John Carpenter I really got into the mood with my character, Sheriff John Drayson. He wasn't a superman aside from having weightlifting as a hobby, and to begin with he was pretty spooked by events. Kai_Halicon kept the available weaponry restricted until a bit later on, and there were lots of chances to throw in verisimilitude like talking about a cop's worries on Halloween (or Samhein, if you prefer ). I liked Drayson very, very much.
