OOC Solitarus

[Creeper326]

Thank you.

SUBJECT NAME: Quinn Scarlet
SUBJECT NICKNAME(S): Quinn; “Red Killer”
SUBJECT GENDER: Male
SUBJECT APPEARANCE: His clothes are black, dark grey, and crimson. He wears something akin to the 4th Terraria outfit, but there is more detail and the coat only goes to his waist; his black hair covers one of his eyes and his skin looks constantly burned, although it isn’t
SUBJECT ABILITIES: Fire magic; his wounds magically turn into blackened, charred skin after about a day
SUBJECT GENERAL SIZE (WEIGHT, HEIGHT, ETC): He’s average-sized for a 18yr old
SUBJECT EXPLOITABLE WEAKNESSES: Will not ally with others on any circumstances
SUBJECT STRENGTHS: Killing is no hassle for his moral compass. While his fire magic isn’t the strongest thing ever, it’s best to take him out in one fight rather than letting him “heal” with the charred skin.
SUBJECT TEXT COLOR: #993333
SUBJECT BACKSTORY(NOT REQUIRED): In a magic-less world, Quinn was rumored to learn the witchcraft of fire. He never told anyone, but burn marks everywhere convinced some classmates something was up. Everyone was scared of him in his high school, even some of the teachers. He has no confirmed kills, but many believe him to be the cause of murders around town of people whom he happened to not like.

A little cowboy kid sometimes feared he was next, and due to his nerdy cosplay, he very well might’ve been if he hadn’t run from home, probably dying in the woods. Those woods were possibly cursed, however, because when Quinn entered for a very easy-to-guess reason, he disappeared off to Solaritus. He can’t remember anything from entering the forest to arriving here.

SUBJECT THEME(NOT REQUIRED): “Nightmare King” from Hollow Knight

Hey there, hi there, ho there Clock, mind if I taksies for a little?

Solitarus. 384 System Years Ago.

YOU WILL BE FORGOTTEN. OTHER HALF.

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Beautiful. Now I don't want to kill the lizard statue. Why must you hurt us in this way, Fluxx?

 

[Fluxxation]

Beautiful. Now I don't want to kill the lizard statue. Why must you hurt us in this way, Fluxx?

YOUR CROSS REFERENCING PROVES INCORRECT.

 

[Creeper326]

To those 'asleep', (So not Horn or Innominatus) a familiar voice would fill their minds, separate in each individual, but telling the same message nonetheless.

"SOLITARUS IS QUITE A FUNNY NAME... ISN'T IT?"

"LONELY IN LATIN.. FITTING, HUH?"

".. BUT THAT'S JUST THAT HALF OF IT."

"TIME FOR A STORY. HA HA."

And the test subjects would soon see a bright light flashing before them, as it grows more defined, it seems to be a mess of galaxies, or perhaps a singular large galaxy. Regardless, it is warped and malformed, likely a result of the distortion brought about by an infant universe.

"THIS IS, WELL, HERE. OUR UNIVERSE."

"WHILE WE CURRENTLY RULE IT, THIS WAS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE."

The scene would then morph to a planet where short, kobold-like creatures can be seen clustering around some sort of bright light.. the vision broadens, and the bright light can be seen as a radiant humanoid outline, floating slightly with hands outstretched benevolently.

"THIS UNIVERSE WAS INHABITED BY THE SOLS, OR SUNS, AS THEY WERE MORE APTLY KNOWN. THESE.. GODLIKE PRIMITIVE BEINGS ARE THE RESULT OF THE COSMIC FORCES OF CREATION GIVEN CHANCE SENTIENCE, GRANTING THEM THE ABILITY TO MAKE BODIES FOR THEMSELVES."

And the scene now warps again, a peaceful, lush planet where Sols and the kobold-like creatures are living comes into view. A massive, black metal spaceship rips through a portal, hovering ominously in the sky.

"AND THEN HE ARRIVED.. MY SAVIOR."

The scene shifts to a small, scarred, and abused looking orange kobold, staring up at the monstrous ship in wonder.

"THE SOLS BID US TO AVOID THIS THREAT, THEY PROMISED THEY WOULD DEAL WITH THIS OBVIOUS ATTACK, AND THEY MOVED TO DO SO SWIFTLY."

"BUT LORD FLUXXATION WAS READY."

The sky suddenly comes alive with fighting, Sols blaze into the air, flying through the ship and ripping it apart in a mere moments. A thin red trail burns through the air, decimating any Sols it comes into contact with.

The red trail then violently impacts the ground near the orange kobold, who throws himself behind a rock and cowers down, peeking over it, shaking.

A sleek, humanoid machine, presumably Fluxxation, is surrounded by Sols, hovering slightly above the ground.

Without even an exchange of words, the deities fly at the machine.. but the machine moves faster, cleaving Sols in half with its bare hands, slamming them to the ground and shattering them to bits, annihilating them entirely. As the machine stands atop the corpses of a dozen of the divine beings, only scrapes mar its metal armor.

And then more Sols come.

And then more.

And more still.

"I WATCHED HIM KILL ALL OF THEM. THE ENTIRE RACE, EXTINGUISHED IN THE SPAN OF A FEW MINUTES, BUT NOT WITHOUT A COST.'"

Fluxxation now stands atop a small mountain of parts of Sols, still glowing dimly with power. He's missing an arm, his armor is torn to bits, and his lights are flickering.

His ship is still falling to the ground in pieces, nothing salvageable left.

A final Sol floats opposite of him, fists clenched.

And they fight, a much more fair fight given this Sol's.. seeming experience, and Fluxxation's weakened state.

After exchanging light blows, the Sol dashes forwards.. impaling Fluxxation with a fist and ripping it back out, a huge chunk of the machine's chest coming with it. With the Sol now close, Fluxxation slams it to the ground and stomps on it.. continuing to stomp until the last Sol is in several pieces.

"HIS ARMY WAS GONE, AND HIS BODY RUINED, BUT EVEN WORSE.."

The machine looks up to the sky, lights flickering as it extends its hand gently, fingers uncurling with disturbing laziness given the machine's recent events. It waits there a moment, as if expecting something to happen.. but nothing does.

"HE WAS FORSAKEN BY THE MOTHER."

The machine weakly stumbles off of the mountain of still glowing corpses, lights violently shuddering now.

The orange kobold slinks lower as the ruined Fluxxation looks his way, taking a few more steps before its lights shut off, falling to the ground.

The kobold slowly creeps out, going to inspect the machine...

And the scene morphs now to a hut of sorts, where the kobold has placed Fluxxation on a workbench, dragging scraps of the machine's huge ship over, pulling parts out of them at random and inspecting them in the dim, now dusk, light.

"I TRIED EVERYTHING, AND EVENTUALLY, IT WORKED."

The view shifts to Fluxxation's head, ruined and warped with its lights off, eventually flickering a bit before glowing with a dim red light.

"HIS OFFER WAS KIND AND REASONABLE. WE WERE BOTH OUTSIDERS SCORNED AND BEATEN BY THE HORRIBLE WORLD WE WERE BIRTHED INTO."

"HE ASKED FOR MY HELP IN TAKING REVENGE. I ACCEPTED."

The scene now shifts to a less damaged looking Fluxxation rallying several generally undamaged light soldiers, who storm into the nearby town, the kobold-like creatures and their stone and metal weapons doing nothing against the blazing plasma and perfected steel of the machines.

"IT DID NOT TAKE US LONG TO CAPTURE THIS WORLD.. AND THEN WE TOOK MORE.. UNTIL EVENTUALLY.."

The scene now shows the universe again, most of it a reddish hue.

"NOW."

And the scene changes one final time, a small orange kobold walking in from an abyss of nothingness, his legs replaced entirely with mechanical ones, and his lower jaw fully metal, a metal band with dozens of red viewing lenses spanned across his eyes.

"LET ME FORMALLY INTRODUCE MYSELF."

"I AM THE PROTOCOL, AND WELCOME TO SOLITARUS, THE GRAVE OF THE SOLS."

And with a bow from the kobold, the scene suddenly shifts back to nothing.

"But you didn't know that, did you?"

And the event seems to vanish from the minds of the test subjects, leaving only traces.

. . .

It wouldn't be long before they would begin to wake up.. finding themselves in... comfy beds?

Gliding over using its thrusters, BULWARK raises a bladed foot, thruster firing down in a stomp towards the necklace.. (--) but as if controlled by invisible strings,the machine's foot shudders, slowly set back down as the entire machine wobbles, scooting back a bit before returning to normal, the missile salvo on its arm opening slowly as several homing missiles fire towards Celtee. (11,6,6)

Celtee looks up, holding her blades out to brace for impact.. as Challus leaps over in front of her, a huge sweep of his greatsword creating a massive gust of frozen wind, blowing the missiles aside. (19, 12, 11)

He looks back to Celtee.

"Handle the generator."

She nods grimly, turning rapidly and first, grabbing Aurora's necklace, pushing it into her pocket, then lunging at the generator with another slash. (12)

This one lands a lot truer, a large gash now in the generator, which sparks and shudders. (26 - 12 = 14)

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"STEVE" stares down the PC now.. the machine slowly raising a shuddering arm to point behind "STEVE". (15)

"HU-"

(3) He's sent sprawling as the back of his head is slammed by a brutal punch from JACKHAMMER, whose torso is mending back together, its other arm slowly reconnecting as it dangles from a few long wires.


(4) It begins to melt near immediately.. so DANCER simply disconnects the bottom half of its arm, floating back as it extends a leg to kick at Yrivi, the disconnected arm segment already beginning to regenerate. (9)


Both machines prompty ignore him.

Helanne gives him a sorry frown.


"Given the near unreadable gravitational signature of this object, it is likely on the verge of collapsing into a gravity well.. As you have said, it would be wise to have an immediate escape route ready upon damaging the source.."

".. or perhaps, we could prepare a remote way to disable it..?"

Alaphet looks confused.

"SO LIKE.. IS THIS GOING TO MAKE A BLACK HOLE..?"

Zet is quiet for a moment.

".... It could create something similar.. I am unsure."

He seems to ignore the last part, either purposefully, or on accident..


Upon looking around the corner, the corpse(?) of a roughly 8 foot tall machine, plants growing across its decimated frame is visible, the red glow seems to come from its faintly glowing, plus-shaped oculus, two of the prongs flickering weakly as it gently turns its head to face Horn. Both of its legs and its left arm are entirely gone.

It remains silent.

Raylen stops nearby.

"This.. is my friend!"

"... and what might it's name be?"

The machine shudders for a moment before a weak, raspy, and distorted voice echoes quietly from the machine.

"I.. am.. Fluxxation."

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- Look to Windward (Sleep Token)​

YOUR CROSS REFERENCING PROVES INCORRECT.

Oh.
That makes considerably more sense. Thank you.

 

[noxelaphos]

Wait... Ignis, is that you?

is that streyll? or am i thinking of someone else

 

[Cream Starlight]

Hey there, hi there, ho there Clock, mind if I taksies for a little?


Beautiful. Now I don't want to kill the lizard statue. Why must you hurt us in this way, Fluxx?

I'll try to reach him on this tonight via Discord.

 

[Vella]

is that streyll? or am i thinking of someone else

Uhh... I'm not Streyll. I was known as Firewing, Changing Flask or Anthony Slyck.

 

[Cream Starlight]

@Fluxxation @Creeper326

Alright, I have news for you.
Aster decided to keep Quinn in a stasis for that he loves writing with that character and would rather the character's action be defined by himself.
Creeper? Your request of control has been declined for the reason above.

Additionally, if Solitarus will have a reset while he's off and Quinn will be revived via reset, killing him off is fine. Otherwise, he said he'll have to see.

 

[Vella]

The most realistic case would be coma and heavy injuries that necessitate the stasis, I suppose. (Like: The character won't survive out of the stasis)

 

[Orchamut]

The most realistic case would be coma and heavy injuries that necessitate the stasis, I suppose. (Like: The character won't survive out of the stasis)

To be honest he hasn't done a lot for the party so far so just having him implicitly follow in the background wouldn't really change anything, as this would kinda complicate things a lot.

 

[Creeper326]

@Fluxxation @Creeper326

Alright, I have news for you.
Aster decided to keep Quinn in a stasis for that he loves writing with that character and would rather the character's action be defined by himself.
Creeper? Your request of control has been declined for the reason above.

Additionally, if Solitarus will have a reset while he's off and Quinn will be revived via reset, killing him off is fine. Otherwise, he said he'll have to see.

All fine by me! Thanks for telling me and tell Clock that I appreciate his stance. I'm looking forward to seeing him in action once again!

 

[Fluxxation]

@Fluxxation @Creeper326

Alright, I have news for you.
Aster decided to keep Quinn in a stasis for that he loves writing with that character and would rather the character's action be defined by himself.
Creeper? Your request of control has been declined for the reason above.

Additionally, if Solitarus will have a reset while he's off and Quinn will be revived via reset, killing him off is fine. Otherwise, he said he'll have to see.

We discussed this on discord and DMs, a plan has been made, but thank you all for the help! :]

 

[noxelaphos]

Uhh... I'm not Streyll. I was known as Firewing, Changing Flask or Anthony Slyck.

oH I know the name changing flask vaguely I think

 

[Vella]

oH I know the name changing flask vaguely I think

Yeah, that was me. Good old times...

 

[Knight of Seriousness]

Spoiler: Silksong sploilers

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START OF ACT II: "ABYSS"
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BRO GAVE US SKONG TRUE ENDING SPOILERS ON PAGE 200 OF SOLITÄRUS!!! (No, my AutoIncorrect is never going to forget SolitärUS, and it will never stop autoincorrecting things to it.)

 

[Orchamut]

Spoiler: Silksong sploilers

BRO GAVE US SKONG TRUE ENDING SPOILERS ON PAGE 200 OF SOLITÄRUS!!! (No, my AutoIncorrect is never going to forget SolitärUS, and it will never stop autoincorrecting things to it.)

(Should've been act 3)

 

[The Rope God🌳]

Alright ill rejoin

Spoiler: Suspicious characters (hahahahahahaha-)

PLEASE PROVIDE DETAILS ABOUT YOURSELF HERE SO THAT YOU CAN BE CHOSEN AS A WORTHY SUBJECT.

SUBJECT NAME:

Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown, Unown.

SUBJECT NICKNAME(S):

Unown

SUBJECT GENDER:

Gender Unown

SUBJECT APPEARANCE:

138 of the Pokémon Unown, combined together into a vaguely humanoid shape. They carry around a trench coat to look more approachable.... It doesn't work.
an S makes the head, 2 Es makes the hands, and Ls make the feet, but otherwise it's just a jumble of unown.
Consist of:
A X 2
b X 4
c X 1
d X 2
e X 7
f X 1
g X 2
h X 3
i X 5
j X 3
k X 2
l X 2
m X 3
n X 2
o X 6
n X 4
q X 3
r X 4
s X 5
t X 3
u X 8
v X 5
w X 5
x X 6
y X 7
z X 2
! X 1
? X 1

Fact check me here, I don't know if those are right.

SUBJECT ABILITIES:

Hidden Power, of every type.
They do this by forming every unown that uses that type of hidden power, and then firing a beam of their combined energy.
any weaknesses to elements or things will be applied here, EX a rock based organism will take more damage from the Ground or Fighting beams.

They can use 1 per enemy per post.

Each has a different effect.
Fire: An orange beam of energy that feels very hot. Counts a fire damage for any weaknesses. leaves embers upon hitting

Fighting: A brown-orange hits with a more physical strike, so it can break rocks if fired at it. leaves dust in the air upon hitting.

Flying: A white beam that feels like wind. Scatters a few feathers upon hitting.

Water: A blue beam that feels like a pressure washer. Leaves you wet upon hitting.

Grass: A green beam that feels like getting hit by a log. Leaves scatter on a hit.

Poison: A purple beam that counts as an acid in case Cobalt gets any ideas of adding a certain character. Leaves odd purple goo upon hitting.

Electric: A yellow, very fast beam of energy. Leaves a slight burn mark on hit.
(this gets a +2 if the target is more than just wet.)

Ground: A brown beam that feels like getting buried, leaves the victim dirty upon getting hit.

Phychic: A common beam of purple energy.
(STAB: They get a +3 to attacks using this power.)

Rock: A grayish beam that feels like getting hit by rocks. Leaves small rocks everywhere upon hit.
(This gets a +2 if the target is airborne at all.)

Ice: A cold teal beam of frigid energy. leaves ice shard everywhere upon hit.

Bug: A light green beam of unpleasant energy. Leaves an unpleasant itch upon hit.

Ghost: A grayish purple beam of energy that doesn't seem physical.
(This can hit normally incorporeal or invisible enemies, assuming there are any.)

Dark: An extremely dark beam of energy. leaves a black spot upon hitting.

Steel: A gray-blue beam of shimmering energy. Leaves metal shavings upon hit.

Dragon: A dark blue beam of particularly harsh energy. Leaves odd scales everywhere on a hit.

SUBJECT GENERAL SIZE (WEIGHT, HEIGHT, ETC):

Weight: 1,518 pounds combined, 11 pounds individually.
Height: Roughly 8 feet tall if they are in their humanoid shape
Height if laid out in a line: 230 feet

SUBJECT EXPLOITABLE WEAKNESSES:

Bug, Ghost, or Dark type moves.
Serious answer: any damage will cause some of the unown to faint and diminish their combat performance.
i'll keep track of all the healthy Unown, and every 13 that fall is a -1 to attack rolls. If they reach -10, the collective is KOd and you probably gain enough EXP to evolve.

They can only communicate

 

and as such, do not generally use anything greater than 1 or 2 word responses.

SUBJECT STRENGTHS:

Hidden Power.
They can also levitate slightly, and their communication is very, very good.

SUBJECT TEXT COLOR:

this, for anything that isn't talking.

SUBJECT BACKSTORY(NOT REQUIRED):

It's unown, for now.

SUBJECT THEME(NOT REQUIRED):

HAVE FUN FILLING OUT THE PAPERWORK, HA HA.

 

 

[Vella]

If they reach -10, the collective is KOd and you probably gain enough EXP to evolve.

Two of my characters that don't evolve (Chillet and Fennix): Laughing with a shot being drank in background. An entire bottle as well for Akyrassha.
I don't use EXP for anything in roleplay it seems like... also, the only person who can evolve there is John Sharpfields, the only unevolved Pokemon, on top of that a Snivy with stats similar to Unown (I think, correct me if I'm wrong; though the Snivy's adaptability appears to be upped for this roleplay specifically). And the other one who learns moves, Ulyssia, has only a few on top of my memory.

138 of the Pokémon Unown, combined together into a vaguely humanoid shape

Holy mother of Celestia with characters. Unless it's a hivemind (probably a good idea given how many Unowns are here; for everyone's, including yours, sanity), it's not going to pass.

 

[The Rope God🌳]

Two of my characters that don't evolve (Chillet and Fennix): Laughing with a shot being drank in background. An entire bottle as well for Akyrassha.
I don't use EXP for anything in roleplay it seems like... also, the only person who can evolve there is John Sharpfields, the only unevolved Pokemon, on top of that a Snivy with stats similar to Unown (I think, correct me if I'm wrong; though the Snivy's adaptability appears to be upped for this roleplay specifically). And the other one who learns moves, Ulyssia, has only a few on top of my memory.

That was a joke.

also, I genuinely forgot you had Pokémon in here.

Holy mother of Celestia with characters. Unless it's a hivemind (probably a good idea given how many Unowns are here; for everyone's, including yours, sanity), it's not going to pass.

the S is the leader but otherwise....
unown are known to communicate telepathically and form chains of themselves. It shouldnt be too much of a stretch for this.

 

[Vella]

also, I genuinely forgot you had Pokémon in here.

I think Banama also has two Pokemon and that's 'bout it.
Ulyssia is a Pal and then there's Akyrassha being an 'unique monster' from Starbound.

 

[Fluxxation]

Necessary work out of the way, Solitarus returns tomorrow!

I’ll check pending character stuff then as well