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One Thousand Club
(I really don't like the categories for roleplaying on this site, but that's besides the point.)
Ever since I had a role-play on another site a very long time ago, I've had a sort of obsession with the idea of an immortal cowboy. Specifically, one who's favorite offensive technique is "dropping from upper atmosphere" and in result making the equivalence of a nuclear blast with his feet.*
I love this immortal cowboy. I see him in my dreams and I wish he was real.
Source:
Regardless of the lack of a nuclear blast (see spoiler above) I still think something in this state of mind. I want some insane game where I can drop my immortal cowboy like an orbital strike. Maybe not literally featuring the Immortal Cowboy but still.
Ever since I had a role-play on another site a very long time ago, I've had a sort of obsession with the idea of an immortal cowboy. Specifically, one who's favorite offensive technique is "dropping from upper atmosphere" and in result making the equivalence of a nuclear blast with his feet.*
I love this immortal cowboy. I see him in my dreams and I wish he was real.
Source:
<spoiler> A DC role-play set in the future, where one of the player characters is an immortal Cowboy, currently on a jet with a mission that requires recovering an item from a warehouse.
Player:"... " Bill's voice, tainted with his accent, began to get a little gravelly, before he spat at the hole in the door "Who wants to live forever?" Hoping he would land on a building, Bill jumped out of his seat, holding tightly to his black 6-gallon hat, which acted partially as a parachute, although he was still travelling rather fast..."
Me: "(Uh, you just hit the warehouse with five tons of force. You've burst through the ceiling. You could go with this, but do you wanna change your answer?)"
Me: "(No, you actually would have reached terminal velocity and hit [the warehouse] with even more force than I thought. You exploded it. Wanna change your post?)"
Player: "(Bill wouldn't hit it with quite enough force to break the entire building, as he fell into a single corner of it, but he did certainly put a hole in it. He'll be knocked out for a few-- but if this still doesn't work I can try again.)"
Me: "(The force wouldn't have made a hole, it would have made a crater. you hit the ground with a kinetic energy of about 3 kilotons, or about one-fifth the size of an atomic blast. Now there were no rules against this, and if you want that to be the situation, that's perfectly fine, but are you super sure you want to go with this strategy?)"
I redid the math just now and it's only 3 grams of TNT's worth, not 3 kilotons. Only 8 orders of magnitude off, but not actually enough to cause my super giant explosions. I feel dumb and sad. </spoiler>
Player:"... " Bill's voice, tainted with his accent, began to get a little gravelly, before he spat at the hole in the door "Who wants to live forever?" Hoping he would land on a building, Bill jumped out of his seat, holding tightly to his black 6-gallon hat, which acted partially as a parachute, although he was still travelling rather fast..."
Me: "(Uh, you just hit the warehouse with five tons of force. You've burst through the ceiling. You could go with this, but do you wanna change your answer?)"
Me: "(No, you actually would have reached terminal velocity and hit [the warehouse] with even more force than I thought. You exploded it. Wanna change your post?)"
Player: "(Bill wouldn't hit it with quite enough force to break the entire building, as he fell into a single corner of it, but he did certainly put a hole in it. He'll be knocked out for a few-- but if this still doesn't work I can try again.)"
Me: "(The force wouldn't have made a hole, it would have made a crater. you hit the ground with a kinetic energy of about 3 kilotons, or about one-fifth the size of an atomic blast. Now there were no rules against this, and if you want that to be the situation, that's perfectly fine, but are you super sure you want to go with this strategy?)"
I redid the math just now and it's only 3 grams of TNT's worth, not 3 kilotons. Only 8 orders of magnitude off, but not actually enough to cause my super giant explosions. I feel dumb and sad. </spoiler>
Regardless of the lack of a nuclear blast (see spoiler above) I still think something in this state of mind. I want some insane game where I can drop my immortal cowboy like an orbital strike. Maybe not literally featuring the Immortal Cowboy but still.
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