#gauntlet launcher

[yugiohcardsdaily]

Gauntlet Launcher

"2 Level 6 monsters You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card, then target 1 monster your opponent controls; destroy it."

[sharp-teeth-and-archived]

( ooc ): Sometimes I think about Evie in her time travel verses where she falls into the amrev time period (specifically in relation to turn) and how overpowered she is in that setting if you crossed over all of the game mechanics in a.c: s.yndicate

[gigginox]

new weapon in hades 2 has quickly become my favorite its very fun to play

[the-cauldron-witch]

Shit. Shit, shit, shit, c’mere. With Donnie pls? Maybe still crush state? 👁️👁️ (thank you in advance!)

Thank you so much for the ask!!! 🫂🫂🫂

I'm really sorry for taking so long, Donnie was being difficult and wouldn't let me write this out apparently! I hope you like it!

Taglist: @silverwatergalaxy @thelaundrybitch @sophiacloud28 @iridescentflamingo @thegirlwiththeninjaturtletattoos @yorshie @truffle-draws-turtles (message me if you want to be apart of my taglist! I just started keeping it, so if I forgot to tag you don't be upset)

Sparks scattered from the tip of the soldering iron in Donnie’s expert hand, putting the finer finishing touches to the circuit board inside the device resting on his work bench. Sweat beaded at the top of his brow, trickling down his face and neck behind the welding mask as he worked. Once he was satisfied with the work he lifted the shield from his face and smiled down at his creation, closing the panel and sealing away the wires and circuits from the rest of the world. With the final touches finally complete Donnie felt confident enough to test out his new invention; a shuriken wrist launcher. Although his brothers and himself had incredible accuracy with shurikens, they could only throw so many so fast, with this new device whomever used it should be able to send multiple shurikens at a target at top speed.

“Hey, Donnie!” Your voice broke the silence like a thin sheet of ice, snapping him out of his studying gaze and fumble with the invention for a split second. “Oh, jeez, I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to startle you” You couldn’t help but giggle an apology while Donnie sighed in relief with the invention still in his hand.

“No worries, I just finished my shuriken launcher actually,” He said with a grin, peeling the welding mask from his sweat covered head and placing it on his bench. Donnie was grateful for the way his purple mask hid the slight color that came to his cheeks at the mere sight of you standing at the entrance to his lab, shifting from one foot to the other while watching him. This could be the millionth time he saw you, yet it still gave him butterflies like it was the first time.

“Shuriken launcher? Seems kind of redundant,” You questioned with a raised eyebrow, walking into the lab and to Donnie’s side so that you could eye the metal gauntlet in his hand.

“Well, because of our tridactyl hands we are only able to throw at maximum two shurikens with each hand, totaling to four shurikens for each of us. Leo is the only one who managed to throw three in each hand successfully, but they weren’t as accurate compared to throwing the typical two in each hand.”

Slipping the gauntlet over his muscular green forearm Donnie studied his invention, pressing a button on the side facing himself. The gauntlet hissed for a second as the inner cuff began inflating, securing itself to his arm. Donnie flexed his hand and wrist, making sure that the cuff wasn’t too constricting but also held firm enough to not budge easily. Curiosity now piqued you watched while Donnie flexed his muscular arm, admiring his physique more than the invention if you were being honest.

“I recycled a blood pressure cuff machine for the base so that it could be used by anyone who wears it, no matter the size of their forearm,” Donnie explained, pointing his arm to an invisible target ahead of him. “It keeps the device secure against the users arm for better aim,”

“Oh, like the ones you see at the pharmacy?” You questioned enthusiastically, drawing yourself closer to Donnie so you can inspect the shuriken launcher closer. Now that you were closer to it you could see he had taken the blood pressure cuff as he said, mounting what looked like a modified multi-disc CD player onto the top where the shurikens were stored and ejected through a slim opening at the wrist. There were a few other components you couldn’t identify, but they all seemed to work together by Donnie’s ingenuity.

“Yeah! I haven’t put the shurikens inside the launcher just yet, I was just about to test it out in the dojo for the first time, if you’d like to join?”

“I’d love to! Can I try it out next?” Bouncing on your toes with eagerness you followed him out of the lab like an excited puppy. Your enthusiasm and excitement to help and learn from Donnie always sent a small whirlwind of butterflies fluttering in his stomach, something about the way your eyes lit up and voice heightened made him feel weak in the knees.

“O-of course, sure! But I want to take the first test, just to make sure everything is programmed correctly” Donnie spoke a little louder than intended, mirroring your own excitement as he strode his way to the dojo. Once entering the dojo Donnie made his way over to the training dummy, many shuriken already scattered about and lodged into different surfaces. Plucking the ones from the floor and pulling the three out of the wooden dummy he pressed a button facing him, the top of the devices panel popping open. Placing the shuriken collected in his hand into the compartment and closing the hatch he turned to you.

“Alright, so here’s how it should work,” Slipping into his ‘Bill Nye voice’ as Mikey described once, Donnie began explaining the device on his arm to you with a small smile turning the ends of his lips, “I modified the blood pressure cuff with some sensors that read the way your muscles move and flex, so that when I clench my fist and move it in just the correct way it should launch one shuriken at a time when flexed or sending multiple when your hand is held in that position,”

Taking a stance in front of the target practice dummy Donnie locked onto the blue and yellow target painted on the torso, lining up his shot and flexing his hand downward as though he were throttling a motorcycle handle. There was a long, drawn out moment of silence where nothing happened. Another moment and Donnie flexed his hand in the same way again, clenching and unclenching his fist in the manner needed for the device to launch a shuriken. Still nothing.

“Did you turn it on?” You questioned, giggling nervously as you earned an incredulous deadpanned look from the tall terrapin. After another second of holding the gauntlet out, Donnie sighed and brought his arm towards himself once again and relaxed his hand.

“That’s strange, maybe I didn’t calibrate the sensors correctly?” Donnie murmured to himself, studying his invention with a furrowed brow and small annoyed huff. He had gone over the programming his usual four dozen times and tested the sensors inside the blood pressure cuffs with his computer the same amount, the device should at least attempt to launch a shuriken.

Approaching Donnie as he continued his intense gaze as though the problem would be written on the surface of the uncooperative device, he didn’t register your proximity as he continued scrutinizing and silently questioning what could not be working right. Grazing the tip of his finger over the area where the shurikens had been loaded into earlier Donnie noticed the small door had not latched shut properly. Pressing his finger on the hatch the smallest and softest ‘click’ registered in Donnie’s ears a millisecond before a glint of metal shot from his wrist.

You didn’t have time to so much as blink. The weapon was ejected in the flicker of an eye with incredible speed, the sharpened tip grazing the skin of your cheek and leaving a thin trail of crimson beads behind. Hissing as the fiery sting settling into your cheek you reached a hand to your face, fingertips meeting warm blood as you and Donnie stared at one another in shock. Blood trickled down your cheek for a second longer before Donnie snapped out of his daze, pressing the button to disengage the gauntlet from his arm and let it drop to the floor without a care.

“Shit. Shit, shit, shit, c’mere” Donnie breathed as he quickly leaned down to capture your face in his massive hands, the sudden closeness causing your breath to hitch in your throat and heart to stammer a beat. Not giving you a chance to find your voice again Donnie swept you off of your feet and into his massive arms, carrying you to the med-bay hastily in one fell swoop. How could he have let something like this happen? Something as stupid as the hatch not being closed correctly shouldn’t have gotten you hurt! You practically blinked and the two of you were in the medbay. Placing you on the exam table gently Donnie studied your face with concern and guilt wrinkling his brow and eyes.

“Donnie?” You questioned as he darted to the otherside of the room, opening a drawer or two before pulling out a plastic med kit.

“So fucking stupid...should have fucking known better, didn’t pay attention enough!” You could hear him muttering angrily to himself, berating himself for letting you get hurt in the most ridiculous way. Guilt clutched at your chest as you heard him curse under his breath. It wasn’t like he did it on purpose or knew something so small would go wrong, things like this just happened sometimes.

“Donnie?” You tried again when he sat himself in on a rolling chair and slid clear across the room to your side. The cut no longer burned as harshly now, but the sting still lingered and pulsated. Blinking himself out of the fog the panic settled in his mind Donnie’s eyes finally met yours.

“It’s okay, really,” A smile attempted to dimple your cheek, making you wince a tiny bit from the fresh pain, “I’m okay, honestly. It’s just a little scratch! Stop beating yourself up,”

“I...I know...I should have known better than to point it-” He began berating himself again as his fingers fiddled with the antiseptic wipe in his hands, fingers fumbling and making him more frustrated. Taking his jittering hands in your own you brought his attention back onto you, his heart hammering in his chest as he felt the warmth of your soft hands wrapping around his rather larger ones. The sudden urge took over you, leaning you forward and pressed so that you could press your lips to his forehead for a moment. Electricity ran from where your lips met his skin down his neck and through every nerve ending in his shell and skin, sparks crackling and sending shivers down his spine. Pulling your lips away from his forehead you registered what you had done, offering a shy smile.

“It’s just a little scratch. I’m okay, really” You giggled nervously.

Swallowing the thick lump suddenly lodged in his throat Donnie couldn’t bring himself to speak again, knowing his voice would crack and betray him now. Instead he focuses on the dried blood staining your cheeks, despite the fact they were already flushing red from your own doing. Not that Donnie’s own face wasn’t heated by the kiss placed on his forehead, but he wasn’t going to admit that out loud just yet.

[clingyduoapologist]

L’mantrio but I assign them hidden blades:

c!Tommy: ok like to me ctommy 100% has a hidden blade similar to Connor’s

Like with the swivel there? Mans is here to fuck shit up and he doesn’t particularly care how. Fear him.

c!Tubbo: easy answer the Syndicate gauntlet

Bro is kitted OUT. He’s got the grappling hook, the dart launcher, the blade itself, plus whatever other mods his sick twisted little self could come up with. Wrist mounted war crime right here.

c!Wilbur: Arno’s phantom blade

Sleek. Understated. And yet with just the little bit of added functionality of the crossbow. Lets him pick off targets before they ever even see him. He’d like it. #archerbursupremacy💯

[oddlyzephyrous]

where the fuck did aypierre get a rocket launcher. and a lazer gauntlet. and a fucking. BLOODBORNE SAWBLADE.

[boinkingbattlemechs]

Bushwacker

Originally a failed BattleMech concept designed to have a smaller forward profile, the Bushwacker would ultimately become a popular Clan Invasion era BattleMech in use within both halves of the Federated Commonwealth.

Under development on the cusp of the Clan Invasion, the ambitious and unorthodox design of the Bushwacker featured a low-slung and narrow upper torso to present minimal target profile to enemy units. Unfortunately this resulted in a complex and crowded internal layout, with the 'Mech's fusion engine's close proximity to the sensor and communication system resulting in electronic interference and system failures. Engineers were unable to overcome these issues, and the 'Mech seemed destined for the scrap-heap despite impressing evaluators with its design and capabilities.

The Bushwacker was ultimately saved by the Clan juggernaut following a successful Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth raid against a Clan Jade Falcon base on Twycross, FedCom forces securing a treasure trove of schematics and technical data on numerous Clan designs, including the Vulture. Though a more vertical design, the Clan OmniMech shared the same compressed volume issues, with the Clan engineers making several unusual decisions in its internal layout to alleviate the interference problem. With the TharHes engineers able to adapt the Clan solution to the Bushwacker, reconfiguring its internal structure, the 'Mech was given a second lease on life.

Full scale production of the corrected Bushwacker began in 3053 on Tharkad following the Truce of Tukayyid, though many FedCom units who served on the Clan frontlines received preproduction models during the initial invasion. This led to the 'Mech being most numerous on the Clan/Lyran Alliance border immediately following the succession, though by the conclusion of the FedCom Civil War the Bushwacker could be found in almost every first echelon unit in both halves of the Federated Commonwealth. For some unknown reason the Bushwacker has since become a favorite of MechWarriors in the Draconis and Capellan Marches of the Federated Suns.

With TharHes Industries badly damaged during the Jihad and Word of Blake occupation of Tharkad, the company was forced to sell off the Bushwacker plans to raise much-needed capital to rebuild its production lines. Purchased by Coventry Metal Works, the company used the specs to create the Gauntlet OmniMech, with modern Bushwacker models sharing a similar frame and various other components with it, allowing both CMW and TI to reduce costs for both designs through economies of scale. Though the OmniMech was intended as an exclusively Lyran design, the Bushwacker is not so restricted and is exported outside the Commonwealth, remaining popular within the Armed Forces of the Federated Suns even during the Dark Age era.

The Bushwacker has a top speed of 86.4 km/h and carries nine tons of armor. What the 'Mech lacks in protection it makes up for in range, using its speed to keep enemies at arm's length while using its slew of long range weaponry to slowly wear down enemies.

In an attempt to keep the enemy at as long a range as possible, the Bushwacker carries two Federated 5-Shot LRM-5 launchers. The LRM-5s give it the capability to give some indirect fire support as well as laying down minefields with specialized munitions. These are backed up by a BlazeFire Sweetshot ER large laser and an 80 mm Mydron Model B AC/10, which give the 'Mech a powerful long range direct-fire punch. A pair of Johnston Minigun machine guns are the only short range weapons carried by the 'Mech.

[iamblue15]

Mystery Gems: Fusions (Steven Edition)

Dipper (Blue Agate) = Purple Labradorite

Extra Body Parts: 3 Arms

Weapons: Boomerangs

Mabel (Pink Agate) = Pink Labradorite

Extra Body Parts: 3 Arms

Weapons: Clawshots

Raz (Orange and Green Tourmaline) = Mystic Quartz

Extra Body Parts: 4 Eyes and Arms

Weapons: Battle armor with gauntlets that detach and can be controlled telepathically.

Lili (Dragon's Blood Jasper) = Unakite

Extra Body Parts: 4 Eyes and Arms

Weapons: Flaming buzzsaw attached to whip.

Coraline (Sodalite) = Hackmanite

Extra Body Parts: 4 Eyes

Weapons: Large bubble wand that can fire projectile bubbles, form a bubble shield, or even be made into a close-ranged weapon, using the bubble fluid to create a spear or axe shape.

Wybie (Lodestone) = Cinnabar

Extra Body Parts: 3 Eyes

Weapons: Produces his own metal that he can mold into different weapons or shields.

Norman (Prehnite) = Green Variscite

Extra Body Parts: 3 Eyes and 4 Arms

Weapons: Acoustic bass guitar that produces Norman's animating lightning when strung.

Neil (Amber) = Honey Calcite

Extra Body Parts: 3 Legs

Weapons: Arms molded into a launcher that shoots instant hardening goo or a hard golden disc with precision.

[elzifelzi]

So here are the rules of this omnitrix

Firstly concept wise and appearance wise as you'll see below it's a combination of almost every canon omnimatrix device that ben has worn in the classic continuity.

This is because #1 in my AU there is no separation between AF/UA and OV it's just one series and #2 i wanted to limit the amount of omnitrix devices that ben uses for story and convenience purposes.

Now on to what thiw omnitrix actually is.

It's essentially just the classic omnitrix with some Alterations think of the recalibrated omnitrix from af except the reason for it recalibrating is not because ben hadn't used it for awhile It's because of a device called the matrix core.

This lil thing right here...it may not look like much but it is conceptually the most powerful piece of technology in the universe.

What does it do?

It's a device that upgrades and enhances any device it integrates with almost like a portable galvanic mechamorph for example integrate it into a rocket launcher and it can have the power of a tank..integrate it into a tank and ot could have the potential power of a nuke etc etc.

Azmuth developed this device to boost galvanic planetary defenses in case of emergencies but Myaxx sent it to ben before it was completed.

He also never calibrated it to work well with the omnitrix.

After ben integrates the matrix core into his omnitrix the omnitrix recalibrates changing it's appearance and features.

It is now more gauntlet shaped with the omnitrix dial located on the back of the hand and It has an alien selection wheel like the ov omnitrix (but not the touchscreen dial)

Now since the matrix core was not perfected there are some new features as well as bugs that come with it...the mistransformation glitch is back not as often as in ov but it still happens from time to time,Ben is back to only 10 aliens at the moment some are new and some are the ones he had when he was younger with the others being locked away...he'll unlock them again at some point.Transformations use wayyy more power than the regular omnitrix forms he runs the risk of draining the "battery". And since the core was never perfected staying transformed for too long as well as switching through aliens too frequently puts a huge physical strain on ben himself.

As for Bens aliens since the matrix core upgrades technology and ben put it into the omnitrix then his aliens have also been augmented.

Now as for how the augmented forms themselves work..think of the ultimate aliens crossed with the anti trix aliens from the reboot.So the Matrix core basically takes whatever species Bens selected and evolves them the evolutions themselves aren't all exactly the same and neither are the evolutionary requirements for example alien a might be put through a simulation of the worst possible state of their planet and will be forced to evolve to adapt to that while alien b might be put in a situation where they have to evolve to overcome their predator etc

The forms also have to make some sense from an evolutionary standpoint to Ult Humungousaurs hand missles,Ult big chills Fire ice and Ult Wildmutts speaking don't count. So after the alien is evolved they remain that way as long as the matrix core is part of the omnitrix..no turning it off and on like the ultimates. So like how the anti trix aliens are constantly mutated.

[eliseuocscreator]

Well, I made another OC from DC comics, but I want your opinion guys, to see if he is a good OC or not... Some information about him:

He is a Metahuman, who gained powers through an experiment, he gained powers/abilities related to insects/arachnids, and he was rescued and adopted by Batman, when he was 4 years old.

He launches a mixture of web and honey (Weboneys) through diamond-shaped launchers on the palms of his hands. As he grew, the number of Weboneys his body produced increased. His weboneys have a fishing line-like texture and are very resistant, however, they can become more resistant and strong if he eats/drinks proteins + sugar (nectar).

He has jaws where his mouth used to be, Furthermore, with its bite, it can apply a muscular poison, which can paralyze the muscle (in high doses), or cause tingling, depending on the amount injected.

He sees in ultraviolet and his super reflexes are in slow motion(Very useful in battle)

He calls Bruce father and Alfred grandfather, and Bruce usually calls him son, but Alfred usually calls him Master (his name)

I decided his name will be Konchunid (Konchū from the Japanese word, which means insect and nid, from the word Arachnid).

His Vigilante name is Abaddon (inspired by the demon/fallen angel of the abyss, which contains extremely powerful locusts(Search Abaddon's locusts and then they go into the picture, how horrible they are).

He has antennas, which are used to communicate with the Batcave. and also with Commissioner Gordon's communicator, it's quite useful, and also his helmet, it serves to amplify his antennas range(and the antennas are a little outside his helmet, as his helmet have mini holes to pass his antennas through), Besides his helmet, It has thermal vision (ultramarine) visors, which, together with its ultraviolet vision, help it see perfectly well at night.

His attributes and powers evolve in 4 stages (Larva, Pupa, Imago and Imago+).

Thanks to his ultraviolet vision, he is more attracted to the colors purple, red and blue.

His romantic partner is Cassandra Cain (in this AU she is created by Lady Shiva)

He has an exoskeleton, which appeared when he was in a pupal state (in his pre-adolescence), and his exoskeleton acted like a Kevlar vest, but improved and improvised(When he underwent two more metamorphoses, his exoskeleton evolved greatly.

One of his super attributes is his superhuman balance, he can stand upside down, he can climb with ease, he can do parkour with ease and many other things.

He also has super senses, and one of his super senses is his vision, because he sees in slow motion, he can be overly cautious in a battle, but the downside of this is that for him, many are talking at 0.5x speed, For others, he speaks of 1.25x

He has a long tongue, like insects, and they are very sensitive, His tongue is 8 inches (20.32cm).

Damian and Konchnid's first meeting is quite prejudiced, with Damian calling him a freak and hideous, but Konchnid, He tells Damian that he has his hideous appearance, to scare the criminals even more, which left Damian a little scared by Konchnid's serious and deep response.

Damian felt jealous to Konchnid when he discovered that he calls Bruce Father, and he finds it strange that Konchnid calls Alfred Grandfather.

Dick, Jason and Tim's relationship with Konchnid is that of older brothers caring about their "younger" little brother, they think Konchnid is an excellent vigilante, it's pretty amazing, the way he fighting crime, and arresting criminals, is highly valued in the Batfamily.

Konchnid and Dick's (Nightwing) relationship is quite healthy, with Dick often training with Konchnid in hand-to-hand combat, with Konchnid using his fists/gauntlets, and Dick using his escrima sticks, Damian realizes that Dick trains Konchnid more calmly than Dick trains him with sermons. There was a time when Dick made Konchnid bleed, but Konchnid was humble and laughed softly, saying that he will never be as good as Dick, but Dick replied to his little brother: "Don't worry Konchnid, that's what training is for, to improve your reflexes, and regarding that, I I see potential in you, my little brother!"

The Konchnid's blood color is bluish, due to his Arachnid side.

The color of Konchnid's eyes is ruby red (he wears sunglasses so that many people don't see his eyes), and the pair of eyes, in the pupils, have mini irises, which are compound eyes, which They serve as mini telescopes (the maximum zoom they can give is up to 60x).

Originally, I thought about it having a metasoma, but I decided to remove that part, because unfortunately, my application doesn't have that part to add to him...

Cassandra and Konchnid met when they were both 11 years old, and when they met, they couldn't kill each other, they both felt love at first sight, but Cassandra had to throw a smoke bomb, to escape, and Konchnid he just looked at Cassandra disappearing, he didn't know what to say, if it's love, or if it's something else... The two met from the age of 11 until they were 15, and at 15, both Lady Shiva and Batman discovered that their children were meeting alone at night on the rooftops of Gotham(Batman had placed a tracker on Konchnid, while Lady Shiva asked a ninja to follow Cassandra).

Cassandra in this AU, she speaks normally, but she speaks very quietly, with Konchnid she decided to speak better, and more confident, and the funny thing is that the two told their parents, that they both are different (Konchnid defending Cassandra and Cassandra defending Konchnid).

His exoskeleton gave Konchnid a cheese protection, so that if an opponent punches him in the chin, it ends up twisting or breaking the hand or part he uses, this happened with Bane when he was facing Konchnid.

The first time Konchnid discovered he had muscle venom, he bit Bane on the hand(When he was 9 years old, and was acting like Robin with Batman), and ended up injecting all of the muscle venom into Bane's hand, which ended up paralyzing Bane's left hand/wrist and arm of Bane for 1 month and 3 weeks.

I was inspired by two Marvel characters to make Konchnid: Miguel O'Hara (Spider-Man 2099) and Tempest Munroe (Spider-Wasp).

Konchnid, he doesn't sleep in his bed, but rather he sleeps in an ugly cocoon with his Weboney, his cocoon is stuck to the ceiling.

Damian once entered Konchnid's room and was frightened and afraid, seeing the open cocoon of Konchnid.

Konchnid has retractable wings (his wings are like Cell's from Dragon Ball Z), and they go into his back whenever he is disguised in casual clothes (he also wears a mask to Cover his jaws so people don't get scared, however, some who already know his jaws, they don't get scared, on the contrary, they tell him that he is beautiful even with his jaws. He normally goes to a diner, where the owner of the diner already knows him, and says that anyone who talks about his jaws, they will have to deal with him, and that Konchnid should not be ashamed of being a Metahuman, And yes, he should be proud of who he is, the important thing is that he feels good and welcomed.

Konchnid has ADHD and autism level 1 support (varying between level 3), people close to him end up speaking for him, when he doesn't want to talk much, the owner of the snack bar he goes to, Set aside a notebook so that Konchnid can write down his order, and it will be done with care (and with lots of protein)

Konchnid's exoskeleton makes him weigh around 85kg, before without the exoskeleton, he weighed 60kg.

[magicalmanhattanproject]

hey y'all remember soul eater? i just randomly remembered soul eater existed and then my brain got taken over by cubitos about it. if you don't remember soul eater, the important thing to know is that some people can shapeshift into magical weapons wielded by partners called meisters. technically anyone can become a meister, but it is a thing you do have to train to do while being a weapon is something you're born with. anyway, this first post is just characters' first impressions of each other and i'll make another post with more secrets and truths if ppl are interested (i was gonna make it this one but this post is getting Long)

First Residents

FitMC and Spreen

Spreen is a cocky and extremely well trained meister who is used to working with his brother Missa or his Good Pal Roier who are both relatively laid back and used to his shenanigans. He absolutely deserves to be cocky given how absurdly skilled he is, but he clashes badly with fiercely independent, reserved, and paranoid grenade launcher Fit of 2b2t. Fit sees Spreen as an entitled brat and they simply do not vibe with each other well enough for Spreen to wield him.

Fit will let Ramón wield him fairly freely because it's important for kids to learn these things early, but prefers to handle any situation where Ramón might actually be in danger by himself.

Quackity Luzu and Wilbur

Quackity is a single chainsaw in search of a meister. Luzu and Wilbur are both meisters not in search of weapons. Luzu has his own shit going on with an AI taking over his body sometimes so he's mostly out of the picture. Wilbur was trained as a meister by his father but isn't all that interested in the job and just wants to play music. Besides, he has skinny little noodle arms and chainsaws are heavy and hard to wield.

Neither Tilín and Talluluh have ever received any formal meister training.

Philza and Missa

Phil is an old and skilled meister in need of a new weapon. Missa is a macuahuitl of pretty middling experience. He's certainly not incompetent and he and Phil are capable of working together well enough, but it's hard to get to know each other well enough to truly bond when Missa isn't around very often. Still, they probably have the most effective combat record out of any of the Federation assigned partnerships.

Chayanne is also a macuahuitl and the only weapon among the eggs. He is far more eager to learn the craft than either of his parents are for him to learn.

Slime and Mariana

Slime and Mariana are probably the Least effective duo in combat. They're both weapons, for one thing. Mariana is an extraordinarily powerful gauntlet and Slime is a 9mm glock. Mariana has at least a bare minimum of meister training, but neither of them are actually like. Any good at it. Or very good at being weapons for that matter. Or in tune with each others' wavelengths enough to wield each other. At least they're trying.

Juanaflippa could dual wield her papas on the rare occasions she could get them to both show up for her.

Roier and Jaiden

These two are another weapon4weapon pair but much stabler than Slime and Mariana. Jaiden is a scythe but she's always had an interest in learning how to be a meister. Roier has learned a trick or two from Spreen that he's willing to pass along and he's got enough experience as a weapon on his own to cover for her if she messes up. He's a backsword and he's learned how to wield himself and gotten pretty good at it, especially since Spreen betrayed him.

Bobby preferred his guns to wielding either of his parents and never got any formal meister training either.

DanTDM and Maximus

Maxo knows that he's a meister and that SOFIA isn't a weapon. That's all he can say for sure. He never knew Dan or Trump well enough to say.

BadBoyHalo

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Whatever he knows, he won't give a straight answer about it. Everyone is pretty sure his counterpart is probably Skeppy.

Dapper has been seen to wield an array of different red and black or cyan colored weapons when Bad isn't around, but so far Bad has always had an alibi and there's no solid proof Skeppy even exists.

Foolish and Vegetta

A pair of outliers. Foolish is an ex-meister long since turned pacifist and Vegetta exclusively wields weapons that don't shapeshift into humans. He says it's because he has no time for weapon drama <- the most dramatic bitch on the island.

Leo is very skilled with many weapons, but again, not the kind that shapeshift into people.

The Brazilians

Mike and Pac

One of the strongest partnerships on the island, these two have been fighting together forever. Pac is Mike's egg, but also his trusty rifle. Mike is a decent sniper, but mostly Pac just gets waved in peoples' faces when Mike is mad about something. Pac can reload himself absurdly fast, but also will frequently just jam himself and refuse to fire if Mike is making decisions he doesn't agree with.

Cellbit Forever and Felps

Felps is the rare meister who will dual wield weapons who don't come paired already. He spent years with Cellbit, a main gauche dagger, and the pair of them got along fine. A lot of what he did was keep Cellbit's bloodlust in check, but it worked. Then they added Forever, a rapier, to their little trio and Cellbit found his comfortable place as a parrying dagger defending Felps with Forever on the offensive.

Richarlyson

A baby meister in training, Richas is learning the most from Felps since Mike has been keeping his distance since the bull incident. At least he was before Felps went missing.

The French

Kameto

Kameto is a self wielding guillotine perfectly capable of handling himself, so wherever he's gotten himself off to, he's probably fine.

Antoine and Baghera

Antoine and Baghera are easily the least experienced pair on the island, but they make up for that with their sharp intelligence and the fact that they have excellent mentors. Antoine is a poleaxe with Baghera as his meister.

Etoiles and Aypierre

Etoiles and Aypierre aren't the most experienced pair on the island, but they're close to the most experienced working with each other and definitely the most dangerous. They were mentoring Antoine and Baghera when the plane crashed. Etoiles is a bec de corbin so he has a lot of relevant experience for Antoine. He is also extremely independent and capable of wielding himself to the point where he sometimes gets mistaken for a shapeshifting weapon. Between that and Pierre using non-magic weapons like Vegetta, they both spend more time apart than together.

Pomme

Pomme is going to be a meister someday, but for now, Etoiles is just teaching her how to the individual weapons that make up him and Antoine since he can defend her better on her own than by trying to have her wield him.

[pocketramblr]

au where bakugo kills himself with the blast in the battle trial (i think this is more fitting for crack but...)

Well I guess there's an adage about not carrying a weapon you don't want used on you...

1. So there's some flaw or WAIT A SECOND his costume is Detnerat right? Those two dots right? Ok anyway so there's some flaw in his second gauntlet and when he pulls the pin his blows himself up. I'm not gonna say he's dead but he did lose an arm and is comatose so we'll see how that goes for him.

2. Was it just a mistake in construction? Was it deliberate sabotage? No one knows but everyone is sure blaming each other. The support company says blame can be put on Bakugou since the tapes are clear he was ordered not to use it again, but UA holds that would be true for hurting someone else, as the first gauntlet worked and he had no reason to believe it wouldn't- or what if he'd just used the other hand the first time, when he hadn't been told not to? There's a big legal back and forth that Nedzu stretches out because he's actually investigating Detnerat and all that MLA connection

3. All students are relegated to gym clothes while all their support tech is thoroughly checked for any other errors. This actually helps at USJ because the villains actually get some kids mixed up, and also there are more teacher supervisors required at all field lessons now.

4. By the time Bakugou wakes up from his coma, it's a week before the sports festival. All Might is there apologizing for not stoping the exercise the first time he used the gauntlet, and Bakugou gets mad he's being talked down to because how dare All Might think he could stop him, and also it was going to blow him up anyway later.

Then he demands to know why he hasn't been fitted with pro level prosthetics and a rocket launcher arm yet, he's still competing at the festival and will win and - wait the school was attacked while he asleep???

5. He does not get to go to the SF due to all being hospitalized at the time and he's pissed, especially watching Izuku and Todoroki fight in the finales (Izuku figured out full cowl out of sheer fear for his life when he went to Bakugou's hospital room to attempt an apology at well, so it's an even closer fight than canon lol)

[astoldbyaja]

Primal - Ch.28 ~AU Predator (Franchise)~

Scorpion’s POV

I was in my lab running some tests on some blood samples I took of myself. Now that Teleya was pregnant, so much will change. I thought I would have more time to run the needed tests to prepare her body for the future. I was hoping by giving her some of my blood, it could slow her aging. But now that and safely having our child was more important. I have only heard tales of very few humans birthing healthy suckling. But I have also heard of some humans dying, some suckling dying, or both altogether.  

When I was a youngblood, I too used to think it was madness to mate with a human, a creature that could only live at least sixty, maybe seventy years. But now things were different. My ship had returned into the sewers and was mounted in the ground as it was before.

My wrist gauntlet began to beep lowly. I looked at it and pressed the activator on the side. It brought up a hologram of the city with two dots: one white, the other red. I had placed the soul link in Teleya’s vehicle and silently around her ankle as she slept the other night. Both our DNA is imbedded in the link, and I was able to place her DNA in my gauntlet to be able to identify her in case she ever needed to use my gauntlet for protection.

I wanted to ensure I could track her if somehow, I was unable to find her through my bio-mask. Now that she was pregnant, I was right to do so. Teleya’s dot signifying her heat signature is the red dot. The two dots were separating and moving quite fast. This meant Teleya was not in her vehicle. I growled lowly at this, already on guard. Something was not right. I turned and left the lab, placing my mask over my face and heading back to the bridge.

Chomper was already there hissing lowly in response to my sudden movements. I sent this information to the large screen above me, and it displayed a larger map. Both the dots were much farther apart than I had liked. Suddenly the white dot vanishes immediately. My eyes widen at the sight. This meant the dot was dead, part of the soul link has been destroyed. I roared out violently in response. She was in danger! That’s all my mind was telling me. I activated my ship immediately and it began to power up once more. I had the ship lock on the soul link Teleya is wearing and it would bring me to her. In the meantime, I needed to get ready.

I headed to my weapons storage room. I stormed in and moved with purpose. This was a hunt and rescue. I needed to be ready for whatever awaited me that would stand between me and my mate. Tonight, I would add to this armor. I stopped at my wall that held rows of different weapons both of yautja design, and from past hunts. I grabbed my combi stick, three shuriken, my smart discs and my heavy battle axe that had not tasted blood in quite a long time. Today it would.

I removed my wrist blades and re-attached a much sharper pair that would cut through bone and metal. My net launcher was attached and ready, and finally I even grabbed a new weapon I had perfected yet I had not used in any hunts. A black whip with an ivory handle with sharp spikes lined up through it. I grabbed it and placed it to my belt. I made my way to back to the doors, only to pause and look at the wall again, a single weapon was off on its own with no weapons around it.

Teleya’s spear. I slowly reached out to it and removed it from the mount. I let her out of my sight once while carrying our child, and she is taken. This time not only was she in danger, but our child. I slowly dipped my head feeling shame for not protecting her. I then attached the spear to my back and growled before turning and moving from the room.

Teleya’s POV

I sat between two men in black while the whited haired man just watched me from the seat across from me.

“Who are you people?” I asked lowly, fear gripping my body. The man chuckled some.

“Now where are my manners? My name’s Col. Miles Vallelonga. I work for a very special and secretive department within the FBI.” he announced. I winced looking him over some.

“A special department… don’t tell me you’re like the X-Files.” I said and he laughed out.

“Whoo you are funny! Ha ha! No I’d like to think of us as… explorers or-uh investigators of events that are beyond our control and things we cannot explain.” he said. I looked him over some.

“Beyond our control.” I said, and he nodded.

“That’s right. And it seems a lot has been going on here in New York that definitely needs our little team of investigators here.” he said. I glanced toward the window trying to get some type of idea of where we were. I could still see trees. We haven’t left the park yet. Or have we? Miles shook his head.

“Now let me tell you what’s going to happen. We are going to get to our fun and cozy base and you’re going to be tested to ensure you are healthy as can be and have no unknown or foreign diseases in you from your adventures and then you and I can have a talk.” he explained. I shook my head immediately.

“You kidnapped me. There’s nothing to talk about.” I said and he now he gave a slight scowl, leaning in some to rest his arm on his knee.

“Oh, but there is. You see there have been a lot of murders in the city, with bodies killed in some very strange ways. There’s been shoot outs and massacres and you want to know who is at core of all of it. You.” he said. I scoffed.

“Gang violence and ruthless slaughter was all that was.” I said.

“But there’s no way you could have done it. I mean a battered woman trying to start a new life wouldn’t risk having any exposure on her like you have.” he said. Now my body felt cold as I leaned back some from him. Who the hell was this guy. Miles chuckled victoriously now. “Yeah, that got your attention. Oh yeah, I know a lot about you Teleya Garret. You’re a long way from home and your boyfriend Marcus was worried about you. He even put out a missing person on you. Then his friends and family say he goes to New York out of the blue and goes missing, that really caught my attention. You were hiding from him, and he found you, didn’t he?”

 My body was stiff as I stared at him with a slight glare. Miles was reading my face intently now as he watched me.

“Oh yeah, he found you alright. And after reading a lot of your medical reports, I could only imagine you would rather die than let a man like that come back into your life.” he said.

“So?” I asked. He frowned quickly.

“So, I don’t give two shits about your ex. What I want to know is the company you’ve been keeping as of late. You see I reviewed the footage from the Black Jack shooting that night between the two gangs. They were both fighting a third hostile. Then another I see some footage from the nearby stores and eateries, and you know what they catch, your scared little behind running from the shooting. Now it makes sense you were just in the middle of a brutal shoot out…”

His words trailed out as he pulled out a manilla folder and opened it to reveal what I only see as white paper. He turned it to me and now I saw it was a picture. But not just any picture. It was me, that night I fled to the abandoned building. It was raining and there was a figure shrouded in electricity standing in the street as the rain came down. It was Scorpion’s cloaking device. He had followed me from the club and into the building where we first met.

Miles nodded.

“Uh-huh. You made a new friend that night.” he said. I slowly looked at him. It was just like being captured by Kang Li. He wanted to know who killed his brother. And now the military is here, and they are trying to capture Scorpion.

“There’s nothing I could ever say that you’d even believe.” I replied. Miles slowly shook his head.

“Oh, but that’s where you’re wrong. Anything you tell me I will believe. You see I’ve investigated murders- uh situations just like this. A squad of soldiers were sent to Guatemala on a rescue mission back in ‘87. They encountered something unlike anything they had ever seen before. Whatever it was tore the majority of the crew apart. Los Angeles, 82’ during a heat wave and a gang war, a team of my department was sent to investigate some strange occurrences there. None of them made it out alive. In 04’ Antarctica an expedition team goes out in hopes to find the source of a burst of heat they picked up on. The records I managed to get from the sole survivor said there was a pyramid, and things down there couldn’t begin to explain. That so called pyramid was destroyed, but what she wouldn’t tell me. Now I tried to get a second crack at her, but she was fast. She disappeared before I could get a hold of her again. All of the survivors saw something, were up against something that their team died from. And now here I am in New York because the pattern is too similar to pass up. Which brings us back to you.” he explained.

Although I was in danger, I couldn’t help but be slightly interested in the man’s tales. Other people- humans fought the yautja? I could only imagine what they witnessed. Yautja were powerful, but if there were survivors then that meant the hunter had failed in his hunt and was dead. So, they could be killed.

“I don’t know what you want me to say.” I replied. Miles placed the photo back in his folder and tossed it to the empty spot beside him.

“Well, you can make this easy on yourself and help the United Stated government by telling us all that you know. Then we let you go, it's as easy as that. But if you insist on betraying your country and planet by aiding this creature, this will not end well for you.” he warned. I shook my head slowly running my hand over my forehead in slight despair. I didn't believe this man would let me go. I let my head fall to the floor. I needed to get out of here, I needed to protect myself and our child.

Scorpion had told me that yautja technology could not be discovered or left in the hands of any enemies to ever be studied or used against themselves or anyone else. Yautja prided themselves in their technology and the hunt, they would rather die before letting anything yautja related be left in the hands of the enemy, and right now, what was growing inside me was definitely yautja related.

As I looked at the ground, staring at my feet for the answers, I noticed something was wrapped around my right ankle. It wasn’t sparkling or very noticeable to those who weren’t really trying to examine it, but I knew what it was. It was the soul link! It was tied loosely around my ankle, but not so loose it could fall off my feet if I was barefoot.

What the hell? When did I? Scorpion. He must have tied it around my ankle when I was passed out. He was coming. I just knew it. I slowly leaned back in my seat and took some even breaths and just looked at Miles.

“I won’t have to tell you anything. In time you will get all the answers you want.” I replied. Miles squinted some as he looked over my face. I just stared at him and sat back against the seat. Miles finally nodded, his humorous façade falling into a look of darkness.

“You’re right. After I’m done with you, I’ll have all the answers I want.” he concluded.

[pokemonapex]

Apex Build 10 Is Now Available!

After over three years, I have finally completed Build 10 of Apex! This is planned to be the final feature release of Apex as a Pokémon fangame before converting it into my own original IP (more on that another time).

As for this build, you can now continue the story of Apex in Chapter 5 by exploring the western half of Abbadon, including the sprawling Megiddo Plains, the touristy beachside town of Ys, the sleepy floral town of Eden, and much more! Check out the changelog below for a full list of additions and changes, comprising the largest changelog so far.

As always, you can get the game either through the launcher (recommended) or assemble the game yourself through manual downloads on the blog.

If you want to report bugs, discuss the game, share theories, or praise me (please do, I worked very hard on this), please visit our discord server.

That's all for now, everyone. Thank you so much for your patience and support!

Here are all the changes and additions in Build 10!

Additions

Content

The Megiddo Plains, Ys, and Eden areas are now open to explore! Continue Chapter 5 with a deluge of new content, including some surprises!

Levitate system overhaul. Pokémon that formerly had the Levitate ability now inherently levitate based on their species. See the wiki for more details.

Pokémon that normally evolve due to trading now evolve when leveled up in Assiah. Any required held items are still needed.

New fast food items that are cheaper versions of strong healing items, but lower your Pokémon's EVs randomly when consumed.

New item: Inn Coupon. Exchange these tickets at any inn for a free stay!

New trainer classes: Zangs (male and female), Priest, Pirate, Surfer, Action Kid (Beach), Tourist, Sunbather, Beach Bros, Sightseers, Salaryman, Rancher, Florist, as well as some special encounters.

Four new musical tracks, courtesy of new composer DSTY.

New Artifact is now available! Complete the Great Canal dungeon to acquire the Hydrophobic Disc to cross calm waters.

New custom move: Grim Word, a low-power special Dark move that lowers the target's Sp. Def by 1 stage.

Everyone is here! With the exception of most legendary Pokémon, every single species up through Generation V is now available in Apex!

New questline events! Hang out with your favorite NPCs.

New ghosts to battle, including three difficult challenge ghosts for extra Keystones.

Features

Artifacts now give badge boosts. War God's Hammer: Attack, All-Seeing Eye: Sp. Attack, Quantum Mirror: Speed, Geos Gauntlets: Defense, Hydrophobic Disc: Sp. Defense. For existing save files, use the associated artifact in the overworld to permanently enable the respective boost.

Added Not-So-Crazy Fesiq to Old Jul'far Ruins as a dung merchant.

Added ambience to Sagaxis Forest, Mt. Belial Upper, Shrieking Cliffs, and Acacia Lake.

Added an Ether to RevTex Textiles 1F in the generator room.

The protagonist now remarks on the flickering lights in RevTex Textiles Front Office for context.

Added an Escape Rope to RevTex Textiles B1F.

Added a healing area and some flavor to the entrance area of Acacia Temple (not available in Hard Mode).

Wild/bred Pokémon now have a 5% chance to spawn with their hidden ability.

Added in-game trades and gift events for exclusive species. Check the wiki for details.

New TM Kid quest is available after acquiring the Hydrophobic Disc.

Added visible items to Sagaxis Forest.

Luvdisc now evolves into Alomomola at lv30. The two species have been rebalanced and given updated movesets to match.

Eevee can now evolve into Glaceon in Crystal Channel Upper.

Nosepass can now evolve into Probopass in the Adamantine Palace.

Added messages when entering maps with a Pokémon with a location-based evolution in that map.

Added Lucifer's Notes #2 to Altar of Truth.

The Guru of Potential has been added to the Amon Desert. Visit him to draw out your Pokémon's latent potential.

The Experience Share can now be purchased in the Rosemary Market in Acacia Town. It's relatively expensive, so you'll have to weigh your options!

Added Eviolite to Acacia Tunnel.

A Soothe Bell is now available from a new NPC in Nysa Indoors.

Added ancient runes to text for lore purposes. This should improve clarity for puzzles that rely on ancient runes.

Larry now answers his phone.

Tweaks

Aegis Facility

Added a hint to the door to Aegis Secret Room.

Added support struts to the elevator on Aegis 1F.

Swapped locations of the Elevator Key and Max Revive in Aegis 2F Rooms for better visibility.

Vahram Temple

Added additional hints for the Vahram rune puzzle.

Braziers in the Vahram and Cliff tilesets are now fully impassable on the bottom tile for better consistency.

Acacia Town

Opened a previously unused house in Acacia Town.

The Thornwood Inn in Acacia Town begins charging for lodging after the player enters Jul'far. No more warping back to Acacia Town for free heals!

The Puzzle House is now accessible immediately upon visiting Acacia Town for the first time.

Jul'far

Added more path blocking to help keep players from getting lost.

Added a new bandit encounter with Bandit Logan.

Added some new visible items, one of which only appears during the raid.

The Camerupt Cart that goes to the Old Jul'far Ruins now cannot be used until after the player has visited the ruins, to prevent skipping the entire desert.

Added a hint if the player tries to enter the Jul'far Town Hall through the front door during the bandit raid.

Hard Mode

Items cannot be used from the bag during battles (except Pokéballs, as normal).

During the Jul'far raid, Bandit Captain Kurt now only appears on Hard Mode.

Granny does not heal the party.

Holly stops healing the party after defeating the Cloaked Elder in Acacia Temple.

Other

You can now forfeit trainer battles outside of Hard Mode by selecting Run, but beware the losing cost!

Official starters can now only be found at level 5 in the wild.

Player name entry now supports up to 10 characters.

Stick renamed to Leek to match Gen VIII+ naming.

Scratch Cards now use fixed randomness to determine the prize (if any), so they can no longer be save-scummed. A unique message has been added if the jackpot is won.

Improved visual quality of in-battle rain animation.

Reduced visual intensity of overworld snow animation.

Deerling and Sawsbuck now appear in different forms based on location. Mt. Belial area: Winter form. Verdant Path area: Spring form. Acacia Secret Hollow: Summer form.

Updated new game scene flow. Quickstart option renamed and now defaults to Sarah instead of Griffen, and some suggested character names have been changed.

Switched locations of the TMs for Rock Smash and Brick Break and adjusted TM Kid's dialogue to match. If you already have one but not the other, you will get the old drops.

Disabled entry message from Mold Breaker ability.

Small tweaks to Nascene Suburbs layout to make skateboard pathing a tad easier.

Added visual details to Jagged Cavern B1F. Side path is now blocked by breakable rocks. Added a shortcut usable with the Quantum Mirror.

Ladders in cave/temple maps have more outlining for better visibility.

Battles with Larry now use the Rival Battle music.

Balance

Levitate overhaul

In addition to those species which formerly had the Levitate ability, the following Pokémon now levitate: Beedrill, Venomoth, Magnemite line, Mew, Scizor, Celebi, Dustox, Castform, Shuppet, Glalie, Froslass, Munna line, Solosis line, Vanillite line, Escavalier, Elgyem line, Lampent, Chandelure, and Volcarona.

Ability changes as part of the Levitate overhaul

Gastly line new abilities. Base: Cursed Body, Stench. Hidden: Bad Dreams.

Koffing line new abilities. Base: Forewarn, Aftermath. Hidden: Serene Grace.

Misdreavus line new abilities: Base: Shadow Tag, Frisk. Hidden: Prankster.

Unown new ability: Base: Technician.

Hydreigon, Vibrava, Flygon now use the same ability or abilities as their pre-evolved forms.

Duskull now uses the same ability its evolved forms.

Solrock, Lunatone new abilities: Base: Sturdy. Hidden: Magic Guard.

Baltoy line new ability: Base: Magic Bounce.

Chimecho line new ability: Base: Soundproof.

Latias, Latios new ability: Base: Cloud Nine.

Bronzor line abilities shifted: Base: Light Metal, Heavy Metal. Hidden: Heatproof

Carnivine new ability: Base: Chlorophyll.

Rotom new ability: Base: Motor Drive.

Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf new ability: Base: Filter.

Cresselia new ability: Base: Serene Grace.

Tynamo line new abilities: Base: Shed Skin, Static. Hidden: Volt Absorb.

Cryogonal new ability: Ice Body.

Move changes

Increased Gyro Ball PP from 5 to 10.

Raised accuracy of Gunk Shot from 70 to 80 to match Gen VI+.

Shadow Ball power increased from 80 to 90.

Drill Peck and X-Scissor now have an increased crit chance.

Constrict power increased from 10 to 40.

Leech Life power increased from 15 to 40.

Pin Missile power increased from 14 to 25 to match Gen VI+.

Luster Purge and Mist Ball power increased to 80 and PP increased to 10.

Pokémon changes

Raised Riolu's starting happiness from 70 to 100.

Gothita line is now Psychic/Dark.

Gothita line gains Unnerve as second natural ability.

Steel type is no longer resistant to Ghost and Dark moves, as per Gen VI+.

Torkoal, Wingull, Roggenrola, and Vanillite lines gain their GenVII+ second abilities.

Ice type no longer resists Grass.

Stat changes

Stat buffs from Gens VI and VII have been added.

Sunflora base Sp. Atk and Sp. Def increased by 20 each, bringing its base stat total up to 465.

Mightyena base stats increased: +10 to Attack, Defense, and Speed, bringing its base stat total up to 450.

Farfetch'd gains 20 base stat points in HP, Defense, and Speed, and 10 in Attack, bringing its base stat total up to 447.

Spinda base stats increased, +30 to HP, +10 to Speed, and +20 to Defense and Special Defense, for a new total of 440.

Whismur line has 10 base stat points moved from Attack to Special Attack.

Growlithe line has 5 base stat points moved from Special Attack to Attack.

Sableye gains base stat points: 30 to HP, 20 to Defense, and 20 to Special Defense, bringing its base stat total up to 450.

Rebalanced Cacnea line's stats. Lowered Sp. Attack and Speed by 10 and increased Defense and Special Defense by 10.

Corsola stats modified. -5 Attack and Speed, +10 Defense and Special Defense, +20 Special Attack and HP. New total: 460.

Ariados stats increased. +20 to HP, Defense, and Special Defense, +10 to Attack. New total 470.

Spinarak/Ariados now learn Megahorn at level 51/60 and now learn Psycho Cut instead of Psychic.

Beedrill stats increased. +10 to HP and Attack, +20 to Special Defense, and +35 to Speed. New total 470.

Butterfree stats increased. -5 to Attack, +30 to HP and Special Defense, +10 to Special Attack and Defense. New total 470.

Beautifly stats increased. +10 to HP, +20 to Attack and Special Attack, +25 to Speed. New total 470.

Ledian stats increased. -5 to Special Attack and +75 to Attack. New total 470.

Dustox stats increased. -5 to Speed, +10 to Special Defense, +20 to Special Attack, and +30 to HP and Defense. New total 470.

Kricketune stats increased. +3 to HP, +4 to Special Defense, +30 to Attack, +29 to Defense, +35 to Speed. New total 470.

Parasect stats increased. +5 to Attack, +20 to HP, Defense, and Special Defense. New total 470.

Marowak stats increased. +5 to Speed, +20 to HP and Attack. New total 470.

Purugly stats changed. -1 to HP, +8 to Attack, +11 to Defense, -4 to Special Attack, +6 to Special Defense, -2 to Speed. New total 470.

Chimecho stats increased. +5 to Special Attack, +10 to Special Defense. New total 470.

Dunsparce stats increased. +5 to Attack, +25 to Defense and Special Defense. New total 470.

Girafarig stats increased. +10 to Special Attack, +5 to Speed. New total 470.

Tropius stats changed. +1 to HP, -8 to Attack, +17 to Defense, +8 to Special Attack, +13 to Special Defense, -1 to Speed. New total 490.

Treecko line has had its Special Attack and Attack base stats swapped to now favor physical attacks.

Relicanth stats increased. +15 to Special Defense. New total 500.

Lanturn stats changed. -8 to Attack and Defense, -2 to Speed, +9 to Special Attack and Special Defense.

Learnset changes

Electrike and Manectric now learn Thundershock at level 7.

Absol now learns Focus Energy as a starting move.

Solrock now learns Zen Headbutt instead of Psychic, and now learns Flare Blitz at level 57 and Morning Sun at level 61.

Lunatone now learns Ancientpower instead of Stone Edge, and now learns Shadow Ball at level 57 and Moonlight at level 61.

Farfetch'd now learns Drill Peck instead of Air Slash at level 49, and now learns Focus Energy at level 16.

Grimer line now learns Poison Fang, Bulldoze, Poison Jab, and Night Slash instead of Sludge, Mud Bomb, Sludge Bomb, and Fling, respectively.

Gothita line now learns Dark Pulse at levels 53/58/64 respectively, and now learns Grim Word instead of Faint Attack.

Misdreavus, Gastly, Drifloon lines now learn Grim Word instead of Payback.

Litwick line now learns Grim Word instead of Imprison.

Yamask and Spiritomb get Grim Word as an egg move.

Umbreon, Murkrow, Girafarig, Purrloin lines now learn Grim Word instead of Assurance.

Oddish line now learns Grim Word instead of Natural Gift.

Swapped Ancientpower and Power Gem in Corsola's moveset, and it now learns Hydro Pump at level 57.

Butterfree, Beautifly, and Dustox now learn Psychic at level 50.

Ledyba/Ledian now learn Bug Bite instead of Silver Wind, Mega Punch instead of Swift, and X-Scissor instead of Bug Buzz, and now learn Drain Punch at level 50/60.

Dustox now learns Poisonpowder at level 15 and Air Slash at level 55.

Bronzor and Bronzong now learn Curse instead of Imprison.

Tropius now learns Leech Seed instead of Bestow and Dragon Pulse instead of Natural Gift.

Deerling and Sawsbuck can now learn Zen Headbutt by Move Tutor.

Venusaur can now learn Earth Power by Move Tutor.

Durant now learns Screech instead of Metal Sound.

Difficulty/Game Balance

Lolita Fayte's Ralts initial level lowered from 18 to 15.

Lolita Esmerelda's party initial levels lowered from 15 to 13. Added an additional rematch.

Elder Gerald's party levels lowered from 16 to 15.

Snow Angel May's party levels increased by 5.

Slight rebalance to encounter levels in RevTex. Max level reduced by 1 on 1F and Front Office and min level raised by 1 on B1F.

Lowered max encounter levels in Acacia Lake and Acacia town by 1.

Slightly raised Beldum's capture rate (making it easier to catch).

Reduced price of Pokeballs and Great Balls to 1000 and 2000, respectively.

Scratch Card price increased to 1000.

Fixes

Fixed Aegis warehouse minecart puzzle unintentionally completing while the minecarts are still moving. Minecarts must now stop on the correct positions to count.

Fixed Lolita Amelie using the wrong battle sprite.

Fixed an issue where, during the egg event on Shrieking Cliffs East, if the player catches the Braviary instead of defeating it, the whole event starts over. (Reported by Yasik)

Fixed Vahram 5F North button still considering the rock in the hall to the south of it to be blocking.

Fixed missing collisions on Vahram lava rocks.

Fixed a stray masking tile in the Bandit Hideout.

Rival name in Unknown Dungeon is now loaded dynamically from variable and not from static strings, which could cause inconsistency.

Fixed note 28 being inaccessible in XENO Corp. Server Room. (Reported by mflamel101)

Fixed a bug in Essentials where if the player was facing a water tile, but that tile wasn't otherwise passable, the game would let the player begin surfing on their current tile instead.

Fixed broken Love emote animation (finally!).

Fixed impassable stair railing tile in RevTex B1F blocking wall sign.

RevTex facility now properly sets cave flags on entry.

Fixed a typo in Note #18.

Fixed a movement bug with Mori in Murmur Tower 3F when playing as Sarah.

Fixed mismatched wall tiles in Nysa Indoors.

Fixed tile layering issue with wall/desk phones in the Indoor tileset.

Fixed inconsistent glowstick radius when changing maps (finally!).

Fixed incorrect BGM volume level in Aegis 2F Bathrooms.

Fixed some missing tree top tiles on Mt. Belial Upper.

Removed text referring to "someone's PC" when receiving Pokémon through events.

Fixed a script crash when attempting to fight the Frozen Prince.

Fixed incorrect barrel tiles in Puzzle House Challenge 2.

Fixed Snarl incorrectly flagged as a physical move.

Tweaked dialog with Sayaka on Mt. Belial Upper to better match lore.

Fixed legendary encounter events not using the same generated Pokémon for the battle and the post-battle distribution, which could result in minor discrepancies.

Fixed legendaries missing their summoning sigil where the ball icon should be in the summary screen.

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Update from CPT Markus Wright, 2nd Bulwark Division, Aradian militia. The recruit mentioned in our previous transmission has been promoted to corporal, and this has had some side effects for the entire militia. The idea of tuning frames to specialize them in the exact opposite tasks implied by their original design has caught on in several companies. Examples include:

5th Cavalier Corps; The Nelson frames that made the corps famous have been retrofitted with extremely unstable mine-laying equipment "Donated" by opposing Iskander-class frames. The results have been surprisingly effective, allowing them to lay a trail of mines and make anywhere they charge impassable. This has severely pissed off the post-combat cleanup teams.

4th Vanguard Division; The normally shotgun-fanatics piloting our Tortuga frames have decided that in CQB ship-board combat, rocket launchers and a "Donated" apocalypse rail would be ideal weapons. Surprisingly, we have seen significantly fewer pirates after information about this development had spread, one prisoner commenting: "Piracy? Are you fucking kidding me? WHY would I EVER do that near Aradia? Those fucking maniacs in their shipboard division use RPGs. In CQB. WHY?!?"

7th Aerial Response Wing; Monarch frames have been outfitted with war pikes, and one of them managed to get a fucking plasma gauntlet. No, I don't know what drove them to this either beyond their claims of "But it will be so anime!". I don't know what they are talking about. But releasing combat footage of the 7th ARW has proven immensely popular with the locals. That dude with the plasma gauntlet ended up melting his mech and himself the first time he deployed it, but it took 3 enemy swallowtails with it so IDK what to think.

Hello CPT Wright! We’re happy to hear back from you. While it certainly isn’t what we designed any of the IPS-N mechs mentioned here for, this kind of ingenuity is exactly what we love to see from our customers. We’d like to send these companies some extra munitions to assist them in continuing to break the norm and perform above and beyond.

Godspeed, pilots.

[sweethoneyrose83]

Smiling Critters AU: RWBY BIOS 

Bubba Bubbaphant (Leader) 

Age: 18- 25 AU Fandom Headcanon- Asexual Weapon- a pair of white revolvers with a six-chambered hexagonal cylinder. Height- 6'0"  Aura Color - Blue Semblance - Tranquility

Hoppy Hopscotch

Age: 18- 25 AU Fandom Headcanon- Lesbian/ Has a crush on Bobby Weapon- a camera which is capable of creating solid "light copies" of any weapon.  Height- 6'5  Aura Color - Green Semblance - High Voltage

KickinChicken

Age: 18- 25 AU Fandom Headcanon- Bisexual/Has a crush on CatNap Weapon- Dual Ranged Shot Gauntlets  Height- 6'0" Aura Color - Yellow Semblance - Water Attraction

PickyPiggy Age: 18- 25 AU Fandom Headcanon-Bisexual Weapon- Sword w/ a shield with Dust capabilities Height- 5'7 Aura Color - Pink Semblance - Telekinesis 

DogDay (Leader)  Age: 18-25 

Au Fandom Headcanon- Bisexual/ Has a crush on CatNap 

Weapon- a golden spear-like weapon that could transform into a rifle or a short sword w/ a shield a golden sun on it. 

Height- 6'0"  Aura Color - Orange Semblance -Solar flare  (Was chosen to be that next fall maidan) 

CatNap 

Age: 18- 25

AU Fandom Headcanon-Bisexual/Has a crush on Dogday

Weapon- Great in hand-to-hand combat, has silver eyes but has been trained how to use them properly  Height- 7'5" Aura Color - Purple  Semblance - Shadow  (Visits his mother's grave when he can) 

CraftyCorn

Age: 18- 25 AU Fandom Headcanon- Heterosexual / Has a crush on DogDay  Weapon- a beautifully crafted bow w/dust infused arrows Height- 5'4"  Aura Color - White Semblance - Aura Amp (Is the youngest of her family, is an heiress to her family's dust company, has two older sisters) 

Bobby BearHug

Age: 18- 25 AU Fandom Headcanon- Lesbian/ Has a crush on Hoppy  Weapon- A maul, with the secondary form of a revolver grenade launcher. Height- 5'2  Aura Color - Red Semblance - Love Spell