A detail I just thought of: I suppose that using a shape-shifting unit to change your size would affect your DEX and speed.
Turning into a midget would make your movements slower, and turning into a tall person would make your movements faster, because the outer envelope is tracking itself to your real body's movements. This is why the CG version of the Incredible Hulk in the first "Hulk" movie seems so weirdly frenetic in his movements--director Ang Lee insisted on doing the motion-capture acting himself, and he's only 5'7", so his normal movements looked weirdly fast on the giant CG character.
That's not really relevant to Voluptua, since her height stays about the same in both forms, but it's something to bear in mind for how the machine works.
Turning yourself into a giant might also put you in significant danger of blowing away in a strong breeze.
Howdy! I'm Jim Cleaveland, the author of "The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!" I discovered your post through my stat tracker that showed some visitors coming from this site. This is neat! Thanks for making up stats for Molly!
I'm not familiar with this particular RPG system, but by all means, if you'd like any additional help or information on my characters or their world, please let me know. I'd love to have people role-playing my characters.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy today's installment! (I'm bushed from drawing it!)
Excellent Daffy duck reference! I can see why you're bushed. Lot of action work in there.
My characters and their pictures (as they become available)!
The first part of Karina and Granish's story, "The Strong Survive," can be read here.
The first part of Shylocke Averyson's story, "Sunset Over Gunther," can be read here.
Howdy! I'm Jim Cleaveland, the author of "The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!" I discovered your post through my stat tracker that showed some visitors coming from this site. This is neat!
Hi and welcome, glad you're here.
I'm one of those who followed the link, and I was greatly enjoying the strip, right up to 1/7/09 strip.
Spoilered for those who have not read the strip, click where it says "show spoiler" to read the rest.
Spoiler:
Molly, who up to that point has seemed to be sensitve and intelligent, decides to stand up Rocko, who she describes as nice, because he's "grody." I understand they had very different expectations for the relationship, there has been an implied off-screen explanation and apology, and they are still friends. But I lost a lot of the forward momentum of the story at that point.
It's your story, tell it as you wish, I just wanted to offer the observation that this reader found that to be a "spped bump."
15th member of the Pantheon, I hereby declare myself Board God of Alternate Sexuality and Third Party Candidates.
Next November all of you will go to the polls: you'll stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision. it might be well if you would ask yourself, is Osama bin Laden still dead?
Hey, I wanted to apologize for dumping all that technobabble gobbledygook on you. I certainly hope I wasn't intruding on your project.
You're not intruding at all. I'm used to technobabble. I haven't finished Voluptua yet because I'm trying to figure out how to represent the distinction between her illusory form and her "real" one. Since it's a device, it probably ought to be a Focus (and there I drop a bit of my own technobabble in the form of Hero jargon -- basically a focus is something you have to have in your possession is you are going to use a power or other ability. A ray gun is a Focus to a ranged attack, for example. You get a cost break for using a Focus with the price being that if someone takes the Focus away you lose the power until you get it back or build/find a new one.)
I think someone should bite the bullet and buy Jim a copy of the Hero System Basic Rulebook (it wouldn't be fair to make him pay for it) to help him learn this wonderful new language.
6th Edition is for entertainment purposes only.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to make crummy re-imaginings. "
Howdy! Well, I'm glad you liked the beginning, at least. As for Spoiler:
Molly's bad behavior... I've made an earnest effort to make my characters three dimensional without falling into the trap of "Cerebus Syndrome" (when a humor comic starts to take itself too seriously). And in the name of realism, I'm afraid I have far too often observed that otherwise decent, kind people will act like shockingly thoughtless jerks when courting one another. This is true of mature adults who should know better, let alone a naive young kid like Molly. (The usual rationalization they feed themselves is that standing someone up is kinder than "rejecting them" by properly canceling the date, when in fact the real reason they don't call is simple cowardice.) Molly is quite immature, so I don't think it's at all surprising that she chickened out, or that she handled it badly. Oddly, getting stood up is a fairly common bit of human jerkishness that I don't recall seeing addressed much in popular fiction (at least not where the reader gets to see both sides of it), so decided to write about it.
(Btw, I have to admit I agree with Bob and Jean that Rocko is simply too old for her; but I don't think that excuses her for not at least letting him know she was canceling.)
Aaaanyway, if you read ahead to the end of that story, (spoiler), you'll see that she does get called out on it and scolded a little bit.
So, I hope that explains my thinking on the matter, and I hope you like the rest of the comic better. Thanks for the feedback!
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