[PXFIRE] [SU/DS] PXFIRE Roleplay - A Game of Storms

[Morzone]

XD seems a little over the top, even for this RP. I'll trust you Neo, I'm sure whatever you had planned for Ante is already very good.

[Neo Emolga]

XD seems a little over the top, even for this RP. I'll trust you Neo, I'm sure whatever you had planned for Ante is already very good.

Ha, ha, just "a little?" XD I'll be frank, I've been in a lot of RPs that had a ton of crazy powers being fired off, but nothing along those lines. But yeah, under the current situation, a battle between Willow and Haq wouldn't even get anywhere NEAR that. And lol, I'll be honest, after watching that, it seems painfully disappointing knowing that. As in "can't we at least try to have something close?"

Well, I'll be honest, revealing what Ante currently is and what it does honestly wouldn't change much. I think at this point, it would explain a lot of things for realism's sake and would justify why Black Lotus holds the ruling position that they're currently in (and why Queen Taiya is so hard to kill), but that's pretty much it and it honestly wouldn't give them that much of a field advantage over the player characters. Lately, none of the Onyx Circle members have been relying on it all that much and you're probably wondering why it hasn't really been showing up. I've wanted to keep it hidden and interesting, but there were instances where a slight reference should have been mentioned and now... it kind of seems like it's moving into irrelevance. I also have a feeling some people probably already know what it is from doing the deductions.

If you really want to see if you were right...

Spoiler:

Ante, as the original intention was, is a hidden power where you inherit the skills, knowledge, and memories of whoever you kill. It explains why Taiya gets stronger and harder to kill after every assassination attempt fails and she kills her attacker. She now knows everything those assassins knew, now making HER a master assassin and combatant. It also explains why she taunts her enemies to send her more. Not just to taunt them and enrage them, but to learn from them and add more and more to her skills and techniques. Of course, no one is aware she and her Onyx Circle posse have this capability.

It also explains why Black Lotus likes sending in their own Ante-specialized Onyx Circle commandos into the games themselves and why Black Lotus even hosts the games in the first place: to inherit everything they can from those they kill and thus, make the Empire even stronger. But of course, all of this is kept hushed. The opposing factions send their toughest warriors into the games. Black Lotus sends their finest to challenge them, kill them, inherit their knowledge, and with that knowledge, they know the tactics, secrets, and inner workings of their enemies. So their secret hideouts, bunkers, bases, weaknesses, and locations become known if the right combatants enter the games and the Onyx Circle kills enough of them. It's more than enough to destroy them entirely in the wake of the Festival.

Did you guess correctly? I kind of feel most people probably did by now at least one point or another. XD

It's a plot point, yes, but a mild one. I'll admit, I've only made very hidden allusions to it until now. It's not the crazy superpower I'm sure some people originally thought it would be. And I'll admit, areas where it should have come into place were kind of brushed aside. Whenever a Onyx Circle commando kills someone in Blood Pit or Dread Metal, I should have been pointing some kind of reference toward this hidden ability, but I've been dropping the ball with that and cranking out some of these RP posts has been tough enough as is. And like I said, it explains some of the why about what's going on, but it wouldn't change your stance and approach to dealing with Black Lotus. You'd still want to finish them off completely Ante or no Ante.

I'd like for player characters to inherit it one way or another. But then, because of that happening, it evolves. Maybe it becomes something like that video. Queen Taiya, in her effort to keep the upper hand, does something to the source of Ante to amplify it to take the upper hand for her and her troops, but instead it affects everyone who knows Ante, including now you. But the catch? Everyone inherits a different kind of superpower. But oh, oh, guess what happens if you kill another Ante user now with their new superpowers! You inherit them. So now you'll have your own AND theirs! And that's where a real war can fire up. >:3