Monster CR Meme!

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Hi everyone! By request, we are posting the monster CR meme! One of our players noted we’ve got a lot of monsters with pack or similar instincts and mental changes, and it seems like a good time to start working on those. And if you would like to plan for other changes, that is just fine as well.

This meme is for RP planning centered around monster changes, be they physical, mental, or behavioral! Feel free to comment, plot, and plan all sorts of monster shenanigans!

Here is a form, if you would like to use one:

<b>Character:</b> Your character’s name! <b>Monster:</b> Their monster form! <b>Current Traits:</b> What current traits do you have active? <b>Upcoming Traits:</b> What upcoming traits are you planning to activate? <b>RP Plans/Desired CR:</b> What sort plans or interactions are you hoping for? <b>Other:</b> Anything else!

Our next event plotting post will be going up on May 2nd. Be on the look out for weird gravity, psychic shenanigans, and BUGS.

Comments

[definitionofcrazy]

Faith is still doing regular check-ins to see how Blake's handling vampire cravings. Notably, she's a little more weird about them now because she's got a jacked-up neck and undiagnosed hunger of her own but she's not gonna bug Blake with that because she's an idiot sometimes obviously her issues aren't important hahahahahahaha

[definitionofcrazy]

Hi, Faith might try to push the issue of Akechi taking better care of himself.

Hypocrite who, never heard of her

SecUnit/Murderbot | The Murderbot Diaries | Swarm

[serialmurderbot]

Character: Murderbot! SecUnit to everyone here.
Monster: Swarm, specifically Thri-kreen. Warning for insect features, feel free to use the opt out if those might get to you.
Current Traits:

- Super jump, capable of leaping twice or even thrice as far as any human, capable of bursts of swift, scuttling speed and enhanced agility.
- Ability to produce chirps, buzzing, etc. This comes in the form of a slightly unpleasant buzzing echo to its voice.
- Mandibles growing from or framing the mouth. (as of current moon warp)
- Chitinous armor, capable of blocking blades and absorbing moderate blows. Comes with grey mottled discoloration. (as of current moon warp)

Upcoming Traits:

- Sharp mantis claws or stinger.
- Tremor-Sense: Receive information based on footsteps or similar vibrations through the ground; typically can register the presence of a person or object, and generally pick out physical features such as gait, weight, etc.
- Wall climb, can scale all but the most slippery of surfaces as though walking on flat ground.

Potential/currently undecided:
- Extra eyes, may be normal or compound.
- Limited Telepathy: can communicate with other members of the hive (ie close friends and the like) through thoughts. These thoughts tend to be limited to emotions like empathy, or simple sentences or single words.

RP Plans/Desired CR: Currently SecUnit's physical changes are making it uncomfortably buglike. Between its usual SecUnit physical differences like the inbuilt weapons, the changes to its voice, and now the more physical changes like the mandibles, it's meant to generate some subconscious (or conscious) discomfort in others. It'll try and get a mask to cover the changes, but I'm happy to have characters being slightly unnerved by it, whether they're friends or strangers. It will oscillate between using those features to try and make people leave it alone, and trying to hide them so it doesn't scare people off too badly for it to do its job (protecting everyone!).

A lot of its personality means that it tends to make a negative first impression, and it is very defensive once it feels that it's been wronged, but even in negative situations it's willing to put its own life on the line to make sure people in the Convoy don't die, so stuck fighting together is usually a good option for salvaging a bad first meeting! Also if others end up physically fighting over something, it can step in and tell them in no uncertain terms to knock that shit off. On the other hand, treating it as competent, autonomous, and respecting its boundaries (aka don't look at it) are surefire ways to get it on your character's side forever.

It'll eventually get a collectivist hive mind, but that's one of the very last changes I'm considering, so for now the only psychological effects it's dealing with are the ones it brought from home. As for the telepathy: I'm still not sure about this but SecUnit has such a lively internal monologue that I think it'd be fun to let people get a peek past its usual awkward/terse exterior.

Other: Anything else!
[source: tenowls]

[serialmurderbot]

Do SecUnits dream who knows canon really hates to explain the difference between SecUnit's various shutdown states and human sleep! It does go into involuntary shutdown sometimes though so. I guess if ptsd hallucinations count as dreams Serph could catch one of those sometime, how does he feel about visions of zombie people trying to eat his leg

[firstsoldier]

hm, a bunch of Clouds. :|a ..

we should continue our not!talks.

[firstsoldier]

You don't go around just mauling everyone in your path! Only the ones who challenge your perceived place! Jack does not give off the sort of vibes that say "I'm here to fight you for your position" at least. I feel like werewolves might have a good understanding of jockeying around in a pack too.

please handle all the talking, this man does not know how to socialize in spite of angeal and genesis' best efforts for ten years

[firstsoldier]

HEY DOES ALL THIS SEEM AWFULLY FAMILIAR, SERPH

At least Sephiroth doesn't have to eat sapient things. Anything raw and wiggling will do quite well, it's just.. that's... so gross. :< and uncivilized. and inhuman.

[firstsoldier]

I can't play with it cuz not a demon, but do Serph's celestial impulses register atma as demons or just.. monsters. does what he's becoming hate Varuna.

[bufudine]

The trait registering his demon as something to hate is exactly why I chose it >:)

[firstsoldier]

"Inside of you are two wolves monsters"

[bufudine]

Maybe the swarm trait doesn't care about the distinction between sleeping and shutdown!

Honestly not that different from the various other people trying to eat more than Serph's leg-- But I imagine emotions could carry through as well, so whatever SecUnit was feeling at the time, Serph would probably feel it through the memshare, I think :Oa

[bufudine]

THIS KEEPS HAPPENING

No one's stopping Sephiroth from dressing up the meat. Maybe he could make a mean monster tataki.

[firstsoldier]

He'd rather eat nutrient loaf again!!

Poor Serph. Heading for nirvana with a bunch of barely controlled monsters tagging along. "...Third time's the charm, maybe?"

[bufudine]

Oh, Serph's roommate is also a kitsune! So if you want someone who can be calm in the face of Natsuhi freaking out, Serph's a decent candidate for that. He's chill with monsterisation and does come with healing magic, if she needs some medical aid after her changes set in :>b

[coffinturk]

ENOUGH TO BLOT OUT THE SUN.

You only wish you thought of it in Advent Children

We absolutely will.

[coffinturk]

The car is there to tease him about.

Please do. He has a lot of very well packed and compressed issues that will spring forth like a comedic sketch overstuffed suitcase if allowed.

[coffinturk]

It was so neat!

And hahhaa well Vincent will certainly be willing to share within reason. He managed to salvage up a repair kit or two and some tools as well.

And ammo. Of course.

Either way, more chats!

[definitionofcrazy]

Hell yeah, we live for the clown pocket handkerchief chain of emotional trauma.

[firstsoldier]

When I get to Advent Children I will absolutely fill the sky with ominous Clouds.

continue to address nothing at all. what needs to be said

Millions Knives | Trigun Stampede | Celestial (Angel)

[winparadise]

Character: Millions Knives
Monster: Celestial / Angel
Current Traits: As of the end of the April event, he'll have white angel wings and a blue eye on the back of each hand. They seem to move and blink independently of his own vision, but have markings identical to his own eyes when caught in bright direct light, and also remain visible when he uses his claws.
Upcoming Traits: Thinking his next trait will be commanding voice, if anyone wants to opt in to play with that! He's already trying to bully and coerce cr into doing what he wants so it felt apt, smh. For non-angel traits, sometime soon I'd like to add plant speech and nature affinity.

RP Plans/Desired CR: Knives is still new to the setting and very pissed off about induced monster transformations, as one of his extreme fears is becoming a guinea pig for humans. This has made him paranoid around the Convoy, on top of learning humans in other worlds tend to be just as shitty as he considers them to be in his own, and he eventually snapped and tried to kill Akechi.

Luckily Vash intervened, and his main priority in the game right now is protecting Vash and avoiding anything that might accelerate monster changes, so he'll be back to reining it in for a while and being slightly more chill toward human characters? Perhaps??

He's highkey delusional, so to convince himself getting monstered isn't So Bad, he's going to accept the angel changes as proof of his preexisting divinity and superiority to all those gross ass other monsters. Keep huffing that copium, Knives :) I am totally going to slap him with more drastic temporary changes in future events lmao... I just need to space it out to avoid him going into total meltdown mode too quickly.

In general, he's trying to assess who can be useful to him and will help him get what he wants. He can be very volatile, violent and manipulative, so if you'd rather not deal with him or only in a limited capacity, his permissions/opt out is here. On the flipside if you want negative cr and to put your character through the wringer with him... points at eyes points at you...! Let's talk.

Other:

[coffinturk]

Just being not-family guys with a weird connection in the general vicinity of each other

Len Darin (Courier 6) | Fallout: New Vegas | Satyr

[lonedanger]

Character: Len Darin
Monster: Satyr
Current Traits: The following are all sort of becoming active at once.

- hedonistic
- revelry mindset
- musical knack
- enhanced sense of surrounding
- wilderness affinity

Upcoming Traits:

- horns 😈

RP Plans/Desired CR: As you can see, Len's starter traits seem pretty innocuous, and tbh when you hold them up against his existing personality, they don't stand out all that much - not in a way he'd immediately notice, anyway. For now, he thinks he might have been spared the Monster Treatment™ that everybody is getting. Let us disabuse him of that notion. :)

Friendships! Antagonism! Opportunities for Len to flex his crafting/weapons fabrication skills with folks! There are several of those around, and I will find u. He's very friendly and gregarious, in addition to being wildly flirtatious. Please let him flirt at you, he has Horny on Main disease and now that he's Satyr-oriented, it's terminal. 💀

Monster-hunting and scavenging is kind of his bread and butter, being a post-apocalyptic wastelander, so very open to meeting others or working together with others in this way. He's also not unfamiliar with the concept of not jiving with others, so if you want any antagonistic CR, shoot me a message and we can see if there's some fundamental ideological disagreement they might have! Or maybe they just hate each other's personalities! On his first day he cut a guy's finger off so anything can happen!!!

Thus far he's gravitated more towards those people from his world, but that's out of an abundance of caution, and I'd like to see him lend a hand and get some more general exposure. He's a great guy to have in a pinch even if he gives off stereotypical cowboy vibes.

Other:

[lonedanger]

hello i heard you like crafting gun

[coffinturk]

This man has gun. Also many other gun kindly donated by raiders.

Do u like gun and gun moding 2?

[bigplace]

You know, depending on how this inbox thread goes, the flirting could be the most hilarious tonal whiplash ever.