Pirates vs. Ninjas RPG: The Forum Adventure (Back for Real!)

[Kiroth6]

LS: Consider your options.
DVS: Dramatically narrarate
LS: Remember that you are actually quite selfish.
SE: POLLYANNA!
LWT: Yoink!

[Andorxor]

>Grab his nose and pull to check if it is the real or just another mask

[Kiroth6]

>Grab his nose and pull to check if it is the real or just another mask

Nice! Seconded.

[Ouroboros]

Option 1:

> LS: Say that you will join her so long as no further harm comes to Jack.

> Jack: Once she release you, punch yourself in the face, causing further harm and voiding the contract.

> LS: Kick QoH's ass.

Option 2:

> SE: Attack from wherever you're hiding, get Jack away from QoH.

[goggleman64]

> SE: Launch a debilitating attack at Jack.

> Han: Launch a debilitating attack at Queen of Hearts.

> Laverne: DEAD MAN'S THUDD.

[DairunCates]

>Jack: Make a joke about her hair.

Unfortunately, you used the last of your Luck on the gamblers that ended up injuring you. Still, that doesn't mean you can't bluff.

Jack: Oh hey. I like the new haircut. Have you been letting it grow out?
QoH: That won't work on me, Jack. You're facing a whole new Queen of Hearts.

> LS: Say that you will join her so long as no further harm comes to Jack.

LS: Alright. Fine. I'll give up, as long as you don't hurt him. I don't see any other way to save him.
Jack: Sunset, what are you doing? Why would you-
QoH: She's sacrificing herself for you, like a good little ninja.
???: Too bad you didn't learn one thing about me.

LS?: Remember that you are actually quite selfish.

LS: I'm not a good little ninja.



QoH: Clever. You made an illusory double to trick me.
LS: You know what's even more clever?
QoH: What?
LS: I'm the illusion.


>SE?: Attack from wherever you're hiding, get Jack away from QoH.

QoH: Oh, VERY nice. You'll make a wonderful apprentice. You really should reconsider my offer.
DVS: DON'T DO IT!
LS: You should probably ask the REAL Life's Sunset.
QoH: Nice try. I know that first attack was probably a concealed rock and an illusion and you're just trying to get me to turn around so you can stab me with the sword.

>LS?: Backstab her once she turns her back on you.

LS1: WRONG!
QoH: ACK!
LS2: Do you get tired of being wrong?

>Laverne: DEAD MAN'S THUD.

QoH: Alright. I gotta admit. I'd be pretty angry if I wasn't genuinely amazed, but I think I got this figured out.
LS: I don't think you do.
QoH: Oh really.
LWT: REALLY!
DVS: GET HER, LAVERNE!

[LightMage]

>Begin with the beating.

[Andorxor]

Laverne:Put her into the coffin

[goggleman64]

> Han: Secretly be the coffin.

> DVS: Run up Laverne's back to gain height; perform a piercing downward strike!

[Whimbrel]

SE: Keep QoH distracted

LS: Take this chance to prepare a precision strike

[Bloddyredcommie]

Lavern: Invent, and perfect, a new technique, the GraveThudder.
First, you jump really high, then you throw the Coffin down at the QoH, then, before she gets it off herself, you land a mean thud right on top of it.

[Kiroth6]

DVS: Be a cardboard cut out.

Sevens: Rue this day.

QoH: Parry the sneak attacks. Show them why you're the Queen of Hearts.

[goldedge2]

>QoH: pefect dodge! HAHA!

[Seeker]

Lavern: Invent, and perfect, a new technique, the GraveThudder.
First, you jump really high, then you throw the Coffin down at the QoH, then, before she gets it off herself, you land a mean thud right on top of it.

This. Seconded.

[DairunCates]

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Laverne: Invent, and perfect, a new technique, the GraveThudder.
First, you jump really high, then you throw the Coffin down at the QoH, then, before she gets it off herself, you land a mean thud right on top of it.

Good idea, but I couldn't quite get it into this update. Maybe in a bit.

>Han: Secretly be the Coffin
>Coffin: Secretly be the Han
>DVS: Be a cardboard cutout
>Real DVS: Run up Laverne's back to gain height; perform a piercing downward strike!
>LS: Take this chance to prepare a precision strike

or to make it simpler should I ever get around to doing a mirror...

>Team: Illusion Gambit!

You all drop your illusions simultaneously. Your cover is about to be blown anyway.

LWT: HERE IT GOES!
Han: Please let me not land on my wounds.
DVS: EQUINJA... PUNCH!
QoH: Ah. So there's more than just 3 Feykinja here.
LS: Wait... is that? What the henka? What's the doing here? ...Wait... Did you say THREE!?



SE: Alright. You should be safe now, Harold. Just follow me, and we'll get you back to the inn. Then I'll grab Life's Sunset, and she can patch you up.
Jack: Wait... If you're not Sunset, then who are you?
SE: It's complicated. I'm kind of a clone, but not really.
Jack: Ah. So you're a Hitinja then?
SE: Actually, I'm a musician. A Minstrel to be exact, but I did learn how to play guitar, dance, and mix my own special effects.
Jack: Ah that's very good to hear.

>QoH: Begin with the beating.

SE: Why?
QoH: ...Because the support units are always the best ones to take out first.

>QoH: pefect dodge! HAHA!

SE: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
LS: Ah... So she was disguised as our Boss the entire time. I thought her movements were a bit stiff.
LWT: Oh Bilgewater. I KNEW I should've taken that suggestion to check his face.
LS: What are you even ta-... You know what? Never mind. Let's go save her.
Han: God... so much pain...

What do you do?

[Bloddyredcommie]

All: Poke each other to make sure there are no more illusions in play.

[Whimbrel]

SE: Support unit? Pffft~ You have a RIDICULOUS number of tricks up your sleeves. Metaphorically and literally. Pull out one of the literal potions for now

[The Dr.]

> Everyone: Reveal that YOU WERE ALL THE QUEEN OF HEARTS THE ENTIRE TIME!

[Kiroth6]

LE: Pollyanna!

[goggleman64]

> LS: Go to ES's rescue.

> Rest: Well, okay, you've got your boss now; take him to the Inn!

> Also: Make Sevens and Jack switch places; disguise them as eachother using your amazing powers.

> Laverne: Smash Han into the ground again.

[Neopie]

Remmy: Be the tree. Introduce your bullets to QoH, nicely and friendly like. Let em stick around! Get to know her. I hear that her spleen and lungs are nice.

[Andorxor]

SE:Be someone else too.We can never have enough illusion/disguise chaos

[One With Nothing]

Juan Allosaurus: Be the tree. Unleash the horde.

Raptor Horde: Also be trees.

LWT: Be too stupid to fall for any more illusions. Glimpse the true battlefield. Recoil in terror.

[Shadow Phoenix]

So I get QoH could simoultaneously disguise herself as Jack and disguise the rock as herself. It's a lever higher here. How come feikinjas don't know how to penetrate each other illusions ?

> LS : look for jack. Laverne follow her. DVS : protect your father.

[DairunCates]

So I get QoH could simoultaneously disguise herself as Jack and disguise the rock as herself. It's a lever higher here. How come feikinjas don't know how to penetrate each other illusions ?

> LS : look for jack. Laverne follow her. DVS : protect your father.

WARNING: BORING TECHNICAL BS AHEAD!

The short version is that in the cases where it's come up, it's been dramatically to keep the tension of the moment or hasn't been planned ahead of time and is a result of user suggestions leading it into that kind of fight.

The longer version is that seeing through illusions is a precision check versus the user's Will check, and almost everyone that's been using it has a decently higher Will then their opponent's Precision. Ie. Jack's Will is pretty high. So, the odds of most of those guards making it was pretty low, but Rachel's Dad saw through the Waldo disguise in the flashback, because he had an excellent precision. On the other hand, the QoH in the past battle didn't see through the pot roast gambit because she had a fairly low precision compared to Jack's high Will. Minor illusions like minor alterations to appearance also get a bonus to their check. Even then, LS actually did see through Remmy's minor illusion in her fight with him, which is why she treated him like a child instead of an actual demon. The one exception to all this, and it hasn't been explained by the character yet, is SE. Her illusions are limited to taking the form of LS, but they're actually impossible to see through, because on some level, people think she IS LS because of the nature of her existence. In other words, she has a very limited usage of Feykinja abilities, but they're very well honed. The only real exception to all this is DVS' sheep disguise, but that was mostly because 1. It was funny, and 2. No one was actually paying attention to that second sheep to notice at the time.

Now, the Queen of Hearts just now? Totally saw through all those illusions (save SE's impossible one, and LS's lack of an illusion) just now and managed to maintain 2 illusions instead of one (which is high level Feykinja skill), and her Will is very high. Thus, why she was able to react pretty well to it. Whatever that means, I'll let you figure out.

EDIT: Oh, and most well-trained Feykinja ARE excellent at seeing through illusions just fine, but none of the main characters are primarily Feykinja. At best, they have a few tricks up their sleeves. Let's put it this way, if you've seen a good Feykinja in the comic so far, you probably haven't realized it yet.