[a / b / c / d / e / f / g / gif / h / hr / k / m / o / p / r / s / t / u / v / vg / w / wg] [i / ic] [r9k] [cm / hm / y] [3 / adv / an / cgl / ck / co / diy / fa / fit / hc / int / jp / lit / mlp / mu / n / po / pol / sci / soc / sp / tg / toy / trv / tv / vp / x] [rs] [status / ? / @] [Settings] [Home]
Board:  
Settings   Home
4chan
/tg/ - Traditional Games


File: 1350584862003.png-(15 KB, 292x188, opener.png)
15 KB
You are Anon, a street fighter on a deadline. With nowhere else to turn you agreed to the torturous training regimen of the Kyokugen Dojo.

Right now you'd do anything to take that decision back.

>previous threads here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Street%20Fighter%20Quest
>remember, due to my mistaking a roll in the last thread you guys get one freebie to get out of bad rolls

After a 4am wakeup call, a ten mile jog and five hundred pushups with Tatsuya kneeling on your back he finally declared that the morning warmup was finished and you're ready for some real training. This real training involves putting on a blindfold and driving to the edge of town.
>>
File: 1350585098378.jpg-(13 KB, 208x242, tatsuya.jpg)
13 KB
"This is going to be awesome," he says as he drives. Wind is blasting both of you in the face due to the gigantic hole he put through the windshield, but Tatsuya barely seems to mind. "Seriously, we don't have many students right now. Definitely none who want to go all-out. It's going to feel good to stretch my muscles a bit, you know?" You don't know what to say to that.

>ask about today's training
>ask about why he doesn't compete in any fighting tournaments
>ask another question
>>
>>21180451

The guy's a beast. Ask why he isn't competing.
>>
>>21180485
second
>>
>>21180579

Yeah, ask why he didn't join the any tournaments.
>>
File: 1350586417042.jpg-(66 KB, 550x367, 2spooky.jpg)
66 KB
"Mind if I ask a question?" you ask. You get a grunt of approval. "You could easily steamroll every fighter I've seen so far. Why aren't you fighting?"

Tatsuya laughs. Not the roaring laughter that you're starting to suspect may be forced, but an actual laugh. "You think I'm that strong, huh?" There's a long silence. You start to feel awkward until he breaks it again. "You got any kids?"

"No. Don't even have a girlfriend right now," you say.

"Good. You want to be a fighter, you have to give your life to it. Time in the gym, time training, traveling, the fights, the recovery. You can't do that and be a family man." There's another silence. A longer one this time. "I was actually on the road for a bit with the King of Fighters tournament. Me and two other Kyokugen students looking to raise the profile of the school. I was in Florida fighting some roid-raging wrestler when Ellie's mother..." His voice trails off. "A man's only got one shot at life. I've never regretted devoting it to raising my daughter."

The car suddenly comes to a stop. "Okay, we're here!" he shouts. "Get out and keep the blindfold on, I've got to get the training exercise ready."

You risk a peek under the blindfold. It seems Tatsuya drove you to some spooky-looking house. Looks abandoned, actually.
>>
>>21180717
Spooky mansion? In the event that we end up finding a skeleton, acquire human femurs to beat someone with later.
>>
File: 1350586740415.jpg-(38 KB, 500x250, draft_lens12763471module1(...).jpg)
38 KB
>>21180717

I hope that we don't need to deal with insane cannibal killer...
>>
File: 1350586847616.gif-(6 KB, 96x128, 2ldwoz4.gif)
6 KB
"Okay, take off the blindfold," he says. "This is your training exercise."

"What? I have to stay in a spooky house? Is it full of g-g-g-ghosts?" you ask, dripping sarcasm.

"Nope! This is used as a flophouse by some local karate hobos. This morning I gave one of 'em twenty bucks."

"...and you want it back?" you ask.

"No, you want to have a food budget for the week. I told them if they beat you they get a hundred bucks. I hope you like fireballs."

>Let's check back on this training later.
>Check on Ellie?
>Check on Boss Honda?
>>
Rolled 22

>>21180836

>Check on Pete and Belle

I want to see if there's anything going on there, dammit!
>>
Rolled 4

No roll for the training?

>Check on Ellie
>>
>>21180836
Boss Honda
>>
Rolled 57

>>21180836
>Check on Ellie?
>>
File: 1350587088493.gif-(873 KB, 400x226, 2spooky.gif)
873 KB
>>21180836
Time for Boss Honda.
>>
File: 1350587090056.gif-(47 KB, 300x263, announcer3.gif)
47 KB
>>21180867

Rolling can't save us from what's coming with this training. Nothing can save us from what's coming.
>>
>>21180836
I wanna see Boss Honda too. Last we left him, he'd just gone level-3 hyper combo all over some Mad Gear douchebag, right? I kinda wanna know how dangerous he's going to become.
>>
Rolled 37

>>21180836
> try to learn chi by osmosis.
Or at least that'll be our story for why we always stop block them with our face.
>>
>>21180836
HAHA! TIME FOR SUMO!
>>
File: 1350587445822.jpg-(192 KB, 800x1131, 1346831224303.jpg)
192 KB
You are Ellie, a Kyokugen fighter. Your current training assignment is to defeat 100 Mad Gear gang members, an assignment you've already punched a quarter of the way through. The grand finale of last night's gang battle was Tuba Tom, some sort of army tuba guy. You're starting to suspect Mad Gear is terrible at being a gang.

You wake up this morning in an unfamiliar room. Pete offered to let you and Belle crash at Anon's apartment instead of paying for a hotel. You were planning to pay for this trip with your King of Fighters winnings, so this was actually much welcomed. After a rock-paper-scissors match you won the bed, leaving Belle sleeping on the couch.

>explore the apartment?
>head downtown and attack the leader of Mad Gear
>wake Belle up
>>
Rolled 6

>>21180982
>>explore the apartment
Time to lower our already abysmal opinion of Anon.
>>
Rolled 84

>>21180982

Look around, then wake Belle up. Talk to her for a bit, I want to know something about her story too.
>>
>>21180982
>explore the apartment

Let's make it funny
>>
May as well learn a little bit about this guy you left alone with your dad for a month. No sense in waking Belle up quite yet though. You want a shower before the hot water is used up.

The first and most obvious thing is the enormous King poster in the room. It's not even cheesecakey, you notice, it's just that famous one where she's straightening her bowtie after knocking out Yagami. There are a promotional posters for Eagle from that same tournament, the major World Warrior/King of Fighters crossover. As far as you know that was the last time he competed before settling down.

No dice there. You check out Anon's bookshelf - mostly martial arts manuals and a few novels. A complete set of the Sword Fist Arts From Hell novels, which is...obscure? That seems like a weird one. There are an obscene number of style guides, including a thick volume devoted to the art of tying a bowtie. That seems a bit much.

You search through the rest of the room. Computer desk (you don't know the password), some DVDs (mostly action movies from the 90s for some reason) and a closet full of overly snazzy clothes. Nothing too exciting.

There's one thing you haven't quite looked for, though...

>check under the bed for porn
>don't do it, man, just walk away
>>
>>21181170

Dooooo it.
>>
>>21181170
Just walk away. that is an abyss we don't want staring back at us.
>>
>>21181170
>check under the bed for porn

thou MUST
>>
>>21181170
>>check under the bed for porn
She already can't check the internet history, so she must look for the books.

> Belle finds us in the guy's room reading his porn.
>>
>>21181170

>check under the bed for porn

As long as we're searching the place, let's SEARCH THE PLACE.

It's gonna be a Playboy special feature on Poison, right?
>>
>>21181170
Don't look, just assume the worst. He became well known first for knocking a man out with something unmentionable, after all.
>>
>>21181170

Check for adult magazines under the bed...
>>
Late but not too late. Better than I expected.

>check under the bed for porn
All she'll find is more style guides and several boxes full of kali sticks.
>>
>>21181170
Check it.

Also, who the hell has their porn under their bed?
Or even has a bed?
>>
File: 1350589306801.gif-(14 KB, 250x350, 1349904188647.gif)
14 KB
You check under the bed. There's....

...a hand-written note saying NICE TRY PETE. It's...still enlightening, in a way?

Nonplussed, you search under the socks in the dresser, behind the bookcase, in the back of the closet. Nothing but dust and bowties. The more you think of it the more you're sure that you've only heard about people hiding porn under their bed in bad teen comedies.

Frustrated at the wasted time, you decide it's probably time to wake up Belle and make some breakfast.

Belle is still sprawled out on the couch, noisily snoring and drooling a bit.

>wake her up, try talking to her a bit
>you have to be ruthless in these situations. take a shower and use all the hot water before waking her up.
>>
File: 1350589354865.jpg-(190 KB, 540x768, 1349911824694.jpg)
190 KB
>>21181170

Just realized I forgot the image for the King poster after going through all the trouble of finding it again.
>>
>>21181305

Try to wake her up, if she refuse to wake up then take a shower and use all the hot water.
>>
>wake her up, try talking to her a bit

She already bravely suffers Pete. No point in adding to her misery.

Actually, Ask her why does she suffer Pete? She's not from this town, right?
>>
>>21181305
>wake her up, try talking to her a bit
Ellie doesn't seem like a big enough of an ass to use up all the hot water to me.
>>
>>21181305

Try waking her up. I'd like to hear some backstory.
>>
I don't suppose motorboating Belle awake is an option...?

Sorry, couldn't resist. Love the quest, btw.
>>
>>21181396

>motorboating

...with what? I don't think Anon keeps that dildo he beat up Honda with in the apartment, because we'd have found it by now.
>>
>>21181432
Anon dropped that as soon as the beatdown concluded.

Also:
>v. int. The act of pushing one's face in between two ample breasts, and rocking one's head side to side very rapidly while making a vigorous, lip-vibrating "brrr" sound.
>>
You gently shake Belle's shoulder to wake her up. She bolts upright with a start, hands automatically coming up in a fighting stance for a confused second. When she realizes it's just you she flops back over.

"Morning, Belle," you say.

"What time is it?" she asks.

"Around nine? Thought I'd let you sleep in a bit."

"My body's killing me," she says. "I still can't believe we fought tuba men."

"Only one had a tuba," you said. "I'm gonna try to make some breakfast, you want anything?"

"Whatever you're having," she says. She turns over face-down. Guess that conversation's over until you come back with food.

Anon's fridge is desolate, but there are some eggs and some milk. You have a vague idea that you put a bit of milk into some eggs, stir it around and then put it in a pan? It's scrambled eggs, how badly can you do?

>roll 2d10 for cooking. Taking the lowest roll.
>>
Rolled 2, 8 = 10

>>21181506

boy oh boy
>>
Rolled 1, 7 = 8

>>21181506

Break the eggs! CRUSH THEM WITH YOUR MIGHT!
>>
Rolled 2, 6 = 8

>>21181506
>>
File: 1350590351110.jpg-(41 KB, 300x191, 2940437_1344604784233.23r(...).jpg)
41 KB
Rolled 3, 7 = 10

>>21181506

I hope that we don't cook that bad...
>>
Rolled 1, 8 = 9

>>21181506
>It's scrambled eggs, how badly can you do?
Oh god. Here we go.
>>
Rolled 1, 6 = 7

cooking
>>
Rolled 4, 1 = 5

Surely we can roll lower than 7?
>>
Rolled 5, 6 = 11

>>21181506
Let me at em!
>>
File: 1350591205187.jpg-(84 KB, 481x700, 1350518125115.jpg)
84 KB
You never really learned to cook properly. Dad threw himself into the chores of a single father with the same manic gusto he gave Kyokugen-ryu karate. On one hand it was good to have that much support growing up, on the other hand it left you with no domestic skills of your own. Still, you can figure out something this simple, right?

>>21181670

Basically yes. After a minute or two of pushing them around the pan with a spatula they seem to have hardened decently. When you take a sample bite it's...kinda bad? Somehow runny and chewy at the same time, but still edible. You decide to drown them in salt and pepper before you bring them out to Belle.

"Breakfast's ready," you say, handing her a plate. You watch with nervousness as she takes a bite. "How is it?" you ask.

"Not bad," she says. "All the gangsters I can beat up and a pretty girl to cook me breakfast? I could get to like this city." She gives you a smile.

"...so, um, why exactly did you agree to help me?" you ask. "Do you have a grudge against Mad Gear or something?"

"Thought it'd be good practice," she said, happily chewing away at her food. "And the other option was to get a ride back to Southtown with *M*A*S*H* Wolf. No way I'm spending a couple hours in that weirdo's truck."

"Oh. Well, thanks. That would've been a lot harder with your help," you say. She shrugs and keeps eating your eggs.

"So what's the plan?" she asks. "Meet up with Pete and Joe, go take on the gang leader?"

"Sure," you say. "Let's just get this over with today.

>check back in with Anon's training?
>go straight to Boss Honda?
>>
>>21181745
>check back in with Anon's training

Gotta have some training montages
>>
>>21181745

BACKSTORY FIRST

WANT KNOW DELICIOUS REDHEAD
>>
>>21181745
Montage time!
>>
File: 1350591599216.jpg-(9 KB, 249x202, eagle.jpg)
9 KB
Your name is Anon. You've never been a big proponent of chi as a fighter, preferring to mix it up with well-timed strikes and expert positioning. As an eskrima user you've always advocated proper zoning - stay just outside of punching range, use the sticks to be faster than their feet. When you do it right it's devastating.

You've now spent all morning fighting a bunch of hobos throwing fireballs everywhere. With more chi than skill they tend to just blast off half a dozen and see what happens. It's starting to get irritating.

The last of them - the one with the twenty dollars - is holed up in a bedroom of this abandoned house, hands chambered and chi ready to go. His fellow karate hobos litter the mansion in various states of unconsciousness.

"Warriorrrs! Come out and plaaa-aaaay!" he shouts.

>what's your move?
>>
>>21181745
>check back in with Anon's training?


The hours approaching, to give it your best
You've got to reach your prime.
That’s when you need to put yourself to the test
And show us a passage of time
Were going to need a montage (montage)
Ooh it takes a montage (montage)
>>
>>21181843
If the walls are thin and/or weak enough we should Kool-Aid Man our way in from the side.
>>
>>21181843
"But Luther actually had an edge and was chasing the Warriors, who were hiding. This is the exact opposite of that situation. You don't even have your gang ready to fight. If you had a knife in your arm this'd be the end of the movie, and I'd be Swan. Only I don't need the Riffs to beat you down."
>>
Rolled 5, 4 = 9

>>21181843

Throw the sticks at him.

Alternatively, spin them to block the fireball or even deflect it back on him.
>>
>>21181843

We know he's going to fire as soon as he sees us. We can depends on the timing, so lets reflect it back with the sticks Eagle style.
>>
Rolled 23

>>21181843
>>what's your move?
>Rip the door off its hinges and charge at the hobos with it as a shield.
We're all finesse.
>>
>>21181843
...Wait, heavy manhunt vibes coming from here.
>>
>>21181843
Never underestimate the power of a hungry Karate Hobo. We need to see if we can create a distraction- maybe toss something near the wall or door and get him to blast at nothing. Then we charge.

Alternately, can we swat his shot back at him the way we did with that hurled trash-can from earlier? It's pretty much a given he's gonna try to blow us away when he sees us, so we can bait it out and then jump him when he's spent.
>>
>>21181908
Pretend we have food. Tell him we'll be there to fight him once we finish our meal.
>>
File: 1350592259831.gif-(90 KB, 306x175, 1349909256084.gif)
90 KB
"You're the one hiding! If anything you're the Warriors and I'm the other guy!"

"Fine, then you do the line!" the hobo shouts.

"No! Come out here and fight!" you yell.

"No! Come out and plaaa-aaaaaayy!"

This is going nowhere. You're not quite sure if you can break through the walls - you knocked one of the karate hobos into one pretty hard and it didn't break. Using the door as a shield is an option, but there's no way to unscrew it without leaving yourself wide open to counterattack. Only one thing left to do.

"Alright, I'm coming in!" you shout. You need to make sure he fires the instant he sees you. You grip your sticks firmly. Eagle did this all the time, you think. You step into the door, sticks chambered behind you, already throwing your body into the wide golf swing.

The karate hobo blasts off his fireball perfectly. Your palms sting when they connect with the fireball, but it reflects perfectly. The surprised look on the karate hobo's face is wiped off by his own chi blast a second later.

You breathe heavily. You've knocked back the occasional trash can and hurled bottle, but this is a first for you.

>Take the twenty dollars. It's eatin' time.
>The karate hobos need it more than you. Let them keep it.
>>
>>21181745
>adding the salt and pepper AFTER making
OH SHIT NIGGER WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?
>>
>>21181983
By making, I meant "cooking".
>>
>>21181980
>The karate hobos need it more than you. Let them keep it.
Man needs to eat. Don't take that from him.
>>
>>21181980
This is an actual dilemma. Does Southtown have even half the Street Turkey budget that Metro City does? I don't want these guys starving.
>>
Rolled 5, 5 = 10

>>21181980

As gentleman, we don't take money who are poorer than you. And also the karate hobos money may be dirty or carry disease...
>>
>>21182020
Not particularly, but the streets are no less meaner.
>>
>>21181980
Bah what the hell, let em keep it. We'll hunt for street turkeys or something later.
>>
Rolled 52

>>21182020
>Street Turkey budget
wtf am i reading?
>>
>>21181980
>The karate hobos need it more than you. Let them keep it.
The man earned it and I'm sure we have SOME cash on us, right?
>>
>>21182057
You didn't think all those fully cooked trash-can turkeys just spontaneously generated, did you?
>>
File: 1350592931279.jpg-(26 KB, 400x400, morgan freeman hobo.jpg)
26 KB
>>21182077
I thought it was the American Dream!
>>
File: 1350592943064.jpg-(Spoiler Image, 155 KB, 624x352)
Spoiler Image, 155 KB
You choose to leave the money. If Tatsuya wants to starve you for the rest of the week so be it, it would be unthinkable for a gentleman to steal from those poorer than him.

A shadow falls across you. Someone huge is in the hallway. Must be Tatsuya.

"Was this the lesson?" you ask. "Throwing that trash can at me, making me fight the karate hobos, all that to give me a proper answer to energy attacks? I think I'm starting to see what your teaching is all abou....aaaaaaa...."

You turn around. There's someone in some sort of costume there. They start to speak through a voice synthesizer. Their voice comes out simultaneously childishly high-pitched and ear-splittingly loud.

"iiiiiIIIIiiFF I CAAAaaaaAAAAtch yoooOOOU, IiiiiIIII'MMM GOOOOoooNNNAAaaa FUUUUuuuUUCKK YOOOOOOouuuu!"

"Oh god. Oh god no what's going on," you say.

"FIIIIiiiiive! FOOOOOOOooour!"

You dash past as quickly as you can - under his arm and past while he's still turning - and run headlong into the maze of blocked halls, secret passages and knocked-down walls that tunnel through the house.

The accursed training continues.
>>
>>21182101
Can't say Anon isn't properly motivated for training.
>>
Boss Honda time?
>>
File: 1350593194027.jpg-(44 KB, 525x164, spiderman.jpg)
44 KB
>>21182101

Spider-Man?
>>
File: 1350593348625.jpg-(28 KB, 413x395, 1319399775110.jpg)
28 KB
>>21182101
At least he's making progress.
>>
File: 1350593399098.gif-(55 KB, 320x240, announcer1.gif)
55 KB
Taking a short break to walk the dog, coming back with Boss Honda in maybe fifteen or twenty minutes.
>>
>>21181745

Is it just me or is Belle kinda into Ellie?
>>
>>21182280
Too soon to say.
>>
>>21182280

I can say that you are not alone with that thought. I also suspect that Belle may "interesting" on Ellie.
>>
>>21182280
Well look at her current options - karate hobo, Pete or Ellie.
>>
>>21182467

You, sir, are underestimating the charms of Hobo Joe. All the street turkey you can ask for! A unique story of how they met! Energy spam that would make the gods weep!
>>
File: 1350596125826.jpg-(6 KB, 225x224, sumo.jpg)
6 KB
Your name is Boss Honda. You once held the World Warrior title for the east coast before some sort of bow-tied hipster beat you in a bar fight and your life spiraled out of control. Now you're sitting in the parking lot of an abandoned K-Mart, watching an old man you saved from Mad Gear the night before slowly move through a form for a martial art you don't recognize.

"Is this like tai chi?" you ask. "The way you're moving slow and all."

"It is and it isn't," he says. He seems serene, gently flowing from one movement to the next. Not hurrying, not slow, just...being. "Every man practices a martial art only truly known to him. The path of the wandering warrior is uncovering that art for yourself."

"Huh," you say. You think about the feeling that coursed through your veins when the old man lent you his power - the strength, the calm, the joy. "Could you teach it to me?"

"No. But we could help you discover it for yourself," the old man says. He nods to the 40 you're drinking out of a brown bag. "You will have to unlearn some things that are interrupting your chi flow. You'll have to teach yourself things you may not want to learn at first. Do you think you can do it?"

>study under the karate hobo
>screw that. find a sumo dojo and study there
>>
>>21182744

There's no way we're passing up on this source of awesome power. Karate hobo time.
>>
>>21182744
Anything's worth trying once, and anything's worth stomping that fop's face.
>>
>study under the karate hobo

We better remain sumo, though. I've come to really like sumo characters.
>>
>>21182744
>study under the karate hobo
He's going to learn to eat those Street Turkies then?
>You'll have to teach yourself things you may not want to learn at first.
That's a yes.
>>
>>21182780
Sumo Hobo Strong.
>>
>>21182784

A real man learns to tolerate a certain amount of gravel in his food!
>>
File: 1350596941605.jpg-(15 KB, 193x309, chiyonofuji.jpg)
15 KB
>>21182744

Study with the karate hobo and maybe we can relearn ourself. Example like removing all those fatness and become muscle build hobo rikishi.
>>
File: 1350596962707.jpg-(79 KB, 400x358, tai chi.jpg)
79 KB
"I would be honored if you would teach me," you say. The old man pauses and stares for a moment, silently evaluating you.

"Hm. Okay, stand up and join me."

He positions you - guiding your hands, moving your feet, moving your head a bit with his hands to align your body right. When he's satisfied that you know how to stand he begins to guide you through a brief kata - a step, a circular arm movement, a sidestep and another arm movement. It doesn't seem to have any combat applications, but as a circular pattern it makes a sort of sense. After completing four you wind up back in the same spot you start in.

"Feel the movement of your own body," the old man says. "You're not fighting, you're just moving. Your chi is moving with you, slowly building power and strength. Move with it."

You do. You fall into a pattern, your breath rising and falling with the movements, something inside of you slowly building and rising. It's hard to pinpoint, but it's definitely there - a spark of chi, rising, flowing with you.

"You're doing good," the old man says. You snap out of your reverie. Judging by the sun hours must have passed.

"What's your goal with this?" the old man asks. "Why abandon your home and your job?"
>>
So if we'd gone with Karate Hobo training, would Boss Honda have ended up on a train to Southtown?
>>
>>21182919
>There's someone I must defeat.
Might as well be honest to the old guy. He seems cool enough.
>>
>>21182926

Yep.
>>
>>21182919
I may have lost everything I had, but I haven't given up on getting it back.
>>
File: 1350597370314.jpg-(89 KB, 800x450, Saints-Row-3-Bat.jpg)
89 KB
>>21182919

"That is somebody that I need to defeat because... I can't stop having flashbacks by getting hit by a... dildo...!"
>>
>>21183018
Tempting to say make it more vague and just have him say he has flashbacks of that persons dildo.
>>
>>21182919
Need to get stronger.
>>
You decide to level with the old man. "There's someone I have to defeat. A man who took everything from me. I want it back."

"And beating him will give it back to you?" he asks. "You're young and strong. You can still do anything, be anything you want."

"My mind is made up," you say through grit teeth. "There are some things a man just can't forgive."

"I'll teach you. I don't know if I'm offering you a path to heaven or building you a road to hell. Only you can answer that." The old man is silent and thoughtful for a moment. "Well, let's see how you did. Hadouken!"

He doesn't even need to put both hands into it. He extends his palm a few inches and the fireball erupts from it. For a moment you panic. That spark you were burns in your chest.

>roll 2d10 for hadouken
>>
Rolled 10, 4 = 14

>>21183079
Probably a copycat who stole the Hadouken, but hey, whatever works.
>>
Rolled 9, 10 = 19

>>21183079

Sumodouken!
>>
Rolled 10, 1 = 11

>>21183079

HADOUSUMOKEN
>>
Rolled 2, 7 = 9

>>21183079
>>
>>21183099

You throw out both hands instinctively, palms first. The spark in your chest rises, expands, burns its way through your body. It erupts from your palms in a blaze of blue light that meets the old man's fire. The two swirl together in a tangle and disappear.

"That was...that was amazing!" you say. You can still feel the chi coursing its way through your body, the energy pulsing in your veins. It's as if the energy isn't spent, only...transformed. And rising.

"Very good," the old man says. "Astonishingly good, actually. With dedication you can flourish beautifully." The old man smiles. "Let's get you a gi and hop a train. We're heading west."
>>
File: 1350599084735.jpg-(161 KB, 1600x1203, announcer2.jpg)
161 KB
Another short break! Slightly longer this time. If anyone's got good Street Fighter/King of Fighters art they feel like tossing in here feel free, I'm hoping to expand what I've got to use here.
>>
File: 1350599781554.jpg-(401 KB, 1024x1360, 0fa0806ee5467973497bf8010(...).jpg)
401 KB
>>21183190
I've got plenty of art. I'll add when I think it's pertinent instead of just dumping everything.
>>
Rolled 3, 10 = 13

>>21183190

Nope, sorry bro, I erased whatever I had a while back.

http://www.fightersgeneration.com/

is a good site to get stuff, though. Go to characters, open at random, see what you get.

btw, you have no idea how hard it is for me to focus on doing things while this quest is running. Can't stop F5ing.
>>
File: 1350599961523.gif-(98 KB, 600x600, 1209084089828.gif)
98 KB
>>21183303
Doesn't mean I don't have stuff to share in the meantime.
>>
>>21183303
I always liked those gloves because they give absolutely minimal benefit. They are just decorated hand supports.
>>
File: 1350600038661.jpg-(420 KB, 970x1442, 1212197822590.jpg)
420 KB
>>21183338
There'll be enough for you to use.
>>
File: 1350600108077.jpg-(171 KB, 1581x1431, 1223926648728.jpg)
171 KB
>>21183354
I got stuff from all over.
>>
File: 1350600195352.jpg-(241 KB, 782x984, 1229808561438.jpg)
241 KB
>>21183374
Like, a couple years' worth of pictures across 2 laptops. The old one crapped out, though (the video card literally melted to the motherboard, due to a manufacturing defect. THANKS HP).
>>
File: 1350600256882.jpg-(27 KB, 450x600, 1216424303601.jpg)
27 KB
>>21183387
But yeah, I got stuff.
>>
File: 1350600318979.jpg-(224 KB, 409x1200, 1216429099809.jpg)
224 KB
>>21183398
Don't know what you'll need, but I got stuff.

>emhouse fkillet
>>
File: 1350600387667.jpg-(304 KB, 700x598, 1212306331792.jpg)
304 KB
>>21183411
Couple more, then I'll stop for now.
>>
File: 1350600490116.jpg-(40 KB, 400x400, 1212306675517.jpg)
40 KB
>>21183421
I'll get in the habit of adding a picture when I post.
>>
File: 1350600552502.jpg-(245 KB, 551x600, 1212213432208.jpg)
245 KB
>>21183439
Don't worry. I've got plenty of SNK art too.
>>
File: 1350600614298.jpg-(89 KB, 500x600, 1216420322609.jpg)
89 KB
>>21183452
That'll come in due time.
>>
>>21183439
ahahahahahaha that is so perfect
>>
File: 1350600809658.png-(417 KB, 800x640, 29834481.png)
417 KB
>>21183190
I've got some. I'll pick up anything interesting I see in the future and post it in these when you need something, as well.
>>
File: 1350600901745.jpg-(473 KB, 800x1200, 30542189.jpg)
473 KB
>>21183504
>>
File: 1350600962300.jpg-(97 KB, 690x501, 28507440.jpg)
97 KB
>>21183529
>>
File: 1350601082399.jpg-(222 KB, 618x874, 28315666.jpg)
222 KB
>>21183537
>>
>HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!!
Holy fuck, this guy's got far more swag than Anon
http://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters4/white.html
>>
File: 1350601269388.jpg-(283 KB, 900x1400, 27962899.jpg)
283 KB
>>21183555
...Street Fighter is weird. Things like this will turn up when you least expect it!
>>
>>21183587
Did you even read that? Fucking psycho bitch ain't got no swag even if he has style.
>>
File: 1350601526281.jpg-(124 KB, 750x750, 26599946.jpg)
124 KB
>>21183596
You just know Vega has a whole legion of pretty-boy imitators.
>>
File: 1350601664466.jpg-(484 KB, 800x600, 26374601.jpg)
484 KB
>>21183638
>>
File: 1350601818991.jpg-(8 KB, 150x138, 1262802560418.jpg)
8 KB
>>21183587
Oh, White. He's from Real Bout Fatal Fury Special: Dominated Mind on the PSX. He's a wannabe crimelord of Southtown after Geese, and you fight him in a doll museum, where he moves like a marionette and acts like the Joker. He also apparently had mind control to a degree. He's kinda dumb, and Geese would murder him.
>>
File: 1350601946481.gif-(295 KB, 850x756, 25389182.gif)
295 KB
>>21183666
>>
File: 1350601992637.jpg-(213 KB, 500x707, 1255329692583.jpg)
213 KB
>>21183638
Then again, he's an almost-convicted serial killer who disappeared when Shadoloo went under. He literally believes that beauty is power and that he is the single must beautiful thing under the sun. If he found out he had legions of wannabes, he'd probably murder them all out of spite for trying to step to him.
>>
>>21183705
Is Geese dead in this timeline? Do Duke and all those KOF Maximum Impact 2 people exist?
>>
File: 1350602189233.jpg-(39 KB, 728x678, 1253922498474.jpg)
39 KB
>>21183746
Consider the anachronism that Geese and grown-up Rock Howard both competed in CvS2. The rule of thumb is that if Rock is grown up, then Geese is dead. I suppose the official answer is "best not to think about it."

As for the characters from the Maximum Impact spinoff, I'd say we're fine without them. A lot of them reek of tryhard. Hell, Falcoon -- fanartist turned art director for some SNK games, including MI -- admitted that Alba Meira was a self-insert, a "cooler version of himself."
>>
File: 1350602263426.jpg-(702 KB, 1230x1185, 24773507.jpg)
702 KB
>>21183746
Oh yeah, I'm sure he'd hate the idea, but depending on the timeline I don't even know if Vega is still operational.

And all the scorn in the world won't stop an uninformed D-bag from getting a cheap mask and magic-markering a snake on his chest to try and impress ladies.
>>
File: 1350602412366.jpg-(235 KB, 590x800, 22640082.jpg)
235 KB
>>
File: 1350602559172.jpg-(161 KB, 800x800, 24342540.jpg)
161 KB
>>21183796
>>
File: 1350602635653.png-(889 KB, 900x900, 18905386.png)
889 KB
>>21183846
>>
File: 1350602666186.jpg-(268 KB, 739x650, 1232499462124.jpg)
268 KB
>>21183796
What I think happened regarding the fall of Shadoloo:
- Sagat left way before the whole thing fell apart. He could fight Ryu on his own (FYI, there's a bit of bromance between Ryu and Sagat as the years go on; it's not a full-on hateboner).
- Boxer (Balrog/M. Bison) became a bum on the street. No Shadoloo paycheck + banned from professional boxing = sad Boxer
- Claw (Vega/Balrog) disappeared in all the mess. Some say he died, some say he went underground, some say he's still living it up as Spanish nobility, some say he still kills to this day.
- I want to say that the death of Dictator (M. Bison/Vega) marked the death of Shadoloo, but since he appeared in CvS, that'd be hard to rationalize (same goes for Rugal). We'll say that whether or not Dictator is alive is immaterial, though I'm willing to write him off as dead at this point, for the sake of consistency. It'd give Chun-Li and Guile peace of mind.
>>
File: 1350602762388.jpg-(1.41 MB, 792x920, 24414507.jpg)
1.41 MB
>>21183855
You know, I really like this weird fighting game crossover-verse that's going on here. So much weird crap going on, even outside of Metro City and Southtown... are there more people like Blanka who can electrocute dudes through contact, for instance? Why is there an abnormal number of rich people who are also highly bad ass in a fight?
>>
File: 1350602786322.jpg-(253 KB, 900x900, 1220337208991.jpg)
253 KB
>>21183864
CvS is something of a dream match, so expect a bunch of inconsistencies if you're trying to rationalize everything. That's all I'm saying. See my comment about Geese in >>21183786
>>
File: 1350602855037.jpg-(64 KB, 500x500, 24283773.jpg)
64 KB
>>21183864
That dude was hopping body to body before it went out of style. He's probably 'dead', but lord only knows how long that will even be the case. If Rose is still around he can pretty much come back forever, can't he?
>>
>>21183746

Oh Dan, how I love to main you.
>>
File: 1350603124899.jpg-(637 KB, 1340x2000, 24176552.jpg)
637 KB
>>21183895
Okay, out of pictures for now. Don't want to clutter things up too much.
>>
File: 1350603162296.jpg-(75 KB, 673x500, 1235426437412.jpg)
75 KB
>>21183881
Blanka/Jimmy was a special case. He was a young boy flying to visit his relatives somewhere in South America. The plane buzzed too close to a secret Shadoloo base and shot it down over the Amazon. Jimmy was the only survivor, and he lived in the jungle for years, hence the green skin. He learned the bioelectricity from hanging out with electric eels a lot. He's also Dan's only real friend, since Dan busted him out one time when he was captured.
As for rich people fighting, that's really only Ken Masters (owns a global hotel chain and various enterprises), Robert Garcia (probably manages finances) and Karin Kanzuki (born into money).

>>21183895
Rose and Dictator are two halves of the same soul: Rose good, Dictator evil. Rose has said that should either one die, the other will as well. If Dictator's soul hasn't yet gone to its rest, then I'd say he won't be coming back anytime soon. More than enough people (Chun-Li, Guile, Cammy, Rose, etc.) know his tricks and are keeping him from reviving into a body, leaving him in limbo forever, essentially. Again, that's if he hasn't moved on, meaning Rose wouldn't be around. Hard to say.
>>
>>21183864
>>21183895
I think it's safe to say that even Dictator knows it's not safe for him to be alive. After all the beatings he's received and all the times he's screwed up I wouldn't be surprised if he's just off somewhere biding his time, waiting for the crop of World Warriors that repeatedly beat his ass to die of old age. Probably suffering from having to focus on the day-to-day grind, though - and I bet after 40-50 years or so when he finally thinks about resurfacing whatever body or bodies he's lived his time out in have changed him to where he's not quite so psycho (CRUSHA).
>>
File: 1350603329192.jpg-(915 KB, 1000x863, 40af821092104ea4508558d9f(...).jpg)
915 KB
>>21183958

>>21183952
This'll be the last for me too, for now. Don't worry. I got waaaaaaay more where that came from, so keep an eye out for more later.
>>
File: 1350603530294.jpg-(488 KB, 1000x1000, 1267196808685.jpg)
488 KB
>>21183990
Okay, one more.

>>21183986
The absolute peak of Dictator's power, by my reckoning, was at the end of Alpha 3. He was pumped up on Psycho Power (hence the SUPER-BUFF body compared to other, skinnier Dictators), and he had the Psycho Drive, which amplified his power even further. The Psycho Drive was destroyed, along with his body. I think even he realizes that unless there's major shenanigans, he'll never reach that peak of power again, and it's all downhill from here.
>>
>>21184031
... dammit, I miss Karin. I miss her so much. I used to be so damn good with her in Alpha 3.
>>
File: 1350603949764.jpg-(35 KB, 300x388, 1239007766297.jpg)
35 KB
>>21183786
Meant to respond to >>21183747
>>
File: 1350604015402.gif-(593 KB, 320x240, nod.gif)
593 KB
>mfw all this art

You guys are the best.
>>
File: 1350604087206.jpg-(154 KB, 600x513, 1270689530979.jpg)
154 KB
>>21184142
And that's just my Capcom stuff.
>>
File: 1350604101355.jpg-(97 KB, 240x731, Krauser feels alive.jpg)
97 KB
>>21183958
Pretty much all SNK bosses are rich as hell if you want to be technical about it
>>
File: 1350604182162.jpg-(63 KB, 401x600, blade.jpg)
63 KB
>>21184031
>>21184097
>>21184142
I AM INSPIRED.
>>
File: 1350604242116.jpg-(2.05 MB, 1920x1200, 1344059007936.jpg)
2.05 MB
>>21184160
Them aside.
>>
File: 1350604290212.jpg-(124 KB, 688x873, untitled8.jpg)
124 KB
>>21184184
>>
File: 1350604360220.jpg-(48 KB, 450x600, 1262408714744.jpg)
48 KB
>>21184207
>>
File: 1350604385107.jpg-(140 KB, 496x600, FG dance.jpg)
140 KB
>>21184197
Also Dudley is pretty rich
>>
File: 1350604443140.jpg-(27 KB, 394x374, FUCK YEAR RUFUS.jpg)
27 KB
>>21184217
>>
File: 1350604497271.jpg-(19 KB, 300x393, 1268253546365.jpg)
19 KB
>>21184218
Forgot about him.
>>
File: 1350604551589.jpg-(21 KB, 500x281, street4-rufus2.jpg)
21 KB
>>21184230
>>
File: 1350604813583.jpg-(94 KB, 500x600, 1262852283057.jpg)
94 KB
>>21184248
I have got to sort my folders at some point holy shit I can't find anything in any sort of speed.
>>
File: 1350604821310.jpg-(258 KB, 499x600, Wolfgang Krauser.jpg)
258 KB
>>21184241
I do believe Hakan is a successful owner of an Oil Company.
So he is pretty rich.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWIt6NnSXLs
Best Final Boss theme or Bestest Final Boss Theme
>>
File: 1350604950175.jpg-(342 KB, 696x1201, 1266869112960.jpg)
342 KB
>>21184296
>>
File: 1350605012405.png-(2.3 MB, 1440x2560, 1271732774386.png)
2.3 MB
>>21184296
You say that like I'M organized.
>>21184298
Yes, Hakan is rich, and yes, Krauser's theme is pretty boss (pun mostly unintended), particularly because it's a song that already exists.

As previously mentioned, I'm saving my SNK art for later.
>>
File: 1350605070850.jpg-(134 KB, 450x600, International Star Fei Long.jpg)
134 KB
>>21184298
Also Fei Long is a very famous actor
So he is probably pretty wealthy
>>
File: 1350605105894.gif-(67 KB, 476x576, 672091db476eb40da77cf021d(...).gif)
67 KB
>>21184317
Viper needs to let her hair down. People might like her more.
>>
File: 1350605244905.jpg-(171 KB, 450x457, Masked Jackie Chan.jpg)
171 KB
>>21184340
I wish Bruce Lee kicks were in flames
>>
>>21184340
Fei Long is Bruce Lee had he not died stupid young over a dumb accident regarding medicine he was allergic to. He'd be swimming in money as the guy that kickstarted martial arts film craze worldwide, regarded as a pioneer of MMA and probably one of the most skilled and respected fighters in the world.

I don't even care how much that doesn't fit established Capcom canon, Fei Long should enjoy the life Bruce Lee could not.
>>
File: 1350605510926.jpg-(89 KB, 1000x1500, 1343395393798.jpg)
89 KB
This might have been from a different SFQ thread, but....eh, why not.
>>
File: 1350605663645.jpg-(43 KB, 347x450, 1256922502242.jpg)
43 KB
>>21184428
>>
>>21184184
I have one very important question. What the hell happened to her nipples?
>>
File: 1350605767522.jpg-(652 KB, 1900x1080, 1279282965787.jpg)
652 KB
>>21184465
Tucked into her top? I'unno.
>>
>>21184465
Wonderful, tender things?
Also, wow. I got styled on by chrome claws.
Damn.
>>
>>21184481
Yeah. I would post more Darkstalkers stuff but most of what I've got would end up being a thinly veiled barely safe for work Morrigan dump.
>>
>>21184503

Speaking of Darkstalkers, is that shit canon in this quest's setting too? Are we going to encounter werewolves and chinese ghosts?
>>
File: 1350606004142.jpg-(714 KB, 850x965, sample_9b9e36993775921822(...).jpg)
714 KB
>>21184503
Ha ha, I know that feeling.
Oh well.
>>
>>21184521
I'm pretty sure it's just Street Fighter and King of Fighters... but I wouldn't complain even a little if things took a turn for the weird and we ended up in really out-there territory. Haggar is claiming that MvC3 happened, after all...
>>
File: 1350606082409.jpg-(39 KB, 400x600, 7747 - Alex cosplay Inval(...).jpg)
39 KB
>>
File: 1350606162231.png-(477 KB, 600x800, 6c269bb9afa4b93324c331300(...).png)
477 KB
>>21184521
I want to say maybe leaning towards yes. I mean, Haohmaru, Nakoruru and Hibiki took time out of their day to time-travel to compete in CvS. That, plus Morrigan is the obligatory Darkstalkers character, not to mention a common rival fight is Morrigan vs. Nakoruru (particularly in the Neo-Geo Pocket Color game). I have enough pictures to post as it is, though. Don't make me go fishing for my Morrigan/Darkstalkers pictures.
>>
File: 1350606224868.jpg-(468 KB, 1200x1600, 08a35722202db17c581c85674(...).jpg)
468 KB
>>
>>21184479

But...that's just not right. The top's only covering this minimal portion of flesh on the lower end and on the sides. Her nipples would have to be insanely small and her tits would have to be twisted to horrible, unpossible angles to hide them. Or her nipples would have to be insanely small AND repositionable, so she can put them to the side or underside of her boobs.
>>
>>21184556
But, having Samurai Showdown characters would make no goddamn sense
>>
File: 1350606293774.png-(28 KB, 620x620, 1254765157094.png)
28 KB
>>21184556
>Haohmaru, Nakoruru and Hibiki
That list also includes Genjuro, Shiki and Earthquake in SVC Chaos, even though no one counts SVC Chaos.
>>
File: 1350606316721.jpg-(152 KB, 1100x736, 1627ae6a38f9092f6ccf450ef(...).jpg)
152 KB
>>
File: 1350606374073.jpg-(563 KB, 1131x1600, e6996d4ddb759fe1014012d8d(...).jpg)
563 KB
>>21184570
WELCOME TO CAPCOM VS. SNK. ENJOY YOUR STAY.
>>
File: 1350606399158.jpg-(487 KB, 2067x2067, catachans and cadian.jpg)
487 KB
>>
File: 1350606410872.jpg-(530 KB, 640x480, 1235370512409.jpg)
530 KB
>>21184576
Rule 63 of Team Ikari's Ralf Jones. I have that, and it's good.
>>
File: 1350606451968.jpg-(324 KB, 1384x1352, 519932.jpg)
324 KB
>>
>>21184568
Well that or she has no nipples. Either way, we've gone into /d/ territory here.
>>
>>21184590
So this is Capcom vs SNK to a tee?
So like, Shin Akuma and whatnot
>>
>>21184594

I really wish this quest could introduce a military character for us to play, or an opportunity to train with some special forces/mercenary dudes. I think army training in this setting would be fucking crazy.
>>
File: 1350606570557.jpg-(228 KB, 950x1355, 257748 - Angel King_Of_Fi(...).jpg)
228 KB
>>
File: 1350606615227.jpg-(107 KB, 717x1062, 1259828716012.jpg)
107 KB
>>21184611
Of course not, no. Loosely based, yes, but not literally, no.
>>21184619
Guile and Charlie are the only ones who can reasonably do the Somersault Kick and Sonic Boom, so they're exceptions. But yeah, it'd be interesting to see armed forces and paramilitary forces going to work. There's plenty of organizations to work with, too.
>>
File: 1350606735995.jpg-(506 KB, 842x901, 75791d53a04e8f84d22bbf764(...).jpg)
506 KB
>>21184619
Unquestionably.
>>
File: 1350606748703.png-(186 KB, 287x609, 1345175980726.png)
186 KB
>>21184622
Ah, Angel. Mexican luchador (sorta -- she brawls a lot) and the most lovable killer enforcer of NESTS with the People's Elbow as a HSDM. As I understand it, she went to ground when NESTS fell apart, so she might still be hiding out somewhere.
>>
File: 1350606793240.jpg-(168 KB, 900x900, Darkstalkers_Felicia_by_Y(...).jpg)
168 KB
ok, nuffa dis.
>>
>>21184657
That's my hope.
She's entirely too thatsmyfetish.jpg, but for once I'm not gonna pretend otherwise.
Luscious, lovely, loony Anjel. Indeed.
>>
File: 1350606890531.png-(181 KB, 431x461, eagle-sfa3max-bust.png)
181 KB
>>21184521

The canon of this game is a little loose, mostly because it's set far enough after the main fighting games everyone would know that some details can get blurred. Whether Art of Fighting happened in the 70s or the 2000s, exactly how many King of Fighters tournaments happened before Rock grew up and Mark of the Wolves happened, the exact timeline between Street Fighter II and III, all those are questions that may get answered but otherwise happened "in the past" more or less. If I have to pin it down I'd say that the first Street Fighter happened in 1987, Street Fighter II happened in 1991 and the rest of the timeline gets worked out from there. CvS2 happened in late 99/early 2000, but not everyone depicted in the game actually got to compete - Ryu and Ryo would both be there, but clearly Haohmaru wasn't. That would put most of the King of Fighters tournaments in the mid to late nineties and early 2000s. From there you might say that the World Warrior tournaments were an early sensation, the King of Fighters 3-on-3 format stole the spotlight for a bit in the 90s, then by the 2000s both enjoy about equal popularity that has periods of decline and then rises. Anon's goal goes beyond merely making a living fighting, he wants to kickstart a second golden age of fighters.

Darkstalkers is also loosely canon, but probably won't be encountered. For one thing I'm less familiar with Darkstalkers continuity, partially because "holy fuck vampires and werewolves are real!" pushes the quest into a completely new genre.

To fix some continuity drift (mostly the fact that Kyo was in high school for about ten years) I'm also running with the idea that the King of Fighters tournament was held way more often than annually. Every two or three months, possibly.
>>
File: 1350606935516.jpg-(106 KB, 450x600, Ramon soaring through the(...).jpg)
106 KB
>>21184657
She really only had the Rock moves to be considered a Luchador.
>>21184676
She is not coming back anon

Best Luchador is Ramon
>>
File: 1350607098753.jpg-(67 KB, 578x500, kyo-sakura.jpg)
67 KB
>>21184688
>mostly the fact that Kyo was in high school for about ten years
Nah, he got into his college years quickly enough. Note how he stops wearing the school gear (with the Kusanagi sun on the back, go figure) after the Orochi saga. Kyo grew up just fine, I'd say.

Ryu still has a decade on him, but still.
>>
>>21184688
We can always have a crazy dream some time about getting into fights with supernatural creatures, then wake up and think about how goddamn weird that was. And maybe learn a thing or two about fighting from our weirdly realistic bee-lady and Frankenstein punching dream.
>>
>>21184722

Huh. The fact that I played the Orochi games and then skipped straight to the 2002 Dream Match might color my perception there. Still, Athena's been a teenager for how many years?

>expecting strict continuity in a fighting game for some reason

Yeah, I know.
>>
>>21184729
Or we bump into one of them alone at night and no one believes our story the next day.
>>
>>21184751
I don't think Athena is supposed to be a teenager

She is just an Idol and stuff
>>
File: 1350607349544.jpg-(91 KB, 395x765, 1225862010879.jpg)
91 KB
>>21184729
Really, only Morrigan and Demitri (maybe Felicia and Hsien-ko) should reliably show up, and that's if we go way out of our way to some remote corner of the world where we wouldn't even know they were there.

Anon heads for the Aensland Estate in Scotland at night and gets a special guest fight with Morrigan.
>>
>>21184751
Technically, according to Da Lore, Athena is a nascent _god_.
So she's whatever age she thinks she is.
>>
>>21184755

Seeing as this quest has us meet mostly fighters inspired by the characters, not the actual characters, I guess we could hope to meet a sire of Morrigan, if she does any siring?
>>
>>21184764
Morrigan and Demitri are too strong to the SF characters.
They're on planet busters levels
>>
>>21184751
Athena is an idol and the reincarnation of a goddess but you didn't hear that from me shhhhhhhh, yes. She does plenty of work well outside the KoF circuit.
>>
File: 1350607452105.jpg-(89 KB, 889x596, 8f692f7cb348bee1dba9cea16(...).jpg)
89 KB
One last Felicia pic.
I'd forgotten Catwomen were also pack animals.
>>
File: 1350607458909.jpg-(58 KB, 417x556, Ramon.jpg)
58 KB
>>21184692
>>
File: 1350607574734.jpg-(240 KB, 556x944, The_Farthest_Thing_From_V(...).jpg)
240 KB
Moar evil.
Moar crazy!
>>
>>21184789

>anon makes a wrong turn one night
>entire pack of catgirls
>quest instantly devolves into endless catgirl waifu fights
>lose all readers, die alone

Hmm yes plan in my head this is going to go smashingly.
>>
File: 1350607620027.jpg-(145 KB, 1079x911, 1212388602785.jpg)
145 KB
>>21184780
That's why everyone is scaled to a comparable level when crossovers happen. MvC is the only time Ryu's Shinkuu Hadouken becomes a giant fuck-off beam. Plus, I'm pretty sure Morrigan loves messing with Ryu. "He's so cute when he gets a little flustered~!"
>>
File: 1350607638318.jpg-(343 KB, 748x875, Vice_color_by_The70sBoY.jpg)
343 KB
>>
>>21184789

I imagine them singing "Memories".
>>
>>21184824
Well, but it is good to have some consistency on the quest.
Having the powerlevel shift everytime we fight someone is just clunky
>>
File: 1350607708644.jpg-(46 KB, 574x800, Ms__Vice_by_wigaboya.jpg)
46 KB
>>
File: 1350607840519.jpg-(247 KB, 1029x2061, 1350050675680.jpg)
247 KB
>>21184842

I'm sticking for now with "roughly comparable to real martial arts, a chi attack is roughly comparable in power and effect to taking a straight right from the chi attack's thrower." Karate Joe is an obvious exception, but he's on the far end of the karate hobo power scale and balances it by being a terrible fighter in every other way.
>>
File: 1350607841112.jpg-(170 KB, 718x985, sample-f5febf3aa8de4df70d(...).jpg)
170 KB
>>21184833
Classy.
Sadly I tend to think "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" instead.

>>21184823
Bahahahahaha.

<---- my current wall paper. Hard to resist a well-dressed villainess. Nevermind two.
>>
File: 1350607889068.jpg-(257 KB, 500x705, 1238569006360.jpg)
257 KB
>>21184842
I'm aware that Morrigan is one of the single strongest of all the Darkstalkers, but that doesn't mean she can't have some fun, especially with "such a handsome, well-dressed man as yourself. And such manners, too~! You really know how to make a lady feel welcome. Might you stay for a while? Perhaps we can have some...fun~<3."
>>
File: 1350607957599.jpg-(158 KB, 694x1024, 017d9dfb5637c24c96f4cc0a8(...).jpg)
158 KB
"Yes ma'am, I am _very_ ok, thanks for asking."
>>
File: 1350608016585.jpg-(233 KB, 729x1523, 176f15d3b25a3a9399c93158d(...).jpg)
233 KB
Needless to say, questions arose.
Questions about pants.
>>
>>21184755
So I bumped into this guy who could transform to a werechameleon. He was fighting this schoolgirl that had way too many chi swords at her disposal.

The chi sword schoogirl used the swords only to attack at the poor werechameleon dudes groin.

I'll never drink your home made stuff ever again, Pete.
>>
File: 1350608060555.jpg-(79 KB, 640x640, 1212388129074.jpg)
79 KB
>>21184891
"My car is okay, too. Honestly, quit being such a worrywart."
>>
>>21184901

SOMEONE STOLE KING'S PANTS

WE MUST QUEST TO FIND THEM
>>
>>21184937
Quest accepted.
>>
File: 1350608381457.jpg-(649 KB, 877x1240, 0b212c40fd1a83e650af2f8c6(...).jpg)
649 KB
>>21184937
>>21184971
Keep in mind that her muay thai has a fair number of high kicks.
>>
So are we done for the night?
>>
>>21184971
I wandered by the front page and saw this.
How can I assist?
>>
File: 1350608742417.gif-(3 KB, 132x67, huitzil_car.gif)
3 KB
>>21184879
I think you're better hoping for a Darkstalker quest
>>
>>21185011
Firstly, we must convince Street Fighting Man to make that an actual part of the quest.
>>
File: 1350608883745.jpg-(584 KB, 750x980, 1254762659226.jpg)
584 KB
>>21185049
Like I said, that'd just be a very special guest appearance.
>>
File: 1350608933663.jpg-(12 KB, 159x272, dat mustache.jpg)
12 KB
You are Anon, a street fighter who's been hunted for hours by a bizarre pillow man. You keep finding a new safe place only to be followed almost instantly by the horrifying high-pitched laugh and a fresh round of "Wheeenn I caaaatch yoooooou"

You're starting to get tired of this nonsense. It was scary for awhile, now you're just getting mad and you're tired of getting lost in this maze of a house.

>What will you do?
>>
>>21185091
Blast through the maze yelling OH YEAAH
>>
File: 1350608964031.jpg-(304 KB, 768x1024, kyo-ngbc.jpg)
304 KB
>>21184688
>>21184722
>>21184751

IIRC, the canon explanation for Kyo being in highschool for so long is that he's a lazy bum who doesn't give a rat's ass about anything other than fighting; and that would often skip school for months on end to take part in KoF tournaments and the like.

pic sorta related, my favorite Kyo attire
>>
>>21185091
This is just the next level of reflecting stuff. First trash cans, then fire balls and now giant pillowmen that want to rape us. Ambush him and deflect his ass.
>>
File: 1350609085404.jpg-(29 KB, 220x197, 1232500431900.jpg)
29 KB
>>21185091
Round a corner, wait for him to catch up, then baseball swing our sticks into his balls.
"No means NO!"
>>
>>21185091

We're getting tired, we're getting mad and we have no clue who the hell this guy. For all we know this could just be some random lunatic. I say even gentlemen have their limits, we oughta beat him up.
>>
>>21185124
sounds good.
>>
This has been going on for long enough. You're pretty sure it's just Tatsuya in a weird costume he made himself. If he's trying to goad you into fighting him it's time to give him that fight.

You step into the hallway, trying to figure out exactly where the stomping is coming from. You listen, but it seems to alternate coming from ahead of you and behind you. You turn to look back into the room you just walked out of only to find more hallway.

Wait. Wasn't that just a room?

>just go forward. we're sure to hit something
>go into the new hallway
>I've read House of Leaves. Find a window and leap out of it!
>>
File: 1350609419956.jpg-(48 KB, 357x500, 1b2967f1fb819993ec95502d6(...).jpg)
48 KB
>>21185208
>I've read House of Leaves. Find a window and leap out of it!
Lateral thinking!
>>
>>21185208
>I've read House of Leaves. Find a window and leap out of it!

A most dynamic course of action. Just uh, make sure it's not a leg-shattering fall.
>>
>>21185208
>just go forward. we're sure to hit something
And then we'll hit something.
>>
>>21185208
>>I've read House of Leaves. Find a window and leap out of it!
>>
>>21185236
Smash a window with our sticks and look outside, just to be sure.
>>
>>21185241
lets do this
>>
>>21185098
No, Highschool kyo participated in KOF from 94 to 97. Every appearance of highschool Kyo affterward is actually one of his clones.
>>
File: 1350610025468.jpg-(19 KB, 500x666, 1210269902037.jpg)
19 KB
>>21185352
Yeah, can't forget that. Evil corporation NESTS got ahold of Kyo's DNA and decided to make a clone army to establish a new world order. You can imagine how that turned out.
>>
You wander the halls, sticks in hand, ready to fight this pillowman if you see him. When you think more about it this is a really stupid costume. Pillows! What's scary about pillows?

Okay, that weird face is kinda freaky. You keep an eye out for any windows just in case you get a chance to jump out and circumvent this entire stupid mess.

You hear the muffled thuds of the stomping Pillowman. It rounds the corner, horrible empty eyes looking at you. Facing it in person you're suddenly less certain about facing it.

"Give it up, Tatsuya, this entire thing is dumb," you say. Then you hear a knocking from downstairs.

"Yooo, you done yet? Who won?" Tatsuya's voice can be heard from downstairs. It sounds distorted and wrong, somehow. Too deep. "It's been tweeeenty miiiinuuuuutes."

Fuck. You've been running around up here for hours.

"I CAAAAAAUGHT YOU," the pillow man says. "NOOOOW IIIIII'M GOOONNNAAAAA"

>SMASH HIM IN THE FACE
>RUN
>CALL FOR HELP FROM TATSUYA AND THE KARATE HOBOS
>>
File: 1350610161093.gif-(191 KB, 207x200, vanessa-beatdown.gif)
191 KB
>>21185391
>SMASH HIM IN THE FACE
BULLY!
>>
>>21185391
>SMASH HIM IN THE FACE
>CALL FOR HELP FROM TATSUYA AND THE KARATE HOBOS
There's no reason we can't do both.
>>
>>21185391
smash him in his stupid face
>>
>>21185391
DON'T RUN.
YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE PILLOWMAN.
>>
>>21185391
>SMASH HIM IN THE FACE

>"I CAAAAAAUGHT YOU," the pillow man says. "NOOOOW IIIIII'M GOOONNNAAAAA"
No, fuck YOU!
>>
>SMASH HIM IN THE FACE
>>
>>21185391
>>SMASH HIM IN THE FACE
This is fight training. Just fight him.
Though as he's covered in pillows he probably has a high defense so hit him extra hard.
>>
Thrust a stick in his face, and then nail it in with a punch.
>>
File: 1350610463917.jpg-(61 KB, 540x596, pile of pillows.jpg)
61 KB
If thee's a man under there, it's nothing that a faceful of stick can't solve. You slide the sticks in your hand so you're holding them reverse grip and charge in. The creepy pillow man lumbers toward you, laughing his high-pitched maniac laugh. You leap and stab downwards with both sticks as hard as possible.

The pillow man falls to pieces. Literally. You blink, looking at this pile of pillows. You suddenly feel kind of silly. Maybe one of those hobos tagged you in the temple with a fireball and you just imagined all this?

Every one of the pillows sprouts the pillow man's face. They start laughing, cackling in a horrible, ear-splitting symphony.

>go mad
>go mad
>>
>>21185516
OH CHRIST WHY IS IT NEVER CATGIRLS
>>
>>21185516
>>go mad
>>go mad
Well, I guess there's a reason not many people can take this training.
>>
File: 1350610623930.jpg-(186 KB, 467x600, 1232499371265.jpg)
186 KB
>>21185516
SMASH EVERY SINGLE FUCKING PILLOW IN ITS SMUG FACE
>>
File: 1350610646390.jpg-(76 KB, 513x650, Masks-Nyarlathotep-patric(...).jpg)
76 KB
>>21185516
GIVE IN TO THE WHISPERS.
>>
Rolled 9

>>21185516
rolling for san loss
>>
>>21185516
Knock the stuffing out of them. Literally.
Failing that, go mad.
>>
>>21185516
>Fuck you, Pillowman. Find a fire and dump the pillows in it.

>go mad

Well that was a thing.
>>
File: 1350610792662.jpg-(317 KB, 1100x1267, Cthulhu.jpg)
317 KB
>>21185561
Success!
>>
>>21185516
> Straighten you bowtie
>UNLEASH THE SATSUI NO HADOU
>>
"Wait," you say. "This is stupid. Pillow ghosts are stupid."

You think over the timing. You don't have an exact timer of how long it took to fight all the karate hobos, but about twenty minutes sounds right. They actually operated with better tactics than you would expect, laying down cover fire and flanking in an environment they knew better than you. Took roughly twenty minutes to work your way to that last one.

Not to mention this flight into a maze that took hours. You can only remember consciously trying to run for a few moments. The house was large, but not large enough to run a marathon in. The shifting architecture. The bizarre pillow ghost.

One of those fuckers laid a Yoga-style mind trap on you.

>Time to wake up. How to do it?
>>
File: 1350610980191.jpg-(154 KB, 576x745, 0cdbe0a73ae7640ce3446822c(...).jpg)
154 KB
>>21185610
Smack ourselves in the shin with one of our sticks.
>>
>>21185610
Standard way of getting out of hypnosis always seems to be hurting yourself and then focusing on the pain rather than the illusions. So hit yourself or something.
>>
>>21185610
Fix up the bowtie. The snaziness will overcome this mind trap.
>>
>>21185610
In a cold, simmering rage.

And to think we let them keep the twenty!
>>
>>21185610
This is gonna hurt bad, but it's a common trick. Bite your tongue. Don't rip off a chunk, that's nasty and unseemly, but many fighters bite down on their tongue when they're getting groggy or otherwise muddled so the pain will give them a jolt and wake em up.
>>
>>21185610
Unleash the beast: undo our bowtie and will our way out of this piece of shit mind whammy.
>>
>>21185655
>>21185673
We're not that good yet.
>>
The standard way to break an illusion, you suppose. Hit yourself and focus on the pain. You hold out your arm, squeeze your eyes shut and hit yourself as hard as you can right in the meaty part of it.

You open your eyes to find yourself back in the room where you defeated the karate hobo obsessed with the warriors, still over his unconscious body. The shadow in the doorframe was from a scrawny karate hobo holding his hands to his temples, straining to overwhelm your mind with his chi. He's trying so hard his nose has started bleeding.

There's going to be a lot more of that in a second.

>roll 1d100 and come up with a finishing move!
>>
File: 1350611389034.gif-(29 KB, 214x120, eagle-special2.gif)
29 KB
Rolled 60

>>21185694
Multi-stab to the chest!
>>
Rolled 48

>>21185694
Something like this - maybe with the sticks instead - was what I was thinking: >>21185425
>>
Rolled 49

>>21185694
>Throw your sticks at him , close in and catch them on rebound and then lay it on him.
>>
Rolled 89

>>21185694

I say we dash in there and land a double thrust to his solar plexus. While he's busy trying to learn how to breathe again, we unload on him, as many blows to as many places as possible. We finish it off by smacking the back of his legs, making him fall to his knees, then a single stick downwards smash to the head as the finish.
>>
File: 1350612564461.gif-(21 KB, 169x152, 1349840010193.gif)
21 KB
>>21185795

You dash in with a double-thrust to the solar plexus followed by an absolute rain of blows. You almost feel bad as he starts to collapse, then you remember that pile of laughing and screaming pillow faces. You have a feeling you know what you're going to be dreaming about for the next, like, twenty years. You finish by smashing him in the head hard enough to knock him out for awhile.

"Hey, you there?" Tatsuya yells. "Did you learn to reflect projectiles yet or what?"

"Y-yeah," you say, exhausted. You've never been trapped in illusion maze before. It's more exhausting than you would think. You stumble your way towards the front door over the unconscious bodies of all the other karate hobos, making a mental note to bake these guys a turkey and leave it on the porch sometime in the next few days. Tatsuya is waiting on the porch.

"So this whole thing was about reflecting, right?" you ask.

"Yeah. If karate hobos are known for anything it's the whole chi thing. Only reason to get into karate hoboing in the first place."
>>
File: 1350612602753.gif-(5 KB, 320x224, closer.gif)
5 KB
>>21185989


"Did you know one of them had some sort of illusion power or something? I fought some sort of ghost pillow man in a haunted maze." You're half dazed as you walk back to the car. It's been an incredibly long day already and it's not even noon.

"Huh. Was it fun?" Tatsuya asked.

"Kinda? There was this bit where I smashed him in the head and he turned into a lot of faces?"

"Did you stomp the faces? That's what I would have done," Tatsuya says. He walks around the car and unlocks the driver side. You're exhausted that you just sway on your feet waiting for him to unlock your door. "Always wanted to fight a ghost."

"You can't fight ghosts, I don't think," you say. He still hasn't unlocked it. "There's nothing there to punch."

"Then you're just not punching right," Tatsuya says. He starts the car. "That's enough warmup, let's get you home and start your first real workout."

"Are you gonna let me in?" you ask. Tatsuya laughs, that ridiculous roar of laughter.

"Are you kidding? We're only six miles from the dojo. Run behind the car."

So continues your accursed training.
>>
>>21186001
So the whole "Dropping from helicopters" isn't much of a hyperbole, is it?
>>
File: 1350612819730.jpg-(587 KB, 1400x1400, 1e6b2fe348e75e6674691463d(...).jpg)
587 KB
>>21186040
Takuma doesn't fuck around.
>>
>>21185795

Hm I can't into gentlemanly. I guess it fits because fuck mental pillowman rape mazes, but I need to think about stuff like this better. Ironically I have trouble bringing the sticks into it, I've always focused on unarmed fightan so hard I can't even come up with nice moves for them.
>>
>>21186001
I wonder how similar our training is compared to Ellie's.
>>
>>21186072

We're being run through an accelerated course and he apparently dotes on his daughter. He also seems to think it's funny to put us through hell. I imagine Ellie's training was still intense but more similar to a standard (but incredibly hardcore) karateka's.
>>
File: 1350614349483.jpg-(29 KB, 277x375, Rugal1_kof.jpg)
29 KB
>>21183887
Yup, like this handsome motherfucker. No other boss even comes close to his swag.
>KAISAH WAVE!
Fuck, that's what we need! We need the boss move par excellance, we could even do it with two kali sticks. At once.
>Crossah... Wave!
That or Raging Wind.
>>
>>21186367

I've actually been thinking we should break the main fighters' styles into special moves. It would offer a good level of granularity between rolling for every individual punch, block and sidestep (waaaay too much rolling) and a bad habit I get into of "You close distance, roll for how the next six or so seconds of infighting goes." Giving players the option between a few moves - maybe one all-out attack, a setup move and something defense-oriented each - might work. I'll give it some thought.

...seriously, look at Rugal pulling off that look. He's like the Dark Side of Swag. If Anon ever goes evil that's how he's gonna dress.
>>
>>21186367
Rugal stole the Kaiser Wave from Wolfgang Krauser. The two even have a special intro in '98 where they trade Kaiser Waves.
He also took Geese's Reppuken.
>>
File: 1350614972584.jpg-(17 KB, 200x443, 200px-Nbc_geese.jpg)
17 KB
>>21184729
>Dream fights
>In Southtown
Fuck.
>>
>>21186455

I heard from somewhere or another that his original concept was that he's such a beast in hand-to-hand he copies the style of whoever he's fighting. Hardware and budget limitations axed that quickly, so instead he just borrowed a few specials.
>>
>>21186405
Establishing well-defined special moves (and ultras maybe?) is probably a good idea and fits right into the fighting game vibe, IMO. Just gotta keep em interesting.

BUT, on the other hand, I do like the focus on actual dodges, blocking, trading of blows and whatnot. Makes it feel grittier, more like a real fight rather than trading speshul moves like a bad anime.
>>
>>21186587
Make it like the SF2 anime movie. Gritty street-fight and leave the special attacks as 'wow' moments
>>
File: 1350633278938.jpg-(74 KB, 897x1200, acammy_makeup.jpg)
74 KB
Oh yeah
>>
>>21186587

If I go the special moves route, it'll probably be in terms of broader tactics (if that makes sense.) For Ellie for example, her style focuses on fairly linear footwork and powerful strikes. A variant on Ryo's 'overwhelm with a flurry of punches' move, Matoko's charging-in straight punch, then maybe a defensive/reactive option akin to Dudley's Cross Counter? Each of those leaves plenty of room for realism to step in. Anon's moveset would probably have roughly similar archetypes between all-out/charging/defensive but draw more from Eagle and Rolento.
>>
>>21191662
> all-out/charging/defensive
>defensive
Nope nope nope. Why are we spending an action defending when we should be exploiting the opening with a counter?

Attack attack attack!
>>
File: 1350661624704.jpg-(60 KB, 450x750, Rock Howard.jpg)
60 KB
>>21192908

Do you even Crack Counter?


Delete Post [File Only] Password
Style
[a / b / c / d / e / f / g / gif / h / hr / k / m / o / p / r / s / t / u / v / vg / w / wg] [i / ic] [r9k] [cm / hm / y] [3 / adv / an / cgl / ck / co / diy / fa / fit / hc / int / jp / lit / mlp / mu / n / po / pol / sci / soc / sp / tg / toy / trv / tv / vp / wsg / x] [rs] [status / q / @] [Settings] [Home]
[Disable Mobile View / Use Desktop Site]

[Enable Mobile View / Use Mobile Site]

- futaba + yotsuba -
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective parties. Images uploaded are the responsibility of the Poster. Comments are owned by the Poster.