Angela’s New Groove

[Blitzfrieg]

Character’s Name: Angela Kaiser
Profile: strawhatforum.proboards.com/thread/24938/angela-cannoness
Devil Fruit: strawhatforum.proboards.com/thread/24937/hou-mi
Current X-Poinz: 640 total. 225 used. 415 avail. (-100 for gear pending)

Fighting Style Upgrade


Name:– Hou Hou no Mi
Focus:– Ranged Attacks, Heavy Firepower
Rank:– 1 (-200 pts, +125 rebate) 240 avail
New Aspect:– Exotic Munitions: Angela May now create more complex and unique ammo to be used by her cannons. Examples of the ammo she can now use are as follows.
-Explosive Shot: Explodes on contact dealing damage through heat and fragmentation, slower, less direct impact.
-Smoke Shot: Very little direction damage, cracks on impact releasing thick cloud of lingering smoke.
-Flashbang Shot: Very little direct damage, explodes on impact releasing a blinding flash.
-Grape Shot: Instead of firing a single cannonball, a cluster of heavy ball bearings are fired in a variable spread.


New Techs


Name:– Grappling Cannon -50.
Fighting Style:– Hou Hou no Mi
Rank:– 1
Description:–. Angela transforms her forearm into a fat, wide barreled cannon. Resting in the barrel of the cannon is a large, ten-pound, fist shaped Cannonball attached by a chain. During flight the hand opens and will clamp onto whatever it impacts. At which point Angela can winch in the chain, either dragging something back to her or dragging herself to the object. The chain has a limited range of 30 meters.
Variation: Gustaf Knuckle - Angela punches her target with her transformed fist and fires the cannon on impact dealing massive damage.

Name:– Pressure Cannon -50
Fighting Style:– Hou Hou no Mi
Rank:– 1.
Description:–. Angela begins sucking in air through her mouth while her lungs pressurize the air into one or more of her transformed cannons. She can’t move while doing this, and it takes a great deal of air to charge a full shot, though the more air she draws in, the more powerful a shot she can deliver. When ready, she simply fires of one or more cannons as she normally would, however instead of powder all the stored air is released in a powerful burst of pressurized gas. *Fun fact. Angela can automatically release the air she is drawing in as she does so creating a gentle fanning breeze......*

Name:– Gale Shock -50 xpz.
Fighting Style:– Angel Legs
Rank:– 1
Description:– Angela leaps into the air while delivering a rapid flip kick to her opponents chin enhanced by the momentum of her Breath dials.  She then spins with her momentum into a position where she can either use the dials to reposition herself or follow up with an aerial attack.

Name:– Howitzer Kick -50xpz
Fighting Style:– Angel Legs
Rank:– 1
Description:– Angela uses her dials to whip herself into a wild spin while airborne and transferring that momentum into a powerful axe, heel, or shin kick.

[Suriko]

Alright. So. After a bit of discussion, We do feel that any abnormal shots, such as the grappling hook, would actually need an aspect regarding such. And just to be clear, this type of aspect could allow for other types of odd or abnormal ammunition to be generated by your fruit. Otherwise this would need to be external ammunition

so let me know which route you'd like to take, or if you'd rather hold off on the tech for now.

[Blitzfrieg]

So for clarification....if I took an Aspect for Exotic Ammo, would the Grappling Cannon still need it’s own unique tech or would it be just an ammo alternative?

[Blitzfrieg]

Done.  Let me know if any other changes are required.

[Suriko]

Was double checking a few things. and please keep this rule in mind next time.

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And I'm going to say yes cause the aspect is more just making the shot. so all this looks good.

Approved

[Jade]

"Yes" as in the "abnormal ammo" would need to be its own techniques, not just ammunition alternatives, just as clarification.

[Blitzfrieg]

Ok now I’m confused.  Because Angela was already approved with alternative ammunition that didn’t require special techniques to use.  She can currently use a chain(nipple) shot, solid shell, and gunpowder shot. Hou Hou no MI

These were already approved and I was under the impression that different ammunition types are akin to variations of her basic shot, thus don’t require individual techs.  

From what I gathered, the difference with things like the Grappling Cannon and Pressure cannon, is that they fundamentally change the function of the cannon to behave in a different way.  Thus why they need special techniques.

Am I wrong?  Because that would mean I can’t even use any of these ammunition’s at all.  Even the basic ones already approved.  She doesn’t have any of them as techniques.  So I would need to completely redo this tech application.  

[Jade]

The way we discussed it among the staff was that your Fruit is "thematic" - things that make sense for a cannon to do are things your Fruit can do without requiring an Aspect. As such, your standard shot types are fine as they are currently.

However, if you want to go beyond what is "normal" for a cannon (such as "grappling" shots), that will require this Aspect we have just discussed. The specialized nature of these abnormal ammunitions goes beyond what your Fruit at base is capable of, thereby requiring some sort of upgrade; an Aspect allowing for techniques to be developed seems the cleanest method of accomplishing this. You are able to create variant techniques utilizing an Aspect, so if you want to create one of the abnormal ammo types and still use it with an existing technique, you will be able to do so (needing only to pay the difference in Rank cost between the original tech and the new variant).

If you have any additional questions regarding this, you can PM me through the site and we can talk about this further.