02-13-2017, 11:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-13-2017, 11:57 PM by King Ghidorah.)
Ghidorah's golden lightning. After I scrape together the OM to upgrade it, I'm pretty sure it's going to be the only example on the site of a move that translates from just a pretty impressive energy attack into an actual giant-monster breath-weapon when a kaiju-sized powered-up-form is triggered.
Preserved here for posterity in its soon-to-be-purchased form.
Golden Lightning - variable, requires ranged proficiency, area attack proficiency - (1200 OM)
King Ghidorah's main weapon. The King of Terror can fire jagged, golden-orange 'gravity beams' from his hands and mouth. These pseudo-electrical arcs are about three inches in diameter, and travel at the speed of a bullet, out to a maximum range of one hundred meters before they arc to ground. They are very powerful, burning their target and tearing at them with intense tidal forces, comparable to an incendiary shotgun-slug (or an incendiary round from a more powerful gun. ATK score.) The beams can be fired in bursts, up to a maximum of three beams in three seconds (One from each hand, and one from his his mouth), but Ghidorah must charge for one second per beam he intends to fire. For all its power, using his golden lightning does not cause Ghidorah very much strain, though firing repeatedly for a minute or so without rest will wear him out. The trade-off is that the lightning is difficult to aim, even at less than ten meters, tending to arc in random directions and making the attack highly reliant on volume-of-fire. Ghidorah can move around while using his lightning, but only in a straight line, and cannot take any other actions.
If Ghidorah chooses, he can make one or more beams in a given 3-second burst fire in a continuous arc for up to half-a-second each, allowing him to rake them across the battlefield. This version of the attack does incur a noticeable stamina drain, minor for just one persistent beam, like running a five-second sprint, but multiplied for each beam in the burst to which the effect is applied, so firing all three in this way is a major drain on his energy levels. The range is also reduced by half.
Kaiju-Mode Lightning (Used with Powered-Up Forms Only)
When Ghidorah assumes one of his giant-monster forms, both uses of his lightning change (or do not) in the following ways:
- The range increases to match his current physical proportions (for example, an increase in size to a 35 meter dragon from a two-meter-and-a-bit humanoid would increase the range of this attack by a rough factor of seventeen, to about 1.7 kilometers)
-The width of the lighting also increases, to roughly four meters when projected from a body 35 meters tall, with an additional two meters in width added each time Ghidorah's height doubles beyond that (via higher-tier transformations - +2 meters width from a 70+ meter (Tier-2) body, +4 more meters width from a 140 + meter tall (Tier-3) body). These kaiju-sized beams are strongest in a one-meter diameter zone running through the central axis of the lightning bolt, with the power diminishing proportionally as a target gets further from the maximum power zone (i.e, half the beam's radius from the central area = half the power)
-Ghidorah's giant-monster forms do not have hands, so the lightning is projected exclusively from the mouths of his three heads.
-The speed, charging rules, and movement rules do not change (though the influence of the Kaiju-forms increased ATK naturally increases the power)
-The fatigue incurred doubles when in kaiju-form (and were this giant version of the move to somehow be used with a less-than enormous body to absorb the strain, it would septuple), reducing the amount of time Ghidorah is able to fire continuously without a break from one minute to thirty seconds.
-The lightning remains difficult to aim (in fact, when fighting primes of less-than colossal stature, the accuracy is even worse because they're comparatively such small targets).
-The additional stamina drain of the continuous arc fire-mode is doubled.
Preserved here for posterity in its soon-to-be-purchased form.
Golden Lightning - variable, requires ranged proficiency, area attack proficiency - (1200 OM)
King Ghidorah's main weapon. The King of Terror can fire jagged, golden-orange 'gravity beams' from his hands and mouth. These pseudo-electrical arcs are about three inches in diameter, and travel at the speed of a bullet, out to a maximum range of one hundred meters before they arc to ground. They are very powerful, burning their target and tearing at them with intense tidal forces, comparable to an incendiary shotgun-slug (or an incendiary round from a more powerful gun. ATK score.) The beams can be fired in bursts, up to a maximum of three beams in three seconds (One from each hand, and one from his his mouth), but Ghidorah must charge for one second per beam he intends to fire. For all its power, using his golden lightning does not cause Ghidorah very much strain, though firing repeatedly for a minute or so without rest will wear him out. The trade-off is that the lightning is difficult to aim, even at less than ten meters, tending to arc in random directions and making the attack highly reliant on volume-of-fire. Ghidorah can move around while using his lightning, but only in a straight line, and cannot take any other actions.
If Ghidorah chooses, he can make one or more beams in a given 3-second burst fire in a continuous arc for up to half-a-second each, allowing him to rake them across the battlefield. This version of the attack does incur a noticeable stamina drain, minor for just one persistent beam, like running a five-second sprint, but multiplied for each beam in the burst to which the effect is applied, so firing all three in this way is a major drain on his energy levels. The range is also reduced by half.
Kaiju-Mode Lightning (Used with Powered-Up Forms Only)
When Ghidorah assumes one of his giant-monster forms, both uses of his lightning change (or do not) in the following ways:
- The range increases to match his current physical proportions (for example, an increase in size to a 35 meter dragon from a two-meter-and-a-bit humanoid would increase the range of this attack by a rough factor of seventeen, to about 1.7 kilometers)
-The width of the lighting also increases, to roughly four meters when projected from a body 35 meters tall, with an additional two meters in width added each time Ghidorah's height doubles beyond that (via higher-tier transformations - +2 meters width from a 70+ meter (Tier-2) body, +4 more meters width from a 140 + meter tall (Tier-3) body). These kaiju-sized beams are strongest in a one-meter diameter zone running through the central axis of the lightning bolt, with the power diminishing proportionally as a target gets further from the maximum power zone (i.e, half the beam's radius from the central area = half the power)
-Ghidorah's giant-monster forms do not have hands, so the lightning is projected exclusively from the mouths of his three heads.
-The speed, charging rules, and movement rules do not change (though the influence of the Kaiju-forms increased ATK naturally increases the power)
-The fatigue incurred doubles when in kaiju-form (and were this giant version of the move to somehow be used with a less-than enormous body to absorb the strain, it would septuple), reducing the amount of time Ghidorah is able to fire continuously without a break from one minute to thirty seconds.
-The lightning remains difficult to aim (in fact, when fighting primes of less-than colossal stature, the accuracy is even worse because they're comparatively such small targets).
-The additional stamina drain of the continuous arc fire-mode is doubled.