WaitingFAE
Endless Wanderer
@Kade I'm down for starting over! I had another character in mind too.
Angels & Demons: South Korea
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Kade
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Okay, cool. Karma was pretty okay with that too. I'm going to start Minnie in pretty much the same fashion (same job, same personality, etc). But now that we had a chance to sort of play test the concept, there are some things I want to make more clear with the world rules and everything. I just sort of want to revamp everything and make it cleaner for new players who want to get involved.
WaitingFAE
Endless Wanderer
Okay! I'll start working on my character plot when I get home tonight.
WaitingFAE
Endless Wanderer
Let me know when your ready to start this again. I;ve got my character concept down, but a part of me really love Min Ah. I'm torn between starting as her again, or the other character I was thinking (Yeah I got the idea from someone who posted they were interested but never did a cs) A demon night club owner. I was going to make him deeply mysterious, dark, and villainous.
VirtualUnity
The Mediator
Mind if I ask what time is it in the RP?
Kade
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Ah, yes, I remember that one! I was disappointed they didn't come in to play! You can still be both. I'd love to still have Min onboard. She was a hot mess and I loved her, lol. Plus, we do need a human character to get into the mix for what I had originally planned was going to be the next step of the game (which I still want to aim for when we start this again).
It'll be evening, not sure on the exact time but the sun will definitely be down. I meant to ask, btw, is your character angel or demon dominant? You have to choose one or the other, and your "weaknesses" will be reflected by which one is your dominant side (ie, my character Minhyuk is also a demon/angel hybrid, but he's demon dominant so he can't go out during the day without being burned, and Karma's hybrid is angel dominant so she shuts down at night unless she's near a sunlamp like an angel would). Being a hybrid basically just means that the allotted weaknesses are slightly less severe than they are in the purebloods, but whatever power you have isn't as strong either as it would've been if you were a pureblood, so there's a tradeoff there.
VirtualUnity
The Mediator
I'll edit it to be more Angel dominant I guess though his ability allows him to prolong his time during night.
Kade
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First, I wrote the races in the fashion that I did because I want it to be a little challenging for the players to interact with one another, and for the characters to have to figure out how to work around their allotted time restrictions. If you want to take the easy way out and have your character be active any time of day, you need to go with a human hybrid (in which case your power would have to be something drastically weaker than what you have).
Second, please make sure you actually ask me as the GM if you're doing something like that with your powers as opposed to just declaring that's how you're going to do it. I may not approve of it because it may work against my plot planning. I'm generally chill and I'll try to come to a compromise that suits the both of us, but I'm the type of GM who actually GMs a game. Some things a player wants aren't going to pan out.
That being said, if I'm reading it right, you want to prolong your time during the night hours because of your fire ability? I'm not opposed to a power allowing a bit more of an enhanced ability for a race to withstand the negative effects of their opposing element, but with both angels and demons it's not so much about the heat but about the actual sunlight. Like an angel hugging a sunlamp can meander around at night without passing out, but they have to stay right up on that thing. Basically, they're needing the exposure to the UV rays in the natural lighting (like how a plant can't thrive under fake light but can do fine under simulated sun lamps, but a million times more sensitive). Fire in the general sense as we know it is simple combustion, a chemical reaction between molecules. The sun's fire isn't the same; it's straight up nuclear fusion, one element converting into another, and that's what puts off the gamma rays (the "fire" in a sense) that eventually transforms into the UV light as it distances itself from the heat and pressure at the sun's core.
It does definitely pose an interesting concept though. If you'd rather change your power to one in which your character is able to internally perform this type of fusion (which generally requires super high temperatures, so your guy would pretty much be running like fever hot all the time), I'm not opposed to that. But it would have to be several tiny fusions happening inside him on the molecular level, and nothing that would actually create fire on the surface like you wanted (....because then he would just be melting people with instant radiation, lol). The pressure required to actually put off these gamma rays is pretty intense, but we can translate that, in his case, to stress pressure (ie, the more worked up he gets emotionally, the more his fusion increases), under which he could then put off a physical glow in the form of that UV light extending beyond his skin.
To put it in short form, he'd be a walking glow-worm when he gets super upset or scared or generally pissed. So if he wants to be out and about in the evening for extended periods of time without external lighting, he's got to maintain a constant level of inner pressure where he's capable of putting off the required UV lighting for himself, but not so much where he's legit lighting up a block like a Christmas tree because obviously that would draw unwanted attention to himself. A slight glow, the kind that people can't actually see (that could be where the actual term, "She's so happy, she's glowing!" originated from, lol!), could be emitted. Again, though, this would require tons of focus so he'd be a bit distracted when talking to others while performing this nifty trick. On the other token, if he forces it really hard and does actually put off real light, he could actually keep other angels around him active in the evening as well. On the other token, any demon coming too close to him while he's doing this glow trick on any small level would also experience the burns they get when exposed to UV light, which is really super cool and totally usable in this game now that I'm pondering over it...
And this long ramble is me thinking a bunch out loud about all of this as a display of how much I do actually pay attention to detail and "realistic physics" within a fictional world. I don't make anything up without some form of logical reasoning behind it, which is why when I build a universe, I need the people playing within it to work with me on the rules of said universe and not just make declarations on the fly. (And hopefully some of that ramble made some sort of sense to everyone who isn't an uber geek...)
Second, please make sure you actually ask me as the GM if you're doing something like that with your powers as opposed to just declaring that's how you're going to do it. I may not approve of it because it may work against my plot planning. I'm generally chill and I'll try to come to a compromise that suits the both of us, but I'm the type of GM who actually GMs a game. Some things a player wants aren't going to pan out.
That being said, if I'm reading it right, you want to prolong your time during the night hours because of your fire ability? I'm not opposed to a power allowing a bit more of an enhanced ability for a race to withstand the negative effects of their opposing element, but with both angels and demons it's not so much about the heat but about the actual sunlight. Like an angel hugging a sunlamp can meander around at night without passing out, but they have to stay right up on that thing. Basically, they're needing the exposure to the UV rays in the natural lighting (like how a plant can't thrive under fake light but can do fine under simulated sun lamps, but a million times more sensitive). Fire in the general sense as we know it is simple combustion, a chemical reaction between molecules. The sun's fire isn't the same; it's straight up nuclear fusion, one element converting into another, and that's what puts off the gamma rays (the "fire" in a sense) that eventually transforms into the UV light as it distances itself from the heat and pressure at the sun's core.
It does definitely pose an interesting concept though. If you'd rather change your power to one in which your character is able to internally perform this type of fusion (which generally requires super high temperatures, so your guy would pretty much be running like fever hot all the time), I'm not opposed to that. But it would have to be several tiny fusions happening inside him on the molecular level, and nothing that would actually create fire on the surface like you wanted (....because then he would just be melting people with instant radiation, lol). The pressure required to actually put off these gamma rays is pretty intense, but we can translate that, in his case, to stress pressure (ie, the more worked up he gets emotionally, the more his fusion increases), under which he could then put off a physical glow in the form of that UV light extending beyond his skin.
To put it in short form, he'd be a walking glow-worm when he gets super upset or scared or generally pissed. So if he wants to be out and about in the evening for extended periods of time without external lighting, he's got to maintain a constant level of inner pressure where he's capable of putting off the required UV lighting for himself, but not so much where he's legit lighting up a block like a Christmas tree because obviously that would draw unwanted attention to himself. A slight glow, the kind that people can't actually see (that could be where the actual term, "She's so happy, she's glowing!" originated from, lol!), could be emitted. Again, though, this would require tons of focus so he'd be a bit distracted when talking to others while performing this nifty trick. On the other token, if he forces it really hard and does actually put off real light, he could actually keep other angels around him active in the evening as well. On the other token, any demon coming too close to him while he's doing this glow trick on any small level would also experience the burns they get when exposed to UV light, which is really super cool and totally usable in this game now that I'm pondering over it...
And this long ramble is me thinking a bunch out loud about all of this as a display of how much I do actually pay attention to detail and "realistic physics" within a fictional world. I don't make anything up without some form of logical reasoning behind it, which is why when I build a universe, I need the people playing within it to work with me on the rules of said universe and not just make declarations on the fly. (And hopefully some of that ramble made some sort of sense to everyone who isn't an uber geek...)
WaitingFAE
Endless Wanderer
@Kade Yay! I Love Min Ah, she stays. I'lI make a cs for the other charater this afternoon after work and gym... so tonight.