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@Thinslayer


I was using your first introduction post of Gwen in the RP to try and describe her, which was her basically taking over the body of a corpse. I tried including the details of what that corpse would still look like since Gwen only very recently took it over, and how she had "peeled away some rotten skin", so I hope I got it mostly right!


If these details shouldn't be noticeable to anyone at this point, just let me know and I'll fix my post right up.
 
@Kuroakuma


I just realized Johnathan never said anything about actually going there, that's awkward. Now I'm going to have to make her some argumentative noblewoman who jumps to conclusions :D
 
@korigon


Don't expect JoJo to be happy camper if she goes off at him like that again in the demon lands, he's a ruthless bandit leader after all!


Hue, 'ruthless', hue.


Why am I imagining them arguing over whose bow is better? xD
 
Hmm. Right, got some questions on the magic front. Is there any practice of necromancy?
 
It depends on how you define Necromancy; Bringing back beings from the dead would cost a large chunk of your own life force.


If you're more the 'manipulation of life' Necromancy, then yeah that'd be applicable too. (An example would be giving life to a bunch of rocks and making a Golem-type monster.)


They'd both be pretty taxing to use, though.


EDIT: Just remembered one of the antagonists is a Necromancer, soooo~
 
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Xathrid and Neforax are necromancers. Me and @Thinslayer had a lenghty discussion about how it works. I believe we settled on a soul or spirit animating a corpse without binding theirselves to it. Gwen put her soul completely in the dead body, which makes it possession at worst, not necromancy. But it's a matter of degrees.
 
I'm curious as to how that'd work; who'd be getting the backlash? How much would it be harming/draining them?
 
If it's a person putting the soul into something, I'd say it'd harm the person. I've no clue about if it's a soul pushing itself into another being, though. Maybe there'd have to be a special case where it eroded away directly at their soul or since it had no drawbacks everyone thinks of it as taboo?


Also, please notify me of things like this in the future~


It's a bit hard to keep things in line (ie the Necromancy not having a specified drawback like other magick) if I don't know about it ^.^
 
Ok, I've got a thought. Maybe you can


A. Use your own soul to animate an empty body, but this involves 'stretching' your soul over multiple bodies, and can be harmful to it. Causing insanity.


B. Put a foreign malign spirit in the body (low-level demons or ghosts). This does not harm your soul, but also means you are not in full control of the undead.


Gwen and Nefarox use variants of A. While Xathrid mostly uses B to create a small horde and saves A for emergencies.


 
Wait, do you already want Obsidian (human) to arrive?
 
Gwen possesses the power of Mobile Spirit, which allows her to deliberately separate her soul from her body and use it to move around the world independently of its host body. She can use it for telepathy (communication), mind control (the means by which she controls her cloned body), or scrying/clairvoyance (seeing things out of visual range).


Using that power, she spotted an approaching army somewhere in the vicinity of the storm cloud, but in her haste, misidentified it as the demon horde when in fact it was Obsidian's human forces. They're still a long ways off, and nobody can see them yet, but if Jonathan doesn't get moving soon, then by the time the party gets to where they're going, the army will have already spotted them.
 
Do you hear that? That's the glorious sound of Deus Ex Machina in full play.
 
The term has evolved to mean a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability or object
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I'd say it did move along the plot with a slightly unexpected intervention of some ability or character, which could be considered an unsolvable problem if everyone were to stand there and debate about how fast cumulonimbus clouds travel on galeforce winds.
 
Okay. I apologize, folks. I'll work with you guys next time before doing that sort of thing.


 
It's just that I figured the cloud represented an army, and since our party was going to move anyway, I didn't see the harm in having Gwen know about it.
 
I feel that the Heroes should clash with Obsidian's army for several reasons, which is partly why JoJo is saying 'no' so much.


For one, having the village raided and destroyed by Obsidian's forces would provoke the Heroes into action (Well, some of them at least.) and would at least force the group to retreat. It would also give Obsidian a good chance to showcase his antagonistic potential instead of having him pop up halfway through and having him say "I'm the villain, fear me!" when the Heroes just roll their eyes at him since they've no clue who he is.


It could also forge a few bonds between the characters and, at least, have a few character fights; ie JoJo/<Insert fight-ready character here> vs Obsidian/whoever to gauge their respective strengths.


Also, the cloud just casually formed over in the literal Demon Lands, so is Obsidian already in Demon infested territory?
 
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Gwen possesses the power of Mobile Spirit, which allows her to deliberately separate her soul from her body and use it to move around the world independently of its host body. She can use it for telepathy (communication), mind control (the means by which she controls her cloned body), or scrying/clairvoyance (seeing things out of visual range).
Using that power, she spotted an approaching army somewhere in the vicinity of the storm cloud, but in her haste, misidentified it as the demon horde when in fact it was Obsidian's human forces. They're still a long ways off, and nobody can see them yet, but if Jonathan doesn't get moving soon, then by the time the party gets to where they're going, the army will have already spotted them.
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The only problem I have with this is that you didn't do any action for it. Could you try to do that next time? Everyone has a few tricks up their sleeves, I'm sure, but it seems odd that you're able to do this 'ability' without an apparent effort, ya know?


I guess what I'm saying is that if you're doing something that could be considered OP, just note you have permission or something. :)
 
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