Fantasy War of the Magi [OPEN] (Character Creation and OOC)

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What do the huge beams of energy do?

 

[CHUUYAS_HAT]

What do the huge beams of energy do?

which/who's?

 

[phibglib]

From the wyrms

 

[CHUUYAS_HAT]

From the wyrms

ask gm

 

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ask gm

I am

 

[ShinyEve]

What do the huge beams of energy do?

They're energy beams sourced from heat concentrated by the their glass bodies, so basically, burn through and melt flesh.

 

[ShinyEve]

ask gm

They were silly lol

 

[phibglib]

They're energy beams sourced from heat concentrated by the their glass bodies, so basically, burn through and melt flesh.

Yikes! You said they were shot "at everyone". I'm assuming we can dodge them?

 

[ShinyEve]

Yikes! You said they were shot "at everyone". I'm assuming we can dodge them?

Oh of course. None of the attacks the bosses will do will ever autohit lol.

I always let others decide what they'll do/how badly they'll get hurt and where.

 

[CHUUYAS_HAT]

Oh of course. None of the attacks the bosses will do will ever autohit lol.

I always let others decide what they'll do/how badly they'll get hurt and where.

casually makes cress burn a wing/j

 

[ShinyEve]

casually makes cress burn a wing/j

Lol, you can if you like.

 

[ShinyEve]

Quibbles lol, is Kodoku not gonna help fight? Also, they can't all kill it easily.

Water doesn't work, Beam attacks won't work either, psionic waves aren't working, so Manta and Neptune are going to struggle against it.

So not everybody can defeat it easily.

 

[Quibbles]

Understandable. The group of them can handle it easily, but individuals do indeed struggle. And no, Kodoku doesn't really see any need to steal their fun from them by finishing the fight quickly for them.

 

[ShinyEve]

Understandable. The group of them can handle it easily, but individuals do indeed struggle. And no, Kodoku doesn't really see any need to steal their fun from them by finishing the fight quickly for them.

Lol I wouldn't call being choked to death fun and I'm pretty sure the other characters would agree.

And, I wouldn't exactly call it easily handled either since they don't even know how to beat it yet, only hurt it.

 

[Quibbles]

I mean, their failures on that front are their own fault. Many of them built godlike characters with widely defined magics. If they don't have a tool in their box that can end the fight immediately, that's sort of on them at this point.

 

[ShinyEve]

I mean, their failures on that front are their own fault. Many of them built godlike characters with widely defined magics. If they don't have a tool in their box that can end the fight immediately, that's sort of on them at this point.

Ok dude. They're students, learning. They may have powerful magic but they all have things to learn, such as how to use their power. For example. Cherry needs help curing or stopping her curse and adapt to her weaknesses due to her weak body.

Saber needs to learn to find a way to overcome his weakness when drinking blood.

Etc etc. I'm not trying to be rude or mean, but I've already gotten a few complaints, and if Kodoku isn't even going to try to save somebody's life, fight, learn/use his powers or do anything at all then why is he here?

The academy is literally for training students to fight in a war. So I'm really struggling to understand what to do here and it is kind of bringing down the vibe of the roleplay if I'm completely honest.

 

[Quibbles]

Kodoku is happy to train and grow, that's what the training room is for. Heck, before the infinite power source, they thought they were going to have to take considerable time bootstrapping up. With infinite power, that hurtle was quickly overcome. The fact that they assume the other students are hyper competent is because everyone had much greater powers than them at the start, and has generally made a show of how awesome they are. There isn't much hint that they are struggling or should struggle that they give off. As mentioned, there are niche cases like this thing being immune to the water and psionic abilities of the others, but most of them tend to have two groups of very broad magics. Those niche cases seem like they will be rare for most of them. If others showed more often that they had limits and struggled, then Kodoku would have reason to think that they needed help or were in danger. As long as everyone seems to be gods among men, there is no reason to assume that they can't handle any challenges they meet and that they are just toying with their prey.

These aren't people reacting with fear from what they can tell. These people sought out this thing and this fight. There was no caution. No fear. Few suggestions that this was anything other than entertainment for most of them. If they run into situation heedless of the dangers they have to assume that it's because they don't need to heed the dangers. They've survived this long, so they can't just be so stupid as to run into life threatening situations on the regular. Eventually, if they were actually in danger, in the hundreds or thousands of years these folks have existed, their luck would have run out in one of those situations and they wouldn't be here. While yes, they can just be that lucky, it wouldn't generally be the first thing that come to mind. It is far more likely that they're just that good to have survived all that time.

 

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Kodoku is happy to train and grow, that's what the training room is for. Heck, before the infinite power source, they thought they were going to have to take considerable time bootstrapping up. With infinite power, that hurtle was quickly overcome. The fact that they assume the other students are hyper competent is because everyone had much greater powers than them at the start, and has generally made a show of how awesome they are. There isn't much hint that they are struggling or should struggle that they give off. As mentioned, there are niche cases like this thing being immune to the water and psionic abilities of the others, but most of them tend to have two groups of very broad magics. Those niche cases seem like they will be rare for most of them. If others showed more often that they had limits and struggled, then Kodoku would have reason to think that they needed help or were in danger. As long as everyone seems to be gods among men, there is no reason to assume that they can't handle any challenges they meet and that they are just toying with their prey.

These aren't people reacting with fear from what they can tell. These people sought out this thing and this fight. There was no caution. No fear. Few suggestions that this was anything other than entertainment for most of them. If they run into situation heedless of the dangers they have to assume that it's because they don't need to heed the dangers. They've survived this long, so they can't just be so stupid as to run into life threatening situations on the regular. Eventually, if they were actually in danger, in the hundreds or thousands of years these folks have existed, their luck would have run out in one of those situations and they wouldn't be here. While yes, they can just be that lucky, it wouldn't generally be the first thing that come to mind. It is far more likely that they're just that good to have survived all that time.

I like that you're taking a rationalist mindset to this. Do Andalm and Cerralei's abilities strike you as godlike? I would like to know if I've been underutilizing them in some way.

 

[ShinyEve]

I like that you're taking a rationalist mindset to this. Do Andalm and Cerralei's abilities strike you as godlike? I would like to know if I've been underutilizing them in some way.

No, they seem like reasonable characters and have good abilities.

Kodoku is happy to train and grow, that's what the training room is for. Heck, before the infinite power source, they thought they were going to have to take considerable time bootstrapping up. With infinite power, that hurtle was quickly overcome. The fact that they assume the other students are hyper competent is because everyone had much greater powers than them at the start, and has generally made a show of how awesome they are. There isn't much hint that they are struggling or should struggle that they give off. As mentioned, there are niche cases like this thing being immune to the water and psionic abilities of the others, but most of them tend to have two groups of very broad magics. Those niche cases seem like they will be rare for most of them. If others showed more often that they had limits and struggled, then Kodoku would have reason to think that they needed help or were in danger. As long as everyone seems to be gods among men, there is no reason to assume that they can't handle any challenges they meet and that they are just toying with their prey.

These aren't people reacting with fear from what they can tell. These people sought out this thing and this fight. There was no caution. No fear. Few suggestions that this was anything other than entertainment for most of them. If they run into situation heedless of the dangers they have to assume that it's because they don't need to heed the dangers. They've survived this long, so they can't just be so stupid as to run into life threatening situations on the regular. Eventually, if they were actually in danger, in the hundreds or thousands of years these folks have existed, their luck would have run out in one of those situations and they wouldn't be here. While yes, they can just be that lucky, it wouldn't generally be the first thing that come to mind. It is far more likely that they're just that good to have survived all that time.

And they have shown weaknesses as well as spoke about them. Cherry has mentioned her curse multiple times for example, so has Sable in the training area. Not everyone was trying to find the monster.

Cherry just wanted to help Rose. Crimson was trying to help Cherry however he could. Manta and Neptune were staying out the way because they sensed danger.

The others were looking for ways to help Cherry. They showed off their abilities because they were asked / told to. Not all of them showed their abilities. Some just spoke about them.

 

[ShinyEve]

CHUUYAS_HAT Btw, I'll post to the graveyard event tomorrow when I wake up. As well as the Flower Field event.

 

[ShinyEve]

I like that you're taking a rationalist mindset to this. Do Andalm and Cerralei's abilities strike you as godlike? I would like to know if I've been underutilizing them in some way.

Also, I absolutely love the Keytar idea.

 

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Also, I absolutely love the Keytar idea.

Thank you! It seemed pretty fitting for Cerralei.

 

[ShinyEve]

Thank you! It seemed pretty fitting for Cerralei.

Definitely. I just hope this little argument/drama doesn't discourage you or anyone else from continuing the roleplay but I think it needed to be said, especially since there were some getting annoyed with it.

 

[Quibbles]

I like that you're taking a rationalist mindset to this. Do Andalm and Cerralei's abilities strike you as godlike? I would like to know if I've been underutilizing them in some way.

Those two don't have the raw power or age of some of the others, so I would have answer "no" to godlike in that respect, but they are widely defined. As noted, you all came through a portal. The entirety of one of my character's magics seems to be a subset of one of their magics. One can get very creative with how they use portals and can use them to great effect with even small amounts of power. That was why I was rather jealous when it happened. You had basically been brave enough to ask for things that included possibly the entirety of one of my magics, plus a whole bunch of other stuff that, as long as it sticks to theme, allows you near infinite options. That's fine. That was my error. The only "underutilization" would just be a matter of creativity in their use I guess. That's not a bad thing. As noted, they are learning and haven't had the centuries to learn how to get creative with them.

I guess that is something I should be clearer about. I tend to lump everyone together when I speak, and as noted, painting with a broad brush isn't effective. Some have shown some weaknesses. As noted, Cherry even shows fear, though mostly of her own curse which seems like something a teacher or classmate could fix rapidly if they cared to do so. Kodoku even offered a potential solution that was delayed if not turned down. Thought it is likely off the table thanks to another one of her classmates, so that's a bit of a wash. That being said, the teachers have made a big show of how awesome they are, so if they cared, they could likely do it and would need to be worried about what one of the students thought of their actions. That being said, most of them have tool boxes that let them deal with situations and haven't shown much in the way of caution.

As I noted, library nearly full of books that were likely safe to read. Plenty of ways to gather information before tripping anything dangerous, and many of them rushed to do the more dangerous things that library offered rather than explore those options. No hours of research and careful exploration, mostly people rushing forward to use the book of life, open the magical box, and summon the ink creature. Three separate very dangerous actions and paths forward that were taken with little regard to the safety of themselves or others. Admittedly, someone them might have had their hands forced by the others and might have taken the more careful approach if allowed. They seemed to think that they could handle whatever they were coming across. If they didn't think that, why did they do the thing?

 

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Definitely. I just hope this little argument/drama doesn't discourage you or anyone else from continuing the roleplay but I think it needed to be said, especially since there were some getting annoyed with it.

It hasn't, at least not so far. I think there's something to be said for munchkining, but I wouldn't want it to cause division or conflict OOC.