Lektra Bolt

I don't have Nick so I saw these some months after it was done for most people who cared about it

I've seen the original show in reruns on Nicktoons

Liked it very much. Epic really. Too much to tell, and those who have watched it know why it's great

I've seen the spiritual sequel (pun somewhat intended) when it came on in the same channel

I liked everything about the sequel, except the fact that it kills certain 'people' in the process of how the main character gets her powers back, although I don't know if past lives count as people. I really wish they hadn't done that, but otherwise it was great

I especially liked the ending and that she finally found love ♥️

There probably won't be anything new of this series until the live action remake of the first show is done, which I'm pretty excited about and hope they do it right

8 hours ago, Dynamo Pad said:

"Although, I wouldn't say that you'd be accused of cheating. If they have a problem, then they'll have me to talk to. Seeing how I have run into being accused of cheating from time to time. It's rather annoying if you ask me, but sometimes I have to go above and beyond to prove myself. Just because I have a cutie mark in video games, doesn't mean I'm going to be the best, after all. If you'd like, then I can try and see if I can help back up the cause of renovating the place. Granted, I'd have to see if they'd call Mr. Pinball and see what he thinks of the idea."

"Heh thanks, but I can literally manipulate the metallic components as well as the rudimentary electrical magics that make an arcade machine work, so it's not that I'm good or bad at games like you, just that I can actually change the parameters to suit myself. Of course I know and you know that I wouldn't do this, but if I were a stranger playing a game against myself, I wouldn't be so trusting. Me playing video games is just not a good idea." I chuckled nervously, purposely not mentioning the possibility of dampening fields like in the Crystal Empire competition. I always felt naked without my magic.

"But if you can convince them to let me renovate the place with Magitek, that would benefit everyone involved. Probably." Maybe not whoever designed the existing arcades, but mostly everyone. I mean it's not like the existing ones would just get tossed out

1 hour ago, DwhitetheGamer said:

@Dynamo Pad @Lektra Bolt

"Ugh," the blue Earth Pony groaned out in disgust.  It was rather infuriating to have gone through what he had this morning.  "Well I had overslept because I forgot to have my alarm clock set for 5 in the morning, I had basically threw every of my possessions on the floor trying to stay awake, and to top it off I missed my shift in the Ponyville Post Office.  Lovely."  He looked over at the Pegasus mare, then gave a smile.  "Oh, my name is Copper Strikes.  What's your name?"

"You think that's bad? I'm sorry, it's just that this morning I had a repeating nightmare for hours that exasperated my trauma. It was fun the first time until it turned into a nightmare, then it wasn't fun. It apparently got so bad that when they tried to shake me awake, Dynamo, Aerion, and Hot Cocoa got pulled into it. But afterwards Luna gave me the power to recreate the dream whenever I wanted. Might be fun to visit the Twilight Convention Dream again, but you probably don't want to hear about that, huh?" I chuckled as I took a couple of sips from the canteen I was levitating, exchanging looks with Sparky to scan the new pony. There was a flash of light in his mechanical eyes as he did and we just kept heading forward, following along with Dynamo

"It's nice to meet you Copper. Do you prefer being called Copper or Strikes?" I couldn't be bothered to use both parts of someone's name, and while he pondered on that I also introduced myself. "I'm Lektra Bolt and I run Bolt Solutions here in Ponyville. I come from a long line of Unicorn inventors. We're originally from Manehattan, actually. I was born and grew up there before moving here to the Center of All Weirdness, and you might notice my accent a bit. Or a fair bit." I shrugged. "Our company slogan is inventive magical solutions to improve everyone's lives. I'm an enchanter by trade, and I work with metallic substances. I've been called the Mistress of Metal." I really tried to smile when meeting a someone new, but it usually came out as a half smile since I've been extremely depressed these past five years.

As we moved along, I took sips of coffee from the canteen I was levitating 

On 7/22/2019 at 11:48 AM, Dynamo Pad said:

"I guess you're right. I'm sorry for the way I've been acting. I just thought that I was doing the right thing. It's what my old teacher had taught me when it involved living in my old hometown. I've always seen other gamer's getting picked on. Seeing how I worked alongside my teacher as his sort of employee/apprentice. I took his teachings of settling things with games and standing up for friends to heart. From what Cocoa had said...it kind of made me feel like I had done something wrong. I guess I'm the type of pony, who doesn't want to start trouble, or get into any trouble to begin with. I was just furious and upset that the couple had made Cocoa break down into tears, that I wanted to do something to defend my friend."

I nodded and sipped from the canteen. "Others just have their own ways of dealing with things, don't let it get you down. I do still believe that standing up to bullies is the right thing to do."

On 7/22/2019 at 11:48 AM, Dynamo Pad said:

Friendship's are never easy, but it's something that's no doubt worth fighting for.

"Definitely, definitely. They'll come around, just need some time." I hugged him also, then pulled back. 

On 7/22/2019 at 11:48 AM, Dynamo Pad said:

"Thank you for clearing anything up. There are times I can understand something, while there are times that I have trouble understanding other things. It's either easy to understand, or it's too vague, or something like that. That's one thing you'll have to forgive me on when you get to know me more."

I chuckled. "Only if you afford me the same courtesy."

On 7/22/2019 at 11:48 AM, Dynamo Pad said:

"So, what do you say? Still want to head over to the arcade and play some video games?"

I nodded as I sipped from my floating canteen. "Well, rather I'll probably be watching you play and running business dealings. When one's talent is working with metallic objects, one tends to get accused of cheating in competitive endeavors involving metal. I'm really more interested to find out if they've come around to my offer to renovate the place, and if they're more interested commissioning now."

On 7/28/2019 at 8:21 AM, DwhitetheGamer said:

With that said, after eating a nice breakfast to calm himself down, he made his way around Ponyville, managing to find Dynamo and... who was the other pony?  She looked like an electrician of sorts.  Either way, he trotted over to them.  "Hey there," he said once he got within their hearing range.  "My goodness I had a disaster of a morning."

"Why hello there."

I looked the Earth Pony over as I sipped from my enormous floating canteen full of coffee and then turned to Dynamo. "Dynamo do you know this pony?"

"Uh, we were just heading over the arcade after our own disaster morning where I got trapped in a nightmare. Would you like to join us, Mister....?" I turned my neck to the side, trying to see if he would get the hint that I was fishing for his name.

I took another sip from the enormous canteen I was levitating

Sadness, just sadness and more sadness 😢

Seemed appropriate 

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

There's always fan fiction and RP. It just means there's room for fan work and derivative RP with no upcoming canon to break accidentally

Am I sad that there's no proper send-off like FiM is getting? Sure

Am I going to be up in arms about it? Nope

MLP is not just going to die when anything MLP canon ends.

Look at the Teen Titans cartoon from 2006 in the face of Teen Titans Go or much much older properties, still a loyal fan base making fan content and RP

Will EG be missed? Sure

Forgotten? Nope, neither will FiM

7 hours ago, Duality said:

 It's quite all right as is, I was just making sure that I understood. The DM is held to a somewhat higher standard of character comprehension than most other potential readers. 

Alrighty, thanks. And of course you need a higher standard of character comprehension, need to check for Op

But yeah, all she really does as far as physical activity is exercise the absolute bare minimum to keep her pretty figure, as calculated by various projections of exactly how little/much time and energy needs to be efficiently expended

7 hours ago, Duality said:

It's part of how magic affects her particular species, since each race has magic affect them in a slightly different way from all others due to their various cultural differences - magic is centred within the user's psyche and hence is deeply shaped by everything normally termed 'subjective', and cultural subjectivity is the most powerful form of subjectivity in terms of psychological pervasiveness. Perhaps the Neko race and the Kitsune race have similar cultures in the respect that grants magic users among them longevity? The cultural aspect in particular that magical Kitsune grow old on would probably be the extensive traditional mythos of the area relating to magical foxes of old and their immortal exploits. I haven't heard enough about the Neko to make any connections, though.

I had actually wanted to write it as a hybrid of human and traditional feline Anthro, and not a separate Anthro species. Mom was a feline, dad was a human. She just happened to get hit with the random gene stick that she only has traditional anime Neko features and that's it. I guess if we make it as a separate species it could work, unless anyone objects? I mean we have felines here who don't age slower and might need a retcon

What do you propose?

7 hours ago, Duality said:

I dunno how control over electricity would work without some sort of electromagnetic ability, except as a sort of indirect control like how earth elementals would be able to mess with the metal conducting the signal, but nothing's impossible in this universe if you can come up with a convincing explanation for it. 

I can't be bothered if you can't be bothered. I'll make it so and just combine the power classes

7 hours ago, Duality said:

Something like that. The main thing to keep in mind is that the classes are tailored to the various uses of particular powers, not so much to the mainstream divisions of subject material included in the scope of each power. Since Lektra has electromagnetism and Magitek enchantment as her specific powerset, the classes she teaches would probably be split along those lines. Pure electromagnetism and applied electromagnetism are almost the two subjects, I think, but obviously the division is up to you.

Alrighty I'll just make it a progression of Magitek classes then, will make the edit later a bit 

7 hours ago, Duality said:

Let me know if you want to know anything else about her; I much enjoy developing her as a character. 

I might have questions after we iron out my powers/classes and get to history, we'll shelve that for now lol

5 hours ago, Duality said:

No, no, I know you weren't implying magical or somehow superior physical strength compared to other Pelajae, it's just that Pelajae strength comes from muscle, so if you want any sort of strength beyond the norm associated with your character's Pelajae type instead of with their magic it requires that your character is physically bigger, taller, or generally more muscly than the norm. There are a couple of Pelajae in the RP who are very strong indeed, but one's a 7-foot chönkily built athlete (big cat) and the other is 8-foot and built like a bag of cement (elephant). Obviously it doesn't have to be that drastic, but non-magical strength has pretty much the same rules of physiology in Salem as IRL, Pelajae or otherwise.

I see. No no I'm good just being average. I had just wanted to make sure it's listed that she's not any weaker than a full animalistic Pelajae, or somehow handicapped. Is that OK or I need to write it differently?

5 hours ago, Duality said:

If you think that's stacked you should see the guy who chucks around black holes for fun. 

She's not technically a multipower yet, so you could go that route if you so chose, but Denim's lore was, I think, quite a novel circumvention of such a necessity (read from that post to the bottom of the page for the full story; most of the more out-there lore propositions have some debate around them when introduced). If you want to try adapting it or coming up with something along similar lines, I'm sure he'd enjoy discussing his take on immortality with you.

Yeah the janitor. I saw how you made sure he doesn't suck things up and kill everyone immediately by tossing a microscopic one at them. Magical fields

But ok how would you suggest I do? I actually read that discussion, and I'm not actually sure why she's long lived except as a species trait. Just seems weird that Neko live long too

Can you think of a way to manipulate her into slower aging that doesn't add another power or proposes her building the fountain of youth?

5 hours ago, Duality said:

The thing is, though, all electrical currents generate magnetic fields and all moving magnets generate electrical currents in nearby conductive materials. Electricity and magnetism are quite closely bound into a single phenomenon, and even if someone could only directly control one or the other it would only take a bit of training and technique to be able to manipulate both with ease.

Fair point. Well just go with electromagnetic as one class, as is her power being the same

5 hours ago, Duality said:

Wait, what are the specifications of what you call technology manipulation? I assumed it was just a specialisation of electromagnetism manipulation, but if it extends to non-magnetic/conductive materials it seems to be delving into earth elementalism or similar. 'Technology' is a very broad concept, after all.

It is as you had surmised, sorry for the confusion. As I implement it, it's definitely a specialisationsm instead of a separate power and doesn't work on non magnetic/conductive materials

I just figured there might be other mages who aren't Lektra and aren't electromagnetic that can still manipulate electrical signals, no? Would you say it's impossible? 

Technology in this case is any modern electrical technology that has circuits and stuff that that we have IRL, and manipulating them to my advantage. Purely mechanical technology with no electronic components is controlled by exerting control over the metallic parts like metal gears, not simply cause it's being technical

5 hours ago, Duality said:

As long as the core idea is technology compatible with enchantment it should be fine. Technology by itself can be taught at any old university, after all.

The point of keeping classes condensed is that they're relatively power-specific and similar enough that people with that specific power can go through all of them linearly. Someone who can control water doesn't have much else to do with their studies except go through the Hydromancy subject from Year 1 to Year 4+. Someone with electromagnetic/enchanting/technology-manipulating abilities and with such an inclination doesn't have much else to do except go through the 101-104 technology/Magitek classes linearly - hence it's more descriptive and convenient to just call it all Magitek Year 1 to Year 4+. It's mostly a matter of convention, but it's a lot harder to keep track of 6 different classes IC than a couple of subjects with specialisations/year levels tacked on when necessary.

Alrighty so how do you recommend I rewrite them? Make it a progression of more of the same rather than spit up like now?

Enchanting is a bit broad though (How many enchanters do we have lol) but still separate from electromagnetism. Lektra specializes in enchanting to make Magitek, not enchanting in general. Maybe she should still teach this as a separate class? 

5 hours ago, Duality said:

Hah, you'd be up against my character on that one.

Orly? Sounds like they would spend a lot of time chatting and discussing theories. Friends

5 hours ago, Duality said:

I've been building the lore of runes since the start of the RP, and so far it draws on Plato's Theory of Forms, Christian theology, symbology, the theory of meaning, and aspects of linguistics, coding, and the study of human intelligence. Dr Duality only teaches runic theory classes, so there shouldn't be any conflict in subject matter, but it might be worth giving the IC thread a once-over to see what's already been established about what runes can do.

I'll take a look when we get me figured out. Did you ever have a full in universe profile for your character and what she can do? I'm just seeing the pony profile

Also I'd like to decide history together when we iron out the powers. I'd like her to fit in, so she may not be a company heiress in this. I don't know yet 🤔

5 hours ago, Duality said:

No, my apologies, I didn't mean to imply anything of the sort. What you're born with you're stuck with, basically, although plenty of people discover new powers as they push the bounds of what they can do. Since mages are so rare and powers so diverse, though, it's best to merge classes and generalise subject matter as much as possible to make sure that you don't end up with no students in any of them because so few people actually have the particular power the class is tailored for.

Oh okay good, not everyone can do everything 

21 minutes ago, Buck Testa said:

No not anyone can learn magic. The ability to even use magic is a One in a Million trait, meaning among every sentient being on the planet, there are only a few thousand magic users. Your chance of becoming magical doesn't have a connection to you being a human or Pelijae either, both have the same odds on being born that way.  Of those few thousand, not all of them are even that powerful. The ones that attend the school are more the exception rather than the rule. 

That's actually not what I was asking. My musings and eventual question is this: Can an already magically gifted being who has a specialization and fondness for a certain area, like let's use your character with plants as an example, decide they want to learn another type like say my electromagnetism? Can anyone with enough time eventually learn anything they want to or cast any spell from books, or are people limited by what they're born with? If she was interested, can Dr go to my electromagnetism class and learn everything, eventually becoming as competent at it as my character is?

21 minutes ago, Buck Testa said:

Also We've made a point of saying that Pelijae aren't significantly better than humans in any way physically. They would tend to have better sensory abilities and some Pelijae can live longer, but in terms of physical ability they are rather comparable to a human. A pelijae can be athletic certainly, and their magic can help them be stronger, but that wouldn't be a race wide trait. 

Maybe I should rewrite that then? The point of listing it as a power was to say that she isn't any physically weaker than other Anthro characters just because she has less animal features than usual. Should I just state it like that? 🤔

21 minutes ago, Buck Testa said:

Sahalia would definitely get along with Lektra. As would her husband. I have 3 other characters in the RP besides them though. 

That's pretty cool cool. I mean if they happen to meet that would be cool, but they're all probably busy most of the time?

21 minutes ago, Buck Testa said:

My main would be Druantia: 

The youngest student to have ever attended Salem University, Dru has left one hell of a first impression on her fellow classmates and faculty. On her very first day attending school on the campus she ended up getting into a magical duel with the janitor that was so intense that all of the teachers had to get involved. The Gymnasium building was also utterly destroyed in the process. 

Druantia possesses an abnormally large magical aura and has very little control over her magical abilities as of yet. Before she had started going to the university, she had merely been willing her magic to do things intuitively with varying degrees of success. Her Magic has also seemed to have developed a personality of its own comparable to a barely trained dog, and it can get easily excited causing Dru's magic to go on a rampage much like during her duel with the Janitor. As such she currently has inhibitor bracelets that restrict her down to 1% of her normal magical levels, which places her more in line with the rest of the student body. She's still quite powerful even in this severely hampered state, but she's much more manageable for the faculty now. 

Unlike other magic users whose power revolves around elemental affinities like lightning or fire, Dru's domain is that of Flora. She seems to have complete control over plant life in all its forms and is frightfully creative on how they can be utilized even with her limited intuitive control over her magic. Though she did not know a single spell when she first arrived at the University, she hopes to formally learn magic and take control of her power entirely, instead of letting it run wild like it does without shackles. 

That's um, a lot of a lot. Wow. Did she start out with those bracelets? Who made them? Did you guys ever decide who made them?

Agree with the sentiment that while Magical Mystery Cure had my absolute favorite song (A True True Friend) the episode was utter garbage. I love Twi but the reason for her wings was completely bull. Anyone can complete a spell or create a new one, and spell theory advances basically daily. They could have had her go on a final quest to prove herself after everything else, but the final reason was garbage

'You created new magic so you get wings' - I call bull, Celestia

She grew into it later, but still garbage

Just now, Acnologia said:

Fair enough. Just didn’t want to step on any toes.

Nah don't worry, you're fine 

21 minutes ago, Drago Ryder said:

Yeah, I’ll probably end up transferring a few of my characters, but with highly modified backstories. As for Gale, that is understandable. Maybe she could have been randomly selected to test for non-equine based species? I’d imagine that she would live in the Everfree forest or some other place in nature, so that might make sense.

That makes sense. What kind of contact information does she usually have? I mean long distance communication is usually done by mail ponies but do the mail ponies have her address in the forest to tell her she had been selected? 

The way I has figure is representatives from the company had put out a call for beta testers, throwing biodegradable flyers all over the world, and those interested would fill out a form and wait. I guess she gets selected and would be pretty surprised huh?

15 minutes ago, Acnologia said:

That is true, though she would probably be a bit skeptical at first. Also, will we be able to control any NPCs generated to interact with our characters, or will that be up to you?

Let me make a distinction

There are two kinds of NPC in this RP.

In the traditional RP sense, any character who is not one of our characters who enters from the real world is an NPC.

In the ingame sense, everyone we meet in the game is as alive as we are. Celestia isn't directly controlling them. She created them and set them loose to have a life. As far as they're concerned, they're not an NPC. The server has been up for about a week, but everyone we meet will be able to tell us about their entire life for years and years, from the foals to the senior citizens. As far as they're concerned, the game is real to them. It's best not to tell them they are a simulation, or they'll have an existential crisis and probably not want to help us

Who writes characters who aren't us depends on the situation. I'll be creating the hazards for us, which Drago will then be responsible for, since they'd be directly under control of Celestia.

NPC though depends. If it's someone that's just going to interact with us for a bit and we won't see them much after, I'll probably leave that to whoever is doing the interaction. If it's someone who will be traveling with us, it really depends on who has the best knowledge of the character. If you want a copy of your best pony friend forever to exist here, obviously I wouldn't be the best choice to write for them. If it's a random on the street, I'll probably do it. Let's just say whoever created the NPC is probably the best one to write them

54 minutes ago, Will Guide said:

New, I guess.

Alrighty that's fine. Please do post the profile though so I can link to it in the first post?

50 minutes ago, Acnologia said:

Right. I’ll probably use Kyubi for this. I might throw in another later. Either way, here’s the link.

 

 

Interesting, a bat pony and she's blind. If you would like, she can ask and Celestia will give her sight while in the game. It would be an interesting experience for her, and also a reason to not want to leave

5 minutes ago, Drago Ryder said:

Right. I’m just going to use this for Gale’s referance.

 

 

And we have a dragon! Awesome! 

I'd like to discuss how she ends up with the other characters, since it's unclear where she lives at the present time, and why she would be invited to a video game beta test

-*-

There is a new character database BTW if you guys want to transfer these over from the archive. The old ones can't be edited any more, unfortunately

I want an Equestria Online where the game isn't trying to cause a mass physical to digital exodus (like a fan fiction I read). Just log in, be a pony or other species, fight monsters, level up, cook, whatever

And everyone's in the same world, or a limited amount of channels/instances. Maybe 5 or so of each major zone

Slice of life with the usual online game stuff

4 minutes ago, Dynamo Pad said:

Watching some original Beyblade anime with a friend, but I'm good to go.  

I meant in the RP lol. Like what's yours and the other elements plans?

Sorry I've been busy lately, I'll get to it.

What's everyone's plans right now?

7 hours ago, Duality said:

Does she have a tall/chönky build to match her strength? Pelajae may have a physical edge on humans but it's supplied by muscles, not magic.

I didn't mean to imply that it's magical, sorry

What would you consider tall? If you mean taller than the average for adult females when compared to IRL, then a bit, yes. If you mean such a tall girl that it becomes along the lines of a family genetic mutation or some kind of enhancement/enchantment, then no. So please tell me what you consider tall or what you think I should do here

Listing her Anthro stuff as an ability is just meant to pretty much say this: Just because she is not as animalistic as others and just has ears/tail/claws/tiny whiskers as visible features, she is no less capable

I wasn't trying to imply she is actually better in some way than other Anthros, in fact being someone who researches a lot she's not all that athletic. It's just the absolute bare minimum to stay in shape and keep her pretty figure

Let me know if you need that section changed somehow or clarified

7 hours ago, Duality said:

Cells deteriorate via deterioration of their physical DNA, not by any electrical process, so you'd have to be more of a biomancer type to pull off slowed aging with willpower alone. Denim has some funky ancient magic lore addons to his character to give her enhanced age, though, so there are other ways to get to it if you want teachers with the bodies of students.

I had kinda hoped I could pull that off, since cells do have an electrical component. I don't want to just cop out to yet another power type or say I built the fountain of youth, as she's looking a bit stacked already. What do you suggest, as yes, it had been my goal to have a teacher with the body of a student?

7 hours ago, Duality said:

This list could probably be condensed into the subjects of electromagnetic magic and magic as applied to engineering. Students tend to progress through subjects very linearly in Salem, since Salem's subjects are tailored to particular forms of magic and the students' magic remains constant no matter what their interests may be, so it's more of a Year 1 Electromagnetism, Year 3 Electromagnetism, Year 4+ Technological Magic sort of deal when it comes to naming classes (Salem teaches magic first and foremost, after all, so it's most probable that the mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering classes will be teaching principles of technological manipulation and Magitek as relatively fundamental parts of their curricula too). Easy to remember for OOC purposes, too. 

See here's the thing. I don't believe everyone will have the full suite the same way she does, and it's quite probable that the vast majority have one or two of the three, but not electromagnetism like her. If someone has only electricity, they can't be in a class that teaches electromagnetism, as they can't do magnetism or technology manipulation. If someone has only magnetism, they can't be in a class that teaches electricity or technology manipulation. On the other hand, I believe technology manipulation comes mostly but not entirely as a result of having a combination of the ability to manipulate electricity and magnetism, since many computer components are electrical and also metallic in their composition.

Circuit boards also have different components than just metal or electrical. I actually looked this up to confirm what I remembered: The substrate most commonly used in printed circuit boards is a glass fiber reinforced (fiberglass) epoxy resin with a copper foil bonded on to one or both sides. To be able to create or manipulate this using magic to build something that has circuit boards, someone has to have technology manipulation specifically. That or it has to be done the non magical way or simply purchased premade, because the fiberglass is neither conductive nor metallic

If you look closely at the way she does this in Sky High (great movie by the way that I feel needed a sequel or two), not all parts of the machine are electrical components or metallic parts: 

For a pure technology manipulator mage like this girl who has it as a superpower, I would implement this without the electricity or magnetism portion and just hand waving or thinking. So a mage technology manipulator would hand wave or think, but there would be no electricity coming off like her

Are you absolutely positively sure I should condense that? Just doesn't seem to make sense to me, please elaborate

Now about the engineering progression. Are you sure about condensing this? I wanted a logical progression that doesn't immediately teach the magical concepts but makes sure to leave it open to be compatible, especially since building Magitek as I implement it is a branch of enchanting. It's quite possible that there are some people who might want to learn to build and program initially non magical machines for others to then enchant runes into/onto. I wanted to leave the possibility open for some people going to her classes to not necessarily be into Magitek themselves, but building enchantment compatible technology. Remember that Magitek can be used by anyone once built and the enchantments put in place, so one needs to know how technology works to be able to then meld the two. While it may seem that some of the classes are non magical, the idea is that it's taught with the intent to have the end goal of having items compatible with enchantments. The programming class also teaches runes and rune writing (pretty much programing for enchanters), directly flowing into enchanting technology for the Advanced class

How should I clarify that the building classes that seem non magical are actually technically magical, since the stuff built is made to be compatible with enchantments?

Also as an aside, at least for Lektra herself as compared to other enchanters, she is unable to enchant non metallic substances. Magitek she makes is mostly metallic, and the non metallic portions are just there due to how stuff is built

What do you suggest I do here though?

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Also just to clarify, are you implying you've built the world so anyone can learn and eventually do any magic, regardless of what kind of proficiency they'd actually have in it? So someone who has darkness can actually study say, fire and eventually after a period of sucking at it to be able to do fire magic with practice to become as good as someone who is more natural in it? I figured specializations are more rigid, in that people have a proficiency and are unlikely to be able learn magic not affiliated with whatever they discover they are more proficient in, so most people don't bother. So an electromagnetism class sounds like it would not be good for anyone who only has magnetism, electricity or is just a tech manipulator, which is why I had split the classes up

As an example, I have gotten the impression that while 'The Avatar: Master of All Elements' cases are possible here, it's extremely unlikely unless someone discovers they are very good with multiple elements. Even HP mages tend to specialize, since they discover they naturally suck at certain magics while being much better at others. Like someone is good at Charms but not as good at Anti Dark Arts, while another can be amazing at Transfiguration, but suck at just about everything else so they don't bother

Confirm or deny? Or explain please? 

I guess what I'm trying to ask is can anyone learn and 'get' any magic? How rigid are specializations? With proper time to study learn if it's not something they happen to be a natural at, of course. This has probably been asked and gone over in the 70 some odd pages I can't be bothered to read, sorry for potentially repeating something

3 minutes ago, Will Guide said:

Can I be a Changeling disguised as a Unicorn revealing myself later?

Yes. Yes you can! 😉

Black or new though? 

3 minutes ago, Will Guide said:

@Lektra Bolt

You're already familiar with my Changeling right? minus sharing a body. Sometimes I do RP where I've always been a Changeling and Unicorn Will Guide is my main disguise.

Yup I'm familiar, but are you going to be a changeling or a Unicorn in this? Or a changeling disguised as a Unicorn who reveals himself later?

Cool. Everyone who hasn't posted their character or that I'm not familiar with already, please post it. I'll be my main. I'll start making a player list in the first post a bit later

Everyone who hasn't yet read the fic, please do

I will have literal Game Master abilities in the game. As much as I want teleportation to and from anywhere in the game, I will have it not work for mysterious reasons, so we can all travel together. What they all are I haven't decided yet, since I'm obviously not going to ban anyone 

I figure I'll be able to delete and create things, but beyond this I haven't decided yet. Celestia should respond to all GM commands except Shut Down, Exit, and similar things to end the game

There are plenty of NPC ponies (and other species depending on location) created by Celestia who act and feel like a real living being. They are neural nets with actual feelings, needs, and emotions. They also eat. In fact everyone has basic life needs like food, but bodily functions and getting fat don't exist. They'll also be able to tell you a history of their entire life for many years, even though the game has only been running for about a week when the RP starts. It's all designed to facilitate permanent life in Virtual Equestria, but it would all have been the same even if we weren't trapped in it

We will all be trapped in the same shard. In fact there are no other shards in the RP. Shards don't exist for the simple fact that we should all be together in the same world

Why not both? Both. Definitely both

6 minutes ago, Drago Ryder said:

Hmmm, I just read through the piece this is based on, and I think I could give playing a rampant AI a shot. 

Orly? Then as Rarity said

5 minutes ago, Acnologia said:

I’d be up for throwing an OC or two into this. 

Heya welcome! Great to have you, please post profiles when ready

Everything that Denim said. I have nothing to add to that

25 minutes ago, Passion said:

Yeah, sure, I'm game. But I will still be trying to keep it inside her personality. And yeah, we can have different images of her, so not everything will be up to your expectations

Thanks! 

But well yea, I mean she was adjusted and changed from the game to fit the RP, so it's not the same person and as far as our characters are concerned it's just going to be a fun cosmic coincidence that someone so much like the game character exists 

7 minutes ago, Passion said:

The issue I'm having with Ira is that... I actually hardly enjoy her. I cannot juggle three characters at once to be honest if I wanted.

And for the sake of herself I've been spending a lot of time trying to figure out a motivation for her as well as end target. It was here when Rouen was around and it seemed like a fun dynamic, but unfortunately it died out due to Rouen becoming inactive. Ever since then it was much duller for me to play her.

 

As for Ley, it depends what you actually want to suggest and if it lies in realm of possibility and my roleplaying capabilities and skillset.

Oh, I see. I'm sorry that happened. I feel bad for Katara, I mean Ira. Just powers wise I feel like she's cool and I liked the water bender in Avatar, but it's up to you really. I mean RP is about the interactions, either social or fighting, and if you get none of either it's boring. I can't offer much personally, since there's no intersection unless she wants to learn some enchanting and you think she would have the ability for it. I should probably add that as a class by itself, but dunno

Does anyone think she should have a class on enchanting itself? She applies it to metal and stuff that's built, so it's not necessarily a solo thing. Plus there's already a couple of teachers who teach enchanting on its own, so personally not sure it's necessary

Ley I was thinking pretty simple. Lektra is a gamer. She isn't always researching. By random chance for convenience sake, let's say she plays the Grand Chase mobile game and sees this student who looks and functions like her favorite character. Um, shenanigans ensue? That's my way of saying, I have no idea what will happen after this and we'll let things develop

Is this ok?

2 hours ago, Buck Testa said:

Which character are you talking about. I'm assuming you mean Druantia but I have a few of them running around in here. 

Actually I just happened to catch Sahalia the lizard girl as I was scrolling around, though don't remember how I ended up there lol. She's awesome and I believe Lektra and her would maybe be friends 😉

I'm also skimming over a couple of characters just random, and we seem to have a couple of enchanting teachers around here. @Denim&Venom you seem to have one too?

Don't suppose we could make some kind of enchanting club? Lol that would be something 

2 hours ago, Passion said:

Just to give an update, I'm in works for replacing Ira with someone more comfortable for me to play, so my focus was a bit in different place since I'm speaking with Duality if I'd be able to pull it off.

Dunno, I kinda liked Ira from what I read. She doesn't seem that bad that warrants her just ceasing to exist, but I mean it's your character.

Did you want to discuss Ley though? I'd like to figure something out with her and Lektra that isn't silly, cause just I personally like Ley and just gotta request something within the realm of possible

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Just twiddling my thumbs waiting on @Dualityand had a read on the other character trying to do Magitek that left. Glad we don't have to deal with that any more. Gosh that was such a mess, and so many allowances were made. I'm seeing a bit of disrespect to the GM as well as the RP itself (you're ruining my character, I know better since I've done this before), and just all around Op that had to be worked out. People have to understand that the GM has final say on what's considered fair, and someone with that amount of far reaching ability due to pulling basically a cartridge out of thin air and suddenly adding a power needed balance. That and there was so much bull about being a young genius that didn't make sense, as well as no explanation that I saw for having all this stuff.

'I just just built it' is not an explanation, because then when you have to explain it to someone else, people realize just how Op it is that even you the designer of the concept can't explain it. I like to have my concepts, theories and head canon laid out already. It's only fair

IIRC it was said a whole story had to be created for explaining the character with blood donations to not have umpteen infinite powers, and here I am just an enchanter using what exists in media and most people's understanding of it 😉

I mean if I have to make changes I will, I don't mind. I just found it interesting how restrictive people try to be about changes, then complain the GM is ruining their fun, not realizing the GM is just trying to make sure everyone has fun including the character being balanced

Also as an aside, it's nice to see people I'm familiar with and comfortable around here. Buck, Denim, and Nexus 👋🏻

Really have high hopes for SU. I know quality when I see it