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My deepest condolences to the family and all who knew Jeric. The forums will never be the same.
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Ask a Nerd. Or Ask a Puddle of Water. I'm Not Picky.
Duality replied to Duality's topic in Ask a Pony
Contrary to popular belief, Fire and I actually get along quite well. Thunderstorms are second only to humans when it comes to causing wildfires, there's plenty of water on the sun, and fire ice is in fact a thing that exists (my home lake, Vostok, has plenty). Sure, water might extinguish most forms of fire, but it also extinguishes most forms of life if they stay immersed in it for too long, and nobody says water and life are polar opposites. We've both been around for aeons - it's hard to coexist for that long without working out some sort of professional relationship. -
Hey, you too? My apologies for counting you out, I thought you and Reader might have been down for the count since only Loud Opinion responded to my 'are y'all still interested' post from November. Looks like we might have enough people active to start after all! Just waiting on @Denim&Venöm's final application (which shouldn't take long) and then we can get started all over again. I do want to keep the RP on Searching, though, since while we do have enough people to get the ball rolling it would be nice to get a couple more people on board to flesh things out. Hopefully @Buck Testa makes a triumphant return to round out the crowd, too.
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Oh, hey, that's great news! I hope life's been treating you satisfactorily despite the bustle, and I'm certainly glad to have you still on board.
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@Denim&Venöm @dragon4111 @reader8363 @Buck Testa @Loud Opinion Hey all, I've changed the RP status to Searching as I don't think we have quite enough players to start currently. Denim is working on the hopefully-final version of Miko's application and Loud Opinion is all in for the RP's start, but I haven't heard from Buck in 9 months and Reader hasn't come online since early November. I'd like to have 1 or 2 more active players before starting up, if I can manage it, but if I don't get any bites in the next couple weeks it might be worth reconsidering for a reduced number of players.
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Ask a Nerd. Or Ask a Puddle of Water. I'm Not Picky.
Duality replied to Duality's topic in Ask a Pony
Books, series of books, video games, it's all the same answer for me. If'n ye don't like the thing - or more pertinently, if it's dull, poorly designed, or otherwise mediocre -, cast it into the pit of indifference. Time is too valuable to waste on half-baked entertainment - but on the flipside, of course, your commitment to cognising all aspects of a piece of art should be roughly proportional to how well crafted it is, if you have any desire to give things the appreciation they deserve. My unwarranted advice is thus to yeet your subpar tome, my good chap, and devote your attention and time to things that actually merit and reward your consideration. This isn't awfully bad, I don't think, though I do it with games much more than with books. Particularly complex plots and lore may be diminished by a significant margin if you have too much happening on the side, of course, but if they're fairly memorable and/or elementary I don't see much issue with it. Dog-earing is heresy, your pages are not origami. Face-down books are an abomination against all that is right and just, and snapping the spine of a book is more of a crime than snapping the spine of the person who did so. Bookmarks render both wrongdoings redundant, and are literally one of the most rudimentary constructs you can possibly craft from basic household goods. Also, books are like $50 if you buy them new these days. Ain't nobody can afford to wreck them like that. The word you need is bibliosmia. Use it wisely. -
@Denim&Venöm @dragon4111 @reader8363 @Buck Testa @Loud Opinion@Lektra Bolt Hey all - I'm not gone for good, despite the best attempts of this past year. I've been whittling away at Miko's complete and comprehensive backstory with Denim for several months, and getting pounded by the pandemic and the resultant work overload for the rest of the all-too-many months I've been MIA. Very sorry to all who've been waiting on the posts I didn't put up for most of this year, and I sure hope you've been having a better time of things than me. My relationship with work is currently at the stage where I'll be living in a rural motel for the next few weeks working dawn to dusk on a farm the size of my home district in order to acquire that sweet sweet coin (and also to keep my job), but I'm hoping to finish things up with Denim and get this RP finally rolling IC by early to mid January. I know it's been an age since I booted up the reboot (and with the events of 2020 it feels like way longer than eight months), but are y'all still sufficiently interested in going through with this?
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That's some incredible architecture right there. I do want to keep Salem's appearance canonically fluid but I can definitely see the Admin block looking something like that. Whereabouts were those photos taken?
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You look like you deserve a quality smol floof
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Her magic looks pretty good - solid balancing all round there. However, the rest of her abilities appear quite unbalanced in range and magnitude and most people in her life have done her dirty, which seems primarily to be a way of enhancing the impressiveness of her skills via emphasising how self-made she is and how much adversity she's overcome (as well as how many justified reasons she has to be angry at everyone and sundry). She's exceptionally skilled at apparently everything save magic, including literature, music, dance, anything involving analytic thinking skills, martial arts, athletics, household skills, street savviness, mechanical engineering, military service, and acting. She reached colonel rank, she has a lifetime pension, she has screeds of medals, she somehow survived all sorts of death missions, she caught the eye of Bruce Lee, she has four degrees, she could have gotten platinum records if she'd chosen to, she starred in all sorts of martial arts movies, she literally made history as being involved in the first use of magic in modern warfare, her groundbreaking use of magic was a major factor in her side winning a seemingly hopeless battle, Lazel changed up the whole school due to her, she apparently built a tank museum - this is a lot of achievements, and they encompass a far greater range and magnitude of skills than possessed by any other character in this RP. Further to this, her family did her dirty, several governments did her dirty, assorted music and movie critics did her dirty, and Salem did her dirty, which pretty much constitutes all pivotal players in her life except Alex, Bruce Lee, and her former dance instructor, which means she can play the martyr in regards to any part of her life whatsoever and be perfectly justified in doing so. In short, these are Too Many Things compared to all the things that other characters have, and probably either about half of these will need to be cut or most of them will need to be nerfed. In aid of this, it seems to me that it would be best to remove the long-lived trait of kitsune to maintain the action-packed vibe of her life while justifying why she's not overpowered by the time she's spent a century doing action-packed stuff (although this is up to you). If you want to use characters who have seen plenty of history, there's always the time travel subplot now that you could use to add an extra character to the mix (maybe Alex came from the past after taking part in all these history-making battles and they got together a few years before the present day?). Salem is still not a hill to die on, though, and the mages that constituted the early university would not be "elitist and borderline aristocratic" with "unflinching ideas about magic", since at this point most mages are essentially a suppressed global diaspora discovering a unified and independent identity for the first time in history - you can't have an aristocracy where no society existed, and these mages are an extremely diverse bunch due to being individually embedded in every culture on the planet. In addition, even if Miko wasn't able to properly control her magic in practice, she should have been able to get a certificate that she wasn't a risk to anyone as long as she didn't actively use her magic around others - it's only people like Druantia who are constantly at risk of losing control that wouldn't be able to get such a certificate to go on to a normal job. As long as you can keep your powers to yourself you'd be safe enough to work, essentially, and since her magic is primarily passive it doesn't seem like it would constitute a make-or-break issue. I can tell how much effort and historical nuance you put into this version of her, and I'm quite sorry for such an extensive critique - if I could approve her I would, but she's just too skilled at everything for it to be fair at the moment. I'd be more than happy to work it through with you piece by piece if you like, though.
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Hi sir tell me a nice dream you had lately
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Is it still under construction or is the current version ready for review?
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Hi sir have you heard of this bundle
It's 1500 games for 5 bucks with all proceeds going to charity
Some of the games are usually worth 25 bucks by themselves so it's about 8000 dollars worth of content
I don't know if you're the gamer type but even if you're not there's a bunch of game creation tools and tilesets in there too to give extra bang for your exceedingly few bucks
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@Denim&Venöm @Buck Testa You two still good to go? Just waiting on an application and a response, respectively.
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Could you chuck her into an application format instead? Cliff notes would be redundant if there's already a full backstory being written for the application anyway.
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It's near the end of the post, just after the paragraph about Blackrose's storyline and the list of playable character types.
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There are certain moments in a game where you realise you've made a terrible mistake. Following a fleetingly-glimpsed doppleganger into a poorly lit passageway was definitely one of them.
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Some recommendations would be great, actually! I have all the world at my fingertips but don't know what to look for.
Actually, most dirt is eroded rock, small particles settled out of flowing water, or small particles settled out of the air after volcanic eruptions! Topsoil is the brown stuff that sits on top of most dirt (usually only a foot deep), and that's mostly plant remains. Of that, only a small fraction is bug excreta, unless you're looking at a region with a lot of worms. Can't beat me here, I'm afraid - dirt is my job.
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Update to the OP: Characters from the past are now open for play, and a paragraph has been added about the time subplot. @Denim&Venöm lemme know if I've missed anything we've discussed. This seems quite satisfactory from a lore point of view, and certainly intriguing otherwise. We haven't had any true-eldritch magic in the RP before now, as far as I'm aware, so this is fresh meat.
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This is my biography right here, folks.
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Objection! Sharks are actually quite intelligent and social, and often enjoy getting together with their friends. They just have a mindless-murderer reputation thanks to Spielberg and vast swathes of subsequent media, which is ironic given that humans kill something like a hundred thousand times more of them per year than they kill of us.
They're no worse than lions or hawks as apex predators go (and much nicer than humans), and they're probably on par with lions for intellect, which is to say much more intelligent than owls.
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@Duality I might argue that sharks in general are more intelligent than some people!
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Huh, how do you find these articles of smart, Duality?
But, yeah.
Quoteand much nicer than humans
Yeah, yeah. Can't argue that.
Sharks don't invent new ways to murder each other. But sharks with guns does sound super cool.
But there is, like, the whole blood frenzy thing where they just rip into everything they bump into, including other sharks at the feeding frenzy. Still though, I consider sharks pretty cute. Like how spiders are cute, I wouldn't mind being around them... but maybe i'd be a little cautious if one was to invite me to a waltz.
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I was about to give you perfectly on time birthday wishes but then I realised that the forums uses the American date format. Just thought you should know this for when I end up giving you birthday wishes late on your real birthday.
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Yes, but that is in perspective to observers, yes? If things seem to be crawling for one while going by too fast for another, that doesn't mean its different for both. It's like throwign two kids into the same pond and one has more trouble floating to swim than the other; we can't blame the water for pickign and choosing who get's to
live and dieswim.... A sort of Duplicitous Duality, if you will. *Cough*
And what does that mean in regards to Pulsars? That they are the most reliable of a timely event to go by?
I ever mention I once dated the personification of Time? It ended very poorly, but we still keep in touch sometimes.
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Well, yes and no. I heard a theory once that went like this:
The closer you get to a black hole for instance the more out of whack time becomes. If you were to look up again from just shy of the black hole (at least I think it’s from just shy of the black hole), and you saw an outside observer, you would see them grow old, decompose into a skeleton, and turn to dust before your eyes. you would also supposedly see the entire universe end as well.
Meanwhile, the outside observer would never see you cross the event horizon. You would slow down more and more and appear redder and redder as you closed the distance to the horizon. Eventually you fade away. But even though you saw the observer die, for him he’s alive and well.
As for pulsars, they’re often quite routine with their rotations. Every so often the slightly speed up (in a process known as a ‘glitch’) but for the most part, though They slow down over long expenses of time, they’re the most accurate clocks out there.
Did the personification of time give you a watch like when we dated?
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Time magic is beyond the abilities of pretty much all mages in this setting, but this is otherwise a sound backstory - maybe it could be changed to a sleep spell or consciousness-suspension enchantment of some sort? Also, if you have plans to bring up the entity worshipped in more detail could I get an idea of what you envisioned that to be too?
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What an absolute cutie. Consider me sold. Are you planning on going into any detail on the magical accident that created it? I actually completely forgot about that. I'll have to add another paragraph to the OP. Aw, that's a shame. I kept Ley in mind while writing up all of this - the alternate timeline especially I thought would fix one of the main things I recall you objecting against: all the global government collaborations rendering it almost unfeasible for Ley to have had the sort of elitist noble origin found in your original backstory and forcing the University to have too many external dependencies. In the alternate timeline as I read it globalisation has been much impeded by various conflicts and different jurisdictions are far less politically interconnected than in this world, so there are plenty of gaps where isolated mountain enclaves could work on their own rules and the University is essentially independent from everywhere. The vast majority of the stuff in the spoilers (everything except magic and timeline lore) is copied wholesale from posts in the last RP, tweaked and adjusted to hopefully streamline the whole thing better and clarify points that seemed to confuse people last time. The University itself is exactly the same place as it was, the world outside is just scrambled a bit more exotically - and as for magic, the new lore I wrote is designed to be just as flexible as before, but a bit less vague on the general nature of the stuff. My definitions are intended to be able to describe everything that can be called magic, insofar as this is possible, so nothing should be ruled out based on them. She looks quite interesting - dream magic is a novel power, I gotta say. How does her backstory / power origin adapt to the setting, though? Curses powerful enough to make someone sleep for millennia (bonus immortality included) are out of the league of pretty much all mages in this universe.
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Sounds good - approval to the pair of them. Also, just a note to all and sundry - I will put up the first in-character post once enough people have joined, so don't jump in just yet.
