ooc Welcome! To: Into Limbo: Worlds Collide (open)

[Illiad Easle 3,139]

Metals do not have static. Conductors can't hold an electric charge, you get a shock touching metal after you've built up a charge in yourself because the metal can conduct the energy away, not because it has a charge.

Regardless, now is hardly the time for him to increase his knowledge. Further he doesn't know that metallurgy would lead to lightning magic (Because that doesn't make sense, metal magic would be more closely related to ground/earth than energy anyway. If anything water would be closer because it also conducts electricity and is a key component in storms that have lightning.)

I guess the question is how would Blu come to the conclusion that Shamrock needs an electric shock to wake him up? As he was told Shamrock needs magic, and he does not equate electricity to magic, I don't think he'd make that connection.

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

30 minutes ago, Illiad Easle said:

Metals do not have static. Conductors can't hold an electric charge, you get a shock touching metal after you've built up a charge in yourself because the metal can conduct the energy away, not because it has a charge.

Regardless, now is hardly the time for him to increase his knowledge. Further he doesn't know that metallurgy would lead to lightning magic (Because that doesn't make sense, metal magic would be more closely related to ground/earth than energy anyway. If anything water would be closer because it also conducts electricity and is a key component in storms that have lightning.)

I guess the question is how would Blu come to the conclusion that Shamrock needs an electric shock to wake him up? As he was told Shamrock needs magic, and he does not equate electricity to magic, I don't think he'd make that connection.

Sandstorm also conducts electricity.

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

Also the mage is telling that " we need to shock him awake etc.

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

we want to create high “static” voltage using metals, the usual technique is to launch speeding metal grains or powder against a metal surface, with the grains being a different metal than the surface. In other words, “sandblasting” a metal surface will charge up both the grains and the surface, even if we use metal grains instead of sand. (Again, this only works if the surface and the grains are made of two different metals.) 

i know static exist in metal... I fix planes... And it hurts. Have enough different metals and dont ground them is a painful lesson to be learned 😂. I was inside the fuel tank and there was no escape but the hole i crawled in....

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

@Illiad Easle 

I think learning wasn't the right choice of word.... Experience... Yup experience the magic

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

These are a small fragments of the map

 

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

Filly delphia, manehattan, griffinstone, eastern lair then kirin grove.

 @Illiad Easle

Edited May 1, 2023 by Kujamih

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

Infection of the world.

 

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

Me wonders why my peeps arent rping anymore.

Looks at the rp.

" ... Oh god it was me!"

Sorry if i replied to the rp slowly.... Night shift... I blame night shift.

[Windy Breeze 15,189]

On 2023-05-21 at 9:20 AM, Kujamih said:

Me wonders why my peeps arent rping anymore.

Looks at the rp.

" ... Oh god it was me!"

Sorry if i replied to the rp slowly.... Night shift... I blame night shift.

Honestly I thought the rp is over since I was ridden with guilt just thinking about it. I'm glad to see it still alive.

Edited May 22, 2023 by Windy Breeze

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

8 hours ago, Windy Breeze said:

Honestly I thought the rp is over since I was ridden with guilt just thinking about it. I'm glad to see it still alive.

@Windy Breeze

Btw your characters are still in here. I just pulled some strings and made them paused or put on suspended animation. If you wanna continue just pm me. But some of your characters are either in a cauma, hospitalized aaaa d in an enemy base 

Hehe i had to continue the flow of the story and these are the plausible routes that cut get it goin, just like props character

 Putting them out of commission for a while.

If not its okay.... Buuuuttt ima somewhat control them a bit. Depending on the situation, the characters that has been abandoned in into limbo rp will be either mindcontrolled or stock at the hospital.

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

Dang i need a drawing reference of misty and grey shot. I forgot what they looked like and forgot to add them on my data sheet.

[Jesse Terrence 2,968]

Can I introduce a new character now that Shamrock is unconscious?

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

Sure? I mean im just setting you up for the next day.

So who what when where and how?

Who is it

What is it

When is he entering our time line and how is he gonna affect the story? 

[Illiad Easle 3,139]

@StrawberryMilk Simp

Hmm... You've given Blu a clear shot at three priority targets, I thought I'd confirm that you want one of them to die before moving forward as:

1. We've established that Blu's weapon is supersonic, meaning the bullet will arrive before the sound, so they can't hear the shot coming.
2. It's night and a surprise, so they're unlikely to see the bullet coming.
3. Even if they do see it, they'll have a fraction of a second to react, which at least two of these characters have not demonstrated to be able to do.
4. This weapon, not using explosives, has no muzzle flash to give it away, and the sonic boom will echo through the canyon, so he may yet go wholly undetected and even get a second shot off.

That being said, Blu is going to shoot Cozy first, then if the opportunity presents itself, shoot the six winged alicorn. Are there missing details that would prevent this? Would this action throw off what you have planned?

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

5 hours ago, Illiad Easle said:

@StrawberryMilk Simp

Hmm... You've given Blu a clear shot at three priority targets, I thought I'd confirm that you want one of them to die before moving forward as:

1. We've established that Blu's weapon is supersonic, meaning the bullet will arrive before the sound, so they can't hear the shot coming.
2. It's night and a surprise, so they're unlikely to see the bullet coming.
3. Even if they do see it, they'll have a fraction of a second to react, which at least two of these characters have not demonstrated to be able to do.
4. This weapon, not using explosives, has no muzzle flash to give it away, and the sonic boom will echo through the canyon, so he may yet go wholly undetected and even get a second shot off.

That being said, Blu is going to shoot Cozy first, then if the opportunity presents itself, shoot the six winged alicorn. Are there missing details that would prevent this? Would this action throw off what you have planned?

No none at all... But consequences will happen.

Some things will do go un answered. Some wont show up. Etc.

Plus how sure are you that those are the only one you should focus on? Those 3 arent the only ones pulling the strings. And showing that cozy is one of them ( who is one of Flurry hearts close friend and advisor of some sort) is it wise to kill her off? The teleporting unicorn has little data Blu has. And the six winged alicorn has the black dragon's( that you shot down) body parts on her.

And if you do... Wont Alpha be in danger? 🤔

 

I do have a path for the story, but i dont solidify it so i can easily merge your out come to the story. Then thats when i put concrete on the path.... Although... This world IS in chaos so theres a chance of time travel... White Light already did.. in some way.

[Illiad Easle 3,139]

@StrawberryMilk Simp

5 minutes ago, StrawberryMilk Simp said:

how sure are you that those are the only one you should focus on?

0%, but what I know is not what Blu knows. He can tell that these are different from the others, and in his opinion eliminating enemy commanders, even potentially low level ones, as well as enemy spies does wonders for throwing the enemy into disarray.

8 minutes ago, StrawberryMilk Simp said:

And showing that cozy is one of them ( who is one of Flurry hearts close friend and advisor of some sort) is it wise to kill her off?

Blu certainly thinks so, as either:

• That isn't actually Cozy, and thus it is safe to kill the doppelganger.
• That is Cozy, and thus Cozy is an enemy spy.

Plus, The Kernel is recording what Blu is seeing, so if this gets brought up later then he'll have evidence that Cozy was cooperating with the enemy.

But, thinking on it further, he could just bring that evidence back later, and use his guaranteed hit on one of the more dangerous targets.

12 minutes ago, StrawberryMilk Simp said:

And the six winged alicorn has the black dragon's( that you shot down) body parts on her.

I don't know what you're trying to say here, nor in the previous statement about data. Her having the body parts won't matter to Blu as his weapon is now far stronger than it was before, so having the old body parts won't matter.

 

13 minutes ago, StrawberryMilk Simp said:

And if you do... Wont Alpha be in danger? 🤔

Blu's not all that concerned about Alpha's safety. Besides, him attacking should draw attention in his general direction, even if it is unclear where exactly he is. Besides, it's not like he's going to shoot before telling Alpha what he's seeing. Alpha wouldn't want to emerge from cover while they're in the area anyway.

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

2 minutes ago, Illiad Easle said:

don't know what you're trying to say here, nor in the previous statement about data. Her having the body parts won't matter to Blu as his weapon is now far stronger than it was before, so having the old body parts won't matter.

That is true... But is that what you ahould be focusing on? the question is WHY does she have that body parts? Clearly you shot that thing down correct?

 

3 minutes ago, Illiad Easle said:

Blu's not all that concerned about Alpha's safety. Besides, him attacking should draw attention in his general direction, even if it is unclear where exactly he is. Besides, it's not like he's going to shoot before telling Alpha what he's seeing. Alpha wouldn't want to emerge from cover while they're in the area anyway.

True... Plus depending on what happens things might change on the fly on my head... I might get a good idea in the future to add... 🤔

6 minutes ago, Illiad Easle said:

, but what I know is not what Blu knows. He can tell that these are different from the others, and in his opinion eliminating enemy commanders, even potentially low level ones, as well as enemy spies does wonders for throwing the enemy into disarray.

Yes, true. We know more than Blu. Hence i thought he would be more cautious? Anyway lets see how it plays out.

[Illiad Easle 3,139]

@StrawberryMilk Simp

On 2023-08-05 at 6:59 AM, StrawberryMilk Simp said:

But before Blu could execute his plan

Look, if you're going to prevent my character from doing something, I'd prefer if you simply didn't give the option, rather than retconning my post and deciding for me what my character does or does not do.

Further, it feels like your characters are retroactively changing their actions based on information that they don't have. If my actions are messing up your plans, I'd rather you brought it up in the OOC and we can discuss it, rather than having your characters turn on a dime to stop my chosen action from occurring.

The way it stands, Blu was waiting to throw the explosive rounds in before covering in the cloak. Given the portal stopped expanding he would still try to throw them in with his magic, meaning that he is not covered in the cloak. Then he would be fully exposed to the sword's effects, because as I said in my post he did not cover himself in the cloak until after dropping in the rounds. As he was not allowed to do that, he is not covered or protected from the effects. Given the surroundings were killed by it, I guess that means that Blu is also dead then.

 

Now, I could easily just agree with the action you've chosen for my character, but this is not the first time even in this scene that you've decided what my character does or does not do. It took three whole posts for you to finally let Blu take the shot, despite my indicating that he would take the shot in each of them. I'm tired of having my decisions overwritten, I feel like I'm fighting you for the ability to participate in this story as much as Blu is against your characters.

 

Lately this whole segment feels like it's on rails and my characters are just along for the ride, not really having any impact on the story as their actions are either ignored, ineffective, minimized, or retconned. I feel I've only had meaningful change when my characters have dug in and would have refused to participate otherwise.

I don't want to give up on this RP, so lets see if we can't find some common ground here.

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

@Illiad Easle

( Sorry this message is kinda messy... Doing it on the go and is what pops in my mind.)

🤔 hmmmm true ..... Well the reason( not a good one) why i still did that is to see first what they would do plus we sometimes do things in advance then when we interact with something in the middle the rest might probably change. Again i am doing things in a fly. And i guess this one is bad.

For example: ( probably not my best thought and action I've made.)

I actually planned that it wouldn't reach Blu. Since i dont want yer to be that too op. Unicorn's mind set is she'd cast an AOE kinda spell and hope that it hits you. But her power isnt enough to cast that range.

What I didn't plan was he'd still try to attack it.  But the cloak has kinda peeked my interest.

So instead a change of event was made. When Blu was about to ready himself the portal stopped.( Because thats her limit) Probably still far away from him, which is my fault for not properly puttin distance... 🤔

Then what if i showed how crazy powerful this unicorn is!( Which originally i planned her to be cunning than OP... My bad on that.) 

Then knowing that blu would react on how things slowly die around the blade he'd probably use the cloak... ( Also i didnt specify how fast the radiation spread and also if Alpha might've survived that. But i always think that she'd be fast enough to escape it. Now cozy glow..... 🤔 Shed end up being saved by Alpha if i want her to survive the blast.)

But i ended up god modding and this left you with nothing else to act upon which i kinda trapped you into. Sorry about that... Hmmm 🤔 damn.... I messed this one up XD

An idea came and i went through with it... It turns out i got too excited and it wasnt that great.

29 minutes ago, Illiad Easle said:

Lately this whole segment feels like it's on rails and my characters are just along for the ride, not really having any impact on the story as their actions are either ignored, ineffective, minimized, or retconned. I feel I've only had meaningful change when my characters have dug in and would have refused to participate otherwise.

I do try to balance things that were retconned minimize ignored ineffective etc... For example I didn't want the dragon to die so fast so i made blu weapon able to damage him. I actually wanted Blu's bullets to not work at all.. but doing that would be unfair so i made blu not insta kill it and end up hitting it with a lot of bullets, so the threat will have some wait and real threat in it.

Then just now though the alicorn got one shot.. so I'd give that. so that effective right? Although i did end up guiding you not to shoot Cozy cuz it'd be nice that she gets to explain what happens next. Since you know ... The enemy was trying to eat her.

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Yeah i think the part that i ignored i auto accepted it or something but didn't type it. Or thought my one answer answered it all... Or probably thought it would become irrelevant. I should fix that too.

I do try to not put it on rails though... Hmm anyway blu and Fuoco would be "free" from their deals very soon. So that would definitely put them out of the rails.

Since Jesse left. Something bad has happened.

And sorry about the distress im still learning the ropes on things and testing things out... Sometimes i get too excited and reply quickly since my ideas in my head easily sleeps out of me. And i do end up doing things on the go.

Actually i forgot most of the names of my character... Mara... I just remembered the unicorns name.

 

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

Btw you can also retcon some of my actions too

[Jesse Terrence 2,968]

Honestly, I feel that gun is OP

[Illiad Easle 3,139]

@StrawberryMilk Simp

I appreciate that you were willing to better explain what was happening. It makes sense for the story to play out as you described it, there was just a lack of information conveyed. For instance, if you had indicated that the growth of the portal was slowing, rather than just quickly approaching, Blu would have been more cautious. I appreciate that you were trying to show the unicorn's power, and with your additional information the sequence of events makes sense, it just seemed to me from your posts that the actions were changing as the portal went from rapidly approaching

On 2023-08-04 at 6:21 AM, StrawberryMilk Simp said:

It started to grow faster at the speed it spreads it'll take 5 minutes before it reaches him. At first it looks impossible too reach him since he is so far away... but it seems like underestimating this enemy might not be the wisest choice. If he still tried to observe, anything on its path starts to sink in it. Trees, giant rocks, other infected and even the alicorn he just shot. And soon him.

to suddenly stopping no where near him without a step between.

On 2023-08-05 at 6:59 AM, StrawberryMilk Simp said:

But before Blu could execute his plan the portal stopped creeping.

An edit would have been: "Before the portal got close enough for Blu to throw in the rounds, it's growth slowed to a halt a good X distance away from him. A large stone like the tip of a sword began to emerge, an aura that seemed to kill the plants and trees around it started to expand towards him."

 

Or something like that, but better would have been if the sword started to emerge in the first post, when the portal expanded, that way I wouldn't have felt like the sword coming out was as a consequence of Blu preparing to attack the portal.

 

I don't know how best to explain it, but you have to find a balance between writing too much in a post and writing too little. Too much and the players feel like they're just along for the ride, too little and the players feel like they don't have much to go off of, or that they're being slowly guided through a scene. It's a hard balance to find and it varies between players. The way I try to do it is to think when writing a scene: "If I was the other character, would I try to do something here?" and if that's true beyond offering a comment I try and end the post there to give the other player a chance to respond.

 

20 hours ago, StrawberryMilk Simp said:

For example I didn't want the dragon to die so fast so i made blu weapon able to damage him. I actually wanted Blu's bullets to not work at all.. but doing that would be unfair so i made blu not insta kill it and end up hitting it with a lot of bullets, so the threat will have some wait and real threat in it.

And that's fair, it is to be expected that the enemies will grow in power over the course of the story, I wasn't upset about the dragon because it made sense and Blu adapted to it. There are good ways to give your characters plot armor. One thing I recommend is scars and non-lethal wounds. If you have a player encounter a character that you need for later, and the player reasonably succeeds in doing damage, you make the damage non-lethal, but have it leave a scar. When the enemy returns the scar is there and the enemy is better prepared to confront the player in the future. This does typically involve the character running from the fight or somehow escaping, teleporting works in this world of magic.

 

20 hours ago, StrawberryMilk Simp said:

Then just now though the alicorn got one shot.. so I'd give that. so that effective right? Although i did end up guiding you not to shoot Cozy cuz it'd be nice that she gets to explain what happens next. Since you know ... The enemy was trying to eat her.

And I actually found that suspiciously unsatisfying, I mean, her head coming clean off made it feel like a trick, it was too easy. I expected something like a glancing blow where her reflexes would be quick enough that she started to dodge, and the bullet passed through her in a wounding but non-lethal capacity due to overpenetration. Then a second shot could be lethal if you intended for her to die (But since you took the body I presume she's coming back later.) And not shooting Cozy is why I asked in the OOC, because I don't want to derail your story. I want the adventure to be satisfying to both of us.

I was also unsatisfied that no one tried to find him, you said that the bullet passed silently despite the fact that we've established that the gun is very loud. Sure the bullet would have arrived before the sound, but it would have been followed by the boom echoing through the canyon, which should have alerted all the creatures to search despite the echoes obfuscating his location. 

20 hours ago, StrawberryMilk Simp said:

Yeah i think the part that i ignored i auto accepted it or something but didn't type it. Or thought my one answer answered it all... Or probably thought it would become irrelevant. I should fix that too.

Don't worry too much about it, I miss things all the time too. I'll try to be better at pointing it out here when things get missed so it doesn't pile up like this again.

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

 

 

15 hours ago, Props Valroa said:

Can someone give me a run down on this RP? I left it a year ago but am curious what is happening now with it.

Hmmm well the purple mist we fought has gone rampant practically spread across equestria. Some places got heavily infected some badly devestated by the event ( ponyville)

Some had successfully defended against it.

Key villains and twist arrived. And your character was twilight was supposed to be hospitalized but the spread got worst so an extraction of the patients was needed. But SMILE had plans with your body. Still on suspended sleep.

Shallow shade and silver knight has gone missing. Its a surprise what happened.

Cozy glow is seen mingling with the enemies. Alot of ponies have gone missing or dead. Alpha and Blu are teaming up. Fuoco is on an expedition to find out what has happened outside of ponyville. One of the villains or probably two have died.... What else.... 

16 hours ago, Illiad Easle said:

And I actually found that suspiciously unsatisfying, I mean, her head coming clean off made it feel like a trick, it was too easy. I expected something like a glancing blow where her reflexes would be quick enough that she started to dodge, and the bullet passed through her in a wounding but non-lethal capacity due to overpenetration. Then a second shot could be lethal if you intended for her to die (But since you took the body I presume she's coming back later.) And not shooting Cozy is why I asked in the OOC, because I don't want to derail your story. I want the adventure to be satisfying to both of us.

Hehehe maybe it is a trick....

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

16 hours ago, Illiad Easle said:

was also unsatisfied that no one tried to find him, you said that the bullet passed silently despite the fact that we've established that the gun is very loud. Sure the bullet would have arrived before the sound, but it would have been followed by the boom echoing through the canyon, which should have alerted all the creatures to search despite the echoes obfuscating his location. 

Well we are at ghastly gorge echoes and what not wouldve been the problem... And i thought the weapon has upgraded already to a point that it was silent. And you did say it was silent plus it would still be hard to find the shooter. also the enemies first instinct was to hide. You shot the portal. Maybe something happened that she ended up choosing a big AOE SPELL on the area to either distract you or end up killing you with it. They were confident with their power until one of them got shot down again. And they know that you where able to shoot down onix, the impenetrable dragon lord. And then you where able to decapitate the alicorn  so i believe a panic on them is necessary. Hence her choice to nuke the place rather than to find you and end up dying.