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[Tiruin]

@piecewise: Sorry for not being active with Feyri (and a serious sorry to SeriousConcentrate on that matter due to Jim) but I've been busy with RL and own writing stuffs...hopefully will plan to return someday soon in the coming month.

Apologies for that.

[Toaster]

If Simus doesn't respond, wander around in search of clothes and answers.
Clothes first, though, it's chilly.

I don't think you ever edited your original post or posted a new message.

The one that piecewise responded to?
And I would have thought that Pyro could infer that Simus got roughly the message piecewise said Grate would have sent.

I prefer to not infer IC from OOC.

If you wanted to be strict about it, Grate should be looking for Feyri, not Simus.

[Harry Baldman]

I believe we are resetting the combat rules removing nonactive characters and starting a somewhat different world with the options for those being, everything was a simulation, everything was a simulation run by a demon, voidy things invade, and suddenly totalitarian government.

What, no "it was all dreamed by a space octopus" option? Or is that technically the demon simulation option?

I had a thought a few hours ago about having a system for how fantabulous magical powers work - their power level is inversely proportional to how known and understood they are by other people. So if you leave witnesses, show off and, gods forbid, start making a name for yourself, well, you'd find your abilities plummet over time. And if you try to team up with someone else, you must make damn sure they never find out any of your secrets if you want to keep blasting things and doing impressive (if obscure) acts of heroism and/or villainy.

[kj1225]

Technically the Layar are space lizardmen.

Also, that sounds good if difficult to enforce.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Focusing on this because it needs a bit more context, the only time she did manage to do it she passed out. And that was for a fairy. Not nearly as useful as you think it is. And the drawings take up massive amounts of energy for her to make since she is basically making something out of nothing. Although she can animate them in the pictures for less but... it's still a picture.

I still maintain that the problem is less with living beings or combat anything, and more with the ability to instantly create dang near any kind of magic item. *cough*bracelets*cough*
How exhausted you are afterwards doesn't matter, because there's no permanent penalty for the permanent (and often significant) power.

By the way, say we work out a good system here, would you guys be resetting the whole thing? Or would you want to keep certain things as they are (characters, settings, ...).

We'd probably keep the characters but we're working out the details of what the hell we're doing.

I prefer to not infer IC from OOC.

That was OOC? I would have considered piecewise's posts to typically be IC.

I had a thought a few hours ago about having a system for how fantabulous magical powers work - their power level is inversely proportional to how known and understood they are by other people. So if you leave witnesses, show off and, gods forbid, start making a name for yourself, well, you'd find your abilities plummet over time. And if you try to team up with someone else, you must make damn sure they never find out any of your secrets if you want to keep blasting things and doing impressive (if obscure) acts of heroism and/or villainy.

That's one way to maintain a masquerade.
*scribble scribble*

[PyroDesu]

I prefer to not infer IC from OOC.

That was OOC? I would have considered piecewise's posts to typically be IC.

Most of what he does outside turns (and some stuff in turns, like posting 'You sure you wanna do that, man?'), I consider to be OOC, since he's talking to the player.

[IronyOwl]

What do you say Irony? Some bright clothing, heavy make-up or an appropriate mask would do it.

Well that's interesting, but I'm not sure how good a deranged jester Faith would make.

ARM fails at public relations forever.

Yyyyyyyep.

Maybe I've been reading too many WW2 sabotage manuals but... you know we *could* create a load of manipulator battery pills, package them up in bags labelled "sweets" or "candy" in appropriate languages then airdrop them on problem worlds and watch the fireworks from orbit the next solar system, next galaxy over several universes away

This assumes the problems created stay several universes away.

I had a thought a few hours ago about having a system for how fantabulous magical powers work - their power level is inversely proportional to how known and understood they are by other people. So if you leave witnesses, show off and, gods forbid, start making a name for yourself, well, you'd find your abilities plummet over time. And if you try to team up with someone else, you must make damn sure they never find out any of your secrets if you want to keep blasting things and doing impressive (if obscure) acts of heroism and/or villainy.

That's one way to maintain a masquerade.
*scribble scribble*

Of course, at that point it's almost like a long-term mana pool or power concentration. If you didn't particularly want to emphasize the secrecy aspect, you could just say that the more often they use their powers, the more diluted they become. Energy Blast and Ultra Mega Sugoi Death Cannon Mirror Multiplication Carnage Beam could be the exact same power, except one's used by default and the other's reserved for emergencies.

[Xantalos]

For extra rage, make the magic Tolkein-style and have it diminish the caster every time they use it to create something.

[Empiricist]

For extra rage, make the magic Tolkein-style and have it diminish the caster every time they use it to create something.

Or you know, acknowledge mechanically that a bullet to the head still tends to work better than most magic.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I prefer to not infer IC from OOC.

That was OOC? I would have considered piecewise's posts to typically be IC.

Most of what he does outside turns (and some stuff in turns, like posting 'You sure you wanna do that, man?'), I consider to be OOC, since he's talking to the player.

...
Fair enough. New post time.

[Phoenix Flame]

Maybe I've been reading too many WW2 sabotage manuals but... you know we *could* create a load of manipulator battery pills, package them up in bags labelled "sweets" or "candy" in appropriate languages then airdrop them on problem worlds and watch the fireworks from orbit the next solar system, next galaxy over several universes away

This assumes the problems created stay several universes away.

Nah several universes is just the minimal headstart distance I want on whatever gets created, the running needs to continue longer... you know what they say there's no kill like overkill, and nobody does overkill better than ARM

[smurfingtonthethird]

Actually, can we do the sweets-pills thing? It'd be funny as hell.

[Empiricist]

I wonder if Hephaestus can make speech-decomps? Otherwise, Charles goes up to nine.

[tryrar]

yeah, right until all the eldtrich abominations summoned by the pills fuse together and start assimilating the galaxy

[Xantalos]

Don't you guys take my endgame away