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[Empiricist]

In that case, you could go create an American flag with the red parts being magma. Then, you can introduce any noble too caught up in their feudalism to the concept of democracy by throwing them into your giant American flag of magma
@SmufingtonTheThird: are any organizations (particularly commercial or military) able to mass-enchant objects? If so, it may be possible for nuclear isomer-based weapons to be created.

[smurfingtonthethird]

((MvM is still good fun, even after all these years.

In that case, you could go create an American flag with the red parts being magma. Then, you can introduce any noble too caught up in their feudalism to the concept of democracy by throwing them into your giant American flag of magma
@SmufingtonTheThird: are any organizations (particularly commercial or military) able to mass-enchant objects? If so, it may be possible for nuclear isomer-based weapons to be created.

Make sure you catch a whole bunch of magma crabs and use them as machine guns to keep out "illegal immigrants".

Erm... I dunno about IRIS, I think maybe only Murder Night, although only at a single hidden facility (that'll make a nice campaign mission) and possibly SERT.

[kj1225]

Most companies should be able to due to 'advancements' by IRIS.

[Empiricist]

Right. It's unlikely for IRIS to possess the capability to do so. Likewise, SERT itself probably won't though one of it's member nations might. Not sure about Murder Night. This is because nuclear isomers generally require a nuclear reaction to produce. Needless to say this sort of stuff would be heavily restricted.

I shall for now assume it is the use of hafnium-178m2 as there are actual figures on it and it can actually be stabilized by magic (most other isomers tend to decay in less than a second, even if you have magic, I doubt you'd be able to magically stabilize it on time), though with a half-life of 31 years, that is optional anyway.

Hafnium-178m2 would be capable of releasing approximately 1.330x10⁹ joules of energy. Note that it releases this energy in the form of gamma radiation. However, it is rather impractical for any real application because as stated, it has a half-life of 31 years. Of course, if magic were to cause a sample of it to fully decay instantly, then it is fully usable as a power source.

Should such a mechanism be paired with a mechanism that focuses the gamma radiation, it would be possible to create a laser rifle that fires gamma radiation bursts of significant power with each energy cell being a lump of hafnium-178m2. I doubt it would be easy to produce hafnium-178m2 in enough quantities to mass produce such firearms without drawing unwanted attention. However, using a similar principle it could be possible to create a laser-based missile defense unit or weapon for elite units. Either way, a single shot would be rather potent seeing as it would essentially be a nuclear bomb-pumped laser.

Consider this instead: the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty restricts the creation of nuclear weapon. A nuclear weapon by definition uses nuclear reactions such as fission or fusion. A Nuclear Isomer Bomb does NOT come under that definition. Hence it's deployment does not violate such treaties. See the implications?

[smurfingtonthethird]

((It is nuclear. It is a weapon. Nuclear weapon. None for you.

Still, Murder Night's probably still making a nuke or two either way.))

[Empiricist]

It technically isn't. I doubt Murder Night would have one seeing as she probably doesn't care too much about international laws anyway. But it does mean that one of the nuclear five could be arming their allies with such weapons. Or a nation may be developing one by itself...

[kj1225]

Oh, I didn't notice you were talking about nukes.

In that case they don't even have them.

[Empiricist]

Oh, I didn't notice you were talking about nukes.

More of an energy storage means. It can be used in both explosives and lasers.

When an electron in an atom gets excited, it falls back to it's ground state after a while, releasing a photon. You can do that to nucleons as well, thus forming a nuclear isomer. It allows a significant amount of energy to be stored. Only issue is, if it's magic-operated, it can be weaponized rather easily.

[Akroma]

Yes well Icarus referred to Lucifer as the overlord of Hell and Akroma never corrected it.

why would I correct that? Icarus does not know any better.

edit: also curses upon Spensir, keeping all those buffs and debuffs in mind makes turns take ages

[Akroma]

yeah, magic really needs a nerf. 8 Mana for an attack that is likely to one-shot most things?

[smurfingtonthethird]

Long ranged glass cannons. Fun, until they teleport behind you. Yeah, mana cost probably needs to go up.

[smurfingtonthethird]

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Name: Garrett d'Avre

Age: 25 (although technically he's 925)

Description: Fairly short and lightly built (although his height was average for his era), Garrett was born in London to a low-ranking noble, and joined up with a dragon slaying guild, as was quite fashionable at the time. However, upon approaching an injured dragon, he found he could not slay it, instead helping it and eventually befriending it. Eventually, after a confrontation with the Guild, he fell out with them and became a Dragonknight, riding a dragon into battle, learning skills and magic to help his dragon and himself. He gained quite a reputation before he was ambushed in his sleep, his dragon slain and himself sealed in time. 900 years later, and the seal has nearly worn off...

XP: 110
Stats: /104
Health: 20 [80]
Mana: 10 [20]
Speed: 15
Skill: 20
Strength: 19
Magic: 10
Defence: 5
Resistance: 5

Perk: 4x health instead of 3x

Equipment:
-Sword: A patternwelded meteoric iron blade, a gift from a duke. (+2)
-Medallion: Gifted to him centuries ago by an ancient dragon, so that should he ever need assistance from any dragon, all he must do is give the medallion to them.

Ability: Dragonknight
Examples: As a Dragonknight, Garrett can magically assist dragons, giving them small buffs. However, should he form a proper bond with one, said dragon gains much larger boons. Garrett can also take the dragon's aspects and imbue his own weapons and armor with them, as well as increasing and augmenting the dragon's own abilities.

Negligible:

-Ice Spike: A faint memoir of his old dragon, one that breathed ice. Sends several icy clumps flying into an enemy.

Small:

-Minor boon: Increase a dragon's stat by 4 or two stats by 2, for three turns.
-Bond: Forms a permanent bond with a dragon. Requires the dragon to actually want it. Enables short range telepathy between the pair, and shared mana.

Medium: Requires a bond to be formed first.

-Boon: Increase a dragon's stat by 8 or two stats by 4, etc.
-Minor Imbue: Embues his weapon or armor with his dragon's aspect, giving his weapon or armor +3 aspect damage/protection for 3 turns.
-Minor spell: Garrett uses a magical attack matching his dragons aspect.
-Minor heal: Garrett heals the dragon for 3d4, taking half the roll in damage.

Big:

-Major Boon: Increase a dragon's stat by 16, etc.
-Imbue: Embues his weapon or armor with his dragon's aspect, giving his weapon or armor +6 aspect damage/protection for 3 turns.
-Minor Accelerate: Garrett gives his dragon an additional 1.5x damage multiplier for a single turn.
-Spell: Garrett uses a magical attack matching his dragons aspect.
-Heal: Garrett heals the dragon for 4d4, taking half damage.

Enormous:

-Massive Boon: Increase a dragon's stat by 32, etc.
-Major Imbue: Embues his weapon or armor with his dragon's aspect, giving his weapon or armor +9 aspect damage/protection for 3 turns.
-Accelerate: Garrett gives his dragon an additional 2x damage multiplier for a single turn.
-Major Spell: Garrett uses a magical attack matching his dragons aspect.
-Major Heal: Garrett heals the dragon for 5d4, taking half damage.
-Merge Vitality: Garrett pools his health with the dragon, so they share health.

Time for nerf. And with this, I go sleeps, because I have school tomorrow 

[Empiricist]

So, what roll determines whether or not an attack knocks him off a dragon?

[PrivateNomad]

Why cant he use a modern weapon instead of a sword?

[Akroma]

more and more characters, geez, when does it ever eeeend