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Total Members Voted: 13

[Akroma]

I suppose? do you have any proper electricity source that will not actually kill stella?

[smurfingtonthethird]

I do have a dipshit in a robotdog, and Kyle. Jury rigging for the win!

[Empiricist]

Dalia's ability seems better for noncombat use, since unlike anyone else's debuffs there's actual deniability in it and it may not be immediately noticed, allowing her to slowly build up bad luck on enemy equipment before combat and rigging the entire battlefield so that they end up with jammed guns, faulty munitions and spend their first turn tripping over various objects due to both bad luck and having drank water that a sewage pipe recently leaked into. Because right now, both Ashley and Sen outclass her in combat and come equipped with debuffing capabilities.

[Akroma]

idea for a combat use of dalias ability: cause enemies to be unlucky and thus get hit by a critical attack from a random ally, damage progression of the crit attack like normal spell attacks

[wolfchild]

I suppose? do you have any proper electricity source that will not actually kill stella?

heart is already stopped, not much more electricity can do other than overheat her, which is not an issue for her

[Empiricist]

I don't see why her bad luck is manifesting as debuffs instead of more spectacular things like dry lightning, drive-bys at the wrong address, sudden false-vacuum metastability event bubbles, sudden quantum teleportation of half of someone's total blood and the like.

[Akroma]

oh right, I forgot. a defibriliator does just that, it gets rid of fibrillations, that is, if the heart is beating way too fast and irregular. it does not actually restart a still heart


but eh, artistic lisence, realism was never much of our thing

[smurfingtonthethird]

Since she has a fair amount of rounds left, I call bullshit on her heart being completely stopped. I also call bullshit on your reasoning, that's their main fucking purpose. Without a coordinated electrical signal, the bottom chambers of the heart (ventricles) stop beating and instead, jiggle like Jello (ventricular fibrillation). I'm assuming the heart is avian-like, due to dragons being both reptilian and airborne. If it's ventricular fibrillation, due to the pacemaker cells failing to produce electrical activity that causes the heart to beat, we use a defibrillator to jump-start the heart.

[Akroma]

btw, for organisations sake, which plots are up next, as I will probably take a break for a while before going into the next plots (I have two plots there, will go with whatever you guys vote for). I believe we have Kaiser and the Murdernight plot, then there is of course Projeck who has been waiting ages to get his plot running (which will officialy start with the finishing cutscene of this plot), then there is the many plots PN had in mind...

[Empiricist]

I also call bullshit on your reasoning, that's their main fucking purpose. Without a coordinated electrical signal, the bottom chambers of the heart (ventricles) stop beating and instead, jiggle like Jello (ventricular fibrillation). I'm assuming the heart is avian-like, due to dragons being both reptilian and airborne. If it's ventricular fibrillation, due to the pacemaker cells failing to produce electrical activity that causes the heart to beat, we use a defibrillator to jump-start the heart.

I call bullshit on your calling of bullshit

But yes, if you want to preserve realism, having her heart stop cannot be allowed.

[smurfingtonthethird]

Yeah, otherwise she's already dead, which in that case, fuck you Akroma. 

Also yay, my plot got moved to the front. I'm going to leave a good bit of RP time in between though, Kaiser's gotta settle his shit and the dragonknight needs to look like an idiot.

[Empiricist]

Yes, as CPR cannot actually restart a heart, it buys the person's body time to restart it or for other measures to be taken.

The raison d'être for negative health states is to give a chance for revival by allies except it isn't possible if the heart is stopped except by magic, magic which only a few, if any PCs have access to.

I understand that artistic license is allowed in such cases, but it would probably preserve realism a bit better if Stella's condition wasn't as horrifically lethal as a complete flatline.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Spoiler: Anansi, God of Stories (click to show/hide)

Name: Anansi

Age: ??

Description: In his normal form, a bald, dark skinned man in a black suit and a fedora, with a staff with the head of a spider.
In his spider form, a large, black spider with eight red eyes and venomous fangs.

Stats: 95/95 (Human/Spider)
Health: 10/10
Mana: Uses Anima's mana
Speed: 15/25
Skill: 25/10
Strength: 10/20
Magic: 25/15
Defence: 5/10
Resistance: 5/5
Equipment: Anansi's staff (masterwork)

Ability: Various buffs/debuffs related to his domain as god of stories and spiders.
Negligible: Human- creating illusions to help him tell a story.
Spider- shooting a web at you.

Small: Human- Storyweaver: Adds +2 to an ally's roll for two turns, or deducts the same on an enemy.
Spider- Harsh Bite: Adds 3 magic damage to Anansi's attack.

Medium: Human: Whimsy/Trickery- Debuffs an enemy by -5 or buffs an ally by the same.
Spider: Venomous Bite: Adds 5 magical damage to the attack and poisons the target, dealing 4 damage per turn for 4 turns.

Big: Human: Reality's Retelling: Either forces one ally's action to succeed instantly, one enemy to instantly fail, two chosen allies to gain a +5 to roll or two chosen enemies to lose 5 to roll.*
Spider: Summon Skitterlings: Summons 1-3 Skitterlings with 5 in all stats. They have Harsh Bite and Venomous Bite as abilities.

Enormous: Human: Manifest Dreaming: Force an enemy to fail all actions for two turns or allow an ally to succeed in all actions for two turns. No mana cost, instant success, Anansi is removed from battle if cast.*
Spider: Enrapture: All enemies are slowed, losing 5 speed and damaged with venom, losing 4 health for for turns.  No mana cost, instant success, Anansi is removed from battle if cast.

*The auto success does not apply if the task would instakill an enemy; destroy a plot related object or character, or in any way disrupts a plot. Instead, a roll boost of +7 is granted.

One of Anima's summons. smurf, is it ok?

[smurfingtonthethird]

The AoE's range is too large, buffing/debuffing all of your allies/enemies is way too overpowered.

Also, if that's the 'cavalry', we could really use a medic instead.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Changing that to two or three selected targets.