Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

We know how to make them and they're useful, mainline production.

4 (33.3%)

They seem out of place and run rather counter to a fantasy setting, avoid them.

2 (16.7%)

Get outta here, nerd, nobody finds guns that interesting.

1 (8.3%)

Go ahead and have the NPCs make em, but not worth player input.

1 (8.3%)

Support, but they shouldn't be the standard weapons.

4 (33.3%)

Total Members Voted: 12

[TheBiggerFish]

All right, I started a PM.
I'm going to sleep now.
Let me wake up and counterpoint before making any decisions that directly affect my magic, 'kay?

[Amperzand]

I'm at least trying to be said moderator, which is why my characters can't use magic. {Amp technically has psychic potential, but he won't be learning to use it, for various reasons.} Incidentally, if I end up being a crappy mediator, please tell me so I can try to fix rather than becoming mad and doing mad person things.

While I'm going to reply to the PM in the PM, we only need PMs for things we don't want anyone outside the PM to see at this point, since this thread basically exists to explode at random whenever an OOC issue comes up.

Even for stuff we don't want to be common knowledge, we can just use labeled spoilers and an honor system, I'd like to avoid having similar discussions in more than two places simultaneously.

[Amperzand]

FishNet, you could usually trace him fairly precisely using the path, through ether or realspace, that his spell took. As is, however, you're almost completely drained, your arcane senses have just gone through what amounts to a firework display made of flashbang grenades, and the local field is drained enough that you don't actually have enough energy to set up the spell to redirect or cancel his.

...Well, you could, but you'd feed off your own life-energy and either die or become a quadriplegic, which I doubt you want at this point. It may look more appealing later, because I am entirely willing to let you lose if insufficient SMRTness happens.

However, you can certainly tell the general vicinity of the spell's origin, necros' territory is usually fairly obvious. If we sent a strike force, it would find him. On the other hand, the Mountainhomes have bigger problems than one outpost's zombie issue, and we only have around a hundred-fifty dwarves, which while a lot in-game, isn't very many at all by the standards of real life or worldgen, even armed with modern weapons, which they aren't.

Eye Spy scoutzed would indeed be either a direct link to the watcher's mind, or more likely to the creepy necromantic equivalent of a controller and display, which the necromancer is perforce right next to, but Eye Spy A Scoutzed is dedzed now unless our new friend wants it back on.

You can probably track the trail the energy took later, though if it went through the ether/aether/nevernever/fairyland/hyperspace/void/magical realm/whatever the path will likely get all twisty and weird within hours. Regardless, sending a force against him isn't really a good option right now, for a variety of reasons. One, he's stronger than you and Blaze together for reasons of fair, and two he really isn't our biggest long-term problem, trust me.

He doesn't have Joker Immunity, I'm just as fine letting you kill him as I am letting him kill us, but you'll have to be SMRT-ier than he is to pull it off.

[TheBiggerFish]

I'll get better.  ;P. But seriously, could doing what amounts to essentially a positive feedback loop work?  Using whatever small amount of power I have, to grab a bit more power, to etc. etc. etc., and then go for it.

[Dustan Hache]

Yes, if you enjoy frying your brain with squick and possibly turning into a husk. Otherwise, you need to work on a way of exorcising thaumic energy.

[TheBiggerFish]

Yes, if you enjoy frying your brain with squick and possibly turning into a husk. Otherwise, you need to work on a way of exorcising thaumic energy.

To which I say, energy converter.  Which I already have.
But seriously, it doesn't get full access to my brain, AND I have some protections that should work even in this environment.

[Amperzand]

You could try a feedback loop. Doing so is dangerous, but fully possible, and you're fairly experienced and should be able to do it, if you're careful. However, it'll take a while, we have a small horde of zombies after us, and uberspells do exhaust you in ways other than expending your supply of power. While you didn't exhaust yourself physically, you aren't in the best of shape mentally just now.

[TheBiggerFish]

Ye.  Well, time to chop zombies to bits.  Cleanup later.  Gimme a bit to revise.

[Chevaleresse]

I have no idea what is going on but I still kinda want to join in. Any advice?

[TheBiggerFish]

I have no idea what is going on but I still kinda want to join in. Any advice?

Go for it.
We've got a necro, an unrelated worldwide magic drain, references to Spearbreakers occasionally, magic magic magic magic and magic, which are all different, unreasonable levels of Narrativium, a FB we just mindzapped into understanding the concept of "this thing is helping me, I should not eat it", a "artifact" that may or may not actually be an artifact but certainly is a wonder of thaumic constructions, guns and black powder, and (currently) zombie troglodytes.

[Amperzand]

Welcome! Currently the magic systems are rather unreasonably complex, but this is also an RP, as long as you accept our arcane idiosyncrasies, you don't really need to join them.

Fish has just given you a pretty reasonable explanation of our current situation, though he left out the  sealed-off uranium in the basement. The only advice I can think of is to play smart, because the cleverest one wins, even against the GM {Me}. Beside that, just jump right in. You can show up in just about any scenario you like, as long as it becomes at least a little relevant soon.

[Amperzand]

[THREAD ORIGIN POST EDITED, NOTE ANY RELEVANT CHANGES]

[endlessblaze]

I have an artifact as well. im a blacksmith, weapon-smith, armor-smith, ect-smith.

im also the one the first introduced magic into this one.

[TheBiggerFish]

I have an artifact as well. im a blacksmith, weapon-smith, armor-smith, ect-smith.

im also the one the first introduced magic into this one.

Oh yeah, your not-you character...

[Amperzand]

Blaze, part of the reason I'm limiting your actions so severely is that left to himself, your character would become somewhat Suetiful, which would end well for nobody. High Elves {Which you are, not living in a tree and using wooden weapons} tend to be halfway to Sueness by default, so having one with omnimagical abilities is less than good.