You have to activate your aura for it to defend you. Getting caught off guard and stabbed in the fact with a sword will still kill you.

But, RWBY does have this thing where the Grimm are all evil and grr, and then the Hunters and Huntresses proceed to stomp the shit out of them all the time, and have a defensive Aura to protect themselves....

Maybe the aura wasn't awakened. Doesn't it need to be before you can unlock its abilities?

I think Aura, awoken or not, still has protective properties. Only when a person is low or out, is when they are able to sustain injury. Like HP in a sense.

I think I may have to fact check. But it's not my intention to step on your bloodbath of fun, oh no. Quite the contrary.

I just wonder if anyone else'll be freaking out on the team. I mean, Luke's new, so it's understandable on his end. I'm not aware of how commonplace things taking this turn might be for everyone else.

Either way, things are definitely spicy now.

Hey, I thought I was the one supposed to shake stuff up around here.

The way we'll be handling it is that aura, once awakened, is always defensively activated at a low level. Needless to say in this case, however, it wasn't enough to stop a sword. That doesn't mean that actions don't have consequences. Not a truck, though. Anybody ever hear of the mythical Antaeus?

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Two things stood out to me in the negative sense. First off and the chief reason Morpheus did not win was the way it is presented. There is no sense of what would be known for sure IC and what would be conjecture. I just did not get the impression this is what would be what you hear around a campfire, or an interview with a survivor, or even a mission briefing.

Second, and this one is entirely a personal gripe, I dislike humanoid Grimm. That one is in no way a thing you could have known beforehand but due to a number of very poorly written RWBY fics and characters, humanoid grimm have negative connotations in my head.

Now I kinda wanna know what you thought about Black Mercy. I take it that it's because I made the Grimm in question, the one that's ideally legendary and terrifying, pretty much a pushover and only scary for its implications. I knew that I was probably going the wrong route, but after reading a bunch of Lovecraft I couldn't resist the cosmic horror story route.

I think I skipped that lecture unfortunately

I think I skipped that lecture unfortunately

Google is your friend ;)

no I can't do anything on my own I need to be spoonfed everything

Antaeus is that guy that Heracles fought. And then he got picked up and his ribs crushed after Heracles figured out his power.

I knew the legend, but not the name of the guy.

Yep, just looked it up. Surprising that it wasn't something we went over in my class this semester.

That said:

oh no

I thought Achilles killed the guy with the impregnable skin? Or was there more than one running around in Greek Myth?

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Now I kinda wanna know what you thought about Black Mercy. I take it that it's because I made the Grimm in question, the one that's ideally legendary and terrifying, pretty much a pushover and only scary for its implications. I knew that I was probably going the wrong route, but after reading a bunch of Lovecraft I couldn't resist the cosmic horror story route.

Again while I liked the idea my main gripe with it was that it just wasn't really clear how much was known about Black Mercy. How would it even have gotten the name when in the very same piece it stated that it has yet to be discovered by man/faunus?

Nah, his deal was that every time he got thrown to the ground he'd get healed because Gaea was his mom.

I thought Achilles killed the guy with the impregnable skin? Or was there more than one running around in Greek Myth?

Achilles WAS the guy with the impenetrable skin. He got killed by an arrow in the heel. The Achilles heel.

Now, brings up a good question. If every sentient being had aura which protects them. Would that guard have been gravely injured? Unless Mokuren has powerful aura crushing abilities. In fact, would Sapphire have been injured at all?

Ever sentient being has aura but not all are able to use it. Like John got cut by that branch before what's her name activated his aura.

And as for Sapphire two things, firstly aura is always on but in order to be 100% effective as a shield it has to be manipulated. Getting hit by a 120 pound faunus and rolling down a cliff into an airship doesn't leave a lot of time for that kind of thing. Secondly her daggers are specifically designed damage aura levels for maximum effect. If she'd not had her aura at the time the wound would have been much much more than superficial as it stands she'll have a bit of a scar and likely be fine in a day or two.

Besides do we really want an RP were our characters can only get hurt in the most extreme of circumstances. The aura I can only assume was put into RWBY to make it so that the characters could take a huge beating without dying as well as make it a near bloodless show so the kids could enjoy it. The aura wasn't made to make the characters impervious to harm.

Two things stood out to me in the negative sense. First off and the chief reason Morpheus did not win was the way it is presented. There is no sense of what would be known for sure IC and what would be conjecture. I just did not get the impression this is what would be what you hear around a campfire, or an interview with a survivor, or even a mission briefing.

Second, and this one is entirely a personal gripe, I dislike humanoid Grimm. That one is in no way a thing you could have known beforehand but due to a number of very poorly written RWBY fics and characters, humanoid grimm have negative connotations in my head.

Okay I accept that other entrees probably looked better than mine but dude if you're looking for specifics things like that then you have to tell us you're looking for those specifics. You didn't give a required format or a sense of what you expected in terms of information. Basically you said create a legendary Grimm and you left it at that. You can't give us a task in the Contests then penalize us for doing something if you didn't tell us that we weren't supposed to do it. If you wanted to know folklore about the Grimm, actual fact, and general knowledge then you should have presented us with a sheet that reflected that.

I get why I didn't win (had I been choosing I likely would have gone for the microscopic Grimm myself). We were given no structure to work with so I tried to make mine look like the Intro a 'Grimm's Fairtale' that involved Morpheus. Might I suggest next time making your expectations clear at the beginning of the contest so that some people actually have a hope of fulfilling them.

Oh and for the record most people like to hear feedback on there work so it might be prudent in future to do a write up about each of the entrees even if they weren't the winning ones. Tell why you like them, why you didn't and why they didn't win. People prefer that to good job everyone but I like these two the best.

I could have sworn I read a translation once where Achilles met and fought with a guy that had an impenetrable skin, who laughed as Achilles hit him with his sword. Achilles responds by smashing the guy's face in (turns out an impenetrable skin doesn't help against skull fractures).

Okay I accept that other entrees probably looked better than mine but dude if you're looking for specifics things like that then you have to tell us you're looking for those specifics. You didn't give a required format or a sense of what you expected in terms of information. Basically you said create a legendary Grimm and you left it at that. You can't give us a task in the Contests then penalize us for doing something if you didn't tell us that we weren't supposed to do it. If you wanted to know folklore about the Grimm, actual fact, and general knowledge then you should have presented us with a sheet that reflected that.

I get why I didn't win (had I been choosing I likely would have gone for the microscopic Grimm myself). We were given no structure to work with so I tried to make mine look like the Intro a 'Grimm's Fairtale' that involved Morpheus. Might I suggest next time making your expectations clear at the beginning of the contest so that some people actually have a hope of fulfilling them.

Oh and for the record most people like to hear feedback on there work so it might be prudent in future to do a write up about each of the entrees even if they weren't the winning ones. Tell why you like them, why you didn't and why they didn't win. People prefer that to good job everyone but I like these two the best.

I did state what I looked for:

Explain how these Grimm got their name, show some of their most notorious acts and give a brief overview of what is known of them.

In a future contest I shall try and emphasise and expand on the criteria by which I judge more. I am sorry I messed that up but I cannot take it back.

Achilles bathed in the River Styx and the waters of the damned turned his skin to iron. It is more than possible that he fought against some immortals who would no doubt consider Achilles beneath them but the immortals did not have impregnably skin, they bled gold ichor.

Explain how these Grimm got their name, show some of their most notorious acts and give a brief overview of what is known of them.

Those statements are incredibly ambiguous compared to what you apparently actually wanted. 'what is known of them' could mean virtually anything from what the people know about then, to what is true about them, to what legends say. Clearly I'm not the only one to think so because of all the entrees only a handful only included what you were actually looking for. I realize nothing can be done now but in future try to be a little bit clearer in what exactly it is you want us to write about.

Oh wow Shiro's only 120 pounds?

He seemed like he'd be much bigger

Gren's about 250 without The God Eater. Than it's up to 320. Unloaded.

Oh wow Shiro's only 120 pounds?

He seemed like he'd be much bigger

He seems like a scrawny guy given how fast he moves.

let's see

5'7, ottermode-leaning athletic build, we'll assume not too much bf%

I'd probably put Luke at about 150ish.