[OOC] The Library

[Nocturnia]

I corrected myself, I was referring to gunpowder based weapons.

[Kestrel]

chukklehed said
Charles Night

And welcome to the team. Add your actives for everyone to see, if you please. I should have the IC running-ish this weekend.

Marrow said *Light Equipment: Eidren summons an Angle's Lance (D3 Imperius style) or Sword of any kind from pure light

I'm not sure how I can make this even more clear, but this is still multiple spells in one slot. If I can't allow a rook to have a lance, greatsword, rapier, katana and scimitar in one slot, I don't see why should that be different for your bishop.

Marrow said Active: (standard AoE: 3 by 3 meters) The AoE and destructive power of Righteous might gets extended. (1x1 meters and per SPI and SPIx1 as extra damage) CD = 3

Correct me if I'm wrong, but he has a double power AoE which, right now, is 8 cubic meter large, which will grow over time, for only 3 CD?

I realise you don't have many other examples of CS to go by right now and are doing it based on feeling, but if you'd look at Alta's a few posts back, you can see that power buffs are pretty expensive.

Alta said {Active} Surtr's Wake: Eowyn plants her stone in the ground below her and causes an eruption of fire and lava to come forth from below the surface. It's formula is POW*1.5, but Eowyn cannot move during the skill. She must remain stationary for one post to pull the sword from the earth. Failing to do so means losing her sword until the end of battle. There is a cooldown of five posts.

So, I'd like if you weaken that a bit.

Marrow said Active: Eidren overexerts the light bestowed upon his body. He gets increased POW, SPI and AGI as well as an overall buff (x2). Resistance to spells and damage form al other sources gets reduces. This power also enhances al his kills and abilities. The downside to this is that Eidren suffers constant damage. The longer he remains in this state the more damage his body suffers. When used for too long this may result in death. Cooldown ranges from 1 to 5 and applies to the length Eidren uses this power and starts counting after his recovery.

Well my critique on this should be obvious at this point ;p For another example of a growing-type stat buff that has been accepted;

Alta said {Active} Odin's Vessel: Eowyn goes berserk. Her stats multiply by 1.25 and she becomes immune to pain and spells that target her mind. However, she is unable to leave this state before it's duration's end unless she is restrained or all targets in direct vicinity are eliminated. Odin's Vessel lasts for 3 turns and afterwards has a cooldown of 5 posts, for which the first 3 have a stat penalty of 0.85 multiplier.

Phobos said Serena Louisenbaim

Gatchamaaaaaaaan! (I have no idea how I managed to keep watching that show, but it was pretty hypnotising.)

Gimme a heads up when you finish your char.

Alphakoka said
Ehhh, the Library is more a bio-magitech weapons producer.

This. Weapons are extensions of the spirit connected to an individual, rather than redistrubutable/mass production tools usable by anyone.

Also, normal humans are indeed fodder unless they're infused with mana, at which point they become holders. You can artificially become a holder, so you don't have to be born as one unless you're terrified of a engineering/surgery hybrid.

In the Hub, guns are indeed possessed mostly by military factions and the Library and though not an everyone-gets-one America setting, it is possible for civilians to acquire guns as well. However, it's rather unlikely these guns will do much against experienced holders, as they aren't fueled by spirits.

[Brovo]

McKenzie Bishop and Kurotori Uekira will be returning to the front lines soon, friend.

[Marrow]

Ack! I'm bad at tweaking...
will someone help me?

[Alphakoka]

Marrow said
Ack! I'm bad at tweaking...will someone help me?

About that last active, you can do two things, reduce the boost while keeping the CD (I'd say around 20-25% is a good boost, but I think Kestrel can stretch it to at most 50%) or increase the CD period (I'll use Vignar's dragon active as example since yours double his stat, the CD for that active is one use per mission with the risk of guaranteed violent death upon usage).

[Fallenreaper]

Kestrel said
Heyo!

Oh right, I remember that. Sure, hope to see it soon.

You knew I couldn't wait to pop in!

[Fallenreaper]

Marrow said
Ack! I'm bad at tweaking...will someone help me?

Marrow, you should've seen me the first time with Emily's active, it was...terrible and yes stats can be difficult to balance because of the math bit. Best advice make it simple! Figure out the basics then work from there keeping in mind what what has been said.

[athanshadow]

Could I join?

[Nocturnia]

Well... I'm not exactly happy about not having an ordinary Human, but I guess this will do.

I'm not sure if I got all the point calculations correct, so someone should check that.

Name: Mari Kuroi
Appearance:

Image

Just ignore the camera if those aren’t present.

Bio: Lonely, but calm and collected. Mari was mostly alone since she was very young. Still she had a high interest in the journalism business. She tried being an investigative journalist, however she didn’t make nearly enough money that way. So she decided to get a job at the Library, putting her Intelligence gathering abilities to use in another way.
Branch: Intelligence

Holder: Knight
Spirit: Her spirit is Sakura, a shrine maiden that rarely talks at all. She and Mari don’t talk at all outside missions, within missions Sakura operates semi-independently while Mari stands back. Because of this nobody really knows what is she really like.
(No images for Sakura, sorry)
Sakura is about 160 cm tall, her skin is quite pale. She has long brown hair that has no ornaments, and isn’t styled.
Her eyes are quite an average brown.
She wears a traditional red-white shrine maiden outfit.

Weapons/Spells:
- Sonar: Detects all holders’s current position within a 500 meters radius, gives only raw position, no information about identity, power or type whatsoever. Works instantaneous and can’t be used to track movement.

(Active)

Divine area: An area within one kilometer becomes clearly visible to Sakura, for this spell Sakura cannot move at all, and she is immobile for its duration. This spell can be cancelled. (Duration:3) (CD-10)

If used within a closed space also maps out the layout of all rooms that are not divided by a wall or closed door.
- Divine barrier: A passive barrier around Sakura which reduces ranged damage. Completely useless against any sort melee

(Active)

Flash barrier: An instant barrier that protects from all damage, works only for about a second and cannot be projected around the user. It also stops any sort of ranged or melee attacks coming from within the barrier. (CD-5)

Skills: A list of the skills you've got.
17
SCAN – Lv 3 (-5 , 12 remaining)
TELEPATHY - Lv 1 (-3, 9 remaining)
BOON – Lv 3 (-5 , 4 remaining)
WALLFLOWER – Lv 1 (-4 , 0 remaining)

Stats:
* POW 3
* SPI 14
* AGI 3

[Alphakoka]

Stat total is 20, you overshoot it by 2.
Also, CD really only needed for active abilities, which is an ability based on the base ability.

[Nocturnia]

Right, edited it so that two of the abilities are actives of one base ability.

[Alphakoka]

Nocturnia said
Right, edited it so that two of the abilities are actives of one base ability.

Oh, I forgot if Kest makes it a rule for one active for one ability or not...you might want to wait for him there.

[Nocturnia]

Well if needed I can always just make Divine Area the active of sonar.

EDIT: Though I'm curious as to why that rule would be in place, doesn't it make more sense to develop one ability rather then learn a new one?

[chukklehed]

Kestrel said
And welcome to the team. Add your actives for everyone to see, if you please.

i did. it's right below Sophie's "Special Condition's" section.

[chukklehed]

Nocturnia said
Well if needed I can always just make Divine Area the active of sonar.EDIT: Though I'm curious as to why that rule would be in place, doesn't it make more sense to develop one ability rather then learn a new one?

you're not actualy learning a new ability. an active is adding special Radian Mana to the ability itself, enhancing it in powerful and sometimes unforeseen ways. Charles uses Radian Mana to increase his connection with Sophia and increase his stats.

[Nocturnia]

chukklehed said
you're not actualy learning a new ability. an active is adding special Radian Mana to the ability itself, enhancing it in powerful and sometimes unforeseen ways. Charles uses Radian Mana to increase his connection with Sophia and increase his stats.

I see.
Well I'll just switch it to Sonar then.

[Kestrel]

Nocturnia said
Well... I'm not exactly happy about not having an ordinary Human, but I guess this will do.

You could have an ordinary human if you wanted to, you could even be a library agent that isn't a holder. It's just that because challenges are designed for holders, the chance of death would be a lot higher and your combat contributions would at best be a 2 second distraction, but I'm not banning it either.

I do like your character, though. You can pick one more ability if you want to. If not, let me know.

athanshadow said
Could I join?

Hah, that is a lot of new people. But sure.

[athanshadow]

Could I make a character that channels their power through and instrument? >: D

Like a Bishop who casts spells with an instrument?

And thank you C:

[Kestrel]

I'm going to say yes, but remember that tools and instruments are only 'special' if they come from the spirit.

[athanshadow]

Ok I was planning on that. I'll get started :D I'm going to have it based/pretty much stolen but modified on Sona XD