[OOC] Academy Wars: Rituals and Technology in the Modern World, a Magitech School RP

[banjoanjo]

Sooo I was perusing through the OOC and I noticed you GMs skipped over a proposed character at the bottom of Page 4. You should take a look.

@VitaVitaAR @Raineh Daze

[Raineh Daze]

Despite knowing it was being written, forgot to accept it. Oops.

But yes, he's accepted. @Dblade26

[VitaVitaAR]

I'm really sorry to @Dblade26, since I knew that bio was coming but managed to completely miss it.

Anyway, waiting on an answer to Rain's question for the newest one.

In the mean time, really looking forward to things picking up more!

[Silvan Haven]

Yeaaaah, sorry about that. It pretty much has about a million vision modes including ones that would be quite impossible without magic.

However due to the high mana demands and the fact that it's really hard to copy a god's ability she can only activate one or two at a time.

[Raineh Daze]

That doesn't explain any more...

[Silvan Haven]

Please explain which part confuses you.

[Raineh Daze]

Please explain which part confuses you.

@Silvan Haven

You haven't actually said what the vision modes are. Just "it can see lots of things". For the character's main piece of equipment, some specifics on how they can use it is necessary.

[HereComesTheSnow]

I hope I'm providing enough anime clichés for an entire RPG.

@Crimmy

be careful

[Silvan Haven]

If I had to name examples...

The electromagnetic spectrum, magical energy, emotions, kinetic energy, how objects interact with one another.

Concepts tend to take more mana and she can't see people's thoughts.

[VitaVitaAR]

Hmm, it's a bit late for me to fully comment on that, unfortunately.

For the moment I'm trying to decide where to actually have Hiromi end up going.

[Raineh Daze]

If I had to name examples...

The electromagnetic spectrum, magical energy, emotions, kinetic energy, how objects interact with one another.

Concepts tend to take more mana and she can't see people's thoughts.

@Silvan Haven

So.... having talked things over with Vita, that all seems kind of useless. Maybe thermal vision would be useful, but aside from that it looks like a bunch of modes that you'd never put to use and are totally irrelevant in other scenarios? Which leaves your character's sole weapon as... a totally normal gun, albeit one powered by magic* rather than explosions. It seems to fall a bit short of the acid test of whether the main piece of equipment is going to be used.

Inefficiently, at that. A whole ingot for six shots?

[Raineh Daze]

@Crimmy I call upon Minoru's service as a ringside commentator! xD

[Crimmy]

Reading over Silvan's profile and the "All-Seeing Eye" thing that Odin had going on.

Those glasses are far from useless. Even though it's within Hikaru's field of vision, seeing anything is pretty scary.

>Seeing structural weaknesses in a weapon
>Seeing the way the movement of the air
>Seeing mana buildup

Being able to see anything is incredibly versatile.

[Raineh Daze]

Reading over Silvan's profile and the "All-Seeing Eye" thing that Odin had going on.

Those glasses are far from useless. Even though it's within Hikaru's field of vision, seeing anything is pretty scary.

>Seeing structural weaknesses in a weapon
>Seeing the way the movement of the air
>Seeing mana buildup

Being able to see anything is incredibly versatile.

@Crimmy

First one just flat out doesn't exist with Divine Gears and stuff in any practical way. Plus... gun. Congratulations on landing a shot on an exact point of a weapon?

Everything else suffers from only being able to activate one or two, and probably from sensory overload even if half a dozen could be kept up. Even with Air Traffic Controller reactions, that's... not a useful ability if you have to consciously swap between infinite options and hope one of them shows something useful.

[Silvan Haven]

Crimmy has prrtty much said what I was going to say about the Ravens.

I would also like to say that the gun fires magical energy. Each ingot is about the size of a normal pistol magazine and holds ten shots, not six.

[VitaVitaAR]

Okay, um, having something with vision modes and stuff isn't necessarily a bad idea, but...

I'll point out again what kind of abilities are typically granted by ritual technology. If your only method of fighting is an extremely costly gun you're just not going to get that far.

It needs to be more effective then the gun, basically, it's currently got too little power.

[Silvan Haven]

I was trying not to come up with an overpowered character so I kept the gun basic. If you want I can add a few more modes and up the ammo count.

The Ravens was supposed to be based off of the myth of Odin's Eye rather than a link to the god's actual power, hence the primary drawback of only working on the area the user sees through the glasses.

After writing it out so many times I'm going to drop the s. It sounds less awkward as just The Raven.

[VitaVitaAR]

I think you underpowered your character in the act of trying not to make them overpowered.The gun should be able to do a lot more, or even be more complicated.

[Silvan Haven]

You may be underestimating what a total understanding of the kinetic energy in an area will let a person do.

[Raineh Daze]

You may be underestimating what a total understanding of the kinetic energy in an area will let a person do.

@Silvan Haven

Very little without some means to influence it. Let's assume a savant with that ability and decent physical training: with effort, they will be able to match casual attacks with a gear using only their bare hands. Everyone else gets the fun of spotting exactly how they're squished.

Don't bring physics into this. xD