[OOC] Blades of Iron Roses: A fantasy Knight RP

[harinezumikouken]

Well, in any case Marianne would be looking for most any and all help she can get. Promote more character interaction between some. xD

[AtomicNut]

Well, in any case Marianne would be looking for most any and all help she can get. Promote more character interaction between some. xD

@harinezumikouken

Sult probably will need some big training after this. Like fully using her magic potential as priestess and stuff.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

I mean... Tiral's looking for anti-electricity wards after last time. Fairly justified, in my opinion. =3=;;

[Rin]

"Reon's arse, the bloody wizards are multiplying! They probably think their mystical nonsense is superior to good old dwarven steel, too, the lunatics!"

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Granted, metal does conduct electricity very well...

[AtomicNut]

Granted, metal does conduct electricity very well...

@PKMNB0Y

And therefore makes a good Faraday cage, so if it was pure lightning, metal armors would make it harmless by dispersing it to the ground.

[chukklehed]

That's only if no part of the metal contacts your body. Armor suits don't just float off your skin.

[harinezumikouken]

I mean... Tiral's looking for anti-electricity wards after last time. Fairly justified, in my opinion. =3=;;

@PKMNB0Y

Maybe Tiral shouldn't have tried to be hero and catch a 'charged' Marianne when she fainted. xD

That would've been funny though. Detailing a post where she face-planted. xDD

[AtomicNut]

That's only if no part of the metal contacts your body. Armor suits don't just float off your skin.

@chukklehed

Even then, if there's a path of lesser resistance than the human body, it'll follow that path instead.

And there's quite a lot of interlock between plates.

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Except that people are also constantly making constant contact with said armor with their bodies.

Also, water/ice mage combo with electricity. All you'd need to do is dissolve some salts or otherwise introduce some impurity into the water and, well... rip.

[AtomicNut]

Except that people are also constantly making constant contact with said armor with their bodies.

Also, water/ice mage combo with electricity. All you'd need to do is dissolve some salts or otherwise introduce some impurity into the water and, well... rip.

@PKMNB0Y

Even then, as a said, if there's enough interlock and thus enough lack of resistance, the body will be spared.

[harinezumikouken]

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Even then, as a said, if there's enough interlock and thus enough lack of resistance, the body will be spared.

@AtomicNut

Tell you what. Let's properly suit you up in full armor and stand out in a lightning storm. Tell me how well that logic works for you. xDDD

[harinezumikouken]

Bah, forgot to toss in the mention @VitaVitaAR

[chukklehed]

Lack of resistance has less to do with how much the metal is touching itself and more to do with how conductive the metal is compared to the human body. In order for the electricity to completely ignore the human body when in contact with another conductor, it would have to be an insulator, which it most certainly is not.

[Raineh Daze]

All this overthinking.

Just toss vacuums at people.

[harinezumikouken]

All this overthinking.

Just toss vacuums at people.

@Raineh Daze

Marianne would be too intimidated by Tyaethe to have her be instructor. Plus, something tells me she wouldn't be the most kind or understanding..

[Raineh Daze]

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Marianne would be too intimidated by Tyaethe to have her be instructor. Plus, something tells me she wouldn't be the most kind or understanding..

@harinezumikouken

Tyaethe's not a magician.

It's a reference to an NPC I posted a while back.

This One

• Name: (Former) Knight-Witch Merilia
• Age: 300+
• Gender: Female
• Race: Human?
• Appearance

  
  The shortest of the original Iron Rose Knights, and possibly the shortest overall, she seems to have stopped actually getting taller at about the age of 8 and a lofty 4'2. Magic was apparently involved.
• Personality: Despite her lack of emotion, Merilia definitely had--and continues to have--a thing for screwing with people, particularly using magic to play tricks. If nobody else is around, then she's likely to practice the pranks on herself, except for the nasty ones. Those all get directed to people that actually thought to mention, or draw attention to, her height.
  Most often, her activities as part of the knights were of a scholarly nature--aside from providing magical backup, she would catalogue any magic or strange creatures they encountered, research or design any counters needed, and so on--and she was quite happy to do this, as it expanded her own knowledge. Her lack of interest in the propriety of this knowledge didn't endear her to many people outside the knights, or many within it.
  Outside of the context of tricking people, Merilia is never particularly personable and generally keeps to herself. Even then, unless saying something is absolutely necessary, she inevitably communicates non-verbally or in writing. Almost every word the knights ever heard her speak was inevitably the casting of some sort of spell and she was extremely quiet even then.
• Brief Backstory: As a child, Merilia was raised by her Ithillane mother and followed in her family's magical tradition, including a highly circumspect and definitely illegal (to have a child perform) ritual to maximise mana potential. This had the side effect of prematurely limiting her growth, though nobody can claim that the results weren't effective.
  The adult Merilia decided to not live her life out as a peasant farmer that simply happened to have witchcraft, and headed to the Mage Colleges until she found one that would actually accept her despite the informal magical background she came from. It was here that she picked up more dangerous magic and means to protect herself, even teaching classes for years before again getting bored with her sedentary lifestyle. She spent time as a wandering adventurer, before joining various military companies in Thaln, simply because it was a college there that had accepted her in the first place.
  Then the Iron Rose Knights were founded and she volunteered her services as magical support. After Elionne left, Merilia stuck around for just over ten years before bowing out to go exploring again. In the years since, she's sent the knights a letter monthly along with some magical trinket she's found or made, but it's never been clear what she's doing or how she's managed to stay alive this long. With her interest in all forms of magic, someone inevitably proposes necromancy but even when they have the time to spare to try and find her, she's always gone by the time they reach her last sighting.
  That the sightings involve dungeons at the best and ambiguously justified deaths at the worst, it's a mystery that someone wants to answer.
• Equipment: Her wand. It does absolutely nothing on its own, but it can hold a spell to release on command.
• Skills: Out of being a mage, Merilia was one of two artists in the early knights, and a lot of her sketches and paintings have been preserved and kept around over the years, though she tended to depict their battles or the locations they went rather than the knights themselves.
  As a mage, her skill-set is large due to her lifetime of changing positions and she has a firm knowledge of many different areas of magic. With the knights, she actually owned no armour or weapons--she'd temporarily conjure them whenever needed, and usually kept the wand charged with 'summon armour' in case of an unexpected battle. In combat, she had a clear preference for using large-scale air spells to compliment the knights' fighting and force the enemy into unfavourable arrangements, as well as to raise her to a height that she had a good view (and avoid the inevitable death-by-arrows you'd expect). This sometimes extended to actually cutting people with the air itself... or making a vacuum blade for particularly messy deaths.
  She seems to be one of the few mages capable of long-distance teleportation. It would go a long way to explaining why nobody can catch up to her, and also how the letters keep appearing on the captain's desk exactly at midday on the first of the month.

[harinezumikouken]

<Snipped quote by harinezumikouken>

Tyaethe's not a magician.

It's a reference to an NPC I posted a while back.

This One

• Name: (Former) Knight-Witch Merilia
• Age: 300+
• Gender: Female
• Race: Human?
• Appearance

  
  The shortest of the original Iron Rose Knights, and possibly the shortest overall, she seems to have stopped actually getting taller at about the age of 8 and a lofty 4'2. Magic was apparently involved.
• Personality: Despite her lack of emotion, Merilia definitely had--and continues to have--a thing for screwing with people, particularly using magic to play tricks. If nobody else is around, then she's likely to practice the pranks on herself, except for the nasty ones. Those all get directed to people that actually thought to mention, or draw attention to, her height.
  Most often, her activities as part of the knights were of a scholarly nature--aside from providing magical backup, she would catalogue any magic or strange creatures they encountered, research or design any counters needed, and so on--and she was quite happy to do this, as it expanded her own knowledge. Her lack of interest in the propriety of this knowledge didn't endear her to many people outside the knights, or many within it.
  Outside of the context of tricking people, Merilia is never particularly personable and generally keeps to herself. Even then, unless saying something is absolutely necessary, she inevitably communicates non-verbally or in writing. Almost every word the knights ever heard her speak was inevitably the casting of some sort of spell and she was extremely quiet even then.
• Brief Backstory: As a child, Merilia was raised by her Ithillane mother and followed in her family's magical tradition, including a highly circumspect and definitely illegal (to have a child perform) ritual to maximise mana potential. This had the side effect of prematurely limiting her growth, though nobody can claim that the results weren't effective.
  The adult Merilia decided to not live her life out as a peasant farmer that simply happened to have witchcraft, and headed to the Mage Colleges until she found one that would actually accept her despite the informal magical background she came from. It was here that she picked up more dangerous magic and means to protect herself, even teaching classes for years before again getting bored with her sedentary lifestyle. She spent time as a wandering adventurer, before joining various military companies in Thaln, simply because it was a college there that had accepted her in the first place.
  Then the Iron Rose Knights were founded and she volunteered her services as magical support. After Elionne left, Merilia stuck around for just over ten years before bowing out to go exploring again. In the years since, she's sent the knights a letter monthly along with some magical trinket she's found or made, but it's never been clear what she's doing or how she's managed to stay alive this long. With her interest in all forms of magic, someone inevitably proposes necromancy but even when they have the time to spare to try and find her, she's always gone by the time they reach her last sighting.
  That the sightings involve dungeons at the best and ambiguously justified deaths at the worst, it's a mystery that someone wants to answer.
• Equipment: Her wand. It does absolutely nothing on its own, but it can hold a spell to release on command.
• Skills: Out of being a mage, Merilia was one of two artists in the early knights, and a lot of her sketches and paintings have been preserved and kept around over the years, though she tended to depict their battles or the locations they went rather than the knights themselves.
  As a mage, her skill-set is large due to her lifetime of changing positions and she has a firm knowledge of many different areas of magic. With the knights, she actually owned no armour or weapons--she'd temporarily conjure them whenever needed, and usually kept the wand charged with 'summon armour' in case of an unexpected battle. In combat, she had a clear preference for using large-scale air spells to compliment the knights' fighting and force the enemy into unfavourable arrangements, as well as to raise her to a height that she had a good view (and avoid the inevitable death-by-arrows you'd expect). This sometimes extended to actually cutting people with the air itself... or making a vacuum blade for particularly messy deaths.
  She seems to be one of the few mages capable of long-distance teleportation. It would go a long way to explaining why nobody can catch up to her, and also how the letters keep appearing on the captain's desk exactly at midday on the first of the month.

@Raineh Daze

Ah, well Marianne isn't aware of her in IC so xD

[VitaVitaAR]

@AtomicNut: The guards aren't knights, they're just in cheap plate. ^^;

[AtomicNut]

Lack of resistance has less to do with how much the metal is touching itself and more to do with how conductive the metal is compared to the human body. In order for the electricity to completely ignore the human body when in contact with another conductor, it would have to be an insulator, which it most certainly is not.

@chukklehed

Technically it is a conductor in parallel with a human body. And when resistance on the conductor is zero compared to the human body, it'll go through there instead of the human body.

The insulator part is there to ensure it goes through the conductor, and the metal isn't directly into touch with the human body neither... armors do have PADDING, which has AIR, an insulator.