[OOC] Four Winds

[Vox Angelis]

Don't worry man, we all make some mistakes hahahaha. Took me a few times to actually conceptualize Akasha's powers. Even now I changed hers again.

If I may be so bold as to suggest something,maybe you could remive the sulfur smell. Use the intensity of the aura. Mikhail could still detect a sinful person, and its degree of malevolence would be dictated by the brightness of your aura. That way, Mikhail would know somethings off about someone without actually knowing what it is, hence keeping the neutrality of your power. Hell, you could even add color to your aura according to the 7 sins if you really want to know details, but determining the nature of someone's sins in actually what makes the power a bit too subjective.

[Letter Bee]

Don't worry man, we all make some mistakes hahahaha. Took me a few times to actually conceptualize Akasha's powers. Even now I changed hers again.

If I may be so bold as to suggest something,maybe you could remive the sulfur smell. Use the intensity of the aura. Mikhail could still detect a sinful person, and its degree of malevolence would be dictated by the brightness of your aura. That way, Mikhail would know somethings off about someone without actually knowing what it is, hence keeping the neutrality of your power. Hell, you could even add color to your aura according to the 7 sins if you really want to know details, but determining the nature of someone's sins in actually what makes the power a bit too subjective.

@Riffus Maximus

Thanks, if @Scio approves, we can do that.

Edit: Wait, no, I have another solution; we keep the 'Mikhail smells people's inner bad sides as sulfur', but have it be influenced/distorted by the fact that he had it constantly activated and he's in a crowd. Throw in the fact that the school itself smells due to Jasper letting in actual criminals in the past multiple times, and one can understand why he would jump to conclusions.

[Letter Bee]

@Nanashi Ninanai, @Scio, @Riffus Maximus, @January, @Banjoanjo, @Menhir:

It's settled; Mikhail can scent the normal bad nature of people, and can detect if someone 'smells worse' than the usual. However, the general sense is distorted by large crowds, as well as the ambient smell of the place due to actual criminals having been allowed in the campus multiple times. It also doesn't help that constantly smelling sulfur does not do wonders for Mikhail's attitude, and he's afraid of turning it off out of paranoia.

However, once the crowds fade or the first trial forces him to turn off 'Presumption of Innocence' to save energy, or should something else happen, he'll lighten up.

[Scio]

@January As much as I would want to see more of Lucien and Elliot, chatting online wouldn't be possible.

@RoflsMazoy Yup, magic interferes with technology. Anything electronic will most likely be non-functional.

@Nanashi Ninanai Nope, no electricity. In the opening post in the IC, Jasper's room was well lit, but not by a light bulb. He had a miniature sun-like construct to do that for him in his office.

@Masaki Haruna Sorry for the hassle. By the way, you're edits are accepted.

@Menhir I know Letter Bee had already explained it, but Mikhail's ability is just subjective on his own beliefs.

@January So far, I haven't seen Mikhail go overboard with his abilities, but like I told Menhir, most of what he senses is based on his own interpretation of a person's character along with what he chooses to believe in. How accurate his ability is kind of depends on how much you trust in Mikhail.

@Letter Bee I mean, for me, I don't see any real issues here; at least, nothing game bracking has occured. There's the potential to do so, but when that happens, I'll quickly intervene. However, I'm giving everyone the benefit of the doubt and trust their own judgment on discerning what's imbalanced and unfair.

Given Mikhail's ability, I just see him as some sort of self-righteous individual who's quick to judge others despite not knowing much about them. Basically, a teenager. I don't see why you have to change the way you're RPing him. All these flaws in your character are just points to over come while RPing him; that's the whole point of character development.

I don't think the power change is necessary, but if you really want to, let's discuss it. The only thing I'd want to comment on is what Mikhail actually detects. "Inner Bad" shouldn't be absolute and is just subjective; what he'll do with the information he perceives, that's up to him. If you want to edit it somehow, I suggest you tweak the whatever it is he senses from people.

Define "Bad Nature". And you aren't even sure if criminals do get invited to Four Winds. I did say that Four Winds created students who were thorns to society, but whether that happened before, during, or after their time at the academy, is still unknown.

If you want to discuss the ability, send me a PM.

[Scio]

@Menhir I was wondering, regarding your post, where is Layla exactly?

[January]

@Scio

Yeah, I only took a moderate issue with the sniffing "subconscious thoughts" bit, but that was just a miscommunication compounded by my misunderstanding, so it's not a problem.

[GreenGoat]

I mean I could see several ways for that ability to be abused just by stretching how the user perceives 'crime', but as long as its not being used in such a way, I'm not really that worried.

@Scio Changed your avatar have we? Was kinda surprised seeing that instead of a smug looking man with shadowed eyes.

[Scio]

@GreenGoat Yeah, not while I'm around; I'm against meta-gaming all the way.

Yeah, decided it was about time. That was my avatar from two years ago.

[GreenGoat]

@Scio And here I am still using my old avatar from before the guildfall. ;w;

[Scio]

@GreenGoat ...No judgment. No judgment at all.

[Vox Angelis]

I lost mine somewhen in-between the three years I went AWOL.

I think I need a new one though.

[Scio]

Just a quick update on the status of the update for the IC.

So far, @RoflsMazoy@January@GreenGoat@Mercurial@King Tai@Letter Bee@Nanashi Ninanai@Riffus Maximus@hagroden@KOgaming@Ayemdar and @Menhir have posted.

So we're only waiting on @Masaki Haruna, who I think will post soon, @Vongola_Hasayo.

@Sodium is just busy, I think with work-related things. Or at least that's what I got from our PM.

EDIT: @banjoanjo has exams.

[January]

@Scio

Think banjo mentioned he won't be posting until Tuesday or after Tuesday due to exams.

[Scio]

@January Oh, good to hear then. Thanks!

Just talked with Ayemdar. I think Masaki will post soonish. That leaves Hasayo and KO.

[Thecrash20]

Still got room? I'm very interested with the concept of this rp.

[BassDropp]

I would also be interested in making a character as well, if you guys are still accepting that is.

[Letter Bee]

@January As much as I would want to see more of Lucien and Elliot, chatting online wouldn't be possible.

@RoflsMazoy Yup, magic interferes with technology. Anything electronic will most likely be non-functional.

@Nanashi Ninanai Nope, no electricity. In the opening post in the IC, Jasper's room was well lit, but not by a light bulb. He had a miniature sun-like construct to do that for him in his office.

@Masaki Haruna Sorry for the hassle. By the way, you're edits are accepted.

@Menhir I know Letter Bee had already explained it, but Mikhail's ability is just subjective on his own beliefs.

@January So far, I haven't seen Mikhail go overboard with his abilities, but like I told Menhir, most of what he senses is based on his own interpretation of a person's character along with what he chooses to believe in. How accurate his ability is kind of depends on how much you trust in Mikhail.

@Letter Bee I mean, for me, I don't see any real issues here; at least, nothing game bracking has occured. There's the potential to do so, but when that happens, I'll quickly intervene. However, I'm giving everyone the benefit of the doubt and trust their own judgment on discerning what's imbalanced and unfair.

Given Mikhail's ability, I just see him as some sort of self-righteous individual who's quick to judge others despite not knowing much about them. Basically, a teenager. I don't see why you have to change the way you're RPing him. All these flaws in your character are just points to over come while RPing him; that's the whole point of character development.

I don't think the power change is necessary, but if you really want to, let's discuss it. The only thing I'd want to comment on is what Mikhail actually detects. "Inner Bad" shouldn't be absolute and is just subjective; what he'll do with the information he perceives, that's up to him. If you want to edit it somehow, I suggest you tweak the whatever it is he senses from people.

Define "Bad Nature". And you aren't even sure if criminals do get invited to Four Winds. I did say that Four Winds created students who were thorns to society, but whether that happened before, during, or after their time at the academy, is still unknown.

If you want to discuss the ability, send me a PM.

@Scio

Scio, good points, and thanks. And, yeah, 'Inner Bad' should be subjective.

[Nanashi Ninanai]

Huh, I missed a lot of things while I'm asleep.

@Scio Aah, I see. Heh, welp, it'll be fun writing Alice's outburst when she learn about that fact later in that case.

@Letter Bee I don't know, so far I see his suspicion on Alice felt pretty natural. Though the parts before the edits does feel a bit too much, the one you have now seems fair, at least for me. He seems to be kind enough to keep his suspicions of Alice to get the better of his actions so far, but he's still understandably suspicious of her.

Idk, he seems to be kind enough to her already, especially after the edits.

[Letter Bee]

Huh, I missed a lot of things while I'm asleep.

@Scio Aah, I see. Heh, welp, it'll be fun writing Alice's outburst when she learn about that fact later in that case.

@Letter Bee I don't know, so far I see his suspicion on Alice felt pretty natural. Though the parts before the edits does feel a bit too much, the one you have now seems fair, at least for me. He seems to be kind enough to keep his suspicions of Alice to get the better of his actions so far, but he's still understandably suspicious of her.

Idk, he seems to be kind enough to her already, especially after the edits.

@Nanashi Ninanai

Thanks; and, I tried to have Mikhail be less internally hostile to Alice in my latest post as him...but I don't know how effective that was, because that was also the post where he is trying to set Nico up with a girl he thinks is prettier than Alice.

Actually, I compared Annabelle and Alice's avatars; the former really does look prettier.

[Nanashi Ninanai]

@Letter Bee Yea, Alice's actually meant to be pretty plain, more cute than pretty. Judging from Annabelle's image, she seems to look drop dead gorgeous, especially compared to Alice.

And Nico's Harem Adventures continues...