[OOC] Essence of the World: The New Age [CLOSED]

[Mikael]

Themerlinhawk said
... now that the whole grim reaper thing has sort of blown by. ...

I'm going to be resubmitting the 'reaper' or whathaveyou, he just needed some heavy editing.

[Themerlinhawk]

yeah but he's no long relevant to Lazarus, and I want to edit him anyway

[Mikael]

Well, guess I need to ask.

Why not?

[Themerlinhawk]

Because Lazarus will have nothing to do with his stone. As far as I'm concerned the events of our PM have little to no effect on the character at this point since you are rebuilding the character and I decided I wanted to edit him purely on a whim because I decided I didn't like his personality and some of his history. Also with the edits I'm making Lazarus won't be inclined to accept anything like what we initially discussed, so other than any in story encounters. He won't effect the way I'm tweaking the character at this point.

[Mikael]

Okay... thanks for explaining.

[Themerlinhawk]

not a problem. And just for the record it has nothing to do with you or your character. I just changed my vision for Lazarus. or I should say my Vision for him changed.

[yoshua171]

Collabs, collabs everywhere!

[Themerlinhawk]

Okay wind. Lazarus has been updated. He is no longer a bigot, he is now a tragedy. But I need you to re okay him

[yoshua171]

So, I know this is confusing, but in light of conversations on skype (and observation of the IC) the following has been made fairly clear:

Mairyell/Solus collabs (night moving towards early morning)

Solus/Slyre(Rina) collab(early morning-dawn)

Aeris/Crow Collab(morning)

Crow/Rhett collabs(midday)

All Academy stuff(Evening)

Emmet/Zi collabs [and Olivia posts] (Evening)

Mairyell/Zi/Solus collab(Evening)

Other: Lazarus/Mary posts can go wherever. It doesn't matter.

So yeah, the IC is NOT in chronological order. However, if anyone needs know the order, that'd be it up there.

Lastly, and more importantly, people need to start putting time and location things at the top of their posts. This makes sure we keep things in order.

You do not however, need to use clock times. It's perfectly reasonable to put "Night, Dawn, Midday, Afternoon, Evening, Dusk, Midnight," rather than using clock times (which I feel may grow tedious).

Also, when moving to a new part of the day (from midday/noon to evening, etc etc) please ask first. It might end up being better to post it up later. This will (in the future) keep everything chronological. Thank you very much.

[Themerlinhawk]

Okay so as soon as I can get an Okay on Lazarus I will move Mary and him to the opening ceremonies. Late of course but better late than never. so the events of Mary and Lazarus' conversation will be prior to what's going on at the academy. I also plan on doing a few scene cuts of Lazarus doing things in between. Rtron if you want to add anything let me know. And I will also be hold Ian's next post hostage till I get my okay cause I want to write it all in the same go.

[Wind Wild]

Riiiight. Those are some pretty major changes to Lazarus you made there. I have to say, some of them I find rather troublesome as they somewhat breach the main taboos of this world - essence and matter can't be altered. In that sense him being able to create specters, thicken air and such are clever ideas but slightly god-like in nature. I don't want to be a buzz-kill though as I see you've put a lot of efford into your character.

I'll consult my co-GMs and see if we can find a way for most of this to work. You might have to give up on some of it though.

also just a warning, essence and soul are basically the same thing here. Essence is the life-forse (and him manipulating that in living creatures is a definite no-no for it's the power only given to the Gates and Gatekeepers). It's a raw material for demons and such, much like blood. It is unique to everyone, though and it hosts the soul. However we've never assumed that dead souls could be brought back and communicated with and while I don't mind the idea just keep in mind that souls are still mostly a mystery to everyone and they leave the essence after death first. (Aka they vanish from it at various speeds but pretty soon after death and later so does the entire essence too).

[Themerlinhawk]

Wind Wild said
essence and soul are basically the same thing here.It's a raw material for demons and such, much like blood. It unique to everyone, though and it the soul. However we've never assumed that dead souls could be brought back and communicated with and while I don't mind the idea just keep in mind that souls are still mostly a mystery to everyone and they leave the essence after death first. (Aka they vanish from it at various speeds but pretty soon after death and later so does the entire essence too).

Okay so that part of Lazarus Necromancy has always been there, the communicating with the dead. You put your okay on that part, but If you want me to take it out, no problem. However I think some definition of the line between a soul and essence is important. Edit: I found the problem!!!!!! I don't know how I missed that my bad! The line in Dracul's entry about it storing souls is gone! that one is totally my fault I must have just got going with my writing and glazed over on my mechanics (I make it up to you with lots of writing :)). And obviously I'll have to edit exactly how soulfire works but the idea was to yoink a dead persons essence/soul after they had been killed in a more mundane fashion.

Wind Wild said Essence is the life-forse (and him manipulating that in living creatures is a definite no-no for it's the power only given to the Gates and Gatekeepers).

Lazarus doesn't manipulate it in the living, if one of his powers does, tell me because I didn't mean for that to be in there and I'll get rid of it immediately (If you're talking about Revenants, they souls he uses are dead but if you aren't okay with that I have another version of it that I think you'd appreciate that shouldn't bother you)

Wind Wild said Magic doesn’t alter space and time, can’t create matter and can’t change someone’s personality

Wind Wild said main taboos of this world - essence and matter can't be altered

Okay so can I alter matter or not? There seems to be some inconsistency. I thought I'd conserved both Matter and Essence with the abilities(If the powers don't tell me and I can fix it/axe it)

edit: Found it! i found the problem I've edited soulfire so it no longer alters a soul it is simply a more virulent version of normal fire I also moved it to evocation (Think magical naplam)

Wind Wild said while we haven’t used magic to alter physical properties I think it could be interesting to see, again, if it’s not OP like turning every weapon coming your way into jelly and melting people’s fingers.

SO. I did my research.Im guessing you have an Issue with Entropy Shield. I would like to keep it (or something like it) but I'm very open to adjusting this (I have some ideas about how to do this but I figured Id let you pitch yours first), after combing back through our conversations.

Now just as a few final notes to frame his abilities and perhaps this was a failing on my part but I added Esperacchius and a few lines in Dracul's entry to illustrate the fact that Lazarus is reliant on his tools to pull off his magic. (Mostly, on his own he has a few standard tricks as a decent mage but he doesn't have the essence to pull off truly spectacular magic.). So where I hoped I was going with the character (maybe this didn't come a cross correctly on my part or it did and you think it needs some tweaking, in either case I'm good to edit Lazarus) was to create a character who could throw down with everyone else but to give him the giant Achilles heel of needing to use Dracul's stored essence to do basically all of his more powerful magic. After all at his core I still want Lazarus to be a squishy Human. The idea being that Lazarus needs a battery to power the spell's he has come up with through experimentation. Take away dracul (or burn it out) and basically Lazarus is just a really smart human mage that you have to kill more than once. I was hoping to illustrate that with Precognition, the idea being that the ability is more of an accidental occurrence (a natural overdrive of his usual thought skimming shenanigans if you will) of using a bunch of essence in combat.

Okay so I think I covered all the information I wanted you to have or felt I should point out with my serial quoting. Pm, post, whatever you want/need to do. Since there are a few places that I goofed purely in the throes of my own writing I feel obligated to give you and everyone else a "thank you for putting up with the chaos my ideas sometimes spawn" Gift which is this: I'll be putting off my other writing for a good long while to focus on writing with you guys basically exclusively (except for school...that writing I actually have to do :P). I'll have Ian's next post done today because Lazarus needs a bigger review from you guys than I thought. I'd hoped i got him right within the confines of the lore and reviewing him wouldn't be a problem for you but obviously I didn't. So Ian's posts will come more regularly while you're discussing Lazarus' edits. And then you guys will have my undivided attention for a good long while and I'll go crazy writing for both of them :)

Love ya wind XD

Edit: In a preemptive strike on some stuff that after I reviewed I went "Did I lose my mind when I wrote this?" I took out a few lines in some spots and fixed soulfire (I think) so for your convenience (assuming all his other stuff is okay like his history and personality) you can read through his abilities and equipment sections again and hopefully I caught some of the problems you that i think I fixed when I was rooting around in some of the earlier OOC posts to see what I goofed up. Obviously some stuff I left because I want to know where to go with it when you have conversed with your GM's but hopefully I made your life easier (If I made it worse I will take on a third character as an "I'm sorry"....Wind if you lie to me cause you want another character Ill be annoyed with you)

[Wind Wild]

RAQWWWWWWRGH!!!!!! *FLIPS THE TABLE AND THROWS HER PHONE IN THE SINK* I JUST WASTED HALF AN HOUR WRITING!!!!!!

Right.... Sorry, Merlin, the phone deleted all I had to tell you. I love you too. And thanks for all your effort. Basically, as long as you keep in mind that the bodies/matter for both the sceletons and Lazarus' copies have to come from somewhere, you'll be fine. As in, infusing bones, rocks, dirt, making the air thicker or whatever is fine. Summoning solid matter is impossible, unless that matter is kept somewhere and you're creating a gateway between that somewhere and this somewhere. (Still, that's borderline telortation, so be careful with that too if you decide to do it.) :3

[Rtron]

*Gets hit in the face with the table. Is currently beneath table.*

Ow.....

[Lucius Cypher]

*Get's hit with phone. Was bathing in the sink.*

Ow.... Hey, a phone!

[Themerlinhawk]

*eyes the mess, takes the phone from lucius and hands it back to Wind* Thanks sweetie, I think I solved the Specter's assault problem. They will simply use mass from Dracul, Lazarus will just have to adjust the molecular density of Dracul to accommodate for the loss of mass during combat but it will only need to be enough to given them sufficient form to serve their purpose. That way we don't have to deal with the whole making a gateway from point A to point B. And the Revenants will be prepped before combat. Thank you Wind love ya.

[Fallenreaper]

Peeks in and leaves notice:



I'm back baby!!!

[yoshua171]

Considering the pace of Essence, we almost could've just waited for you xD

Welcome back~

Only collab that I think is directly relevant to Emmet and co is the recent Mairyell/Zi one :)

[Fallenreaper]

yoshua171 said
Considering the pace of Essence, we almost could've just waited for you xDWelcome back~Only collab that I think is directly relevant to Emmet and co is the recent Mairyell/Zi one :)

Knowing my luck, it would've been longer since I got net then. So better safe then sorry and will slowly caught up on the IC tonight and situate a scene with Emmet, Juan and Darius later. (as in hour later in a timestamp then push onwards to moving Emmet to collision course with Zi or others at some point.)

Also... Slade, nice to see you around again. :P

[Wind Wild]

Hey, Fallen! Welcome back, BABY *llama style*! :3

*helps Rtron up and takes the phone off of Cypher to throw it through the window*