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And there was also monumental amount of bad luck involved
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Diamond - Gemba walk

Diamond didn’t even have to go that far before finding something that piqued her interest. Or rather, someone. The anger she was full of a moment ago was shoved in a box and shelved somewhere in her mental warehouse almost immediately. It would be handy later. For now, her attention turned to the object of her interest. Ok, Dee. You just had a major meltdown, but try to be polite. she warned herself.

Slowing down and halting, Diamond leaned against the wall and looked the woman over, being blatantly obvious about it. “Can’t say I would mind if you did!” Tick. Tock. Damn it what did I just say! She mentally slapped herself, Look at that rack though, I can’t be blamed! … Entirely. Diamond pointed her eyes into the eyes of the other woman, deciding to see where this goes. “Didn’t see you around here yet. Are you a new transfer?” She inquired after a second.

@SevenStormStyle

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<duplicate, ignore>

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Anybody up for anything?

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Diamond - Anywhaere and nowhere

The poor training dummy was rapidly approaching its expiration date under the barrage of fury Diamond vented on it. They were finally starting to move somewhere with the whole team thing. Granted, the move was to identify why they were not a team thing, but she thought she saw some progress, at least compared to earlier. And now this.

Roaring in anger she grabbed a telekinetic hold and yanked at the dummy strongly enough to tear it out of its housing and send it flying somewhere in Gren’s general direction. Pure coincidence, oooooof course.

This sucks on ice. First Marcus, then Aurelius, now Cobalt. Who are they going to give us now, some rich trouser stain that will have yet another idea on how to do things and not being used to others telling them to shove it? That would maKE MY DAY!!! She shout-thought as another dummy ceased to exist, turned into a pincushion of icicles, sand spilling on the floor.

Still not even breaking a sweat, Diamond suddenly wished there were some ethereal robots and/or infernal woman after her with a vengeance. A struggle for dear life would at least take her mind off of things!

Then there is this parents day garbage. Rub some salt into the wounds, life, why don’t you? she fumed inside, I can’t even get half a dozen cats because Emerald would be either insulted or all over them. The thought of a per canary or something mouse like was a little amusing though.

Rrrip. Another sandbag was exploded when Diamond caught a telekinetic hold of its opposing ends and yanked at them.

Oh, and there is some douchebag ogling my teammate’s mom. Call Marcus and the tank I wanna blow some shit up! She thought desperately

The remaining dummy was obliterated as Diamond encased it in ice, the weight pulling down the entire mechanism holding it.

Then she stopped, looking at the floor. She could swear her shadow was shimmering and grinning at her. Stop. She told herself. Find something else to do with that pent up energy other than fighting or you’ll kill someone.

Pacing from wall to wall she sighed, running a hand through her hair. Go make some friends. There might even be some volunteers for a beating if you’ll lucky. She thought with a smirk, looking towards Emerald just as her mother was done with her. Diamond decided the bad news could wait. There was probably no more than other orphans prowling the halls right now, but hey, misery loved company.

Diamond slipped by the others, looking for a victim.

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@Sho Minazuki Huh? Skillpoints wat? And my whole point was to not use anything but approval for the latter...

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I believe the self governance has already proven itself to a point with Mokuren, no?

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I will thank those responsible for opening my eyes to the team thing. Never thought to use a 5-why on the problem, which is kinda derp since I use it daily at work, ugh. Not that I would miss them, but I can see why others would.

Regarding the credit system - I'm fine with the proposed changes for acquiring, but I would put forward a change at usage options as well. Right now it sort of hinders your ability to change your own character - Heck, even a creative way to use one's semblance requires credits, that's part of the reason why I had Diamond's be so unspecific. It's kind of pay to win, when you consider the differing amount of time and experience the players have. How about we change the credits to be more of a reward thing than necessity?

What I think the credits represent here is the individual player's ability to do things - high quality work, having the ability to dedicate time to it, ... - Let's give these players the option to run subplots (Ability to drive an engaging story others might ride on), create additional characters (Can dedicate time to more than one), things like that. But I don't think that having to depend on the subjective opinion of a contest judge, competing with people who may have more experience with the setting or just writing in general, or plain having the time to actually enter a contest on top of IC just to add 10 feet of chain to your weapon is the way to use this system.

That said, I also propose to give a fat credit bonus to someone actually running the mission for others, not just completing it - retroactively. Those people earned it.

Digimon: Genesis [On Temporary Hiatus]

Guys probably not a good idea to wait for me, I got an exam season, so I'll be back when I can. I'm in this, tis jsut going to be a month of utter lack of free time to do anything. Sorry.

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Frankly, I feel at this point it may be for the best to do away with the team system.

@Lucius Cypher

Thiiiiiiis. Team <inster here>OD<insert here> didn't actually have that many swaps and even those are killed me every time. That said, the only thing I have to facilitate this in any sensual manner is some sort of apocalyptic event where the school either can not exist in it's current format or at all - whether that's a skip to post vol. 4 or something else.

Also, regarding Hari's disappearance, let's not forget he's affiliated with US military. He may not be able or at liberty to even tell us when, why and where he's leaving. I know he couldn't when they had some exercise, and an actual deployment would be even stricter I think.