No, no, it's not that simple. The issue I'm having is we're treating such a grave, serious sin as a handwave-y cliffnote. You can't just tack 'oh yeah, they're eating people' onto the end of a sentence! That'd be like a character saying 'Oh yeah, and we raped her.' and then that's that, end of discussion, no explanation. Everyone just accepts it. It just doesn't make sense.
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Questionably sentie- GUYS. Can we please, PLEASE ease up on the casual cannibalism? Seriously, I feel like I'm working for a Saturday morning cartoon villain sometimes.
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The guy's name Coyote, and we'll either need one 20 gallon bag or multiple 8 gallon ones. Do you still have that axe?
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I am good, I'm helping @WileyCoyote get into the RP, one piece at a time.
Naw... All I have are these bagpipes.
You shut up! Always cramping my style. Why you always bringing me down maaaaan. Besides we hit him in the bag, don't we @WileyCoyote?
It's okay, I'm still here. Because unfortunately, I'm stuck with you.
Now, where's this new guy and how big of a burlap sack will I need?
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People would just overlook it or highlight your Posts, I tend to transfer them into gdocs to read. :p
Hey. I do all I can to be as annoying as possible, ya'know.
I wonder if I should start posting all my text in midnight blue, because it's really hard to see...
But if the attack is instant, like it currently is, one cannot react.
Edit: If that's been there, people have been ignoring it.
Edit: If that's been there, people have been ignoring it.
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If you're not an agile individual, then in a practical sense, you're not going to be dodging a mage's magic. In order to counter any magic, you have to have the skills to do so. Being mages in the college, I would say that it is reasonable that most students would want to pick up wards.
Also consider that to really manipulate someone's mind, you have to be pretty high level. A successful psychomantic attack will not kill like with other bloods.
You don't need much to kill someone if you've got something Physical (And easily obtainable) to do the actual killing blow... Like, say, a dagger. Any moron can stab someone. Anyone can move aside and avoid something with a little luck. The big problem is that if you don't have a ward there is literally nothing you can do, no last hope. You lose.
500 feet is hardly a weakness. Most fights won't occur at such ranges with ANY kind of magic anyhow. Remember that a weakness is not a weakness if it never comes into play.
Line of sight would be great, but because Psychomancy's effects are instant that means you can't think 'oh shit, better duck behind a rock'.
Limiting it with penalties for multiple actions at once matters little: They only need to affect one person to get you.
Making it take time to affect is exactly what I'm pushing for.
Psychomancy has been given a large amount of power against the unwarded in the hopes of making it feel stronger and avoiding making one feel useless. I can guarantee I've felt useless a lot more often than Elite has, and a great amount of my frustration comes from how 'easy' Psychomancy seems. Even if he doesn't abuse it, the knowledge that Ssarak or any Psychomancer CAN abuse Psychomancy while I have no such thing feels awful. We need to make Psychomancy FEEl less frustrating to fight against.
I can imagine making someone have Seizures with electromancy but the amount of control required to 'zap' immunity into herself without breaking things would take more training and detailed knowledge of the biology of her brain than Alaira is reasonably capable of.
Line of sight would be great, but because Psychomancy's effects are instant that means you can't think 'oh shit, better duck behind a rock'.
Limiting it with penalties for multiple actions at once matters little: They only need to affect one person to get you.
Making it take time to affect is exactly what I'm pushing for.
Psychomancy has been given a large amount of power against the unwarded in the hopes of making it feel stronger and avoiding making one feel useless. I can guarantee I've felt useless a lot more often than Elite has, and a great amount of my frustration comes from how 'easy' Psychomancy seems. Even if he doesn't abuse it, the knowledge that Ssarak or any Psychomancer CAN abuse Psychomancy while I have no such thing feels awful. We need to make Psychomancy FEEl less frustrating to fight against.
I can imagine making someone have Seizures with electromancy but the amount of control required to 'zap' immunity into herself without breaking things would take more training and detailed knowledge of the biology of her brain than Alaira is reasonably capable of.
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Easy now.
He's not listening. It's a bit silly to only have one option in the face of this threat. He says that 'anyone can get it', but that isn't true. The only source is someone that is widely reviled, it takes time, and is not available to the public.
And if it is as easy to get one, what's even the point of Psychomancers? Wards need to be made more common and more consistent.
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