JohnSolaris

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-curious face- Is cloning things possible?

@Marra Mistborn

Generally, no. To "clone" something, you basically need to scan its inner workings, then build a replica yourself. You can't skip all the steps and just automatically get a replica of your target.

She has her life-stealing orbs.

@helltank

I know. The orbs, however, cannot heal any injuries that the body itself is not capable of healing, e.g. lost limbs or organs. To be able to restore lost limbs and organs, you need some kind of explicit regeneration or healing ability.

Also: can I ask which group I am placed in? If time delay is an issue I will just assume Alison slept in her pod during thr delay.

@helltank

You'll probably be placed in the same group as the two other people that signed up. A new group.

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I'm ready to post Grant's next action in the fight against the plantbear but don't wan't to cut out @Magnato.

@whist

I will give @Magnato the remainder of today to post. After that, I'm going to proceed with the fight. If he doesn't post, I'll assume that Meredith was paralyzed by fear and uncertainty or something during the fight.

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@helltank: Five times the strength of an Olympic weightlifter is a bit much for starting characters. The strength of the tentacle should be reduced to three times the strength of an average adult male, same as what the armor gives your character. The tentacle's reach and flexibility is enough of an advantage to count as a separate ability.

@akje: First, you should start with two elemental cores. If you only want Earth, you could start with two Earth cores.

Second, Stone Sense has to have a range limit, because there's a limit on how far you can extend your magic. For now, a kilometer should be about as far as you can stretch it, and the image should get weaker the further away it is from you. Also, you may not be able to see through earthen materials that are already infused with magic more powerful than your own.

Third, Earth Glide is kind of awkward and vague. You make it sound like some limited form of intangibility that only works inside earthen materials, which isn't really possible. Due to how intangibility works, you either clip through all physical matter or none. True intangibility also usually needs the Aether element, or at least Light or Dark; you can't really pull it off with Earth. I'd say you should change it so that the ability uses magic to cause the earth in your character's immediate vicinity to flow like water, so that he can "swim" through it. With this change, the ability would create some detectable ripples, but it would no longer affect the user if the rock he is in gets split apart. Also, you should know that the ability might not work well on earth that's already infused with magic more powerful than your own, just like the previous ability, though you don't have to add this to the description.

@Grimoire: The only thing I don't like about your character sheet is the vagueness of the backstory. Where was your character from, and what ethnicity? Remember that he must've been from modern Earth. Also, he has no last name. Does he come from a culture where most people don't have family names?

Looking at Helltank's character John seems to be a bit inferior, except for the part where she's a little girl and John is a genius scientist. Then again, pretty much every mutation John possesses has a nasty surprise.

@Laue

Aside from what Helltank already addressed, John can regenerate from wounds, and inflict a number of debilitating debuffs. On the other hand, Alison has no real ways of healing her wounds or recovering from debuffs; a few good hits from John's paralytic claws might be enough to do her in. So it should come down to a matter of tactics, with neither of them being strictly superior.

Also, I'm nerfing Alison's tentacle strength, so there's that too.

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I am also having the same issue, along with @Minnakht and @helltank, two people I know.

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@JohnSolaris

Done and done.

@Blackmist16

FYI, you are in the shrine, not "around" it. Also, your character has received the dream sequence from the goddess too, so is there a reason he hasn't mentally addressed it at all?

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Who's turn is it?

@ravenDivinity

You don't really need to take turns doing actions. You can take actions whenever you want, and it's up to BC and I to decide whether you succeed.

@JohnSolaris

Oh I can post now right?

@Blackmist16

Yeah, you can post now.

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@JohnSolaris

I changed it again if it is to your tastes?

It is Done.

@Blackmist16

Your character is accepted.

I'm going to edit my intro post for the second group, so that Blackmist16's character is among them now too. I'll just be changing it so that it says the group has five people instead of four people.

So do familiars show up when they wake or are they actively summoned?

@Raptorman

Familiars start off as a mental presence in their masters' minds, though they can summon themselves if their masters aren't specifically preventing them from doing so.

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@Laue (John)

Instead of meeting John head-on, the bear instead extends numerous vines from its body with impressive speed. Before John can get a real hit in with his claws, the vines have already wrapped around all four of his limbs with a strength that seems far too great for the vines' relatively diminutive thickness. A second later, the vines pull John toward the bear with all their strength, while the bear snarls and thrusts its right paw forward.

A sickening sound of flesh being torn.

Though John has received superhuman powers, he is clearly very far from invulnerable. The bear's clawed arm is now messily impaled through John's abdomen, its incredible brute strength having broken through the black scales and crushed the man's bowels. However, any potential screams of pain from John are blocked out by the bear's own, as it finds its hand covered in both the acid and the infectious black blood from John's body. With a deafening bellow, the bear pulls its arm free, taking out bits of internal organs with it. Immediately after, the vines holding John hurl him away from the bear; he slams into the shrine's metallic wall behind him with a painful crunch. The bear's right hand is now quite gruesome to behold, with chunks and patches of flesh bloodily melted off, and other parts already rotting and festering.

The bear is leaving John and the others alone for now, as numerous other vines extend from its back and tightly wrap around the wounded arm. From the small gaps between the leaves, some unknown green balm can be seen, secreted by the plant matter onto the wounds.

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@gammaflux (Azorel); @Raptorman (Ethan); @Flora (Nathaniel); @Minnakht (Angela); @Blackmist16 (Vestus)

The five other people, in a different shrine somewhere far away, also begin waking up at the same time.

Had they known about the first group of people, and the shrine they'd arrived at, these five would've seen that the two shrines are almost identical. The same metallic floor, ceiling, and walls. The same futuristic healing pods, taking up most of the room. The same windows and doors. Only...

There is still a forest outside. But unlike the other one, there are no outlines of mountains visible here. Instead, between the trees, the former humans can see patches of what must be an almost sparkling blue ocean, and some pale yellow sand.

Again, the goddess left no instructions. There is simply the world out there, waiting for the visitors to make their move.

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@BCTheEntity (Rick); @Laue (John)

As John and Rick approach the large futuristic door, it smoothly and almost soundlessly slides open. As previously seen through the windows, a lush forest vista greets the two former humans, accompanied by the sounds and smells of the wilderness. However... After closer inspection, it quickly becomes clear that this is unlike any ordinary forest found on Earth. In fact, it's also more than clear that they're no longer on Earth at all.

The first and most immediate difference is the sky. Instead of the familiar blue, it is a shade of light purple, with the same hue as the symbol of the goddess found everywhere inside the building. Thankfully, the clouds are still white, as is the Sun, its radiance vaguely visible through the canopy. The trees themselves are also noticeably different, some of them bearing glowing fruits, others having slivers of glittering crystal seemingly embedded in their barks. Most of the trees still possess green leaves and brown trunks, but there are subtler hues of blue, purple, and even red interspersed among the earthen colors. Every branch and leaf is infused with an otherwordly energy, which the former humans can now seem to feel through something entirely separate from their ordinary five senses.

More interesting to John and Rick, however, is the large grizzly bear standing less than two meters away from the two men. For certain definitions of "interesting".

And of course, that's no ordinary rabbit bear. Or, more specifically, it is an ordinary bear with what appears to be dark green vines wrapped around its torso and limbs, and a cape of leaves on its back. Oh, and it has bright, almost glowing green eyes too. From the way it moves, it almost looks like the bear is physically joined together with the vines, in a slightly disturbing display of symbiosis.

The bear's green eyes gaze upon John and Rick with a primal hunger. It opens its mouth, displaying a set of impressively sharp teeth, and... a tongue that is in fact a wriggling green vine. The bear takes an experimental step toward the humans, letting out a low growl as it does so; vines begin extending from its body and moving as though having wills of their own.

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[OOC: I'll do the intro post of the other group later.]

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-curious face- Can a disease use light and life? It's a disease because it is contagious and I do not know what else to call it. But it is not harmful.

@Marra Mistborn

There could be beneficial magical micro-organisms that consists of Light and Life, yes.