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The Elder Scrolls: Before the Great War

ARNVIDR FROST-WEAVER

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Arnvidr started to swing the axe when Sylruna stopped him. The axe stopped midswing, hanging just above Brigit's neck, as he turned to Sylruna.

Sylruna's suggestion to have Brigit be used as an enchanting material made some sense, pragmatically speaking. He didn't consider it because he did not bring a Black Soul gem with him, considering how much necromancy was frowned upon. Thus, he made a habit not to bring a black soul gem unless he was planning to trap a black soul.

"You're quite mistaken," he started saying to Sylruna, correcting her last remarks, "The College of Winterhold does not forbid necromancy. Indeed, most magical institutions do not. In Cyrodiil, the Synod forbids necromancy, while the College of Whispers does not. Even the Mages Guild, with their history against necromancy due to Vanus Galerion's enmity with Mannimarco, only truly forbid necromancy at the end of the Third Era under Archmage Hannibal Traven. I'm certainly not opposed to it in principle if you have a black soul gem on you."

Then he turned to the Altmer, addressing his objections.

"She is an enemy. I do not see the issue. Necromancy is a tool like any other. Should we kill her, her soul would probably wander Sovngarde, forever cursed to look at the eternal celebration within Shor's hall, forever outside her grasp, as her soul continues to break down. Is that sort of existence that much better than the one in Soul Cairn? Brigit should have thought twice before crossing us. At the very least, she should have known that my stance on soul trapping is the same as the College of Winterhold, that is, a tool, like any other magic. Of course, this is all theoretical unless someone has a black soul gem on them."

My Hero Academia: Just Another Hero, Act 2

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Reiji sighed as the hologram disappeared with little to no fanfare, 'dumping'—in her own words—Class 1B to their senpais of 2A, one of those being himself.

He had just gone back from Deika City, and it looked as if he would be departing again. This time, on a field trip to Ortheon. Mostly to help with the training for the 1B students, he assumed. He was the Male Class Representative for 2A, so he was used to helping out the teachers running errands and whatnot.

Not that he minded. It was only fair, frankly. Being a class rep looked good on his CV since it was well-known in the hero field that hero aspirants tended to have strong...personality, to say the least. And thus, actually functioning as a class rep, corralling those strong personalities together, needed some leadership skills and aptitude for coordinating a team. Furthermore, it gave him the chance to network since some of the errands he helped run occasionally took him to Pro Hero offices or other professionals in the field. Despite the hype surrounding 'solo' heroes such as Mirko, the truth was in the hero profession, networking was essential, and even when they want to project a 'solo' persona, they usually have staff in their office that handles relations with other stakeholders.

Well, at least this trip would be to a hotspot tourist spot of Otheon, the famous island that was raised from the sea by a Quirk User. Provided everything went well, it would be a nice change of pace after Deika City. He was interning with the Teknus Agency under Ironman, and thus, he was tied up helping the agency deal with an incident involving the villain Doom Reaper, who had attempted to use Ironman's inventions for a wide-scale city assault in Deika City. Ultimately, though they managed to contain the situation, Doom Reaper continued to elude capture, but that was probably only a matter of time. Though it must have been humiliating for someone with an intelligence enhancement quirk to be outsmarted by a quirkless guy in armour.

Thanks to that, he had missed out on that whole debacle involving Nomu and Class 1B. But he had heard the gist of it from his fellow class president.

"Would you like for me to look up notable spots in Otheon, Master?" a voice chimes in from his watch. Prisma, one of the few AI in the world running on photon-based computers, developed by the Teknus Agency with his contribution.

"Sure. Thank you, Prisma," Reiji replied.

At least she didn't actually use the holographic projection function, it'd make him lose the respect of his underclassman fast, probably, if the—in his opinion—cringe moniker 'Furious Five' didn't already. It'd make it less weird to be called master when it was just a disembodied voice of an AI. It was another thing when it came from a projected holographic image of a blue-haired anime girl. For some reason, Ironman, aka Yotsubashi Tomasu—Actually, he knew exactly why, it was his idea of a joke to embarrass him—had decided to make his AI one of those '2d Waifu'.

Seeing Tokoyami already started one of his chuuni rants, Reiji decided to step in. He stepped up before addressing the 1B students, "I believe this is the first time we've met? I'm Akizuki Reiji, the Male Class President for 2A. Hero Name, the Lightmoulding Hero: Magitecher. I was tied up with my internship responsibilities with Teknus Agency during that whole debacle you all experienced. But I've heard good things. It's good to meet you all. As for questions regarding the field trip, this came somewhat suddenly for us, too, so as Tokoyami said, we're not sure how much we can, or are allowed to tell you. After all, being thrown into an unfamiliar environment unprepared is also par the course for hero work. But I'll make sure to confirm with Yatagarasu-sensei or the other instructors later."

My Hero Academia: Just Another Hero, Act 2

Reiji Akizuki

M Y H E R O
M Y H E R O

I d e n t i t y
Reiji Akizuki, 19

_{3 ★ P R O H E R O Japan, Unranked - Eirei College, Class 2A}

Q u i r k
Photonic Crystal

Gen 5 - Emitter - Awakened

Photonic Crystals allow the user to produce crystals made from unique materials that allow the crystals to be highly malleable in terms of various facets that affect light passing through them, namely the pigmentation, refractive index, and photoconductivity. These highly malleable emitted crystals are then able to be manipulated by the user, moving it telekinetically as well as altering the aforementioned light-affecting properties. Essentially, this allows the user to 'mould' the light passing through the crystals. By controlling the refractive index and pigmentation, the user is able to 'shape' lights into a holographic projection of various colours. By altering the photoconductivity, the crystals become highly electrically conductive when exposed to light, converting light into electricity, thus generating electrical discharge.

_Supermoves
° Luminous Mirage
Manifest illusory holograms in the air by manipulating the refractive index of the shards. Typically they will take the forms of mass of lights shaped into various silhouettes, but by projecting an image or video through support items, it is possible to create a fully realized detailed holograms.

° Luminous Shardmines
The photonic shards are scattered around in an area, each with its refractive index manipulated to be almost invisible while being photoconductive, essentially creating invisible electric minefield suspended in the air that can be moved as desired.

° Luminous Arc
Highly photoconductive shards are launched in a barrage of electrified projectiles. Because Energy from light is , the shorter the wavelength, the greater the photonic energy, thus the pigment of these shards are manipulated to determine the 'level' of electrical discharge by adjusting the light wavelength that is absorbed, leaving trails of 'arcs' behind them. The color goes from violet to red from weakest to strongest.

_Ultramoves
°Luminous Sphere
Applying the same principle of Luminous Arc, however instead of merely being disparate projectiles, several shards coalesce into a sphere-like shape, collectively generating more energy, and thus high voltage of electrical discharge. The color indicator for strength is reversed compared to Luminous Arc, however, as several shards working in conjunction means that there are shards that act as 'filter' by allowing only blue light through to the photoconductive shards, in order to maximize energy output.

<sub>S k i l l s
Sharpshooting • Hacking • Engineering

Support Items

Raywatch - Patented</sub>
A small, portable computer in the form of a watch. Unlike conventional computing, which uses electronic signals, raywatch uses photonic computing, allowing it much greater processing power than conventional computers. This watch was developed by the Teknus Agency with the resources of its founder, Yotsubashi Tomatsu, making use of the crystals emitted by Akizuki Reiji's quirk. The highly malleable crystals of the Photonic Crystal quirk allow it to change its refractive index and pigment, allowing the formation of lights in various shapes and signals that act as a logic gate for computing, bypassing one of the challenges to fully realizing photonic computing. This novel technology replaces the conventional electron with protons for greater processing power, allowing data processing up to terabits per second compared to the gigahertz of modern computers, and even all but the most advanced of supercomputers. The high processing power of the raywatch allows it to perform futuristic functions such as a holographic interface and advanced AI to control tentacle fibres from the pauldron in Reiji's armour. The tentacles are equipped with a high-powered small bulb and photonic crystals, allowing them to emit electrical discharge at enemies that come too close. As sort of a prank, Yotsubashi Tomatsu programmed the AI to be in the form of a 'cultured 2d woman' named Prisma in order to embarrass Reiji.

Prisma

_{Hologun - Selfmade}
A gun that uses shards of Photonic Crystals as the projectile. When fired, it emits bright light and shoots shards of the crystals, moulded to be highly photoconductive. As a result, the gun launched electrified crystal shards at high speed. If Reiji chose to alter their refractive index before shooting, the light emitted could be launched in the form of small holograms. After joining the Teknus Agency, the gun was upgraded by being able to interface with the raywatch, allowing AI assistance to perform trick shots.

_{Lumos and Spectra - Patented}
Two of the raywatch's peripherals are in the form of drones, acting as both 'eyes and ears' as well as 'limbs' of the raywatch. The raywatch drones can manoeuvre with great precision in an automated logarithm. However specific orders can be given via the raywatch. The drones are equipped with a camera, sound recorder, holographic projector, as well as a durable armour. Most importantly, they are also equipped with adaptors that can allow the raywatch to interface with conventional technology, allowing Reiji to hack into various systems with a processing speed of advanced supercomputers. They also have a compartment containing shards of Photonic Crystals that can be deployed and then controlled by Reiji for various purposes. The drones are named Lumos and Spectra.

Tales Of Endoroth (A Slice Of Life MMO Roleplay)

Robert/Claudia

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It would seem that the quest was an escort quest. Robert hated NPC escort quests. Why? For the same reasons, gamers tended to hate escort quests. Having to be mindful of weak NPC that more often than not had stupid programming such as pathway and whatnot was a pain. But not Claudia. After all, escort quests were exactly the sort of quest Claudia would have taken. For the former noble knight, quests that directly help people, especially 'knightly' quests such as an escort quest, were a reminder of better days. Days when she had not yet beholden to an evil deity due to her pact made to save her homeland.

And thus, in the role of Claudia, the character, the avatar, nodded with a determined expression, "I do not mind escort quest. Rather, I probably would say that I quite enjoy them."

As two more players joined their group, a bard and a monk, Claudia gave the two a smile, "Certainly. We can always use more help. Provided the rest of my teammates agree, of course, but I don't foresee any objections."

After all, from a meta-perspective, a bard and a monk round up the party nicely. A monk for more frontliners to help Rathello, and Bards were notorious utility build, a swiss army knife, of sorts.

Then, he turned to Goibniu, replying to his question.

"Just checking from everyone here, does anyone have focus on distance-based attacks? Feels like most of the playstyles here would be to be in or near physical attack range. Probably need to be extra careful.."

@AwesomeZero5

"I do not exactly focus on distance-based attacks. But I do have some ranged spells, such as eldritch blast."

Typically, if Robert was in a hardcore, full RP session, he would not disclose that. Claudia would try to hide her affiliation with the evil god out of shame, after all. And these were all people she had just met. But as much as Robert wanted to roleplay as Claudia, he also did not want to be one of those hardcore roleplayers who did not know boundaries and forced RP on people who did not RP. And thus, as he had been doing this whole session, he cut back on the roleplay and became more forthcoming, only using Claudia's personality as the Avatar in the truest sense, being a 'terminal' he used to interact with people in Endoroth.

As the group agreed to take the two along, they did some shopping, where Claudia replenished her supplies of potions, before going along the party to meet the wizard they were escorting.

While the newcomer bard seemed to hold no interest in the story, Claudia listened attentively. For both Claudia and Robert, the lore was something they were interested in.

The Elder Scrolls: Before the Great War

ARNVIDR FROST-WEAVER

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Arnvidr watched as the group successfully apprehended Brigit. He had to admit, he was quite impressed with their performance. It was quite good for a hastily put-together group. At the very least, it made him more confident in their chances for their missions, at least.

He then walked over to Brigit, still carrying his conjured battleaxe.

“The decision of her fate is yours, Nord.” Sindri declared, stopping some ten paces before the man to allow him a good look at his foe. “She is your enemy, and her fate is yours. Aside from that, I gathered over breakfast that you are our elected leader.”

@Carantathraiel

With an incline of his head, Anrnvidr nodded. A show of gratitude for her consideration, "Thank you. I do believe that my decision is already made."

He raised his spectral battleaxe up high, above Brigit.

"I told you to cease the foolishness or face repercussion, did I not? A shame that you persist. Any last words before I send you to Sovngarde? Well, you turned tail and ran, so Tsun won't even test you to see if you are worthy to cross the Whalebone Bridge to Shor's Hall. I suppose you will simply wander aimlessly in Aetherius realm until your soul breaks down."

Absolved Will Be the Saviors

Carnatia de Valmont

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"Captain..." Carnatia started, carefully picking her words.

Was there some reason the Captain deliberately ignored her question of what exactly was their current objective? Given his grimace just now, he seemingly did not like the idea of going back to Dragon's Maw. Or perhaps there was something in Katwiz?

"Going to Katwiz did not strike me as a sound option. Given it's a major town, and that as you said, has the possibility of being under the red stripes' control, picking Katwiz as our next destination seemed rather reckless. We have an injured person for one, which would be a liability should we end up in a fight. That said, you are also correct that looking around in the dark for where the Red Stripes' enemy may be also seems to be a fool's errand...So, why not attempt to go back to Dragon's Maw? As I've said, our mission was to bring back Paladin Thomas and his entourage. We found the group dead at their base camp, and now we have confirmation that Paladin Thomas was also dead. Why exactly are we remaining in this land rather than making our reports and awaiting further orders?"

The Elder Scrolls: Before the Great War

ARNVIDR FROST-WEAVER

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Arnvidr clicked his tongue the moment Brigit started running. What Nord ambushed someone for such an inane reason and then turned tail and ran? Such a disgrace!

He had to admit that her ability to change the shape of the Frost Atronachs was quite impressive from a technical standpoint, but there was no such practical purpose. In short, her spell at this juncture was worthless, in his opinion.

In the end, they were still creatures conjured from Oblivion and thus...

Arnvidr directed his own Frost Atronach to engage the two belonging to Brigit, as he waved his hands, casting another spell. Magicka enveloped him, creating a membrane of insulation against the chill of the frost elements. Frost Shield. A spell of the Alteration School.

'Kiffar wished to take care of his copy, very well...'

Having made his choice, he then conjured his spectral battleaxe, before charging at the Frost Atronach that looked like himself. The atronach was busy contending with the flames from Sylruna, a fact that Arnvidr was more than willing to take advantage of, as he sank his conjured battleaxe to its back.

As he did so, the magical energy on the weapon interweaved with that keeping the Frost Atronach anchored to Mundus, banishing it back to Oblivion.

Absolved Will Be the Saviors

Carnatia de Valmont

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Carnatia considered the options they have at the moment. It was clear now that this land was a hostile one, and they had explicitly fought with one of the factions controlling this land.

Without more logistical support, and a stable base of some sort, moving around would definitely be difficult. And there was also the issue of Linceleste to consider. She seemed to be still alive, but who knows if she was stable at this point.

"First of all, I think we need to reassess our situation here. Our orders were to determine what happened to Paladin Thomas, yes? And I think more or less we have confirmation that he is dead. So what are our current objectives? I presume to find out more what exactly happened? Well to do that, I doubt going into hostile territory would be productive. Perhaps we should go to their enemy instead? The ones they considered traitors. Perhaps they might be more amenable considering we have shown to be thoroughly opposed to the Red Stripes. We need to consider getting Linceleste to a medical facility too, depending on the severity of her wounds."

Tales Of Endoroth (A Slice Of Life MMO Roleplay)

Robert/Claudia

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The experience with the Jester did sour Robert's mood a bit, but then again, it wasn't often that he got a good break nowadays. So it would be a shame if he did not make the most of it doing something he enjoyed. Once he got his next job lined up, he was going to be busy enough that he wouldn't be able to play as often.

He took a deep breath, clearing his mind and once more immersed himself in the role of Claudia.

A moment later, Claudia nodded, giving an apologetic smile, "Yes. I suppose all of you are right. It would be a shame for me to allow the action of one unscrupulous individual to sour the whole experience. Shall we take up a different quest? There was an interesting quest for an ice castle I saw earlier when we were checking the board."

Tales Of Endoroth (A Slice Of Life MMO Roleplay)

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