Robo27

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So I believe it is at this point in which @Eklispe & @The Wanderer to choose who they want as their leader o.o so that Animus can begin to move the story along!

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Kei stood and listened to the player that came after him. Arkan made a point of creating alliances with other races to make it possible to complete this game with everyone if he were to become the leader. Kei immediately began thinking to himself about how things don't always work out with alliances especially when the other races saw nothing to gain from allying with the Spriggans. After all they were the least populated and, really, down to the core Spriggans are basically pawns to other races. 'Hoping to ally with other races this early is honestly a notion that will bring the demise of our race how can there be trust in an alliance when population wise we are the weakest. Before making an alliance we need to put a foothold in this world so that other races have a reason to ally with us, and not just a alliance by word but an alliance by trust...' Kei's thoughts continued to trail off in the same pattern, he really wanted to say something to counter the things that Arkan was saying but could not as his turn was up and coming into another candidates turn would possibly mean a disqualification for him.

In the end Kei had to hope for the Spriggan race to realize how weak of a plan it is to form alliances a month into a death game would be, especially without the proper power to enforce such an alliance if it were broken by the other races. He shook his head slightly in a disappointed notion since he felt a bit of worry in that the Spriggan race might end too early in the game with such plans.

With that though the debate portion of the elections were over and now it was time for the results through a simple vote from the whole race, funny thing was that the results would be announced as soon as every Spriggan present input there vote. There was no wait time.

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man I'd love to interject with my character but can't since his turn is up lol

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Been away for only a day and suddenly an automation discussion has exploded.

Honestly, I'm not against all these advanced weaponry as long as they come with the supposed logical hurdles. If you're going to make some mega airship, the only people capable of building it would be those with really high masteries and you'll subsequently need high level mats. Then there's also the problem of non-allied races sitting there and just watching you make something that potentially rapes the shit out of them :P so while not very practical, it is possible. It's not like Lephrechauns are the race the only ones with such op potential though, Cait Sith could potentially tame the powerful beasts of Jotunheim as well and so on and so forth.

I will be forwarding the plot soon as well.

@Animus

I have a bit of a counter argument for that, see the monsters from Jotunheimr can be taken down, as long as there is a sufficient amount of people to do so, as can be seen by SAO Season II right before the Mother's Rosario arc. While an airship equipped with magical cannons and all other sorts of armaments would be a bit on the harder side, but I can agree with your choice though as long as the way it is achieved is justifiable in every way then I can accept, but if that's going to be the case some war will be a result because like what race will sit around and let one race create weapons of war xD

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On a completely separate note, the Cait Sith are currently looking for allies. Is there any race which wishes to befriend us nature-loving pacifists?

@Izaka Sazaka

Would be all over that but 2 things prevent that
1. First I would need to actually be leader
2. In the event I do become leader the Cait Sith are literally on the opposite corner which would make it really impractical to have an alliance that literally spans across the whole map xD

EDIT: Also I forgot to mention whenever I have my character speak itll be in this color and within these 「 」 and finally thoughts usually go in ' '

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「Here we all stand today deciding who is the best to lead the Spriggans. Each and every one of us that stand before all of you have our own motives for running for leader, but I can't tell you what their motives are, but I can tell you mine. My motive, my reason for wanting to become the leader of the Spriggans is to ensure our survival and triumph over this game. I do not have any wishes to take over other races territories or anything that relates to such actions. My wish is to ensure that each and every single one of you that stand in the crowd, make it back to the real world to lead a life, not a life that is doomed to be stuck in a video game just to meet your untimely death.」He paused for a minute as he did a quick survey of the crowd stood before him before he began to speak before them again.「I can honestly say that I am the best suited for this position because I know for a fact that I have more experience than any of my fellow candidates before you. I am sure that my name has gotten around, after all I dedicated hours upon hours to becoming the strongest and most tenacious player possible to ensure that I can lead a whole race without failure. My reputation proceeds me, but if you have not heard of my name, hear it now. My name is Kei, the Spriggan who will lead this race to the end of this death game. The one man that will provide for this race in any way possible, ensuring happiness and survival. Now you may all be asking how I am so confident. I am confident because I know this game from the countless tests I took part in, I know the best quests I know the best raids that can be monetized to give the Spriggans that boost to compete with the other races. I know secrets that not all the testers knew about. I can provide a foothold to this race against the other races. I may seem arrogant but I do not go back on my word, I vow my very life to the Spriggan race even if it means my death. I will protect this land and it's people against all adversaries no matter what.」

Kei paused again before bowing and giving a very slight bow.「Thank you for giving me your time my fellow Spriggans.」The murmurs that were coming from the crowd throughout the speech immediately ceased to exist, rendering it completely silent. The silence was broken in a matter of milliseconds though as the crowd cheered out loudly, making it seem as if it was a landslide victory, but there was still one more candidate left to give out their final speech which almost meant that Kei's victory was not locked in. He worried as the man that came after him seemed to always be close behind Kei, doing his best to take the victory away from Kei.

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Realistically though what does this offer in terms of advantage? If you're able to throw fireballs naturally why would you ever need a device whose purpose is to throw fireballs. In fact, even if such things were created it'd be likely that they would be inferior to natural casting ability.

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I do agree with your point about keeping tanks / airships out though. As fun as wargaming this is I don't actually want to see them implemented IC. I'm fine with defensive turrets though as long as they don't get too out of hand.

This is really an issue the GM should rule on though. What level of sophistication are we allowed to progress too?

@Izaka Sazaka

well see that gun can augment the magic making it pack a lot more power to it and all, but anyway yes you are right in the end it is up to @Animus to decide what can and can't be so, but I am glad you agree that tanks/airships would just be too much for this RP.

EDIT: Man that post just felt all over the place for me. Long drawn out speech posts are not my forte @.@

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This is true, though we did see automated defenses in the anime in the form of those automaton knights that defended the passage up through Yggdrasil.

@Izaka Sazaka

Yeah, but do keep in my mind they were monster mobs, it's not like they were created by one specific race for the intention of war.

Also to build more on my point, if there are tanks and warships what will stop someone from making a gun powered by magic? After all tanks and warships would mean the technology and ability to make a single handheld gun powered by magic isn't impossible.

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I mean, usually in Fantasy roleplays you're not supposed to have a tank but if your engineering / magical forging capabilities are high enough you can easily make one? Same goes for airships. Really, technological innovation becomes a whole lot easier when you can engineer the first half of it and say "the second half runs because magic".

@Izaka Sazaka

I understand that and all but like this RP is based off a series that is centered around fantasy mmorpgs and like having military grade equipment, such as tanks and warships, literally defeats the purpose of there being the premise of melee and magic battles fought between players not military grade equipment versus military grade equipment.

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I mean I hope a lot of this technology is partially joke, because a lot of it doesn't fit the whole SAO/ALO based premise xD

@Eklispe I am working on now, a post that is.