Schradinger

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You're right about how he'd be holding the lance, when I originally wrote that portion I was operating under the assumption that Lith was spear-shaped, which isn't the case.

For the size, it would only be slightly larger than a standard lance, unless you had the petals standing on end and sticking straight out, but then there would be gaps through which the electricity could pass without striking it (assuming that the petals face the tip of the lance).

With regards to Arty's electricity, he can very definitely control it. If he couldn't, no bolt would ever make it ten meters, much less a hundred. If he couldn't control it, it would ground itself the instant it left his hand and just plow right into the ground or the nearest grounded object. This isn't the first time he's arced a bolt around something, and nobody had an issue the first time it happened.

As for charging, the biggest drain with the sword is its creation, when he's expending a bunch of power to get it made. Once its made, there's very little maintenance because it's a fairly closed system. The sword was also made in a post prior to the one where he began charging his bolt, so there isn't a noticeably substantial effect on the power of either. If he'd made the sword while he was charging the bolt, there would definitely be a drain on the power of the bolt, just as there would be if he were to use any other powerful active ability (like creating gusts of wind).

Most of the wording in the description of that previous bolt was artistic fluff and hyperbole. All it was meant to do was get across the fact that the guy it was hitting wasn't going to get out of it alive, because he simply didn't have the durability required to withstand 2000 degree heat and all the electrical power that was generating it. He also had no means of launching a viable defense.

In closing, I'm honestly torn right now. On the one hand, the bolt was specifically fired in an upward arc then coming down toward your character's head, and your character's lance was specifically held in between the two combatants, which would put it out of position to block the lightning bolt without substantial movement. Getting hit by an undefended bolt would very likely kill your character, even with his superhuman physical stats, and that's what would be most likely to happen with all variables taken into consideration. On the other hand, I don't want to be a dick about this and force you to kill your character, and while the lance could absorb enough energy to make the attack survivable, it wouldn't negate it completely like you say it does in the original post. Either way, you would need to take damage, and while the logical, no-nonsense part of me wants to play this out in the most realistic way possible (your character dying), the good sportsman part of me wants to cut you a break and let the facts slide just a bit this time. So I leave the choice up to you. Realism and character death or sportsmanship and we keep fighting. Either way, I'm not going to hold anything against you (as long as you don't completely ignore the damage).

Though Drall has a point about the Mach 1 hit. That would hurt like hell, high gravity and glancing blow or not. You also would have likely been flung a couple dozen feet through the air and not been able to grab the dagger.

New, Large Scale, Combat Oriented Roleplay

I think we should also steer clear of plots and SL's that are reliant on a single writer to progress, or at least make sure that multiple people always know where things are headed and can steer them in that direction. One of the things that killed Skalla's MV was that first he left, then the only other person who knew about and could progress the story disappeared.

New, Large Scale, Combat Oriented Roleplay

I'd be interested. Were you thinking PvP or PvE?

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A) You never said Lith was stuck in the ground. You said it was being held defensively, which implies a position more or less parallel with the ground, so as to cover as many vital areas as possible and still retain mobility in case of an attack from an unexpected angle.

B) The only part of Lith that has been stated to have a larger than normal surface area would be the head, which wouldn't be anywhere near your face. The rest is assumed to be the width of a standard polearm and the coverage of more or less normal plate armor, since nothing else was specified.

C) As I said before, the bolt was not fired straight. It was fired up, then arced down toward his head. Holding Lith in front of the face would do nothing to impede the attack. He would have to be holding it at an angle above his head, otherwise the bolt wouldn't strike Lith.

D) He has no reason to suspect the attack would come from above instead of any other direction, so holding it in front of his face (as you said he was doing) would be the most logical position since it provides the best coverage possible.

5) Even if Lith did manage to be placed in the correct position to intercept the bolt, it still wouldn't be stuck in the ground and the ability to completely negate an attack that has been prepared for three posts with a defense that has been prepared for two is only achievable by a character a tier above the one he's fighting. Unless you're suddenly promoting your character to high tier, you do need to take damage even if the bolt is intercepted by Lith. Not full damage, but not exactly a pittance either.

6) All of this is assuming that we're using a rule-set similar to the one used in the previous attempts at a multiverse (which I assume we are since we adopted that tier system).

Addendum to B) Upon re-reading the CS, Lith is stated to be an eight foot lance, so we can assume that the dimensions would remain proportional to a standard lance meaning that the thickest point (just in front of the grip) is no more than 6 inches across, not nearly enough to intercept the bolt when held in front of the face. That's also assuming a jousting lance rather than a battle one.

Last edit, I promise. :P I apologize in advance if I start to sound high and mighty or something, and I don't mean any of it like that. I just kind of turn into spock when I go into debate mode.

Schradinger vs Drallinix

When his opponent didn't react to his question in the slightest, David cleared his throat and repeated what he'd just said, wondering with increasing concern whether the man had just spontaneously gone deaf, dumb, and blind on him.

accepting all challengers

It would have been a lot more movement than an inch. Arty arced the lightning up and then down toward his head, not in a straight line. Lightning very rarely travels in a straight line, and Arty's wasnt using the predictable route. putting the lance directly between Arty's hand and your head wouldnt have blocked the lightning, and even with the mention of readying for defense, there's still more prep behind my bolt.

Boss Battle: Diabolus

When the demon brought the car back, Ahven followed it forward across the armor, running straight between the horns before dropping off to the left side, directly in front of the massive left eye. As he moved, his right hand gripped the appropriate pistol and pulled it free of its holster, aiming it squarely into the demon's eyeball and pulling the trigger before it had a chance to blink. At best, Ahven figured the bolt would travel through the comparatively unresistant tissue of the eye itself and then through the skull as well before ending its journey in the brain. At worst... well at least the monster would have one less usable eye.

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Ah, I guess I missed that in the CS. Though if you're dead set on fixing more, there's also the issue of Max knowing exactly where the lightning was going to be and getting the sword in place fast enough to block it... ;)

Also the fact that it was a charged attack, and you just ignored it with a zero-prep defense. That's kind of a no-no.

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A couple things actually, I'm glad you asked. Though they aren't all about the character.

Firstly: Arty never raised his arm. He just left it where it was behind his back and opened it, since it was already pointed at you. There wouldn't be that much warning.

Secondly: Lith has no energy absorbing properties, and if it's still in second form it also has armor running up your arm. That's going to conduct all of the electricity straight through your body on its way to the ground. Even if you managed to plant one end in the ground and still get the other in position to block, a significant portion would still go through you.

Now on to the character.

Demonic Presence: How strong are the tentacles? And 20 meters is over 60 feet. That could hit almost all of us at once. I'd be comfortable with something less than 5 meters across. Perhaps each tentacle can generate enough spikes for one square meter, giving you 8 square meters (a 12 foot by 12 foot square) if all of them are used. I'd also like to know the range of this ability.

Demon Wings: Being as fast as a fighter jet puts him at over mach 2. Mach 1 is kind of the unofficial limit for intermediate characters, but unless he has some way to propel himself in addition to just his wings, he'd never even get close to that speed. A peregrine falcon (the fastest known winged creature) has a highest recorded speed of 242 mph, and that's in a straight dive, not level flight.

Pure Dark: I'm unclear as to what the first portion of this is supposed to do.

Unholy Sacrifice: I think this one should probably have a 2:1 enhancement ratio, given how powerful Alex already is. So if he gave up his inhuman speed, he would only gain an equivalent half of what he gave up back as strength.

Natural Adaptation: If this means he can copy anyone else's abilities, I'm going to have to say no to it. Suddenly gaining the ability to control lightning after watching Arty do it would put him way outside the bounds of OP when combined with his already very potent abilities.

Prowess of a Demon: First off, 50 tons per arm is enough to crush every single one of our characters with one blow, including Vordak's, whose only abilities are his physical power, speed, and durability. The strength is going to have to be massively nerfed if you want to keep all his other abilities, probably in the range of 1 ton baseline (total, not per arm, though he can go higher with his unholy sacrifice). Secondly, having senses so perfectly attuned that they let him avoid any attack is blatantly OP. If this is the level he's at after all his power has been lost, he soars well into high tier and way past any characters here.

Shadow Puppets: How durable are they and how many can he make at once?

Weaknesses: Just a general note about how attacks or defenses that generate a lot of light should probably weaken his shadow manipulation abilities.

accepting all challengers

There is indeed.

Also, it's your post Drall. Or whoever's after Drall.