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@Sodium Apparently, there's some animosity or at least some form of annoyance in your reply. If offended you, I apologize. That wasn't my intentions. I'm just doing my best to explain the idea I had in mind.

I did not take an introductory course in anything. Just googled. If my poorly constructed explanation caused you so much vexation, I'm sorry.

The reason for this RP was for me, and a few others, to have fun and serve as an outlet for their creative writing. With that in mind, I didn't really spend time in developing any specific explanation for most of the things in the RP's setting. I usually do everything on the fly.

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@Sodium Dude, this is a fictional world with fictional laws. I could make up the most absurd type of reasoning and it wouldn't matter if it didn't coincide with real world science. The point I want to get across is that technology and machines don't work because magic interferes with it. I'd like that rule, at least for this RP, to be respected. I apologize if I can't give you a well detailed description, but the general idea that I'm imposing is there. I'm sorry if you don't like it, but that's how I chose to do things here.

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Actually, I thought it did. It basically says that magic causes technology to dysfuction.

Anyway, I'm more than happy to accept suggestions regarding the explanation and honestly, I like your idea. I don't mind changes things; an example would be how magic was previously classified. There are certain issues I can think of though that would accompany such an explanation. Maybe you have other ideas?

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Oh, sure. Since I already explain it to Sodium, I guess I'll post it here too.

My initial explanation was simple "Magic interferes with technology". But I guess that was as vague as I could get. Anyway, here we go.

So, in the world where Four Winds exist, magic functions as an expression of one's will. It's basically an ordering of causality in accordance with your consciousness. Technology (including mundane technology), functions through mechanisms for manipulating flows of electrons and operates according to atomic and quantum laws. So in this world, magic would take place not on an energetic level, but on a paradigmatic level. So the branch of science we're using wouldn't be physics, but information theory.

Consciousness is to the quantum realm as the quantum realm is to Newtonian mechanics. So the rules have a kind of fundamental presence (note how important "the observer" is to some quantum models), but the way they're expressed is radically weird and different from our perspective way up here in the macroscopic plane. So when magical consciousness-effects are present, they cause what amounts to interference on the level of electrons and photons. Living beings are relatively unaffected due to a certain level of self-awareness or what could be called "informational coherence." Inanimate objects, however - especially things with circuits, batteries, and whatnot - are going to be subject to the causality-equivalents of static, bands of interference, blips, crackles and the like. Hence, causing dysfunction of technology.

Makes sense? Even in the slightest? Please?

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@sodium
While i'm not a GM, I do want to suggest that you read a few of the posts prior to yours and edit your post.

There's a bit too much going on for it to be likely that you could just helicopter-drop into the dead center. For starters, Junko's fog would prevent any pilot from attempting to land, and I don't think it needs to be stated directly that non-magical elements can't affect her fog, or else it would have been blown away by now. And while I understand that you were aiming for some super-cool insert, it just isn't exactly feasible based off what's going on right now.

If I'm the only person thinking this way, that's fine, feel free to ignore me, but I think there's a bit too much going on right now for any of us to want to drop what we're all doing and pay attention to Arthur's flamboyant arrival.

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@scio, If I'm totally off base with this let me know, but I don't really appreciate the forced introduction.

@hagroden

Just wanted to clear this up; this is untrue. Junko's fog, and mostly anything else magical, may be affected by the non-magical.

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Anyway, Me and Sodium are talking about his post. Regarding the update, my laptop suddenly started to update, so it'll be delayed a bit. Sorry, guys.

@Zero Hex Sure thing, man. Currently, we have 19 participants. Not sure about how active the others are, but technically, only one slot is left. I guess you appeared just in time.

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Okay, no mini-updates. This update's going to be longer than I expected.

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@January I see no problem with Mikhail assuming or choosing to believe something. I mean, for all he knows, the chances of him being right or wrong is pretty fair. I mean, if a character saw someo else get ressurected, he could assume that he just saw Jesus. No biggie. The only issue I see in with the narration. Like you said, an author's narration should usually be based on the character's point of view. Takes a while to get used to, but its definitely doable.

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Alrightie then. Let's see what we have here.

I come to think of it. If Kyou can now turn off her fox mode, does that mean she got lots of magical power. I did state that she'd been stuck in fox mode for 4 months. Understandable due to the power system changes cuz it's inconsistent that @Scio did.

Not surprising if she passes out in or after this fight due to not being able to sustain her magic in longer periods.
Also Kyou speed> Everyone? lel

@Masaki Haruna

In the previous system, you classified Kyou's magic as Igyo, hence it was a mutation. This means whatever kitsune attributes she has are permanent, passive, and not deactivatable. Otherwise, it would have classified as Henkei. With the sudden change in system, only the classification was changed and nothing was mentioned about her magic gaining the ability to be turned off or on. So, yeah.

As for speed, I'd say Akasha is the fastest. Kyou an Nihiri would probably be next to her.

@January@Letter Bee Is it fine for Mikhail to conclude that Donovan caused the unnatural calm that he had felt? Sure, nothing wrong with that. Mikhail can believe whatever he wants to. And Banjo also noted that the sigils were giving off enough illumination to reveal their faces and whatnot.

However, Letter Bee on the other hand, as the narrator for that character, shouldn't write in a way that makes it appear that he already knows this information. I'm probably not making sense, so I'll try to come up with an example.

• "Mikhail was certain that it was Donovan that was causing all of this" - This is definitely fine. Right?
• Mikhail's voice lost its bite, due to the fact that he was unable to muster much passion in the unnatural calm given by Donovan - This is probably not okay. Instead of Mikhail just assuming that Don was the cause, the narrator actually confirms it. I mean, I don't think that's part of your job description.

Anyway, I'm well aware that I may be wrong, so call me out if you think so. At least I can explain the reasons behind my decision.

Anyway, off to do some updates.

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@Nanashi Ninanai Still need to post Varus' reaction to everything thus far.