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@Ashevelendar Sorry, I'll make some changes here and there later.

Though actually, it's not uncommon for mythology to have overlapping sectors. It's just they represent different parts of the same concept.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_deit..

Just a massive example. I'll make some changes so it'll be Crime and Secrets, will that be alright with you?
Sorry, this is not quite complete just yet. But let me know if there's anything I need to adjust as I continue to work on this.

God CS:

Name: Del Sombra; Mistakenly known as Storm Father.

Domain: Major: Mistress of Crime and Secrets; Minor: Caterer of violence, and thieves.

Personality: Even though Del Sombra’s largest influence is with the crime rate of cities. She is often called both a softy, and a hateful bastard. Her limits are clear on what she allows and disallows under her eye. And usually her tastes for delinquency can vary from day to day.

But one thing that is known for immediately incurring her wrath is anarchy. She always desire structure, a code of conduct among men regardless of moral intent.

She also appears to tolerate the warship of other gods in her presence or in her lands, this in no way will affect her standing on the individual.

Influence: Del Sombra’s most direct source of warship often comes from criminals. A few Major crime-lords are often touched with the gods blessings, and are given a very small fraction of his power for use. And though Sombra’s power comes with a price, she places no limits to how it may be used all for the sake of having an interesting show.

The largest minority of her worshipers comes from soldiers.

Powers: Del Sombra normally and often takes her form in the shape of a small feline. The cat’s eyes constantly emit an aura of wispy smoke, and it’s body seems to shimmer between corporal and incorporeal. However, this can often change to whatever is convenient for him at the time. However, she seems to be incapable of representing a normal human, and will often be similar to a Rakshasa or one of his demi-human creatures. And though Sombra is actually genderless, she can shift between genders at will, and seems to take precedence as a female.

With her sphere of influence comes the blessings often sought by thieves, assassins, scouts, and other light footed mortals. The ability to meld with shadows to travel great distances, between planes, or to conceal themselves. The ability to peer beyond the cloak of darkness, mist, and smoke. The ability to end a man rightly with a violent death. And uncanny reflexes.

She also bares some control over the weather patterns. Giving her the ability to block out the moon and cast a land into the darkness of night. Or create heavy storms to cause confusion to safe guard her champions.

Apperance:

Creations:
Displacer Beast: A terrifying six legged beast formed with a lawfully evil mindset. These creatures have two long snake like appendages rising from it’s back, and have the ability of displacement. This ability allows the displacer beast to appear in a location that it is not.

These beasts are incredibly dangerous and territorial to adventurers, and seem to have a level of intelligence about them. However, it is not uncommon to see these beasts become “domesticated”. And But domesticated in terms of an established contract.

Sergals : A form of Demi-Human, and her first fully sentient creation. They are lanky creatures, resembling some sort of raptor with a mostly mammalian body. Their language is needlessly complex, and after many generations of existence has not grown much better. The Sergalian language is absurdly context sensitive with a mass scale of grammar rules making it obscenely difficult for non-native speakers to correctly translate, and as consequence, many of the intricacies of speech is difficult for a Sergal to comprehend, like sarcasm, metaphors, similes, analogies, and inferred statements.

Their written language is not much better, as the meanings of their characters can change depending on the previous markings and sentences.

Kobolds:

Shades:

Orb-Horse:

Cryptic: Strange spirits whom's bodies are only cloaks, and their heads are very strange and complex symbols. They are invisible to the naked eye, and no amount of magic will be able to reveal them. However, an artist can unconsciously reveal them in their artwork while studying a subject.

The cause of their apperance is a very literal mystery. As they appear to appear in higher density near areas of great secrecy, conspiracy, myths, legends, or otherwise.
Or they will come after me with pitch forks and torches! D:

Pokemon has a history of nonsensical lynching.

But if it turns out well...



Which reminds me that I actually planned on having Maple wanting to get involved in the pokemon contest.

Any cities with it?
Welp, then that makes my last two posts utterly pointless. >.o
@Tangletail OK. Three seconds of that video made my ears burn


I'd be so ready to kill those things in a minute....
so we all good to move on and roll with it?
@Tangletail I agree about moving on, but one more thing. In that ep, the Pikachus were using a combination of their thundershock and a treadmill thing to generate the power. It's kind of hard to apply real world logic to creatures that essentially use magic.




Good ole emergency generators XD. Not good enough to run a high end desktop, but it will keep a select few lights on. That does remind me...

There are such things as UPS (Universal Power Supplies) Which are giant batteries meant for emergency lights. These are also used for server rooms and such. But they are not meant to keep them on, as they drain fast (10 minutes for one that was about five feet tall, hooked up only to the projectors and servers at the theater I worked at). They are only meant to give you enough time to safely save your work, and turn them off.
Besides, again. The healing machine isn't some normal piece of hardware either. As for the manual being within reach. Remember we just escaped from a really bad fire. Chances are it would have burned.

as for the wires... You yanked it out from the wall so those need replaced. I highly doubt it has its own power supply. Reference the episode when Team Rocket cut the power to a Pokemon center and they needed Pikachu's electric to get it remotely back on. The machine itself was also down.

that said even after repairing the wires... Still need a power source.


Then the concepts of how it works would be documented somewhere in plenty of text books or research papers. The The majority of it though... basically -is- a machine.

He mentioned that it needs a power source, specifically enough power for an AC unit, which has a strong enough draw you need a very heavy cables, and a larger breaker tolerance. He's basically saying that you can't plug it into a normal outlet. A power supply is actually what transforms AC current (the electricity from the wall) to DC current. Those are -always- part of the machines. For larger machines, it's a replaceable box bolted into the machine, as it also doubles as a breaker for power surges. For smaller devices it's embedded. You know that box in the back of your computer where the power cable goes? The box inside of an xbox if you ever opened it up. The box for a monitor. This massive box that will kill you in a projector, and a box in the base of those robotic arms used for construction lines.

Also I wouldn't use that pokemon episode as a reference, especially as a source of reason. Pikachu can generate a lot of volts... but that's not what powers a machine. It's both volts and Amps. Yes, Pikachu can match a lightning's strike, but you can easily assume that it's far less than an AMP in current as it doesn't kill anything. This means the most he could really power is a few very weak lights... assuming he didn't blow the bulb.

But if you broke a 120volt lamp's light bulb, which is 80watts of power, you'd commit suicide by touching the diode.

A volt is the force used to move energy. Amp is the flow of that energy. If the energy doesn't flow, it's not doing much work, thus very little power. If the current is high, it's doing a lot of work, which gives it a lot of power.

Can we just move on? This is already spanning two pages >.<
I don't ever recall seeing it in the anime. They just take the ass kicking shake your hand and wait for the character to leave.

But my thought usually is FULL RESTORE SPAM. Or that they do one challenge a day, or one fight during appointed times (As trainers are actually pitted up against each other before they get to the leader).

It seems unreasonable, but there aren't a lot of trainers that appear to even take the challenge to begin with, they get weeded out. And a lot don't even seem to make it to the elite 4.
Not only that they could just say. "Why not just use the gyms healing machine."

Also, bit convenient that he the manual and all he needed to fix it in his pockets....


You generally keep the manuals near the machines, or stored somewhere. Some locations even keep the technical manual inside the device's chassy, if it's frequently maintained. It doesn't tell him if something small is missing. It basically tells him general information that is documented, and how to service it, or determine if it's in operational shape, correct operational voltages across certain components, and circuit diagrams where it can be serviced without needing to go back to the manufacturer... or be replaced. Which... without proper tools, you're not guaranteed to know until it's tested. So this machine could actually still be busted due to the prolonged exposure to heat. Just jarring it around won't do enough damage to it. Hince why he's a bit unncertain when he concludes that it may be fixed.

Best case scenario, The power cable was melted, and needed to be replaced. A few objects falling on it would have probably damaged the screen and glass. Worse case scenario, the heat actually destroyed something very small in the circuit board that it's hard to notice. It can still be salvaged, it just won't be availible immediately. Or a pillar had basically crushed it all together.

And to be honest, this is actually just a convenient excuse for my character to introduce himself to the others and not be a lone wanderer. If it wasn't for him knowing that your pokemon were hurt, and that the only center in town had been burned down, he'd probably would have moved on to the next town by personality - he's not very social and is more concerned about Maple's well being.

But... do gyms actually have a healing machine? You're generally forced to run back to the pokemon center, aren't you? I know the Elite 4 has them at the end of the journey.
Given that the authorities basically got out ranked by kids when it came to handling problems. And... countless times depended on kids... I'm sure a...

"Officer I can explain!" Will do wonders when combined with, "The machine would have been doomed in the fire, and there were plenty of heavily injured pokemon that were fighting off the terrorist. Their condition is horrible enough that they'd probably recieve increasingly worse conditions the longer they wait! So I risked my life to extract it, and repair it. Now I'm delivering it to the nurse."

but that could honestly go either way. I'm sure they'd be in a bad mood.

Side note... Engineers.

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