Thinslayer

The Faraway Land: Resurrection

@AtomicNut@ineffable Still working on your guys' post. AtomicNut, where is Sykes, exactly?

The Faraway Land: Resurrection

As the fight for Midhaven great more intense, the Reaper closed its eyes and tried to summon its weapons.
Dawn and Dusk, come to me.
No swords came into its outstretched hands. Annoyed, Reaper tried again.
Dawn and Dusk, come to me!
Teleportation matrices sputtered and flashed, but still no swords appeared. A crowd of golems drew nearer.
"Dawn and Dusk, come to me!"
They didn't. The golems drew within striking distance. The Reaper grunted, picked up the scythe, and beheaded several golems in one sweep. "Great, I'm stuck with this stupid weapon..." it murmured as it spun and gutted two more golems. Just then, a knight came running over. "Wait! Wait up!" he cried. Reaper turned to look at him and cut down another golem behind its back. "What do you want?" it asked.
"A dragon man said to tell you that Edward is moving to the keep."

Great, now there will be two unstable people in that madhouse. "I see. Thank you for the report. Continue destroying golems." The Reaper shooed him away and made for the palace. Ravadon picked up his sword and addressed the Reaper. “It seems the time has come. I will travel past the market to the castle, which will allow for a rendezvous with Edward inside, as I hope to catch him before an inferior ends his life. At the same time, I should probably look out for anyone that’s not in a safe place right now. If there’s any golems along the way, I will scrap them. Any chance you’ll do me the honors of keeping me entertained until I get there?”

The Reaper leaned on its scythe and sighed. "Very well. I will be right behind you."
Ravadon began walking down the runway toward the palace, the two of them mowing down golems as they went. They burst into the palace together to find the whole front side crumbled, a damaged summoning circle in the center, and Edward.

The three of them witnessed King Alexander barking orders to his knights, his face beet-red with anger. Upon spotting the Reaper, he walked up to it and jabbed a finger in its face. "You!" he sputtered. "This is all your fault! If you'd come when I summoned you-"
"Summoned me?" the Reaper interrupted. "Am I a servant or apparition, that you should summon me with your magic chalk art? Tell me what happened here."
"You don't get to order me around in my own-"
"Then I will leave."

The King paled.

"The dragon kidnapped my daughers," he confessed.
The Reaper straightened. "Why?"
"He said it was atonement for the crimes I committed. I have no idea what he's talking about. He has probably taken them to his lair in the western volcano. Please rescue my daughters!"

Reaper looked at Edward and Ravadon. If only they could see the look on its face.

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You restarted the RP?

@AtomicNut

Nope. TFL:R has different themes going on behind the curtains. TFL:PoH is more upbeat and optimistic, while TFL:R is about to get a lot darker and more twisted. The "Resurrection" bit is there because we're going to fail and die more than usual.

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@sassy1085
Sweet! Make a character sheet? :D

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@ineffable
Btw, I'll have Caradras monologue with Isabella for a bit. There won't be much for her to do anyways while she'd down in his lair.

For everyone else, new post coming soon!

The End of the World on an X

The bug on Solomon's arm infected him with a Plague. He'll show symptoms of it in a few hours.

Rose's character is becoming more fleshed out in my head. I'm finding that she's joking and easy-going when in private with someone she likes, and stiff and formal when out in public. She also, apparently, has an active imagination for the man she's crushing on... ;)

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Memory matrix, regeneration boost, limited copy, DNA development, come again? Your magic system is flying over my head with all this terminology.

@Aristo

That's partially deliberate. Magic is often said to require Intelligence, and this detailed system puts some teeth into that. Honestly, though, the main reason it sounds complex is because it's highly thought-out.

I'll try to explain the system a little better.

The concept is this: in order to do something with magic, you must be able to fully comprehend what you want it to do. If you want to hurl a fireball, you can't just picture it in your head and snap your fingers. I mean, technically you could, but the effects would be extremely unpredictable.

For a simple fireball, you must define what's causing the fire, how long you want it to burn, how you're making it ball-shaped, the size of the ball, its position in space, how fast it will travel, and what it will do when it gets there. Calculating everything and keeping all of that in your head simultaneously is a royal pain in the neck.

This is where the "memory matrix" comes in. It's a magic spell that can "remember" all the stuff you want your spell to do, without you having to keep everything in your head simultaneously. You can specify parameters piecemeal. This is a core component of most custom spellcasting.

Healing is an even more complicated beast because human bodies are complicated. The simplest healing spell, and the one we're most familiar with, heals wound faster than normal. This is called a "regeneration booster spell," or booster for short. In real life, though, if you sever a limb and let it heal naturally, the limb doesn't grow back. It just closes. To make the limb grow back, you need to develop it according to the person's genetic profile.

Your spell doesn't know how to do that. You must tell it how to do that. So you must "copy" the person's DNA and write it into the magic spell so your regeneration boost will regrow the missing flesh, not just close it up. But you don't want to copy the exact piece of flesh you're templating from; that would be disastrous. You just want to copy the DNA. So it's a "limited copy."

Most of this spellcasting work can be handwaved away, so you don't really need to know most of this stuff if you don't want to. This is just how it works behind the scenes. That's why I stuck it in a hider. :P

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@Thinslayer
Shooot, completely missed you there. I've been spending Christmas with my family. I'll be on a mini hiatus for around 10 days. Go ahead and take care of my character and I'm so sorry I've let you down so much...it must be so annoying.

@ineffable

It's the holidays. Enjoy them. :)

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