Zero Hex

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But no one wants you to delete the post or not do cool stuff, is the thing. The issue is that in trying to get your character to do stuff no other teacher is doing, you kind of rushed and barged into a situation that Meilin likely couldn't have reached in time before the three other people directly involved in the confrontation had a chance to react. Everyone wants to do cool things but they have to respect what their characters could or couldn't do so this doesn't become a make-shit-up contest.

You're getting all huffy and even deleted the copy of the post you made but no one asked you to get rid of the whole thing. People liked it. In fact, we're literally giving you a way to keep basically all of it with the slightest of changes. It really is as simple as just splitting it in two, and it takes away nothing from your character doing her thing at all.

You can keep the part where you were interacting with the other teacher basically as it was, then see that shenanigans are afoot and dash in to help without automatically making it there. This gives the group a chance to react to the heat beam and do their thing, because they're already there, involved in the situation and have the capacity to defend themselves. Then Brock can get up and try to start a fight and then you can reach him and stop him and give him a sermon. Everyone gets to do things, everyone is happy.

No one wants you to go sulk in a corner, m8, we're trying to clear up reasonable doubts and are giving you plenty of room to do the things you wanted to do. Try not to take criticism or discussion as a personal attack, because it's not. It really isn't.

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Oh but I do because I'm actually, you know, trying to talk about it and figure out a way that this could've been done. I never said you should delete your post, for one. I outright said I don't know the distances, and that that's the problem. I like your post and I think it's perfectly doable, just split in two. One interacting with Daler and taking notice that Brock is up to no good and dashing in hoping the kids can handle themselves, and then another after the kids have handled themselves and you can come in and be teacherly to the one kid trying to set his playmates on fire.

I never, however, said Brock's heat wave is or should be instantaneous. At all. I said that there's three characters standing at closer ranges and actively involved with/being targeted by him. You know who was paying close attention to Brock's moves other than Meilin? The one kid with magical eye powers that's getting a boost and just pelted him with shuriken and the trained martial artist with an ability that's all about measuring up opponents, distance and attacks to a minute level. The same people who are closer to him than Meilin. Do you see how these people would likely have to react first over someone dashing in from the side?

You're talking about your character doing nothing but my character is directly involved with the test, he's in there and he's literally done nothing but be confused by this whole deal in every single post. I'm having fun with that, apparently people like that too I guess. You've a teacher character, many other people do and those characters are doing their teacher thing. You're setting up character interactions and relations, kind of meant to be a big part of this, that's hardly nothing.

Finally, you're taking the 100 meter remark literally when it was just me saying that acrobatics =/= dash speed. And yes, actually, coaches do analyze and take notes of how their players do across the field and direct from there. They take those notes and along with whatever observations they make in more close-up and personal training determine what each kid needs to work on. For max fine-tuning there's also getting footage from actual games but that's neither here nor there.

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@13org

No yeah the blocking's really cool, I did say that. Just pointed out I don't actually know whether that's legitimately possible but as a shonen fite thing? Cool shit, I dig it and I'd argue in favor of it, that's awesome. Please don't think that's an issue because it really, really wasn't. Again, the blocking of the heat blast itself is really cool and not at all a problem for me.

The problem was I'm not aware of the size of the field so, because of the way things have gone, I assume the distance is large enough that getting there in time to stop the heatbeam from a dead start was implausible without some kind of power aid. So I asked about it. I said the teachers felt far removed because they more or less have been, they're standing off to the side watching and taking notes and generally not involved in the thing. It was kinda the point of the setup, to have the elders act like elders and watch the children play.

I'd wait on GM judgement for it but, you know, I still stand by my view that your character outpacing the three people actively aware and standing closer to Heatman is kinda rushed. Your character can totally do her thing in like one more set of posts, you know? That's enough time for all the other characters to react. It's a fairly simple structure too:

Brock is clearly the type to not listen to rules, especially when frustrated. Your character can start making her way over thinking of helping the students targeted by the heatwave. The students deal as they can (and yes, this does involve my character doing things) and by then Brock is up and looking for trouble. Before anything can go down, bam! Your character does her cool things and acts like a teacher and then Ezekiel can sleep at night because holy shit a teacher acting like one! Here! It happened!

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Again, size of the field and distance are the issue because I don't know and you don't know, hence why I'm asking. I assumed the teachers are off to the side because so far the teachers were treated as being fairly far-removed, so Meilin making a dash in order to beat out the heatwave seems implausible even for a trained sprint.

As for the shockwaves, yeah that's really cool but if you mean using them for making the dash more plausible there's really nothing in her powers as given that even indicates she might able to do this. It's not really blocking the heatwave that's the issue, not sure if that's physically possible but within the genre it's plausible for her to do it with her powers as they are. It's more that I don't know if she could've plausibly made the dash at all.

I mean, no one's reacted to it yet so there's still time to edit with minimal hassle if it comes down to it. It's not like I'm trying to take away your character doing cool things but this was kinda like, there's already 3 characters actively involved with the situation at closer ranges that you're magically out-reacting here. Four if we count Terri. And the whole setup was kinda meant for the newcomers to do their thing in the first place...

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nvm, didn't read last post before sending this, but uh, how exactly did Meilin cross that distance with "an incredible burst of speed" when there's nothing around her abilities suggesting she has this? Sure she's a martial artist but what little description is given to that is centered more around conservative motions and acrobatings aren't exactly a 100 meter dash. Maybe I'm getting the distances wrong, it's kind of an abstract field here, but if she was well off to the side with Daler this doesn't seem plausible going by the CS.

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"Look kid, you don't take the dojo with you, you take what you learn with you...ah why am I even bothering" Zeke said, throwing his hands up in the air before going off to lean on his team's flag, body language just screaming "yep, I'm not gonna do jack unless I absolutely have to". The kid was, on some level, right. He was here, dead or whatever, it was time to accept it. This was all insane and stupid and dangerous, but really hadn't his life basically been just that till that point? What really was the difference? And as he pondered all these things, some glowing guy looked to charge right into their side of the field. Oh right, the game.

And much as he hated to admit it, there had to be something about the kid. Whatever it was he threw at Shiner over yonder (he probably would've freaked out had he actually seen the shuriken as such), Panda Boy did so very, very well, with practiced ease and remarkable accuracy for the distance and motion. The effects, however, weren't quite as clear-cut as he probably hoped they were and the guy resumed his run for the flag. He had to agree with Musashi, something was off about him and he wasn't in the mood to figure out what it was with his own body. He could probably take it but why try and risk his health over this fucking game.

"Kid, nevermind the weapon, keep going for the legs. Go mostly for the thighs and knees, the shin is solid bone. Aim where you don't want him to be and where that'll put him at. Make him step on whatever you're throwing if you can, change up rhythms and throw a few to the body mixed in to keep him guessing". Basic strategy, but it worked for personal combat with or without weapons. It didn't even occur to Zeke he was telling a child to potentially cripple someone else with weapons, but apparently no one here cared either.

@Dblade26 @Azereiah @CondorTalon

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@tipssyCalibrator
Lost track of track of the teams, Akiko's come up to Terri, Zeke, Musashi and Rumi, right? If so I'll edit some reply to your character.

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Zeke took stock of the teammates that were left around him playing defense. One little girl that couldn't have been older than 12 at most, one little boy about the same age dressed like a panda carrying around swords (right, of course, what else would he carry around) and a perfectly normal looking girl of about his age. Who talked about powers and making them stronger. Right, powers. He had no powers! All he did was punch people! By some miracle, he didn't openly shout this out but he did clench his fists and grind his teeth. Only a little. He was starting to come to terms with the fact that he was dead and his afterlife was anime as fuck.

"Right, Musashi, I'm Ezekiel but you can call me Zeke. No need for the oss stuff we're not at a dojo or anything", he said to the boy who waved at him kinda absent-mindedly. It wasn't uncommon for people to notice he wasn't exactly a regular person, even before he started training in earnest he always had that look about him, and talking martial arts gave him some of his swagger back. "Yeah, eight years training in practical karate but nevermind that. Look kid, you really shouldn't go about carrying swords n whatnot, that's dangerous for you and others, you could get in trouble with the police", he trailed off, noticing he was being adressed by the other girl, Rumi.

"No I'm not okay this whole thing's messed up. Why does this kid have swords? Why does everyone have a weapon? Why is this place putting some primary school girl up against people our age?" he pointed over at Terri, who to his surprise at least seemed to have a solid stance down. A good stance is the foundation from where you work your offense and defense, or so he had been drilled many, many times. "This shit just don't make sense. I've been to juvie and it wasn't this bad, kids had to hide their sharp shit there". He stopped once more, taking a long, deep breath and exhaling forcefully to clear his head.

"And all that talk about powers or whatever. There's some cult shit going on here or I've lost my damn mind or I died and this is some crazy dying daydream or a really weird afterlife". Before he could go on with his rant, however, the one girl that was trying to get into a fight with the other kid with a sword walked up to them with footprints on her chest and asking for a plan. Hadn't she run off real fast before? "I don't have to plan nothing. I've a headache and I'm upset and my plan is to sit here and take it out on whoever gets near. You want a plan? You keep running for their flag fast as you can and don't get hit when you do".

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Oh yeah, is Musashi carrying his swords around in the open?