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"The Founders of Hogwarts could've never foreseen multi-casting wands or auto-swish-and-flick grips! Curses today are far too powerful!" "NON INFRENGIUS!" *blinding flash of light*
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"The Founders of Hogwarts could've never foreseen multi-casting wands or auto-swish-and-flick grips! Curses today are far too powerful!" "NON INFRENGIUS!" *blinding flash of light*
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If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you give a man a rat, then you satisfy his R A T D E S I R E.
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15 days ago
Maybe people just shouldn't screech and be assmad over politics in the Status Bar in general. Nothing anyone says here wins "the great cultural war of our time." Go RP or something, shit.
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I AM AN ELF AND I'M PLANTING A TREE! PLANTY PLANTY TREE, PLANTY PLANTY TREE!
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Wow, this chamber has a really nice echo! (echo...echo...echo...)
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I like the animation and that they acknowledge "Yes, he is a swordsman who can't use magic in a world run by wizards--but you can clearly see he's also fucking superhuman running Sanic rings around this monster." I feel like, aside from just the gag nature of it, that's how people in Mashle's word should've treated the MC after the first three or four times he literally suplexed the villains through solid stone. "Yes, they do not have magic, and that makes them weird. But you can clearly see they are BUILT DIFFERENT so why not judge them by what they can actually do instead of laughing until you get bodied?"
I have the captain's responses to various characters in-progress, but I think I'm going to wait for the overall update just a little longer! Apologies if this is a disappointment to some, but I'd like to give those who've expressed interest a chance to drop their new character drafts at the least, if not get their own introductions started.
As always, if there's anything anyone wants help or feedback on, feel free to drop me a PM!
As in, a magic type that specializes in self-buffs and hand-to-hand fighting by focusing the users Mana to different parts of their body to enhance abilities associated with it? The main trade-off would be that users have a very hard time projecting their Mana outwards, with the limit effectively being a standard Magic Bullet.
As @Remram said, Reinforcement Magic is sort of like the close-combat version of Magic Bullet--a generic form of magic that everyone can use regardless of element. But if you wanted to do something like this, maybe consider using some form of magic that's conducive to hitting hard or further reinforcing a weaponry or martial arts based style of fighting? Like, if you used Earth Magic to form stone gauntlets over your fists, or used Wind Magic to do some kind of like... "mini-tornadoes around the legs" for powerful flying kicks and such?
@RoadkilBanana I typically search something like safebooru or zerochan for anime-style face claims. I also don't mind if AI generated images are used, it's just that most of the ones you can use for free don't always churn out the greatest results.
@Zeroth Hi, this looks interesting and I see that you are apparently still taking applicants, but just wanted to ask if it was a good time to join story-wise or if folks should wait a bit?
Yes, right now would still be fine to introduce characters! If you could get an app in sooner rather than later that'd be ideal, but right now we've only just begun the main event so your character could easily catch up with their introduction.
"I can tell you with complete and utter honesty, I have not intentionally committed any crime in my time here." For the first time Connor actually managed to look the catgirl in the eye, though it wasn't for very long and the action seemed to cause him to immediately lose whatever nerve he'd worked up for that statement. But, as he sheepishly looked away--out of shyness, not nerves--he hoped, if she believed anything he'd said, that she would believe that.
Maybe I'll contemplate murder, but only in like, self-defense. I'm not a bad person. he thought to himself, clenching his jaw for just a moment. He just...couldn't trust anyone, yet. Not the people he'd come here with, not the natives. Not until he was strong enough that he couldn't be easily hurt by the mistakes he was sure to make.
"Th-thank you very much." he said politely to the waitress when she handed him the wrapped meal. Clutching it like it was valuable treasure, he meekly followed Meira out into what little remained of evening light.
Oh good, they have some form of street lighting. That should mean we're a little further into the "urbanization" phase of medieval history, right?
"Yes please!" came his immediate answer when the adventurer asked if he needed help finding his way back. As far as directions went, he thought he could probably have managed, but he wasn't walking alone in some strange city he didn't know, into a slum that he'd already seen was full of those the rest of the city considered undesirables. But, as they were walking...
"Hey, another random question, but uh...do you know of any like...famous inventors? And what they're famous for...inventing?"
Thinking of "urbanization," I already have proof that I'm not the only isekai'd person here. So I think it's safe to assume we weren't the first either. And if I was from a world with better tech than here, I'd damn sure try to get rich...
Just like that one guy, in that one anime, with the three super hot but really dumb girls.
When they eventually made it back to the shack, however, Connor would rush into the dilapidated dwelling with an excited grin.
"Hey, can you hear yet? I found food--!"
The shack was empty.
"Oh no." He dropped the sandwich. The blue haired boy practically threw himself to his knees, scrambling over to the roach-infested hole he'd made earlier and looking under the floorboards. "No, no, no..." He practically threw the tarp into another corner of the room. Nothing but dust lay underneath it. "Oh shit, no, oooooh noooo!"
With a traumatic expression on his face, he turned back to Meira and actually grabbed her arm.
"M-my friend's g-gone! They couldn't move w-without help, they're gone! Someone took them!" The guards? Did the guards come to investigate? Or did some squatter try to, well, squat? Cassius had said slimes weren't considered bothersome enough to kill on sight, but what else could've happened?! There was no blood--or slime--trail, was there?!
Wait, idiot, the messages!
"Please please please please..." he let go of Meira's arm and started pacing frantically as he composed the mental "spell" or whatever it was. "Pickup pickup pickup..."
WHERE ARE YOU!? ARE YOU OKAY!?
EMERGENCY! SLIME IS GONE DO YOU KNOW WHERE!?
Connor felt a sense of helplessness that utterly terrified him. Were they dead? Lost and alone? Did something eat them? Did someone attack them? If they found out the slime had a human mind or soul or whatever, would they torture them for their secrets?
Nothing. Not even eyes or antennae or anything. For a moment Connor's overactive imagination, completely overdosed on all the tropes he mindlessly consumed instead of working on anything productive, managed to activate his dulled sense of empathy. To imagine what it would be like, trapped inside such a body...
But then there was this poor soul. No eyeballs, no mouth, not even a functioning spine...
Don't worry, won't leave u alone.
"Uuuuungh!" He grabbed his head as he shook it back and forth, trying to focus. What could he do? "Damnit, damnit, no, no, no!"
@Remram You don't have to wait in "post order" to match your number or anything, just treat this like a sort of montage jumping between different characters. It's just, "How does your character perform each test? What's going through their head?" Etc.
Spells work like most special powers in anime. People shout out things like "Wind Magic: Whirling Dervish!" or "Cyclone Spear!" and then destructive stuff happens. I would assume based on what's seen in series that spells require a minimum expenditure of mana in many cases (can't cast them if you get below that threshold) but that pouring more Mana in it makes it bigger, more destructive, faster, etc.
What exactly are the different targets like? How big/thick are they? What are they made of?
How quickly should Kohra expect herself to run out of mana? Not being familiar with the manga, I have no idea how much power Kohra can put out before running out of mana.
What are magic bullets?
1. Like a 1 foot wide, 1 foot long, 1 inch thick square, made of stone, with a glowing bullseye on 'em.
2. There's not like a hard and fast MP system; generally, when someone has spent a lot of mana it's equivalent to physical exercise. If you're "tapped out," you're breathing hard, sweating, feeling dizzy, all that kinda stuff. So just sort of think about how much "magical effort" you imagine Kohra expending per spell and describe things accordingly. I mean, Players are expected to be able to pass the exam, lol, so even if you're making it hard on her I don't think she'd pass out after the first events.
3. Magic Bullets are like your "default" spell, just a ball of magical energy that can be fired offensively. Like a generic ki blast in Dragon Ball Z, or like Magic Missile in DnD if it was a cantrip instead of a leveled spell. It can have qualities of the element or just be generic "mana." Again, depending on the amount of mana and the skill of the user, though, some people can "shoot harder" than others. I think there was one throwaway guy in the manga who didn't have a lot of flashy spells, but had mastered Magic Bullet well enough to use it like a sniper rifle.
So someone like Sol would wait for about 4 hours, oh boy XDXD
Sorry, I meant that each "player" has their own "station," on the two sides, not that literally one person is taking up each entire testing ground at the time! The Officials are constantly replacing the tiles and columns as they're destroyed, so neither section will run out.
Think of it as like, there's an official standing there, the Player walks up, a set of the tiles floats over, and they're replaced as the player destroys them. Some distance away, there's another official, watching over another person, doing the same thing. On the other side, one official might be watching multiple columns, but if somebody's gonna use a big boom spell the officials will clear others out of the way, etc.
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