Septe: I like it. I suppose his role would be... navigator?
Septe: As we discussed earlier on the cbox, we have several options. We could carry only what we can comfortably carry, or we could have a bag of holding, or we could convince Nex to create us a pocket dimension. :P
I noticed something. Some characters are convinced they're the best at something.Depends on the situation. In a fight between two player characters, it's between their players. In a routine fight, the players can usually decide how they kill (or whatever they do) their NPC enemies. In a "boss fight", where I control the NPC's, it's much like in a fight between two PC's, only I'm the other party. As a general rule, apart from the routine encounters, the receiver decides if the strike lands.
Who has actual control over the fighting abilities? I'm assuming Krozam.
Personality -- (Going for the motherly type. Not that a mercenary group needs a mother but... Maybe when Nex needs someone to scold the others)LOL! I actually laughed aloud at that. I haven't the slightest clue what kind of a mother Nicolaos had, though... His history is still largely a mystery to me, especially his childhood.
"My personality?" I asked.
"Yeah. I want to know what I'm getting into letting you join," Nicolas replied.
"Oh. Well, I think I'm a caring, loving, gentle, soft spoken woman."
"Hell."
"What's wrong?"
"You're just like my mother..."
AbilitiesIt seems you have a bit different understanding of light magic than I do. My light magic is literally light magic, it's light manipulation. Illusions, blinding lights, invisibility, at high level even destructive beams... Healing is non-elemental, mainly divine magic's stuff, though there are a few other convertable energy forms that can be used to heal (somewhat less efficiently). To go into technical details, divine magic forces the patient's body to heal faster than normal, lending it some of the needed energy, but heavily draining the body of its own energy reserves. Ki healing is a bit slower, because it consumes only ki, it doesn't force the body to participate (though if it's self-healing, the results are very similar, since ki is in large part life-energy). This also explains why they are so effective when used together: the ki-healer lends the patient energy, which the body uses to heal itself, forced by the divine magic. Normally, healing severe wounds includes a risk of the patient's life energy running out, but when done this way, there's very little risk of the patient dying. There is a convertible form of magic that replicates the effect of ki healing, as well as one that manipulates the body directly (affects the blood and flesh and bones themselves, requiring good knowledge of anatomy as well as expert control) and probably some other ways that I can't be bothered to invent right now. If you want to be a very powerful healer, I suggest you either get a god to supply the power or learn to convert elemental magic to divine magic (which is entirely possible, one of the easiest and most common conversions).
While the knife says otherwise, she's actually a healer. The knife with a soul floating out is actually a good friend of hers who wants to be called George. He can sense the life energy of people and tell her if someones sick, hurt, dead, etc. Using George to pinpoint the point of pain (P.O.P) she uses light magic to cure an ailment, mend broken bones. She's pretty good but she can't yet bring someone completely back from the brink of death. She can keep you alive until you get back from that point though, so no worries. Although she's the devil in disguise to anyone who hates medicine.
She and George traveled the world until finally meeting Nicolas, a man who asked her to join his mercenary guild as a healer. She already knew of both the good and bad deeds an assassin's guild could do, and after deciding Nicolas was a 'Good young man', she joined. Along with George, who to this day, has become the witty, humored, insulting character of the guild. He's talkative, and only Maria can really stand him.We're not an actual guild, we don't have the numbers or the organization. We're just a small mercenary band. Also, I find it amusing that she'd call the 28 years old Nicolaos a "young man", while she's just a decade older. :P
Also... why Puddle? I'd love to hear the story behind that nick... ;D
Okay posted my relationships with various characters, enjoy the hate :P
Okay posted my relationships with various characters, enjoy the hate :P
Lol, the relationship with Ishman was hilarious :D I doubt Ishman would mistake Caithar for a "servant", but it's too fun of a thing to pass up :D
I might write a person by person review of Ishman's relationships, though it might be a boring read. Ishman has no strong feelings for anyone :D
I fear for the GM's mental sanity.
Anyone seen Septe recently?
Ki
Ki is a form of energy constantly flowing in (presumably) all living bodies, human or otherwise. It is a large part of one's life energy, and one cannot normally live long without enough ki, or with the ki flow somehow blocked. If your ki-center (located somewhere between the sternum and navel) is damaged, it will cause various health problems and can be fatal. With training, ki can be controlled and harnessed for use in battle. However, this training is a process that demands patience and time.
The theoretical part of the training includes lessons in regular anatomy, ki paths (the pathways that ki flows in your body) and a number of mental exercises. The mental side of practical part includes meditation, putting those mental exercises into practise, and learning to feel your ki flow (greatly eases control). The physical side of it includes learning to control your body, various muscles you'd normally not be able to control at will, and of course actually using ki in mock battles and various physical exercises. In many cases most of the learning happens through learning some kind of a martial art. The most skilled ki-users in the world can be found in monasteries where martial arts and meditation are daily practises.
All of this takes years, especially if you learn beyond the basic control. I'll list some ki-abilities and give them each a level, which represents how advanced they are generally understood to be. There are no skill paths, learning one ability doesn't close any doors, and neither do the levels mean that you can't jump to a lvl 4 ability right after learning the basic lvl 1 abilities. Few ki-masters ever learn all of the known abilities, and just because you've learned one lvl 2 ability doesn't mean that it won't take you a year or more to learn another lvl 2 ability. As for how long these abilities take to master, I'd say that on average, lvl 1-3 abilities each take a year and a half, lvl 4-6 take 2½ years, lvl 7-8 take 4 years, beyond that it might be 6-10 years for each. You may learn to use the ability passably in half of the time, these times indicate how long it usually takes to fully master the ability. Of course, the more time you dedicate to learning and the more talented you are, the faster you learn. Most ki-users choose to focus on few abilities instead of dabbling in everything, although both ways have their advantages. In practise the line is hazy, but as a guideline I'd say that one is considered a master-level ki-user after mastering at least seven abilities, one of them a lvl 7 or higher - so, that usually means 15-18 years of intensive training.
I've named the abilities, but I'm not going to translate the names. Each name has two words, and the second word sort of divides the abilities to five groups. Here are the key words to each group:
Dou = flow
En = focus
Kata = strong release
Chuu = soft release
Yuu = channel
Lvl 1:
- Teikan Dou: Accelerating your ki-flow, improves your reflexes and endurance.
Lvl 2:
- Ganshuu En: Infusing your muscles with ki, improves your strength, and hardens your flesh somewhat.
- Yok Dou: Accelerating ki-flow locally, enabling - among other things - the sharpening of sight and other senses.
Lvl 3:
- Fuku En: Directing ki into a wounded bodypart and holding it there, reduces/stops bleeding and accelerates healing.
- Jun Kata: Focusing ki into your palms and releasing it in short bursts at the right moment for blocking purposes.
Lvl 4:
- Sou Kata: Gathering ki to your hands or feet and releasing it explosively, enables very powerful strikes and leaps. With good control, this can also be done in a soft way, a palm strike can throw someone back strongly but without causing much direct damage.
- Seisen Chuu: Directing ki through your hands into another living being and controlling it to some extent: ki-healing, mostly.
Lvl 5:
- Attou Kata: Short-range (but ranged nontheless) ki-blasts. Usually not terribly damaging, but convenient for throwing people around.
- Nyou Yuu: Channeling ki through a non-living object, for example a weapon. The higher your skill-level, the more control you have over the channeled ki.
- Eian Chuu: Controlling another's ki-flow through touch (but not very quickly), to some extent. Allows you to put someone to sleep, to mess up their ki paths, to make their own ki heal them etc.
- Zai Dou: Clearing your ki-paths, the ability to undo most damage done to your ki-flow. The worse the damage, the higher level of skill is required to undo it.
Lvl 6:
- Ryutou Chuu: Releasing ki all around your body in a controlled manner, enables most aura abilities. The effect of the aura depends on the ki flow pattern. They stimulate the ki-flow, infuse the muscles or affect mentally the people around you. Some auras are considered higher level abilities.
- Gai Kata: Gathering ki in your hand and releasing it through a passing physical touch in various flow patterns: enables stunning, killing and various other kinds of touches. Some of the techniques are considered higher-level, for example damaging someone's ki-paths and ki-center without killing them.
- Han Kata: Sharp, powerful ki-blasts through your hands or feet, you can literally punch a hole in somebody, or break a wall.
- Shokan Dou: Through refined control of the ki-flows in your brain it's possible to gain several mental advantages, such as a high resistance to pain.
Lvl 7:
- Juu Yuu: Releasing concentrated, powerful but controlled ki, allows you to control your opponents' movements to some extent, for example throwing them around without ever physically touching them.
- Tenyuu Kata: Disrupting ki-flows in the air, allows breaking auras and other applications of ki that spread ki outside the body, without expending much of your own ki. It's possible to achieve the same on a lower level, but only by overwhelming the ki-flow with your own ki, which is usually very consuming.
- Hibi Yuu: Releasing a substantial amount of ki and restraining it close to your skin, it's possible to gain a fairly effective but consuming ki-armor. On a higher level the ki can be kept in constant movement, improving the armor's effectiveness considerably. Less ki is needed for this improved version.
- Seki Dou: Opening your ki-center, releasing your ki-reserves in a rush. Gives you an incredibly powerful ki-flow for a while, but releasing much of this ki is naturally consuming, plus the strong ki-flow may damage your ki-paths, and worst of all, if you use this for an extended amount of time or lose control even for a moment, your ki-center is likely to be damaged. It's a last resort thing, it can take away your ability to use ki for battle or even be fatal, but it can also save your life in a fight against a superior enemy.
Lvl 8:
- Kuuka En: Forming ki-concentrations that don't break immediately after leaving the control of the user, allows throwing explosive balls of ki and some other applications.
- Kyou Yuu: Releasing highly concentrated ki in controlled patterns: you can stomp your foot and cause the earth all around you to crack and convulse, or strike a boulder and have it break more or less cleanly into two halves.
Lvl 9:
- Roku En: Forming solid "objects" from ki and keeping it in control for lengthy amounts of time, for example making a blade out of ki.
- Jisatsu Yuu: Absorbing uncontrolled or badly controlled ki, allows you to absorb ki from someone who doesn't have full control of his own ki flow, or from some applications of ki which spread it outside the body (such as an aura). Also allows you to absorb back your own ki in many cases where you release it outside your body.
Lvl 10:
- Tai Kata: Releasing ki quickly and controlledly from almost any part of your body, allowing you to block strikes from any direction with short ki-bursts that don't consume much ki. Less effective and more limited versions of this can be achieved on lower levels, but this level of control is the highest anyone has ever achieved.
Morghandy Sloane am Albion aka semiramiese's turn.
Wasn't it Halo?
She called Maria up too, but Lissa had shrugged off the bolt and was ready to continue.
September (2011): We'll go through turns like crazy forever!Lol Isn't that how it always happens? :))
February (2012):...