Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)
- Thread starter Silently Watches
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I'm not quite sure what you mean. Divide Energy lets us give Mana to others, it doesn't give us mana.
[X] Petty Cure
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
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Ah, but remember. Samantha has many of the same spells we do, and got them when we learned them IIRC.
Hm. Inconclusive. If we encounter them again, we'll need to be on guard I think. Flameguy may have passed on our reaction/change of demeanor when he reached for Perfect Storm.
And Sere's not giving Vista enough credit, but oh well.
Interesting update.
It's Petty Cure, not Pretty Cure.
As for voting...Hm.
[X] Shell Barrier
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- Actually pretty lost
[X] Divide Energy
Our lack of stamina is a serious weakness - we were tired after this short one-sided engagement.
Our lack of stamina is a serious weakness - we were tired after this short one-sided engagement.
Pretty cure is a much better name imo.
...Well maybe not better, but definitely funnier.
It's more that we were switching attack types (remember, we're Fire aligned so using Ice attacks isn't as natural/easy), than raw stamina issues.
And how does divide energy help with that?
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My thoughts:
Petty Cure - bad healing spell is better than no healing spell at all. Who knows when we create support mage. Additionally, it's interesting what spell is behind it.
Reforge Armor - useful for long battles, like Endbringer battles. Additionally, the sooner we learn all Knight's spells, the sooner we can choose specialisation again.
Divide Energy - frankly, don't see much use for it, but behind it can be Anti-magilink Field, which is effective not only against mages, but against all the capes affected by Recursion field too.
Can't choose yet.
Petty Cure - bad healing spell is better than no healing spell at all. Who knows when we create support mage. Additionally, it's interesting what spell is behind it.
Reforge Armor - useful for long battles, like Endbringer battles. Additionally, the sooner we learn all Knight's spells, the sooner we can choose specialisation again.
Divide Energy - frankly, don't see much use for it, but behind it can be Anti-magilink Field, which is effective not only against mages, but against all the capes affected by Recursion field too.
Can't choose yet.
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- Actually pretty lost
Assuming that most fights won't be winnable by spamming a single spell, there's not much practical difference - we still get tired too fast.
We have a S Rank Linker Core, Mana Cartirdges, etc. Using stuff like Flare Shooter, Rust Bullet, Solar Wrath and the like is no real strain on us for most engagements. Using opposite alignment spells is, though. You are worrying a little too much imo.
Silently Watches
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That's… not what it's called.
Looking back at Arc 6, I made the cartridge mechanic way more complicated than it needed to be. Unless I come up with a better system or you guys start popping cartridges like candy, I'll treat them as functionally unlimited. I.e., whatever Taylor uses in a chapter she'll automatically replenish off-screen when she has a non-combat day.
Your vote was for Samantha to get involved if any of the villains made moves against you if they didn't surrender when you told them to. Surprise surprise, they didn't surrender, and they all immediately moved to attack you, either directly like not-Human Torch or by throwing things like not-Thing. Samantha moved to intercept the obvious toughest opponent.
Not my fault your battle plan had a metric shit-ton of holes.
Taylor only felt weak because she had to use her one ice spell to defeat not-Human Torch. There were very, very few suggestions on how to fight somebody who was obviously immune to Sere's ability (even if he could affect Breakers, would a bonfire care if it was dehydrated?) and most of Taylor's. The one that had the best chance of working was Frost Beam, which wears her out because she has to convert her mana from fire to neutral to the exact opposite of fire. I've mentioned before, both in-story and in the OOC comments, that Frost Beam is going to wear her out more than anything else.
After all, she's thrown around dimensional barriers and Buster-tier spells and flight and bullets and the kitchen sink at fights before without getting drained. It is this particular spell that's the issue.
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- Actually pretty lost
Oh so it wasn't the switching but the spell itself that was draining? Fair enough.
[X] Petty Cure
Always Late
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- Ohio
Fair enough.
Unless whatever not-Thing threw also needed Frost Beam to destroy, the grapple with the Human Torch was clearly more dangerous and draining.
I did screw up on the plan, but that? That one you can't put on me. That there's the NPC making a bad call.
You know, it might not be a bad idea to offer to scan the non-parahumans at either the local PRT office, or wherever Thirteenth Hour is going back to and give them a copy of the same material we gave Dragon.
Especially since Thirteenth Hour is going to try to go back to the Protectorate. Maybe offer to commission devices for them. Thirteenth Hour will probably have to work without a device.
*shrug* still think it's funnier, like I said to landcollector.
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
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- Ohio
... I really hope this is your idea of a bad joke.
