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Shards of a Broken Sun [Megaten/Shugo Chara/Exalted]

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Baughn said:
Ah... that's a funny coincidence.

I'm a machine learning engineer, so the meaning of "ticks" to me usually ends up being "scheduler ticks", or equivalent—though jiffies is the proper term for that. In a desktop OS those are usually 1ms, these days, but in GPUs it can be a much larger fraction of time.

In this case it's simply the length of a combat round. It's not particularly meaningful.
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It's a large enough number we probably don't need to worry about it being an immediate problem within the timespan of the quest, surely.
 
What is this, your fourth attempt at this? Truly, the ideoform of Hinamori Amu cannot be denied.

Of the Banes, I think any of
[X][Bane] A prophecy
[X][Bane] Reality Glitches
[X][Bane] A Family Secret Uncovered
interest me the most.

[X][Boon] A sister released
-[X] Miki
Because who am I to deny Amu her wish?

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[ ] [Bane] Forced Publicity
 
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[x] [Bane] Reality Glitches
[x] [Boon] Retrocognitive Flashes

I know Reality Glitches is meant to be nasty, but I couldn't help picking it as it reminded me of Wild Wasteland from Fallout New Vegas
 
Now, I know I said you get one of each. However-

Adhoc vote count started by Baughn on Oct 24, 2023 at 10:41 AM, finished with 53 posts and 18 votes.
[bane] [boon]
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These two actually go well together, so as it stands? Both. You'll get both.

As well as probably some delinquents showing up; they simply won't make themselves a problem. As I said — these issues will exist, whether or not Amu is affected by them.
 
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Alectai said:
Huh, so because they're compatible, we're getting the top two of each?
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Nope, just two banes, at lower intensity each. You can probably imagine that in this case the publicity is positive, even if having publicity in and of itself is an issue.

It's because of the tie. And because, yes, they work well together—I don't have to pick one or the other to make the story work.
 
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[X][Bane] Reality Glitches
With an actual preference of:
[X][Bane] A group of delinquents
But I'm more voting against the publicity as my priority here, because Amu mind controlling large amounts of people is very ethically dubious.
So with that in mind, also:
[X][Bane] A prophecy
[X][Bane] A mysterious stalker
Since I have just learned how the approval voting works. :p

As for boons:
[X][Boon] Symbiotic Bond
Is my most prefered, but in interest of biasing the result:
[X][Boon] A sister released
[X][Boon] A lock piece of insight
[X][Boon] A key piece of insight
 
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Knowing Nero he's figuring out how to keep the world dead so the psionics all stay dead.

[X] [Bane] Forced Publicity
[X] [Boon] A key piece of insight
[X][Boon] A sister released
- [X] Miki

Because I want those two and/or Publicity, so I'll take my vote away from glitches to keep publicity in.
 
Baughn said:
I'm not sure how you got mind-control as a probable outcome of that, to be honest. But the vote is valid, I suppose.
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It's Amu.

I'll trust her not to tamper with minds when I'm wearing three Mind Blanks and a nondetection amulet. :V

Also, I just don't find the publicity angle interesting, narratively.
 
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[X][Bane] A group of delinquents
[X][Bane] Reality Glitches
I like both of these, both sound like fun.

[X] [Boon] A key piece of insight
Or
[X][Boon] A sister released
-[X] Miki
 
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