Wait, how the hell do they even have stuff like civilization, buildings and weaponry? The Angels, Demons and Nightmares I can accept, they're essentially artificial species whose knowledge is innate, but how the hell does that work with the Elves?
Crystalwatcher's Magical Girl Quest!
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ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
@crystalwatcher, correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I believe Story is a Growth Affinity, and it doesn't seem to be on the list of Affinity templates.
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Maybe reword this to something like:
And maybe this to something like
H: "So... gunpower explodes right?"
E: "Yeah."
H: "So what can you do with it?"
E: "Uh... blow things up?"
H: "Alright now what happens when things get blown up?"
E: "They break."
H: "... They fly off into little bits that can hit people."
E: "Huh. And?"
H: "You don't... see anything you could do about that?"
E: "Don't get blown up?"
H: "..." "What about, maybe making it easier to blow things up away from you?"
E: "That's crazy, how would we light it on fire then? Our fire arrows can't reach that far."
H: "... maybe you could delay a fire starting?"
E: "Ohhh, get a wizard to do it!"
H: "..." *Sigh* "Without a wizard"
E: "... I've got nothing."
H: "Alright think, if your fire arrows can't reach it, and you can't use magic... how else can you set up gunpowder to go off at a distance. You need fire to do it."
E: "... ah, if I set the forest on fire, but then... that'd just burn up the enemies anyway, so that'd make the gunpowder pointless."
H: "..."
So I'm given the impression that the other races just aren't that 'creative' so to speak. You tell em to go blow something up, they'll tell you they don't have a wizard to handle it.
Crystalwatcher
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They're capable of developing all that we have, but it takes them a horrifically long time to do it compared to us.
The Elvin Empire is more or less a stable version of the Roman Empire. They've had a very long time to figure out what they know, and even longer to master it. They still operate in a kind of clan/family unit setup that works similar to a democracy mixed with a council of elders.
Story isn't a growth affinity. There's only Story Maker.
Functionally.
UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
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Edited. Thanks!
Crystalwatcher
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I'm going to have a lot of linking to do tonight.
Not sure if should hug or laugh.
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
Ok...so as I recall, the growth affinities are: Story Maker, Myth Maker, Legend Maker, Myth, Legend, Epic, Divinity. Wasn't it said earlier that there are supposed to be 8? Because I'm only seeing 7.
Okay, it's not that they lack it, it's just really weak.
You said otherwise previously:
See, this is something I can understand, you can see the same sort of thing amongst small isolated human communities. Combine that with socially-ingrained mental construct that revolves around magic, and it'd impede non-magical advancement.
Crystalwatcher
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... I might have forgotten that...
EDIT: I'll add a Story sheet when the chance presents.
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Maybe also add the Interceptor ability off to Abilities, and have her Rifle Muskets have the ability to "always be within reach" or something? Her muskets only have one shot, but as long as she reaches to grab another, it's always there. Not sure what to call that. Just an idea. Maybe have Interceptor as something she learned over time.Edited. Thanks!
And now I'm having ideas about a Story Maker MG who knows it'll be years before she'll be viable on the front lines, so she spends her days running a delivery service and her nights catching criminals, all while dealing with feelings of inadequacy.
Projectile
Thinking of Rabbits
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This is really screwy to think about. Learning IRL is pretty domain-general. There isn't much difference between learning that it's good to talk to this person because she's been nice before and learning that it's good to mix these substances because they've always exploded nicely before. To have a conversation with someone perfectly intelligent and have them completely fail to grasp a simple concept,no a set of concepts, over and over again must be mind-boggling. I suppose the fairies feel the same about magic.
Human Soldier: Looks like... five demons under that extremely precarious, huge, sharp rock.
Elf Soldier: They haven't seen us yet. We have plenty of time. What were you saying?
Human: So, Marissa was supposed to feed my cat yesterday-
Elf: Haha, don't tell me; she forgot again.
Human: Right. So Mittens was pissed, and so was I. I'm done trusting her to other people.
Elf: That's why I don't have pets. I could watch her, though, if you need it.
Human: Thanks. I appreciate it, really. Anyway, we could probably just poke that rock and kill all the baddies. What do you say?
Elf: ...
Human: ...
Elf: Sounds complicated.
Human: (How do you dress yourself in the morning?)
Does this apply to angels, too? Gabriel's comment on her relative ignorance due to the circumstances of her birth implies a sort of workaround, and so does the tech level of Heaven. At least for human-based angels, and probably nightmares, too.
Ooh!
Idea: make an elf play a war game where he has to achieve some objective (kill the bad guys) with resources (soldiers). Then... swap all the names around, so he thinks he's gathering up children with a bunch of adults or something. What would happen?
Yeah. That is probably what happens. After all it might seem alien to think about for humans, but then again, all other races are for all intents and purposes, Aliens.
Crystalwatcher
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They're not quite that pathetic, but similar pranks are common in non-combat areas.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
To be fair, the other races are very good at their own thing.
It's just that humanity is unique in that they're engineers, while everyone else are artists in their own fields.
Like, take Gabriel for instance. Newly incarnated (Not even a month old I think?). And yet she's already more then a match for trained, elite soldiers wearing the best equipment available, and has several broken abilities that she got just for being born. Humans are just bad at magic compared to every other race--but they're fantastic at magical applications. Which let them get 100 motes of effort out of 1 mote of natural power.
The only reason that we're not a complete gamebreaker is because the races that are actually naturally good at magic and have 1000+ motes of natural power are just incapable of wrapping their heads around the same concepts that humans do, which means that they don't look at 1,000 motes of power and go "How can I make this go further?" They just find new ways of using that 1,000 motes of power.
And it's part of why the UD seems to be winning so far--because they make it a policy of corrupting and drawing from other races--and the current Dark Lord seems to be willing to shut up and listen to his (Human) Advisors (Likely Goddess Red), which means that they're far more creative in general thanks to this, and are advancing quickly.
It's just that humanity is unique in that they're engineers, while everyone else are artists in their own fields.
Like, take Gabriel for instance. Newly incarnated (Not even a month old I think?). And yet she's already more then a match for trained, elite soldiers wearing the best equipment available, and has several broken abilities that she got just for being born. Humans are just bad at magic compared to every other race--but they're fantastic at magical applications. Which let them get 100 motes of effort out of 1 mote of natural power.
The only reason that we're not a complete gamebreaker is because the races that are actually naturally good at magic and have 1000+ motes of natural power are just incapable of wrapping their heads around the same concepts that humans do, which means that they don't look at 1,000 motes of power and go "How can I make this go further?" They just find new ways of using that 1,000 motes of power.
And it's part of why the UD seems to be winning so far--because they make it a policy of corrupting and drawing from other races--and the current Dark Lord seems to be willing to shut up and listen to his (Human) Advisors (Likely Goddess Red), which means that they're far more creative in general thanks to this, and are advancing quickly.
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ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
So here's my second and final-for-now attempt at a Magical Girl OC.
- (Unified Light) Magical Girl Bloody Seraph
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Maria Gardener
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Whip of Blood
Level 1
Attacks Per Turn: 2
Affinities: Blood
Ability: Armor Pierce
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Also, when you think of it, it took a bloody long time for humanity to get to parity with other races. The Great War has been fought for thousands of years, when a few thousands years ago an entire army of humans would be shredded by what the other factions would consider mooks.
The only saving grace for humanity is that they constantly develop and grow stronger as time passes, accumulating knowledge and development, hence the Evolution of Warfare part, but it would be simple enough to lower humanity again.
Simply bomb humanity and destroy all vestiges of their civilization. That would get rid of any advantage that we have. On the other hand if the same was done with the other races, they would still be formidable.
An Angel newly born could wreck entire groups and small armies.
A Human newly born would need a few decades and the support of an infrastructure that took 2 millennia to develop to even be compared to in the same league.
ltmauve
"Excuse me?"
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Okay, Char Anazble is the "Red Comet" in the Universal Century Gundam timeline (Original, Z, ZZ, CCA, Unicorn, Victory, Crossbone, ...am I missing any?)
He pilots a red mech that is three times as fast as the standard mech, and the only difference is that it's painted red (okay, the thrusters are probably better, but that's the joke
)Now, in Gundam Unicorn, we have Full Frontal (Actually the dude's name) piloting a red mobile suit that's three times the speed and wearing the same mask as Char did, and he's referred to as "The Second Coming of the Red Comet."
So that's where Charlotte's name, MG name, and those two abilities came from.
Dragonloli123
Bonedad
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I'VE JUST HAD AN AMAZING IDEA!
Crystalwatcher
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Alright, done.
From now on, if you guys are curious on if your submissions are canon or not: check the front page.
I'll put them there as I get the chance. Edits-To-Canon will be done as the Muse wills it.
Have fun.
EDIT: If I've missed submissions link them to me and I'll update as necessary.
From now on, if you guys are curious on if your submissions are canon or not: check the front page.
I'll put them there as I get the chance. Edits-To-Canon will be done as the Muse wills it.
Have fun.
That's a terrifying thought.
EDIT: If I've missed submissions link them to me and I'll update as necessary.
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Dragonloli123
Bonedad
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Crystalwatcher
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Ask Gore, he's the one who was collecting them on my request. I'll see about going back past his first number and looking for any he missed.Where's my Cheaty McCheaterson submission.