Ttw1
Suffering at NNPTC without discord
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To be fair, I've been doing it over the course of several months.
Crystalwatcher's Magical Girl Quest!
- Thread starter Crystalwatcher
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It's actually a Radiance thing. Lunar has a Excellency Spell as well. I might play around with it though, maybe take off the Health boost and bump up the MM boost or Damage boost or something.
Thank you for pointing out the others though. I'll get around to it... at some point when I feel up to it.
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- Earth
Yeah, as the person who noticed that (and as someone who loves fourth wall breaking), I gotta say, the metareferences were gold. They're part of what kept me interested enough in this thing to archive-binge it. Well, that and being interested in where the greater thing with Solid Core being similarly-named to Solid Drive and Judgement Core would go, which paid off in the form of absolute epicness. This is one awesome quest.
...Also, any insinuations of me being paid off by Crystalwatcher to mention the fourth wall breaks should absolutely not reference the convenient similarity between our internet monikers. Yep. Totally. That's a thing that has no bearing on anything at all. (Seriously though, it's cool that we both do the fourth-wall-breaking thing and both have Crystal- names.)
...You have just given me an evil, evil idea, which also really appeals to me because meta.
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- Location
- Italy
Short rant, nothing massive.
Not my best work, but I'm currently completely overwhelmed a bit preoccupied with RL
Not a study of a particular character, but this idea popped into my mind and I wanted to write it.
Personally I see it in-universe as a speech someone would giveat the base, leaving out some thing that of course a normal soldier of the UL couldn't know.
Maybe an official that is rallying the troops after a battle? Something like that.
The only truth of the war after the fall of Hope.
The Unified Light was losing.
The Eternal War, that went on for so long that few people could remember when it even started, was going to end, and the result was clear to everyone.
This wasn't something that could be challenged.
It wasn't the opinion of a few crazy conspiracy theorists, convinced of some far fetched theory.
It wasn't the cries of despair of a desperate soldier that fought on Hope.
It was fact, that weighed heavily on every single men, woman and child of the UL.
There was no amount of unreasonable optimism that could change it.
All the optimism, fury rage, everything the UL had offer were already unleashed at Hope a thousands time over, and the wall of steel called reality crushed them, mercilessly.
Yes, the war was in a "stalemate".
Both factions lost an uncountable amount of resources on Elysium, to the point that even the infinite Legions of Hell finally understood what "attrition" meant.
But the UL lost its brightest stars, and even worse it lost them to the enemy.
This is all to hammer home a single point.
After Hope, the armies of the UL were confronted with a choice.
To fight, or to surrender ; if not to the UD then to despair.
Just try to imagine.
The strongest Angels of the Heavenly Host, among wisest and oldest members of the UL, the ones that strong of their age would never falter, dead.
The Goddesses Four, the real tangible example that victory was just a matter of time, turned traitors or disappeared, leaving only one behind.
Gabriel, the ray of hope that brought miracle after miracle, making the impossible commonplace, left behind to die.
The greatest defenses of the Counter Force, drowned by a black sea of demons.
After that, who could stand and shout "I will guide you to victory!"? Who could hold the line? Who could truly and earnestly aim to win, to defeat the invincible wall of despair that made itself known at Hope?
The UL needed people that didn't simply accept the inevitable, mounting a token resistance, but that decided to fight against destiny.
And the UL desperately needed them, because after Hope morale was nonexistent.
Without such heroes, the UL probably would have simply fallen, its armies incapable of mounting a resistance worthy of the name against the hordes of the UD, against the Goddesses turned traitors.
Morale, as any general worth something will tell you, is far more important than it seems.
But who would try to win a war that simply cannot be won?
The old ones should have been broken, new ones impossible to find in such despair.
Such heroes simply should not have appeared.
And yet they did, where no hope existed, they fought motivated by simple promises, that others would have considered worthless.
Old heroes that didn't surrender to the darkness, and new ones that took the place of the old ones.
Archangel Michael, and his oath to bring back Ichi Mitsubishi to the light.
Rei Mitsubishi, whofought to protect the promise she and her sisters made, to attain glory.
Amanda, who simply kept fighting and fighting, regardless of everything and everyone.
Rogue Mason, who after watching the abyss that was Hope kept fighting, unbowed.
The Drives, who showed that the war was still not decided, and wouldn't be until the UL decided to stop fighting.
They, and hundred of other heroes that inspired the UL to keep holding the line, transformed the crushing defeat that was Hope into the stalemate that we see today.
Solid Core wouldn't have existed if it weren't for them.
While we prepare for the last battle, let's not forget the ones who stood in front of the abyss, and with powers lacking in front of the darkness, kept fighting with all they could, hoping and dying for something as impossible as miracle.
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A massive thank you to @beth2 for his help in correcting this post, i probably didn't fix it completely, but you help is truly appreciated.
Not my best work, but I'm currently
Not a study of a particular character, but this idea popped into my mind and I wanted to write it.
Personally I see it in-universe as a speech someone would giveat the base, leaving out some thing that of course a normal soldier of the UL couldn't know.
Maybe an official that is rallying the troops after a battle? Something like that.
Michael and the New Heroes
A short Lord Marshal Rant on the state of the war after Hope
As always, this neither canonical nor WoG, but simply my opinion
A short Lord Marshal Rant on the state of the war after Hope
As always, this neither canonical nor WoG, but simply my opinion
The only truth of the war after the fall of Hope.
The Unified Light was losing.
The Eternal War, that went on for so long that few people could remember when it even started, was going to end, and the result was clear to everyone.
This wasn't something that could be challenged.
It wasn't the opinion of a few crazy conspiracy theorists, convinced of some far fetched theory.
It wasn't the cries of despair of a desperate soldier that fought on Hope.
It was fact, that weighed heavily on every single men, woman and child of the UL.
There was no amount of unreasonable optimism that could change it.
All the optimism, fury rage, everything the UL had offer were already unleashed at Hope a thousands time over, and the wall of steel called reality crushed them, mercilessly.
Yes, the war was in a "stalemate".
Both factions lost an uncountable amount of resources on Elysium, to the point that even the infinite Legions of Hell finally understood what "attrition" meant.
But the UL lost its brightest stars, and even worse it lost them to the enemy.
This is all to hammer home a single point.
After Hope, the armies of the UL were confronted with a choice.
To fight, or to surrender ; if not to the UD then to despair.
Just try to imagine.
The strongest Angels of the Heavenly Host, among wisest and oldest members of the UL, the ones that strong of their age would never falter, dead.
The Goddesses Four, the real tangible example that victory was just a matter of time, turned traitors or disappeared, leaving only one behind.
Gabriel, the ray of hope that brought miracle after miracle, making the impossible commonplace, left behind to die.
The greatest defenses of the Counter Force, drowned by a black sea of demons.
After that, who could stand and shout "I will guide you to victory!"? Who could hold the line? Who could truly and earnestly aim to win, to defeat the invincible wall of despair that made itself known at Hope?
The UL needed people that didn't simply accept the inevitable, mounting a token resistance, but that decided to fight against destiny.
And the UL desperately needed them, because after Hope morale was nonexistent.
Without such heroes, the UL probably would have simply fallen, its armies incapable of mounting a resistance worthy of the name against the hordes of the UD, against the Goddesses turned traitors.
Morale, as any general worth something will tell you, is far more important than it seems.
But who would try to win a war that simply cannot be won?
The old ones should have been broken, new ones impossible to find in such despair.
Such heroes simply should not have appeared.
And yet they did, where no hope existed, they fought motivated by simple promises, that others would have considered worthless.
Old heroes that didn't surrender to the darkness, and new ones that took the place of the old ones.
Archangel Michael, and his oath to bring back Ichi Mitsubishi to the light.
Rei Mitsubishi, whofought to protect the promise she and her sisters made, to attain glory.
Amanda, who simply kept fighting and fighting, regardless of everything and everyone.
Rogue Mason, who after watching the abyss that was Hope kept fighting, unbowed.
The Drives, who showed that the war was still not decided, and wouldn't be until the UL decided to stop fighting.
They, and hundred of other heroes that inspired the UL to keep holding the line, transformed the crushing defeat that was Hope into the stalemate that we see today.
Solid Core wouldn't have existed if it weren't for them.
While we prepare for the last battle, let's not forget the ones who stood in front of the abyss, and with powers lacking in front of the darkness, kept fighting with all they could, hoping and dying for something as impossible as miracle.
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A massive thank you to @beth2 for his help in correcting this post, i probably didn't fix it completely, but you help is truly appreciated.
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1. I was doing the overly-literal thing again; it says "anyone you can think of", not "anyone you've met". Thus the mention of famous scholars.
2. I'm aware of Lucky's status. But the genius postdoc knows less than the professor emeritus, except in their narrow specialty. And Earth-based labs will probably have better knowledge of human magic's peculiarities than others, because they have more experience with it and easier access to test subjects and experts on human magic, despite others having a broader knowledge of magic in general. Especially in the fields introduced by humanity.
3.
Gaia knows as much as all of humanity combined, plus everyone who's ever walked on her surface, including Lucky, plus whatever she know from Divine Being stuff or general observation or private experiments. That such information may be difficult to access, or that she's disinclined to do so, does not mean she doesn't know it. Just that it's useless to ask her.
OK, I'll retract the part about "not something they're established as being able to do". I stand by the rest of it. Those ones work better because they're shorter and don't interrupt the scene as much, but they still feel out of place.
I'm aware that it's a Radiance/Exalt thing. It just feels wrong for it to be identical to Solar's, so yeah, some adjustment would be good.
Note: I probably won't do this again. Too many errors gets tiresome. And because there's so many, I'll just be quoting everything instead of individual lines. As usual, things in red need to be removed, things in yellow are changes, things in green need to be added, and things in blue I'll give more detail on in my comments. Since I'm not breaking it up this time, my comments will be [pink, italicized, and in brackets].
I have some other comments on the prose and content of this and your other rants, but I don't have the expertise to critique writing on more than a technical level or enough interest to argue the content, so I'll just say that I think you tend to get over-dramatic, and to follow your own narrative and let your speculation become assumptions further than you should, and leave it at that.
Whoo, yeah, not doing that again. I'm a pedant who corrects people in the vain hope that they will cease assaulting me with painfully erroneous English, not an English teacher.
I have some other comments on the prose and content of this and your other rants, but I don't have the expertise to critique writing on more than a technical level or enough interest to argue the content, so I'll just say that I think you tend to get over-dramatic, and to follow your own narrative and let your speculation become assumptions further than you should, and leave it at that.
Oh, and I forgot to vote. Let's fix that.
[x] The Story of Peace
[x] No Rest For The Wicked
[x] In Memoire - The White
I'd replace one of the latter two with visiting friends if I could think of anyone other than Maria (Basilicom) that I wanted to visit who's actually here. (Where is Carnage, anyway?)
Idea for later, or possibly now if people think it's a good way to decompress: Nepgear can fly at 270mph and doesn't need to breathe, and she knows this. She can reach (the official edge of) space in 14 minutes by flying straight up, and get the whole Earth in view at once in somewhere between 14 and 74 minutes, depending which of my Googled numbers for the human field of vision is accurate.
Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
Lucky's Library: The Fae
(Or, What Happens When Positive Energy And Magic Have Really Energetic Hate Sex)
(Or, What Happens When Positive Energy And Magic Have Really Energetic Hate Sex)
Lucky:
"Hey everyone, it's your favorite Fairy team member here! Today I'm going to be talking to you all about the Fairies as a whole! I'll be giving a general run down on the basics, then spending a while to answer any questions that the readers can think of afterwards. So if your own question doesn't get answered, don't be afraid to ask!
"Also, due to the nature of today's Q&A, I won't have a helper. Now, lets get started!"
[A scale model diagram of a fairy appears, with another scale model diagram of a human right next to it.]
"To begin, you are all aware that a typical adult fairy is between 37 and 48 inches tall, with an average height of 40 inches. This means that all fairies are typically short when compared to nearly all the other species in the Local Dimensional Cluster. At three feet, seven inches, I'm actually on the taller side of my people. Something that can get really awkward when moving around a purely Fae structure. I hit my head on a lot of things. Outside of that though, we're remarkably similar to Humans and Angels in our anatomy, with several key differences."
[The human diagram fades out and the fairy diagram is blown up to a larger size, with a new overlay appearing over it, pointing to specific parts of the body.]
"The first, is we fairies don't actually have hearts. What we have instead are natural magical fields that actively pump our blood though our veins. This makes it far easier for us to re-oxygenate our blood than a for human, as well as last longer in a prolonged engagement. We also lack a diaphragm, which besides meaning we don't get hiccups, also means we breath in an significantly different fashion than a human does. Our own lungs operate similar to billows one could normally find in a blacksmith's forge, with more natural magic boosting the air intake. A dedicated medical researcher could tell you more.
"In place of what should have been our diaphragm is a kind of mana-based lattice that causes the extra air intake I explained earlier. When a fairy breaths inwards, this naturally occurring mana lattice sucks mana in, along with the surrounding air. We process this inhaled mana similar to the way we process air, and use it to fuel our natural magical abilities, such as flight."
[The overlay of the fairy diagram fades, and is replaced by several runic circles surrounding it with more labels.]
"Among an almost universal supremacy of pure magical power, fairies have several more bonuses on the other races of the LDC. Fairies also have a natural 'radar' for detecting high concentrations of mana. I, for example can detect even a weak magical girl at a hundred and eleven feet when they're not transformed. We can also see flows of natural mana through the air, along with clear hearing of any magical incantation spoken within hearing distance, regardless of whatever other noise is polluting the air at the time. Regardless of all this though, our biggest advantage is our natural ability to fly."
[Outlines of a commonly portrayed style of Fairy wings are added to the diagram.]
"Truth is, Fairy wings aren't actually real. They're naturally occurring magical constructs that manifest out of our backs, around the fifth vertebra or so. When a fairy turns five years of age, a critical threshold of magic in their body is usually reached, actualizing itself in a kind of semi-natural ritual that manifests the ability to generate our wings using our internal stores of magic energy. The wings themselves tend to be unique to the fairy, but there are some common trends that can be followed. For example, fairy children that are fascinated by magic itself tend to generate blue wings like me, while those that want to be soldiers tend to generate red wings, and so on.
"These wings, being fueled by our inner stores of magic, require us to actually have magic in those stores in order to use them. So if I run the well dry, then I'm grounded. And that's normally a death sentence for a fairy, since we're one of the physically weakest species in the LDC.
"And since it wasn't relevant earlier, but is still important to note, our ability to breathe mana in with our air is actually really important. It is legitimately possible for a fairy to suffocate from a lack of natural mana to breathe in magic-less realms or in magic exclusion zones. It... isn't a very pleasant way to die."
[The diagram fades to black.]
"Now. Any questions?"
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Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
Lucky:
"Also, before I forget, Fairies can live up to three hundred years on average before old age does us in. At seventy five, I'm considered both in my prime, and an old lady by Human standards!"
"Also, before I forget, Fairies can live up to three hundred years on average before old age does us in. At seventy five, I'm considered both in my prime, and an old lady by Human standards!"
- Location
- Voidbetweenstars
(Random question time people)
So is their a luck fairy man back home for you?
Couldn't a fairy huff the aura of a magical girl if the ambient magic is too low?
Does Core Connection, or I suppose Lesser Gods these days, have any effect on this? It does basically involve pumping mana into people so I could see it acting ECLS for mana.
Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
Lucky:(Random question time people)
So is their a luck fairy man back home for you?
"No, I'm single. Didn't really have much of a love life since I spent most my days in the libraries on Reluxus and after Hope... well... you know."
Lucky:
"Considering these are connected I'll answer them both together.
"For the former, it'd require the Magical Girl to be significantly powerful enough to actually generate the required mana to help sustain a fairy. But the power the given Magical Girl would have to be able to put off would have to be the rough equivalent of kicking up a small wind on their own. Magical Girls capable of simply radiating that much power are rare. Keeping that up enough to keep a fairy ally alive in such a zone, are even rarer.
"As for the latter, it's certainly possible, but I personally don't know. And honestly? I'd rather not have to find out if you know what I mean."
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How literal is this description? I normally wouldn't ask, but with Divine Beings...
And if not literal, how did Fairies evolve and/or get created?
What happens if the critical threshold is not reached at that age, since you said "usually"? Can they still get the wings as a late-bloomer, or is there a point where if they don't have wings, they can't ever get them?
Hmm, would it be possible for non-magical reliant replacements to be made and implanted in theory?
How does Fairy growth compare to humans? Do you undergo the same/similar stages or very different, and is proportionally as long, with really different speeds? Do Fairies suffer from old age like humans or is there a sudden breakdown? How does such a lifespan make humans seem to you? How close/far are Fairies from figuring out eternal youth?
How common are such areas? How does Nepgears night light glow compare to such an output? Can Fairies breathe in too much mana, and what happens if they do?
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Maybe if they slapped down a containment field to make enough 'air pressure'
Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
Lucky:
"We're not actually sure. What we do know is that our patron Goddess, Mistilin, had some hand in our creation. Though how much of a hand is a matter of some debate."
Lucky:
"It's possible for them to still get wings, but by then, the lack of magic would be causing other problems to their growth, and likely end up permanently crippled in some way."
Lucky:
"In theory? Yes. In practice? Not really. To start with our own biology is far too tied up in magic for purely mundane replacements to work as more than a general stopgap. As well as the fact our bodies tend to be far too small for most replacements to be practical."
Lucky:
"We have eight stages of life, but they play out similar to human stages. The only real dividing differences for our middle stages are periods where we're fertile, and when we're not. The human languages don't really have translations as far as I know, but after our childhoods, we alternate between being fertile and infertile for several years. Once we enter our last stage of life though, we remain infertile, but our magical strength begins to increase tremendously until we finally die of old age. We can stave it off for a time by purging our body of magic, but our intake will eventually outstrip our output, and we'll kind of transmute into mana crystals. My Great Grandmother said it wasn't all that unpleasant of an experience, but then again she died not even five minutes later and traumatized my sister."
Lucky:
"Mana exclusion zones are actually pretty rare. Most species of the LDC tend to heavily rely on magic in their biology, so setting up such an area tends to be detrimental to not only their enemies, but themselves as well. The only ones you're likely to actually run into are either a natural phenomenon or have been set up by Humanity for one reason or another.
"As for Nepgear... it's kind of hard to say. It's also really awkward to talk about since it feels like I'm discussing my friend's underwear sizes with someone. Can we please not?
"And for your last question, yes we can. If a fairy inhales too much mana over a short period of time, it is actually possible for us to accidentally transmute random bits of our body into mana crystals to relieve the 'internal pressure' caused by doing so. This can range from getting slightly sick, to being suddenly lethal, so we tend to be careful not to do such."
Lucky:
"This might work... but a big problem is we don't respire mana. For us our mana intake is a one way street: everything we breath in is used inside of our bodies. Though your idea does have merit."
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- Voidbetweenstars
Uhmm does that mean that....
Shit I cant say the idea without sounding totally evil about it.
Shit I cant say the idea without sounding totally evil about it.
Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
Unleash your inner asshole.
In the meantime I'm going to bed.
- Location
- Voidbetweenstars
...
Ah to start at the reasonable place.
I was going right to strapping a fairy into the magic-nuke to absorb it all via ritual.
And knowing it would likely end in the fairy exploding, I thought to do it when the fairy first sprouts their wings because that's would be the a outlet stilled controllable by said fairy....
Then I realize that this is wrong.
And on further thinking it wouldn't likely be possible to have it end in a workable fashion in the first place.
LostDeviljho
Flame Dragon Princess
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- The glorious Pacific Northwest
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- Any
Worth noting for those unaware: Earth (well, the dimension Earth is in, that is usually called Earth for convenience's sake) was a mana exclusion zone for... most of its lifespan. That's why humans are actually willing to artificially induce the damn things, 'cause they're built to operate within one.
I think that was mentioned super off-hand a while back, but it's good to be clear about these things when the chances appear.
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What's Mistilin like? How do they compare to Gaia? Which kind of relationship between species/Divine Entity is better?
[deadpan] I actually know her underwear sizes, and I've looked around her insides. Privacy is long gone. [/deadpan]
Still, so long as it's not at risk of accidentally killing you any time soon, I'll let it pass.
Personal question: since the war is entering what appears to be it's final few years, what plans do you have if you live to see the end of it?
It was.
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That depends if the divine representation of the moon has a way to No Sell it like Gaia does.
And is dependent on the moon not just being an extension of Gaia herself.
All we know about the moon is that Lunar Radiance's patron is pretending to be it.
Never really specified in detail, but presumably something about her own weapon (humanity) being unable to seriously hurt her or something about the following two abilities letting her No Sell pretty much any attack that originates from Earth.
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- madison
hmm, as ageing mechanisms go that sounds somewhat fixable. Is it just increased input or do the rituals you have instead of organs amp up to the point where their emissions become harmful as well? because if it's just you input spiking past survivable levels then some sort of implantable manna battery might work. hook it up and discharge it each day and you could at the very least massive expand your lifespan.