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Or alternatively implant some overflow valve of sorts. If you're drawing too much magic you need a vent of sorts I suppose.
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My guess is she probably uses The World Egg to somewhat blunt the impact on her - because otherwise, the combination of Obliterate (ignores Morality Barriers) and Unstoppable (ignores Resilience and Magic Modifier based damage reduction) would have Brahmastra (40'000'000 DMG) hit Gaia (35'000'000 HP) for massive damage that actually exceeds her health.
CORRECTION: She is probably using her Divine Existence to imitate both Hard to Kill (99% Final End Damage reduction if damage exceeds 99% max health) and one of Colossal-line abilities (IIRC I've seen 87.5% damage reduction on one of Under The Open Sky elite mooks, Massy).
This also probably means The Moon has a similar manner of blunting the impact, at least in terms of size-based damage reduction, but whether its HP is up to the task is a different question.
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Wear a high end Brand Craft array that does the following things.
- Is automatically activated when the mana density within the targeted area is above a certain threshold, but is inactive at other times.
- Is powered by drawing mana from within the targeted area (the body of the Fairy wearing the array), with the quantity of mana consumed directly proportional to how far above the threshold the targeted area is.
- When activated, casts a spell which inflicts a debuff that partially suppresses the functionality of the target's lungs, reducing their ability to draw in ambient mana, with the strength of the debuff scaling based on the amount of mana fed into the spell.
Should last you until your lungs get so absurdly strong that Brand Craft array breaks from drawing in more mana than it's designed to be capable of handling.
@Lucky Has anyone tried something like this before?
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Lucky:
"Mistilin is a bit stand-off-ish, and dislikes being called on for things regardless of importance. We can talk to her through ritual magics, but it's not easy. Gaia is also far stronger than Mistilin is, but then again, she's stronger than most of the Divine Entities that involve themselves in mortal affairs."
Lucky:
"Um... Not really? I never thought I'd live long enough to see the end of it. The most likely thing I'll do is probably start a new magical library or something where I can store my research for future generations."
Lucky:
"The main issue with how we Fairies draw in magic is that our intake spikes exponentially. What you guys are suggesting isn't actually all that original from what we've thought up ourselves, we've been living with this for generations, so I'm pretty sure we've also thought up some things that you haven't to help slow down our aging process. Thank you for the support though."
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So you'd need something capable of siphoning off an arbitrarily large amount of magic. Well if it's possble to do that with brandcraft someone will figure it out. If only because acess to that much energy would be massively valuable. Though in any case thats decades away.
On an entirely unrelated note, have you seen a movie called the matrix?
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I mean, that's possible, but you'd need to create something that would absorb the power and grow into power alongside the extra intake, without exploding itself. That seems rather hard. Would probably be to use Magic Binary to create a low-mana area, and that runs into all sorts of additional issues.
Honestly, the big issues is the whole "turns to crystal and shatters" bit. There are two approaches: eliminate the "turns to crystal" bit, and eliminate the "it's lethal" bit. I think the second would be the easier fix, with Fairies converting to a purely-magic based biology, but that's still easier said then done. Though studying the Divinity girls might offer some clues to that.
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yeah it'd be hard, but the result would be a constant stream of magical energy of staggering proportions. Humans magic works on weird conceptual axis, so it might be doable. Even if the first version needs to strap the subject into a pod. Though like I said, it would be the work of decades, nearly on par with fusion with a similarly huge pay off.
That's why the first thought that came to mind for me was essentially a power limiter that grows in intensity as you become stronger.
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Re: Gaia and nukes.
Gaia has had smaller nukes detonated on and inside her thousands of times. This has confered an immunity the their effects, much like shooting yourself with small bullets can protect you from larger ones...
Or something like that.
Another point is that Gaia is the soul of Earth's biosphere. To kill rather than annoy would mean affecting billions and billions of tons of life spread over a vast area. Yeah, that's crazy hard, insects, moss, algae, vent-dwelling seaweed... Add in that Gaia is quite swole for her tier before the stupid durability to see why the big nonhuman hitters are loathe to set foot on her.
Gaia has had smaller nukes detonated on and inside her thousands of times. This has confered an immunity the their effects, much like shooting yourself with small bullets can protect you from larger ones...
Or something like that.
Another point is that Gaia is the soul of Earth's biosphere. To kill rather than annoy would mean affecting billions and billions of tons of life spread over a vast area. Yeah, that's crazy hard, insects, moss, algae, vent-dwelling seaweed... Add in that Gaia is quite swole for her tier before the stupid durability to see why the big nonhuman hitters are loathe to set foot on her.
LostDeviljho
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No, that's most other World-tier beings. Gaia is the planet. This is relevant.
And that difference is a big part of why Gaia would survive a Brahmastra.
If it helps, think of Gaia as being a 2.5 on the Divine Entity Scale. She's beyond almost all beings on the Beyond Good and Evil/Celestial Combat level, with stuff that would be fatal to them washing over her like water on a duck while able to dish out horrific damage, but she still gets crushed by beings on a higher tier.
Or perhaps think of her as a really weak Solar-tier being?
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Crystal Souls ala Avernum/Exile?
Basically the last stage of one of the racial lifecycles is to become an immobile but immensely magically powerful psychic crystal
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Given the massive amount of magic involved, and magic's general attitude towards what humans consider the rules of physics, biology and science in general, is a Human-Fairy hybrid naturally viable. I'm asking on behalf of a friend, lucky bitch has all the luck with these things, seriously are there no Lamia in the LDC or something?
LostDeviljho
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I mean, there might be, but do you really want to fuck a snake?
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I raise you:
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I don't think that a lack of a heart would help with that at all. Definitely not with the re-oxygenation part; that has almost nothing to do with the heart.
In other words, exactly the same as normal lungs. Because that's how they work. (Okay, there is a difference, but since fairies seem to breathe in through the same hole that they breathe out, that's not it.)
So could twenty seconds on in-universe Wikipedia.
How? This makes no sense. It's not creating any extra room for air. It could be compressing it (somehow), but that seems like a bad idea, biologically.
Is there a reason for this to be synchronized with the breathing?
Radar is a specific detection mechanism, approximately "echolocation, but with radio waves instead of sound" (sonar, meanwhile, is just echolocation… and hearing). Unless this sense operates by sending out magic waves and interpreting how they bounce off of things, radar is a poor analogy. Not that you need an analogy when you can just call it a sense and leave it at that. Also, this is the third time you've used "to start with" in this post, and it's a bit irritating.
Oh, and where's Lucky been hanging out that she jumps to radar for a comparison instead of something more familiar to her?
Ooh, that sounds useful for battlefield communication. Just make a few do-nothing spells with different, short incantations, and use them as a code. Also useful for alerting people at parties.
Depends on the situation, doesn't it? That ridiculous magic modifier is frequently much more useful.
Diet. Ecological niche (any natural predators? Environmental requirements, i.e. light/temperature/oxygen?). Age of maturity and gestation period; typical family sizes and generation gaps. Close genetic relatives (anything in the same genus? Same family?). Diseases not analogous to anything on Earth (there must be magical bacteria, and diseases which use the host's magic to spread themselves (magically-boosted sneezing, anyone?)).
I am very happy to see that linked to. The only reasons nukes vs. Gaia is brought into question are (i) Obliterate is supposed to bypass Beyond Good and Evil, which is the obvious representation of the difficulty of hurting a planet, and (ii) the bizarre HP scaling (AFAICT, Crys has had Divine Being HP scale approximately with diameter, which would be moderately reasonable for Resilience, but is crazy for Health. If anything, it should scale with mass, or, failing that, volume.).
A comma, or a colon. Not a semicolon. And I feel like "hate sex" should be hyphenated.
A scale model, or a diagram? It can technically be both, but the distinction you should make here is that a scale model is a three-dimensional object in the same shape, while a diagram is a graphical representation, usual abstracted, and typically 2D.
No. You do not give a range and then say "at the most"; you do not say "average to" and then give a huge range; you do not say "average to" and then "at the most". Just say "a typical adult fairy is between 37 and 48 inches tall (95–120cm), with an average height of 40 inches (102cm)". This would also help make her sound like an academic who has a clue what she's talking about.
"Irrevocable" means "unable to be revoked". While technically true, it's not the word you want. Also, please stop using "literally" as an intensifier. Especially in cases like this, where the only way I know that it's meant as an intensifier rather than literally is that I know shorter people exist. And you probably meant "anyone", not "everyone", even though the latter is factually accurate (they're low on the general height scale, i.e. short compared to everyone at once) and the former isn't (shorter people exist, and I'm sure—given the reported large variety of demons and the sheer size of the universe—that shorter sapient species exist as well).
So there are also minor key differences? Keeping in mind that "key" means "crucial"? Just say "major differences".
I don't usually comment on your bizarre and inconsistent capitalization, but this is inconsistent within a single sentence.
"Far easier for us to last longer in a prolonged engagement". Yeah, no. Try "and allows us to last longer".
"Almost fundamentally different"? Why are you using "fundamentally" as an intensifier (which it shouldn't be, the word has an actual meaning which is not applicable here) and then weakening it with "almost"? Don't do that.
The previous sentence already specifies the location; no need to repeat it.
An "almost universal supremacy"? I know what you were trying to say, but this sounds weird, not least because of what "universal" means. I'd just say "advantage in" or something, or leave out the description altogether, since the next part of the sentence specifies that it's an advantage.
Unless there's a reason for the precision, and there's so little variation in detection range that it's always 111', you should just say 110 or 100. A (good) scientist won't give more precision than actually exists.
The first part is unnecessary. Try "Our biggest advantage, though, is…".
"Breath" is a noun. "Breathe" is a verb. Same goes for sheath/sheathe, loath/loathe (though loath is an adjective), and wreath/wreathe (sometimes both spellings are appropriate for one sense, but you don't sheath a sword or make a Christmas wreathe). And the pronunciations are different, which is the easy way to remember.
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LostDeviljho
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Article: Definition of "literally"
1 : in a literal sense or manner: such as
a : in a way that uses the ordinary or primary meaning of a term or expression
b —used to emphasize the truth and accuracy of a statement or description
- He took the remark literally.
- a word that can be used both literally and figuratively
c : with exact equivalence : with the meaning of each individual word given exactly
- The party was attended by literally hundreds of people.
d : in a completely accurate way
- The term "Mardi Gras" literally means "Fat Tuesday" in French.
- a story that is basically true even if not literally true
2 : in effect : virtually —used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible
- will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice —Norman Cousins
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Sanction is another fun example of a word that can be its own opposite.
"When you said your methods were sanctioned did you mean permitted or prohibited?"
How does human anti-magic crazyness interact with Magical Girls? Are they hurt by no magic? Do they generate the magic they need via their own legend? Or would it just drop her down to normal when the magic runs out?
"When you said your methods were sanctioned did you mean permitted or prohibited?"
How does human anti-magic crazyness interact with Magical Girls? Are they hurt by no magic? Do they generate the magic they need via their own legend? Or would it just drop her down to normal when the magic runs out?
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Thank you overall for the edits suggestions. And I know you didn't mean to come off condescending in a lot of places, I just want to let you know to keep an eye out for that.
Lucky:
"Cross-species hybrids are viable thanks to magic, yes. Though they are rare. As for Lamia... depends on what you mean."
Lucky:
"I'm just pointing out how we know it works. I didn't say it made any kind of sense."
Lucky:
"I picked up some human terms during my training with the Death Squads. It makes coordinating our special forces easier, much like how some Human soldiers have picked up elven or fae terms themselves."
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Lucky:
"It is. It allows fairy forces to bypass the normal troubles with long distance communication without human technology, and even then dodge some otherwise more annoying things even they run into. It's really cool."
Lucky:
"You'd actually be surprised. My ability to fly has done a lot more for me getting out of bad spots than my Magic Modifier."
Lucky:
"We're omnivorous with a leaning towards vegetarian. We actually have a heavy diet of insect analogues from our own home realms. We do have some natural predators, but they didn't follow us when we started jumping dimensions, though they're far from extinct back home. Unlike you humans, we never managed to tame them.
"We reach full maturity around twenty five years of age, barring low mana environments which can stunt growth. Newly conceived young gestate about the same time as human young, though twins and triplets are far more common. We live in clan groupings, with parents inter-breeding regularly. Depending on if they're similar enough in age to sync up their fertility periods, generations gaps can happen in a Clan.
"Genetic relatives? We don't actually know. Our sciences in the requisite areas are literally medieval compared to yours, and human scientists have been more interested in other things. As for diseases and the like, we do have a few. There's an equivalent to what you refer to as the common cold, basic stomach bugs, and other things, but they don't tend to jump species all that much since they can onl incubate in high-mana environments like a fairy's body.
"Rejoice! You're too much of a wussy mage to ever get a fairy stomach flu."
(Think a 3D model/diagram projection.)
(A holdover from her military training, where that extra foot/bit of accuracy can mean surviving a fight, and telefraging yourself into a stone wall. Stuff like that sticks with you.)
Lucky:
"They'd drop down to normal. Or at least, regular magical girls will. Unlike most species of the LDC, humans don't actually require heavy doses of magic to actually function. This also means if something goes wrong, there's not an easy way to fix it either... so it's a bit of a trade off there."
OverReactionGuy
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I wonder what their race did with all the missing left socks? I know it's a fairy's doing, people can't fool me!
There are two ways to interpret that.
What about MG's? Is Goddess Gold at risk of catching something?
I'd ask if Solid Drive or Core was at risk, but any disease that tries roosting in them is going to be quickly acquainted with the experience of burning alive.
Hmm, wonder how the Divinity girls would cope.
OverReactionGuy
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Swearing at the problem via conceptual language.
Huh, sounds like those magic fields also double as an extra oxygenation membrane, how spread out are they through your body.
Might be something useful to look into trying to replicate later on for filter equipment.
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Lucky:
"Not unless they're transformed, and only as long as they remain transformed. Magical Girls don't actually circulate their magic throughout their bodies like normal practitioners do. So while they're 'civilian' mode, their powers are hovering beneath the surface, beneath where most magical parasites can get to."