Still, I can't see myself bothering to take up arms to conquer Europe - nor my fellow countrymen. With the official news channels spin on the news the way it is, I'd say we're more likely to heckle you guys from the other side of the Nord Stream.
Full Assault
-????????????. ????? ?? allows Red Knight to ??? ??? ?????? ???? ?????? to her offensive attack ?? ????? ???? ?????????? to a ?????????? ????. If she ???? ??? ??????? an ??????, her ????????? ????????? are ??????? ???????????? ?? ? ???????? of ?, and adds a ???????? ????? to her ????? ???????? to her ??????.
???? (Hidden)
-A ??????? effect that ?????????? a ???????? opinion of White Knight.
Combined Assault
-If another ????????? on the ????? could have at any ???? been considered an '???? of White Knight' she is allowed to ???? an extra ???????? ???? equal to that ?????? ????? ????????.
I don't think these were ever clarified in thread, were they?
Combined Assault
-If another (9) combatant on the (5) field could have at any (4) time been considered an '(4) ally of White Knight' she is allowed to (4) make an extra (8) modifier (4) roll equal to that (6)ally's (5) magic (8) modifier.
This is how White Knight benefits from allies on the field.
In combat she had two modifiers to her attack string. A Red Knight (obvious name is obvious, 744 highest vs 750 potential highest). A Solid Friend (obvious in hindsight to hint at Solid Core, 385 highest vs 400 potential highest).
The math checks out. The "theme" of magic modifier tricks is preserved from Red Knight's own recursive reroller keeping it in-team.
Full Assault
-(12). (5)(2) allows Red Knight to (3)(3)(6)(4)(6) to her offensive attack (2)(5)(4)(10) to a (10)(4). If she (4)(3)(7) an (6), her (9)(9) are (7)(12)(2)(1)(8) of (1), and adds a (8)(5) to her (5)(8) to her (6).
Goddamnit. This one is a doozy. It's not (Recursive) I can tell that much. That's 11 symbols.
Both FORCE!!! and Unreal Strength modifiers are granted by her Mana Force ability. This probably means the other two modifiers can be involved. They very obviously reference her Affinities, Rule and Glory. They seemingly reference at least once our own growth affinity (6,8). They also seemingly add her full magic modifier value to offensive string (9,6). Not sure about Accelerated Assault.
Full Assault
-May request and receive an 'assist' from a allied fighter. Doing so allows Red Knight to add the ally's Base Damage to her offensive attack or their Base Resilience to a defensive move. If she does not request an assist, her offensive movements are instead accelerated by a priority of 1, and adds a modifier equal to her Magic Modifier to her attack.
Combined Assault
-If another combatant on the field could have at any time been considered an 'Ally of White Knight' she is allowed to roll an extra Modifier Roll equal to that Ally's Magic Modifier.
Well, I'm off on one word (make an extra modifier roll, vs roll an extra modifier roll) for Combined Assault. Good enough for me, the meaning is preserved.
As for Full Assault I cry foul... That was an entire sentence not a 12-letter word! Not that I would have guessed either way. *shrugs*
Hidden Ability of Aura (temp. name) isn't revealed and I am fine with that. Here's my 5-minute guess:
(4) Aura (Hidden)
-A (7) passive effect that (10) guarantees a (8) positive opinion of White Knight.
Well, I'm off on one word (make an extra modifier roll, vs roll an extra modifier roll) for Combined Assault. Good enough for me, the meaning is preserved.
As for Full Assault I cry foul... That was an entire sentence not a 12-letter word! Not that I would have guessed either way. *shrugs*
Hidden Ability of Aura (temp. name) isn't revealed and I am fine with that. Here's my 5-minute guess:
(4) Aura (Hidden)
-A (7) passive effect that (10) guarantees a (8) positive opinion of White Knight.
I was wondering if I could ask you some questions...
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Hi there. Sorry to message you out of the blue like this, but... well, see title.
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Kaleina
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Uh... sure, I guess?
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Hooray! \o/
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Okay so I was talking to a friend of mine and somehow the conversation came around to elves, and he kept insisting that elves are dumb, and I didn't really think that was the case, but neither of us actually personally know any elves IRL, so I figured I would just... ask the Verified Elf who hangs out in the same parts of the forum I do.
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Kaleina
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Your friend is pretty rude.
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FleetMaster
Yeah, he is, sorry.
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Oh wow looking back over this conversation so far I got off to a really bad start. I totally understand if you don't want to talk to me.
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Kaleina
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No, no, it's fine. I doubt I could've broached the topic any better, honestly. So your friend said that "elves are dumb"? What's his evidence?
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Well, one example that came up a lot was this story of an elf soldier who just couldn't win at rock-paper-scissors, even though the human soldier was just cycling through them in order. Was that real?
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Kaleina
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Ugh, that story. Yes, that happened, but that was one guy. Most of us are, in fact, capable of basic pattern recognition.
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That's what I thought!
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
To be fair though, there definitely is a pattern of humans and elves thinking differently.
I've spent some time around human mages and soldiers, and from personal experience I'm about 93% sure humans learn backwards.
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FleetMaster
Learn... Backwards?
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
What I mean is that you guys pick shit up super quick and then you... do nothing with it.
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FleetMaster
I'm pretty sure I do things with the stuff I learn.
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Do nothing comparatively.
Put it this way: the Empire has revamped its industrial system in-depth something like seven times in the last decade to integrate new improvements we derived from you guys. Earth still has civil systems in place that have been outdated and obsolete for centuries, that you're only now looking at updating.
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Basically humans acquire knowledge freaky fast by elf standards, but integrate knowledge at the pace of a dubiously animate snail.
Hence, "learning backwards", because the emphasis in the human learning process is flipped from where it is in an elf's.
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Okay, that makes sense.
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Also there's the bit where humans are uh... outside the box thinkers.
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
By which I mean someone forgot to inform you guys there was a box until far, far too late.
I was wondering if I could ask you some questions...
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Wait, you have how many siblings?
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Ten. Me and Aurea are the oldest, then three sets of triplets.
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As an only child, I literally cannot imagine what that must be like.
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Single children are actually pretty rare here; it's usually twins or triplets. They do happen, but that's mostly due to statistical inevitability.
Or, well, single births happen. Not a lot of folks stop at their first set of kids.
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I... wow. That must be really stressful on the moms.
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
*Shrugs* Eh, not too much? Not physically, anyway. Elves have kids easy, it's a quirk of biology. Part of it's inherent magic and part of it's the flexibility and uh... strechiness.
Herding that many munchkins around can be a handful at times, though.
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"Stretchiness".
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Of course that's what you fixate on, why am I even surprised...
But yeah, elves are flexible and stretchy compared to humans. Apparently you guys can't lick your elbows at all? Not that there are many reasons to want to lick your elbows, but it's still technically doable for your average elf.
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Huh. The more you know, I guess.
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Kal, are Drow real?
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Drow?
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Uh, dark elves.
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Ah. Is Bigfoot real?
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Uhhh...
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
That's basically what you just asked me, out of nowhere, at... 3:50 in the morning your time, why the hell are you still up?
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Too much soda, brain won't shut off. So drow aren't real?
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Kaleina
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We call them Gelida, and no. There's stories and stuff, and if you look you can always find that one guy who claims his aunt's cousin's buddy's grandpa's squadmate got mugged by a frost elf, but there's never been any conclusive evidence toward them being anything other than old wives tales.
Why do you ask?
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So they're just stories? But until like a decade ago humans thought elves and faries and such were all just stories too, so how do you know? Hell, current theory is that most of those stories are based on actual faries and magical races that wandered into earth's dimension accidentally, and if that's the case where did the idea for dark elves come from if not an actual dark elf?
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Counterpoint: You guys made up "Dwarves" basically wholesale.
Edit: Though now that I think about there's probably a lesser nightmare based on those old stories floating around somewhere. Ain't that a cheery thought.
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The dwarves are probably just lurking underground, waiting for their chance to strike.
I was wondering if I could ask you some questions...
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... Go to sleep, Fleet. I'll talk to you in the morning.
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Sorry about that, I'm properly rested now.
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
No worries, I've had times like that too.
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So, question, why'd you call them frost elves?
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Kaleina
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"Them" being Gelida? Because that's basically what they are in the stories. The word itself means something along the lines of "the frozen".
Elves are optimized for heat to a pretty impressive degree compared to... most everyone else, but we don't deal with cold very well at all. So, the stories about the dark, twisted reflections of elves end up developing into spooky monsters that can freeze the breath in your lungs and lurk in the dark, icy places, waiting for someone to wander away from the group to be picked off like prey animals.
So what you're saying is... the elven boogeyman is Frosty the Snow Elf?
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Kaleina
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One day, someone is going to invent a spell that'll let me smack you through the internet. That will be a good day.
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Hah, there's probably a lot of people who would appreciate a spell like that.
...Actually though, it just now occurs to me to wonder how you spend so much time online. I didn't think the Elvis Empire had the infrastructure to support the internet.
Edit: Autocorrupt struck, but I'm leaving it because it's funny.
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Lol Elvis.
Anyway, I work for the military. Which isn't really saying much since basically every elf works for the military at some point in their lives, but I'm actively on deployment. The base I'm stationed at shares real estate with a human base, so I got my hands on a data mine and mooch off their wifi whenever I'm not actively doing things.
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Oh, huh. What do you do, assuming you're allowed (and willing) to tell me?
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Nah, it's not classified or anything. I'm an Assault Mage. Basically I just hang around base tinkering with my spells and browsing the internet until they need me to go shoot lightning at something they don't feel like swording to death.
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I wasn't under the impression the legions really did mages.
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Bit of a misconception, but not wholly wrong either. Just about every elven soldier is a caster to some degree, but we don't typically do dedicated casters. Elf magic just isn't really suited to that kind of thing the way Fairies or Humans are, so it's not part of standard doctrine.
See, elves aren't actually all that strong, on pure physicality. We're built for speed, flexibility, and precision more than raw strength or endurance. Assuming no magic and equal levels of combat skill, the average human beats the average elf in a fist fight four times out of five. The thing is, elven magic trends towards enhancements pretty strongly, so most elf soldiers are running a decent compliment of strength and endurance buffs on top of that, which evens things out, and actually tilts things in favor of the elf a lot of the time.
The corollary to that strong trend, though, is that elves are typically pretty shit at direct non-enhancement stuff like tossing around laser beams and fireballs.
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And you're atypical?
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Kaleina
Confirmed Elf
Very. Certified Genius and Once-In-A-Lifetime Prodigy for Evocation magics here. Which sounds impressive, until you realize that's by elven standards and I still get upstaged whenever a squad of fairies rolls through, the knee-high glittery assholes.
That's one of the reasons I spend so much time online, actually. Sticking to orthodox methods is gonna have me running into a glass ceiling sooner rather than later, so I spend what time I can chatting with human practitioners and trawling the internet. Spend enough time learning from and about you, and maybe I'll pick up a bit of whatever makes you guys such wild cards, magically speaking.
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How's that working out for you so far?
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Remarkably well, actually. Probably helps that I'm an outside-the-box thinker myself. Aside from all the pop-culture and general trivia I've picked up, I'm taking a bunch of online courses for things, which is... challenging, but immensely rewarding when it pays off.
The physics and stuff is especially great, because not only is it useful as hell for optimizing my spells and making new ones, it's also easy.
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>Physics
>Easy
Uh, run that one by my again?
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Half of it is just math, and I can do math. Decently challenging math, in the case of some of the more advanced stuff, but nothing super crazy.
Though, I'm probably a bit biased, because elves are generally pretty damn good at math, and even by elf standards I am good at math.
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Haha, man, I wish I was good at math. Was my worst subject back in school. Probably why I'm a history major, actually.
I was wondering if I could ask you some questions...
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Actually, wait. All elves are good at math?
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Well, not all all, everybody's a little different so sometimes you get someone who's better or worse than average, but generally yeah.
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And we already talked about when elves are learning things and it clicks it really clicks, so... what are your engineers like?
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Kaleina
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Ooooh boy, where do I start...
You ever watch the Star Wars prequels?
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Unfortunately.
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Kaleina
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Yeah, Sapia (that's the capital of the Empire, but everyone just calls it "The Capital" most of the time) is basically Coruscant but a little less Sci-fi and a little more Gothic.
I grew up there, so the bits in the movies that took place on Coruscant were actually sorta weirdly nostalgic.
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...How does that even work?
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With great amounts of time and effort. You generally only get the really crazy architecture on core worlds like the Capital and its neighbors. But once you do get to that point... Well we have the two tallest buildings in the LDC there, and something like 3 Capital Class airships.
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Airshi- Wait no, saving that for later, what I meant was, how do the logistics of that work? Where do you grow the food for people in a metropolis that big, and how do you get around without cars and trains and things?
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For the first thing, a combination of importing from less urbanized worlds, and dedicated greenhouses scattered all over the place. Last I heard, the people in charge of that kind of thing were looking at using M-Binary to help improve the latter.
As for the second, who needs cars when you have gravity highways?
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Gravity highways?
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Okay technically they're more like gravity tunnels than the highways you're probably used to, but yeah, most in-city transit uses giant magic conveyor belts.
Gotta remember man, just cause you guys are further ahead on the non-magic stuff doesn't mean we don't have our own solutions to things.
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Yeah, you're right, sorry.
What do you guys use for intercity transportation, or freight and stuff?
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That'd be the airships you were gonna ask about before. And no they don't really look anything like human "airships"; They're more like actual sea ships than giant balloons with a cabin strapped to them.
Or, well, they're ship shaped for the smaller ones. They kinda lose the aesthetic as they're built upon, and Capital Class airships are basically just straight up flying cities.
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...Are they armed?
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Well, yes, but probably not in the way you're thinking. They're mostly for moving vast amounts of people and goods, not taking into a fight. We do have airships designed for combat, but they're not super effective, so they're not super numerous.
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"Not super effective"? But air superiority is amazing, why wouldn't you want that?
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Because it's not actually air superiority. Being able to float up in the air and rain death with impunity would be great, but it doesn't actually do that because most of the things we fight on a regular basis have better fliers. A Hell Beast is too maneuverable for the heavier ranged weapons like ballistae to track and hit properly, and too durable for lighter weapons to counter. The only things that have the right balance of speed and stopping power are spells, and we were just talking about how elves don't really do spellcasting like that. The flying battleships mostly just end up being a big distraction that doesn't do all that much.
Now, if we could convince your government to sell us some of their old battleships they have lying around and convert those...
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Wait, if elves don't do external magic, how do you make flying cities and gravity tunnels and stuff?
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Not so much that we don't do "external" as we don't do "direct non-enhancement". Enchantment is still a form of enhancement since it, y'know, enhances things. To fly, for instance.
Go to sleep, Fleet. I'll talk to you in the morning.
