I'll probably do approval voting (assuming our lord and saviour @Prok is okay with that), but the electives standing out to me right now are:
Unfortunately I rely on SV's vote tally program too much to really do approval voting
also no matter how many times people try to explain it to me or posts that one video everyone posts to explain approval voting I genuinely don't understand it and at this point I'm too scared to ask someone to get the crayons
Wait, I thought she was a deer faunus (a Fawnus if you will :3) how does her tail pool?
Deer tails are
long, man- whitetails are anywhere between 4 and 14 inches long, and Creme's is on the longer end of the scale- around 11 inches.
Just wait 'til you hear her catch it in a door.
Hey would you mind making a sheet with the abilities of our teammates? I keep forgetting what Ada and Creme are.
Also we are three out of four for Cyberpunk theme, neato
@Prok so are we doing plan voting or by line?
Also umm Creme? Are you not going to take any of the hunting classes?
I'll probably throw one together at some point, we're doing line voting, and she was supposed to take CQC, thank you for pointing that out.
I
cannot put into words how much of an utter nightmare writing this vote was, let alone organising the actual votes.
Wait, what? I thought the Transistor was virtually indestructible unless you hit it at just the right spot for it to shatter into little itty bits
I'm with the guy who mentioned the Transistor is supposed to be nearly indestructible, because it doesn't really seem like it. We've got a toughness upgrade that we bought from Electron Palace, it's supposed to be using similar principles as the Prince Rupert's drop, and it started off being literally incapable of being damaged in its home setting. Yet we've seen it shattered and now apparently carved up. It really doesn't seem anywhere near as tough as advertised. Does Ada's semblance give her attacks unnatural piercing abilities, something like telefragging? We know she can selectively phase because she told us she ripped the heart out of a fox Grimm, so this might be a different application of the same type of ability.
I'll say that Ada doesn't have a perfect understanding of her Semblance, or, any understanding at all, really and that there definitely is something at play there. And, on some level, it just took the hit like a footballer getting tackled so someone would wake up and help Ada.
Google translate says "Hunting, Cooking, and Cooking for Hunting, Cook Volkov Splot/Split" and "Cook Splot/Split" specifically for the sidequest. It's in... Macedonian? Serbian? It looks like it's one of the two, leaning towards Serbian because that's what will translate the title of Cook.
Edit: Ninjaed on translation
I want to say that its either a class to learn how to cook when you're away from civilization, a class to learn how to hunt wild game and then prepare it for consumption, or a class about how you go about cooking specifically for Hunters.
As for the vote, lots of good options.
I'm kind of gunning for both aura arts and glyphcraft, to further go with our whole techno-wizard thing.
Chef Splot's been mentioned once before, and my understanding is that Macedonian and Serbian are functionally interchangeable as languages go, but it's definitely Macedonian, just to clear that up.
As far as the class goes- you don't know. He gave you his spiel, neither you nor the Transistor understood a
word of it, and the man seems about as fluent in Valish as you are in his mother tongue. It is a complete mystery to you, and figuring out what he's offering is what the sidequest
is.
Congrats Prok, you've given us some tough choices.
Thank you, that was the intention.
I will say that electives aren't
permanent choices- you will eventually get to swap them out for other options
We probably need this class considering our stated goals. Plus, it has Weiss in it! Edit: ALSO BLACKBEARD IS TEACHING CIVICS WHAT
Blackbeard also teaches Dust Alchemy- because why
wouldn't I put the pirate in charge of the BIG
BADA-BOOM class and
also the one that teaches you why guillotines are the working class's best friend?
Also, I'll be honest, I didn't really create this class with the intention of letting you learn about politics- my main concern was more...
'what is the most volatile group of matches I can throw onto this powder keg'
I think this might be a bad idea given our established and very reasonable Dust phobia.
Glyphcraft doesn't really involve Dust, though it can be used to alter the outcome of a glyph. It's essentially the polar opposite of Aura Arts- the act of forcing Aura to occupy a given shape using, for lack of a better term, sufficiently advanced geometry. It's based on the very first episode of RWBY, where Glynda pulls a big purple glyph into existence as a shield, because I am a VULTURE and that is THE
GOURMET KINDA CARRION-
Ahem. If you want a better idea of what that actually translates to in-quest, usage of a very high level of talent in the skill has been mentioned
before.
Also, why isn't there a dance class? Jaune still is a Dance God in this quest right?
Traded his voice for two left feet, unfortunately. Also theatre class covers a lot of things- namely, by giving you control over what kind of end-of-year performance you'll end up putting on, whether that's a more traditional play or musical, or something more, well, Cirque Du Soleil.
I'm also morbidly hopeful Cardin isn't gonna be just a shallow racist bully. I want him to be an asshole with a reasonably well developed worldview/philosophy that you feel bad about agreeing a bit with it. A cocky asshole that thinks he's better than you because he's used to that being true.
(I like well developed antagonistic characters, especially when just fighting them isn't on the table)
I'll say that three-quarters of CRDL have been overhauled for the sake of characterisation, and I'm fairly sure I've had this rant before, but don't worry- they have actual personalities now.
Not, particularly
pleasant personalities, on average, but personalities, at the very least.
I'm awfully curious about what Peach means by, "Neglecting your Aura" Other than that Goodwitch's magic class sounds like it could help us with our Dust issue which would be super.
You can do a lot more with Aura than just make a blunt-force shield- hell, Aura
is a lot more than just a blunt-force shield, but since that's all most Hunters use it for anyway, nobody really bothers to explore that.
Like Glyphcraft, it's based in early series weirdness that's never explored again- namely, Ren's near-prescience, and his hand-shields from the King Taijitu fight, which also had a
lot of really interesting philosophy stuff in it and I just- I-
GAH
RWBY HAD SO MUCH COOL SHIT IT JUST
FUMBLED IT ALL LIKE A CLOWN INTENTIONALLY DROPPING ITS JUGGLING BALLS ON ITS HEAD
Semblance counseling isn't therapy, it sounds more like general brainstorming to improve the things and cover weak points that using them heavily may leave in your style, and overall lessons regarding the similarities and differences of semblances. Our fault or someone else's, one of those weak points was very distinctly revealed during initiation. We really should get that process interface tested and functional ASAP, and then might want to think about ways to minimize the issues if for whatever reason we don't have access to it either. Sure, if we don't have the process or the transistor, we have way bigger problems, but if we have way bigger problems, that also means we
really don't want our brain exploding.
Also, the slab of calculations provoked that poisoning. If anything, we *may* be one of the few that needs more traditional counseling regarding our semblance - relationship counseling, to get blue and bracket to actually
talk to us before they go and poke the ancient we-don't-know-what-that-does.
In addition, there are the ways that we could help other folks there, and in doing so further help ourselves, something that they probably could have determined with minimal investigation into the folks back home.
Got it in one.
Semblance Counselling definitely has some element of commiseration to it- these are people who have spent most of their life with their Semblances- literally, the ultimate expression of their soul- hanging around their neck like a stone, as a
hindrance. That's,
terrible, for many reasons, least of all the stress and negativity that would engender in a normal adult, let alone the ball of neuroses that is your average teenager. So, yes- there
is a certain element of counselling to, Semblance Counselling.
Shocking, I know.
But on the whole, it's certainly closer to practical than not- a lot of uncontrolled Semblances are just categorised as such because they have side-effects that
can be worked around, or otherwise just aren't being used properly- there's some aspect that's not being paid attention to that leaves you emotionally detached from reality every time you use it, or makes it choose a random target every single time with no rhyme or reason-
that's the true purpose of Semblance counselling.
Because eleven heads are better than one.
You know, I wonder if Cardin's thing w/ Faunus is the result of some kind of trauma or indoctrination.
What if he's actually super forward thinking politically except for that one blind spot?
Close.
@Prok question about Jaune's medkit. He walks around with it, but did he end up feeding parts of it to the Process so it can create proper bandages and medicine?
Bandages yes, medicines no- the Process cannot create complex chemicals that would then be safe for human consumption, purely because Process matter can't interact with the biological processes of the body. If it emulated a painkiller and entered the body, it would just pass through untouched, at best, and at worst make someone very,
very sick.
So, tallying this is a headache, because SV's vote tally does like to split up votes at random, and I can't organise them because I can't
read half of them, so, going by
line division tallying, the current leaders are, in descending order, Civics, Music, Glyphcraft, and Aura Arts, with CQC only six votes behind, and the only credible threat to Aura Arts at the moment.
I'm going to let this vote run a little longer than usual, partly because I want to make absolutely sure that there are four clear winners, and partly to make sure I've made a decent headstart on the next update before I close it.
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