Hold It In (RWBY/Transistor)
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infinityDivided
Prince Of Doom
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[X] Ozpin- "... Ozpin's an immortal wizard who wields magic. The Transistor broke because he used said magic to make it stop thinking after it tried to poke his soul a bunch. He's not mad, it's fine, they made up."
[X] Rip Off The Bandaid- "... Have any of you ever had a Witch-Queen dream?"
-[X]"...and the worst part is, that's not the weirdest, worst, or even most important thing I discussed or experienced yesterday."
-[X]"...and the worst part is, that's not the weirdest, worst, or even most important thing I discussed or experienced yesterday."
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[X] Ozpin- "... Ozpin's an immortal wizard who wields magic. The Transistor broke because he used said magic to make it stop thinking after it tried to poke his soul a bunch. He's not mad, it's fine, they made up."
[X] Ozpin- "... Ozpin's an immortal wizard who wields magic. The Transistor broke because he used said magic to make it stop thinking after it tried to poke his soul a bunch. He's not mad, it's fine, they made up."
You know, I was rereading the portion with Ozpin, and... The Invisitext towards the end of the Witchqueen Realisation repeated deicide. AKA the killing of a god.
...Do people think we can learn to kill a god with the Process?
...Do people think we can learn to kill a god with the Process?
infinityDivided
Prince Of Doom
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Yes? I had been hyping that up ever since I learned the sheer scale the Process is capable of.
Honestly, I would prefer to just give them an eviction notice. "Yeah, no. I reject your right to judge mankind. You are both terrible parents in different ways, and I don't want either of you anywhere near mankind."
*Wiggles hand* Scale is not synonymous with Esoterics. You can have enough power to create a standard Earth-based Universe, and still not necessarily be able to defeat someone like Galactus.
Deicide was more for dealing with Salem rather than the Brothers from what I can grasp.
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[X] Ozpin- "... Ozpin's an immortal wizard who wields magic. The Transistor broke because he used said magic to make it stop thinking after it tried to poke his soul a bunch. He's not mad, it's fine, they made up."
Prok
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It was both, really- Ozpin just kinda stole the show by inadvertently reminding Qrow of what broke Team STRQ apart, besides Summer's death. Either way, I should say that whatever's picked won't be the only topic discussed- it just sets the initial tone for the conversation to follow.
Such is the nature of writing- I couldn't figure out a way to fit it in in a way that wouldn't make that scene drag on, and I couldn't expand it into something worth being a scene of its own. A shame, I know, especially since it would have let me explain my decisions regarding Turn(), which I'll have to do now.
Small correction: you were punished for the plan that was picked because you rolled a partial success on Load(), which is success plus consequence. If you hadn't crit, you simply wouldn't have had enough time or space to escape Load()'s blast radius. You were slated for 3 damage regardless, but the crit definitely made for a more coherent series of events leading up to that consequence.
As for why Jaune made such a basic mistake as not counting how many Crash()es he needed to put Dove down without hurting him- he's tired, he's anxious, he's been gaslit into a near berserk rage and then rubberbanded the other way, and all of that was before he got shot in the face.
The face. That thing in front of your brain.
Dice rolls be damned, I'm shocked it's the only mistake he made.
In regards to Turn() as a whole, I decided to change it up for a few reasons. First off, it now better fits the Semblance it was taken from, which is kind of important, given that's what Functions do. Secondly, I went back and played Transistor again recently- not for this quest or anything, it's just a game I go back to when I need something familiar and somewhat comforting- and I realised something about Turn().
See, yes, you have infinite time to think, but once you start moving... so does everything else. You may have JoJo levels of timestop for talking and thinking, but Red doesn't actually have the ability to stop time.
Example: you hit a Creep with a Crash(), and then it pings to the other side of the room, away from the rest of your attacks, rendering them useless- moving, frankly, just as fast as Red, if not faster. Time dilates during the actual action phase of Turn(), following an almost ebb and flow of slowing down and speeding up in time with your attacks.
Red's inability to react to her target pinging across the room is either an incredible limitation on Turn(), or it's a gameplay limitation to not make you feel like you're in the Matrix, rather than creating a perfect plan that's then executed flawlessly.
So, my options were thus: keep Turn() as it was, and don't allow Jaune to react to things that occur during Turn(), which could lead to some horror-show moments where you're just stuck on a path you cannot change, cannot redirect, only allowing you to fulfil your actions no matter how incredibly detrimental they've become to you since you started moving.
The other option was to turn Turn() into actual time-dilation that basically works on Superhot rules- time only moves when Jaune moves. The faster he acts, the faster the world reacts, though not, to any usable degree, for the most part. He still plans out his route, but he can change it and react to things as they need to be reacted to.
Because, you know, he's not fighting predictable robots in a cleanroom, and translating Transistor's Turn() with gameplay limitations to a text-based quest would be... it's not very narratively interesting, I think. Actions going off without a hitch and with no reaction generally isn't, especially from the protagonist's perspective.
My point is, Transistor's Turn() Function has always just been super-speed, just a specific kind of superspeed that involves the use of dilating time around your movements. It was never just "I do this and this and this, toki wa ugokidesu," and I was wrong to treat it like that initially. In retrospect, a full replay of Transistor would have been a good idea before I even started this quest, but goddammit, I've never thought more than five minutes ahead my entire life, I'm not starting now.
Slo Mo Guys have good slo-mo music. Who'd've thunk it.
Pretty much everyone with eyes.So… how much of the class did we just terrify with Jaune's ability to go from 0-100 in a nigh unstoppable manner?
So, everyone except Rashmi.
Machines do have a good track record of winning out against divinity in recent times.
Anyway, after Bandaid's initial burst of energy, starting with Ozpin as a topic has slowly gained the lead and is currently on track to win the vote. Voting closes at 8 pm GMT tonight.
Kanata.EXE
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By the way, are we going to make this our catchphrase? Because I like that idea.
We can even use it as a mind game, not telling when Jaune will truly active Turn() and kick their ass.
Of course, not sure how to translate it to the game.
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- Sweden
Wait... is our father blonde? Is he an exceptionally burly huntsman? Does he have the ability to stop or dilate time?
Is our father Dio?
You know, we really should code that semblance that we got from that healer teacher. We could likely even code it to combine with our Analysis partition to avoid energizing the harmful bacteria in the human body.
ADeshantis
King on the Chromium Throne
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I thought Turn() was Jaune's function, an offshoot of Calculation. Since it's the one Function he tried to use before the Transistor was created, it'd almost have to be.
Could be that it's one of the few Functions that's a combination of two Semblances. With Jaune, he can actually keep up with the time slowing down, and with "Dio" we can do the actual timestop.
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Wow, Mr. Foresight over here. I'm still trying to accept that 2012 was 10 years ago.
Prok
Go play Star Fetchers
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- Scotland
Pft-
Okay, full disclosure- that's a way better explanation than what I have planned. As for what I have planned, you'll find out in the Valentine's interlude. When's it going up, who knows, I fucking don't-
Ahem.
Voting is closed, talking about Ozpin wins. Update will be up nnnyyyeeeh not this week, lotta, lotta personal stuff going on, not much time for my passion projects.
TvTropes Page!
Kanata.EXE
Programmer
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I almost forget something. I just created a page on TV Tropes about this quest. With how good this quest is, I think it deserves one.
There are not many tropes there, so if anyone wants to contribute, I'll be grateful.
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There are not many tropes there, so if anyone wants to contribute, I'll be grateful.
Hold It In (Fanfic) - TV Tropes
You are Jaune Arc and you're about to face your final test from Signal Academy. If you pass the test, you will be recommended to Beacon Academy. But you have nothing to worry about. For you have the Transistor. Hold it in is a RWBY/Transistor …
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