My plan pretty much just has us shooting the guy currently down before he recovers while standing where he is. Hence Jaune not really moving much if at all letting his legs recover by not using much movement in them.
What's the format for plans again? I'll give it a shot. If this is wrong I'll either edit it or make a new post later
[x] Sit down and rub some life into your legs while Sword flies around and interferes with anyone trying to mess with you while you do it. Then kick ass.
[X] Take out Naia while he is down, seriously, the guy is down at the moment and one more take down means that everyone on our team including us is guaranteed to pass and he is the easiest target here. Use ()Breach until his aura goes down, no point in taking chances now. Afterwards go see if your team is alright.
-[X] Ride your sword around when you need to move
No uniform format, really, people just write something vaguely coherent out then I try and interpret it in the best way possible. Subvotes definitely help me break down an update, though, so keep that in mind.
Adhoc vote count started by Prok on Sep 11, 2017 at 11:48 AM, finished with 855 posts and 11 votes.
[X] Take out Naia while he is down, seriously, the guy is down at the moment and one more take down means that everyone on our team including us is guaranteed to pass and he is the easiest target here. Use ()Breach until his aura goes down, no point in taking chances now. Afterwards go see if your team is alright.
[x] Sit down and rub some life into your legs while Sword flies around and interferes with anyone trying to mess with you while you do it. Then kick ass.
[X] Take out Naia while he is down, seriously, the guy is down at the moment and one more take down means that everyone on our team including us is guaranteed to pass and he is the easiest target here. Use ()Breach until his aura goes down, no point in taking chances now. Afterwards go see if your team is alright.
-[X] Ride your sword around when you need to move
[X] Take out Naia while he is down, seriously, the guy is down at the moment and one more take down means that everyone on our team including us is guaranteed to pass and he is the easiest target here. Use ()Breach until his aura goes down, no point in taking chances now. Afterwards go see if your team is alright.
Just in case I'm not here to do it later, I'm going to close the vote now, and trying to take Naia out wins! The unguessed Semblance was Haru Chinatsu and his Atomic Karate.
Hrm... you're not moving around that much, I'll give you that, so...
Someone roll a d20-3, DC 8.
Adhoc vote count started by Prok on Sep 11, 2017 at 1:26 PM, finished with 858 posts and 11 votes.
[X] Take out Naia while he is down, seriously, the guy is down at the moment and one more take down means that everyone on our team including us is guaranteed to pass and he is the easiest target here. Use ()Breach until his aura goes down, no point in taking chances now. Afterwards go see if your team is alright.
[x] Sit down and rub some life into your legs while Sword flies around and interferes with anyone trying to mess with you while you do it. Then kick ass.
[X] Take out Naia while he is down, seriously, the guy is down at the moment and one more take down means that everyone on our team including us is guaranteed to pass and he is the easiest target here. Use ()Breach until his aura goes down, no point in taking chances now. Afterwards go see if your team is alright.
-[X] Ride your sword around when you need to move
Just in case I'm not here to do it later, I'm going to close the vote now, and trying to take Naia out wins! The unguessed Semblance was Haru Chinatsu and his Atomic Karate.
Hrm... you're not moving around that much, I'll give you that, so...
Just in case I'm not here to do it later, I'm going to close the vote now, and trying to take Naia out wins! The unguessed Semblance was Haru Chinatsu and his Atomic Karate.
Hrm... you're not moving around that much, I'll give you that, so...
Well someone did put in a subvote to my plan but I was worried about splitting the votes. So have to ask, would putting in a subvote to an existing plan let it be counted as the one without it? Asking because I remember some QMs not counting those with the main vote.
Also we are still getting a -3? towards the roll? I thought that was based on movement? Jaune could literally just point at the guy from where he is standing so seems odd to have the movement malus here.
Also we are still getting a -3? towards the roll? I thought that was based on movement? Jaune could literally just point at the guy from where he is standing so seems odd to have the movement malus here.
I know I call it a movement penalty, but it's more a 'my legs are made of pudding' penalty. That doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well, though- my point is, even just standing around, his legs are shaky enough that he could just collapse on the spot. Also Naia is just far enough away that in order to do anything to him, Jaune's gonna need to take a couple steps in that direction at least.
It's a moot point anyway, because 12-3=9, which passes. He's gonna hurt, but he's gonna do it.
I'm... not sure what the second roll is for, to be perfectly honest.
I know I call it a movement penalty, but it's more a 'my legs are made of pudding' penalty. That doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well, though- my point is, even just standing around, his legs are shaky enough that he could just collapse on the spot. Also Naia is just far enough away that in order to do anything to him, Jaune's gonna need to take a couple steps in that direction at least.
It's a moot point anyway, because 12-3=9, which passes. He's gonna hurt, but he's gonna do it.
I'm... not sure what the second roll is for, to be perfectly honest.
Well someone did put in a subvote to my plan but I was worried about splitting the votes. So have to ask, would putting in a subvote to an existing plan let it be counted as the one without it? Asking because I remember some QMs not counting those with the main vote.
[] Take out Naia while he is down, seriously, the guy is down at the moment and one more take down means that everyone on our team including us is guaranteed to pass and he is the easiest target here. Use ()Breach until his aura goes down, no point in taking chances now. Afterwards go see if your team is alright. -[] Ride your sword around when you need to move
But was worried about it not being counted due to the subvote based from experience in another quest.
I know I call it a movement penalty, but it's more a 'my legs are made of pudding' penalty. That doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well, though- my point is, even just standing around, his legs are shaky enough that he could just collapse on the spot. Also Naia is just far enough away that in order to do anything to him, Jaune's gonna need to take a couple steps in that direction at least.
It's a moot point anyway, because 12-3=9, which passes. He's gonna hurt, but he's gonna do it.
I'm... not sure what the second roll is for, to be perfectly honest.
Well someone did put in a subvote to my plan but I was worried about splitting the votes. So have to ask, would putting in a subvote to an existing plan let it be counted as the one without it? Asking because I remember some QMs not counting those with the main vote.
It depends on how significant the subvote is, I suppose. If it's a minor thing, yeah, I'll smush the votes together anyway and count them as if it didn't exist, or maybe even add it in anyway, if it's too good an idea/too cool/too adorable for me to resist.
When it comes to votes, I go by general idea more than the nitty-gritty of each individual sub-vote. If there's one plan with seven votes behind it going for Saff, and three wildly different plans with four different votes behind each of them going for Naia, I'm going for Saff because three different plans aren't going to mesh well together, and that lack of cohesiveness doesn't deserve to be rewarded, as harsh as that sounds. If three-quarters of you can't get your shit together and hash out a plan everybody is happy with, the quarter of you that can will win most every time.
But that's beside the point; tiny subvotes like that are inconsequential enough that their inclusion is based more in my own personal opinion of them than anything else, and are counted with their majority vote. As long as you're all under the same voting plan, and you're all heading in the same general direction, it gives me a little bit of variety to work with at best.
There are limits, mind. Subvotes that affect dice rolls will not be cannibalised post-vote to save a bad roll, for example.
It depends on how significant the subvote is, I suppose. If it's a minor thing, yeah, I'll smush the votes together anyway and count them as if it didn't exist, or maybe even add it in anyway, if it's too good an idea/too cool/too adorable for me to resist.
When it comes to votes, I go by general idea more than the nitty-gritty of each individual sub-vote. If there's one plan with seven votes behind it going for Saff, and three wildly different plans with four different votes behind each of them going for Naia, I'm going for Saff because three different plans aren't going to mesh well together, and that lack of cohesiveness doesn't deserve to be rewarded, as harsh as that sounds. If three-quarters of you can't get your shit together and hash out a plan everybody is happy with, the quarter of you that can will win most every time.
But that's beside the point; tiny subvotes like that are inconsequential enough that their inclusion is based more in my own personal opinion of them than anything else, and are counted with their majority vote. As long as you're all under the same voting plan, and you're all heading in the same general direction, it gives me a little bit of variety to work with at best.
There are limits, mind. Subvotes that affect dice rolls will not be cannibalised post-vote to save a bad roll, for example.
[] Take out Naia while he is down, seriously, the guy is down at the moment and one more take down means that everyone on our team including us is guaranteed to pass and he is the easiest target here. Use ()Breach until his aura goes down, no point in taking chances now. Afterwards go see if your team is alright. -[] Ride your sword around when you need to move
Someone did vote for it before the vote closed and it is pretty minor.
[] Take out Naia while he is down, seriously, the guy is down at the moment and one more take down means that everyone on our team including us is guaranteed to pass and he is the easiest target here. Use ()Breach until his aura goes down, no point in taking chances now. Afterwards go see if your team is alright. -[] Ride your sword around when you need to move
Someone did vote for it before the vote closed and it is pretty minor.
Since you passed the dice roll, sure. Gives me a chance to teach everyone something about one of the larger limitations of the Transistor-
Ok, you know what, fuck this particular elephant in the room, time to talk about it. Is anyone else finding just calling the Transistor 'the Transistor' or 'your sword' so damn clunky, or is it just me? Maybe it's just because I'm doing it about ten times more than everybody else, but transistor doesn't even look like a word to me anymore, and there's like three different things it could be referring to when I use it in this particular context, so that just muddies the waters even more, and frankly I don't think Jaune would feel much different after a few weeks of having a fully sentient sword.
Next update, I'm officially taking naming suggestions.
Since you passed the dice roll, sure. Gives me a chance to teach everyone something about one of the larger limitations of the Transistor-
Ok, you know what, fuck this particular elephant in the room, time to talk about it. Is anyone else finding just calling the Transistor 'the Transistor' or 'your sword' so damn clunky, or is it just me? Maybe it's just because I'm doing it about ten times more than everybody else, but transistor doesn't even look like a word to me anymore, and there's like three different things it could be referring to when I use it in this particular context, so that just muddies the waters even more, and frankly I don't think Jaune would feel much different after a few weeks of having a fully sentient sword.
Next update, I'm officially taking naming suggestions.
I have experienced this while writing, thinking up four ways to call a person in a sentence because just using the same name would get repetitive. I have never experienced it while reading. From this, I deduce that it's only a problem while writing, meaning that you are probably fine.
Also, the only alternative names that I have ever thought up for Transistor are... rather extravagant.
Since you passed the dice roll, sure. Gives me a chance to teach everyone something about one of the larger limitations of the Transistor-
Ok, you know what, fuck this particular elephant in the room, time to talk about it. Is anyone else finding just calling the Transistor 'the Transistor' or 'your sword' so damn clunky, or is it just me? Maybe it's just because I'm doing it about ten times more than everybody else, but transistor doesn't even look like a word to me anymore, and there's like three different things it could be referring to when I use it in this particular context, so that just muddies the waters even more, and frankly I don't think Jaune would feel much different after a few weeks of having a fully sentient sword.
Next update, I'm officially taking naming suggestions.
Well, there's two distinct entities within the sword itself- the personality AI, which I'll call Blue for the sake of brevity, and the diagnostics AI, who I'll call Courier after the font I use for it.
I say two distinct entities, it's more like one and a half- it's the same AI, just forking itself for two completely different purposes, and becoming so varied in the process that it's pretty much two different AIs sharing a processor. Two sides of the same coin, but the coin's almost been sliced in half, to butcher an analogy.
Blue's job is to engage with Jaune, and, if need be, other people in a way that doesn't come off as, you know, a less cute Penny. It takes what Courier gives it and... humanises it. It turns microexpression analysis into {he's telling the truth,} or {she's genuinely scared of the dark,} it turns a 500Mb text file on the ins and outs of nuclear fission into {yeah splitting the atom is a bad idea,} it turns Suggestion: engage in conversation into {TALK TO HER YOU COWARD.}
You get the idea. It engages with Jaune like a human being because that's the best way to get certain things across to him.
Courier... is what actually makes the sword work as something other than a sentient paperweight. All those processes, all those sensors, all that raw information, has to be collected and processed by something, and that's what Courier does. It collects and collates all that data and tells Jaune specifics, as well as handling all the actual work of the Transistor, scanning, privacy locks, Functions, coding, the antigrav- that's why Blue's been... relatively quiet the past few updates, because Courier's been taking up everything it can without subsuming its partner completely for the moment.
My point is, essentially having two distinct characters with you at all times and not being able to refer to them by name is VERY ANNOYING.
Well, there's two distinct entities within the sword itself- the personality AI, which I'll call Blue for the sake of brevity, and the diagnostics AI, who I'll call Courier after the font I use for it.
I say two distinct entities, it's more like one and a half- it's the same AI, just forking itself for two completely different purposes, and becoming so varied in the process that it's pretty much two different AIs sharing a processor. Two sides of the same coin, but the coin's almost been sliced in half, to butcher an analogy.
Blue's job is to engage with Jaune, and, if need be, other people in a way that doesn't come off as, you know, a less cute Penny. It takes what Courier gives it and... humanises it. It turns microexpression analysis into {he's telling the truth,} or {she's genuinely scared of the dark,} it turns a 500Mb text file on the ins and outs of nuclear fission into {yeah splitting the atom is a bad idea,} it turns Suggestion: engage in conversation into {TALK TO HER YOU COWARD.}
You get the idea. It engages with Jaune like a human being because that's the best way to get certain things across to him.
Courier... is what actually makes the sword work as something other than a sentient paperweight. All those processes, all those sensors, all that raw information, has to be collected and processed by something, and that's what Courier does. It collects and collates all that data and tells Jaune specifics, as well as handling all the actual work of the Transistor, scanning, privacy locks, Functions, coding, the antigrav- that's why Blue's been... relatively quiet the past few updates, because Courier's been taking up everything it can without subsuming its partner completely for the moment.
My point is, essentially having two distinct characters with you at all times and not being able to refer to them by name is VERY ANNOYING.
Hmm... how about calling them Blue and Royce? Courier sounds about as socially impaired as Royce was.
Also, I was thinking about writing an omake in which Royce is in the sword, observing the world around Jaune. Might not end up writing it, but it's an interesting idea, no?
Well, there's two distinct entities within the sword itself- the personality AI, which I'll call Blue for the sake of brevity, and the diagnostics AI, who I'll call Courier after the font I use for it.
I say two distinct entities, it's more like one and a half- it's the same AI, just forking itself for two completely different purposes, and becoming so varied in the process that it's pretty much two different AIs sharing a processor. Two sides of the same coin, but the coin's almost been sliced in half, to butcher an analogy.
Blue's job is to engage with Jaune, and, if need be, other people in a way that doesn't come off as, you know, a less cute Penny. It takes what Courier gives it and... humanises it. It turns microexpression analysis into {he's telling the truth,} or {she's genuinely scared of the dark,} it turns a 500Mb text file on the ins and outs of nuclear fission into {yeah splitting the atom is a bad idea,} it turns Suggestion: engage in conversation into {TALK TO HER YOU COWARD.}
You get the idea. It engages with Jaune like a human being because that's the best way to get certain things across to him.
Courier... is what actually makes the sword work as something other than a sentient paperweight. All those processes, all those sensors, all that raw information, has to be collected and processed by something, and that's what Courier does. It collects and collates all that data and tells Jaune specifics, as well as handling all the actual work of the Transistor, scanning, privacy locks, Functions, coding, the antigrav- that's why Blue's been... relatively quiet the past few updates, because Courier's been taking up everything it can without subsuming its partner completely for the moment.
My point is, essentially having two distinct characters with you at all times and not being able to refer to them by name is VERY ANNOYING.
Um, I could be wrong here, but rather than two AI isn't it more like a single AI but with an Id and Superego? Courier is the Id, the part of the brain that does all the subconscious thinking and reactionary actions; Blue is the Superego, the rational part that suppresses/filters the Id so that actions and communications are meaningful when dealing with others beyond the self. Together the two parts make a single persons Ego, which encompasses their thoughts and personality; of course as an AI the mentality is different, but that's why each part can speak separately.
Um, I could be wrong here, but rather than two AI isn't it more like a single AI but with an Id and Superego? Courier is the Id, the part of the brain that does all the subconscious thinking and reactionary actions; Blue is the Superego, the rational part that suppresses/filters the Id so that actions and communications are meaningful when dealing with others beyond the self. Together the two parts make a single persons Ego, which encompasses their thoughts and personality; of course as an AI the mentality is different, but that's why each part can speak separately.
You could think of it like that, but as I've said before, Freud has no power here. It's more like severely conjoined twins- technically the same organism, but capable of working independently, and... also, able to... absorb their twin to gain their power- ok so the analogy breaks down in the most horrifying way possible after some thought, but you get the idea. Technically separate entities, but technically not, either. Just... somewhere in between.
Also, if anything, Blue really should be the one called Bracket- it's the one that actually has brackets, after all.
I did notice that! Thing is the brackets are Blue's quotation marks. Do we see quotation marks when we talk? Nah. Blue's "Blue" because the sword is blue, Bracket is "Bracket" because when Jaune wrote a speech-to-text program for his HUD, all speech from the Transistor was rendered with brackets.
In a way this means he named each component of the sword (if you will, the body, mind and soul) after another part, but don't think about it. He doesn't! (cut him some slack he only recently realized Bracket was there okay it's not like he can talk to anyone about it)
You take a few shaky steps before your knee gives out and you have to take a moment to steady yourself. Nope. Walking is not on the agenda right now. Get over here.
The Transistor floats over, lying flat behind you so you can...
Urgh.
{Side-saddle's comfier, and we both know what happened to the last pair of jeans you wore trying to do this the normal way.}
Urgh. That doesn't make it less weird.
As your sword begins to float, taking your weight off your poor, abused legs, you gently ride over to Naia, still laying on the ground.
".. Bracket, are you sure-"
No medical problems detected. Aura stable, subject is conscious- possible theory is that he is taking a short rest to compose himself and restore his eyesight.
... Well, damn. Better deal with him sharpish, then.
Queue Breach() when in range.
Error: unable to perform Breach() while user is mounted.
... Of course. You're not sure how you forgot about some Functions' limitation of requiring the Transistor to... well, actually strike something in order to trigger. Well, Crash() and Breach() are the only ones, but you have a couple in the works that seem to fit in the same category. It's annoying either way.
{Hey, you coded them!}
You know! You know the exact line that forces that restriction, and no matter how hard you try, you cannot get rid of it without turning it into useless junk, at best, or dangerous junk at worst!
The moment of revisited outrage takes your mind off your legs as you float towards your target at what probably equates to a jogging pace. "You want to fuck with me? You wanna fuck with me?! I AM THE ONE WHO FUCKS!" DC 15, Roll: 1. So, who wants to see what fucking up Dust Sorcery looks like?
Once you're close enough for Breach() to perform its works, your sword tips you off at an angle, letting you hit the ground good leg first. After a couple moments of hopping, you grab your sword and queue Breach() a couple times-
And Naia's up, crouched low, a red Dust crystal in his hand.
"God I hope this is worth three month's allowance-" You hear him mutter from beneath his helmet.
... Wait, what?!
He pulses his Aura through it, glyphs appearing around his hand as he reels it back to throw at you. Turning Dust into an IED is pretty much the simplest thing you can do with them- some Aura, hell, a good throw will do the trick if it's powder, but in the end, it's still a grenade.
{Rich bastard.}
You wonder, as he sends it at you like a fastball, if that's really the point Blue should be fixating on. "Batter up!" DC 15, Major Failure Bonus +2 + Swordsmanship Penalty Negated, Roll: 20 + 2 = 22.
Without thinking, you step back, flailing your sword in the magical grenade's direction, not particularly bothered with edge angles or anything like that, you're just trying to get it away from you before it blows up. In the process, however, you manage to, one, hit it with the flat of your blade, two, not immediately have it explode in your face, and three, manage to bat it back to Naia, who raises his own club to bat it back.
Unlike you, however, he misses the crystal, and it slips beneath the collar of his armour as the barely-held club flies off into the distance. Listening closely, below Saff's sailor-shaming tirade as he looses arrows into the now less green than blue golem chasing him, you hear it gently clink as it makes its way through his chest plate. Once the tinkling stops, he looks you dead in the eye from beneath his helm.
"... Oh, fuck off, Jaune."
"Understandable."
Fire roars from every gap in his armour, from his collar, from his helm, from his gloves, from his knee plates and his boots, a solid five seconds of red-hot flames following the initial blast, before only wisps of smoke are left, curling up and around his body. Slowly, Naia gently tilts backwards, not collapsing, not stumbling, simply a perfect geometric transition from standing to on his back.
It, alongside the huge thump that comes with his finally reaching the ground, is one of the most beautiful things you've ever seen.
You wait a moment.
... He... isn't, going anywhere- seriously!?
How much Aura does he have?!
The screen says 60/500. Just above critical threshold- all Functions available would break his Aura and allow physical damage to commence.
... Ok, so what now?
... Physical attack with your weapon recommended.
{Er, no, Bracket, let's not use get used as a sword, because that armour looks like it would shatter us!}
Before the argument can devolve any further, Naia raises an arm at the elbow, bringing it down again with a large thud. And again.
He flickers out of existence, and out of the corner of your eye, you see Professors Moss and Teal helping him into a seat.
{... Did... did he just... tap out?}
You... think so.
Convenient.
... Shouldn't they be stopping you now?
You look up at Moss and Teal and see them looking over Naia and the two injured students. They seem to be more occupied with them than with ending the test, now that there's only six left.
{Must be dealing with them first. Which... fair, I guess. Maybe check on Ada while we're waiting?}
Good idea. You hobble over to your teammates, using your sword as a makeshift walking stick when you realise your knee is still incapable of acting as a knee and eventually limp your way to the girls.
Both of them are up now, gawping at you a little.
"... You- I- no, no, that is fucking bullshit, you did not just do that!" Creme is the first to jump on your case.
"What the fuck are you, Arc?! How do you get away with this shit?!" Ada isn't far behind.
"I just got lucky. Look, enough about me- are you ok? When you dodged Haru, that... looked rough." You say, shifting the conversation away from your lucky strike and towards Ada's own health.
The tiny girl goes quiet, suddenly incapable of looking you in the eye. She seems to shrink in on herself, and you wonder if bringing it up was a bad idea.
"... 'm fine." She whispers after a moment, sounding very obviously not fine.
{Drop it for now. It's not the time or the place, and she's obviously not keen on talking about it.}
"... If you're sure. Anyway, that should be six people now. I don't know why they haven't called it yet."
Before you can react to that, Sini's out of the ground again, a thin patina of dust whitening his face, his pistol pointed at the back of Creme's head.
"Me."
He pulls the trigger, and Ada's head jerks forwards, prompting her to finally react and twist around to stick him with her sabre, Creme following suit with her hammer. Ada misses, going high and just about giving him a little off the top, while Creme goes low, managing a strike to his throat before grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and physically dragging him out of the ground.
"GET UP HERE YOU GLORIFIED WHACKAMOLE!" She yells, throwing him at Saff. For a moment, Lumen's golem freezes mid-swing, globs of luxin and arrows both halting in mid-air and dropping to the ground, all just before Salem inexplicably, speeds up mid-flight. "AIM FOR THE SOFT THING-" DC 10, Roll: 10. Success!(?)
Mini-Moss slams into Saff, before slamming them both into the wall. And you do mean into- much like several sections of the arena wall already thoroughly abused by the other students, they've dug their own section into it, their bodies sprawled within its confines, and over each other.
The blue-green golem looks for his opponent, before apparently coming to the decision that that's enough goleming for today. The blue luxin begins to crumble, flaking away into a chalky residue, the green falling away like pine needles. As the layers come away, red, orange, yellow, all other sorts of colours flow out from cysts within its shell, quickly becoming dust and residue themselves. Once the smell hits you, a litany of chalk and pine, with undertones of tobacco and almonds and eucalyptus...
It's... heady, to say the least. The girls seem to agree with you, breathing deeply to take it in.
{He's a walking air freshener.}
Saff and Salem, however, don't seem to agree, considering their apparent inability to extricate themselves from the wall.
"Agh, you're crushing my hand-"
"You're crushing my leg! Ok, look, move your hips a little so I can get out a little-"
"YOU CAN MOVE THROUGH WALLS, WHY ARE YOU EVEN STUCK?!"
"WALLS, NOT PEOPLE!"
"THAT'S A FAIR POINT!"
"THANK YOU!"
... Moving along- Lumen, free of his shell, takes a moment. Even from here, you can see a thin sheen of sweat on his face and body, his hair left thin and stringy. Tilting his head back, he takes a few deep breaths of the symphony of scent he just created, before stumbling to reclaim his sword from the small river of orange luxin it was floating away on and looking around for you three.
As he plods along to meet you, you realise how out of breath he sounds.
Symptoms of nausea detected.
"H-hey guys." He says, a slur to his words. Now that Bracket's pointed it out to you, he really does sound ready to blow chunks.
"... WHY IS EVERYBODY ELSE ON THIS FUCKING TEAM SO TERRIFYING?!" Ada screams her frustration to the heavens, drawing a wince from... well, everybody.
{Good God she's loud.}
Theory: secondary Semblance of sonic manipulation.
Was... that-
{Bracket, was that a joke?}
... Affirmative.
... Your lil' Bracket's growing a sense of humour. He's on his way to becoming a real boy.
Brings a tear to your eye, it does.
After that moment of faux-fatherly pride, Saff and Moss finally extricate themselves with some imaginative use of their Semblances. Granted, the wall looks like an architectural nightmare by the time they're done, but it worked, you guess.
Saff yelps as they flop onto the ground still tangled together, before swiftly extracting themselves from each other.
"Ok!" He says, sounding more chipper than he's sounded since this test started. "So, are we doing the whole, teaming up with each other as a last resort thing, enemy of my enemy is my-"
Salem answers him in the form of a headshot.
{He's fond of those, isn't he?}
Saff, now on the ground, again, flickers over to the stands.
"FUCK YOU, SALEM."
"Understandable." Salem calls back to the more than angry Faunus, before moving towards your own team, drawing his cavalry sabre.
"Erm, e-excuse me!" Teal calls down. "That- there's only five of you left! You don't need to fight anymore!"
Despite thinking much the same thing, you join the others in looking at her like she's grown a second head. Quickly, her usual blush deepens even further, and she sits back down.
"What Professor Teal is trying to say is that if you wish to leave the fight, there's nothing stopping you."
"And what if we want to keep going?" Salem asks, his slow advance stopping for a moment.
"... Why? You're, in the top six! There's no reason to keep going except..." Something seems to dawn on him. "... You know what? No skin off my nose, Sini. If they want to fight, you fight."
You watch him as he sits down and folds his arms over, wondering what he knows that you don't.
{... The maze... did have that hole in the top. Do you think he heard...?}
... Oh.
{Yeah.}
OH.
{YEAH.}
HE KNOWS. ABOUT THE THING.
{I THINK SO YEAH.}
"Well? You heard him. We fighting or nah?" The short boy asks you, puffing his chest out and spreading his arms wide as he does.
"... Salem, do you really think you can take out four of us?" Lumen calls back. "Because, uh, no. You can't. One, sure, two, maybe, three, if Jaune wasn't one of them, all four of us? No. Give up, dude. Joint first... is still first."
{I mean, Lumen has a point. At the same time, if we beat him... are we taking the victory as a team, or do people start backstabbing?}
"I won't know until I try. And I just have to try."
"Er, sorry, would you mind if we just, take a moment? You know, discuss this among ourselves?" You call out, turning your team's heads.
"I'm in no rush." He says after a moment.
Everybody gathers up, forming a little circle.
"... Lumen, what the fuck? Why do you wanna stop?" Creme hisses at the gangly boy.
"Because I get ill if I draft too much luxin, and holy shit I've drafted way too much luxin! If I draft anymore, I'm probably gonna be taken off the field for illness anyway!" He hisses back.
"What, not even to jam his guns or something?"
"I... I'll need a couple minutes to settle down, but, yeah, I think so, if you keep him distracted- wait, no, no, don't distract me like that! I'm just... look, I can't fight, not right now." For a moment, he looks away, almost ashamed. "...Sorry."
"We all have our limits. There's nothing to apologise for. Ada, what do you think?" You ask the diminutive cyclops.
"I think Sini's a smug ass and the idea of taking him down a notch is very, very nice. I'm all for fighting, even if Lumen does puss out, but I'm not doing it by myself."
"Fuck you, cyclops."
"Go shit a rainbow, rainbow-shitter."
After a moment of glaring at each other, one of them snorts and it just devolves into giggles from there.
"Hello? We doing this or not?" Sini calls out.
That brings everyone back to the task at hand, and they look at you.
"... Jaune? What do you think? You're, pretty much the team leader, so... your call, I guess." Creme says, prompting you to make the decision. Lumen and Ada don't dispute the assertion, so you're definitely doing this.
Aura: 85/150. Full Function Suite Available. Turn() Available.
[] "... No. We're done." You're number five. At worst. You're happy with that, fuck Salem and his need to prove himself to a girl that isn't even here. He wants first place? Ok. Doesn't mean you can't make it as unsatisfying as possible in the process.
[] "Well you see, Sini, here's my opening offer-" Track him while you charge, then send a Spin() to hit ten feet in front of him. Should catch the fucker off-guard.
-[] And then?
[] "Just a moment, we're at something of a stalemate-" Lie, then plan. Since you're being afforded the moment...
-[] What plan? Who's doing what?
[] (Write-In)
Or perhaps I might tempt you with... a deal? NO YOU MAY NOT.
[] OVERKILL. BEST KILL.- Unknown to all but Bracket, for a price paid in processing power, you can... remove certain limits on certain Functions. Normally, this would require an Access Station, but Overkill Opportunities were never meant to follow the rules anyway. Remove the cooldown on Spin(), for a short while, reduce the Turn() cost to negligible amounts, and then...
Well. Checkumatu-da.
Since this is within the same scene, and a genuine bending of the rules, you will be rolling double- a D60 this time. With your bonuses adding up to +11, plus five if you decide to shell out for that bonus, the lowest you can safely roll is...
Ah. That would be telling.
THIS VOTE IS NULL AND VOID BY ORDER OF THE QM
Adhoc vote count started by Prok on Sep 14, 2017 at 5:31 PM, finished with 900 posts and 21 votes.
[x] An offer he shouldn't refuse: Make a plan, then offer Moss a deal: the team drops out if Moss pays for the team's victory dinner. If yes, great. If no:
-[x] Jaune: bait. Moss is an opportunist, so Jaune baits him into an attack of opportunity. Get off the sword, act like he's preparing something big. When Moss closes in, drop the sword a few times so Creme can gather a charge.
-[x] Creme: rearguard/hammer. Creme provides ranged support and if/when Moss gets close she hits him with all the force she can gather.
-[x] Ada and Lumen advance but they're allowed to let Moss get past. These two are least likely to cause friendly fire if Moss decides to stand and fight. Lumen doesn't need to draft, he just needs to put up enough of a fight that Moss goes after a softer target.
[X]Accept the offer personally but mention to the other members of your team that if they don't want to fight that they don't have to but you are going see this through to the end. -[X]Use ()jaunt to move where he is then use ()Crash followed by ()Breach
