Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

Always Late · Feb 19, 2017

Archeo Lumiere said:
There's a Timeglider timeline somewhere that has attacks further than that, including the airplane.

That's the one that lists Madison as happening in July.
Which is apparently one of the details Ack says is wrong.

hamof · Feb 19, 2017

Always Late said:
If it looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck...

Then someone is hiding something.

Always Late · Feb 19, 2017

hamof said:
Then someone is hiding something.

I see someone who has played lots of Shadowrun./friendly teasing

hamof · Feb 19, 2017

Always Late said:
I see someone who has played lots of Shadowrun./friendly teasing

Nope, it's from a Harry Potter fic I read once, don't remember the name sadly.

Silently Watches · Feb 21, 2017

Here we go…

[X] Flare Blade
No. of Votes: 36

[X] Ragnarök
No. of Votes: 28

[X] Frost Beam
No. of Votes: 14

Scope
Sitxar
veekie
Shadowghost
B.B. Rain
beingme
DJK
ej190
HammerHeart
LancerisDead
Le-Feline
Naddakka741
SirKaid
W34v3r

[X] Ring Bind
No. of Votes: 4

Shaseyu
Hoyden
KInruush
W34v3r

[X] Shell Barrier
No. of Votes: 4

TortugaGreen
NegetiveJ
steamrick
Yuki no Yue

[X] Telekinesis
No. of Votes: 1

ReaperofInterest

Total No. of Voters: 44

Plan "Burn all the things" it is. You do realize that if anything catches on fire in Philadelphia, you're going to be suspect number one, right? Character sheets have been updated.

ReaperofInterest · Feb 21, 2017

Well, looks like Ragnarok isn't going to be used very often, or possibly at all. Although I do find myself wondering what the other requirements to use Ragnarok without killing ourselves is.

kokuenDG · Feb 21, 2017

Silently Watches said:
Plan "Burn all the things" it is. You do realize that if anything catches on fire in Philadelphia, you're going to be suspect number one, right? Character sheets have been updated.

...We can totally blame it on Sam. She has a pretty bad pyro-streak, y'know.

landcollector · Feb 21, 2017

Silently Watches said:
Plan "Burn all the things" it is. You do realize that if anything catches on fire in Philadelphia, you're going to be suspect number one, right? Character sheets have been updated.

"It's not my fault shit's on fire!...this time anyway... >_>"

Scope · Feb 21, 2017

ReaperofInterest said:
Well, looks like Ragnarok isn't going to be used very often, or possibly at all. Although I do find myself wondering what the other requirements to use Ragnarok without killing ourselves is.

Master Solar Wrath and get the Charge Cartridge under the Knight skill tree. Maybe Divide Energy under Guardian Beast as well since it is basically about energy efficiency.

Firedon · Feb 21, 2017

Hm. The conditions we can see for Ragnarök are pretty heavy, but I'm wondering. It's not the complexity that's the issue with Ragnarök, it's the power and the strain it'll put us under, right? Could we partly circumvent that through cartridges? Spend those casting Recursion Field, or to buffer us through Ragnarök so we don't immediately pass out at least? I suppose we'll have to see if/when we unlock cartridges.

landcollector · Feb 21, 2017

I'm a little curious as to what the 3 so-far unrevealed conditions will be; I get the feeling they will be more restrictive the further down the list they are.

kokuenDG · Feb 21, 2017

So did Taylor's outfit change a bit with the Knight tree influence? Or are we still looking like a Witch?

Silently Watches · Feb 21, 2017

Firedon said:
Hm. The conditions we can see for Ragnarök are pretty heavy, but I'm wondering. It's not the complexity that's the issue with Ragnarök, it's the power and the strain it'll put us under, right? Could we partly circumvent that through cartridges? Spend those casting Recursion Field, or to buffer us through Ragnarök so we don't immediately pass out at least? I suppose we'll have to see if/when we unlock cartridges.

landcollector said:
I'm a little curious as to what the 3 so-far unrevealed conditions will be; I get the feeling they will be more restrictive the further down the list they are.

The issue is one of power, yes. The one visible condition is actually the most restrictive, but the others all require spells you don't have yet.

kokuenDG said:
So did Taylor's outfit change a bit with the Knight tree influence? Or are we still looking like a Witch?

Outfits do not change much if at all with secondary templates. Your Device, on the other hand, does have small change related to Flare Blade.

Always Late · Feb 21, 2017

Silently Watches said:
Plan "Burn all the things" it is. You do realize that if anything catches on fire in Philadelphia, you're going to be suspect number one, right? Character sheets have been updated.

Harry Dresden makes it work, so can we.

Silently Watches said:
Ragnarök – The ultimate Flare-affinity bombardment spell. This is a city-killer and has no setting lower than apocalyptic. Has specific conditions to use safely.

Have not cast any other spells since waking up. After casting Ragnarök, you will pass out until the next morning.

******** ***

********* *******

***** ** **********

If none of the above conditions have been fulfilled, the strain of casting this spell will cause your Linker Core to implode, and the shock will kill you.

Silently Watches said:
The issue is one of power, yes. The one visible condition is actually the most restrictive, but the others all require spells you don't have yet.

... nobody's got a problem we just bought something we can't use, OK then.

Silently Watches said:
Charge Cartridge (0/3 Novice) – Store mana in bullet casings for later use. Cartridges are fed into the Device from dimensional storage. The more powerful the spell, the more cartridges it consumes. 4 cartridges can be created per day, and you are left weakened until you get a full night's sleep. You will gain 1 level of mana poisoning for every 50 cartridges spent in a 24-hour period.

Oh look, a lighter version of the thing people dropped Transcendent Gadgeteer over.

Silently Watches · Feb 21, 2017

Always Late said:
Oh look, a lighter version of the thing people dropped Transcendent Gadgeteer over.

You also need this spell to use cartridges, so buying it wouldn't be a waste of time even if you don't spend time making them. You'd just need to give someone the Extinction Knight template or an Armed Device and the spell to make them for you.

Kinruush · Feb 21, 2017

Always Late said:
... nobody's got a problem we just bought something we can't use, OK then.

I wouldn't say nobody.

Sitxar · Feb 22, 2017

Always Late said:
... nobody's got a problem we just bought something we can't use, OK then.

I, for one, have a problem with it. I'm just sitting in my room, thinking "I told you it's not going to be useful." Endbringers are most likely not going to be insta-killed by it, and other people are not worth nuking a city.
And come on, people, we even have a hat and a skimpy skirt already!

Silently Watches said:
4 cartridges can be created per day, and you are left weakened until you get a full night's sleep.

@Silently Watches, could you tell us if by "weakened" you meant "after a good workout weakened" or "please let me die weakened"?

Kinruush · Feb 22, 2017

Sitxar said:
I, for one, have a problem with it. I'm just sitting in my room, thinking "I told you it's not going to be useful." Endbringers are most likely not going to be insta-killed by it, and other people are not worth nuking a city.

I'm sure we'll find some awesome place to use it eventually, and I'll never complain about having a city-killing spell, but I certainly don't think we needed to pick it up yet.

Silently Watches · Feb 22, 2017

Sitxar said:
@Silently Watches, could you tell us if by "weakened" you meant "after a good workout weakened" or "please let me die weakened"?

I meant it as "You REALLY don't want to get in a fight because you'll have basically no mana left" weakened. Subjectively, you won't feel great, but it is little more than the malaise you would get from a minor cold.

landcollector · Feb 22, 2017

Sitxar said:
Endbringers are most likely not going to be insta-killed by it, and other people are not worth nuking a city.

Who's to say that beings from Earth-Bet will be our only antagonists for the entirety of the quest? Don't be so quick to say that Ragnarok will be forever useless.

Always Late · Feb 22, 2017

Sitxar said:
I, for one, have a problem with it. I'm just sitting in my room, thinking "I told you it's not going to be useful." Endbringers are most likely not going to be insta-killed by it, and other people are not worth nuking a city.

We did just trash much of a town and a dimensional copy of it, including a beam with radiation, to kill a bunch of Neo-Nazis.
Throw in capes like Moord Nag, Sleeper, or Gesellschaft, and the Slaughterhouse Nine is not the only group that's due a lethal sunbath.
If I didn't remember that we've been told Taylor's got a body-horror way out of death, I'd be a bit more miffed we bought a spell we literally didn't have the spells to use or any idea of the spells needed to use it.

Silently Watches said:
I meant it as "You REALLY don't want to get in a fight because you'll have basically no mana left" weakened.

So roughly the same drawback to making a device template, but for a single day.

zeromass · Feb 22, 2017

@Silently Watches could Gadgeteer make something that stores large amounts of mana that taylor could use for Ragnarök rather than her own core?

Always Late · Feb 22, 2017

zeromass said:
@Silently Watches could Gadgeteer make something that stores large amounts of mana that taylor could use for Ragnarök rather than her own core?

Those are Cartridges. We need the Knight for those.

veekie · Feb 22, 2017

Silently Watches said:
Ragnarök – The ultimate Flare-affinity bombardment spell. This is a city-killer and has no setting lower than apocalyptic. Has specific conditions to use safely.

Have not cast any other spells since waking up. After casting Ragnarök, you will pass out until the next morning.

******** ***

********* *******

***** ** **********

Hmmm
******** ***

8 character word, followed by 3 character word.
Familiar Aid?
If so it should be somewhere after Divide Energy, split the casting load between us and Samantha

********* *******
11 characters 7 characters
Both are long so it's hard to figure out

***** ** **********
Five characters, two characters, and then ten characters

Two character slot helps. Not many words with that in common use:
-an
-in
-on
-to
-of
-by

You get the idea

Abuse Of Cartridges?

Shaseyu · Feb 22, 2017

Silently Watches said:
Plan "Burn all the things" it is. You do realize that if anything catches on fire in Philadelphia, you're going to be suspect number one, right?

"City is burning! It's all Calamity's fault!"
"Hey, if it was me, there wouldn't be city to burn!"

Silently Watches said:
Charge Cartridge (0/3 Novice) – Store mana in bullet casings for later use. Cartridges are fed into the Device from dimensional storage. The more powerful the spell, the more cartridges it consumes. 4 cartridges can be created per day, and you are left weakened until you get a full night's sleep. You will gain 1 level of mana poisoning for every 50 cartridges spent in a 24-hour period.

Two questions, if you don't mind:
1. Just to be sure, cartridges can be used instead of Taylor's mana or they can be used with Taylor's mana to strengthen her spells, right?
2. Can we create not all but, for example, half of day norm of cartridges?

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