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Magical Girl Quest - The Fire That Burns

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[X] Chinese?
[X] Exp Plan
-[X] Infinite Engine

I'm assuming its americanized chinese considering China is kinda not having a great time right now
 
[X] Pizza Hut

You can eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner without even heating it up! :tongue:

[X] Exp Plan
-[X] Infinite Engine
Adhoc vote count started by MilitaryAaa on Feb 28, 2018 at 10:35 PM, finished with 8337 posts and 20 votes.
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Sinarblood said:
She has proven some capacity to control wind.

Obviously not huge gusts, but this alone is enough to prove that she knows it is possible, and didn't fail her first, albeit small, attempt.
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Naron said:
Good point, though I would reckon that such things as storms are far, far up the ladder from there. At least... if Cerys actually wants to control them somewhat.

Plus, she is not immune to the wind herself; making anything particularly strong ought to injure her, too.
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Sinarblood said:
Yeah, presumably it would take a long time to get it combat viable.

Just pointing out that Cerys does know the basics, enough to eventually build off from practice.

Ultimately I imagine it is a matter of how much time people wish to spend trying to make it viable.

It could be a useful trick for situations where thermal damage doesn't do anything, but only after a lot of practice is put into making it viable.
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LightLan said:
While that is true, I believe putting work into Unlimited Blades aka abusing our swords Limitless and Levitate ability to be a more practical alternative.
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Sinarblood, my gratitude for finding the quote.

Everyone is quite correct about this being a long-shot that is also potentially dangerous to Cerys. It's why I said the hypothetical Hurricane spell is an indiscriminate AOE with Collateral Damage to Apocalypse. I am now even more convinced to saddle it with Channel to represent the continual trait of the storm, and the existence of a small pocket of safety. It doesn't actually lock Cerys in place - it is instead increasingly difficult to maintain a zone where it's safe-ish let alone move said zone, so not moving away from the spot is a safety requirement.

We also make use of "loses control at higher levels" mechanic of Juggernaut Wave, and the design becomes more or less complete.

Rukia said:
When she finally lets out a long ahhhhh, you bite your lip as she moves to explain. "Well, I'm just going to say I have no clue how you did this. But it's really cute." She sighs and finally answers you unasked questions. "Your affinities are Beginning and End, and they are represented by your control over temperature and what you call your barrier." She waits for you to nod. "Your Fire as you call it is the actual representation of your Beginning affinity, and what would it be if it didn't have a Beginning? On the other hand, your barrier is the consequences of your End affinity, not the actual thing. The End doesn't have a representation, it just is."

Umm. She sighs again, but her excited smile doesn't shrink, eyes glittering. "I'll put it simply, somehow you have managed to create a manifestation of the End, and give it a Beginning." The impossibly smug look on her face is only mirrored by the one in your chest. You just stare at her, not really understanding what was so important, but gathering that it was.
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Sooo. Is surprising Mother like that not achievement-worthy? [Pout]
 
Faraway-R said:
Everyone is quite correct about this being a long-shot that is also potentially dangerous to Cerys. It's why I said the hypothetical Hurricane spell is an indiscriminate AOE with Collateral Damage to Apocalypse. I am now even more convinced to saddle it with Channel to represent the continual trait of the storm, and the existence of a small pocket of safety. It doesn't actually lock Cerys in place - it is instead increasingly difficult to maintain a zone where it's safe-ish let alone move said zone, so not moving away from the spot is a safety requirement.

We also make use of "loses control at higher levels" mechanic of Juggernaut Wave, and the design becomes more or less complete.
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Now you are less describing something we can make instead of something that you would like to have.
 
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You're saying it so judgementally.

We're probably two or three tricks/skills/spells away from that at the very least. Also, nowhere did I describe anything that cannot be logically inferred from physics or developed from the abilities we already have.
 
Faraway-R said:
You're saying it so judgementally.

We're probably two or three tricks/skills/spells away from that at the very least. Also, nowhere did I describe anything that cannot be logically inferred from physics or developed from the abilities we already have.
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Yes, I am. You're attempting to prescribe the function of a spell you imagine Cerys could theoretically make. You're treating it like a shopping list, like "Hurricane it should do this, this, and this".
Don't do that. Theorize, sure, but don't go around stating "the hypothetical Hurricane spell is".

Now, my educated guess as someone who has done quite a bit of character sheet building in this system is this: Cerys isn't likely to ever be getting a Hurricane spell. It's not as impossible as an Iceberg spell, certainly, but the method that she would use to make a hurricane isn't conducive to being a spell. It's not something one could pull out of your pocket, it's a large scale, complex usage of an ability.

Also on a personal note: it seems like an absolutely terrible idea to try and do deliberately. I'd throw "you made a hurricane" on the critical fumble table for magical research, not as something to try for.
 
Another problem with the idea of using Thermal Control to make a hurricane is the fact that hurricanes move pretty fast and we have a range of 1000 meters to control it. If we used it in combat, we'd either have to focus on controlling the storm enough that we'd probably have trouble doing other stuff like, y'know, attacking normally, or it would leave our range. Even slow hurricanes with a forward speed of approximately 10 mph would be outside our range in under 4 minutes if it was created right next to us.
 
Faraway-R said:
You're saying it so judgementally.

We're probably two or three tricks/skills/spells away from that at the very least. Also, nowhere did I describe anything that cannot be logically inferred from physics or developed from the abilities we already have.
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Why on earth do you even want a hurricane?
What possible used does it serve other than 'because it looks cool'.
Thermal Control is a much more efficient method of damaging enemies inside a massive range.

Seriously, I can think of so many things that could go wrong with this.
 
Hurricane discussion aside, current vote as it stands.
Adhoc vote count started by Thebigpieman on Mar 1, 2018 at 7:46 AM, finished with 8348 posts and 22 votes.
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