- Location
- England
There are swords(wo)men in the Clocktower.
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Magical Girl Quest - The Fire That Burns
- Thread starter Rukia
- Start date
- Original
Spectral Waltz
Scatterbrained Writer
- Location
- Walking the Endless Corridors
Like I said, I'm fine with you using imperial, just dont call the undeniably better system bad while you do it.
Also, why would a Mage association not know swords?
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
Stand corrected.
But the reason we are trying out sword now is so that we don't raise suspicion and it's always good to practice on your own.
Spectral Waltz
Scatterbrained Writer
- Location
- Walking the Endless Corridors
Wait wait... Four?
Well okay... The thing that was apparently coming to the forest that we wanted to avoid... The Giant fishy... Then uhh... I guess we could have attacked Morgan or tried to storm the border by force?
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
Of course we have. We'd be killed in seconds if we tried to take on the military.
The fish on the other hand, I wanted a go at.
- Location
- Somewhere
Ever heard of a professional network?
Edit: It might be the wrong term though...
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DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
- Location
- England
I have conferred with Crystal-Sama about the nature of growth affinities.
As from now, this is my stance on them.
In general, no, you can't change your growth affinity intentionally or with an action.
It is possible for it to change under certain (unspecified for now) circumstances, but I'm not explaining how to you, mostly to stop you from deliberately aiming to do so.
If you fulfil the prerequisites, then it will change.
As from now, this is my stance on them.
In general, no, you can't change your growth affinity intentionally or with an action.
It is possible for it to change under certain (unspecified for now) circumstances, but I'm not explaining how to you, mostly to stop you from deliberately aiming to do so.
If you fulfil the prerequisites, then it will change.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
One, sole question.
What superpower would you choose to have if you could only have one?
- Location
- England
[X] Go Outside
-[X] Practice trying to hide your magic through the heat and invisible fire methods you thought of before
Cery's defence is still way too low for melee to be a viable option - a demon of due's base damage is enough to one-shot us
And if the enemy is in melee range, ignition aura does more or comparable damage.
-[X] Practice trying to hide your magic through the heat and invisible fire methods you thought of before
Cery's defence is still way too low for melee to be a viable option - a demon of due's base damage is enough to one-shot us
And if the enemy is in melee range, ignition aura does more or comparable damage.
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- Location
- United States
[X] Go outside
-[X] Practice your sword skills
-[X] Practice your sword skills
- Location
- Right here
For the former, I don't see how this avoids suspicion, and I will shamelessly steal from Vesemir regarding the latter bit: "Never practice alone, it only embeds your errors!"
[X] Go Outside
-[X] Practice trying to hide your magic through the heat and invisible fire methods you thought of before
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- Location
- Where I need to be
I think you are probably misunderstanding the invisible fire part.
That isn't about making the fires we make invisible, but using something we know how to do as something we base the idea off of.
Aka picturing our magic as a flame than making that "flame" invisible to magical senses not actual physical sight.
It is supposed to be a visualization aid for our practice not turning our flames invisible to normal sight.
To begin with the definition of barely competent bladed weaponry on the skill page is "know how to not cut yourself" so no we aren't more likely to hurt ourselves with it
.We don't have anyone to actually teach us about how to use a sword right now, and we are at the lowest sword skill "Barely Competent" while Cerys has gotten into fights in the past, and as such she is at a better position than just a normal 13 year old trying to invent a sword style on her own, the basics of knife fighting (what I imagine she learned bladed weaponry from) are vastly different from the fundamentals of learning how to properly use a two handed weapon. We know enough to avoid cutting our self and that is it.
We aren't skilled enough to tell when we have made a mistake.
Practicing fighting with a weapon and style that you haven't really even properly encountered before by yourself with no instruction is… not good.
Remember this from Rukia's magical organisations post:
The magic organizations are where people who know how to fight magical monsters reside, were groups of warriors actually experienced in magical combat resides. They can teach us, as one of "Gaia's magical girls" we have value and potential power enough that they would probably be happy to. We can learn the fundamentals from people that actually know them and not get into bad habits by trying to learn something from first principals.
Right now the problem with hiding magic is that Cerys hasn't actually managed it before but the important thing here is that it is widely accepted that the methods that an individual comes up with for magic use is more useful to them then it would be to learn the spell the way someone else imagined it.
This is the opposite to swordsmanship where learning the fundamentals from someone who knows what they are doing can save you from big screw ups down the line. Of course swordsmanship can be individualized, but only once the practitioner knows what they are doing.
Hence sans swordsmanship teacher, we have magic where a teacher is much less critical except as oversight to make sure we don't do something absolutely stupid, which is something that Morgan would spot.
We are being hunted by an organization that was once powerful enough to take the leader of a magical community away against their will, and made up the fundamentals of every magical organization at one point.
No I am not suggesting that a single day of practice will make us able to evade them, but that isn't really the aim here, that would be foolhardy.
Our complete lack of subtly in magic is killing us here.
The aim is not to get them unable to detect us.
It is to get it so that they actually have to search for signs rather than follow. The difference between trying to search for someone through a forest compared to the ease of following someones foot prints in the snow on a calm, non-windy day.
Doing that before going on that plane makes that search something more widespread.
They are skilled enough to find us but the longer we can delay the more we can prepare.
That is because ever since we fled into the woods, Una has been basically beside us with no safe place to reside or stay the whole time. Doing things like fighting the sea monster thing or forcing our way through the military at the border has a chance of Una getting harmed. If there is a place for her to stay once we get to the clock tower getting into fights becomes more viable than they are with Una standing by our side.
Also, until just before the border with the character page and store overhaul, we were squishy enough that a single mundane human with a gun nearly offed us and didn't succeed because when he went to switch guns for better range the safety was on it (either him subconciously putting it on because he was still hesitant about shooting kids, or some other force), in a situation where we could only run from.
(edit: It is also worth noting that the very first chapter, our one and only "real" fight of which we had no control over besides choosing the character had the author's note say: You guys had some amazingly lucky rolls this chapter, like holy crap. You should have died more than once." AKA the only reason we didn't die in the very first chapter is because of pure luck, that doesn't really make people want to enter battle again any time soon
. It probably would have been better to not reveal that we should have died more than once there actually )While we had gotten stronger abilities we hadn't really gotten over our squishiness, until we got the ability to level up plate armor, and even that isn't really something that does so to a tremendous degree yet. People will probably remain a bit more hesitant to get into lethal combat as long as we are so very fragile. Of course we can change how squishy we are in time, and it is something that should be high on our priority list.
Of course I doubt we will be able to avoid combat forever, and we probably have to actually start getting actual combat experience soon.
We'll need it.
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Silently Watches
Professional Stalker
- Location
- Right behind you
[X] Go Outside
-[X] Practice your sword skills
-[X] Practice your sword skills
*Throws up hands*
...And now for ramblings of the peanut gallery:
Pontificating follows:
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Mainly this is relevant as its could explain what happened to the US economy, in part. A political stunt to convert all or part of the US to Metric onlythe metric I say this as this is during the time period China peaked as out being the cheap industrial manufacturing base of the world. After this point it gets to the idea in its head that it can (pretend) to be a first world nation now! After all they got the Olympics and everything... but before the Great Chinese Dust bowl really took off or China triggered the globalist development markers and industry was moved into other Southeast Asian nations like Vietnam. The land in western China should just be starting to escape to Japan to avoid the Chinese governments incompetence. Note this is what the landscape of western China is doing not the people. Chinese coastal cities are going to be buried as soon as they can't keep up with the build up. Not that people really care much.
I'm seeing the martial law in the US being more about how the industrial belt that was emptied out of manufacturing jobs (globalism ho!) reacting to China imploding. Finding out your town's economy died to boost up a now civil war infested hell hole would infuriate would infuriate me. It has to be in civil war as finding out China was using proxies to attack western interest just wouldn't make them clam up this much. What ever the private details I think China is likely to lose its UN veto (at least short term) unless they roll spectacularly.
The Middle East is aggroed. Wouldn't be surprised to see roads all the way through Saudi Arabia>Iraq>Iran>Afghanistan>Pakistan right to China's border if these rolls continue. China gets favored enemy status from their actions and they'd need to bribed the hell out of the Middle East/pay reparations openly, not to get invaded in a jihad to reclaim their Islamic brothers in Western China. This looks like it'll be welcomed by the population. Iran is the wild card here they lost most of the younger generation of Jihadists during the Iran-Iraq war so this is there ticket to a new generation of like minded youngsters to replace the old guard. China didn't so much soil the bed as the entire hotel. Biggest issue is if China get things together enough to counter attack and it get bad enough Pakistan is willing to spite nuke them China and Japan are the ones down wind not the important people. That would be very srmt of them.
The other international thing is that I think the UK dodged or dropped EU membership here. Germany can't support the rest of Europe on its own. Its only been a week sense China collapsed so the investors are going with the stable area and if the US is going to be all martial law and stuff the Commonwealth is going to get all the short term investments. I'm guessing many of those are escaped Chinese Business men that fled to their nonChinese holdings.
The real Question is what is Russia doing? Free land just opened up and they are all silent and stuff. The EU is going to look mighty tasty to them if America is busy and the EU is fumbling. Its like an ominous humming in the background.
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Just so you know... those disappearances aren't the demon. Wrong MO. It was not classically stealthy. Entire towns would be gone to pull off it being subtle enough in movement not to be noticed. I suspect what is disappearing people along the border is the probable Sci-fi movie killer shark you left in the lake. Nice job ignoring it!
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I suspect that Una would have dropped the same type of line if Morgan was a boy/animal mascot character/piece of walking plant life. Don't take her trolling as a reliable source of her sister was gay/bi before. Also, I can't see her not knowing more about the world situation than her sister... loose newspapers are cheap sources of info after all.
Celsius is the single most stupid part of the metric system. It completely ignores the alleged point/advantage of the metric... easy of conversion with smaller units than those filth English units... Glory to France!
Pontificating follows:
The reason that the armpit heat equal 96 degrees was used was that it was something that was easy to replicate without stupid expensive equipment you can't get outside of universities. This meant fairly rural people could get thermometers. Once you had the repeatable data points you could set degrees by measuring half way between the marks and make a mark. This meant 64 degrees between the two easy to get units. This made temperature measurements much, much more widely available and was contemporary with dozens of local systems. Celsius did the same thing with boiling point of water and the freezing point. Both systems are imperfect and hundreds of years old.
The thing is that if things made sense Celsius would have been forgotten and replaced with Fahrenheit as the there are 180 degrees from water boiling to water freezing and only 100 for Celsius. This breaks the methodology behind metric units by using an inherently less useful scale as Celsius degrees are larger. Why then does the metric system not use the smaller units? Well they are both base ten so its not math... its because the French said so... "Sccccrrrreeeeww the English!"
That's it. See the French metric system is based off one guy mathing out that the world is a this long on a side and a 'meter' is one millionth of that distance. The Imperial system said the King's arms are this long so we'll use this arbitrary unit. Its kind of silly to judge modern standardized unit by their origin, but it is worth noting that the French meter is a little bit more than the yard. Roughly 10% bigger and better than the English puny yard. This mighty meter is! 'Colonization fight!'
So if the English king had longer arms the meter would be... 10% bigger than the yard.
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Funny story though... America does in fact use the metric system. It doesn't just use only the metric system. Europeans are probably asking why? The easiest example is the gallon. A Gallon is 3.78 Liters. Gas/milk/bleach/etc... taxes increment on the volume unit. I point to this chart for example of why the US doesn't switch to the metric system:
Gas prices around the world 2016 | Statista
For the Metric System users:
Monthly gasoline price per liter in selected countries 2017 | Statistic
Now the only people really for the full on conversion (hideously expensive to the point of economy breaking for no real reason as it is) is that the corrupt politicians that keep trying to get the conversion bonus tax revenue. Basically, the plan is to use the same gas taxes (that are set for gallons) with liter via find and replace for 'simplicity'. Add in the freaky regional sub-rules about taxes that increment as prices cross a dollar mark... meaning the difference between $1.99 a unit and $2 is 15-30 cents.
The US accepted the metric system as a thing officially in 1866 and has had duel unit labeling sense 1975. The US needing to switch to the metric system is just a myth for people too lazy to read a literal centimeter to the side of the imperial units. Behold the legacy of that time the French made French the internationally language of business!
France: "Suck it Latin!"
UK: "Its English now, you lost that battle."
France: *Ignores England*"Suck it Latin!"
Seriously, the tiny amount of ink spent on the Imperial/metric label is far, far, far less than what Quebec makes up all waste on writing things in French of boxes rather than just English/Spanish. Boo on Quebec being a special snowflake.
The thing is that if things made sense Celsius would have been forgotten and replaced with Fahrenheit as the there are 180 degrees from water boiling to water freezing and only 100 for Celsius. This breaks the methodology behind metric units by using an inherently less useful scale as Celsius degrees are larger. Why then does the metric system not use the smaller units? Well they are both base ten so its not math... its because the French said so... "Sccccrrrreeeeww the English!"
That's it. See the French metric system is based off one guy mathing out that the world is a this long on a side and a 'meter' is one millionth of that distance. The Imperial system said the King's arms are this long so we'll use this arbitrary unit. Its kind of silly to judge modern standardized unit by their origin, but it is worth noting that the French meter is a little bit more than the yard. Roughly 10% bigger and better than the English puny yard. This mighty meter is! 'Colonization fight!'
So if the English king had longer arms the meter would be... 10% bigger than the yard.
----
Funny story though... America does in fact use the metric system. It doesn't just use only the metric system. Europeans are probably asking why? The easiest example is the gallon. A Gallon is 3.78 Liters. Gas/milk/bleach/etc... taxes increment on the volume unit. I point to this chart for example of why the US doesn't switch to the metric system:
Gas prices around the world 2016 | Statista
For the Metric System users:
Monthly gasoline price per liter in selected countries 2017 | Statistic
Now the only people really for the full on conversion (hideously expensive to the point of economy breaking for no real reason as it is) is that the corrupt politicians that keep trying to get the conversion bonus tax revenue. Basically, the plan is to use the same gas taxes (that are set for gallons) with liter via find and replace for 'simplicity'. Add in the freaky regional sub-rules about taxes that increment as prices cross a dollar mark... meaning the difference between $1.99 a unit and $2 is 15-30 cents.
The US accepted the metric system as a thing officially in 1866 and has had duel unit labeling sense 1975. The US needing to switch to the metric system is just a myth for people too lazy to read a literal centimeter to the side of the imperial units. Behold the legacy of that time the French made French the internationally language of business!
France: "Suck it Latin!"
UK: "Its English now, you lost that battle."
France: *Ignores England*"Suck it Latin!"
Seriously, the tiny amount of ink spent on the Imperial/metric label is far, far, far less than what Quebec makes up all waste on writing things in French of boxes rather than just English/Spanish. Boo on Quebec being a special snowflake.
Mainly this is relevant as its could explain what happened to the US economy, in part. A political stunt to convert all or part of the US to Metric onlythe metric I say this as this is during the time period China peaked as out being the cheap industrial manufacturing base of the world. After this point it gets to the idea in its head that it can (pretend) to be a first world nation now! After all they got the Olympics and everything... but before the Great Chinese Dust bowl really took off or China triggered the globalist development markers and industry was moved into other Southeast Asian nations like Vietnam. The land in western China should just be starting to escape to Japan to avoid the Chinese governments incompetence. Note this is what the landscape of western China is doing not the people. Chinese coastal cities are going to be buried as soon as they can't keep up with the build up. Not that people really care much.
I'm seeing the martial law in the US being more about how the industrial belt that was emptied out of manufacturing jobs (globalism ho!) reacting to China imploding. Finding out your town's economy died to boost up a now civil war infested hell hole would infuriate would infuriate me. It has to be in civil war as finding out China was using proxies to attack western interest just wouldn't make them clam up this much. What ever the private details I think China is likely to lose its UN veto (at least short term) unless they roll spectacularly.
The Middle East is aggroed. Wouldn't be surprised to see roads all the way through Saudi Arabia>Iraq>Iran>Afghanistan>Pakistan right to China's border if these rolls continue. China gets favored enemy status from their actions and they'd need to bribed the hell out of the Middle East/pay reparations openly, not to get invaded in a jihad to reclaim their Islamic brothers in Western China. This looks like it'll be welcomed by the population. Iran is the wild card here they lost most of the younger generation of Jihadists during the Iran-Iraq war so this is there ticket to a new generation of like minded youngsters to replace the old guard. China didn't so much soil the bed as the entire hotel. Biggest issue is if China get things together enough to counter attack and it get bad enough Pakistan is willing to spite nuke them China and Japan are the ones down wind not the important people. That would be very srmt of them.
The other international thing is that I think the UK dodged or dropped EU membership here. Germany can't support the rest of Europe on its own. Its only been a week sense China collapsed so the investors are going with the stable area and if the US is going to be all martial law and stuff the Commonwealth is going to get all the short term investments. I'm guessing many of those are escaped Chinese Business men that fled to their nonChinese holdings.
The real Question is what is Russia doing? Free land just opened up and they are all silent and stuff. The EU is going to look mighty tasty to them if America is busy and the EU is fumbling. Its like an ominous humming in the background.
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Just so you know... those disappearances aren't the demon. Wrong MO. It was not classically stealthy. Entire towns would be gone to pull off it being subtle enough in movement not to be noticed. I suspect what is disappearing people along the border is the probable Sci-fi movie killer shark you left in the lake. Nice job ignoring it!
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I suspect that Una would have dropped the same type of line if Morgan was a boy/animal mascot character/piece of walking plant life. Don't take her trolling as a reliable source of her sister was gay/bi before. Also, I can't see her not knowing more about the world situation than her sister... loose newspapers are cheap sources of info after all.
- Location
- England
I... what?
I think I can parse about half of this.
It's like I'm reading a transcript from a Smash tournament commentator.
@Sinarblood I NEED YOU
PLEASE ANALYSE THIS INTO WORDS
(I'm going to give this an insightful though, it covers a lot of topics people haven't been talking about.)
EDIT: Wait, no I think I see what you are getting at here.
EDIT2: Maybe
EDIT3: I UNDERSTAND
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- Location
- Where I need to be
I'll be frank, I am not actually very good at analysizing international politics so I can't really comment on the bulk of that, on top of it being a bit hard to parse, so I am not going to comment on the majority of that post.
That wasn't obvious? I mean it literally went off to disappear someone mid-update.
Didn't really want to bring it up because it seemed to be partially common sense (since you know it went after someone in update) and because I had no desire to actually go after it when I thought that it would be a bad idea to face it without actually finding out what it is, and that spending too much time on a side-quest to eliminate it would both make exiting the border harder and might have given more time/ caused more commotion allowing the magical faction going after us (now revealed to be the Light) to actually get to us.
As it is it would have been substantially harder to cross the border if a side quest delayed us even a day, and I don't really know what will happen if the Light gets to us.
And as mentioned in my last post, I also dislike the idea of intentionally getting into battles when Una is around to get hurt and when she currently doesn't have a safe place to stay. That will change later but meh.
(Also a bit more heartlessly- the chance of it getting spotted and recorded increases the chance of magical creatures being revealed, which increases the chance of magic being revealed which is something I want done soon, because the faster the world knows about magic the faster it can know about demons and prepare for them, though this is only something that occurs to me now and didn't occur to me at the time.)
Though I think that if it was only disappearances around lake superior, it would have been news of disappearances around lake Superior not just the border.
I suspected that the other part of the disappearances was actually Forest Bro, doing the same thing he did to us when he saved us to disappear humans that wandered the forest to a safe place as preparation for the forest fire because it isn't human and doesn't really consider what that would look like from a human perspective. That said, didn't want to bring it up until there was a bit more contextual proof since the Spirit of the Land had been nothing but helpful to us, and Morgan suspecting the demon to have played part of the disappearances meant that the in land ones probably started before we met forest bro, and hence paranoia on that went down a bit.
I'll admit when Morgan mentioned the demon though I did think that it might actually have been cause of the land disappearances in the "wandered into a stray human and ate them for food leaving no remains type of way" before actually stumbling into a human town, but thinking about it you are probably right that that isn't the case.
It could also be something else. I halfway suspect the fact that we rolled as being so close to the border actually worked against us in that respect in that we missed some of the plot hooks Rukia wanted to act out, some of which might have lead to other magical creatures, or the second cause of the disappearances, if there is a second cause of disappearances.
Actually:
eh, I kind of suspect that any time that Una didn't spend in an empty house that Cerys found was with Cerys by her side, with her not being allowed to leave the house unless of emergency. I don't think that she was ever really given a chance to be more aware of world events than Cerys is because she wouldn't be given any chances to get loose newspapers that Cerys didn't also have a chance to get.
Also you are putting a lot of stock on a nine year old reading the newspaper when they have manga or other more interesting things to read
That wasn't obvious? I mean it literally went off to disappear someone mid-update.
Didn't really want to bring it up because it seemed to be partially common sense (since you know it went after someone in update) and because I had no desire to actually go after it when I thought that it would be a bad idea to face it without actually finding out what it is, and that spending too much time on a side-quest to eliminate it would both make exiting the border harder and might have given more time/ caused more commotion allowing the magical faction going after us (now revealed to be the Light) to actually get to us.
As it is it would have been substantially harder to cross the border if a side quest delayed us even a day, and I don't really know what will happen if the Light gets to us.
And as mentioned in my last post, I also dislike the idea of intentionally getting into battles when Una is around to get hurt and when she currently doesn't have a safe place to stay. That will change later but meh.
(Also a bit more heartlessly- the chance of it getting spotted and recorded increases the chance of magical creatures being revealed, which increases the chance of magic being revealed which is something I want done soon, because the faster the world knows about magic the faster it can know about demons and prepare for them, though this is only something that occurs to me now and didn't occur to me at the time.)
Though I think that if it was only disappearances around lake superior, it would have been news of disappearances around lake Superior not just the border.
I suspected that the other part of the disappearances was actually Forest Bro, doing the same thing he did to us when he saved us to disappear humans that wandered the forest to a safe place as preparation for the forest fire because it isn't human and doesn't really consider what that would look like from a human perspective. That said, didn't want to bring it up until there was a bit more contextual proof since the Spirit of the Land had been nothing but helpful to us, and Morgan suspecting the demon to have played part of the disappearances meant that the in land ones probably started before we met forest bro, and hence paranoia on that went down a bit.
I'll admit when Morgan mentioned the demon though I did think that it might actually have been cause of the land disappearances in the "wandered into a stray human and ate them for food leaving no remains type of way" before actually stumbling into a human town, but thinking about it you are probably right that that isn't the case.
It could also be something else. I halfway suspect the fact that we rolled as being so close to the border actually worked against us in that respect in that we missed some of the plot hooks Rukia wanted to act out, some of which might have lead to other magical creatures, or the second cause of the disappearances, if there is a second cause of disappearances.
Actually:
We told Morgan that there was a creature that lived in the lake that attacked people, that she didn't immediately jump to that being the cause of the disappearances are a good sign that they probably aren't all just near lake superior.
eh, I kind of suspect that any time that Una didn't spend in an empty house that Cerys found was with Cerys by her side, with her not being allowed to leave the house unless of emergency. I don't think that she was ever really given a chance to be more aware of world events than Cerys is because she wouldn't be given any chances to get loose newspapers that Cerys didn't also have a chance to get.
Also you are putting a lot of stock on a nine year old reading the newspaper when they have manga or other more interesting things to read
- Location
- ☯
[X] Go Outside
-[X] Practice trying to hide your magic through the heat and invisible fire methods you thought of before
Practicing a sword without any instruction or guidance is pretty fruitless... She can practice some basic cuts and such, but anything else needs some teaching, especially for something an unwieldy 2 handed sword as tall as her.
-[X] Practice trying to hide your magic through the heat and invisible fire methods you thought of before
Practicing a sword without any instruction or guidance is pretty fruitless... She can practice some basic cuts and such, but anything else needs some teaching, especially for something an unwieldy 2 handed sword as tall as her.
- Location
- Earth
Whoa... okay. What happened while I was out?
First of all, which picture was decided on for the demon? I personally prefer the second.
Secondly... last I checked, Germany is a member of the UN.
Why do you single it out?
As for the debate about swording versus stealthing...
Let me give you some math.
Our sword has 2 ApT, which allows us to hit things two times at most before they can start hitting us.
We have a Base Damage of 17.
Our Magic Modifier is 25.
Barely competent gives us -50%.
Now the question is "on what".
I believe that the only thing our incompetency does cut is the Base Damage, seeing that skill should not factor into how much our magic helps out the strike.
So... 17 * 0.5 = 7.5
Which means we lose 9 to 10 damage right now, lowering the damage on hit from 18-42 to 8-33 based on how well the modifier roll goes.
That would still be enough to gravely injure a human being... and anything non-human would probably flatten us before we did much damage either way.
Additionally, we are more of a spellcaster right now. Thermal Spear does 2*75 + 2d10 [152 - 170] damage and applies either freeze or burn as debuffs; if we use the other action to relocate, we can basically kite our enemies around.
If something dangerous comes close, we have Ignition Aura to do damage on close range and give more stacks of Burn.
With all of that in mind, there is no real reason to start on sword as early as now. We can afford to wait a few more days, until we can ask for someone to teach us.
However, developing a reliable means of not being a shining beacon of "Magic here" as early as possible might save us a lot of trouble down the line because we can actually be able to avoid the attention of at least some amount of enemies.
Also, while I am at it... maybe we should use the EXP we have to buy a level in Thermal Spear? It is still lv1 and raising its damage is probably the best/cheapest thing we can do right now for a reliable means of attack.
(75 * 1.2 = 90; Double Cast: 90 * 2 = 180; MM= 10+10 = 20
->Damage goes from 152-170 to 182-220)
Not sure, what does the rest think?
First of all, which picture was decided on for the demon? I personally prefer the second.
Secondly... last I checked, Germany is a member of the UN.
Why do you single it out?
As for the debate about swording versus stealthing...
Let me give you some math.
Our sword has 2 ApT, which allows us to hit things two times at most before they can start hitting us.
We have a Base Damage of 17.
Our Magic Modifier is 25.
Barely competent gives us -50%.
Now the question is "on what".
I believe that the only thing our incompetency does cut is the Base Damage, seeing that skill should not factor into how much our magic helps out the strike.
So... 17 * 0.5 = 7.5
Which means we lose 9 to 10 damage right now, lowering the damage on hit from 18-42 to 8-33 based on how well the modifier roll goes.
That would still be enough to gravely injure a human being... and anything non-human would probably flatten us before we did much damage either way.
Additionally, we are more of a spellcaster right now. Thermal Spear does 2*75 + 2d10 [152 - 170] damage and applies either freeze or burn as debuffs; if we use the other action to relocate, we can basically kite our enemies around.
If something dangerous comes close, we have Ignition Aura to do damage on close range and give more stacks of Burn.
With all of that in mind, there is no real reason to start on sword as early as now. We can afford to wait a few more days, until we can ask for someone to teach us.
However, developing a reliable means of not being a shining beacon of "Magic here" as early as possible might save us a lot of trouble down the line because we can actually be able to avoid the attention of at least some amount of enemies.
Also, while I am at it... maybe we should use the EXP we have to buy a level in Thermal Spear? It is still lv1 and raising its damage is probably the best/cheapest thing we can do right now for a reliable means of attack.
(75 * 1.2 = 90; Double Cast: 90 * 2 = 180; MM= 10+10 = 20
->Damage goes from 152-170 to 182-220)
Not sure, what does the rest think?