Eh, he's affably evil most of the time, which helps his image a lot, and also content with any outcome that fucks over YHVH. I still don't want him to get anywhere close to winning because his ideal is simply horrible to humanity as it is now. Not that anyone else's is much better, really.
The exploding arrows charm only does 4 damage within 20 yards. It's a pretty respectable boom on a personal scale, but it doesn't stand up to actual artillery in the JSDF. While we can't easily improve on their training, their equipment and actual operations would greatly benefit from our attention, all the more so because of how well trained they already are.
He's better than yhvh every time. Remember to kill your local God!
Sparse on the details, especially whether it's even related to Tenmon-Tenjin, but if that's a literal 'more than we know what to do with', well, yay. Much of the numbers are now significantly less relevant.
When you're pushing the plan to arbitrarily oppose and possibly dismantle the organization currently keeping the world running in a very literal sense, and heedlessly dismiss figures as relevant out of hand because they don't immediately interest you... damn right.
I don't think he'll accept a Neutral ending (the one where everything gets put back the way it was) to the vortex world, and Amu won't accept anything else. This is a fundamental difference, as much as we're aligned in the short term.
I don't know of any way to hit the entire world, other than Creation-Destroying Oblivion Kick. What are you thinking of?
1. He is more competent than most in most things he's interested in.
Ah, anywhere, not everywhere. That said, I can't actually find anything like that. I think people just miss the clause in Accuracy Without Distance that prevents it from extending the range of your weapon without further magic, or see it and assume there must be some charm somewhere that actually does that.
Going way back into the past (or one day, depending on your perspective), the physics model we're using is based on Schild's Ladder. The plot of Schild's Ladder is about an expanding patch of new laws of physics accidentally being created inside our universe, called the Novo-Vacuum. Eventually, some people on the research station floating just outside the Novo-Vacuum figure out how to translate themselves into the new cosmology. The research station is called Rindler. Combined with this bit:
which confirms that where we are now has had causal contact with the physics Kagutsuchi merely emulates, I think we are currently inside the Novo-Vacuum, or something similar, that was created (but presumably not controlled) by the people on board Rindler. This would explain the frequency of both humans, and normal-physics emulations.
No comment?
There are. It's a set of Charms. One for exploding arrows, another for splitting an arrow into a small swarm of them, one that... I forget how this one works exactly but it's a Charm that let's you shoot at anywhere you can see as if you were 10 steps away from it.
Well, it probably means that Amu accidentally triggering a false vacuum collapse is significantly less likely?
The closest Amu could get to triggering a vacuum collapse would be to kill off Kagutsuchi for real, it's otherwise as collapsed as it's going to get. Yes.
The only charm I could find that ignores range limits was an elder essence charm that lets you shoot someone as long as you are both standing under sunlight, but Amu can't learn that and there's no sun here.
I'll have to remember to do it later. I have issues focusing on stuff.
The target can be under any open sky, but it seems like the user needs to be standing outside under the actual sun until the Essence 10 upgrade which allows for any source of sunlight (including the solar anima with Rising Sun Soul).
Yeah, it seems like killing off lesser parts of the Great Will is making it a better person somehow. Doesn't one of the games lampshade that?
That makes an absurd amount of sense for smt as well as being canon for Exalted.
Well, the thing in Amu's head calls itself
and "Exoself" is a Greg Egan term. Combined with its knowledge of Sarumpaet rules, despite them being long since rendered irrelevant, I'm going to guess that Sera derives from the person/environment interface software used on-board Rindler, though it's clearly been modified since to handle new substrates and suffered some kind of serious damage at some point in the past. Important questions from here: Who put this software in the Humpty Lock, where did they get it from, and why? How did it get damaged? What features does it have? We should ask it if it comes with a user manual.
