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[@Terminal] I mean... why not just set her pre-game power level to a more equivalent level to the other characters? Keeping in mind that the characters we're playing as are nominally extraordinary examples of their respective species, save characters who are notably weaker than their racial norm such as the Arcosian twins, I don't think it'd be too horrendous to play as a human with a power level rivalling the relatively high-level fighters we've seen so far; hell, maybe that's why she's been vanishing so frequently, if she's been out training for extended periods of time in a place where time is sped up relative to the outside world. There are obviously limits to what's reasonable, but I don't think starting her off with a power level of, say, fifteen thousand is too unreasonable, again given that she's an exceptional example of how powerful human beings can feasibly get; I think that's about the level Halvtand planned to put his character at, anyway, and at that point, Expial is actually the weakest PC in the game outside of Thess' base form.
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They would still be stronger than [@Halvtand]'s Harkon and unnamed android, actually.

And no, time isn't sped up relative to the outside world. It's just a training ground that enables enhanced training - it does not have the same properties as the Room of Spirit and Time or of the Gravity Chamber (I was just listing those as examples to help illustrate that it was an unusual training ground). She has been/will have to train at a normal relative rate.

As for the prospect of simply handwaving Charis up to fifteen thousand, I'm not necessarily against it, but that wouldn't be particularly fair to the other characters who are stuck in the same pit she is. The original implied intent of the thread was for a group of individuals, starting at a power level of around 1,000, working their way up while also getting pulled in to a plot involving the war between Earth and Arcosia, and eventually joining the tournament after a fair number of prior struggles - with Arcosian and Makaioshin templates provided for one or two poster-run antagonists on top of whatever [@Thess] originally had planned.

Harkon, our unnamed anroid, Expial, and Charis all occupy that approximate, original intended range. But they are the minority. If we were acting on the premise that they would have to grind their way up to the tournament-level while also participating in other plotlines, then that might work. But as it turns out, the tournament is almost ready to start and the preliminary 'arc' will deal mostly with intrigue and people getting into unofficial fights beforehand. If that's how we're playing it, then those four weaker characters simply cannot realistically participate in the tournament, full stop. They are consigned to a separate realm of activity unless they want to be reduced to smears on the wall.

I could boost Charis so that she could crash the tournament, but that would be leaving the other three characters behind in an already sparse character landscape. Doing so makes no sense unless you plan to boost all of them.