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SirBeowulf What a load of Donk.

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You're basically on point tho, I'm just waxing hella poetic. How are you Beowulf?


I would've posted my favorite anime Cory in the House, but...

You're just not worth it. GOMENASAIA. OHAYOUGAZAIMSU.

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Since the drama is gone now...



I like tanks. (Especially Russian ones.)
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Pssh, That's So Raven > Cory in the House

Bandwagon babbys, will they ever learn

#GOTspoilers #triggered
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SirBeowulf What a load of Donk.

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God, I also love sleek modern tanks.
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Poland can't into space, but they can into advanced technology.

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@Monochromatic RainbowYou don't understand. That IS their rocket ship.
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Oh man, are we posting tanks, because--

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@Shotgun BearTank Girl is my jam
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Go time. Expect Reviews.
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Gimme the full rundown of technical questions you said you had(?), because it's absolutely better that I answer them here than in PM.
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@Shotgun Bear Absolutely, as soon as I get to it. You're either first on the list, or next, I can't remember if there was a CS I need to read before yours. Please hang around a bit, if you can. =)
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@Aeonumbra

Hey, I'm just glad you're getting around to it. No need to rush yourself; I'd rather have a meticulous GM who gets things done just a little late than one who rushes right through shit and accepts everything.

However, I've got about an hour-twenty as of this post before I'm off to go do terrible things with terrible people, so keep in mind that I may take a long time to answer your questions after that timeframe.
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@Arcanaut If you're going to take tips as somebody being dickish, then we're going to have a problem. Yes, I understand the point you were conveying, but I did not state you had to change it, and I was not rude about it. Do not mistake rudeness for a synonym of abrasiveness. I merely suggest wording it differently to provide a clearer understanding, without factually stating that- as it appears- in any given situation in a room full of people, regardless of other factors, he could fight his way out. It was a writing tip, not a dickish remark, chill.

"Muh Honor- While he isn't always challenging people these days, when Roland is directly challenged by another person he will refuse to back down no matter how bad the odds are. At other times his personal code may cause him to be needlessly reckless such as not using his powers to incapacitate someone, or, letting someone live when there's a chance they may comeback for revenge."

I think my confusion here was perhaps the lack of the red commas? The clarification I was looking for was the interpretation of his recklessness, because it is stating "such as not using his powers to incapacitate someone" which means that he does not use his powers to prohibit their ability to combat him, suggesting that he kills them and that murderous tendency is what is reckless about him. Then you go on to say "or (modifier: not--letting someone live when there's a chance they may comeback for revenge." which is modified by the previously stated, "not", as I placed in red there. Point being there is that it is reckless in some way because he does -not- let them live?

That was were my confusion was at there, that single little word just threw me off entirely. Because there is no comma to seperate the two independant clauses, the "or" builds a distinction between them, modified by the "not", implying that his recklessness was caused by "not" doing either of those actions. Commas are important bruh Q_Q

Also, thank you for your concern, I am quite well rested now.
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@Shotgun Bear Ah, I will do yours next then.
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"Muh Honor- While he isn't always challenging people these days, when Roland is directly challenged by another person he will refuse to back down no matter how bad the odds are. At other times his personal code may cause him to be needlessly reckless such as not using his powers to incapacitate someone, or, letting someone live when there's a chance they may comeback for revenge."

Alternatively, did the statement mean "At other times his personal code may cause him to be needlessly reckless such as incapacitating someone in ways not involving the use of his powers, or letting someone live when there's a chance they may come back for revenge"?

By refraining from using his powers in combat he would be recklessly endangering himself, and potentially others, rather than just using his powers to end the battle quickly and decisively.
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@Shotgun Bear Do keep in mind that I am abrasive-- I say things directly and without filter, I do not intend to be rude or dickish.

Now, lets begin.

Appearance:
That reference picture is for the garb she wears yes? ... Because it's entirely ridiculous (not to sound harsh) for the kind of world we live it. I have a tendency to stray away from characters who don't wear pants, honestly. The stereotype guild rule, born before the fall, "No Mary Sues" means you should create a sensible character for the world you're in. It's a cool picture, yes, but inappropriate for a desert wasteland with the hot desert sun bearing down on you all day. I do have some leniency, meaning not everybody has to wrap up like a middle eastern dweller, but what you have is a bit much.

That physical disability I don't feel is justified, I mean, why? I remember skimming over your CS, and I'm sure I will get to this further down, as I read in stages between critiquing, and I remember something about the heat and friction making a lot of clothes unbearably hot. But, Technical Question, if her skin vibrates/resonates at a temperature hot enough to cauterize her skin would that not cook her clothes off very rapidly, let alone set them aflame? Also there is some slight differentiation on cauterization temperatures, like between a paper cut and a stump. I won't mention all the medical shit like large arteries being cauterized because the lax side of me doesn't care to get that technical.


Backstory
"She felt her bones move. She felt every splinter mesh and crack and force itself together" -- How? She's magnetic not kinetic, and I don't believe manipulating her own magnetic field, the small one generated by her body, the incredibly, utterly, tiny one, would produce this effect. I won't talk about the "heat" factor here, we'll get to that.


Gear
Chutney-- Nothing really wrong here, but I don't have a clearly "painted" picture of what it looks like, just what compromises it. Also.. what the fuck is it? Is it a car? A weapon? Charge time? what o.o?


Scarf: What foreign matter? Just dust in general, or is it supposed to keep her from attracting forks to her body, and etc?


Powers and Technical Questions
[Please be aware of the difference between Magnetism Manipulation, Bio-organic Magnetism, And Electromagnetism Manipulation.]

I don't understand the concept of "hot-freeze a cloud solid". Please elaborate.


She can pull non-magnetic objects using their ...magnetic field, to an object (with a strong magnetic field I assume). Doesn't quite make sense to me. I would stick to metals, ores, lodestones, and natural or metallic components, I'll discuss this more below; otherwise your character will become overly complicated to the point of being declined. Do keep in mind that things like glass, wood, or plastic will not be affected, but I'm sure you know that.


I believe Magnetism and "Frictional Force" are not exactly one in the same. You want her to be able to cauterize her wounds, by having this passive heat on her body constantly from what I assume is the disturbance of her phenomena affecting her own magnetic field, causing kinetic friction and enough heat to produce the intended effect. But, as above, Bio-organic magnetism is another thing entirely and would allow a very powerful control of organic things-- such as people-- such as crushing them into a ball, which I cannot allow, as the only real use of that is basically instant killing things or deadlocking them in a contest of will. However, I am not outright denying this power, I would like you to defend it and try to explain the why's and how's to make this seem reasonable.


I see the part now, about her own unstable magnetic field, which would indeed cause a degree of heat on the exterior of her body. Hot enough to cauterize wounds? ... and her eyes? Sear her tongue? And all the lovely other external fleshy bits? Also, having this heat passively present would be like continually cauterizing somebody's entire body, which would basically just eventually burn her away as she suffers a certain degree of burn damage, then cauterization, then burn damage-- basically burning alive very, very slowly. Also, did you just state she has a raging fire in her core?


"Fucking Magnets" are you saying that when she touches something that is affected by her magnetism, it will automatically tear itself apart? Why? Magnetism is just attraction, and with something as small as a gun it should just be strongly attracted to her hand, unless her own unstable field creates a torrential whirlpool of varying degrees of attraction in a very close proximity (physical contact) to which it would affect the gun in such a way as to tear it apart? Also, trying to magnetically attract something with a large mass, balanced against its resistance to velocity, she would probably tear it apart. But in all of this, because of the gun-factor, how can you justify her driving a car without it breaking apart?




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@SimplyJohn I like the alternative phrasing, no confusion there. It should still be amended though, as that is what I believe @Arcanaut was going for.
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@SirBeowulf I skimmed over your sheet again and I did not find anything that presently jumps out as downright wrong- perhaps a bit lackluster and a tad bland here and there- but that's not necessarily a fault.
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The images are meant to go hand in hand with the bio, being that I drew them. I'm aware of the taboo and if you'd done a closer reading of the Appearance section, I think you'll find that it's part of her personality. Yes, it's ridiculous and over the top but she is characterized that way. I'm sorry that our personal tastes conflict, but the character is a study in contrasts. Chutney is the big fuckoff hammer. She has the hat and a scarf, too, so, you know. Quasi-shade.

'Hot-freeze' means that, if there were a bunch of iron filings (in this instance, though it can be anything magnetic) in the air on a particularly cloudy day, those filings would be able to connect their attraction fields and totally solidify a cloud by attracting the vapor to them. What I was really trying to get at is that Great Attractor works with gases as much as liquids and solids. Great Attractor itself isn't a magnetic law and was never intended to be. I was exercising the creative freedom thing to make a power I thought was kinda neat and not all that excessive. On the subject of weird abilities, I'm totally fine with not having bio-organic magnetism. I don't care to have powerful characters, just fun and interesting ones.

The whole bone thing is just the sheer force of their personal magnetism. It's automatically resetting her to a stable state. That I admit to being a touch hard to swallow. However, using force to meld things together still happens, it's not impossible.

The whole thought behind the cauterization is that the body itself is a maintained whole, but breaks in it also break the pattern. Thus, it sucks itself back together and the polarities, naturally rapidly switching, create a rapid friction. The heat isn't constant and I think you took my imagery a little literally with the 'raging fire' thing. Wait a minute, you're allowing the moon to not be, but warm people is too much? The basic idea of her power is that her unwounded body is a 'stable state' and lacerations really fuck that up. She can't do knife fights.

The scarf is just a scarf...Poncho. It keeps things off of her like a poncho does, it doesn't nullify things. It came before the powers in her bio.

But in all seriousness, the design came first and it, like Schatz, is silly and over the top. It's not her being 'da sexiest,' it's just fun. I'd really rather not have to take the time to do a total redesign over taste, because you did emphasize 'creative freedom' in your Interest Check.
EDIT: I'm just gonna point out that if you strip this of context I'm done. When I refer to the 'design' I'm referring to the character itself who is older than this roleplay and is just the type of person who would wear that kind of thing.


Oh, and I take huge exception to implying that Schatz is a Sue just because of the way she looks. That is the epitome of judging a book by its cover. I know you don't mean to come off as rude but rule one's ''Respect your GM'' and you state within it that you'll try to do the same.
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