[quote=@Rilla] That is actually my understanding of T1. You only lose the prep you are working on, so if Kei'taro was currently prepping Thunderbird, he'd lose the third prep, but each subsequent hit, imo, wouldn't take away the second and first. And if he'd stop charging Thunderbird before the hit, it would be safe from losing a prep from being hit, but whatever else he was prepping in the post just before getting hit wouldn't be. Question, how many preps did the circle have vs how many the time-weaving(which is actually a name for one of the many no-nos in combat RP) sword has? [/quote] Well, in that hypothetical it wouldn't have any, where-as the circle would have one prep I suppose, which is one of the reasons I felt short-changed by what happened originally, because without any prior mention of the circle at all the sword had de-activated it. I think the idea of losing preps does make sense, it gives the advantage to the attacker essentially and allows physical characters without access to those new-fangled magics to otherwise avoid their opponent charging up and blasting them to pieces. Prepping magic in general isn't necessarily all that well explained in T1 though. It makes sense in the example they give, but that doesn't translate very well to all issues. It's like when a maths book uses the easiest damn calculation for the example and then the questions are like ten times harder.