[OOC] Progressive Arcanum

[TheHangedMan]

Ooh! I know that one! Anyway . . . I've said it twice and I'll say it thrice:

Mother of God that is a long post.

[Leotamer]

Ok, I am just going to -say- I am going to read it later.

[Apokalipse]

Dude, when I pressed the hider button, my scroll bar became the smallest little thing ever. I have a long road ahead of me.

[Imperfectionist]

I've already read it a dozen or so times, but I might as well read it again. It's a very good post.

[Apokalipse]

I had to, unfortunately, skip some of the fight scenes at the end because I was running out of time and I have to go. Please forgive me D:

[Imperfectionist]

Apokalipse said
I had to, unfortunately, skip some of the fight scenes at the end because I was running out of time and I have to go. Please forgive me D:

:P That's the best part! You're going to have to come back and finish it at some point.

[Komamisa]

Imperfectionist said
I've already read it a dozen or so times, but I might as well read it again. It's a very good post.

Jeez, and you've seen it through the original version, Revision A, Revision B and this final version XD. Well, I suppose it's partially your work as well, so cheers!

Apokalipse said
I had to, unfortunately, skip some of the fight scenes at the end because I was running out of time and I have to go. Please forgive me D:

You're forgiven ; u ;. It's more like Progressive Arcanum Fan Fiction at this point, lol. Though the fights were pretty much the point of the post :V

[Apokalipse]

I read through most of the fight scenes, I just had to skip a bit of it and go to the ending to see what happened to be filled in. I tried to fit as much as I could in. I'm going to read the rest when I go to bed tonight :D

[Komamisa]

Random Babble about the post

Those paying attention to the last fight and to Aoife’s sheet may have noticed a few things in the last fight. First and foremost is that she did not use many spells of any real magnitude. She primarily stuck to close range combat, and visibly beat up the criminals. It had been noted in her sheet that she paid attention to efficiency and the conservation of energy, that she would choose to take such long strides and use up so much energy on low-class thugs might seem surprising.

Why smash the thugs in hand to hand combat, especially with the difficulty presented by the likes of the giant and the duelist, when stone walls could be erected with a few words, blast furnaces of fire can be sent, and the enemy could generally be relied upon to flee under such sudden and overwhelming force? That Aoife could have also put her hand through Bonesaw’s chest from the very beginning, but chose a long and drawn out fight where she was at 30% of her capacity, might raise questions.

The assault on the thugs came with two objectives: that Ren be protected so she didn’t use ‘Option B’, and that the thugs be taught a lesson to relay to others in the city: That Ren has a powerful friend.

Aoife intentionally beat them slowly to drill intimidation into the enemy, to make sure that their bodies and minds would remember. She also did it as a token investment, that the thugs—should they survive incarceration—do not know the full extent of her power.

An assault with overwhelming and concise power utilizing Aoife’s level of expertise would have instantaneously taken out every thug with the exception of Bonesaw, who is apt at surviving, and Scottie, whose experiences with other Magestrava as well as Sepcarim would trigger his ridiculous reflexes. Even then, Aoife is at the level of masters.

Unfortunately, such overwhelming power would be too impersonal, the gap between her and the thugs would just make her a wall to overcome for the more determined thugs. She would become akin to an urban legend, a face to defeat. The slow victory where she won by the skin of the teeth, but still dominated for the majority of the battle—that felt more personal, more real, the thugs knew how they got every bruise and every broken bone.

They were defeated by a little witch girl, decimated by duplicity and tactics, rather than power overwhelming. For her, it was a trial by deception. If you want to see Aoife full power, look forward to the Lich fight~

Of course, they could always get pissed off later on that Aoife was essentially toying with them, even if she did use up more energy than she had to, and got scratches from Scottie and bruises from Bonesaw.

Edit: Oh right, I should probably say... Scottie did take a bit more power/effort than the others; by that point, Aoife was quite exhausted since most of her attacks were either energy consuming illusions or physically taxing running + punching.

[Zombehs]

A bit of carefully applied force can do a job just as well, or better, than overwhelming at times.

[Apokalipse]

If i'm not mistaken, then everything is wrapped up and we can move to the assembly, right?

[Imperfectionist]

Well... Ren still needs to do her part, but she isn't attending the opening ceremony anyway. As far as Aoife goes, yes, I believe the plan is for her to head on over. Time skip time?

[Komamisa]

Besides that massive post, the idea was to get that out of the way, have Ren and Aoife wrap up in a few shorter posts, then part ways.

[Shifter_Master]

Blerg, i dispise Mondays. I'm working on my speech post, not sure if that is before or after the skip but I'll make sure its done by tonight

[Apokalipse]

Imperfectionist said
Well... Ren still needs to do part, but she isn't attending the opening ceremony anyway. As far as Aoife goes, yes, I believe the plan is for her to head on over. Time skip time?

Komamisa said
Besides that massive post, the idea was to get that out of the way, have Ren and Aoife wrap up in a few shorter posts, then part ways.

Should I wait for you two to post or go ahead on writing for Lovedaia?

[Komamisa]

Go on ahead writing. Aoife's making it to the opening ceremony, but little much more than that. Adam is the student representative for now.

[Apokalipse]

Okay, will be a few days because I'm studying for quizzes and finishing a project.

[Komamisa]

I LIED. LOL. Didn't notice we got a post two hours ago. We're still... hopefully alive!

[TheHangedMan]

Oh my god we're still alive! Must be Necromancer :3

[Imperfectionist]

I'm still here too! x.x I've had so many stories running through my head recently, I nearly forgot my plans for Ren and the boys...

I'll email you a draft this weekend, Misa, to see what you think.

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(I've been playing a lot of Pathfinder; now I'm in two home games, and I'm about to start GMing a campaign of my own! Time flies, I guess...)