Ashifili

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@Ashifili

So, uh, are you going to post soon?

@TheWindel

When you made the OOC post that stated that you were going to post soon, I thought you meant REALLY soon, so didn't post. XD

Doesn't matter, regardless, cause I still have no idea what's 'supposed' to have happened in the battle.

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

It's still a school. Bullying IRL is probably a thing.

And hell, I'd imagine that suicide rate is rather high. Imagine if you screw up in Deep Ground during your graduation year, and suddenly realize that, for the rest of your life, you'd be doing manual labor at minimum wage, because there's no way for you to improve your future after high school ends.

So yeah, death might be a better option than scrapping by for 60 or 70 more years.

In the context of the RP though, the character can simply not get involved in any more incidents, and disappear into the background.

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

Lucius/Windel, perhaps you can give us an idea of how much damage our Avatars can take the first place? Because while mages ARE supposed to be generic squishy, they aren't supposed to be killed or critically injured by an auto-attack from a Duelist (not even an assassin). I mean, if that's the case, where a normal attack can critically injure a mage-type, doesn't that mean that a 200% attack is pretty much insta-kill?

Really though, MMO standards would sorta ensure that you aren't going to die from one hit unless it's a raid boss, so why is everyone THAT worried about getting hit the first place?

While I'm at it, perhaps, instead of putting something like cooldowns into IC-time, why not just put them in as post-cooldowns? Like, Land Demolisher has a one post cooldown, where the next turn, it can't be used. Flame Sword Conjuration has no post-cooldown, but can only be used once a turn. Limitations like that would be easier than trying to figure out how much time has passed.

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Honestly, I still feel like combat rounds should be shorter than a minute. Give a better idea of how strong/useful attacks are if they have multi-post cooldowns. Even then, though, it feels like it's stretching it to imagine that the whole 'everybody falling into the same person' scene took more than five seconds...

Deep Ground Online (Hiatus)

Mang, dis time dilation is really messing with my sense of time now. XD

Guess I'll toss a post up and have Soloist think about the meaning of life for half a minute before no one has landed on her, and then do something. Maybe.

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@Lucius Cypher

For simplicity's sake, just imagine it like this.

Her two Heavy Arms are basically stretched out to the sides. They spin at the same speed as her somersaulting, so it appears as if they aren't moving. They are sweeping inwards, like a hug. Her body is somersaulting forwards, going vertically, and the Land Demolisher in the center of her back is basically like that of a helicopter's tail rotor.

So the Heavy Arms are collapsing horizontally, while the Land Demolisher goes vertically.

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Her Heavy Arms work on ball joints, can rotate and whatever through the power of imagination, and are two meters long. They move independently in regards to the rest of her body, I imagined, which is why she can do 'hand-to-hand' attacks that are impossible for humans to normally pull off (e.g sweeping side to side with both Heavy Arms while her body is spinning vertically).

All things considered, she would have been fine with cannon-balling straight into Newt as well.

Of course, if Lucius wants to nerf that, I'll do some post-reimagining then, and if my post was unclear, I apologize, and will make OOC effort to clarify her arms' oddities in the future.

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Alright, since I don't really want to write a one paragraph post, and for the sake of fluidity, I'll just ask straight up.

Diggerton, in my post, Soloist was somersaulting through the air. Her Heavy Arms are positioned from her back, and she's vertically spinning. More importantly, while her two Heavy Arms would be positioned more around her sides, her Land Demolisher is positioned at the center of her back. By attempting to land on top of her, Newt would be, metaphorically speaking, jumping into the blades of a helicopter. Can you tell me what she's going to do in response to it, if you think that she'd be able to react in time? Because it's probably going to smack her down into the ground if it lands.

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Damn, and she can control where the cloud goes? That's one hell of a level 2 Avatar Ability. XD

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Ninjas, mang. They're so stealthy.