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The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

@Boop_Im_A_Dragon, your latest post seems to assume the arrow can penetrate the knight's magically enchanted armour. Only Cyclone can say if such an assumption is justified or not, of course, but I'm just pointing it out.

Mahz's Dev Journal

In regards to the new logo, I personally liked the old one better. A big R for Roleplayer Guild made good sense and was unique. I can't say what other people think, though.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

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Does Torrens still have that small Empyrean that Hannah gave him?

@KabenSaal

Hannah? You mean Emily?

And yes, he still does. He's not desperate or anything necessitating the consumption of his emergency Empyrean. He's just running a little low on energy, such that fighting a whole platoon of guards is not appealing. There's a good group of house fires down the road, so he can top up there.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

They'll just dogpile him, but fortunately there's at least Torrens and Narza in the vicinity to help.

@Cyclone

Torrens will be out of action until he finds some more fire. Engulfing a street in flame, creating an explosion which could probably level a house, and taking that explosion at point blank really takes it out of you.

As for the knight, make him tough. His armour and shield could probably hold up to Athinar, one-on-one, if their enchantments are worth their salt. Torrens won't be making big explosions for a little while (since, even if the armour can hold up against the explosion, the knight's internal organs probably won't). Make us players actually put in some effort to kill these guys.

Mahz's Dev Journal

Not sure if you can already do this or not, but:
Being able to delete/lock threads would be great, especially since I made an oopsie and made a thread in the wrong sub-forum.

@Sypherkhode822

I think such powers are reserved for moderators (locking, that is. Deletion has not been added). And as to your issue, I think mods can also move threads, which may be more appropriate for you.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

@Blackmist16, Really, if you took 10 minutes to get out of that ice, all the action would be gone. Even 1 or 2 minutes would leave you with little more than a clean-up operation, at this rate. Although, who knows? You'll have to actually wait to find out.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

Torrens was somewhat surprised at first that only one sorcerer was sent against him, but as soon as he felt a magical force attempt to drain his power he knew that they had thought this one through. The sorcerer would find that not all of Torrens' energy could be extracted at once (which is probably just as well, considering how much damage it could do), but he could sharply increase the rate of heat loss from Torrens. The consequences of this on the surroundings was that no liquid water or oil existed near him after less than a second (save for that in the sorcerer), wind hotter than that of a blast furnace rushed through the side streets, and in seconds the stone ground and nearby walls would start melting. This rapid drain was a serious concern for Torrens, as if this continued for too many seconds he would be too weak to fight.

At point blank, Torrens' first move was to go for the face of his opponent, grabbing it with his hand. Normally, this move was fatal against creatures of flesh, but when the sorcerer pulled Torrens' hand away from his face Torrens was shocked to find that there was not so much as a mark where there should have been a horribly melted face. But Torrens was far from a one trick demon and he was very quick on his feet. Perceiving his foe's total immunity to heat, that he had no way to win a simple physical contest in a few seconds, and the desperation of the situation, Torrens shoved him palm up to the priest's chest and channeled dozens of megajoules of thermal energy into the separating millimeters of air in an imperceptible fraction of time.

This energy represented the chemical energy from a whole bag of coal burned in a furnace. Coal has an energy density eight times greater than that of gunpowder, although coal normally releases this energy very slowly. Torrens, however, had no chemical limitations on how quickly he could release that energy. As such, the energy which had originally been in a bag of coal was now released in a manner akin to a detonating barrel of gunpowder, or perhaps an even more violent explosive, at point blank to a human. While the explosion would also harm himself, he should fare much better than the creature of flesh before him. And if by some miracle the explosion didn't tear the priest in half, or rupture his internal organs (and, considering this is a priest, miracles aren't out of the question), then at least he should be stunned long enough to give Torrens some time to find the upper hand.

The Horde of Evil - Tresspassing through treacherous tribes' territory! (RP closed)

Torrens, hearing the clamour and noise of battle in the streets ahead, jogged through the alleyways until he was near, at which point he hauled himself up onto a carefully selected stone roof in order to get a better view. In the streets he could see skirmishes with the Keeper's minions, headed by Athinar, against small clusters of guards. But in the town center the town's garrison assembling, preparing to march as a coherent unit through the attackers, backed by their powerful sorcerer priests. If they were allowed to advance in force, then severe casualties would likely be suffered on their side. Granted, a collection of Rogue Beings this size was a force to be reckoned with, but there was no sense in simply hurling themselves at an armed and ready mesh of spears, shields and magic. They needed to be broken up.

Torrens looked up and saw on another rooftop the half-giant dark knight which he recognised as Balothiss, hurling fireballs into defenders below. Torrens gave him a wave and nod of recognition, and jumped back down into the alleyways.

It was not long before he was in position. He had taken the backstreets to flank the main guard force. He discovered that many of the side streets had been blocked by walls of ice, an obvious effort to control the movements of the guards. Now Torrens was beside the column, near the sorcerer priests, with nothing but a wall of frozen water separating them. Acknowledging the need for speed, he braced himself and stepped bodily into the ice wall, vaporising it, and then spewed forth enough fire to engulf the entire block of sorcerers. Such an attack would have surely taken them by surprise, and may have incapacitated a good portion of them, but these sorcerers of fire and water were perfectly equipped to counter such an attack as well. As such, Torrens was not surprised to see that many of the sorcerer priests had managed to cast appropriate shields before they received any severe injury. In fact, that was part of his plan.

Quick as he came, Torrens darted back into the alleyway and dived around a corner just in time to avoid a barrage of water bolts from the water priests. He clambered to his feet, unharmed from having dived into solid cobblestones, and shot a few fire bolts around the corner at the priests. He did not expect them to hit, for the priests had ample ability to deflect such attacks. Instead, he hoped to splinter the group.

If some of the priests break off to go after him, he'd fall back, providing token resistance, and lead them away from the group. If some of the guards are sent, he would go back far enough to not be under fire from the priests, fight them, then return. If no-one took the bait, he would just keep shooting, either forcing them to deal with him or distracting the spellcasters enough so they can't help the guards. Really, he was hoping a group of priests would break off to deal with him, although it was entirely possible that this main column was too well disciplined to do such a thing.

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Mahz, I like how you added the chat system. What you need now is the ability to set up private chatrooms in the Guild- for when you want to communicate in real time with a particular user/group rather than the whole Guild. And then, eventually, we could have that collaborative post Piratepad-type feature.

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<Snipped quote> What about users who occasionally leave a page open for three days and expect it to still be there through browser restarts and what not?

@Shienvien

From what Mahz described, it would appear that if you are on the page with your half-completed post in it, then it would keep refreshing the draft, pushing back the expiry deadline (unless the editor has to be in focus. Then you might have some issues).

Of course, leaving a page open for three days and counting on nothing going wrong is asking for trouble. If I leave a post half-done for any length of time I save it as a text file on my computer, so it will be safe. If you've got your own system for that (which you suggest that you do), then that should do. Conversely, Mahz's system is a system for protection from data loss, from brief closures of the browser or site or internet connection, not a system for long-term draft storage.