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I want Inquisition so bad, and I have the money, but Origin refuses to accept my debit card, for some reason :(
As Hazard dropped off some random crafting component, Mantam turned to thank him. "Thanks, I'm sure I can do something with it... a blacksmith might have more use of it, but I'll have more fun with it." She said with a coy smile. Next she addressed Raijin, "Yeah, I'll get on that when I have some time. I haven't really worked with Xenomaster equipment much, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out." Finally, she begrudgingly accepted Cynthia's Katana tainted fish. Despite her claim that she wasn't hungry, she was.
She turned to her, laughing internally at her offer to buy another knife, oblivious to Mantam's own cheating. She took a bite of the fish before turning to Cynthia, grinning, "The fish is good. Don't worry about the knife. You didn't tell me about the ability you used, but I didn't tell you about the fortification spell I put on the knife. I guess that magic notwithstanding, the Swordmaster will have her way in a sword fight."
Lastly, hearing the talk of animals, Mantam shouted over the chatter, "Wolf! Obvious."
She turned to her, laughing internally at her offer to buy another knife, oblivious to Mantam's own cheating. She took a bite of the fish before turning to Cynthia, grinning, "The fish is good. Don't worry about the knife. You didn't tell me about the ability you used, but I didn't tell you about the fortification spell I put on the knife. I guess that magic notwithstanding, the Swordmaster will have her way in a sword fight."
Lastly, hearing the talk of animals, Mantam shouted over the chatter, "Wolf! Obvious."
chukklehed said
Any ability is activated like that, because there's nothing like skill bars and such. Magic is unique in that it's the only kind of skill that can be used with the Interprate System, whereas Cynthia has to learn her Bushido skills. Didn't mean to confuse you on that.
Oh, ok, I wasn't aware all skills worked that way, makes sense though.
I was under the impression magic was anything that used three repeating phrases, as per the OP, but like I said, I don't really care that much.
I just added a bunch of random shit about Paradise in my newest post. Hopefully I'm not stepping on any of the GM's toes :P
Mantam frowned. She threw her now broken knife haphazardly behind her. "Useless System Spells, can't even protect a dumb knife against some useless Katana." Mantam grumbled, this time too quiet for Cynthia to here. She knew better then to claim that the use of skills was cheating. She was sure a few others in the room picked up on her little trick and that doing so would just cause her to look like a hypocrite. "You can keep your damn fish, I've suddenly lost my appetite." Mantam said, sulking over the loss of her precious kitchen knife. She noticed the absence of Marinette and Grey after the commotion died down. Not exactly a surprise, out of the entire group she would probably count them as the most prone to disappear. Not that she didn't like either of them, however.
Mantam, downtrodden after her loss to Cynthia, resumed Grey's now empty spot at the crafting table. Crafting was Mantam's typical way to cool down, and she quickly set to work, not making gear that would truly benefit her, but making gear merely to level the skill. As the only one in the group to take up Artificing she felt obliged to keep the group well equipped on the magical side of affairs. In a game with so many item slots, especially one that adopts a slower leveling style like Paradise, it was quite the chore to keep your equipment up to snuff, so a crafter such as Mantam was an asset to any group. Some of the higher-tier guilds have whole sections of members dedicated to crafting, but their small group had no such numbers to warrant anything like that.
The specific item that Mantam was making was a magical Foci. When it came to your conventional Caster class there were a few styles of weapon that can be used. The most common- and the only ones available at her current crafting level- were the Foci and Wand or the Staff. The Staff, while affording more raw damage stats, wasn't incredibly useful to the Mirage Shifter class, as they didn't use offensive magic per se, instead relying on a combination of FOC and AGI. Thus, the Foci and Wand were the superior choices for her class, allowing a larger mana pool. That is, the Foci doesn't exactly lengthen the user's mana pool, but instead lower the casting requirement for spells. A small difference, but one that may matter in very high level play.
But Mantam's theorycrafting was hardly of consequence at the group's current level of play. Lower levels were less about mechanical knowledge of the game and more about the mere drive to keep playing, which wasn't exactly hard to find in a game as tantalizing as Paradise.
Mantam, downtrodden after her loss to Cynthia, resumed Grey's now empty spot at the crafting table. Crafting was Mantam's typical way to cool down, and she quickly set to work, not making gear that would truly benefit her, but making gear merely to level the skill. As the only one in the group to take up Artificing she felt obliged to keep the group well equipped on the magical side of affairs. In a game with so many item slots, especially one that adopts a slower leveling style like Paradise, it was quite the chore to keep your equipment up to snuff, so a crafter such as Mantam was an asset to any group. Some of the higher-tier guilds have whole sections of members dedicated to crafting, but their small group had no such numbers to warrant anything like that.
The specific item that Mantam was making was a magical Foci. When it came to your conventional Caster class there were a few styles of weapon that can be used. The most common- and the only ones available at her current crafting level- were the Foci and Wand or the Staff. The Staff, while affording more raw damage stats, wasn't incredibly useful to the Mirage Shifter class, as they didn't use offensive magic per se, instead relying on a combination of FOC and AGI. Thus, the Foci and Wand were the superior choices for her class, allowing a larger mana pool. That is, the Foci doesn't exactly lengthen the user's mana pool, but instead lower the casting requirement for spells. A small difference, but one that may matter in very high level play.
But Mantam's theorycrafting was hardly of consequence at the group's current level of play. Lower levels were less about mechanical knowledge of the game and more about the mere drive to keep playing, which wasn't exactly hard to find in a game as tantalizing as Paradise.
chukklehed said
I'm preety sure "never challenge a swordsmaster to a duel" is right up there with "never bet against a magic user".
I dunno, I was under the impression that any sort of magic was governed by FOC, which Cynthia only has a 1 in, so she couldn't really use a spell to beat Mantam, but it's nothing I'm making a fuss over <.<
Mantam gave a sly smile to Cynthia. If there was one rule that Mantam always observed when it came to betting, it would be 'Never bet against a magic-user'. Although Mantam's school of magic, Mirage Shifting, focused on the ability to transform one's body, there were a group of System Spells usable by all magic professions, and one that she had picked up on her alt was a spell of Fortification. Although she never learned it on this character, she knew the magic words, and merely had to think it. She repeated the words thrice in her head, and a sheen of protective magic coated her paltry Level 2 Kitchen Knife, imperceptible to a non-magic-user like Cynthia.
Mantam made a show of raising the knife towards Cynthia, grinning, her triumph against her all but guaranteed. Cynthia's Level 4 Katana would not be able to pierce her superior magical barrier. "Enguard," Mantam said in an over-exaggerated voice, befit of a stage actor playing a traitorous villain, "If you dare." Mantam hastily added.
Mantam made a show of raising the knife towards Cynthia, grinning, her triumph against her all but guaranteed. Cynthia's Level 4 Katana would not be able to pierce her superior magical barrier. "Enguard," Mantam said in an over-exaggerated voice, befit of a stage actor playing a traitorous villain, "If you dare." Mantam hastily added.
I don't know, but between school and sleep, it's getting hard to keep up at the current pace :P
The biggest issue I see with curfew is that if anyone lives in an out-of-the-way timezone they might be a bit excluded.
The biggest issue I see with curfew is that if anyone lives in an out-of-the-way timezone they might be a bit excluded.
Mantam went over to her pack, and pulled out her precious kitchen knife. She made a show of pointing it challengingly at Cynthia. "I'll have you know," Mantam said, throwing the knife into the air and catching it as it fell back down, "This knife if Level 5." That was a lie. Of course. But Cynthia could hardly tell the difference from the surface. "I think it's fine enough to fillet you Cynthia, while you're still squirming, if I wanted to." Mantam said in the overly exaggerated voice of a villain, grinning.
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