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@KoL

You say that but when I look at that many numbers gathered in one place my eyes just kind of slide off.

My question with the rose field had more to do with why it grows faster the bigger it gets. The DnD spell has a set radius of destruction so it's not particularly helpful in that regard.

Sorry if this is annoying you. I'm trying to puzzle through the mechanics of the move not find problems with it.

@Silvan Haven

The thing is that Epic Spells can be tweaked to the user's taste, at the cost of making them hard to cast, the actual ones in the book are just guidelines for how the math of D&D works for epic level stuff (a quick tip, it's broken as hell). Like I said, I used that as a guideline to see if people understood it better. Don't care for the numbers but the description, is more proper in this case.

And to answer the second question, that's just how exponential math works IRL. The bigger something is, the easier it's for to get bigger. It's all around us the whole time. For example even the sun began as a speck of dust floating in the interstelar gas some day, or like how, if you let a bush and then two and then three, so on and so forth grow in one place, soon enough you'll have a forest. Even something as simple as a snow ball rolling down a hill, gets bigger the bigger it already is (because it has more surface area to gather more snow). Even economy, after all, the richer you are, the faster you get more money.

If you want a small lesson in differential equations, I can explain this even further, an show you the basic equation that can be used to describe almost any exponential growth/decrease (after all, the contrary is real here as well). It's not 100% precise in all cases, which is why there are tons of especial applications for each area, but the base equation from where all others differ is one and the same.

That said, I have to go to college now, to I don't have much time to explain this in detail now. I'll leave you with a video that, while only partially related, offers an extremely powerful insight on something anyone dealing with management of any form and of any resource learns sooner or later:

Life is weird...

And yeah, I love V-sauce.

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How depressing of Fran. Such a sad life.

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@KoL

Nerd.

@TheWindel

Pff.

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@KoL And while both you and I understand that, Miyu doesn't, hence why I noted that she hadn't seen or had misinterpreted the man's expressions.

Currently she's in "things are so strange and surreal I'd accept anything" mode.

@The 42nd Gecko

I get that. I just felt that perhaps it would be best to make it evident, lest people start think that yarn balls are the major currency of the Happyverse.

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Agh numbers. So many numbers.

But thank you for going to all this trouble to explain the move.

@KoL

@Silvan Haven

B-but... That's just the most basic Excel-Fu. It actually just took 05 minutes tops to do that. It's no problem at all, since I was in need of a frame of reference for when the whole battlefield is going to be under Victoire's control.

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@The 42nd Gecko

It's not really that gold isn't valid in the Happyverse but more that normal people don't deal in gold at the open street market. Most people probably don't even know what real gold feels or looks like, it's obvious that anyone smart will be skeptical about accepting currency they don't know, much more if it's currency that they are more or less sure that is either forgery, or a prank.

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In the interest of giving you all the numbers you crave for so desperately, and easy my burden in having to think over this stuff, here's a chart that some of you people must find interesting:

Chart-y CHart

As you can see, in four more of Victoire's posts, the roses will have taken all of the battlefield. Also, if anyone is curious, I've finally found out the epic D&D spell which I used as a rough base for the Demon Roses as a whole: https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Verdigris_Tsunami. I just didn't have a copy of the Epic Level Handbook at hand, so remembering the name of that spell was a damn bother. All things grated, I could even construct the roses spell using actual D&D rules but this doesn't mind at all here. Also don't care for numbers, almost anyone in the RP can break a building with an attack with relatively easy, that's the comparison you should be doing.

The thing is that it's not even half as much op as most of you seen to think, it's just D&D level, which I can safely say that is far weaker than Nexus level, even at very high ends of the epic or divine scales of power. If this was D&D, I'd say that pretty much everyone in the Nexus is close to or above level 100, to explain their absurdities. The powers that be are just about Hindu Mythology in terms of power level, but this too is irrelevant.

I don't think it still matters at this point since most of my will to debate or explain my characters as being made with efficiency and solid play style first and gimmicky fun, like any seasoned D&D player eventually learns to do. I just wanted to clarify that this wasn't something I came up with out of the blue just to make Victoire unreasonably OP (which she isn't). This was mostly to answer @Silvan Haven and @BCTheEntity about how the roses grow and work, they are really just a buffed up version of something from D&D.

So yeah, after finally running the numbers and finding the name of the damn spell that I was trying to remember for weeks, my D&D players' heart is satisfied. Now I feel like I explained every possible thing that I could.

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*PS: Note that 1, in the chart represents the current post I'm still stuck in. Not the actual 1st post as you can see by the area of the roses.

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@Banana
Both sheets are updated now, feels good man. These Harpys are gonna be dripping in leadership once everyone is reintroduced.

Also can someone fill me in on the Happyverse deal? Not hard to figure out from the name but context would be nice.

@Mega Birb

There's a link for the first post of the Happyverse on the 0th IC post (the first one of the 1st IC page).

Also, I hope that you are aware now, that the harpies never ever did anything for Celestia except producing a lot of betrayers (or at least noteworthy ones), if the PC ratio is any indication of that. In your absence, we had a lot of discussion about their race and the kind of impression we have of it as GMs. The best advice I can give you at this moment is... thread lightly.

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@KoL
Somehow got everyone to hate him. Literally everyone. He and Ghelgath almost sent their armies at each other because they had different opinions about Lucille. Victoire wanted his ass on a wall from that one time he barged into her dungeon.

And Henry hated him because reasons. I dunno, they just didn't like each other from the start.

@Mega Birb

Ah, I see, you are talking about him being the buttmonkey of his faction. That's indeed correct.

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@KoL
I know but he once was and needs to be again. 'Tis a goal of mine.

@Mega Birb

When was that? As far as I recall, Sliske never ever did anything worthy of note, for his whole stay in the RP. Unless, you count rage quitting as being noteworthy.

Just name one significant feat that he ever did.