Milieu

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Tatsua Aiisen said
I mean, I was going to join, but I think I might just watch.

Why not join?

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Schradinger said
He certainly could use a bodyguard of Atlas' ability, though he may not get to use that giant sword as much as you were probably hoping.

Haha I was certainly hoping to write some detailed posts of cleaving and hacking people to bits. But I'm sure I'll get the chance.
It'll be interesting to see how my character handles the political playground. Atlas will be Vincent's bodyguard :P
Booya

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lydyn said With that, g'night everyone!

Goodnight! I'm going to go to sleep myself.
Similar to Iydyn's plight of needing a particular placement for her character, if anyone needs a bodyguard, pm me.
I'd rather not concoct an NPC to bodyguard.

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Schradinger said
Well, Vincent for one. Once I finish and post his bio it'll be explained better, but essentially he would be the first "in line" to take over (going off what I gathered from Ichthys in our PM convo), but refused when some of the other nobles tried to put him on the throne. Whether his refusal is genuine or just another ploy in the game of kings could definitely be a point of contention and uncertainty that other writers could play off of, since he didn't officially abdicate.

Does this Vincent need a bodyguard? xD That's my characters current profession, since I essentially claimed in my own bio that raiding has come to a moratorium since the line of succession came into question and strife and division plague the D'Cerf coven.
And regarding the explanation of your ability, I have no problems with it.

@Ichthys: I'll modify the bio when I wake up and pm you when the changes have been made.

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Schradinger said
@Milieu: I think there should be allowances. He wouldn't be able to see people just standing behind a wall or a mile away, but if those people were preparing a spell to resurrect an entire graveyard, I imagine it would stand out like a beacon to him (though even the allowances would have limits).

Works for me.

@Ichthys: Seems like the contention over my ability has refined it into something simpler and more justifiable, while still maintaining its essence and imposing reasonable limits. Unless you want to wait for others to put in their two cents to finalize it. Just let me know when you're satisfied, and then I'll adjust my CS. It seems its been settled though.,

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@Schradinger: To pose some questions about your ability: how does object allows him to access their immediate vicinity and become present with them. Like through a looking glass? A crystal ball? And what's the importance of direct contact with an object? Is it required for your character to become more attuned to the unique energy of that person? What's the decaying rate of the access to the energy signature (for lack of better terms, my brain is tired)? For instance, your character acquired a dress the person he wanted to scry used to wear all the time, but it has been several months since they last put it on.

What if the person hardly touched the object, but always focused on it, maybe it had a lot sentimental value, such as a music box or something kept in a trunk under the bed?

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Nemaisare said
Also, Ichthys, would the mother of Lord Bayard be a person I should not consider as an option for a character?EDIT: Another limit that might be had to this seeing magic thing, is the very simple fact that the more magic is used, the thicker it is liable to be in that area. If there are a lot of spells happening around Atlas, they are likely to blend together and create some level of difficulty for him to differentiate between a person, spell or wall if he has to move quickly and can't give this sense his full attention.

Makes sense. It would be a sort of cacophony.
So who wants to be the witch who creates a gnarly seeing eye wolf for my character? xD

Schradinger said
More or less. As long as he can't see through walls at will, I'm happy. Lol. As I mentioned before, I think that's the main thing that would make it OP. Having 360 degree vision is advantage enough. :P

I can do that, easily enough. However, earlier you stated that if the magic concentration was high enough, he would be able to see through the wall and detect (I believe you said immensely powerful). So should soild walls/object be the defacto magical barrier that prevents his sense from passing through it and seeing what's beyond it? Or would there be allowances, like if the crypt keeper lady prepares a massive spell to summon all the undead from the catacombs? :P

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Nemaisare said
If you want to include the colours, Milieu, while I quite like the monochrome idea of Schradinger, actually, that whole concept is nice. If you like the colours, it'd be a pretty simple step to go from monchromatic to giving each magical presence a shade of colour. If I'm reading things rightly, the haze of magic is kind of like a mist/light/sensation, however Atlas would be sensing it. And mist and light can be quite colourful. It'd probably be a more subtle thing, and kind of an only out of the corner of his eye(or at the edge of his awareness, fleeting and gone if he focuses on it). So it could make perfect sense to sneak colour in that way, and have him slowly working his way towards learning how to see the colours and understand them, from what started out as monochromatic.

Yes. I was having trouble visualizing how it would work, but this makes more sense to me. The "mist" of magic acting as a sensation in which the color shade unique to a soul or spirit being trapped in the sort of magic light particle (in the context of how mist/atmosphere traps light and refracts a certain color), always lingering elusively on the edge of his awareness, although he has technically been blind for several years now according to the bio I created, he would have developed some sort of mastery over it by now. But this explanation would help me to write it better

@Schradinger: Yeh? Is this kinda what you meant?

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Ahh okay. It makes much more sense to me as I read it more. But just to clarify on distance, larger distances would make the magic less opaque versus short, and solid objects containing no magic, such as brick wall, would impose the "clear vacuum" and could contain the magic from being detected by his sense based on the concentration of said magic? With that cleared up, I can put the nail in the coffin of my understanding of your proposal.

Although I do think your explanation makes the ability easier to justify, explain, and apply rather than color-coding all of magic to the previous blue-green and then attaching it to his hearing.
I would still like the souls and spirits of "living" things to have color however.

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Ichthys said
No one mind that IC post. It's just preparing for whenever we actually start. :p

Awwwwww...damn xD

I'm excited for more characters to be posted.I'm already plotting and scheming.