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5 yrs ago
Current I just can't. This is too much. Berserk was so influential on so many things that I love. Goodbye, Miura. You'll be missed by many.
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6 yrs ago
Migraines ew
7 yrs ago
Welp apparently discord servers are having some pretty bad Latency issues.
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7 yrs ago
Well I just got my mitts on the Links Awakening remake. Excus eme while I disappear for a weak while I relive my childhood
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7 yrs ago
Migraine killed me today. Posts tomorrow.
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Bio



Hello! Welcome to my little bio.

Not much to say, really. Just a horror game protag that likes writing and playing vidya games when I'm not being chased by the cosmic forces of darkness. (I'm a security guard that works night shifts usually).

Have some dancing medjed.

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@13org

Okay...I've tried explaining Senna's abilities as best as I can, so here's the last thing I can really say as an example on how Senna's abilities work.

My other character, Lena, is a tank. She can turtle behind her shield and take a damn lot of punishment from repeated attacks at the cost of basically having zero agility and not being all to quick.

Senna is not a tank - She can shrug off a blow, but she can't do it repeatedly unless she heals. That's not the same as 'tanking' a hit. It's more of 'blow trading' And only - only if she's already moving mind you. If she was standing still when that blow hit her, she'd be knocked to kingdom come and probably stunned momentarily. Maybe even killed. This ability does not grant her higher defense or the ability to take more damage.

That's what makes her such a dangerous fighter. Low HP and Defense, incredibly devastating, tireless offense and agility along with her resistance to physical and mental debuffs. Two shots in any part of her body and she'd fall over dead...which is why I have to make it hard for Yasha to hit her. Otherwise...she'd be about as dangerous as a mosquito. One shot if it's a head shot, and she doesn't have a max stack of Bloodlust.




I said, if you wanted me too, I would make a rewrite detailing more of the damage done. Yasha still wouldn't be able to tell any amount of Damage done to Senna though. Maybe blood leaking from her armor - but with the amount of damage she's done it'd be impossible to tell if it was hers or someone else's, and with her perks she still wouldn't physically react.

Which is why I told you OOCly that Senna basically has 1HP left - because it wouldn't be obvious that she's hurt ICly.

So do you want me to do a rewrite? Or do you have another suggestion?

I suppose I could just have Senna flee the city as well, since she's no longer 100% rage-addled at the moment.
@13org

I'm unsure what exactly the problem here is.

I understand your point, don't worry. You're by no way being hostile.

But the point is: its impossible to know that she took quite a lot of damage. In your post, the sensation it passed was literally that she shrugged off that attack without any complication. There is no additional info saying "oh, I took some damage" or something like that.


That's the entire point? Yasha isn't supposed to know how much damage she did, and she did more or less shrug it off without complication. At least, that's how it will look. But she did take damage.

You see? You don't mention the fact that she actually took damage or anything. She literally shrugged off a glass cannon's most powerful spell without even falling down, without even feeling anything at all.

In your CS, the weakness section says: "The most obvious weakness of Senna's is the incredible lack of defense. Oh, certainly thanks to her class she has a massive pool of health compared to most other classes, but with armor reduction equivalent to light armor she takes the full brunt of any sort of damage dealt."

But... she literally took a magical nuke to the face without even flinching...


Again, Senna doesn't flinch. Senna was moving/attacking something when the spell hit, meaning it couldn't have thrown her off course - normally. She did feel something. She felt a lot of something. I just didn't think it needed to spend a paragraph detailing that since it wouldn't really add much. Think about it like 'Hyper Armor' from Dark Souls 3 or Bloodborne.

Admittedly - thinking about it, I may have flubbed that a little bit since I think the Living Artillery spell would be powerful enough to at least cause her to have to change trajectory or something, but the end result would mostly stay the same.

But again, I didn't mention she took massive damage of any kind because it wouldn't be visible to Yasha.

I ask once more: What would Yasha be able to do? She just fired her strongest spell, and NOTHING happened. I can't simply fire it twice because it would be overpowered and ridiculous, since it is supposed to be a spell with a long casting time. Other bullets, no matter what I do, simply don't affect Senna.

pretty much negated Yasha's shots. And they're not puny shots... Yasha is made to be a glass cannon. And I mean a REAL glass cannon. Touch her, and she will shatter into a million pieces

The way I see, Senna is both an unkillable tank and a fast and agile assassin.


I mean, I don't understand why you say nothing happened or you say she's a tank. Something did happen, again - I just didn't advertise her injuries since she's not advertising them in an obvious way. I repeat, that if Yasha got two-three of her bullets to hit Senna, then she'd be dead. And I'm not talking about stunned/KO'ed. Dead. As in gone. Afterlife. A tank wouldn't be able to do that.

You don't have to fire the spell twice. Just have fired another lower-powered shot and Senna would have been dead. She wouldn't have been able to see it coming in any way shape form or fashion, especially if it was masked by the explosion or immediately followed up by it.

As for the amulet - if it was capable of stopping those bullets, then it would have disintegrated before it got to Senna - which it didn't because one grazed her side. They were too strong, and thus if they hit her, would have shaved off at least half of her HP. Other bullets would work if they hit - that's the thing - they have to hit. Have you tried a barrage fire instead of sniping? Just like, unloading a stream of bullets. That would be extremely effective against Senna. The reason sniping and slow firing isn't particularly effective is because all she has to do is just stay moving, or contort her body in an unexpected or unnatural way to avoid it.

Essentially, Senna is supposed to be the embodiment of an 'unstoppable force'. She is far from an unkillable tank if someone can land a few decent hits on her - she just doesn't stop moving or attacking. No matter what, because if she did, then she'd be dead because of how much of a weak easy target she is.

I mean, I didn't mean to literally one shot Senna. Since she has her amulet, I thought that it would be enough to save her from death, but not without temporarily incapacitating her.


I think you may be overestimating the power of that amulet. It's not that strong - against other blood magic it would be much more effective, but I the only time I wrote it affecting Yasha's magic was when she did that 'Area of Denial' thing with the holy magic. And even then it affected her. Just made her a bit uncomfortable as you said it probably would.

Lemme put it like this - if Senna hadn't had stacks of her 'Bloodlust' perk, that attack would have killed her. Which is why I noted in the post

She landed on top of The ramparts in a rather graceful manner as the rage she was feeling started to subside, if only slightly. Only enough for her to quell the unthinking rage.





I'm...not really sure what more I could say here. It seems we just disagree on how much I need to write about the damage Senna took? As well as the overall understanding of her abilities and how they work? I mean, I can write a few more paragraphs or little thoughts about it, but Senna isn't going to be making a big deal about any damage she takes - thus making writing about it moot since it wouldn't be visible to Yasha.
@13org
I mean, Senna's far from unkillable and she was hurting after that attack? One more attack and she would have been KO'ed pretty badly.

Senna is a glass cannon too, and I built her specifically to have some of the weakest natural defense in game. She's just built her skills around being able to be less squishy to make up for it. The armor, for example, which didn't even stop Selena's normal attack (and Selena isn't even a melee character), and amulet which reduced the effectiveness of magic by a small bit - enough to ward against lower level magic but was basically useless against that artillery spell.

Keep in mind senna literally can't be crippled thanks to her 'Tireless Rage' skill, which means she can fight and move at full effectiveness despite any damage to her body, as well as any physical ailments. Its really just a skill specifically built to mask how much damage she's taken unless somebody has some sort of analyzing ability. A scare and intimidation tactic since someone seeing someone taking a nuke to the face and seemingly being able to shrug it off would cause a pretty huge effect on morale.

As I said, that attack did some pretty heavy damage to Senna. She's just not showing it because she literally can just ignore any pain and fight and move at full capacity - and Selena's curses are working. They're just not working as well as she intends because of Senna's resistance to both mental and physical interference. If they weren't working, the Senna wouldn't have been injured by Selena in the first place, nor would she be running to the fort for healing fodder. She'd probably actually have gotten bored and ended up leaving.




If Yasha would have followed it up with another attack (and hit, mind you, since Senna's entire fighting style is built around dodging damage instead of tanking except in cases where she can't dodge) then Senna would have pretty much been dead. Senna can basically take about three hits from any of the PC's and NPC's before dying if she's not able to heal between hits. That's something I've determined from the start of the game to keep things a bit fair.

Yes, senna is a powerful and troublesome opponent, especially if there's weaker lower-leveled people around that she can basically just use as healing fodder, but she's far from unbeatable. Keep in mind that all of our characters are pretty much around the same level, more or less, meaning I don't think there's going to be any one-shotting going on no matter what. That'd just be rather...much. I suppose that's more of something for the GM to decide, though.

I don't think there is anything Yasha can do... Her shots, even coming from a rifle (with a target finding spell) can't hit Sena, it doesn't matter if she conceals her presence before taking the shot.


What exactly do you mean with a 'target finding spell'? You mean heat seeking bullets? I assumed that was a simple spell to track a target and fire an optimal trajectory (correct me if I'm wrong on that) But even so, Senna's both flexible enough and agile enough to avoid it or simply turn Bloodlust into a giant slab of a sword and block it. She has to be, or Senna wouldn't be a threat at all and have already been defeated.



Not trying to be hostile or defensive here, but I feel like I need to explain a few aspects about the character and the skills.
~Tania and Lena~

@drewccapp@Spanner@BurningDaisies@GrafRoy Zeppeli



Well, it seemed like Betram wasn't wise to the trickery by Tania and the coins. She really would have to find a way to repay them later. There was no helping it, but she still felt bad about it. At any rate, they should discuss how they should deal with the fae on the way there. As much as she wanted to stay in the warm lodge, staying there any longer than needed might prove troublesome. So with Tania and the others, she left the lodge following Maohn's advice. Tania was glad to be able to go back to her usual fairy size.

"So...not needed but not untrue." Tania commented.

"...huh?"

"You said the last part was not needed, but not untrue. Soooo, does that mean you are good at those things? I mean, I created you so I know for a-...h-hey, what's with that look?" Lena sighed, giving Tania a small smile. "E-eh? L-lena?" In her other hand was clear glass jar. It seemed like it was a usual part of her inventory for whatever reason. Upon seeing it, Tania immediately froze. "G-gah! N-no! I'm sorry! Not the jar! I'll be a good little pixie-gah!" Before she could escape, Lena scooped the fairy up in the jar and put a lid with holes over the jar.

"Lets continue, shall we?" She replied all too cheerfully, tying the jar to her waist before donning her silver helmet.

"Awww..." Tania sniffled from inside the jar, sitting with her arms on her knees and poking the glass floor dejectedly. "Lena hates mmeeeeee..." The trip into the Frostfell would be a cold one, if the advice and directions she got from Maohn meant anything. The maze like paths were not only many, but often difficult to traverse, especially for a heavily armored dullahan with a shield as big as a human. Many paths were often blocked by avalanches or other difficult to travel terrain. To say travel was going to be difficult - even along the man made trails - was an understatement.

Eventually the group reached the fork in the road, the northeastern trail leading to what looked like tall, windy, peaks in the distance, and the northwest trail seemed to lead to a city of some sort, but the sign was too deteriorated to read it completely.

"So what do you think?" Lena turned to her companions. "Mhm. Maohn said the Fae prefer the windy peaks, so it would likely be easiest to find them there...but the dispute with the Wendigo tribes he mentioned also concerns me somewhat. It would be reckless to involve ourselves in something like that and potentially endanger the village." She paused for a moment before continuing. "If they do prefer the peaks, it would be best to travel towards the glaciers, then, though I suppose we could also chance the less seldom traveled road here. Either road will...not exactly be the easiest to travel."

Tania was mostly still pouting inside of the jar, dejectedly doodling in the air with her illusion magic.

~Senna~

@Hammerman@13org@BurningDaisies



Before she could do much else, Selena leaped for the knife she had lost. Not that Senna tried to stop her no - it'd be much more entertaining to see what she could do with it instead of depriving her of it. She was confident Selena couldn't majorly harm her in any way. She could easily just regenerate whatever damage was done to her easily enough, so long as she had enough blood to do so. So when Selena pulled a near 180 after leaping for the dagger, It struck her flesh again, her reaction time still somewhat dulled, the knife impaling the back of her hand.

Unfortunately for Selena, any purely physical ailments - even if they were induced by curses - wouldn't exactly work so well on her. It was more accurate to say she could still feel them, and they were there, but they simply didn't effect her. Or rather, she could ignore any negative effects brought on by physical debuffs that directly related to her ability to fight. Even the more mentally aligned effects would fall in effectiveness up by at least half - it was a skill designed to ensure one could fight up to full effectiveness no matter what the circumstances.

"WITNESS TRUE POWER! PERISH UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE DARKMOON!"

Heh.

She heard Yasha before she cast her spell. Fool, if you wanted to sneak attack someone you don't shout it to the heavens. As she fired the spell, she didn't even make a move to dodge it. Hubris? No, she just wanted to taste what the spell could do to her for future reference. Even if it did enough damage to kill her, it wouldn't. Even so, it'd be foolish to try and take the full force of the impact. Besides, now that both of her targets were out of reach - in her rage addled state she defaulted to the next nearest group of victims. She didn't care for foes she couldn't reach at the moment. All Yasha was doing was just pissing her off more. Besides, she was going to take damage from this, no doubt about it. She needed fresh blood.

So she bolted, leaping to the roof of one of the nearby buildings, the curses Selena used only slowing her down a marginal amount. She leaped from one roof to another as the shell came whistling through the air towards the area. As fast as Senna naturally was, it would have been difficult for even a trained marksman to hit her with any degree of accuracy, but she supposed if you didn't need accuracy that wasn't much of an issue, was it?

She was almost at the ramparts of the castle now.

And then there was an explosion of pure, magical energy slamming into the ground, a much more powerful explosion than she had expected - but nothing she couldn't handle. If Yasha was expected screams, no, all she'd hear was laughter as the explosion leveled the entire area. Senna seemed to almost ignore it entirely as even the blast from the explosion didn't seem to stun, knock her off her feet, or even hinder her speed. She could feel the blast of magic burning her back - her tail might have gotten a little singed, almost. The building she was standing on crumbled under the explosion, sending pieces of it flying in every direction.

Even so, as spectacular as it was, it lasted only a moment, and when it was done, there was nothing more than a large crater where there was once buildings and people.

And Senna? She was at the ramparts to the fort, now. She leaped from the flying piece of rubble, powerful inhuman muscles launching her further and higher than humanly possible. She landed on top of The ramparts in a rather graceful manner as the rage she was feeling started to subside, if only slightly. Only enough for her to quell the unthinking rage.

She sheathed Bloodlust before turning and facing Yasha.

"You're...going to have to try a little harder than that, Yasha!" She laughed. "It's like your not even trying! You're not going to please a lady by just half-assing it, you know!" Before Yasha could properly reply, Senna turned to face a group of soldiers that had been both stunned by the explosion and sudden appearance of a demon in front of them. Before they had time to recover, Senna dashed towards them, tearing into them with only her fists in an impressive display of both acrobatics and agility. Any damage she had taken from the blast, was quickly being replenished as she made her way down towards the main part of the fort, intent on further slaughter.
Alright, I'll have a post up tomorrow most likely~

@13org
Nope, everything looks good! It's not gonna kill her, but she'll definitely be more than a little injured from it~

EDIT:

Alright, a post. Just to be clear - the blast did considerable damage to Senna, its just that there's a lot of juicy cannon fodder around so she did the smart thing and decide to kill them instead of fighting someone she can't easily get to in order to restore her HP.

And yes.
Tania now has a time-out jar~
Isilfarrel Mornelis

@MadManMoon



A familiar? And something that looked like some sort of reanimated bone spider. Isil's first reaction was one of curiosity. She reached a hand out, giving it a curious look as she pat it on the top of its head. It certainly wasn't an ordinary familiar, that was for certain.

"Oh my, isn't he a curious thing?" She chuckled. "Well, I'm not afraid of a simple spider. I'm more curious as to how exactly you've made him." She gave him a friendly smile before returning to the previous subject of her chosen school. She'd even let the spider crawl on her a bit, if it so desired.

"I can understand the headmistress' concerns, if that is indeed her reasoning." She replied with a sigh as she continued. "But, really, destruction magic is hardly so brutish as you make it out to be. Certainly, its not the most kindest of magics and it is a field of magic best used offensively, decisively, and directly as you say, but I see it as something a bit different." She placed a hand on her chin, thinking for a moment on the best way to phrase it. Whatever she said, it wasn't going to be a popular opinion for a High Elf no matter what, was it?

"I understand that healing arts are valuable, but often they can not solve all problems. Think of destruction magic as you would a sword or other weapon physical weapon. Instead of seeing them as bad, think of them as a tool to be used in defense of oneself and ones friends. If used responsibly, like any magic, destruction magic can be much better at protecting oneself than healing arts." She paused, shifting a bit uncomfortably. "Of course...that's...not really a popular opinion for a high elf to have, is it?" She laughed, sheepishly.
@deathbringer

Aha, whoops~

This is why writing at one in the morning isn't a good idea. You miss stuff in proofreading~

There is suppose to be one, yes, but I'll get to that ICly, most likely.

And mostly, I just like the name Elizabeth so....Lisette became her name~
What is the time for women to take bath or shower? @Rune_Alchemist


I am unsure? Probably just write your character going whenever, I'm sure it'll be fine as long as you write it just going before classes and whatnot, though you could probably ask Spirit for better clarification.

I'll be getting a post up today.
@deathbringer

Yep, added a blurb about Yvette acting as her guardian for the event.

And yes, I think Richelieu was the name of a character in the Three Musketeers. An antagonist, I think? Could be wrong. Never read the book myself, I just like the name xD




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