shylarah

Crescent Dagger Camp

@RomanAria Oh, huh, you actually did! But see, they have to check subs to see a shake. I like the ping method. And I'm tempted to use it...

You should probably tell me not to.

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@BlackPanther AHAHA LET'S BREAK FALK'S LANTERNS, SHALL WE? I'd love watching /that/. It'd be hilarious.

@LadyRunic Sini is currently in a trance state, watching Stonehedge through the eyes of a kestral in case of trouble. Physically, I think she's...at a guard station or something. I had it figured out but I can't remember anymore. @.@ Now that Nyx is the only one remaining I can have her end her surveillance, but she's going to want to speak with Nyx when he returns (and I expect that will be in fairly short order, so they can discuss anything that she needs to know to help keep Spring safe, as well as new orders and concerns). She's not going to go anywhere save where he would expect her until after, unless @Prince of Seraphs tells me she would know not to expect him back straightaway.

Max and Lei are in the palace or near it, but precise placement is flexible. This is why I haven't placed them IC yet, so I can put them wherever is most interesting within those parameters.

I too would like to give Prince a chance to post. Hopefully it will be soon. *throws erasers and other small objects at him*

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@LadyRunic Hm, that's not the way I'd set it up for sprites. They rely on very short ranged blinking to get into and out of trouble, and it's a fairly simple skill for them, or at least that was the intention. Not all of them can -- probably 75%, though I might be convinced to lower it to 50. I was going for something similar to an AD&D monster I saw years ago -- I can't remember the exact name, but I'm trying to find it. Basically they use the skill to not be wherever the attack lands, though granted it's not a guarantee. And to get into trouble -- because they're sprites. The idea of using something with such limited range was to allow for a much lower cost.

As for travel by magic, I was under the impression that fey were well-versed in magic, and often very familiar with it. Fey in general that have reasonably strong magic, if teleportation is a common skill, ought to be able to do it without a huge strain. Either it's a common skill or it isn't, and I thought you just said it basically was. I might be misunderstanding, though, as I am in a bit of a fog. Taking salamanders, for example, if they're not particularly strong fey (and they don't seem to be), jumping one hearth to another miles away sounds like it would exhaust them, but it does not. So the same should be true of undines/naiads, and by extension the other elemental equivalent races should have a comparable ability, for balance. Although salamanders don't seem to be fully sentient, so maybe it's just a thing for lesser species? @.@

If you really need to be somewhere in a hurry, it'd be worth teleporting or wind-riding or whatever. It wouldn't be done all the time, but it's a skill worth having. Sini's fairly strong or she wouldn't have been a candidate for Guard Captain.

As for short-range teleportation, sure it takes more energy than walking, but it's also much faster. Running is faster and takes more energy too, so that's a fair exchange. And practice makes it easier and increases endurance. If she's going to use it in battle, Sini would have practiced extensively.

If there are designated portals and landing spots, I think much of the cost of the magic can be waived. That'd be the point of having those gates set up, after all.

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@LadyRunic So...basically it's up to whoever is working with the species if they have the power? Hm. I think I'm going to stick to line-of-sight "flashing" for Sini, if anything, and riding the winds for swift long-distance travel.

Lei can blink, but it's very short range. Most likely several meters at the outside. Sprites use it to get into places they're not supposed to, and out of trouble.

May set up a portal network in Spring for those who know the spell keys or something...I'll have to talk to @Prince of Seraphs about that.

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@Belle hey now, there's a huge difference between you and Arys. You're two different people. O.o

@BlackPanther Teleport? Salamanders can teleport? O.o That's...hm. But he's not a salamander, he's seasonborn. @LadyRunic, do you want most fey to be able to do long-range teleportation on their own? I could see maybe line-of-sight stuff, or if there's prepared spell circles set up as landing pads, so to speak. Long range teleportation at will and unrestricted is a very powerful ability. Two other rules did just up and vanish, but I assumed it was more a matter of shifting back through the portal, or possibly something short-range. ...Well, that or a landing circle, though the ability to use those from anywhere makes it hard to kill someone that can just jump away to one of those. Perhaps in battle there's a spell to keep those in serious danger from 'porting away from the field, though they can pop around within it....*thinking* I'm asking this mostly to figure out what Sini (and Lei) can do, as well as blank faces I use for story purposes. I've toyed with line-of-sight stuff, but I forget what, if anything, I decided on the matter.

I could see salamanders travelling long-range from one fire to another, perhaps. Water-elementals like undines and naiads might be able to jump from one body of water to another. It gets trickier for the air and earth ones, but I think flying on the wind is close enough for air, and earth ones could just move through the ground without need of making a tunnel. Not instant, but it'd be faster than conventional flight/burrowing/running.

Also Falk, you're just playing everyone. Jerk. *rolls* I WANNA BE ABLE TO PLAY, CURSE IT! But Max has no reason to be where Grexx is, and Lei is necessarily with him. Besides, I'd rather Sini come to the rescue.

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@LadyRunic I have neither desire to play pokemon go nor smartphone to play it on if I did so desire. *hugs*

@BlackPanther OI think Runic means he's having a mural of Arys done.

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@LadyRunic no I mean, what is a chick mural?

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Sometimes I wish I could just do what I want but my characters keep changing things to suit themselves...

Max: Yeah, well, you deserve it, considering what you do to us.

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@LadyRunic Chick...mural? What?

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@Belle Feoras needs to show his clever side because right now I've yet to see it. And I know it's in there somewhere.