thewizardguy

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A hit. Not surprising, considering the situation. With an injury like that she wouldn't really be a threat. Lazily he occasionally shot bullets at her as she used the tin man for cover. It wasn't a state that could be maintained. Either the tin man was going to end this one, or she'd be forced out of cover and get shot. Either way, this was not going to go well for the knight.

Of course, that was when a sudden ice barrier popped out of nowhere to attempt to separate the knight and the tin man. Looking briefly over Alex spotted another fellow, who was now pointing sword at him. Really? A sword? Whoever this guy was, they certainly valued style over function. In a real fight there was no way you'd even get close enough to use that thing, so him waving it around was a bit of an empty gesture. Unless he was trying to indicate his willingness to open Alex's mail?

Of course, Alex's internal dialogue was interrupted by a sudden explosion, which appeared to originate from the knight. She had mumbled something into an earpiece before suddenly heating up immensely. Pressure differentials created a shockwave, and a blast of hot air caused Alex to be momentarily pushed off balance. Huh. Turned out he'd underestimated the knight girl. She pulled back her arm before moving it rapidly forward, the air around he hand seemingly twist from the heat. Knowing that an attack was obviously coming Alex threw up his right hand, a wall of granite instantly forming between himself and the scary heat-laser. He was rewarded a moment later with a sound similar to thunder and another blast of hot wind, indicating that his intuition had been correct. So not only did she have explodey powers, but she was also able to shoot heat-lasers. Maybe he should have take this a bit more seriously, and shot her in the head instead.

Regardless, he now had a number of issues to deal with. Foremost was the issue that that explosion had probably destroyed anything valuable the knight lady had on her. Which was a pain. Why was he even doing this if there wasn't any gain in it. Sighing at the waste he sent a grenade flying over the wall with a flick of his wrist. It landed softly, bounding off the hard sand, beeping softly. Of course the lady knight wasn't able to move properly, courtesy of that hole in her knee. He'd like to watch her try and hobble out of the blast radius, but that fragmentation grenade was probably going to shred her. Lots of offense and no defence made for a glass cannon. Oh well. Maybe he'd at least manage to get some respect out of this from the locals. Turn it into a story about how he'd intervened to stop the authorities from claiming this little backwater shithole. Not much of a silver lining, but Alex worked with the tools he was given.

Glancing over at the fella with the sword Alex started walking towards him. His outstretched right hand continued to generate more granite wall, separating himself from the fragmentation grenade and wounded laser-knight. "Oi, buddy! You're a frost guy, right? Don't suppose you could rig me up some cooling right about now? I suspect it's about to get really hot over here." There was an almost friendly casual tone to Alex's voice. It didn't sound like the voice of someone who was currently trying to kill someone else.

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With a name like Guilt, maybe she needs to go Church. :3

@Feisty-Pants

@Feisty-Pants

Mhmm. Methinks Archangel and Guilt pray for very different things. Oooh, and isn't Archangel supposed to be an agent of the High Clairvoyant?

Guilt has a bit of a bone to pick with the Clairvoyant.

@thewizardguy

Not that it matters much.

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@Regitnui

I showed up to the scene because I was invited. But whatever.

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@AtomicNut
Fancy ^-^

@Feisty-Pants
After reading your latest post, I now welcome you to the Vigilante Club of people willing to murder others for their own perverted sense of justice. Yay!

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@AtomicNut

Darn, it appears I have been Out-Physics'd.

So then how do you explain the phenomenon whereby a box containing light possesses a greater mass than a box that does not contain light?

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Considering the fact that light constructs are magical, and therefore do not obey the laws of physics, I'm pretty sure we can safely say that they can do whatever they want. That said, we should probably establish some solid rules for them.

I had imagined the light control to be able to

A) create hard forcefields, which are unbreakable as long as Angel keeps applying power. Damage to the forcefield drains Angel's power, and as such enough damage forces her to drop the shield. It's shape can be pretty much anything Angel can imagine, allowing it to become quite sharp. They are moved by a 'telekinetic' force strong enough to exert 1 ton of pressure. Multiple things can be moved at once but this requires extensive concentration, and there is a limit to how many separate constructs Angel can simultaneously control.

B) energy can be gathered and concentrated to form laser beams. These beams are pure light and heat, possessing no mass, and as such damage objects by melting them. They can melt through steel in a matter of seconds, but higher intensity beams cause greater strain on Angel.

Potentially photokinesis could be used to create illusions, but this seems like something Angel wouldn't practise. As such while technically within her capabilities I don't think she'd be very skilled at it.

Just throwing in my 2 cents.

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@AtomicNut

E=MC^2 declares that mass can be measured in energy, but also that the opposite applies. Effectively any particle that possesses energy must also possess mass. Energy in fact can be defined as mass measured in a different unit.

Photons are bent by gravity, but the effect of gravity on a particle is measured based on their mass. If photons truly possessed 0 mass then they would not be affected by gravity. However we know that light is bent by gravity ever since the effect of the sun's gravity well on the light of the stars was measured by Edward Eddington in 1919.

Invariant mass is measured as m = sqrt{E2/c4 - p2/c2} which returns that photons have no mass, and therefore light has no mass. However relativistic mass is defined by velocity.

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@AtomicNut

Having done some more reading you are correct, photos do not have mass. However, they can contribute to the mass of an object.

If you were to create a box lined with mirrors and light were to be reflected constantly back and forth within this box then the mass of the box would increase if light were to be added to it.

Photons possess a nonvariant mass of 0. However, they possess a nonzero relativistic mass.

TLDR: Light is weird.

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Guilt //

@Regitnui

It seemed the Island was not yet satisfied merely with repairing the damage that had been done. Guilt cursed her luck. The High were an even greater nuisance than she had initially suspected.

"You are the most reasonable? That explains a lot." Guilt sneered at the talking wall. She could sense he was right. But a place such as this would not hold her. If necessary she could still burrow her way up to the surface. Of course the Island would no doubt intervene if she did so, and she was unaware of any limits to his powers. "You attacked me outside the church, and very nearly broke my leg. Had I landed, I most likely would have broken a bone. Not that something like you would care. It seems that you have grown so arrogant as to believe you can pass judgement on me." Guilt hissed, as she cast Claire to the depths of her mind.

"I was robbed of a home? The human race was robbed of it's home. Are you so isolated that you do not realize what this world is like outside of your little sanctuary? I saw the world burn, I saw my family torn apart by monsters. I have seen families die slow and painful deaths to supernatural disease, I have seen children ripped limb from limb, I have watched small groups of powerless survivors huddled into a bunker, surviving off of scraps." Guilt's voice rose in anger and sneer. Memories stung her, and her hands shook involuntarily. She could barely keep her entire body from shaking. The pain of seeing those you cared about die, the pain of knowing that there was something you could have done.... it never went away. It was a flame that burned inside of her, devouring her from within. It was a pain that she would carry within her until the end of her days. "This world is burning, it is dying. And yet you would sit here and chastise me? You would offer me a peaceful life? The very peaceful life you chose? The life of a coward?!"

If Guilt had been capable of spitting, she would have. Her hatred was at a boiling point, she was far beyond reason. Some part of her knew that she was practically signing her death warrant here. For all her power she was powerless against the High. A helplessness that only served to infuriate her further. At this point, she didn't care about the consequences. "This world is burning because you are too cowardly to face the flames. You were granted power beyond any other, and you squander it on personal pleasures. My scars are no shame to me, coward. They are what I have sacrificed, what I have given freely, for the sake of others. My body and mind, I will sacrifice both, in order to destroy the world that would take all that it wants. To destroy this world that cares not for the fate of the weak." Guilt gestured wildly, and flames filled the room. It was not a conscious decision, Void merely reacted to her anger. "While you sit here and admonish me I fight for the world you abandoned. I fix the mess you left. If I must bear scars then I will bear them all. If I must suffer then I shall writhe in agony. I will carry the burden of this world, because if not I, then who? Certainly not you."

Out of breath, Guilt gasped. The air in this place was getting thin, and she refilled it with her abilities. Cold air from the northern hemisphere. Looking up she stared at the wall, her eyes barely visible through her visor. "If you wish to kill me, do it. But I will not become like you. If I must die, then I will die standing." That was all she had to say. Trembling slightly, she awaited her judgement, whatever it might be. But until the very end, she refused to show weakness. She refused to give in.

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@AtomicNut
In all technicality Photons do have mass. To call the a massless particle is not entirely correct. After all, momentum can only exist when there is mass, however miniscule.

Have you ever read up on the driving principles behind the Lightsail?