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Current I think watching fight scenes can help in general terms with writing combat, since it can give you an idea of flow and choreography.
4 yrs ago
At least if you're writing something you know, with knights.
4 yrs ago
I mean, depends on what you're writing, and the tone and theme of what you're writing. Trained armored knights were legitimately monstrous on the battlefield, so looking up how they fought helps.
4 yrs ago
As much as there's a lot of reasons twitter sucks, I genuinely don't want to see it die for the sake of all the artists who now rely on it. Hoping the shithead stops trying to directly administrate.
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roleplayerguild.com/posts/5… If anyone's up for fighting some kaiju, why not try out my new RP, Godzilla: YATAGARUSU?

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Yukimura Kirika, Somewhat Freaked Out Beastkin


She didn't exactly get what was going on at this point. The older girl's Japanese was so broken it was hard to understand. When the wolves appeared, Kirika hesitated only slightly before stepping forward. Sure, this was... real now, but if it was like the game she could take them! ... And before she could, the other girl rather violently killing them all. That was... unexpected... and gross and kind of freaky. Kirika stared blanky at the rather gory remains of the wolves, shifting her her feet and clutching her staff. The girl said... something else kind of broken again.

"... Er... o-okay..." she said, finally, guessing she meant to go somewhere else that had less enemies. What did that mean exactly? After a few moments, something dawned on Kirika. What if her big sister wanted to find her? Maybe, if the other girl was trying to take her somewhere, it would be somewhere that her big sister could find her more easily! Trusting strangers was bad usually, but this situation was quite a bit different than usual.

"Habu tu... rouku onee-chan!!" she said, hoping it came across correctly. That would mean that the other girl could help her find a place Fujiko could get to her too!




Yukimura Fujiko, Still Pretty Angry


The pink-haired girl reminded her of a few important facts. Chief among them was there was no real way for Kirika to get here on her own. At least, provided this was still like a game, which it... seemed to be if there was some kind of menu you could contact people through just like in the game, and if everyone still had levels. She folded her arms when she heard the bigger guy chuckled, giving him a rather intense glare. Hurting a player who was several times your level be too far off hurting a boss that was several times your level, right...? But she choked back her anger, barely. This wasn't the time for that kind of thing. Not at all.

"I'm going then," she said, flatly, rounding towards the door. She didn't exactly know what the big guy was doing now, but if he wanted to come and stopped acting like an absolute ass then maybe it'd be fine. "I showed her those spots, so if she's still there I can find her."
Kudou Chie


Getting a place together... wow, that was something Chie had never thought about before, she had to be honest. But it was true. Yuri relied on her abilities a lot more then the average Tuner did. She did know that the school tended to strongly push for graduates to live near one another. After all, the bond forged in the Academy was intended to be something lifelong. It was built to give them someone they trusted and knew well to be an outlet for their abilities, in a Receiver's case, or who allows them to use their abilities, in a Tuner's case. But this time... well, Chie was the reason Yuri had arms.

"... I guess I never thought about that before," she said, mostly to herself. After a few minutes of idle silence, Chie realized that there was another matter at hand. Leaning forward, one finger prodded Yuri's cheek.

"Don't go falling asleep on me. We still have things to do today."
So, um, since this seems to be more "serious plots, not grimdark, but over the top stuff happens and nothing gets gritty and stupid" I am interested and have an idea.
As soon as everyone gets a good post in I'll reply again.
Well, I always like the idea of mana being something internal. Everyone has an internal ability to channel and use mana, to varying levels of power and capability. However, some people are better at it than others, some people are better at different areas than other, and all that.

This also leads into... well, do we want magic to be known for a while but not how to combine it with technology until it got used for space travel, or do we want it to be a recent discovery? Having it be an internal thing could probably work with either.
Yukimura Kirika, Extremely Confused Beastkin


"... Eh...?"

All Kirika could do was give a rather blank expression in return. She was certain that had been an attempt at Japanese, but it was so confusing and poorly worded, not to mention the bad pronunciation, that the young girl had absolutely no clue what was attempting to be conveyed. Her ears twitched lightly as she tried to parse just what she had heard from all the gibberish and confusing nonsense. Don't have the ability to be scary...? Kirika never exactly thought of herself as particularly scary, that was for certain. Gripping her staff with both hands, she looked down for a few moments, then looked back up. This girl was trying, so... so she could try to understand!

"I won't be scary!" she said, firmly, before pausing a moment. She should say it in English if she's trying her hardest to understand, right? After all, this girl was trying to speak to her in Japanese, and she clearly didn't know it!

"Ai... notto sukarei!" Kirika declared triumphantly, a confident look of success upon her face.




Yukimura Fujiko


To say that Fujiko was angry when someone suddenly picked her up and placed her at the bar was an understatement. The brown-haired girl was absolutely furious, silent with disbelieving rage. Who the hell would think that was a good idea? When she was sat at the bar, she had a good chance to see what his level was. That high? No, she didn't care. He was interfering with her trying to get to her sister. When the bartender, who now seemed to be a real and rather surprised person instead of an NPC, brought a tanker of some kind of alcoholic drink over to her, she proceeded to swat it to the ground.

In fact, the only thing that stopped Fujiko from letting loose was when the pink-haired girl spoke to her, in Japanese, telling her the man in armor didn't understand(indirectly) and how to contact her little sister. For a moment, relief soared through her heart, and then was promptly crushed.

"... That would be great," she replied, rising to her feet once more, "If I hadn't had her turn off her notifications to avoid some bastard bullying younger players until the mods or me could lay into him."

Fujiko jerked a thumb towards the man.

"If this asshole touches me again, I don't give a damn what his level his, I'm going to find some way to hurt him," she added. To be honest, she didn't know how that would work, but hey, there were places you could stab someone that wouldn't kill them, right? Regardless, her reactions were quite a bit harsher due to her concern for her little sister. "Now screw that, have you seen a little white-haired beastkin girl? Dog type, mage, she has one of the bladed staffs and the beginner mage gear!"
"Uwaah..."

Rather dramatically, as Dai Xin questioned her, Torako began to sway slightly on her feet, her head lolling back and fourth s if she truly had been somehow mentally impacted by the speed and number of his questions. To be honest, she didn't know most of these things. While she certainly knew about the barehanded martial arts to some extent, she did not possess all the knowledge that he was asking of her. She almost did feel rather unbalanced by the sheer number of intent questions about a subject she did not have all the answers for being thrown at her. Theatrically, Torako shook her head.

"I said I had basic knowledge, I don't know all that!" she said, desperately, waving her arms in a rather frantic fashion, causing the sleeves of her kimono to flap rather like wings. However, she swiftly noticed that the other two had arrived.

"Oh, Kyang-dono and Liu-dono have come to rescue me, let's go!"
Er, well... given what you described there sounds a lot like any one much more mundane philisophical sci-fi series... which are not necessarily bad but not what seems to be the popular direction in this thread, um... That's why I see it.

There's no point in involving magic if you're not going to go all-out and actually let it be magic. Besides, didn't you say you wanted conflict? While philosophical stuff is interesting, sustaining an entire RP, especially one with so many different people planning it, solely on that would be difficult if not impossible.

Besides, who said magic was sudden? It could have been here the whole time. Certainly long enough to establish space colonies and a great deal of technology around it.

On top of that, explaining weaponry is a good way to give an idea of the kind of magic/technology in-setting.
I'll probably be posting tomorrow, but it might be tonight.
@TalijaKey: I really like the idea of using non-lethal magitech in an arena-style thing.

As for weaponry and stuff, well... it's magic hybridized with technology. For say, the swords, I was thinking... having a melee weapon that you can use magic to go from anti-person size to anti-spaceship size seems pretty useful in a military application.

Then there's stuff like, I don't know, aerial combat magi and stuff who can fly and shoot lasers from their staffs, there's so many things you can do using magitech since you don't have to ground it the same way as if you're trying to do pure-sci-fi(unless you're doing extremely soft sci-fi).

But we're not doing sci-fi, it's a magitech space opera, so we had a whole ton of room. Like magitech robots like you mentioned.
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