WilsonTurner

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Thank you, for completely skipping over my post when everyone has been responding to everyone's posts.

Someone PM me if a new thread gets put up, please.

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ASTA said
Oh.Duck, that's stupid, and kind of makes me wonder if you're going on the defensive simply because you're not liking the plot you and Darkwolf are running together. If you don't like it, just say you don't and move on to something else. Making up [b]on-the-fly bullshit[b] isn't the correct way of going about this.

So NOW you see.

He's been doing that bolded stuff for ages. Even back when he was 'still inexperienced.'

The Relics (No Plot/Fantasy/Character Driven/Worthy of Skepticism)

If my opinion has any say, I'd like a say.

What Myth is is a Legacy. His father was a Relicuser, and his father before him, and so on, all the way to the Fall of the Old Kingdom or maybe even farther. Picking someone entirely based on their personality and the like means that this would not be so. So maybe something in between? They choose someone special that knows or is a natural at something? That they have or will dedicate their life to a specific skill or mindset? Idk. My story is that Myth wears the same gloves as all his fathers before him, and while it gave him lightning and energy control, it has also extended the health and lifespan of himself and all who bonded with the gloves. Another thing is that when Myth's unnamed father retired to his estate to raise his son, what did he give Myth early in his childhood? The Gauntlets. So when his father retired to train the heir to their Legacy, the gloves, forever bonded, fell off. That is what I have to say.

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ASTA said
You wouldn't need coordinates or even a civilian to find the homeworld of a species. Just fish for the electromagnetic radiation that it's giving off. Such as radio signals. These would be noticeable from truly gargantuan ranges.The quality of the education system is subjective. It should be noted that a vast majority of people in the world only know a small amount of Earth's geography. They might know the major landmasses of the world, but as for the individual cities, states or countries? No.

But educated people know where they are from, no? I believe duck's people are educated, right? He likes those nations with perfect people.

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AlidaMaria said
That sounds rather plausible to me, though you'd have to add that the relic's powers adapt to how the evoker is. For example, if Marcus no longer focuses on surviving, but would return to Da-Hyun to claim his father's old position as a noble, his relic could (for example) provide him with the power to manipulate thoughts or to erase all memories concerning Marcus' past or simply be loved and noticed by all who meet him, idk. This already given fact would mean that the relics poses a conscious of their own to a certain extent. Also, if I'm remembering and summarising this right, The Vocators can work the wat they do, because their members are mentally molded into a certain way, to make sure they react positively to the mask.Thus, basicially rewording Maki's statement, the relics react to persons if they meet a few conditions, they have to have a certain state of mind/ personality/ potential, as well as a larger than average "pool of magic", this pool is heriditarial to a certain extent, which is why the theory of "The blood of the old Kingdom" has come into existence. But every relic reacts differently and slightly adapt its powers to its user. A myth (sorry, I can't help it) could be that the relics weren't ever actually crafted, they came into being somehow, have a mind of their own and try to achieve certain things through the evoker to their choosing. That's why they only choose people with a certain type of character, to make sure they can achieve whatever goal the relic has in mind. I'd suggest that rarely onyone knows/beliefs the theory of the "pools of magic".

I think this. Myth's personality is more in the moment, without as much thought for the future. For example, he essentially stood up in a kingdom that was crawling in Idris believers, and basically said "I'm a relic user and would like to show everyone how much I can do." For him, that would be a chance to show people that he's powerful, but rumors would dilute the truth so that people wouldn't believe it if they didn't see it, and it would possibly make him even MORE of a target. Of course, Myth Dragon would already have a bit of a reputation, as "That foolish guy who began shooting lightning." Really, it's lightning, surely people would notice and later say, "LIGHTNING BOY! WHERE HE GO?"

EDIT: And based on what people said, then the Blademasters would be much more powerful Relic-users than most, since they are a single family that focuses completely on Old Kingdom Relics, and masterful sharp-fights.

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Ellri said
we're just not sure what to vote, Barks.We did fix a bit on the map just now. The primary thing we did was really to expand the river count. Extend the ends so they actually start in the mountains. Add side streams. And add a river down from the inland sea.We're also thinking that maybe changing the pixels to 1x1 km is better than to 2x2km. That makes calculating distances much easier, and it'll be more than large enough for the RP.The image has a red border where we earlier at least imagined the Kalesian Empire covering.The image won't work now, as we're still uploading it on this slow net. But it'll be up soonish.

I have a kingdom idea that would take part of what's in that image. If you want, I can color the area that I was thinking about using, though the stuff I have been thinking on it has been somewhat abused recently; haven't had much time to work on the lore and the like for my Kingdom of Helia idea. It takes up the lower bits of mountains and that valley you have that's between the mountains, and goes up to that bay/sea that pokes into the mainland.

AlidaMaria said
That image is looking good Ellri!Also, I'm really flattered that you put me up as a candidate Bark, but I really don't think that I'm suited as a gm. I won't mind being co-gm, but I'll go all-out with lore if there isn't someone to stop me, sonces it's kind of my hobby. I'll develop into a despotic monarch if I become gm, no doubt xD So whoever gave me that one vote, thank you! But no thank you. Also, I voted.

I voted for you.

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That's a crappy education system, not even knowing where your homeworld is. On a map or otherwise. And no one cares that it's there? No curiosity as to where it is? Or is everyone just so obedient and perfect that they do not question when they are barred from information concerning their origins and history?

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duck55223 said
What are a few unarmered civilians going to do against soldiers with weapons and armor?

Soldiers run out, see their friends and the people they're supposed to protect, and be like "What?"

With your kind of logic, a zombie apocalypse would never work because people would take a shotgun to someone's face rather than try and save them. But people are rarely that smart, even with smart people. 'Course, they're magical, so I suppose they know everything, right? Who cares about the story of the BCU escaping the station with their own lives, after the station falling to an unknown parasite. It's a game, the point is to be able to translate anything instantly and win all the battles, after all. Wait... that's not quite right...

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Wait, so why can duck just say "I beat them," while everyone else has to say "We ran out and shot at nothing, then realized that they were fighting against worms that were crawling up their legs, so they tried attacking them too."

Why couldn't I do that?

"The Explorer closed into optimum firing range and destroyed the first ship. Then it moved to the next ship and blew it up. Then it destroyed the last combating ship before it could escape." ta-da.

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duck55223 said
And no, nobody has bothered to make new simpler maps, and nobody has bothered to learn the location. Most of there people are colonial-born, while they do have pride in Alas Prime, its not the same kind of Pride you seem from patriots or nationalists. And the military infections probably wouldn't know either, thats a job left up to the navigators.

All my people know how to read a map, so that they can steer their escape pods to safety.

But I kept my people from being taken by dark, so I'm okay.