WilsonTurner

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And if he'll never use the power, why does he have it? And why is he taking those classes if he's already a master? You character literally has no reason to be there- he's already supermaster, after all.

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KatherinWinter said
Eddi tends to have characters that are bigger than life but I have never seen him take advantage of that. I admit I allow him more leeway then I would someone I didn't know. I will say that I'm sorry you feel you can't join us because you disagree with his one character is played. You have a valid point about his personality not matching his background. But I'm sure there is a reason for that.

Oh one can make a reason for anything, that's why I think it's so damn unfair to have an overpowered character without real restriction and/or flaws. You could kill someone instantly, if you want to. It doesn't matter if he will or not- he can do it, and that's the problem.

I see what you mean, but that's another thing- very similar to playing favorites. Grammar Nazis and being staff on Minecraft servers have taught me how to write properly and to be fair. It's a shame that others don't see fairness as needed as I do.

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duck55223 said
Apparently someone ignored the whole Faust going from peace and love to Tyranny and Chaos. There is a actual legit reason this time.And I wouldn't invade, simply put it I send a ship in with a warp drive, without the whole preventing the particles from colliding with the system and causing a chain reaction to destroy the entire thing.

Oh, well I suppose that's true. Now you're just embracing it.

And don't you remember Duck? You do something asshole like that, you'll probably get banned, cause there ain't no way I'll give consent to cheat and blow up my race.

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duck55223 said
I am just going to use the threat of having your sol system destroyed, I would not actually do that.

Even with a thousand ships, you'd take more casualties than within reasonable acceptable casualties. If you continued to persue the destruction of the Valkian home system, then you would truly be a stupid roleplayer, to take heavy losses against a race that is, by the actions happening so far, are simply abiding by a general rule in terms of territory. Don't go into someone else's and start shooting and smoking out the natives. The Valkians may fall, but the ratio of Valkian military units dead to EU military units dead would be a very large ratio.

The Eternal Union is looking more and more like a military empire, not a magical union of peace-loving and prosperous peoples. Are you seriously going to keep going that direction, like all the reboots of the same thing as before? But, ah, well, it's what you're familiar with. Just go ahead and rewrite the application- military empire under the pretense of a peacelover people.

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My response

Your character turned himself into pure energy and back, traversing a short distance, without any sign of being winded or having any kind of negative affect on the mana pool. If I had a lightning character, and I do, in other roleplays, the only thing he'd have is bursts of lightning, and if its powerful enough chain lightning. Lightning does not mean railguns, or plasma. It means bursts of high amounts of static electricity. And, to say that just because he was immersed in it doesn't mean he can just know how- you need to really train. You need to put practice to theory and test it. If he's just out on his own, the he might have practice, but he won't be able to read any theories or test it.

Considering my character was purposely aged, well over 60, though he appears half as young, so that he DOES have a realistic reason as to why he is better, and why he can criticize, then yes, he would've figured out to enchant his weapons to remain unaffected by magic, or at least, less powerful magic. He would've figured out to protect himself- a man who has the resources to take magical properties and imbue them into items is a wasted tool if you don't use it to the maximum extent- and a survivalist would do so as much as possible. Some things are harder to enchants, others are easier. For example, gold would be the easiest to enchant- it's a pure solid valuable metal. Leather or wood would be much harder.

First, you gave yourself powers that could instant kill others. How fair is that? You're reckless- you might just start a battle by launching a ball at Mach 22 and vaporize them. How the hell is that balanced at all? You just knew about how railguns worked in the midst of half-demons, yeah?

Having potential is different from knowing how to put it. We're all roleplaying, but a teenager that's a master at swordsmanship and lightning of any form, even the type that doesn't make sense?

He's an OP character regardless. The kind of characters that I make like that are dragons, whom I usually sit out of the roleplay, or pit all the other trained, 25+ aged, well-armed characters against, usually by stating weaknesses before. Your characters knows how to do these things without any official training- you said yourself that he was just an outcast, and he messed with it. I've played thousands of hours of games, and am I an absolute pro? No. Not even close.

And tell me this:
If he has already mastered his area of magic, and mastered his swordsmanship, then should he not be busy actually adventuring? And an outcast would hardly be so social as to run right up to someone, grab their arm and start laughing and talking along with them. Your unreasonably powerful character's personality doesn't make sense, some of his abilities don't make sense, and I doubt you have that many restrictions on what he actually can do.

I suspect that if he did get in a fight with Andrej, you'd just end it by saying "railgun goes pow" and say he's dead. And a throwing axe isn't an instant kill unless it hits a critical spot. When a mage is so assured of their own power, and more besides, they'll expect their power to do what they might not want to. When a throwing axe, which isn't plasma bolts fired from enemies in Ratchet & Clank, is thrown, it isn't thrown very slowly, like a frisbee. You'll have one chance to deflect it or dodge. If you try to deflect it and find that there is an enchantment on it to go through magical shields, then yeah, you're probably screwed.

Concerning his nullification abilities
My character is made to be able to defend and eliminate physical and magical threats because of his enchantments- over the years, he puts his energy into enchantments designed for different things. His overcoat- absorb magical attacks, keep the wearer at just the right temperature. Gloves- better grip on anything he's holding. Hunting knife- sharper edge, harder to break. Same with the throwing axe, except with the absorb magical energy. Other enchantments will be present. For example, if meat were to be pressed against one of his pans, it would automatically start cooking as if there were a fire under it. When you take two odd, silver prongs, and touch both tips to something, it'll try and light it on fire- for cooking fires and the like. A broken crystal necklace that used to provide the ability of teleportation, should he have a mental image clear enough. He hadn't put enough energy into it [it'd consume great amounts, and he hadn't yet fully refilled] so when he used it to escape, it shattered and he got partway across, which is why he might be in the roleplay.

The reason why I'm angry is because you're making a prodigy adventurer with a personality that doesn't reflect his upbringing with powers that are a bit more developed than they should be, and powers that don't even really match his area of expertise. "Railgun"? Really?

If Andrej were to stick around and possibly teach, he'd start off by demonstrating enchanting, and how it can be very versatile. It's a lengthy skill- powerful enchantments must start smaller, and you must know everything about the properties and how you want it to work before putting it into an enchantment- a very long, time-consuming process that can result in dangerous or null results if done improperly. Firing lightning bolts would be even trickier, because you'd have to concentrate on summoning it, focusing it, keeping it from slipping away or dissipating, and then directing it where you want it.

And do know that the semicolon, " ; ", is used as a replacement for "And" in some cases, not as a colon. A semicolon and colon is used as such: "He had a variety of things: a toothbrush; a towel; a gun; a briefcase, among others."

My actual response

I'm withdrawing my application- someone who justifies an active overpowered character that has advanced unreasonably quickly with a personality is not a person I'd like to roleplay with.

Sorry. I was looking forward to roleplaying, but this kind of thing spoils it for me.

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And now I think your character is overpowered, and in need of a great deal of power-blocking.

At the age of 19, a master in lightning and magnetic fields and in the art of the sword goes to a school to learn how to be an adventurer. I think not. To become a 'master' in a SINGLE area, you'd have to train for years and year and years, not just train from when you're perhaps ten or twelve, and then by age 19, you master pretty much everything you need.

Come on. A teenager being a master at swordsmanship and a very extensive variety of magical tricks?

You fight Andrej, your St Elmo's fire will dissipate once it nears him. He'll throw a throwing axe, and you'll just try to deflect it with lightning or some other impossible thing. The throwing axe, enchanted to not be affected by magic, will then impact your head, and you're dead.

Converting oneself into an energy form and then reforming somewhere else isn't a novice skill. Hell, I hadn't even heard of anyone else doing it, honestly. And there is a difference between have control over something, and being able to turn themselves into it.

Teenagers are not masters at anything unless they are a literal and bona-fide prodigy, which I read not, and even then, a prodigy simply has a great deal of raw potential and a great deal of natural skill, not instant mastery.

I didn't look over the applications at first- just went through to match name and appearance. But now that I read them, then, well, this roleplay is a bit less appetizing with that kind of character. Really young, really powerful, really smart.

Mastery of less tricky things such as fire, or water, are much easier. But energy, and therefore lightning, is far harder, because it's there for a moment, and gone the next, every time. It's spontaneous, it's tricky, it'll slip between your fingers without the perfect concentration, and you can do all this so easily you're not even thinking about it... and your character is nineteen.

I love magic and all that fantasy stuff, and I can understand powerful characters, but I AM a realist- I will NEVER be a really powerful mage without giving the character pre-roleplay time to actually master it. It's not fair, it's not reasonable. If that's how even one of the characters will be, then I would like to withdraw my application right now. I'm in roleplays for a real story- not to use be like Master Chief-strength ten year old in a field of Unggoy, I think they're called.

/end very minor rant of me not liking OP/PG

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Isotope said
On that note, am I accepted or denied?

Sorry, no idea.

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And keep in mind that unless the Adventurer's Academy is really lax, it's unlikely that a boy and a girl will room together.

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eddieddi said
Really? all he has seen is lightning teleport! If thats all he thinks he can do he's in for one hell of a surprise, anyone heard of Saint elmo's fire?

Lightning teleport, which I have never heard of and neither has my character. And anyways, all it does is give away the extent of your power, if you can use electricity to move you from one place to another with no effort at all.

Coming against an aged survivalist like Andrej would not fair well for any, including mages, powerful or no. Beware the enchanter, for he can use any power binded to any item, given enough time, energy, and knowledge. Andrej will have the time and energy, and can search for knowledge. If anyone would like to duel my character, as some sort of a who-are-you, prove you know your stuff before you criticize, kind of duel, then do tell. It is unlikely that any teenager will be able to beat this aged enchanter.

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Ah, okay. Wasn't clear in your post, see.