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The Missing Sorceress (TS discussion topic) Anyone up for a new TS?

#126 Selax

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 12:12 AM

I might be able to later; actually, I downloaded the ACE editor to create a character strong enough to do the Strongholds (without having to level up or do a lot of quests such) to aid me in the TS, but I haven't gotten around to doing it...

EDIT: Hmm, I don't think that Rapierian will be joining the group outside: he'll remain hiding inside.

On the subject of camping, I'm okay with the idea (the camp posts are fun and a good place to develop characters), but I seem to recall that the reason that they were cut out of RE and YD (and perhaps even WH) is the fact that half of the TS time was being spent just reaching the quest area and TSs were becoming lots of little short posts that didn't move the story forward. (That and YD simply would've taken too long if all of the traveling were included and Omen's Return, a similar TS, cut it out, so...) I think that this was with more recent TSs when participation was more of a problem; I'm not certain about the older TSs?

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 12:16 AM

Can you post a link to the editor? Google turned up too many different possibilities.

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#128 Selax

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 12:42 AM

This should be it.

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 03:59 AM

Am I being greedy if I want to introduce a new character to the TS? (Well, two new characters.) It would work better than introducing them to the Tavern. I would have to introduce said characters before the group gets into the stronghold, preferably 'tonight'.
Keeping in mind that I already have three characters in the TS already...

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 04:21 AM

If you think you can handle it, go for it. Speaking from experience, though, you should be careful about overweighting a TS, and yourself. I had to have a big long debate with myself before bringing along the three that I did, this time.

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 04:29 AM

I think I can. But she won't do much, and might even be a hindrance. In any case, her cuteness rivals Retsy's.

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 04:40 AM

Sounds like fun. Which is the main thing, really.

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 04:45 AM

Ok. She's going in! Just as soon as I find Ragnar0k's creature thread...

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 04:49 AM

In Character Info, I think.

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 05:38 AM

I'm an idiot, what am I? I was looking in the Cytheran Praise topic!
Up and running, if she needs to go I can have a bug suddenly appear in the camp or something.

#136 Jehezekel

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 07:26 AM

CrazyChick, here are my thoughts on your new character:

Pros:
Enna is about twice as tall as Silver. (I'm not sure why that's a pro, but there you have it!)
Retsy can now be shown that she's obviously not a sorceress. (hopefully)

Cons:
How did Enna manage to learn the human tongue of Cythera?[ed]I'm going to assume that it's psychoverbal communication. : D[/ed]
Lack of self control in using powerful magic is not cute. : (

[EDIT]This should probably be taken as Silver's point of view, in which magic is troublesome at best, and searingly painful in general.[/EDIT]

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#137 Ragnar0k

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 11:04 AM

As far as how she learned to speak we can just assume it was the magic. You have to remember that this is a story, if we were going for realism then, by rights, Rythan should not know the language spoken in Cythera either.

Lack of magic control can range from cute (every disney movie ever) to horrifying (Akira anyone). That just depends on how CC writes it, and I believe she is going for cute.

Anyway CC I thought the post was great, I was trying to figure out how to bring some of my creatures to the TS (and whether I should) but you've done that for me, and done it well.

Some of you may be starting to wonder about Rythan so I'll start my next post. I have torn myself between wanting to be realistic and wanting to get back before camp is over. *shrug* I'll figure it out.

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Posted 05 February 2007 - 05:11 PM

OK, done for now.

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#139 Selax

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 01:43 AM

Jehezekel, on Feb 5 2007, 06:26 AM, said:

Retsy can now be shown that she's obviously not a sorceress. (hopefully)

How would that be a good thing? Personally, I think it's funny plot device.

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 02:07 AM

Jehezekel, on Feb 6 2007, 01:26 AM, said:

How did Enna manage to learn the human tongue of Cythera? I'm going to assume that it's psychoverbal communication. : D

Side effect of magical earthing.

Jehezekel, on Feb 6 2007, 01:26 AM, said:

Lack of self control in using powerful magic is not cute. : (

Actually, it can be. I'm going to write it cute. And the effects are more funny than dangerous, most of the time.
It also happens only when she is stressed or upset, and the effects vary as to who she thinks is causing her to be stressed/upset. Say for instance a skeleton was trying to kill her, it would probably get knocked backwards or turned into something harmless, whereas a bug would quickly become a large crater. Also, as she gets older, her self-control increases, so there is less chance of magical happenings.

#141 Selax

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Posted 07 February 2007 - 07:43 PM

I think that I'm going to go ahead and bring Selax into the story. (If anyone has been reading the Tavern, they might have noticed that he has been working on tracking parts of the artifact.)

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#142 Jehezekel

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Posted 09 February 2007 - 09:20 AM

CrazyChick, on Feb 6 2007, 01:07 AM, said:

Side effect of magical earthing.
Actually, it can be. I'm going to write it cute. And the effects are more funny than dangerous, most of the time.
It also happens only when she is stressed or upset, and the effects vary as to who she thinks is causing her to be stressed/upset. Say for instance a skeleton was trying to kill her, it would probably get knocked backwards or turned into something harmless, whereas a bug would quickly become a large crater. Also, as she gets older, her self-control increases, so there is less chance of magical happenings.

Enna is not skilled at consciously controlling her magic, but on the sub-conscious level she is quite powerful. Hence, apparently random effects.
Thanks, I think I understand better now.

Selax, on Feb 7 2007, 06:43 PM, said:

I think that I'm going to go ahead and bring Selax into the story.

heehee, tell me if I did this wrong... [EDIT]I guess I did![/EDIT]

This post has been edited by Jehezekel: 09 February 2007 - 12:40 PM

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#143 Selax

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Posted 09 February 2007 - 12:26 PM

Jehezekel, on Feb 9 2007, 08:20 AM, said:

heehee, tell me if I did this wrong...

Well, he's not arriving yet; he only just set out. I was thinking he'd show up after the group had already re-entered the stronghold and gotten embroiled in a fight.

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#144 Jehezekel

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Posted 09 February 2007 - 12:38 PM

ok, I thought he was going fast enough... Fixed

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Posted 10 February 2007 - 03:28 AM

Quick Note

Rythan cannot communicate telepathically at all, so when everyone else gets their messages he won't be exactly sure what happened until someone tells him.

It's a trait from his race which, on the other side of the coin, gives him an extremely high resistance to telepathic energies.

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Posted 10 February 2007 - 03:28 AM

Double posts are evil, someone erase this

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connection problems all week.

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#147 Jehezekel

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Posted 10 February 2007 - 09:14 AM

So, this isn't a linear teleport maze? Each of the 'ports has several possible locations, depending on exactly where you're standing?

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Posted 10 February 2007 - 04:39 PM

Or maybe the location to which the port sends you switches, so that if they'd all gone in together, they would've all turned up in the same place.

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Posted 10 February 2007 - 06:30 PM

I wrote what I wrote; make of it what you will.

Since the story seemed to have stalled, I was just looking for something new to challenge the group a bit, and maybe stir up a few imaginations. The maze was all I could think of.