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Roll To Dodge / Re: Mainspring: The Game of Airships and Death: The Battle Thread: Chapter 1!
« on: February 13, 2014, 10:47:22 am »
So? It's odd.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Thawed (Characters Chosen, RP Time: Just About Started...)
« on: February 13, 2014, 10:44:00 am »((I forgot Selina was easy going...((That would be because I shortened the name from "Easy to get along with". If anyone can think of a word or two that means that better than "Easygoing," I'm all ears.))
"...No, you are not going to die. Yes, I do have a 'job' of sorts for you."
"As you may remember, a couple summers ago winter struck in the middle of summer, thanks to the actions of the sorceress-queen of Arendelle. Moreover, once she returned to her throne, she promptly began casting off her nation's oldest allies and insulting some important kingdoms. I personally was denied my wife and sent back home as though I was a prisoner, for the crime of doing all I could to try and keep the winter from getting worse. Last year, famine and starvation struck the land, and now that we have our feet back under us after the sorceress knocked us down, we can finally get our vengeance."
"Of course, it's not as simple as wars tend to be, if war can be considered simple. The queen has magic, and is not only powerful but has had years, now, to hone it, train it, openly even. This makes her a much greater threat than nearly any other sorcerer the world has ever dared to face...so naturally, we had to find an unusual strategy to defeat her."
"This is where you come in. You six are intended to be a counter of sorts to the queen. Your magic, against hers. You will also deal with other special targets normal soldiers cannot. This is Finna Svensdottir, a witchhunter and former soldier who agreed to work with us, to serve as your commanding officer. She will be guiding you through a brief course of training to make you into...respectable soldiers. After that, you will begin activities as soldiers. Any questions?"
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll To Medium: Worlds Apart [Chapter Two]
« on: February 13, 2014, 07:13:05 am »
Obligatory Google Drive suggestion.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Mainspring: The Game of Airships and Death: The Battle Thread: Chapter 1!
« on: February 13, 2014, 07:12:29 am »
Out of curiosity, why do like half the people have the wrong team's color as their text color?
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Glorious Ape Empire RTD
« on: February 13, 2014, 07:12:08 am »
Um. Do whatever I'm supposed to do while the magnets are in the process of decoupling?
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Roll To Dodge / Re: The X-COM Project:Operation Hot Line.
« on: February 13, 2014, 07:11:11 am »"Your a cheery one, how about you go home and wait to die while those of us who actually want to win do the fighting. Your making me depressed."Anastasiya is confused.
"I want to win. I am saying, if we win here we win later, too."
"What if they're not here to directly kill us? Because, as far as I am concerned, they probably already have the technology to exterminate the human population, leaving the planet ripe for their taking."Whatever reason they have to come here, why would they not use the strongest weapons they will use at first? Or even use stronger ones, intimidate us?"
No, they aren't declaring total war. They're here for something else. We'll find it out through their actions and what cards they play."
Apollo shakes his head to focus and turns his view to Anastasiya."I am fine."
"You alright? Clear your mind, we're not too far from the landing zone."
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll to Go Mad: Turn 37 - Interlude
« on: February 13, 2014, 07:09:02 am »Which happens to be a really big part of the rebuilding process. Along with, y'know, finding ways to make an airtight seal across your throat that can resist high pressures (such as those generated at depths, which force you to expel the air from your lungs leading to you swallowing water and shit going haywire)...Either copy sperm whales, expel the air and suppress various reflexes, or don't go deep if you're not designed for it.
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...finding a way to make the oxygen exchange across your gills efficient enough to support the high rate of oxygen consumption terrestrial mammals use...I'd say lowering oxygen consumption rate would be easier. That, and not needing the gills much.
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He would also have to have extra channels in his mouth so as to swallow water to direct across the gills (The gills are the site of water expulsion, not water intake) and that's a whole other kettle of fish.Why would water intake need to be in the mouth? It would make sense to have it be a slit or something in the neck or collarbone area, near the natural area for gills to be placed (the chest, near the heart). This also (slightly) lowers the difficulty of finding a pathway for it.
And the gill slits are for water expulsion. The gill filaments are for oxygen exchange.
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Long story short, no, you can't have gills.Not contesting that, just some bits of your reasoning.
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-snip-I said depending on the change and the method.
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I didn't realise the full implications of the power I'd given him until a turn or two later.Ah.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Gunfight in the Saloon (Round 2)
« on: February 13, 2014, 07:01:42 am »
((Isn't that exactly what an outlaw trying to get close to the sheriff would say?))
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Roll To Dodge / Re: The X-COM Project:Operation Hot Line.
« on: February 12, 2014, 11:09:02 pm »
"I would not, but many do. How many got holes to hide in from just threat of bombs falling? And they lose nothing by attacking hard, now. What could they lose? We cannot understand their machines. We are savages to them. Apes. Ants."
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Thawed (Characters Chosen, RP Time: Just About Started...)
« on: February 12, 2014, 10:53:49 pm »
((Uh oh.))
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Glorious Ape Empire RTD
« on: February 12, 2014, 10:52:39 pm »
Aw, why did you have to specify?
Exploit chillaxing to make megaprojects.
Exploit chillaxing to make megaprojects.
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Roll To Dodge / Re: Thawed (Characters Chosen, RP Time: Now With 7.14% Less 'K's!)
« on: February 12, 2014, 10:49:33 pm »
((On the other hand...well, look at the Power Roll table, last row. Besides, magic is supposed to be something where control is important. And really, exploding your skin with light spears? Nah, you'd have much worse, wider-ranging problems on a 1. Let alone lower...))
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Roll To Dodge / Re: The X-COM Project:Operation Hot Line.
« on: February 12, 2014, 10:46:12 pm »"Well considering they probably have the equivalent of nukes that last one seems likely. ""Not like Cold War. Like...like they would not want to win."
"If they probe with force and we win they lose a lot. If they probe us this way and we win they lose very little. They're playing it smart giving us no information on them while gaining a lot on us."If they probe with force and we are weak, we only learn how easy they kill us. We run, we hide. They get whatever they want, take anything if they promise to leave us alone. And they would not leave anything we could use to exploit weaknesses, we are too small. Backwards. Primitive."
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Roll To Dodge / Re: The X-COM Project:Operation Hot Line.
« on: February 12, 2014, 10:30:06 pm »"They have space ships do you really think a space ship would be built for travel in air if they are built in space""If they need it to. Space shuttle does it."
"My point exactly. We don't understand them but the reverse is true as well. They know nothing of us. Were hitting them with all we've got but they don't know that."Why not probe with force? Again, if they force probe, they know how we react. And how else would we react?"
They're probing us before they start hitting us in force.
She sighs. "Either they are striking with all force, they are dumb, or they are...testing, not wanting to win."
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Rise of the Magic Girls v2 IC Thread: Angels and fighting and plot oh my
« on: February 12, 2014, 10:25:14 pm »
Will follows him.