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Cue Nuriel posing as an angel to screw with him. (And possibly repeat without the "with".)How does Corebus react to demons, might I ask?Damn creatures of Darkness. I dislike them but Dragons are my true foe.
"The grumpy one behind me is my former alternate form Aedan.""Dunno why he's grumpy, I'd love to not be part of Angel."
"Fire and blood...I have never met someone who went so far from their path to vex me so.""...Kyle, what did you do?"
((I.. I was just being polite. It was manners. Asking how someone slept in the morning to make conversation is not rude. Most of what she is doing is not, in fact, aimed at irritating you, and I'm really not seeing where you're getting such hostility from. Saying hello in the morning is not going out of their path to vex you. ))((Different cultures, different ideas of politeness. At least, that's my guesplanation.))
That would make a wyv--NO!I dunno, forelimbs?Which two limbs?So if someone hacked off two limbs from a dragon...Wyrms have 4 limbs, traditional dragons have 6.Yeah but she's a dragon, not a wyrm. Assuming there's any actual difference.Some difference probably exists, but I'd be surprised if it's something you can tell from first glance. Up to Mcclay how Wyrms look like, I guess.
And why would we want a relic? It belongs in a museum!((At first glance I thought that was more IC chat.
((We're stealing ships now?))((They came with the planet.))
Is there something I should know about Kyle?He tends try to seduce pretty much any female member of the party. Except Angel, of course, because ew. Also, he impregnates any females he sleeps with.
No.So if someone hacked off two limbs from a dragon...Wyrms have 4 limbs, traditional dragons have 6.Yeah but she's a dragon, not a wyrm. Assuming there's any actual difference.
Some difference probably exists, but I'd be surprised if it's something you can tell from first glance. Up to Mcclay how Wyrms look like, I guess.
Which two limbs?NO.
((I only have an hour until I gotta go for 3 hours))((And I'll be asleep by then, so let's get this party started.))
[to Cyrielle]<Just like same sex marriage!>Same-sex marriage isn't illegal everywhere in the US, only most states! California, being one of the liberal states, is also among the 17 that have legal gay marriage.
Ester is somewhere in the studio, waiting for the interview to start.Dinner, RtD's, a fire drill...been busy.
((AKA: GreatWyrm?))
Conny is feeding Momo with a bottle, and feeding Elizabeth.Where is Meme? Also, how and why is Conny feeding both at once?
Selina and Momo are waiting for the interview, the former incredibly nervous.
When you don't at least keep the linky thing at the top of the quote, I don't have any clue what you're talking about. I need to look back in the thread, which adds extra time to the already copious investment I already put into this game.QuoteWe try to keep things reasonably realistic here. Well, except for the magic, we settle for "usually internally consistent" there.who sais it's not magic?
Their muscles are also much weaker, and again, their legs are absolutely miniscule. Proportionately, their running and jumping abilities are better, but on the same scale they are worse and roughly the same, respectively.Quote1. Little creatures aren't that much faster than big ones by default. Small creatures' small legs impede them. Moreover, the reason that flies and such are so good at dodging swatters has more to do with how their brains are wired than the size of any part of them.Little creatures have a much lower inertia.
QuoteAlso, I also put 30 in mind for a reason. Who sais small folk are not wired that way?Well, the big thing is that flies perceive the world going about, oh, slightly over a dozen times faster. The fact that she can interact on a human scale indicates that this is not the case. Pretty much all the other reasons are rooted in anatomy and not neurology, largely the fact that flies have wings and are therefore not limited to the puny speed their puny legs offer.QuoteDon't try to take the whole thing apart by assuming she is just a human scaled down to size. When magic can let you summon personas and what not, then naturaly occuring magic can create a tiny creature with incredibly dense and fast musculature, 20 times as efficent as normal muscles, and a brain that works images at 120 fps (number made up out of thin air)Dense musculature would make things worse, 20x efficiency is absurd, and that brain speed (a bit slower than that of a fly but still 8 times faster than a human) would make it almost impossible to chat and connect with normal people (imagine watching this brief YouTube video and it taking nearly a minute to play).QuoteAnd it's fertile, despite being in the driest part of by far the least fertile continent, because...magic? The more magic required for a society to not collapse, the less likely I am to approve of it. This applies double if the race itself requires extreme quantities of magic to work.QuoteWhich actually brings me to another problem: The location of this settlement of tiny people. If they are relatively isolated from big people, and in Australia, they are almost certainly in the Outback. Which is also known as "The part of Australia where we can't find any crops tough enough to grow economically.It's remote, and concealed with glamour, so you could even walk right by it and not notice. The inhabitants usualy try their best to avoid contact, because unless you are a magical girl that knows no fear, something 20 times the size of you is usualy scary. Their economy is going through a small(heh, nudge, get it) unemployment crisis, all parties are blaming the other and the democratic process inefficent, so resolution of that problem will take a while.Quotewhile you were writing, 9 new posts ha - are you kidding me bay12?Again, that's RotMG.also, though it is a mightly late question, but what is a persona, exactly?Something from a video game series.
Helpful? link.are those obtainable in-game through any means?Not if you want to keep your magic.
Magic, personas, and superpowers are mutually exclusive.what's with all the discussion on what to roll and which player will controle the succubus if all it has been summoned for was to fade to black with it for a while?Cado was presumably planning some kind of drama stuff, but that wouldn't work if the succubus acted of its own accord. And since it was summoned and controlled by a character originally born of perverted thoughts...No I meant in the OOC as well.She's developed enough as a character to deserve a name, and it's also faster to type?We could fuck up Selina some more and call the resulting personality Celestia.-1yeah, but when the choice is between "maybe die, if my numerous allies wont be able to save me" and "open the gates that turns upside down and the inside out and puts mankind back on the foodchain", it falls a bit shortOh, please, you think that would be the toughest thing we fought?
The worst, sure, but that's for reasons other than difficulty. More to do with squick and censors.Going by the source which inspired my name, "wyrm" is just the second-eldest age category for dragons.Yeah but she's a dragon, not a wyrm. Assuming there's any actual difference.Some difference probably exists, but I'd be surprised if it's something you can tell from first glance. Up to Mcclay how Wyrms look like, I guess.
Dunno what it is here, but since "[Corebus] does hate dragons and will not be slow to fight them," it's a bit moot.Wrym!? Dragon!? Same diffrence! They are Koallifispawned monsters and should be killed!"I'm right here, you know."
"...Wait, you had bedtime stories about...what the hell is wrong with your people?""Your mating habits are.""Weren't you claiming earlier that us 'giants,' as you insist on calling us, were but legends and bedtime stories to you?""Our lands are shielded from view with glamour. Ever so often though, adventurous campers come in, and then usualy go missing. Ever so often, they come with entire camping trucks.""I'm fine with whatever movie. The entire movie collection of my hometown consisted of just one box of DVDs, containing the third season of futurama""Do I want to know how your DVD player and television work? Do you have another enslaved giant for that?"
<I shall be waiting in the corner then. Oh, my magic doesn't work in here so I'll have to be physical with him. Fair warning~>Will mind-sniggers.
(to Will) What interview"Some of the others, the ones who fought some aliens a few months ago--and Ester, for some reason--are being brought in to chat about various events that have been happening lately."
before leaning nonchalantly on willWill would fall over if he wasn't seated, since he's the smaller of the two when Stella isn't partly transformed.
"So quick to judge. You giants truely only listen to the loud sounds. The small folk lives in hiding, in the niche it carved to itself, in freedom and in safety from those who think of us as lesser for our size. Before all things of the world began to grow in size, we were plenty, and everywhere, now the fewest have even heared about us. Because our home is a secret. We built it as far away from human settlements as we could, but we need to live off something too, so we can't just retreat on onto the top of the mountains or the sands of the desert. And yet, despite the isolation, more and more humans wander into our lands, and every so often, right through the glamour that hides us. Why? Because they are too big, of course. Too big for the land to not drown under their weight, and before they know it, in every direction they look, there is just humans, and their mountanous homes, and so they grow tired of it, and seek the isolation that is our only retreat."Hey, do you want my rebuttal organized chronologically, alphabetically, or what? And before you answer, that's rhetorical. After the interview, I'll be delivering a speech that covers the rebuttal points...unless you're afraid to hear how you're wrong."
It is because of the likes of you, that boast with their sheer size, to take our lives and even put us in the food chain. And that is why I am proud to say that none of those who got lost in the wilderness through the glamour have returned to report their findings. They die, so our entire kind can live, and it fills my heart with pride that 27 bones from giant thumbs are hanged on my wall, as a service to my kind.
Do not mistake it as malice or greed, it is for survival, and the fight is desperate.
This is why I came to the world of the giants, so that one day I can say that the hiding can have an end. But what I have endured here in the first day already leaves a sour aftertaste.."
"That's the approach of a naive child. Even if we explained the problematics to the giants, and swore them to silence, the secret of our location is the foundation of our survival. Idealism is good, but when you are making decisions for an entire race, you do not jeopardize that on the trustworthyness of a giant. They may keep the secret at first, but as everything, giants grow larger and larger to *stand out*. A secret like this would make them interesting, and eventually they will spread it, because they value so little those that they think are below them.""Ah. To avoid being childish, your entire species has chosen to do the first idea anyone thought about and didn't consider any possibilities of change. Oops, my bad, shouldn't spoil the speech."
<So we know why they wanted Tobias at least... but, they sent someone weak... Why?><Lack of foreplanning?>
Ester twiddles her thumbs, waiting to get to the studio for the interview.Since I should be here for a while, you all arrive. You get prepped--anything you want to do while makeup is applied and people give semi-contradictory explanations of what's going to happen, or do we skip to the actual interview?
((AKA Timeskip?))
"Mags I...""Hi, Mrs. Magic Lina!"
"I am Magdalena to you, until you can explain to me, how you--"
"One of you had best win tomorrow, or I'm going to feed him his eyes.""Bye!"
With that she stands up and leaves, if she could have slammed the door, she probably would have.
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[Jon] laughs and heads out. Leaving the group alone once again. It is now late in the evening.
Kyle stares at the door slightly horrified.Angel shifted so Cullodus and Ada were between her and Kyle.
"I think I prefer you Ada. Actually any of you I prefer."
((You referred to me as "swing[ing] wildly" at the creature, implying an almost-total lack of skill.))((Doesn't the rapier use your highest skill?((Highest magic skill, so... six. Unless you're talking about something else.))
Also, I've incorporated fencing as a secondary element in the Angels. Glad it came up here.))
Since I'm bored... wander around my mindscape. Write a note to deal with actual criminals first and then magic people.Whoo...so, a little like Othar Tryggvassen?
