Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Character Creation and Discussion

[Fuyu no Sora]

@Lowe:

@Thread: G'niiiiight~ I'll be taking my leave for now. Will be back in around 7-9-ish hours

[USB500]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Yes indeed

Someone write the appropriate scenario now

Originally Posted by LoweGear

And of course, have him meet up with Master Sanshiro

In before epic battle for the legendary King of Heart title.

*cue exploding mountains, flying debris, crashing waves and hotblooded tears of burning courage*

Akira: Shishou and his former student fighting each other in the manliest battle of all?!!!! THIS FIGHT SHALL SHATTER CONTINENTS!!!!
Touma: *is speechless and cries manly tears*

Yeah, that's about it.

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Ishida's still at it eh?

Mai: .....

............

.............

he refuses to learn his lesson.

Ishida:

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Outer Cadia: The Land of the Free, and The Home of the GREAT

*salutes*

*follows suit*

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Think UNLIMITED DRILL WORKS are just for those with Spiral Power and OTOKO NO TAMASHII O MOERU?!?!?!

Spoiler for Think Again:

No, this is not CGI. It's a demonstration of Ferro-fluid, basically a oil/iron suspension manipulated by magnetic fields:

this fluid is the fluid that shall pierce through the heavens !!!

Ahem.

Now what if Outer Cadians get our hands on this substance.....

Originally Posted by LoweGear

... Touhou and Aria in a single snippet?!

Let the madness show begin!


*goes to post this at fanfiction thread*

[XenahortCharybdis]

Originally Posted by Saint X

Okay... back to Cadia Activities!!!

@ Fuyu: here's a WIP of the archer i've promise to rebuild.

Spoiler for WIP: The Salient Archer: Rurika:

Name: Rurika Serenade (Sayokyoku Rurika (小夜曲 るりか) in real name)
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Birthday: May 23
Hair: Shoulder-length, straight brown
Eyes: crystal brown
Build: more of Tia's body build, but chest area is a bit... outmatched... a bit
Height: 5' 6"
Weight:
Homeworld: Earth, Japan Uminari North Suburb of Kanakeda.
Magic System: Dei-Type
Dei Magic Grade: Initiate Templar Third Grade / Expert Templar First Grade
Magic Color: Yellow
Mage Rank: BB+ (B+) to AA-
Threat Rank: S+ for primarily being an unknown magic type (Bridget's rules apply)- threat assessment still ongoing.
Military Rank: AX Tier 3 (Probationary Officer)- a rank ranging from Warrant to Lieutenant or equivalent in the TSAB but not always followed- this simpler Tier Ranking system is preferred in the AX. Refer to this sheet HERE
Personality: She's cool often, often creating a pseudo-Tia like reaction to Nanoha and the rest of MD6. but...
Affiliation: Time-Space Administration Bureau, First Exatactical Group or AX, TSABS Silvana. Call Sign "Orbit/Ring/Circle 2/3".
Device: Ballista (Latin for (cross)bow), the 'Bow of Salient Cause' and "Yumi".
Device Type:

Ballista: Key Device, focused range attack. Primary Weapon.

"Yumi": Frame Device: focused range attack. Secondary Weapon.

Description:

Device:

Ballista:

Spoiler for Image:

As based on this rough image, this is a rather unique bow, sporting two wings on each end, creating an X-shaped string configuration. Among the Key Devices, this one has the longest range, at about 1.5km ballistic and about 500-670 meters direct fire range maximum. Despite the looks, it has infact one of the most cleverly designed/hidden Overdrive Engines- this one of a Turbocharger configuration. And like all Key Devices, a cross pendant is the standby form.

Yumi:

Spoiler for Image:

As based on this rough image, Yumi is another bow, this time a frame device that was created from the remains of Ruri's practice bow. Despite looking whimsical, this bow has never been seen in combat, merely existing as a bow shaped pendant. It has 2 Battery-type Overdrive Engines and has a maximum ballistic range of about 750 meters, and a direct fire range of 350 meters.

Note: Maximum Ballistic and Direct Fire Ranges are just test shots at max draw power, without any intent of hitting anything- real Ballistic and Direct Fire Ranges, those fired to hit at a target are shorter about 40% shorter than Maximum Ranges. She can be compared with Legohaxx though... *runs from Orcs, Saruman and Sauron*

Core Jacket:

Ranger Form/Mode

Spoiler for Image:

Basic Core Jacket. Overdrive Efficiency at 50% only.

Harrier Form/Mode:

Spoiler for Image:

Advanced Core Jacket. Increases Evasion, Improves Attack Speed, Mana consumption is reduced by 5%, Movement Speed Increased. Overdrive Efficiency at 100%.

Flight Pack:

Spoiler for Images:

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Spoiler for Read:

Enables Flight by using a Turbocharger-Type Overdrive Engine based from the G.N. Drive known as a "Force Booster" that uses Ruri's own mana for propulsion- thanks to the overproduction of the Overdrive Engine- but the G.N. Function has been removed so that the Templar will not be stressed by both weight and mana upkeep- as well as to reduce the overall size to a managable one. Even so, the pack uses a huge amount of mana when the templar is moving. A more advanced and more lightweight version of it, called the "Floater Drive", currently in the testing stages as of the end StrikerS, has 3 "satellites" that revolve around Ruri during flight or after flight, these orbs attempting to gather as much of the vented energy as possible and beaming it back to the pack, hereby reducing energy consumption by as much as 50%. The only drawback is that after operation, the cooldown of the pack is extremely long- about 1.5x as much time as it operated- that includes spooling up and down times- a minimum of 3 mins cooldown- since the drive needs about 1 minutes to spool up and/or down- like in the event of an abort. Though the pack has an overdrive engine, the mana that is produced from it does not flow to the device, and hence does not affect attacks when in operation- though there is still the risk of "Harmonic Resonance" when using 2 or more Overdrives.

Note: Overdrive Engines and their Derivatives like the G.N. Drive can only be used by Dei Users as of this moment. Rumor has it that Kyla and a band of scientists, engineers and esotherics are currently researching to make the G.N. Drive useful to any form and easily mass-produced- to no avail.

Trivia: in the AX Handbook, AMF-producing Devices are also called G.N. Drives- though this is just a technical term- the term AMF is still spoken.

Anti AMF G.N. Drive: (AMF) Gap Neutralizing Drive. aG.N. Drive for short.
Antimagic (AMF) G.N. Drive: (Magic-Linking) Gap/Generation Neutralizing Drive. mG.N. Drive for short.

Device History:

Spoiler for Open to Read:

Ballista was given to her by the "Retired" Dei Templar Rai Nimura, better known as Raine Dais- the Fifth Salient Archer, who managed to survive the Sealed Device War that involved the Aces- being the group known as Dei Ministra, that tried to kill a certain Ace due to her link with the "Master Seal" Gospel- later found out to be in the possession of *static*, of all people close to said Ace. In the final hours of the war, the seal of said device were broken along with the other eight, turning them into "keys" that unlocked permission for a dimensional clone of a certain Ace to live in the same dimension without being in the stigma of the "evil mirror"- but in the process surrendering The Ace's "inherent natural alignment"- Basically the Ace's 'Kaina' (named "Hymn of Absolute Unity and *static*") to the mirror, thus making her unique- also in the process changing her magic type from Black Mid to *static* Dei. This was given to Rurika as a good luck charm by the archer, since beforehand the girl was insecure (due to a boy issue- as rumors said) and was barely managing to keep up in the tournament that she was participating. What happened after the tournament was remembered for being a wee tadd too dangerous- as her rival tried to shoot an arrow to her, but instead got pinned by not one but 4 arrows from Rurika. Only after she was scouted by the AX did the bow reappear- well it was the very reason Kyla personally handpicked the young graduate- note that Key Devices will sometimes resonate a low hum if near each other.

Yumi was a different matter. After the discovery of not just her magical ability but of her parents' heritage, she was now currently in her second year in the Bureau Academy- in the Special Class that years later will have Bridget as a student/cadet. During all her time in training, she managed training with a traditional bow that her parents gave to her as a parting gift before she headed off to the Bureau. But then, a prank played by some of the cadets in her class-along with some of the regulars, managed to break it, said involved in prank getting infractions afterwards. The Head of the AX Engineering Arm at that time, Engr. Dan Michelson was visiting the Academy on behalf of the Admiral (the real mission was to give a personal message to Fate, who was there at that time), noticed the sulking girl. He volunteered himself to 'help fix such a treasured item'. Using a spell program that he developed during his free time, he 'dematerialized' the remains of the bow and asked the still sulking girl to re-imagine it- and if possible, have something added. Well it resulted in the rather unusual bow that she now carries along.

Skills:

Spoiler for Read:

Even though Rurika is a Dei-Type user or "Force (as opposed to Elemental) Templar" as it is known, her unique Key Device- one of only 9, restricts/seals most of her Es-, Ka- and Re- Type spells when equipped- leaving her with only 2 formal Es-skills, 2 Ka-spells and no Re-spell- and the effects of holding such a device have been great- being unable to learn/unlock the rest of her canon for life- unless said Key Device is broken or the "keeper", as these device users are called, dies. As such, There will be two sections on this- like with Bridget but with different conventions- the two being Common, being the skills she can do that she has learned- and thus can be used with another equivalent device, and Keyed-In, skills that came from the Key Device itself- and therefore anyone fitting to use the Key Device can use them if equipped with said Device.

Common:

Attacks done with these skills are considered neutral, though the shots that come out are light arrows- this is just neutral energy arrows, with no magical 'frequency', thus making them partly AMF resistant- though AMF reduces the damage by about 25-40%, due to the arrows being energy in itself- but a critical hit is a sure fact when doing these skills, since Ruri has trained from childhood in the way of the bow- the magically infused attacks are considered Es-Skills though- making the AMF issue invalid. And they can be performed by both Ballista and Yumi.

Neutral Attack


-Dual Shot: fires two fast shots. Equivalent to "Double Strafe"



-Multi-Shot: fires a single arrow, but then that arrow multiplies into a wall of arrows, allowing to hit multiple targets up front. Equivalent to "Arrow Shower".


Magic Attack (Es-Skills):

- Guide Shot
Estin type skill. ("Destroy Minimal" in Dei)

Skill Description:
Basically a magically charged shot that deals only slight or even no damage, only serves as a pre-requisite to the next skill or a gauge of distance before doing any real damage.


- Echo Shot:
Esma type skill.

Skill Description:
A Heavy Magical Arrow attack. This shot usually happens in conjunction first with Guide Shot and/or/with Tri-Shot (when linked) and/with/or Destruction and/with/or Strike Shot. This is basically a single shot that can deliver 1-10 hard echoes into the hit target, damaging it.


Linked Skills
As with Dei Templars, there are the "Linking Spells", special buffs that "awaken" a user's hidden talents, both passive and active. These abilities are only active when "linked" by a another Templar, as it needs a 'hymn conflict' to work. And since each Dei Templar has thier own unique "Life Hymn" (Kaina), being linked by a specific Templar have different skills opened to them. Listed here are the unlocked skills when 'linked' by particular Dei Templars, in this case; Ashton and Bridget.


Under Bridget's "Range Soul" Influence:

- Dodge Affection:
Passive Skill

Description:
Any dodge self-improvement skill will also affect random allies within a 5 meter radius, or 10 meters in Harrier form- excluding "Kaupe" skills or any instant/single use dodge skills. The skill "Blink Illusion" is affected by this link.

- Tri-Shot
Neutral Attack/Estun type skill

Description:
Basically Double Shot+1, but can be infused with magical energy to act as a pre-requisite to Echo Shot. Cooldown is 1.5x longer than Double Shot though.

- Seal Bolt
Debuff Skill

Description:
A special attack that is akin to WC3's Wand of Neutralization- that dispells units in a chain. It can either be targeted to both allies and enemies but there is a catch, all kinds of buffs and debuffs are removed, as opposed to the Key Skill "Force Break", which removes debuffs but only for one.


Under Ashton's "Spirit of Distance" Influence:

- Lucky
Passive Skill

Description:
Increases the chance of a critical hit during direct fire or of a hit during ballistic firing.

- (Elemental) Effect Infusion
Buff Skill/Enchantment

Description:
Imbues for 1-5 uses, an elemental effect to a shot- either burn, freeze, slow, stun-electric and various others, as of this time, are skill unknown- though rumor has it that darkness can be Imbued as well. After the charges are exhausted it requires a rebuff to reset.

- Illusion Counter
Passive Skill

Description:
A passive skill that by chance, disguises the shots fired- either into multiple, single or none.

@ Fuyu and Thread: any comments so far?

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@ Thread: who was the guy who has Yuuno working in a special ops unit?

I was wondering if you can apply this to him at least?

Spoiler for AlternateS I Spoilers:

Spoiler for Weapon:

Spoiler for Core Jacket:

Spoiler for Cracky Idea:

I also have an idea of the Scrya Family being a family of Warrior-Explorers from long ago... well his fictional mother is also a fighting mage... why not?

*rows gondola away*

I really am cursing myself for spending 5/6 of my day without any possibility of using a computer now...bah. At least I have my sketchpad and my crazy little brain.

The Dei-system appears...very interesting, to say the least.

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ABOUT THINGS LIKE THE SHIPPING WAR:

I have never, and will never approve of blackmail against writers of any kind. Whatever that is, as I do in all things of grave importance, I advise some discretion and caution in whatever you guys wanna do, alright? I'm behind you all and everything (although I'm not of much use in busting, I hate hitting people in the face unless I have the right to.)

Yeah, so good luck guys!

Spoiler for past experience:

I did participate in such a war two years back on a philosophy forum over the implications, impact and most importantly, truth of some existential-age works, such as Albert Camous' "The Myth of Sisyphus", and in the end my side won out, but there were enough instances of unethical behavior breaches of netiquette from both sides to cause the mods to step in and whack most of us off.

I was lucky to escape being banned due to my usually non-confrontational style of writing, but I was involved in some major, sometimes personal spats with some other users, which I still don't really want to recall, those being the most vociferous and sometimes vitriolic exchanges I have ever been involved in.

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MY WORK:

- Sketches are completed with the exception of Hudson, due to my fussing over his expression. It just wasn't mad enough for me. To make up for that, I did dump Ariel in somewhere.
- Spells for 3 OCs will be out by nightfall down here, which is 3.5 hours from posting time, along with full powered sketches.
- Major writes like fics will have to wait in the face of an impending assignment on Christopher Durang's "The Marriage of Bette and Boo". It's hilarious and all, but it takes up a lot of time...

[tshouryuu]

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Here's an update...

Spoiler for Lynn:

Lynn A. Bardou

Spoiler for Theme Song!:

NAME: Lynn Ayame Bardou

CALLSIGN: Thanatos 1
RANK: Captain
POSITION: Elite Enforcer Unit Special Weapons And Tactics, Shock Enforcer
AGE: 32
MAGE CLASS: AAA (7.2, see attributes chart at bottom of page.)

Spoiler for Futureweapons FTW!:

[Futureweapons Narration]
'When the situation is far beyond the capabilities of just about every mage in the field, when the problem is so far out of hand that even the greatest aces can no longer handle it, when even the most optimistic find it to be a hopeless lost cause... The TSAB don't get mad, they get even, and send in the SWAT. And these are not just your regular Special Weapons And Tactics. These are the ELITE, the Shock Enforcers.

Unlike conventional mages, who tend to perform a wide range of missions ranging from rescue, to combat duty, to seize and secure... Shock Enforcers only have one mission: Search, and Destroy.
Training every day for battles they may never see, these elite special forces mages are prepared to tackle just about any situation, any adversary, anywhere. Quickly, easily, and lethally, all at the drop of a hat.
They employ an impressive array of powerful magical techniques based on causing maximum damage, confusion, and terror in the enemy, in the shortest time possible. Their reputation for their performance is nothing short of intimidating, and they are quite simply, terrifying to be up against.
Trust me, you don't want to be the one they're after when they knock down the door... because the whole building is probably going to be knocked down with it.

And leading this Elite Unit, is the most terrifying of them all:
Captain Lynn A. Bardou. Thanatos One.'
[/Futureweapons Narration]

That Futureweapons Narration sounds like its describing Alucard instead of Lind.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Spoiler for History:

From age Six, young Lynn had been enchanted with the idea of becoming an Enforcer. A protector of the peace who would matte out justice to the unjust, and protect the people.
It was unfortunate that the accident that resulted in the Abandoned City on Mid Childa killed her parents and left her orphaned before age eight.

Feeling betrayed by the universe at the eradication of her happy childhood, she became determined to prove herself as an Enforcer, and to bring criminals everywhere to justice. So much was her determination and anger that before she even reached puberty, she was subjecting her body to a grueling physical training regimen that bordered on torturous... Seeking to make her body stronger so that her linker core would develope stronger to allow her more magical power.
So intense was this training in fact, that she had been hospitalized three times and told not to continue. But she did anyway. By the time she was old enough to take the Enforcer exams for the TSAB, she had built up such an astounding tolerance for pain and exhaustion that she didn't win her combat challenges by skill, but by simply bullrushing her instructors and ignoring spells that quickly escalated into actual combat ranges.

Her combat and magical training came later, and once again, it astounded and frightened her instructors. Lynn would train endlessly on her own between lessons, always seeming to seek more and more power, under harsh training regimens that would exhaust a normal mage. But she simply demanded more, and then crushed it underfoot. By the time she completed her training and qualified as an enforcer, her combat abilities were nothing but Phenominal.

It became clear soon after her qualification that she just wasn't cut out for being an Enforcer... Or rather, the Enforcer position wasn't made to handle her level of combat skill. Lynn was for lack of a better term, aggressive. Beyond aggressive. Often the first into a fight, and quickest to close combat, she would often be knee deep in trouble before any backup could even get into range. Overextending herself time and again, as well as an insane agression level left her opponents in a state of frenzied panic, she was seen as far too wild. Her collatteral in many pitched fights, was nothing short of spectacular. If it was in the way, it got knocked down, simple as that.

However, while it was deemed dangerous to a degree, it was also seen as potential untapped. Conceptually, a new unit was formed in the Enforcers to encompass an Elite Strike Unit for situations where the only way to take an adversary out was with immediate, unrestrained, overkill. The entire concept was based on Shock Troopers... and the Shock Enforcers were born.

Lynn in person isn't as frightening as she is in combat, having earned the nickname the Angel of Death from her enemies... Polite, but serious, she doesn't look to provoke, and doesn't bother to insult, patronize, or otherwise do any kind of deliberate brown nosing. She quite simply, states facts as she sees them. Which can be quite frustrating to some, but her fearsome reputation keeps most people who don't know her from voicing counter oppinions. She has a fond appreciation for those who strive to improve themselves and hard workers.

hmm... she survived an accident that caused the abandoned part of midchilda... any ideas on what caused it? That incident should have a name at least since the area was rather massive. Incidentally, I think I know why there is an abandoned area there and the reason has basis in canon.

With that much aggressiveness in her, and the single mindedness, I'm surprised that she actually managed to get into the enforcers. Combat ability is one thing but her tactics basically consists of blitzing an opponent. Also she seems like a lone wolf and won't work well in a team. From your description, she almost seems like a berserker in combat. These are hardly traits that suit an enforcer. Seriously, passing the enforcer exams with combat ability alone seems extremely unlikely. Its more likely she'll get washed out of the program instead of succeeding. Also, her "training", even if its purely physical, is more likely to kill herself first...

The Shock Enforcers idea is interesting but creating a unit just to utilize her is hard to compute. My reasoning is this, the TSAB did not make such a unit to put Caro in and before Fate stepped in, Caro was only useful in all out destruction. What makes Lynn so special that they would do this? Frankly speaking, Caro with her summons is a lot more fearsome then Lynn.

Next, question is, when was this unit created? If it was before strikers, where the hell were they when Jail attacked with the Cradle? If it was after, what was Lynn doing?

You may wish to spend a bit more time rethinking this.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Spoiler for Unisons:

Twin Unisons, Cool and Spear Mint:
Created by illegal means, the twins Cool and Spear were one of many immoral magical experiments, much like Agito. Luckly, their nature was actually a failure. What had been desired in this experiment was a unison that was capable of handling two polar opposite elements at the same time, in order to compliment the user. What occured was the opposite magics repelled each other, and instead of one Unison, two were created that shared a deep bond. Considered unworthy of any study, they were discarded to a cage, told they were simply useless, and left to near starvation.
It might have been an act of fate that saved them when the TSAB ordered a full scale operation on the remote facility, lead off by Lynn herself.
In the chaos of her attack, Cool and Spear could only watch as Lynn mercilessly demolished any semblance of defense and obliterated ressistance. They were later rescued by the unit of Regular Enforcers who then searched the facility.
When they asked who the 'divine one' was that had so effortlessly won the battle, they had been told about Lynn and her past.
Inspired by Lynn's incredible display and life story, they decided they too would prove they weren't just useless as they had been told, and asked if they could go to train with her.
As one who appreciated such fortitude and determination, Lynn accepted the request... It took three years for the Unisons to even come close to being 'useful' on the battlefield, but they never gave up, eventually forming a comradery with Lynn that many mages through would never happen with the Shock Enforcer.

Their abilities are rather unique. By themselves, Each reprisents an element of Unison Magic, Cool controlling Ice, and Spear being Fire. They can unison normally with any mage in this way and provide the same power boost and elemental bonus abilities. But what hadn't been expected, was the ability for twin unison. Normally, only one unison can occupy a mage, but the twins' unique bond allows them to unison together and with a mage. Their elemental powers cancel out however, but the power boost the mage recieves makes up for this.

When seperate, they fulfill their own roles.

Cool Mint:
Cool is calm and calculating, often acting as a scout and area controller. Her skilled ice abilities and careful planning are often used to trap her enemies while Lynn bulldozes them.

Spear Mint:
More into The Big Guns, Spear and her Fire based elemental power will not hesitate to demolish obsticals and provide Lynn with backside fire support. (Not that she needs it very often.)

When working together as a pair, Cool will often deal with defending while Spear goes on the offensive.

Knowing what Unison is in effect:
To know who's unisoned, look at Lynn's eyes. If her eyes glow silver, Cool is Unisoned In, if they're crimson, it's Spear. If they're Gold, it's a Double.

(NOTE: Now I pay homage to the Golden Eye)

The first problem I have is this. Agito is a genuine Ancient Belkan Unison device and certainly not created in an illegal experiment. If it were that easy to make Unison devices, Mid Childa would have been flooded with chibis and those scientists that were studying Agito won't be studying her at all. Iirc, even Jail expressed some minor interest in wanting to study Agito once.

Next, starvation. This is an interesting problem... can a device actually starve to death? Another thing. Why throw them in a cage and not seal them for future study in the future or utilize them separately? For that matter, since their so worthless, why not completely destroy them?

You mention that Lynn was sent in. If so, I'm very surprised that there was anything left to salvage or that the facility was even standing, let alone having 2 workable devices completely intact. You mentioned that an enforcer told the two unison devices about Lynn and her past... I didn't know that personal information of TSAB personal can be so freely distributed...

Also, it is canonical fact that Unison devices do not in anyway increase the power of a mage. They provide Mana control and assistance according to circumstances as well as emergency countermeasures but not power increase. As such, dual unison in this case is superficial.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Spoiler for Combat Abilities:

LYNN'S COMBAT ABILITIES
Lynn specializes in vicious close quarters fighting, relying on a doctrine of speed, power, and psychological warfare to multiply her combat power. Her magical focus is on barrier breaking impacts and first strike 'killing blows'.


Intelligent Rod (Axe) 'Waldron' (Female Device Voice, See notes just before Ranking Profile): Lynn is a master of pole armed close combat. Her intelligent device, Waldron, is a fearsome single bladed battle axe with a spear point on its head that holds a vicious ability to smash, cut, and peirce through obstacles at will. Foregoing the multiple forms of other devices, Waldron has been heavily reinforced and its abilities of regeneration made more powerful to stand up to the fearsom rigors Lynn will put it through. Considering projectile magics too slow to use, costly, and ineffective, Lynn's device operates almost exclusively in contact magic attacks.

- Raven Call (Logistic/Tactical): Lynn can summon Waldron from anywhere. And we mean anywhere. Whether it is calling it to her side in battle, calling it from the corpse of a fallen enemy, or summoning it from a pool of magma, Waldron obeys, and materializes in her grasp.

- Mjolnir Strike (Contact Offensive, barrier breaker): *Pronunciation 'MUOLL-neer Strike' *
Concentraiting magical energy into the swing and leading blade edge of Waldron, the most common magical attack Lynn has at her disposal is nothing short of getting straight to the point at maximum force. The blow it unleashes cleaves through solid steel armor over meter thick, and shatters concrete on contact. Barriers and shields mean little to this strike, often shattering immediately on impact, leaving the mage on the recieving end to deal with bone crushing force with little more than the protection of their barrier jackets to save them.

- Gungnir Strike: (Contact Offensive, weapon throw, barrier breaker, semi-guided.) When Lynn decides to let go of Waldron, it's usually as dangerous as when she's holding it. Instead of along the axe blade, the magical energy concentraits along the spear like head at the end, and Lynn throws the whole device like a Javaline. Waldron then flies under its own intelligent magical guidance to place itself on target. The results are often just as terrifying as the Mjolnir Strike, usually shattering barriers and pinning forces to the wall. (Those that survive.)

- Odin's Wrath (Non-Contact Offensive, Projectile, Wide Area): The only true projection attack in Lynn's personal arsenal, but it's a monster. A swing from her mighty axe using this attack, and Lynn unleashes a devastating blast of air capable of destroying heavy structures with ease.
Depending on the way she swings her blade, she can divide large bodies of water, cut office buildings in half, or take out innumerable foes in a wide arc in front of her. If she winds back with her axe well outside of melee range, get out of alignment with her swinging arc... FAST. However, since the attack isn't concentraited force, it is much easier to defend against with barriers. Though many times, this may just be a distraction for a closing move or as a method of dealing with cannon fodder level enemies.

- Frozen Shatter (Contact offensive, Requires Unison with Cool)
Cool's version of Mjolnir Strike, with a personal touch. Impact will send a wave of freezing magic across whatever is struck, which will freeze, and then shatter. This is especially useful for doing massive area damage to objects that normal impacts just wouldn't be enough to handle.

- Exploding Axe (Area Effect Offensive, Requires Unison with Spear)
This attack is most useful after a Gungnir Strike,while it is at rest, Lynn can instruct Spear to will the device to burst into flames, with explosive force, catching enemies nearby off guard.. An excelent way to clear rooms when acting as point for conventional mages in places where care must be taken not to cause too much damage.

Bare Handed: Despite Waldron being a good friend and useful device, Lynn still considers it merely a 'safety device' for her opponents. Having progressed in bare handed combat since she was eight, her abilities in bare handed brutality far outstrip anything she does with her axe.

(NOTE: Lynn's Focus on Bare Handed techniques, and the comment on 'safety device' are homage to the manga Lind, who makes the epic comment after Hilde removes her axe from the fight. "That's not a weapon, THAT'S A SAFETY DEVICE!")

- Iron will, Iron fist (Reinforcement, condition):
Concentraiting magical energy into her arms, legs, and hands, Lynn turns her own limbs into tools of pure destruction, able to punch straight into solid plate steel without busting a knuckle. Able to guard from bladed devices and magical attacks with unshielded arms, to see her charging you down, and batting stinger blades and axel shooters asside is simply a psychological horror for any conventional mage.

- Point Buster (Contact Offensive, Barrier Breaker):
Ever wonder what a divine buster would do if it was not drawn out in a beam, but delivered into one spot, all at once? Lynn knows, she created the Point Buster, taking her Iron Will technique to the next level. Magical energy is concentraited in her fist the same way the Mjolnir strike works in Waldron, then delivered almost explosively to her opponent or target in the form of a punch.

- Flash Step (Movement, instantanious)
Flash Step is to Lynn, what Sonic Move, and Flash move are to other mages. Unlike normal flash moving, which carries momenum after accellerating, Flash Step litterally starts, and stops, in one step. Lynn will use it both in the air, or on the ground, to instantly cover distances to the precise spot she wishes to be in the blink of an eye.

- Flash Dance (Movement, continuous)
Flash step taken to the extreme. It requires Lynn's entire focus and willpower to keep this technique up. She litterally moves continuously at the speed and pacing of a flash step or sonic move, appearing to be a blur at best.

(NOTE: Flash Step and Dance are based off Lind's display of the Golden Eye mark of True power sequence, where she blitzes Hild in the Anime's OVA and Hilde has to go up to 50% of her true power just to keep step.)

- Heaven's Lightning Hammer (Contact offensive, barrier breaker, Double Unison required)
If the point buster was frightening, the HLH, is simply too much for words. This attack, is a kick. A BIG kick. Unisoned with Cool and Spear, Lynn will jump, or fly, high into the sky, then concentrait the same kind of magic force as her point buster, into her foot, and come down on the target like a meteor, smashing straight through barriers, walls, and other reinforcing materials, flattening, crushing, or just plain annihilating opponents like a divine force.

(This one's homage to Lind's meteor smash looking attack on the angel eater in the OVA.)

Defensive Notes:
Lynn believes in the concept that offense is the best defense, so you won't see her hiding behind barriers very often. However, she still wears a barrier jacket of her design, and knows the basic defensive barrier and shield spells for their limited use.



Psychological Impact:
Lynn recognizes that both her reputation, and her ferocity in combat have an adverse affect on all but the most hardy of opponents, and utilizes this to a great degree. She often never speaks at all to opponents in combat, casting an ominous silence as she goes about, only broken by blood chilling battle cries... relying on psychic broadcasts to do most of her communicating.


::SPECIALS::

- Lance and Again (Combo move.)
Lynn will throw Waldron, whether it's a Gungnir strike, or just a spear-like throw, she'll then summon it back to her hand with a Raven Call as soon as it hits, and repeat the action if she wishes to.


- Heavenly Descent (Signature Combination Move):
If Lynn has a target in her sight right at the opening of the fight, she will use this to try and start, AND FINISH, the fight. Starting from altitude, she will approach the target while applying flash dance to accellerate, build energy into Waldron for Mjolnir Strike, and then she will employ short range transfer/movement magic at the same time, and attempt to cover over a kilometer of distance to close combat range in no time flat and hit full force with Waldron...
To those who've been caught by this attack, it appears as if Lynn emerges from a fireball descending from the skies to deliver divine punishment in a single axe blow of judgement.

(NOTE: This is direct homage to Lind's 'descent' scene near the end of the first TV series, when she comes hurtling down out of a fireball to attack the Lord of Terror infecting Keiichi.)


- Odin's Thunderbolt (Team Move, requires Cool and Spear.)
This is an extended Gungnir Strike, made possible only by cooperation between Cool and Spear. Cool will give Lynn precise long range information on a distant opponent, Lynn will throw the strike in that direction, and Waldron will take care of mid-flight details. If the opponent is using any kind of barrier, the shattering of the barrier by the Gungnir Strike will leave the opponent vulnerable to the followup attack from Spear. Or, if Spear is Unisoned with Lynn, she'll unleash the Exploding Axe technique.

As Lynn puts her equipment through a lot of stress, its more likely that her device would be a storage or armed device but this is just a nit pick.

Raven Call: Doing away with this ability might be actually better. Its much cooler if someone manages to disarm her and she delivers that epic line. "Weapon? You've misunderstood. That's not a weapon. That's safety equipment. As long I was using that... your safety was guaranteed."

Mjolnir Strike: This is extremely overpowered. Its basically a 1 hit, 1 kill attack...aka Oscillating Breaker on major steroids.

Gungnir Strike: ....

*tshou reads on...

I give!! Everything is Haxxed!!!

On another point, you missed a few of Lind's abilities...

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Spoiler for Waldron Talking:

Waldron: Speach Patterns

Addresses owner [MILADY] (Addresses males as 'Milord')

Recognition: (Of owner, of Command) [TO SERVE] or [WITH HONOR]

Affirmation [YES]

Negetive: [NAY] or [NO]

Confirmation: [IT SHALL BE] or [CONSIDER IT DONE]

Warning: [BEWARE!]

PHYSICAL PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 9 (SS-)
Strength 8
Stamina 10 (She just keeps going, and going, and going...)
Speed 9
Reflexes 9
Dexterity 9

MENTAL PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 6 (AA-)
Intelligence 6
Wisdom 4
Judgement 8
Decision Time 9
Creativity 3

MAGIC PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 7.3 (AAA)
Magic Capacity 8
Recovery 8
Max Discharge 6

COMBAT PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 7.7 (AAA)
Magical Attack 10 (Exclusive Barrier Breaker Magics As Common Attacks!?)
Magical Defense 3
Battle Option Variability 3
Melee Attack 10 (Single strike kill moves?!)
Melee Defense 8
Stress Management 10 (H-H-H-H-HARDCORE!-core-core...)
Skill 10 (DOUBLE HARDCORE!)

BEHAVIOR PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 6 (AA-)
Compassion 1 (She cares for the innocent, but don't get in the way, or you'll get flattened.)
Loyalty 9
Submission (To Authority) 9
Confidence 10 (She WILL win, you WILL lose. This is not oppinion, this is 'fact'.)
Charisma 1 (A little too serious most of the time.)

OVERALL 7.2 (AAA-)

Spoiler for Unison Boosts:

SPECIAL:
Single Unison provides + 1 bonus to all three magical profile attributes, and + 3 to battle option variability.
Twin Unison provides + 2 bonus to all three magical profile attributes with no other special effects.


That would alter her magic Profile attributes as followes...

Single
MAGIC PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 8.3 (S)
Magic Capacity 9
Recovery 9
Max Discharge 7

COMBAT PROFILE ATTRIBUTES MODIFIED: 8.14

MODIFIED OVERALL: 7.5 (AAA)

Double
MAGIC PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 9.3 (SS)
Magic Capacity 10
Recovery 10
Max Discharge 8

MODIFIED OVERALL: 7.6 (AAA)

RANK::CATAGORY::SCORE
X - IMPOSSIBLE (INSANE) - 11
SSS - PHENOMINAL - 10
SS - SUPREME - 9
S - EXCELLENT - 8
AAA - GREAT - 7
AA - VERY GOOD - 6
A - GOOD - 5
B - ABOVE AVERAGE - 4
C - AVERAGE - 3
D - BELOW AVERAGE - 2
E - POOR - 1
F - NON FACTOR - 0


There's a minor change to her history to show that it was more physical training than magical training in there so we don't have to worry about her stressing her linker core completely out. Mmmkay?

End justifies the means, feh!! Her abilities are extremely haxxed....

I have to agree with the others who said its a good try. Lind is too haxx to try and port over. If you want to use this character, you need to tone down her abilities. A LOT.

Anyway, about your evaluation guide on mage ranking, have you actually tried it on a few canon characters to judge its accuracy?




@thread: A question to you guys. Precia Testarossa, iirc, was exiled for causing a dimensional incident on Mid Childa. How likely is it that the abandoned sections shown in StrikerS is actually caused by that incident that she caused?

[Jimmy C]

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Believe it or not, many people researching something they want, or for someone else, are narrow minded, especially the criminal types.

If you insist, you can go ahead. But I still think it's a bad idea to have their creators consider them junk. At the least, they ought to be maintained because someone else might be interested in a pair of UDs...

This one I did forget, compatability. I suppose I could close the links of fate a little more and say Cool and Spear were designed based on information gained from stolen data on Lynn.

Please don't. I facepalmed when they revealed that Ginga and Subaru were adopted, then revealed that they actually were based on Quint's genetic data, making them blood-related after all. I strongly recommend avoiding such roundabout connections between characters. I'd rather you have Cool Mint and Spearmint be TSAB projects than that. And I like that idea less than your current one.
Anyway, that would contradict you opinion that the researchers were focused on a goal with narrow objectives. If they really were, they'd be making a UD designed to be compatible with their backer, or someone of his.

Originally Posted by USB500

Now what if Outer Cadians get our hands on this substance.....

You too can buy your own stash of ferro fluid at USD150 per liter. Magnets and control systems sold seperately.

[PhoenixFlare]

Quick backlog buster.

Originally Posted by Keroko

See for yourself:

Awesome! Now, to proceed to the actual part ...

Originally Posted by LimitedEternal

I actually don't care about my age. I was just role-playing. No hard feeling, PF.

None taken.

Originally Posted by LimitedEternal

Hmm. Now you bring it up, we haven't seen his scrawlings here recently. *looks for Liingo*

Originally Posted by LimitedEternal

That's...actually a noteworthy thought. You have once central conspirator, who pulls all the strings, and the others just...go about their conspiracy, with no idea who's alongside them.

A good idea. That way, if one gets caught, the rest can carry on without it damaging the "process" any. Hmmm...something to remember for later. *evil grin*

I'm guessing that no one has noticed that GuardianS is supposed to be set that way?

And to top it off ...

Spoiler:

The central conspirator was being manipulated by another conspirator, which has a reason differing from that of the original conspirator.

Originally Posted by Kagerou

Ah. Well, I'd say no then .

In other news, here's the pre-scene to Episode 03. Once again, I have to ask if my translation is right .

Spoiler for MSLN Alpha 03, Scene 0:

Nanoha walked alone.

Following an endless road surrounded by tall grass, the young woman walked slowly, a solemn countenance she wore. Her eyes, narrowed and unfocusing, stared off into the endless horizon, counting down the hours and days until she became a part of the sky she used to love so much. A sky that now had no use for her, discarding her like so much garbage... or maybe it was her that discarded the sky. These days, it was so hard to tell one from the other.

A rustle to her side forced her attention to focus into the grass. Her heart seized with fear as she heard scurrying, followed by a hiss. Instinctively, her right hand grasped for a staff that wasn't there, and she tried to focus mana that seemed to have gone into the wild blue, never to return. Her Device rested uselessly against her neck as Nanoha's eyes widened, staring at the rustle of grass; staring at the slimy green tentacles that whipped out, catching her arms and legs, trying to drag her into the grass!

Nanoha screamed as she was brought to the ground, clawing desperately at the concrete to save her life. Her fingernails bled from the exertion as the tentacles' superior strength dragged her into the grass, pulling her at a lightning-fast speed that blinded her senses. Only her voice carried, an endless scream into the uncaring sky as the tentacles pulled her faster, faster, faster... then to a dead stop, in the middle of an open field.

Behind her, a voice... a voice crying for help... or maybe it was an offer of help. Nanoha stopped struggling as the tentacles lifted her up, up into the air, turning her around forcefully. Nanoha forced her eyes to shut, but she couldn't help the black urge to open them; and so, when she opened her eyes, she stared with a rapidly beating heart and deep fear at the creature that had brought her here.

Nanoha stared at the infected form of Vivio, crucified to a wooden cross, screaming in a mix of pain and pleasure.

"Mama!" The girl shouted. "Help me! Please! I'll be a good girl, I promise! Help me!"
"I..." Nanoha stared, forms forming but not escaping. "Vivio, I..."
"Mama! Help!" Vivio cried, tears of blood streaming down her face. Beneath her, the ground rumbled. "Mama! It's coming back! Get it before it kills us!"

And it rose from the ground, a great gaping red maw on a vine, with rows upon rows of teeth and a single glaring eye on top of a stalk. The creature lifted up, higher, above Nanoha, staring at her with its red eye, hissing. Nanoha stared back, unable to move and too afraid to do anything else as she stared at... at it.

"Become one with us." It said in its harsh voice. "Or become my food!"

Nanoha screamed in mortal terror as the monster's mouth came for her, its maw open wide, its teeth touching her skin and closing around her waist. A horrible pain, one that did not go away, one that persisted.

Nanoha screamed. And screamed. And screamed.

And screamed when she woke up.

Sitting up in bed, shaking, Nanoha looked around wildly, seeing that she was in her room, alone. Quickly, she got up and ran for her bathroom, barely making it to the toilet as she vomited, throwing up whatever she had eaten just hours ago. Groaning in disgust, Nanoha stood up and looked at herself in the bathroom mirror. A dull pain winced at her from all sides... kind of like a bruise, or line of bruises.

Nanoha froze.

Slowly, Nanoha grabbed the bottom of her nightshirt and lifted it up part way, her eyes widening in fear... then terror.

Neatly arranged in a ring, were dark red blemishes on her skin, around her waist in a neat row, in the same pattern that the monster's teeth were in her nightmare. Nanoha shook, clutching the sides of the sink in shock and disbelief.

"I will always be here, with you," The voice said to her. "I will accept you... or I will consume you."

Nanoha's eyes dilated in terror.

Maho Shoujo
- Lyrical Nanoha
----- Alpha -----

Episode 03: Chosa Seikatsuhi Tsumi (Investigation of Sin)

This Gravemind is really starting to tick me off ... HANDS OFF NANOHA!

Ehem, that got better than me. We'll just wait impatiently for the release.

Originally Posted by Kha

After drawing lots, I'm now bumbling through Rebuilt chapter 1. I've got plot, but no ability to write it nicely. I can't even capture the smell of a burning desert!

The smell of a desert ... ?

I don't think you can actually smell anything, since your nostrils will probably be stuck by sand, but if you do want to smell it ...

Spoiler:

The desert was a cruel place; it smelt horribly of sun-baked earth, of choking dust, of dry, arid air where the winds brought upon their languid sighs the scent of emptiness and desolation, war-torn destruction, and the nauseous, stomach-churning smell of overwhelming death, save for the hardiest, most vicious of organisms.

It was Hell incarnate, vast and empty, a void in the world of the living.

Not sure if it helps, and whether it fits whatever is in your mind.

Originally Posted by LoweGear

You want the long version or the short one? Nah, I think I'll provide both:

Spoiler for Short Version:

Basically it involves a marital legal scuffle that ended up in my niece becoming my younger sister.

Spoiler for Long Edit Version aka My Name is Lowe:

Okay okay

It started 5 years ago when my older sister (a year older) got into a falling out with my parents regarding an issue with her getting a boyfriend when she's not supposed to. So one day she skips school and dissapears forever...

Which translates to about a couple of years doing odd jobs and getting comfy with her guy.

After some on-off on-off negotiations with the family my sis and the guy are finally given the blessing to tie the knot... which would be right after they gave birth to a healthy young girl, aka the sole person in the latest generation of the family.

While obviously the baby would've been a good reason for the two to get married already, for some inexplicable reason the guy keeps postponing the marriage, which is already sounding veeery fishy...

By this time sis had fully reconciliated with the rest of the family, and for a short period she moves back in with us while waiting in the wings for the eventual ceremony...

Now here's the reeaal kicker. One day the guy visits to see his daughter... and in the process unleashes shi-loads of colorfully unholy language, improper conduct and DIS R.E.S.P.E.C.T. unto our extended family members.

Suffice it to say the guy went from would-be-future-brother-in-law to He-who-shall-not-be-named (HWSNBN for short) Voldemort style reviled by everyone on this side of the fence... including my sis, who broke off with him and took the baby under her custody.

The last act in the puzzle was when HWSNBN here tries to get the baby back but in the process has the baby listed as... illegitimate, since you know the two never got married.

... which then leads to the Holy Powers Of Legality smashing thine hammer unto the guy, thus severing ANY and all connection to my sis and the baby. In the process though the baby's old identity as my sister's daughter ceased to be, and instead my parents adopted their granddaughter under their name... thus in effect my niece became my youngest sister

And that's the gist of it

Some of my relatives went through this as well, and I must say that it was heart-breaking. Even though I understand that one day we would have to live independently, the relationship should be maintained. Ending a relationship with your family is like killing your own roots, and damage yourself more than you can ever think.

In any case, good to hear that your sister has finally returned, and broke off relationship with He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

Originally Posted by Wild Goose

...we have another Malaysian here? Or Indonesian? Or Singaporean?

Malaysians are somewhat overrepresented here in Outer Cadia; USB500's one of the prime purveyours of crack and yuricest (if he isn't yet, he will be by the time we're done with him), FieryAeon posts here and there, Phoenix Flare writes epic lenght, and I haxbust and make OCs and do "Hard" military-style writing.

*cough* That stereotype is amusing even as it is incorrectly held by the majority. *cough*



I guess that means that we're the mold-breakers?

=====

@Thread: Putting two issues into discussion:

1. What is the general perception of a "Limiter System"? Does it work by limiting the output of a mage without interfering with the mage's reserves, or is there another explanation on how it works? Does it form a barrier around the Linker Core that basically filters a mage's output?

If it is in the form of a barrier, can the same thing be fashioned out of magic (i.e. a barrier that locks around another mage's Linker Core), or technology, or both?


2. There are various energies in the world. What does the thread think about "thought-energy"? This does not translate into psychic powers or mind-reading, but simply energy that arises from a person's thoughts, feelings, and emotions. In GuardianS, there is plan to place a character with a Rare Skill that is able to harvest this form of "energy" to boost his or her magic. There is limitless possibility with the boosting capacity, but of course, there are limitations as well: (1) the energy generated by thought is much, much, much lower than that of an actual Mana (i.e. 1/100 of an actual Mana energy equivalence), so a lot of people have to combine their thoughts in order to generate substantial boost in magic; (2) the range of harvest is limited (author's limitation); (3) the mage using this Rare Skill is placed under severe mental stress (author's limitation), the overperformance of which can kill the said mage; (4) positive or negative thoughts actually create different implications in the magic boost - negative energy channels into major destructive powers, while positive ones help in boosting the intended effect of a spell (particularly healing ones).

I know that 2 and 3 are basically non-actual limitations, but if this can be done, the limits will be there. I'm using the same strategy again in which I'm asking that the thread trusts that I'd be observing the HAXX limits. <.<

[Aaron008R]

Just little peek.:3

@Lowe: 'Gago yun, a! Buti nga sa kanya! Anyway, good luck to your sister and your familiy in raising your new imouto. I hope she grows up well

@Kagerou: I've been reading the latest installments. And it's all from me! I love the fight scenes the most!: And it's awesome to see Glen and Id actually in synch. Carym and Genya's parts were And Nanoha's dreams are really getting over the top!

Good work! More power!

@FlameSparkZ: Welcome back! And those are AWESOME comeback scenes as well. To that pic of Koji patting Cinque's head! But my favorite bit there was Jealous!Maren. XD

Originally Posted by XenahortCharybdis

[SPOILER="Return comments on Cecile"]I saw it coming...my experience with timing is not entirely good enough. Higher rank you say? *changes*

Actually, it was rather self-based since I had Aurion casting spells real fast due to his devices being extra-fast processors...

And Rank+ for the girl is good.

No offense, but I coughed at the "Subaru and Teana are AA ranked skill wise" thing. Maybe that's because my standards for combat skill are a bit nuts.

It's okay. but considering flying grunts that are supposed to be A-ranked...

Spoiler for Return Comments for Olivier:

Nah, I apologize for not checking him out carefully first. But I like Aurion's real angry mode. Sounds cool. Anyways he'll need to keep his head as much as possible, as Olivier could kill him more easily if he were just to berserk or something.

Hmmm, PM? To discuss the details, I see? Alright, fair enough (The PM shall contain initial details on Bad Blood and my "little" list of spells for Olly)

Noted.
And that old guy really starting to sound scary...

Spoiler for Return Comments for the Pair:

Yes, Motherboard. I was taking my com apart the other day, and got a brainwave from there...

Globules? Yes, they can be globules. I just haven't shown the main power supply yet! Don't worry...

On the potential H4xx-ness, I can only say: Wait. Although if you would study the sketch carefully when it arrives tomorrow, you will sort of see where the H4XX will come from. *COUGH*OPERATION NIGHT SKY*COUGH*

Details is like...in-fic details? Or out-fic?

Will be waiting.

Flinging electric cables?>.>
Throwing around microchip bombs?<.<

Anyway, the details I was asking about is more on skills.

Spoiler for Reply Comments for Medorach:

Medorach: Adlertag, Leopold Scope, Load.

{Yes, Sin. Range extended to 200% of original output.}

Medorach: Excellen. Blutige Unruhe (Bloody Riot), Entlassung! (Release!)

{3...2...1...}

Medorach: Erwecken, Angst...Verschwinden! (Awaken, fear...Vanish!)

*copious amount of blood flows down his scope-eye...*

*explosion*

Medorach: This is Sinner Scope. The Demon is down. I repeat, this is Sinner Scope, the Demon is down.

Tyrfing: Still in one piece, I assure you...barely, of course.

I smell something. Do you?

It can go both ways...

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Ceh, you people know me too well. >_<

Of course.

Well, it's purely a subconscious spur-of-thought idea, so it's kinda very bare... but if I were to say something, basically, it's the typical semi-amnesia story, though with only very few parts of Aurion's memory blocked on purpose, and it revolves around Aurion's search for the parts of him he lost while being 'leaded' around towards a path back towards being the Heartless Ace, while Hayate's part revolves around uncovering the mystery of 'something' which unknowingly to both of them is the one leading Aurion down back to the past, and also her emotional growth to save Aurion.

Sounds EPIC! mustresist mustresist mustresist mustresist

And I can actuall see that happening too...

Uwaah... I'm glad I made Grandis or it might have ended up like this...

Actually, it's work better as an Aurion/Signum story now that I think about it, since constrast is actually a better recognative example... of which Aurion descends deeper, while Signum becomes more open.

It might. But AurionXSignum = DOES NOT COMPUTE!!!


Anyway, teaser? :3

Spoiler for Teaser. :3:

Seventh round…

“Attack!” Aurion commanded, sending several Proton Bolts at Hayate’s direction

“Ungh!” Hayate groaned in slight vexation, flying backwards as quickly as she could while using minimally sufficient defenses against Aurion’s attacks. 'This isn’t going anywhere… I can’t keep up with him!' She dodged another two Buster shots and blocked the third.

And clearly, Aurion wasn’t wasting any time, “Increase reserve energy output by 13%.” he ordered.

[Acknowledged.] Reishiki’s systems highlights blinked several times, increasing the release of the stored energy within Aurion’s prosthetic arm.

“Reishiki…” He then activates his Magic Field Manipulation ability, signified by his eyes starting to glow a cobalt hue. Several beads of residual energy from the surroundings begin forming around him. “Bullet, RM-5...”

[Remote Bullet: Unit count, five.] Five spheres that are noticeably larger than his Proton Bolt units form from the gathered energy. [Preparation, complete.]

He points forward with his right and snaps his fingers, “Attack!”

Hayate tried defending, but the five bullets only danced around her shields, two managing to score clean hits. “Ahh!” she was temporarily knocked out of her flight, falling down quickly towards the ground.

“No reprise allowed yet…” Aurion flies towards Hayate, directing the three remaining orbs at her.

'What can I do?' Hayate stops her fall and gets ready to defend, but an idea hits her. 'Ah! Now I know!' Just when the bullets hit her from three sides, she deactivates her flight magic entirely, as well as storing her staff and tome, freefalling towards the ground.

'Uncontrolled descent?' Aurion slows down his pursuit and made his bullets follow her faster instead.

'Alright…' Hayate pressed her arms to her sides and her legs together for least air friction, plummeting headfirst towards the ground. She closes her eyes in concentration, connecting with Tiara inside her, 'Barrier of the Hall of Heroes… Heed my call…’ her body begins shining.

'Not fast enough!' His eyes glow brighter as he wills his projectiles to go even faster in pursuit.

Hayate does a quick reversal as she activates her wings again before hitting the ground. She summons her staff, slamming its hilt onto the earth. “Calamity Wall!”

[Mauer des Schicksalsschlages.]

Hayate’s immediate surroundings became encased in a shimmering dome of pure white energy.

“A defensive dome…” Aurion points his left arm towards the glimmering sphere, a large amount of energy coalescing in front of Reshiki’s barrel. “Let’s see how tough it is.”

[Proton Cannon.]

Four hits on one point… Aurion fires, also making the three Remote Bullets converge on exactly the same spot.

*BOOM!!!*

“What the…!”

The smoke cleared. No visible damage was dealt.

“Hmm…” Aurion expression is unreadable, but he smiles as he nears the point. “Reishiki, Front Attacker. Ten seconds!”

[Acknowledged. Readying Auto-Guard and reinforcing frame…]

Aurion plummets towards the ground beside the dome, flips before landing, turns and rears back his left fist.

[Break Impulse.]

“Hyah!” he punches the side of the field defense and a powerful explosion follows, causing several cracks to appear but not quite breaking the barrier. But before he could do anything further, an intense beam of contrasting black energy blasted out of the damaged exterior of the field, almost hitting Aurion head-on if he didn’t use his prepared defense as leverage to get out of the ray’s trajectory in time.

Apparently, Hayate wasn’t dawdling inside her shield. Calamity Wall is an autonomous defense that doesn’t need any further sustenance after being released, giving her a chance for casting other spells inside, though it also takes a lot of energy to cast. And the spell she had cast afterwards unleashed six sizable orbs of jet black energy, all of which fired equally ebony beams at the elderly mage.

“Tch.” Aurion quickly ascended while zipping left and right to avoid the six dark pulsating spheres which were firing buster-like beams at him. 'A self-sustained barrier able to withstand up to a triple-A power single-hit attack…and an independent attack drone spell to boot…'

Valkyric Buster. A new spell Hayate developed to compensate for her slow magic processing speed. Once cast, six orbs of light would automatically seek out specified enemies and shoot them with powerful beams of about A+ ranked power. Each orb can fire at least fifteen times each. Normally, it would take some time to cast, but Hayate managed to pull it off due to the…

'Calamity Wall, huh?' Aurion thought contemplatively as he was forced to duck and make an awkward mid-air bent-pirouette to avoid a simultaneous shot from the six. 'She kept herself safe while casting another spell. Nice.' He pointed his left arm at one and fired off a Proton Blaster, only for his shot to be met with almost equal force by an onyx beam emitted from the sphere, eventually being overwhelmed as a second sphere fires as well, forcing him to pull back his arm to avoid getting hit. “Hah… I’m being outdone …” he mutters flippantly as he dodges a third sphere. 'I could definitely handle that barrier the next instance its cast if given enough time, but these spheres are too tenacious… It depends on her next move…'

“Yosh.” Hayate put some more distance between them, touching down on the ground. She raises her staff, “Once more!” and slams Schwertkreuz’s hilt on the earth once again, “Calamity Wall!” her surroundings becomes surrounded for the second time with a dome of white defensive energy.

“Tsk, there goes my chance.” Aurion’s eyes start glowing again as he prepares energy for his next moves. 'Smart girl… That’s how you do it!' He smiles with satisfaction despite his disadvantage. But… His smile grows wider. 'You’ll have to do better than that to hit me properly!' Eleven other figures of himself appear via Illusion magic, throwing off the tracking of the Valkyric Busters since the illusions dodge as well.

'Just as expected… Still…' Hayate breaths deeply and raises her staff; her tome flipping several pages. “Hear me, Divine Heralds of Rebirth thru Destruction…” Several pinions of light began swirling around Hayate. After several seconds of charging, she points her staff skyward, “Cast down your Spears of Judgment and end this ephemeral conflict!” the points of light begins to gather on bladed tip of Schwertkreuz.

[Weißsturm.]

“Divine Arrows of Light; White Storm!”

“Wha-!” Aurion exclaims as he sees the spectacular sight.

A single ray of radiant light bursts upward from Hayate’s dome of protection. After reaching a point in the sky, the tip exploded into innumerable arcs of energy, each individual beam barreling onto the earth with such incredible speed. All of Aurion’s illusions weren’t able to dodge the shafts of light from skewering them, promptly vanishing upon contact. Even the Valkyric Busters were destroyed by friendly fire. For a few moments, a diameter of three hundred meters around Hayate was illuminated by the dazzling needles of energy descending from the sky. A deafening trail of explosions accompanied the splendorous display. And Hayate, not taking any chances, surrounded herself with a smaller but equally powerful barrier, as well as raising another shield above her head, letting the shafts of light rain down on her position as well to ensure minimal blind spots.

After the bombardment subsided, a great amount of dust litters the air, clearly blown off the ground by Hayate’s last attack, even if it was set to non-lethal damage. Hayate panted heavily after deactivating her overhead shield, the casting of such a powerful spell and defending against it taking their immediate toll. She quickly scanned her surroundings

“N-no…”

The only problem is… the real Aurion was nowhere to be seen… Only the illusions were there!

“He wasn’t there?!” Hayate began frantically turning her head around to look for him, “But that’s-!” She shakes her head. 'This isn’t the time to leave myself vulnerable!' Her surroundings begin glowing with defensive energy again. 'I don’t know how you escaped, but I won’t give you an opening!'

Thanks to PF for letting me borrow one of his Hayate's spells.

I decided to post my most recently-made action scene here.>.>
Anyway, to the others, are the performance and power-levels here acceptable?<.<
I tried to regulate a lot. And this is one of the instances that Hayate gets an advantage.>_<
Do her actions here have any glaring flaws? Any suggestions/criticisms?

Oh. And for a bit of fun.

Spoiler for smaller piece:

“Right.” Aurion marched through the rocky terrain without losing stride. “Let’s try to get as much as we can done this day. I don’t want to embark on our mission a few days from now with any bugs left in your devices.”

“We could as long as you promise to go easy on me.” Hayate replies cheerfully as she jogged a bit to keep up with the taller man's pace.

“What does that have to do with anything?” Aurion answered back dismissively, “Anyway, remember how Nanoha used to train Lanster and the others?”

“Yes.” Hayate fakes a frightened tone, “Wait, that means… *gasp* Iya~!” she hugs herself and does an affected shiver, “Please don’t push me that hard! I’m very fragile~!”

“Sure, sure, I won’t.” he then smiles wickedly, “I’ll just push you harder.”

“Oji-chan!”

“I’m not joking.”

“But you know I’m-”

“Your lack of exercise and arguably weak constitution does not concern your enemies, and naturally won’t concern me as well since I’ll be your opponent. Besides, I heard Tesla’s been working you hard for several months now so you should be used to it.”

Hayate complained indignantly, “But that training landed me in the infirmary for a couple of days on one occasion!”

“Wha-?!” Genuine surprise showed in Aurion’s expression this time, “Eh?”

“It’s tru-Oops!” Hayate covers her mouth and laughs nervously. “F-forget I said that!” She then looked away. 'Uu~, I’m sorry, Tesla!'

“Hoho~…” Aurion strokes his chin amusedly, “so Tesla’s been teaching you quite properly after all…”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Ha-chiuu!” Tesla sneezes.

“Bless you, desu~!”

“Ah, thanks…” 'What was that about?'

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Apparently, Tesla might have overdone Hayate's training once or twice...

*runs*

A little treat. Almost 2000 words of spoiler. :3

[PhoenixFlare]

@Aaron: White Storm, in the exact same spelling as Leona's own (different effect, though )! And Hayate pulling off a stupendous double-trouble with Calamity Wall . And maybe I've forgotten to mention this, but Calamity Wall isn't stackable/cannot be layered, or otherwise it'd become HAXX. And the drain from every single cast equals that of a full-powered Hraesvelgr, even if the defensive power isn't much (can't give Hayate too much advantage of strong protection and free spell launching :3).

[Aaron008R]

Originally Posted by PhoenixFlare

@Aaron: White Storm, in the exact same spelling as Leona's own (different effect, though )! And Hayate pulling off a stupendous double-trouble with Calamity Wall . And maybe I've forgotten to mention this, but Calamity Wall isn't stackable/cannot be layered, or otherwise it'd become HAXX. And the drain from every single cast equals that of a full-powered Hraesvelgr, even if the defensive power isn't much (can't give Hayate too much advantage of strong protection and free spell launching :3).

Thanks!

And don't worry. Calamity Wall isn't likely to appear after that since I also thought it's very taxing due to possible abuse. I better add your details as well. Though I guess it's alright that at least a single Break Impulse was repelled with cracks, right?

Thanks for the input!

[USB500]

Too Aaron: damn it! That was an intense story! And did Hayate just turn The Nile? poor Tesla, having been "backstabbed" when she expected it the least.

Now, if only I could draw some of the OCs (or any SRW characters) in Undine uniform... >_> <_< coughexcellenandlamiacough

Well, I'm off for now. See you guys tomorrow.

[Kha]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Would explain the lack of long range weapons

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Gambatte, "Warera no Ken"

Er... Who's sword?

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Think UNLIMITED DRILL WORKS are just for those with Spiral Power and OTOKO NO TAMASHII O MOERU?!?!?!

Spoiler for Think Again:

No, this is not CGI. It's a demonstration of Ferro-fluid, basically a oil/iron suspension manipulated by magnetic fields:

This is interesting... Now to ensure this drill can drill.

Originally Posted by tshouryuu

@thread: A question to you guys. Precia Testarossa, iirc, was exiled for causing a dimensional incident on Mid Childa. How likely is it that the abandoned sections shown in StrikerS is actually caused by that incident that she caused?

I totally agree. In fact, in Rebuilt, the vast destroyed areas were attributed to her, resulting in her exile, but she's not completely at fault, as revealed in arcs before StrikerS. I'll recap it for you guys in Rebuilt episode 1 as Kha will be explaining to Erio how Fate, the Plaguelands, and even the Cleric himself, all came to be.

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by USB500

In before epic battle for the legendary King of Heart title.

*cue exploding mountains, flying debris, crashing waves and hotblooded tears of burning courage*

Akira: Shishou and his former student fighting each other in the manliest battle of all?!!!! THIS FIGHT SHALL SHATTER CONTINENTS!!!!
Touma: *is speechless and cries manly tears*

Yeah, that's about it.

THE EAST IS BURNING RED!!!!!!

Originally Posted by USB500

Mai: .....

............

.............

he refuses to learn his lesson.

Ishida:

More like:

Mai: ...

Mokyou Hakaisuru.

Originally Posted by USB500

this fluid is the fluid that shall pierce through the heavens !!!

Ahem.

Now what if Outer Cadians get our hands on this substance.....

Though it'll be quite a messy substance to use

Originally Posted by USB500

Let the madness show begin!


*goes to post this at fanfiction thread*

[/QUOTE]

And the MADNESS continues, this time with more Touhou and Aria goodness accompanying the... thickening plot?

And bets on who actually survives this stage play

*runs*

Originally Posted by Jimmy C

You too can buy your own stash of ferro fluid at USD150 per liter. Magnets and control systems sold seperately.

...

Interesting

Originally Posted by PhoenixFlare

And to top it off ...

Spoiler:

The central conspirator was being manipulated by another conspirator, which has a reason differing from that of the original conspirator.

Originally Posted by PhoenixFlare

I don't think you can actually smell anything, since your nostrils will probably be stuck by sand, but if you do want to smell it ...

Spoiler:

The desert was a cruel place; it smelt horribly of sun-baked earth, of choking dust, of dry, arid air where the winds brought upon their languid sighs the scent of emptiness and desolation, war-torn destruction, and the nauseous, stomach-churning smell of overwhelming death, save for the hardiest, most vicious of organisms.

It was Hell incarnate, vast and empty, a void in the world of the living.

Not sure if it helps, and whether it fits whatever is in your mind.

I think that works

Originally Posted by PhoenixFlare

Some of my relatives went through this as well, and I must say that it was heart-breaking. Even though I understand that one day we would have to live independently, the relationship should be maintained. Ending a relationship with your family is like killing your own roots, and damage yourself more than you can ever think.

In any case, good to hear that your sister has finally returned, and broke off relationship with He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

Especially here where family is most sacred, yup it's somewhat akin to suicide. You won't believe the bad blood my sis stirred up in the family while she was away

Which is why it's a good thing she's now returned and has cut off all ties with the guy

Originally Posted by PhoenixFlare

@Thread: Putting two issues into discussion:

1. What is the general perception of a "Limiter System"? Does it work by limiting the output of a mage without interfering with the mage's reserves, or is there another explanation on how it works? Does it form a barrier around the Linker Core that basically filters a mage's output?

If it is in the form of a barrier, can the same thing be fashioned out of magic (i.e. a barrier that locks around another mage's Linker Core), or technology, or both?

From the way it was protrayed in the anime, I think the filtering option would be the best way to put it. Basically just a "valve" so to speak that would forcefully limit the maximum output out of the Linker Core to a certain amount, and as we see the amount of power limited can be controlled.

The way I see it, the limiter inside the mage itself is primarily magical, given the linker core's nature, but controlled through magitech like how Carim and Chrono unlocked it.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

@Lowe: 'Gago yun, a! Buti nga sa kanya! Anyway, good luck to your sister and your familiy in raising your new imouto. I hope she grows up well

Talaga

And on whether we raise her well... lemme get back to you in 20 years

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Anyway, teaser? :3

Spoiler for Teaser. :3:

Seventh round…

“Attack!” Aurion commanded, sending several Proton Bolts at Hayate’s direction

“Ungh!” Hayate groaned in slight vexation, flying backwards as quickly as she could while using minimally sufficient defenses against Aurion’s attacks. 'This isn’t going anywhere… I can’t keep up with him!' She dodged another two Buster shots and blocked the third.

And clearly, Aurion wasn’t wasting any time, “Increase reserve energy output by 13%.” he ordered.

[Acknowledged.] Reishiki’s systems highlights blinked several times, increasing the release of the stored energy within Aurion’s prosthetic arm.

“Reishiki…” He then activates his Magic Field Manipulation ability, signified by his eyes starting to glow a cobalt hue. Several beads of residual energy from the surroundings begin forming around him. “Bullet, RM-5...”

[Remote Bullet: Unit count, five.] Five spheres that are noticeably larger than his Proton Bolt units form from the gathered energy. [Preparation, complete.]

He points forward with his right and snaps his fingers, “Attack!”

Hayate tried defending, but the five bullets only danced around her shields, two managing to score clean hits. “Ahh!” she was temporarily knocked out of her flight, falling down quickly towards the ground.

“No reprise allowed yet…” Aurion flies towards Hayate, directing the three remaining orbs at her.

'What can I do?' Hayate stops her fall and gets ready to defend, but an idea hits her. 'Ah! Now I know!' Just when the bullets hit her from three sides, she deactivates her flight magic entirely, as well as storing her staff and tome, freefalling towards the ground.

'Uncontrolled descent?' Aurion slows down his pursuit and made his bullets follow her faster instead.

Alright… Hayate pressed her arms to her sides and her legs together for least air friction, plummeting headfirst towards the ground. She closes her eyes in concentration, connecting with Tiara inside her, 'Barrier of the Hall of Heroes… Heed my call…’ her body begins shining.

'Not fast enough!' His eyes glow brighter as he wills his projectiles to go even faster in pursuit.

Hayate does a quick reversal as she activates her wings again before hitting the ground. She summons her staff, slamming its hilt onto the earth. “Calamity Wall!”

[Mauer des Schicksalsschlages.]

Hayate’s immediate surroundings became encased in a shimmering dome of pure white energy.

“A defensive dome…” Aurion points his left arm towards the glimmering sphere, a large amount of energy coalescing in front of Reshiki’s barrel. “Let’s see how tough it is.”

[Proton Cannon.]

Four hits on one point… Aurion fires, also making the three Remote Bullets converge on exactly the same spot.

*BOOM!!!*

“What the…!”

The smoke cleared. No visible damage was dealt.

“Hmm…” Aurion expression is unreadable, but he smiles as he nears the point. “Reishiki, Front Attacker. Ten seconds!”

[Acknowledged. Readying Auto-Guard and reinforcing frame…]

Aurion plummets towards the ground beside the dome, flips before landing, turns and rears back his left fist.

[Break Impulse.]

“Hyah!” he punches the side of the field defense and a powerful explosion follows, causing several cracks to appear but not quite breaking the barrier. But before he could do anything further, an intense beam of contrasting black energy blasted out of the damaged exterior of the field, almost hitting Aurion head-on if he didn’t use his prepared defense as leverage to get out of the ray’s trajectory in time.

Apparently, Hayate wasn’t dawdling inside her shield. Calamity Wall is an autonomous defense that doesn’t need any further sustenance after being released, giving her a chance for casting other spells inside, though it also takes a lot of energy to cast. And the spell she had cast afterwards unleashed six sizable orbs of jet black energy, all of which fired equally ebony beams at the elderly mage.

“Tch.” Aurion quickly ascended while zipping left and right to avoid the six dark pulsating spheres which were firing buster-like beams at him. 'A self-sustained barrier able to withstand up to a triple-A power single-hit attack…and an independent attack drone spell to boot…'

Valkyric Buster. A new spell Hayate developed to compensate for her slow magic processing speed. Once cast, six orbs of light would automatically seek out specified enemies and shoot them with powerful beams of about A+ ranked power. Each orb can fire at least fifteen times each. Normally, it would take some time to cast, but Hayate managed to pull it off due to the…

'Calamity Wall, huh?' Aurion thought contemplatively as he was forced to duck and make an awkward mid-air bent-pirouette to avoid a simultaneous shot from the six. 'She kept herself safe while casting another spell. Nice.' He pointed his left arm at one and fired off a Proton Blaster, only for his shot to be met with almost equal force by an onyx beam emitted from the sphere, eventually being overwhelmed as a second sphere fires as well, forcing him to pull back his arm to avoid getting hit. “Hah… I’m being outdone …” he mutters flippantly as he dodges a third sphere. 'I could definitely handle that barrier the next instance its cast if given enough time, but these spheres are too tenacious… It depends on her next move…'

“Yosh.” Hayate put some more distance between them, touching down on the ground. She raises her staff, “Once more!” and slams Schwertkreuz’s hilt on the earth once again, “Calamity Wall!” her surroundings becomes surrounded for the second time with a dome of white defensive energy.

“Tsk, there goes my chance.” Aurion’s eyes start glowing again as he prepares energy for his next moves. 'Smart girl… That’s how you do it!' He smiles with satisfaction despite his disadvantage. But… His smile grows wider. 'You’ll have to do better than that to hit me properly!' Eleven other figures of himself appear via Illusion magic, throwing off the tracking of the Valkyric Busters since the illusions dodge as well.

'Just as expected… Still…' Hayate breaths deeply and raises her staff; her tome flipping several pages. “Hear me, Divine Heralds of Rebirth thru Destruction…” Several pinions of light began swirling around Hayate. After several seconds of charging, she points her staff skyward, “Cast down your Spears of Judgment and end this ephemeral conflict!” the points of light begins to gather on bladed tip of Schwertkreuz.

[Weißsturm.]

“Divine Arrows of Light; White Storm!”

“Wha-!” Aurion exclaims as he sees the spectacular sight.

A single ray of radiant light bursts upward from Hayate’s dome of protection. After reaching a point in the sky, the tip exploded into innumerable arcs of energy, each individual beam barreling onto the earth with such incredible speed. All of Aurion’s illusions weren’t able to dodge the shafts of light from skewering them, promptly vanishing upon contact. Even the Valkyric Busters were destroyed by friendly fire. For a few moments, a diameter of three hundred meters around Hayate was illuminated by the dazzling needles of energy descending from the sky. A deafening trail of explosions accompanied the splendorous display. And Hayate, not taking any chances, surrounded herself with a smaller but equally powerful barrier, as well as raising another shield above her head, letting the shafts of light rain down on her position as well to ensure minimal blind spots.

After the bombardment subsided, a great amount of dust litters the air, clearly blown off the ground by Hayate’s last attack, even if it was set to non-lethal damage. Hayate panted heavily after deactivating her overhead shield, the casting of such a powerful spell and defending against it taking their immediate toll. She quickly scanned her surroundings

“N-no…”

The only problem is… the real Aurion was nowhere to be seen… Only the illusions were there!

“He wasn’t there?!” Hayate began frantically turning her head around to look for him, “But that’s-!” She shakes her head. 'This isn’t the time to leave myself vulnerable!' Her surroundings begin glowing with defensive energy again. 'I don’t know how you escaped, but I won’t give you an opening!'

Thanks to PF for letting me borrow one of his Hayate's spells.

I decided to post my most recently-made action scene here.>.>
Anyway, to the others, are the performance and power-levels here acceptable?<.<
I tried to regulate a lot. And this is one of the instances that Hayate gets an advantage.>_<
Do her actions here have any glaring flaws? Any suggestions/criticisms?

That's a Teaser?

It's more like WIN and AWESOME, with an almost even match between Hayate and Aurion there Wish to see more please

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Oh. And for a bit of fun.

Spoiler for smaller piece:

“Right.” Aurion marched through the rocky terrain without losing stride. “Let’s try to get as much as we can done this day. I don’t want to embark on our mission a few days from now with any bugs left in your devices.”

“We could as long as you promise to go easy on me.” Hayate replies cheerfully as she jogged a bit to keep up with the taller man's pace.

“What does that have to do with anything?” Aurion answered back dismissively, “Anyway, remember how Nanoha used to train Lanster and the others?”

“Yes.” Hayate fakes a frightened tone, “Wait, that means… *gasp* Iya~!” she hugs herself and does an affected shiver, “Please don’t push me that hard! I’m very fragile~!”

“Sure, sure, I won’t.” he then smiles wickedly, “I’ll just push you harder.”

“Oji-chan!”

“I’m not joking.”

“But you know I’m-”

“Your lack of exercise and arguably weak constitution does not concern your enemies, and naturally won’t concern me as well since I’ll be your opponent. Besides, I heard Tesla’s been working you hard for several months now so you should be used to it.”

Hayate complained indignantly, “But that training landed me in the infirmary for a couple of days on one occasion!”

“Wha-?!” Genuine surprise showed in Aurion’s expression this time, “Eh?”

“It’s tru-Oops!” Hayate covers her mouth and laughs nervously. “F-forget I said that!” She then looked away. 'Uu~, I’m sorry, Tesla!'

“Hoho~…” Aurion strokes his chin amusedly, “so Tesla’s been teaching you quite properly after all…”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Ha-chiuu!” Tesla sneezes.

“Bless you, desu~!”

“Ah, thanks…” 'What was that about?'

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Apparently, Tesla might have overdone Hayate's training once or twice...

*runs*

A little treat. Almost 2000 words of spoiler. :3

... this piece could be deconstructed and interpreted in so many ways it's making my head spin

Though I know which version I'm interpreting it as



*runs faster*

Originally Posted by Kha

Er... Who's sword?

The Sword that protects the Sorceress of the Void of course

*RUNS*

[FlameSparkZ]

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Only when it adds up.

I see

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Just asking first and putting the reminder in. You sent in a pretty high average character.

Yep
Again, without Maren, he'd be more focused on the physical part than balanced in both physical and magical attributes.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Explains the high Loyalty to comrades perfectly. But you see how well that profile system really works. I didn't read anything on your character but that score sheet, and I developed a character profile.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

**Random 'SWEET!' moment.
I was watching my vid and paused it right as Lind catches Hilde coming out of her portal, and in the frame it stopped on you can actually see that Hild really did catch the blade with her fingers. I just looked at it in Adobe, and it's only eight frames. But sheesh, attention to detail! NICE.
**

Yeah, I get moments like that sometimes

Originally Posted by Keroko

You saw right.

I thought so

Originally Posted by Keroko

Better, much better.

Good

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

I see you're still dangerously interested in those type of girls

Which is a good thing, I didn't collect the wrong types...

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Here's an update...

Spoiler for Lynn:

Lynn A. Bardou

Spoiler for Theme Song!:

NAME: Lynn Ayame Bardou

CALLSIGN: Thanatos 1
RANK: Captain
POSITION: Elite Enforcer Unit Special Weapons And Tactics, Shock Enforcer
AGE: 32
MAGE CLASS: AAA (7.2, see attributes chart at bottom of page.)

Spoiler for Futureweapons FTW!:

[Futureweapons Narration]
'When the situation is far beyond the capabilities of just about every mage in the field, when the problem is so far out of hand that even the greatest aces can no longer handle it, when even the most optimistic find it to be a hopeless lost cause... The TSAB don't get mad, they get even, and send in the SWAT. And these are not just your regular Special Weapons And Tactics. These are the ELITE, the Shock Enforcers.

Unlike conventional mages, who tend to perform a wide range of missions ranging from rescue, to combat duty, to seize and secure... Shock Enforcers only have one mission: Search, and Destroy.
Training every day for battles they may never see, these elite special forces mages are prepared to tackle just about any situation, any adversary, anywhere. Quickly, easily, and lethally, all at the drop of a hat.
They employ an impressive array of powerful magical techniques based on causing maximum damage, confusion, and terror in the enemy, in the shortest time possible. Their reputation for their performance is nothing short of intimidating, and they are quite simply, terrifying to be up against.
Trust me, you don't want to be the one they're after when they knock down the door... because the whole building is probably going to be knocked down with it.

And leading this Elite Unit, is the most terrifying of them all:
Captain Lynn A. Bardou. Thanatos One.'
[/Futureweapons Narration]

Spoiler for History:

From age Six, young Lynn had been enchanted with the idea of becoming an Enforcer. A protector of the peace who would matte out justice to the unjust, and protect the people.
It was unfortunate that the accident that resulted in the Abandoned City on Mid Childa killed her parents and left her orphaned before age eight.

Feeling betrayed by the universe at the eradication of her happy childhood, she became determined to prove herself as an Enforcer, and to bring criminals everywhere to justice. So much was her determination and anger that before she even reached puberty, she was subjecting her body to a grueling physical training regimen that bordered on torturous... Seeking to make her body stronger so that her linker core would develope stronger to allow her more magical power.
So intense was this training in fact, that she had been hospitalized three times and told not to continue. But she did anyway. By the time she was old enough to take the Enforcer exams for the TSAB, she had built up such an astounding tolerance for pain and exhaustion that she didn't win her combat challenges by skill, but by simply bullrushing her instructors and ignoring spells that quickly escalated into actual combat ranges.

Her combat and magical training came later, and once again, it astounded and frightened her instructors. Lynn would train endlessly on her own between lessons, always seeming to seek more and more power, under harsh training regimens that would exhaust a normal mage. But she simply demanded more, and then crushed it underfoot. By the time she completed her training and qualified as an enforcer, her combat abilities were nothing but Phenominal.

It became clear soon after her qualification that she just wasn't cut out for being an Enforcer... Or rather, the Enforcer position wasn't made to handle her level of combat skill. Lynn was for lack of a better term, aggressive. Beyond aggressive. Often the first into a fight, and quickest to close combat, she would often be knee deep in trouble before any backup could even get into range. Overextending herself time and again, as well as an insane agression level left her opponents in a state of frenzied panic, she was seen as far too wild. Her collatteral in many pitched fights, was nothing short of spectacular. If it was in the way, it got knocked down, simple as that.

However, while it was deemed dangerous to a degree, it was also seen as potential untapped. Conceptually, a new unit was formed in the Enforcers to encompass an Elite Strike Unit for situations where the only way to take an adversary out was with immediate, unrestrained, overkill. The entire concept was based on Shock Troopers... and the Shock Enforcers were born.

Lynn in person isn't as frightening as she is in combat, having earned the nickname the Angel of Death from her enemies... Polite, but serious, she doesn't look to provoke, and doesn't bother to insult, patronize, or otherwise do any kind of deliberate brown nosing. She quite simply, states facts as she sees them. Which can be quite frustrating to some, but her fearsome reputation keeps most people who don't know her from voicing counter oppinions. She has a fond appreciation for those who strive to improve themselves and hard workers.

Spoiler for Unisons:

Twin Unisons, Cool and Spear Mint:
Created by illegal means, the twins Cool and Spear were one of many immoral magical experiments, much like Agito. Luckly, their nature was actually a failure. What had been desired in this experiment was a unison that was capable of handling two polar opposite elements at the same time, in order to compliment the user. What occured was the opposite magics repelled each other, and instead of one Unison, two were created that shared a deep bond. Considered unworthy of any study, they were discarded to a cage, told they were simply useless, and left to near starvation.
It might have been an act of fate that saved them when the TSAB ordered a full scale operation on the remote facility, lead off by Lynn herself.
In the chaos of her attack, Cool and Spear could only watch as Lynn mercilessly demolished any semblance of defense and obliterated ressistance. They were later rescued by the unit of Regular Enforcers who then searched the facility.
When they asked who the 'divine one' was that had so effortlessly won the battle, they had been told about Lynn and her past.
Inspired by Lynn's incredible display and life story, they decided they too would prove they weren't just useless as they had been told, and asked if they could go to train with her.
As one who appreciated such fortitude and determination, Lynn accepted the request... It took three years for the Unisons to even come close to being 'useful' on the battlefield, but they never gave up, eventually forming a comradery with Lynn that many mages through would never happen with the Shock Enforcer.

Their abilities are rather unique. By themselves, Each reprisents an element of Unison Magic, Cool controlling Ice, and Spear being Fire. They can unison normally with any mage in this way and provide the same power boost and elemental bonus abilities. But what hadn't been expected, was the ability for twin unison. Normally, only one unison can occupy a mage, but the twins' unique bond allows them to unison together and with a mage. Their elemental powers cancel out however, but the power boost the mage recieves makes up for this.

When seperate, they fulfill their own roles.

Cool Mint:
Cool is calm and calculating, often acting as a scout and area controller. Her skilled ice abilities and careful planning are often used to trap her enemies while Lynn bulldozes them.

Spear Mint:
More into The Big Guns, Spear and her Fire based elemental power will not hesitate to demolish obsticals and provide Lynn with backside fire support. (Not that she needs it very often.)

When working together as a pair, Cool will often deal with defending while Spear goes on the offensive.

Knowing what Unison is in effect:
To know who's unisoned, look at Lynn's eyes. If her eyes glow silver, Cool is Unisoned In, if they're crimson, it's Spear. If they're Gold, it's a Double.

(NOTE: Now I pay homage to the Golden Eye)

Spoiler for Combat Abilities:

LYNN'S COMBAT ABILITIES
Lynn specializes in vicious close quarters fighting, relying on a doctrine of speed, power, and psychological warfare to multiply her combat power. Her magical focus is on barrier breaking impacts and first strike 'killing blows'.


Intelligent Rod (Axe) 'Waldron' (Female Device Voice, See notes just before Ranking Profile): Lynn is a master of pole armed close combat. Her intelligent device, Waldron, is a fearsome single bladed battle axe with a spear point on its head that holds a vicious ability to smash, cut, and peirce through obstacles at will. Foregoing the multiple forms of other devices, Waldron has been heavily reinforced and its abilities of regeneration made more powerful to stand up to the fearsom rigors Lynn will put it through. Considering projectile magics too slow to use, costly, and ineffective, Lynn's device operates almost exclusively in contact magic attacks.

- Raven Call (Logistic/Tactical): Lynn can summon Waldron from anywhere. And we mean anywhere. Whether it is calling it to her side in battle, calling it from the corpse of a fallen enemy, or summoning it from a pool of magma, Waldron obeys, and materializes in her grasp.

- Mjolnir Strike (Contact Offensive, barrier breaker): *Pronunciation 'MUOLL-neer Strike' *
Concentraiting magical energy into the swing and leading blade edge of Waldron, the most common magical attack Lynn has at her disposal is nothing short of getting straight to the point at maximum force. The blow it unleashes cleaves through solid steel armor over meter thick, and shatters concrete on contact. Barriers and shields mean little to this strike, often shattering immediately on impact, leaving the mage on the recieving end to deal with bone crushing force with little more than the protection of their barrier jackets to save them.

- Gungnir Strike: (Contact Offensive, weapon throw, barrier breaker, semi-guided.) When Lynn decides to let go of Waldron, it's usually as dangerous as when she's holding it. Instead of along the axe blade, the magical energy concentraits along the spear like head at the end, and Lynn throws the whole device like a Javaline. Waldron then flies under its own intelligent magical guidance to place itself on target. The results are often just as terrifying as the Mjolnir Strike, usually shattering barriers and pinning forces to the wall. (Those that survive.)

- Odin's Wrath (Non-Contact Offensive, Projectile, Wide Area): The only true projection attack in Lynn's personal arsenal, but it's a monster. A swing from her mighty axe using this attack, and Lynn unleashes a devastating blast of air capable of destroying heavy structures with ease.
Depending on the way she swings her blade, she can divide large bodies of water, cut office buildings in half, or take out innumerable foes in a wide arc in front of her. If she winds back with her axe well outside of melee range, get out of alignment with her swinging arc... FAST. However, since the attack isn't concentraited force, it is much easier to defend against with barriers. Though many times, this may just be a distraction for a closing move or as a method of dealing with cannon fodder level enemies.

- Frozen Shatter (Contact offensive, Requires Unison with Cool)
Cool's version of Mjolnir Strike, with a personal touch. Impact will send a wave of freezing magic across whatever is struck, which will freeze, and then shatter. This is especially useful for doing massive area damage to objects that normal impacts just wouldn't be enough to handle.

- Exploding Axe (Area Effect Offensive, Requires Unison with Spear)
This attack is most useful after a Gungnir Strike,while it is at rest, Lynn can instruct Spear to will the device to burst into flames, with explosive force, catching enemies nearby off guard.. An excelent way to clear rooms when acting as point for conventional mages in places where care must be taken not to cause too much damage.

Bare Handed: Despite Waldron being a good friend and useful device, Lynn still considers it merely a 'safety device' for her opponents. Having progressed in bare handed combat since she was eight, her abilities in bare handed brutality far outstrip anything she does with her axe.

(NOTE: Lynn's Focus on Bare Handed techniques, and the comment on 'safety device' are homage to the manga Lind, who makes the epic comment after Hilde removes her axe from the fight. "That's not a weapon, THAT'S A SAFETY DEVICE!")

- Iron will, Iron fist (Reinforcement, condition):
Concentraiting magical energy into her arms, legs, and hands, Lynn turns her own limbs into tools of pure destruction, able to punch straight into solid plate steel without busting a knuckle. Able to guard from bladed devices and magical attacks with unshielded arms, to see her charging you down, and batting stinger blades and axel shooters asside is simply a psychological horror for any conventional mage.

- Point Buster (Contact Offensive, Barrier Breaker):
Ever wonder what a divine buster would do if it was not drawn out in a beam, but delivered into one spot, all at once? Lynn knows, she created the Point Buster, taking her Iron Will technique to the next level. Magical energy is concentraited in her fist the same way the Mjolnir strike works in Waldron, then delivered almost explosively to her opponent or target in the form of a punch.

- Flash Step (Movement, instantanious)
Flash Step is to Lynn, what Sonic Move, and Flash move are to other mages. Unlike normal flash moving, which carries momenum after accellerating, Flash Step litterally starts, and stops, in one step. Lynn will use it both in the air, or on the ground, to instantly cover distances to the precise spot she wishes to be in the blink of an eye.

- Flash Dance (Movement, continuous)
Flash step taken to the extreme. It requires Lynn's entire focus and willpower to keep this technique up. She litterally moves continuously at the speed and pacing of a flash step or sonic move, appearing to be a blur at best.

(NOTE: Flash Step and Dance are based off Lind's display of the Golden Eye mark of True power sequence, where she blitzes Hild in the Anime's OVA and Hilde has to go up to 50% of her true power just to keep step.)

- Heaven's Lightning Hammer (Contact offensive, barrier breaker, Double Unison required)
If the point buster was frightening, the HLH, is simply too much for words. This attack, is a kick. A BIG kick. Unisoned with Cool and Spear, Lynn will jump, or fly, high into the sky, then concentrait the same kind of magic force as her point buster, into her foot, and come down on the target like a meteor, smashing straight through barriers, walls, and other reinforcing materials, flattening, crushing, or just plain annihilating opponents like a divine force.

(This one's homage to Lind's meteor smash looking attack on the angel eater in the OVA.)

Defensive Notes:
Lynn believes in the concept that offense is the best defense, so you won't see her hiding behind barriers very often. However, she still wears a barrier jacket of her design, and knows the basic defensive barrier and shield spells for their limited use.



Psychological Impact:
Lynn recognizes that both her reputation, and her ferocity in combat have an adverse affect on all but the most hardy of opponents, and utilizes this to a great degree. She often never speaks at all to opponents in combat, casting an ominous silence as she goes about, only broken by blood chilling battle cries... relying on psychic broadcasts to do most of her communicating.


::SPECIALS::

- Lance and Again (Combo move.)
Lynn will throw Waldron, whether it's a Gungnir strike, or just a spear-like throw, she'll then summon it back to her hand with a Raven Call as soon as it hits, and repeat the action if she wishes to.


- Heavenly Descent (Signature Combination Move):
If Lynn has a target in her sight right at the opening of the fight, she will use this to try and start, AND FINISH, the fight. Starting from altitude, she will approach the target while applying flash dance to accellerate, build energy into Waldron for Mjolnir Strike, and then she will employ short range transfer/movement magic at the same time, and attempt to cover over a kilometer of distance to close combat range in no time flat and hit full force with Waldron...
To those who've been caught by this attack, it appears as if Lynn emerges from a fireball descending from the skies to deliver divine punishment in a single axe blow of judgement.

(NOTE: This is direct homage to Lind's 'descent' scene near the end of the first TV series, when she comes hurtling down out of a fireball to attack the Lord of Terror infecting Keiichi.)


- Odin's Thunderbolt (Team Move, requires Cool and Spear.)
This is an extended Gungnir Strike, made possible only by cooperation between Cool and Spear. Cool will give Lynn precise long range information on a distant opponent, Lynn will throw the strike in that direction, and Waldron will take care of mid-flight details. If the opponent is using any kind of barrier, the shattering of the barrier by the Gungnir Strike will leave the opponent vulnerable to the followup attack from Spear. Or, if Spear is Unisoned with Lynn, she'll unleash the Exploding Axe technique.

Spoiler for Waldron Talking:

Waldron: Speach Patterns

Addresses owner [MILADY] (Addresses males as 'Milord')

Recognition: (Of owner, of Command) [TO SERVE] or [WITH HONOR]

Affirmation [YES]

Negetive: [NAY] or [NO]

Confirmation: [IT SHALL BE] or [CONSIDER IT DONE]

Warning: [BEWARE!]

PHYSICAL PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 9 (SS-)
Strength 8
Stamina 10 (She just keeps going, and going, and going...)
Speed 9
Reflexes 9
Dexterity 9

MENTAL PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 6 (AA-)
Intelligence 6
Wisdom 4
Judgement 8
Decision Time 9
Creativity 3

MAGIC PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 7.3 (AAA)
Magic Capacity 8
Recovery 8
Max Discharge 6

COMBAT PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 7.7 (AAA)
Magical Attack 10 (Exclusive Barrier Breaker Magics As Common Attacks!?)
Magical Defense 3
Battle Option Variability 3
Melee Attack 10 (Single strike kill moves?!)
Melee Defense 8
Stress Management 10 (H-H-H-H-HARDCORE!-core-core...)
Skill 10 (DOUBLE HARDCORE!)

BEHAVIOR PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 6 (AA-)
Compassion 1 (She cares for the innocent, but don't get in the way, or you'll get flattened.)
Loyalty 9
Submission (To Authority) 9
Confidence 10 (She WILL win, you WILL lose. This is not oppinion, this is 'fact'.)
Charisma 1 (A little too serious most of the time.)

OVERALL 7.2 (AAA-)

Spoiler for Unison Boosts:

SPECIAL:
Single Unison provides + 1 bonus to all three magical profile attributes, and + 3 to battle option variability.
Twin Unison provides + 2 bonus to all three magical profile attributes with no other special effects.


That would alter her magic Profile attributes as followes...

Single
MAGIC PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 8.3 (S)
Magic Capacity 9
Recovery 9
Max Discharge 7

COMBAT PROFILE ATTRIBUTES MODIFIED: 8.14

MODIFIED OVERALL: 7.5 (AAA)

Double
MAGIC PROFILE ATTRIBUTES 9.3 (SS)
Magic Capacity 10
Recovery 10
Max Discharge 8

MODIFIED OVERALL: 7.6 (AAA)

RANK::CATAGORY::SCORE
X - IMPOSSIBLE (INSANE) - 11
SSS - PHENOMINAL - 10
SS - SUPREME - 9
S - EXCELLENT - 8
AAA - GREAT - 7
AA - VERY GOOD - 6
A - GOOD - 5
B - ABOVE AVERAGE - 4
C - AVERAGE - 3
D - BELOW AVERAGE - 2
E - POOR - 1
F - NON FACTOR - 0

There's a minor change to her history to show that it was more physical training than magical training in there so we don't have to worry about her stressing her linker core completely out. Mmmkay?

Spoiler for ends:

Yeah, I see what you meant

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Lind, is a Valkyrie Goddess from Ah My Goddess. In AMG, she's cannonically the most extreme warrior goddess in heaven. As an example of how strong she is... as soon as she arrives on Earth during the angel eater incident, she gives the situation and instructions. Urd, Skuld, and Peorth don't go through their normal character routines for such a situation, they IMMEDIATELY hop to it with looks of fear on their faces, as if even a delay on her orders would anger her.

For the OC I've modelled after her so carefully, the stats are... weak compared to what Lind is truely capable of.

Think of her as Heaven's version of Master Chief.

Wicked

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Think UNLIMITED DRILL WORKS are just for those with Spiral Power and OTOKO NO TAMASHII O MOERU?!?!?!

Spoiler for Think Again:

No, this is not CGI. It's a demonstration of Ferro-fluid, basically a oil/iron suspension manipulated by magnetic fields:

Wicked!!

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

@FlameSparkZ: Welcome back! And those are AWESOME comeback scenes as well. To that pic of Koji patting Cinque's head! But my favorite bit there was Jealous!Maren. XD

~~~~

Ok, while I was writting the next part I came up with this unusual theory

Spoiler for Mana Addiction:

Mana Addiction:
A very rare symptom that is caused by providing someone with mana on a regular basis.
Neither the provider or the receiver notice this (until the effects are plainly visible), and only affects the one who receives mana.
It occurs when said mana is either incompatible or the compatibility rate is too high, causing an increase (or decrease in case of incompatibility) in the personality traits or ideals of the receiver depending on the amount of mana provided.
Because of this, someone's desire to become stronger or to protect someone is amplified, eventually becoming an obsession.

How does it sound?
I think it needs work

[arkhangelsk]

Originally Posted by PhoenixFlare

1. What is the general perception of a "Limiter System"? Does it work by limiting the output of a mage without interfering with the mage's reserves, or is there another explanation on how it works? Does it form a barrier around the Linker Core that basically filters a mage's output?

Personally, I think it is a software limit. There is, apparently, already a software limit by default in a mage's Linker Core that keeps him from going above 60% - the core instinctively refuses to go higher to prevent frying itself. When you (it is not clear whether you MUST use a device to access this) force it to go higher, that's called "Full Drive" (according to the Japanese in the DVD booklets).

So, a limiter can be easily, painlessly and safely implemented just by working with that natural instinct.

2. There are various energies in the world. What does the thread think about "thought-energy"? This does not translate into psychic powers or mind-reading, but simply energy that arises from a person's thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

Frankly, what's the difference b/w this and magic. Why don't you just say. My guy sucks magic out of people around him, and then write out all your limitations? Same technotactical effect.

[USB500]

Well, I'm back for some quick night reply.

@Jimmy C: really? Didn't know it's affordable.

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Originally Posted by LoweGear

THE EAST IS BURNING RED!!!!!!

*cries hotblooded manly tears*

Originally Posted by LoweGear

More like:

Mai: ...

Mokyou Hakaisuru.

Originally Posted by LoweGear

And the MADNESS continues, this time with more Touhou and Aria goodness accompanying the... thickening plot?

And bets on who actually survives this stage play

*runs*

1: Yes, as every good fairy tale dictates, the plot thickens. Will our Beauty Gondolier Cinque reveal the secret of Master Mondial the Masked Man and get back home before it's too late?

*sees audience fume in hatred at Erio*

Or will our Imotou Hakurei & Irui Kirisame wreck havoc instead?

*sees audience back away in terror*



Need to ask FlameSparkz if he's watched ARIA, because I think I'll request for an Undine Cinque.

2: Real Men?

*runs*

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Especially here where family is most sacred, yup it's somewhat akin to suicide. You won't believe the bad blood my sis stirred up in the family while she was away

Which is why it's a good thing she's now returned and has cut off all ties with the guy

Well, it's more of a sin to sever family tie. Trust me; I've always had issues with my stepfather but don't want to break up with him after considering this fact.

Originally Posted by LoweGear

From the way it was protrayed in the anime, I think the filtering option would be the best way to put it. Basically just a "valve" so to speak that would forcefully limit the maximum output out of the Linker Core to a certain amount, and as we see the amount of power limited can be controlled.

The way I see it, the limiter inside the mage itself is primarily magical, given the linker core's nature, but controlled through magitech like how Carim and Chrono unlocked it.

*takes note*

Originally Posted by LoweGear

That's a Teaser?

It's more like WIN and AWESOME, with an almost even match between Hayate and Aurion there Wish to see more please

Indeed. More Hayate/Aurion please.

*runs before Aaron gets the idea wrong*

Originally Posted by LoweGear

... this piece could be deconstructed and interpreted in so many ways it's making my head spin

Though I know which version I'm interpreting it as



*runs faster*

How?

*runs*

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Does a kendo master rank an S mage? I think not.

... and this compares to Lynn... how? A kendo master isn't capable of SS rank feats, flawed comparison.

Lynn could be seen as the reverse of Hayate, and even Hayate is SS ranked as befitting her power. Ranking Lynn AAA even though she is capable of SS ranked melee feats (and from the profile, on a casual basis) AAA rank is simply unnaceptable.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

To propperly rank something, an entire scale must be functional. You may not find mages with power levels of SSS, or mages ranking an actual SSS state, but you will probably come across people who rank nothing short of just plain PHENOMINAL in certain attributes. Out of 27 attributes, Lynn ranks a natural PHENOMINAL in five areas, mostly related to hand to her close combat ability. But she's a triple A mage.

No it doesn't. It has always been a general rule no to touch the SSS rank. Why? Because we do not know how powerfull SSS rank is. For all we know SSS is close to Arc en Ciel level power. Are you saying that Lynn has the stamina to match a weapon that had to be placed on a warship?

SSS is not accepted, pasting that on an atribute would make her godlike in that attribute in comparison to the rest of the TSAB. Remember, the Aces are the cream of the crop, and even they don't have a SSS popping up somewhere.

Guess I'll bust the rest while I'm at it.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

It was unfortunate that the accident that resulted in the Abandoned City on Mid Childa killed her parents and left her orphaned before age eight.

Concidering it is suggested those ruins are the remains of the last war, that would make Lynn at least 150 years old.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

So intense was this training in fact, that she had been hospitalized three times and told not to continue. But she did anyway. By the time she was old enough to take the Enforcer exams for the TSAB, she had built up such an astounding tolerance for pain and exhaustion that she didn't win her combat challenges by skill, but by simply bullrushing her instructors and ignoring spells that quickly escalated into actual combat ranges.

The fact that she can 'ignore' spells is already disturbing me. If she trained 'torturously' to increase her Linker Core, it would have caused stress and permanent damage.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Twin Unisons, Cool and Spear Mint:
Created by illegal means, the twins Cool and Spear were one of many immoral magical experiments, much like Agito. Luckly, their nature was actually a failure. What had been desired in this experiment was a unison that was capable of handling two polar opposite elements at the same time, in order to compliment the user. What occured was the opposite magics repelled each other, and instead of one Unison, two were created that shared a deep bond. Considered unworthy of any study, they were discarded to a cage, told they were simply useless, and left to near starvation.

Agito wasn't created by an illegall experiment. Anyway, why on earth would they simply discard the two as 'unworthy for study' just because it turned out slightly different then planned? If anything, this would have increased the desire to sudy them.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

It might have been an act of fate that saved them when the TSAB ordered a full scale operation on the remote facility, lead off by Lynn herself.
In the chaos of her attack, Cool and Spear could only watch as Lynn mercilessly demolished any semblance of defense and obliterated ressistance. They were later rescued by the unit of Regular Enforcers who then searched the facility.
When they asked who the 'divine one' was that had so effortlessly won the battle, they had been told about Lynn and her past.
Inspired by Lynn's incredible display and life story, they decided they too would prove they weren't just useless as they had been told, and asked if they could go to train with her.
As one who appreciated such fortitude and determination, Lynn accepted the request... It took three years for the Unisons to even come close to being 'useful' on the battlefield, but they never gave up, eventually forming a comradery with Lynn that many mages through would never happen with the Shock Enforcer.

... Right, so information about the leader of a special Enforcer unit is just randmonly given to a pair of Unision devices? That doesn't sound believable at all.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Their abilities are rather unique. By themselves, Each reprisents an element of Unison Magic, Cool controlling Ice, and Spear being Fire. They can unison normally with any mage in this way and provide the same power boost and elemental bonus abilities. But what hadn't been expected, was the ability for twin unison. Normally, only one unison can occupy a mage, but the twins' unique bond allows them to unison together and with a mage. Their elemental powers cancel out however, but the power boost the mage recieves makes up for this.

Unision Devices can't just 'Unision with any mage' they need to be compatable.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

- Raven Call (Logistic/Tactical): Lynn can summon Waldron from anywhere. And we mean anywhere. Whether it is calling it to her side in battle, calling it from the corpse of a fallen enemy, or summoning it from a pool of magma, Waldron obeys, and materializes in her grasp.

Casting time? Mana required? If there is anything StrikerS showed us, its that mages can't just 'summon' their devices.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

- Mjolnir Strike (Contact Offensive, barrier breaker): *Pronunciation 'MUOLL-neer Strike' *
Concentraiting magical energy into the swing and leading blade edge of Waldron, the most common magical attack Lynn has at her disposal is nothing short of getting straight to the point at maximum force. The blow it unleashes cleaves through solid steel armor over meter thick, and shatters concrete on contact. Barriers and shields mean little to this strike, often shattering immediately on impact, leaving the mage on the recieving end to deal with bone crushing force with little more than the protection of their barrier jackets to save them.

A common attack that can tear through barriers? Let's not, shall we?

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

- Gungnir Strike: (Contact Offensive, weapon throw, barrier breaker, semi-guided.) When Lynn decides to let go of Waldron, it's usually as dangerous as when she's holding it. Instead of along the axe blade, the magical energy concentraits along the spear like head at the end, and Lynn throws the whole device like a Javaline. Waldron then flies under its own intelligent magical guidance to place itself on target. The results are often just as terrifying as the Mjolnir Strike, usually shattering barriers and pinning forces to the wall. (Those that survive.)

Amusing, Tesla has a Device called Gungnir, and her ultimate attack, Sturmzeichen, works similarely. However, it is a cartridge gulping, mana consuming ultimate strike. And you're telling me Lynn can do this casually? While breaking barriers? Does the notion of 'balance' even come to mind?

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

- Odin's Wrath (Non-Contact Offensive, Projectile, Wide Area): The only true projection attack in Lynn's personal arsenal, but it's a monster. A swing from her mighty axe using this attack, and Lynn unleashes a devastating blast of air capable of destroying heavy structures with ease.
Depending on the way she swings her blade, she can divide large bodies of water, cut office buildings in half, or take out innumerable foes in a wide arc in front of her. If she winds back with her axe well outside of melee range, get out of alignment with her swinging arc... FAST. However, since the attack isn't concentraited force, it is much easier to defend against with barriers. Though many times, this may just be a distraction for a closing move or as a method of dealing with cannon fodder level enemies.

... I don't think I even need to comment on this. You do realize that to accomplish a feat like this, the main cast would have been spamming cartridges like mad, right?

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

(NOTE: Lynn's Focus on Bare Handed techniques, and the comment on 'safety device' are homage to the manga Lind, who makes the epic comment after Hilde removes her axe from the fight. "That's not a weapon, THAT'S A SAFETY DEVICE!")

And Lynn is already far too powerfull with the axe. Imagine that.

*sigh* I'm not even going to bother with the rest of the abillities. Suffice to say that Lynn is grossly overpowered, especially for someone you so neatly ranked AAA. This is S-rank at the very least.

Originally Posted by Kha

You know, Kha taught Yuuno how to treat Nanoha's wounded circuits as the boy persisted in asking him... So... You made me think of Yuuno mana transfering Keroko.

Yuuno met Keroko before he met Kha, though.

Originally Posted by Jimmy C

Where was this? The only thing close to this that I can recall is Jail gloating that the Cradle "destroyed the old world". Which I took to mean it wiped out a previous civilization.

Jail in episode 19 describes it as 'that which in the old days created a world, and then destroyed it' true, this is rather ambigous, but the Cradle is a Lost Logia. Last I recall a few Lost Logia the size of pebbles could destroy a world, do you really think a Lost Logia warship wouldn't be able to?

Originally Posted by Saint X

Keroko, do you still have the intel pics of Sol?

please post if needed- i'm still rummaging for Peiroth (sp?), Sgirune and the third one in my SoS folder...

Originally Posted by Saint X

Spoiler for Cracky Idea:

I also have an idea of the Scrya Family being a family of Warrior-Explorers from long ago... well his fictional mother is also a fighting mage... why not?

*rows gondola away*

Because the Scrya familly is a familly of archeologists. Let's keep it to canon.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Spoiler for Teaser. :3:

Seventh round…

“Attack!” Aurion commanded, sending several Proton Bolts at Hayate’s direction

“Ungh!” Hayate groaned in slight vexation, flying backwards as quickly as she could while using minimally sufficient defenses against Aurion’s attacks. 'This isn’t going anywhere… I can’t keep up with him!' She dodged another two Buster shots and blocked the third.

And clearly, Aurion wasn’t wasting any time, “Increase reserve energy output by 13%.” he ordered.

[Acknowledged.] Reishiki’s systems highlights blinked several times, increasing the release of the stored energy within Aurion’s prosthetic arm.

“Reishiki…” He then activates his Magic Field Manipulation ability, signified by his eyes starting to glow a cobalt hue. Several beads of residual energy from the surroundings begin forming around him. “Bullet, RM-5...”

[Remote Bullet: Unit count, five.] Five spheres that are noticeably larger than his Proton Bolt units form from the gathered energy. [Preparation, complete.]

He points forward with his right and snaps his fingers, “Attack!”

Hayate tried defending, but the five bullets only danced around her shields, two managing to score clean hits. “Ahh!” she was temporarily knocked out of her flight, falling down quickly towards the ground.

“No reprise allowed yet…” Aurion flies towards Hayate, directing the three remaining orbs at her.

'What can I do?' Hayate stops her fall and gets ready to defend, but an idea hits her. 'Ah! Now I know!' Just when the bullets hit her from three sides, she deactivates her flight magic entirely, as well as storing her staff and tome, freefalling towards the ground.

'Uncontrolled descent?' Aurion slows down his pursuit and made his bullets follow her faster instead.

Alright… Hayate pressed her arms to her sides and her legs together for least air friction, plummeting headfirst towards the ground. She closes her eyes in concentration, connecting with Tiara inside her, 'Barrier of the Hall of Heroes… Heed my call…’ her body begins shining.

'Not fast enough!' His eyes glow brighter as he wills his projectiles to go even faster in pursuit.

Hayate does a quick reversal as she activates her wings again before hitting the ground. She summons her staff, slamming its hilt onto the earth. “Calamity Wall!”

[Mauer des Schicksalsschlages.]

Hayate’s immediate surroundings became encased in a shimmering dome of pure white energy.

“A defensive dome…” Aurion points his left arm towards the glimmering sphere, a large amount of energy coalescing in front of Reshiki’s barrel. “Let’s see how tough it is.”

[Proton Cannon.]

Four hits on one point… Aurion fires, also making the three Remote Bullets converge on exactly the same spot.

*BOOM!!!*

“What the…!”

The smoke cleared. No visible damage was dealt.

“Hmm…” Aurion expression is unreadable, but he smiles as he nears the point. “Reishiki, Front Attacker. Ten seconds!”

[Acknowledged. Readying Auto-Guard and reinforcing frame…]

Aurion plummets towards the ground beside the dome, flips before landing, turns and rears back his left fist.

[Break Impulse.]

“Hyah!” he punches the side of the field defense and a powerful explosion follows, causing several cracks to appear but not quite breaking the barrier. But before he could do anything further, an intense beam of contrasting black energy blasted out of the damaged exterior of the field, almost hitting Aurion head-on if he didn’t use his prepared defense as leverage to get out of the ray’s trajectory in time.

Apparently, Hayate wasn’t dawdling inside her shield. Calamity Wall is an autonomous defense that doesn’t need any further sustenance after being released, giving her a chance for casting other spells inside, though it also takes a lot of energy to cast. And the spell she had cast afterwards unleashed six sizable orbs of jet black energy, all of which fired equally ebony beams at the elderly mage.

“Tch.” Aurion quickly ascended while zipping left and right to avoid the six dark pulsating spheres which were firing buster-like beams at him. 'A self-sustained barrier able to withstand up to a triple-A power single-hit attack…and an independent attack drone spell to boot…'

Valkyric Buster. A new spell Hayate developed to compensate for her slow magic processing speed. Once cast, six orbs of light would automatically seek out specified enemies and shoot them with powerful beams of about A+ ranked power. Each orb can fire at least fifteen times each. Normally, it would take some time to cast, but Hayate managed to pull it off due to the…

'Calamity Wall, huh?' Aurion thought contemplatively as he was forced to duck and make an awkward mid-air bent-pirouette to avoid a simultaneous shot from the six. 'She kept herself safe while casting another spell. Nice.' He pointed his left arm at one and fired off a Proton Blaster, only for his shot to be met with almost equal force by an onyx beam emitted from the sphere, eventually being overwhelmed as a second sphere fires as well, forcing him to pull back his arm to avoid getting hit. “Hah… I’m being outdone …” he mutters flippantly as he dodges a third sphere. 'I could definitely handle that barrier the next instance its cast if given enough time, but these spheres are too tenacious… It depends on her next move…'

“Yosh.” Hayate put some more distance between them, touching down on the ground. She raises her staff, “Once more!” and slams Schwertkreuz’s hilt on the earth once again, “Calamity Wall!” her surroundings becomes surrounded for the second time with a dome of white defensive energy.

“Tsk, there goes my chance.” Aurion’s eyes start glowing again as he prepares energy for his next moves. 'Smart girl… That’s how you do it!' He smiles with satisfaction despite his disadvantage. But… His smile grows wider. 'You’ll have to do better than that to hit me properly!' Eleven other figures of himself appear via Illusion magic, throwing off the tracking of the Valkyric Busters since the illusions dodge as well.

'Just as expected… Still…' Hayate breaths deeply and raises her staff; her tome flipping several pages. “Hear me, Divine Heralds of Rebirth thru Destruction…” Several pinions of light began swirling around Hayate. After several seconds of charging, she points her staff skyward, “Cast down your Spears of Judgment and end this ephemeral conflict!” the points of light begins to gather on bladed tip of Schwertkreuz.

[Weißsturm.]

“Divine Arrows of Light; White Storm!”

“Wha-!” Aurion exclaims as he sees the spectacular sight.

A single ray of radiant light bursts upward from Hayate’s dome of protection. After reaching a point in the sky, the tip exploded into innumerable arcs of energy, each individual beam barreling onto the earth with such incredible speed. All of Aurion’s illusions weren’t able to dodge the shafts of light from skewering them, promptly vanishing upon contact. Even the Valkyric Busters were destroyed by friendly fire. For a few moments, a diameter of three hundred meters around Hayate was illuminated by the dazzling needles of energy descending from the sky. A deafening trail of explosions accompanied the splendorous display. And Hayate, not taking any chances, surrounded herself with a smaller but equally powerful barrier, as well as raising another shield above her head, letting the shafts of light rain down on her position as well to ensure minimal blind spots.

After the bombardment subsided, a great amount of dust litters the air, clearly blown off the ground by Hayate’s last attack, even if it was set to non-lethal damage. Hayate panted heavily after deactivating her overhead shield, the casting of such a powerful spell and defending against it taking their immediate toll. She quickly scanned her surroundings

“N-no…”

The only problem is… the real Aurion was nowhere to be seen… Only the illusions were there!

“He wasn’t there?!” Hayate began frantically turning her head around to look for him, “But that’s-!” She shakes her head. 'This isn’t the time to leave myself vulnerable!' Her surroundings begin glowing with defensive energy again. 'I don’t know how you escaped, but I won’t give you an opening!'

Thanks to PF for letting me borrow one of his Hayate's spells.

I decided to post my most recently-made action scene here.>.>
Anyway, to the others, are the performance and power-levels here acceptable?<.<
I tried to regulate a lot. And this is one of the instances that Hayate gets an advantage.>_<
Do her actions here have any glaring flaws? Any suggestions/criticisms?

Oh. And for a bit of fun.

We've seen Nanoha kicking ass, repeatidly. We've seen Fate whiping the floor with enemies, over and over.

But now, it's Hayate's turn!

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Spoiler for smaller piece:

“Right.” Aurion marched through the rocky terrain without losing stride. “Let’s try to get as much as we can done this day. I don’t want to embark on our mission a few days from now with any bugs left in your devices.”

“We could as long as you promise to go easy on me.” Hayate replies cheerfully as she jogged a bit to keep up with the taller man's pace.

“What does that have to do with anything?” Aurion answered back dismissively, “Anyway, remember how Nanoha used to train Lanster and the others?”

“Yes.” Hayate fakes a frightened tone, “Wait, that means… *gasp* Iya~!” she hugs herself and does an affected shiver, “Please don’t push me that hard! I’m very fragile~!”

“Sure, sure, I won’t.” he then smiles wickedly, “I’ll just push you harder.”

“Oji-chan!”

“I’m not joking.”

“But you know I’m-”

“Your lack of exercise and arguably weak constitution does not concern your enemies, and naturally won’t concern me as well since I’ll be your opponent. Besides, I heard Tesla’s been working you hard for several months now so you should be used to it.”

Hayate complained indignantly, “But that training landed me in the infirmary for a couple of days on one occasion!”

“Wha-?!” Genuine surprise showed in Aurion’s expression this time, “Eh?”

“It’s tru-Oops!” Hayate covers her mouth and laughs nervously. “F-forget I said that!” She then looked away. 'Uu~, I’m sorry, Tesla!'

“Hoho~…” Aurion strokes his chin amusedly, “so Tesla’s been teaching you quite properly after all…”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Ha-chiuu!” Tesla sneezes.

“Bless you, desu~!”

“Ah, thanks…” 'What was that about?'

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Apparently, Tesla might have overdone Hayate's training once or twice...

*runs*

A little treat. Almost 2000 words of spoiler. :3

Hayate being stuborn does that. "What, you don't think you need melee?" *whack* "Still think you don't?"

Originally Posted by arkhangelsk

Personally, I think it is a software limit. There is, apparently, already a software limit by default in a mage's Linker Core that keeps him from going above 60% - the core instinctively refuses to go higher to prevent frying itself. When you (it is not clear whether you MUST use a device to access this) force it to go higher, that's called "Full Drive" (according to the Japanese in the DVD booklets).

So, a limiter can be easily, painlessly and safely implemented just by working with that natural instinct.

In other words, Linker Cores have a biological safety limit? That's new information, and very interesting.

[XenahortCharybdis]

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Actually, it was rather self-based since I had Aurion casting spells real fast due to his devices being extra-fast processors...

And Rank+ for the girl is good.

Oh, I see. How many pages back was that, now?

I slowed them all down by almost 2 seconds or so, and Black Immolation by 4, how's that?

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

It's okay. but considering flying grunts that are supposed to be A-ranked...

Ashcroft: *grimaces heavily, but restrains himself*

Xena: There, there...*pats him on the shoulder*

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Noted.
And that old guy really starting to sound scary...

*Did you read the PM already?* Hmm....

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Will be waiting.

Flinging electric cables?>.>
Throwing around microchip bombs?<.<

Anyway, the details I was asking about is more on skills.

You kiddin' me?
No way would I ever do something like that.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

From the likes of it, you seem to know who he just took down in my writings.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Anyway, teaser? :3

Spoiler for Teaser. :3:

Seventh round…

“Attack!” Aurion commanded, sending several Proton Bolts at Hayate’s direction

“Ungh!” Hayate groaned in slight vexation, flying backwards as quickly as she could while using minimally sufficient defenses against Aurion’s attacks. 'This isn’t going anywhere… I can’t keep up with him!' She dodged another two Buster shots and blocked the third.

And clearly, Aurion wasn’t wasting any time, “Increase reserve energy output by 13%.” he ordered.

[Acknowledged.] Reishiki’s systems highlights blinked several times, increasing the release of the stored energy within Aurion’s prosthetic arm.

“Reishiki…” He then activates his Magic Field Manipulation ability, signified by his eyes starting to glow a cobalt hue. Several beads of residual energy from the surroundings begin forming around him. “Bullet, RM-5...”

[Remote Bullet: Unit count, five.] Five spheres that are noticeably larger than his Proton Bolt units form from the gathered energy. [Preparation, complete.]

He points forward with his right and snaps his fingers, “Attack!”

Hayate tried defending, but the five bullets only danced around her shields, two managing to score clean hits. “Ahh!” she was temporarily knocked out of her flight, falling down quickly towards the ground.

“No reprise allowed yet…” Aurion flies towards Hayate, directing the three remaining orbs at her.

'What can I do?' Hayate stops her fall and gets ready to defend, but an idea hits her. 'Ah! Now I know!' Just when the bullets hit her from three sides, she deactivates her flight magic entirely, as well as storing her staff and tome, freefalling towards the ground.

'Uncontrolled descent?' Aurion slows down his pursuit and made his bullets follow her faster instead.

Alright… Hayate pressed her arms to her sides and her legs together for least air friction, plummeting headfirst towards the ground. She closes her eyes in concentration, connecting with Tiara inside her, 'Barrier of the Hall of Heroes… Heed my call…’ her body begins shining.

'Not fast enough!' His eyes glow brighter as he wills his projectiles to go even faster in pursuit.

Hayate does a quick reversal as she activates her wings again before hitting the ground. She summons her staff, slamming its hilt onto the earth. “Calamity Wall!”

[Mauer des Schicksalsschlages.]

Hayate’s immediate surroundings became encased in a shimmering dome of pure white energy.

“A defensive dome…” Aurion points his left arm towards the glimmering sphere, a large amount of energy coalescing in front of Reshiki’s barrel. “Let’s see how tough it is.”

[Proton Cannon.]

Four hits on one point… Aurion fires, also making the three Remote Bullets converge on exactly the same spot.

*BOOM!!!*

“What the…!”

The smoke cleared. No visible damage was dealt.

“Hmm…” Aurion expression is unreadable, but he smiles as he nears the point. “Reishiki, Front Attacker. Ten seconds!”

[Acknowledged. Readying Auto-Guard and reinforcing frame…]

Aurion plummets towards the ground beside the dome, flips before landing, turns and rears back his left fist.

[Break Impulse.]

“Hyah!” he punches the side of the field defense and a powerful explosion follows, causing several cracks to appear but not quite breaking the barrier. But before he could do anything further, an intense beam of contrasting black energy blasted out of the damaged exterior of the field, almost hitting Aurion head-on if he didn’t use his prepared defense as leverage to get out of the ray’s trajectory in time.

Apparently, Hayate wasn’t dawdling inside her shield. Calamity Wall is an autonomous defense that doesn’t need any further sustenance after being released, giving her a chance for casting other spells inside, though it also takes a lot of energy to cast. And the spell she had cast afterwards unleashed six sizable orbs of jet black energy, all of which fired equally ebony beams at the elderly mage.

“Tch.” Aurion quickly ascended while zipping left and right to avoid the six dark pulsating spheres which were firing buster-like beams at him. 'A self-sustained barrier able to withstand up to a triple-A power single-hit attack…and an independent attack drone spell to boot…'

Valkyric Buster. A new spell Hayate developed to compensate for her slow magic processing speed. Once cast, six orbs of light would automatically seek out specified enemies and shoot them with powerful beams of about A+ ranked power. Each orb can fire at least fifteen times each. Normally, it would take some time to cast, but Hayate managed to pull it off due to the…

'Calamity Wall, huh?' Aurion thought contemplatively as he was forced to duck and make an awkward mid-air bent-pirouette to avoid a simultaneous shot from the six. 'She kept herself safe while casting another spell. Nice.' He pointed his left arm at one and fired off a Proton Blaster, only for his shot to be met with almost equal force by an onyx beam emitted from the sphere, eventually being overwhelmed as a second sphere fires as well, forcing him to pull back his arm to avoid getting hit. “Hah… I’m being outdone …” he mutters flippantly as he dodges a third sphere. 'I could definitely handle that barrier the next instance its cast if given enough time, but these spheres are too tenacious… It depends on her next move…'

“Yosh.” Hayate put some more distance between them, touching down on the ground. She raises her staff, “Once more!” and slams Schwertkreuz’s hilt on the earth once again, “Calamity Wall!” her surroundings becomes surrounded for the second time with a dome of white defensive energy.

“Tsk, there goes my chance.” Aurion’s eyes start glowing again as he prepares energy for his next moves. 'Smart girl… That’s how you do it!' He smiles with satisfaction despite his disadvantage. But… His smile grows wider. 'You’ll have to do better than that to hit me properly!' Eleven other figures of himself appear via Illusion magic, throwing off the tracking of the Valkyric Busters since the illusions dodge as well.

'Just as expected… Still…' Hayate breaths deeply and raises her staff; her tome flipping several pages. “Hear me, Divine Heralds of Rebirth thru Destruction…” Several pinions of light began swirling around Hayate. After several seconds of charging, she points her staff skyward, “Cast down your Spears of Judgment and end this ephemeral conflict!” the points of light begins to gather on bladed tip of Schwertkreuz.

[Weißsturm.]

“Divine Arrows of Light; White Storm!”

“Wha-!” Aurion exclaims as he sees the spectacular sight.

A single ray of radiant light bursts upward from Hayate’s dome of protection. After reaching a point in the sky, the tip exploded into innumerable arcs of energy, each individual beam barreling onto the earth with such incredible speed. All of Aurion’s illusions weren’t able to dodge the shafts of light from skewering them, promptly vanishing upon contact. Even the Valkyric Busters were destroyed by friendly fire. For a few moments, a diameter of three hundred meters around Hayate was illuminated by the dazzling needles of energy descending from the sky. A deafening trail of explosions accompanied the splendorous display. And Hayate, not taking any chances, surrounded herself with a smaller but equally powerful barrier, as well as raising another shield above her head, letting the shafts of light rain down on her position as well to ensure minimal blind spots.

After the bombardment subsided, a great amount of dust litters the air, clearly blown off the ground by Hayate’s last attack, even if it was set to non-lethal damage. Hayate panted heavily after deactivating her overhead shield, the casting of such a powerful spell and defending against it taking their immediate toll. She quickly scanned her surroundings

“N-no…”

The only problem is… the real Aurion was nowhere to be seen… Only the illusions were there!

“He wasn’t there?!” Hayate began frantically turning her head around to look for him, “But that’s-!” She shakes her head. 'This isn’t the time to leave myself vulnerable!' Her surroundings begin glowing with defensive energy again. 'I don’t know how you escaped, but I won’t give you an opening!'

Thanks to PF for letting me borrow one of his Hayate's spells.

I decided to post my most recently-made action scene here.>.>
Anyway, to the others, are the performance and power-levels here acceptable?<.<
I tried to regulate a lot. And this is one of the instances that Hayate gets an advantage.>_<
Do her actions here have any glaring flaws? Any suggestions/criticisms?

Oh. And for a bit of fun.

Spoiler for smaller piece:

“Right.” Aurion marched through the rocky terrain without losing stride. “Let’s try to get as much as we can done this day. I don’t want to embark on our mission a few days from now with any bugs left in your devices.”

“We could as long as you promise to go easy on me.” Hayate replies cheerfully as she jogged a bit to keep up with the taller man's pace.

“What does that have to do with anything?” Aurion answered back dismissively, “Anyway, remember how Nanoha used to train Lanster and the others?”

“Yes.” Hayate fakes a frightened tone, “Wait, that means… *gasp* Iya~!” she hugs herself and does an affected shiver, “Please don’t push me that hard! I’m very fragile~!”

“Sure, sure, I won’t.” he then smiles wickedly, “I’ll just push you harder.”

“Oji-chan!”

“I’m not joking.”

“But you know I’m-”

“Your lack of exercise and arguably weak constitution does not concern your enemies, and naturally won’t concern me as well since I’ll be your opponent. Besides, I heard Tesla’s been working you hard for several months now so you should be used to it.”

Hayate complained indignantly, “But that training landed me in the infirmary for a couple of days on one occasion!”

“Wha-?!” Genuine surprise showed in Aurion’s expression this time, “Eh?”

“It’s tru-Oops!” Hayate covers her mouth and laughs nervously. “F-forget I said that!” She then looked away. 'Uu~, I’m sorry, Tesla!'

“Hoho~…” Aurion strokes his chin amusedly, “so Tesla’s been teaching you quite properly after all…”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Ha-chiuu!” Tesla sneezes.

“Bless you, desu~!”

“Ah, thanks…” 'What was that about?'

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Apparently, Tesla might have overdone Hayate's training once or twice...

*runs*

A little treat. Almost 2000 words of spoiler. :3

As someone said before, that is NOT a teaser. That is some...crazy fight scene! With all these scenes flying around, I'm gonna have a hard time starting out with this kind of a yardstick.

Aurion's very skilled, thanks for the tip-off on his powers and his reactions in combat. Impassive, clinical and PURE INTENSE WIN.

Now, if only I could make a much older man just as crazy as Hayate in keeping him, although the sight of two guys jumping around all over the place, and a *snip* year old creaseface streaking around as though he were still 19 or something is so hilarious I could laugh if there weren't so much at stake in that fight.

LOL

Spoiler for PM:

Hope you liked Haxxbustingreading that Spell list and System Description!

Originally Posted by Kha

I totally agree. In fact, in Rebuilt, the vast destroyed areas were attributed to her, resulting in her exile, but she's not completely at fault, as revealed in arcs before StrikerS. I'll recap it for you guys in Rebuilt episode 1 as Kha will be explaining to Erio how Fate, the Plaguelands, and even the Cleric himself, all came to be.

That's not a good justification for your answer, but I'll overlook that over the impending EPIC/CRACK/WINof Rebuilt...

@Keroko: Here goes H4xxbusting right out of the Magic and Tech Thread, yeah?

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FINALLY! THOSE SKETCHES! YESHHHH...MY ACHING HANDS...

Spoiler for Sketch 1:

Spoiler for Sketch 2:

It took me a while to draw these, so bear with me.
Spell List COMING RIGHT UP!

*deep breath* Keep breathing the crack Keep breathing the crack Keep breathing the crack...

[Jimmy C]

Originally Posted by USB500

@Jimmy C: really? Didn't know it's affordable.

Well, that's what someone said on the comments of that youtube video. I have no confirmation, or any idea who's selling.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ

I knew it

Btw check you pm, I there's a present I want to give you... I have it with me for quite sometime now, figure you might like it


I hope you still have a thing for mikos

Originally Posted by LoweGear

...

Impecabble timing as always master

*saves*

*runs*

You should help out too you know -_-

Originally Posted by LoweGear

...
So what's the next move then?

I don't know, I'm not her

Originally Posted by LoweGear

...

Why have one, when you can have two?

*RUNS FASTER*

Doesn't have to be twins though (Anybody still watch Rental Magica ) , but it does make things easier...

Originally Posted by LoweGear

...
Indeed

Be brave

Originally Posted by LoweGear

...You already know where, right down t-

*blood curdling scream*

*static*

Sigh...


Still young...

Originally Posted by LoweGear

...Now THAT's one unit I'd like to be assigned with

*RUNS*

Assigned to as the what?

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Wierder things have happened

That, I have to agree, despite not knowing what this sentence is in regards to

[FlameSparkZ]

Originally Posted by arkhangelsk

Personally, I think it is a software limit. There is, apparently, already a software limit by default in a mage's Linker Core that keeps him from going above 60% - the core instinctively refuses to go higher to prevent frying itself. When you (it is not clear whether you MUST use a device to access this) force it to go higher, that's called "Full Drive" (according to the Japanese in the DVD booklets).

So, a limiter can be easily, painlessly and safely implemented just by working with that natural instinct.

I see...*takes notes*

Originally Posted by USB500

Need to ask FlameSparkz if he's watched ARIA, because I think I'll request for an Undine Cinque.

Nope, I haven't watched it

Originally Posted by Keroko

In other words, Linker Cores have a biological safety limit? That's new information, and very interesting.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

I knew it

Btw check you pm, I there's a present I want to give you... I have it with me for quite sometime now, figure you might like it

I hope you still have a thing for mikos

Thanks
She's cute, but the tail could be a bit more fluffy
What kind animal is she anyway?

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Doesn't have to be twins though (Anybody still watch Rental Magica ) , but it does make things easier...

Yeah
I wonder if Itsuki is still looking for those rings

*goes back to work*