Infinite Stratos Character Creation and Fanfiction Discussion

[demino_hellsin]

so it didn't lose any boosters? just add more shields?

[Eratas123]

@ Stratos - Again, it makes sense from a story perspective, but not from a meta perspective. Readers tend to look at things from the view of outside the story, so in justifications don't always work. This is why we said Inami was stealing too much spotlight earlier last year. He got involved with the canon cast's problems, but they don't in his. There's a reason in story, but it looks like he's just hogging it from the readers perspective.

[StratoSpear]

Originally Posted by Eratas123

@ Stratos - Again, it makes sense from a story perspective, but not from a meta perspective. Readers tend to look at things from the view of outside the story, so in justifications don't always work. This is why we said Inami was stealing too much spotlight earlier last year. He got involved with the canon cast's problems, but they don't in his. There's a reason in story, but it looks like he's just hogging it from the readers perspective.

I'm aware of the spotlight part but then again... I'm trying to work out a way to have the canon cast work with him against Praxidike.

Thing is, seeing as how they don't even give jack about Phantom Task after Ichika almost got shot and Cecilia being stabbed in the arm by a hostile IS. I really don't know what else would shift this guys off their harem antics aside from a blatant asspull. (Which is also one of the things I would to request for your help with, but since you brought it up now. I guess we could work something out)

[ZeroXSEED]

@ Demi

Seems like I'm wrong after all. Indeed the new packet turned the Revive custom into standard Rafale in appearance, but with extra pair of barrier generator. Meaning that Rafael Revive Custom does lose some speed and acceleration but especially maneuverability, for double defense coefficient (both energy barrier and physical armor).

[demino_hellsin]

I was going to write something stupid about that... now I can go ahead without any hesitation XD

[Eratas123]

@ Stratos - I have no problem with (You have an in story reason, most authprs don't even have that) I also agree that them not giving two shits about Ichika nearly getting shot was annoying as well. I remedy this in Shadow by having Ichika become more expesed to danger by the beginning of the story so he knows how to deal with it and react. I don't knpw how you'll change it, though. I barely see Ichika at all in your fic.

[StratoSpear]

Originally Posted by Eratas123

@ Stratos - I have no problem with (You have an in story reason, most authprs don't even have that) I also agree that them not giving two shits about Ichika nearly getting shot was annoying as well. I remedy this in Shadow by having Ichika become more expesed to danger by the beginning of the story so he knows how to deal with it and react. I don't knpw how you'll change it, though. I barely see Ichika at all in your fic.

Seeing how almost all of them are out-of-campus to enjoy summer, it's not possible to have them involved just yet.

I'm thinking if I should pop in a drone or two during the summer festival to spark their involvement with his endeavour.

[demino_hellsin]

Urk

Spoiler for what I wrote so far:

In the darkness, one can normally find silence. However within this night is not silence. There is noise, much much noise. The rumble of explosions, thunder of gunfire and the resonance of clashing blades. Wind itself screamed as metal bodies ripped through them. A hundred meters above the face of the sea were seven machines.

“Houki! Be careful! It's closing in on you!”

“I see it!”

SHHHRAAAK!

It almost sounded like slicing flesh. One silver machine fell, releasing the crimson one in its grasp. One of its wings of light dispersing into little patches after being cut off. It quickly lost altitude and recovered brilliantly, a new wing replacing the dispatched.

“Doesn't it get tired of doing that?”, the high-pitch scream of a young girl screeched, “Eat this!”. A volley of hyper-accelerated superheated air followed this declaration. It slammed into the silver machine, causing it to stagger for a moment.

A sweep of its great wings cleared away the residual gases. One flap was all it took for it to retaliate with a volley of its own.

“Ling-san!”

A blue machine streaked across the battlefield and smashed into the violet machine piloted by the screeching girl.

“Ah, thanks Cecilia.”

“It's coming.”

Both of them braced themselves as the silver machine descended like an avenging angel. Its wings were glowing with far more energy than moments ago and they were only saved by the intervention of their own angel.

“Get out of there!”, a young man swooped in with his white machine and its sword lit aglow. The silver angel, still remembering that it was the same weapon that had hurt it before, reversed its boost to reach a halt. The beam blade missing it by inches.

“Ichika-san, get down!”, Cecilia commanded. She brought her Starlight Mk. III beam rifle to bear. It only took a second to get a lock before she fired.

The silver machine dodged easily but it was kept off balance by the shots that followed. All the while the white machine that had damaged it was weaving around the energy bolts with ease, almost as if the beams were dodging the white machine while aiming for the silver one. The silver machine was so busy with the closing enemy and suppressive fire that it was too late to heed the warning that beeped in its HUD. The metal slugs smashed into its back, the impact minimized by the shields.

“Get in there Ichika!”

“Keep it up Laura-san!”, Houki, in her crimson machine returned into battle. Her angle of attack from beneath the silver machine.

Stuck, that one word summed up the situation the silver machine was in. It quickly analyzed the risks and decided it would have to take a few hits to get out of greater danger quickly. The wings of light grew bright and it spun. Light within the wings shot out, as if pulled by centrifugal forces. They rained down on Rin, Cecilia and Houki.

“Everyone!”, Laura, who was too far away to be affected by the barrage continued to fire with renewed fervor. However that fervor was to work against her and her friends.

“Gospel!”, roared Ichika as he rushed at the overwhelming foe in anger. He pushed his thrusters to the limit and engaged double ignition boost. The speed was too much for even the AI pilot of the Silver Gospel to react in time. Ichika swung down with his Yukihira.

All according to plan, Silver Gospel spun away from taking a disabling hit. Losing one wing and having the other close to being hacked off, it reached out and grabbed Ichika's machine, Byakushiki. They plummeted a few meters before new wings replaced the damaged ones on Gospel. It pushed Ichika in the path of Laura's fire and used him as a human shield.

The shells impacted and Laura could only scream, “ICHIKA!”.

Gospel charged forward, keeping Ichika in front like a riot shield. Laura couldn't fire in fear of hitting him. The silver machine kicked the white captive towards the black rabbit looking one. Back-flipping with a flourish, it swept back its wings to release a wave of energy shots.

That plan was foiled when alarms blared in the Gospel's hood. A lock from above. It quickly discharged its weapons towards the aggressor. Energy met buck shots in an angry explosion. Some of the energy shots got through the debris and smashed into the shooter. Smoke cleared and revealed a heavily armored orange Rafael Revive II. “Laura-chan! Get Ichika and regroup!”, the blonde pilot released the shields used to block and summoned a pair of .61 caliber Garm sub machine guns. She charged forward with both automatic weapons spitting lead.

“I got it!”

Gospel took a moment to analyze the orange unit. The rafael had previously been classified as a low priority threat along with the black unit due to their low mobility. Even the black unit had a appreciable offensive capability, the Revive seemed to only have conventional weaponry. But looks were deceiving, the Gospel quickly realized that the Revive may have been slow and relatively weak in firepower, but it made up for those shortcomings with skill, endurance and massive amounts of ammunition.

The realization came much too late as it was dancing to the orange Rafael's pace as round after round of gunfire herded it to a decisive shot. It never seemed to end as accuracy was not the only skill the Rafael pilot was gifted with. It seemed she was also well aware of how to manage her munitions, evident with how she alternated between her guns in keeping a stream of fire and reloading.

[Eratas123]

@ Demi - Nice one

@ Stratos - Drones ain't gonna cut it since Ichika's faced about 2-3 of them by the time the nearlu got shot and he still didn'r care. You need to have him fight living pilots or he won't change. Maybe that's what separates him from Inami: Inami fights drones, Ichika fights pilots.

@ Senpai - Did you get the PM?

[MeisterBabylon]

Thanks...

But then I realized we completely forgot about SaintX.

Then again, you don't have a fic planned yet, right?

[Eratas123]

@ Meistah - I said you were taking reins, I didn't say you were the only one Saint X is still in the production level while you're already making the fic

[ZeroXSEED]

Nice combat scene yay! Mine is abolute nothing compared to that masterpiece

Just to cement the information....


One shield plus four booster VS Two shield plus two booster.

[StratoSpear]

Originally Posted by Eratas123

@ Stratos - Drones ain't gonna cut it since Ichika's faced about 2-3 of them by the time the nearlu got shot and he still didn'r care. You need to have him fight living pilots or he won't change. Maybe that's what separates him from Inami: Inami fights drones, Ichika fights pilots.

Human pilots that pilot non-IS machines(Aside from Inami/Minerva) won't be so at the moment, but I have included them in the main plotline(As you may have noticed from the random scene I posted some pages back).

And yes. As it is now, that's what separates the two male protags from each other. The type of enemies they go up against. (Though it'll eventually reach the point where Inami faces off against living Praxidike pilots so... yeah)

[agetreme]

Working on second draft...

Why the first draft is logically flawed: A wanderer don't have a fixed address, so technically it is impossible for any mail to reach them in time.

Second draft rewind time back a little, detailing the meeting.

Edit: Hopefully I can finish the second draft by tonight.

[Eratas123]

@ Stratos - If you have Inami fight against the same enemies, then the differences become moot. You CAN'T give everything to one character There has to be a balance or the story suffers. Ichika can fight people with stolen IS' like M or something.

@ Treme - Good luck.

[ZeroXSEED]

Going to sleep early, see you guys laterz.

[StratoSpear]

Originally Posted by Eratas123

@ Stratos - If you have Inami fight against the same enemies, then the differences become moot. You CAN'T give everything to one character There has to be a balance or the story suffers. Ichika can fight people with stolen IS' like M or something.

Sounds fair. The current balancing issue now is between Inami and Tsurugi.

The canon cast(except for Cecilia) are pretty much segregated until after summer, where normal lessons resume and they'll have more interaction with the OC duo, especially Tsurugi who's now a fellow IS pilot.

Also, is the barrier shield level the same for all IS units (600-800~) or do they vary, especially amongst Personal units?

[Eratas123]

@ Stratos - Good luck with that

Going to sleep, see ya guys.

[ZeroXSEED]

Originally Posted by StratoSpear

Also, is the barrier shield level the same for all IS units (600-800~) or do they vary, especially amongst Personal units?

Never stated in novel, but anime and manga shown only Byaku Shiki has 600, the rest has 800 (even Gospel).

You can say that the difference between speed and defense type is that speed type unit has +1 defense (1 SP per 1 Damage absorbed) while defensive unit has +3 or more (1 SP per 3 damage) or in some case, multilayer defense.

*RUUUUNZZZZ*

[StratoSpear]

Originally Posted by ZeroXSEED

Never stated in novel, but anime and manga shown only Byaku Shiki has 600, the rest has 800 (even Gospel).

You can say that the difference between speed and defense type is that speed type unit has +1 defense (1 SP per 1 Damage absorbed) while defensive unit has +3 or more (1 SP per 3 damage) or in some case, multilayer defense.

*RUUUUNZZZZ*

Wow... dang. Guess I'll just have it at 800 for default then.