Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Character Creation and Discussion

[AdmiralTigerclaw]

I actually noted that Hayate's attack was not a mere 'explosion'.

An explosion is actually a very simple effect. It is rapid expansion of a gas cloud and its debris. If anything, Hayate's Hraesvelgr attack is MORE complicated than mere explosions. The 'blast' as I call it looks more like insane storm turbulance. (Her specialty is crazy weather phenomina is it not?) If that is the case, the straight up, raw ENERGY she's unleashing in the attack is an order of magnitude larger than just a mere 'WHUMP!' of a concussion wave. After all, it's not making the air just expand forcefully, It's making it churn like the inside of a blender.

If that's what she can do at less than optimal power S rank, her full power SS rank + is insane in a straight up "let's plain blast everything!" mode. That's why I compare her to a Los Angeles. (I think I meant an Ohio though. AKA a "Boomer" with twenty-six trident SLBMs with MIRV warheads. Don't quote me, directly, I'm winding down tonight from a combo of cleaning and researching at the same time.)

And thanks for pointing out that spot at 9 formations. I missed it skipping around as it's only about 30 secs. Reviewing it, she's breathing heavily for a few seconds but seems to visually recover before the end of the sequence. She's obviously "just gettin' warmed up."

Anywho, noting the polar map. That's probably just an overview with the submap being the theater map. After all, their command center's like nearly every holywood reprisentation of NORAD. A little later when Dieci fires her I.S. Heavy Barrel at the chopper, they have their dynamic submap zoomed in on the city itself. (Showing the road networks and such.) My main concern was tracking Hayate's shots over the Theater map.

But enough about that, as you said, let's get this power armor under way. (I don't know why you guys call it mini-gundam. Or is every man shaped object with armor plating automatically a gundam around here?)

As far as effect and power go, my main concern as that deep down under the difference between magical and real, is one underlying universal constant. Raw Energy.

Conventional firearms and magic may have different ways of doing their job, but it remains the same job. To Deliver and impart an amount of energy sufficient to cause the integrity of a target to fail.

My use of firearms and modern weapons is my way of familiarizing what levels of energy are being applied. Another thing to remember, is that when it comes to combat, modern arms are pretty much the most efficient means of absolutely destroying things.

A shotgun blast imparts the same force as a swung baseball bat. The difference in lethality is the way the force is imparted. A baseball bat can still kill you by smashing your skull, but a shotgun blast shreds your internals.
The energy delivered remains equal, but it's method changes the damage.

In the same field context, I understand that magic delivers energy to targets in various forms. The main advantage of magic though, is that it has 'exotic' properties over conventional properties. Magic attacks can be made 'safe' in mid flight, can be controlled with thought, and can blink out if it is so requested. A bullet is small piece of metal flying at mach two in a ballisic arc to slam into a target and deliver the force of its shot to a small area in a very short time. It cannot be called back, its direction changed, or made 'safe' once released. If it is fired, you better know what you fired out.

When conventional attack meets magic, THEN things get interesting. A 9 year old girl generates a magical defense that allows her to be smashed from several stories up into concrete with enough force to generate a shockwave, but recieves no REAL injury from that impact. There's no existing armor on EARTH that can provide that protection, and the SCI-FI shields that might be able to do that are generations away at best. Even worse, since slamming into the target is pretty much how ALL modern weapons work, we end up with a slight problem of it just being ANNOYING unless you rapidly escalate into the overkill range.
The exotic properties of magic win out in defense methods since they can cheat physics in this manner. However, for offense, conventional weapons are just nastier and efficient.
A good hybrid of magical attack that mimics the conventional firearms method is absolutely a must when one is designing for combat. When it comes down to imparting energy to a target, nothing beats just brute forcing it into a small space as fast as possible.
So the logical method would be that if you want to rapidly defeat both a tech savvy and potential threat magics, you need a weapon that has the efficiency of force of a firearm, but the cheats of magic.
So what you do is you take X amount of energy, slap a magic field around it, and hurl it downrange as fast as you can. Since the magical energy is more compatable against the exotic magical defenses, you stand a better chance of delivering your package of attack energy directly to the actual target.

And since magical combat is geared towards exotic attacks and melee weapons, a high speed round delivering the energy of a full power of a magical sword swing from a hundred meters away is not a normally expected method of combat, especially when there's no fancy light shows, incantations, power-up periods, or other manners exotic effects... just straight up, to the point Energy from Point A to Point B attack. If you miss, fire again. It's more efficient to repeat an attack than to take the first attack and turn it around... as THAT wastes mental effort, magical energy, and conventional energy bleed.

In this manner, most of the Battery's attack mechanisms are actually using LESS magical energy than attacks of equal power using conventional magic attack methods. And making attack more efficient would be where I would place the goal of Battery. Allowing lower rank mages the abillity to utilize the power to attack equal to higher ranges, not JUST by boosting them, but by improving the efficiency of their combat abilities by shaving off the frills and getting highly utilitarian.

As it stands, the prototype is all that's available. And as THAT stands, it's still under testing and review and from the perspective of when I plan to set this up, (I've been getting something in my head and I'm about ready to start writing it.) it'll be years, maybe even a decade before a propperly scaled mass production version for conventional 'Ground Pounding' mages could be ready.

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by Liingo

Belkarangers? Should that not be the *cough* BAKARANGERS

But the Bakarangers already exist

(Poor Makie )

Originally Posted by Kha

"Confessy JUMP!"

"Confessy SPIN!"

ZETTAI MUTEKI INAZUMA...

KIIIIIIICKKHAAA!!!

*angry Allison Ford in Leshral Mode >>>> USB, LoweGear and Liingo for forgetting she existed*

Lingo's right; we do need Katsura around too... Not to mention that I'll be kinda retconning Allie as a character if she were to moderate them...

But I'm sure Mommy Braummuhl will give her stamp of approval. (See my OC list if you want to know why. )

[Bardiche] Recovery [/Bardiche]

Well, I didn't even know they were HnG characters until FlameS told me

And at any rate, they're not gonn have much in the way of HnG refs... except as gags. Perhap's Allie's gonna have a strange... affinity towards them (despite them being WAY older than she is )

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Anyway, as far as spell ranges... I think we're underestimating Hayate's power level. I'm reviewing Episode 11 of strikers at this very moment and:

Spoiler for Technical Review of the GODS:

Hayate gets released to S rank, which she calls 'more than enough'.
Hraesvelgr's shot, looking at that map, is hitting a LOT farther in range than a mere few kilometers. (Judging by the land mass features on the map.)
It's impact is also causing a massive blast area far larger than any mere artillery shell.


Review the following.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4.../dronesize.jpg
A flying drone as shown above is roughly a two meter long vehicle, with a 2.5 meter wingspan.
Experience with range shooting of targets has shown me that a one meter target, which is a human upper torso, looks roughly like a small dot at any range further than about two-hundred to two-hundred fifty meters.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...velgrblast.jpg
In the above image, the drone targets in the far distance just above the divide between the cloud and blue sky, are similar in visual appearance to what a 300 meter upper torso target appear as. Essentially, indistinct small blobs or dots. Since drones are larger by several times, but appear the same, I can easily conclude that those drones are roughly three-hundred, to four hundred meters away from the camera position in the shot.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...dchildamap.jpg
The Hraesvelgr shot completely annihilates the entire group. (Group E.)
This indicates that Hraesvelgr has an effective destructive blast radius in excess of 200 meters. In fact, the destructive force radius on Hraesvelgr is potentially far larger, because the destructive energy is contained as a weather phenomina rather than an outright blast.
However you want to calculate that feat, it is in far excess of any 'small bomb' in existence.
In fact, this mere S rank attack has a blast radius that exceeds a Massive Ordinance Air Blast bomb. (MOAB) AKA, the (now second) largest non-nuclear weapon in modern use.
...By a factor of three. Who knows what kind of shockwave it would create if it wasn't Magically contained. And this isn't even a max-yield S rank... if her comment of S rank being 'MORE than enough' is to be taken at meaning.

One Hraesvelgr wave consists of five shots. Putting the estimated energy of this at 15 X the destructive power of a single MOAB.

Context in the episode indicates that she fired Hraesvelgr multiple times after they had shown off the first attack. And she hadn't even broken a sweat before she fired off a Diabolic Emmission (Ep 12), which looking at the city blocks just being engulfed by the attack, is on the physical scale of a tactical nuclear weapon.

Hayate is flying Los Angeles class nuclear missile submarine in terms of firepower.

Going back a second to Hraesvelger, the map showing the trajectories has land mass markings that look rather interesting. Judging from the size and shape of the features, those shots have been fired over FAR greater a distance than a mere ten kilometers (a little under five miles.) I can see clusters of islands and such in different areas as a long winding penensula in the left upper corner.
This map is overlayed over another map, which, looking at the grid markings for lattitude and longitude, this appears to be the northern hemisphere map of midchilda. It's a notable detail, but I can't make any use of it since the overlay map in front of it has the transit data of the shots.


Anyone else want to tell me that six 40 lb 105mm howitzer shells are S class attacks when we've got someone firing what equals 93,700 lbs of high explosive in one salvo? (Let alone direct each of the five shots at the same time.) *Cocks head to the side.*

Like I said, put me in charge of spearheading the classification system, and we cannot fail.

Many catgirls were ruthlessly slaughtered in the making of this post.

*looks at the hill made of bludgeoned catgirls*

Such horror... such inhumanity...

And such a detailed and exhaustive look into Hayate's power levels

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

• I'm busy running some MAJOR overhauls in Aurion's profile as by doing some MAJOR de-HAXXing. (HAXXbusters cheer)
• I'm planning on scrapping some more outragous ideas as well as making a more believable back-story for the Perfect Void (Universally fatal threat? Not any more.XD) in order to make it more feasible to the general public.
• Also running ideas on how to bring about the Aurion vs. Hayate mock battle.
• Planning out some MORE OC's.
• Trying to inject an attempt at EPIC in one scene.
• Conceptualizing the *beeeeeeeeeeep* in one scenario.
• Revamping the spell list.
• Doing even more powering down for some elements.
• Inserting some scenes of the Perfect Void Incident in backflashes.
• Scrapping the excessive referencing in my new OC's.
• Contemplating on how to referecne Saga and the OFM in GenerationS.
• Thinking of how to first insert Tk's OC's.
• Thinking of proper tactics to use.
• Thinking of how to 'believably' HAXX Luozorl further.
• Thinking of Whether to add more ideas for Tyrfing.
• Thinking of adding some familiars.
• Thinking of adding some more OC's from others if possible.
• Conceptualizing the final battle in a blievable light.
• Making Hayate's performance believeable.
• Changing the name and the concepts of the Bookmark System.
• Offering some nostalgia for the Tome of the night Sky.
• Thinking of a Tesla+Agito unison.
• Thinking of a Hayate+Agito Unison...

In short, I want my story as canonically feasible as I can. And Yep, it's fun! Though I'm having particular trouble with portraying Hayate in combat due to excessive shafting.

That's quite the exhaustive list there, that's a lot of things to do for Generations

Though I'm very interested in your *beeeeeeeeeeeep* scenario you're conceptualizing there

*runs*

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

LOWE!!! DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR PHOTOBUCKET ACCOUNT!!!

It sometimes goes overboard, it sometimes doesn't Should be fine now though

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Boukenger reference this time?!

NICE!!!

Though it made me think... Since Aurion's trigger phrase was taken from Satoru Akashi/Boukenred...

Aurion: *snaps fingers* Attack!
Belkarangers: Roger!!! *charges*






*runs like frickin hell*

Aurion should have his own Boukenger henshin In fact, he should be the Belkaranger's secret leader

*runs*

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by FieryAeon

Re-watching lots of anime to get ideas. I swear this has to be the worse writer's lazy spree+writer's block I've ever had.

I know how you feel. I have been working on a bishoujo (1) fighting game IAQ (2) since 2005 and I have moved it to wiki format like ten months ago because I was tired of the txt format that has been done a lot of time already.
All of my IAQ characters' profiles are done but so far I have done only five actual movelists (as in how their moves works). Because I don't want all of my characters to suffer the Melty Blood (different movelists but nearly everyone play the same) or KoF 98 (Command throws for nearly the whole cast!) syndrome.


(1) Using female (and very few males) characters that were used for NPCs in pen&paper role playing games like Mutant Chronicles/Doomtroopers, Vampire the Masquerade, Kult, Hunter: The Reckoning but done away from their roots in an alternative earth of my own.
Among the cast, there are a miko as the heroine and her twin brother who has both demonic blood (originally, they were dhampyrs), a demon-hunter squad hired by the Vatican that has a womanizing spanish slacker, a gunslinging nun, a blind swordgirl and a psychic Italian hottie. Outside the squad, there were also a war veteran, a carefree hawai girl who has water powers, the pretty big-breasted foreign (brazilian and vietnamese half-breed) girl who can manipulate fire, the biker banchou who is albino, hard lez and can manipulate air, etc...

(2) IAQ = fictional faq for a fictional game

[dkellis]

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

I'd like to ask now (everyone who won't mind), how would you expect her to hold out in relatively close range? The initial idea is that she has a year under her wing for some training on mid to melee-range self-defense. How should she hold out against someone like say... Vita? As it is now, I'm imaging a large possibility of cries of, "She's supposed to do better!" or "She's not supposed to be THIS good!" or both. So I would like a general opinion. Her spellcasting is better now, BTW. But still way slower than most.

I've noticed that for all we try to bust our own haxxes, Hayate is simply unbalanced.

We know that she can easily toss out huge mega-destructive blasts, well dwarfing Nanoha's own, and it doesn't seem to tax her as much as it does Nanoha. Strangely enough, we haven't seen her do anything other than these mega-blasts (or close-equivalent power spells), which makes me wonder if she can use anything smaller. For example, we know that Nanoha can fire off Starlight Breakers (well, she could, at the least), but she can also call up a small magical thingie which she uses to train her control by knocking a can around, without vapourizing said can. I'm not sure if Hayate can do the same, or if she's stuck with Big Booms only.

I also seem to recall that in A's, Rein the first had an incredibly tough barrier which took most of Nanoha's power to break through; I'm assuming that Hayate inherited that ability, so I'm assuming that she can sit there and soak attacks for as long as she likes.

So, where does that leave us? If Hayate is up against a melee combatant, she's likely to not care much about the attacks coming her way, but her response might be delayed while she goes through the whole Darkness-beyond-twilight routine. Once she finishes, though, I'm thinking that she can just fire it off at zero range and trust in her own defenses to protect her from the AoE.

I'm not sure if Hayate can perform as well when there are fragile objectives in the area. In episode 2 of StrikerS, she had to wait until the block was evacuated before she did her ice spell. I'm assuming that unless she's managed to learn a stupendous amount of control, she's likely to be useless in close-quarters hostage situations.

In other words, if she wants to engage in mid to close range combat, it had better be in an open area without anything to get in her way. Otherwise, she may have to rely on whatever a regular person could learn in that year of training about self-defence, plus her own inherently impenetrable barrier.

Or I could be completely mistaken about everything.

-

A thought I had:

Here's Hayate, super-powerful mage of a near-extinct magical legacy, S-ranked (or was it SS?), able to toss off heavy bombardment spells with abandon.

And the TSAB assigns her to what amounts to a desk job, after slapping several levels of limiters on her.

Chrono had a rank of AAA+ as of A's. Lindy had a rank of who knows what (I think I heard mention that she was also stupendously powerful). Both are also assigned to non-frontline roles as of StrikerS (and in Lindy's case, as of the first season).

Compare to the Wolkenritter, who wander around as an actual combat-active unit. I'm not sure what mage ranks they have, but it's likely pretty high. I'm not sure whether Fate also goes around righting wrongs, and Acous's talents seem to be based more appropriately on espionage than direct confrontations.

I'm beginning to believe that the TSAB also has its own hawks-and-doves political divide, even outside of Regius's schemes. If you're trying to make your characters more powerful in a combat sense, I'm thinking that you're going to have to acknowledge in the story that there'll be a lot of political backlash.

[Saint X]

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Good...


You should take into consideration Aurion and Almaria's old Pschic Link. Because one thing to remember is 'No link' = 'fake'. This makes sense, I must admit. If you're going thruough with this, provide the Psychic link, if only a phantom one. And of course, I want the reappearance to be AlternateS-exclusive. :-/

No more Almaria until the "Memory of the Planet" Arc... which will be a very hard challenge- given the rules of Reappearance in that space...

- History Shared
- Any Relations, blood or otherwise
- Any Links, esp. Mental / Psychic
- Requires a Celestial or a source of "Divine Energy" Nearby.
- Many more still in definition

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

WANT!!!

Though I have one move for Hayate in GenerationS that goes along those lines. (Not melee, of course.)

Well she is the next Cardinal, after Carim taking up the long lost Velkan Papacy... well i have a lot of things planned *cough*velkan*cough*valkyries*cough*with*cough*Ker oko*cough*which is*cough*currently in*cough*the shelf*cough*due*cough*to*cough*resource*cough*conc erns*cough*

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well i have a lot doing, since I'm moving/downgrading my base of operations from the massive Outer Cadian Facility to a Quaint, Cozy and Peaceful Neo-Venezian Workshop in Calle Fantasia.

And such this profile will be the last item produced from the Outer Cadian Facility.

Spoiler for Orbit/Ring/Circle 3:

Name: Unknown, No records of true name, still combing domicile world for information. He said that he'll only say his true name to his wife (ooh... Kotona Elegance tendency...)
Alias: "Bridget"
Age: 15
Gender: Male (YES he is a TRAP)
Birthday: May 21, Dei Feast of Decem (root: decimal), the Dei God of numbers and Patron Deity of Dei Dark Magic.
Hair: Blonde Yellow, long and feminine
Eyes: Viewpoint Chroma-Phasing from green to blue and vice versa- eye color changes from green to blue and vice versa depending on where you look at his face. (Kirika has Active Opto-Chroma-Phasing, where she can change her eye color and visual perception voluntarily)
Build: Effeminate male
Height:
Weight:
Homeworld: Unknown, suspected to come from an N.A.W.
Magic System: Dei-Type
Magic Grade: Trainee Templar Third Grade / Initiate Templar First Grade
Magic Color: White / Gray
Mage Rank: A+
Threat Level: A+
Personality: Though raised as a girl due to superstition, he still retains some male attitude. Speaks in a bishonen (almost female- well some bishonen have female seiyuu) way, tone and voice and is in many aspects, effeminate. Does not even try to act up in his clothing, and will be direct to the point when asked about his gender.
Affiliation: Newly Graduated from the TSAB academy special program for "non-conventional mages"- a group for people with non-descript Magic Types (like Prism, Dei and others- basically anything non-Mid or non-Velka), medi-magical conditions (non-life-threatening medicial conditions that affect a person's magical ability, like Sign Blanking- a person's inability to retain a sigil due to weak linker core lattices and weak medial system (magic circuit) flow) and 'magical geniuses' (people who are over-ranked for their age, like Nanoha, Fate and Hayate).
Device/s: "Rebounder" and Orbis
Device Type:

"Rebounder": Frame Device (Quotes because Frame Devices usually have no names- due to their nature and simplicity)

Orbis: Guide/Aid Device

Description:

"Rebounder": A Single Simple Yo-yo, Silver plated and with a neo-metallic sting that allows energy to flow from the templar to the device. Inside mechanisms are like the regenerative yo-yo of today, but each component is a module for other magic enhancing components. Does not have a standby form.

Orbis: The metal ring around him when his' core jacket is online. It contains similar mechanisms as his yo-yo- like magic amplification/realization/transmission mechanisms, but also contains an Overdrive Engine- the Dei equivalent to the Cartridge System on Mid/Velkan Devices. And like all Guide/Aid Devices (since they are the equivalents of Intelligent/Unison Devices) it has an AI (appropriately) named Roger (yes, taking the form of the Teddy Bear). Standby form is his belt.

Spell/Skill List:

Spoiler for Offensive:

- Track Shot:
"Es-" Type, "-Tun" based skill ("Estun" means "Destroy Average" in Dei).

Skill Description:

Unknown Data, currently involves a light swipe of the yo-yo.

- Bind Loop:
"Es-" Type, "-Ka" based skill ("Eska" means "Alter Speed" in Dei).

Skill Description:

Unknown Data, currently involves wrapping the neo-metallic string of the yo-yo around the target, slowing it down.

- Power Slam/Strike:
"Es-" Type, "-Ma" based skill ("Esma" means "Destroy All" in Dei).

Skill Description:

Unknown Data, currently involves multiple, heavy strikes of the yo-yo. Can only be cast after either one of the two above spells are cast first.

Spoiler for Defensive:

- Ring (Influence) Barrier:

Skill Description:

His default barrier, able to block attacks when powered on. Due to a lack of shielding, this is the only default shield he has on. It has two 'Power Settings", half and full. A "half power" shield can only deflect ranged and cushion melee attacks, but only to a limited degree and power range, though its advantage is that it can be left on for long periods. a "full power" shield can block most shots, but can be taxing on the mage per hit blocked.

Skill Details:

Half Power:
+ Lasting time: indefinite
+ Effects: Deflect Ranged Attacks, 25% chance / Reduce 35% of Melee Damage, 25% chance. AA+ and below skills are affected.
+ Tax: 1~5% per hit deflected/cushioned
+ Upkeep: 1%

Full Power
+ Lasting time: indefinite, until the mage runs out of mana/energy
+ Effects: Full deflect/block any attack, 100% chance, S+ and below skills affected
+ Tax: 10~105% per hit deflected/cushioned
+ Upkeep: 10~25%


- Crystal Coat:
"Ka-" type, "-ite" based skill ("Kaite" means "Self-reflection" in Dei)

Skill Description:

A special Dei-based buff that enables a special barrier that reflects any kind of magic back to the caster, though only two shots can be reflected- and those reflected shots can be evaded by the caster. So in the case of Nanoha firing 10 Accel shooter shots to a target with this buff, only 2 of the 10 will reflect back- with Nanoha dodging/controlling the two, and the other 8 will still hit, unless there is barrier or if the caster recasts this skill or still under the influence of evasion/protection spells- those spells will decide the effect of the other shots. In the case of Divine Buster, if there is only 1 shot lobbed towards a person with this buff, that entire shot is reflected back- with Nanoha evading it. Upkeep is costly and the downside is that support spells will also return to the caster, until it is dispelled. Can only be cast on self or on other Dei users, unless under the influence of "Force Teaching".

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or until dispelled
+ Effects: Reflect any magic back to the caster 2x.
+ Tax: 20% upon cast without this buff on, 65% when cast with this buff still on.
+ Upkeep: 5% on self cast, 1% when cast on target, but target upkeep about 4%.


- Critical Restoration:
"Ka-" type, "-izel" based skill ("Kaizel" means "Self-restoration" in Dei)

Skill Description:

A powerful chant that enables a Dei Linker (buffer) to store a tremendous amount of restorative energy in their, or in another target's body. This stored energy, like all "Ka-" spells, have a lasting time and will disperse easily and harmlessly when the time limit is up, or unless the target's health is so low that it is almost to the point of death. Then at that certain low life point, like 5% with Bridget's level of this skill, this energy is released, the ensuing rush fast healing injuries, but with an overload of pain as all injury healing is accelerated 1000% faster than natural during this process. The target may faint due to the overload of pain signals unless they are either under the influence of painkillers or some other mental occupation ability. Dei Templars naturally overcome this dire pain by means of their passive "Ka-" type skill "Kaina" or Life Hymn- but reduction is only just slight to keep consciousness in- as for other Magic Types, that is up to the person applied with this buff. Can only be cast on self or on other Dei users, unless under the influence of "Force Teaching".

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or until the effect kicks in.
+ Effects: Total restoration of target HP, but the target must be at the 5% HP mark to it to take effect.
+ Tax: 25% upon cast without this buff on, 80% when cast with this buff still on.
+ Upkeep: 0~25% depending on the mage/target injury/damage upon casting- the more damaged/injured the higher.


- Snap React:
"Ka-" type, "-upe" based skill ("Kaupe" means "Self-rejection/dodge" in Dei)

Skill Description:

A specialist buff that for one moment, heightens the target's senses so much that any form of attack, regardless of kind is evaded for that one moment. Another form of this a ethereal duplication- almost at the point that the target is, in any perspective appearing as a single unit, but in reality, the ethereal pair is what everybody- including caster and target sees, only by dispelling it reveals that the real body is in a different place altogether- giving it the impression of dodging it totally. Bridget's kind of buff under this category is more of a mix of the two, upon when a hit almost lands, the target instantly and momentarily 'dives' into a dimensional pocket- without any notice from any party, avoiding the attack, and also the 'dive' alters the target's space a bit, so that shots with the same "intent wavelength", like Salvoes, or chained attacks simply "pass thru". It is either the shots "pass thru" or totally dodged in action. Can only be cast on self or on other Dei users, unless under the influence of "Force Teaching".

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or until dispelled.
+ Effects: The absolute evasion of one attack- Salvoes count as one if released at the same time/or as a chain.
+ Tax: 20% upon cast without this buff on, 65% when cast with this buff still on.
+ Upkeep: 5%


- Injure Vampirism:
"Ka-" type, "-ahi" based skill ("Kaahi" means "Self-recovery" in Dei)

Skill Description:

One of the strangest buffs in the Dei Canon is the "Kaahi" based skills, for they require real time injury to take effect. It is a personal aura that "captures" not just the life force of the area, but also the life force lost by the live injury and restores it to the user, but as with unconverted and spent life force, only a fraction can be restored to the user- so this buff is only useful when trying to prevent death or at low level injuries- but unlike pure skills of this basing- which only work in the face of just manual damage, Injure Vampirism can work not just in the face of manual damage, but in all kinds of damages, magical, skill or any- really helpful in the face of life degrading spells. But there is a drawback, self-inflicted injuries by any means cannot activate the effect, and hence, a person with this buff on, when buffed by a "Kaiun" based spell, will be replaced by that said spell in place. Can only be cast on self or on other Dei users, unless under the influence of "Force Teaching".

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or until dispelled
+ Effects: Restores 5~10% (nominal) of spent life energy when user is injured or taking damage in any way. Cannot be cast when "Sacrifice Edict" or "Kaiun"- based spells are in effect- any cast over will replace it.
+ Tax: Same as Kaiun, but without the injury factor
+ Upkeep: 0%


- Sacrifice Edict:
"Ka-" type, "-iun" based skill ("Kaiun" means "Self-sacrifice" in Dei)

Skill Description:

"My Life for the Cause..." one of the deeper mantras of a Templar, which not just defines their duty to their Canon, but also their people as well. This Spell, relatively new in the long history of the form, takes this mantra to a literal meaning. This is the inverse of "Kaahi", which means that the person's life force is used to increase damages dealt to an enemy, instead of absorbing health from damage. This is the ultimate act that a templar can do, it is basically their version of the Terran Suicide attack- and also a reason why artificial mages are being promoted, since after being damaged, they can simply be repaired and be sent back, whereas lives are more expensive. But If you think that applying a "Kaizel" based skill would alleviate the problem, that is where you're wrong- because each attack under "Kaiun" influence has the same pain factor as being acted upon by "Kaizel" effects- as soon as your Kaiun wears off and in the process sets off your Kaizel, you will surely faint or even die from the overload of pain regardless of whatever you do- unless you can turn off the release of the neurotransmitters for pain physically- any chemical means is fatal. Can only be cast on self or on other Dei users, unless under the influence of "Force Teaching". This is a skill of last resort!!!

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or after 5 attacks, skills included, hit or miss.
+ Effects: 1000% increase in attack for 5 attacks, skills included, hit or miss. Cannot be cast when "Injure Vampirism" or "Kaahi"- based spells are in effect- any cast over will replace it.
+ Tax: 20% upon cast without this buff on, 65% when cast with this buff still on. 10% self injury per attack, hit or miss.
+ Upkeep: 0%


- Force Teaching:
"Ka-" type, "-ita" based skill ("Kaita" means "Self-teaching" in Dei)

Skill Description

"To benefit all" is another internal mantra a templar adheres to, which defines their canon's original intent to be helpful to any magic type- which was lost thru time, countless deaths and aggressions from other Magic Forms, forcing the Dei to become the isolated, xenophobic and warlike group that was highlighted in AlternateS I- that was quickly changed by the formal reintroduction of the Dei Archon by the end of that saga. In the ensuing Renaissance, the entire Canon was rediscovered and along with it, came a way that will enable Linkers to allow themselves to help other users of other form- and this was "Kaita". This is, in the most simplest sense, a forcing spell that forces the buff dynamics to be bent, thus allowing application of "ka-" skills to all allies in the area, regardless of type- it is like removing a limiter in a sense. The only snag is that it can only be applied to other Templars, since it needs a conflict in the target's "Life Hymn" in order for the skill to work, since casting to one's self is equivalent of applying a cancel frequency to one's own frequency. And it naturally does not work on non Dei types.

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or until dispelled
+ Effects: Allows the Dei target to "Force buff" anyone, regardless of Magic Type with "Ka-" type skills. Cannot be cast on self.
+ Tax: 20% upon cast without this buff on, 65% when cast with this buff still on.
+ Upkeep: 5%


- Attitude Hymn:
"Ka-" type, "-ina" based skill ("Kaina" means "Self/Life Hymn" in Dei)

Skill Description

The only passive skill that he has, and a vital skill as well, not just to him but variants of this skill to Templars everywhere. This is the basic of all Dei, regardless of being a sigiled natural templar or a sigiless artificial drone, since this skill signifies their very life force in motion, their very spirit, their very indentity... and without a Life Hymn, one can not be a force user- according to Dei Canon that is. In Midchildan Medical terms, this signifies to a limited extent the "base frequency of the linker core, or "spark"- depends on who you talk to". And speaking of individual lives, Bridget's is unique, only befitting a person of his composition. True that his Hymn as the same effect as others like Ashton and Rurika, there are a special set of effects that occur when he's in a certain state- namely being a boy and girl. When his well-being- attitude, behaviour, emotion and reaction are that of a man, the male attitude kicks in, increasing aggression and lowering his self-safety/care for self.The reverse happens when he's in touch with his female side, decreasing anger and more caring for self/others. Those states have drastic effects on his performance during battle so a sudden mood change would spell disaster.

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: Passive Skill
+ Effects: Increase in passive Health/Energy Regeneration Rate, factor dependent on the types of people beside him and the number- a max of a raise to the 8th in any computation of a Kaina-based skill. Increased attack and decreased/0 recovery rate when attitude is more manly/more testosterone/male hormones in the body system (GAR shift), Decreased attack and increased/5x (in addition to the first effect) recovery rate when attitude is more girly/more estrogen/female hormones in the body system (MOE shift).

Spoiler for Buff/Boost:

The "Re-" Type Skills:

Skill Description

"Re-" type spells, commonly called "Linking" spells, are the epitome of Dei Support Spells, not just because they are like the majority of support spells, ones that strengthen the target, but also, due to the extremely different "wavelength" of Dei Users, they are able to "awaken" the target's "inner abilities" to further improve the tide of battle. What actually happens is that the Linker gives a huge amount of his/her unique mana to the target, about 30-45% of the Templar's mana pool depending on their level, and in a process that is still highly kept secret, manages to "insulate" the target's magical circuit with an "insulation" of that parted mana, protecting the base magic circuit from any outside influence, particularly AMF, since Dei users are naturally highly resistant to such impedances. And being mana in itself, not only does it add to the target's mana pool (restoring the amount, not the percentage- if 35% is about 3500/10000 in the templar, only 3500 units can be restored, even if its 3500/100000), but it's unusual frequency also aids the target, amplifying/canceling wave patterns in the energy flow, resulting in a totally different flow and manner of energy- half the target's and half of the templar's. The resulting "linked" flow enables the activation of "Inner Abilites", namely variant skills of either Dei and the Target. The Device the target has can still normally process the linked flow, so there are no problems in powering down or overloading devices during linked state. Even though the base concept of linking spells is the same, each kind of force user is unique, hence having the 9 "'Paths' of the user".

Skill Details - Default
+ Lasting time: Varies from the Target's magical capability and usage, from 5000 and above seconds for a low level (Rank C below), 2500-4500 seconds for a mid level (Rank A to B) and 777 to about 1500 seconds to a high level (AA and above) target. Still subject to duration change.
+ Effects: 35% in amount addition of mana to the target. AMF immunity up to the D-Type/Strength (total stoppage of Magic Linking- the AMF pulse when the Cradle was disabled), 50%-10% AMF resistance to any AMF after D-Type (Magic Evacuation/Vacuum/Degradation kinds). Unlock of certain skills, both passive and active, depending on the target. The names here are tentative, and subject to change.
+ Tax: 35%-45%
+ Upkeep: 0%

To Mid-Types:

- Magic Soul
Reizel: "Spirit of Mage"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Mid-Type Ranged Users Only- Like Nanoha. Decreases tax and cooldown when casting spells, "Unlocks" "Split-shot", a shooting effect that splits any single coherent beam into at least 2 homing beams, with the same power output. Imagine Nanoha firing a single Divine Buster shot under the influence of Reizel, the shot speeds and once it nears the target or on command, the shot splits into at least 2 homing beams- a Nanohaverse version of the DiBison's MegaloMax attack, and "Beam Regen", a passive skill that that mimics the charging of Starlight Breaker per beam shot- using latent/free energy from the surroundings- reducing energy consumption by about 40% per shot. Hyperblasts like SLB and Minishots like Accel Shooter are not affected.


- Combat Soul
Reite: "Spirit of Warrior"

Skill Details
+ Additonal Effects: For Mid-Type Melee Users Only- Like Fate. Increases Movement and Attack Speeds, "Unlocks" "Speed Factor", a passive skill that increases damage, depending on the velocity of the blow, "Critical Reaction", a passive skill that heightens the mage's senses, increasing evasion and critical hit rate, and "Echo", an attack effect, that at random, will enable the mage to deal as much as ten times the normal damage per attack, chance dependent.


- Mission Soul
Reina: "Spirit of Priest"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Mid-Type Supporters Only- Like Caro. Decreases Mana consumption by about 10%-15% and increases Mana Regeneration by the same amount. "Unlocks" "Force Point", an active spell in which the mage can fire off a pinpoint beam that when it hits, either pushes back the enemy or disables it- if it hits any node in the circuit, "Guardian", another active skill that "summons" 2 "options" (Vic Viper/Gradius ref) to defend the supporter or any allies- the number becomes 4 if the supporter is a non-summoner, since they have no summons to help them- familiars don't count as summons (i think), and also enables a Dei summoner to cast "Anima Maxima" on the supporter's summon when said summon is summoned when the summoner is under the influcence of Reina.


To Velka-Types:

- Knight Soul
Reana: "Spirit of Knight"

Skill Details
+ Additonal Effects: For Velka-Type Melee Users Only- Like Signum. Stabbing attacks are faster and more penetrating, Slashing attacks have a wider damage swath, Cleaving attacks have bigger cleave areas and knockback and impact attacks have bigger AoE and have stun tendency. Increases defense and attack at the cost of reducing 5% mana regeneration. Panzer- spells have a 25%-50% reflective tendency.


- Arcane Soul
Reika: "Spirit of Wizard/Warlock"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Velka-Type Ranged Users Only- Like Hayate. Decreases Mana consumption by about 10%-15% and increases Mana Regeneration by the same amount. "Unlocks" "Force Impact" (needing German translation for this), a melee skill that enables the mage to use his/her staff as a enegized hammer, knocking the target with a powerful blasted impact, and "Iron Edict" (needing German translation for this), a Velkan only applicable defense spell that improves Panzer- type spells by about 30%.


- Gospel Soul
Reiun: "Spirit of Cleric"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Velka-Type Supporters Only- Like Shamal. Improves Healing effectivity by about 20%, reduces mana tax/usage by about 35%, "Unlocks" "Assumptio/n", an all-around support spell, much like the RO spell of the same name, reducing damage by about 50%. and also enables a Dei summoner to cast "Anima Maxima" on the supporter's summon when said summon is summoned when the summoner is under the influcence of Reiun.


To Dei-Types/Others:

- Fighting Soul
Reita: "Spirit of Fighter"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Dei-Type Melee Users Only- Like Arisa. Unknown Effect.


- Range Soul
Reikyo: "Spirit of Ranger"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Dei-Type Ranged Users Only- Like Rurika. Any dodge self-improvement skill with effect duration they use will also affect allies (think of it as the RO skill "wind walk"), with the exception of Kaupe-based/instant single use dodge skills, "Unlocks" "Tri-Shot", an active skill that enables the user to shoot 3 shots at once, instead of the usual double and "Seal Bolt", a special projectile attack that is similar to "Purge" but hits/affect enemies in the projectile path.


- Force Soul
Reone: "Spirit of Mystic"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Dei-Type Supporters/Force Users Only- Like Ashton. Improves "Kaina" effectivity by 50%, Improves "Anima Maxima" effect by 25%, reduces casting time by 30%, "Kaizel" type spell effect conditions changed to 25% life limit before effect activation (Ashton's "Life Rebound" kicks in at 15%) and "Unlocks" "Abosolute Transfer", a Dei Transfer type support skill that enables to transfer life and energy from one target to another, regardless of alignment- can be used both supportively or offensively.

History: to be added later...

Questions will be entertained...

Saint X is now starting his movement to Neo-Venezia... ETA: Unknown...

[Kha]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

But the Bakarangers already exist

(Poor Makie )

Wang Liu Mei: Ah sou, sou...

Linda: So what?

Wang: Classified information.

Originally Posted by LoweGear

[Bardiche] Recovery [/Bardiche]

Well, I didn't even know they were HnG characters until FlameS told me

And at any rate, they're not gonn have much in the way of HnG refs... except as gags. Perhap's Allie's gonna have a strange... affinity towards them (despite them being WAY older than she is )

Neither did I, until Lingo made me realize I was staring at Nagi. Hence the delayed Kick of Justice.

Anyway, if they were the Bakarangers, I suppose the missing 4th Baka is Ma--*static*--, deshou?

That doesn't explain the missing 5th Baka though...

Originally Posted by LoweGear

*looks at the hill made of bludgeoned catgirls*

Such horror... such inhumanity...

As Gimmy once put it: "What a perfect waste of the nekoroid female population."

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Though I'm very interested in your *beeeeeeeeeeeep* scenario you're conceptualizing there

*runs*

Yeah especially after all the trailers and "trial runs" and "sneak peaks".

*runs too*

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Aurion should have his own Boukenger henshin In fact, he should be the Belkaranger's secret leader

*runs*

This is a GREAT IDEA! XD

In the next episode of Rebuilt of StrikerS...

"BakaRed, ORE SANJOU!"

*runs from Aaron and anti-OC-assassination activists while keeping an eye out for Mai*

[Sheba]

@ Saint X

I can see someone have played Soul Linker class in Ragnarok Online :3

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by Saint X

well i have a lot doing, since I'm moving/downgrading my base of operations from the massive Outer Cadian Facility to a Quaint, Cozy and Peaceful Neo-Venezian Workshop in Calle Fantasia.

And such this profile will be the last item produced from the Outer Cadian Facility.

Spoiler for Orbit/Ring/Circle 3:

Name: Unknown, No records of true name, still combing domicile world for information. He said that he'll only say his true name to his wife (ooh... Kotona Elegance tendency...)
Alias: "Bridget"
Age: 15
Gender: Male (YES he is a TRAP)
Birthday: May 21, Dei Feast of Decem (root: decimal), the Dei God of numbers and Patron Deity of Dei Dark Magic.
Hair: Blonde Yellow, long and feminine
Eyes: Viewpoint Chroma-Phasing from green to blue and vice versa- eye color changes from green to blue and vice versa depending on where you look at his face. (Kirika has Active Opto-Chroma-Phasing, where she can change her eye color and visual perception voluntarily)
Build: Effeminate male
Height:
Weight:
Homeworld: Unknown, suspected to come from an N.A.W.
Magic System: Dei-Type
Magic Grade: Trainee Templar Third Grade / Initiate Templar First Grade
Magic Color: White / Gray
Mage Rank: A+
Threat Level: A+
Personality: Though raised as a girl due to superstition, he still retains some male attitude. Speaks in a bishonen (almost female- well some bishonen have female seiyuu) way, tone and voice and is in many aspects, effeminate. Does not even try to act up in his clothing, and will be direct to the point when asked about his gender.
Affiliation: Newly Graduated from the TSAB academy special program for "non-conventional mages"- a group for people with non-descript Magic Types (like Prism, Dei and others- basically anything non-Mid or non-Velka), medi-magical conditions (non-life-threatening medicial conditions that affect a person's magical ability, like Sign Blanking- a person's inability to retain a sigil due to weak linker core lattices and weak medial system (magic circuit) flow) and 'magical geniuses' (people who are over-ranked for their age, like Nanoha, Fate and Hayate).
Device/s: "Rebounder" and Orbis
Device Type:

"Rebounder": Frame Device (Quotes because Frame Devices usually have no names- due to their nature and simplicity)

Orbis: Guide/Aid Device

Description:

"Rebounder": A Single Simple Yo-yo, Silver plated and with a neo-metallic sting that allows energy to flow from the templar to the device. Inside mechanisms are like the regenerative yo-yo of today, but each component is a module for other magic enhancing components. Does not have a standby form.

Orbis: The metal ring around him when his' core jacket is online. It contains similar mechanisms as his yo-yo- like magic amplification/realization/transmission mechanisms, but also contains an Overdrive Engine- the Dei equivalent to the Cartridge System on Mid/Velkan Devices. And like all Guide/Aid Devices (since they are the equivalents of Intelligent/Unison Devices) it has an AI (appropriately) named Roger (yes, taking the form of the Teddy Bear). Standby form is his belt.

Spell/Skill List:

Spoiler for Offensive:

- Track Shot:
"Es-" Type, "-Tun" based skill ("Estun" means "Destroy Average" in Dei).

Skill Description:

Unknown Data, currently involves a light swipe of the yo-yo.

- Bind Loop:
"Es-" Type, "-Ka" based skill ("Eska" means "Alter Speed" in Dei).

Skill Description:

Unknown Data, currently involves wrapping the neo-metallic string of the yo-yo around the target, slowing it down.

- Power Slam/Strike:
"Es-" Type, "-Ma" based skill ("Esma" means "Destroy All" in Dei).

Skill Description:

Unknown Data, currently involves multiple, heavy strikes of the yo-yo. Can only be cast after either one of the two above spells are cast first.

Spoiler for Defensive:

- Ring (Influence) Barrier:

Skill Description:

His default barrier, able to block attacks when powered on. Due to a lack of shielding, this is the only default shield he has on. It has two 'Power Settings", half and full. A "half power" shield can only deflect ranged and cushion melee attacks, but only to a limited degree and power range, though its advantage is that it can be left on for long periods. a "full power" shield can block most shots, but can be taxing on the mage per hit blocked.

Skill Details:

Half Power:
+ Lasting time: indefinite
+ Effects: Deflect Ranged Attacks, 25% chance / Reduce 35% of Melee Damage, 25% chance. AA+ and below skills are affected.
+ Tax: 1~5% per hit deflected/cushioned
+ Upkeep: 1%

Full Power
+ Lasting time: indefinite, until the mage runs out of mana/energy
+ Effects: Full deflect/block any attack, 100% chance, S+ and below skills affected
+ Tax: 10~105% per hit deflected/cushioned
+ Upkeep: 10~25%


- Crystal Coat:
"Ka-" type, "-ite" based skill ("Kaite" means "Self-reflection" in Dei)

Skill Description:

A special Dei-based buff that enables a special barrier that reflects any kind of magic back to the caster, though only two shots can be reflected- and those reflected shots can be evaded by the caster. So in the case of Nanoha firing 10 Accel shooter shots to a target with this buff, only 2 of the 10 will reflect back- with Nanoha dodging/controlling the two, and the other 8 will still hit, unless there is barrier or if the caster recasts this skill or still under the influence of evasion/protection spells- those spells will decide the effect of the other shots. In the case of Divine Buster, if there is only 1 shot lobbed towards a person with this buff, that entire shot is reflected back- with Nanoha evading it. Upkeep is costly and the downside is that support spells will also return to the caster, until it is dispelled. Can only be cast on self or on other Dei users, unless under the influence of "Force Teaching".

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or until dispelled
+ Effects: Reflect any magic back to the caster 2x.
+ Tax: 20% upon cast without this buff on, 65% when cast with this buff still on.
+ Upkeep: 5% on self cast, 1% when cast on target, but target upkeep about 4%.


- Critical Restoration:
"Ka-" type, "-izel" based skill ("Kaizel" means "Self-restoration" in Dei)

Skill Description:

A powerful chant that enables a Dei Linker (buffer) to store a tremendous amount of restorative energy in their, or in another target's body. This stored energy, like all "Ka-" spells, have a lasting time and will disperse easily and harmlessly when the time limit is up, or unless the target's health is so low that it is almost to the point of death. Then at that certain low life point, like 5% with Bridget's level of this skill, this energy is released, the ensuing rush fast healing injuries, but with an overload of pain as all injury healing is accelerated 1000% faster than natural during this process. The target may faint due to the overload of pain signals unless they are either under the influence of painkillers or some other mental occupation ability. Dei Templars naturally overcome this dire pain by means of their passive "Ka-" type skill "Kaina" or Life Hymn- but reduction is only just slight to keep consciousness in- as for other Magic Types, that is up to the person applied with this buff. Can only be cast on self or on other Dei users, unless under the influence of "Force Teaching".

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or until the effect kicks in.
+ Effects: Total restoration of target HP, but the target must be at the 5% HP mark to it to take effect.
+ Tax: 25% upon cast without this buff on, 80% when cast with this buff still on.
+ Upkeep: 0~25% depending on the mage/target injury/damage upon casting- the more damaged/injured the higher.


- Snap React:
"Ka-" type, "-upe" based skill ("Kaupe" means "Self-rejection/dodge" in Dei)

Skill Description:

A specialist buff that for one moment, heightens the target's senses so much that any form of attack, regardless of kind is evaded for that one moment. Another form of this a ethereal duplication- almost at the point that the target is, in any perspective appearing as a single unit, but in reality, the ethereal pair is what everybody- including caster and target sees, only by dispelling it reveals that the real body is in a different place altogether- giving it the impression of dodging it totally. Bridget's kind of buff under this category is more of a mix of the two, upon when a hit almost lands, the target instantly and momentarily 'dives' into a dimensional pocket- without any notice from any party, avoiding the attack, and also the 'dive' alters the target's space a bit, so that shots with the same "intent wavelength", like Salvoes, or chained attacks simply "pass thru". It is either the shots "pass thru" or totally dodged in action. Can only be cast on self or on other Dei users, unless under the influence of "Force Teaching".

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or until dispelled.
+ Effects: The absolute evasion of one attack- Salvoes count as one if released at the same time/or as a chain.
+ Tax: 20% upon cast without this buff on, 65% when cast with this buff still on.
+ Upkeep: 5%


- Injure Vampirism:
"Ka-" type, "-ahi" based skill ("Kaahi" means "Self-recovery" in Dei)

Skill Description:

One of the strangest buffs in the Dei Canon is the "Kaahi" based skills, for they require real time injury to take effect. It is a personal aura that "captures" not just the life force of the area, but also the life force lost by the live injury and restores it to the user, but as with unconverted and spent life force, only a fraction can be restored to the user- so this buff is only useful when trying to prevent death or at low level injuries- but unlike pure skills of this basing- which only work in the face of just manual damage, Injure Vampirism can work not just in the face of manual damage, but in all kinds of damages, magical, skill or any- really helpful in the face of life degrading spells. But there is a drawback, self-inflicted injuries by any means cannot activate the effect, and hence, a person with this buff on, when buffed by a "Kaiun" based spell, will be replaced by that said spell in place. Can only be cast on self or on other Dei users, unless under the influence of "Force Teaching".

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or until dispelled
+ Effects: Restores 5~10% (nominal) of spent life energy when user is injured or taking damage in any way. Cannot be cast when "Sacrifice Edict" or "Kaiun"- based spells are in effect- any cast over will replace it.
+ Tax: Same as Kaiun, but without the injury factor
+ Upkeep: 0%


- Sacrifice Edict:
"Ka-" type, "-iun" based skill ("Kaiun" means "Self-sacrifice" in Dei)

Skill Description:

"My Life for the Cause..." one of the deeper mantras of a Templar, which not just defines their duty to their Canon, but also their people as well. This Spell, relatively new in the long history of the form, takes this mantra to a literal meaning. This is the inverse of "Kaahi", which means that the person's life force is used to increase damages dealt to an enemy, instead of absorbing health from damage. This is the ultimate act that a templar can do, it is basically their version of the Terran Suicide attack- and also a reason why artificial mages are being promoted, since after being damaged, they can simply be repaired and be sent back, whereas lives are more expensive. But If you think that applying a "Kaizel" based skill would alleviate the problem, that is where you're wrong- because each attack under "Kaiun" influence has the same pain factor as being acted upon by "Kaizel" effects- as soon as your Kaiun wears off and in the process sets off your Kaizel, you will surely faint or even die from the overload of pain regardless of whatever you do- unless you can turn off the release of the neurotransmitters for pain physically- any chemical means is fatal. Can only be cast on self or on other Dei users, unless under the influence of "Force Teaching". This is a skill of last resort!!!

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or after 5 attacks, skills included, hit or miss.
+ Effects: 1000% increase in attack for 5 attacks, skills included, hit or miss. Cannot be cast when "Injure Vampirism" or "Kaahi"- based spells are in effect- any cast over will replace it.
+ Tax: 20% upon cast without this buff on, 65% when cast with this buff still on. 10% self injury per attack, hit or miss.
+ Upkeep: 0%


- Force Teaching:
"Ka-" type, "-ita" based skill ("Kaita" means "Self-teaching" in Dei)

Skill Description

"To benefit all" is another internal mantra a templar adheres to, which defines their canon's original intent to be helpful to any magic type- which was lost thru time, countless deaths and aggressions from other Magic Forms, forcing the Dei to become the isolated, xenophobic and warlike group that was highlighted in AlternateS I- that was quickly changed by the formal reintroduction of the Dei Archon by the end of that saga. In the ensuing Renaissance, the entire Canon was rediscovered and along with it, came a way that will enable Linkers to allow themselves to help other users of other form- and this was "Kaita". This is, in the most simplest sense, a forcing spell that forces the buff dynamics to be bent, thus allowing application of "ka-" skills to all allies in the area, regardless of type- it is like removing a limiter in a sense. The only snag is that it can only be applied to other Templars, since it needs a conflict in the target's "Life Hymn" in order for the skill to work, since casting to one's self is equivalent of applying a cancel frequency to one's own frequency. And it naturally does not work on non Dei types.

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: 777 seconds or until dispelled
+ Effects: Allows the Dei target to "Force buff" anyone, regardless of Magic Type with "Ka-" type skills. Cannot be cast on self.
+ Tax: 20% upon cast without this buff on, 65% when cast with this buff still on.
+ Upkeep: 5%


- Attitude Hymn:
"Ka-" type, "-ina" based skill ("Kaina" means "Self/Life Hymn" in Dei)

Skill Description

The only passive skill that he has, and a vital skill as well, not just to him but variants of this skill to Templars everywhere. This is the basic of all Dei, regardless of being a sigiled natural templar or a sigiless artificial drone, since this skill signifies their very life force in motion, their very spirit, their very indentity... and without a Life Hymn, one can not be a force user- according to Dei Canon that is. In Midchildan Medical terms, this signifies to a limited extent the "base frequency of the linker core, or "spark"- depends on who you talk to". And speaking of individual lives, Bridget's is unique, only befitting a person of his composition. True that his Hymn as the same effect as others like Ashton and Rurika, there are a special set of effects that occur when he's in a certain state- namely being a boy and girl. When his well-being- attitude, behaviour, emotion and reaction are that of a man, the male attitude kicks in, increasing aggression and lowering his self-safety/care for self.The reverse happens when he's in touch with his female side, decreasing anger and more caring for self/others. Those states have drastic effects on his performance during battle so a sudden mood change would spell disaster.

Skill Details
+ Lasting time: Passive Skill
+ Effects: Increase in passive Health/Energy Regeneration Rate, factor dependent on the types of people beside him and the number- a max of a raise to the 8th in any computation of a Kaina-based skill. Increased attack and decreased/0 recovery rate when attitude is more manly/more testosterone/male hormones in the body system (GAR shift), Decreased attack and increased/5x (in addition to the first effect) recovery rate when attitude is more girly/more estrogen/female hormones in the body system (MOE shift).

Spoiler for Buff/Boost:

The "Re-" Type Skills:

Skill Description

"Re-" type spells, commonly called "Linking" spells, are the epitome of Dei Support Spells, not just because they are like the majority of support spells, ones that strengthen the target, but also, due to the extremely different "wavelength" of Dei Users, they are able to "awaken" the target's "inner abilities" to further improve the tide of battle. What actually happens is that the Linker gives a huge amount of his/her unique mana to the target, about 30-45% of the Templar's mana pool depending on their level, and in a process that is still highly kept secret, manages to "insulate" the target's magical circuit with an "insulation" of that parted mana, protecting the base magic circuit from any outside influence, particularly AMF, since Dei users are naturally highly resistant to such impedances. And being mana in itself, not only does it add to the target's mana pool (restoring the amount, not the percentage- if 35% is about 3500/10000 in the templar, only 3500 units can be restored, even if its 3500/100000), but it's unusual frequency also aids the target, amplifying/canceling wave patterns in the energy flow, resulting in a totally different flow and manner of energy- half the target's and half of the templar's. The resulting "linked" flow enables the activation of "Inner Abilites", namely variant skills of either Dei and the Target. The Device the target has can still normally process the linked flow, so there are no problems in powering down or overloading devices during linked state. Even though the base concept of linking spells is the same, each kind of force user is unique, hence having the 9 "'Paths' of the user".

Skill Details - Default
+ Lasting time: Varies from the Target's magical capability and usage, from 5000 and above seconds for a low level (Rank C below), 2500-4500 seconds for a mid level (Rank A to B) and 777 to about 1500 seconds to a high level (AA and above) target. Still subject to duration change.
+ Effects: 35% in amount addition of mana to the target. AMF immunity up to the D-Type/Strength (total stoppage of Magic Linking- the AMF pulse when the Cradle was disabled), 50%-10% AMF resistance to any AMF after D-Type (Magic Evacuation/Vacuum/Degradation kinds). Unlock of certain skills, both passive and active, depending on the target. The names here are tentative, and subject to change.
+ Tax: 35%-45%
+ Upkeep: 0%

To Mid-Types:

- Magic Soul
Reizel: "Spirit of Mage"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Mid-Type Ranged Users Only- Like Nanoha. Decreases tax and cooldown when casting spells, "Unlocks" "Split-shot", a shooting effect that splits any single coherent beam into at least 2 homing beams, with the same power output. Imagine Nanoha firing a single Divine Buster shot under the influence of Reizel, the shot speeds and once it nears the target or on command, the shot splits into at least 2 homing beams- a Nanohaverse version of the DiBison's MegaloMax attack, and "Beam Regen", a passive skill that that mimics the charging of Starlight Breaker per beam shot- using latent/free energy from the surroundings- reducing energy consumption by about 40% per shot. Hyperblasts like SLB and Minishots like Accel Shooter are not affected.


- Combat Soul
Reite: "Spirit of Warrior"

Skill Details
+ Additonal Effects: For Mid-Type Melee Users Only- Like Fate. Increases Movement and Attack Speeds, "Unlocks" "Speed Factor", a passive skill that increases damage, depending on the velocity of the blow, "Critical Reaction", a passive skill that heightens the mage's senses, increasing evasion and critical hit rate, and "Echo", an attack effect, that at random, will enable the mage to deal as much as ten times the normal damage per attack, chance dependent.


- Mission Soul
Reina: "Spirit of Priest"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Mid-Type Supporters Only- Like Caro. Decreases Mana consumption by about 10%-15% and increases Mana Regeneration by the same amount. "Unlocks" "Force Point", an active spell in which the mage can fire off a pinpoint beam that when it hits, either pushes back the enemy or disables it- if it hits any node in the circuit, "Guardian", another active skill that "summons" 2 "options" (Vic Viper/Gradius ref) to defend the supporter or any allies- the number becomes 4 if the supporter is a non-summoner, since they have no summons to help them- familiars don't count as summons (i think), and also enables a Dei summoner to cast "Anima Maxima" on the supporter's summon when said summon is summoned when the summoner is under the influcence of Reina.


To Velka-Types:

- Knight Soul
Reana: "Spirit of Knight"

Skill Details
+ Additonal Effects: For Velka-Type Melee Users Only- Like Signum. Stabbing attacks are faster and more penetrating, Slashing attacks have a wider damage swath, Cleaving attacks have bigger cleave areas and knockback and impact attacks have bigger AoE and have stun tendency. Increases defense and attack at the cost of reducing 5% mana regeneration. Panzer- spells have a 25%-50% reflective tendency.


- Arcane Soul
Reika: "Spirit of Wizard/Warlock"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Velka-Type Ranged Users Only- Like Hayate. Decreases Mana consumption by about 10%-15% and increases Mana Regeneration by the same amount. "Unlocks" "Force Impact" (needing German translation for this), a melee skill that enables the mage to use his/her staff as a enegized hammer, knocking the target with a powerful blasted impact, and "Iron Edict" (needing German translation for this), a Velkan only applicable defense spell that improves Panzer- type spells by about 30%.


- Gospel Soul
Reiun: "Spirit of Cleric"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Velka-Type Supporters Only- Like Shamal. Improves Healing effectivity by about 20%, reduces mana tax/usage by about 35%, "Unlocks" "Assumptio/n", an all-around support spell, much like the RO spell of the same name, reducing damage by about 50%. and also enables a Dei summoner to cast "Anima Maxima" on the supporter's summon when said summon is summoned when the summoner is under the influcence of Reiun.


To Dei-Types/Others:

- Fighting Soul
Reita: "Spirit of Fighter"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Dei-Type Melee Users Only- Like Arisa. Unknown Effect.


- Range Soul
Reikyo: "Spirit of Ranger"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Dei-Type Ranged Users Only- Like Rurika. Any dodge self-improvement skill with effect duration they use will also affect allies (think of it as the RO skill "wind walk"), with the exception of Kaupe-based/instant single use dodge skills, "Unlocks" "Tri-Shot", an active skill that enables the user to shoot 3 shots at once, instead of the usual double and "Seal Bolt", a special projectile attack that is similar to "Purge" but hits/affect enemies in the projectile path.


- Force Soul
Reone: "Spirit of Mystic"

Skill Details

+ Additonal Effects: For Dei-Type Supporters/Force Users Only- Like Ashton. Improves "Kaina" effectivity by 50%, Improves "Anima Maxima" effect by 25%, reduces casting time by 30%, "Kaizel" type spell effect conditions changed to 25% life limit before effect activation (Ashton's "Life Rebound" kicks in at 15%) and "Unlocks" "Abosolute Transfer", a Dei Transfer type support skill that enables to transfer life and energy from one target to another, regardless of alignment- can be used both supportively or offensively.

History: to be added later...

Questions will be entertained...

Saint X is now starting his movement to Neo-Venezia... ETA: Unknown...

Eeerh... so you're moving out of OC for good?!

Or you just gonna take your inspiration from somewhere else?

Anyways... "Kotona Elegance quality" sticks to me for some reason

Originally Posted by Kha

Wang Liu Mei: Ah sou, sou...

Linda: So what?

Wang: Classified information.

Originally Posted by Kha

Neither did I, until Lingo made me realize I was staring at Nagi. Hence the delayed Kick of Justice.

Anyway, if they were the Bakarangers, I suppose the missing 4th Baka is Ma--*static*--, deshou?

That doesn't explain the missing 5th Baka though...

Belkarangers are a whole different league to the Bakarangers though... no offense to their Sun Vulcanly awesomeness

And missing 5th Baka?

Originally Posted by Kha

As Gimmy once put it: "What a perfect waste of the nekoroid female population."

Yes, what a waste

Originally Posted by Kha

Yeah especially after all the trailers and "trial runs" and "sneak peaks".

*runs too*

Yes... and of course, "previews"

*runs*

Originally Posted by Kha

This is a GREAT IDEA! XD

In the next episode of Rebuilt of StrikerS...

"BakaRed, ORE SANJOU!"

*runs from Aaron and anti-OC-assassination activists while keeping an eye out for Mai*

"...

Deactivating External Camouflage layer.

Commencing Intervention."

*Mai >>>>> Kha*

Creator-san: Since when did she become a fan of 00?
Mai: ...

Gundam ni...

Creator-san:

[Saint X]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Eeerh... so you're moving out of OC for good?!

Or you just gonna take your inspiration from somewhere else?

Anyways... "Kotona Elegance quality" sticks to me for some reason

NO, not moving out of the OC... I'm simply Moving/Downgrading My base to a NV Workshop- seen a couple of Undines during my chat with the workshop owner, who was moving to a bigger house next door- mostly Pairs and Singles... a Prima or two at the most- though the feeling of water soaking into my feet while chatting in a cafe is one thing i need to be used to...

Doing less grand items like the last one and more doing it in small doses... but still with the same materials... but at a slower pace.

And i'm currently engaged in a special deal... that might make your cry in joy.

All ARIA fans... please msg me your mailing address.

===

Rei mii is Kawaii...

But Kotona is Hawt...

*runs*

[Wild Goose]

Originally Posted by dkellis

Here's Hayate, super-powerful mage of a near-extinct magical legacy, S-ranked (or was it SS?), able to toss off heavy bombardment spells with abandon.

And the TSAB assigns her to what amounts to a desk job, after slapping several levels of limiters on her.

Chrono had a rank of AAA+ as of A's. Lindy had a rank of who knows what (I think I heard mention that she was also stupendously powerful). Both are also assigned to non-frontline roles as of StrikerS (and in Lindy's case, as of the first season).

Compare to the Wolkenritter, who wander around as an actual combat-active unit. I'm not sure what mage ranks they have, but it's likely pretty high. I'm not sure whether Fate also goes around righting wrongs, and Acous's talents seem to be based more appropriately on espionage than direct confrontations.

I'm beginning to believe that the TSAB also has its own hawks-and-doves political divide, even outside of Regius's schemes. If you're trying to make your characters more powerful in a combat sense, I'm thinking that you're going to have to acknowledge in the story that there'll be a lot of political backlash.

Tired and in a rush, so I'll Backlog Breaker later, and adress this first.

If we look at Lindy and Chrono's roles in A's and StrikerS, Lindy as a ship captain, Chrono as a fleet commander, then regardless of their experience or power they wouldn't be mixing it up in frontline combat. To make an example, on a US Navy aircaft carrier, the carrier's Captain is a qualified pilot (all carrier Captains are former pilots). However, in the event of an attack, regardless that he may be the most experienced pilot onboard, he is to stay on his ship, on the bridge, and keep out of the dogfights. Why?

Because he's not being paid to get in on the front lines. He's being paid to be a carrier pilot.

Likewise, Lindy's deployment into Precia's stronghold in MSLN is actually fairly out of charecter for most standard operating procedures - the captain is not supposed to leave her ship. When she became her captain, her rank and salary was given to her with the express orders that she stay onboard the ship and run it, not get up close and mix it up.

(Admittedly, the TSAB may not really follow this as an ironclad rule, being more gendarmie-like rather than a military.)

On the other hand, there's Genya Nakajima leading from the front... but again, Genya doesn't have any magic powers at all - while Hayate, Chrono and Lindy are pretty damned powerful.

So yes, it is quite possible that there will be political backlash.

(A subplot of Divergent Strikers is Erick's resistance to being promoted and his attempts to remain an eternal Colonel, considering how he's ranked as S. Likewise Ivanovich's official status as B, despite being AA, so as to avoid promotions and being chained to a desk.)

But yes, it does seem quite likely that there's a viewpoint in the TSAB that wants to keep the high-powered mages behind desks where an eye can be kept on them.

On the other hand, if you want to keep on mixing it up, then you shouldn't be asking for promotions anyway...

[Chaos2Frozen]

Just in case dkellis is still interested to know...

Hayate is SS ranked.

Lindy is S ranked in the first season, and it's likely that it would remain so.

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One other thing...

I can understand why Lindy left her ship. Being the only S ranked onboard, she might just be the only one who is available to counter Precia's dimensional spell.

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


Now for my unnecessary opinion...

I think it's stupid for 7Arc/TSAB to assign powerful YOUNG mages to high ranking leadership roles that takes them out of the field.

Hayate and Chrono are such examples. Considering they were complaining about a lack of manpower, wouldn't it be more productive to have these healthy soldiers who are in their prime, fighting in the frontlines?

Maybe after a few years (If they lived that long) when they have calcium deposits in their joints then it would be time for them to leave the field.

(Then again, Hayate does have the excuse of a glass-cannon...)

[Sheba]

Hayate's case is mostly like a random civilian level.0 NPC leveled up to a D&D level 20 wizard, and 7arc just did not know what to do with her, story-wise.

[SpaceBrotha]

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Spoiler for Data:

Armor Defense Rating: *Apply matching magical attack power to real life examples.*
Functional up to impact of .50 cal anti material round from a fifty
Magical defense bonus of survival of non-direct hit of directed high explosive device.
Armor 80% mission kill failure with direct hits from non-directional high explosive weapon. But survivable.
Armor terminated with direct hit from kinetic energy impactor (120mm APFSDS round.), or directional charge high explosive. Fatal injuries 99%

Air Transit:
Maximum Sprint: MACH .8 standard flight mode; MACH 3.5 Supercruise configuration.
**Maximum Sprint denotes level flight at top speed with no complicating manuevers. Supercruise denotes all power shunted to velocity only. Amor mass and shape is not an issue for speed due to lack of manuevers and functional aerodynamics barrier.


Maximum Safe Turn (Ground Armor): 3 Gs (No G-force management.) 5 Gs (G-Force Management.)
Maximum Safe Turn (Air Superiority Configuration): 6 Gs maybe seven (No G-Force Management) 11 Gs (G-force Management)
** G force tolerance actually varies from person to person. However lower mass provides better function at higher G forces. G-force management is magically enhanced ability to withstand high G-operations on both physical armor stress, and internal body stresses of the operator. (Which explains why the near glass like frame of Fate can handle those insane snap manuevers when one stops to think about it.)


Attack ratings:

Rifle Configuration:
- Single fire: ~ equal to a fifty calibur HMG round.
- Automatic Fire: ~ equal to a 7.62 mm round.
--Projectile speeds are comproble to real bullet counterparts.--

LANCE Rifle Configuration: (Comparable energy delivery.)
- No auxilary charge: 25mm HEAP round
- Single Cartridge: M-203 (40mm) HE grenade round.

- WARNING - : High Energy Management Note:
- Maximum load and charge time. Energy of KE Penetraitor from M1A1 120 mm smoothbore APFSDS round. (Actual penetrator size is 22 mm.)
**All shot power levels can be aimed at targets up to 20 km away and travel at supersonic velocity. All shots are unguided and cannot be recalled once released. All shots are composed of high energy charged ion packets encased in magical containment barriers until impact. Technically making the Lance Rifle a magic powered Ion Cannon.

Cerberus DF:
Gatling Autocannon: 20 rounds/sec with energy delivery of 5.56 mm NATO round at a range of eight hundred meters. No accuracy however at any range greater than immediate combat range.

Bloodhound Breaker:
- Delivery of destructive force equal to M-67 fragmentation grenade. Max Homing and chasing range of Five thousand meters. Reletive launch velocity of 300 m/s

Spectre Barrage:
- WARNING - : High energy management note.
- Delivers repeated strikes equal to a BOFORS 40 mm cannon. Sustained fire of two rounds per 1.5 second interval for maximum of fifteen seconds before recharge/rest is required.

METEOR SHOWER:
- WARNING - : Extreme High Energy Management Note!
- Delivers MIRV Indirect fire strike with submunition rounds equal in force to 105 mm, 40 lb artillery round. Maximum MIRV of six round split.
** MIRV stands for Multiple Intercept Reentry Vehicle, which is just a fancy way of saying one shot splits into several that can go for different targets. Although in this case, all shots are unguided.


HIGH ENERGY NOTE: Excersize caution with use, and/or repeated use of this level of energy management. Suggest ample rest time between shots, or limited use altogether outside of special emergency situations.

EXTREME HIGH ENERGY NOTE: Excersize restraint of use in all but pretty much special order situations, as well as ample rest time and/or retreat from the engagement scenario after use.


Okay, maybe now we can assign a rank to it all. Those are pretty much how I imagine they should be in terms of effect, rather than just throwing ranks at it.

I added the data itself for ease of reference.

Originally Posted by AdmiralTigerclaw

Spoiler for wall of text:

I actually noted that Hayate's attack was not a mere 'explosion'.

An explosion is actually a very simple effect. It is rapid expansion of a gas cloud and its debris. If anything, Hayate's Hraesvelgr attack is MORE complicated than mere explosions. The 'blast' as I call it looks more like insane storm turbulance. (Her specialty is crazy weather phenomina is it not?) If that is the case, the straight up, raw ENERGY she's unleashing in the attack is an order of magnitude larger than just a mere 'WHUMP!' of a concussion wave. After all, it's not making the air just expand forcefully, It's making it churn like the inside of a blender.

If that's what she can do at less than optimal power S rank, her full power SS rank + is insane in a straight up "let's plain blast everything!" mode. That's why I compare her to a Los Angeles. (I think I meant an Ohio though. AKA a "Boomer" with twenty-six trident SLBMs with MIRV warheads. Don't quote me, directly, I'm winding down tonight from a combo of cleaning and researching at the same time.)

And thanks for pointing out that spot at 9 formations. I missed it skipping around as it's only about 30 secs. Reviewing it, she's breathing heavily for a few seconds but seems to visually recover before the end of the sequence. She's obviously "just gettin' warmed up."

Anywho, noting the polar map. That's probably just an overview with the submap being the theater map. After all, their command center's like nearly every holywood reprisentation of NORAD. A little later when Dieci fires her I.S. Heavy Barrel at the chopper, they have their dynamic submap zoomed in on the city itself. (Showing the road networks and such.) My main concern was tracking Hayate's shots over the Theater map.

But enough about that, as you said, let's get this power armor under way. (I don't know why you guys call it mini-gundam. Or is every man shaped object with armor plating automatically a gundam around here?)

As far as effect and power go, my main concern as that deep down under the difference between magical and real, is one underlying universal constant. Raw Energy.

Conventional firearms and magic may have different ways of doing their job, but it remains the same job. To Deliver and impart an amount of energy sufficient to cause the integrity of a target to fail.

My use of firearms and modern weapons is my way of familiarizing what levels of energy are being applied. Another thing to remember, is that when it comes to combat, modern arms are pretty much the most efficient means of absolutely destroying things.

A shotgun blast imparts the same force as a swung baseball bat. The difference in lethality is the way the force is imparted. A baseball bat can still kill you by smashing your skull, but a shotgun blast shreds your internals.
The energy delivered remains equal, but it's method changes the damage.

In the same field context, I understand that magic delivers energy to targets in various forms. The main advantage of magic though, is that it has 'exotic' properties over conventional properties. Magic attacks can be made 'safe' in mid flight, can be controlled with thought, and can blink out if it is so requested. A bullet is small piece of metal flying at mach two in a ballisic arc to slam into a target and deliver the force of its shot to a small area in a very short time. It cannot be called back, its direction changed, or made 'safe' once released. If it is fired, you better know what you fired out.

When conventional attack meets magic, THEN things get interesting. A 9 year old girl generates a magical defense that allows her to be smashed from several stories up into concrete with enough force to generate a shockwave, but recieves no REAL injury from that impact. There's no existing armor on EARTH that can provide that protection, and the SCI-FI shields that might be able to do that are generations away at best. Even worse, since slamming into the target is pretty much how ALL modern weapons work, we end up with a slight problem of it just being ANNOYING unless you rapidly escalate into the overkill range.
The exotic properties of magic win out in defense methods since they can cheat physics in this manner. However, for offense, conventional weapons are just nastier and efficient.
A good hybrid of magical attack that mimics the conventional firearms method is absolutely a must when one is designing for combat. When it comes down to imparting energy to a target, nothing beats just brute forcing it into a small space as fast as possible.
So the logical method would be that if you want to rapidly defeat both a tech savvy and potential threat magics, you need a weapon that has the efficiency of force of a firearm, but the cheats of magic.
So what you do is you take X amount of energy, slap a magic field around it, and hurl it downrange as fast as you can. Since the magical energy is more compatable against the exotic magical defenses, you stand a better chance of delivering your package of attack energy directly to the actual target.

And since magical combat is geared towards exotic attacks and melee weapons, a high speed round delivering the energy of a full power of a magical sword swing from a hundred meters away is not a normally expected method of combat, especially when there's no fancy light shows, incantations, power-up periods, or other manners exotic effects... just straight up, to the point Energy from Point A to Point B attack. If you miss, fire again. It's more efficient to repeat an attack than to take the first attack and turn it around... as THAT wastes mental effort, magical energy, and conventional energy bleed.

In this manner, most of the Battery's attack mechanisms are actually using LESS magical energy than attacks of equal power using conventional magic attack methods. And making attack more efficient would be where I would place the goal of Battery. Allowing lower rank mages the abillity to utilize the power to attack equal to higher ranges, not JUST by boosting them, but by improving the efficiency of their combat abilities by shaving off the frills and getting highly utilitarian.

As it stands, the prototype is all that's available. And as THAT stands, it's still under testing and review and from the perspective of when I plan to set this up, (I've been getting something in my head and I'm about ready to start writing it.) it'll be years, maybe even a decade before a propperly scaled mass production version for conventional 'Ground Pounding' mages could be ready.

Right, from the top it looks reasonable...
...but does go a bit awry at the hybrid part.

First off, i remembered that we already do have snipers, and magical guns in strikers (vice and tia come in mind)... so your idea is already there, partially atleast.

here's a bit of quote from the text above:

Spoiler for about hybrid magic:

A good hybrid of magical attack that mimics the conventional firearms method is absolutely a must when one is designing for combat. When it comes down to imparting energy to a target, nothing beats just brute forcing it into a small space as fast as possible.
So the logical method would be that if you want to rapidly defeat both a tech savvy and potential threat magics, you need a weapon that has the efficiency of force of a firearm, but the cheats of magic.
So what you do is you take X amount of energy, slap a magic field around it, and hurl it downrange as fast as you can. Since the magical energy is more compatable against the exotic magical defenses, you stand a better chance of delivering your package of attack energy directly to the actual target.

in the above text, you practically say that hybrid magic is instead magic mimicing the workings of conventional weaponry... you just say that you'll strip away all the pesky charge ups, incantations and sigils that seem to be mandatory for anything requiring substantial amounts of magical energy, and just hurl it downrange as fast as possible since that way it would be convenient... do you see a problem here?
...i know that sounds rude, but i can't get it out any better, sorry about that.

Spoiler for about battery itself:

And since magical combat is geared towards exotic attacks and melee weapons, a high speed round delivering the energy of a full power of a magical sword swing from a hundred meters away is not a normally expected method of combat, especially when there's no fancy light shows, incantations, power-up periods, or other manners exotic effects... just straight up, to the point Energy from Point A to Point B attack. If you miss, fire again. It's more efficient to repeat an attack than to take the first attack and turn it around... as THAT wastes mental effort, magical energy, and conventional energy bleed.

In this manner, most of the Battery's attack mechanisms are actually using LESS magical energy than attacks of equal power using conventional magic attack methods. And making attack more efficient would be where I would place the goal of Battery. Allowing lower rank mages the abillity to utilize the power to attack equal to higher ranges, not JUST by boosting them, but by improving the efficiency of their combat abilities by shaving off the frills and getting highly utilitarian.

I'd like to point out here that your idea is that battery is more efficient because it doesn't bother with all the exotic elements, and merely focuses on direct line (or fairly direct line) firing of extremely condensed magical bullets with maximum efficiency.

Yet battery has: Bloodhound Breaker: - Max Homing and chasing range of Five thousand meters, for some wasted mental effort, magical energy, and conventional energy bleed... your words, not mine.
And a bloody mirv for good measure of unefficient damage delivery, as artillery hardly is the most efficient way of delivering damage, several singular shots with extreme accuracy would be far better suited for efficiency...

Which is directly in violation of this concept, correct?


Now, looking over the entire data again, i can accept just about everything right up to the cerberus df, though that is just fine other than there's still a ban on all truly conventional weaponry, but i think that's just a case of forgetting a word or two from the description.

Bloodhound breaker i already explained, though i should add that explosives (or anything emulating them) of any kind are contradictionary if your objective is to make something that doesn't waste any energy at all if possible.

Spectre barrage is still manageable, though i can't remember wether 40mm bofors rounds are meant as AP or HE rounds. As you'd want AP as much as possible here to accomplish your concept.

and meteor shower i already explained, as i did the problem with anything explosive when going for energy efficiency.

So, either a review of your concepts, or your prototype is in order...
...passing the ball back to you admiral

[Erio]

Originally Posted by Kha

At the moment I can only wonder why a sniper RH is a huge spoiler...

I was just saying that mentioning the VA gave it up.

I don't know... Do we want to widely deviate from the original? I thought what I was doing was just filling in the gaps in Keroko's profiles in the different stages of her life. After all, I think I haven't deviated from what Keroko-kun has written.

Hm, I dont think I understand what you're thinking here... I got confused when you mentioned 2 different Kha scenarios, one for Kerokanon and another for "canon"... Maybe for the second you meant a canon timeline where Keroko does not exist?

Kha wears the new Vex suit as an additional layer over the base form of his summoned Knight Armor during the Battle of Cradle. The suit boosts all of his attributes evenly, but as such is just a "Jack of All Trades but Master of None" kinda setting. Hence, against Clotho, that is not enough, so we'll definitely have Cast Off into Jaegerform, the speed armor.

Cheesy Announcer: But with Fate a little "tied up", even THAT is not enough. Can the Cleric rise above this dire challenge? Can he conquer his own demons and emerge victorious?

All this and more, on the next, The Cleric Forever!

*cues cheesy 1960s Batman theme*

Kha will have quite the challenge...how can the Cleric concentrate with Fate tied up like that...?

*runs*

Originally Posted by Kha

If you want to rip, make sure you explain every detail, such that a purely Nanohaverse fan can understand you.

For example: I notice SRW get referenced a lot here. The advantage of that is that their attacks have videos to back them up with, and quoting those videos in your character profiles helps people who think SRW stands for Something Really Weird will have a better grasp of the character.

Another example is how LoweGear builds his OCs. They are really really descriptive, such that you have a mental picture forming in your head without having to be a big fan of Jigoku Shoujo and the Gainax works that feature in his efforts.

Most of all, none of them require you to know the story of origin that the character was based from. People yell at me "COPYPASTAAAAA!!!" all the time , but I hope that every time that happened, be it during a short exchange between characters, the conflicts they face, or ever a wider premise as a whole, I stayed true to my above words.

No matter how unoriginal, no matter how mind-blowing, I want to bring you in and share with you my vision, the scene I play in my twisted mind. And to do that, I must make sure I's as descriptive as I can.

Something like that I believe.

Nice speech there

Originally Posted by Kagerou

Spoiler for New Barrier Jacket Armor System:

Type-G3C Barrier Jacket, Codename Ghost Armor

Spoiler for Background:

In MC0077, shortly after the JS Incident, Emili Nailo of the Order of Freelance Mages decided that the Air Wing needed a "step-up" when it came to defensive and offensive capabilities. The standard Barrier Jacket and Head-up Display Glasses weren't quite cutting it anymore; the HUD was oftentimes unreliable, and the Barrier Jackets, while flashy, weren't very capable of actual protection for the extremities, and more importantly, the head. Furthermore, except for Phoenix, Sidewinder, and Sparrow, the mass-production Storage Devices that the OFM used were becoming worn and overused, a result of poor manufacture. As a result, Air Wing mages were starting to take a hit in efficiency.

After talking it over with Erick, Emili used the OFM's contacts and networks to find people who specialized in Device manufacture and use. Two names that popped up, that were familiar to Emili, were Aurion Dauer and Shario Finieno. Aurion was busy at the time, so Emili contacted Shari, who agreed to help Emili on her little project. The two met in TSAB HQ during the Aus'ruf's rest/refit cycle, and together the two drew out the plans (with a little help from Sidewinder) for a working Storage Device that could handle the new ideas Emili had.

What Emili wanted was a bodysuit that gave maximum aerodynamic efficiency, thick magical protection, complete invisibility, a working Radar and HUD system, and had, of course, a "big gun". Given the limitations of the Storage Device AI, however, this wasn't feasible; the system mechanics of the SD couldn't handle the workload. Furthermore, the specifications were simply too much for your average A-rank to handle, let alone B-rank. Something had to be worked out, something quick and simple that wouldn't divide a mage's time too much, that wouldn't provide too much of a burden on their Linker Core, and would still be effective.

Emili found her answer, oddly enough, from Franz. An avid watcher of Earth programs (He had somehow acquired tons of it during a brief excursion to the planet), he had suggested something from a certain tokusatsu series of shows. Emili watched the show one night, and got her idea. It would definitely be something to run by.

Emili, in a fit of creative genius and wit, asked off for two-weeks leave while the ship went out on a mission to the middle of nowhere. It was granted the day of departure, and on that day, Emili and Shari locked themselves in a hole for two weeks to implement this plan.

It was fairly simple at a glance; use two Storage Devices instead of one. By using two, it cut the workload on both in half easily, as both the new Rifle-SD and the Armor-SD would run off of programs dedicated to their specific casts (in this case, shooting and protection, respectively). Of course, the problem was that this increased the workload of the mage's Linker Core, which would prove to be a problem. The answer for this was found in the Cartridge System... well, the spirit of it, anyway.

The Cartridge System revolved around using a magical burst of energy through a magic accessory to gain power rapidly in a short amount of time... but this was for offensive attacks. Shari took the idea of the CS and modified it for defensive purposes. She proposed the idea of a magical "charge", similar to a cartridge. Upon activation of the SD, the charge would activate and sustain the armor without a mage's intervention.

This was both a plus and a minus. On the plus side, this would mean that the mage would not need to sustain the armor with their own power. On the minus side, this would not allow the mage to restore the armor in the middle of a firefight, as the armor was tied to a Device that would act fairly independantly from the mage (that is, not reliant on him or her to exist). To restore the armor, the Storage Device would have to be deactivated, the charge restored, and then the Device reactivated. This would simply be impossible in a fight, when lives are on the line, and a minute could be an hour on the battlefield.

Using this concept, Emili and Shari were able to tie together Emili's ideas with the secondary Storage Device whilst using only minimal power from the Linker Core. The mage's Linker Core would provide power to the active radar system and the Heads-Up Display, which took a negligable amount of concentration to use (though to alter the radar to scan at longer ranges would require more power and concentration, and capped out at 500 meters, with the default at 25).

The rifle half of the equation would simply be a standard TSAB Storage Device, but with modern AI and a greater size limit on the kinds of spells it could cast. Essentially, they were modern variants of the S2U standard Storage Device, simply reformed into the shape of a heavy rifle. It consisted of the standard TSAB spells (Stinger Snipe, for example), and like standard Storage Devices, these operated strictly off of the mage's Linker Core. Newer SD AI's were more modular, and, given enough time in the hands of an engineer, could be fitted exactly to the user's specifications.

Emili and Shari toiled for all the two weeks they had, and by the time the ship came back, Emili and Shari had completed the first Prototype G3C, which was given to Emili, who performed tests on the Device during a mission. The Devices worked well together and worked optimally, and so Emili and Shari sent the concept and plans to the TSAB R&D, who had already been working on similar new types of Barrier Jackets. Though costly and thus limited to Special Forces units (such as certain Enforcers and the OFM Air Wing, for example), the G3C proved to be a success.

Spoiler for G3C Design:

A Sword Flight Mage pauses after killing a hostile monster.

The G3C was designed for maximum aerodynamic ability. As such, the armor is fully streamlined and skintight. Although not as thick all-around as Emili had wanted, the armor compensates by placing the most defense in key points on the body, with weaker armor covering the joints and hands and certain other areas to ensure flexibility (it functions more as a bodysuit in these areas, though noticably stronger). The helmet is full-face, thus ensuring maximum protection from hostile fire. Though the face is covered and the visor opaque, the heads-up display allows the mage to see what's going on around her. On top of the helmet are radar transmitters. Due to their position, the radar has a more accurate reflection when the mage is facing forward. The radar transmitter has good reception up to 10 meters in all directions - accuracy steadily declines from there - and the forward projection is completely accurate up to 25 meters. As such, mages are trained to "swivel" - that is, continuously look all around them.

The shoulder pads are fitted with barrier emitters, able to redirect softer attacks and small arms fire (important for the OFM mages) up to .45 caliber, and can disperse a standard offensive ranged spell enough to cause minimal damage to the armor itself (though the mage still gets to feel some of the magical damage). The emitters, while strong, are not initially connected to the mage's Linker Core. As such, they are quick to give out (tests show that the emitters can disperse one B-rank spell before dying) unless the mage powers them with her Linker Core. Since most mages do this anyway, it's not really an issue.

The blue lines and rings are an important feature, as they employ a first-generation personel cloaking device. This cloaking device does exactly as descripted: it causes the mage to vanish, save for minor light distortion whenever they move.

Finally, the spikes on the right shoulder, while seemingly serving no purpose at all, can serve as weapons in desperate situations.

The high heels, on the other hand...

Spoiler for G3C Capabilities:

General:
The G3C is one of the few General User Autonomous Barrier Jacket systems (GABJ for short) to exist. Normally, a mage must concentrate on the formation of the Barrier Jacket before it activates. Though normally a mage can forget about their Barrier Jacket after its activation, with some circles (like the OFM), which also rely on a heads-up display and radar system, along with being better protected, coupled furthermore with rapid spellcasting and extended periods of flight, can cause a wear on the mage.

Benefits to using the G3C Armor System:
The G3C takes these problems and fixes them. By using the Charge System, the armor can sustain itself for as long as it's needed. The radar and Heads-Up Display function fairly well for personal use, and the internal communications system allows for orders to be received and given quickly and easily without the need to concentrate on telepathy. Its skintight and aerodynamic properties allow a mage to fly easily (though it can get a little cold), and the material the armor is made to resemble (a mix of cloth, kevlar, and ceramic plating) is thick enough that, should the emitters go down, will still protect against magical, physical, and impact damage. The emitters, as noted before, can operate independantly for a short period of time.

The most radical and beneficial component of the suit, however, may lie in its cloaking device. With a simple thought, a mage can activate the cloaking device, becoming invisible at will. Though this comes with drawbacks (see below), it will nonetheless be quite useful. Already, Enforcers have proven its usefulness when apprehending criminal elements, as you cannot fight what you cannot see (although it's also wise not to take that expression literally).

Drawbacks to using the G3C Armor System:
First and foremost, the important thing to note is that the armor is not easy to repair, as noted earlier. Since it's formed from a separate semi-dependant Storage Device, and not formed from a mage's Linker Core, a mage doesn't have control over its restoration capabilities. Should the armor take damage (and inevitably, it will), a long and complicated process is necessary to restore the armor, one that is not easily done on the battlefield by stanard mages (note that this armor is geared toward use by B-rank and above mages, hence its versatility). On average, it takes fifteen minutes to restore and repair the armor after the Storage Device is deactivated, though higher-rank mages can do it in considerably less time (in a test, Enforcer 1st Class Fate Harlown performed the task in five).

Secondly is its semi-dependance. The armor was meant to last for prolonged engagements, thus the relaxed need of a mage to concentrate on it (indeed, due to the nature of the Device, there are only certain things that the mage can concentrate on). However, the barrier emitters do not take enough charge to matter in the long run. As such, a mage will continually need to power the emitters after they are knocked out.

Third is the cloaking device itself. Although it is extremely useful, it's really nothing more than a programmed spell in the Storage Device that is meant to activate along the emitter lines on the G3C armor. The cloaking device requires a considerable deal of power, and it's not recommended to use the spell running for longer than five minutes for your average B-rank mage, seven for A. Secondly, in the event that night-vision or infrared is available to the target, then the mage is advised to shut off the cloak. The spells emits an extremely large amount of heat signatures to the area around the mage, and so the mage becomes something of a beacon while cloaked; the total opposite of what you want when invisible. And lastly, while cloaked, a mage cannot cast any other spells, of any sort. A mage, thus, cannot fly and cloak.

Finally, and less of an issue with the armor as with the user. The G3C does not make the mage more powerful. It does not grant increased abilities, does not increase power, and does not help in any area other than defense. Some mages think it makes them more powerful, but this is false to the highest degree. The G3C armor system is designed to decrease the workload on a mage and provide better protection than the standard Barrier Jacket, not make the user superhuman.

So I'll say it again; G3C does not make a mage more powerful.

Spoiler for Armor Storage:

The G3C Armor system is stored in two parts; one is the Charge System and Activation Key, stored as something remebling a closed cell phone. To activate the armor, the mage has to open the Device (again, similar to a cell phone), type in the proper Activation Key, and have the AI confirm (it does this by saying, "Stand By") the key is correct. The second half of the Device, the AI itself, is stored in a belt the mage wears. When the devices are combined, the device says, "Ready", and the armor activates. Refer to the video below:

To deactivate the armor, the mage must use a certain phrase, usually custom to the mage (it's voice recognition, so an opponent can't simply guess the deactivation phrase).

Spoiler for Emili watched too many of Franz's shows.:

"Glen, Glen, watch this!"
"What?"

Emili half-dragged Glen into a certain part of the ship; a nice, open space, where the five mages of Lance Flight stood, waiting. Some of them, like Naomi, were smiling, and others looked nervous. "You have to watch this!"

"What is it? I have work to do..." Glen sighed, knowing he wouldn't escape Emili's iron grip (followed by Iron Will, of course). The mage had been on overdrive for the past month, it seemed, working with each of her flight's G3C suits for what seemed like an unncessary amount of time. "What's this about, Emili?"

"Just watch!" Emili said, giddy, as she and the other four mages stood in a line, with her in the center. "You know those shows that Franz is always watching?"

"Yeah..."
"Well, I got this idea. It's pretty cool! ...well, I like it, anyway." She smiled and looked at the other four girls. "Ready?"

"Ready!" The other four shouted in unison (Naomi is getting way too into this, Glen thought).

In one move, the five girls grabbed their Charge Device and flipped it open. They held out one hand in front as they typed in their activation keys. "Lance Flight!"

[Stand by.]

"Henshin! The girls shouted as one, slamming the Charge Devices with the AI Devices.

[Ready.]

As the girls drew their hands back, their transformation occured, multi-colored lines (one for each girl) spreading from the belt before flashing a bright color (the color of the lines) and revealing the five girls in their armored suits. Each one had been recolored, to fit the theme. Their cloak emitter lines reflected a color multiple shades lighter than the dark armor.

"Anna Petrov, Lance Black!" The first girl announced as her rifle formed, dropping to one knee and holding it against her shoulder with both hands.

"Chiisa Ivana, Lance Pink!" The second one yelled, twirling and holding her rifle loosely in one hand, the barrel pointing at the floor.

"Rachel Vasilie, Lance Blue!" The third girl shouted, twirling her rifle above her head once before standing sideways with the barrel pointing up.

"Naomi Jaeger, Lance Yellow!" Naomi said as Sparrow shifted into Naginata form. She twirled the Device above her head and slammed it stick-down, holding onto it with one hand and putting her other hand on her hip.

"Emili Nailo, Lance Red!" Emili finished the roll call, holding Sidewinder in Daggers Form to her sides, blades pointing backward.

"Super Sentai!" The girls shouted. "Lancenger!"

Glen... was speechless.

He opened his mouth to speak, then closed it. He half-expected a multi-colored explosion behind the girls.

"I..." he closed his mouth again. "I just have a couple questions..."
"What?" Emili stepped forward, her red armor gleaming from the glow of the cloaking emitters and the lights above.

"Are you going to do this... every time?" he asked.
"God, no!" Naomi denied. "We just did that to show off! No, most of the time it'll be pretty cut and paste... though "henshin" has a nice ring to it."

"Fair enough," Glen conceded, putting a finger to the side of his mouth. He looked up, then at Emili. "...is red the right color for you, Emili?"

"Very funny, dork," Emili teased, bopping Glen on the head.
"Hey, stop that," Glen brushed Emili away. "Okay... my final question..."

"What?"

"...Does this mean I'm the Sixth Ranger?"

Good stuff.... and damn, this BJ is dang hawt...

*runs*

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

• I'm busy running some MAJOR overhauls in Aurion's profile as by doing some MAJOR de-HAXXing. (HAXXbusters cheer)
• I'm planning on scrapping some more outragous ideas as well as making a more believable back-story for the Perfect Void (Universally fatal threat? Not any more.XD) in order to make it more feasible to the general public.
• Also running ideas on how to bring about the Aurion vs. Hayate mock battle.
• Planning out some MORE OC's.
• Trying to inject an attempt at EPIC in one scene.
• Conceptualizing the *beeeeeeeeeeep* in one scenario.
• Revamping the spell list.
• Doing even more powering down for some elements.
• Inserting some scenes of the Perfect Void Incident in backflashes.
• Scrapping the excessive referencing in my new OC's.
• Contemplating on how to referecne Saga and the OFM in GenerationS.
• Thinking of how to first insert Tk's OC's.
• Thinking of proper tactics to use.
• Thinking of how to 'believably' HAXX Luozorl further.
• Thinking of Whether to add more ideas for Tyrfing.
• Thinking of adding some familiars.
• Thinking of adding some more OC's from others if possible.
• Conceptualizing the final battle in a blievable light.
• Making Hayate's performance believeable.
• Changing the name and the concepts of the Bookmark System.
• Offering some nostalgia for the Tome of the night Sky.
• Thinking of a Tesla+Agito unison.
• Thinking of a Hayate+Agito Unison...

In short, I want my story as canonically feasible as I can. And Yep, it's fun! Though I'm having particular trouble with portraying Hayate in combat due to excessive shafting.

I'd like to ask now (everyone who won't mind), how would you expect her to hold out in relatively close range? The initial idea is that she has a year under her wing for some training on mid to melee-range self-defense. How should she hold out against someone like say... Vita? As it is now, I'm imaging a large possibility of cries of, "She's supposed to do better!" or "She's not supposed to be THIS good!" or both. So I would like a general opinion. Her spellcasting is better now, BTW. But still way slower than most.

But I'm doing the others this a bit later, after enjoying MOAR Persona 3(Am bout to fight the monthly Third Boss in July) and doing even more important schoolwork. As well as moving into another condo unit.

Nice list, but Persona 3 will not let you get any of that done.

BTW, Yukari, Mitsuru, or Fuuka?

(I would guess you prefer Fuuka...)

[Estavali]

Originally Posted by Sheba

Hayate's case is mostly like a random civilian level.0 NPC leveled up to a D&D level 20 wizard, and 7arc just did not know what to do with her, story-wise.

Assuming this is true, one way to do it would be to nerf, or rather, reset Hayate after Rein I returned to the Force. In RO terms, it would be like making your neat 2nd classer with that shiny aura rebirth as a High Novice, seemingly starting all over again. For example, one can reduce her initial power levels to at most AA right after the YnS incident, making her weaker than Nanoha, Fate, Chrono and maybe even Yuuno.

Sacrilegious as this might seems, it would give Hayate more development space imho. I can add other "normal" people (Strikers, to quote Fate, rather than Aces) in without worrying whether Hayate is too haxx for the battlefield. And it is certainly much preferably than making her a glass-cannon, or try to nerf her in an unnatural way to make space for the others, only to end up with her horribly shafted for one of the supposedly illustrious Aces (which was what happened in StrikerS).

Nerf early or shaft late? I'll take the former, thank you .

Btw...

Kagerou, that design for the G3C... something from Hellgate London, no?

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Estavali

Assuming this is true, one way to do it would be to nerf, or rather, reset Hayate after Rein I returned to the Force. In RO terms, it would be like making your neat 2nd classer with that shiny aura rebirth as a High Novice, seemingly starting all over again.

I love it when someone put it in terms I can understand.

*RO player here*

[dkellis]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Now for my unnecessary opinion...

I think it's stupid for 7Arc/TSAB to assign powerful YOUNG mages to high ranking leadership roles that takes them out of the field.

Hayate and Chrono are such examples. Considering they were complaining about a lack of manpower, wouldn't it be more productive to have these healthy soldiers who are in their prime, fighting in the frontlines?

Maybe after a few years (If they lived that long) when they have calcium deposits in their joints then it would be time for them to leave the field.

(Then again, Hayate does have the excuse of a glass-cannon...)

The question I would ask is: what field, and what frontlines? (This is not a rhetorical question; I'm genuinely curious.)

I'm not sure what sort of personnel TSAB is short-handed in. As far as we know, there isn't any actual war happening in the canon. Regius mentioned in his flashback with Zest that the Ground Forces are lacking the personnel to deal with the high-powered criminals who create disturbances "on the ground", so to speak. I'm thinking that in those cases, you send the equivalent of Special Forces in, rather than the heavy artillery. The skillsets are very different.

Basically, I'm not sure that the TSAB really needs to have a huge army (and navy) already Out There, as opposed to being on standby or whatnot. I mean, we've got Erio and Caro out who knows where with environmental conservation, which is not the most obvious place to post someone with a spear Device, even if he requested it. Subaru is in Search-And-Rescue, and I have no idea what Teana is doing as Fate's aide.

And yet the navy exists, and we have a huge number of military mages, and the Arthra was fitted with the Arc en Ciel of the city-destroying destructive power. I have no idea if they're all mostly on patrol and standby, or if they're actually out there in force doing something. (In force, mind.)

I'm beginning to believe that the TSAB's method of recruiting and rapidly promoting high-ranking mages is their way of being able to keep an eye on said mages, rather than let them get bored and create some mischief.

[Wild Goose]

Okay, it's finally done! Who. Now I can sleep.

Spoiler for Master Chief John-117, Skills & Abilities:

Skills and Abilities:

Spoiler for Body:

SPARTAN-117 was slated to be the template for a series of frontline close combat models specializing in direct close range combat with enemy units, trained in Close Quarters Battle. As such he has heavy defenses and great great power, but limited peripheral skills. His body structure has been subject to much study and is somewhat unique: he’s not quite a cyborg, he’s not an artificial mage, and he’s certainly not a clone... but he’s not entirely human anymore either. While much illegal research has centered on breeding or “building” people that can rival natural mages, this particular group took a different approach. Instead they started with a natural mage as a base and then attempted to expand his capabilities augmentations. Given his intended role, in John's case most of these augmentations focused on boosting his physical prowess.

Among the many augmentations: His skeleton has been reinforced via lacing with a metallic composite - this renders his bones drastically stronger then normal with a strength ratio nearly that of armor plating: he can survive falls at terminal velocity onto hard objects without breaking his bones and can punch his fists through some softer metals; it also adds about 100 pounds of weight to his frame, which is both advantageous and disadvantageous: a heavier Master Chief is hard to physically push around, but on the other hand if he needs transport the OFM has to use heavy lift gear to carry him for medevac (fully armored, there are no pieces of furniture in the OFM compound that will support his weight). To support this boosted framework his muscles have been given an extremely complex chemical cocktail: this drug treatment resulted in abnormally dense muscle tissue, boosting strength of the muscle fibers themselves, increased recovery time and abnormally high muscle growth: he has the physical ability of a power lifter without nearly the effort that tends to entail. These enhancements give him the strength of a bear, quite literally: without his armor he can lift upward of a thousand pounds and with it he can lift a small car over his head. Eyebrows were raised when he lifted the rear end of a Warthog LRV with his bare hands, and people wisely keep out of his way.

This sort of raw musclepower would be dangerous enough, but his engineers went even further: they boosted his eye sight with a series of surgeries greatly enhancing his visual acuity to the point he can nearly see in the dark in all but the lowest light levels - night vision without needing a flashlight or IR goggles - and he can also see in "shutter speed", perceiving clearly objects that would otherwise be a blur to a normal human - the eyes of a hawk, literally.

Spoiler for Mind:

This was further reinforced by a series of brain surgeries aimed at speeding his mental processing capabilities - no point in being able to see without being able to effectively process the signals, afterall. This was easily most the dangerous phase of the process, and killed or maimed most of those it was attempted on: according to records, even in full production a mortality rate of at least 30% was expected for the mass production models, and a further 20 to 30% where expected to suffer crippling brain damage for life. For the lucky minority on which it worked, it worked beautifully.They gained drastically boosted reflexes (when their adrenaline kicked in to full during combat, it was as if the world moved in slow motion; the users of this referred to the effect as “Spartan Time”); combined with their strength this made them extremely lethal close combatants, but oddly enough few of them favored melee combat preferring close range gunfire to physical combat.

Interestingly, those selected for this program tended to have weaker then average magic potential, as subjects with higher potential and stronger Linker Cores were used for other experiments: these augmentations were seen as a way to make marginal mages more effective in combat - and more practically, it would always be easier to find marginal mages. As seen from the Master Chief's combat performance, the augmentations worked - an understatement, really.

Spoiler for MJOLNIR Assault Armor:

The final piece of engineering that the Master Chief posesses is his armor suit. While somewhat like a Barrier Jacket, it's much, much heavier and more complex, bearing a thematic resemblence to various suits of powered armor that have been encountered from time to time by archeologists. It is unknown where exactly the armor originated from, though given the relative newness of the metal it appears to be less than 20 years old, and is suspected to have been reverse-engineered from a template or sample. Designated as MJOLNIR Assault Armor by the OFM, the armor covers the the user's body from head to toe, including a full helment with a reflective gold-tinted visor. The armor is formed from thick metal plates over an underlying soft bodysuit that contains hydrostatic gel and a reactive metal liquid crystal layer. The hydrostatic gel conforms to the wearer's body shape and temperature, keeping the wearer from getting to cold or too hot, and also can be pressurised to various levels allowing cushioning during hard impacts. The reactive metal liquid crystal layear, meanwhile, provides motor assistance to the wearer, by sclaing and amplifying force, doubling lifting capacity and increasing reaction time.

The Assault Armor gives the wearer heavy protection: the hardened plates boast limited AMF properties and can repel lower level spells, and are thich and dense enough to provide protection from impact - including small arms fire - and are further underlain with the shock-absorbing hydrostatic gel layer and a "lockdown" mode, where the suit retains a rigid form upon sustaining heavy trauma to avoid further injury to the wearer. Getting to these plates can be difficult: for one thing, the MJOLNIR armor holds an AMF generator roughly on the level of a large Gadget Drone, able to blunt most spells below A rank, and weaken stronger spells. After this is another defense system, this time a Barrier-type energy shield that stops both magical spells and impacts and recharges quickly from sustained damage, so long as the suit's power supply holds. It's noted that these systems appear quite similar in basis to those mounted on Gadget Drones (though Gadget Drones lack Barriers), suggesting that the maker of this suit and Jail Scaglietti could be affiliated, at the very least.

There are disadvantages, of course. Using the AMF effectively forces Master Chief to forfeit his own ability to use magic, as the AMF is formed directly around him - making the usage of magic impossible for a B-ranked mage such as himself. As such, if he wants to cast spells he has to drop the AMF and rely on his energy shield, which despite recharging swiftly, is more vulnerable to magical assault than the AMF thus reducing his defenses considerably. An obvious solution would be to use non-magitech conventional weapons - an option obviously unavailable in the mainstream TSAB - and it's only since he arrived at the Order that the Master Chief has been equipped with conventional weapons, taking a shine to the MA5C Assault Rifle. When operating with other mages, he normally has to leave the AMF off, only engaging it when he truly needs it, forcing him to rely on the weaker shield and his speed for defense... and his faster reflexes and keen eyesight to shoot his opponents before they can cast spells at him.

Magic:
Surprisingly, the Master Chief is one of the weakest mages in the Order, if not the weakest... in terms of magical power, that is. (He can lift the heavy back end of a Warthog LRV with his bare unarmored hands - nobody in their right minds is going want to take him on in hand to hand. Especially after he knocked the Platoon Leader unconscious with the flick of a finger.) At B rank, it's estimated that he'll probably peak around A+ in another ten or so years, just enough for some limited flight. His ground combat rating of AA is mostly due to his innage abilities and his armor rather than his magical talent: put simply, because of his skill, rather than his power. He can't fly and is restricted to walking and running to get around, unless he can get transport; luckily for John, his augmented body is more agile compared to that of a normal human, and he can outrun anyone who isn't using rollerblades or speed spells; but even so his mobility compared to that of an aerial mage is quite poor. He relies on his suit and his evasion skills for the bulk of his defense and so his magic is limited, geared almost exclusively towards offensive combat spells - mostly mundane spells focusing more on efficiency than anything else.

Spells:
As has been noted above, Master Chief's spells are almost entirely offensive and simple in nature, skewed towards the "point and shoot" school of thought; most of these spells have been lifted from similar magic gun users. Since joining the Order, Master Chief's Device has been modified to allow him to squeeze his Rifle Device's trigger as the command trigger of the spell, instead of a verbal command. Interestingly, the sophisticated networking built into his suit allows him to "sync" quite closely with his Device, which means that it's possible for Master Chief to mentally designate the spells, doing away with the need for a verbal command entirely; the disadvantage is that it takes more concentration to do everything silently and mentally. On the other hand, that's why his brain was upgraded in the first place...

Offensive Spells:
Master Chief's list of spells is geared almost totally to Blowing Shit Up. With only one exception. Needless to say, he's hardly considered a well-balanced mage. On the other hand, hitting him before he shoots you is a fairly dicey proposition...and that's without the AMF.

Barrett Shot: The bog standard magic bullet. Power is variable to allow higher rates of fire and less power or more power in less shots. Master Chief's style tends to lean towards spamming of lower power shots at close range rather then trying to land single big hits, using this spell very much like a magical assault rifle.

Shot Blast: This spell discharges a spray of magical projectiles simultaneously at close range in a roughly cone shaped pattern. It delivers high damage at close range, but the damage and power drops off very quickly. It's also slower to cast, requiring approximately one cartridge per casting.

Shot Burst: A quick burst of three high speed magic projectiles discharged so fast that if one hits they all tend too. It uses slightly less power then Shoot Blast, but does less damage at close rangem, and is better at range being quite accurate. Tthe quick high damage spike can't hurt either.

Charged Shot: Master Chief charges a single shot that homes in on the target. It's very useful for overloading or penetrating barriers.

Flak Shot: A large magical projectile that explodes on impact with the target with considerable force and limited homing capabilities. it can also be bounced off surfaces to hit things around corners, with detonations effects similar to fragmentation weapons.

Divine Buster: Franz, Subaru and Erick weren't the only people to copy Divine Buster - though Master Chief merely learned what he was taught. While nowhere near the level of power that Nanoha puts out, it's still gonna freakin' hurt.

Misc. Spells
Telepathy: Telepathic communications. Rarely used, however, simply because Master Chief's suits communication systems have been tied into the OFM commo net.

Glider Fin: A variant of flight spell, what it does is let the user...well, glide. Franz and the Assault Platoon use it to control their flightpath on HALO drops. Chief.... he just cuts it in at the last minute like a parachute. He likes jumping.

Man, rewriting, researching and checking out stuff was a bitch. I've tried to strike a balance, toning down the MJOLNIR Mk VI armor while still keeping it badass and canon to the books (yes, yes, yes, I understand I'm playing in the Nanoverse, this is an attempt to translate Master Chief into the Nanoverse and make it fit, not like a certain god and certain copypasta XD)

Originally Posted by Estavali

Kagerou, that design for the G3C... something from Hellgate London, no?

Actually, no. It's a stylised Ghost suit from Starcraft, for use by the psychic Ghost commandos. (And no, in canon Starcraft, the female version doesn't have heels. In this version, however...)

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

I think it's stupid for 7Arc/TSAB to assign powerful YOUNG mages to high ranking leadership roles that takes them out of the field.

Hayate and Chrono are such examples. Considering they were complaining about a lack of manpower, wouldn't it be more productive to have these healthy soldiers who are in their prime, fighting in the frontlines?

Maybe after a few years (If they lived that long) when they have calcium deposits in their joints then it would be time for them to leave the field.

(Then again, Hayate does have the excuse of a glass-cannon...)

I dunno. The TSAB seems to be following the idea that you commission mages fast and quickly if they're hi-powered; IIRC, almost all A-ranked mages are put through OCS, and Chrono was already a high-ranking Enforcer at 9. Also, remember what I posted above: Lindy was a ship captain, Chrono is a fleet commander - when you're at that level of rank, you are not paid or given your rank to go and slog it out on the frontlines, you're supposed to COMMAND.

Originally Posted by dkellis

I'm not sure what sort of personnel TSAB is short-handed in. As far as we know, there isn't any actual war happening in the canon. Regius mentioned in his flashback with Zest that the Ground Forces are lacking the personnel to deal with the high-powered criminals who create disturbances "on the ground", so to speak. I'm thinking that in those cases, you send the equivalent of Special Forces in, rather than the heavy artillery. The skillsets are very different.

Not to mention the mindsets - a policing mindset isn't quite what you need when dealing with issues that Special Forces get involved in. That's pretty much how the Order of Freelance Mages got started; as Special Forces...although their bent was more to being the hunters of the TSAB, assasinating corrupt officials.

Basically, I'm not sure that the TSAB really needs to have a huge army (and navy) already Out There, as opposed to being on standby or whatnot. I mean, we've got Erio and Caro out who knows where with environmental conservation, which is not the most obvious place to post someone with a spear Device, even if he requested it. Subaru is in Search-And-Rescue, and I have no idea what Teana is doing as Fate's aide.

Erio in environmental protection with Caro is admittedly weird. On the other hand, perhaps Admin felt they owed it to him to give him somewhere to relax and cool off. As Fate's aide, I'm guessing Teana will be getting practical hands-on knowledge of the workings of the Enforcers, which will be a help when she officially joins them (IIRC, she's been shooting for Enforcer for a long time now).
And yet the navy exists, and we have a huge number of military mages, and the Arthra was fitted with the Arc en Ciel of the city-destroying destructive power. I have no idea if they're all mostly on patrol and standby, or if they're actually out there in force doing something. (In force, mind.)

I'm beginning to believe that the TSAB's method of recruiting and rapidly promoting high-ranking mages is their way of being able to keep an eye on said mages, rather than let them get bored and create some mischief.

To be honest, it does seem that way. Which is again why Ivanovich supressed his actual mage rank of AA+; he didn't want to be demoted and placed somewhere where the brass could keep an eye on him (in terms of influence, Sergeant Major > junior-level officer). It strikes me that the TSAB arent really making good and full use of their talents... on the other hand, the same thing has always happened to the new ideas in any organisation. Just witness how the US Air Force was dead-set against Special Operations at first.

[Kha]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Belkarangers are a whole different league to the Bakarangers though... no offense to their Sun Vulcanly awesomeness

And missing 5th Baka?

I get it.

You mean there wasn't 5? Either my memory is failing me, or some of my own crack overwrote some piece of canon info...

Originally Posted by LoweGear

"...

Deactivating External Camouflage layer.

Commencing Intervention."

*Mai >>>>> Kha*

Creator-san: Since when did she become a fan of 00?
Mai: ...

Gundam ni...

Creator-san:

The crack builds...

Spoiler for WTF is this?:

G-GUNDAM?! Here?!

I barely had enough room to shift; Stahlmut took her giant blade's swing on the shield. Thankfully I managed to make it a glancing strike, otherwise, my arm'd...

"Exterminate."

There was something about that wispy voice that chilled to the bone and sheered my thought in half. I had no time to ponder it's reach though, except to cross beam blades upon her enormous whirring sword aimed for my torso now. The force rang through my steel-supported gloves and pressed upon the flesh within. Even with Stahlmut lending me his strength, I still had to fight against her will with all that I had.

A flail and a kick. The fwing of metal slicing air backdropped by the particles' perpetual buzzing. Metal grated against metal, suit pitted against suit under their wearers' efforts to reign the opponent in. I had to give. Took a sidestep and a awkward strike on my spaulders, but Stahlmut spun away.

I floored it to give us some breathing space. She did not follow, but turned slowly to me like a spider watching its enmeshed prey.

And that's when I understood that last transmission from Stuart...

It's like a red butterfly that stretched across the evening sky...

Reading this and watching Epi 16 sorta reacted violently...

Originally Posted by Erio

Hm, I dont think I understand what you're thinking here... I got confused when you mentioned 2 different Kha scenarios, one for Kerokanon and another for "canon"... Maybe for the second you meant a canon timeline where Keroko does not exist?

I thought of 3 timelines:

1. Original timeline that had Kha dodging Ion Canon like mad, and Keroko being Nanoha's closest cousin instead of sister. In this timeline, Tesla might not exist.

2. Keroko's vision of the timeline, with events mirroring canon except for insertions.

3. My take on 2, factoring what Keroko's more prominent existence as Nanoha's sister would've changed in the entire timeline. I've tried my best to remain true to Keroko's summaries, but where there are gaps, I have fun. As such, 3 can be exactly like 2, but due to all the additional stuff I added to make the deal sweeter and more feasible, 3 would resemble nothing like 1.

Originally Posted by Erio

Kha will have quite the challenge...how can the Cleric concentrate with Fate tied up like that...?

*runs*

It's a big motivation.

*runs*

Originally Posted by Erio

Nice speech there

But Ling-tan said I still didn't get it. Wi...

Originally Posted by Estavali

Assuming this is true, one way to do it would be to nerf, or rather, reset Hayate after Rein I returned to the Force. In RO terms, it would be like making your neat 2nd classer with that shiny aura rebirth as a High Novice, seemingly starting all over again. For example, I intend to reduce her initial power levels to at most AA right after the YnS incident, making her weaker than Nanoha, Fate, Chrono and maybe even Yuuno.

Sacrilegious as this might seems, it would give Hayate more development space imho. I can add other "normal" people (Strikers, to quote Fate, rather than Aces) in without worrying whether Hayate is too haxx for the battlefield. And it is certainly much preferably than making her a glass-cannon, or try to nerf her in an unnatural way to make space for the others, only to end up with her horribly shafted for one of the supposedly illustrious Aces (which was what happened in StrikerS).

Nerf early or shaft late? I'll take the former, thank you .

I'm working with Hayate being too dangerous to anyone around her when she's completely unlimited, having so much power with so little control, and not to mention liking to go all out. Remember how she seemed to dance when her bell got removed a little?

[AdmiralTigerclaw]

Originally Posted by SpaceBrotha

I'd like to point out here that your idea is that battery is more efficient because it doesn't bother with all the exotic elements, and merely focuses on direct line (or fairly direct line) firing of extremely condensed magical bullets with maximum efficiency.

Yet battery has: Bloodhound Breaker: - Max Homing and chasing range of Five thousand meters, for some wasted mental effort, magical energy, and conventional energy bleed... your words, not mine.
And a bloody mirv for good measure of unefficient damage delivery, as artillery hardly is the most efficient way of delivering damage, several singular shots with extreme accuracy would be far better suited for efficiency...

Which is directly in violation of this concept, correct?

Yes they are, but neccissary exceptions to the rule. You of course note that these are two attacks, both of which have drawbacks, out of a predominately LOS based energy hurler.

In the Case of the Bloodhound Breaker (Which pretty much sniffs out the target like Bloodhound, thus it's name.) You're talking about an Air to Air missile. In an extended air battle, volume of fire and accuracy are major issues against high speed targets moving in all three dimensions. If you can't really use the conventional packages kill power because you just keep missing, you have a serious tactical defficiency.
This doesn't change the primary mission power of the device, it augments with the neccissary fallback you'd need to cover certain situatiosn.
In the case of Bloodhound Breaker, there is a charge time, and a lock time. It has rudimentary five kilometer homing, but it's all the homing of a sidewinder missile. (Since it's a fast moving homing attack with only moderate guidance.) The actual fired shot is a condensed high energy package, and it just explodes. If you miss, might as well aim and launch a followup shot.

The Meteor Shower attack is pretty much the heavy fire support general purpose blanket effect attack. It serves its purpose as the backbone high energy attack for taking on things like large groups, spaced groups, or hitting a wide area with considerable destructive force. Not as good at killing 'tanks' as a HELLFIRE II missile, but decent at damaging and/or knocking out 'APCs' Especially when you have loads of them to shoot at. It's nice if you could sit and pick them off all day, but we're not talking about target dummies. We're talking about intelligent opponents who REALLY don't want to stand around and have their heads blown off. Sometimes all you can do in the occaisional case is saturate the area and hope for a hit. That's the niche the attack covers. Otherwise you gotta phone up Hayate and ask for a Hraesvelgr.

And given the... availability of mages with high power wide area combat magic, there is a tendancy to lack what you need. It's not like we have S class mages lined up on a storage rack just waiting to fly off and nuke something.

Now, looking over the entire data again, i can accept just about everything right up to the cerberus df, though that is just fine other than there's still a ban on all truly conventional weaponry, but i think that's just a case of forgetting a word or two from the description.

Since none of the attacks are throwing mass rounds downrange (though if you want to get technical and argue the legality of a condensed ion packet on the grounds of a mass weapon, good luck), it's perfectly legal.

There's also another issue that just because mass weapons are banned, doesn't mean the administration that banned them can't issue a permit for their use to its forces. Vita has her Swallow Flier to hurl at people after all. If Vita's using of Graff Isen to play Croquett with bowling ball sized chunks of iron with your skull as the target doesn't qualify as a mass weapon, I don't know what does, unless they are thinking more along the lines of the destructive potential of actual, nuclear weapons. (If Fate's little briefing early on was any indicator, the TSAB are deathly afraid of the power of Nukes. If the term 'push a button, destroy a city' means anything.)

Bloodhound breaker i already explained, though i should add that explosives (or anything emulating them) of any kind are contradictionary if your objective is to make something that doesn't waste any energy at all if possible.

Actually, it's more of a conserve MAGICAL energy and utilize more direct energy delivery, than just plain being energy efficient. After all, you can hurl a packet of magic downrange at the cost of that magical energy, or you can use a fraction of that to collect ambient energy from your environment and throw that downrange with the same effect. And an ambient environment is absolutely energy RICH.

Since a linker core's concerned only with magical energy, a good function for economizing is not to use brute magical force by itself, but use it to channel non-magical force. More efficient in magical energy use, and less stressfull on those cores. Especially since it's the linker core that concerns most of the firepower of a given mage.

Spectre barrage is still manageable, though i can't remember wether 40mm bofors rounds are meant as AP or HE rounds. As you'd want AP as much as possible here to accomplish your concept.

Actually, BOFORS rounds can be AP, HE, or HEAP if you so desire. Even timed fuse Frag or SABOT if you're feeling nasty. The gun doesn't restrict the type of ammo, just how big you can make it. What you use depends on your mission. Spectre Barrage pretty much just goes for straight up HEAP.

and meteor shower i already explained, as i did the problem with anything explosive when going for energy efficiency.

So, either a review of your concepts, or your prototype is in order...
...passing the ball back to you admiral

Reviewed and checked, adendum is that it's not energy efficiency, it's MAGICAL energy efficiency.