Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Character Creation and Discussion

[LoweGear]

Backlog Breaker later, but was kinda surprised because...

Phantom Blazer? Isn't that the name of Teana's most powerful canon spell?

[Comartemis]

...so it is. Shoot, and it sounded so cool, too.

[USB500]

Phantom Blazer? Where? Link, please.

Beauty and the Red-Haired Beast, chapter 7

*runs before Yuunodas & the Mid-Childans get him*

[Comartemis]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teana_L...sive_Abilities

[arkhangelsk]

Originally Posted by Comartemis

Mmmm. All's quiet on the OC front. Time to stir things up a bit. Haxxbusters, go!

Phantom Blazer
Rico's most powerful spell, developed during his time as a student of Takamachi Nanoha. Phantom Blazer is a powerful self-enhancement spell that provides a significant boost to Rico's attack and movement speed as well as the power of his physical attacks, but can only be used when in unison with Nova.

The spell begins with Nova initializing a collection array, identical in concept to the basis of Nanoha's infamous Starlight Breaker. Instead of gathering the collected power into a beam or energy attack as Nanoha does, however, Nova redirects the accumulated power into her own systems until she has reached a desired level of strength. When this point is reached, the accumulated mana is shunted through a multi-level enhancement array and applied directly to Nova's and Rico's merged body.

Technical Consequence: Collection type? Rico will have to put off using it until near the end of the battle then. Did you notice Nanoha always uses SB last? There is a reason for that and it doesn't have to do with Anime Convention "Ultimate Attacks Go Last even if you could have finished Things Quickly by Using it First."

Collection types really mostly recycle the leftovers made from all the attacks in a typical battle (I know this is in the novel. For those who ditch the novel apparently the VFB has it so you aren't getting out that way). So if you use it at the front of a battle, you'll have almost nothing to recycle and either your spell will fizzle or you'll be forced to fire it entirely with your own energy.

But then, adding some limits there is just as well because as currently technotactically specified, it is pretty l33t.

The benefits of this spell are multifold: for the spell's duration, Rico's movement and attack speed increase by over 500%, effectively acting as a Flash Move-type spell for the duration of the boost.

Since most Flash Moves tend to last seconds at most, and according to you this spell lasts at least a minute, this would give Rico a fairly immense advantage. If he's any good and his opponent isn't immensely superior, he can easily just win in that minute. It is kind of like giving a plane a minute to use its superior speed to work on a tank.

In addition, Rico's body is unable to contain the entirety of the accumulated power, and acquires a sort of battle aura of magical energy which he can ignite at will, wreathing his entire body in flames and making melee combat with him especially dangerous (while Rico's flame and heat-resistant barrier jacket keeps him from roasting himself). These flames can also be directed into energy attacks or used to boost the power of Rico's melee attacks, as with his normal flames.

How long will it take others to configure their BJs to block heat?

The downsides, however, are also multifold. While Rico developed this spell with Nanoha's assistance, he and Nova lack her natural talent with the collection template, and the charge time for this spell is almost a minute in length. Moreover, because Nova's attention must remain on maintaining the collection template, for the duration of the charge-up period Rico does not gain the benefits of being in unison with Nova, and must resort to using spells he can use without her assistance.

So, what happens after that, when the spell actually fires off? Is Nova released to fire off spells?

Here's my gamebalancing recommendation: While this spell is actually activated, the load on the Linker Core is critical. Thus, no other spells can be prepared or fired.

But then, I'm a hardliner. Often too hardline for this board. So...

Most important, however, is the spell's effect on Rico's body.

When Rico designed the spell with Nanoha's assistance, he swore an oath to her that he would not maintain the spell for more than a minute at a time.

Given Nanoha, he won't have to keep it

Going beyond this limit risks severe damage to Rico's body, an accelerated form of the damage done to Nanoha's body by her intensive training regimen. For every second after one minute that Rico maintains this spell, the probability of a catastrophic breakdown of his body's physical structure increases by one percent.

So, after a total of 160 seconds of activation, his body is guaranteed to be fried?

Even if Rico adheres to this limitation, using this spell more than once or twice a week risks doing the same damage to his body as exceeding the time limit does.

So, suppose he keeps it to one minute. What kind of shape will he be in when he disengages this "Phantom" thingee? Does he just go on fighting (as long as he doesn't use Phantom again)? Or is he rendered combat ineffective by the strain? Does he have to stop fighting at once if he's to prevent temporary microdamage from becoming permanent?

Maybe he can go on if he only uses it for 20 seconds, but if he uses it for 60 he's going to have to take a break (a reasonable limitation considering the level of damage you say awaits him after 60 seconds?) Maybe he can use it every other day if he keeps spurts to 30 seconds at a go? A little more detail about the limitation might be nice here.

[Saint X]

Originally Posted by Comartemis

Mmmm. All's quiet on the OC front. Time to stir things up a bit. Haxxbusters, go!

Lemme Try a Crack at this...

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Originally Posted by Comartemis

[I]Phantom Blazer

Spell name Already Exists in other Spell Libararies

Originally Posted by Comartemis

The spell begins with Nova initializing a collection array, identical in concept to the basis of Nanoha's infamous Starlight Breaker. Instead of gathering the collected power into a beam or energy attack as Nanoha does, however, Nova redirects the accumulated power into her own systems until she has reached a desired level of strength. When this point is reached, the accumulated mana is shunted through a multi-level enhancement array and applied directly to Nova's and Rico's merged body.

Magic Circuit/Linker Core Overload Imminent...

Originally Posted by Comartemis

The benefits of this spell are multifold: for the spell's duration, Rico's movement and attack speed increase by over 500%, effectively acting as a Flash Move-type spell for the duration of the boost.

500% is akin to DBZ instant Transmission.

Originally Posted by Comartemis

In addition, Rico's body is unable to contain the entirety of the accumulated power, and acquires a sort of battle aura of magical energy which he can ignite at will, wreathing his entire body in flames and making melee combat with him especially dangerous (while Rico's flame and heat-resistant barrier jacket keeps him from roasting himself). These flames can also be directed into energy attacks or used to boost the power of Rico's melee attacks, as with his normal flames.

Water...

Originally Posted by Comartemis

The downsides, however, are also multifold. While Rico developed this spell with Nanoha's assistance, he and Nova lack her natural talent with the collection template, and the charge time for this spell is almost a minute in length. Moreover, because Nova's attention must remain on maintaining the collection template, for the duration of the charge-up period Rico does not gain the benefits of being in unison with Nova, and must resort to using spells he can use without her assistance. Most important, however, is the spell's effect on Rico's body.

Most Unison Devices need sync with the user...

Any fazing attacks will break that independent sync...

Any rival AOE energy collection / field neutralization will negate collection or reduce effectiveness...

Initial Anaylsis Over...

[Comartemis]

Technical Consequence: Collection type? Rico will have to put off using it until near the end of the battle then.

Yup. That was sorta the point; this isn't just Rico's Starlight Breaker equivalent, it's also his Blaster System equivalent, and he won't ever use this spell unless an adversary is giving him real problems; most S-ranks and above, for instance. This spell is intended to level an uneven playing field, not dish out massive pwnage on lesser enemies.

How long will it take others to configure their BJs to block heat?

Dunno. Could be a few seconds, or maybe they can't do it in mid-battle. Either way, blocking Rico's fire is a more pressing concern than just the heat.

So, what happens after that, when the spell actually fires off? Is Nova released to fire off spells?

Yep, since her attention isn't focused on maintaining the collection array she can act as normal once the spell's been cast.

Here's my gamebalancing recommendation: While this spell is actually activated, the load on the Linker Core is critical. Thus, no other spells can be prepared or fired.

That sounds reasonable, but if you don't mind, I'm going to wait for additional opinions before I add any more limitations to this spell.

So, after a total of 160 seconds of activation, his body is guaranteed to be fried?

Yeah, and probably much sooner than that; after an extra 50 seconds, he's got a better than 50% chance of crippling himself every second.

So, suppose he keeps it to one minute. What kind of shape will he be in when he disengages this "Phantom" thingee? Does he just go on fighting (as long as he doesn't use Phantom again)? Or is he rendered combat ineffective by the strain? Does he have to stop fighting at once if he's to prevent temporary microdamage from becoming permanent?

The strain on Rico's linker core is actually quite minimal due to the spell's setup; his core isn't exerting any more power than normal, it's the rest of his body that's taking the load. Thus, Rico is going to be totally winded for a minute or two after the spell disengages, which spells big trouble for him if he hasn't finished off his adversary in the one minute he had to work 'em over.

[FlameSparkZ]

Originally Posted by Liingo

Welcome back Flame XD. Looking forward to more Sweet-cheesium from you XD

Working on it

Originally Posted by Saint X

Lemme Try a Crack at this...

Operation Active

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C.L.A.N.N.A.D. System Ver 1.0

Cool
But, wouldn't the first A sound better as "Advanced"?

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Working on a lot of things right now, so...it'll still take a while to finish the next chapter

*runs*

[Tk3997]

Threads a bit slow at the moment isn't it?

Well whatever now seems as good a time as any to post up another random profile of someone that won't appear for like another two chapters in the story. Anyway I preset to you my stories wheelma--- errr woman.

Spoiler for Izumi Sato:

Name: Izumi Sato
Other names/alias: Smash
Age: 18
Birthday: April 1st
Height: 120 Pounds
Weight: 5’5”
Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Green
Origin: Administered World 82
Mage Rank: A+
Magic Type: Neo-Balkan
Magic Color: Turquoise
Element Preference: Lightning
Affiliation: TSAB Ground Forces
Position/rank in TSAB: Private Second Class

History:
Hailing from the Asian Region of Administered World 82 Izumi has been pretty much set on being a member of the TSAB armed forces since she became old enough to drive. Mostly in the purist of being able to drive fast things legally which is perhaps more then anything her real goal in life. Yes Izumi very much likes to go fast, but not flying, no flying up in the air removes all the sense of speed and fun of it you see. No she likes to go fast at ground level.

This has manifested from an early age and probably was inherited from here parents both of whom where know street racers acutally that’s how they meet each other and indeed if you believe them she was likely conceived in the back seat of a modified street racing vehicle… Regardless where it came from Izumi basiclly since she could walk has been on a quest for ever higher speed at sea level. She’s progressed through bicycles, roller blades, go-karts during her childhood pushing each one well past the limits of what could be consider safe intern. Given her parentage noted above you might not be surprised to learn her parents found little wrong with this…

Once she got up to cars though she ran into the annoying fact that driving at insanely reckless speeds in a automobile and or on a motorcycle tends to be frowned upon by law enforcement. Bland oval race tracks and drag strips simply wouldn’t do though so what was an aspiring speed freak to do? Why join the police of course. Luckily for her she acutally had a bit of magical talent though it had largely been neglected in pursuit of mechanical and driving skills; however when she put her mind to something it’s very hard to stop her doing what she intends to do and so she quickly polished her skills up to a level that allowed her admittance to the local GF academy.

Bizarrely, to her trainers at least, despite having some real magical potential she appeared more interested in driving patrol cars then practicing spell craft. It was hard to deny her talent for it though and even her driving instructors were often left stupefied as to the things she was able to make anything with an engine, or even just wheels do. It was around this time though that she found another more magical outlet for her speed obsession, while not as widely know as there mentors in the wake of the JS incident the forwards had nonetheless became minor celebrities in the armed forces themselves.

It wasn’t really this that concerned Izumi though so much as the device one of them was using, namely the stupidly overpowered motorized roller blades of the Nakajima sisters, now THAT was a method of magical locomotion she could get behind. Without really asking permission or consulting anyone knowledge on the subject she set out to copy the device. This process involved allot of trial and error and a number of fairly spectacular crashes but after the better part of a year she succeed, mostly. While hardly as fine tuned as Mach Caliber’s final form it was at least largely functional and it went fast, faster then was probably really safe but that was just how she liked it.

Of course never one to limit herself she continued her studies in driving and on graduation was assigned to a motorized ground forces unit as a driver of a rapid response patrol unit. The unit was deployed mostly in areas with high auto-theft, an abundance of street racers, or populated by criminals with a reputation for running from police sometimes all three. It was hard to think of an area she’d have been happier to work in and she quickly gained a reputation for being eager to chase suspects and very good at it. She also gained a reputation for any pursuit she involved causing spectacular property damage and yet it was never really her fault…

Personality:
Izumi is a racer to the core always looking to go faster and never one to back down from any kind of challenge. She also has a habit of going out looking for said challenges and has a bit of a short attention span and tends to be easily bored this is not good as perhaps the only thing more potentially dangerous then her behind the wheel on duty is her off duty and bored....

This hotheadedness also tends to come through as a lack of much planning in many situations and she has a habit of winging things as she goes along. Luckily her brain seems to work at about a mile a minute and somehow she often manages to make this work… of course when it doesn’t the results can be spectacularly disastrous. She rarely gives these disasters much thought though and often before the dust has even fully settled she’s on to the next thing. As you might imagine she also doesn’t tend to get on well with “slower” or more deliberate personalities. By her reckoning that category is pretty much anyone that takes longer then five minutes to decide anything.

As noted a bored Izumi is not a good thing to have around and if nothing interesting is happening she has a nasty habit of attempting to make things happen. Combined with the above noted lack of much forethought or planning though these plans have a tendency to go very wrong very quickly and yet since even such disasters tend to cause something to happen even this doesn’t really seem to bother her much...

She also has a very positive outlook on things in general perhaps due to the fact that she’s always moving forward and placing obstacles in her path just makes her push even harder. Tragedy and angst are things she largely simply dose not grasp and in almost any situation she can be counted on to look past any current problems to the future.

Trivia/Random Factoids:
-Is know to imbibe amounts of caffeine that should by any sane medical knowledge cause seizures with no ill effects on a routine basis. The preferred method for acquiring this fix is in something that’s also loaded with sugar.
-On that note her sugar intact in is myriad varied forms really should have resulted in diabetes by now too…
-A good long night’s sleep for her is something like six hours
-She owns several highly modified and tuned motor vehicles of various sorts (all of them fast of course); coincidently she lives on base and is seemingly always broke…
-Cannot cook to save her life her diet outside of take out and sugar largely consists of anything that can be cooked in a microwave in under five minutes

Non-Magical Skills:
Rare Skill: Stunt Driver
Izumi’s skill as a driver and the things she can do with vehicles are so outlandish it’s sometimes joking classed as an actual magical power if it has wheels or an engine and moves along the ground she can drive it like an expert, the vehicle will seemingly never break down or stop working with her at the wheel short of effectively falling apart around her, and if it’s even vaguely potentially slightly possible to do something with a surface bound mechanized vehicle she can execute the move flawlessly on demand.

This is only half joking as the things she’s been able to do on the spur of the moment in a motor vehicles sometimes defy belief or easy explanation beyond postulating her to have some sort of magical power over such vehicles such that they can perform seemingly beyond there limits. It should be noted though that it only seems to work when she’s acutally driving merely being a passenger seems to confer no special bonus. That said it’s not something you’d find listed on any official report about her and it’s largely a joke, but even so many that have spent time around her and seen her drive really do wonder…

Also due to her various projects and racing experience she’s acutally a fairly competent mechanic and perhaps even has a minor intuitive gift for engineering. A total lack of the attention span or manner required for proper training in these areas though mean’s that her skills remain rough though and her spectacular mechanical successes tend to be matched by equally spectacular failures.

Combat Style:
Take a guess as to what her style tends to emphasize… Izumi is a speed freak from hell her defense is shoddy and her offense mediocre, but she’s fast. She’s also somewhat balanced between ranged and melee combat having a number of maneuvers for both areas. That said she leans more heavily toward close combat preferring hit and run style attacks, but she’s not above engaging in some slashing ranged attacks if the enemy clearly has the edge in close. Most of her spells are meant to be employed at close range and even her ranged attacks tend to lack legs, but on the plus side most of them are also quick to cast and can be spammed albeit being a bit lacking in power.

If pinned down in some confined area and forced to stand and fight she's a bit weak and as such she tends to favor open areas were she can use her speed keep the enemy off balance and disengage whenever things get disadvantageous. In fact she’s fast enough on open ground that even many fliers finding keeping pace with her at her top speed difficult.

Barrier Jacket:
Her jacket comes in only one form that resembles a riding suit worn in motorcycle racing mostly black with orange trim, a helmet with visor is an optional addition though normally only donned when she’s going flat out. The suit provides rather minimal protection with the only area that receives even a pittance of defensive measures being the torso which is somewhat padded and lightly armored; the helmet provides some moderate defense as well if it’s acutally worn.

Devices:
As noted above Izumi took it upon herself to rip off the Nakajima sisters and bash together a device rather similar to Mach and Blitz Caliber. While not nearly as highly tuned or powerful as either of its forbearers and less versatile too boot its acutally faster on the ground; arguably to the point of being unsafe though Izumi doesn’t seem to care. Having never been an overly poetic sort she took to calling the device “Speedy” and it stuck.

Like her inspiration Izumi utilizes an armed device in conjunction with Speedy for her offense. It takes the form of a polearm topped with a blade somewhere between a glaive and a Naginata, and as it has no personality of its own and so lacks any name. She uses few cartridges preferring quicker spells to powering up larger ones with cartridges as such the device features a small magazine of only 3 rounds of a fairly small size to boot.

Spells (In progress):
Defensive:
While Izumi can use most of the standard defensive spells of her style a lack of focus on them makes them rather weak and unusually easy to break given her rank. This is just another reason dodging and evasion are always her first options.

Tri Shield:
Her best defense which isn’t saying much but if she has no other option but to try and tank something fairly powerful this is what she’ll use.

Protection:
Barrier spell and auto-guard while weak it can be powered up somewhat to provide a bit more protection if it’s focused on.

Suspension Field:
A specialized spell applied to cushion her when landing from jumps and such, or in case she takes a spill at high speed, normally handled similar to an auto-guard in that Speedy is largely responsible for engaging it when it’s needed. It can also be used to a limited extent to decrease the damage form any sort of blunt weapon, but mainly intended to keep her from breaking her neck which it has more then once…

Offensive:

Mics/Support:
Assault Grip:
Ripped pretty much directly and totally from Subaru this allows her to basiclly drive along walls or even ceilings

Launch Road:
A sort of bastard version of wing road doesn’t allow actual flight but creates a path that she can use to launch herself like a ramp to clear obstacles or attack someone in the air.

Bounce:
A movement power that applies a strong repulsive force downward into the ground thus pushing off it to launch her into the air the height and force of the impulse can be varied for higher or lower jumps.

Turbo:
Increases Speedy’s speed as long as it’s maintained extended use can begin to damage the device though. This is something Izumi tends to class as a minor drawback and so she spams this rather actively in battle with engaging it often being the first thing she does when entering combat.

NOS Rush:
A momentary speed boost when engaged Speedy becomes even err… speedier for a few seconds and even more unsafe; one of Izumi’s favorites.

JATO Boost:
An even more extreme version deploys actual rocket boosters on her skates. When engaged control is shaky at best as she accelerates so fast that even staying upright can be a challenge. It can also be used to launch her into the air like a missile and if combined with a well placed ramp (magically generated or otherwise) the distance she can get is pretty astounding. Using this spell can be rather dangerous though as she found out during her first experiment with it. She cleared the 30 parked cars just fine, but the landing… Well with a little healing magic she was only limping for like a week.

Way I see it just like the forwards "ripped off" the Aces people will now start ripping off the forwards since they're bound to have become rather famous... it's the cycle of life or magical plagiarism at least. Plus having someone zipping around on motorized roller skates smashing people with a polearm is just too much fin to write about for me to pass up.

Yeah, yeah I should be finishing off chapter two of my fic, but banging out all these profiles this is so much more fun and easier to do...

[PhoenixFlare]

Originally Posted by Comartemis

Mmmm. All's quiet on the OC front. Time to stir things up a bit. Haxxbusters, go!

By the way, friend, I do hope that every time, before you post things out like this, you've THOUGHT them over through and through. Because, this is simply getting tiring. HAXX-busting is not fun, and we're not sadistic people who enjoy tormenting newcomers, especially when one has to repeatedly grind the same things over and over again.

Basic points should've been made clear now that everything MUST be balanced. Never mind that you cannot figure out how a particular things work, it's easy enough to figure out that some things are beyond the borderline.

Originally Posted by Comartemis

[I]Phantom Blazer
The benefits of this spell are multifold: for the spell's duration, Rico's movement and attack speed increase by over 500%, effectively acting as a Flash Move-type spell for the duration of the boost.

And his normal speed would be? We'll take an Olympic marathon champion for example (which is not a very good example, but works anyway), and when you increase his speed by fivefold, do you know what happens? You can basically a runner that can outrun anyone, but he's left with his flesh behind. Yes, I'm exaggerating again, but you get my point. Sonic Move and the likes work at most in several seconds, yours in one minute. There's a reason why you don't see Sonic Move active ALL THE TIME for a canon character.

And when you keep up with that speed, your body will overwork itself, muscles, tissues, everything. True, one can temper the body to "reduce" the stress, but it can never be fully compensated, especially for one that's human. Never mind that he's a permanently unisoned human. I think I've mentioned multiple times that there's a limit to how one can tinker with the human body before it's infeasible to do so.

I suggest a tone-down of the percentage, or time limit, or both, whichever you think fits.

Originally Posted by Comartemis

In addition, Rico's body is unable to contain the entirety of the accumulated power, and acquires a sort of battle aura of magical energy which he can ignite at will, wreathing his entire body in flames and making melee combat with him especially dangerous (while Rico's flame and heat-resistant barrier jacket keeps him from roasting himself). These flames can also be directed into energy attacks or used to boost the power of Rico's melee attacks, as with his normal flames.

Question. Why does the fire form outside, and not inside of the body? The spell shunts Mana into the body to create this fantabulous effect, but the fire occurs outside of the body? Something doesn't seem right here. You're probably referring to those "leaked" Mana, which makes sense, but how does he control those outside of his body?

And forcing that much power into the system is probably going to accelerate systemic biological function to achieve the effect, and I can assure you very much that your Rico is probably a flaccid piece of flesh when it's over. Unless you can find a way to supply his body with an infinite amount of glucose and water, that's what he'll be.

Originally Posted by Comartemis

The downsides, however, are also multifold. While Rico developed this spell with Nanoha's assistance, he and Nova lack her natural talent with the collection template, and the charge time for this spell is almost a minute in length. Moreover, because Nova's attention must remain on maintaining the collection template, for the duration of the charge-up period Rico does not gain the benefits of being in unison with Nova, and must resort to using spells he can use without her assistance. Most important, however, is the spell's effect on Rico's body.

Another question. Is he EVEN going to use this spell right in the middle of a battle? This is basically a non-weakness. I'm assuming you're going to exert author's limitation here.

Originally Posted by Comartemis

When Rico designed the spell with Nanoha's assistance, he swore an oath to her that he would not maintain the spell for more than a minute at a time. Going beyond this limit risks severe damage to Rico's body, an accelerated form of the damage done to Nanoha's body by her intensive training regimen. For every second after one minute that Rico maintains this spell, the probability of a catastrophic breakdown of his body's physical structure increases by one percent.

Interesting. So, basically, in that one full minute, he's a superspeed demon with the ability to rip things apart without any consequence(s) (so far that's written), and still can use the ability past its limit for, say, 15 seconds, which is pretty short for one of his speed, to achieve only a mere 15% increase in the absolute danger? Nifty spell.

[Comartemis]

And when you keep up with that speed, your body will overwork itself, muscles, tissues, everything. True, one can temper the body to "reduce" the stress, but it can never be fully compensated, especially for one that's human. Never mind that he's a permanently unisoned human. I think I've mentioned multiple times that there's a limit to how one can tinker with the human body before it's infeasible to do so.

I don't suppose it would help if I called the boost a force multiplier instead of a straight-up physical enhancement?

And forcing that much power into the system is probably going to accelerate systemic biological function to achieve the effect, and I can assure you very much that your Rico is probably a flaccid piece of flesh when it's over. Unless you can find a way to supply his body with an infinite amount of glucose and water, that's what he'll be.

Who ever said this had anything to do with biology? It's a spell, Phoenix, not a steroid.

Is he EVEN going to use this spell right in the middle of a battle?

Um... yes? I wouldn't have designed it otherwise. Are you under the impression that he can't act on his own while Nova's charging the spell?

So, basically, in that one full minute, he's a superspeed demon with the ability to rip things apart without any consequence(s) (so far that's written), and still can use the ability past its limit for, say, 15 seconds, which is pretty short for one of his speed, to achieve only a mere 15% increase in the absolute danger? Nifty spell.

A more apt description would be that for one minute Rico gets a speed boost that puts him somewhere just south of Fate in Sonic Drive. And the critical damage chance stacks with itself for each second past 1 minute. So after ten seconds he's got a better than 1 in 10 chance of crippling himself every second. Then there's the physical exhaustion aspect I added in my reply to arkhangelsk.

Would it be more balanced if I lessened the damage chance and applied it to the entire spell, rather than giving Rico a one-minute safety period?

[Wild Goose]

Originally Posted by Comartemis

I don't suppose it would help if I called the boost a force multiplier instead of a straight-up physical enhancement?

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Later when i've had a good night's sleep which will never happen as i need to be up in 4 hours.

Who ever said this had anything to do with biology? It's a spell, Phoenix, not a steroid.

To return to my oft-mentioned analogy of a mage as a car: The body is the frame & chassis, the linker core is the engine, cartridges are NOS and spellwork is pressing the gas, drifting, and a crapload of Initial D tricks.

All magics will have an effect on the body, regardless. If spells and mana didn't affect the body, Nanoha wouldn't have been fucked up from beamspam. We wouldn't have mages panting in exertion after firing off beams.

Am too tired to bust the rest.

I think I'm going to have to take yet another break from OC to maintain my sanity. Sorry, folks.

[Comartemis]

Am too tired to bust the rest.

Don't bother. Obviously the concept needs some heavy adjustment before it becomes viable, so just consider the idea temporarily trashed.

*Goes back to the drawing board*

[XenahortCharybdis]

Originally Posted by Comartemis

Don't bother. Obviously the concept needs some heavy adjustment before it becomes viable, so just consider the idea temporarily trashed.

*Goes back to the drawing board*

Another day, another scrapped idea. Oh well, that's common occurrence, although at this rate you might eventually become the most famous for scrapping his own ideas the most number of times ever, in full view of all

(For me I quietly scrap ideas as new aspects of 'busting start to surface)

@Thread: Nice to see that things are still going strong.

Glad especially to see that Goose is opting for "more sleep, less busting cum gnashing-of-teeth". That'll save him some life, and give us more Alpha-based laughter.

(And also I'm not the only one who was cursed to indefinite bench-warming lately )

And in any case I'm already done with my long-delayed...um, I'm not sure if I can call it a grenade any more, scrap a scene here, nitpick another into oblivion there, add an OC just for kicks, and then we have a full sized bomb.

Yeah, so I'll be posting again from today up. Regularly, hopefully, till life starts dealing me bad hands again.

[Kha]

Come on, how many times have I been shot down? Though I'm starting to not care about what others think any more, given all that wasted effort...

[Wild Goose]

Originally Posted by Kha

Come on, how many times have I been shot down? Though I'm starting to not care about what others think any more, given all that wasted effort...

But kha, I thought your whole purpose here was to make Khrack and to be shot down. That way, you allow us to laugh and facepalm and maintain the crazy spirit that is Outer Cadia.



Just kidding, just kidd-

*stares at angered Cleric Knights and other Kha's OCs*

....aw crap.

*Wild Goose casts Accel, Alert, Strike, Valor, Focus, Zeal, Guts, Drive, Resolve, Fury, Snipe and RUNS from Kha and Kha's OCs*

[XenahortCharybdis]

Originally Posted by Kha

Come on, how many times have I been shot down? Though I'm starting to not care about what others think any more, given all that wasted effort...

Ashcroft: Unrepentant, now are we? You disgrace the noble name 'Cleric' more than you already have. If I wasn't supposed to be your cover fire, and that we're that many ranks apart, I'd have shot you down already.





(And yes, Kha that is an actual line in that thing that I originally slated to be around 7k, but it didn't happen, it's well over 10k and running crazy in my head right now. Mind you, though, the circumstances under which Ash spouted this line is very different from this one.)

[LimitedEternal]

So quiet here lately...

But anyway, I thought shooting down was kind of a time-honored tradition here. You know, spin crack, fight, work it into sense, fight more...

Ah, good times, good times. Hope we pick back up. :3

[AdmiralTigerclaw]

We shoot much down!

Spoiler for Guns and Missiles!:

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by LimitedEternal

So quiet here lately...

Busy week, so I like to relax in the weekends. Next week is vacation anyway (one of the prime advantages of working at a school is that you borrow their vacations :3) so I'll have time to write and respond more.

Cort, I'll take a closer look at your new spell later, for now I'll advice you to stay away from percentages, people have a tendency to see an attack as too powerfull if you paste percentages on them. After all, why do you think the DVD booklets never have any numbers behind them either? Its generally 'long range' or 'really fast' or something along those lines.