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by Deminis » Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:11 pm
by Nekronia » Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:20 pm
Deminis wrote:So, Magic? Alchemy? Heightened mental abilities? Is that stuff real? Because i would absolutaly love for a desendent of mine to be able to use alchemy, and for The Bionic to have discovered it(he did have about five thousand years alone with a super computer). Please? It is technically Fan Tech, to be decided by you XD
The Templar High Council wrote:The number of times Nek makes sense is grossly outnumbered by the times he doesn't.
by Deminis » Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:31 pm
Nekronia wrote:Deminis wrote:So, Magic? Alchemy? Heightened mental abilities? Is that stuff real? Because i would absolutaly love for a desendent of mine to be able to use alchemy, and for The Bionic to have discovered it(he did have about five thousand years alone with a super computer). Please? It is technically Fan Tech, to be decided by you XD
Well he's been alone in that vault for thousands of years without watching the outside world, so he wouldn't have had a situation to prompt knowing that such a bizarre change in the order of things has occurred. Just my two cents on the matter, but I get the feeling we'll all be seeing a whole lot of magic soon enough. My character's gonna have a field day trying to learn all about magic, considering his beliefs.
"We're all in a computer! I mean, no, not the big computer I'm in and am interacting with the world with. I'm saying the world itself is inside a computer. My computer is in a computer. We're all bits of data! Changes to the order of things is unlikely, but can be done on a whim by the fractal eldritch machine that is running our instance! It is our duty to adapt to our circumstances and perceived future ones! Also it's [beep]ing magic so this gon be cool as shit."
by Nekronia » Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:55 pm
Deminis wrote:Nekronia wrote:Well he's been alone in that vault for thousands of years without watching the outside world, so he wouldn't have had a situation to prompt knowing that such a bizarre change in the order of things has occurred. Just my two cents on the matter, but I get the feeling we'll all be seeing a whole lot of magic soon enough.
Um, No, its opn my guys app in the Bio that he requested a physical mechanical body, separate from his main systems. He was awake the whole damn time. The simulation machine has every KNOWN fact and theory built into it so you are correct in saying that it would screw with the science a wee bit. But the Laws of nature are sure to keep the basic principles, that would make the modifications to the energy manipulations easier to figure out at least. The Reason i chose Alchemy for my guys is because it depends on the user rather than the environment, know what I mean? and my Alchemy, Yes i do infact mean FMA style
The Templar High Council wrote:The number of times Nek makes sense is grossly outnumbered by the times he doesn't.
by Deminis » Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:05 pm
Nekronia wrote:Deminis wrote:
Um, No, its opn my guys app in the Bio that he requested a physical mechanical body, separate from his main systems. He was awake the whole damn time. The simulation machine has every KNOWN fact and theory built into it so you are correct in saying that it would screw with the science a wee bit. But the Laws of nature are sure to keep the basic principles, that would make the modifications to the energy manipulations easier to figure out at least. The Reason i chose Alchemy for my guys is because it depends on the user rather than the environment, know what I mean? and my Alchemy, Yes i do infact mean FMA style
Yeah, I know that he's been awake the whole time. I said that. I also said that he's been awake in the vault the whole time, not wandering around outside and seeing the Descendents and dragons running around with magic. He'd be unaware if there had been a change unless he had witnessed some evidence of it, but as he's been locked in an underground vault complex the whole time he would have no reason to suspect it unless he had the sort of detecting equipment used for particle accelerators and other quantum physics. However, he doesn't have that sort of equipment in his vault. He has things to make chemicals and such, and maybe enough to split atoms or something, and the equipment to simulate physics, but he lacks scanning/detecting equipment that would do anything for detecting and examining particle physics.
It doesn't make sense to me fluff-wise for him to discover this by chance, even if he had a million years of time twiddling his thumbs, but a Descendant alchemist would make total sense to me. Rising Moon's the OP so it's his call, but I feel like we're supposed to be all discovering this in the IC after we leave the vault since this is something that's never been seen in the history of ever.
Also, FMA's on the long list of things I haven't watched but probably should one day so I know what people are talking about
by Nekronia » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:34 pm
The Templar High Council wrote:The number of times Nek makes sense is grossly outnumbered by the times he doesn't.
by New Lucantis » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:41 pm
Nekronia wrote:EVE Name: John "Jackie" Friedman, Information Quartermaster
EVE Unit: 003, "Information Quartermaster"
Vault Num: 09
Facilities:
- Archive Servers: Information storage, records, films, books, art, schematics, TV shows, and so on. Hey, SOMEONE'S gotta protect the Mona Lisa, Frankenstein, Encyclopedia Britannica, and all of the other works of mankind! And those security recordings of people showering. Anyways, these servers are more than worth their weight in gold as they contain a majority of all of mankind's information before the apocalypse in order to teach future generations from the past's mistakes and successes.
- Virtual-/Augmented-Reality Entertainment Center: For the movie-goer, the gamer, and the patron of the arts. Or pretty much anyone else who likes to have fun at some point in their life. Watch movies, be IN movies, play games, be in games, and so on. THE ULTIMATE IN ENTERTAINMENT AND EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY.
- Media Studio: For making movies, videogames, television, art, images, 3D designs, and so on. Includes a scanner for copying real items into data for usage in the workshop, although technically it could be used for medical purposes (like a massively advanced/upgraded MRI or CT scan) if someone wanted to do something like that.
- Habitation Center: Living quarters for the new generations. It has life support, but it's the "not breathing poisonous air" kind that's for humans, not the EVE kind. Hey, those intellectuals need to live somewhere, y'know!
Transmitter: For greeting those wastelanders tuning in with some classic tunes! Or doing practical things like managing unmanned vehicles. Digital Security Hub: "Don't mess with my movies. I don't know who you are. I don't know why you tried to modify the files for Taken. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have factory output. But what I do have are a very particular set of resources, resources I have acquired over a very long career. Resources that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you quit being an ass now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will hack you to make every robot you attempt to use self-destruct and sing 'Killer Queen'. Okay I can't actually do that, but I can find out who you are and yell at you angrily over the messaging system or something. Maybe I could weld a bar infront of your exit so all the walking robots trip and then you need to make a robot who can specifically cut the bar at that nonstandard level? I dunno, haven't actually thought this out yet. I've been asleep for a few thousand years, I'm itching to use this database. God damn it's good to be back." Reserve Power: Basically, they're huge batteries in case the power supply is interrupted for whatever reason. There's also a device that slowly generates power from radiation, but it only provides enough power to run one EVE and its vault at low functionality, and even then only with some facilities running. Hey, how are you supposed to keep the power going when you wake up if you don't have enough power to make a robot to fix the other vaults' power generators? Also, keeping the servers stable in the event of a powergrid overload is quite important to keeping zettabytes of stored information intact. Workshop: Basically a small 'factory' that is tailored for detail/quality and not mass production. More like a big, really-good 3D printer or something than a proper factory, as it can construct anything but isn't specialized to create any one area (like robotics, weaponry, furniture, and so on). Who needs movie props when you can have the real deal? Or making a couple of defense drones if worst comes to worst, but as stated before, this facility is not made for mass production and is therefore not suitable for the scale a true war needs. You could also make food with this, but it's not accurate enough to replicate cells so it'd probably taste like it was ground up and put back together, and complicated things (like meat) would taste outright horrible like someone splashed them with vinegar or something. Resource Processor: Because making things in the workshop means you need things to make them with. This 'universal refinery' is probably the main physical value this vault has to other EVEs, as most vaults will likely need fuel, metals, purified water, and other resources. It still needs someone to actually harvest the raw materials to process, of course, but that can be improvised. Recycling things and 'melting them down' is also possible. Storage Bay: Pretty empty, actually. It has some raw materials for construction, but nothing major. Enough to build a couple tanks, or a new facility or two. There are also a couple of seed containers of various plants, but those aren't actually important anymore as it turns out life went on after the end. Really, it's mostly for storing new resources to put in the various facilities rather than bringing old resources.
Bio:Jackie was born in the intersection between the upper and middle classes, and was raised by a nanny rather than his world-travelling corporate parents. He was a pretty sweet kid, even if he was a bit timid and naïve. Unfortunately, the world around him wasn't as nice. Due to his strange, manipulative parents and his apathetic nanny, he failed to have an understanding of the real world and was subsequently teased and bullied for being too foreign, such as having "hippy hair" from personal preference or being godless from not being raised with any.
Once puberty began to set in, he entered a catharsis and completely turned himself around with a harsher outlook on life and become both more destructive and constructive. Instead of striving to make everyone happy within reason, he began striving to improve everyone whether they liked it or not. Given his perspective that the world was cruel, it was perfectly fair game to him to pay back in kind with tough love. Redefining his personality with Industrial Age philosophy and his blurred reality, he began holding self-actualization and individualism as the ultimate virtues and began becoming his trademark self. At this point he insisted upon being referred to as "Jackie" after a comic book character, and began snapping at people who address him by his real name.
He began spending all his time learning as many skills as possible and striving to become the best specimen he could ever possibly become, which honestly isn't much given he inherited a genetic trait from his father forcing him to be weak in terms of brute strength. So bodybuilding is out of the question, but the mind is still available to be unlocked. The amount of things Jackie began learning were as varied and random as the world, from pole-dancing and skydiving to German and illusionism. However, more mundane things were glossed over, such as how to properly operate a car, bicycle, or shoelace. He can ride an emu, play violin on unicycles, and tie someone up in multiple ways, but can't remember the correct way to tie his shoes.
In highschool, he entered an odd relationship with a girl. Part girlfriend, part rival. "Slap, slap, makeout". They bounced off of eachother and bettered themselves in their rivalry, but ultimately it reached a breaking point and a competition was taken too far. Annabelle drugged Jackie in order to win the competition, but Jackie noticed this and stole the drugs and drugged her back even harder. One drive later, and Jackie lost his only relationship to a car crash. Whoops. He was never suspected or charged with criminal negligence as it was clearly the drug tablets in her purse and bloodstream, but things still got odder for Jackie. Despite consciously being in the moral right in his bizarre philosophy, he felt subconscious guilt from accidentally killing her and began doubling-up on his attempts at improving the world. Being an unemployed teenager, there wasn't much he could legally do at the level he wanted without any licenses or sufficient age to enter office. You might think this would be where Operation Eden came in to solve his problems, but that would be a sweet dream. No, he resorted to vigilantism via the wonderful world of the internet. Ruin things for people, sow discord, and create situations he felt would ultimately help people improve and weed out problematic elements in society. His subconscious urging him to rectify his mistakes led to more crime, which led to more subconscious guilt, which created a vicious circle of stress and increasingly distorted views.
You may think he was convicted for his crimes then accepted a plea deal into an EVE or was forced into one as a conscripted convict, but nope. He used his parents' corporate influence and his excessive amounts of unconventional knowledge to nab an unconventional place in the rebuilding of humanity: Protecting knowledge, information, culture, and the arts. Bringing mankind's legacy to the new generation of mankind. Never found out for his bizarre indirect crime streak, he attempted to redeem himself (yet again) through being removed from his frail flesh and inserted into a new platform to guide mankind's rebirth. He, of course, didn't mention that his head might not be the healthiest one to put in.
Now there's some stubborn, zealous brat trying to educate the new generations in his bizarre philosophy who should have died in the apocalypse like the rest of the world.
by Empire of the Rising Moon » Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:45 pm
by Nekronia » Wed Jun 24, 2015 2:17 am
New Lucantis wrote: whoa
Thank you, thank you I've used him in a couple of other RPs, so he actually has a ludicrous amount more information about him that I've decided about his backstory that I've developed over the year I've had him, but the bio is already long as it is. There's a good reason why he was once joked by a fellow player as being "the one-man novella"Empire of the Rising Moon wrote:That.... Is an awesome Bio.
Empire of the Rising Moon wrote:... once again, everyone so far has given great apps and are accepted, any modifications to the apps should be done before Fri, as that is when the IC should be up.
Deminis wrote:After thousands of years of development, The alchemy Bay slowly filled with devices of various uses.
Bio: [...] For five thousand years The Bionic ran simulations, for five thousand years the bionic spent his time alone, designing technology the age before could only see in science fiction, and after five thousand years, he recreated an ancient art, Alchemy.
The Templar High Council wrote:The number of times Nek makes sense is grossly outnumbered by the times he doesn't.
by Empire of the Rising Moon » Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:33 am
by Flamels Stone » Wed Jun 24, 2015 8:54 am
Empire of the Rising Moon wrote:As for the alchemy, you would not know about it until the doors open, however you can meet a descendant who knows alchemy who could show you right off the bat though. On that note, i need a name for the descendent as descendents is kind of long.
by New Lucantis » Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:07 am
by Empire of the Rising Moon » Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:46 am
by Deminis » Wed Jun 24, 2015 12:15 pm
Empire of the Rising Moon wrote:As for the alchemy, you would not know about it until the doors open, however you can meet a descendant who knows alchemy who could show you right off the bat though. On that note, i need a name for the descendent as descendents is kind of long.
by Flamels Stone » Wed Jun 24, 2015 2:16 pm
Empire of the Rising Moon wrote:I was looking for something shorter, however Newman is looking good.
by Nekronia » Wed Jun 24, 2015 2:49 pm
Empire of the Rising Moon wrote:On that note, i need a name for the descendent as descendents is kind of long.
The Templar High Council wrote:The number of times Nek makes sense is grossly outnumbered by the times he doesn't.
by Empire of the Rising Moon » Wed Jun 24, 2015 3:12 pm
by Deminis » Wed Jun 24, 2015 3:21 pm
Flamels Stone wrote:Empire of the Rising Moon wrote:I was looking for something shorter, however Newman is looking good.
How about Magi? One Magus two Magi.
If there is going to be alchemy I assume for other kinds of wizardry to exist so why not call it a magical race?
You could always call them Elves, even if they show no resemblance.
by Nekronia » Wed Jun 24, 2015 3:55 pm
Deminis wrote:Magus are a type of spell caster that excels at combining magic with non magical weapons or fighting techniques.
Deminis wrote:A good list of magical races could be gnomes, Elves, Ifrits (fire Elementals), Teiflings (Half Demons), Hell even Halflings(Hobbits) would be pretty sweet.
As for Other Animal Based humanoids, I think the proper catch all would be Hominals, Just another word for Humanoid, but it sounds cool.
Deminis wrote:My apologies if i seem Really specific about Names of races, I play a lot of Pathfinders, and i have played over 25 diferant races...Most half humans wouldn't care about Being called by the name of another, But a Kistune Is NOT! a half human, It is a 9 tailed Fox Demon Race, It can Turn into a more human like form But it is not half human in any way, Magic or otherwise.
The Templar High Council wrote:The number of times Nek makes sense is grossly outnumbered by the times he doesn't.
by New Lucantis » Wed Jun 24, 2015 4:21 pm
by Deminis » Wed Jun 24, 2015 4:25 pm
Nekronia wrote:Deminis wrote:Magus are a type of spell caster that excels at combining magic with non magical weapons or fighting techniques.
Magus/magi is just another word for magic-user(s), like wizard, mage, or sorcerer. The "warrior-mage" is DnD's definition, but in other things it can be different. E.g. the Bible's three magi that visited Jesus as a baby, and their magical thing was astrological prediction.
In DnD, there are many different types of magic users (like the tome-reading wizards and the innate sorcerers), but outside of DnD, a lot of the words are simply synonyms and might mean entirely different things in other franchises or series.Deminis wrote:A good list of magical races could be gnomes, Elves, Ifrits (fire Elementals), Teiflings (Half Demons), Hell even Halflings(Hobbits) would be pretty sweet.
As for Other Animal Based humanoids, I think the proper catch all would be Hominals, Just another word for Humanoid, but it sounds cool.
Hominals sounds pretty cool and is accurate, I'd be game for that.Deminis wrote:My apologies if i seem Really specific about Names of races, I play a lot of Pathfinders, and i have played over 25 diferant races...Most half humans wouldn't care about Being called by the name of another, But a Kistune Is NOT! a half human, It is a 9 tailed Fox Demon Race, It can Turn into a more human like form But it is not half human in any way, Magic or otherwise.
I was moreso referring to the animesque term of the monstergirl type that shares resemblance to the Descendants' description rather than the actual folkloric being. Not technically half-human, but the appearance and abilities are more in line with the Descendants. It's kinda like talking about Dracula or Twilight instead of the original grain-counting throat-slashers. No harm done, I really should have specified that I was talking about the anime thing and not the 'real' thing. My bad.
Kemonomimi would be the most accurate term for the Descendants; however, that's even more complicated of a word than the word we're trying to shorten
I don't think calling them "kemmies" would catch on, though.
ALSO, we could just call them "the natives", "the locals", "the aborigines", or something else along those lines.
by Empire of the Rising Moon » Wed Jun 24, 2015 4:53 pm
by Nekronia » Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:01 pm
Empire of the Rising Moon wrote:Descendants apps are up, please let me know of any changes that should be made to the apps.
The Templar High Council wrote:The number of times Nek makes sense is grossly outnumbered by the times he doesn't.
by The Burning Sun » Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:04 pm
Nekronia wrote:Empire of the Rising Moon wrote:Descendants apps are up, please let me know of any changes that should be made to the apps.
You should capitalize "appearance", "special", "abilities", and "bio". Additionally, you should add where that person lives or their citizenship or something, like if they're a part of Romia or Pars. Also, what would the level of power the Descendants can have? Is magic something anyone can do with proper training, or only certain gifted people can do? Can a powerful person scorch half the globe, level a city, throw a house, smash a car, throw a person, or only toss around a couple of stones? We know very little of the Descendants and their world so it's a bit tricky. I almost think we should wait on the Descendants until after the EVEs have found out about magic, but I'm not sure.
Atlannia wrote:Mmm it's not looking good I'm afraid, the purple haired goth loli next to a sweatervest wearing bishonen portends financial strife and the double archery chick is a rare sign predicting the death of someone close to you, I'm sorry.
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That'll be $32.99
by Deminis » Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:51 pm
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