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Skydude Armos Knight                    Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| ((That marks the second time this fight you seem to assume that Sky would just stand there while Evan did what he wanted to do, not reacting at all; I'll let it slide again this time, but really, don't do it again, as you're forcing Sky to be very out of character when you do that))
The magewarrior couldn't turn his head and refocus his eyes fast enough to see Evan's entire rush by him, but he saw the beginning of the movement and had turned to face him before the latter could pull off an attack, quickly noticing his opponent having rushed to the altar at the top of the temple. This guy did like frontal assaults, Sky figured, and it would be rude to deny him one. The wind picked up around the temple, blowing particularly hard towards the upper parts of the structure, as Sky readied his sword and shield, both of which glowed slightly, and prepared to rush up the remaining stairs to the top. The wind was at his back, increasing in intensity, as he bounded the top step and, still quite a ways away from Evan on the rather large apex of the building, sliced into the air with his sword, again and again, while running at the larger fighter. It would quickly become apparent to Evan at this point that the increase in wind was not natural, as each cut flew into him, not with the intensity of a full on sword slash, but hard enough to hurt and perhaps even to cut some fairly deep gashes, as the now razorlike wind continued to pound into him. Even as he moved the wind seemed most intense around him, as if there were a sphere surrounding him to magnify the effects around his aura. While Sky was still a fair distance from the altar he stopped and jumped backwards, pushing out with his shield to send a forceful wind not sharp like the others, more akin to a battering ram, right into Evan's gut, hoping to knock him back a ways. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| KLICK
And just to save us both some trouble, perhaps, here's one of the sites you like to use to check and its definition. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| Well, if it's "Krill" then you made a mistake in the last one. See the second "L" in "KILLS"? That should have been Bolded.
BACON |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| The magewarrior rushed to the edge of the temple's peak after he saw Evan go flying over it. He had put quite a bit into that last hit, and was happy to see that it had had an effect, though disappointed the man hadn't left much if anything in the way of blood behind, suggesting his cuts hadn't done much. Sky was surprised at how far down the man had gone, and a bit disturbed by his lack of motion, even after he raised a hand.
The magewarrior had been prepared to start another attack, but he wasn't about to hit a guy who was down. Nova would've, probably, with a guy this dangerous, he thought...even Strato might, if he felt threatened enough. Perhaps mercy was a bit of a soft spot for Sky. He wasn't about to go help the guy up and leave himself open to attack, at least not unless he was sure the guy was down. This was a decently powerful shot, but Sky figured this guy probably wasn't down for the count yet. Sky: Hey, you had enough? I see no reason in destroying this place further if you've calmed down a bit. Though I've got to say, pushing away other life in order to further a "sacred" place seems like working towards different purposes. I'm rather close with the natural order myself, and it bothers me a bit not to see more life around. Just in case, of course, Sky stepped back a bit from the edge, so he could still see down the stairs, even if barely, and readied himself. The answer, after all, might come in the form of a strike. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| And that just shows how little attention I was paying. I saw the first person post a B-word of five letters and didn't check to make sure that indeed a B-word was wanted. | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight  Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| Eww for broken tables.
Anyway, since I'm taking a class now that covers CSS among other things, one of the bits of advice for compatibility issues that I've been told is to put any CSS definitions at the start inside HTML comment tags, so that it's not read by browsers which don't support CSS. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| Sky: True, a guide is useful. That's not all, either. I don't know about the rest of you, but my equipment is pretty worn out from the journey here. We'll need to stop by the store to get something else. Besides...
The magewarrior kept his voice down, since this wasn't exactly the most tactful thing to say around a bunch of villagers who may love their royalty. Sky: I really don't think there's any rush to go saving the princess. We don't want to dawdle too much, of course, but if he was going to kill her he'd have done it already, so she should be in one piece even if we don't get there right away. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| The magewarrior watched this newcomer rant a bit, and leaned on his sword before, in a rather loud but laid-back voice, he responded.
Sky: It's pretty simple, really. There are some moves and abilities that can't be copied simply because you don't possess those abilities. To use an analogy, if I'm really strong and pick up a 2000 pound block of stone, joe copymove can't go and do the same, simply because he doesn't have that strength. Similarly, I've studied for years to be able to magically form fire. It's not so much about forming fire per se, but about having the magical knowledge and understanding that allows that outward manifestation. You might know the moves to create the fire itself, but without the underlying concentration, discipline, and magical connection, that feat cannot be duplicated. A young individual clad in an exosuit covered by a black trenchcoat stepped forward and gave his own thoughts. Strato: As for the connection to the soul, the engineers in Tokyo-3 understood it surprisingly well. The AT field generated by each individual prevents the sort of connections you're talking about in order to steal the abilities of others and use them for yourself. You want to get strong, you learn how to be strong by yourself. This isn't to say that you can't learn from others, mind you. I, for example, have some limits in my magical abilities, but I've adapted some technology to mimic some of the things more magically-oriented folks can do. You work with your strengths, and you can do some of the same sorts of things. If someone uses a telekinetic attack to throw a large crate at a big brute, the latter can catch that crate and throw it back at the psychic. Different power, similar result. But if you don't have that strength, you can't do the move. It's just that simple. A young girl, clad in the odd combination of a green gi and draped magenta wizard robes talked to the newcomer from the other side of the room. Aether: The most important thing about move copying, though, is that it's dull and pretty ineffective! When I fight someone else, I like to see what kind of new stuff they've got to throw at me, and try to react to it and hone my fighting skills. It's a bore if they just throw back at me stuff I've already seen, or worse, stuff I've done myself. And if they do the latter, they won't get too far either. If someone uses a fire spell on me that utilizes the same magical connection I have, it's a snap for me to extinguish it, since I understand the principles at work and can act on the same level as it. I don't know about others, but if you use one of my own attacks on me you're in for a quick reversal and a beatdown, since any decent fighter knows how to counter herself in order to avoid giving the opponent that chance. Sky took his sword from the ground and looked at the newcomer again. His kids had spoken well. Sky: In short, don't try it. It's not going to work, and even if it did, it's not going to be very effective against anyone but the "n00biest" fighters. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| The young man in the trenchcoat decided to field the question.
Strato: You seem to have missed my point. The soul is all but impenetrable to those with less than near-divine power. You can't "connect" with it and steal abilities as you seem to want to try to do. If I pound you into the ground, you can read the muscle movements involved, and perhaps even the electrical impulses in the brain that precede them, and perhaps duplicate the process yourself. Hell, if I have all the right scanners on and analyze the data, I can do that, even if not during the course of a hectic battle. The magewarrior continued where Strato had left off. Sky: When things like magic, psychic powers, and anything beyond the purely physical realm come into play, that data analysis goes out the window. They cannot be replicated with a simple "copying" technique because of their supernatural nature. If you were to somehow succeed in "connecting" with one's soul, it's impossible to look at the exact things that create the phenomenon we generally call "magic"...if you somehow broke the AT field you would find not that but everything, you would be overwhelmed by the entirety of another being's self flowing into your advanced sensory systems and would overload them and pretty much drive you insane. I've seen it happen, once. You need to be near-divine to do it...but you would need to be a god not to be destroyed in the process. The young girl concluded. Aether: You don't have the resources, and you can't tap into the soul to get them, even if you could indeed see the supernatural "plan" for the attack. It would be as if you had the blueprints for a skyscraper, but no girders to work with to build it. It just can't be done as you try it. If you see something that someone does and you want to try your own spin on it, that's fine. But if it really were as easy as just observing them for a bit and being able to do it, none of us would spend years training. You want to be strong, you've got to work for it. Can't just sit back and expect to be able to reap the benefits of what others do. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| I would just like to let it be known that I am boycotting this story because it purports to tell what I consider to be a false SF history. | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| You know exactly what it is that pisses me off about this, and why I am very much affected by it. | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| Sky raised a finger at Grey's remarks.
Sky: I should note that I wasn't saying that it's impossible to read magic signatures, nor were my children. My point was merely that the full extent cannot be quantified to the extent that the move could be copied, due, as was explained, to the necessity of the magical/psychic/whatever abilities of the individual. You can see the magic itself, but the connection of an individual that determines how that magic comes to the world cannot really be observed, at least not in the heat of battle, especially if the individual does not open himself up to such a thing. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| ((You're an ass, you know that?))
Sky: Nah, this town's got nothing but the basic spells. Nothing but basic equipment, either, but I'm actually in need of that. The red mage opened his pouch and looked inside. Sky: And it looks like I've got juuuuuuuuuust enough. (edited by Skydude on 05-20-06 03:24 AM) |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| ((What are you, nine years old? If you mean anything else but the most immature interpretation, a logical one, that fails)) | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| ((See, JD, the problem with the "logic" that you use is that you seem to think the planning for the stories largely progressed as they did not in a vacuum, where my absence played no part, but largely because of my absence. I have indeed spoken with Dani on the matter, and she was rather upset when I left since she had to rewrite some of the "history" of what happened with me gone. You speak as if my leaving had nothing to do with the course of the general stories, when in fact it did have an effect, so it's not like this plan was set in stone like you say.
The "canon" that we have now is not her plan for her character; rather, it is Kirb's plan for her character from some vague things she said quite some time ago that he has built up in his mind ever since and has fooled himself into thinking is exactly what she meant, when in fact, it was not. I've discussed the matter with him, and one of the reasons I'm upset is that we had ended the discussion, finally, on the basis that since Dani wasn't coming back and those stories had died, it wasn't something I needed to be concerned with. And I was unhappy, but satisfied with that explanation. And now, well, he's brought that back up, and brought the problem to the forefront again. As I told Grey, if he wanted to make it an AU story of sorts, that'd be fine, but as a main canon story, it's his distorted vision that's the problem here. And finally, to use trite sayings, since you seem to enjoy that, if you really felt what I did in the other story was worth fighting....two wrongs don't make a right.)) The Red Mage led Kantha along to the weapons shop. He had a decent eye for armor and quality weaponry, but figured it might not hurt to have a brute around to give a second opinion. Sky wasn't sure how long he'd be using this next sword, so he wanted to make sure it was a good one. He picked a light rapier off the shelf and observed it. This one seemed to be pretty well-made, and a good weight as well. He presented it to Kantha. Sky: This seems to be about the heaviest weaponry they've got in here aside from those rather clumsy hammers. This particular one looks pretty good, I think. What say you? |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| Sky: Err, well, no, actually, Grey, like was said, the soul is normally closed, not open. As such, "relaxing your guard" on it as could happen in the heat of battle wouldn't really do anything to make it easier. What is required is in fact the conscious effort of the individual to open up his or her soul for examination, as well as the careful examination of that individual by the one studying...and that can't really be done in the heat of battle. Does that make more sense? | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| ((See, the problem with your logic there is that the choices he has taken have affected not only her characters, but mine as well. As such, I should have been part of the "setting in stone" of these things. Also, this is why I am upset by this. I don't really care what you do with your characters. I don't really care what Kirb does with his. I don't really care what Kirb does with Dani's. Except when that interferes with MY characters, which it greatly does in this case. And that is precisely what the problem is here)) | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| ((You want to talk about hypocrisy? You say the story forum is a collaborative effort, and yet you would deny my own stake in it. As these story plans were not done in the story forum, but rather in the mind of Kirb (with just a small bit of insight from Dani) then, since they affect my characters, EXTREMELY STRONGLY, then I could have been notified, and discussed it on AIM. And yet they did not. You also don't seem to understand the magnitude. Yes, characters' actions affect each other normally, in any situation. However, most of the time these effects are relatively small. This is a change to these characters' integral history, their core characters and storylines, which is not a minor change to be made on a whim, as you seem to imply. As for my leaving being "[my] fault" actually no, it really wasn't. Blame milly for being spineless at the time, blame manda, blame tom, blame 'muz, there are any number of people who are actually at fault for it, but it wasn't exactly my own choice in the matter. And again, as for what happened in my absence, they knew it was big stuff, and they could have contacted me, if indeed it was to be a collaborative effort.
As usual, you attempt to speak despite knowing absolutely nothing about the situation. If it's a collaborative effort, then I should have had some say in the matter, seeing as I was still contactable when the decisions were being made, and far more than Dani was when they began to be carried out. I don't care about your characters' pasts, do with them what you want. Changing things as time goes on is indeed natural and acceptable, but only to a certain point. Once you get into integral parts of characters, you don't do that without making sure it's alright with all involved)) |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6567 days Last view: 6567 days |
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| ((Again, you're making the mistake of treating those things in a vacuum that didn't exist. Those plans were with Sky gone, which yeah, were with plans of me not coming back. As for people "hoping" I wouldn't, that would be restricted to people like you who have their heads so far up their asses that they can't see anything except their own self-centered worlds. I never did anything to you, and you took it upon yourself to be a complete and total asshat (your name would be more appropriate with those two letters added) to me. You don't take account of anything that's said and go on talking on the subject of things about which you, as you have demonstrated time and again in this thread and others, HAVE NO IDEA WHATSOEVER.
Take into account, further showing how reasonable I've been on the topic, that I have discussed at great length with kirb plans which would allow both his own vision and mine to coexist in the storyline, and actually make it more interesting than his rather cliche story that he's imagined. So I am indeed allowing the contributions of others, and making compromises. But why should I be the only one who has to make them on aspects integral to my characters?)) (edited by Skydude on 05-21-06 05:35 AM) |
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