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Post by Beka Cooper on Jun 10, 2008 21:27:08 GMT -5
With the Draconlurs I sort of wanted to discuss it as well and I decided that here was as good a place as any. I like the ideas of the Draconlurs, I really do but I think that we should make it that with ANY species, that you can't have abilities outside the normal such as only one person being able to generate water or being able to control fire. Maybe have those abilities as a sets uch as the strongest draconlurs can manipulate fire, the strogest lycans can manipulate earth or something, but maybe not everyone having indivual powers. And because if we are basing it off the movies, Alexander was the first immortal, and draconlurs, should be bound to the same rules as Lycans and Vampires - with age limits, and strength limits as well as a general weakeness such as teh Lycans have that one with silver and the vampires are weak to sunlight. (I am bloody mental now.)
Seedian, what I mean by magic is that just because you explain it, it doesn't mean that only one person in teh entire world being able to summon darkness at will is any less super-natural. In my opinion Science was invented by a bunch of skeptics that wants to give us the sembelce of control. Ever heard of the Chaos Theory?
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Post by ◊Sedaiyus Nikopol◊ on Jun 10, 2008 22:11:28 GMT -5
The races have been changed to meet a new setting of the site. The fact that the site is still in direct realationship to the movie probably will force the races to change back to how they originally were. Everyone has weakness's at least the ones I have maintained I never really got involved with Draconlur. But the rest hybrid, vampire, lycans, dhampir, and humans have very distinct weakness's that regardless of how powerful they are it would be fairly easy to take them down. For example the most powerful of the races the hybrid will die from fatal wounds from silver but yet even against draconlur they are virtually invincible. Every strength is a double edge sword and comes hand and hand with a weakness. I have never restricted any abilities to anyone or any race as long as you could explain how it worked and your race upheld to its weakness's and you nearly modified your race type to a more powerful vampire or lycan etc and not created a new god type one for say.
I thought we had always gone by age pertaining to strength and power unless otherwise explained. I do not see any reason to change anything. The way it was is fine. Explain what you can do (no, can freeze people or read minds) explain how that can happen and you can have it. In a world governed by words and their definitions. I am well aware of the reality of control we have tried to gain over nature and what we cannot explain by making skewed explanations for things that are more than reasonable to happen but we cannot understand. Ever hear of alchemy. According to its many laws if properly organized taking out some of its balogne and myth fits right along with any scientific law we have without defying law of physics nor chemistry. Yet it is viewed as a fictional sorcery. I can hardly believe the government has not carried out similar means of alchemy but the reality is the average person could hardly believe how possible it is with the myth and beliefs clouding them and it would probably be labeled as something else and slapped with a new definition and the world would never know. There are plenty of things to back your argument but the fact is because of how these sites works the idea of magic cannot exist without allowing some degree of god modding or changing the site around completely.
Using the same example....shooting fire from ones hand without explaining it is no different from shooting fire from ones hand and explaining it. Justifying no difference from magic and science. Also justifies that science is no less supernatural than magic as you can say as in most cases they are one in the same only magic becomes science when we begin to grasp a understanding. Lighting for example....weapon of gods, magic, sorcery. What is lighting today? Nothing has changed with lighting over history other than our understanding. So the basic conclusion is your right however because of how magic is defined it just is not acceptable to me regardless of it being one in the same with science. If it helps we can ignore science and magic all together and keep it extremely simple.
Give a detailed explanation of how it works that makes sense or you cannot have it.
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Post by Kai Otinashi on Jun 12, 2008 16:13:59 GMT -5
Well, If we are allowed to have magical abilitys, then i could make the one character that i've been wanting to fo so dam long.(And couldn't on many sites)
A few of her powers-
Rose spear-Basicly, she throws a rose and where the rose lands, within roughly 5 or 6 feet a series of spears burst up from the groud and impale anything in the area.
She can summon up a small lighting storm, a tornado that dosent move, both are short in duration, or a metor storm that effects a roughly 25 foot radius.(Thoes ofcourse i don't use. Not only compleatly weakens her but to powerful)
(Forgotten name)-A wall of stone, a few inches taller then her and a few feet wider, with ruins inscribed glowing that, insted of bursting up from the ground, seems to build it's self right infront of her.
And thats only a few of her spells. Her weapon is versital too. It's first form is a machine gun. Basic and easy to use, but the barrle appears to be that of an M60 or some other heavy Mg. The magazines are all the same size and apperance. Then, in the game, she just spins it and it becomes a shotgun like one, no difference in size, only apperance and fire rate/power and all that. The mag. Capacity is 16 there. Then it's like a barrett .50 cal rifle. Slower fire rate. mag cap of i believe 24. Then a gataling cannon with a capa of 800. But the Gat. can be emptyed out just as fast as the basic MG.
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Post by adrianne on Aug 6, 2008 4:35:19 GMT -5
I'm voting for no on this issue. There's already enough weird stuff in this setting for the moment. Such as the vampires' and werewolves' superhuman strength and reflexes. They might be on a constant adrenaline surge or something similar. But that sort of thing would likely cause a heart attack. And even if some other part of the body (Such as skeletal muscle) took over the job for it, excessive force, even when applied by them would still damage thier bones (Note: Someone please give me a reason for the lycanthrope transformations). Besides, that could potentially ruin the atmosphere of the setting.
(Notes that the vampires here have a very close similarity with the ones from the TV show "Moonlight" and that in the movie the silver nitrate was actually silver rather than a grey crystal)
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Post by wowposter on Oct 4, 2008 9:03:26 GMT -5
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Post by wowposter on Oct 5, 2008 16:42:56 GMT -5
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